Late Thanks-Giving

This post is about what I'm thankful for. But before I start the tested, tried, and proven formulaic "I'm thankful for etc. etc.", I must say, Thanksgiving, along with Christmas (which had it's roots in Paganism) has become WAY TOO COMERCIALIZED to be called a religious celebration anymore. If you go to a monestary and pray, well you're just crazy. But if you go out and buy stuff, as most of you do, then you can't claim that these are religious anymore!

Anyway. I'm thankful for my friends; without them, I would have jumped off a cliff long ago. I feel as if I can tell them anything and they won't judge me. I am really glad I have Lucas and Tom and Claire to add some humor to my life and I'm glad that I have everyone else that I trust. Thanks.

I am also thankful for my school and my teachers. They have (it may not seem so for some of you) provided me with my future. Without them, I would never have developed my skills, I would never have had the resources to do anything that I've done. I'm thankful for all of you who've taught me anything. (that excludes Mr. Curran because I learned everything that we learned about in the first quarter by reading a chapter of a book I have at home.)

I am thankful for a family that accepts me for who I am: a pain in the neck. I can be REALLY annoying, and yet, the seem to still love me!

And last but DEFINITELY not least: I am thankful for my dogs and my lizards. The love me unconditionaly and the are always in a good mood. I can go to them when everyone else shuts me out.

Au Revoir

All Hope is Not Lost! Oh Wait, Yes It Is....

Yesterday I went to the "Save the Petroglyphs" March on the West Side of Albuquerque. "Officialy" I went as part of Youth Radio (I did have a flash recorder and stuff...) but I really believe in this cause and I think it's sad that through our own greed and aparent lust for huge things we are about to destry one of the greatest, coolest places in New Mexico! I realize that many of you don't know what the heck I'm talking about. I'll give you some background, or rather, these links will:
Petroglyph Nat'l Monument
Even more info

Now that you have read (you did read them right?) all that information I just provided to you, we can continue.

The march probably had about 300-600 people attend and march. I was right in the middle and I would have chanted but for the darn flash recorder and law suit. We walked about 4 miles and stopped three times to hear speeches about how we need to keep these Petroglyphs. I live near Paseo Del Norte, the road that Mayor Marty and his chums want to extend into this work of art. As we walked, I saw several Wal-Marts (your source for cheap plastic crap), a Smiths, and a Walgreens. All these companies are trying to cut themselves a piece of the pumpkin pie; pumpkin pie made with colored rocks! The city has alledgedly ignored certain rules that it must follow, including the rule about government-to-government talks that are supposed to take place between the city and the many Native American nations that have their symbols engraved on the stones and boulders here. Tribes from as far as Alaska and Hawaii have recognized their characteristic markings here. I don't think that any of this is fair for anyone: the West-Siders will have to endure more traffic, the rest of us will have to endure more West-Siders, and the Indian nations will lose an historic site hundreds of years old! Take up action and call Mayor Marty or a city counselor to voice your displeasure if you feel so moved by my post (which is doubtful).

Updates to follow, hopefully.....

Picture-Mania!!!

These two goodlooking chaps are the techies from the show MI-5 (Spooks). Malcom (right) and Colin (left) are easily the coolest guys on the grid. 

Yummy....

Tasty looking, huh? 

I am not dead.

I feel guilty about not blogging for a while...I'm sure no one missed my commentaries, but if it makes me feel better.....

I am really sleepy right now, after staying up 'till midnight watching Harry Potter 4 on opening day. I went to the movie with Josh LB, Matt, Claire, Tracy, Emma, and Billy. It was a good movie but the ending was a major dissapointment. The movie also strayed from the book in several places and the beginning was way too rushed. The only way I followed it was going through the book in my mind. Rupert Grindt (Ron Weasly) is a good actor but Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and....that guy who plays harry....forgot his name....were not so good. The man who plays lord voldemort is a really good actor, though. There was also more "British Humor" in this one, as opposed to the other 3 Harry Potter movies. Maybe this has something to do with the British Director who's new to the series.

I went to KUNM today to do the children's hour and we played a cut by Weird Al called Ebay. It was really funny to listen to. We also listed the top ten most dangerous toys of 2005. You'd be surprised at some of them.

Anyway. That's all the news that I Want To Tell You About On The Freaking Internet. All's Quiet on the Southwestern front. Goodnight, Baghdad.

I'm Back!!!

Texas was fun, I guess. The Lubbock Country Club is a very nice establishment, and all, and I really got some good reading in. Oh, and I saw a Monty Python's Flying Circus marathon (Pythonathon) on BBC America. That was quite funny. And now, I am so bored, waiting for an email from Blake, the tech guy here at JMS, about a Strata 3D installation. Computers are really quite nice but they often screw up and that's annoying. I missed checking my email less than I actually thought I would, those four days without my computer. I suppose reading about Mormons and watching Monty Python sedated my brain enough to not notice. Oh well. I'm back.

