stupid items

I found an item called the sarcastic ball, it is a spoof from the magic eight ball. The magic eight ball gives answers to the questions you ask it, this ball not only doesn't answer your question, but it gives you attitude along with it. It has responses like "ask if I care" and "yeah right." There is no point to this ball; I'm sure they made it to make people laugh, but it's not even funny. Their selling point is "some of us need a little abuse now and then. If no one is there to dish it out, the sarcastic ball will do nicely." I always enjoy someone verbally abusing me.

Movie

I missed the beginning of the movie, so all I saw (remember) from the movie is that they put a band together, try out at a studio, they liked it, and the lead singer fell for the keyboard player. The movie was alright, I liked the songs that they played, they sounded good. Nothing really stood out about the movie though.

I think the movies are better than doing assignments in class, but I don't find the movies informative. It is nice to relax and watch a movie, but I feel like we watch them to just fill the time. They do not give insight to the next paper we are writing.

Toys

When I was a kid I loved to play with anything that you could pretend like they are fighting each other. The toys that I most liked to fight was with power rangers. I loved to get all the power ranger toys, the good and the bad, and have them fight. That's all I ever wanted for birthdays or Christmas. Anytime I blew out my candles on my cake or throw a coin into the wishing well, i would always wish that I had every power ranger toy. I don't know why I liked them over any other toy, but I didn't really play with other action figures. I don't believe my parents ever told me to stop playing with them, I just eventually became to old for them and went on to the next thing. My guess would be around the time that sports came into my life is when I stopped playing with them.

tv shows

I used to watch a lot of tv shows, any new reality show that looked interesting, and many sitcoms. But there is not much on anymore. I watch one show on a regular basis. I don't know if it's because the age I am at or what, but nothing seems to interest me anymore. One show I used to always watch, and still do when they have re-runs is "Friends". That is my favorite tv show. Anybody can like that show, doesn't matter if you are a guy or girl, old or young (not too young though). I just really liked the humor they used. It seems like in shows today, you can tell that they are trying to be funny, and in "Friends", the jokes just seemed to go smoother. It is hard to explain what I am trying to say, it just seemed more real in "Friends". I don't need to sell the show "Friends" to anybody, it was, and still is a very popular show, one of the best of all time.

emotion

There are not many things I get excited about, I have real high standards, for something to be great. But when I go to a Twins playoff game, I can not sit still. I am a huge twins fan and I go to a lot of games, but the playoffs are so different. Every seat in the stadium is fill, all of which are screaming and waving their homer hankies. Every pitch, every hit means something. If you get a run, if you give up a run, it is a very big deal. So I'm at this game and the twins are having a hard time scoring, they are down 2-0 in the 6th inning. Then Cuddyer comes up and hits a homerun, and I stand up and clap, but it is only one, we still need to get another. As we are still standing, the next pitch comes and Morneau crushes into the upper deck for another homerun. I have never had a better feeling than that. Now I am not someone who shows a lot of emotion, but I was jumping up and down, I was screaming, I felt great. The twins ended up losing the game and the series, but it was still a lot of fun.

Advertisements

I try not to watch ads, on tv, whenever I can, I flip through stations when it leaves for commercial. But when I do, I would say the ads don't effect me much. I never see an ad and say "I have to have that", maybe if a restaurant was having a good deal or something, but rarely. I don't like how advertising is taking over, they are everywhere now. Anywhere that you can fit an ad, it will be there. I heard that eventually all sports uniforms will have a company's ad or several company's somewhere that people will see it, and that just doesn't seem right. Someday schools will be named after a company. Will there ever come a time when enough is enough?

Obama/King

Some similar things between the two speeches is that they were both hard to read and very long. But they both focused on the struggle it has been for African-Americans previous to their speeches, and how they would like to change that for the future. Obama's focused more on his life, not just as a black man but a mixed man and how that was growing up. Being raised as a Muslim and then moving to Christianity later in life. How his pastor, at his local church, was very controversial in the fact that his sermons were very negative to the United States. But Obama still stands behind his pastor. He talked about not only helping the African-American group, but all different groups all over the world, because his family is so mixed.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech was more like a history lesson, comparing historical figures like Socrates, Hitler, or different reverends. Just comparing them to situations that African-Americans go through. Or historical events like the Boston Tea Party. He also mentioned that we need to improve the churches or America by capturing the sacrificial spirit of the early churches. And if we don't, people might turn to a different leader.
Both speeches are saying that they want to improve the life of the American-American people, we have come a long ways since Martin Luther King, Jr. made his speech, but there is still speeches for equal rights for blacks. Maybe not so much for equal rights, but just for respect, because their is still a lot of racist people in this world. And we have a long ways to go before we can eliminate that hatred, if we ever can.