9/11 Survivors

 

 25 years and it still hurts. I wasn't the only one that lost someone on 9/11. But I want to look on the people that had close class and survived the tragedy that we still remember today.

    I lost someone I never knew, and his name is on the memorial plaque at ground zero. Here are the celebrities that had close calls with almost perishing on 9/11

   Rob Lowe- He was on Flight 11 days before 9/11. He realized the hijackers were on his flight and were doing a dry run on it. He had no idea how lucky he was that he didn't end up as one of the victims; but he had felt guilty that he didn't stop it not knowing what would have happened.

   He still thinks about it and tries not to think that he was close to death.

   Seth MacFarlane- He was supposed on one of the planes that hit the tower, but he was hungover at the time partying in Boston the night before.

   When he woke up, he realized he was late for his flight. Plus, the time was wrong as well on his ticket. He realized his life was saved by alcohol. He doesn't think about it much as he had been interviewed as he tries to think alcohol saved his life.

    Mark Wahlberg- He too was set to board flight 11, but he decided to take another flight instead. He decided to stay at the Toronto Film Festival and took a private jet. He even admitted who would have taken on those terrorists and save everyone.

      He eventually apologized to the families who lost people on 9/11, especially on that flight.

   Michael Jackson- He was supposed to be on top of the World Trade Center, however, a call with his mother avoided his death. It's true, he was on the phone with his mother while he was supposed to be at the World Trade Center.

    The long phone call caused him to miss tragedy. His brother Jermaine wrote a book about his late brother's life. It's mentioned in there. 

  Sarah Ferguson- She was scheduled to have a meeting at the twin towers. She was running late since she was at an interview. Fortunately, she missed getting killed. She realized that 700 of her employes that were there perished from the tragedy.

   She was grateful yet sadden that not everyone she worked with survived like she did.

 Gweneth Paltrow- She had no idea that she had saved somebody's life. She didn't know till ten years later. A young woman was roller blading and almost was hit by Gweneth's Car. The encounter caused her to miss her train.

    She eventually realized that the young woman was headed to the World Trade Center. Gweneth saved her life.

  

    Steve Buscemi= Even though he didn't have to go to the World Trade Center, he decided to help out. He used to be a junior fire fighter and helped other firefighters trying to find survivors in the wreckage. 

    He stayed for almost a whole day finding bodies and it still haunted him as well as exhausted him. To this day he still remembers what he had went through by helping other firefighters throughout the whole ordeal.

  Pete Davidson- This is more tragic. Like me, Pete Davidson lost someone close to him when he was only seven years old.

  Pete Davidson is an SNL alumnus and the only memory he has of his father is losing him on 9/11. His father, Scott, was helping other firefighters save people from the twin towers that were destroyed 25 years ago.

   He has a tattoo of his father's fire station number on his arm, and he named his daughter after his late father.

 How has it already been 25 years? How does time fly so by and so fast? Well....25 years later, it still hurts.

  It hurts for everyone who either lost someone they loved or knew someone who lost someone. These people survived tragedy through ironic circumstances. Never Forget 9/11

Labor Day ends summer

           It is Labor Day weekend and summer....is almost gone. Why does summer always slip through our fingers? Why does this happen every summer? It's Labor Day when we honor people who labor as well as barbecue and throw parties that symbolizes the end of summer.

   Kids and teachers hate this time of year since it symbolizes the start of a new school year. Kids dread it.... teachers hate it. But it seems that's how every Labor Day ends.

    The ending of summer and the beginning of a new school year. Some kids have started already while some start after Labor Day

   On the plus side.... there are cookouts and barbecues and togetherness with families while they still have the time.

    Summer Vacation might be over, but summer isn't over yet. We have almost two weeks left until.... football, sweater weather, cooler temperatures, leaves crunching between your feet and hot days vanishing.

   The beginning of Autumn starts at the end of September. The 23rd this year as we still have a couple weeks of summer left. 

    It feels as if Summer has already left when September arrives, same with December when winter arrives. 

    Certain people believe that if you are born on a month that falls on a new season change, they are officially an autumn or winter person.

