went to a friend's house.. our daughters played together.. and she's getting me fat so i need to stop going over there. i swear, her apartment is filled with junk food from head to toe. and we ordered chinese food.. so why is she still skinny?! bitch.. lol....
totally sick again.. caught if from my daughter.. sucks.. went to the pediatrician's office yesterday and they made me wait over and hour and a half! i was too tired to care. so we all fell asleep in the room waiting for the doctor. and then my daughter fell asleep through the whole check up. she said to just ride it out until she gets better but if it doesn't in ten days, i should go back. i hate it when they do that!!! my head hurts, my throat hurts, everything hurts. 
and i have a billion phone calls to make while my voice is scratchy..
finished my internship hours.. start working at another job tomorrow afternoon.. maybe i should quit Hollister? It's alright working there, the people are fun. It's just that I hate driving up to New Hampshire and then scheduling my work hours around my chaotic life...
My goal is to stay at Hollister for one year. Waiting for winter so I can get the discount on a new winter jacket lol. It's just that my baby father is the one who drives me up to the mall and he works two jobs too. one full time and one part time. so not only do i have to schedule my life around my daughter's.. i have to schedule my life around him too.. stinks...
anyway, that was another of one my life's story. please pray for me! lol
OHHHHH PREASH AH LAHHHHH!!!! IT'S PRAI-DAY N 1 MORE DAY TO GO......DAMN I'M LAZY AS HELL, DAMN THIS RAINY DAY, DAMN THIS LIFE OF WORKING AND PAYING FOR BILLS N TO PUT GAS IN THE CAR!!! DAMN THAT CYCLONE FOR HITTING BURMA N KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, EVENTHOUGH THEY NOT MY PEEPLE DAMN IT ANYWAYS!!!! AND ONE LAST THING....DAMN THESE RAP MUSIC FOR MAKING ME MAD AT THE WORLD!!! THANKS TUPAC...
mornin kl
woke up early agian this mornin and man its rainin lilke nasty out here..
well look at it this way.. new car wash for every one.. lmao..
I'm so excited. I haven't been fishing in a couple of years. My son We is going to be going on a field trip with his Pre-K school and it's the last field trip of the year. I can't wait to get my fishing on!!!! 
Yeah, I know. Everyone probably thinks I'm retarded. (SHUT UP, JAE!!) But fishing relaxes me, and I need some relaxation right now. 
T.G.I.F!!!!
I've started a new job, well not really im just helping out a friend, and getting paid for it, so in a sense I am working. The only, and I mean the only reason why im doing this is because I owe this Person a favor. It's been and interesting last couple of days, I've seen a lot of People that I haven't seen in awhile, some are close friends but most I avoid like the plague, but over-all I expected much worse it hasn't been that bad. Tonite was interesting, I spent the night training the staff most of the newbs where young, and most have never been in this sort of envionment which is a good thing in a sense which could be very bad also. I was showing the bartenders how to work a Pos system that I've never used, that was fun, based on some of my answers they new i didn't know shit about the system. The security staff was interesting, they where all over grown kids, they where all nice, they were well groomed and very professional, but l'll see how they are when they meet the "others", one thing is for sure they're big boys tho which is a plus. The staff has no experience in this industry there just clueless right now, they probably think it's a cool job, I think there jobs suck. I don't think they fully realize what there job entails, most are smarter then me im sure they'll figure it out. I think that the Bartenders and Servers will be alrite tho, My friend did a great job on staffing this place it looks great.
Well my entire Family is home today, Im going to try and make them breakfest, im thinking pabew and chinese sausages, or might go the easy route and go to Dunkin Donuts, whatever
Is coming up in a few months. Shit man, I don't wanna go to it. I ain't shit and haven't done jack. I went to school with a bunch of rich kids and over achievers. The rich kids end up taking over parent's business or doing some shady shit and the over achievers are just making it in life. Majority of them are married and settled with life. As for me....I'm still living at home, unemployed, partying whenever the opportunity presents itself, playing video games, into cars...living life as if I'm in my early 20's, which I'm NOT anymore.
