Category: random

  • Las Vegas Shooting: Jonathan Smith

    From my notes: “President Trump and the first lady will visit a hospital in Las Vegas to meet with shooting survivors, first responders and other medical professionals.”

    Jonathan Smith saved at least 30 people before being shot in the neck during the Las Vegas mass-shooting. He had driven to Las Vegas from Orange County, California to celebrate the his brother’s birthday.

    “Active shooter, active shooter, let’s go! We have to run.” Smith then destroyed a locked security gate and “formed a human chain” in order to lead the group to safety.

    “[Then] I ran back towards the shooting. You could hear the shots. It sounded like it was coming from all over Las Vegas Boulevard. I got a few people out of there.”

    About getting shot: “I couldn’t feel anything in my neck. There was a warm sensation in my arm. I really didn’t want to die.”

    Smith believes an off-duty San Diego police officer saved his life. The officer came over and stopped the bleeding and then flagged down a passing pickup truck stopped where he was placed along with several other wounded victims.

    “I don’t deem myself as a hero. I would want someone to do the same for me. No one deserves to lose a life coming to a country festival. I just deem myself as someone that was doing the right thing.”

  • 1492

    Chris discovers ‘Merica?
    ‘Indigenous’ indignant?
    He found only the West Indies.

  • Off Key

    Taylor tweets polity,
    Hashtagged: ‘shut up and sing.’
    This round goes to Kanye!

  • Las Vegas Shooting: Mikkena Parry

    From my notes: “VP Mike Pence donated blood ‘to raise awareness for those in need in Las Vegas.’ Pence says it was “inspiring to see others donating blood in Arizona to help those hurt” in the shooting.”

    Las Vegan Mikkena Parry is recovering from a gunshot to the left arm that had traveled to her abdomen. She says complete strangers put her in the back of a pickup truck so she could be taken to the hospital.

    “I remember my boyfriend going in to get somebody. [The driver] only had a two-seater truck so I was laying in the bed with his girlfriend and my boyfriend.”

    She adds that she still couldn’t shake the memories from that night, “I don’t know, like, it still kind of hasn’t fully hit me.”

  • Black Hole

    Dad of the year, I ain’t.
    Hard when your kid goes away,
    So lets wish upon a star.

  • Las Vegas: Sheldon Mack

    From my notes:  “The Las Vegas shooter didn’t commit suicide as being reported. He was killed by officer’s who breached his room using explosives. They also found Antifa literature in that room.”

    Sheldon Mack, of Victoria, British Columbia, says the mass-shooting in Las Vegas continues to play “like a bad nightmare” he can’t wake up from. He was there, celebrating his birthday.

    “It just kind of all happened so fast. It seems surreal. But, I just keep seeing it in my mind still and it just haunts me. I saw a girl like two rows ahead of me and she got hit in the neck and then went down. I had my buddy get hit in the backside.

    “We were just kind of looking for shelter and safety and then I saw a girl got hit in her leg so I helped her back up and then as I was kind of guiding her, I got hit in my elbow and midsection. I was kind of bleeding pretty good.

    [A stranger, who] wouldn’t leave my side, saved my life. I really appreciate all he’s done for me. I think he got shot in the leg as well but he was so occupied with helping me out and helping others that he put it aside.”

  • Upon Confirmation

    Steak and potatoes,
    It is what is for dinner.
    So Snowflake, hold my beer.

  • Rain in Desert

    Soaked through to the skin,
    Standing in a night time rain.
    Smell the high desert bloom.

  • Las Vegas Shooting: Paige Melanson and Don Matthews

    From my notes: “LVMPD officers ordered to shut off body cam’s while reponding to shooting.”

    Miss Las Vegas 2016 got the chance to thank the retired firefighter who saved her, her mother, her sister and two girlfriends during the Las Vegas shooting Sunday night. She also describes how everthing unfolded for her.

    “My mother is alive because of you,” Paige Melanson, who was Miss Las Vegas 2016, said to retired Los Angeles firefighter, Don Matthews as she explained what happened.

    “I don’t know if I was pushed to the floor or everybody just started falling over, but everybody got down and I was facing away from my mom. So by the time I turned around to gather and see who was around me, I had realized my mom wasn’t just laying there like we were.

    She was still and her face was face down in the grass, and so we had known something was wrong. [Matthews] told us that we have to go if we wanted to live, that we needed to go and save ourselves.

    And the fact that he was a retired firefighter, he was trained to help people, and he promised us that if we left that he would stay with my mom. I looked into his eyes and he said, ‘You need to go.’

    [After getting to safety,] “I saw that I was covered in blood. So my first reaction was, ‘Where’s it coming from?’ And I looked over and I saw the flap over my skin and I kind of had just exploded.

    There was blood all over my legs, dripping all the way down my arms that was everywhere, and I didn’t care because the second I saw my mom…I didn’t feel my arm at all.

    [Matthews] put his own life at risk. He didn’t have to this.”

  • Vowels

    Wrote all night in sleep
    I had no vowels to use
    Words with friends nightmare.