[scifinoir2] [Fwd: Woman Lost for 25 Years After Catching Wrong Bus!]

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

--- Original Message 
Subject:Woman Lost for 25 Years After Catching Wrong Bus!
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:54:59 -0600
From:   Susan Smith Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


*Thai woman tells of 25-year detour after catching wrong bus*

by Rapee Mama Thu Feb 8, 2:55 AM ET

DUSONGYO, Thailand (AFP) - A Thai mother who was lost for 25 years after 
catching the wrong bus home has spoken of her ordeal after being 
reunited with her family thanks to simple song.

The last time Jaeyaena Beuraheng saw her seven children was in 1982 when 
she left south Thailand on one of her regular shopping trips across the 
border to nearby Malaysia.

She never returned, and police later told her family that she had 
apparently been killed in a traffic accident.

In fact, Jaeyaena had simply taken the wrong bus home -- an error that 
would have been easy to fix except that she only speaks the local 
dialect of Malay known as Yawi, according to officials at the homeless 
shelter where the 76-year-old has lived for two decades.

"I didn't tell anybody where I was going on that day, because I went 
there quite often," she told AFP, crying as she spoke.

She was heading home from her shopping trip when she mistakenly hopped 
on a bus to Bangkok, some 1,150 kilometers (700 miles) north of her home 
in Narathiwat province.

In Bangkok, unable to read Thai and speaking a language few Thais can 
understand, she again took a wrong bus, this time to Chiang Mai, another 
700 kilometers (430 miles) further north.

There she ended up as a beggar for five years, until she was sent to a 
homeless shelter in the central Thai province of Phitsanulok in 1987.

"I thought I would die in Phitsanulok. I thought about running away many 
times, but then I worried I would not be able to make it home. I really 
missed my children," Jaeyaena said.

Officials at the shelter told AFP that she was known as "Auntie Mon," 
because her speech sounded similar to the language of ethnic Mon living 
along the border with Myanmar.

But still no one could understand her, until last week when three health 
students from Narathiwat arrived on an exchange program to research the 
problem of homelessness at the shelter.

She sang a song for the visitors, one that the staff at the shelter had 
often heard but did not understand.

"She sang her same old song, one that nobody could understand until 
those three students from Narathiwat told us that she was sing in Yawi, 
a Malay dialect," the official said.

"So we asked them to talk to her and find out if she had relatives," 
official said.

Jaeyaena told the students that she had a Malaysian husband and seven 
children, recounting her entire story of the bus and how she had become 
lost in northern Thailand.

Her shocked family sent her youngest son and her eldest daughter to meet 
her and bring her home on Tuesday, the official said.

"She remembered all of her children's names. But at first she couldn't 
recognise her youngest son, but she recognised her eldest daughter," 
said the official, who was at their reunion.

Her children took her back to their family home in Dusongyo village, in 
a remote corner of Narathiwat, where her children and grandchildren were 
still hugging and kissing her two days after her return.


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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

It rains all the time here, in Xalapa.   I'm told that the weather has 
changed dramatically because of global warming and it was not like this 
a few years ago.  Mold is everywhere.  As soon as our money comes in 
from  new contract we just signed and I'm strong enough, I out of here.  
I read that it is prevalent in new Orleans too.
we were supposed to move in November for my birthday, but I could barely 
stand for more that 20 minutes. I probably ate some fruit.  We went 
native.  Our friends took us to some of there favorite places (hole in 
the walls in my opinion)

 I think probably  100%. no organ damage.  I'm on a treatment that is 
not legal in the states, and is only available from a Dr. here and one 
in Cuba.  While it has been approved by the world health organization, I 
do not think it will ever be approved by the FDA.  I read that certain 
drugs that i can get here or in Europe, you can not get in the States 
because the approval process is too cost prohibited.  i even read that 
some drugs that can treat really serious illnesses are approved for more 
common less serious illnesses, but not for the serious illness because 
of cost. The protocol used in the states is only antibiotics.  My doctor 
has me on the antibiotic,  an immune system builder for people with 
immune deficiencies, and a vaccine. I think if I was not on on 
immune build or the vaccine, the fatal symptoms would not have 
disappeared so fast and there might have been damage.   Before I was 
diagnosed and my symptoms really appeared, I thought I had another 
parasite. i would spend hours researching.  unfortunately, non of the 
information I have read on Leptospirosis in English fits my symptoms. 
However, in Spanish, I have found more documents where the symptoms 
match mine.  I think most of the research is being done here and in 
Cuba. After my first wrong diagnosis of Lupus and discovering these 
parasites that mimicked lupus,  I started overdosing on herbs that 
repair and clear out the liver as well as kill parasites,  I also drank 
clay and did digestive cleanses,  so my liver pain was for a very short 
period.  When it was the worse,  all I ate was raw veggies, apple cider 
vinegar dressing, ginger tea, and lots of filtered water.  i had 
contacted someone with real severe lupus who was able to rid himself of 
all his symptoms by going totally raw veggies.  Since I hated eating 
anyway, I decided to try it.

I think all of that protected me.  The only permanent affect is that I 
do not think I'm going to have a second baby.  I can, but this has been 
so excruciatingly painful, I  can't face the pain of another difficult 
pregnancy or three day labor.  I need a break from pain for a while.  
And while the worse it over, I'm still not yet really physically 
comfortable.  My girlfriend a had a baby  a year after this doctor 
treated her, but I think I have a more severe case than most.  Other 
than a doctor who went into a coma, I do not know about a lot of 
correctly diagnosed cases as severe as mine-- at least they are not 
recorded online in English.

I don't have a book but there are a a lot of medical sites on th web.  I 
spent hours on them.  While I am sure he would not care now that I am 
better, I promised my husband I would not visit them for a while, 
because back before I was diagnosed, I would find illnesses that I had 
all the symptoms of that would say that i was likely to die.  Since 
stress triggers symptoms, I had to stop obsessing on the medical web 
sites.  I do still use on natural healing web site to deal with my 
symptoms. 

What I do have are protocols for three categories of parasites that i 
put together while I was sick real sick.  My daughter never got sick, 
but now i want to protect her and us from any other illnesses.  So I 
keep a list of things that kill parasites coming in and also ones that 
kill them once they are in your body.  right now, I drink apple cider 
vinegar everyday as a prevention.  i give my daughter bee propolis as a 
prevention.  Once things settle down a little, I'm going to take some 
additional measures.  My mother went to Acapulco a few months go and i 
gave her a list of stuff i want her to take a week before, during and 
after the trip she did ok.  an associate of mine likes traveling around 
Asia and a few months ago he was eating raw pork and blood dish in some 
village he visited, so I'm putting together a protocols for him


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Well, for the record, Phyllis is the same way: she hates calling only 
> when things go wrong. But you can reach out any time, good or bad, 
> rain or shine. Thank God you're okay, what's the overall prognosis for 
> when you're going to be completely healed, specifically the organ 
> damage? From what I read, it causes jaundice among other things, which 
> of course really hits the liver. I also see it's common in freshwater 
> areas, tropical and floodplain areas especially. Where do you think 
> you c

Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[GWashin891]

In a message dated 2/9/07 8:58:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


> Oh, it could be tastefully done. Some spoilers on the hypersapce manifolds, 
> subtle detailing on the nav dish and around the stabilizer belt...
> 

Stop It!!!   Plea...Oh whats the use. :)

-GTW


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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[GWashin891]

In a message dated 2/9/07 2:41:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


> Could've been worse. They could've thrown in some CGI and pimped out the 
> Falcon...
> 

Hmmpf.   You're lucky there isn't away of tossing a brick upside your head 
thru the internets for that statement. :D

Pimp My Starship indeed!!   (now I got this image of Xbit walking into the 
rebel alliance hanger saying that catchline.)

-GTW


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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[KeithBJohnson]

Well, for the record, Phyllis is the same way: she hates calling only when 
things go wrong. But you can reach out any time, good or bad, rain or shine.  
Thank God you're okay, what's the overall prognosis for when you're going to be 
completely healed, specifically the organ damage? From what I read, it causes 
jaundice among other things, which of course really hits the liver.   I also 
see it's common in freshwater areas, tropical and floodplain areas especially.  
 Where do you think you caught it? Possibly some fresh veggies that had been 
contaminated?

Do you have a book, computer program, or bookmarked website of infectious 
diseases?

-- Original message -- 
From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> I planned on telling you but it snuck up on me and how do you bring that up. 
> 
> By the time I realized I was dying, I had no energy to reach out to 
> people. The symptoms that I noticed could be a whole lot of common 
> illnesses. I got here and got the stomach virus a lot people get when 
> they come to Mexico. Then I got the same nasty cold that put your back 
> out in Atlanta two falls ago. Thereafter, about every three weeks I got 
> a cold . A month later acne and migraines every once in a while. I was 
> depressed and moody but who wouldn't be if they were sick loosing money 
> and it was cold and rainy in so called sunny Mexico. The only reason I 
> know approximately when we caught it is by one of my husbands symptoms. 
> extremely painful and dry eyes. He got them a few weeks after we got 
> here. Both me and my husband were diagnosed with leptospirosis, but I 
> got much sicker then he did. 
> 
> I did not get sick beyond the colds, migraines, acne and moodiness until 
> August. I got a little better and then in October over a three week 
> period, I lost my hair, my finger nails, nausea, hearing, got dizzy, 
> tumors, lost the feeling on my right side, chest pains, liver pain 
> difficulty breathing, my right hand turned blue, had tremors, and a lot 
> more. They diagnosed me with lupus and I was about to take the 
> treatment, and then this friend of mine who used to be a 
> anthropologist. They catch everything. He insisted I had a parasite 
> called Leptospiros and that it mimics Lupus. he harassed me everyday, 
> until I agreed to talk to the immune system specialist. Any way I have 
> it. If you are diagnosed right, it does not kills you. luckily, I have 
> the number one doctor in the world for it. I was able to walk and 
> leave the house thirty minutes after my first shot. 
> 
> I did not say anything , because at first I did not know I was sick, and 
> then I was afraid I was going to die. It was extremely consumed it was 
> extremely painful. since pain medicine suppresses your immune systems so 
> I was not very social. I just started feeling better a few weeks ago. 
> you may have noticed I've been posting a lot more. How do you bring up 
> something so bizarre. i think the Astronaut, Wookie, Anna Nicole, 
> gabor stories gave me the strength to come out with my bizarre. Just 
> kidding. I'm sorry, we had stopped talking and I do not like to call 
> people just when things are going bad 
> 
> So to be even more bizarre, I'm probably going to stay in Mexico for two 
> more years, but we re leaving Xalapa AKA Seattle South. 
> 
> Tracey 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> > 
> > Okay, Tracey, equal parts anger and relief. The latter, 'cause you're 
> > still with us. THe former, 'cause I heard nothing of this! What happened?! 
> > 
> > -- Original message -- 
> > From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> > > > > 
> > 
> > > Regarding Mexico> 
> > > 
> > > You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't know 
> > > it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great 
> > > friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The African 
> > > Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin. Now 
> > > that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our friends 
> > > bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So it is 
> > > an interesting convalescence. 
> > > 
> > > A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter explored 
> > > some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and to 
> > > the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also went 
> > > exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks 
> > > ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and rainy. 
> > > however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm at 
> > > this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now things 
> > > are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to Cuernvaca 
> > > to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that, 
> > > sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach

Re: [scifinoir2] Bridges Steeled For Iron Man

[KeithBJohnson]

I've been buying the Annihilation series and its ancillary titles. I enjoyed 
the limited series on Ronin and the Super Skrull. It's not that I dislike it, 
it just hasn't captivated me the way Civil War has.  I'm really liking the 
whole battle between the forces of Cap and Iron Man, the stupid move Peter 
Parker made of revealing his secret identity, the questionable move the 
government's making of indoctrinating super-villains, etc. A lot of what's 
being said and discussed is so relevant to our world--and not just the current 
administration and its dictatorial policies. I keep asking myself whose side 
would I be on? The heart and soul say I'd fight registration as implemented 
because it's too draconian and limiting on civil liberties. My brain tells me 
that in a world where owning a gun or a car requires licensing, it's ridiculous 
for people who can shoot laser from their eyes or literally control the weather 
*not* to be licensed, trained, sanctioned, and held responsible. 

I'm enjoying Civil War immensely.  I think I'm gonna put it in the same august 
company as some of the great megaseries and events of all time, such as the 
death and rebirth of Superman,  Onslaught and Heroes Reborn, Secret Wars, and 
Crisis on Infinite Earths.

-- Original message -- 
From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
It's the writing. Keith GIffen, most famed for his comic take on "Justice 
League" back in the 80s, handled the entire series, including all of the 
offshoots with Super Skrull, Silver Surfer, Ronan the Accuser and Nova. I like 
the cosmic-scoped stories, and this more than qualifies for me. While all of 
Earth's heroes are knotted up in CIvil War, a bunch of ragtag forces are trying 
to hold back Annihilus and his hordes, because Annihilus decided that he wants 
to be Galactus. (Oh, did I fail to mention that, in Issue #1, both Big G and 
the Surfer were put on ice? Think about it.)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, I love Civil War and the news -type "Frontline" 
series that runs with it. Annihilation is interesting, but I'm not in love with 
it.

-- Original message -- 
From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Nope. Not even. After three issues, I didn't like the flow f it. At about the 
same time, I picked up "Annihilation", running almost parallel to "Civil War". 
And it's *much better*, IMO.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no way. You haven't been 
reading Civil War? It's about to 
conclude! This is the best thing to happen to Marvel in years. 
And...there were shipping issues after #4 so now's a great time 
to catch up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(comics)

On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Martin wrote:

> Hand me a few spoilers about "Civil War". I dropped that too after 
> three issues.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the sentient armour is no 
> more. I never read that storyline, though. I bought the last three 
> or four issues of "Iron Man" as part of the Civil War megaseries.
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Forgot about Happy, but hen it's been years since I read the book. 
> Everytime I've picked it up since, I've seen that they still have 
> that sentient armor in the script. THanks, but no.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll take the place of 
> "Happy" Hogan as Stark's confidante and right-hand man, and fill 
> the mentor role Hollywood loves to create for heroes?
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm trying to think of who this might be, the char he's due to 
> portray, whether he's in continuity anywhere. Obadiah Stane, maybe? 
> He might like that role, because Stane ends up a bad egg.
>
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bridges Steeled For 
> Iron Man
> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39975
> Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Iron Man, the first feature 
> film to
> be produced independently by Marvel Entertainment, according to The
> Hollywood Reporter. Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which 
> Paramount
> Pictures will distribute, the trade paper reported.
>
> Robert Downey Jr. stars as armor-clad superhero Iron Man and his alter
> ego, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Bridges will portray a
> confidant and close business associate of Stark, a longtime 
> employee at
> defense contractor Stark Industries, who plays a major role in shaping
> Stark's life.
>
> Bridges' boarding marks the fourth Academy Award-recognized actor 
> signed
> on for the Iron Man cast, which in addition to Oscar nominee Downey
> includes nominee Terrence Howard and Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow.
> Bridges, a four-time Oscar nominee, will be seen in A Dog Year and 
> has a
> voice role in the upcoming animated film Surf's Up.
>
> Filming on Iron Man is scheduled to begin in March in Los Angeles, 
> with
> a planned release date of May 2, 2008.
>
> Yahoo! 

