My Poem: Never Forever
From the moment I started rolling my tube socks I knew one thing was real I fell in love with you A love so deep I gave you my all From my mind & body To my spirit & soul Deeply in love with you I never saw the end of the tunnel I only saw myself I gave you my heart Because it came with so much more I did everything for YOU Because that’s what you do When someone makes you feel as Alive as you’ve made me feel I’ll always love you But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer This is all I have left to give My heart can take the pounding But my mind knows it’s time to say goodbye And that’s OK I’m ready to let you go So we both can savor every moment we have left together The good and the bad We have given each other All that we have As we both know No matter what I’ll always be that kid With the rolled up socks Found Poem: http://www.theplayerstribune.com/dear-basketball/ Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad’s tube socks And shooting imaginary Game-winning shots In the Great Western Forum I knew one thing was real: I fell in love with you. A love so deep I gave you my all -- From my mind & body To my spirit & soul. As a six-year-old boy Deeply in love with you I never saw the end of the tunnel. I only saw myself Running out of one. And so I ran. I ran up and down every court After every loose ball for you. You asked for my hustle I gave you my heart Because it came with so much more. I played through the sweat and hurt Not because challenge called me But because YOU called me. I did everything for YOU Because that’s what you do When someone makes you feel as Alive as you’ve made me feel. You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream And I’ll always love you for it. But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer. This season is all I have left to give. My heart can take the pounding My mind can handle the grind But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go. I want you to know now So we both can savor every moment we have left together. The good and the bad. We have given each other All that we have. And we both know, no matter what I do next I’ll always be that kid With the rolled up socks Garbage can in the corner :05 seconds on the clock Ball in my hands. 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 Love you always, Kobe Found Poem I believe change is inevitable Everyone goes through phases Everyone has different experiences It comes down towards motivation How motivated are you to do better? Do you have confidence in yourself? To keep trying and learn to do better? Be more creative This I Believe I believe that change is an inevitable process. Everyone goes through phases and everyone has different experiences. Back to when I was in high school I was one of those kids that just wanted to get by. I think that I didn’t have any confidence in myself. For any test or quiz or whatever I already had this precognitive notion that I wasn’t smart enough. I remember the times that I would get home from school and my mom would find out about my test scores and chew me out for which felt like days. Always having the statement that she knew that I could do better. It wasn’t until I believe my junior and senior year that I realized what she said was true. I think it comes down towards motivation. How motivated are you to do better and do you have the confidence in yourself to keep trying and learn to do better? For me it was the kick in the @$$ by my mom that put me in my place and by doing this it changed my mindset (see brought it all back). I believe that now I have a growth mindset. I like making comic books, but I don’t limit myself to just doing dudes wearing capes. I like making comic books about monsters like the ‘Swamp Thing’ and ‘Frankenstein’ or dark gritty stories like The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil: The Devil Inside and Out and, Death in the Family to comedies like Deadpool, Archer, Quantum and Woody and, Howard the Duck. This allows me to vary and be more creative hopping from genre to genre dealing with a bevy of different characters with a bevy of different personalities. This is my week 12 reflection about my 4 reflection but with scenes…. dun...dun...dunnnn… so let us begin. I had a pretty decent week. We’re trucking along in my 120 Math course working with the chapter 1 and 2 stuff and I am working on my art project which I’m not necessarily fond of because when I’m drawing I like to do my own thing. In English we learned about the difference between having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. We watched clips about the difference between the two and the responses that people with growth and fixed mindsets have in certain situations. One video that was shown to us gave the example that people with a growth mindset believes that intelligence grows, values effort, and typically works harder while people with a fixed mindset believe intelligence is always the same, they tend to procrastinate and want to look smart instead of going through the process of learning. It is possible to be in between but studies have shown that being a person with a growth mindset will do better in school. This also means that someone with a