Soxy

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) The coroner said it appeared to be natural causes. I'd say that it was linked to anorexia somehow. ^^^ So sad, I loved her in Clueless and she had the best line: "Why should I listen to you? You're a virgin who can't drive."

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 9, 2009 -> 01:54 PM) kitty corner is definitely correct. And it's pop, not soda. And when we played tag as kids, we were safe on Gool, not Goal. And it's duck, duck GOOSE! Not duck, duck, gray duck. Which is stupid and doesn't make any sense.

Late to the party but. . .HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

SereneTEA (I think that's what it's called) in Wheaton has some really amazing teas.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Dec 2, 2009 -> 12:14 AM) Just announced that Paul Greengrass won't be directing the 4th installment of the Bourne Franchise in 2010. So the film's in limbo right now, as Damon probably won't want to return without a great director and script to go with it. I loved the last 2 movies (Supremacy and Ultinatum) that he directed, so it's disappointing from that POV. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_pi...greengrass.html After the Bourne Ultimatum Damon suggested another movie would need to be called The Bourne Redundancy. I thought that was funny.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 27, 2009 -> 02:37 PM) Soxy had RHCP at #9. Whew. I feel a lot better. This old age thing sure sucks. . .

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Nov 27, 2009 -> 01:50 AM) Looks like they just squeaked by. 7/24 on people's list.. not bad at all though they should have been higher. (I'm blaming you Soxy. ) Hey, they totally might have been on my list. Total oversight if they hadn't been included (shame on me for forgetting Foo Fighters, though). My swiss cheese brain just can't hold that much in storage anymore!

Finished the BBC serial State of Play. Basic synopsis: Young guy is killed in what is initially thought to be drug related professional hit; around that time a researcher for an up and coming politician dies from falling onto the Tube tracks. Turns out politician has been "shagging" the researcher. From there it turns into a an interesting (and cynical) conspiracy theory about media interest and corporate interest in government. Nice twist ending that was surprising, yet made sense. Awesome, awesome, awesome. It's long ( a total of 6 hours) but well worth the time. Really good. Netflix it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) Joe wants you in his office, he says your mammogram is due? Again? That's the third one this month. Thank goodness for public healthcare.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 23, 2009 -> 01:41 PM) Barack Obama's latest Facebook news feed http://www.slate.com/id/2236149/ At first I was disappointed by the lack of Biden--but then the ending saved it.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the BBC miniseries State of Play. It's really really really good. Political thriller, well plotted, well acted, well directed. Simply great. Hopefully the end won't be bad.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 01:44 PM) I'm sure we will see the RHCP, the Beatles, etc.. of the world smoothly round out the list. And if Linkin Park is up there.. I don't care what any of you bastards say cuz I love them. Oh my god, I think i left RHCP off my list. Oh crap.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 12:09 PM) my favorite Mine too!

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 11:31 AM) Aurora, Il. Ach N Lous.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 19, 2009 -> 08:16 AM) Oh god... Green Day. I'm all sorts of sad right now that Soxtalk members apparently enjoy Green Day more than Talking Heads (and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and Queens of the Stone Age and just about everyone else on this list) Seriously, the singer is always flat. Doesn't that annoy people? because it makes me crazy. Crazy!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 18, 2009 -> 01:13 PM) Is the "Unbelievable" there sarcastic? Because I don't see what about it is unbelievable. No, I guess i just hoped we could make it through without wishing death to someone. All I ever get from those guys is tugboats and arson.

