Archive for October, 2007

October 29th, 2007

Iris and Ruby Book Review

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my book review

I am thinking about putting up my book review of the books I am reading as I read them. I read a LOT of books but I think may be fun to write about them, what do you think? I read all different genres from horror and fantasy to things like to Kill a Mockingbird. And I love the old classics, so you will get a taste of a lot of different kinds of books in my book reviews.

I just finished a book last night called Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas. I figure I might as well start out my [tag]book reviews[/tag] with this one while it is fresh in my head.

It was a pretty good book which is why I am doing it for my book review first, I had never read anything from [tag]Rosie Thomas[/tag] before so I had no expectations going in. It was about a girl about 19 who basically ran away from her home in England and just showed up on her elderly grandmothers doorstep in Egypt. The grandma (Iris) was not really all to keen on it at first but soon it was breathing new life into her and she felt better than she had in years. The girl named Ruby was changing as well. She was learning to be more patient and to think of others besides herself.

The book bounced between the present and the past. A lot of the book took place in the memory of Iris back during World War Two when she worked in Egypt. She worked at GHQ which was where the intel came through and was passed alone the line of people fighting the war.

Of course she fell in love with a Captain who ran special ops in the desert, his name was Xan. They were head over heels in love and of course as all good war love stories end he dies tragically leaving her bereft. Of course we know she went on to have children because there is Ruby, but the way that the three generations of women–Iris, Lesley (Ruby’s mom) and Ruby– were affected by the loss of Xan is interesting and believable.

I liked that but it is the revelation by Iris herself in the end that is so powerful and this brings a form of closure to the daughter she has all but abandoned in childhood and even to Iris herself in a way.

The end left me teary, not weepy and I quite enjoyed the book. I would recommend it to those who like real life dramas or family dramas. This is my book review of Rosie Thomas‘ Iris and Ruby. I didn’t want to give you any spoilers or anything, it is hard to write a book review and not give things away!

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October 29th, 2007

This is me annoyed with the Daylight Saving Time Change

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daylight saving time change

What the heck is with the [tag]daylight saving time change[/tag]?? I mean it is so random! I never really understood it, I just assumed it had something to do with keeping time, you know the moon and the sun, 365 days a year and all that. Well obviously it doesn’t because the government keeps randomly changing it around. It makes no sense? Why do we even bother having it??

Parts of Canada do not even observe the daylight saving time change, they stay the same all year round and I just heard that in British Columbia they are changing it this year because they think it will be better for tourism to have the clocks change on Nov 4 instead of late October. WTF?

So basically they are screwing with our lives and our time, making our kids get grumpy because they are all jet lag type tired and for no good reason. Just because they think it is cool to control time or something. Honestly, this whole daylight saving time change makes no sense to me.

I don’t see why we can’t all be on the same time and forget about the daylight saving time change all together. If the world was all the same things would be so much simpler. If it was 1 o’clock over in Africa or Europe it would be 1 o’clock here to. So we would all go to work at different hours, it would not be called nine to five, but so what?? They’d still be going to work during daylight hours, I am not saying they should go to work in the middle of the night or anything. It would be better than this BS with the time always changing and getting everyone so annoyed and confused. Ba humbug! This is crap and I am really sick of it.

I would not be so pissed if the daylight saving time change made sense. But to be able to change time for tourism, seriously?? That is messed up.

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October 26th, 2007

So he bit her face, so there was a little blood, what is the big deal??

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dog bite attack!

Well my dog (above) bit someone in the face today. Good news it was the groomer so she is not going to sue me. When you think about it, she should be used to dog bite attacks. He has never been the most friendly dog when it comes to other people, but I had always thought he was okay when he was with them, now they tell me he has always been a bit of a biter but now he is just more of one. Huh.

I was feeling a little bad about the [tag]dog bite attack[/tag] until I got there and the groomer girl was a total bitch, I mean I get it, the dog bit her, but Christ it wasn’t as if I bit her! Why is she treating me like crap, even after I offered her a ton of extra money for not grooming that dog (I have two), she was still being a bitch.

