This is completely random, but today I saw the new poster for Angelina Jolie’s movie Maleficent on one of the film blogs I read. It triggered some memories about animated movie villains that really got under my skin as a kid. Which, honestly, wasn’t difficult. I was scared by most things as a kid. So as far … Read more
Is it just me, or is Apple starting to sell us the same thing with a different name? Every year I look forward to the new iPad. I’m not an Apple junkie–I have a giant, awesome PC desktop at home that eats iPads for dinner. But the iPad represents something different for me. It is … Read more
For the first time in a long time, I got to see something magical on Friday. St. Louis has a big annual balloon race–I don’t know if it’s known outside of St. Louis, but it’s big here. The “race” (I put that in quotes because, I mean, they’re balloons–they kind of just float for a … Read more
Some of you aren’t going to like this. Just be warned. Twitter and Facebook were abuzz today with the news that 64-year-old Diana Nyad completed a 110-mile swim from Cuba to the United States. Somehow this was newsworthy. Someone decided to swim an arbitrary distance, and somehow it’s important. This is always the reaction I … Read more
On my ongoing list of blog topics, I’ve had a question about racism for quite some time. In the midst of a summer seemingly full of racism in the news (Paula Dean, Trayvon Martin, Riley Cooper, Aaryn on Big Brother, etc), racism has been on my mind a lot, but I don’t really know how … Read more
To make sense of Friday’s tragic, horrific events at the elementary school in Connecticut, I believe that there is no making sense of it. I think that’s a pretty important concept to wrap our heads around, as difficult as it is. Let me explain in two points: It’s impossible to rationalize with a truly irrational person. … Read more
Sometimes we forget why professional sports exist. Professional sports exist for the purpose of entertainment. When you pay $40 to go to a Cardinals game, you’re paying to be entertained for a few hours by a group of elite athletes–athletes with skills beyond our comprehension (go to a batting cage and set the pitch speed … Read more