November 24 & 25 is Buy Nothing Day (26th was on 2005)

Every year the holiday season comes around and I quietly cry to myself about how terribly consumeristic and self-centered it all seems to be. I’ll post something here and there, but mostly I worry about ruining people’s mood and being a pessimist.
Well, this holiday season I’m going to try and talk about some of this and point out some alternative options for the Holiday’s that you might want to consider.
Today, I thought you should check out CoolPeopleCare and their new “Christmas is Not Your Birthday” Campaign. Sign up for …

I got the Nashville Scene on Friday and was perplexed by the cover photo:

What’s your take?

I’m sure there might be more to say about this one, but I guess today for what ever reason I found it pretty touching.
http://www.freehugscampaign.org
From the site:
How it all started:
I’d been living in London when my world turned upside down and I’d had to come home. By the time my plane landed back in Sydney, all I had left was a carry on bag full of clothes and a world of troubles. No one to welcome me back, no place to call home. I was a tourist in my hometown.
Standing …

If you don’t know my friend Rachel, you probably should. You can read some her blog about her teaching adventures in Chicago, and might catch a glimpse of the heart and love she puts into the children that she serves. I was reading a recent entry of her’s and was touched by how much she cared for the kids she worked with, and wanted to pat her on the back with a nice little comment: “it’s so great the work that you do and that you have such a heart …

Seriously, someone has a credit card in my name and they are racking up charges. Wow.

(reposted from Mark Leon Goldberg at UNdispatch)
It’s not often that a story in Sports Illustrated can have a direct impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa. But with an 815 word column in April, writer Rick Reilly kicked off a grassroots campaign to do just that.
Reilly’s pitch was straightforward. Every thirty seconds, an African child dies from a malaria infection transmitted by a mosquito bite, making it the number-one killer of African children under five. So he implored his readers to send $10 donations …

I know, I haven’t done a podcast in about a week, but I’m ready to start doing them more frequently. The plan is to do one daily podcast, somewhere between 1-5 minutes. Currently there are a great many way’s to get the podcast, which you can find on the Podcast page. I did want to share one exciting new way to catch up on the latest podcast: Call in!
Sitting bored at the bus stop, waiting room, work, rush hour traffic? Call +1 (818) 688-2764 and listen to the latest Thoughts …