Awesome Sauce Goes Viral.

The good kind of viral, though.

Ok. I'm not viral. Not yet. But its only a matter of time really. It's what the internet does with cool shit. And I am fairly cool shit, so I am sure we will be ontop very soon. And by we I mean me.

The problem you have is that you always try to find a problem. You try to find something to make a law about or pass judgement because of. But Me? I'm not like you. I am compassionate more than you. I know what the truth is more than you. I have the market cornered on awesome.

Why would that be a bad thing? What do you mean I sound like a jerk? You're the jerk! Calling names like that, you pansy. Why don't you just tell me what you are so bothered by!

So now I can't believe in myself? Is that what America has come to?

Oh. So its the fact that I am belittling others and sitting on my high horse thumping my favorite philosophy. Well. To Hell with you! I am me. I can't change that.

What do you mean its a choice? I can't well and good start pretending I am not going viral. That would be absurd! I am certainly going viral right this instant.

Why does it not say I am going viral?

Well. It's definitely the media. They try to avoid talking about me and they always mention the bad things that I do. They're out to get me. No. Wait. They're out to get you! So we should team up against them!

What do you mean they don't give a flying swiss about me or my videos?! How dare you treat me that way! I demand to be heard and I demand that my rights be served. You hurt my feelings.

What do you mean that's what I was doing to? You started it!

What do you mean I started it? I did not!

Oh so what you're just gonna go walk away and not say anything to me then? Yes you do have things to say.

You hurt because of me?

I...

...no... You're right. Hurting other people is wrong. Can we just get along? Can we just be awesome together?

Awesome.


------- Maybe we could all just get along instead of trying to be number 1 all the time?

That'd be awesome.

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Found this to be cool today too:
Cancer Oct 20 2012 There are certain people who have not made their dreams come true or haven't met their financial goals, and some of them will look down on those who have. They are jealous and resentful, and they probably want to know why those "others" have made it when they have not. And that's probably a big part of the reason. When we resent those who have what we want, we create a dark space in our hearts. But when we admire those who have done what we want to do, and we study them to see how to do it, we are that much ahead of the game. You are not washed up. You have an excellent chance of attaining what you desire if you kept the right mindset. -- Copyright © DailyHoroscope. Download it now — http://bit.ly/DHmobile

The spark that set the blaze

This will be the first blog that I write entirely from my phone. I don't like the idea much because my thumbs are definitely the clumsy cousins.

I wonder if that has to do with my PC gamer background. Give me a trigger on a joystick or the smooth curves of a mouse and I can play whatever game you want. Damn that sounds like I'm coming onto you. Which I'm not. Unless I am. There's really no set way I have to let you know. It's one of my things.

Anyway. When the console generation came on the scene I was still completely lost in games like command & conquer, homeworld, the Jedi knight games, civilization, unreal tournament and of course a healthy dose "Mixed up Mother Goose" still echoing inside my skull.

So by the time I was jumping into Halo combat evolved I had no idea how to use my thumb to do all the work. I had always had a full keyboard. Everything had it's own button.
And that makes it hard for me to type. Or at least I think it does. Now that I am actually doing it though it seems pretty easy. Sweet deal.

Which brings me to my main point (I know, that was a shitty and unnecessary lead in, and I am sure many of you didn't make it this far, but that's cool too.) My main point being: I need to start already!
I have spent all this freaking time building the site and trying to figure out what my plan is and here I am standing on the edge of the abyss.

I'm being a wuss. Trying to plan too much. I need to jump and just start already. Like posting a blog from my phone.

You can't do it better without doing it the first time.

That seems like an awesome place to end this one.

Were I to have an audience I would ask these things: How many of you suffer from the same cold feet with projects of passion? Do you blog from a phone or a computer and why?  Why in the hell did you sit here and read this?
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For those interested, here is todays horoscope for my crabbed rabbit self.
Cancer Oct 8 2012 Someone may be telling you that a certain important goal of yours is far too lofty. This person can come up with a list of perhaps dozens of reasons why a plan or a dream won't work out for you. Because the source of criticism may be a smart and reliable person, and because this person only wants the best for you, you may find yourself taking him or her too seriously. You are the only one who can dictate your own fate. If you believe that a big dream of yours is possible, Moonchild, then it is absolutely possible. Think positive, and tune out anyone who doesn't believe. -- Copyright © DailyHoroscope. Download it now — http://bit.ly/DHmobile

Not Looking Back In Regret

Remember what I said about putting one foot in front of the other?

Well its also important not to look back in regret. Because lets face the facts: we are all human, and we aren't going to make it look good all the time. So because of a combination between my day job and some issues in coding the website, I have fallen alarmingly off my proposed plan or schedule.

But that's ok. Because life happens sometimes. No need to beat yourself up over it. Look back in order to realize your mistakes and change yourself to be better able for the future, but don't look back in regret. You don't have time for regret.

Every moment where you are spending your life on regret is a moment you are losing and will only regret in the future. Stop the cycle today and do not let yourself regret the past. Only actualize the future. Figure out what is best for you and be awesome.

For me, this means not beating myself up over not making cartoons on time or writing my new story and posting it. But Life Happens, and it will be ok.

Just keep taking steps forward, no matter how many times you were pushed back, and you will always get somewhere. Humans are capable of learning so much and the universe is always trying to give so much that we can always make some progress. Something is better than nothing, right?

But you say that's just positive thinking

And if you are a product of what you think, then think more get more.

If we all just stopped regretting what we could/should/would have done and just started thinking about what we can/shall/will do we would be half way toward our goals and proud of the time we spent on it.

I am saying this not because it is easy for me, or because I have the answer to this problem of letting go of regret, I am merely sharing with you a revelation, and hoping that you can benefit from it too.

Peace be with you, Cosmical Rabbit.

