Championships, trailers and poor planning

How 'bout them BRUINS?! This city was electric last night! One of my roommates was walking home from the T station (public transit/subway) and heard televisions streaming the game from every open window as she walked through our neighborhood. When the game was final, you could hear cheering, screaming, sirens and fireworks all throughout the city. My windows were even closed! It was an exciting night even if I'm not *really* a Bruins fan. When's the last time I went to a game? Never. Do I care about hockey? Rarely. But it is an exciting decade to be living in the city of Boston, I'll tell you that much. Since 2001, the city has won seven championships. Boston is now the first city to win all four major championships (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) in a seven-year span. Suddenly the New England Patriots are the slackers. They haven't won a title in six years. Must be a great feeling if you're in the Baby Boomer plus age range. All that waiting... all that patience... Like the article says, I feel bad for New England teenagers who have grown up expecting this, however. They're going to be thoroughly disappointed throughout the years I'm sure of it.

Celebrating... wish they were at the TD Garden...

Completely random, but I thought I'd share this with you as well. It's the Blue Like Jazz official trailer. Thoughts? Have you read the book? Do you appreciate Don Miller? Is it what you were expecting? For me, I think I'm going to have to get used to it. BLJ is a phenomenal book that didn't seem to be able to translate to screen. However, after viewing the trailer, I take back that statement and leave an open mind. I'm still nervous, though... The book is one of thoughts and ideas, something hard to translate to larger than life images on a flat screen. Let me know what you think!

Finally, to keep this post completely random, I need ideas. I am running a raffle at the golf tournament I am coordinating and have a hard time coming up with a unique and fun way to present the raffle winners. That's where you come in! In the past, we had Powerpoint up on a screen and typed the numbers out. This was a nightmare seeing that 1. there were too many prizes and the font size was too small 2. we couldn't get the slides to change on their own so I stood there hitting the next key every few seconds and 3. it wasn't something everyone was paying attention to because it just rolled through without anyone saying "hey! check out the screen to win your prizes!" so many people came up to me at the end of the dinner and asked if they had won anything. Poor planning on my part. The second idea is to read the numbers aloud for each winning item, but then again that takes forever with the amount of prizes we receive and the Golf Chair does not like the idea. So, there is the dilemma. Does anyone have a creative way of announcing the winners without it dragging on for an hour or being hounded by winners when you're trying to pack up? I'm all ears.