Canadian American Feist

I'd seen her back in November on Saturday Night Live and recently on the Colbert Show. I thought her to be reminiscent of my longtime favorite Liz Phair, yet unique in style and presentation, relative to her education and personality. Her parents are artists, a painter and a potter. Calgary, Alberta is home, but she has dual Canadian-American citizenship. On the Colbert Report, she joked that obtaining American citizenship was part of her deal with Apple.

I find her work fresh -- especially so due to these repetitious corporate popsicle times. Beneath her prettiest sounds, her voice betrays a subtle constant streak of discontent; her music's configured discordances promise clarity, if not truth, to the confusion.

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Sally Seltmann and Leslie Feist

One Two Three Four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless long nights
That is what my youth was for

Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more

Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, You know who you are

Sweetheart bitterheart now I can tell you apart
Cosy and cold, put the horse before the cart

Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up to one little lie

Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, you know who you are

One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, you know who you are
Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, you know who you are
Oh, who you are

For the teenage boys
They're breaking your heart
For the teenage boys
They're breaking your heart

Leslie Feist - wiki

Leslie Feist Home Page - Listen to Feist

Poe Actress Hazel Court Dead at 82

Hazel Court

February 10, 1926 - April 15, 2008

RIP

Hazel Court - imdb - wiki

The Premature Burial (1962) - imdb - wiki

The Raven (1963) - imdb - wiki

The Masque of the Red Death (1964) - imdb - wiki

Hazel Court - Corman's Babes - Poe Forward

Poe Forward Scream Queens - Poe Forward

Poe Forward Dead Girls - Poe Forward

Jenny McCarthy on Autism - Cognitve Shift?

“Her story, her son’s journey with autism and her efforts to advocate and reach out to help families affected by autism should be commended,” said TACA Executive Director Lisa Ackerman. “We are extremely thankful and blessed to have such an outspoken friend to TACA and families affected by autism. Her efforts will help the autism community in so many ways.” - TACA

Fabulous Jenny McCarthy has taken on a worthy cause. She is using her celebrity as well as her personal experience to further the fight against autism. She claims her autisic son has "recovered" from his encounter with autism, but not exactly "cured." On Larry King's show, Jenny described the process, using the vivid analogy: "One is never cured of a car accident, but one can recover." Her son, once damaged by autism, has "recovered" his abilities and shows no more symptoms of the disorder.

So, is this an example of a cognitive shift? Being ignorant of autism (medicine not being my field), I've always thought of it as some kind of birth defect that proves permanent. But the disorder is much more complicated than that. Jenny and her son's experience shows that autism can be treated with education, not simply pharmacy (to oversimplify).

I've always admired Jenny McCarthy for her Madonna-like genius with reinvention as well as her multi-faceted talents. I'm one of those who adored her short-lived MTV series. I particularly remember one Grand Guignol sequence with a mess of rats being hysterical and gory. Now that she has taken up this righteous cause, I am doubly impressed with her as a human being. Not only did she take care of her son instead of sending him off to some expensive institution, but she was the active agent in his therapy and recovery. (This can be considered the pro-active and responsible act of a human being. Bravo!) Further, her success and affluence allows her to be the aggressive, pugnacious, belligerent bitch and bastard that a crusader needs to be.

I praise her personhood, her motherhood, and her cause. Her kid's got a good mom.

Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey CALL TO FAMILIES to come to the Washington D.C. RALLY on June 4th, 2008.

A Note for the Misinformed: Jenny is not anti-vaccine. She is anti-toxins. She proposes better vaccines - vaccines with healthier contents. The propagandists will dismiss her simply as anti-vaccine.

Jenny McCarthy: My son's recovery from autism - CNN.com

Generation Rescue - autism is reversible - generationrescue.org

Talk About Curing Autism - TACA

Autism- wiki

Jenny McCarthy - wiki

Jenny on Oprah:

Autism - The Denial of Harm:

Jenny McCarthy Speaking on Autism 3/14/2008 - City TV: