Jem and The Holograms Live Action Movie review.

I will state this, right off the bat. I am a big fan of the cartoon Jem and The Holograms that was on the air from 1985 to 1988. The cartoon starred a young adult by the name of Jerrica Benton, her sister Kimber, their adopted sisters Aja and Shana, who run Starlight House for orphan girls, which gets help from Starlight Music till Jerrica and Kimber's dad Emmett suddenly dies and his co-partner of the Starlight Music Eric Raymond took over the music company that Emmett got for his wife Jacqui, who was a talented singer who ended up dying in a plane crash before her husband Emmett died. Jerrica becomes Jem via a hologram done by a computer that her father Emmett created and from there, 'Jem' helps get Starlight Music under Jerrica's full control after ousting Eric Raymond from the company.

Now the Live Action movie that was done in 2015, Jem and The Hologram. The premise of that movie is a small-town girl Jerrica lives an unexceptional life till a video that she did launches her into a new life which starts to threaten her connection with her sister and foster sisters. Can she overcome it and become a great singer?

The Director Jon M. Cho filtered into this movie which I thought was stupid, videos from other people on YouTube, pulling away from the storyline itself. Even in the middle of one of the songs, you are yanked from the scene to a video from YouTube. Beyond that, the mere fact that he doesn't rewrite the five first episodes which reveals everything from The Misfits to how Jerrica becomes Jem. He basically recreates the origins of Jerrica/Jem and everyone else connected to the original cartoon beyond the names. There isn't any Starlight girls. Even Synergy was changed. Rio was even changed from who he was to being the son of Erica Raymond and not the long time boyfriend of Jerrica and the true owner of Starlight Music. Maybe that is why the whole movie bombed. He diverted from the original and made his own movie or that they used a different script writer than bring the original writers of the cartoon to write the script, they might have made the script 100% better and maybe that would get more fans to come and bring their kids back to another showing of it but the die hard fans of Jem spread the word to make the movie bomb as it didn't go with what everyone wanted to see the original characters on the big screen redoing the beginning of the cartoon series or at least something close to it and no one really wanted to see it with all the other way better movies that was released at that time.

I do believe that the songs that they did for this movie is the only good thing from the movie itself. Some of the make up that they did for the characters was really good like this one. Some of the make up for Jem and the other Holograms was good and something that they would do. I do like that Jem had flatter hair than before in the cartoon series.

The songs that they sing like Youngblood, the way I was, hit me up, I'm still here and We got heart.
Youngblood
The way I was.
Hit Me Up.
We got heart.
I'm still here.

Now, the original songs that came from the cartoon never made it into the live action movie, which would be great to hear them in the movie but I guess Hasbro couldn't let them go or something about copyright concerning them is why they had to do new songs. But out of everything, the songs that they did is the only good thing that came from this Live Action movie version of Jem and The Holograms and the thing is I liked the songs even if they were very original and they did sound like what Jem and The Holograms would sing.
And only in the middle of the ending credits do you finally see the Misfits, which leads you into believing that we might get another movie but sadly, I doubt that will happen as this movie bombed in the theatres and by how it looks it ain't a DVD hit either.

I would recommend reading fanfiction based on Jem and The Holograms cartoon as some of the stories there are better than what we got on the big screen like for example - Jem and The Holograms the real movie. (log in required to read.)
But the reason why the movie failed is because it didn't live up to what everyone wanted to see. We wanted to see Jem/Jerrica, Aja, Kimber, Shana, the Starlight girls, Rio, the Misfits and the rest of the characters, not characters who had their names but wasn't the same.

Anyways, thank you for reading this and tell me what you think.

Losing your mother before Mother's Day.

To those children and adults who have lost their mothers the day before Mother's Day, that is the hardest death you will contend with. No one wants to lose their mothers. Especially not before the day that celebrates our beloved Mothers - the mothers who wiped our tears from our faces when we were sad, shared our joys, our triumphs, our losses. She, our beloved mother never taught us how to cope with losing her.

We were able to cope with the losses of everything else but not her. She who birthed us, never taught us how to live without her. We always depended on her for everything from advice on relationships to helping us raise our children, but she never taught us how to handle losing her.

