LOL VIT RON

Swan Song

2008-09-18T11:35:00.000-07:00

ven i vas just a little child i asked my mother vat vill i be? vill i be famous, vil i be rich? here's vat she said to me.....

Que sera sera, vat ever vill be vill be
the future'snot ours to see
que sera sera

LOL

gender bender

2008-08-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

i can understand why ode after ode is written in honour of the moon
i think people love the full moon
and i’m not sure that we’ll ever be able to understand why
i don’t think it’s because it’s so pretty
there are lots of pretty things
but the moon is a keeper
mother moon
sister moon

it’s never “father” with those things
the eternal things (except for father time
which is sooooo cliché)
like big boats or planets and oceans
the only big male is the “god” deal

men get the god deal to placate us
after everything else has somehow been attributed to the female
i guess they had to give us the big one

did you ever wonder who decides these things
or how they come to be

was it a group of dominant females in a land lost in time that somehow implanted the seeds of gender association in order to somehow corral the erratic, egotistical male into subjugation

or was it some ancient tradition originating from some long lost meeting of ancient sages with the longest beards possible so as to somehow corral the erratic, needy female into subjugation

or was there once a balanced race of people that saw it was a good idea and simply installed it somehow into our collective eternal subconscious

i guess we’ll never know

looking for clues

2008-08-18T11:56:00.000-07:00

Everyday dawns like an curtain on the rest of our lives. i find myself looking for clues as to what the day might hold. i find myself peeking around corners in the corner of my mind trying to find the land of opportunities. i'm looking for the next thing. i'm looking for the new inspiration. the new sensation that is held somewhere in the deepest corners of my dreams.
i'm looking for something to get excited about. i'm dreaming BIG. i'm taking a chance on me. i'm gonna dive into the pool of life with a joke and a smile.

I'M GONNA MAKE IT AFTERALL!!!!!

vacationitis

2008-08-11T11:05:00.000-07:00

help me i've got vacationitis

did you ever get vacationitis? i'm not sure what it is but i definitely have it, or had it. i'm not sure. i drove 6500 kilometers which is about 3200 miles for my american friends as i travelled from saskatchewan to toronto and back. what is vacationitis you may ask? well, i think it's both the feeling that you need a vacation as you notice that your brain is floating on a mud pile of glandular decay and the feeling that you get when you re-arrive back at work after a long trip and you wonder what the hell you should do to try to re-engage your mojo into the work flow again. right now i'm dealing with the latter.

where is my work flow?

where is my mojo?

when i find my flow i will let you know
i think i left it back at my last show
where did yo come from?
where did you go?
vacationitis stole my mojo

LOL

everybody get up

2008-07-25T07:52:00.000-07:00

hey world,it's a brand new day and we are all still here with the chance of a lifetime. it's something to behold this world of ours. this thing called "life" is sitting right in front of us calling our name and demanding that we "do" something. we can rise up up out of the ashes of our problems and tribulations and dance or we can sit in the dust and wait for something to lift us, either way "life" doesn't care. life is life is life is life. you can do what you want to with it. today i have decided to dance. i am going to be driving across this crazy country called canada today. i will do my LOL show and then hit the roads due east and i will be watching the horizon and playing with my family. it's the first day of our vacation and i am going to make it the greatest thing since sliced apple sauce for my little family. i have been so blessed that i am going to "pay it forward" as the saying goes. i'm gonna pull the rip cord and let the chips fall where they may. i am sucking up the sunshine and touching the face of god. i am laughing at the buddha's jokes.

never say never again

LOLVITRON

vhy, vhy, vhy delilah

2008-07-22T12:12:00.000-07:00

vow!

life has a way of just steam rolling your cookies out as flat as a bloody pancake doesn't it. i mean, both my cars are in the shop, i couldn't sleep the other night for no apparent reason, i power washed my deck the other day after having sanded it off and i left all these gashes in the wood from the power washer that now need to be sanded, and my friend's buddy passed away and on and on. it's funny though, with all my little "problems" i still have it more made than most people whom have ever existed. i have my health, my humour, my blah blah blah and i think i should be thankful. so that's what i'm gonna be. thankful, happy and upbeat. i'm waiting for the world. i'm ready for now and i'm ready as i'll ever be.

