Dexter Season Finale Good or Bad?

Posted on December 20, 2011

So this is my first write up about Dexter Series on Showtime. I am a huge fan of the show ever since the first episode I watched. For those that don’t know what the show is about, basically ”Dexter” Blood Spot Analyst for the Miami Metro PD and moonlights as a vigilante serial killer. .

So we just finished watching the final episode of season six this past weekend and I have to say this season was the least favorite of mine in the series. First of all it seemed highly predictable, and maybe since I have watched the show so much I can anticipate what’s happening next or maybe not. I do feel they veered from what Dexter is first and foremost, very very careful and meticulous.

Now, in almost every season of the show Dexter tends to veer from his path a little bit and seems to almost put himself in an impossible situation where there seems to be no hope to get for him to get out off. I think is what keeps people interested in the show, it gets pretty intense watching the show at times. In the end he seems to get away with by using his high intelligence and always going back to what his dad taught him to be careful and never get caught.

If you watch the show and have not watched this season you probably don’t want to read on because this will probably spoil it for you.

There were so many times in this season where I knew exactly where they were going with the story line before I think I should have. From the dead hooker in the hotel room to Travis sitting on his table in the church where his sister Deb walks in and catches him and seeing him for the first time as what he is, a serial killer. What really bothered me about the season finale was how sloppy he was, I mean he went to kill Travis at the one place he was told to go by his “Sister” Deb told him do some extra work. Of course she was going to bust him in the act, She knew exactly where he was going to be! I mean come one, how stupid is that.

The thing that was really annoying to me about the whole season was that Dexter in the previous seasons always went after the guys that beat the system somehow and escaped jail or even being found by the cops, or were untouchable by the law in some way. Which is what validates him being a vigilante serial killer in my opinion, but instead the whole time he was trying to kill the doomsday killer(s) while the cops were still hot on the case looking for the killer(s).

Overall it was a decent season though, cliffhanger ending with Deb wanting to bang her non-biological brother who she discovers to be serial killer at the very end was a good ending leaving us wanting more, I just was disappointed on how they got to that conclusion is all.

I know they are wrapping up the Dexter Series for two more seasons and I am personally excited to see how it all ends for Dexter! Hopefully they spend more time in the writing for department for the final two seasons.

This is just my opinion on the show and most just me reflecting on the last episode mostly. Thanks for reading.

~JW

REMEMBERING JOHN W. FAAS

Posted on August 12, 2011

Article was written by David Roberts Jr. (Close friend of mine)

“John Faas was not your typical fighter. He was special. He was not the type to dazzle you with his acrobatics. Nor was he the type to run up the score for the sake of impressing you. He was diligent, steady, and patient. I remember his fighting style so well not only because we spent such a great deal of time training together, but because we would also always, and I do mean always, end up in the finals fighting each other. John had the fighters spirit. He would never quit. He would work hard, study hard, train hard, to be successful. And yet thinking of John, there were so many more remarkable things about him, than his excellence in a sport which he loved.

John exemplified the spirit of Tae Kwon Do. Even as an adolescent I recognized that. I used to joke with him that it was just a sport. That he took the art of Tae Kwon Do too seriously. Little did I know. Along the years, he was constantly teaching me about the history of the sport, about the philosophy. To which I always accused him of trying to feed me my vegetables. But as his spirit was, he never gave up. He was so passionate about his knowledge and understanding of the art, that sometimes, he even was able to teach me things without me realizing it. He was clever. I sometimes joke about the lofty ambitions of the students creed, and the Tae Kwon Do oath. To build a more peaceful world. To be a champion of freedom and justice. But John truly lived these. I remember him aspiring to be a Navy SEAL at 13. “To make a difference” as he put it. The beautiful thing about a guy like John, is that he did. He made a difference. He fought proudly for his country. No doubt he put everything he had into being the best he could be to serve the uniform, his family, his friends and his country proudly. That’s just who he was.

To those who never had the pleasure of meeting John W. Faas, boy you missed something special. You could see his million watt smile from across the room. You would hear him talk, not only about life, dreams, and ambitions, but also how to capture, and achieve them. He was encouraging. Always. He loved helping others to pursue their ambitions as well. His look of concentration, and determination that he wore when it was time to get down to business was sometimes all it took to motivate me. He was one of the most respectful and considerate people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. He always had a kind word, or a compassionate ear. John was wise beyond his years, but never let you know that he knew it. He had a humility about him that was inspiring. He always wanted the best for everybody. He knew that the light of one candle was never made dimmer, by the illumination of another.

John, I will never forget you my Brother. The lessons you taught me. The blood sweat and tears we shed together along the way. For all the hours we spent in the pads together. I never told you, but it was you that kept me going. You pushed me to be the best that I could be. For that I will always be grateful. You inspired me in so many aspects of my life. There are no words for how much you will be missed. I love you, and I’ll see you on the other side.”

