Jackie Collins: Jackie Collins Talks Lady Boss & The Power of Women

"In this rare television interview from the early 1990s, Jackie Collins discusses her smash-hit novel Lady Boss, the latest installment in her beloved Santangelo series. With her signature wit, charm, and Hollywood sparkle, Jackie opens up about creating powerful female characters, the inspiration behind Lucky Santangelo, and why she believed women could — and should — rule their own worlds.

Blending glamour, humor, and fearless honesty, Jackie Collins reminds viewers exactly why she became one of the world’s best-selling authors and an enduring voice for female confidence and independence.

Bold. Brilliant. Unapologetically Jackie."

Source:Jackie Collins & Oprah Winfrey in 1990.

From Jackie Collins

I'll get to what Jackie Collins was talking about with Oprah Winfrey back in 1990, (which feels like 35 years ago... for some reason) but first I want to share a different perspective, which will lead into what these 2 women were talking about. 

So there are 3 types of women in American society and pop culture, from what I see. And these 3 tittles all have their own sub-roles in them. But there are: 

Gold diggers: a woman who becomes or tries to become romantically involved with a rich man in order to get money and gifts from him.

Trad wife: the Phyllis Schlafly ideal for a woman and wife. Even though Phyllis Schlafly argued in the 2nd half of her adult life that the role for American women was to "stand by their man" and be 100% loyal to him and raise their kids and even be subservient to their man and never work out of the home and earn their own money. Mrs. Sclafly had her own professional career as a political activist, author, and columnist, from the time she was 39-40 in the mid-1960s, up until she died in 2016. But the woman she talked about, was sort of the opposite of what she was. Her ideal American woman, was a trad wife, who had zero professional ambition, whatsoever. 

And then the women that Jackie Collies and Oprah Winfrey were talking about, which is essentially the independent women. Not necessarily women who try to have it all. But women who are independent of everyone else, especially men. Women who have their own careers and make their own financial and professional decisions. And some of these women get married and have children with their husbands. And some independent women never even get married or have kinds. But they always have complete control over their own lives. And the independent women was made popular in American pop culture with action shows like Police Woman and Charlie's Angels in the 1970s and 80s. 

Now me personally, the only kind of woman that I would want to get involved with romantically and sexually, would be the independent woman. Now there's a downside there as well. Some of these women are not just independent, but are very judgemental to the point that they are not independent, but they think they should rule the world. And men are just pigs and the biggest idiots in the world (not just physically) to the point, that they're not qualified to decide how they should dress in public and what they should eat. Sort of the straight women's version of the prick. 

But on the upside, independent woman tend to be educated, they're intelligent, tend to be attractive, (especially if they're straight) and you probably won't be financially obligated to them, if the marriage doesn't work out. Especially if you have a good prenuptial agreement with them. 

Gold diggers can be fun... just as long as the man knows what they're getting into. And doesn't marry their plaything, because that woman probably wouldn't sign any prenuptial that wouldn't leave her with most of her husband's wealth and property. 

The trad wife? Out of the question, for me. I mean, if you are married to a woman like that, especially if you get married while you are both fairly young and that marriage goes 20 years, (give or take) you might end up being financially responsible for your ex-wife for the rest of her life, unless she gets remarried. Because she hasn't worked out of the home for a long time. Maybe she didn't have a real career or even a college degree before you were married. It could be like taking care of 1 of your kids who never grows up.

But Jackie and Oprah were talking about what the R&B group Destiny Child's and the movie Charlie's Angels (2000) made popular 10 years after this interview... the independent woman. Women who are just as qualified and able to take care of themselves, as men and in some cases do it better. And those women I can at least respect for that. 

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Fran Drescher: Funny Women of a Certain Age

"Funny Women of a Certain Age featuring Fran Drescher, Carole Montgomery, Luenell, Lynne Koplitz, Kerri Louise, and Vanessa Hollingshead is now available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play, Dish, and more." 

Source:Comedy Dynamics with a look at comedian Fran Drescher.

From Comedy Dynamics

"Funny Women of a Certain Age featuring Fran Drescher, Carole Montgomery, Luenell, Lynne Koplitz, Kerri Louise, and Vanessa Hollingshead is now available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play, Dish, and more." 

Source:Comedy Dynamics with a look at comedian Fran Drescher.

From Comedy Dynamics

So I'm guessing this Fran Drescher stand up performance is from late 2017, or early 2018, because she says she just turned 60 in 1 of these videos. But she was born September 30, 1957 (not that I'm her personal biographer or anything) and it's now October, 2025. So she's 68 today. Now, if anyone is still awake from that, I'll give both of you the rest of this story. 

Not that I would ever guess that Fran Drescher is 68 today. She's just too, damn cute, with those eyes, big baby cheeks, and smile. I think even her Jewish, Queens, New York accent, is very cute. Even though some people might think it's as annoying as spam calls at dinner time. I think she sounds like a sweetheart with it. And part of her Jewish Queens background, is how she got the lead in Nanny. So it obviously paid off for her. (Not that I'm trying to sound too ethnic here)

Speaking of very funny women... the hilarious and adorable Joan Collins, who made at least 1 appearance on Nanny with Fran Drescher, is known for the quote: 

"Age is just a number... unless you are a bottle of wine". I guess an old bottle of wine, wouldn't be a fine bottle of wine. But that's besides the point. 

And my point is not it's "not how old you are, but how you feel". That cliche is the great, great, grandfather of "only time will tell" and it's not accurate either. My point and I think it's Joan Collins point as well (even though I've never even spoke to the woman, let alone know here) is that it's not about years that you lived, but your quality of life. And besides, a crazy person could think they can walk on air, even at 85 years old, or jump out of a window, and fly away. But it's about how you are mentally and physically, how productive and happy you are, regardless of how old you are. 