I Am Dead To The World.

I am going on vacation tomorrow, so I will not be blogging for a wile because I am going to Texas! *Flash!* *Bang!* *Boom!* And I will not have access to the internet. So I suppose I am going "accross the road". (Inside Joke) But anyhow. Amuse yourselves while I am gone by going to kinkyfriedman.com and watching his flash animation ad for governor of Texas over and over and over again. The find Eric Griego's and watch THAT. That should keep you. And if it doesn't, fly to Texas and I will blog orally to you. Should that not work, jump off a bridge, there is no life ahead for you. And if you survive, you are the devil and should be worshiped. But anyway. Bye.

More Radio!!!

So, as you *might* have heard (but probably not) I was music director for our latest Youth Radio production. I played some cool music, like Jonathon Richman and the Modern Lovers playing "Double Chocolate Malted" and Flogging Molly playing "Selfish Man". The production itself went very well, but it was what happened before that annoys me.

So, Luis, Meena, and I were producing a promo, a cart, an ad, for Youth Radio because we were bored and we were done with our tasks. Luis had a really cool idea and so Meena and I said we would help him make it. There was this part on a song that said, "This is the absolutely bestest, coolest production I have evvvvvveeeeeerrrrr seen." and stuff like that. Then we all said "Youth Radio, Youth Radio, Youth Radio!" but not in unison. It sounded really cool over music. Then we put me in the background asking "Aren't you going to say Sundays at 7?" and then Luis says "Oh, yeah. Suuuuunnnnnnddddaaaayyyyys (then me) aaaaaattttt (then Luis) ssssseeeeevvvvvveeeeennnn (then me) ooooonnnnnn (then Meena) KUNM. Then we used this thing with Luis saying "I've got a cup on my head..." in a really weird voice. It turned out to be a REALLY cool promo and I had to edit it right down to the milisecond because it was really packed full of stuff. then we showed it to Roberta and Tracy and a bunch of other people and they said "Wow! Cool promo you guys!" and everything was cool.

But no, not in Youth Radio, it could not be cool. NOTHING CAN BE COOL WITH EVERYONE!!! So we did the run through, and we did well, then Roberta started talking about our promo. She said that we needed to have EVERYONE in it saying "Youth Radio!" and that we needed to be more "collective-minded". We said that in order for a collective to work, individuals need to contribute, not just the entire collective voting on voting on something and then voting on whether or not we should accept that vote and so on and so forth...We need some INDIVIDUAL contributions. Roberta seems to think that a collective is ONE person, not many people working together. Then I, being the person who engineered this promo, told her that it would take a while to record all the people and then reedit it

It has been a long time.....Yes....a long time.

The title of this post comes from an assignment given by Mrs. Kircher in which we had to take a picture that she had and write a narrative about it. Mine was about three birds talking about taking over the world and then one of them starts singing, the other screams at him, the former dies of exaustion, and the other one breaks his neck. The third bird was just a conversation starter.

But it remains true, I haven't posted in a long while. I suppose it's like a vacation that I didn't intend to take. Oh well. I am begining to wonder if anyone actually reads this...Also, I was talking to a certain anonomous friend of mine about blogs and he said that they are too popular and everyone has one and what the heck is the point?! I think he has some good points, but I also think that blogging is good. I mean, the 99.7% of blogs that have one post and are never posted to again, are like old Windows copies, you love it at first, then find out it's too darn unconvienient and buggy, and eventuall move on. But those of us who are too stubborn to give into the temptation of letting it slip blog. Wow, that was a long explaination. Oh well.

School is going well, I am bored, but what can one expect? In the case of Computer Graphics, I know more than the teacher. But that's because I got private lesson-like-things from Andrew Stone, the guy who coded the software we use. First period, Social Studies is.....erm....entertaining. I don't learn anything, we spent and entire period today watching people (our classmates) prance around in funny costumes to crazy, Curranized music. Yeah. But right now, I'm teaching myself about the history of Mormonism by reading "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. It is a scary subject, to be sure, but it's more interesting than what we're "learning" in school. Language Arts is a good subject this year, I am challenged, I am enlightened and I have fun doing the assignments! (This comming from the guy who says "Throw grammer out the window!" and stuff like that). Literature is fun, as always, but the latest Seminar (Seminar is a kind of thing where all three grades converge on one room for a week and disscus issues of importance, such as Iraq, food, icecream, and the tricentenial.) on Albuquerque's 300th birthday has turned out to be a drag. We COULD do a bunch of fun activities, instead, it's "sit down, watch a movie, and copy some stuff off a paper." BORING!!! But no, we don't get a cool Seminar like that.....oh well.

Halloween was a big success, candy-wise. I got a LOT of candy, I'm loving it. Hahaha. McDonald's sucks.

Bye. I'm going to go read about crazy, crack-pot polygamists now.