Revisiting mp3.com
Long, long ago in a galaxy far away, the "Ontario Emperor" presence on the web was primarily via mp3 files and CDs available via my website on mp3.com. Last year, mp3.com discontinued their free mp3 hosting service . In essence, this didn't really affect me - for various reasons, I haven't posted any mp3s on the web in several years - but in a way it did. 99.9% of all people who read this blog think of "Ontario Emperor" (borrowing from Bob Dole, I'm speaking of "Ontario Emperor" in the third person - yikes) as a textual being, not a synthetica musician.
Well, for whatever reason, I ended up visiting mp3.com today (it's run by cnet now) and was surprised to find that there was an Ontario Emperor page on this site. When I initially visited it, it was blank, so I added the following "review" of this all-important artist:
Ontario Emperor, a twentieth century synthetica artist, released several CDs on the o...
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Queen of Sky "Outs" Delta Flight Attendant Instructor
No, not "out" as in "identify as gay" - "out" as in "identify someone who wears a Delta uniform on the web."
His site is here .
Basic Facts
I am 39 yrs old...living in Atlanta, Ga. I currently work for Delta Airlines as a flight attendant instructor .
My stats: 5'11", 175, clean shaven , mostly smooth, light brown hair, hazel eyes.
My Hobbies & Interests
Meeting new people, chatting online, movies, music, amusement parks (roller coaster fanatic),traveling (can do that easy working for the airline), Braves baseball, theatre.
My Online Life
I love chatting online...love watching porn ....meeting folks...
My Novel Will Be Called "What Is Is"
Ken Goode's 2004 novel is called What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
This is not to be confused with a certain R.E.M. song, which was performed on David Letterman's show with the assistance of a network news anchor :
The mystery may be solved: Dan Rather has identified the man he says beat him up on the street in 1986 while demanding to know 'Kenneth, what is the frequency?' The CBS anchorman said his assailant was William Tager, now in prison for killing an NBC stagehand outside the Today show in 1994. Tager was convinced the media had him under surveillance and were beaming hostile messages to him, and he demanded that Rather tell him the frequency being used, according to a forensic psychiatrist who examined Tager after the NBC shooting. Rather was told by the psychiatrist, Dr. Park Dietz, that Tager was almost certainly his attacker. The anchorman identified Tager from pictures supplied by the New York D...
The Daily News Report - Night After Night After Night
For at least forty years, television viewers in the United States have been treated to a half-hour "evening news"/"nightly news" show from the major networks. While other networks have had one-hour shows (whatever MacNeil/Lehrer is called today), and other networks (Headline News, Bloomberg) show news 24 hours a day, the three largest over-the-air networks have had their half hour news shows.
Now that Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw are departing their respective shows , AP Television Writer David Bauder saw fit to publish an article on the continuing viability of the "institution" (his word) of the nightly news show itself:
Despite the onset of a personnel transition following the remarkable 20-plus year reigns of Brokaw, Rather and Peter Jennings, the broadcasts seem on firmer ground than they did five years ago, when there were many questions about their survival.
"I think the institution...
Superstar
How could this happen? I'll ask Marc Canter.
There is apparently a stage production called "Falco Meets Amadeus."
"FMA - Falco meets Amadeus" is performed again in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz from 27th November to 29th December 2004. CCM and Hilton Hotels offer a package of diner and a visit of the show for private groups or christmas parties of companies. All Tuesdays are reserved to be booked by companies for large events.
The abstract of the show seems to imply that life imitates art:
Falco intensely lived the spirit of the eigthies until self-destruction. He made Pop history. This epoch influenced him, and he influenced this epoch. "He was a superstar, he was popular, he was excalted, because he had style, he was a virtuoso, was a rock idol, and everyone was calling: rock me..." His refusal to make any compromises made him an icon for a whole generation.
The Musical-show revives the eighties. It tells the story of Falc...
