I woke up this morning and discovered some pictures Keith had posted on his blog and Facebook… Apparently sometime after I passed out on the couch last night he snapped these pics of me and our two Yorkies:
Samoa, Brian, & Bingo
Bingo, Brian, & Samoa
What cracks me up is that Samoa had been trying to take over my pillow all night and it was a battle of wills… I was determined she wasn’t going to take MY pillow! lol
Looks like she won after all. ;-)
Khaki’s under the blanket somewhere too. It was a full couch!
Have you heard about the whole “flash mob” craze? Apparently it’s been around for several years – but I just heard of it a month or two ago. Then yesterday a friend posted the Oprah video below on Facebook, which prompted an hour or so of flash mob video watching at home last night… So I decided to throw a few of the videos here on my blog.
What is it, you say? Wikipedia says, “a flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.” The term can apply to groups of people doing all sorts of strange things, but my favorite are the ones where they do choreographed dances (a Google video search shows not only the dance ones, but also people falling to the ground, or freezing in place, etc.)
So without further ado….
Sound of Music | Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)
(This was the first one I’d ever seen)
Wolfgangsvault Flash Mob Woodstock 40th
I Gotta Feeling Live at Oprah’s 24th Season Kickoff Party
Liverpool T-Mobile
Michael Jackson Tribute – Stockholm
As usual, if you don’t see the videos above (email, Facebook, etc.), click here.
Here’s a pic of the whole gang on the river Saturday. Had a blast & can’t wait to get back next year! Hopefully it won’t be quite as low/slow next year….
This may just be the best commercial out there on the subject of marriage equality. And it comes from Ireland, and the group “MarriagEquality“. Watching this ad, “Sinead’s Hand,” makes it crystal clear that putting the question of marriage on the ballot is not only ludicrous, but it’s offensive as hell. This Fall, the state of Maine will vote on whether gay and lesbian couples should have equal rights to marriage. It’s important to win that vote.
But the premise behind putting civil rights on statewide ballots smacks in the face of the types of protections and rights that governments – whether in the U.S. or in Ireland – should automatically provide for its citizens. Watch the commercial, and then ask yourself, “What if you had to ask four million people to marry someone?”
“I am artist enough to know that imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” –Albert Einstein
