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# This Week - Jul 12, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-07-12/
- Published: 2013-07-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:11:00.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, anthony bourdain, benedict evans, dadboner, deadspin, drew magary, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> My partners and I—a rotating band of cinematographers, producers, editors and post production people—have worked very hard over the years to mess with, expand, undermine and subvert that basic narrative and the conventions that go with it. Sometimes we succeeded.  
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> — [Anthony Bourdain](http://blog.travelchannel.com/anthony-bourdain/read/blutarski-zero-point-zero/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> But happiness is all perception. And I'd say Karl's perception allows him to be happier more often than I do. I do envy that, and sometimes live vicariously through it.  
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> — [How I Made @DadBoner (And How @DadBoner Made Me A Better Man) (Deadspin)](http://deadspin.com/how-i-made-dadboner-and-how-dadboner-made-me-a-bette-716549657?ref=drewshannon.net)

> One of the things you're supposed to work out some time in your adolescence is that though you're the star of your own life, you're not the star of anyone else's. Some companies never work this out.  
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> — [Glass, Home and solipsism (Benedict Evans)](http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/6/15/glass-home-and-solipsism?ref=drewshannon.net)