Moving my Blog

So i have decided to move my blog. I am now over at www.thetensebefore.wordpress.com

All my previous blogs are over there, and I will be posting some more stuff soon. I like it over there. it is tres pretty.

-Dan

Soon I will look like Taylor Hackford

Over the last couple of weeks I have hit a nice patch of nostaligic self-consciousness that usually happens once a year or so. It is that late-middle school to early-high school self awareness where I have the irrational feeling that no one really likes me (I however do own this time for instilling my lovely humourous and witty irony that sometimes appears), but then I realize that I have been out every night for over a week and really I am just wicked tired, and am no longer the crazy extrovert that i once was, and all goes back to normal, and I stop feeling so self-conscious... Until yesterday, and this happens.....

I have a freakin' grey patch in my beard. Yeah, it is actually more white than grey, and it is more than one hair... So now I know within a couple of weeks I will look like Taylor Hackford and be married to a woman who looks suprisingly like the queen of england, or at least that is the extent that I have taken this to :)

(Note: go to IMDB.com to find out who is and what Taylor Hackford looks like)

Funny Things,

So Chuck Klosterman is perhaps the American Nick Hornby, and closer to my generation, but he is the funniest writer I have read since David Eggers. And perhaps writes books that are even better on tape. Thus that is why it is 11pm and I should be asleep, but I can't get enough.

Another sadly funny thing, two circus clowns were killed in columbia... No real report tells me why, but aparently someone really hates clowns.....


And finally, for those that grew up in conservative Christendom, do you all remember the book Turmoil in the Toybox? You know the book that exposed the demonic plots of all the toys i loved as a kid? Yeah, that made me giggle when that came up in conversation tonight.

Cargo Cults hold more than Cargo Pants.

OK, so this is a bit delayed than the promised AM post, but this will be a bit of a long one covering various oddities in my life.

But first! Great BBC article! Click here to read it! It's about a tribe of people in Vanauatu that worship John Frum... They believe he is Jesus and his spirit lives in the volcano. Turns out that in WWII these people were amazed by the technology that American ships brought to their part of the world that they thought they were Gods. So aparently, the soliders were told to say "I'm John from America." Thus... it then became that American Gods were "John Frum." And now they still worship the GI's they met. Hey at least one group of people love the USA!

Ok, so here are the other stories. Which are in the following order: 1. Dan speaking in Church, 2. Awkward run-in at Trivia night (aka people waving), and 3. plans for my March Break (AKA Tropical Craziness).

1. So this weekend I spoke at my church. It is a small little gathering of hip people who are open to differing ideas and dialoge, and even love Jesus too. So i managed to do a great mash-up. A mash-up on par with Danger Doom's Mash-up of Jay-Z and the Beatles for the Grey album, or that thing that Jay-Z and Linkin Park did. I discussed empathy, evolution, lent, children making fun of me, the saduceses, and Ash Wednesday. Yeah it was good. Anyways, I still don't know how i did, because it isn't like people would tell me if i bombed... but hey people laughed and aparently people learned about things i am passioned about. Which is good! And i acutually enjoyed it, but i also learned that I am really bad at following my outline. Maybe it is too much Prairie Home Companion.

2. OK, so after the church talk, a bunch of us went to Coopersmith's for lunch, and it was a racous 3 hours of fun. Following was hanging out with other friends doing Trivia night at Coopersmiths. So about 6:30, I noticed a woman across the way waving wildly. Now, i have a bit of a complex, and really don't get hit on ever, and really no one waves to me. So i ignore it. For the next three hours, i notice wild waving, and think it is someone behind me... So trivia finishes. Waving woman gets last, my team gets second. ANd then waving woman comes up and says, "Hey didn't you notice me waving?" And I say "Umm... I thought it was to someone else. Women don't usually wave at me." (Note: I am still not sure if i know this person).
She then says, " I am Sarah, the intern at Larimer Center." Then I realize who she is and realize, i do recognize her. Yeah, then i apologize for being a jerk. Yeah, so that was odd.

3. In a few weeks i will be going back to taiwan. I am going to visit my great friend Bethany! I am super stoked. The first few days that i am there, her cousins are going to be visiting her. So i decided not to cramp their style, i would try to travel the island by myself. Yeah, so i am going to travel Asia, alone and not able to speak the language or read it. So that will be exciting. I am planning to go to the resort area of Kenting in the south. It will be a grand adventure.

Now for the bonus posts.

4. I just bought a new camera. it is a cannon power shot sd3. It is freakin' cool. I will share pictures soon.

5. I downloaded a ring tone the other day for my phone. It was the Rolling Stones' Gimmie Shelter. Now every time my phone rings, I feel like i am in a Martin Scorcesse film.

Yeah so that is it for now. Thanks for reading.

back to the blog

so i haven't blogged in a bit, and really this is my blogg saying that tommorow i will blog more, but hey I will have funny stories.
I don't know if other people have this issue, but rarely do females wave at me in bars on trivia night, but alas tonight it happend... and I realized that others remember me, when i have issues placeing faces out of contex, and thus making interesting and awkward interactions....

Oh yeah, I also gave a talk today at church... that was fun... and odd....

And soon i will be in the tropics and away from the 60+ days of snow in colorado.....


i promise more in the AM.

Wiki Wonders

Here is something interesting. Penguin Publishing is writing a book utilizing the open-source fun of wiki. I am sure it won't be grand, but an interesting idea of colaberation and artistic expression. You can find it here. A Million Penguins


Here is some other Fun. A friend of mine wrote a fun piece for the Porpoise Diving Life. You can find it here

The Last King of Scotland

Well with Oscar buzz around, i have finally got to see one of the buzz worthy movies. "The Last King of Scotland." It was amazing. At least the acting was. I didn't know how violent the film was going to be and was a bit taken aback. Just an FYI.
Anyways, Forest Witiker was amazing, and it was a compeling story. It reminded me of Goodfellas.
Anyways, the reason for the post was to link to an interview with the author of the book the film was based on. It was quite interesting. I often wonder how the world has forsaken the African continent so much.
Here is the link the the interview. Click here.