RE: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Martin]

Welcome!

James Landrith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Thanks Martin!

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From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 3:06 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

Just remembered that I have a friend who lives in Fairfax. I'll call her up
this weekend, let her know that you're running. Mind you, she's a smart
woman, and is probably already preparing to vote for you.

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 aladvantage.com> wrote: You
are running for office? Congratulations! Take care of that head 
injury :)

Tracey

James Landrith wrote:
>
> I'm around.
>
> I bumped my head or something and decided to run for office this year:
> http://jameslandrit  h.org 
>
> Anyone on the list living in Fairfax County, VA?
>
> __
> James Landrith
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> cell: 703-593-2065 * fax: 760-875-8547
> AIM: jlnales * ICQ: 148600159
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drith.com 
> 
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 ial.com 
> 
> The Abolitionist Examiner - http://www.multirac
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> __
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com 
> ] On
> Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com 
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??
>
> Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go
> wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys
>
> Tracey
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> 

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[scifinoir2] [Fwd: SFGate: Bizarre Marin cab ride prompts charge of racial discrimination]

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

 Original Message 
Subject:SFGate: Bizarre Marin cab ride prompts charge of racial 
discrimination
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:54:55 -0800
From:   zen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:   GIRLFRIEND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization:   SFGate, San Francisco, CA
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


The original article can be found on SFGate.com 
here:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/02/07/state/n113305S22.DTL

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007 (AP)
Bizarre Marin cab ride prompts charge of racial discrimination



   (02-07) 14:12 PST San Rafael, Calif. (AP) --

   A black restaurant manager filed a racial discrimination claim against a
cab company after a white taxi driver allegedly locked him in his cab and
drove him to jail because he thought he was a fare scofflaw.

   Lawyers for Michael Orange, 29, filed the complaint against Marin Yellow
Cab on Tuesday with the state's Department of Fair Employment and Housing,
which investigates discrimination complaints.

   Orange said he hailed the cab outside a San Rafael bus station in June and
asked to be taken home. Instead, the cab driver locked the doors, made a
quick U-turn and headed in the opposite direction.

   "I'm locked in the car — he's not telling me what's going" on,
Orange said. "This isn't just some drive like 'Driving Miss Daisy.' This
guy is really whipping me around."

   The driver pulled up in front of the Marin County Jail and told Orange he
"fit the profile" of a man who had skipped out on earlier fares. He told
Orange he could either pay the fare in advance or talk to sheriff's
deputies, the driver told him.

   Marin Yellow Cab declined to comment Wednesday.

   After Orange insisted several times, the driver called his dispatcher, who
verified that Orange was a good customer and could be taken home. The cab
driver did not apologize but told Orange he could have the ride for free
if he stayed quiet about the incident.

   Orange paid him $20. 
--
Copyright 2007 AP





 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I'm sorry guys, now that everything is getting better, I feel 
embarrassed I let this happen. how do you begin to tell this crazy stuff?

Tracey

Martin wrote:
>
> What he said, lady. Talk.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote: 
> Okay, Tracey, equal parts anger and relief. The latter, 'cause you're 
> still with us. THe former, 'cause I heard nothing of this! What happened?!
>
> -- Original message --
> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >
>
> > Regarding Mexico>
> >
> > You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't know
> > it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great
> > friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The African
> > Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin. Now
> > that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our friends
> > bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So it is
> > an interesting convalescence.
> >
> > A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter explored
> > some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and to
> > the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also went
> > exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks
> > ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and rainy.
> > however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm at
> > this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now things
> > are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to Cuernvaca
> > to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that,
> > sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach.
> > Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business. But i really
> > love the location we plan to move to. Business of all the things
> > happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to get
> > things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out
> > Barcelona. We have relative there and I won't have to start all over
> > with a new lnguage. Who knows? Right now, I'm just focusing on getting
> > better and adapting to this business growth.
> >
> > Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations.
> >
> > Tracey
> >
> > B. Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been hogging
> > > the computer at home.
> > >
> > > How's life way down South(of the border)?
> > >
> > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> 
> > > , "Tracey de Morsella (formerly
> > > Tracey
> > > L. Minor)" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go
> > > > wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys
> > > >
> > > > Tracey
> > > >
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I planned on telling you but it snuck up on me and how do you bring that up.

By the time I realized I was dying, I had no energy to reach out to 
people. The symptoms that I noticed could be a whole lot of common 
illnesses.   I got here and got the stomach virus a lot people get when 
they come to Mexico.  Then I got the same nasty cold that put your back 
out in Atlanta two falls ago.  Thereafter, about every three weeks I got 
a cold .  A month later acne and migraines every once in a while.  I was 
depressed and moody but who wouldn't be if they were sick loosing money 
and it was cold and rainy in so called sunny Mexico.  The only reason I 
know approximately when we caught it is by one of my husbands symptoms. 
extremely painful and dry eyes. He got them a few weeks after we got 
here.   Both me and my husband were diagnosed with leptospirosis, but I 
got much sicker then he did. 

I did not get sick beyond the colds, migraines, acne and moodiness until 
August.  I got a little better and then in October over a three week 
period, I lost my hair, my finger nails, nausea, hearing, got dizzy, 
tumors, lost the feeling on my right side, chest pains, liver pain 
difficulty breathing, my right hand turned blue, had tremors, and a lot 
more.  They diagnosed me with lupus and I was about to take the 
treatment, and then this friend of mine who used to be a 
anthropologist.  They catch everything.  He insisted I had a parasite 
called Leptospiros and that it mimics Lupus.  he harassed me everyday, 
until I agreed to talk to the immune system specialist.  Any way I have 
it. If you are diagnosed right, it does not kills you.  luckily, I have 
the number one doctor in the world for it.   I was able to walk and 
leave the house thirty minutes after my first shot.

I did not say anything , because at first I did not know I was sick, and 
then I was afraid I was going to die.   It was extremely consumed it was 
extremely painful. since pain medicine suppresses your immune systems so 
I was not very social. I just started feeling better a few weeks ago.  
you may have noticed I've been posting a lot more.  How do you bring up 
something so bizarre.  i think the Astronaut, Wookie, Anna Nicole, 
gabor stories gave me the strength to come out with my bizarre.  Just 
kidding.   I'm sorry, we had stopped talking and I do not like to call 
people just when things are going bad

So to be even more bizarre, I'm probably going to stay in Mexico for two 
more years, but we re leaving  Xalapa AKA Seattle South.

Tracey

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Okay, Tracey, equal parts anger and relief. The latter, 'cause you're 
> still with us. THe former, 'cause I heard nothing of this! What happened?!
>
> -- Original message --
> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >
>
> > Regarding Mexico>
> >
> > You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't know
> > it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great
> > friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The African
> > Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin. Now
> > that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our friends
> > bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So it is
> > an interesting convalescence.
> >
> > A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter explored
> > some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and to
> > the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also went
> > exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks
> > ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and rainy.
> > however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm at
> > this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now things
> > are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to Cuernvaca
> > to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that,
> > sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach.
> > Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business. But i really
> > love the location we plan to move to. Business of all the things
> > happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to get
> > things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out
> > Barcelona. We have relative there and I won't have to start all over
> > with a new lnguage. Who knows? Right now, I'm just focusing on getting
> > better and adapting to this business growth.
> >
> > Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations.
> >
> > Tracey
> >
> > B. Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been hogging
> > > the computer at home.
> > >
> > > How's life way down South(of the border)?
> > >
> > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> 
> > > , "Tracey de Morsella (form

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: White and Nerdy

[Amy Harlib]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh yes!  Weird Al Yankovich!   His already huge rep for hilarious parody 
will only be enhanced by this one.  The Star Trek references were easy to 
spot but I only got 3 Star Wars references: the light saber, the action 
figures and the Xmas Special video bootleg.  What was the fourth?
Cheers!
Amy (I love You Tube!)



> Did you find all of the Star Wars references in this vid? There are at
> least 4 Star Wars references and 2 Star Trek references.
>
> Geo
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "g123curious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> This is too d--- funny:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
>>
>> George
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Ousted Pastor ‘Completely Heterosexual

[Martin]

Anybody know his address? We can send him old Doogie Howser tapes, see how he 
reacts. Or should we go with Tab Hunter, someone he might be more conversant 
with?

g123curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Haggard is as "cured" as Rush 
Limbaugh is sober. Set your RSS feed 
for these two clowns. There's more to come from both, for sure.

George

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Oh, ja, ja...
> 
> Reece Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (tongue firmly 
in cheek, folks!)
> 
> Uhhh...this WAS Freudian, right? LOLLOL!
> 
> 
> _ 
> 
> From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:43 PM
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Ousted Pastor ‘Completely 
Heterosexual
> 
> Anyone find it odd that on this day, as the Right reverend Haggard 
announces himself free of homosexuality, a former NBA player, John 
Amaeichi, comes out of the closet? Maybe Haggard's onto something? 
(tongue firmly in cheek, folks!)
> 
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
aladvantage.com> wrote: Especially not in three weeks. I think the 
most they could accomplish 
> is that they would make them turned off to sex entirely. 
> 
> Tracey
> 
> Bosco Bosco wrote:
> >
> > I know a lot of gay people who don't feel
> > they could just switch teams given the right set of 
circumstances.
> >
> > Bosco
> > --- KeithBJohnson@  
comcast.net  wrote:
> >
> > > Is it the same therapy used on Gibson, Richards, and 
Washington? I
> > > think I posted an e-mail a couple of weeks ago joking that 
there
> > > ought to be a treatment facility divided into wings for 
differing
> > > types of phobias and prejudices.
> > >
> > > What do you think? Is homosexuality an illness or behavioural 
issue
> > > that can be "cured"? I'm not convinced that all homosexuality 
is
> > > genetic or brain-mandated as some feel. (You're either born 
gay or
> > > not, they say). Look at all the ancient societies where
> > > homosexuality--or bi-sexuality, I should say--was practiced:
> > > Sparta, Rome, others. Surely not every soldier and citizen who
> > > engaged in that behaviour was born gay? I think the lifestyle 
and
> > > cultural mores might have done that to them.
> > >
> > > Are some people born gay, and others simply become such due to
> > > environment?
> > >
> > > -- Original message --
> > > From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]  com >
> > > There was a great bit on "The View" today. The women mentioned 
that
> > > parents sometimes make a child caught smoking smoke a whole 
pack of
> > > cigarettes as a form of aversion therapy. They pondered what 
sort
> > > of
> > > "aversion therapy" had been employed to make Haggard change his
> > > orientation in just three weeks...
> > >
> > > ~rave!
> > >
> > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com 
> > , "Tracey de Morsella 
(formerly
> > > Tracey L. Minor)"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Forced by a gay sex scandal to resign as president of the
> > > National
> > > > Association of Evangelicals, the Rev. Ted Haggard now feels 
that
> > > after
> > > > three weeks of intensive counseling, he is â€Å
“completely
> > > heterosexual,”
> > > > says an overseer of the megachurch Mr. Haggard once led.
> > > >
> > > > The church official, the Rev. Tim Ralph, said in an interview
> > > published
> > > > yesterday by The Denver Post that Mr. Haggard had also told 
the
> > > board of
> > > > overseers that his only sexual relationship involving 
another man
> > > had
> > > > been with Michael Jones, the onetime Denver prostitute who
> > > exposed that
> > > > three-year affair last fall. Mr. Jones said then that he was
> > > making it
> > > > public because Mr. Haggard had acted hypocritically in 
promoting
> > > a
> > > > constitutional amendment to bar same-sex marriage.
> > > >
> > > > Mr. Haggard, who as a result of the scandal was ousted by the
> > > overseers
> > > > in November as senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado
> > > Springs,
> > > > broke a three-month silence over the weekend when he 
contacted
> > > members
> > > > of the church by e-mail to tell them that he was healing.
> > > >
> > > > His three weeks of counseling, in Phoenix, felt like ââ
‚¬Å“three
> > > years’ worth
> > > > of analysis and treatment,” but now ââ
‚¬Å“Jesus is starting to put
> > > me
> > > back
> > > > together,” Mr. Haggard wrote in the e-mail 
message, which was
> > > published
> > > > in The Colorado Springs Gazette on Monday.
> > > >
> > > > “I have spent so much time in repentance, 
br

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: [Fwd: [Blackfolks] Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?]

[Martin]

Not arguing with you, G!

g123curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Oscar has nothing to do with 
it. Period.

I have no interest in films that make fun of overweight black woman 
or overweight women. This includes Murphy's latest film, but also 
includes 2 films by Martin Lawrence (Big Mama's house or something 
titled like that), and the stage play/film by the other black guy 
who's name I can't remember. A trend of poor taste. There's so much 
else that's funny and funnier.

BTW, the tv series 'Ugly Betty' is really good. It has much more 
positive messages in it, for people of all backgrounds.

George

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> "Academy Award chances" After *hearing* about "Norbit", I 
may never watch a movie with him in it again.
> 
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote: --- Original Message 
> Subject: [Blackfolks] Is this what a future Oscar winner looks 
like?
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:38:38 -0600
> From: Mel Cragwell, II 
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-wk- 
> norbit8feb08,1,2603410.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews
> 
> Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?
> 
> Some fear 'Norbit' could hurt Murphy's Academy Award chances.
> By Greg Braxton and Robert W. Welkos
> Times Staff Writers
> 
> February 8, 2007
> 
> EDDIE Murphy's on the verge of an awards season trifecta — his 
> charismatic portrayal of a tragic R&B singer in "Dreamgirls" has 
> already nabbed him a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe, 
and 
> he's considered a front-runner for a best supporting Oscar.
> 
> But the most high-profile image of Murphy these days — while Oscar 
> ballots are still out — is on billboards and in movie trailers 
wearing 
> a fat suit, garish eye shadow and little else.
> 
> The tagline for his new comedy, "Norbit," poses the 
question: "Have you 
> ever made a really big mistake?"
> 
> Some Oscar observers are questioning the timing of the movie's 
Friday 
> arrival, and whether it may unintentionally put off potential 
academy 
> voters, while some black activists are taking Murphy to task for 
> engaging in what they say are demeaning racial stereotypes.
> 
> "Every time I pass that billboard, it makes me sick," said one 
veteran 
> Oscar consultant, who declined to be identified and is not 
involved in 
> a rival campaign. "I think his performance in 'Dreamgirls' is so 
> fabulous" and deserves to win the Academy Award. But, he added, 
> Murphy's latest comedy offering "doesn't help."
> 
> Award season aside, Murphy and "Norbit" are under fire from some 
black 
> activists who say the film is just the latest to build a movie 
around a 
> black man dressing up as an unsophisticated, overweight black 
woman. 
> Adding fuel to their anger is the movie's release during Black 
History 
> Month.
> 
> "For Eddie to follow what he did with 'Dreamgirls' with this just 
> doesn't make sense," said Robert M. Entman, author of "The Black 
Image 
> in the White Mind: Media and Race in America." "There's no excuse 
for 
> him to lend his prestige to something like this…. There has to be 
a 
> point where African American stars of his stature have to take 
some 
> responsibility for their actions and just say no."
> 
> Murphy's stunning turn as James "Thunder" Early in "Dreamgirls" 
has 
> earned him rave reviews and renewed respect for a performer who 
has had 
> one of Hollywood's most up-and-down careers. He's had his share of 
hits 
> ("48 Hrs.," "Beverly Hills Cop," "Trading Places" and the "Shrek" 
> movies) and flops ("The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "The Haunted 
> Mansion.")
> 
> Now, Murphy is in contention for the industry's top honors, which 
will 
> be handed out Feb. 25. Ballots are due back Feb. 20.
> 
> "Norbit" could end up working in Murphy's favor, the creative 
forces 
> behind it say, because the comedy demonstrates Murphy's range and 
> ability to morph into multiple characters. It's an approach the 
actor 
> has used to great success in "Coming to America" and the two "The 
Nutty 
> Professor" films. "Norbit," about a wimpy man trapped in a 
horrible 
> relationship with a woman (also played by Murphy), was co-written 
by 
> Murphy and his brother Charles Murphy, and produced by the actor's 
> production company.
> 
> Murphy, who has shunned print interviews for years, declined to 
comment.
> 
> The comedy has done well with focus groups, said Stacey Snider, 
> co-chairwoman of DreamWorks: "Audiences have always loved it."
> 
> She added that she was "confident" that "Norbit" would have no 
> influence on academy members' evaluation of Murphy's work in 
> "Dreamgirls." "People can separate the performance in 'Dreamgirls' 
for 
> the career-defining role that it was…. They accept this movie for 
the 
> comedy that it is…. I think people are wise enough and savvy 
enough to 
> understand t

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: White and Nerdy

[Martin]

Only caught two of 'em. Edumacate me.

g123curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Did you find all of the Star 
Wars references in this vid? There are at 
least 4 Star Wars references and 2 Star Trek references.

