““Time for a beer.”” — Lawson CraddockYour Daily Grind...Here's the 10 things I found on the internet worth sharing today. Ventipop's Daily Grind posts… Read More

““We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.” ” — Elizabeth GeorgeYour Daily Grind...Here's the 1… Read More

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““You needn’t be precise with quiet,it just becomes another thing.It isn’t a science, it’s an art,like love, or a dog who’s pretty good,asleep in the… Read More

:: Ventipop will return Monday, July 30 ::Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back. ““First the doctor told me the good news: I wa… Read More

:: Ventipop will return Monday, July 30 ::Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie musi… Read More

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Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I unearth during the week. I save them for the weekend so readers have a chance to sit back and read without pressure. I hope yo… Read More

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“C’mon, baby, c’mon darling,Let me steal this moment from you now.” — Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill"Your Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things… Read More

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” — Albert EinsteinYour Daily Cup of Culture...My daughter doesn't like scary movies, so being good parents, we sat down as a… Read More

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“Days go by and soon become days gone by.” — Carolina Story, "We Were Young Once Too"Your Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things I found on the internet worth… Read More

“I’m envious, for example, of people obsessed with the Civil War, which brims with details but is contained. In my case, the monsters recede but never vanish. They are long d… Read More

Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I unearth during the week. I save them for the weekend so readers have a chance to sit back and read without pressure. I hope yo… Read More

““If you can fall in love again and again. If you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half… Read More

“America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsi… Read More

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington19 Good T… Read More

Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I unearth during the week. I save them for the weekend so readers have a chance to sit back and read without pressure. I hope yo… Read More

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” — Mark… Read More

“...it was interesting to see people from different social classes sitting together, young people, older people, liberals, religious people... I was sitting next to a very religiou… Read More

“Painting animals, finishing new songs and the beach is only a mile away. What a perfect day.” — Nicole Atkins20 Things To Make Your Day Better...Here's The 20 thin… Read More

Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I find during the course of my week scouring the internet. I save them for the weekend so my readers have a chance to sit back… Read More

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” — P.J. O'RourkeYour Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things I found on the inte… Read More

“We should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.” — President Barack ObamaYour (Almost) Daily Cup of Culture… Read More

“We last from day to dayNot more than that. That’s it. EnoughFor now. ” — Irish Poet Macdara Woods Your (Almost) Daily Cup of Culture...I hope you all had a g… Read More

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“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”… Read More

“You’re so money and you don’t even know it.” — Trent Walker, "Swingers"Your Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things I found on the internet worth s… Read More

“True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.” — Pema Chödrö… Read More

“A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.” — Morris Fishbein:: Ventipop is on vacation and will return Monday, June 11 ::Please enjoy a few of… Read More

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Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

Ventipop is on vacation and will return soon.Please enjoy a few of these favorite things from past Ventipop Posts until I get back.Vintage VentipopI write about culture and books and indie m… Read More

“Ventipop is the best thing that shows up in my inbox! Thanks so much for your work and your great mind.” — Lisa McCadeYour Daily Cup of Culture...Starting out the… Read More

Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of my favorite long reads I find during the course of my week scouring the internet. I save them for the weekend so my readers have a chance to sit back… Read More

“When you’re a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don’t have a thought in your mind. It’s purely meditation, and we lose… Read More

“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.” — Robi… Read More

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rule… Read More

“All the other lovers wanna dance with youBut I’m the only one who makes you want to move” — Milo Greene, "Move"Your Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 thin… Read More

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“Ignoring all of the remedies, believing all of the rumorsWith their endless databaseI wanna sit with my enemies and say,”we should have done this sooner”While I look t… Read More

“My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.” — Actor Bill PaxtonI read a quote a… Read More

“In a world that has decidedThat it’s going to lose its mindBe more kind, my friends, try to be more kind” — Frank Turner, "Be More Kind"Your Daily Cup of Cul… Read More

“Ideas are like rabbits. They breed like crazy.” — Neko CaseYour Daily Cup of Culture...Welcome back, my pretties. Hope your weekend was Cinco En Fuego. Here's The… Read More

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“Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on the cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!’” — Conan O'Br… Read More

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.” — Ogden NashI read a quote a whil… Read More

“You are not alone, open yourself to others, talk about your sufferings and your joys.” — Julie GautierYour Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things I found on t… Read More

“I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.” — Billie Joe ArmstrongYour Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things… Read More

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“Most people are good people. Strong, fragile, volatile, rock steady, broken, often lost…but GOOD. Loving. Empathy is our currency” — Birds of ChicagoYour Da… Read More

“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.” — William Cullen BryantI read a quote a while back that said a person dies two deaths in their life. O… Read More

“If you hear gunshots and you don’t wanna die, Duck. Dodge and Roll.” — Kansas City Youth Ambassador PuppetYour Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things I… Read More

“Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.” — John D. BarrySeeing Is Deceiving… Read More

“People don’t even see me.” — Archie...The Best Thing I Saw Yesterday: AI Therapy by Mother LondonThe TED Indie Film Fest commissioned four original short fil… Read More

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grie… Read More

“Tell me what your heart wantsSuch a simple thingMy heart is like paperYours is like a flame” — Ray LaMontagne, Such A Simple ThingHere's a few slower songs recomme… Read More

“The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.” — Dov DavidoffYour Daily Cup of Culture...Here's The 20 things I found on the internet worth shar… Read More

