Worth your follow ... worth your read!

Yay! The heat today is slightly less than sizzling, so my brain wants to play! In the past few days I've found lots of great articles and links -- Bookmarked them all, too fried to read at the time. No more! -- We've got two or three days of tolerable heat coming on ... and Pushing fifty has some goodies for you ...

First off, there's James Altucher -- a man of snapping-good thoughts. I found his site via The Browser's quotations page -- which offers up-to-the-minute quotes from pieces its editors find all over the web. Here's Jimmy Page, on nutrition:  "I'm not into solid foods very much. I prefer to eat liquid food, something like a banana daiquiri."

While you're enjoying your liquid refreshment, here's James Altucher's advice on how to meet failure -- tip #6 is to watch funny movies. Best movies to watch: funny movies about failure. My first choice would be Arthur -- the 1981 original that stars Dudley Moore. You cannot hear that man laugh without cracking up yourself! In the eyes of the upper-crusties around him, Arthur is an abject failure ... and he's in love ...



Speaking of failure ... Here's a doozy. How about a failure to be civil and fiscally responsible? -- Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish mirrors my thoughts about the impasse in US debt talks ... and from everything I've read about this crisis, I can't help but wonder if at the root of certain quarters' refusal to engage intelligently is an unspoken revulsion that the president has -- wait for it -- brown skin. At least one prominent, very pale Republican is on the record as saying he wants to destroy Barack Obama's presidency -- though this man doesn't seem to say why. Meanwhile, people of all skin tones are suffering ...

Speaking of men ... The Good Men Project is a gem, and David Perez writes of his experience with major depression after a lifelong battle with what he calls "the monster inside me." He arrives at an imperative understanding of himself and his monster: "We are brothers with the same memories, scars, and triumphs."

Dorian Gray would have done well to arrive at a similar understanding ... especially in light of Better Book Titles'  spoofed cover of Oscar Wilde's creepy classic: