New Bloom by Taylor Tomlinson

Art can express every emotion that you can think of. Sadness, happiness, loneliness, all can be found in some work of art, even if the artist did not intend it to be that way. The picture I chose to interpret is called New Bloom, by Thomas Southey. Thomas Southey said that he found the picture to express the cycle of life, and death was just another part of the cycle. I particularly liked this picture before I knew much about it because, well, it is kind of hard to explain. There was something about it that tugged at my memory, or maybe reminded me of something that I couldn’t fully comprehend. It may just have to do with the simplicity of the whole picture. It is merely an old lady, sitting, staring at something that we can not see, a picture of a rose next to her. Simplicity is real beauty to me, not the complicated ways of life now days. Maybe that is what made me like the picture, the pure simplicity of it all.

Our group decided to put it into the censorship page because the initial feel that we got was fear. Fear, like she was hiding something, waiting to see if she was going to be caught. It was like Fahrenheit 451 and the people who are so desperate to keep their books. They try to live normal lives, but maybe when they go home they feel scared they are going to be caught, but after I looked at the picture again, I got a slightly different feel. It was almost like resignation of the things to come. Of course, as mentioned above, it had nothing to do with my first reaction, but more of the second feel. I can see from the author’s viewpoint how it could be about the cycle of life, but this picture can be interpreted in so many ways, so it is impossible to say what viewpoint is the correct viewpoint. I guess there never is a correct viewpoint with art, just opinions.

Alex Crowell's Creative Paragraph

The picture I chose to elaborate on was the armored rhino picture. The picture is fairly simple, but in my mind, in says a lot. The rhino is in a minisule room, but his skin is hard, silver armor. It's like he's preparing himself and sees danger in a world that has none. In the room, the walls are painted with a night scene, a dark sky full of stars. The walls look like a paradise when it's really not. His whole world is a lie. The rhino has no movement, motivation and nothing to do. The picture looks wonderful with all its rich colors and texture, but like in most novels, what you see is not what you get. Its what your mind decides the picture is really trying to say that makes it wonderful. Your thoughts and the branches you create from yourself and the picture is what the artist actually wants you to see. Then its not about the painting anymore, but its about you, and your life and your mind.

Lucky 13

I am sick of begging you to go visit this site and enter my competition.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13.html

Just do it...please.

As promised I am writing an article at the request of one of my readers. (I would give you this link to this, but given the fact that you haven't clicked on my link above, why would you go to this one?) For once I know exactly what to talk about, and that is...drum roll please (and obviously this isn't actually a drum roll; it's just a whole bunch of people hitting their knees to make a weak imitation of a real drum roll)...Elementary school!

Elementary school is obviously amazing. (Wow! Obviously, the only word that I can use to add effect today is obviously. I'm sorry, I guess I'm just not very creative. After all, I can't even come up with a subject for half my articles. Well, back to the article.) Elementary school has recess, it has longer lunch, it has a playground, it even has drinking fountains that now only go up to your knees! (If that sentence didn't make sense, sorry! My jokes aren't that great today.) At elementary school, you learn how to read (if you didn't know how before), you learn how to add (same thing applies), and you are also encouraged to be creative- if your teacher isn't named Ms. Caroline (another bad joke).

At this point (if I wasn't so late for something) I would continue on making lame jokes, wasting your time (and mine), and contributing superficial content to a blog that is already so full of superficial content, that just looking at it will make you confused (sorry again if this didn't make sense), but I won't

Peter Rosen

You Have a Problem

Hello again, and we are back. In this column, we have been following the nefarious plots of the SSS, Secret Society of Students. In an earlier post, we talked about how polar bears might rebel and how the butter and margarine companies would be hurt, but now we are moving on to a little warmer spot. The Amazing Australia! Australia is the second leading toast producer, next to Antarctica. If the SSS's (thats a lot of s's) plan succeeds, Australia will be the next target. Some of my spies there have seen the kangaroos being very active. We have seen that they are creating a rocket and are attaching a magnet to it that has a label on it as being "a toaster attracting magnet". We expect that they will strap the magnet to it, and send it to the sun, but before it reaches that, it will of attracted all of the toasters on Australia to it, and then they would be no toasters left on Australia. Oh the horror! We plan to send in people to sabotage the rockets fuel tank, but there are kangaroo guards everywhere. They are deadly with their boomerangs. They can throw them and always hit somebody, but it always comes back and hits them too. They are deadly to enemies and themselves. We hope that our plan will work and I will get back when I know more information.

Aninimous

26 Ways to Fail

I know I'm supposed to post something about g's so I'll do that then go onto my random topic.
GOOGLE: not only a number but a search engine. Personally I prefer Bing.

RANDOM!!!
There is a place called random.org that generates random numbers and things like playing cards, or flipping coins. It's fun to waste your time and generate meaningless numbers.
Go to randomfunfacts.com for fun facts such as:
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
The adult online industry in the US has annual sales of at least $1 billion , and as many as 10 million paying subscribers.
More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to adult content online. (including mine)
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

These are all fine ideas to do if you are completely bored. Sorry I don't have anything that entertaining today but I'm kinda sick and don't feel like it. STUPID SORE THROATS. That is the only semi-bad part about winter.

