Tribute to Alex P. Keaton

This is an extension to my “Tribute to beautiful” which was arguably influenced by my great admiration of Television’s Alex P. Keaton; a lovable, ambitious, egocentric, profit seeking character from the hit series Family Ties. Michael J. Fox’s portrayal of Alex was the personification of young corporate America in its rawest form during the 1980s (decade of greed) and was a positive inspiration to myself and all other profit minded kids of those days of Yore.

My “Tribute to beautiful” was inspired by a radio jingle that Alex wrote for himself. The tune, whose lyrics were simply “Alex Keaton, he’s so cute”, can be seen in an episode called Blues Brother from season 6 of Family Ties. The jingle cracked me up so bad that I remember it to this day, along with every other mundane detail of my life from 1985 on.

I’d also like to thank Wheelrchair for this episode reference.

Not being able to locate that actual clip, I will leave you with this tribute video:

Tribute to Cory "gory, story, allegory, montessori" Clouston

I can't say I've been watching much hockey this year. But whatever was wrong with the Ottawa Sens has been apparently fixed by Sir Cory Clouston Kensington the 3rd of Binghamton. Czech out these facts:

	Games	Points	Points/Game
Before Cory	48	41	0.85
With Cory	24	33	1.38
Total	72	74	1.03

THAT my friends is what's known in the "biz" as a 61% improvement! Now I may not know much about hockey, sports, business, math or personal hygiene.


Go Sens Go!

Tribute to beautiful (My automontagery)

With only one week left here in Florianopolis, I decided that it was about time to produce a musical montage to go over what has happened in the past 7 months. And "Yes" it has been that long. How have you all managed to make it this far? Anyway, with a bit more delay, here is a video that takes what everyone has been thinking and compresses it perfectly so as to fit nicely into a well timed montage format. Enjoy and remember; to show your love for something or someone, always use a music montage. I know I usually don't.

"If a picture is worth a thousand words and a movie is a series of hundreds or thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pictures, then a montage of dozens of movies must be worth at least 5 thousands of words. Plus if you add in some emotional Joe Cocker tear jerking music to the background, your montage can be worth millions! I made this one and will be getting it appraised at the "antique music montage roadshow"."

Mike

THE Hammock District

This is my answer to Marc's "La Maison du Hamac" discovery; I took a little bus ride to Canasvieras and came across one of the island's Hammock districts. Although this little village is impressive, it pales in comparison to many of the Amazonian communities, where hammocks are used as the local currency.

PS: "Rede" means "Hammock".

So you're Canadian, eh?

Here is a presentation I gave at Stela in my first few weeks to bust Brazilian Stereotypes about Canada and Canadians. To break the belief that Canadians are nice and culturally tolerant people, I filled the presentation with racism, cultural bias, secular overtones, prejudice, bigotry and aimless discrimination directed specifically at non-Canadians who do not identify with.

I hope that you find the presentation oppressive and morally bankrupt. :P