Communication

Communication. According to the Encarta English dictionary the word communication has five meanings. The first is the exchange of information between people by means of speaking writing, or using a common system of signs or behavior. The second definition is a spoken or written message. The third definition states that communication is the act of communication information. The forth one says that communication is a sense of mutual understanding and sympathy. The fifth one is not important for my little rant here.

I just wanted to be sure that everyone knew what communication was because I have recently learned that some very important information that should have reached a friend did not reach her as quickly as it should have. From what I have been told this information became public knowledge on Monday and my friend was not informed about it until Tuesday or Wednesday, even though this information affected her directly.

For that matter I am still puzzled as to why this information was not spread across the community like wildfire. How are people supposed to defend others from bad situations that can, will, and have come up when people do not have information on what is happening or what has happened? How are we as a community supposed to watch out for each other when we do not communicate the proper information to people? Is it a matter of pride not to spread around this information for fear that it may not look good that such a tragic event happened under our noses? In my opinion it would look even worse if people in the community did not know about this, that it was hidden from the community like a skeleton in a closet. I can understand wanting to shield certain people from certain information, however I feel that this information was information that should not have been kept quiet. Especially due to the fact that once the offending situation was discovered we as a community took swift action in taking care of the situation, and that, to me, makes our community look stronger.

People are always asking how do we grow our community, how do we prevent tension between different groups in the community, how do we keep our community strong. Well I have an answer for all of that, one word COMMUNICATION. If people in the community would actually openly communicate with each other then I can guarantee that most if not all of our problems will disappear.

This does not just apply to information either this applies to all aspects of the community even rumors. If people are saying rumors about someone first tell the person spreading the rumor that it is rude to be doing so in the first place and second of all ask the rumor spreader if they even asked the person they are spreading the rumors about if the rumor was true.

Now normally this is the part where I would put in the “Random Bachelor Card of the Day” however I feel that this blog is too serious of a subject to put it in, so tomorrow I’ll give two.

Summer movies and beyond

Well Monday I went to see Wolverine, and I must say for the most part it was good. I won’t give away too much other than the fact that my favorite mutant, Gambit, was not only in the movie but had a major role in it which made me happy.

Well my second favorite character in the movie was Deadpool. This character is one of the funniest characters there is nicknamed “The Merc with a Mouth” because he is slightly insane with a small amount of ADHD. This guy is an excellent marksman and, as many will see in the movie, great with swords. Another cool thing I found out about him is he has something called “comic awareness” which basically means he breaks the “forth wall” and talks to the audience. Well apparently as of today it is official there is going to be a Deadpool movie with Ryan Reynolds playing the character once again. I for one cannot wait for this to pick up because it will be interesting to see where they go with it.

This got me thinking though as to what other Marvel Characters I’d like to see movies for so I’ll give my top five. In no particular order they are Dr. Strange, Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger, Hawkeye, and Moon Knight. These five characters I feel would be very interesting movies.

Speaking of movies I’m surprised that there are not that many big movies coming out this summer that I just have to see. Don’t get me wrong there is a handful but I’m used to there being so many that I have one almost every week that I want to see. The only ones that I can name off the top of my head that I want to see this summer are Star Trek, Terminator, Transformers, and G.I. Joe. What happened to summer having all the big block buster movies?

Well unfortunately that’s all I have for tonight. I’m sure that tomorrow I’ll have more but for now, I’ll just go into the cards. Since I missed doing it yesterday I’ll treat you all to two cards tonight.
The First “Random Bachelor Dare Card” is: “Approach a babe with peanuts and say, ‘My nuts are salty. Wanna taste?’”

Interesting. I’d love to watch some guy go up to a girl and do that just to watch him get smacked.

The second “Random Bachelor Dare Card” is: “Allow your buds to draw a large ‘tattoo’ of a naked woman — or man — on your arm using a ballpoint pen.”

Wow you’d have to be pretty trusting of your friends to do that.

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My Experiences at FPG including the shiny faeries

Well it has taken me a while but I had a busy day yesterday and was still recuperating heck I still haven’t slept in my own bed yet. Anyhow the main reason, for those few of you that don’t know, that I haven’t posted in about a week is the fact that I went to a little festival called the Florida Pagan Gathering or FPG for short. First just let me say WOW! FPG Beltaine was one hell of an experience. Where to begin?

