Talking Bird
Like your brain can't keep up with your beak.
Seriously. Wonderful.
Seth Bernard
…is a really good musician.“smell the diesel, rub the grease!”
can’t get enough of him!
We need more people like this guy.
For My Memory
- Jon: Word.
- Bill: Woot.
- Celia: Sup Red.
- Jon: This was the most awkward exchange between the three of us.
Sarah Silverman is Un-funny.
Not just not funny, rather she is the antithesis of funny. Think about everything funny encompasses. Laughter, smiles, general good-feeling. Now think of the opposite. Crying, frowns, the same feeling you get when the dentist is drilling your tooth and didn’t quite give you enough novocaine.
Sarah Silverman is the opposite of funny.
She’s probably the opposite of cool, too.
Seriously. I can’t stand Sarah Silverman. She’s so far from funny that she makes her boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel, look funny. Do you know how much work that must take? Jimmy Kimmel and Jay Leno are funnier than Sarah Silverman. Heck, I’ve laughed more at John McCain than I have at Sarah Silverman.
I could probably list 1,000 people I’d rather listen to than Sarah Silverman.
I’m not alone, either, but I was more respectful than these people.
Happy Birthday (yesterday) to Steve.
No matter what happens tonight, you can sleep it off tomorrow, roomie.
America
They’ve all come to look for America… - Paul Simon
I get this feeling, sitting here on a college campus in the month leading up to the Presidential election, that the idea that “America is “the last, best hope of Earth” (Barack Obama, April 2007) is creeping into the minds of many Americans, specifically young people. With the current financial crisis and the injection of fear by our government that a total economic meltdown is just around the corner, I can see why it would seem that our government is the only thing that can save us now. I mean, why not? It seems like we want the government to cater to our moods, save us from ourselves, and save us from itself. When we’re prosperous, we want the government to get the heck out of the way so we can make more money, but when we’re poor, we want the government to create more jobs for us, or give us some money to get us back on our feet, that way we can tell it to buzz off again once we’re rich.
Why can’t the government save us? Or the world, for that matter? The government can’t change minds. It can desegregate, but it can’t end racism and prejudice. It can ban abortion, but it can’t prevent young women from getting pregnant. It can prevent discrimination, but it can’t require tolerance. It can legislate against hate, but it can’t legislate love.
I proclaim myself to be a libertarian (mostly philosophically, rather than practically, I guess), and part of the reason why is because I feel a government which attempts legislate love and morality and ethics rather than protect us from each other only causes its dissenters to grow stronger. Those who feel that welfare programs simply promote a culture of laziness and government-dependence will only feel more resentment if the government continues these programs. Their attitudes won’t change. I’m not trying to make a case against welfare, or social security, or any government program, for that matter (although I could), instead I’m saying that the amount of faith and hope that is put into the government to change and fix the world is ridiculous. Suddenly, Barack Obama has been turned into Jesus Christ, and once George W. Bush is no longer our president, everyone in the country will have a job, a home, healthcare, and we’ll no longer have to fight any wars.
The government won’t fix everything. The government won’t bring us world peace, a green planet, or and end to hate. Instead of relying on Washington, why don’t we rely on something greater? Christ’s message has become so grossly misrepresented by human beings that I bet most people don’t even know what it really is. Neither Republicans nor Democrats could run on a ticket based on God’s love and Christ’s teachings. As Barack Obama boldly (and correctly) said in a speech in which he sarcastically asks which part of the Bible should be applied to public policy, “…should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage so radical that it’s doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application?” I contend, yes.
Living love as God commands us is the only way to change minds. Allowing Christ to be experienced by others through us is the only way to change lives. Being a reflection of the divine in an otherwise murky existence is the only way to change the world. Republicans are not the last, best hope of morality. Democrats are not the last, best hope of peace. God’s love is the last, best hope of Earth.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
” - 1 John 4:11-16Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
So beautiful.
I’d swim across lake Michigan
I’d sell my shoes
I’d give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your ghost
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree
To be alone with me you went up on the tree
I’ll never know the man who loved me