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You are brilliant and have no qualms about letting the world know it. Everyone thinks you are a total twat! You have no fashion sense and always look as if you got dressed in the dark closet of a street clown. You have no real friends to speak of; only a couple of people who tolerate you. You enjoy fishing and have no patience for other people. You will end up on trial for some dubious offence. You will then dissapear and slowly begin to swell.

Rant about elections

I hate election season. 

HATE HATE HATE. 

I hate that the election starts at least 18 months before ballots are drawn.

I hate how much money is wasted buying people's votes through ads or fundraisers or campaign stops. 

I hate that in this country we spend more electing a president than some countries GDP. 

I hate the way people talk about the candidate they dislike or who is against their personal beliefs. 

I hate the way some people seem to judge you based on who you do or do not vote for. 

I hate that religion is an issue in politics: "go to church but not too much, but make sure you go to church, but don't go to a temple or mosque and GOD FORBID talk about your faith other than to acknowledge you have it."

That said, I'll still vote tomorrow. 

The older I get the more uneasy I become about how I vote. When I was young, I was so sure I was voting for the right person. That certainty has faded over the years to the point where I get a creepy-crawly feeling no matter who I vote for.

Six Weeks Post-Op

I had surgery on August 30th. I'd been suffering from mysterious hip pain for months, since late last year, with no diagnosis. My doctor & I decided to scope the hip to see if he could discover what was causing the pain. Thankfully, he found a bone spur that was badly fraying & bruising my labrum (the cartilage in the hip). He shaved the spur & tidied up the labrum as best he could. Now the labrum should heal without the spur constantly beating it up. What is it about us that we need to constantly compare ourselves to others? At least I do! I don't want to, I try not to but it seems every few weeks, I read forums on the internet about hip pain/hip surgery/recovery times, etc. Some people have like no recovery time to speak of; like bam, they have the surgery & then are off the crutches & off the pain meds licketedy quick. I guess I just want to know that my progression is normal. Why can't I just take the word of my physical therapists who told me that you can't compare this type of recovery & that I'm doing fine. I guess I just get frustrated with myself. I need to accept that each individual is different & that it's OK to still feel pain in my hip & need to use a crutch when I walk outside. It's hard not to over do it or to even know if you are over doing it! I also need to actually use the crutch because it's become more of an irritant than a help but when I go without it for a long period of time, I'm MORE sore later on & I'm pretty sure my doctor's office isn't going to keep handing out painkillers! With regards to pain medication, I have a handful left of my prescription medicine & I try to deal with the pain using Aleve & Aspirin (I prefer to Aleve to Motrin because there are fewer pills to take) & only take a narcotic in the evening. I'm also continuing to use ice regularly & I go to PT three times a week. Today I told my dad I'm pretty much in the same amount of pain as I was before the surgery but now I don't mind as much because I know that this will heal & I know what is causing the pain. The not knowing was really distressing, along with the constant pain. People who don't live with constant pain don't understand how wearing it is, how it distracts you from every little thing & makes everything harder to deal with. I'm so grateful that I had the surgery & the doctor found what was wrong & was able to fix it. It's frustrating to still be in pain but I understand why it's happening & that there is an end in sight. It will heal, it will get better & I will be able to get back to being more physically active.

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If I were a comedian, I'd want to be in EVERYONE'S gang

Ever notice how there are like cliques in comedy? Not in a high school-y way in that I think for the most part they are supportive of each other's efforts but ina way that there are groups of actors or comedians that you see together in different projects a lot.

Like of course there's the State troupe with Tom Lennon, David Wain, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, etc.  

Judd Apatow has a group of actors he depends on going back to Freaks & Geeks & Undeclared, his early TV work including Jason Segal, Seth Rogen, Samm Levine (who showed up in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds"!). Paul Rudd, Steve Carell (The Daily Show), Leslie Mann (Apatow's wife) all show up in multiple movie roles.

Speaking of Paul Rudd, he co-created Party Down with Rob Thomas of Veronica Mars fame which ensured some of the cast from VM like Jason Dohring, Kristin Bell & Ryan Hansen would show up in guest spots or main cast. Who's the main star of PD? Adam Scott whose worked with Apatow & Amy Poehler & is BFF's with Paul Rudd. 

Then there's the old Upright Citizens Brigade with Amy Poehler (Parks & Rec, married to Will Arnett of Arrested Development fame & Mitch Hurwitz uses a lot of the same faces too), Matt Walsh & I can't think of who else right now. 

Then there's Rob Corrdry (The Daily Show) on Childrens Hospital with Malin Akerman, Ken Marino (another alum of The State who worked on Party Down & VM), Rob Huebel (who did Human Giant with Aziz Ansari (Parks & Rec) & has popped up in a guest spot on The League which stars Mark Duplass who does tons of indie films, Paul Scheer who's a stand up comic & has his own Adult Swim TV show - the one with all the letters), Megan Mullally (married to Nick Offerman, co-star of Amy Poehler on Parks & Rec; also starred on the last season of Party Down). Also on The League? Nick Kroll who guested on Community. 

