Hans Zimmer is a very well known, and widely respected, composer in Hollywood. He won the Oscar for The Lion King, and has scored movies like Gladiator, Mission Impossible, Rain Man, Thelma & Louise, Kung Fu Panda, The Last Samurai, the Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Sherlock Holmes, Inception, and lots more.

He’s also a good human rights supporter and a donor to humanitarian causes.

On Dec 13, ACLU has a big awards ceremony where they are presenting him with an award for his human rights work.

Bonnie Abaunza, who works closely with me on TheCommunity.com, is the head of his philanthropic division and his foundation. She called me tonight desperately needing a nice “tribute ad” for the booklet for the award. read more »

Okay you can rest easy now. There’s about to be a place on the Internet for your dog and cat to blog.

Seriously. It’s a job we’re the developers on.

I had to change a few things about the name because we’re not ready to have you log on yet. But I will say two things. The programmers are having a ball on it so far. And we’re pushing the envelope on WordPress, which makes it a really fun job.

Okay so maybe this is only intensely interesting to a few. But I did Thanksgiving dinner this year. A first.

Okay so I called Whole Foods and said I need a turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans and cranberry. Friends brought pies and I opened a $100 bottle of wine.

But I brought out the good china and crystal for it. That counts for something. Anyway, as it turned out, it was a fabulous meals. And none of my friends seemed to have a prerequisite that I stand over a cutting board chopping celery to make it happen.