Emma The Amish Model on Howard Stern Show is sad tale

Howard Stern's getting a lot of Internet traffic and buzz from Emma The Amish Model, the latest guest on The Howard Stern Show. For some reason the combination of "Amish" and "model" draws more attention than "Denver Broncos Tim Tebow blasted by hot chick at bar."

But more important and more serious is her story. Emma The Amish Model was kicked out of her community for being a model. She left when she was 18.

Still, while she may not know a lot of things as Howard claims, I can't help but feel sorry for her. Is Howard going to get her a good modeling contract? What's the future for her?  What's she going to do without a family base?

It's sad to read that a person was shunned by her own family as was the case here. We don't even know her real name. Its just Emma The Amish Model.

While Emma The Amish Model's at the height of Internet buzz, it's sad. She's not a cartoon character, Howard. She's a person. If there's anything to capturing Internet traffic from this, it's to throw that message right back at Mr. Stern.

Geez.  At least Howard could have exhibited some real concern for her well-being.

Denver Broncos Tim Tebow blasted by hot chick at bar

Denver Broncos 1st Round NFL Draft Pick Quarterback Tim Tebow brings out the best and the worst opinions from football fans. During his college career at The University of Florida, Tebow had scores of "haters" and so many there's a website home for them called "Tebow Haters" at TebowHaters.com.

Tebowhaters.com so hates Time Tebow they've got a wealth of material which dates back to 2006 and have joined in with The Bleacher Report for a "bust watch" clock on for Tim now that the Oakland Raiders have released their 2007 1st Round Pick JaMarcus Russell. Bleacher Report states:

Remember that the Broncos traded three draft picks for Tebow; the most for one player in the NFL Draft since Ryan Leaf.

Meaning that, if Tebow turns into a bust, Tebow will be a shoo-in to surpass Leaf. The heat is now on Tebow.

Tim Tebow's so hated he was even blasted by this hot chick at Aventine bar in San Francisco on Cinco De Mayo, and Tebow wasn't even there.

Now, seriously, the woman in the video is not any ordinary person; Kelly works in the sports industry, was at the 2010 NFL Draft, and is a Denver Broncos fan. The rare, random meeting of two people who actually worked at the NFL Draft, Kelly and this blogger, started a frank conversation on a number of NFL-related topics, but the hottest one was about Tim Tebow.

I have no strong feeling against Tim Tebow, and hope he does very well. Thats not true for Kelly, who can't stand him and is a huge Peyton Manning fan. Kelly's blast was like a gattling gun and anyone would be stupid to step in the way of it. Asked point blank-direct why she hates Time Tebow she said:

"Well, I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee...So Vols automatically hate Florida Gators. Tim Tebow is like a robot. Like pull the stick out of your butt. He's just too much. I know that camaraderie, whatever, we need a great leader on the team. He's just too much. I don't think he'll have followers. Nobody can relate with him.

And then he moves to Colorado where Focus on The Family is based out of Colorado Springs. Now we're going to have a bunch of Bible-belting fans being the crazy Christian right. You go to a Broncos game, there's going to be people praying instead of drinking.

I'm not a Tebow fan. I am a Broncos Fan. That's why I'm so sad we have Tebow."

When I informed her that the Broncos also had Brady Quinn and Kyle Orton, her responses were classic: "Oh, that makes a lot of difference...We have three quarterbacks. None of them are great."

I think Kelly wanted the Broncos to trade their entire draft for Peyton Manning.  She didn't say that, but I'd bet she'd support the move.

Tim Tebow stirs the passions of everyone from Kelly to Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, who got off the now famous blast against Tebow just days before the 2010 NFL Draft and, yes, at a bar, as seen in this video:



Jones said he could never get Tebow onto the field.

At the NFL Draft Kelly's fellow Vol, Eric Berry, the Kansas City Chief's 1st Round Pick, said to me that he delivered his hardest hit to Tim Tebow (at the :58 second mark):



Curious to see the famous collision, I looked up the video of Eric Berry versus Tim Tebow or Tennessee versus Florida. This is what I found:



From the video, I'd say Tim Tebow got the best of Eric Berry on that one. Tebow had lower leverage and knocked Berry back. While Berry's sacked Tebow before, this is the hit he was referring to. Berry said he didn't know what he was thinking when he did that, "He brings a load." A load he's going to see twice a year since the Denver Broncos play the Kansas City Chiefs.

For some reason, I think it's his devout Christian faith, people want to root against Tim Tebow. I think Kelly and Jerry Jones are going to be very surprised. Even with that, I'm sure Kelly will not be shy in expressin her opinion.

Stay tuned.

Apple must fix the Safari memory leak problem

Apple Safari Logo

Apple's Safari browser has a horrible problem called a "memory leak" and it seems to be a more pronounced issue in the latest versions of the browser than in older ones.

