Pride Month- Poem

 

Love is love,

to,

it's the most powerful thing in the world,

Love is always going to be with us,

no matter who we love,

whether it be the same sex,

opposite sex,

or even,

anything else,

This month is Pride month,

a month where everyone is free to express themselves,

some come out,

while others approve,

For me,

I approve

Knowing people that are,

gay,

lesbian,

bi,

trans,

or any other,

they are still human,

and this year,

we seem to show love for all

A lot of people feel different,

some accept,

while others,

well,

they don't know what to say

Love is love,

Love is strong,

Showing courage,

Showing bravery,

even if,

you aren't that way,

it doesn't mean,

you can't support

You can't still feel for them,

Sometimes,

it can be hard,

but if you know someone,

that loves someone,

for who they are

Not because they need love,

but,

that they are in love

love is love,

Happy Pride Month,

to all,

that love,

someone,

no matter what

kid actors from 2000, they're all grown up now

 

            It is scary, but it is true. Life has gone by in a blink of an eye. The year 2000, we feel as it just happened. But, that was 21 years ago. Time does fly by. Believe it or not, kids born in the year 2000, they are graduating, and some are in college. 

             Kid actors are just the same. Some of them have grown up and are still acting, while others left acting to go to college or get married, or went downhill in their life.

Here are some kid actors you might not know were popular, or even born around 2000.

       Bailee Madison, who you might know as the young kid in movies like Bridge to Terabithia and Don't be afraid of the dark. She's now all grown up and still acting. She's been starring in Netflix movies. She also has has some producing credits for some of the movies she is in. 

    Remember Baby Emma from the show Friends? She was played by twin actors Noelle and Cali Sheldon. What have they've been doing with their life? Not much. They've been focusing their own lives, but they have appeared in Jordan Peele's Us movie. They aren't very known, unless you see them in diapers on Friends.

   David Henrie was a young kid actor in the 2000's. Starring in in a famous Disney show called Wizards in Waverly Place. He was in other shows, as well as a few Disney movies. But now...he's all grown up. Is the father of two young children, and still acting in between. If you don't know who he is, you might not remember Disney Channel in their good years.

   Taylor Momsen used to be a very cute girl. Known for Playing Cindy Lou Whoo in Ron Howard's The Grinch movie. Now, she's focused all her time into singing. Having a band called the Verocias. She used to be in other movies, but at the time of her acting, she put most of her effort into a singing career, knowing she had the ability to sing. 

    Young Thomas Brodie-Sangster was known as the young kid in the movie Love Actually as the child who lived with Liam Neesan and was finding love at the same time. Now...he's in Netflix's Queen's Gambit. He also did voice acting in Disney's Phinies and Ferb as well as star in the Maze movie trilogies. He is still acting today. I think he is also married as well.

    Young Devigh Chase was the scary girl who crawled out of your tv in the movie The Ring. She also voiced Lilo in the Lilo and Stitch Movie/Series. She has now been keeping a low profile on her life. Not doing much acting, but living her life. She has been busy writing for various projects. One being American Romance.

   A very talented Opera Singer who came in second in an old episode of America's got talent Jackie Evancho is now all grown up. She recently sang the National Anthem, I forget when, but she also was in the Masked singer. She is still singing today, even if she didn't win America's got talent, she did win our hearts.

    Kid actors of the mast from the 90's and 2000's are all grown up. It's crazy that time has flown by. Some of them are still acting, some left acting, and some are raising their own families. Who knows what will happen in future with the kid actors born from 2010, or even....2020

Happy Birthday, Garfield

 

   We all know that loveable cat. Doing nothing but sleeping and eating, and making smirky comments to his owner. As well as kick Odie for enjoyment. But what else is there to say about a cat that has graced our Newspaper comics since 1978?

   Created on this day in 1978, Garfield was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant. He became accustom to loving Italian food, especially Lasagna. He was taken in by a cartoonist named Jon Arbuckle (who was modeled after the creator himself Jim Davis) 

    Every year on June 19th, it seems Garfield would try to avoid his birthday. A few days before hand, he would start having birthday nightmares that would come to him often. This year he stayed in bed, trying to avoid another birthday. I don't blame the cat. In real life, if a cat lived to 43, he'd be nothing but skin and bones, and even DEAD!

           Garfield does love attention though, especially when it comes to food. And it's not just comics that made him a star. It was cartoon shows as well. Like I said before last year, he had a show called Garfield and Friends back in the late 80's.

        I loved the cartoon, especially the voice actor they got to voice Garfield. The late Lorenzo Muzac voiced him as well as a few other characters in other cartoons. But I'll always remember him as Garfield. The cartoon was pretty funny as well as entreating.

     He even gave us some tv specials as well. One for Halloween, A Christmas one as well as Thanksgiving. They were all entertaining and that orange cat was pretty interesting. 

   He would also have books that had most of his comic strips in them. Some are pretty funny while other times, some are more memorable. He also had chapter books. One featuring a mummy in a museum and another featuring a beast, and another with a wizard.

