No Expectations

Writer's Block: Eat Your Vegetables

2008-10-07T04:49:20Z

The fall harvest is showing up in markets now, including many of the green vegetables children find so disgusting and yet are forced to eat. What is the most disgusting thing you’ve eaten, either by choice or against your will?

Submitted by bloodcurdling

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Most disgusting thing ever ingested? Orange-flavored metamucil or that chalky barium shake they make you drink to have an upper GI. Unsure which has a worse taste.

Actual food? Peas, beets, and the vinegar drenched rice/seaweed served with sushi are right up there. Didn't mind the raw fish; couldn't stand the rice/seaweed.

movie review

2008-10-07T04:41:03Z

Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)

Quick Info
Director: Nakashima Tetsuya
Starring: Fukada Kyoko, Tsuchiya Anna
Year of Release: 2004
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Awards: Best Film (Japanese Professional Movie Awards), Best Film (Yokohama Film Festival), +12 others
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: not rated
My Rating: **** (meaning?)

Synopsis :
Momoko is a serious, introverted, and isolated girl. She is obsessed with Rococo Europe and has one passion in life - expensive Lolita fashion. After exhausting her father's funds in buying it, she places an ad to sell fake Versace clothes leftover from dad's days as a two-bit yakuza. This brings Ichiko into her life. Ichiko is loud, vulgar, and a member of an all-girl motorcycle gang - the opposite of Momoko. Unwillingly, Momoko emerges from her shell as Ichiko insists on being her friend.

Review :
So much fun! Shimotsuma Monogatari is at heart a film about female friendship, more comedic than others of this genre (Thelma and Louise, for example). It breaks the fourth wall constantly, but this only adds to the charm of the film. The bright colors, odd camera angles, and surreal fantasy sequences create a visual spectacle, but the film is rooted in solid acting, inventive storytelling, and a quirky narrative. It's a film about independent thinking and the value of true friendship, and offers a scathing critique of consumerism thrown in to boot. It is also one of the most fun movies I have watched in a very long time.

movie review

2008-09-28T23:21:09Z

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Quick Info
Director: F. W. Murnau
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Year of Release: 1927
Country: USA
Language: silent (English cards)
Awards: Best Actress (Oscar), Best Cinematography (Oscar), Best Unique and Artistic Picture (Oscar), Best Foreign Language Film (Kinema Junpo)
Genre: Drama, Romance (melodrama)
MPAA Rating: not rated
My Rating: **** (meaning?)

Synopsis :
A married man is tempted to murder his loving wife and run away with the seductive woman from the city . He finds himself unable to commit the deed, repents his betrayal, and the couple reconcile in remembering what they loved in one another.

Review :
A stellar silent film, Sunrise is a story of love, betrayal and redemption. It's a film of great visual beauty, with inventive moving and panning in the camera work. After watching Sunrise it's easy to see why it is often ranked as one of the best films of the silent era. Murnau creates stark contrast between the elements of the film, using our common vocabulary of symbolism to create the atmosphere and story of Sunrise. The wife, associated with light, day, the country, and purity is placed in opposition to the lover, who is night, dark, the city, and corruption. The actors play their parts with a sincerity that isn't overacted like other silent films I have seen. A beautiful, poignant film, Sunrise is worth watching for just about anyone.

danae_cassandra @ 2008-09-02T23:14:00

2008-09-03T03:18:22Z

I did the birthday calculator thing linked on silkandstalking 's LJ, and the most interesting part of it is this:

Your birth tree is

Chestnut Tree, the Honesty

Of unusual beauty, does not want to impress, well-developed sense of justice, vivacious, interested, a born diplomat, but irritable and sensitive in company, often due to a lack of self-confidence, acts sometimes superior, feels not understood, loves only once, has difficulties in finding a partner.

I think I shall have to plant chestnut trees in the yard. Damn that's mostly accurate.

What I've learned about men

2008-08-22T03:15:28Z

This evening's shift at BME provided another lesson about men:

If, while drunk, two of your buddies are talked into wrestling in jello, you will NEVER let them live it down.

movie review

2008-08-20T19:48:45Z

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Quick Info
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakum, January Jones, Melissa Leo
Year of Release: 2006
Country: USA
Language: English & Spanish
Awards: Best Actor (Cannes), Best Screenplay (Cannes), Grand Prix (Flanders)
Genre: Western, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
My Rating: **** (meaning?)

Synopsis :
An aging cowboy decides to seek justice for the death of his best friend by forcing the killer to undertake the long journey with him to take his friend's body home.