A memory leak is when, after a period of time, your browser, which is the online field that's designed to function like a page and is used to access web pages and surf the World Wide Web, consumes more and more of your computer's memory until it reaches a point where it literally becomes impossible to use your computer. It's like your computer's stuck in cyber mud. You have to close any open software program or restart the entire computer.

In some case, I turn off Apple's "Airport" Internet access system and keep the browsers closed when I'm making videos.

Frankly, I've never had this problem until I started using the latest version of the Mac OSX Operating System. I have four different browsers: Safari, FireFox, Google Chrome, and Opera. I've had memory leak problems with all of them, with Safari exhibiting the worst level of leak and Opera showing the smallest rate of leak.

I enjoy using Safari because of the way the browser functions and how it feels when the leak problem's not an issue. FireFox has another set of problems related to what seems to be a "ghost" browser application that has not completely removed from my system. Thus, I have two FireFox apps that run as one when I open one icon. Weird.

That leaves Google Chrome and Opera. Google Chrome is great for blogging but the flash plugin times out after a few minutes, rendering it useless for video work. Opera's the only brower remaining that I use and gives me the fewest problems. But I am not a fan of the way it feels, as dumb as that reads, that's my take. I'd prefer to use Safari, but the leak problem's just a pain to deal with.

I checked and this problem's been around at least since 2006 with Apple's Safari, but I was using FireFox so often I never had to deal with it. Moreover the problem just wasn't as bad as it is today.

On my YouTube video someone explained that Sarafi 4.0.5 fixed the problem, but this internet search on Google reveals that's not the case at all.

If anyone has a workaround for this, please share it.

Meanwhile, Apple really should eliminate this problem once and for all.

Stay tuned.

Zoosk Social Network Dating party in San Francisco

If you're a regular follower of this space, you may remember the blog post about 2010 Web 2.0 Expo and how I considered going to it a waste of time. Well, that blog post landed an email and an invite as a "VIP guest" to a party for a new social network called Zoost.com at Roe Nightclub in San Francisco.

What was so funny was the email emphasized that the event was outside of Web 2.0, not inside of it.

Of course, one needed a Web 2.0 badge to get into it, but whatever.

Zoosk is a dating social network started by Shayan Zadeh, who's now CEO of the company. Zadeh explained that Zoosk started out as a Facebook-based project to rate "hot hot your eligible friends are on Facebook" and it grew from there. "And now there's a song about us," he said.

This song featuring T-Pain...



The Zoosk party was a mix of the typical SF Bay Area tech party with a lot of free drinks, an ice sculpture of the name of the firm holding the event, and people socializing in clumps and a wild scene of people who worked for the company were associated with it in some way, who were not afraid to yell and scream and shout.

On the tech side, I met Chindu Parikh of Sach Manya. Sach Manya is a mobile web applications firm who won the Venture Capital Speed Dating event Zoosk hosted. Like many small companies at parties like this, Sach Manya's work and creations are exciting, innovative, and useful. Need an iPhone app? Chances are Sach Manya can produce one for you that meets your needs.

Aside from the talk about tech, well there wasn't much of that. There was a lot of flowing cocktails and (thankfully) Hip Hop music. I say that because I'm tired of events where it seems the hosts think if they pay Rap or Hip Hop they're going to be taken hostage.

Was the party a bellweather of economic improvement? Did it mean Web 2.0 was a success and I missed it? I'm going to say, no and no. No because it was a small party that took up one room and by one company. It was designed to be that way and you can't tell a thing from an event like that. But I will say no to the second question just by the read of the lack of a crowd at The W Hotel.

You can tell how much economic impact an event has by the crowd or lack of one at The W Hotel during a convention. While Wonder Con SF drew record crowds, it didn't translate to spending at the W. In past years, it did. The Game Developers Conference packed the W all night long it seemed and that was more of a crowd for the W. And while that's true for Web 2.0, it didn't translate into a crowded W Hotel this time around.

In a way, that's too bad. Even though I blasted the organizers for a boring event, I'd hoped to see a Web 2.0 hashtag from someone's account as a Twitter Trend, proving me wrong. It never happened. Somewhere along the way Web 2.0 had become far too clubby and now it needs to be far more open. At a time when more people are being forced to learn about the Internet and how to use it for their business, Web 2.0's once keen market ears may need a New Media spring cleaning.

Perhaps Zoosk offers a lesson for Web 2.0's future: just add Rap and a few iconoclastic video-bloggers.

Think about it.

Stay tuned.

