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This is one of those movies you feel stupider just for having sat through. I think I'm already worse at math.
Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh.
Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy.
That's My Boy more than lives up to its R-rating - including one gross-out gag repulsive enough to make you put down your popcorn.
Nobody has an excuse for being surprised by how low Sandler and company stoop in That's My Boy.
As awful as most of That's My Boy is, it's sort of mesmerizing to see how Sandler - in a script credited to David Caspe - keeps his touchstones in place.
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That's My Boy lazily exists in a fantasyland of Adam Sandler's perpetual adolescence, even as it generates some moderate comic friction from Sandler and Andy Samberg's testy back-and-forth.
In matters of personal taste, there is no right or wrong, so if erasing brain cells is your idea of a good time, That's My Boy could be your cup of turpentine.
The film is such a barren comic wasteland of scatology and misogyny that Vanilla Ice steals the film with a good-natured, self-deprecating portrayal of himself as Sandler's sleazy party buddy.
Will be construed by the faithful as an embarrassment of riches and by the rest of us as cruel and unusual punishment.
All in all, it could have been worse. Puerile, crotch-fixated and very occasionally, inanely funny, Adam Sandler's raunchiest star vehicle in years has a small saving grace in Andy Samberg's performance.
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Jun 15, 2012At this point Adam Sandler is just piling movies on top of movies that have fallen flat and have failed. This is one of those movies he canAt this point Adam Sandler is just piling movies on top of movies that have fallen flat and have failed. This is one of those movies he can add to the pile, Thats My Boy is over hyped in both trailers and ads but really isn't special at all. Yes the film brings up good sentiments and some moments which are somewhat remotely funny but again falls flat with its crude and unsavory subject matter and material, over done with toilet humor and slapstick along with pervasive sexual humor which reaches a point were it isn't funny anymore and the overall feeling of the film which is rather annoying. Adam Sandler has spiraled down the drain to this level of film, I can say he has had great films in the past with "I Pronounce you Chuck and Larry" and "Don't Mess with the Zohan" but now its come to this and he has brought all the actors in his movie down with him.… Full Review »
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Biomolecules 2014, 4(1), 20-55; doi:10.3390/biom4010020
Misfolding of Amyloidogenic Proteins and Their Interactions with Membranes
1 Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa 16146, Italy 2 Research Centre on the Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration, Florence 50134 Italy 3 Department of Chemistry, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA † All authors contributed equally to this work.
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AbstractIn this paper, we discuss amyloidogenic proteins, their misfolding, resulting structures, and interactions with membranes, which lead to membrane damage and subsequent cell death. Many of these proteins are implicated in serious illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Misfolding of amyloidogenic proteins leads to the formation of polymorphic oligomers and fibrils. Oligomeric aggregates are widely thought to be the toxic species, however, fibrils also play a role in membrane damage. We focus on the structure of these aggregates and their interactions with model membranes. Study of interactions of amlyoidogenic proteins with model and natural membranes has shown the importance of the lipid bilayer in protein misfolding and aggregation and has led to the development of several models for membrane permeabilization by the resulting amyloid aggregates. We discuss several of these models: formation of structured pores by misfolded amyloidogenic proteins, extraction of lipids, interactions with receptors in biological membranes, and membrane destabilization by amyloid aggregates perhaps analogous to that caused by antimicrobial peptides.
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As of June 2007, more than 100,000 military and civilian personnel are engaged in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations in 15 locations in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East. In 2006, the United States provided the UN with about $1 billion to support peacekeeping operations. Given that thousands of U.S. troops are intensively deployed in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, UN peacekeeping operations are an important element in maintaining a secure international environment. As requested, this testimony discusses (1) the costs of the current UN mission in Haiti compared with the estimated cost of a hypothetical U.S. operation and (2) the strengths and limitations of the United States and the UN in leading peace operations. This testimony is based on our prior report and information we updated for this hearing. To estimate U.S. costs, we developed parameters for a U.S. mission similar to the UN mission in Haiti, which the Joint Staff validated as reasonable. We then applied DOD's official cost estimating model. However, it is uncertain whether the United States would implement an operation in Haiti in the same way as the UN.
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Discussion in 'Community' started by Fire_Ice_Death, Feb 21, 2013.
I bracketed his posts with likes, just to prove a point. Felt spiteful.
Felt good.
Since the thread has gone full dumbass...
Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1961. Stetch Armstrong, introduced by the Kenner toy company in 1976. The former preceded the latter by a good 15 years. I know you have a hard time keeping up with pop-culture JW, but jeez, you could've googled/wiki'd stuff up first...
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My Stretch Armstrong toy was amazing fun until he developed a small rupture in his epidermis and started secreting the sticky yellow syrup that was his lifeblood.
Mom threw him out when it got on the couch and had to spend all afternoon getting it off.
This digression has brought forth harrowing memories of my childhood.
Okay, seeing as this has gone full special, I'm locking this thread until we have new info about JW and Conne.
some newish info here. this is from november.
so someone has seen her at least. no word on jediwarrior in this article but it's focused on americans. and no word on her baby either. but apparently they might still be alive?
