The Lewis Show

There's something to be said for those who give into pop culture hype and hysteria. There's something else that can be said about those who give into the pop culture snark frenzy that follows. There's also something that can be said about those who complain about those who snark about those who give into pop culture hype and hysteria. Do you really want to sit and talk about Syria? Do you really? We elect people who create entire bureaucracies to sit and talk about Syria. If you want to talk about a troubled girl who embarrassed herself on live television, be my guest. If you want to talk about those who constantly talk about people who talk about people who embarrass themselves on live television, be my guest. If you want to talk about Syria, or Egypt, or Sudan, become a diplomat. Become a missionary. Become a leader. Otherwise, you're just noise.Out of all of the noise that can be made it's probably the worst noise. If there's a group of people who nee...

Email has become quite a bit of a quandary for most people. Few want to spend any amount of time dealing with them and become quickly frustrated when they do need to actually find something. It can be like finding a piece of hay in a needle stack, as someone once said. GMail's announcing a fairly innovative system of placing emails in tabs for easier access. Receipts would go under one tab, offers under another, social would go under another tab. This is a great way for people to separate those hundreds of emails and make things a little more organized. That works for most people, except in my case, it's kind of counter productive. Actual Screenshot - True Fact You see, in my case, I have zero emails. I consider keeping a load of emails an equivalent of hoarding. No, I'm not the perpetual loner that gets no emails. In fact I get dozens of emails every day. I do not store my emails in my all mail folder. I never have. Since I've signed up for my GMail account i...

You would think I've have more to write about, especially writing almost every day in February. Here it is almost May and I wrote one picture post in March between then and now. With springtime though, comes the usual business. Yard work usually picks back up. Now I have to re add leaf clean up, stick pick up, and lawn mowing back into my weekly routines. Then the world decides it wants to go crazy. This week we've seen an attack on innocent locals at the Boston Marathon, ricin attacks to national leaders from an Elvis impersonator (allegedly), a very large fertilizer plant explosion, and now the manhunt for one of those marathon bombers after the other was killed. Events of this week will be discussed for a very long time. Conspiracy theorists are already brewing up ideas on how these events were caused by everything from government agents to aliens. You and I will continue on with our lives. We cannot let reminders of evil in the world consume our world view. If t...

(language warning) Yeah, I'm that guy that won't let this guy/gal over too. 

So I attempted to post all 28 days in the month of February. Here's my random recap of the month: I got 25 posts out of 28 days, only a handful of them were meaningless.  It's been a cold month and I have declared February to be the suckiest month of the year. I have a birthday coming up. I'll just leave that right there. I am looking forward to my trip though in a couple weeks. There will be music, sleeping in, seeing family, more sleeping, and bad foods. It is a vacation. I haven't really had any significant time off since the wedding and after this, we can focus on planning our honeymoon. Which will happen this year. I got 0 yard work done. I'm so ashamed of myself. It has rained every Saturday this month or it has snowed. I have a lot of work to do in a couple week's time. I have a cat sleeping on an ironing board against a window with the curtains drawn. Only in this house can a cat find so much accommodation.  For a short month this did not fee...

I guess I'm not done with Oscar posts. I have held two thoughts about the state of comedy and political correctness over the past two years. I believe we've gone too far and are on a path of massively restricted speech on one end, and a strange exception for someone to say whatever he or she wants under the guise of being a comedian. The exception being, if it's funny and I agree with the political stance, it's funny. If it's not on par with my worldviews  it's insensitive and that comedian needs to be silenced. I don't think there should be an exception. We should really all be free to joke and make fun of things that go on in this world, provided it's in good faith. I think, going back to some earlier posts, there's one ingredient that we're missing still: Respect. It's still not okay to bully, to make racist, sexiest, or ignorant statements. It shows a lack of respect for other people. I am no people person by far in fact as a ...

It's going to seem funny that someone who has not watched the Oscars since....ever is going to post some thoughts about it. I freely and openly admit to watch only scant tidbits about the awards and that's centered around who they pick to be movie of the year. I was more than interested this year because I actually enjoyed most of the movies that were nominated. Normally I've seen one or two of these nominated movies and avoid the circlejerk of the industry by watching movies that will never ever get awarded an Oscar. What can I say? I like popcorn action flicks. If I'm paying north of ten dollars for a ticket, I want my eardrums blown out. And the winners were.... I am pleased that Daniel Day Lewis won best actor for Lincoln. If there is a biographical movie ever made, he raised the bar to impossible heights with his portrayal of our 16th president. It's also a nod for Richmond, where a considerable chunk of the movie was filmed. It's been almost 150 ...