I RECENTLY SENT A MESSAGE TO KROC DETAILING MY DISSATISFACTION WITH THEIR POOR CHOICE IN MUSIC--THIS LITTLE RANT WAS ONE OF MY BEST ONES YET!
Hello, my name isn't really important but, I'd like to think that what I have to say is. I'm not really a fan of radio, personally I think it's a bit outdated, but it's something to listen to. This particular radio station isn't half bad, on a very good day. Well, I was listening to KROC not too long ago when I heard an amazing song, that song was "You Found Me" by The Fray, so from that day on I had the radio on ALL DAY EVERY DAY just hoping I might hear it again. For days on end I would listen to the same old tired songs and it just hit me--this radio station sucks! I don't want to hear all of this old crap, play something new, something good! How many times am I going to have to hear Britney or Akon before I go to town on my head with a powertool? Honest to god, the overexposure is ridiculous. I've done the whole "Rate the Hits" bit and it's quite obvious that you don't really take that into account when you're deciding what pathetic excuses for music to play. I don't mean to belittle what you do for a living, but OMG switch it up. It couldn't hurt to have some variety on the air--do you honestly enjoy listening to the same thing day after day after day? This radio station almost makes the risks taken with Limewire worth it. I'm sure I must sound like a crazy cynical person, but I love music and I just wish that this radio station would play something with a bit more substance than the average "Womanizer". [Don't get me wrong, I love me some Britney--in moderation] It's a shame that this message will probably go unnoticed, I think this [verbally edited until acceptable] rant might actually be some of my best work yet. Well, thanks for taking the time to read my message and I wholeheartedly hope that you understand what I'm trying to say.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
RANTING LIKE NOBODY'S BUSINESS
Sunday, December 14, 2008
R.I.P.
On dec. 14th, my aunt, Rebecca Tulow died in a car accident due to faulty breaks. I would just like to extend best wishes to her family as they mourn her passing. The other woman in the car, Mary Kok, survived and is currently in the ICU at St.Mary's. I would also like to extend best wishes to her and her family. In the midst of this tragedy, I've seen just how quickly a community can come together and support one another. Thankfully, we can all move past this tragic accident together and work together to make the lives of the children left behind a little bit easier.
Monday, December 8, 2008
MY FiNGER!!
today, dec. 8th, i have permanently scarred my left middle finger. during clothing class i was trying to backstitch on a pair of pajama pants we were making. i began to panic cuz i went to far with the stitch and i had to flip the pants and attempt a different backstich from the other side. well, most of you don't know this, but i am not the worlds greatest backstitcher, in fact i am horrible. the second attempt was going horribly and it looked like the machine was about to "eat" my fabric. i decided to pull my fabric back, but while trying to save my pants i made the dangerous mistake of not watching my fingers...with a loud, sickening crunch, the needle on the machine went through the center of the nail of my middle finger, twice! i quickly pulled my finger back, which broke the needle off the machine and left it in my finger. picture this: a bloody finger with a cracked nail and a needle sticking out of the side of it. sick isn't it? i stared at my finger for a quick second and started crying. by now people have started to gather around me and gasp at the horrible, mangled finger. next, the teacher walked me to the nurse and tried to calm me down the whole way there, but i just kept tearing up and looking at my finger. the nurse told me "i'm sorry, there is nothing i can do for you. i don't have the proper equipment to take the needle out. you'll have to call a parent to take you to the emergency room" i called. i waited for almost 30 min cuz my dad misunderstood the nurse and went to my sister's school. during my long, tearful wait i was comforted by many nice people. thank you. i went to the doctor, she took out the needle [blood was gushing out of my finger & it hurt like a mother!] and ordered an x ray to see if there were fragments left in my finger. there were a few itty bitty pieces, but she said it would not be worth it to rip my nail off, dig through my finger and possibly come back empty handed because the pieces are so small. now i'm on antibiotics for a week and i'll have to check in with her again in a few weeks. my finger is still throbbing so i'm walking around with it above my head to make it throb less and now i have to go soak my finger in warm, soapy water. bye!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
when is enough, enough?
how bad are things going to get before they get better? the economy, global warming, civil rights, and terrorism. the attacks on mumbai were devastating, i literally watched the news with a dropped jaw. how many of these terrible incidents are going to occur before we, as people, put a stop to it? my eyes were just recently opened to how apathetic people can be to the plight of others. one of my dad's friends was over and i asked him how he felt about the attacks. his response was quite unexpected. he said "good, i'm sure they deserve it" what could the innocent people have done to deserve such an inhumane attempt to execute them? he then said "why should i care about them dying, when nobody cares about the genocide in darfur, or the people suffering in south sudan?" i understand where he's coming from, but....they're innocent people. Just because many people are ignoring the genocide/suffering in africa doesn't mean we should ignore the suffering of ALL people. maybe if we care enough about other people, then somebody will care about the africans. sometimes i make other peoples' suffering, my problem. sometimes i am so naive, that i think compassion will save the world. how stupid is that? its a cruel world out there, and i envy/pity the activists who try to shed light on their cause knowing that their efforts will most likely go unnoticed, yet they keep on trying. i guess we can't expect much from each other, as people. hopefully people wake up and see that unless everybody is involved we cant solve any of the problems afflicting us.
