Thursday, November 27, 2008

Turkey-The Eating Sense

I ate the best turkey I've ever eaten today made by the one, the only, Jim Lehman. Wonderful.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Turkey-The Bowling Sense


These are my cats. I'm not wearing a tie today. I'm eating an apple.

We have no school today. I'd say that's pretty cool. So my cousin, Ryan McMahon, decides to show up. This is him:

He's a pretty cool dude. He subscribes to ESPN magazine, but upon reading Sports Illustrated, claims to like SI more. However, Rick Reilly recently moved from SI to ESPN, a major factor in Ryan's reading habits. Bill Simmons, although I have never heard of him, also is an influential writer in the world renowned magazine. We went bowling today. We bowled at Brunswick Bowling Alley on Cochran Ave. We bowled on lane 40. If you've ever been to Brunswick, you know they have rather annoying chairs connected to the tables. Lane 40 does not have these. It was nice. In remembrance of Thanksgiving tomorrow, Ryan and I each had our fill of turkey, that is, bowling three strikes in a row. The turkey gobble quickly filled the alley as each of us walked proudly back to the table. I felt like a pilgrim making my way from the Mayflower, even though George Washington proclaimed Thanksgiving Day while he was president.

I don't like the rain, but it is raining. This means I have to wear pants and shoes. If you know me, you know the dilemma. Plus, my car leaks when it rains. Awesome. Look at the clouds:

Friday, November 21, 2008

Irrelevant: Macbeth

This is an irrelevant blog post, but I figured I'd post it anyway. Today is the first day all year I am wearing jeans, and shoes for that matter, without out an event at school. However there is an occasion. You may notice the brand of the shoe: Macbeth. I am wearing shoes today because I have the final test on William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth." So there is a reason.

My buddy Nick Martinez is adement about getting into my blog. He drank someone else's Gatorade and then punched himself in the head enough times to knock a young boy out. And I'm putting him in here because I remembered to put him in here. Not because he drank someone else's Gatorade and then punched himself in the head enough times to knock a young boy out. Here's a picture of 'im.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

TODAY is wednesday




I don't have a lot to talk about. I'm sorry. Today was cool. Natalia told me she was going to wear a tie today with business suit type thing. I was stoked. Then she didn't, but she looked very nice anyway. Today was cool. Kinda hot, but cool. Catch the fever? No sé. Yesterday in annual, I made a really cool "Random" image. I'll post it on here when I can. I've been feeling really random lately. I don't know why. Some weird things have been happening lately. For instance, I have been sleeping really bad lately, mainly because it is so hot. Thank you Al Gore for warning us.
Tonight, I am going to be going to an awards ceremony. Today's dress was for that occasion. I'd figured I would just wear it all day. This is also the same outfit I wore to Mike and Kristen's wedding. I don't think anyone knew that except Scott Weir until now. Oh, and about that picture. I'm not sure what it signifies. Maybe after tonight I will be in the limelight and have to ward of the paparazzi? I sure hope not.
About the ceremony, I submitted a photo into the PTSA Reflections contest at school. It has made it to the finals. Here's the pic:
Alright everybody, I hope you have a wonderful night and a wonderful rest of the week.

Until next time,
Morgan


P.S. I'm trying to design two different t-shirts for "Chapped." One of them (people who went last week saw the prototype, mainly Nico, Simón, Scott and a few others) is looking LEGITAMITE. My buddy Beau, who's drawing made it to the finals also btw, helped me out and drew up the lips. It looks SICK in all senses of the word. Hopefully it get's printed.

Alright everybody, I hope you have a wonderful night and a wonderful rest of the week.

Until next time,
Morgan

UPDATE: so I entered this contest, I made it to the final four in the photography "senior" division. I went to this event and did not get 1st place. I lost to a girl who took a picture of two birds. I knew it would win the moment I saw it. Luckily, the top four still move on to County. I'm hoping for the best!

Btw, the progressive dinner tonight was a lot of fun. I'm not sure why. Have a nice night.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

18 y/o


Today is my official birthday. It's pretty crazy. K, check this out. I used to never tell anybody when my birthday was. This one time in elementary school, I went the entire day without anyone knowing and then with five minutes left in class, the principal, who has a birthday list I'm assuming, gives me a ribbon. My teacher was shocked, I was embarrassed. So now, in this day of age, that is strickly impossible. Technology—mainly Facebook—has informed the entire world and definitely makes it known when my birthday is. I don't know, I just think birthdays aren't really that important to celebrate as modern civilization does. Read my previous blog post on more complex birthday thoughts.

