The Pop Culture of Gus Lequerica

In a country filled with contradictions in the law system as is Colombia is amazing that gay and lesbian unions are accepted, it’s another story when they law speak about adoption as well the public in general. To only way to know a country is by living in it and even with all the progression in terms of law it is a difficult place to live because unless you have money you will have certain stability in your life otherwise is going to be another story.

It’s difficult to describe Colombia because in many ways the laws are made in base of emulation of the European and American laws but applying them in the practice is another story. One of the recent cases in the country relies on a mother who has a daughter who was conceived via in-vitro fertilization and the mother is a lesbian who has been in a steady relationship over the past 5 years. She went to the Antioquia ICBF (Colombian Institute of Family Welfare by the abbreviation in English)  only to found that the Headmistress of the institution will contest the rule of the First Tribunal of Rio Negro to avoid the rule in favor of the couple.

The headmistress Elvira Forero argue that a family is only constituted by a mother, father and their children not by a same sex couple; even so if the worse situation happens the victim will be the child of the couple because she won’t be able to have the social benefits from her adopting mother and even so the headmistress argue that lgtb couples can’t adopt because of the Infancy and Adolescence law that explicitly says about how a family should be constituted and what privileges they have as a “conventional family”. So in one point of the balance there are some social progress in the country but at the end they are hollow because there is not welfare for anyone or social security for a couple that wants to give a safe home to a child.

Definitely not the average bear but according to Celebuzz.com Justin Timberlake is going to be playing Yogi’s life partner Boo Boo The Bear in the upcoming movie adaptation of Yogi Bear. Beside standing Justin with the NSYNC poppers, his solo career and his “movie career” which will be covering the facebook movie and now he wants to ruin one of the most beloved characters by playing him in a movie. No way; and who is going to play Yogi? Kevin Spacey? Time will tell. On a side note has anyone noted that both characters are similar in looks?

According to Sharon that’s how Susan Boyle looks like when she appeared on Opie and Anthony Show; I have to say that I love Sharon Osbourne because she is sincere but this time she crossed the line by saying that Susan looks like an Arsehole, specially that Sharon was similar to Susan before loosing the weight due the gastric bypass and several plastic surgery that took away Sharon’s donkey look and made her more “attractive”.

Here is a partial transcript of what Sharon said:

“I like everybody to do well. Even somebody that looks like a slapped arse. God bless her. It’s like, ‘You go girl’. She does look like a hairy arsehole. She is a lovely lady. You just want to say ‘god bless’ and here’s a Gillette razor.”

Sharon, learn to watch your tongue because you are a wonderful person and you were like Susan a not long time ago.

Watch the vid below:

After his homophobic and xenophobic speech Glaad isn’t buying Chris Jericho apology because at the end he was incentive and worn. I’m not going to say he was something about religion but it was something about his personal beliefs because nobody is going to make fun of something sensitive about the personal orientation or the heritage of some people unless you are a skinhead and maybe Jericho is that at the end a plain skinhead who don’t mind offending anyone.

GLAAD said that they aren’t buying at all any of the words of the wrestler because the apology was more offensive than the actual insult.

No wonder that after the Writers Strike of 2008, one of the most promising shows on television started to suffer a slow decay on his ratings because the network started to save money in order to produce Heroes (a show that basically survives because of the CGI) and now after 3 seasons the show it’s starting to suffer the Charmed Effect by cutting the budget that once made the show amazing and also cast members now it was the time of Adrian Pasdar to say goodbye to the show and soon in my opinion Ali Larter and Sendhil Rammamurthy will have the same fate as Adrian Pasdar because their characters are already burned out, so at the end the show will consist of seven cast members which making an interesting story about the characters they play will be difficult.

I assume in order to improve more the rating and to bring some of the old audience back to the show, the producers decided to bring back Jayma Mays to portray one of the iconic characters of the show that gave a stoicism perspective to Hiro Nakamura about his future actions on saving people and now that Charlie is alive again, much of the previous arcs are mostly annulled because of this red herring. The episode was ok but it wasn’t great either, the show is taking a more slow approach and it’s becoming more boring gradually to the point that every episode less people are tuning up. I don’t know how the paradox of Saylar/Nathan is going to be resolved now that Adrian Pasdar is out and really how the writers are going to keep the show fresh with little resources. I don’t know and I don’t know if the show will last for a fifth season, it’s a miracle that there is a fourth season right now. Maybe the focus that NBC should take is to give more budget to the show that saved the network on prime time.   

Check out this note, is like a soap opera:

A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.

Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a Sunday night car crash in Parana state in southern Brazil, police said.

As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day, which happened to be the holiday of Finados, when Brazilians visit cemeteries to honour the dead.

