Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Little Loop Too Little For Me

Dear Little Loop Football,


               Breaking up with you was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. We had the best time together. All of my fondest memories were with you. You've always been a huge part of my life. It seemed like I would spend months at a time with you. Me and you were perfect together. It was love. Then everything changed...
                You started to become more childish, while I was maturing. I wanted to do things that I couldn't do with you. While I wanted to take things to the next level, you didn't seem like you could handle it. We both knew that this couldn't last much longer and that the way that things have been was coming to an end. That last year had some of the best memories, but it came with some tension as well. Things were drawing to an end and we both knew it, but we didn't want to end. It caused a lot of different emotions. We were going in two opposite directions. I had grown too old for you, so eventually we parted ways.
                  Things haven't been the same since we've split. Everything was more innocent and fun, carefree almost. I've never spent time with something as much as I did with you. I had so much more confidence with you, and now that's gone as well. Even though things aren't the same, I'm glad things are still good between us. Were still really great friends. We still see each other all the time, and I'm always glad to visit you and help you out when you're in trouble. Even though things weren't what they use to be and will never be again, I'm glad were still good friends.





                 

Monday, January 14, 2013

Revenge At Its Most Menacing

I guarantee that you have seen revenge in some way at some time in your life. Revenge has always been around, since the beginning of time, usually ending up with someone dead. It's also been a favorite to use revenge in many TV shows and movies. In Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare, revenge is one of the main themes. When Hamlet finds out that his uncle,  Claudius had killed his father to become king and marry Hamlet's mother, he plans to kill Claudius in revenge for his father.  But revenge doesn't always have to involve someone being injured or killed. Sometimes it's just plain funny, or just completely annoying for the other person. These acts of revenge can be priceless(For everyone except the person in which it's towards).
                  How many times has this happened to you? A group of Jehovah's Witnesses (Or any church group for that matter), has come to your door with pamphlets and brochures hoping to turn you to their church and usually end up wasting your time or coming at the wrong times. Well for a British woman named Jane White it happened...every month...for about twelve years. Eventually, she got fed up with it. So she came up with a plan to return the favor. She decided to go to their church, and after a few minutes of knocking on the door during the middle of their service, she was let in. For the next thirty minutes, she went on talking about her religion and handing out pamphlets until one of the members called the police. But the message was sent pretty loud and clear. Guess what happened after that? They never came back to her house again.
               Another funny act of revenge was when a college freshman named Mark Bao got his computer stolen. Lucky enough for Mark, he was really good with computers. He was able to play around and remotely access the computer and see what his thief has done on his computer. Unfortunately for the thief, he found some videos of the thief dancing to music. Making it even more embarrassing, Mark uploaded the video above on Youtube. And it wasn't one of those videos that got only a few videos. This video got almost two million views.
                   Revenge can be delivered in many ways. It could either end up in death like in Hamlet, or it can be like these and just be embarrassing and annoying for the other person (As well as funny for the rest of us).
                           

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Stewart and Colbert Makes 11pm The Hour of Satire

           I honestly cannot think of two better examples of modern satire than the comedy of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I mean, their satire is just clever and  extremely funny. So it couldn't be any better that all of this satirical comedy could be jam packed into one hour!
            Jon Stewart's show The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday  at 11pm on Comedy Central, followed by Colbert's show The Colbert Report at 11:30pm. They usually make fun of today's politics using a style of comedy that is a parody of news media networks, such as Fox News and CNN.   As it shows every night, they are never short on material. It's also no wonder that they are both great at  what they do. Strangely enough, Colbert got his start on The Daily Show and eventually got his own show a few years later.
            Although they both poke fun at politics and the media, they both approach it differently. The Daily Show mainly is a parody for news media in general, satirizing the media and how they handle politics. Here's a clip showing what parts of the show are really like.
           The Colbert Report kind of touches the same idea, except he is satirizing Conservative Political pundits, and at points it makes you feel like he is one (He's that good playing the role). Don't believe me, check it out for yourself.