Monday, December 19, 2011

Buzz: A sawfish story.

Last week I went with some friends to the Audubon aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans.  It was probably the coolest aquarium I've ever seen! At the end of the aquarium, you got to see in the shark tank, (through glass) there were all kinds of sharks and other big fish, but one stood out, or stood in for me. It was the biggest shark in the tank, you could only see a shadow of it, but it had 3 fins.
I looked to the signage telling us what kinds of fish were in there, and there was a featured sign that had a drawing of the big shark on it.  It pretty much said that the big shark's name was Buzz, and it's a Smalltooth Sawfish. It had been in captivity in the Ripley's aquarium since the 1960s. It is 80 years old, but that is not even elderly by Smalltooth Sawfish standards.



Smalltooth Sawfishes are critically going extinct, and Buzz is one of 10 in captivity, there is not much more in the wild. His story is so fascinating!
To think of the stories that one fish could tell...


One of Buzz's distinct features is his long snout, with pointy "teeth" sticking out the sides.
The "teeth" are not used for eating, if you look closely at the picture above, you can see his mouth. The teeth are simply spikes used for intimidation and fighting.


I googled Buzz for you so you can find out more about him: Buzz Google search.



Here is a video of Buzz:
Buzz the sawfish.

Your friend,
Jackson

Thursday, December 8, 2011

The life and times of Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès is a very famous old movie director. He was the first to understand that movies can tell a story, he was born to a family of shoemakers and promptly rejected the family business and bought a theatre to become a magician, then in 1895, he witnessed something more worthwhile to him: Moving pictures. Méliès offered to buy the Lumière brothers camera, when they refused, he made his own using spare gears and springs. 


Many say that Le voyage dans la Lune ( A trip to the moon) was his first masterpiece. (Which you can see here)


He made over 500 movies in his glass studio.



After world war I, peoples tastes changed, his camera was still, and rivals swooped there cameras on tracks for multiple shots, people wanted to see action, not drama. He went bankrupt, and sold his movies to a chemical company that burned them down to make, ironically, shoe heels.  He made a living working in a toy shop in a Paris train station. 


But he made a small comeback, at the time of his death, (1930s) he was at work on a new movie, The ghosts of the metro.  Today is his birthday.



Happy birthday Georges Méliès. 
Your friend,
Jackson



Here are some more of his movies:
The Astronomers Dream,
The vanishing lady,
The Melomaniac,
The haunted castle.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Occupy USA.

Hello again, today we talk about the uprisings that are going on across the nation. Occupy Wall Street is the biggest one next to occupy Oakland. They want equality and change in the nation between the rich and the poor. A person who works minimum wage makes 16,000$ per year.  A CEO of a fancy high end company makes 16,000$ per HOUR!  Some of the protest's aren't peaceful anymore.

A man being arrested during a OWS protest.

                                      Two more men being arrested.
                               
Camping out for two months now.

OWS protest.

Please go to their website and if you can, donate to support their cause here.
We're gonna occupy Lafayette today.   We are the 99%, embrace it.

-Jackson

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Ghost Chili: The hottest pepper n the world

Rase your hand if you've ever eaten habanero. Now imagine something 100 times hotter than that. You've got ghost chili. The hottest pepper in the world.
It looks kinda like a jalapeno pepper, except 500 times hotter.
Here is a ghost pepper:
                                                    Looks aren't everything.
Where it grows in India, it's called "Bhut Jolokia" chili.
Here are the statistics of a Bhut Jolokia:
If you like your life. DO NOT EAT THIS!
Seriously, people have had to be taken to the hospital for this.
-Jackson

Friday, November 11, 2011

Veterans Day!

Every day should be veterans day.
It is a day when we appreciate the lives of our soldiers dying to protect our country!  Many of us have lost family members in the wars. And this day is not about our country. It's about the people who died protecting it. The casualties of World War II was 60 million! Yes, six zero million! That's a lot of veterans.
Too many veterans.  Think back if someone you know, or a known ancestor is part of these people who gave their lives to a better future for us
And possibly even more important, think of the many, many families who lost their members in the wars, how they must feel.
Just think about it.
Your friend Jackson


Thursday, November 10, 2011

Cute/Funny animal pictures.

