My Name’s Roger And I Have No Sense of Irony

Posted on October 3, 2009 by speedy0314

Opening line from Roger (recently self-outed AA-bot) Ebert’s review of the movie “Zombieland”:

“There’s no getting around it: Zombies are funny.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

ADDENDUM: A zombie apocalypse would be another alternative to AA.  Or zombie AA’s wandering the world searching for ‘alcoholic’ souls to save & brains to eat.  That would kick ass.

Filed under: 12-Step AAll-Stars, Gratuitous AA Bashing, In other news, Sicker than Others, kiss my ass

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4 Responses

  1. joedrywall, on November 18th, 2009 at 6:27 pm Said:

    I wonder if Ebert has done a review on the movie Over the GW?

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  2. joedrywall, on November 23rd, 2009 at 7:58 pm Said:

    In case you havent seen Over the GW, the links are below, as well as a link to a documentary about the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Center, in Calgary which is basically the same.
    Just recently finsished reading Help At Any Cost by Maia Szalvitz, a must read.
    Take Care

    http://www.zshare.net/video/538102074c598a22
    http://www.zshare.net/video/53809471224eb452/

    http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/powerless/aarc_study.html

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    • speedy0314, on November 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 pm Said:

      joe,

      after watching the trailer for “Over The GW” i was going to recommend szalavitz’s work to you. maia’s a former stepper whose work on the ‘tough love’ (i.e., relentless 12 step & 12 step oriented degradation) approach for addicted teens — and its complete failure to produce even the smallest positive results — is invaluable.

      ebert is so full of the kool-ade that he almost certainly couldn’t review the film with any degree of objectivity. i can’t render an opinion on it myself — not having seen it in its entirety. i wouldn’t trust ebert’s opinion on looking both ways before crossing the street.

      speedy

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  3. joedrywall, on November 26th, 2009 at 10:00 pm Said:

    This is:

    Nick Gaglia Capitol Hill Presentation

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZX8xM1b01Q

    There is another movie called Aaron Bacon (which I have not yet seen), which is also explained in Help At Any Cost by Szalavitz. All of these rehabs find their origins from Synanon according to Szalavitz.

    Heavy hitting stuff

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