fixed mindset can become someone with a growth mindset. It is possible and more likely that most people are somewhere I the middle. Outside of school I say that I had an okay week. Typically, during weekends, I like to go and see a movie. This week me and a group of my friends went to go see the Green Inferno. There was about 8 of us going which seems like a lot, but there was not a lot of people in the theatre anyway. So including us I would say that there was around 20 possibly less that were in the theatre. It has those typical things you expect from a modern day horror movie. Bad acting, a boring and predictable plot and so on and so forth. The only thing that made this movie memorable was probably the deaths. They were so outrageous and gruesome that I think the only reason I remember this movie is because it is probably one of the most gruesome films I have ever watched and I have watched a lot of movies, it’s what I do because that’s basically my weekend. So the freakishly grotesque deaths of these characters will probably be ingrained into my brain forever. Basically the plot was that this girl joins this activist group that want to save the tree forest and some area of land for a tribe in South America. But oh wait after their plane crashes in the middle of the forest and they are taken in by this tribe. You can probably see where I’m going with this, but they are taken in by the tribe, but we quickly find out that this is a tribe of crazy sacrificing cannibals. This movie had all of that typical stuff you see in horror movies but it did successfully the jump scares and things that were cringe worthy pretty down pat. That were a lot of gory scenes in the movie. Looking around in the theater every once in a while people would do the pose where they have their one hand that is all half assed and covering their face. While they are still peeking through their fingertips, refusing to look away from the screen. We watched a late night screening because of the pope visit which basically turned into popeageddon. Basically Philly and the Philly surrounding areas were all on lockdown like it’s a sequel to Kurt Russell’s Escape from New York or the highly anticipated sequel to that Escape from Los Angeles. Philly has been ticketing like crazy as a way to keep the streets clear when the pope comes. Also this weekend I watched the Eagles game where they barely hung on till the very end. There was a lot of dropped passes and the offense still looked out of sync even though they were going up against the Jets. Our defense was pretty good forcing a couple turnovers. Whether that was luck or not I don’t know but I think the Pope coming to Philadelphia was a good luck charm. Just seeing that Brandon Marshall play kind of shown that freak plays and luck might have been on our side. Maybe the scary blood moon gave us some luck? That blood moon looked creepy though. I’m not about that sketchy red moon in the sky. Makes me think that I’ll get attacked by a vampire Wesley Snipes or something. I don’t know, but to conclude that was my week in a nutshell.
Familiar Place
During my typical Sunday especially is that I walk a couple houses down the block to my uncle’s house to watch the Eagles game. Usually it’s a thing that me, my dad, my uncle and two of my cousins who live a couple blocks over, do where we watch the Eagles game. This week my one cousin had to work and the other was out of town in New Jersey doing whatever, so this week it was just me, my dad and my uncle which didn’t last long because I was pretty tired the night before because I the dark abyss of dirt and filth and clothes which is also known as my room I was binge watching Jessica Jones all Saturday night. I stopped late at the episode of Jessica Jones where they blew up the old lady. Yeah, that happened. So this brings me to that Sunday Morning where I wake up. The first thought that comes to my mind is the Jessica Jones series because I have been binge watching all night the previous night before. I flick on the tv to see what was on. It was around 10 o’clock, 10:30 when I actually got up. So I get up go down the steps to go the bathroom, washroom or whatever people call it to wash my face, brush my teeth and do the typical bathroom routine. Then I go back up the to my room and when I go up in the corner of my eye I see my book bag and my green math binder sticking out about a corner of an inch. I look at it for a split second and during that split second the thought of me finishing the 4.3 math homework that I started on Friday, but because I’m just a super lazy person I decided not to. So I get up into my room and I get dressed with the random clothes I find and pick up off the floor because after watching the Eagles game the week before where they lost to the Miami Dolphins I wasn’t really looking forward to watching the game with the Tampa Bay Bucs’ but for me being the dumb Eagles fan as I am I got my hopes up and fooled myself into believing they’ll do well this week. So I got up got a bowl of Trix and sat in the living room and my dad’s cheap ghetto couch and watched tv for a couple of hours. This was around noon and I was so entrenched watching The Leftovers and X-Men Days of Futures Past that I lost track of