Quite a few people asked me if I was moving from Sikeston to Springfield.  No, I am not.  In my new position I took with my company, Starbucks Coffee Co., I will run operations for Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas.  My office will be out of Springfield.  My home will be out of Sikeston. 

I am renting an apartment in Springfield to make life easier, but don’t intend to make it my permant home. 

I will blog more about my position after Christmas.  Even in my remote part of retail, the holidays are busy busy times. 

Thank you to everyone who sent well wishes for the new position.

Just in from watching the new movie, “Julie and Julia” starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.  Four out of Five Stars.  Four out of Five popcorn boxes.  A-.

Meryl Streep is in peak form as the icon Julia Child.  Her humor and sense of Child are the driving force of this movie.  While the two major stars never share the screen, their stories are remarkably intertwinded.  Amy Adams is at home in this genre and connects with charachter Julie as deeply as Streep does Child.  These two women feel this movie.  And the audience feels it because of them.

Behind every great woman is an even greater man.  Stanley Tucci is Paul Child, her husband, her confidant, her lover, her biggest fan, her friend.  Chris Messina plays the modern man behind Julie.  He does it quite well.  Definitely the most real character in the movie.

The movie based on the true story of writer Julie Powell.  She blogs as she takes “365 days to cook 536 recipes”; cooking her way through Julia Child’s famous book Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Great movie and great acting.  Oscar worthy?  Probably….

Interesting story about a man who bought some antique vinyl records and then discovered the records once belonged to his mother.  Actually, it’s quite touching.

Read the story here.

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Update: Whitney’s people seem to have gotten to the links.  This link, the YouTube link and even Mr. Hilton’s link are all disabled.

 

The newest Whitney Houston track, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength” by legendary song writer Dianne Warren was leaked to the internet on Thursday, July 2.
The track is from her September 1, 2009 CD, “I Look to You.”
Without doubt, this is the Whitney most remember and love. Some will argue her voice isn’t the same, or that she isn’t quite where she once was, etc. Regardless, she’s still the best out there. And her voice has changed just a bit: more mature, more real, more ‘emotional’, if you will.
Congratulations to her, and to her team, she’s well on her way to making music history, again.
Listen her new song for yourself, you’ll be glad you did.
Whitney Houston, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength“

No idea of it was real. Just won an online Twitter contest from @OfficiallyWhitney. I will be receiving a copy of her new CD “I Look to You” on it’s release date September 1. It was fun. Glad she’s back.

Learning how to post. Looks like I can update my blog from my iphone!

I was talking to someone who works for me today and I asked a very serious question. Why can’t we do a better job regulating internet pornography? EVERYONE I know, which is thousands of people, agrees we should have better defined and better inforced internet regulations. EVERYONE agrees it is much too simple for young people to gain access to pornography on the internet.

So if we all agree, why isn’t our government doing a better job of crafting legislation which will protect our young people?
Seriously, think about it. We don’t agree at all, as a country, when it comes to health care. We didn’t agree on a President. And we’re all divided over gay marriage. And inspite of our inability to agree: we’re going to see a new health care plan in the next 2 years, we elected a president, and gay men and women are forming families (which is their right.) We don’t agree on these things, but we’re moving forward.
And on a matter which we agree, we aren’t moving forward.
WHY!!!!! (No it’s not a question, it’s an exclamation.)
Is it too much trouble to write your senator? Your congressman? Your congresswoman? Seriously?
I am appalled at our lack of attention, as a people to this matter.
I believe those that chose, should have the right.
But I do not believe it should be so readily available.

(I’ll step down off of my soap box, but I will not let this go!)

Really?  If you click on the link, the Rolling Stone article says Adam “finally just admits he’s gay.”

Was it a secret?  And “comes out” implies he was “in the closet”.  The people who knew Adam before will tell you, he was living his life out loud and in the open. 

“Finally just admits he’s gay”

Does it really matter?  Why does he have to finally just admit?  Is it really a big deal?  Still? 

It does remind me of a conversation I had with a bank teller in Cape Girardeau, MO, who asked if I’d “heard the rumor that Adam’s gay?”  (As if Southeast Missouri was the only place in the world that knew of this coveted secret.)

It’s not a secret, it shouldn’t be, and for those who feel he’s finally just admitting it, maybe you’re finally just admitting it to yourself.

Good luck to Adam Lambert.

Yahoo has somehow become the puppet of the conservative media who refuse to report properly on the new movie “Outrage“.  Regardless of your opinion on the movie and its controversial subject matter, the fact Yahoo opted to mislead the public is troubling.  While Yahoo hasn’t returned a request to comment, as of Sunday night 11:19 PM CST they have not fixed what will certainly be explained as a “technical glitch”.

Yahoo regularly reports on weekend box office numbers.   (Click the link and then click on #51 “Outrage”.  The movie you’re taken to isn’t the movie “Outrage”. )  If you’re interested, you can click the links and learn more about the movies listed on the chart.  One politically charged movie, getting critical attention is the new movie “Outrage”.  Because of its charged subject matter, Yahoo has replaced the link which allows interested parties who click the link to learn more, with a link leading to a similarly named movie.  Interestingly, the new similarly named movie hasn’t been released yet and doesnt’ seem to have a distributor.  It seems highly unlikely the movie made any money this past weekend at the box office.  Oddly enough, another move “Outrage”, did.    As reported correctly by Boxoffice Mojo, the movie earned $26,610 (more than Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire.)

Yahoo could have chosen to just stay out of it.  But instead, they mislead the public.  I wonder which political insider is responsible for this “technical difficulty.”  Is it the same guy who caused the Amazon.com mistake a couple of weeks ago?

I guess make mine a google.