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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Post Secret/ Trust/ future self
Mar. 24 Post Secret: I found this on Post Secret:
"When I was 5 yrs old my mom made me report my dad for molestation even though HE NEVER TOUCHED ME. 3 yrs later he was denied custody and I was adopted by a man who did molest me."
"I lied in court to help a friend."
Trust: Today I was reading 24 and Clive Owen was talking about his movie called Trust. He plays a father who becomes a vigilante after his daughter was assaulted by an online sexual predator. CO actually met a couple who had a daughter who was sexually assaulted so he could do research for his role.
Here's the movie trailer. It looks really good. David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends) directed this movie. I think I'm going to watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhufUDjSKyQ
Sex crimes on TV and movies: I am interested in this topic. I watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for years since 2002. I started watching The Young and the Restless back in 2003 because of this online sexual predator storyline. It was also because I just graduated out of high school and I didn't have to go to summer school and I didn't manage to get a job. Soap operas are on everyday so it was pretty addictive to watch.
Though I haven't watched that since the one ep in 2008. I started watching Dateline because of there "To Catch a Predator" episodes. I have seen Dateline where they cover other topics, but it's not as interesting. I watched the movie Hard Candy about a girl who meets an online predator and goes to his house and tortures him.
I'm a fan of Oprah, but I didn't start going on twop.com until I saw her bring in Justin Berry, the guy who was molested over the internet.
Degrassi: The Next Generation's pilot was about Emma meeting a boy online, but it turns out it was a man. Then I saw Renegade Press, a Canadian teen show like Degrassi do a storyline like that too.
Mar. 25 Writing: I was reading an article about the Sucker Punch director Zack Snyder said he wrote this one scene in an unrelated screenplay in the 1990s. He wrote one scene and then he managed to make a feature- length script out of it. That's some good inspiration. I was going through my 3.5 floppy disks to see if they work and I did look over my old writing. I did write one scene for Rain yesterday.
Future self: I've seen this where Bart and Lisa see into the future when they graduate out of high school on The Simpsons. Professor Frink has this machine where he can see into the future. Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) guest- star. Future self Bart tells his kid Bart to not waste time.
South Park kind of did that too where Stan meets his future self, but it turns out it's an actor from a company called Motivation Corp. Then there's a Buffy ep where Xander meets his future self and that man tells him to not marry Anya.
If I can tell my 20 yr old self in 2005/2006 it would be this: "Tracy, stop watching Dr. Phil and Maury. You're going to get laid off Call Centre #1, so file for EI. You may qualify for it. I didn't at that time because I managed to get a job pretty soon. Though it was part-time so I may have still qualified to get some EI. Stop spending your money in 2005, and start saving as much as you can. Stop spending so much time on twop.com and start reading screenwriting books and write. Here's the plot to The Fighter."
That's some of things I would tell to my 20 yr old self. But I remember watching this Jessica Biel interview about her movie Next. That movie is about seeing the 2 min. into the future.
JB: I would love to see 2 min. into the future so I could avoid making mistakes. However, if I didn't make those mistakes then I wouldn't have learned anything. So maybe it's a good thing that I can't see into the future.
I have to agree with her on that. I wouldn't learn anything. But from the things I did learn with my 20 yr old self, I can apply that now. I imagine what my 30 yr old self is saying to me: "Tracy, you're doing a bang up job working at your job, and looking for an office job on the side. You managed to get an office job. It's also good that you kept your blog up because you got discovered. And here's the plot to Rain." lol.
Mar. 26 Celeb books: Last week I was at Chapters. I see that reality show star Whitney Port from The Hills and The City has a book about fashion. The Hills and Laguana Beach star Lauren Conrad has a book about fashion and her fictional book called LA Candy. The Hills star Lo Bosworth has a book about dating.
Alicia Silverstone, star of the movie Clueless has a book about vegetarianism. The singer Janet Jackson has a book about self-esteem. I was checking the book The Secret about the law of attraction. I read the sequel called The Power about the power of love.
In the teen section of the store, I checked out the book Go Ahead, Ask Me by Nico Medina and Billy Merrel. It's a fun book with questions that will get interesting answers.
Music: I was at HMV and I was listening to the TV show Glee's version of Michael Jackson's PYT. I like that song. Kevin McHale (the wheelchair Artie) covered the song. It sounds so good.
I was watching the TV show Being Human a couple weeks ago and they played the song "Mad World" by Gary Jules. It's an old song back in 2004. The video is really fun with the dancers making pictures. It's a sad and emotional song. Being Human played that song twice in one ep. Here's "Mad World":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
Mar. 27 Rant: Here's a mild rant. I'm supposed to meet up with this guy off the internet today. I said to this place, and he says to this other place. I go to the place he wanted to meet up. Always meet people from the internet in a public place. I got there and called and he said he'll be there. 15 min. go by and he says he's lost and I can't really help him by giving directions because I don't how to get there from where he is.
He is the one who told me to go to this place so I figured he would know how. Yeah, well I read my book and I didn't miss any TV shows or job search time.
"When I was 5 yrs old my mom made me report my dad for molestation even though HE NEVER TOUCHED ME. 3 yrs later he was denied custody and I was adopted by a man who did molest me."
"I lied in court to help a friend."
Trust: Today I was reading 24 and Clive Owen was talking about his movie called Trust. He plays a father who becomes a vigilante after his daughter was assaulted by an online sexual predator. CO actually met a couple who had a daughter who was sexually assaulted so he could do research for his role.
Here's the movie trailer. It looks really good. David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends) directed this movie. I think I'm going to watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhufUDjSKyQ
Sex crimes on TV and movies: I am interested in this topic. I watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for years since 2002. I started watching The Young and the Restless back in 2003 because of this online sexual predator storyline. It was also because I just graduated out of high school and I didn't have to go to summer school and I didn't manage to get a job. Soap operas are on everyday so it was pretty addictive to watch.
Though I haven't watched that since the one ep in 2008. I started watching Dateline because of there "To Catch a Predator" episodes. I have seen Dateline where they cover other topics, but it's not as interesting. I watched the movie Hard Candy about a girl who meets an online predator and goes to his house and tortures him.
I'm a fan of Oprah, but I didn't start going on twop.com until I saw her bring in Justin Berry, the guy who was molested over the internet.
Degrassi: The Next Generation's pilot was about Emma meeting a boy online, but it turns out it was a man. Then I saw Renegade Press, a Canadian teen show like Degrassi do a storyline like that too.
Mar. 25 Writing: I was reading an article about the Sucker Punch director Zack Snyder said he wrote this one scene in an unrelated screenplay in the 1990s. He wrote one scene and then he managed to make a feature- length script out of it. That's some good inspiration. I was going through my 3.5 floppy disks to see if they work and I did look over my old writing. I did write one scene for Rain yesterday.
Future self: I've seen this where Bart and Lisa see into the future when they graduate out of high school on The Simpsons. Professor Frink has this machine where he can see into the future. Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) guest- star. Future self Bart tells his kid Bart to not waste time.
