About My Blog.

Welcome! This is "Catatonic Digressions."
Most readers don't understand my blog's title. It's an old inside joke from a forum long gone. I was going to change it, but since it's been "confusing" for so long, I decided to leave it. Don't worry about what it means, the content of the blog is what matters...or not

Unfortunately, my blog isn't what I set out for it to be. A sick woman in Orleans, MA began stalking me in 2007 on Myspace. Since that time, this woman obsessed over me to the point of having the police come to her home and threaten to confiscate her laptop. She is a racist and anti-Semite.I could no longer blog freely, knowing this nutbag was just going to take the photos I'd post and put them on a child exploitation website.

This site is only up for the information it has that others might need to know about. That information is about "Seal Shepherd" aka Michael McDade, Kat McAboy aka Marilyn McAboy and Veronika Hompo, a self-proclaimed Nazi.


I'm a real person. I'm real and I don't pretend to be someone I'm not. After years of putting up with online abuse by manipulative, pathological liars, attention whores or narcissists, I've had it. Don't bother me with pathetic drama. I have no time for these types of people and their need to absorb others' time and attention.

This blog is no longer used. I've retired it for the most part unless something very important comes up.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Sick Pervert.

Insanities on the Internets!: Marilyn McAboy — The Improper Adoptee — is a Cyberpath, Cyberbully, Cyberpsycho and Sicko!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Infinite Cat Project

My cat Stella, full name Stella Blu (last name left off for privacy), wanted me to remind everyone that she is featured on the site The Infinite Cat Project.

Stella is Cat #1306: Stella Blu investigating Hiski watching Tupot...





Presented by Mike Stanfill, Private Hand
Illustration, Flash Animation, Web Design
www.privatehand.com 


The site is quite fun, so go take a look!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

ANNOYING: My Cyberstalker Bully is Far Too Paranoid to be "Normal"…

Insanities on the Internets!: My Cyberstalker Bully is Far Too Paranoid to be "Normal"…

Or, “I cant blog freely because a CYBERPATH and her bored to death mega-loser friend in Texas are abnormally obsessed with me."
(…and I'm leaving the list seriously short.)

It's not as if I'm posting about my son's next BM or want to, but I'd like to be able to blog about my family, friends and even my cats, yet I'm not able to until this lunatic get off my fucking ass and finds herself something else to do rather than harass and abuse people, and her little (large) puppet-pal stops lurking for whatever paranoid or reporting reasons. Jesus, give me a break!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

“Dude, You're Skinny!”

WOOOOO! I am a size smaller, yes, SMALLER than  before I got pregnant with Harry. I am also a few pounds less, which is a big deal for someone who has dealt with weight issues her entire life. I've always had to be on a diet, and to weigh less than I did before I was pregnant is amazing! Now I just have to hit the NYSC (gym) and work out regularly to tone up the area where the c-section was done, because I'm not an exact size. I'm a size 5 trapped wearing 7's. The 7's are so loose on my thighs and calves, even my butt. I hate that. :( The bagginess on my thighs is the worst thing.

Most of my old clothes are size 5 (I wear Juniors clothing, not womens), but I do have a good amount of size 7 to hold me over. I also have a few bins of size 3 and smaller. I have no intention of aiming for size 0 again. Maintaining a size 0 was far too much work. As much as I love my size 0 clothing, I couldn't see myself preparing special meals for myself and for others on top of making sure I get enough cardio to keep myself into those teeny tiny clothes. 

Knowing I'm almost a size 5 is enough for me :) Hearing a friend say, "Dude, you're skinny!" was really uplifting. Add to that positive little blurb the fact that someone said, "I thought you were in your mid-thirties like me!" and you have enough compliments to keep you boosted for the month...or more ;)


An afterthought, and a plug for a really cool jean company. When I saw KIX perform live this past summer here on Long Island, Brian Forsythe was wearing the coolest cords I ever saw. Well, I found them, and I want them. They're expensive, but I bet they're worth it. The jeans were by Marc Vachon, and at first glance, I assumed they were a pair of Brian's vintage jeans.

This is the pair I wanted to buy a couple of months ago. they were well over a $100. (I think they were around $175., but I could be wrong!), and now they're only $99. each. Yes, ha ha ha @ ONLY!

