Is it March yet?

Recently, my nights have consisted of packing and watching endless NCAA basketball games. The two of them together make for an interesting evening. March is almost upon us and the excitement is heating up. Before you know it, I'll be printing out a nice clean bracket to fill out and I will pray to the bracket gods to bless my selections and help me to continue my steak of domination in all pools I choose to enter.

Some highlights so far this week:

1) Texas over KU; and

2) Kentucky only scoring 11 points in the first half of play against Vanderbilt. Supposedly this was the lowest score ever noted in a half of play since the invention of the digital game clock? I don't know but losing by 41 must always suck.

1 Week Later

It has been a week and I still find myself mourning the death of Heath Ledger. He had fifty more lives to live in his lifetime. It is tragic to see someone who was not only amazing at his craft but walked through this world with so much empathy. He will be missed.

While in New York over the weekend, I stopped by Heath Ledger's apartment on Broome Street in the SoHo area of town. A memorial was present at the front doors to the apartment. I left Tibetan Buddhist beads among the flowers, candles, notes and pictures left along the front of the street. It was a moving moment to see how much one person (that most of us hardly knew but through movies) was able to be loved by so many. It such a tragic loss for his family as it is for all the fans who have admired his independent spirit, conviction for life, and beautiful energy that hopefully continues to radiate in his films and daughter, Matilda.