I've gotten 3 emails already. See if I was still employed with Cathay Bank, then I would have definitely went. I'm embarassed, I lost face with my highschool peers.
Unless there's a large percentage that are in the same boat as I which is a possibility...well then I'd be categorized with the losers and slackers. Sucks!
I love shopping online. I can't wait until school in fall. It's so damn pretty in city, blowing fog in the air at night. The thing I miss most was working and going to school both full time. It's awesome not having to come home and deal with stuff. Or knowing that I have money to get out of town when school is a bit overwhelming. My long vaca is soon to be over once summer is gone. It's been good without you... and it'll only get better.
I just got off work. Who's going to entertain me, before I'm done downloading this album!?
haha yes this is a picture from high school i have nothing to blog about today and was going through my photobucket thought I'd share
yes we wore uniform in highschool the only f"en highschool in LB
haha wilson classical high school
gooo bruins ;-)
if we ever take couple pictures in group
i need to sock myself
Tat Marina's story turned into a graphic novel by Stanford students
Tat Marina before her acid attack
Stanford students try writing a graphic novel
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Justin Berton
San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer (California, USA)
Tom Kealey has taught a lot of writing classes at Stanford University, but never one that asked students to consider the dramatic pause provided by the "page flip."
Or how wide to draw "the gutter."
Kealey and co-instructor Adam Johnson taught a winter course titled The Graphic Novel, and assigned their students to write, edit and illustrate a collaborative final project. The result is a 224-page graphic novel titled "Shake Girl," based on the true story of a Cambodian karaoke performer named Tat Marina who was the target of an "acid attack" after she had an affair with a married man.
"In a normal writing class, you'd write a poem or finish a chapter and you'd own it," Kealey said. "In this class, we had to collaborate every step of the way, every idea, and make compromises. It was the most difficult and rewarding class I ever taught."
While the study of comics and graphic novels has steadily become an acceptable part of college curricula - "Maus" creator Art Spiegelman taught a course at Columbia University last year - the project-based graphic novel class offered at Stanford appears to be the first of its kind.
Karen Green, a librarian at Columbia who has been acquiring graphic novels for three years, said Yale and Cornell have growing graphic novel collections, and Michigan State, Ohio State and Duke all have archived comic strips and books that span decades.
Yet for the graphic novel, the leap from archived material to in-class study and production at a major university marks an upgrade in status.
"It's a different way to tell a story that has specific rules," Green said. "And to have somebody teaching those rules, that's impressive."
Kealey and Johnson accepted 40 applications from undergrads and graduates in the English and art departments, and accepted 14.
Kealey said most of the students were already familiar with the works of Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," set in post-revolution Iran, and were aiming to tell a complex, serious narrative.
Eric Pape, a journalist studying at Stanford on a Knight Fellowship, offered the class his nonfiction piece published in 2006 by Open City magazine about the phenomenon of acid attacks against women in Cambodia.
"It was clear from the outset while we were discussing ideas that the class wanted to do some sort of good with this project," Pape said, "not make it just a vanity project."
Pape said even though the basis of "Shake Girl" is rooted in actual events, the graphic novel genre gave the story more dramatic energy, while maintaining the theme of love gone horribly wrong. He said he wanted to see out the adaptation in part to attract readers who prefer visual to text-only stories.
"Young people read graphic novels," Pape said. "The newspaper industry is struggling, and it's looking for new models to tell stories. Journalistically speaking, this is a domain worth exploring."
One reason graphic novels are being read in university classrooms is that the term sounds more academic than comic books, said Ivan Brunetti, a lecturer at Columbia College in Chicago and the University of Chicago, who has taught the course Writing the Graphic Novel on both campuses for the past three years.
Brunetti says the phrase "comic book" still rings childish to administrators; "graphic novel" is more acceptable when pitching a class.
