I self medicate with humor. I am a fan of Dave Barry and Gene Weingarten, but the daily bad news and the realization of what the First Noble Truth means doesn’t uh….neutralize (??) the humor I get once a week. I wanted something on a more regular basis.

I found plentymag’s podcasts on environmental humor to be quite hilarious! I liked the one on on Monsanto (which I needed after watching this documentary), carbon offsets, Chinese products, and water conservation.

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The name of this blog is also the name of a Frank Zappa album. So I think I need to put more Zappa references here. So here is a quote:

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.