Hey, this is my blog, check it out peeps!!! It will have some information on my life at Dordt but will mostly have music artist and album reviews along with sports reviews!!! I know, sounds pretty awesome right!?!?
http://bensytsma.blogspot.com/
Ben
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Well...
It's a secret to everyone that this blog has been neglected. Ben and I just really could not get excited about writing what we did everyday on this thing. So I regret to inform everyone that this is going to be the last post on this blog.
There is good news however! Ben and I are ending this blog, but we are not ending blogging. I always enjoyed writing reviews on this blog, so I'm doing a separate blog that you can read more about here:
http://kylesreviewblog.blogspot.com/
Ben's blog I can't speak for, but I will let him do a post on here to let you all know about it. Which I guess means I lied about this being the last post. Whatever.
Well, it's been real and it's been fun, but has it been real fun?
There is good news however! Ben and I are ending this blog, but we are not ending blogging. I always enjoyed writing reviews on this blog, so I'm doing a separate blog that you can read more about here:
http://kylesreviewblog.blogspot.com/
Ben's blog I can't speak for, but I will let him do a post on here to let you all know about it. Which I guess means I lied about this being the last post. Whatever.
Well, it's been real and it's been fun, but has it been real fun?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Lions Preview
Here is a very simple preview for the Lions upcoming season
Tampa Bay- Win, I like the lions in this matchup with the bucs having some key injuries and the lions being relatively healthy and coming off of a great preseason. (1-0)
Kansas City-Win. I see the D-Line absolutely destroying Cassel in the backfield here. The chiefs simply don't have enough offense to put up 28 points, which the lions should be able to score consistently this year. (2-0)
Minnesota- A mental lapse with the presence of Adrian Peterson brings us to a loss. McNabb gets good looks at secondary because of our concern with Peterson. (2-1)
Dallas-Win, personally, I don't think that Dallas is very good, the only key is to get pressure on Romo (3-1)
Chicago-Loss, our offense struggles to run the ball which results in too much pressure on Stafford. (3-2)
San Fransisco-Win, simple, they have no offense. (4-2)
Atlanta-Loss, simply lose to a better opponent (4-3)
Denver and Chicago-Wins, due to significant pressure on the QB's, rebound win against the Bears. (6-3)
Carolina-Win, they have no offense to compete with the players on our d-line and offense. (7-3)
Two losses follow to New Orleans and Green Bay, very tough and important games for us, if we get one of these it would be huge for making the playoffs! (7-5)
Two wins against Minnesota and Oakland, two simply mediocre teams (9-5)
Two losses at San Diego and Packers (9-7). If we want to make the playoffs we have to beat the packers at least once, and sweep the vikings and/or the bears. I think we will end the season at a 9-7 record and just miss the playoffs, but much improvement on the previous years!
Tampa Bay- Win, I like the lions in this matchup with the bucs having some key injuries and the lions being relatively healthy and coming off of a great preseason. (1-0)
Kansas City-Win. I see the D-Line absolutely destroying Cassel in the backfield here. The chiefs simply don't have enough offense to put up 28 points, which the lions should be able to score consistently this year. (2-0)
Minnesota- A mental lapse with the presence of Adrian Peterson brings us to a loss. McNabb gets good looks at secondary because of our concern with Peterson. (2-1)
Dallas-Win, personally, I don't think that Dallas is very good, the only key is to get pressure on Romo (3-1)
Chicago-Loss, our offense struggles to run the ball which results in too much pressure on Stafford. (3-2)
San Fransisco-Win, simple, they have no offense. (4-2)
Atlanta-Loss, simply lose to a better opponent (4-3)
Denver and Chicago-Wins, due to significant pressure on the QB's, rebound win against the Bears. (6-3)
Carolina-Win, they have no offense to compete with the players on our d-line and offense. (7-3)
Two losses follow to New Orleans and Green Bay, very tough and important games for us, if we get one of these it would be huge for making the playoffs! (7-5)
Two wins against Minnesota and Oakland, two simply mediocre teams (9-5)
Two losses at San Diego and Packers (9-7). If we want to make the playoffs we have to beat the packers at least once, and sweep the vikings and/or the bears. I think we will end the season at a 9-7 record and just miss the playoffs, but much improvement on the previous years!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
A New Beginning!