First of all I’ll begin with my campsite. One of the reasons I enjoyed what little time I had there was the fact that I felt that I got a little closer to a couple of my fellow campsite members that I was not close to before, namely the Destroyer and as my fellow blogger named him Twig and his significant other. However, there was a lot of negative energy flowing around the campsite as well which sort of bothered me quite a bit. I will not go any deeper into the negative energy other than I hope that once FPG Samhain comes around we will not have that problem.

Now another thing that was great was the fact that I got to work with an amazing person, and it got me thinking about how much I enjoyed doing that same type of work when I was helping out my best friend in Ohio and I felt inspired many times as well. The main ritual was simply amazing and I felt gave the entire festival a much needed boost of energy.

Finally I will talk about my favorite part of the festival the shinnies and my journey of attempting to capture at least one of a pair of shinies who also happen to be faeries. It all started on Thursday afternoon I was at my campsite when the shiny green faeries first appeared. They had setup campsite three hundred feet or so diagonal from our own campsite. This is funny if you think about it, the faeries gathered close to the phoenix. Anyhow back the story at hand. Later on as I was sitting at my camp I saw two of the shiniest faeries around strolling along hand in hand along the back edge of our campsite back to their own campsite. Later on that night I saw them again at the opening ritual and must’ve inhaled some faerie dust or something because from that point on I started seeing them more and more. That night I visited the fire circle and caught site of one of the things that truly made these faeries shiny. One had her blue shinies and one had red. This brought me into their spell even further.

Then Friday night is when the fun truly began. Now let me preface the rest of this with the fact that I’m very shy and introverted. I came back from my work ready to hang out and have fun with my camp mates, however when I arrived my camp mates had already left without me, so I tried to go have fun without them. As I walked down the road I ran into a group of them and joined them, however when we stopped at the campsite the party fell apart. The knight went off to have a conversation with Alisande and The Lazy Overachiever went off with the Rook. Well I thought about it for a while and made the decision to go off on my own. I went to the concert that was going on and sitting in the front row was the two shiny faeries. After a while I danced with everyone a few times and made my presence known. After the concert I went to the campsite and it was empty so I quickly went to the painting tent and waited for the beautiful Doll to paint my face and arms since I’m not comfortable with my body enough to walk around with no shirt. Anyhow while I’m waiting who shows up but the faeries, so while I’m getting waiting to get painted and getting painted the dark faerie started painting the red faerie. I must say this was a slight distraction while I was trying look into the beautiful eyes of the Doll. Anyhow the dark faerie was a really good artist, which comes in later in the story, she painted a beautiful tree with runes on both the back and front of the red faerie. Well after I got painted I went to the fire circle and found one of my camp mates standing by the water cooler so I proceeded to talk to him a little bit and told him about my hesitation in dancing around the fire circle. Not long after that moment the red faerie appeared in front of the water cooler and I was surprisingly overcome with confidence. I proceeded to tell her I liked her paint and had a conversation with her where she encouraged me to go dance around the fire along with her. So I followed her encouragement and danced around the fire until almost four in the morning.

The next night I finally got the knight to go around with me raiding the campsites. The first one we went to was the Viking camp and who shows up but the shiny faeries. Well after a while they leave and not long after that so do we. Well we proceed to go around raiding and eventually were on our way back to the campsite, and we ran into the faeries again. Unfortunately this time my brain to mouth filter must have been broken and the wrong stuff came out of my mouth and so I felt like my chance to be with the faeries was blown. I then proceeded to go to bed.

The next day I was given a couple more visions of the shiny faeries before they left. I just hope that once Samhain comes around the faeries will once again make their presence known and this time around the outcome would be different.

I’m sorry this was such a long blog (1033 words), but I just couldn’t not tell the story of the faeries. Tomorrow I should be back to my regularly scheduled blog format.