What family members didn’t know was that Goncalves had spent the night at a truck stop talking with friends over drinks of a sugarcane liquor known as cachaca, his niece Rosa Sampaio told the O Globo newspaper.

He did not get word about his own funeral until it was already happening on Monday morning.

A police spokesman in the town of Santo Antonio da Platina said Goncalves rushed to the funeral to let family members know he was not dead.

“The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing,” said the police spokesman, who talked on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t authorised to discuss the case.

“People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case.”

Sampaio told O Globo that some family members were not sure the body was Goncalves.

“My two uncles and I had doubts about the identification,” she told O Globo. “But an aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral.”

The police spokesman confirmed there were doubts: “His mom looked at the body in the casket and thought something was strange. She looked and looked and couldn’t believe it was her son,” Sampaio said. “Before long, the walking dead appeared at the funeral. It was a relief.”

The body was correctly identified later on Monday, the police spokesman said, and has already been buried in another state. He declined to release the actual victim’s name.

Douchebag President of Venezuela exposed his latest idea to save energy (after he depleted the funds of the Nation entirely) that people should go if they want to go to the bathroom in the early morning with a flashlight and he even said that everyone should have one flashlight in their night-table just in case they want to go to the bathroom.  He even so far to state that business should generate their electricity and that the government is going to track people how spend too much energy.

Sure like if you have one but there are no words to say how much you have drowned a country in the shit you have created.

Spanish born Colombian actor Pacheco health is going downhill after a treatment he received last month after he suffered a pneumonia attack. His health had a major setback after he was again hospitalized the past Saturday. Get well Pacheco.

 Left, Office actor Rainn Wilson on the Right a Goose; one of them it’s famous by laying  over his eggs all day long, the other it’s just a goose. 

The reboot of Star Trek won the Best Film Award of the Hollywood Film Festival, for the best movie of 2009 (yeah the movie rules and I’m not a Trekkie) plus Zachary Quinto was awarded with the Spotlight Award 2009 (given by the femme fatale and heroine of Lost Michelle Monaghan).

According to the Wrap, NBC is just one step to give Chuck a few new episodes and that by consequence all the fans we can have our favorite geek/spy back on the small screen.  According to the Wrap NCB plans to bring Chuck back in January of 2010.

This is way too much for Jewish humor or humor in general, maybe the ratings of Curb are dropping and the executives are hiding that fact but one thing is for sure is that Larry pulled a Peter Griffin.

Genre is not an issue of body but an issue of mind and influenced by roles in a society. A man is not going to be less of a man if he will express some emotions or say I love you, you are what you are but also society can be young an immature to accept more than the previously established conventionalism maybe as a society we have a long way to go to understand that the world is not black and white but it have all the specters of color imaginable. Maybe with Chaz Bono we have learned a few new things about the reassignment process that is not easy on a personal and social level but feeling good with your outside as you are in your insides can make you overcome with any challenge in life.

Is interesting that someone public as Chaz is giving to the public a more deep look about the process even if he wants to maintain it private it has become public than any other celebrity because of the interest of the media but even in that circus Chaz says that he’s starting to feel happy in the outside as in the inside because he’s becoming what he really was; but in a process like that, that is so delicate the person like Chaz can achieve a successful result with emotional support because after the operations there are going to be emotional wounds as well. For more information check here on the Huffington Post.

At least this one was a good week for Marvel since it fused with Disney; a few of the highlights of this weeks are the debut of Necrosha, the 20th issue of X-Force Vol 3 and X-Factor #50 Vol 2 (which was interesting even if don’t negate some previous time-lines regarding Trevor Fitzroy but rather gives more questions about the Summer’s Rebellion and Layla herself).

The last issue of the “filler” arc of Not Forgotten; nothing really happened in this arc and it was only a filler story before Necrosha began. The story itself don’t give too much to the myths of the X-Force but it’s rather an interesting exploration about Laura Kinney (X-23) and that she is more than the perfect soldier.

Beside that explanation there is not much to give to the concluded story about the Not Forgotten but if you want to wait for something good wait until Necrosha’s X-Force comes up.

This is probably one of the best issues of X-Factor ever but at the same time is one of those issues that leave more questions than answers but at least many of those questions regarding the continuity of the title and Marvel in General.

There are so many points to speak about this issue and maybe the first one is about Layla Miller; this issue contradicts with the previous ones regarding her clairvoyance powers, explicitly saying that those weren’t her power at all but rather healing and resurrection at the cost of giving back life but without the soul of the resurrected individual and that her knowledge of knowing stuff comes from a meeting with herself after returning from the future thus by creating a time loop/ predestination paradox about how Layla knew about a lot of things and from time to time giving doubts to everyone when she didn’t knew the exact information about what was going to happen.

