My 2009 In Review

Unemployment > Grad School > Obama Inauguration > Campaign Director United Way > Washington D.C. > New York > Dr. Mike > House 4 Sale > Peru > Phish Fenway > Great Woods > Moosehead Lake > Cape Cod > SPAC Weekend > Colorado friends visit Maine> Beth Trip Tunk Lake, ME > Yard Sale Party > Milwaukee > Move to Boulder, Colorado > Development Manager Corporate Relations > Mike Goes to Antarctica > Thanksgiving in Montana > SanClement’s X-Mass > mfa Boston > House Still 4 Sale/Rent

Look Who Didn't Make The Cut

When nytimes.com put out a request for reader’s dog photos last month, I enthusiastically found the very best photo of Hank. I submitted my photo and patiently waited to see a picture of Hank Spank SanClements published in the New York Time (online edition but still it’s the NYTimes). I couldn’t wait to show people that my dog was the best and his photo in NYTimes would prove it.

But, when the piece was finally published there was no picture of Hank. I couldn’t believe it. How could this happen? There must have been a mistake?

My dog did not make the cut.

Like Hank so many other dogs do not make the cut, but worse the adoption cut. There are approximately 74.8 million owned dogs in the United States and only 10% of these dogs were adopted from a shelter. Approximately 4 million adoptable dogs & cats are killed each year due mainly to overpopulation.

Shelter pets are the best pets and Hank is proof. When you adopt from a shelter you are not only saving a life; you are making a friend. North Shore Animal league launched a new education campaign to let the general public know that Mutt-i-grees (mixed-breed dogs) make great pets and are the right choice.

Adopting a mutt-i-gree or even a purebred from an overcrowded shelter makes the statement that it is unacceptable and wrong to buy a puppy from a pet store that’s supplied by the cruel purebred puppy mills. So if your thinking of adding a furry friend to your family, make the right choice and contact your local animal shelter. Adopt an animal that needs your help today. You too could have a mutt-i-gree like Hank.

http://www.adoptapet.com/

Have You Been Bitten By True Blood?

True Blood from enkil on Vimeo.

Watch True Blood Sundays 9pm on HBO.

Happy Birthday Colleen

Love,
R.Penny

You have so much to celebrate this year.
I wish I could be there to celebrate with you.

https://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_donate?item_id=8072

I'm So Over The American Dream

ConGRADulations

After 22 years of studying Mike will receive a PhD in Ecology & Environmental Science.

You don't believe me?

True story.

I'm SO proud of you Dr. Mike.

Innuendo and Subtlety

Incredible advertising. Schick’s straight forward approach to selling more razors to women is hilarious. Their cheeky little message about trimming the ol' hedges is marketing genius.

Commercial #1
The much funnier UK version


Commercial #2
The US version

I Just Got Laid

Off that is. Yes, that’s right I’ve involuntary joined the ranks of 11.1 million unemployed Americans. You can label it what you want laid off, down-sized, let go, axed, terminated, canned, dismissed...Fired! It is all the same I no long have any place to be 9-5 Monday - Friday.

Am I worried? Yes. Am I going to be depressed and come to hate everyone and everything in this world? No. I’m actually relieved. Now it looks like I can take as much time as I like over the holiday season.

Looks like I'll need to put this documentary on my Netflix que --- Fired!

This is BIG...

Tim Russet, moderator of "Meet the Press" died yesterday. Tim was one of the greatest reporters of all time. He held Washington accountable by asking the right question and getting to the truth. Informed and thorough Tim Russet set the bar for serious journalism. His love of news especially politics was infectious. This is an extraordinary loss in American journalism.

Big Papi US Citizen

The 32-year-old Red Sox slugger from the Dominican Republic was sworn in today as a US citizen.