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    I remember the one with the mummy the most. I used to have that book, but it's now gone. Garfield and Odie are trapped in a museum (why they let pets in it...who knows) They find a mummy roaming around the museum, only for it to be the owner of the museum who was stealing stuff. Garfield eventually...as always for a fat cat, saves the day.

         Now, they've gone 3d voice acting has changed, and the stories, they're ok, but they aren't memorable as they used to be. The show was cancelled in 2016. The show was more a miss than a hit, and he hasn't been doing much since. He is still seen today in the comic strips, and still cracks us up.

   Now 43 years old, Garfield is still the same cat as we know and love. Still gives Jon a hard time as well as Odie. Eats food nonstop, and doesn't take lip from anyone. Not even a mouse. And for that, that's one interesting cat. Happy birthday, Garfield

Summer of Confusion- Poem

 

Summer is upon us,

It already feels hot,

Watermelons,

Ice cream melting,

and much more

But....

Spring hasn't ended yet,

and yet,

we still feel hot,

the heat might get worse,

and by August,

we might melt

the heat is too much,

and yet,

summer isn't here yet,

confusion on how 

hot

or cold,

comes in spring

hotter days are upon us,

we wear shorts,

short sleeve shirts,

and other times,

tank tops

beaches open,

tourists coming,

sunscreen and much more,

kids are out,

summer is just around the corner

Enjoy it while you can,

summer 2021 is here,

but not for long,

enjoy the warm days,

the long nights,

the middle of the year is here,

and so is summer,

and yet, 

we still wonder,

if this summer,

will be the best

Best Twilight Zone episodes

      Everyone remembers the old tv show called the Twilight Zone. A show where they create stories that have a twist ending. Some interesting, and some creepy. I have six episodes that I wanna talk about. And how they are considered one of the best, and believe me, even their twist endings will surprise you.

 

   1. Time Enough at last- This story is about a man who is considered a bookworm. Played by Burgess Meredith, this man would read instead of focusing at work or even paying attention to his wife. Suddenly, a nuclear bomb goes off while he reads in the bank vault. He is the only survivor in the world. First, he is depressed, wondering if he could find another survivor. Before he would kill himself, he finds a library. He is happy as a clam when he gets book, after book, after book. However, with him wearing glasses, they break when he tries to pick up a book. And well...that was that. "He had all the time in the world". 

    I love this episode. One of my favorites. It's all considered one of the best and most watched Twilight Zone episode ever.

2. The monsters are due on maple street- This story is about a street that has a bunch of neighbors, and chaos erupts. How? People start to blame others when lights start to flicker. Fearing that it could be an alien invasion, many people fear for their lives. Afraid of their own neighbors. Their power keeps going on and off, making their lawn mowers, and even lights to stop working. Near the end, one person decides to call for help. When he return, he is shot and killed by another neighbor fearing he was an alien. In the end, the screen pans out of the neighborhood to two aliens who are the ones controlling their street for their own amusement. 

        

    I like this one, not as much as the first, but it did make us fear our own neighbors as well as our own neighborhood. Do you think it will ever happen, or is it just some crazy idea a writer came up with? I don't know.

3. A nice place to visit- A bank robber is shot by an officer, and when he wakes up, he sees a man that takes him somewhere. Wondering if he is dead, he soon finds himself in paradise. What do I mean? Well, in a nearby place, he sees a casino game where he always wins, meets lovely ladies, gets every food he loves. The bank robber feels the man took him to heaven. Soon, he starts to dislike it. Winning all the time, getting board of the same woman who love him. He tells his so called Guardian angel that he wants to go to the other place. He soon gets a shock after his so-called Guardian angel that "this is the other place!"

    Is frightening at the end, but I knew where he really was. This was an ok episode. Only two people are in it (not counting the women). I would watch this one over and over.

   4. Will the real Martin please stand up- It seems, in a diner, a bus breaks down. State troopers find a UFO and fears somebody that was on the bus could be the real martin. They ask everyone questions. Two married couples, an old man, a drunk, the bus driver. People start judging one another. Fearing for their lives, they think it's best not to go anywhere since the bridge might fall. Near the end, they get a call saying the bridge is ok, and the snow as clear. However, the old man is the only one that returns to the diner, explaining to the owner how he was the martin. The tables are turned though when the owner takes off his cap and reveals a third eye. There was more than one martin in that diner.

    I loved this episode, and having the owner reveal a third eye is considered one of the most seen moments of the Twilight Zone series. I even did a rewrite of that episode. It's pretty good.

   5. To serve man- One of the most famous Twilight zone episodes ever. Why? Well, the ending of course. A man and woman (I don't think married) see two tall men that come out of a UFO. They are considered friendly at first. They even have a book called: "To serve man" Not knowing what it is, the man is skeptical is first. The two tall men (one who played a villan in the James Bond Movies) let a few people aboard their ship. The man decides to be one of those people. Before boarding, the woman comes out shouting: "TO SERVE MAN! IT'S A COOKBOOK!" Well, it seems the man will be on the menu with a few other victims as well.

