Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

The winner of the April contest Revealed.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

As you might remember, in April we held a Movie Trivia contest. The editors of the bbb would like to sincerely apologize for the delay in announcing the winner of this most prestigious contest. You’d think it would be easy, just go back and count. Unfortunately, their were some answers that were protested and we at the bbb were forced to make a decision.

AS an example someone accused Orval of cheating with all his Mae West answers, could be … we don’t really know. However, even if he hadn’t cheated he wouldn’t have had enough votes to win, so that really doesn’t matter.

The real problem and controversy came from the April 29th quote. after nearly a full month of debate among the staff at the bbb we discovered that the winner would have won even without this answer. – by the narrowest of margins (one point) we are happy to announce that Shane Adams is the winner of the April brad bobeche blog Movie Trivia contest – congratulations Shane.

AS the winner a full biography will be featured in an upcoming post on the bbb.

Please join me in congratulating Mr. Shane Adams.

The Arthritis Walk – Santa Barbara Style!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

The Dream Team is on the move. Take a look at their webpage! They asked me to give them a hand and here is what I came up with:

Well we come from Kansas City, with a banjo on our knee and we’re heading to California to walk for Andy! If you pledge money to this walk we will try to defeat arthritis with a twinkle in our eye!

Please read what they wrote and tell me which you think is better.

Groundhog Day decorating is done!

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

As many of the local readers of bbb know Groundhog Day is a big event at the Johnson household. In some ways it rivals Christmas. One of the differences is that June is in charge of Christmas decorating and I’m in charge of GHD decorating.
Well I’m happy to report that I’m done. My sister Carol sent us this wonderful GHD decoration that is now on our mantel in a place of honor! It looks very festive around here. It’s nice to have this pick-me-up after taking down the Christmas decorations.

thanks Carol for the great groundhog family.

The Great Debaters

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

We went to the movies tonight with Scott and Chelsea and saw “The Great Debaters.” What a fabulous movie!! It’s the true story of a debate team and it’s coach (Denzel Washington) from a small African American college in the Marshall Texas and their fight against the social norms of 1935 America as they become an elite debate team. It’s part “Dead Poet’s Society”,part “The Emperors Club”, part “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, but mostly it’s “The Great Debaters.”

It’s a wonderfully uplifting story and I give it 4 1/2 Groundhogs!