There are 19 year olds who are currently in prison for murder and looking at as many as 30 years, maybe even the rest of their lives, in prison. Are you going to try to convince me that their quality of life and that they should feel better about their life, then a beautiful, adorable, 68 year old woman, who is a professional comedian and a very successful 1 at that? You wouldn't try to convince me that the 19 year old in prison is having a better life... unless you were currently high, drunk, insane, current suffering from brain damage that was never even diagnosed. Or, you drugged me, or spiked my glass of ice tea, with entire bottle of scotch, without me knowing about it. 

And as far as Fran Drescher having a gay husband: I would bet anything (that someone else has) that Fran didn't send her husband into homosexuality. Or broke into his closet, tore it down even, and through him out of it. 

But Fran Drescher's marriage to a gay man does remind me a series of Seinfeld episodes back in the 1990s, when George (played by Jason Alexander) is engaged to marry his girlfriend. And she calls it off, splits up with him and they run into each other later on, only this time she now has a girlfriend. 

Now, George Constanza could send Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Jaclyn Smith... into homosexuality. 3 of the most beautiful and cutest, most feminine women, in the history of Planet Earth. But have them date George Constanza for a while, they would not just give up men, but they would become so gay that they would all try out to play for the New York Giants football team and all make the team as linebackers, not kickers, or cheerleaders. They would make former Clinton Administration Attorney General Janet Reno, look like Miss America, in comparison, after a few dates with Mr. Constanza. 

I mean George is like: 

5'6-5'7, 190-200 pounds, 

balding, 

can't see his fingers in front of his face, without his glasses, 

unemployed, still living with his aging parents in his mid 30s... 

he couldn't give a damn about anyone other than himself, even for a million dollars. George, is the perfect candidate to send an attractive, feminine woman, into lesbianism. 

But Fran Drescher: 

5'7 and built,

beautiful, baby face brunette, 

who is very sweet and funny, as well as successful. 

I think her ex-husband, was living out-of-a-closet and pretending to be straight man's, man, (meant in the straight man's sense) to keep his secret safe. 

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Lewis Black: Daylight Savings

Source:Lewis Black on daylight savings in America.

"Lewis gets a lot of people ranting about Daylight Savings Time. Here's one from a fan and one from Lewis about it both beginning an it ending." 

From Lewis Black

I guess my first point here would be, I would tell Lewis Black and his fan Ted Williams: "Watch your fucking language, God dammit! Why the fuck do fucking swear so much? What's your fucking problem God dammit? You are always fucking swearing". 

And if Lewis Black ever saw this, his response would probably be something as intelligent and mature as: "Fuck you", or: "Go fuck yourself", while he's walking away, while giving me the middle finger, or "kiss my ass sign". You figure it out.

As far as Lewis Black's fan Ted Williams sharing that story with him, it takes me back 20 plus years, in the early 2000s, when I was working at movie theater in Bethesda, Maryland. This is about 10 years before I got into blogging full-time. 

I swear, maybe as many 1-2, 3-5 of the customers that I could come across at this movie theater, forgot their brains. They would remember their cell phones, but would forget their brains. They could tell you what the latest drug rehab that Lindsay Lohan was staying at, or the latest jail that Paris Hilton was being held at, the latest nightclub that Khloe Kardashian got kicked out of. Or whoever the latest "hot celebrities" were at the time and what their current troubles were. 

Even though the customers were such keen experts on anything that's trivial, (at least as it relates to celebrity culture) they couldn't find the ticket office at the theater to save their lives. Even though they just walked past the ticket office, to ask an usher "where do you buy tickets?"

Or whether or not the damn theater sold popcorn or not. Even though they could smell popcorn all over the place. And it was a freakin movie theater, for crying out loud. (Unless they forgot their noses as well as their brains) But at least they have their cell phones) Movie theaters that don't sell popcorn, would be like a ballpark that doesn't sell hot dogs. Or a bar that doesn't sell beer. And unfortunately you could go on. 

If these customers didn't forget to bring their brains to the movie theater, then they were falling asleep before they bought their 10 dollar movie tickets, to a movie that was probably so bad, they would've fallen asleep trying to watch it anyway. Or, spent most of the show texting to their friend next to them about how much the movie sucks. And then would try to get a refund for the film that they just bought tickets too, after they just saw the entire film, because they thought the movie sucked. If you are dizzy from reading that last point, I don't blame you. I got dizzy just trying to write it. 

So yes I have experience waiting on people who were either half asleep, or lost their brain somewhere on the way to the movie theater. But not to the point where I can't get through a sentence without swearing my ass off. Sounds like this person has been working at that Holiday Inn for too long. And should try to get a better job. Unless they're still stuck at the Holiday Inn, because that's the best job that they can get. Perhaps they have anger management issues. Just throwing a thought out there. 

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The Twilight Zone: Stopover in a Quiet Town (1964)

Source:IMDB- Barry Nelson & Nancy Malone appearing on Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. And waking up with 1 "whale of a headache".

"The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place." 

From IMDB

"Stopover in a Quiet Town" is a simpler episode yet it entertains all the same. Join Walter as he continues to journey deeper into The Twilight Zone." 

Source:Channel Awesome witb a look at Stopover in a Quiet Town.

From "Channel Awesome". 

I'm just going to start this by giving you a little background about why I'm so into this episode and then I'll give you some what I believe are perfectly placed, perfectly timed, comedic lines from it and then hopefully that will give you an idea why I'm talking about it today. 

Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest (1959) is my favorite movie of all-time. That movie is 65 years old and came out even 15 years before I was born. And I'm 50 today. But I've probably seen this Twilight Zone episode more times than North By Northwest. It's a lot shorter, obviously. 22 minutes (not including commercials) versus NBN which is around 140 minutes without commercials. So time wise it's a lot easier to watch. But that's definitely not the only reason why I've seen This Twilight Zone episode so many times. Or why I personally recorded on a DVD with what I believe are other great Twilight  Zone episodes. 

