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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large2 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Yes. Even though we play our part of the global family, brought together through the Internet, we’re still very tribal. To the point, the joke goes, that if someone is born just off shore of Charleston, South Carolina, in a fishing boat on a day trip, that baby will never, to its grave, be considered a Charlestonian — it’s not just Greece (or, tribes deep in Afghanistan) who are so jingoistic about who counts as “us” and who is “other.” One of the biggest jokes in America is the phrase, “you ain’t from around here” and that doesn’t change. And it goes both ways. Sometimes, that tribalism doesn’t exists formally, it only exists because you, yourself — we, ourselves — don’t feel a part.
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

Following up on my previous email

Hi

I just wanted to let you know that I accepted a position with Unison as the director of social media. It’s right up my alley because they work with brand communication, creative and tech marketing PR/advertising; creative direction and design; and even app dev for web/mobile. There’s plenty room for collaboration.

I’d love to catch up with you. How are you doing anyway?

Cheers,

Chris

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I think one of the things I didn’t discuss enough in this piece is that it all really has to do less with how big I really am but rather how comfortable I am being as big as I am. I have always been tall but I am heavier and bigger than just tall. And that maybe my attempt at becoming smaller is based on a body image issue as well. There are pictures of me as a very svelte 6’3″ lad in high school and a more muscular lad in college; however, I don’t remember feeling like I needed to be anything but tall. And I don’t think in any way, have people asked me to be shy, ashamed, insecure, or withdrawn because of my weight, girth, size, etc. But I have done that to myself — both for the benefit of others as well as for myself. But I don’t want to do that anymore. And that’s what this is about: it’s not just about small, powerless, people gaining their power but it’s also about people taking their confidence and their power back.
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Rekindling Health in a New Year

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My best buddy just mentioned that I didn’t cover drinking and alcohol. Very important but I didn’t want to get into that just now: now, it’s just proper nutrition and proper exercise: quality calories in, lots of calories out. Hopefully, a strong exercise regimen and a quality food intake will allow me to pave over — smooth out — some of my smaller sins.
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Apple Bans ‘Erotic’ Book Cover From iTunes

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What a cute bottom! That’s all I think. Oh, also, what a lovely photograph in the classic style. This cover isn’t even approaching what I see on the news stand, and not from Hustler, but from fashion and ladmags. Sigh. What do you think? I draw bottoms like that all the time — and on the chaste Draw Something game — will I be banned? To quote Martha Steward, “cute bottoms are a very good thing.”
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