-Jasmine Crespo

ENTER IN MY COMPETITION PEOPLE OR I WILL POST EMBARRASSING PICTURES! ALSO I'M HAVING A SEMI-NEW COMPETITION. Everyone who reads comment, start a new conversation and KEEP IT GOING. I want to see 100 comments by Monday. Everyone help!

Lucky 13

It is of the greatest importance that if you are not named Jasmine Crespo you click on the following link.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13.html

These are the official rules for my current RCFNARAAC. If you don't know what that is, click on the following link.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13_06.html

Now, onto our subject for today. Well...wow, this is embarrassing, for the second time in a row I don't have a topic planned. Okay, I'm desperate for help. It would be very helpful if you would post a random topic below and I will discuss it in an article, I promise*. Only one topic per person, but here's the catch: I will only discuss it if you have entered my Thanksgiving RCFNARAAC. Yes Aninimous, I will even discuss the benefits of the SSS if you request it. Special exception to one rule: Aninimous and >:D can enter under their alter-egos, I know who they are.

Oh I almost forgot, there are some additional rules for my RCFNARAAC. First, the contest ends the 22nd of November. Second, -well this isn't a rule but-I would like exclusive commentary on your essay if you receive first prize, so be prepared.

Now it is time to discuss a random topic. So I will discuss 4-8. I haven't checked what it is yet. I promise. Wow! This random list stuff sure is helpful. Today we are talking about...FORKS!

The fork is a strange device that us humans use because we don't enjoy eating with our hands. Forks is often used with spoons and knives. This leads us to our next point-SPORKS. This is a bizarre abomination that probably poses some sort of twisted threat to the toast industry. It can also fit under the letters of: A for abomination, B for bizarre, C for crazy, D for destructive, E for evil, F for fork, G for grotesque, H for horrible, I for idiotic, J for jarring, K for knavish, L for lethal, M for monstrous, N for nefarious, O for obnoxious, P for preposterous, Q for questionable, R for ridiculous, S for spoon or spork, T for terrible, U for unnatural, V for vile, W for weird, X for xylophones (What? There aren't that many X words), and Z for zero (the number of sporks that should exist.). Sorry I was stuck on Y. (J and K are a bit questionable also.)

Peter Rosen
*There are, of course, a few topics I won't discuss.

You Have a Problem

Hello and welcome back. When I last left we were talking about (well, I was at least) the SSS and their plan to capture all of the teachers. I have been trying to uncover more of their nefarious plot, and I think one was found, but it was not by me. Jasmine Crespo has uncovered one of their plots. As we all have surely seen, when we get on websites, there can be advertisements saying that you won some money, laptops, or other things. These are fake and just trick you. Jasmine said that she got one that said she won something, and in fine print it said. We are not affiliated nor partnered with Blogspot.com. Blogspot.com, has not authored, participated in or in any way reviewed this advertisement or authorized it. I am not saying that all of these are phony, but many are. After searching some more, I had seen an advertisement saying that I had won a lifetime supply of toast. I thought that this was phony and thought the SSS behind it. I tested my theory (scientific method) by clicking on it and after giving an address it said, I would receive toast within two days. It is the third day and no toast. I am positive the SSS is behind this so beware of phony toast advertisements. As for Jasmine, I am grateful for you uncovering this plot, so you have my gratitude, and an imaginary medal (to go along with the imaginary numbers on imaginary axises.) We are all grateful, well all of us except >:D, and possibly Marisa.

Aninimous

26 Ways to Fail

F is for FISH!!!!


Or Mrs. Fish to be more correct. Very few of the students in 9th grade have Mrs. Fish as a math teacher 3rd period.. There are 11 in fact! 6 boys and 5 girls... that's useless information though. Today we were learning about IMAGINARY NUMBERS... (ohhh....ahhhh) (Just as a side note Peter is an imaginary number, I'm a rational number and I think... oh never mind..)


Mrs. Fish was just saying the real use of imaginary numbers... None that she knows of. So here are some awesome facts about IMAGINARY NUMBERS:

An Imaginary number is the square root of a negative number

The name "imaginary number" was originally coined in the seventeenth century as a derogatory term as such numbers were regarded by some as fictitious or useless, but today they have essential, concrete applications in a variety of scientific and related areas.

Ooo.... A practical use for IMAGINARY NUMBERS is in THE CONTROL THEORY!!!!
It's as interesting as imagined.

(Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics, that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference. When one or more output variables of a system need to follow a certain reference over time, a controller manipulates the inputs to a system to obtain the desired effect on the output of the system. A related theory known as perceptual control theory has been used to model living systems on the premise that outputs are manipulated to obtain the desired effect on the input to the system.)
It is also used in Cartography. So that means we can talk to Mrs. Lippincott about it!!