Being held?
You know the sad thing is, I kind of feel like this is a darker turn, if so. Being held in captivity has got to be pretty awful.
The article mentions they were being treated great. It's a hopeful thing IMO.
he does say that he was treated pretty well, perhaps she is being treated well also. But given that part of the world I would not be optimistic.
I seem to remember reading that in some article (maybe the same), just mentioning her and not providing any detail. Didn't she need kidney meds or something? Obviously the Taliban would be able to provide a degree of pre/neonatal care, but I find it hard to believe they could come up with specific medications easily. Unless they're really common or going without them isn't necessarily fatal, I guess.
Ah, this is why I should actually read things. In that case, yeah, that's a good thing.
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In a way, it is something of a relief to hear that she may still be alive and kicking, OTOH, being held captive by the Taliban isn't what I wanted to hear.
I was going through my old photos from C3 and found one of her. Does anybody here have some contact info so that I can send a copy to her folks?
I'd feel awful if she was alive and made it out to come back and read this. I'd feel very ashamed of the things I've said.
Perhaps you should have thought about that beforehand.
I think he's saying he feels remorse for things he said. I don't think you need to rub his nose in it.
I get what he's saying. I mean, one way to deal with a topic that makes a person uncomfortable is using absurd humor. What he's saying is, if she's actually alive, he's going to feel terrible if she reads this thread where several people were using that particular coping mechanism. The situation is so insane and unusual that a coping mechanism was necessary for several people (myself included).
Don't be a mean poopyhead.
I'm well aware of that, but there is a difference between absurd humor and some of the things which were said about her in this thread. As strained as things have been between you and I in the past, I wouldn't dream of saying some of the things about you that have been said about Conn, it would be disrespectful regardless of the situation and how well you may or may not know the people involved.
So, it's your duty to make people who feel bad feel even worse?
That was well said. Here's hoping she makes it home ok and gets the opportunity to read this thread and know that whatever anyone may have felt about her at least there were SOME warm thoughts and hope being sent out through the ether of 1's and 0's. Personally I hope that clown GenOochy she used to pal around with ended up enslaved in a Thai sex dungeon.
This thread is why we can't have nice things.
what nice things though? casual trips to afghanistan? then yeah i agree that this thread ruined that for us
No moreso than anyone else here.
I've not read this thread or even followed the situation extensively, so I'm not going to make any accusations. I do want to make a general statement on the last few posts, though. I think that genuine remorse is a good thing, and no one need rub it in. But I think that part of that remorse is also being honest about what one actually did. Some people in this thread probably did just restrict themselves to gallows humor and other "unusual" coping mechanisms. That's one thing. But it's also the case, just from glancing through the thread, that some people said things that were genuinely mean that don't seem like they were attempts at coping at all. They were just people taking an opportunity to make a joke at someone else's expense.
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Oh gosh, never have I wanted to recommend bits of a book so much while simultaneously being so disappointed in that same book. This biography was a hot mess. It's full of awkward, uncomfortable language used about its subject in a thoughtless way; it is not very good at providing a clear throughline to its sections; the opening section is unfortunately one of the least effective, most problematic sections in an often ineffective and problematically structured narrative... and yet.
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New Year's Eve I came down with a cold or a flu or something. It was the most lovely, benign type of whatever-it-was. I didn't have a sore throat, or a cough, I wasn't congested: I just ran a fever for two days and slept almost around the clock.
Then I had a day where I lay in glorious languor on the couch, drinking beverages and reading Zen Cho's absolutely fabulous novel Sorcerer to the Crown.
I'm starting out the new year feeling quite rested, and very refreshed, and since I'm still possibly just the slightest bit getting over the whatever-it-was, I've given myself permission to put off any resolutions or useful activities until next weekend.
I hope that your new years are, as much as possible, off to similarly restful, optimistic starts, full of good things to eat and drink and entertainingly delightful things to read and comfortable pillows galore.
Dec. 5th, 2015
12:44 pm - Seasonal Card Time - my yearly reminder, request, offer, what have you!
I love seasonal cards. Writing them reminds me of all the things I love most about the holiday season and is one of the main ways I interact, personally and spiritually, with the holidays.
If we follow each other mutually on any social media, and you would like to have a holiday card from me this year, please message me. Ideally, lemme know the name I should use on the card, and the address, and, if you're feeling extra kind, specify the type of holiday greeting you prefer if you have a holiday preference. (I will default to generic holiday, not religious, if no preference is suggested.) I do try to keep track in my spreadsheet of holiday info when I know about a holiday preference, so if you tell me it's Solstice, or Christmas, or Hanukkah I will do my darnedest to write down which and remember to use it. Failures are mistakes, not intentional hints of anything, I promise.
I know the holiday season is not celebrated by everyone, and not a good time for everyone. I won't be sad if you would prefer not to get a card.
I would, however, be genuinely delighted to send you one.
Nov. 12th, 2015
06:53 am - Posted here in lieu of that hole that Midas's barber used (oh, whispering grass)
It's a more-or-less a functional substitution, but (probable) hypervigilance and massive pattern matching is an EXHAUSTING replacement for whatever other people use for people reading.
