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World of Warcraft video

ashleycakes — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:04:33 -0800

This video is a little slow going at first. It's a bunch of WOW nerds standing around talking about the strategy their going to use against their opponent. One of the guys, Leroy Jenkins, finally decides that he's had enough strategizing and he's just going to bust in on the enemy.

I don't know why I think this is so funny, it probably has to do with how the nerds are talking in the beginning and then how they all just get annihilated because of Leroy.

Leroy

aimerz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:36:01 -0700

Leroy Brown

chapsticknchanel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:03:20 -0700

LeRoy

love Maegan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:59:22 -0700

It's Sunday, And I Am Grateful For......

Beachwalker — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:28:28 -0700

Another beautiful Sunday! It has been an interesting week.

I guess mostly today, my friend is on my mind and in my heart. It is a good reminder for me to celebrate and appreciate Life.

Yesterday, I went to see my friends Shirl ( like Cheryl) and Leroy. Leroy is ill and is slowly fading away, but we all still had a great time together.... Leroy always, even in this stage, has a keen interest in everything!!! The laughter and conversation were easy, and we were in the acceptance phase of loss. I was showing him some of the pictures in my camera, and he was still able to be interested and enjoy them.....the pictures were of the beach and the surrounding area, and he really enjoyed that window to the world for that moment. It was good, his mom and another friend Dean were there, and we all shared in the love of Leroy and of those moments.

This teaches me that even with our losses, be they big or small, Life is still very rich.

Hope all is well with everyone and that between the not so great, there is good stuff happening to us all!!!

How is your week been and what is grateful in your life?

The people under the stairs

alyssa_joseph — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:38:43 -0700

Plot summary
The People Under the Stairs, is the story of a young boy named Poindexter (Brandon Adams), whom everyone calls "Fool," who lives in the ghetto of a large city. At the start of the movie, Fool learns that he and his family have been evicted from their apartment; their cruel landlords, the Robesons (Everett McGill as "Dad" and Wendy Robie as "Mom"), turned the family out for being three days late on the rent. Fool's older sister, Ruby (Kelly Jo Minter), is dating a street thug named Leroy (Ving Rhames), who offers to help Fool take care of his family by planning a joint burglary of the Robesons' residence, rumored to contain a wealth of gold coins.

Fool agrees to join Leroy and his accomplice Spencer (Jeremy Roberts). He also starts hearing disturbing rumors about his former landlords. Grandfather Booker (Bill Cobbs) tells Fool that the Robesons' house used to be a funeral home, and adds that the Robeson family have been incestuously procreating for many years, becoming increasingly insane with each generation.

Eventually, the three boys decide that the best time for their burglary has arrived. Spencer goes in first, posing as a municipal worker, intending to scout the house out - but he never comes back out. After waiting for Spencer for some time, Fool and Leroy decide to go in after him (after they muster up enough courage) and break into the house together. Once inside, they are astonished at the interior: it is a mixture of inexplicably extreme security, old-fashioned décor, and sinister morbidity. The pair is pursued by a vicious dog and Fool ends up in the house's basement. Fool discovers the body of Spencer, along with "creatures" corralled along one side like animals. While exploring, the Robesons return home, catching the intruders in the act. They shoot and kill Leroy and then begin dancing around his body while Fool hides and watches in terror.

While searching for an exit, Fool meets a young girl named Alice (A.J. Langer), who is the embodiment of innocence and purity. Alice tells Fool that her "parents" (the Robesons) searched for a long time for perfect children. She tells him that the only way to survive in the Robeson's world is to "hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil." The "creatures" Fool saw in the basement are the boys, who the Robesons call the "people under the stairs," who have all had their eyes put out, their ears cut off, or their tongues torn out as punishment for breaking one of these rules and are subsequently locked away forever in the sunless basement, fed on scraps of human flesh thrown at them by "Dad." One of these boys, a mute named Roach (Sean Whalen) previously managed to find a way out of the basement and has been hiding in the wallspaces of the wall ever since, becoming Alice's only friend. The Robesons refer to him as "the one who crawls between the walls," and occasionally shoot at him with a shotgun.

Alice and Roach help Fool escape through the rafters and wallspaces of the building. Unfortunately, Alice is left behind to be punished for her role in helping Fool escape, and Roach is killed, but not before giving Fool several gold coins. Upon escaping, Fool promptly dials 9-1-1 from a public telephone and reports that child abuse is occurring at the home he has just escaped from. The police soon arrive at the Robesons' and are welcomed by an expert charade put on by the man and woman. Alice is kept hidden and the couple put forth the illusion of old-fashioned, strict, but very normal suburban living, even offering the officers coffee and cookies. The police, satisfied that no abuse is occurring, promptly leave.