I saw Stopover in a Quiet Town again this week, for at least the 20th time. Saw it Monday night thinking I might be writing about it late this week, but also because I wanted to see it again. This episode similar to my favorite Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes, is dramatic comedy at its best. You take a serious issue like drinking and driving and perhaps alcoholism as well and you don't make fun of it. But you make fun of the characters in it to give show the audience that this is not what you want to be. You don't want this to happen to you. And that's what you see in this episode with all the great comedic exchanges that you see between Bob and Millie Frazier, that were played by Barry Nelson and Nancy Malone, two excellent comedic actors. 

I disagree with 1 thing that the guy from "Channel Awesome" said and even contradicted himself in his own video. He said there was no moral to this story. But Rod Serling ends this episode with: 

"The moral of what you've just seen is clear. If you drink, don't drive. And if your wife has had a couple, she shouldn't drive. You might both just wake up with a whale of a headache in a deserted village in the twilight zone".

Just to give you an idea of some of the great comedic moments in this Stopover in a Quiet Town: 

Bob and Millie not just wake up in a strange, unfamiliar house, bedroom, and bed, at the beginning of the episode. But they're both completely dressed. Bob (played by Barry Nelson) is still wearing the same suit from last night from the party in New York. He still has not just his jacket and tie on, but is still wearing his shoes. And they're both in bed together under the covers. He gets up and sitting on the bed and his wife notices that he's still completely dressed. And Millie (played by Nancy Malone) says: 

"Well, I knew you were swacked, but really". 

And then Millie gets up, but she's still completely dressed as well and still has her shoes on from last night as well. 

So they're out of this strange, artificial house, perhaps 1 of those places you might see in a sitcom episode, but even more artificial, where all the objects in it, are nothing but props. And they're walking on the sidewalk going to try to find someone who can help them and tell them where they are: 

Millie: "Boy, I wish I could remember how we got here. Reminds me of the coney island spook house." 

Bob: "Does it strike you that, um, it's just as spooky out here? There's not even a bird singing". 

Millie: "Maybe they're just being considerate of your hangover, darling". 

Bob: "Stop needling me". 

Millie: "I'm not needling. But if you'd been sober enough to drive maybe we'd be home now instead of wherever this is!" 

So after they go to and then leave the empty white church, they're back outside and trying to figure out where to go from there. And Bob sees what looks like a car with a guy in it. So he runs to this supposed car, with his wife following him. And he says: 

"Hey! Hey, hey! Boy, am I glad to see you! We've been wandering around here all morning. You're the first person...

The thing that Bob sees in this supposed car, is not a man. It's just another plastic drop, a really big doll, that you might see on a fictional TV show. But Bob notices that there's a key in the ignition of the car and tells his wife to get in, thinking this is how they get out of this artificial ghost town and tells his wife to get in with a great funny exchange coming: 

Bob: "Come on, baby, come on, let's go." 

Millie: "Bob, stop, you're going to flood the motor stomping on it that way." 

Bob: "What, yeah, you want to drive? You're the one who drove us into this nuthouse in the first place.

All these quotes are from Forward Dreaming

When I was a kid in the 1980s, I had a toy Matchbox city, that I would run my Matchbox cars through. That's what Centerville from Stopover in a Quiet Town looks like to me. Bob and Millie Frazier were essentially toy action figures in this episode, which was a nightmare, that was induced by a hangover for them, but they didn't know that. The guy that Bob found, was basically an action figure, in a car that could've been a toy, Matchbox car, in this toy city. 

I think Rod Serling closed out Bob and Millie Frazier's nightmare perfectly when he said: 

"The moral of what you've just seen is clear. If you drink, don't drive. And if your wife has had a couple, she shouldn't drive. You might both just wake up with a whale of a headache in a deserted village in the twilight zone".

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Biographics: Hunter S. Thompson: 'Gonzo Extraordinaire'

Source:Biographics- Hunter S. Thompson: The Extraordinaire.

I guess I look at Hunter Thompson not as a political satirist or a comedian, or perhaps even a journalist, but as a satirist on American life who was so interested in America that he wanted to find out as much as he could and then make fun of it. I believe Hunter loved life, perhaps especially American life, but wanted to have a good time and has as much fun in life as possible and used humor in his writing and other outlets to express that.

You can watch the video here Biographics

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. Where he goes through Las Vegas looking for the American dream. I believe he's someone who was consumed with information and finding out as much as possible about people and things that he was interested in.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is where you see the political satiric side of Hunter Thompson. I mean how you not cover the George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign without a sense of humor, especially if you were a McGovernite who actually managed to stay sober during that entire campaign.

So perhaps just yourself, Hunter Thompson, and Senate McGovern himself who actually believed everything that he said during that campaign as the only sober people who had anything to do with that campaign. With the rest of the campaign being made up of people who were flown in from Hippie communes in California who really did believe that every single problem known to man and perhaps problems that hadn't even been invented yet, could be solved if you just put government in charge of it.

I love America and love practically everything about America ( except for the ignorant fringes in America and the crazy people ) but when you have the political system that we do with voters who complain about corruption in politics and corrupt politicians, while at the same time you they vote for and reelect those same politicians, like people who claim to hate fast food, even though that's all they eat it, you have to be able live life in America with a sense of humor and be able to laugh about it. Otherwise you might as well just become an alcoholic or check yourself into a mental institution, because you'll go crazy. America was the perfect country for Hunter Thompson and it's a great thing that we had him. 

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TED: Joseph G. Levitt- 'How Craving Attention Makes You Less Creative'

Source:TED- Actor Joseph G. Levitt, speaking at a TED conference

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as social media exploded over the past decade, he got addicted like the rest of us -- trying to gain followers and likes only to be left feeling inadequate and less creative. In a refreshingly honest talk, he explores how the attention-driven model of big tech companies impacts our creativity -- and shares a more powerful feeling than getting attention: paying attention."

