Movie Review- Lars and the Real Girl

Words of caution often accompany motherly advice when ordering objects from the Internet. It may give a certain feel from the pictures and description, but you never quite know what you’ve purchased until it arrives. And so it’s not often that lessons on the depth of true love and human compassion can be taught by a man and his sex doll.

Update

Crazy semester is almost over and I bought an organizer. We’ll see if it helps.

Galaxy 2- Dallas 1

I CANNOT believe we freaking WON! I haven’t been able to review the tape yet, but just some quick thoughts. Klein’s goal was a beauty. He’s my MOTM but Cobi had a great game as well. Pavon clearly missed two easy shots which begs one to wonder if he’ll be around next season. I’ll probably be sore tomorrow thanks to Jamesey and Jerry for making a sandwich of me twice. And as faint as it may be, we’re still technically in the playoff hunt.

Ooooo we are the Galaxy

Galaxy- Dallas Pre-Game

After seeing both RSL and Chivas USA win their respective games yesterday, how much hope does the L.A. Galaxy have for today’s match against Dallas? In all honesty, not much. Even if he doesn’t score, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Galaxians welcome back former Galaxy forward Carlos Ruiz with open arms. Dallas players sure to give us trouble include Ruiz, Toja, Denilson and Ricchetti if he plays. Despite injuries, the G’s will need Xavier, Gray, Gordon, Harmse and Jazic if we are to have any hope of winning this one. Throw Cobi in there and we may have a decent chance.

Either way, you know the LA Riot Squad will be out in full force. And if Lalas is still feeling guilty, maybe I’ll get another shot like this one. Hey, a girl can dream can’t she?

Albright, Jazic, Harmse, Brit & me from the 9/16 Houston game.

CWK on The Tonight Show

One of my favorite bands, Cold War Kids, will be on Leno tonight. Wish I could be skipping school for this, but I guess taping it will have to do.

‘Jena Six’

I learned about this heartbreaking case last night in my mass media law class. It’s really appalling that racism still exists and how the justice system doesn’t always work.

Now Jena is known for the Jena Six. The charges followed a series of incidents that began at the start of school in 2006, when nooses were hung from a tree, a traditional gathering place for white students, after a black student asked to sit under it.

Last week, an appeals court overturned the first conviction. Mychal Bell, 17, had been scheduled for sentencing on Thursday. The prosecutor, Reed Walters, will appeal. Charges for three others have been reduced to aggravated battery.

Now, on the eve of a rally that organizers say may bring 40,000 people from across the country, Jena is mired in misunderstanding and distrust.

“A lot of people are frustrated,” says Eddie Thompson, 46, Pentecostal pastor of the Sanctuary Family Worship Center. He is white. “Basically, it’s the story of another town. You can understand someone watching TV and hearing different reports about a town so blindly racist, with trees for whites only and such, joining a march. I would join that march, too.”

Residents black and white worry about the sheer numbers of people expected.

“We’re scared to death” that violence may break out, says Billy Fowler, 68, a white school board member, as he drives through the town’s only two stoplights. He says schools are closing because of worries about traffic backups.

Around the courthouse, a gift shop, diner and other businesses have posted signs to say they will be closed Thursday.

Brian Moran, 25, the acting president of Jena’s newly formed NAACP chapter, says the rally will be peaceful and will call attention to how the Jena Six have been treated.

Jena has come a long way from the days when blacks couldn’t live outside of certain sections and the Ku Klux Klan was active, says Harry “Cuz” Roberts, the white owner of LaSalle Florist.

Some blacks in Jena, though, say racism is a part of daily life.

Jim Douglas, 65, a black retired electrical engineer who returned to Jena 17 years ago after living in Las Vegas, says race relations have not changed much since he marched in Baton Rouge in the 1960s.

He lives in the Tall Timber Quarters, where poor blacks who worked for the mills used to live. The section, a mix of ramshackle trailers and well-kept homes, is still predominantly black.

“You still have the sense of the old deep South,” he says. “They still have the good ol’ boy system.”

Brown says she hasn’t had many problems in Jena, except for one area: how the law treats blacks.

All this because of a white kids only “hang out” tree that when a black student asks his principal for permission to sit there, nooses are hung as a so-called warning? Have we really learned nothing as a nation? The whole kids will be kids argument doesn’t deem this “prank” acceptable, especially in light of all the other “incidents.” Or is the fact that the white students never had charges filed against them lost in translation? It’s really a shame that the major news outlets have not devoted as much coverage to this case as they did to Don Imus remark fiasco. At the end of the day, this goes deeper than racism. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

TEITBITE

Random thought of the day? “The End Is the Beginning Is the End” by the Smashing Pumpkins is an awesome song. Although in this case, “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning” would be more appropriate. Either way, get ready to jam.