Hi all! This is Ben!!! It has been an incredibly long time...sorry!
First announcement! School is going good, kyle and I are both pretty busy with homework, but we manage and have had some pretty sweet hang out time with friends already. On our first weekend we did so much I can't even remember it all. Friday we started out just kinda hanging out and we ended up going to the tree house at night after a doughnut run and we jammed up there with our friends for a good 2-3 hours...it was a blast.
Saturday morning all of our guy friends made breakfast in the kitchens for the girls. It was a blast, we were rocking out to awesome music the whole time once again!
Basketball....eh, not fun right now, lots of conditioning.
Basically, right now we are back in the swing of things at school, and just having fun hanging out with our friends from Dordt again!
the Swing thing
Oh, and I made GIFT! Which is our Sunday night service on campus, I am extremely stoked, I wasn't expecting that at all! God is Good! All the TIME!!!
Well have a good week!
Ben
First announcement! School is going good, kyle and I are both pretty busy with homework, but we manage and have had some pretty sweet hang out time with friends already. On our first weekend we did so much I can't even remember it all. Friday we started out just kinda hanging out and we ended up going to the tree house at night after a doughnut run and we jammed up there with our friends for a good 2-3 hours...it was a blast.
Saturday morning all of our guy friends made breakfast in the kitchens for the girls. It was a blast, we were rocking out to awesome music the whole time once again!
Basketball....eh, not fun right now, lots of conditioning.
Basically, right now we are back in the swing of things at school, and just having fun hanging out with our friends from Dordt again!
Oh, and I made GIFT! Which is our Sunday night service on campus, I am extremely stoked, I wasn't expecting that at all! God is Good! All the TIME!!!
Well have a good week!
Ben
Monday, May 23, 2011
TV to See: Chuck - "Chuck Vs. The Cliffhanger"
Watch this. It's got everything you could want: action, drama, romance, humor, and of course a cliffhanger.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
TV to See: Community - "Paradigms of Human Memory"
Now I (Kyle) know what you're thinking. First of all, there hasn't been a blog in a while. My bad. Secondly, when there finally is a blog, I'm apparently just blogging about the same thing that Ben did. Now let me set the record straight. If Ben hadn't blogged about Community, I still would have done this blog. This is completely independent of his. I'm focusing on a specific episode, because when I see a really good episode of television, I want to blog about it. That's just the way I am.
So, thanks to Ben, I don't really need to explain this show. He already did that. Personally, I think Community is the funniest show on television right now (that I know of) and they are at the top of their game creatively. The show has become extremely good at doing parodies focusing on genres of movies and TV, while still maintaining character development and hilarious jokes, and this episode is no different.
For this episode, Community tackled what is an old sitcom standby: the clip show. Whenever a sitcom has built up quite a bit of material, sometimes the writers will just take a break for an episode and make a clip show: an episode which features various clips from previous episodes. That way the writers don't really need to come up with new material. Unfortunately, an example of this would be The Office, which resorted to a clip show last season. Shows will usually do this when they are a bit later in their lifespan, but Community is only in it's second season. And one other thing: all of the clips from the clip show in this episode were completely new, but played off like it was things we had seen before.
The episode showed us "flashbacks" of the group in ridiculous situations, like a western ghost town, a mental asylum, and various other locales. There were even scenes from previous episodes, but from the perspectives of others that we didn't see before. It also included jokes making fun of Glee, the NBC show The Cape, and jokes about people who make "fan videos" about the show on Youtube. But the best part of the episode is that it wasn't only hilarious, but it tied everything together and had some great character development as well. We got to see back stories for characters that will probably have implications for future episodes.