The powers of i repeat in a cycle
i^-3 = i
i^-2=-1
i^-1=-i
i^0+=1
i^1=i
i^2=-1
i^3=-i
i^4=1
i^5=i
i^6=-1

i stands for Imaginary numbers by the way. So the Square Root of -49 would be 7i but DON'T write is as i7 other wise people are going to have headaches. (more so that if they read my random story)

Though it was first used in the 16th century it did not become popular or better known (it was still considered a just plain weird thing with math) in the 17th and 18th centuries. (By the way most of this is coming from Wikipedia) It is well known today though to graph quadratics. (better known tomorrow when we actually do it and learn how to. )

*By the way the contest is STILL going on because I still only have 1 entrant.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE QUOTE WHEN LOOKING FOR INFORMATION FOR THIS:

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.imag.num.html

Contrary to what some people might tell you, imaginary numbers are not numbers that only exist in the brains of weird people. Or maybe they are; all numbers in math are "imaginary" in the sense that you can't touch them or experience them directly.

There is some really cool stuff on this website that I do not wish to copy because I do not have enough time. So check this out: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55747.html
And to those of you wondering what the square root of "i" is:



The square root of i

We have i = cos(pi/2) + i.sin(pi/2)

sqrt(i) = (cos(pi/2) + i.sin(pi/2))^(1/2)

By DeMoivre's theorem:

= cos(pi/4) + i.sin(pi/4)

1 + i
= ----------
sqrt(2)

To learn more about DeMoivre and his theorem, look at:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/53975.html


This made a lot of sense to me and I hope it does to you!
-Jasmine Crespo

Lucky 13

Yes, it's late. Deal with it. And besides,

IT'S 13 DAY!

And we will now launch into our lists.

List #1

1.Cornets
2.wagons
3.money
4.penny
5.dime
6.nickel
7.spray bottle
8.scissors
9.hat
10.gloves
11.sled
12.snow

List#2
1.Camera
2.sunglasses
3.scarf
4.ring
5.computer
6.mouse
7.nail polish
8.leaves
9.rain
10.bed
11.cd's
12.guitar
13.trumpet

List#3
1.tv
2.rehearsal
3.sheet music
4.toothbrush
5.toothpaste
6.soap
7.water
8.sucrose
9.glucose
10.enzymes
11.hormones
12.egg yolks
13.poison

List#4
1.pen
2.crayon
3.paint
4.glitter
5.glue
6.bowl
7.spoon
8.fork
9.knife
10.tent
11.hot chocolate
12.book
13.projector

List#5
1.cello
2.bass
3.viola
4.mixer
5.cookies
6.chocolate
7.lollipops
8.gum
9.shoes
10.socks
11.pants
12.shirt
13.pencil

List#6
1.Pumpkin
2.Squash
3.tree
4.flower
5.fire
6.earth
7.wind
8.magic
9.Koth
10.piano
11.bassoon
12.saxophone
13.violin

List#7
1.Jasmine
2.Ariel
3.Belle
4.Snow White
5.Sleeping Beauty
6.Anastasia (?)
7.Ursula
8.Wicked Stepmother
9.Skuttle
10.Flounder
11.Sebastian
12.Prince Eric
13.Aladdin

List#8
1.Dogs
2.ants
3.Elephants
4.seals
5.cats
6.turtle
7.frog
8.salamander
9.gecko
10.kangaroo
11.centipede
12.katydid
13.unicorn

List#9
1.tone
2.posture
3.feeling
4.understanding
5.projection
6.muscular memory
7.Memorization
8.thought
9.right
10. left
11. line
12. plot
13. story

List#10
1. Eat a Purple-Land Banana (though impossible)
2. Command legions of unicorns (also impossible, for same reason as #1)
3. Become a vampire (a true one) and mafia leader
4. Do NOT become a pirate
5. Control all *blank* factories. (plan in motion, cannot disclose)
6. Set up your own colony on the Moon under your own command and blow up the Earth.
7. Assassinate all higher-ranked people
8. Slowly establish yourself as "allies" to all foreigners
9. Get dragons for friends
10. Learn the art of Mindbending.
11. Obtain world-wide public sympathy
12. Take over chandelier production (long story)
13. Infest every organism on Earth to become a new body under your control

List #11
1.toast
2.fire alarms
3.Murray
4.polar bears
5.Antarctica
6.Australia
7.students
8.teachers
9.rocket
10.butter
11.margarine
12.secret
13.society

List#12
1.penguins
2.police
3.chocolate
4.mind control
5.evil geniuses
6.research and development
7.public relations
8.hypnotism
9.chocolate factory take over department
10.administration and public relations
11.dance like a penguin
12.uncontrollable urges
13.temperature

AND NOW FOR OUR 13th LIST...

REASONS TO READ LUCKY 13

1.It is funny

2.because...I COMMAND it!

3.RCFNARAAC's

4.I think I'll try something else.

5.SUPERFICIAL CONTENT!

6.L-E-P-R-I-K-O-N-S

7.random topics that have nothing to do with anything

8.It's...Brilliant

9.Blah, blah, blah

10.the 6th of November!

11.Inside jokes (read it, and be on the inside)

12."Brick Stuff"

13.It includes the number 13!

I remind you to please enter my current RCFNARAAC.

