Avenge to the End

Hello all,

Tonight is obviously the last knight shift post ever. Tears will be shed, hopeless sobs will be shared, but most of all hugs and kisses will be dished out.

But first, I want to talk about The Avengers. I got to watch this movie this afternoon, and for a rainy day in Chicago that's kind of perfect. Let me first say this movie was fucking awesome, I'm dropping the F-Bomb because it was so cool that it was vulgar.

I've been calling it an appetizer to the Dark Knight Rises, but truth is that movie is a 7-course meal, and I am full if you catch my drift. That movie oozed insane SFX, epic battle scenes, hot ladies, hilarious one-liners, and above all some good "old-fashion" ass-kicking, with a sprinkle of an overwhelming amount of inspiration. Let's not forget to mention the amount of Cleveland in that movie, there was a lot.

Mark Ruffalo as the Bruce Banner, was essential, perfect casting after the whole Ed Norton debacle (who I also like very much). RDJ always gets it, and in this movie he kills it, which is not different from any other movie he is in. Tom Hiddleston freaks me out, well played sir. Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans are the roles they play. Samuel L. no one comes better.

That all-star cast all tied together by the very talented Joss Whedon, there is no chance that movie was a flop. It was epic, and the Dark Knight Rises will be just as good if not better. Therefore making this summer the greatest movie block-buster summer in the past 92 years (There is little to no evidence supporting that claim, so please don't look that up).

Still the Avengers brought in over 200 million this weekend which shatters Harry Potter's record. These guys come together to fight a evil that threatens the planet Earth. They inspire others to help, and stand up to those who vow to do evil. That is something that I want everyone to know, if there's one message I can get through to people, and if you never take anything else away from this blog or me, please let it be this.

I've spoken before about how I want people to be Batman and Superheroes, but all I really want is people to be good. Just stop being such cynical assholes, and stop being so god damn mean to one another. In the words of Frank from God Bless America "Why have civilization anymore if we no longer are interested in being civilized?"

We created superheros for a reason, because we wanted to believe that there could be someone out there who was better than all of us. Fuck religion, put that aside for right now. We wanted someone like us, someone we could relate to. Unfortunately, that gave us an excuse for being shitty, if someone else was great to pick up the scraps and do what was right we didn't have to. We've been shitty for far too long, and we need to stop, because that's why so many people get killed. Too many of us are being shitty, and you want to know how shitty we are.

We all think if a zombie apocalypse comes, we're gonna be the exception that fights off zombies. Probably not, I'll probably be a zombie first day. I'll just get too tired of zombie and let one of those bastards bite me. We're not that special, but it's alright. As long as we strive to be special I think we got something going for us, just don't stop trying because then we get people like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and that crazy leathered woman who took her kid to the tanning booth. If I try for the rest of my life, I'm okay with that. Be better than the people we think we can be. Be better than the people we already know we are.

I'm going to leave you with this clip from God Bless America, and if you don't want to see it after this that's fine, but take something from it.



I don't know what I will do with my life now, but I know I don't want to be shitty anymore. I think in cliches all the time, I just try and verbalize them in a more realistic way. I probably don't succeed, but as long as the point gets across I'm okay with it. 

I appreciate all of you that read this, and I hope in so many ways that I somehow made a moment in any of your lives better. If I haven't then I'm sorry for wasting your time, but I appreciate you sticking in there til the end.

Thank you,
and
For one last time...

Night, Nite, Knight
Jarrad A. Quadir