Fool, having escaped, returns to the house to save Alice from her miserable existence. Anticipating Fool's return, the couple ambush him, but Fool manages to escape to the attic and frees Alice. A group of zombie-like "People Under the Stairs" manage to break loose from the stairs and attack "Mom," who meets her end by Alice's hands as she stabs her. Fool is promptly met by the shotgun-toting "Dad," who is clad in a full leather BDSM suit. Fool's plan, aided by the man's supply of explosives in the basement, eventually succeeds and he and Alice escape with a dozen children who have been kept under the stairs.

And as for the collective money belonging to the misanthropic people, it is blown out of the house through the chimneys and soon is taken by a massive horde of people who had all been cheated of their money as the People Under the Stairs flee into the night.

Cast
Brandon Adams
Everett McGill
Wendy Robie
A. J. Langer
Ving Rhames
Sean Whalen

Dr. Tiller's Clinic Will ReOpen

stephley — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:50:49 -0700

After a week of closure to mourn the death of murdered physician Dr. George Tiller, the clinic he founded, Women's Health Care Services, will reopen on Monday and "resume normal operations." This is according to Dr. Leroy Carhart, who, along with two other physicians, served on the clinic's rotating staff. McClatchy has the news:

"What people need to know is... the women's services that we provided for 30 years are not going to change," Carhart said. "The same abortion services will remain available in Wichita."

"Starting next Monday we should be back to 100 percent," he said.

The sorts of services the clinic has historically provided were aptly described earlier this week by Susan Hill, President of the National Women's Health Foundation:

Those included women diagnosed with cancer who needed abortions to qualify for chemotherapy, women who learned late in their pregnancies that their wanted babies had fatal illnesses, and rape victims so young they didn't realize they were pregnant for months. "We sent him 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds who were way too far along for anybody [else] to see," said Hill. "Eleven-year-olds don't tell anybody. Sometimes they don't even know they've had a period."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/george-tillers-clinic-to_n_2103...

Stories of people Dr. Tiller treated:

http://www.metafilter.com/82070/Pro-Life-does-not-mean-what-you-think-it...

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22002

Lana Turner

RubyDreams — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:34:35 -0800

Lana TurnerLana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an Academy Award-nominated American film and occasionally television actress. On-screen, she was well-known for the glamour and sensuality she brought to almost all her movie roles. Off-screen, she was-well known for her stormy and colorful private life including seven husbands, numerous lovers, and a famous murder scandal. Many of her roles and films are often regarded among Hollywood's best, including Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Bad and the Beautiful, Peyton Place, and Imitation of LifeBorn Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee, and Mildred Frances Cowan, a 16-year-old Alabama native.
Until her film career took off, she was known to family and friends as "Judy." Hard times eventually forced the family to re-locate to San Francisco, where John and Mildred soon separated.

On December 14, 1930, John Turner won a bit of money at a traveling craps game, stuffed his winnings in his left sock, and headed for home. He was later found dead on the corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets, on the edge of Potrero Hill and the Mission District in San Francisco, his left sock missing. The robbery and murder were never solved. Soon after, Mildred Turner developed health problems and was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate. She and her 10-year-old daughter moved to Los Angeles in 1931.Turner's discovery at Schwab's Drug Store has become one of Hollywood's most enduring show-business legends. The true story differs only slightly from that legend. As a 16-year-old student at Hollywood High, Turner decided to skip a typing class and buy a Coke at the Top Hat Cafe located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place. There, she was spotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter. Wilkerson was attracted by her beauty and physique, and referred her to the actor/comedian/talent agent Zeppo Marx. Marx's agency immediately signed her on and introduced her to film director Mervyn LeRoy, who cast her in her first film, 1937's They Won't Forget. She also appeared as an extra that year in A Star Is Born-a part of the crowd at a boxing match. She also appeared in the Andy Hardy movie Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938).

