The annual San Francisco entertainment must-see event of events is today at 7 PM at the San Francisco Herbst Theater at 401 Van Ness Avenue called Help Is On The Way 16 (get there at 6 PM). It is a presentation of REAF, the Richmond Ermet Aids Foundation of San Francisco (REAF.org), which has produced the show for 16 years and all to raise money for AIDS research.
Readers of this space know I've been a proponent of REAF's work and of this very cool annual event. Here'a video about this evening's show:
As stated before, Leanne Borghesi, Carol Channing, Davis Gaines, La Toya London, Carole Cook, James Darren, Paula West, Bruce Vilanch, Kimberley Locke, and Melissa Manchester headline the performers at this great San Francisco event as of this writing.
Got no plans? Or if you've got them, change them. Check out the show; you will not be disappointed.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Mike Bloomberg NYU "Inside Lobby Work" dirty deals by Suzannah B. Troy
Read the article which exposes two part times commissioner for mayor Bloomberg for being full time and lobbyists. Joseph Goldstien writes:
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"Perlmutter and two of her colleagues at the Bryan Cave lobby firm have been paid more than $42,000 by NYU to lobby the Landmarks Commission and seven other agencies for approval to build in the heart of Greenwich Village. Among its plans is a 385-foot skyscraper."
The conflict of interest committees is the biggest joke in town and by the way king Mike appoints the people who refuse to do their job.
I have had words with Mike Bloomberg twice in my life and both at city hall. The 2nd time was caught on YouTube, "Mayor Mike Bloomberg gives Suzannah B. Troy the thumbs up as she yells "Oust the king!" City Hall". The first time I did not know how corrupt he was and so committed to NYU's expansion at the expense of the community along with Amanda the peoples Burden, his socialite mega-millionaire city planner. I asked mayor Bloomberg to come visit the E. Village, Lower East Side and Bowery and he said he did and last time he mentioned how much he supports NYU and he said the people nearly lynched him. NYU rents a pink building on the Bowery next to the homeless shelter and has signs asking them to not loiter in front of their dorm. Visit 120 East 12th Street and see the facade of St. Ann's from 1847 like an albatross reminding views NYU has ruthlessly torn down our historic buildings as NYU mega dormed the East Village to death. Thank you to The New York Post for exposing so much corruption but when is there going to be a trial? See my 2 new YouTubes Mike Boomberg trial? and Christine Quinn for mayor Mike's mini me. If you want Mike Bloomberg for a 4th term vote for Christine Quinn. She takes huge kick backs aka campaign donations from developers.
Christine Quinn is no Jane Jacobs who fought for the people. Christine Quinn has sold her soul and the people of New York to developers like Mike Bloomberg but he did more buying than selling.
Note: New Yorkers are calling me and stopping me in the street asking me what is happening with the NY City Council Slush found scandals? I bring all this up because reading this article in The New York Post and also being asked questions about slushy city council members as well as city council members stealing tax payer money the question is are any high ranking city officials going to jail any time soon?
Here I am calling State Attorney's Office Southern District and telling my YouTube audience about it.
Thanks to True New from Change for sending me this article from The New York Post.
Tila Tequila attack at Gathering of Juggalos was planned
While Tila Tequila has engaged in what turned out to be false claims that she was the victim of domestic abuse or harm from another one of her so-called multiple personalities, this time she's telling the truth.
Moreover, the attack that Tila Tequila suffered at the Gathering of Juggalos concert - an annual festival of indy music and alternative or "underground" life that's best described as a rough version of Burning Man - was planned.
According to tweets by Nathan Rabin from AVClub.com and a blog called Juggalo Holocaust, there were informal yet openly communicated plans to harm or harass Tila Tequila in some way.
Tila Tequila was to perform at Gathering of Juggalos
On Nathan Rabin's Twitter account @nathanrabin, he issued the following tweet that apparently was before Tila Tequila went on stage as part of what was called "Ladies Night:"
Contemplating ditching Green for Tila Tequila. Word is she'll be met with critical brickbats. And actual bricks perhap.
about 16 hours ago via txt
In other words, there was at least a chance that someone planned to harm her using a brick.
