aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 12, 2012 - 4:32pm
Well, he went on stage for a concert right after he found out she was dead and dedicated the performance to her so I don't think he has a conscience.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 12, 2012 - 4:56pm
It was his prerogative - he just does what he wants to do. So yeah - "My Prerogative" is a sociopath's theme song...
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 12, 2012 - 5:00pm
Meanwhile in Afghanistan 8 Marines died. No mention of them on the news. Cocaine 1, Military 0.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 12, 2012 - 5:23pm
what is this afganistan you speak of? I thought the war was over, Obama said so.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 12, 2012 - 5:27pm
You're thinking about Iraq.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 12, 2012 - 5:28pm
They are two different countries??? Next you'll tell me Egypt and France aren't next door to each other.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 12, 2012 - 5:41pm
Wait until you hear about Iran and Pakistan.
Iran is a country with a constitution and a government, but it's run by religious fanatics who get veto power over anything the people vote for. They are working on developing nuclear capacity.
Pakistan is a military dictatorship with ties to the exact same sort of religious fanatics, only crazier and more violent. Nobody gets to vote about anything but it doesn't matter because the government can only exercise control of its territory in the loosest terms and much of the countryside works as a refuge for Taliban fighters from Afghanistan. They've had nuclear weapons for thirty years.
Guess which one we're more worried about.
Oh, I forgot to mention, Iran has oil.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 12, 2012 - 5:41pm
If Pakistain didn't have nukes, I really don't think we'd want them to get them. It's more of a "they havn't started World War III yet so just let it go" then it is real approval.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 14, 2012 - 9:17pm
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Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 12, 2012 - 5:42pm
We sold them their nukes. Their first reactor was built by the same company that made Harley Davidsons.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 14, 2012 - 9:18pm
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Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 12, 2012 - 6:07pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 12, 2012 - 7:52pm
Thank God that so far it's worked out in the no one has started WWIII kind of way. People do stuff all the time that a few decades later we can see didn't work out.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 12, 2012 - 8:09pm
Or Mutually Assured Destruction... works... and creates a more peaceful world. In which case maybe we ought to be helping Iran develop nuclear weapons. (no fly list here I come)
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 12, 2012 - 8:36pm
You know what's hilarious is I've read two articles now that are so overly sensitive about this Whitney Houston thing. One was on EW.com and this chick was talking about saturday night live and saying, how she felt strange to be laughing at jokes when the world just lost an amazing artist!!!!
Then yahoo just posted an article saying how Bruce Springsteen offended people by asking, "America, are you alive out there?" at the Grammy awards because it was dedicated to that dead crackhead.
GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!
They act like she was royalty!!!!
President shot = tragedy
men die in war = tragic
pop star overdoses on drugs = another day in california
it reminds me of that old Chris Rock joke about people saying that rappers are getting assassinated. And he says, "Presidents get assassinated, that nigga just got shot down!!!"
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 12, 2012 - 8:37pm
Britney Spears queefs, news at 11.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 12, 2012 - 8:43pm
I won't think it fit to complain about such things until the spectacle of her death outshines Michael Jackson's. Anything less than that is an improvement for our society.
And I for one, I dunno, my mom always listened to that sort of stuff, I understand her musical contribution and I don't think it is as easily discredited as you seem to believe.
nathaniel parker
from Cincinnati is reading The Dark Tower ~ KingFebruary 12, 2012 - 9:43pm
What's going to be interesting is next week on SNL. Maya Rudulph is going to host and about her most famous bit is doing a Whitney Huston impression.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 13, 2012 - 4:34am
I liked some of Whitney's songs. Just not as much as I love my brothers who died in Afghanistan. She had a great voice, but apparently no courage to stay off of crack or cocaine. As we have seen with American Idol, The X Factor, or The Voice there is no shortage of people with great voices.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 13, 2012 - 4:36am
I would feel horrible if she died for her country, but she died doing drugs so fuck her. That is MY opinion and it is not shared by many.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 6:16am
For a bunch of liberal hippies, you guys seem to be awfully complacent about the death of a washed-up junkie. I thought that kind of thing was supposed to be liberals' emotional bread and butter!
