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John McCain on SNL

Posted by Marty on May 18th, 2008

Ok, here he is.

I know he is the GOP candidate and Obama is likely the DNC candidate. I like McCain, will I vote for him or Obama? Depends on who the VP candidates are.

It’s pretty much a toss up.

Wanna Live On Mars?

Posted by Marty on April 2nd, 2008

If you’ve always had a dream to live among the little green men on Mars, the days are numbered until you can tell those little green fellas…”I’m hoooommmmmme.”

Check out project Virgle.

Amanda Congdon and Ashley Qualls

Posted by Marty on September 21st, 2007

I just read a story that Amanda Congdon has been let go by ABCNews. To that I say, BIG DEAL!

I hope she comes back to the Internet where she belongs.

If this proves one thing too me it is that the Internet is for the most part a level playing ground. Will she have the same size audience that she potentially had on ABC? Not right now but the other thing to consider is that all of the audience she has on the net is entirely hers, she does not have to have it filtered through all of the various channels and loops that were required to transition from the Internets biggest celebrity to another face on a network.

This is a great day for her and I am confident she will advance beyond what she could have with ABC.

To prove my point about the Internet being a level playing ground check out this story about Ashley Qualls who at 17 years of age is making millions of dollars per year through her MySpace Page and through a site she created called WhateverLife.

We’ll be watching to see where Amanda lands and where Ashley goes.

Nothing Flashy Conflict Resolution

Posted by Marty on August 31st, 2007
 
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According to a paper in Colorado, the Discovery Canyon Campus school school has banned the game Tag on its playground because some of the kids were being harassed or chased against their
will.

Where were these administrators when I was a kid being lined up against a wall so I could "play" Dodge Ball? How bout when all the popular kids would want me to play "Red Rover"? Do you know that on 12 straight occasions, George Wolfe didn’t try to break our arms apart but instead he tackled me. YEAH!

I liked playing Four Square, Kickball and Tag when I was little. I even liked playing Dodge Ball and Red Rover. Were there fights on the playground? You bet. Did bullies pick on me? What do you think?

Obviously no kid should be hurt or constantly singled out BUT, there are bullies in life and learning how to deal with them on a playground is how you learn to deal with them later in life too.

Eventually dorks, nerds, geeks and any other group that isn’t a social or physical bully will stand up to their oppressor. That’s the way it’s been since the beginning of time and now what has happened? The bullies on that playground have been stopped from playing tag and given more ammunition to fire at will against whatever kid complained and the kid that complained in the first place and every other kid in that school has been denied the ability to learn about conflict resolution.

The problem with that is that these kids who play video games where they beat, kill and blow up everything and everyone else on a screen now have one less opportunity to learn how to sort out being part of a society…GREAT!

Raise em in cotton balls…that generation is the one that will nuke the world.

A little chubby…

Posted by Marty on August 19th, 2007

Never in my life have any words sounded so sweet to me as when my wife described me to one of her friends as “a great guy, big personality and a little chubby…” I’ve finally made it to that stage in my life where I am not overweight but instead, I am “a little chubby”, YES!

Next time you are at the pool, LOOK FOR ME, I’ll be the pasty white dude in the Speedo’s! And I know I’ll look great because I am just “a little chubby.”

I hope you were not eating or drinking when you read that…if you were, sorry!