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Video games helping our youth?

Video games will bring the end of innocnence.  Video games are causing violent crimes.  Video games numb our children's minds.  I've heard it all folks, and trust me don't you think the same arguments were being made about television or the internet and how they were to blame for society's supposed imminent demise?

Gaming's boom is here and not going away.  Instead of fighting it, use it as a weapon in your fight. 

Paul Rust and Let's Go!

I went to the sketch comedy festival here in San Francisco the other night to see my buddy Will Franken perform and a couple sketch comedy groups.  While collectively the night was above par, I was thoroughly impressed by Paul Rust of the sketch group "Let's Go!". 

Never have I laughed so hard as I did to one of the scenes performed by Paul Rust in Let's Go!.  I literally cried and cried to the extent of having tears go down to my freaking neck.  I don't know what it was about him.   I initially erroneously ascribed my appreciation for him to our similarities in humor and styles of acting manifestation.  But then i realized I wouldn't have played the parts he did as he did. He cleverly leverages his physicalities and personality and as a result has successfully constructed a sound building of comedic perfection.  To tell you the truth I don't want to encapsulate his strategy or strengths cause it's more magical than scientific.   

And go ahead and take the elevator for a look-see cause there's multiple floors. 

Relationship life span

Many would attribute the dramatic differences between a relationship's life span in contemporary times to that of our erstwhile companions to societal changes.  I would however like to entertain the possibility of it being affected by the life span of our actual lives.  Am I being clear? 

You ever meet someone on a trip or have a steamy summer relationship all that more steamy because of the fact that both parties were aware that it would soon end.   I mean if you meet someone some summer and realize you will inevitably soon part, what's the use in over analyzing incompatibilities?  You're able to optimize enjoyment partly because you do not have to factor in your long term projected compatibility.

What if our life span was an average age of 253?  Do you think monogamy would be so common.  Forget monogamy but the idea of a life partner?  I don't know, I'd like to think so.  I'd like to think that the reason that some of us are able to have life partners now isn't solely because death is close enough to make it work.    

Full Moon Howl

My energy has always been attracted to full moons.  I'm already a night owl by nature.  I was born at 8:02 at night.  I stay up dancing alone in my room in the wee hours of the night.  I've called friends to propose midnight escapades.  My idea of a good time usually has something to do with night. 

This is amplified 100 fold on a full moon.  More than any holiday, the full moon evokes from within a call to act, come together, explore and transcend the seams of human behavior.  I feel it is a chance for human behavior to not be judged by a societal web but something extraterrestial. 

Interesting full moon facts can be found here.