Last Blog!

The Mist is what a horror film should be - dark, tense, and punctuated by just enough gore to keep the viewer's flinch reflex intact.


In fact, that movie's ending is so uncompromising that one must assume director Frank Darabont had final cut so the studio couldn't interfere. (It's worth noting that the ending is not the same as that of Stephen King's novella, but I won't mention how it has changed.) Darabont has fashioned a tense motion pictures that's ultimately more about paranoia, religious fanaticism, and the price of hopelessness than it is about monsters. But the creatures are present and accounted for, lurking in the white-out that is the mist. Someone has finally succeeded where John Carpenter failed with The Fog.

I disagree, this film is far from scary. There were moments when I jumped a little bit but most of the gore and "scary monster" things in the mist seem kitchen made, not studio produced. The sad thing is I scare easily, I still get random nightmares about "The bride of Chuckie," unfortunaltly "The Mist" left me unscared and wanting my money back, well my boyfriends money back.

Blog #8

This is the public document i found.

I found it by searching for San Diego City documents and then I was prompted to the san diego city website. I went to the City Hall tab, then I went to the tab that said official city documents. I chose the city budget link and thats how I found my public document.

Video Blog

Old school Robin Thicke, before he got famous and before tickets to his show cost $60!!

Editorial

This is my opinion on the daily potential cost of the writers strike. I used this article on the strike as well.


According to FilmLA, this writers strike could cost the Los Angeles economy $20 million a day if the strike continues. I’m sure the studios know the strike could possibly cost them millions of dollars but they are holding out until the strikers loose their passion and fire for their cause. But the writers strike in 1988 lasted 22 weeks and there are more people rallying behind the writers today. According to the article in the LA Times a single episode of a drama costs about $3 million to produce, employs 300 people and takes eight days to shoot. An episode of a half-hour sitcom costs $1.5 million, employs an average of 88 employees and has a five-day shooting cycle. If the strike continues 15,000 jobs will be lost and millions of dollars. The strikers have withdrawn their proposal for double DVD pay, which was the biggest road block in negotiations, but still want producers to grant the union jurisdiction for most new-media writing and they also insisted on a proposal that would allow them to reuse movies or TV shows on any platform for promotional purposes and gain residual payment.
The strikers aren’t asking for much of these billion dollar studios and in the end the strikers will be the ones hurting, the guild will only be able to pay them for so long and soon enough they will loose their cars, their homes and won’t be able to simply support their families. Christmas is right around the corner and maybe the Ghost of Christmas past should give these Ebenezer Scrooge aka studio heads a look into the lives of the writer’s families, those they are truly affecting

Dramatic Narrative

This is a dramatic narrative I found.

My trip to the bookstore

I walked into the bookstore to get a dissecting kit for my bio lab. I asked one of the workers where I could find the kit and instead of actually telling me where I could find it he just pointed. I walked in the general direction of where he pointed and found the aisle that looked most like where a bio kit would be. I looked down to the second shelf and saw the kit priced at $11.25. 1. I didn’t want to spend that much money on tools that were going to dissect a dead pig and 2.You only need one kit per group so I was kind of thinking maybe my partner bought it. I thought back to his attendance record and test scores and realized I would be better off if I just bought it. The sticker on the rectangular blue box said no returns if opened, so if he actually did buy it, I would be returning it. I walked over to the checkout line stopping to look at the cute new hoodies in the bookstore I couldn’t afford. I don’t get how a sweatshirt with just four letters, CSUN, could actually be priced at $70. So I walk to the line and wait as the girl in front of me takes forever to find her wallet. It’s finally my turn. I get to the counter, the girl tells me the price, $11.79, and I realize I forgot my wallet in class.

Investigative Story

This is the investigative story I found.

These reporters went to CIA prisons in Afganistan and spoke with prisoners, so going outside of the country to expose this story is above and beyond. They also spoke with several CIA sources, who are unamed in the story, but these sources give them details on the sometimes brutal interogation techniques used on these prisoners.

Blackie Nicole

Well I was gonna write about greys anatomy or my addiction to reality television or even my obsession with celebrities bc I could really go on for days about all of the above. But then my son walked in the room and I decided to talk about him. He is a psycotic white chiuhuahua and his name is Blackie Nicole. I love him with all my being. I was actually mad when my boyfriend bought him for me bc like most men hes late on everything...I told him I wanted a dog in like 2003 and here comes 2005 and he buys me a dog. I was pretty much over the idea by early 2004.

Neways Blackie is my life, he is so crazy and loud and he bites small children but I love him because he is loving, towards me...

I mean I wish he didn't bark at absoulutly nothing at 2 in the a.m. and I wish he would pee on his potty pad and not 1/2 on his potty pad 1/2 on the carpet, I wish he didnt poop in the middle of the living room just cause he felt like it and I wish that he didnt always want to have play time when I need to study. BUT other than that he comes to me when I cry, he has a way of always making me feel better, and he is like a little heater in the winter bc at night he will lay on my legs and I will instantly warm up.

You know what, everyone should get a Blackie Nicole.

Internet Treasure Hunt

1. Bill (AB) 381 Allows hospital-based physicians to submit a Medi-Cal reimbursment requests containing a benificiary's social security # even if the beneficiary has been issued a Medi-Cal benificiary ID card with specified info. The bill encourages the Department of Health Care Services to establish an automated system, compliant with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), to allow providers to obtain BIC information for submitting reimbursement requests.


2. According to the La City Ethics Commission the 2007 effort to recall L.A. Councilman Jack Weiss raised $88, 712 in contributions.


