Article #7

            So recently I have read The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I found the book to be amazing!!! Though it may be inappropriate to some of the young readers, as sexual and violent scenes are depicted within the pages of the book. But I'll tell you what it's about anyways.
           The book is told through letters sent from a the main character, Charlie(not his real name), and you read as the letters are composed of his first year in high school. Charlie meets two people, Sam and Patrick, at a football game and instantly become friends. Sam is patrick's step-sister, originally thought to be his girlfriend. Patrick is gay and having an affair with another high school boy, the quarterback or something of the sorts. But the book many times are flashbacks into Charlie's past, his very traumatized past, and usually they're about his Aunt who died or his therapist sessions and being in the hospital.
           Through out the book it really gets you thinking about so many things, like how people do the same things as you somewhere in this world, how none of us are perfect/normal/ unique. It's characters and plot are well developed and you can really understand the reason behind everything they do or say. But personally, I loved and extremely hated the ending(i won't tell you what it was). The ending just made me so sad, how after everything, Charlie still wasn't happy or even remotely okay...it irked me to the core! WHY COULDN'T THEY JUST LET CHARLIE BE HAPPY?!?!
          

Article #6

             Do you want to donate bone marrow? Well now there's an easy and simple way to do so, and it's just as convenient. A new product is a bandage kit, normal, simple, but it has an envelope inside. The envelop is for your blood to send to the bone marrow registry after you've gotten a cut. Now don't think you have to cut yourself to give the blood. You accidentally cut yourself while cooking, paper cuts, anything. Just after using a bandage send it to the bone marrow registry in the envelope and there, done.
              After this creation, by Graham Douglas, no one has to fear(as much) of bone marrow registry, as now the process is more simple, relaxed. Most people don't because of its inconvenience and torture process. From now on it should be a better chance for anyone in need of bone marrow :)
             

Article #1

            Daniel Radcliffe attends the NFL draft on April 26, 2012! The NFL draft on the 26th that night was held at Radio City Music Hall where people saw Daniel Radcliffe in the house, many surprised. Apparently, he is an avid NFL fan and has recently become particularly preoccupied with the game and also is a New York Giants fan. He also has always dreamed of being at the [NFL] draft.
          

source: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2012/04/harry-potter-attends-nfl-draft-in-new-york/1#.T5_Wp83vlss
source: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d828a54e2/article/harry-potter-hits-the-nfl-draft

Article #2

             A 'Two and a Half Men' ad promoting rerun episodes with Charlie Sheen still in the show. The L.A. TV network is trying to use this as a new marketing campaign. I guess some people can't seem to handle the replacement of Charlie for Ashton Kutcher and the KTLA realize this predicament.
             I for one, find it really interesting that the TV network has the idea to advertise reruns. The L.A. TV network clearly is using the viewers anguish over the loss of Charlie Sheen(from the show) and turning it around to their advantage and creating advertisements for reruns of the show. Genius.

Article #3

            Jennifer took the stand on April 23rd for the murder trial of William Balfour. During her time took at the witness stand Hudson describes how she found out about the murders of her family. She'd been in Florida and had been getting really worried when she didn't hear from her mother that day. Then later that day her sister, Julia, told her about the slaying of her mother, brother, and Jennifer's 7'-year old nephew.
              "I would tell Julia over and over again not to marry William," she said. "None of us -- myself, my mother, or my brother -- we did not like how he treated her, and I didn't like how he treated my nephew." (this quoted from Jennifer Hudson)
             The murders actually happening almost 3 years after her relatives were killed; while the the trial is expected to last 3-4 weeks long. Balfour has been accusedof fatally shooting Hudson's mother and brother inside their Chicago home in October 2008. Also, Balfour has been portrayed Balfour as a jealous man who murdered three people in a rage at the thought that his wife had a boyfriend.

Attention Drawling, Mysterious Geologic Structure

             A huge, orange- brown formation in West Africa dominates a hypnotic photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers snapped this hypnotic image of the so-called Richat structure in Mauritania, as the space station obited over the Sahara Desert on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa. Erosion of the various rock layers created the ring-like features that make up the sprawling structure, but the origin of the Richat structure remains somewhat mysterious, geologists have said.

The photo shows Kuipers' unique vantage point from the orbiting complex, which flies approximately 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth. The image was taken on March 7 using a Nikon D2Xs camera.

