Anywho, that's it. If anybody else reading this (as I've said many times before) would like to have an entry written about themselves please ask me :) I don't like to generally write entries about people who I don't know to well, but I'm happy to draw anybody so long as I have a picture to work from!
I had a request recently from Courtney Pritchard and Chloe McDermott to make an entry about them and to draw them on Paint. Here it is. So I guess I'll just say a little about them now, I see them most days when I do my MDSA work and they occasionally talk to me while I do it. Courtney's nice enough, but Chloe is kind of insane, always signing into websites as Courtney and saying gross things to me.
Anywho, that's it. If anybody else reading this (as I've said many times before) would like to have an entry written about themselves please ask me :) I don't like to generally write entries about people who I don't know to well, but I'm happy to draw anybody so long as I have a picture to work from!
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Before I had this blog, I tried to write this idea down as a roughly 1,000 word essay. It just seemed terrible, so now I’m going to try and write this idea again, hopefully more successfully.
Basically, the point of this entry is to demonstrate to you that, due to crossovers and other things, it can be assumed that ALL fictional characters exist in the same world. I'll do this by drawing out a clear step-by-step chain for everybody to follow, I'll start with the perfectly inconspicuous piece of fiction, the Donkey Kong Country series of video games that I really enjoyed playing as a young boy (by which I mean, I still play today). 1. Donkey Kong Country crosses over with Banjo-Kazooie in Diddy Kong Racing. 2. Banjo-Kazooie crosses over with Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing with Banjo-Kazooie. 3. Sonic the Hedgehog crosses over with a very large number of video game series in Super Smash Bros. Brawl but most significantly Metal Gear. 4. Metal Gear crosses over with Castlevania in New International Track & Field. 5. Castlevania games are stories which are basically sequels and prequels to Dracula by Bram Stoker. 5. Dracula crosses over with Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count by Loren D. Estleman 6. Sherlock Holmes crosses over with H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos in the anthology Shadows Over Baker Street. 7. The Cthulhu mythos crosses over with Doctor Who (and Sherlock Holmes again) in All Consuming Fire by Andy Lane. 8. The TARDIS from Doctor Who appears briefly in an episode of Red Dwarf. 9. Red Dwarf also features the ships from Star Trek in some kind of space junkyard. 10. Star Trek features the company Yoyodyne from The John Larroquette Show. 11. The John Larroquette Show crosses over with Frasier briefly in one episode. 12. Frasier has had its characters mention the magazine articles of the main character from Caroline in the City. 13. Caroline in the City had an episode featuring Chandler from Friends. So you can see in just thirteen steps you can get from my favourite childhood video game to one of my favourite TV shows. I did have to do a lot of research for this, when originally looking I found this graph which shows the extent of what I'm saying, but only in regards to TV shows, not including novels and video games as I did. I think I'll just list three other things that fit into this enormous tangled web: - The Epic of Gilgamesh (the earliest known piece of fiction) crosses over with Doctor Who) - The Legend of Zelda (which is part of Super Smash Bros. Brawl) crosses over with Soul Calibur which then crosses over with Star Wars. - The main character from House is based on Sherlock Holmes; House has crossed over with Family Guy which has crossed over with The Hills. I hope this is at least somewhat interesting to you. It is to me, as is clear, I'm sure, by the fact that I researched it and wrote a blog entry on it... As I may have mentioned on here before (though I'm not that sure that I have) I did A Level English Language. In the A2 half of the course (or 'second' half for those unfamiliar with A Levels) you have to carry out a language investigation. What this quite literally means is find any piece of written language (transcript, script, novel, magazine, MSN conversation etc) and then investigate it. By 'investigate it' I mean that you must apply the theories of various linguists and make your own theories about the particular text you have.