Sitting in an airport and the randomness that ensues

Sitting in an airport for about seven hours you observe many different types of people. For instance you have the cranky business man who is in such a rush that he just oozes rudeness. This guy barges up to the information booth and demands to know what restaurants are in his gate section while the information lady casually hands him a pamphlet containing a list of all the restaurants in all of the terminals and gates. Then you have the woman who walks around with their nose in the air thinking that they are the greatest thing in the world, yet if they paid any attention they would notice that they have a ketchup stain on their white pants. Of course I can’t forget the pair of guys I saw carrying a clipboard around. They sort of reminded me of Lennie and George from “Of Mice and Men” if the part of George were played by Joe Pesci. I also saw a few of the girls from the Tampa Roller derby team. Nothing like see a couple of hot women who could easily kick your ass.

Wow while looking around the internet I came upon the Wikipedia page of one of the best mother forking actors of our mother forking time He is known for such roles as Nick Fury, Mace Windu, and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction. The guy that was tired of all these mother forking snakes on that mother forking plane, Samuel L. Jackson. So anyhow one of the interesting things I read about him was that in 2006 he lent his voice for an audio book. Now here is the funny part the role he played was God in “The New Testament”. That’s right Samuel L Jackson is God. I can just hear it now. “That mother forking Judas betrayed my mother forking son.” Another couple of cool things about him are that he goes to the theater to see all his movies with all of the paying customers, and he collects action figures of himself from movies he’s been in including Jules Winnfield, Shaft, Mace Windu, and Frozone. Sam Jackson is also a huge fan of comic books and anime. This would explain why he had no problem with Marvel Comics using his likeness for the Ultimate version of Nick Fury, and why he signed on to play Nick Fury in nine future movies.

Now for the fan favorite part of my blog the Random Bachelor Dare Card. Today’s card is:”Lick the Bar”

That is disgusting I would never accept that dare.

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How I was so drunk I ran into the shed

After reading Zoe’s blog today I came up with an idea for my own. I will know explain to you one of my drinking stories. This is not a challenge! However if anyone wants to write about a favorite drinking story feel free to do so.

You see I grew up in my grandparents’ house. My grandparents were snowbirds at the time so my family had the house to ourselves most of the year. Well my grandfather had a closet that had all kinds of liquor in it including vodka. Well every so often I would sneak a shot of vodka. This happened for a while and at one point my grandparents decided to start limiting the time they spent up in Ohio.

Well half way through my senior year I went on a trip with the Concert Choir to Boston. While I was gone I got a call from my best friend telling me that he and my other buddy had helped my stepfather move out of the house in Cornersburg, OH to Akron so he could be closer to his job. This was the first step in the set-up.

After I got back my friends, my sister and I would just hang out in my back yard by a bonfire every night. My friends would help out around the house and in return my mom would buy them a case of beer. So many nights toward the end of my high school senior year were spent with my (at the time) two good friends drinking alcohol in my backyard in front of a bonfire.

Now for the good part. One night I completely raided the liquor closet; I took all the bottles out of there and brought them outside for some good drinking. Well my one friend thought it’d be a good idea to mix EVERYTHING we had to drink out there into one big Styrofoam cup and have me drink it all. He poured Vodka, Lime flavored Vodka, Sloe Gin, beer, Pepsi, wine coolers, and other stuff I can’t remember since it was about twelve years ago.

Well I drank most of It, what I didn’t drink was spit into the fire because it was “cool to watch the flames go whoosh”. After a while they had me get up to go get some more wood for the fire. The wood pile was on the other side of our shed, so after getting up, and probably being pretty damn buzzed, I walked over to get the wood. On the way to the pile I thought it’d be funny if I made it sound like I ran into the shed. So as I passed by the shed I hit the door with my hand, and proceeded to grab the firewood. When I got back to the fire they all started laughing at me thinking I did run into the shed. To this day there is still a debate as to who is right them or me.

So that is the story of how I was so drunk I ran into the shed.

Now for everyone’s favorite part of the blog, The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s card is: “Speaking in an obviously fake accent, explain to a hot girl that you’re a tourist from another country, and wonder how the locals kiss — can she show you?”

That would be an interesting one to get, and with enough alcohol in me and if the prize for winning was good enough I’d do that dare.

588 words. Not bad especially since the lower limit is 400.