Huck's Tune: Bob Dylan's New Masterpiece

HUCK'S TUNE

Well I wandered alone through a desert of stone
And I dreamt of my future wife
My sword's in my hand and I'm next in command
In this version of death called life

My plate and my cup are right straight up
I took a rose from the hand of a child
When I kiss your lips, the honey drips
I'm gonna have to put you down for a while

Every day we meet on any old street
And you're in your girlish prime
The short and the tall are coming to the ball
I go there all the time

Behind every tree there's something to see
The river is wider than a mile
I tried you twice, you can't be nice
I'm gonna have to put you down for a while

Here come the nurse with money in her purse
Here come the ladies and men
You push it all in and you've no chance to win
You play 'em on down to the end

I'm laying in the sand getting a sunshine tan
Moving along riding in style
From my toes to my head you knock me dead
I'm gonna have to put you down for a while

I count the years and I shed no tears
I'm blinded to what might have been
Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice
Play me the wild song of the wind

I found hopeless love in the room above
When the sun and the weather were riled
You're as fine as wine, I ain't handing you no line
I'm gonna have to put you down for a while

All the marry little elves can go hang themselves
My faith is as cold as can be
I'm stacked high to the roof and I'm not without proof
If you don't believe me, come see

You think I'm blue, I think so too
In my words you'll find no guile
The game's gotten old
The deck's gone cold
And I'm gonna have to put you down for a while

Lee Stoetzel: You Are In A Landscape

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Orny Adams Friday the 13th Appearance on Jay Leno

Tacos To Eat Before You Die

I love tacos.

Actually, I think tacos just might be my all time favorite food.

I've always loved tacos, and have many fond taco memories. I remember fondly my mother making homemade tortillas as a boy. Hand-rolling flour shells one by one while black beans simmered on the stove. I remember sitting Indian-style munching on one of the best tacos I've ever tasted with a family of migrant workers taking a lunch break from detasseling corn in one of the fields at the end of our driveway. And I remember the first time I ever dared to try the Stupid Sauce they serve with the tacos at San Loco in NYC.

In fact, those memories (and the Food Network) are probably what inspired me to put my very own tortilla press on my Christmas wish list last year (Thanks for the gift bro!).

So I was pleased to hear about the December 2006 cover story from Texas Monthly called, The 63 Tacos You Must Eat Before You Die. And I was thrilled to learn that at the top of the list was my all-time favorite taco from the Fuel City gas station in Dallas Texas.

For years, I have raved about the Fuel City tacos. And they truly are special. I first discovered their tacos when I lived in Dallas at the South Side on Lamar lofts about a half mile away. When I lived in Texas, I used to drag friends and family to Fuel City several times a week at all hours of the day and night to grab a few $1.25 tacos.

So hearing about this article has inspired me to share my own Top 3 list of the my very favorite tacos. The tacos I recommend eating before you die:

1) Tacos from the Fuel City gas station in Dallas, Texas
2) Tacos from La Esquina taco stand on Lafayette, New York City (get the grilled corn too!)
3) The Queso Loco (with Stupid Sauce on the side) from San Loco on 2nd Ave, New York City

Where's your favorite taco?

Here Comes the Sun...

Today is a great day. I can feel the energy. It's almost palpable. It's still cold on the East Coast, but it's heating up. The fog is lifting.

It being Friday the 13th could have something to do with it, but I think it's also because one of my best friends (and former roommate) Orny Adams is going to be doing his second appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. (And he goes on just before the Shins - one of my favorite bands...I'm really sorry O that I'm missing this one!).

