Sonja
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And so I read memoirs and histories, talked to scientists, and went on field trips. I had my blood analyzed and my genes tested; I ate military rations and alfalfa tablets, yeast cakes, nutrition bars, and caffeinated meat. The tale that
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“Hipsterism is the purposeful cultivation of uncool and esoteric tastes, and sometimes a shortcut to that aesthetic is to embrace the ugly.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
“becomes self-evident to any parent that the pain of loving and caring for another thing is better than the ease of not. I will admit even fur parents know this secret. Parenthood begins as an expression of narcissism, of personal genetic redoubling; but that selfishness is quickly burned away in the crucible of tears, vomit, fevers, and close calls; and it is repaid only in the incalculable joy of seeing someone else thrive in happiness and apart from you. You disappear, and it is a fucking relief.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
“Schlitz Sunshine Vitamin D Beer was launched in 1936 with the tagline “Beer is good for you . . . but SCHLITZ, with Sunshine Vitamin D, is extra good for you.”
― Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food
― Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food
“This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they would´t be rich. Another is that if you´re not rich, don´t worry about it, because rich people aren´t really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage. The vast degree to which my mental health improved once I had the smallest measure of economic security immediately unmasked this shameful fiction to me. Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constantly worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“that the secret to my implausible, financially self-sufficient adulthood was the same secret that had brought me here: I was invited to do something, and I said yes. It is better to say yes than no. Unless saying yes will hurt you or someone else, say yes. Don’t say no if the invitation is scary. That’s when you should definitely say yes. If a computer company invites you to be in an ad and you’re scared to say yes because (a) it will mess up your pickup schedule at your child’s school and (b) it will push you well past your comfortable limits of fraudulency and change your life forever, take it from me, don’t say no, like I did, and then get lucky only because they asked again. They won’t always ask again. And don’t say no, like I did, to appearing on Breaking Bad because you were afraid to live in Albuquerque for a while, away from your family. Do your work. Do the things you love. Don’t ask permission. The more work you make in the world, the more likely someone will ask you to do some new thing, some bigger thing, or at least some interesting thing. And when they ask, say yes.”
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
― Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
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