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Elan School / Elan, Scientology and Tom Cruise
« on: July 14, 2005, 03:36:00 PM »
OK, so let's get this straight.  You rail against what you believe is racism against Indians on another thread and you use those kind of words here?  Hypocritical, isn't it?

I realize you don't like me.  That's fine, you don't have to.  But I went to Elan too and we are both on this board and probably both have legit gripes with the place.  So let's learn to coexist, OK?  You don't have to like me.      

I think you'll probably say something silly and render this dialogue useless.  Prove me wrong.

I think some of the stuff here is creative and hysterical, by the way (Marty totally deserves it), but the attacks on other board members are silly.  It makes us look like morons if we can't get along.

Now, this forum is not about me or you, it's about the similarities between Scientology and Elan.  Let's get back to the subject.  Thanks.

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Brat Camp / What critics say
« on: July 14, 2005, 12:48:00 PM »
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the annals of parent nightmares, this one is near the top: teens who won't behave and, worse, become threats (bodily as well as psychologically) to everyone around them.

What's a parent to do when all else fails? Send the kid to a brat camp, a place far out in the wilderness (so no one will know or see) and get him or her straightened out, at any cost. In this primetime telecast, "Brat Camp," kids get sent packing, as it were, to that very same wilderness and the viewer gets to watch the kids' psychological turnaround -- every painful, seemingly sadistic moment of it (although sometimes caring as well).

As television fodder, this is old stuff: Maury Povich and Montel Williams, for starters, have been doing it for years, albeit in more sensationalistic form. It has great audience appeal, the kind that reality television folk love: the plain old, gladiatorial thrill of watching someone get punished, the rush of that voyeuristic gaze into someone else's distorted life.

The group of kids in this telecast, whose problems range from drug and sex addiction to plain old (but severe) oppositional behavior, get their due. And we're there to see every thrilling moment of it. More signs of the times.

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Brat Camp / What critics say
« on: July 14, 2005, 12:45:00 PM »
Orlando Sentinel:
ABC has perfected the feel-good reality show with "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The network has gone another route with reality recently, with some disastrous results.

Brace yourself for feel-uneasy TV.

"Brat Camp," debuting Wednesday, tracks nine reckless teens whose desperate parents ship them off to a wilderness boot camp to shape up. The goal is laudable, but the program turns voyeuristic and intrusive.

There's no contest among the participants on "Brat Camp." The unruly teens have been sent off to SageWalk, The Wilderness School, in remote Oregon, to be broken of their destructive ways.

The situations are dramatic and shocking. The therapists react thoughtfully but firmly. The teens comport themselves before the camera with chilling ease. Socially awkward Frank and compulsive liar Jada are the dominant figures in the two-hour premiere.

Yet "Brat Camp" operates on the questionable notion that intense, personal therapy can be adapted into entertainment for the masses. This programming for a summer night depends on confused, young lives that might be better off protected from a camera's invasiveness.

The narration often sounds too optimistic for the dire situations. There's a lot more at stake with "Brat Camp" than whether it succeeds in the ratings. It will take years to understand whether the children turned themselves around.

ABC likes to trumpet that its reality programs provide wish fulfillment. Yet you might wish that "Brat Camp," like the recently yanked Austin-set series "Welcome to the Neigh-borhood," hadn't reached the air.

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Elan School / Elan, Scientology and Tom Cruise
« on: July 14, 2005, 11:40:00 AM »
Have you seen Tom Cruise's rants against psychiatry and medication?  It reminds me so much of some Elan staff.  Especially the part when he says: "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance."

Kudos to Brooke Shields for putting that nutcase in his place.  Scientology appears to be really dangerous and irresponsible -- at least for many people.  

Maybe parents will finally realize that Elan's philosophy on psychiatry and meds is deeply flawed.

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Elan School / The Corpse of Joe Ricci
« on: July 11, 2005, 10:30:00 AM »
Jason, thanks for stopping by and thanks for your honesty.  It takes a lot of integrity to post something like that.  I think some people on here (Marty) are getting what they deserve, but I sympathize a lot with you.

I've heard good things about your musician skills.[ This Message was edited by: Pete on 2005-07-11 07:32 ]

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Elan School / Marc Rosenburg????
« on: July 05, 2005, 02:39:00 PM »
Dave,

E-mail me at my address in the Elanalum guestbook and I'll give you Marc's e-mail.  I'm not posting it on here.