Peace people

i love you, as always

the throes of ecstacy

2008-07-02T10:21:00.000-07:00

vat a veekend

ve had the big party for the folks and then came the aftermath of cleaning up and wrapping the whole thing up and putting it into perspectiv, we are now faced with the rest of our lives. things get laid out in no uncertain terms when you see all of your family's characters on display in one location. you can see the past the present and the future all in one go. i was sitting and talking to one of my uncles and i was so wiped out by how similiar we are. i hadn't talked to him too much over the years so it was like an awakening that was as fresh as the great unknown. when you get into that family groove there is a lot of information to be had. all the jestures and voices and moods were so "in the groove". i really felt that i was in familiar territory and it really set the stage for people to have a good time. a sweet "in the groove" kind of time. the ancestors and the next generation and then the next generation all on display. phenomenal really.

i also get to see the circ du soleil this week which will no doubt give me another brand of major inspiration. i think it could be the catalyst i've been waiting for. the one that will throw me back into high gear.....

we'll see

more trute

2008-06-30T09:09:00.000-07:00

the circle of life

it seems that everything comes in circles. you know, "what comes around goes around" or "there's more to be seen than can ever be seen...". everything, or more to the point, all the best things come in circles.
i'm talking about the weekend just past when my parents celebrated their 50th anniversary. it was, of course, a wonderful weekend. so nice to see all of the uncles and aunts from yesteryear. i had moved across the country 20 years ago and just recently came back to "god's country" as my aunt sharon put it, and my eyes hadn't laid themselves on a lot of my extended family on many years.

it was amazing to see that no matter how aged the faces and bodies had become, the person was still the same and the connection was also. it is a deep connection, that of family and youth all balled up into one colossal love in. i sang for my people, i LOL like hell and generally wallowed in the love that was just soaring and flailing around the cottage and on the beach.

but about the circle thing that i started off with. i could see so strongly the resemblance that i bare to my uncles and aunts for that matter. we all hail from the same life line. i guess it's true that our little connection with the eternal circle of life is ours and ours alone. we are the current rendition of our particular line of dna. there will be many more after us and there have been many before us. it is the sweetest miracle. the circle of life. the ties that bind.

god bless you and your family

what's the truth of it?

2008-06-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

laugh out loud

laughter, they say, is the best medicine. now, i don't know if that is true but i do know that a giggle, a nose laugh, a silent laugh, a burst of laughter, a belly laugh, a hoot laugh, or a chuckle can really hit the spot when you need it.

i was visiting in-laws in jamaica not long a go and my sister-in-law told me that her mother hadn't been out of the house for months and that she is quite depressed. now, i know her mother well enough to be shocked that such a happy-go-lucky person could be so down. i thought that a nice little visit from LOLVITRON would probably be in order, so i went over to her place and there she was, just like her daughter said, looking as depressed as all get out. i wouldn't say that i am the imperial poobah when it comes to cheering people up but i have a pretty good nack at making people laugh. so i started in with the smooth one-liners here and there and as sure as you're born she started laughing. i just kept on hitting her with humour until she was slapping her leg and shouting one-liners right back at me. the conversation was peppered with belly laughs and smiles from the heart. i felt so great to be able to laugh with her and have a good time.

her daughter was so happy when she told me that her mother had also had a great time and i was, once again, re-affirmed in the knowledge that if laughter is not the BEST medicine, it certainly is good medicine.

LOL

the moment of truth

2008-06-06T08:47:00.000-07:00

what a rush!

you know every now and again i have one of my "most over the top" kind of mornings which usually includes high volume singing and major league comedic dancing along with a couple of wigs and an espresso and today was one of those days. my team here at the studio brought in a "red-head with a tam" wig and i burst into a ripping big fat bastard like array of madness and laughter.

it's days like this that make my world go around. with LOL we have been able to capture some pretty zany stuff but the real magic, i find, is never caught on camera. that's the way life is. i have come to accept that i can never catch the real gold on camera. the real juice is just there for the moment and gone just as quickly, so my message today is to realize when you're living the gold and don't down play it''s value and/or reality. it's the stuff of life and laughter. it's the real thing.