"Graphic novels are really comic books wrapped in book covers with spines," Brunetti said. "But for some reason, 'graphic novel' sounds more lofty and people have bought into it. The term has helped to create a distinction in people's minds that there's an important art movement occurring that is more concerned about long and serious work; and that's partially true."
The U.S. retail market for graphic novels has grown precipitously over the past decade, reaching $375 million in 2007, up 12 percent from 2006, according to a report last month from ICv2, a trade company that tracks pop culture industry trends. Much of the growth is due to the mainstreaming of the genre by specialty publishing houses, such as Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal and Fantagraphics Books in Seattle, and more recently to traditional houses like Pantheon, which has a graphic novel imprint that publishes Spiegelman, Satrapi and Daniel Clowes, among others.
Thomas LeBien, publisher of Hill and Wang, an imprint of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, who oversees the company's 2-year-old graphic novels division, attributes rising sales to the medium's growing storytelling capabilities. He refers to Hill and Wang's "The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation" by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, a controversial work he said forced mainstream book reviewers to ditch the "graphic novel" term for "graphic nonfiction" and "sequential art narration."
"There's an audience out there that doesn't view this as 'comic books,' but as sophisticated storytelling," said LeBien. "The reason professors and universities are so interested in teaching it is the form is so versatile. It does very particular things just like movies do, and just like books of prose do."
At Stanford, Kealey and Johnson knew asking 14 students to collaborate to produce one book was an ambitious task. And their class had six weeks to do it.
"Co-writing with one person is difficult," student Pape said. "Co-writing with 14 was extremely difficult."
After the writing, students cut the story into five acts, and the art students created storyboards from a rough draft. The illustrators mulled over the "page flips" - the kapow-y action sequences often found on the right-hand panels. When the flips are done to maximum effect, the time it takes the reader to turn the page can serve as a dramatic pause.
Kealey said, "That's not something a novelist normally has a chance to do."
look at him
can you see his disguised face
his somber soul holds secretive truths
of a life so mysterious and secluded
if you only look at him thoroughly
look him straight into his hollow eyes
can you find those secrets i speak of
can you see that lost child
neglected and left for the world to consume
look how he quivers at the sight of humans
is he a misanthrope or just scared to open up
can you see him now
listen closely
can you hear him pleading for help
his heart beats at a tremendous rate
just take a moment to hear him out
to try to understand what he speaks
do you hear now
caress him
reach out to him
let your arms extend to his
its not too late
he isnt out of reach
if you only took the time to try
than maybe he wouldn't have slipped so far
is it too late?
can you see him now?
is it too late?
can you hear him now?
is it too late?
can you hold him now?
what did one terrorist lady said to the other terrorist lady?
does my bomb make me look fat?
thank you. that is my best joke.
HA! nosey bastards.
=/
I'm bored I want attention.
Whoring for attention.
Whoring starts now.
by
anti,
Yesterday @ 10:11 PM
so my summer just started on a decent note, i might as well try to squeeze out all the things i can out of this season
- complete my valencia summer courses, get back on track
- finalize a career goal.. whether it be accounting or maybe writing, haha
- learn to play a little guitar
- deisgn a grand ass tattoo in time before the 21st bday
- smoke more
- drink less
- get a summer job
- get a tan so dark that wesley snipes would go god damn
- have a one night stand, two if necessary
- ball it up all day
yup yup.. if i get anymore ideas ima add em
by
Jae,
Yesterday @ 10:10 PM
At work the other day, and my phone rings. Look at the screen, new number I've never seen before. Since it was the 413 area code, I knew that it had to be someone from town. Pick it up, it was my boi Ghaki. He was in the accident where my boi Johnny died in. He's his cousin. They were a lot closer then that. I never felt so glad to hear from someone. He called me wanting to see what I was up to, chill and smoke. He said he started smokin again on 420 (lol).
