“Siddhartha! I thought I told you to mow the lawn!”
“Ohm… Ohm… Ohm…”
“Siddhartha!”
“Wha…? What?! Phyllis, I told you I was meditating!”
“What meditating? You were sleeping under that damn Bo tree again! I told you to mow the lawn!”
“Phyllis, my Angel of the Dawn, I was seeking an inner path to enlightenment!”
“Enlightenment my ass - you were taking another nap!”
“Honey, someday my meditations will be the foundation of the greatest religion the world has ever known!”
“Yeah, and some carpenter’s son will become King of the Jews - just mow the lawn, will you? My mother is coming over for a week or two and I want the place to look nice.”
[muttered] “My mother is coming over for a week or two… some carpenter’s son… I can’t work towards enlightenment while the steady breeze from her shrieking mouth batters at my peaceful contemplation. I yearn for a state of no wind… nirvana… Hey, that’s catchy. Nirvana - no wind. I should write that down… first, I’ll just shut my eyes for a moment…”
“Ohm… Ohm…”
“SIDDHARTHA!!!”
June 24th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I was going to weave more Buddhist concepts and imagery into the post, but ran out of time and rushed it a bit. I do love the idea that Siddhartha Gotama Buddha had a wife named “Phyllis”.
So, is this site dead or what? Did Mike and Josh get hit by a bus or something?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Hey Christopher, what say you and I set up the same site in a parallel universe and actually keep it running?
June 25th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Sounds good, Japes… although I’m practically a Luddite at websites. I still code in HTML, and I’m intimidated by CSS. If you just figure out how my chomps can equal Riley’s +1, then I’m good.
However, we’re being a little insensitive. Should we put out a “missing persons” on those two or something? Did they just get distracted by something shiny, or is it something worse? It’s like the site ran into a wall and just stopped dead.