I don't know what to write. So I'll post a mini-gallery of cute/funny animal photos:





Comprehensive huh? See you soon!
-Jackson

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

70th post special!

After 2 long years, the 70th post has arrived. So let's have a party!
When I think back to my first post (Which by the way you can see here)
I know that I couldn't have done it without you, my readers! 
You are the biggest moral support I have to keep posting these, otherwise it's like: "Is someone reading this? Hello? Helllooo?" in the empty void of digital space.  So, Yesterday I ordered from amazon: a tripod for my phone (To post my poptropica and pokemon videos which you can see here.) And a go board.
Go is an ancient chinese board game that requires two players, and a set of stones colored black and white. It's a territorial game, where players can "capture" each others stones by surrounding them and gaining points.
Well, Happy 70th!
-Jackson



Sunday, October 30, 2011

Stupid diving board!

I was afraid of a 2 foot tall inanimate object the past few months. It was a diving block, 2 feet tall.   It's like the planetarium post I wrote so long ago, see it Here.

But anyway, at my first swimming lesson, I went off that diving board as fast as the next guy. I belly flopped. It hurt. So after that pain, I discovered a fear for that thing. Seriously, I turned this:

into this:

So I went off the side until very recently. 
I was really scared at first. But then I started doing feet jumps, then a couple of dives:  



So that is how I conquered my fears again!
Your fearful friend,
Jackson

Thursday, October 27, 2011

What dreams may come. A movie review.

Today I watched a movie called "What dreams may come". It was about a family, A mom, a dad, and two children. A boy and a girl.  The movie is pretty much about death. But the whole movie takes place in heaven. The children die first in a car crash on their way to school, the dad dies 4 years later in pretty much the same way. (Except he wasn't on his way to school) Wich leaves the mother alone. Kinda sad no? Now you could imagine losing your husband and kids in a 4 year time span. You'd kill yourself too, probably. So, the movie is about death, but in a good way, because like I said before, the movie takes place in heaven.
This movie gets an 85
Since his wife killed herself, she is in a hell that she created herself
She is in a constant state of sorrow. Now, the hell that you create for yourself is not fire and brimstone. The true hell is living your life in sorrow and pain.
So the husband goes on a quest to save his wife from her own hell, when she doesn't even recognize him!  
All in all, a wonderful heartfelt movie! I would recommend it to anyone! 

To find out more about this movie, go to IMDB

Thank you all for reading my blog, I am nearing my 70th post, so that will be a party!

Thank you,
Jackson 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Masked Messenger: Halloween special!

Hello all lover's of cheese!
Yesterday night we went to a youth show at the ACA called "The masked messenger."  Native New orleaneian Robert Faust, knows how masks work. He is a professional mask maker and acting with the mask.  The show was so amazing and funny at the same time. It was like when he put on each mask, it took him over and he assumed the character perfectly with the right body language.

And he explains that a mask doesn't need to cover your face. 
It could be makeup, or a blank face.
You wouldn't think that it was him behind the mask.


He explained how he traveled all around the world to experience first hand how masks are used in different cultures.
And, he looked like he was having fun playing the characters onstage! 
(That guy above was kinda creepy ...)

It was so amazing!

-Jackson



Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The house fell through. :(

That's right, you heard the title. We are not getting the event home.
God, Iv'e been writing sad stuff on here lately! Next post will be a little peppier! :D    That's all I really have to say.

Genocide.

Hello, My name is Jackson, I'm a 200 foot tall purple platypus bear.
But that doesn't matter right now. I am also half jewish.  On my dad's side, only 4 of my original family survived. Even their town, Seltz, Poland.  It got wiped off the face of the earth. Boom. That's why we can't do much family tracing. The records burned a long, long time ago.  Only 4 of the original Schneider family survived.  If my Great Great grandma decided to stay in Poland. I would not exist.

