Janet Jackson's Pierced Nipple

Actually I haven't ever done so. It is you who have the enthymeme backwards. Your assertion was that because you've made a living writing screenplays, you must know what art is. In the end, I don't doubt that you are the kindest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever met. And a damn good artist. Oh wait, I forgot. I don't believe screenwriters are artists. Filmmaking is too much of a corporate undertaking for that to be true. Now if you want to talk about the novels you've written (or are writing) whose vision will remain undiluted by producers and directors and actors who want to write their own lines, then I'm with you all the way.

Reading books (and I read more than you do) and having a huge music collection (yours is probably larger than mine but not by much) does not make you an artist. It makes you a consumer. An artist produces things which have lasting value in the world. And some films do. But only a tinkling few have come from Hollywood in the past ten years.

Anyone who thinks an adult flashing themselves in front of children is ok is a sick POS.

Janet flashed her body in front of millions of children. She ought to be arrested.

I thought she just showed a piece of breast. Maybe you're right. If you are, we'd better start building a hell of a lot more prisons for beautiful women everywhere. We can jail them in Texas with Flagpole Willy. Apparently they have tons of room to hide people. We don't need women. They are evil. Boobs are a sin waiting to happen. How about we cut off all womens boobs. Would you still be offended by them?

When did I ever claim to be an "artist"? You said my occupation proved I knew nothing about art. I said my occupation had nothing to do with what I know about art.

You then mock film again as "too much of a corporate undertaking" and of a "vision [diluted] by producers and directors and actors." Frank Booth, you're just making stuff up that sounds good to you.

Bad paintings don't prove that Rembrandt and Monet are frauds.

Bad music doesn't prove that Mozart (who I believed relied on musicians to realize his "vision" ... not to mention modern day music companies to produce CDs) is a corporate lackey.

And bad films don't suddenly turn an American Beauty into Revenge of The Nerds.

You generously allow that some films has lasting value. Let me thank you on behalf of screenwriters and producers and directors and actors and film "people" everywhere. We can now rest easy.

You obviously have absolutely no idea how the film industry works or what types of people participate in it (shall we list William Faulkner's screen credits, since you seem to hold novelists in such high esteem?). You're standing on the outside, judging an entire group of professionals in one of the most competitive industries in the world. And you find them lacking. We just don't measure up to your standards.

You are a snob, Frank Booth.

Art can be defined a hundred ways by a hundred different people. I, for one, don't need you to define it for me.

But while it is our right to create art, and it is our right to witness art on display (whether in a museum or a book or over the speakers of our stereo system), no one has the right to foist art upon us during a program which, by its nature, has promised the opposite.

So, in my opinion, Janet should keep her top on.

And, for the record (as anyone who knows me will attest) I consider myself a "hack" when it comes to screenwriting. But I do know the difference between R and PG-13!

I'm calling you out on all the world's population could fit in Texas. What? Dude you ever been to China or India? They got literal billions stacked on top of each other!

Anyone who thinks an adult flashing themselves in front of children is ok is a sick POS.

Janet flashed her body in front of millions of children. She ought to be arrested.

EXACTLY! What is up with that Jackson family

I don't like dem Jackson's either, except for Michael. He be white now.

BS Detector! wrote:

I'm calling you out on all the world's population could fit in Texas. What? Dude you ever been to China or India? They got literal billions stacked on top of each other!

Flagpole is pretty close to being right. The data I found had New York City covering 808.9 square miles with 7,420,166 people. That's 9,173 people per square mile. Texas has a land area of 261,914 square miles. At 9,173 people per square mile, 2.4 billion people could fit in Texas. So, you would need an area about 2.5 times the size of Texas to fit everyone with a density of NYC. That would make for one interesting city!

I also was shocked by the boobige TV. So much so that I downloaded it to study. I can tell you 3 things right now.

1. This was no boating accident.

2. Janet's got some big titties.

3. They're real

Texas rules!

morceli1978 wrote:

Flagpole is pretty close to being right. The data I found had New York City covering 808.9 square miles with 7,420,166 people. That's 9,173 people per square mile. Texas has a land area of 261,914 square miles. At 9,173 people per square mile, 2.4 billion people could fit in Texas. So, you would need an area about 2.5 times the size of Texas to fit everyone with a density of NYC. That would make for one interesting city!

Revise your stats a little. The latest census showed over 8 million in the five boroughs of NYC, the most since the 50s.

Of course parents, like people everywhere, have rights. Don't be such a pedant.

He has the right to turn his television off. That's about it in this case.

Thank you for summarizing your view of the overpopulation subject so neatly and precisely. Now we know it is a myth because you say so. The world needs more like you. Then again you already are a breeder so I take it back.

The worlds population could live in Texas. What Barbara Walters little show forgot was something called sustainabilty. If this happened the world would become even more familiar with disease, pollution, cancer, starvation. If the rest of the world was unmanned the state of Texas would have grave difficulty receiveing resources: starvation. The world's pollution would live in it's own smog: pollution, cancer, death. The short range for jerms to travel would equal disease: death again. In short, the world population would not live long. Janet Jackson's boob would be the last thing on our minds. We would be arguing about cannabalism.

Timberlake & Jackson should both be arrested under the civil statutes in place within the boundaries of Harris County Texas stating that there must be 3 feet of physical space between parties involved in this type of conduct. Further, Jackson is not properly credentialed to perform while this part of her anatomy is exposed. Hang em high!

Well boys, I am thrilled that you all realize the greatness of our state and that we are so big that we could sustain the whole world. However, let's kill this conservation right here..once and for all. We already got too many foreigners living in this state as it is. I got a better idea, lets send half of our population on out to California- HEE HAW!

Right on brother. Blacks and Whites should not be allowed to get physical like that ever. You said it, "hang em high!" YEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAA

What talent!

Yeah, I just found the updated numbers. 8,008,278 as of the lastest census. And it looks like 303.3 square miles is the proper land size (everything from 303 to 809 sq. miles was showing up). Given that data, there are 26,403.8 people per square mile. Texas' land size was 261,914 according to census data. So, under that calculation 6.9 billion people could live in Texas. Comfortably fitting the world's population.

So, Flagpole is more than right!

Anybody with a modicum of common sense would have done what I did. After having looked at the scheduled list of performers, I scheduled other activities for my children (ages 13 and 6) and missed "the show" by design.

It's like walking outside on a day in which rain is forecast and then complaining when you get wet. Yeah, it sucks but, what did you realistically expect?