You know those people that you just click with – the ones that make you feel great and are really cool that you want to be around?   Have you noticed I am one of them?  If not, we need to hang out more!  If you have noticed, this might be why…. I love to make new friends and I will tell you a secret: I haven’t always been good at it.  I had to learn what some people seem to do instinctively.  You are sitting there, reading this, hoping to get better at making friends, because you care.  So if you don’t know me well, we need to get together because you are the kind of person that wants to improve and have friends and that means you are similar to me.  If you are in Burley, Idaho stop into my office.  So, I know that sometimes you do or say stuff and embarrass yourself or come across as a complete dork.  It’s alright, I still like you… so nerd, here’s the word – a gift from me to you:

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So, if you haven’t read my post about being an A. Hull, read that first.  Warning: This post is incredibly immature, juvenile, and offensive to boring old prudes.  My brother Bryant is obviously a B. Hull.  Bryant shared this humorous (juvenile) video with me… It turns out Hardees restaurant was testing to see if people liked A or B.  And B won!

Well, people always like Bryant, so I think that is fair… then again I am extremely hygienic, so if we were baked goods I would likely taste better…

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• working on sending a newsletter out for mcsidekick.com saying we are moving from Wednesday to Thursday for our lunch group. Anyone invited! #
• Eating fried cheese curds with ranch dressing… nuggets of pure health from The Upper Crust in Burley #
• …is going on a date tonight with the female star of OVAC's Paint Your Wagon! YeeeeHaw! #

To truly appreciate this post you may want to read this out loud… and try not to laugh or I’ll cry.

I have never understood why so often, people are ashamed to reveal their middle name… I just don’t get it… After-all it is a part of who they are…

Me (Son of an A. Hull), Grandpa (made my Dad an A. Hull), My Dad (an A. Hull and A. Mann Hull) holding Hudson (Not an A. Hull)

Actually that is not true… So I rarely reveal my middle name, or use my middle initial… Why?  Because then I become Jason A. Hull.

You can imagine how much I love when my credit cards come in the mail and say Jason A. Hull instead of Jason Hull, or people read things out loud with that name on it.  My coolness levels skyrocket!

Luckily no one knew this in high school or my name would have been unofficially changed to A. Hull, against my will, and everyone would have told me that I was an A. Hull daily.  Anyhow, I have grown up a bit and am way more mature now (possibly untrue), so I actually sometimes use it to inject humor into meeting people and helping them remember my name.

Now some people may think I actually fit the name A. Hull and deserve to be called an A. Hull, to which my mature response is that it takes one to know one, and if you aren’t an A. Hull then you obviously do not know me well enough to be qualified to speak on the matter.  So there.

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Most of our audience members so far have had white hair and they have been great! I wanted to draw out the younger crowd because they are really missing out.  So younger crowd… what get’s you excited?

Interracial relationships, polygamy, saloon women, alcohol, a hanging, swearing, theft, racism, Mormons, Mexicans, minors, or gold, all await you in this wild-west musical that takes place in California during the Gold Rush. We have a fantastic cast, a wonderful set, and some great voices, including myself and my wife in lead roles.

The cast of OVAC's production of Paint Your Wagon in a goofy shot by Amy Nielson

I, Jason the super white-boy, am playing Julio the Mexican, you can read about how silly that is, here.  My wife, Ashley, plays my lover Jennifer.  This comment was posted on Facebook (click here to go to my Facebook page):

“You guys both did FREAKING AMAZING!!!!!! You guys rock!! I am totally going to have to come see the show again! =)”

Now you are convinced for sure!  Back to the show… There is a lot of humor… I guarantee you will laugh and musicals are way better as a date idea than a movie.  Musicals have magic!

Now if you have seen the movie Paint Your Wagon with Clint Eastwood, it is quite different in plot.  If you haven’t, rent it!  They are really two completely different shows and I really like both of them.  The musical version lacks a couple songs in the movie, but has most of the popular songs and some good ones that the movie left out.  Those of you that haven’t seen this show simply because it is older or because it is not Andrew Lloyd Webber’s are really missing out, it has some fantastic songs.

