I think people need a refresher course in voting. There was one category on yesterday's ballot. What should I blog about next? Strangely, people found a way to vote for more than one thing.
Both anonymous characters gave two votes, Mrs. B. chimed in with two, Marcus Kemper provided two, Jeremy fit in their somewhere with two votes and a question about a third topic, and Jek, Mark, and Jason all obeyed the rules and voted for only 1 thing.
Have recent elections taught us nothing? If we included all votes, the order would have been: Story from my childhood, Politics, 3 tied - book review, preaching competition, 10 movies, and lastly a story about your (Jason's) childhood, which he reminds us could be highly fictionalized.
Fortunately for me, the electoral college cleared some things up. Again, as past elections might have shown us, majority does not always win. The electoral college provided me with this result: 10 movies, Politics, Preaching, Jason's Childhood, Book Review and My Childhood.
Thus will be the order of my next 6 blogs. Starting now with 10 of my favorite movies.
In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite movies (and 3 alternates):
Braveheart - FREEDOM
Top Gun - I still shudder when Goose dies. You can be my wingman, no, you can be mine.
Shawshank Redemption - Had a long run as my favorite movie ever, still would contest.
The Matrix - Revolutionized movies in my era.
Remember the Titans - Disney movies follow an emotional formula, but they are still great, especially based on a true story as this one is. And, a sports movie had to make the list.
American History X - A little more swearing than suits some people's taste, but a great movie about racism and its affects on society and families.
Gladiator - Highly entertaining and gives me preaching material for my favorite sermon topic to preach on.
The Usual Suspects - Best Movie Ending Ever. And it not even close.
Last of the Mohicans - The music alone is one of the most fantastic pieces of art ever created.
Dead Poets Society - It has shown up in multiple different significant life moments, and I love literature.
Honorable Mention: Oceans 11, Italian Job, Bourne Identity.
Still honorable: Indiana Jones, Godfather, Hitch.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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In the interest of full discloser, I feel it is necessary to share with the readers who the author of this blog originally stated the electoral college was. And this is a direct quote.
"The electoral college equals wife."
Somewhere between our discussion of how to vote and this blog actually getting written, I guess that changed.
Very very nice list!
I am sorry I botched my voting. I was just trying to be diplomatic and give you two choices so you could enjoy your blog topic as much as I would enjoy reading it. Whatev. Can't win for losing...
;)
Well I am sorry that I did not follow the rules of the electoral college.
However in my defense the blog post was not clear that voters could only vote once. It simply said fire away.....so I fired all right....
There was soo many great topics to explore that I could not contain myself. So anyways thank you for the voting refresher course.
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