This is to YOU, (and you know who you are)

As I progress into a fulfilled adulthood, I would like to share my old role model for all things that I may have  attributed to my nature of growing up. This person's name was Charles Woodson. He played for Michigan as an collegiate player. He was and is a BIG 10 icon. This was one of the first Defensive Players to win the Hiesman. You may ask why, but I would love you to watch this short video about Charles Woodson and his ridiculous plays that he made. Woodson Icon Part 1 I hope that you will click Part II of this video so that you can see this role model's actions towards the local community.

Anyways since I am on the topic of Michigan, I thought I would mention that ABC News stated that Holland, MI is one of the Happiest Places to live in America (Feb 2010). This is crazy, maybe I should move there after college and enjoy the happiest place in America. As ABC News states this town has the #1 priority of religion which makes the small town of 35,000 the happiest place to live. One reason that I looked this up is the fact that someone happened to "brag" about how awesome this town was. So obivously I had to look this up and make sure that this town can fulfill these standards. One fact that I found interesting was that this town had over 100 different volunteer based service organizations. I am not a fan of all volunteer services but some of them can be really fun. I would like to get into a servive where you get to paint different walls and buildings of a cities. I may not be able to fulfill the "awesome-ness" of the designs that are worthwhile to be put on the certain places but I would be willing to paint the spaces between the lines.

According to my clock it is, 3:06am and that enough has been said of Michigan. Besides the fact they beat Minnesota in football the past couple of years, I think this blog has been way overdue. With that said....


Enjoi,

Alastar Swift

PS. The Fab Five of Michigan: Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson. Great Team except for the fact that Chris Webber didn't know that you couldn't call a Timeout without having a Timeout remaining... Smart Play C-Webb.

Love4Music

Surfing Youtube, as it's my favorite late night activity to find some more music. I remember in Highschool I didn't have the opportunity to hunt down new music and I used to burn CDs with my best friend, Billy, and cruise the home-town. Music is my passion, unfortunately I am musically declined at the moment but I am making strides to have some type of musical talent. I've been working on guitar for the past 3 years and hopefully in the next few years I will either pick up singing or piano. I'll most likely pick up whichever one is easier when I have to work full-time and pay off my AWESOME student loans. Anyways, I came across these talented people and I recommend to check them out further than these two links:

Cover #1
Cover #2

Now the two covers are of the same song, but by no means are they the same. You will realize what I mean when you listen to them. I stumbled upon the first one by clicking the piano player's piano cover, which he has some serious skills. Then I got to the second one from clicking on Anth's (the rapper) page. Crazy how you can find music from just surfing random videos. Got to love Technology!

Enjoi,

Alastar Swift

RIP BHP#33

A New Friend on Christmas Break

Yep, you guessed it... I came home from college during my winter break to find out my dear mother brought home a new dog. Sophie, is her name... and she is a crazy Pomeranian. I've never seen such a small-hyper dog that can jump like 2 feet in the air. Since I've been home she has been bouncing off the walls. Crazy dog but I'm sure I'll grow to live with her.

I've only been home this weekend, which brings me to a new topic. Is it just me or are some of the latest movies going down the drain? I've watched three movies this weekend, Inception, Get Him to Greek, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Now Inception wasn't a bad movie, I actually enjoyed it the second time. ( I saw it in theaters back in the day) The only bad thing was the fact that I watched South Park make fun of the movie so that definitely added a comical aspect to watching it again.

I made it through maybe.. maybe the first 20 minutes of GH2G and I had to shut it off. Just terrible acting, story-line was awful, and the lines were just bad. Maybe it just wasn't my type of humor, but I love movies so that's why I put in Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Thinking to myself this movie can't be as bad as Get Him to Greek. It wasn't as bad, but it was weird. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but it's just really weird. They pretty much threw together, Battle of the bands + Video games + Cheesy Love Story = Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Morale of the story, I should probably just pick better movies next time I'm in town... or I should just stick my documentaries that I enjoy watching.

Anyways, I have to take Sophie for a walk, until next time.

Cheerio,

Alastar Swift

Flu Shots are the Miracle to Everything?