    Seeing this the first time, I didn't know what to expect. But seeing the ending, I wasn't surprised at all. I mean, you have strange man from another coming planet coming to earth to find 'food'.

   6. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet- William Shatner stars as a man who had a nervous breakdown. Going back on a plane with his wife, he tries to stay calm, but seeing  Gremlin on the plane starts to freak him out. He tells his wife, the stewardess and even the flight crew that he sees a small man on the side of the plane. They don't see anything. William Shatner's character fears the gremlin is destroying the plane. He decides to take matters into his own hands by using a flair to get rid of the Gremlin, only when he opens the window, he causes everyone to panic. He ends up being sent into an institution in the end.

      In my opinion, best one. I loved it from beginning to end. It did frighten me a little the first time I saw it, and I feel this episode is the most parodied one. Being parodied on the Simpsons to Jonny Bravo. Worth the watch, just don't have a fear of planes.

   Yes Twilight Zone has changed since the 1950's one ended. They did anew one recently for CBS All access streaming site, but it didn't work. I prefer the original to any other reincarnated ones they did for newer audiences. 

   I also loved Rod Sterling and his adventures of bringing us "The Twilight Zone"

Famous people who Stutter

 

  

     Have you ever met anyone who would say the same thing over and stutter when they talk? are you that person? You're not alone if you are. I'm not one of them, but there are many people that have overcome their stuttering and others still live with it. 

     If you ever seen the movie "the king's speech", Colin Firth portrayed real life King, King George VI who suffered from stuttering in real live. He had a speech coach to help him out for an important speech that would impact all of  England.

      He wasn't the only one. Many famous people suffer from stuttering. Some still today, and some have overcame it. Here are few people that you never knew suffer from a stutter

     This man was known as Scatman John back in the 80's and 90's. He suffered from a severe case of stuttering when he was young. To make his stuttering into a talent, he performed in some jazz clubs around the 80's. But people that grew up in the 90's would remember this man from his singing and stuttering through song. Having hits like Scatman (ba, da, de, da,) and Scatman's world. Sadly, his life was cut short due to lung cancer, and he passed away in 1999. He might be gone, but his songs are still unforgettable.

    Yes this is true. Darth Vader himself used to stutter. How did he overcome it? By not letting it take over his life. He was in the military's when he was young. He overcame it by acting. Tackling out Shakespearian roles in the sixties to soon becoming a dark lord Sith. Not many people even knew he had a stuttering problem when he was a child. I guess overcoming it by doing plays and acting helped him to become who he was. He is still with us today, but has limited his acting roles.

  Yep, even John McLain (Bruce Willis) stuttered when he was a child. He overcame it by taking acting roles when he was in high school He started to develop a stutter when he was in high school and would be teased with it. Now, in over 100 roles, not many knew that he had a stuttering problem. If he did, most of his lines would sound interesting. Still acting, and no one has even noticed his stuttering problem when he was a kid. "yi-yi-yippy kiay..."

   Our new president used to stutter when he was a child. He took advice to give to young children that to overcome something that seems hard is to take it day by day. He recently opened up to others of how he overcame his stuttering and not rushing into a speech. I bet other presidents were stutters as well, like Abraham Lincoln. He would finish his own sentences and enourage parents to let their child who stutters to let them finish their sentences without their parents helping them.

   Abe Lincoln was another president that suffered from stuttering issues when he was young. And yet, even if he had it, he accomplished as much as he could in his years as a president. But before all that, he had to learn how to overcome stuttering. He didn't learn to write until he was seven. He read at a young age, and he saw his mother die of milk poisoning. He abolished slavery and changed the world for the better. That's one amazing president.

  

   Emily Blunt was about seven to fourteen when she was going through her stuttering issues. When she was young, she took acting and stuttered through her lines. She kept going to make herself to become a pretty amazing actress as well as mother. She might stutter a little, but I haven't seen a performance she has done where she had. She even attended the American Institute for Stuttering. Amazing.

   Samuel L Jackson, pulp fiction actor himself, stuttered when he was young. Without having a father around, and his mother working a lot, he was raised by his aunt who helped him get into acting as well as helping him overcome his stuttering problem. He doesn't stutter much anymore, but it seems with the help of his aunt, he overcame it as well as learn to be one hell of an amazing actor. Still acting today, but not as much as he used to. Unless you wanna hear him read "go the f**k to sleep" online.

   Famous actor and host Wayne Brady stuttered when he was a child. He was even reluctant to open his mouth when he was young because he feared of stuttering to anyone. Now, after being on Who's line is it anyway, it seems he has come a long way. Even though he still suffers from stuttering, he found his passion with acting and he doesn't let anything, not even stuttering get in the way. He now is hosting a few shows like Let's make a deal. What an amazing guy.

     I suffer from a speech issue, but I never stuttered. I had to get a teacher to help me when I was young. I still have a speech problem, but it's not a huge problem as it was when I was little. I guess I became a social butterfly and well...it kind of helped. Don't be upset if you have a speech problem or stutter. It doesn't mean you can't still be yourself. Don't let something like that get in the way of your happiness and your future.