Now, as I'm somebody who really enjoys reading, I decided I would do my investigation on some area of literature. Luckily I had recently finished reading the book American Supernatural Tales which is an anthology of horror stories written throughout history by Americans (it's really good, if you're interested, you should buy it!). At the time, aside from coursework, we were also studying the theories about the ways that language changes over time and the reasons behind it, so I thought, as the book had several stories from a period of about two hundred years, I could apply these theories to it. However, my English teacher warned me that my study might be verging more into an English Literature area of study rather than an English Language one. This meant that she kindly did several after-school English sessions so that I could ensure that I was writing about English Language points and not English Literature points. I remember I had written something that wasn't very good and was very English Literature-y so my teacher was explaining specific kind of points I could make: "One thing that you can see is the way that, in older stories, there is clearly a much more formal tone. I mean, it's most clear when you look at children's literature, compare Treasure Island (another good book!) which opens with some large fourteen line paragraph or something like that, to the opening of Holes (a third good book!) which just starts with 'There is no lake at Camp Green Lake'! it shows that the people of today have much lower expectations of children than they did in the past. Children's novels written roughly a hundred years ago are still read and enjoyed by adults today, showing that there's a drastic difference between the reading ability of children of the past than of today." Then my good friend, who was also in the room, interjected with a really hilarious observation about it "Nah it doesn't," she said "it just shows that adults of today are as intelligent of the children of the past!" In the summer of 2008, my friend Milo Goodspeed was kind enough to let me and Elliott Egan come with him to Cornwall and spend the week staying in his Grandmother's bed and breakfast. One evening, while strolling through a holiday site, Milo or Egan had the idea of playing Knock Knock Ginger (if you don't know what that is, it's a game where you knock at somebody's door and then run away, it may seem kind of childish, but we were just a group of fifteen year old boys) here's how the game came out:
"So I'm gonna go first," said Milo. "Watch this." He then ran over to a chalet knocked on the door and ran away "Very good, Milo," I said. "Yeah, now it's Egan's turn," he said. "When you go, you have to say 'Opps sorry, I forgot to run away!' and then run away." "Okay then," Egan replied and then ran and knocked on a door. "Yes, what is it?" asked the stranger who answered. "Opps sorry," Egan replied, "I forgot to run away!" Then he ran away and all the person at the door could do was sigh. "Now, Randall," Milo said to me, "you have to do the same, except say something different to them." "Hmm, I don't know...." I said. The game seemed fun to watch, but did I really want to do it myself? "C'mon, you have to do it. Me and Egan have, now it's your turn," he said. "Hmm." I still wasn't sure. "Just do it!" he said, so I thought I may as well, it wasn't harming anybody after all. So I knocked at the front door of a chalet and waited. "Hello, what do you want?" asked the person on the other side in a friendly manner. It was then that I realised I should have planned something to say to them. In the end, I quickly said the first thing that came to mind. "Hmm, well I like to eat a slice of bread every morning, but today I've run out of bread and so I thought I'd come and ask you if I could just have one slice of bread..." "Come in," said the stranger politely. Meanwhile, Milo and Egan watched from a distance. From where they were, they couldn't see who had answered the door, all they could see was that I had gone in. They began to worry. They both seemed to think that I'd knocked on the door of some angry maniac who had let me in either to beat me up or to hold me until the police came. Back inside the chalet, the woman who had answered the door had wandered into the kitchen and come back with a nice slice of fancy bread. "Here you go a nice fresh slice of bread," she said. "Thank you," I said with a smile. "I look forward to eating it tomorrow." They walk me to the door, "Which chalet is it that you're staying in?" she asked "Oh you know," I pointed vaguely in the distance, "over there somewhere. Thanks for the bread!" She said goodbye and I headed towards Milo and Egan. I explained to them all that had happened and enjoyed my bread. So yeah, the trip was quite an enjoyable one, and this was just one of the more memorable events from it, I hope it was entertaining for you too! I found this song recently, please take a listen to it: What did you think of the song? When I first listened to it, I thought "Hmm, what a nice song about friendship..." then along came the line "darn, I wish I was a lesbian so I could fall in love with you" and suddenly the song seemed to 'rub me the wrong way' as the saying goes. I mean, think about it, would any of you (my readers) really want to change sexuality so that you could have that kind of relationship with your best friend? The problem is, I think, that the word 'love' in English is used to mean too many things. You love your family, you love your friends and you also love a particular person who you want to spend as much time with as possible. But, despite using the same word, all three of these things are almost entirely different. Let me explain using diagrams, here is the Love Spectrum: It shows clearly all the different kinds of love that there are and also names them each. Now I will use the Love Spectrum to show why the song is weird, this is what will happen if you are heterosexual and share a friendship with somebody. This is the first stage (after leaving acquaintanceship): Then as years go by and the friendship becomes closer this will happen: As you can see, as time goes by, the relationship stretches into the 'frove' section but is still quite a distance from the 'love' section. That woman wishing she was a lesbian with her best friend is like wishing you weren't related to one of your siblings so you could start a Lover Love relationship with them. But I know some people will say "but best friends do fall into the Lover Love section sometimes" and it's true, they do. But that only happens if they are of opposite genders and heterosexual, or, indeed, of the same gender and homosexual. In that case the frove stretches to love and then back to fove, covering the whole spectrum. Only when love is reached can the whole thing be covered.
