God formiddag og velkommen til. Jeg har igen komponeret en morgenpost-symfoni og den kan fordøjes lige her:
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"Cocktails are having a moment right now, but they’ve been iconic motifs in literature for the past century. They define characters, offering a window into their tastes and personalities—who could picture James Bond without his “shaken, not stirred” martini? Cocktails drive storylines, clearing paths toward delight, despair or some combination of the two. In some cases, they come to represent the authors themselves, whose lives were as colorful as their prose. And of course, each cocktail has a life of its own—the more obscure the origin, the better. Drinking might not make a great writer, but it does sometimes make a great story."
Fem cocktails og de litterære øjeblikke, de har inspireret.
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The Monocle Guide To Better Living er en bog udgivet af - tadaa - Monocle. Den udkommer på Gestalten og rummer 400 sider om at leve bedre, spise bedre, bo bedre og selvfølgelig rejse bedre. Forvent masser af anbefalinger til investeringer i boligkomplekser udenfor Istanbul og halvanden dags spa-retreats i små japanske byer. Købes her.
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Måske den mest inspirerende video, du får at se i denne uge. Og det er kun tirsdag!
Annonse
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"So you’d get this slip of paper, and it would just say Bruce McElfresh is the editor or something like that, and that’s all you’d get. Then you went to his assistant, Lilian Davidson, to tell her, I’m going off to Egypt or China or Vermont, could I have $10,000 in traveler’s checks? Then you go to the film guy for 300 rolls of Kodachrome or Ektachrome."
Ret vild læsning om magasinernes hey-days og hvordan økonomien dengang ikke var så stram og styringen noget mere laissez faire.
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Jeg har først lige stiftet bekendtskab med Homeboy Sandman, men det er god hiphop og deres plade 'All That I hold Dear' er værd at lytte til.
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"The increased mortality risk is comparable to that from smoking. And loneliness is about twice as dangerous as obesity. Social isolation impairs immune function and boosts inflammation, which can lead to arthritis, type II diabetes, and heart disease. Loneliness is breaking our hearts, but as a culture we rarely talk about it."
Har du snakket med din ven / kollega / kioskmand / chauffør / postbud i dag? De har måske brug for det.
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"We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too."
Annonse
Jeff Bezos, der ejer Amazon, har som bekendt købt Washington Post. Han har nogle ret kloge tanker om, hvordan aviser kan overleve. Ingen ved, om han har ret, men jeg tror på at en succesrig mand som ham, der kommer fra en anden branche og kan se tingene anderledes, kan være med til at redde aviserne.
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"Troubling new trend alert: In the last few months, there’s been a preponderance of Craigslist ads selling positive pregnancy tests. In May, a woman in Buffalo offered hers for $25, apparently as a response to heightened demand."
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Alriiiiight, det var alt for i dag. Jeg er glad for, at du kiggede med. Husk at støtte din lokale grønthandler så meget, du kan.
Jeg kan love dig for, at jeg har meget på hjerte. Men det kommer jeg ikke til at blande ind i min karriere. Det er ikke professionelt interessant for mig at udtale mig om ting. At jeg selv mener en masse i det private … fair snak. Men den snak kan jeg tage med nogle venner.