South Park kind of did that too where Stan meets his future self, but it turns out it's an actor from a company called Motivation Corp. Then there's a Buffy ep where Xander meets his future self and that man tells him to not marry Anya.
If I can tell my 20 yr old self in 2005/2006 it would be this: "Tracy, stop watching Dr. Phil and Maury. You're going to get laid off Call Centre #1, so file for EI. You may qualify for it. I didn't at that time because I managed to get a job pretty soon. Though it was part-time so I may have still qualified to get some EI. Stop spending your money in 2005, and start saving as much as you can. Stop spending so much time on twop.com and start reading screenwriting books and write. Here's the plot to The Fighter."
That's some of things I would tell to my 20 yr old self. But I remember watching this Jessica Biel interview about her movie Next. That movie is about seeing the 2 min. into the future.
JB: I would love to see 2 min. into the future so I could avoid making mistakes. However, if I didn't make those mistakes then I wouldn't have learned anything. So maybe it's a good thing that I can't see into the future.
I have to agree with her on that. I wouldn't learn anything. But from the things I did learn with my 20 yr old self, I can apply that now. I imagine what my 30 yr old self is saying to me: "Tracy, you're doing a bang up job working at your job, and looking for an office job on the side. You managed to get an office job. It's also good that you kept your blog up because you got discovered. And here's the plot to Rain." lol.
Mar. 26 Celeb books: Last week I was at Chapters. I see that reality show star Whitney Port from The Hills and The City has a book about fashion. The Hills and Laguana Beach star Lauren Conrad has a book about fashion and her fictional book called LA Candy. The Hills star Lo Bosworth has a book about dating.
Alicia Silverstone, star of the movie Clueless has a book about vegetarianism. The singer Janet Jackson has a book about self-esteem. I was checking the book The Secret about the law of attraction. I read the sequel called The Power about the power of love.
In the teen section of the store, I checked out the book Go Ahead, Ask Me by Nico Medina and Billy Merrel. It's a fun book with questions that will get interesting answers.
Music: I was at HMV and I was listening to the TV show Glee's version of Michael Jackson's PYT. I like that song. Kevin McHale (the wheelchair Artie) covered the song. It sounds so good.
I was watching the TV show Being Human a couple weeks ago and they played the song "Mad World" by Gary Jules. It's an old song back in 2004. The video is really fun with the dancers making pictures. It's a sad and emotional song. Being Human played that song twice in one ep. Here's "Mad World":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
Mar. 27 Rant: Here's a mild rant. I'm supposed to meet up with this guy off the internet today. I said to this place, and he says to this other place. I go to the place he wanted to meet up. Always meet people from the internet in a public place. I got there and called and he said he'll be there. 15 min. go by and he says he's lost and I can't really help him by giving directions because I don't how to get there from where he is.
He is the one who told me to go to this place so I figured he would know how. Yeah, well I read my book and I didn't miss any TV shows or job search time.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
short films/ job search/ jerk alert
Mar. 23 Short films: I watch 20/20 and then afterward there's a show that shows Canadian short films. That should help my writer's block. I used to watch short films on the internet in 2001 called Hypnoticfilms.com. I just checked it on the internet and it's not there anymore.
Sweet 16: In Oct. 2010, I saw this short film called Sweet 16. It looks kind of dated like in the early 90s. It starts off with a teen guy and girl getting into a car and getting in a car accident. The story is about a girl named Hope and she's going to celebrate being 16. Her parents are keeping a secret from her, and she and the audience doesn't know, but wants to find out. Then it turns out she was cloned from the parent's first daughter Ellie. Her parents cloned her.
I didn't expect that one, but I have read it in a book when I was in gr. 9 called Cloning Miranda by Carol Matas (I had to Google to get the author's name.) I'll spoil the book for you. If you don't want to be spoiled, skip to the next topic. Miranda is a teen girl and she learns her parents cloned her from their first daughter. Millions of people die a year due to not having the right kidney or organ so that's why they cloned her.
Drama film: This short film was shot in Vancouver. I know because it looks like it, it had a newspaper box with Vancouver on it, and had the actress Gina Holden (Dale from Flash Gordon) as a receptionist. I looked her up and I couldn't find the title of the film, but it's a good storyline with a good surprise.
Cut to this man Thomas who's at the doctor's office and he was told he has stomach cancer. Cut to this office and Thomas goes there to see his sister Natalie. Natalie is talking to her boss and he's telling her how to work the phone in this cubicle. Thomas tells Natalie about his dr. appointment and he needs to get access to the trust money so he could pay for his cancer drugs.
There is a framed picture of their mentally and physically disabled brother Daniel on the desk.
Natalie: What about Daniel? He needs the money.
Thomas: So? We can put him in a home.
Natalie: It's going to be some dump.
Thomas: It's not like he would know or be able to tell the difference.
The phone rings and Natalie leaves for a moment. Thomas starts going through the desk and reads what's in a folder. He sees what's on the computer about insider training. Cut to the Nurse at the dr. office who sees Thomas's folder and reads it. She starts making a phone call.
Natalie comes back and says she's really busy and can't talk to him. She tells him to stop looking at her stuff. Thomas leaves and in the lobby he gets a phone call from his loan shark. Thomas tells him to invest money into something he saw on Natalie's computer. He leaves and the security guard at the front calls Natalie.
Natalie goes to her office and tells the "boss" to get his feet off her desk. She gets the phone call from the security guard and calls the dr. who saw Thomas.
Natalie: He was here and he took the bait.
Doctor: Good. It almost didn't work when my nurse read the folder and was trying to call Thomas. Fortunately since I'm near retirement, I apologized and said I was getting old. On Monday, I'll call Thomas and tell him I misdiagnosed him.
Natalie: Now I know Daniel is going to be taken care of.
I thought there were good surprises that it was Natalie behind the whole thing, the dr. was part of it, the "boss" wasn't really her boss. You may say Natalie was manipulative, but she was taking care of her brother Daniel who can't take care of himself.
Shaolin Soccer: My dad was watching this DVD today. I came to eat lunch and I saw the last 15 min of it. I have seen this movie before back in 2005. I borrowed it from the library and it's a Chinese movie. I saw it with the English subtitles. It's a funny and silly comedy about a group of misfits who form a soccer team to beat the bad guys.
Yeah, I've heard those story lines before. It's a fun movie to watch.
Facebook: I've been working at my restaurant job for 5 months and one of my co-workers is moving away. I asked to be friends on Facebook and now I'm Facebook friends with 5 of my co-workers.
Job search: The other day was my day off so I went and looked at the banks websites. I applied to 11 places. Today is my day off and I'm looking at the usual 5 sources of my job search I do everyday. This time I'm looking over my old agenda where I jotted notes to apply at hotels. Then I realized that I kind of work for a big company that's like a hotel.
