Sweeps is here (again). I've been a busy little photographer. Too busy to blog. I couldn't really blog about much anyway, since I'm sworn to secrecy on all the sweeps projects I've been working on. I can tell you one thing: We have the grotesque beauty pageant show on Fox, so I've been sitting-in on a ton of weird-ass plastic surgeries and medical procedures.

Just the other day I made a list of all the medical-ish stuff I've had to shoot in the last year:

botox in the face
botox in the armpit
lasik eye surgery
breast implants
lip injections (not collagen, but tissue from cows)
liposuction
some weird yoga spinal massage
some weird hydro-sonic fat massage

Hmm. There were more than that. Maybe I've had to emotionally block them out.

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Christopher Reeve

As you well know, Christopher Reeve (know for his winking and grinning in the Superman movies of the 80's) died on Sunday. I had a range of quirky emotions when I found out that he died.

Here was my internal monologue:

"Oh man. Christopher Reeve died. That sucks. I guess he really made something of his life after that accident. An inspiration and all that. Oh hell. I was totally making fun of him on Friday. I was saying that he looked like Professor X or Lex Luthor now and all that. Oh man...I was saying some really bad stuff after that. That sucks. Oh no! Chris Reaves!"

I have a friend from college who's name is Chris Reaves. So, right when I heard about Christopher Reeve I immediately thought of him.

"Chris Reaves must really be feeling this so much more than anyone else since he kinda-not-really-sorta has the same name as Christopher Reeve."

But, I held back a few days in emailing him, since I figured a bunch of other people thought the same thing.

Here's what he said when I emailed him:

I'm cool, thanks for thinking of me. Yep, the guy really was my hero, I've thought about him and hoped that he would walk again every day since his accident. I always thought I'd see him get up out of that chair someday. I found out when I came in to work on Monday at 4am, I sat down at my desk and looked up at the bank of monitors and my eyes were drawn to CNN and I thought, "hey a clip of Superman...cool...what...oh no. Can't dwell on it though, that's life."

True that, Reaves.

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when pit bulls go bad?

Qyntel Woods (of Portland Trailblazer fame) had his house searched on Monday on allegations of illegal pit bull fighting. And, even though I wasn't on the story, some random guy got in my face about the media "blowing the pit bull issue out-of-proportion" and that they're really "harmless" dogs.

Now, I've done tens-of-dozens of stories about how pit bull have: 1) mauled children, 2) killed children, 3) bitten people, 4) attacked people and other dogs, 5) killed other dogs. So, I'm pretty much convinced that pit bulls are right below velociraptor on the list of 'pets you probably shouldn't keep around the family home'.

SO, the very next day I'm sent to Vantucky Vancouver to press conference about another ring of illegal pit bull fighting. And, while we're at the Humane Society they let us take photos of all the dogs confiscated. They were covered in scars, and all kinds of nasty stuff. But, one of them really caught my attention.



This dog, for the entire thirty minutes we were there, was just tearing about his food dish. And, I thought, "How precious."

But, I can't totally blame the dogs - the owners share quite a bit of the blame. As a matter of fact, we went out the house where the dogs were confiscated, and it was right out of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They had chains and cages all around the front yard. And there was even a huge pen filled with live rabbits - which are fed to the dogs, to make them more savage. This was all in the front yard, mind you. Imagine all the stuff we couldn't see.

And, after all of that my reporter and I just turned to each other and said, "Just another day in Vancouver, Washington."

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EQ2:

Just watched the latest trailer for Everquest 2 today. Oh man. I need to start getting all the sleep I can now - because after EQ2 and Halo2, I won't be getting any. [in related news: Christopher Lee is the main (voice over) villain in EQ2]