Too much yin right now. Need to spend more time sitting.

I need to go hug some kittens tomorrow or something.

My friend Gretchen has a dilemma… Her son’s middle name is Danger. Now she has another kid on the way and she needs to come up with something equally cool (probably too soon to know the gender). Trouble and Mayhem have been suggested but seem to have been rejected for now.

I offered up Mystery or Patience.

Marilyn Monroe just waved to me.

*swoons*

Find the theme…

John Belushi American actor and comedian overdose of cocaine and heroin 1982
Eva Braun German Adolf Hitler’s lover suicide 1945
William S. Burroughs, Jr. American writer liver failure 1981
Althea Flynt American pornographer’s wife drowned due to heroin overdose 1987
Chris Farley American comic actor accidental cocaine and heroin overdose 1997
Jesus Christ (exact age at death uncertain) Judean founder of Christianity crucifixion ca. AD 30
Carole Lombard American actress, wife of Clark Gable aircraft crash 1942
Eva Perón Argentinian actress, wife of President Juan Perón cancer 1952
Keith Relf British singer / harmonica player (The Yardbirds) accidentally electric shock while playing his electric guitar 1976
Richard II of England English king, who was deposed and imprisoned by his cousin, Henry IV probably homicide or starvation 1400
Bon Scott Australian hard-rock singer (AC/DC) suffocation on his own vomit after drinking binge 1980

I had thought that Bruce Lee and my long time hero Alexander would be in this list, but wikipedia says no.

I need to stop trying to rescue birds with broken wings.

I just walked out and found a check from james for “ostriches”… I’m not sure I can hold up my end of that deal.

So, a couple weeks ago I flew up to the bay area for a conference. I didn’t mention that I wore my Arabic First Ammendment shirt when I went through LAX. 🙂

I breezed through security, with no trouble.

On my way back, screeners at SFO found that I had a large bottle of sunscreen in my bag, which had been there since my trip to Tennessee last year… yes, it was even there when I passed through the scanners at LAX.

I find myself discovering music that my friend were in to five years ago. I’m just not qualified to be pre-trendy.

Showed this to james a couple weeks ago, he wanted the link to pass on, so I figured I’d just blast it out to everyone…

“An Illustrated History of Failure”

http://web.archive.org/web/20100420061242/http://blip.tv:80/file/1137169