Lenya & Jennie

A weekend in Orange County was made all the sweeter because Levi was able to bring the whole family with him to the Harvest Crusade. As you see in this picture, (courtesy of Stephanie Chapin) Lenya is enjoying the view.

So Cal: Love it!

Roaming around Fashion Island in Newport Beach. Someone appears to be on my shoulders.
Levi, Jennie, Alivia & Lenya pre-crusade at the Stadium

In So California for some video work at Harvest Crusades with Cathe Laurie & Chris Tomlin.

Monday, we interview Don Stewart for Shattered.

Added bonus, Levi is the M/C at Harvest Crusades, and I get to see lots of friends on the Harvest team at the stadium.

Off the charts event. Details to follow.

Sedona, Arizona

Nate at Sedona Bike & Bean. Coffee and cycling, my kind of shop
Skip, the 'One Take Wonder'

Stand in Talent
The Crew on the Job

Sedona, Arizona is a spectacular location near the Grand Canyon, not far from Flagstaff. John Wayne, Gene Autry and even Elvis made movies here. Easy to see why.

Over the years, I have been able to get there holiday or when I've done some radio consulting or outreach in AZ. This week, we chose Sedona for the setting for our anchor work with Skip & Nathan for the documentary, 'Shattered.' Perfect choice. Shattered is about how the occult is increasingly integrated into society through media, movies, the internet etc. Sedona is all about the occult, and the setting was gorgeous and the interviews were strange. Just what I wanted. Next: Columbine, Colorado Springs & Santa Fe.

Midnight at the Oasis

Midnight, mountain time and I am outside on our lanai. It's a stunning summer night in New Mexico and I am doing research that is not my idea of a good time. We are right in the middle of a new documentary, 'Shattered,' about avenues of the occult into modern American families. The Bible says be simple concerning evil. Good advise. So I have been purposefully ignorant of the growing trend in vampire movies, evil role playing games and the like. But to write a script it is helpful to know a little bit of what you are talking about. So, I reluctantly rented Twilight on my Itunes and I'm watching alone while I write copy for a shoot we have Tuesday in Sedona, Arizona. Now it's kind of creepy out here. I may need to sleep with a light on.

Post Traumatic Stress Therapy: Jaxon & Motown

Dealing with post American Airlines/Dallas traumatic stress syndrome. I thought the best therapy would be a little Jaxon & a little Motown. I was right. 

 We'll see how I do flying to Sedona Monday and So Cal next weekend. 

Planes and Trains.....

Director John Hughes died today, he directed two epic 80's films, Home Alone and Ferris Bueller, along with the Breakfast Club. He also directed Planes, Trains and Automobiles which reminds me of my last day and a half. Okay now, I have travelled my share, but today was out of control. Everyone has travel horror stories of delays and missed connections. I have plenty of those. I have slept at DIA  in Denver during snowstorms, been diverted from Manilla to Tokoyo  and taken every imaginable form of transportation to get to Montana. But this....

I have been pointing to this Hulu.com Summit meeting in Virginia since January. 

I am  providing Connection content to a company working with  Fox/Disney to create a faith/family channel  on the hugely popular Hulu.com site. 

I was to meet with Jay Sekulow and some CBN heavyweights and I was stoked.  I never made it to the meeting.

I will not bore you with the gory details, 30 hours, three airports,  seven security checks,  and I never made it past Texas.  My first flight took off and we did not make it out of ABQ! 

That should have been a sign.  American Airlines lured me into complacency by upgrading me to First for the whole flight for some unknown reason.  Just as I was settling into my spacious seat and dozing off, the pilot said, 'We have a minor problem and are turning back to Albuquerque.' First of all, there are no 'minor problems' at 30,000 feet.  It all spiralled out of control from that point. I was doomed.  

Airports can be their own little hell. We shuffle mindlessly through security like sheep to slaughter, abandoning all sense of personal right. Today, I was a zombie, I do not give up easily, but when the final flight took off for Norfolk, and I was still #1 on standby, with my face pressed against the airport window.

 I was a defeated man. It was pathetic. But the worst was yet to come. Once I decided to surrender and return to ABQ,  American told me the next flight was tomorrow at noon.  48 hours after I began my journey to nowhere.  Stopping short of going postal, I crawled to a different airport (Love Field) and  slithered home on Southwest, a broken man. 

But I will get back on the horse.

Focus

		Bob Waliszewski Director Fifteen years after he began his Plugged In tenure, Bob ) is Focus on the Family's Director of Media and Culture. His weekly "Plugged In Movie Review" radio feature is heard on hundreds of U.S. radio stations.

In about 1989 Focus on the Family moved from So Cal to Colorado Springs. I was living there then, as I co- owned two radio stations, KCMN  & KCBR. It rocked the community to have Focus bring an army of committed Christians into the city. Before long, 1500 employees worked on the Focus campus just across from the Air Force Academy, which is one of the top tourist attractions in the state.  As you can imagine, Focus needed lots of radio and tv talent and eventually hired, at least part-time, almost everyone I knew in the Christian radio community.  So, I ended up having lots of friends on campus and still do. Monday I stopped in to see  a friend and was able to sit down with Bob W.  who is director of media and culture. 

He has agreed to be a core interview in our upcoming Shattered documentary. He knows his stuff and knows how to deliver a sound bite. This is a nice addition, and the project is coming together nicely for a 10.31 launch.