Loved it. Loved it, not only because I love food and grew up watching Julia Childs PBS shows, while my mom folded laundry in the basement. No, I loved it because I had a chance to watch passion acted upon. Topo many of us have a passion we never do anything about. We all may obsess about it. But only a few act upon it. Gary Vaynerchuck’s “Crush It!
” is a book about how to “act upon your passion”. The problem though is that many people will read his book and just say “yeah that’s what I need to do” and go on thinking about it.

I think I have a solution. Do something stupid. Yep. Go out and do something quickly before you have time to think about it and figure out if it was the right thing later. I wouldn’t be in Spain right now if I had thought about it. Gabriella and I bought a ticket because we could, and look, now we live here. Our passion: exploring the world. At this point we’ve traveled throughout Spain and Portugal. Visited London and Norway numerous times, and have been to India. A series of lucky breaks and a lot of hard work has kept this project/dream/experiment alive. But we’re doing it, and we wouldn’t be here still if we had thought about it.

Juila and Julia both did something, whether or not they were sure what they were doing. They figured it out along the way. They had fun. They made their dreams come true. My dreams are still figuring themselves out…but I’ll keep doing what I need to do, and from time to time, I’ll jump feet first into something I know nothing about, just to see what happens.

Enjoy the chickens:

Just got done watching this and I have to say Bill Maher is a bit full of himself, I’ll grant you that. Now let’s move on.

This movie is great, but a bit to much of “preaching to the choir” and not a very good movie to help convert your crazy friend who still believes in eating zombie flesh as the only way to escape burning alive for eternity. I mean seriously the best and most important thing in this film that we can actually use in real life to explain the insanity of religion, is the fact that 16% of Americans are non-religious. WOW. That gives hope if it weren’t for the fact that that same 16% happen to be the most apathetic, and/or least likely to start a crusade. Maybe I should start the 16% club, and rally the troops.

So my question. How do you convert/explain to people that Jesus, is a fairy tale, and that 99% 100% of the Bible, Koran, Torah, or otherwise, is make believe? When will sanity triumph over ignorance? Stories are nice, they can illustrate good ideas, and can provide direction, but they are just stories. Anyone have a good way they like to convince folks that living life is possible with out mysticism? I mean Scientology and Mormons do it themselves just by Tom Cruises actions alone, but the other 3 are hard nuts to crack.

When in India the land of 10000 gods, I was shocked to hear so many people say that being Hindu was not a religion, but a way of life/philosophy with lot’s of good stories. I like that. Good stories, some crazy people and a god for any occasion, all minus the “you believe me or burn in hell” mentality. Oh and less bombs.

For now I’ll go on supporting the FSM, and living a peaceful pastafarian lifestyle.

cheers, ryan

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I know I’m late coming to this, but it bears mentioning none the less. This movie is amazing! Seriously great. Also I can say it is even better/more real having come recently from India. Wow, wow, wow…see it….no really run out, now, see it.