Archive for the ‘Tidbits’ Category

Italy Continued

November 7th, 2009

It takes me a long time to debrief.  When I return from a vacation, or an event like a birthday or Christmas, it often takes me awhile to process and conclude.  Sometimes its Christmas time before I have organized, and sorted through birthday presents.  And in the case of my trip to Italy, sometimes the debriefing goes into the next year.

Its not that I don’t care or that these things aren’t on my mind.  It’s merely that life moves fast and sometimes you have to stick things on the side just to keep up.

Since it had been so long since my trip, I had decided that I was going to wait until I had the final 8 journals and 3 review posts done and then post them all at once.   But I found that this was making it a larger task, and I needed to have some check marks.

So today, I have back dated and posted 5 new Italy journals.  I still have 3 more to get on here, plus 3 reviews.  But I needed some momentum.  Hopefully I did that with these 5.  I will get the others soon (within the next year?).

Remember, you can view any post that I have put into the “Italy” category on the right.  You can also go to these 5 directly.

May 20th Fattoria Resta

May 21st Pinch This

May 23rd John Denver Is Full Of

May 24th Jack Talk Thai Real Good

May 25th Even My Sweat Is Sweating

You’re Partisan Hacks

November 5th, 2009

Both of these first two videos are on the longer side, but both are powerful and hillarious.  Both involve Jon Stewart.  If you only have time for one of these, the 2nd video is much more poignant.

The first video is the Daily Show making fun of CNN because it fact-checked a Saturday Night Live sketch, but does a poorer job fact checking its own reporters.

This second video is when Jon Stewart went on the show Crossfire a few years back.  Do not give up on this video, watch the full thing.  Its awesome till the 10th minute.  It gets a little slow around the 10:00-12:00 minute mark, but he throws a zinger around 12:30.

And this is his follow-up to his crossfire experience.

Just Drive

August 20th, 2009

WARNING:  I almost lost my breakfast lunch and dinner watching this.  It is not for the feint of heart.  It is a video that was made to scare people away from texting and using their phones while driving.  Please heed its warning.  Please, just drive. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8203120.stm

Why So Serious

August 19th, 2009

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-joker-artist.html

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Cause Andy You’re A Star

August 10th, 2009

Today is my birthday, and K.C and Jonathan made this jib jab.  Nice work!  I think the freakiest one is the in and out character.  I feel creepy.

Florence To Montalcino

June 27th, 2009

I have backdated another post from italy.  This one is from our travel day from florence to montalcino.  Thanks for reading and your patience with me trying to catch up on this task.

http://andymorales.com/snideremarks/what-a-pitti/

Bidet To You Too Sir

June 14th, 2009

An intellectual discussion on bidets, had while in Florence Italy.  Will you join this roundtable discussion?

By the way, I am still working on catching up on my journals.  I posted a new one today.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hx8lLF1Z0k

Forza Juve

June 5th, 2009

I brought back a Juventus jersey for my niece.  She has her game face on.

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Back To The Future

June 2nd, 2009

I got behind on posting and writing up my journals from my trip.  To my reader(s) out there, I still plan on writing and posting those.  When I do, I will backdate them to the date of the day that I am writing about.  I just finished publishing one from May 16 that you can see by scrolling down to that date.  Thank you for your love and support.  Keep checking as I post in the future, past journal entries from my trip.

Rome Adventure

May 23rd, 2009

intimidated by the pickpocket stories ive recently heard about the rome trainstation. leaving in 2 hours for hour drive, 2 hr train to rome

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