July 09, 2010

Just being yourself is fine


We all have to realize at some point in these things we call journeys of life that we all have a said problem. Now before I or you all go and say "Nah your wronger than ever with that line of thought relating to me...." but let me ask you something when was the last time you took a inner look into who you are?, I don't just mean how you relate to the everyday things you do, but how you may without even knowing it may form more hurt towards those we love when trying to share something important about our defining moments called histories of ourselves... Sure like I said we can hurt with actions or words more than one can ever wish to know, yet how can we repair that one truth that no person weather you are a child, a adult, a man, or a woman, we all have parts of our lives that we never want to disgust even if it will bring us joy to share with those we come to know as our friends. We all have a secret that has been our driving force to both our greatest joy and one that is our deepest darkest fear to ever tell, but what it all boils down to is everything in our lives helps to let us know who each and every person we come to know is from time to time. Whether a person is always a lair or as honest as a family member you may know or have always known , we can most assuredly agree on one very important thing being human is a hard thing to do. Although trying to better one's self never ever hurts your moral center it is one of the many ways we grow which helps defining who we have become in our everyday life that makes us understand that like different fruits we are all ripe for picking or easily tossed away it up to how you make choices that make you and I who we are that matters most in this journey known as life.....which is fine.

July 08, 2010

Hopefully I can stick with my new daily routine


Well I most certainly won't be like Mr. Parker here, watching news over the summer and of course I'm no super hero by any more than Peter is or am I for see like him stopping super villains I have to maintain a better diet for myself. From back in June shortly after having a rare or at least I want to call it that a gran-maul seizure for as I have told you when wrote about it originally I can't recall when my last one before that date was for sure anyway? So with my mom's friend Glenda Gibbs I was able to find a doctor for I hadn't one of my own thank you for that bit of help Glenda I'm really thankful for all you have done to help me. Although when my Doctor said I needed more excise as well as eating better, I started that evening which was the sixteenth of June I went up a walking path I did ever once in a while for the last couple of years. Now today I happen to have a liver enzyme test and what I had to do to prepare for it was not eat anything of solid foods for twelve hours. I was able to drink water through the night so I wasn't completely with out any source of nourishment, this morning Glenda came to pick me up I was grumpy from just having only one cup of water throughout the whole night, but I was still just wanting to get it over with so we headed over to the 945 building in north Richland where the test was to take place. I had brought my Star Trek DSN collected stories entitled "Twist of Fate" (which can be found in this past May's reading list). So after test which showed as well me feeling empty could be heard on the sonogram monitor after this Glenda to me to Mc Donlands to get something to eat I decided on a large Orange juice and a egg Mc Muffin. When we got back to my place I felt like I was under the third degree watch of someone trying to meddle in my life from a close still very unknown friend to me of my mother's. Glenda had ask me was I doing what my doctor wanted of me walking at all more than just at work, I told her the very truth which was "No but I'm still trying to a small bit". Yet then because I had brought a refrigerated Lipton Ice tea she thought it was okay to ask about my candy eating and soda pop drinking which I was honest with her about that as well, which was I hadn't had either since seeing Dr. Abdulrahman my primary physician I think later tonight I will at least try walking at least somewhere after work today but oh where, oh where will I chose?

July 07, 2010

Something everyone has....


Bet you can't ever guess what I'm going to bring up today?, so what is this very something everyone or anyone for that matter have that is hard to respect of that one's own life?, Everyone or anyone has their own way with finding this within themselves for it is part of us all. Even if we don't want to believe in the power of the thing it help represents? Boy the way I'm talking you'd think that this is some kind of huge secret puzzle or some kind of brain teaser on that game show known as "JEOPARDY!" in a unknown fashion to human everyday type of thinking. Here is one way to answer this very question a lot of people use the being called GOD or his earth form Jesus to come to seek this. Others may find this from deep within a search of their inner being/soul, and the wild and crazy thing of it is this once you have this it almost never broken from you. Oh sure it can be shaken from time to time but like everything in life you never have it completely vanish or disappear once you have it, unless you choose for yourself it is meaningless. What is it this thing it is simply called FAITH!

