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Wednesday, February 06, 2019

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Fwd: Ariana Grande Punts The Grammys

 

who cares whether Ariana Grande performs at the Grammies (other than brainless people like this that are paid to pretend they care:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/entertainment/ariana-grande-not-performing-grammy-awards/index.html)

In addition to creating "entertainment" that isn't music, she's quite the dim bulb herself. The propaganda arm of the government in exile (I refer to the mainstream media and the neoliberals) thought it was news when Grande tweeted "miss you" to Obama. 

Good grief, she doesn't have to miss him, she can just go look him up at Richard Branson's summer island. They are all part of the same club of rich people. The club you and I are not in.  What Trump getting criticized for doing with bluster, Obama was allowed to do quietly right out in the open, but in a $20,000 suit that everybody agreed was cool... transferring wealth from the lower classes to their rich buddies. What does somebody like Ariana Grande care about that? it's all about her getting to do what she wants. 

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From: Bob Lefsetz <bob@lefsetz.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Ariana Grande Punts The Grammys
To: <mattlove1@gmail.com>


"Don't tell me what to do
And don't tell me what to say"

Don't these guys learn? After leaving Lorde out of the ceremony last year?

Medleys suck. If they were so desirable, they'd be on the hit parade. As for the vaunted "Grammy Moments," none of them equal Prince at the Super Bowl. Come on, what's next, the Donald singing "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" with Pelosi on backup? The winds of change have blown, and the Grammys and CBS did not get the message, despite having Tina Tchen heading a "diversity task force," does anybody at the Grammys even speak to each other?

For twenty years, the artists have been tools of the man, now a tiny woman with a big voice who is arguably the biggest star in the land has been told what to do and wants no part of it.

Meanwhile, the bozos from U2 appear three times on the telecast in 2018, and they weren't even nominated for any awards, unlike Ms. Grande.

Furthermore, as if they had the talent and gravitas of Tom Petty, the Academy won't back down. Hell, this is 2019, you apologize and move on. What, are you teaching Ariana a lesson? What, are we being jetted back to the fifties? Women have power now, she's exercising it, and you cry foul?

As for playing her current hit... You opened the show with the Police who hadn't recorded a new track in decades. Furthermore, people have played their non-nominated cuts seemingly every year.

The institution is not as big as the players.

This business runs on talent. Every executive is disposable, but the acts are not.

Ever since the days of Tommy Mottola, the execs have believed they were king. But not anymore. Because acts don't even need a label, and they can monetize in so many ways other than recordings. The industry and the lame Grammys are subservient to the talent, not the other way around.

How in the hell can you say no to a woman after last year, is it because Neil Portnow and Ken Ehrlich are on their last legs? They fired Al Campanis, the heads of these guys should have rolled a year ago, when their egregious behavior was on display for the world to see.

CBS and the Grammys should be groveling to have Ariana on the show.

Then again, CBS blew out Les Moonves, and Neil Portnow is still bloviating.

Some people are categorically incapable of doing the right thing. They don't deserve second chances.

So Rihanna and a slew of other acts refuse to play the Super Bowl in support of Kaepernick, they abhor the plantation mind-set of the NFL.

And now Ariana punts the Grammy football away.

Neither star NEEDS the institution. They're doing fine without it.

The Grammy ratings keep on going down and all we get is endless medleys, hackneyed scripts and TV stars reading from teleprompters.

Did the VMAs insist on medleys?

Telling Ariana Grande what to do...who do they think they are?

"You don't own me
Don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay"

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Monday, February 04, 2019

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Bad. Just bad.

 


It had to be done.  This is the movie:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7158430/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
My review is below.

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      • Text: ... to tell a story about how much I don't love this movie. The daughter is an insufferable brat, immature and completely unbelievable as a pre-med studient. The dad is too likable for what he is supposed to be. Full of PC signifiers, and so much love for Spotify, it makes me wonder if Spotify is going into audiovisual content now like everybody else. The music was all like the bastard offspring of Dancing In The Dark and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, fronted by a typical teen singer, grown up on Britney Spears, full of vocal fry and not much else. The blurb was "The Feel Good Movie We Need Right Now" or some similar bs. I found it depressing as hell, and found it hard to get on with my life afterwards. This movie was a loser, wish I could kill it.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Results

 

This is why I am popular on 5 continents.

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Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 9:19 AM
Subject: GCM| Our visit
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Hello Matt

 

Thank you for emailing Galway City Museum re: Sea Science Correction.

 

I have sent your email to our Marine institute intern and she will look into getting it corrected.

 

Thank you again for our email.

 

Kind Regards

 

Ciara O'reilly

 

From: matt love [mailto:mattlove1@gmail.com]
Sent: 29 January 2019 20:47
To: museum <museum@galwaycity.ie>
Subject: Our visit

 

My wife and I really enjoyed our visit to your wonderful museum. It was almost perfect. I say "almost" because I was chagrined to see a picture of a blue whale with the legend "sperm whale" (see attached).  Please do not lead the little ones astray. They are our future.

 

As the immortal Whitney Houston sang, "I believe the children are our future

Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be."

 

Please correct your display. Not for my sake, but for Whitney's. And do it for the children.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] Re: Bust bias on Facebook

 

Facebook kicked me off for no reason. I don't want facebook contained, I want it destroyed. Why don't you help me with that?



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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

[ITSALLABOUTMEMAN] RE your article: Facebook Has Removed More Than A Dozen Big Conservative And Liberal Political Pages

 

What about a story about people getting kicked off facebook for no reason?


It doesn't seem like it happens to a lot of us, but it happened to me.  How about an update on this guy's article:  http://www.optimizationtoday.com/social-media/what-i-learned-when-facebook-disabled-my-account/

He doesn't seem to be on the beat any more, I've been wating for days for my comment to pass moderation and be posted:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.

My account was disabled about a month ago, after 12 years of happy and uneventful activity. I went looking for information, and found this article, which offered cold comfort. At least I wasn't alone, but I was prepared for the worst. Still I cooperated with them, did everything they asked, and told them every couple of days how much I looked forward to being on Facebook again. My wife and friends urged me to make a new account, which I resisted because after reading other people's experiences here, I believed they would shut down both my old and new accounts. I eventually decided I really had nothing left to lose, so I did this. After about 12 hours, they disabled my new account, and the old one was apparently wiped out in the process of creating the new one. This time on my departure, I wasn't so friendly towards them. I sent them this message. It's not an idle threat, and I urge the rest of you to do as I am about to do. "You have disabled my account in error of fact or judgement twice now. I am going to contact my senator and suggest that Facebook be dismantled or restructured as a public utility. You folks have been getting a lot of push back from that crowd recently, though not on this issue. I hope I can contribute to their awareness on this topic. I am going to advise everyone I know to do the same. What a shame that you have made somebody who has been your friend for a dozen years into your enemy. How many others are there out there like me? I look forward to finding out with lively anticipation."

There are something like 250 comments posted since he wrote his article in 2012, and while you can see how some of them have likely done sometthing to get them disabled (the guy that called it "jewbook" for example) the comments from grandmothers who only posted pictures of the grandkids and rescue dogs was a familiar one.  12 years of no problems, not even a warning - now without even a single warning they have thrown me out.

My experience was identical to that of Andrea T Mesich https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=804287426255468

Except she was suspended, I was kicked out.

I would have liked to left a comment on the article webpage, but guess what? You have to have a Facebook account. How far does my online shunning go because some spoiled rich kid billionaire can't properly run his social network?


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