Geo

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "g123curious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> This is too d--- funny:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
> 
> George
> Captain
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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Martin]

Almost left off the fuzzy holodice on the rear-view scanner!

Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  (GASP!!!)

Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could've been worse. They could've thrown in 
some CGI and pimped out the Falcon...

Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm about to lose my mind...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
In a message dated 2/8/07 2:44:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> 
> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars
> 
> LoL!
> 
> George
> 

Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D

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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Martin]

Oh, it could be tastefully done. Some spoilers on the hypersapce manifolds, 
subtle detailing on the nav dish and around the stabilizer belt...

Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  (GASP!!!)

Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could've been worse. They could've thrown in 
some CGI and pimped out the Falcon...

Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm about to lose my mind...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
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> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> 
> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars
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> LoL!
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> George
> 

Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D

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Re: [scifinoir2] Bridges Steeled For Iron Man

[Martin]

It's the writing. Keith GIffen, most famed for his comic take on "Justice 
League" back in the 80s, handled the entire series, including all of the 
offshoots with Super Skrull, Silver Surfer, Ronan the Accuser and Nova. I like 
the cosmic-scoped stories, and this more than qualifies for me. While all of 
Earth's heroes are knotted up in CIvil War, a bunch of ragtag forces are trying 
to hold back Annihilus and his hordes, because Annihilus decided that he wants 
to be Galactus. (Oh, did I fail to mention that, in Issue #1, both Big G and 
the Surfer were put on ice? Think about it.)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Funny, I love Civil War and the news -type 
"Frontline" series that runs with it. Annihilation is interesting, but I'm not 
in love with it.

-- Original message -- 
From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Nope. Not even. After three issues, I didn't like the flow f it. At about the 
same time, I picked up "Annihilation", running almost parallel to "Civil War". 
And it's *much better*, IMO.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no way. You haven't been 
reading Civil War? It's about to 
conclude! This is the best thing to happen to Marvel in years. 
And...there were shipping issues after #4 so now's a great time 
to catch up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(comics)

On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Martin wrote:

> Hand me a few spoilers about "Civil War". I dropped that too after 
> three issues.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the sentient armour is no 
> more. I never read that storyline, though. I bought the last three 
> or four issues of "Iron Man" as part of the Civil War megaseries.
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Forgot about Happy, but hen it's been years since I read the book. 
> Everytime I've picked it up since, I've seen that they still have 
> that sentient armor in the script. THanks, but no.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll take the place of 
> "Happy" Hogan as Stark's confidante and right-hand man, and fill 
> the mentor role Hollywood loves to create for heroes?
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm trying to think of who this might be, the char he's due to 
> portray, whether he's in continuity anywhere. Obadiah Stane, maybe? 
> He might like that role, because Stane ends up a bad egg.
>
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bridges Steeled For 
> Iron Man
> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39975
> Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Iron Man, the first feature 
> film to
> be produced independently by Marvel Entertainment, according to The
> Hollywood Reporter. Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which 
> Paramount
> Pictures will distribute, the trade paper reported.
>
> Robert Downey Jr. stars as armor-clad superhero Iron Man and his alter
> ego, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Bridges will portray a
> confidant and close business associate of Stark, a longtime 
> employee at
> defense contractor Stark Industries, who plays a major role in shaping
> Stark's life.
>
> Bridges' boarding marks the fourth Academy Award-recognized actor 
> signed
> on for the Iron Man cast, which in addition to Oscar nominee Downey
> includes nominee Terrence Howard and Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow.
> Bridges, a four-time Oscar nominee, will be seen in A Dog Year and 
> has a
> voice role in the upcoming animated film Surf's Up.
>
> Filming on Iron Man is scheduled to begin in March in Los Angeles, 
> with
> a planned release date of May 2, 2008.
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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father]

[Martin]

No, Woody's Top of the Slime. But who said that all the playas had to be under 
thirty?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Damn! So buddy's a gigolo, huh? He married 
Gabor when she was 70?? And he wanted to *adopt* Smith? How sick is that? 
Almost as bad as Woody Allen sexing that young girl. I take that back: it's 
nowhere nearly as bad as what Allen the perv did.

-- Original message -- 
From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> I'm sorry, but this is scifi 
> 
> Tracey 
> 
>  Original Message  
> Subject: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father 
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:25:42 -0500 
> From: C V 
> Reply-To: GIRLFRIEND 
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> 
> 
> Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad 
> 
> By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago 
> 
> The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a 
> decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant 
> daughter's father. 
> 
> The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit 
> over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate 
> lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former 
> Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he 
> is the father. 
> 
> "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she 
> was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview 
> Friday. 
> 
> He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern 
> or Birkhead. 
> 
> Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years. 
> 
> Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin 
> Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in 
> recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially 
> paralyzed in a car crash in 2002. 
> 
> Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met 
> in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. 
> Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the 
> Plaza Hotel in New York. 
> 
> "She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he 
> said. "She wanted to be a princess." 
> 
> He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years 
> in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he 
> said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife. 
> 
> But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would 
> have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and 
> even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them. 
> 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Martin]

What he said, lady. Talk.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Okay, Tracey, equal parts anger and relief. 
The latter, 'cause you're still with us. THe former, 'cause I heard nothing of 
this! What happened?!

-- Original message -- 
From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> Regarding Mexico> 
> 
> You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't know 
> it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great 
> friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The African 
> Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin. Now 
> that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our friends 
> bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So it is 
> an interesting convalescence. 
> 
> A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter explored 
> some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and to 
> the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also went 
> exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks 
> ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and rainy. 
> however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm at 
> this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now things 
> are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to Cuernvaca 
> to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that, 
> sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach. 
> Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business. But i really 
> love the location we plan to move to. Business of all the things 
> happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to get 
> things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out 
> Barcelona. We have relative there and I won't have to start all over 
> with a new lnguage. Who knows? Right now, I'm just focusing on getting 
> better and adapting to this business growth. 
> 
> Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations. 
> 
> Tracey 
> 
> B. Smith wrote: 
> > 
> > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been hogging 
> > the computer at home. 
> > 
> > How's life way down South(of the border)? 
> > 
> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > , "Tracey de Morsella (formerly 
> > Tracey 
> > L. Minor)" wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go 
> > > wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys 
> > > 
> > > Tracey 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Star Wars gangsta rap

[Martin]

Tracey, it's a song by Weird Al Yankovic, aka The Story of My Life.
  

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  I just notice your Geo nick name. I like it :)

OK, so what is White and Nerdy? 

Tracey

g123curious wrote:
>
> Glad that y'all enjoyed it. So did I. It's good, but not as good
> as 'White and Nerdy."
>
> Geo
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> , "Amy Harlib" wrote:
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > OW! That was a hoot! But it cut off rather too abruptly.
> > ROTFL!
> > Amy
> > >
> > > In a message dated 2/8/07 2:44:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars 
> 
> > >>
> > >> LoL!
> > >>
> > >> George
> > >>
> > >
> > > Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D
> > >
> > > -GTW
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Martin]

"As far as the Wife aka Computer Tyrant"- I hope you're not averse to Internet 
porn, because you may be *awfully lonely* for a few weeks after that...

"B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Well get well soon T and I hope 
everything works out for you and your 
family. In my fantasy world where we win the lotto and ride off into 
the sunset, I plan to go to Mexico or Costa Rica and attend one of 
the immersive language schools. If I could convince Uncle Sam that 
they need more bilingual people in my profession they might pay for 
it.

As far as the Wife aka Computer Tyrant: We're finally getting a 
second computer. Now I just need to a place to put it. 

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly 
Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Regarding Mexico>
> 
> You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't 
know 
> it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great 
> friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The 
African 
> Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin. 
Now 
> that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our 
friends 
> bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So 
it is 
> an interesting convalescence. 
> 
> A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter 
explored 
> some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and 
to 
> the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also 
went 
> exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks 
> ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and 
rainy. 
> however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm 
at 
> this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now 
things 
> are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to 
Cuernvaca 
> to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that, 
> sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach. 
> Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business. But i 
really 
> love the location we plan to move to. Business of all the things 
> happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to 
get 
> things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out 
> Barcelona. We have relative there and I won't have to start all 
over 
> with a new lnguage. Who knows? Right now, I'm just focusing on 
getting 
> better and adapting to this business growth.
> 
> Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations.
> 
> Tracey
> 
> B. Smith wrote:
> >
> > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been 
hogging
> > the computer at home.
> >
> > How's life way down South(of the border)?
> >
> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > , "Tracey de Morsella 
(formerly 
> > Tracey
> > L. Minor)"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to 
go
> > > wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you 
guys
> > >
> > > Tracey
> > >
> >
> >
>



 


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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I did a lot of research on Costa Rica as well as we have a friend that 
just returned after a three year stay.  Despite my problems, I think 
Mexico is better for what you want to do.  I keep hearing that they are 
not that friendly to you if you are not a native of Costa Rica.  Also it 
can be more expensive than Mexico.  They are several popular locations 
for immersion in Mexico. We live in one of them.  It is not my 
favorite.  We are moving to one of my favorites. 

*Cuernavaca - easy to get to by plane and cheap  as low as $260 - $260  
1-1/2 to 4 hours by plane to most places in the states.  If I had not 
been too weak, we would have moved there in November.  Since I'm getting 
better we are moving there in May.  lots of fun, people from all over 
the world seem to live there.  The riches area of Mexico so you see less 
poor than most place.  Seems to be active music, arts, ecological, and 
science movements, lots to do there, near pyramids, not real dry, not 
real wet.  I really enjoyed myself when i visited and I was sick. 
*Guanajuato  - My friends says its extremely beautiful, very cool in the 
winter (snow), not many expatriates, low crime
*Oxaca - Was one of the best places to live in Mexico.  all bets are off 
now.  Stay away.  Last years teacher's strike turned deadly in the 
fall.  the governor's troops are still disappearing teachers and 
recently killed a foreign reporter who took pictures.
*Xalapa - the city is ugly,  no to low crime, People are super friendly, 
kind of young.  It is a college town.  Its also kind of provincial with 
large pockets of very progressive people.   Big music town too. area is 
gorgeous, there are about 4 micro-eco-systems here.  I'm in a cloud 
forest in the mountains, but thirty minutes away is tropical, about 
every twenty minutes you run into a different type of fruit that is grown
*Morellia - Very beautiful, but conservative
*San Miguel de Allendez - extremely beautiful, very expensive.  Many 
Americans have moved there.  Big Artist haven.  I hope to visit in the 
fall as it is not that far from where I am moving

Let me decide if you guys decide to check it out.  If we are still here, 
we will help.

Tracey

B. Smith wrote:
>
> Well get well soon T and I hope everything works out for you and your
> family. In my fantasy world where we win the lotto and ride off into
> the sunset, I plan to go to Mexico or Costa Rica and attend one of
> the immersive language schools. If I could convince Uncle Sam that
> they need more bilingual people in my profession they might pay for
> it.
>
> As far as the Wife aka Computer Tyrant: We're finally getting a
> second computer. Now I just need to a place to put it.
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> , "Tracey de Morsella (formerly
> Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Regarding Mexico>
> >
> > You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't
> know
> > it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great
> > friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The
> African
> > Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin.
> Now
> > that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our
> friends
> > bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So
> it is
> > an interesting convalescence.
> >
> > A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter
> explored
> > some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and
> to
> > the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also
> went
> > exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks
> > ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and
> rainy.
> > however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm
> at
> > this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now
> things
> > are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to
> Cuernvaca
> > to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that,
> > sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach.
> > Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business. But i
> really
> > love the location we plan to move to. Business of all the things
> > happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to
> get
> > things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out
> > Barcelona. We have relative there and I won't have to start all
> over
> > with a new lnguage. Who knows? Right now, I'm just focusing on
> getting
> > better and adapting to this business growth.
> >
> > Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations.
> >
> > Tracey
> >
> > B. Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been
> hogging
> > > the computer at home.
> > >
> > > How's life way down South(of the border)?
> > >
> > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> 
> > > , "Tra

[scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[B. Smith]

Well get well soon T and I hope everything works out for you and your 
family. In my fantasy world where we win the lotto and ride off into 
the sunset, I plan to go to Mexico or Costa Rica and attend one of 
the immersive language schools. If I could convince Uncle Sam that 
they need more bilingual people in my profession they might pay for 
it.

As far as the Wife aka Computer Tyrant: We're finally getting a 
second computer. Now I just need to a place to put it. 

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly 
Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Regarding Mexico>
> 
> You should not go by me.  I got sick on my third day here (didn't 
know 
> it at the time) and almost died in October.  We have made great 
> friends.  People adopt you here like you are a relative. The 
African 
> Americans adopt you too.  I think I have a new uncle and cousin.   
Now 
> that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our 
friends 
> bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over.  So 
it is 
> an interesting convalescence. 
> 
> A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter 
explored 
> some ruins and then when to the beach.  I hope to go back there and 
to 
> the hot springs before we move out of this area.  My husband also 
went 
> exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks 
> ago.  Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and 
rainy.  
> however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm 
at 
> this location.  My illness almost destroyed our company, but now 
things 
> are picking up a lot.  As soon as I'm better we are moving to 
Cuernvaca 
> to finnaly set up our office.   However, don't hold me too that,  
> sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach.  
> Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business.  But i 
really 
> love the location we plan to move to.  Business of all the things 
> happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to 
get 
> things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out 
> Barcelona.  We have relative there and I won't have to start all 
over 
> with a new lnguage.  Who knows?  Right now, I'm just focusing on 
getting 
> better and adapting to this business growth.
> 
> Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations.
> 
> Tracey
> 
> B. Smith wrote:
> >
> > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been 
hogging
> > the computer at home.
> >
> > How's life way down South(of the border)?
> >
> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > , "Tracey de Morsella 
(formerly 
> > Tracey
> > L. Minor)"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to 
go
> > > wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you 
guys
> > >
> > > Tracey
> > >
> >
> >
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[KeithBJohnson]

Okay, Tracey, equal parts anger and relief. The latter, 'cause you're still 
with us. THe former, 'cause I heard nothing of this! What happened?!

