being fun

March 27, 2007 by  

When the blogosphere tone is a bummer, or worse, it helps to look elsewhere for inspiration: spiritual teachers, classics, popular culture and people on the street. Often, a pattern will emerge and provide a pointer to something new, or to a part of you that you’ve been avoiding, denying or neglecting.

Recently, I was riding the Boston subway during rush hour on an extremely frigid day. It was a packed car, with everyone looking relieved to be sharing body heat and out of the “the almighty hawk”, the cold wind that the great Lou Rawls sings about in his classic Dead End Street. The college-age girl sitting next to me was giggling, then chuckling, then doing everything she could to stifle full, ribald belly laughs. Funny-Bone.gifI peeked over and saw that she was reading a book of comics. Her laughter was so infectious that I caught it, and the effect stayed with me for hours.

Later, stuff that I would normally take seriously cracked me up.
For example, this video “The A-List works harder than you do.”, is not meant to be funny, but I found it hilarious.

jokerjuggler.gifAnother day, I reviewed some of Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind teachings to prepare myself for some development work I’m beginning. But the inner voice that I was interested in accessing was not Big Mind, but the voice he calls The Great Fool: the joker, the trickster, the one who has freedom to be wild and to be anything, including, quoting Genpo Roshi, a shit-stick!

I think the wild ideas come from the Great Fool in us. Mine is: an app or service that will convert bloggers’ podcast-type videos to animated comic (manga?)-style videos with fictionalized characters, Gorillaz style.

Another option is to just shift the energy now and then and be fun. People like that, especially clients.

Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.

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