Hendrix

Alright, I have a ton of homework so I am going to make this short and sweet. Today is the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death. Probably the greatest guitar player ever, Hendrix literally revolutionized music and the way the wonderful instrument that is called a guitar is played. Many people try to take after this legend's style, but are unable to achieve it. Hat's off to Hendrix.

Arizona Part II

I'm back! After a long vacation in Arizona, I have finally come back to freezing New Hampshire.

AZ was awesome. It is totally different from NH. You cannot see a set of 10 consecutive trees there, instead there will be 100s of cacti. There are mountains literally everywhere you look. It's crazy.

Me, my mom and Erik flew into Tucson Friday night after around 8 or so hours of flying. We were picked up by my uncle Jeff and then drove to their mansion style home. It wasn't huge, but it was big. 3 bathroom 8 rooms, and best of all, a 60 inch HD Sony TV. It was wicked sweet. The whole TV was the size of my wingspan. Watching Ohio State Michigan was a blast.

The first couple of days, we just relaxed and got used to the time difference. It was weird, last Saturday, I went to bed at 9:00 there time (11:00 our time.) I went running with my Uncle Marty almost everyday and each time we went a different route. Every time we had to stop. The view was unreal. Wednesday we went mountain biking, and I ran into a cactus mountain biking with Erik and my two other uncles. I didn't have to get any needles pulled out, but Erik ran into one and had around 200 pulled out of just his hand. He had an extra 50 or so pulled out of his knee. Thursday, I did the turkey trot, a 5 K. My time was 23:30. Not that bad, around 7:40 miles.

On the way back, we stopped in Chicago. They have the best airport I've ever been to. They had two McDonald's there, around 3 cafes, more than half a dozen shops, it was awesome. My family stopped at Harry Carey's (who was the greatest Cubs announcer ever.) Food, great, although it was pricey. Then we got ice cream at Ben and Jerry's. It was sweet. (Pat, I didn't get a pin for you in AZ, but I got one for you in the airport in Chicago.)

It turned out to be the best vacation I've ever been on. Guys, we have to stop by Tucson on our road trip.

Arizona

Alright, I just want to tell everyone that I leave for Arizona tomorrow. That's right. A week without me, (Pat's probably really excited.) But, I'll bring all of you guys back some iced tea, and I'll try to get some pics up on my blog about the whole thing. I'm gonna run the Turkey Trot there which is an annual five mile race. I've been consistently running five miles everyday in training for this and have figured out that it's going to take me around 35 minutes. Not bad.
But this brings me to another point. Chambers is signing up for the Grand Canyon Backpacking Intersession at our school. All of us believe that one, he will not last an hour, and two, he's only doing this one because it's the most expensive one. Either way, he's not going to make it out alive....
Okay, I'll see you guys in a week! Except for W.
Peace.

Borat

Okay! I hopped on the band waggon. I now have a new tricked out blog. Even though it's pointless, since I'm not really going to be posting anymore.....oh well.
But more importantly, I saw Borat yesterday with the gang. Let me tell you, it was hilarious. I thought that it would be a little funnier, but it still was wicked good.
Michard's take on Borat:
This was a goodun. It was tons funnier than Taledaga Nights, the only other comedy I've seen this year. It was "Very nice." Sacha Cohen, (in Taledega, and also Da Ali G show) did well in this movie. The accent was near perfect. It fit the movie. I totally agree with the critics, who gave Borat four stars. I think it deserved four stars or more. I say go see it.
But there was some debate over this, was most of it staged, or was almost all of it unwritten and it just happened. Me, I think that most to all of the movie was staged. The Pamela Anderson scene had to be staged. And besides that, I think that the Running of the Jew, the end of the wrestling scene, and also the scene with gangsters were all staged and writen. I know that someone on the ride home, (either Lee or Patty, or Chambers,) said that they thought that the Pam scene was the only scene that had to be staged. But it doesn't really mater. The argument could go either way, and it was funny wether written or not. I give it at least a B+ or and A-.

Road Trip

I'm bored again in free period, so I'm blogging. But this tiem, it's actually important. Me and some others (Lee, Alex, Kyle, etc.) are going on a road trip next year to California. If anyone has anything they think we should bring, tell me. I already have a huge list but I need some other ideas

Death Penalty

Alright, I know that I haven't posted in forever. Well, that's because I'm not going to blog anymore. It's a waste of time. I said this before, but this one, I'm actually going to follow through on. I'm only doing this one because I'm in Free Period and I have nothing to do. For this post, I'm doing something that's really an important issue all over the world. The Death Penalty. I hate this thing so much. Whoever says the death penalty is the right thing to do can kiss my ass. That's crazy. If you're one of those eye for an eye people, try this, "An eye for an eye will make us all blind." And it's true. You know it is.
More important than this is the Mumia case. Free Mumia. He is so innocent. Anyone who says otherwise (Chambers) should do some research on a site other than Wikipedia, (except if the article was written by W) an non Daniel Falkner site, and a non anti Mumia site. Chambers, get on your computer and start. By the end of it, even if you still want to believe he's guilty, you'll know that he is innocent.
Anyway, back to the death penalty. It's cruel and unusual. And what if the guy is innocent? It's a factor. He could be. Mumia is. Other than that, it is embarrasing. Idaho and Utah still offer the firing squad as a choice if you want it. That's terrible. It's inhumane. Let's tie a guy up to a tree and have 20 people fire at him at him WITH THE INTENTION TO KILL. That's not a punishment, it's murder. There was once a case where a lethal injection was trying to take place, but it took 33 minutes of cutting the guy to find a good vein. That's sick if you ask me. This whole thing is literally rediculous. I personally hate it.
And here is something about the Philidalpheia court system (speaking of Mumia.) I found out today that the in the Philly court system, 60 percent of all capital cases went without proper investigations or experienced attorneys. Hmmm......makes you stop and think does'nt it? Not that I don't love America and stuff, because I do, but there are so many things that need help in the US needs to take care of or start taking a lot more seriously.