Well that's the pitts for my week ends-- I will miss youre awsum, wittie, imagination and extremest good writed posts, H!
(Here's hoping youwill disemvowel this comment for old times sake)
In all seriousness, good luck to you in whatever you decide to devote your weekends to!
(Here's hoping youwill disemvowel this comment for old times sake)
In all seriousness, good luck to you in whatever you decide to devote your weekends to!
@vladdy: Also, I notice that hangovers make me much more embarrassed/ashamed about whatever I did the night before...I think you feel more vulnerable or something? I second the comfort food idea and by tomorrow or the next day it will have blown over and you wont feel so bad. Promise! (Besides, it doesn't sound like you did anything that embarrassing!)
I just ...can't. Is this even a thing?
@choppery: Exactly as I was thinking. Excellent words, kudos to your thoughtfulness and thank you for writing all of it!
@bluebears: No, you're right. I was being a bit disingenuous, but I have noticed that eating fast food is a lot like binge drinking-- if you stop for awhile, going back it doesnt taste as good and kinda makes you feel like shit. Now, in the rare times I go for mcD or Taco Bell (usually on road trips) I have to prepare myself for a food hangover.
@bluebears: I've always thought "food" is much tastier than food. I like my salads with all meat and mayo, my cheeseburgers with orange plastic and all vegetables must be made from processed animal products. They can just draw on the "healthy" stuff if they must.
@bluebears: Despite the serious subject matter, this made me laugh. Totally drawn-on grill lines. I wonder if there's an employee wielding a sharpie in the kitchen over each "grilled" bucket....
@thebestofjillhives: Yep, that's what I was gonna say. Bust fills the criteria pretty well.
@lavenderstain: Yes, agreed on all counts. The camels, the cartoonishy stereotyped scenery and extras in the background; the ridiculous headscarves with cleavage-baring gowns...ugh. And it's not that cleavage on it's own is in any way offensive to me, but they are in a Muslim area where modesty in clothing (for both sexes) is the norm. So the blatant breaking of those norms just BUGs the hell out of me.
@thelastsara: Heh, now I wanna google 'armchair tattoo'.
Word! I have several 'meaningless' tattoos on my person and used to try and make up some reason for them to satisfy questions-- "it's a tribute to my father/mother/brother/dog/armchair" but now simply say "they don't mean anything". I have dots on my fingers that I did myself and they really, really mean NOTHING. People always seem vaguely irritated by the lack of meaning.
@pursedangler: heh, I think I made it about two pages...in the library, sighed, and put it back on the shelf. I may have uttered some curse words under my breath.
@Lise Brown: thank you for that interpretation-- i've been wondering how the whole retweet thing worked!
@eg.5: Likewise re: the Indian (I'm assuming they were supposed to be Indian) talk show..."take off your shoes!" -- Edited to say that I am aware of how cheap the laughs were, tho, with the whole thing being based on stereotypes that could be offensive to some.
Well, H, I read the headline and rushed through the reading so I could add my realllly important 2 cents (ha), but you already covered it: "While the public scorn certainly isn't helping to break the child actor downfall cycle, the notion that a "comeback" will fix everything isn't helping either: in the end, there has to be another path opened up to the Corey Haims of the world. Fame has to stop being considered the ultimate cure for fame."
It's basically that-- people are resentful that those who had these "great" opportunities squandered them, and it's a way of shaming them into their great comeback moment. Like you said, we don't want to be reminded of the mortality of people or our love for certain things, and washed-up pop icons are a surefire way to do just that. So, we shame and taunt, in an immature way of thinking that might change these people. And then when they continue to live their lives, it infuriates us that they are not reading the gossip sites, dramatically putting down the glass (needle, pipe, whatever), saying "as GOD as my witness" , enrolling in the 12 step/weightloss/makeover program ASAP, and thanking all their fans for believing in them when things were rough when they do the Mickey Rourke Oscar speech.
People who deviate from the redemption or heartwarming comeback script can piss their audiences off, I suppose.
@la.donna.pietra: Yeah, I was always a Feldman gal, too ...especially as Teddy in Stand By Me. But I could certainly understand where the Haim fans were coming from.
Robin's laugh sounds so strange and robotic. Cheap laughs, indeed. It really sounds like she is being paid by the giggle.
@myBearHands: Word. Silly then, silly now. My dad calls him "Stink" since the 80's and it still makes me laugh.
The only rock star name that is worse is "The Edge".
"Now Simon says: "First of all, anybody who at the age of 60 calls himself Sting is an idiot." "
One point for Simon. Sting? Anything to say?
My husband: They should skip all this nonsense and just gather everyone in a circle for a big masturbation fest.
Me: a circle jerk?
Husband: Yes.
