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Tara Reid In Rehab

Samantha DeWitt — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:41:35 +0000

Tara Reid has checked herself into rehab. The Promises Treatment Centre in Malibu California. Apparently its the in place to do your rehab if you are a Hollywood starlet or in this case wannabe.

Reid’s representative Jack Ketsoyan confirmed the actress’s stay at Promises. “We appreciate your respect to her and her family’s privacy at this time,” Ketsoyan told People.

A friend of the actress says she headed to the treatment facility on Tuesday. “Her friends and family are supportive of her decision,” says the friend. “She checked in herself – it was her decision.”

Their is solid speculation that she has checked herself in after finally admitting she has a problem with alcohol.

She told People magazine only six weeks ago that she was just a social drinker who enjoyed an occasional glass of wine with friends. Clearly back then she lived in a town called Denial. Population. Tara Reid.

We wish Tara all the best for her recovery, and the positive press that these events usually bring.

Amy Winehouse Interviewed by Intercom

Samantha DeWitt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:08:57 +0000

Amy Winehouse, the trainwreck that nobody can look away from has been interviewed over the intercom, in 6 minutes of cringe worthy entertainment, disguised as journalism.

The Youtube video helpfully has a translation, if you like, don’t understand what Amy is on about.

Quick round up: she repeatedly says she isn’t drunk, blames Simon Cowell for everything that’s wrong with the world (she might have a point) and offers to bet $100k on the result of the next X Factor vote. She also proceeds to give what I am sure in her head, sounded like an insightful political commentary on why the alright singers get voted off X factor.

It is also clear that she still loves her husband, talking about his embarrassing taste in music. When the interviewer asks her if she is getting divorced, she says maybe they should run away together. With the paparazzi flashes going off in the background, you can’t help but feel sorry for her.

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We tried telling Gramps that gaming was addictive

Steven Hodson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:55:42 +0000

Well okay maybe not Gramps but with most young people thinking that anyone over the age of 30 is just way too old to be cool or a gamer I thought it worked. The point is that for the most part gaming has always been considered the territory of those kids hiding out in the basement playing something on those computers hours on end. We’ve all heard the stories about gaming addiction and how we need to rescue our children from the depth of hell and let them know that there is more to life than some controller or mouse in their hand. This has become even more prevalent as online gaming has grown after all people have been known to die in cafes after playing for 24 hours straight for God’s sakes.

However it may no longer just the kids that need to be saved from this life sucking gaming world. No, apparently even those of you approaching the “Gramps” stage of life are now in danger of being sucked into the World of Warcraft never to be seen again. In a post by Sara Boesveld and Zosia Belski on the Globe and Mail site write

It’s a growing problem as the age of the average gamer has risen to 32, said Liz Woolley, founder of Online Gamers Anonymous. And because gaming has more social acceptability than alcohol or drugs, most adult addicts don’t realize they have a problem. But it can have a similarly destructive effect on family and relationships.

“People are just sort of living on these things,” said Kimberly Young, director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford, Pa., adding that most gamers have a family and a good job.

Not even that but did you know that for extreme gamers it’s no different than being a heroin addict. Yup it’s true – at least according to Dr. Young

Dr. Young compares the most extreme gamers with heroin addicts who eventually disengage from work and their relationships.

Dr. Young said it usually takes a “rock bottom experience” such as a divorce, a pink slip or traumatized children to wake up an addict.

So consider yourself warned okay? .. and to you wives out there you’d better hurry up and lock up those consoles and computers. Not only will you be saving your children you’ll now be saving that gaming drugged out husband who is also showing you a lot of strange pictures he’s found on the net and just wanted to share them with you in private.

Yup let’s forget about responsiblity and self control as we all plunge into the depths of gaming addictions. At least you will be able to say the family who games together can rehab together.