Which brings us to Community with Joel McHale created by Dan Harmpon & the troupe he utilizes a lot or Cougar Town brought to you by the creators of Scrubs who reuse those actors to audience's delight.

OMG, I can't believe I didn't mention Joss freakin' Whedon & the different universes he cultivates (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, "The Avengers" (look in the background & you;ll see some familiar faces!!) using the same actors again & again while bringing new faces into the fold. God, I love Joss. I don't think there's one thing he's done that I haven't like in some way.

I feel now's the time to mention I'm writing this on pain medicine while listening to the Daily Show online (another group of comedy guys who pop up in one another's projects!) & torrenting Tupac & Biggie's greatest hits, so I'm having a hard time focusing. I'm just gonna stop. There's no way I could 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon them all together but there are so many intertwixing crossroads in comedy it's a beautiful glorious thing.

Stop sharing city names, states!!

If you live in Massachusetts & someone says “Charlestown” you think, okay, I know where that is, it’s that impossible to get in or out of little nook next to Boston. Fair enough.

But if you live NEAR Rhode Island or are in RI & someone says “Charlestown” & you think of that little nook, you are thinking of the wrong Charlestown, bitches! I didn’t think King Charles (either of them, or any of them, were there 3? How many got executed? Chuck I & II? I’m fuzzy on my monarchy from the 1600s, what of it??) was popular enough to merit all these cities & towns being named in his honor. At the very least you’d think they’d change the name after they lopped off his head. “Hear ye, hear ye, good residents of Charlestown, due to the king’s treason as decided upon by the great Lord Protectorate Oliver Cromwell, this fair city shall now be called Olivertown or Cromwellville, a vote shall be taken by all land owning men on the morrow. Fare thee well.”

For weeks, my mentor/instructor/audio engineering teacher has mentioned his summer place in Charlestown right on the water. MA’s Charlestown is by water so that’s where I thought he was talking about. He showed me a picture of a house on his street & I thought, hmm, that looks more like Marshfield than Charlestown but maybe there’s parts of C-town that I’ve never been to. It’s possible, I don’t go there often except for that time I temped there for 3 months & then it was just in & out during traffic times. Thought, get out of me head. Done.

Anyway, I recently was talked about said temp job with my mentor & he asked which C-town, MA or RI, I was referring to, I was like the original one in MA, duh! Then he said I think the original one is in South Carolina, to which I replied I think that’s technically Charleston not CharlesTOWN, this making all the difference & he was like, I dunno.

But I’m right, aren’t I? SC has Charleston, NC has Charlotte (the feminine of Charles, I know).  How did we run out of names for places so quick when we were founding this country? I know we “borrowed” a bunch of names from England but that’s ok, England was a whole ocean away & not easy to get to back then. Plus, the colonists often stuck a “NEW” in front to distinguish. 

/rant over.

Tong Ren Therapy

Tong Ren Therapy is amazing!

It uses collective consciousness to heal. I've been to quite a few sessions with Tom Tam, the creator of Tong Ren, as well as smaller classes with students of his. I always feel better when I leave; it's a positive & uplifting experience.

The main center is located in Quincy, MA but there are classes available all over. I'm going to a new (to me) one this Thursday.

People have talked about their cancerous tumors decreasing in size due to Tong Ren therapy much to the amazement of their doctors. Tom Tam also works with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. If you are looking for alternative therapies for ANYTHING (cancer, pain, arthritis, MS, mental health issues, weight management, the list is endless) ailing you, this is for you.

Classes are also available online. All you need is yourself. No equipment necessary just a willingness to be healed.

Things I think

In the time between thinking about writing this blog post & turning on the computer & getting to the page to write it, I'm pretty sure I've lost at least half the "things I think." Oh well. Something's better than nothing.

• I think creative people are inherently fragile.
• I think creative people occasionally suffer from crippling anxiety.
• I think if you don't suffer from crippling anxiety once in a while, you're not as creative as you think you are.
• I think peanut butter is the nectar of the gods.
• I think it's more important to have written a book than written a movie even if more people will see the move than read the book.
• I think it's easy to give advice & incredibly hard to take it.
• I think if it were easy, anyone could do it. (from TV show Justified but I agree)
• I think nine times out of ten, people would prefer the easy way.
• I think having a pet is good for your health.
• I think I have better taste in music than you.
• I think I better taste in movies than you.
• I think I have better taste in TV shows than you.
• I think I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to subjective tastes.
• I think it's important to let out that which you have been holding in.
• I think all politicians end up corrupt &/or morally bankrupt, but not all of them start out that way.
• I think our government is bloated, sluggish & it's time to make a change.
• I think we will not attempt to change our government until it is too late.
• I think our public education system is inherently flawed.
• I think teachers are amazing people & under-appreciated.
• I think it's important to never stop learning.
• I think it's important to eventually leave school (graduate, go on sabbatical, whatever) & start actually living before it's too late.
• I think people need to step outside their comfort zones.
• I think our health care system is a joke.
• I think insurance is a scam.
• I think inspection stickers are a racket.
• I think it's easy to become swayed by other people's opinions.
• I think it's important to know how to defend oneself, physically, emotionally & mentally.