Earth Hour again...

It's been awhile since I had anything worthwhile to write about. I found out that last night was Earth Hour. You might remember last year, that I blogged about this yearly one hour movement. Basically, on the same day everyone agrees to turn off their lights at 8:30pm (local time) for an hour. It seems like such a small act but, when combined with about 80 million people around the world, it can have a profound effect on the Earth and the people on it. Last year was pretty interesting.

This year, countries around the world turned off the lights of well known monuments and landmarks that require tons of lights. Here's a picture of watch the Great Giza Pyramids and Sphinx look like with the lights turned off. Pretty cool and ominous looking. Here are some more images taken from around the world. The whole idea behind Earth Hour is to show support and awareness for climate change (global warming for the old school folks). It started three years ago and this year about one billion people participated. If you didn't get a chance to join this movement here's a list of everyday things that can be done. We only have one habitable planet, so we better start taking better care of it.

Start doing any of these things:

• Turn off lights when you leave a room for 10 minutes or longer.
• Drink filtered tap water instead of bottled water.
• Put your computer in power-save or sleep mode.
• Turn off video game consoles when not in use.
• Seal air leaks, adjust your water heater, and control your thermostat to lower energy usage and waste.
• Go meatless on Mondays.
• Watch out for energy vampires around the house and unplug the biggies.
• Swap out all your light bulbs for CFLs.
• Stop catalogs and junk mail from piling up in your mailbox.
• Reduce the brightness of your TV set to the "home" mode.
• Use up leftovers and avoid wasting food.
• Find out how walkable your hometown is and try walking to your weekend errands.
• Fix a leaky faucet or toilet.
• Use the low-water and low-heat settings on your dishwasher, and don't pre-rinse dishes.
• Hang your clothes to dry on a clothesline in spring and summer.
• Use the washers when you have a full load.
  
• Take public transit to work or school.
• Install dimmer switches on your lights and plug appliances into smart power switches.

Most of these don't cost much and can actually save you money. Got any other ideas?

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Now playing: The Hex Girls - Earth, Wind, Fire, And Air
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Celebrity "Journalists" Annoy Me

Celebrity news reporters annoy the hell out of me. So Brooke Anderson on HLN "Showbiz Tonight" is talking about how she interviewed Corey Haims some time ago. She claimed he was erratic, defensive and fidgety. She talked about how she was worried about him, but was she really? She was soo concerned for him that she decided to do... nothing. She's just a journalist, sort of, and I guess it's not her job. If a purse snatcher was running past her, it wouldn't be her job to stop him. She'd probably run up beside him and try to interview him.

When a celebrity dies, people act as if this person was their closest friend and they have to know everything. Well, news flash people, you were that close. Real friends would hold interventions or call Dr. Drew for advice. Something, anything other than ignoring the problem. How about giving their family some damn space to grieve, instead of talking about all their indiscretion, or their on and off again drug problems? I'm still waiting to see which channel will play a marathon of his movies. Farewell, Corey Haim. You will be missed especially by your other half Corey Feldman.

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Now playing: HIM - When Love and Death Embrace
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Finally Saw Avatar

I can't believe after four months of procrastinating, that I finally went out and saw the Avatar movie. I think I was turned off a little by the obvious and overdone storyline: boy infiltrates natives, becomes one with natives, falls for native girl teaching him and helps them fight off his own people. It was still a great movie visually. The effects and scenery were amazing. Too bad I couldn't catch it in 3D. Now that would have been amazing! Even though it didn't win "Best Picture" last night, it still made 2.9 billion dollars worldwide. How's that for success!

The next movie I'm itching to see is "The Last Airbender" based on the Nickelodeon cartoon "Avatar: The Last Airbender". It'll basically be like the series but chronicled into 3 movies ('cause we all love trilogies). So, if you haven't seen the show, it's okay. But you should still see it, because it's awesome.



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Now playing: Avatar - Avatar The Last Airbender Theme song
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Any anime and manga fans out there?!

I just received the Tokyopop newsletter in my inbox and an awesome opportunity was presented. For anyone that is interested, you can go on tour with them as their Digital Media Production and Marketing Intern. If you are a college student who: LOVES anime and manga, is available to go on tour with them to conventions and bookstores, and are able to receive college credit, then this is for you. Here are some of the other criteria:

Qualifications:

1. Must be comfortable on camera and able to energize a crowd.

2. Must be a skillful user of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and YouTube.

3. Must be able to plan, shoot, edit, and upload video.
Must be available for most if not all of the Tour: May 22-September 7.

4. Must like to travel.

5. Must have lots and lots of energy!

6. Film or film marketing studies a plus.

7. Japanese speakers a plus.

8. Must receive course credit; this is an unpaid internship (travel expenses will be covered).

9. Must receive verifiable college credit for an internship; this internship is unpaid (travel expenses are covered).

10. Must enter into a TOKYOPOP Tour Internship agreement with TOKYOPOP.

How to Apply

1) Become a member of the TOKYOPOP Tour and join the Intern Applicants Group

2) Upload your resume and a writing sample as a blog post to your TOKYOPOP Tour profile.

3) Upload a video telling us why you're the right person for the internship to your TOKYOPOP Tour profile. Show us your most positive attributes, the ones that you think will make you a great spokesperson for TOKYOPOP on the road.

4) Send and email to Tour@TOKYOPOP.com with the subject line "TOKYOPOP Tour Internship Application" confirming that you have submitted an application.

5) Deadline: March 31, 2010

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