We're on the Road to D'ohwhere

Alright, good episode tonight. One of those Bart and Homer moments. I'll tell you one of my earliest memories of The Simpsons: Bart called Homer by his name, not "Dad." That, in my opinion then and now, is a mark of how irreverent a person can get. BTW, (pardon the internet slang) did anyone notice that Moe, Jimbo, and the Comic Book Guy all sounded a bit off? It's weird, because Milhouse and Chief Wiggum sounded right.

Man 1, Bank 0

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you cashed a junk mail check? Patrick Combs did once, and he has a really interesting story to tell. On a national tour, he managed to make time to stop at this mill town-turned-booming suburb and tell us. I got free tickets from work and went to see it. I scanned in the back of my ticket. The smiley face is what he endorsed the check with. Here's his website: www.man1bank0.com.
So, I recommend this. It's a good way to spend a Saturday night, especially if you got it free. Thanks for hearing me out.

Been busy

New semester, new classes. I have, in this order, Environmental and Natural Resources, Horticulture II, and Algebra II. I also get to leave at 1p.m. due to a special senior privilege. Also, I get to park at school, after waiting a long week after getting my license to be able to.

There really hasn't been anything that I feel like mentioning happen to me recently, I'm just doing this now to clarify that I'm still blogging here.

I finally got my license!

And I celebrated by going to Lowes for some milk
(This is probably not the Lowe's you're thinking of)

Pete Townshend's blog

http://boywhoheardmusic.blogspot.com/

You may be wondering who Pete Townshend is. If you are, you need to listen to something other than rap. I'm not going to tell you, you can find out for yourself.

I just looked on Google Images for my name, and got a bunch of guys who weren't me. Truth is, I got mostly Jake Gyllenhall and Tim Blake Nelson.
Check it out.

Beware of the propaganda!

HOLY SURGEON GENERAL!! I've just received word of a new movie called "Thank You For Smoking" about one of those tobacco company jerks whose job is to make people think smoking is OK. This is why tobacco is still legal! There's people around who are forcing ill on the rest of the world via advertising, product placement, and money! Was my Senior Project all for naught? Did no one listen to the 17-year-old coughing up his lungs here in the state where it all comes from? Are we so narrow-minded, stubborn, and traditionalist that we cannot accept the fact that people have died from this product that we still sell today? It makes me want to puke, just thinking about it!

DMV Disaster

Well, "disaster" may not be the word, but I got flustered on the 3-point turn and the wheel was turned the wrong way on the backing up part. Now I'm completely lost. I'm having trouble navigating this frickin' keyboard. Just to make matters worse, I can't go back until the 17th.

First new Simpsons of 2006

This is one of those things that every sitcom gets to at some point, a parent not really a parent. Tonight was The Simpsons' turn. As far as those kinds of episodes go, this was OK. What really stood out was the toll road bit at the beginning. If there's one thing I like about NC, it's the lack of tolls. The thing is, there's also a lack of mass transit. We tried to get it, but the feds rejected us. Would you believe, that there's some people that are happy about us having to live with LA-esque congestion daily? I'm probably the last one who would even consider revoking the first amendment and I could ignore them, except I have to type their stuff up for the paper. Just last Friday, I had this nasty piece mocking UNC's devotion to diversity. Not to mention, they're called the John Locke foundation, and I feel severely hypocritical to type something from a foundation named after a guy who brought tobacco to America.

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CAN ANYONE DO ANYTHING RIGHT ANYMORE?

It's really sad, to have three hours of total happiness, then everything is ruined. If people are smart enough to have a job, they are most likely smart enough to tell the difference between dead and alive. It's too unlikely to have 12 alive, then change it to 12 dead without there being an obvious mistake. This is just about as incompetent as you can get. I thought I'd seen the worst last fall, after Hurricane Katrina, but this is just plain brainless.

Remember when I mentioned the roof at school being fixed? They missed a spot... right over room 715. So, my English class was displaced to the library when Ms. Bennett's classrom was a lake. Oddly enough, that's not the weirdest thing to happen to me today. In drama, we started a new unit on auditioning, and that includes dance auditioning. Worn treads on white Reeboks + Smooth tile floor = Split, thankfully not in pants. A girl in there said she got it on video and said she would post it on the internet, but I'm sure she's compassionate enough not to turn me into the next Gary Brolsma.

2006

I woke up thinking about the whole year ahead of me. It's almost spiritual, isn't it? Here's what's coming in 2006:

• 1/9: I get my Driver's License
• 1/10: I drive to school for the first time
• 1/23: I start my second semester at school, and I get to leave at 1
• 6/9: I graduate Clayton High School
• Summer: I start college*
• 9/26: I turn 18
• 11/7: I vote for the first time
  
• 12/31: I have 2007 ahead of me

*If I pass Algebra II, I can go to Louisburg College. If I go there, I have to take Summer School. My parents are waiting to hear from St. Andrews about what kind of things they have for people like me.

I'm hearing Bob Schieffer saying "The key word for 2005 was 'Disaster.'" I totally agree. It's all behind me now.