"A man who acted as a modern-day bridge troll faces charges in Boulder after he and his companion allegedly got into a confrontation with an off-duty sheriff's deputy.
According to a police report obtained by 7NEWS, Robert Hibbs, 19, was arrested Friday in a park near Foothills Highway and Colorado Avenue after demanding money and attacking the deputy."
The story goes on to reveal how LSD and a golf club was involved but for that you'll have to read the full article here.
Because of a required oil filter change, tonight's blog post will have to be diminished in capacity. Instead, think of your loved ones or failing that, think about products that you might purchase in the near future.
In my previous post, I wrote about my all-time favourite teacher, Mrs. K. That got me thinking about contacting her again. I wonder if she ever thinks about her former students. I'm sure she thought a few of them would end up in jail. I wonder if she ever thinks about me. Would she be disappointed at how I turned out?
I think she still teaches at a local high school. Maybe I'll go e-mail her in a few days time. Now that I'm an adult maybe she might tell me stories about my other junior high school teachers.
As I look back on my years, I've discovered that I've had my fair share of nicknames. That kinda surprises me because I've never thought of myself as a guy that was prone to being nicknamed. I have no distinguishing physical features, except for maybe a large, unwieldy head or perhaps being slight in stature.
The very first nickname I can remember having was given to me by my all-time favourite teacher, Mrs. S. Kilpatrick. She was my homeroom teacher for grades 8, 9, and 10. She called me "orange flavoured crystals". I don't think anyone else called me that but she did. Mrs. K. also introduced me and the other students in English 8 to the book, The Outsiders. If you ever hear me say, "Stay gold Ponyboy," you know I mean it.
In junior high, I also garnered another nickname. One Andrew Brown began calling me "Irv", a play on my first name. I actually liked that moniker and several people picked up on it. It stayed with me through high school but it eventually fell by the wayside after we graduated.
I don't remember any nicknames during my undergrad days, which is weird since a lot of rabble-rousing occurs in your school days. Maybe people called me names behind my back but I never heard those.
It wasn't until the heady days of grad school where I would once again be known by another name. Fellow SJC resident, Miriam, the pride of Creston (or was it Lytton?), began calling me E-dawg. Then again, she started calling everyone something-dawg so I suppose I shouldn't feel too special. Just today, a former co-worker of mine called me E-dawg. Small world!
I forget if this was slightly after grad school but I gained another nickname from the infamous lawyer of SJC, Joel himself. He took to calling me Winnie. Independently, during the summer of 2005, my co-worker Dave, started calling me Winnie as well. I have to admit, I quite like Winnie. Some people are reminded of Pooh the bear but most people think of Winnie from The Wonder Years. If you may indulge me in a slight tangent... hey, maybe that could be a nickname too... anyways, the actress that played Winnie, Danica McKellar, went onto attend Stanford where she received a degree in mathematics. She even got a proof published. A girl that knows her math is hawt! The special spelling denotes extra hawtness. If anyone is interested, here's her photo shoot from Stuff magazine. In the interview, they discuss the proof.
I'm sure almost everyone who surfs the Internet has viewed at least one video via YouTube. Allowing people to easily post videos for others to see seems like a simple idea but YouTube did it better anyone else. Sure there was some luck involved but it's the favoured site to post your videos to.
Because anyone can post their videos and because the site is so popular now, YouTube has created Internet stars. As far as the Web goes, these people are genuine celebrities. Their videos are viewed by the thousands. In a course of a week, a video can generate as many as 100 000 views. A single video can elicit over a thousand comments in the same time frame. I can only dream of a blog post with that many comments.
One such Internet sensation is a twenty-something male from Toronto, Ontario. His name is Tony but he's much better known as "The Wine Kone". He's a bit of rarity on YouTube since most stars there are teenage girls. TWK's videos, for the most part, are funny, well-edited, and entertaining. There's no doubt he has a sense of humour, which skews at times towards the self-deprecating. Now where have I seen that before? Hmm...
Strangely, TWK has garnered YouTube groupies. These are girls who find TWK attractive and funny. They leave flattering comments for him to read. It's almost rock star in nature.
Now with stardom does has his price and in this case, it comes in the form of detractors. I believe the kids these days refer to them as "haters". On the Internet, it's much easier to criticize than to create and TWK has dealt with his fair share of critics.
Nonetheless, I find it fascinating that in this day and age, you can be well known to hundreds of thousands of people without being a TV star, movie star, or serial killer. Be sure to check out one of TWK's latest videos above where he describes his university graduation. I know it might seem long but it's well worth your time. Funny stuff indeed. His entire collection can be viewed here.
If you've seen me in person in the last week or so, let me explain something. Yeah, I know my hair looks terrible. I've run out of that wax crap that usually tames my wild locks. Plus it kinda gives it a shine that I like. On top of that, I've let my hair grow out so much it looks like a bird's nest.
I know this post is useless without pics but I'm not about to go take a picture of my hair just to upload it. Instead, trying doing a Google image search on "bad hair".
