Being an actor I lurk on and sometimes post on the IMDb Shop Talk Actor's MB and as often happens with IMDb MBs you get your share of winners. Little 14 year olds who desperately want to be stars actresses but can't bother to learn how to spell first.

This week we have a member of the board who thinks he's the next Brad Pitt and goes on and on and on about his potential. Some of the older posters tell him he ain't all that and a bag of chips.

My personal favorite line:

My mama died when I was 11, and I told her that I would be
a Big Star someday, in her honor.

I weep, maybe someday when he's a big star they'll make a biopic and Glenn Close can play his Mama.

Small but amusing.

Remind me to stay on your good side.


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Some fine wank from the usual suspect at The Haven. Seems somebody had the balls to call the pompous git Unbound out on his crap. It wasn't taken well by his flock. Heh.

Lemme ask a question here? Why is a sports reporter from Nowheresville, USA the ultimate expert when it comes to entertainment news? Because he can do research and web searches? So can I and I, ladies and gentleman, am a monkey.

I finally went to see Avenue Q last night. And I must say, best.musical.ever.

There is even a song in it that was clearly written just for me - it's called "Schadenfreude."

Who dares me to get this t-shirt? And wear it no less?

Well?

Gah!

Doesn't this thread completely contradict this thread?

Oh Cow, you and your Cowlets are such, silly, silly, scary women.

Super Size Me, a new documentary, looks like it could be the next The Jungle. Spread the word and lets all try never to eat fast food again.

Because some of the facts are staggering:

These facts? Uh, Not So Fun.

Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant

In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion

McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain

French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America

You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac

In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour

60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese

One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime

Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America

Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility, and lower back pain

The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year

Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar

Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for being too fat

McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us

Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life

McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods"

The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic

Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health

McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy Users"

McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents

Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's

Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic"

Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month

40% of American meals are eaten outside the home

McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market

Update on sick boyfriend. He apparently has a low grade bacterial infection and is being put on a course of 4 different anti-biotics for two weeks each. Plus he has developed fibrosis in the lungs and scar tissue in the lungs is never a good thing. He is also back on short term disability. </p>

Sigh. I worry, I can't help it.

On a totally different topic, I'm reading His Dark Materials and found this quiz:


Your HARE DAEMON represents your passive,
kindhearted, and honorable nature. Though you
are occasionally shy with new people, friends
admire your unshakable tranquility, even in the
face of chaos.


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Sigh, just sort of frustrated today. Boyfriend is still sick and we really don't know what's wrong except that it isn't cancer. This of course is wonderful news, but it's very (as in VERY) frustrating not knowing what's wrong with his lungs and how and if we can cure it. </p>

I'm also tired and headachy and need to lose about 30 pounds.

Upside? Little things still make me happy - like the sweet watch I got from Bloomingdales that is a knock off of this Hermes watch which I've been lusting after (my friend has one) for months. I also got a similar one from Delia's.com and I'm told that Swatch sells them as well so I thought I'd check out the big store in Times Square one day this week.

I know I shouldn't be spending money but sometimes it's my only outlet and helps with the frustration and stress of everyday life.

Or I could just be stupid.

That was the most boring, long winded, anti-climatic, full of fugly dresses, unfunny (I'm looking at you Billy Crystal - SHUT UP) Oscar telecast eva. </p>

If I wasn't in a room full of snarky people and yummy food I would have fallen asleep in the first 15 minutes.

The only decent (as in watchable not tear out my eyes in pain) was Jack Black and Eugene and Catherine.

What the hell was Uma (the link keeps changing) wearing? I thought we got rid of those handkerchiefs when we put my Grandma in the home.

Your Superhero Persona by couplandesque
Your Name
Superhero Name	Caffeine Boy
Super Power	Severe Mood Swings
Enemy	The Gangsta
Mode Of Transportation	Unicycle
Weapon	Scissors
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Regarding The Passion of Christ (or whatever it's called) it's not so much the actual movie that bothers me but the reaction. As a Jew, I don't think I'm ready to be called a Chirst Killer. </p>

What year is it again? According to CrazyMelGibson I guess it's the middle ages.

