Posts tagged “excellence”

  1. My favorite books of the year, the ones that provided me the pleasure I always seek when I sit down with a book, the ones that tore my heart wide open and made me envious but simultaneously honored to be writing in the same time as such accomplished writers: Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter Man vs Nature by Diane Cook The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez The People in the Trees by Hanya…

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  2. In my life I have only been unerringly good at one thing, and that was English MACC. “MACC” stood for “Mountain Academic Competition Conference,” and “English” designated the subject matter of which I – a four-time MACC champion – was master. “It was like Quiz Bowl,” is what I’ve mumbled, wanting to change the subject, on the few occasions I’ve tried to explain MACC in my adult life. But that’s not true. It

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  3. "Serious climbers all detest Everest, because you just pay someone enough money and you can do it, it's not a technically demanding climb compared to other major summits, and then if there's a storm you die. It's for dummies; it literally looks like a line of dudes waiting to use the men's room at the Superbowl, so many people do it." - Nicole Cliffe on Mt. Everest "Helicopter Jing, you're imbued with the stench of your…

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  4. The greatest movie of the last twenty years is the movie Drumline. The movie Drumline is about a group of young whimsical drummists at a fictional university in Georgia. Nick Cannon is a special drummist, and he turns the drumline upside down with his newfangled ways, which are tremendous. There's a scene where a very attractively butch young woman does a set of one-armed pushups, and this is a scene that is very dear to my…

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