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- Why It Feels Weird to Become a Fan of a Dead Celebrity
- Space Relations: When To Help a Roommate With an Eating Disorder
- The Daily WTF: Diplo Planks an Elephant
- Snap This: Taylor Momsen Flashes Her Breasts, Horrifies Us
- Warmongering With ‘Game of Thrones’: Baelor Works in Mysterious Ways
- Celebrity Lookalikes: Rufus Sewell and Mark Strong — How to Tell These Movie Villains Apart
- Michael Fassbender… Revealed!
| Why It Feels Weird to Become a Fan of a Dead Celebrity Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:30 AM PDT
Movies, TV, and books make it so that we never fully lose the people who directed, acted in, or wrote them: Their likenesses and their ideas are captured in film and print, and can be reproduced until the end of time. But there’s a difference between admiring a celebrity and later mourning his/her death, and not discovering someone until after he or she has passed away. It almost feels like your admiration for the person doesn’t count, because you never encountered him/her during his/her lifetime. Not that most of us see celebs in the flesh, of course — I mean actively engaging with that celebrity’s work, whether it’s perusing an article in People, seeking out his/her movies, or watching awards show footage. Bea Arthur died right before my old roommate introduced me to The Golden Girls; for the next two years, watching repeats of the show became a roommate bonding activity and one of my preferred shows to fall asleep to. But I’ll always feel a pang of regret while watching, because Arthur was without a doubt my favorite Golden Girl, and I never saw any of her work while she was alive. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Why It Feels Weird to Become a Fan of a Dead Celebrity |
| Space Relations: When To Help a Roommate With an Eating Disorder Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:25 AM PDT
Obvious advantages of getting the room to herself aside, this is a version (granted, a somewhat odd version) of a story that I’ve heard many times before. And it doesn’t just happen in college. I have another friend whose roommate in her mid-20s suffered from severe anorexia and whose ritualistic habit of only “eating” a single, giant bowl of the same salad every day resulted in near-fatal weight loss. Eventually she went to a doctor who told her that if she didn’t get help immediately, the chances of her dying were very high. My friend encouraged her to move home with her parents, which she did, but the sickly smell of salad-y death lingered in her former bedroom for weeks. I think one of the biggest problems with having a roommate who’s suffering from a mental or physical problem (oftentimes the two go hand-in-hand, from what I’ve gathered) is knowing how to help the person without overstepping your bounds. You KNOW that your roommate is supposed to do her dishes, help maintain a clean house and not have loud sex in the wee hours of the morning while doing his or her laundry. These things are understood. But what may not be understood is how to know when you’re “interfering” with a roommate’s problem – be it drugs, depression, an eating disorder – not to mention when their problem is actually interfering with you and your home life. If a roommate has an unabashed drinking problem that involves loud partying and hazardous, drunken interactions with breakables, you might feel comfortable casually mentioning that she’s been “wasted for nine days straight!”. But if the problem is more of a secret, like an eating disorder she wants no one to know about, when is it OK to step in and say, “You’re hurting yourself and I can’t watch it happen anymore.”? Related posts: Post from: Crushable Space Relations: When To Help a Roommate With an Eating Disorder |
| The Daily WTF: Diplo Planks an Elephant Posted: 13 Jun 2011 11:50 AM PDT |
| Snap This: Taylor Momsen Flashes Her Breasts, Horrifies Us Posted: 13 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT |
| Warmongering With ‘Game of Thrones’: Baelor Works in Mysterious Ways Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:50 AM PDT We had a bit of a break from the “major character deaths” thing on Game of Thrones last week, but this week it’s back full-force, and it’s a game changer at that. Who gets it this time? For that matter, how MANY “who’s” get it this time? Find out here! Related posts: Post from: Crushable Warmongering With ‘Game of Thrones’: Baelor Works in Mysterious Ways |
| Celebrity Lookalikes: Rufus Sewell and Mark Strong — How to Tell These Movie Villains Apart Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:25 AM PDT
Mark Strong and Rufus Sewell have it bad enough that they look like brothers: They’re both swarthy guys with craggy faces, piercing stares, and chilling sneers. But the fact that both primarily play villains in period films? That’s the pits. Here’s your guide to figuring out which one is the warlord, knight, or alien from your favorite movies. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Celebrity Lookalikes: Rufus Sewell and Mark Strong — How to Tell These Movie Villains Apart |
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I remember hearing about Douglas Adams‘ death in 2001; having never read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, my reaction was fairly nonchalant. Only a few months later, I happened to pick up the first book of the series, and I was hooked. Suddenly, I was filled with regret: Why couldn’t I have started reading the books when the genius who created them was still alive?
I was talking to a friend about this column recently and she asked me if I’d considered doing a column on what to do when your roommate has a serious problem, like an eating disorder. She went on to write about her roommate experience in an email, saying this:
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