Sorry about pulling a TNA on you yesterday (all 2 loyal readers). What do I mean? I mean promising you something and then at the end telling you you have to wait until the next installment. Wrestling humor.
Anyway I love Teen Wolf. I wanted to be teen wolf so bad when I was younger. It got to the point where I was walking around saying "Give me a keg of beer....." in my deepest voice. Well why do I bring up teen wolf? 3 reasons. 1 the cartoon was okay but the movie rocked
2 during the very end of the movie one of the extras decided to unzip his pants, just saying
3 It contained my dream car! Yes my dream car. If you were to talk to anyone who has ever asked me what my dream car was after highschool they would say 4 letters: DTSW.
Drop
Top
Station
Wagon
I wanted one so bad after watching teen Wolf. I went to the extremes and told everyone I knew
. I wrote it in on favorite car ballots and everything. Why teh obsession? well I was watching Teen Wolf one saturday afternoon with my sister when I saw the principals car. Wood panel, wagon with cloth top. DTSW!!!!
My quest has been to find one. I have been told by many people over and over again that "It might not exist." but I had my proof. I had Teen Wolf.
That was until Friday December 28 2007.
I was watching Teen Wolf and then when it got to the part with the principals car I got all excited. Then it happened. The car was not a DTSW. It was a Buick two door with wooden side panels and a soft top. Disappointment swept over me. So now I stand at a crossroad. Do I continue looking for the DTSW or do I give up. The quest for the true dream car might have ended.
tomorrow my positive quest possibly the longest one I've been on. Until then
I need to find a bettter typing program
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
A year of ended quests
Since every one else is doing it I might as well too. In 07....ummmm yeae I'll skip the formalities and talk ab out quests. Journeys, conquests whatever you wish to call them. In the year 07 there were a few quests that I had been on that came to an end.
But first a little background. I am always on some type of quest or have some type of project to keep myself occupied. That's it, no long background today. now onto the quests that were fulfilled....finished.
Now keep in mind these are things that I actually tried to accomplish/
Well first off my quota was ended but hey sometimes you have to do what you have to do ( and if you don't know of the quota o well)
Second I think I found a church to go to. yay me. Yay religion :)
In 07 I finally got a Wii. I had been looking for one since december of last year and it paid off in April!!!! However no weight loss yet.
I think i've given up on the quest to regain a friend. But you kn ow sometimes you eat the bear, and well sometimes, the bear, well , he eats you. Maybe next year, but I'm not holding my breath.
I think that I have made a good ground in my quest to find new friends, but we shall see if I offend them before they consider me a friend back. Or invite me out to party with them
My quest to get a smartboard? O yeah got it done, but with some baggage added on.
okay but seriously the real reason I posted this. There are 2 things that I have been looking for for what seems like eternity. Well my search for the two have ended . One positively, the other negatively. I'll put the post of each quest up tomorrow because I'm lazy and because my quest to stop procrastinating is a failure. Until then
:I've been on tons of quests, but my names not Jonny"
But first a little background. I am always on some type of quest or have some type of project to keep myself occupied. That's it, no long background today. now onto the quests that were fulfilled....finished.
Now keep in mind these are things that I actually tried to accomplish/
Well first off my quota was ended but hey sometimes you have to do what you have to do ( and if you don't know of the quota o well)
Second I think I found a church to go to. yay me. Yay religion :)
In 07 I finally got a Wii. I had been looking for one since december of last year and it paid off in April!!!! However no weight loss yet.
I think i've given up on the quest to regain a friend. But you kn ow sometimes you eat the bear, and well sometimes, the bear, well , he eats you. Maybe next year, but I'm not holding my breath.
I think that I have made a good ground in my quest to find new friends, but we shall see if I offend them before they consider me a friend back. Or invite me out to party with them
My quest to get a smartboard? O yeah got it done, but with some baggage added on.
okay but seriously the real reason I posted this. There are 2 things that I have been looking for for what seems like eternity. Well my search for the two have ended . One positively, the other negatively. I'll put the post of each quest up tomorrow because I'm lazy and because my quest to stop procrastinating is a failure. Until then
:I've been on tons of quests, but my names not Jonny"
Monday, November 26, 2007
I figured it out... or At what point was that a good idea
I grew up watching Nickelodeon back when it was good. So I LOVE watching Nickelodeon GAS. For those unaware of what GAS is it is a station that shoes old nickelodeon game shows all day. Perfect....except for a few things. They only show a total of 7 shows. These shows are
GUTS
Legends of the hidden temple
Double Dare 2000
Get the Picture
NIck Arcade ( at 3 in the morning)
some show I can't think of
Figure it out
my issue is what about Wild and Crazy Kids? What about the REAL Double Dare? What about What would you do? (oh and I know my capitalization is wrong...sue me). They need to bring back those shows.
Well I was watching Figure it out and was kinda shocked. There was a chubby kid whose talent was that he ate 11 pounds of watermelon in one minute. Yea you read it right. So at the end he showed the host and panel how he did it and they were supposed to try it too, however they just laughed and laughed as he ate his heart out. I was sad....I felt bad for him, even if he didnt feel bad.
Also I have come to the conclusion that the panel either lets people win or they are just dumb... or just like real people they don't pay attention. Case in point. ONe panelist asked the kid if he ate less than 10 pounds of watermelon and he said no. So the next panelist asked "Did you eat seven pounds of water melon" then the next panelist asked " Did you eat 2 pounds of watermelon." See the gripe?
Yea I just wanted to gripe about GAS
Ohh and by the way Erica sat a glass of sprite on the couch...guess how that turned out.
Perkins OUT
GUTS
Legends of the hidden temple
Double Dare 2000
Get the Picture
NIck Arcade ( at 3 in the morning)
some show I can't think of
Figure it out
my issue is what about Wild and Crazy Kids? What about the REAL Double Dare? What about What would you do? (oh and I know my capitalization is wrong...sue me). They need to bring back those shows.
Well I was watching Figure it out and was kinda shocked. There was a chubby kid whose talent was that he ate 11 pounds of watermelon in one minute. Yea you read it right. So at the end he showed the host and panel how he did it and they were supposed to try it too, however they just laughed and laughed as he ate his heart out. I was sad....I felt bad for him, even if he didnt feel bad.