Rules below:

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13.html

Additional rules:

(About halfway down)

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13_06.html

Peter Rosen

Special thanks to Jasmine Crespo for all her contributions.

You Have a Problem

Hello and welcome to "You Have a Problem". The problem I will talk about today, will be very disturbing, as it is not a mechanical problem that is ruining our lives, or even those nefarious polar bears. The problem I am talking about today, could be because of YOU! The information that I have today, may or may not be true, I myself am not sure. Either way, I come to warn you of the possible dangers.

Everyone knows of organizations like the CIA, or FBI, but do you know of the SSS (no I do not mean side, side side Peter or Jasmine). The SSS is the Secret Society of Students. From what I have heard, it is being led by a man named Patrick Suanda. This could be just a rumor and something made up by some kids in class, or it could be a dark society with even darker goals. The SSS is said to try and destroy the toast industry. I think that one of their plans is to take over the schools. Now as most of you know, or hopefully know, most teachers have part time jobs. Particularly "toasters". Teachers are not paid much, so they need another source of income and an easy job is a toaster. There job is simple, put bread in toaster, take toast out, send it on for butter, or honey. There are also professional toasters, and they are good, at what they do. They are timed and have to do everything precisely. They have 15 toasters to work. They have to take out toast, put it on a plate, and put two new pieces of bread in the toaster and move onto the next within four seconds. These toasters, are very high end, and it takes precisely one minute to toast the bread, so the toaster make 30 pieces of toast a minute. To become a professional toaster, first of all, you have to go through four years of college! Isn't that crazy? Now I am not saying that all teacher are professional toasters, but some are, and many others have lower level toast jobs. One thing the SSS might be planning to do, is to capture all of the teachers. It might be at Hillcrest, somewhere else, or not even happen at all, but I must warn you. The SSS would somehow give a signal to the member, like a bell or something, and the members would charge. They would tie up all of the teachers, and if this happened, it would hurt the toast industry. It might not make a big difference with one school, but imagine if this got state wide, or bigger. This could be a catastrophe waiting to happen. We have a couple options, either train all teachers to hold off up to 30 kids, find and stop the possible SSS, or just sit there and watch it happen, because you don't care about toast. This may or may not be true, but I must warn you either way. I wish us all the best of luck.

Aninimous

26 Ways to Fail

Hello dear and beloved readers, this is Jasmine Crespo here for 26 ways to fail!

As a side note I want it known that because of the lack of entries for my competition, I am going to extend the contest until Monday, November 15.

**May it also be mentioned that even though Aninimous tried entering the contest with a stray dog, he did not even qualify. In fact, he got viciously attracted and is in the hospital. On behalf of the English 9 Staff we wish you a speedy recovery Aninimous and frankly Stop Being an Idiot and realize you are a PENGUIN!!!!

Today's letter is E. I have been contemplating what to do for this. So sorry if it jumps around.
Now E is a very important letter, it is also the most used letter in the English language. Now this leads to my competition. From the asterisks on out, count how many "E's" I use. The winner will get something along the lines of a baked good. You have until well... Monday again.
So without further ado, complete and total blasphemy!
* E is a very, very important letter. We have all grown up with e's. Sesame Street, Wall-E, E.T., Beauty and the Beast, Ecoli, Chuck-E-Cheese (not related to Ecoli), the giant E on the sight tests, E=MC^2.*

As you can see E is a very important letter. It also can stand for Evil scientists, egos, enemies, elephants and now I lost my point.

Well if you found one- you are a superior mind.

E can also stand for Egg drop. Which Humpty Dumpty knows isn't such a great idea.

To the other writers- yes so far I have failed at getting a picture of all of us so I have to postpone my idea until later. Just be warned. Also, (this was before Aninimous was attacked by the dog.) Aninimous has had a recent argument with some writers and positioned himself very badly. Sorry.... uh.. put himself in an unsafe situation. So here are the pictures taken to show what happened. Sorry Aninmous. *Note: It is fun to torture Aninimous, well at least the stuffed penguin...

These are not in order but because at the moment I don't feel like fixing it, fix it yourself.

So in this cruel hard world, take pleasure and know that E's are everywhere, including your names. So Goodnight my readers and well all I can think of is-

Sincerely,

Jasmine Crespo

Lucky 13

Sorry this is late. Lame joke. Blah, blah, blah. Announcements contained within article below.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13_06.html

Yes, read the entire article. I COMMAND it!

Lame intro to topic blah, blah, blah.

Random discussion of useless topic.

Peter Rosen

P.S. Don't forget to read the comments.

The Invasion Of Me!

Ok, well i have never really done this blog, but i will try and start now. I have noticed some very fun things going on, and i will do my best to slowly corrode you all and be the supreme ruler of this blog.
(and anyone who knows me should know what this is, sorry for the little dots in between the eyebrows.)
\``/
|\/|
\__/

(a half-failed attempt)

Contest Entry for 26 Ways to Fail

Ok, so this is my dog Sadie. She is either 6-7 or 7-8 years old (the humane society records would say she's 6-7, but our vet says 7-8). As I've been using the pronoun "she", Sadie is obviously female. We are pretty sure she is a cockapoo, but if she isn't she defiantly has some cocker spaniel in her.

