In the rock star world of motivational speakers, giant handed Tony Robbins is something of a Bono. He doesn’t work in auditoriums, he fills convention centers. After working a crowd into a frenzy of positive mental attitude and belief in the self, if Tony Robbins tells you that you can walk barefoot across 1200°F coals you believe him. Unfortunately even Tony Robbins cannot control physics. Continue reading
Val Patterson passed away on July 10th, but had the foresight to write his own obituary and he had a few things to get off his chest. His obituary is a model for how all future obituaries should be written.
We’ve all done things we regret and should have come clean about. For Val one of those things was a bit of burgling he did in 1971.
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You thought I’d forget to make a Saturday OT. You were wrong. Continue reading
Thomas Kinkade, the artist of choice for people who like Jesus, either left giant sums of money and homes to his girlfriend or to his separated but not yet divorced wife. If the girlfriend of 18 months, Amy Pinto-Walsh, is to be believed what follows is a will that Kinkade wrote himself leaving her $10M, two fancy homes and original paintings. Continue reading
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The Penobscot building in downtown Detroit just sold for $5M to a Toronto based company. The selling price was $5.00 per square foot for the 1M square foot building. Detroit office space vacancy rates are currently around 25%. But for the same amount of money you can get 173 Perry Street, Unit 4N in Manhattan. Assuming you live there or can rent it out the vacancy rate should be zero. Continue reading
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Poking fun at a television that pokes fun at hipster pop culture is so meta that it will soon be cool (but don’t over do it man).
Do you do that new thing that nobody else is doing but everyone will be talking about soon? Did you start a movement of any kind? Do you know about cats? If you answered any of these questions with any kind of answer at all then this video is for you. Continue reading