Main Screen Turn On
I remember one summer in the early 1980s when I returned home from college and spent the entire summer listening to news radio. Thus I missed the whole craze over the "Valley Girl" song. I returned to college in the fall, sat in the chair at the college radio station, and "discovered" the song and started to play it. I immediately got numerous complaints from people who had heard the song all summer.
If such non-trendy behavior angers you, then I urge you to quit reading this blog entry right now and go read Wonkette or sumfin.
I was reading some of the older KOER Synthetica Radio Transcripts and found one that, instead of referring to General Wesley Clark, included a link to "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." If the title seems like gobbledygook to you, then click on the link now with the sound on. Even if you know what I'm talking about, you might want to click on the link for old time's sake.
I hadn't even...
Steve Rocco and OC Weekly
You'll recall that we had an election not too long ago, and that in this election, one Steve Rocco was elected to the Orange Unified School District Board of Trustees. At the time, hardly anything was known about him.
Well, according to OC Weekly, Adelphia recently aired some old episodes of a public access cable show that Rocco hosted in the 1990s. Their verdict - he's pretty boring, just like any other politician.
Rocco, you may recall, is the reclusive Santa Ana resident who made national headlines by winning a seat on the Orange Unified School District’s Board of Trustees on Nov. 2 and then not bothering to claim his victory. As reported by the Weekly...little about Rocco is known other than scary anecdotes whispered by his neighbors and what’s in his 1992 memoir, ROCCO Behind the Orange Curtain, which alleges a conspiracy between Kodak Film Co., Albertsons Supermarket and SmokeCraft Sausage led to Rocco’s 1980 arrest for shoplifting.
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Other Celebrity Ministers
From Reverend Al Green :
Thank you for visiting my website. I would like to take this opportuntity to invite you to bring Christ into your life. Confess Jesus Christ today as your personal saviour and you will begin to receive his boutiful blessings. Ask him into your life today. By confessing your sins, you will be given the miraculous gift of salvation. Your burden will ease and the clouds will begin to part.
-Rev. Al Green
Invitation to Worship With Us
When you are in Memphis, we would be delighted to have you join us in joyful worship at the Full Gospel Tabernacle.
Our regular services are:
Sunday School 9:45 am
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 pm
Sunday Evening Worship (as scheduled) 4:00 pm
Wednesday Night Bible Study 7:00 pm
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Rev. Al Green, Pastor
787 Hale Road
Memphis, TN 38116
Office: (901) 794-6220
Invitation to Call Our Prayer Line
We invite you to call the Full Gospel Tabernacle prayer l...
Well, I'm Still Happy That Pastor Ott Performed My Wedding
So I'm like, you know, reading and stuff in LA.com and ran across the following line :
Sharon Stone is a licensed minister and performed her first wedding this weekend....
Huh? And there was a picture .
The la.com information was at least partially sourced from the
New York Post :
November 23, 2004 --
THE Rev. Sharon Stone? The star became a mail-order minister and performed her first official wedding over the weekend, presiding over the union of restaurateur Michael Bourseau and sometime stylist Brenda Swanson at her Coldwater Canyon home. Jack Nicholson and Robert Wagner served as the witnesses. Bourseau, who owns Mix in West Hollywood, was heard by a PAGE SIX spy saying, "No one's going to believe it when I hang my wedding certificate up on the wall." Stone's reps did not return calls for comment.
UK website Female First has additional information :
Sharon Stone has bee...
What Happened to Millionaire Mom?
First, a little history. Genetic Mishap wrote the following on September 2, 2004:
Okay, I just ran across this blog, entitled "Millionaire Mom":
http://millionairemom.blogspot.com/
It's a new blog, but worth visiting for ridicule value. After reading the blog and following some links I learned that this woman's goal is to make a million dollars in 20 months. Her plan is to use affilliate links and MLM schemes (her Inspiring Parents "business" is really an Amway front page) to do this.
It is just so ridiculous. I don't mind the affilliate links (you may notice a few on this site), but I HATE MLM'S and I get so angry that people can be so stupid to waste their time, effort, and money chasing after the MLM scheme. IT WON'T WORK, didn't you realize that in grade school with the whole "send one dollar to five people on this list, and send this letter to five of your friends and you will make lo...
