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Great sentiments from a great man.

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.”

“I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.”

Christopher Hitchens passed away the other day. Here is a quick compilation of some of his best work in Slate.

A collection of some of his more pointed observations.

A strangely timely re-emergence of a story of his on North Korea.

And notes on how to make a perfect cup of tea.

A cool interview with Bill Gurstelle. Yet another of the fine minds that call the Twin Cities area home.

I really need to meet these kinds of folks while I still live around here.

A pretty neat background story on Mike Rowe. I do like that guy, caustic as he is. Did not know he somewhat got his break on late night home shopping.

Still, he’s a fan of work, and a promoter of hard, honest work. Hard to argue with that.

Pretty much everything I know about Las Vegas, I know with Oscar Goodman as mayor. Now he’s out of office.

I can’t help that some of the glitter and glitz is gone from the city because of that.

Scarlett Johansson

Mickey Rourke

Emily Blunt

Mary-Louise Parker

Anna Paquin

Liam Neeson

It is probably more my fault than anything that I was surprised at the depth of thinking in this selection from actor Wallace Shawn’s Essays.

Look like I’ll be adding that to my reading list soon.

CBS report on his passing.

I may have linked this profile of Roger Ebert already. If I have, so what. Watch it again anyway.

Also, if you use Twitter, you really need to be following him @ebertchicago.