Guess what we are going to see!!! Yup! First showing is at 1!!! WOOOOOT So very excited! There’s seven of us going, so let’s get the party started!!!
The four of us, my parents, and my grandfather. We’ll have to get there super early so I’m going to go begin getting ready. I just had to share!!!
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ahack said:
You are so lucky–I will have to wait until after Shoreleave to go, because I can’t afford it this week, and next week is Shoreleave–so hopefully I can go the Sunday after that.
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Lady Ozma said:
Well I’ll do a review 🙂
I wish I could make it to shoreleave. I just can’t seem to get my stuff together. 😦 We’ve got a lot going on now with the sale of the house, I actually have a conferance for PTA the following weekend, and some other things. Perhaps next year?
At any rate… I’ll do up a review. Speaking of which, I need to post my Bewitched Review!! Yipes! You might want to just go to my website to read that one, I don’t know if I’ll get it done today here at LJ.. LOL http://www.sirmegabyte.info BTW I’m resurrecting my parenting site. I think you would be very interested. It’s real basic right now because of my revamp. Email me and I’ll send you the link to the very ugly old site that I buried… HAHA so you can kind of see what it WAS like. (We had to let it go by the wayside due to Caramon’s illness, Amy struggling with both her kids being diagnosed Autism, and some marital trouble with Melanie. But we’re trying to revive it.) But the site is http://www.parentinginpoverty.info I can link you to the old stuff though. I just don’t want to put it here. It’s attrocious. HAHA
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ahack said:
Re: Well I’ll do a review 🙂
Well you have a place to stay (as long as I don’t get evicted–lol–at least I have the rent for this month ). My son would be so happy to see your kids. We will also be going to Farpoint and of course Balticon. I seems possible that my brother will pay for us to go down to GA so we may also get to Dragon*Con again (Your favorite I know 😉 hehehe.)
I like that Parenting in Poverty–I am sure I will have some great info to share on that one–lol. I’ve never done else–lol. I am not sure what I did with your e-mail but I had to change mine (as I had to give up my Comcast internet due to poverty :() it is ehack@netzero.net and I’d love the old links.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Well I’ll do a review 🙂
We’re going to try to go to Farpoint. We are also going to the Richmond one, Ravencon. Not sure what else. I’ll keep you posted. And soon we will have a place for you to stay. 🙂 I’m so excited… HAHA
I’m glad you liked Parenting in Poverty. Please bookmark it. We’re working on it. I’m going to go email you now.
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tsukikage85 said:
You’ll have to tell me how Tom Cruise fares.
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Lady Ozma said:
He was great!
I really enjoyed his role. Though he STILL looks too young to have an angsty teen son who hates him, hahaha. I mean yes I KNOW he’s old enough to, but gosh he still looks too young. I suppose I’ll be in that boat myself when my kids are teens. LOL.
At any rate, I think he did well. Especially since this character was not the usual hero, can kick your arse seven ways to next week, or anything of the like. He’s just a jerk divorcee straddled with kids he can’t relate to while his ex is off visiting her parents with her new guy. He had absolutely nothing going for him at the start of the movie. He’s just another average joe living in a screwed up world. The only thing special about him is… he survives. He doesn’t pull a Will Smith “I’ve got to get me one of these”, he doesn’t save thousands of people, he doesn’t do anything but try to keep him and his kids safe while fleeing across the countryside.
I think he pulled it off rather well.
Of course having not seen his supposed meltdown on the Today show I’m not pissed off at him like the rest of America. I was visiting my grandmother and didn’t hear word of any “meltdown” until she watched it on Fox News. Unfortunately for Fox News they looked like idiots because they went on to the length of me wanting to throw a brick through the TV about this supposed “meltdown” but the clip they showed was absolutely nothing. In fact, the clip they showed was him being fairly calm while the reporter dork from The Today Show (which I don’t care what people say I still don’t consider real “news” anyway) jumping all over Tom’s case. If you are going to report a meltdown, at least show us this meltdown and don’t rant on and on and on and on about how Tom Cruise is “a few fries short of a happy meal” as these guys said or anything else.
