( thoughts on the movies, quite long and rambling, behind a cut for your convenience )

unggghhh...i keep reading the news and it keeps being depressing. i could name some stories but it doesn't matter ( Read more... )

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well, I had my last class today. it was a crappy discussion section. it felt really good to leave and never have to go back. I still have a paper to write by Monday and two finals, but i feel pretty much done, which is very strange. i don't really feel good yet. i don't think that will happen until well after the graduation ceremony and my family ( Read more... )

dangerous thinspiration: There's no such thing as too thin on pro-anorexia web sites.

man, i had the foolish, foolish urge to look some of these up after reading this article. one thing i can say for them: they did make me want to vomit. but not to make myself thinner ( Read more... )

The Simulator.

Dear Tom Cruise,

Please quit deriding psychiatry and the use of psychiatric medication. I saw clips of you on Oprah and you are a nutcase. You jumped up and down on a couch and then tried to tackle Oprah, or break her fingers or something, I'm not quite sure. I know promoting a summer blockbuster, I mean being in love, can make people act crazy. ( Read more... )

I have a secret addiction.

That addiction is reading bad reviews of movies on Rotten Tomatoes.

Opening this weekend, Adam Sandler's The Longest Yard:

"An odious, detestable work spreading hate and venom..."The Longest Yard" has an evil and putrid secret agenda."

"...a repulsive celebration of everything that's sickening and ugly and hideous ( Read more... )

*yaaaaaaawn ( Read more... )

( A New York Times article about recent events in Uzbekistan, to which I referred in my last post. )