I was all “oh no! You actually bled! I am sooooo sorry! What? The bill was $46 for Makkie, I will pay you $70 for your trouble and pain.” She’s all like “no, it’s not the pain, I am just pissed off, I am just really really pissed etc etc bitch bitch bitch.” And then she went on to blame me for my dogs behavior and the dog bite attack for like 20 minutes, you probably didn’t socialize him enough when he was a puppy, he is getting worse and worse, that is not why you just fucking suck. Well not really that last part but she might as well have. She was a total and utter cow and really it wasn’t like half of her face was hanging off in bloody shreds or anything.

Any sympathy I would have had for her after the dog bite attack was gone within the first 60 seconds, she was that bad. And, and I think they beat the dog. He is walking funny now and he smells really really weird.

So now I have to learn to groom a goddamn dog, wtf!!

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October 24th, 2007

Howard K Stern Exposed As The Sh*t Eater He Is!

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anna nicole smith vid

I went onto my favorite guilty pleasure today—the Perez Hilton site—and I saw the newest Anna Nicole Smith vid which was the most depressing thing I think I have ever seen. It made me want to cry and it make me wish I could be the one who smashed that chair into Geraldo Rivera’s face. That guy is a real ass, I bet you’d think so too if you saw the piece he did.

So if you haven’t seen this video it is the long version of a shorter video that we saw right after the [tag]Anna Nicole Smith death[/tag]. Remember the one where she was all painted up like a clown out on the street pushing around an empty baby buggy? That one was all the rage at the time, every headline screaming [tag]Anna Nicole Smith exposed video[/tag]! Anna Nicole Smith exposed video! It was weird and now I see totally taken out of context.

That is not to say that the truth behind the makeup is any less sad. So it starts out as a day with a friends little girl, a play date they called it. The little girl is 9 and she painted her face in the vid, that is why she looked like that.

As you watch the Anna Nicole Smith video you can see a shift in her personality. She goes from being coherent to being slurry and weird and all the while you hear Howard K Stern directing the camera man as to what to catch and what not to catch. He even tell her to put her boob back in her blouse when it falls out so that the film can be used later. Rather than be called the Smith exposed video this should be called the Howard K Stern exposed video. It makes me sick to see a human being like Anna so…well basically used up and destroyed by a terrible person like him.

I used to think he was evil incarnate, then I started thinking maybe he wasn’t so bad and now that I heard his voice saying how this will make millions as he watched her pretend a doll was her baby I know he is nothing more than a lump of shit that she unfortunately got stuck to the bottom of her shoe. You know the kind that gets in all the grooves and just won’t get out no matter how you rub and scrub? That is him and if you watch the her exposed video you will see it for yourself. The little girl is seen in the Anna Nicole Smith vid begging Howard to do something, to help Anna.

She even tells him at one point that he needs to call the hospital “please!” she says, “please Howard, please!” and did he, no, he just kept filming and asking her stupid questions to make her look more and more demented on film. Oh and did I mention that the girl has even told her dad that Anna was fine until Howard K Stern pulled out a bottle of pills and fed some to Anna before taping? You can bet your life that it was no coincidence that he got her drugged up while pregnant and taped it. He had something planned, too bad for him she died before he could pull it out of his sleeve.

Seeing this woman like that, and having had a substance abuse problem myself, it made me tear up. It was so heartbreaking to see her worry over the doll, the poor 9 year old was trying to show her that it wasn’t real by showing Anna the batteries and Anna was just begging, “don’t open the baby’s insides, don’t do that.” She had become the child and it wasn’t her fault, she was fed drugs by the people in her life, we all know that now. She was in a vulnerable place and people like Howard K Stern took advantage of her and made tapes like this Anna Nicole exposed vid. I don’t know what they planned for but they all contributed to the Anna Nicole Smith death and I hope they all go to hell where they belong. Bastards.

Oh and that ass Geraldo who kept calling her pathetic Anna this and pathetic Anna that, it was so rude. She was sad Anna in this.

Poor Smith was sad and taken advantage of, not pathetic. Asshole.