Stay Classy. Unbelievable.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 04:27 PM) The reporting of facts can be taken from a completely different view point based on a person's life. For example look no further than the facts surrounding the Ft Hood shooting. It is a fact that the guy was a Muslim. It was a fact he bought his guns publicly, instead of military issue. It is a fact that he took to heart that Obama was going to get us out of Iraq and Afganistan. It is a fact that the guy treated PTSD troops coming back from wars. Now which facts even get made into news reports tells everything about a person, and their biases and opinions. Fox is going to focus on the Obama angles. MSNBC is going to focus on the gun issues. Some focused on the Muslim angles. All of them are factually true. It doesn't change that which ones get focused on, are a large part of that particular groups opinions. Right. But none of that violates what I said. If you can't report the facts in a semi-unbiased factor without an emotional response, well, should you be reporting the facts at all? There are no checks on the media. There isn't a studio head saying, woah, woah that is completely out of line. There is no union of broadcasters that censures these irresponsible uses of facts. All of the facts that you talk about, right I can focus on that he is a Muslim--but what types of inferences I draw from that, well, that I can control. I can draw responsible inferences and RESPONSIBLY focus on that fact equally with others or I can be irresponsible. Facts are neutral, and if people can't present them neutrally, perhaps they are in the wrong line of work. And I disagree that life experience has to temper how we present facts. If I'm talking about something highly political that I care about with my friends I can do so while expressing my opinion. When I talk about that same issue in class (see torture and obedience) I can discuss it ONLY in the context of Psychology. How does Psychology explain this? What biological explanations are there? What social factors? What personality factors? I do NOT have to marry my job is to my personal opinions. If I can do this, why can't journalists?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 12, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) at the end of the day, all news is opinion to one degree or another. I don't know. Facts are facts--of course facts themselves mean nothing and need to be spun or interpreted. BUT it is possible to do that in a responsible way. It's like the difference between Psychology Today and the Journal of Memory and Language. Both of them include facts. Both of them often include the SAME facts. But in one case you have Joe Schmo with a BA in Psych telling you what the facts are and spinning them. In JML you have PhDs giving you the facts and spinning them. In JML you also have peer review that makes you accountable for the way you spin the facts. As a result you don't get cracked out interpretations and wild conjecture. You get less diluted facts that have been thoughtfully rendered. Sadly, today's news options aren't even Psychology Today. It's like Star and being spun and rendered by developmentally disabled monkeys. And yet people treat it like it was gold.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 10, 2009 -> 04:08 PM) it IS an Army base, they do have gates and guards, would be easy to keep the press away, if they wanted to. Sure, they would be camped outside the gates, but that doesn't mean he needs to go hunting for the cameras. A quick visit could have and should have been arranged, without a gaggle of media along. And if he would have gone earlier you would have berated him for abandoning his duty in an effort to be photographed as the first "african-american" (who knows why you're so obsessed with that term). You would have said it was a cheap publicity stunt. We need to make sure you are never in the same room as AHB. You are like the exact same person but in reverse. The world would explode: matter meets anti-matter.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 10, 2009 -> 03:58 PM) There is a difference between photogs being there, and him having his entourage around to photograph the historic moment of the first african american president doing . Bush met with families of dead soldiers when the bodies came back to America without photographers capturing every moment of it, why can't Obama? I imagine that it is easier to meet with dead soldiers families when those soldiers weren't killed in such a tragic non-combat zone sense. This shooting is a media circus--adding a president (regardless of race) to that mix would only seem exploitative.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 10, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) If he left immediately, took about 1000 reporters with him and made the speech all about how this was a tragic occasion and somehow relates it all back to him being the first african-american president and turned everythign into a photo-op, then yes, you are correct. If he would have went and told the photogs to just stay away, not so much. Did I hear right that instead of going there, he went to Camp David for a few days instead? Just asking. Yes, because the photogs do such a great job of staying away when politely asked.

Murphy Brown.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 30, 2009 -> 06:53 PM) Has anyone seen the following 2 horror movies: The Audition (1999) or the Orphanage? I'm going to rent one of them tonight and watch it with the lady after we carve pumpkins. Both were on a ton of top horror lists and I haven't seen either. Anyone recommend one over the other or anything like that? The Orphanage was really good--but it carried a lot more of an emotional kick than most scary type movies. Highly recommended though. Sorry this is so late.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 6, 2009 -> 11:34 PM) Soxy will give herself away when she performs a psychological evaluation before and after the beatdown. Yes, I will beat him while screaming "How does this make you feel, b****!"