Also I have come to the conclusion that the panel either lets people win or they are just dumb... or just like real people they don't pay attention. Case in point. ONe panelist asked the kid if he ate less than 10 pounds of watermelon and he said no. So the next panelist asked "Did you eat seven pounds of water melon" then the next panelist asked " Did you eat 2 pounds of watermelon." See the gripe?
Yea I just wanted to gripe about GAS
Ohh and by the way Erica sat a glass of sprite on the couch...guess how that turned out.
Perkins OUT
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
eighth circle...period of hell or of outback and coming out
WORD LIFE this is the most offensive blog I have posted so far, but I have to post what I post if you are easily offended then go buy a taco
I hate hall duty, plain and simple. I miss the days in which I had lunch duty because then I sat in the lunch room and made sure food wasn't thrown. Those were the good ole days. Now I am back on th period hall duty, which, by the end of the year, will become 8th period class coverage, but that's another time.
WHat I'm talking about today is today's hall duty shenanigans: I'll give the quick and low down but first a little background. We had three subs in the freshman wing, and you know how I feel about subs. At the end of 6th period today a fight broke out between two students, and was it ugly. Long to short kid got destroyed, said he'd get a gun, his sister sid the same thing and then parents showed up. Well 8th period started with the ninth grade administrator talking to said parents. 1:38
1:39
The sub for my math compadre sent a student out for using profanity in class. She was escorted back into class by the administrator, however she then got into a screaming match with the sub about her language. She was sent out again. The administrator told me to take her back into the room and explain to the sub that the office was full due to the fight and the parents. I took her in, talked with the sub, and told him to write her up and it'll be dealt with later (take a shot). The girl starts mouthing off again and then her classmates tell her to simmer down. I leave.
1:45
The female English teacher in the freshman wing sends two students out. And she is spitting flames as she does it. ONe student is a kid I had during the ig waste of time that is summer bridge, the other was the kid who lied on me and got removed from my class. The admnistrator tells me to take them back. I do. The teacher then explains that she has had enough and removes the students. I send them to the main office until they are called back down, aka to be dealt with later (take a shot X 2)
1:49
I turn around after sending the last tow guys down to the office when another student of mines comes down the hall saying how she was kicked out of her social studies class. I explained the office was full and to come back later (take a shot). I turn around again and a summer bridge student who is ALWAYS in the hall is walking to her class 12 minutes after class started. I just told her to go to class, she's the least of my worries now, I'd just write her up again later (shot)
1:52
After talking with this student I see another summer bridge (big waste of time) student com,ing down the hall. He gets halfway down the hall and screams out "Faggot". I look at him like he's crazy and then around the corner comes a former student, who I believe was in summer bridgehen says to the other kid " three years ago, coming back around the corner, let's call him Vanlos Blacktop. He then says "I'm not a faggot and if I am I'm loving it." So they walk into the office and the administrator tells them to leave because she's busy with the parents. Vanlos says "I am sooo pissed" and walks out. I follow the two down the hall and ask them why they are even down in the freshman wing, Vanlos then says "And I'm not gay I get niggas and bitches.". I flipped out and informed both of them not to come down my hall again seeing as Vanlos is an 11th grader and the other kid is Special ed. I said I'd write them up later (shot)
1:55
I walk back toward the office and then I see another student whom I have in class, and in bigwaste of time, coming down the hall from spanish. I ask him what's going on but no sooner do I get those words out of my mouth then the science sub comes running out of her room screaming "I need help" I look at the spanish kid and say "head to the main office she'll see you later"( shot) and run into the science room. I see two of my students "fighting". One student takes the skinny one out, lets call him Balcolm and I take out the chubby one, call him Byron. Well Byron starts saying "All the swings and you didn't even hit me. All those swings and you didn't even hit me." So a student in the class informs him that Balcolm did in fact hit him in the head. Byron stops, thinks and then says "All those swings and you didn't even hit me." The class groans. I ask Byron to come with me and then he walks over to his desk and starts shaking Balcolm's bookbag and screaming "All those swings and you didn't even hit me" I take him out of the class. While walking him down the hall I see a former student from my first year of teaching who is the epitome of worthless in the hall. I ask him why he's here and he says "I don't go to this bitch you can't do anything to me." I call the office for the tresspasser and he walks out. We get to the office and the parents have left and now comes the part that I like to call
"The battle of the Mentally Dumb"
So Byron explains the fight to the administrator:
So that's the hall duty, now for something positive:
We went to Outback steakhouse tonight and it was Madison's first time in a restaurant. Nothing really happened of interest except some lady said Madison was cute and small. But I must give Erica mad props because she ate her steak AND fed Madison at the same time. That's crazy dexterity.
Until next time I'm not even writing a quote
Perk
I hate hall duty, plain and simple. I miss the days in which I had lunch duty because then I sat in the lunch room and made sure food wasn't thrown. Those were the good ole days. Now I am back on th period hall duty, which, by the end of the year, will become 8th period class coverage, but that's another time.
WHat I'm talking about today is today's hall duty shenanigans: I'll give the quick and low down but first a little background. We had three subs in the freshman wing, and you know how I feel about subs. At the end of 6th period today a fight broke out between two students, and was it ugly. Long to short kid got destroyed, said he'd get a gun, his sister sid the same thing and then parents showed up. Well 8th period started with the ninth grade administrator talking to said parents. 1:38
1:39
The sub for my math compadre sent a student out for using profanity in class. She was escorted back into class by the administrator, however she then got into a screaming match with the sub about her language. She was sent out again. The administrator told me to take her back into the room and explain to the sub that the office was full due to the fight and the parents. I took her in, talked with the sub, and told him to write her up and it'll be dealt with later (take a shot). The girl starts mouthing off again and then her classmates tell her to simmer down. I leave.
