Merry Christmas!

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb

‘Tis true! It’s funny how one little thing can make me feel all warm and cuddly inside.

I’m tired so I’m just gonna jot down some random thoughts…

• “City of Men” is a good movie. It’s too bad I fell asleep during “City of God” because then I would have something to compare it too. But overall, it was entertaining.


• BET plays ATL too much. Then again, BET does a lot of unnecessary things.


• Speaking of ATL, everytime I see that Marcus guy from Smart Guy it makes me wonder where TJ is.


• I need to start thinking of some New Years resolutions… (this will be a later post)


• As much as I love the corny Christmas movies like Rudolph the Red Nose Raindeer, and Charlie Brown’s Christmas special… “The Nightmare Before Christmas” will always be my favourite!


• On that note, “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

theres a good guy behind every bad..jonas?? [[episode38]] I LOVE DORIAN

CityNews.ca - Facinelli Talks 'Twilight'

source: CityNews

Actor Peter Facinelli Talks Twilight

Wednesday December 17, 2008

Erin Criger, CityNews.ca

I got a free ticket to see Twilight. Not that I wouldn’t have gone anyway - I love vampires and movies aimed at teenagers - I just wouldn’t have gone so soon.

It turns out, two weeks after its November 21 release, I was late to the party.

In the row ahead of me, a group of high school students was settling into their seats.

“How many times have you seen it?” one asked.

“It’s my third,” admitted another.

“Second.”

“First.”

“First?” they squealed. “It’s your first time? You’re a Twilight virgin! Virgin! EEEEEEE!”

And so it began.

They had much in common with the young protagonists, Isabella Swan (known as Bella and played by Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (known as ohmigodIamgoingtomarryhimohmigod and played by Robert Pattinson), for whom sex is literally deadly.

But it’s the patriarch of the Cullen clan I’m interested in, Dr. Carlisle Cullen. Played by Peter Facinelli, he’s a former vampire hunter whose 16th century mission to rid the world of the scourge went terribly awry when he was turned into one himself.

Now living among the humans in Forks, Washington, he makes his family of six lead a “vegetarian” lifestyle. That is, they only feed on animals. And he himself only turns people into vampires when they would have died of natural causes. Edward, for example, would have tragically perished of Spanish influenza had Dr. Cullen not intervened.

“He’s kind of started a new way of life for vampires because most vampires, they live off humans,” explains Facinelli in a telephone call.

“He’s the doctor in this small town, living a secret life.”

And though his character is frozen in time at the age of 23, he’s playing the dad. When I tell him it’s a far cry from his role in Can’t Hardly Wait, the last teen epic he starred in, he laughs.

“You mean I’m not the hunky male lead?” he jokes.

“It was a little funny being the old guy, because I’m not that

Cullen vampires play baseball [Twilight] Extreme quality

Lower Taxes • Smaller Government • Strong Defense

by Strings Attached

Lower taxes, smaller government and a strong National defense.

Ask any Republican, and they’ll tell you that those principles are essentially the core of their party’s message. Those are the ones that are on every Republican’s list. Of course, there are factions within the party that will put other things on the list:

There are the strict constitutionalists that will talk about limiting government exclusively to constitutionally prescribed responsibilities.

There are libertarian-leaning Republicans holding back against infringement, but also opposed generally to governmental obligations (social programs). They don’t want “my tax money” going to pay for benefits for “other people”.

Then there are the Fundamentalist Christian Republicans, who operate under a delusion that the United States was “founded on Christian beliefs” ignoring the historical fact that most of those we call “founding fathers” were actually Deist. These wedge issue voters get a lot of voice within the party, but most of their actual positions are minority views even within their own party, and certainly across the nation as a whole.

But the average rank and file folks who have identified with the Republican Party for decades haven’t given it that much thought. They ascribe to a much simpler list of priorities:

Lower taxes, smaller government and a strong national defense.

It’s simple, really. Who can argue with those principles? Democrats should know there is nothing wrong with those ideas. What’s wrong is the widely held view that those ideas are somehow exclusively Republican.

When Republican’s say they are for lower taxes, they imply that Democrats are for taking more of your money and wasting it. Frankly, I don’t know any Democrats who are for wasting money.

