Real life conversation, VI

"I'm so fat, I can't even put on my shoes!"

(Not actually... he'd just eaten a really big meal).

"Canadian Spiritual Activist Summit"

Being around a bunch of fresh-faced, optimistic, religiously-commited youth is... odd. Disquieting? A little wistful, perhaps.

Rockies through a train

snow-wrinkled mountains
with black pines inched upon them

So...

I'm running away to join the circus. Well, actually, I'm running away to BC to meet up with a couple of friends. We're then going to go on a bit of a musical tour, playing the previously-advertised Beatitudes, travelling down the West Coast from BC to California.

Crazy, eh?

So, I might not update this blog very much between now and Christmas. But who knows? If I do, I might even talk about how the 'tour' is going. Though to be honest, this blog has never really been about chronicling what I'm doing, so much as it is a semi-random window into the constant flow of thoughts that run through my head. And I kind of it that way.

If you want to read an ongoing blog about the tour from a completely different perspective than I would ever have, you can head over to my friend Alex's site. (Alex is a lovely person and he helped us record the Beatitudes. He also has his own music; we'll be travelling together and helping each other out, musically and otherwise).

Why men should be free to wear kilts and other kilt-like clothing.

"We are an international band of men who enjoy the freedom, comfort, pleasure, and masculine appearance of kilts or other male unbifurcated (skirt-like) garments, and who reject the absurd notion that males must always be confined to trousers. We are men in kilts, Utilikilts, and other kilt-like clothing. Our purpose is to liberate men from the "tyranny of trousers" that has been imposed upon us by Western society. We encourage and promote the wearing, acceptance, and availability of kilts and other unbifurcated garments for men.

Unbifurcated garments - including kilts, robes, caftans, sarongs, tunics, and other skirt-like garments - are traditionally male clothing that have been worn by men throughout history. They are far more comfortable and suitable to the male anatomy than trousers, because they don't confine the legs or cramp the male genitals the way that trousers do."

So sayeth Kiltmen.com, and of course you can visit them to read more. Somewhere amidst the silliness, they... have a point.

Real life conversation V

"The closer you get to a real girl, the less pretty she is. (That's how the fashion industry works)."
-A model