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February 21, 2010 | "Whoa whoa I gotta go...back to schoooool...again", 2nd Semester, In the News, LAS: Community and Social Change, Life in General, Prescott College, School Daze, Spring 2010, The 4-1-1 on Me

Borders-Sky Harbor Airport is sponsoring a journal drive for my Write it Out Journal Drive project. If you’re flying into or out of the Phoenix area FEB 21-MAR 13, 2010, be sure to stop by the Borders in Terminal 4 and support our cause.

Not visiting Phoenix, but still want to donate? No problem, for details on the project and how to donate, check out the Write it Out Journal Drive website.

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November 3, 2009 | In the News, Life in General, Random Thoughts

Remember that judge who refused to marry the interracial couple? No? Maybe this will refresh your memory. After reading this today, all I have to say is

PRAISE THE LORD! HALLELUJAH! PASS THE BISCUITS!!

and the reason he didn’t give an explanation is because he’s a racist asshole and no one was going to let him forget it.

October 15, 2009 | In the News, Life in General, Random Thoughts

I could dig out my stool, climb on and talk about this interracial couple who were denied a marriage license in Louisiana.

But I’m not going to.

Because it says it all in the comments.

I just hope there’s going to be a follow up to this article. With the headline reading: JUDGE LOSES HIS JOB FOR BEING RACIST.

September 14, 2009 | In the News, Life in General

I heard the news about Patrick Swayze on the way home from work today.

How sad is this?

And why does 57 sound so young?

My own father is 64–65?–and survived a bout of prostate cancer. He got lucky.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen DIRTY DANCING. Seriously. I couldn’t. I’ve seen it so many times. I saw it twice in the movie theater, watched it when it came on the cable channels, watched it when it came on the regular channels (I hate it when they don’t know where to put the commercial breaks) and TOTALLY DID THE SNOOPY DANCE when the sequel came out.

I was so there. And loved it. Saw it twice in the movie theater, watched it when it came on…well, you know the routine.

Both movies are in my movie collection.

I owned the Dirty Dancing soundtrack for a while.

I had a poster of Patrick, as Johnny Castle, on my wall. And damn did he look fine. Dressed all in black, reclining on one side…

In reading this article about him, they listed some of the movies he’d been in and, ironically, I’ve seen them all. Even a few they didn’t mention.

DIRTY DANCING will always be my favorite. And ROAD HOUSE will always be Mr. Maul’s. Although he’d never admit it. Or the embarrassing fact that he and his BF have seen it so many times they can now quote movie lines.

And whenever I hear “Unchained Melody” (I really love that song), I think of that scene from GHOST. I mean, really, who hasn’t?

It also mentioned in the article that he danced with the Joffrey Ballet. For those of you unfamiliar with the dance world, the Joffrey is to ballet what Juliard is to music. In all the stuff I’ve read about Patrick, this is something I never knew about him. I just knew that he was great dancer and it was obvious he’d had some kind of ballet training. Amazingly cool that he played football, but wanted to dance.

Rest in peace, Patrick. I hope you’re teaching those angels how to tango.

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July 24, 2009 | In the News, Life in General, Random Thoughts

It’s reading stories like THIS that made me want to self-publish in the first place. And the main reason why I’m still on the fence about the series.