John Lacey Gets Personal

Sarah Silverman appeared on The View recently.

A bunch of artists – including Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette and Slash – have released music to support the efforts in Haiti. Basically you download the music for free and then make a donation.

I don’t like feeling out of control and yet I’ve come to realise time and time again that I can’t control who I am attracted to. There’s a part of me that only wants to feel attracted to the right people. The people who are attracted in turn to me, who have some interest in me as a person, who are actually genuinely nice people.

And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes a holiday romance is just that and nothing more. And if you sort of know and understand those things you can appreciate them for what they are.

A boy, when asked to draw something that reminded him of Christmas, draws a stick figure character (apparently) of Jesus Christ. The boy is promptly sent home and sent off for psychological evaluation. It was a reaction that had even some of my atheist friends crying “overkill.”

This is what is at the heart of the separation of church and state, this understanding that certain things apply to certain people in certain contexts. And religion is tribal, religion is ‘opt-in’.

Just a quick note to let you know that the JOJCAST is back. The first interview for Season Two is with ObviouslyBenHughes. Here’s a sample…

I was really happy. Firstly because it meant I wasn’t going to miss out on the festivities altogether. But more than that because I was getting to hang out with my peeps rather than the whole of YouTube Australia. I had met most of these people before so we could totally bypass the initial awkwardness of the ‘getting to know you’ phase and revel in the, well, revelry.

There is something about Facebook that breeds nostalgia that may have never existed in the first place. I don’t know if it is just a desire to populate your friends list or the romance of rediscovering something (someone) who was lost to you or just a forgetfulness or revisionist streak that comes with age.

I quite like Twitter. I tweet relentlessly. (9,079 updates at the time of writing.) When I was gone recently for a whole two days, it felt like eons of time away from my beloved Twitterverse. Therefore I have to wonder why I continue to perpetuate Twitter conspiracy theories upon this world.