There and Back Again

Pondering: Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does. (Bill Nye)
Being that I work in the field of human resources, a proponent of behavior-based interviewing and a huge fan of BBC’s Murphy’s Law and James Nesbitt, I find this YouTube video just brilliant. A gem of a find! [...]

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Pondering: Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. (Anne Frank)

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Spanish captain Iker Casillas and teammates celebrate after winning the UEFA EURO 2008 final between Germany and Spain at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria. (Image: © Daniel Dal Zennaro/epa/Corbis)

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Pondering: You make me feel alive, alive, alive! (Duran Duran)
Good golly, Miss Molly! Went to see Duran Duran’s concert last night and I have to say, I have a bit of a crush on John Taylor now. My sister Myra spent her young adolescent years swooning over this man - and this [...]

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Pondering: The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. (Frank Herbert)
I don’t understand anything that is being said in this clip from YouTube but it doesn’t matter. I could watch it over and over again. Eduardo Noriega makes it worth the [...]

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Pondering: I’m too pretty to go to prison…I’d never get any sleep. (Danny Blue, Hustle)
Marc Warren, a.k.a. Danny Blue in BBC/AMC’s Hustle, Private Albert Blythe in HBO’s Band of Brothers, PC Dougie Raymond in BBC’s The Vice and Mr. Teatime in the Hogfather to name a few. I do enjoy a lot watching him [...]

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Listening to: New Shoes (Paolo Nutini)
Pondering: I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. (Charlie Chaplin)
Since I have been getting into the habit of posting pictures of actors who have caught my fancy of late, I might as well add another one:

Gerard Butler. Best known as Leonidis in this year’s big [...]

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Listening to: Straight A’s (Ambulance Ltd)
Pondering: Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. (Dean Acheson)

Eduardo Noriega. Sigh! You know, I forget about him every now and then but now and again, I read an article, see a picture or find out about a new movie and I get reminded [...]

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Listening to: Calendar Girl (Stars)
Pondering: It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. (Henri Rousseau)

Now doesn’t he look amazing? I just watched the DVD of a movie called Rancid which is, I think one of Matthew Settle’s newest movies. I first “met” Mr. Settle in the movie [...]

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Song in my head: Don’t Worry Baby (Beach Boys)
Pondering: But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. (John Fogerty)
David Gahan (Depeche Mode) way back when and the David Gahan of now:

After all these years, after all the toils of the difficult years - the man still looks [...]

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