This month's NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month, and yes, every month is national blog posting month) theme is MITZVAH. For all you non-Jews out there, MITZVAH is not an acronym for My Intense Testicles Zap Very Accurately Here. Often we translate mitzvah as "commandment" as in the 613 commandments of the Torah, although "commandment" isn't the most appropriate word either"). But the term mitzvah is also used to express an act of human kindness, or even a "good deed" is you want to go that far. It's no coincidence that they chose mitzvah for December. Remember all those holidays coming up? Maybe you haven't watched that annoying GAP commercial with the screaming children enough ("I love my comfy sweater... I love my comfy sweater...."). This is the time to be kind to one another and share the love. Need a secret Santa gift? In this economy, the best thing is...
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A few weeks ago on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert put time on the Threat Down because an extra second was added to 2008. Colbert commented that 2008 sucked, but personally I liked it. A lot of interesting stuff happened for me in 2008. I think every year that I have lived has had some significant things happen to me, always with some sort of "firsts." There were a lot of firsts this year, and I'm not just talking about first black president or first time my school won their homecoming game in 13 years or so. These firsts, among other things, made extreme impacts on my life. And I want to ramble about them a little (in no particular order). 1. First off, 2008 was the year I created Yamblings. After I wrote a piece on my opinion of Valentines Day and why I was so confused, I felt...
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Seasons greetings! Christmastime is here again! Yeah, I know it's more PC to call it "Holiday time" or "Winter time" nowadays. But let's face it. The only real reason we get off from school and work is because of Christmas. Sure there are other holidays. But keep in mind that Chanukah is a minor holiday that does NOT define the Jewish people, despite what Adam Sandler and all of the SNL writers may think. Ramadan already happened a few months earlier. Festivus is not a real holiday... even if you spend a thousand dollars on a shiny new Festivus pole. And I don't even know what Winter Solstice is. The only legit other holiday besides Christmas is Kwanzaa. So for their sake, "Merry Christmas and have a kwazy Kwanzaa!" Anyhoo, I want to talk about the most famous person in the world. No not Jesus Christ. Or Ronald McDonald. I'm...
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Today was (and I suppose still is) my birthday. I am 17. And it was quite an eventful day. I would like to outline for my own pleasure in explicit detail: At approximately midnight I went to bed. I woke up. It occurred to me it was my birthday. I showered, got dressed, and put my contact lenses in. On my way to school I had a Go-gurt and OJ for breakfast (the juice, not Simpson!). I took my English final. It was overwhelming at first but I eased my way into it and wrote for the win. It was very different from any other final I've taken so far and looking back I enjoyed it. I had a 15-minute break although it felt like 5. I had my PE final. That meant that I sat in the gym for 2 hours (weight room for maybe 20 minutes) doing various...
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Tomorrow is Day of Silence. Let's raise the roof tomorrow and bring on the noise. I'm not against the LGBT community. Not at all. But I don't think they need a national protest of silence... especially not year after year. Especially when there's so much else to protest about (remember that regular unleaded gas has risen to nearly $4 a gallon?). So forget the Day of Silence. Let's have a Day of Noise. Bring your boom box to school, crank it up, and make some noise!
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Now this little piece I’m going to write about contains deep thoughts. I’ve been thinking about how to word it all day and I want to make sure that I explain my feelings with complete and utter seriousness. Valentines Day is around the corner. As we all know, this is not a holiday made up to remember Saint Valentine, who was one of the several martyred saints of ancient Rome according to Wikipedia. Rather, Valentines Day is a holiday that was invented by young couples in the nineteenth century that was later bought out by Hallmark as that greeting card company is the only company in the world that can patent national holidays. So instead of having a free holiday, we must waste the money that could have gone to the millions of children starving in Africa to buy greeting cards and heart-shaped boxes of miniature chocolates with disgusting little...
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