Friday - April 11, 2008
Gossip Blogging?
How often does a regular blog like this get to steal a march on the gossip blogs? About ... almost never. And by “stealing a march” I mean taking the opportunity to link to something and post some snarky comment about some actress or singer. So ...
With just a click of a mouse, the image of a healthy, shiny face transforms into a skeletal portrait — a toothless grin surrounded by scabbed skin and a gray complexion.
This is FacesofMeth.us, a Web site that shows the brutal effects of what methamphetamine does to people. Its goal is simple: Use real life images to educate kids about the dangers of methamphetamine.
The site is the brainchild of Multnomah County Sheriff’s Deputy Bret King, who came up with the idea while booking inmates into the Multnomah County Jail in Portland, Oregon. King, who collected the pictures of meth addicts, noticed how repeated abusers’ physical appearances had changed horribly.Methamphetamine — a highly addictive concoction made from such noxious ingredients as lithium batteries and farm fertilizer supplies — is one of the most widely abused controlled substances in Oregon. It’s cheap, it’s easy to buy and it packs a bigger punch than cocaine.
(columnist) Rushkoff said that while the changes in appearance of meth users are horrifying, people are attracted to them because they’re of the addicts’ own making.
“This is reality TV to the extreme,” he said.
What, no pictures of Fergie or Wino?
There ya go. Gossip Snark. I beat them at their own game. I feel so much better now. These sites call these two women “meth face” on a daily basis. And they both have had drug issues in the past. Darn shame too, because I think both of them can be really attractive. Or used to be really attractive. Before the drugs and stuff. You know what I mean.
But getting back to blogreality ... This does rather remind me of the “Scared Straight” displays we used to see when I was a kid. Do they still do that one? I remember one was a display of a jailhouse, built into a mobile home. They’d drive the thing up in front of a school or a mall, and you could walk through and see all sorts of horrible pictures of prison life and prisioners, and there was an actual jailcell bars and all. And an electric chair and an assortment of shivs. Pretty strange. But hey, it was the 60s.
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