Sheesh, I started this entry thinking it was a good idea, but now I'm thinking it turned out one of my worst ones! Oh well, I hope you enjoyed the song. Also, some of you may say that I missed out sexual love, but that's just gross and there's no place for it in my blog. Think about it, sexual love becomes 'Lex' and Lex is the first name of Lex Luther (a super villain) so I guess that just proves it. This entry is, if the title didn't give it away, a response to the results of the survey I posted a few days ago. One of the common things that people said they enjoyed on my blog were my entries dedicated to people I know. If you do want one written about you, don't hesitate to ask me, I'll write it in a few days! But another of the thing that somebody asked me to include was drawings I had made on Paint (the computer program). The picture with today's entry is a drawing of myself that I made for some project I was working on a few months ago (which later turned out to be a waste of time), but it shows what I can do using Paint. So now you, my faithful readers, can request me to either write an entry about you or to have yourself drawn in the style of the picture below. Although, with the entries about people, I think I'll have to add the limitation that I have to have known you for over a year to be able to write a good one, but if you want to have me illustrate you with Paint, all I need is your picture, so if you want one done please let me know :) P.S. I've only had five people fill out my survey, and to you five I am very thankful :D, but could more of you please fill it out if you do read my blog!
This is probably a crazy and outlandish idea that belongs more in the realms of science fiction than on this blog, but a few years ago I had an idea that would help reduce pollution and, as such, damage to the ozone layer. It isn't some crazy idea for a new fuel or anything, just an idea of how cars could be altered to reduce their emissions.
My idea is basically that cars should be combined with plants. I don't mean anything stupid like cars made of wood than run on leaves, but due to my lack of knowledge of the subject I'm sure it's probably just as absurd. But let me specify: plants produce oxygen when they take in carbon dioxide; in fact, plants being destroyed along with the rainforests is making the whole global warming thing worse. Now I don't know how quickly/powerfully plants are able to produce oxygen, but what if every car, for example, on its roof, had an area where plants grew (obviously the owner of the car would have to maintain them. So basically the exhaust pipe wouldn't just spew all of the emissions out into the atmosphere, it would go up to the roof, where plants would be kept in a greenhouse like attachment. Then they would be, at least partially, reduced. I'm sure there are many problems with my idea, but I hope it's at least made for interesting reading. I was happily walking home after doing my MDSA work in school today, when, all of a sudden, I found myself in a rather tense situation. I was not far from my house, when, with no warning, three wasps appeared from nowhere and began circling me menacingly. Every so often one of them would land on my face, but a quick twitch of my head made them resume their circling. Now, when I said I was not far from my house, I mean I was still about three minutes away. So the fact that there were three wasps rather than one, and that no matter how fast I walked, they continued their evil rotations, I was certain I wouldn't get out of the situation without at least one painful sting. But before long I was provided with another reason for carrying a water bottle with me....
Now, before I carry on with my story, I feel I need to debunk a common misconception about wasps. I'm sure you've been told in the past that, if a wasp ever takes an interest in you, the best thing to do is to remain perfectly still. Then, goes the advice, the wasp will quickly lose interest in you and fly away. If you ever are in a situation where a wasp has shown an interest in you DO NOT remain still, wasps are pure evil, if you remain still it makes you an easier target for them. Just to prove my point I'll interject this entry's main story with another wasp related story. When I was whatever age you are when you're in Year 5 of primary school, another wasp showed interest in me. I remembered the 'remain still' strategy, so I did just that, and the wasp landed on my face, walked slowly over to my eye, stung it, and flew away. So never believe that wasps can be defeated by remaining still! It's just as stupid as thinking you can stop a mugger with the same method. Anyway, I was walking along and desperately trying to think of a way to stop these hateful insects from stinging me. Then I remembered something about wasps, something that (as this story will demonstrate is actually true!), they are attracted the way liquids shine, especially when in a bottle... And what do I always have on my person? Unfortunately, as it was a very hot day, I had taken my blazer off and was carrying it, so the pocket with my Trusty Water Bottle in was not easily accessible to me. This also meant that, not only my face, but my arms were exposed to their stinger too. I fumbled around the pockets of my blazer; all the while the wasps were landing on me more and more. Eventually, to my great relief, I got my water bottle out of my pocket and, instantly, I held it out as far away from me as I could. The wasps then stopped circling me, and started circling my water bottle. I quickly span around and through my water bottle down the road so that it would be as far away from me as possible. As I had hoped, the wasps followed it and I was able to get home without a single sting. Unfortunately, of course, this means I now do not have a water bottle. Luckily I can just buy a fresh one tomorrow, but the memory of the last one's heroic sacrifice will never fade. So if you ever find yourself being tormented by wasps this summer, perhaps you could try this strategy to try and escape them. |
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