This post, is about 5 months too late. This should have been one of the first posts. I do not, absolutely do not agree with Flu shots. Where I am currently employed I had to push flu shots, which I didn't and had to be told many times to offer them. Why I am so against them, you may ask? Well that is a great question, since I'm sure the thoughts that are going through your mind are: The Pharmaceutical Industry state that they are good and help prevent the common cold, H1N1, and etc. They wouldn't offer Flu Shots if they didn't work. I've got a flu shot and I never get sick… blah blah blah. Sorry for my rudeness but, honestly the Pharmaceutical sector is not out for the best interests of the people, flu shots do not improve your immune system, they are actually an immune system suppressant. And those who say they have received a flu shot and never got sick… 1) You must have a healthy diet and exercise program or 2) you are simply not stating the truth.

For the past 5 years I haven't received a flu shot. On top of that for the past 3 years I haven't gotten sick either. (For everyone that is going to point out the fact that those 2 years that I did get sick, here's why. College Freshman/Sophomore. What do you think my favorite past time on the week days and weekends? yep you got it, Binge drinking the world's most harmful drug, Alcohol.) Anyways back on track, Flu shots also contain a tiny amount of Mercury in them. They don't tell you that, but they do.
Article #1

This is off topic, but Mercury is also evident in numerous of tooth fillings. This is my warning if you have a filling that contains mercury please. please, go into your dentist and have it removed and replaced with the new fillings that they offer without Mercury.

Watch the entirety or skip to 1:48 to see the Mercury effects on Brain Cells.

Pharmaceutical Sector is only working for the best of our interests, right? In my eyes and views. They can't be. I can't see a sector that doesn't acknowledge that vitamins and minerals are a healthy way to cure things. I can't comprehend how a pill is supposed to fix one problem but will have side effects that are worse than the original problem.

I think we all underestimate our bodies ability to fend off bacteria and viruses. I mean, yes, a diet of fast food and greasy meals aren't going to benefit our bodies. But if we strive to be healthy and improve our diet, I know the benefits will show up and that one can stay healthy all year round.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is the fact, that we don't have to rely on drugs to make us feel better, we don't have to rely on chemicals to fix things. We can use naturally found vitamins and minerals on this earth to help us become healthier people. And that healthier includes both mentally and physically. Most important if you know someone that you feel has depression. Tell them to take a supplement of Niacin (also known as Vitamin B3). Watch the changes. If they don't want to, give me 20 minutes with them, and I'll give them a whole new meaning to life.

Just a thought in this crazy world we call, Life.

再见大家，

Alastar Swift

ps. I do have to say (edit) because my friend, Kyle, introduced me two a whole new variable of MethylMercury and Ethylmercury. Now I have to research and find out some more stuff about this element.

Finals Week --> Graduation

As I prepared to study for the great week of Finals so that I can graduate, it seems to me everyone else likes to crowd into the smaug, library, or my personal favorite, Baldwin. I actually decrease my studying ability when I go to campus, because I love to "people watch". Why you may ask, because you can see/hear a lot of interesting things just by observing. Like let's take this as an example. (fake names are used)

• Mark: Dude I was talking to my roommate's brother and he goes to West Point. He was thinking if there were to be troops needed for North Korea, they'd definately start the draft.
• Tom: I don't want to be drafted… I hope to god! That there isn't a war cause I know that North Korea is just a experiment.
• Mark: What do you mean by experiment?
• Tom: This may seem way crazy and out there. but stick with me... North Korea is a real communist/dictator country, those people honestly believe that Kim Jong Il is a God. Now there is no way.. that the UN or any other country.. can honestly let someone do that to an entire population… That's against humanity.
• Mark: That's true 
• Tom: With the talks about the EU and US with a secret agenda.. New World Order, I think that they let that happen, to see if people can be psychologically changed to believe something of that nature. To see if people's thoughts and perceptions can be altered to be at that level. Imagine that at a large scale.. a world wide scale. No one has an opinion other than that of the governments/dictator beliefs. Just a thought.
• Mark: Yeah, ultra censor-ship.
• Tom: Crazy in nature.. but if I can think of it… that means other people have to.. and it could be true. I hope to GOD I'm just crazy and the world is A LOT better than that.
• Mark: Naw.. you're right. This world is just a shitshow.
• Tom: Oh and another thought… Why the fuck would NK attack? Who is backing them up? Someone had to convince them to attack. It'd be honestly like the world versus little fucking NK. China? wouldn't back that shit up.. the only reason they would join their side.. is if US keeps fucking crossing their non-military sea borders. I mean, the US is fucking with China right now.. and that's not good.
• Mark: Yeah.. the U.S. has always been dicks about that lol… They're just testing them
• Tom: I hope it doesn't bite us in the ass. I don't want to go against those crazy fucking Asian kids
• Mark: Yeah dude.. I hear you

Now I know, this opportunity to hear something of this nature doesn't always happen everyday. However, this is a crazy conversation that holds some truth to it. Now what I pull from this conversation and you may pull may be different. But  these two individuals seem to have backed up their ideas with solid logic. 