Nathan Rabin continued on Twitter with a series of tweets that give a good idea of what happened:
Tila Tequila took off her top in a desperate bid to win back the crowd. It did not work.
about 16 hours ago via txt
After a half naked, clearly lip-synching Tequila was so inundated with projectiles that she ran offstage they shut ladies night down.
about 16 hours ago via web from Harrisburg, IL
Then again, I left at 5 AM like a pussy so I don't entirely know whether Li'l Kim managed to perform before a sea of enraged Juggalos or not
about 16 hours ago via web from Harrisburg, IL
"A sea of enraged Juggalos," indicates something really went wrong. And according to the blog
Juggalo Holocaust Tila was warned that there were plans to harm her in some way via commentary from her own blog. Here's some of what was posted at the blog:
Rage "I'm waiting around for a blogger to post about the juggalos throwing pee-filled balloons at this bitch."
ITS ICP NOT IKP "you better watch your head..YOU WILL BE BOOED OFF STAGE JUST DO EVERYONE A FAVOR AND STAY HOME!"
jdubb "im throwing rotten hot dogs at you that are gonna be sitting in a warm cooler filled with hot water out in the sun untill that friday… they have also been in my fridge for over a year... i fucking hate you and i will teach you not to come back to the gathering."
And unless you have doubts that some of the people who go to the Gathering of Juggalos throw stuff, take a look at what happened to wrestler Tracey Smothers, who had a Confederate Flag jacket on and was stupid enough to wave a Confederate Flag after a wresting match:
It's one thing to say Tila Tequila should not have gone, but apparently she was a named act that was to be paid for her work. Some claim that Tila is making up the blood stains in the photo, but from the online accounts of what happened and the harm some threatened to do to Tila Tequila if she came to the Gathering of Juggalos, that's not the case.
Tila Tequila was attacked at the Gathering of Juggalos.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Tila Tequila claims brutal attack at Juggalos concert; video?
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| Tila Tequila Hurt |
I went onstage and immediately, before I even got on stage, DUDES were throwing HUGE STONE ROCKS in my face, beer bottles that slit my eye open, almost burnt my hair on fire cuz they threw fire crackers on stage, and they even took the sh-t out of the port-0-potty and threw sh-t and piss at me when I was onstage."
These people were trying to kill me. So then after the last blow to my head with the firecracker they threw at me exploded, my bodygaurd and the other security grabbed me and ran as fast as they could to the shitty trailor. Since their security SUCKS, the 2 thousand people ran after us, trying to kill me. They almost got me so they finally reach the trailor, blood all over myself, cant stop bleeding, then all of a sudden, all 2 thousand people surround the trailor and busts the windows!!! Even the guys INSIDE with me were shaking! Their hands were shaking cuz they were so scared! So 3 guys inside the trailor had to grab a table and push it over the broken windows and grabbed all the chairs they could find so hold the people from outside back. It was scary as hell!"
While no one wants to see this happen to Tila Tequila or anyone, this video blogger has to ask where's the video? It's hard to believe something so awful as that happened and no one had a video.
But there's more to this story.
Stay tuned for an update!
David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris expecting twins - Twitter
 Image by Capital M via Flickr |
| David Burka and Neil Patrick Harris |
According to The Hollywood Gossip, Neil Patrick Harris, the star of CBS' How I Met Your Mother put the news out from his Twitter page @ActuallyNPH:
So, get this: David and I are expecting twins this fall. We're super excited/nervous/thrilled. Hoping the press can respect our privacy...
The news led to a ton of tweets of congratulations.
