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August 14, 2009

The Face of Suspicion

I once posed as a professional fisherman in a government-sponsored tournament in south central China.

Mr. Fu and I shared a raft for many hours. He was both a patient tutor and a fierce competitor.

I revealed to him that I was an impostor just moments before one of our hardhat-wearing, sugarcane-chewing river navigators took this picture.

Note: I post this in honor of Michael Dundas, who called me two nights before aforementioned (but not yet anything close to aforedescribed) adventure, told me he had an offer I couldn't refuse, and described a fishing tournament entirely unlike what we experienced. He's on the New Jersey Turnpike right now, on his way here. I haven't seen him in way too long.

Filed under  //   adventure   china   competition   fishing   mr dundastic   mr fu   suspicion  

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June 30, 2009

Lots Of Who But No Why

Chris Weingarten is a freelance music journalist.

He doesn't like Phish, Fleet Foxes, or the way people talk about music on Twitter.

He misses the because of professional music criticism.

He worries about crowdsourcing...

If you let the people decide, then nothing truly adventurous ever gets out.

And I think the talk he gave at the 140 Characters Conference a couple of weeks ago is worth watching.

Because I want truly adventurous things to get out.

Thank you, Stacey Monk, for writing one blog post that inspired me to write two.

Filed under  //   adventure   crowdsourcing   fleet foxes   journalism   music   music critics   phish   twitter  

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June 26, 2009

Plans, Adventures, Stories

Just read a blog post about Evil Plans. Now I'm wondering...

If something is an adventure, isn't it by nature worth sharing?

And aren't we all involved in little adventures every day?

So shouldn't we be telling more stories?

Filed under  //   adventure   hugh macleod   storytelling  

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August 20, 2008

A Pretty Good Man

Jerry Seinfeld thinks it's strange to call the guy standing next to the groom the BEST man. If he's the best man, then why's she marrying that other guy? He reckons there ought to be the groom and a pretty good man.

On Saturday, my friend Hesh will be a groom, a I get to be his pretty good man.

I drove to New Hampshire today to pick him up, and, tonight, we crossed Vermont and Champlain and headed into the Adirondacks to rendezvous with the bride and her family.

It was great to get some time alone with Hesh. Fun to hear his thoughts, feel his excitement. Fun to share his nerves. And fun to remind him that I'm working for him this weekend.

Anything gets crazy (drunk people, lonely guests, collapsing tent, grumpy old ladies needing dance partners), and I'll be ready.

I'm hoping for some adventure. Not heaps. But nothing's as fun if it goes perfectly according to plan.

Filed under  //   adventure   best man   hesh   jerry seinfeld   standup comedy  

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August 8, 2008

Adventure

Reverend Bob Doss on why, after losing his garden variety Protestant faith, he became a Unitarian minister:

I wanted to spend my life – all of it – in a religious adventure. There was 1) a gnawing hunger in me; 2) a craving for unity; 3) a thirst for a meaningful theology; 4) a longing for the experience of a loving trust that was potential in existence and real in experience.

I had lunch with Bob today.  The Twodaddy project rumbles along slowly.  The in-process book is starting to reveal its structure.  But there's heaps of work to do.  I see stacks and stacks of unread writing along the wall in this office.  Keep chipping away, I guess.  Bob says he's doing the same.

I have a feeling this little project will become a full blown adventure itself before all's said and done.  Which is good.  Nothing like a little religious adventure to keep the agnosticism alive and squirming.

Filed under  //   adventure   bob doss   religion   twodaddy  

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