We just finished watching a good portion of 'Newsies' on the TV. Not the best movie ever made, but I loved it when I was younger. Loved it as in watched it a couple of times a month or at the very minimum once a month. I don't know why, I just loved it. It has catchy songs. Nice storyline. Maybe this is where I got a taste of fighting the Man. Watching it just now, is it a good movie? Not really. Was it fun to watch again and have just a split second for the lines and songs to come back? Yes. My wife just rolled her eyes.
It made me think of some other movies from my younger days that I still enjoy. Let's start with 'The Goonies'. This is another movie that was on a constant loop in our house (much to my mom's chagrin, I'm sure). Who doesn't like this movie? A bunch of kids on an adventure to find lost gold of a pirate to save their homes? Sure. And let's be honest here, One Eye Willie sounds worse when you are grown up as opposed to when you are in your innocent childhood adolescence.
'The Great Muppet Caper' was my first real exposure to Jim Henson's headliners. I vaguely remember Fraggle Rock (but watching it in adulthood made me think Henson was on some serious drugs), I never saw The Dark Crystal, I never was around when The Muppet Show was on, so 'The Great Muppet Caper' was it. While I don't remember watching this as much as some of the others from my childhood, I still list it as one of the tops from my youth.
31 December 2011
26 December 2011
Oh Jackson!
Alright, in an attempt to quench my thirst for baseball to start up again, I went rummaging around for the greatest call of this past year from Mario and Rod and found it. Austin Jackson makes up for his high strikeout rate with an amazing glove and a cannon for an arm. I love that hockey being played right now, but baseball just needs to get here and replace the basketball games on the television.
So here it is. Try not to get goosebumps when Rod goes ape shit.
So here it is. Try not to get goosebumps when Rod goes ape shit.
25 December 2011
The Christmas Post
*Author's note: I wrote this back in 2008 and I have since made it my Christmas Eve or Christmas day post. It is simple and makes it easy for me to say that I at least wrote something for the holidays. Enjoy the day everyone. Be sure to keep the television off as long as possible and love being with family and friends.*
We are watching A Christmas Story right now, and there is nothing better in this movie than the nostalgic feel of the Christmas morning scene. More than the kids ripping apart the wrapping, it is the expressions on the faces of the mom and dad. Just the joy that they have watching their kids.
We are watching A Christmas Story right now, and there is nothing better in this movie than the nostalgic feel of the Christmas morning scene. More than the kids ripping apart the wrapping, it is the expressions on the faces of the mom and dad. Just the joy that they have watching their kids.
As much as people think it is all about the Red Rider BB gun, the movie is more than that. It's about family, more than anything.
- Idolizing the father
- Having a life long understanding with your mother
- And the fighting with your brother
And the final scene of the mom and dad relaxing with the Christmas tree alight and the snow falling at night. Magic.
24 December 2011
Yoga for Kids
For the longest time I have been wanting to write about this, but have always found other subjects and this just kept getting pushed to the back of the shelf. Well, when I woke up two hours before my alarm went off, I found this idea kicking around my head and finally am getting around to write about this.
We sell yoga videos for kids at work. Well, not videos. Video. One, but if you can find one there's bound to be more. When I walk past it, I can't help but think that it's both good and bad. It's good because it gets kids up and about. It gets them off their asses and exercising, you can't argue that point. But I don't remember growing up and having an exercise video I watched to keep me active. I went outside and played or I went downstairs and ran around down there. In fact, I can remember my mom owning a few workout VHS (look it up people not born before the 90s) but I do not remember her saying 'here kids, watch this and work out.' She sent us outside to play with the neighbor kids. Even in the winter time, we went outside. We dug tunnels in the back yard. We went to the Michigan Bell building and went sledding on the huge snow piles from the parking lots that I have always hoped the workers made for the neighborhood kids.
When you are young enough, you don't realize that you are exercising and that it is good for you when you are playing. You go out and run around because you are having fun. You are playing with other kids, but you are outside. Now, here is where I think that having an exercise video for kids is bad. If you have a kid exercising using a video, they are still inside. As people talk about our kids living a more sedentary lifestyle the easiest way to put an end to that is to get them out of the house. Make them go out and play kick the can or kickball or dodge ball or tag (or freeze tag, or tv tag, or one of the thousands of types of tag we use to play as kids). Make them get out of the house and get some fresh air, it does a body good.
Either way, it's good for kids to get away from sitting around and exercising. Even if the exercising takes place in front of the television that is the root of some of this evil.