1:45
The female English teacher in the freshman wing sends two students out. And she is spitting flames as she does it. ONe student is a kid I had during the ig waste of time that is summer bridge, the other was the kid who lied on me and got removed from my class. The admnistrator tells me to take them back. I do. The teacher then explains that she has had enough and removes the students. I send them to the main office until they are called back down, aka to be dealt with later (take a shot X 2)
1:49
I turn around after sending the last tow guys down to the office when another student of mines comes down the hall saying how she was kicked out of her social studies class. I explained the office was full and to come back later (take a shot). I turn around again and a summer bridge student who is ALWAYS in the hall is walking to her class 12 minutes after class started. I just told her to go to class, she's the least of my worries now, I'd just write her up again later (shot)
1:52
After talking with this student I see another summer bridge (big waste of time) student com,ing down the hall. He gets halfway down the hall and screams out "Faggot". I look at him like he's crazy and then around the corner comes a former student, who I believe was in summer bridgehen says to the other kid " three years ago, coming back around the corner, let's call him Vanlos Blacktop. He then says "I'm not a faggot and if I am I'm loving it." So they walk into the office and the administrator tells them to leave because she's busy with the parents. Vanlos says "I am sooo pissed" and walks out. I follow the two down the hall and ask them why they are even down in the freshman wing, Vanlos then says "And I'm not gay I get niggas and bitches.". I flipped out and informed both of them not to come down my hall again seeing as Vanlos is an 11th grader and the other kid is Special ed. I said I'd write them up later (shot)
1:55
I walk back toward the office and then I see another student whom I have in class, and in bigwaste of time, coming down the hall from spanish. I ask him what's going on but no sooner do I get those words out of my mouth then the science sub comes running out of her room screaming "I need help" I look at the spanish kid and say "head to the main office she'll see you later"( shot) and run into the science room. I see two of my students "fighting". One student takes the skinny one out, lets call him Balcolm and I take out the chubby one, call him Byron. Well Byron starts saying "All the swings and you didn't even hit me. All those swings and you didn't even hit me." So a student in the class informs him that Balcolm did in fact hit him in the head. Byron stops, thinks and then says "All those swings and you didn't even hit me." The class groans. I ask Byron to come with me and then he walks over to his desk and starts shaking Balcolm's bookbag and screaming "All those swings and you didn't even hit me" I take him out of the class. While walking him down the hall I see a former student from my first year of teaching who is the epitome of worthless in the hall. I ask him why he's here and he says "I don't go to this bitch you can't do anything to me." I call the office for the tresspasser and he walks out. We get to the office and the parents have left and now comes the part that I like to call
"The battle of the Mentally Dumb"
So Byron explains the fight to the administrator:
So we were working on our assignment in class and he called me gay. SO I threw a book at him and then tried to hit him. So we are standing across from each other over the table and we start swinging. I'm on one side of the table and he's on the other side of the table and we are swinging. So he's swinging a lot. He's doing all of this swinging and he didn't even hit me, he didn't even hit me, and then he hit me in the head a few times but he didn't even hit me with all those swings. So I hit him with two uppercuts to his gut and then he it me in the head, but he didn't even hit me. So then I grabbed his arms and said you ain't even hit me hard, then they broke us up.I walked away from him to eat and then all of the students came back to the office, well not all only a handful. Those that showed up received three days out, except the one chick she was mistaken for someone else and got off free.
So that's the hall duty, now for something positive:
We went to Outback steakhouse tonight and it was Madison's first time in a restaurant. Nothing really happened of interest except some lady said Madison was cute and small. But I must give Erica mad props because she ate her steak AND fed Madison at the same time. That's crazy dexterity.
Until next time I'm not even writing a quote
Perk
Monday, November 5, 2007
it's people...well sort of
HUFU just look it up and then take this little test.
What was your first reaction?
Did you ask yourself why or how first?
one answer means you are normal the other means you are not normal.
I just have to say this is the creepiest idea I have ever heard of. That is all for this time.:)
What was your first reaction?
Did you ask yourself why or how first?
one answer means you are normal the other means you are not normal.
I just have to say this is the creepiest idea I have ever heard of. That is all for this time.:)
Sunday, October 28, 2007
End of an era
So as everyone knows, or should, Madison was born on Oct 27 at 534 in the AM. There is stuff they don't tell you about but I digress. However also I point out that with Madison's birth ( or as I like to call her Diso) my quota ends. If you don't know about the quota tuogh. So all say goodbye to the quota and say helo to diso
Monday, October 22, 2007
"I heard a rumor....
And they travel far
you k now what it's like
the way people are
they talk and they talk
but they don't understand
they whisper and whisper
and lie on demand..."
Breathe by Depeche mode
Great song. Well i'm posting a quick article that i read about how gossip at work is bad. Sad thing is I'm guilty of it, but hey what can we do? Article here
Other tidbits
My former student D Howard ran the marathon yesterday and did pretty darn good. I told him he would and I taught him everything he knows.......about algebra
Dumbledore is gay
I entered my chooseyourownadventure lesson in the smarttech contest, hope i win
well i'm off until next time
"Gossip is like a newspaper for those who can't read and take everything they hear as fact."
Some old dead dude
Perkins out
Breathe by Depeche mode
you k now what it's like
the way people are
they talk and they talk
but they don't understand
they whisper and whisper
and lie on demand..."
Breathe by Depeche mode
Great song. Well i'm posting a quick article that i read about how gossip at work is bad. Sad thing is I'm guilty of it, but hey what can we do? Article here
Other tidbits
My former student D Howard ran the marathon yesterday and did pretty darn good. I told him he would and I taught him everything he knows.......about algebra
Dumbledore is gay
I entered my chooseyourownadventure lesson in the smarttech contest, hope i win
well i'm off until next time
"Gossip is like a newspaper for those who can't read and take everything they hear as fact."
Some old dead dude
Perkins out
Breathe by Depeche mode
Sunday, October 21, 2007
And I wanted to be a critic because....?
It's Sunday and I'm taking a break from grading the atrociousness of my tests....it's amazing how some people can get stuff wrong that should be obvious, but I digress. Today's old school writing is from my original blogish thing from when I was apart of the community. A few years back a friend of mine set up a community on msn and I would randomly write stuff once a week. I doubt that the community still exists though. Well one of the entgries was about movies that I had seen during the summer (I was working at burger king on the night shift and had a lot of time on my hands). This was in preparation for a movie review website I had planned on setting up, you can see how that went. So without further ado.....
