bates motel s1e3 ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140330223441/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/bates-motel/whats-wrong-with-norman-1x3/5/

HALLWAY, RUSHING
Norma: "...No idea if they found anything. It was one of the most horrible experiences of my life, I couldn't do anything..."
Norman: "Did they find anything?"
Norma: "Did you hit your head when you fell over on it? I just said no."
Norman: "Yeah, but did they find anything in the house?"
Norma: "If we weren't escaping from a hospital right now I would take you to a hospital. No."



HOME
There is something eternally teenage-boy guilt about the way Norman tears his ass up the stairs the second they get home, like just launches directly up the stairs as if she's going to beat him to it and find his dirty magazines or whatever.
Norman: (Whoosh.)
Norma: "What's up?"
Norman: "I have to change clothes and lie down and take a shower and do homework!"




p7
Ethan: "Everything should settle back down now. You want a beer?" Dylan: "Uh, yeah." There's a rustle in the bushes, but Dylan's fear turns to joy when he realizes it's a pheasant, and he can impress somebody with something for the first time like ever. Something about the smile with which he shoulders the rifle -- like it's turned back into just a gun, from whatever it was before -- made me realize I am pretty much completely on Dylan's side from here on out. Normal isn't always good, but good is always normal. /?/



p10
Norman: "Mother!?"
Dylan: "No. Just me."

For the second time today, somebody takes the remote away from Norman to get his attention.

Dylan: "Can I give you some advice?  You gotta cut that shit out.  'Mother?'  It's just weird."
Norman: "Whereas I guess calling your mom a whore is perfectly normal?"

You can look at the two of them on that couch, with the old owner's old black and white TV and just imagine them being real for a second. Or like, I already thought Dylan was a good idea, narratively and psychologically, but for a minute you can see how his need to be a man and Norman's desperate need for a man would collide in this way: Like another unwanted, unwelcome father figure, but one who -- being Norma's son as well -- actually makes more sense in the dynamic. Like maybe it will work out.   Dylan thinks this too, although not in words.  He flows, in the absence of Norma, toward his brother, and says the best line of the entire episode:

Dylan: "I'm sorry you tried to kill me the other night."

It's great because it sounds hilariously passive-aggressive, but really it's just the best way of addressing and describing what went down: Now that you've mentioned the whole "whore" thing, by the way, I feel bad that that happened and that I beat you down. But what is sort of brusquely tender in the moment becomes something entirely different.

Norman: "I hardly think I tried to kill you."
Dylan: "You came at me with a meat tenderizer..."
Norman: "Oh, now did I."
You can see Dylan make note of this and get weird and a little sad about it, and then stow that entire line of thought, all in one second.

Sleeper Cell [Showtime 2005-6]

-attica finch   Posted Dec 8, 2005 @ 10:59 AM
I've been musing on the Bennetton issue, and something struck me. All of the members of the cell either directly represent, or harken to, specific 'boogey men' of the more paranoid aspects of white America.

To wit:
Ilija: a Bosnian. Former Yugoslavia. Former Soviet Satellite. Commie.
Tommy: son of Berkeley. Lefty, liberal, flag-burning hippie pinko who doesn't deserve the sacrifices of the greatest generation.
Christian: Algerian. French. Surrender monkey.
Farik: Posing as a Jew. They can never be trusted. If they're not controlling the media and the banking system, they're really al-Qaeda!
Darwyn: Black. Dating a white woman.

I don't suggest any of this is intentional on the part of TPTB, but if it is, heh. If, as is more likely, it isn't, it just shows how deeply engrained these 'threats' are in the culture.

Just the idle musings of an avid TWoPper.
http://web.archive.org/web/20140407215938/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3129327-sleeper-cell/page-2

 re french guy Christian:
-how similar these extremists groups are.. makes sense /~does it? maybe/ that someone could bounce from being a neo-nazi skinhead to a fanatical jihadist. They share the same pathology.
--prosandcons: And same hatred of Jews. However, in France, his intolerance of Muslims was likely higher, made more severe with his skinhead affiliation. It's interesting that the writers have allowed him to make the miraculous switch to being a Muslim and partisan of the cause, and yet retain his antipathy toward Darwin's color (that's how I read their early interaction). It was like the writers were trying to use his former skinheadism from a strictly American viewpoint (racism against blacks), when in France this would be synonymous with racism against Muslims (the majority of blacks are North African muslims).

Excellent show. I'm loving this. Kudos to Showtime for finally reaching HBO levels. I really enjoy "The L Word" and "Weeds" and find them superior to network television, but didn't find them quite as good as all the HBO shows. 

8Dec re ep 1-4 'Scholar'
-prosandcons:: Anyone catch last night's episode? Personally thought it was the best yet. The religious scholar storyline was great, and Christian really seemed conflicted about killing him at the end. Sad end for the student. So did the FBI make up the story about him sending the anthrax to Jakarta as a cover? Loved the reveal on the plane with Ilija sitting there! Was hoping to see more of his romance with the girl from Tower Records but I'm sure we'll see that soon.



-At the end of ep. 4, the scene they showed again in the previouslies, Farik is aiming his gun at the kid's head, and then lowers the gun and fires, apparently shooting the kid through the RV's front grill. Is that right?
--The airbag went off, but I don't know if that would have been enough force to kill him. Maybe it knocked him out long enough for Farik to make it look like an accident. 
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If I believed living off of organic, wildcrafted, fermented aloe vera

v good takedown* of blogger foodbabe  and general uninformed pseudoscience re toxic food

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226 

by Yvette d'Entremont  whose own blog is Science Babe,  << check out. right now inaccessible, almost certainly bcs so m ppl fr gawker going to it. 

