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Do you have a friend with HBO who could lend you their HBO GO password? The CEO of HBO is actually cool with that.

Absolutely. I was so heartbroken for the families of these women, for the fact that we will never truly know how many women there were unless Lonnie decides to confess, and that the LAPD just couldn't be bothered. Their little press conference was such a farce. There was no tireless policework that went into this case- they found it out on a fluke! And the women didn't even know they were strolling the hunting grounds for all of these years. No one cared because, as the LAPD saw it, there was "no human involved" in their murders. And for the woman who survived to not be taken seriously because must have been a prostitute because she was black? So the fuck what if she even was? A guy shot, raped, and attempted to murder her. She gave them loads of evidence on a silver platter, and it wasn't followed up on for two decades! I just want to hug all of these women's families, that attorney, and the woman who started that coalition. Such bravery in the face of adversity there.

This HBO documentary aired on Monday, April 27th, 2015. It chronicled the crimes of alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin, Jr. Nick Bloomfield did a masterful job directing this documentary. He often allowed Pam, a former crack addicted prostitute, to take over. Over three decades, Lonnie is alleged to have tortured and killed anywhere between 20 and 100 women, mostly crack addicted prostitutes. The women weren't priorities of the LAPD, because they were black, mostly prostitutes and drug addicts, and when people like that die, they consider them to be "NHI", or "No Human Involved." Even though four women were shot with the same gun, with one survivor, the police didn't announce that there was a serial killer on the loose for over twenty years, allowing Lonnie to hunt these women. From interviews with friends and neighbors, to prostitutes, they all spoke of Lennie's creepy and violent behavior towards women. Handcuffing them, violating them, photographing them and sharing his exploits with his friends. While my favorite person in the documentary was Pam, the most effective part of the documentary were the stories at the end of the "unknown" survivors of Lonnie's. Women who showed up in his photos, but were actually alive who Pam and the crew managed to track down. They told stories so terrifying and awful that I was shaking. Bloomfield, through Pam, also got an interview with Lonnie's son Chris, who pretty much got his dad arrested by accident. When he was arrested and they took his DNA, they ran it through the database and found that it was closely related to the DNA of the murders. So they were able to get Lonnie's DNA, and it was a match. Chris seemed to have no illusions about his father's guilt, but was not a likable person in the least. He said that family members have cut him off for being a "snitch", even though all he did was get arrested and have his DNA swabbed and tested. All in all, it was a fascinating and disturbing documentary. Probably the best one that HBO has put out this year. I can't get it out of my mind, and I feel so much for the families of these women who were murdered. Just because some of them were prostitutes doesn't mean they didn't have families and friends who loved and valued them as human beings. And the LAPD really dropped the ball on this case big time. Lonnie has been in jail since 2010, and his attorney is doing everything possible to delay the case. It's a documentary you really have to see to believe and understand how fucked up this situation is, and how terribly these victims and their surviving loved ones were treated by the police and detectives who were supposed to be out there finding the killer.

Ben and Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch ice cream. They've replaced it with Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch, and it is just not the same. The candy pieces aren't as large, and they aren't nearly as tasty as the Heath bars. I also miss their ice cream with the bits of chocolate covered potato chips.

From the sound of the halterview, I took it that they had already found a home for the dog in the JJ family like they did with Daisy the basset hound. They seemed pretty happy up there, and mentioned her going to a good home. They just didn't show an update at the end like they did with Daisy.

Yep. That episode gave me rage tears on Pump's behalf.

I am somebody that loved taking on special needs pets. My bunny Pączki was born partially deaf, mostly blind due to cataracts, and his mother died when he was a week old from mastitis. He was a little bit of a challenge, but I gave him and his sister the best life they could possibly have, and they were happy and healthy bunnies. My Figaro is special needs now, with a thyroid disorder that requires twice daily medication, a special diet and frequent bloodwork. I would take in the eyeless kitty, the kitty with the missing leg, the deaf kitties and bunnies any time. But breeding specifically for a genetic problem is sickening to me. It reminds me of how people breed white tigers- who do not exist in nature- and then kill the white tigers that come out looking deformed. Which, by the way, is most of them. I haven't been left this angry at an episode since that awful woman who made her husband get rid of his precious 23-year-old cat because he meowed too much.

This episode made me so angry! Those children should not be around animals. Even when their behavior was "fixed", Jackson seemed hesitant to believe all was well. They treated poor Sophia like she was a rag doll, which made me wonder what was wrong with her! I mean, my Figaro lets me put sunglasses and hats on him to take pictures, but he would NOT stand for being thrown around, punched in the gut, or anything that child was doing to that cat. I still think those kitties should be rehomed because those children have no boundaries and I bet things went right back to the way they were with Sophia when the cameras were gone. As for Albert, when people purchase genetic abnormality cats like that, all it does it cause breeders to breed more of them. I felt bad for him, because he can't move like a normal cat, and he can't play like a normal cat. He would never survive outside. Didn't care for his guardians at all.

