if you haven't heard the news by now, Ellen DeGeneres has finally got her wish [after hints of a varying degree of subtlety and not-so-much for years on her show] and Pixar will be making a sequel to the 2003 animated hit 'Finding Nemo' in which of course Ellen voiced the character of Dory, this quirky and likeable but amnesiac blue regal tang fish called Dory. the sequel is going to be called 'Finding Dory' [...]
i have called Google 'Uncle Google' for a long time now - i'm not sure why i do that cos it's very silly but it's become my thing [which is probly why i do that]. i guess one reason is that when someone asks me something i don't know i will either tell them to ask Uncle Google or i say that i will and it feels like bringing another person into the conversation. i [...]
oh, what a classic, definitely one of the best Pearls Before Swine strips yet - on International Liars Day, Stephan Pastis comes up with an absolute goodie... [For another great Pearls before Swine strip involving flying encyclopaedias, click here]
the theme was a day in the life of me, and to a large extent this is what a regular day looks like: hanging out with my beautiful wife, looking deep and contemplative in many different ways and poses, messing around with technomology, being different in some way, playing some kind of sport, game or improv to the full [sometimes resulting in africa shaped injuries], appreciating bobblehead [or 3D] Hulk, taking time to worship God [...]
then, in case that was not enough, i got involved in my first 'fight' on the Twitter... [i know, too many people surprised it took me this long, it is possible i just forgot any others that occurred] it revolved around the hash tag #SafetyTipsForLadies which someone that i followed tweeted and so i went to the link and read a bunch of them and was horrified by the way they seemed to be dealing [...]
while i was sitting at the office waiting for someone to help me with something i started scrolling backwards through my blog posts and came upon some from long, long, ago in a galaxy and figured that there might be new readers/followers who hadn't seen these and so here is a taste of past brett's blogging: not just this post but all the commentary that followed - there were some really great questions and we [...]
another week, another 'Coffee with Jesus' cartoon strip holding a mirror up towards us, this time in the area of prayer... Psalm 46.10 reads, 'Be still and know that I am God.' quite often most of us forget the 'be still' part as illustrated really well here: of course too often we also get the 'and know that I am God' part pretty wrong as well, but that's another post...
so last nite tbV and i finally watched the movie 'Lars and the real girl' which had come highly recommended by our Philly friend Janell Anema and it was indeed well worth the watch. Ryan Gosling [who i have been completely against since he starred in 'The Notebook' which is a movie which irritated me beyond belief for reasons that most people don't really care much about] is phenomenal as Lars, who is a likeable [...]
this week's challenge is a little more vague than normal which is great cos it allows for a wider scope of creativity and so i came up with these two pics which for me contain the idea of 'Future Tense' first up, the world's most famous stuffed dolphin whose name is No_bob [i was going to call him 'Bob' but he doesn't bob hence the name and the lack of a huge number of entrants [...]
i was asking that question as i walked [by myself!] to the office today as tbV had a meeting at Darin's house... and the obvious answer would be 50th street [i'm convinced it's 51st in my head so have to type it down now or i may not find my way back home] Oakland, California, Americaland... but i'm looking a little deeper, after 19 months in the 'hood of Kensington, Philly [where in the city [...]