All posts tagged Alabama

#RollTideRoll – Alabama Wins!!!

Well, I’ve posted this before, and true to my word I didn’t go on too much about the team this year…

BUT… we won it all!!!

*Please forgive my use of the word “we”… this team is the only team or sport I gush over shamelessly, you should know that.

Congrats to the Team, the University and of course the fans!

Roll Tide!!!

“Roll Tide” is a universal expression among ‘Bama Nation, versatile and applicable in nearly every situation as a greeting, farewell or standard cheer or praise.

Surviving Desire

Why don’t they make movies like this any more? Seriously, does any one out there know of indie romance films like this?

I’m a fan of Hal Hartley.

I can’t remember when I first saw “Surviving Desire” but it made an impact on me. It was like the culmination of a great revelation, which I think began the first time I saw the Coen Brothers film, “Miller’s Crossing”.

I watched both of these films and remember thinking somebody made them, meaning someone had imagined these stories and wanted to tell them in a specific way, someone speaking with a voice suited to the telling.

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King’s “Table of Brotherhood”

This Ad gave me goosebumps.

Maybe I’m just a believer… or maybe I’m happy the nation’s capitol is finally recognizing the work of a great man and a brother of mine.

Either way, Dr. King’s memorial is long overdue and his soaring words still fill me with hope and I remain humbled by what he (and of course the people along with him) accomplished in this life.


Update: A Dream Fulfilled, Martin Luther King Memorial Opens – NYTimes.com

After more than two decades of planning, fund-raising and construction, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial has opened on a four-acre slice of the National Mall.

Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times