In my review of Out of Captivity, David pointed out to me that I misspelled the country of Colombia. Turns out, there’s a difference between a Colombia and a Columbia. One is sometimes known for its corrupt government. The other is sometimes known to be the corrupt government.
Finally, in the map of Disney Princesses, Alice is from England, not Wonderland. And Wendy is more of the princess than Tinkerbell is, as one could tell because a princess never dresses up like a strumpet.
You have four options: 1. You can mute the video and just read because the music sucks. 2. You can leave the music on and check your mail because the writing’s stupid. 3. You can press the pause button because everything is terrible. 4. You can read, watch and listen to the video because you forgot what you were doing prior.
We were taught in school that in the American Flag, the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies and the 50 stars represent the 50 states of the union.
But what about the very first flag?
13 stars, 13 strips. 13 for the 13 original colonies and 13 for…the states of the union? A little redundant, Mrs. Ross. You’re lucky we followed through with our Manifest Destiny.
Remember how everybody thought Y2K was going to ruin everything and the world would end? Or remember how right after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita came and Houston evacuated for no real reason? Or remember all that talk about 2012 and how the world would (again) but nothing’s probably going to happen maybe?
That’s what the NBA 2010 Free Agent class is going to be. Lebron’s going to go back to Cleveland, the Raptors are going to continue to not do well and the Jazz are going to continue to never win a championship.
The thing I like least about World Cup soccer is all the flopping about they do. Seeing these people fall so easily explains why international basketball players who play in the NBA are notorious for flopping. They learned it from their countrymen on the soccer field.
What I like about the World Cup, besides the excitement of rooting for your team and winning, is the sportsmanship. Sure the flopping is unsportsmanlike, but when someone legitimately falls down, you’ll see teams helping other teams to their feet. You rarely see it American football and basketball.
Another form of good sportsmanship is the tradition of swapping jerseys after match. It dates back to a 1931 match between France and England.
So they swap jerseys in the World Cup. But what about Women’s World Cup? I will let you know on June 26, 2011: FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011. It will be on my DVR.
I like biographies. More specifically, autobiographies and sometimes memoirs. In Out of Captivity, three Americans are held hostage by Columbian guerrillas for more than five years.
Will they make it out alive? Or will the FARC kill them? That is the main conflict for a majority of the book. The Americans, Marc, Keith and Tom, try to survive this ordeal so they can be with their families again.
Obviously they survive because they wrote the book. The spoiler alert is already on the cover. Which is why it was so weird when they all died. «« Spoiler Alert!
What does ESPN stand for? I’ve been trying to figure it out, but none of my guesses made sense so far. ESportes Para Network? That’s Spanish. I don’t even know if that’s correct Spanish.
Extreme Sports Plays Network? I get the S and I get the N, but what on Earth does the E and P stand for?
I mean, CNN is pretty obvious. Cable News Network. AMC, American Movie Classics. NBC, CBS, ABC, they’re all pretty easy to figure out. But ESPN. WTF does that stand for?
UPDATE: Just checked Wikipedia. It’s Entertainment Sports Programming Network. Which makes the E!SPN not so far-fetched anymore.
Here’s the deal. I think you should only be awarded for accomplishments. On your birthday, you’ve accomplished nothing but the basic human instinct of survival for a year.
And really, every day that you’re alive should already be celebrated. That’s why people should celebrate happy hours and not happy birthdays.
I like to watch ESPN. Most men do. Most women don’t. Conversely, women like to watch E!. Most men don’t.
So to better bridge this gap, I think ESPN should have a channel dedicated for women and women sports. It doesn’t have to be The Ocho, it can be E!SPN, or something. The channel would have WNBA games, NCAA softball games, Ladies’ Billiards, etc.
But also on top of that, it would have reality shows full of the kind of drama that women like so much. It’d be something like Keeping Up With The Kardashians except it’s the Williams sisters or something.
Think about it. I think you’ll like it no matter your gender.
The idea of taking something all right and taking something else that is all right, putting them together to make it better is something that I’m very ok with.
I am talking about music, of course, and not platypuses. Platypuses are living venn diagrams and they weird me out.
The only problem with mashups is if you listen to it enough, whenever you hear the song, you’ll automatically think of the remix instead of its original.
Case in point, djDOYOU’s Stuntin Like Mufasa. It’s Disney classics mashed with hip-hop and rap. I grew up watching Disney movies but now whenever I watch The Lion King, I’m going to think about Lil’ Wayne. Great. Just great.