  Beaches becomes empty, certain places close like amusement parks, pools and stuff on the boardwalk at certain beaches.

    Labor Day ends summer fun as the cool weather starts. Some people like me, love autumn. Especially early autumn, when it's not too hot and it's not too cold.

  It feels as if summer was just here and now....it is gone. Why does winter always stay longer than summer? 

  It feels like colder weather stays longer and warmer weather decides to flash by. It happens every year. Same with when after the Fourth of July ending.... Halloween stuff appears.

         Remember what today is really about. A day where people that work are celebrated for their jobs. Even if it's the official mark to the end of summer, we must remember that people who work must be appreciated.

    Today is their day. Today, I am off...celebrating Labor Day. Goodbye Summer, we will see you next year.

Goodbye, Dolly

 

It's like a bad dream

and I want to wake up,

But it's true,

she is gone,

Dolly Parton,

has died

We didn't want to believe it,

we didn't want it to happen,

not to her,

80,

is still young,

to us

The fans,

are devastated

mourning

crying

wishing it weren't true

when it sadly is

We still love her

even in death

from Jolene

to 9 to 5

She made us happy

Butterflies

surround her memorial

Flowers 

placed

all pink

for Dolly

We can't believe,

she is gone

and she isn't the only one

Tim Curry

and the voice of Optimus Prime

has joined her in heaven

She has been in movies

like Steel Magnolias

to 9 to 5

singing the song

for that movie

 Flowers,

Memorals,

even an airport in Nashville

named after her

We will miss her

we will always remember 

the good things 

she has done for us

We will always love you

like you did with us

giving us

a ray of sunshine

everyday

that ray

has dimmed 

when you left us

but you will brighten the heavens

and we will always

always

love you

Twin Sitters-Underrated Movie

 

      Around the 90's there was this movie starring two body building twin actors named David and Peter Paul. 

    They starred in movies back in the 90's one of them I remember more called "Twin Sitters." David and Peter were twins, and they were taking care of Twin boys from their rich uncle who wanted their help. 

   First, I want to talk about the brothers. David and Peter Paul were known as body builders as well as actors. They starred in movies like "Double Trouble", "The Barbarians" and "Think Big" I remember Double Trouble, but that might be it. 

   Sadly, David Paul passed away in 2020. Peter Paul is still alive but rarely seen. He is still alive, just not acting anymore.

   In the movie, David and Peter are body builders who become bodyguards to help a man protect his twin nephews who just lost their mom.

      Their names are Brian and Stanley. They are troublesome and with them being rich, they are homeschooled.

   The actors that portray the twin boys are the same actor that played Christian in "Kindergarten Cop" Both boys are no longer acting. 

   They left to peruse an education and get careers. They both did pretty well in both movies. Playing annoying boys who do tricks as one of them wants to run away and the other doesn't want to disappoint their uncle.

   The only way to get the boys to listen to them, both David and Peter try for the young boys to eat the food they made since they own an Italian Bistro. 

   All they want are PB and J's. They torture them, force them to change their clothes so they can be individuals...eventually getting through to them. They even fall in love with their homeschool teacher.

  The twin boy's uncle has been getting death threats and asks the Barbarian Twins to watch over while he's on a business trip. 

   Near the end, the uncle's business partner ends up kidnapping the boys as well as the teacher. The uncle returns as well as David and Paul with help from their friends, who are also twins. The climax happens on a boat, and the uncle joins in to help save everyone.

   That movie came out in 1995. Almost 31 years now. The boys are all grown up; David sadly is gone, and Peter.....

    He has posted videos on Instagram telling his viewers that he's ok. Even though he misses his brother, he's still active and trying to get back into movies. He starred in a few in the 2010's but the movies weren't memorable enough to remember.

      So, why do I feel this movie is underrated? Well, it's not that memorable and it was the last film both Barbarian brothers made before leaving acting.

    I still remember it, and it's an ok movie. I liked it. The story was good, the acting was memorable, and even now... 31 years later, this movie might not have many fans, but it's still a movie I feel should be seen, along with other Barbarian brother movies. 

Bratz 2007 Movie- Why make this?

