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Heyy sam lovers! I have a new blog site set to begin at 8 PM eastern time! I’m so fantasticly excited about this! it will be http://www.samrenatolliofficial.wordpress.com ! I’ve seen some really uplifting success on aeropostale8 so i decided to start a new one. of course my own jen work is going to remain on aeropostale8 so check back here too! I’m sooo excited and I hope to see all of my readers there!

Hazzah for samrenatollioffical! from the Loser Table,

Sam Renatolli

Today I walked 6 or 7 miles. In the rain. A tempermental loner loser girl who I’m pretty sure is approaching PMS walked 6 or 7 miles in the rain and a car drove through a puddle which covered her and her jeans. Wet jeans make me very uncomfortable. Now picture me (as best you can) wet, mad, and waving my fist in the air like some old guy with kids playing ball on his lawn, yelling “You bastard!” Yeah, today wasn’t really my best day. In fact, I’ve had better ones. What it is with that? Those “Quotes and Sayings” pictures on photobucket tell us to live life to the fullest and drink up the happiness and all that jazz, so why do we end up with days like this? Horrible, suckish days that you wish you could start over from 9 o’clock the night before by not setting your alarm and in the morning, pretending to be sleeping through her shaking and hollaring but…  if i did that she might think i’m dead which would present a whole other problem. if we’re supposed to live life to the fullest if we’re stuck with days like these? so to mock those poor, misguided morons, i wrote this in study hall. it’s supposed to tell you to live your life well even though you’ll get screwed one way or another:

Life is just like a car ride. Read the one-way sign and just enjoy the ride. Drink up the happiness earlier on the ride with someone else driving because you really shouldn’t drink and drive. Don’t stop for gas because it’s really over-priced these days but if it’s a good price, still don’t stop because someone might be smoking and they could set the whole gas station on fire and you’d die. Let the wind run through your hair because you know it feels good, don’t try to put the hood up even if it rains ’cause there might be a drought coming soon. Let the dog sit next to you in the car because your friend should really share the fun too. So drink up, get in the car, read every sign, and don’t let anything stop you because it’s a one way road and a dead end just formed behind you so there’s really no turning back. Have absolutely no regrets

ain’t that happy and uplifting? well, i try.

love and bitterness from the loser table,

sam renatolli. 

Know what really sucks about me? A teacher could be giving a really facinating lecture about anything and I’d be completely spaced. Damn, I’m sure I’ll fail that quiz next period. Why do they even give us quizzes? Practice for tests? Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that what the homework does? Prepare us? And why do we have homework anyway? What makes them soooo sure that we’ll forget everything that we ever learned that day so they have to stuff 5 freakin’ pounds into our backpacks and send us home to slave upon algebra problems and the 30 capitols of Japan? Then a teacher would say my name to answer a question, I’d pretend to be pondering about it and they’d go to a new person. Case closed. It’s probably why I flunked science last quarter. Or cause I always forgot to bring in my lab projects. Yeah.. I’m betting it was the labs. And how do teachers grade our effort? How the hell do they know how hard we work to maintain atleast a C+ average? They don’t. All the teachers claim they just know. Oh, sorry jedi, didn’t get the memo. They know?! Are they serious?!?! I spent hours working on a science lab back in second quarter and I got a 75. It was hours of slaving over this God-for-saken 11 by 8 paper with glue and pens and little teeny pieces of paper to seperate the stages of classification and i get a 75? It’s absolutly ridiculous. In have no idea what keeps me from killing the entire town but something does, my lucky, lucky town.

