Early in (500) Days of Summer the omniscient narrator who intermittently comments on the action cautions that the movie is “not a love story.” The print advertisements qualify his words, describing this slight, charming and refreshingly candid little picture as “a story about love.” Which it is: a story about how love can be confusing, contingent and asymmetrical, and about how love can fail. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘(500) Days of Summer’
Day: February 9, 2012
What’s really up, doc?
Did you know that your doctor could be lying to you? It’s likelier than you think. In a survey of doctors in the medical journal Health Affairs:
- 55 percent admitted to sugarcoating a patient’s prognosis.
- 10 percent to saying something that just wasn’t true. (Probably the doctors who claim to know someone who lost a patient to a marijuana overdose.)
- About 33 percent didn’t feel the need to admit mistakes to patients.
- 40 percent would prefer to keep their financial ties to drug and device companies on the down-low.
It just goes to show: never trust anyone who attends eight years of college and doesn’t die.
Crazy woman crazily sues NYC for crazy amount
Just off the top of your head, how much might you say New York City is worth? 1 billion dollars? 2 billion? 50 billion?
What about 900 trillion dollars? One more question: just how much is that?
All these questions and more should be directed toward one Fausat Ogunbayo, a mother from Staten Island that’s now suing the famous city for the paltry amount of 900 trillion dollars. That’s trillion as in “the national debt is in the double digit trillions.” In a decision made by the Administration for Children’s Services, Ogunbayo, who has decided to represent herself, had her children placed in foster care in 2008, which has apparently led to the most hellish 3 years ever seen.
The decision to remove the children may have been a good one.
In court papers, the ACS references several peculiar incidents where Ogunbayo sought out medical treatment because she believed her children’s skin color was becoming darker due to radiation.
That tends to be something called tanning.
Gronkowski earns Most Valuable Partier!
Apparently Rob Gronkowski’s ankle, you know, the one that was so bad he couldn’t jump up to bat down a game-changing Tom brady interception, just needed a loss to the Giants to make it feel all better.
Gronkowski and fellow teammate Matt Light showed that the “Patriot way” is dancing shirtless on stage with LMFAO.
Nobody panic: Mutant spiders may exist
Spiders have been finding ways to get into the things that we depend on to work at all times. Just last year, they were invading the gas tanks of our cars, before that, they were attacking a space shuttle on the launch pad.
Now, they’ve gotten worse.
We don’t want to send anyone into a panic, but there may be radioactive spiders in South Carolina. Something that looks like cobwebs was found at the Savannah River National Laboratory in a pool were used nuclear fuel rods are kept. Naturally, the so-called federal government is being all hush-hush about this, when they should be letting the public know that there’s a good chance mutant spiders are going to kill us all.