laughably ambitious
i've recently noticed that i am laughably ambitious. i tend to start projects with big goals in mind then i never get around to finishing them. for example, the butch dynamite chronicles--yea thats not happening :] today i started a story about a person who was a spy-type super agent who worked for the us government in a pre-apocolyptic world, [the calm before the storm kind of feeling]. the setting was centered around the "war" which is reminicent of the Iraq war, but in this alternate reality the war sparked mass paranoia throughout the world and the US was pretty much the "bad guy" of the story. we occupied the entire world and took the whole "global power" thing to a whole new level. we sent out spies, called patriots, to these countries to execute "coup de tats" within the foreign governments to create reluctant allies. we didn't have presidents anymore, we had Chief Wyatt "the enforcer" Leaghton. Leaghton was a super-dictator and his rise to power was actually a pretty interesting story. he gathered followers by preaching his outrage and opposition of the war and we won over the citizens of america. after the citizens forcefully booted the president they gave leaghton absolute power and he ran with it. he slowly yet surely strangled individual freedoms because they "posed a threat to the security of the american people". he began systematically lying to the people and he controlled the media so the people couldn't see just how bad everything was. the only people who were aware of the treachory were the people who worked directly for the government, like the main character. the main character then decides that she has to do something about it. she would rather be the unsung hero than the vigilante who gets credit so she decides to give the US's secrets [ Leaghtons plan to nuke countries deemed dangerous and inferior to his ideals and to create a brand of overly obedient citizens who are void of free will] to britain and their resistance program so that they can save the world. with the newly spilled secrets, the resistance plots a systematic demolition of the facade Leaghton has put up and ultimately return the free world to its citizens. the end. lol i don't think i'll ever finish this book, but its something to think about. I never really thought i was cut out for journalism, and the idea has been amplified by taking j10. i'm more of a fiction writer, i make up these amazing tales of morally grey, broken people who then save the world and in the process find themselves, or hilariously funny comedies that seem to have been written by a person under the influence of hallucinogens, but not really news stories.
Monday, December 1, 2008
MOViE CRiTiC?
i RECENTLY WENT TO SEE "TWiLiGHT" AND i MUST SAY, iT WAS BETTER THAN i COULD HAVE iMAGiNED! ROBERT PATTiNSON WAS EXTREMELY TALENTED AS EDWARD CULLEN, HE WAS REALLY DEDiCATED, DOWN TO THE PAiNED FACiAL EXPRESSiONS HE KEPT THROUGHOUT THE ENTiRE FiLM. THE CHiCK THAT PLAYED BELLA WAS ALRiGHT--i GUESS, BUT THEN AGAiN i COULD JUST BE JEALOUS! TAYLOR LAUTNER WAS AN UNEXPECTED FAVORiTE. WHEN i HEARD ABOUT THE CHARACTER 'JACOB BLACK' I THOUGHT "STANDARD NATiVE AMERiCAN" BUT BOY WAS i WRONG....[HE iS RiDiCULOUSLY HOT!]. OVERALL THE PLOT WAS GREAT AND THE iNTENSE ACTiON SEQUENCES ADDED MUCH NEEDED FiRE TO AN OVERDONE LOVE STORY. THiS FiLM OFFERED SOMETHiNG THAT iTS HARRY POTTER NEMESIS COULD NEVER DO, iT OFFERED RELATiViTY! ONE COULD PUT THEMSELVES iNTO ANY OF THE CHARACTERS' PLACE AND COMPLETELY BELiEVE iT....i WiLL PROBABLY SEE THiS FiLM AGAiN [PROBABLY 8 TiMES!] GO SEE TWiLiGHT!
