Top 10/Bottom 3: April 2010

Apr 01 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Music, Personal, Politics, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Steve Jobs and iPad

Top 10

  1. Barak Obama (finally, health care!)
  2. Opening Day (Go Angels!)
  3. iPad (though since I ordered a 3G model, I won’t be getting mine until late April)
  4. Joanna Newsom (yes, I will review Have One on Me–when I have a spare second)
  5. Lost
  6. Parks & Recreation
  7. Caprica
  8. Ableton Live
  9. Top Gear
  10. Ham

Bottom 3

  1. Fox “news”
  2. Teabaggers (the crazy kind, not the John Waters kind)
  3. Spring (where I live, spring is the gateway to the hell that is summer)

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Ten Things I Learned in 2008

Jun 16 2009 Published by under Film/TV, Humor, Literature, Music, Politics, Sports

  1. That I can support a winning candidate for President. With one exception, before this year, the person I supported and voted for in the primary either wasn’t nominated or lost in the general election [the one exception? 1996 when Clinton was the only choice.] I decided to support Obama back in 2007, and I stuck with him all the way, and somehow he won. It was a great year, but it was an election grounded in my support of sports teams that always go to the brink before crashing and burning (Angels, Seahawks). Hence, I never took anything for granted–up to 7:59 (my time) on election night, just before the results of California and Washington put Obama over the top. The elation that I felt at that moment, when the victory was confirmed, equaled anything that has ever happened in my life. Right now, it can’t be January 20th fast enough. Continue Reading »

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Obama Knows the Future

Jun 16 2009 Published by under Humor, Politics

You have to check this out–proof that Obama knows more than he’s letting on about the future.

Originally published 9/11/08

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Obama

Jun 16 2009 Published by under Politics

Sorry for not posting lately–just tons of stuff going on at work (I teach and run a distance ed program) and I haven’t found time to actually write up the things I want to write up here.  I am still working on my personal musical history–just haven’t posted them yet.  I will. Continue Reading »

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