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We heard yesterday that CHARLIE SHEEN gave LINDSAY LOHAN $100,000 to pay off some of her IRS debt. That money came out of Charlie's paycheck from "Scary Movie 5".
--Charlie was paid $250,000 to do a single scene with Lindsay. And apparently, he didn't keep ANY of that money. The rest of it went to three charities, chosen by people involved in the movie, including the director and one of the producers.
"Two and a Half Men" Star Angus T. Jones Calls the Show "Filth" and Asks People to Stop Watching It
"Two and a Half Men" has another problem on its hands. Just two years after CHARLIE SHEEN'S infamous meltdown . . . another one of the show's stars has RIPPED the show, and apparently wants out.
--19-year-old ANGUS T. JONES recently gave a long video interview to a religious website called "Forerunner Chronicles" . . . and in the middle of it, he expressed moral objections to the show, and suggested that people stop watching it.
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--"Please stop watching it and filling your head with filth. People say it's just entertainment. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you, you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television . . .
--"Especially with what you watch."
--He also referred to the show as being part of the "plan" of the "enemy," which we assume to be Satan. He said, quote, "If I'm doing any harm, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be contributing to the enemy's plan.
--"You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can't. I'm not OK with what I'm learning, what the Bible says and being on that television show."
"Liz & Dick" Attracted 3.5 Million Viewers
LINDSAY LOHAN'S "big" comeback wasn't as big as she'd hoped. "Liz & Dick" attracted 3.5 million viewers Sunday night.
--That's good for Lifetime, but probably not nearly as good as everyone was hoping. Especially given all the hype surrounding the movie.
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A THIRD man has come forward to claim that he had a sexual relationship with Elmo puppeteer KEVIN CLASH when he was underage.
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--He has not revealed his identity.
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--Clash's spokeswoman says, quote, "Mr. Clash believes this lawsuit has no merit."
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Visibly expressing confusion bordering on disgust at women with shaved heads and men with long hair works wonders for your straight-man public image.
Ever wondered if your sexuality is holding you back from such diverse experiences as blue-collar work, having a partner you have to cheat on one week in four, or owning the same cellphone two years in a row?
Well, don't fret. With this handy guide you'll be able to experience all the joys of heterosexual life![1]
In Public
Scratch, expel, and inflict: at least one of these three little words can be used to describe almost every action it is possible to take within the heterosexual male's spectrum. Some examples:
- Scratch yourself
Remember: you've never tasted gin, you think crème de menthe is a Pacific island, and you've never even heard of kahlúa.
- Expel gases from one end and fluids from the other simultaneously - try mixing it up for best results
- Inflict your grating laugh on everyone within earshot, especially if they found the thing you are laughing at dull and uninteresting
Additionally, why not try having a slightly-too-right-wing friend accompany you from time to time? No-one will think you are gay if the person next to you comes out with "I'm not a bigot, but..." every five minutes.
In Private
- DO Throw wild parties.
- DON'T Find the drug-bloated corpses of rent-boys floating in the pool the following morning - let someone else handle that.
A Note on Personal Grooming
Wash thoroughly and occasionally, rather than little and often. In time, you will develop a musk.
The hair on your head you may style, but not too much: appear too vain, and you'll start tongues wagging. You're only supposed to like that if a woman does it, so keep your style short, perhaps with a little wax or gel, but only ever refer to it as "stuff you put in your hair".
As for body hair, a trim (rather than a shave) is now acceptable for straight men in many parts of the world: but don't get caught plucking anything, and remember, should you ever be about to... you know... ugh... with a woman, don't start swapping tips with her, or the whole thing becomes too much like a Sandra Bullock film.
Film and Television
Reactions to popular culture are all-important. Get it right, or you might as well be singing Oklahoma! when everyone else is trying to watch Thoroughly Modern Milly.
The Silver Screen
First of all, try to avoid calling it the "Silver Screen" - yes, they did make 'em right way back when, but the modern heterosexual male enjoys the charms of "Alien v. Predator" - and yes, you will be expected to make fatuous comments about how "great" the other films in those series were. Think of Alien as an allegory for being good to your mother, if you must, but never let that slip[2]: and when watching The Predator, do try not to drool over Arnie. It's just not done, love.
Most importantly, whilst trying to convince others that you are indeed as straight as the day you were born[3], you know nothing of the life and works of Judy Garland!!
The Small Screen
If "TV" was confusing to you before, it's only going to get
harder worse from now on. TV is also short for TeleVision: depending on where in the world you are, it may also be called "Telly", but Kojak is an anachronistic icon to straight men too, so you should manage.