LOL

MID LIFE TREATISE

2008-06-05T09:32:00.000-07:00

new horizons

we all reach a point in life, some of us earlier than others, when we feel like we are at a crossroads. it can take any form and express itself to us in any way, but it will be taylor-made to fit our particular life. we created it. we chipped away at life in our own way and as sure as rain it will come down on us when we least expected it. i read somewhere that we teach people how to treat us and i thought, to some extent, that is true. i don't wholly believe that we are the sum of our signals to others but i believe that our behaviour models others perception of us almost entirely. having said that, i do think that our true selves is under the surface in many ways. we may need to bring more of ourselves out if we want to have a different impact on others. to a large extent IT IS up to us to make IT happen.

we have to ask ourselves the hard questions when we come to the crossroads of life. did we communicate the feelings that we had or did we hide them. do we expect people to read our minds? sometime i think that we do.

in the chatroom of the show LOLVITRON, i have been talking about mid-life a little (along with all the other rubbish that spews out of my head) and i have been hearing from others that they too have had to come to terms with the challenges of being misrepresented, misunderstood, and otherwise miscombobulated as the evaluate their lives.

let's make a pact right here to speak more openly about our feelings and not be afraid to let er dangle, as they say. we need to LET OUR FEELINGS SHOW as the saying goes.

reach out and touch somebody's hand
make this world a better place if you can

LOL

you talk too much

2008-05-30T09:24:00.000-07:00

what a difference a day makes, as they say. boy, were they ever right! today i got on my bicycle and rode into work. it was about a half an hour ride but it was the best thing i could've done. talk about seeing the day from a different perspective. it was even better than my neighbour's trampoline! cruising along with no hands on the wheel, just floating down the road with my eyes wide open (not shut) and talking to myself in this silly chinese accent that i picked up on the puppet underground. i was telling myself a lovely story and swooping in and out and around the apple blossoms as i travelled. which brings me to the point of the blog today. "talking to yourself". how much do you do it? i think i am in constant conversation with the man within and i sometimes wonder if it's the same for everyone.. do you chat away to yourself while you're shaving or slipping on your briefs? i think it's healthy but i think maybe i crossed over into the extra extra talk to yourself too much territory. who knows? so i felt like asking you about this to see what's what on your end... are you a chatterbox in the realm of self or are you the strong silent type? don't keep me waiting. i need to know. oh wait, someone's saying something to me....

LOL

whining and complaining

2008-05-26T14:22:00.000-07:00

I am sitting here after having done a show and it was kind of interesting in that it was sort of a pain in the ass. there was some kind of spammer that was able to knock the show off the air for a minute, and that wasn't so bad but there were a herd of others that were making what i'm told are "running internet jokes" and it was kind of lame. lameness is the enemy for me. that's why i usually am not too pumped about someone skyping in because we usually not only have a hard time hearing them, and them us i'm sure, but also, they usually slow the show down too much. at the same time, my partners in crime are feeling a little verklempt about the speed at which i'm talking. i think they kind of feel tired by the constant rate of my speech but this is sort of the trademark of the show, and i like the idea of being able to throw so much at the wall in such a short time so as to almost baffle the listener into paying attention so as to keep up.

anyway, i just felt a little dry after the show and i wanted to say so. of course i thank all the folks that we're cool (you know who you are!) and just taking the show for what it is and not complaining.....

til wednesday

LOL

the future's so bright

2008-05-20T10:12:00.000-07:00

wow

i was talking with a friend of mine about the issues surrounding the old global warming thing and all the gloom and doom that comes with that territory. a movie that he had just seen called "Everything's Cool" was depressing the hell out of him. so we sat there talking about the prospect for our children and their children and we couldn't help but fall sort of silent.

eventually i added that the worst part is that i haven't done much to help the situation. i have two cars, a house with all the amenities (i.e. tv's, microwaves, air conditioning, furnace, lights burning, stereos, sensors with batteries, kids toys with batteries, cell phones, computers and all the rest). i kind of felt as if it was a bit hypocritical to count myself among the people that are "doing something" about the situation. i mean, i try not to use plastic bags but when it boils right down to it i am a gigantic consumer of all that global warming has to offer and a drawer full of old AC adapters to boot.

how will it all play out? how will we change? when will we change? is it too late for change? all these questions loom and there doesn't seem to be too much we can do...

LOL

the big kahoona

2008-05-16T09:27:00.000-07:00

nudity at home

i was listening to dane cook talking about nudity at home and he said that he saw his dad's genitals one time and it changed his life. Now this guy is a pretty progressive guy. He is a stand up comedian after all. It struck me though, that he wouldnt 've had a more intimate relationship with his family's genitalia in order to make himself into a respectable comedian. i don't mean that way. keep it out of the gutter people! i would've thought that nudity at home was a pre-requisite for the best stand up comics, but maybe i was biased being the home body nudist kind of guy that i am....

i guess bob hope didn't really have to see his daddies genitals in order to be the man he was, but what about the younger comedians? i don't know...I guess i''m biased

