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March 31, 2004
hey now, I liked 'battlefield earth'
Does John Travolta have a career death wish? While I kinda liked 'Battlefield Earth', you should never, ever star in a movie based on a comic book that had already been done poorly in 1989 with Dolph Lundgren as the lead. While we are happy the genre is hitting the big screen (X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil) more and more often, we are afraid it's going the way of cheese. What's Travolta gonna do next, star as Skeletor in another He-Man remake? Oh yeah, that casting call has already been done. Anyhow, the new Punisher is a Hottie McHotterstein, even though it looks cheesy.
Sad news this weekend that I forgot to mention...I just learned of yet another acquaintance who has had to move away from DC due to being too enmeshed in the crystal meth network to shake off addiction by himself. This marks the third person I know who has had to relocate or else be unable to shake the Tina addiction. I guess it's just too easy to get more if you live down the block from the dealer or whatever. I saw him out on the street a year ago, and he was far too lean for someone of a formerly husky build. I knew something was up cuz he just didn't look right. And that waxy skin, perhaps it's from malnutrition, but I keep seeing it on people with Tina problems.
He's currently waiting for a new liver, as the old one is shot due to a hepatitis infection. The new liver is not likely to arrive in time. He now lives down South with his parents, who are taking care of him.
Perhaps if I keep writing about this shit, maybe people will get educated or more aware of what's going on in this city, in the gay community (gawd I hate that term). There is a BIG hyperactive pink elephant in the room, and her name is Tina, and everyone's trying very hard not to talk about her, but more than a few can't get enough of her, until she sits her fat ass on you and you can't get out from under her and you suffocate and die either in soul or body.
Posted by jimbo at March 31, 2004 11:03 AM
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Amen and Hallelujah
Preach it Jimbo!!!
Stop using TINA people!! Its B-A-D !!!
And medical effects aside - I pray for the day when I can go out to a bar and dance to music that actually has lyrics and a beat like in the 80's -- instead of music that you have to be strung out on TINA to enjoy.
Posted by: Dwight at March 31, 2004 11:28 AM
I read the book Battlefield Earth twenty years ago.
Tina: I've seen it happen over and over again here in SF too. They don't stop until they hit bottom.
Sometimes the bottom is death.
Some perspective: Of course, some people just don't get addicted to anything.
Posted by: rob at March 31, 2004 1:45 PM
Number one......I thought Battlefield Earth sucked soooooo much. I just watched it for the first time a few nights ago. Gawwd, it was awful.
Number two....I hear ya about friends and Tina. I was a problem for a few friends in KC, have a friend here going through NA, and my Ex starting NA as of yesterday in Atlanta. It's rampid.
Posted by: mark at March 31, 2004 2:00 PM
Yeah, I know people can use stuff and not get addicted, and I'm never saying I'm an angel myself in that department. I can't stop sniffing my new brochures and newsletters, for example.
But Tina seems particularly sticky and addictive and destructive. I've just seen more problems with it than I care to, and I'm taking a stand and being vocal about it. In the words of Jean-Luc Picard in the Next Generation movie: "The line must be drawn here! No further!"
Posted by: jimbo at March 31, 2004 2:26 PM
i much prefer TINA's second cousin, MARY KATHERINE because instead of skinny with waxy skin you get a bit plump with long flowing tresses. it's a look that suits me best.
Posted by: donald at March 31, 2004 3:15 PM
Thomas Jane: holy fuck. i wants.
Posted by: Kia at March 31, 2004 6:53 PM
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120878/
If you want to see Thomas Jane as a blond kissing other men. (and who wouldn't?)
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits at March 31, 2004 8:36 PM
So far the reviews are somewhat positive on The Punisher, and since I own Marvel stock I am hoping it kicks butt. I also have naked pics of hottie Tom Jane from a movie he was in, can you say low hangers? Did you know he is from Baltimore?
Drugs; bad. Of course that could be the brainwashing from growing up with a cop for a father talking.
Posted by: Burl at March 31, 2004 9:24 PM
Mmm...I first began lusting after Mr. Jane when I saw him in the movie "Deep Blue Sea". Damn that wetsuit looked good on him.
Check out his evolution from toothpick arms to some serious guns:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0005048/photogallery-granitz-0
Posted by: Bubba at April 1, 2004 12:27 PM