Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Ben
Happy Birthday to you.
love ya kid.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
An Ode To Homestar Runner
Homestar, oh Homestar.
Yo' funny cartoons drive our creativity.
We want some witch's bwrew.
Strong Bad, oh Strong Bad.
Yo' e-mails make us laugh.
Would you like some Mountain Dew?
The Cheat, oh The Cheat.
Yo' words we can't understand.
We want to attend one of your techno rave parties.
Strong Sad, oh Strong Sad.
Yo' haikus are so depressing.
You are a lame character. Sorry.
Marzipan, oh Marzipan
Yo' guitar is played without hands.
Why are you such a dirty hippy?
TROGDOOOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Want some witch's bwrew?
Fin
By: Ben and Liz
Monday, October 26, 2009
Epic Road Trip Story: Pat's House to Emlenton.
“I’m not driving!”
“Pat, what other car could we possibly take? Mine’s about to fall apart, Eleanor only works when she wants to, and Liz’s parents would never let her take her brand new car that far. It’s up to you.”
“I still don’t see why we need to take a road trip the whole way to South Carolina just to get a present for Ms. Rut. Couldn’t you just order it over the internet?”
“We’re not going just to get the sign. It’s the epic road trip we’ve wanted to take for years. Besides, why wouldn’t you want to spend part of your Christmas break in the warmth of South Carolina?”
In the back of my head I was thinking about the fact that it wasn’t actually that warm down south. North Carolina had just been hit by a massive blizzard, and South Carolina was only about forty degrees. I decided it’d probably be best not to mention that to Pat.
“Fine, we’ll go, but you all are giving me gas money.”
Capri, Liz, and I looked at each other with a look that said Pat wasn’t getting a cent out of us, because he never did.
“Ok then it’s settled. Pat drives, we take turns navigating, and we’ll be in South Carolina in a couple of days”
“Wait, we’re leaving today?”
“Yes, Pat. Didn’t you notice we all had bags with us?”
“I really need to observe more.” This was something we’d all been saying to him for years.
We loaded up the van with enough food to last us for about five days, which I felt was overkill, and started to pull away. James came running up to the car and asked if he could join us. Pat had an evil look in his eye that said he was going to mess with James, but I wasn’t sure how he was going to do that. He stopped the van. James opened the door, and just as he was about to get in Pat pulled away spinning a pile of snow up into James’ face. He giggled his girly little laugh, and we were on our way to South Carolina. It was Saturday December 18, and we had five days to get back in time for Festivus, the holiday of all holidays. We knew Seth would be very disappointed if we missed the airing of the grievances, the feats of strength, and dancing around the undecorated Festivus pole. Also, we knew that Liz would be uber upset that our whole plan was to make sure we were back in time for Festivus, because she truly hated the holiday. She felt it served no purpose, so just to make her mad Pat and I would talk about Festivus a good portion of the trip.
We hit the road hoping to be out of the snowy state of Pennsylvania within four hours or so. There were definitely not going to be any bathroom breaks within this leg of the trip, and we had reminded Liz of this at least five times before we left.
Within fifteen minutes Liz was in the front seat crying about having to go to the bathroom, and Pat being the pushover he is, stopped at the Emlenton Truck Plaza. We felt that this would be a short break, but no Pat decided he wanted to look around. It’s not like he’d been there before or anything. Capri and I got out to walk around, and all of a sudden the Jetta flew into the plaza parking lot. It was James, he had planned to follow us until we stopped and then hop in the car with us. He really didn’t have much driving to do from Lamartine. As he slowly walked over to talk to us Pat and Liz were coming out of the building. Capri and I jumped in the van with the side door open. We sped up to where Pat and Liz were standing and they jumped into the moving vehicle like people do in the movies. It was epic. I looked in the rear-view mirror and James was standing in the parking lot with a single tear running down his cheek.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Farewell.
We, James and Sara, are resigning from contributing to the Night Spektors. We feel disrespected by the statement, "That's good, I never looked at their blog anyway." after we decided to join the Night Spektors. So we are withdrawing all our posts and going to back to the Junior Jeniuses.