During their months-long stints aboard the International Space Station, astronauts often perform Earth observations for science and public outreach.

Throughout their mission, many spaceflyers maintain active social media presences, such as on Twitter or Google+, to share stunning views from space with members of the public.

Space agencies also use photos taken by astronauts to engage students and space enthusiasts in geography, planetary science and human spaceflight.

There are currently six people living and working on the space station: Kuipers, Americans Dan Burbank and Don Pettit, and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg Kononenko. Burbank is commander of the station's Expedition 30 mission.

Blind Dog Gets Her Eyesight Back

                   A very sick and abandoned dog is found lying in the middle of a cluster of trash somewhere in Los Angeles. Volunteers at the animal rescue operation Hope for Paws had heard about the dog and brought a video camera with them to document their efforts. The video might make you cry, but its ending will also undoubtedly leave you with a smile on your face.

When they found the dog, she was blind in both eyes and reportedly had the worst case of fleas they had ever seen. Throughout the video, you get to observe the dog, which they named "Fiona," experience an astonishing "comeback". After a nationwide fundraising and awareness effort, Fiona was able to receive an expensive surgery that restored vision to one of her eyes.

The Hunger Games

            The top seller books, The Hunger Games, is going to become a new movie on (the big screen) March 23rd. The movie i believe is about only the first book, The Hunger Games, and not the others; yet.
           The book is about a girl named Katniss and her sister gets picked for the Hunger Games, but she volunteers and she becomes the girl tribute for Hunger Games. The boy tribute, Peeta, is madly in love with her and the adventure in The Hunger Games becomes more interesting as their peers discover their spectacular love for one another! But when Peeta told the crowd of people in the Capitol she thought he was lying to them but he was telling the truth and she went along with it because Haymitch told her that he did it so they'd get more patrons for the games but he lied to them both!!!
            So eventually the two meet back up in the Hunger Games after being separated for awhile and then the cave scene!!! OH THAT CAVE SCENE WHERE SHE TELLS HIM SHE LOVES HIM BUT LIES WHILE TELLING THE TRUTH! I MEAN SHE LOVED HIM AND DIDN'T KNOW IT BUT THOUGHT SHE WAS LYING WHEN SHE SAID SO!!!!!

           Then finally they both win the games by trying to commit suicide together so yeah they won!!!!!!  

April Fool's Edition

            As some of you may know by now, Snooki is pregnant. Snooki, also known as Nicole Polizzi, has become impregnated by Jionni Lavalle. Now would you want a mini snooki? Because just look at her face, how would you not want another of her!!!!
           Snooki is expected to have her baby in October...about the 23rd.

April Fools

            The Woman in Black was a dreadful movie, just absolutely retched. It was barely a plot and all the actors suck at acting! Out of all the movies I've seen in my years I've never seen such crap! It takes quite a time before the pieces of a bloody terrible puzzle appear, and when they do, they don't always fall into place very well!!!
               The Woman in Black is your standard-issue ghost story, prettied up in period clothes to make it look like a magnificent picture. I just think the movie wasted my time and money!

SNL 1/14/12

            On Saturday Jan. 14, 2012 Daniel Radcliffe hosted for Saturday Night Live. While hosting he showed us his best american accent, revisited his potter past and acted as Casey Anthony's dog. Truly, the scripts and writing were fantastical and hilarious!
           While Daniel was hosting SNL was wonderful the musical guest, Lana Del Rey, was dreadful at singing. So far since the show was aired there has been so much negative feedback towards her performance that there is a debate of between her, Ashley Simpson, Sinead O'Connor, and Ke$ha!
          Personally I saw the show that night and I though Daniel Radcliffe did amazing and the rest of the cast. Except I agree that Lana Del Rey really was awful.

Ricky Gervais Bashed Kim Kardashian

           While at the Golden Globe Awards on January 15, 2012. Ricky Gervais made jokes such as Kim is a trashier version of Kate Middleton; who I guess is pretty trashy. He also made jokes about her 72-day marriage saying that he's sat through longer James Cameron acceptance speeches. Lastly Ricky used Kim to explain how the Golden Globes were a little bit "drunker" than the Oscars.
            What did Kim Kardashian say about all of this? She thought they were....funny and hilarious? She did I'm not joking! But she said some inaccurate as she hardly drinks.