Kingfisher High School Stinger 01/19/2016

Kingfisher, OK 73750

Page 2: Farewell Ms. Sinclair

Page 3: Ms. Hobza’s Kitchen

Page 4: Appliances Pics

Page 5: David Bowie

Page 6: Coach McDonald

Page 7: Girls Basketball

Page 8: David Bowie Tribute

Page 9: Golden Globes

Page 10: Wrestling Team

Page 11: Wrestling Managers

Page 12: Top Vid Games 2015

Page 13: STUCO Plants

Page 14: Horror Movies

Page 15: Boys Basketball Pics

Page 16: Wrestling Pics

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January 19, 2016

“I may not agree with what

you say, but I shall defend to

the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire?

Three-Peat for the KHS Cagers at WCT By: Logan Hightower/ss

On January 7-9th at

the Chisholm High School,

the Kingfisher Yellow Jack-

ets won the Wheat Capital

Tournament for their 3rd time

in a row.

They beat the Alva

Goldbugs 66-51. The Jackets

shot 13 3’pointers from be-

yond the arc. Over the span

of three years, Coach Reece,

the boy’s head basketball

coach, hasn’t lost a game at

the Wheat Capital tourna-

ment.

This also boosted

the Jacket Boys record to a

whooping 7-2 overall with their 6 game winning streak.

Jett Sternberger (freshman), Mason Overstreet (Senior), and Marco Charqueno (Junior)

were the three main scorers. Mason was injured the first half after shooting a three pointer. These 3

boys scored all but five of the Jackets’ points. All 3 of these players were knocking down 3 pointers

one after another to boost the Jackets’ score. Sternberger scored 15 points and Charqueno scored 27

points.

Charqueno and Overstreet joined Sternberger on the all-tournament team. The Stern-

bergers have been keeping the MVP of the tournament for the 3rd year now as his older brother,

Jace Sternberger (just graduated last year), has won the last 2 years, and now with Jett winning the

MVP of this year’s tournament.

Photo by Sam Walter

Last week, Mr. Horn and Mrs. Owens took the KHS Pride over to Gilmour for a Friday morning Jacket

Round Up performance. For KHS students who attended Gilmour, this is a familiar and nostalgic view of the cafeteria/gym.

January 19, 2016

Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Soto

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Daniel Tautkus Chief Photographer Sean Borelli

Asst. Chief Photographer Sam Walter

Compositing Editor Kaden Baartman Managing Editor Laryn Schemmer

Advisor Mr. Kurt Kaya Advisor Emeritus Dr. A.J. Johnson

High School Principal Mr. Todd Overstreet

Superintendent of Schools Mr. Jason Sternberger

Senior Reporters Janelle Hawk, Teresa Rangel, Clairanda Porter,

Blanca Barcenas, Logan Hightower, Reporters: Lisa Baxter, Alma Padilla, Martin Padilla,

Robert Haynes, Alma Atondo, Michael Sutton,

Andrea Jimenez, Nicholas Bradford Photography Staff Cricket Kaya, Regan Henderson, Joey Little, Alex

Wilczek, Jared Hughes

Photography Interns Roberto Tafoya, Colton Koska

Email Address: [email protected]

Policy Statement It is the policy of the Kingfisher School District to provide equal opportunities

without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, qualified handicap, or veteran

status in its educational programs and activities. This includes, but is not limited to,

admissions, educational services, financial aid, and employment.

Inquiries concerning application of this policy may be referred to Jason Sternberger,

Coordinator of Title IX and Section 504 responsibilities, Kingfisher Public Schools, P. O.

Box 29, 11th and Chisholm, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750. Telephone 405-375-4194.

Kingfisher Public Schools provide educational opportunities to disabled students

age 0-21. These services are provided in accordance with public law 94-142, which

requires an approved appropriate education for disabled children ages 0-21. Any person

having knowledge of a disabled child and not identified or served, please contact Jason

Sternberger, Superintendent of Schools, 11th and Chisholm, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750

or telephone 405-375-4194.

The opinions expressed in THE STINGER are those of the author and do not

necessarily reflect those of THE STINGER staff, its sponsor, the administration or

faculty of the Kingfisher Schools.

Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service.

Mrs. Sinclair departs for the stars By: Stinger Staff

Kingfisher Public Schools Technical Education teacher, Mrs. Sinclair

resigned her position to work with the NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Obser-

vatory), a national scientific organization.

According to the NRAO website (http://www.nrao.edu/), "The National

Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation

operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. Since

1956, the NRAO has designed and operated the most advanced radio telescopes

for use by scientists and students around the world."

In her new position, Mrs. Sinclair will serve as the Science Education Specialist, where she will develop curriculum for science

teachers on an international scale. Sinclair will also conduct teacher and student workshops on the capabilities of the network of observato-

ries and telescopes that the NRAO oversees. She will also be involved in the Skynet Junior Scholars (https://skynetjuniorscholars.org/), a

national organization which promotes astronomy education and

provides virtual access to telescopes and astronomers around the

country.

Sinclair's assignment will be at the Green Bank Tele-

scope in West Virginia. According to the NRAO, "The Robert C.

Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) focuses 2.3 acres of

radio light. It is 485ft tall, nearly as tall as the nearby mountains

and much taller than pine trees in the national forest. The tele-

scope is in a valley of the Allegheny mountains to shield the ob-

servations from radio interference."

Mrs. Sinclair moved to Kingfisher with her family in

2007 and served as a Kindergarten substitute, 4th grade teacher

and middle school science teacher, before taking the initiative to

obtain her certification as a Technical Education Instructor. Once

certified, Sinclair took over the position as KPS Tech Education

Instructor when Mr. David Pounds retired in 2012. Of her time as

Tech Ed instructor for KPS, Sinclair stated she is most proud of

the resurgence of the KHS Robotics Team as well as attending the

National Technology Student Associations Conference in Dallas

with KHS TSA students.

"I will miss my students very much but I fully expect

them to continue to develop their technology skills after I leave,"

stated Sinclair. A replacement for Sinclair has already been hired

by the KPS Administration to take over the Technical Education

program.

(Image courtesy nrao.org via wiki commons license)

January 19, 2016

Ms. Hobza’s New Kitchen By: Lisa Baxter/ss

Ms. Hobza got new appliances at the beginning of this semes-

ter. She has been trying to get them since last year and I am very happy

that she was able to get them this year after almost four years of having

those old appliances!

The new appliances consist of six stainless steel commercial

kitchen sinks, a new garbage disposals badge 900, a GE French Door

Refrigerator with a pull out freezer drawer, an Electrolux Freezlerless

Refrigerator, a Whirlpool Add Series Dishwasher, a Whirlpool Duet

Washer and Dryer set with steam settings, two red Kitchen Aid Artisan

series stand mixers with special attachments, a GE double gas oven

without a convection oven, a GE Double electric oven with a convec-

tion oven.

Ms. Hobza cheered, “That means we now have 4 ovens!

Yay!” She got a $15,000 technology grant from the State of Oklahoma

Lottery Fund. The State of Oklahoma CTE Dept. awards technology

grants once a year funded by the Oklahoma Lottery Fund.

The grants are very competitive and require a detailed online

application that includes a detailed budget proposal for how and where

the money is to be spent. Mrs. Hobza applied for the grant last spring

and was informed in August that she was a grant recipient for the

$15,000 to remodel the FACS room kitchen into her idea of a FACS cave. It’s planned to be done in red, black, and chrome garage which

now serves as a gender neutral room to better serve the students at KHS. Gone are the days of “Becky Home Ecky” with just girls cooking

and sewing. Yay! (See more pics on page 4 of this edition of The Stinger).

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A Tribute to David Bowie Opinion by: Clairanda Porter/ss

As you may well know, David Bowie, the pop music

legend, passed away on Sunday the 10th after battling cancer

for 18-months.

He aged 69 years, leaving the world speechless with

his last album hinging to death with its lyrics and compelling

sound. Fans and admirers where shocked to hear that this time

the death was real, because of previous Internet hoaxes. ‘

The Internet was the first to know about his death.

On official social media accounts it was stated, “Davis Bowie

died peacefully today surrounded by his family....” Duncan

Jones, David’s son tweeted, “Very sorry and sad to say it’s

true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”

David Bowie’s death is hard to accept for many,

mainly because he impacted the world with such a force of

life.

Many have looked to his last music video,

“Lazarus,” to see that his final works was a performance all

around his death. David Bowie was an entertainer until his last

breath, bringing thousands of humans to speculate the wonders

of his mind.

He will forever be imprinted in our sociality as a

legend of sci-fi beauty, and a provider of exquisite music.