We also initiate a blog war. It's on like donkey kong!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Second Edition Of The Night Spektors
Seth threw his arms triumphantly in the air. “Yes!” He had so many plans for the Night Spektors. Plans that included hot dog day, mandatory trips to the golf greens and ultimate sandwich cook-offs. Seth went and stood on the Night Spektors Soap Box. “Now that I am Chief, we will have many changes. I’m going to change us for the better and not for the worse. These said changes will benefit mostly me, but you will have a few very small rewards as well. Thank you for voting for me and standing by me during our election. How about a round of applause for me and the changes I’m going to bring to us here.” The applause was scattered and half-hearted. “I said applause!” (Ben knew at that moment Seth had become a power hungry monster.) Once again the same amount of applause came from the Night Spektors and everyone began to carry on with their business.
Ben heard crying. He looked down to see Vaughn sitting on the ground pouting and crying. “What is it Vaughn?” Ben asked unenthusiastically and with annoyance. “I couldn’t be Chief ‘cause I’m nothin’ but a lowly sidekick. I am just so sad.” Ben rolled his eyes and walked over to talk to Seth.
“Seth.”
“Yes?”
“I want to talk to you.”
“Well you’ll have to wait in line buddy, I’m a popular man now that I’m Chief.”
Ben should have just stayed with Vaughn. “Listen, what are we going to do? We may have handled the new Chief thing well but we still need to have a plan and find Sundling.”
“I don’t need to hear all of your meaningless chatter Ben. We don’t need to find Sundling, we have me.”
“Seth, you are being ridiculous.”
“Don’t try me Ben!” Seth’s voice then dropped to a whisper, “Ben I am trying to assert my dominance over this organization and you are doing absolutely nothing to help me out. We can talk about this later when other people aren’t around.” Seth’s voice then regained its power, “And I mean it Ben!”
Ben instantly began looking for something hard and possibly metal or wood that he could bang his head off of. Liz noticed this and decided she would attempt to begin a conversation with him.
“Ben, did you happen to start your story for Mrs. Rut yet?” Liz asked. Ben was super jealous of her unfaltering good looks and sparkling personality. Not to mention the super power she had that he didn’t. He also couldn’t hold a candle to her academic abilities and how much she cared for the class.
“No Liz, not yet.”
“Well Ben I think you’d better get started. I mean, I’ve written so much of mine and you haven’t even started!”
Ben felt very annoyed with Liz at this moment. He couldn’t understand why he was having such a writer’s block. It wasn’t his fault Liz picked the good storyline and he was stuck with nothing. He knew she was just trying to rub it in his face that she was Ms. Rut’s favorite. “I will get to it Liz. I just need to find a plot and storyline.”
“Okay!” She walked away.
Ben just wanted to get out of the Bio Lair. He was getting a little sick of all of the superheroes and Seth’s superego. He began to look around for Vaughn because he knew Vaughn would never find his way out of the Bio Lair by himself. Ben looked to the left, and then he looked to the right. He couldn’t seem to find Vaughn. But then he heard it. A huge crash that could only have been made by Vaughn. He looked over and saw the Communications Tower on its side and sparks flaring from the televisions attached to the sides of it.
“VAUGHN!”
Vaughn quickly went to Ben’s side. “Yes?” he said sheepishly.
“We need to go. Now. Before anyone sees what you have done.”
They quickly left the Bio Lair before anyone knew that it was Vaughn who had ruined 3 million dollars worth of technology. Ben assumed everyone would figure out who it was anyway on account of Vaughn was the only one capable of breaking one of the most important items that the Night Spektors owned.
They exited the Man Cave and Nodded at Baker once again. Baker gave them The Nod back and pressed the red button again.
Casually they left the Biology Room and strolled down the hallway. All of a sudden Ben ran into Luke. They both fell down on to the ground and all of the items in Luke’s arms were scattered on the floor.
“Oh, sorry Luke.”
“No I’m sorry Ben.”
“It’s fine, I ran into you.” Ben said.
“Okay, okay.”
“Here I’ll help you pick this up.” Ben started to reach for the items Luke had dropped.
“NO! Don’t touch it!”
“Ben, are you okay? Did you break your arm?” Vaughn was very concerned.
“Vaughn stop touching me you’re not helping, and no my arm is fine.”
“Just let me pick you up by your armpits.”
“No, Vaughn, stop it! Stop touching my armpits!”
By the time Ben was on his feet (all with the help of Vaughn) Luke was gone.
“Vaughn! Where did Luke go?”
“I don’t know but he sure had a lot of wires and cables and other shady things.”
“Shady do you say?” Ben raised one eyebrow.
“Very shady.”
“Hmm… Luke always has been a pretty shady guy. Maybe we should keep an eye on that kid.”
“I feel ya Ben.”
“Well anyhow, you need to get back to “teaching” and I need to get back to class.”