October 22nd, 2007

The Perfect Movie Gone Baby Gone Movie Spoilers Included

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Gone Baby Gone movie

I just watched the Gone Baby Gone movie yesterday and I have to say I am amazed at it on all fronts. This was by far one of the best movies I have watched in a long time and I don’t want to give all the credit to the writer of the book Denis Lehane. I’ve watched a lot of movies that were books first and more often than not the movie was lacking, but definitely not in the case of Gone Baby Gone.

Let’s start with [tag]Ben Affleck[/tag]. I like the guy, he seems like a nice bloke and he was good in Hollywoodland but beyond that he has made a lot of questionable choices insofar as his movie choices, we can all agree on that. But in his directorial debut, this Gone Baby Gone movie, he shines like never before. He did a flawless job directing this movie, Clint Eastwood or Steven Spielberg could not have done better if they tried.

But it is the story itself that is both so intriguing, moving and disturbing. The [tag]Gone Baby Gone movie[/tag] is definitely one that is going to haunt you for days. I was up last night just going over everything in my head over and over again. The choices that were made were all so powerful and they all had such insanely huge consequences that it drives you nuts. If only the uncle had trusted his wife or chosen a shittier PI, or if the cop had kept his mouth shut while he was drunk everything would have ended up differently and it’s so frustrating. But the fact of the matter is that any movie that gets you so involved, so invested is a good one, one that has been acted superbly and directed perfectly.

[tag]Casey Affleck[/tag] was the perfect person to play his character in the Gone Baby Gone movie. He is a baby faced actor of slight frame but he is so goddamn tough in this movie that you just want to both hug him and rip off his clothes at the same time. He is so ultimately good and yet he kills a man without a second thought–not that the guy didn’t deserve it, he was a child killer.

But then later in the movie he does what you cannot argue is the right thing but is so awful at the same time. He does what is certainly not in the little girls best interest because to do otherwise would be wrong and he can’t live with that, even though it leaves him alone and full of guilt. I can’t help but think that if he hadn’t killed the kid rapist and felt that wrongness and that shame he would have been able to live with leaving the little girl where she was later on down the road. He just couldn’t live with the two wrongs on his conscience, but really chances are he will not be able to live with his right decision either.

The end of the Gone Baby Gone movie is magnificent, you see him alone living with what he had done and then the last line when he realizes how little the mom cared about her daughter–she didn’t even know the name of her favorite dolly– the one he worked so hard to bring back all he can do is stare and you can feel his heart breaking. And then it’s over.

The Gone Baby Gone movie is such a painful movie but not for the reason you would think. It’s not painful because the adorable little girl dies but because she lives and the private detective hired to find her and bring her home actually does. That is the tragedy of the story.

October 20th, 2007

Chris Crocker is One Beautiful and Sexy Beastess

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Chris Crocker
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Since I wrote about my opinion on the whole [tag]Britney Spears[/tag] debacle yesterday it got me thinking about that guy on youtube who did the whole crying fit, you the guy, his name’s Chris Crocker. He is definitely an interesting personality. That crying jag turned him into a pseudo celebrity overnight.

I first heard the screaming and the ranting on the radio and of course I had to go home and look it up. I was shocked to see how genuinely upset the guy was about how everyone was tearing down Britney for her MTV Video Awards performance. I mean, did this [tag]Chris Crocker[/tag] see the video? I have watched a lot of zombie movies in my time but Britney really took the cake on stage, especially since she used to really rock it back in the day.

Anyways, I found that Chris Crocker video to be downright frightening but I started watching some of his other [tag]youtube videos[/tag] as well and not all of them were as scary as that one. There was the odd frightfest like the eat my cornhole vid, wow. But in others he was very beautiful, smart, funny and in my opinion as sensible as hell. I think that the guy has a lot to offer in terms of helping people realize that “normal” is a bunch of bullshit.

But you know the thing I noticed most in just about all of Chris Crocker videos on youtube was his flawless makeup. Holy sh*t, if I could make my eye shadow look that good I would never stay home. I would be out on the town flaunting my beauty all day and all night.

He might be one crazy mother f*cker with serious Britney Spears issues but he’s got good points to make and he is one hot and beautiful boy. I mean Crocker is really really pretty, I am uber jealous.

