I tell my 13-yo Godson the same thing all the time, but then he'll do something like wear shorts on top of sweatpants or sing a Train song to his crush and I think well, maybe the bullies are on to something here...
Why is this woman always so stiff? I mean she's all "look at me I'm letting loose on Glee! Wheee!" but she's still so painfully self-aware it's just really awkward to watch her do this.
Of course this movie was terrible. We all (literally every single one of us) tried to warn you not to do this last week, but someone disables the comment thread on the VMC reminder posts...
Based on (seriously) a true story pitch: Natatattat goes to a slumber party in Jr. High at her friend Christine's house and brings a Ouija board because FUN. Around midnight her and her friends bust it out to contact recently deceased hunkster River Phoenix, when her friend's mother hears what they are doing she is promptly kicked out for bringing a tool of "the Devil" into her house and is no longer allowed to hang out with Christine. (Here is where the movie delineates from the unfortunate and crazy real life story) Natatattat distraught about losing her closest friend uses the ouija board to contact the dead to torment the mother and all those who stand in the way of her revenge.
Seriously, can we talk about how of course she'd drink bloody marys? That's the holistic microbiotic pescetarian or whatever her weird rich people luxury diet is of alcoholic drinks.
Polar Bears Destroying Spy Cams:
http://www.asylum.co.uk/2010/12/31/curious-polar-bears-destroy-bbc-spy-cameras-remain-very-awesome/
They are the best.
I agree. There were several points in his argument that are problematic, the worst being: "Santiago might cite a immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and becomes a representation of a story, a novel, a play, dance, a film." I think he's too caught up on the semantics of the word "video games" and not looking at the potential of the medium.
DSN, you're right. The employees were probably being dicks, because airline employees are always dicks. Flyings sucks, I have never once had a decent experience flying. If I'm not sent down to the front to mail my makeup (or have to throw it away) or pulled aside for some random invasive screening, they lose my luggage or the best ever, my flight was late so I missed my unbeknownst (see what I did there, it's like behooves) to me non-refundable transfer flight and had to shell out 600 bucks to get on a flight 12 hours later. The problem to me is not about who was right/wrong in the situation, the problem is that he think he's famous enough that he's above the suffering everyone who flies endures.
I love how they had to mention that Chelsea was friends with Jennifer Aniston--like Angelina couldn't possibly be a cunt otherwise.
This would have been much funnier if it was Gwyneth Paltrow, so I am going to pretend it is.
Monsters know who she is, Gabe just didn't lay it out so they'd understand. Michiko Kakutani should actually read "The muggle who reviewed the last Harry Potter book BEFORE it went on sale."
"Oh yeah I remember HER!"--Other Monsters.
I know we haven't seen it because it hasn't come out yet, but can I nominate "The Beaver." Can we do a VMC/WMOAT fusion? We all already know that will be an awful, awful movie...
Did you guys see the story (http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/ac360°-preview-what-do-dolphins-see-in-the-mirror/) about how dolphins can recognize themselves in the mirror? So cute, they are total hams!
About a month ago, I learned this guy I was friends with for like a decade is a total white supremacist (apparently, I am the only idiot who didn't know this about him). What's weird about it is you always sort of have this idea that if confronted with an extremist you'll be ready to defend equality, that you will use really persuasive arguments, and tirelessly help them see the light. However, when this all sort of came out (even he was surprised I didn't figure it out), all I could muster was "but it's 2010."
I went home that night feeling super defeated, confused by how someone I thought was so nice and normal could hold such awful values and how with all my liberal posturing when it was go time I choked. Then, a couple days later it occurred to me, you know what? It is 2010. Seriously, the very idea that we would have to argue for equal rights for people when race has been proven by SCIENCE to be little more than a social construct and well, to put this simply, uh "mitochondrial Eve." So you know, if they can't figure out that their ideas are false, ridiculous, and destructive in 2010 I don't feel I have to waste my time with them.
As for this kid, it is sad that his parents are teaching him all this crap but there is a generation that is still alive that was taught these same awful values and they have for the most part accepted and integrated. So one day if this kid is smart, he'll grow up and drop this crap. His parents can't keep him sheltered in a world of virtual green screen books forever.
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