"They call me Perk because it's a privilege to know me"
Perkins Out
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Now playing: Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers
As you can tell I like horror movies. The sad thing is that since I wrote this in 01 I have seen movies that are possibly worse than anything on this list (Axe 'em). Who knows maybe one day I will start doing movie reviews again. Well that's all and until next time"Blame is a beautiful thing, baby. Blame keeps this whole planet spinning. You can point your finger at the next man, you can shift the weight onto him, you don't have to carry that shit around yourself. You can slide into bed and get a good night's nap. Yeah, right."
Augustus Hill - OZHello every one... you know I couldn't think of anything to even say this week. I mean I wanted to update the page but I couldn't think of anything to say so I have decided to make it a real quick list of movies that I thought just absolutely positively without a shadow of a doubt SUCK. Well along with the name of the film i will give a brief description, a notable character or occurrence, the cover description, the tagline, and who was to blame in me seeing the film. Yeah the quote above had something to do with this update, and you probably thought it was some cool nugget of information or something right? Well these films are in no particular order and you may see some reviews (longer ones) in the recommendations folder (or the coming soon Movie Review folder). Well Lock and Load....
MOVIE TITLE: GRIM
TAGLINE: This is no fairy tale
This movie is about a monster that appears in people’s houses and takes them hostage couch and all in one case. Also a team of Spelunkers decides to go explore Grim's cave for some reason. And then you know what happens people see Grim, Grim kills people final confrontation.
Interesting tidbit: This movie stars Hero Man who isn't afraid of anything and said things like "So what if it's pitch black and we lost 45 comrades I'm going in with this paper clip and this rubber band to save the cat" Well not in those words but you get the gist.
Who's to blame? This is Kral's fault mostly. At blockbuster we passed it many times but finally we broke down and rented it after he said it can’t be that bad.…
cover: A picture of Grim (the monster)
MOVIE TITLE: WES CRAVEN PRESENTS CARNIVAL OF SOULS
Tagline: Enter at your own risk
ARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH. Think Jacobs ladder with a stupid story and clowns. A girl sees her mother murdered by her boyfriend, (who she decided to go out with after he found the daughter wandering around the carnival at night). And then 15 years later he gets out of jail to kill her and her sister. The woman and the boyfriend end up in a car that goes into a lake and then all insanity ensues, insanity for those who watch it. Seems that the woman can't figure out if she's dead or not. Guess what nobody gives a what.
Interesting tidbit: The boyfriend was a clown in the Carnival and therefore is automatically scary, yeah right. This fruit ball has a mean jab and carries balloons. And he says, "I didn't find you, you found me." When he finds the little girl at the beginning in the carnival, and pretty much every time they talk. You know what I can't think of anything else.
Who's to Blame? This one was all me. I saw a movie in the store called Carnival of Terror and then I saw this at Blockbuster and thought, "Was it Carnival of Souls I wanted to see?" So I rented it and felt the agony.
Cover: The Clown, Balloons, a carnival, Souls in the balloons…….
MOVIE TITLE: THE FEAR
Tagline: He’s whatever scares you the most
Imagine a group of students that want to do a study of fear in the woods in a friends cabin. Now imagine that the cabin has a cigar puppet named Morty that the kid played with when he was younger. Now imagine that Morty comes to life and kills the students by there worst fears. Sounds interesting right? Well let’s say someone’s worst fear is growing old, Morty looks at him or her and they turn old and die. Sound fun still? Well it’s not. O and there is some side story about someone going around raping women.
Interesting tidbit: You know this movie put me to sleep so umm hey I think Tony Todd was in it (The guy that plays Candyman). He was the token black guy, so you know what happened right. O yea Morty moves I think…. And Wes Craven is in it….
Who’s to blame? Once again it’s all my fault. I had a free rental to get so I picked this up real quick like.
Cover: Morty and he’s all splintery.
MOVIE TITLE: PINOCCHIO'S REVENGE
Tagline: Evil comes with strings attached
A toy maker is arrested for killing his son and burying him. He also buries his puppet. A mother, who I think is an attorney, forgets to give her daughter a birthday gift. So somehow Geppetto’s puppet (the toy maker is Geppeto I think if not he is now) ends up in her possession and the kid loves it but it’s not her toy. But she won’t take no for an answer and the killing begins but who is doing it? Is it the Psycho kid or the deranged puppet? Geppetto knows….
Interesting tidbit: The kid was crazy, or just stupid. But besides that watch the ending (why am I telling you to watch this flick?) where the girl morphs into the puppet and then back, that is all, o and the stupidity of the boyfriend and Pinocchio the peeping tom
Who’s to blame? OK it was me. I always wanted to see this and Rumpelstiltskin and after seeing this Mr. Skin might not be getting rented.
Cover: Pinocchio I think and the kid?
MOVIE TITLE: VENGEANCE OF THE DEAD
Tagline: The dead never forget…
Stupidity has reached new heights. A kid goes to visit his grandpa in his old town. Well while flying his plane he comes across a burnt down house. In the ashes lies a golden spoon. Well he takes it and puts it in his drawer well guess what the spoon decides it hates his underwear and goes back home after a pair of ghosts appear. So the intelligent man goes and gets the spoon from the rubble again. Yea I said he went and got the spoon again. Argh.. Well then he winds up possessed and killing old guys by fire, well first he burns a dead body then he kills old guys. But why? Because the dead need Vengeance…
Interesting tidbit: I am not going to lie to you. There are mad interesting tidbits…… This movie contains the famous bike-throwing scene where I almost cursed (I was like what the fu.arggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh). Also the wood masturbation… and the way they decided to show the nudity was dumb, that’s all I can say, wait for the review It’s gonna be wicked. Oh and the aging ghost and the zoot suit and what about the spoon? Does he know what common sense is?… Oh and Pimp has a bad commercial.
Who’s to blame? Kral. We saw the small package and we were baffled. How does the tape fit? He said it’s by Full Moon so it’s good. They made puppet master, but they made Blood Dolls too and I couldn’t watch that movie. So he picked this s&*t and I picked Python that wasn’t that great but this just all out sucked. Worse than COS.
Cover: A skull or a dead person and the little girl ghost. I can’t tell don’t remember and don’t care. But the VHS box is red and it looks too small to fit a movie in it.
