Baseball, jam bands, house music, movies, travel, capital sales, poor golfer. Exercise enthusiast. Occasional chapter book reader. Permanently doing a bit
For the last 46 years, it has been my privilege to work alongside countless talented artists and crews to create these characters, stories, and films for you all.
I'm looking forward to seeing you at the movies! DIGGER. Only in theaters this October.
This note was just left on my windshield. All of us @spittinchiclets are so lucky to have the job we do and there is no better feeling in the world than hearing we have helped certain people through some hard times. Best fans in the world
I’m a lifelong Houston Astros fan. Every year for Father’s Day, my kids get me and my wife tickets to a game and we all go together. My wife, my kids, their spouses, and my grandkids.
We were at the game in Houston last night and two things happened that made my night almost as much as being at the game with my family.
The first happened when I paid a vendor with my USAA credit card. She saw the card and said, “just want to thank you for your service.” I thanked her and the two young men (early 20’s or so) in the row in front of me turned around, each shook my hand, and one of them said, “We couldn’t help but overhear. We also want to thank you for your service, sir.” It wasn’t about their recognizing me, per se. It was just very refreshing to see two young guys thankful for another person’s sacrifice. Too often, all we hear about are the entitled, arrogant young generation. Last night just reminded me they aren’t all in that group.
The second thing was at the piano bar in downtown Houston after the game. There were 12 Dutch guys at the table next to us. They’ve been in the US for the past nine days to follow the World Cup. I ended up talking to them for quite a while. This was the first trip to the States for them. They said they had always been told how arrogant and condescending Americans are. They said since they’ve been here, everyone they’ve come in contact with has been overwhelmingly friendly and welcoming. One of them even commented, “Everything we’ve ever heard about Americans is a lie.” I bought a round of drinks for them and told them I was glad they had a good experience in this country and hoped they would return sometime.
Every now and then, I get too sucked into all the negativity that permeates social media and forget that it actually represents an extremely small fraction of the population. Good people still outnumber bad by a huge margin. Last night was my latest reminder not to forget that.
In the spring of 1988, a 9-year-old me noticed a misspelling on my favorite snack, Yogurt Covered Raisins.
I wrote to Del Monte to say that they spelled “Delicious” wrong.
They sent me a letter, 38 years ago today, changed millions of packages & gave me 36 pounds of raisins!
Will Bernie/Warren ever teach and encourage their base to invest in S&P 500 $VOO or Nasdaq 100 $QQQM ETFs so they can also benefit from our amazing stock market and build wealth for themselves?
Always victim nonsense.
Show your people how they can win, too. Because they can.