Bad news, though: no more Samantha, Miranda, Charlotte and Carrie, and you'll have to throw out your brand-new Lost DVD's.
But don't despair! As a heterosexual, you can be ill-mannered enough to simply download your favorite shows, including Lost! You also still get to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer[4], CSI (except the gay one)[5] and Star Trek. It's okay, you don't have to pretend to find Captain Janeway attractive. Straight men don't do that either.
Try to avoid anything with a beat that could be described as "pumping". The word "pumping" originated as gay slang, and meant "Good Morrow also to Thee, sirrah, for I as well am a homosexualist". This means the following styles (or any combination thereof) are right out:
Artistes to Avoid
Sad to say, some people's musical tastes are considered a little queer these days. It's so mean, isn't it? I mean some of these are just to die for:
The world of fashion is a tricky one for all varieties of Man. Thomas Paine wrote "The Rights of Man", not "Man: He Looks Great, He Feels Great", and thus the Free World was born.[6]
Men's Fashions
Men's fashions: ooh, tricky! Too little knowledge, and you're waist-deep in spats, luminous socks and combat trousers[7] - too much knowledge, and your only hope is to take five gay men with you when you go shopping. If you are a gay man, hoping to masquerade as a straight man, this is not a good idea: that's five Gaydar units pointed right at you, and a whole lotta' temptation.
Women's Fashions
Women's fashions are like a swimming pool, albeit one with a funny smell centered over the mid-point of the diving pool, probably caused by the air conditioning. You can go there, but you'll probably only go occasionally, perhaps because swimming is a lazy way to work out, plus you get to see women in their swimming costumes. Even if they are all dogs.
A Note on Speech
You no longer know the word "beastly".
The Written Word
For crying out loud, love, try to avoid emotionally emphasizing the written word, as people might think you camp. Another think you might like to bear in mind is that, usually, a well-thought-out, properly punctuated, grammatically correct style which precludes direct communication at the (somewhat modest) cost of using flowery, obtuse, opaque or even, (dare we!), obsolescent[8] language or modes of speech, can make one seem more of an elderly homo than one would wish to appear. For further examples of no-no's and faux-pas[9], here's a handy selection of Do's and Don'ts:
- DO Use words that are short, one sound, sort of thing, like a real man do.
In the UK, a fag is a cigarette, and a sailor is a homosexual. Use this while out and about in Portsmouth or Plymouth.
- DO Write about boobies, tits, and chuffs. If you find this distasteful, just pretend you're writing a birdwatching manual. You may well have bought a few of those over the years, to take with you on "long walks" in the "countryside" that would "tire out" your elderly mother, so just copy out the text at random and insert[10] the occasional line about cheap petrochemical lager.
- DO Boast of how unclean and ill-mannered you are.
- DON'T Use words like "bareback", "stallion" or "stable-boy" - straight men don't know a thing about equestrianism.
- DON'T Write about male bottoms or prosthetic phalli - especially if there will be pictures with the text.
So Now You're Straight!
Nearly: here's a quick test for you -
- You are at a fancy party somewhere in Hollywood, when Jennifer Aniston approaches you. Do you:
- a) Compliment her on her dress and ask for her autograph?
- b) Tell her Brad is such a bitch, whilst trying to get his cellphone number?
- c) Say: "Hey, aren't you Jennifer Aniston's tits and ass?" and offer to get her "really loaded", whilst trying to see if she is wearing underwear?
If you answered a) or b), go back to the start of this guide and try harder, not more fabulously!
If you answered c), get out there and impersonate a straight man, you waste of hot cock you!
See Also
- ^ Such as those are. Unless you're a lesbian. Well, maybe if you really practice.
- ^ If you do, all is not lost. Just add "in case she tries to destroy you in a massive thermonuclear detonation", and all is well again.
- ^ ie: Uneducated.
- ^ But not Angel, which ought to be obvious even to you.
- ^ You know the one I mean.
- ^ To live a shameful lie.
- ^ But you'll still have those killer abs. Oh, I could eat off those! Fabulous.
- ^ So like "adolescent"... scrummy.
- ^ Unbelievably, it turns out this is French, not Klingon. Who knew? Other than the French, obviously. I don't have it in for them. I don't! Oh, you're mean. You're such a meany! Meany. So... how about lunch next week, big boy?
- ^ Remember, Heterosexual men like to insert things too - sometimes even into the same places! Just not with you, sweetie.
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Today's column will be an essay—an attempt, in the old-school definition of the word—at connecting the dots, composed of several recent columns.
