Hey, this friend was telling me a story, and I asked her to send it to me, so that I could share it with you guys. So, here it is:

Hey, this is Kansas. I’m a game designer, and unlike some slackers, I work for a living. lol.

Brand asked me to write this out, because he thinks it’s hellacool. I was at the spa the other day with the girls (I won’t say which spa unless they give me a free facial lol (:  ). They were all talking about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Looks like Angie bought a ring, and they were all arguing about whether this was too ballsy a move, or if Jen still had a chance with Brad. I wasn’t saying anything, so they started freaking out, saying, like, “Kansas, are you okay?” I just sat there for a second, watching the lady work on my nails, then I said, “I was reading this thing yesterday about these two tribes in Africa.”

Casey said, “Um, Okaaaaaaayyy. So what?” and I was like, “Well, there’s these two tribes, and one of them just decides to totally beat down the other one. I mean, it’s not racial, ‘cause, you know, they’re all black people. And they speak the same language, the same traditions, and everything. Just, one tribe decides to totally waste the other one.”

“And what I was reading said that they killed, like, 800,000 people in 100 days.”

Danielle wrinkled her nose, “Eeewww.”

“Yeah I know. So, I was thinking about that. You know that scene in Evita, where Madonna opens up the window, and there’s, like, a bunch of people outside, cheering?”

Casey said, “Oh, yeah. I loved that part, and she looks all proud, like she’s gonna cry, but she doesn’t.”

“Yeah. So I was thinking there’s probably, like, a hundred people outside the window, right?” Shrugs all around, so I say, “Okay, so that would mean, if you wanted to kill 800,000 people in 100 days, you’d have to kill everybody in that crowd eight times a day for, like three and a half months, right?”

Danielle says, “Jesus.”

“I know. That’s, like, so many people. And that didn’t happen in the dark ages or something. That was, like, in the mid-90’s. So you’d think there’d be an army or police or something, right?”

“Yeah”

“But the really weird thing, I mean, the really weird thing, is that I never heard about it. I mean, I didn’t see anything on the news or anything. Did you ever hear about it?”

Danielle said, “I don’t watch the news, it’s biased.”

“Yeah, but I mean, did you ever hear about it at all?”

They both said no. Then I said, “So if all those people can be getting killed, with no police or army to help them, and it could still happen today, why do you think I would give a fuck what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing?”

That shut them up.