Showing posts with label Kamala Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kamala Harris. Show all posts

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Election Day

Michael Shinafelt

OK, Minions a gentle reminder that election day is this Tuesday November 5th 2024. In case you haven't voted already (like me) get out there and do it, and do it now!!!

Don't let this election slide by without your voice being heard.

Your voice is yours to use, so exercise your privilege and make it heard at the polls.

Now I'm going to exercise my voice:

Kamala Harris 2024!!!

That's all...

Kamala on the WWW -

Friday, November 1, 2024

Get Nervous?


"Anxiety, got me on the run
Anxiety, yeah, I just need someone" - Pat Benatar Anxiety(Get Nervous)

Hello November? While I am happy to welcome the new month I'm not so sure that it doesn't carry some baggage with it.

I mean with the November 5th Presidential Election coming our collective way how could it not???

Well let me make this an easy get for you Minions...

Kamala Harris, that's all.

Kamala on the WWW -

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Save The Date

RSVP tomorrow is the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden and the first female Vice President ever Kamala Harris. 

"Yes" I will be watching given the Historical context of it, Ms. Harris being the first Veep and all. While we are entering a new era in this country, I for one am moving forward with hope and caution. 

Let's face it, it's going to be a bit before COVID is truly under control given the negligence of the former administration. Also there's been a lot of damage done that will also take time to fix.

2021 will be a year of healing, not "your year" or anyone else's for that matter. It will be the year things move forward and make the next three years more viable for all.

So cheers to Biden/Harris I will be watching this historic event along with the rest of you. 

PS In case you didn't know Lady Gaga is singing the National Anthem...

Mic Drop!

For more 411 click on the link below -

https://washington.org/DC-guide-to/inauguration-day-frequently-asked-questions-washington-dc  

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Hump Day & Chill

No Explanation Need

Today's Hump Day & Chill word is meditate. That's correct Minions for the first time in a while I feel calm and hopeful about the world around me. While I know I am a tad late to the table with this, a large part of these good vibes are because it's official Biden/Harris are going to be in office soon!

In fact, they are Time Magazine's Person Of The Year! Imagine that? Well actually you don't have to, it's a reality. We've all collectively got a lot of work to do in these next four years, but at least we can breathe easier, and, well meditate.

So take some time and Hump Day & Chill for yourself and the world by letting loose your wonderful positivity into the universe.

Just do it! 

Meditation on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation   

Sunday, November 8, 2020

"We're Speaking"

Dynamic Duo
Joe Biden & Kamla Harris

We the people have spoken and united. That's correct Minions, in case you have not heard we have a new President and Vice President elect. I for one am already feeling much more secure and calm and am looking forward to President Joe Biden's inauguration in January.

The time for healing from the last four years of abuse is here!

Joe Biden on IG - 

https://www.instagram.com/joebiden/?hl=en

Kamal Harris on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/kamalaharris/?hl=en 

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Only 9 Days Left...VOTE!

What She's Saying
Lizzo 

With only 9 days left Lizzo and Myself are here to remind you to VOTE!!!

Lizzo recently greeted supporters at an event for the Biden-Harris presidential campaign in Detroit, MI. With a mask sporting the word VOTE. Are you sensing a theme in today's post? Good, that's the whole point of it, VOTE!

What's that? Have I voted? Why "yes" I have, weeks ago I filled out my ballot and put it in a drop box. Then I tracked it, and got a text a week later saying my VOTE had been received and counted. Best text I got all month.

So if you haven't made your voice heard what are you waiting for?!?! I asked you tell me and tell me now, or better yet get out and VOTE!

Voter information at:

https://www.vote.org/  

Monday, October 19, 2020

Monday Motivation

VOTING!
Taylor Swift

I know I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again, and most likely one more time before November 3rd. Today's Monday Motivation is VOTE! VOTE early, VOTE on election day, VOTE by mail or drop your mail in ballot off at an official drop off box. Not a fake GOP one, they send you the official locations near you with your ballot FYI.

Here today to help me motivate you is Taylor Swift. Ms. Swift has recently gotten vocal in a political way (not a music way, she's been doing that for a while.) about her political leanings. 

She recently stood in line and cast her VOTE for Biden/Harris. How do I know who she VOTED for? Because she came out and backed the Biden/Harris ticket publicly, that's how.

Now I'm not trying to motivate anyone to cast their ballot a certain way, OK, yes I F#cking am! Please join Taylor and myself and cast your VOTE for people who are not insane and addicted to Adderall.

VOTE!!!

