If you participated in or attended today’s Boston Marathon and saw anything that may be helpful to the police, please call:
1-800-494-TIPS
They are particularly looking for video of the explosion.
If you’d like to donate blood, please contact the Boston Blood Donation Center at (800) 733-2767. And if you live in the Boston area, police recommend that you return to your homes.
Our thoughts are with you.
Posted in History, Holiday, Life, News, Politics, Sports
Tagged blood, Boston Blood Donation Center, Boston Marathon, Boston Police, donate blood, explosion, explosion video, Health, history, Holiday, life, news, police, running
Friends ask if I’ve seen the movie Lincoln. I haven’t.
It feels like homework.
But on this President’s Day holiday, I will celebrate the greatest president in our nation’s history by going to see Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated film.
A big thank you to AMC Theatres for having a $5 movie special in honor of the holiday.
(That might have tipped the scales a bit in the movie’s favor.)
Posted in Academy Awards, Entertainment, History, Holiday, Humor, Life, Movies, Politics, President's Day
Tagged Academy Awards, AMC theatres, Best Picture nominee, entertainment, history, Holiday, Humor, life, Lincoln movie, movie, Oscars, politics, President's Day, Steven Spielberg
Don’t you miss the Cold War?
I didn’t think so either.
But then I started watching The Americans on FX.
Have you seen it?
The Americans is set during the Reagan presidency. Two KGB spies live in Washington D.C., posing as your typical American married couple with two kids. Their neighbors think they’re travel agents. Their kids do, too. But they are really working with a network of spies and informants to further the cause of Mother Russia in the States.
It is so cool.
Only three episodes have aired, and I am totally hooked. My neighbor Margo Martindale — of Justified fame — popped up last night as a KGB officer. I mean, come on! You simply have to watch.
They’ll know if you don’t.
Posted in Commentary, Entertainment, History, Humor, Life, Politics, Television, TV
Tagged Cold War, commentary, entertainment, FX, FX Network, history, Humor, informants, Justified tv show, KGB, life, Margo Martindale, married couple, moose and squirrel, Mother Russia, politics, Ronald Reagan, spies, spy network, Television, The Americans tv show, travel agents, TV, Washington DC
Bangs are always in.
Official White House by Lawrence Jackson
But today First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated her 49th birthday by rocking brand new bangs!
My haircut just got so much cooler.
Posted in Beauty, Celebrities, Commentary, Fashion, Humor, Politics
Tagged bangs, beauty, birthday bangs, birthdays, Fashion, first lady, hair, hair today, haircut, hairdo, Humor, in style, Michelle Obama, politics
My German taxi driver shared an interesting theory today.
He has stopped watching TV because there are subliminal messages between the pixels that hypnotize you.
His concerns were based on the work of a Russian scientist (so you know it’s true).
The conversation took me back to my advertising classes in college. Of course, back then we were discussing subliminal imagery — ways to get people to buy without realizing they had been manipulated — so his theory isn’t that far afield.
He also posits that the longer you sit there, the more hypnotized you become and the more open to the message.
I’ll give him the hypnotized part…but could the producers of some of these really dumb reality shows be smart enough to embed messaging that would, say, overturn the government?
(Come to think of it, it would explain the Tea Party….)
People — step away from your flat screens!
Posted in Advertising, Commentary, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Politics, Technology, Television, transportation, Travel, TV
Tagged advertising, commentary, flat screen TVs, Germany, Humor, hypnotism, life, pixelation, politics, reality shows, Russian scientist, subliminal messages, taxi, taxi driver, tea party, technology, Television, Travel, TV
‘Cause it’s Election Day, baby!
Posted in Commentary, Humor, Politics
Tagged commentary, election, Humor, politics, turnout, vote, voter turnout
You’ve probably read glowing reviews for the movie Argo, the true story of the rescue mission of six American hostages during the Iran Hostage Crisis of the early 80′s. In this case…
Believe it.
Argo is as good — no, better — than any review or word-of-mouth account that I heard.
And I’m not worried about building the movie up in your mind.
It delivers.
Enough has been written about the now declassified CIA mission that we know the outcome. But Ben Affleck’s direction and spot-on period detail build the tension and the suspense so well, I almost forgot.
Ben also does his best acting work to date. In his full-on 70′s beard and Bieber hairstyle, he disappears into the role of CIA agent Tony Mendez — a quiet, powerful performance.
I challenge you not to applaud at the film’s conclusion. Actually, at my viewing, the audience applauded twice. If you stay for the credits, you’ll understand why.
And join in.
Posted in Celebrities, Commentary, Entertainment, History, Life, Movies, Politics
Tagged American hostages, applause, Argo movie, Ben Affleck, celebrities, CIA, CIA agent, CIA mission, classified case, commentary, declassified case, entertainment, Iran Hostage Crisis, life, mission accomplished, movie actor, movie director, movie producer, movie reiews, Movies, politics, rescue mission, Tony Mendez
Today is National Voter Registration Day.
Over 1,100 organizations are coming together in a national call for voter registration, especially in light of recent attempts to restrict voter rights.
There are over 700 events going on around the country today. Nationalvoterregistrationday.com has all the detes.
Already registered? You can still:
And don’t forget to vote in November.
Posted in Commentary, Life, Politics
Tagged absentee voting, commentary, election, life, National Voter Registration Day, politics, state voter laws, voter rights
The same, yet different
It’s not often I can say this to a member of the royal family:
“Kate, this has so happened to me!”
The soldier saluted.
Funny — almost the exact same thing happened to me during a business trip to Chicago!
I was walking with my colleagues to a nearby restaurant for dinner when a grate ate my heel. Two friends held me upright, saving me from an almost certain face plant. So, let me belatedly salute their heroics –
Sans headpiece.
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Posted in Celebrities, Commentary, Fashion, Holiday, Humor, Life, News, Politics, St Patrick's Day
Tagged Aldershot Barracks, business trip, celebrities, Chicago, commentary, Duchess of Cambridge, Fashion, grate, high heels, Holiday, Humor, Kate Middleton, life, news, Prince William, royal family, salute, St. Patrick's Day, stiletto