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It seems odd to me that people live as long as they do. I'm 27 and feel like I should have had kids at 13, supported them with paper-route/Starbucks money and then passed on with quiet dignity while watching the televised opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. 20 more years of life seems a horrifically long eternity.
Status quo ante bellum, I'm pretty sure Gaya didn't intend for one of her organisms to spend a few years as a legal secretary at a television studio and then take what's left of a bottle of atavan any more than Demitasse Moore'slaw was intended to affinage with a mind towards her glossy cover-girl marketability. If anything the entire world seems like a metaphor for protecting and passing on the least radiation-damaged genetic material we can muster.
There is no "how" she should look, there is no reason for her to feel insecure and there is no reason for her to *not* feel insecure. She should just be shitting out kids just like the rest of us. Although I think we can all agree that she should be mildly ashamed for those 'shopped mag covers and whatever nonsense she's scribbled on her hand up there in those pictures.
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1. I'm keeping "essay" up there as an embarrassing testament to my gringo "ess-pan-yole" skillz.
2. Demi was dignifying some asshole on Twitter. Nobody would've noticed had she not. Eegh! Sister's better than that, nahmean?
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#2 Exactamente.
*I supposed that it was not an accident; you did it to make a joke, but if not, I still think you are a marvelous guy.
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Esse is kind of the equivalent of a friendly, peer-to-peer "n***er" among Mexican-American homeboys. Vato is more like "dude"--less charged. Cholo is a specific kind of vato--men who dress in wife-beater tanks, sport gang tattoos and are not to be messed with. The femme equivalent of cholo is chola, or as the affectionate diminutive has it, cholita. Cholitas also have a very specific look and style that I personally find fiercely awesome. (Mainly characterized by shaved eyebrows replaced by thread-thin, penciled-in arched eyebrows.)
#SoCalSchooled
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#gringademexico
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Damn you, chilangabacha! =)
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Answer: The teacher told her to go home and do an essay!
(It's funny cuz they're Mexican;-)
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What can you do, in this, our moment of challenge? Man the parapets of public opinion! Support intrepid souls like Demi "Less-Is-Never" Moore, who dare to ask the necessary questions--"How am I supposed to look?!?!?"
Those words will live for an eternity, right next to "Give me liberty or give me death!"* (and by "death" I mean some form of life in which I look really young for my age, despite that I have passed into the Great Beyond), or "We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Unless, of course, you count the fear of getting old, which we really don't have to fear. So long as our insurance covers elective plastic surgery and the like."
These maxims are our compasses, our North Star. And Ms. Moore, by flinging herself into the conflagration that is Ageism, has turned her seemingly vacuous existence into a cause celebre. She has dived on the socio-cultural grenade, she has fallen on the existential sword staring us all directly in the face, all by giving voice to the only real question of the ages: "How am I supposed to look?"
For once, dear Demi, you look just fine. In fact, you have never sounded better.
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I know you jest, but this is exactly the gist of it... everyone is so obsessed with looking younger than their age (or at least, God forbid, not older than it) that the issue of quality of life - the inner sustenance, what I call our contributions and fulfillment - is almost universally ignored.
This whacked-out state of cultural unconsciousness will most likely eventually yield future elder generations of self-loathing, miserable lost relics who have nothing to live for or appreciate, because their youth is long past. How sad.
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Thank god for modern medicine.
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Had she the moral courage of her purported convictions, she'd have twittered something along the lines, "OMG, you guys: They gave me collarbones you can slice bread on and weirdly shrunk my left hip so it appears equal in width to my waist. LOL!"
Gee, I do wonder why anyone would have unrealistic expectations about how she really looks..
And PS: The publicists for celebs of her magnitude get to sign off on the retouched pics before they go to print.
12/19/09
Would you mind asking her the following questions when you speak with her next:
1) When will she and Emilio be making Wisdom II?
2) Was St. Elmo's Fire the pinnacle or the nadir of her career?
3) Does her plastic surgeon have payment plans? My 57 yr old Grandmother is interested getting a "Demi" (e.g. a full body lift).
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Ms. Desmond please also ask Demi to ask Bruce what Cybill Shepperd was really like during the the "Moonlighting" days. Did David ever get it on with Maddy in real life?
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I will say though that there are ways to buckle against it--I mean, no one rags on Jodie Foster's visage, even though she's significantly much more of a working, middle-aged actress than Ms. Moore. Unfair comparison, I guess--Jodie Foster is a Yale grad who speaks three languages fluently and has been directing and producing movies on her own since the early '90s, plus managed to keep her private life entirely out of sight.
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Unfortunately, she looks haggard for a 22-year old starlet, as that is the age women are supposed to resemble in Hollywood.
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You guys should come down to the Puerto Vallarta area. I went to an amazing wedding on the beach last evening, and everyone was barefoot. Idyllic doesn't even begin to describe it. All the East Coasters were dreading their return flights home.
Then again, our summers are hot and sweltering, like all the circles of Hell combined, so Mother Nature shits on us, too.
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Do you know my cousin, she has a house around that area?
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said.
Gossip: a friend of mine from L.A. used to work for her, years ago, and said she was the wildest, most uninhibited, sexxxual person she'd ever known.
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deleted that from my comment.)
Courteney Cox is starting to look just plain weird, however.
I hold no grudges against those who stay fit and healthy. I do it myself. Yet if I were famous and my face and body scrutinized this way, I'd be tempted to go under the knife, yep.
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Although: come to think of it, Helen Mirren's still kickin' it... oh, wait, she can act.
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Hollywood will never change... I love old movies (I'm a TCM junkie) and the age gaps between men and women were significantly greater way back when... and it was never remotely an issue. (Kind of like if almost every movie these days had romantic leads like Entrapment.)
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How's your dad?
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Also, how did the Kardashians escape being cast in "Jersey Shore?"
12/12/09
So who has the tabs of acid?