We talked bout everything, the accident, what went on. I was surprised how well he's recovering, he has brain damage from the accident and I was told he wasn't gonna remember much. His memory is pretty good, he thought the night I saw him was 3 nights before the accident, when it was 3 hours before it. He saw my tat and wants to get something done by my uncle, so I'm gonna have to hook em up. I haven't seen or talk to him since the day of the accident, and I just didn't wanna bother him till I either go to his house or he gets at me. Glad he did, cause I coulda lost 2 friends that night.
Had a good laugh. He told me Johnny was talkin to him bout coming to see my store, but not just goin to visit, but goin to rob me. That mother fucker always had a smart mouth lol. R.I.P negro, I know ya doin well.
-JL
by
khammy,
Yesterday @ 9:33 PM
man..this song made me miss my girls so much.. what happend to them now? well they all moved away one went to Cambodia and the other went to a different school out of town for Fashion Design...the reason why im so sad cus we never really had a goodbye party or anything.. it just happen so fast...but all i can do is look at pictures cus they bring back memories of our happy times =D..these pics was about 1 n a half year ago when we was still teenager haha
"some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world... i wanna be the to walk in the sun, oh girls just wanna have fun."
omg PERVERT girls!! do u kno why they were laughing cus they were peeking while i was changing.. they wanna see how big my boobs was LOL. wth? >.<..haha and wtf is that perverted man doing? he just drove by to come look?
sexy feet???
sexy legs!! haha
omg we are such PICTURE FREAK. i swear! we had like 6 different camera that day LOL..
Khammy and Mimi
Mei Mei and Mimi
Ann and Mimi
OMG what is the perverted guy doing on the left? is he taking stolen shots of us? man i swear that dude been following us that day pretending to enjoy the view but actually he was taking stolen snaps shots of us..grrrr
Mei Mei and my Hello Kitty towel
how cute this <3 is dedicated to boo boo
Mei Mei soOOoo cute! i miss her so much..
see my shadow...heheehe
Mei Mei and I.....<3<3<3
aww i miss u too Mimi, after u became famous don't foget about me ok haha
making funny faces!! the thizz faces LOL
graffiti art
i dedicate this to my best freinds ^_______^ i <3 u guys!!
no more having fun... it's almost final now.. gotta study study!!!
This week has been...well...somewhat busy. My body feels like its bout to shut down on me from work, ok ok..maybe not all like that..but feelin a bit sore. HHMmm...what....worked all week..monday went to draw on the WALL. His bedroom wall that is...its a whole new thing for me I guess...always did something on paper but this wall thing..is a challenge for me. Then Tues, fishing after work, then back to his place on Wed and shoppin today..wow...Back to his place on friday to draw some more...Im really looking forward to this, after this, the next project is to tag up the garage walls...loll...damn..thats a lot. hopefully the room gets down by the middle of next month..or even by the end of this month..who knows...
tornado watch and warnings are in effect for virginia. DARNIT! i hear thunder and see lightening already and i shouldn't be on the interent. haha...even though some areas are in a watch mode...they are still cautious because of what happened last week....didnt know that it was gonna hit but it did. alright later..im off the computer.
I JUST found out that my guild's disbanding. /cry
Oh, well. No more /g chat for a while...
If ya gerl suggests something simple for the two of you, she just wants a sweet ass time with her man. For the 2 of you...!
Starting off....
Alright, so I've always asked my boyfriend to go out and take a walk downtown in the night when the pretty night lights are out.
Or even just in the day n a walk around the park! ..for Quality Time. But no.. I still havent even gotten the chance to do that yet. -With nobody especially my man!
His response to it is.. "Babe I'm too lazy to walk, We have a car for a reason."
Now thats when I go outta my way & tell him to fukc off and forget it. And even til' this day, he STILL doesnt get it.
Every now and then i would get a phone call from some guy that apparently knows me. I asked his name and he tells me its Rambo and that he's laos and I don't recall who this person is lol.
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