July 05, 2010

What type of ways did you entertain yoursevles as kids...


Yo Ho to the ever so many who read this,
Now I know that the very title this posting may give many of those who read it a moment to pause and think of their very childhood or at least I'm hoping so?, lately I have been thinking back on my type of ways I did entertain myself besides the getting into trouble all the time parts. I remembering when we had a babysitter before my stepsister and her friends in the spring and summer time of nineteen eighty four with our neighbor Sheri Smith we would play zoo by putting the chairs in a square formation and putting a sheet over the four of them in our front room across from the kitchen. One person would be the ringmaster while everyone else was a animal of the wild of their choosing. Yet this isn't about how I played as a kid I just realized that I am asking you instead...So let me ask did many of you ever sit in front of the radio and as you were listening to what your hearing put yourself in that story called a radio drama?, or did you like most kids even today read comics and not just superhero ones?, Did you go horseback ridding or brand a bull?, Maybe you went to the movies for a dime (boy those day are long gone aren't they though....) Please if none of these are how you found entertainment when you were a kid won't you leave a note of how YOU DID if you wish?, Thank you all who read this it makes know what I write is never wasted to you and that is what makes me have a smile everyday.

July 03, 2010

what's little and my favorite color?


Today for some weird reason I was thinking about images of the Smurfs, or at least of Papa Smurf anyway while at my Men's Breakfast at the Cathedral of Joy. I remember watching these guys in the early eighties along with all of the other cartoons I watched back then. Like all cartoon properties of the time they had their own movie.

Did you know that they are fifty two years of age, shouldn't Papa be gone by now and Brainy have his spot as leader of all of them by now? The Smurfs were created by a French man named Pierre Culliford who went by the pen name of "Peyo" because a family member could never recall his whole name. In "Peyo" storytelling he thought of these little people as Trolls of Nordic Fairy Tales, he introduced them Brussels type of comic magazine known as "Le Journal de spirou dated October 23,1958 the story that they were a part of was titled "Johan & Peewitt" and they were not known as Smurfs then they were named Schtroumpfs. He was adding them into the stories so much that they started having spin offs into their own separate tales, much like how Disney started with just a popular mouse named "Mickey". Then came along a duck and so on, or like in our own comics here in the states happens, I'd just be guessing but that is how everything in it own way becomes a trend. Pierre Culliford was born in 1928 on June 5th, Surprisingly that was the same year Walt Disney made "Steamboat Willie" which first featured "Mickey Mouse". Peyo passed away in December of 1992 on Christmas eve he was sixty four years old.
How was it he came up with their skin color being Blue you're wanting to know right?, well Peyo decided by what colors do most children like of Red, he thought reminds him of Violence so that as these Schtroumpfs as he was calling them so that was out of the question. And the color Yellow reminded him of Illness so that to was out the equation. So he let it be Blue because it was a set color that children of all ages like most. In nineteen sixty five, the Schtroumpfs were all about marketing and one the things Peyo did was he had them made into very small little figurines,
among other forms of merchandising. Peyo may have had a cartoon series of the Schtroumpfs in his homeland of Brussels Belgium or at least through his own studio he had been running since nineteen fifty nine, I'm saying this because marketing them through comic books would have led to animation at some point. Wouldn't you think so as well. Those little figures of the Schtroumpfs made a big start around the whole world in nineteen sixty six, they even made it here to the states for a bit of time. Yes the Schtroumpfs did have a enemy of which they feared, I just went looking to see if Gargamel who is with his cat Azrael in the above image was spelled differently in the Belgium comic strips on the internet only to find out they only referred to him as the wizard or sorcerer in the Schtroumpfs stories from long ago. In nineteen seventy six when an American visitor to Belgium by the name of Stuart R. Ross who was an entertainment scouting entrepreneur entered an agreement with Dupuis who was the publishing company of the Belgium comics and Peyo to acquiring full North American lending rights of the Schtroumpfs. So now for sure someone had the rights here in North America to do things marketing wise with these little blue troll type of characters just in case back in nineteen sixty five was a fluke for them truly being worldwide, now these Smurfs WILL really make an impression in the world. When Ross got back home to the United States he contacted the Wallance and Berrie and company to make toys like these
or even stuff Smurf dolls like these. NBC's then president Fred Silverman little daughter Melissa had a Smurf doll probably similar to those shown above. That he had gotten her on a trip to Bolder Colorado, and thought these little blue Smurfs as they were called would be great as a Saturday morning cartoon series on his network for children, so I'm guessing it was he who contacted the heads in charge of the animation division Warner Brothers entertainment which hooked him up with the Hanna-Barbera
the company that has done cartoon Icons such as Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones just to name a few to submit his "Smurf idea". On September twelfth, nineteen eighty one the Smurfs appeared on the peacock network, here is what a ad for Saturday mornings looked like in comic books of that said time of when the Smurfs first appeared and you can also see a couple of famous Marvel comics that were animated around the same time that I loved and still do in a way. I'm also writing this for just the other day in a copy of the USA TODAY newspaper I saw a snip it on the hopes of an all new live action movie being made for the summer time of two thousand and eleven with this image. Pretty please tell me that there is something wrong here for are not the Smurfs or Schtroumpfs or whatever they are know as suppose to be able to fit in your hand and NOT BIG ENOUGH to crush the streets of New York city?