There are so many steriotype girls in my school. It’s insane. Like, they all look the same. I get accusations of being on but no. I’ve always like Aeropostale, I thiink that Hollister and Abercrombie are filled with overly priced crap.  My hair has been growing the way it is now for the entire summer. People think I changed it on the first day when I read about it in Seventeen. Uh… guess again. The only time I read Seventeen is at the airport when there are no good books at the store there. Which is a rare occurance, there’s almost always something there. And my jeans. Apparently I started wearing jeans when everyone else did. No, no, no, no, under any cicumstances it that ever remotly true. Ask any one of the girls I hang out with. I’ve been wearing jeans since the second grade, I hardly wore anything else. My mother stopped bothering to buy me cords or dressy pants because she knew that they’d end up in the back of my closet. So I’m just letting all the Barbie dolls of my school know that I will never, ever waste my time to look like them. I am not one of the many.

Laters from the Loser Table!

Sam Renatolli.

Scott Patterson as Luke Danes is our Character of the Week. He is best known in the popular comedy-drama Gilmore Girls. The owner of a diner and a man in love with a main character (Lorelai Gilmore), Luke quickly made it to our hearts. His wardrobe manly consists of jeans and flannel shirts, not to mention the blue cap that Lorelai gave him for Christmas. (not shown in picture) He almost married Lorelai but they broke up because of an affair with Rory Gilmore’s father, Christopher Hayden. (GO FALL IN A HOLE CHRIS!!)  Luke is the man we all knew Lorelai would end up with and is the man we all cheered for and cried with… even if Luke was too man to cry out loud.

Profiles – Luke Danes

Luke. We all love him ever since the first time we met him in the pilot. As a child Luke was like any other boy. Loved sports, especially baseball. We have also learned, by way of Lorelai, that he was a “trekky” for a while. He grew up in Stars Hollow with his mother, father, and sister Liz. His mother died while he and Liz were both in high school. Luke never went to college. He helped his father with his hardware store and, when his father died, decided to turn it into the now famous “Luke’s Diner”, and, as a tribute to his father left the Williams Hardware sign up. He is in his thirty’s and is known as a loner by the town. The first time we see Luke and Lorelai together is in the pilot. You can almost see that he likes her. In the first season, we see his likeness for her grow. When she offers to paint the diner for him they share a moment behind the counter looking at the first order Luke’s father ever took at his store “3 hammers, Phillips-head screwdrivers, and 3 boxes of nails in assorted sizes.” They never painted that spot.Luke had a serious girlfriend, not Lorelai (not yet anyhow). Her name was Rachel. She was a photographer. He said she loved to be moving, didn’t like to settle. How Luke ended up with her we will never know. They had broken up when she left him. She really hurt the poor guy. He did nothing to deserve it. One day she returned. It was only for a short time, but in that short time you could see how much he had loved her. That’s right, had. In their second “go around” he doesn’t seemed that interested in her. Rachel notices this as well. When Luke comes back from a town meeting Rachel tells him she’s leaving. He seems confused and asks why. Rachel tells him what she thinks about him and Lorelai. Luke tells her that they are just friends and how he has said that many times before. But, no, he only said it once and even then could barely say it.

Then comes Max. Max poses a major threat to Luke. He can see the way they interact and how happy he seems to make her. Then Lorelai and Max get engaged. This looked like it spelled the end for Luke and Lorelai. But Luke, suffering in silence, handles this obstacle well after a while. He builds her a Chuppah. For all of you who do not know what a Chuppah symbolizes or is, it is an archway that yes is handmade, must be hand made actually, according to my grandmother. Anyway, it is typically gold and is believed to bring the bride and the groom who are married under it good fortune. Ok there is your Judaism lesson for the day folks. Then, Lorelai discovers that she is not in love with Max and bolts. When Luke hears of this he does feel bad for her. And then he celebrates in his own way, giving free coffee to customers and a free plate to Kirk. Sookie was in the diner that day, she laughed because she knows that Luke is going to move in on Lorelai. He tries. This poor guy cannot seem to get the girl he wants.

