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Wednesday night, pathetically anxious about American Idol
A couple of things I wanted to talk about--first of all, crime. Local crime. Times is hard, and it's getting a little scary out there. My parents were at Publix doing the weekly grocery shopping last weekend, and there was, like, a gang rumble in the parking lot while they were getting into the car. Like, groups of people chasing each other around and smashing bottles and calling for getaway cars ("Come and get me, man! You gotta come pick me up, man!" An effective gangbanger should always provide his own ride, I always say). All while my stepfather's standing at the cart return with his hands on his hips going, "Huh." ("George, GET IN THE CAR!")
In a scarier incident, my aunt was in the parking lot of the Wildwood Wal-Mart when a stranger approached her and demanded a dollar. She said no--I don't know how to explain it in print, exactly, but you know how there's asking people money and then there's threatening ways of asking people for money? This was one of those Prelude to a Purse-Snatching ways. Something you need to know about my aunt, by the way: she's an inner-city kindergarten teacher, and she doesn't put up with shit. "I think you can give me a dollar," he says, edging closer. "I think you need to get a job," she fires off. He edges closer: "I think you're going to give me a dollar." My mother's telling me this story and I'm kind of freaking out at this point, but fortunately, one of the Wal-Mart employees came up to my aunt and said, "Ma'am, is this man bothering you?" And then the employee recognized the man, because he had just tried to snatch someone else's purse a few minutes earlier and they were still looking for him. This is all in the middle of the day, by the way.
"It's the economy," my mother said. "People are having to choose between food and gas, they just can't pay for both. They're getting desperate."
Well, then there's the other thing that happened to my cousin--same aunt: her daughter. My cousin was walking home and parted ways with a friend a street or so away from their house, when she noticed this white SUV was following her. Like, really closely. Really slowly. All the way up her street. My cousin has a very small build, so she often looks younger than she actually is (she's graduating high school this month, but she could probably pass for early teens if you weren't looking closely); maybe the creep in the car thought she was a much younger girl, I don't know. Maybe he didn't care. So this SUV follows her up the street, and she's freaking out this point, so she runs up her driveway, and the car follows her what the hell. Like, up this long steep hill to her back door. Fortunately my cousin was able to get in safely, and the car fled, but what the hell? The world is a scary place, and you can't always blame it on the economy.
WSJ reporter behind the scenes of the Uma Thurman stalker case--as a juror.
Hollywood producers blast actors over Internet clips issue.
Superheroes pack a punch at the Met.
Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds.
Portishead returns after 10-year hiatus.
Fly u foolz!!; you killed a man? I jus scratch sofa; draw me lyke 1 of ur french grls. I laughed for about five minutes at that last one, by the way.
'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Poster, Trailer Debuting This Week; Star Wars Saga Has An End -- And An Ever-Expanding Middle.
Cloverfield Is Dead? Long Live Cloverfield! (JJ Abrams confirms Clovie's fate... I think); Manga Boy Rides On Cloverfield Monster's Head. "With everyone clamoring for the death of little Kishin, there only seems to be one way out: ride the Cloverfield monster to safety, of course." This is an official tie-in, y'all.
Images: The X Files: I Want To Believe New Poster (I think a different link for it didn't work for some folks yesterday); First Look: 'G.I. Joe's' Destro, Storm Shadow, General Hawk, Breaker, The Baroness and Heavy Duty; 9 new 'WALL•E' photos; First photos of Meryl Streep as Julia Child; Check Out the First Official Production Photo from 'Milk'; 007 In Austria: 'This is so Bond.'
Clips and trailers: New Narnia Clips Online At IESB.net; First Trailer for Animated Igor Movie.
Scott 'Cyclops' Summers Appearing in 'Wolverine'?
Speed Racer Review - A Vibrantly Entertaining Live-Action Cartoon. Kinda looks like a candy-colored seizure to me, but I haven't seen it, so...
'The Spirit' Moves to Prime Christmas Spot. Hey! It's a Very Frank Miller Christmas! I know I can't wait for whores in my stocking.
McCain promises to fight 'evil' if president; "Fighting Evil, So You Don't Have To" ["The Middleman"]. I feel like these two headlines are related somehow.
Bad Star Trek porn, as if there were any other kind.
In a scarier incident, my aunt was in the parking lot of the Wildwood Wal-Mart when a stranger approached her and demanded a dollar. She said no--I don't know how to explain it in print, exactly, but you know how there's asking people money and then there's threatening ways of asking people for money? This was one of those Prelude to a Purse-Snatching ways. Something you need to know about my aunt, by the way: she's an inner-city kindergarten teacher, and she doesn't put up with shit. "I think you can give me a dollar," he says, edging closer. "I think you need to get a job," she fires off. He edges closer: "I think you're going to give me a dollar." My mother's telling me this story and I'm kind of freaking out at this point, but fortunately, one of the Wal-Mart employees came up to my aunt and said, "Ma'am, is this man bothering you?" And then the employee recognized the man, because he had just tried to snatch someone else's purse a few minutes earlier and they were still looking for him. This is all in the middle of the day, by the way.
"It's the economy," my mother said. "People are having to choose between food and gas, they just can't pay for both. They're getting desperate."