Turner earned the nickname "The Sweater Girl" from her form-fitting attire in a scene in They Won't Forget. She reached the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s. During World War II, Turner became a popular pin-up girl due to her popularity in such films such as Ziegfeld Girl, Johnny Eager, and four films with MGM's "king of the lot," Clark Gable (the films' success was only heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationship between the two). Lana even had a B-17-the Tempest Turner-named after her. After the war, Turner's career continued successfully with the release, in 1946, of The Postman Always Rings Twice, which co-starred John Garfield. The now-classic film noir marked a turning point in her career. Reviews of the film, and in particular, Lana's performance, were glowing. While not exactly giving up her pin-up credentials, Lana established herself as a skilled actress.
Turner was well known inside Hollywood circles for dating often, changing partners often, and for never shying away from the topic of how many lovers she had in her lifetime. Of her many love affairs, Turner reportedly once said "I liked the boys, and the boys liked me."

Turner was married eight times to seven different husbands:

Bandleader Artie Shaw (1940) Married only four months, Turner was 19 when she and Shaw eloped on their first date. She later referred to their stormy and verbally abusive relationship as "my college education".
Actor-restaurateur Josef Stephen Crane (1942–1943, 1943–1944) Turner and Crane's first marriage was annulled after she discovered that Crane's previous divorce had not yet been finalized. After a brief separation (during which Crane attempted suicide), they re-married to provide for their newborn daughter, Cheryl.
Millionaire socialite Henry J. Topping Jr. (1948–1952) Topping proposed to Turner at the 21 Club in Los Angeles by dropping a diamond ring into her martini. Although worth millions when they married, Topping suffered heavy financial losses due to poor investments and excessive gambling. Turner finally divorced Topping when she realized she could no longer afford to keep them in the lavish lifestyle to which they had grown accustomed.
Actor Lex Barker (1953–1957), whom she divorced after her daughter Cheryl claimed that he repeatedly molested and raped her.
Rancher Fred May (1960–1962)
Robert P. Eaton (1965–1969)who later went on to write The Body Brokers, a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood movie world, featuring a character named Marla Jordan, based on Turner.
Nightclub hypnotist Ronald Pellar, aka Ronald Dante or Dr. Dante (1969–1972). The couple met in 1969 in a Los Angeles discotheque and married that same year. After about 6 months of marriage, Pellar disappeared a few days after she had written a $35,000 check to him to help him in an investment; he used the money for other purposes. In addition, she later accused him of stealing $100,000 worth of jewelry.Turner met Johnny Stompanato during the spring of 1957, shortly after ending her marriage to Lex Barker. At first, Turner was susceptible to Stompanato's good looks and prowess as a lover, but after she discovered his ties to the LA underworld (in particular, his association with gangster Mickey Cohen), she tried to break off the affair out of fear of bad publicity. Stompanato was not easily deterred, however, and over the course of the following year, he and Turner carried on a relationship filled with violent arguments, physical abuse, and repeated reconciliations.

In the fall of 1957, Stompanato followed Turner to England where she was filming Another Time, Another Place, costarring Sean Connery, later of James Bond fame. Fearful that Turner was having an affair with Connery, Stompanato stormed onto the set brandishing a gun. Connery managed to land a single punch to Stompanato's jaw and took away his gun. Stompanato was soon deported by Scotland Yard for the incident.

On the evening of April 4, 1958, Turner and Stompanato began a violent argument in Turner's house at 730 N. Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. Fearing her mother's life was in danger, Turner's then 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane grabbed a kitchen knife and ran to Turner's defense.

Many theories abound as to what happened afterward, but it appears Crane stabbed Stompanato, killing him. The case quickly became a media sensation. It was later deemed a justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest, at which Turner provided dramatic testimony. Some observers have said her testimony that day was the acting performance of her life.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Turner appeared in several television roles, most notably one season (1982–1983) on the series Falcon Crest as Jaqueline Perrault, but the majority of her final decade was spent out of the public eye.

She died at the age of 74 in 1995 of complications from throat cancer, which was diagnosed in 1992 and which she had been battling ever since, at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, California. She was, until her death, a very heavy smoker.

She was survived by her only child, her daughter Cheryl Crane, and Cheryl's life partner Joyce "Josh" LeRoy, whom she said she accepted "as a second daughter." They inherited some of Lana's sizable estate, built through shrewd real estate holdings and investments. However, the majority of her estate was left to her maid, Carmen Lopez Cruz.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Lana Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard.
[edit] Filmography
A Star Is Born (1937)
They Won't Forget (1937)
Topper (1937)
The Great Garrick (1937)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
The Chaser (1938) (Scenes deleted)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
Dramatic School (1938)
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
These Glamour Girls (1939)
Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
We Who Are Young (1940)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Honky Tonk (1941)
Johnny Eager (1942)
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Strictly G.I. (Short subject, 1943)
The Youngest Profession (1943) (Cameo)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) (cameo)
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Cass Timberlane (1947)
Homecoming (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Mr. Imperium (1951)
The Merry Widow (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Latin Lovers (1953)
The Flame and the Flesh (1954)
Betrayed (1954)
The Prodigal (1955)
The Sea Chase (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Diane (1956)
Peyton Place (1957)
The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)
Another Time, Another Place (1958)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Portrait in Black (1960)
By Love Possessed (1961)
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
Madame X (1966)
The Big Cube (1969)
Persecution (a.k.a. The Graveyard, The Terror of Sheba) (1974)
Bittersweet Love (1976)
Witches' Brew (1980)
Thwarted (1991

Quotes - this time - funny...

