Holiday Times

The holidays are a great time because that is when my brother comes
 down from college. My family are big sports fans. So during the holidays I usually have basketball tournaments and there are a lot of great NBA games on television. My family come to my games to watch me play and then we go home and thats when the fun starts. My mom and sister comes home and cook A big dinner and we all just sit around and watch NBA games. Also we all get together and fix up the christmas tree. We sometimes go to one of my family members house to eat dinner on christmas eve. After we eat dinner we go home and watch movies till its time to open gifts.

Post Othello

I think one issue to address is how some people are fake friends.  In Othello Iago showed me how you should really watch your friends close because they may not be a true friend. When I think of Iago i think of the quote "Keep yours friends close but your enemies closer." Also threw out the whole play I realized that the way Iago acted is how high school students are now. In high school everyone is going to run into that one fake friend that wants you to not do well. To summarize, Iago taught me to choose my friends wisely.

Another thing I was thinking is the same way Othello believed Iago about Desdemona is the same way the same situation would happen now a days. Usually the person is informed on some kind of social media that there boyfriend or girlfriend is cheating on them. And the they don't think to talk to them about it, they just believe what they are told. If Othello would have talked to Cassio and Desdemona together about the situation then maybe Desdemona wouldn't have been killed. I think we all have times when someone tells us something and it sounds so believable that we don't try to figure out the truth.

B. H. Fairchild

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Poetry Out Loud : Old Men Playing Basketball

Old Men Playing BasketballBy B. H. Fairchild

The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language   

of fake and drive, glamorous jump shot   

slowed to a stutter. Their gestures, in love   

again with the pure geometry of curves,

rise toward the ball, falter, and fall away.   

On the boards their hands and fingertips   

tremble in tense little prayers of reach   

and balance. Then, the grind of bone

and socket, the caught breath, the sigh,   

the grunt of the body laboring to give   

birth to itself. In their toiling and grand   

sweeps, I wonder, do they still make love

to their wives, kissing the undersides

of their wrists, dancing the old soft-shoe   

of desire? And on the long walk home   

from the VFW, do they still sing

to the drunken moon? Stands full, clock   

moving, the one in army fatigues

and houseshoes says to himself, pick and roll,   

and the phrase sounds musical as ever,

radio crooning songs of love after the game,   

the girl leaning back in the Chevy’s front seat   

as her raven hair flames in the shuddering   

light of the outdoor movie, and now he drives,

gliding toward the net. A glass wand

of autumn light breaks over the backboard.   

Boys rise up in old men, wings begin to sprout

at their backs. The ball turns in the darkening air.

When I imagine my poem I see old men trying to play a pick up game at a local park . I find this poem very interesting because its about basketball and I also play basketball. In my opinion  the best line in the poem is when he says "The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language of fake and drive, glamorous jump shot slowed to a stutter." This line is the best line because it is very funny to Imagine a group of old men trying to play basketball but they are really tired and short winded. Also them trying to shoot but cant really shoot because they can't really move. This poem also talks about how the old man want to relive there youth but they really can't because they are too old. The poet expresses this in the line when he says "the girl leaning back in the Chevy’s front seat as her raven hair flames in the shuddering light of the outdoor movie." I also find it amusing that the poet questions weather or not the old men can please there wives when he says, I wonder, do they still make love to their wives, kissing the undersides of their wrists, dancing the old soft-shoe of desire?" This poem was amusing because I have seen guys just as the poem explain.

Othello & Wiz

I like the song Young wild and free for the scene of the men drinking because it explains the whole night. Iago is trying to make Cassio drink by telling him to just let loose and have fun just as the song says. The rest of the men are just getting drunk and they don't have a care in the world about there behavior as the song  also says.

                                                                                                 

So what we get drunk

So what we don't sleep (smoke weed)

We're just having fun

We don't care who sees

So what we go out

That's how its supposed to be

Living young and wild and free

[Bruno Mars - Chorus]

So what we get drunk

So what we don't sleep (smoke weed)

We're just having fun

We don't care who sees

So what we go out

That's how its supposed to be

Living young and wild and free

[Wiz Khalifa]

Uh, and now I don't even care

Long as me and my team in here

There's gon' be some weed in the air

Tell 'em Mac-

[Wiz Khalifa]

That's how it should be done

Soon as you thinkin' you're down

Find how to turn things around

Now things are looking up

[Snoop Dogg]

From the ground up

Pound up

It's Taylor Gang

So turn my sound up

And mount up

And do my thang

[Wiz Khalifa]

Now I'm chillin

Fresh outta class feelin'

Like I'm on my own

And I could probably own a building

Got my own car

No job - no children

Had this science project

Me and Mac killed it

[Bruno Mars]

So what we get drunk

So what we dont sleep (smoke weed)

We're just having fun

We don't care who sees

So what we go out

That's how its supposed to be

Living young and wild and free

[Wiz Khalifa]

Yea, roll one, smoke one

When you live like this you're supposed to party

Roll one, smoke one, and we all just having fun

So we just, roll one, smoke one

When you live like this you're supposed to party

Roll one, smoke one, and we all just having fun

[ All - Chorus]

So what we get drunk

So what we don't sleep (smoke weed)

We're just having fun

We don't care who sees

So what we go out

That's how its supposed to be

Living young and wild and free

[Wiz Khalifa]

So what

We get drunk

So what we smoke weed

Were just having

Funnn

And we don't care who seee [Snoop Dogg](we don't care who sees)

So what we go out

That's how it's supposed to beee

Livin' young , and wild , and free

Iago. O, they are our friends; but one cup: I'll drink for
you.

Cassio. I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was
craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation
it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity,
and dare not task my weakness with any more.

Iago. What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants
desire it. 

Cassio. Where are they?

Iago. Here at the door; I pray you, call them in.

Cassio. I'll do't; but it dislikes me.

[Exit]

Iago. If I can fasten but one cup upon him,

With that which he hath drunk to-night already, 

Cassio 'Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.

Montano. Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am
a soldier.

Iago. Some wine, ho!

[Sings]
And let me the canakin clink, clink;
And let me the canakin clink
A soldier's a man;
A life's but a span;

Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Some wine, boys!

Iago. O, they are our friends; but one cup: I'll drink for
you.

So what we get drunk

Iago. What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants
desire it.

We're just having fun

And let me the canakin clink, clink;
And let me the canakin clink
A soldier's a man;
A life's but a span; 

Yea, roll one, smoke one

When you live like this you're supposed to party

Roll one, smoke one, and we all just having fun

So we just, roll one, smoke one

When you live like this you're supposed to party

Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Some wine, boys!

So what we get drunk

So what we don't sleep (smoke weed)

We're just having fun

We don't care who sees

Young, Wild and Free- Snoop Dogg ft. Wiz khalifa (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO HD)