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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:18 PM, National Eating Disorders Association
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He was such a talent. Such a talent. Fuck you for not putting him on Lost Boys 2. Besides Kiefer, he WAS Lost Boys 1.
This clip is so sad. It breaks. my. heart. He is so talented and smart:
Music is my life too, babe. I love kissing too.
If I had to pick between the “Corey’s”: I always picked him.
I was JUST talking about him last night.
I saw on his E True Hollywood Story, his mother said something to the effect: “If I knew what he would go through: I never would have allowed him to be in show biz.”
*Side note* Corey Feldman had a lot of drug use and problems. PLEASE take care of yourself.
I do not know what to say other than “I love you, and you will be missed.”
Corey HaimHow quickly they forget…..
I was never your lover, I was never your secretary: I was your biggest cheerleader. Still am.
Fuck you.
“You’re bat shit crazy”
Fuck.
You.
And no, not literally.
Winners:
(yahoo.com)
1. Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
photo by Michael Caulfield/Wireimage – 2010
2. Sandra Bullock as best actress for “The Blind Side”
photo by Michael Caulfield/Wireimage – 2010
3. Mo’Nique as supporting actress for “Precious”
photo by Michael Caulfield/WireImage – 2010
To all the 3rd grade drop-outs who cannot even decipher Sesame Street flash cards on how to string together a proper sentence because your parents are too busy pimping you out to get their own 15 minutes of fame insisting that Tila Tequila (or any other female reality TV celeb for that matter) should get her tubes tied/abort/etc.:
Right back atcha.
All reality TV is scripted now, has been for quite a while already. It is stale, lost its flavour. It is the piece of gum parked behind Violet Beauregarde’s ear.
Add reality television to the list of messes my generation is forced to clean up due to the snowball effect of Andy Warhol. I do not begrudge him or any other artist their success, but he was in it for himself.
True artists do not create for success.
They create.
No hidden agendas, no secret or blatant hopes of becoming famous, no determination to be rich, no delusions of grandeur, no competing to fill some void that is as abstract as they hope their work to be. They never become jaded because to be jaded is to be stagnant.
They create for the same reason the cage bird sings.
The need is in their heart, their DNA, their birthright.
They create for the same reason Dorothy never needed the Wizard to begin with.
The ability was there all along.
Creation without passion or soul, without blood, guts, and sacrifice, without determination, is nothing more than science.
Cold, calculated, compartmentalized science.
Jerry Seinfeld is one of the few true comedy gods. But he may have bought himself a return ticket to mortality, thanks to the critical drubbing his newest venture, “The Marriage Ref,” is taking.
“The Marriage Ref” is a reality/comedy show in which a panel of celebrity judges watches real couples present their sides of some longstanding, but relatively harmless argument. The judges then chat back and forth, crack a few jokes, and finally offer their opinion on the winner to the “Marriage Ref,” Tom Papa. Mr. Papa then delivers the news to the couple, who hopefully take it with good humor. It sounds like a decent premise, so why are so many TV critics sounding the alarms?
Or: how to rid yourself of an attention whore
Best way to get rid of an attention whore is to ignore them.
If they have two brain cells to rub together they usually get the point.
Eventually.
After they calm down from exerting so much energy trying to get people to pay attention to them and finally realize nobody is listening/watching and nobody cares.
Then it is off to lick their wounds, in hopes THAT gets them attention.
Then they get pissed off because even after playing the “everybody feel sorry for my butt hurt” attention attempt and THAT is ignored, then it’s on to the “oh fuck it who cares” tantrum they had that caused everybody to stop talking to them to begin with.
Vicious cycle.
Cycles only end if you decide to stop them.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.
What is history?
Cycles.
Troll-be-goneHistory is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. Lord Bolingbroke
History teaches everything including the future.
LamartineIf you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
AristotleWith the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
Kenneth StamppHistory is something that happens to other people.
AnonymousAny time gone by was better.
Jorge ManriqueThere is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
Karl PopperThe deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
GoetheHistory is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
Robert Penn WarrenWho does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
CiceroHistory has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man’s life on earth as a whole.
Alfred KazinThe certainty of history seems to be in direct inverse ratio to what we know about it.
AnonymousGod alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the .past.
Ambrose BierceHistory is ultimately more important than its singers.