There weren't any front desk receptionist positions available at the hotel websites I looked at. Hotels have good job security because they're a really big place. The phrase: "Too big to fail." Often hotels are part of big chains. Though I'm getting a flashback of the TV show Angel where they moved their office to this big abandoned hotel in season 2. Hotels can close down.
Companies: There are lots of hotels like Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, and Marriot Hotel. There's only 1 Marriot and that's part of the River Cree Casino. I went to www.gecareers.com and they used to have a call centre, but it closed down. The jobs there are lead developer and valve technician. Nothing I'm qualified for.
Luminosity: I went to www.luminosity.com to try out one of those brain games to keep your mind sharp. It was actually pretty fun. I remember reading an article in the newspaper about those games. The article says they help a little bit.
Mar. 24 Jerk alert: Yesterday I was on the online dating site, and this guy was a total jerk to me. He has officially been the #1 worst guy I ever encountered through this site. It happened yesterday, and I'm still kind of upset about it. I was on the site, and this guy starts chatting with me. At first it was a normal conversation.
Then a few min. into it, a video appears and he flashes me. I closed the IM chat fast. Then the window pops up to ask to chat again, and I did click yes. You're like: "Why?" I guess I was curious to see what he would say. He said: "Oh what you don't like?" I closed the window again.
I then reported him to the website people. It did ask: "What do you want us to do? Give him a warning or delete his profile." I told them what he did and that they can do either or to him.
This guy is so bad, he beats out the guy I rejected. When I reject guys who email me I say that they're not my type and say good luck to them. One guy emails me back and disses my dad. I block him.
Sweet 16: In Oct. 2010, I saw this short film called Sweet 16. It looks kind of dated like in the early 90s. It starts off with a teen guy and girl getting into a car and getting in a car accident. The story is about a girl named Hope and she's going to celebrate being 16. Her parents are keeping a secret from her, and she and the audience doesn't know, but wants to find out. Then it turns out she was cloned from the parent's first daughter Ellie. Her parents cloned her.
I didn't expect that one, but I have read it in a book when I was in gr. 9 called Cloning Miranda by Carol Matas (I had to Google to get the author's name.) I'll spoil the book for you. If you don't want to be spoiled, skip to the next topic. Miranda is a teen girl and she learns her parents cloned her from their first daughter. Millions of people die a year due to not having the right kidney or organ so that's why they cloned her.
Drama film: This short film was shot in Vancouver. I know because it looks like it, it had a newspaper box with Vancouver on it, and had the actress Gina Holden (Dale from Flash Gordon) as a receptionist. I looked her up and I couldn't find the title of the film, but it's a good storyline with a good surprise.
Cut to this man Thomas who's at the doctor's office and he was told he has stomach cancer. Cut to this office and Thomas goes there to see his sister Natalie. Natalie is talking to her boss and he's telling her how to work the phone in this cubicle. Thomas tells Natalie about his dr. appointment and he needs to get access to the trust money so he could pay for his cancer drugs.
There is a framed picture of their mentally and physically disabled brother Daniel on the desk.
Natalie: What about Daniel? He needs the money.
Thomas: So? We can put him in a home.
Natalie: It's going to be some dump.
Thomas: It's not like he would know or be able to tell the difference.
The phone rings and Natalie leaves for a moment. Thomas starts going through the desk and reads what's in a folder. He sees what's on the computer about insider training. Cut to the Nurse at the dr. office who sees Thomas's folder and reads it. She starts making a phone call.
Natalie comes back and says she's really busy and can't talk to him. She tells him to stop looking at her stuff. Thomas leaves and in the lobby he gets a phone call from his loan shark. Thomas tells him to invest money into something he saw on Natalie's computer. He leaves and the security guard at the front calls Natalie.
Natalie goes to her office and tells the "boss" to get his feet off her desk. She gets the phone call from the security guard and calls the dr. who saw Thomas.
Natalie: He was here and he took the bait.
Doctor: Good. It almost didn't work when my nurse read the folder and was trying to call Thomas. Fortunately since I'm near retirement, I apologized and said I was getting old. On Monday, I'll call Thomas and tell him I misdiagnosed him.
Natalie: Now I know Daniel is going to be taken care of.
I thought there were good surprises that it was Natalie behind the whole thing, the dr. was part of it, the "boss" wasn't really her boss. You may say Natalie was manipulative, but she was taking care of her brother Daniel who can't take care of himself.
Shaolin Soccer: My dad was watching this DVD today. I came to eat lunch and I saw the last 15 min of it. I have seen this movie before back in 2005. I borrowed it from the library and it's a Chinese movie. I saw it with the English subtitles. It's a funny and silly comedy about a group of misfits who form a soccer team to beat the bad guys.
Yeah, I've heard those story lines before. It's a fun movie to watch.
Facebook: I've been working at my restaurant job for 5 months and one of my co-workers is moving away. I asked to be friends on Facebook and now I'm Facebook friends with 5 of my co-workers.
Job search: The other day was my day off so I went and looked at the banks websites. I applied to 11 places. Today is my day off and I'm looking at the usual 5 sources of my job search I do everyday. This time I'm looking over my old agenda where I jotted notes to apply at hotels. Then I realized that I kind of work for a big company that's like a hotel.
There weren't any front desk receptionist positions available at the hotel websites I looked at. Hotels have good job security because they're a really big place. The phrase: "Too big to fail." Often hotels are part of big chains. Though I'm getting a flashback of the TV show Angel where they moved their office to this big abandoned hotel in season 2. Hotels can close down.
Companies: There are lots of hotels like Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, and Marriot Hotel. There's only 1 Marriot and that's part of the River Cree Casino. I went to www.gecareers.com and they used to have a call centre, but it closed down. The jobs there are lead developer and valve technician. Nothing I'm qualified for.
Luminosity: I went to www.luminosity.com to try out one of those brain games to keep your mind sharp. It was actually pretty fun. I remember reading an article in the newspaper about those games. The article says they help a little bit.
Mar. 24 Jerk alert: Yesterday I was on the online dating site, and this guy was a total jerk to me. He has officially been the #1 worst guy I ever encountered through this site. It happened yesterday, and I'm still kind of upset about it. I was on the site, and this guy starts chatting with me. At first it was a normal conversation.
Then a few min. into it, a video appears and he flashes me. I closed the IM chat fast. Then the window pops up to ask to chat again, and I did click yes. You're like: "Why?" I guess I was curious to see what he would say. He said: "Oh what you don't like?" I closed the window again.
I then reported him to the website people. It did ask: "What do you want us to do? Give him a warning or delete his profile." I told them what he did and that they can do either or to him.
This guy is so bad, he beats out the guy I rejected. When I reject guys who email me I say that they're not my type and say good luck to them. One guy emails me back and disses my dad. I block him.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
charity/ headlines/ ethnic diversity on TV
Mar. 20 Charity: I was reading a letter in the Edmonton Journal by a teenager named Maria Sharif. She said that we only donate to charity when a natural disaster strikes. She said there are people who suffer everyday in countries like Iraq and Africa, but we don't help them. Good point. I had written an essay for my Writing for the Ear class about charity. I said: "We only donate to charity during Christmas, but what about the rest of the year?"
