Meet Doc and Marty. Now if I could just find a little DeLorean  to put in there with them…

They look so sad.

Doc

Marty

And no, I will never again be able to tell the difference between them.

…a child dies of pneumonia, a disease that can be treated with antibiotics that cost less than a dollar.

As a five time survivor of the disease I know how lucky I am to have been born in a country were medicines and care were readily available. The children living in any of the 68 countries around the world with high child mortality rates are not so lucky. This is why the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia has made today, November 2, 2009, World Pneumonia Day, a day to raise awareness about a disease that has been effectively treated for over a decade yet still kills four million people around the world each year just because they cannot afford or locate vaccines and medicines for prevention and treatment. It’s ridiculous. Let’s try and save some little lungs today and everyday.

This is what happy lungs look like holding a vaccination card! Word.

www.worldpneumoniaday.org

I had an epiphany in the car today. My book IS amazing. Thank you Miley Cyrus for that wonderful little ditty of yours…I believe it’s called the Climb.

If you Google “first human in space” you get a bunch of info about this dude Yuri Gagarin, who was in fact the first human in outer space.

The first human in space was Joe Kittenger, an American, a member of the United States Air Force and all around bad ass guy.

On Aug. 16, 1960 Joe took a fucking helium weather balloon 102,800 feet above the earth, well past our atmosphere into that dark, strange, poisonous space beyond. With his blood pooling into his right hand because of a hole in his pressure suit glove, he spent eleven minutes looking down at the Earth from the gondola of the balloon.

How did he get back to Earth you ask? He fucking jumped out of the gondola with a parachute on his back. Joe Kittenger, American pilot and all around bad ass guy, reentered the Earth’s atmosphere at 614 mph in nothing but a god damned pressure suit and is alive today to talk about it. Amazing.

I love packing. I don’t like moving the heavy boxes around or the stress and wonder over my things as they travel across the country in the hands of some guy I’ve never met but I do love putting things in boxes. It’s cathartic in the same way a perfectly challenging crossword puzzle is…just complicated enough to make you think but not so hard you get angry and want to smash things.

I’m leavin’ on Sept 28th! So excited. I miss so many people and the weather and the fun things to do…but enough about that…here is an appropriate Maru video!

Twenty-six years ago today at around 11:45 at night something truly fucking awesome happened…

Me.

You’re welcome Universe. You’re god damn welcome.

John Hughes wrote my favorite movie and I was gonna write all this stuff about how amazing he was and how inspired his lines were and all kinds of other things but that’s kinda lame. Nothing I could say about John Hughes would be better than a sweet clip from one of his films….this is my favorite movie scene of any movie I’ve ever watched or will ever watch….no joke…it’s perfect.