Today's Grab Bag of Thoughts

Today I have seen so many posts about the VMA awards and most of all about Miley Cyrus.  What I don't understand is why are people so amazed?  With all the music performer these days all trying to make themselves noticed, this was just another desperate plea for attention.   The more and more we (myself included) blog, tweet, Facebook about the "show" she put on, we just make her think what she did was great and she'll and others will do it more.  No I did not watch the awards.  I personally found it to be a pretty sad and low point for her.  If I was her mom, I'd be so embarrassed at the crotch grabbing, tongue sticking, ass grinding, erotic show she put on.  Not because I am a prude or because I don't think that there is a place for this type of show, but because she was my kid and had a nice/clean career and fell into this. Innocence, I guess, can only sell if you're a good singer.   Oh by the way this is called  Twerking...a new word I just learned.  

It is very rare that I actually write about a movie as even though I like movies not many move me as much as this one.  "The Way" is an Emilion Estevez movie that stars his dad, Martin Sheen as the main character Tom.  It is about a father that goes over seas to claim the body of his estranged son that has passed away.  His some dies while starting his pilgrimage on the "Camino de Santiago" and the Father decides to do it for himself.  The movie is a moving and beautiful cinematic masterpiece IN MY MIND. I cried a lot and I was inspired. I don't want to tell you the whole movie, but it was great.  Yes could and have other people seen this movie and thought nothing of it? Yes they have, but I don't care.  This movie was real, well written and well filmed in my opinion. I would love to make this trek one day.  I would like to say that in about 12-15 years when my daughter is in college I would love to take the 20 - 30 day trek of the Camino de Santiago.  To ta

Yesterday I ran across an article on Yahoo Money that talked about the best small towns to live in America.  They based their list  not only thriving economically, but also on what we'd want in a place to raise a family: plenty of green space, good schools, and a strong sense of community.  I was obviously  drawn to this article for many reasons.  It won't come to anyone's surprise (or maybe it does) that not one of the cities in the top 15 towns is in  California.  As we get older my family continues to move further away from each other, I'm not sure if that is just a fact of life or a fact of the economy.  As I sit here out of a job I just keep thinking maybe Cali just isn't for us anymore.  Though I have one grandparent left and I can't really think about not being able to just stop by can say hi.  Where does that take me? According to the article to Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia and pretty much the Midwest to East Coast.  The images if these towns are

Oh you are busy today, ok I get it. I'm used to it because I am a middle child. 8/12 - National Middle Child Day, surprised? Me too, unbeknownst to me there has been a national holiday for me for a while now. No one knows the origins of this great day. Most articles that I have read about this wonderful day all say the same thing..."Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this day." So who, when or where did this day originate from? The world may never know. (OK I stole that from Tootie Rolls) This holiday is being talked about all over the internet today from regular bloggers like myself to MSN. Just type in National Middle Child day into your internet search engine of choice and you will come up with tons of articles...but probably more written by us middle children then others. Some research states that the middle child tends to be more introverted, quieter, perhaps a bit of a loner. But the middle child does not receive much attention and of

Ever go through your email and think really what who the heck sits around and writes these emails that end up in my spam mail.  Her are examples of the ones I get.   From Adrian - Let's hook up From Casey Beliveau - Hi it's Casey, wanna be man FUCKBUDDY? From Russian Singles - 1000's of Russian Singles - see Pics! From Penis Growth Sample - the pill is small in size but BIG in features I mean really! This is a very small sample of the crap I get in my email.  Not to mention the emails I get from "Madona", "Ashton Kutcher" and the like.  What I don't understand is do people really click on these emails? Do people really buy stuff from them?  As I sit here out of work, I think wow I might be in the wrong business.  Maybe I should sit around and just write inappropriate emails and slam people's email boxes.  :-) hmmm, watch out.  Lol