One foot in front of the other

I must admit that I have never been a blogger before. Nor the OpenJournal sort of person from yesteryear. I am doing this to track my progress, to give a public record of my journey because I think there is something very fundamentally important to what I am doing: you can too.

Yeah, you. You're the reason this is existing right now, because otherwise I would be throwing up sewage into the internet for the sake of my own amusement. Which, I will admit, is another reason to do something like this. But that's just the thing right there:

We should all be doing something that we love.

My website is a headache. Coding CSS and PHP is like playing with a rubix cube that you break every ten minutes. It's not easy, and it can be infuriating at times. But I love doing it. It's Logic. It's problem solving. It's language. It's expression. I love making this for people to check out and it would be cool if someone were to click a button and give me some digital cultural credit to work with.

So the reason I am typing this Moon Blog is really I just want to include you in what I am doing. But moreso, I want to empower you to do something for you. Stop waiting for your life to take you to where you want to go. Just start now. You may have to start small, you might have to start without knowing what it is that you want to accomplish. You might have to start without being ready. But starting is half the battle.

Look at me (ok. You can stop now.). I have only a basic idea of what I want to be doing and how I want to do it: I want to entertain. I want to share in the joy of the whole world. I want to be awesome and encourage other people to be awesome too.

I don't have any answers to questions of tomorrow, but I can say this: I am creating again. I am working on my writing and I am building something in this digital space before me, and that fills me with pride and with joy as I feel my mind growing. I want you to grow too. I want you to find what makes you happy and find a way to make it part of your life.

This is me, Cosmical Rabbit, trying to make my passions a part of mine.

The Plan

So I don't exactly know when I was planning on starting this little regiment I have put myself to, but here it goes.  Oh! Hello there. You stumbled in while I was in the middle of a thought. I suppose I should provide some sort of introduction to all this so that you don't feel too confused.

I have a plan: go. Every day of the week I will try to accomplish a goal.

Blog Monday.
Cartoon Tuesday.
Story Wednesday.
7vid Thursday.
Poem Friday.
Weekends off, because I am only human.

So. As I was saying before you came in, I don't know if I am ready. I don't know if I am ready to start this all off. I work a lot. Like. A lot. More than is probably reasonable. So my spare time is precious, and I have been so focused on getting the website running I haven't had much time for anything else.

What if I can't do this now? Why am I doing this now?

Wait just a damn minute. I'm Awesome. And what better time than now? Why do we all wait so long to do the things we want? Why do we try to focus on some "perfect time" to start a new way of living or a new endeavor? Why can't we just start by doing what we think is awesome and living that right away?

Do we really need time to get ready to be awesome? The only way for us to know our limits is to test them. The only way we can grow is if we put our plans into action. Plans are merely educated guesses, built from knowledge of the content and predictions of the outcomes. We are learning and planning all day long, but few of our plans seem to stick.

They don't stick because we don't stick to them. I am out to stick to this one.

That said, the plan (aforementioned)* is subject to change and I will not try to say that I will complete each day's goal religiously without any interruption, because lets face it: life tends to be a jealous little b!tch when it comes to a good plan, so I will say this instead: I will always be working to be as on track as possible in this plan.

So. Today's in the bag. Now I better start thinking of a good cartoon idea. Thanks for reading, have an awesome week.


* Truth time: I just wanted to use that word somehow.



Cancer Aug 20 2012 If, two hundred years ago, someone had said that we'd one day fly to the moon - most people would have thought that person to be crazy. Yet today we have the capability to rocket to the moon. There is something you aspire to, Moonchild. It is a very big dream. You want it to come true, but you're hampered by thoughts - thoughts of your own and comments made by others - that it just isn't possible. You may think you don't have the resources, or that you're too old, or that you're too young, or any of a hundred other excuses. But you can have what you want. You aren't crazy - you're a visionary for your own future. -- Copyright © DailyHoroscope. Download it now — http://bit.ly/DHmobile

Be Awesome

I have always thought (or: been told) that I needed to do something more. You know what I'm getting at, so I am not going to get all mushy and use words that will excite your emotions. No, I'd rather just get to where metal meets meat: I wanted to be awesome.
But don't we all? And, can't we all? After everything else melts away, we just want to be awesome. We find new ways to measure (or: monetize) what our idea of "awesome" is, and often, our society contributes a majority (or: all) of what we think of as "awesome."

But, as we grow (or: oh, how they grow up so fast!) learn new things about our universe, and we inevitably find something that we know to be awesome that our society does not yet fully agree with.

So there you are (being you). You are awesome already. You are a part of the universe and thinking one at that. But even though you are already awesome, I bet you are always told to be the next X (or get the next Y (or feel the next Z)). Which, if those are your things, go get 'em bro/babe! But if they aren't, that's o.k. too.

That last part is what is missing most of the time in our heavily socialized culture.

Do you. Just Be Awesome.

That's the reason why I wanted to start this whole thing. I wanted to start it so I could say that to you. So that I could say it to myself. I am just like you. I am a skeptic. I always think things could be bullshit, and I always assume that things will fail, so for me to believe that I myself was Awesome, that was not making it through the filters (or: grinders, crushers and armed tripods that talk nicely).

But I figured it out. I finally learned that you just Be Awesome. For me, being awesome comes down to a few simple things (note: this one is mine, find your own!) work hard, play often, think deeply, help others, carry conversation, allow debate, act with love, protect the innocent, cooperate equally.

So this blog and this website, this youtube channel, this Twitter are all a part of me being awesome.

This is my way. Now find your own, and walk beside me if you wish.

I am saying it to you (you blog reader, you!), to the internet (an ocean of madness and beauty), to my beloved country, to my loving world, to my spinning cosmos:

Be Awesome. #beawesome

@CosmicalRabbit