DragonBro's blog

So apparently this whole Blogging for a Scholarship thing has started up again? Does that mean the free flow of ideas and thoughts again? That’d be nice, so I figure why not, I’ll add my thoughts into the foray of this competition and see what people have to say about em, despite the fact that they probably don’t care and are doing it for the points anyway. Isn’t that how this works? If memory serves, we all get points for reading, commenting and posting. So the main idea is to attract everyone to your blog and have em read it. The incentive for them is to comment on your idea all in the cause of progress! Cooey, that’s a mouthful!

It’s Monday morning; in just a few hours I’ll be a high school graduate. I tumble downstairs to grab some breakfast and examine what went wrong with the world. I pick up the front page of the Plain Dealer and discover…again just a high-class newspaper it is. Lets examine the front page. The big headline, in bold, with some ugly picture of Ken Blackwell reads “Politics’ new wild card: blogs.” We need some history here. A while ago the PD decided to do away with this section called the Metro section on Mondays. It had more local interest news, not national news, which should be featured on the front page. To the left of that is a teaser for some dude named Carl Pettersson (holding some glass trophy) and below that is this blurb type thing called Metro Monday. It lists news about Casey Coleman learning his cancer has spread, some new myspace knock off and some grave new coming oil wars. To the right of that is a large picture of several Iraqis holding a coffin under a headline that reads, “Iraqis mourn after 21 killed” with three page article that’s later continued on page…A13. Damn, there had better have been a lot of news to bury this on the 13th page. Anyway, below that is some thing about traditions featuring old ladies in outrageous hats. Oh, I almost forgot, there is some mention of the Canadian terror plot, that’s next to the Iraqi article.

So, seniors at my school are out on whats called senior project. Basically a three week volunteer experiance we go out and be somebody, or some companies bitch for several weeks. Some people work for teachers, other go out into the community a bit more. I'm working with a local environmental agency. We're required to write daily journals, today mine reads:

Today I waded through wetlands, tromped through fields of poison ivy, got caught on pricker bushes, sank into mud fields (getting my pants royally mud spattered), spooked a Great Blue Heron, found myself on the wrong side of a water filled culvert, pounded five foot long signs into the ground two feet with this heavy, funky looking device, got laughed at by geese and ducks, almost got attacked by many small woodland creatures, got lost in developments and got completely frustrated trying to find small pins in the ground with yellow tops. All in the name of marking conservation easements. Who made surveyors markers so hard to find??

Tonight on ABC is some “world premiere movie event” dealing with the bird flu, and what would happen should it become transferable between humans. It tells a tail of millions of people dying and of mass graves, admittedly fake.

My question for the execs at ABC is why?

Let's get millions of Americans all vamped up and scared about something that could quiet possibly not be that dangerous. Just avoid messing about with chickens and anything that does and you good right? Probably not but still, why create a movie about something that could, worst case (hopefully) happen to us before its happened! Tell me if this makes sense to anybody? Creating a movie that scares to public (familiar theme I’ll admit). But it was different when G-Dub was scaring us into believing that there really were terrorists in Iraq and that they had weapons of mass destruction (or weather balloon equipment, whichever sounds better), and it also worked by convincing us that we needed a department of homeland security. But what’s the use this time? There’s nothing the public can really do about the bird flu, we cant really come up with some department that will find a cure in the next few months, so why scare the crap out of the citizens by creating a movie depicting mass deaths?

And we're off. I never thought I'd be bloggin on such an organized site, let alone for money. Not to shabby I suppose. I've blogged before, spoken my mind and then quietly let the sight fall by the wayside. Another fresh page I suppose. I get rewarded for spewing my incoherent ramblings and have others drop by. Not to shabby I suppose!