^That’s the story on the FRONT page of sun-sentinel.com — which just goes to show how huge this is. It’s higher than Andy Rooney dying and some big coke bust.

Cooper City High School is notoriously known for losing football games. We would always go to the games and the team always played hard, but wins were generally hard to come by. Last year they did great though, they won districts. And this year?

St. Thomas is ranked as the number 9 best high school football team in America. Not Broward, not Florida, but AMERICA. Every year, they slaughter the Coop on the football field, and as it says in that article, in the past four CC v. STA games alone, St. Thomas has outscored us 239-17.

This year Cooper City football is doing amazing. They’re undefeated with just one game left in the regular season, and last night they beat St. Thomas and won the district — the first time St. Thomas HASN’T won the district since 1996.

My Facebook news feed went crazy.

I mean, that’s how I and most of us found out about the win. And these weren’t just high school kids and creepy college kids who still talk about high school (like me), but like all the alumni all the way back through like 06 I saw, showing Cowboy spirit. It was really cool, and so good for the school/city. I wish I could have been there.

As James Pagano so elegantly puts it, “Damn St. Thomas sucks to suck… Beat by a white public school lmao.”

Now they’re going for Regional & State! Go Cowboys!

Watch the video on the Sun-Sentinel article, it’s awesome.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-cooper-city-defeats-st-thomas-aquinas-20111104,0,3724067.story 

A bunch of us from CTV ‘08 got together for dinner last night. We haven’t all been together like this in over a year, maybe 2, so it was great seeing everyone again.

The best part about any CTV reunion is that really, nobody has changed. We’re the same kids that were running around Cooper City High with cameras and rapping about Ms. Doll & the 3400’s. The only difference is that most of us (myself and Travis excluded) are old enough to legally drink alcohol, as you can see with Cassie’s pitcher below lol.

^This is a picture of Travis, Adam, and me, the Assistant Vice President, Vice President, and President of CTV in 2008. Travis says we’re going to take one of these pictures every year for the next 50 years. Totally down.

It’s going to be harder to do these reunions once we all start graduating college and doing our own thing, but hopefully there will be more in the future because these are some of the greatest people ever. Legit. 

More pictures!

My sister graduated from high school on Monday. Whaaaat?!

I’m not sure where the past like 7 years have gone but they’ve peaced and here we are in 2011, me, a rising Senior in college, and my sister, graduated from high school and heading to UVM in the fall.

Anyway I’m really glad I got to go to the ceremony. Despite the fact that it was long and boring (an 18-minute speech, really Ms. Doll?), I got to see lots of people that I haven’t seen in a while like Cooper teachers (Scaff, Harding, Pichardo) and the 2011 graduates. But there were also a surprising amount of other 08 Grads there to watch their siblings graduate so it was cool catching up with them, too.

Pichardo was awarded Teacher of the Year this year and made an adorable speech which you can watch on my Facebook, here.

Since the graduation, I’ve spent the week catching up with old friends and doing “Cooper City things” like going to the Starbucks plaza on Stirling and Steak and Shake at 2am. It’s been chill.

Still not really sure what my plans are for the rest of the summer since they’ve changed like five times already… but whatever. Taking it day by day! I’ll be down for the rest of June at least. Maybe July, too.

Congrats 2011 grads!

Here’s a few more pics:

^Myles, Maxie

^Alyssa

^Tandy

I had so many strange coincidences happen to me at the airport in New York tonight.

First, I was sitting at my gate, waiting to board my plane to SoFla, when our plane arrives from Long Beach, California. So I’m watching the people unboard the plane, when all of the sudden, a familiar face walks off. It’s Mark, someone that I met on a film shoot a couple months ago. Weird thing is, he goes to UVM, the University of Vermont which is a) not in California b) not in New York and c) the school my sister is going to next year. So he came up to me and talked to me a little bit. Cool guy.

Second, while I was waiting in line to board the very same plane, I notice these two guys in front of me, one of which is holding a red CC Football bag. Of course it was Cooper City. They were two CCHS alums, one from 06 and one from 08 (who strangely I had never met before!). They were both super cool and were telling me about the birthright trip to Israel they just got back from. That is like the thing to do this summer isn’t it?!

Anyway, strange day at JFK…
and now I’m in Florida! For a month! 

CCHS Girls Varsity Soccer - Senior Night 2011

My mom had asked me to film some my sister’s soccer game on Wednesday night since it was Senior Night. So I did, and then that home video turned into this.

They dominated and won by the mercy rule so I figured it was worth posting :)

^That’s the Cooper City High girl’s varsity soccer team playing at sunset. My mom and I went to go see my sister play on Thursday. I’m back in Florida now for 6-weeks and everything is as it’s always been. The high school’s the same, the stores are the same. The same people are all coming home to our regular houses in our old neighborhoods. It’s hot, and my house is decorated for Christmas the same way it has always been for the 18 years I’ve lived in it.

Nothing has changed, and that’s exactly how I like it.

It’s great to be home :)

On the contrary to what most people seem to believe, I live in Cooper City, Florida just about as much as I live in New York. In fact, in the year 2010 I’m spending 5 1/2 months in Florida… just about half the year.

I guess for most Cooper kids the idea is to graduate from CCHS, move away to college, and never come back. I guess that’s fine for whoever wants to do that, but I actually like coming home! That’s not to say that I dislike NYU or New York in any way, but I loved my Senior year at CCHS, and I loved CTV, so I like to come home and try to maintain my pre-college life as much as I can. So to all you hoebags who keep asking my why I’m always in Cooper City and at CCHS, there’s your reason ;)

But seriously, it’s been a good summer. I went to the opening of Shake Shack Miami, made a trip to UF and UCF, and slept for like 18 hours every day which some may call a waste of time but I call perfect.

Now I’m back in the city so the blog can finally become interesting again!

PEACE 954, HELLO 212.

I meant to post this last Tuesday when it actually happened but forgot so here it is now.

I was watching CTV’s annual Graduation Webcast (awesome, as always) and just want to say congrats to the Cooper City High class of 2010 :)

My old high school has a new cafeteria building that opened this week. It’s ridiculous and awesome and epic and I’m sad that I never got to experience it (except for today when I was hanging out there like always, obvs).