I Heart Michael Jackson

Franca Schulte — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:40:20 +0000

Well that didn’t take long at all. CrookedMonkey.com has already released t-shirts in memory of MJ and our love for the king. Kind of sad to think about it isn’t it? It always takes someone to die for them to be appreciated more than when they were alive. It was so easy to poke fun of him when he was a live and how weird he was, but as soon as something tragic happens, we aren’t laughing anymore are we.

T-shirt courtesy of Crooked Monkey

I think it’s great that we honor Michael Jackson, I just think we do it in the wrong ways. MJ’s music will always live on and we will always have his music, but that’s all we knew him for in the first place. It’s not like he was still producing music and coming out with new hits here and there. His music was finished and he had finished his peak time for his music. His biggest hits had already past and there was nothing that was going to exceed further.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy and turn on Thriller and i’m grooving…but I just think sometimes our world is pretty poor when it comes to attention, who gets it and when. We decide based on when the media tells us. They bring out the stories, they decide what stories are bigger than others and based on the publicity, we follow along.

I hope MJ rests in piece. Despite whatever we said about him in the past about his ‘bizzareness’, he will never be forgotten and his legend will forever live on.

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The One Thing Everyone’s Good At…

Franca Schulte — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:00:32 +0000

Napping. It’s something that you don’t have to be good at, or bad at, you don’t have to think about it, or make a big deal about it – you just do it! All those people out there that say they don’t nap or they don’t need naps is bull. Everyone loves a good nap and whether you think you need it or not, they are the most delightful thing in the world. Sleep is important. We almost spend about half of our lives sleeping – who says we don’t need it. A lot of people seem to think it is unproductive and that it’s a waste of time but actually, it is the most precious. A lot more goes into sleeping that you think. We don’t just lay there and waste the seconds away, we actually live an entirely different world when we sleep.

T-shirt courtesy of Crooked Monkey

Okay, so napping isn’t so important that it could be your day job, but this t-shirt is pretty funny. I know everyone wishes it was one, and got paid to do it, but no, dream on. Some people do doze off during the middle of the day, but that’s different. The guy who sits to the left of me does it often. He doesn’t work during the mornings, then he has does this massive yawn where this sigh comes out high-to-low and then next thing I know? His head is down on his desk. He comes up for air a little while later, and then his working day starts. That might work for him, but for me, napping is only fun when you prepare yourself to do it. You make it a big deal, and you set aside time for it and actually do the whole ‘get ready for bed’ process. I get into my pj’s all over again! I gear myself up for it because that way once you crawl into bed, it’s actually like a reward.

There are many different kinds of naps. There is the cat nap where you literally only need to put your head down for 15 minutes and then wake up but feel completely refreshed and ready to go again. Then there are the naps where you doze off for about an hour, but wake up in a pool of slobber thinking you have been asleep for the past 10 hours. Those are the ones where you have completely removed yourself from the world and have no idea where you are anymore. Those ones take you a while to get back into reality. You walk around and everything just seems to be so slow. That’s what I call a little ‘over-rested’. Then there are the annoying naps, where you only have a certain amount of time because you have something else to do but you can’t fall asleep for the life of you. You toss, and you turn, and then you start thinking about what it is you have to do when you wake up so you can’t sleep still, and now you are just mad at yourself because you are wasting your precious nap time thinking about what you have to do after your nap! I hate those.

Whatever nap it is that you have, napping is good and don’t let anyone tell you differently. They are an important part of our life. Learn to embrace them and treat them like they do to you. Just don’t be the guy who sits to the left of me…

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I Heart Michael Jackson

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