Mike McCready

Remember that game show that wasn’t on US TV but that made a lot of news? You know, the one about winning “The Best Job In The World”, which was to be the caretaker of a beautiful Australian island and get paid about $120,000? Well, the guy who beat out 35,000 contestants and won the [...]

There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

This snowman got my attention. It was especially out of place on the 2nd Avenue sidewalk near 30th Street.

All last year and early this year there was a lot of anticipation in the neighborhood about the High Line, a new elevated park in the Meatpacking District of the West Village. It offers great views of the neighborhood and of the Hudson River – and apparently of the people staying in The Standard Hotel in all their nudity and lewd behavior according to a report by Mike Taibbi on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

The hard economic times in Spain have been making the major news media in the US. Here are two reports from NBC news. The first one is from tonight’s broadcast. It’s about the truckers’ strike. Here in the US we’re having a hard time coming to terms with $4.00 for a gallon of gas. In [...]

OK, now I’m just being silly. Someone please take this camera away from me!! No, seriously!

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It’s similar to the sales tax in that it’s an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). This is gripping prose [...]

This was recently sent to me. It’s a rendition of “Carry On Wayward Son” by Kansas on an organ. I know. But watch it and you’ll see what I mean! Amazing Young Organ Player Rocks Out – Watch more free videos

José Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s recently re-elected Prime Minister has announced that his cabinet will, for the first time in history, be made up of more women than men. Of the 17 cabinet members nine are women. Zapatero is a self-proclaimed feminist and his previous cabinet sported an equal number of both men and women. [...]

It seems like more and more this is the kind of running I’ve been doing. I think this counts though!