I'll leave you with something to think about today. I would like to find an explanation of the word, "try". Can you really "try" to do something? Or is it, you either do it or you don't. I find it especially funny when someone says, "I'm trying to think…" So are they thinking or are they not. I'm sitting here wondering… how do you NOT think. It's a funny little word that I think we all have overlooked. 

Cheerio,

Alastar Swift

P.S. Yes, I eavesdrop… Please don't act like you don't either.

T-Bombs on T-day on the way to T-wan

So the thought that occurred to me when I was eating out with some friends, was the fact that bears love honey. I know this may be very strange but let me paint you a picture. My friend asks for some honey and a few minutes later, the waitress (who was very cute by the way) brings her the honey. What's the honey container look like? It's a plastic bear with a big smile. Now this is where I find it comical. We insult the bear for loving honey so much that we make the honey container shaped as bears and serve honey from the top of their heads. Talk about a smack in the face to the bears!

oh and to add another great thing is the fact that I will become an international man of mystery. Just got accepted to study abroad in Taiwan. It's going to be crazy awesome and scary. I do not have a full grasp of Mandarin Chinese yet.. and my worst fear is getting lost in a foreign country and not knowing how to talk my way back home. But I've heard that they speak A LOT of English over there, so I should be spot on. (and this blog will probably be 10x more interesting)

Talking about Taiwan and Honey.. this all really ties into… WTF North Korea? is this going to be the start of WWIII? Man I hope not.. 1) I do NOT want to get drafted. 2) Going to Taiwan probably isn't the best idea ATM… but I could just be part of some crazy event, and go down in History… 3) I'm going to be 13 hours ahead of all my friends.. Does that mean that I kind of time traveled ahead. Do I become older by 13 hours? or how does that work? Have you ever thought about that? Maybe time travel is possible…

Well I'm off to try and watch the new Harry Potter.

Cheerio,

Alastar Swift

Lake-Show vs T-Pups

So, a couple of my friends and I caught a basketball game. Here's the catch, we actually spent money to watch professional basketball players. Now many of you may think I'm a little bias for saying such a sentence, but I mean, I wish I could get payed countless amounts of money to play a game that I would love to play everyday. Now my buddy had got some pretty sweet seats for how much we didn't pay. (let's be honest, we got cheap seats), one of the first things I noticed, 5.50 for a hamburger and 7.50 for a beer?!? What is this crazy nonsense. The second thing was… wait for it… Kobe Bryant (probably one of my favorite players) is a cocky mother@#$%&! I mean wow, I was taken back a little when I saw his off court and pre game mannerism. But, I guess I shouldn't expect anything less from a multi-MVP winner and a player that has won multiple NBA Championships. 


The plan was to watch Kobe put up huge numbers (i think he only got 24pts?) but it turned out to see the T-Pups actually play solid basketball. I saw a lot of sweet plays, dunks, and blocks. BUT I also realized that pro's just really play a crappy "Pro" version of a pick up game. All I saw were players driving the lane then jumping and passing it out. ("a basketball sin" - my HS BBall Coach) This really made me think that I will probably NEVER pay to watch this ever again. I'd have more fun at B-Dubs with an order of boneless wings, a beer, and a big screen to watch it. It'd be most likely cheaper, and I'm going out on a limb, but it probably would have been 10x more fun than at the game. All I heard was this crazy dude (give him props, he was with some pretty fine women) keep yelling, "Yo Lake-Show, Let's Go Lake-Show, Time to Start it up Lake-Show" I mean just countless of randomness. 


The real question about this whole ordeal is… Watch a game live OR Watch it somewhere where appetizers and drinks are cheap?


I know my views will definitely change when more income comes my way, but as for now, cheap appetizers and drinks, a big screen, and a huge group of friends are definitely a better way to watch a Professional Sporting Event. 


