This made my day

thanks, John Dale, for showing this to me.

How to Date a Hot Celebrity

How do you date a Hot Celebrity ?

i made a top 10 list to make it easy for everyone else...

10. Be hot yourself... and know it.

9. Knock on her parents door, while she is over.

8. Be funny

7. Be smart (this works especially well if her dad was a pastor and you studied theology)

6. Pretend to have NEVER heard of her and force her to try and sell herself to you and convince you that she is worth your time.

5. Hope to the Lord you drive a 1988 toyota station wagon you can pick her up in.

4. Take her to In'n'Out.

3. Bring back to your apartment to watch the season premiere of The Office.

2. Follow it up with the new hit "Community"

1. Play Halo with her and your cousins till 2:04 am, and be barely able to get up in the AM.

PS. if the only pictures you took were on your cell phone (since you camera got stolen in Hawaii) it might be nice to know how to get them onto your computer and not delete them when you try out 'bluetooth' and thought it worked.

Top Ten things That Pop Into My Mind

Question: what are the top ten things that pop into my mind when i sit to blog the Top Ten ThingsThat Pop Into My Mind?

Answers:

(in order of appearance)

10. Hot sauce, namely Tapatio

9. short hair on women is sooo hard to pull off, but can be done

8. The chick on "quantum of Solace" was hot, and that movie was way more fun than i expected it to be from the bad reviews i heard early on.

7. I hope i can keep my numeric order correct on this thing, you know how bad i can get with numbers.

6. I miss playing scrabble with John Trammell, - monopoly too, Star Wars Monopoly. funs.

5. is my food getting cold? yes. shouldn't type while eating.

4. Halo 3 is different then i remember... did i always suck this bad or does not doing something impact your abilities, and if so, then how good at kissing can i actually be?

3.Why am i soo entertained by my own lies about how I suck at Love and how girls don't like me?

2. Will the US ever make some huge wall to border Mexico- and if so, will we be allowed to walk along the top of it like the Great Wall of China?

1. Can we still hire McCain to do the important presidential stuff like 'make decisions’ and 'govern' while keeping Obama as our black poster boy who is young, hip, and does all the 'speaking and media stuff'?

Art and Living: thinking out loud

David Maybury Lewis once asked "why do we separate art and living?" in his documentary on the Wodaabes tribe of Niger, who, in his terms, doesn't make a split between art and everyday life.

His phrase juxtaposes shots of the tribe in their artist regalia and some western family in bland button up shirts, ties, and pull-over sweaters walking looking at paintings in an art museum. His point is that they integrate art as part of living itself, while we separate it and leave it in museums.

I wonder that David has got us westerners wrong.

We, in the west, are classically too hard on ourselves and count the things we don't deal with everyday as exotic and artful, and forget that our lives too, are art in all parts- from the bland suits we wear to the bottled water we drink from.

try telling the clothing designer that he is not an artist who makes his life on his craft.

it's fair to say that different societies view art differently from one another, but that perception is just that... perception from a certain plane of thinking. As well, very very very few cultures actually do not distinguish between art and life.

what does that even mean? who would say art is not a part of life? when i think about it, it must mean everyday life, and even that point seems farfetched when i really think about it.

we make distinction between paintings in museums and the make-up we put on our faces, but that line is pragmatic.

show an exotic tribe at one of their very few festivals, all gussied up and differently ceremonial about everything than us, and it will look like we keep art in a museum and they live it out, but that is far from the truth. methinks it is taking advantage of that festival and the fact that their garb for the occasion is much more elaborate than our common t-shirt and jeans.

And even the Wodaabe women carry around their 'calabashes' (pottery) which is never used but set up for display at their festivals a couple times a year... which sounds like an art-show to me.