I know I’m in cocoon mode but I had to say something.

So Pork Chop’s dad wrote a new blog entry with musings on HSM 3.  He included a few plot spoilers, one which literally made me gasp. Pork Chop’s Dad’s article here READ IT!  IT’S GREAT!

Pork Chop’s Papa writes:

In the end, Troy surprises everybody and decides to go to UC Berkeley, where he can play basketball and do theater.

OH MY GAWD!  TROY IS GONNA GO TO MY ALMA MATER!  AND HE’S GONNA STUDY WHAT I STUDIED! AB-O FAB-O!

So obviously I am happy.  And let me tell you why.

I am happy to see the performing arts at Cal finally get highlighted.  For years, it’s been the Engineers like Mr. William “She Bangs” Hung, and the Ethnic Studies/Environmental Science stoners, who are always a fixture on “News of the Absurd”, who were hogging the pop culture attention.  And it’s not that we haven’t had a few winners coming out of our school.  Harry Hamlin of “Clash of the Titians” fame, Chris Pine of “The Princess Diaries” and soon to be the new William Shatner,  John “Harold” Cho and soon to be the new and straight (for now) George Takei and of course, Me ( I kid).

And you would think I would be concerned that Zac Efron and his “Troy” is the new symbol of a true Cal Bears student but no.

I am actually most concerned about the explosion of “over-clocked” sex hormones that will be unleashed on campus when Disney oh excuse me, Miramax Films, since we are entering into edgier territory, shoots the rebranded “Continuing Education School Musical: Troy’s Transformation” and the protests that will ensue on Sproul Hall when the plot line where Troy sleeps with his theater professor, played by Harry Hamlin of course, is leaked by Pork Chop’s Dad as he sinisterly clicks on the “publish blog” button with an evil chuckle and safely drinks his organic white tea in comfy Southern California.

Hopefully the super collision of highly charged emotions won’t agitate the fault line that runs through the Colliseum.  Then again, we seriously do need a new football stadium…

So mucho good times ahead for my darling UC Berkeley.  No more picket signs in front of the Telegraph B of A saying “Hell No We Won’t Pay! No more ATM Fees”.  We’ve graduated to more important matters…

A few picket sign suggestions for you all cuz I’ll be comfortably watching the protests on the tube from So Cal as well.  Prolly at Pork Chop’s place.

“Let Troy make out with a boy!”

“Troy is Gay!  Go East Bay!”

“Troy “Twink” Bolton is a Cal “Bears” lover!”

Won’t be blogging as much in the next few months. I’ve started a class with Pork Chop’s dad and I’m giving it my 110% :). He’s a mean slave driver so I must sacrifice my already minimalist lifestyle and go to the Malibu mountains, climb up the great cliffs reciting from memory every lesson bestowed verbatim. Every time any single classmate messes up we have to start from the mountain base…and this was just Saturday’s class…

No seriously, I am taking his class and it’s filled up my time allocated for writing. I don’t mind at all, in fact I am loving the class. It’s just what the “writing” doctored ordered. Someone to discipline me into getting my very disorganized ideas down.

I’m also getting more serious about that damn GMAT. Need to do well on it.

Lots of other stuff to attend to too. Cocooing is goot

http://cs46.clearspring.com/u/4727a250e66f9723/48cd3724c6482d43

Love Tina Fey and Amy Poehler!

Just wanted to post this in response to a conversation I had with an old classmate from SF Academy of Art (I have a credential in graphic design from there). He was lamenting about how he hates the fact that he can’t be “creative” right now because he’s confined to his “desk day job”.

This video is about Mr. Ito, a former Art Director and Gallery owner who lost everything due to the current failing economy in Japan.

http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=dom&vid=/video/world/2008/09/11/lah.japan.net.room.refugees.cnn

My friend is the same guy who used to tease me about going back to Finance right after getting the graphic design certification. At the time it was the “dot bomb” and jobs were scarce. I had a skill that could be monetized and graphic design wasn’t it, Finance/Accounting was so I went back to that.

He argued that if you are a true artist and you follow your passion you will always be monetarily successful. If you’re not monetarily successful that means you’re a bad artist and your intentions are impure.

Sorry, I still think reality is still how I see it. It doesn’t matter what your “intentions” or your skill level. There’s too many variables in play.

But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t pursue your passion. If anything it’s an imperative for you to do so. Because success is in the kind of emotional journey and the wisdom you gain as you perfect your craft. Yups.

Especially if you can keep working on your craft through all the obstacles created in the reality (finances, scarcity in opportunity, politics, etc…)

So a message to my friend. Keep going! But keep going for the right reason. *HUGZ*

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html

CERN, Switzerland (CNN) — Scientists Wednesday applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe….

Skeptics, who claim that the experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole capable of swallowing the planet, failed in a legal bid to halt the project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Others have branded it a colossal waste of cash, draining resources from its multinational collaborators that could have been spent on scientific research with more tangible benefits to mankind.

And how I feel about the skeptics is summed up at the following link:

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

*BIG GRIN*