I lost my mother to cancer on May 12, 2012. I, freely admit, that I am a momma's girl. I loved and adored my mother. I never expected to lose her to cancer the day before Mother's Day. The pain that I felt losing her the day before Mother's Day was overwhelmingly hard. I was among family members on Mother's Day, but I wanted not to be there to celebrate Mother's Day as my mother was no longer there and everyone was smiling and happy, but for me. I was miserable. My heart ached with heartache that no child should ever bare in their lifetime.

Every Hallmark Mother's Day card commercial or seeing a happy scene with a mother of any kind to hearing a song that speaks of loss or love, pains my heart even more as the days, weeks and months and years gone by. I can barely handle listening to Oh Holy Night as that was my mother's favorite Christmas carol. Once, I was able to handle hearing it, but now, I actually had to leave the holiday bag line because of my heartache when I heard Oh Holy Night being played and then the line started to get really fast and I got backed up and started to lose control over my emotions.

I told no one on the line that I was hurting emotionally during that moment, I lied to everyone about my tears that I was crying because of the song, it was mainly because the song is . . . was my mother's favorite Christmas song. But the thing is, every time May 12th comes around, my heartache grows bigger each year as I get older, the more I need my mother by my side and I don't have her because she's gone.

People say you only have one mother. I say, treasure your mother, for one day, she might not be there anymore to give you helpful advice about love, relationships, how to handle your children or just to talk about your day. I wish that I had my mom right now as I have so much to ask of her that I never really was able to ask her before.

But losing your mother the day before Mother's Day, and celebrating that day, is never easy as your heart is crying in pain. No matter how your heart is grieving, as long as you remember the love that your mother gave you will be enough to start the healing process but the ache will remain when the sun rises.

eBook authors are authors too!

An eBook author Elizabeth York had posted a status message on her Facebook page about 18 hours ago, which highlights the need for Amazon to make all eBook purchases nonrefundable.
This is the status message that she posted:
Wow! I am completely speechless. I had seen one of the books purchased were returned and then I noticed more... Didn't think anything of it until I got a email. I don't even know how to reply.
"Ms. York, I wanted to tell you that your books are above par and you should be proud. I was able to read them all, but sadly I returned them all because they range from $0.99 to $2.99 and that is just too much for me to spend on a ebook. Can you please make all your books in the future free so that I do not have to return it?"
Sadly, we do not know who this reader is, so we can call them out on their blatant disrespect for eBook authors and report them to Amazon.com for abusing the return system. But they may state that they were able to refund the money to the buyer as they were unhappy with their purchase. Excuse me, Amazon.com, but don't you have a non refundable policy on applications like computer systems and the stuff like that? And yet, you don't have it for the eBooks that you sell on your site?
It is time for Amazon.com to start closing that refund length for eBooks from 7 days to 1 day since it would make the 'reader' really intended on buying the eBook. Seven days is way too long and it leads to abuse which people are doing and the authors are getting shafted by it.
Amazon has their frequent returner algorithm to prevent pirates from stealing books but they tend to overlook that if you put a time limit of being able to return the eBooks, the readers will have to decide if they want to keep the book or return it. But they would have known what the eBook is about by the preview chapter, they have no real reason not to keep the eBook.
The price that Elizabeth York priced her eBooks at is really good and fair price for an eBook.
The readers must understand that we, authors, may make writing look easy but the thing is, it can take years for a single book to be finished or as long as a month or two to be done. We work hard at writing and then there is the process of editing and finding the perfect cover and fonts for our books and then figure which format to put our books into - hard cover, soft cover, eBook format or audio format and then, we chose the price of either $0.99 to $19.99 for hard cover books.
Please do not treat us, eBook Authors, as we're not worth the money you spend on buying our books and tell us to give you our books free of charge, would you like to go to your job and your boss tell you to work overtime for the next two weeks and at the end of those two weeks and you look at your paycheck to find nothing in there, that is what you do to the authors when you return a book, we don't get a paycheck for our hard work. Every book you buy from us, a child is getting her school supplies bought for the new school year or keeping food on the table or the lights and the roof over their heads. So please think about where the money will be going towards before you think to return the eBook.
If you support authors of any style of book formats from soft cover, hard cover, audio books and eBooks, please sign this petition to help close the refund gap at Amazon.com - Stop the return thefts of eBooks.

