Who would you pick up?

Would you pick up a 70 year old woman and give her a ride across town? My friend did yesterday.  Strangely she told me this story last night when I myself had just started watching the Thumbs Up! series where David Choe and his friend Harry film themselves hitchhiking across America.  It was interesting to see the people that picked them up so far, mostly weirdos, but there was a mother and her teenage son that gave them a lift for about 50 miles. Would you pick up two guys, one playing acoustic guitar and the other playing a mini drum set (that's how they try and get attention to get picked up) off the side of the road?  I don’t think I would, but many people did.  My friend told me that immediately after letting the woman in her car she thought, “what the hell did I just do?” What she did was help another human who was in need.  Sadly we have been conditioned to not trust strangers, even as adults. If you were the one stranded, would you trust the person willing to pick you up?  I don’t think I would…especially with the beard I’m rocking these days.

Does it take a kid talking for us to listen?

When other adults try to give us advice or talk about how to better our lives, many times we have a gut reaction to try and discount what they are saying.  To try and rebut, refute, or just ridicule.  Yet when a kid does it, 4.5 million people listen.  Well listen up, “A Pep Talk from Kid President to You."


Enjoy.





(For those of you who know Jada Bates, is this not what he must have been like as a kid??)

Should the UFC be called the UFE?

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As fighters get championship title fights after talking their way into them a la Chael Sonnen or because the champion picked them to fight for the title even though they lost their last fight like Nick Diaz, will the UFC be forced to call themselves the UFE, Ulitmate Fighting Entertainment?  When guys are fighting for a championship not because they have won the most fights or worked their way up the rankings, but because it is the most entertaining fight or the fight fans want to see, doesn’t it the emphasis become the entertainment?  Though the outcomes are not planned like in professional wrestling, the match ups are. The NFL can’t just pick the two teams to play in the Super Bowl that they think will get the biggest ratings.  If the UFC wants to be considered a sport, like they claim they want to be, doesn’t it need to be a little more about the sport than the entertainment?     

A blog a day to keep the procrastination away

It's easy to find ways to put things off, to find anything to do other than what you should be doing.  I have found that I make many notes of things to write about, telling myself that I will go back to this later and write about it.  Then one of two scenarios happen, but the time I get back to writing about it I decide that it really isn't worth writing about or I write about it, then re-read and re-write it so many times that I don't care about it anymore and it just goes into the wasteland of my hard drive.  I watched this video (see below) the other day on ted.com about trying something new for 30 days, it made me think about all the things I have read where they say you can change a bad habit or create a new habit in just 30 days.  So I have set a challenge for myself, a blog a day for 30 days.  No putting off until tomorrow, write and post, take photos and post, etc.  So this is blog #1.

My Life is Bookmarked by TV References

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Usually moments in your life trigger memories of past moments from your own life, for me however, they trigger moments in my TV viewing history. I used to think it was only Entourage.  For a long time my morning routine was to make breakfast and eat it while watching Entourage re-runs on Spike.  Because of this I have seen each season about a dozen times.  This past Fourth of July as Lisa and I sat on the beach looking out over the ocean it reminded me of when the boys were at a beach party and were doing the same thing. Turtle asked, what direction are we facing, Drama, “east idiot”, Eric, “west you idiot”. It’s not just Entourage anymore though, while meditating the other night I watched a thought float into my mind, it was of watching Russell Simmons meditate on some MTV reality show. My moment of meditation foster up a memory of another person, who I don’t know, doing the same thing...on TV.

Have I watched so much TV my memories have been replaced by scenes from TV shows? 

East Coast Adventure Part 3

On the last day of our trip we took a bus ride into the city and went to the American Museum of Natural History.  The exhibits there are amazing, I was like a little kid going from one to the next amazed at the quality of things that had created.  We were lucky enough to hear an amazing lecture about the Angler Fish from a great volunteer.  This fantastic older gentleman spoke with passion that is rare in this world, we could have listened to him talk about anything.

Taking pictures of exhibits in a museum made me feel like more of a tourist than I have ever before but it was worth it because I was able to get some good photos of some of the beautiful works.

Enjoy.

East Coast Adventure Part 2

Stop #2 on the east coast adventure was New Jersey and New York.  Here are a few photos I got while we were in the city .


Enjoy.

East Coast Adventure Part 1

The east coast adventure started in Boston for a day.  While eating and drinking our way along the Freedom Trail I managed to grab a few photos.