A little extra about Sadie:
She is incapable of acting like your normal cocker spaniel who loves to play fetch and slobber all over a tennis ball, but she does pick up a stick every once and a while to chew on. Our last visit to the vets revealed to us that she most likely has arthritis in her rear legs which leads us to believe that she isn't 6-7, but 7-8 years old. She doesn't always come when called, but that's alright because she's just so doggone cute!

Marisa B.

You Have a Problem

Hello Aninimous here with the next installment of "You have a Problem". As you all have probably heard, our dear Taylor has left and I will be taking her place on Fridays.
In my last article, I talked about how the city of Murray may burn down. In this article, we will head north and more north until we pass the north pole and end up going south (so pretty much just go south.) to Antarctica! As we all know Antarctica is the world's leading toast producer (yes they beat Australia, I still don't get how). Well wait a second, I am getting ahead of myself. Go south and more south until you pass the south pole and end up going north back to your house. As we know global warming is a serious topic that we must stop (for more reasons that you think.)! When we leave a room and leave a light on, what happens? Well, it take electricity to keep that light on, and one way yo make electricity is by burning coal. When we burn coal, we release CO2 into the air and that makes more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. WIth more greenhouse gases, more sunlight is trapped in on Earth and with more sunlight, that makes the polar ice caps melt. So to summarize, when you leave a light on, it needs that much more energy to keep it running, which means that much more CO2 is in the atmosphere, which means that we are that much closer to the polar ice caps melting. So NOW travel south to Antarctica! With the polar ice caps melting what does this mean? With nowhere to go nature (in this case polar bears) will revolt. With polar bears superior strength, they will revolt and will destroy the butter and margarine companies in Antarctica!! With these companies destroyed the toast industry with be drastically hurt. The only factory spared, will be "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!", because, I mean, who likes that stuff. With Antarctica down, Australia would be the leading toast producer. Will we stop global warming? WIll the polar bears revolt? Are there strange reports in Australia? Are the polar bears being controlled by a higher power? Stay tuned the next installment of "You have a Problem" which will answer some of these questions.

On to a happier topic. I have decided to make a competition. I think everyone will enjoy this, well maybe except for Jasimine. This competition is to create a story, using as many of Jasmine's nicknames as possible. This story must make some sense and cannot just be a list of her nicknames. Please try and come up with the nicknames on your own so don't use outside help aka other people and previous posts on the blog. I will be grading you had the most nicknames, and the nickname only counts once, so you can't use Jasimine twice for two points. These will be graded next Tuesday.
Have fun, and beware of polar bears.
Aninimous

26 Ways to Fail

Greetings dear readers. I know it is a little later in the day than I expected to post but forgive me, I’m only human. The first matter of business is to congratulate Peter Rosen on winning the my contest. If you did not know the answers they were(in order of appearance):
1. Tomorrow from Annie
2. Sincerely, Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors
3. I’d Do Anything from Oliver!
4. Popular from Wicked
5. Gary Indiana from The Music Man
6. Forget About the Boy from Thoroughly Modern Millie
7. Beauty and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast
8. Reflection from Mulan
9. Go the Distance from Hercules
10. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ from Oklahoma!
Peter you should receive your prize in 3-5 school days. If I remember. Note: these were 10 random songs off the top of my head. But for now on to D! Though very few of you know, I can go away from my original idea! I don’t have to follow order. But I kinda will. So today is firstly a rant. I will now have the pattern of a rant then a contest. First rant. Since of course we are going to read Farienheit 451, we can talk about censors! Some songs need censors badly and when they do have them, it doesn’t help that much. But that is my opinion. You can avoid all problems by just listening to classical music though. Or just instrumental music in general. Though lyrics are important. (by the way this rant is for DITGITAL MEDIA)


WARNING: TO ALL OF THE WRITERS AND PHOTOGRAPHER OF THIS COLUMN IDEA: (AKA: Taylor (yes this applies to you), Marisa, Aninimous and Peter. I AM GETTING A PICTURE OF US ALL TOGETHER TO HELP MY COLUMN ON THURSDAY. TODAY FAILED. TOMORROW DRESS NICELY OR DON’T BE CAMERA SHY. AVOID ME AGAIN I WILL POST NOT SO GLAMOROUS PICTURES. AND BELIEVE ME, I HAVE SOME OF ALL OF YOU!

For today’s plan b, Here is single pictures to enforce my threat.

(I had to take a quick one of me because well.... I couldn't find any.)
(Yes that is Aninimous as far as you know)

Do you get the threat now? Good. Now for my competition. Though it is not as interesting as RCFNARAAC ( go to http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/10/lucky-13.html to review.)

D is for Dog so therefore I am having a dog picture contest. I will be judging on 5-8 things. To enter. Post 2 pictures of your dog. (I know every single one of you has a dog except for maybe Aninimous concidering he/she is a penguin.) Also list their name, age, gender and breed. ENTER PLEASE. Or you will be no fun. For example here is Ella. She is 6 months old, (I implied she so ) Female and a Maltese. Here she is!