Joseph G. Levitt speaking at a TED

Source:Autumn Asphodel:'-  Great material for anyone who needs to sleep. but who simply can't. 

"Everyone needs attention. When they don't get the attention they deserve, such as being neglected, abandoned, abused, or left feeling unworthy or unloved, they will subconsciously make up for that by seeking attention and sympathy to fill that void. Attention seeking can also be a subconscious cry for help. But, there are ways of recognizing the behavior and getting control of it."

What actor Jospeh Gordon Levitt is talking about here sounds like a book that British author Caitlin Moran wrote about people who try to be famous just to be famous. Who do and say outrageous things just to be famous. The literal title of her book is: "How to be Famous." Not saying that Joe Levitt read Caitlin Moran's book and decided to give a speech about this, but they're basically talking about the same thing: people who are addicted to fame, especially people who aren't already famous. Which s an issue that we've always had in this country ever since the creation of Hollywood, but has exploded in the last 10-20 years thanks to the internet. As well as the rise in popularity of tabloid news shows .and what's called reality TV. 

I wrote a piece for this blog about Caitlin Moran's book which you can see in the BookTV section of this blog. And the argument that I made 14 months ago, is the same argument that I'm going to make here: people need to know who they are and what they're good at. And if they're lucky or just very skillful and intelligent, perhaps they're not addicted to their phone or coffee or what's called reality TV and celebrity culture, they'll find something that they both love doing and are really good at, because they have the talent for it and they love what they do for a living. Whether it's writing, acting, teaching, law enforcement, whatever it might be that they're good at in life, that supports their lifestyles, and they love doing.

My next point is about positive creativity versus negative creativity

There are cooks who are very creative in how they prepare their meals that a lot of people love. There are doctors who are very creative in how they deliver quality, affordable, health care. There are great teachers who are very creative in how they teach their students. And I could go on indefinitely to the point that insomniacs might finally get their first sleep in weeks, months or years.

And then there are serial murders who are very creative in how they murder their victims: Ted Bundy, John Gacy, and unfortunately I could go on there as well. And then we have reality TV and celebrity addicts, who aren't as dangerous ( even with their smartphones and computers ) but in too many cases aren't as smart either, whose only goal in life is to be famous and become the next OMG awesome celebrity or whatever.

People who want to be the next Paris Hilton ( or whoever the most popular Real Housewives star is ) who are famous for simply being famous and doing and saying outrageous things. And the more outrageous they are and the more trouble that they get in, the more popular they are, the more followers they have on Twitter and Instagram, or whatever their social media network of choice happens to be. How many times have Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan been arrested and then also look at how popular they are.

My next to last point goes back to one of my first points and hopefully you don't get any whiplash here: if your sole purpose in life is to be famous and popular, you're going to end up doing and saying a lot of stupid things in life. And that new celebrity might say: "I might be doing 10 years in prison, but I could get out in 5. And besides, look at all of the new followers that I'll have when I get out. And I''lll even get a new book deal out of it." Which would be another example of negative creativity, which would be people who don't care about getting in trouble, just as long as it comes from fame and they can make a lot of money off of it.

Or your goal in life could be just to be very successful, even to the point you never spend a single day in jail. Which might sound way too hard to believe for too many people and you decide that you're going to be the best that you can be at whatever you do ( just as long as it's legal, or then jail time will definitely be involved ) and then let the fame and money take care of it themselves, based on how talented, intelligent, and successful you are. Which would be my approach. 

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Charisma on Command: 'How To Have Fun Without Drinking'

Source:Charisma on Command- It's easy: just be yourself. Unless you hate yourself and feel the need to get wasted, just to have a good time. 

"How Do I have Fun Without Drinking?" Google
It can be tough to have fun when you are learning how to not drink when everyone else is.  People will peer pressure you incessantly, implying that you're no fun or a buzzkill.  That's why it's good to come up with a plan for having fun despite not having anything to drink.

So if you've watched this video Charisma on Commandand decided to quit drinking, take a look at these tips for having a good time when you're sober and everyone else around you isn't.  Obviously there are a million ways how to have fun without drinking, but the big question is, "How do you do it in an environment where everyone else is?"  Hopefully these musings help :-)"

From Charisma on Command

As a nondrinker ( of alcohol ) I'm not sure how I write this without sounding like a prick here, but I'll give it my best shot, but one of my famous quotes is no promises, so we'll see how it goes.

Before I'll layout how to have a good time without drinking alcohol, I'll first explain why I don't drink alcohol so you know where I'm coming from.

One of the reasons why I don't drink alcohol, is one of the reasons why I'm not religious, because I don't like what it does to people. Which might sound ironic and even contradicting because a lot of the nondrinkers in the world are some of the most religious people because they consider alcohol to be a sin. And here I am as an Agnostic saying that I don't drink because I don't like what it does to people.

They say the most honest people who are drunkest and alcoholics. OK, maybe I only say that, but it's true because when you drink alcohol, you lose braincells and therefor control of who you are as a person. So what you end up doing when you're drunk is saying and doing things that you normally wouldn't do, including making a complete ass out of yourself or even worse. Abusive parents, spouses, romantic partners, bosses are also alcoholics. Not in every case, but in a lot of cases. And also I don't like the taste of alcohol. So I guess my brain, heart, and my tastebuds thank me every time when I drink a Pepsi, ice tea, or water instead of a beer or another alcoholic drink.

And here is where the sounding like the prick comes in: every time I hear someone say they can't have a good time without drinking, I take that as seriously as the person who says they can't get through the day without their Starbucks: ( or whatever their favorite coffee house of choice is ) does life really suck that much for you, or do you really dislike yourself that much that you feel the need to sound and look braindead or like an escaped mental patient in order to have a good time?