-- Original message -- 
From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> Regarding Mexico> 
> 
> You should not go by me. I got sick on my third day here (didn't know 
> it at the time) and almost died in October. We have made great 
> friends. People adopt you here like you are a relative. The African 
> Americans adopt you too. I think I have a new uncle and cousin. Now 
> that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our friends 
> bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over. So it is 
> an interesting convalescence. 
> 
> A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter explored 
> some ruins and then when to the beach. I hope to go back there and to 
> the hot springs before we move out of this area. My husband also went 
> exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks 
> ago. Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and rainy. 
> however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm at 
> this location. My illness almost destroyed our company, but now things 
> are picking up a lot. As soon as I'm better we are moving to Cuernvaca 
> to finnaly set up our office. However, don't hold me too that, 
> sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach. 
> Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business. But i really 
> love the location we plan to move to. Business of all the things 
> happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to get 
> things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out 
> Barcelona. We have relative there and I won't have to start all over 
> with a new lnguage. Who knows? Right now, I'm just focusing on getting 
> better and adapting to this business growth. 
> 
> Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations. 
> 
> Tracey 
> 
> B. Smith wrote: 
> > 
> > I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been hogging 
> > the computer at home. 
> > 
> > How's life way down South(of the border)? 
> > 
> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > , "Tracey de Morsella (formerly 
> > Tracey 
> > L. Minor)" wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go 
> > > wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys 
> > > 
> > > Tracey 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [scifinoir2] Bridges Steeled For Iron Man

[KeithBJohnson]

Funny, I love Civil War and the news -type "Frontline" series that runs with 
it. Annihilation is interesting, but I'm not in love with it.

-- Original message -- 
From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Nope. Not even. After three issues, I didn't like the flow f it. At about the 
same time, I picked up "Annihilation", running almost parallel to "Civil War". 
And it's *much better*, IMO.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no way. You haven't been 
reading Civil War? It's about to 
conclude! This is the best thing to happen to Marvel in years. 
And...there were shipping issues after #4 so now's a great time 
to catch up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(comics)

On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Martin wrote:

> Hand me a few spoilers about "Civil War". I dropped that too after 
> three issues.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the sentient armour is no 
> more. I never read that storyline, though. I bought the last three 
> or four issues of "Iron Man" as part of the Civil War megaseries.
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Forgot about Happy, but hen it's been years since I read the book. 
> Everytime I've picked it up since, I've seen that they still have 
> that sentient armor in the script. THanks, but no.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll take the place of 
> "Happy" Hogan as Stark's confidante and right-hand man, and fill 
> the mentor role Hollywood loves to create for heroes?
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm trying to think of who this might be, the char he's due to 
> portray, whether he's in continuity anywhere. Obadiah Stane, maybe? 
> He might like that role, because Stane ends up a bad egg.
>
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bridges Steeled For 
> Iron Man
> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39975
> Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Iron Man, the first feature 
> film to
> be produced independently by Marvel Entertainment, according to The
> Hollywood Reporter. Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which 
> Paramount
> Pictures will distribute, the trade paper reported.
>
> Robert Downey Jr. stars as armor-clad superhero Iron Man and his alter
> ego, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Bridges will portray a
> confidant and close business associate of Stark, a longtime 
> employee at
> defense contractor Stark Industries, who plays a major role in shaping
> Stark's life.
>
> Bridges' boarding marks the fourth Academy Award-recognized actor 
> signed
> on for the Iron Man cast, which in addition to Oscar nominee Downey
> includes nominee Terrence Howard and Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow.
> Bridges, a four-time Oscar nominee, will be seen in A Dog Year and 
> has a
> voice role in the upcoming animated film Surf's Up.
>
> Filming on Iron Man is scheduled to begin in March in Los Angeles, 
> with
> a planned release date of May 2, 2008.
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Astromancer]

Ah...Our job is done here...

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I'm 
breathing a sigh of relief and my productivity is back up

Tracey

Astromancer wrote:
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Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I'm breathing a sigh of relief and my productivity is back up

Tracey

Astromancer wrote:
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> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
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> everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go
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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father]

[Astromancer]

COME ON!!! a baby with three dads and a mom who speaks in alien tongues and 
dies a mysterous death? Who much more sci fi can you get???

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I'm 
sorry, but this is scifi

Tracey

 Original Message 
Subject: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:25:42 -0500
From: C V 
Reply-To: GIRLFRIEND 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad

By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a
decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant
daughter's father.

The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit
over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate
lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former
Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he
is the father.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she
was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview
Friday.

He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern
or Birkhead.

Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years.

Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin
Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in
recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially
paralyzed in a car crash in 2002.

Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met
in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J.
Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the
Plaza Hotel in New York.

"She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he
said. "She wanted to be a princess."

He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he
said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife.

But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would
have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and
even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.






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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Star Wars gangsta rap

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I just notice your Geo nick name.  I like it :)

OK, so what is White and Nerdy? 

Tracey

g123curious wrote:
>
> Glad that y'all enjoyed it. So did I. It's good, but not as good
> as 'White and Nerdy."
>
> Geo
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> , "Amy Harlib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > OW! That was a hoot! But it cut off rather too abruptly.
> > ROTFL!
> > Amy
> > >
> > > In a message dated 2/8/07 2:44:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars 
> 
> > >>
> > >> LoL!
> > >>
> > >> George
> > >>
> > >
> > > Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D
> > >
> > > -GTW
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RE: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

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Thanks Martin!

 

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From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 3:06 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

 

Just remembered that I have a friend who lives in Fairfax. I'll call her up
this weekend, let her know that you're running. Mind you, she's a smart
woman, and is probably already preparing to vote for you.

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 aladvantage.com> wrote: You
are running for office? Congratulations! Take care of that head 
injury :)

Tracey

James Landrith wrote:
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> I'm around.
>
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>
> Anyone on the list living in Fairfax County, VA?
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> Subject: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??
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> wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys
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[scifinoir2] Re: White and Nerdy

[g123curious]

Did you find all of the Star Wars references in this vid? There are at 
least 4 Star Wars references and 2 Star Trek references.

Geo

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "g123curious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> This is too d--- funny:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
> 
> George
> Captain
> The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)
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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father]

[KeithBJohnson]

Damn! So buddy's a gigolo, huh? He married Gabor when she was 70??  And he 
wanted to *adopt* Smith? How sick is that? Almost as bad as Woody Allen sexing 
that young girl. I take that back: it's nowhere nearly as bad as what Allen the 
perv did.

-- Original message -- 
From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> I'm sorry, but this is scifi 
> 
> Tracey 
> 
>  Original Message  
> Subject: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father 
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:25:42 -0500 
> From: C V 
> Reply-To: GIRLFRIEND 
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> 
> 
> Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad 
> 
> By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago 
> 
> The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a 
> decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant 
> daughter's father. 
> 
> The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit 
> over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate 
> lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former 
> Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he 
> is the father. 
> 
> "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she 
> was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview 
> Friday. 
> 
> He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern 
> or Birkhead. 
> 
> Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years. 
> 
> Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin 
> Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in 
> recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially 
> paralyzed in a car crash in 2002. 
> 
> Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met 
> in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. 
> Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the 
> Plaza Hotel in New York. 
> 
> "She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he 
> said. "She wanted to be a princess." 
> 
> He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years 
> in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he 
> said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife. 
> 
> But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would 
> have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and 
> even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Astromancer]

(GASP!!!)

Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Could've been worse. They could've 
thrown in some CGI and pimped out the Falcon...

Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm about to lose my mind...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
In a message dated 2/8/07 2:44:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> 
> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars
> 
> LoL!
> 
> George
> 

Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D

-GTW

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[scifinoir2] Re: Ousted Pastor ‘Compl etely Heterosexual

[g123curious]

Haggard is as "cured" as Rush Limbaugh is sober. Set your RSS feed 
for these two clowns. There's more to come from both, for sure.

George

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Oh, ja, ja...
> 
> Reece Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  (tongue firmly 
in cheek, folks!)
> 
> Uhhh...this WAS Freudian, right? LOLLOL!
> 
> 
> _ 
> 
> From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:43 PM
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Ousted Pastor ‘Completely 
Heterosexual
> 
> Anyone find it odd that on this day, as the Right reverend Haggard 
announces himself free of homosexuality, a former NBA player, John 
Amaeichi, comes out of the closet? Maybe Haggard's onto something? 
(tongue firmly in cheek, folks!)
> 
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
aladvantage.com> wrote: Especially not in three weeks. I think the 
most they could accomplish 
> is that they would make them turned off to sex entirely. 
> 
> Tracey
> 
> Bosco Bosco wrote:
> >
> > I know a lot of gay people who don't feel
> > they could just switch teams given the right set of 
circumstances.
> >
> > Bosco
> > --- KeithBJohnson@  
comcast.net  wrote:
> >
> > > Is it the same therapy used on Gibson, Richards, and 
Washington? I
> > > think I posted an e-mail a couple of weeks ago joking that 
there
> > > ought to be a treatment facility divided into wings for 
differing
> > > types of phobias and prejudices.
> > >
> > > What do you think? Is homosexuality an illness or behavioural 
issue
> > > that can be "cured"? I'm not convinced that all homosexuality 
is
> > > genetic or brain-mandated as some feel. (You're either born 
gay or
> > > not, they say). Look at all the ancient societies where
> > > homosexuality--or bi-sexuality, I should say--was practiced:
> > > Sparta, Rome, others. Surely not every soldier and citizen who
> > > engaged in that behaviour was born gay? I think the lifestyle 
and
> > > cultural mores might have done that to them.
> > >
> > > Are some people born gay, and others simply become such due to
> > > environment?
> > >
> > > -- Original message --
> > > From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]  com >
> > > There was a great bit on "The View" today. The women mentioned 
that
> > > parents sometimes make a child caught smoking smoke a whole 
pack of
> > > cigarettes as a form of aversion therapy. They pondered what 
sort
> > > of
> > > "aversion therapy" had been employed to make Haggard change his
> > > orientation in just three weeks...
> > >
> > > ~rave!
> > >
> > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]  ups.com 
> > , "Tracey de Morsella 
(formerly
> > > Tracey L. Minor)"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Forced by a gay sex scandal to resign as president of the
> > > National
> > > > Association of Evangelicals, the Rev. Ted Haggard now feels 
that
> > > after
> > > > three weeks of intensive counseling, he is â€Å
“completely
> > > heterosexual,”
> > > > says an overseer of the megachurch Mr. Haggard once led.
> > > >
> > > > The church official, the Rev. Tim Ralph, said in an interview
> > > published
> > > > yesterday by The Denver Post that Mr. Haggard had also told 
the
> > > board of
> > > > overseers that his only sexual relationship involving 
another man
> > > had
> > > > been with Michael Jones, the onetime Denver prostitute who
> > > exposed that
> > > > three-year affair last fall. Mr. Jones said then that he was
> > > making it
> > > > public because Mr. Haggard had acted hypocritically in 
promoting
> > > a
> > > > constitutional amendment to bar same-sex marriage.
> > > >
> > > > Mr. Haggard, who as a result of the scandal was ousted by the
> > > overseers
> > > > in November as senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado
> > > Springs,
> > > > broke a three-month silence over the weekend when he 
contacted
> > > members
> > > > of the church by e-mail to tell them that he was healing.
> > > >
> > > > His three weeks of counseling, in Phoenix, felt like ââ
‚¬Å“three
> > > years’ worth
> > > > of analysis and treatment,” but now ââ
‚¬Å“Jesus is starting to put
> > > me
> > > back
> > > > together,” Mr. Haggard wrote in the e-mail 
message, which was
> > > published
> > > > in The Colorado Springs Gazette on Monday.
> > > >
> > > > “I have spent so much time in repentance, 
brokenness, hurt and
> > > sorrow
> > > > for the things I’ve done and the negative 
impact my actions
> > > have
> > > had on
> > > > others,” he said.
> > > >
> > > > Mr. Hag

[scifinoir2] Re: Star Wars gangsta rap

[g123curious]

Glad that y'all enjoyed it. So did I. It's good, but not as good 
as 'White and Nerdy."

Geo

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Amy Harlib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> OW!  That was a hoot!  But it cut off rather too abruptly.
> ROTFL!
> Amy
> > 
> > In a message dated 2/8/07 2:44:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > 
> > 
> >> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> >> 
> >> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars
> >> 
> >> LoL!
> >> 
> >> George
> >> 
> > 
> > Oboy.   Lucas, what have you sparked.   :D
> > 
> > -GTW

Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Anna Nicole Smith Dead at Age 39

[KeithBJohnson]

That is so sad to hear.  Outside of actual genetic defects, or problems due to 
cancers or accidents, or in the rare case someone really does have a glandular 
problem, I think that going the cosmetic surgery route is not a good thing.  
I'm still reeling from how many Black women are now starting to get surgery, 
worry about their weight unnecessarily, even suffer from bulemia and anorexia.  
That was something I never attributed to Sisters back when I was growing up.  

-- Original message -- 
From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
I know, Keith. It's something I'm presently thrashing out with two female 
reinds of mine. THey see any number of things they want to change about 
themselves, and I can't seem to convince either that they're beautiful as is. 
Today, one of them is going under the knife for lipo. Scares me.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: She'd be a senator.

On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What saddens me is this crazed thing people--women especially--go 
> through for fame. I'm not a fan of blondes anyway (I prefer 
> brunettes),so I never really got so many women's need to dye their 
> hair the way Anna Nicole did. And saddest of all, have you ever 
> seen pictures of her before she become blonde and plastic? She was 
> actually much prettier with brown hair and her natural chest. 
> (Ditto for Pamela Anderson, by the way). It's as if all these 
> actresses and would-be actresses are trying to be the second coming 
> of Marilyn Monroe. And now they can sell their souls for fifteen 
> minutes of reality show fame or commercials for questionable 
> products. Sad.
>
> Sometimes I wonder what Marilyn Monroe would have become had *she* 
> been born in this era...
>
> -- Original message --
> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> 
> This is not off-topic, her life was out of this world, I to hope her
> daughter's life is less bizarre and full of trauma
> Tracey
>
> Martin wrote:
>>
>> That was my first thought too, Keith. Poor kid's lost her older
>> brother *and* her mother before she even got to know either of them,
>> and her parentage is still somewhere in the stratosphere.
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Not to speak ill of the dead, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is
>> drug-related. Smith had such a huge problem with them, and her
>> behaviour over the last few years was like someone either contstantly
>> on downers, or who'd been permanently damaged by drugs. I only hope
>> her newborn daughter has a better life...
>>
>> Anna Nicole Smith Dies
>> By SUZETTE LABOY, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
>> Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who
>> married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his
>> fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after
>> collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.
>> The blond bombshell — who recently became tabloid fodder all over
>> again after the sudden, apparently drug-related death of her
>> 20-year-old son — was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard 
>> Rock
>> Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital.
>> Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical
>> Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation 
>> and
>> an autopsy would be done on Friday.
>> A private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her
>> sixth-floor room, said Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger. He said
>> Smith's bodyguard administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation about an
>> hour before she was declared dead.
>> Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being
>> famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, 
>> her
>> exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona,
>> and her over-the-top revealing outfits.
>> The curvaceous Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club
>> before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover
>> of Playboy magazine in 1992, captivating readers with her Marilyn
>> Monroe looks. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993.
>> She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV
>> commercials, billboards and magazine ads.
>> In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, 
>> the
>> head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune
>> worth at least $400 million. He died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a
>> feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she 
>> had
>> a right to his estate.
>> A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was
>> later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her 
>> case,
>> ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her
>> former stepson.
>> The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court
>> fight would continue.
>> More recently, Smith's ballooning figure and up-and-down wei

RE: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Astromancer]

Okay, Devildog...Try some ice...and good luck...lol

James Landrith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I'm around.