Perhaps a better notion than the clichéd "connecting the dots" is to discern "the upshot"—the relevance—of recent columns, and get the week off to a brisk start.
Herewith are the top ideas articulated in April and the "upshot," appropriately launched from the hip. Guess I'll just "fire away," if you'll excuse the overreliance on martial figures of speech.
In "Connecticut: In Search of Microgrids" it became clear that investor-owned utilities will need to develop policies regarding power alternatives employed by states and cities, because that trend is accelerating as you read this.
Don't take it from me: we're talking the governor of Connecticut, who has called for combining state agencies to more effectively shape the state's energy future. The IOUs serving the state will have to collaborate or cooperate; resisting an effort that high-profile doesn't seem to be an option. The collaborative model offered by San Diego Gas & Electric (local IOU) and the University of California San Diego (microgrid) would seem to point the way toward the benefits of synergy. (See "Big Picture Thinking: Lab to Market.")
In "California's Energy Storage Policies," the upshot appeared to be that clear-cut policies are difficult to enact in a jerry-rigged system. As "the free market" when it comes to power is hamstrung in myriad ways—the "regulated monopoly" model is somewhat akin to Gulliver, pinned down by a thousand tiny strands—it is difficult to move any single piece without moving others. The stakeholders in the status quo, centralized power industry and in the energy storage debate all have ideas on where this topic should go. Procurement targets in California are out, for now, and cost-effective, specific applications—particularly if they directly benefit customers—are in. But what are those applications? I'm guessing that neighborhood-level batteries could become temporary solutions to improve reliability on capacity-constrained feeders, deferring capital investment where appropriate. Still, the critical question lingers: Who pays? (See some nitty gritty background on AEP Ohio and its work in community energy storage.)
In "Ameren Missouri: From CSR to 'Energy Advisor,'" we explored how Ameren Missouri is trying to deliver truly knowledgeable customer service to customers by moving customer service reps into energy advisor roles with the goal of raising customer satisfaction and lowering costs. That would seem to qualify as a proverbial "win-win" proposition. But it occurs to me that when CSRs become knowledgeable energy advisors they also become eligible to work for energy auditing companies, contractors and, well, columnists. (Although that column-writing work, like repairing high voltage lines, is a very, very dangerous job!) As with data analytics practitioners, many new roles at power utilities will need to be compensated in a manner that effectively competes with other verticals. (See "Data Analytics: Start 'In the Middle,'" which noted that First Choice Power lured Lloyd Tokerud, senior manager for analytics, from PepsiCo.)
Finally, a pair of columns, "Utilities Race to Reach the Customer" and "Accenture on Utilities and Customers," posited a theory and provided some data. We all know the utility-customer paradigm of the past was a passive one. Astonishment reigns when the factoid is cited that most utility customers spend less than ten minutes per year interacting with their utility—outages and blood pressure-spiking bills being the main driver. And with the do-it-yourself tailored applications of Web-based music and other entertainment, bundling and grocery store points counting at the gas pump, the general public is swiftly concluding that utilities are laggards. Meanwhile, anyone with a hammock and a partly cloudy day can dream up a thousand ways to offer value to serve both parties. That's the point of the second column, in which Accenture's global survey found that utility customers are open to offers, should utilities furnish them.
Ah, the upshot: as in all other aspects of life, you can expect some utilities to "get it" and keep pace with digital consumerism, others will "muddle in the middle" and yet others will be consigned to running infrastructure alone. Look to the competitive markets for a taste of the future.
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Interesting points, John. I use the telco parallel often when looking forward on utility approach to services and customers. The one thing I struggle with, however, is the tie that electricity has to fixed infrastructure. The phone companies really didn't start to innovate quickly until wireless technology broke the strangehold on delivery infrastructure. Prior to wireless, innovation was limited to re-packaging local and long distance service. The first dial-up ISPs were the most creative in figuring out how to tap into the monopoly infrastructure and create a new business model.
I don't see a day yet when electricity gets delivered wirelessly at commercial scale. So the tie to the monopoly infrastructure appears strong to me. Innovators will wrap cool services areound that core, wired offering, but nothing that will be a game changer like wireless telecommunications that threatened the very need for hard wired service from the phone company. What are your thoughts on that?
The Coming Hybrid Energy Economy
Moving beyond the wireless and wireline duality, let's talk instead about innovation and the transition away from commodity "dial tone" electricity to a variety of energy services, using the grid and using distributed resources, which was the intent of my earlier telecom analogy.
