"Beautiful in every way"

Images

• Comparing the Naptown Strutters performance tonight at the Anderson Paramount to my memoris of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's performance at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter in New Orleans just a few days before Katrina hit.
• Grandpa Martin standing up to dance a few steps during an especially lively polka at downtown Anderson's very own bavarian Octoberfest.
• Going to see It's a Wonderful Life last December on a special day in Detroit in an old theatre similar to the Paramount in many ways and coming out to at least four solid inches of snow with more falling every minute.
• The portrayal of Edith Piaf singing in La Vie en Rose.
• The band performing "What a Wonderful World" at the jazz bar in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
• The wonder of perpetual melancholic nostalgia accumulated over a life of 80+ years.
• A house, 3 months lonely on Annabelle Street in Ferndale, Michigan.

"You can fly, you can fly"

I was in Disney World for a full week and only pictures can tell the story:

Rogers got in the spirit from day 1

I posed as Aladdin for this shot

My nephew spread the joy of Mickey everywhere he went

We reenacted Peter Pan: In this scene the pirate kidnaps Tigerlilly who passes out from fear

Here we blast are way through the galactic galaxy on our flight home

"This town was meant for passing through"

Since Wilbe has forsaken blogging, I can takeover with his listing.

Things I know:

• I've been blogging three days in a row.
• It's a late night for work and a good thing I didn't go to Journey.
• I may have missed a good time, but I was only really looking forward to hearing two songs anyway...you guessed it Faithfully and Don't Stop Believin. Not that others aren't good as well, but I just don't care about them.
• This Big Brother season is not too good.
• I'll be in Orlando in 60 hours.
• I'm excited about moving into a new house in the hopefully not too distant future.
• The movie I'm most excited about that's coming out soon is Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. To be perfectly honest, it looks like an OK movie, but I can't get enough Michael Cera...I think I'll be laughing the whole time.
• The music by Beirut is intriguing, yet somewhat inaccessible.
• Friday night we are planning a dinner and fun night like the good old days. I hope you can make it.
• I miss my church in Royal Oak.
• Time for bed. I'm going to be running on fumes -- and maybe Monster -- tomorrow. Client meeting in 8 hours...

"And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be"

I was just reading through some blog posts from January 2005. What?! Nearly 4 years of blogging, eh?

Here's a few things that have not changed since that time:

• Still want to lose 12-15 pounds
• Still on the path to a successful career
• Still dating the same gal
• Still couldn't pass up a free movie with free popcorn even if it meant I wasn't going to sleep much

Here's a few things that have changed:

• Now losing 15 pounds would put me at 205 rather than 185
• I've been working two full years in corporate America and get paid a lot more for my work now
• I'm married to that gal.
• The free movie gravy train came to a halt in the spring of 2006. Weren't those good times?

Speaking of good times, I'm rallying support for an all night Blood Lines of New York bloodfest sometime soon...what about the first weekend in October? Just throwing that out there as an option.

Here is a shout out to my friends. Thanks to all of you who came to visit us in Detroit. We always couldn't wait until you guys got there and new we'd have a super-fun weekend. I love you all dearly. I think anyone reading this I've known for more than the four years I've been blogging, so here's to 5+ years of friendship.

That's pretty awesome. When we move to a new house in Indiana a steak cookout is on me...I'll buy the steaks, but Wilbe will have to cook them because he's the master.

"I'm not looking for sweet talk"

Dinesh Dsouza asks:
"Imagine if McCain came to the convention and spoke incessantly about compassion and how he was inspired by the biblical mandate: we are our brothers' keepers! This would be the lead story on the evening news. So why aren't the networks covering the fact that Barack Obama's half-brother George lives in a 6 by 10 foot hut in the slums of Kenya?"

Of course we know the answer to why the networks aren't covering it. Should Obama help his half-brother? Probably. Should Sarah Palin's 17-year old be nailed (pardon the pun) for being pregnant out of wedlock by our media while Obama has a brother living on one dollar a month only being reported by an Italian journalist for Vanity Fair? Come on.

Read on to learn more about helping impoverished George Obama in Africa.
http://townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2008/09/08/help_obamas_half-brother_move_out_of_his_hut

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In better news, what a year for music. Still coming out in 08 in order of excitement:

1. The Killers -- Day and Age in November
2. Coldplay -- Prospects March EP in December
3. Margot -- Animal and Not Animal in September/October
4. Ray LaMontagne -- Gossip In the Grain in October
5. Jon McLaughlin -- OK Now in October
6. Josiah Leming -- EP in October

I'm sure there's more, but that's a pretty good line up for a long drive to work this fall.

"Burn my eyes"

You know it's a good day at work when:

• You eat at La Rosa's Pizzeria for lunch. Thursday I was in Batesville, Indiana with my boss's boss and the client's receptionist mentioned La Rosa's. Imagine my joy when my boss's boss says, I've been craving pizza recently. Yes, I'm talking about King's Island La Rosa's. Batesville's closer to Cincy than it is to Indy.
• You stop working at 4 p.m. for a toast to celebrate a big win. That big win is a project worth $1M+ over the next few years.

The NFL football season starts tomorrow and I can't wait. Their lighting up windows in my office building in the shape of a horseshoe for Sunday Night Football. Supposedly, they'll show a shot through the Lucas Oil Stadium window directly to my building where you'll see a horseshoe. Sounds pretty sweet. I can't wait to watch the game.

"Put your helmet on"

You know it's a good game of golf when:

• Squatch throws his golf club after a series of horrible shots and it gets stuck in a tree about 25 feet up.
• Squatch throws another golf club up to knock the first one down and it also gets stuck in the tree.
• Squatch realizes he's going to have to come back after dark with a flashlight to try to get the clubs down later so we don't get kicked out of the country club.
• A squirrel get's hit with a golf ball.
• Berg gets an average triple-bogey with a handy tap-in birdy right in the middle of the round.

It's a lazy labor day, which reads like an oxy-moron, but makes perfect sense.

Last movie saw: Prom Night

Last music listend to: New Margot on MySpace