Please enter!

Jasmine Crespo

Lucky 13

I am pleased to announce that today is the 6th of November! You might ask why this is important, and to be honest, it's not. However, because today is the 6th, a week from today is the 13th. This brings us to today's announcement.

NEXT WEEK IS 13 DAY!

Basically, I am officially requesting that every reader submits at least one random list that contains 13 items (just post it as a comment). The goal is to have 12 random lists, and 1 list about...why people should read Lucky 13! I also ask that you submit reasons for this list.

Now it is time to introduce our topic for today. Our topic is Random-Competion-For-No-Apparent-Reason-At-All Competions. (For future notice, this will be abbreviated as RCFNARAAC*.) This competition was created was a little over a week ago. You can see this "historic" post below. The part we're interested in is in bold at the end of the article.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/10/lucky-13.html

This tells us just exactly what an RCFNARAAC is. It is a random competion for no apparent reason at all. Surprise! The careful reader will also notice that it is, in fact, a writing competition.

The saga continues with my next article. In this one, Jasmine Crespo took 1st place! (Of course she was the only entrant, but that's not my point.) In true Lucky 13 style, Jasmine's story made absolutely no sense whatsoever. You can read her story below. Warning: It is not for the weak or the headache prone.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/10/lucky-13_30.html

And what does this tell us about RCFNARAAC's? It tells us that this wonderful competion gives you a chance to be featured in my article. It also tells us that it gives me a chance to take a break when I'm short on time.

Now for our second to last installment in the RCFNARAAC story. In my last article I announced that I was going to have another RCFNARAAC, but this one would be on a much larger scale (and hopefully have more than one entrant.) This one has official rules, and will even have judges! Don't miss this incredible opportunity to compete in this RCFNARAAC! Here is the official announcement for this amazing competition:


http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13.html

This tells us that I really do wish to use other's writing as well as my own. This also tells us that I am serious about continuing RCFNARAAC's. What it doesn't tell us is that all entries are due on the Monday before Thanksgiving, and the winner's story will be including in my article the day before Thanksgiving.

The final installment of our RCFNARAAC story is intriguing. This portion is the largest scale advertisement begging people to enter my RCFNARAAC. It was presented in a way that should have been mildly interesting, significantly random, and, in general, strange enough to please my readers. I won't post a link to this article, because, well, you're reading it.

And what does this tell us? It tells us to ENTER MY RANDOM-COMPETITION-FOR-NO-APPARENT-REASON-AT-ALL COMPETITION! In case you didn't read them the first time, the rules are on the post below.

http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2010/11/lucky-13.html

Now, at this time, I am sad to say goodbye to the highly-respected writer of The Weekly Brief. We are so sad to see Taylor go. If you haven't already, go back and read her famous articles on potatoes and milk. They are absolutely brilliant. Goodbye, Taylor! It was a lot of fun to read your articles!

Peter Rosen


*This is pronounced erk-fun-ar-ak. Put the stress wherever you please. The 'u' shouldn't be heavly pronounced. If it is properly said, it should seem as if it isn't there. It is very fun to read this article and think (or say) RCFNARAAC in the aforementioned way whenever it appears.

Random C. Entry No. 13

YROTS GNIVIGSKNAHT
Jasmine Crespo
Once upon a time, in a land- not so far away there was a nerd. Now this nerd was happy. His name was Yrots Gnivigsknaht. ( Ya-ROT-s) (Ni-VE-gets-ka-hat) The kids in town used to taunt and tease him and so every day he ran home crying. His mother once told him that every Thanksgiving; a magical Turkey comes and grants one wish to the child with the most faith in him. “That sounds a lot like the Great Pumpkin on Charlie Brown Mom…” Yrots said “Shut up and eat your dinner Yrots.” His mother responded begrudgingly. So, even though his mother probably just said that to make him feel better, he still believed. The next month was then November and Yrots was ecstatic. He woke up to his Twilight calendar one day and discovered that it was the 26th! He jumped with joy and ran to the kitchen to tell his mother that it was thanksgiving. He found his mother and started relating to her what he was going to do this Thanksgiving Day. Then at the end of his outburst he asked his mom, “So what are we going to do today since it’s Thanksgiving?” his mom then burst into an uncontrollable laughter and said, “Son, did by chance look at your Twilight calendar from last year?” “Yes..” Yrots replied “Yrots,” his mother explained. “Thanks giving is always the third Thursday of November. You were looking at last year’s calendar. Thanksgiving was yesterday honey.” Yrots stood in complete and utter shock, even though he was questioning why all his relatives had come over yesterday and he had passed out to a turkey coma. “Y-y- yesterday?” he stuttered. He then started screaming and ran out to the pumpkin patch outside. “WHY??” he screamed into the air. Just then a girl his age walked by him and shouted, “Because you’re and idiot!!” To end the story, Yrots waited until the next year when Thanksgiving was going to be on the 24th of November. And to his surprise, the Magical Turkey did exist, well at least the brand of turkey he ate at thanksgiving. The happy ending was his middle name was Bob and it took him a while to realize he could go by that instead and Bob lived happily ever after. The end.

