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Help!!

Dear All,

Please helpout my friends Guido and Nancy. They are doing some great work in Southern California:

Help Los Angeles Habilitation House (www.lahabilitationhouse.org) to win the "Share to Win" Contest ($5,000): support our cause with just few clicks!

LAHH is participating in the “Share to Win “contest launched by 3banana.com.
They need to collect the largest number of comments on a note describing why people should care about their cause in order to win the contest and collect a money prize. This financial contribution will help LAHH to continue to fulfill their mission of providing employment for persons with disabilities.
I just ask 2 minutes of your time and few clicks.
Follow these simple steps:

1) Go tohttp://bit.ly/Q9mlC where you’ll find the note
2) Click on the “comment” link at the bottom of the note
3) Sign in
4) Click again on “comment” and leave your message

If you have any problem signing on please check detailed instructions athttp://www.lahabilitationhouse.org/contest/eng/sharetowin.html#instructions

Please forward this message to your Facebook contacts, spread the word on Facebook and Twitter, and contact your friends by email.
Thanks!
Guido

Because everyone, everyone, waits to be called sometime by their name, by
their own name which no one knows; not themselves, nor their earthly mother.
All wait to sometime be called by that father, whose hand and whose face we
have felt over our head in the form of prohibition in the early days, a shadow
over our pure forehead in the disturbing garden of childhood. And from whose
voice we thought we heard the distant echo, at our back, when in adolescence we
wanted to leave running past the limits of the closed garden. And whose glance,
among the clouds, has come diffused on our cheeks causing to rise in them the
fire of fear and of desire. We have felt it as an infinite aureole upon the
forehead and beyond the figure of our earthly father. And its voice has
reinforced one's own causing it to resonate towards the infinite. We all have
felt its unlimited presence upon our small, insignificant one. And we have felt
its presence giving meaning, power, to nature, "above the visible heavens"; to
the clouds as its vehicle, to the wind as "its winged steed"

--Maria Zambrano

New Pemco Ad.

This is so true!! I think I am slowly reverting back to a north-easterner though.

American Violet.

Here's something worth blogging: today I got an "update" through Facebook about a movie (because I am a fan of The Visitor):

Greetings to all of you who loved 'The Visitor'.

A year ago (almost to the day) I set up this FB page to try and help Tom McCarthys' wonderful film get as wide an audience as possible because I liked and believed in it so much. These days, small movies need all the help they can get, especially ones that lack big-name stars and large marketing budgets. Thankfully, and due in so small part to of all of you, the film got a lot of recognition garnering critical acclaim and many awards and nominations.

Today I'm writing to let you know about a film I saw last night that I think is just as powerful and touches on some of the same themes as 'The Visitor'. It is called 'American Violet' and it is terrific. Like 'The Visitor', it is small and opening in only a few cities with a very modest marketing campaign and is very reliant on good reviews and word of mouth to get attention. It opens this weekend (April 17th) and we can really make a difference in it's fate!

It also has at it's center a powerful performance by an actor of considerable talent. I think we are sure to hear more in the future about Ms. Nicole Beharie who plays the lead in this true and horrifying story about a terrible miscarriage of justice in Texas. It also has a remarkable supporting cast with the likes of Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, Michael O' Keefe and Will Patton.

I hope you see it and agree that it deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. If so, please encourage your friends and spread the word! Here is more information:

Official website:
http://www.americanviolet.com/

Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Violet/47829071526?ref=mf

To find a theater near you:
http://schedule.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/films/american+violet/

Thanks for listening. All the best to all of you!

Here is an NPR story about this movie.

Also, if you haven't watched The Visitor, please do.

Goats at Quest Fields.

So, you know my fascination with the PEMCO ad campaign. Kristi from Pemco writes:

Hi Alex –

My name is Kristi, and I work with PEMCO Insurance here in Seattle. I noticed that you had some nice things to say about PEMCO’s “Goat Renter Guy” ad from its “We’re A Lot Like You. A Little Different.” campaign on your Blog.

I just wanted to drop a note to give you a heads up that the goats from PEMCO’s ad are making a guest appearance this weekend at Saturday’s Sounders game. The goats will be hanging out at PEMCO’s booth outside Qwest Field at 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 11. Soccer fans and goat enthusiasts can get their photo taken with the hungry ruminants before heading into the game – just watch out that your Sounders scarf doesn’t get munched!

To check out the TV spot again, follow this link:

www.tinyurl.com/goatrenterguy

Thanks!

Kristi for PEMCO

Now you know...

WAY OF THE CROSS 2009

I just got an email from the DC community about spreading the words on the Way of the Cross. Go here to see the listing of the cities, and attend them on Good Friday.