I’ve been a little under the water lately, still am, but yesterday was my birthday so I guess I should be a little happy, right? I went with friends to Chillies and had their huge burgers and brought myself 2 videogames for my PSP (Lego Batman and the Force unleashed), a nice Brisingr tee, and a copy of Iron Man (two disc). Just today I received this really cool card from all my co-workers. I have not been writing as I should so I do have a few posts that are stacking up that I need to post, one in particular left someone saying “Wow, that’s unheard of.” I have also been comping up with a few ideas to make peakjohnson.com even better than it already is. I’ll be implementing them soon.

Anyway, I thought it would be cool if I posted a few events that happened throughout the years on my birth date, the 28th.

Here it is, the Gen.Is.Us trailer, I’m going to work on being more involved in the fall, still a behind the scenes guy though…

I’ve been kind of busy over the last week, sorry. For the past two weeks I’ve been visiting the Inquirer (my dream place) and sharing my office with Dentists (another story for another entry). If reading the previous post you should have guessed that I am now going to start posting some of articles up, I’m excited about that. I’m also working on getting the pdf versions of the npm uploaded on my north philly metropolis page and I’ll be beefing up the blog site real soon. Tomorrow, by the way, I’m going to see ‘The Dark Knight.’ Sure, all of you have probably seen it already but not all of us like to see movies on opening day weekend. I also brought, Batman:The Killing Joke, very good Batman comic and explains a lot about the nut case Joker. The ending is strange though. I’ll explain everything tomorrow with synopsis, spoilers of the two, yeah I’m mean. I’ll also tell you a little about my Inquirer advantures (hope I spelled this right, if not forgive me its been a long day with the kiddies).

My mother found two kittens yesterday morning in front of our door and I’ve been taking care of them ever since. Trying to find them a good home and such. A lot of good and bad news is brewing for Peak, let’s hope the good outweighs the bad.

here we go

And it works!This is the video, “Keep Your Mind Wide Open” by Anna Sophia Robb. Currently this video is up somewhere on the NPM’s facebook page, but anywho the reason I put this up because Keep your mind wide open is the NPM’s motto, my motto, its what we all should live by. Now I can start putting up the niddy griddy video’s that you all should be paying attention to, next up will be the Genisus trailer. Once I can get a decent wireless connection that is. Oh and by the way, yes it was very simple to put this up yet it took me a week to figure it out, how sad.

This is going to be somewhat of a long post. So if you don’t have anything too important to do, then sit back, relax, and enjoy what I have to say.

First off, I did go see Hancock Saturday and it was funny and it had action in it. I could have wrote about it when I returned home but because of my rather weak wireless connection I can only do so much. Now if you are planning on going to see the movie then skip a few lines and move on to my Outstanding Parenting saga. I will not ruin the whole plot for you because you probably can figure it out for yourself by watching the trailer and previews, I’ll just mention some things about thats all.

In the begining of the movie Hancock is a jerk and a complete ass-hole which just so happens to be his least favorite thing to be called. He drinks, curses, destroys, and saves a lot of people in the process in his own special way. There is one part in the movie which iis very funny, something you would picture a guy like Hancock saying. After saving Ray (the guy who helps Hancock’s image) from the train a group of angry citizen surround him, one angry fat guy says something about sueing Hancock where Hancock replies, “Well you need to sue McDonalds because they f— you up.” Inappropriate and rude yes, but funny.

Then there’s the part of how Hancock is in jail and everyone he put there surrounds him. He kindly asks the guy who’s in front of him to move out of the way, however, he doesn’t. Hancock then does what he threatened to do a few minutes before shoves one guy head into another guys behing. Again, inappropriate, but funny.

There is a supposed twist in the movie, I really don’t consider it a twist because you can tell from certain looks. There is another super powered being in Hancock’s city that he knew nothing about. Its so obvious who it is and again you may already know from the trailer and previews. So in conclusion, yes Hancock may have wanted to change good a bit too quickly, yes there is a lot of cursing, yes it is funny, but I think its a good movie that deserves a A or B, not C like some critics have already given it. Though I’m not a very good movie critic.

Now to the Outstanding Parenting half of this. Hancock, like I said above is a very good movie but it has a lot of cursing and some scences that kids just shouldn’t see. For example, someone’s head getting shoved into someone’s butt, a persons hand getting cut off, you understand. But I can’t understand why parents continue to bring their kids to movies like these. I’m talking kids who are 3-7.  I know they are eager to see the movie and are disapointed that they have no one to watch their kids, but don’t bring them to a movie that will leave them to think that cursing is another form of speaking correctly. Also, its just rude for the other people who are trying to hear the movie but instead have to listen to your son/daughter crying.

But that’s outstanding parenting for you…yeah right.

I thought I understood people, but now I know I was wrong. People are always going to be a mystery to figure out. You can first view them as individuals who will not let you down and are honest to the fullest, but then you find out that you are wrong and that they have made you look like a fool. I was waiting for the bus on Saturday and this man was backing up to park, I didn’t hear him blowing his horn because I was looking to see if the bus was coming at the bus stop. Plus his horn was low. So he says “don’t you hear me blowing the horn man, what are you bionic?” I didn’t respond, I could have.

It just seems to me that with those rude remarks people are doing nothing but proving themselves to be society’s stereotypical product. Meaning what people say about African Americans are sometimes trube because we prove it to be.

Now friends, although I call them associates. I was actually able this past weekend to reconnect with some of my middle-school classmates on facebook. I’m really happy because in the eigth grade was when I had most of my fun and had plenty of my cushes, not high school though. High school was ok, but not as fun as middle-school. Middle-school was also where I found inspiration for some of my characters or where I borrowed some names. I’m still presently on the hunt for more of my associates, but so far I have 27 friends and counting. Sure most people have 320 or 537, but give me a break not many people know about Peak Johnson, hopefully they will soon.

It is now presently 1:37 a.m. and in a few hours I am do at work.Writers never sleep and for those of you who don’t know this then you’re obviously not a writer. It was a miracle, just a few hours ago I moved the rough draft of the NPM away from my computer and decided to turn him on(I like to believe my computer is a boy, thank you). Surprisingly enough everything turned on and was running perfectly, which means I can get back to my old habit of writing until the sun comes up. Its been pure hell having no functioning computer at home with deadline only a month away now.

There’s still one little glitch but hopefully I can fix it and hopefully my computer turns back on and I’m not jinxing it now. An added bonus, I have wireless internet. A friend of mine told me last Saturday that Feather was now free, it use to char

Edited to say: Feather use to charge but now is free, its a bit crappy but it works none the less. Writers do have to sleep by the way

 

Good Day all,

Welcome to the official website of Peak Johnson. Some of you may know me as the pizza loving, gingerale drinker, cheesteak loving, sugar fiend, black hearted individual. Some of you may also know me as the talented editor of Philadelphia’s first teen newspaper, the North Philly Metropolis. As well as Great Expectations Blogger, lemonade entrepreneur, fish saver, future journalist, advice giver, and even a friend. It is within this site that you will find a little bit more about what I do and what I am doing in this crazy world that we live in. Some of yoy might even be pleased to see that everything on this site is not related to the North Philly Metropolis. However, there is a section dedicated to my dear six year old paper that I am working on. So good people, look around and stay a while. You may learn a little something…or at least what I want you to know.

-Peak Johnson