Laugh Cry or Get Angry_MondayMorningMemo

People would rather be angry than bored. Anger is a form of excitement. That explains a lot of behavior, doesn’t it? But if you can choose, choose laughter. “Man is the laughing animal…” 1 Anger is dangerous and crying is much less fun. I’m talking about storytelling and communication. I’m talking about books and movies. I’m talking […]

“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. […]

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The Wizard is paying $45,000 to Wizard Academy (the same $15,000/day that every other organization has to pay for private Academy Classes) so the famous Wizard of Ads partners can gather from their homes around the world in March, 2017 for a 3-day partner meeting in the academy tower overlooking Austin, Texas. Thirty businesses will participate in Day 2 […]

People would rather be angry than bored. Anger is a form of excitement. That explains a lot of behavior, doesn’t it? But if you can choose, choose laughter. “Man is the laughing animal…” 1 Anger is dangerous and crying is much less fun. I’m talking about storytelling and communication. I’m talking about books and movies. I’m talking […]

 

Here’s the opening paragraph of that Foreword. Here’s a later paragraph. Click it (below) to read the entire Foreword at Oprah.com

Recorded 2 and 1/2 years later, the version below is the one you remember.

Do you remember this from a few months ago? Take another look, then scroll to the bottom of the page to see what Liam is releasing now. Heh, heh, heh. – Indy

Manley teaches an amazing fundraising class at Wizard Academy. This is an audio clip of the last time he taught. You should pester Vice-Chancellor Whittington to schedule another class with Manley. Daniel@WizardAcademy.org

The Wizard is paying $45,000 to Wizard Academy (the same $15,000/day that every other organization has to pay for private Academy Classes) so the famous Wizard of Ads partners can gather from their homes around the world in March, 2017 for a 3-day partner meeting in the academy tower overlooking Austin, Texas. Thirty businesses will participate in Day 2 […]

LightMasonry from Jason Bruges

Paired Opposites and Third Gravitating Bodies  

Paired Opposites and Third Gravitating Bodies* A Gravitating Body is anything that tugs at your attention. Two gravitating bodies with a high degree of divergence are known as Paired Opposites.  Employ them and you’ll get attention. But when you add a third gravitating body – something highly divergent from both of the first two – and it fits – you are […]

“…He had decided that the German retreat across the Ruhr meant the war was over, and he was not interested in counter-argument. He dismissed Diddens’s halfhearted insistence that in fact they were still enemies, saying he could not speak for Diddens but that a priest could not have enemies any more than a hog butcher […]

At 4 feet wide, it’s the biggest woodcut print I’ve ever seen. Don Quixote and The Hounds was created in 1956 by Don LaViere Turner when he was just 26 years old. The style is German Expressionist. Looks like something from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, doesn’t it? There are only 24 of these in the world, and they […]

Mid 20th century Studio Art pottery in surrealist style, “Don Quixote,” by Franz Walter Bergmann,  (Austrian/American, 1898 – 1977)

You can subscribe to The Atlantic here and get immediate access. Glenn Beck looks like the dad in a Disney movie. He’s earnest, geeky, pink, and slightly bulbous. His idea of salty language is bullcrap. The atmosphere at Beck’s Mercury Studios, outside Dallas, is similarly soothing, provided you ignore the references to genocide and civilizational […]

Here’s the link to the whole story. The photos are below.  

Be sure to read the comments below the photo… Indy Jeff, I showed it to the wizard. Here’s what he said, “If a Wizard Academy student came up with this idea, I would encourage him or her because it’s brilliant. Joseph’s perspective is often overlooked. This billboard is not going to be ignored. That being said, I […]

I thought I was the first to arrive, so I was waiting for the hostess to seat me when the wizard snapped this. Can you believe I never noticed the ceiling? I really need to look up more often. – Indy

The Mind of Christ Do you know the thoughts of God? Do you presume to give him advice, or to be able to speak on his behalf? We know what Jesus thought because we heard his words and we saw his actions.1 We should say the kinds of things that Jesus said and do the […]

Do you know the thoughts of God? Do you presume to give him advice, or to be able to speak for him? But we know what Jesus thought because we heard his words and we saw his actions.1 We heard his words and we saw his actions. We heard his words and we saw his […]

This week A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on national prime time television for the 50th time. In a world where the latest greatest technology is outdated in a matter of months, and social media trends come and go in a matter of days, 50 years of anything becomes quite meaningful. I was in the first grade […]

Now what’s the point of a rabbit hole if you can’t just futz around for awhile? I mean, really, what’s the point? Yes, I know six minutes is an eternity these days, but think it through: You’ve got TEN OF THOSE EVERY HOUR. So ride the time machine of your imagination 35 years back to […]

Thirty-five years years and a couple of months ago – in September 1981 at a free benefit concert in Central Park – Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performed in front of more than 500,000 people.

Press play bar to hear Whittington’s melancholy Dancing Queen or download the album HERE.

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It’s a slender volume and small. Lovingly crafted. Kermit the writer published many books but this is the only edition he signed. Every copy, individually, 96 years ago. The wizard has 35 copies. The academy needs to gather up some cash for major projects and events in 2017, so here’s what the wizard feels that you and he should […]