I bumped my head or something and decided to run for office this year:
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Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go 
wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys

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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: What Went Wrong With the Easy-Bake Oven]

[Martin]

That's smart. Give something that gets *really hot* to a *three-year-old*, then 
expect him or her *not* to stick their hand in where the cake goes

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Subject: What Went Wrong With the Easy-Bake Oven
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:52:33 -0600
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*What Went Wrong With the Easy-Bake Oven *
/After a technology upgrade, the popular children’s oven is being 
recalled over safety concerns./
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jennifer Ordoñez
Newsweek
Updated: 3:57 p.m. CT Feb 7, 2007


Feb. 7, 2007 - It was the kind of tribute befitting only the most 
industrious of workhorses. After 43 years and more than 100 million 
miniature cakes baked by the warmth of a single 100-watt light bulb, the 
Easy-Bake Oven finally got its due last November when it earned a spot 
in the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, N.Y. There, it would 
share the company of a small but formidable toy box of legends. Slinky 
and marbles. Play-Doh and LEGOs. Crayons. "It's safe, it works and the 
best part is that the play makes its own reward," museum curator 
Patricia Hogan gushed at the time to the Associated Press. Hogan may 
have spoken too soon.



On Tuesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission partnered with 
the Pawtucket, R.I.-based toymaker Hasbro to recall 985,000 Easy-Bake 
Ovens for repair after receiving as many as 29 reports of children being 
injured while baking with them. Some got their fingers and hands caught 
in the oven's opening. Others were burned as a result. The five children 
reported burned were "significantly younger than 8-years-old," the 
minimum age recommended to use the Easy-Bake, says Hasbro spokesperson 
Gail Carvelli. "They were like 3, 4 and 5 years old."



In a news alert, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission instructed 
guardians to "immediately take the recalled oven away from children 
under 8 years of age and contact the firm (at 1-800-601-8418) for a 
retrofit," adding that "young children can insert their hands into the 
oven’s opening and get their hands or fingers caught, posing an 
entrapment and burn hazard." The recall applies only to ovens purchased 
since May 2006, Hasbro says.



Still, that's significant. Julie Vallese, senior spokesperson for the 
CPSC, says that while not unheard of, "the majority of our recalls don't 
come close to this volume." In 2005, there were 20 toy-related deaths 
involving children under 15 in the United States, Vallese says. At least 
one lawsuit stemming from the current Easy-Bake malfunctions has been 
filed, Vallese says. Hasbro says it does not comment on pending 
litigation. Hasbro spokesperson Carvelli says all Hasbro products 
undergo "rigorous testing" before they are launched and that all "meet 
or exceed" government safety specifications. There has never before been 
a recall of the Easy-Bake Oven, Carvelli says.



So what changed in May 2006? Call it an extreme makeover gone bad. After 
several incarnations of the one-light-bulb oven over the last four 
decades, last year Hasbro introduced a new, higher tech version that 
replaced the bulb with a low-temperature heating system. If making a 
delicious minicake with a light bulb was easy as pie, this would be even 
easier, baking up "some of the tastiest cakes and cookies to date," the 
company touted in a press release. Although classic mixes like Devil's 
Food Cake were still available, Hasbro updated its line of goodies, 
including mixes featuring the likes of My Little Pony and SpongeBob 
SquarePants.



Adults have even gotten into the oven, which in its latest incarnation 
features a front-loading door and four burners, in purple and pink 
tones. In a cookbook called "The Easy-Bake Gourmet," nostalgic celebrity 
chefs indulged retro-sophistication, contributing Easy-Bake-compatible 
recipes like Deep Dish-Truffle Lobster Pie and Warm Kumquat-and-Date 
Sticky Toffee Pudding. "Easy-Bake really is a rite of passage," says 
Hasbro's Carvelli, noting that all ovens have been pulled from stores 
and will not be available again until the company investigates—and 
remedies—the current problems. "It's all about that first experience of 
baking on your own. As a kid, it's one step towards independence."



Carol Kindler of Los Angeles remembers that feeling. The 38-year-old 
mother of two remembers the first Devil's Food cake she made when she 
got an Easy-Bake Oven, one of the more than 23 million sold to date, for 
her 9th birthday. "I couldn't wait, and it came out too soft. So I ate 
that one and told my mom I had to make another. And I didn't share any 
with my brother." Her 10 year-old daughter Hailey got one for Chanukah 
last year, and hasn't suffered any injuries "beyond, maybe, sugar 
shock," Kindler jokes. But before Hailey mixes up one more treat, the 
oven will have to be retrofitted with the new safety door that Hasbro 
says 

Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Astromancer]

We're here, we're here!

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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father]

[Martin]

Beam us up, Scotty. *Please*...

orsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I'm sorry, but 
this is scifi

Tracey

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Subject: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:25:42 -0500
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Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad

By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a
decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant
daughter's father.

The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit
over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate
lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former
Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he
is the father.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she
was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview
Friday.

He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern
or Birkhead.

Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years.

Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin
Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in
recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially
paralyzed in a car crash in 2002.

Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met
in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J.
Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the
Plaza Hotel in New York.

"She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he
said. "She wanted to be a princess."

He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he
said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife.

But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would
have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and
even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.






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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I howled on the yoda lando bit.  God you are making me want to play it again

Tracey

Martin wrote:
>
> Oh, I did too, of course. Loved Yoda's bit. And can't leave out Lando 
> Da Playa...
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> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote: I LOVED it
>
> Tracey
>
> Martin wrote:
> >
> > Could've been worse. They could've thrown in some CGI and pimped out
> > the Falcon...
> >
> > Astromancer > wrote:
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> > > WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
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> 
> >
> > >
> > > LoL!
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> > > George
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> > Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D
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[scifinoir2] Re: [Fwd: [Blackfolks] Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?]

[g123curious]

Oscar has nothing to do with it. Period.

I have no interest in films that make fun of overweight black woman 
or overweight women. This includes Murphy's latest film, but also 
includes 2 films by Martin Lawrence (Big Mama's house or something 
titled like that), and the stage play/film by the other black guy 
who's name I can't remember. A trend of poor taste. There's so much 
else that's funny and funnier.

BTW, the tv series 'Ugly Betty' is really good. It has much more 
positive messages in it, for people of all backgrounds.

George

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> "Academy Award chances" After *hearing* about "Norbit", I 
may never watch a movie with him in it again.
> 
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:  --- Original Message 
> Subject: [Blackfolks] Is this what a future Oscar winner looks 
like?
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:38:38 -0600
> From: Mel Cragwell, II 
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-wk- 
> norbit8feb08,1,2603410.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews
> 
> Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?
> 
> Some fear 'Norbit' could hurt Murphy's Academy Award chances.
> By Greg Braxton and Robert W. Welkos
> Times Staff Writers
> 
> February 8, 2007
> 
> EDDIE Murphy's on the verge of an awards season trifecta — his 
> charismatic portrayal of a tragic R&B singer in "Dreamgirls" has 
> already nabbed him a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe, 
and 
> he's considered a front-runner for a best supporting Oscar.
> 
> But the most high-profile image of Murphy these days — while Oscar 
> ballots are still out — is on billboards and in movie trailers 
wearing 
> a fat suit, garish eye shadow and little else.
> 
> The tagline for his new comedy, "Norbit," poses the 
question: "Have you 
> ever made a really big mistake?"
> 
> Some Oscar observers are questioning the timing of the movie's 
Friday 
> arrival, and whether it may unintentionally put off potential 
academy 
> voters, while some black activists are taking Murphy to task for 
> engaging in what they say are demeaning racial stereotypes.
> 
> "Every time I pass that billboard, it makes me sick," said one 
veteran 
> Oscar consultant, who declined to be identified and is not 
involved in 
> a rival campaign. "I think his performance in 'Dreamgirls' is so 
> fabulous" and deserves to win the Academy Award. But, he added, 
> Murphy's latest comedy offering "doesn't help."
> 
> Award season aside, Murphy and "Norbit" are under fire from some 
black 
> activists who say the film is just the latest to build a movie 
around a 
> black man dressing up as an unsophisticated, overweight black 
woman. 
> Adding fuel to their anger is the movie's release during Black 
History 
> Month.
> 
> "For Eddie to follow what he did with 'Dreamgirls' with this just 
> doesn't make sense," said Robert M. Entman, author of "The Black 
Image 
> in the White Mind: Media and Race in America." "There's no excuse 
for 
> him to lend his prestige to something like this…. There has to be 
a 
> point where African American stars of his stature have to take 
some 
> responsibility for their actions and just say no."
> 
> Murphy's stunning turn as James "Thunder" Early in "Dreamgirls" 
has 
> earned him rave reviews and renewed respect for a performer who 
has had 
> one of Hollywood's most up-and-down careers. He's had his share of 
hits 
> ("48 Hrs.," "Beverly Hills Cop," "Trading Places" and the "Shrek" 
> movies) and flops ("The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "The Haunted 
> Mansion.")
> 
> Now, Murphy is in contention for the industry's top honors, which 
will 
> be handed out Feb. 25. Ballots are due back Feb. 20.
> 
> "Norbit" could end up working in Murphy's favor, the creative 
forces 
> behind it say, because the comedy demonstrates Murphy's range and 
> ability to morph into multiple characters. It's an approach the 
actor 
> has used to great success in "Coming to America" and the two "The 
Nutty 
> Professor" films. "Norbit," about a wimpy man trapped in a 
horrible 
> relationship with a woman (also played by Murphy), was co-written 
by 
> Murphy and his brother Charles Murphy, and produced by the actor's 
> production company.
> 
> Murphy, who has shunned print interviews for years, declined to 
comment.
> 
> The comedy has done well with focus groups, said Stacey Snider, 
> co-chairwoman of DreamWorks: "Audiences have always loved it."
> 
> She added that she was "confident" that "Norbit" would have no 
> influence on academy members' evaluation of Murphy's work in 
> "Dreamgirls." "People can separate the performance in 'Dreamgirls' 
for 
> the career-defining role that it was…. They accept this movie for 
the 
> comedy that it is…. I think people are wise enough and savvy 
enough to 
> understand the spirit that was intended. They know not to read too 
much 
> into it."

Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Martin]

Just remembered that I have a friend who lives in Fairfax. I'll call her up 
this weekend, let her know that you're running. Mind you, she's a smart woman, 
and is probably already preparing to vote for you.

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  You 
are running for office? Congratulations! Take care of that head 
injury :)

Tracey

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> I'm around.
>
> I bumped my head or something and decided to run for office this year:
> http://jameslandrith.org 
>
> Anyone on the list living in Fairfax County, VA?
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> Subject: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??
>
> Hey!!! Where is everyone??? My productivity at work is going to go
> wy down if I can't break up my day chatting with you guys
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> Tracey
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Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Martin]

Can't help myself. Testosterone rules, hun...

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  But 
Honey... you promised you were going to stop hangin out with the 
guys all the time... :(

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> Flying through right now, since the laundry's all done and the house 
> is clean. I'll be in and out until eight.
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Martin]

Oh, I did too, of course. Loved Yoda's bit. And can't leave out Lando Da 
Playa...

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I 
LOVED it

Tracey

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> Could've been worse. They could've thrown in some CGI and pimped out 
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> Astromancer > wrote: 
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>
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>
> > WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> >
> > http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars 
> 
> >
> > LoL!
> >
> > George
> >
>
> Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D
>
> -GTW
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

Regarding Mexico>

You should not go by me.  I got sick on my third day here (didn't know 
it at the time) and almost died in October.  We have made great 
friends.  People adopt you here like you are a relative. The African 
Americans adopt you too.  I think I have a new uncle and cousin.   Now 
that I'm getting better, since I can't really go out much, Our friends 
bring food, booze, kids for my daughter to play and come over.  So it is 
an interesting convalescence. 

A few weeks ago, my husband, my brother in law and my daughter explored 
some ruins and then when to the beach.  I hope to go back there and to 
the hot springs before we move out of this area.  My husband also went 
exploring on the 5th tallest mountain in North American a few weeks 
ago.  Right now I live in the mountains so it is always cold and rainy.  
however, it is about to get real hot for the remaining months I'm at 
this location.  My illness almost destroyed our company, but now things 
are picking up a lot.  As soon as I'm better we are moving to Cuernvaca 
to finnaly set up our office.   However, don't hold me too that,  
sometimes we really want to live on the Yucatan by the beach.  
Unfortunately, that not the best place to do business.  But i really 
love the location we plan to move to.  Business of all the things 
happening with the business we plan on staying another two years to get 
things set up and then either come back to the States, or check out 
Barcelona.  We have relative there and I won't have to start all over 
with a new lnguage.  Who knows?  Right now, I'm just focusing on getting 
better and adapting to this business growth.

Tell your wife you hve scifinoir obligations.

Tracey

B. Smith wrote:
>
> I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been hogging
> the computer at home.
>
> How's life way down South(of the border)?
>
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[scifinoir2] Re: COMMENTARY: Can 'Wonder Woman' succeed purely as action hero?

[B. Smith]

American female action/superhero movies have sucked but they are 
quite successful in Asia. If they do an American Wonder Woman with 
the verve and energy of something like The Heroic Trio it could be a 
hit.

