the magic continues...
Click on my MAGIC OF MOVIES 2008 class photo for this year's epic production...
i believe that children are our future...
I am wrapping up this year's "Magic of Movies" course that I've taught now for 5 years at an elementary school in New Jersey. Each class has been a little different, but we've all ended up completing a really fun short film, and you'll get a chance to see that later this week.
In the meantime, I had to share the bird's eye view of some of the randomness of teaching. My hats off to all of you that do this full time!
In the meantime, I had to share the bird's eye view of some of the randomness of teaching. My hats off to all of you that do this full time!
generation aghhhhhh!
I have this theory that all American kids born in the last few years of the 20th Century will grow up with nervous conditions that most scholars will attribute to 9/11. Yet, in reality, it's really that stupid online puzzle maze prank that will have most kids in the bin by 2010. Click the scared little girl for the granddaddy of all reactions.Speaking of awesome scare tactics, I can't tell you how freakin' psyched I am that SCI FI is bringing back Scare Tactics with new host Tracy Morgan. It may even pry my ass away from Ninja Warrior and MSNBC Lock Up.
Honestly, I could watch this all day:
obamabombshell...
I rarely get political on this here blog of mine, but you may recall my original offical endorsement of Govener Bill Richardson's run for President last year.
In a move right out of The Manchurian Candidate or Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, it seems Richardson has decided to endorse Obama. Of course, it also seems that Richardson has spent the last month since his withdrawal from the race dining on Big Macs and Buffalo Wings, while refusing to shave.
Let's be clear here, before you make up one of those annoying logic diagrams that state that Todd endorses Richardon/Richardson endorses Obama/Todd endorses Obama.
I do not endorse
Obama for President.
And I really don't want to get into it, but here are a few reasons why:
• I don't endorse cults.
• Obama looks like Bat Boy.
• Time to change was also the mantra of the Bradys
• He has a logo. So did Hitler.
• Oprah.
In a move right out of The Manchurian Candidate or Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, it seems Richardson has decided to endorse Obama. Of course, it also seems that Richardson has spent the last month since his withdrawal from the race dining on Big Macs and Buffalo Wings, while refusing to shave. Let's be clear here, before you make up one of those annoying logic diagrams that state that Todd endorses Richardon/Richardson endorses Obama/Todd endorses Obama.
I do not endorse
Obama for President.
And I really don't want to get into it, but here are a few reasons why:
• I don't endorse cults.
• Obama looks like Bat Boy.
• Time to change was also the mantra of the Bradys
• He has a logo. So did Hitler.
• Oprah.
spring awakening...
BEWARE OF THE BLOG SPRING MIX 2008
Play the mix right now here...
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TRACKS INCLUDE:
Nevermind the Phonecalls Earlimart
Sing Along Virginia Coalition
Walcott Vampire Weekend
No Lucifer British Sea Power
Down is the New Up Radiohead
99 and 1/2 Mavis Staples
La Primavera/Spring (Op. 8: Allegro) Vivaldi (Sarah Chang)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Bono
For those of you that want to take the mix for your iPod,
download the continuous mp3 mix here.
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• Likes Poodles.
• Watches Golden Girls
• Stops everything when I Love Lucy airs.
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zephyr in the sky indeed...
I always get a little giddy when I see Iggy Pop out and about these days. As you know, he's from my hometown of Ypsilanti, Michigan and grew up in a trailer park that became a movie theatre that employed me in high school.
But his cover/serenade of Madonna's "Ray of Light" to Madge herself at last night's rock and roll hall of fame induction may be one of the strangest things he's ever done in his strange career...
But his cover/serenade of Madonna's "Ray of Light" to Madge herself at last night's rock and roll hall of fame induction may be one of the strangest things he's ever done in his strange career...
guns don't kill people
guns on keychains kill people
I don't know what I find more disturbing.
The fact that the world's smallest gun fires tiny 300mph bullets that kill at close range.
Or the fact that the case comes with a keychain
The fact that the world's smallest gun fires tiny 300mph bullets that kill at close range.
Or the fact that the case comes with a keychain
drivel tailored...
Look closer at the movie poster for the new Owen Wilson vehicle Drillbit Taylor and you'll see fictional Alexandre Dumas protagonist Edmond Dantès with a "Story By" credit.And you thought the Writer's Strike was fucked up? Get this...
Edmond Dantès true identity is none other than Generation X filmmaker icon John Hughes, who has also used the pseudonym on his scripts for Maid in Manhattan and Beethoven.I'll save judgment until I see the movie, but I'm not expecting a modern-day Ferris Bueller, or hell, even My Bodyguard, a movie Drillbit seems so shamelessly ripped off from.
haunted memories...
Since the age of 5 I've been obsessed with haunted houses, probably spawned by the best gift of all time ever - The Weeble Wobble Haunted House. For no other reason than the risk of non sequitur, here's a great video of a bunch of people creating a make-shift haunted subway train one October...
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