Dance Like No One Is Watching

People all too frequently deny themselves the pleasure of cutting loose on the dance floor.  They worry about looking "weird".  They fear that if people see them getting down and funky that they will inevitably see them as being uncool.  I feel for these people.  I really do.  Dancing is one of the most liberating and joyful expressions one can perform with the human body.  It improves your physical condition.  It betters your cognitive functions.  It promotes happiness and reduces stress.  It can even help get you laid, people!

Weird Sex is Great Sex!

Anyone who would argue with the title of this post...well...they're just not doing it right.  Normal sex is probably responsible for more divorces than spousal abuse, financial problems and alcoholism combined.  See, normal is standard.  It's routine.  And the last thing you want your sex to be is routine.  As I have said in previous posts, weirdness is all about the unexpected.  That's why I wanted to take a moment and highlight the importance of not being afraid to get a little weird with your own sexual encounters.

Where The Weirdness Shines

I have received a few emails from people that were unsure as to where to start in regards to shifting gears and getting on the weird train.  In light of this, I felt the need to add some additional insights to encourage you to bring your own special brand of weirdness out to play.  Remember, I'm not necessarily encouraging folks to hit the streets performing interpretive dances covered in nothing but vinyl body paint and bat guano.  Now, if that's your thing, then by all means...enjoy.  I am, however, looking to highlight how a little weirdness can bring a new level of happiness and fulfillment to your life that you may have stopped believing possible.

The Intrinsic Value of Weirdness

Where would we be without the occasional explosion of weird propelling us forward?  This world tends to be thoroughly shitty at times, but if it weren't for the intermittent and delicious weirdness slapping me in the face from time to time, I'd surely kill myself.  Think about it.  This would be one boring-ass place if it wasn't for the sublimely weird.  Fashion would be nonexistent.  Everyone would look like they stepped out of a damn Gap ad.  There would be beige everywhere!  High school kids would have no one to make fun of to cover up their own insecurities.  Unicycles would never have been invented.  Ballroom dancing would be the only dancing.  Quantum physics would be easy to understand and make sense to everyone!  There would be no great literature, or even good literature for that matter.  All movies would go straight to video!  We would still be using smoke signals and mailing hand-written letters due to there never being any Bill Gates or Steve Jobs - those guys are/were crazy weird.  Art would only be found on designer paper towel rolls and ugly wallpaper.  Performance art wouldn't even exist.  Evolution itself would be stifled and grind to a halt, because let's face it...mutants are weird.  Merriam-Webster even defines the term weird as relating to the supernatural.  So, forget about religion, too.  Few things are as weird as the belief in an afterlife, that we die and float up to a magical place where we fly around with our dead friends and relatives for eternity in perfect happiness and total peace - that's insanely weird!

Only The Strong Will Be Weird

"Where's your will to be weird?"  This question was posited by the ever-weird and totally genius Jim Morrison - a personal hero of mine and many.  Certain friends of mine, as well as a few family members, have questioned my desire to be weird.  Now mind you, the people that are most likely to question such an inclination are usually the weirdest ones of all.  These people go to exorbitant lengths to be seen as normal.  In our society, to be normal means one must typically go against the grain of their very nature.  See, people have certain preconceptions of what it means for someone (or something) to be weird.

A Most Sudden and Overwhelming Hatred of Business Apparel

In the hope of conjuring up a more well-defined picture of how I arrived at this point in my less than illustrious life, I felt it prudent to share a bit of my backstory.  In an effort to maintain some semblance of brevity, I'll be sticking to what caused the initial "shift" for me.

This Should Be...Whatever

In lieu of doing more interesting and productive things with my life, I've decided to start this blog.  I'll be writing about a myriad of things that most won't give a shit about and some may truly identify with, but it's all in the name of self-improvement, exploration and maybe killing a little time in the process.