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The Clinton-lovin' Communist
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| Harry Potter and the Craptastic Screenwriter and Director |
[17 Jul 2009|08:10am] |
I'm going to write what I told black_rider, plus some.
We saw it yesterday afternoon, and I just woke up feeling like I went to a surreal party, did something I wasn't supposed to, and am now paying for it/regretting that something that I forget that I did. There is just something about the film that bothers me and I can't figure out what it is--except for the fact that I know Steve Kloves wrote the fucking thing and fucked it up as usual.
This is going to bounce around the entire movie, so don't expect to read something linear from me (especially since I just woke up).
( So the pissy ones won't get mad at being spoiled--and long, but a decent read if you like to watch others bitch about things [stuff I liked about it is somewhere under here too]. )
I also couldn't help but notice how awful Dame Maggie Smith looked in this one (almost as bad as whatshisname-Dumbledore from Chamber of Secrets). I know that she's been suffering from some illness (breast cancer, I think?), but I sure truly hope she makes it to the last movie--we really need to see her kick Umbridge's ass! It would be really horrible if she didn't. ;_____;
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| Writer's Block: 5//7//5 |
[15 Jul 2009|10:30pm] |
fucking adopters
dumping dogs off at shelters
make me want to KILL.
Chelle's such a whiner
no HP in IMAX yet
she threw a tantrum.
still so hot in here
and computer running slow
someone just kill me.
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| :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D |
[12 Jul 2009|03:36am] |
He's 2! He's 2, he's 2, happy birthday to you, Henry bubby you're 2!
They grow up so fast. ;______;
Bad Stuff: Seems like his website is experiencing some downtime. I don't know why. But I hope it's because many people have crashed the servers, LOL! No, but really. I can't even get into the administrative area of the website, so I might have to open a support ticket.
I was GOING to use his birthday as an opportunity to guilt you all into playing that game to win the Touch, but obviously since the site is down, I can't at the moment. I can do some e-begging though, by hopefully jimmying the button at PayPal a little for this post only (the graphic; since the site is down, the button I'm using over there right now wouldn't have a graphic, so I've uploaded the graphic to the Bucket).
So, apart from the website and the event to win the iPod Touch, if you feel like throwing a little at Henry for his birthday (which will all go to the project we're working on anyway...okay, maybe he can get a bone/treat or something with a little of it), then be our guest.
Henry appreciates it. He's quite at home at the store, when he's there when I am. Neither of us can really think of it as not being "his" store, so we sure hope [and are working to make sure that] the dream comes true.
(I have a horror story...actually a couple of them...about the Saturday adoption fair, but won't ruin this post with it...will save that for another post.)
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[05 Jul 2009|05:49pm] |
This is from last year, but ooooooh...what crack cocaine can do to you.
*SIGH*
Apparently the whole damned family is into crack cocaine, and Janet Jackson had divorced James because of it.
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| Writer's Block: Comic Instinct |
[30 Jun 2009|07:07am] |
Humor is a very specific human emotion/quality. I think companion animals are a little more abstract than we are, but I'm positive that they experience "joy" in the sense that if they feel good, then they can feel such when their owners feels such (companion animals are VERY intuitive when it comes to their owners' emotions; they might not know why you're sad, but they are aware that you are crying; thus, they might not know why you're laughing and smiling, but they're aware that you're feeling good).
Such is the case with our chihuahua, Teddy. He is a clown! He knows when we're laughing with or at him, because he "smiles". Just now when he was staring at me and I laughed at his funny face, he opened his mouth and "smiled" at me. He also bounces around happily after we tell him how funny a chihuahua he is for playing dead when we "shoot" him (with our fake finger "guns" with a "BANG BANG!"). He lays perfectly still when we feign sadness/mourning over the "dead" chihuahua at our feet and then once we "revive" him, he bounces around. It's friggin' hilarious.
