Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
"I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”
Was this the inspiration for the guy who just went over Niagara Falls and lived? Apparently he was depressed and jobless and his buddy said something about if he lived, maybe he'd get money for it and if he died, well, that solved that.
You're right, it's Christopher Shyer. They look so alike to me.
Geez, they really do. I can's separate them in my mind. I need to see side by side pix.
I think they are the SAME PERSON, only one where's funny vulcan ears and plays a superhe ... wait. Nevermind.
Apparently he was depressed and jobless and his buddy said something about if he lived, maybe he'd get money for it and if he died, well, that solved that.
Except of course, that instead of getting money for it, he's being fined $10,000. OOOOPS!
So, wait, am I getting this? This woman's child-rearing strategy hinges on the ability of minor-network tv stars to get timely botox injections? And we wonder why this country's spiraling into hell.
he said that he realized about half a second after he jumped that he had no unsolvable problems except for having just jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Oh god, that's fabulous.
Not quite as good, but still entertaining, was the opening of Will and Grace tonight:
Will: What is it about Smallville that brings out both my inner teenage girl and my inner lecherous old man?
Grace: The writing.
Will: What is it about Smallville that brings out both my inner teenage girl and my inner lecherous old man?
Oh dear.
I'm going to have to watch.
It was funny. They even had the theme from SV.
I tuned in for the second half of the exchange only.
Someone remind me when it's repeated, mmkay?
Creepiest part of that NY article was the guy who left a note in his apartment.
"I'm walking to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump."
Natch, the guy jumped.
It was a pretty disturbing article, largely because for me it raises real questions about self-determination and responsibility. There's a part of me that wants to say people have a right to take their own lives, and what method they choose to do so doesn't make it the method's fault. On the other hand, that article quotes a study which followed people who were dissuaded from jumping off the bridge and, what, 95% of them are still alive and quite happy to be so? Mind you, this group isn't necessarily representative. Still, if opportunity so strongly affects action... I can't quite express what's bugging me here. There's something about the idea of complete responsibility for one's own actions and having one's rationality not be a consistent thing (I don't mean sanity, I mean degrees of rationality) that just feels like a big knot of moral ambiguity.
Um, much like, uh... Daniel Jackson! In the Light! (Whew.)