Delta Flight Attendants Are Urged to Sign Up
As Ronald Reagan once said, " W e ll ...."
I previously wrote about Joyce "Troutgirl" Park's new job . One of the people who congratulated her on the new job was Marc Canter (who is slightly better known in online circles than Ontario Emperor). I surfed to his blog, which discusses an offer by a company to pay outsiders to make comments - positive or negative - about their product. Check the FAQ (or is it FAQs? I'll ask Marc Canter):
Marqui's Blogosphere FAQ
"We're creating an opportunity based on trust." Stephen King, Marqui President and CEO
Isn't this evil? Why the heck are you doing it?
Let's face it. People are getting more sophisticated as consumers and as marketers. Our targets are marketers and communicators. Our solutions help them communicate more effectively in the online world and in the "solid world."...
We've decided to set a ne...
The Times, They Are A'Changin'
Needless to say, I am interested in news stories about Madrid, New Mexico:
Greg Conley moved to this old mining settlement in 1973 when it was a ghost town just starting to stir to life, when the people who lived here went by names such as Bear, Buffalo, Morning Star and Thunder.
"You rarely knew anybody's last name," Conley, 52, said of Madrid's old, hippie days. "There was a Little Mike, a Big Mike and someone called Bigger Than Big Mike."
Today, Conley and his wife, Lisa, own Conley Studio Pottery, one of 35 or so independent businesses - most of them art galleries - in this colorful, free-thinking little town on N.M. 14, 22 miles southwest of Santa Fe....
He has watched Madrid evolve from hippie enclave to enterprising tourist destination without losing its distinctive flavor or its free spirit.
Now, more changes are coming to Madrid....The Mine Shaft Tavern, Madrid's oldest business and the he...
Someone Else Who Wouldn't Shut Up
Here's a version of the Martin Luther story from greatsite.com :
Luther's Protestant views were condemned as heretical by Pope Leo III in the bull Exsurge Domine in 1520. Consequently Luther was summoned to either renounce or reaffirm them at the Diet of Worms on 17 April 1521. When he appeared before the assembly, Johann von Eck, by then assistant to the Archbishop of Trier, acted as spokesman for Emperor Charles the Fifth. He presented Luther with a table filled with copies of his writings. Eck asked Luther if he still believed what these works taught. He requested time to think about his answer. Granted an extension, Luther prayed, consulted with friends and mediators and presented himself before the Diet the next day.
When the counselor put the same question to Luther the next day, the reformer apologized for the harsh tone of many of his writings, but said that he could not reject the majority of them or the teachings in them....
The Right Not to Remain Silent
Mulling over issues about people talking to the press before and after their termination, I ran across a Sherry Miller article in which laid-off employees, and employees at other companies, were being read the riot act by a micro-manager:
Thirty people, more or less, were laid off from a typical e-commerce dot.com at the end of May, 2000. During the previous two months, a few of us realized that the company was just holding on because they had to appear to be in business in order to be sold....
We spent our work days looking for new jobs, writing personal materials and learning new web technologies. Showing up with nothing to do is far more stressful than the most demanding schedule. We were told frequently not to discuss the company's position or strategy, not to speak to the press and to refer all inquiries to the Director of Public Relations. She was the only person interacting with the press and she always said "No comment." Al...
New Button, Slightly (But Not Immorally) Redirected
There was a post at the Queen of Sky blog that documented a new "support" button:
The post suggested to link the button to the Queen of Sky site itself, but I decided to link the button to that very post. Specifically, I wanted to make sure that anyone who follows the link reads the following statement:
This campaign is an effort to make Delta Air Lines acknowledge that they discriminated against Ellen Simonetti by treating her differently from male employees, such as the gentleman that runs the COMMERCIAL site www.jetcareers.com. Delta gave him a warning and now he has removed all mention of Delta, including logos from his website. It would have been nice if Delta had extended the same courtesy to Ellen, rather than suspending her WITHOUT warning and then firing her a month AFTER she had removed all uniform pictures from her PERSONAL website and 3 weeks AFTER filing a discrimination complaint with ...
