A Day Wasted

As one wise man once said “A day without laughter is a day wasted” – Charlie Chaplin
Do you think that laughter can cure anything?

Charlie Chaplin once said, "A day without laughter is a day wasted," but I feel like you laugh a lot more when you spend a day wasted. In fact, if you're messed up I assure you that your day will be better, that is unless you are a bed wetter. I promise, if that's where you're at then you're less fit than the cat in a hat to do anything but look at that pile of fat. The drink, the drink, the toilet and sink, filled with your nonsense up to the brink. I wonder if dear Charlie knew this or if he went Aussie and drank of the piss. As far as the question of healing with laughter, do you feel better hereafter?

My Thoughts On "Funny Bone Humor"

       "Funny Bone Humor" is an under-appreciated art form in some ways and it is a load of dumb luck in others. People who intentionally look for it/create it, like Steve-O, have had to find the line between pointless pain and humor in order to exploit it. There are tons of fail videos on Youtube which are cringe-worthy and funny; and cringe-worthy and not funny at all. Looking back on recorded media for similar kinds of comedy brings me back to The Three Stooges. 

       The Three Stooges were an iconic group of slapstick comedians who had their hay-day in black and white. They are the classic humans associated with physical comedy and they were a huge inspiration for the creator of Tom and Jerry. If it weren't for the Stooges there is a chance that the modern genre of comedy wouldn't have become so developed by now. That means that the world could be a less funny place. If the world weren't as funny as it is, a lot of people would probably struggle to cope with life. 

       In my life there are a lot of examples of this kind of humor. One of my favorite early memories is when my friends and I as kids would practice being hit so that we could be tougher and my friend Tiger punching a tooth out of my mouth. It was hilarious.

Taking A Break

In life sometimes people need to take a break. If I were bolder I would have posted just that line and hoped that my readers would understand that it was a reference to an incontinuity theory implying humor. Instead I am going to explain different kinds of breaks. Each day when I complement a passerby that is a break in their day. A disruption. When I decide to comment on another person's conversation or laugh at another persons joke that is a break in their lives. In the natural order. Sometimes. Things. Break. But sometimes they just keep going on. 

A Sticky Note

Itch, scratch, itch, scratch,

Letter, match, letter, match,

Find the things you seek and need,

Give yourself what you need to feed,

I require the words of men,

Scribbles, scrabbles, what then?

Pictures, stories, moments suspended,

Far surviving though it's time has ended,

Ink, blood, tales flood my ears,

Tales of my fears,

Fire, burning the houses and,

Books thrown out by king's demand,

Interesting it is to be a page,

Infinite possibility in any age,

White, yellow, light, mellow,

Even if I am only used for a nice polite hello.

WWJD: Probably Not What You Think

In a recent blog post by my friend Mary she links a clip to Jimmy Fallon's show wherein he does his famous thank you note bit. One of the jokes he makes during this bit has to do with WWJD bracelets and how Jesus probably wouldn't have worn them. Personally, I think that is kind of obvious.. since he would definitely wear a WWID bracelet. Cruddy joke aside, I think that there are a lot of things that Jesus would do, and did do, that are not what the common modern person would think. He spent time with undesirables, hookers, and the lower class. Those things seem to contradict what a lot of his followers choose to do with their time. He never seemed to be the kind of person who would exclude people, be racist, be stingy, be obsessed with artwork of himself, pay for stained glass, care if people dressed up for their day off, or do any of the other things that his followers seem to do for him. However, he would tell people to love each other, to break laws that were unjust, to be humble, and lots of other positive things that most people just don't do. People seem to forget that Jesus was a loving, peaceful man who once went to a party and turned water into wine. He taught that one does not "fish for men" by refusing to cast nets and acting superior, he does so by connecting with them where they are and leading them from where they are to where they need to be. So when asked the question WWJD, the answer really seems to be "not be a dick."

Everyone Is A Bit Psychopathic

The video above is a little long but honestly I find it fascinating. It calls into question a field that we all know is a little bit messed up. We live in a society where norms are disorders and disorders are normal. We live in a society where everyone is medicated or we think they should be. In this video there is a testimony of a man who sees this but is still a part of our society enough to where he follows societal expectations. He calls for a first step of acknowledgment, not action, which is probably the best way to fiat longterm change.

The Theory of Catching

Often times we act with the best intentions but our results couldn’t have been worse had we tried. In fact, there are times in which not doing anything is better then doing something but do we? No! It is not in our nature as people to just let things be we feel the need to make everything “better” if that is expressed by “The White Man’s Burden”, “The Communist Manifesto”, or any other idea in which we are expecting ourselves to intercede on the behalf of someone who we consider to be lacking can be equally shown as our need to try to catch things as they fall, pick up broken pieces or really anything else caused by what we think is “chaos”.
This morning I watched as my towel fell to the floor of my bathroom. A normal phenomena to be sure except for one thing, my shaving mirror was sitting upon it. I know, I can hear all of you as your minds scatter to attempt to save the mirror with your minds but it wasn’t needed. I myself just watched as the towel hit the ground and my mirror rolled off of it gently to the ground and no damage came to either one. Right now you are all thinking that this is an anomaly or a miracle but please just think about all the times that you have tried to catch something and ended up batting it away and causing probably more damage than if it had just been allowed to fall. The amounts of cell phone screens, glass cups, sunglasses, and other small fragile objects that have been launched at the hand of a well intentioned person is probably higher then the number of “miracles” like mine simply because there are far more attempts to save then there are people willing to just let whatever it is fall. That doesn’t mean be careless and never try to catch anything it just means that you need to only try to catch what you are sure you can, not the things that will make you feel bionic if you actually manage to touch.
This “Theory of Catching” can also be directly correlated with how we should treat people. If we know we can catch them we should, but sometimes we just have to watch as they fall. I know that I have tried to catch people who didn’t want to be caught and in the end I do more harm then good in those kinds of situations. We all think that we can help but when we really think about it we know that some situations are outside of our control and we just need to accept that and move on. Nothing is worse then investing in someone who doesn’t want it and falling alongside them. It can’t be avoided, if someone you place yourself close to falls you will fall too, perhaps just not as much. It’s like we are all on a bed sheet, when one part depresses the whole area near that part is forced into a depression as well, the farther away the shallower the depression. Sometimes the sheet needs to tear and we need to just let the person depress their self; so that we can stay where we are. Just because we are acting with our best intentions doesn’t mean that we are really doing anything helpful; we can’t help them all so sometimes we should just watch as they fall.