My dad, a southern boy born to a family of six, had a novelistic childhood and today we got to venture into his story. Walon Esters grew up in Louisiana, he has three brothers; John, Roger and Charlie and one sister, Elaine. He and his brothers loved the outdoors and wildlife. When they weren’t fishing and hunting they were swimming and getting into trouble. Some of his stories are insane but most are the definition of rebellion.
I started out with the million dollar question, what was it like growing up? He replies, “Well it left me with a ton of both good and bad stories. Obviously there were some ups and downs but overall I had a very adventurous childhood.” That answer led to the next question of what was the most memorable moment of your childhood? "well most of them are of when i was real little and we would play cowboys and Indians. That game got rough, one time John (his yonger brother) was up in a tree and was going to jump down on to my back and when he did his two front teeth connected with the top of my head. That was how he lost his first tooth." We then compared little stories of the past and his were always way more daring and fun, whereas if i were to do anything that he used to I would be grounded forever. I then asked him who his friends were and where they went for fun. His answer, "In high school my main friends were Clayton and Sharon, and almost everyday me and Clayton would go out to the swamps and go snake and frog hunting or go fishing." I have mt both Clayton and Sharon and they are now happily married with kids and grandkids, they are very nice people. My next question was you weren't into sports? He stated "No way, if the fish were bitin' and it was nice outside there was no way i was stayin' in a gym.” Then he started to rant on about the times he had and how one time he was dared to wrestle an alligator and that he was going to too, but they apparently they were being a tad vociferous and scared it off before he could. Thats not something you could do in Wyoming thats for sure. Then I questioned, how often were you in trouble? “I was always in trouble but consequences were a lot different then than they are now, they were way more harsh.” Then I was dying to ask, What was the most trouble you've been in? “One time, when I was a senior my teacher asked me and my friend to take his really nice truck and go buy him some crawfish and we did but we also wrecked and that got us into a whole heap of trouble.” He wouldn't go into details on that one but it didn't sound like that was a very good deal. So I finally asked the closing question, you seemed to have had a very exhilarating childhood, when did it start to slow down? “ This is a good one, one time I was visiting my brother in Wyoming and I ended up going to this birthday party and at that party there was a girl. This girl was so pretty and I decided to go make the moves, she turned me down. Little did she know she would marry me someday.”
That said, the interesting story of my dads' childhood personally makes me wish I grew up when and where he did. It seems as if he saw things that some could only dream of. Cheesy I know, but seriously not many people can say they have swam in water alligator infested waters. Though that does sound a bit psychotic. Still he led an exciting life and it left him with a lifetime full of memories.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Eclipse
Eclipse a fiction novel by Stephanie Meyer is a frothy brew of romance, violence and fantasy. As the third book in the brilliant twilight series is by far the most exhilarating. Bella, one of the main characters, is madly in love with the insanely sexy and mysterious vampire, Edward but is also drawn to the outgoing and friendly werewolf, Jacob. This causes a problem because werewolves and vampires are enemies, therefore Edward and Jacob hate each other. Bella wants to have both, one as a lover and one as a friend, sounds easy right? Well not quite.
Eclipse picks up about where New Moon Ended, Bella is getting close to graduating high school and is getting ready to go to Stanford University and leave Forks Washington forever, so she says. In reality, she is going to join her boyfriend Edward as a vampire. Meaning that she will be dead and not going to be able to control her blood lust for a few years, supposedly. Around graduation time Bella and Edward start noticing mass killings in Seattle and it wasn't until later we find out these killings are due to a large coven of new vampires. Though this is of great importance down the road, the majority of this story is spent on the love triangle of Jacob, Bella and Edward. Bella found her soul mate in Edward but Jacob is the soul mate she should of, would of had if Edward didn’t exist. Sure she loves Jacob but not as much or in the same way as she does Edward. Though Edward is very over protective, strong beyond reason and physically dead, he is the right person for Bella. He even tells her on an almost daily basis that she could chose Jacob if she wanted, sure it would hurt him greatly but if it ment she was happy then it was okay with him. Stephanie Meyer does an excellent job of describing the confusion and sheer angst of the story, you can't help but feel the intensity. But by the end of the book she finally realizes that she loves Jacob, but as a brother and only that.
Now comes the violence, since vampires aren't exactly believed in or thought to be real being subtle is the main rule for the vampires. For those that don't obey, well they have to deal with the Volturi, the largest, strongest and oldest vampire coven known. This is where the large family of new vampires come in. Edward and his family decide stop these new vampires before the Volturi get involved, because if they came they would also kill Bella because she is a human who knows way to much about the so called supernatural. And since Jacob is in love with Bella, he and his family of werewolves decide to help, to protect Bella. So the Cullens teach the wolves how to fight these newborns and are ready to fight them. Then Alice, Edwards future seeing sister, sees that Victoria is leading and creating these new vampires. This causes new drama because Victoria is out to kill Bella due to the fact that Edward killed her lover James who, in the first book tried to kill Bella. The Cullens knew that Victoria would come to the area where Bella was so they created a plan and used Bella as bait. So Bella, Edward and Jacob went one way while the others went another top fight the 20 some young and strong vampires. About 24 hours go by and here comes the feline looking, firey haired vampire, Victoria ready to kill. At first Edward tries to talk it out, but when she lurches toward Bella hes had enough. This makes Edward pull out his mad fighting skills and with one swift snap of the neck Victoria is killed and Bella is safe and all I is calm. Then they find out that all went well in killing all but one of the new borns. One decided she wanted to help the Cullens instead. Then just hours later, Edward proposes to Bella and Bella accepts.