OK, that rant over… I don’t know. Maybe he did have a meltdown, I haven’t a clue. At any rate, I wasn’t all pissed off at Tom Cruise when I went to the movie like the rest of the nation so I was willing to accept his role without going “He did OK for a crazy psychopath guy who needs to be pulled from the airwaves in any way possible.”
🙂
Yes I”m still annoyed at that Fox news article. Can you tell? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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ahack said:
Re: He was great!
I really enjoyed his role. Though he STILL looks too young to have an angsty teen son who hates him, hahaha. I mean yes I KNOW he’s old enough to, but gosh he still looks too young. I suppose I’ll be in that boat myself when my kids are teens. LOL.
I don’t really know about that–lol–I feel soooo old, 2 years ago people still thought I was 21, now people think I am 28–it is getting closer to me true age of 35–lol. I feel like I must look really, really old. lol
Oh, and I did see the “supposed melt down” on the Today Show, and I think he was right and Matt was the jerk–Tom simply turned the tables on Matt, and Matt was not prepared. But then I think Tom is right, and those psych meds are not the way to go in 98% of all cases. We over medicate our children something awful. He did know quite a bit more about the history of psychiatry than Matt, and Matt had that well “it is easier to medicate the child than actually raise them attitude that so pisses me off.” It is so much better to regulate diet, get enough exercise and sleep, and to spend time with our children and families than to simply had over a pill–with scary side affects. In the same week (or the next one) a report came out that stated that kids on Ritalin and similar drugs have more thoughts of suicide and violence than other kids–VERY SCARY! Rant over, LOL.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: He was great!
I had a cashier at walmart think I was 14 yesterday. WTF. Do I really look 14??? LOL Oh well. I don’t really take offense at it, I’m more amused by it… LOL
OK, see the clip they showed on FOX News (which I despise more because of this now…) that’s all I saw. Tom being berated by Matt. And then these guys yacked for forever on FOX about how Tom is crazy and needs to be kicked off the airwaves and he’s destroying his career. Huh?
I think Tom was wrong on one count. He says there’s no such thing as a chemical imbalance. I know he’s a sciencetologist and all, but I don’t think that is right. However he was so calm saying it that I didn’t see it as a meltdown. I can agree to disagree with him on that. However everything else he said was bang on. The clip they showed included that as well as him mentioning that several of these drugs we give kids these days are street drugs now and over perscribed. Ritalin was one he mentioned and he’s so right. You have people not wanting to deal with kids so they slap “ADD” labels on them, put them on ritalin, and yadda yadda. I personally believe that at the very least, half the people “with ADD” are in fact perfectly normal and need to be yanked off the meds.
I know people who have followed the advice of their TEACHERS and medicated kids for ADD. OK, who gave TEACHERS the right to diagnose kids ADD???? No. Yes I do believe there are ADD people out there who could benefit from the medicine. But you could realistically say 98% of children out there are ADHD if you wanted. I’m sorry, kids do NOT have long attention spans and they are BUILT TO PLAY so of course they are going to seem “hyper”. Especially if they are trapped at a desk all day long. ADHD this does not make them. It just does not.
No one has tried this crap with my kids, but it still irritates the heckfire out of me. And frankly, I think Tom was totally in the right place talking about that fact!
Here’s my other question though. Probably bigger than anything else. These FOX News idiots kept commenting about how Tom Cruise doesn’t have a medical degree so shouldn’t talk about such things. Well, who brought it up? Did Matt bring it up? I mean I can’t imagine Matt saying something like “So did you enjoy filming War of the Worlds” and Tom Cruise just up and saying “Oh yeah but let me rant to you about Ritalin.” No, it had to come from SOMEWHERE and frankly, I bet it came from Matt who it seemed from the small clip they showed was LOOKING to criticize Tom on his life as a sciencetologist. Which by the way, it seemed like those FOX News jerks also wanted to do.
If YOU bring up a topic then you can’t get pissed off if the person talks about it. And you can’t get critical at the person talking about it if SOMEONE ELSE BRINGS IT UP.