HIMYM_Writers - Congratulations @ActuallyNPH and David Burtka, daddies-to-be!
about 5 hours ago via web
Top Tweet 31 Retweets
alydenisof - Congrats to @ActuallyNPH & David on their family expanding to four soon! Can't wait for the playdates:)
about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
joeyashley - @ActuallyNPH Congratulations!
1 minute ago via web in reply to ActuallyNPH
katraenel - @ActuallyNPH Congrats on the babies!! You are so laid back and easy going, it seems, I'm sure you'll be a great dad. Congrats to david too!!
1 minute ago via web in reply to ActuallyNPH
kevinpollak - Lord Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) is on the Chat Show tomorrow LIVE at 3pm, PDT. Fire early Tweet 5's & questions when ready...
13 minutes ago via web
4 Retweets
ausslp - @ActuallyNPH So awesome!!! It always makes me happy when people I like have kids! You're doing the world a favor! :)
2 minutes ago via web in reply to ActuallyNPH
Of course, the question is who's the surrogate mother? Or are they adopting twins? No word as of this writing.
Good Burger - What's Fantasia Barrino and Steven Slater's best place for a burger?
As of this writing the keyword "Good burger" is at the top of search trends on Google, whereas on Bing x-Rank it's Fantasia Barrino. So in the interest of some Internet fun, this blogger wondered what American Idol and Grammy star Fantasia Barrino and Jet Blue Flight Attendant Steven Slater's best place to get a burger was.
Certainly the conversation of where to get a good burger's more desirable for Fantasia Barrino than talking about the overdose and sex scandal issue she's dealt with this week. And talk of a good burger would bring a smile to the face of Steven Slater, who can tell us what kind of beer he would drink with it.
One thing's for sure, Fantasia Barrino could use a good burger, especially considering what Paula Cook's lawyer said to People Magazine.
Paula Cook's lawyer, who was married to Antwaun Cook, the man who allegedly took up a sexual relationship with Fantasia, said to People Mag that Cook was "saddened and disheartened by the end of her marriage," and that "She's embarrassed, and humiliated and distressed by the lack of respect that was shown for her marriage by Ms. Barrino."
On Friday, photos surfaced of Fantasia Barrino with Antwaun Cook at a local Charlotte, N.C. park. It's open meetings like that, supposedly for Fantasia's VH1 reality TV show, that Cook calls "brazen" and has caused her pain and distress.
Moreover, Paula Cook may sue Fantasia Barrino under something called the "home wrecker law" in North Carolina. (Can you imagine if such a law was on the books in California?)
But what's Fantasia Barrino's favorite place to get a burger? As of this writing, considering all she's going through, Barrino may not be so discriminating as to the kind of burger she eats.
Then, we have Steven Slater, who grabbed two beer cans before he caused to be inflated, then jumped down an emergency escape chute from the JetBlue Boeing 757 he was a flight attendant on. The beer of choice, according to TMZ.com, is Blue Moon Beer.
Now, I've never heard of Blue Moon Beer, so you know they've got to be jumping for joy from all of the attention.
What kind of burger goes with Blue Moon Beer? Well, it's got to be the Blue Moon Burger, which you can only get at Blue Moon Burgers, at 920 Republican Street in Seattle. Now, Blue Moon Burgers better carry Blue Moon Beer, and both should invite Steve Slater in for a meal and a drink.
JetBlue trying to throw mud at Steve Slater?
On the matter of Steve Slater, it seems JetBlue's got its PR machine to go to work on discrediting him, with news of passengers who said he was "rude" before he went AWOL. But it's not working, in the Zennie62 poll of now 1,451 respondents, 63 percent think he's a hero.
What do you think?
Certainly the conversation of where to get a good burger's more desirable for Fantasia Barrino than talking about the overdose and sex scandal issue she's dealt with this week. And talk of a good burger would bring a smile to the face of Steven Slater, who can tell us what kind of beer he would drink with it.
One thing's for sure, Fantasia Barrino could use a good burger, especially considering what Paula Cook's lawyer said to People Magazine.