Iveenia — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:08:40 -0800

Also that one - i copied... The man's name who blogged it is Farhan - translated to English = Happy...

HILARIOUS QUOTES

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
Sam Ewing

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
Yogi Berra

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it does not sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
Flip Wilson

Join the Movement: Impressionism

Princesskitty22 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:05:10 -0800

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. They began by giving colours, freely brushed, primacy over line, drawing inspiration from the work of painters such as Eugene Delacroix. They also took the act of painting out of the studio and into the world. Previously still lifes and portraits had been painted indoors. Also landscapes, had usually been painted indoors. Canaletto painted outside and may have used the camera obscura, others certainly did. The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air. Painting realistic scenes of modern life, they emphasized vivid overall effects rather than details. They used short, "broken" brush strokes of pure and unmixed colour, not smoothly blended, as was customary, in order to achieve the effect of intense colour vibration.

Although the rise of Impressionism in France happened at a time when a number of other painters, including the Italian artists known as the Macchiaioli, and Winslow Homer in the United States, were also exploring plein-air painting, the Impressionists developed new techniques that were specific to the movement. Encompassing what its adherents argued was a different way of seeing, it was an art of immediacy and movement, of candid poses and compositions, of the play of light expressed in a bright and varied use of colour.

The public, at first hostile, gradually came to believe that the Impressionists had captured a fresh and original vision, even if it did not receive the approval of the art critics and establishment.

In an atmosphere of change as Empereur Napoléon III rebuilt Paris and waged war, the Académie des Beaux-Arts dominated the French art scene in the middle of the 19th century. The Académie was the upholder of traditional standards for French painting, both in content and style. Historical subjects, religious themes, and portraits were valued (landscape and still life were not), and the Académie preferred carefully finished images which mirrored reality when examined closely. Colour was sombre and conservative, and the traces of brush strokes were suppressed, concealing the artist's personality, emotions, and working techniques.

This is kind of painting they liked

The Académie held an annual, juried art show, the Salon de Paris, and artists whose work displayed in the show won prizes, garnered commissions, and enhanced their prestige.

The young artists painted in a lighter and brighter manner than painters of the preceding generation. They were more interested in painting landscape and contemporary life than in recreating scenes from history. Each year, they submitted their art to the Salon, only to see the juries reject their best efforts in favour of trivial works by artists working in the approved style. A core group of young realists, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, who had studied under Charles Gleyre, became friends and often painted together. They soon were joined by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, and Armand Guillaumin.

In 1863, the jury rejected The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) by Édouard Manet primarily because it depicted a nude woman with two clothed men at a picnic. While nudes were routinely accepted by the Salon when featured in historical and allegorical paintings, the jury condemned Manet for placing a realistic nude in a contemporary setting.[1] The jury's sharply worded rejection of Manet's painting, as well as the unusually large number of rejected works that year, set off a firestorm among French artists.

The work that caused all the fuss

The critical response was mixed, with Monet and Cézanne bearing the harshest attacks. Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the Le Charivari newspaper in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they would become known. Derisively titling his article The Exhibition of the Impressionists, Leroy declared that Monet's painting was at most, a sketch, and could hardly be termed a finished work.

Monet's Impression, Sunrise
How Do you Spot an Impressionist painting?

♦ Short, thick strokes of paint are used to quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its details. The paint is often applied impasto.
♦ Colours are applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible, creating a vibrant surface. The optical mixing of colours occurs in the eye of the viewer.
♦ Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colours. In pure Impressionism the use of black paint is avoided.
♦ Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and an intermingling of colour.
♦ Impressionist paintings do not exploit the transparency of thin paint films (glazes) which earlier artists built up carefully to produce effects. The surface of an Impressionist painting is typically opaque.
♦ The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the reflection of colours from object to object.
♦ In paintings made en plein air (outdoors), shadows are boldly painted with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness and openness that was not captured in painting previously. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)

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