Advisors Note—A personal remembrance of David

Bowie appears elsewhere in this issue of The Stinger, written

by Contributing Writer, Carson Racer.

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Insights to Coach McDonald

Opinion by: Alma Pa-

dilla

On October16 of

some year Bobbie and Ken-

ny McDonald were blessed

with the birth of their son,

Kent McDonald or as he is

known around here Coach

McDonald.

Coach McDonald

grew up in the town of

Guthrie and went to North-

western Oklahoma State for

college. His favorite color

is green and his hobbies are

working out. Kent has one

brother.

Soccer and foot-

ball are the two sports that

he coaches here. F.Y.I

coach is really good at

making the soccer teams

conditioning drills fun. His

positive attitude is what

motivates us the most.

When asked why

he started coaching here he

answered with “I love the community and being a Yellow Jacket.”

He also said he loved it here and plans to stay forever.

Soccer: Off-Season By: Logan Hightower/ls

Soccer has started for the Kingfisher Yellow Jackets, and

most of the boys and girls are taking a beating from the work that

Coach McDonald has been making them do! With doing core

workouts, running at least a mile a day, and doing various stair drills,

the girls and guys are taking it pretty hard.

The boys and girls are just getting started with conditioning.

They haven’t even touched a soccer ball, but Couch McDonald puts

them to work. There are about 20 boys on the off-season team, as the

girls have around 30.

During the week, the boys and girls condition. On Fridays,

they will participate in Yoga. This stretches them out and helps with

all the soreness that they have. Mondays are one of the hardest days

for the players, as they do the

hardest workoutof the week. It

gets progressively easier as the

week goes by. Once it gets to

Thursday, the boys and girls are

exhausted.

As the Kingfisher

teams have moved to a different

district, there is a good chance

for the Yellow Jackets to have a

great season. Come and support

the Kingfisher Yellow Jackets

once the season starts!

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January 19, 2016

There is Silence

and Anger and

Grief - David Bow-

ie Has Passed Opinion by: Carson Racer/kk

To imagine music without David

Bowie is imagining the Moon without craters

or Mars without its red. What Bowie did for

popular music transcends the boundaries of

genre and of taste. There are few definitive

people of music; people who have altered the

concept of music in their wake (Mozart and

Lennon), and among them David Bowie can

still stand large on the musical dais of histo-

ry.

To you the reader, it must be obvi-

ous that this is not an objective piece of jour-

nalism. This is my opinion and if you seek a

placing of the facts then there are articles to

suffice you elsewhere. This is my expression

of grief towards the death of someone who

meant multitudes to me; who brought to my

mind such a unique expression of art and

theatre and life itself that it is difficult to

mourn.

How do you mourn an icon as

grand as Bowie? To this there is silence (the

first reaction), then the anger and denial

strike the body, making the fists never quit

quivering in shock, and the deep set melan-

choly arrives last.

Reversing the chronology, you can

find the genesis of my Bowie craze. I was

less than ten, if I had to guess I’d say nine

when I first heard about Bowie, a man hid-

den in a mythos of his own creation.

As many before me, it was Space

Oddity that was the origin of it all. I heard

the song innumerable times in repetition. It

shattered my brain how unlike it was to any-

thing before it I’d ever heard. From the skull-

shatter distortions of the guitar to the eerie

voice, it was clear to me in that moment that

he was a madman, that Bowie was in some

way God, that he was actually born on Mars,

that he actually was sent from the stars.

David Bowie was in that first infat-

uation something akin to actually taking a

first breath of oxygen. Before him, I listened

to the standards of music. I listened to sprin-

klings of Beethoven and Bach, maybe a song

by The Rolling Stones, and some bits I’d

collected from whatever was on the radio.

After that first moment of David

Bowie, the first taste of his fateful hemlock, I

was poisoned with a desire of this new noise.

I travelled on to the album The Rise and Fall

of Ziggy Stardust after that and once I first

finished the album, not even really forty

minutes in length, the curiosity of Bowie was

cemented into me. The sound of that album

was something caustic and crazy for the ears.

It is an album that to this day

sounds new and strange even after I’ve lis-

tened to it countless times on repeat, the la-

menting music, the grooves and funk tracks,

the emotional conclusion to the event with

Rock ‘n Roll Suicide.

After that album came my con-

sumption of all of his works in rapid chunks

and to my amazement the music even after I

aged from ten to eleven and into the teenage

years after that and into the present at last,

his music seemed and to meet me wherever I

was in life, to this very day of writing his

music still has unfounded depths.

