best. photo. ever.

If you use the internets enough to read my website you’ve probably heard of Kiva.org.  In case you haven’t, people (mostly from Africa, but from all over) sign up for loans they need to start businesses or keep their businesses running.  It’s not charity–they pay you back, admittedly without interest.  But hey, for a lot of people, in their country, $100 goes a long way.

I have been meaning to loan some money on Kiva for a while.  In addition to getting your money back, I like the idea that you give the money to a specific PERSON.  It is hard to decide who though–there are many people on Kiva with valid business propositions.  However, when I found Yaa Bomo, I knew she was the one!  Yaa sells smoked fish in Ghana.  I love smoked fish above pretty much everything.  Go Yaa!

And I put it on my credit card, for which I get money back.  So I actually earned money lending Yaa money!

She still needs $350.00.  I know times are tough anywhere, but if you can, please try and help the people of Ghana enjoy smoked fish!  Or something else, I GUESS.

I love reality tv.  For the most part I do not defend it.  If you think it’s stupid and bad for America, good for you.  You’re so better than the rest of us who enjoy entertainment.  However, I beseech you to watch “I’m a Celebrity….Get Me Out of Here.”

First, Patty Blagoevich is on it and talks about her political scandal with her friends on the show in a way I think she’d never talk in an interview.  And she convinces everyone in camp that Rod is totally innocent.  In “civilization” you can get multiple news sources, but when you’re in the jungle there’s no other person to tell you what happened.  So why wouldn’t you believe the nice lady?

That’s the other thing.  I LIKE Patty.  She seems COOL.  She seems to BELIEVE Rod is actually innocent.  It’s amazing. She’s just extremely normal and honestly, it’s the best PR move ever.

What I also really enjoy about reality tv though is highly reflected in this show.  Two people have a conversation that is filmed. Then they talk about what happened and both of them have a COMPLETELY different view of what happened.  This helps me.  In conversations you always assume people are on the same page as you but they are so infrequently in the same mindset.

I know reality tv is not at all real, and situations are manufactured to increase this miscommunication.  But when Janice Dickinson talks to Stephen Baldwin you can tell 100% she’s thinking he’s being mean to her, when he’s actually trying to get her baptized for Jesus.

In fact it is the most Jesus-oriented show on television.  Jesus + the Jungle shouts Jonestown to me.