January 2012
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Medication Supported Recovery →
This is a PSA for Medication Supported Recovery that I helped organize at Bellevue Hospital last summer. It brings tears to my eyes to see the patient testimonials and the dedication of our faculty and staff. So for those of you who ask, this is what I do at work. Please share with anyone you know that may have a substance use disorder and is seeking help.
From the OASAS site:
How we view the...
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Watchicopythat:
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willschneider:
C’mon, you cant even pretend you don’t want to see this film.
Help them make it!
The Improv Everywhere film is only 5K away from being made BUT it only has 15 hours left to reach it! OH NO!
If you have ever spent 5 minutes being entertained online by one of the many videos that Charlie has organized or creeped on some cuties at the No Pants...
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Etta James, “I Just Wanna Make Love to...
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Bellevue Elevator Talk
Guy: Hey, do you have a cigarette?
Me: No, I don’t.
Guy: I figured, you don’t look like you smoke.
Me: You know, it’s bad for your health….
Guy: (glowers at me)
Me: I have to say that.
Guy: Ooooh, I knoooow. I gave up the drugs and the drinking, all I have now are women and smokes, you’re not gonna take that away are you?
Me: Of course not, you have to do that...
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Our Food Is Not Just Entertainment, Paula Deen →
youcanteatbread:
Excellent piece in the HuffPo by my friend Cathy Erway [of (among other things) Not Eating Out in New York fame], on Paula Deen’s recent announcement of her three-year-old diabetes diagnosis. I know it is asking Deen to live up to a higher moral standard than most, but when you are a public figure that makes a living demonstrating to millions your favored methods of cooking,...
“probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns...”
– ― J.D. Salinger (via turtalia)
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Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
“At 4 a.m. on an Upper East Side subway platform, a stare-down between two men was being held. One blinked, and Joseph Owens, 32, attacked.”
Félix Fenéon, meet @neofeneon: Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
brilliant.
(via laphamsquarterly michellelegro )
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Susan Orlean’s Social Index for Modern... →
noraleah:
I’m not sure who linked to this yesterday (sorry!) but it really is quite delightful. Ms. Orlean is a national treasure.
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it’s all gone sideways. I decided to try to index these new entities—to draft a sort of Social Media Bestiary. Here it is, so...
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“Ryan Gosling owned 2011. He starred in three hit films (I’m defining a hit film...”
– The Grantland Staff on its favorite movies of 2011 - Grantland (via peterwknox)
Also of note, Jeremy Renner:
I can tell you all now that the person who’ll have the greatest rise in 2012 will be Jeremy Renner. The dude is on the precipice of becoming this generation’s Harrison Ford....
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December 2011
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“Martindale had no valid claim on Smiley either professionally or socially. He...”
– (fantastic) character description from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
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“There should be pride in it, that you behaved no worse. There should be...”
– Clive James, discussing the cycling of generations and Gabriel García Márquez’s notion of a patriarch’s autumn. Brought to my attention by Salman Rushdie’s Twitter. (via tragos)
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“And they made me realize that the part of Christmas I most look forward to isn’t...”
– - Frank Bruni, Silent Night? Not with us. (via youngna)
After a whirlwind Christmas with family in from out-of-town, friends back from Paris, and my little sister’s boyfriend easily putting up with us all, I can say that Bruni hit the nail on the head with the statement above. Happy Holidays...
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Anyone have law enforcement/media/local...
My friend Mia’s brother Daniel Carbonaro & Christopher Rice have been missing for 4 days in the Mojave desert without survival gear or water. Any efforts with local authorities have been for naught and Mia needs help. If you have any connections in Kern County please take a minute to contact them, and PLEASE forward/reblog this message so it gets to as many people as possible. Come on...
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“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Al Franken (via azspot)
SOPA (via asie)
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“Just show up and eat a chicken wing and have a cocktail.”
– Mike Lee
You know someone is a good friend when you tell them that your hectic schedule may preclude you from attending their super awesome event; and they respond with the above. Friends just want you to be there and share a chicken wing, regardless of how long you can stay.
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Doctor, Google Thyself →
My friends’ most common health questions are:
“I have X symptom, do you know a specialist for X symptom that will take my insurance, and that is taking new patients?”
I think of my contacts, I do a Google-search, and then give them a few recommendations; but I wonder, do physicians know that they could quickly and easily answer these questions for patients by simply engaging a...
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