“Marlo,” Tony and “Omar”: An unholy trinity fo’ sho’
An Insider’s Guide to Scotch, Glenlivet Edition
By Elizabeth Gunnison, esquire.comI’m ankle-deep in good, cold, highland water when it occurs to me that if Scotch whisky were to take human form to rise up and solidify into a two-armed, two-legged, living creature it would probably resemble the man striding…
Tony Karon, time.com
Yes, it’s just a Nike ad, but the spot above reveals something profoundly beautiful about football in Europe right now — much to the chagrin and bile of the neo-Nazis and immigrant-haters unfortunately resurgent in European politics,…
8 Bits of Wisdom From Neil Gaiman on Being a Creator
This is a fantastic speech by Neil Gaiman, addressing the 2012 graduating class of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Gaiman himself never graduated from college—in fact, he never even enrolled in college—yet he earned his place in literary culture as one of the most celebrated and prolific writers working today. Here, he imparts several pieces of life wisdom on young people beginning a career in the arts.
- Say “no” to projects that take you further from rather than closer to your own creative goals, however flattering or lucrative.
- Approach your creative labor with joy, or else it becomes work.
- Embrace your fear of failure. Make peace with the impostor syndrome that comes with success. Don’t be afraid of being wrong.
- When things get tough, make good art.
Read the rest. [via Brain Pickings]

