pretending to be a billionaire

 

$60k experiment

 

When his apartment flooded, this cardiologist moved into the Wynn for a month while repairs were completed. Story here.

 

enlightenment

"If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
- Carl Sagan [1934-1996]

Oprah's latest favorite things

 Here.

being bipolar

 

Guns, Germs and Steel

Why cultures dominate.

Part 1 

 

Part 2

 

Part 3

visual aid

Source here.

Self-Consciousness in the 1950s

Self-Conscious Guy 1951 Coronet Instructional Films, Teen Problems from Jeff Quitney on Vimeo.

shave IQ points off by witnessing this

 

different from the sum of individual parts

 

ticking time bomb

"Stress is the worst use of imagination."
- Deepak Chopra [born 1946]

disco hockey tips

inspired 1984, Brave New World

hunting people

Spain as a toilet

down and out in paris and london

poverty between the world wars

even 7 pints/week is too much

1984

glorious future

proprietor "coolest bike shop in the world"

 

big kids

 

bag of sulphuric acid

Gaslighting

 

"you can never trust what you read"

“Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.”

– William Goldman [1931-2018]

want a free mint wheelchair?

If you live in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, and need a free wheelchair, contact me: 

richard.cassel@alumni.utoronto.ca

to act in all things necessary for the salvation of God's children

Image credit here.

"I became a Father - I joined the priesthood."

never wrong

 

save our young males

 

on substance abuse

"Reality is an acquired taste."
- Matthew Perry [born 1969]