"All's fair in love and basketball"


Cheerio,


Alastar Swift


P.S. I forgot, The cheerleaders were definitely worth the tickets. Yes, and I think I saw 2 of them at a bar later that night… as well as Bernard Berrian. Lucky Me, Right?

Wonderful World of Wednesday...

What do college textbooks mess up?

Simple things like grammar. Now yes, I know my grammar and punctuation are quite childish but the scary thing is, I am certain I have better writing skills than most. Just counting this past (spring) semester and this (fall) semester I have encountered multiple grammatical errors in college textbooks. I have also seen evidence that authors will state their opinion as facts. Now am I the only person out there that feels this way? I really hope not, because I've been reading my textbooks as of late. (Surprise, surprise. I start trying hard towards the end of my college year, not visa-versa like most. ha) Here's my theory on how to fix this, If I (or a student) finds a grammatical error in a PUBLISHED and CREDIBLE book, I think we should be able to get our full monetary value back that we invested in this so called, "Book of Knowledge: College Learning Edition". Ask yourself, if your paper were to have grammatical errors in it, would you get an A? probably not, more like a C or D. Then why should they be able to charge $100+ for books full of errors?

Just something to think about, on this "Hump-Day",

Alastar Swift

PS. Have you ever had that ex randomly pop back into your life, when you thought it was all in the past… then it makes you feel like it just brought you two steps back? Don't fret it, the sun will always rise and that's a reason to stay positive. Just think if that ball of fire didn't rise, you wouldn't be thinking about your ex, would you?

Hyper Inflation Looming?

So today, instead of listening in my class, I was surfing the inter-web and stumbled upon an article about the Quantitative Easing 2. For anyone that does not know what I just referred to, please take a few seconds and read the article. From what I had learned from this article, the Federal Reserve will be flooding the market with a total of $900 Billion USD by the third quarter of 2011. The majority of this will happen in the next eight months as the central bank will buy $600 billion in long-term Treasuries. What is this going to do to the economy? Well for now, we see Markets reaching a new high since the crash and that everyone thinks that we are on our way out of the economic scare. I, myself, do not know a lot about finance, investing, and/or the markets. But what I can say, is that flooding the market with $900 billion dollars (that were made from thin air) can NOT be good for the economy. They talk about scares of deflation, but honestly think about this.

We start with an economy of $10k and then add $9k (made from thin air) and what happens, the currency of this fake scenario just devalued because the economy now has a value of $19k. The new money gets its value from stealing the value of the money already in circulation. This leads to inflation, so how can we fix inflation, by inflating the market even more? As I sit and ponder this, is deflation bad at this point? Are people really scared that our dollar is going to regain the power it once had? I mean this could be a scare tactic but when you sit down and think about it, we need the dollar to deflate so that it can regain it's value.

Check out this video. It explains things A LOT better than I could do.  I recommend to view the first part of the video about the Monetary System [6:45 if you want to skip the intro] (If you do spend the time to watch this entire video, please keep in mind that these are views that are far from the norm. Some may not be entirely true, but it is important to see that there are other viewpoints than the daily ones we see)

"Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened." 
-Ron Paul-

Cheerio

Alastar Swift

Old Acquaintances

I have been outside of Highschool for about.. I don't know 5 years? it's crazy to think about because man it feels like yesterday that I could almost relive all the crazy memories that I made in good ole ____ high school. (yes I blanked out my high school name, why… hmm it's not that important to know… ATM) But crazy enough. I ran into someone from my graduating class in my college town, and it took me by surprise! It was honestly the last person I thought I would see this weekend, but the great thing was, that we caught up and talked about crazy things. Sure we might have talked about crazy people in our graduating class, but at the same time.. Is it judging and saying bad thing when it's actually the truth of the person? 

This brings me to my 2nd thought… I only hold my view of someone when I meet them (as in talking to them for more than one minute, and think about it.. you can have a very informative conversation for 1 minute), or I observe any actions that they may carry out (for themselves or towards other people). I don't think that's really "judging" as I am drawing conclusions from what I have personally experienced and not what I have seen/saw of their outer appearance. I think that society has made such a terrible view of "judging" that people have personalize it so much, that they are able to trick themselves into thinking that they don't "judge" people. Which I think is bullshit. I will be honest I judge people sometime, do I like to??? No I don't. I try not to, because I don't want people to judge me off the bat before they realize who I am. But in this crazy world… where we only get one first impression.. things get quite fake and impersonal. or at least that is my view on networking and interviews. 