So today was pretty cool I guess. I wore an "I can tie my shoes" ribbon on my shirt, as I was wearing sandals, like always. Two people caught that irony. But I still can tie my shoes, I'm not denying that. So yeah, I got a lot of birthday comments which I guess was nice. Jill was very disappointed I did not dress up today. I told her she would be surprised and she sure was! I looked normal, what's wrong with that? I have drumline tonight, not exactly looking forward to it. Not the way a birthday, as much as I don't like them, should be spent. Oh well, I'll make the best of it.

EDIT: Drumline turned out to be pretty rad. I got there, the place was packed with cars cause of the Simi/Royal game, so I had to park like a mile away. Turns out Kelsey and Trevor were going to leave a gift upon my car, but they couldn't find it. I don't know if that's a good thing. I still haven't struck back from the "little mishap." Anyway, Kelsey was pretty bummed. The balloons are chillin' in the drum room. It will be a little memory. After practice, Mika "surprised" me with a cupcake that wasn't the size of a cup, it was more like a bowlcake. It was pretty awesome and still warm. I was definitely surprised that she would make something like that for me. Thanks Mika if you're reading this. For the record, I took it home, and I let my family help me finish it. Pretty good stuff.

THE PARTY



I had my party on November 11, Veteran's Day. Take a look at the invite:


I passed these out to a whole bunch of people, but in the end, I missed a few important people. Oh well, what's done is done. I'd say probably 25 something came. Let me tell you, it was a good time. We went back to the ROOTS. None of this modern day dance party/video game party conformity. We played real games- some phat relays, some crazy eating games, and some door to door soliciting madness. Here's the breakdown:

  1. BUBBLE GUM BLOWING CONTEST. Pretty self-explanatory. Two wads of Dubble Bubble Bubble Gum. Single elimination.

  1. Q-TIP MADNESS. Wrap partner in sticky side out packing tape. Other partner shoots q-tips through a straw. Team with the most q-tips stuck on them at the ends wins.

  1. ORANGE BETWEEN NECKS. Two team relay. Pass orange by necks all the way down line. If the orange falls, start over.

  1. BIGGER OR BETTER HUNT. Legit game, I’ll just tell you that. Teams get designated streets and 1 hour. The object of the game is to trade the first item, a paper clip, to attain bigger or better objects. You go as many houses as possible to accomplish this feat. My team was Tommy, Beau, Patrick, and Julian. We went from paperclip, to small molding, to Halloween bucket, to singing poker bear, to big “I love you” bear, to numerous items including a hair-infested rug, dusty flowers, giant wicker vase, and a cardboard box. This was our final product. Pretty decent I suppose. The team with the table saw won easily though.

  1. MYSTERY EATS RELAY. Five teams line up. One at a time, the person would run to a brown paper bag, grab a food item randomly and eat and swallow its entirety. After a mouth check and proper waste disposal, contestant would tag next in line. Here’s the food items:
    1. Big carrots
    2. Broccoli
    3. Red licorice
    4. Snickers
    5. V8 juice
    6. Lemon
    7. Dill pickle
    8. Jalapeño-everybody’s favorite

This game is insanely awesome and will not be forgotten anytime soon.

btw, this shot of Kyle right here ^ is my favorite. He hates pickles, yet annihilated the obstacle. Look that the emotion in his face. Classic.


This was my party. I haven't had a party since my horrible 11th birthday party with seemed like 100 little immature, screaming boys. I'm shuddering as I write. This one was a whole lot of fun though and i hope everybody who was there had a good time. To everybody who didn't go, I'm really sorry you couldn't come/I didn't invite you. Either I didn't have enough invites, I didn't see you, or I did not have the opportunity to give you one. I wish every I have ever talked to could have come and had a great time. There would have been many benefits to that.

Two more things. 1st. I want to thank every single person who acknowledged me sometime in the last week. I know I hate birthdays and everything but it sure is great to see people that care to waste breath saying "happy birthday" to me. I am grateful for everybody who has ever made an effort to talk to me or do anything for/with me. I love you guys. Without you, I would be a recluse somewhere, kinda like the recluse I'm currently trying to make a movie about. You'll hear more on that later. So thanks again.
On that note, since you are reading this, you care.
Thank you dedicated reader.


2nd. As I was opening cards and gifts, this one from my buddy Travis Yatomi made me sit in astonishment. This guy knows where it's at. Here is the front:




and the inside, reproduced in text below image:




"Yo Morgan,
Happy Birthday! But before you dismiss this card as banal, though artistic, look at it like this. I'll assume you were expecting crazy cards that most people would find unexpected, thus making it expected. But by giving you ac ard most people would expect, it suddenly becomes unexpected becasue you weren't anticipateing something expected. Hence, brilliant.
Your friend,
Travis Yatomi."


Yes, brilliance.