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 13, 2012 - 6:22am
I'm a liberal, I just don't give a fuck about quite a lot of other people.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 6:27am
I kinda like that, Typewriter. If I were you, my Occupy sign would read, "I am the 99%, to the exclusion of all others!"
It has an elitist ring to it that I appreciate.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 7:16am
I mean, I don't run around defending Whitney, I can't remember the last time I listened to one of her songs. I understand that she had personal issues and was not a particularly good role model for the children.
I'm a little surprised at the vitriol I've seen about it here and other places though, I feel like all the people who wanted to yell lewd things at MJ's funeral procession and bitched out of reminding people that he habitually raped children are all the sudden lining up to diss on Whitney because she's a little more out of the way culturally and she's an easy target. You might damn well have gotten punched by a Michael Jackson fan for talking that shit, but relatively few people are going to line up to passionately defend Whitney fucking Houston.
I also don't understand why alien prompted this whole discussion in the first goddamn place. We were all sitting around, satisfied to just ignore her passing, which is fine, you don't have anything nice to say about the dead then just console yourself that they are dead, and by complaining up and down about people talking about it alien managed to spread discussion of Whitney fucking Houston rather than let it fizzle away. She won't get more than a week tops, and the news outlets will still cover news during that time. If you want to end the public spectacle of celebrity death then adding to that spectacle will not help.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 7:27am
Whatever, Nick. You just wanted the last post. Well you don't have it any more!
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 7:28am
I mean, she's dead. Not only is she dead, but she was pretty much washed up and busted before she died. And now people want to dance on her grave? Did Whitney Houston kill your parents?
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 7:29am
pwnt.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 7:33am
In answer to your insensitive question, there is a very good chance that Whitney Houston killed my parents. Thanks for opening up badly healed wounds!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 8:05am
I was actually (stupidly, I guess) surprised that Whitney Houston died. I'm not planning a memorial. I just remember Waitig to Exhale. And I liked it a lot. And I feel bad that she was a real talent and she wasted it.
Also, about this war stuff. I find it genuinely horrid that American's have not really been asked (required I guess is what I mean) to give up or sacrafice anything for this war which has gone on for so long.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 14, 2012 - 9:19pm
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avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:00am
" "Liberals" are very conservative."
No I'm not.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:02am
If you're not part of the revolution, you're part of the problem.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:22am
@avery: don't walk... away from me
@alien: I hope you are satisfied when I tell you that thanks to what you have dne here I am now working on a blog post called whitney fucking houston.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:27am
If you're not part of the repetition, you're part of the problem.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:28am
Shit, that song was from the bodyguard anyway.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:31am
An American classic, right there. Costner, Houston...a katana...a house in the woods. It had everything.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:36am
@averydoll: no, you're not, but you (or any one person or too-small sample population of people) don't represent liberalism or conservativism...
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:43am
I think I disagree. I guess it depends on what you view as liberal or conservative values in general.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:44am
Yeah, I haven't seen waiting to exhale, just the one with kevin costner in it.
Hell, I've seen worse kevin costner films.
Hell, if you take away untouchables and the thirty interesting minutes of waterworld kevin costner is nothing but a third rate robin hood behind errol flynn and cary ewles.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:50am
But he does show off his ass more than Errol Flynn or Carey Elwes. I think there is a Costner's-Ass shot in pretty well every movie he's done. Except maybe that one about dead baseball players. His ass was upstaged by Darth Vader's voice in that one.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:53am
I love that movie with the dead baseball players.
Waiting to Exhale is really good. If you want to be angry at men. And really, who doesn't??
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 13, 2012 - 9:58am
I'm always angry at dudes, they are always killin my ratio.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 13, 2012 - 10:09am
I'm angry at guys. because they don't understand that I can't take a joke about something I care about.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 1:10pm
Off the topic of being angry at dudes. Just wanted to recommend to everybody that they read J David Osborne's By the Time We Leave Here We'll Be Friends. I got it in on Saturday and read it on Saturday. Really good book. And very short.