So I say screw all the professional, fake, and impersonal events that take place in this world. What happened to being yourself and not having to set your life to a certain standard of living. I believe in doing what you want, and everything else will fall in place, and if it doesn't.. maybe that is part of growing up and experiencing life which will lead you to a whole new perspective of your life. I do not like quotes nor using them, but this one is worth it.

"What goes around, comes around. Karma? Who said you can't be the 'comes around'." - Alastar Swift

Cheerio

Alastar Swift

 

Worst Mistake of My Life...

Ok, probably not the WORST mistake.. but it's up there. Buying Call of Duty: Black Ops was probably a mistake. Why you may ask? It's taking up time that I should spend studying, informing myself about worldly issues or things of that nature, and most of all, playing my guitar. Oh I should probably include, applying for jobs and studying homework.. but that's what Veteran's Day is for! All day is homework and applying to jobs that probably won't hire me as I try to find any job that is not an MGMT at my current job.

Now to what I have spent the better part of my night to… COD:Black Ops, crazy game. Can't compare to the last one, because well two different companies own the rights to Call of Duty series, and each one takes a year off to develop the up and coming game. So this year it is Treyarch's turn to shine, and they did a pretty good job. I really can't say that this one is better than the previous one, but it's still fun. My roommate, his friend in California (he's a marine), and I have been playing for a couple hours tonight. But you know what, everyone thinks ooh, video games what a loser… but you know what, it's how I can keep in touch with my friends that live in different states. You can talk about crazy stories and funny shit that has happened in your or their lives, while having fun working as a team dominating some random kids from around the world. Plus, the things you hear on xbox live, you will never hear anywhere else. The content of most childish arguments and crazy things of that nature, it's unbelievable what comes out of some people's mouths. Really funny though I have to add.

To all that play, and to all that don't. It's all about having fun, isn't it?


Alastar Swift

Open Gym Madness

So I usually spend about 2 hours a night working out, either lifting and playing basketball or I just play basketball for 2 hours. I'm not saying that I'm the greatest player, but I'm good enough to tell who are going to be legit and who are just terrible at basketball. So tonight, I was just observing the pick up game that was going on, and let's label these players, Yellow Shirt, Skin, and Black Beater. Now this game pretty much revolved around these three players, and from the start I could tell that these guys were pretty good, and the rest of the team were ok, but lacked the fundamentals of the game. One thing I noticed of these 3 musketeers were that they all called every single foul even if their wasn't one. If they missed a lay-up, they would yell, "FOUL!" and I'm sitting on the bench warming up by dribble between my legs, and I would burst out laughing every time that would occur. I'd have to say, Yellow Shirt had an excuse for every missed lay-up, or for his lousy and sloppy drives to the basket. I don't know what his deal was but man, I just wanted to say, "Suck it up man, you fucked up. Just admit it." Is it that hard to admit that you fucked up? I don't have a problem saying it, but I guess a lot of people don't like to be wrong.

I'm just thinking to myself, I guess that's a way to save yourself after you try to drive the lane, they play great defense and you launch some crazy prayer of a shot. I give these guys credit because they have a pretty sick shot, but after what I have explained from what I saw tonight. I'm sure anyone that plays basketball will understand the "type" of player that I am describing. It was like watching a shitty AND1 showcase.

But thank god the other court's pick up game had gotten over, so that I didn't have to watch that anymore and could finally play a game.

Alastar Swift

"Don't leave any shots left in the chamber"

Can I say "NO" to work… nope.

So Today, I was called into work, since all the MGMT are gone, and they needed me to close the store. So what else do I have to do on a nice Sunday Afternoon, football, Call of Duty, Halo Reach, watch Discovery, History, or TruTv channels, workout and maybe play a couple of pick up games of bball? but at $14 an hour and I get to run the store for 7 hours, Heck yes! Sign me up.

