Birth of a Maverick

Happy birthday to J*Goose and to Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. Hey, don't believe the hype, kids. Another version of the truth.
+++Apparently, some disgruntled ON THE LOT kids decided to do something proactive and erected a competing contest. More power to them.
+++Anybody seen a documentary called "The Alcohol Years"? It's on the DVR now, I'm in the middle of watching it. This girl has some wild fucking years in a particular social scene... then comes back years later to interview all these people she used to hang with. (Mostly blokes she porked! HEY-OHHH!) I need to find a nice girl like that.
+++Musical theater kids scare the crap out of me, on many levels. Maybe it's them knowing all those hoary musicals by heart, like idiot savants. Maybe it's that extra bit of showiness in their "regular" personalities, that just makes your blood curdle a little. This is another doc on my DVR. Worth seeing. Sorta sad, on account of them just being, like, kids, you know? But then, not sad. :-D You're in for a harsh reality, chillun!
+++This is just fer J:/Goose, since nobody else here cares for these "ride" videos. In Disneyland—for X-mas—they give THE HAUNTED MANSION an extreme NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS makeover. I thought it was just external set-dressing, but apparently it's a completely different version of the ride:

I KNOW, right??

But hey, you wanna see something really creepy???

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