Friday, November 14, 2008
NEW SERIES OF SHORT STORIES--coming soon
I'VE DECIDED TO WORK ON A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES. THE IDEA STARTED OUT AS A JOKE A YEAR AGO WHEN I DREW 'SPENCER' COMICS. I GOT BORED OF HAVING TO DRAW OUT ALL THE SCENES, SO I SWITCHED TO WRITING. I'VE GOT CHARACTERS PICKED OUT AND THEIR SPECIFIC ROLES IN MY STORIES. THE MAIN CHARACTER IS butch dynamite. BUTCH EMBODIES THE COOL, EVERYTHING I WISH I COULD BE AND MORE. HE SAYS WHAT HE WANTS AND DOES WHAT HE WANTS. HE IS OFTEN SPORTING A HANDLEBAR MOUSTACHE AND AN EARLY 90S HAIRCUT. BUTCH IS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS BEST FRIEND, action jackson. ACTION JACKSON IS AN OLD, WASHED UP, FORMER WRESTLER WHO STILL LIVES IN THE PAST. ACTION AND BUTCH BALANCE EACH OTHER OUT, BUTCH IS THE EPITOME OF COOL, AND ACTION IS, WELL, THE OPPOSITE. I'VE RECENTLY BEEN GIVEN THE IDEA FOR A CHARACTER NAMED eli cash. ELI WILL BE THE ROOKIE WHO STILL LOOKS UP TO ACTION YET WANTS TO BE AS COOL AS BUTCH. IN EACH INSTALLMENT I PLAN TO WRITE THROUGH THE VIEWPOINT OF A DIFFERENT CHARACTER. I'M NOT REALLY CERTAIN OF THE CONCEPTS I PLAN TO WRITE ABOUT, BUT I'M SURE THE IDEAS WILL START POURING IN AS SOON AS I STOP BLOGGING THIS. WISH ME LUCK!
The American Dream Lives
By now everybody has at least heard the phrase
Fairy Flute-Man
It was a foggy, Thursday afternoon and I was riding the bus. The boredom seemed to be a mutual feeling for everybody. As I stared into the emptiness, I heard the most beautiful song ever. Like a ray of sunshine, he played the flute. 'Twas no ordinary flute, it was made of bedazzled paper and only played one note. He wore a snow white toga with a gold brooch upon his left shoulder. He danced down the aisle; an old-timey folk dance. The passengers on the bus clapped along as they cheered and sang along. The lyrics depicted the beauty of the Sibley playground during spring. His presence uplifted the spirits of the defeated and hopeless youth. Soon, the entire bus transformed into a Greek courtyard filled with people dancing in great delight. As soon as I started to participate in the festivities, it all disappeared. I soon realized that it was all in my head. It wasn't real. I decided to go back to being bored and staring out the window. I will never forget the amazing Fairy Flute-Man that made my afternoon livlier.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
ENVY GREEN ISN'T A LOVELY COLOR, DEAR
I'LL ADMIT THAT I HAVE ENVIED PEOPLE FOR SOME CHILDISH REASONS. JEALOUSY. THE NAME ALONE SOUNDS DISGUSTINGLY HORRIBLE. I WAS JUST LISTENING TO THIS SONG WHERE IT KEPT REPEATING "I'M THE NEW CANCER , NEVER LOOKED BETTER AND YOU CAN'T STAND...(other lyrics)...WHISPERING WHEN DID HE GET ALL CONFIDENT?" IT DETAILS A SELF ABSORBED DIVA WHO IS CRUSHED WHEN SHE IS NO LONGER THE MOST INTERESTING PERSON AROUND TOWN. SHE GETS JEALOUS AND THE NEWBIE RUBS IT IN HER FACE. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT JEALOUSY HAS ENDED IN TRAGEDY 99.9% OF THE TIME? THINK ABOUT IT, THE BOELYN GIRLS WHO COMPETED AGAINST EACH OTHER, THEN ENVIED THE OTHER WHO SUCCEEDED IN MARRYING HENRY VIII. QUEEN MARY WAS ALWYS JEALOUS OF FUTURE QUEEN ELIZABETH, SHE ALMOST HAD HER KILLED BECAUSE SHE WAS SO JEALOUS WHEN THEY WERE CHILDREN. NOW THE RELEVANT EXAMPLES THAT APPEAL TO OUR INTERESTS. R E A L I T Y T V. ALL OF THE DIFFERENT SHOWS HAVE ON THING IN COMMON, THE CONTESTANTS WANT ATTENTION. WHEN SOMEONE ELSE STARTS GETTING MORE ATTENTION ALL *** BREAKS LOOSE :] THERE ARE CRAZY GIRL FIGHTS, TOILET SCRUBBING WITH ONE'S TOOTHBRUSH, LIE SPREADING, AND ALL OUT FITS THAT ARE LATER PUT IN COUNTDOWNS LIKE "100 BEST REALITY SHOW FREAK OUTS". A WORD OF ADVICE--JEALOUSY IS AN UGLY THING, TRY NOT TO BE ENVIOUS OF OTHERS!
Fabled Foreign Tongues
How cool would it be if you knew a language that hardly anubody else knew? I know what that's like and it's actually pretty sweet. I could be in a room full of people and say something in that language and only one person would understand what the heck I was talking about. That person is Martha. I think that being multilingual is a very interesting interesting thing. It may help you in future careers or just in general. If everybody could speak 3 or more languages it would make life a lot easier. America is one huge melting pot of different cultures and ethnicities. Language is one of the many things that make us human and if everybody made an effort to try to get to know 2 or 3 cultures that are not their own, then we could further ourselves as a cultured population. It would also encourage acceptance and curiosity. Or if you are REALLY creative, you could create a language of your own!
DRAMA....LEAVE IT IN THE THEATER
HAVE YOU EVER JUST WISHED PEOPLE WOULKD STOP BEING SO DRAMATIC. SOMETIMES AS I WALK THE HALLS OF ALHS, I COULD SWEAR I WAS AT PARAMOUNT STUDIOS! THE DIVAS AND PRIMA DONNAS OF THIS GENERATION ARE ALMOST TOO MUCH TO BEAR. JUST THE OTHER DAY THERE WAS A FIGHT ON THE BUS. IT ALL STARTED BECAUSE SOMEONE WANTED TO KNOW WHO THEY VOTED FOR. ONE PERSON--LETS CALL HER MISS THANG BECAUSE SHE BELIVES SHE IS ALL THAT...AND THEN SOME. WELL MISS THANG WAS ASKING PEOPLE WHO THEY VOTED FOR AND ONE GIRL DIDN'T LIKE IT. LETS CALL HER DITZY DAISY. WELL DITZ TOLD THANG TO SHUT UP AND STOP ASKING PEOPLE WHO THEY VOTED FOR. THANG THEN PROCEEDED TO THREATEN DITZ WITH VIOLENCE. AS THANG WAS GETTING OFF THE BUS SHE ATTACKED DITZ WITH HER PURSE. DITZ THEN WENT AHEAD AND STARTED FIGHTING BACK. THIS WAS THE ULRIMATE CARICATURE OF A GIRL FIGHT. LOTS OF HAIR PULLING AND SCREAMING. I ATTEPTED TO BREAK UP THE WHOLE FIASCO, BUT I ENDED UP GETTING HIT! WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT DITZY DAISY WOULD FIGHT DIRTY--OR THAT THANG WAS SUCH A VIOLENT PERSON. IT MUST BE THE WATER AROUND HERE.....
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
VILLAINS
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A FAVORITE VILLIAN? MY FAVS ARE THE JOKER IN THE LATEST BATMAN MOVIE AND SYLAR/GABRIEL FROM THE PHENOMENON THAT IS "HEROES". NOW, THESE CHARACTERS MAY BE THE TYPE WE ALL LOVE TO HATE OR, IN SOME WEIRD CASES, RELATE TO. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A RUN IN WITH A real VILLIAN OF MALICIOUS PROPORTIONS?
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN WILD FOR A MOMENT. NOW THINK BACK TO THE YEAR 1944. IMAGINE BEING TERRIFIED FOR YOUR LIFE AS YOU STRUGGLE TO BREATHE. YOU ARE IN A CATTLE CARE WITH 80 OTHER PEOPLE. IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE CONFUSION, YOU STILL FIND THE STRENGTH TO REMAIN CALM AS YOUR UNCERTAIN FUTURE GROWS CLOSER WITH EVERY SQUEAKY ROTATION OF THE WHEELS ON THE TRAIN. SOON YOU FEEL THE DEATH TRAIN SLOW AND THE HARSH VOICES OF THE SS, ORDERING YOU THROW OUT YOUR DEAD, AND HAND OVER ALL OF YOUR VALUABLES. THE SS ARE SCRUFFY LOOKING MEN, AS YOU LOOK INTO THE EMPTY EYES OF ONE, YOU ARE STRUCK ON THE TEMPLE AND YOU BLACK OUT. THANKFULLY, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HAS TAKEN CARE OF YOU AND LED YOU INTO THE ENTRANCE OF A CAMP...AUCHWITZ-BIRKENAU. UPON ENTERING WITH A LARGE MASS OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T KNOW IT THEN, WERE BEING LED TO A FEIRY DEATH IN THE CREMATORIA, THE SS CALLED FOR TWINS. JUST AHEAD THERE IS A MAN, AN SS. HE IS DRESSED IMPECCABLY WITH A HINT OF A SMILE BEHIND HIS BEAUTIFUL, YET STRANGELY COLD EYES. WITH A WHITE GLOVED HAND, HE DIRECT THE MASSES TO THE LEFT. TO THE CREMATORIA. YOU FOLLOW THEM....UNTIL THE MAN SEES YOU. HE ORDERS THE SS TO BRING YOU TO HIM. HE SMILES AS HE SUBTLY HIDES HIS INTEREST IN YOU. HE ASKS YOU IF YOU ARE TRULY JEWISH. YOU ARE CONFUSED, WHY WOULD THIS POLITE MAN ASK YOU SUCH A QUESTION? YOU ANSWER YES. HE IS CURIOUS BECAUSE OF YOUR PERFECT ARYAN LOOKS. YOU HAVE GOLDEN BLOND HAIR WITH DEEP BLUE EYES. THE MAN ORDERS THE SS TO TAKE YOU TO THE BLOCK WHERE THE TWINS WERE BEING KEPT, ALTHOUGH YOU ARE NOT A TWIN. YOU HAVE JUST COME FACE TO FACE WITH THE ANGEL OF DEATH HIMSELF. JOSEF MENGELE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST MALICIOUS HACK TO HAVE EVER HID BEHIND THE TITLE OF MEDIAL PRACTITIONER. THE ANGEL OF DEATH HAD TAKEN A KEEN INTEREST IN YOU, AND FOR THE NEXT TO YEARS YOU ARE SUBJECTED TO THE MOST INHUMANE EXPERIMENTS EVER CONDUCTED IN THE NAME OF FRAUDULENT SCIENCE. FOR EXAMPLE JOSEF MEGELE PERFORMED EXPLORATORY OPEN HEART SURGERY ON YOU, WITHOUT ANESTHSIA, YOU UNEXPECTEDLY SURVIVED. HE INJECTED CHEMICALS IN OUR EYES AND TRIED TO CHANGE THEIR COLOR, THIS PROCEDURE LEFT YOU BLIND FOR WEEKS. YOU WERE CASTRATED, AGAIN WITHOUT ANESTHSIA. FINALLY, AFTER MONTHS OF EXTENSIVE EXPERIMENTS AND ENDLESS BLOOD DRAWING YOU BEG FOR DEATH. THE ANGEL OBLIGES. YOU ARE INTENTIONALLY EXPOSED TO TUBERCULOSIS, THEN THE DOCTOR INJECTED YOU WITH DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS TO TRY TO CURE YOU OF THE DISEASE, 3 DAYS LATER YOU DIE DUE TO COMPLICATIONS FROM YOUR OTHER SURGERIES AND THEN THE TB. NOW, ARE YOUR EYES STILL CLOSED? ARE YOU SCARED? THIS EXPERIENCE WAS MILD COMPARED TO THE OTHER SITUATIONS OF MENGELE'S TWINS. IT STILL AMAZES ME TODAY THAT PEOPLE CAN HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO SUCH EVIL, THEN TRY TO JUSTIFY IT IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE. JOSEF MENGELE FAILED AS A HUMAN BEING, HE DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE CONDSIDERED HUMAN. TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, MENGELE ESCAPED PROSECUTION FOR WAR CRIMES BY GOING TO SOUTH AMERICA, WHERE HE LATER DIED OF A STROKE WHILE SWIMMING. TO THIS DAY THE SURVIVING MENGELE TWINS LIVE WITH THE HORROR OF WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM. I SUGGEST YOU READ "CHILDREN OF THE FLAMES" IT IS A BOOK WHICH CHRONICLES THE EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY MENGELE AT BIRKENAU AND THE LIVES OF THE SURVIVING TWINS TODAY. YOU SHOULD ALSO LOOK AT MENGELE'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE--THE HEINOUS CRIMES EXTEND FURTHER THAN JUST TWINS.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
AWW SHUCKS, YOU DROPPED YOUR FETUS
THAT IS A TITLE I GOT FROM AMANDA AND MARTHA. THEY'RE UBER RANDOM LIKE THAT. I WAS AT A VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT TODAY AT MAYO. WE LOST 3 OUT OF THE 4 GAMES WE PLAYED. NOT BAD, I GUESS. WELL BEFORE OUR 4TH GAME WE WERE CHILLIN IN THE HALLWAY WHEN AMANDA DECIDED TO GRAB ME AROUND THE STOMACH AND SPIN ME. IT WAS FUN, THEN RACHEL DECIDED TO DO IT TO ME TOO, ONLY RACHEL WASN'T AS STRONG AS SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS. SHE TOTALLY DROPPED ME, MID-SPIN IN THE AIR RIGHT ON MY HITTING ARM AND HIP BONE. IT HURT LIKE A MOTHERLESS. SHE SAID THE FUNNIEST THING "OH, I THINK I BROKE HER" SHE SEEMED GENUINELY SORRY, THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT YOU SHOULDN'T HORSEPLAY BEFORE A GAME :] SO NOW I'M THE FETUS....THAT WAS DROPPED....AWW SHUCKS, THAT SUCKS LOL
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Genuis? I think so...
I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!
Averaged a "C" at an Ivy League
Its a wonder he got there, with all the stupidity
We voted for him once, but a second term?
a message to all voters, here's a lesson learned
His decisions on Iraq led to mass confusion
Leaving the U.N. with feelings of non-inclusion
Many of the elite left his administration
Cause for shame, dishonor, even humiliation
History will look upon him and frown
The man will never live his legacy down
Everything he has done has been stupid or wrong
But on the brightside, a few months and he's gone
Eventually a conclusion to our horrible delusion
The solution is simple--substitution
"Who is he?" you wonder, lets have a look-see
Hes the epitome of a caricature of presidency
Yes, I did actually write that myself. Maybe I should send it in to one of those pundit entertainment shows and possibly score myself and internship as a writer in the future--psshh, yea right! lol
Sunday, September 28, 2008
RUSH TO THE POOR HOUSE
I HATE HALF-HEARTED ATTEMPTS TO FIX SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF PPL DID DECIDE TO PLAY WITH MONEY. WALL STREET JERKS DON'T DESERVE TO BE "HELPED" THEY SHOULD BE HOMELESS FOR ATLEAST A YEAR. BUSHY WAS DENYING THAT ANYTHING WAS WRONG! WHAT AN IDIOT, NOW HE IS GOING TO TAKE 700 BILLION OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO COVER UP HIS INDECISIVENESS AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND BAILOUT HIS GREEDY FRIENDS. IF THAT ANCIENT, CORRUPTED, COPYCAT (MCCAIN) IS VOTED INTO OFFICE I WOULD HAVE TO JUST DIE. HE IS JUST LIKE BUSH! WE CAN'T JUST PLACE ALL THE BLAME ON BUSH, HE WAS PROBABLY JUST A PUPPET, AND THE PUPPET MASTERS WERE DICK CHENEY AND KARL ROVE. DID YOU KNOW THAT BUSH IS SELLING BILLIONS IN ARMS TO TAIWAN? WHICH BASICALLY MEANS HE IS TRYING TO PISS OFF THE CHINESE. IS HE REALLY DOING WHAT I THINK HE IS? METAPHORICALLY, HE IS POKING THE ANGRY, AWAKE BEAR WITH AN ELECTRIC CATTLE PRODDER. HE TRYING TO MESS EVERYTHING UP EVEN MORE THAN IT IS SO THAT THE NEXT PREZ, WILL HAVE A NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE JOB OF CLEANING IT UP. I HOPE THAT HISTORIANS WILL DEPICT HIM AS THE GIANT,INCOMPETENT, IDIOT HE IS.
HEROES=LOVE
I LOVE HEROES, ITS THIS SHOW ABOUT ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO DISCOVER THAT THEY HAVE ABILITIES. THEIR DIFFERENT STORY LINES OCCASIONALLY CONNECT WHEN THEY SAVE THE WORLD TOGETHER. THE FIRST SEASON WAS ABOUT SAVING NEW YORK FROM A NEUCLEAR BOMB THAT ACTUALLY TURNED OUT TO BE THE MAIN ANTAGONIST(GOOD GUY) OF THE SHOW, PETER. PETER HAS THE ABILITY TO ABSORB OTHER PEOPLE'S ABILITY, HE DOESN'T ROB THEM OF THEIR ABILITIES, HE JUST COPIES THEM. WELL HE GOT RADIOACTIVITY FROM TED, WHO WAS KILLED BY THE MAIN BAD GUY SYLAR. SYLAR TAKES ABILITIES, SOMEWHAT LIKE PETER, EXCEPT HE HARMS THE PEOPLE. HE CUTS OFF THE TOP OF THEIR HEADS EXPOSING THEIR BRAIN, THEN HE DOES HIS THING. SYLAR'S ORGINAL ABILITY WAS TO BE ABLE TO "SEE/HEAR" HOW THINGS WORK IN THE BRAIN. HE THOUGHT HE WASN'T SPECIAL ENOUGH SO HE SET OUT TO BE THE MOST SPECIAL--BY TAKING AWAY EVERYBODY ELSE'S ABILITY. MOHINDER SURESH IS A GENETICIST WHO DISCOVERED GENETIC MARKERS THAT ALLOW HIM TO FIND OUT WHO HAS ABILITIES OR WHO WILL. IN THE THIRD SEASON HE DISCOVERED A SERUM THAT "GIVES" PEOPLE ABILITIES. IT WOULD TAKE ME forever TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO YOU. BUT I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS, EACH SEASON HAS A DEFINING STATEMENT WHETHER ITS "are you on the list?" or "save the cheerleader, save the world" I WONDER WHAT IT WILL BE THIS SEASON--CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH IT!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Tipsy People Shouldn't Speak
Hola!! This friday was the homecoming game and it was quite the event. The Albert Lea tigers lost 34-35 to the Mankato East Cougars. I had to stand the whole time cuz we got there late and the old people proceeded to occupy ALL the available space. After the game my friends [ Shotta, T. Jones, Rivera, & Jesse] and I went to the dance. We have been looking forward to this event for weeks and it was finally here! but guess what, it was THE LAMEST dance ever! The free stuff and lights and confetti, and the fog were all cool, but the DJ was lame. He would stop after every song and talk for like 5 min! Speaking of the songs, he pretty much only played weird song that you wouldn't dance to, i probably only liked about 5 songs out of all of them. The whole scene looked like it did from the pics they showed so i guess that was the only upside. Okay, now we're getting to the part that relates to the title. After the dance, we realized that we didn't have a ride home! Amanda and I were staying at Martha's because we had a volleyball tournament at 6 a.m. the next morning. Did i mention martha lives by the courthouse? Thats a few miles from the school! We had to walk home at 1 a.m.! it was amanda (T. Jones), Martha (Shotta), Jesse, and these 2 boys, who we really didn't know. Lol we all thought that we were going to be ticketed for being out passed curfew (10:30) but surprisingly we didn't, in fact we were passed by a couple of cop cars on the way home. Now, we've walked atleast 2 miles and we're near a bunch of bars. We decided to take a shortcut through what looked like the empty parking lot of the bar. but to our surprise there was a bunch of drunk guys in the parking lot and they saw us. we stopped and thought about going around the building cuz it probably not a good idea to hang around drunk people at 2 a.m. alone. they started talking to us and one of them said "Hey ladies!, are you guys here to drink?"and we started laughing cuz he was REALLY drunk. another guy said "Oh look, they're not here to drink, they're probably like 12 years old" another guy said "yeah, they're probably coming back from homecoming" and the guy who said we were 12 said "don't mess with them, they're 12. you know what that means, trouble" the first guy then proceeded to ask us how old we were, Martha decided to tell them we were 13 [we're 15]. By now Amanda has dipped! she sprinted around the building and disappeared, Martha and I walked on the sidewalk around the parking lot, a safe distance from the drunks. The first guy just wouldn't leave us alone--he kept saying "you guys aren't 13, look at the chick in the blue shes like 5'9"!" I didn't say anything I just kept laughing and martha kept insisting we were 13. The guys weren't that old, they were probably in their 20s and they were pretty cute :) Now we've passed the bar and were about a block from martha's when we heard the guys yelling "How old are you really?" from their car. Amanda was just coming around the corner when the guys slowed down to our pace and kept talking to the 3 of us. It was starting to get really creepy and we couldnt turn onto martha's street in case they thought about following us, so we walked passed it. By now martha was getting frustrated and she was yelling at them to just go. eventually they got the point and left, but it looked like they were going to come back, so we decided dip over to these trees and hide out for awhile. Lol :P Now we were on martha's porch but martha forgot her key at home!! a few lights were on and we opened the screen door to see if it was locked and it was. we went around back to see if we could crawl in through her window but it was locked from the inside. we had no choice but to knock on her door and hope her dad didn't open it. the lights mysteriously were turned off when we got to the front. we knocked on the door and it was opened slowly--we could just barely make out a figure with a baseball bat. Martha started saying "wait, dad its me martha" and he turned on the lights and we all started laughing cuz he would have killed us. He though we were burglars trying to break in cuz we walked around the house a few times and jiggled the doorknobs. That was the end of my interesting friday night.
Monday, September 15, 2008
What Calamity??
goodafternoon peoples of the world! ooookay.... I've just come to the conclusion that I have gone about this blog thing all wrong. I started too strong, now I fear that I will have nothing to talk about in the future. Lets compare this to running the mile. I've just sprinted the first mile and i'm already drained. The last lap will be a fight to finish. But in this case it will be a fight to stay interesting :) now I'm sort of jinxing myself but oh well, i'm sure i'll think of something. STAY KRISPY!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
NEW FACE OF FAILURE
