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11/24/2008 19:53 #46822

24 Rollins Colbert
Category: tv
So yesterday I watched 24 Redemption. I thought it was pretty good. I will admit I thought there was going to be more action. The action was good, don't get me wrong. I think that there was a lot of story to be told to set up the new season. At the end of the show the preview for the new season in January (11th &12th I think) looks pretty good. I'm glad I watched it.

I do like documentaries . Of course if it like it is based on the topic and how it is done. You can have a great subject but if the narrator is boarring then it can kill the movie. Of course I'm a fan of lots of the HBO ones, oh yeah and then I have seen a bunch of great ones about sex, porn and sex in movies. The most recent one I watched was on IFC it was Henry Rollins in Northern Ireland . Part of the movie is him talking to people about what happened and getting their thoughts on it how the peace is now. It was pretty interesting and there where some things that are similar to the ocuppation of Iraq , and there where some interesting peoples views on that. Then there was also part of his show that he performed. One of the stories he told I had Heard before but the other stuff was good also. I wish there was a way to hear and see the complete show he did, and to see more of the interviews of people he talked to. There was also a little bit of history about What started the IRA.

Last night it was time to watch (before Sons of Anarchy that I missed last week) Christmas special 2, it was Steven Colbert. The basic idea is he in a lodge and he is trying to get to his studio to film his Christmas Special, but when he tries to leave there is a bear so he can't. He doesn't want to pay royaltes so he makes up he own Christmas songs. People drop by to see him like John Stewart and Tobe Keith. I thought some of it was pretty funny. There is this video Toby does about people trying to fight Christmas, I thought that part of great. Then I liked the part where there where 4 wise men and one was Willie Nelson and they do those long thing about weed and I thought that part was funny. Later little cop cars pull up on the manger and bust Willie he says it wasn't his he was holding it for the Donkey. They have a running missile toe joke and the only one to kiss him is this huge Bear that ate Elvis Costello and then it chases him. In the end Santa saves him. I'm not really a fan of his but thought some of it was pretty good.

11/23/2008 14:53 #46809

Spy Month continued.
Category: tv
Well spy month continues with 24 tonight for 2 hours. From what I have seen it will be on DVD on Tuesday. I guess they will have special features and stuff then Best Buy has some exclusive version of it with something else. So for those don't see it go out and buy it I may. I can't wait for the new season in Jan.

11/21/2008 19:10 #46789

Watching a Sucicide online
Category: internet
So when I saw this piece on News on Yahoo I thought how strange. For those who want to read it I will comment after the story

Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience




By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press Writer Rasha Madkour, Associated Press Writer - 1 hr 10 mins ago

MIAMI - A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke.

Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home - a scene also captured on the Internet - it was too late.

Biggs, a 19-year-old Broward College student who suffered from what his family said was bipolar disorder, or manic depression, lay dead on his bed in his father's Pembroke Pines house Wednesday afternoon, the camera still running 12 hours after Biggs announced his intentions online around 3 a.m.

It was unclear how many people watched it unfold.

Biggs was not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling. But the drawn-out drama - and the reaction of those watching - was seen as an extreme example of young people's penchant for sharing intimate details about themselves over the Internet.

Biggs' family was infuriated that no one acted sooner to save him, neither the viewers nor the Web site that hosted the live video, Justin.tv. The Web site shows a video image, with a space alongside where computer users can instantly post comments.

Only when police arrived did the Web feed stop, "so that's 12 hours of watching," said the victim's sister, Rosalind Bigg. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."

She added: "It didn't have to be."

An autopsy concluded Biggs died from a combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, which his family said was prescribed for his bipolar disorder.

Biggs announced his plans to kill himself over a Web site for bodybuilders, authorities said. But some users told investigators they did not take him seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before.

Some members of his virtual audience encouraged him to do it, others tried to talk him out of it, and some discussed whether he was taking a dose big enough to kill himself, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office.

A computer user who claimed to have watched said that after swallowing some pills, Biggs went to sleep and appeared to be breathing for a few hours while others cracked jokes.

Someone notified the moderator of the bodybuilding site, who traced Biggs' location and called police, Crane said.

As police entered the room, the audience's reaction was filled with Internet shorthand: "OMFG," one wrote, meaning "Oh, my God." Others, either not knowing what they were seeing, or not caring, wrote "lol," which means "laughing out loud," and "hahahah."

An online video purportedly from Biggs' webcam shows a gun-wielding officer entering a bedroom, where a man is lying on a bed, his face turned away from the camera. The officer begins to examine him, as the camera lens is covered. Authorities could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video, though it matched their description of what occurred.

Montana Miller, an assistant professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said Biggs' very public suicide was not shocking, given the way teenagers chronicle every facet of their lives on sites like Facebook and MySpace.

"If it's not recorded or documented then it doesn't even seem worthwhile," she said. "For today's generation it might seem, `What's the point of doing it if everyone isn't going to see it?'"

She likened Biggs' death to other public ways of committing suicide, like jumping off a bridge.

