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A day of meetings/meetings/meetings, but meanwhile, my latest Young & Restless Report Card is up on super soap site Soaps.com – check out who made the grade!
Summer may be dwindling, but it’s not too late to introduce you to my swell new drinking game! I call it “The Little Nikker,” and playing’s easy: When Nikki Newman doesn’t know she’s drinking, you drink too! (Caveat: Do keep a designated driver handy. Anyone but Sean “Meggie” Young.) Click here to read more!
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Happy Monday!
Catching up with the mailbag, I came across this lovely note about an interview I did with the one-and-only Carol Channing on my former radio show:
Shaun – An endearing, utterly beguiling interview with a legend. You handled it with such aplomb and skill and it was obvious Carol adored chatting with you. I brought carol to NH in 2007 and again in 2008 to do a couple of AIDS benefits and her interactions with those infected and affected was amazing. Your interview style is delightful and you captured the Carol I have been privileged to know for many years. Bravo!!! Sincerely, Paul Brogan
Thanks Paul! If you never caught the kooky convo, check it out below – and keep scrolling down to find out which Y&R legend thinks pot should be legalized!
And which star of Y&R thinks marijuana should be legalized? Puffa-puffa!
I'd Drink That!
So you can imagine my surprise when I reached into our bar the other day, pulled out a bottle of Malibu (right?) and saw mah face in caricature drawn on the side. Well, HELLO! *
And next to me on that booze bottle is none other than my radio partner-in-crime, Kitten Mark Wigmore:
Kitty-Kitty!
His hair could have been a lot wilder, but anyway, I don’t recall ever receiving this Malibu-as-art, and while you’d think I’d have noticed, probably I was just overwhelmed the way I do tend to be when free booze flows. Here’s what else I’m loving as we travel along another fine Friday!
My ability to bounce back fast.
Law of Attraction 101 coming your way October 16 here in Toronto. What I’ve learned that’s changed my life, practical processes that have helped me, and Q&A time. More details to come!
* Whatever comes out of Deven Green’s mouth. “I read porn to the blind“? Seriously? HA!
And I know I told you this last week, but I don’t think you heard me: KELIS’ Fleshtone is joyful strut-down-the-runway-while-no- one-is-looking disco. I’m horse-walking to it as you read this! Pour some in your ears!
Law of Attraction: If you desire something it won’t make it to you if you have resistance on that subject. You create your own walls with your own thinking, ie: making big fat deals over the very subject you want an improved version of. One way of releasing resistance is … surprise … to be able to laugh about it. Jack, our 10-year-old long-haired Dachshund, in his on-going quest to dominate our entire family, has taken to pulling-pulling-pulling from behind when we’re out walking him. It started when we got Ella two years ago. He’s decided he’ll show US who’s in charge when we’re walking by pulling back – literally digging his heels in even so you have to DRAG him, thereby controlling the walk. It’s really fun. Seriously, it’s infuriating to both Eddie and I to the point where we don’t even enjoy taking him out and I fantasize about throwing him like a football into traffic when he does it.
Until, that is, Eddie recently announced while we were out on a walk with the dogs and IT was happening AGAIN: “This is like dragging a dead baby around.”
Well. Slap my ass and call me Sally, the image this conjured as we walked the downtown core hand-in-hand (dragging a dead baby?) nearly had me fall over laughing. Now that’s our go-to when Jack pulls back, and it has totally melted the resistance (anger, impatience, frustration) I had over this. The only catch? Now Jack barely pulls. Which is kind of a drag, because those were healthy belly-laughs I was having on crowded streets; I’ll miss them.
When you know what you don’t want, you know what you do want. Sometimes having a good laugh about the fucker that caused you to know what you want is all it takes to get it.
Reunited And It Feels So Good : >
Chatty day! I was a guest* on Maritime Morning before my espresso had barely been downed, commenting on the Tanya Bloomfield story.
Next up, I was honoured to be the first guest* profiled on the new show FoQus, hosted by my pal Deb Pearce. How I went from Bay Street boy to media man, plus: Coming out to Mum! Deb’s show debuts on Rogers TV in October, and watch for her on upcoming episodes of BUMP! on OUTtv!
* Plugging the show.
Hey, so we’re adding a commentary element to The Shaun Proulx Show on OUTtv, based on my popular daily “4:20″ commentaries I used to give every day at … 4:20 … on my former radio programme. Leafing through old scripts I wrote, I came across the one below from April, 2009. It’s in keeping with my earlier post featuring recent video of Toronto neighbours in confrontation with local door-to-door evangelicals. xS
And now a word on Jesus.
So a long weekend approaches, we’re off because Jesus died and was resurrected about this time a while back.
