On December 22nd, Dan Conry was the Grand Marshall at the Holidazzle Parade where he proposed to his gal! Check out pictures!
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Why have the “controversial” photos of Miley Cyrus in the latest edition of Vanity Fair magazine become a controversy at all? I don’t get it. Why does the news media feel it’s necessary to always turn a moment like this into an all-out assault on the character of Cyrus, her family, the magazine, and everyone else involved in the photo shoot? I’ll freely admit that the photos may be too risqué, of bad taste, and may even have crossed the line of decency we have set as a society (a line which constantly shifts back and forth) but we don’t all need to gather up our torches and pitchforks to storm the castle. First of all, we shouldn’t be surprised. Photographer Annie Liebowitz is known for taking photos many might view as unique and artsy, while others could see them as overly provocative or tasteless. That’s exactly what we have here. It seems to me like some of the media in this country has now made it their mission to bring this girl down. It’s not pornography. She has an exposed back…big deal! Anyone could go to the beach on a summer day and see even much younger girls with much less on. That doesn’t make it right, but the comparison is definitely justified. You could say that the pictures or too “sexy” or “provocative” and you might be right, but it’s completely up to interpretation. It’s a form of art and anyone can view it however they want. The bottom line here is there is no reason they American public should care even one bit about any of this garbage. It’s not a symbol of society’s downfall and it’s ridiculous to think anyone should be charged with any type of crime. It’s just a stupid group of adults who got together and convinced a young girl, still ignorant of how the world of entertainment works, to do something she probably shouldn’t have in order to make them a few bucks. Can we just let it go now? I’d imagine most Hannah Montana fans are girls between the age of 6-13 and none of them read Vanity Fair anyway.
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Super Dave...to the Rescue!
Wednesday 04-23-2008 9:07am CT
Last year around this time I wrote about one of my first golf rounds of the year and I was nearing the point where quitting the game sounded pretty good. I was frustrated after shooting by far my worst round in several years and I nearly couldn’t handle it. I spent the rest of the summer fighting with my game and finished up posting a couple good scores, some really bad ones, and many that were average for someone of my skill level. Well I’m back! I played for the first time this season over the weekend and posted the best score of my life. I don’t know how it happened but I’ll choose to believe that all the toiling away I did last year is finally being paid back to me. I didn’t drive the ball all that well but my iron game was greatly improved over any point last year and I sunk a few putts that I had no business getting in the hole. In the end, even after struggling through a few tough holes including number 18, I finished a stroke under my best round ever and I can’t wait to play again. Unfortunately now I have to ask myself the following question. Is this as good as it gets this summer? What if that was the best round I shoot all year and I spend the rest of the summer floundering in a pool of mediocrity, despair, and self-pity? I don’t know that I could come back from that level of disappointment. If I go out and play so well after not touching a club over the long winter I have to improve throughout the year right? Practice makes perfect...right!? Or at least in my case, practice makes decent...right? Wish me luck, I have a feeling I may need it.
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Super Dave...to the Rescue!
Monday 04-14-2008 11:44am CT
I know that I ranted about this during the show today but it’s still weighing on my mind and has been since Saturday evening. Let me set up the situation again. It was about and I decided to watch a little TV before I went out for the evening. I turned on FOX and the Yankees and Red Sox were just coming out of a long rain delay and resuming play in the 8th inning with the Sox up a run. The score remained the same until the 9th when the Sox were in the field. There were two outs and 2 strikes on the batter, meaning Boston could win the game on the next pitch. One more strike, one more out, that’s it! And it was at THIS POINT the network flipped its coverage to catch the green flag dropping on the NASCAR race and eventually told me I could catch the end of the baseball game on their cable station FX. Well for those of us watching the game with rabbit ears and no cable that was incredibly unhelpful. They couldn’t just use a split-screen or perhaps a picture-in-picture set-up so I could at least see what happened! The game would be over with one more strike or perhaps even extended with a home run. Oh, the excitement! I can’t believe I’m still bitter about the situation but I am. The bitterness may stem from my love of baseball, my indifference for NASCAR, and more than likely a mixture of the two. But most of the bitterness comes from a complete lack of common sense. How can you leave the end of a tight game in perhaps the best rivalry in all of sports for the first of a few hundred laps at a track that isn’t Daytona? And like I said, I wouldn’t have been upset if FOX had chosen to use a split-screen and even turn down the baseball audio in favor of that from the racetrack. That would have been fine, but don’t deprive me from the very end of an exciting game between hated rivals. And I understand that the NASCAR ratings are much higher than those of an average Saturday baseball broadcast, but for heaven’s sake just ignore the numbers for once and use a bit of common sense! And I just really don’t like NASCAR.
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