While Pink Floyd bandmates, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, may not be considered funny per se, millions of fans appreciate their duck, I mean, dark humor.
Duck Side of the Moon
My generation has a broad Pink Floyd lexicon, offering up lyrics quotations for a wide variety of situations (like the universal language of Monty Python but that’s another post). Traveling around Europe, I’ve seen this too – people who hardly speak English, respond to my tourista requests by singing, “We don’t need no education,” or, “the lunatic is on the grass” when I ask if they’ve seen my travel companion.
Recently, glass artist, Hans Schepker – http://glassgeometry.com/ – emailed me to ask if he could use my Duck Side of the Moon images for wallpaper. He had seen the designs at my Cafe Press shop, Duck Side of the Moon – www.cafepress.com/ducksidemoon – and explained, “Rubber ducks and Pink Floyd are two great joys in my life.”
Duck Cheney
Laughter makes us healthy. When we laugh, our arteries dilate and our blood pressure goes down. Laughter reduces stress and creates bonds with others. Being able to laugh at the curveballs that life inevitably throws us is hailed by life coaches as an essential tool for success. Anyone who lives life faces painful situations; it’s how we walk through them that determines our success.
As more of us smash our notions of what “life is supposed to be,” we free ourselves to live lives full of spontaneity, creativity, courage and the ability to do the right thing. We’re shifting into new ways of living and earning money. Spirits are lifted by the idea of shifting our economy toward providing service, healing the planet and managing our natural resources.
So maybe, with all the world has been through in the last 8 years, and with our sharpened sense of irony & humor, our dark night of the soul, looks a little more like this:
Duck Night of the Soul
Free Your Chi 