All of our dogs are like this in some capacity, even though they don't all play games like that. Henry likes to smile a lot and Bud is a crazy "laugher" (he sounds like a chimp when he plays with us). Bud's "smile" is probably the best one, since he has the best teeth and it shows against his all-black fur (see icon--that's a natural smile).
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| Writer's Block: RIP Michael Jackson |
[26 Jun 2009|08:34am] |
Really, there's far too many to pick from. I was a real fan when I was little. Had the knock-off jackets (like the one he wore in the videos), bought a cheapo pair of costume sparkly gloves and "lost" one ( ;D ) and did the Moonwalk.
Hmm, lemme think...probably this one:
It's too bad he never made an actual video for it (and I never realized how Prince-y it actually sounds...would love to hear Prince cover it, as I loved Prince's performance of "Billie Jean".)
"Wanna Be..." always made me happy. And I forgot how happy until I heard this over again; in the last frame of this tribute video are the lyrics he sings that really just made me confident when I was a kid and very, very shy...and I just cried a little here. Damn it.
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| Jesus Christ, what happened? |
[25 Jun 2009|11:45pm] |
(I have yet to read my friends page, so...this will probably be the 4238472847th post that mentions this subject. No apologies here, though.)
I hate finding out about things like this. This was particularly unique because of the way I found out. Before I left, I hovered over Chelle's shoulder to see her check the news and see that Farrah Fawcett had died (R.I.P) but the articles still said that Michael Jackson had had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. Mmmokay, I said "Well shit, I hope he doesn't die or anything."
So I went to Target as scheduled with Chelle's shiny new phone (we haven't had a real cellphone in the time she's been living with me since we can't afford it) and played with it a bit. Had to go to Target to pick up the "prize" for the upcoming contest on Old Man Henry's (and did so, will post about that separately). I was exiting Target when I got the phonecall on Chelle's new phone. She told me that he had died. She sounded shocked.
And it is shocking. It shocked me when I had learned that Princess Diana had been killed. But Michael Jackson? I knew he had been in weird health since his trial, but...to die? At 50?
A part of my childhood died at that moment. For real. Before I became obsessed with the little purple black man with the high voice, I was obsessed--obsessed with the little one-gloved black man with the high voice. I had posters. I had teeny mags/ripped the pics out of them and had my own girly-wall of his photos. I had the knock-off jackets that looked like what he wore in his Thriller and Beat It videos (and even this...weird brown jacket that looked like the one he wore in one of his famous pin-up posters). I had the pins. I had his records. I was just all over it, like most kids my age were at the time. I could even moonwalk at the time (Chelle calls me a liar because she says she could never do it, but I could back then...haven't tried it since though and didn't want to try it in Crocs with my bummed legs, LOL).
So I did shed a few tears and then downloaded a "Thriller" ringtone for her new phone at her mom's expense (HA HA). But that's the only one I'll download, lest her mom (or Chelle, LOL) get all pissy. When I came back down the street from BART, several windows in various apartments were open and each one had a different Jackson song playing inside.
I don't know what else to write. There's a lot I could say about this (I heard from MTV that Madonna hasn't stopped crying...STFU about her now haters, because here's my take: The key music people who defined the 80's were three: Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince, and I'm positive that the remaining two are probably dumbstruck at the moment, facing the reality of their own mortality and just...a general blah that the world is feeling right now), but...I just want to ask...
...Why? My G-d, what the fuck happened, Michael? T_______________T
Jackson Five - I'll Be There -
(EDIT) Sorry about the short version, my edit hopefully replaces that with the whole song. D:
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| Added the DSi and the Flip videocamera. |
[06 Jun 2009|02:40am] |
You don't have to take it again if you've taken it and don't want to, but I made this one so it can sit on our "official" Blogspot blog:
More to come soon.
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| RUINING YOUR CHILDHOOD STUFF, Part THREE. |
[05 Jun 2009|09:31pm] |
I SO DID NOT WANT TO KNOW THIS.
