Raiders of the Lost Blog

What do you get when Al Gore uses Bender from Futurama (which has been picked up by Comedy Central with 13 new episodes!!!) to promote his movie?  A TERRIFYING MESSAGE, that’s what.  Can you stand… THE TERROR???

Back on June 2nd, we had the flooding you see below. There’s a canal that feeds into Heards Brook that runs a street away from our house. We had some crazy storms and it made the canal flood, the first time we’ve seen the water this high. It still would have needed another 8 to 10 feet to cause us any problems, but it was crazy to see. See all my pictures of the flood here

Here’s the flooded street:

And here’s how it normally looks:

NJ Transit has been rebuilding the Woodbridge Train Station. The platform was built in the 30’s, so it was time to rebuild it I guess. I’ve been taking pictures off and on of the process, so you can see the platform destroyed and rebuilt. Right now they’re almost done with the north half of the platform. In a week or so they’ll shut down the south end, destroy & rebuild that end while we use the new north section. You can see the pictures here.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/5VCWJVvE0Fk" height="350" width="425" /]From the MTV movie awards, he’s singing in full Star Wars regalia, with stormtroopers and more! Check out the video here.

From the NY Times:

Kelly Schoeffel and Matthew Murphy

Kelly Jennifer Schoeffel, the daughter of Elaine and Hank Schoeffel of Princeton, N.J., was married last evening in Palm Springs, Calif., to Matthew Patrick Murphy, a son of Barbara and Michael Murphy of Hendersonville, N.C. Kurt Braunohler, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the couple, officiated at the Parker Palm Springs, a resort.

Mrs. Murphy, 30, is a strategic planner at Anomaly, a marketing and advertising company in Manhattan. She graduated from the University of Richmond and has two graduate degrees in psychology, a master’s from the University of Virginia and a doctorate from Harvard.

Her father is the managing director of the Princeton, N.J., office of McKenzie Scott, a recruiting firm. Her mother is a library assistant at Mary Jacobs Memorial Library in Rocky Hill, N.J..

Mr. Murphy, 29, is a freelance art director at advertising agencies in Manhattan. He is also a street performer known as Chengwin, for which he dons a half chicken, half penguin outfit. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design.

The bridegroom’s mother, who is retired, was a secretary in the Stamford, Conn., office of Swiss Re, the reinsurance company. His father, who is also retired, was a founder and the president of TCI Advertising in Stamford.

The couple’s first date was during the Northeast blizzard of December 2000, when Mr. Murphy convinced Ms. Schoeffel to accompany him to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to play in the snow.

“We bought a blowup sled on Atlantic Avenue,” Ms. Schoeffel recalled. So as to gain momentum, Mr. Murphy suggested that he get a running start and that Ms. Schoeffel jump on his back.

“Which sounded like a good idea at the time,” she said.

He ran. She jumped. And they both went tumbling. Mr. Murphy plunged headfirst into the snow. “And my head went into his,” Ms. Schoeffel said.

The blow knocked her out.

Mr. Murphy said, “I took snow and cleaned the blood off her nose and mouth.” Seeing his date bruised and bloodied had a strong impact on him. “I got this overwhelming need to protect and care for her,” he said.

Ms. Schoeffel regained consciousness, and they went to a hospital emergency room, where the doctor said her nose was broken. Ms. Schoeffel recovered, but snow still makes her nervous.

“That’s why we’re getting married in the desert,” she said.