This Sidewalk isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us!?!?

Walking around is something that I enjoy doing. It gives you exercise and you can see and hear things that you would miss if you where driving. I am however getting a little thrown off by some peoples complete disregard for the rest of the people in the world. A prime example is the campus at Western. I am not sure how many people get hit by cars around here but I am sure that it is quite a few. The combination of either talking on the phone, talking to your friends, looking at the ground, reading, eating, thinking mixed with walking has proven quite difficult to these people. Almost everyday I find myself having to step aside of someone who is completly oblivious and was about to walk right into me. Now being here at Western, I guess my typical action should be to drop my shoulder and hammer into these people to teach them a lesson, and of course show how tough I am.
But alas, I am not a meathead, which is probably why I have a tough time fitting in around here.
Just today walking to this lab, there was this group of dudes walking towards me four across. It was a pretty big sidewalk and you could do that, but it made it pretty much impossible for anyone to pass them or go through them. I watched two girls approach this wall of meatheads. The first was a typical robot bimbo (with all the same clothes as the other robot bimbos) and just as she got near, the four of them made a little gateway in the middle of them, making sure they got a good look as she passed by. The next girl, who didn't meet the standards of these clowns, was not given any quarter and she had to step into the mud as they passed by. Now the next person was me, and I wasn't out to cause a scene, but I did want to do something besides also standing off in the mud. So I knelt down in the middle of the sidewalk and began to tie up my shoe that was actually quite loose. They had ample time to see me so I didn't expect to be punted or anything, but just wanted to see how they would react. Well they did split apart and walk around me but I did catch one of them saying "I almost ran right into that guy!" This I found funny as they were basically running everyone down.
Maybe it is just this place that produces this kind of person but I am not quite sure. The percentage of meatheads at this school is very high but you would think that they could learn a little courtesy in this place of so called higher learning. So strange that a simple thing like watching where you are going, bothers me. Maybe it is me that should take it easy and let myself get pushed into the mud or run down and trampled... or maybe they should open there friggin eyes and get out of my way, I love giving out straight arms anyways.
Slater

To be a Clerick

It has been recently been shown to me that my eyes must have been closed for a while, and one very quality movie slipped by my intense radar systems. Its name is Equilibrium and it rules.
It was first explained to me that it was a mix between 1984 and the Matrix, and that could be the best interpretation I have heard. It does not have the biggest budget or the best editing job, but the story, even being quite unbelievable still is very entertaining.
It doesn't have a bunch of monkeys acting either, (even though that may be funny) but has two fairly accomplished main actors in Christian Bale and Emily Watson. They put on a good show, being able to show no emotion... must be hard work. The fight scenes are pretty amazing and you can't complain with a style of Kung Fu that incorporates hand guns. Its minimalist style of sets with white walls and starched plain clothing really gives the feeling of an oppressed society.
Now, there are always a few things that you can pick apart a movie for, but I decided to look at it for what it was. Suspending my belief that all of this just happened and realize that it is all entertainment for me, and oddly enough I didn't even pay for it. That's right... we downloaded it from the internet... but I don't care because I have already decided to find it somewhere and buy it so that it can sit on my shelf with the other movies that I give praise to. Being who I am, that should leave it between Dead Presidents and E.T.
So go out and rent, buy or steal this movie right now. It will be worth your time and if not, it will at least waste a little more of our lives and leave us with something to talk about.
Slater

Drive By in London

I got to see and take part in one of the funniest moments of my life.
I was standing on campus waiting for the bus. Being somewhat bored, I reached down and grabbed some snow and began forming what was meant to be the most perfect snowball in the world. There were about 12 other people also waiting for the bus and as always, were standing there in akward silence.
For some reason I looked up the road and saw a dark grey suburban moving very slowly towards us. Having just recently watched boyz in the hood I thought the worst. Were we all about to get shot? I then realized where we were and decided that was impossible but continued to watch there progress. The rest of the people standing with me were looking around, but not in that direction.
Then the windows started rolling down... all of them, and three bodies basically stood up out of the windows just as the vehicle started to move a little faster. This is when I saw that they were all clutching handfulls of snowball ammunition, and one of them (the rear passenger side) even had a orange box loaded with snowballs in his left hand.
This got the attention of some of the other people and caused one girl to basically run/tumble down the hill behind us, and another to start yelling "oh man, oh man, oh man" over and over.
As they started to unload, people were being hit all around me and I was quite impressed in their execution, had they practiced this? I had to block one from hitting me and took it in the forearm and only then did I realize what I was holding in my other hand.
I can't explain the feeling that came over me... it was like everything was going as planned, and I was meant to be standing here for this exact moment.
I turned, reached back, and threw that snowball as hard as I could. Now, only being about 15 feet away may have helped, but I hit the guy with the box of ammo right in the temple. Snow exploded from his head and he dropped the box and sort of folded over the window in obvious pain, letting out an "awwww" that made me laugh instantly.
Following this came a few cheers from the crowd, and I had to feel a little proud of myself.
Then as fast as we were somehow united, the group of us went back to our standing and waiting in silence. Like a pond of ducks, just sitting there, waiting to get smacked upside the head whenever somebody feels like it.
I smiled all the way home.
Slater