Archive for September, 2006
Twilight
Sep 28th
Matt Steele is fading away from us. His body is finally failing him to the point we all imagined when we first heard of the brain cancer over 2 years ago. This is hard times for me. For us. I mean, he was the healthy one. He would actually excercise while the only excercise I got was from fetching our soda refills. That’s how I repaid him for creating chrismundell.com. I was his soda beee.
It was Matt that made this whole website thing happen for me. We collaborated to make my web life funny and sweet lookin’! The site has taken a hit in the design department since I’ve had to actually do the work myself. I miss my web buddy.
I was with him last night. I helped him eat and stuff. He was pretty wiped out from the Morphine. He was still in there though. His voice is softer now. He said “Thanks” every couple of bites. He’s likely going to be in bed until he passes on to be with The Father. I pray it is soon as he is in for some wonder.
I will miss my friend. I’m thankful to have known him. I’m not sure who I will complain to about lame stuff now. Matt was quite gifted in this area. He made me laugh a lot. I’m also thankful for all the time we had with him since the diagnosis. That was a true gift that not many people get. I actually got to tell him that I will miss him.
Link to Matt’s memorial service.
Little Miss Sunshine
Sep 27th
I love a good road trip movie. Vacation and Tommy Boy come to mind. I never saw Road Trip, the movie, but in my imagination it was a big Crap-a-saurus Rex. Little Miss Sunshine is a GREAT road trip movie!
Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris created a wonderful little film. You wouldn’t expect such an understated, touching film from the guys that made Paula Abdul’s Straight Up music video in 1989. But, I was just barely getting through my senior year of high school by the skin of my nether parts in 1989 so I really have no room to judge. Now, however, I have this super powerful website that broadcasts my every whim across the whole Earth and China. I will use this power and influence thusly, “GO SEE LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE”!!!!
This fun little film follows a family in various stages of dysfunction on a road trip to see that little Olive (played perfectly by Abigail Breslin) makes it to the Little Miss Sunshine finals. Only after I checked her IMDB profile did I notice that Abigail was the cute little girl in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. She was so good in that too!
Side note: The Little Miss Sunshine pageant is one of those beauty pageants for grade school girls. As fate would have it, the news was all aflutter with Jon Benet best-of-the-worst-of-news-ever reports right before I saw this film. It was a bit distracting but the film does not suffer for it.
I won’t make you read me gushing for this cast; you still have other things to see on this wonderful website. Suffice it to say that my movie buddy Roger has this film getting Oscar nods, come January. Roger is usually quite good at this. He’s like the Oscar Whisperer. He has Gaydar, except that it senses Oscar statues instead of gay dudes. He may also have the regular kind too.
In LMS, the family makes their trek in an old Volkswagen bus. My mom had one of those when I was quite young. It was sky blue with a deer decal on the side door. We drove it to Priest Lake, Idaho to visit my Aunt Jan and Uncle Randy. About 5 minutes after we left for home, the bus got hot. Mom went to check the engine and flames shot out at her! Yipes! Needless to say, we spent some more time in Idaho. I do NOT hate Aunt Jan or Uncle Randy and I didn’t hate Little Miss Sunshine!
Happy Birthday to JADE!
Sep 23rd
My cute wife turns thirtysomething today! I know you guys are probably totally wiped out from celebrating Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthday, yesterday, but try to wake up enough to leave Jade some warm birthday wishes here. OK? WooHoo Jade!
Meet Rob Broadus!
Sep 22nd
Hi Folks! I’m about to go to lunch with new co-worker, Rob Broadus. He’s super smart, funny and currently single*, ladies.
*While Rob was breifly married in the Philippines, it was never legal as the voodoo witchdoctor that performend the ceremony was quite drunk.
Reason #46 Why Greg Lawler RULES!
Sep 22nd
Here’s a sweet montage of my 1yr old daughter, Rory Nicole Sweet Little Bug Bug Bean Mundell by Greg Lawler! Greg has talent spilling out of his ears!
Works in progress…
Sep 14th
Hi all. Thanks for your patience lately with my slow updating. There is much in the que for you, my web friends. I’m working on a funny video (TugBoat: The Active Male Diaper) with David Malloy. Here’s a shot from my Yoga scene.
More to come, my peoples!!
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