Queenkv’s Brainpickings

I think my dad is going to be tickled that I posted this video clip.
I wanted to upload this file after Elections because I didn’t want to jinx anything. Plus, Election Day and the results kept me crazy busy in the newsroom.
January 3, 2005 from Kris Vera-Phillips on Vimeo.
I had to sleep on Election [...]

[from the Huffington Post]
I stumbled on this brilliant video of all 3 Presidential Debates from laughingsquid.com.

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Pretty much the same arguments plus the same attacks. Now 23/6 has all the debate coverage edited into one amazing clip.

When I worked on the Noon Show on Monday, I saw Andrea Mitchell’s weekend wrap on the political news. She played a clip from a SNL parody on last week’s CBS Interview with Governor Palin. And she played it side-by-side, with the real interview by Katie Couric.

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Bottom Line: Tina Fey and [...]

Viva my weekend.
I’m taking it easy for these last days of being 29-years-old.

originally uploaded by queenkv.

Last month, we ended up in Lodi after the Stockton Asparagus Festival. An air-conditioned wine tasting at the Lodi Visitor’s Center helped revive us. The festival was fun but we were wiped out from walking through 100-degree weather and [...]

Daisy monopolized Mark’s lap and I had my head on his shoulder as the President delivered his 6th State of the Union address last night.
After clicking through Gibson, Schieffer and Williams pontificating with other journalism talking heads….giving play-by-plays on Bush’s vespers with Congressmen and Senators, Mark settled on C-SPAN coverage. It’s always refreshing to watch [...]

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or [...]

can anyone see me?
need to clean-up the basement…it’s nice to have clothing inside a closet and to stop living out of a suitcase….but I need some order in my life….it feels like I don’t have any order in my life….just trying to keep up with the news in DC.

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wow. I feel so drained….but in a good way.

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Orientation started off in typical fashion - went over names, city of orgin and stations/papers we’re covering.
Then my professor told [...]