Aldof Hitler founded the nazi party, they considered jews a "Racial Inferior" and their racial enemy.  Now, picture this, you are living a nice quiet life, when somebody knocks on your door, drags you away, and puts a gold star on your chest. Then, they send the weak and young, and the elderly to be killed on the spot, imagine you had a kid, or a sick old mother.  Then, they work the stronger till they take their last breath. And they make the rest live in concentration camps (Below)


Kind of alarming no?  After THAT, they take all of you, tell you to get clean in showers, that actually spits out poison gas, and the grand total of jews killed in the holocaust was 6 million.
It was complete genocide.

It's reallly sad how human beings can treat each other this way,
Jackson


Thursday, October 20, 2011

It's Cold!

Hello everybody who loves ham.  I'm mostly writing to all you folks up north, so I,ll say it. The unthinkable has happened, it is 40 degrees in Louisiana.
We are wearing hoodies and slippers inside the house! Hopefully we will be in our new house by the time it gets to be really wintertime. Then, the pipes will freeze.
It's Cold!
-Jackson

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Lightning on the cane fields.

What a fool I was, gettn lost in the sugar cane fields, It's gettn dark out, the hail cutting me, only source of light from the fierce lightning, God is flicking the lights
on and off, I do what anybodys would do, lay down and watch the lightning strike and the rain pour'n.
Is a slaves life eva done?
- Jackson


Sunday, September 25, 2011

100,000 Poets for change.

Saturday 24th September 2011. ( This was Yesterday.)

100,000 poets for change is a worldwide event.
On the date above, at 7:00 PM, poets from all over the world
read at the same time.  Kenya, Tibet, Brazil, Canada, Omaha Nebraska and more!
My mom participated in Lafayette, at the ACA.
The event here in Lafayette lasted from 7 to 11!
Thankfully, Mama was one of the first.

The idea is to write poems about a change that you would like to see in the future.

Your Friend,
Jackson

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Green House. September Special!

Hello!
After 5 long months,we have finally bought a home.
We scored a 1,200 square foot eco-house, University of Lafayette ( UL ) students are building our house as we speak, 1,200 Square feet is pretty small, but we lived in NYC for so long in a 1,200~ square foot apartment, we know how to make this work!  They are calling it "The Event House" The house is very eco-friendly, as you can see here: Theeventhouse.com


We expect to have a christmas tree in our new home, here is a digital image of what it will look like when it is done


Your Friend,
Jackson

P.S
Sadly, we didn't get this house, it fell through.
However now we are happily renting a new place.


-Jackson 


Edited on 1/31/2012.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Da schnagly Toof!

Last night my tooth fell out!
The problem was that my permanent tooth came in before the baby tooth came out. So the poor little tooth was getting squeezed between two adult teeth, making it not as loose as it could be!   The dentist said he might have to pull it out if it is not out by the next visit. I did not want that to happen!   So over the next few months I wiggled it a lot!   I got it really really loose. The only hard part was getting it out of my mouth...

Last night, around 3:00 in the morning, I was half asleep, my mouth against the pillow, I felt something in my mouth,  IT WAS MY TOOTH!!   I fell back asleep, and the next morning, gave everyone a happy surprise!

Your toofless friend,
Jackson

Monday, August 29, 2011

Giraffe

Fire, you are a flickering hope,
A fiery soul,  you are the embodiment of life.
Yet, you are temporary, like life itself.

Swimming is going really well, I am practicing my flip turns
I am also doing relay-races, last time, mama said I had Heart

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Nothing special

Ice cold,
you sit, waiting for something to happen,
anything,
besides the shivers.

I stand,
on my little dome,
I painted it red,
with white polka dots,
the shadows,
circling me,
watching me like prey.

Back to life.

