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As Bogg Bags Are Selling-Out for the Summer, Amazon Has a Great Dupe for Half the Price
The viral Bogg Bag is hard to get your hands on this season, but Amazon’s cheaper version (less than $60) is still in stock June is here, and that means it’s time to get your summer essentials in order. Sunscreen? Check. A portable speaker for beach days and backyard cookouts? Absolutely. But what about the perfect bag to carry it all? If you haven’t found your go-to summer tote yet, we’ve got…
How Corruption and Greed Led to the Downfall of Rock Music
Jan 9, 2024
The views expressed are the opinions of the participants. In this episode, my friend Jim Barber and I[Rick Beato] unravel the tangled web of policy, corruption, and greed that led to the collapse of the music business in the late 1990s.
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“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.” -Hunter Thompson ?? https://quotelyfe.com/hunter-s-thompsons-music-industry-quote-origin-explanation/
Hunter S. Thompson is credited for penning a darkly accurate description of a crooked music industry. But the quote turns out to be an inter
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench - a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side..."
Hunter S. Thompson
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Selling Out
The defection of Laci Green
I first heard of Laci Green when she was an atheist activist, but after a while she dropped that issue and focused on positive sex education instead, becoming very popular on YouTube. But now it appears Laci has abandoned the hard-core progressive views she once held and is attacking her former allies. Let me state that while I am disappointed in this development, I am not surprised; I suspect it was a delayed reaction to her being sent those insane death threats by the left-wing extremists on Tumblr several years ago. I hope those bastards are happy for having alienated her!
For more details, read:
https://dalehusband.com/2012/07/10/a-death-threat-against-laci-green/
https://dalehusband.com/2013/01/02/laci-green-condemns-witch-hunts/
which seems to have led to:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/07/17/former-lgbt-friendly-youtuber-laci-green-attacked-a-trans-activist/
Laci, having a dialogue with transphobes and anti-feminists is only useful if you are DEBATING them once and then using their own words against them in future videos or blog entries to show the absurdity of their views and what they advocate. But you are not doing that…..you are ENABLING their bigotry and extremism by implying it is just an opinion as valid as yours instead of something EVIL to be defeated. That indeed makes you a betrayer, not a genuine advocate for truth and for justice! I will cut any social media ties I have with you as a result!
Henry Rollins on selling out. (by CJ Marsicano)
Greedy egocentric superstar DJ's living the celebrity capitalistic hedonistic lifestyle. Big money, big egos and big beats can change everything.
Star D.J.’s have been defecting from Pacha, a decades-old disco on Ibiza, as the hedonistic party scene shifts to places like Las Vegas. “The D.J.’s wanted more money to play less,” said José Urgell, known as Piti, who is Ricardo Urgell, the Pacha patriarch club owner's 65-year-old brother. “It was an abuse. We had to come up with a new plan because the old one was going to explode.” The Urgells’ move to shake up their D.J. lineup reflects a growing friction in the dance subculture as the music goes mainstream. The budgets behind the dance business are ballooning, with superstar D.J.’s now commanding hundreds of thousands of dollars a night in the megaclubs of Ibiza and Las Vegas, where they once spun anonymously in the dark.
Read the NY Times article
At this point of time, I can only take comfort in the quote: "employees were told the way they bake bagels wouldn’t change"....
