TRAVISATIONS!

I know it's a word I made up. I thought it was clever. Perhaps not. Regardless, the word will be the title to a new series of posts where I will discuss things that make my life that much easier to tolerate. Whether it be something from modern pop culture (was that redundant?), something funny someone said, or merely going outside to smell the roses. They will be known as - drum roll please - TRAVISATIONS! (*echo echo echo). Also, I've decided to go on a mission to advertise my blog to more than just the three people I've told about it. I want more people to come read it and experience the thrills that are TRAVISATIONS! To kick start my series of TRAVISATIONS! let me begin with these three gems:

1. Da Ali G Show. It is quite possible that I have never laughed so hard at a television show. IMDB.com describes the show as this:

A burned-out, ignorant, cockney British-Jamaican b-boy; an anti-Semitic, misogynistic nymphomaniac who is a television reporter from Kazakhstan; and a homosexual Austrian fashonista--all played by Sacha Baron Cohen--conduct interviews on unsuspecting Americans, who include prominent pundits in the political system and celebrities, that reveal deeply hidden prejudices and challenge social mores within American society.

There is one interview where Ali G (the b-boy) interviews James Lipton (from Inside the Actors Studio) that is a gut buster. But that is really only one of many hysterical reality sketches. This is available on DVD - RENT IT!

2. Team America: World Police. This is especially for fans of Trey Parker and Matt Stone and the humor they have infused on us all. IMDB.com describes the film as this:

Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

Uh, there is one key element that description in missing. All the characters are MARIONETTES. Clever AND hysterical. RENT IT!!

3. Writing Haikus. Believe it or not. It CAN be fun. Here is how: go online, have a friend give you a word to put into a haiku and then write the haiku. Try to be clever. There is only so much information that can fit into a haiku. My friend and I were discussing "gay" haiku and this is what he came up with:

I meant to say "Cheers"
I see how you got confused
By my "bottoms up!"
-Greg Turner

So there is the first in my series of TRAVISATIONS! The blog won't be exclusively TRAVISATIONS! but I will try to keep them updated weekly. Enjoy!!