01/30/2011 Foxy and Big X

Well, it's been a weird couple of months and I have been leaving my blog empty yet again. However, things have been very up in the air since the beginning of August and now they are finally starting to settle down. I am now only attending one school and only taking 15 credit hours at that school, even though two of the classes are of the honors variety.

My sister started a new blog that she calls "Foxy and Big X." It is a intended for comic strips that the two of us draw. Well, she is more of the artist while I will do my best to contribute mostly stick figures that look like any three year old could have drawn. However, I am positive I am better than your average two and a half year old. Take that, toddlers!

If you would like to check out "Foxy and Big X," here is the link: http://foxyandbigx.blogspot.com/ It's still in the beginning stages and only has a few strips, but I hope you will become a follower and enjoy it. Please let us know if you do.

Also, I keep wondering if anyone is actually reading this! Feel free to comment: "Yeah, I am reading it the once a year you update it, Jackass!" if you are reading it. If not, I have to find some fans who are not my mom ;)

A wise man once said, "You can not see the truth if your eyes were poked out three minutes earlier."

Jacob Fox

01/30/2010 Nazi Parrots

If you're ever taking a walk outside on a clear, starry night, and suddenly get attacked by Nazi parrots, I think the smartest thing to do would be to act like Hitler. Then you would have your own army of Nazi parrots.

Jacob Fox

A Witch! 11/20/2010

We all watched the witch burn, all the while wondering why she didn't bring any sunscreen to the beach.

Jacob Fox

Looking Stupid 11/12/2010

If you ever jump off the Empire State Building, a good idea would be to make sure that your socks match, because if they don't, boy, you'll look stupid.

Jacob Fox

Lodi 11/9/2010

I haven't had a lot of time for Lodi lately, which frankly makes me a bit unhappy. For anyone that has been reading the story, you know it has been sitting idle for about five years. It does sort of amaze me that something could carry on so long without being updated and it is something that I constantly feel bad about. 19 credit hours between two schools and trying to make it to the gym, however, have been taking up way too much time to get Lodi the attention that it deserves.

I am hoping to bring the story to a close over winter break. I know exactly what happens and have known for years, but have had issues getting it on the pages. But, I think this semester has helped me a lot with the amount of writing I have been doing.

For anyone who has not read it and might like to, it is important to keep in mind that Lodi is my attempt at writing a bad horror novel. I love bad horror movies, and there used to be bad horror pulp novels that came out a long time ago, but this practice has long since been abandoned. Horror writers of today are expected to write better and be above the trashy, bad plots and dialogue that accompany horror movies.

Well, I always wonder why. I think a bad horror novel can be appreciated for pretty much all the same reasons a bad horror movie can. Well, you don't get to see all the naked teenagers like in the movies, but you can at least read descriptions of them.

So, anyhow, this is to let everyone know that getting this book to its conclusion is next on my list of things to do. Then, it needs a serious edits and rewrites. Still, it is coming and if anyone has actually been waiting, I hope you'll want to read it when it is done.

In the meantime, try not to pee on any electric fences because I am sure it smarts.

Jacob Fox

Common Sense 10/29/2010

I think most of us have heard the phrase that is attributed to Mark Twain about "Common sense is not so common..." As far as I have been able to find out through research, this is probably correct. But whether or not it is correct is irrelevant to what I am thinking.

Growing up, I always assumed common sense meant being rational. My dad always made fun of people for not having any common sense. However, if being common sense is the act of being rational, he may have had the least common sense of anyone I have ever met.

Nowadays, it seems that common sense is just a phrase people use to describe their ways of thinking. Since everyone seems to think that they are correct, anyone who does not think or agree with them lacks this strange idea of common sense. Because of course, if it is what that person believes, it has to be correct and everyone should know that.

So, I think the idea of common sense might be defined a bit differently. Common Sense: a way of thinking pertaining to an individual who uses the idea of a lack of such to insult people who do not think the same way they do.

In my experience, this is probably the most accurate description of the term.

On a lighter note: Helium.

Jacob Fox

Weird Experience 10/27/2010

I had a really strange experience today. I have been driving my parents' tracker because my mustang is having issues. Also, I am attending two schools and taking 19 credit hours. When I leave Northeastern Illinois University, I have to drive past O'Hare International Airport to get to Harper College.

Well, I was driving when all of a sudden, I heard this enormously loud bursting noise. I immediately began to freak out because I thought that one of the tires on the car blew up. When, I went to pull over, I noticed something. A huge passenger plane right above me was being blown so hard by the wind that the tail of the plane got pushed about 50 degrees to the left. It literally looked like the plane was being blown out of the sky!

Well, the winds in Chicago have been ferocious the past few days, so I chalked it up to just strong winds. And although I have no proof, I do wonder if the bursting noise and the predicament the plane was in were in any way related.

Who knows? But I have to tell you, watching that air plane get blown around was one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen!

Your lucky lottery numbers for today are 23 53 21 3 14 42

Jacob Fox

Lighter Mood 10/21/2010

Well, my last post seemed to be a bit of a downer and although I definitely feel it's a good thing to talk about politics when I can. However, I am not an angry person by nature and do prefer to keep a much happier tone here for the most part.

But screw that! How could they have not hired Ryne Sandberg to manage the Cubs....

Just teasing. I have a new friend on facebook. He's called Ted E. Bare. Check him out. He's in an open relationship so you might have a chance with him.

I have a journalism mid-term tomorrow. Wish me luck and I will let everyone know how things go.

Jacob Fox