THE COSMO CORD: A true rock and roll classic. Revamped and better than ever, our Cosmo cord is now being made with the best quality corduroy and die-hards will love the new durable velvety fabric. Perfect on men and women, these pants are truly becoming a cult favorite and we don't just mean Billy's band. Made in U.S.A.

Available in sizes:
26-34 inch lower waist
8"-9" rise
36" inseam

STOCK UP Sale Price:
99.00

MADE IN U.S.A. <--That means a lot these days. Also check out The Brazilian.
The Vachon Brazilian is still as popular as it was when MV introduced it back in 2001. It is the most comfortable, sexiest pant on the planet. Just ask Mariah, Christina or Dot. Made of velvety stretch cord with the Vachon flare. SUPER LOW RISE, so measure up 6 inches to figure out what size you take in this style.

Made in U.S.A.
34 inch inseam
165.00

Saturday, February 07, 2009

“Hey, you guyyyyys!” The Electric Company

I've been sick all week (very high fever, chills, bad coughing, stuffed head, etc.), and my father is back in the hospital because even though his lung cancer tumor shrunk, which is great news, the brain tumor grew a microscopic bit, enough to cause a seizure. The seizure won't stop until they can do something about the tumor. We won't know what they decide until Monday, so until then, I just have to try to get myself better so I can visit him, and keep my mind busy.

I wanted to write about The Electric Company this week, but haven't had time. I'll add my own writing to thing blog entry when everything settles down. 

For the lurkers who are stalking for The Improper Adoptee: YES, cancer can spread in any direction. Don't believe a pathological liar. She keeps insisting my father doesn't have cancer because she says cancer doesn't spread UP. When Marilyn Mcaboy, who cannot even spell or use proper grammar, produces her medical licence, then believe her nonsense. ALL of it, that is.

PBS Revives a Show That Shines a Light on Reading

By MICHAEL DAVIS
Published: May 12, 2008

Steady work has been scarce for actors in gorilla suits since “The Electric Company” went dark in 1977.

But all that changes this week as shooting begins in Washington Heights and the Lower East Side on an ambitious reboot of the PBS literacy series that turned on a generation of schoolchildren to the rudiments of reading. The first graduates of “Sesame Street” found in “The Electric Company” a companion piece that relied on pun-filled sketches, Spider-Man cameos, and lots of primate shtick, all backed by a Motown beat.

Refitted for the age of hip-hop and informed by decades of further educational research on reading, the 2009 version of “The Electric Company” is a weekly, more danceable version of its former daily self. The series, which is expected to make its debut in January, faces challenges the original never did (trying to stand out amid so much children’s programming and to shake the stigma of educational television) as well as familiar ones (trying to make reading a positive experience for youngsters).

“It’s the old one mixed with ‘High School Musical’ and a Dr Pepper commercial,” said Linda Simensky, senior director of programming for PBS Kids, a block of children’s shows that will include “The Electricity Company.” There’s a touch of “Fame” to it, given its cast of culturally diverse city kids who sing and dance, as well as nods to the original series. (A cameo has been offered to Rita Moreno, a regular on the original “Electric Company,” remembered for her show-opening exultation, “Hey, you guyyyyys!”)

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit media corporation formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop, will once again produce. As before, when the show began in 1971, it is still directed at viewers 6 to 9 years old.

Ms. Simensky, 44, said the rebirth would be happy news for the Garanimals generation. “ ‘The Electric Company’ was my favorite show in third grade, along with Bugs Bunny,” she said.

In keeping with the original show’s ties to theater (many in the cast, like Morgan Freeman, had stage backgrounds), the new head writer is a Tony-Award-nominated playwright and lyricist, Willie Reale, with experience in children’s theater (“A Year With Frog and Toad”).

In the first episode Mr. Reale establishes the show’s conceit: Somewhere in the big city lies a natural-foods diner that is headquarters to a not-so-secret society known as the Electric Company. The four semi-superheroes who meet there — Keith, Jessica, Lisa and Hector — have pledged not only to use their powers for good but also to eat sensible portions of healthy meals. The gang ranges in age from 13 to 20 and can scramble, recall, project and animate words in astounding ways.

