Megan Fox Engaged To BAG

Update on the ever stunning Megan Fox (Transformers).  She recently admitted she and Brian Austin Green (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Beverly Hills 90210) are still engaged and plan to have a small wedding soon.  They initially planned to elope, but now are going to have a small ceremony.  Fox stated:

“Originally we were talking elopement and now we might have a few people there… You might hear about it the week after, We doubt it will take a week for AccessHollywood.com to find out about it!”

Here are some more Megan Fox photos for your viewing pleasure!

 

 

 

Michael Crichton Passes Away……

One of my greatest inspirations for writing, and thinking in general, has always been linked to Michael Crichton.  His extraordinary way to implement science, entertainment, and the very nature of man in such an eloquent way is still dumbfounding to me.  Each time I reread his novels I find myself astounded at how much they have to offer, and then I find that I’m rendered even more shocked by how entertained and intellectually stimulated I equally was.  All of his novels seem to ring true on this frequency.

His speeches, articles, and even the exerts he occassionally wrote for playboy all had the same conception that so many of us have been lucky enough to partake in.  His vision.  Truly reading anything he wrote, listening to him speak, or the simplicity of seeing a brilliant idea of  his develop into something magnanimous (ER was his creation) was almost a portal into his mind.  Seeing the world through fresh eyes.  I’ve read a ridiculous amount of fiction, non ficiton, in every genre imaginable, and I’ve never seen as clearly as I have through Michael Crichtons eyes.  The way he saw the world was so very different, and so incredibly brilliant that I think it will be eons before the rest of us can honestly catch up with him.

To find that he passed away unexpectadly yesterday is simply crushing to me.  It seems he’s been fighting a losing battle to cancer for sometime.  He kept this battle private, and at the spry age of 66 he died.  I feel an emptyness inside that I can’t explain.  It feels like our universe has lost a voice so important and poignant that we’ll never get it back.  Though he’s still apart of us, and immortal in his thoughts and writing, his life as he was is now gone, and it aches to know he won’t return.

I was 12 years old when i read two books that changed my life.  Jurassic Park and Interview With The Vampire.  I had always been a reader, but to no surprise I read each of these novels over a summer inspired by their film version and was sold by both Anne Rice and Michael Crichton.  I immediately got caught up in the romance and poetry of Rice’s writing and only later reverted back to reading everything Crichton I could get my greedy hands on.  The philosophy and delectable unknowing of our existence and world, mixed with suspense became like a drug to me, as has been ever since.  It was Crichton, Rice, and Shakespeare that inspired me to write, and for that I will be forever grateful to them.  Two are down and only Anne Rice is left, who is also in her sixties.

Thank you for everything you’ve ever given me MC.  It is a gift that continues to give.  Whatever existence you have now, I hope you finally get to understand the universe.

The Donkey Reigns Over……….

Lefties Are Back In Control……

Well Ick.  In general for me. Teehee.  On a serious note, the Republican Party has ruled the house for enough years now that a balance is clearly in order.  I’m not overwhelmed by the idea of a Dem majority, in fact a lot of the fiscal policies that McCain and his crew were going to implement weren’t a far cry from what Obama’s people will be striving to do.  It will just be considerably more drastic.  So that aspect I’m not completely offended by.  I think a lot of people got caught up in McCain being a Bush duplicate and listening to nonsensical propaganda in that category.  McCain is far from Bush, and frankly I’ve never really liked the man, though over the years he’s earned my respect.  I think he would have been an excellent cross-over between the parties.  He truly is a liberal conservative and unfortunately in his campaign he seemed to slip into a lot of hard right dogma.  I think he would have had a greater chance if he would have stuck to his guns a bit more. In any case, I’ve never liked McCain, but I trust him as much as one can trust a politician.  On the other hand I find Obama to be incredibly likable, but I don’t trust a word he says.  In that case, now that he is our president I hope I’m wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.  If it will benefit our country, I will scream gleefully to the universe that I was totally off.  Taxes were going to be raised no matter who was elected, and there is no money for any of the funding Obama or McCain tried to claim they would start all these new programs with.  Obama’s main challenge in his presdiency at this point is to clean up the mess of our economy.  It is a mountain of Everest heights to conquer, and I don’t pretend to think there will be any easy choices for him when he gets there.  Good Luck to him, because it would be an monstrous job for anyone.  I just hope he fixes the problem.  I also hope people are prepared for their taxes to sky rocket.  And I’m sorry but it won’t just be 250k and up.  Try more along the lines of 40k.  It won’t happen tomorrow, but it is an eventual truth. I’m pretty pleased with the amount of people that actually voted around here.  It was actually quite exciting.  A lot of people had no idea why they were voting for their candidate, but they voted anyway and that’s better than the people who sit at home and armchair quarterback.  The same little old lady checks me in for each election.  Don’t know how that keeps working out, but she always tells me my name is pretty in her soft maternal voice, and then I feel compelled to call her grandma. Teehee.  So……yes…….I’m apprehensive about our future as a country in a million ways, and sure I’m disappointed but that’s life.  I’m approaching the future with some optimism and hope that Obama’s GOOD change is coming.  At least proposal one and two passed.  Go ahead and ostrasize me for that one, but I voted yes on both.  What am I talking about? Most people in my age demographic voted for Obama and yes on One.  So at least I’m a 50/50 in my peer grouping. May the force be with everyone and congratulations to those that voted for Obama!