Suzanna Medeiros http://www.suzannamedeiros.com Fall in love all over again Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:36:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Media Monday – Ferris Bueller returns http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SuzannaMedeiros/~3/3ydXCN26Fh4/ http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2012/01/30/media-monday-ferris-bueller-returns/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:36:46 +0000 Suzanna http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/?p=726 I heard that Matthew Broderick had filmed a commercial that was to be shown during the Superbowl in which he reprises his Ferris Bueller role. If you enjoyed the movie, you might get a kick out of this Honda CR-V commercial – “Matthew’s Day Off”.

 

 

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What else is new? When I’m not editing (I have a few projects I’ve finished writing and am now sitting down and tackling the edits I’ve been avoiding) I’ve been hanging around the web. I’ve posted links to the social media websites I love on the site’s home page and contact page. If you’re on any of those sites, please stop by and visit me!

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Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas!

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]]> http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/12/20/happy-hanukkah/feed/ 0 http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/12/20/happy-hanukkah/ Media Monday – I.Am.Canadian http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SuzannaMedeiros/~3/oHe_wp26BXw/ http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/12/12/media-monday-i-am-canadian/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:01:55 +0000 Suzanna http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/?p=681 I’d like to share an oldie, but a goodie. It’s a classic here in Canada. Molson’s I.Am.Canadian commercial.

(There’s another version on Youtube with many more views, but I decided to link to this one because the quality was slightly better.)

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For all of you who are experiencing mobile meltdowns, sit back and enjoy the following routine from The One Ronny – My Blackberry is Not Working!

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]]> http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/09/26/media-monday-not-google-plus/feed/ 0 http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/09/26/media-monday-not-google-plus/ Media Monday – Jann Arden and Rick Mercer do EdgeWalk http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SuzannaMedeiros/~3/3KzN_zQgS5k/ http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/09/19/media-monday-jann-arden-and-rick-mercer-do-edgewalk/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:03:54 +0000 Suzanna http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/?p=654 Summer is over, and my daughters and teacher husband are all back in school. That means I now have more time to write and to search out cool things to share here on Mondays.

During an earlier Thursday 13 post I listed some of the reasons why Toronto is a great place to live. One of the first things that comes to mind when thinking about Toronto is our skyline and the famous CN Tower – formerly the tallest freestanding structure in the world, but that honor now goes to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It is, however, still the tallest freestanding structure in the western hemisphere.

Recently, the CN Tower launched a new attraction – EdgeWalk. People can now walk around the outside of the disk section high up on the tower.

Let me repeat that … you strap into a harness and walk OUTSIDE the CN Tower. Personally, they couldn’t pay me enough to even consider doing it. It’s proven to be a very popular attraction, though. Recently, Jann Arden appeared on the Rick Mercer Report and Rick actually convinced her to try it out with him. I’ve attached the video clip of that segment. I can only shake my head in wonder as I watch this.

 

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]]> http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/08/01/media-monday-german-star-trek-commercial/feed/ 0 http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/08/01/media-monday-german-star-trek-commercial/ Media Monday – A “Paradise Lost” Movie http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SuzannaMedeiros/~3/4EIlJZMYfsM/ http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/2011/07/25/media-monday-a-paradise-lost-movie/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:19:45 +0000 Suzanna http://www.suzannamedeiros.com/?p=616 I saw a tweet last week that made me very excited. At the risk of exposing the English Lit nerd in me, I was very happy to see this USA Today article that announced Bradley Cooper would be starring as Lucifer in an upcoming Paradise Lost movie.

Paradise Lost, people! The Milton epic poem that tells the story of Lucifer being cast down into hell after the war in heaven, and his subsequent temptation of Adam and Eve. I can’t wait to see if Bradley Cooper will be as good in the part as I think he’ll be.

If you haven’t read the poem, the most startling thing about it is how the character of Lucifer is portrayed. He’s compelling and sympathetic, and actually comes across as a hero. You find yourself understanding him and relating to what he has to say. Well, in the beginning anyway. All that changes when the story moves on to Adam and Eve. That disappointed me when I first read it – how Lucifer seemed so three dimensional at the beginning of the story, but became more one-dimensionally evil by the end. I suppose that was inevitable given the time when Milton was writing.

I really do recommend reading the original poem, but if the idea of reading a poem that is 12 “books” (really parts) long makes you go, “Hell, no!”, I found a truncated, hitting-the-highlights version on Wikiquote here.

I’ll leave you with a couple of quotes that will probably seem familiar to many of you. They come from the opening, when Lucifer is trying to console his followers (he’s rallying the troops, really) who have been cast down from heaven with him, and now find themselves in a much darker place.


The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.
- Book I, lines 254-55

[…] Here at least
we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
- Book I, lines 258-63

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