Month: October 2016

Little Mecca of Cool

Here are a few stanzas of a poem I wrote for school  about my home, Lakeland.  It’s short and maybe a little corny, but I like it, it’s about my home.

 

If you need a little relaxation
or a change in climate
Or maybe a vacation.
With a fruitful diet.

There’s a real hep spot down Florida way
Little Mecca of Cool Lakeland U.S.A

Where the orange trees grow
And the lakes are blue.
The tropic breezes blow
They got gators too!

So have a swell time were the palm trees sway
Little Mecca of Cool, Lakeland U.S.A.!

Tiny Plastic Swords, Why Not?

But perhaps the bigger question is why?  I mean I like the tiny swords too.  They fascinated me as a youth walking through the grocery store, but now I wonder who decided, “Hey, I’m tired of using tooth picks to hold my maraschino cherries I need something cooler, something more exotic, and I don’t mean those little paper umbrellas (they are too feminine),” and then went on to invent the multicolor, transparent, plastic rapier.

Why were these things invented, why? Oh wait, never mind I figured it out.

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Someone wanted discount giant lego swords!

Orthographic Art

Since I’m sure you all love school work as much as I do I thought I’d share today’s assignment.  I needed to create an orthographic image of something so I took this sketchh-a-t-s-mobile-sketchand drew this.h-a-t-s-mobileI actually really liked this assignment.  In an orthographic drawing everything has to line up from one picture to the next (the body of the car is always the same width, the top is the same height, the opening is the same width, ect.) so this project required a fair bit of precision.  It was sort of an intersection between art and math, my two favorite subjects.

Who Would Win a Fight?

A favorite subject of debate amongst my brethren and I is whether superhero A is better than superhero B.  These debates are usually fruitless (dare I say ludicrous?) as it is impossible to judge one fictional mans skills against another.  However I recently noticed that you actually could judge which of the Avengers from the Marvel movies is better! (The first team of Avengers, there are way too many now).

The first team consisted of Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow.  This is how I thought they should be listed in order of power, but then I realized that Black Widow beat Hawkeye in the first Avengers movie so she must be more powerful than him.  Of course, in the same movie she just fled from the Hulk so she’s less powerful than The Jade Giant (as was to be expected).  Hulk also beat Thor in that movie confirming my suspicion that he was the strongest.  However in the next Avenger movie he lost to Iron Man meaning that Iron Man was the most powerful.

So I thought Iron Man was the most powerful, but I was wrong!  In his last move, Captain America Civil War, Captain America beat Iron Man!  Thus, making Captain A the most powerful of all the original Avengers!

Pretty impressive for a seventy year old.

The Thirteenth!

Today is the 13th of October, Thursday the 13th!   Thursday!  I know that superstition is all bunk and it doesn’t matter when the 13th falls, but I like it when the date and the day line up, I actually look forward to a Friday the 13th it just feels so special.  So it kind of  bugs me that the 13th falls just shy of a Friday…It feels like the month is taunting me or something!

A Clerihew or Two.

Hey cats,  better get your coffee and sunglasses ’cause it’s time for some poetry, man! Brought to you by the brother’s beatniks blog.

On that note here are few clerihews I wrote for school.  A clerihew is a type of poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.  They’re very simple poems, really, the first line is the name of some famous person who the poem is about and the rhyme scheme is AABB.  Those are really the only requirements.  And so without further ado my clerihews!

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Converted to Catholic from Anglican
In his books he said protestants fail
To recognize the good of ale.

Mr. George Washington
Was a wealthy farmer’s son,
But he decided to deal with men in battle
So he wouldn’t have to deal with cattle.

G.K. Chesterton
Is a famous Englishmen
When he needed to fill his coffers
He became a Catholic author.

(I know two Chesterton poems is excessive, but I couldn’t resist).
And finally…

Edmund Bentley Clerihew
Needed something new to do
He said, “I’ll never have to work again
If I write poems of famous men!”

Well that’s it I hope you dig these poems Daddy-o!