What’s my mantra in ISBW?

July 7th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SUCK. Ira Glass says so:

Course, he says it in a more eloquent way. Cause I still suck in some ways. But that’s OK. I’m working through it.

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  1. Comment by Nobilis on 7 July 2008:

    That rocks.

    Thanks Mur.

    Thanks Ira.

    Wow. People with three letter names ROCK.

    From now on, call me “Bil”.

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  3. Comment by Matthew Sanborn Smith on 7 July 2008:

    I want to hug this video.

  4. Comment by RIck on 7 July 2008:

    I need to play this on repeat while I sleep.

  5. Comment by Sean on 7 July 2008:

    Wait. So once upon a time, even Ira Glass sucked? Unpossible! But sure enough, the little clip that he played -did-, in fact, suck. That’s encouraging!

  6. Comment by Pewari on 8 July 2008:

    Thank you, I really needed to hear this on the day I ceremoniously printed out my first draft and then started to read the 52,000 words of utter crap. I will keep going!

    (Although don’t you ever wish that you’d started this 8 years ago so you could have got past this part already?!!)

  7. Comment by Tom Susala on 8 July 2008:

    IMHO Mr Glass is another public radio talking head with nothing to say and too much air time. Public radio picked him up when they found out it would be cheaper to have him blab for an hour at a time than pay ASCAP and BMI to play actual artists’ music on the air.

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