Just thought I'd pimp another member's goods. And now I step away from the mike.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 13, 2012 - 1:18pm
Sorry, Nick.
You guys, I just wanna dance with somebody, I wanna feel the heat with somebody, with somebody that loves me. Don'tcha wanna dance?? And just remember, avery, I will always love you.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 1:28pm
Well, this is Angela Bassett, but it's one of the most memorable parts of the movie.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 1:35pm
So she's waving and behind her Whitney Houston is smoking a gigantic rock.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 1:36pm
No, this was waaay back when Whitney was still a nice girl.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 13, 2012 - 1:39pm
I like Angela's lingerie dress.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 13, 2012 - 1:42pm
Well, he went on stage for a concert right after he found out she was dead and dedicated the performance to her so I don't think he has a conscience.
It was his prerogative - he just does what he wants to do. So yeah - "My Prerogative" is a sociopath's theme song...
Meanwhile in Afghanistan 8 Marines died. No mention of them on the news. Cocaine 1, Military 0.
what is this afganistan you speak of? I thought the war was over, Obama said so.
You're thinking about Iraq.
They are two different countries??? Next you'll tell me Egypt and France aren't next door to each other.
Wait until you hear about Iran and Pakistan.
Iran is a country with a constitution and a government, but it's run by religious fanatics who get veto power over anything the people vote for. They are working on developing nuclear capacity.
Pakistan is a military dictatorship with ties to the exact same sort of religious fanatics, only crazier and more violent. Nobody gets to vote about anything but it doesn't matter because the government can only exercise control of its territory in the loosest terms and much of the countryside works as a refuge for Taliban fighters from Afghanistan. They've had nuclear weapons for thirty years.
Guess which one we're more worried about.
Oh, I forgot to mention, Iran has oil.
If Pakistain didn't have nukes, I really don't think we'd want them to get them. It's more of a "they havn't started World War III yet so just let it go" then it is real approval.
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We sold them their nukes. Their first reactor was built by the same company that made Harley Davidsons.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thank God that so far it's worked out in the no one has started WWIII kind of way. People do stuff all the time that a few decades later we can see didn't work out.
Or Mutually Assured Destruction... works... and creates a more peaceful world. In which case maybe we ought to be helping Iran develop nuclear weapons. (no fly list here I come)
You know what's hilarious is I've read two articles now that are so overly sensitive about this Whitney Houston thing. One was on EW.com and this chick was talking about saturday night live and saying, how she felt strange to be laughing at jokes when the world just lost an amazing artist!!!!
Then yahoo just posted an article saying how Bruce Springsteen offended people by asking, "America, are you alive out there?" at the Grammy awards because it was dedicated to that dead crackhead.
GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!
They act like she was royalty!!!!
President shot = tragedy
men die in war = tragic
pop star overdoses on drugs = another day in california
it reminds me of that old Chris Rock joke about people saying that rappers are getting assassinated. And he says, "Presidents get assassinated, that nigga just got shot down!!!"
Britney Spears queefs, news at 11.
I won't think it fit to complain about such things until the spectacle of her death outshines Michael Jackson's. Anything less than that is an improvement for our society.
And I for one, I dunno, my mom always listened to that sort of stuff, I understand her musical contribution and I don't think it is as easily discredited as you seem to believe.
What's going to be interesting is next week on SNL. Maya Rudulph is going to host and about her most famous bit is doing a Whitney Huston impression.
I liked some of Whitney's songs. Just not as much as I love my brothers who died in Afghanistan. She had a great voice, but apparently no courage to stay off of crack or cocaine. As we have seen with American Idol, The X Factor, or The Voice there is no shortage of people with great voices.
I would feel horrible if she died for her country, but she died doing drugs so fuck her. That is MY opinion and it is not shared by many.
For a bunch of liberal hippies, you guys seem to be awfully complacent about the death of a washed-up junkie. I thought that kind of thing was supposed to be liberals' emotional bread and butter!
I'm a liberal, I just don't give a fuck about quite a lot of other people.
