good movie marketing
Q – What is cuter than a tiny 6-y-o saying and pantomiming “Boom. Boom. Fire power?” A – Her 3-y-o brother with a lisp saying it.
Month: May 2009
a day in the life
5/11 3:00 p.m. – Amy brings home a pile of disks filled with pictures that I agreed to compile into a montage for the First Graders’ end of the year celebration. Two of the teachers sent over 500 pictures each while one only sent about two dozen blurry pictures. My goal was a 10-15 minute […]
Noah says:
On Noah’s SECOND school trip to Dollywood, he killed his cell phone on the Sidewinder. After sitting in the car for half an hour waiting for him after the last Chess Club meeting, Doug and I decided to try making one of the old phones from Doug’s electronics boneyard work for Noah. We found one […]
pink
Evan says:
Our daily wake-up and feed me alarm had something extra to say in addition to the usual, “I hungry. My tummy growling.” The cryptic, “Something’s on the kitchen floor” caused both Doug and I to imagine a dog accident that needed immediate hazmat attention. “I’ll clean up the dog mess in a minute.” The clarification, […]
Zoo critters
butterfly
m-m-my generation
Let’s review the generations: 1901-1913: Interbellum Generation 1914-1929: G.I. Generation 1930-1941: Silent Generation 1942-1953: Baby Boom Generation 1954-1965: Generation Jones 1965-1979: Generation X 1975-1986: MTV Generation 1980-1994: Millennial Generation or “Generation Y” 1995-present: Generation Z I do not deny that I am old. I have a teenager who likes to remind me how decrepit I […]
overheard
Man in checkout line: “Did you hear that Jon & Kate plus 8 guy is cheating on his wife?” Woman in checkout line: “That’s what *everybody says.” Man in checkout line: “Women LOVE their show. Some crazy fan is gonna have him killed for cheating on his wife.” Woman in checkout line: “Well, he could […]
Star Trek
My babysitters don’t clean, so I can’t give the movie a lengthy review right now. I think Mr. Abrams’ version is a beautiful starting point for a series of Star Trek movies. It is respectful of history and knows exactly how far to push the audience’s memory buttons. The characters are easily recognizable, but created […]