It's great to see your good friends do so well. Especially when they deserve it. Orny has been working tirelessly for the past 14 years at honing his craft - at being a great stand-up comedian. Through thick and thin he has never given up. He has stuck with it and persevered and worked at being a great comedian. He has earned the respect of many of the great comedians of our time including Jerry Seinfeld and Gary Shandling among hundreds of others. I've been standing there and heard the compliments first hand. And he is consistently the best comedian on stage every time I go see him live. Ask anyone in the audience after one of his sets...most likely they'll say the same thing: he was by far the best on the stage. That's because he is a great comedian and his jokes are smart. He doesn't need to swear to get people to laugh. And that's what you'll see no doubt tonight in front of Jay Leno's audience and on the Tonight Show's stage. Great jokes that have been honed for months, years, tirelessly. Every word, every nuance. Most people probably think comedians just get up on stage and try to say funny stuff. Wrong! It's an art, it's a craft, it's an endless job.

So way to go Orny! I'm looking forward to watching tonight from the East Coast. With any luck, the producers of the show will carve out a few extra minutes for Orny tonight to show this hilarious clip of Orny doing stand-up to a group of school children in Fiji. If not, the clip is being featured on Will Farrell's new site FunnyorDie.com.

That's one reason why today is going to be a great day. Watch Orny give it his all on The Tonight Show and then go out and kick in $20 bucks to buy his DVD/CD called Path of Most Resistance. It's well worth it for a lot of reasons. But mostly because it is great comedy and it deserves to be recognized and supported and passed around and blogged about...

Way to go Zack!

Zack Johnson, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wins the Masters! Here he is visiting Times Square the day after his big win...

New Features Launched Today on OrganizedWisdom

We're making great progress at OrganizedWisdom. Late last night we launched about 10 new features (like private messaging, commenting on WisdomCards, create your own health topic, connect with friends, etc.) that greatly improve the user experience and community. When you get a chance to test everything out, please share your feedback. And spread the word to anyone you know who is either searching for health related information, or who you think has an important story to share.

Go To The Ivy Leagues for Free

I am currently attending Stanford, Harvard Business School, Yale, Duke, and Columbia. And being mentored by some of the top CEO's, leaders, thinkers and entrepreneurs in the world.

Yep, all at the same time. And all for free.

I'm not kidding either. That's because I've been able to download hundreds of complete courses to my iPod on everything from Psychology to Art History to Computer Science. I have over 350 podcasts right now on my iPod, all downloaded for free (legally) via iTunes.

In addition, to being able to audit classes like Philosophy and Astronomy, I am able to listen to priceless interviews, speeches, and lectures from exclusive conferences like TED (normally a $6,000 annual membership).

It doesn't stop there. Better than an MBA, I am being mentored by CEO's, VC's and entrepreneurs who now have their own podcasts and blogs. Some of my favorites include the CalacanisCast, VentureCast, Venture Voice, Marketing Voices with Jennifer Jones and The ScobleShow with Robert Scoble.

It's an amazing world. Anyone with access to a computer and an iPod now has access to a world class education. For free.

For all you non-stop learners out there, I hope you are enjoying this as much as I am.

How To Be Creative

Another must read from Hugh at GapingVoid.com. Here is his list of 31 lessons and advice on how to be creative. Click through to read Hugh's great wisdom on each lesson and order some of his classic cartoons:

1. Ignore everybody.
2. The idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to change the world.
3. Put the hours in.
4. If your biz plan depends on you suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail.
5. You are responsible for your own experience.
6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.
7. Keep your day job.
8. Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion creativity.
9. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.
10. The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props.
11. Don't try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.
12. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
13. Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
14. Dying young is overrated.
15. The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.
16. The world is changing.
17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't.
18. Avoid the Watercooler Gang.
19. Sing in your own voice.
20. The choice of media is irrelevant.
21. Selling out is harder than it looks.
22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.
23. Worrying about "Commercial vs. Artistic" is a complete waste of time.
24. Don�t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually.
25. You have to find your own schtick.
26. Write from the heart.
27. The best way to get approval is not to need it.
28. Power is never given. Power is taken.
29. Whatever choice you make, The Devil gets his due eventually.
30. The hardest part of being creative is getting used to it.
31. Remain frugal.

The Best Show on TV: Man vs. Wild

Have you seen it yet?

If not, run to your Tivo and start recording it. It's on the Discovery Channel. You just have to see a few episodes to see how incredible it is...

