Pageant photo retouching -- this stuff is like crack.
eta: Kid's still scary, though.
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'Beneath You'
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§ ita § - Jul 12, 2005 1:23:40 pm PDT #320 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Narrator - Jul 12, 2005 1:23:40 pm PDT #321 of 10001
The evil is this way?
It also comes uncomfortably close to being a payoff.
Maybe, but then so is tuition and room and board, which is what a student-athlete gets now. I think I'd rather stop the charade of them getting outside "jobs" from boosters and let them use whatever free time they have actually going to classes and otherwise being college students. I think $50.00-$100.00/month during the sports season is not unreasonable. I mean, without a job or family, some of the athletes now don't have money to go to a movie, chip in to buy a pizza, etc. They "work" long hours for sports for the school. A small stipend seems fair to me.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2005 1:25:10 pm PDT #322 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A small stipend seems fair to me.
Absolutely. The colleges are making assloads of money. Set some standard across the board, maybe, to stop the big schools offering fat paychecks, but ... indentured labour is so century before last.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 12, 2005 1:27:14 pm PDT #323 of 10001
What is even happening?
Pageant photo retouching -- this stuff is like crack.
Ugh. I don't wanna talk about circumcision again, but I'm running out of distractions.
Okay, a salad shooter shoots salad. What does that mean? And, while we're on the subject, what does a salad spinner do? Does it just air dry your veggies?
Daisy Jane - Jul 12, 2005 1:28:28 pm PDT #324 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
But a $50-$100/a month at Emory is not the same as $50-$100 a month at LSU. Tuition and room and board at least are tied to a relatively stable measure. I agree that jobs from boosters is a sticky area, and that time could better be spent elsewhere.
Connie Neil - Jul 12, 2005 1:30:30 pm PDT #325 of 10001
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The before shot of the first kid in ita's first link is a cutie pie!
Daisy Jane - Jul 12, 2005 1:31:08 pm PDT #326 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Some of those retouched photos are just bad photos. Bad lighting, etc.
Hil R. - Jul 12, 2005 1:40:31 pm PDT #327 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Why are they creepifying the eyes like that? They're taking perfectly beautiful eyes and making them look like glass doll eyes.
Trudy Booth - Jul 12, 2005 1:43:56 pm PDT #328 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
A friend of mine played football at FSU a few years ago. He was treated very well. If he wanted $200 sneakers for workouts he got two pairs that night. Best dorms, etc, couldn't really flunk out or end up broke. It was a pretty sweet deal.
Until he effed his ACL. Then he lived with his folks and worked as a security guard and went to college part time. FSU paid for all the surgeries and rehab. Once his knee was on the mend they paid for a gym membership and a football camp to get him ready for a reassessment. (He was shocked at football camp when he asked for a different brand of cleats and they just looked at him like he was insane.) Ultimately they decided the knee wasn't better enough for football and cut him off completely.
Now he has a baseball scholarship at a New York school. The money isn't as good, he commutes, he'll graduate in a few years at age 24 or so.
JZ - Jul 12, 2005 1:45:34 pm PDT #329 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I feel marginally better about the scary doll retouched photos, because so many of the kids look comparatively normal in the unretouched photos (also human, and like they contain actual personalities and are not just hollow elastic-plastic shells howling their soulless, smiling agony into the limitless void).
But the retouched photos are still just bizarre. They're so uncanny valley; I can't imagine what the world looks like to a parent who could look at one of those unretouched photos of their baby, look at the retouched version, and sigh, "Oh, that's so much better." I'm morbidly curious what these people expect visually from their children, other humans, the art in their lives, but I also kind of think I don't really want to know.