4-0 Football Fever

This year in particular, football season dominates my fall season. As I mentioned before, Friday nights are dedicated to shooting Football. I planned on shooting a bit more of local college stuff, but our team stinks.(like Feta cheese left out in the garage for a week in July)Also, I am currently in a pool at work where I am somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Speaking of Pack...ers
Thank you Saint Vincent for looking down upon us, and bestowing a wonderful season thus far. Keep our beloved Brett Favre safe and healhy this jubilant season. Oh God of Football, let the trophy that bears your name return for another visit to the promised land. Finally if there is any justice in the world, let # 4 eclipse Marino's records to the point where not even the likes of Peyton Manning can reach them. Bring back our hero next year!!!!! Amen

While on the other end of the state our battling Badgers have climbed to a ranking of 5th in the polls. Looking at the schedule I am anxious about the games against Penn St., Michigan, and especially Ohio St. Yet few consider us even as contenders for the Rose Bowl. I only wish that my cousin Jim Leonard was still on the team. Jim for those that aren't following other pro teams, is currently on the Buffalo Bills as a special teams guy. Hope all is going well there ,and maybe for a trade to a little team that wears Green and Gold. I would absolutley have to buy an authentic jersey if that happens.

Sheila and I are relegated to watching pro games at a local sports bar, but fortunately the badgers have been televised each week since they are doing so well.
Not to mention this past week we were surrounded by Bears fans. So we got a nice little bonus of Green Bay winning and seeing frustrated Bears fans wallowing in their beer. "Happy Happy, Joy Joy....Happy Happy, Joy Joy.."- Ren and Stimpy

Ken Burns and I have been busy....

( If only this were a breaking news story, its my paper's August 16th, 1945 announcement of the end of WWII)


Two interesting concepts from WWII, advertisers promoting war bonds in an agressive fashion, in which American's actually paid for that war, unlike currently where China is funding the largest percent for our next generation to pay for.

Who is Ken Burns you might ask. Hopefully some of you know, but I will give the rest of you an introduction. Ken Burns is an independant documentarian that not even Michael Moore can compare to. I have followed his work for a while now, and his most recent work, which took six years to complete, began airing last week on PBS. "The War" is a series of detailed recollections of everyday people who had vastly different experiences from the start to finish. It's unique because it doesn't gloss over WWII as " the Good War". Miscalculations such as serving the troops Thanksgiving dinner in 1944, the life in internment camps for Japanese-Americans, the over-looked Pacific island battles that few have heard of. Four cities of varying size and location were selected to help illustrate how this War affected everyone from the smallest farming communities to the larger cities. Record it if you can, some episodes are a bit long to watch....

Meanwhile, I have made a small leap into documentary work too... Recently at my paper we have been thrust into doing videos of events, press conferences, etc. I do enjoy this different medium to work in, but choices have to be made that I don't like. Shooting still images and video is next to impossible to do at the same time. So I try the best I can to cover what I can.

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=730&NewsID=840300&CategoryID=3511&show=localnews&om=1

http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=730&NewsID=838843&CategoryID=3511&show=localnews&om=1

Here are a few links to the better videos thus far.