Voter Information -

https://www.vote411.org/  

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Michael's Musings

Read My Mask
Michael Shinafelt

Well last night's Vice Presidential debate confirms it: Flies Love Sh!t! Glad Pence's only Black Friend could make an appearance on his behalf. More like on Harris' behalf, she slayed his lying butt, time to move on to more dignified things, or not...

Biden 2020: He won't try to kill you

I'm a pure bred Hyena, got it?

Rest In Power Eddie Van Halen

I got my ballot on Tuesday, filled it out and put if in a drop box on Wednesday, it's that simple V-O-T-E!

Isn't the invisible accordion the best???

Fleetwood Mac charting takes me to my happy place

Take the contouring down a notch 

It's hard out there to defend the indefensible, it's also hard out there for a pimp. The more you know

Woman Crush of the Week - Kamala Harris, she gives good face 

Mein Cough, think about it, but not too much

Pumpkin Stems, discuss -

Free samples are never coming back, this may just push me over the edge

BTW - He's dead inside RE: What's wrong with his eyes

Did you know that Staples actually sells staples? I'm off to Dick's next...

Join me won't you at:

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/MShinafelt   

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Juneteenth Block Party Today!

Danielia Cotton
Photo:
Chia Messina 
DANIELIA COTTON TO JOIN TULSA’s NATIONAL JUNETEENTH BLOCK PARTY
WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF ‘A DIFFERENT WAR’


Riding a new wave of critical acclaim from A Different War, her incredibly timely and most politically charged album to date, widely heralded blues-rocker DANIELIA COTTON has risen again into the light, fiercely and defiantly, to join a star-studded lineup for Tulsa’s national Juneteenth Block Partya virtual event to accompany
on-the-ground celebrations happening over the weekend. The Block Party will begin streaming tomorrow (Saturday, June 20) at 6 p.m. CT at www.tulsablockparty.com.

The Juneteenth Block Party event arrives as Cotton enters a “new normal” touring mode with her Virtual Album Release Tour.” The first stop on the tour will be Friday, June 26 at Sellersville Theater, 24 West Temple Ave., Sellersville, PA. Show time is 8 p.m. More dates will be announced shortly.

The Full Livestream Concert at Sellersville Theater on June 26 will be streamed LIVE on the Sellersville Theater Facebook page. This is a PAY AS YOU PLEASE Event. All contributions will go to support both Danielia Cotton and Sellersville Theater. Payment information will be available while watching the show.

The Juneteenth Block Party was created to recognize Juneteenth, the holiday that marks the abolition of slavery in the United States and celebrate the culture of African American communities in Tulsa and around the country. The Block Party lineup will include conversations, stories, messages of hope, and musical performances from a number of prominent Tulsans and beyond, and special celebrity guests. Organizers promise the Juneteenth Block Party to be “the moment this country deserves for an exceptional holiday weekend.”

Cotton joins a stellar list of confirmed participants including Alfre Woodard, Sen. Kamala Harris, NBA Houston Rockets’ Russell Westbrook, creator of HBO’s Watchmen Damon Lindelof, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick, Emmy-award winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Biden 2020 Sr. Advisors Karine Jean-Pierre and Symone Sanders, Emmy nominated comedian Baratunde and more celebrity guests. 


Cotton will be performing an acoustic version, on piano, of “A Different War,” the title track from her latest album, which finds the woman whose music is “soulful enough to fill a revival tent” (The New York Times) and whose voice gives her songs “stunning power” (No Depression) speaking to these extraordinary times by unloading her sin while the world around her is gripped in a turbulent spin.

She will be joined for this special live performance by prominent Bronx hip-hop artist Mickey Factz, reprising his guest appearance on the original album track. “A Different War” examines how the reality of people of color getting called into battle as a result of being marginalized informs their entire existence. The song also urges us to press ahead because of the ongoing need for substantive change.

In a deeply personal and moving editorial she titled “Fade to Black” just published by SWAAY.com, Cotton confronts her own upbringing as a biracial woman in a predominantly white upper middle class New Jersey suburb. Read it here.

Cotton frames A Different War by confronting race, gender, and wealth − deeply personal and pervasive issues that have plagued folks like her for an eternity.

Calling the album, “stunning and stirring,” American Songwriter praised A Different War for “an uncompromising urgency that transforms its songs into anthems for our times.” Including the album among its Best Bets in “The Hotness” Summer Issue, BUST Magazine raved: “A Different War is an album bursting with soulful blues rock, delivered with steely confidence. … Whether she’s wailing Janis Joplin-style on ‘Cheap High’ or declaring ‘I was not born a man, but I can do anything that he can,’ on ‘She Too,’ she’s in control, and she’s our kind of belter.”

