David Vienna's Blog, page 151
June 21, 2017
I’m not drunk or anything. I just want to tell you… I love you guys.
Really, I love...
I’m not drunk or anything. I just want to tell you… I love you guys.
Really, I love you guys.
Totally not drunk.
Totally.
June 18, 2017
Celebrating #FathersDay by swimming with my wife and these...
Celebrating #FathersDay by swimming with my wife and these nerds.
June 16, 2017
Their last day as 2nd graders (also, it’s pajama day at...
Their last day as 2nd graders (also, it’s pajama day at school).
For Your Father’s Day Gift To Me, Pick One Of The Following...
Find out what bill you can be late paying, take $40-$50 from your next paycheck, and treat yourself to a nice dinner (NOT fast food).
Facebook message or email someone with whom you’re upset and ask them how they’re doing. You don’t need to address what made you mad or even reconcile, but assure them you’re not being snarky and that you just genuinely want to know how they are.
Send an email to your senator or representative in Congress and let them know which single issue you care about most. They work for you, after all. [Find your rep’s contact info here and your senator’s here.]
Carpool or use public transit or bike to work for a month.
Sit in a chair in a quiet room, think of a divisive sociopolitical issue of which you are sure you’re on the right side, then mentally convince yourself—just for a minute—that you’re wrong. This is not to change your mind, but rather help you understand the argument from the other side.
Take a piece of white paper and a black pen or marker. If you think you can’t draw, draw something on it. If you think you can’t write, write a short poem on it. If you think you can do neither, do both. Then, even if you think it sucks, frame it and hang it in your home where anyone can see it. You’ve just made art.
Whether alone or with someone else, in a theater or at home, when the music plays during the closing credits of the next film you see, get up and dance. Yes, even if it’s not danceable.
Go to a bar where you don’t know anyone and strike up a conversation with a stranger before you finish your first drink. (Members of the wait staff count.)
Lie to yourself for five straight minutes that the world is not out to get you, but rather supports and celebrates your efforts. Really commit. Let that feeling of joy and relief that accompanies that though fill you. Then, consider the possibility that it’s not a lie or, at the very least, it’s a lie worth believing in.
With a marker, write the word “fuck” on the underside of a shelf or on the level top of a door somewhere in your house. Don’t tell anyone. It’s your secret. Anytime you’re upset, remember your secret fuck.
Remember your favorite childhood toy. Now, go buy the modern day version from a toy store and put it someplace where you’ll see it everyday.
Apply for a job for which you are totally not qualified. If the rejection letter comes, celebrate that you tried anyway. If it doesn’t come, celebrate that you might have a new job.
Go to an old-school diner, order both a milkshake and a malted milkshake, compare and contrast.
During a lunch break, roll down a grassy hill.
Next time you’re in a small crowd (like on a bus or in an elevator), start singing “Sweet Caroline” loud enough for people to hear. See what happens.
If you pray, just once pray to someone else’s god. If you don’t pray, just once try it. This is not meant to convert anyone, but rather to help you understand your fellow human.Reply or share with which number you picked. And please post about how it went, even if it was a disaster.
Oh, and thanks for the amazing Father’s Day present. In picking one of these, you’ve given me the gift of a better world.
Reblogging this because it’s more relevant now than when I wrote it last year.
June 12, 2017
Drinks for Mundane Tasks: 70 Cocktail Recipes for Everyday Chores
If you need a last-minute Father’s Day gift, I have two pieces of advice:
Buy Drinks for Mundane Tasks from Knock KnockPlan ahead next year
June 11, 2017
Though we have one week of school left, we started our summer...
Though we have one week of school left, we started our summer project today—a comic book called “Cave Wars.” Wyatt came up with the idea, Boone helped hone the story, they both are doing rough sketches, and I’m using my limited artistic ability to do the final drawings based on those sketches. Cover down, 40-ish pages to go?
June 9, 2017
The boys’ first school play is done! The grandparents bore...
The boys’ first school play is done! The grandparents bore witness to the fact that they executed their roles with the skill of a master thespian. Now I just need to explain the concept of a “wrap party.”
After The 2nd Grade School Play...
Me: Yes, he has stage presence.
Other Mom: Why are you doing finger quotes around the words stage presence?
Me: Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic.
June 6, 2017
We came for the street art, but stayed for the album cover pose....
We came for the street art, but stayed for the album cover pose. #TheNewKia
