I bristle at those who say to presenters, “Just be yourself.” Which self? The self that converses with my best friend’s grandmother at her dining room table, or the guy who teases his teammates and drinks beer while taking off
“Stars can be trillions of light years distant from each other, but maybe nothing is so distant from anything else in this universe as the expressed thought of person A from the understanding of person B.” -Reid Buckley Reid Buckley
Why do orchestras need conductors? Can’t the musicians play by themselves? After all, they can read music, know when to come in and when to stop. All the dynamics are written in black and white: fortissimo here, piano there. Why