Oh Equalizer where have you gone? Harrison turns his lonely eyes to you! The only man on TV with a conscience and integrity. Willing to help anyone with a problem. Now we have 2 Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother and Dancing with The Stars. The Equalizer believed in Justice for All. He was very polite, proper and never "Out of Order".
Got a Problem? Odds Against You? The Equalizer is gone, who you gonna call?
Now seriously, do you think The Ghostbusters could stop and punish a criminal in the titillating way The Equalizer could accomplish the task? The answer of course is a resounding NO!!!!!
Apparently, The Equalizer is coming back to the big screen with Denzel Washington playing The Equalizer. Really? Denzel Washington versus Edward Woodward. You have to be kidding me. If you had a problem or the odds were against you, who would you trust to overpower the bad guy?
Don't get me wrong, I really like Denzel and think he is one of the best Actors on the planet. But he can't be The Equalizer!! There is only and will be only one true Equalizer and that is Edward Woodward. Is Hollywood really so bereft of ideas that it has to continually remake old TV shows or old movies so they can con simpleminded idiots out of their money. Why not be creative and come up with some new ideas and new characters for the current generations. To me its pathetic but no one really cares what I think.
I do think it would be nice to have an Equalizer to take care of things when you have a problem or the odds are against you. Alas, that's just a fantasy, the real world certainly doesn't work that way and never will.
Last week a boy stabbed 21 people in his High School in a town very close to where I live. I have been quite bothered by the whole situation. Thank god no one was killed. There were some very serious injuries and several of the victims are still in intensive care. He apparently ran down the hallway of the school slashing and stabbing anyone in his path. I can't even imagine the trauma of those who were stabbed and those who witnessed the tragedy. It will take a long time for the wounds both physical and mental to heal, if ever.
What has bothered me intensely is why did he do it? Now only he can say what his motive was and he is not talking. Reports have begun to come out that this kid was bullied every day and had a horrid prank played on him in the locker room last week by some boys. He was "Teabagged", a vicious hazing prank which is very dehumanizing. So is this why he did it? I would say probably. Why didn't he tell his parents or a teacher? Other students noticed him being bullied, why didn't they help? He must have felt there was no way out. His life made into a living hell, every day going to a place where he was virtually tortured by other students, with no escape. Why did he have to harm innocent people though is my big problem. The students he stabbed weren't targeted because they were bullying him, it was random. I do not condone what he did. He will have to pay the price for his actions. It just bothers me that this kid was driven to this extreme because of bullying.
I know what it is like to be bullied. One year of my life was a living hell. I felt there was no way out.
I didn't stab or kill anyone though. I made the decision to fight through it every day, one at a time.
There was no one there for me. I didn't have anyone to talk to about it. It was the loneliest time of my life. I have some empathy for this kid because I was there.
"I want to live but I don't belong, I close my eyes and I see Blood and Roses"
I don't belong and I never have. That situation made me realize because of who I am, I will never fit in. Back then, not fitting in or belonging meant a life of hell and torture. Now I celebrate being different. I would never want to be some stereotypical cardboard cut out of a person. In school you must conform, they keep control that way. People who are different pose a threat to tradition.
There has always been bullying and there will always be. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it.
I don't pretend to have all or any of the answers. In many Schools, what I call "The Elite" are the prime bullies. These are "The Jocks", "The Beautiful People", "The Wealthy", "The Well Connected", these groups almost never pay for their offenses in a High School. The Teachers and Administrators look the other way because of the problems it could create by disciplining them. So the Bullies very seldom get punished and the bullied know it. Thus creating an atmosphere of a ruling class of students and the poor peasants. Until there is something done to stop "The Elite" untouchable class of student, the bullying will continue and there will be more of these incidents. Every school has this problem, yet so few do anything to really correct it, just pay lip service.
Bullying doesn't stop at the end of High school. It continues on through all stages of life. The more we do to stamp it out at a young age, the better off society will be as a whole.
"I've tried to live but I don't belong, I close my eyes and I see Blood and Roses"
As for this kid who stabbed his fellow students. He will pay severely for his actions and deservedly so. There is no excuse for extreme violence to solve a problem. In hindsight, I wish someone could have talked to him and told him things do get better. Got him focused on other things. There is a huge world out there after the minuscule microcosm of High School. We have lost another one and all of the victims who's lives were ruined by his actions. Will it never end?
The flowers of evil. The evil flowers. The flowers of malevolence. The flowers of malice.
The flowers of beauty. The beautiful flowers. The flowers of elegance. The flowers of loveliness.
Me, sitting on a ledge contemplating disambiguation and the flowers of evil.
A lovely Life Cover Model displaying her chic by wearing Cats Eyes
Even a cat wearing Cats Eyes
Oh NO!! They are multiplying!!
There is nothing comparable to the sleek, urbane, modernistic yet practical Cats Eye glasses. I have been contemplating their importance to modern society. If they had not been invented we may still be living like we did in the fifties with Donna Reed, Make Room for Daddy, Leave It to Beaver, The Lone Ranger etc. Thanks to Cats Eye glasses things changed in the 60's. If it wasn't for Cat's Eye glasses there would be no women's liberation and there would have been no Civil Rights movement. Because of Cats Eyes there was a Woodstock and man landed on the moon. Cats Eye glasses fueled the flower power generation. Cats Eye glasses initiated the invention of computers and the internet (not Al Gore). So every time you see an individual wearing Cats Eye glasses you should get down on your knees and thank them because if it wasn't for their continuing the in vogue fashion statement and tradition of Cats Eyes, we would all be stuck back in the Fifties never advancing, always on rinse and repeat. Long Live Cats Eyes!!
Hello, Hello, Hello, Is there anybody out there? I am writing this from the galley of the Marie Celeste. Seems awful lonely here in a sunken ship. Wait, am I alive? The ship is sunk about 1000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean so how can I possibly be writing this? Maybe I'm not really here and I'm trapped in another dimension. I could be one of the crewmen that disappeared from Marie Celeste, as she was found drifting empty in the Atlantic ocean on December 5, 1872. I must be stuck in another plane of existence. Its 2014, its not possible for me to be alive, yet here I am sitting in a sunken ship at the bottom of the Atlantic writing this. I am so lonely, I have the whole ocean and yet there is no one to talk to. Could I be in a hypnotic trance? Could I actually be living a parallel life and this is a temporary side journey. I know what it is..... This is actually a dream. Ok then, wake up, wake up, wake up, its not working, I'm still here. I guess I'll just have to make the best of it. I must find my way out of here. You know the mind is a maze. I am trapped in the recesses of my own mind.
I ask myself, what does the word Art mean to me? Art has always been paintings, music, theatre etc. Is there more to the word Art than those human endeavors? Am I intelligent enough to think there may be more to Art than "The Arts"? One of my problems is always 2 dimensional thinking. I am such a product of my upbringing and education. I wish I could think on another plane or dimension or be creative enough to think outside this box I have placed myself in.
@OdysseyNumber5 Art is what elevates you to a place where no one can touch your thoughts anymore, where you finally feel yourself come alive.
I think to myself after reading that, what a lofty goal. How many people have ever achieved that? Only the true greats, intellects and very special individuals have ever lifted themselves to that level. I know I am not one of those amazing souls who can achieve those heights. It makes me a little sad and a tiny bit jealous. The conventional thinking is always --- "Know your limits", a good motto to live by. Thank god for the incredible people who didn't stay with in the norm and achieved greatness. Art truly is more than just painting, singing etc. Art can be a concept that encompasses a life and for those special few, their Life is Art.