Review :
A quirky, post-modern western told in a nonlinear fashion with a touch of magical realism that lacks a 'proper' ending. If that tells you the limits of the audience, perhaps an expanded horizon is in order. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a story about retribution, loneliness, vengeance, and memory. It's also a story about justice, friendship, redemption, and rememory. It's about death, and it's about life. It's about the past, about a code of friendship, loyalty, responsibility, and honor, the beauty of the wilderness contrasted with disaffection, boredom, empty lives and emotionally vacuous people trapped in lives they are unwilling to brave escape from. They are also some of the most profoundly human characters I've seen in a Hollywood movie in a very long time. Three Burials is complex, with depth and compassion for all involved (even the killer) - and well worth watching if you can handle it.

romance novel heroes

2008-08-17T05:08:29Z

I have been wondering - why is it in time-travel romances, the heroine is always from the future, the hero always from the past? Katrina offered up that it's likely because that way the reader can identify with the heroine more, but I'm not convinced that's the answer.

Know what I think? I think it's the same reason that the man is always a lord in a Regency, or the hero of a paranormal romance is always the vampire or werewolf. Romances are written for women to fall into a fantasy - generally a Cinderella fantasy, no matter how modern the heroine, the hero is always in a position to save/protect her. He always has to be in a position of power, because masculinity is definied by power and romance novels are all about fantasies of being swept up by a romance with a hypermasculine man. So the writer of these time-travel romances gets the spunky modern heroine (someone like the reader) AND the old-fashioned ultramasculine man, the man who hasn't changed with the times.

There's a sad, sick truth to a quote from the comic Wanted - "You ever meet a woman who fantasized about being tide up and raped by a liberal?"

movie review

2008-08-14T19:20:24Z

Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding)

Quick Info
Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Pilar Cárdenas, Carmen Villena
Year of Release: 1981
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Awards: Best Film (CEC), Best Film (Premios ACE)
Genre: Dance, Tragic Romance
MPAA Rating: not rated
My Rating: **** (meaning?)

Synopsis :
A dance troupe rehearses a flamenco ballet. The story is of two lovers who cannot be together, as one is married and the other about to be.

Review :
A beautifully filmed, stylized and theatrical production - it begins with the performers getting ready for their rehearsal, with their makeup and costumes, followed by the actual dance. The set is a minimalist bare space, forcing everything to be carried by the dancers and musicians. They do not disappoint. There is no dialogue to the story they perform, but the expression, body language, and music enable the viewer to easily understand and follow the story.

This is not a film for someone who likes a fast pace, or movies where things blow up. The beginning of the film, where the performers are getting ready, is very slow. This is very much an art film. If you're not interested in ballet or flamenco music, Bodas de Sangre would likely be very boring.

movie review

2008-08-14T04:59:13Z

The Third Man

Quick Info
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
Year of Release: 1949
Country: UK
Language: English
Awards: Best Cinematography (Oscar), Best British Film (BAFTA), Grand Prix (Cannes)
Genre: Film Noir
MPAA Rating: not rated
My Rating: ****+ (meaning?)

Synopsis :
Holly Martins, a destitute American pulp novel author, arrives in post-war Vienna to see his friend Harry Lime, who has offered him a job. However, Lime has recently been killed in a traffic accident and Martins arrives just in time for the funeral. Inconsistencies in the stories he learns from Lime's friends, witnesses, and the authorities, however, spur Martins to find out what really happened to his old friend rather than return home.

Review :
The Third Man is a story of betrayal and corruption, a moody, intriguing piece that unfolds slowly. The cinematography and lighting are spectacular (the eerie shadows, the back-lighting, the shine of the water on the streets), the black and white photography accenting the drama and tension of the film. A true classic in every sense of the word. Hollywood doesn't make a picture like this anymore - the ending is fitting, but not happy, the music is haunting (entirely played on the zither), and all of the violence is off-stage (which lends it a greater menace, for we are forced to fill in with our imagination). Topping it all off is the excellent cast, with Welles at his finest as the villain of the piece, and Cotten as the innocent fool who comes out of the story not so innocent any longer.

Both the British Film Institute and the American Film Institute include The Third Man in their lists of top films of all time and after viewing, it's easy to see why (although the only American connections are some of the actors, and David O. Selznik as producer). Excellent film.

Sunday

2008-08-11T03:54:46Z

- 4 crescent rolls
- 4.5 tablespoons goat cheese
- 12 raw baby carrots
- 3 tablespoons hummus
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 large bowl of stew (beef, kale, carrots, potatoes, onions, beef broth, wine, tamari)
- 1 raw banana
- 1 bowl of Vanilla Almond Crunch cereal with 1 cup whole milk
- 8 oz. apple juice
- 32 oz. water

Tuesday

2008-07-30T05:24:37Z

- 1 box Annie's pasta with white cheddar sauce
- 1 peanut butter & jelly sandwich on Dakota bread
- 1 snack bag carrots with tablespoon ranch dressing
- 6 oz. yogurt
- 16 oz. 100% juice blackberry/blueberry/banana smoothie
- 16 oz. lemonade
- 32 oz. water

Monday

2008-07-29T04:13:01Z

- 4 slices cinnamon apple coffee cake
- 5 slices uncured bacon
- 16 oz. brocolli/carrots/corn/pasta combo + 1/2 lb. bay scallops in garlic sauce
- 3/4 bar Green & Black's organic dark chocolate
- 1 sandwich (raw peanut butter, organic strawberry jelly, Dakota bread)
- 32 oz. water
- 16 oz. tea
- 16 oz. whole milk, unhomoginized

Wednesday

2008-07-24T02:20:26Z

- 3 cinnamon rolls
- 4 sausages
- 1 sandwich (roast beef, cheese, mayo, Dakota bread)
- 1 sandwich (PBJ, Dakota bread)
- 1 raw plum
- 1 yogurt
- 20 oz. water
- 32 oz. 100% juice

Tuesday

2008-07-23T03:10:35Z

- 5 pieces Applewood Farms uncured bacon
- 1 yogurt
- 1 sandwich (PBJ on Dakota bread)
- 1 snack pack raw carrots with ranch dressing
- 6 raw cherries
- 1 cheese roll-up
- 1 cheeseburger on high fiber bread
- 16 oz. tea
- 16 oz. 100% juice
- 16 oz. water

Monday

2008-07-22T02:43:02Z

- 1 cashew & strawberry snack
- 1 box Annie's Pasta with White Cheddar sauce
- 1 roast beef sandwich with mayo, onions, cheese
- 1 snack pack raw carrots
- 1 bowl of Kashi Orchard Spice granola cereal with milk
- 24 oz. water
- 38 oz. 100% juice

movie review

2008-07-21T04:25:07Z

The Bucket List

Quick Info
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson
Year of Release: 2008
Country: USA
Language: English
Awards:none
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
My Rating: *** (meaning?)

Synopsis :
Two very different men meet in a cancer ward and become friends. Finding out their conditions are terminal, they decide to spend the time they have left experiencing life to the fullest.

Review :
Part buddy film, part travelogue, part tear jerker, The Bucket List was sentimental, predictable, and touching. If it's unrealistic - one does have to have deep pockets indeed to do the things Edward and Carter do - it's only because those are things we ourselves would do if we could. Who wouldn't go around the world and see the sights if we could? Given that most of us don't have that kind of quid, we're left to vicariously, which is what we're provided with. Ultimately, though, working on the list lets Edward and Carter understand that friends, family, love, those are the most important things, the things that give joy and make life worth living.

The Bucket List reminds us, yet again, that Rent has the right of it - "no day but today." Despite its leads both being male, I would consider this a chick flick, so it's not recommended if you can't stomach anything from Lifetime, or have a problem with emotional tug-your-heartstrings types of movies. It did inspire us to compose our own bucket lists, which I'll post another time.

Saturday & Sunday

2008-07-21T02:32:30Z

Saturday
- 1 can Tuscan bean soup
- 1 sandwich (turkey, cheese, mayo, Dakota bread)
- 1 yogurt
- most of a large bowl of vegetable stew
- 2 sausages
- 1 bowl of berry compote + small slice angel food cake + 2 scoops whipped topping
- 48 oz. 100% juice
- 16 oz. water

Sunday
- 2 oz. potato chips
- 3 homemade cheese danishes
- 3 pieces of bacon
- 2 croissants with butter
- 1 piece of raw apple
- 1 box Annie's white cheddar pasta + handful of cubed ham
- 1 yogurt
- 32 oz. 100% juice
- 16 oz. water

food log

2008-07-19T03:36:47Z

I'm going to start trying to keep a food log. So this is everything I ate today.

- 1 raw banana
- 1 box Annie's Rotini with White Cheddar Sauce + 1 handful cubed ham
- 1 Nature's Way Banana & Walnut Bakery Square
- 1 sandwich (raw peanut butter, Cascadian Farms organic strawberry jam, 2 slices Great Harvest Dakota bread)
- 1 snack pack raw carrots with ranch dressing
- 15 raw cherries
- 32 oz. of 100% juice
- 32 oz. of water

the science of hyper bleeding

2008-07-15T20:15:43Z

Okay, those of you I know in RL will remember that I was menstrating for 4 years. For my net friends, well, now you know too.

So, last October Moira and I started on a new way of eating - eliminating fast food, soda, and almost all junk food. I say almost all because in the last few months I've backslid and had some chips and stuff. But I'm still trying to stay with my eating program.

*cough* diet *cough*

And my menstrual cycle normalized out.

