13/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
tubby tuesday #2
Don’t look happy about it but I lost 3.6 lbs this week. Good for a week I spose, so far I’ve been working on watching what I’m eating — need to add some activity in there somewhere.
So, here are the stats.
This week — 3.6 lbs
Net weight loss since starting the challenge with Thomas on Oct. 10, 2008 — 2.8 lbs.
10/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
achtung yall
In 1991 (or maybe 92) I was given my first CD player/boombox for Christmas, and the first CD I purchased was U2’s One single. I wore that CD out – as well as the Achtung Baby album.
My friends and I were just getting into U2 for the first time and loving every bit of it. As soon as we saw pictures and video of Bono walking on stage during the opening bars of Zoo Station, doing his "Bono dance" (as we called it) we imitated it profusely.
We did this dance/walk/pose over and over again in pictures, videos or just walking down the street. I couldn’t tell you why, but we thought it was cool.
For some reason while trying to get a picture today Zoo Station came back in my head — hence the picture.
Otherwise a pretty uneventful day — took the Christmas lights down, took an elliptical machine to the thrift store and took our old washer to a scrap yard — apparently thrift stores don’t like em.
I also wrestled with holding on to things too tightly and making the mistake of taking those same things for granted — a mistake I probably make more than I’d like to admit.
But maybe that’s what Zoo TV was all about. Mocking the excess and challenging us to consider what really matters.
Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
Looking forward to the bands new album, No Line on the Horizon. We’ll see where the band challenges us to go next.
7/365
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When I graduated high school a friend said there were three P’s you needed as a business man in Dallas – a phone, a pager and a pistol.
Monday, six candidates for the Republican National Party Chairmanship took part in a “debate.” Two (three) of the questions posed to candidates where, “How many guns do you own?” and “Do you use Twitter and how many followers do you have?”
I guess that means that owning guns and using Twitter makes you qualified to be the GOP leader? I’ll let you decide.
*notice – no photographers or politicians were hurt in the shooting of this photo.
5/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
its awfully cold today in North Texas. maybe not as cold as other places, but following a weekend of 80 degrees, 30 degrees feels super cold.
we’re lucky. even in my garage its not that cold. i had a nice hot shower and settled down with a cold beer before remembering i needed to take this photo. then i put on a nice warm beanie and my extra warm new coat and took this photo. i even have some nice warm gloves in my pocket that i could have put on.
yet tonight around north texas and elsewhere who knows how many men, women and children are trying to stay warm outside.
this weekend my friends Josh and Jeff spent 29 hours on the street in waco, living as though they were homeless. Josh said he realized fairly quickly that it was a lot harder than he imagined. just 29 hours. yet folks do it 24/7.
thanks to folks like invisiblepeople.tv who help remind us that these are real people with real stories. i hope to tell Josh and Jeff’s story soon on the podcast and hopefully Mark (from
invisiblepeople.tv) as well.
until then, chew on this and then check out the website ::
On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; “Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?†For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly:
“I certainly did something about it. I made you.â€
also – read my first night homeless
Jeff Brady
Jeff Brady is taking over for Brad Hawkins now on WFAA’s Daybreak.
Brad Hawkins
Brad Hawkins has left Daybreak for “corporate America” and former 5 p.m. anchor, Jeff Brady is taking his slot alongside Cynthia Izaguirre “for the time being.”
Hawkins posted a video blog on WFAA explaining the switch and seemed to really put an emphasis on “this is not permanent.” Sounded like perhaps he’s not too happy with the switch.
Been a crazy 12 months for the Daybreak team. First was the change of bringing in Izaguirre, next was the departure of Justin Farmer, who was replaced by Brad Hawkins, and now Hawkin’s departure. Will be interesting to see what happens next.
It’ll also be interesting to see what kind of reaction this gets – the original announcement about Justin Farmer remains one of the #1 blog posts on my site. Crazy!
UPDATE (11/13/09): Jeff Brady has left WFAA as well. As of March 12, 2009, he left the station to start his own new media/PR consulting company – Brady Media Group.
In a Tweet from June 27, he suggests that folks aren’t interested in “appointment TV” anymore. We don’t rush home to watch the news at 5,6 and 10 anymore. He’s right – probably why I hadn’t noticed he was no longer with the station.
From his site:
My name is Jeff L. Brady. I’m the CEO of a new media advocacy agency called the Brady Media Group. We are journalists, photographers, creative digital architects and – in the end – professional storytellers. We have not formed an ad agency, production house or a traditional PR firm. We approach commercial marketing from several new directions. All focused on authentic, value-driven media content. All of them focused on the future.
So good luck to Jeff and his new venture! Hopefully he’ll start Tweeting again as he continues on this new journey.