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smoking kills man… but hell it lookS good**


great cover for man magazine. mind you, this is not just “another man” magazine.

 

**official disclaimer: smoking actually does not look good. it actually sucks!! not that we care about death, its quite natural and we best get the fuck out of here if there’s gonna be any room left on earth for the ones coming. besides as we posted before the true average life span of man is really just 20, and the rest is really borrowed time. all that said, and the death part aside, it is simply stupid to shove carbon monoxide inside you mouth especially when the final effect is null. your teeth get yellow, your mouth smells like a toilet, and it actually cramps your style. just think about what an extra ($12 a pack x 7 days x 4 week in a month) $336 a month could do for your wardrobe… actually if you are in paris or NY not much… but whatever. by dd

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average life of man: no more than 20 years

image courtesy of natural history museum

years ago i was at my favorite chinese dentist in california due for a filling and i asked this eloquent doctor of mine, why it was that even though i brushed twice a day and flossed i had to deal with cavities? i said a lion for example, does little of that and seems to be keeping his pearly whites? the answer was mind opening. he said “well… there are really two reasons. for one, man in its natural state consumes a fraction of the sugar humans consume today, but more importantly our organs and bodies have not evolved as quickly as mans life has changed at his own hands. in nature you would have died of a virus, if not eaten by a predator by age 20.” i for one would have been dead at the age of 8 when i got a strep-throat with a fever of 103. without todays available antibiotics, the infection would have reached my heart and i would have met my “baker” long ago. i was telling this story today, and jr looked this up. sure enough the average age of cavemen was indeed 20. you would have mated at age 13 and been eaten by age 20. so count your blessing as most of us are now on borrowed time. by dd+jr

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brian eno’s oblique strategies cards



was listening to a re-aired jim jarmusch’s interview on french radio and remembered that he was talking about this oddity that is brian eno’s “oblique strategies” deck of cards. that sounded pretty fun on the radio but the truth is that it’s far beyond that, that is pure genius!

“the deck itself had its origins in the discovery by brian eno that both he and his friend peter schmidt tended to keep a set of basic working principles which guided them through the kinds of moments of pressure – either working through a heavy painting session or watching the clock tick while you’re running up a big buck studio bill. both schmidt and eno realized that the pressures of time tended to steer them away from the ways of thinking they found most productive when the pressure was off. the strategies were, then, a way to remind themselves of those habits of thinking – to jog the mind.”

let’s imagine a deck of cards that is giving you advise on a daily basis. in the interview, writer jean jacques schulh was telling jarmusch’s fortune. the instruction was “do something boring” great piece of advice! i ordered a set, next posts will be defined by the cards… by pp’

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