^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

It’s so nice to be back in South Florida where people don’t hate the Heat! Game 2 tonight!

When did Cooper Starbucks become so indie?!

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! 

I didn’t get to come home for Spring Break this year because I had to work and do preproduction for my movie, but last week was an off week on Jimmy Fallon (meaning they’re not shooting new episodes) and the movie is done, so I made my own Spring Break and went home to SoFla from last Tuesday until yesterday.

It was definitely too short, but it was great.

I was kind of hoping to do nothing for most of it, which didn’t really happen because I only had like 5 days to see lots of people like the ones in the above picture. That was during our trip to the new FroYo place in Countryside Shops where some old ladies were there dying/talking about their boyfriends. Lol, Florida.

I did not, however, do anything Floridian. Didn’t even see the beach. Classic Dean.

I’m back in New York now where I have to catch up on what I missed in class last week, hah, but just a few weeks till the semester is over, and about a month and a half until the internship is over. Wooo Summer’11 coming soon!

Pretty uneventful flight back to NYC. Craazzzyyy cold here though. My blogs have been pretty M.I.A. lately, but there’s a lot of cool stuff coming soon so stay tuned :)

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 :)

So perfect and awesome :)