i fell

I think it is so funny when people fall and I got my ass handed to me yesterday, karmic retribution. I was running for my bus and it had been raining and I was skedaddling past a row of people and fell in the mud. I yelled "That did not just happen!" and two high school girls were staring with their mouths open in empathic horror. I intently did not look to see how many people had seen at the rush-hour intersection as the bus drove off. Drove off! I had run for nothing and my ass was coated with mud and the girls said "Do you have anywhere else to be?" and I said "Yeah...therapy." They said "At least you can discuss this with your therapist and she can support you!" I gimped onto the next bus with my muddy arse and after 45 muddy minutes on public transit I made it to therapist's office where we traded places and I sat on her leather chair and she sat on the upholstered couch.

Wish you could have seen it.

I watched this twice the other day so maybe I had it coming.

story group

I was part of this story group all last year (I mean 2008) and it was huge for me. Here are the details in case anyone is curious or interested in doing it, I can't recommend anything more highly.

Another Story Group is starting, and you are invited to join us in the journey. In the group we explore questions such as: How do the stories of your life impact who you are? What can you learn from your stories of tragedy and loss? What is the larger story that your life is telling?

The group is for people who want to reflect on the stories of their past, particularly painful stories, for the sake of learning to love more deeply. Our most painful stories involve disruption of relationships with parents, siblings, relatives, friends. In response to this, we learn to relate to people in ways that can be self-protective and harmful. This group is a powerful way to learn how your stories impact you and how you impact others. It’s an opportunity to create a community of people who will both encourage you and interact with you about the ways you are thwarting your own growth.

Here are some details....
Meetings: Mondays, 7 to 9 p.m., starting January 18, in Green Lake
Length: 14 weeks, with the option at the end of continuing
Cost: $40 per meeting
Participants: four to six people
Leaders: Trapper Lukaart and Lisa Fann
Reading: To Be Told by Dan Allender and To Be Told Workbook by Dan
Allender and Lisa Fann

If you are interested in joining us, send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you and, perhaps, walking for a little way with you on your journey.

Lisa Fann
206-784-5005
words@lisafann.com
www.lisafann.com

geoff dyer, a brit, ponders american habits and likes what he sees

This article was fascinating to me.

david cross & will arnett in "the increasingly poor decisions of todd margaret"

oh what fun it is to ride

Took both kids to the ER in the space of 12 hours, R had an ear infection and J has pneumonia! They're feeling way better now but it was awful. Before they got sick I had an internal sort of breakdown from it being Christmas but I'm dealing with it instead of trying to numb out and I got a lot of people to pray for me and I'm better. I super love this woman, Belleruth Naparstak, who does guided relaxation and it is corny but that's okay. I love medicine but I'm down with this holistic stuff too about the mind-body connection, I think they're actually the same, not even connected but the same. Anyway she does these tapes to help people deal with anxiety and all kinds of sicknesses and she's so rad. Her voice sounds like Michael Jackson and Betty White all in one but if you can ignore that it's good. You can find her on youtube. I feel like I should put fewer youtube links on here cause this is turning into one big youtube routing hub.

In other happy news, today Mick from Supergrass tweeted that he likes my Christmas mix and I think that is a Christmas miracle. I kinda want to tweet this good news but then he'd see it and have even more evidence I'm insane. As if flying to see them in Cali and NYC last year wasn't enough. And I'm going to LA to see them next month, thanks to my partner in Supergrass crime Simone! She bought my ticket as an early birthday present. Yips!!!

Now I would like to show you some pictures I think are funny. My friend Jason was given a subscription to Car & Driver under the name of Deez Nutz and he's asking everyone if they did this, and we're all saying we wish we had.

Then Simone's husband Gregg put this sticker on a McDonald's sign the other day. (He's a vegan. He really would throw up if he ate McDonald's.)


That's all the funny I have for now. I hope my kids get all better. xo

long sleeves! am i right, ladies?

I was so happy when my lady love Maria Bamford was in those black Friday Target ads. I just saw she did a one hour Christmas standup special from her couch. HEAVEN. If you don't have an hour to listen at least listen to the two minutes at the end where she properly skewers female comedians, it's a minute 49:00.

Maria Bamford's Christmas Special! from Punchline Magazine on Vimeo.

jeff breakfast

Here's a bad Christian comedian named Jeff Breakfast. He said "the crowd was very accepting of my tender sacrilege." NOT FOR KIDS

Part 1



Part 2