Well I know my friend Angela donates to the Red Cross every month. My old manager Aziz donates money every month to this charity that helps children who are amputees in 3rd world countries.
I read that Sandra Bullock donated $1 million to help the people in Japan. Charlie Sheen is donating $1 from all his tickets from his comedy tour to Japan too. Also celebrities like 50 Cent and Mariah Carey who performed for Libya leader Ghadifi have donated their earnings from the show to charity.
Mar. 21 Headlines: Here's some more headlines I collected from the Edmonton Journal Sunday Reader:
"Girlfriend Calls 911 On Pot- Smoking, Jobless Boyfriend" -Headline in Arizona Republic
"FAA: Man in Plane Tossed Toilet Paper on School" -Headline in Arizona Republic
"Blocked view prompts strip- club melee"- one woman was standing on a chair while watching a male stripper. A woman who sits behind her told her that she was blocking her view. Then a fight broke out between the drunk women. This is from the Nanaimo Daily News.
"Fla. Man Denies Cocaine Found in Buttocks is His" -Atlanta Journal- Constitution headline
A rice farmer in Taiwan dresses up his scarecrow to look like Michael Jackson with a white sequined glove, black fedora, black brogues and another one has the red "Thriller" jacket. The pose is the signature dance moves. -According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
In Jeannette, Pennsylvania, the town officials laid off the town's only police dog. According to the New York Post, the dog will get two months' kibble as severance.
A Florida couple named Mitchell and Judith Fletcher bought a skeleton for $8 at an estate sale for their Halloween decorations. As they were decorating it, they felt the bones were real instead of plastic so they called the sheriff's office. The county medical examiner said it was a "professionally prepared human anatomical skeleton." The Fletchers won't get the skeleton back because trafficking human bones is illegal.
The Bradley County Sheriff's Department in Tennessee says they reuse underwear for prisoners. They said they sanitize them before giving them out to be reused by a different person, but that's still not good. This was from MSNBC.
3.5 floppy disk: Here's a mild rant. Last month one of my red Memorex 3.5 floppy disks crapped out on me. I got this disk back in 2002. It had my resume on it among other things. So I went and had my resume copy and pasted from my email to a purple Memorex disk. Now the purple disk crapped out on me yesterday.
The resume in my email is from 2008 so I had to add some jobs and duties to it. I then thought: "I email scripts to myself, how about my resume too?" The purple disk had my Eng. 101 essays from college on it. I did put the essays on my blog for anyone to read. It also had my Fighter pitch package on the disk. However, there wasn't really anything on that document.
I take care of my disks, but some things stop working because they're old. I thought it was because I saved a document on my disk while using a different computer. I thought that was what wrecked the disk. But then I tried it on another Memorex disk and it worked fine.
Mar. 22 Ethnic diversity on TV: I was reading this in the Edmonton Journal yesterday, but I remember noticing it myself. In the combined 21 seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, there are mainly white people. The people of color singles get eliminated within the first round. The producers say that people of color aren't going into auditions for this show.
There are opposing producers says there are, but they think audiences won't watch it if the lead is a person of color or root for an interracial couple. I don't watch this show, but I only see the commercials for it and I mainly see white people.
There's a MADtv sketch years ago making fun of teen dramas. They called it"Pretty White Kids with Problems." On Gossip Girl it's a group of white kids as the cast. There was an Asian girl and black girl as Blair's lackeys, but after the kids went to college, they got rid of them. However, this season there is a black girl named Raina and her dad who are a big part of this season's storyline.
I notice more ethnic diversity in the small non-speaking parts on the show like how there's a black man as the prison guard. I've seen an Asian guy on the show who shows up in one scene, and then again with his shirt off. I remember way back in 2003 on Fametracker forums about Asian racial stereotypes on TV and movies. How come you never see an Asian guy who is sexy? They usually are karate masters and are geeks.
Vanessa Minnillo: She's an actress and she was on 30 Rock. The joke was her name was Carmen Chao and you can't tell if she's Latino or Asian. By watching it, I was like: "What is her ethnicity?" It turns out her dad is Irish and Italian and her mom is Filipino.
Dream: Last night I dreamed I was in this school/ office environment with these cubicles. I had a dream awhile back that I was in my gr. 9 math class room. Last night had Daren Kagasoff in it. He's on the show Secret Life of the American Teenager which is coming back with new episodes next week. I know it's a crappy show, but I like to watch how bad it is. I can't remember what DK did in my dream.
Secret Life: There are a few moments on SLAT with good acting and writing like the one where the actors Francia Raisa and DK play the couple Adrian and Ricky and they go to counseling together. It had a good moment as Adrian tells the counselor when the first time she had sex with her friend/ neighbor before he moved away.... so he could get cancer treatment.
Mayim Bialk was on for a few eps playing the school counselor. Remember, she was the star of the early 90s sitcom called Blossom? Well she's now on The Big Bang Theory so good for her.
Mar. 23 EI: I was watching 30 Rock about working for a TV show like Saturday Night Live. Pete (Scott Adsit) is a writer for the fictional Tracy Jordan Show.
Scott: When Tracy and Jenna are gone, I can file for insurance. I can keep getting paid when I'm not working.
That reminded me of my EI. It's going to expire soon. Well at least I got a big amount of money during the 8 months of unemployment. Though it's really how much money I would be making if I was working part-time. At least I have a job.
Well I know my friend Angela donates to the Red Cross every month. My old manager Aziz donates money every month to this charity that helps children who are amputees in 3rd world countries.
I read that Sandra Bullock donated $1 million to help the people in Japan. Charlie Sheen is donating $1 from all his tickets from his comedy tour to Japan too. Also celebrities like 50 Cent and Mariah Carey who performed for Libya leader Ghadifi have donated their earnings from the show to charity.
Mar. 21 Headlines: Here's some more headlines I collected from the Edmonton Journal Sunday Reader:
"Girlfriend Calls 911 On Pot- Smoking, Jobless Boyfriend" -Headline in Arizona Republic
"FAA: Man in Plane Tossed Toilet Paper on School" -Headline in Arizona Republic
"Blocked view prompts strip- club melee"- one woman was standing on a chair while watching a male stripper. A woman who sits behind her told her that she was blocking her view. Then a fight broke out between the drunk women. This is from the Nanaimo Daily News.
"Fla. Man Denies Cocaine Found in Buttocks is His" -Atlanta Journal- Constitution headline
A rice farmer in Taiwan dresses up his scarecrow to look like Michael Jackson with a white sequined glove, black fedora, black brogues and another one has the red "Thriller" jacket. The pose is the signature dance moves. -According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
In Jeannette, Pennsylvania, the town officials laid off the town's only police dog. According to the New York Post, the dog will get two months' kibble as severance.
