Patrick borrows Gwen’s social skills to deal with some chromosone challenged wallflowers.  A good time is had by all.

Links mentioned:

• An article about how being able to read faces is key for social interaction.

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly trailer.  Skip the movie read the book!

Books mentioned:

• If you don’t want to read the whole book, here is a low-fi summary of Dale Carnegies principles from How to Win Friends and Influence People.

• The ubiquitous Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui.

Hey did you hear about that terrible thing happening in that far-away place that you know nothing about and can have no impact on!?  You gotta get INVOLVED man!

Links mentioned: 

• Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, has no kokoro.

• But we like this song Cucurrucucu a lot.

• Gwen’s scathing post on the concept of Earth Hour.

• An article on how the internet is reducing our empathy.

Books mentioned:

• Anything by Pema Chodron.

(music used with permission by Peter John Ross)

To make up for the long absence due to Gwen’s technical difficulties, we went storytime bananas this episode.  Still working out the audio so the Elton John in Patrick is NOT satisfied with this quality.  But hey, it’s not like you paid for it… yet.  Also Patrick never gets around to divulging the secret of Zen in this episode.  Maybe over a beer sometime?

 Links mentioned:

• The Knoll Bertoia chairs Gwen almost scored for $40.

• The worst Price Is Right contestant ever. 

Books mentioned:

• Herb Cohen’s  You Can Negotiate Anything.