Back when I was in the service (First Lieutenant, Safety Patrol, 6th grade), I would sometimes have to help watch over the kindergartners to make sure they didn’t hurt themselves. Sometimes, I would get into arguments with them. Their arguments would always be somewhat compelling, and as a 12-year-old, though I felt that I was [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Arguing with 5-year-olds - "It’s a Free Country"
Posted in Arguing with 5 year olds on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Cut to the Chase - America’s Next Top Model
Posted in Cut to the Chase on May 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In today’s edition of Cut to the Chase, rather than look at a movie, I’ll be cutting to the chase of the TV series “America’s Next Top Model.” Tyra Banks is a model that likes to teach lessons like, “modeling is about more than just inner beauty.” On her show, she generally chooses winners that [...]
Bear Grylls’ next challenge
Posted in Al Observes Things, Movies on May 16, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Bear Grylls is one bad-ass mother fucker.
For those of you unfamiliar with Bear Grylls, Bear is a guy on survival show on TV. He gets dropped in locations with extreme geographical climates with little more than the clothes on his back. Once there, he teaches his audience, through demonstration, how to survive, as a camera [...]
A career in reverse archaeology
Posted in Al Observes Things on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Indiana Jones makes archaeology look sexy, but is it really a good career? My magic 8 ball says that sources say no. As I cannot read my 8 ball’s mind as it reads mine, I could only guess that it feels this way because archaeology doesn’t pay well, and in the end, the job is [...]