First, while it may hurt to recognize this fact, most energy consumers care little about the grid, they hardly even see it anymore when they survey the landscape - and they are unlikely to want to pay much more than they do now, so the question becomes, where will the $2 trillion dollars needed to upgrade the grid come from, if there is no suppport for grid modernization (i.e., Smart Grid)? Setting that thorny issue aside though, let us recognize that customers do care about power, and that they harbor a general resentment that they have to deal with only one company to get this essential commodity. Energy services hold great promise to improve on the electricity experience, but utilities are less likely to provide such innovation than are third parties, who will likely leverage distributed energy resource technologies to get there (solar PPAs, EVs, etc.).Utilities have great potential to work with third parties as intermediaries, however.
The hybrid energy economy, in my view, will be comprised of grid-delivered power for intensive loads and for low-cost reliable electricity. Expensive peak energy will likely be the area that energy service companies pursue. I foresee a day when we get bulk energy for industrial/commercial loads, reliability service from the grid, and custom energy services from third parties, either through the utility or through other channels.
Game Changer
I'll answer Phil's question. It's likely to be solar PV, especially in areas of the country with high electric rates and lots of sunshine (California). For residential consumers with spas, pools and/or air conditioning, PV is competitive for at least a portion of their needs today, and the utilities know this. For commercial consumers, there are also many cases where PV makes sense.
The impact of rapidly falling PV prices could be quite dramatic in California, as the wealthier and more profitable residential consumers who are paying in excess of 35 cents per kWh during summer peak periods start looking at cleaner, cheaper options. Inexpensive storage will only accelerate this trend.
Jack Ellis, Tahoe City, CA
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As long as regulated utilities view electricity as a commodity to be delivered over a grid, they will struggle with new buisness models that are likely to appear in the next few years. The analogy I've used in my public speaking lately is to compare commodity kWh delivery to the provisioining of dial tone by ATT in 1982. After the breakup of ATT iin 1984, the competitive market began to influence telecom and retail services led us to the emergence of the iPhone and Android smart phones, and the iPad and other smart tablets.
Similarly, in Texas today we see competitive Retail Electric Providers (the product of a government-mandated unbundling) moving away from "dial-tone" electricity provisioning to offer service bundles, which has a number of attractive features: they can differentiate on something besides price discounts, tailor their offers to specific market segments, and enjoy longer term service contracts that raise switching costs.
As you conclude, Phil, some utilities will take on the mantle of energy service competitors, change their business model, hire from other industries and aggressively defend their territories. On the other end of the spectrum, other utilities will hold on to their "low risk" rate-of-return business. where they will either shrink and become targets for acquisition, or seek mergers and growth to lower costs and risks. And of course, there will be those in the middle who remain muddled, who will likely then be acquired at some point.
Remember, in the 1984 ATT breakup, we started with seven Baby Bells and one long-distance carrier. Now ATT (SBC) and Verizon are left standing and monopoly dial tone revenue has been replaced by a variety of services focused on data and mobility.
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Frank Tenpenny and Eddie PulaskiThe video features a scene in Los Santos that depicts Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski, who had just came from a meeting with Big Smoke, and begin discussing Jimmy Hernandez's assignment with them, and the threat from their Partner Ralph Pendelbury. In a later scene, Tenpenny is overheard verbally harassing an unknown person on the phone. When they go to pick up Hernandez, he appears to be a good, straight cop who once struggled in a domestic despute with a guy that beat up his wife and a drug addict mother. Tenpenny is particularly hard on him, saying that it is about a game of percentages and "Screw as many bad guys as we can." Tenpenny then orders Hernadez out of the car. In the last scene featuring the C.R.A.S.H. trio, Pulaski is kicking a downed officer, obviously Pendelbury. Tenpenny hands a pistol to Hernandez, who at first refuses to kill the cop. Tenpenny reminds him of what they talked about and tells him, "You cap him or I cap you." Hernandez reluctantly shoots and kills the downed officer.
Mike Toreno and T-Bone Mendez
Another scene features T-Bone Mendez and Mike Toreno (who is sitting on a parked ZR-350) in San Fierro. Mendez is brutally beating Jose to death against a shipping container for ratting. After Jose's death, Toreno apparently scolds T-Bone for killing him, however after a call on his cell phone, Toreno then discusses with Mendez about a "buyer down in Los Santos."
Ken Rosenberg and Salvatore LeoneA later thread of scenes documents Ken Rosenberg's path from Vice City to San Andreas after his completion of drug rehab. The first scene depicts Johnny Sindacco in Salvatore's Gentlemens Club in Liberty City proposing to Salvatore Leone a three-way split between the Sindacco Family, the Leone Family, and the Forelli Family for a new casino in Las Venturas, with Salvatore's five million dollar investment managed by the Sindaccos. Salvatore isn't pleased with the terms of this offer, and names his own terms; he gets control of the books. He then suggests to Johnny that he would be pleased with a "neutral" third-party to manage things, and tells Johnny to get rid of their guy to prove the value of his involvement.
