Catching Up: Where to begin?
After two months of surgery effectively lobotomizing my Sparkgrass efforts, I'm opening the following four months of neurology, family practice, and pediatrics won't keep me away from the self-therapy of the keystroke. I'm not sure where to even start catching up.
Sandra Day O'Connor gone, and Alberto Gonzalez 'not conservative enough' because he isn't sufficiently retarded on a women's right to choose, and not because, say, he thinks torture is just one hammer in the toolbox?
And Karl Rove was one of the Plummer-Time leaks? Whodathunkit?
Not going to bother to link the political stories, as they're ubiquitous enough.
Squirrel Nut Zippers. Yum.
Harry Potter July 16th!
Pink Floyd cum whiny Socialist bass player at Live 8, and I didn't even have the awareness to watch it!
Land of the Dead rules. Batman is pretty damn good. I'm going to try to avoid War of the Worlds as long as possible, pending Tom Cruise gets one of those newfangled brain transplants.
Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien... is there something wrong with me that the Hispanic foreign films are just NOT doing it for me? Do folks south of the border live such slow paced lives that they celebrate these incredibly poorly paced films? I mean, I'm all for focusing on the lives of poor folk, and contrasting that with spoiled rich kids, but come on! Speaking in Spanish and making the film two hours long isn't enough to turn an after-school special into such critically acclaimed work. Maybe I've just been doing too much catching up on foreign films lately (since I never really bothered with them until just a few months ago, making me a sub-par film snob).
Randolph Morris and Kelenna Azubuike both took huge whiffs from the NBA draft. Serves you selfish bastards right. But Morris might be coming back? Geez. Maybe if he visits the Grinch and learns how to grow a heart.
Back to regularly scheduling blogging soon enough. I don't really have the heart to launch into the pressing matter, the O'Connor resignation, until Bush actually nominates some hellacious nightmare candidate. Bo links to Bush's best strategical bet on the whole matter *tongue-in-cheek.* I hope that the educated, non-stone age conservatives (such as Mr. Cowgill himself) will put their party interests aside for the moment and make enough noise to promote at least a fairly socially moderate appointee who won't set social progress back fifty years. O'Connor was hardly a champion of women's rights, but she seemed reasonable often enough. And reasonable is a pretty lovely trait in a Supreme Court Justice.
So, July 4th = laundry, vaccuuming, dishes, and probably a trip to Meijer for groceries. Then back in the habit tomorrow, except my days of showing up to the hospital at 4:30 AM should be on temporary hiatus.
9 comments:
Batman had ninjas, Liam Neeson without a light saber, and Katie Holmes never said one thing about psychiatry, except that choda boy / scarecrow was a bad dude. Given his 11/10 on the pussy factor scale, I thought the douchebag on his head was sorta funny.
Given its genre, those are the only things it needed to qualify as pretty cool.
All Land of the Dead needed to be cool was to have George Romero's name on it and not have me pass out in the middle of it.
Zombies and ninjas. These things are automatic bonus points for any movie, and save many shitty movies from near disaster by them. Pirates and monkeys are similar, though secondary, automatic bonuses for movies.
One day I'll make a movie about a zombie ninja pirate invasion and become a millionaire.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one boycotting Tom Cruise!! Congrats on finishing surgery :)
so, you are essentially boycotting a film because the actor doesn't believe the same things you believe, or rather has become a tad obssessed with his ideals, and has started criticing others in reference to them. I am sorry, but you do that quite a bit in this blog.
You can't be dissing old H.G. Wells for the sake of an actor. Hell, I boycotted Harry Potter for years due to the popularity and insanity that seems to come with it, look what I missed out on.
Boycotting this for passionate political reason is good; boycotting entertainment because of their expense or poor quality is also comendable; boycotting a movie because the actors are a bit eccentric, is like giving up Faulkner because he was a heavy drinker.
Soon, we will all be damning the rock n' roll bands and all music due to the lifestyle of their composers/preformers and we will then be forced to listen only to Franz Liszt the rest of our lives.
Besides, a good bit of what Tom Cruise is saying is very good advise. I don't know why people are condeming him. He is essentially saying that a reliance upon drugs as help is bad. Hell, ask any doctor, they prescribe medicine, sure, but they do not think that medicine is the complete answer. There is no cure all, and a large part of healing is up to your body. Medicines help your body to heal, to overcome things which may ultimately be too dangerous for it, but they aren't the cure in themselves. Yes, many people do need medicines to help them along, but today nearly everyone thinks, or rather seeks a quick fix and thinks the magic elixer is out there in the little pills, or cough syrup or whatever.
This is in part a societal issue. We have become to caught up in the need for something else to control our fate. We get sick, medicine to sure; we get hurt, lawyer to sue; we get fired, government to get us a job; we feel insecure, church to guide us. Many doctors are refreshed by foriegners in the US who come into their offices, listen to what advice is being given, and then change their lifestyle to correct that, whether it means more exercise, a different diet, or just time to wait and see it through, whereas most patients want a pill, or a shot. Many patients get better with a shot because they think they are going to get better with it. We need out quick fix, our help. No one earns anything anymore, God guides them, the right pills make them better, or any number of things along the path.
I think Tom Cruise is just attacking (harshly, true) something that really does need to be examined, and that is a dependence on help, a waving of responsabilities.
sorry, had to rant about something.
kevin out.
While Mr. Cruise is silly, and his religion more than a little odd (who am I to talk?), I have so many peers who are using anti-depressants without any kind of therapy help. Still being at all close to E. Ky., I'm sure Mr. Sparks can estimate just how many anecdotes I have...
Kevin, Tom Cruise isn't saying that people are over-relying on drugs or any valid criticisms of current trends in mental health treatment, he's saying psychiatry is bad bad bad because L. Ron Hubbard said so to make a few bucks off of Hollywood types who have the money to throw money at whatever bullshit ideas they want. His statements are pure irresponsibility, unless you think that mental illness is purely inorganic, or that vitamins will cure people of schizophrenia.
Yes, people overuse and misuse prescription drugs in many cases. But you know who doesn't overuse or misuse them? The people who often need them the most.
If you want to have a valid debate about over reliance on medications for mild mental health problems, that's fine, and we'd probably be on the same boat. But for some scientology douchebag to tell the world that post-partum depression isn't a real, organic disease, well, that's just the work of a real jackass.
I'll watch it when it comes out on DVD. I just think I'd sit there and be pissed as hell the whole time I watched the movie. I saw Batman the other day, and wanted to throw things at Katie Holmes the whole time. I don't need to spend another nine bucks to be pissed off at a screen because the person on the screen is borderline retarded about a field I have vested interest in.
And Kyle, while I agree that the most effective therapy for depression would tend to involve therapy along with drugs, it's better to have a kid on drugs with no therapy than a kid dead in the emergency room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
And I think it's also important that, while we can talk about trends in medicine, individuals are individuals, and individuals need individual care. Treatment plans are matters of negotiation, and in a field where the separation between disease and illness is very very blurred, I think it's difficult to unilaterally criticize drug usage.
Tom Cruise is still an idiot.
Good points. My question: why would anybody think to ask Tom Cruise what he thinks about anyone's post-partum depression, seeing how he's neither a doctor nor a woman...?
Through statcounter, I noticed someone got to this site by searching "tom cruise idiot." My work is done :0)
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