Did you say you were for smaller government? If that means that ineffective programs should be replaced or eliminated or that redundant layers of bureaucracy should be streamlined, well, I can’t name any Democrats that would object. Individual politicians may have fallen into the ‘pork for votes’ trap, but nobody is really for it, are they?

A strong National Defense? I can’t remember the name of the Democrat who ran on a platform of weak defense, can you?

..read the rest of the story here

Chapter III: The Vain

I dashed away from her and to the dead end, barely making it out of her range. Magne followed my lead but stumbled a couple steps behind me.

After her first attack she just stood there as if waiting for something to happen, she didnt look back at us or lowered her weapon.

It was then I dropped to my knees. The bitch had drawn a clear line through my lower leg. Her make-shift spear was sharper than I imagined. I covered the wound with my hand but it didnt stop gushing blood.

“Run you idiots! Get away-” Quinn spoke out with all the energy left in his body. But sadly the woman drove her spear into his chest before he got to finish his sentence.

“SILENCE!” She pounded the weapon repeatedly leaving his chest covered with in running blood “This is MY fight, you will not ruin it”

Her sharp voice echoed in the surrounding walls, shortly to be interrupted by the sound of gun-cocking.

“But I sure wouldnt mind ruining it for YOU” Magne pointed his gun straight at her face. It looked like a classic police Beretta, the metal shone with the little light that fell upon it.

She turned around and looked straight into Magne’s eyes, she didnt show any fear, never stopped smiling.

“Would you dare ruining my fun?” Her words were slow and heavy, almost as if it had taken hours for her to finish the sentence. The voice had changed back to that melody, the calming, releaving melody.

“Ah…” Magne couldnt say anything, his body still.

It was like time had stopped. We were all trapped in the vortex… but her, she walked so charmingly over to Magne, moving her defined hips side to side.

I tried to push myself to yell something to Magne but I… I got lost in her eyes. It was like diving into the sky… showering myself in the light blue tint. I laughed, I was over covered with joy, I forgot what was going on, I even forgot what I was doing down here in the first place. When I pulled my hand out to reach her and her eyes met mine the entire room was covered in this peachy scent, a wonderful combination between fresh Cinnamon and sheer joy. I wanted her to continue to look at me forever. I was unbelievably happy, I had no needs, no worries, no fears.

I almost could hear sweet words come out her perfect lips as she got closer and closer. The darkness had vanished from the hall, everything was now lighted by a golden-bright star, and her face was enough to kill you…

…Or to kill me.

“S-Succubusssss…. D-D-D-Dieee!!!” Magne fired his gun.

And just like that darkness came back, like my pain, like the stench of dead coating the walls. I shook my head and wondered what just had happened. I looked over to Magne and our eyes met, his expression read the same that mine did.

“…that WAS a succubus… great call Magne” The words came out rough from my throat, but Magne’s smile showed that he got my message.

“Why?… You dont like me?…” She was back on her feet “What is there not to like about me?”

“Is the fact that you are not dead yet!” Magne pulled the trigger of his gun one more time, she fell to the floor once again.

With the second shot me and Magne got up with the strength we had and looked at the body in front of us. Within seconds I broke out laughing.

“Nice line” I said taking my eyes off the corpse “Where did you learn that? Comeback 101?”

“If I hadnt I would have never graduated from the academy” He winked and we both laughed.

For the first time in the entire night I was filled with a feeling of accomplishment, I was happy. It didnt matter if Quinn died or that we were trapped in the building, as long as I was happy. I picked up my flashlight but decided not to turn it on, everything looked so bright.

“You know what I really need right now?” Magne said, throwing away the bullet clips that he had in his harness.

“No, what?”

“A burger, with a large soda and-”

“Curly fries!” I answered as I smashed my flashlight against Magne’s forehead.

“Yes! With a side of Buffalo sauce” Magne pushed his fist into my face.

I was happy. I was overwhelmed with calm. I wasnt afraid anymore… and that wonderful scent was back, much sweeter than before. I smiled as the blood got into my eyes, but even through the red curtain I could see the bright golden star that illuminated us.

Our star greeted is with kisses. I was happy.