MOVIE TITLE: CUT
Tagline: They just have to finish the film... before it finishes them
I admit this movie did not totally suck but i wanted to express my self again about it. A movie was made in Australia and it sucked. And it wasn’t finished because the killer went bonkers and murdered the director. Then he gets killed. Well years later the director’s daughter and her film class decide to finish the movie (even though it sux) even though it has a curse on it. That whoever watches the flick dies. Well the killer comes back and does some killing old school style. So it’s up to the cast to kill the killer before it’s too late. This wouldn’t be so bad if it was a comedy….
Interesting tidbit: OK two words Soldier Boy. Man this guy is like Afleck in Phantoms. He gets skewered and lives while other people die stupidly. O and how can I forget the sex scene lol? O and the light sabers
Who’s to blame? You know I can’t remember who’s Idea it was to watch this….
Cover: The killer and a filmstrip
MOVIE TITLE: BREEDERS
Tagline: I don’t know
Women are getting raped. They all have one thing in common they are all virgins. Lots of nudity occurs and it’s up to a doctor and a cop to try to stop the rapist. And the raped women leave the hospital.
Interesting tidbit: I saw parts of this on Sci-Fi and man was there a lot of nudity. I mean Sci-Fi had to do mad editing then they said forget it lets just blur it out. So they did. And there is a scene of a woman doing aerobics naked. I think she gets raped… Umm this movie is sick
Who’s to blame? My roommate Jase. I was sleep and he said “Hey they are showing naked women on sci-fi. I thought he was joking so I got up and said holy crap. Then we sat trough most of it but it just sucked so we turned and turned back to see the end.
Cover: I can’t even make it out….
MOVIE TITLE: WISHMASTER 3 BEYOND THE GATES OF HELL
Tagline:
The “Djinn” is “back” and “granting” “wishes” this tine on a college campus. A student awakes him. He kills people to get to the chick that let him free so she can make three wishes and set his army free on earth. Also an Archangel appears.
Interesting tidbit: The bike trip scene is good. And the Djinn is shiny…. And his human form is Sean Connery’s son.
Who’s to blame? Everyone that was there that day….
Cover: The djinns eyes and a pentagram
Well everyone it’s getting late and I can’t think of any more movies as of now. Soon I will try to do full reviews of these movies and much more but until then be excellent to each other and party on dudes…..
Perk
"They call me Perk because it's a privilege to know me"
Perkins Out
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Now playing: Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers
Friday, October 19, 2007
I purchased my first bra today...
So I had to go buy a nursing bra for Erica because I said I would. I got two then went home. However I found out a few things.
1) Women look at a guy funny when he is in the bra section by himself
2) Apparently buying bras is not the way to impress a cashier
3) There is a difference in bra types.
I found the third thing out when I got home. Erica informed me that I did not purchase bras with underwire. So i had to return to the Target and repurchase new bras. So I took the old ones back and got a refund. I went back to the bra section and tried to find these elusive underwire bras. Here I learned a new thing.
4) Women really look at a guy funny who is in the bra section by himself, feeling bras for wires and with his pants unzipped.
Yea apparently my pants were unzipped :(. I wondered why the lady next to me looked at me all ghastly like and walked away briskly.
Well I then went to the checkout lane and came across my fifth lesson on the day.
5) The Broification of America has reached a new, drastic high.
The following is the actual conversation between me and the cashier.
CASHIER: " What's up bro?"
ME: " Nothing much really."
CASHIER: "Aww bro, that's a bra bro."
ME: " It's for my wife. I got conned into it."
CASHIER: "Awww, s**t bro, sorry bro. Hey Devin when do I get my break bro?"
ME: " I'll survive I think."
CASHIER: "That'll be 29.87 bro."
ME: " Here you go."
CASHIER: "Is this thirty bro?"
ME: " Nah, it's twenty-nine. And here is eighty-seven."
CASHIER: "Awwwww DAMN!! Bro! That's like perfect bro! Aww Bro!!! Like magical math magic Bro!!!"
ME: "I actually just returned the same thing so I just got something with the same
price."
CASHIER: " AWWWW bro. That's smart bro. Take care bro."
ME: " You do the same."
Now normally I am not one to comment on someones vocabulary, and my sister informed me that it's a good thing that he kept his vocabulary even though he was at work because of something linguistical, but the excessive use of bro was insane. This coupled with the kids at school using it in almost every sentence resulted in me hearing bro at least one hundred times in one day. Then I saw the brorape video (mildly offensive ). There is also the term Broner. The broification must stop.
Until next time
"A bra salesman is the best man for a woman to marry because he offers tons of support"
Perkins out
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Now playing: Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
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Now playing: Daaam! (Explicit) - finger eleven & Tha Alkaholiks
1) Women look at a guy funny when he is in the bra section by himself
2) Apparently buying bras is not the way to impress a cashier
3) There is a difference in bra types.
I found the third thing out when I got home. Erica informed me that I did not purchase bras with underwire. So i had to return to the Target and repurchase new bras. So I took the old ones back and got a refund. I went back to the bra section and tried to find these elusive underwire bras. Here I learned a new thing.
4) Women really look at a guy funny who is in the bra section by himself, feeling bras for wires and with his pants unzipped.
Yea apparently my pants were unzipped :(. I wondered why the lady next to me looked at me all ghastly like and walked away briskly.
Well I then went to the checkout lane and came across my fifth lesson on the day.
5) The Broification of America has reached a new, drastic high.
The following is the actual conversation between me and the cashier.
CASHIER: " What's up bro?"
ME: " Nothing much really."
CASHIER: "Aww bro, that's a bra bro."
ME: " It's for my wife. I got conned into it."
CASHIER: "Awww, s**t bro, sorry bro. Hey Devin when do I get my break bro?"
ME: " I'll survive I think."
CASHIER: "That'll be 29.87 bro."
ME: " Here you go."
CASHIER: "Is this thirty bro?"
ME: " Nah, it's twenty-nine. And here is eighty-seven."
CASHIER: "Awwwww DAMN!! Bro! That's like perfect bro! Aww Bro!!! Like magical math magic Bro!!!"
ME: "I actually just returned the same thing so I just got something with the same
price."
CASHIER: " AWWWW bro. That's smart bro. Take care bro."
ME: " You do the same."
