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Like Ferris Bueller’s Sister

Posted on | March 19, 2013 | 74 Comments

“Why should he get to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants? Why should everything work out for him? What makes him so goddamn special?”

Never mind why I’m quoting this. But when you see the vindictiveness — the backstabbing and vicious deceit — inspired by envy and ambition, and when you see your friends made to suffer because your other “friends” are psychologically consumed by selfish jealousy . . .

Damn. Just . . . damn.

 

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74 Responses to “Like Ferris Bueller’s Sister”

  1. Jackie Wellfonder
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:27 pm

    So sorry Stacy, but remember: Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21NKJV)

  2. Jackie Wellfonder
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:27 pm

    He’s got this!! And WE got your back!

  3. Dan Collins
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:28 pm

    Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. Hate me because I’m eating banana bread.

  4. jakee308
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:34 pm

    MY sister was actually like this. I found out, talking to her later in years, that she always thought I got away with everything (no thanks to her vigilance and telling on me whenever she could) and hated me for it. She never saw the things that my parents did to me because of stuff I did. Plus sometimes it got missed OR they didn’t care. She was really mad because I had the nerve to do what I wanted and pay the price regardless.

    I’m still that way. Which is why I’m single and living in poverty while she has a condo on the North side of Chicago.

    Who won? I haven’t a clue. But I know that there’s not too many things I’d do differently and only a few I regret.

    Plus, I’m still doing the things I want to do and not stuff someone ELSE wants me to do.

  5. Joseph Fein
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:36 pm

    RS, I got your back. True friends are true friends. So, keep rockin’ the Blogosphere (and publications) as only a True Gonzo Journalist would.

  6. CrustyB
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:38 pm

    C’mon! Tell us!

  7. gerardv
    March 19th, 2013 @ 1:53 pm

    Never mind why I’m commenting on this, but just front it. Don’t be a big pussy like Ferris Bueller’s sister. Be a big pussy like “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero.

  8. Sarah Wells
    March 19th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm

    What on earth?

  9. Zilla of the Resistance
    March 19th, 2013 @ 2:10 pm

    I could never hate you, but I sure would like some banana bread now that you mention it. Mmmmmm….

  10. K-Bob
    March 19th, 2013 @ 2:11 pm

    Some people just go off, like a bit of powder attached to a fuse everyone thought was “out.”

    Never understood that, myself.

  11. Zilla of the Resistance
    March 19th, 2013 @ 2:12 pm

    More blog war drama? Is somebody going to fill me in or am I going to have to Twitter stalk you people at the expense of everything else I am supposed to be doing?

    I still like ya, Stacy; that plus five bucks can get you a hamburger in some places!

  12. Zilla of the Resistance
    March 19th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

    Now I want a hamburger. I’m still on hospital steroids for my asthma and they make me soooo hungry!

  13. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2013 @ 2:47 pm

    We’re on standby, Stacy. You just give the word.

  14. richard mcenroe
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:16 pm

    If it makes you feel any better, Stacy, Tony Stark gets the same lecture all the time and he’s still fabulously wealthy and frequently laid…

  15. ThomasD
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:28 pm

    Count me in as one of the confused and ill informed.

    Yes, yes, no surprise there, but I’m speaking specifically this time…

  16. Adjoran
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:43 pm

    Oh, crap.

    Cue the sad violins and break out the Kleenex® Extra-Absorbent Tissues™ – time for the raging self-pity of the Butthurt Blues Again.

    I’m pretty sure they have psychotropic drugs for this stuff.

  17. darthlevin
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm

    …and I still don’t know what’s going on.

  18. 20thCenturyVole
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:55 pm

    And no Charlie Sheen to deliver a positive message.

  19. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:55 pm

    Quoting Ferris Bueller’s sister: Damn! I am prepared for the worst!

  20. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

    I am a fan Stacy, but I do not see you as Tony Stark.

  21. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
  22. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 4:13 pm

    Garden burgers, fish burgers, schnitzel anything but hamburger girl!

  23. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 4:14 pm

    Okay, maybe whoever Stacy is talking about was making out with Charlie Sheen?

  24. rmnixondeceased
    March 19th, 2013 @ 4:20 pm

    Heh. I dream of bacon and beer!

  25. rmnixondeceased
    March 19th, 2013 @ 4:21 pm

    H8ers will h8. It’s all the untalented envious have …

  26. ThomasD
    March 19th, 2013 @ 4:56 pm

    Walnuts or no?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

  27. Daria DiGiovanni
    March 19th, 2013 @ 5:18 pm

    Keep up the excellent work Stacy and don’t let the green-eyed monster get you down!

  28. Zilla of the Resistance
    March 19th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm

    For you, I could live with a turkey burger if you put a bunch of bacon on it, but I lack the five bucks to get a burger today so no burger for me. 🙁 We’re having casserole for dinner.

  29. Dianna Deeley
    March 19th, 2013 @ 6:08 pm

    I remember that from the last bout with asthma that got me fed steroids despite my pleas. “A ravening wolf has taken over my body” is putting it very mildly.

  30. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm
  31. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
  32. Garym
    March 19th, 2013 @ 7:02 pm

    Never understood why people just can’t be happy for other peoples success.

  33. TR
    March 19th, 2013 @ 7:26 pm

    I believe Sarah Palin liked your man-to-man story on Todd with the kids a few years ago. She sent me a personalized card as thank you for legal fund donation in May 2009. Quality people remember things. Good work my friend!

  34. Matthew W
    March 19th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm

    More beef for me then !!!!

  35. ThomasD
    March 19th, 2013 @ 8:18 pm

    I assume more will be forthcoming.

    But in the meantime should we perhaps start a pool as to who the true enemy will turn out to be?

    Watch out for the doddering old man, and don’t trust your life to cocky twin pretty boys.

  36. ThomasD
    March 19th, 2013 @ 8:18 pm

    Oh, and never, EVER cast your own daughter in a leading role.

  37. Bob Belvedere
    March 19th, 2013 @ 8:31 pm

    For me it was ice cream.

  38. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

    Monster!

  39. Wombat_socho
    March 19th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm

    You remind me of the CFA ad I saw back in December that showed a guy starting to eat a burger in his office when the CFA cows come up outside his window on a window washers’ trolley holding a sign that reads “REELY, KEVIN?”

  40. Wombat_socho
    March 19th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm

    Because some people are actually just crabs in human form.

  41. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 10:50 pm

    I like “Jennifer G” but it is time for her to let this one go.

  42. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 10:52 pm

    This is not about evil, but your advice and proposed remedy are sound.

  43. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 10:55 pm
  44. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 10:57 pm

    It is not that. But it is unnecessary.

  45. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 11:02 pm

    U r more like the editor in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

  46. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 11:03 pm

    Winning!

  47. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 11:04 pm

    It is not quite that…at least not yet.

  48. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2013 @ 11:19 pm

    He ended up getting shot and dumped in the Atlantic*.

    *not that racist rag.

  49. richard mcenroe
    March 20th, 2013 @ 12:17 am

    Well, with the new gig, he’s got a shot at J. Jonah Jameson… *g*

  50. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 20th, 2013 @ 2:23 am

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