The movie has finally arrived to the DVD realm. Watch it. Netflix it. Steal it. Buy it. Just see it. After that call me and we’ll plan a hoax.

This will make you happy. It’s a speech from a brain scientist who suffered a stroke. This sounds horrible, yes, but it ends well.  It ends very well. We could all use a stroke perhaps.

Thanks to Julie at sunpuddle.net for this gem.

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Walt Whitman?

I think everyone should learn this and begin busting it loose in public spaces. The potential locations and applications for it are amazing: parties, events, museums, wallstreet, wallmarts, the list goes on…..

Think of it like this:  With enough people learning this dance we could start random outbreaks of dancing in the streets.  Allow me to present a 7 part proposal as to why this is awesome:

1. It’s fun to dance

2. You don’t have to worry about looking like a fool because everybody is doing the same silly dance.

3. Imagine the random people watching who wouldn’t yet be in on it, their minds? – - blown.

4.It could easily turn into a party.

5. It genuinely creates that moment in musicals where everybody suddenly seems to know the words and steps and harmonies to a city wide dance.

6. It is the antithesis of politics.

7. Synthesized synchronicity. (I’d imagine for most adults this is much easier to catch on to than true synchronicity.)

This could be anything to everyone. This could be a street performance to midwestern city tourists. This could be performance art to the aesthetically selective.This could be attention K-Mart shoppers entertainment. This could be afternoon cardio to a bored housewife. This could be the good shake everyone needs now and then to just get happy.

I’ll tell you what this definitely is : It’s a group of people coming together as heroes for five minutes then disappearing just as quickly as it all started.

Soooooo if you can’t make it through all 400+ pages of Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” there IS a movie about it! I dare you to watch all 2hrs and 40 min of it. I will buy you a candy bar if you do. Then we can talk about why you chose that candy bar and who made you want it. Mmm. Sweet sweet media.

So I decided it was time to visit my friend Nick. I hadn’t seen him in about a year. He’d stopped using a cell phone, there was no facebook to speak of, and no form of communication that I knew of  to reach him. He’d gone off the grid, as they say. Read the rest of this entry →