And then there are the peer pressures for why people not just drink alcohol, but drink to excess. And I go through this in my own personal life with my drinking friends who wonder why I don't drink and then say: " I know you don't drink and I respect that." Which is their way of saying they don't respect my choice here. Americans especially hipsters and have this dying need to be cool and be seen as cool. Cool people not just drink, but drink to excess, so other people feel they have to do the same thing in order to be cool in America.

How to have a good time in life without drinking alcohol?

Simple questions deserve simple answers: what do you enjoy in life and who do you enjoy hanging out with? Unless the answer to that question is you enjoy getting drunk and hanging out with other drunks, and playing drinking games, and you respect and like yourself as an individual, you shouldn't have any issues enjoying life and enjoying your friends in life, without alcohol. Just do the things that you like doing in life and even do them with your friends, but without alcohol.

And this also sounds like me being a prick, but it's true so I'm going to say this: but the people who feel the need get plastered ( or shit-faced ) in order to have a good time in life, I suggest that they don't like themselves that much and have real self-confidence and self-respect issues and use alcohol to escape their realities, which just leads to other problems. One of the biggest mistakes that people can make in life and perhaps only intentionally hurting innocent people is only worst, is escaping and ignoring the truth and your own reality in life. 

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The Art of Sarcastic Humor

Source:Picture Quotes- Would life even be worth living without trouble, tragedy, and comedy?

"Mickey : You don't know what you're saying. You don't.

Eddie : I do.

Mickey : No. I know you think you know what you're saying, but you're not saying it.

Eddie : No, I know what I'm saying. I don't know what I mean, but I know what I'm saying. Is that what you mean?

Mickey : Yeah.

Eddie : Right. But it's not like anybody knows what anything means, right? It's not like anybody knows that. So at least I know I don't know what I mean, which is better than most people. They probably think they know what they mean, not just what they think they mean.

Mickey : What kind of tone is that?

Eddie : What kind of tone is that? That's my tone.

Mickey : Yeah, but what does it mean?

Eddie : My tone? What does my tone mean? I don't have to interpret my fucking tone for you, Mickey. I don't know what it means.

Eddie : Flip is sarcastic.

Mickey : No, it's not. That's crazy. Sarcastic is mean, it's heavy - it's funny, sure, but it's mean. I do both, but this was flip."

Source:Alamy- Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey: in HurlyBurly 

Source:IMDB

Source:Ted Talks

"Using comedy to address serious social issues and educate people in a light manner. Will also perform a small sketch.

Junaid Akram is a powerhouse of wit, humor, sarcasm and satire. A stand-up comedian and now a popular social media figure, Junaid Akram has an opinion about almost everything. It really doesn’t matter if you agree with him or not, but he sure knows how to make you laugh."

The Eddie and Mickey conversation was part of a scene from the movie HurlyBurly from 1998. If you're not familiar with that movie, I don't blame you for it, but it's basically a dark comedy about life in Hollywood and people who work in the Hollywood industry deal with that life and that lifestyle. Eddie ( played by Sean Penn ) and Mickey ( played by Kevin Spacey ) are both professionals in Hollywood and they're talking about life in a very entertaining and I would add humorous way.

Especially Kevin Spacey, who is a master at comedic dialogue with a late night talk show host or standup comedian sense of humor and comedic mind. A good late night talk show host and standup comedian sense of humor and mind. Not some guy who sounds like he's delivering a speech to the Congress, that's supposed to be a monologue, where there are nothing but straight faces in the room and people who look like they're about to fall asleep, who are supposed to listen to this monologue.

If you listen to the Eddie-Mickey conversation in this movie, Spacey is very quick and to the point and very funny in the conversation and just not taking the Eddie character at all to the point that he's being very flip about it. And Eddie accuses Mickey of being sarcastic, with Mickey and I'm paraphrasing: "no, I'm not sarcastic, I'm flip and there's a big difference. Sarcasm is mean, funny sure, but mean. I'm sarcastic."

This is not a Webster's definition, but when I think of sarcasm, I think humor that's intended to make a point and even used to be critical. Critical humor is how I look at sarcasm.

Instead of calling someone fat or stupid, or lazy, or saying no shit, Sherlock when they state the obvious, you instead tell a fat person: "you don't need to eat so much. Why don't save some food for the rest of us, or the rest of the world even. A little exercise never killed anyone, but the way you're going standing up might become too big of s strain for you. "

Instead of calling someone and idiot, you say something like: "when God was handing out brains, you missed that meeting because you overslept. And God didn't feeling like sending you a brain." Or something like: "your IQ is so low, that it doesn't even register. No wonder the National Society For Morons keeps reelecting you as President and no one ever even runs against you."

Instead of saying no shit, Sherlock to someone when they state the obvious, you can say: "you don't say, you figure that out all by yourself, or did you have to conduct an investigation." Any child you can use one word insults and the bully might be the master at those ( and an idiot when it comes to everything else ) but the quick-witted sarcastic person can use humor to not just make people laugh, but to show them where they come up short and even make them laugh at themself at he same time.

Some people say that life is a comedy and some other people say life is a tragedy: I'm in the camp that says life is a highway or rollercoaster with a lot of ups and downs and what doesn't kill you or puts you into a permanent coma can only make you stronger and better, if you not just learn from your experiences, but use them to your advantage. Like being able to not just laugh at the people and what's going on around you, but most importantly laugh at yourself. The only people who can't laugh at themselves are narcissistic bullies who believe the world evolves around them and therefor are indestructible. The rest of us should look at life and as ourselves as great comedians who can't always get a good laugh especially when we need one. 

New York Magazine: Heather Havrilesky: 'How Do I Stop Being An Asshole?'

Source:The Cut- Come on: since when are raccoons, assholes? LOL

"Hey Polly.

How do I stop being an asshole?

