With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2001-11-22 - 12:39 a.m.
I woke up feeling much better today. Maybe I'm getting a delayed feed on Carey's possible PMDD. I still ended up wasting most of the day and didn't do the one thing I should have done, fix my shower. It has a bad drip, it's wasting lots of water and the sound is really annoying. Instead I spent most of the day online, or talking on the phone. I talked to Carey, Leah, Marti, and Lisa online. I talked to Bad Carey on the phone. It helps when you are feeling lonely to be reminded that you have friends. Bad Carey and I had our usual discussion of Buffy. We used to talk about it so much that we instituted the "Day of Trial and Denial" that was usually the day before Buffy aired and we were not allowed to mention the show then. Now we usually discuss what we don't like with the show. Our main complaint is its lack of focus. They don't seem to know where they are going in both the season and in each individual episode. We hate to admit it but we like Angel better.
I got an email from Karin, the member director at WFUV today. I'm invited to their annual holiday party. This gave me a big happy. It is so nice to feel appreciated. The downside is that it is the same day that DVN is playing in NYC. I'm seeing them the day after Christmas so I'm off to the party.
Tonight I went with Marti to see two Buster Keaton Films, Sherlock Jr. and One Week at the New Victory Theatre. We were joined by her boyfriend Dan and her friend Sharon. This was the first time I met Dan and he meets my approval. Not that it would make any difference if I didn't of course. Now back to the show. What made it great was that there was a live musical accompaniment by Blue Grassy Knoll. They are an Australian band that Marti become friendly with online. Of course she is friendly with every Australian Musician. Before the show they gave an introduction to prepare the audience. We learned some interesting background facts like that Buster Keaton actually broke his neck filming a stunt in Sherlock Jr. More importantly they told the crowd how to act during a silent movie. Like the audiences from the twenties we booed the villains and cheered the hero. Laughing out loud was encouraged.
After the show we went to the stage door so that Marti could say hi and get her CD autographed. When we got there an Australian woman was also there to talk to them and she asked someone at the door to let her in so we did the same. Marti was announced and we waited for them to come out to meet us. We ended up going in the inner door and running into Razz their manager. Razz knew who Marti was and we just starting talking to her. The band members started trickling out then and we had lots of fun talking to them. Marti got their autographs and pics with each of them. Razz got on my good side by saying that the favorite thing she had done in NYC was ride the Staten Island Ferry. They were a fun group of people.
After that we went looking for a place to eat. Marti and her friends keep Kosher so that limited our options. After a false start we ended up at Mr. Broadway, a deli that strangely enough also sells sushi. It was a short walk from there to the train so that was very convenient for me.
I had lots of fun tonight and it started me thinking about something. What is it to be cool? It was very cool going back stage and hanging out with the band but does that make me cool? It was Marti's connection, does that make her cool? I don't think so. Marti is very cool but it has nothing to do with what happened tonight. Cool isn't about connections, and invitations, or being popular. As a kid the epitome of cool to me were the Avengers, Emma Peel, and John Steed. They did everything with style. More importantly they were always in control of the situation and especially in control of themselves. By their standards no one I know is cool.
That isn't what I usually mean by cool though. I think all my friends are cool. They all offer things to me that I can't find in anyone else. I guess that is what I look for. It is being an individual. One of the stupidest things I've heard in a long time was someone on TV saying that Britney Spears was cool because she didn't care what anyone else thought about the way she dressed. Does she care about anything else?
So am I cool? I'd like to think so. I know I could be a lot cooler though. I don't let what the crowd does effect my actions much but I still care. I can't just follow my own mind without the thought of what other people are going to think occurring to me. I know it shouldn't matter but I still think about it. Hell I'm thinking about it right now as I write this. I almost cut out this entire section because I thought some people might think I was being ridiculous. I didn't because I know that people will always think I'm ridiculous so I might as well speak my mind.
I can't believe I got to this point and forgot to mention one of the highlights of the day. I got my copy of Slaid Cleaves' holiday sampler today. It is wonderful. Right now I'm listening to You're a Mean one Mr. Grinch. I just heard Oliver Steck's classic accordion solo. To make it even better the CD came in an envelope hand addressed by Slaid's wife Karen. She addressed it to Gordon Nash - Captain of Oliver's Army. Now that's cool.
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