Yep...pretty great

Snowballs and Fancy Drinks

Other things that make me smile are fancy drinks, snowball fights, and creative manscaping... in no particular order.

Lady Alcohols Por Vida

One year ago right now I was in the Dominican Republic with 3 amazing ladies causing lots of trouble... drinking Cuba Libres... going to cock fights and making friends with witch doctors and old married Canadian couples.  

Singapore Slings!

I love Singapore... love love love love... once you get over the fact that they have some pretty strict laws if you're a jerkface you find this amazing mix of culture! 

Little India where we mimicked Anthony Bourdain for a little while, ate Indian food off a banana leaf with our hands, and I found an AMAZING elephant 

ring.

Chinatown for massages, reflexology, and ear candling (it's pretty gross to see what's living inside those canals), dim sum, read bulls on the steps of old temples, and lots of shopping.

Then a night out with Sooner on the Quays (pronounced Keys)... chili crab, drinks from IVs and syringes at a bar called Clinic, and an amazingly long and dangerous singalong home on a rikshaw

I <3 Japanese Photo Booths

I love love love Japanese Photo Booths.  They put the ones you find at skating rinks and under escalators at old malls to shame.  They are bigger than my bathroom, have benches and monkey bars to help with creative posing. Then you get to go into a second "post production" booth and add designs and backgrounds to your green-screened photos.  An added bonus are the instructions in Japanese, so you fumble around trying to figure out what's going on, until the countdown clock hits zero and hope that it's amazing... and it usually is.  The text on the machine also told me "You will be inferior to no one" in English... can't go wrong with those kind of affirmations.

Yes We Can

Waking up in Melbourne to election coverage from a foreign point of view put the importance of this choice into perspective.  As it became more and more clear that Obama would be our next president the energy lifted.

Arriving at the venue and watching Obama's acceptance speech at 4 in the afternoon from 8000 miles away we huddled around the TV and were given the challenge to help a great man make a positive change to the place we call home.  In a time where it seems like we as a country can't do anything right all we needed was to be uplifted and given direction, with a little encouragement most people can do amazing things.

In my travels I've been to countries where they can't vote, or where there's a new government every other day, or where the same government has been in power for hundreds of years with no change in sight. Those people envy us for our freedom and for our ability to speak up about our laws and make a change without fear of punishment or even death.  The U.S. masses have overlooked this right in a time where we should be taking advantage in every waking moment to make our country a better place so we can affect the world positively.

Seeing how inspired people are outside our borders about Obama makes me excited to get back home and celebrate the victory we chose for ourselves,  the oz crew are saying they might actually have to start being nice to us again.

I'm hoping to come back to a place where I can lend a hand with millions of other like minded people to get our country back on track, and if you don't believe or choose to be lazy or apathetic I think I might have to agree with Bob Dylan...

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand, For these times they are a-changing.

Welcome to the Big Pop Show!

A show this big is humbling...

it's just so huge... 

then I realized I helped to make this happen...

and I wonder how the hell we pulled it off.

Perks

Screw 401Ks and Medical... my benefits include champagne, cocktails made by Jenn, and private magic shows from David Blaine at random clubs in Hong Kong

Dance Moves

If you were my roommate circa mid 2007 (aka Lindsey and Lori) you are all too familiar with the video and the dance moves below.... yes our hip thrusts, leg quivers, and leaps are all courtesy of the fab Gwen 

So then Beyonce rips her off with the video below for "Single Ladies"... love the song... the moves are pretty rad... but she might as well be in the living room with Lindsey Lori and I paying homage to Gwen.

Then I received the video below... made me realize it doesn't matter if you're Beyonce, the fab Mohawk Mijas, or a skinny boy in a ripped leotard we're all just dancing in our living rooms...

Some of us just get paid more... and the mohawk mijas definitely giggle a little more!