Michael HarringtonWhoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
-Machiavelli
A list of “family friendly” products/advertising/etc. that, for the most part, give me the chills to this day:
1. Kinder Surprise (banned ad from the 80’s):
2. Teddy Ruxpin
3. The first Ronald McDonald commercials:
(This one looks like John Wayne Gacey’s personal stylist):
4. The Hugga-Bunch:
5. The Wizard of Oz:
This franchise pops up twice on my list. While neither freak me out anymore, that scene where Dorothy is looking in the mirror while being a prisoner of the wicked witch took me a while to get over!
6. The Mysterious Stranger click here for description
7. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure:
8. Pinocchio and The Emperor Of The Night
9. The Wheelers from Return to Oz (this doesn’t freak me out now, but it sure did then). That is Fairuza Balk of the movie “The Craft” as Dorothy:
10. As a true testament to my weird, abstract personality, I give you Beetlejuice, even though I have always and will forever WORSHIP this movie, I bet it freaked the rest of the population out at the time. Unless, of course, you’re as weird as I am, then in that case, welcome friend!
(Mini Me already LOVES the soundtrack to this movie. Chip off the old block.)
I love the Electronic Frontier Foundation and I have the RSS feed on a lot of my projects. I thought I should give some updates at least once a month on my blog:
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The Department of Defense has released more than 800 heavily-redacted pages of intelligence oversight reports, detailing activities that its Inspector General has “reason to believe are unlawful.” The reports are the latest in an ongoing document release by more than a half-dozen intelligence agencies in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by EFF in July 2009.
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Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the PATRIOT reform effort and approved the extension by a voice vote on Wednesday night.
Disappointingly, the government’s dangerously broad authority to conduct roving wiretaps of unspecified or “John Doe” targets, to secretly wiretap of persons without any connection to terrorists or spies under the so-called “lone wolf” provision, and to secretly access a wide range of private business records without warrants under PATRIOT Section 215 were all renewed without any new checks and balances to prevent abuse. Despite months of vigorous debate, when PATRIOT renewal bills providing for greater oversight and accountability were approved by the Judiciary Committees of both the House and the Senate, Democratic leaders’ push for reform fizzled in the face of staunch Republican opposition buoyed by recent hot-button events such as the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day and the shooting at Fort Hood.
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Let’s say you are a blogger who writes about music regularly and includes links to music in your posts. How do you avoid having your blog censored off the Internet by “DMCA takedown notices” sent out by music industry lawyers (as happened last week to several blogs hosted by Blogger)?
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Some updates from EFFYouTube responded to the letter from EFF and the National Coalition Against Censorship by doing just what we asked. They state: “We have re-reviewed your videos and have reinstated them with an age gate.” This is good news, and YouTube is to be commended for correcting its error. Amy Greenfield’s channel now has her videos.
Still, the fact that it took two nationally known groups to bring this matter to YouTube’s attention is troubling. It demonstrates that YouTube still has work to do to create a viable appeals process. In addition, as we noted below, YouTube should still change its policy to expressly allow artistic works that contain nudity, and give individual artists the same freedom it reserves for professional television and film.
Mini Me has officially watched too much Spongebob. It’s completely out of my hands.
Compared to my sister, I am a horrific, nightmare of a student.
She is 8 years older than I am, and the first on my father’s side of the family to go to college.
A few years ago, she obtained her Master’s degree. Her thesis was about blogging.
I am here on “the interwebz” to stick up for my sister’s degree. Due to her current job, she is restricted to what she can say or do online.
If you have not caught on by now, I do not have to worry so much about any “corporate restrictions”.
I will take being poor and doing what I love, no restrictions, any day of the week.
I love that I make my own hours, I love that it is my work that is paying off and that it is only snowballing into bigger and better opportunities. Sure, said opportunities may not be on any huge scale by any means, but they are enough to satisfy myself, and that is all that matters.
I am not five, I know that there are times where you have to “play by the rules” in order to get what you want, but for the most part, I love what I do.
I do not care how many times I have to say it: I take care of me and mine (yes, OMG that’s a typo, and ask me if I care if there are others) and the list ends there.
She brings home the Benjamin’s, I do what I have to do in the name of free speech, and I could not be happier.
There are two sides to every story.
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