The word "toxic" has a meaning, and that is "having the effect of a poison." Anything can be poisonous depending on the dose.  

..It's a goddamn stretch to say that sugar has deleterious effects, other th stretch your lululemons.. 

The average adult would need to ingest about fifty PSLs in one sitting to get a lethal dose of sugar. By that point, you would already have hyponatremia from an overdose of water in the lattes.    

*  lots of v positive response: 

http://DAMN   // :)

-This is the best piece I've ever read on any Gawker property.

-Holy shit this is probably the best worded article I've read against the bullshit "GMO/Paleo/health/whatevers" Thank you.

-holy crap, what a thorough post this is. My impulse to snark is shamed into submission.  And also thoroughly outclassed:      

The other piece of writing that she unsuccessfully attempted to cleanse from the bowels of the internet claimed that microwaves are like small nuclear reactors, and they make water crystalize [in non-beautiful ways] the same way it does when you say “Hitler” or “[Stalin]” to it, because water has ears and a grasp of early twentieth-century European dictators.   

More posts like this, please.


-this is how you take someone down and thoroughly discredit them.


-http//:damn.                =  clickbaitandswitch to Yvette d'Entremont    4/06/15 4:04pm

and this comment am copying here bcs, maybe since still 'pending approval', d n show up among my 'recommended' posts on my page 'blog' [wh I selected to show recommended posts & replies, via drop down upper right menu > manage..]  -- though, okay good, does show up on private view, which I was pleased to find has list of all the posts I marked ('recommendations')

   http://hathawaygreen.kinja.com/private/liked

nb just ~signed into kinja yesterday, via ggl, so cld star/'recommend'/like comments.  

enjoyed being able to do that 'upvote' on Disqus wh signed into during TOB, also via ggl.  /note got a page re ggl open id being discontinued or sth? may want go back to look at th, bkrmkd frfx.

meanwhile I tht for a moment th maybe this cmmtr had deleted this, and wished I had noted 

bcs  I think is a good fair ~defense, not of foodbabe but of ppl with these concerns:

 -Another_Cow_Palace Replied to a Post by SillyMe8   4/07/15 2:03am

Here's the thing about obsessing about food: it's something to obsess about. And here's the thing about poo-pooing people's fake "allergies": sometimes they aren't actual allergies, but they can be intolerances. A gluten allergy means that you have an immune response to gluten. A gluten intolerance might mean that you don't digest it well, and there are some uncomfortable side effects to that. Allergy tests will not reveal an intolerance. Intolerance might be caused by all kinds of things, but usually with food, it comes down to enzymes, so lactose intolerant people lack or don't have enough lactose-digesting enzymes. My partner is a cellular biologist (and, unlike the author of this post, an actual PhD engaged in medical research) and he says of things food-related digestive problems, that, in fact, there can be lots of things going on that are hard to pin down, moreover, people's systems change as they age. You might have been fine with milk all through you childhood and adulthood, then hit middle age and bam, it gives you terrible gas. As someone who suffers from a mild form (so far) of Crohn's, I can say that just about anything might trigger a bizarre allergic reaction (inflamation and ulcers) in me, often in totally random-ass places, like my salivary glands two years ago. I absolutely sympathize with anyone who feels like shit and seeks answers in their diet because at least we can control our diet. For me, Crohn's episodes seemed to be triggered as much by everything else going on in my life as by my eating habits (and, ironically enough, some of my worst health has happened when I was eating a Pollan-approved diet. I hear some Crohn's sufferers stick to wonderbread and hot dogs, cause there's no fiber), but food is by far the easiest thing for me to adjust and see what happens. Unfortunately, as my partner points out, it's not always clear what the link is between a certain food and how I feel.

It's easy to roll our eyes at food obsessives, but lots of people get this way because they've struggled with fatigue, spastic colon, bad gas, and all kinds of other maladies and hope that micromanaging their diet will give them relief. Frankly, a lot of times it does, even if its just a placebo. I spent years feeling like maybe I was just crazy before my partner told me, "hey: the digestive tract is still pretty mysterious, everybody's body is different, nobody knows your body better than you do." My PCP scheduled a sigmoidoscopy for me, once, and during the whole set up, stripping down in front of this strange gastroenterologist, having her lube up my ass and then insert the camera, I listened in shame as she told me that I was basically imagining my symptoms, or seeing problems that weren't there. Then she saw the ulceration and scars caused by years of immune responses and concluded that, yes, something was up. I cried when she said that.
I'm a sceptic about lots of things—as I've mentioned, the perfect Crohn's diet is sometimes the very anti-healthy diet of simple carbs and animal protein—but I've had enough people roll their eyes at symptoms that could be life-threatening, but even when not that bad, are still major bummers. If I believed living off of organic, wildcrafted, fermented aloe vera would "fix" me, you better believe I'd be doing that.
If your office mates are trying to push their diets on you, fuck them, but if not, what's it to you?


another reply I like in this thread:

-BurleyQGirlSillyMe84/06/15 10:26pm

Oddly enough the toxin-obsessed starvation-"cleanse" people I've encountered also refuse to give up their Diet Coke. Like, chicken has hormones and fruit has pesticides and they can't eat gluten and bloo bloo bloo, but by  you'll have to pry that Diet Coke from their cold dead fingers.