He wrote songs of everything in his

25 album career, songs that reach me in any

state that I’m in. In doing so, in listening to

his music for such a vast amount of time, I

have vivid memories attached to some. One

in specific being the endless car trips during

the holidays.

I recall being a 13-year old, brood-

ing and cool as I was then, and I remember

sitting in the passenger seat of my sister’s car

as we drove down the sparse and grey-

snowed highway and the song Heroes and its

slow, thrumming chords, the vocals laid

down in such a way that it sounded as if I

was listening to Bowie’s personal recollec-

tion of love, and in that moment there was no

car trip. In that solitary time from fade in to

fade out of music all there was the motion of

acceleration and the desolate fields standing

out beyond the road.

I remember it now as I write with

such a stirring presence, in that time I felt I

had crossed a Rubicon of music, it contained

all this unfound emotional experience be-

yond just the rhythm.

It’s a blur of time, listening to his

albums. He was this enigmatic chameleon of

a character, shaping his appearance and stage

personality to fit the music he was creating at

the time. In the seventies we had Ziggy Star-

dust, this elusive, uncanny, and altogether

striking figure, a humanoid alien sent to

earth. After that phase of his career he was

the Thin White Duke, associated with his

album Station to Station.

A hollow man, an emotionless aris-

tocrat, he was a cold and angry monster. His

music in this period was aggressive and pow-

erful and experimental in a way that his al-

bums hadn’t dared to be before it.

In more recent times, as observed

in the 2013 album The Next Day, Bowie

drew himself away from the concept of char-

acters and made music retrospective of his

own life and past. He looked back at his days

of reckless bohemianism and to me it lent a

dark and nostalgic chill to songs such as

Where Are We Now? and The Stars. This

album was David Bowie cleaning all of the

stage makeup from his face and telling his

own story.

With the grim news of his death, I

believe my memories of his music are given

a sense of meaning where there probably

isn’t any and a feeling of permanence to

every good moment listening to his melo-

dies. I remember the exact moment I heard

the news. I was sitting at my typewriter,

making it click out words. A moment of si-

lence in my head and I reached for my

phone.

The headlines were written across

every website. The first second I saw the

words, they didn’t click together in my head.

It took a strangely long time for the words to

fit together in my head into a cohesive sen-

tence. Something stopped in me the moment

everything did combine. I set down my

phone, my hands were shaking.

I felt a shock of cold. I was quiet a

long time before I started to cry. I was lost a

while with the feelings of sad. Black coffee

tasted fine that morning. It tasted warm and

softened the stab of news. It was the death of

god. I’m still working through the after blow.

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After School

Workout

Opinion by: Janelle Hawk/ss

Coach McDonald does

workouts after school from 3 to 4. We

usually do Ladders and then touch

cones. We do stairs a lot and some-

times touch cones. He mostly does it

because some kids want to get more

work out time in to get ready for what-

ever sport they’re in. For example, I

like to stay after school to do more

stuff, because I actually want to get to

play this year.

Last year I never really got in

the game, but this year will be better.

Sometimes we do two feet jumps or

we work out on a hill top. He pushes

us hard and is a really good coach. I

usually never see any coaches working

out with their team, but it’s great to

have a coach like him.

I can’t wait to see what soc-

cer season has in store for us this year.

The Golden Globes Opinion by: Andrea Jimenez/ss

The 73rd annual Golden Globes was held this

last Sunday, January 10th. The night was full of laughs

and many surprises. Next up is the list of the five most

talked about moments according to Us Weekly.

The first is Lady Gaga’s win of Best Supporting

Actress for AHS: Hotel (American Horror Story: Hotel).

Wow! I didn't even know Lady Gaga was an actress. This

was definitely not the Lady Gaga I remember.

Making the list at number two is The Martian. It

won Best Motion Picture, Musical or, Comedy. The actor

Matt Damon took home the award for Best Performance

by an actor in the Musical or Comedy. Hmm, sounds like

a movie worth watching.

Even though Leonardo DiCaprio has never won

an Oscar, he did take home the Best Actor in a Motion

Picture, Drama award. For this, he can thank his role in

the movie The Revenant.

Number four on the list is actress Taraji P. Hen-

son. Her role in the hit TV Series, Empire, got her the

Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama. She celebrated by

handing out cookies to her fellow stars in the audience.

