http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com Media, Politics, History, and Culture Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:52:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow brings the day the Commonwealth of Massachusetts votes to fill Senator Kennedy's long held Senate seat. While I strongly encourage all voters to read about the issues, look up their voting records, and make up their own decisions, I'm going to tell you why I plan on voting for ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2010/01/19/why-im-voting-for-martha-coakley-tomorrow-or-really-a-january-defense-of-liberalism/ This post may end up being a bit silly, but I listened to Third Eye Blind's "Non-Dairy Creamer" this morning, and I feel like blogging about what different lyrics in the song mean to me, because A:) I don't really know what the band meant by all the words, B:) ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/09/23/non-dairy-creamer/ This past Saturday with my friends and roommates all off doing their own thing, I turned on the TV and watched two films which I had heard much about, but never seen. The first was the sort of mainstream sort of cult hit "Waiting". The premise is a veteran table waiter ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/09/21/two-films-from-very-different-worlds/ As a group we recently viewed "The Secret", a media craze from a year or so ago which focuses on "The Law of Attraction": roughly the idea that if you envision something enough, good things will happen around that subject. Their analysis is obviously far more complex than that, as ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/07/14/the-secretto-being-greedy/ This post may contain viewpoints offensive to readers. If you become easily riled with positions other than your own, you may want to stop right here... I've always been a huge fan of Keith Olberman, he combines a quest for the truth in the news with some humor, and of course ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/06/04/its-more-than-just-fox-noise/ If you've ever seen me carrying my old Sony Discman around and wondered, "man, why doesn't he just get an Ipod already?", I'm sure you've heard my rant on how Ipods are ruining the state of modern music and are the epitomization of American excess (but yes, they are pretty ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/05/18/the-crack-berry/ This Friday evening I will head south. Through Rhode Island and down towards south-western Connecticut for a weekend "home." Home in thus regards is my parent’s house in the town I grew up in, but the real reason I'm going home is to go out to the ball park with ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/04/01/baseball-business-or-game/ I wasn't alive yet on April 20th, 1970. That was the day Paul McCartney announced that the Beatles had broken up. If I had been, it would have surely been an end of an era. Yes, of course, bands come and go, form and reform, and most of the time the ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/02/09/well-i-guess-this-is-growing-up/ To follow up my post on the Sci-Fi, Musical, Action, Dramatic-Comedy that was Southland Tales, I thought I would write about one of my all time favorite movies, and one that really hasn't gotten a lot of respect since it came out 9 years ago: Frequency. The premise is a fairly ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/01/22/dennis-quaid-the-amazins-and-the-aurora-borealis/ Welcome back faithful reader(s)! I hope everyone reading this had a lovely Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanza/New Years/Festivus/Etc, and is looking forward to 2009. The topic for this post is going to be the apocalypse, the end times, the end of the world, what have you. If that's a little intense for a Monday afternoon, ... http://projectblogdifferent.ptdec.com/2009/01/14/gaza-southland-tales/