About a Dream I Had

I had a dream the other night. I was in an arena. It was an extremely large area with trees and people and a river that went all around it. Though I never saw it, I knew there was a edge to this world. I'd liken it to a real life non-violent Runescape. Anyway, I don't remember much except that I lost my phone in the river and I went looking for it. When I found it I jumped into the water to grab it. The river was wide and deep. The current was swift and powerful. As I fished around for my phone, I happened to grab two phones; one mine the other was an older flip phone. When I had them I noticed that above me was what looked like a Bridge that had been put up to to let a ship through. It was ether that or a crane. It was massive.


I then noticed that I was coming to a waterfall. Steadily, the river narrowed and shallowed. By the time I got to the edge I was able to stand and reach the bank of each side with my arms. Along with the current, uneven stones under my feet made it very difficult to stop. I don't believe I ever truly stopped, but at one point I was almost completely motionless. As I reached to brink of the fall, I was able to look over the rushing water to see the bottom of the drop. Giant boulders lay in strangely shallow water. They had to have been four feet tall by six feet in diameter; some piled on others, some laying solo, all jagged and uninviting.

I fought and fought to keep myself alive. The water rushed between my legs and buckled my knees. Then, in a moment of irregularly clear thought, I decided I wouldn't be able to get out. I let go of the banks and let the water take me. Normally, at this point I would fall into darkness and wake up suddenly, but this time was different. The fall was far, so I had about three seconds to think about what a stupid idea that was. I was closing in fast and my eyes latched onto the rock that I was heading strait for. I knew if I hit it I'd die. In the short moment it took me to fall to the bottom I has the most wonderful sensation. It was a steady crescendo of absoluteness. It was like 100% of my brain was concentrating on the self. I was so fully aware of me that it was like I separated from the world I was in. It felt like a beam of light was welling up in my chest. I accepted my fate. It was a long three seconds.

The closer I got, the more I realized I was falling to the left of the big rock. I landed in the water a yard away from death. The water was ridiculously shallow. I should have died anyway, but I was able to stand and survey the scene. I was in a circular pool, not feeding anywhere and not getting deeper. It had to have been at least twenty feet in diameter. The water at the bottom of the fall was still. It had a glassy sheen and looked like the cleanest spring water I'd ever seen. I left the pool, and looked around the huge playing field. It was grassy with a few people and trees in the distance. I was alone and it was silent.


I then became conscious and my dream was no longer under subconscious control. It was pretty cool.


Dream on,
Dan Hatton

About South Park

Chef is Isaac Hayes!?

About Yahoo News Articles

The titles of the News articles on Yahoo's main page are beginning to sound a lot like the adds you see on the sides of the screen. I'm begging to loose faith in them. Which sucks because I once thought of them as the only place I could go where Truth was mass-produced. Now it seems like, in their shinning moment, they are being pulled down into the depths of hell by their own will. What is it? What could it be that is so suductive... so gripping... that it could pull a queen like Yahoo News from her glory? Will we ever know?I don't think so. But if I disappear after this note is released, at least we'll know we've struck a nerve.

Love and all glorious John Malkovich,
Dan Hatton

About ADHD

I recently entered in some raffle/survey for people with ADHD. Except that it wasn't really a raffle... or Survey. They called it a Screening Test. Anyway they ask us to write a bit about how we live with ADHD And I wrote this...

I've had ADHD all my life. I don't remember a day I haven't fought it. It was worst when I was in grade school because not only was I dealing with pressures from school and ADHD itself, but medication at the time was causing me intense physical and psychological pain. I remember switching to a new drug every other prescription. Some made me dizzy others burned in my stomach and throat. I recently heard that at least one of the drugs I used to use was made illegal. By the time I was in 6th grade, I had had enough. I decided to drop the drugs all together.
There is something you have to understand about me. As far as I was concerned, ADHD was just an excuse to do whatever you wanted. I remember teacher giving me the benefit of the doubt just because of ADHD. That made me mad because I didn't want to be treated differently and I didn't want people thinking I had a handicap. After all, always having something to say is not a mental disorder.
To be honest, I haven't thought about ADHD for a while. Because of my grudge with it, I tried to forget I ever had it. In class I would get in trouble for being a clown, not paying attention, etc. Despite this, I hid my ADHD from the teachers. I just didn't want teachers or anyone else treating me differently.
It's hard to say where I stand now. I'd like to say it's bogus and that I'm just a hyper kid, but that's not true. I still have a hard time sitting down or keeping my mouth shut or smiling at funerals, but I also use it as a creative outlet. I can make a story out of anything.

So, What do you think about ADHD? Legit or excuse?


Think about it,
Dan Hatton

About Police

You know there is this strange think called Common sense. It tells us that if we don't want to go to Jail or get hit with tear gas, then don't go to a protest. Whether you broke the law or not, you've got to be willing to spend some time in jail or get pepper sprayed. You're fooling yourself to think it won't happen.