Last night, I went out with my husband to enjoy a big festival in town. We both noticed a sign from a distance, but as we approached, another reveler stood directly in front of the sign to read it. “Wow, I hope no one else wants to read that sign, maybe from another angle,” I commented to my husband loud enough for the reader to hear. My husband quietly chuckled and hugged me, saying “Oh, you.”

Later, a woman with a pram cut across our path, not looking where she was going. “We get it! You’ve spawned! You’re more important than us!” I said to her. Another quiet chuckle from my husband."

Read the rest of Heather Havrilesky piece at New York Magazine

Source:Mark Manson- An alternative view in support of assholes.

"We typically don't think of being an asshole as a good thing, but there's a difference between "good" assholes and "bad" assholes.

HOW TO KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE

We all think we know ourselves well, but psychological studies show otherwise. In fact, most of us are somewhat deluded about ourselves. I put together a 22-page ebook explaining how we can come to know ourselves better." 

From Mark Manson

From Urban Dictionary

"An inconsiderate, arrogant, uncaring, selfish, borderline sadistic, apathetic, mean, spiteful, dishonorable, bastard of a man who could tempt the Pope into a fight."

I guess my definition of assholes is more inline with Urban Dictionary than what the two women over at Ask Polly were talking about.

I have two definition for what it means to be an asshole: someone who has a bad habit of speaking about things that they just aren't qualified to talk about and aren't unaware of that. People who consistently speak out of ignorance: who speak out of their ass, to be blunt about it.

My other definition of what it means to be an asshole is inline with The Urban Dictionary's definition: "An inconsiderate, arrogant, uncaring, selfish, borderline sadistic, apathetic, mean, spiteful, dishonorable, bastard of a man who could tempt the Pope into a fight." Someone is had no feeling for others feelings. A person who gets pleasure out of someone else's pain and discomfort. Someone who consistently puts other people down for the pure pleasure of it.

What the two women are at Ask Polly were talking about sounds more like a prickly, oversensitive person who feels the need to weigh in on everything that she disapproves of. Someone who is overly judgmental, a prick to be completely blunt about it. Which is different from someone who doesn't give a damn ( to be too kind ) about someone else's feelings. There are pricks who are actually highly intelligent and then there are assholes who aren't and are so stupid that they don't even realize that they're assholes. So in that sense at least, score one for the pricks, while the assholes do what they do best and lose again, this time to the pricks. With the pricks saying: "Hey, at least we're not assholes. At least we contribute to society."

So I guess what I should do here is to explain why good people shouldn't be either assholes or pricks.

Seriously, people should at least be smart enough to know who they are, what they know, and where they come up short. And to use a pop culture political phrase: people should stay in their lanes in life ( not just on the road ) and if there's something that you want to know more about, actually bother to learn about what you want to learn about, before talking about an issue or profession let's say, as if you're some college professor ( Ivy League, not Alabama ) lecturing others about that subject. Don't speak out of your ass and you won't be an ignorant asshole in life. People should always be smart enough to know what they know and then take it from there.

As far as the other asshole, the person who is let's say a jerk and who is constantly putting people down for the pleasure of it: do you want to be a good person or not is where this comes down. I'm not talking about critiquing people who deserve to be criticized or even being wrong about your own criticism, but people who are simply mean to be mean and enjoy being mean.

The extreme version of assholes would be serial killers who murder innocent people for the pleasure of that. Ted Bundy, comes to mind and many others like Richard Ramirez. A more mainstream version of an asshole would be a high school bully who perhaps doesn't even know any better. So in that sense at least the high school bully meets both of my definitions of asshole. Which might be their first accomplishment in life.

I'm not defending pricks here, but compared with assholes there like the tough cop who perhaps bends the rules to bring down the assholes so the assholes can't hurt any more innocent people: you rather have the prick on your team, than be associated with any asshole. I guess you could be both a prick and an asshole, but for the sake of this piece let's say they're different people.

Another word for prick would be snob: someone who looks down at other people and thinks that they're better than everyone else, or at least the people that they don't associate with. And the only reason why they don't associate with people outside of their circles, is because they believe that they're better than those people. And pricks generally look down at other people for superficial reasons like money and employment status. A prick would be a person with not just a college education, but a degree from a Northeast or West Coast school, who looks down at people who work hard for a living just to support themselves and their families. Who go home tired and even sweaty from work everyday and perhaps every night.

The way to not be a prick:

Don't judge people simply because of how much money that they make, or what they do for a living especially if they're contributing to society and aren't criminals. We need cops, teachers, plumbers, construction workers, military personal, and just because these people don't make as much money as new-tech workers, bankers, accountants, lawyers, doctors, etc, doesn't mean that they're inferior: it just means that they don't make as much money.

Don't judge people by their social media status and have this idea that you're too good to be associated with someone simply because they don't have that many followers. But instead judge those people based on whether you personally like them or not and are interested in them or not.

Don't judge people based on how much they know about pop culture and celebrity culture, reality TV, new-tech, etc: just because there are junkies and faddists who feel the need to have whatever the latest gadget is and have this lifelong need be one of the first 5 people to buy whatever the latest smartphone is to the point that they're camp outside the store the nigh before to guarantee that they're one of the first 100 people ( let's say ) to buy whatever the latest gadget is. Some people buy gadgets because they're status symbols to them and feel this desire to always be up to date with those devices. And then there are people who buy those things based on need and what they're interested in.

Instead of looking at people based on how much money they make, what they do for a living, how informed they are on new technology, what their favorite coffee drink and coffee house is, whether they go to coffee houses or not, are they into reality TV and celebrity culture or not, how about you bother to do the non-asshole thing here and get to know people and judge people as people. Instead of judging them based on their race, ethnicity, religion, culture, sexuality, etc.

And you might actually learn something in life and meet new, good friends that will also like you for who you are, not because of their social status. And you'll never have to worry about being either an asshole or a prick. Or you can always just be who you are and deal with that, because life is always about choices and consequences. So always make the best choices for yourself, instead of for others.  

