Feedburner = the awesome

I've had google analytics enabled on my blog for quite some time.  A little over a year ago, google bought out feedburner and then made many of their services free.  So, I've been sprucing up the old blog and set up a feedburner account...and I can't rave about it enough.  If you have a blog and you are interested in more than just posting your latest diatribes, you might want to check it out.

Slumdog Millionaire

Go see it.  Some of the parts are somewhat contrived and Bollywood isn't for everyone, but I thought it was a really good movie.  I liked the flashback style they used and I'm generally a fan of Danny Boyle's work.  Plus, who doesn't love Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Looking for recommendations

I have the next six weeks to do whatever I want to do, no strings attached.  I'm getting ready to go to bed in a bit and it feels so great to know this is the first Monday in forever I don't have to set an alarm to be up by 9am.  Nope, I can sleep as late or as early as I want.  If I don't want to get out of bed...don't have to.

Anyways, I'm looking for some good fiction.  I have a bunch of non-fiction to catch up on already. 

I like Dan Brown/Steve Berry type books, as well as historical fiction.  I've read all Harry Potter books upon their release.  Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy is probably the best bunch of books I've read in the past 5 years.  James Michener is probably my all time favorite author, and I have a soft spot for Kurt Vonnegut.  This is starting to sound like a personals write up so I'll stop.

Please leave recommendations in the comments.

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Remembering Vietnam: The Wall at 25

When I lived downtown, I used to frequently visit museums, memorials, and parks.  Jogging or walking to a lot of these places, with my trustee walkman (this was in the days before ipods) was my thinking time.  One of my favorite places to go on these jaunts was to the Vietnam Wall, not just because it was a straight shot down 23rd street, but because it was so moving to see other people in their experience interacting with the wall, and a moving monument in its own right.  My favorite time of the day has always been dawn and that was definitely my favorite time to jog down to the wall...POW/MIA vendors just setting up their stalls, but mostly empty, peaceful, and quiet.

I was reminded of one of my favorite thinking spots again tonight while I watched this show on the Wall on the Smithsonian channel (one of my favorite tv channels these days).  I knew most of the stuff on the show, but it was well done, and worth checking out if you get a chance.

maybe i should read my horoscope at the beginning of the day instead of the end...

"Suppressed feelings can be transformed into compulsive actions all
around, so it may be a good time to question motives, both your own and
others'. If you just have to do or say it, perhaps you shouldn't."

ha ha ha

Bolt

I watch a lot of animated films that most "adults" probably wouldn't.  I have every Disney movie available (the classics, not the ones like Cinderella 2) on DVD, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I like most of them. 

I really wanted to go see Bolt when I was home for Thanksgiving, but I don't think my Mom and Dad were on board with it.  ;)  So, I went yesterday, and even with relatively high expectations, I was pleasantly surprised.  Bolt is a great movie...  It's renewed my faith in Disney post-Pixar.  I would really recommend it to just about everyone I know.  I would even say it's the best Disney animated feature since Nemo (5+ years ago). 

Plus, for music lovers, Jenny Lewis (one of my favorite currently recording singers) does a song for the movie that was really pretty good. 

Oh yeah, it also made me get on Petfinder again and look at doggies.  :)

Anyways, go see it.