LOL

International Love

2008-05-15T09:39:00.000-07:00

you know, one thing that has really touched my brain since i started doing this ustream.tv thing is the global nature of the whole deal. it sounds cliche but it is truly a mind warp sometime as it becomes clearer and clearer how easily connected we are through the net and our little tv show. i had the pleasure of having our star ustreamer "hett" skype me this morning, and as we chatted about one of the blog entries i had written it really struck me that he and i have a real relationship that is has sprung from the virtual world.

and then "kalaru" drops me an e-mail from australia and "nawlins" from new orleans sends me lunch. i pop off a song to "killuminati" in watts, and then i listen to a song from "kenya" from, you guessed it, kenya. then "ramsey clark" chimes in on the opera tip outta panama and and it all seems as normal as the nose on your face, yet it is a scattered group of people flitting through the internet at the speed of light. "making love outta nothing at all" as the old song says...

very nice to have met all of you. you are, as they say, number one

LOL

Emotions in Motion

2008-05-13T07:56:00.000-07:00

Vhen vil ve learn to ride those nasty waves of emotion?

Dat is da qvestion: vhether it is nobler to be sucked unceremoniously into the vortex of self-doubt and whither like a numbed version of one's former self, or to rise above and take a look at our tawdry little bit of turmoil and then to lift ourselves like mariah up through the echelons of impure thoughts to ride, once again, into the realm of possibilities and hopes/desires.

Remember, vhatever vill be might be...
it depends.

LOL

WEAK FROM DA VEEKEND

2008-05-12T08:59:00.001-07:00

vow! vat a veekend!!!!

i vas at my daughter's dance competition in saskatoon this veekend and it vas, as usual, an over-vhelming experience straight outta compton!!!! ve vere paddling around from hotel to restaurant to dance thing and back again. of course the kids hit the pool at every opportunity leaving nothing to spare for any poor misguided adult to do at his/her leisure.

But, as always, there was a bright side to the whole event. we went to a zoo and really had a sweet time. i know what you're thinking, poor animals, zoos are evil. Now we all know that there is more to zoos than that but the animals are still captive and there was once a time when my comfy little heart would break when i looked into their sad little eyes, but now i'm just jealous of their relaxed demeanor. They're so smug in all their peaceful grass chewing. Even the eagles looked at ease in their captive lifestyle.

Overall, though, this is the stuff that dreams are made of: dance competitions, lousy food, tireless parentalism, hotel rooms, casually captive animals and no time to reflect on my reflection.

praise Allah and LOL

mind warping

2008-05-08T08:25:00.000-07:00

vat is da truth,

this is da qvestion. vhen i vas driving into vork dis morning i was once again taken up with my thoughts, and finally i ended up marveling at the ability of my mind to travel freely through space and time. one moment i'm recounting a discussion with a friend and grappling with questions of right and wrong, the next i'm taken up by a song that surfaces and somehow needs to be hummed and then i'm off to ten years earlier and another memory of days gone by. it seems that we can travel through time and space and never move our physical selves at all. as was once said in a silly old radio song "to take a trip and never leave the farm" seems to be the actual state of affairs when it comes to the abilities that we all have to reflect and postulate and refer and analyze the stuff of life and dreams.

2008-05-07T08:34:00.000-07:00

vell, vell, vell people, vat is da trute of it? i am here to spread the word of whatever to whomever however i can, where ever they are. and it all starts with my little blog here today. having said all that i really should make an entry that goes beyond the boundaries of the here and now and the now or never, and speak, for a moment, to the what if and the why.

THUS

what if you were given three wishes? what would you wish for? i think that the real answer to that question would teach you a great deal about yourself. i was asking myself that very question as i drove into work this morning and, of course, i was tailoring my wishes to serve the whole. i was wishing that true compassion would become the over-riding impulse at all times for all people, that disease would be vanquished for all time and i added lastly that "heaven" be a real place that we could all live in forever and ever, amen. and then after a few moments the whole thing was forgotten and my mind had rambled off to some other exploit, leaving my holier than thou wishes to fallow in the wake of my wanderings. it's funny how even the greatest intentions become fodder in the grist mill of time and we are left with the here and now, the very place that we want our imagination and our expressions of grandeur to lift us out of. As we struggle to gain a perspective that is free of the limitations of our immediate surroundings, we may be missing the things that are so very cool that exist right in front of our eyes.
it's all been said before but i thought that it needed repeating again, as i remind myself of my "three wishes" scenario that played out in my car on the way to work this morning.

LOL (the best medicine)