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William F. Buckley: 'Who's He: A Review of Snobbery The American Version'

Source:AZ Quotes- "TOP 25 SNOBBERY QUOTES (of 72)."

"Joseph Epstein’s new book about snobbery1 ends up being a book about Joseph Epstein, which is perfectly okay—provided one is Joseph Epstein. Another’s book about snobbery, displaying the author’s biography, his likes and dislikes, suspicions, affections, affectations, crotchets, would not guarantee against a reader’s strayed attention. There isn’t the slightest risk of this happening upon reading Epstein’s book, because he is perhaps the wittiest writer (working in his genre) alive, the funniest since Randall Jarrell."

Read more at The New Criterion

"The existence of snobbery explains why we work so hard and are so worried about our reputations. We are all terrified of humiliation and disrespect...

Source:The School of Life - Sounds like sound advice. 

From The School of Life

"The existence of snobbery explains why we work so hard and are so worried about our reputations. We are all terrified of humiliation and disrespect.  If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide):"i

The thing about snobbery or elitism, is that is not about race, ethnicity, gender, or religion: it's multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religion, both men and women are involved in it. Snobbery, is about class and social status. ( Even though you could argue that the English created it, both in Britain and in America )

And when I was growing up in the 1980s and early 90s, the snobbery from that time was about highly educated people ( people with college degrees from elite schools ) looking down on people who didn't have college degrees, or didn't have a college degree from an elite Northeastern or West Coast school. White-collar people looking down on blue-collar people who physically work very hard for a living. People who work in their own offices and make 6 or seven figures, looking down on people who work in construction, work on cars, drive trucks for a living, etc. People in big, prosperous cities and metros, with white-collar jobs, who look down on people from small and midsize towns and areas, with blue-collar backgrounds.

But it wasn't just about work status as it was about culture as well: people who drink wine and have servants at their home who prepare all of their meals for them and prepare, fancy and expensive meals for them, looking down at people who have a beer, eat chicken wings, shoot pool, or go bowling after work, prepare their own meals and do their own grocery shopping, as opposed to hanging out at country clubs and playing golf after work.  People who listen to classical music, feeling superior to people who listen to rock music, jazz, R&B, or whatever the non-high class music is supposed to be.

We still have economic snobbery and even social snobbery today, but it's different thanks to the internet, new technology, the explosion of celebrity culture, and social media where the so-called in-crowd, looks down at other people because they don't have whatever the latest phone or current gadget is, compared with someone who believes they can live extremely well in life ( as crazy as this might sound ) even if they don't have whatever the current smartphone is, or are up to date on the latest celebrity scandals or hit reality TV show.

Personally as a Liberal, I believe in live and let live, to each his own, do unto others as you would do to yourself. And if I personally got to write The Ten Commandments, maybe my name was picked out of some hat, or personally sat down and wrote my own personal Ten Commandments, those three commandments would be at the top of my list. So of course I'm not a fan on snobbery, simply because I don't believe someone is a better person that someone else, simply because they make more money, have more education, have more current devices, more followers on whatever the hot social media network, or whatever the standard is.

I'm very pro-choice as an individual ( not just on abortion and sexuality ) and believe people should be able to make their own beds in life and then have to sleep in them. And in today's social media, celebrity culture, new technology culture, my attitude is very old school and probably not fashionable. But popularity has never been my standard when I make decisions for myself and take positions on issues.

Classic Film and TV Cafe: Rick 29- 'Murder One: The Sensational First Season'

Source:Classic Film & TV Cafe- Daniel Benxali: as attorney Ted Hoffman.

"When wealthy philanthropist Richard Cross is arrested for the murder of his mistress's 15-year-old sister, he secures the services of defense attorney Ted Hoffman. Within days, though, a mysterious woman comes forward to provide Cross (Stanley Tucci) with an alibi. He is released and the police quickly charge actor Neil Avedon with the homicide. When Cross pleads with Ted (Daniel Benzali) to defend Neil, the attorney accepts the case."

Read the rest of this piece at Classic Film and TV Cafe

Source:Apathy Monger- Part of the team at Hoffman and Associates.

"Murder One Season One Opening Credits"

Source:Classic Film & TV Cafe- Stanley Tucci: as Richard Cross

Just to give you little background about Murder One and the genre in Hollywood that it represented: in the late 1970s with superstar shows like Dallas, soap operas went prime time. Dallas with CBS, that ABC got into the prime time soap opera game with Dynasty. CBS, launched another prime time soap with Falcon Crest. NBC, with St. Elsewhere. ABC, in the mid and late 1980s with Thirty Something. Because of Generation X, shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place in the early 90s. And then prime time soaps just even bigger in the mid 90s with shows like NYPD Blue ( from ABC ) and then ER. ( From NBC )

Murder One, ( from ABC ) was different at least in the sense that it was a prime time soap opera dealing with the criminal justice system and that the show was almost exclusively from the point of the view of the defense team. When you saw the prosecutors, they were either in court, giving a press conference, or in communication with the defense team. And the first season of Murder One did have several other legal and criminal cases that Hoffman & Associates dealt with, but their biggest cases was the Neal Avdeon who was a Hollywood actor who was accused of killing his girlfriend.

By the midpoint of season one, Murder One was practically all about the Avedon case where the general partner of Hoffman & Associates Ted Hoffman, is completely tied up and basically has his life taken over by this one murder case and getting his client acquitted of the murder charge.

There are shows and series that seem to go on forever that I wish I had never heard of, but because they're so popular, even though they're so stupid where the main characters on the show are really only famous for getting into tense, heated, public arguments and fights. Where these people are basically just losers who can't stay out of trouble. And of course I'm thinking of what's called reality TV.