Henson then barked at somebody who stepped on her

very long, white gown. Oops.

Finally making the list as number five is Mozart

in the Jungle. Amazon's series was a surprise hit and won

the award for Best TV series, Musical or Comedy. It took

wins for both the show itself and star Gael Garcia Bernal.

High Speed

Chase in King-

fisher By: Alma Padilla/ls

On Tuesday January 12,

2016 a man is dead after a high-speed

chase in Kingfisher County. Deputies

said it all started when a women's

truck was stolen in Hennessey.

“I feel very fortunate,” said

the owner of the stolen truck, Marilyn

Stites. Stites also said that while the

man was pulling forward and trying to

escape, he attempted to hit her with

the truck. Shortly after calling 911,

deputies located her stolen truck. They

said the driver pulled over, but when a

deputy approached him, he sped off

down Highway 81.

“He exceeded the speed limit

by quite a bit, wound up around 95 to

100 miles an hour,” said Kingfisher

County Undersheriff Bryon Blanken-

ship. “He was on the wrong side of the

highway at one point.”

The high-speed chase ended

when the truck barreled over the High-

way 81 overpass and became wedged

underneath. The Truck was totally

destroyed. The suspects name has not

been released yet.

Stites states that she is just

happy she is alive and safe.

Powerball Mania By: Andrea Jimenez/kk

Tickets, tickets being sold everywhere. To be spe-

cific, Powerball tickets. The $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot,

which is by the way the LARGEST lottery prize in history,

will be divided among three ways. The winning tickets

were sold in three states: Chino Hills, California; Munford,

Tennessee; and Melbourne Beach, Florida. The lucky yet

unlucky winners became instant winners in a blink of an

eye. They will however end up with a MAJOR tax bill.

The lump sum will be $187.2 million dollars and neither of the three

winners will have to pay state taxes. Nor Florida or Tennessee has a state in-

come tax and California has a law which exempts lottery winners from paying

taxes. Instead the winners will be required to pay 39.6% in federal taxes or

take a smaller lump sum. Oklahoma also had lucky winners of smaller yet no

so small money prizes. One $1 million ticket was sold at a local Quick Tip in

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Three other Oklahomans took home $50,000 a piece while

four others won $100,000 a piece.

Wow, so many winners here in Oklahoma and none of them were me.

The chances of winning the record jackpot were 1 in 292 million and remem-

ber you have to be 18 to buy lottery tickets.

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Top 10 Video Games of 2015 Opinion by: Nick Bradford/ss

Here is a list of the top 10 video games of 2015.

10: Destiny: Most people didn’t like destiny when the game came

out.

9: Halo 5: In Halo 5 you play as Spartan Lock while trying to hunt

the Master Chief to bring him back to earth for the USNC.

8: Metal Gear Solid V: This game changed how Metal Gear was.

7: Mortal Combat X: In the X Mortal Combat you try to save Earth

realm from the evil Never realm. You play as Sub-zero, Radian, and

Johnny Cage and many more. With a new fighting system and new

add-ons this game is a good fighting game.

6: Call Of Duty Blacks Ops III: Call of Duty Blacks Ops III is #6

on this list. The Game is set during the future and made a big launch

when it came out.

5: Batman: Arkham Knight: You play as Batman in the full city of

Gotham with the Bat-mobile as you try to stop the new enemy of

Batman, the Arkham Knight.

4: Assassin’s Creed Syndicate: Assassin's Creed Syndicate takes

place in 1868 in London. You play as two twin assassins, Jacob and

Evie Frye, as they hunt the Temper Grand Master, Starrick, and try to

free London from their hands.

3: Fallout 4: The game takes place in Boston Massachusetts. You get

to get out of Vault 111 and explore the wasteland.

2: Rise of the Tomb Raider: In this game you explore tombs as, the

young and attractive, Lara Croft.

1: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt is #1 on this

list. This game has a great story and charters. You play as Geralt Of

Rivia, a deadly and famous witcher, you take on the greatest contact

ever. When I played this game I felt like I was in the game and the

combat was really good.

Game Review: Rise of the

Tomb Raider Opinion by: Michael Sutton/ss

The sequel to

the critically acclaimed

2013 release Tomb

Raider was released on

November 10th 2015. It

received high ratings by

many trusted game re-

view companies such as

IGN, Metacritic, and Gamespot.

