Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Criminal Acts of Entertainment: I Know Who Killed Me

*possible spoilers*

Tonight I watched I Know Who Killed Me starring Lindsay Lohan...it left me feeling violated and abused. That is not a good feeling.
I know it's easy to see Lindsay Lohan's name attached to something and give a sort of pre-emptive inner cringeI started to feel uncomfortable from the start.

Very early on in the movie we see Lindsay Lohan giving the most unconvincing stripper act I've ever seen...Has this girl ever been to a titty bar? Do a little research before hand, and if you're playing a stripper but you never get nekkid, just leave out the stripper scenes and allude to your former profession.

Next we see that stripper girl is a "promising writer" tho she seems barely able to read out loud, and a budding musician, which is equally unconvincing. What the hell is going on here? we wonder...a whole hell of a lot actually. Some cockamamie bullshit or so later it all unfolds. This, my friends, is no sixth sense, it broadcasts it's "twist" almost from the start.

No finesse, subtlety seems to have been considered a four lettered word on this production.

I could have forgiven Lindsay's flawless wooden delivery. Seeing her as a double amputee almost seemed to make up for that. The double amputee sex scene....mind boggling. All of this could have been forgiven; but the utter inanity, the relentless disregard for intelligent story telling gave me that dirty feeling inside.

WHY? why would someone make this movie. It is made a much more horrorful experience as you feel the sincerity with which this drivel was made. It has that love-child feeling, that feeling that the players in this fiasco really believed in what they were doing, and that they were approaching it with all the seriousness of making an actual good movie.

Even the ending was worthless. Although it did hold a bittersweet allure, in that it meant the caca posing as art was over. Utter crap. Everyone who was involved in this shit fest should be flogged...except for LiLo...forgive her oh lord for she knows now what she do.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Love Thy Neighbor

In 1999, Steven and Donna Graham started having marital problems and by 2000 Steven had moved out of the house that he owns with his wife, and into a car parked in the back yard. Power siphoned from the house via an extension cord allows Steve to enjoy the pleasures of television, radio and an oscillating fan from the comforts of his home...i mean car.

Seems like the ideal life doesn't it? I mean Steven doesn't seem bitter at his circumstances, he understands that his wife didn't want to support his no job having, laze around the house doing nothing lifestyle.

Steven eats, sleeps, relaxes, watches tv, listens to loud music and plays his guitar in the car...his neighbors, the Sanders, say everything one does in their house, Steven does in his car or the back yard. And therein lies the problem. According to the Sanders for the past 7 years Steven has been living in the backyard and using said black yard as his toilet. He burns waste that wafts with the aroma of burning excrement.

They have called the police on him several times and are trying to get a law passed to prevent this type of living arrangement. The Sanders had been the only neighbors that had a problem with Steven's uncommon living situation, but they say all that is going to change as more families with children move into the area.

For the record Steven, who according to the Sanders never goes into the house, says that he does not use the backyard as his toilet facilities...
"No, I go elsewhere," he said. "I don't expose myself to people."

Sunday, August 5, 2007

How do you get a snake from a tree? You shoot it out of course.


Today I read a story that really pissed me off.

In Noble, Oklahoma a resident called the police to report a large snake in a tree.

Why they gave a damn about a snake being in a tree was beyond me. Two officers responded to the scene and tried various means to dislodge the snake, but the snake remained firmly lodged in the tree, hissing at the people who were messing with it.

Then one of these geniuses decided that they would shoot it out of the tree. They shot once and missed...shot a second time and they made a killing. It wasn't the snake they managed to kill though, it was 5 year old Austin Haley who was fishing at a nearby lake with his Grandfather. Of course they are "investigating". They haven't released the cop who fired the shot's name. He's on PAID administrative leave.

So you shot a little boy and you're on a paid vacation. Sweet.

If a regular person had killed a child trying to shoot a damn snake out of a tree they would be sitting in a jail cell charged with negligent homicide, abuse of a child resulting in death, involuntary manslaughter, with their name, address and mugshot plastered all over the news...but this cop, who should know better, kills a child and is on a paid vacation with his identity protected. To me that is absolutely sickening.

Ownage *graphic and disturbing

Friday, August 3, 2007

The Missing: Michael Austin Davis (26)

Michael Austin Davis caught a cab one day, just a little over a month from today, and he hasn't been seen since. When he disappeared on June 25, 2007, Michael was headed to pay some outstanding tickets and get his car out of impound...he had $1400 in cash on his person. The cab driver recalls Michael, remebers picking Michael up, but where he left Michael he cannot recall.
Michael is 5'8" @16o, brown hair, blue eyes. His smile is stellar and he has the most adorable dimples. He was depressed and under stress at the time that he went missing and his family has reason to believe that he may have headed to Georgia. His family wants him back, want to know that he is ok.

If you think you've seen or know Michael please contact:

JSO Missing Persons Unit (904) 230-2627 or
Michael's Family (904) 375-1900 or (850)340-0440

Hush Little Baby Don't You Cry

This has been a heartbreaking week. Mothers leaving their children in cars, one so she could go to work after the baby sitter fell through, another mother forgot to drop her baby off at the daycare center before going to work. Both parents returned to their cars to find their children dead from the heat.
We also have some drugged up wrecks who's children ingested all sorts of dangerous drugs, such as the mom who bought 10 hits of LSD that came as Sweet Tarts. This contender for mother of the year passed out and when she woke up her toddler was holding the pack and saying how much she likes that type of candy. She'd eaten two.
Or the mother who's twin babies were given Ecstasy and Methamphetamine. She's on the run now and her infants are in child protective custody. I really have to say I think they are probably better off without her in their lives, hopefully she hasn't ruined them forever by giving them poison.

And these stories only scratch the surface. What the hell is wrong with people?