Have you ever felt that you were being stalked? It’s a very creepy feeling. When you know that someone is watching you. All The time. You start to get paranoid. People call you crazy and don’t believe you when you know that it’s true. You start to act differently even when you’re alone. You can’t sleep at night because this idea is stuck in your head and it’s impossible to get it out. You can’t see anyone. But someone can see you. And you know it. Continue reading →

What is the most common tree in your neighborhood? What animals live near you? Where does your water come from? What insects live near you? Why do they live there? Chances are, you didn’t know the answers to most of those questions. Chances are, you had no idea. And neither does 98.3% of Americans today, because nobody cares. They have better things to do like tweet about something they saw on TV, or post a pic of their cat on Instagram. Technology is taking over the world, and we aren’t realizing it, let alone doing anything about it. People need to stop letting technology control their lives.

Technology is a tool. A power, that we all abuse. There is proof that being on your phone slowly kills brain cells by the second. In 2008, scientists from North Dakota put a man in a regular room, gave him his phone, told him to go on it, and hooked him up to a machine for an hour. Even just an hour of phone time killed a decent amount of brain cells. The average man goes on their phone about 2.7 hours a day (Huffington post).

People who are on their phones excessively start to change, mentally and physically. The artificial light from the screen keeps you awake at night (health land.time.com) Not only this, but you get whiter when you are inside. People who use their phones that often are usually inside. Plus, it has the same effects as marijuana, to a far lower degree according to “alifeofproductivity.com”. It makes your brain mushy in time. In time, you will lose intelligence. In time, you will rely only on your phones for entertainment. In time, it will change who you are. (releventmagazine.com)

Some people might say that electronics are just a pastime that we use when we are bored, and for around five minutes at a time. They say that we don’t use them too much, and that is false. (Washington Post) The average human spends 2.7 hours a day on their phone. Their phone only. Think about TV, laptops, iPads, iPods, and all other devices. Collectively, we spend about 6 hours a day on devices. Its out of control. It’s insane! The use of technology today in this day and age is crazy. (Dailymotion.com)

Albert Einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” We are living in that time. That day is now. WE are the generation of idiots that Einstein was fearing. So next time you pick up your phone to check the ifunny features, or to look at your instagram, think about what I said. Don’t take part in the generation of idiots.

THREE DAYS UNTIL SAN QUENTIN

1:30am: My life is over. It’s just done. I am going to San Quentin Prison in three days, for a violent crime. I’d rather not say what it was, but let’s just say I needed the money, if you know what I mean. Then one thing led to another and now I’m left with three days to get my affairs in line before they send my ass to San Quentin contentuary. I’m freaking out right now, because I been hearin’ a lot of rumors about San Quentin. Some nasty ones at that. I got homie named Marshmallow out in LA that has been to San Quentin and he is gonna prep me for the worst, tonight.

6:45am: Alright, now I’m driving out to Marshmallow’s place so he can prep me up. He sent me a list of all the stuff I gotta do, and I have no idea what any of this is. There is all these code names of times and things and all this stuff that I need to know how to or what it is. I’m prayin’. I don’t got a clue what I’m in for, and I’m almost 100% sure it’s going to be a living hell.

10:15am: I’m at Marshmallow’s house right now. He just explained some of the thing on the list for my prison prep course. I’m feelin’ good now. I know all the stuff I need to. Actually scratch that. I’m freaking out right now because I know everything I need to. This is crazy. Prisoners go their own lifestyle goin on. There are codes for everything. You have to prove yourself in ridiculous ways. There is now way that I could live through prison without getting beaten, killed, or worse. But I just have to throw out the fact that I have mad respect for Marshmallow. If it wasn’t for him, I would die the first day of prison. Especially San Quentin.

5:30pm: Holy ****. Just Holy ****. Prison is crazy. Its a whole different world. It’s a different way of living. All the rumors are true. Every last one. It’s sick, they way everything is run, and how you establish dominance, and EVERYTHING. I am going to die. I thought I was a thug, but all the **** that goes down in San Quentin makes me look like a spoiled rich white kid. Not only this, but today was only my first day. Marsh said that tomorrow were gonna go over all the “nasty stuff”. God only knows what that it. It’s official, I’m screwed.

“Hello ladies. Does your man smell like an Old Spice man?” Chances are, he probably does, because Old Spice is the best selling men’s grooming product in the country. The reason behind that is that their commercials are ones to remember. They are classics in the advertisement world. From Isaiah Mustafa’s smooth talking to the ladies, to Terry Crews’s rages about man-power, Old Spice has made their advertisements memorable. But what has never failed to make laugh is their music video jingles. The “Old Spice dad song” is one of Old Spice’s jingles that was directed by Andreas Nilsson to advertise Old Spice. It appears to be just a jingle written to advertise, but if you look deeper into the song, you will find that it has an emotional plot in it.