I know it goes against the grain but I think the new treatment of 
Wonder Woman may be the way to go. Make it a kicka$$ action film but 
flesh Diana's character out. As someone else said, set it in an 
alternate WWII with all sorts of uber retrofuturist Nazi-tech, big 
action setpieces and the like and you'll have a hit.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Female Superhero movies suffer the same fate as black science 
fiction 
> movies (white people don't want to see them and BLACK people don't 
> want to see them): men don't want to see them and WOMEN don't want 
to 
> see them.  
> 
> "Catwoman" is still the top-grossing female superhero movie ($82 
> million) and nobody considers that a success.
> 
> Elektra: $56 million
> 
> Aeon Flux: $52 million
> 
> Ultraviolet: $31 million
> 
> Female superhero movies - ain't no money in them.
> 
> ~(no)rave!
> 
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly 
> Tracey L. Minor)"  wrote:
> >
> > Action Or Angst? What Do We Want In Our Superheroes?
> > COMMENTARY: Can 'Wonder Woman' succeed purely as action hero?
> > 
> > By ROBIN BROWNFIELD
> > Source: SyFy Portal
> > Feb-04-2007
> > 
> > When Joss Whedon announced almost two years after signing on to 
> write 
> > and direct a "Wonder Woman" movie that he was no longer attached 
to 
> the 
> > project, the air of shock around the Internet was almost palpable.
> > 
> > Around the same time, David S. Goyer, who wrote the story and co-
> wrote 
> > the screenplay for "Batman Begins," was told his vision for the 
> movie 
> > "The Flash" was not what Warner Bros. producers wanted, and the 
> movie 
> > has been shelved for now.
> > 
> > The story behind the "Wonder Woman" movie, it seems, is that 
Warner 
> > Bros. has purchased a speculative script from newcomers Matthew 
> Jennison 
> > and Brent Strickland, and is ready to bring them on board to 
> replace Whedon.
> > 
> > All this leads to the question, "What do people want out of a 
> superhero 
> > movie? An escapist action romp or fully fleshed-out characters 
> facing 
> > the most painful decisions of their lives?"
> > 
> > While it is uncertain what Whedon has done with "Wonder Woman," 
it 
> seems 
> > Joel Silver and company want an action-oriented story set against 
> the 
> > backdrop of World War II -- the time period when Wonder Woman 
> comics 
> > debuted. Whedon's vision places Princess Diana in the present 
day. 
> Based 
> > on his previous works ("Buffy the Vampire 
> Slayer," "Angel," "Firefly," 
> > "Serenity"), one can safely assume that his Wonder Woman would be 
a 
> > fully fleshed out character, complete with goddess-like strength, 
> and 
> > human foibles. She would most likely be surrounded by fully 
> developed 
> > supporting characters, and the story that unwinds would largely 
> grow out 
> > from and be advanced by the characters themselves.
> > 
> > We could also count on sharp, engaging dialogue where every word 
is 
> > measured and infused with meaning.
> > 
> > A synopsis of the Jennison/Strickland script has been posted on 
the 
> > Internet. It is filled with highly charged action, it appears to 
> move 
> > quickly, and is balanced with sharp contrasts between scenes. It 
> looks 
> > like it could be exciting, but because there is no dialogue, and 
> the 
> > focus is strictly on the action in the movie, it makes me fear 
that 
> > there will be little in the way of actual character development. 
> There 
> > also is no indicator as to whether the two can write dialogue 
well. 
> It's 
> > possible that they can, but in the end, what I read is the basis 
> for a 
> > largely formulaic movie with lots of loud sounds, flashy visuals 
> and 
> > action. I don’t see the groundwork laid for creating characters 
> people 
> > in the audience can identify with.
> > 
> > People need to be able to identify with the characters in a 
movie. 
> They 
> > have to be able to feel with the characters and understand why it 
> is 
> > they do what they do. The X-Men and Spider-Man movies have been 
the 
> best 
> > of any in the genre. X-Men movies have been analogous to the 
> struggles 
> > with racism and homophobia. In both X-Men and Spider-Man, people 
> can 
> > identify with the characters' perpetually feeling like outsiders. 
> Each 
> > has unique qualities that allow them to do amazing things, and 
yet, 
> > people in general and/or in their immediate surroundings, rarely, 
> if 
> > ever, recognize and appreciate this.
> > 
> > Most real people can identify with this scenario. How many of us 
> have 
> > proven time and time again that we are unique, intelligent and 
> superbly 
> > talented people whose accomplishments go largely unnoticed by 
many 
> or 
> >

Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Anna Nicole Smith Dead at Age 39

[Martin]

There is one, Yokozuna. Look closely at Subject: A N Smith. Do *not* repeat.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  NOW can we end this morbid 
fascination with celebreality? The Queen 
is dead.

The moral of this story is...oh man there are so many morals to this 
story where do I begin?


On Feb 8, 2007, at 5:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Not to speak ill of the dead, but I wouldn't be surprised if this 
> is drug-related. Smith had such a huge problem with them, and her 
> behaviour over the last few years was like someone either 
> contstantly on downers, or who'd been permanently damaged by drugs. 
> I only hope her newborn daughter has a better life...
>
> Anna Nicole Smith Dies
> By SUZETTE LABOY, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
> Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who 
> married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for 
> his fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after 
> collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.
> The blond bombshell — who recently became tabloid fodder all over 
> again after the sudden, apparently drug-related death of her 20- 
> year-old son — was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock 
> Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital.
> Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical 
> Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation 
> and an autopsy would be done on Friday.
> A private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her 
> sixth-floor room, said Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger. He said 
> Smith's bodyguard administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation about 
> an hour before she was declared dead.
> Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for 
> being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down 
> weight, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy- 
> blonde persona, and her over-the-top revealing outfits.
> The curvaceous Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club 
> before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the 
> cover of Playboy magazine in 1992, captivating readers with her 
> Marilyn Monroe looks. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 
> 1993.
> She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV 
> commercials, billboards and magazine ads.
> In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, 
> the head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family 
> fortune worth at least $400 million. He died in 1995 at age 90, 
> setting off a feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, 
> over whether she had a right to his estate.
> A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was 
> later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her 
> case, ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle 
> with her former stepson.
> The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court 
> fight would continue.
> More recently, Smith's ballooning figure and up-and-down weight 
> became a subject of public fascination. But she lost a reported 69 
> pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement.
> She starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," 
> in 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her 
> lawyer, hung out with her personal assistant and interior 
> decorator, and cooed at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in 
> movies, performing a bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.
> After news came of Smith's death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer 
> who represented Marshall, said in a statement: "We're very shocked 
> by the news and extend the deepest condolences to her family."
> Smith's son, Daniel Smith, died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital 
> room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.
> An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said 
> he had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he 
> died. Low levels of the three drugs interacted to cause an 
> accidental death, Wecht said. Last month, a Bahamas magistrate 
> scheduled a formal inquiry into the death for March 27.
> Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a 
> matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father 
> as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion. Smith's 
> ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was waging a legal challenge, saying he 
> was the father.
> Debra Opri, the attorney who filed his paternity suit, said 
> Birkhead "is devastated. He is inconsolable, and we are taking 
> steps now to protect the DNA testing of the child. The child is our 
> number one priority."
> She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of 
> six children of Donald Eugene and Virgie Hart Hogan. She married 
> Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two 
> years later.
> "From my professional exposure to Anna N

Re: [scifinoir2] COMMENTARY: Can 'Wonder Woman' succeed purely as action hero?

[Martin]

:)

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  
Regaling meoohh my :)

Martin wrote:
>
> I believe that it's a moderate derogatory toward genre fans. At least 
> that's how *I* look at it. Never been called it. If so, I'd be busy 
> making licence plates instead of regaling you...
>
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote: I have heard the 
> term "fanboys" but I don't know what it means. Can
> somebody clarify?
>
> Thanks
>
> tracey
>
> Martin wrote:
> >
> > Whenever I do, it seems as though they're trying to be the online
> > version of Starlog. Apologies for any shocks to the system I may have
> > caused. THey seem to bemore fanboys than fans, and I abhor fanboys. To
> > them, it's not SF, it's reality they just can't experience first-hand.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
>  wrote:
> > Why do you say that? I've never read their site much.
> >
> > -- Original message --
> > From: Martin
> > Remember at all times, keith- this is someone from SyFy talking. Their
> > acquaintance with the genre is passing at best, IMO.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
>  wrote:
> > Some comments on her comments:
> >
> > One, I'd take Whedon's work anyday over many others, but I was
> > concerned he was going to do another "Buffy" treatment on Wonder
> > Woman. I think I'd read that he planned to make Diana younger than is
> > typically portrayed in comics--probably more like 19 or 20, as opposed
> > to Diana's apparent age of mid- to late-twenties. Whedon loves very
> > young women, but I really wasn't looking forward to another young
> > waiflike girl dealing with pain and heartache. Thats one reason I
> > didnt' like Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane: she looked and acted too young
> > for my tastes. I'd rather deal with the more mature warrior than the
> > little girl lost in Patriarch's World. Someone like Charisma 
> Carpenter! :)
> >
> > Having Wonder Woman in WWII is not necessarily a bad thing, if done
> > well. If we could get the guys behind "Hellboy" or "V: For Vendetta"
> > to do it, WWII could be a fantastic backdrop for a superhero battle.
> > Often some of the coolest scifi is set in the time period of rougly
> > from the 1890s to the 1940s. Something about the old tech--vacuum
> > tubes, Iron Giant looking robots, etc.--is often really cool in scifi
> > themes. The only issue they seem to have overlooked is that Wonder
> > Woman in WWII has been retconned by DC to be Queen Hippolyta, Diana's
> > mother. Diana was thus the second woman to wear the mantle of Wonder
> > Woman, and did it in modern times.
> >
> > I disagree with her that "Sin City" was a snoozefest (it was great),
> > that "Hellboy" was only passable (it was awesome), and so was
> > "Fantastic Four" (it sucked).
> >
> > -- Original message --
> > From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)"
> > Action Or Angst? What Do We Want In Our Superheroes?
> > COMMENTARY: Can 'Wonder Woman' succeed purely as action hero?
> >
> > By ROBIN BROWNFIELD
> > Source: SyFy Portal
> > Feb-04-2007
> >
> > When Joss Whedon announced almost two years after signing on to write
> > and direct a "Wonder Woman" movie that he was no longer attached to the
> > project, the air of shock around the Internet was almost palpable.
> >
> > Around the same time, David S. Goyer, who wrote the story and co-wrote
> > the screenplay for "Batman Begins," was told his vision for the movie
> > "The Flash" was not what Warner Bros. producers wanted, and the movie
> > has been shelved for now.
> >
> > The story behind the "Wonder Woman" movie, it seems, is that Warner
> > Bros. has purchased a speculative script from newcomers Matthew Jennison
> > and Brent Strickland, and is ready to bring them on board to replace
> > Whedon.
> >
> > All this leads to the question, "What do people want out of a superhero
> > movie? An escapist action romp or fully fleshed-out characters facing
> > the most painful decisions of their lives?"
> >
> > While it is uncertain what Whedon has done with "Wonder Woman," it seems
> > Joel Silver and company want an action-oriented story set against the
> > backdrop of World War II -- the time period when Wonder Woman comics
> > debuted. Whedon's vision places Princess Diana in the present day. Based
> > on his previous works ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," "Firefly,"
> > "Serenity"), one can safely assume that his Wonder Woman would be a
> > fully fleshed out character, complete with goddess-like strength, and
> > human foibles. She would most likely be surrounded by fully developed
> > supporting characters, and the story that unwinds would largely grow out
> > from and be advanced by the characters themselves.
> >
> > We could also count on sha

Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Anna Nicole Smith Dead at Age 39

[Martin]

I'm with you in that, Tracey. I'm glad that she's too young to know the storm 
that coming over her. Or should I say the possibly $500 million USD attached to 
her?

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  
This is not off-topic, her life was out of this world, I to hope her 
daughter's life is less bizarre and full of trauma
Tracey

Martin wrote:
>
> That was my first thought too, Keith. Poor kid's lost her older 
> brother *and* her mother before she even got to know either of them, 
> and her parentage is still somewhere in the stratosphere.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote: 
> Not to speak ill of the dead, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is 
> drug-related. Smith had such a huge problem with them, and her 
> behaviour over the last few years was like someone either contstantly 
> on downers, or who'd been permanently damaged by drugs. I only hope 
> her newborn daughter has a better life...
>
> Anna Nicole Smith Dies
> By SUZETTE LABOY, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
> Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who 
> married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his 
> fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after 
> collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.
> The blond bombshell — who recently became tabloid fodder all over 
> again after the sudden, apparently drug-related death of her 
> 20-year-old son — was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock 
> Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital.
> Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical 
> Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and 
> an autopsy would be done on Friday.
> A private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her 
> sixth-floor room, said Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger. He said 
> Smith's bodyguard administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation about an 
> hour before she was declared dead.
> Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being 
> famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her 
> exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona, 
> and her over-the-top revealing outfits.
> The curvaceous Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club 
> before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover 
> of Playboy magazine in 1992, captivating readers with her Marilyn 
> Monroe looks. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993.
> She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV 
> commercials, billboards and magazine ads.
> In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, the 
> head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune 
> worth at least $400 million. He died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a 
> feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had 
> a right to his estate.
> A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was 
> later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, 
> ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her 
> former stepson.
> The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court 
> fight would continue.
> More recently, Smith's ballooning figure and up-and-down weight became 
> a subject of public fascination. But she lost a reported 69 pounds and 
> became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement.
> She starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in 
> 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer, 
> hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and cooed 
> at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in movies, performing a 
> bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.
> After news came of Smith's death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer who 
> represented Marshall, said in a statement: "We're very shocked by the 
> news and extend the deepest condolences to her family."
> Smith's son, Daniel Smith, died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room 
> in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.
> An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he 
> had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died. Low 
> levels of the three drugs interacted to cause an accidental death, 
> Wecht said. Last month, a Bahamas magistrate scheduled a formal 
> inquiry into the death for March 27.
> Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a 
> matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as 
> attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion. Smith's 
> ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was waging a legal challenge, saying he 
> was the father.
> Debra Opri, the attorney who filed his paternity suit, said Birkhead 
> "is devastated. He is inconsolable, and we are taking steps now to 
> protect the DNA testing of the child. T

Re: [scifinoir2] COMMENTARY: Can 'Wonder Woman' succeed purely as action hero?

[Martin]

Tracey, I don't like the term because, in my mind, it connotates a fan who has 
fgleefully shoved aside the boundary between fantasy and reality with regard to 
the genre. Best example I can write at this moment- about seven years ago, I 
was at a bookstore at Lenox Square in Atlanta, browsing trough the SF section, 
when I heard someone bellow, "Ka'PLACH!" I looked up (well, *jumped* is the 
accurate term), expecting to see smething out of DragonCOm, unwashed, unshaven 
and unaware of his embarassing state of mind. Instead, I find two men, one 
Black, one White, both in expensive suits and ties, well-groomed, speaking 
Klingonese. That's just beyond the ken for me. I admit to a bit of excitement 
at some shows, such as Doctor Who and Stargate Atlantis, but I'm not at the 
point where I'm going to start peppering my conversations with references to 
the Wraith or Nestenes. Compartmentalize, fanboys! Please! Some of those 
"normal" folk out there are watching. And they're the ones with
 the keys to the mental-health facilities.

