I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. | | | | Burt Young is Bobby 'Love Machine' 'Pig Pen' in Convoy, 1978.
(United Artists/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
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| | rantnrave:// THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls aka Biggie aka Big Poppa) was considered one of the greatest rappers that ever lived when he was murdered at the age of 24. A look back at his career and the crime in MusicSET: "Biggie Smalls Was The Illlest"... Like JONAH HILL in THIS IS THE END, I am good at and admire pop culture reference skills. In fact, it may be my only talent. My friend Blake had those skills too. Today I'm establishing THE REDEF BLAKE KRIKORIAN MEMORIAL POP CULTURE REFERENCE SOCIETY. Do you know obscure movie/tv references? Do you constantly lift quotes? Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of music? Do you binge at least once a month? Do you go to movies alone sometimes? Has your streaming behavior hurt the profitability of an internet provider? Do you recommend to friends what to watch, read and listen to like a Dr. in LA writes scripts for VICODIN? Then you too can apply for membership. The first official member (besides Blake and I) has been awarded to CBS' JIM LANZONE. "Dude, your references are out of control, everyone knows that"... Here's a choice that would give any man an ulcer... This clock thing isn't fair... The SNL "Translator" dog sketch is an instant classic... I took my niece AMELIE to BENIHANA yesterday. It's become the new CHUCK E. CHEESE but with good food. Children's birthday parties all day and all night. She loves it. Her face was filled with wonder but can't get over one thing: the chef didn't do the onion volcano... Happy Birthday to JEFF WACHTEL, DAVID COHN, MARSHALL COHEN, DANIELLA RICH, DANNY FISHMAN, THOMAS LEVINSON. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | New York Magazine |
| It’s the latest academic craze, and in practice it veers far from principles of liberal democracy. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Harold Vilches, a 23-year-old Chilean, exported $80 million in contraband gold. It all started with a Google search. | | |
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 | Eater |
| Jerry Seinfeld's fictional Upper West Side apartment and its early-nineties bachelor pad stylings may have served as the main backdrop for his namesake '90s sitcom, but Monk's Diner ran a close second. Though the restaurant, home to Elaine's favorite "big salad," was fictional, the diner exterior used in the show in fact belongs to a real restaurant in Upper Manhattan where countless fans have since snapped selfies. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| It has taken all of us to build the web we have, and now it is up to all of us to build the web we want - for everyone | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| While his work is routinely described as feminist, Murphy’s stories have not radically expanded complex representations of women. | | |
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 | Psychology Today |
| It’s time we talked openly about Donald Trump’s mental health. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Nearly two years later, nobody knows exactly what happened at just after midnight on April 7, 2015. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Machines, you may have heard, are coming for all the jobs. But don't head to your bunker quite yet. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Paul McGuinness sat down with former Dire Straits manager Ed Bicknell at London’s Royal Garden Hotel for a wide-ranging discussion about his career and thoughts on the music business as part of the 29th International Live Music Conference. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| Chinese people have reached a watershed moment in their online lives - and their innovation will lead the way for the rest of the world. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Review Of Books |
| WHEN 56-YEAR-OLD ACTOR S. Z. Sakall escaped his native Hungary in 1939 and arrived in the United States to relaunch his acting career, he had a significant handicap: he spoke not a word of English. At lunch with his new manager in New York, he drew a picture of an egg to describe what he wanted to order. | | |
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 | The New York Review of Books |
| It is impossible and wrong, in this fascinating exhibition on Russian art between 1917-1932, to separate art from politics, utopian propaganda from dystopian tragedy. Aesthetic judgement is inevitably compromised. Some may think it obscene to celebrate this period in Russian art: yet it is surely right to make us confront it, to see the boldness of the art and to try and fathom the mixed motives, the hopes and fears and struggles of the artists involved. Right too, when the headlines are full... | | |
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 | Mother Jones |
| I investigated the role of "alt-techies" in the extremist movement emboldened by Trump. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| The man in the video is Robert E. Kelly, an associate professor of international relations at Pusan National University in South Korea. The woman in the video is his wife Jung-a Kim, who is Korean. | | |
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 | The Information |
| Facebook is making various changes to Instant Articles, including improved data sharing and analytics and better tools for publishers to sign readers up for text alerts. But many publishers have already moved on to rival offerings from Apple and Google. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The Girlboss Rally was held shortly after the e-commerce company was sold to UK retailer Boohoo.com. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| The road back to power seems blocked at every turn. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| How the 'Bad and Boujee' trio made it to the top against the odds | | |
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 | Katie Couric Podcast |
| Tony Robbins has a packed resume: he's a bestselling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and renowned motivational speaker. | | |
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 | Tube Filter |
| Snapchat, Tinder, and Slack have all reshaped how the web looks and fools. And are being copied ALL THE TIME because of it. | | |
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 | Victory Journal |
| The weird, psychedelic world of sports claymation. | | |
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 | Vice |
| Spike, Angel, and all the others were the embodiment of unbridled, kinky, sadomasochistic sex for a heavily female and LGBTQ audience. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | I really love this song. A modern throwback, some Frank Sinatra with some Chet Baker. |
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