Eclipse is an intriguing page turner, that runs a lot like a soap opera. Theres love, heart break and danger. I personally believe that every teenage girl that reads this book wishes they were Bella. She lives in this surreal life that no one knows about. I mean how badass would it be to be in her shoes. I do wish they got into more detail when it came to the fighting, but she makes up for it in the love scenes. Don't get me wrong, there is no sex in this book, the appeal is there loud and clear though. Eclipse is an intriguing love story that any girl would love.
Eclipse picks up about where New Moon Ended, Bella is getting close to graduating high school and is getting ready to go to Stanford University and leave Forks Washington forever, so she says. In reality, she is going to join her boyfriend Edward as a vampire. Meaning that she will be dead and not going to be able to control her blood lust for a few years, supposedly. Around graduation time Bella and Edward start noticing mass killings in Seattle and it wasn't until later we find out these killings are due to a large coven of new vampires. Though this is of great importance down the road, the majority of this story is spent on the love triangle of Jacob, Bella and Edward. Bella found her soul mate in Edward but Jacob is the soul mate she should of, would of had if Edward didn’t exist. Sure she loves Jacob but not as much or in the same way as she does Edward. Though Edward is very over protective, strong beyond reason and physically dead, he is the right person for Bella. He even tells her on an almost daily basis that she could chose Jacob if she wanted, sure it would hurt him greatly but if it ment she was happy then it was okay with him. Stephanie Meyer does an excellent job of describing the confusion and sheer angst of the story, you can't help but feel the intensity. But by the end of the book she finally realizes that she loves Jacob, but as a brother and only that.
Now comes the violence, since vampires aren't exactly believed in or thought to be real being subtle is the main rule for the vampires. For those that don't obey, well they have to deal with the Volturi, the largest, strongest and oldest vampire coven known. This is where the large family of new vampires come in. Edward and his family decide stop these new vampires before the Volturi get involved, because if they came they would also kill Bella because she is a human who knows way to much about the so called supernatural. And since Jacob is in love with Bella, he and his family of werewolves decide to help, to protect Bella. So the Cullens teach the wolves how to fight these newborns and are ready to fight them. Then Alice, Edwards future seeing sister, sees that Victoria is leading and creating these new vampires. This causes new drama because Victoria is out to kill Bella due to the fact that Edward killed her lover James who, in the first book tried to kill Bella. The Cullens knew that Victoria would come to the area where Bella was so they created a plan and used Bella as bait. So Bella, Edward and Jacob went one way while the others went another top fight the 20 some young and strong vampires. About 24 hours go by and here comes the feline looking, firey haired vampire, Victoria ready to kill. At first Edward tries to talk it out, but when she lurches toward Bella hes had enough. This makes Edward pull out his mad fighting skills and with one swift snap of the neck Victoria is killed and Bella is safe and all I is calm. Then they find out that all went well in killing all but one of the new borns. One decided she wanted to help the Cullens instead. Then just hours later, Edward proposes to Bella and Bella accepts.
Eclipse is an intriguing page turner, that runs a lot like a soap opera. Theres love, heart break and danger. I personally believe that every teenage girl that reads this book wishes they were Bella. She lives in this surreal life that no one knows about. I mean how badass would it be to be in her shoes. I do wish they got into more detail when it came to the fighting, but she makes up for it in the love scenes. Don't get me wrong, there is no sex in this book, the appeal is there loud and clear though. Eclipse is an intriguing love story that any girl would love.
