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We’re already feeling withdrawals from the final two episodes of The Last Dance yesterday evening. As a gift to us, Spotify created a playlist featuring every song that was played during the documentary. We’ve only just started to press play, but this is exactly the Monday motivation we needed.
Doesn’t it seem like the weekends are just flying by once again? I guess in a way this means that we’ve adapted. I remember how early on in shelter-in-place where the days felt like they were stretching beyond just 24 hours. Now when someone asks me about my weekend, I can look back on it and actually feel productive. In California, companies are trying to figure out when it will be appropriate to return back to our offices. For now, it looks like I can expect a potential September return. If that’s the case, we’ll likely take a look at our current routine and modify it so that it’s sustainable for the next few months.
Here’s a little bit of what we’re up to this weekend!
We’ve been watching this since the first night it premiered and I’m sad to finish the last two episodes tonight. It really has been an extraordinary documentary, if not, my favorite one of the year. I grew up knowing about how talented the Chicago Bulls were, but was obviously to young to comprehend the drama. For those of you who aren’t able to watch it on ESPN, the series will be on Netflix sometime next month for you to enjoy!
Weekends are always reserved for some of my favorite albums. Whether I’m spending the day cleaning or writing content, I want to be able to have the soundtrack be something I’m familiar and comfortable with. I don’t think we’ll ever get sick of listening to Local Natives and even though this album is from 2013, it’s timeless in my eyes.
This isn’t the exact pair of Oak + Fort heels that I do own, but if you like these, you can save this [link] for when they are back in stock. Since we’ve been in quarantine, I haven’t worn any other pair of shoes except for sneakers. After all, we didn’t have a reason too! However, for a special outing yesterday, I wanted to feel a little bit more like my normal self. Contrary to what some may believe, it isn’t that difficult to put them back on again.
It was my first burger of quarantine and boy, were we craving it! Since it had been so long, I wasn’t going to miss a chance to get my usual order – a cheeseburger animal style with well-done fries and a strawberry milkshake. To top it all off, we stopped next door at the Krispy Kreme to get a dozen donuts only to receive an extra free dozen on top of that! It was our lucky day!
In some ways, I’m shocked that I haven’t shared this trailer yet on Yow Yow! but to be honest, this wasn’t one of the things that I was looking forward to watching yet. While indoors, I’ve been consuming an obscene amount of television shows and movies. Don’t worry – we’ve got a list that we’ll be sharing after this is all over. Originally, “The Last Dance” was supposed to premiere in June on ESPN, but with games being put on hold because of COVID-19, the 10-part documentary series had moved up its premiere date.
Every Sunday, ESPN airs two episodes from the series for a total of two hours. We just wrapped up week two last night and Sunday nights watching this series is the highlight of my weekend. Growing up, I was still too young to fully grasp the magic of Michael Jordan when he was nearing his final run on the Chicago Bulls, but that didn’t stop me from knowing what I needed to know about him. Within the first 10 minutes of the first episode, I was completely enthralled. I was confident that this was easily going to be the best documentary I’d be watching in 2020 and even though we’re not done yet and we have seven more months to go, I’m standing by that.
The documentary covers the 1997-1998 champion season for the Bulls and highlights many interviews from legends and never-before-seen footage. Michael Jordan is an incredible force, but even the documentary itself doesn’t always paint him in the best light. Watching these four episodes has made me miss attending basketball games and I’m really looking forward to when shelter-in-place gets lifted so that we can do that again.
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I miss Seattle the most on Sundays. This special 12-minute feature on Marshawn Lynch aired on Monday I think, but since I didn’t get a chance to watch it I just now finally caught up with it.
Seahawks, I love you.
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Most of my friends will tell you that I’m not big on sports. It’s no secret. They ask me to name five athletes…and I might give them the names of athletes who have either dated or married one of the Kardashians. I may not have an athletic bone in my body, but I have the greatest amount of respect for those that play a sport. While they are passionate about the game, I am passionate about fashion and music. They are very different things, but I understand the strength in that passion and that drive. There is a mutual understanding that lies there between these things.
So tonight I watched this short on ESPN about a group of cross country runners from San Francisco University High School who dedicated their 8th state championship to their coach Jim Tracy, who had been diagnosed with ALS, a disease that affects the nerve cells in both the brain and spinal cord. Since he was diagnosed, Tracy has no longer been able to run the way he used to and has much difficulty even walking.
I was touched by this story, but astounded by the determination that these women had especially for the captain of the team who struggled in this last race and collapsed. It is this post and many before it that I have come across that have made me realize how special blogs are. Through Doobybrain, one of my favorite blogs of the year, I have been introduced to many stories and inspired by a number of pieces. It is blogs like these that make the world around us seem much smaller and the people and the stories we are learning about more relatable to us and the lives that we live. And if I remember correctly, the term that I took away from my comm. class is the notion of “Global Village.” The internet, but in this case – blogs, disregards physical distance yet still enables us to feel connected to others through openess and communication. It allows us to reach places we could not normally and that is what still amazes me about the internet. In a totally geek moment, I had a conversation about the evolution of the internet with my friend’s father just last night.
I really hope that someday Yow Yow can have that same impact for my current readers or future readers the way my favorite blogs have affected me. And instead of passing on the stories that I’ve heard and read about, I’d like to be a part of bringing the stories directly to you first.
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– Project Runway is back! Here’s the trailer for the 7th season:
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– Marilyn Manson has proposed to girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood.
– Russell Brand and Katy Perry are also supposedly engaged.
– Taylor Lautner is now the highest paid teenage actor in Hollywood.
– Mischa Barton will make an appearance in Law & Order SVU as a hooker in March.
– ESPN and the Discovery Channel will be the trendsetters of 2010 when they test out the idea of having a 3-D channel. Source
– Gary Coleman was taken to the hospital this morning…story still pending.
– Brooke Shields encourages the young Smiley Cyrus to go to college after hearing of her plans to skip it.
– Marc Jacobs and long time boyfriend Lorenzo Martone tied the knot in St. Barts over the holidays! possibly…
– Yao Ming is going to be a father!
– Michael Cera wanted to spend the entire day hanging out w/ the Jersey Shore cast… why?
– Laurie Ann Gibson (Making the Band) will choreograph Lady Gaga’s music video for “Telephone.”
– Barack Obama has appointed Amanda Smith, a transgendered woman, to the Commerce Department. She’s not the first to have a government post, but she also ran unsuccessfully for the Arizona House of Representatives and was a delegate for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to the Democratic National Convention in 2008 Source
– Martin Lawrence is producing a new comedy called “Love That Girl!” for black viewers which will be premiering on the cable network station TV One. Source
– Vince Vaughn married girlfriend Kyla Weber.
– Casey Johnson heiress to founder of Johnson & Johnson fell into a diabetic coma over the weekend, but later passed away. She was engaged to Tila Nguyen… yeah.