Showing posts with label minnesota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minnesota. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

"I'm A White Man. You Can't Even Hurt My FEELINGS!" - Louis CK 15 Years Ago

 

It looks like the word's out, that Kamala Harris wasn't doing everything she could to stop the genocide in Palestine, as AOC said. For a country that's fully wired, that's an incredible amount of lag-time, between when a lie is spoken and the truth is exposed.

We should work on that. 

 

 Speaking of lag-time, NewAge as a diluted form of Nazi fascism still hasn't sunk in very deeply, yet. Nobody tell Oprah. Let's see how long it takes for a "journalist" to catch on to her own self-deception.
Speaking of self-deception and forms of white supremacy, according to MSNBC, "MAGA world helps raise over $600,000 after woman hurls racist slur at a child in Minnesota," potentially saying a lot about "MAGA world" and how they handle free speech. But first, I'm curious about the woman in question, Shiloh Hendrix - who thinks she's been put in a dire situation - not that she made one for herself. She claimed "I called the kid out for what he was" after the 5-year old took a toy from her diaper bag:

So what would a white 5-year old have been?
So, speaking of self-deception, forms of white supremacy, and free speech in the United States today - for those of you keeping score at home - in Trump's America, you can raise money for calling kids "niggers," and we hate DEI (though the entire country is now a "safe space" and/or a "sanctuary city" for zionists) but any visitor who says anything against Israel can get kicked out of the country. Oh, and universities are also the playthings of Trump and rich zionists. And don't forget the rich South Africans running things, here now, raised under apartheid and acting like it. 

It's all making MAGA's potential for "greatness" feel very elusive.
 

Thursday, November 19, 2020

DEVO-LUTION: A Life In Music Is Funny (Mine Is Anyway)


There was once this band out of Akron, Ohio, who found they wanted to change their sound.


And - while in Los Angeles - they heard that new sound in a kid visiting from Minneapolis, Minnesota.


The band went on to write their biggest hit.


But their record company couldn't hear "Whip It" immediately - they rallied around a song called "Girl U Want" and pushed it HARD - but it still flopped. And they blamed the band.


The band didn't know why. DEVO co-founding member, Gerald Casale, recently said:
"I love that song. I guess If Axl Rose covered it, it would have been a No. 1 hit."

Why am I telling you this? Because I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and just happened to work for a radio station.


While there, I also heard someone from Minneapolis, Minnesota who inspired me to explore music further. 
And, once I did, wouldn't you know comparisons started being made to Axl Rose? 


I just want to tell DEVO to blame their record company: despite the fans loving it, using "Girl U Want" as the middle eighth to one of my songs didn't do shit for my career, either.