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Spent an hour in my car, in a parking lot, listening to an interview with Steve Bhaerman a.k.a. Swami Beyondananda on a local public radio station. Made me smile many times. (Also lots of puns, though not ones that make you groan - they make you grin, instead.) He does live performances, and he's written a book, Duck Soup for the Soul and has a web page: http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/.
Based on what I've heard, I'll look for his books at the bookstore, and keep an eye out for his next performance in the Bay Area. He wrote another book titled Driving Your Own Karma: Swami Beyondananda's Tour Guide to Enlightenment and apparently another one that's out of print: When You See a Sacred Cow... Milk It for All It's Worth
He mentioned that there is a documentary called "Bringing Down a Dictator" about how a group a young people "used resourcefulness, theater, nonviolence and yes -- comedy -- to put an end to Slobodon Milosevich's tyrranical regime in Serbia without a shot being fired." First I've heard of this, but then I haven't made much of an effort to get non-USA-filtered news. It's available in video (probably VHS-NTSC videotape) at Bhaerman's products page.
He say's he's not anti-Republican, but that our current situation of a strong right-wing and a weak left-wing, means that we can't fly straight. He's heartened that the "silenced majority" is beginning to find its voice, and it's one that can laugh.
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