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| In watching the "Six Feet Under" I was caught off guard by a scene in a show that follows a progressive Undertaking family in trendy L.A. One of the main nuances of this show is that the family members have these moments where they with the deceased either the patriarch who passed in the pilot episode or recent 'customers'. Now that the context has been established let us move onto the scene:
Claire the youngest daughter in the prior episodes had an abortion performed on her and during one of these visions, she is walking through the cemetery to find her fathers grave (this is the only reality at the moment). As she is wondering her father approaches her to inform her of being way off the course to his grave, as he leads her there seems to be a block party of the dead going on. This is not the traditional block party, the people seem happy and well dressed, but during their stroll Claire and her father happen upon a moslem.
At this point, Claire's father stops at the archway calming that they don't allow smoking so he would await her outside. Walking around in this moslem, Claire is flagged down by her missing Sister in Law Lisa, at this the red flags go up and Lisa confirms to Claire that she had passed on but evaded the how or why. As they hugged, Claire looked down at an infant in a carrier dressed in a blue onesie, as Claire looks down Lisa comments that she'll take good care of him which cause Claire to do a double take with a realization of this situation. As she sits there with this stunned look, Lisa informs Claire that she will wanted Claire to look out for her daughter Maya.
Keep in mind that these visions that all of these charaters in the show experience, usually it is information that is old hat. Which is to day there is no real divination of future or unknown information, usually this a format in which their sub conscious use to communicate to the higher brain levels about facts or facets that usually would be ignored by the more willful modern thought.
What is so telling about this moment in this show's acclaimed 5 season run is that, for all of her progressive pampering that the abortion she had is the taking of a human life. There is no way to pretty this reality up, she had the abortion because she didn't wnat to be tethered to a child whose father she had recently, bitterly split up with with the news of this pregnancy soon following. That for all of her liberal espousals that simply abortion is infanticide for a reason as petty as convenience rather than being grown up about it. These are the everyday consequences that Liberals avoid like men running in the dark refusing to acknowledge that there is a wall and express only shock and surprise when they finally crash into that wall.
Leave aside all of the religious posturing on the abortion debate, I have always opposed abortion for the simple reason that it is the willful killing of a defenseless human being and the one who should be concern with this little one's well being is the same one ridding themselves of responsibility. Look, as one who was born especially after the Roe v. Wade decision, my misgiving is about abortion is that human life becomes very cheap, the child is faultless in the big picture and is the convenient scapegoat for someone who does not want to face the consequences of sleeping around.
Call me what you want but if I were deprived of the chance to live I would be very angry at such arrogance and selfishness. But this is only me, thanks for taking the time to read feedback would be very appreciated. | | |
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At the Grammys on Sunday, the Dixie
Chicks were awarded five Grammys-including the Country album of the
year. What irks me about their "victory" is that they still cling to
be in the country genre, when they are as country as Marilyn Manson is
to the CCM(Contentemporary Christian Music) genre. Until they opened
their big clap trap in the UK about their thoughts on Bush, we all
forget that they had been pitied in a lopsided contract with their
record label.
To clarify, I believe that these ladies
are fully entitled to their opinion, but don't blast your fan base and
still expect to be beloved all the while. Had they been Bruce
Springsteen (the classic Limousine Liberal- distribute the wealth, but
leave my wallet alone) and espoused the exact same belief in ideology,
there would be no shock, no astonishment. But what the key difference
is that when you take up the banner of country music, the fan base has
historically been on the conservative, religious side of politics.
Whereas the whole Springsteen crowd has as a rule leaned toward the left
in terms of politics.
On the surface, one would casually
assume that the Chicks must be back in the loving embrace of country
music fans, but appearances are deceiving. The Chick still don't have
anywhere the near the radio play or general support from the fan base,
on talk radio a caller identified himself as an attendee to the
ceremony on sunday and commented that by the second victory for the
chicks, half of the crowd had walked out of the auditorium.
Let's all be honest here, if the chicks
had simply chosen to show a fist with the middle finger boldly and
prouldly standing alone on the cover I would not have been offended. I
could, at least, admire their honesty towards the fans of country
music. This whole mess could have been avoided years ago when the band
formed together and chose pop music, then we could have avoided all of
this mess. I think that the Beatles got off easier back in the 60's.
