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.

Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

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

11 Days until the Presidential Election.

[from the Harvard University Gazette]
I was tickled to see Will Ferrell back on SNL as the Commander in Chief. This opening skit for “Weekend Update Thursday” had me laughing my butt off today.

Ferrell’s impersonation will live beyond President Bush’s term. In January He’s opening a one-man act on Broadway: [...]

The Race for the White House is on!
We are less than a month away from the first Presidential debate. In the control booth, I had fun working with all our live reports from the DNC in Denver and the RNC in St. Paul…Keeping up with all the juicy sound bites and timing out my morning [...]

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 [...]

This weekend, BuzzMachine blogs about: Finally covering Obamedia. Jeff makes some scathing points about the media’s treatment of the Illinois Senator on the campaign trail.
And SNL steps up with another parody of the Democratic Debates.

Friends and family I’ve talk to say this is the first time folks have been interested in following a Presidential [...]

I’ve been thinking about Balut. I think it’s time I try this Filipino delicacy. Hell, Mark already sampled it.

originally uploaded by queenkv.

I wonder if this is a good price for the half-hatched duck eggs. We found this vendor at the Fremont Farmers Market last September. Sadly, I had to catch a plane to Kansas that [...]

15 reasons why Mr. Rogers was, and always will be, the best neighbor, and one of television’s best entertainers, ever.
This article just put a smile on my face. I’m 29-years-old and I’m still amazed by this man.read more | digg story
Now that I’m working in television, the positive, child-friendly programming produced by Mr. Rogers 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 [...]

On a college radio list-serve, one volunteer pointed out that President Bush can say “shit” on CNN - without being bleeped and the rest of college radio is screwed by the FCC if any DJ played a song with the word “hell” in it.
“Recently, President Bush signed a Bill that increased indecency fines from the [...]