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Met in Santa Monica last night. I take that as a good omen for the Boy vs the Birds today.
Some mornings while meditating, I hear tiny paws shuffle toward me. My eyes are closed and Paco gently climbs into my lap and goes to sleep. We're two dudes, one staring into the infinite void of consciousness and the other resting peacefully on top of his best friend's junk.
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I met Colin Powell at a hotel in Denver. I was 26 and said hello. He smiled warmly and said, 'Hello, son.'
I smiled and fought the urge to say, 'Dad??'
RIP, sir. He was a great person and seemed like he'd be an amazing dad, which is about the biggest compliment one can give.
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the most perfect tweet...
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Autumn is the perfect time to work on your beech body, gnarled and mossy and deep in a haunted forest, visited only by owls and deer and foxes and ghosts, whispered secrets to by the stars
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Last night I dreamt an advanced alien civilisation contacted us tiny-brained Earthlings and requested a meet-and-greet with 'normal' people. Specifically, they asked to meet with my corp sales team from 1997.
Things pretty much went as you'd expect. Poorly. I mean poorly.
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Why is home a fluid concept and what do you do when the once familiar becomes incredibly strange?
I use a lot pop culture references and had to write this to my client yesterday:
‘Let me know if I’m using too many references to the 1985 film Ladyhawke.’
I giggled after writing it, but had to send because I didn’t know how much Ladyhawke is too much Ladyhawke.
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Love stretches out over time, ends, and maybe begins again and again. thebrianabbey.medium.com/the-darling-th
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Can a beer and a taxi change your life forever?
The reason I hate summer is because it takes so long to cool off. Say I work out at 10am tomorrow, I probably won't stop sweating until mid-November.
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An everything bagel doesn't everything. This and more enlightenment including CrossFit Jesus and Buddha's balls.
Sometimes on beautiful, sunny mornings I absentmindedly log onto Twitter while sipping my iced coffee and am rudely reminded the world brims with idiocy.
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“I couldn’t get my head around her hair at the time — the shock of white set against an equally stark black. It was elegant but messy. I wanted to run my fingers through it.”
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It's a first class world and 99% of us are flying coach.
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American Airlines Implies Coach Class Is Too Violent to Be Served Alcohol by @brianabbey link.medium.com/4TPyUidwGgb
Will American Airlines be BYOB? No, but Economy Class will be sober until further notice.
Did you realize how many people get dumped in romantic comedies?
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this is pretty much how all my medium posts start - a dumb idea and then 1K words elaborating on the dumb idea while I try to determine why I had said dumb idea.
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And to think this past weekend we were all worried about being crushed by an out of control Chinese rocket!
I like this premise.
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A mystery novel in which the killer is revealed to be the dawn of time.
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⚡️ “How can you not be romantic about baseball? An unforgettable 2nd date” by twitter.com/i/events/13887
Somebody let me know when the Battle of the Brians begins and I'll be there with my pool noodle, Limp Brisket.
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Every human in this video is named Josh... They ain’t joshin around with these pool noodles though
There’s about to be a... #JOSHFIGHT
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Sometimes I also awkwardly transition to topics that mean a lot to me.
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One of the most bizarre transitions I’ve ever seen a politician make. Just watch Australian MP Bob Katter.
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Google docs just corrected my use of 'holler back' to 'hollaback' and my last delusion of youthfulness died.
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I used to think my parent's messy divorce was the most traumatic think that would ever happen to me.
Then, about a year ago, my wife discovered Imagine Dragons.
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“Perhaps hell is simply other people after all.” —
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“It’s 2016 and I’m sitting in a café in FCO Rome, waiting on a connecting flight to Spain. I’m sipping a prosecco and reading a book when the couple walks in. They’ve been together for a long time but they do not like each other. I watch…” —
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The opposite of love is not hate. It's Indifference.
But a LOVE INDIFFERENCE tattoo looks stupid.
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This is a straight-up addictive series. One of the best things online. twitter.com/_benjamin_davi
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there's no-look and then there's this
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Walking on pavement as older gentleman crosses street. He reaches curb, grabs tree, pulls himself up. 6m skinny tree comes out of wet soil, falls on him as I pass. I catch tree, pivot it to pavement. I say 'U ok?' He speaks no English xcept 'Superman!'
Good deed 2021 sorted.
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"The most value-added part of a university is not the professors; it’s the admissions department." - branding, scarcity, lunacy.
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It's a must read if you work in or around higher-ed. The entire approach needs to be rethought.
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“The strongest brand in the world is not Apple or Mercedes-Benz... The strongest brands are MIT, Oxford, & Stanford. Academics & administrators at the top universities have decided... that we're no longer public servants; we're luxury goods.” @profgalloway google.co.uk/amp/s/nymag.co
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