I just hope Zoey still has it in her to go get her Masters to be a nurse practitioner after all of this betrayal bullshit. She is a good, caring, competent nurse and that's the ending I want for her. Plus, you make so much more as a NP that she could live quite comfortably. I am rooting for her.

The one and only time my family went camping, which is the time that taught me to absolutely abhor camping, my parents slept in their own tent, and my brother and I shared a tent. It ended up raining like crazy, and the sun only started shining when my parents packed our shit up and decided to head to a hotel. So with my limited experience, I'd say it's not out of the realm of possibility, and my parents definitely were not Soviet spies because we're Poles and my family either strongly dislikes to flat out hates the Russians. But with Phillip and Elizabeth, it could be nefarious.

Imodium doesn't cross the blood/brain barrier, so it does help people with some of the symptoms of withdrawal. Two of them won't do jack shit, though.

I finally watched this last night, and I really enjoyed it. I've always been such a fan of Sinatra's music, but never knew much about his personal life. Everything about it was marvelous. His mother seemed like quite an interesting subject herself: midwife and rogue abortion performer, spoke all of the dialects of Italian so she could be the city translator... Very fascinating. From what I did know about him before, I was thrown when I learned he went from supporting Kennedy to supporting Nixon and Reagan. The documentary saying it was just to piss off the Kennedys was compelling. I also knew about all of the mob rumors, and that the character from "The Godfather" was based on him, even though it was a bunch of bullshit. That made me feel bad for him, as did that reporter that kept putting out salacious nonsense about him. Frank punching that guy was all flavors of awesome emotionally, but he really should have listened to Bogie about fighting a newspaper with another newspaper.

This is a bit different. These aren't movies that exist, but movies you want to exist, either based off of an adaptation of a book or play, or an interesting story in history. I pitched an idea of Hunter S Thompson's time with the Hell's Angels a couple weeks ago. He wrote a book about them and was ingratiated into their lives for around a year. So much fascinating stuff happens in that book, and the story alone (if done well) would kick the crap out of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Another pitch is not an adaptation, but a true story of a bear who was enlisted in the Polish army in WWII. When Soviets released Poles from the gulags saying that they could fight the Nazis with them, they said "thanks but no thanks" and took a long journey through the Middle East. In Iran, they purchased a Syrian brown bear cub from a young boy and raised him as their own. They named him Wojtek (pronounced Voytek.) When the Poles met up with the Brits, they were told that they couldn't have a pet on the battlefield with them, so they enlisted Wojtek into the Polish army. He knocked out an Italian spy, who then spilled where all of his troops positions were. Wojtek also carried artillery shells and never dropped a single one. He got paid in double rations, and he loved to drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and wrestle with his humans. When the war was over, Wojtek lived a life of luxury and minor celebrity in Scotland. Many of the Poles who were in his unit moved there too, and would jump into his enclosure to wrestle and cuddle for old time's sake. But keep this movie away from Disney or Steven Spielberg. It is still a war movie, and just because this kickass bear is in it doesn't mean it has to be sappy.

Michael K Williams is going to be starring in a miniseries on IFC this summer. It is along the same lines as last year's "The Spoils of Babylon." Can't wait to see him do comedy/satire.

Don't feel bad, I always sing "The Americans, fuck yeah!" when the show is about to start.

Amy Jellico from "Enlightened." She means well, but she is so out there that she would drive me insane. Kenny Fucking Powers from "Eastbound and Down." He is hilarious, and you can't help but root for him, but he is such an awful person. That goes for Stevie too, though he was corrupted by Kenny and only became awful instead of puppy dog pathetic in season two.

I feel bad for Katie Holmes, and I don't even like her. I am from Toledo, where she is from. I was in a couple of plays with her. My mom is a nurse, and one of her doctors was very close friends with Katie Holmes' dad. After a round of golf and some beers. he started spilling about how awful it was when Tom and Katie came to visit. Her parents were never allowed any alone time with her, because she always had another Scientologist or two in tow. Her visits became more and more infrequent, and she had a huge personality change. It only got worse when they had the baby. Tom refused to allow her parents to spend any time with the baby without a Scientologist watching, because they were afraid that they would baptize her. He also was troubled by Tom making her go as "Kate" instead of "Katie", when she had always been Katie and didn't like "Kate." Her father was one of her biggest helpers in her escape from the cult.

