You can't rush reality
Teen Fakes Pregnancy and Kills It
Apr 23rd
Check out this brave little social experiment by Gaby Rodriguez, a senior at a south-central Washington high school who faked being pregnancy for the past six months as her senior project, just to see how people would react.
Gaby Rodriguez’s planned lies seem pioneering kind of move in the realm of social consciousness. Is it real? Is it fake? Is it true? Gaby Rodriguez lied to show everybody else the truth of their own conditioned experiences. We are on high alert for liars, but this has led us to a polarizing and paralyzed place. When we think things must fit neatly into a category of “real” and “fake,” we cut ourselves off from some of the most important connections and insights. Perhaps it is time for a new moral on lying. Fabrications with the intention of revealing truth ought to be embraced and celebrated and honored–they are killin’ it in a very real way!
Winklevoss≠Ninckelvoss
Apr 12th
Yesterday a court ruled that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cannot sue Facebook for additional money over claims that company founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. Fair ruling for sure, but if the judge were really killin’ it he’d have found a way to make the twins RETURN the original $65 million dollar settlement. Zuckerberg has always said that he’d done nothing wrong and that the Winklevoss claims were completely bogus. If ideas are a dime a dozen, a ni(n)ckel(voss) will get you six great “great” ideas – which, by the way, is as many as you’d need in six lifetimes. If you’re in the business of killin’ it, you take talent and ideas and make them into something tangible for people to benefit from. If you don’t have what it takes to make something out of a good idea, it’s perhaps better you never had it in the first place. I bet if Mark Zuckerberg had never started Facebook, Tyler and Cameron would be blaming someone else for their failed venture. Without the essential go-and-get-it juice, talent and ideas become curses that will be a thorn in your side. If your lamenting the fact that you can’t get anywhere with your tons of good ideas, then by all means lighten your load! Killin’ It!
Killin’ It With Opium
Apr 7th
What maybe best defines Killin’ It in contrast to what else is out there in the movement/philosophy/guidance arena, is that Killin’ It does not attempt to distill meaning. With Killin It you’re not trying to boil down its essence into repeatable parts and mass producing it. Killin it is a placeholder only-a reference to something mystical and transcendent that we can all feel individually, but which could not be owned or codified.
I often think of what we’re all up against in our quest to be Killin It. It’s not so much the personal stumbles and defeats that would diminish our mojo, but the gigantic external forces which would prevent us from even finding the path that we might best walk. This video gives a very specific snapshot of one such area: an un-pc first hand accounting of just what opium can be and what it can be turned into. Notice how absent this voice is from the massive debate on drugs that has swamped our culture for decades. Yet how not dismissable it is.
One Legged Wrestler is Killin’ It!
Mar 20th
Anthony Robles is a one legged wrestler. Well he’s a one legged man, who wrestles. And he just won a collegiate national championship, which is of course inspirational. Anytime someone with ‘less’ than what the average person has accomplishes ‘more’ than what the average person does it brings a tear to the eye and a flush to the face.
But to focus on his lack of leg is to miss the point of what Roble’s recent case of Winning can tell us. See he’s a pretty good wrestler, leg or not. He finished in the top ten the last two years. So did nine other guys. But he wanted to stand on the podium. This is how he said he approached this year.
“I came into every match this season believing I could be a national champion. I started every match the same way, like this was the national championship and the other guy was the other national finalist.”
What a nugget he’s given us – a gift from the attention drawn to him (let’s face it, if he had two legs I would never hear of him, its the first time I’ve ever known the name of the collegiate wrestling champion). So often in life we treat the steps toward our goal as just that, steps. But if we approach each step as if it were the final act we endow it with and energy and purpose which changes the nature of the step.
When you wash the dishes, wash the dishes as if you were preparing the kitchen for the arrival of the Queen of England, or for your finest feast, or as if you were never going to wash them again. The point is we have imaginations capable of changing our actual experience. Take whatever steps you find painful or boring in life, and treat them like they are the national championship, in your own way.
Then you’ll find that nothing is in between you and Killin it!
A Couple Killin’ It Pieces from Fans
Mar 14th
Haven’t had a post up here in too long, it’s true. More Killin’ It with Paul Crik videos are coming and soon! In the meantime, please enjoy these two awesome bits from the fast expanding Killin’ It community. The first is an awesome collage of a family killin’ it together with a birthday pinata. The second is a song called Killin’ It (Inspired by, you guessed it: Killin’ It!) that was sent to me a few weeks ago from Andy Kratzenberg, composed and played by his band, Methra. I love getting these Killin’ Inspired works and welcome anything else anybody sends along. It’ll go up here as well! Keep on Killin’ It my friends!
Oh, and here are the Killin’ It lyrics…It’s a little hard to make out with your own ear, but they’re quite beautiful if you ask me!
I want to look beyond my own hands
To see further, than my eyes
I need to feel, at distance just, beyond reach
Killin’ It (x3)
I will grab, the reins
of my own, destiny
Killin’ It (x3)
Not to be outweighed, or outdone
by my own limitations
Killin’ It (x2)
I
Will
Kill
It
What do Eminem and Keith Olbermann Have in Common? Plus, New KI! Vid: How To Kill It When Your Aptitude Tests Suggest That You’re Borderline Retarded
Feb 14th
It’s not too often that an f-bomb slips by the censors during a primetime network television presentation. That’s why Eminem’s performance at the Grammys last night got me thinking about the comparative freedom of Internet/Satellite radio as compared to syndicated TV.