A Florida couple named Mitchell and Judith Fletcher bought a skeleton for $8 at an estate sale for their Halloween decorations. As they were decorating it, they felt the bones were real instead of plastic so they called the sheriff's office. The county medical examiner said it was a "professionally prepared human anatomical skeleton." The Fletchers won't get the skeleton back because trafficking human bones is illegal.
The Bradley County Sheriff's Department in Tennessee says they reuse underwear for prisoners. They said they sanitize them before giving them out to be reused by a different person, but that's still not good. This was from MSNBC.
3.5 floppy disk: Here's a mild rant. Last month one of my red Memorex 3.5 floppy disks crapped out on me. I got this disk back in 2002. It had my resume on it among other things. So I went and had my resume copy and pasted from my email to a purple Memorex disk. Now the purple disk crapped out on me yesterday.
The resume in my email is from 2008 so I had to add some jobs and duties to it. I then thought: "I email scripts to myself, how about my resume too?" The purple disk had my Eng. 101 essays from college on it. I did put the essays on my blog for anyone to read. It also had my Fighter pitch package on the disk. However, there wasn't really anything on that document.
I take care of my disks, but some things stop working because they're old. I thought it was because I saved a document on my disk while using a different computer. I thought that was what wrecked the disk. But then I tried it on another Memorex disk and it worked fine.
Mar. 22 Ethnic diversity on TV: I was reading this in the Edmonton Journal yesterday, but I remember noticing it myself. In the combined 21 seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, there are mainly white people. The people of color singles get eliminated within the first round. The producers say that people of color aren't going into auditions for this show.
There are opposing producers says there are, but they think audiences won't watch it if the lead is a person of color or root for an interracial couple. I don't watch this show, but I only see the commercials for it and I mainly see white people.
There's a MADtv sketch years ago making fun of teen dramas. They called it"Pretty White Kids with Problems." On Gossip Girl it's a group of white kids as the cast. There was an Asian girl and black girl as Blair's lackeys, but after the kids went to college, they got rid of them. However, this season there is a black girl named Raina and her dad who are a big part of this season's storyline.
I notice more ethnic diversity in the small non-speaking parts on the show like how there's a black man as the prison guard. I've seen an Asian guy on the show who shows up in one scene, and then again with his shirt off. I remember way back in 2003 on Fametracker forums about Asian racial stereotypes on TV and movies. How come you never see an Asian guy who is sexy? They usually are karate masters and are geeks.
Vanessa Minnillo: She's an actress and she was on 30 Rock. The joke was her name was Carmen Chao and you can't tell if she's Latino or Asian. By watching it, I was like: "What is her ethnicity?" It turns out her dad is Irish and Italian and her mom is Filipino.
Dream: Last night I dreamed I was in this school/ office environment with these cubicles. I had a dream awhile back that I was in my gr. 9 math class room. Last night had Daren Kagasoff in it. He's on the show Secret Life of the American Teenager which is coming back with new episodes next week. I know it's a crappy show, but I like to watch how bad it is. I can't remember what DK did in my dream.
Secret Life: There are a few moments on SLAT with good acting and writing like the one where the actors Francia Raisa and DK play the couple Adrian and Ricky and they go to counseling together. It had a good moment as Adrian tells the counselor when the first time she had sex with her friend/ neighbor before he moved away.... so he could get cancer treatment.
Mayim Bialk was on for a few eps playing the school counselor. Remember, she was the star of the early 90s sitcom called Blossom? Well she's now on The Big Bang Theory so good for her.
Mar. 23 EI: I was watching 30 Rock about working for a TV show like Saturday Night Live. Pete (Scott Adsit) is a writer for the fictional Tracy Jordan Show.
Scott: When Tracy and Jenna are gone, I can file for insurance. I can keep getting paid when I'm not working.
That reminded me of my EI. It's going to expire soon. Well at least I got a big amount of money during the 8 months of unemployment. Though it's really how much money I would be making if I was working part-time. At least I have a job.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Uphold the right to clean water for First Nations
Sign this petition to "Uphold the right to clean water for First Nations":
http://www.amnesty.ca/iwriteforjustice/take_action.php?actionid=669
http://www.amnesty.ca/iwriteforjustice/take_action.php?actionid=669
Law and Order: SVU/ racism/ Trevor Popik Hafso
Mar. 18 Law and Order:SVU I was watching a Law and Order: SVU ep called "Flight". There was this guy on it and he looked so familiar. Then I realized it was Colm Feore (from the movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop, and the mentor on the first season of The Listener.) He had a beard so I didn't recognize him at first. Since he's the biggest guest- star he's the guy who did it.
The ep was this woman in her 20s and how she is dating him. She was also bringing young teen girls to his massage room, and then he molests them and also pays for it. The woman wouldn't go against her boyfriend. It turns out she was dating him when she was underage.
Benson: You weren't dating him, he was grooming you.
Yes, that's the word I was looking for. That's why I had that major problem on Dateline: To Catch a Predator where that 35 yr old guy said to the 12 yr old girl: "I thought that we should get to know each other first." He was obviously grooming her. This L&O: SVU ep is what would happen if Dateline wasn't there. If this 35 yr old was caught with a 12 yr old, the girl would say they were dating and wouldn't press charges.
I also watch a lot of Oprah where she talks about child molestation and the word grooming always pops up.
Comic book: I have writer's block so I'm going to write about things that should get my creative juices flowing.
Yesterday I was watching some Conan O' Brien, and Rashida Jones was on. She's from The Office and Parks and Recreation. She talked about her comic book called Frenemy of the State. It's about a socialite who is an undercover spy. RJ thought: "What if a heiress worked for the CIA? That would be a good cover because no one would expect someone like Paris Hilton to work for the CIA." That's a good premise.
Writers: I noticed this back in Apr. 2010. I was watching Castle and see one of the producers/ writers is Moira Kirkland. She worked on the TV show Dark Angel. Interesting that she go from sci-fi to crime drama.
Racism: I saw that I wrote a note in my old agenda in May 2010 about racism. It was back in 2002 or 2003, when I used to go this internet forum called Fametracker Forums. My sister got me into it. You can talk about TV, movies, books, music, and celebs and then it eventually closed the forums down. Then everybody moved to twop.com.
I remember someone on Fametracker said that The Lion King was racist. Did you notice that the physically dark characters like the hyenas were voiced by dark actors? Oh yeah, Whoopi Goldberg was the voice of one of the hyenas. I didn't notice the race thing until someone pointed it out. I remember watching the movie when I was nine and I just remembered Goldberg's voice, but not the race.
Animals: I'm getting another flashback coming on. When I was 10, I was watching Kratt's Creatures with my little brother. He loves animals and always watches them on TV. On the show the hosts Chris and Martin Kratt says a lot of people think hyenas are scavengers. That lions kill the animal and hyenas take the meat. Often it's the other way around.
Then today, P was watching My Supersweet 16 which is a trashy show about mainly spoiled teen girls throwing an extravagant birthday party that costs thousands of dollars. This girl showed she owned ostriches.