 

       Bratz were considered a line of dolls just like Barbie. They were considered creepy looking dolls that had a passion for fashion and....I never got into them.

     They made a few cartoon movies around the mid 2000's, but some idiot decided to make a live action movie of the dolls.

   The four main characters of the Bratz dolls are Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha and Jade. There might have been other characters, but those were the four, and in this...travesty of a film, they go to a high school where it is run by the daughter of a principal (portrayed by Jon Voight)

    She forces the four to split into certain groups where they belong. What kind of world are we living in?

   When they were going to make a live action movie of Barbie, I had my doubts that it would work. I was wrong. It was actually better than I thought.

   I feared it was gonna be like another Bratz live movie where Barbie is a teenager. It was different. This Bratz movie...why? Why make this?

   They have made other Bratz movies which, thankfully, were all cartoons of the four girls. They go on strange and wild adventures and aren't stuck to boring suburbia. 

    I don't watch any of these films, but they are all cartoon based. The one I unfortunately saw was the live action movie, which I still see in my nightmares.

    Apparently, I guess Hollywood hasn't learned their lesson since they are making another live action Bratz movie with Kim Kardashian being a villaian. Oh lord...let's hope it's not as bad as the one before. Who asked for these?

    I dread for the future of Hollywood movies.

    

   In the 2007 movie, the four girls are split. One becomes a cheerleader, another goes int science clubs, another becomes a soccer star and Yasmin....is all alone as every one of her friends abandons her. Meridith, the main villain, is supposedly in charge of the school.

   She wants people to stay where they belong. She even throws a second sweet sixteen so she can be seen on MTV.

  She makes the four Bratz girls her slaves/workers when she hosts her sweet sixteen. The only reason they did this, to help Cloe's single mother who volunteered to help out Meredith's family.

    They are dressed as clowns, get a makeover and show off their style. Just seeing this movie is hard enough without losing brain cells. 

   The supposed climax is bad as well. The girls finally get back together and there's a talent show where Meredith finds a way to rig it so she would win.

     The Bratz want to enter, but Yasmin chickens out because Meredith forces her to or else she would expose her friends to the whole school.

     Eventually....Yasmin decides to join her friends and do a song number explaining to Meredith that they were not going to take her bullying anymore.

   This movie was a mistake. First off, I never played with a Bratz doll at all. I stopped playing with dolls years ago.

  Yes, I was into Barbie....but I have done things to those dolls that no therapist can fix. I don't want to relive my childhood. I cut their hair, even when they had a long hair Barbie doll. 

    This movie had a low score on rotten tomatoes. Whoever wrote this...I hope has died, or whoever greenlit this movie.... go to jail. 

   Even Robot Chicken mocked the Bratz dolls being another Barbie wannabe. I'd rather watch that over the live action Bratz movie. This movie was worthless...not worth seeing, and would be only shown as a sign of torture the same way Rebecca Black's 'Friday' song would be considered torture as well.

    If you are into Bratz, this is one movie no Bratz fan would ever wanna see. Again....they have still been around for newer generations. Like Barbie, Bratz are considered their own doll. Doll ok Live Action Movie.... HELLL NO!

My younger self- POEM

 

If I met my younger self,

what would I say?

Will I tell her

about the future?

About what is going on

What should I tell her?

It would feel strange,

but needed,

to tell her,

where I am in life,

and if she is happy for me

Will she think,

I succeed,

or failed

I feel,

when I look in the mirror,

will I see my younger self,

am I a failure,

to her,

Do I feel,

I'm going on the right path?

What will she think

I think,

If I saw,

my younger self,

I would tell her,

what has happened,

in my life

I should tell her,

what has happened,

and how I feel today,

still depressed,

but happy,

feeling as if,

I have accomplished more,

than I have before

Would I want to change time,

change things for the better,

or for me,

what would I do,

what will I say

I'll tell her,

that I'm happy,

satisfied,

even if things aren't the way they should be,

it doesn't mean,

the future will give me something,

to look forward to

What I will say to my self is,

expect the unexpected,

look forward to the future,

even if,

it isn't what you wanted,

but you will survive,

like I am right now