The second interrogation about this issue comes in the bonus content where Franklin and Valeria Richards appear in what supposedly to be a cross over with the Fantastic Four but that is not the issue, the issue is about Valeria displaying from what it seems to be some kind of flying ability or some kind of telekinesis but according to the comic book itself we have to wait until December to see what happens.

On the meantime I will continue this entry tomorrow.

It seems old demons always follow old people no matter how much time has passed in life. Director Roman Polanski is going to appeal again for his freedom to the highest court in Switzerland after officers denied his latest bail request. Polanski who pleaded guilty in 1978 of raping a 13 year old girl fled to France not long before his final sentence was adjudicated to him 30 years ago, and now 31 years later his punishment is coming at a slow but secure step.

Almost a month ago Polanski was put in jail when he was heading to a festival in Zurich and so far he has been behind bars and twice his petition had been denied by the Swiss Criminal Authorities but his lawyers said that they are going to prove the opposite. Maybe they should think that we are talking about a man who admitted 30 years ago rapping a 13 year old girl and that beside his movies he’s been famous for that.

Even if today episode didn’t showed too much about anything I have to say I love it because it goes with the flow of the arc and even so far I guess what is going to be happening in the next episode.

The main topic of this episode was accepting your fate because there are something we can’t change from the past but we can make better the future; probably that’s something Hiro is going to be realizing on the next episode when he tries to save Charlie but Charlie saves him onto accepting his destiny and that the ultimate path for some of us is death, no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

The season so far has been running smoothly, the storyline don’t look hurry up and the ensemble is having more chemistry than the past few seasons; I have to say that the characters had evolved as well by showing a more mature point of view to their lives and well to their gifts, maybe now the show is exalting a more a realistic approach about people with specials abilities instead of following an extremely fantastic side of the comic books. One of the characters that has particularly evolved is Hiro as “he’s” no more the selfish individual of the first episodes but rather a more “stoic person” person toward his actions but without loosing the charming and innocent side that has always been present with the character.

Probably at last Sylar is heading into a more positive direction rather than the cartoon villain  that the character was becoming and I don’t think the producers are going to let go Zachary Quinto that easily by writing him off of the series after his popularity raised after the reboot of Star Trek; because the character itself looks regretted toward some of his past actions. I hope the producers and writers keep the good work for the next season and I really hope that all the episodes of this season are as good as the first ones.

Poor Sarah Michelle Gellar, one of the best actresses of our generation and her career ended after Scooby Doo 2. At least somethings in her life aren’t that bad, her daughter Charlotte Prinze was born in September and basically that is the good news on the other hand her career has been on the professional purgatory for over a decade now and it seems that she can’t be detached from the role of Buffy Summers (Wow not even Kelsey Grammer is attached to Frasier and he played the character for ten years) as well her hubby Freddy Prinze Jr. who hasn’t acted in quite a while.

According to E! the pilot of Sarah new comeback The Wonderful Maladys is in the development purgatory and maybe it’s going to hell because the executives from HBO are having doubts about choosing her pilot for the 2010 lineup and probably is not going to be picked.

I imagined that the script was bad and maybe the acting was so so but poor Sarah Michelle Gellar you need to reinvent yourself or keep appearing in Robot Chicken.

So there problems in the Karadashian / Jenner paradise? It seems so. According to FOX411 it seems to be that any of the Kardashians can’t stand each other as soon the cameras of their reality show finish the rolling.

According to the entertainment section of FOX one of the main detonators of the family feud was Khris Kardashian meddling into her daughter Khloe wedding with L.A. Laker Lamar Odom because she wanted the wedding to be rushed as soon as possible so it was filmed for their reality (Oh! Khris, life is not a sitcom) but that was only the beginning then it came meddling into other more serious details as the one where Khloe wanted that her two best friends were her bridesmaid and not her sisters, something that mama Kardashian changed her daughter plans and put her two other daughters as the bridesmaids to keep the perfection image.

Ouch! but not only that, also other people that work inside the show say that Bruce’s son Brody has developed anger issues and he didn’t showed to the wedding of his step sister, but the sisters say that they try to stay away from Brody because after the fight of Brody’s Jenner with a common friend of the family Brody has been acting erratic and the sisters want to make their brother to see the truth about his girlfriend. Definitely is impossible to keep up with the Kardashians.

If only Republicans were more sexy and less frigid maybe they will be more popular since the Bush Numero Dos Administration. If Meghan decides to run for President I can bet she will have many votes to her favor; but due the photo Meghan received a number of complains similar Miley Cyrus received and even so far Meghan was saying that she was going to delete her twitter account but Meghan you don’t need to feel ashamed of your body because a bunch of puritans said that you are a slut but remember to be careful because you are so a famous person, so better take some measures next time.

While I was navigating in Youtube, I stumble to this neat cover of Save the Last Room, any thoughts?