July 02, 2010

The 2 closetest comic book heroes that show Amreican Spirit on the 4th of July


Hi there everyone,
So as you can see I'm try
ing to be pretty Patriotically decisive with my color choices with this being the month we celebrate the two hundredth and seventh birth of our homeland known as America. Yet I'm not wanting to talk about the 4th, just now as you all know I am one of the BIGGEST comic book nuts around especially with that red and blue long john colored spandex character that is walking through the airport with that red head known as Mary Jane Watson Parker. Today though I want to talk about the two comic book characters who wear the stars and stripes of our symbolism that we fly high everyday, whether it be on such days as Veteran's day, Memorial day, or even on 9/11. I'm sure some people still do that one, no matter if they lost somebody they knew on that sad day or not, they do it not to show pride, well some might but most show these to show how they still feel about the twin towers coming down. What I talking about is our country's (the thing beyond the American Eagle) our flag. Do you know which two characters of both Detective Comics and Marvel comics that are always timeless in this respect of showing our modern fables of Duty and Honor on the printed page, well if not here
they both are rendered by comic artist Greg Land
CAPTAIN AMERICA & WONDER WOMAN.

June 30, 2010

How do you see everyday heroes

Yo Ho All,
Can I ask you a simple question or at least hopefully it is one when you find the answer?, Do you know someone that is a everyday hero, by this I don't mean a fellow like above saving the air liner he is on by webbing up the hole in the side of it caused by another hero?, here are the type of everyday heroes I'm referring to: A FIRE MAN, (if you need any help in determining "IF" they are everyday heroes look at a certain date known as 9/11. Who else is a everyday hero even when we do bad or even horrible acts against one another, would the answer there be a police officer. Are doctors everyday heroes who also save our lives when we are hurt just as much as firemen do when saving you from a building on fire! Yes it is so very true that all of these professions and the people who are part of them deserve a lot of thanks for their everyday service to us, and so do many other everyday type of heroes like branches of the militarily for keeping us all safe in times of a national disaster.

To me a everyday hero is this, yet also so much more too, I believe we all have helped a elder person at one time or another across the street. We can all be heroes by giving blood to the RED CROSS or help a homeless person by giving them a meal at any given holiday. Just remember a hero DOESN'T NEED ANY SUPER POWERS to be heroic all that HE or SHE needs really is a caring heart to help that matters most of all!