Billy

So I have an incredible friend. We were roomates once. He is one of the most passionate, loving, charitable people I know. Course you don't want to get on his bad side. You better watch out for the passion then. But he has the ability to really love people. Charity. We were talking the other night, after a long hiatus, and he said something that really hit me.

"We judge our relationships on their utility."

Just think about it for a minute. I think this is often true. I know that some of you are like Billy, but I'm not one of those. I think most of my relationships are based on their utility. They are based on what I can get out of them. If I meet someone and they don't particularly interest me or they annoy me, I just ignore that relationship. If on the other hand I meet someone and they make me laugh or think, I keep them around. How selfish. I have a long way to go to understand true charity.

Bloggers Block

Here's the hitch. You want to blog something that involves a somebody that just might have 3 degrees of separation or less from your blog. Danger Ranger! So you think....ok...I'll just post it on my private blog. No good! You know you want some of your peeps to have access. So then you think, I should just tell them. But just telling them robs you of that wonderful illusion the blog creates for you that you are a writer. "I deserve to be a columnist", you think to yourself. You loose that moment of triumph to be found when you click the Publish Post button and think, "I'm sooo witty." So what to do in this dire dilemma. Just write a blog complaining that you can't write a blog.

better than the weekend

Ok, so on a Wednesday a couple of weeks ago I had an unexpectedly brilliant day. Like so many wonderful days, to mearely describe it would trivialize the brilliance of such an experience. So suffice it to say that on a new moon, with starlight cutting through the dark night, I spent time with some wonderful friends. We ate indian food, were graced by the performance of jazz legends, explored abandoned buildings by breaking the law, and made our necks sore by star gazing in some famer's field.

Osama Bin Laden Family Guy

So this is my first video blog. Cool. I think this is hilarious.