Where is the child physiologist, who claimed it was hurtful?

To smack or punish your child is at now?

Where is this child physiologist, who proclaimed on TV the dangers of damaging your child's ego by spanking them and is he or she happy with the end result of his or her smackdown on punishing your child when they misbehave?

I bet that person has changed their tune to promoting spanks and punishing children when they misbehave as that person caused the era of non punished, misbehaving children, who now, in their young adult years feel entitled to get whatever they want because they were not taught how to respect their elders.

And it is all this child physiologist's fault for promoting the era of not wanting to spank or punish your child for misbehaving because it could damage their egos! Well, fuck you asshole! You just created an era of young adults who has no respect for anyone because they were not taught how to behave in public cause you claimed it hurt their egos if they were punished or smacked!



That is so very much true, the lack of punishing the children has led to a generation of young adults who think if they cry or whine long enough, they will get what they want from people, give me everything that I want for free. I expect that once they become parents themselves and their children start misbehaving like they did growing up. I can see them doing what their parents didn't do with them - punish their child when they do bad or misbehave, so they know how to be a respectable young adult when they get older and not someone like them.

Hopefully, that will happen with the next generation of children.
But that child physiologist, probably doesn't even really believe that their comments back in the 90's had created this generation of I want this or I cry entitled young adults at all. Unfortunately, he or she did.

Holiday becomes a thieves' joy.

A friend of mine posted on facebook a post about two strange things happened to him at his mother's house. A man wearing an Army jacket who looked creepy, no teeth and had a look of being freshly out of Meth look sneaking around his mother's car and a nice looking lady showing up at the door.
The first one acted surprised by my friend appearing swiftly at his mother's running car and asked, "Is this where TT and Bones live?"
My friend told him no. The guy left the drive way and went down the street. He turned off the car as he was getting the frost off the windows.
No more than a few hours later, a nice looking lady shows up at the door and asks, "Is this Emily's house?"
My friend said no and the lady walked away.
He thinks nothing odd about the two strange visits he got this day.
I told him to call the cops and give them the descriptions of both people. They're looking for easy targets to rob.
He thinks that the lady was legitimate, but he's not 100% sure. He thinks he should on the guy but neither of them did anything wrong.
I told him take it from a former caser (I was just like that woman would go up to houses asking if Sally was there and when the lady or man of the house would say no, even though how brief a look I got inside the house or around the house, I would mark the house a yes perfect to rob or no skip it), they were casing your mom's place and who knows they might have decided that your mom's place is a perfect place to rob. Call them even with the holiday season, people are looking for easy targets like your mom's house.
Be on the safe side, and call the cops and report it. Go ask your mom's neighbors if they got approached by someone asking if this was so and so's house or approached their vehicle. If they all say yes, tell them all to report suspicious activity done by these two people. Who knows, you might be able to get them to catch these two before they break in and rob someone of their valuables or their own lives in their homes.

Needless to state, my friend did neither.

But the facts are clear, the guy wearing the Army jacket was going to probably steal my friend's mother's car, which my friend prevented by running out when he did, the woman coming to the door, well, my friend is not sure if she was casing his mother's home or not, so he thinks nothing odd about that.