We sell yoga videos for kids at work. Well, not videos. Video. One, but if you can find one there's bound to be more. When I walk past it, I can't help but think that it's both good and bad. It's good because it gets kids up and about. It gets them off their asses and exercising, you can't argue that point. But I don't remember growing up and having an exercise video I watched to keep me active. I went outside and played or I went downstairs and ran around down there. In fact, I can remember my mom owning a few workout VHS (look it up people not born before the 90s) but I do not remember her saying 'here kids, watch this and work out.' She sent us outside to play with the neighbor kids. Even in the winter time, we went outside. We dug tunnels in the back yard. We went to the Michigan Bell building and went sledding on the huge snow piles from the parking lots that I have always hoped the workers made for the neighborhood kids.
When you are young enough, you don't realize that you are exercising and that it is good for you when you are playing. You go out and run around because you are having fun. You are playing with other kids, but you are outside. Now, here is where I think that having an exercise video for kids is bad. If you have a kid exercising using a video, they are still inside. As people talk about our kids living a more sedentary lifestyle the easiest way to put an end to that is to get them out of the house. Make them go out and play kick the can or kickball or dodge ball or tag (or freeze tag, or tv tag, or one of the thousands of types of tag we use to play as kids). Make them get out of the house and get some fresh air, it does a body good.
Either way, it's good for kids to get away from sitting around and exercising. Even if the exercising takes place in front of the television that is the root of some of this evil.
21 December 2011
Sports at Christmas time
The NBA needs to take a page from the NFL. This year, Christmas falls on a Sunday and what day does the NFL generally play on? Sunday. So looking at that, they have moved all but one of the games to days around the twenty fifth. There's a game on Thursday, the majority of the games are on Saturday, one on Sunday, and then one on Monday. Now, the game on Sunday night is Green Bay against Chicago, so it's not like the teams have to travel cross country. I wonder if the Bears players are going to have to be in Green Bay a day or two before the game or if they have the option to spend Christmas morning with family or friends. Because that would be nice if they could do that. I mean, come on, what can they learn from going through a practice or walk through on Sunday morning at the field?
The NBA has played on Christmas day for most of my adult life, or for as long as I care to remember. I have never understood that. Well, I can't say I don't fully understand it, I understand that if they are the only sport on television on Christmas day, they'll get all the ratings and viewers. I understand that. However, and I feel like I'm writing a bunch of themed posts here, but Christmas is all about being with your family and friends. I know that it's all about making money and having a captive audience that is in need of sports, but it's just one day. Let your players have that time.
I don't ever remember watching sports on Christmas, in fact, I don't really remember the television being on Christmas day. Well, the CBC channel use to have the crackling fireplace and soft Christmas music on most of Christmas day and we turned that on once or twice to have some ambiance. In fact, you can find something similar to this on Netflix watch it now if you feel so inclined. Just type in 'fireplace for your home' and enjoy. I thought it's a great idea. Anyway, I don't remember the television being on Christmas day until late in the afternoon. You obviously have present opening in the morning, then there was breakfast or brunch, and then we would always play with our new toys or try on the clothes that we got from Santa. Eventually the clean up would be underway and that could take some time because who wants to clean up versus play with new stuff? So it wasn't until late afternoon or early evening that the television would be turned on and I don't remember what we watched, I just don't remember watching sports.
Or maybe we did and I was just too engrossed with my Legos.
The NBA has played on Christmas day for most of my adult life, or for as long as I care to remember. I have never understood that. Well, I can't say I don't fully understand it, I understand that if they are the only sport on television on Christmas day, they'll get all the ratings and viewers. I understand that. However, and I feel like I'm writing a bunch of themed posts here, but Christmas is all about being with your family and friends. I know that it's all about making money and having a captive audience that is in need of sports, but it's just one day. Let your players have that time.
I don't ever remember watching sports on Christmas, in fact, I don't really remember the television being on Christmas day. Well, the CBC channel use to have the crackling fireplace and soft Christmas music on most of Christmas day and we turned that on once or twice to have some ambiance. In fact, you can find something similar to this on Netflix watch it now if you feel so inclined. Just type in 'fireplace for your home' and enjoy. I thought it's a great idea. Anyway, I don't remember the television being on Christmas day until late in the afternoon. You obviously have present opening in the morning, then there was breakfast or brunch, and then we would always play with our new toys or try on the clothes that we got from Santa. Eventually the clean up would be underway and that could take some time because who wants to clean up versus play with new stuff? So it wasn't until late afternoon or early evening that the television would be turned on and I don't remember what we watched, I just don't remember watching sports.
Or maybe we did and I was just too engrossed with my Legos.
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