At any rate, everyone I know is talking about how Tom Cruise is crazy and poor Katie Holmes doesn’t know what she’s getting into and blah blah blah. I NEVER saw a meltdown, I think he’s perfectly fine, and I think he and Katie both need to be left alone. And frankly, after seeing War of the Worlds, Tom’s career is doing just fine. Just freaking fine. So whatever those FOX News guys want to think about this tanking Tom’s career, they are MORONS.
OK, my rant over. 🙂
Oh wait, no. FOX News sucks. Don’t watch them. They SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK. OK, now my rant is over.
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ahack said:
Re: He was great!
Actually, a week ago I’d’ve agreed with you about the chemical imbalance, but it turns out he was right. The following week they had two experts on the show; one pro-meds, one not so pro-meds, and they both agreed that it is not a proven fact that anything is caused by a chemical imbalance. The only thing they know is that the meds seem to make a difference and assume that the drugs fix a chemical imbalance. It seems he was 100% correct in his assumption that we don’t really know why these drugs are working, we just know that they seem to fix a problem. That they fix one problem and create others is documented fact.
As for how it cam up, yes, Matt brought it up and was no where near a prepared as Tom was–so the best that they could do was mock him afterward. It seems Brooke Shields came out and told everyone that after her babies were born she’d had a severe case of post partum depression and therefore took meds to “fix” her problem, and at some point before the interview Tom had commented on how much hi cared about Brooke, but did not agree with her decision to take anti-depression drugs. So Matt brought it up in this interview and was simply not prepared. I mean his argument was, well I have friends who have kids who seem to be better off on drugs–lol. Tom had real bona fide facts and Matt had nothing. He was very calm through the whole thing, used all the same sorts of “tricks” I’ve seen reporters use and they branded him crazy. He used Matt’s name alot–something that is unnerving and set Matt off, he calmly made his point and told Matt that he didn’t know the history of psychiatry, which was self evident. The only thing that he could have doen differently was that he wouldn’t let Matt talk and spew his nonsense–but it was done rather more respectfully and calmly than any reporter I’ve ever seen do the same thing.
I don’t know if I agree with Brooke’s decision or not, it is not one I’d make. I would first try altering my diet, pro-actively doing things that helped me, look into natural alternatives–that were safe and would still allow me to breastfeed. We are very quick to take that pill. To me meds are a last resort to save lives, but then I won’t take antibiotics for an ear infection either. I’d rather have those antibiotics work for life threatening illnesses. I am not anti meds, but do think that we need to carefully use them. They have side effects and those need to be considered, and carefully weighed against the good they can do.
The other thing they started teasing him about after the interview was when asked if he believed in aliens he said something to the affect of we’d be very arrogant to assume that we were alone in this huge universe–well, duh, yeah! he’d be right there too. LOL
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: He was great!
I have friends who definately have SOMETHING going on. Who knows what causes it. Frankly we may never know. Chemical or not. But there are definately things that happen in the body that people don’t understand. Unfortunately doctors want to SOUND like they are God and know it all. So they just come up with whatever sounds good. I’m just not a doctor person. I think overall doctors think they are way cooler than they are. They just need to shush it.
I think though that once more, if there ARE chemical imbalances or NOT it’s moot. The plain fact is that people would rather snatch a label and medicate then figure things out. “Oh I’m not happy, I must be depressed, I’ll go get prozac.” When if you looked at them you could see WHY they are not happy. Yes some people suffer from depression, but I think that really? There are a lot of people who aren’t suffering anything actually medically wrong with them and taking meds.
I’m glad to know I was right. That that dork from Today started everything. Gaaah. Morons. Giving journalists a bad name. As a former journalist this really annoys!!
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tsukikage85 said:
Re: He was great!
Meltdown? I’ve heard nothing of this… But it seems you know about as much as I do.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: He was great!
Apparently he was on the Today show I would ASSUME to pimp the WotW movie. However somehow he got into a talk about mental health and overmedicating in our country. The tiny bit they aired on FOX News he was perfectly fine and a lot of what he said is just plain FACT. But the media has decided to attack the crap out of Tom Cruise for whatever reason I don’t know. Except because what he said didn’t promote today’s “label everything and then drug it” belief system.
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