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Busy Weekend

June 23, 2010July 8, 2010 John Birthday, Choral Music, Men's Chorus, Una Voce

This past weekend was rather busy around this household. The biggest event was Sunday when we had our niece’s 4th birthday party here at the house. Saturday night we attended the Una Voce Florida Men’s Chorale concert. The concert title was “Harmonia Mundi” or music of the world. After the concert, we went over and picked up the nephews to spend the night. Whew! As soon as everyone left Sunday and all the trash was stashed, I sat down in my favorite chair, and was out light like a light for about two hours.

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Say It To My Face Orrin Hatch

June 19, 2010June 25, 2010 John Homosexual Affair, Homosexuals, LGBT, Mormon, Orrin Hatch, Religion, Tea Baggers, Tithing

Here’s the first in a brand new series here at Deep Sand. I’m sick and tired of hearing the Republicans and krazy kristian kooks like the American Family Association and Tony Perkins and many others just make shit up about gay people and the issues faced by LGBT people in this country (and around the world). They do it because they get to try to hide behind press releases, podiums, security and websites. So I’ve decided to call them out. I’m going to find a number and do my best to get through to them or their staff person, and I intend to respectfully and thoughtfully challenge them to say it to my face (or at least over the phone).

Culture Movies

The Blind Side-A Movie Review

June 18, 2010June 18, 2010 John Adaptation, Biopic and Sport, Comedy, Drama, John Lee Hancock, Lily Collins, Quinton Aaron, Ray McKinnon, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw

Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher’s presence in the Touhys’ lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.

Culture Movies

The Road-A Movie Review

June 18, 2010June 18, 2010 John Action/Adventure, Drama, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation, Viggo Mortensen

An epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. It imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of — a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.

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Rush Tells Hungry Kids To Go Dumpster Diving

June 18, 2010June 18, 2010 John Children, Dumpster Diving, Hunger, Rush Limbaugh

Rush on his show getting bent out of shape about the fact that 16 million children will go hungry this summer without their school lunch. Since he can’t miss a chance to slam any Obama, he proceeds to say that since Michele Obama thinks kids are too fat, maybe it would be good for these kids to go hungry all summer. Yes, he suggests they go dumpster diving. The irony of someone Rush’s size suggesting it would be good for fat children to go hungry all summer pales with the knowledge that Rush himself has fed at the public trough. Yes friends, there was a time when Rush was out of work and using food stamps and unemployment checks to sustain himself.