time and it was about 2 o’clock. I sat on that couch for about 5 minutes before I decided to get my butt up and go over to my uncle’s house to entertain the thought that the Eagles would be doing well. I put on my hoodie and headed out the door which I shouldn’t have done, I should have kept my ass back inside because the weather was brisk. I don’t say brisk often and when I say often I actually mean ever. I am walking to my uncle’s house which is 3 houses over, but it felt like I was walking for an eternity. When I was walking over I looked across the street and in front of my house is a lot and I saw a lone squirrel with his creepy beady eyes crawling up a tree and the random thought that those creepy bastards probably enjoy this cold weather. In about 20 seconds I get to my uncle’s house and go up the steps to go through the front door and I asked my uncle if my dad was there and he wasn’t and said he said that my dad was at the store. I figured that my dad was at the grocery store getting pork chops because he said he’s been having a craving for those for a while. I asked about the Eagles and if they were doing well, but I had this feeling that they were doing terribly and they were because when I looked at the screen they were getting blown out by a team that was the worst in the league last year. My uncle’s hair was disheveled from what I could see because he had a Bermuda cap over his hair. He had this look of disappointment. He only said the few words, “the Eagles suck man” that made me turn around and head back home. The rest of my day was me watching Jessica Jones on my shitty laptop for the rest of the day. Strange Place My Halloween. I actually wasn’t going to do anything for Halloween because I believe that I’m an adult, but my friend Joe was throwing a small Halloween party and I didn’t want to be that guy that said that he couldn’t because I was busy even though I wasn’t busy and doing anything and I didn’t want to lie. This was around 6 or 7 o’clock so it was pretty late and I didn’t have a costume. I’m like, “Fuck, I don’t have a costume and I’m panicking (but not really) about not having a costume because I don’t want to be that dude that goes to a costume party without a costume because that’s kind of an asshole thing to do. So I texted a couple friends of mine who was also going to the party and asked if they had costumes, they did but wanted to go to a costume store to get gloves and other props. So three of my friends meet up and we all pack together in my friend’s Acura and we head on out to the Spirit Halloween Superstore on Baltimore Pike. We get there and It’s like 7:30, 8 o’clock and the place looks baron. Like a hurricane came through or something. There was a small but decent amount of costumes there but not much for variety. A lot of the comic book, Star Wars type of costumes were gone. So I look and look and can’t find anything that gives me interest at all because a lot of the stuff left over were just typical generic costumes. My buddy keeps telling me to just get a mask like a werewolf mask or those creepy killer or zombie masks, but when you put that stuff over your head and on your face it gets really hot on there. On the way there I was thinking about going as Finn or otherwise known as that black dude in the new Star Wars movie. I just didn’t want a costume that would make me feel like I was in a sauna if I was in it. I went over to the right section of the store and scoured this side for costume ideas and I looked and saw that mixed in with some of the generic knight and archer costumes that was right across from the empty Star Wars, and barely existent comic book outfits was a Game of Thrones costume with the Night Watch cloak. I call my buddy over and asked him what did he think of this because going as one if not the most popular character in Game of Thrones Jon Snow would be a good idea. I technically already have the beard and all I would need would be the cloak and a wig and I would be set. My buddy then dropped the bomb that our friend Joe who was throwing the party was already going as Jon Snow from Game of Thrones. Well shit, was the first thought that went through my head, what was I going to do now. But then a look over to my right and see something that looks similar to the house symbol of the Lannister’s in Game of Thrones. So I figured that maybe I could go as one of the Lannister’s and I decided that I can go as Jaime Lannister because the other options like Tyrion and Cersei. Even though Tyrion is personally my favorite character. So I got the knight armor cloak thing with the sigil of the lion on it. I got a sword, a blonde wig and a pair of gloves even though I only needed one because Jaime got his hand cut off. That was about 15 minutes and costed me about 60 bucks. The things I do for friends. Anyway I got dropped off at my place so I could put on my costume which felt weird because the sigil costume was longer then I expected and I’m already short so that doesn’t help much and the blonde wig was really freaking itchy. We planned to all meet up at my friend’s house so we could all carpool and drive to the party. So after I put on my costume I went out and walked to my buddy’s house which was only two blocks away. I