What Would Jesus Buy?

Watched this documentary produced by Morgan Spurlock (SuperSize Me) about Reverend Billy, who spent the month before Christmas driving from NY to SF, trying to convince people not to buy stuff. He is accompanied by his wife and his chorus (The Church of Stop Shopping), who support him. I could really feel their true conviction; their heartfelt appeal to the public, to not get sucked into the corporate ideology of consumerism.

See this movie.

Support Hillary

I found this to be very funny in Jerome, a little artsy community in Arizona. It's not necessarily a political statement of my beliefs.

I am a Hooligan

I have one last England story for you. One evening Lisa, Wayne, Amy and I set off for a different pub, a little further away. After walking just a little way, Lisa said that she was cold and didn't want to go, so she turned back. We went on to the Cross Keys, which was very quiet, had a nice drink. When we walked outside, there was a lovely warmish breeze and I said to Wayne and Amy, "Look how nice it turned out to be. Lisa should have come with us."

Then we moved on to the Albert, a little further down the road, where it was very much livelier, being their quiz night. A few more drinks, some good laughs, last call, time to go. We walked out the door into a stunning downpour! Now we were a good mile away from our flat. Wayne and Amy said, "Let's walk," even though we didn't have coats, hats, or umbrellas. So we ran through town at midnight, ducking under covered walkways, setting off burglar alarms as we went, blue lights flashing, sirens wailing. We just kept running.

Just as we got to the flat, we realized that Lisa had the key to their flat and Wayne had no way in. They were on the top floor, but their window was opened a little bit. So we stood in the front garden, in the pouring rain, calling, "LISA, LISA, LISA" and laughing at how ridiculous this was as we got wetter and wetter. She was, of course, asleep and couldn't hear us. However, my mother was awake and heard a ruckus in the front garden and went to the window to see what was going on. She couldn't see anyone in the dark because we were right below the window. She thought to herself, "Well, there's a bunch of hooligans down there."

Signs

Lawnchair Larry

If you know my sister, Karen, you know that she has a funny bone. When something strikes her as humorous, everybody will be laughing. So, while we were driving through San Diego one day, she says, “Have you ever heard of Lawnchair Larry?” We hadn’t, so when we got home, she printed an article about him off the internet and read it aloud to us.

Apparently, in 1982, Larry bought some weather balloons and wanted to cruise around his backyard at about 30 feet, so he tied a lawnchair to the bumper of his car and filled the balloons with helium. When he cut the rope, he took off “as if shot from a canon,” leveling out at 16,000 feet!! The story just keeps getting more and more bizarre. He was up there for hours, until he floated into the airspace of LAX airport and was spotted by some pilots. All weekend whenever someone would remember a line from the article and say something like, “he packed sandwiches and a six pack,” we would fall around the house in fits of laughter.

You can read the article and see the photos here: LawnchairLarry Amuse yourself!

David Sedaris

Okay, I didn't think I would do this kind of thing, but here goes. I first heard this on a CD of David Sedaris Live at Carnagie Hall. We were driving in the car and I laughed myself silly. Give yourself five minutes to put a smile on your face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y