Oct. 28th, 2015
12:22 pm - Books: $2 A Day
On recommendation of a friend who wrote a wonderful review, I picked up $2 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer (http://www.twodollarsaday.com/).
I then spent two days being vaguely cranky at the world and marginally depressed while reading it, but I recommend it nonetheless. Very short, well researched, and does a nice-enough job of combining the narrative "stories" with the policy analysis and data to work for most people, I think.
I grew up in a not-well-off family with an extended family who were middle class and upper class. We were poor but we were cushioned from the kind of deep poverty that this book is about. We were occasionally homeless, we were on WIC and received food stamps (they were still food stamps back then) when I was a kid in the 1980s. But I always had winter coats. We got enough shoes. When we were homeless we couch-surfed in pretty nice houses, or got to stay in motels. We had running water and heat. Though I knew this book was focused on people and situations more difficult than the ones I grew up in, I knew a lot of people growing up who were poorer than we were. I did not expect that there would be a lot that was new for me in this book.
There was a lot that was new to me. The policy changes of the 1990s came after my family had (re)-entered the middle class. Most of those changes took effect after I had gone to college, and I have not needed to access social services of these types since college. Things for the lower working class may have gotten better (at least according to notes in this book), but, as the authors very clearly show, things for the very poorest in America have gotten a lot worse.
If you have the emotional energy, this was a very worthwhile read. Probably at a similar level of depressing and angering as, oh, Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol? But possibly with more triggers.
( Trigger warnings behind the cutCollapse )
[edited because I forgot to put in the authors' names after the title when first posted.]
Sep. 8th, 2015
09:16 pm - Objects moving, objects at rest.
So I have moved (from VT to MN, from a suburb to the middle of Minneapolis, from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment). And now I am in the phase of moving after the first busy part and before the establishment of new routines. It's usually an unsettled and open time, one good for reflection and long walks, journaling and crafts and catching up on correspondence. At least, it usually is for me. I've lived in at least 12 or 13 different apartments and houses, and five states. Often enough to start to get a sense of my own patterns.
Productively fallow, that's how this time feels. It's a lovely feeling.
Jun. 24th, 2015
10:29 am - 4th Street! and sundries
4th St: I will be at 4th Street Fantasy this weekend! I look forward to seeing and chatting with folks.
sundry 1 - moving:
I'm moving back to MN from VT this summer, so I look forward to perhaps catching up more often with MN-residing friends and those who visit MN more frequently.
sundry 2 - writing:
I am still too shy to finish the one piece of fanfiction I'm noodling on and post it, or to post comments on the amazing fic writer whose stories were the whole reason I set up an ao3 account in the first place - specifically so I could post the comments about how much I like their work that I still have not posted.
On the other hand, I've had three stories published in the last 12 months and written a couple tiny public comments on short stories I liked in various magazines. Apparently I find the idea of fanfiction writing and commenting more intimidating than writing for paid publication and commenting on those stories.
Feb. 25th, 2015
10:20 am - Question about readings and publication/submission of stories
So I'm in the interesting-to-me position of getting to be part of a series of public events here in home-state where a group of local genre writers read their work. I'm flattered to be included and having a lot of fun, but don't have much published fiction yet. This has left me full of questions. Do public readings affect first sale rights at all, if I read things that are still out on submission? Is it different if it's a reading of the whole work versus a part? I've been operating on the assumption that a recorded reading of a complete work probably uses up first publication if the recording is publicly posted, and that an unrecorded reading of a partial work is probably fine, but I'm not sure about unrecorded readings of complete unpublished work. Should I just plan to write some things that I use just in readings, and don't try to submit for publication?
Feb. 7th, 2015
12:13 pm - Gender-y Writing Thought
I was reading a lovely piece by swan_tower on gender representation in fantasy, and some of the comments made me realize a thing I'd sort of known but hadn't thought of so clearly before.
Protagonist, narrator, and other author-viewpoint-y characters rarely have a gender in my early drafts, and my choice of whether to label the central protagonist as male or female often feels arbitrary to me in some significant ways. Arbitrary in terms of the inside-the-story considerations, that is: the character in my head rarely has a fixed gender, and I am giving them one for the purposes of the story. I often lean towards gendering characters as female just because I'm aware of a desire outside-of-the-story for more representation of female characters in genre, and because I am also aware of a desire outside-of-the-story for more queer representation in stories, and I feel more confident writing a female queer character than a male queer character.
It's not uncommon for me to write the first draft with narrator and/or protagonist genders unmarked. Swapping the gender of my protagonist from male to female or female to male in a second draft rarely causes me to rethink much about the protagonist's behavior, though it's more likely to influence how secondary characters interact with them. The only times I can think of when I'm confident that a certain character should be a guy/girl/etc. are when there's an external plot/narrative thing, usually a societal issue or a reaction to a previously existing text, that I want to explore when writing the story.
Which all is... probably not unrelated to my identifying as genderqueer?
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