United Airlines Flight ORD to SFO Middle Seat 40 D on B-767

This blog post is for anyone who's ever had the middle seat on a wide-bodied plane. In this case, the aircraft was a United Airlines Boeing 767 on the way from Chicago to San Francisco. This is a trip I commonly make as part of my monthly trek to Georgia to help my Mom. I travel by stand-by and on United Airline, the carrier I grew up with, which means I get what's available; sometimes it's first class and sometimes it's economy class. My preference is for either first class or if it's economy, the exit row.

In this case, I was in the back, in the middle.

What I can't stand are people who can't seem to keep to themselves. Either their head rolls to you when they're asleep. Or they cover the entire armrest with their arm. Or they sick their leg into your space. It's almost as if being in the middle gives them some weird license to think they can violate your space.

It wasn't always that way. I can remember a time when people were more respectful of the space of others. Of course, there was more room in what was called "coach" then, too. Now, the "economy" designation makes riding on some airplanes like being on giant buses. Hence the term "airbus."

To this blogger flying will always be that something where you put on your best behavior, making sure to treat everyone with kindness and courtesy.

Of course, if we all did that, there would be no need for airport security checks and 911 would have never happened.

That would be a cool World to live in. We had it once; I just don't know what happened.

Erica Blasberg: LPGA star update, Gordon Brown talk - Zennie62 USTREAM

The latest news on Erica Blasberg is that she was packing to fly to Alabama at the time she passed away in her Henderson, Nevada home Monday according to USA Today. As of this writing, there's still no official cause of her death, and police have not told Erica Blasberg's parents what happened to their daughter.

Meanwhile British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stepped down Tuesday, thus bring an end to 13 years of Labor Party government and opening a new door to chaos. Now, Britain embarks on a new journey where "our country has a hung Parliament, where no party has a clear majority" as new PM David Cameron said in his first speech.

Conservative leader David Cameron took Gordon Brown's place as prime minister and did so to a loud chorus of boos on the way to and in front of 10 Downing Street.



How long before Camerson gets a vote of no-confidence as he lacks a clear majority?

All this and more in our talk at Zennie62 on USTREAM at 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST Tuesday.
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Jim Morrison Lena Horne Lawrence Taylor - Suzannah B. Troy

I just made a new YouTube and I touch on many different topics including Jim Morrison, Lena Horne, Lawrence Taylor and his victim actually wishing him well and briefly on NYC politics.  I will post my YouTube at the bottom of this piece.  Here goes....

For Jim Morrison fans, Tom DiCillio's "When You're Strange" will be free to watch on PBS tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 9:00PM.  In response to my YouTube about Tom coming to talk to the audience after a screening at Angelika's on Houston St. in NYC,  I have had people from all over the world write me including in Spanish asking me how they can see Tom's new film with never before seen footage of a young Jim Morrison which are out takes from his film "HWY".   Now I can tell you the film is on TV tomorrow night!

Please remember if you do get to tune in that Jim's girlfriend's mom has creative control because she had footage Tom needed so that effects the telling of part of the story...anyway for Jim Morrison fans this will be quite a pleasure.   The audience was jam packed to the brim with Jim Morrison fan's and they loved the film and thanked Tom/  They also did not like Oliver Stone's version "The Doors" at all and either did Pam's mom.

On to the icon, great beauty, chanteuse, actress and Civil Rights activist Lena Horne.  I found this quote actually in the editorial section of The New York Post by Quincy Jones today and I had to post it.  I discuss her as well in my new Youtube.

"Lena Horne was a pioneering groundbreaker, making inroads into a world that had never before been explored by African-American women, and she did it on her own terms. Our nation and the world has lost one of the great artistic icons of the 20th century."
— Composer/arranger Quincy Jones on the death Sunday of the legendary singer and actress at the age of 92




Next, Lawrence Taylor and a NY Daily News article today that gets in to the gory details including that yes indeed LT had sex with her, the lights were down low so you didn't recognize him.  She had been beaten by her pimp and just wanted to get this over with as quickly as possible.  There was a concern about the condom coming off on her part and he said don't worry, he is shooting blanks.  Bottom line is she said the room was dark so maybe he did not see she had been beaten, who knows but she is a huge Giant fan and wishes him well.  She does want the pimp to go to jail for a long time.  Click on the link to read more. 


For all those asking what was he doing and why did he ask for a professional sex worker.  I don't know. I did watch an interview and his wife said if in fact he did cheat on her, he is in trouble.  Clearly she is not going to grab a golf club.  She sound calm and reasonable.   Why?  I guess it is uncomplicated in a guy's mind to have sex, pay and leave.  No relationships or drama but LT's case who knows what the collateral damage will be besides jail time, losing sponsors...etc.  I can't imagine.


The real victim who is underage so we her name is never mentioned is trying to break free of this and get her life straight.  She wants to get her GED and become a pediatrician.  


I found an amazing article on  an ex-child prostitute who got her law degree and now is an activist fighting to get kids off the streets and break free.