The game follows Lara Croft, the main protagonist, as she

travels through Siberia in search for a powerful relic that her father

went mad researching and trying to find. As Lara Croft is wandering

through Siberian tombs, a group called Trinity shows up and it turns

out that they are also hunting for the same powerful relic.

So, as you’re running for your life and trying to survive in

the wild, you’re also trying to escape a vicious manhunt for you. It

has stunning graphical design and shocking gaming mechanics that

range from having to scavenge for resources and crafting to

parkouring (free running) through tombs to get the final treasure.

The game has many different outfits with bonus effects that

range from easier camouflaging abilities to healing up faster inside

combat. It also has play styles you can choose from, you can either

go in with a bow and silent weapons, sneak, or just go all in and take

everybody that you see down with you.

This is, in my opinion, one of the best games of 2015 and I

would highly recommend it if you’re just walking around with $60

in your pocket. This game definitely shows what the developer Crys-

tal Dynamics is capable of.

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January 19, 2016

Horrifying Horror

Movies Opinion by: Lisa Baxter/ss

As you all

know horror movies have

been around for a while

and only a rare few have

been so terrifying that

you only want to watch

them once.

Here are those

few: VHS, The Evil

Dead (original), The

Human Centipede 1

through 3, The Pact,

American Mary, Satan’s

Little Helper, Event

Horizon, Maniac, Stake

land, The Cabin In the

Woods, and finally The Collection.

Those are 13 terrifying horror

movies that you can’t unsee because they are

so absolutely disgusting and gory. I love

horror movies, but The Human Centipede

messed with me and I haven’t even watched

it because I am so scared of what I might see

in the movie.

From what I heard it sticks with

you. I am ok with dealing with Saw because

at least after a while you forget what hap-

pens in that, but in The Human Centipede

you never forget.

That’s some scary stuff, isn’t that?

The day I ever watch that movie will be the

day that I get my septum piercing, and that

will never happen.

Don’t go in this

Room By: Robert Haynes/kk

For those of you who don’t know

The Room is one of the most infamous mov-

ies ever made. If you’ve seen the movie or

glanced at clips on YouTube you’ll know why

but I’m going to tell you about it.

The film starts with our hero, John-

ny returning home from work to his fiancée

Lisa. He romances her as his neighbor, Denny

walks in and creepily watches them. Then

Johnny's best friend, Mark starts a relation-

ship with Lisa, who cheats on him because

“Johnny’s boring.”

So basically that’s the plot in a nut-

shell. You might be thinking “oh that’s not so

bad.” Trust me the story is far from the worst

thing about this movie. Let’s start with the

acting…Tommy Wiseau, who plays the main

character Johnny, is also the writer/producer/

director. He just might be an alien.

Yeah I’m serious his script and act-

ing is that bad.

Even people on reddit are convinced

of this. There’s an entire sub reddit talking

about this. Tommy’s dialogue is burned into

the back of my mind.

Classic lines such as “what a story

Mark. That’s not true. I did not hit her. I did

not. You’re just a chicken cheep, cheep,

cheep… yep that’s the sound chickens make.”

I’ve also got to mention the fact that

the production quality is junk. The films

budget was $50 million! This movie is bad,

but don't take it from me. Check it out if you

dare/ I give this film a 3.5/10

Another Lost Generation? Opinion by: Michael Sutton/kk

Recently I somehow found myself thinking of where our generation is going and I realized that it honestly

doesn’t look very good. When I’m here at school I can look around at any point in time and see people on their phones

being mindlessly entertained with the tap of a screen.

Instead of conversing with the outside world we decide that we can just use our phones…and it’s ok. Being on

our phone sounds great and all and yes it passes time but it also takes away our creativity. This generation grew up in an

age of technology, but the thing is, the people who came up with it were the bomb even before this technology was out.

I fear we are letting out minds focus on one game instead of trying to come up with a new one to pass the

time. We are day-by-day, growing with less and less creativity. Our generation needs to get away from the drug of tech-

nology to entertain themselves. You might say that we talk with others and all, but I’ve seen it just the opposite and

even when we do talk a lot of the time we’re also on our phones. I remember we either used to play paper football or

just come up with a random game to play.

We would rather be on our phone then be around others. We are getting to a point of not needing other people

to talk to. I think that we need to draw away from what controls us, we need to regain our social side.

January 19, 2016

January 19, 2016

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