Crane said she knows of a case in which a Florida man shot himself in the head in front of an online audience, though she didn't know how much viewers saw. In Britain last year, a man hanged himself while chatting online.

In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: "We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time."

The Web site would not say how many people were watching the broadcast. The site as a whole had 672,000 unique visitors in October, according to Nielsen.

Miami lawyer William Hill said there is probably nothing that could be done legally to those who watched and did not act. As for whether the Web site could be held liable, Hill said there doesn't seem to be much of a case for negligence.

"There could conceivably be some liability if they knew this was happening and they had some ability to intervene and didn't take action," said Hill, who does business litigation and has represented a number of Internet-based clients. But "I think it would be a stretch."

Condolences poured into Biggs' MySpace page, where the mostly unsmiling teen is seen posing in a series of pictures with various young women. On the bodybuilding Web site, Biggs used the screen name CandyJunkie. His Justin.tv alias was "feels_like_ecstacy."

Rosalind Bigg described her brother as an outgoing person who struck up conversations with Starbucks baristas and enjoyed taking his young nieces to Chuck E. Cheese. He was health-conscious and exercised but was not a bodybuilder, she said.

"This is very, very sudden and unexpected for us," the sister said. "It boggles the mind. We don't understand."

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Associated Press Writers Jessica Gresko and Lisa Orkin Emmanuel and the AP News Research Center in New York contributed to this report.

(This version CORRECTS sister's last name in next-to-last graf.)



My first thought was wow that is really odd. It seems like people where being so cruel to encourage him to do it. But then I thought hey maybe they didn't think he really would and that it was a joke. Or maybe people thought hey if he wants to die he should do it. Or maybe they thought if he is going to do it anyways maybe I can see it. I think that a lot of people didn't think he was serious. Since it was by using pills I don't think anyone on line could really tell for sure he was dead. All in all it seems very strange and distrubing. I do think it was good that some people tried to get him not to do it. In any event I do agree that the ideas they express in this article are kinda true. I'm not the young generation but I have multiple blogs and post all kinds of pictures. So maybe if I did end my life I might want people to see the pictures but I don't think to watch but I don't know cause my mind isn't there. But there is something this article doesn't ask and I will. Where were the parents. I know that isn't fair that being bi-polar is very tough and I can't imagine what that is like. But at some point I wonder if they could have done more.

In terms of the legal isues I disagree with them a little bit. If anyone who was online new him personaly or any one new his location the cops or his house should have been called to try and stop him, anyone who had the ablity to do so would be liable for his death, would it hold up in court I don't know. The problem is though that in terms of the website itself it is hard to blame them really. I'm guessing they don't monitor content. If they do monitor all content or if there is someone who does and they have an address and do nothing then they it would be their fault partialy again don't know if it would hold up in court. I would think that if you could prove that the people encouraging the person to kill them selves could be said to be partly to blame and could be held as causing the person to do it. That being said if he was going to do it anyways I think would cause reasonable dobut most likely but it is something to think about.
metalpeter - 11/22/08 16:37
You know having people pay to watch it might be a good idea really. Maybe you could sell the rights to Wrotten or is that Rotten . Com and then they would get the rights to all the pictures. That way when you cover all the funeral costs and maybe have a really nice headstone. Of course since it is illegal to kill your self I'm sure it could be argued that paying to watch could be aiding in it. What if say you want to die (I'm not kidding here either I'm very serious) but you don't want the burden of someone else having to pay for everything. But if you didn't have enough money then you would deal with the pain until you had enough, to not burden anyone else. Well then anyone who paid to watch you would be helping you kill your self. I wonder if it crossed state lines if it would be a more serious crime.

The problem with Suicide is there are people like this guy who are sick and need help and want help and the first or couple few times is what they call a Cry for help. That means they don't really want to die but they don't know what to do. Then there are people who just want to die and it isn't a cry for help. It is really tough to tell what ones are what. If this guy really couldn't live any more and was going to wind up dead anyways then there might not be anything anyone could have done. But if what he really needed was someone to say "listen I have been there and know How it feels, I have tried to do what you are doing now and I'm glad I failed, let me help you" then those people on line caused his death. There is really no way to know.

In terms of Public Suicide it is common. I may have even seen one in a movie. There is a very interesting movie called "The Bridge" it is about people who jump of The Golden Gate Bridge. I'm not sure if any of the footage is of people really jumping off or if it is a reinactment. If I where going to do it I don't know if I would do it online or not but if I did it on line I would have to do it completely nude, well no then I would get turned on and I wouldn't be able to kill myself. I guess it would come down to thinking about it. Say I got a gun and it slipped as a pulled the trigger and the shot didn't kill me, I wouldn't want everyone to see that, I'm so fucked I can't even take my own life, but at the same time since I did live then maybe someone could get me some help I don't want to be laying there in pain (a hanging where the thing I'm hanging from break) for hours.
jbeatty - 11/21/08 23:01
Me too but I think I would get people to pay for it so I could at least go out with a bang.
paul - 11/21/08 21:54
Thats so crazy. If I killed myself I would do it online too. Why not?

