OK, I hear that.
To be honest, I heard a lot more of her stuff before she did become famous, because she was hanging around the Chicago folk scene a lot. (Think: John Prine.) So her becoming famous wasn’t a positive for me personally!
But there’s no doubt that she really honed her craft first, and was mature enough and had experienced enough to not go off the deep end when she did strike gold. I think that’s something a younger musical artist can be inspired by.
I’m younger than her and I don’t feel inspired, LOL!
Even if she didn’t, she knows how to “talk musician” – something someone whose parents were, say, doctors wouldn’t know.
Yes, so she did have a head start over anyone else who didn’t have musically-performing or -knowledgeable or -encouraging parents. I know about music because I was raised with it around me and my natural curiosity led me to learn more about it. And my parents did encourage me in it for a while, but not as long as I would’ve liked.
God I wish that were a better written article. There were some good points in there but it was just tough to parse it all.
a lot of the shows display a bimodal distribution, with disproportionate number of users rating a show as “1”–truly terrible.
1.8 percent of female voters gave the lowest rating to sex and the city
14.1 percent of male voters gave the show the lowest rating.
That looks like brigading to me.
but imdb says it weights the scores in a proprietary, secret manner.
hat tip:
How do you abuse a privilege of having to shove a stick of cotton up your hoo-ha to stop from bleeding all over the world? WTF?
I would say that it was very close to this for me.
I think the principal took the sanitary pad scene in To Sir with Love a little bit too much to heart.
And also forgot that even if there are no tampons in the washrooms, people with periods need them anyhow.
Middle school administrator logic:
“If all the girls stick cotton up their hoo-has, then all the boys will want to stick cotton up their hoo-has too!”
By using them to throw at another student?
In many ways, I don’t like HRC. It seems like she attached herself to WJC not for love but in order to make her way up the political ladder. Nancy Reagan did the same thing, but her generation didn’t go to college to become lawyers, they went to be hostesses (okay, I’m exaggerating, lol). And she did love Ronnie, as much as she could. However, her having her birth father renounce her so she could get adopted by her stepfather…uh…yeah, get therapy.
Soaking them in vodka and shoving them up their butts so they can get drunk faster than drinking. Isn’t that what all the kids are doing these days?
Seriously, these people are so susceptible to moral panic. First, think of something so convoluted any normal person will shake their head and say you’re pulling my leg. Next, say all the kids are doing it. Before you know it, you will see all sorts of rules popping up in student handbooks trying to stamp out this imaginary behavior but without any specifics as to what it is.
In my day, there was a bunch of stuff about hazing and secret societies and secret communications and what have you. Keep in mind, this was elementary and middle school. What kind of hazing goes on at that age, besides “if you’re cool like us you’ll eat a bug”? I have gone through a lot in school, but never experienced hazing until high school (which was neither school related nor related to any kind of “secret society”). So I still don’t know what they were on about.
I think it’s all about jockeying for position in the teenage hierarchy. You know, prepping for adulthood.
Except this was preteens.
And even as a teenager there weren’t any formalized secret societies. What they were dancing around were somewhere between gangs and fraternities. We didn’t have a gang problem, so it wasn’t actual literal gangs.
Hey, still gotta prep!
Maybe he was watching Carrie for his period info?