Me: Ostrich burger, get your ostrich burger! (Homer said that on The Simpsons.)
P: Those are emus.
Yeah, he knows a lot about animals. lol. Then it brought a flashback of a Baby- Sitter's Club book. Mary Anne had to solve a mystery at the zoo. She was also writing a paper about emus.
Mind: Interesting how my mind goes from The Lion King to Kratt's Creatures to My Supersweet 16 to The Simpsons to The Baby- Sitter's Club.
Mar. 20 The Listener: I haven't been writing about this show in awhile. I saw an episode called "In his Sights." It shows Toby (Craig Olejnik) working out so that was hot. It was so Canadian when they mention the Conservative Party, and show the Canadian flag. The Prime Minister was played by Kevin Jubinville (the bad principal on Degrassi.)
There is an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, and Toby and his IIB team has to prevent it from happening. It was unpredictable when Toby hears (reads a mind) that someone is going to hurt the PM, but then a balloon filled with red paint was thrown at the PM.
After some more investigating, the PM's team has some military members and there was a cover up on murdering civilians in Iraq. A solider has to get back at the PM for being part of that. I don't think I've seen that on a TV show before.
Actors: I was checking out the beginning of the TV movie The Unquiet. The opening scene was to expose a fake psychic so I had to watch how it goes. I'm interested in psychics and the supernatural. I then recognized the woman who sees the psychic. It's Olivia from The Listener! Or her real name is Mylene Ding- Robic.
It was also weird. I was watching The Listener, and there's the actor Peter Stebbings who was on for 3 episodes. On the 3rd ep, I realized that I have seen him before. He played a pedophile on a an episode of Flashpoint back in 2008. I saw him once 2 yrs ago and now I recognize him.
Job: I mentioned before that there are things that you can't control that can affect your work like: getting sick, getting laid off, being out of work for months. I was going through my agenda in Jan. 2010, there was fire alarm that was pulled at the mall that I worked at. It was on Wed. and Sat. and we had to close down for about 3hrs in total. By closing down due to the fire alarm, you miss out on making money.
Trevor Popik Hafso: Yesterday I had a split shift at work. I had a few hours between my two shifts so I stayed at the mall. I then went to Chapters. I was reading the first chapter of The Secret. Well I like The Secret: Teen Power more because I can relate to it more.
Anyway, I was walking to leave the store and see that an author was sitting at a table doing signings. I looked at the business card and immediately recognized the logo of the lion with the wings. I picked it up before and put it on my desk.
The author Trevor Popik Hafso wrote The Three Little Pigs II: The Evolution of the Wolf which is a picture book.
Me: I met you before.
T: Yeah.
Me: At City Centre mall.
He had a signing at City Centre last year. We chatted a bit. I told him to make a blog. I then went to his website www.bookshelfadventures.com and emailed him this:
"To Trevor:
Hi, I'm Tracy Au and we met each other the second time at Chapters yesterday. I was the young Asian woman who told you how to make a blog. Go to www.blogger.com and you can set up a free Google account. Then you can promote yourself and your book more.
I have a blog myself at www.badcb.blogspot.com. It's about TV, movies, writing, news, my life, etc. I've had the blog since 2008 to get discovered as a screenwriter. I've been pitching my screenplay since 2008 and been in talks with a producer. I will write about you on it.
Have you ever heard of the Writer in Residence at the Edmonton Public Library? It's Marty Chan and he has helped me with my writing. You can email him your work of 15 pages and he will give you helpful feedback:
writerinresidence@EPL.CA
Well it was nice meeting you.
Tracy"
The ep was this woman in her 20s and how she is dating him. She was also bringing young teen girls to his massage room, and then he molests them and also pays for it. The woman wouldn't go against her boyfriend. It turns out she was dating him when she was underage.
Benson: You weren't dating him, he was grooming you.
Yes, that's the word I was looking for. That's why I had that major problem on Dateline: To Catch a Predator where that 35 yr old guy said to the 12 yr old girl: "I thought that we should get to know each other first." He was obviously grooming her. This L&O: SVU ep is what would happen if Dateline wasn't there. If this 35 yr old was caught with a 12 yr old, the girl would say they were dating and wouldn't press charges.
I also watch a lot of Oprah where she talks about child molestation and the word grooming always pops up.
Comic book: I have writer's block so I'm going to write about things that should get my creative juices flowing.
Yesterday I was watching some Conan O' Brien, and Rashida Jones was on. She's from The Office and Parks and Recreation. She talked about her comic book called Frenemy of the State. It's about a socialite who is an undercover spy. RJ thought: "What if a heiress worked for the CIA? That would be a good cover because no one would expect someone like Paris Hilton to work for the CIA." That's a good premise.
Writers: I noticed this back in Apr. 2010. I was watching Castle and see one of the producers/ writers is Moira Kirkland. She worked on the TV show Dark Angel. Interesting that she go from sci-fi to crime drama.
Racism: I saw that I wrote a note in my old agenda in May 2010 about racism. It was back in 2002 or 2003, when I used to go this internet forum called Fametracker Forums. My sister got me into it. You can talk about TV, movies, books, music, and celebs and then it eventually closed the forums down. Then everybody moved to twop.com.
I remember someone on Fametracker said that The Lion King was racist. Did you notice that the physically dark characters like the hyenas were voiced by dark actors? Oh yeah, Whoopi Goldberg was the voice of one of the hyenas. I didn't notice the race thing until someone pointed it out. I remember watching the movie when I was nine and I just remembered Goldberg's voice, but not the race.
Animals: I'm getting another flashback coming on. When I was 10, I was watching Kratt's Creatures with my little brother. He loves animals and always watches them on TV. On the show the hosts Chris and Martin Kratt says a lot of people think hyenas are scavengers. That lions kill the animal and hyenas take the meat. Often it's the other way around.
Then today, P was watching My Supersweet 16 which is a trashy show about mainly spoiled teen girls throwing an extravagant birthday party that costs thousands of dollars. This girl showed she owned ostriches.
Me: Ostrich burger, get your ostrich burger! (Homer said that on The Simpsons.)
P: Those are emus.
Yeah, he knows a lot about animals. lol. Then it brought a flashback of a Baby- Sitter's Club book. Mary Anne had to solve a mystery at the zoo. She was also writing a paper about emus.
Mind: Interesting how my mind goes from The Lion King to Kratt's Creatures to My Supersweet 16 to The Simpsons to The Baby- Sitter's Club.
Mar. 20 The Listener: I haven't been writing about this show in awhile. I saw an episode called "In his Sights." It shows Toby (Craig Olejnik) working out so that was hot. It was so Canadian when they mention the Conservative Party, and show the Canadian flag. The Prime Minister was played by Kevin Jubinville (the bad principal on Degrassi.)
There is an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, and Toby and his IIB team has to prevent it from happening. It was unpredictable when Toby hears (reads a mind) that someone is going to hurt the PM, but then a balloon filled with red paint was thrown at the PM.
