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The Great Schlep

For a laugh, and some political motivation.


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Emmy

Some of the better parts of last night's Emmy's





This Josh Groban medley wasn't great throughout, but it does make you smile.



Quoting John Hodgman's twitter: "my dream of a fosse arrangement of suicide is painless at last comes true."

Stars Came Out

After watching the movie Ghost Town last night, I decided to walk across DC (rather than take the Metro straight home). Good thing I did because you'll never guess who I saw while walking.

Morgan Freeman, and . . .

Abraham Lincoln.

(And yes, that's Whoopi Goldberg hanging out in the back. I tried to ask her a question, but all she would say was "sic semper tyrannus." Wonder what that was all about.

Gravitas

Proving that once again my sense of journalistic gravitas rivals Tom Brokaw, Anderson Cooper and Stone Phillips . . .

Last week I interviewed NIH's Peggy Johnston. She's brilliant. Leading our country's fight against AIDS, one of the trickiest and deadliest diseases the world has seen.

So, obviously, given the chance to question her . . .

I asked her if I could play the marimba in her office.

Ghost Town

Ghost Town opens on Friday. I've made a note to go see it. I believe the last time I marked a movie on my calendar was Osmosis Jones, but that's only because it opened on my birthday (in 2001). It was a 2-for-1 calendar marking

I'd say this qualifies for suspicious package status if it weren't for this Metro employee a few seats away. See something. Say something.

Crash (and not the movie starring Don Cheadle that is now becoming a TV Show featuring Tom Sizemore)

Laptop currently going nutty. I am having heart palpitations.

Update: Seems to be back to normal. Vista you tare me about and then make it all better again.

That's Different

New surface on Metro floors? Since when? Or are they just cleaning the carpet?

Cake tonight. With Shaleah and Jack. And eyeeee helped. (Not really)

Doo wop at the Warner Theatre. Blue Moon.

Hi Hanna

Hurricane Hanna Comes to Fairlington

Alec

Since I mentioned L. Ron Hubbard's relationship with GW the other day, I thought I'd pass on some interesting information about another GW student you've heard of. This is from a lengthy New Yorker profile that came out the other day.

Alec Baldwin began at George Washington University in 1976, with the idea of going into law and becoming President of the United States. At the end of his junior year, he split up with a girlfriend and lost a student-body election. Feeling underappreciated, he transferred to N.Y.U. and began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

What might have been if only Alec Baldwin had promised the students a bit more and won the electoin..

Matt Lauer?

I've been meaning to post this for a while. Does anyone else think it's strange that Matt Lauer is now the window dressing for CVS

Are they not paying him enough at NBC?

Second City

Sometimes a cool event falls right into your lap. An ad for a great comedy show appeared to me on Facebook.

I've only been to Chicago briefly, so I've never had a real chance to see Second City perform. But they're going to be in DC soon. If you're reading this, Second City, thanks for coming, and kudos to the marketing department.

Here are the details . . .

The Second City: Pratfall of Civilization

Fri., Sept. 26, 9 p.m.

LOCATION

Voice of America, Auditorium
330 Independence Ave., SW Wash., DC
(Entrance on C St., SW Metro: Federal Center)

Obit: Burl Green

I had a wide-ranging laundry list of tasks while working in Iowa, but fundraising was absolutely never one of them. It made my job loads easier to never have to ask for money. It was hard enough asking people to leave the comfort of their homes on a cold January 3rd night to join the caucus fracas.

I was reminded of this when I read today's Cherokee Chronicle and saw that Burl Green had died at the age of 84. He came to one of my community meetings to hear more about caucus night. A long-time Democrat, he knew exactly what a caucus was, yet he was attentive, answered questions that I couldn't, and even verbally sparred with another woman (later resolved). But the first thing he did was hand me a check. It caught me off guard. It was the first (and last in Iowa) check I received. And it taught me to be more aware of people handing you checks (something which happened more regularly in Colorado and Ohio). So, in a way, he taught me a thing or two about money and added a memorable moment to my time in Iowa. My respects to Linda and Colene Green




From the Cherokee Chronicle-
Burl F. Green, 84, of Cherokee, former long time rural Cleghorn area resident, passed away Saturday evening, Aug. 23, 2008 at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center following a lengthy illness.