A new Mike Meyers film looks funny.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Uncomfortable TV
This clip shows Chris Matthews on MSNBC talking with a Texas state senator who supports Obama and is there to debate a congresswoman supporting Clinton. Chris Matthews asks the state senator, Kirk Watson, to name some of Obama's legislative accomplishments. The fun then ensues.
Can't Believe I Know This
Colleen and I are enjoying American Idol this year, after taking last year off. We think the singers are really good, and we both agreed that last night's best was Jason Castro. He played guitar and sang "What A Day For A Daydream." Something about his seemed familiar, so I wracked the pop culture section of my brain and made a connection.
I had seen Jason a few years ago on an MTV show called Cheyenne. It was a documentary about a young, pretty singer who lived in Texas named Cheyenne Kimball. She had a crush on a kid named Jason, who had dreadlocks. He used to drop by her house and shyly interact with her parents. He seemed like a really nice kid back then, as he does now on American Idol.
I hope he does well on American Idol.
I had seen Jason a few years ago on an MTV show called Cheyenne. It was a documentary about a young, pretty singer who lived in Texas named Cheyenne Kimball. She had a crush on a kid named Jason, who had dreadlocks. He used to drop by her house and shyly interact with her parents. He seemed like a really nice kid back then, as he does now on American Idol.
I hope he does well on American Idol.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Buzz
I've got this weird buzz going in my mind like something exciting is going to happen to me. Win the lottery? Win HGTV's 2008 Dream Home? Receive some unexpected compliment? I just don't know, but I wish it would come already!
In other buzz-worthy news, my niece, Katie Cox, won an IMPRESSIVE swim event last night at the Western Massachusetts Swimming & Diving Championships. Katie was ranked 5th in the 200-meter freestyle event, but eked out an extremely exciting three-hundredths of a second win, beating her own personal best by more than 5 seconds!
Grady and Liam were cheering their hearts out. They were very well behaved, considering we were in a hot pool (at Harvard University's Blodgett Pool) from 5:15 to 10:30 p.m with no dinner. Wow, perhaps their behavior is the excitement/reward I'm feeling. :)
In other buzz-worthy news, my niece, Katie Cox, won an IMPRESSIVE swim event last night at the Western Massachusetts Swimming & Diving Championships. Katie was ranked 5th in the 200-meter freestyle event, but eked out an extremely exciting three-hundredths of a second win, beating her own personal best by more than 5 seconds!
Grady and Liam were cheering their hearts out. They were very well behaved, considering we were in a hot pool (at Harvard University's Blodgett Pool) from 5:15 to 10:30 p.m with no dinner. Wow, perhaps their behavior is the excitement/reward I'm feeling. :)
Monday, February 11, 2008
Equal Time
I caught part of a documentary about Martin Luther King, Jr. on T.V. yesterday that profiled his last few days alive. He was trying to organize a Poor People's march on Washington, D.C. and was going around to different cities to recruit people. After a march that turned violent in Memphis, he became depressed. A few weeks later, he went back to a still tense Memphis to visit with the sanitation workers who were entering their 2nd month on strike. Due to exhaustion, King asked Ralph Abernathy to address a nighttime rally on April 3 before his scheduled appearances on the fateful April 4. But, after Ralph spoke, he called King to say the people wanted to hear King speak.
So, King dragged himself from The Lorraine Motel to The Mason Temple, and spoke for a little over 8 minutes. Below is the last 90 seconds of that speech that NEVER fails to make the hairs on the back on my neck stand up. It's a combination of his unique speaking voice, the foreshadowing of his words, the powerful imagery of his words and the exhausted passion you can see in his eyes. You can see that he was overcome with his own messages -- lost in the fervor -- and then he collapsed with the help of his friends into a chair.
Michelle Obama's speech at UCLA, though not nearly as moving as King's Mountaintop speech, is so closely knitted to King's dream.
So, King dragged himself from The Lorraine Motel to The Mason Temple, and spoke for a little over 8 minutes. Below is the last 90 seconds of that speech that NEVER fails to make the hairs on the back on my neck stand up. It's a combination of his unique speaking voice, the foreshadowing of his words, the powerful imagery of his words and the exhausted passion you can see in his eyes. You can see that he was overcome with his own messages -- lost in the fervor -- and then he collapsed with the help of his friends into a chair.
Michelle Obama's speech at UCLA, though not nearly as moving as King's Mountaintop speech, is so closely knitted to King's dream.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The race to the White House
On Monday, I attended a John McCain rally at Faneuil Hall in Boston and sat in the first row off the stage. As he came down the stairs to make his way through the cheering audience, I was the first to shake his hand, wish him luck, and then shake the hand of his STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL wife, Cindy. I'm also enjoying the blog of his daughter, Meghan, who on McCainBlogette, gives us a behind-the-scene look into her dad's campaign.
It's a nice mixture of pictures, videos and postings that show us the personal side of John McCain, like how one of his favorite things to do is walk down a drum line. She remembers him loving it during parades when she was a little girl, and was pleased to see that it still touched him so much that he did a little two-step when he was surprised with a drum line at a campaign stop.
Neat little widget that MSNBC is making available below.
It's a nice mixture of pictures, videos and postings that show us the personal side of John McCain, like how one of his favorite things to do is walk down a drum line. She remembers him loving it during parades when she was a little girl, and was pleased to see that it still touched him so much that he did a little two-step when he was surprised with a drum line at a campaign stop.
Neat little widget that MSNBC is making available below.
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