“Okay!” Vaughn saluted Ben, turned on his heel and marched back to his room. Now that he had gotten rid of Vaughn, at least for a few minutes, Ben was free to take a look around the school, uninterrupted, in order to find clues leading to The Sundling or to find that shady kid Luke.
Ben used his super smelling skills to try to sniff down Luke. He was nowhere to be found. Even when Ben looked under the cafeteria tables, through the jr. high lockers, over auditorium seats and into the girl’s locker room. (No one could be sure if Ben did the last one to find Luke or if he had ulterior motives.)
Luke was hiding. Ben liked to refer to hiders and creeps as, shady mcshaderstons. He realized that finding The Sundling was going to be trickier than he thought, especially when he couldn’t even find Luke, who wasn’t that important.
Ben was feeling heavy hearted as he turned the corner into the senior high wing when all of a sudden he ran into….
To Be Continued.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
The First Episode of The Night Spektors
The Night Spektors
+This is a work of pure fiction and any similarity of names, places, or events are merely a coincidence. Please enjoy.
Brett Vaughn was attempting to enrich student’s lives on a sunny Monday morning. As he was droning on about the importance of nothing, Ben Hogue barged into the room with news.
“I have news!” Ben hollered.
Vaughn stopped what he was doing and started chanting the word news.
“Quickly, we need to get to the Bio Lair! I’ll tell you the news when on the way!”
Ben and Vaughn began to run as fast as they could to the Bio Lair. Twenty feet later Vaughn had his hands on his knees and was gasping for breath.
“Just put your arms over your head. Breath in through your nose, out through your mouth. You can do this you got it.”
Vaughn held one finger up, “Just-one-second.” He said still gasping for breath. One second later Ben and Vaughn were on their way once again.
“The news is that something is going on with the Night Spektors! They called an emergency meeting and I guess something really bad is happening.”
“OH NO!”
They made it to the Biology room and casually walked in. The looked at Baker and gave him The Nod. He returned The Nod and pressed the red emergency stop button. Ben and Vaughn strolled in to the Man Cave, and then through the secret closet opened by the emergency stop button and into the Bio Lair.
The glare of awesome shone into their eyes as they entered their familiar abode. They were in the Bio Lair. As their eyes adjusted to the light they could see everyone running amuck. Ben and Vaughn clocked in then started to look for someone who could tell them what was going on.
Their search ended when an announcement came over the speakers. “Members of the Night Spektors,” everyone was listening, but were continuing on doing what they were doing before the announcement began, “our operation here, and we, are in grave danger. There is a villain known only as the Time Waster wrecking havoc!” Ben’s head began to throb, Time Waster sounded so familiar but he just couldn’t figure out who it was. “Our Chief, The Sundling, our Houser of Information and Knowledge, has been captured.” There were gasps and cries of outrage. “We need to immediately fill his position to ensure our order. We need all the heroes with the lamest superpower to step forward.”
The announcer paused as superheroes began to step forward. Ben took this time to look around at his fellow friends and superheroes. Jenny, also known as The Creeper, was using her power of invisibility to become invisible and visible again out of nerves. Ben noticed her staring at Macho Man and hoped she wasn’t also using her ability of x-ray. Ben then glanced at Seth who was using his moustache growing power to switch between a handlebar stache and the curly-cue, Seth was Mustachio. All of a sudden Pat began to run circles around Ben. Pat was The Cheetah and could run lightning fast. Then the never ending fighting feud between Bessler, Lumberjack Man, and Baker, The Lone Wolf, erupted once again. Ben was intrigued until one of Baker’s claws struck Bessler and a fight about the rules of their fighting began. Ben’s attention was then drawn to Gabby and Liz. They were talking to each other at lightning speed and no one could understand what they were saying. Gabby’s ability to fly and swim dubbed her with the alias of Aquawing Girl. Liz, like Ben had every super power, but she was even better than him because she had a secret power that Ben didn’t possess. Liz was known as Miracle Woman. Ben’s attention was once again focused in on Macho Man, who was really Dan. Dan was making his bed to get ready for sleep. Dan’s power was the ability to sleep for only two hours and be completely rested. These powers were bestowed upon him so he could get a lot of things done. This is also the reasoning behind his position of secretary for the Night Spektors. Ben glanced in Ashley’s direction. Her super power was identity theft, which made her the sole source of income and treasurer. At that moment Ben took time to reflect on the great, admirable, Sundling. The Sundling was the Holder of Knowledge and had been the Chief since the beginning of the Night Spektors. With him gone the organization was sure to fail. All of a sudden, and as usual, Vaughn whispered something unintelligent in Ben’s ear. “I think I’m going to try and be Chief so I can make a casual Friday.” “Vaughn! We don’t even have a dress code!” “Oh.” Vaughn was known as Dunce Boy and he didn’t have a power because he was just a lowly sidekick.
