It ain't dancing if you don't wear a tutu!

Jet Li on Chinese reality TV, the worlds' getting more and more non-linear every second.
S'cuze me.....gotta go watch me an episode of Big Ear Tutu now

BTW, this kids' the smartest person in any room and goin' places.

Yep, or Race to Witch Mountain or The Tooth Fairy...the first two we saw. After that, I went back to some of the Scorpion King flicks. The Tooth Fairy is particularly amusing...the Rock in a pink tutu is worth the price of admission all by itself.

Don't call it a comeback, I'll have hair for years.

I'm scared. I'm scared that my abilities are gone. I'm scared that I'm going to fuck this up, and I'm scared of you.

I don't wanna' start, but I will.

This is an invocation for anyone who hasn't begun, whose stuck in a terrible place between 0 and 1.

------

Let me realize that my past failures that follow through are no indication of my future performance, their just healthy little fires that are gonna' warm up my ass.

If my FILDI* is strong let me keep him in a velvet box until I really really need him.
If my FILDI* is weak let me feed him oranges and not let him gorge himself on ego and arrogance.

Let me not hit up my Facebook like it's a crack-pipe, keep the browser closed.

If I catch myself wearing a tutu (too), too fat too late too old, let me shake it off like a donkey would shake off something it doesn't like.

When I get that feeling in my stomach, you know that feeling when all the sudden you get a ball of energy and it shoots down into your legs and up into your arms and tells you to stand up and goto the refrigerator and get a cheese sandwich - that's my cheese monster talking. And my cheese monster will never be satisfied with cheddar, only the cheese of accomplishment.

Let me think about the people that I care about the most. And how when they fail or disappoint me I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them - let me extend that generosity to myself.

Let me find and use metaphors to help me understand the world around me, and give me the strength to get rid of them when it's apparent that they no longer work.

Let me thank the parts of me that I don't understand or are outside of my control, like my creativity and my courage.
Let me remember that my courage is a wild dog, it won't just come when I call it. I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.

Let me not be so vain to think that I am the sole author of my victories, and a victim of my defeats.

Let me remember that the unintended meaning that people project on what I do is neither my fault, nor something that I can take credit for.

Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he's a little bit of an asshole and nobody invites him to their pool parties.

Let me remember that the impact of criticism is often not the intent of the critic, but when the intent is evil that's what the block button is for.

And when I eat my critique, let me be able to separate out the good advice from the bitter herbs.

*Can't understand the over-dub'd speech*

Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else, and if it is let me become fascinated by the shape of the stone.

Let me take the idea that has gotten me this far, and put it to bed. What I'm about to do will not be that. But it will be something.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore, my pencils are sharp enough - even the dull ones will make a mark. Warts and all.



Let's start this shit up.

And god let me enjoy this, life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.


-----

* FILDI = Fuck it let's do it.

>> ^Sagemind:

dead - video has been removed by the user.


fixed

This song is fantastic, and probably my all-time favourite christmas song, but this attempt at animating it , while charming, really doesnt do the song justice, in my view. For one, it is full of, or rather, (it is in many ways only), what Dawkins once referred to as "Lord Privy Seals", that movie-making mistake of always showing the words, ie "whenever X is mentioned, there must be an X in the picture at that moment", where X in this video could be replaced with: Christmas, religion, Dawkins, Desmond Tutu, consumerism, ancient religion, selling, playstations, beer, Jesus, dad, brothers, sisters, gran, mum, white wine, sun...

Oh and that baby girl that looks like a tiny bald man.. creepy.

5 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

>> ^TreacleMine:

Cute - but I don't think most of those college kids are aware of the reference. They are just laughing and having fun with a an older guy in a tutu that is dancing around their campus.


Agreed

Cute - but I don't think most of those college kids are aware of the reference. They are just laughing and having fun with a an older guy in a tutu that is dancing around their campus.

Something tells me that she will alway be working in a pink tutu.

that completely gays it right up. Might as well put a pink tutu with the dvd set.

>> ^chilaxe:

It depends. If his efforts for which they awarded it to him produce positive outcomes, I'll say I was for it the whole time.
On the other hand, if his efforts for which they awarded it to him fail, I'll say efforts are overrated, and we shouldn't encourage them.

I'm a strong believer in awarding people for doing something substantial. The guy in germany who in '35 did something actively a before he was awarded, Nazism had been an 'organizational policy' and on the rise for 4 years already. Tutu did the same thing, he'd been working on it for a long time. I've strongly disagreed with Carters for various reasons due to his policies. Regardless of that it should always be based on 'stuff done'. I can think of many people more so deserving like the Chinese dissidents who've been working since the massacre for reforms, and getting China to modernize. Seems to be working doesn't it? How about the nameless diplomats around the world who are the actual pushers and pullers who do the work. Clinton is more deserving of it.

People who thinks that this is well researched are fooling themselves.

Some of the notable peace prize winners from my lifetime, there's a lot more than Jimmy Carter and Al Gore. Sorry Joe but not everything on Earth is about hating Bush or America:

MARTTI AHTISAARI
KIM DAE JUNG
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES)
JOHN HUME
CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA
YASSER ARAFAT
SHIMON PERES
YITZHAK RABIN
NELSON MANDELA
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV
ELIE WIESEL
DESMOND MPILO TUTU
LECH WALESA
MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT
MENACHEM BEGIN
BETTY WILLIAMS
MAIREAD CORRIGAN

Tags for this video have been changed from 'hell of the living dead, zombies, kitten, stomach, top hate, cane, green tutu' to 'hell of the living dead, zombies, kitten, stomach, top hat, cane, green tutu' - edited by kronosposeidon

That's right Mr Tutu.. competition is horrible. African inertia is far superior to competition.

Why would any farmer wish to yield more crops per acre than his neighbour? Why would he want to produce more nutritious grain than last year's harvest? Or more beautiful fruit to make it more attractive at the market?

In fact, why even bother planting seeds at all, why even "compete" with nature for providing your own sustenance?

I suppose being a passive hunter-gatherer society is far more "right" than trying to better one's peers with innovation.

This gentleman's ideas is why Africa is a continent of failure.

Don't get me wrong... I have nothing against Africans or their way of doing things. But don't expect me to envy their so-called sagacious proverbs and two-cent philosophy.