Well, then there's the other thing that happened to my cousin--same aunt: her daughter. My cousin was walking home and parted ways with a friend a street or so away from their house, when she noticed this white SUV was following her. Like, really closely. Really slowly. All the way up her street. My cousin has a very small build, so she often looks younger than she actually is (she's graduating high school this month, but she could probably pass for early teens if you weren't looking closely); maybe the creep in the car thought she was a much younger girl, I don't know. Maybe he didn't care. So this SUV follows her up the street, and she's freaking out this point, so she runs up her driveway, and the car follows her what the hell. Like, up this long steep hill to her back door. Fortunately my cousin was able to get in safely, and the car fled, but what the hell? The world is a scary place, and you can't always blame it on the economy.
WSJ reporter behind the scenes of the Uma Thurman stalker case--as a juror.
Hollywood producers blast actors over Internet clips issue.
Superheroes pack a punch at the Met.
Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds.
Portishead returns after 10-year hiatus.
Fly u foolz!!; you killed a man? I jus scratch sofa; draw me lyke 1 of ur french grls. I laughed for about five minutes at that last one, by the way.
'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Poster, Trailer Debuting This Week; Star Wars Saga Has An End -- And An Ever-Expanding Middle.
Cloverfield Is Dead? Long Live Cloverfield! (JJ Abrams confirms Clovie's fate... I think); Manga Boy Rides On Cloverfield Monster's Head. "With everyone clamoring for the death of little Kishin, there only seems to be one way out: ride the Cloverfield monster to safety, of course." This is an official tie-in, y'all.
Images: The X Files: I Want To Believe New Poster (I think a different link for it didn't work for some folks yesterday); First Look: 'G.I. Joe's' Destro, Storm Shadow, General Hawk, Breaker, The Baroness and Heavy Duty; 9 new 'WALL•E' photos; First photos of Meryl Streep as Julia Child; Check Out the First Official Production Photo from 'Milk'; 007 In Austria: 'This is so Bond.'
Clips and trailers: New Narnia Clips Online At IESB.net; First Trailer for Animated Igor Movie.
Scott 'Cyclops' Summers Appearing in 'Wolverine'?
Speed Racer Review - A Vibrantly Entertaining Live-Action Cartoon. Kinda looks like a candy-colored seizure to me, but I haven't seen it, so...
'The Spirit' Moves to Prime Christmas Spot. Hey! It's a Very Frank Miller Christmas! I know I can't wait for whores in my stocking.
McCain promises to fight 'evil' if president; "Fighting Evil, So You Don't Have To" ["The Middleman"]. I feel like these two headlines are related somehow.
Bad Star Trek porn, as if there were any other kind.
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Yeah, things like this would happen to me at least a couple of times when I was a preteen/teen, but I would never report it or tell my parents about it, because I didn't want to freak them out.
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I didn't walk to the stores after that, though.
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You and me both. *giggles*
I know I can't wait for whores in my stocking.
Don't you mean in ONLY stockings? 'Cause Lord knows they can't shoot intruders topless while wearing anything else.
Also, I get creeped out on a regular basis because the only hangout for young people in this town is a goddamn pool hall not far down and across the street from my apartment. Every weekend there's shouts, screams, fights and whatnot on the sidewalk outside, and these creepy sleezy fuckwits are always mulling around outside so that if I come home after dark they all go silent and watch. Ugh, sometimes I hate this town.
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Uuughh that always scares me so badly.
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First you made me snort grape juice up my nose with that (it burns! Damn!) and then you pulled another one with, I know I can't wait for whores in my stocking.
Was that Bond in jeans? WTF!? Even if they are just casual photos, it's very strange to see.
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So, uh...why are there gryphons? Anyone?
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people are scary *Shudders*
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In re: AI: I am watching now, and there's just a growing cloud of Doom hanging over me. I don't really like any of these people any more, yet it seems Very Important that the wrong one not get voted off. I can't explain it.
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Also fabulous icon - I might have to snag it.
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The icon comes from
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My cop father tried to teach me some common sense stuff about losing someone following you in a car like that. I don't remember much (I was, like, 7 or so, and the lesson completely freaked me out despite that I lived in Small Town, America.) The one I remember was, "Don't be afraid to trespass and cut through people's yards and climb their fences." One occurred to me just now--don't know if he said this or not--but if you pass an intersection, you could, as soon as the car had crossed it, double back and RUN LIKE HELL while digging out your cell phone and calling 911. Sure the car could do a u-turn or hit the gas in reverse, but it gives you a precious second or two and even perhaps a chance to duck under cover.
Know your territory, too, I always say. Know the shortcuts, pay attention to everything around you, and carry real mace, not pepper spray. (You can get it at Army or Navy surplus stores.)
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That's a great idea -- plus, if there were other cars around it'd look suspicious.
Also, thank god for cellphones nowadays. Actually, an old roommate of mine had one come in handy during a road rage incident -- the guy got out of his car and came over to start screaming and banging on her windows, and she took out her cellphone, typed in 911, and turned it to the window. The guy backed off.
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(My family also helped by owning an enormous, black, wolf-like dog, that I walked everywhere when I was a kid.)
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Sirius Black? Is that you?
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On the one hand- Cyclops in the WOLVERINE film, yaaay!
On the other- no James Marsen- booo!
If there turns out to be an X4, he'd better be in it...
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Not to always pop in with silly X-Files related news, but apparently this is because it's an unfinished poster, and has been yanked from the sites after being unintentionally leaked. I for one think this is a good thing, since whatever graphic arts dropout they allowed to attack it with Photoshop like that really ought to be shot. The concept is great, but um... Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are still attractive people. Can they at least look real on a poster? That would be nice!
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He wasn't a bright man. It ended badly for him, what with the security camera footage and all.
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