ledes 3-4-09
Gunmen Attack a Game of Cricket
An innocent game of professional cricket became a deadly attack last Tuesday in Lahore, Pakistan. Sri Lanka, the visiting team in a cricket game against Pakistan was ambushed by a dozen gunmen just outside the stadium. They were attacked with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers leaving 6 police men , a driver for dead and 7 wounded. The gunmen have not yet been caught but are expected to be severely punished when they do.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_cricketers_attacked
Fossilized Fish Brains
A 300 million year old fossilized brain was discovered, and believed it once belonged to a fish that lived near Kansas and Oklahoma. It is not usual to find fossilized brains, making this a huge discovery. This is by far the oldest fossilized brain ever found and is expected to lead to discoveries of new kinds of fish.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_sc/sci_fossil_brain
Estimated Collapse of the US
Igor Panarin, a Russian scholar believes that the US will collapse by the year 2011. He states that the US will first break up into 6 smaller groups there making the US weak. This would put China and Russia as the world leaders and the backbone for the newly collapsed US.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_the_end_is_near
Sundanese President Up for Arrest
The Criminal Court of the Netherlands have called for a warrant to arrest the President of Sudan on charges of war crime and genocide. On Wednesday he was in fact arrested but when brought to court they said there wasn’t enough proof of genocide. Though over 300,000 people have died in the recent war in Darfur.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_eu/eu_international_court_darfur
An innocent game of professional cricket became a deadly attack last Tuesday in Lahore, Pakistan. Sri Lanka, the visiting team in a cricket game against Pakistan was ambushed by a dozen gunmen just outside the stadium. They were attacked with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers leaving 6 police men , a driver for dead and 7 wounded. The gunmen have not yet been caught but are expected to be severely punished when they do.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_cricketers_attacked
Fossilized Fish Brains
A 300 million year old fossilized brain was discovered, and believed it once belonged to a fish that lived near Kansas and Oklahoma. It is not usual to find fossilized brains, making this a huge discovery. This is by far the oldest fossilized brain ever found and is expected to lead to discoveries of new kinds of fish.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_sc/sci_fossil_brain
Estimated Collapse of the US
Igor Panarin, a Russian scholar believes that the US will collapse by the year 2011. He states that the US will first break up into 6 smaller groups there making the US weak. This would put China and Russia as the world leaders and the backbone for the newly collapsed US.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_the_end_is_near
Sundanese President Up for Arrest
The Criminal Court of the Netherlands have called for a warrant to arrest the President of Sudan on charges of war crime and genocide. On Wednesday he was in fact arrested but when brought to court they said there wasn’t enough proof of genocide. Though over 300,000 people have died in the recent war in Darfur.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_re_eu/eu_international_court_darfur
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Murder Suspect Speaks Out
Last week a murder occurred, it made headlines across the United States and rivaled the fame of the Manson Family slayings. Everyone has seen the pictures and heard the reports but Cougar channel 65 news got the first interview with the police’s prime suspect. Yesterday we met with a Mrs. Left H. Phone the wife and best friend of both victims in this grizzly murder. She contacted us because she would like to get her story out and we accepted.
We started out our conversation with a mere introduction and then the real interview took place. Mr. Left H. Phone gave us the map that lead to the “X” that marks the spot in this larger than life murder mystery. We first asked the million dollar question, where were you the night of the murder. Her response, “I was across town getting my music fix from a Mr. Jorge Sanchez.” Which brought up the next question, how long have you been on music? She explained that it’s a nasty habit and that it makes her do things she never thought she would, and that she’s been addicted for about 4 years. Their family friend Mr. Apple Pod, the other victim in the murder, was their supplier. Police believe the music may be a key in the murder. After Mrs. Phone supplied us with a flimsy alibi we asked the other question on every Americans mind, if you didn’t kill Mr. H. Phone and Apple Pod what happened? She thought for a second then replied,” I believe it was one big mishap, my husband was a drunken brute most of the time so he probably got tipsy, tripped, and got caught on the cloths line which then strangled him. As for Mr. Pod he was probably on 3 or 4 gigs of music by then tripped and fell on the wine bottle that punctured his lungs 50 times.” This lead me to ask she knew details about the murders only the police have access to? Mrs. H. Phone seemed flustered and said with unease this interview is over and stormed out.
It still seems there is more to learn about the grisly murders that occurred last week and about the main suspect Mrs. H. Phone. This interview with Cougar channel 65 news seemed to bring up more questions than it answered; why did Mrs. Phone have a prepared perfect answer for every question, why does she have no evidence to back up her alibi, and how does she know intricate details of the murder not released to the public.
We started out our conversation with a mere introduction and then the real interview took place. Mr. Left H. Phone gave us the map that lead to the “X” that marks the spot in this larger than life murder mystery. We first asked the million dollar question, where were you the night of the murder. Her response, “I was across town getting my music fix from a Mr. Jorge Sanchez.” Which brought up the next question, how long have you been on music? She explained that it’s a nasty habit and that it makes her do things she never thought she would, and that she’s been addicted for about 4 years. Their family friend Mr. Apple Pod, the other victim in the murder, was their supplier. Police believe the music may be a key in the murder. After Mrs. Phone supplied us with a flimsy alibi we asked the other question on every Americans mind, if you didn’t kill Mr. H. Phone and Apple Pod what happened? She thought for a second then replied,” I believe it was one big mishap, my husband was a drunken brute most of the time so he probably got tipsy, tripped, and got caught on the cloths line which then strangled him. As for Mr. Pod he was probably on 3 or 4 gigs of music by then tripped and fell on the wine bottle that punctured his lungs 50 times.” This lead me to ask she knew details about the murders only the police have access to? Mrs. H. Phone seemed flustered and said with unease this interview is over and stormed out.
It still seems there is more to learn about the grisly murders that occurred last week and about the main suspect Mrs. H. Phone. This interview with Cougar channel 65 news seemed to bring up more questions than it answered; why did Mrs. Phone have a prepared perfect answer for every question, why does she have no evidence to back up her alibi, and how does she know intricate details of the murder not released to the public.
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