Paula Cook's lawyer, who was married to Antwaun Cook, the man who allegedly took up a sexual relationship with Fantasia, said to People Mag that Cook was "saddened and disheartened by the end of her marriage," and that "She's embarrassed, and humiliated and distressed by the lack of respect that was shown for her marriage by Ms. Barrino."
On Friday, photos surfaced of Fantasia Barrino with Antwaun Cook at a local Charlotte, N.C. park. It's open meetings like that, supposedly for Fantasia's VH1 reality TV show, that Cook calls "brazen" and has caused her pain and distress.
Moreover, Paula Cook may sue Fantasia Barrino under something called the "home wrecker law" in North Carolina. (Can you imagine if such a law was on the books in California?)
But what's Fantasia Barrino's favorite place to get a burger? As of this writing, considering all she's going through, Barrino may not be so discriminating as to the kind of burger she eats.
Then, we have Steven Slater, who grabbed two beer cans before he caused to be inflated, then jumped down an emergency escape chute from the JetBlue Boeing 757 he was a flight attendant on. The beer of choice, according to TMZ.com, is Blue Moon Beer.
Now, I've never heard of Blue Moon Beer, so you know they've got to be jumping for joy from all of the attention.
What kind of burger goes with Blue Moon Beer? Well, it's got to be the Blue Moon Burger, which you can only get at Blue Moon Burgers, at 920 Republican Street in Seattle. Now, Blue Moon Burgers better carry Blue Moon Beer, and both should invite Steve Slater in for a meal and a drink.
JetBlue trying to throw mud at Steve Slater?
On the matter of Steve Slater, it seems JetBlue's got its PR machine to go to work on discrediting him, with news of passengers who said he was "rude" before he went AWOL. But it's not working, in the Zennie62 poll of now 1,451 respondents, 63 percent think he's a hero.
What do you think?
create a free poll on pollsb.com
Oakland City Council Race: Pat Kernighan's buying drinks Wednesday!
Apparently the news that her Oakland City Council District Two Seat Competitor Jennifer Pae raised over $30,000 has driven her to the bar (just kidding). Oakland City Councilperson Pat Kernighan's hosting a gathering at Era Art Bar on Grand Avenue, just 40 feet from Broadway in Downtown Oakland, where she's buying cocktails for her friends and supporters - uh, with a donation.
If you follow this space, you recall the last political event this blogger attended at Era Art Bar: the Blogger Party for Libby Schaaf, who's running for the Oakland City Council District Four seat. In fact, here's the video:
But - not that I'm complaining - you had to buy your drinks, which is great for controlling cocktail consumption! (And The Era Art Bar's becoming the venue of choice for Oakland political events of late, with Libby, Pat and Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan holding shindigs there.)
This news of "Complimentary Drinks" emphasized in the email reminds this blogger of the great political election events of the 1990s where you never had to pay for a drink. Of course, the events were held by the San Francisco Democratic Party at The Fairmount Hotel.
But I digress.
The event is held this Wednesday, August 18th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, a donation of between $100 if you're a friend and $700 if you're an "angel" is required, and you MUST RSVP by emailing patforcouncil@gmail.com and you can visit her website at www.patforcouncil.com
And as I'm 2,000 miles away, I will not be able to attend.
If you follow this space, you recall the last political event this blogger attended at Era Art Bar: the Blogger Party for Libby Schaaf, who's running for the Oakland City Council District Four seat. In fact, here's the video:
But - not that I'm complaining - you had to buy your drinks, which is great for controlling cocktail consumption! (And The Era Art Bar's becoming the venue of choice for Oakland political events of late, with Libby, Pat and Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan holding shindigs there.)
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| Pat Kernighan |
But I digress.
The event is held this Wednesday, August 18th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, a donation of between $100 if you're a friend and $700 if you're an "angel" is required, and you MUST RSVP by emailing patforcouncil@gmail.com and you can visit her website at www.patforcouncil.com
And as I'm 2,000 miles away, I will not be able to attend.
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