When I visited the Newseum in Washington, DC last year I made sure to find and photograph the names of two friends who are included in the list of slain journalists displayed at the Journalists Memorial. The memorial itself is an awesome — if sorrowful — structure: a huge wall of glass etched with the [...]
There’s trouble in Paradise — and in Bluejaz — as the two popular resorts at the Island Garden City of Samal across the Gulf from Davao City (where I live) are locked in a turf war that’s already resulted in threats being made and complaints being filed before the police. Interestingly, the turf in question [...]
If you open the Google web page these days you’ll be greeted by Sesame Street characters pointing the way to your searches. Some get Cookie Monster or Big Bird, I get The Count (or Count Von Count, to be more formal). It’s a nod to the 40th anniversary of the children’s educational television series, and [...]
Google is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street by featuring Sesame Street characters in its main page. Having grown up on a steady diet of Sesame Street back in the 70s (and well into the 80s), I appreciate this gesture from Google. Sesame Street has been one of the most influential forces on my [...]
In one scene in the Sesame Street DVD “What’s the name of that song,” a tourist asks the two-headed monster for directions, and the monster(s) reply: “Statue of Liberty? That way. Tribeca? That way. Carnegie Hall? (Slight pause) Practice, practice, practice!”
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