The Beginning

I now officially blame it all on Peter.
Go to this link to see the beginning.
http://honors9th.blogspot.com/2009/10/place-but-where-by-jasmine-crespo.html

-Jasmine Crespo
P.S.
The comments are the reason it's all Peter's fault.
Jasimine, JJ... etc....
P.P.S.
Mr.Jewkes is a genius for recommending this video. (Sorry it swears 5 times near the end but not nearly as much as To Kill a Mockingbird)
(Orchadorks must watch)
There is a cheap shot on 2nd violins though. Oh yeah, this is Pachelbel's Rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

AND READ TAYLOR'S COLUMN!!!

The Weekly Brief: Milk

Hey guys, just to let you know this will be my final article for reasons that I would like to keep to myself. Aninmous will be taking over Fridays'article. (Yes, this is the first and only notice anyone has gotten). So here it is.

Milk. As pretty much everyone knows I have an obsession with milk. Some people question my sanity when I guzzle down milk, but I have a very real reason why I love it so much; calcium. Calcium is such a nutrious nutrient that I can't get enough of it! But seriously, milk is just a generally good drink. It is also awesome with oreos. It makes it all oreo-y and yummy. So there is my super brief, milky final article. I can't wait to see what everyone else writes the rest of the week!

Taylor Tomlinson

26 Ways to Fail

In this next installment of 26 Ways to Fail: There will be two themes! (again!)

The first is Cellos

Cellos- The reason I have added cellos ( I wasn't going to do them before) was because my lovely little brother Isaiah showed me what happened to his cello. (to those faint of heart don't look at the pictures above... oh wait too late isn't it? well these are not made up since my foot is in the first picture. (the purple blob)) This is the second cello my brother has killed this school year, in fact, he has had this cello since Wednesday. That lasted long. Cellos are an amazing instrument that I love. *note: he denies killing two cellos*

The next theme is one of my (other) absolute favorites!

Choir!!!!

This is an amazing subject because one, it starts with a c! and two it leads into something I do daily! (I am also going to have a competition with the content of my article* see below*)

Choir implies singing, which all of you (who read) know I do very often. In fact, just spend about 20 minutes with me and your bound to hear a show tune.

THE CONTEST:

See if you can name what songs I put in this post. I am going to rant on and on but slip in recognizable lyrics in the rant. In order to win you must list the name of the song and the show* (if applicable) otherwise just list N/A. There is a total of TEN songs. The contest ends on Monday. And guess what readers... the winner actually gets a prize. And it is something physical and real, not biotic though, that's too messy. So good luck! Comment to win!!! and NO CHEATING! No search engines. I want to see what you know! and if all else fails, I will give hints.

This week has been dark, though I'm sure the sun will come out tomorrow. I decided to rant today about nothing. Seems like it's a popular subject. Some people in class are so weird though... I just want to shout- " Lift up your head! Wash off your mascara! Here take my kleenex! Wipe that lipstick away!" But that's just me and the fact that some teachers can be scary and scare people to tears... Then there are the "teachers pets" who just think all day about teachers and are thinking this when the teacher asks them to do something- I'd do anything for you (dear)... it starts to get creepy.... People are so obsessed about being popular! I mean some people will go as far as to teach you the proper poise and how to talk boys! Seriously it's all underrated. Even ask people from Gary Indiana! Gary Indiana! Gary Indiana! (I felt repetitive...) Last time I said this to someone though, they started sighing over this guy Gary that they knew... I just wanted to scream- " forget about the boy!!". Sigh... It's a tale as old as time.... I mean people in this world just want everyone to look at them! But look at me, you may think you see who I really am, but you'll never know me. Every day it's as if I play a part. I think I can just look in a mirror... It's so perfect... I can see it now! I have often dreamed of a far off place where a hero's welcome would be waiting for me, (I mean come on, after writing this much I'm a hero) where the crowds will cheer when they see my face, and a voice keeps saying this is where I'm meant to be. HJH. Welcome to reality Jasmine. I guess I'll just wake up and see.... oh... (uhh...) What?? A beautiful morning (and uhh...) Oh! (wait??) What?? A beautiful day. I guess it will be a wonderful feeling. This rant is going my way! Yes!! I win!!! Thank you for reading my rant.

(this competition is too easy)

PLEASE ENTER!

Jasmine Crespo

Picture for Jasmine

Sorry Jasmine, but I lost the elephant, so yeah... Feel free to use this post for your actual article.

Marisa B.

Lucky 13

It is time for another Random-Competition-For-No-Apparent-Reason-At-All Competition! For this competition you will write a Thanksgiving-related story. It must be at least 300 words long. Yes Jasmine, I want it to make sense this time. To enter please post your story with the following format. It should be titled "Random C. Entry No. 13". This is very important. If it is not titled this way, it will not be judged. The rest of the formatting is on the post directly below this one. Your name is also required to be entered into the competition. The judges will most likely be myself, Ms. L., and someone else (I forgot to ask people to do this for me, so I can't guarantee anything).

