Thoughts

Today is my brother's B-DAY so I want to give a shout out to MArcus Paul he is 14 today. It's one of the MArvels of life how fast they grow up. So if you ever met the lil MAn give him some b-day love on the facebook page. The bulk of my evening consisted of following updates from my phone during broadcast writing class. I was enthralled and struggled to hold back my happiness during class over the Boston College upset of number 21 ranked Clemson. There have been very few high points of their extremely inconsistent season and it's about time an experienced team beat a high quality ACC opponent. I hope that this win can build some momentum and raise there ACC conference record. My fingers will be crossed over the last month and a half as games against Duke and UNC at home will be must wins in order for any NCAA tournament dreams to be fulfilled. In other good BC related news reports surfaced today that Charlie Davies of the United States National soccer team, and BC alum, is already jogging and juggling a soccer ball getting ready for the World Cup. Davies was in critical condition in a Washington D.C hospital last October after a car crash in the DC area. By the way even if you don't watch or like soccer at all you should read up on the World Cup coming up this summer it is going to be a great world sports event and if you don't like watching soccer at least be patriotic and watch because the US will field a competitive squad. Last week I watched Mystic River a phenomenal movie with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. For those that haven't seen it, and you should go do that, it is a Boston based draMA about the murder of Sean Penn's daughter. A couple of days ago I saw the trailer for the new Mel Gibson movie. A Boston based drama based on the murder of his daughter. Is it that hard to MAke a movie about something else? Now he is a cop so it will be a little different, I guess, but with movies like Avatar and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledgers final movie, coming out I have to wonder about the creative abilities of the writers for Mel's new flick. He butchers the Boston accent by they way much like 90% of anybody who has ever done one on film or TV.