celebrities are super wonder people
--Robert Heinlein
We're always more concerned with some one else's manners than with our own.
~Boguszen
Gary Coleman's death comes as the most recent wave in a long series of hi profile celeb kid fuck ups. Now the famous young and the young of the famous seem to start out with one foot over the finish line: important parents, wealth, connections etc. Yet they're usually in shit before 18. If a celeb kid grows up to be a average sensible person then other people are impressed. "So you're not in prison or rehab - wow!'" So what's going wrong? If celeb kids start out with one foot over the finish line then it's as if the other foot is caught on something. There's the rub.rich kids & star babies
It points out something that we don't like to face about success. We like to believe all that glitters is gold. So when celeb kids go haywire we blame them for fucking up. It couldn't be a problem with success - as we define success, which is pretty narrowly. Yet the incidence of rich kid & star baby messes is too frequented for there not to be some kind of relationship.
thought experiment theater
Maybe this can be made more acceptable if put in the form of a 'thought experiment'. How many of you wanted your dad to be Superman, when you were young? It's seems like a great deal. No one will ever pick on you cause no one can whip your pappy. Plus you get to participate in the adventure and heroism. You're Jimmy Olson - Superman's pal!Strangers without candy
Yet imagine, for the sake of our thought experiment that Superman had a child by Wonder Woman. Would that not be the most fucked up person on the planet or what? You can almost imagine them as an unemployed 30 something slacker bitching and whining in their support group. It might even sound something like this:
the adventures of XRay!
I grew up with everyone telling me how lucky I was to have my parents. It was like I couldn't get it through to them that maybe they were better off. I mean you just try sneaking a girl into the house when your 14 and your dad has X-Ray vision. "Mamma come here! I saw the boy sneaking a girl into his room, but he's hidden her some where and now he's denying it!" "Don't worry Pappa. This is a job for the lasso of truth!" The next summer I was in regular therapy. Not that I blame being tied up by my mom in front of my girlfriend is what triggered that! That tends to happen when you Mom's an Amazon.Or just try getting away with anything behind their back. For instance when our class had the big party I wanted to go. Mom and Dad forbade it. I tried explaining that all the other kids were going. That's when Dad replied, "Oh yeah - all the other kids? Well what if I use my super speed to create a low pressure vortex directly above the town? The resulting rain storms will make sure that "all the other kids" aren't going!"
The first thing I heard in class next day was "Way to get your father to screw up our party Fail Out Boy!" After that I wound up eating lunch every day alone in the washroom locked in a toilet stall. Of course I was never what you'd call popular before that.
"Diana please stop making a scene or this is the last time we visit your mother!"
Superman Family Values
I guess the only question left for the therapist to ask is whether Super Wonder Boy ever got laid? That's the same question that people are asking now about Gary Coleman. So whatever we may or may not think about the advantages that money and trouble can bring, I might just say that "Crystal Bowersox dodged an enormous bullet last night & in spite of herself!"
Wondertrash goes boguszen:
Money can't buy happiness, but allows a choice of misery
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Einstein
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
--Fannie Hurst, writer (1889-1968)
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
--Erma Bombeck, humorist (1927-1996)
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.
--Anais Nin
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I don't.
--George Burns
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
--Winston Churchill
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
--Miguel de Cervantes
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, and writer (1066-43 BCE)
The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far.
--Chinese Proverb
What are you so shocked about? Can't you listen to chords without knowing their status and destination? Where do they come from? Whither are they going? What does it matter? Listen: that's enough.
--Claude Debussy, French composer
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
--Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein
Einstein's three rules of work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire