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMETHING SO OUTRAGEOUS THAT YOU JUST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE? WELL, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME ON THE RIDE HOME FROM VOLLEYBALL PRACTICE. MY BUDS SHOTTA AND T. JONES TOLD ME ABOUT WHAT WAS IN THE NEWSPAPERS RECENTLY. IT WAS A STORY ABOUT TEENS SEXUALLY ABUSING THE ELDERLY AT A NURSING HOME. NOW, I'VE ALREADY HEARD THE STORY BUT JUST HEARING IT AGAIN MAKES IT WORSE. HOW CAN ANYBODY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT? I GUESS THEIR WAY OF JUSTIFYING THE ACT WAS THAT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS FUN. THE OLD PEOPLE CAN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES! I WONDER IF THE PERSON RUNNING THAT NURSING HOME HAD ANY IDEA ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THEY DID SOME HALF-HEARTED DAMAGE CONTROL BECAUSE I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THIS STORY LAST YEAR AND NOW IT'S REARING ITS UGLY HEAD. SOMETHING WENT WRONG SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE WITH THESE PEOPLE--I THINK THEY SHOULD DO SOME TIME BEHIND BARS. IT'S ALMOST AS BAD AS ABUSING CHILDREN. IT AMAZES ME THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN HAVE THE CAPACITY TO COMMIT SUCH HEINOUS CRIMES. PERSONALLY, I FEEL THAT THIS STORY NEEDS MORE ATTENTION--THE PEOPLE HERE SHOULDN'T KEEP MUM ABOUT SOMETHING SO HORRIBLE. SURE, THEY DON'T WANT TO AIR THEIR DIRTY LAUNDRY TO THE WORLD, BUT THEY BROUGHT IT UPON THEMSELVES. HAD THEY HANDLED THIS CORRECTLY AT THE MOMENT IT WAS DISCOVERED IT WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE ANYMORE. I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE COME RIGHT ON OUT AND JUST TELL THE TRUTH;IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DRAMATIC DEFINING MOMENT. THE PUBLIC WOULD HAVE HAD SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS AND APPLAUDED THE BRAVERY OF THE NURSING HOME FOR TELLING EVERYONE. THEN AGAIN, I LIKE DRAMATIC ENDINGS TO DRAMATIC EVENTS AND NOT EVERYONE FEELS THE SAME WAY. I HOPE THE PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED THESE CRIMES ARE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE AND THAT THE NURSING HOME REDEEMS ITS REPUTATION, AND FINALLY, I HOPE THE VICTIMS FEEL RELIEF/CLOSURE.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Mad As Rabbits
I THOUGHT THE TITLE OF MY FIRST POSTING ON HERE SHOULD BE A BIT CATCHY. LOL PLUS IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. WELL IT'S A TUESDAY EVENING AND I AM BORED OUT OF MY MIND. WHILST EDITING THIS THING I WAS ASKED THE RANDOM QUESTION "DO YOU THINK FORKS ARE EVOLVED FROM SPOONS?" I THOUGHT IT WAS WEIRD AT FIRST BUT I ANSWERED IT ANYWAY. IT GOT ME THINKING "WHY IS EVOLUTION SUCH A HOT TOPIC?" I'M PRETTY SURE THERE IS PROOF, I MEAN SERIOUSLY. ANIMALS EVOLVED, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BELIEVE THAT WE DID? AFTER ALL WE ARE TECHNICALLY CONSIDERED ANIMALS. OVERLY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE THESE DAYS... THEY JUST CAN'T ACCEPT LOGICAL REASONING, BUT THEN AGAIN IF EVERYONE ACCEPTED LOGICAL REASONING WE WOULDN'T HAVE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE! LOL I MUST BE A TERRIBLE PERSON-MAKING FUN OF RELIGION LIKE THAT. I WONDER IF EVEN THE MOST DIE-HARD BELIEVERS DOUBT THEIR FAITH EVERY NOW AND THEN--THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. HOW DIFFERENT WOULD LIFE BE IF THERE WERE NO RELIGION? THERE WOULD BE A FAIR AMOUNT OF PROS AND CONS. I THINK THE PROS WOULD BE THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MORE WARS OVER RELIGION. JUST THINK ABOUT IT, SOME OF THE MOST BLOODY WARS WERE OVER RELIGION-THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYMORE BICKERING BETWEEN THE FAITHS CLAIMING ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER. A REALLY BIG UPSIDE IS THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE THESE STRANGE CULTS THAT HAVE PEOPLE BELIEVING RIDICULOUS THINGS--OR SUBJECTING THEIR CHILDREN TO ABUSE BECAUSE THEIR LEADER TELLS THEM IT'S THE WILL OF WHOMEVER THEY BELIEVE IN. ANOTHER UPSIDE IS THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T EXIST. WE COULD FINALLY ELECT SOMEONE FOR WHAT THEY STAND FOR, NOT WHICH RELIGION THEY BELIEVE IN; DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT WE WOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT ELECTING BARACK OBAMA IF HE WAS A MUSLIM? THAT IS REALLY SAD. THE ONLY DOWNSIDE THAT I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW IS THAT THERE WOULD BE A LOT LESS HOPE IN THE WORLD BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BELIEVE IN. I REALLY CAN'T TELL IF IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR HUMANITY OR JUST PUSH US FURTHER TOWARDS BEING MORALLY BANKRUPT, ACTUALLY COME TO THINK OF IT, WOULD OUR MORALS CHANGE IF WE DIDN'T HAVE RELIGION? WOW, THIS IS A TOPIC TOO BIG TO DISCUSS ALONE. I'M VERY SATISFIED WITH MY FIRST POSTING--I'M GOING TO GET A COOKIE BECAUSE I DESERVE IT, THIS IS AMAZING. (GEEZ, I SHOULD SHOW SOME HUMILITY)
