Thoughts of Mark

I'm working out a new template, so bear with me while I iron out the bumps.

I think I am getting more zen in my old age.
We were discussing the old addage that happiness is like chasing a butterfly
Then I thought, Just be the butterfly!

Elvis Costello wrote his satirical party anthem "Pump It Up" in 1977. The Escape Club wrote "Wild Wild West" in 1988. I'm not saying which, but it seems one song might be a bit more than strongly influenced by the other.

Pump It West from Mark Johnson on Vimeo.

I can't get the video to embed in the blogger java, so just click on the link to see the it.

I am working on starting up a new YouTube profile featuring all of our (my friends and I) Big Show videos. An maybe, just maybe, if there is interest, some of us may start filming new skits and the like.

Here is one of my favorites that my pal Abe and I filmed back in '04 or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbZ4ukFb5M

And if you don't know what the Big Show was... man, where you been?

Man, I used to love blogging. I wonder if I just ran out of things to say. Or whether I just got too busy. I'm betting it is the latter.

Well, it is friday night (7:30) and I am still at work. Not really a fun friday night, but being employed is awesome.

It's been a weird week. I've had this song stuck on play in my head all day.
DJ Steve Porter - "Press Hop" featuring A. Iverson featuring Mora, Green, Namath, Gundy & T O

It's Not Easy Going Green

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12597475?IADID

So I am upset with Lt. Governor Herbert again. The Guv-to-be recently spoke out at the recent Western Governor's Association meeting against climate change and environmental responsibility. Don't get me wrong, I am not a hemp-wearing tree-hugger. And those Toyota Prius commercials with the children dressed up as flowers and grasslands and clouds make me infuriated. But there need to be a some common ground here.

The biggest issue I have with the new green movement is the fact that they are making the movement their own. It is taking care of the environment mixed with a hip, young lifestyle. The right wing naturally takes issue with the naive, dirty hippies as being druggies or nature-worshipers.

These are extremes, but the extremes what get the public attention. Naturally, everyone quickly takes their sides on the environment. This is where it all goes wrong.

Care of the environment is a moral obligation, not a political peculiarity. I don't care if Lt. Governor Herbert or anyone else believes or doesn't believe in global warming or man-made environmental change. Real or fiction shouldn't be the point. This is side-stepping the issue of treating the planet responsibly.

The Gov should follow the example of his predessor, Territorial Governor Brigham Young. He taught, "Let me love the world as He (God) loves it, to make it beautiful, and to glorify the name of my Father in heaven. It does not matter whether I or anybody else owns it, if we only work to beautify it and make it glorious, it is all right".