Arrr! See CONTENTS for links to the 125 chapters of The Monstaville Memoirs plus introductions, conclusions, postscripts and appendices. This treasure trove also includes a collection of articles offering further insights into the themes explored in the trilogy. Namely, managing suffering and conflict (dealing with hostile people if you are nervous, sensitive or shy) and learning not to react
Stan & Ollie have set up their own electrical repair store. Unfortunately, for them, the grocery store opposite is run by a mean little man and his charming wife.
Be Big
Directed by James W. Horne, 1931
"On their way to the train station with their wives for a vacation in Atlantic City, Stanley and Oliver get a phone call from a fellow lodge member who tells them a surprise stag party in their honour is being held that evening. Oliver feigns illness to get out of the trip, and the wives head off to the train station by themselves. Stanley's attempts to help Oliver get into his lodge uniform turn into a series of disasters. Meanwhile, the wives miss the last train and, returning to discover the deception, come after their husbands with shotguns." — Paul Penna (IMDb).
Excerpt from a workshop by Abraham channelled through Esther
Hicks (www.abraham-hicks.com).
Attend to your vibration first and foremost, counsels
Abraham. Not your problem-solving intellect.
“Release resistance. The basis of your life is freedom. Your
quest is joy. And the result will be eternal expansion. But your quest must be
for joy. That’s the answer to every question you ask. Strange we take so long. Could
have saved you a lot of time, money. What’s the question? Get happy. What’s the
question? Get happy. Find a way to get happy. How can I have a better-feeling
body? Get happy. How can I find more clarity? Get happy. How will I find the
answers to all my questions? Get happy. How will I allow the metabolism of my
body to be at its best? Get happy. How will I live happily ever after? Get
happy. How will I – how will I endure the injustice of this person I live with
or this thing that I’m seeing? We say, well, that’s where you have to ask the
question: Can I be happy and look at that? And the answer’s no. In other words,
you have to finally accept that you just can’t look at things that make you
unhappy and be happy.
And that’s the thing. People have been trying the impossible
for so long. I’ll just look at this thing that opposes everything for so long,
that opposes who I was before I was born and opposes that which I’ve become
since I got here. I’ll just ask the universe: Let me please be the one
exception and I’ll look at this thing that I do not want and I’ll ask to be
happy. And we say –or clear, or healthy or prosperous – you just can’t do it.
You have to look in the direction of what you want. And, the more you do it,
the easier it is. And the easier it is the more you do it. And, the more you do
it, the easier it is. And, the easier it is, the more you do it. Until, before
you know it, you’re offering a vibration where only wellbeing flows to you.
And others are looking at you from the outside and they say,
‘How is it that you live like this? It seems that whatever you ask for comes to
you easily.’ And you say, ‘I got happy. And they say, ‘In this awful world?
Under these awful conditions? And you say, ‘Oh. I know there are little pockets
of that. But I looked for pockets of happy. And I discovered there are many,
many, many, many, many, many, many more evidences of well-being than not. I don’t
know how I got oriented to thinking it was the other way. Maybe because I was
trying to fix things that are broken. Maybe because, as humans, we are
solution-oriented. But, we want you to know the solution to every problem lies in
the vibrational relief and letting go of resistance.
So, whatever it takes. If it takes petting your cat, if it
takes cooing with your baby, if it takes making love, if it takes eating
something good, if it takes going to a spa, if it takes sitting on top of a
mountain looking down at a beautiful lake, a drive in the country, listening to
beautiful music, anything that you can do to distract yourself from the things
that make you feel bad, will cause an increasing improvement in your vibration
gap, which is an increasing improvement in your vibrational alignment with
Source and who you are, which is the recipe for the creation, and the full
receiving, of all things wanted.”
Get Lucky
Happy
[Verse 1:]
It might seem crazy what I'm about to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don't care, baby, by the way
Uh
[Chorus:]
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
[Verse 2:]
Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back, yeah,
Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah,
No offense to you, don't waste your time
Here's why
[Chorus]
Hey
Go
Uh
[Bridge:]
(Happy)
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
My level's too high
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
I said (let me tell you now)
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
My level's too high
Bring me down
Can't nothing
Bring me down
I said
[Chorus 2x]
Hey
Go
Uh
(Happy) [repeats]
Bring me down... can't nothing...
Bring me down... my level's too high...
Bring me down... can't nothing...
Bring me down, I said (let me tell you now)
As a reward for accidentally capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarship to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.
Storyline
"With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. There they become victims of student pranks, getting lost in the Maze and taking over the Dean's quarters as their own. But then a knock on the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire. Suddenly erudite and supercilious, he retains Oliver as his valet, 'Fatty.'" [Written by Paul Penna, IMDb].
