December 2011
1 post
Dear Sommer: A Fond Farewell To My Finny Friend
They say that dog is man’s best friend, but over the last three months, I’ve come to realize that fish are man’s real best friend. My two guppies, Jeffy and Sommer, brothers until the bitter end, taught me that. We are gathered here today to give a fond farewell to our dearest Sommer, who passed away late Wednesday evening, Dec. 28.
Sommer, though you may not be here with us...
October 2011
1 post
My Beef With Fancy Ketchup
You know one thing that really gets under my skin, so to speak? Our tendency to refer to ketchup contained in packets as “fancy ketchup.” Just what makes this little packet of ketchup so “fancy,” as they say? Notice there is never such thing as “fancy mustard” or certainly not “fancy honey mustard!” I think that society is being slightly...
January 2011
1 post
Love Is...
Love is listening without interrupting.
Love is a Valentine with lace all around the edges.
Love is helping someone through his battles.
Love is being a good loser.
Love is rooting together for your team.
Love is walking in the rain together.
Love is looking out for your friends.
Love is a goodnight kiss.
Love is visiting a sick friend.
Love is getting dressed up.
Love is being...
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
0 posts
The Last Cookies: A Whodunit based on a Real-Life...
The fall winds blow coolly by what was once a joyous place. A place formerly filled with laughter and blissful awkwardness is now filled with omen and a sense of forboding. This is the scene at Camp Seikooc, a former Girl Scout camp comfortably hidden in the rear western section of Andover Central Park. What happened so many years ago is now coming back to haunt the present, as the events of the...
September 2010
6 posts
20 Answers to All Uncreative Guys' Homecoming Woes
Brilliant ways to ask that special someone to the Homecoming dance (or anything for that matter. Marriage? Yes.).
1. Fake your own death in a science experiment, and at your open casket funeral, pop up all of a sudden and pop the question!
2. Throw a tire at her and say, “You make my world go round!”
3. TP her house and write “Homecoming?” on the TP!
4. Egg her house!...
August 2010
3 posts
Time to Uncover My New Top-Secret Project
Normally, I would never reveal such top-secret details as this on such a public place as Tumblr, but in light of recent inventors block and lack of funds, I believe it to be necessary to disclose these details before this project is forever lost. The torch needs to be passed onto a new Olympic runner. This project has been the subject of many hours of painstaking research, at times when I could...
July 2010
5 posts
I need to start writing again.
emilynbaudouin:
yup
“What happened to Tumblarity? That was probably my favorite part of Tumblr,...”
The Twitter Sensation
It’s the new sensation sweeping across the nation: Twitter. The sensation that most people I talk to scoff at, citing the stupidity of tweeting your boring daily activities that no one cares about. I say Twitter is the most misunderstood social networking site out there today. Everyone has a Facebook but no one will even consider getting a Twitter. And it’s not like I was originally so...
Indie Rock Tracklist
This here’s for you lucky dogs who got my latest mixtape, the first to break the rap norm and delve into my original forte genre. Cheers!
1) “Everything After Bradford” by Echo Screen
2) “Like We Used To” by A Rocket to the Moon
3) “Lighting the Sky” by Lights Out Dancing
4) “Live Forever in a Day” by Ten Falls Forth
5) “Hush...
"Eternal Sonata" As Embarassing to Play As It...
What kind of video game have I gotten myself into here? The other night I was bored so I went ahead and rented a new Xbox game from Blockbuster called Eternal Sonata, because I heard that it was good, and that it was based on music so I went ahead and rented it. What. The. Heck. This game is more about philosophy and the morality of mankind than about RPG gameplay at all. I get to play for like 15...
June 2010
6 posts
How to Re-Calibrate the Big XII to Function...
With all the Big XII shakeup that has gone down lately, rumor has circulated about new additions to the Big XII now that Nebraska and Colorado are doneski.
Personally, I believe one hot prospect would be the Hofstra Pride, currently of the Colonial Athletic Association (dominated by such high-caliber teams as George Madison, Georgia State and Delaware). The Pride have been my main...
This song (“What a Life” by...
Pen that Pal
Freshman year. French 1, 7th block. Halfway through the year, Mr. Peterka gave us all the option to buy our own pen pals from foreign countries. I thought to myself, hmmm, I might be interested in buying a nice Italian girl, so that’s exactly what I did. She was only $1, a bargain in my opinion. A few weeks later, Mr. Peterka gave us little slips of paper that had the pen pal’s name on...
My Gameplan to Make Crestview the Hottest Spot in...
After working at the Crestview pool for two summers now, I believe that if we do a few simple things, we could easily quadruple our revenue and turn Crestview into the new hip hot spot in town. Since the newspaper and Goody Clancy can churn out their downtown improvement plan, I figured I might as well disperse my country club improvement plan!
STEP 1: IMPROVE THE POOL ATMOSPHERE
- The first...
Da Latezt Rapz TRACKLIST
This is for all my boyz out there who were lucky enough to get this exclusive mixtape! Gotta give credit where it’s due though, my buddy Nick Singer showed me all of these tracks so he gets the credit if any of these make it big! haha
1) “Touching on My” by 3OH!3
2) “Wolfpack Party 2010” by The Pack
3) “Power” by Kanye West
4) “Office Musik...
March 2010
2 posts
They Always Say Never To Cry Over Spilt Milk...
WICHITA, KAN—- Earlier this afternoon, a highly improbable accident occurred off Highway 45 and 2nd Street, in which the driver of a Cocoa Puffs delivery truck hydroplaned off the road, crashing into the Hiland Dairy factory on the corner. The driver, 54-year-old Glen Peppers, was unharmed, but the factory and his truck were badly damaged.
“This puncture has pilfered our...
"Our Feline Friends" - an exposé on the common cat
WICHITA, KAN—-Oft overlooked, we have in our presence creatures who have been recorded in history as being some of the most influential decision-makers in our proud nation’s history. If we as a society had simply listened to their incessant meows of protest, our nation could have been utterly different. Watergate could have been prevented. Toyota brake problems could have been averted....
January 2010
1 post
"Shocking," Isn't It?
What up with this? Why is it that I am getting static shocked by basically everything recently? And it’s only around my house too. It’s gotten to the point that, if you measured how much electricity I receive daily, you could probably power a light bulb with it. It started off easy enough but it’s escalated to unprecedented levels as of late. At first it was just your simple...
December 2009
1 post
Streaky Gameplay
Tonight, Kapaun beat West High 64-53. That’s a pretty good final score considering what happened during the game. The Crusaders got off to a good start, going on an 11-1 run. Late in the first quarter, however, Kapaun let West back into the game, letting West go on a 7-2 run to end the first quarter. Kapaun then went on a 8-0 streak and got ahead again. At halftime, the score was 40-27....
What is truth? Who am I? Who are you? Where am I?
As I sit here struggling to focus on my forthcoming term paper due Friday, I feel ludicrous writing this paper according to the books, because no matter what they say, I believe that their thesis about my topic is false and erroneous. My term paper will reveal the truth that has so long evaded professional historians and lawyers everywhere, as I have discovered a crucial new development in my...
November 2009
14 posts
I deleted my previous post on here, I wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong ideas. Some things are I guess too personal to share with my legions of fans (jk). The idea was a dud to begin with and certain people make them out to be more than what they really are, just simple dreams. I wasn’t insinuating anything by them, it was just what I honestly dreamed about. Don’t get the...
Clubbin'
You know what I think this school needs? A new club. But not just any club. I’m talking Wheel of Fortune Club! I mean, how cool would that be to have a Wheel of Fortune Club after school? Once a week, we could congregate together and play America’s favorite game show (for cash money). The grand prize at the end of the year could be a PS3 or something like that, if we get enough...
Sherwood's "Qu" impresses with solid summer sounds
Sherwood’s newly released Qu continues to impress beyond the first listen.
Building off the success of A Different Light, Sherwood breaks new ground in this album, though this new ground will sound familiar to the Sherwood faithful. This album sounds like a continuation of A Different Light, though I am definitely not saying that is a bad thing.
The album starts out strong with...
“Make It Through” off Sherwood’s...
Fun-size befuddles me
You know, it just occured to me: Why do Krackel bars never come in full size? Usually they are only found near Halloween in fun size bars. What, is a Krackel bar fun, but not FUN ENOUGH to make a full size bar out of? I personally would love to see a full-size Krackel bar.
And then you’ve got those candies that are never in fun size. And I’m not talking about reduced packaging, but...
Just when you think you've got it all figured...
FEATURING SHOCKING VIDEOS AND STORIES. WILL THEY REVEAL THE TRUTH?
Okay, I know I’m going out on a limb here, but for a while now, I’ve begun to sort of actually believe in Bigfoot. After watching many MonsterQuest shows on the History Channel, I’ve begun to realize that, you know, it is possible. I realize that most of the TV shows and stories about Bigfoot are completely...
WatchMy friend Theresa and I performing “Lucky,” by Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat! =)
In-depth analysis of Dorrough's "A Whole Lotta"...
Three months ago, on August 4, 2009, Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough, a fresh, bright young rapper released his debut album Dorrough Music, on the E1 Music label. Unbeknownst to the average listener, Dorrough’s songs are frequently laced with symbolic principles that show his musical prowess. While Dorrough devotes a lot of time on every track of his album to decreeing societal evils and offering...
“A Whole Lotta” - Dorrough
An Ode to All-State (not the insurance company)
With KMEA season starting to come around, I’m in a mood to reminisce about last year’s KMEA, when I made the All-District and All-State Choirs.
The auditions were much the same as they were this year. They were held on a Saturday morning at Andover Central High School, and I had an early morning time again. One goes into the audition room precisely at his assigned time. PRECISELY. I...
My favorite All-State song. We was steady mobbin...
Paranormal Plain...follow-up
Earlier this year for my journalism 1 class, I had to write a feature story as an assignment. For my topic I decided to choose haunted places, since it was around Halloween. My partner and I wrote about all the usual places around Wichita, like Theorosa’s Bridge and the Broadview Hotel and whatnot, but one place out of all of those really interested me. That was the abandoned (supposedly...