Hungry Like The Wolf
One post (presumably) eaten and lost forever (if you're interested in Christopher Riv's indoor air needs, do a search - or don't ). [OE UPDATE: The post was merely pining for the fjords .]
Meanwhile, the latest in cluelessness has been reported by DaGoddess:
From my Aussie (Brisbane) friend Pat:
Last month I flew to Perth to attend a conference. The meeting went very well and was over all too soon. On the return flight I stopped over a couple of days at Canberra to catch up with local workers, then flew on to Brisbane. After disembarking at Brisbane, I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to the lost luggage office and told the bloke there that my bags never showed up. He smiled and told me not to worry because they were "trained professionals and I was in good hands".
"Now," he asked me, "has your plane arrived yet?"
I got the bags later, but what worried me most, even ...
Tomorrow (Sadio)
As you know, I recently quoted an article that discussed the death of Christopher Riv. However, several months before his death, Riv was inquiring about indoor air quality (which makes sense):
16-02.-2004, 05:48 AM #1
Christopher Riv
Guest
Posts: n/a Indoor Air Test
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Does anybody know if there are any simple indoor air quality tests that can be purchased? If so,
what do they consist of and what sort of price range should one be thinking.
Thank you in advance.
CR
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Stop Making Sense
Just ran across this article :
The American stewardess have discharged of job for an Internet - diary
Stewardess Ellen Simonetti working in the American airline Delta Airlines (Ellen Simonetti) has been temporarily discharged of duties after has published the photos in a uniform in the Internet..
...- diary(so-called "Blog", this genre recently is very popular among Internet users).
The diary of the 29-years stewardess is called " Queen of the sky " (Queen of the Sky) and is placed on "Blogs" a site JournalSpace.com. In him it is told about private life of the stewardess, however she marks, that, speaking about the job, never obviously named the company where works, and did not result names of responsible persons. Besides the part "blog" will consist of invented histories.
At the same time, as informs BBC News, about discharge to her informed after she has placed in "Blog" the photos in a corporate un...
Back to Christmas Carols
Needless to say, there are some Christmas carols that I like that probably would give a non-Christian pause. Here's a list of some of the Christmas hymns that appear in the 1964/1966 edition of the "The Book of Hymns" (Methodist Church/United Methodist Church):
374 - Angels We Have Heard on High
376 - In the Bleak Midwinter (and yes, I know that we don't know the season in which Jesus was born, but I like it anyway)
378 - God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
381 - O Little Town of Bethlehem
383 - The First Noel
384 - Away in a Manger
385 - What Child is This
386 - O Come, All Ye Faithful
388 - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
390 - It Came upon the Midnight Clear
391 - Good Christian Men, Rejoice
392 - Joy to the World
393 - Silent Night, Holy Night
As long as I'm in this hymnal, let's cite a few non-Christmas songs that are especially meaningful:
001 - O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (hey, it's a Methodi...
A Slight Interruption
Thanksgiving dinner went well at first. Everyone made it over, there were no fights, and we all had a good mid-day dinner .
Then we sent two of the kids out to take the dish towels out of the washer and put them in the dryer...and they returned saying that the garage had flooded.
After some investigation, we determined that it wasn't the washing machine; it was our main plumbing line.
After some extensive routing by my father-in-law, things are almost back to normal. We just have to replace one length of pipe (for the washing machine) with one that doesn't leak as much.
And we still have to clean out all of the stuff that backed into the bathtub.
But the dinner was nice.
Attention Kroger
It's OK. You can assault us with the Christmas music now .
It's a necessary evil.
But I'm sure that readers will ask, "OE, you're a Christian, so obviously you'd love Christian music. But I'm a-"
However, before they get into their issue, let me point out mine.
