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Friday, June 12, 2015
Because I'm Punk, That's Why
Thursday, June 11, 2015
That's So Raven
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| Rave-Symone on The View |
Having caught her on the show by happenstance (it's what they had on TV in the waiting room) I may now tune in once in a while to check her thoughts out. She has brings a sparkle to the show that has sorely been lacking for years and I really respect her opinions and intelligence, Raven is bad ass!
And if she gets her way on her request to have Caitlyn Jenner on the show you KNOW I will be glued to the TV for that one!
Here is what she has to say on the subject -
Source E! News:
"I think Caitlyn Jenner is a very brave woman," the 29-year-old TV personality told E! News. "I think she has done a lot of things that will inspire many other people in the world to journey down their truth path...and I'm sure she would love us!"
That's so Raven, and I love her for it!
Raven Rules at:
https://www.facebook.com/ravensymone
https://twitter.com/ravensymone
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Killing Jimmy Hoffa
Killing Jimmy Hoffa comes to DVD July 21st
The real story of the Teamsters boss told through exclusive interviews, news footage, and photographs
Remember the saga of Jimmy Hoffa?
I do...he is one of the most prolific figures in American History.
So much so that there was a 1992 movie starring Jack Nicholson directed by Danny DeVito simply called: "Hoffa"
Fascinating stuff...
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Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance and probable murder is one of the great crimes of the century. Despite a massive Federal investigation spanning 4 decades and hundreds of suspects, only the general contours of the crime are known. In the American mythology Hoffa is both hero and villain; a self-made man who ran the nation's largest union and was so beloved by the rank and file Teamsters he represented that they supported him as union president while he was under indictment and even in prison.
Hoffa also moved in the highest circles of organized crime. Among his closest friends and business partners were members of the national Mafia commission, men he was forced to align with during the violent and chaotic early days of union building when corporations deployed armed goons and police to attack workers in the street, and unions battled each other to control the workforce.
Hoffa's chief nemesis was US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and the two men developed a deep hatred for each other. In the long aftermath of President F. John Kennedy's assassination Jimmy Hoffa's name swirled in the aether of conspiracy theories, and his close Mafia associates Carlos Marcello and Santos Trafficante are at the center of the most plausible theories about Kennedy's death.
The two men Hoffa thought he was going to meet on the day of his disappearance have the most ironclad alibis of any suspects in the case. All the FBI's other leads came from informants and unreliable witnesses. In the years after the case the FBI has dug up farms, investigated waste dumps, and debriefed numerous Mafia turncoats that purported to have information on Hoffa's death, but they all turned out to be ephemeral. The only physical evidence is a single piece of Hoffa's hair found in Mafia enforcer Tony Giacalone's son's car.
Frank Sheeran, a Teamster ally and Mafia enforcer, made the claim that he personally killed Hoffa in a house in Detroit and his story became a national best seller. But the veracity of Sheeran's story is undermined by his previous attempts to get a book deal centered around the claim that Richard Nixon had Hoffa killed, and his use of a forged document purportedly signed by Hoffa that validated his story.
"Killing Jimmy Hoffa" covers the life and times of Hoffa and explore all the theories about his disappearance. In analyzing the suspects we will take a tour of America's 20th criminal landscape and see how the Hoffa hit was the final act in the nearly 50 year reign of La Cosa Nostra as a shadow government that wielded chilling power and control over America.
Finally, we will unveil a previously unknown, and the most likely, account of the events of July 30th, 1975, the day James Riddle Hoffa vanished.
Jimmy Hoffa was a Shakespearean character. One of the last of the self-made American men to rise out of the working class, he was born fighting. To seize and maintain the power he so obviously craved Hoffa had to embrace the corruption of the world he inhabited. Corrupt businesses, corrupt politicians, and the very essence of corruption: La Cosa Nostra. He was a Caesar surrounded by many Brutus'. He lived to see his great nemesis, the golden boy Robert F. Kennedy, die before him, but also lost his greatest possession-the Teamsters union itself. In the ultimate insult, whoever killed him got away with it; Hoffa's soul forever un-avenged.
