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Name: Ben
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Birthday: 12/14/1988
Gender: Male
Interests: Computers, video games, video game design, gymnastics, soccer, pizza.
Expertise: Playing video games, playing soccer, and eating pizza.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
11/23/2005
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| Check the volcanoes! Make sure they haven't frozen over.
I just stumbled across this a bit ago and couldn't help but find it interesting, and true and needed in some ways.
For those of you who aren't hip-hop fans, an rapper who goes by Young Jeezy has a song named "Put On". Here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bHUE41uZlM
You'll notice something interesting. The flag shown doesn't have red, white, and blue. It only has black and silver (or black and gray). The video (though not the lyrics to my sense) is about how the recession is hitting what we quantify and ignore as "the lower class." In the video, it focuses on black people.
Out of curiosity I looked around online a bit for a clear definition about the flag. I'll post the words of the author below. It's short, but seems to hit on something. Watch the video then come back and check this out.
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Black and Silver Flag:
A symbol of the recession, people taking a stand against the gas prices, unemployment rate, foreclosures.
Hip-Hop addressing Political Issues .
The black and sliver is a call for change.
It isn't defacing the flag, it is just a protest against the current political leaders. it also is a Plea for more black leaders in the government.
Dark times that many communities in america are going through right now.
Also of unity showing that no matter how hard times can get, you can still turn to each other for support.
We've been poor, we have BEEN ready for this. We live this. We will get through this. That is what the black and silver flag means.
It means that the government has us in the dark. The flag has no color. Black/White, we all suffer the same. | | |
| This is a short excerpt written by Jessy Ribordy about his new project, "The River Empires."
I really liked it and it's not like I\m posting too much stuff on here so here ya go. enjoy.
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Welcome to the ordinary world. You see a summer home amongst magnificent woodlands. Off in the west, sounds of waves splashing against the cliffs. You see a family arriving and unpacking for a long stay. Two young lovers preparing for their wedding, surrounded by family and friends, the Northland sunset, strings of lights, and of course, enduring love. The activities are joyous yet bustling, and a breeze shivers the leaves and flirts with the wind chimes near the porch. Then your attention slowly turns to a young girl, with big brown eyes and sandy ringlets, her white summer dress treads and whispers. She is fixated ahead. From out of the woods enters a young boy, ruddy and bright eyed. They embrace. The longest, sweetest grasp, pure from the snares and confusion of the world, always remembered yet forgotten in a flicker. The two, apart for the year, will now spend the summer together, as was every time former. You are amazed and entranced with these two. Your mind wanders, imagining past adventures the children had, as they grew with each other in wonder, friendship, and now love. The girl's family is aware. They pass by with smiles, yet they remain apart from the blooms of mysterious light these two children share when they gaze into each others eyes. You are here, in Northland this summer. You are witnessing the ordinary world. There is a very special reason that you are blessed to view the adventures this particular summer. There is a very special reason that I have decided to narrate with song. You are about to embark on an adventure amongst the looming trees and warm evening glow. A journey of the final summer for Hayden and River. This is the ordinary world. This begins the onset for a tale called The River Empires. | | |
| I need to start posting more often. The thing is, nobody really reads stuff on here anymore, so I feel very little incentive to do so.
Plus Im lazy. Like, really super lazy.
In fact, I'm so lazy I'm going to end this post already.
Without even having a proper conclusi
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| yeah... it's not a real post. just click the thing...
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| What follows is an excerpt from Jessy Ribordy, on the myth of the Discoveratory. It was posted as the first half of his last video blog. Choose your opinion for yourself.
"At first, it was more of an interest... curiosity I guess. But then slowly over time it turned into an obsession.
Countless hours I spent awake, trying to figure and refigure possiblities. Trying to analyze every possible angle that this place had. I read books, articles, searched the internet tirelessly, hoping that at least one time I might be successful.
After I gave up hope that I might ever reach my goal... I went to sleep. And that's when I dreamt of the wavy city at the end of the sphere. I was moving towards it. Millions of figures moving on on strange mechanics... all gravitating toward the dooming land. And then the voice spoke... 'We go now to the Discoveratory.'"
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In 2007, one hundred and nine icelanders, between the ages of 6 and 14, disappeared into a snow tunnel.
Search parties went out for eight months to look for the missing children, and at the end they found nothing, no shred of evidence of the children or their whereabouts. The country was horified and baffled, knowing that these children went off on their own account, imbedded in such mystery as to why.
But not until this year, a man that led the party that found the children revealed the only evidence that could lead to an answer in this mystery.
A single, solitary digital tape recording marked, "The Discoveratory"
Video Blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2pgMv0IaFA&feature=channel_page
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