The Celebrity Year In Review

by Kwewu on 22 nd Dec 2009

in Our Universe of Discourse

While most of the dumbed down journalists (can you spell or cogently define critical thinking skills??!!) who ACTUALLY go to school and then graduate with a supposed (I guess) creditable degree from departments of journalism, who then go on to form a “set scrum” or “loose scrum” for their newsholics and gossipholics constituencies—The Celebrity Year In Review consisted of Best Star Quotes, Hottest Beach Bods and Tales of Celeb Excess. Go figure!

No wonder as I am fond of retorting to my friends and colleagues: “Now I know why we have this big kick-me neon sign broadcasting throughout the universe as a reminder why so many other intelligent life forms out there autocratically let their wandering infidels who just got their intergalactic driver’s license know that if they EVEN come near our airspace they will be soooo grounded that this limit setting is yet to be certainly in my generation (and likely for the next several ones it appears) to find it’s way into our psyche of time-space continuum.

PLEASE!!

The best we have to summarize this year is The Celebrity Year In Review? Thousands have lost their jobs. And more is still to come. Currently news scrums are reporting 25 states are $40 billion in debt to the Federal government for unemployment insurance benefit payments.  Furthermore, these news jockeys are informing their readership that it’s estimated 40 states will be underwater to the extent of $90 billion after two more years pass. Oh. . . let’s not forget, the de jure and de facto on the collective American psyche this Holiday Season is Senate votes nudge health care bill forward.

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And of course the current elevated risk of newsworthy reporting on the terrorism front appears to be the breaking development regarding police concerns about a terrorist attack originating from the 2003 arrest of Michael Jackson, which news reports contend led to the request for federal help, yes that’s RIGHT, federal help according to FBI files that were kept on this late pop star. Can you frickin’ believe this?

News outlets report the Santa Maria Police Department in Cal-iforn-i-a (e.g., where news print is produced in the form of comic strips and job aides reside alongside railroad crossings to cut down on the mortality rates of the can’t be bothered beautifully stupid) asked for FBI “involvement” after Jackson was arrested for child molestation. CSI-Southern Cal, oh be still my heart. Reality as fiction or fiction as reality?

The Celebrity Year In Review lingo goes something like this, doesn’t it y’all? Dudes and dudettes, what 12-step rehab social network do y’all hang with? Oh. . . too bad brah. You have to work your ass off to get in with the really F’d up ones where they all soooo help each other out in their VIP rehab list 24-7 working through “damage control” and then leveraging this quasi rehab-social-entertainment industry network thingy as they cut more deals with the constituents on the sanctioned  A-list Malibu dudes and dudettes and the likes of rehabbin’ (aka bowling for dollars). Brah. . . it’s truly a righteous-religious experience!

The Santa Maria police, according to the FBI, said they believed the Jackson court case would be a “soft target” for terrorism because of “worldwide media coverage.” But the FBI concluded there were no threats. One interesting caveat though was the FBI did note the presence in an early court appearance of “The Nation of Islam, represented by its security unit Fruits of Islam,” and of a “New Black Panther Party” member whose name was left blank in the files. This information found in more than 300 pages and dating from 1992 to 2005, were released Tuesday through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)  request from The Associated Press and other media. Righteous brah! Man, when the real mojo pops I KNOW y’all will be on it! All over it!

Need I keep going? Yeah I do. The Celebrity Year In Review. Who makes this bullshit up? Who works this bullshit? Who the frick cares? Who the frick writes this shit up? Who the frick takes newsworthy time to report on this shit?

People? Human beings no less? Yeah, that’s right. But that’s not who I am talking to here. Not the can’t be bothered beautifully stupid that’s for sure. Who I’m talking to is you middle class working stiffs, and more so the homeless human beings and invisible (aka lepers of sorts) who are the casualties this blog’s mission statement wants to make visible. It’s these souls who (right or wrong) endure through learned helplessness the growing armies of intellectually skilled, disciplined, and creative stakeholders and followers (hangers-on) who promote the deadening effects of excessive specialization in the creed “Trust Your Neighbors, But Brand Your Stock.”

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I dropped in on www.silobreaker.com this morning to scan the news bytes. Made me stop. Made me smirk first, then made me wonder: What’s up with this? Prince William sleeps rough for charity. Catchy. But, no way. . .

LONDON (AFP) - Prince William spent a night sleeping rough on the freezing streets of London to draw attention to the plight of homeless people, a charity said Tuesday.

William, who is next in line for the throne after his father Prince Charles, bedded down on cardboard boxes in an alleyway near…

So . . . you ask? Yeah, of course I took the bait and landed at yahoo.com on their world news about “Britain royals and homeless.”  Go figure. Didn’t see this coming? Really?

LONDON (AFP)  —

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091222/world/britain_royals_homeless

Prince William spent a night sleeping rough on the freezing streets of London to draw attention to the plight of homeless people, a charity said Tuesday.

William, who is next in line for the throne after his father Prince Charles, bedded down on cardboard boxes in an alleyway near the River Thames as temperatures fell to minus four degrees Celsius (25 degrees Fahrenheit) last week.

“There was no shielding from the bitter cold or the hard concrete floor or the fear of being accosted by drug dealers, pimps or those out to give homeless people a good kicking,” said Seyi Obakin, chief executive of homeless charity Centrepoint, who accompanied the prince.

“One of the hairiest moments occurred when we were almost run over by a road sweeper which simply didn’t see our small group huddled together, which just goes to show how vulnerable rough sleepers are.”

Obakin added that William was “determined” to understand all the problems that homeless people face.

William added: “I cannot, after one night, even begin to imagine what it must be like to sleep rough on London’s streets night after night.”

The prince’s mother, princess Diana — who died in a Paris car crash in 1997 — also supported Centrepoint.

Over 4,500 people sleep on the streets in London, according to government figures released earlier this year. They also showed that some 40 percent came from outside Britain, particularly eastern Europe.

The Celebrity Year In Review? Maybe we should be asking ourselves high priced technical-craft or street-craft? Who’s working it? Who ain’t? Who cares and who don’t?

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I started migrating away from high-priced technical-craft for street-craft  when I went looking for “insights without borders,” willing to learn how to become through migration an “unbranded animal” who had to move out of my comfort zone and learn how to survive or risking flatlining many cattle branding traditions and techniques. Like I said in a previous post, each brand “is by necessity different than all the ‎others and often conveys the character of the owner.” These brands, I guess like insights ‎without borders, have a language all their own. This language, much like any other one, follows ‎certain rules, where “callin’ the brand” is acquired when we develop the ability to read ‎these symbols.” Nevertheless, as livestock people say, ‎‎”a brand’s something that won’t come off in the wash.”

The Celebrity Year In Review? Yeah. I guess. But what I’m thinking here is we all are The Celebrity Year In Review. A failure of nerve? Probably so. Or maybe, “Callin’ the brand, where a brand’s something that won’t come off in the wash?

Prince William, me thinks (as my pseudo tacky Shakespeare puts it out there to y’all)—You may be “callin’ the brand, where you’re learning like a bunch of us, a brand’s somethin’ that won’t come off in the wash.”

Hey . . .Tiger you feelin’ this? Whatever, brah. . .  Glad you made a run to Costco for goodies before thinking of  heading off to sea on Privacy. Happy boating with your exclusive network of buds over the holidays. Wish your kids a happy XMAS for me will ya?

And for the rest of us all who are. . .  The Celebrity Year In Review?

Merry Christmas!


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