Argh
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Ephemera
Excitement! Phoenix Pictures principals Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer and Brad Fischer will produce the adaptation of “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag,” which they describe as a complex psychological thriller with plenty of action as well as some love interest. Despair! A title change is likely. As, I’m sure, will the plot, major characters and, [...]
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Conversations, Part Deux
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Hip Waders Required
Snippets from a conversation I had this morning with MC… “Honestly, I think the green movement is going to damage us in ways we won’t be able to comprehend fully until we’re 60 years on the other side of it.” And: “The ecomommies…let’s just say I very much look forward to the day when I [...]
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Notice
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Administrative
It is officially summer and the kids are out of school. You may have noticed a decrease in posting here lately (and thanks to our co-bloggers for picking up the slack on that), which is entirely due to more daylight, more kid free-time, and more growing things. It is also due to just needing a [...]
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Forfeiture
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Oddly Not Satire
The mind, she boggles: A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father’s arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday. Ok, you want to have gangs because your daddies didn’t wuv you? Fine, you just go to town, but I’m going to need you to [...]
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Stupidity, The Great Leveler
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Karma Bites, Yellow Press
I would think by now you’ve all heard of that collection of lackwits down here in central Florida who beat the stuffing out of a classmate, and video taped the event for publication on YouTube. Convenient they provided the means of their own prosecution/conviction, and yet more evidence they’re unfit to even skim the gene [...]
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Thank the Gods it Wasn’t Tylenol!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Zero-Zero-Tolerance
Yet more proof that everyone involved in educating our children haven’t the least business being there: Savana Redding, an eighth grade honor roll student at Safford Middle School in Tucson, Arizona, was pulled from class on October 8, 2003 by the school’s vice principal, Kerry Wilson. Earlier that day, Wilson had discovered prescription-strength ibuprofen – [...]