“I don’t recognize you - I’ve changed a lot.” — Oscar WildeMental Yoga Weekend posts are like a big mute button you aim at the rest of the world. Just y… Read More

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma GandhiBecome a more w… Read More

“I know I am not alone when I say that I was very disturbed to hear about Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of millions of Facebook users’ information in order to undermine… Read More

“It’s completely charming indie-pop with good harmonies, which frankly should be enough for the likes of you. But no, they had to spoil us by making it a song about something… Read More

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark TwainAn honest to goodness Daily Grind Post! What d'ya know? It's been a while… Read More

“We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.” — Weldon Drew...The Best Thing I Saw Yesterday: March Madness...t… Read More

“This is possibly one of the most honest things I have written to date. It makes me uncomfortable.I hope it makes you feel something.” — Ciaran Lavery referencing '… Read More

“And it’s not like he can only be partially in V-tach, that’s like being a little bit pregnant. You’re either in V-tach or you’re not.” — An… Read More

“Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They will believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obs… Read More

“We might look like we’re all better, but if you look close, we’re all covered in concealer.” — Charlize Theron, 'Tully'...The Best Thing I Saw Yesterda… Read More

“This is possibly one of the most honest things I have written to date. It makes me uncomfortable.I hope it makes you feel something.” — Ciaran Lavery referencing '… Read More

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert EinsteinKick The Habit...There's An App For ThatThe Hold App cures digi… Read More

2 New Songs From A More Innocent TimeThe Vanjas' "My Girls" and The Regrettes " Teenager In Love" sound like songs you may have heard in the 1950's. To be fair, "Teenager In Love" is a cover… Read More

Surprise and SaviorI'm kind of cheating today because I couldn't decide between these two which was the best thing I say yesterday. Surprise or savior. My blog. There are no rules. Here's bo… Read More

Finger Lickin' Good ApologyAmid its ongoing chicken crisis, which has closed many of its U.K. restaurants, KFC took out a full-page ad in two U.K. tabloid papers Friday morning featuring a K… Read More

Pub Choir Pays Tribute To Dolores O'Riordan w/ "Zombie"Beautiful and moving. I'm sure Dolores would have loved this. Anti-war anthem from an Irish Goddess. Very fitting at the moment......Th… Read More

Sounds Like: Neko Case / Tift Merritt / Lori McKenna / Lucinda Williams Brandi Carlile's highly anticipated new album By The Way, I Forgive You was released last Friday. In celebration of… Read More

One of my earliest childhood memories is watching my older brother draw. He'd have a sketch pad and pencil all the time, and as he'd sit with his head slightly cocked to one side, desperatel… Read More

The Boston Globe devotes most of its front page today to a bleak commentary by columnist Nestor Ramos headlined "We Know What Will Happen Next." T… Read More

Here are some feel good stories just in time for Hallmark's mandatory day to tell the loved ones in your life they are like super special to you. While it may be a made-up holiday for jewele… Read More

Six-Song Six-PackI went on a bit of a listening binge this past weekend and was happily shocked to discover a plethora of new indie rock songs I really enjoyed. Here are six new sensational… Read More

Mental Yoga Weekend is a collection of the best longer reads of the week. But don't be afraid, some of them really aren't the very long. Turn off the Netflix, the Hulu, the YouTube, the Face… Read More

“I want to go get a self help book, but I want someone to go with me.” — Jay EstesPattern RecognitionHere was my not-so-deep deep thought of the day: I think it's e… Read More

People recommend a lot of stuff for me to post on Venti. And while that's a very good thing, between social media, newsletters, reader email and word of mouth, I spend my days wading through… Read More

Sounds Like: Allo Darlin' / Diet Cig / Against Me! / Belle and Sebastian "I Only Dance When I Want To" is a fun song by the band The Spook School. I refuse to say they are "Glasgow-base… Read More

The Doors said it best. People are strange. In a crazy, weird world where you never know what stories are about to fill up and spew forth from the 24 hour news cycle catering to our 20-secon… Read More

Sounds Like: Toby Keith / Sarah Evans / Blake Shelton / Kellie PicklerIf I told you one of the singers of "Anyone Else" was the child of country singer Toby Keith, you'd swear it was the mal… Read More

Ever say, "I'm sick of food." "Nothing sounds good." "Someone needs to invent new food." Eaters everywhere rejoice! According to foodie prognosticators, there are a lot of new food tren… Read More

Sounds Like: Father John Misty / Leonard Cohen / Nick CaveLondon based Dubliner Louis Brennan has released his latest single, 'Airport Hotel' taken from his debut album Dead Capital, to be r… Read More

'The Best Live Act Most People Have Never Heard Of'Will Varley has released a video for ‘Seven Days', the latest single from his upcoming fifth studio album Spirit Of Minnie. Kent-base… Read More

“Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years.” — LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You OutIn this era of peak tv, TV reboots are kicking up dust. With all the ne… Read More

Who would have thought @BurgerKing would be the one to succinctly explain the consequences of bullying and Net Neutrality. There's no denying that this Burger King commercial is brillia… Read More

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As long as TMZ is a top rated syndicated show, people don't know who Over The Rhine is and folks need a ray of sunshine in this dismal death march, I'm not going anywhere. Ventipop retu… Read More

I don't believe in writing about music. No two people will ever hear the same song in the same way ever. So, what may be a great song to me, may be nails on a chalkboard to others and it's n… Read More