Revisiting some movies

Platoon clip:

When I am working on my computer, I like to watch/listen to movies on my little dvd player.  I’ve been collecting DVDs of movies I like to watch over and over.  A friend of mine won’t ever watch a movie twice.  He thinks I am strange, but I like to [...]

Tempered Wishful Envy

 

I love books.  I have eight floor-to-ceiling bookshelves – and that’s not counting the boxes of books I have packed in my garage.  I love to read them to hold them and to love them. 
Then about a couple of years ago, I saw one of the Sony Readers at Borders.  The electronic reader holds books [...]

Cloudy Day in New Mexico

I watch the clouds as they sit on the mountains
I know snow is falling on the mountain top
As I sip coffee on my fine Italian sofa in my house
I can see blue patches in the sky
I see some white clouds and lots of gray ones
Dirty with the dust gathered from the high mountain plains
I know [...]

Offering a New View

I can’t write anything about these pictures.  You must enjoy them for yourself.  They are amazing.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/earth_observed.html

The Wild Ride is Back! Lost – spoilers

Hold onto your hat – Lost is back – and it starting out in the typical Lost fashion – more questions and a tease of answers (so you think).  Lost is one of those shows where if you think you know what is going on – there are 150 people out [...]

Best seat in the house

No, I wasn’t invited to sit in the first tier of seats at the Inauguration.  I was in my Ikea reclining chair with my favorite coconut flavored cup of coffee and a buttered (well, Smart Balance) piece of challa bread.
The light was streaming in the front windows, the Sandias were warming up to the sun [...]

Buh, buh, buh, bye!

The Montage of the Greatest Moments in Presidential Speeches
from David Letterman
No copyright infringement intended
 
What more can I say?

Frack Me! BSG is Back!! Contains Spoilers

My evening was filled with anticipation, depression, sadness, surprise, jaw-dropping and scream-out-loud “FRACK ME!!”  Battlestar Galactica is back – with a vengence.  This season opener hit me with multiple facts, leads, clues, Tigh backs (pun intended), hanging story lines and absolute stunning photography.
The last season’s episodes left the crew on Earth, but [...]

Looking at Wyeth’s House

I grew up in Pennsylvania – near the area of Chadds Ford and the Brandywine Art Museum. Well, there was no museum when I was growing up – just Wyeth art. I was intrigued by his paintings because he painted the area – the local landscapes of fields and hills. He sparked my imagination in [...]

Not how I learned Journalism

I’m reading through the Google news this morning when I see an article headline on W’s last news conference.  Steeling myself for an article of denial and oblivion, I clicked the link and started reading.  It turned out to be a CNN Politics article;  INTERVIEWING THE REPORTER FOR CNN WHO COVERED W FOR THEM.  Huh? What?  [...]