I'm not alone when I say I'm sick of these protesters. Why would they get mad at cops? At lease they have a job. At least they took a shower today. I mean they're just doing what they were told. Getting mad at a cop because he's working the protest is like getting mad a Walgreens Clerk because they sell Cigarettes. I'm not pretending like all Policemen are angles, but at one point in there life they all made a commitment to serve and protect. I believe there are still a lot of them out there who want to do that.

About Star Wars Episode Six

Spoiler Alert:

If you haven't seen this movie, don't read this, ya Dingus!

Also, if you haven't seen this movie, Get on that.

This movie is easily my favorite Star Wars movie (tied with the other two) which is why I was so surprised by how many things I noticed that I didn't like. I almost stopped for fear of what I might find, but for the sake of my huge Fan base, I continued. This is, after all, the final Star Wars film. It would be too ironic not to finnish. As for my problems, I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in:

1. Probably the most annoying thing about this movie is that I don't have any clue what the time span is between this and the previous film. It can't be that long, because Chewbacca and Lando are on Tattoine the whole time. Apparently Luke has time to get a lot better, but not enough time to go back to visit Yoda. They obviously didn't have a lot of time to plan out the escape, but that's next. Luke tells Yoda that he has improved greatly, so he must have had a little while to train on his own (not that he's shown any improvement).

2. The plan to rescue Han must have taken about one minute to come up with.

"Here's what we're gonna do. We'll slowly infiltrate Jabba's palace one by one then, Luke, you come in last and shoot Jabba... That aught'a work. Any suggestions?"

"Yeah, let's have Leia bring Chewy in as a bounty hunter. That way He can be in the jail cell when we're all making our escape."

"It's a Trap!"

3. R2-D2 sounds different in this movie. He seems to be louder and more animated. It's like they updated his speech capacity with the hyper-child mod.

4. Luke... is so stupid at the beginning of this movie. He thinks that he's got these super awesome powers, but it's obvious that he's got some work to do. It's funny how he struts into Jabba's Palace even though he's probably not a whole lot better than he was at the end of "Empire." So this whole rescue mission is in the midst of Luke's experimental phase. He's like a kid who just learned a new word. He's so exited to show off only to realize that everybody already knows that word. All of this is the most evident when Luke visits Yoda. Even though he tells Jabba that he's a full fledged Jedi, when he talks to Yoda it's apparent that he's not at all certain.

5. I've made this visual to aid your understanding of my stance...

6. Now that we're on the same page, there is this edit that doesn't look good to me, but I won't bore you with that... It happens at 24:58.

7. Jabba's Palace setup is an oxymoron. He's got this primitive civilization thing going on, but he also has electric lights, automatic doors, and those flashing, beeping buttons with no use. 

8. The last encounter that Han has with Lando was not so nice. Why is he so willing to save Lando's life from the Sarlacc?

9. How convenient is it that the breaker box for the whole ship is right by Jabba for Leia to smash.

10. When Luke learns about his sister, he takes it pretty well. But in the last second before the cut to a different scene Luke's face makes a very subtle transition from, "Ok, Leia is my sister." to "Wait, I kissed her!"

11. Durring the Ewok scene, there is a whole group of Rebel troops hiding in the woods waiting for Han and Luke to find Leia. I wonder what they were thinking.

12. I just think it's great that the Ewok are willing to help the rebellion. Think about it. The Empire has never done any substantial harm to them and if they continued to rule, the Ewok probably wouldn't every see The Empire when they finished the Death Star. They help because it's the right thing to do, not because they  are in danger or stand to make a profit.

13. Yet another great comparison between The Force and religion. The Sith believe in Destiny and the Jedi believe in Free Will. In the same way, Christians disagree about Predestination and Free Will.

14. How could Luke possibly be surprised the trap? He's obviously proof that the rebel alliance is on the offensive. He even says, "I shouldn't have come. I'm endangering the mission." 

LUKE! You're slippin' up!

15. I swear to God! These God forsaken Stormtroopers are the worst solders...

OF ALL TIME!

I mean I've always known they were bad, but really? When a couple of Ewok can beat you to death with some twigs, you got a problem. I mean, how do you NOT SHOOT Han and Leia when they're totally cornered? I swear their bones are made of tissue paper. It's weird because their pilots are ridiculously good.

That's as much as I can say against this movie without throwing up. So now it's you're turn. Can you bare to mention something else wrong with this movie, or can you ease the pain with something good?

OR

Can you eat a whole bag of Doritos and honestly tell me that you're content with your lifestyle?

I don't think you can,

Dan Hatton

About MIB III

So there is this Facebook page called The Men in Black Suites are Real. Apparently what they are trying to say by this title is that "The Men in Black Suits" are real. As in the Men themselves are real. But, what I thought they meant was that the "Men in Black" suits are real. As in the suits worn by the Men in Black are real. So, I clicked on it because I was thinking for some stupid reason that the aliens in the new MIB movie would be actual people in costumes instead of digitally animated aliens. I was exited to see if they could pull it off and I would have been really exited if they did. But, they didn't. Apparently, they just wanted to confirm for us what we already know: Will Smith and T. Lee Jones are real.


Bummer.