~David Roberts

Click here to view John Weston Fass Bio
Also Posted on Kim’s Taekwondo Center’s Website – www.tkdkims.com

ClubRSX Meet and Greet Photos!

Posted on August 5, 2011

We did a little photo meet and greet with a local car club that I am associated with (ClubRSX), and here’s just a couple of photos taken that day. To view the rest of the photos click on our Facebook link: JC Vivid Photography!

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First post in awhile.

Posted on June 22, 2011

Hello World. lol

It’s been awhile since i have posted a blog post, been super busy with Riley’s Baseball and other things, seems like there isn’t much time for anything else these days.

Walk for Animals this year wasn’t that great, it was cold, rainy and pretty miserable. We did raise $500 for the event so that was awesome and thanks to those who donated. We did walk the whole 5 miles, all 6 of us. Cisco, Kasha, Rocky, Cassidy, Riley and I.

Riley’s baseball is wrapping up. He made Majors this year which was nice, he made some improvements and seems to be a lot more motivated then he was in the beginning of the year. I wish he could play more, but the League he is in only allows 9 manned teams with Subs, and now he is a sub which really is kind of a shitty deal, but what can you do, I told him if he didn’t want to sub he would have to step it up on the playing field. He seems like he enjoyed it for the most part. Hopefully he gets to bring home a trophy this year, that would be awesome.

Haven’t got to ride as much this summer due to schedule and weather. What a miserable spring/summer so far, storms and rain seem to be the theme these days. Hopefully get some riding in before the season ends.

Done a lot of Dog Park days with the dogs this spring, more then I have in the past. Here’s a Video of Rocky and Kasha Playing at Rice Creek Park.

Here’s one with Rocky(boxer/pitbull) and Kasha(Cane Corso) at Cassidy’s Parents place recently. Playing and having a good time with each other.

Riley got his first sportbike. it’s a Mini Pocket Bike. Thanks to the Francos, he enjoys it a lot.

Some Video of him Riding it.

I’ll try and post up some more, but that’s all i have for now. Thanks for reading.

-JW

MPLS Auto Show 2011

Posted on March 25, 2011

Some pictures Cas and I took at the 2011 Minneapolis Auto Show this year. I was playing around in PS a little bit with the Color Popping Technique. I thought it would work well here since there were so many people around it just made the cars pop out of photos. Plus I was excited that I learned something new and had to test it out a lot. Let me know what you think.

Random Thoughts of the Day.

Posted on March 21, 2011

I keep thinking lately of these great things I want to blog about when I am out and about, but by the time I sit in front of a keyboard, I completely forget what I was thinking about. It’s really annoying, but I suppose if it was really interesting enough I would remember. So I am sitting trying to think of something to write about and nothing really coming to me. So my plan is to just keep typing and see what comes out.

Lately we all have noticed the things going on around the world, Japan’s Earthquake / Tsunami, Libya’s war between its people and their government (as of yesterday, possible full out war with the Gadhafi and US/France/Britain/Others). The world seemed to be changing very quickly, I personally don’t remember a time where events like this have happened in such a short time. I am sure the religious peeps are going all gaga over the predictions of the Apocalypse possibly coming of age, and maybe they’re right to a point. I mean there does seem like there is something very serious going on around the world. Is it possible the world as we know it is coming to an end? Yes, it’s possible. I don’t think it’s how the people picture it though, not like the world would combust in one day, but I do believe with that the world is changing, with the Egypt people reclaiming their rights, Libya in disarray, the fact we are still in the Middle East doing god knows what, major Natural Disasters happening everywhere, birds and fish mysteriously dying in groups. I am not an expert in anyway on the subject, but I do know that there is a lot going on in the world today. I am sure there are tons of blogs and newspaper/online news about the subject anyways if you care to look further into it. Although I did read a lot about the predictions of Edgar Cayce, if you get a chance, I would recommend looking up his predictions, very interesting stuff.

Anyways, I hope we (United States) decide to get out of all this mess in the Middle East, but more than likely won’t happen. Just want to show my support for our troops over there. Also want to support the Japanese too, I mean if you haven’t seen the videos of what happened there, it’s pretty bad, and the aftermath isn’t any better.

Thanks for Reading,

My Son’s 12 Already?

Posted on February 28, 2011

Riley has turned 12 this past weekend. Crazy to think about, 12 years later and it only seems like yesterday he was wearing stinky diapers and laughing at goofy faces and trying to explore anything and everything he could. For his Birthday, My mom and her husband came into town just for his Birthday, she doesn’t live in MN, so it was pretty huge for her to come since she never makes it up here in February. The festivities started with dinner and presents on Friday night, and then Cheapskate with his friends and family. I think he had a really good Birthday this year. He got a lot of presents, hang out with friends and family. Not much more you can ask for.