Hope you're well.  I don't post on here often.  

Pete

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Elan history / Thanks Syn!
« on: April 08, 2005, 11:38:00 AM »
Glad you liked it, Maren.  I especially like the part about how you enter your dealer's pager number to pick up your crack.

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Elan history / Thanks Syn!
« on: April 07, 2005, 10:34:00 AM »
Speaking of Internet crack:

http://www.virtualcrack.com

Fun for everyone!
 :silly:

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Elan history / Thanks Syn!
« on: April 07, 2005, 10:32:00 AM »
Hi Art and Cindy,

I don't like the other board either, but I keep coming back to it too.  It's kind of like Internet crack.

Thank you both for your considerate and kind responses.

Pete

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Elan history / Thanks Syn!
« on: April 06, 2005, 03:01:00 PM »
Incidentally, that squabble is carrying on a topic bearing my name in a very demeaning manner.  If you must going to argue on there, please open a new thread.  Thanks.

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Elan history / Thanks Syn!
« on: April 06, 2005, 02:59:00 PM »
Please give the nastiness a rest!  Nobody needs to be "enlightened" here with "tough talk."  We're all adults and while we might disagree on some things, we should be respectful.

Remember what happened on the original board?

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Elan history / Debate
« on: April 04, 2005, 02:42:00 PM »
Damn, I just read on the White House Web site that Dubya's statement on Pope John Paul II's death also included the phrase "culture of life."  It's like he's trying to hypnotize us!

I really cannot stand our president.

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Elan history / Hi everyone
« on: April 04, 2005, 11:07:00 AM »
Hey Chrysta,

How are you?  Hopefully well.

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Elan history / Debate
« on: April 04, 2005, 11:05:00 AM »
Every time I find myself starting to agree with the Republicans, I get a slap in the face that reminds me what their party truly supports today: the values of right-wing nut jobs.

For me, the key question was, "Is Terri suffering?"  And at first, I wasn't sure.  But eventually I found that the overwhelming evidence states that  she wasn't.  From there, it is obvious that the Republicans wanted to subvert a Constitutional guarantee of separation between the legislative and judicial branches of government to appease the religious Right.  It's interesting to hear Dubya preach about "spreading freedom," while trying to erode it at home every day.  His non-stop cliche about creating a "culture of life" is a wink to his Jerry Falwell wannabe buddies and he even had the audacity to invoke it after the Red Lake, Minnesota school shootings.  If I were a parent of one of those dead kids, I'd be disgusted!  It's nothing more than political grandstanding.

It wasn't the liberals who made this episode a national media circus.  They were content to let Terri die in peace.  Most of the conservatives (demonstrators excluded) could give two shits about Terri Schiavo compared to their ideology.  Shame on them.

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Elan history / April Fool's Day
« on: April 01, 2005, 12:54:00 PM »
As many people who were in Elan with me can attest to, I have a big problem with organization.  I have improved on it, but never conquered it.  Needless to say, my desk at the PR company I work at in NYC is a mess.  Last night, I received a polite e-mail from a colleague asking me to clean it up  -- even though I'd already started.

So this morning I came in and the desk was spotless.  Empty too.  While relieved it was clean, I suspected the office cleaners (who had worked the previous night) had thrown away my stuff (including meeting notes, brochures) and other important things.  I also had two bags of chocolate candy (that I'd bought for the office) missing.  I turned to the colleague who sent me the e-mail and said, "This can't be the desk you e-mailed me about."   She shook her head.

So I was like, "Damn cleaners stole my stuff!"  I was mad.  A crowd of co-workers gathered around my desk.  I picked up the phone and started talking to my wife.  Suddenly, my colleague Charlotte said, "Hey, I found this Rolodex on my desk, is it yours?"  Then Michelle was like, "I found this pile of stuff on the boss's desk.  Then Takisha was like, "I found this on someone else's desk.  Does it belong to you?"  Slowly, over a period of several minutes, my stuff was returned -- including the candy.  I still thought the cleaners had moved it around.

Slowly, everybody popped out from their cubicles.  Someone hinted at April Fool's and my jaw dropped.  Then Michelle was like, "Love ya Pete."  It was awesome.  Then I started organizing my desk.  I can take a hint!

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