Now normally I am not one to comment on someones vocabulary, and my sister informed me that it's a good thing that he kept his vocabulary even though he was at work because of something linguistical, but the excessive use of bro was insane. This coupled with the kids at school using it in almost every sentence resulted in me hearing bro at least one hundred times in one day. Then I saw the brorape video (mildly offensive ). There is also the term Broner. The broification must stop.
Until next time
"A bra salesman is the best man for a woman to marry because he offers tons of support"
Perkins out
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Now playing: Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
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Now playing: Daaam! (Explicit) - finger eleven & Tha Alkaholiks
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
And once again I see things differently
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Now playing: David Bowie - The Hearts Filthy Lesson
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html
That link is for those who can't see the following pic. You might have to click it.
I won't tell you why but notice the direction, and then look at the shadow and notice the direction again. I find it amazing but that's just me.
Speaking of amazing and stuff that baffles the mind: How many times do you have to explain to an adult something. I can't go inot details but it involves a student who told their parent something that wasn't true. The parent came to me, I told them what happened and they still kept asking about it. Then their child said it wasn't true, but still they pursued it. Sounds confusing but hey, what can you do.
Until next time
"It is better to have people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" Twain I think
Perkins out
Now playing: David Bowie - The Hearts Filthy Lesson
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html
That link is for those who can't see the following pic. You might have to click it.
I won't tell you why but notice the direction, and then look at the shadow and notice the direction again. I find it amazing but that's just me.
Speaking of amazing and stuff that baffles the mind: How many times do you have to explain to an adult something. I can't go inot details but it involves a student who told their parent something that wasn't true. The parent came to me, I told them what happened and they still kept asking about it. Then their child said it wasn't true, but still they pursued it. Sounds confusing but hey, what can you do.
Until next time
"It is better to have people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" Twain I think
Perkins out
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I guess you can call me Sir Mix a Lot
SO I was watching Californication the other night ( great show by the way) and during the episode David Duchovny's daughter gives her guitar teacher a mix tape....mix CD. Now this is supposed to indicate that she had a thing for him. Unfortunately he is too old and he kind of likes her soon to be step sister. So here is my issue, in eighties movies, and nineties movies and television the mix tape is supposed to be the desperate attempt to get someone to notice you/ realize that you have a crush on them. The problem? I have given out many a mix tape/ CD in my life. I mean I give them out left and right and never thought about the possible signal I may have been sending.
I can count at least fourteen mix tapes/ CDs that I have made and given to people just because I wanted people to hear the music that I like. That is because people usually hate my music. So I put together a mix of music that I dig and say " hey check this out". But apparently this gives off the idea that I am totally into the individual. I admit that there were a few that I did give out to people I was interested in at a time, but not always.
This does explain however why a few of the female friedns that I did give tapes/CDs too started acting kind of funny towards me. They thought I wasn trying to take our friendship to the next level. Well at least I learned a lesson, and another thing about how society sees the trading of music.
Until next time
You can't spell music without a vocabulary
Perkins out
I can count at least fourteen mix tapes/ CDs that I have made and given to people just because I wanted people to hear the music that I like. That is because people usually hate my music. So I put together a mix of music that I dig and say " hey check this out". But apparently this gives off the idea that I am totally into the individual. I admit that there were a few that I did give out to people I was interested in at a time, but not always.
This does explain however why a few of the female friedns that I did give tapes/CDs too started acting kind of funny towards me. They thought I wasn trying to take our friendship to the next level. Well at least I learned a lesson, and another thing about how society sees the trading of music.
Until next time
You can't spell music without a vocabulary
Perkins out
Monday, October 15, 2007
O wait that's not a hamburger bun...
So I missed school today because me and Erica….I mean Erica and I, went to the hospital. The docs thought that Erica has not gained enough weight and therefore we needed to go to get a super ultrasound to check the babies…..I mean
But here is my question. How do ultrasounds work I mean they are kind of infatuated because you can see though the baby but at the same time you can see the baby. It’s crazyyyy. I could wikipedia it but I think I’ll just let it sit as something I’ll find out one day when I’m not bored. Until next time
Don’t keep secrets because then you will have half secret half human babies.
Perkins out
Irreplaceable
So I have been complaining about the amount of subs in school so far this year. I mean a lot of them are there for a good reason, however I still have issues. We have been forced into professional developments left and right this year and therefore have had to miss days. This ruins our perfect attendance :). But seriously, we had 11 subs last Friday. Now I was out today so I soukdn't be all mad and whatnot but you know what I will. I actually had a talk with my sub today. He was a nice older guy, but he talked my ear off. However the reason I am writing this is what he told me right when I was going to leave. He looked at me and said " Last week I subbed at {name withheld} and somehow the teachers books got thrown off the desk, into the trash and covered in lotion." Now I know sometimes we all lose control of situations and/or leave an area and stuff happens so I wasn't worried. Then he continued " So after I cleaned off the books I went back to work and it happened (dramatic pause) two more times."
That's when I freaked out a little. I didn't want to come back to my books covered in lotion.
Here is where I stand with my sub issues: if a sub can't be responsible then they should not sub.
EXAMPLES
A sub sits at the desk with his feet on the desk reading a newspaper while the class runs rampant, throwing stuff. HE SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub sits in the front of the class talking on her cell phone while the students play with chemicals. SHE SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub comes next door to ask you to get the kids under control because she is afraid to say anything to the students. You walk in and the kids are throwing paper balls at each other and sitting at the teachers desk going through his things. THIS MOFO SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub sits on myspace all day. SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub falls asleep because they missed there nap ( this actually happened) : NO SUB FOR YOU
A sub sits at the desk while the students linger in the hall in front of the class: SUB MATERIAL? I THINK NOT
A sub duct tapes students to a chair: YOU GUESSED IT
sorry about all the caps, just had to do it.
So you see I have reasons to not want subs. But hey, sometimes you can't help it so I guess there really isn't any use of complaining. I just hope my room isn''t trashed ( it isn't on fire thank goodness) when I roll in tomorrow. Until next time
Eat a taco because it's good dang it.
Perkins out
That's when I freaked out a little. I didn't want to come back to my books covered in lotion.
Here is where I stand with my sub issues: if a sub can't be responsible then they should not sub.
