This is just a taste of the successful one city, one song, 2006 world tour of the Xavier Torotolero Ensemble. As you can hear, the place was packed full with fans from all over the neighborhood. Some of them even came all the way from Avenida Revolución!
Say you are a very eager professor with a lot of time and money in your hands. Say you work in a random university (uh.. MIT?). Say your fame and fortune has tricked you into thinking you know more about the world than you do in reality. Say you understand computers like no other human being and, “just ‘cuz”, you build your dream machine: a $100 $188 dollar laptop that takes your breath away. Say you get the brilliant idea to make one billion of those babies just so, like you, a billion children around the world can be blessed and enlightened with your magnificent creation. There is just one problem: where do you get the children from? I know! from developing countries! of course! why didn’t I think of that? They just love having overdeveloped countries tell them how they should live their lives so they too can waste their resources!… heck! they’ll take anything we give them!
It has been already about 2 years since the last time I bought napkins. This was only possible after I realized that I didn’t really have to. Every time you buy a coffee, a muffin or a sandwich, without exception, you get WAY more napkins than you need! So, I got into the healthy habit of folding them nicely and putting them in my back pocket. Then, when I get home, I introduce the good old napkins in the kitchen covert to their new warm friends. Some call it tacky, but I prefer just plain smart! It’s a win-win situation:
If you were wondering what to do with your life, this is probably a good way to start. In fact, it also works if you just want to feel like you were a good person. After all, as the free hugs campaign claims: “you get what you give”, so… beware!, because I’m coming after you!