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Blogging for Radical Fun Day

May 4, 2006 · 17 Comments

Brownfemipower created Blogging for Radical Fun Day! It’s a great idea: instead of blogging about all the suffering and injustice in the world, take a break and blog about something you love or love to do. Surf on over to her site to see the bloggers participating today.

On Tuesday, we went to Northwest Trek, a wildlife park that has the distinction of having free-roaming herbivores. Very few things make me happier than nonhuman animals, and thinking about them is my idea of a very fun time. I won’t talk about how the kids at the park responded to the animals, and I won’t talk about the conservation work the park does, because wildlife conservation is a depressing subject. Instead, I’m just going to be grateful these animals exist.

I’m a sucker for for these animals, so I couldn’t bear (hee hee) to shrink these photos down. Click on the thumbnails for a larger image.


Only one week old!

Categories: hope and joy

I Offer You This Concept

May 4, 2006 · 14 Comments

Several years ago, I created an important concept, and I strongly urge you to adopt it. I present:

The Birthday Month

You are special, so you deserve to celebrate yourself, and your birthday, for one entire month! The Birthday Month is a one-month get-out-of-jail free card. It is a “Oh, you’re being a royal pain in the ass, but it’s your Birthday Month, so I won’t call you on it” present. It also includes others doing chores for you, saying extra nice things, and letting you have the best part of their lunch. It’s an idea whose time has come. Until you try it, you won’t believe how much fun it is to have a Birthday Month.

I was lucky enough to be born the very last day of the month, so I get a nice, symmetrical Birthday Month. But never fear, if you were born on some other day, unfortunate one, simply celebrate for a month before your birthday. I advise against celebrating after your actual birthday. By the end of The Birthday Month, everyone is really sick of “your attitude”, and only your actual birthday will compel them to be nice.


I’ll say this one more time. Only one of you needs to stand by my head to provide shade. The other one should go get me a root beer and some hay. And make it snappy!

May is my Birthday Month. I’ve been hell on wheels already, and oh, is it fun. Try it out for yourself.

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