Limerick

There once was a girl named Sue
Who had a large jar of goo
She hid from her friends
For how long it depends
And when they came she jumped and said boo

Fall Break!

So today is the last day of school before fall break! I am pretty stoked about that. In other news we are right in the middle of the fruit selling process for prom. People already seem to be going crazy over it even though it is like six months away. Tomorrow me, Aris, Morgan, and Lance might be going to Jasper. We are probably going to Game Stop and Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart should be fun, and its always fun for us Pike County people to go to Jasper and taunt them. Also the Mountain Dew slushie machine at the shell station in Oakland is broken, and I am not happy about that at all! The slushies are very good and with the machine broken I need to figure out where to find another one. I wonder if they have any in Jasper? It does not make any sense, though, because the large is cheaper than the small, so I assume that they thought that people would not pay attention and buy the small and assume that it is cheaper. Remember nothing is more fun than the toy aisle at Wal-Mart. They always have such neat plastic swords and battle axes. The only problem is that the nerf guns are in boxes and they don't let you "test" them in the store. :P
In any instance I think I will come up with another random thing to talk about. The show Adventure Time is rather bizarre. There is a new episode on tonight, but last week's episode was thoroughly evil. You see there is this character on the show thats like a vampire queen or something like that and this episode had her dad on it. That would not be strange seeing as how almost every show has stinkin vampires on it, but this vampire was particularly freaky. He was eating penguin souls. Thats right penguin souls! I am sorry, but that is pretty mean.

Movie Review

The Tom Cruise film War of the Worlds is certainly not the best of all movies about an alien invasion out there. The special effects are good, but a little bit over the top. The most sensationalistic of all the scenes would have to be the scene where they are fighting on the hill top in New Jersey and they are hitting the tripods with Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters, and F-22 fighters, and they all do nothing to them. That is a pointless scene which I made was not even close to anything they had in the book.

I have actually read the book three times and the differences between the movie and the novel are striking. The movie is actually based off of the Orson Welles radio play from the 30's. The book did not even take place in America. The book took place in Victorian Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. In the book they could actually kill the aliens with their weapons. The book is also more interesting because it has a section that focuses entirely on the narrators brother. The narrator was also not a divorced man with two children. he was a married man with no children. The only thing that was actually the same was the ending, which I will not reveal here.

Although the special effects are good, they are not enough to justify seeing this movie. Admittedly, Tom Cruise is not my favorite actor, but I don't think that this movie would be any good even if it had a completely different cast. The scene that was most similar to the book would have to be the scene in the farm house. That scene was the best scene in the movie, and the only one that truly does justice to the novel. Although there is this one bright spot, I would have to suggest avoiding this move.

Free Write Friday

So today is free write day and I have no idea what to write about, so I will talk about random things that are going on right now. I found some game on Facebook called diplomacy. Apparently it is based off a board game, where the purpose is to take over enough countries to win. It is kinda like Risk, but there is no dice and you have to make alliances with other players. The problem is that they can betray you and work against you. In other words it is a game based on lies and deceit, sounds like the perfect game for young people to play. I hope that we do not have to write a story for free write and that this post will work, because I have writer's block today. I did have to write a story in short stories this week. It was kinda like the thing we did with the pictures, but it was a lot longer than what we did. I wrote mine about a guy standing in front of a Korean War memorial. He was remembering about what happened to him in the war. I picked it because it seemed like the easiest of the picture. The others were a girl from the 1920's, a homeless teenager/druggie, and an old woman who was holding flowers and standing in front of Grand Central Station or something like that. The teenager might have been easy, but I would not want to right a story about a drug addict, because that would be weird, and the old lady was, well waiting on someone, but that is not the kind of story that I am into. FInally we have the girl from the 1920's, she was young, so it would be easy to work with, but since see was from like ninety years ago, and it was kind of akward. Aris is coming over tonight, I think, and Neil was supposed to hang out with us this weekend, but he might not get to come now. I might come up with a story later, I don't know. I usually have to have and idea before I can start writing. I can't usually sit down and write something off the top of my head, but if I have and idea I can usually take off with it and come up with something pretty good. I decided that I would rather just post this to my blog instead of writing it or typing it, seeing as how I don't really have a topic. I figured it would be strange rambling in a non-public way, so now all the world gets to see my randomness. Well now people's internet is freaking out, so I better post this before I lose it!

Cereal Box

Techy Question

I feel that as Americans we can compete in the global economy. I feel that we can because we have traditionally been dominant in technology. I we will probably continue to be dominate as long as we keep educating our students and don't waste our time on pointless things. We need to not be distracted by pointless things like the Jersey Shore and start focusing on the things that are important. The other countries usually just tell their people what to study and I do not think that is the best way to do it. I believe that if people are allowed to study what they want then they will work harder and be more likely to achieve more and contribute more the greater good.

Hairy Situation

Not much big planned this weekend, but you know there are always spur of the moment opportunities. I am getting a hair cut after school, so thats pretty cool. I have to get a whole bunch of hair chopped off every once and awhile or else bad things will happen. You see my hair does not grow down like normal people's, instead it denies the laws of gravity and poofs out to the side and creates and white boy fro. That sounds a lot cooler in theory than it does in practice. I used to have it 8 grade and that was a rather disturbing time so I will not dwell on it. I am pretty sure that when the fro grows the thickness of the hair creates a rather large heat pocket the makes my brain sweat and that combined with school equal major overload. Not cool is the best way to describe that, but on second thought it would make a good winter coat to be used in place of a hat or something.