Post Secret/ MADtv/ fun night

Jun. 10 Post Secret: "None of my skills are worth anything.  I'll work until I die." Me: Don't give up.  You need to talk to a career counselor about this. "On tumblr, I search the 'suicide' and leave helpful messages to those in need.  No one is alone!" Me: That's good and helpful.  It reminds me of "love bombing."  On Wikipedia, it says: "... the deliberate show of affection or friendship by an individual or a group of people toward another individual. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing "Googling an ex...finding a mugshot...PRICELESS."  In the pic it says "SUCKS, KARMA." Jun. 12 Writing: I'm going to do some brainstorming here by writing about writing. Titles: I was thinking about titles for my script like Dark Rain.  However, the word "dark" is often used in scary movies like Left in Darkness (2006), Darkness Falls (2003), Darkness (2002).  There were also titles that aren't for scary movies like the TV action series Dark Angel and the Batman movie The Dark Knight. Cabin in the woods location: There's a movie called The Cabin in the Woods written by Buffy creator Joss Whedon and Buffy writer Drew Goddard.  I have read really good reviews about it and how there are really good plot twists.  It's like a parody making fun of the cliche of stereotypical teens going to a cabin to party. There's more to what meets the eye because the teens are under observation by some unknown group of scientists.  I haven't seen it though, so I don't totally know.  Here's the imdb.com site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/ The cabin in the woods is a common location for a scary movie because of the isolation.  There is no place to run, but into the dark woods.  The police can't come to rescue you, or at least not get there very fast. Jun. 13 Water: I found this on Twitter about a truck driver who delivers water in India.  He sees the crisis first hand about the water shortage.  He drives the trucks to the cities and the women fight over the water by picking up their pails to collect the water.  The Truck Driver discusses sometimes he gets attacked when he runs out of water.  http://power.water.org/?s=ut_1736 Jun. 14 Murder: I read this in 24 today about a Montreal teacher who showed the Luka Magnotta snuff video to this gr. 10 history class.  The teacher was suspended with pay on Jun. 4 at Cavelier-de-LaSalle high school.  He asked if they wanted to watch the video, and the class said yes.  One girl said she regretted watching it, and felt sick.  The class was silent after the video was over.  Students complained to the principal and the teacher was suspended. I feel compelled to write about it.  This teacher is awful and stupid.  I mean, it's one thing if teenagers want to watch the snuff video on their home computers or at their friend's house.  You may say: "Teens watch so much violence in video games and torture-porn in those Saw movies.  They can take it."  Yeah, but those video games and movies are fake.  There's a difference. I think there was something in the news about a teacher being suspended because he showed some sketch comedy video that was inappropriate to the class.  I can't quite remember the details. MADtv: However, I did think about something like this MADtv sketch being showed to a health class.  I remember watching this back in like 2003-2004 about a really bad sex-ed video.  It's where Avril Lavigne guest-stars and the video gives all these bad misinformation about sex. Teen boy: What about condoms? Dad: Don't you know that birth control is the woman's responsibility? The audience laughs at it. I'm sure teens watch this show in the privacy of their own home.  It's not really appropriate for them due to mature humor.  However, it would be really inappropriate if a teacher showed this to the class even if the teacher were to use it a a lesson.  For example: "What are the following things that are so wrong with this video?" The answers would be: "Birth control is not just the woman's responsibility.  It's both partner's responsibility."  Here's the sketch comedy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LZ2BgWk4Ek Jun. 15: I read in 24 today, that the teacher Philippe Trahan has now been fired.  There are now 50 students who backed up the teacher saying he showed the video to the class, because the students wanted to see it. Comparison: Now I'm thinking of the TV show The Sausage Factory in the episode where Gilby was letting teen boys rent out porn tapes at the video store.  A dad comes into the store looking for the assistant manager so he could beat him up for letting his teen son rent out porn tapes. I can imagine a parent finding the teacher so he could say: "So you're the one who showed the snuff film to my kid!  I'm going to beat you up for it!" Friends: Today I talked to my friend Angela on the phone for like 40min.  I asked her about the Luka Magnotta murder and she said she was glad they caught him.  She also said snuff films should be illegal and that the teacher was dumb to show the video to his class.  I spontaneously called to see if I could check out her place, but it would be hard for me to get back home because my dad can't pick me up.  That's fine, so we chatted on the phone. Fun night: Last Sat. I went out and had some fun.  A couple of weeks ago I asked my friend Jessica if she's going somewhere and she wanted to check out some food trucks.  Then she got sick and said she can't come.  I didn't go either because it was far away. Dance: I got to the downtown food truck event around 5pm.  I saw 4 dancers on the windows of the Eye Care Group store.  It reminded me of dancers on the old MuchMusic TV show Electric Circus.  They had a DJ playing techno music.  I drank a little red wine there and had a bit of a brownie. There was "Salsa at the Park".  Salsa music was blaring from the speakers and people were dancing to it.  The Edmonton Food Truck Extravaganza had the Zebra Child Centre fundraiser that helps abused kids. Restaurants: I see that there's a restaurant called Bubble Buzz that sells bubble tea.  It looked trendy and hip.  There was also Credo Coffee that also looked hip.  Fashion: There was a booth called Bang Bang Bijou that sells jewelry.  Bijou means jewelery, the artist told me that.  There was Fridget Apparel.  I Googled and it and found her blog.  The site's pink and fun: http://iamfridget.blogspot.ca/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=5 There was a booth that was called Beans and Rice Fashion.  The Asian girl designer said she's the Rice and her Mexican friend is the Beans.  Here's the website when I Googled it with the word Edmonton: http://www.bambooballroom.ca/ I did think that the fashion name has kind of been done before.  I didn't tell her that it was done on the TV show MADtv where the actors Bobby Lee (Asian) and Johnny Sanchez (Mexican) did a bit on the show called "The Rice and Beans Tour."  They travel across the country and talk to people and do funny things.  Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kXsE3rf-I Food: Now onto the actual food at the food truck event.  I tried a bite of a waffle at Eva Sweet Waffles.  It was okay.  The best part was the Man who worked there.  Jessica was cutting up the waffles on the table where there was a cooler. Man: Hi, can you- Me: Move? Man: No, pass me a couple of pops. I passed him two of them. Man: You can get one for yourself. Me: Thanks. A few of J's friends came.  I tried part of a burger from the restaurant The Act (it's on Whyte Ave.)  I thought it was good.  The thing is, a lot of the food was expensive like $7 for a burger, but they have to make a profit somehow.  There was a concert there.  I don't know who performed, but it sounded good.  It was around 7pm, and we were there for a few hrs.  I then went home.  Then it started raining as we were driving so it's good we weren't out in the rain.