No, I don't love most Christmas music that blares in the stores during the holiday season. Most of them don't edify my faith or draw me closer to God. It's important to distinguish between Christmas songs that have something to do with the birth of Jesus, and Christmas songs that have to do with snowmen or Santa or whatever.
To illustrate what I'm talking about, let's look at Clay Aiken's Christmas CD . Here are the tracks on this CD:
1. Sleigh Ride
2. Mary Did You Know
3. Christmas Song, The
4. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
5. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
6. Winter Wonderland
7. Silent Night
8....
But YOU Can't Enjoy It - Or Can You?
A Tupac Shakur website has linked to a BBC article discussing a Forbes list of the top-grossing dead celebrities . The quote below is taken from the BBC version, so cheque it out.
A Forbes.com spokesman said: "The earning power of most deceased people, even famous ones, slows considerably or stops altogether when they die.
"But for a select few, the pay cheques keep coming and some draw even bigger pay-days than when they were alive."...
1. Elvis Presley $40m (£22m)
2. Charles Schulz $35m (£19m)
3. JRR Tolkien $23m (£12.5m)
4. John Lennon $21m (£11m)
5. Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel $18m (£10m)
6. Marilyn Monroe $8m (£4.3m)
7. George Harrison $7m (£3.8m)
=7. Irving Berlin $7m
=7. Bob Marley $7m
10. Richard Rodgers $6.5m
11. George and Ira Gershwin $6m
=11. Jimi Hendrix $6m
=11. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe $6m
=11. Cole Porter $6m
15. James Dean $5m (£2.7m)
=15. Dale Earnha...
When Ron Artest Promotes His Album, He'll Be On Time
The Hoosier Gazette links to a (legit) page that explains Indiana's time zones . Basically, there are three areas of interest:
Most of Indiana
is in the
Eastern Time Zone
and does not observe Daylight Saving Time.
77 Counties
Including Cities: Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Muncie, South Bend Western Indiana
is in the
Central Time zone and does
observe Daylight Saving Time.
10 Counties
Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick Eastern Indiana
is in the
Eastern Time zone and does
observe Daylight Saving Time.
5 Counties
Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Ohio Co.
Meanwhile, Ron Artest is trying to promote the album he produced, with mixed results :
Suddenly infamous Indiana Pacers hoopster Ron Artest's latest CD hit stores yesterday with a whimper.
Artest, who was just suspended for the rest of the NBA season for going into the ...
CommerceNet Labs Hires Joyce "Troutgirl" Park
Yay back I posted a chronological account of Joyce "Troutgirl" Park's blog posts in which she discussed her employer, Friendster, and made such controversial comments as the following :
The website doesn't look much different, but hopefully we can now stop being a byword for unacceptably poky site performance.
Horror of horrors, she admitted that the website was faster than it was in the past. For such terrible talk, Friendster fired her. She made the following comment at the time:
The levels of irony on this are pretty deep. For one thing, I wrote a fairly well-known paper last year about the need for semi-permeable blogging. For another thing...I try really hard not to blog about anything that is not a matter of public record... but I guess that's not protection any more. You get Slashdotted, make Udell's column, lose your job. And finally, it's especially ironic because Friendster, of...
Another Jackson Makes the News, But in a Good Way
Michael, Janet, Jermaine, and Randy Jackson have all made the news lately. But Franklin Avenue reports on a press release that documents the latest about Jacksons guitarist Tito:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE LEGENDARY BLUES CRUISE SETS SAIL JANUARY 22, 2005.
THIS YEAR MARKS ITS FOURTH ANNUAL TRIP!
TITO JACKSON, OF THE JACKSON 5, ON BOARD AS A VERY SPECIAL GUEST.
The Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise is recognized as one of the top blues festivals on the planet. It is also the world's only chartered blues cruise....
Cruisers will bask to the perpetual rhythms of Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland, Phantom Blues Band, The Derek Trucks Band, Anson Funderburgh with Sam Myers, Tommy Castro, Bernard Allison, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Kenny Neal Band, Chubby Carrier, Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, Corey Harris and Zac Harmon.
Plus, nine special guests are confirmed...