Then comes Nicole. She’s a lawyer, again, does not seem like his type. This actually lasts as long maybe even longer than Rachel. After Rory’s graduation, I will get to his fatherly-ness if you may in a little while, he plans to go on a cruise with her. He then has a dream about Lorelai telling him not to get engaged. Well guess what he does, he gets engaged. But wait there’s more, he got married, but wait there’s even more- no he did not reproduce as Lorelai said in this funny conversation- he got divorced. Too much tequila I guess. This brings us to Luke getting more serious about Lorelai.

The perfect moment has just arisen for Luke to ask Lorelai out. Liz is getting married in town. Luke asks Lorelai to the wedding and she says that she’ll come! At the wedding they get into a little fight but make up quickly. He then does what we have waited for (almost). They share a romantic waltz to Sam Phillips’s Reflecting Light. Yes, Luke can waltz.

Now we are at the grand opening of the Dragonfly Inn. Lorelai and Sookie invite the entire town to their grand opening including 3 surprise guests. Luke walks into the inn, he is carrying a bouquet of Lilies and seems to be looking for Lorelai. She sees him walk in and goes up to him. Luke gives her the flowers. She is surprised and tells him they are beautiful. After a moment, she says that he should probably check in. If you have ever been around a guy that has just given you something or that you like, you know the feeling of complete and utter moron. Your heart completely takes over all other brain functions, including being able to avoid a door. That’s right, as Lorelai turns around she crashes right into a door. She tells Luke to follow his door (the one she just ran into) up the stairs. After dinner, Luke is playing Yahtzee with Babette and Miss Patty. Lorelai comes up to Luke and they just stare at each other for awhile. Again I say once your heart is involved everything you do ends up in moron. Lorelai ends up, after this moment, turning around and running into one of the servers. Now, I said earlier that 3 surprise guests were going to come to this little shin-dig. Emily and Richard come, Rory’s idea. And so does Jason. He comes to make things right with Lorelai, even though he sued her father. But, this isn’t about them, it’s about Luke. Luke meets Jason, and Jason tells him that he and Lorelai are dating again. Luke gets upset and when he finds Lorelai, asks her why she led him on, she denied ever letting him on. Now they are out on the porch of the Dragonfly. Luke is upset and so is Lorelai. Then come perhaps the most famous phrase in Luke and Lorelai history, “Will you just stand still?!”. He wraps her in his arms and kisses her. That was their first kiss. Their relationship blossoms after their first date.

Then they go to Richard and Emily’s vow renewal. Christopher is there and we all know that is going to mean trouble in paradise. After a major fight after catching Rory and Logan, Luke storms off in a rage (after being very protective over Rory mind you). He said he needed some time. But, being Lorelai, she pushed him and then he was gone. She breaks down and calls him. Then realizing how pathetic she just was, runs over to the diner and takes the tape out of his machine. When she comes home Luke is out on the lawn. Lorelai knew he would come, she just wanted to see him. Then came the saddest words of their history “this will be the last crazy thing you will ever have to endure from me, I promise.” She is absolutely crushed and so is he. Then they got back together after Luke came to his senses (and Emily, surprising I know but it’s true). Now, they are engaged after a very upset Lorelai comes into the diner one night and tells Luke all about Rory dropping out of Yale. As Luke is going through one of his famous rants, she realizes that he is the one for her and she spontaneously proposes. Of course he says “yes”.