Ben focused once again on the superheroes moving towards the front of the room in hopes of becoming the stand in Chief. There were three superheroes vying for the stand in Chief position, Seth, Dan and Pat.
“Once again I need your attention!” said the announcer, “We have The Mustachio, Macho Man, and The Cheetah. Will everyone close your eyes and raise your hand when I say the name of the person you want to hold the position of stand in Chief. Mustachio… Macho Man… The Cheetah…. All right everyone can open their eyes. The winner and your stand in Chief is… MOUSTACHIO!” A wave of applause rang out over the Night Spektors. “You can all be excused now. Thank you.”
To Be Continued....
Thursday, October 8, 2009
This Is For You James
Dear James,
I find that your criticisms are not very constructive, but offensive and not useful. Just because you don't want to be part of our school newspaper does not mean that you have to put it down or act like it is stupid. We will continue to take this idea and run even though you are being so negative about it. Please know if it will not help us with our ideas we do not want to hear it.
Thank you,
Ben and Liz.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
School Newspaper
Hey guys!
As you know (or hopefully know) we are allowed to create a school newspaper!!! We're only allowed one per semester but hopefully what we started grows into something much bigger in the next few years. I'm assuming we're going to speak about it at the gifted seminar so we'll get more structure and what not and figure out what's going on. Hopefully we will be able to start creating the newspaper soon. I'm really excited and I hope everyone else is too. (:
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Darkness of War
The bombs explode.
The chopper blades whir.
Cries ring out from young men
Fighting a war the public no longer believes in
For a cause that was lied about.
Proof was not found,
But still they fight on
Dying, bleeding, killing.
These are the bravest of us all.
We hope and pray
That our brothers, cousins,
Sons, husbands, and fathers
Come back the men they once were,
Unbroken, strong, and compassionate.
These boys fight on,
But they are no longer
The men we once knew.
They have been hardened
By the darkness of war.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Lost
Where are we in this world?
A group of kids struggling to find their place,
Their point in life.
The road ahead looks bleak.
Questions are asked,
But we are given no answers
As to where the road in our lives will lead
We trudge along the grown up trail
Towards a dark, unclear future.
We have have our hopes, our dreams
But often they are crushed
To the point where we no longer care.
As group we must stay positive
For the future is on our shoulders
We have the ability to make it
What we want it to be.
Hello everyone. . .
Thanks for inviting me to your blog!!! I will try to live up to your expectations as a creative writer.
Amos
I Remember
His brown hair, matching brown eyes
His dimples from side to side
A brother, a best friend
Matchbox cars from your room to mine
You yelled at me by the plant, I forgive you now.
Your smile matched mine
Silly giggles at the dinnertime table
Mom and Dad just smiled
Scraped knees, band-aids on our legs
The big tree in teh backyard
Apart by Death, together by Love
I'll Never Forget
The end of summer's days
A week before school
A forgotten snake across the road, failed brakes failed car
Through the window I could see
The death, the pain, my family's tragedy
The police came, the ambulance too
But the blunt force trauma was too much for his little head.
He couldn't be helped; we couldn't be helped
My parents came; I didn't understand
A short police car ride home; why couldn't he come too?
Mom and Dad were crying but I couldn't stop asking
I couldn't stop asking why he wasn't there too.
Days passed but he didn't come home.
A funeral, but no procession; they couldn't bury him
Four years old, i asked for one thing, the one thing
brought my parents the most pain. No, he can't come back.
He'll Never Know
2008 his graduation
I watched his friends walk the aisle
I cried for my friends, but I also cried for the chances he never got.
Never to meet Abby
Never to chase away my boyfriends
Three white dresses to be missed, on never to be worn.
I long for the fights that would make us stronger
I envy other girls of their big brothers
My sister brings me the most joy
I'll never wish her away no matter the pain between
I promise to be the best big sibling I can
I promis to live for the both of us, you and I
I promise to make life easier for Mom and Dad.
I promise never ever to forget you.
You're my brother, my best friend and the reason I am who I am.
I will always love you.
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