If you want to experience Chris for yourself just look up itschriscrocker on YouTube and you will find them all easily.


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October 20th, 2007

I figured out the whole breast cancer thing: Men and Boobage

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breast cancer breasts

I now know why breast cancer is the pretty much the only cancer that gets all the attention and the money for treatment and I can’t believe it took me this long to figure it out. The reason that the big mucky mucks are fighting so hard to [tag]end breast cancer[/tag] and get rid of breast cancer breasts is that:

They are mostly men who are obsessed with boobs. They don’t want women walking around with no tits, what kind of world would that be? So they are trying to just say NO to [tag]breast cancer breasts[/tag] all together, no half a pair for them, no flat lumpy flesh, they want the whole shebang and in order to do that they need to eradicate this cancer all together so that they never have to worry about their wives getting a tit or two lopped off and leaving them empty handed.

So they pour the money in to keep the titties on the chicks where they belong so they can be groped into eternity. A HA! See it’s not about saving lives, it about saving boobs and keeping the shredded and gouged breast cancer breasts out of the picture so men have something to play with.

That is why things like prostate cancer don’t get addressed, very few people play with their prostates. Dammit, it was staring me in the face all along.

October 16th, 2007

Look, I’m Really Sorry But Football Just Has To GO

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Elizabeth Hasselbeck

I really am very sorry indeed, I know you like football and all but it has to go. It is time that this manly sport took it’s final bow and bid adieu to the world at large.

The reason you ask? Well, the reason is simple: football has to get the f*uck off of my screen because it is eating into the other programming–by other I mean good and worth watching. In other words programming that I like. Now I know how you feel about football and I know it will be a hard break but you will thank me for it in the end. Once you get the opportunity to see what I see when football is not on the air you will rejoice and be shocked at how plebeian your life was before football went off the air.

Football only leads to misery. Look at [tag]Elizabeth Hasselbeck[/tag], ew you don’t want to end up like her do you? She is a snobby little republican god spouter and you all know that cannot end well. They should make posters up with her picture on it that say: THIS is what happens when you watch too much [tag]football[/tag] and then perhaps other women will think twice about tuning in to this good tv destroying phenomenon.

You have no idea how it pains me to flip to my channel to watch one of my coveted shows only to find there are a bunch of fat looking guys running around the field patting each other on the ass. Now if they took off the padding, the helmets and the shirts, well then that would be another story, but they don’t, sadly they don’t.

The only good thing about football is the fumbles, I love a good fumble, I bet even Elizabeth Hasselback enjoys a good fumble. Unfortunately the dumb oafs just don’t fumble the goddamn ball enough to keep me interested so alas, it is time to say goodbye. Goodbye fair football, may you rest in peace.

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October 15th, 2007

Whoever Said Skulls Were Ugly Never Saw This Diamond Skull

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diamond skull

I am in a morbid mood today so this diamond skull obviously appealed to me. I actually saw it for the first time a few months ago. I think it is absolutely gorgeous, I have always wanted to start a skull collection, I mean one of real skulls but I would never be able to afford to add this type of one to my collection! Wow!

I have some books at home filled with [tag]jeweled skulls[/tag], they apparently go all through history. It has always been an important ceremonial type thing to decorate skulls but this diamond skull definitely takes the cake.

This sparkling [tag]diamond skull[/tag] was created by the genius mind of [tag]Damien Hirst[/tag]–I know I’ve never heard of him either but he is apparently a big shot in the jewelry world. Man, I would do a lot for just one of these diamonds on their own, never mind the cool setting.

It turns out that the material under the diamonds is not the real skull. What they did was make a mold of an actual skull and then use that to embed the diamonds. The teeth though, those are the read deal. It’s still pretty cool if you ask me, definitely the nicest looking diamond skull I have had the opportunity to see.

Now all I have to do is see it in real, can you imagine how the diamond skull sparkles in real? There are no words. In fact this diamond skull is considered to be close to priceless, it is such a work of art that many say it would sell for at least $100 million if not more. It is hard to price such unique items.