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  
I heard the term and thought I understood it, but Martin was so 
derogatory, I feared there was more context needed. So martin I'm 
waiting for your definition

Tracey

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, James. Tracey, if you ever read videogame magazines or websites, 
> you'll run across the term "fanboy" all the time. The fanboys in the 
> videogame world are rabid. It's especially big in Japan, where many videogame 
> expos are open to the public (unlike America, where the biggest were 
> typically industry-only). Also in Japan anime and gaming are much more 
> married than in the US, and more relatively more people get into such. You 
> ought to see the pics of guys dressed up in green tops and white leggings 
> like Link (the hero of the Zelda videogames), or ladies with skimpy clothing 
> and purple hair like a character from the wildly popular Final Fantasy or 
> Dragonquest role playing games. As more and more people in the US start 
> gaming--and more and more leave comics behind--the term's becoming very 
> common here as well.
>
> -- Original message -- 
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanboy
>
> __
> James Landrith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cell: 703-593-2065 * fax: 760-875-8547
> AIM: jlnales * ICQ: 148600159
> MSN and Yahoo! Messenger: jlandrith
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> The Multiracial Activist - http://www.multiracial.com
> The Abolitionist Examiner - http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/
> __
>
> 
>> I have heard the term "fanboys" but I don't know what it means. Can
>> somebody clarify?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> tracey
>>
>> Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> Whenever I do, it seems as though they're trying to be the online
>>> version of Starlog. Apologies for any shocks to the system I may have
>>> caused. THey seem to bemore fanboys than fans, and I abhor fanboys. To
>>> them, it's not SF, it's reality they just can't experience first-hand.
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
>>> Why do you say that? I've never read their site much.
>>>
>>> -- Original message --
>>> From: Martin
>>> Remember at all times, keith- this is someone from SyFy talking. Their
>>> acquaintance with the genre is passing at best, IMO.
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
>>> Some comments on her comments:
>>>
>>> One, I'd take Whedon's work anyday over many others, but I was
>>> concerned he was going to do another "Buffy" treatment on Wonder
>>> Woman. I think I'd read that he planned to make Diana younger than is
>>> typically portrayed in comics--probably more like 19 or 20, as opposed
>>> to Diana's apparent age of mid- to late-twenties. Whedon loves very
>>> young women, but I really wasn't looking forward to another young
>>> waiflike girl dealing with pain and heartache. Thats one reason I
>>> didnt' like Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane: she looked and acted too young
>>> for my tastes. I'd rather deal with the more mature warrior than the
>>> little girl lost in Patriarch's World. Someone like Charisma Carpenter!
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Having Wonder Woman in WWII is not necessarily a bad thing, if done
>>> well. If we could get the guys behind "Hellboy" or "V: For Vendetta"
>>> to do it, WWII could be a fantastic backdrop for a superhero battle.
>>> Often some of the coolest scifi is set in the time period of rougly
>>> from the 1890s to the 1940s. Something about the old tech--vacuum
>>> tubes, Iron Giant looking robots, etc.--is often really cool in scifi
>>> themes. The only issue they seem to have overlooked is that Wonder
>>> Woman in WWII has been retconned by DC to be Queen Hippolyta, Diana's
>>> mother. Diana was thus the second woman to w

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Georgia Mayor Changes Name, Converts to Islam

[Martin]

I'll be praying for the man, and letting him know that he's got a place to 
hide, should things go south for him.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Interesting move, gutsy for a black man in a 
Georgia city. A lot of people black and white were already unhappy with his 
performance as mayor on many other levels. Some feel he's just doing this as a 
way to deflect people from his shortcomings. I don't know the truth of that as 
Atlanta's got plenty to keep me occupied. Still, one can expect to hear the 
racist and ignorant comments, no matter what you think. I copied some posts 
from the paper, which follow the story. Keep in mind that when it comes to 
things like moving from Christianity to Islam, Blacks in many quarters can be 
as intolerant as whites in the Southe, even in a city like Macon where the 
majority of the population is African-American: 

Georgia Mayor Changes Name, Converts to Islam 

Macon, GA (WMAZ-TV) - Mayor C. Jack Ellis, a practicing Christian throughout 
his life, on Thursday said he's switched to the Islamic faith.
The mayor said the conversion also means he'll be going through the legal 
process of changing his name. His new name will be Hakim Mansour Ellis. The 
mayor said he kept his last name to maintain family ties.

"It's a personal decision, a private decision as to how one worships. But I do 
understand that I'm not a private person," Ellis said. "But being the mayor of 
the city, I think people have a right to know what I believe in, that I am a 
man of faith, and the faith I'm now a part of is the faith of Islam."
He now calls himself a Sunni Muslim. He made the switch, Ellis said, during his 
December trip to Africa. Rather than call it a switch, Ellis said it was like 
returning home.

"I went back to my roots I guess you could say," Ellis said. "I did convert to 
Islam in December of this past year in the country of Senegal. When I say, 
"back to my roots", Islam was in Senegal prior to the Africans being brought 
here as slaves."

Since converting, Ellis said he attends the Islamic Center on Bloomfield Road 
during Friday worship services. He also said he's practicing the Islam doctrine 
of praying five times each day. Ellis said he discussed his decision with his 
family and siblings before making it public.

"Now, I'm sharing with my broader family, the Macon community who supported me 
when I was a Christian and trust that they will now," Ellis said. "I'm the same 
person even though I'll be changing my name."

Even though he switched religions, the mayor said he isn't ranking them.

"I'm not saying that one is better than the other," Ellis said. "We do believe 
that the prophet Mohammed was the last prophet as well as we believe Moses was 
a prophet."

Prior to the conversion, Ellis said he attended Unionville Baptist Church on 
Houston Avenue and before that Harvest Cathedral on Rocky Creek Road.
The mayor completes his second consecutive four-year term in December and isn't 
eligible for re-election. But Ellis said he might run for Georgia's 8th 
District congressional seat in 2008. Steve Allen, chair of the Bibb County 
Democratic Party, said a person's faith is his or her personal choice. But 
because most of the 8th District is Christian and conservative, Allen said the 
mayor might have a more difficult time winning the 8th District. Ellis said he 
hopes people respect his decision and will call him by his new name. 

*
Some reader responses:

A lot of people Black and white, were already unhappy with his performance as 
mayor on many other levels. Some feel he's just doing this as a way to deflect 
people from his shortcomings. I don't know the truth of that, as I try to stay 
away from smaller Georgia towns. Atlanta's got plenty to keep me occupied. :) 

STill, one can expect to hear the racist and ignorant comments, no matter what 
you think. I copied some posts from the paper last week. here are some of 
them--oh, keep in mind that when it comes to things like moving from 
Christianity to Islam, Blacks in many quarters can be as intolerant as whites: 

Reader comments on the mayor's conversion to Islam:

white folks gone love this 
Posted by: henry 

Now he can move to Iraq and run for Mayor of Baghdad. 
Posted by: Joe 

I think this is another ploy by our fine wishy-washy and criminal mayor to get 
more publicity. Maybe since he has such strong ties to his mother country of 
Africa, he just needs to depart and go back to his roots (at his expense, not 
the taxpayers). I hope God has mercy on his soul b/c his beloved dead prophet 
Muhammed will not be able to spare him or his other pagen muslims friends from 
hell. I take issue with anybody comparing Allah with the true and living God of 
the Bible. 
Posted by: Ginger E. Vinson 

I can't help but comment on how ridiculous this is along with the entire black 
community's affinity for islam. Authentic history records that the arab 
invasion of Africa initiated the slave 

Re: [scifinoir2] Bridges Steeled For Iron Man

[Martin]

Nope. Not even. After three issues, I didn't like the flow f it. At about the 
same time, I picked up "Annihilation", running almost parallel to "Civil War". 
And it's *much better*, IMO.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   no way. You haven't 
been reading Civil War? It's about to 
conclude! This is the best thing to happen to Marvel in years. 
And...there were shipping issues after #4 so now's a great time 
to catch up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(comics)

On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Martin wrote:

> Hand me a few spoilers about "Civil War". I dropped that too after 
> three issues.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the sentient armour is no 
> more. I never read that storyline, though. I bought the last three 
> or four issues of "Iron Man" as part of the Civil War megaseries.
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Forgot about Happy, but hen it's been years since I read the book. 
> Everytime I've picked it up since, I've seen that they still have 
> that sentient armor in the script. THanks, but no.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe he'll take the place of 
> "Happy" Hogan as Stark's confidante and right-hand man, and fill 
> the mentor role Hollywood loves to create for heroes?
>
> -- Original message --
> From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm trying to think of who this might be, the char he's due to 
> portray, whether he's in continuity anywhere. Obadiah Stane, maybe? 
> He might like that role, because Stane ends up a bad egg.
>
> "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bridges Steeled For 
> Iron Man
> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39975
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> film to
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> Paramount
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>
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> Stark's life.
>
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> signed
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> includes nominee Terrence Howard and Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: [Blackfolks] Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?]

[Martin]

"Academy Award chances" After *hearing* about "Norbit", I may never 
watch a movie with him in it again.

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Subject: [Blackfolks] Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:38:38 -0600
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-wk- 
norbit8feb08,1,2603410.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews

Is this what a future Oscar winner looks like?

Some fear 'Norbit' could hurt Murphy's Academy Award chances.
By Greg Braxton and Robert W. Welkos
Times Staff Writers

February 8, 2007

EDDIE Murphy's on the verge of an awards season trifecta — his 
charismatic portrayal of a tragic R&B singer in "Dreamgirls" has 
already nabbed him a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe, and 
he's considered a front-runner for a best supporting Oscar.

But the most high-profile image of Murphy these days — while Oscar 
ballots are still out — is on billboards and in movie trailers wearing 
a fat suit, garish eye shadow and little else.

The tagline for his new comedy, "Norbit," poses the question: "Have you 
ever made a really big mistake?"

Some Oscar observers are questioning the timing of the movie's Friday 
arrival, and whether it may unintentionally put off potential academy 
voters, while some black activists are taking Murphy to task for 
engaging in what they say are demeaning racial stereotypes.

"Every time I pass that billboard, it makes me sick," said one veteran 
Oscar consultant, who declined to be identified and is not involved in 
a rival campaign. "I think his performance in 'Dreamgirls' is so 
fabulous" and deserves to win the Academy Award. But, he added, 
Murphy's latest comedy offering "doesn't help."

Award season aside, Murphy and "Norbit" are under fire from some black 
activists who say the film is just the latest to build a movie around a 
black man dressing up as an unsophisticated, overweight black woman. 
Adding fuel to their anger is the movie's release during Black History 
Month.

"For Eddie to follow what he did with 'Dreamgirls' with this just 
doesn't make sense," said Robert M. Entman, author of "The Black Image 
in the White Mind: Media and Race in America." "There's no excuse for 
him to lend his prestige to something like this…. There has to be a 
point where African American stars of his stature have to take some 
responsibility for their actions and just say no."

Murphy's stunning turn as James "Thunder" Early in "Dreamgirls" has 
earned him rave reviews and renewed respect for a performer who has had 
one of Hollywood's most up-and-down careers. He's had his share of hits 
("48 Hrs.," "Beverly Hills Cop," "Trading Places" and the "Shrek" 
movies) and flops ("The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "The Haunted 
Mansion.")

Now, Murphy is in contention for the industry's top honors, which will 
be handed out Feb. 25. Ballots are due back Feb. 20.

"Norbit" could end up working in Murphy's favor, the creative forces 
behind it say, because the comedy demonstrates Murphy's range and 
ability to morph into multiple characters. It's an approach the actor 
has used to great success in "Coming to America" and the two "The Nutty 
Professor" films. "Norbit," about a wimpy man trapped in a horrible 
relationship with a woman (also played by Murphy), was co-written by 
Murphy and his brother Charles Murphy, and produced by the actor's 
production company.

Murphy, who has shunned print interviews for years, declined to comment.

The comedy has done well with focus groups, said Stacey Snider, 
co-chairwoman of DreamWorks: "Audiences have always loved it."

She added that she was "confident" that "Norbit" would have no 
influence on academy members' evaluation of Murphy's work in 
"Dreamgirls." "People can separate the performance in 'Dreamgirls' for 
the career-defining role that it was…. They accept this movie for the 
comedy that it is…. I think people are wise enough and savvy enough to 
understand the spirit that was intended. They know not to read too much 
into it."

One academy voter, John DiSimeo, who is a member of the public 
relations branch, agreed. "As a voter, it doesn't impact me. We're able 
to focus on the work itself…. The focus has been on his work in 
'Dreamgirls' and whatever comes out after it is for the most part 
irrelevant." (He has already sent in his ballot, but declined to 
specify his pick.)

The film's release date, planned months in advance, was tied to 
research that showed February to be a good month for comedies, 
according to Paramount.

Gerry Rich, president of worldwide marketing at Paramount Pictures, 
said that time of year was a "robust moviegoing period for mainstream 
comedies. 'Hitch' did really well during this time of year."

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[scifinoir2] [Fwd: Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father]

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I'm sorry, but this is scifi

Tracey

 Original Message 
Subject:Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby may be Anna Nicole Smith's Baby's Father
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:25:42 -0500
From:   C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad

By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a
decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant
daughter's father.

The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit
over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate
lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former
Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he
is the father.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she
was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview
Friday.

He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern
or Birkhead.

Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years.

Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin
Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in
recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially
paralyzed in a car crash in 2002.

Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met
in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J.
Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the
Plaza Hotel in New York.

"She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he
said. "She wanted to be a princess."

He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he
said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife.

But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would
have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and
even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.





 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I LOVED it

Tracey

Martin wrote:
>
> Could've been worse. They could've thrown in some CGI and pimped out 
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> Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: 
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> > WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
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> > http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Anna Nicole Smith Dead at Age 39

[Martin]

I know, Keith. It's something I'm presently thrashing out with two female 
reinds of mine. THey see any number of things they want to change about 
themselves, and I can't seem to convince either that they're beautiful as is. 
Today, one of them is going under the knife for lipo. Scares me.

The Yokozuna Of Soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  She'd be a senator.

On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What saddens me is this crazed thing people--women especially--go 
> through for fame. I'm not a fan of blondes anyway (I prefer 
> brunettes),so I never really got so many women's need to dye their 
> hair the way Anna Nicole did. And saddest of all, have you ever 
> seen pictures of her before she become blonde and plastic? She was 
> actually much prettier with brown hair and her natural chest. 
> (Ditto for Pamela Anderson, by the way). It's as if all these 
> actresses and would-be actresses are trying to be the second coming 
> of Marilyn Monroe. And now they can sell their souls for fifteen 
> minutes of reality show fame or commercials for questionable 
> products. Sad.
>
> Sometimes I wonder what Marilyn Monroe would have become had *she* 
> been born in this era...
>
> -- Original message --
> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" 
> 
> This is not off-topic, her life was out of this world, I to hope her
> daughter's life is less bizarre and full of trauma
> Tracey
>
> Martin wrote:
>>
>> That was my first thought too, Keith. Poor kid's lost her older
>> brother *and* her mother before she even got to know either of them,
>> and her parentage is still somewhere in the stratosphere.
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Not to speak ill of the dead, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is
>> drug-related. Smith had such a huge problem with them, and her
>> behaviour over the last few years was like someone either contstantly
>> on downers, or who'd been permanently damaged by drugs. I only hope
>> her newborn daughter has a better life...
>>
>> Anna Nicole Smith Dies
>> By SUZETTE LABOY, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
>> Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who
>> married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his
>> fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after
>> collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.
>> The blond bombshell — who recently became tabloid fodder all over
>> again after the sudden, apparently drug-related death of her
>> 20-year-old son — was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard 
>> Rock
>> Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital.
>> Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical
>> Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation 
>> and
>> an autopsy would be done on Friday.
>> A private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her
>> sixth-floor room, said Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger. He said
>> Smith's bodyguard administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation about an
>> hour before she was declared dead.
>> Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being
>> famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, 
>> her
>> exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona,
>> and her over-the-top revealing outfits.
>> The curvaceous Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club
>> before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover
>> of Playboy magazine in 1992, captivating readers with her Marilyn
>> Monroe looks. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993.
>> She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV
>> commercials, billboards and magazine ads.
>> In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, 
>> the
>> head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune
>> worth at least $400 million. He died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a
>> feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she 
>> had
>> a right to his estate.
>> A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was
>> later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her 
>> case,
>> ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her
>> former stepson.
>> The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court
>> fight would continue.
>> More recently, Smith's ballooning figure and up-and-down weight 
>> became
>> a subject of public fascination. But she lost a reported 69 pounds 
>> and
>> became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement.
>> She starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in
>> 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer,
>> hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and 
>> cooed
>> at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in movies, performing a
>> bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.
>> After news came of Smith's death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the 

Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

You are running for office?  Congratulations!  Take care of that head 
injury  :)

Tracey

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Re: [scifinoir2] Libraries Providing Free Movie Downloads

[Martin]

Libraries good. Wal-Mart not.

