Blog – Page 52 – BeautyAbility

by Tiff - February 20, 2010January 30, 2013

Jake Sully wheelchair action figure gets razzed

Hey Mattel, your Jake Sully wheelchair action figure can stand, has shabby seams, and looks nothing like Sam Worthington. Is this the best you can do?

If this was an action figure of me I’d be pissed. Good thing Jake Sully is a fictional character, and has no access to lawyers.

– Tiff

by Tiff - February 18, 2010January 30, 2013

Minnesota paraplegic falls out of wheelchair, freezes to death

Well, this is about the most depressing news story I’ve read in a long while. We’ve lost another paraplegic to falling + cold weather, people. This is not good.

RIP Michael Lee Johnson

– Tiff

PS. I did not know him personally. He lived in the country.

by Tiff - February 16, 2010January 30, 2013

Not dead yet, and still receiving gifts

Having Pneumonia for 10 days this month was by far the scariest health thing I’ve experienced since breaking my neck in 1993. Thanks to massive antibiotics and figuring out how to cough using my knee, I beat it. So check this, upon coming home here’s an awesome Bowie stencil I received as a Welcome Home gift:

I’ve always loved this older photograph of the legendary Mr. Bowie.

February lessons: 1) I CAN beat Pnemonia as a C6 quad despite the odds being against me. 2) Homemade gifts are awesome.

Don’t ever think life with a spinal cord injury gets dull. It never does. And never forget how good it feels to breathe.

– Tiff

by Tiff - February 16, 2010January 30, 2013

Quadriplegic researching erotic energy for healing

Rafe Briggs is the man. His research explores new ways to experience erotic energy, nervous system be damned. And his blog is HOT.

Read all about this sexual revolutionary here.

– Tiff

by Tiff - February 13, 2010January 30, 2013

Paraplegic “climbs” mountain, but is climb the right word?

If someone in a wheelchair gets pulled up a mountain, yet does do some of the work on their own using whatever arm strength they have, can you really say they “climbed” a mountain?

by Tiff - February 12, 2010January 30, 2013

Don’t let Pneumonia happen to you; I did

Pneumonia can kill, and it almost killed me. Here’s a word of caution.

by Tiff - January 27, 2010January 30, 2013

“Sympathy for Delicious” stars actual paraplegic, Mark Ruffalo directs

This movie follows a jaded DJ paraplegic who mysteriously wakes up with the gift to heal others, but discovers he still can’t heal himself. “Sympathy for Delicious” also stars Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis, and was written by Christopher Thornton, the film’s star.

It has a cool back story too. Thornton and Ruffalo are old acting school buddies from before Thornton’s injury (a rock climbing accident) in 1992. This script was a longtime coming too (an idea Thornton had while wheeling to the liquor store).

The completed film is premiering at Sundance this week. If anyone out there has seen it yet, let us know what you thought (good or bad). Does it deserve to be picked up?

by Tiff - January 26, 2010January 30, 2013

It’s the last season of Lost, and Sawyer’s jumping off a cliff?

I’ll admit I fell in love with Lost late in the game. Thanks to every episode available on ABC.com (and because the show is really that addictive), I watched all four seasons last winter before the start of Season 5 (wheelchair-users need something to do here in Minnesota when the snow flies). And now, it’s crazy, but it’s in my Top 3 shows, (1) Six Feet Under, (2) Battlestar Galactica, and (3) Lost, with Lost knocking Sex & The City out of the Top 3.

In honor of the last season of the show premiering next Tuesday (which is depressing as Hell btw, and I hope the the ending come May isn’t more Opium-induced visions from J.J. Abrams), here is the brand new smoking hot Davidoff Cool Water commercial starring the official heatthrob of Lost (NOT Jack) – Mr. “Sexy Pants” Josh Holloway.

I’m a Sawyer girl. What can I say.

by Tiff - January 25, 2010January 30, 2013