Here's a story I wrote:
Gooba and Rextor
Gooba got on his T-Rex named Rextor and strapped himself in the saddle and Gooba and Rextor fought a whole pack of saber tooth tigers because Rextor can actually breathe fire so he just roasted them all. There were 14 saber tooth tigers. Then a whole bunch of wooly mammoths came but Rextor and Gooba beat them up too. Then Rextor was thirsty because breathing fire makes his throat so thirsty a lot so Gooba and Rextor journeyed to the sea and Rextor almost drank the whole sea! It was crazy! Then all the fish were mad at Rextor because they didn’t have as much water as they used to so the fish were crowded. They still had a lot of water but not as much as they wanted.
The End
Friday, February 29, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Movies
I've seen a few movies in the theatres lately.
I saw Juno and I enjoyed it. It was very original. At first the obviously scripted dialogue bugged me and some other stuff bugged me too. But as the story went on, I ended up liking the movie.
I saw Jumper and it was super lame. Oh, it was terrible. So bad. Don't see it.
I saw Persepolis and it was great. Very interesting and thought provoking. Some of the parts bugged me, and it lacked a great plot flow, but the animation was beautiful and the subject matter was just great. Out of these three movies, I recommend Persepolis the most.
But none of these new movies compare with Spartacus or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Star Wars or the Wizard of Oz.
Oh yeah, I also saw Enchanted and really liked it. Every now and then I need to see a musical.
I saw Juno and I enjoyed it. It was very original. At first the obviously scripted dialogue bugged me and some other stuff bugged me too. But as the story went on, I ended up liking the movie.
I saw Jumper and it was super lame. Oh, it was terrible. So bad. Don't see it.
I saw Persepolis and it was great. Very interesting and thought provoking. Some of the parts bugged me, and it lacked a great plot flow, but the animation was beautiful and the subject matter was just great. Out of these three movies, I recommend Persepolis the most.
But none of these new movies compare with Spartacus or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Star Wars or the Wizard of Oz.
Oh yeah, I also saw Enchanted and really liked it. Every now and then I need to see a musical.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Judges 2:13-14
In my very first post on Telemoonfa Time, I said, "I'll try to write well and think well about important things." It occurred to me that a very important thing, if not the most important thing, is religion.
That having been said, I've decided to offer my own commentary on the Scriptures on this blog, at least for today. Keep in mind that I do not officially represent the views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I do not represent the views of anyone divine.
Here's a verse in the Bible I just came upon:
Judges 2:13-14. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
One of the things I love about the Bible is that it offers both history and principles. (For example, the story of the exodus is history, and the Ten Commandments are principles.) It's interesting to read a proverb like “pride goeth before the fall,” and then to read about prideful kings or nations fall. Judges 2:13-14 is an example of history.
But sometimes the principles don’t match up so nicely with the history, though. Why don’t they? If God is perfect, why does there sometimes seem to be incongruities between what God says he will do and what He actually does? Good question. Many people have wondered about this. Here’s my answer: I think history and principles don’t mesh perfectly because history only covers this short mortal earth-life, whereas principles are eternal. A long long long time from now, I believe, we will all understand that the Judge of all the earth has done right.
Simply, though, Judges 2:13-14 talks about something easy to understand. When Israel is obedient to God’s commands, Israel prospers. When Israel is disobedient to God’s commands, Israel dwindles.
Another thing, though, the verse doesn’t just say something karma-ish and wishy-washy like, “Do a bunch of nice things and nice things will be done to you.” The verse describes the LORD as a being capable of action and as a being involved in the lives of humans. In Judges 2:13-14, God is directly, actively punishing the Israelites. The verse says that God “sold them into the hands of their enemies.” Thus we see that is capable of and has a history of punishing people. He’s punished others; maybe he’ll punish you.
I must warn you, though, it’s hard to pin certain things on God. It’s hard to say exactly what he did and didn’t do. There are some things that he actively does, and other things he just allows to happen.
Reading and thinking about the Scriptures is a good thing to do.
Have a nice day.
That having been said, I've decided to offer my own commentary on the Scriptures on this blog, at least for today. Keep in mind that I do not officially represent the views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I do not represent the views of anyone divine.
Here's a verse in the Bible I just came upon:
Judges 2:13-14. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
One of the things I love about the Bible is that it offers both history and principles. (For example, the story of the exodus is history, and the Ten Commandments are principles.) It's interesting to read a proverb like “pride goeth before the fall,” and then to read about prideful kings or nations fall. Judges 2:13-14 is an example of history.
But sometimes the principles don’t match up so nicely with the history, though. Why don’t they? If God is perfect, why does there sometimes seem to be incongruities between what God says he will do and what He actually does? Good question. Many people have wondered about this. Here’s my answer: I think history and principles don’t mesh perfectly because history only covers this short mortal earth-life, whereas principles are eternal. A long long long time from now, I believe, we will all understand that the Judge of all the earth has done right.