The long an the short of this is
simply: just let's cut all of the pretentious BS and just declare the
chicks pop with a slight bluegrass sound and we could move on with our
lives here.
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| (The scne is someone walkinginto an old dusty room)
Breathing deep noise- (cough) (cough) (cough) aaaaaaaccchhhoooo!!!!
ow that hurt, has it really been that long? I guess it has, the last time I did anything, the Cardinals won the series.
Well I'm back and I have a couple of annoucements:
- I love, just die every time I see the emerald's nuts commercial with
Robert Goulet as this gremlin. The spiderman touch at the end just was
the home run in the bottom of the ninth in a scoreless game: just what
was needed.
-Second along with the That Guy Hall of Fame a few weeks off I am
already in the process of putting together the follow up class and a
running pop culture dictionary:which will be an ongoing process until I
have amassed enough for a solo
For example "Pulling a Tupac": where a musician
releases more music after they are dead then when they were alive or
their estate keeps releasing "new" music that the artist didn't
necessarily deem good enough.
-Example Johnny Cash's American V
is a fine example. But there isn't no one who will top Tupac who
released like 2 CD's allive and 18 since he died?
More of these will come along as I can fast as I can remember them-ain't that the way it always goes?
Moreover, a couple of moths ago iwas inspired by something that caught
me as hilarious: imagine eating in a fine restaurant, when casually
observing you view an old man in a sweater that looked like Freddy's
from the Friday the 13th series. Now obviously you know in the higher
brain that this was an unintentional coincidence, but o the funny
thoughts that ensued. Namely what would it look like if you took
cinemas most noted villains and monsters and put them in a common
enviroment like you see at the mall with like james dean and Humphrey
Bogard in a pool hall or something like that. Better yet what if the
villians and monsters never died and spent their remaining days in
retirement.
Here's the scene: a retirement home recreation room.
John Doe (From Se7en) and Jigsaw (Saw trilogy) are playing chess with
one another. While Hannibal Lecter psychoanalyzes Norman Bates (Psycho)
who has issue with his mother. Tilting their heads from side to side
are Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) and Michael Myers (Halloween) who
look at the medication in their hand given to them by Nurse Ratched
(One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest) with a vibe of 'alright now, how do
you expect us to take these meds now?' While sitting in a corner of
the room is a brooding Jack Torrence (The Shining) is trying to
watch TV and constantly being interrupted by Freddy Krueger, in
which Freddy is talking to a lot about his past and pleads for Jack to
put the coffee down Jack says "in your dreams" Freddy happily replies
"as you wish."
This could be the next random pop culture collage, I can see it just fine, infact I want a cut of the profits.
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| 1. Enough with the political commercials, skullduggery is the only word to use for the Claire McCaskill a(ttacks)ds.
2. It is refreshing to see old school ball clubs in this series.
3 YYYYYYEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can finally subscribe to SI for the new subscribers package. GO CARDS!!!!
4. But of all of the clubs we have fielded since 2000, I would never
had believed that this banged up and bruised club would win it all.
5. The Tigers until their next appearance will be haunted by the many errors committed in these five games.
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| Now don't get me wrong here, I will cheer the boys in red and hopefully buy a subscription to "Sports Illustrated" in the spring when the World Series championship pack will be offered, but after the last seven years of playoff underachievement by the Cardinals the only way that I can truly sum this up is in this little story from the aftermath of Stalag 17.
As the story goes: upon accepting the Oscar for best actor in 1954, William Holden is driving back home after the ceremony with his wife who made a comment that summed up the entire night-"You know, they're (the Academy) finally making up for their mistake for short changing you for 'Sunset Boulevard'. To which there is a violent outburst, which in its primal essence is in agreeing with his wife's statement. A much more recent example of the perennial career oscar bestowed on an actor for an 'alright' film but pales in comparison to their other works is Morgan Freeman getting the Best supporting Actor for the film Million Dollar baby when his career has many other films in which he should have been nominated (and won) for Such as Se7en or any of the other films he has been in.
The simple essence of this rant is: if the Cardinals manage to pull off an upset in the World Series, the this would be having to accept this crew of bums as world champs when this should have been last year or in 2004 even when they stood atop of the league with at least 100 victories. Given the underachievement of the past 7 years of post season play, this would be quite anticlimactic.
Although I do have friends who are die hard fans of the Tigers, I still say Go Cards!
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