Another example of big TV’s heavy-handed control came a few weeks ago with the dismissal of Keith Olbermann from his wildly successful show, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” on MSNBC. Both Eminem and Olbermann appeal to people because of their rebelliousness toward their parents–i.e. the network/production bigwigs. They’re polarizing figures who people tend to either love or hate, which also makes them bonafied artists.
By contrast, Internet and satellite radio offers broadcasters endless freedom. For example, “The Jerk Box” is a radio show where a woman offers live sex talk to her callers and airs it live, for all subscribers to hear. There’s no meddling authority telling anyone to clean up their language, so the only judgement satellite broadcasters face is from society itself. I think that’s pretty much Killin’ It! After all, what’s more worthwhile, to rebel against your sophomore English teacher or the whole system of education? If the symbolic rebels of the TV era are left without enemies on the unregulated internet, the rebels we look to will have to be real ones, and might just end up being ourselves. Killin’ It!
When You’re Killin’ It, It’s not Size but Capacity That Matters!…Plus, New KI! Vid: Conquering “Ingrown Hairs”
Feb 12th
Has anyone tried drinking coffee from the new Starbucks Trenta sized cup? Rumor has it it can hold more liquid (31 ounces) then the human stomach, more wine an entire wine bottle, and probably enough milkshake to keep the boys coming to the yard weeks on end!-all in the same plastic type cup with a straw and lid to which we’ve grown accustomed. In the old quality versus quantity debate, it seems quality always wins out. But I propose exactly the opposite. After all, whats more killin it? to drink a refined glass poured from a fancy bottle, or fill up your recycled Trenta cup with your favorite boxed wine? With killin’ it, it’s not size, it’s not strength and it’s not refinement, but CAPACITY that matters. How much can you take in – happiness, adversity, love, hate, good luck, misfortune – is what’s really meaningful. Sometimes the body or the mind will say “that’s too much!” And you can only know what’s too much from past experience, so don’t let the past put limits on the future. Killin’ It!
Starbucks' new trenta-sized cup is bigger than the human stomach and can hold an entire bottle of wine.
Also today I have to share with you this Killin’ It video from Nick Beddington. I’ve been receiving a few videos made by fans of Killin’ it lately, and I’m LOVIN’ THEM. Please, if you have a notion to make a video about how you kill it, send it to me I’ll make sure it gets up on here. Nick is out making his own path in the pristine snow-covered terrain somewhere, I’m guessing, in Canada. He’s got his dogs with him and he’s about to kill it with an ice climb. Fantastic Nick! Thanks for sharing this. You’re killin’ it many times over!
Why You Should Apologize…and Often…If You Want to Kill It.
Feb 9th
The way I see it, if you’re not apologizing at least once a week something’s wrong. Unless you’re really isolated. For every point of contention there are two sides. If you multiply the number of contentious points about life (which range in the thousands for couples and countries, to even one or two for your average coffee order) times the number of people in the world and divide by two (the number of sides represented at one time), you’ll get that the average person is wrong 50% of the time.
So if you find yourself having hundreds of miscommunications, frustrations, or irriations in a row without apologizing? By the law of averages you probably should have thrown an “I’m sorry” out there when you didn’t.
Apologies are not signs of weakness in your self-belief; they are testaments to your belief in others.
Did Obama’s State of the Union Kill It or Not? Plus…New KI Vid: Finding The Back Door
Jan 26th
Last night’s state of the union address by Barack Obama has got a lot of people talking and tweeting. The president pulled out some tried and true topics that have now come to be cliches in political pep talks, such as more emphasis on education. “It’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair,” he said. Obama did alright, but if he really wanted to kill it, he would perhaps put more money where his mouth is. How about a law that teachers are required to make as much as lawyers? Or better yet, how about teachers-like brain surgeons- get prime access to the most cutting edge technologies. Best of all, to support teachers in their efforts, make it possible for every US citizen to be tested for a deficient brain, which they can have fixed by a medical facility free of charge!…before we bother to teach them! That’s killin’ it in its own fantastical way!
The bottom line is that in so many ways the education system from top to bottom needs a complete overhaul. Teachers aren’t paid much because collectively society doesn’t place much value in them. The effect of their service is somewhat abstract and unknown, especially when we see so many young people floundering in life. American society generally seems to have low trust in teachers. Where, after all, did that expression come from: “Those who can’t do, teach.” If you ask me, high schools and colleges might benefit from a few less offerings like “socio-gender-based-eco-politics” and a few more courses in plain “Killin’ It.” Sound ridiculous? Maybe, but it just might the beginning of that overhaul we need!
On a lighter note, Here’s something that’s positively killin’ it: The undereye black jail stripe ensemble sported by Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the Australian Open.
Gucci Mane Kills It With An Ice Cream Tattoo On The Cheek!..Plus new KI! Vid: Does The Language of “Killin’ It” Incite Violence?
Jan 14th
With all the public talk about the connection/non-connection between Sarah Palin’s militaristic political rhetoric and the recent shootings in Arizona, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, I got to thinking about my own rhetoric. Is “Killin’ It” violent? Or does the language of Killin’ It incite violence? Check out the new video to see my take on it!
Food on your face is usually not as good as food in your mouth, except if it happens to be permanent tattoo of ice-cream! A creative homage to his catchphrase “brrr,” rapper Gucci Mane’s tattoo is totally killin’ it. The full color three scoops should earn him a lick in the face, and NOT the violent kind. Killin’ It!
