Archive for year 2008
Who is Next?
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God stop it all ready, if there is a God and I believe there is! Don’t take anymore of my favorites, please. It was hard enough to lose Tim Russert, and now George Carlin. Give me a break!
Whether you liked his Comedic material or not, George Carlin was a gifted writer and performer with a particular talent for language. Just like Tim Russert, George had a great love of language, and a great gift for language.
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Give a shout out to Dad! It’s not about the Money.
1It doesn’t get any better than this.
What a Day this Father’s day is going to be. Here is the line up: Tiger Woods at the U.S. Open, Dodgers at Detroit, World Cup qualifying Soccer U.S. vs. Barbados and the NBA finals do are die for Kobe Bryant’s Lakers. Oh, did I say that my three Sons are coming over to Bar-B-Que for Dear old Dad, tell me jokes and make me laugh. It just doesn’t get any better than that for Dad. I guess that’s why we don’t care if you buy us cards or stuff, all we care about is that we are there in your heart and So maybe today when the jocks look into the camera they could give a shout out to Dad and not a Hi Mom.
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Is There Life After Death?
0Heaven Hi!
We lost a Star, or maybe we didn’t if you believe in life after death or reincarnation. Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack this morning on Friday, the13th.
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“Raiders of the Lost Passion”
1Hey INDIE where art thou!
At a certain point inIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, there is a mundane exchange between Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and a young Ed Burns (cookie where’s my comb) of the TV show 77 Sunset Strip and Marlon Brando (The Wild One) leather-jacketed college dropout (Shia LaBeouf), whose role figures prominently in the mechanics of a needlessly convoluted plot. Both Indiana and “Mutt” are headed toward the next juncture of their storyline, when Indiana, in a moment of throwaway exposition, inquires of Mutt’s schooling and ambitions in life. In response, Mutt describes having dropped out of several prestigious schools before finally settling on the profession of motorcycle mechanic.
Jones gives him a look.
“What–something wrong with it?” Mutt asks.
“No.” Replies Indy, “Not if it’s really what you want to do. And don’t let anybody ever tell you different.”
It’s an exchange which perfectly illustrates how to correctly telegraph an entire conversation into merely a few lines of dialogue, and yet, sadly, it is perhaps the only such exchange of real substance within the entire film. This is because, regardless of its monolithic production value, Crystal Skull has little urgency, and little creative prowess.
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Mothers go straight to Heaven!
1Heaven Hi, Mothers!
Nancy, the star, the mother of our three boys who are 28, 26 and 24 (so I should say “men”, but to mothers we will always be their “boys”). We were at the market to buy some groceries, because “the boys” were coming over for Mother’s Day and to watch the Lakers game. While shopping I would ask every kid I saw, “Do you know what tomorrow is?” The little girls would say, “Mother’s Day,” with glee; and the boys would say, “Lakers playoff.” The mothers would laugh and reply, “Boys will be boys.” Then it occurred to me why I missed my mom (who is no longer with us) so much on Mother’s Day, because to moms we will always be boys.
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Get Caring…
0Heaven Hi!
Let’s get this straight, I am hooked on American Idol. So when they did Idol Gives Back, I was moved and grabbed the phone and gave, like millions of others. Then it hit me why was I moved? Was it the pictures of the poor, sick kids or was it the celebrities asking for me to give? I am sure that had something to do with it, what it was for me was a emotional feeling that I cared about making a difference. When I stopped and asked myself “what is this?” and “why?” after the realization that I cared, I was so moved and energized. Then it dawned on me, when we started out on our journey of life, we CARED about life, love, making a difference in the world. We were so full of caring, and then it started to wane – we didn’t care as much about helping others or even ourselves. We stopped caring about the big things first, the planet, our work, voting, education and our health. Then we have stopped caring about our neighbors, next door and globally. Let me ask you: do you know your neighbors by their first names? If you cared you would. It is a part of our DNA to care. How many times do you hear about acts of heroism, or someone giving back, and when asked “why?” they simply say “I cared.”
To me, the will to live isn’t measured by the number of breaths you take, but by caring to help others breathe better.
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The verdict is in…
0Well, the jury’s come back in with a verdict and found the defendants guilty on both counts. Who is on trial?
We are.
The first crime we have been charged with is the systematic destruction of nature out of individual greed, and the resulting loss of community. The second crime we are accused of is grand theft consumption by the developed world of a billion people consuming thirty-two times the resources used by the other five billion human beings sharing this planet. If we are to continue at this rate, it’s estimated we’d need another four planets. Which – need it be said? – we don’t have. Our property is obviously more important than the lives of those five billion people.
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