11/19/2008 18:36 #46761

Jeff Dunham 1st Christmas special
Category: holidays

Info and Video on Jeff Dunham on Comedy Central


So Last Night the Christmas Season got started again. I watched my first Christmas special of the Year. It was Jeff Dunham's Christmas Special, I laughed my ass off but not as much as the people there when it was filmed. I didn't know his material before hand. He uses puppets. Each one has there own personality. There is the Blown up Terrorist who is a skeleton. Then there is a Chili pepper guy. Then there is this old dude, he was maybe the funniest to me. And then there is a redneck. I'm sorry I don't remember all the puppets names but I thought they all where pretty funny.


Sort of what I saw on the special but not exactly the same:









It isn't exactly how it aired from youtube but from the comedy central site there is video also. I may get the DVD but we shall see. I know this Sunday someone else has a comedy special I want to say it is Might be John Stewart I'm not sure though.

11/22/2008 18:15 #46799

Lots of Cock unexepctedly (no pictures)
Category: sex
So Thursday was a strange day in some ways. I wasn't planning on it but I wound up seeing a bunch of cock (not in person luckily for me). It started out when on (e:strip) I saw (e:Imk2)'s post with the prince holding his cock. Then later that night I watched Cathouse: Whats on the Menu. I thought it was pretty good. Yes there was some very lovely naked women on this episode. I thought it could have been an hour long and they could have had footage from every kind of party or at least a couple more. Now in a previous post I had mentioned that I think they should show dick on these shows. In fact they do just not erect penis. . There was this one guy who came in and got two girls (yeah the black girl has amazing breasts by the way) and he didn't want sex so they just ate things off each other. Maybe it is just me but this dude's cock was pretty big. I don't know if filming makes it look bigger but limp this dude looked thicker then I am hard, lucky bastard. Then later there was a scene where some dude got some other kind of party that was in a shower and he was limp also and looked to blessed down there as well, lucky guy. Hey again I can't say for sure since I'm not a chick. Then later I think it was the same was having sex and then the cock was blurred. I think that means they and true of showtime also I think won't show erect cocks it is to bad. Just to clarify something here I do like cock in my porn and pictures of it, and love BJ pictures but guys do nothing for me at all. It isn't like a see a cute guy and think he is cute, unlike with every girl I see that my mind thinks cute, sexy, hot or even she looks like we could hang out together and have a lot of fun (band shirt or team I like does that automaticly) That takes me to also say that there are some really hot call girls at the "Bunny Ranch" , I do like more then just the sex on this show, it is interesting to see other stuff but there is all most all ways a sex tie in but not with everything on the show. There is a part of me that would love to go to the Bunny Ranch. Not that I would really ever have the money to fly out there and take a trip and then go there. If you aren't all ready out that way it is a lot of money. It would be cool to go if they where filming it. My favorite girl I've seen on the show was Isabella Soprano but this girl here is pretty hot ok I admit I might try blowing someone to do her for free (only in my mind though not really). I'm pretty sure she was on the show the other night but not positive if it was her or not the pose with the sword is pretty hot. But you figure If I went all that way and spent all that money why not go for a 3 way and how does one really chose and 2nd girl it is like they are all 10 and what 10 is better but maybe she would do . I would be happy just to be able to afford going (assuming I didn't have to sell my soul) and would love it to go. Well if anyone is reading this still sorry for the long style I had no idea where to start a new paragraph. That reminds me I wanted to see the "Kristen" interview on 20/20 but was out cold, I need to see if I can watch it online someplace, most stuff on abc.com doesn't play right on my computer we shall see.
vincent - 11/24/08 22:34
BTW Check out this news story about the bunny ranch, economy and prostitution...

:::link:::
vincent - 11/24/08 22:11
If you do go out there you would need 3-4 Thousand Dollars! Those prices that they are charging are kind of crazy. Didn't one guy pay $1,000 for a girl to watch her masturbate with a dildo & wasn't even able to touch her? That's just f'ing crazy. The only way i can see doing it is if you really wanted to F your favorite Porn Star when she was there for a quick tour stop as they do from time to time.

If you wanted to hook up with a prostitute you're better off going over to Canada where it is for the most part legal & will only cost you $200 + a motel room for an hour.
metalpeter - 11/23/08 11:26
Yes watching all the stuff tired me out. I also forgot I looked up a little bit on line also. Then the show following the bunny ranch was a show about the porn industry "Pornocupia (something like that) going down in the Valley" the episode was "Women On top" I had seen most of it before. That was pretty nice also. I would love to go see :::link::: weilding her sword and making me do what ever she wanted me to do. I would love to go on vacation there and do a report. I assuming that writing a blog wouldn't get me press creditals cause then maybe I could make my own documentary but then I would need a camera crew or at least someone who knows how to do Mobile Video posts. I would put them up on my Fubar page (not sure if I know how to do that) and then link here. I wish I had the money. Hey I wish I was a member of the Camera crew, that would be awesome enough. On a side note I'm sure they have a lot of footage I wonder how they edit it, it must be fun but it must be tough also.
paul - 11/23/08 10:35
SOunds like a busy day. You shoudl go on vacation to that ranch and report about it.