So, if you are local, are you amazingly excited and convinced to come see the show?  If so call 208-677-ARTS to get tickets because the shows are selling out.

Me, getting back to nature in my small town by the river... look at the natural instincts coming through... intense!

I recently moved from one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the world, West Los Angeles, to a small town of roughly 9,000, Burley, Idaho.  I grew up in a Southern California suburb, which is somewhere in between, so I have a good perspective of the differences and advantages of each.  Most of our friends thought we would hate it or go crazy, but we have really enjoyed it.  Read on to find out why!

Warning: Be careful reading this, you just might notice yourself imagining the wonderful life that small towns can bring and find yourself craving small-town living!

Small towns are easily compared to a placid pond with a smooth surface.  It is largely undisturbed, conservative, and slow to change.  Big cities are much like the ocean, lots of change, movement, and such.  Imagine if you threw a small pebble into a placid pond.  It would create some ripples and be quite noticeable.  If you threw a boulder into the ocean no one would even notice a change to the wavy waters found there.  This sums up the differences between the impact you have in small towns versus large cities.
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So I am in a musical right now and the men’s dressing room smells like a bucket of body-odor and onion soup.  It’s pretty nasty.  I however am not a contributor to the stench and figured I would share my secret.  In their defense performing is high stress and it gets hot on stage under those bright lights.  Now this is a rare find and it will be difficult to believe since you have been so heavily influenced by advertising and conspiring marketers to avoid something so simple and use some fatty, chemical, perfume-ish grease.  How great would it be to have super cheap deodorant, that outperformed anything out there, and it is natural, safe, and free of chemicals?

I dare you to drop the crappy-working stuff you currently use to keep your pits smelling fresh. You know your deodorant sucks right?  You actually start sweating and minutes later you smell like fresh cut onions sprinkled with garlic salt.  Why? Because your arm pits have turned into a bacteria fest amplified by sweat.  You are probably dying to know by now, but I don’t want to tell you yet because it is so simple that you might not try it.

I have tried the “natural” deodorants, the name brand junk, and nothing works better than this!

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My wife Ashley as Jennifer Rumson and myself as the Mexican Julio in "Paint Your Wagon"

I posted several times on Facebook  “Jason is pretending to be a Mexican named Julio Federico Juan Valenzuelo Valveras.”  Most people just thought I was just being goofy, but I actually have been pretending to be a Mexican named Julio Federico Valenzuelo Valveras in a local production of “Paint Your Wagon,” a musical that is set during the gold rush.  I thought I would share with you the challenge of a pasty white-boy in becoming Mexican.

Practically a Latino

Luckily I am highly qualified to play this part thanks to the two years of Spanish class I took in high school in which learned near fluency (ie. I know enough to get laughed at by a Spanish speaker and that is all).  This has allowed me to fake a Mexican Accent so well that a fellow cast member, and mother of real children, told me I sound just like Handy Manny, whom we can all assume is performed by a truly amazing, high quality native of Mexico.  I would say I sound a bit more like Antonio Banderas, but I failed to find anyone that would back me up on that statement.   Anyhow they picked me rather than a real Latino, which says a lot (unless you find out that no real Mexicans tried out for the role).

Familiar with Mexico’s Customs

Another qualification is that I have have helped several local Mexicans ship FedEx packages to Mexico.  Alright, so that one is a little weak you might be saying, well I bet I am more familiar with Mexico’s customs than you.  Not cultural customs, but the equally important imort and export customs.  For instance, did you know Mexico will not allow anything shipped that was made in China!  I’ll bet you didn’t… not even the Mexicans I serve know that. (more…)

The great author of this blog with died black hair and cool goatie (see my next blog entry).

I am great! Okay, I admit, it may or may not be true… and I agree that I may not be at the caliber of Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, etc.  Sure they were obviously great.  I also know you will use your power of judgment to decide, regardless of what I suggest, and that you likely assume most people are not great and doubt that this blog is great, but let me present an extremely persuasive argument.

So what could I write to convince you that 1) I am an amazing person, that 2) you really want to be friends with me, and that 3) you want to read every blog entry I write, subscribe to my blog, and invite me to do cool stuff with you?  Here goes… (more…)