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Atlas Shrugged Part 1 – with all of the occupy movements and the economic crisis, you would think that this movie would have received more fan fare. Ayn Rand‘s tale of the good of capitalism and bad of Marxism should be a very close parallel to the demonstrations and hullabaloo we all see in the media. But the problem is, this movie is pretty terrible. Such a shame, Ayn Rand was one of my favorite authors in college.
I’m still pretty bummed from last night’s extremely disappointing loss by the Phils. But this morning, Bubs and I were up at 5am to head down to Atlantic City for his first real away ice hockey game. The boys in white lost, but they showed a TON of improvement. Bubs had a nice assist while he was playing defense, threading an outlet pass to one of the wingers.
Tomorrow morning… this guy is coming home with us!
Wow, we had a blast at the Flyers-Devils preseason game last night. I knew the seats were going to be awesome, but there was a lot more cool stuff in store for us than just sitting one row from the glass. Around mid-afternoon, I checked the Flyers’ website for tonights’ lineup and found some big surprises – Pronger, Jagr, and Bryzgalov were all playing tonight! Our seats were next to the Flyers bench, right by the tunnel to the dressing rooms – 2nd row from the ice. These tickets were a replacement birthday present for Bubs – originally we had tickets for the game that was canceled due to Hurricane Irene. I really, really lucked out when I got this pair of insanely great seats for $65/piece (face value… gulp… $165 a piece) – you gotta love preseason ticket prices on the open market!
When we got there, the lower level seats were packed with hopeful fans begging for pucks from the players warming up, but we excused ourselves through the crowd and got to our seats. It wasn’t long before Danny Briere was flipping a puck back and forth on his stick blade right in front of us. He flipped it over the glass and it sailed just over Bubs’ head and a young teen behind us caught the puck with my hands on top of his. He smiled, looked at Bubs and gave him the puck. The teen got an applause from everyone in the section. Bubs was soaring now.
Then the pregame introductions happened and the folks in the seats next to us (right next to the players’ entrance offered for Bubs to come over and high five all the players as they hit the ice. And there they went all putting their gloves up and getting some encouragement from my son…. Jagr, Pronger, Hartnell, Bryzgalov, Giroux, Simmonds, Rinaldo… everyone! In fact, here’s a video of the tail end of Bubs getting fives from the guys in orange…
After the second period, the nice folks next to us left early and offered us their seats, now Bubs was sitting right next to Ilya Brzgalov. Bubs high-fived all the players two more times (coming out for the third period and at the end of the game). Our friends Bill and Lori texted me between periods. I invited them down to take our old seats next to us for the third period and they made their way down and enjoyed some crazy-close hockey too. The Flyers went on to win on a sweet goal by Jagr and I brought a very tired, but trilled 10 year old boy home. All the way home, he was asking me questions like, “so how many future hall of famers do you think I high-fived tonight?” and “Do you think I can get Danny Briere to sign my puck at the carnival this year?”
And this just in, I checked out the highlights clips from the game last night and watch this… around the 0:40 mark, after the Wayne Simmonds goal, look to the left and you can see me turn and get five from Bubs!
A horror writer named Christine Dougherty hired me to build a website for her and while game planning the site, I mentioned that maybe she could do a book signing at the Carriage Trade Cheese Shoppe. I gave Christine Abbe’s number and hoped for the best. Turns out there is a ghost tour in Medford on October 22nd, and it worked out perfectly for everyone that night! Go see Christine, enjoy the ghost tour, and have some cheese! Also, be sure to check out Christine’s books, I got my copies in the mail yesterday and can’t wait to dig in.
– with all of the occupy movements and the economic crisis, you would think that this movie would have received more fan fare. Ayn Rand‘s tale of the good of capitalism and bad of Marxism should be a very close parallel to the demonstrations and hullabaloo we all see in the media. But the problem is, this movie is pretty terrible. Such a shame, Ayn Rand was one of my favorite authors in college.
- loved this movie. Great script and I really appreciate flawed heroes like Paul Giamatti’s character.
– Mo rules.
– Wow, the kids loved this book. It comes with a CD and a button to play the song so you can sing along while you read (and we did – very LOUDLY!)
– fantastic nearly wordless book about flying frogs
– nice artwork, good lesson on sharing
– Viv is really enjoying this series, the cartoon format makes it fun for this young reader