It Ain't 15 Minutes of FAME but 14:59 is Pretty Close...

So as Syraaj (The Alpha Male) and I were being the sweetest couple ever while lying in bed sending electronic data back and forth through our laptops, (Yeah, we're that lame) we came up With the idea of creating our own magazine. I guess technically it'd be an E-Zine. I digress.

The idea that the advent of technology has allowed us to become self-made celebrities. YouTube alone attracts millions of viewers who could, can, and do post daily accounts of their lives, memories, and random laughing German baby videos-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk. This little tidbit of cinematic history has attracted over 80 millions viewers alone.

As much as we progressive individuals like to think we are, I think a little kid in all of us want to be famous if even for a moment. Most people would take fame and prospective fortune over a lot of other "What's behind Door # 3 prize" .

While pondering these thoughts, Syraaj created the cover to the supposed magazine 'Polight Gestures' which features me giving him the middle-finger in a Photoshop-ed layover with notable magazine topics like "How many kids does Lara Croft have now?" and "Can dyslexic people read upside down?- We can't answer that".

I think it's absolutely hilarious and enormously fulfilling to watch people exploit themselves in the "YouTube, Google-It, Take a Video on my camera phone and Twitter you about it later" Culture we now drown in.

As I type, I can help but wonder if this blog itself in its self-righteous principles to uphold "Edward R. Murrow" standards of concrete journalism could be a little self-serving and 14:59 minutes of literary fame.

I Know...Isn't it Great?

Children should design social experiments

So I went to a birthday party last week and I took my son with me. The party was for my friend Kim and in the spirit of celebration we all wore sombreros, mustaches, and made hot chocolate with tequila. The fiesta complete with guacamole and all the flour tortillas we could handle was a fun theme party that had the most dedicated individuals I'd ever witnessed. A good time was had by all and on the car ride home my 3 year-old tells me that it was a "really fun party".

Considering he didn't get any spiked hot chocolate, I'm glad he was able to have such a good time. The next day he wakes up bright-eyed and asks if he can wear his mustache to daycare. I laugh explaining that it was just for the party and he doesn't have to wear it all the time but he wanted to. It really got me to thinking about how much balls kids have. They are bold and daring and could care less if anyone minds their eye makeup pencil mustache.

I think children should design social experiments. All those embarrassing things adults fear like social awkwardness, elevators, random I'm-trying-to-pass-you- but-you -keep-moving-the-same-way- I do-in-the-hallway dances, children embrace. My son held no fear of being ridiculed for his fake mustache. It was something he thought was awesome and he was gonna own that.

I love that attitude. It was a reality check for me. So often so many people are afraid to do anything for fear of what others will think of them. children see through all of that. They have the purest train of intention and thought. I'm actually convinced that in life, you're born knowing everything and slowly through the process of socialization you are striped of some of your intuition and your inclination to take risks.

...And a child shall lead them.