could still see some trick or treaters out with their parents but there wasn’t a lot. There was a lot of Star Wars kids which would explain why the Star Wars section of the Halloween store looked ransacked. I get to my buddy’s house and they are all already there waiting on me and so we go to my friend Joe’s party and the rest is history. I don’t really know how to start this. I don’t know how to start this because I’m a type of guy that wants to give someone the benefit of the doubt, but I also want to be informed and I want to know more about the information told to me. Now that brings me to the Republican Debate. I will be honest, I don’t really like any of the Republican candidates mostly because I don’t like their political stances and in the case of Donald Trump he’s a giant massive egomaniacal troll. He’s basically Biff from Back to the Future, but like I said I’m willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. With the recent Republican debate, I might have to tweak and adjust that assessment. Like many people across the US I tuned into the Republican Debate, the main event not the pre-show, and It was not the circus it was during the first debate with the I assume 56 presidential candidates that were there before because now we have I guess like 42? I don’t know, but it’s a lot. It still was a sideshow but an entertaining sideshow that didn’t have me cringing on my couch like the other debate had me doing. But this debate was still a sight to behold because the things they said made me want to smother myself with a pillow. I don’t even know where to start or even how to address the statements that they made that they wanted to further their political argument. I don’t know how to begin. Now before I dig deep into my soul and talk about this…thing I know that people think that the moderators were a little hard on the candidates which I can understand if their talking about a political bias, but if they want to become PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES they will have to take some tough questions. They complained when the debate was on Fox so I just don’t pay any attention to any they say. And I doubt that there is an “agnostic” moderator so Rubio and Cruz…stop bitching.
I’m going to start with what Carly Fiorina said about the 92%, yes I said 92%, I repeat THE 92% of the supposed job losses in President Obama’s first term belonged to women. Which was false because Mitt Romney tried to use that same argument during his presidential campaign and that was debunked three years ago. Ted Cruz also said something that was untrue when he said women’s wages have declined under Obama, when in fact the latest figures show their wages have increased. Donald Trump said that he never had criticized Marco Rubio and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg which also turned out to be false because he did criticize them both and the proof is ON HIS WEBSITE!!! The cojones that this guy has to be so bold and spew complete and utter bullshit is remarkable. And people buy it which makes it even more crazy. He also claimed that he was 100 percent self-funding his entire campaign. Which is also bullshit because MORE than HALF of the money from his campaign was raised from his supporters’ contributions. Ben Carson, who by the way sounds like he smoked too much pot who is that calm no one is that calm and relaxed it’s impossible his quiet voice gets on my nerves because it sounds like he’s talking in slow motion, maybe he has peanut butter in his mouth, but anyway he said that it was “total propaganda” to say he was involved with a controversial nutritional supplement company, but he appeared in promotional videos for the company, praising their products. Ben Carson was also the one that said that under the Nazis, "German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance." This is a misreading of history on two levels. First, German citizens as a whole were not disarmed by the Nazis. Jews and other supposed enemies of the state were subject to having their weapons seized. But for most German citizens, the Nazi period was one in which gun regulations were loosened, not tightened. Second, a lack of guns was not the issue. If the majority of Germans had wanted to use these guns to fight the Nazis, they could have. But they didn’t. Carson ignores that the Nazis enjoyed significant popular support, or at least, broad acquiescence. Third, the Jewish citizens having weapons most likely wouldn’t have done anything because we’re talking about the same Nazi regime that took over France in about a month in a half. “The Battle of France” 10 May – 25 June 1940 (1 month and 15 days) which was a decisive victory where France had to surrender. So yeah Carson is full of shit too. Along with everyone else like Rubio who claimed that CNBC’s John Harwood was wrong that a Tax Foundation analysis of his tax plan found those in the top 1 percent of earners would get nearly twice the gain as those in the middle. Rubio would have been right if he wasn’t wrong and that Harwood was actually right, and that’s on a percentage basis. So in conclusion they are all full of shit and so let’s never do this again. |
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