Giant Waves Captured in Super Slow-Mo

Best watched in HD and full screen. Enjoy the natural beauty!

Related Goodness:

• Aquarium Awesomeness
• The Moon...in Pictures
• Be Humbled by The Vastness of the Universe
• Need a Smile? Watch This....

*Hat tip to PetaPixel for the video tip.

Mad Men Casting Call 2011 - Vote For Me!

Have you seen Mad Men? It's my new favorite show now that it's streaming on Netflix. Great cast, great writing and the art direction is fantastic.

Because of that, I've entered to win a walk-on role on the show. Please, please, please (!) vote for me by September 9, 2011. It's easy - login with your Facebook, Twitter account or AMC account, then click vote!

> Vote for Christopher J. Morris here

Tell your friends too :)

Thanks so much dear reader!

Say Something Nice - Video

What a simple, profound idea. Hope it makes your day as much as it made mine!

Learn more about this Improv Everywhere mission here.

Related Sublime Goodness Posts:

• Grocery Store Musical - Video
• Guy Starts Dance Party - Music Festival Video
• The Sound of Music - A Surprise Public Performance in a Train Station

Inspirational Speech Given By Bike-Riding Kid

The ending is my favorite part:

PS - Sorry for letting this blog languish. I've been very busy lately.

Happy Holidays - A Potpourri of Goodness For You

It's a very LOLCat Christmas!

Seriously loyal readers, I feel genuinely bad about how little I've posted here. I'm a lot busier this year with my family, my band, work, freelance work, and everything else.

For the last month or so, I would see stories that I'd mark to post on this blog later...but later turned into later then later...and so forth.

So without further adieu, here are those stories. No fancy pictures, intros, or anything - just a potpourri of goodness for you to digest, smile and pass along to your friends.

Enjoy!

• Random Acts of Kindness Across the Country (video)
• Homeless Man Finds $3,300 Cash, Returns It (video)
  
• Couple Wins $11.2M Lottery, Then Gives It All Away (article)
• Down Syndrome Goes Viral, Thanks to a High School Touchdown (video/article)
• Blind man bowls a perfect game — and it's not a fluke (article)
• Driver thanks man who hit him on purpose (article)
• Reddit Funds Big Party at Toy Store for Dying Girl (video/article)
• Comedian Delivers 100,000 Compliments (article)

Now for my greatest hits for the curious. Like I did last year, here are the most popular Sublime Goodness posts of 2010 (ranked in order by page views from 1/1 to now):

1. Cute Things Falling Asleep
2. Funny Dog Videos
3. Gardening Helps Man Put Life Back Together
4. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" by Israel Kamakawiwo'le
5. Maru the Japanese Cat - Famous & Funny
6. Four-Year-Old Drummer Jonah Rocks
7. Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography
8. Are You Living Life to the Fullest?
9. Miracle on the Hudson - Chesley Sullenberger is My Hero
10. 5 Surprising Happiness Habits That Could Change Your Life

Yes, most of these made the list last year and all posts are well over a year old. Anyway, that's the power of search engine optimization I guess.

Also,, strange that "Funny Cat Videos" was #1 last year...and isn't even in the top 10 this year! Pprobably because looking at the original "Funny Cat" post tonight I noticed the video was removed from YouTube...I've re-added it tonight and will see who wins next year in the battle of funny cats vs. dogs!

"Waltz (Better Than Fine)" by Fiona Apple

I just realized that I haven't posted a Sunday Sublime song since February (!), so I am rectifying that today with a little ditty from 2005.

This overlooked gem by Fiona Apple has been on my mind recently as I just learned how to play it on the piano and I love the feel of it (actually most of the album it's on, "Extraordinary Machine," has much of the same vibe). It sounds like a Danny Elfman score or something...

Anyway, enjoy - just close your eyes and listen:



Have You Downloaded the Sublime Goodness Mixtape yet?

Miracle Mom

It's pretty rare that I read something in Parade from the Sunday newspaper worth sharing, but this story made me smile out loud. Enjoy:

When Stacy Wiparina told her family seven years ago that she was pregnant, of course they were excited.

"But then I was also kind of scared," says her mother, Patti Goodman. "Afraid for Stacy getting through a pregnancy, surviving a pregnancy."

Wiparina is tiny and fragile and always has been. She was born with a genetic disorder called Type II spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). She has never walked--she never even crawled as a baby--and she has used a motorized wheelchair since she was 7, when her arms grew too weak to push a manual chair. Because her bones have never borne weight, they are extremely brittle and easily broken. Her spine is twisted by scoliosis, and her lungs are weak and prone to infections. She spends at least a week each year in the hospital fighting pneumonia, and when she was 22 a respiratory infection kept her in a coma from Christmas until Valentine's Day. Her doctors expected her to die.

Carry a baby in that body?

"Everyone always worries about me--except me," Wiparina says. "I just knew things were going to work out."

And they did. Twice. Today, Wiparina, 36, and her husband, Rodney, have two healthy, rambunctious children--J.J., 6, and his sister, Sophie, 4--bounding around their backyard in Centerville, Ohio. "I knew I was going to be a mom," Wiparina says. "It's all I ever wanted."

> Read the full story at Parade.com