1366: American Pimp

[Junkenstein]

your firends are sane. but he has fans. goddman even MEL GIBSON has fans.

[TheZman1]

Sheen is a has been, but he will probably make millions on his tour and get his own reality show. He will be the Ozzie Osborn of 2012!

[Junkenstein]

not sure about the millions, youre definitely right about the reality.

so sad that ozzy is mentioned in the same sentence as this guy, although i get why. Ozzy still doesn nice albums, though.

[DWarrior]

He's gonna make thousands

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

He's gonna make thousands

with the tour? youre probably right. its... depressing.

ADD: good lord the audiobook trailer is awesome. Pat's deadpan tone always rules.

[HeyAnne]

Marc Maron podcasted about how he was in on the planning stages of Charlie Sheen's tour. It was pretty interesting. It was the show with M. Showalter.

But I sense that he skirts some big issues by being kinda kiss ass and then at the end he said he wants Charlie Sheen on his podcast. So I guess he cant say anything bad about him even if he thinks it. Shame.

The promo for the audio book was so good. Many kudos to Lucas and Pat and of course to KATG for putting the book out there and taking it to the next level by putting it into audio form.

I am so dying to purchase the book and or the audio but I just cant afford it right now. When my ship comes in, THe Great American Novel will be my first purchase, forget the car payment or medical bills -- I need that book!

[kat666]

Yes. He is a hero to morons. and there are enough of them around to make him a very rich man indeed.

[MrBrit]

Speaking of Chris Brown and Rosie O'Donnell, I had to think about the recent interview with Mel Gibson. Remember last year, when an interviewer was asking Mel Gibson about his past, and he said that was years ago, and why can't the reporter just let it go?

I think the fact that the interviewer confronted Mel Gibson years after the fact counts against Rosie O'Donnell's point that bringing up Chris Brown's abuse years after the fact is an example of racism.

Here's a quote from an article from Feb 2010:
Mel Gibson's remarks fuel controversy - CNN

Richards then asked Gibson if he felt the public would receive him differently, at which point Gibson became visibly agitated.

"That's been almost four years, dude," he told Richards. "I've moved on. But I guess you haven't." Richards said he just wondered whether Gibson thought the public had moved on, to which Gibson replied, "Well, I certainly hope so. That was a while back, and I've done all the necessary mea culpas, so ... let's move on, dude."

Richards wrapped up the interview with a standard thank-you-for-coming, and Gibson, drinking coffee, gave the reporter a thumbs-up before muttering a loud-and-clear "a--hole" right into his mic before the satellite feed was cut.

[thirteen]

100% agree with Chemda and Keith about Rosie O'Donnell and Chris Brown.

[murple]

Originally Posted by GossipTGirl

Not all black people live in 'the hood'. Not all black people who live in 'the hood' come from shitty, abusive or single-parent families. The issue doesn't come down to race. It's much more complex than that.

If anything, that movie should have made you classist. Or you should be discriminating against people who come from shitty, abusive families while living in 'the hood'. Or any minorities/black people (even white people) who the system has failed.

There are minorities and black people who beat the system.

I understand why it would make you racist but that doesn't make it forgivable.

Anyway, hopefully you're aware of all of that, but I still felt the need to say something.

Originally Posted by michelle3

I completely agree, saying it made her more racist was hard to read, the reaction of people to misfortune and stress and their original ways to try and live through hardship is not a matter of race but a humanity "thing"- life makes some people harder than others, perhaps scary and violent, even dangerous but it is not a matter of their color. If people came in Green and Blue they still would most probably act in those (or very similar) ways

i am not racist logically of consciously. i understand that people are people regardless of race and that some people grow up in shitty situations, etc. it's just a subconscious thing i have noticed in myself that i try to repress/remove but it gets reinforced every time a see a movie like that or walk pass a group of black kids talking in such bad/slang infused english that i can't even make out any meaning.

also i am a guy.