Hello all people who own computer's!
We are back!
We got back to louisiana on august 2nd.
School started on the 15th, and our life is coming back together again.
I started my swimming classes yesterday.
NYC was a lot of fun, we got to see all our family and friends up there.
I start acting classes in september.
Life is looking good!



Monday, April 25, 2011

creolala.com!

Hello blog readers!
This is just an update saying that Mom recently got a website of her own.
creolala.com  is a weblog of poetry and moving back to Louisiana after 20 years.

Also, since this post was a little short, I am gonna add a photo.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

My Lemon Souffle recipe!

Hello lemon lovers of earth and beyond!
Today I am going to share a recipe, the Lemon souffle pudding!

Ingredients:
4 lemons
5 eggs (Preferably farm fresh.)              
8 tablespoons of softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup milk

Directions:

0. Prepare the lemons, Roll, Zest, Cut, Squeeze. You should have a cup of juice and another zest ( A cup not in measuring standerds)

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, Grease a 10 inch pie or souffle dish.

2. Separate the eggs, put whites in large bowl and whisk until they form stiff peaks and reserve yolks in a small one

3. Use a wooden spoon  to cream butter and sugar till creamy and light, add lemon zest, then juice, it may look odd, but keep beating.

4. Beat the egg yolks, then whisk them bit by bit, add the flour, beat, pour in the milk, whisk, fold in the whites.

5.Pour into the dish, and set it in a roasting pan. pour hot water into the pan until it comes halfway up the side of the dish

6.Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or till risen and golden brown at the top. Eat hot, warm or cold.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

New York City!

Hello Everybody!
In July we are taking an airplane to NYC!
To visit friends and family, we are staying for a whole month.
We get in July 6th, and leave August 1st.
We will see y'all in NY then!
Bye for now,
Jackson

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory (Book)

90%
Willy Wonka is one of the most creative stories ever written.
I read it very quickly so it's good for beginner readers
Ronald Dahl was a real genius to be able to think up al this stuff!
Mike Teavee, Grandma Josephine and especially Wonka himself!
My favorite room would be the edible field with the chocolate waterfall
Go and read it,
you won't regret it.

-Jackson

Bayona restaurant in New Orleans

101%
Bayona was THE second best meal I have ever eaten!
I got the angel hair with steamed broccoli, tiny chunks of bacon, and cheese.
The broccoli was cooked to perfection, the bacon was flavorful, and the cheese was good!
The chef's name is Susan Spicer, who has her own cookbook.
Mama used to be a waitress there.
If you are from the north though,  (Witch is pretty much everybody I'm writing to.)
you won't like the hour long wait,
it's because down here, nobody is in a hurry, especially in New Orleans. (The big easy.)
I think, it's so worth the wait.

Your meat loving friend,
Jackson

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

I'm not sure.

Driving on a back road,
in the countryside.
Stick your head out the side window,
and feel your hair flap like a blanket .
It feels cool ,
free 
as if you just got out of jail.


Laying on the big comfy couch
reading a good book.
With a blanket and a pillow
No responsibility.
It feels relaxing
warm
Like you just woke up.

-Jackson




Monday, February 21, 2011

Meshe's doughnut king

Meshe's doughnut king:

35%
We went to the Meshe's after lunch, I got the king cake doughnut.
My doughnut was so food colored, after I finished my napkin was purple, green, and gold.
Not kidding.
The doughnut tasted ok...
But even worse, inside the doughnuts were in a hot display case, giving the impression that the doughnuts were freshly home baked.
Wrong.
We will give another Meshe's a chance, since each one is individually owned.

Jackson

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Happy Birthmonth!

The rain is just starting to let up.
In mama's sunroom office.
Watching the cars go by and the rain fall.
Durga is crying to take a walk, but as for right now, all she can do is look out the rain fogged window.
Gonna get a bike today, a sleek brown cruiser from Walmart.
Chewing mint chocolate chip gum, never loses it's flavor.
It's my birthmonth, and only ten days until my birthday.

au revoir,

Jackson


P.S.

The new name of this blog will be (Drumroll) Hole in my sock!!!