"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  
Libraries Providing Free Movie Downloads
In many areas of the country, movies and television shows can already be 
downloaded free -- and legally -- a blogger on the tech site 
Slashdot.org observed Wednesday. The blogger, who uses the handle 
ScuttleMonkey pointed out that a recently launched service from Recorded 
Books and PermissionTV, available from some public libraries, provides 
numerous movies and TV shows for downloading. "Selection is pretty 
mediocre," the blogger noted, but the two companies are promising to 
allow library-card holders eventually to download movies on the same day 
as their DVD release. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart's new movie downloading 
website was continuing to take a drubbing from critics. 
Marketwatch.com's Bambi Francisco wrote: "It took me more time to set up 
Wal-Mart's movie-download service, register and choose a movie than it 
would have taken for me to drive to the Wal-Mart store, buy the actual 
DVD, pick up lunch, return to the office and watch the entire movie."
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Re: [scifinoir2] Star Wars gangsta rap

[Martin]

Could've been worse. They could've thrown in some CGI and pimped out the 
Falcon...

Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I'm about to lose my mind...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
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> WARNING! Contains explicit language like most gangsta rap:
> 
> http://www.glumbert.com/media/starwars
> 
> LoL!
> 
> George
> 

Oboy. Lucas, what have you sparked. :D

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RE: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Martin]

"Still lurking about."-  D Duck
   
  Sorry, a few hundred miles south of that location.

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[scifinoir2] Re: Where is everybody??

[B. Smith]

I've been M.I.A. because work is a bear and my wife has been hogging 
the computer at home. 

How's life way down South(of the border)?

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Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: New Orleans Residents Are Bailing Out]

[Martin]

Old news to me. I have a friend who's from the Ninth Ward. Her mother is still 
there, because she refuses to be run out by anything so petty as a lousy Cat 5 
hurricane, an incompetnat government or anything else. Seriously, though, it's 
hard going there. The only basic services available are in the French Quarter 
(*surprised*, anyone?). Beyond there, no water, sewer or phone service. If you 
don't have Mister or Ms Cell Phone, you're SOL.

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Subject: New Orleans Residents Are Bailing Out
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:50:48 -0500
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New Orleans Residents Are Bailing Out

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans is a city on a knife's edge. A year and
a half after Hurricane Katrina, an alarming number of residents are
leaving or seriously thinking of getting out for good.

They have become fed up with the violence, the bureaucracy, the
political finger-pointing, the sluggish rebuilding and the doubts
about the safety of the levees.

"The mayor says, `Come back home. Every area should come back.' For
what?" said Genevieve Bellow, who rebuilt her home in heavily damaged
eastern New Orleans but has been unable to get anything done about the
trash and abandoned apartment buildings in her neighborhood and may
leave town. "I have no confidence in anything or anybody."

A survey released in November found that 32 percent of city residents
polled may leave within two years. University of New Orleans political
scientist Susan Howell, who did the survey, said more will give up if
the recovery does not pick up speed.

In fact, figures from the nation's top three moving companies suggest
more people left the area than moved into it last year.

"People are in a state of limbo. They're asking, `Is it worth it for
me to stay? Is it worth it to invest?' If you don't feel safe, from
crime or the levees, and you see destruction every day when you drive,
it becomes discouraging," Howell said.

If there is an exodus, it could mean more than just a shrunken New
Orleans. It could mean a poorer city, financially and culturally, and
a more desperate one, too, since the people likely to leave are the
most highly educated and younger.

Mayor Ray Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco have urged residents to
return under rebuilding plans with names like Bring New Orleans Back
and Road Home. The mayor has warned that the recovery will take a
decade and has urged people not to give up hope.

But New Orleans' population appears to have plateaued at about half
the pre-storm level of 455,000, well short of Nagin's prediction of
300,000 by the end of 2006. And in many ways, it is a meaner city than
it was before the hurricane.

New Orleans ended 2006 with 161 homicides, for a murder rate higher
than it was before Katrina and more than 4 1/2 times the national
average for cities its size. After starting 2007 with practically one
killing a day, the city has at least 19 slayings so far this year.

The criminal justice system is in disarray, with public defenders so
overworked and witnesses so reluctant to testify that the courts are
revolving doors, putting criminals back on the street. Mistrust
between police and the public is running high, in part because seven
officers were arrested in a deadly shooting during the chaotic
aftermath of Katrina.

Nagin and Police Chief Warren Riley announced a plan last month to
crack down on crime with checkpoints and the putting of more police on
the beat.

For Jennifer Johansen, it is too little, too late. Johansen's neat
yellow house in New Orleans Irish Channel is for sale, and the nurse,
who returned to the city after Katrina, hopes to be in Seattle before
spring.

The gunfire she used to hear until about a month ago made her uneasy
about watching TV in her living room, and she yearns to live in a
vibrant, safe city.

"I kept thinking, things would get better. But it just took too long
for a response from the city, the mayor, the police chief, to address
the increased crime," she said.

Louisiana demographer Elliott Stonecipher said: "You get the sense
talking to people on the ground in New Orleans that a lot of people
are right on the edge. They're just about to the point where they
believe they have to decide."

Blanco's Road Home program, born 10 months after the storm, has been
vilified by politicians and civic leaders as too slow to distribute
$7.5 billion in federal aid to buy out homeowners or help them
rebuild. As of Feb. 5, Road Home had taken 105,739 applications and
resolved only 532 cases, granting $33.8 million. At the current rate,
Road Home would take more than 13 years to complete.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., called Road Home a debacle. In hopes of
jump-starting the neighborhood rebuildings, the mayor has put in place
a gap-loan program to let homeowners borrow on their promised Road
Home grants.

City, state and federal officials have traded th

Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

But Honey... you promised you were going to stop hangin out with the 
guys all the time... :(

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--- Original Message 
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*What Went Wrong With the Easy-Bake Oven *
/After a technology upgrade, the popular children’s oven is being 
recalled over safety concerns./
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jennifer Ordoñez
Newsweek
Updated: 3:57 p.m. CT Feb 7, 2007
 

Feb. 7, 2007 - It was the kind of tribute befitting only the most 
industrious of workhorses. After 43 years and more than 100 million 
miniature cakes baked by the warmth of a single 100-watt light bulb, the 
Easy-Bake Oven finally got its due last November when it earned a spot 
in the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, N.Y. There, it would 
share the company of a small but formidable toy box of legends. Slinky 
and marbles. Play-Doh and LEGOs. Crayons. "It's safe, it works and the 
best part is that the play makes its own reward," museum curator 
Patricia Hogan gushed at the time to the Associated Press. Hogan may 
have spoken too soon.

 

On Tuesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission partnered with 
the Pawtucket, R.I.-based toymaker Hasbro to recall 985,000 Easy-Bake 
Ovens for repair after receiving as many as 29 reports of children being 
injured while baking with them. Some got their fingers and hands caught 
in the oven's opening. Others were burned as a result. The five children 
reported burned were "significantly younger than 8-years-old," the 
minimum age recommended to use the Easy-Bake, says Hasbro spokesperson 
Gail Carvelli. "They were like 3, 4 and 5 years old."

 

In a news alert, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission instructed 
guardians to "immediately take the recalled oven away from children 
under 8 years of age and contact the firm (at 1-800-601-8418) for a 
retrofit," adding that "young children can insert their hands into the 
oven’s opening and get their hands or fingers caught, posing an 
entrapment and burn hazard." The recall applies only to ovens purchased 
since May 2006, Hasbro says.

 

Still, that's significant. Julie Vallese, senior spokesperson for the 
CPSC, says that while not unheard of, "the majority of our recalls don't 
come close to this volume." In 2005, there were 20 toy-related deaths 
involving children under 15 in the United States, Vallese says. At least 
one lawsuit stemming from the current Easy-Bake malfunctions has been 
filed, Vallese says. Hasbro says it does not comment on pending 
litigation. Hasbro spokesperson Carvelli says all Hasbro products 
undergo "rigorous testing" before they are launched and that all "meet 
or exceed" government safety specifications. There has never before been 
a recall of the Easy-Bake Oven, Carvelli says.

 

So what changed in May 2006? Call it an extreme makeover gone bad. After 
several incarnations of the one-light-bulb oven over the last four 
decades, last year Hasbro introduced a new, higher tech version that 
replaced the bulb with a low-temperature heating system. If making a 
delicious minicake with a light bulb was easy as pie, this would be even 
easier, baking up "some of the tastiest cakes and cookies to date," the 
company touted in a press release. Although classic mixes like Devil's 
Food Cake were still available, Hasbro updated its line of goodies, 
including mixes featuring the likes of My Little Pony and SpongeBob 
SquarePants.

 

Adults have even gotten into the oven, which in its latest incarnation 
features a front-loading door and four burners, in purple and pink 
tones. In a cookbook called "The Easy-Bake Gourmet," nostalgic celebrity 
chefs indulged retro-sophistication, contributing Easy-Bake-compatible 
recipes like Deep Dish-Truffle Lobster Pie and Warm Kumquat-and-Date 
Sticky Toffee Pudding. "Easy-Bake really is a rite of passage," says 
Hasbro's Carvelli, noting that all ovens have been pulled from stores 
and will not be available again until the company investigates—and 
remedies—the current problems. "It's all about that first experience of 
baking on your own. As a kid, it's one step towards independence."

 

Carol Kindler of Los Angeles remembers that feeling. The 38-year-old 
mother of two remembers the first Devil's Food cake she made when she 
got an Easy-Bake Oven, one of the more than 23 million sold to date, for 
her 9th birthday. "I couldn't wait, and it came out too soft. So I ate 
that one and told my mom I had to make another. And I didn't share any 
with my brother." Her 10 year-old daughter Hailey got one for Chanukah 
last year, and hasn't suffered any injuries "beyond, maybe, sugar 
shock," Kindler jokes. But before Hailey mixes up one more treat, the 
oven will have to be retrofitted with the new safety door that Hasbro 
says it will begin sending out soon to those who request them. "She is 
/not/ going to be happy," Kindler says. It might just be time to haul 
out that old Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine.

 

URL

Re: [scifinoir2] Where is everybody??

[Martin]

Flying through right now, since the laundry's all done and the house is clean. 
I'll be in and out until eight.

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I'm around.

I bumped my head or something and decided to run for office this year:
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[scifinoir2] [Fwd: New Orleans Residents Are Bailing Out]

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New Orleans Residents Are Bailing Out

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans is a city on a knife's edge. A year and
a half after Hurricane Katrina, an alarming number of residents are
leaving or seriously thinking of getting out for good.

They have become fed up with the violence, the bureaucracy, the
political finger-pointing, the sluggish rebuilding and the doubts
about the safety of the levees.

"The mayor says, `Come back home. Every area should come back.' For
what?" said Genevieve Bellow, who rebuilt her home in heavily damaged
eastern New Orleans but has been unable to get anything done about the
trash and abandoned apartment buildings in her neighborhood and may
leave town. "I have no confidence in anything or anybody."

A survey released in November found that 32 percent of city residents
polled may leave within two years. University of New Orleans political
scientist Susan Howell, who did the survey, said more will give up if
the recovery does not pick up speed.

In fact, figures from the nation's top three moving companies suggest
more people left the area than moved into it last year.

"People are in a state of limbo. They're asking, `Is it worth it for
me to stay? Is it worth it to invest?' If you don't feel safe, from
crime or the levees, and you see destruction every day when you drive,
it becomes discouraging," Howell said.

If there is an exodus, it could mean more than just a shrunken New
Orleans. It could mean a poorer city, financially and culturally, and
a more desperate one, too, since the people likely to leave are the
most highly educated and younger.

Mayor Ray Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco have urged residents to
return under rebuilding plans with names like Bring New Orleans Back
and Road Home. The mayor has warned that the recovery will take a
decade and has urged people not to give up hope.

But New Orleans' population appears to have plateaued at about half
the pre-storm level of 455,000, well short of Nagin's prediction of
300,000 by the end of 2006. And in many ways, it is a meaner city than
it was before the hurricane.

New Orleans ended 2006 with 161 homicides, for a murder rate higher
than it was before Katrina and more than 4 1/2 times the national
average for cities its size. After starting 2007 with practically one
killing a day, the city has at least 19 slayings so far this year.

The criminal justice system is in disarray, with public defenders so
overworked and witnesses so reluctant to testify that the courts are
revolving doors, putting criminals back on the street. Mistrust
between police and the public is running high, in part because seven
officers were arrested in a deadly shooting during the chaotic
aftermath of Katrina.

Nagin and Police Chief Warren Riley announced a plan last month to
crack down on crime with checkpoints and the putting of more police on
the beat.

For Jennifer Johansen, it is too little, too late. Johansen's neat
yellow house in New Orleans Irish Channel is for sale, and the nurse,
who returned to the city after Katrina, hopes to be in Seattle before
spring.

The gunfire she used to hear until about a month ago made her uneasy
about watching TV in her living room, and she yearns to live in a
vibrant, safe city.

"I kept thinking, things would get better. But it just took too long
for a response from the city, the mayor, the police chief, to address
the increased crime," she said.

Louisiana demographer Elliott Stonecipher said: "You get the sense
talking to people on the ground in New Orleans that a lot of people
are right on the edge. They're just about to the point where they
believe they have to decide."

Blanco's Road Home program, born 10 months after the storm, has been
vilified by politicians and civic leaders as too slow to distribute
$7.5 billion in federal aid to buy out homeowners or help them
rebuild. As of Feb. 5, Road Home had taken 105,739 applications and
resolved only 532 cases, granting $33.8 million. At the current rate,
Road Home would take more than 13 years to complete.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., called Road Home a debacle. In hopes of
jump-starting the neighborhood rebuildings, the mayor has put in place
a gap-loan program to let homeowners borrow on their promised Road
Home grants.

City, state and federal officials have traded the blame over the slow
distribution of relief aid.

So far, the federal government has earmarked about $750 million for
infrastructure projects. The state homeland security department,
charged with distributing the money, has given out only about half
that. The governor said the city has been slow to complete the
paperwork.

It was that kind of back-and-forth that prompted Ken White and his
wife, Kathy, to give up and move to New York last year.

"We came back a