But in the last month or so I've had a hankering for some Arbys at breakfast. Mostly because in the mornings I get so hungry on the trip back from dropping Moira off at work. So, I succumbed. And this period was taking longer again ... but I figured it was cause I'd skipped May, so it was okay ... and then it halted. So it seemed like everything was good. I hadn't stopped at Arby's for a few days.

Then, last Friday, I needed to go to the grocery - and I hate going to the grocery hungry, so I stopped and picked up breakfast. Lo and behold I started bleeding again. I'd been done for only a few days so it wasn't due or anything ...

You know what they say with science - theory becomes fact when it's reproducable. I quit bleeding over the weekend again (coinciding with healthy food again ...) But this morning I was sooo hungry, and there's never a lot of time on Tuesday mornings, so I figured I'd stop again and see if it was reproducable. And it was!

So, to those of you who have any problems with your bleeding - try avoiding fast food! I'm going back to doing that, with grabbing a snack bar in the morning or something so that I can hold off until I can get home and have a real breakfast.

Again, the lesson here is that fast food is more dangerous than we might think.

Writer's Block: Dreams

2008-07-10T03:25:34Z

Talk about a recurring dream you've had, or talk about your most vivid dream. What makes it stick in your memory?

Submitted by umbreons_shadow

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I used to have a recurring dream. In it Moira and I would be going down the road back home. Moira would be driving whatever car we owned at the time, and we were whatever age we were at the time. I was always holding a cat. We'd get to the gully just before the hill up to our house and we'd go off the road into the gully. Only we would never hit the bottom of the gully, we would just keep falling into darkness until I woke up.

I haven't had that dream in at least 10 years. But I also had it on and off for probably 10 or more years as a child and teen, so I think I'll always remember it. I expect it was a reaction to the several car accidents we had when I was young, or maybe just the bad one in 81. When I think about it, I haven't had that dream since I started driving ...

Moira's cancer update

2008-07-08T02:37:16Z

For those of you keeping up with Moira's cancer, she saw the oncologist today. Since adenosarcoma is such a rare cancer, there is no standard treatment. However, since it is a cervical/uterine cancer, he has scheduled her for a hysterectomy on August 5 at Jewish. His intention is to do a radical hysterectomy via a laproscopic procedure, but depending upon how things look in there he may only do a simple hysterectomy. This is because she (we) are fat and the fat may get in the way of seeing the connective tissue and the stuff that he will need to leave in place when removing the connective tissue. However, he plans to do the radical if it is at all possible.

Only after the biopsy from the radical and the after recovery will any further treatment be scheduled such as radiation or chemo. It is entirely possible that she will get out of this with only a hysterectomy.

WARNING: Fangirl rant ahead

2008-07-06T19:35:48Z

OMG OMG OMG

Eva is open for apps. Eva! EVA! There is like no series I love more in all its forms. Love the manga, love the movies, love the spinoff manga, love the anime. LUV the anime.

EVA!! EVA!!! A more perfect anime series was never made.

*glances to the left at collectables*

*deep breath* *deep breath*

*fan spaz*

Seriously, if you can't tell already, I adore Eva. Must compose really good app. Must be better than my F/K app, that I didn't put any comments on and will be totally shocked if I get.

OMG OMG OMG

Meme: Big Read (I've read 31)

2008-07-06T02:50:48Z

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold RED those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read and color BLUE

3) Underline the books you LOVE.

4) Put an asterisk by your favorite (ONE) *

5) Cross out any you hate.

4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them. You can do all the above easily with the rich text tab when you are positing.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87Charlotte's Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'm afraid of 7 out of 72 common fears

2008-07-06T02:30:24Z

What am I afraid of?

[ ] the dark
[ ] staying single forever
[ ] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[ ] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[ ] closed spaces
[ ] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants

Total so far: 0

[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[ ] the ocean
[x] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriends/girlfriends dad
[ ] boyfriends/girlfriends mom
[ ] rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] snow

Total so far: 2

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[ ] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[ ] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[x] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[ ] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes

Total so far: 3

[ ] hurricanes
[ ] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[x] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] being alone
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up

Total so far: 5

[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] needles
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[x] falling in love
[ ] super secrets

Final Total: 6

... if you wish to post this in your journal, it's been requested that you title it ...I'm afraid of _ out of 72 common fears

If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling
If you get more than 20, you’re paranoid.
If you get 10-20, you are normal.
If you get 10 or less, you’re fearless.
People who don’t have any are liars

hyperconsumerism

2008-06-27T16:57:13Z

A few frightening statistics to think about ...

- The average child sees 40,000 commercials annually on broadcast TV
- 80% of those commercials are for fast food, candy, cereal & toys
- 1 food commercial is shown on average every 5 minutes during cartoons