Why do we still think about him? It must be that he reminds us of something about America, he reminds us that it wasn't always so easy, that it wasn't always so slick and clean. We know that he is dead, but the important question is: Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?
The cast of characters in the saga of Jimmy Hoffa is quite a menagerie. His peers were the most powerful men in America, on both sides of the law. The Kennedy brothers, Mafia strongmen like Detroit's Giacalone brothers and the murderous Carmine Galante, hard-nosed union men, CIA spies, and the captains of American industry. Hoffa was at the center of such a complex web of relationships, plots, and conspiracies that eventually he could no longer manage them and found himself taking a ride that he would never return from.
At the height of his fame, his face was more recognizable than a movie star, he was more loved than Mickey Mantle. Just as the Kennedy's were the Golden Boys of the aspiring classes, of the college students , James Hoffa was the Golden Boy of the all those Americans who worked for a living, even if he was just as flawed as Jack and Bobby.
The Hoffa hit was the last great flexing of Mafia power on a national scale. While the government didn't charge anybody, all the prime suspects received significant prison sentences soon after, unlike in the assassination of JFK, where they got away fairly cleanly. Starting in the late 80's many of the top Mafia chiefs were sent to prison for lengthy terms, and their ability to pull off crimes right in the public eye diminished. What we saw was an end to a period of extreme corruption in the American economic, political, and social systems that began during Prohibition. The era of assassinations, Watergate, etc. Corrupt politicians, corrupt police, corrupt leaders. Hoffa was a man of his times. Hoffa's disappearance was the capstone of 15 years of psychic trauma and shocking events that started with JFK's assassination and continued through the murders of MLK , RFK, and Watergate.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Miley Cyrus & Bubba Sue: Use Your Voice!
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| We're Happy Hippies: Miley Cyrus & Bubba Sue Photo: Paola Kudacki |
Miley Cyrus is a great singer and a fearless human being!
She got naked with her pig Bubba Sue for the cover of Paper Magazine to draw attention to her Happy Hippie Foundation, which is focused on helping homeless and LGBT youth to encourage them to "use their voice!" Like she does.
Cyrus realizes how lucky she has it and gives 110% to everything she does, she rulz!
C'mon get Happy Hippie at: http://www.happyhippies.org/
Monday, June 8, 2015
You Are My Sweet Baby: Love Song For Jeffrey Dahmer
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| Dudley Saunders |
Since nobody extrapolates on their own creations better than Dudley here is what he has to say about it:
Here is the seventh lyric video from IN THESE BOXES (and also the album THE EMERGENCY LANE).
The unusual thing is that I removed the song title for IN THESE BOXES, which made it more of a straightforward S&M love song (depending on how straightforward you feel an S&M love song can be). So it was an interesting bit of artistic re-purposing.
Here's the text from the performance, which nods lightly toward Dahmer without tipping into serial murder, keeping it in the sphere of perverse romance:
"This memory was murdered. This life was a secret. It did not require drugs to be released. He was transformed, as a hero should be in a proper story. He found happiness. The happiness was so upsetting that much care was taken to blot out any memory of it. To ravel the story so it’s pattern could not be seen. But his happiness had been here, in that Detroit basement that was soundproof."
Prepare yourself and watch the video after the jump.
It's Time For Dudley at:
Marc Jacobs Does "Believe" in Cher
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| What Cher is Wearing This Fall |
The multi-faceted Cher now has working Marc Jacobs designs this fall on her vast to do list.
Willow Smith is also on board as well, but does anyone really care with Cher occupying the same orbit?
Cher joining the campaign is definitely a smart move Mr. Jacobs. In Cher we "Believe!"
Happy Manic Monday!
Cher : https://www.facebook.com/cher
Marc Jacobs: https://www.facebook.com/marcjacobsintl
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Funday Sunday - Pratt & Gyllenhaal
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| Jake & Chris...Fluff Up Your Pillow & Dream |
So here it is! A photo of Jake Gyllenhaal & Chris Pratt being studly at Spike TV's Guy Choice Awards,
Oh the testosterone, I'd love to be a guy on that wall!
Have a good one!
Jake on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350453/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1
Chris on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695435/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1
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