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• Twitter Feed The Beast :: Daily Grind #171

  I know we just fed the beast this past Thursday, but in this edition of the Grind, I come raging back from the Thanksgiving break with only good stories from th... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mental Yoga Sunday :: Issue No. 24

  

  “You know what Sunday is, it’s a day with a lot of potential for naps.” — Polly Horvath USA Today just tweeted a Seattle family found a python i... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Book Things for Hungry Minds :: Daily Grind #169

  Chapter Verse - An eclectic mix of new book releases today: Nicole Baart, Timothy Ferriss, James Patterson, Caroline Fraser, Emily Ley, Jake Bernstein, Stephe... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Dirty Dances With Wolves :: Daily Grind #168

  This weekend, the family and I did some Thanksgiving prep then barricaded ourselves inside the house huddling in front of a fire and getting nostalgic. One of... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• People Are Strange :: Daily Grind #167

  I'm a people person. But probably not in a good way. Maybe I should say, people fascinate me. I like to watch them and tear apart their little idiosyncrasies. ... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Emotional Intelligence :: Daily Grind #166

  What's the earliest memory you have? My wife claims to remember things from the earliest age of three-years-old. And remember them clearly. I have memories... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Bookish And Introverted :: Daily Grind #165

  

  “I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson I once had a... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• We're Huge In Carmarthenshire :: Daily Grind #164

  Be sure to follow me on Twitter @ventipop. And please get some of your friends to sign up for the newsletter. They don't have to read...I just need the... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mental Yoga Sunday :: Issue No. 22

  Mental Yoga Sunday this week features long reads I've posted the previous five days in the Daily Grind posts. Something is Wrong on the Internet made me wildly... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Remain Calm and Love Hard :: Daily Grind #163

  New Music for Friday, November 10 - Angel Olsen, Mirian Conti, The Corrs, Sigrid, Evanescence, Tears for Fears, Human Pyramids, Sleigh Bells, Smokey Robinson,... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Naked Photos, The Museum of Museums & P!nk :: Daily Grind #162

  Naked Photos, The Museum of Museums P!nk :: Daily Grind Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Focus on the Distractions :: Daily Grind #160

  Most likely it's a phone. But it could also just as likely be the TV. Or a pair of headphones. Music is hard to turn off. Maybe an iPad or a Surface Pro. Could... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Stranger Things, The Twilight Zone and Guns...Again :: Daily Grind #159

  Stranger Easter Eggs - Vanity Fair highlights all the hidden references, episode by episode, in season two of Stranger Things. Possibly due to the phenomenal... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mental Yoga Sunday :: Issue No. 21

  

  I think some of us need to retrain our attention spans to be longer than the time it takes for an Instagram post to load. Here are my favorite long read pieces... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sticky Romance, Proper Kisses and Your Worst Nightmares :: Daily Grind #157

  The first headline I read this morning asked, "Is Modern Life Making Today's Teenagers More Depressed?" Isn't this version of modern life making EVERYONE more... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Cool Hand Luke, A Hero Chef and Killer TV :: Daily Grind #156

  Not as depressing as Monday. Not as exciting as Friday. But definitely beats the hell out of a Tuesday any day. Welcome to Wednesday, folks. On this day in 1967... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Beatles on Halloween :: Daily Grind #155

  It's Tuesday and I'm both looking forward to taking the yahoos trick or treating and dreading walking for two hours in the cold. But hey, that's parenthood. Jus... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• I Gotta Be Me :: Daily Grind #154

  We were on a break! I couldn't decide which quote to use, so I used both. My blog. My rules. The Donger quote is for every guy who hasn't sexually harassed a... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• 25 Scary Good Books :: #5 - #1

  In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is the only non-fiction book on this list. Capote researched six years before writing the true story of the savage murders of... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• 25 Scary Good Books :: #10 - #6

  The scares in A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay are as unsettling as they are ambiguous at times. You never know when Tremblay will sneak an attack turn... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE