So, what's been happening in the world? I haven't written much this month - not much going on here I guess but in the world:
The Olympics carry on. We have watched some here and there but are not at a vigil with the television.
*Michael Phelps has broken several world records in his completion of a perfect 8 for 8 races - he won all 8 GOLD medals in his sport of swimming. Awesome. He is now the winningist (is that a word? Will check.) Olympian in history.
Mega-congrats to this dude!
*The women's gymnastics team got silver in the team round and a gold & silver in individual.
*The hubby has been enjoying the women's beach volleyball (of course).
*I prefer the Equestrian but it must be on late at night cause I've not seen much of it.
*Some chick from Romania KICKED ASS in the women's marathon. She was a full minute ahead of the silver & bronze medallists. Suppose she gets practice running from all the vampires over there in Romania, eh? (seriously though, kudos to her!)
*I cannot, for the life of me, understand what the hell 'water polo' is all about. Point please? It just looks so dumb. At least add some horses, right? That'd be a hoot.
ANYWAY - That's it for my Olympic attention span.
Tropical Storm (possibly upgrading to hurricane status at any moment) Fay is about to hit the Florida Keys. It already killed several people in the Carribbean. Batten down the hatches!
Laurence Fishburne is joining CSI this fall to help fill the vacancy that will be left by William Peterson (who is downscaling his part quite a bit). Should bring a good kick to the series, as well as filling the token African American character spot (missing due to the killing off of Warrick's character (boo!) last season)...
Larry strikes a rather good CSI-like pose..
In understandably boring and overblown news, supposedly Barack Obama is going to pick a VP running mate soon. Whatever.
It'd be anarchy if he ended up picking Hillary Clinton as his mate, huh?
'Tropic Thunder' ruled the box office this weekend.
Looks super-stupid. Not a fan of Ben Stiller.
Like Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black though.... suppose the hubby will want to see it eventually. Note to self: add to Netflix queue.
The upcoming latest Harry Potter movie has been bumped from Nov '08 to July '09. That noise you heard was the moaning and groaning of millions of obsessed fans. One bright note: The producers of 'Twilight' have moved their release date up (from Dec. '08) to fill that void. That should pacify some. Me included, as (shoot me now) I'm not much of a Potter fan...
I'm looking forward to Bella & Edward on-screen.
In horseracing, Proud Spell (in my fantasy stable) won the prestigious Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. Yippee!
photo: Barbara Livingston/DRF
(Proud Spell is on the right, beating Music Note)
However, her connections say they are not planning on running her in the Breeders' Cup Distaff ('scuse me, "Ladies Classic"- Doy!) - I assume because it is being run on an artificial surface at Santa Anita. Bummer.
Also some very SAD racing news as well - today, Genuine Risk (one of only three fillies to win the Kentucky Derby - she won hers in 1980) died today in her paddock.
I believe she was 31. Old for any horse.
Apparently she just passed away peacefully in her paddock.
Definately the way to go.
The Olympics carry on. We have watched some here and there but are not at a vigil with the television.
*Michael Phelps has broken several world records in his completion of a perfect 8 for 8 races - he won all 8 GOLD medals in his sport of swimming. Awesome. He is now the winningist (is that a word? Will check.) Olympian in history.
Mega-congrats to this dude!
*The women's gymnastics team got silver in the team round and a gold & silver in individual.
*The hubby has been enjoying the women's beach volleyball (of course).
*I prefer the Equestrian but it must be on late at night cause I've not seen much of it.
*Some chick from Romania KICKED ASS in the women's marathon. She was a full minute ahead of the silver & bronze medallists. Suppose she gets practice running from all the vampires over there in Romania, eh? (seriously though, kudos to her!)
*I cannot, for the life of me, understand what the hell 'water polo' is all about. Point please? It just looks so dumb. At least add some horses, right? That'd be a hoot.
ANYWAY - That's it for my Olympic attention span.
Tropical Storm (possibly upgrading to hurricane status at any moment) Fay is about to hit the Florida Keys. It already killed several people in the Carribbean. Batten down the hatches!
Laurence Fishburne is joining CSI this fall to help fill the vacancy that will be left by William Peterson (who is downscaling his part quite a bit). Should bring a good kick to the series, as well as filling the token African American character spot (missing due to the killing off of Warrick's character (boo!) last season)...
Larry strikes a rather good CSI-like pose..
In understandably boring and overblown news, supposedly Barack Obama is going to pick a VP running mate soon. Whatever.
It'd be anarchy if he ended up picking Hillary Clinton as his mate, huh?
'Tropic Thunder' ruled the box office this weekend.
Looks super-stupid. Not a fan of Ben Stiller.
Like Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black though.... suppose the hubby will want to see it eventually. Note to self: add to Netflix queue.
The upcoming latest Harry Potter movie has been bumped from Nov '08 to July '09. That noise you heard was the moaning and groaning of millions of obsessed fans. One bright note: The producers of 'Twilight' have moved their release date up (from Dec. '08) to fill that void. That should pacify some. Me included, as (shoot me now) I'm not much of a Potter fan...
I'm looking forward to Bella & Edward on-screen.
In horseracing, Proud Spell (in my fantasy stable) won the prestigious Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. Yippee!
photo: Barbara Livingston/DRF
(Proud Spell is on the right, beating Music Note)
However, her connections say they are not planning on running her in the Breeders' Cup Distaff ('scuse me, "Ladies Classic"- Doy!) - I assume because it is being run on an artificial surface at Santa Anita. Bummer.
Also some very SAD racing news as well - today, Genuine Risk (one of only three fillies to win the Kentucky Derby - she won hers in 1980) died today in her paddock.
I believe she was 31. Old for any horse.
Apparently she just passed away peacefully in her paddock.
Definately the way to go.
Genuine Risk: 1977-2008
*photo by Barbara Livingston
Rest in green pastures- you were a true heroine of the sport!
Later!
*photo by Barbara Livingston
Rest in green pastures- you were a true heroine of the sport!
Later!
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