Tomorrow is International Monty Python day...

And I shall celebrate the best way I know how... I will post my 3 favorite Monty Python sketches. Now, some like Python for the absurdity (I know I do) and some like it for the absurdity (I'm not really one of them). But I like it because it's subversive. Subversive in the true meaning of the word... Subversion (be-eng toe-tah-lee ah-sum): a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a system of belief or political system by persons working secretly from within. What Python did wasn't just reorganize what comedy could be, they created a paradigm shift away from the norm and towards something bigger than the premise/punchline joke, while poking fun at the established system. I know, I probably put too much on it... But WTF? I've been drinking. I took my last final this morning and I'm already a few Modelo Especials into the evening... Here are my favorite sketches, the ones that puncture the pomposity of the people who presume to be perfect... Ah am soooo good at the alliterations...

Anyway, these aren't my only favorites, just the ones that make me hopeful for human kind...

Brian's followers... just don't get it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym-k5viJ7tA
This is what religion is like... If you don't agree, look to your own religion and follow the traces of the splits and reformations and awakenings and whatever. If you don't understand that people worship religion far more often than they worship their god... Then watch that clip until you get it.

Those were the days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

If you get this, you either despise the mentality or agree with the sentiment. Being gray around the temples and upset about the youth of today... Well, here's a quote...

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

That was attributed to Socrates by Plato. And our species is still around...
Hmm... I wonder if its just BS, this "kids today" thing...

The Birth of the Libertarian Movement...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso

I really don't think I need to say another fucking word...

Song of teh post: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Sketch I want played at my funeral of the post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWg5shNWR4