January 2010
47 posts
December 2009
54 posts
2009
scbb-blog:
With less than three days to go before a new year, we want to share the impact of the last 11 months. Since our start, SmallCanBeBig.org has raised $120,000 and helped 96 families and 211 children avoid homelessness.
Thank you.
Together, we’re headed for BIG things in 2010.
“I believe that Bob Dylan and James Brown had a baby. And they abandoned that...”
– Jon Stewart on Bruce Springsteen for The Kennedy Center Honors (via shaneblog)
I'm going to Chicago bright and early in the...
(via prettygirlsongs)
So are we!
b.good and $1...doing BIG things
scbb-blog:
Supporters of SmallCanBeBig and b.good restaurants teamed up last Friday: with a $1 donation to our site, b.good gave you a free shake.
The tally is in…we raised $671 (all those shakes!) and together, we did something BIG.
Thank you.
Year End Lists
What a fantasic, thoughtful post about music criticism. And you thought Tumblr was just for LOLCats.
yancey:
Though I haven’t been a real rock critic for years (if I ever was), this was the year that I finally shed the last vestiges of it. From 1998 to 2009 that was how I made my living. I never liked it. It’s not a world where thoughtfulness is particularly prized; instead the game is reacting...
“Economic research suggests that more than 1.5 million workers who would...”
– If Health Care Reform Fails, America’s Innovation Gap Will Grow - New York Times (via AZspot) (via bijan)
A Christmas Present From Writer Jean Shepherd →
austinkleon:
Jean Shepherd reads “Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid,” the original short story that inspired A Christmas Story.
Create Some Buzz with SmallCanBeBig Art
scbb-blog:
BIG news…Jonathan Bartlett, a NYC-based illustrator, has donated his time and talent to SmallCanBeBig. And, oh, were the results fantastic.
Now available on our website is an 18x24 high-quality print poster depicting Bartlett’s version of just how “small can be big.”
Proceeds, as ever, are given with the belief that your small contribution goes toward creating something BIG: Helping...
adamisacson:
Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55
Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39
Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36
Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34
Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34
- Blake Hounshell at Foreign Policy.
You're Welcome.
Okay, I see your point. People should be able to do whatever they want etc. But I think what Jeffery’s saying here is that when you try and make something that’s participatory- a community -you put it out in the world and the world does what it wants with it: love’s it changes it, ignores it. Whatever. Which gets me to some other points that have been bugging me this week about...