The Karate Kid?

If you've seen the new trailer on youtube for the new karate kid movie that's coming out this year, you may be asking yourself why they never bothered to change the name. According to the trailer, the new Mr. Miagi (or however you spell it), played by Jacki Chan, is teaching his new student kung fu. KUNG FU! So why are they naming the movie KARATE kid?? If I go to see a karate kid movie, I wanna see the main character practicing and learning KARATE, not kung fu! What the heck!!! I can see that someone wanted to cash in on the successful Karate kid franchise, but seriously now, call it what it is! Call it Kung Fu Kid, that's what it is. Besides, there's probably more people who'd go see that than would go see Karate Kid.

Back from the dead and other random stuff

Holy crap! I totally forgot about my blog again! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKK!!!!!
Okay, anywho, I'm back and I'll try not to leave such a great space between future posts, just been a li'l ca-ray-zay if'n yaknow wut I mean.

So, the other day I'm on my way home from the library to meet pops at the farmer's market in town, right, and outta the blue this random kid on the other side of the street sees me, books it across the main road (which by that time was kinda busy, mind you) and starts askin' me, point blank, if I got change. Now I'm standin' there lookin' at 'im all blank and thinkin' to myself 'why don't you go home and ask momma or somethin' instead of runnin' up to some random dude walkin' down the street whom, by the way, you don't even know'. Now, of course, being the polite, and broke, teenage college student that I am, I shrewdly and gently answered with a firm 'No' and kept on walkin'. Now, I guess I can understand that he needed change, whether it be for the bus or something like that, but still, random. But then, not nearly as off-the-wall random as what happened to me a couple of days earlier on the way to the library.
I was walkin' through the parking lot of this convenience store which happened to be on my way there and this white mini-van drives up past me and parks a few yards ahead of me. Now, normally I wouldn't give even half a cent about that, especially since you consider the fact that I was, in fact traveling through a parking lot, right? So, naturally, I thought nothing of it and kept on walkin' by. It's what happened when I came about abreast of the vehicle in question that caught me a little off-guard. The lady driving the van had seen me, I guess, and must've thought I'd broke down somewhere in the parking lot because she hopped out real fast with a box in her hand, ran 'round the front of the van and aproaches me with the car-charger-in-a-box and blurts out without a second thought 'here, you look like you need this!'
Now don't get me wrong, I love gettin' free stuff. Who doesn't? In this case, though, all I needed at that moment was to be at the library. Compound that by both the fact that this is a complete stranger we're talkin' about and my current lack of ownership of a working vehicle and now you fully understand my utter confusion and bamboozlement at that exact moment. In my mind I'm thinkin' 'what is this, am I on camera or somethin'? Who the heck are you??', but, again, I didn't say that out loud, instead opting for the slightly more polite response: '..Uh, no thanks, I'm good.', and kept on walkin'.

So... yeah. Random.

Jack out.