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Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2014’
Interstellar: a function of time & relativity

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The knowledge needed to appreciate the film, Interstellar. You need a catheter and a physics degree to see this one. The film is almost 3 hours long. I’ve often said no film needs to be 3 hours long. Superfluous scenes lurk everywhere like termites in a haunted […]

Happy Birthday!

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Birthdays. You have one every 365 days. That’s like an epiphany in the white house. Your birthday is a day to stop and reflect. It is a day that brings a myriad of thoughts and emotions. A part of me is a birthday child, sitting in […]

Thin Blue Line

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ A final moment so poignant, so visceral, it brings pride to my soul, and sadness to my heart. The funeral for officer Rafael Ramos is an unprecedented display of blue honor and police pride. There’s an estimated 25,000 police officers. A wave of law enforcement as […]

More Taylor Swift

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ The buzz that celebrity generates. I come to the morning meeting and the best story I have is a mulch plant blowing dirty toxins into the air. It covers everyone’s car with filth, it gets in the air conditioning vents. Some people argue it is making […]

Silent Night

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy! Waking up to a silent house on Christmas. As the kids got older, they began to show less enthusiasm for rushing down the stairs. There’s something about teenagers and sleep that makes me think Snow White wasn’t the only one to bite into the poisoned apple. […]

Supermarket Superbowl

You know what’s crazy? I”ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Supermarket Superbowl. Bigger than the 4th of July? Bigger than Thanksgiving? When it comes to shopping, it’s these two holidays combined. It’s Christmas Eve Day. Why? Because the store is closed on Christmas day. Everything is closed on Christmas day. Trust me, I checked. I called […]

twas the night before xmas

Twas the Night before Christmas and all cross the land every creature is stirring all taking a stand   protesters are angry laying down in the streets I can’t breathe black lives matter set to a choreographed beat   rocks through the window flames through the roof protesters chanting hands up don’t shoot   2 […]

NYPD Angel Wings

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The execution of two New York Police Officers. I’m watching the press conference Saturday and I’m appalled. The headline is sickening. TWO NYPD OFFICERS EXECUTED “They were targeted for their uniforms” The NYPD commissioner will say. They were assigned to a housing authority where there had […]

scary

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Blue lights in your rear view. Man it’s scary. It’s dark and you’re fiddling around with the radio and then all of a sudden: Woooooooooo! You get lit up. Blue and white spinning lights, painting the darkness. It’s blinding. It’s a rolling seizure. It’s a visual […]

Forever good-byes

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Saying Goodbye forever. I said goodbye to a friend today. It was a final goodbye. a forever good-bye. The kind of good-bye that is so loud the silence is deafening. This was a good friend, a special friend, the best kind of friend. This was the […]