I love cartoons. I don’t love every cartoon, but there is always at least one or two that peak my curiosity. Lately, the top on my list is Avatar: The Last Airbender.

The premiss is simple. Take a world where there are four nations: Earth, Air, Water Fire. In these nations there are those born who can mould the element or “Bend” it. But there is one, The Avatar, who can Bend all four.

There are loads of great lessons that come out of a 30 minute story. But today I made a connection. The Avatar is a Renaissance Soul ( or for some of you a generalist) . Here is a society that is built on specializing in one element. And here comes a single individual that is looked up in this world to be able to bend several elements.

Unlike the story, I think that we have thousands of Avatars walking our streets and roaming our world. They have in them the ability to bend more than elements. One might bend Music and Math; another Leadership and Sewing. The combinations are endless. What can you bend?

All I’ve got to say is…wow! Great flick if you get a chance to see it.

I’ve been quiet, Mainly because I’ve been in TO working crazy hours in a room they call the “War Room”. With that name, you know it’s going to be crazy. However, A long flight, and I’m back home in Vancouver.

I’m sure I’ve got reams of emails and voicemails waiting, and I’ll get to them, one by one. But in the meantime I’ll share a drunk time poem.

Words flow like Leffe
Sweet with a cinnamon taste
Hints of Valentines
Blurred by consumption
One line dulls the heart
One more the mind
Verse after verse the
Words mix and blur
Eventually
Creating only your desires
My Key and strokes are
Not my own
Until the day after
A trail of garments
And a naked stranger
Under your arm.

Take the aggression of the week out into the spring loaded floors of the Legion Auditorium on Commercial Drive. Sweat and stomp it out by Dancing to Live Jazz with the Blue Morris 6.

Legion Auditorium, Commercial Drive

Brought To you by Jungle Swing Productions

9pm – 12am

$13/$15

I did it again! I missed the first day of Spring last year, and I missed it again! For others it might not be a big deal, however Spring Solstice is one of the most important celebrations. Why? New beginnings; rebirth. There is a reason why it’s called “spring cleaning”. It’s the real New Year. Nature wakes up again; refreshed. As a tradition for the spring I read over the story of Jumping Mouse. So many lessons so many analogies.

Jason Warner is an experienced dancer that has successfully kept alive the swing scene in Abbotsford BC, Canada for the past 8 years. He has built a significant dance community out of Abbotsford for the sole purpose of sharing what he loves with his friends and the community around him. Since officially being open as of 2000, Suburban Swing has provided a place for people of all backgrounds, ages, and cultures, to come together, building a community that preserves the grandeur of swing. Come and Listen to the Blue morris 6.

Part of Swing Summit 2006

ASA Ballroom Abbotsford BC, Canada

Guys in Ties Girls in Pearls (Dresses)

I’m in the process of transitioning over to Dreamhost. There are several reasons why:

1. Damn! – They have a great deal for the bandwidth, space and scripting possibilities.
2. Rudy on Rails – I’ve been eyeing it for some time, but if I don’t have a host that allows it, what’s the point?
3. Attune to Customers Needs and Knowledge. – Now this is something unexpected. I originally signed up for the 1st 2 reasons. But as I was learning about how they do business I found they go to lengths to understand their customers expectations really well. Just look at these 2 options in their contact form they understand how to respond, when to respond, and maybe…just maybe they get the customer to chuckle:

Please select the type of this request:

• Just a casual question, comment, idea, suggestion.
• I need some help but it’s not super time-sensitive.
• I can’t get things done until I hear back from you, please reply asap.
• Things are broken and I’d like them not to be!
• OMG! EXTREME CRITICAL EMERGENCY!! EVERYTHING’S BROKEN! People are DYING!

Please select your general expertise in the area of this request:

• Please explain everything to me very carefully.
• I do know some stuff, but please don’t assume too much.
• Overall I know my stuff, but I’m a little shaky in this area.
• I have a good understanding of this stuff.
• Not to be rude, but I probably know more about this than you!

Nice!

Come down to Tree’s Organic Cafe, 8pm, 450 Granville, and listen to me with the Blue Morris 6. Great pie; great coffee; great music. All we ask for is tips.

I’ve done it again!
I was busy.
I had no time.
I could have been doing countless other things.
I should have been working.
I said I wasn’t going to.
Throw it all out.
I’ve done it.
It’s different.
Yet the same.
Thoughts?
( those reading my rss, you’ll have to come by for a visit ).

Could be the sleep deprivation. Could be the crazy gene waking up. Who knows. I decided to modernize an old poem about unlikely poets.

I’m A Poet
I don’t know it
My Feet show it
They’re Longfellows
And they smell like the Dickens…
… Booooyyyyyyd!