Now they are going to get married and everything is perfect, right? Wrong. One day this girl named April, about 12 years old, comes into the diner and takes a sample of Luke’s hair, she is doing a science fair project and is trying to find out who her biological father is. Luke doesn’t think much of it, but goes to the fair to see the results. He is her father. Luke is stunned beyond belief. He has a kid, then he figures out who the mother is. Her name is Anna. Luke is trying to find a way to tell Lorelai and is close to telling her one night after he gets a call from Anna saying that April is going to come to the diner the next day. He calls up the stairs and tells Lorelai to come down so they can talk, she yells back that she has her wedding dress on and is coming down. Luke says that his seeing the dress will bring bad luck, she comes down anyway. When he sees her, he is star struck. She looks beautiful, the dress is perfect and she looks so happy, he could see it in her eyes. So, not wanting to spoil her happiness he blows off telling her. Again. The next day April is filling the salt shakers at the diner and Lorelai comes in and sees her. She asks who she belongs to and April innocently says that her father owns the place. Lorelai asks “what?” in disbelief. Then April goes on about how she doesn’t know what exactly to call him, and all Lorelai can think as she stares at Luke is, how could you not tell me. They go outside and talk about it. Kind of. Lorelai is very angry, hurt, upset, and confused. Luke is all of those and double that. He was still processing the whole thing (after 2 months). Now they have decided to postpone the wedding. We will see where Luke takes us in his journey with Lorelai.

Now I will get to the final paragraph of this story. Luke never really liked kids. As he put it, they always had jam hands. But, maybe because she was Lorelai’s daughter, I doubt that was the reason, he always had a special relationship with Rory. When she had the chicken-pox at the age of 12, and all she would eat was mashed potatoes, he brought over homemade mashed potatoes for her. For her 16th birthday, he made a special coffeecake and blew up balloons and gave her a special table in the diner. He was very protective of her when she was dating Dean, both times. He was the only person she could confide in when she and Jess got into the accident and she fractured her wrist. Luke went to her high school graduation, and cried mind you. He helped her move her mattress into her college dorm, then out of the dorm, then back in again. He almost beat up Logan after Lorelai caught Rory and Logan at the vow renewal. He gave her his mother’s pearls for her 21st birthday. So, as you can tell, Luke is very fatherly towards Rory, he is protective and supportive of her. His plans to get her back after she decides not to go back to Yale were hilarious but so sweet and father like. He said, and I quote, “First off, we call Yale and we tell them something like, uh, Rory had a chemical imbalance and she was mentally out of her mind when she told them she was dropping out. And then we get her out of your parents house whatever way we can. We lock her up in her room with you, because you can talk anybody into anything. And if worse comes to worst, we will drive her to school every day and we will follow her to class and camp out there to make sure she goes. I’ll take morning classes, you take afternoon classes, or the other way around, if it works out better for your schedule. And I know there’s a few kinks to work out, the kidnapping thing might be a little problematic but either way, she is not quitting school. This was her dream. I am not going to let this happen.

Finding Nemo: The Rant            

I totally do not get this stupid movie. It’s just a movie about a careless father letting his kid get lost. Think about it, how do you think that little niece turned out, huh? Don’t you think she was devastated about her new fish getting lost? Think of the pain she must have been feeling from all the fish that passed away when they were hers. The people of Disney and Pixar did not consider the poor girl’s feelings. I think this is a stupid movie, who cares about one lost fish? Of all the terrible things going on in the world, society decided to film a movie about a fish. If the father, Marlin as they named him, had taken better care of those eggs then they wouldn’t have been eaten and there would be a different Nemo, one who didn’t get lost. If he did get lost then that would be another fish for the niece but no… they had to go and kill all the innocent fish in the movie. And how about that H2O intolerant seahorse? How is he to live life underwater? He’s a fish, he can’t come out of the water or else he will die.  I suppose Disney thinks children enjoy watching innocent seahorses sneeze everywhere the go. Imagine the constant suffering that must be hiding in this animal, having the sniffles everywhere he goes, unable to relieve himself. Now we get to the tiny little turtle. Is he to live his life as a wild child riding currents like a teenager would motorcycles? He needs to settle himself down and have a turtle family. Finally, we come to Dory, the fish with a short-term memory loss. They treat this as a joke. I do not find it funny. It is a serous illness that could cause a person to fall into a lake and drown. They make it funny to the kids now, but they won’t think it’s so funny when they’re sixty; they have it, and can’t tell they’re left from right. In conclusion, I believe that Finding Nemo sends a bad message to children and sea creatures everywhere.