another day off would be great, but i'll cope

[dianora2]

Hey all. Had a great, relaxing, fun weekend down in Virgina at chanel19 and flamingcarrot's abode, celebrating chanel19's birthday with divanoir, bbennett, and harpinred, and getting to squeeze in a brunch with em_meredith and nnaylime. Much food was consumed, dogs were petted to an excessive degree, a souvenir mug was obtained from the hibachi restaurant we went to (I'll have to post a pic), and an awesome movie was seen: Fanboys, which I now need to own immediately. Awesome movie, though it will only be truly awesome to you if you are a fairly fervent Star Wars fan.

Anyway, today is chanel19's actual birthday, so Happy Birthday! Glad I was able to celebrate it with you.

Carrie Fisher defends Michael Jackson. Interesting. Here are some amazing pics of the Neverland ranch btw.

Also, apparently someone is making a Viewmaster movie. Um. Huh?

Oh, and nnaylime informs me that Michael Hogan is going to Dragon Con, paid for by a group of fans. Yay! That almost makes up a little for Jamie & James not being there.

Discovered today that a LOT of my elementary school classmates are friends with each other on Facebook. I find this vaguely odd for some reason. But now I'm trying to decide if I want to friend a couple people myself, the ones I was good friends with. (Even though I'm sure it will only lead to my discovering that I am the only member of my elementary school class who is still single, sigh.) Most hilarious discovery: a profile picture of the class slut (who was also a good friend of mine), posing in a dowdy stereotypical "mom" type outfit with her husband and two kids. LOL.

OK, hope to catch up more this week, fingers crossed. *blows dramatic kisses to the internet*

Comments

[athena4lynn.livejournal.com]

Even though I'm sure it will only lead to my discovering that I am the only member of my elementary school class who is still single, sigh.

I feel your pain. Totally. *hugs*

[poorfrances.livejournal.com]

In her post, Carrie gave the excuse that a lot of MJ superfans give, which is that "he was a child himself" so he couldn't have done anything to those kids. That's wrong on several levels, not least of which is that Jackson was a 50 year old man - and no matter how many toys and video games an adult surrounds himself with, that does not make him innocent and does not make him a child.

I also thought Carrie wanted it a bit both ways - a person can't be an adult enough to be competent parent, disciplined and unspoiled (like she described Jackson as) but at the same time be so innocent and like a child that they couldn't possibly ever conceive of adult concepts.

The innocent and childlike image was just PR, which I'm surprised Carrie didn't pick up on with her experience. Maureen Orth wrote a great article, Losing His Grip (http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2003/04/orth200304), about what a savvy manipulator Jackson could be. One of his friends who she interviewed I thought had the perfect quote that summed up Jackson, which is that he didn't act childish because he lost his childhood to fame, but because he was such a pathological narcissist that those he increasingly hung on to when he was a universally beloved child star and was catered to.

[yanatya.livejournal.com]

That is one heck of an article.

[chanel19.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for coming down. It was great to see you. Fanboys was awesome. I can't wait to show it to harpinred and bbennett.