God, Jesus has caused a lot of strife, hasn’t he? I mean, the faith founded in his name still wrestles with the ultimate question of Who He Is. During his lifetime his followers had differing answers and after his death it took more than 300 years of violent contention and suppression before even the murkiest answers emerged.
I’m sure he didn’t mean for all this when he came to us in that manger way back, that star in the sky blinding him like a disco ball.
But, even today, the Christian right sure like to use the poor bugger as they perform their most un-Jesus like acts, trying to stop people from loving people.
Understandably, too, these days people are turning their backs on Jesus in record numbers.
Then there’s those of us who take his name in vain far more frequently than probably HE would appreciate, and did I mention a fair number of wars seem to have been caused in His name?
But throughout recorded history, people have always had spiritual needs. We have a need for a basic understanding of life. We have a need for a sense of meaning, and purpose. We have a need to feel connected to something greater than ourselves.
As we celebrate Easter, be it on the dance floor, or by hunting chocolate eggs in the most unusual of hiding spots, or attending Church to praise Him, wouldn’t it be nice if we could all take pause and remember one little thing?
Jesus said LOVE, bitches!
Spotted On A Dog Walk: I Wonder What This Was All For?
Yippie-Ky! Did this week fly, or what? Here’s the Love List on this summer Friday morning – have a great weekend!
Far be it for me to be nepotistic, but my fiancee Eddie posted such a funny on his porn blog this week I thought I’d share. (Repeat: porn blog, so if you don’t dig gay guys naked, don’t visit, just trust me it was funny.)
Kelis. Fleshtone. Euro future disco with a Donna Summer twist – the whole album puts you at 2pm in your favourite club when it’s all kicked in and all you want to do is move. Friggen amazing release.
Head Case Season 2. I mentioned way back how much I loved Oprah’s pal Alexandra Wentworth as the narcissistic $750/hr celebrity shrink in a show where celebs guest, playing themselves. Season 2 is now out on DVD and in most episodes I’m laughing from beginning to end. The first episode with Macy Gray in love with Barrack Obama is hilare.
In her awesome blog, White Hot Truth, Vancouver’s Danielle LaPorte handed out Permission Slips to all of us to live our lives the way we want to. I especially love the final permission, and you’ll never guess who supplied it
Law Of Attraction. Speaking of Danielle, ages ago she wrote wisdom about Lady Gaga’s swift rise and the idea of believing how rapidly your own personal success can rush into your life. That post stuck with me, left me, but stuck with me mostly. These days it’s been on my mind a lot, relating to one of the common obstacles in utilizing LoA, that people look at what they desire, noting that it hasn’t yet arrived, which then only holds the desire away (the awareness it’s not here yet).
Recently I flipped through the Vanity Fair with Lady Gaga as its cover. The photography was stunning; Gaga has risen even further since LaPorte’s post. And then yesterday I was hit by a realization. If Gaga had desired what she has achieved, she not only had to KNOW it was coming, but she MUST have felt ALSO a huge amount of exhileration in the anticipation of it all, from sold out concerts, to Vanity Fair covers. Which is a far closer vibrational match to what is is she wanted. There’s knowing, then there’s knowing and being in joy from the knowing. She must have reached that, to have all her success so fast.
The point is, LoA teachings talk about knowing (believing, trusting), and I feel I have that down pat. But what about the next level, the deep understanding that if you KNOW something is coming your way, truly believe it, trust it, then it only follows that you HAVE to be INCREDIBLY EXCITED that it’s coming. Right? If I told you I was giving you $1 million next Friday, and you believed and trusted that, you’d spend the next seven days flipping out, talking about it, planning on spending it, telling people. You’d be ecstatic, joyful, ALIVE.
And so yesterday, my head swirling from getting it as I wrote in my daily journal, my writings took on a new life. I didn’t write from a place of simply knowing, I wrote from knowing and from ELATION and THRILL at what’s on its way to me. And I’ve been milking those feelings every chance I get, to achieve true alignment with what it is I desire. I’m 100% positive Lady Gaga works in that same energy. It’s not vibrationally possible for her to have achieved what she has so rapidly – from the release of her first EP and when I was one of the first to interview her, to where she’s at now – without being in that kind of alignment.
I know the gays are livid with Walmart (understandably) right now, but it was still fun this week to see my nephew in their back-to-school flyer. He’s on the left, said the proud uncle:
And The Last Word goes to … Abraham! ‘The only reason it is not coming to you is because of the vibrational contradictions located within you. It has not got anything to do with whether you work or don’t work. It’s all about the story you are telling and the way you feel when you tell it.”