With the holidays fast approaching in another 19 days, thieves are casing people's homes to see which one is ripe for the harvest of their belongings and if the homeowner is there, the homeowner might be killed during the robbery. Whenever someone approaches your home and you don't know them and you see them coming. Go out immediately but look like you're heading out with your cell phone out, don't wait till they come to the door to answer it. Approaching them and without alerting them to anything wrong, try to snap pictures of the person. They may ask if this house belongs to Emily or someone else and when you say no, they would turn and walk away. Follow them to the street and if they get into a vehicle, snap pictures of the vehicle too. Go back inside and use your landline to call the police to report someone strange visiting your home and you fear it may be a person casing your home to rob from it.
Go to your neighbors and ask them if they saw anyone come to their door asking if this was so and so's home and when the homeowner says no, the person walks away. Tell them to call the police and report it to them as the person is possibly casing the neighborhood seeking an easy house to break in and rob.
Also, when you take out your trash after Christmas, leave the big ticket items in your garage and wait till the trash man to come if possible and take it out to them personally, so the thieves don't write down your address as having a new big screen TV or some big ticket item that they would want to steal.
Be aware of strangers showing up at your door around the Holidays.
Keep safe.

Christmas bag line at work.

At my job, we have our Christmas party, along with our holiday bonuses which is funded by a huge Christmas Holiday bags that is sent to two different states' prisons - this year I have been on the line unlike the last two lines, when I haven't been on it very often as I ended up getting sick and had to miss days.

This time, I've been on both the fast line and slower line, which they started to do for this year. I was at the sealing of the bags for both lines, in the middle of both lines and only at the beginning of the slow line, which I hope to be on this coming Monday.

The first set of bags that went out was good, not a lot of items went into them so we got that done within a good amount of time. Our next set of bags, well, we had miscommunications on both lines which resulted in twenty skids being held back as they all need to be redone, which I believe was done today by those who were asked to come in today to finish that refixing job up.

We have only a week and a day to get the rest of the skids done and sent out. I hope we get them all done in time as we didn't last time.

Trouble with stray horses.

This was an old article that I had written and never published, back in 2009.

This deals with horse slaughter and the horses that no one wants.

Trouble with stray horses.

The horses that are now in need is those who are being abandoned by their owners because horse slaughter is banned here in America. Now there are too many horses and with the ecomony the way it is, people are dumping perfectly healthy or sick horses in places hoping that they would go wild. What they are doing is causing a bigger headache for everyone else. If you cannot sell your horse and you have tried lowering your price, consider putting them down humanely instead of dumping them off at locations where you think they would adapt, these horses are not wild horses, these horses are once your friend and now you think abandoning them in the woods and the plains would help them? No, it doesn't help them, it hurts them more than you know.

If you can afford a cup of coffee at Starbucks or a carton of cigarettes every week and then you cry about how much horse feed is, maybe you should stop buying those cups of coffee at Starbucks or those cartons of cigarettes and watch how much money you save by doing that. And if you don't want to give up your precious cups of burnt coffee at Starbucks or your cancer sticks, then you do not deserve to have horses!

Guess what I gave up for my horses! My 24 cans of soda that I would buy every three days for good in 2005, I saved over two hundred dollars in two months. I decided to no longer drink any soda at all. I saved enough money to feed and take my horses to the vet and have their hooves done. The money I saved now goes for my horses.

If you want to keep your horses, you have to give up something like drinking $5 cups of coffee, $3 sodas or a $33 carton of smokes and put the money you would have spent on that into a jar and at the end of the month, count how much money you have saved and then add up everything you give to your horses in food for one month and you probably have in that jar enough for a month and a half of food for your horses.

But if you cannot afford to keep your horses and you do not want to give up your coffee, soda, or smokes, you might as well sell them. If they wouldn't go for the price you set, consider lowering your price to where they would sell or find a rescue that will take them in to rehome them.

But do not trailer them to the woods and release them thinking that they will do better in the wild than with you, that is chicken sh*t of you. They do not deserve to be dumped off like rubbish, they loved you and you loved them, give them to someone who wants them either by leasing them to them or selling them, but for the love of God, do not abandon them anywhere. They deserve better than that!

I saved a throwaway horse who was 28 years old and was destined for a bullet in his head. This guy was that throwaway horse. I kept him alive till he was 35 years old before I had to say farewell to him. This old horse loved me because I cared for him and I gave him my love. I didn't dump him and let him live his life in the wild. I took him in and cared for him till the day he died.

These two photos are of the throwaway horse at age 28. He may have been old but he was well loved by me.

This is his gravestone that I got for him after his death at age 35.

I miss you Red!