After some more investigating, the PM's team has some military members and there was a cover up on murdering civilians in Iraq. A solider has to get back at the PM for being part of that. I don't think I've seen that on a TV show before.
Actors: I was checking out the beginning of the TV movie The Unquiet. The opening scene was to expose a fake psychic so I had to watch how it goes. I'm interested in psychics and the supernatural. I then recognized the woman who sees the psychic. It's Olivia from The Listener! Or her real name is Mylene Ding- Robic.
It was also weird. I was watching The Listener, and there's the actor Peter Stebbings who was on for 3 episodes. On the 3rd ep, I realized that I have seen him before. He played a pedophile on a an episode of Flashpoint back in 2008. I saw him once 2 yrs ago and now I recognize him.
Job: I mentioned before that there are things that you can't control that can affect your work like: getting sick, getting laid off, being out of work for months. I was going through my agenda in Jan. 2010, there was fire alarm that was pulled at the mall that I worked at. It was on Wed. and Sat. and we had to close down for about 3hrs in total. By closing down due to the fire alarm, you miss out on making money.
Trevor Popik Hafso: Yesterday I had a split shift at work. I had a few hours between my two shifts so I stayed at the mall. I then went to Chapters. I was reading the first chapter of The Secret. Well I like The Secret: Teen Power more because I can relate to it more.
Anyway, I was walking to leave the store and see that an author was sitting at a table doing signings. I looked at the business card and immediately recognized the logo of the lion with the wings. I picked it up before and put it on my desk.
The author Trevor Popik Hafso wrote The Three Little Pigs II: The Evolution of the Wolf which is a picture book.
Me: I met you before.
T: Yeah.
Me: At City Centre mall.
He had a signing at City Centre last year. We chatted a bit. I told him to make a blog. I then went to his website www.bookshelfadventures.com and emailed him this:
"To Trevor:
Hi, I'm Tracy Au and we met each other the second time at Chapters yesterday. I was the young Asian woman who told you how to make a blog. Go to www.blogger.com and you can set up a free Google account. Then you can promote yourself and your book more.
I have a blog myself at www.badcb.blogspot.com. It's about TV, movies, writing, news, my life, etc. I've had the blog since 2008 to get discovered as a screenwriter. I've been pitching my screenplay since 2008 and been in talks with a producer. I will write about you on it.
Have you ever heard of the Writer in Residence at the Edmonton Public Library? It's Marty Chan and he has helped me with my writing. You can email him your work of 15 pages and he will give you helpful feedback:
writerinresidence@EPL.CA
Well it was nice meeting you.
Tracy"
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Pamela Smart/ crazy story/ abortions
Mar. 16 Pamela Smart: In Oct. 2010, I was watching Oprah and she interviewed a woman named Pamela Smart. The story is that PS got her 15 yr old lover to kill her cheating husband, but PS says she didn't. PS says death is easier than life in prison. PS never used the technology on TV like the internet or a cell phone.
The 15 yr old boy Billy Flynn committed the murder, and his 3 friends also went to jail for 18-20 yrs. The jury wasn't sequestered for PS so there's a bias. PS helps the women in prison by teaching them. She also got two masters degree while in prison.
If she is innocent, I feel sorry for her. But hey, at least she's doing something productive and helpful in prison by getting an education and teaching other women.
20/20: I was watching 20/20 back in Oct. 2010. Nicky was born a boy named Justin. When he was 18 yrs old, he went from dressing up as a girl at night, to being a woman full- time. Then she went to a bar's washroom, and she was raped. She was HIV positive.
She lived her life hard and fast thinking she was going to die soon. She went on the Jerry Springer show and did the "I'm really a man" show. She said she was manipulated by producers, and was young. When she saw the expression on the man's face, she said she won't do it again.
I thought all the guests on Jerry Springer were fake and actors. Or at least most of them were. Looks like at least this one is real.
Crazy story: Here's another crazy story from 20/20 in Nov. 2010: This woman Candy meets a man and falls in love. Then it turns out he had murdered his parents and brother. He goes to juvenile hall for 3 yrs. He was 14 at that time. His name is Peter Zimmerman. He grows up and got out of juvenile hall and moves far away to start a new life.
C and PZ date. He cheats on C, C dumps him. PZ breaks C's air conditioner anonymously. PZ comes and fixes it. He harasses her with phone and email. C gets a restraining order and gets arrested.
PZ pretends to be C on a sex site, and a stranger comes to C's house. Thank God, C wasn't hurt. Remember how I wrote about that woman Sarah on Oprah? Her ex-boyfriend Jebediah Stype set her up to get raped through Craigslist. PZ is now in prison and serving 3 and half years for aggravated stalking. PZ wants $200, 000 from ABC network to sell his story. Yeah, well ABC went to Candy to hear her story. I don't know if they paid her.
Restaurant: The Chinese restaurant Mirama Dining and Lounge has closed down. I've been going there with my family for years. I'll miss it. There are still lots of good Chinese restaurants.
Brain Grade Test: My sister had gave me a whole bunch of magazines, one was called Mental Floss. It's about being smart. I went to the magazine's site and it lead me to a Brain Grade Test. It asked about how much coffee you drink, what you eat, how much exercise you have, etc. and gives you a grade. I got a B+. lol.
http://www.braingradetest.com/
Mar. 17 Law of Attraction: I was talking to my friend Angela about this on the phone, and she said it was more about being aware of the things around you instead of attracting it. Yesterday I was thinking about the movie Rebel without a Cause. Then I read in the Edmonton Journal, where a high school was throwing a play based on the movie.
Nuns: I saw this on Oprah yesterday. I saw this on 20/20 a year or so ago. There are 750,000 Catholic nuns. 60,000 are in the US. The average age of nuns is 28 yrs old. They can never have sex, possessions, or money of their own.
A Harvard graduate was a nun. She says: "A lot of people think I'm missing a lot of opportunities." Yeah, well do whatever makes you happy as long as it's not hurting anyone. Oprah's camera crew went to a convent in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There are no cell phones or computers there.
Crazy love story: Also on Oprah, she interviewed a 47 yr old white woman named Tracy who was raised in a 2 parent household. She was divorced twice and has a 13 yr old son from her 2nd marriage. She goes on a spiritual path. T goes to prison to perform an African dance and meets a black inmate named Joseph.
J never had a dad, and his mom went to prison for murdering his brother's dad. J was sexually abused in foster homes with his brother. J was 20 and he and his friend murdered 4 people in a drug house. J murdered 2 people so he got life in prison, no parole. J and T got married.
They met once when T performed the dance at the prison. One yr later, T went to perform a dance, and then they started dating like write letters to one another. T sounds like she's in love in the interview, and so does J when he called in on the show. J went into religion, pray and meditate.
J: I have taken responsibility for my actions. I want to be happy, I'm going to be happy. I forgave myself.