I kinda like that, Typewriter. If I were you, my Occupy sign would read, "I am the 99%, to the exclusion of all others!"
It has an elitist ring to it that I appreciate.
I mean, I don't run around defending Whitney, I can't remember the last time I listened to one of her songs. I understand that she had personal issues and was not a particularly good role model for the children.
I'm a little surprised at the vitriol I've seen about it here and other places though, I feel like all the people who wanted to yell lewd things at MJ's funeral procession and bitched out of reminding people that he habitually raped children are all the sudden lining up to diss on Whitney because she's a little more out of the way culturally and she's an easy target. You might damn well have gotten punched by a Michael Jackson fan for talking that shit, but relatively few people are going to line up to passionately defend Whitney fucking Houston.
I also don't understand why alien prompted this whole discussion in the first goddamn place. We were all sitting around, satisfied to just ignore her passing, which is fine, you don't have anything nice to say about the dead then just console yourself that they are dead, and by complaining up and down about people talking about it alien managed to spread discussion of Whitney fucking Houston rather than let it fizzle away. She won't get more than a week tops, and the news outlets will still cover news during that time. If you want to end the public spectacle of celebrity death then adding to that spectacle will not help.
Whatever, Nick. You just wanted the last post. Well you don't have it any more!
I mean, she's dead. Not only is she dead, but she was pretty much washed up and busted before she died. And now people want to dance on her grave? Did Whitney Houston kill your parents?
pwnt.
In answer to your insensitive question, there is a very good chance that Whitney Houston killed my parents. Thanks for opening up badly healed wounds!
I was actually (stupidly, I guess) surprised that Whitney Houston died. I'm not planning a memorial. I just remember Waitig to Exhale. And I liked it a lot. And I feel bad that she was a real talent and she wasted it.
Also, about this war stuff. I find it genuinely horrid that American's have not really been asked (required I guess is what I mean) to give up or sacrafice anything for this war which has gone on for so long.
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" "Liberals" are very conservative."
No I'm not.
If you're not part of the revolution, you're part of the problem.
@avery: don't walk... away from me
@alien: I hope you are satisfied when I tell you that thanks to what you have dne here I am now working on a blog post called whitney fucking houston.
If you're not part of the repetition, you're part of the problem.
Shit, that song was from the bodyguard anyway.
An American classic, right there. Costner, Houston...a katana...a house in the woods. It had everything.
@averydoll: no, you're not, but you (or any one person or too-small sample population of people) don't represent liberalism or conservativism...
I think I disagree. I guess it depends on what you view as liberal or conservative values in general.
Yeah, I haven't seen waiting to exhale, just the one with kevin costner in it.
Hell, I've seen worse kevin costner films.
Hell, if you take away untouchables and the thirty interesting minutes of waterworld kevin costner is nothing but a third rate robin hood behind errol flynn and cary ewles.
But he does show off his ass more than Errol Flynn or Carey Elwes. I think there is a Costner's-Ass shot in pretty well every movie he's done. Except maybe that one about dead baseball players. His ass was upstaged by Darth Vader's voice in that one.
I love that movie with the dead baseball players.
Waiting to Exhale is really good. If you want to be angry at men. And really, who doesn't??
I'm always angry at dudes, they are always killin my ratio.
I'm angry at guys. because they don't understand that I can't take a joke about something I care about.
Off the topic of being angry at dudes. Just wanted to recommend to everybody that they read J David Osborne's By the Time We Leave Here We'll Be Friends. I got it in on Saturday and read it on Saturday. Really good book. And very short.
Just thought I'd pimp another member's goods. And now I step away from the mike.
Sorry, Nick.
You guys, I just wanna dance with somebody, I wanna feel the heat with somebody, with somebody that loves me. Don'tcha wanna dance?? And just remember, avery, I will always love you.
Well, this is Angela Bassett, but it's one of the most memorable parts of the movie.
So she's waving and behind her Whitney Houston is smoking a gigantic rock.
No, this was waaay back when Whitney was still a nice girl.
I like Angela's lingerie dress.
Me too.