Several others in the blogosphere have posted about this. I love it. Here’s the first episode from season one. (They’re up to season three now.)

Meet Mr. Deity.

(Via Crackle)

Recently I auditioned for a film, “Why I Love Tulsa,” to be shot this summer here in, well, Tulsa. The audition video is posted on YouTube and I like it so I thought I’d share.

Enjoy.

I’m in a mood.

When you’re doing a scene time dilates. The five minutes I feel on the stage is more like one in the audience’s mind. Heightened awareness, mental acceleration from being in a tricky spot, all that stuff.

Sort of like time flying when you’re having fun.

We look up once and it’s March. We look up again and it’s May.

And from this comes a basic moral principle. Time is the most valuable thing a person has. It can be squandered. It can be managed. It can be stolen.

This is why, to pick one moral stance out of many, it is vital that we end the immoral drug war. The incarceration, the theft of time, from individuals who have harmed no one, so many non-violent offenders, is sickening to think about to those with a conscience and the will to perceive well.

If I believed there was another eternal life waiting for me I could waste all the time I wanted here in this life. I could allow others’ time to be wasted as well. If I believed I was subject to reincarnation the same would hold true.

That I do not believe these things makes me a more moral person. That I understand we only have so much time and then we are well and truly finished makes me examine my use of time more closely. It also allows me to think more compassionately about how other’s time is used.

The awareness that death is final brings with it the question of how I can help others escape wage-slavery. This, too, is a moral issue. Who wishes to be chained to a job which does not bring fulfillment? Which pays so little that one or two additional jobs must be found to fill the gap between what we need to survive and what we have right now? How evil: for an employer to look his employees and think, how little can I get away with paying these people? Evil, yes, because thinking like that steals time from those who are most responsible for the success of a given enterprise and without whom the boss’s business would not exist.

Stealing time is the greatest sin of all. That is, it is if you don’t believe in an afterlife. If you think there’s another life waiting, this one is pretty expendable. “Wait on the Lord,” “God’s timing” and all that. Adds up to a lot of unrecoverable time.

I looked at my blog today and saw it had been a little over a month since I last posted anything. I’ve been busy, doing stuff, hence time dilated and I failed to perceive it’s passing as well as I might have.

Time. We get it vicerally. It flows in one direction. We are carried along in it without prejudice or care. What we do while in the flow is our choice.