Okay. So (see, my computer's working again, you poor people)...remember this show:
And recall that the youngest daughter, "Judy" went the way of Richie Cunningham's brother after a few seasons (actually after four--how the Hell can a character just DISAPPEAR like that???)? Well, she was written out.
And then she did porn after her family took her money. Her porn credits:
# Sugarwalls 29
# My Baby Got Back 29
# More Black Dirty Debutantes 32
# Hot Girlz
# The Adventures of Peeping Tom 28
# More Black Dirty Debutantes 30
# Booty Talk 20: Super Fine Sistas!
# Freaks Whoes And Flows 25
On the upside, on my birthday this year she gave birth to her first kid with her longtime boyfriend.
I actually can't wait for the reality show. She was on Celebrity Rehab, but I missed it.
[EDIT] And holy shit. Have you ever seen a SIXTY YEAR OLD who looks as fabulous as Telma Hopkins? Well, this year she's 61, but LOOK AT HER FACE. She's ALWAYS looked like that (and I remember her from her Tony Orlando and Dawn days!). SERIOUSLY...WHAT IS HER ANTI-AGING SECRET?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telma_Hopkins
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| THE POOP HAS *EYES*!!! |
[28 May 2009|01:19am] |
Uhm...Teddy and I found something that looks like a (baby?) gecko on our walk. I thought it was poop ar first because it was shiny and brown, but on further inspection I noticed it had eyes...and a tail...and legs. >___>
More to come, plus pics to ID it. I don't want to keep it because I'm not a herp expert or person, but he is kinda cute. If it comes that I should release him back as well, that's all good too. I just didn want him stepped on on the sidewalk.
So people--gimme herp links or if you're a herper stay tuned for pics to help me ID what the Hell he is.
(EDIT) I THINK it might be a salamander. I looked on this page:
http://www.californiaherps.com/salamanders/salamanders.html
and maybe it's "Aneides lugubris - Arboreal Salamander", but I don't know. It looks rather young and it doesn't look like the "juvenile" on that page, but it does look like the adult ones. It's small.
Either way, I will probably end up looking for a safe place in the backyard to let him go tomorrow. I still have pics though.
I've never seen a salamander here on the West Coast. We saw them all the time in Massachusetts, but they were all black.
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| Writer's Block: Teenagers & Car Accidents |
[20 May 2009|07:48am] |
Yay for sponsored questions AND idiotic responses from people who don't ever read. Ever.
The answer is grounded in science. BASIC science, even. They've done studies on this. Teens are more likely to take risks (whatever they may be--be it texting while driving, going waaaaaay over the speed limit while sober OR drunk, etc.) because the part of the brain that regulates inhibition and judgement (the prefrontal cortex) isn't fully matured yet.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/adolescent.html
http://www.childrenshospital.org/patientsfamilies/Site1393/mainpageS1393P316sublevel357.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-teen-brain-hard-at-wo
And no one is a special snowflake. I know I've pissed off a lot of people on my flist when I said that I wish the voting age was raised to 25, but as it is now after a whole lot of talk-talk-talking, I'm standing by that (in addition to adding on the political aptitude test), at least in part due to the science of the brain. It's kind of like saying "Oh no, I can make a fine wine in a month because MY grapes are SPECIAL!" or "My grapes taste good NOW, why would I have to wait for the wine to be good?" No, sorry. Science and nature just doesn't work like that, and a brain can only mature so fast.
That said, the people who said that teens think they're invincible get a B+. Those who need a wahmbulance after crying about "teen bashing!11" get an F.
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| How Strong is Your Relationship? |
[08 May 2009|03:12pm] |
| Your Relationship is Strong |  You've built the foundation of a great relationship, and it would take a lot to shake it.
Through good communication and respect, you have a true love that can last a lifetime.
Keep doing what you're doing, and your relationship should stay healthy for a long time.
Everyone has rough patches. It's all about surviving them together and coming out stronger. |
Yeah, that sounds about right, LOL.
Punkassed BITCH... ;)
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