Adding to the praise for A Different WarMediaNews Group syndicate was impressed at how Cotton’s “consistent ability to overcome pain and express it through music shines a light on the issues of the day and shows the world what it's like to continue to fight.” San Francisco Classical Voice chimed in, saying “I would really encourage you to take a listen to” the new album.

Throughout her career, the longtime New Yorker from Hopewell, NJ, has drawn praise from the New York TimesBillboard, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, and USA Today, among many others. She continues to inhabit a song, turning it inside and out to create transcendent music and lyrics, and carry us higher and higher with her in her musical flights.

A Different War finds the gutsy New Yorker swimming through the tumultuous social issues of racism and greed, and the tempestuous waters of love and relationships. These are songs deeply rooted in the protest anthems of yesterday but built for the current state of our world. A multi-racial, gospel-fueled, Jewish blues-rocker who believes in the power of womanhood, Cotton grew up in a predominantly white New Jersey community as one of just seven black kids in her high school. She has survived cancer and the tragic loss of twins at birth, only to bounce back and finally welcome a daughter in 2018. Cotton’s consistent ability to overcome pain and express it through music shines a light on the issues of the day and shows the world what it's like to fight “A Different War.”

A Different War is a true collaboration with some of the most talented musicians and technicians in the business. From Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Edie Brickell) on drums, Ben Butler (Sting, George Michael, Chris Botti) on guitar, and Andy Hess (Gov’t Mule, Black Crowes) on bass, to young gun guitarist Emmanuel Rossillo working his first major studio project, the record resonates with innovation and flare. The finishing touches of the brilliant mix provided by Dave O’Donnell (James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer) and the mastering of Greg Calbi (numerous hits over the past 20 years) make this record a true meeting of the best of the best.

The evidence is clear on A Different War that DANIELIA COTTON continues to evolve and challenge herself as a musician. Fifteen years since her breakout as an Artist to Watch by influential Philadelphia public radio outlet WXPN, Cotton remains a true indie artist fighting for independence – the space to create her own sound and an audience that would journey with her.

Available NOW at Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, and where music is consumed on-line.


Thursday, March 12, 2020

Michael's Musings

Let's Play Dr!
Michael Shinafelt
Photo: Daniel G. Lam Photography

Let's get medical. Corona, Corona, Corona that's all I ever hear! Thus I am giving playing Dr. vibes this week. Yeah, that's me with a stethoscope that's me in the spotlight now...whatever!!!

The difference between In-N-Out Burger and your opinion is asked for an In-N-Out Burger, Double Double with cheese & onions

Let's hyphen it out

Don't make enchiladas if you have fake finger nails

Weinstein 23 - is the new black

It only takes a second to show someone how you feel about them, the Police call in indecent exposure...lame!

You'd better hope and pray that you make it safe back to your own world

Congratulations to Traci Lords on her Best Actor win for "A Tale Of Two Sisters" 

Talk about bum cakes, I said talk about them. Do it and do it now!



Woman Crush of the Week - Kamala Harris, if you have to ask why you are not worthy 

It's time I pulled the plug

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman 

If you are reading this, the assassins have failed 

Groove is in the heart and also the booty

Were on a road to nowhere, buckle up!

All roads lead to me here at:
https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/MShinafelt   

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Michael's Musings

TBT: Life Is A Mystery
Michael Shinafelt
I recently arrived back home to Los Angeles after a groovy Thanksgiving spent with my family in Washington state. I got myself back to my roots and nature. Meaning "Yes" I went into the woods to visit my sister's cabin and bared witness to an amazing waterfall that I didn't chase.

Aren't I puny??? I thought so, time to do a 360 if you know what I mean. I'm guessing you do...

Wanna see me do a cartwheel? Asking for a friend.

There's a thing called ASCD (Attention Seeking C#nt Disorder) all of of us know someone who has it. I know the cure, ask me. 

Thus grant me hedgehog

Why hasn't someone patented the "Who Farted Sneer?"

"All of your missing socks are down here" - Satan 

I just wanna hear a good beat. It's the secret to life.

Just Because - Firemen have hoses

PSA: high fructose corn syrup is not an excuse for deranged behavior



Woman Crush of the Week - Kamala Harris brains, beauty, a potential Vice President slot. What's not to like?

Want an all day sucker? I've got one

Currently trending on Twitter: #TrumpIsALaughingStock DUH!

I want to be Denise Richards husband Aaron Phypers underwear

You had me fooled. You played a low rent whore like you were born into it

All men are the same you say? Well who told you to try all of them I ask???

Give it a name with me at:
https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/MShinafelt