Simply, though, Judges 2:13-14 talks about something easy to understand. When Israel is obedient to God’s commands, Israel prospers. When Israel is disobedient to God’s commands, Israel dwindles.
Another thing, though, the verse doesn’t just say something karma-ish and wishy-washy like, “Do a bunch of nice things and nice things will be done to you.” The verse describes the LORD as a being capable of action and as a being involved in the lives of humans. In Judges 2:13-14, God is directly, actively punishing the Israelites. The verse says that God “sold them into the hands of their enemies.” Thus we see that is capable of and has a history of punishing people. He’s punished others; maybe he’ll punish you.
I must warn you, though, it’s hard to pin certain things on God. It’s hard to say exactly what he did and didn’t do. There are some things that he actively does, and other things he just allows to happen.
Reading and thinking about the Scriptures is a good thing to do.
Have a nice day.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Mr. Giroux
Sometimes I get tired of academic stuff. Here's part of an entertaining response paper I wrote for a class a while back that expresses my frustration with academic stuff. Enjoy.
Look, I Wrote a Paper Just For You, Mr. Giroux; Make Some Snide Comment About its Unprofessionalism, Why Don’t You?
Recently I read the article, “Reading Texts, Literacy, and Textual Authority,” by Henry A. Giroux. First of all, I found it difficult to understand...
Nice job using “Teachers of English” instead of “English teachers”, Mr. Giroux, you Latin-studying very very very intellectual gentleman. It sounds so academic; I’m sure your alcoholic father would be proud.
I don’t totally understand where you’re coming from, Mr. Giroux, when you say, “This means understanding the limits of our own language as well as the implications of the social practices we construct on the basis of the language we use to exercise authority and power.” But I’m sure, Mr. Giroux, that you must be a communist.
Giroux quotes other authors profusely. I’ve noticed that high-class academia-people usually do that, of course with always the correct citation form. How many years of graduate school did it take you, Mr. Giroux, Huh? How many years of graduate school did it take you to learn correct citation and get with the proper stuff and say the proper stuff? Quit hiding behind your PHD, Giroux. Confront me one on one, like a man! Take your shirt off and get inside the dirt circle with me! Hate to break it to you, Mr. Giroux, but they don’t provide vegetable trays and punch where I’m gonna take you!
Of course I really just wanna be like you, Mr. Giroux. What do you think I’m in college for? What do ya think I’m reading all these namby-pamby classics for? Cuz I like ‘em? Wrong! It’s cuz I wanna write a dissertation the way you wrote a dissertation. An’ I wanna move my tassel to the other side just like you moved your tassel to the other side an’ I wanna sit with high degree holders and get drunk off of expensive wine an’ complain that society is hurting everybody and I wanna get my name on a plaque n’ get my name on a certificate n’ communicate via very technological technology like an electronic video holographic web cast or something an’ I wanna slowly smoke and slowly sip booze just like you do an’ I wanna leave my wife and leave my kids and curse the day I was born, just like you do, every night, Mr. Giroux. Every night when you’re alone in a cashmere bathrobe, Mr. Giroux. When your alone and cursing, hanging your head down and breaking glass bottles on your living room floor an’ I wanna be just like that. Just like that, Mr. Giroux. Just like that.
You’re alone, Mr. Giroux. You’re alone and cursing and your textile-mill-working father is dead.
Look, I Wrote a Paper Just For You, Mr. Giroux; Make Some Snide Comment About its Unprofessionalism, Why Don’t You?
Recently I read the article, “Reading Texts, Literacy, and Textual Authority,” by Henry A. Giroux. First of all, I found it difficult to understand...
Nice job using “Teachers of English” instead of “English teachers”, Mr. Giroux, you Latin-studying very very very intellectual gentleman. It sounds so academic; I’m sure your alcoholic father would be proud.
I don’t totally understand where you’re coming from, Mr. Giroux, when you say, “This means understanding the limits of our own language as well as the implications of the social practices we construct on the basis of the language we use to exercise authority and power.” But I’m sure, Mr. Giroux, that you must be a communist.
Giroux quotes other authors profusely. I’ve noticed that high-class academia-people usually do that, of course with always the correct citation form. How many years of graduate school did it take you, Mr. Giroux, Huh? How many years of graduate school did it take you to learn correct citation and get with the proper stuff and say the proper stuff? Quit hiding behind your PHD, Giroux. Confront me one on one, like a man! Take your shirt off and get inside the dirt circle with me! Hate to break it to you, Mr. Giroux, but they don’t provide vegetable trays and punch where I’m gonna take you!
Of course I really just wanna be like you, Mr. Giroux. What do you think I’m in college for? What do ya think I’m reading all these namby-pamby classics for? Cuz I like ‘em? Wrong! It’s cuz I wanna write a dissertation the way you wrote a dissertation. An’ I wanna move my tassel to the other side just like you moved your tassel to the other side an’ I wanna sit with high degree holders and get drunk off of expensive wine an’ complain that society is hurting everybody and I wanna get my name on a plaque n’ get my name on a certificate n’ communicate via very technological technology like an electronic video holographic web cast or something an’ I wanna slowly smoke and slowly sip booze just like you do an’ I wanna leave my wife and leave my kids and curse the day I was born, just like you do, every night, Mr. Giroux. Every night when you’re alone in a cashmere bathrobe, Mr. Giroux. When your alone and cursing, hanging your head down and breaking glass bottles on your living room floor an’ I wanna be just like that. Just like that, Mr. Giroux. Just like that.