Oy.

And just for the fun:


You are a complete literary geek, from knowing the
classics (even the not-so-well-known classics
and tidbits about them) to knowing devices used
in writing, when someone has a question about
literature, they can bring it to you and rest
assured; you know the answers.


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After watching a wonderful Larry King Live with Chad Allen, Mayor Gavin Newsome, Pastor John MacArthur, and Rep. Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado on the proposed Anti Gay Marriage Amendment I listened to Lou Reed's New York album and the song "There is no Time" struck me as particularly appropriate to the situation.

Here are the lyrics:

This is no time for celebration
This is no time for shaking heads
This is no time for backslapping
This is no time for marching bands

This is no time for optimism
This is no time for endless thought
This is no time for my country right or wrong
Remember what that brought

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

This is no time for congratulations
This is no time to turn your back
This is no time for circumlocution
This is no time for learned speech

This is no time to count your blessings
This is no time for private gain
This is no time to put up or shut up
It won’t no time to come back this way again

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

This is no time to swallow anger
This is no time to ignore hate
This is no time to be acting frivolous
Because the time is getting late

This is no time for private vendettas
This is no time to not know who you are
Self knowledge is a dangerous thing
The freedom of who you are

This is no time to ignore warnings
This is no time to clear the plate
Let’s not be sorry after the fact
And let the past become out fate

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

This is no time to turn away and drink
Or smoke some vials of crack
This is a time to gather force
And take dead aim and attack

This is no time for celebration
This is no time for saluting flags
This is no time for inner searchings
The future is at head

This is no time for phony rhetoric
This is no time for political speech
This is a time for action
Because the future’s within reach

This is the time
This is the time
This is the time
Because there is no time

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time


There is no time to waste time but to take action and get Bush out of office. Let’s take our rights back. This country was founded on the principals of tolerance and equality for all, not just for the white male Republican gun owner heterosexual.

It's time....

First go here Flowers for Al and Don for an opportunity to donate money via paypal to buy flowers for the couples being married in San Francisco and go to Dear Mary.com for an opportunity to send an email to Mary Cheney, VP Dick "Criminal" Cheney's out-Lesbian daughter and campaign manager, about the Constitutional amendment her dad's boss is proposing.

Okay now a neat little story.

A while ago I found this website dedicated to the 'beautiful' section of the Bronx where I grew up. Now I'd be the first to admit that Co-Op City isn't the most beautiful place in the world but I had a neat little childhood. I hung out with a gang of kids who lived nearby in the same townhouse court.

Anyway, I've been sort of lurking (only posting rarely) on the message board of the site above (huge shout out to CasalsK for giving Co-Op residents and former COC residents an on-line place to meet up with each other) and I've seen a lot of familiar names but none of the aforementioned gang. Until yesterday. I noticed a thread about a family I knew pretty well and who lived in the same court I did. So I posted asking about the younger son who I had been friends with and what good times we (I mentioned names of the whole gang) had when we were kids. I had heard that John, the younger son, had been in a bad car accident and wasn't the same since. Sadly this is true and somebody posted that he sees John once in a while and he wasn't the John we were friends with back in the day.

After that post another poster jumped in the mix and reiterated what good times we all had and that she used to spend every Saturday night over at a friend’s house and mentioned me by name. I pretty much guessed who she was through process of elimination and it was a girl I knew quite well.

Meanwhile the first poster emailed me and it turned out to be a guy who was one of the kids from the court and we were speculated on the identity of the third poster. I thought it was his sister but he said that he wasn't sure if she even knew about the website. Well turns out I was right it was his sister.

So a brother and sister posted at the same time on the same board without knowing and I happened to have been pretty good friends with both of them when we were all kids.

Nice coincidence huh?

The brother works about 10 blocks away from me so we'll definitely be having lunch together soon, the sister lives upstate but I hope to see her as well sometime in the future.

I like when things like this happen. To me things like this fulfill the potential of the internet.

And make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

You're Watership Down!

by Richard Adams

Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're

actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their

assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they

build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd

be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits.

Take the Book Quiz

at the Blue Pyramid.

and

You're Russia!

You don't expect much out of life and, in return, life doesn't

give you much. You probably drink too much, you go back and forth about

religion, about war and peace, about just about everything. This isn't

your fault, though, you're not indecisive so much as oppressed. Don't

worry, though, it could always be worse than it is. You could be stuck

on Mir.
Take

the Country Quiz at the

A friend's father suggested we send this (or something like it) to Ralph Nader's website

"I am concerned and distressed by Mr. Nader's decision to run as an independent candidate in the 2004 Presidential election. The fact that I agree with most of Mr. Nader's analysis of the current crisis in American representative democracy, only serves to deepen my despair at his most shortsighted decision. Like Kurt von Schleicher and Franz von Papen during the last days of the Weimar Republic, Mr. Nader has chosen to ignore the immediate threat from the right in order to advance his personal agenda. A victory by the current administration may very well initiate the final destruction of American democracy and thereby vitiate any possibility of advancing the ideals to which Mr. Nader has dedicated his professional life. I urge Mr. Nader to reconsider his candidacy and rededicate himself to the removal of the Bush administration as the necessary first step in defeating the corporate oligarchy and re-establishing truly representative democratic institutions and processes in this country. If Mr. Nader should persist with this independent candidacy, I fear that history will judge his actions no more kindly than those of the myopic German politicians of the second and third decades of the 20th century who failed to perceive the immediate nature of the threat constituted by a regime that espoused security and order at the expense of individual freedom."

I think this is a wonderful idea.

ETA, Sombody pointed out that this letter flirts with Godwin's Law and while I would usually agree and never go near Godwin's law I think that if those of us opposed to Mr. Nader's actions send his website a missive with a sentiment like the above (without mentioning the Weimar Republic) it would be just as good as the above.

This is simply the best idea ever. It makes me feel good to be human when I read something like this.

You are a Bitch.


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Yay!

More fun in '04!

Yesterday at 5AM I was awoken by crazy!drunken!gospelsingingbadly!screamingfightswithboyfriend! downstairs neighbor. Just like many mornings during the last 4 and a half months.

I banged my foot on the floor as I've done in the past and instead of shutting up as she has done in the past she yelled threats at me through the ceiling.

She said that I 'don't love Jesus' (which I'll give her since I'm, you know, Jewish) and that she 'had something for me' and that she was going 'to give me something'. I wonder if it was a cake or something yummy. Maybe it was a bible and a few trips with her to church on Sundays. If she isn't drunk off her ass of course.

Needless to say I was hella scared. I grabbed my most valuable possession, the bear (shut up, he can't be replaced) and my cell phone (in case I had to call 911 on the way out) and went to work.

I then proceeded to write a letter to the landlord describing the incident and both faxed and mailed it to him and to call the rental agent and broke my lease.

In conclusion I'll be moving in the (sweetest ever) boyfriend a few months earlier than planned. Like yesterday night.

Yup, I'm now officially living in sin.

As is the bear. With the other bear Rufus.

It's a long story don't ask.

Yup, more fun in '04 for Ruby!

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As a respite from all the crazy shit that's been going on in my sad little existence lately I went out and bought myself three shiny new CDs today.

Outkast's Speakerboxxx

Norah Jones' Feels like Home

and

that fierce bitch (TM mamabraxas on FameTracker) herself, my girl Courtney Love's new America's Sweetheart.

I'm listening to Miss Thang first. And loving it. At first I thought it sounded a lot (A LOT!) like Celebrity Skin but from track 4 ("Sunset Strip") on it is blowing me the freak away.

Here is a really nice review of the album in Newsday. (Second review down)
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This makes me happy, I so love my angry girl rock.