In posting 3-4 blog entries a week, it's a good feeling when I realize that people are taking the time to read what I'm writing. I was particularly excited regarding a response that I got about a recent post.
This past Tuesday, I posted a video of Ryan Rogers being the first baby to baptized at Fenway Park. At the end of the post I wrote, "I want to know the levels of conversation this guy had with his wife to come up from Florida to get his son baptized at Fenway Park."
Imagine my surprise when I got an answer to my (rhetorical) question. For those who missed it, Ryan's mom found the story of her son on my Blog and posted this comment.
"You wanted to know about the conversation this guy had with his wife. Well, this is his wife. It went something like this. I was bogged down during tax season (I am a CPA) so long story short, I left the baptism planning up to my husband. We are from New England and all of our family still live in Mass and RI, SO we would have gone up north either way, just a matter of location. Having planned everything else (wedding, showers, etc.), I thought it nice for my husband should have his dream of this Fenway Park baptism. He came into the kitchen and said honey, there has NEVER been a baptism at Fenway Park, I laughed and said yeah.. that's because MOST people have them in a church! he said well they have weddings, etc. in different places, I said true, but do they have drive by baptisms in Vegas? Anyhow, I continued to leave all of the planning up to him. he did a great job and when all is said and done, it was amazing. No I wasn't crazy about it at first, but it all worked out."
A Huge Chicks Dig McLovin thank you goes out to Mrs. Rogers for responding to my question, and going into detail about how her son's baptism at Fenway came about. She seems like a very cool lady. I'm glad all worked for her and family on such an important day.
The power of advertising. I finally broke down and purchased Coldplay's Viva la Vida from iTunes after seeing all of the iTunes commercials this past week, playing this song during the NBA playoffs.
Thoughts: It's a good song, a little different take from Coldplay as the song is not either piano or guitar driven (as most of their songs are) - it's heavier on the string (violins) section. Though listening to it, it reminds me of the NBA playoffs, and I have a feeling that future listens will continue to remind me of this year's NBA playoffs, much like the Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, takes me back to the 2001 World Series and Tears for Fears' Everyone Wants to Rule the World instantly brings on images of Dennis Miller playing pool in the opening of his talk show on HBO.
80's Redux: Van Halen with David Lee Roth on tour, a new Indiana Jones movie, a New Kids Tour, makes you wonder when are the Z Cavaricci pants coming back.
Celtics-Lakers NBA finals has a nice ring to it and would continue the 80's theme. We'll see what happens.
Have a great weekend everyone.
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