So besides all the crazy customers I have to deal with, this one sticks out as one of the worst customers I have ever had to deal with.. I'm going to rank it #4 on the list of crazy situations Mr. Swift has encountered.
So I get a page for a customer return and I go and meet this customer. First, she doesn't even let me say anything, she just attacks me. wait. let me fill a mental picture for you of this customer. (Lady was about 5'5", short white/blonde hair, probably 220lbs and had one of those nasty flower dresses on) so she is attacking me on the fact that she didn't get her candy for $0.49, and telling me there are signs up all over this certain candy bag that it's part of the deal. So I tell her to wait and go look for it, and it's clearly not marked like the other candies. So when I try to explain that she grabbed the wrong bag, she blows up and yells at me how "My company" hides products to screw over their customers. So I'm blocking her out, and thinking, 1) She got mad at me before I said anything 2) she lied to me and 3) now she is yelling at me and telling me I'm wrong because I called her bluff.

But she's still yelling, and I can either say sorry, and endure this stupid-angry-childish-rant made by this 40+ year old women, or I can just give her, the $1.49 refund of her candy and get her out of the store. So I decided on the latter, and I say, "I can refund you the $1.49" And for some weird reason, she get all pissed off and says "NO, I want my candy for 49 cents!!" "Why would you refund me $1.49!?" I'm taken back, I'm like did I make a mistake in my math, (Candy costs $1.99, coupon makes the candy .49, um equals.. $1.50.. and I round down because well I can and she was being a C) So I spend 5 minutes explaining, why I am refunding her $1.49 and how the math works.. and Then I see the lightbulb go off in her head, and that's the moment she stops yelling, and starts laughing at how much she loves candy.

I think some people need to be cut off from buying/eating candy. Why is America so unhealthy? I know candy isn't the overall Evil.. but still freak out about a bag of candy?! I mean c'mon people don't look so desperate sometimes.. $1.49 on candy.. On road trip with friends to a resort, a homeless dude asked me for some spare change for something to eat, I was like fuck yeah, here's a $1.25 go buy yourself a Mcdouble. But then again, no one knows on that trip that I gave someone a free meal. crazy how somethings work out.

To all those crazy people out there, keep it up.. cause it makes my life interesting.

Cheerio,

Alastar Swift

PS. I know you aren't reading this homeless guy, but hope that you are doing well, and my advice is to eat something more healthier than McDonalds. (I had bought one of their fruit smoothies, which are ok, as I haven't ate McDonalds for about a year?)

Most Harmful Drug?

This morning, while I was writing my Strategic Management paper I was watching CNN. According to an European study, Alcohol is the most harmful drug. 

<http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/index.html>

So I'm thinking.. this is still legal? How many lives it kills, how many lives it ruins, how many households are broken, and how many marriages fail due to alcohol. but then again, it's socially acceptable. You know what else is socially acceptable, racism and bullying. Everyday you can see some type of racism or bullying, and yet you also see plenty of new stations doing stories of, "Cyber bullying and Bullying" need to stop. And then the commercial break will be some Political Figure verbally abusing their competition to gain popularity and votes. But then again it's alright for adult to bully each other.. it's more mature, right?

Then when you try to explain this to people who are "political" they say it's just, POLITICS. I hate that answer, it's just politics? and then they go on about how you can't change that and you just have to go with it… I find it very funny that they say that, because then they go off to hide in a little booth to mark a check on a ballot. For what? to try and change something? Let's be honest, does voting really change things? may be on a small scale, but on a large scale? you can't be serious, I mean how many deceased people end up voting every year? that's a statistic I would love to see. Or as we all remember, how many votes do NOT get counted every year? 

Just something to think about on this chilly November 1st morning.

Alastar Swift

PS. Hmm interesting you don't find Cannabis or Psychedelics on that "most harmful" list

Care Bear Stare

Friday and last night. There were a gang of care bears running the streets of downtown. Was I apart of it? Heck yes I was. Who wouldn't want to have a gang of "drunk" care bears running around the downtown area. Stating the obvious, girls loved it, guys thought it was gay. Here's my theory on that, all the people that thought it was gay, wished they had friends that could pull it off, and take pictures with random people. Yes, I have no idea how many pictures I took with randoms… and that could be a bad thing, who knows where those pictures could end up in 20 years. or that is just me trying to convince myself that being part of a care bear gang was le-git.
Another thing I noticed, Halloween is just a time for girls to dress slutty, now I'm not complaining, because some of them can really pull it off. Props to them! But on the other hand, there are somethings that I and probably half the bar do not want to see. So next season, let's try to spread the word that just because the cover model on the halloween costume makes it look hot, doesn't mean it can turn anyone "hot".

