Covered this week; ‘Not My Presidents Day’ rallies across the nation… Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News… how off-season quarterback changes might shake up football… Meeting Edie Sedgwick… an alternative look into the possible threat that Facebook could become… Bill Paxson dead at 61… the 89th Annual Academy Awards are in the books, along with one big flub…
February 20, 2017
In New York, Chicago and LA along with at least 22 other communities across the nation… activists organized “Not My Presidents Day” rallies in honor of the actual Presidents Day national holiday… it’s hard not to think that all this stuff just makes Trump happier as he rambles forward with the Kaufmanesque piece of performance art Trump calls a life…
February 21, 2017
World-class shithead Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News today… Matt Taibbi speculates on why we may not be rid of him yet… while Bill Maher takes credit for hastening Milo’s demise…
February 22, 2017
Some speculation on the quarterback carousel and who may be a good bet for changing teams… Cutler in San Francisco? Romo in Chicago? Only time will tell…
February 23, 2017
Returning from a trip abroad, John Wilcock returns to Andy Warhol’s Factory to meet a young, fragile, and beautiful Edie Sedgwick.
February 24, 2017
“Facebook’s incentives are to show people the things they’re most likely to enjoy, engage with and share with their friends. But the assumption is that this means showing them things that fit with their existing views, rather than challenging them. It means it often ends up creating so-called ‘filter bubbles’ in which people are only ever exposed to media that confirms their existing views, and only rarely to contradictory views.”
Is the solution to Facebook, more Facebook?
February 25, 2017
Bill Paxton, the affable actor who was a co-star in a string of 1990s blockbuster movies including “Twister,” “Titanic” and “Apollo 13,” and who later played the lead in the critically acclaimed television drama “Big Love,” has died. He was 61.
February 26, 2017
The winners are in for the 89th Annual Academy Awards. Here’s the complete list.
For a brief few minutes, “La La Land” lovers relished the victory, while those rooting for “Moonlight” to win best picture turned the TV off or tweeted their anguish. Then, in an awkward series of events sure to be permanently etched into Hollywood lore, it turned out to be fake news.