Remembering back to when he was a baby, it’s been a long journey so far with a lot of ups and downs, but nothing is ever smooth in life and you have to take things head on with no regrets. He lived with his mom for his first 10 years, but I always knew he should be with me, and after taking custody of my son 2 years ago, I realized how much I didn’t know about him, here he was, 10 years old and I felt we were total strangers. He even told me that although I have been in his life since day one, he never really thought of me as his dad, I was more the guy who picked him up once in a while bought him cool things. Obviously that hurt and I realized I really didn’t know a lot about him, a lot of things that I feel that I should have been more aware of, but I was blind to so many things due to lies and hiding truths. I noticed immediately his self-confidence was really low, which surprised me since he was always such a lively kid. He definitely had a lot of trust issues, growing up in a family where he felt like an outsider the whole time would be hard for anyone. He has confide in me a lot that I wasn’t aware of, the lies that were told and the mental beat down that he had endured at his old home was evident to me after having him full time in short period of time. He told me the lies that he was told about me, things that were not even close to true. It just really upsets me to think this is how he was viewing his own father based on lies. It’s really sad, but as I teach him every day, lies will always show up as lies no matter what.

I believe playing sports have had a huge impact on his self-confidence. As much as I tried to get him into sports while he was living with his mom, they never seem to want to bring the kids to anything. Taekwondo is where I believe is started, after he first moved in with me, he participated in a tournament in Wisconsin where he won his first tournament. That was huge. Then that same summer I signed him up for football, which was his first played team sport. Watching him progress was awesome to watch as a parent. Now he participates in Wrestling, Football, Baseball and Martial Arts. Try to keep him busy J

Anyways, seeing him on his Twelfth birthday was very enjoyable, how much more confident he is today is awesome to me, although he still has a long way to go, I believe he is making strides compared to where he was at 2 years ago and I am hoping for more positive things to come to him as he deserves it.

I am going to end this here. I just wanted to say that I am really happy that he is with me and Love the kid to death. Thanks for reading.

-JW

Random Thoughts of the day

Posted on February 17, 2011

Where to start and how to end? Does that make any sense? I am really not much of a fan of winter, growing up in MN you would think I would be used to it, but I honestly can’t stand it all. I can’t wait for the spring and summer months to come, I even enjoy Fall as the Fall season always feels like my calming period or something. Anyways, yeah, winter just plain sucks. I am not one to enjoy the cold weather; some people like to do things that are “wintery”, but not me. I am not a fan of Hockey, it’s boring and I really have no ambition to freeze my ass off on the ice, so I never got into it. Skiing, which was once fun as a child, I just don’t want to go out and do it. Cold is my enemy, my enemy is cold….. It makes me depressed and uneventful and the dreariness is blah to me. So enough about the cold, it sucks and it will dissipate soon enough.

Completely random here, but I can’t seem to stop having dreams about bugs. Yes, bugs! It’s gross and it’s keeping me from getting a good night sleep. It sucks because they just won’t leave me alone when I trying to sleep. Reason I believe is we recently got two Bearded Dragons, if you don’t know what they eat, you probably can guess by now, BUGS!! So now I have bugs in the house, Crickets and Dubia Roaches at the moment. It’s ridiculously gross, but it’s what they eat and yeah I have to deal with it. Honestly when they eat the bugs it doesn’t really gross me out, actually it’s rather entertaining watching them eat, but it’s just the idea of having them in the house freaks me out a little bit. But I need to stop thinking about them before I fall asleep or I am going to go nuts, not that I really sleep that well anyways.

Anyways, I think I will close this one on that thought

Thanks for reading,

Old Blogs

Posted on January 27, 2011

So I came across these old blog posts I did in 2005 in my Windows Live Space that i haven’t logged into for about 5-6 years but decided to check it out today. I thought it was funny to see them since i have totally forget about it along with some pictures in the album.

Anyways, just remember I was a little bit younger and never blogged before. Kinda of funny to me I guess to see how i was just a few years ago in my writing. I started to blog then and just stopped until I created this one. Let me know what you think in the comments section.

Thanks,
JW

June 16th, 2005

Fighting

I was at college the other day and I saw a fight in the cafeteria, over god knows what. It seemed pretty dumb to me, I don’t even know if I would call it a fight, they yelled at eachother and then one guy through a punch (which only hit air) and the other guy jumped on him and they wrestled on the ground. It looked ridiculous, I am a black belt in taekwondo, and have been in my share of dumb ‘street’ fights, which i think fighting is dumb in the first place, but I love to do taekwondo, and I feel that people like to fight because of unsurities within themselves, or insecurities. I don’t feel that I need to get in confrontation to feel better about myself. I may be wrong, maybe people like to fight just to fight, maybe people think they feel powerful by fighting, who knows. I think that people should only fight when it’s absolutely necessary, when it right, not wrong, and most people of a sense of what’s right and wrong, but it’s what they choose. Anyways just some food for thought.