In the Old Spice dad song, there are many speakers. They are all middle aged men and women, who have sons. The speakers all have different opinions on Old Spice. That are all speaking about their sons and how they are growing up. Strangely, they believe that Old Spice is behind the maturing point of their sons. The song says, “Old Spice has sprayed a man of our boy,” meaning that their deodorant is deciding what path their lives take.

In the jingle, the mothers and fathers have different opinions on Old Spice. The fathers are totally for Old Spice. They are beyond happy that their sons are growing up and using it, because they believe that it has some type of power that makes their sons grow up.
The fathers in the song are proud. The song says, ”Just let him go”. Thats when the dad is telling the mom to just let him go, because she has to accept that he is now a man. They are proud of their sons, finally growing up, maturing, and becoming young men. Every father feels this way. They want their sons to become men.

The mothers however, are not so happy about the situation. They aren’t ready for their little boys to grow up and become men. However, the mother characters aren’t as happy about the situation. They aren’t ready for their baby boys to grow up. They still see them as the little toddlers they use to be when they were five years old. They feel that Old Spice is a bad product, because it makes their sons irresistible to the ladies. In the mom song, another old spice jingle, it quotes,”All these ladies, all these women are upon him like lice! As a mother I condemn the body spray of Old Spice.”

The Old Spice dad song is not only a song, but a story. It tells of mothers and fathers learning to accept their sons growing up and reaching their maturing points. However the story might stretch the truth by saying that Old Spice is behind all this, but it still can wrench at your heart with its plot.

Life is a cream filled doughnut
You turn three or four years old
You get to the cream
You start to understand and enjoy life
It taste so good

You hit forty years old
Thats when you get the most cream
You rush in to it because it tastes so good
However that’s when you start to run out

You get to seventy or eighty years old
You are running out of cream in your doughnut
Your life is creeping to an end
And all at once, you finish your doughnut

Today in 1839, the letters “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. These letters were suppose to mean “oll korrect,” a common slang abbreviation for “all correct”. At the time, OK started to grow in American speech everyday. Eventually, after years and years of use, people began to think of it as a word. Today, I’m willing to bet that about 90% of Americans don’t know that OK is an acronym.

Boy you listen to me.
I have been through hell and back
And you will too if you don’t take my advice.
Don’t act like a punk
Dont listen to funk
Dont be a fool
and piss in a pool
Avoid all the gingers
‘Cause you will get injured
Always chill with your pals
instead of hanging with gals
never get lost
avoid bees at all costs
Hang out with your bros
and play with a hose

The Kite Runner is about a boy who struggles to figure himself out after a lot of bad childhood experiences. Adult Amir appears in the United States in the beginning of the book, and has flashbacks to his childhood in Afghanistan. He is also trying to create a close relationship between he and his father, Baba. You can really understand how Amir grew up, in his situation.

One of the biggest struggles for Amir is learning to fit in; growing up in Afghanistan as a member of the privileged class yet not feeling like a privileged member of his own family. Hassan and his father, Ali, are servants, yet at times, Amir thinks of them more like family than friends. And Amir’s father, Baba, who does not always follow the rules of his culture, confuses rather than clarifies things for Amir. Many of the richer citizens in Afghanistan see the world in one way, but Amir sees it in many.

Not only are these issues bothering Amir, but he must also figure out how to deal with the instability of the Afghan political system in the 1970s. During this time, which takes place during an important kite flying tournament, Amir decides not to act — he decides not to confront bullies when he has the chance — and this conscious choice of inaction leads to guilt, lies, and betrayals. Eventually, because of the changing political climate, Amir and his father are forced to leave Afghanistan. Amir thinks of coming to America as an opportunity to forget his past.

Although Amir and Baba try to create a new life for themselves in the United States, the past is always there. When it comes back up, Amir is forced to return to his homeland to face the decisions that he had made when he was young, with only a slim hope to create forgiveness.

The Kite Runner is a story about relationships — specifically the relationships between Amir and Hassan, Baba, Rahim Khan— and how the complex relationships make us who we are.

I am from Old Spice
from Timber and Swagger
I am from the two storied white house with the jacaranda tree blowing in the front yard.
I am from the oak
The jacaranda.
I’m from Halloween tacos and tan skin
from Ricky and Carlos
I’m from starring in space and getting tired easily
and from waking up early

I’m from the moon is cheese and balloons can help you fly!
from little Einsteins and the Backyardagins
I’m from thanksgiving ham
I’m from San Diego and Mexico

tacos and spaghetti
from getting beat up for shooting whip cream up a cousin’s nose
it was my dad and he was stupid back then.
we have a painting that was made by someone in our family that we love.
it hangs above the fireplace.