Give credit where credit is due. Part Deaux

Congratulations to Senator Barack Obama who is now the first American of African descent to be elected to the presidency.

I wish him the best and hope he will lead with common sense and wisdom.

And I hope he is able to come through on all the promises he made during this campaign.

But don't blame me if I don't hold my breath.

Til' we meet again.

Paul

Convoluted Movie Trivia Returns.

We're back. Hope you enjoy.

1. Jerry Macquire meets Ra's Al Ghul.

2. Leonidas marries the Merovingian sister.

3. Roy Hobbs double crosses Ghandi.

4. El Mariachi is hired to kill Austin Powers.

5. Captain Picard rides a worm.

6. Peter Venkman stalks Mr. Holland.

7. Ray Zalinski plays a hit man.

8. Mrs. Doubtfire goes insane.

9. Forrest Gump goes to the moon.

10. Banky Edwards is killed by a shit weasel.

Good Luck.

Til' we meet again

Paul

My head hurts.

We'll start this post with a question.

What is this?

If you said a dog, you are incorrect. This is a picture of a dog. Semantics you say? You would be correct. Which brings me to the point of this post. How did we as a people go from using images like the one above to share ideas to the written word? As you can see the above image is clearly an image of a Golden Retriever which is a breed of dog. It is easy to make the connection. But now consider the word DOG. Think about how incredible it is to think that we can go from this.

To this, D-O-G, and you still understand what it is that I am talking about.

Just something to think about.

Til' we meet again

Paul

Your lack of pants disturbs me.

I have a new catchphrase. It is derived from an interview that Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker, gave during the filming of the Empire of Dreams documentary found on the special features disk of the Star Wars DVD's.

It goes something like this. "...of all the things to worry about...the Wookie has no pants." This quote is in direct correlation to a memory of some memos that he saw while filming Star Wars, in which the executives at 20th Century Fox were expressing their concern about the fact that Chewbacca was essentially naked. He recalls that there were suggestions of putting the Wookie into various clothing including a deravation of Lederhosen and he states that he was amazed that with all the other problems that the shoot had encountered, they chose something as stupid as that to put in a memo.

It has got me thinking about the current economic crisis this country is going through, and what irrelevant things were on the national stage while we should have been focusing on this, because this is not anything that happened overnight. I have tabulated a list. Hope you enjoy.

1. Congressional hearings about steroid use in Baseball.

2. Lindsay, Britney, and Paris; need I say more.

3. Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.

4. The bridge to nowhere.

5. Al Gore.

So sports fans look over these in light of the fact that we are sitting close to the edge of what could become the Second Great Depression and just remember. "...of all the things to worry about...the Wookie has no pants."

Til' we meet again.

Paul

My thoughts exactly.

A transcendental Experience.

One of the coolest things for a person to experience is the feeling of stepping outside oneself in a purely transcendental moment.

As of today it has happened to me twice, and fittingly with both of my great loves. The first time was my senior year in high school. It was one of the last baseball games of that season. We were getting killed by a team that we had never lost too in 4 years of games. Needless to say it was not a fun day, but about the 5th or 6th inning I was coming to bat for the 3rd time that game and I suddenly knew that I was going to hit a home run. I can't explain it but I truly knew balls to bones that I would be going yard on the very first pitch of that at bat. Sure enough the first pitch I crushed the ball about 360 feet over the center field fence and rounded the bases.

The funny thing is that it was almost like I was watching myself do it. It was unbelievable, and a feeling that I never thought that I would have again.

Then this past Thursday came along. As many 0f you may know I am currently involved in my second great love, a theatrical endeavor known as Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. While on stage last week, I was reciting my lines when I realized that I was consciously aware of how natural they sounded. It was like my brain had split into two camps. The side that needed to focus on my lines was parked in auto-pilot allowing my analytical side to evaluate my performance. It was scary cool. Again the only way that I can describe it was like stepping out of myself to watch my performance from the audience as an audience member.

If you have never felt this sensation I highly recommend it. There is nothing out there as far as sensation goes to compare.

Til' we meet again

Paul.

Give credit where credit is due.

Let me start off by saying that I do not like Barack Obama. I don't trust his politics, and I think that if elected president, he would be a very bad commander-in-chief for this country.

That being said I also think that everyone should step back and acknowledge the incredible achievement of the senator from Illinois.

Going into this election season it was pretty clear that one way or the other history would be made. On one side we had Senator Hillary Clinton, the first woman to have a serious shot at the office of the Presidency. On the other side there was Mr. Obama. The only thing that was not clear was what that history would be. Well last night it became official. Senator Obama has become the first black presidential candidate from one of the two major political parties.

This is in a country where just 40 years ago blacks could not eat in the same restaurants, use the same bathrooms, or drink from the same water fountains as whites in a large section of the country. Where a 150 years ago they were still enslaved in that same section of the country.

Many people, both black and white, never thought that they would see this day. Well ladies and gentleman it has arrived. And before we get back to the partisan bickering I think we should all look at what this means for our country, how far we have come, and where we are destined to go in the future.

So to Senator Obama I say congratulations.

But I still won't be voting for you.

Til' we meet again.

Paul