3. "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" was released in may 1962 and was directed by Val Guest.


4. The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project focuses on coastal ecosystems in socal. You can contact Drew Ackerman @ (714) 755-3217



5. The median age in California is 34.4. I found it by searching through American Fact Finder and then clicking through to find information on California.

The Queen of all media

My favorite blog is perezhilton.com.

This is where I get all my celebrity gossip/trash. Perez mainly focuses on recent celebrity news but sometimes if there is something all over that isnt celbrity related, ie: news on Saddam Hussein being sick. What I love is his commentary on celebrities, everything I'm thinking he says on his blog for the world to read. For instance he wished Jenifer Lopez would dtop hiding her pregnancy as do I. He also has a love/hate relationship for Britney and I do too. His most recent post about her said that she passed her drug test this weekend, how long do we think she will keep it up?? I wanna know the same thing....

I like the name Mercedes...

She was scared, a little nervous, but excited all at the same time. The home smelled of moth balls and Avon perfume. She walked slowly through the hall, hand in hand with her mom, all the way to the backyard. Here she saw it. Small, black and full of dirt. It was the runt of the group, soon to be known as Pepper Theresia. The black cocker spaniel puppy ran to her feet and rapidly licked her now dirt ridden keds.
All around puppies were yelping and she could hear her father in the distance discussing prices with the old lady. Shari’s sisters were talking amongst each other. The eldest, then 16, wanted to name the puppy Mercedes, the youngest, then 6, thought Barbie was a better fit. Shari thought Blackie was a good name but all of them were wrong because later on her mom chose the name Pepper.
She walked to where her dad was standing, in the grass near a big doghouse with chipped red paint. He gave her a hug but she quickly let go to play with the dog inside the chipped doghouse. Inside was the puppy’s mom, a white cocker spaniel. She kneeled in the uncut green and brown grass and started to play with the big white dog.
Her mom and her dad started to talk amongst themselves and they walked inside with the old lady. Shari walked back to runt and didn’t want to let go and for a minute she had to. The old lady walked up to her with tears falling down her eyes, grabbed the runt and said “good-bye Aliana, be a good puppy.” August 3, 1993 was the best day of Shari’s life, the day she got her first puppy.

community feature story

This is a community feature story.

Don't fly to New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Hawaii or Chicago to dine at the
best restaurants. Instead, head to Wolfgang Puck's 25th annual American Wine
& Food Festival, Saturday at Universal Studios, to sample fare from some of
the country's top chefs.

Granted, it's not inexpensive, with a tab of $300 per person, but it's one
of the premier food and wine events, raises money for a good cause and is more
cost effective than winging it all over the country to get a taste of top,
fabulous restaurant fare.
Ever since, he has raised money to donate to Los Angeles chapters of the organization that serve thousands of meals each day to the city's homebound senior and disabled citizens. "In America, often older people are overlooked."

Non Traditional Lead

This has an ancedote lead.

The last time Claire Danes appeared in a play, it turned into a train
wreck. The role was way out of her range, she adopted an atrocious accent
and she overacted so badly that she recently hid under a couch while watching
the results on video. Then again, she was 8.

This lead works becasue it is an eye catching intro into the story.

croc feature story

Here is the news feature follow that I found.

Ten-year-old Chloe Johnson of Kansas City was afraid of sharks -- something that she made well known to her parents during a 2005 vacation to Florida.
But it was only on the way back from the vacation, in Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, that she received an unexpected bite -- from an escalator. "She was not goofing around at all, but she must have been standing in a way that brought her left Croc shoe into contact with the side of the escalator," recalls Chloe's father, Neil Johnson.
"I started hearing her squeal, and my immediate reaction was, 'Oh goodness, what now?'" he said.
But the pain Chloe experienced was all too real. The shoe had been bitten and twisted by the escalator mechanism, wrenching her foot along with it.
By the time she had limped off of the top of the escalator, helped by her parents, blood from her seriously injured toe began seeping out from the shoe.
"Her left big toe was mutilated like you wouldn't believe," Johnson said. "I sat on the floor and held her foot somewhat elevated, with blood running down my forearms."
Fortunately Chloe recovered fully. "It's a little disfigured, but she played soccer all through last year," Johnson said. But in recent months, a growing number of reports have joined those of Johnson's family as more children worldwide are experiencing foot and toe injuries from wearing the popular shoes on escalators.
According to foreign media reports, there have been dozens of reports in Asia as well of the shoes getting jammed and twisted in escalators, often resulting in serious foot and toe injuries in children.

The original story was that in other foreign media outlets there were reports
of the dangers of crocs and escalators. This is a news follow because it relates the story back to the U.S. with a young girl who was hurt in her crocs on an escalator and it is a follow up to the original story.

To be continued...

In Washington D.C. born not raised in Cali is where I spent most of my days....

Ok I had this whole clever idea to write my bio to the tune on the theme song from "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" but it was a lot harder than I thought. Ok so I'm Shari easily mistaken for Sheri but Ive gotten used to it over the years. I grew up in the suburbs of Rancho Cucamonga and i'm also know as the white washed black girl. I pretty much love life and I am an advocate for my own reality T.V. show. I'm obsessed with celebrities and I have an unusually unhealthy obsession with Justin Timberlake.

I have superwoman for a mother and two sisters who I adore. I live with my little sister (who attends CSUN too) and to this day look up to my older sister. Yes, I am the middle child and yes I am still battling with my self diagnosed middle child syndrome. I used to wish that UCLA would have accepted me but I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. I have come to love CSUN and I am filled with matador pride. ANd thats pretty much Shari in a nutshell...