To absolute or not to absolute...

Another great piece of wisdom from the Signals Vs. Noise Blog:

"Be careful when attaching absolutes to your position. Attaching absolutes is like throwing a Hail Mary pass—it’s an all or nothing play."

Special Birthday Screening - Thanks Mom!

The following footage was filmed moments and days after my birth on January 3, 1974. The first time I ever screened the footage was to a group of friends and family on my 30th birthday. Since 3 seems to be my lucky number, I thought I would share it again today to celebrate my 33rd. Thanks mom!

Version one: Teardrop



Version two: Angel

Basstectonics.com Launches In Beta

Straight from my friend Scudder Steven's blog, "After three years of testing ideas, developing new skills, and learning the hard way, Basstectonics.com has finally launched!"

Congrats Scudder! Me likes what I hear so far...I'm loving the dub streams from my friends at Easy Star records.

So what is Basstectonics? From the site:

Basstectonics.com is a digital download retailer that offers its product catalog to customers in the form of audio streams. These streams are free to preview, at 96kbps, but must be purchased to enable the download of the audio files. Either the entire mix or each individual track, featured in the mix, is available for purchase. Basstectonics.com offers individual tracks in MP3 or FLAC format, and streams are available as MP3s only.

The music featured on Basstectonics.com is created by independent artists and record labels. When you purchase music from Basstectonics.com you are directly supporting these independent artists and record labels, not the greed of the Music Industry.

I look forward to seeing the evolution of the site over the coming months and helping however I can...

OrganizedWisdom.com Makes the Wall Street Journal

I was thrilled to wake up yesterday to see Laura Landro's article in the Wall Street Journal titled, Social Networking Comes to Health Care (subscription required but this link should work for 7 days).
There are several important web communities featured in the article and OrganizedWisdom.com is listed in the following break out box as one of the new health sites adopting social-networking, custom search and new interactive technology.


Landro's article is a major trend piece about what's going on with online health care, and the validation and coverage from such an important news source is a great way for our company to enter 2007.

Since you may not have access to the WSJ, here are a few highlights:

The social-networking revolution is coming to health care, at the same time that new Internet technologies and software programs are making it easier than ever for consumers to find timely, personalized health information online. Patients who once connected mainly through email discussion groups and chat rooms are building more sophisticated virtual communities that enable them to share information about treatment and coping and build a personal network of friends. At the same time, traditional Web sites that once offered cumbersome pages of static data are developing blogs, podcasts, and customized search engines to deliver the most relevant and timely information on health topics.

The same technologies are making it possible for advocacy groups, government agencies and health-care providers to update consumers on relevant health news and deliver personalized health-awareness messages, reminders and alerts to email accounts, wireless devices and mobile phones. Online collaborations known as wikis, which let different users jointly work on Web-based information such as photo albums and contact lists, are developing to help communities plan for public-health emergencies, such as fluwikie.com, a flu-pandemic planning site. Mainstream advocacy groups and government agencies are offering their own specialized health-information "feeds" to consumers, and even experimenting with three-dimensional online computer worlds that use surrogates known as avatars to let visitors interact.

Landro continues...

While some sites don't offer all the bells and whistles of full-blown social networking sites, they are taking advantage of the phenomenon to reach out to special audiences. The Wellness Community, a nonprofit group that provides free support and education to cancer patients and families, launched a Web site, grouploop.org earlier this year to help teens with cancer connect in a private, safe environment. The group says it has reached more than 15% of the approximately 50,000 teen cancer survivors in the U.S., and is also connecting teens in nine other countries. In addition to weekly scheduled support groups moderated by a professional, teens can log in at any time of day to post or read messages in a password-protected site. A comprehensive search engine allows users to search for other teens with cancer on such criteria as age, location, or diagnosis.

We have big plans and many exciting new developments for OrganizedWisdom.com in 2007. Thank you all for your support helping us launch the company this year. Your contributions, feedback, and suggestions have been invaluable. Please keep checking in and sharing your personal health wisdom to help others!