Later

June 17th, 2005

Who Knows Exactly

Who knows what we are supposed to be, or what we are supposed to be doing. Alls I know is that we all are under the impression that we go to school, get a job, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. I don’t know if that’s right, and maybe that’s what we are suppose to do. It seems to me that only about 2% of the people that I have met through my life are actually truly happy in this scenario, maybe even less. Those aren’t very good odds for finding true happiness in one’s life, but is it because we have our lives are mapped out already by some sort of preconcieved notion that we should do these things to be happy. I don’t know. Maybe everyone needs to start taking things as they come, instead of wanting something so bad, they begin to force themselves into a situation that they won’t be happy in. I know everytime I wanted something so bad, that when I got it, It never lived up to what I hoped it would be. Have you ever felt that you needed things so badly that you feel empty without it; and if you got it, did it really truly fill the void?. Who knows, I’m just really bored at work and I am just writing whatever comes to mind.

Later

July 18th, 2005

Kinda boring weekend

It was kind of a boring weekend, it doesn’t ever feel long enough. I started my summer quarter back at school last week, it’s kind of rough during the summer, but’cha got to do what’cha got to do.

Anyways, We started Kumdo at Kim’s school on saturday; very interesting class, for those people who don’t what kumdo is, it’s a korean style of sword; translated into the way of the sword.

I would have to say that’s about it for now..

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August 30th, 2005

Long Summer

It’s been a long summer, Haven’t done anything fun what so ever this summer, just Work And School,
Haven’t gone to TKD that much either, kinda of a bummer. I’ve Had My son Riley for most of the summer also, which is great, but can be very tiring with all the other stuff I got going on.
Manakto Starts up again this week, Just another thing to add to my already busy and Hectic schedule, but I do enjoy teaching, especially since it’s a subject that I love doing.
Oh Well, only until July will I be down with school, then Hopefully next Summer will be more exiting, hopefully I’ll be in Korea next summer fot TKD training, that’s the plan as of right now anyways..

September 22nd, 2005

Finally

Finally, This quarter is done. Only one test and one project left and I get two weeks off, at least from school.

So what’s been going on, well same old **@# different day. Been busier than I have ever been lately and yet I feel like I haven’t done anything, oh well that’s how it goes sometimes. I think I’m going to do absolutely nothing this weekend exept watch Football and stare at the wall until I have to go back to work on Monday. That probalby won’t happen, but it would be nice. Anyways for those who care or matter, Later

October 6th, 2005

TKD

Well my break for school is almost over and I feel like I didn’t even have a break. Normally at night I would be at school, but since I didn’t, I did alot of TKD stuff. Last week I assisted Tom at Princeton, then the next night I went to Carlton College to Assist Aaron, and then worked out weds, then Friday I Taught at Manakto, and Saturday was Testing day, which everyone did very well. This week I took class on Monday, Conducted the Warm-ups on Tuesday at the Main School, then the family class on Wedsnday, also weds. I workout a new student before the first class. I’m suppose to go there tonite but I think I need a day off from there. And Tomorrow I go to Mankato to Teach, then we have a Black Belt Class tomorrow night followed by Make-Up tests.

Anyways, there’s the sum of my 2 week school break. I really didn;t do anything that I wanted to do, exept the TKD thing. Later

From Pitbulls to Dragons!

Posted on January 25, 2011

So I have had this itch lately to get another lizard. I was thinking about getting a Red Iguana, which i use to have green Iguanas when I was younger, so I really wanted to get another one. I decided to do some research and found that I wanted to do it right this time, building a huge enclosure habitat for one. Anyways, so we went to the PetStore by my place where they sell exotics and aquatics. They had no Iguanas at the time, which was fine since I wanted to build my enclosure anyways. While at the petstore, I came across the bearded dragon. Of course me being me, I had to have one, so the that week Cas and I started looking for bigger tanks to house one or two of these lil guys. luckily we came across a craigslist ad for a 100 gallon tank that came with everything we needed for a bearded dragon setup for only $90. It was a steal for what we got.

So we ended up getting two total. I was so excited. Originally we decided on beardeds because we found that we could feed them non live diets, we really didn’t want bugs in the house. The first one we got didnt really seem like he liked the dead crickets, so we gave in and purchased live crickets and worms. YUM YUM. haha, it’s gross but fine to watch them eat. They eat Veges too!

We named them Kimchi and Soju.

Kimchi is the smaller darker one(Red Bearded Dragon). Soju is bigger and more Yellow(Citris Tigers Bearded Dragon).

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