Plotting nefariously is a clutch of comical misfits and poseurs known as the Pranksters. “They’re villains without being villainous,” said Scott Cameron, the show’s research director, “just neighborhood kids who cause chaos.”

The show will join an expanding lineup of reading-readiness shows on PBS Kids. It will differ from the original in that each episode will emphasize vocabulary from five “conceptual domains” (animals, the body, weather, ecosystems and the solar system) and tell a story in multiple acts, interspersed with splashes of animated and live-action lessons in phonics. As the last of the Pranksters was being cast in late April, taping had begun in a small studio near Lincoln Center in Manhattan on short segments. They will carry the show’s educational load, a curriculum forged over two years of research and testing. As has been done with previous Sesame Workshop series, “The Electric Company” will undergo extensive testing during production and after its first season’s 26 episodes have been broadcast.

Mr. Cameron and his associates searched for a format that would smoothly incorporate educational goals, the most challenging of which is to reverse negative attitudes about reading among children in second and third grades. Test audiences of low-income students in Baltimore, San Antonio and Carbondale, Ill., provided early indications that the series might be effective.

In the old, dull days of children’s TV “The Electric Company” shone brightly. But it remains to be seen whether a vigorous campaign to build awareness for the revival will cut through the clutter of diversions now available to children.

“Media has evolved and learning styles have evolved,” said Malore I. Brown, the project director, who as a child in Freeport, the Bahamas, picked up “The Electric Company” via a signal that drifted in from Miami. “We want to make this a 360-degree experience.” That includes an online component along with a magazine being developed by Marvel Comics. Sneak-peek video will begin appearing on PBS in September.

The Sesame Workshop hopes to raise $25 million for the project, $17.7 million of which has been provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through the federal Department of Education. Twenty low-income, low-literacy pockets across the country will also be the focus of an extensive outreach program in the months leading to the show’s premiere.

“There will be billboards, bus ads, notices in their dollar stores, television and radio ads, all about the power of reading,” Randell M. Bynum, who is coordinating the outreach, said. “When the show comes on in January, these communities will have already been primed to the importance of reading and bombarded with resources.”

Ms. Bynum, along with the production team and cast members, has been testing strategies at P.S. 188 on Houston Street in the Lower East Side. A group of that school’s students in first through fourth grades recently screened a 30-minute demonstration of the series, which included a music-video tribute to the transformational power of the silent E, the sneaky letter that can turn cap into cape and at into ate.

Music for the series will come from three people involved in the Broadway rap-salsa-pop musical “In the Heights”: the director Thomas Kail, the co-arranger and orchestrator Bill Sherman and the actor Christopher Jackson.

In a category by himself is the beat-box artist Shockwave (Chris Sullivan). Besides slinging hash at the Electric Diner, he speaks in one-word bursts only — no sentences — and appears in guises like the much missed gorilla and a butcher who cleaves words. But it is his D.J. routine that may be mimicked on playgrounds next year. He appears to be scratching syllables from dueling turntables to form words. It all emanates from his “bruh-bruh-AIN, bruh-bruh-AIN, brain.”

The producers said that they hoped the show would help head off a vexing problem: the wall that struggling students hit in fourth grade, the turning point at which school is no longer about learning to read, but reading to learn. As it was for the first incarnation of “The Electric Company,” the target audience this time is the economically disadvantaged child.

“Lower-income kids are already behind the eight ball by the time they reach kindergarten,” said Karen Fowler, the show’s executive producer. “By second grade language is flying by them, and they have no reference for it. That’s devastating.”

It’s a familiar refrain to Joan Ganz Cooney, the 78-year-old chairwoman of the executive committee of Sesame Workshop’s board who, along with Lloyd Morrisett, led development of the first incarnation of “The Electric Company.” After she previewed the new version, she said in an interview, she told the producers, “Make it funnier.”

Ms. Fowler happily obliged. “We saw that we needed to be sillier at the 8-year-old level,” she said. “Bring on the pratfalls.”


From The New York Times on the Web © The New York Times Company.

(I have to finish this at a time when I'm not feverish!)