Mar. 18 Abortions: I was thinking about reading this in the Edmonton Journal awhile back, and also from 20/20 talking about the book Freakonomics. Since there is an increase in abortions, there has been a decrease in crime. There has been a huge decrease in crime in the early 90s, not because of strict laws. It was because abortions was legalized in NY in 1973, which prevent unwanted young men from being born and raised in bad environments.
I remember this time back in around 2005? It was when I still watch trashy shows like Cops. There is this young woman who was a prostitute. She was working as one because she was raped multiple times. One time she got raped at a party, and got pregnant. She had a baby and the only way to support herself and her baby was through prostitution.
I was like: "Give the baby up for adoption, because you obviously can't take care of it if you have to go into prostitution. There is open custody where you can visit and see your kid from time to time. You shouldn't put yourself in danger like that." I was 20 when I saw that. Now that I'm 25, I'm thinking: "So what were you thinking the entire time you were pregnant? That you would go into prostitution?" I think she may have been prostituting before she even got pregnant. I don't know.
Lookalike: I was watching Pretty Little Liars and I thought Spencer's mom Veronica (Lesley Fera) relatively looks like Mariska Harigitay on Law and Order: SVU. They have the same hair color, eyes, skin tone, facial features.
Lesley Fera:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024313/
Mariska Harigitay:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002127/
Environment: While I'm talking about Pretty Little Liars, I like that last episode they showed three characters make coffee at home, and pour it in their thermos. That's good for the environment. That reminds me of Heartland. A character goes to a restaurant and has her coffee poured into a thermos.
The 15 yr old boy Billy Flynn committed the murder, and his 3 friends also went to jail for 18-20 yrs. The jury wasn't sequestered for PS so there's a bias. PS helps the women in prison by teaching them. She also got two masters degree while in prison.
If she is innocent, I feel sorry for her. But hey, at least she's doing something productive and helpful in prison by getting an education and teaching other women.
20/20: I was watching 20/20 back in Oct. 2010. Nicky was born a boy named Justin. When he was 18 yrs old, he went from dressing up as a girl at night, to being a woman full- time. Then she went to a bar's washroom, and she was raped. She was HIV positive.
She lived her life hard and fast thinking she was going to die soon. She went on the Jerry Springer show and did the "I'm really a man" show. She said she was manipulated by producers, and was young. When she saw the expression on the man's face, she said she won't do it again.
I thought all the guests on Jerry Springer were fake and actors. Or at least most of them were. Looks like at least this one is real.
Crazy story: Here's another crazy story from 20/20 in Nov. 2010: This woman Candy meets a man and falls in love. Then it turns out he had murdered his parents and brother. He goes to juvenile hall for 3 yrs. He was 14 at that time. His name is Peter Zimmerman. He grows up and got out of juvenile hall and moves far away to start a new life.
C and PZ date. He cheats on C, C dumps him. PZ breaks C's air conditioner anonymously. PZ comes and fixes it. He harasses her with phone and email. C gets a restraining order and gets arrested.
PZ pretends to be C on a sex site, and a stranger comes to C's house. Thank God, C wasn't hurt. Remember how I wrote about that woman Sarah on Oprah? Her ex-boyfriend Jebediah Stype set her up to get raped through Craigslist. PZ is now in prison and serving 3 and half years for aggravated stalking. PZ wants $200, 000 from ABC network to sell his story. Yeah, well ABC went to Candy to hear her story. I don't know if they paid her.
Restaurant: The Chinese restaurant Mirama Dining and Lounge has closed down. I've been going there with my family for years. I'll miss it. There are still lots of good Chinese restaurants.
Brain Grade Test: My sister had gave me a whole bunch of magazines, one was called Mental Floss. It's about being smart. I went to the magazine's site and it lead me to a Brain Grade Test. It asked about how much coffee you drink, what you eat, how much exercise you have, etc. and gives you a grade. I got a B+. lol.
http://www.braingradetest.com/
Mar. 17 Law of Attraction: I was talking to my friend Angela about this on the phone, and she said it was more about being aware of the things around you instead of attracting it. Yesterday I was thinking about the movie Rebel without a Cause. Then I read in the Edmonton Journal, where a high school was throwing a play based on the movie.
Nuns: I saw this on Oprah yesterday. I saw this on 20/20 a year or so ago. There are 750,000 Catholic nuns. 60,000 are in the US. The average age of nuns is 28 yrs old. They can never have sex, possessions, or money of their own.
A Harvard graduate was a nun. She says: "A lot of people think I'm missing a lot of opportunities." Yeah, well do whatever makes you happy as long as it's not hurting anyone. Oprah's camera crew went to a convent in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There are no cell phones or computers there.
Crazy love story: Also on Oprah, she interviewed a 47 yr old white woman named Tracy who was raised in a 2 parent household. She was divorced twice and has a 13 yr old son from her 2nd marriage. She goes on a spiritual path. T goes to prison to perform an African dance and meets a black inmate named Joseph.
J never had a dad, and his mom went to prison for murdering his brother's dad. J was sexually abused in foster homes with his brother. J was 20 and he and his friend murdered 4 people in a drug house. J murdered 2 people so he got life in prison, no parole. J and T got married.
They met once when T performed the dance at the prison. One yr later, T went to perform a dance, and then they started dating like write letters to one another. T sounds like she's in love in the interview, and so does J when he called in on the show. J went into religion, pray and meditate.
J: I have taken responsibility for my actions. I want to be happy, I'm going to be happy. I forgave myself.
Mar. 18 Abortions: I was thinking about reading this in the Edmonton Journal awhile back, and also from 20/20 talking about the book Freakonomics. Since there is an increase in abortions, there has been a decrease in crime. There has been a huge decrease in crime in the early 90s, not because of strict laws. It was because abortions was legalized in NY in 1973, which prevent unwanted young men from being born and raised in bad environments.
I remember this time back in around 2005? It was when I still watch trashy shows like Cops. There is this young woman who was a prostitute. She was working as one because she was raped multiple times. One time she got raped at a party, and got pregnant. She had a baby and the only way to support herself and her baby was through prostitution.
I was like: "Give the baby up for adoption, because you obviously can't take care of it if you have to go into prostitution. There is open custody where you can visit and see your kid from time to time. You shouldn't put yourself in danger like that." I was 20 when I saw that. Now that I'm 25, I'm thinking: "So what were you thinking the entire time you were pregnant? That you would go into prostitution?" I think she may have been prostituting before she even got pregnant. I don't know.
Lookalike: I was watching Pretty Little Liars and I thought Spencer's mom Veronica (Lesley Fera) relatively looks like Mariska Harigitay on Law and Order: SVU. They have the same hair color, eyes, skin tone, facial features.
Lesley Fera:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024313/
Mariska Harigitay:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002127/
Environment: While I'm talking about Pretty Little Liars, I like that last episode they showed three characters make coffee at home, and pour it in their thermos. That's good for the environment. That reminds me of Heartland. A character goes to a restaurant and has her coffee poured into a thermos.
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