Did anyone find the post-confession phone call with Pastor Tim a bit... Strange? I am thinking Paige has some kind of relationship with him and wanted leverage on her parents so she could do whatever she wanted. The whole thing was just came off so odd and did not really address what we just saw.

After all of the horrible things John did to Cynthia and Julian, I hope she was able to find some peace in her life, and in her death.

Well it sounds like Mickey and Ian are breaking up, and I bet you it's Ian that does the dumping. Mickey would never abandon Ian like that. The whole finale sounds very sad. I hope that Gus dumps Fiona's ass, even though I'm not too fond of the boss guy either. He is just way too good for her, and deserves a wife who will love him and not just jump someone's bones when he's away or when her dirtbag ex comes back in town. http://www.spoilertv.com/2015/03/shameless-season-5-finale-advance.html

This episode left me in rage tears, something I never would have expected. I wanted Jimmy to go all Michael Corleone, kiss Chuck on the cheek, and say "I knew it was you the whole time. You broke my heart." But since he used no movie references in this fight with Chuck, you just knew how hurt and heartbroken he was. I am glad that Hamlin was straightforward with Kim, and found it touching and sad that Kim didn't have the heart to tell Jimmy the truth. I still don't like Hamlin, but I think he's less of a douche now if he's been doing Chuck's bidding for all of this time to keep Jimmy's thoughts of his brother pure. The whole final ten minutes were such a gut punch.

I was bummed about them not mentioning Narconon too. In Narconon, they will make people go into hot saunas for hours, until a black or dark green liquid oozes from their pores. They will pump them full of vitamins. They claim to be a secular treatment facility, but it is a Scientology front group. Multiple people have died there. One who died was a diabetic, and because of their no drugs whatsoever policy, they denied him his insulin and that fucking killed him. They have minimal to no trained medical staff at the facilities. Most of the people who leave Narconon end up becoming Scientologists. ETA I feel so bad for Nicole Kidman and how they poisoned her children against her. Tom Cruise is getting paid back, though. He hasn't seen Suri in nearly two years. Good on Katie Holmes for extricating her from that mess. I watched this documentary thinking at first "my god, how stupid could these people be to believe in such nonsense and degrade themselves for it", even after reading so much I've read about it, but I walked away feeling so much compassion and admiration for these people. The living hell that they continue to go through because of the Scientologists who are out there to ruin them is just... wow. I hope more people take Leah Remini and Paul Haggis' path and just nope the fuck out of the whole thing. There is life beyond this cult. It is destructive, it is a lie, and it is evil. And I think that David Miscavige is far worse than LRH ever was, as sick as that man was.

Bubbles' arc was my favorite in the whole series. He was my favorite character (Omar was my number two) but I just loved seeing how things turned out for him. Seeing him go from drug addicted police informant, to the guy doing the whitey sales and selling bootleg DVDS, to being shat on by the cops and betrayed by Herc who was supposed to protect him from the guy who was beating and robbing him on the reg, and then the death of poor Sherrod via the hotshot... It was all so sad. But he really did persevere. He gained some of the trust back from his sister. And when she let him upstairs to have dinner with her and her daughter, I started to sob. Bubbs was finally going to be okay. He still has a tough road ahead of him, but he has proven himself that he can make it and stay sober, and he will be okay. I was so proud of him that I just wanted to hug him. Andre Royo put out such an excellent performance throughout the series, and his storyline was my favorite for all of season five.

I have been reading the book it is based on and dying to watch it. I can't wait for tomorrow night!

I don't know if this would really apply, since it's more a translation than a reboot, but I will go with it anyway. In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson hung with the Hells Angels for a year and wrote a book about his time with them. Originally, it was to be an article for the Rolling Stone, but they liked what he was writing so much that he was able to ingratiate himself with them for much longer and turn everything into a book. He ended up, at the end of his time with them, getting the shit kicked out of him because one of the Angels was beating on his woman, and their dog came in and tried to intervene, and he kicked the dog. Hunter said "Only a punk beats a woman and kicks a dog", and the gang of thugs turned their attention to him. My pitch would be to translate his book "Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga" into a miniseries for television. It would have to be on HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Audience or Netflix, just because of the content of the book and the sort of writer that Hunter was. I would not want Johnny Depp anywhere near the project, even though he did play a good Raoul Duke in "Fear and Loathing....", this took place when Hunter was in his mid-to-late twenties and he would not be able to pull that off. The adventures, sex, violence and politics among the Hells Angels in the mid-1960s would make for a fascinating miniseries. I just have a hard time imagining anyone who could pull off the HST role.