OH YES I ALMOST FORGOT!

check out all the pictures:

Facebook pt1: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68453&l=dd487&id=714162753
Facebook pt2: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68445&l=4d111&id=714162753
Myspace: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=36646369&albumId=2289893



THANK YOU GREATLY



Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Donaldo

I'm not gonna write too much on today because I'm gonna write a whole lot tomorrow. So here it is. I don't know what I was today. I guess you could say I was Donald Duck. That's okay because I matched. I wore real hospital pants from '06. I got a comment, wow '06 that's pretty old. I replied, yeah, vintage. There's my story. I didn't like today's getup very much but whatever. Tonight was a whole lot of fun however at "CHAPPED" i love that name btw. i played drums tonight and really melded with the group. It was a good time. plus i was wearing pants and shoes. Not a common sight. Don't take that the wrong way. I wear shorts most of the time, not pants. Pants are a rarity. Tomorrow is my birthday and I guess I'm looking forward to it. I'm not sure what the point of birthdays are or why we celebrate them. Yay, a year older! is that a good thing? Im not sure. Old people don't want to get older, they want to stay young. But when you're young, all you want to get is older. When does that change? Life's little mysteries. That's life for ya.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Symbology


Yesterday was election day. I didn't dress up. People were disipointed. After I got to school, I realized I should have dressed in purple, you know, red and blue mixed. I think that would have been pretty cool. I don't have too many purple clothes though.

So this guy:
is our new president of the United States. I'm not sure if he can pull off a Clark Kent. The coming years are definitely going to be interesting for the United States of America. I'm not gonna' lie though, Obama's speech last night was pretty legit. He appealed to the nation's emotions last night- pathos. Mrs. Donohue taught me that. He didn't try to appeal to the ethics of the nation; he would definitely gotten some mixed emotions. And he did not try to appeal to the "logos" of the nation, that is making logical sense with all he said.

Funniest thing of the night though, watching the local news -KCAL 9- after the commotion, a reporter was speaking in front of a band who was jamming in a little club. The drummer to the reporters right, the guitarist to the left. They were jam jam jamming away as the reporter was speak speak speaking away. I don't what he was talking about, I wasn't watching him. It was one of the moments where you don't start laughing 'till after the fact, kinda like this moment- click away. I couldn't not stop laughing for a long while. Actual LOLing. Amazing.

Now explain the outfit. I wore a dead man's pants today. I'm going to go into that, mainly because I don't know as much information as I should. They were symbolizing the death of capitalism. I wore a silver tie and tie clip to represent the Robin Hood values of Barack Obama in that he is virtually stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. It really doesn't effect most people though. Oh well. I enjoyed making comparisons of the sort. Alrighty then, I guess I'm finished. "In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" Name that movie.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Hallows






Halloween was not as great as everybody thought it'd be. at least I thought so. Let's start from the beginning. Wednesday night was the Harvest festival at church. It's mainly a little kids thing, so most of us "older folk" helped out. This was probably my favorite part of Halloween. The live band was pretty rockin,' never tiring. Mr. Ryan Cook I don't know how do it. Nonstop, it's impressive. All of the pics on this blog will be from that night. I guess it was pretty eventful.

Halloween day. I went to school, I dressed up in the Hawaiian gear again. Here was my philosphy. Halloween is a day that everybody dresses in costumes and makes complete fools of themselves. That's what I do at least once a week. So I figured I would dress "normally." BUT, it was Halloween after all so I dressed up anyway, but not near as much as I could have. This was a lukewarm situation. If you are cold, or hot that okay, but lukewarm is a definite no-no. That was my mistake. I let everybody down. People were expecting me to either go all out, or not dress at all, both of which I did not do.

*Newsflash* This just occurred to me. It seems as if I did exactly what I wanted to do. I did the absolute unexpected, no one expected me to somewhat dress up. My deed is done. I got a lot of "I'm disappointed"s which wasn't all that great, but, hey, my nonconformity worked like a charm.

Whatever. Halloween night was a very strange event in itself. I really don't want to go into much detail, but it really was a night of wasted time, energy, sleep, and everything else. But it was pretty fun. I love contradictory statements and paragraphs that have no meaning or truth to them whatsoever. It was better than sleeping though. I adore sleep, but it is no fun. I just like being rested and awake and not tired. So going out last night was a good time in that sense. I didn't spend it not making memories. Double negatives. Then I had to wake up to take the lovely SAT""""S. QUOTATION: here's one:::""

"Then a corpse came into the scene of the shadow of jittery chairs. Then a hat of doom was Eurasia and the panic of It's Wednesday was Relief. An alarming accordion fell of phantom. The butterfly of apparition of mysterious 1930's died in a car crash. Appalling of im flew away in suspicious eerie confusion." -Connor Lott 10|29|08








ps|| do you like the larger pictures?