DH is exactly the same age as Tom Snooze, but he's much taller. Heck, I'm taller. I tell him that I wouldn't swap, even if Tom promised me all the money, gave up on Scientology and using starlets as camoflauge.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Katerina Bee - May 31, 2005 2:08:37 pm PDT #1984 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
Amy - May 31, 2005 2:21:57 pm PDT #1985 of 10001
Because books.
The age difference between them doesn't even ping me.
The thing that squicked me was his squealing display on Oprah. For one, the fact that Katie didn't immediately run away screaming is disheartening, but also, what about his kids? They may be all adjusted that he and their mother aren't together anymore, but they're old enough to catch clips of that display and think, When the hell did Dad lose his frickin' mind?
The whole thing is very weird. I've always liked Katie Holmes, and now, I swing between feeling vaguely sorry for her and wanting to smack some sense into her.
But when they bitch at another human being for taking meds (and imply that their career is in the shitter because of it) for conditions that can CAUSE PSYCHOSIS IN POSTPARTUM WOMEN WHO MAY KILL THEMSELVES OR THEIR BABIES, they're pushing my major "slap the shit out of them" button.
Oh yes, this. She was very honest about making her depression public, I assume to raise consciousness about it. Who the hell is he to tell her, and therefore other PPD women who may need help, that she had no business taking medication? Fuckwit.
erikaj - May 31, 2005 2:28:18 pm PDT #1986 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, Tom.
Daisy Jane - May 31, 2005 2:28:49 pm PDT #1987 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Oh yes, this. She was very honest about making her depression public, I assume to raise consciousness about it.
Particularly since before she had the kid and the subsequent depression she was pretty publicly vocal about how much she wanted children and how great being a mom would be. I imagine it must be pretty tough to not only come to the realization that it's not what you thought it would be and that it's ok to feel that way, but then to go public with your PPD is pretty brave.
Amy - May 31, 2005 2:35:51 pm PDT #1988 of 10001
Because books.
I imagine it must be pretty tough to not only come to the realization that it's not what you thought it would be and that it's ok to feel that way, but then to go public with your PPD is pretty brave.
Exactly. I have a friend who was truly almost suicidal. It's an awful, awful thing to look a newborn and think, What the hell do I do with you? How can I make all this stop?
Betsy HP - May 31, 2005 2:39:26 pm PDT #1989 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
GOD.
I'm giving telephone advice to an engineer about Microsoft Word numbering.
She doesn't want to accept the answer, which is "If Microsoft Word screws up the numbering on your fourth-level heads, you may be doomed." I tried every trick I knew and none of them worked. Sorry, Charlie, that's all I got.
Trudy Booth - May 31, 2005 2:42:45 pm PDT #1990 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Not to detract from Cruise's scuzzyness in the least, but Brooke's "heartfelt revelation" struck me as rather well-timed (as usual). She's been a master media manipulator her entire career.
erikaj - May 31, 2005 2:44:45 pm PDT #1991 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...I agree. Anymore when actors get going on their troubled pasts or something, I cringe some.
Connie Neil - May 31, 2005 3:11:49 pm PDT #1992 of 10001
brillig
"If Microsoft Word screws up the numbering on your fourth-level heads, you may be doomed."
Custom styles . . . no . . . when I did Word support I'd rather do a hundred mail merge lists from bad original data than custom styles. So many places where it refers back to other things, and if there's one setting wrong anyway it just cascades down through . . .
t i dont do that anymore i dont do that anymore i dont do that anymore
Hate those tech support flash backs.
Cashmere - May 31, 2005 3:24:37 pm PDT #1993 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Not to detract from Cruise's scuzzyness in the least, but Brooke's "heartfelt revelation" struck me as rather well-timed (as usual). She's been a master media manipulator her entire career.
Well timed in that she wrote a book about her experience with PPD and she's in the press a lot lately. I enjoyed her interview on Fresh Air. I'm not thinking she's a martyr or anything. She referred to her nanny and I immediately thought, "so many women can't afford that kind of help".
But I'm glad she's out there talking about it. We get the bad side of PPD all the time in the form of the Andrea Yates' of the world. It's about time someone stepped up to the plate and used their celebrity to examine it as a serious issue. It would have been nice if she could have done it without some cocksure, flaky asshole pissing all over it.
Someone, I might add who will NEVER give birth, and who's ex's never gave birth.