New Website

Launched a new website to detail my quest to become a Friend of the Kennedy Center [cue angelic music].

http://www.curtis4friend.com

Here's a preview

Lego Land

For more great lego images, check out this slideshow

Vishnu Takes Gold

Clearer Photos from the Mets game

Here's some better shots from last week's game, taken with the nice camera (not the cell). Click them to enlarge.

Here's one with the team behind me. I'm impressed.

Howard Johnson, a switch-hitting staple of my youth.

One of my many favorite all-time Mets, head of PR Jay Horowitz. (in the black shirt on the phone)

What .01 seconds looks like

I can see daylight between Cavich's fingers and the wall. Phelps's victory appears legit.


Go to this site for 8 still-frames from the finish. It's incredible. Frame #6 is the super close-up.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0808/oly.phelps.sequence/content.5.html

A little souveneir came rolling my way during batting practice.

Mets v Nats - On the Field

That's HoJo! This is almost as much fun as a Sioux City Explorers game. OK, maybe a bit more.

Phelps

There was a time [a dark, cold, sad time] when Michael Phelps didn't win every race.
Here he is, 15-years-old, Sydney Olympics.

Fair Days

Another successful year at the Farm and Horse Show. Here's some visual evidence.

Nuvi

Look who I found in Sussex

Donor

Four years at GTriple U and I never noticed this donors plaque in the library.

Curtis, you're not even a student anymore, what were you doing at the library, you say?

To which I reply, did you know that Alec Baldwin, like L.Ron Hubbard also attended this school without graduating.

Diversion.

Obit

Another Hillary supporter who I was close to in Iowa died recently. Looks like this blog might become a makeshift outlet for letting folks like Carmen know I appreciated their friendship. Now I know everybody must love reading these (such stark departures from the usual tone of the blog), but I must insist upon not writing these too often. That's out of my hands, of course, but I hope it's the case.

Carmen M. Osborn Teoli

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Carmen M. Osborn Teoli, 52, of Cherokee, passed away on July 13, 2008 at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center.

Memorial services were held on Thursday, July 17, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Cherokee, with Rev. Magrey deVega officiating. It was Carmen's wish to be cremated. The Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee was in charge of the arrangements.

The Charleston

Today's NJ Herald . . .

"Attendees also got a special treat in the form of a performance by Lois Kopeck, the 1936 Queen of the Fair. Kopeck, backed by a three-piece band, danced the Charleston.
“I am glad to be back at the fair and dancing again,” she said. “I was a featured dancer in the 1936 pageant.”

This is a 2008 Farm and Horse Show moment I'd have like to have seen. Actually, I think I just wanted to be there to hear Lois Kopeck deliver the line "I was a featured dancer in the 1936 pageant."

Or perhaps it's better left to my imagination.