Until Next Year Kiddies,

Alastar Swift

P.S. - Why can't we have a Halloween party when it's nice out, and not during the coldest weekend ever?

A Haunting

As I'm waiting for my strawberries to thaw out so I can make a morning shake, I turn on the TV and this crazy ghost show is on. They do this re-enactment of this ghost story with good looking actors (well better looking than the "real" people) and crazy paranormal activity goes on inside their house while the girl is home alone. She ends up freaking out on her husband because he doesn't take her serious when she tells him, "she had saw a ghost." Next day, the husband sees the ghost and chases it in their bathroom, and whips open the shower to find… (commercial break)… to find NOTHING! oh shit this is getting crazy!

So after another commercial break, they are playing cards on the floor and the girl sees the ghost behind her husband and starts to freak out hardcore. He turns and follows the ghost into the bathroom yet again, turns on the lights to see nothing, and the as he turns around to leave, (the good old mirror trick) He catches a glimpse of the ghost in the mirror and can hear the ghost scream, "Don't Kill Me!"
Skipping to better parts of this show, they end up seeing a new ghost, and this one attacks the husband. The dude says, "it was like a cigarette was burned on my chest." WTF… and then I missed everything because I went to make breakfast.

But with all these things about ghosts and spirits, doesn't this make you think this kind of dethrones the Catholic Religion? Aren't spirits supposed to go straight to Heaven or Hell? and if so, why are some still crawling around upon the "living" world. Crazy thing to think about.

Cherrio and be on the look out for those "spirits"

Alastar Swift

First EVER Recorded Cell Phone?!

I was going to check my Yahoo email account because that is my Business Professional E-mail. Front page Yahoo, has an article where FIRST TIME TRAVELER… so I check it out, thinking this can either be really dumb/hoax or REALLY awesome. So watch this before you read the rest.
ps. it's only like the first part of this video, and no, I did not watch it all. Here's the link:

{http://tv.yahoo.com/daytime/video/early-show-ellen-regis-and-kelly/22208433/ }




Alright, so isn't that crazy!? Let's look at this at a positive way. It's easy to denounce it being a hoax, a fake, blah blah blah. Let's leave emotion and first thoughts of this being non-realistic. So as we are looking at this... this person is obviously holding something up to their ear, and as it looks like they are talking. Also, No one made a big deal about this… People around him/her acted as if it was normal to be on a phone/device…CRAZY!

My first thoughts, is time traveling even possible? Thus, bringing up an epic conversation with my roommate about the theory of time traveling and the consequences of it. (should of recorded it…  epic conversation, I'll have to start a podcast soon)

So now, I'm going to use my logic to denounce this video. Maybe this is from a scene in a movie, and even at that thought.. how crazy is it that people from the 1928, could think of a cell phone.. I mean let's look back to our lives? Did you ever think that we could call/talk to our friends away from our parents' house phones? I remember calling my best friend's house asking, "Hi Ms. Hesch, Can Billy come our and play?"

Anyways hope you enjoyed this little clip and viewed it with an open mind.

Alastar Swift

Brillant Man, Almost Forgotten

So I banned myself of Facebook and Xbox Live during the hours of 8am - 10pm for a week, so all I do is visit Youtube, which I might have to add to the ban as I spend way too much time on the interweb. Anyways, this morning as I was cooking breakfast, Youtube's recommended videos popped up good ole' George Carlin. So to all that know him, and to all those that don't… let me remind you or introduce you to his brilliance.

{ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKftRlzh2RM }
{ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo&feature=related }
{ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEs2nj7iZM&NR=1}

Enjoy!

Alastar Swift

"Staying Positive is the only way to go"

American Elections and Voting

Today I just saw a new story about, American Voters that went to vote for their Republican Representative and the voting machines switched their vote to the Democratic Representative when they submitted their vote. That really sounds bad especially since we are in the age of being quite tech savvy. Also I noticed today a certain news article, (located at bottom of paragraph), where Arizona has made it that illegal immigrants can now vote and their is NO NEED to check for citizenship. Is it just me, or is that just unbelievable. What has the American Government come to. I guess we will all have to sit back and watch how this plays out.

Cherrio,

Alastar Swift

{http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/10/us-appeals-court-voids-ariz-voting-law-mandating-proof-of-citizenship-/1}