EXAMPLES
A sub sits at the desk with his feet on the desk reading a newspaper while the class runs rampant, throwing stuff. HE SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub sits in the front of the class talking on her cell phone while the students play with chemicals. SHE SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub comes next door to ask you to get the kids under control because she is afraid to say anything to the students. You walk in and the kids are throwing paper balls at each other and sitting at the teachers desk going through his things. THIS MOFO SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub sits on myspace all day. SHOULD NOT SUB
A sub falls asleep because they missed there nap ( this actually happened) : NO SUB FOR YOU
A sub sits at the desk while the students linger in the hall in front of the class: SUB MATERIAL? I THINK NOT
A sub duct tapes students to a chair: YOU GUESSED IT
sorry about all the caps, just had to do it.
So you see I have reasons to not want subs. But hey, sometimes you can't help it so I guess there really isn't any use of complaining. I just hope my room isn''t trashed ( it isn't on fire thank goodness) when I roll in tomorrow. Until next time
Eat a taco because it's good dang it.
Perkins out
Sunday, October 14, 2007
A litle background
I used to be a writer, well more like I used to want to be a writer. I was really into it. I wrote at least 6 short stories when I was in ninth grade. I would finish one and then read it over and then begin another one. I always planned to be published but I suffered from one thing, fear. I was afraid that my writing wasn't good and I really did not want to be shot down. SO I wrote for my self and friends. The last story I wrote in high school was my "novella" without a name. It was my magnum opus. Anyway let's get to the point of this post.
I was actually going through some of my old stuff I wrote in college and decided that I would randomly post it online because well it shows my thought processes and also because it is really bad. Some of it is fiction, some of it is non fiction. And some are papers I wrote for classes. So I think every Sunday I will post one of my older writings, unchanged, so that both you and I can get a laugh out of it.
Today's post is my paper on 2001 A space Odyssey for my Stanley Kubrick film class my senior year in college. I got a B in the class after my professor had to leave due to a heart attack.....
"It's better to burn out than to fade away"
Perkins out
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Now playing: School House Rock - Electricity
I was actually going through some of my old stuff I wrote in college and decided that I would randomly post it online because well it shows my thought processes and also because it is really bad. Some of it is fiction, some of it is non fiction. And some are papers I wrote for classes. So I think every Sunday I will post one of my older writings, unchanged, so that both you and I can get a laugh out of it.
Today's post is my paper on 2001 A space Odyssey for my Stanley Kubrick film class my senior year in college. I got a B in the class after my professor had to leave due to a heart attack.....
Yea so that's my first Kubrick paper and I don't understand half of the metaphors I used. Especially the whole canal thing. Well enjoy your nights and look out for monkeys and bones and computers and big headed babies in canals and stuff. Until next timeJason S Perkins
English 578
Paper 1
Beja
Evolutionary Studies In 2001:There exists a difference between a movie and a film. A movie’s first objective is to entertain the audience the best way it knows how. A film, however, looks entertainment in the mouth and laughs. Films are about getting a message across. That message is that of the director. It is possible for some films to be entertaining after being watched the first time. However, that is not the main objective of a film. A film can be a success even if it bores the audiences to sleep (Secrets and Lies). A movie that does this (The Real Cancun) is a flop. Another advantage a film has over a movie is that a film can be as confusing as humanly possible (Memento) yet still elicit positive reviews somewhere down the line. Movies that are confusing just agitate everyone forever. A film can even be panned by critics when it is first released and then get rave reviews when it is watched a decade or two later (Vertigo). A movie does not have the slightest chance of that happening (Battlefield Earth). There are very few films that bore the audience, confuse them, and get trashed by critics only to get a place in the top one hundred films of all time. 2001 A Space Odyssey is such a film. This movie bored me to death the first time watching it. As a matter of fact it bored everyone that I know. The movie is confusing on purpose, Arthur C. Clarke said "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."1. The film was panned by critics at first and even after a cut of twenty minutes was made the movie was still ripped into. However now it is one of the greatest movies of all time as voted by the American Film Institute.2
What makes 2001 such a great film? This film works on many different levels. It has many different layers. Some layers are thicker than others, but they are all there and that helps make the film just that. There is a lot of symbolism in this film and parallels that run throughout. This paper will look at one of these layers. The layer it will focus on is the deeper meaning of the film or how one person sees it.
Stanley Kubrick has said that the plot of 2001 “Deals with man’s contact with such superior extraterrestrial intelligences, though perhaps not quite deities.”3. This can easily be seen when actually sitting through the film. The plot is pretty straight forward but what underlies the plot is different all together. This movie is actually about evolution. Kagan writes that 2001 is like “a canal with locks linking two bodies of water at different heights. To get from the lower to the higher body of water a species moves into the lowest lock. The monolith closes the door and the species raises itself to the level of the second lock by pumping in water.” After this the monolith closes the lock and the process repeats until the species has reached the highest level. “Substitute consciousness or intelligence for water, “instinct “ for the lower body of water, “rationality” or “tool making” for the first lock, “super-rationality” or “transcendence” for the second lock, and “refining techniques” for pumping and you have 2001”4
Let us take a journey through this canal system. In the Dawn of Man segment of the film the apes learn that they do not have to eat the dry leaves alongside the other animals. Also they figure out that they do not have to be intimidated by other apes. All of this is due to the black monolith that appears one early dawn morning. The monolith awakens something inside of Moonwatcher that causes him to see that a bone can be used to smash. This leads to probably the greatest thing that the apes learn: that through the use of tools and ingenuity they can kill to preserve their own lives. They use this new skill of killing to eat meat instead of plants. However, they also learn that this skill can be used to take back the water hole that they were “fighting” the other apes for. The instinct of Moonwatcher is what causes him to use the bone to kill the other ape rather than to let it continue to harass him. It is also this instinct that drives him to continue to pummel the already dead body.