Overall, I can't recommend this show enough. What makes it so great is how self-aware it is. If there is something that you could criticize about the show, then the first people to criticize it will be the show itself. It's smartly written, and always hilarious, and sometimes just plain awesome. If Ben's endorsment wasn't enough, hopefully this will convince you to check it out for yourself.
So, thanks to Ben, I don't really need to explain this show. He already did that. Personally, I think Community is the funniest show on television right now (that I know of) and they are at the top of their game creatively. The show has become extremely good at doing parodies focusing on genres of movies and TV, while still maintaining character development and hilarious jokes, and this episode is no different.
For this episode, Community tackled what is an old sitcom standby: the clip show. Whenever a sitcom has built up quite a bit of material, sometimes the writers will just take a break for an episode and make a clip show: an episode which features various clips from previous episodes. That way the writers don't really need to come up with new material. Unfortunately, an example of this would be The Office, which resorted to a clip show last season. Shows will usually do this when they are a bit later in their lifespan, but Community is only in it's second season. And one other thing: all of the clips from the clip show in this episode were completely new, but played off like it was things we had seen before.
The episode showed us "flashbacks" of the group in ridiculous situations, like a western ghost town, a mental asylum, and various other locales. There were even scenes from previous episodes, but from the perspectives of others that we didn't see before. It also included jokes making fun of Glee, the NBC show The Cape, and jokes about people who make "fan videos" about the show on Youtube. But the best part of the episode is that it wasn't only hilarious, but it tied everything together and had some great character development as well. We got to see back stories for characters that will probably have implications for future episodes.
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| One of the many supposed "flashbacks". |
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Community
Hola, it's BEN!
So, first off, Im going to tell you all about my day...it was really busy and really awesome. I am going to describe it using 5 words/phrases.
Class
Chapel
Ultimate Frisbee Win
Praise Team Practice
Watching Community
What I want to focus the blog on is the watching Community! Over the last couple months I have been watching this show and it has honestly become my favorite show. The characters are really funny and the plot of the episodes are always superb! The show is about a layer, Jeff, who recently lost his job because he was caught having no degree in law. He, Jeff, is now attended Greendale College, a community college and becomes friends with a group of friends referred to as the study group. All of the episodes focus around the members of the study group--which is very diverse and makes the show really funny. They have every type of person in this group both racially and characteristically--which makes the show that much more humerus. While watching the show I make the connection that the sense of humor is very similar to our groups sense of humor. Many of the jokes they use in this show I could see us using in a movie that we make as friends--which is why the show is so enjoyable for me. If you have never seen this show...I strongly recommend it, it is glorious in every aspect!
Here's a link to a funny clip from one of the episodes...
tootles,
Ben
So, first off, Im going to tell you all about my day...it was really busy and really awesome. I am going to describe it using 5 words/phrases.
Class
Chapel
Ultimate Frisbee Win
Praise Team Practice
Watching Community
What I want to focus the blog on is the watching Community! Over the last couple months I have been watching this show and it has honestly become my favorite show. The characters are really funny and the plot of the episodes are always superb! The show is about a layer, Jeff, who recently lost his job because he was caught having no degree in law. He, Jeff, is now attended Greendale College, a community college and becomes friends with a group of friends referred to as the study group. All of the episodes focus around the members of the study group--which is very diverse and makes the show really funny. They have every type of person in this group both racially and characteristically--which makes the show that much more humerus. While watching the show I make the connection that the sense of humor is very similar to our groups sense of humor. Many of the jokes they use in this show I could see us using in a movie that we make as friends--which is why the show is so enjoyable for me. If you have never seen this show...I strongly recommend it, it is glorious in every aspect!
Here's a link to a funny clip from one of the episodes...
tootles,
Ben
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