Scooter Chronicles

Marcia dragged me to see “Wedding Crashers” this afternoon. OK, honestly I was interested in seeing it too. It stars two of the “frat pack” actors, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

The plot? Well, the title says most of it. But to be more precise, Vaughn and Wilson play divorce mediators who also crash weddings to meet women. Near the end of their “season”, they crash the wedding of a daughter of a Washington politician (played by Christopher Walken). What happens at the wedding with the women they are chasing is not what the intended.

It is an “R” rated comedy, and like the critics have...

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This morning I finished “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides. It was the audio version as read by Kristoffer Tabori. The book itself won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Here is the description from amazon.com about the book:

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the “roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time.” The odd but utterly believable...

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Lance Armstrong at the start of the final stage, about to win his 7th Tour de France in a row.

He may be considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. And that is even before taking into consideration that before his 7 victories, he was diagnosed with cancer and his outlook was very bleak.

Congratulations to Lance. And thanks for reminding us to never give up on our dream. No matter how dark or short the future looks.