The next scene shows Ken Rosenberg walking out of the Fort Carson Medical Center in Bone County, talking to himself about being sober, being disbarred from practicing law, needing a job, and needing a ride. Later, Ken tries to call Tommy Vercetti from a pay phone, and reveals that he is avoiding Ken's calls.
The following scene in the desert depicts two anonymous Sindacco Family thugs digging a hole for the body of Mickey and burying it, while discussing the rumor that the Leone family is lending their bosses some money. The next scene shows Johnny walking into Salvatore's office to tell him they've gotten rid of their guy. Salvatore suggests a lawyer he's heard about that just got out of rehab; he used to work for the Forellis in Florida.
The final scene in this thread depicts Salvatore barging into Rosenberg's office in Las Venturas, demanding to know why Ken hasn't worked harder to earn his investment back. Salvatore implies that he got this job for Ken so that he could be his man.
Kent Paul and Maccer
Another scene features Kent Paul and Maccer in a recording studio in Salford, England. Their conversation consists of Kent becoming owner of a band, the Gurning Chimps, buying Maccer out of his contract, and Maccer's excitement over going to America.
CJ and SweetThe main thread of scenes in the video, focusing on CJ and the members of gangs in Los Santos, begins with three Ballas members (the sworn enemies of the Grove Street Families) smoking a joint in an alley, talking trash about Grove Street Families, and discussing their plan to murder Sweet.
The next scene shows Big Smoke and Ryder in Ryder's House, having a conversation about "destiny" and "choices" with Smoke convincing Ryder to join him and the Ballas. The scene that follows features Sweet, Big Smoke, OG Loc, and some other Grove Street Members shooting craps on Grove Street. Smoke is warning Sweet that "standing by our principles" may be the reason they're "losing the streets" and becoming soft. Jeffery explains that he's a "Gangsta Rapper", and gives himself the name OG Loc. Smoke and Sweet tell him he should avoid a life like theirs and go to college, "Make something of yourself". Smoke asks Sweet if he's heard from his brother CJ, and Sweet explains that they're not speaking.
The following scene shows CJ in Liberty City, attempting to steal cars parked on the side of the road until he pulls a man out of his stopped Washington and steals it. He then speaks on the phone to Joey Leone, and asks where to take the car, as he needs to get it off the street. There is a quick cut-scene of a green Sabre pulling out of a garage, then the next scene depicts CJ with a pistol mugging a man in an alley.There is another shot of a green Sabre cruising down a road in Ganton, then the final scene features the Sabre driving down the street Sweet's house is on, and then gunfire coming from the car, riddling the Johnson house with bullets, unknowingly killing Beverly Johnson. As the car drives away, Sweet rushes into the house, then back out to stop Kendl Johnson, who was just about to enter. As Kendl weeps on the steps of the porch, Sweet calls CJ to tell him that his mother is dead.
The first mission of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas continues the storyline from this point on.
- Mickey - Killed by a member of Sindacco Family to get investments for Caligula's Casino.
- Ralph Pendelbury - Killed by Jimmy Hernandez in order to gain acceptance in the C.R.A.S.H. unit.
- Beverly Johnson - Killed by members of the Ballas gang in attempt to kill Sweet.
- Unknown Person - killed by T-Bone Mendez, possibly for snitching
- All of the scenes (with the exception of Liberty City) were shot in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas locations despite the fact they are meant to be somewhere else. For example, Kent Paul's studio in England is actually the interior of Madd Dogg's mansion.
- One of the possible reasons Tommy Vercetti does not talk in this movie is that Ray Liotta, the voice actor of Tommy, had a dispute with Rockstar North about how much "effort" he put in to Vice City.
- The appearance of Sex Club 7 in the Liberty City scene is a canonical error. Before 1998, it was called Paulie's Revue Bar. This happened because Rockstar wrote GTA: Liberty City Stories after GTA: San Andreas.
- In the Mike Toreno scene T-Bone is seen beating up someone. The person although bleeding heavily appears to look like Jose from the mission Cesar Vialpando who questioned about CJ being in Azteca territory. The white V-neck shirt (although covered in blood) gives off a possible hint.
- Sonny Forelli is mentioned by Salvatore Leone when he berates Johnny Sindacco: "Ever since Sonny Forelli got himself pasted all over Florida you think you run things in this town."
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