On to our main subject for today which is...INDECISION! You see, when planning for this article, I was having difficulties choosing a topic. At first it was going to be on a made-up topic called "Brick Stuff." It was great! It would have included everything from the International Brick Board to counterfeit bricks. However, Aninimous already wrote a fiction-presented-as-fact article, and I didn't want to write another. I also considered an elaborate joke on keeping people in suspense. To make a long story short, I decided against it.
And that is why indecision is our topic for today!

Peter Rosen

P.S. Yeah, that's it, I know it isn't the best, but I did write something.

Oh fine then, I'll write more.

Indecision is a problem because it makes your life so much more confusing. For example I had invented an entire article for "brick stuff" and an entire article for the suspense topic. With both of these article ideas bouncing around in my head I got...how did Taylor say it?..."horridly confused". Granted, it was interesting, but so confusing. So very confusing. It reminds me of Jasmine's story in my last article. Just mentioning it gives me a headache. Can't continue...terrible headache...it hurts...I think...groan.

You still want more? Seriously?

Continuing on. Here are the facts about indecision. There's...oh wait, I don't think I should talk about that, maybe the definition first. The definition of indecision is...No, I don't like that either. How about, um, how to get rid of indecision? Yes, I like that. There is only one sure way to get rid of indecision and that is...This is bad, too, isn't it? I think I'll try something else. How about I give you a link to an article about indecision. Here it is:

www

That doesn't work either. I think I should stop now, but I don't like to commit. Maybe I'll...

Random C. Entry No. 13

(Intro to story if desired)

(Title. If no title, simply put "Untitled")

(Your name here)

(Your story here)

You Have a Problem

Hello, Aninimous here with the first installment of You Have a Problem.

This column is about possible situations and the affect (or effect) on the world, and the toast industry. Everything here is Factual information from reliable sources (or at least as reliable as a pair of monkeys can be).

Here in Hillcrest Jr. High there is a problem. (See look at the name.) As I was told the fire alarms don't sound in the auditorium. My informant (Peter) said that in the school play last year someone pulled the fire alarm, and the people in the auditorium did not hear it. This is a crisis that must be addressed immediately! For example if the school was having an assembly, and there was a fire and the people did not hear the alarm and word did not get to them fast enough, the school could and would likely burn down. If this happened, the fire could spread across the city and soon the whole city would be on fire. The fire would eventually burn down the whole city. As everyone knows, Murray is the leading toast producer in 5 out of 7 continents (only outmatched by Australia and Antartica, don't ask me how.) this would hurt much of the economy, not mentioning as bad as it is now, this would run the butter and margarine companies dry (that is a pun, because they are kinda already are dry... you know... just forget what I said.). This would in turn lead to complete world disaster and then the polar bears... well we'll save that for another day. You see the smallest problem can lead to the largest disasters. I hope you all enjoyed my enthralling column.

Aninimous

Bueller? Bueller?

Is anyone signing on for literary insanity, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo? I don't know if many have the time during the busy life and schedule of a student, but I know of many dedicated and aspiring authors out there (in our classes).

Random Picture

Hope you guys like it! I might have a little contest thing later with a different pic, but for now just enjoy!
Marisa B.

26 Ways to Fail

For this next installment of 26 Ways to Fail I will be doing the next letter in the alphabet! To those of you who are very smart, you will have noticed that today's picture is not of the actual letter "b" but of the "Mighty Bee"! And also to the savvy reader you will notice that this post is blue. Have you gotten the message yet?? Today's letter is B! *note: this is not sesame street so we do NOT have a number of the day, if we did it would be either, 2, 5, 7, 3.141592654...,13 or 22. Moving on. I have been contemplating this subject for approximately... today. So I have multiple B subjects. First way to fail in the B category is.....Blogging!!!!
Blogging-The way to fail in blogging is letting an amazing blog die over the summer then having 5 random people make it appear as though the blog were alive. To the 5 of you reading... Mission accomplished.
Book Writing- To the many of you who write books, (myself included) the way to fail is to either give up, burn your book after the first rejection letter, or not finish it. I am not the greatest example of this because I have 5 books that I am writing and NONE of them are finished. Good think that this month is... *drumroll* NaNoWriMo!!!!!! So enter if you dare and good luck with your sanity after. *note: this applies only if you had sanity to begin with.

*A special thanks to Peter Rosen who honored me in his column and because I have just decided to I now have the power to give awards amongst the bloggers. So here are the nominees...

*Taylor Tomlinson for best post about potatoes and worst use of the word Jasmine
*Peter Rosen for the most random post ever and for an enthralling competition (which I won!!)

**Marisa Bell as our new photographer! (I hired her Peter...)
*Aninimous for the most lacking appearance on the blog so far
*Ms. LaFortune for her publicity efforts (which successfully failed)
*And Me! For absolutely nothing. I already won Peter's competition so I will let the other people shine.
**random note: In order to have 1.8 people miss a problem on a math test, one of them has to be missing a tooth.
***BIOLOGY FIELD TRIP TOMORROW!!! Sadly we miss English. Oh well. But we get to see turtles and not drowning tortoises.... (that was made to be depressing)
Sincerely?

Jasmine Crespo