You’re alone, Mr. Giroux. You’re alone and cursing and your textile-mill-working father is dead.
Feather Flak
This following is an idea I have for a zine!
Feather Flak: A ‘zine for ducks by ducks
Zine Theme:
Bunches of ducks talk, usually angrily, about duck life.
Zine Format:
Printed on water-proof paper. And if we can’t find water-proof paper, we’ll just print it on regular paper and then laminate every page. This zine needs to be accessable to our water-dwelling audience. And Feather Flak will have an authentic duck feather attached to every issue, along with a certificate of authenticity, signed by the governor of Arizona. And there’ll be lots of pictures of real ducks doing real duck things.
Materials Needed:
Real duck feathers.
The governor of Arizona. (to sign the certificates of authenticity)
Water proof paper, or, a laminating machine.
“Howard the Duck” on DVD or VHS
Several episodes of “Duck Tales”
Scientific duck magazines.
A duck call.
Candles, mood music, mood lighting, and duck costumes.
Preparation:
We’ll need to get in touch with nature. We’ll spend some time outside, associating with real live ducks. Also, we should read scientific duck magazines. Also, we should all watch the movie “Howard the Duck” and several episodes of “Duck Tales”, to help us see how pop culture has exploited and manipulated these majestic creatures of the once-peaceful pond. After the research, we’ll get into duck-mode by pretending that we’re ducks and then we’ll attempt to speak for the ducks. And, for some of the articles, we won’t even translate duck language, Quacklish, into English, to preserve the natural outcry of our friends of down. For example, the following poem, which was originally recorded in the wilderness and was performed orally by a noble turquoise mallard, will be reproduced in print form in the first issue of Feather Flak:
Quack Quack
Quaaaaaack Quack Quaaaaaack
Quack Quack Quaaaack
Quaaaaaaaaack Quaaaaaaaack
Quaaaack Quaaaaack Quack Quack
Quaaaaaack Quack Quaaaaaack
Quack Quack Quaaaack
Quaaaaaaaaack Quaaaaaaaack
Quaaaack Quaaaaack Quack Quack
Quack
And we’ll play lots of angry rock music while we write articles!
Feather Flak: A ‘zine for ducks by ducks
Zine Theme:
Bunches of ducks talk, usually angrily, about duck life.
Zine Format:
Printed on water-proof paper. And if we can’t find water-proof paper, we’ll just print it on regular paper and then laminate every page. This zine needs to be accessable to our water-dwelling audience. And Feather Flak will have an authentic duck feather attached to every issue, along with a certificate of authenticity, signed by the governor of Arizona. And there’ll be lots of pictures of real ducks doing real duck things.
Materials Needed:
Real duck feathers.
The governor of Arizona. (to sign the certificates of authenticity)
Water proof paper, or, a laminating machine.
“Howard the Duck” on DVD or VHS
Several episodes of “Duck Tales”
Scientific duck magazines.
A duck call.
Candles, mood music, mood lighting, and duck costumes.
Preparation:
We’ll need to get in touch with nature. We’ll spend some time outside, associating with real live ducks. Also, we should read scientific duck magazines. Also, we should all watch the movie “Howard the Duck” and several episodes of “Duck Tales”, to help us see how pop culture has exploited and manipulated these majestic creatures of the once-peaceful pond. After the research, we’ll get into duck-mode by pretending that we’re ducks and then we’ll attempt to speak for the ducks. And, for some of the articles, we won’t even translate duck language, Quacklish, into English, to preserve the natural outcry of our friends of down. For example, the following poem, which was originally recorded in the wilderness and was performed orally by a noble turquoise mallard, will be reproduced in print form in the first issue of Feather Flak:
Quack Quack
Quaaaaaack Quack Quaaaaaack
Quack Quack Quaaaack
Quaaaaaaaaack Quaaaaaaaack
Quaaaack Quaaaaack Quack Quack
Quaaaaaack Quack Quaaaaaack
Quack Quack Quaaaack
Quaaaaaaaaack Quaaaaaaaack
Quaaaack Quaaaaack Quack Quack
Quack
And we’ll play lots of angry rock music while we write articles!
Boots Sure Are Good at Smashin’
Boots Sure Are Good at Smashin’
Boots can smash anything
Bugs twigs dirt pinecones branches mud ants leaves anthills snake holes
But especially cat tails, man-
I stepped on one the other day
smash MEOW!
huh huh huh
I don’t try to be cruel
but my boots’re big
And sometimes like now! they gotta smash!
huh huh huh
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)