The second part of the movie deals with Dr. Heywood Floyd and his trying to figure out a way to deal with a new monolith that has been found on the moon. It is due to the earlier monolith that humans now have the capability to travel to the moon, or so the film wants you to believe. This is shown in the cut from the bone that Moonwatcher throws into the air that becomes a satellite when it is coming back down. This is meant to show that that one instance of a tool being used has brought forth a great era where tools are used in everyday outings and also for more sophisticated purposes. It is the refining of the older processes that causes the new processes to be accomplished. In this segment of the movie we see that Floyd likes to be in charge of situations with the little banter around the coffee table with Russians. Another trait that humans seem to share. When Floyd gets to the moon and sees the monolith he reaches out and touches it. Nothing happens until the sun strikes the monolith and when that happens a screeching sound is emitted.
This leads into the third part of the film, Jupiter Mission 18 months later. This sequence brings forth HAL 9000 a very intelligent super computer with no known defects. However this time, on this mission, HAL starts acting weird and gives some advice that may or may not be right. This leads to Frank and Dave having a conversation about disconnecting HAL which Hal does not care for in the least. HAL is already a super computer that is beyond what humans could think about. He has gone through this evolution process already. As HAL realizes that he is to be disconnected he takes drastic measures and kills Frank and the other crew members who were frozen. This is just Hal resorting to his basic instinct of survival. HAL then leaves Dave out in space and this causes Dave to use his ingenuity and the tools he has to get inside of the ship and “kill” HAL by pulling out his memory modules. Here Dave resorts back to primal instinct to kill in order to preserve his life. While Hal dies he devolves back into an ordinary computer. Actually he becomes more like a child. Somehow all of the water from the canal has found a way to escape and the locks have been opened for Hal and he rushes back down to the lowest level. However this also helps push Dave up another level in his own canal. HAL’s death sets off a message from Floyd and then leads into the final sequence Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite.
.This sequence is nothing more than Dave traveling into the final monolith over Jupiter. While traveling through this monolith Dave is inside a star gate that stretches into forever. When finally it does stop he finds himself in a room with an older version of himself. As he explores the room he keeps looking at and then becoming older versions of himself until he finally is too old to live and is in his death bed. On his bed we see him reach out and try to touch the monolith that has appeared at the end of his bed. He then dies and is reborn as a star child that travels to Earth to begin something anew. This is akin to the final level of the canal. At the very top one realizes that tools are of no use and basic earthly functions are worthless in the long run. Dave has transcended and is beyond the thought of all others.
However this brings forth a question about transcendence. In order for Dave to become free of this plane and fulfill his destiny he had to die and be reborn. HAL did a very similar thing when he died also. However Hal was a being that was already beyond his own species. Computers do not have consciousness yet Hal was very conscious of himself and his feelings. HAL was actually a very evolved computer. Maybe his evolutions came a bit too soon and that is why he had to die. While Dave came at just the right time and has earned the right to become a super-being. Is this possible? Maybe the monolith had this all planned from the beginning. Maybe the monolith is the ultimate form of evolution. Supreme knowledge may come at a cost and the cost could be loss of vital functions. Is it a coincidence that HAL’s memory modules were shaped like little monoliths? As said earlier Hal could have already been a very highly evolved entity that was not ready for his evolution.
All in all 2001: A Space Odyssey is not the type of movie that you go out with your friends and see on a Saturday night. However it is the type of film you see when you want to think about something. Who knows what the real meaning of this film is? Is it transcendence? Is it that we are not alone? Maybe this is a film about mankind in general and how if we try and move too quickly into the future it will catch up to us and kill us all. Or maybe it is just a study on how we as a species can overcome all obstacles set before us and reach a perfect state in the evolutionary plane. Maybe there are many meanings to the film. Maybe there is only one. I think that Kubrick wanted us to just get into the canal and start pumping water until we are high enough to sail through the lock and into the next level. Then maybe we will see the true meaning. Maybe that is the true meaning of the film.
1 IMDB trivia
2 AFI top 100 movies of all time
3 Kagan p 146
4 Kagan pp 159-160
"It's better to burn out than to fade away"
Perkins out
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Now playing: School House Rock - Electricity
Saturday, October 13, 2007
It Starts
Good afternoon..morning.....whenever you are reading this. I, The Perkins, have decided to get into this blog thing basically because I needed someplace to write stuff down that I was thinking. WHy ( i left it like this on purpose because spell check didn't recognize it was why...go figure) get into it now and why so late? Well a few reasons.
1: A few friends have blogs and I want to be like them
2: I needed someplace to put stuff
3: I just recently found out my old role model Doogie Howser was the OB... Original Blogger. Hey if Doogie did it then I can do it too.
Speaking of Doogie I remember the night that that show first aired. We were sitting in our dining room, watching tv in whatever year it was. We had just finished watching some movie ( I think it was Deadly Friend but I might be wrong.) and Doogie Howser was going to come on. I really wanted to see it so I was waiting for it, but I didn't want my sister to see it, because ....I was a boy and she was my sister. So I told her that the show was dumb and stupid and that she should just go to bed because she would hate it. So my older sister looked at me and told me to go to bed since I didn't want to watch it. and I went into the bedroom, trying to figure out a reason to see Doogie Howser MD. I wound up apologizing halfway through the show and was allowed back into the dining room. I actually saw the entire show because I just peeked around the corner throughout the first half. After that I was hooked and Doogie Howser was my new hero.
So that's all I'll write this time because my arms are getting tired. Until next time...
remember Knowing is half the battle...the other half is shutting up
1: A few friends have blogs and I want to be like them
2: I needed someplace to put stuff
3: I just recently found out my old role model Doogie Howser was the OB... Original Blogger. Hey if Doogie did it then I can do it too.
Speaking of Doogie I remember the night that that show first aired. We were sitting in our dining room, watching tv in whatever year it was. We had just finished watching some movie ( I think it was Deadly Friend but I might be wrong.) and Doogie Howser was going to come on. I really wanted to see it so I was waiting for it, but I didn't want my sister to see it, because ....I was a boy and she was my sister. So I told her that the show was dumb and stupid and that she should just go to bed because she would hate it. So my older sister looked at me and told me to go to bed since I didn't want to watch it. and I went into the bedroom, trying to figure out a reason to see Doogie Howser MD. I wound up apologizing halfway through the show and was allowed back into the dining room. I actually saw the entire show because I just peeked around the corner throughout the first half. After that I was hooked and Doogie Howser was my new hero.
So that's all I'll write this time because my arms are getting tired. Until next time...
remember Knowing is half the battle...the other half is shutting up
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