What qualities must a good friend have?
Submitted by Alexandra.There's saying: "A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a real friend will be sitting next to you saying '&@#$, that was fun!"
Hey peeps! It's time for me to give a long and nerdy review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. While I think it was all in all really great, I do have some criticism. My main annoyance is that they skimped the funeral and the siege of Hogwarts. To keep things PG they cut the cruelty of the Death Eaters,and poor Bill's wounds. All they had was killing Dumbledore and burning Hagrid's hut. The Death Eaters acted more like naughty teenagers rather than the most deranged and dangerous witches and wizards in the world. Other than that, it was good. Some people complain of the amount of relationship drama and the Ron-Hermione-Lavender love triangle, and that is a valid vexation, but at least it was done with the proper awkwardness and confusion appropriate for the situation, unlike certain Vampire-Teen romances and yes I'm looking at you Twilight. So, in conclusion, I really liked it, despite its faults. I particularly liked the setup, the Pensieve, and the acting of those under the affects of certain potions (e.g. Ron in love and Harry using Felix)
Greetings and welcome to another edition of The Human Safari. In this episode we will be delving into the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer. WARNING: Contains spoilers!! The series begins when Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, WA. She doesn't like there until she meets the incredibly attractive Edward Cullen. Let's stop right there and have a character analysis of Edward Cullen. You know from the back of the book that Edward is a vampire. That means he is really strong, eternally young, drinks blood, really fast, and really sexy. He is also emotionally abusive and obsessive. Yes, I am prepared for hundreds of teenage girls to throw rocks at me, but that doesn't change my opinion. Edward isn't all that. He is n empty vessel into which we can stuff our hopes and dreams, but in the end he will only disappoint because no one but yourself will ever fill the holes inside of you. Also, when I say emotionally abusive, I mean emotionally abusive. Over the course of the series Edward abandons Bella to protect her from him and his family. Even though he and his family are "vegetarian vampires", which means they only slaughter innocent animals (Barfs in mouth), they still want to kill her. So Bella is entirely reliant on Edward because they're "made for each other" Edward leaves her and takes all traces of his existence with him. After several months of wandering about with no memory of anything she does, Bella wakes up from her sort of trance and realizes that she hears Edward's voice in her head when she is about to do something stupid. So of course she begins doing incredibly stupid things just to hear his voice, including jumping of cliffs and learning to ride a motorcycle. And all during this time she becomes emotionally attached to Jacob Black, an American Indian boy a bit younger than herself. But then when Edward returns to Forks Bella totally drops Jacob like a baby giraffe and returns to the abusive Edward. Edward and Jacob have a competition not only because they both desire Bella, but also because Jacob is a werewolf and werewolves and vampires are natural enemies. Also, Bella describes herself as plain, average, and awkward, yet when she moves to Forks five boys (Including Jacob and Edward) become very flirtatious with her. She also specifies more than once that she is exactly one-hundred-and-ten pounds (Below is a SisterSalad video that goes deeper into that subject.) The Twilight saga, as a book series, is just plain poorly-written. Example: Meyer uses the word "Masochist" way too often, and not just when it's someone like Edward, who is meant to speak differently than your average high-schooler, is talking, but when someone like Jacob is talking. Well, that about sums up my views. If I think of more I'll post again. Toodles,
Comic Scholar
Lopes sorry I haven't written in a while. His name is John Hank Norbert Wiener Bubbles the Nerdfighting Betta Bis. Quite a name for a little fish, eh? Well any way he is really happy healthy and extremely lucky. He is really happy with his 15 gallon home. He is a White/gold betta with beautiful blue and blue green stripes on his fins. well here are some pictures...
So I guess everybody is pretty much neglecting their voxes, because they are to busy with Youtube and Facebook! I am really bored right now!! And I want to go to Friendlys and get a free Ice cream cone!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess that about it!
Well any way first I had to get there because I don't live in VT, Gnomeville is not near there either. so I hitched a ride with some very nice people from my Morris team. So the driver can't listen to music while she drives so we have CDs of stories that we listen to. And they where really funny some times, I can't remember who told them though. So we finally make it almost to the campsite and we stop for dinner in the best diner I've ever been to. The Royal Diner, it was great, it was like all the awesomeness of diners, mixed with Vegan food and put into an old train cargo car! It was like I said, amazing. So we get to camp and its all dark except for a big light, it was a soccer field, so I had a little trouble pitching my one-person tent, but I got it up. So after that I headed over with some friends from my Morris team to 'The Pub'. Really the Pub was just the student center for the collage that was made into a temporary place to get boos. So this place is crowded, I mean crowded. There's people dancing, music playing (from actual instruments being plaid by actual people, who where there!) So its so crowded it takes me 10 minuets just to get out of the entry way, of course I was letting allot of people go past me but still, it was packed! So eventually after about 40 minuets of shuffling my way across this small room I make it to the remains of the Vegan chilly and rice. It was so good, it was just spicy enough to make my nose burn and the rice was just hot enough to warm the chilly. So after a while I went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and set my alarm for 6:00 am to wake up to. Little did I know, when Morris dancers camp, they wake up just before breakfast ends, 9:30 am. So I sit and nap while I wait for every one to wake up... I eventually give up and go to breakfast 20 minuets after it started. And already it was pretty packed. I had my soymilk cartons I brought and some Grape Nuts, and a banana to start off the day. As I make my way back to camp to brush my teeth I run into one of my team friends. He asked me if I had eaten yet and if I wanted to join him, I considered having more fruit and joining but I said no. So brush my teeth and nap some more, and explore the campsite some more and eventually I sit in camp in our little Newt circle of tents and listen to my fellow team members' conversations.
Eventually one come up to me and says, "Hey Dreagon, you know you have to go to the squire meeting?"
and I said "What?"
"Well all the new guys have to be the squire, there meeting in the dining hall in two minuets. I think you have to be in your kit." So I jump into my tent and start changing into my whites and kit in a tent I can't even sit up in. So in one minuet I'm ready and I, not wanting to be late start running to the dining hall for the meeting. So I barely Make it to the meeting in time, but I made it. So basically a Squire is a person on a Morris team who has the sche3duel, and has to tell every one on said team the rules. So it was easy enough.
Well I realize a play by play might not be so fun to read so I'll just tell you it was extremely fun and I enjoyed it allot. And every one there, though they may not know it, where Nerdfighters.
D.F.T.B.A.
Peace out -
Draegon Scribe
Hello Peeps,
Sorry that I haven't updated since... wait, let me check... April 25th. So now I am updating. You probably don't know this, but I have become obsessed with the Vlogbrothers on YouTube. It's these two brothers, Hank and John, who regularly post video-blogs to each other. Their fans are called Nerdfighters (who fight for nerds, not against). Brother Hank post songs he writes on Wednesdays. He also released an album, So Jokes (Jokes meaning cool), which I am listening to right now. Today, Hank was in Cambridge, MA, so my mom and I went to see him since Cambridge is only forty minutes away. And it was awesome. You know when you meet a celebrity you react in a certain way as aposed a regular person that you know. Well, when I meet a famous person I clam up. My mouth shuts. My muscles clench. I can't speak. But when I met Hank, I didn't because I had watched him on YouTube so many times that it seemed like I knew him already. I have to go. It's 9:07 p.m. and my turned off the lights.
C.S.
If you could pick between the superpowers of flight or invisibility, which would you choose?
Submitted by aynge.Invisibility.
What is worse? Ignorance or apathy?
Submitted by SavageBart.They usually travel hand-in-hand.
AHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WARNING FLAME
GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! All of my aquarium plants are dead! And it wasn't my fault! All the Chemical levels where perfect for all the plants! Everything was right! Even when I bought them I know some of them would not live but still! Petsmart was selling me dead plants! And I knew it but they didn't care even when I asked if I not get those (the dead ones) plants! And they ignored me! and now my aquarium is invested with snails too, Well I knew that could happen.. But still! So now I just waisted $30 on a waist of plants! And its not like I can get any plants from any other place! because Petsmart, Petco, and Pet-Express put them all out of business, eventhought the afor mensioned sell @&%#!
So yeah I'm a little bit angry. Well atleast I can return the mushy courpes of the plants to the store and get a "Refund" AKA 15% of what I really paid for. They sid "I can trade them in for new plants" Yeah right! well I can get some store credit, I'll just get a whole bunch of rock formations and buy some Blind Cave Fish. Hurimph. Well Thats all.
Peace Out,
Draegon Scribe
