I'm Zack Shapiro. I'm creative and passionate across a variety of disciplines. I'm a journalist and the Social Media Outreach Editor at the CU Independent. I'm also a musician and songwriter photographer, die hard sports fan, Internet enthusiast, interviewer for Punknews, observer, commentator, and student.
Can’t take credit for this one
So does this mean that all of her expertise in American-Russian relations is going to waste? That she won’t be the first person we call when we have to deal with Russia again?
SHE CAN SEE THE RUSSIANS FROM HER HOUSE! WE NEED HER!
xkcd - A Webcomic - Online Package Tracking
This is me with my computers. Yes. I am going crazy.
Me too.
The National - Slow Show
You know I dreamed about you,
for twenty-nine years before I saw you.
Hardcore for Nerds: Bouncing Souls vs. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(‘Born Free’, Anchors Aweigh sleeve notes)
There’s such a distinct lack of text content on Tumblr that breaks even 100 words in a post, it’s pretty sad. I’m sure there are some fantastic writers out there, some fantastic thinkers too but where is their representation?
As I write this there are 1.2 million Tumblelogs, with “writer” being the ninth most popular tag and “writing” being the 18th most popular tag. That means there are a significant amount of writers on here, correct?
Nope.
The most popular Tumblelog classified under “writer” has three pictures of Miley Cyrus on its first page and a total of one hundred and forty three words. To anyone who writes significant amounts on Tumblr, like myself, frankly that is pretty insulting.
In a world where newspapers are folding due to distinct lack of funding, subscribers and new favor of online-only content, Tumblr is the perfect platform for writers: You write, you build a following, an audience, and anytime you publish you automatically have a group that auto-subscribes to your content with the possibility of reaching further once they choose to reblog and comment.
Tumblr, support your writers. Help add a text element to this picture-heavy platform that we have here.
The idea that occurred to me was: What if a group of people collectively signed a contract that said one of them would be vegetarian everyday of the year? More specifically, say a group of 7 people signed a contract saying that each of them would go meatless on an assigned day each week. Thus, within the group each member could eat meat 6 days a week, but there would be one vegetarian at all times. The group could be 7 good friends, or it could be 7 individuals matched by the “commitment store.” And of course 7 is an arbitrary number - more ambitious folks could form a team of 2 or 3.
The effect may seem marginal, but I have seen tons of sources which say that just a bit less meat consumption could have immense environmental benefits. Here is one: According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads.
This is a really interesting idea and something I’d be happy to get involved with. My girlfriend has been a vegetarian for over three years now and we cook some delicious vegetarian things together.
Being a vegetarian doesn’t mean that you have to eat carrots and lettuce as every meal, it just means that you don’t eat meat. As obvious of a statement as that last sentence was, it needs to be said because the idea of not eating meat, the idea of the vegetarian lifestyle, scares some people. Pasta is vegetarian, so is cheese pizza, fruit salad and risotto, dishes that you may eat every day or at least weekly
If I found a group where each person was willing to give up meat for a day per week, I’d gladly jump on board. Here’s an example of a vegetarian day for me:
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good chicken sandwich or cheeseburger but I could give meat up for a day per week.
4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy) - Bruce Springsteen
I had a thought last night that I wanted to wake up this morning and get rid of 75% of the ‘stuff’ that I own. […]
How do you start to get rid of these things?
Get some sort of external storage. The basement, a small rental storage unit, your parents’ place, or New Jersey. The less convenient it is to access, the better.
Put nearly everything you own there. Leave out only what you’d pack if you were going on a trip for 2 weeks.
From that point forward, remove only what you need, as you need it, from storage. You’ll almost never need to do this.
After a year, get rid of everything that’s still in storage.
I’ve been writing a lot of new songs over the past couple weeks and I’m excited to announce two EPs that will hopefully be out shortly. I wrote eight songs and arranged them into two four-song EPs entitled Songs About Baltimore and Songs About Jersey.
I also updated my Muxtape where you’ll be able to hear the songs when they go live.
Today, Devon picked me up and took me to Bethany. This picture is from the Winter when no one was there. My camera died on me after three pictures.
Great day.
