Gossip visited the Hollywood store and JUST as they were about to do their sound check, the power in the store (and for blocks around) went out due to high winds. Rather than let it dampen the mood, Beth Ditto (using our intercom/phone system as her mic) told the assembled crowd of fans a ghost story and the band ended up playing an acoustic version of “What’s Love Got To Do With It” by the light of a couple lanterns and flashlights. Hands-down the most intimate, mood-lit, DIY in-store we’ve ever hosted.
with his new reality show “Steven Seagal: Lawman,” Seagal has cemented his position as an accidental comedy savant. It’s easily the funniest thing he’s done since the climactic speech from “On Deadly Ground” (his infamous directorial debut about evil oil companies polluting the Alaskan wilderness), and one of the more entertaining additions to the Has-Beens On Parade reality sub-genre. What elevates “Lawman” over the likes of “Hammertime” is how deadly serious it takes itself, which only makes it more amusing.
(via ‘Steven Seagal: Lawman’ review - Sepinwall on TV | New Jersey Entertainment - TV & Film - - NJ.com)
NYS Senator Diane Savino says “Ay” for Marriage Equality
What is Successful Product Management?
Delivers measurable business results through product solutions that meet both market needs and company goals.
This is accomplished through:
- Creating a shared awareness of the customer and market needs to the internal functions
- Shaping the product solution and delivery plan
- Facilitating and supporting cross-functional and external activities required to achieve the planned objectives
And All The Blacks Are Men, Pt. 301283. « PostBourgie
“Unfortunately, neither Adam nor Ta-Nehisi notice something that was glaringly obvious to me on my first reading of the piece: not a single black woman was quoted in it. Luo may have interviewed black women, but he certainly didn’t give them a voice in a story about black — not just black male — professionals.
And while Ta-Nehisi’s post is a great exploration how blacks navigate racism and success, even he only refers to black men — Obama, Deval Patrick, Cory Booker, Booker T. Washington. This is not a minor problem.
Black women go to college at higher rates than black men, and 27 percent of black women are employed in managerial positions, while only 19 percent of black men are. I don’t think it’s much of a leap to suggest that there are more black women looking for professional jobs than black men.”
LL Cool J
Walking With A Panther
Def Jam, 1989
One day when I’m super rich and live in a giant palace and have an enourmous ego that goes with being super rich and living in a giant palace I will make sure to get several panther cubs and drape them with dookie rope chains to signify that I’ve officially made it. I would name them all after fallen Def Jam artists circa 1984-1995 and then record their growls and make beats out of them sort of like what Ratatat did but better. Let this be my new goal in life.
(via waxandmilk:upnorthtrip)
reblogged from waxandmilk
Katzenberg also electroshocked Disney’s films out of a stuporous rut, spawning hits from Who Framed Roger Rabbit to Aladdin to The Lion King — a revival that not only reestablished animation as an art form but also drove the studio’s revenues from $320 million in 1985 to $4.8 billion in 1994. It was Katzenberg who brought in Pixar, Steve Jobs’s graphics shop, as a production house for Disney and green-lighted Toy Story, the first computer-generated feature. Hahn, who directed Waking Sleeping Beauty, an upcoming documentary that portrays the Katzenberg of the period in a distinctly unflattering light, is quick to underline Katzenberg’s revivifying effect on the studio: “He brought a candor and a workshopping process and an iterative approach that hadn’t been around since Walt Disney was here in the ’30s producing Snow White and Pinocchio and Bambi.”
(via Jeffrey Katzenberg Plans on Living Happily Ever After | Fast Company)
Pisces Weekly Horoscope – ELLE Exclusive Weekly Horoscopes (found via Tffany B Brown)
Elle is talking directly to my Pisces mind this week — misterjt.
