Sunday, August 24, 2003|
Failure Was Not An Option Then And Is Still Not Today Watched  the History Channel's "Failure Is Not An Option" tonight, thinking about all the men who did so many things, thought so many thoughts, gave their lives (God bless Apollo 1), to enable this young boy to dream dreams of being on the moon. And making such a great distance as that between the earth and the moon seem so attainable...and enabling me to begin to understand that it was the same distance from any place on this earth. And finally that the distances here on earth were so much smaller. I truly believe that being open to all that this earth is has been enabled by being able to see it from space and the moon...and the monumental task of getting there.And I sometimes wonder if my children will have that same wonder of reaching for such humanity changing things. Will a trip to Mars be their exploration triumph? Or maybe just finding the magic for making things on earth work smoother than they do today.
This was a pretty good special, although I much more enjoyed, probably because it was longer, the HBO original "From The Earth To The Moon". |
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Where Do I Sign-up For The Next Amazing Race!? I would love to be on the Amazing Race which is why I guess it's one of the only shows I follow on TV (Big Brother is another I'm hooked on along with the West Wing). Talk about something New, this show seems to be a New (and travel) junky's dream, jetting / driving / diving / biking around the world with 12 hours rest between stops and threat of elimination looming. I'm trying to rope my big sis into this and we'd make a great team. I just can't find where the signup for the next one is. I'm making time to comment on it because I just stumbled across Preston Turegano's Amazing Race 4 Wrap-up of last Thursday's AR 4 finish and thought he played into one of the most obnoxious parts of this race's personal-interest aspects, the gay-ness of the winners, Chip and Reichen (and why are their names in "quotes" in the article...is that not really their names...maybe this is all more staged than my naive self thinks).
"In the year of TV's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," "Boy Meets Boy" and a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling vindicating two Texas homosexuals arrested on sodomy charges, Los Angeles gay couple "Chip" and "Reichen" apparently were destined to win CBS' reality game show "The Amazing Race." I'm sure this is part of the production of the show, but C&R never failed to couch their race accomplishments in the fact that they were gay. Week after week. Who cares? Get beyond that and tell us something about your life together, or what traveling you've done, or why you think you can compete in something like this. I can be pretty sure that your being gay doesn't have much to do with it. Or at least as much to do with it as being "12 year dating virgins" or "wives of football players" (other ran-into-the-ground monikers for partners in this AR installment). And as for who was cheering for who, I was rooting for Kelly and Jon, mostly because it would have been cool to see something New and have a girl be part of the winning team (which has yet to happen, I believe, and another good reason why me and big sis would make good television when we strutted over the finish line #1). And also because winner Reichen was such as spastic throughout the series as illustrated by his skidding off the wet road dangerously trying to overtake Jon in what was obviously not the sprint to the finish. Who would want to be taking flying lessons from him?!
All in good fun and I will most definitely be watching it when they're off again. Maybe I'll be on the starting line myself! |
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