Additionally this is why I hate "Rent". The one character who is portrayed as this horrible villan is pretty much the only one with a job, while everyone else makes shitty "art" and does drugs. The villan was trying to convert the building into a community cybercafe or something, and its this huge affront to these worthless sacks of shit that he asks them to at least pay for their portion of the utilities they use. Put down your camera, take off your stupid scarf and get a job, Mark.
At long last I have the answer to my question of whether Gabe hated Eat, Pray, Love because he thinks women belong in the kitchen or because it was the worst type of entitled self indulgent bullshit psuedophilosophy imaginable.
One thing I really appreciate about the TV show is that it at least attempts to humanize Cersei a little bit while in the books she is just relentlessly the worst all the time with no redeeming qualities.
I read an exerpt of a short story GRRM wrote called "Portraits of His Children" in which a slovenly author's sexy, underage creation comes to life and then seduces him. So much issues.
Don't mess with the ice queen if you can't handle the ice burns, I guess. It is kind of crazy that the zinger about incest wasn't even close to being the harshest line in any exchange.
Got it. From now on whenever I'm minding my own business and somebody does something terrible to me for no reason, I'll make sure I check with pop culture blogs before deciding to accept an apology to make sure I'm doing it right.
Since always? Really long reviews of garbage shows (and good shows) have always been a staple here. I think I started reading v-gum because of the Lost reviews.
Kelly: I have an important update for you in the war on horrible bugs. Last night St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday had to be removed from a game when, while he was just standing around in the outfield, a moth fucking flew into his ear and lodged itself in his ear canal. It was removed later by trainers with a pair of tweezers, no word on if it laid eggs in his brain.
Maybe Nicholas Sparks, author of "the Notebook" and "Nights in Rodanthe", has a really dry sense of humor and he was taking the piss out of himself by calling the work of one of America's greatest authors "pulpy, overwrought and melodromatic".
Or maybe Nicholas Sparks can go get fucked.
Sportsgum: Jay Cutler was lucky by the end of last season that all his limbs were still physically attached to the rest of his body, given the beating he took. His biggest sin appears to be have a terminal case of "shit face" all the time.
Except the part about almost fainting because she drank her orange juice too fast. That is a thing that happens? Or is that code for "I had a horrible hangover"?
Was there an actual cash prize for winning the softball league? If not, then I think your friend is missing the point. Instead of losing a softball championship, he gain an awesome story about being crushed by Yankees prospects pretending to be firemen. That is a great story. Whining to the commisioner of a softball league is just silly.
What an asshole. I feel like if you literally murder someone, then catch an amazing break by getting cast on a TV show about the corrosive impact of the drug trade, and then start distributing heroin, you suck. A bold stance by me, I'm sure. Go to jail, Snoop.
Well, the screen grab kind of ruins the surprise. At first, you think it is just someone in skin tight gold body suit. Then they unzip and pull off the mask portion of the gold suit and SURPRISE, it turns out they actually have horrific emotional problems.
I think in this case, her being or not being a prostitute isn't the only reason the prosecution / police doubt her credibility. It also has alot to do with a series of lies she told them that they found out about and, as a matter of law, were required to disclose to the defense.
In the american legal system there isn't a presumption that any witness is or is not telling the truth. There is, however, a presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty. When a case hinges on a he said / she said version of events, damage to an accuser's credibility for whatever reason will kill a case.
IF (this is a huge if) she worked as a prostitute, it might add some degree of credibility to his story that the sex was consensual. Couple that with what appears to be a series of lies about other things she told the investigators and the D.A. and it becomes really unlikely that it will be possible to get a guilty verdict.
Also, I think you can plausibly look at the Anthony verdict as a rejection of slut shaming by the jury. The endless 10 second clip of the defense closing that was on CNN yesterday seemed to have been the theory that all the prosecution was able to do was portray Casey Anthony as a slut, which had nothing to do with a murder occuring.
This is the best kind of derail: the kind that changes the subject from something that makes my blood boil to something great. "The Things They Carried" is amazing.
Nobody forced James Frey to pretend that Million Little Pieces was true. Even if he tried to get it published as fiction first, its not like someone was threatening to detonate a bomb if he couldn't get it published. It was about greed and wanting attention without giving a shit about the consequences might be.
Frey's "overcoming addiction" story was not just bullshit, but it was dangerous bullshit. It sold addicts the line that all they need to overcome addiction is willpower. Not treatment, or a 12 step program, or support from loved ones. Just willpower. When an ACTUAL addict reads that, believes it, trys it, and then inevitably FAILS the conclusion they can easily draw is, "I failed not because of the method, but because I'm not strong enough, and should be even more ashamed of myself than I already am."
James Frey is a deeply, deeply awful person.
To some extent, thats true. It goes beyond fiction and into dishonesty when your "memoir" hinges on people who never existed or on events that never happened, especially when you then use that memoir and to pitch yourself as a role model for others.
How much of the memoir is fiction directly correlates to the percentage of the author that is filled with actual human excrement. In the case of James Frey, for instance, the answer is 100%.
Maybe there was a scene edited out like the one in Unbreakable where Bruce Willis is in the train station, and the alien sees that the random gas station attendant illegally re-records his cassette tapes and the utility worker puts in for overtime he didn't earn or something.
Yeah, that alien was straight up eating people right in front of them not 5 minutes before Joe had a heart to heart with it. It wasn't just eating the "bad" army dudes, either. It ate the friendly sherriff and some random lady with her hair in curlers! It would have eaten Elle Fanning! Fuck that alien.
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