“The ceiling is the roof!” -Michael Jordan During the 2002 NBA All-Star game, an aging Michael Jordan was fed the ball with nothing but open court ahead… Read more ““The Ceiling Is The Roof!””
Category: Entertainment
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
” The greatest thing that we can do is to help to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving”
-Fred Rodgers
After Dunkirk
I started to wonder what this meant for the over 300,000 Jews of France now that the Nazis had taken over.
Super Bowl-A Tale Of Two Teams
We watch sports because we don’t know what will happen next. Each play has the potential to show us something beautiful, brutal or unbelievable As iconic… Read more “Super Bowl-A Tale Of Two Teams”
Mikes Off
“You know…I’ve been doin this show for twenty-five years, five and a half hours a day and now we’re gonna talk about twelve seconds ok?” -Mike Francesa… Read more “Mikes Off”
Action! What Do We Do about Harvey Weinstein? – Is it time to take an honest look at how movies get made?
Now that the light shines brightly on this exposed industry what will we choose to see?
An Unsatisfying experience
Yes, my family is amused by those satisfying videos and we can’t quite understand why tens of millions need to watch them. We made our own… but it… Read more “An Unsatisfying experience”
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History 2:6 – I’m Sorry, Country Music
I misjudged you. I’m sorry.
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist history 2:5 To the Victor Go the Spoils…and the Movie Rights
Many tend to think of Churchill as a great man of fortitude, foresight and forthrightness.
I have to ask: Why is the death of 3,000,000 people less than a footnote in Churchill’s version of history?
After Dunkirk
I started to wonder what this meant for the over 300,000 Jews of France now that the Nazis had taken over.
Statues are for real people
A basic rule for awarding status should be that they are reserved for individuals who reach great heights of accomplishment in their fields of mastery.
Rocky is not real and has not reached any heights or accomplished anything. He should not get a statue.
New Idea: Part of this complete breakfast-Emoji Cereal
Our daughters came up with this one. Brilliant. If you want to pursue the idea, contact me, please. If you wanna to steal the idea you should… Read more “New Idea: Part of this complete breakfast-Emoji Cereal”
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History 2:2 The World is gray.
The CIA wants to save lives and in doing so may have to make decisions that you or I would never want to make and the press needs to call out the CIA if they have gone too far.
Rather than take sides, accept that sometimes this is how conflicts with such high stakes are resolved…it’s just the way it has to be.
Have we met before?
The track record of sequels is not good… So why will more than 200 sequels be made between now and 2020?
“The only phrase I’ve ever disliked is, ‘Why, we’ve always done it that way,’ “… “I always tell young people, ‘Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.’ “
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History 2:1 Gladwell sticks it to the man.
Gladwell concludes: “Golf is crack cocaine for rich white guys.”
What’s your marble machine?
My heart tells me that we all have a “marble machine” inside of us. We are all creative. Nobody is a blank slate.
Glad about Gladwell!
Gladwell describes his podcast as:
“…a journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time…Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.”
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