And then there are what I at least call cookie-cutter sitcoms where it's hard to tell one of these shows from another, because they're all basically about the same things: young to early middle age people, who aren't married, no kids, live in lofts that are probably in New York and spend most of their time hanging out at coffee houses and places like that. And those shows go on forever, even though there's really not much if any difference from one cookie-cutter sitcom to another other than the cast members are different, because that's what young people are into.

Murder One, falls into a different category as a show that had a great cast, had great writers, that wasn't like the other shows that it was competing with, but instead almost completely different; maybe only LA Law could you compare with Murder One and yet Murder One despite everything that it had going for it with the great background and depth to that show, it doesn't make and is gone after season 2.

ABC and Steven Bochco made some fatal mistakes with Murder One: going up against ER on the same night and time slot during season one, which just killed the ratings of Murder One right off the bat. And then replacing Daniel Benzali who was perfect for the role of Ted Hoffman, with Anthony LaPaglia, who is a fine actor, but not someone you want as your lead actor in a big show like this. But Murder One, didn't fail because it had cheesy writing, or a weak cast, weak directing, or anything like that, but of how it was managed with the tools that they had. It should've had its own time slot from episode one and let the show ride on its own. 

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LeAnn Rimes: Life Goes On

Source: LeAnn Rimes Official- LeAnn Rimes's Life Goes On.

"You sucked me in and played my mind

Just like a toy

You would crank and wind

Baby, I would give you to what you want

You left me lying in a pool of doubt

If you're still thinking your the daddy mack

Ya shouldn't known better

But ya didn't

And I can't go back

Oh life goes on

And it's only gonna make me strong

It's a fact

Once you get on board

Say good-bye

'Cause you can't go back

Oh it's a fight

And I really want to get it right

Where I'm at

It's my life before me

Got this feeling

That I can't go back

Wish I knew then what I know now

You held all the cards

And sold me out

Baby, shame on you if you fool me once

Shame on me if you fool me twice

You've been a pretty hard case to crack

Should've of known better

But I didn't

And I can't go back."

Source:LeAnn Rimes

Source: Fun For Funny- LeAnn Rimes's Life Goes On 

I believe this is one my favorite songs now and certainly one of my favorite LeAnn Rimes song. Her music from the Coyote Ugly days and album is really what I love about her music. Can't Fight The Moonlight, How do I live. Not a country music fan even though I like country girls, which is really a different subject, but I like this song which isn't a country song. LeAnn, is from the pop country school of country music that came out in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Where country is mixed in with pop. Shania Twain, graduated from that school and in the mid 2000s Gretchen Wilson and Miranda Lambert took that a step further and address classic rock and even blues to their country music. With their music really being about country or rural life, but with a harder rock edge to it. One of the reasons why I like Life Goes On is because it's not a country song.

About the song itself, what LeAnn is saying here is that what won't kill her will just make her stronger. Which is sort of cliche now but it's right on point. This song is about a relationship that went south and she's saying that it's time to move on and that life goes on for her without this man in her life that I guess did her wrong. Reminds me a lot of Tina Turner's I Don't Wanna Fight from 1993. And the point of the song is so spot on and so honest about what life is really about which is that we all start off life with a steep learning curve and the only way to really live life is buy learning about it. Which includes making mistakes, not intentionally at least for most us but learning by doing learning from experience including making mistakes and even bad mistakes. And using those mistakes to improve ourselves and make us into better people.

And that is what this song is about that she went through a rough relationship with a guy and suffered from it because she trusted someone who hurt her over and over and guess finally woke up and decided it's time to move on and that life really goes on for her and that has to be without him. The whole line about which sounds corny but is very true that, "shame on you if you fool me once, shame on me if you fool me twice" is a perfect example of that and she finally got it that this guy is playing her and can't be trusted and it's time for her to dump him. That she should've known better but didn't and she can't go back because life goes on. Great song with a great message to it. 

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Consensus 44: Oliver Wilson- Social Media: ‘Addictive, Frustrating But Here To Stay’

Source: Library Technology Launchpad- The big three on social media?

Source:The New Democrat

“Social media: addictive, frustrating but here to stay.” I could leave it at what Oliver Wilson said in his blog post, but as a blogger myself I feel a duty to explain to my readers at least why I agree with that, but Oliver Wilson nails his piece with just the title of it.

As a blogger myself who has been blogging since 2009 or so I almost have to not just be online ( the only way to operate a blog ) but on social media. I mean if the blogger them self is not willing to share online what they wrote, why would anyone else. Doesn’t mean you have to officially like your own blog posts and hit the like button, but I do believe you have a duty to not only allow for people to subscribe to your blog, but then share it as well and allow for others to share your blog. Share options are critical for any blogger.

I have to be on social media as a blogger. A blogger without social media when you’re talking about a blog that you not only write for but personally own and manage, would be like a race car driver without access to a car. And I’m not just talking about race cars, but any cars in general not even a 1978 Ford Pinto. ( Sorry Millennials, for that history reference. I’m aware you’re not fans of history. ) Which means to be a blogger there a lot of benefits to that like people knowing what you’re thinking, at least your thoughts that you make public. As well as letting people know what you know, again your knowledge that you make public. But like with anything in life there’s pluses and minuses to anything you get involved with and social media might be poster child for plusses and minuses in life like the nonsense ( to keep it clean ) that comes to being a social media member.

Narcissism, is not new in America and has been around probably as long as we’ve been a country and I’ve been guilty of it myself. I could be watching a movie at home and I get a Twitter or Google+ notification on my I-phone that I’m really interested in looking at. Because someone just re-sahred, commented, or liked one of my posts. Or perhaps I just got a new follower on Twitter or Google+. With Facebook, which is my least favorite of the big three ( as I call them ) when I get a notification on the Facebook app unlike with Twitter and Google+ ( to paraphrase Oliver Wilson ) it’s generally someone posting in some group that I have very little interest in. And that’s when my Facebook app is working at all, the Twitter and Google+ apps are more reliable at least on my phone.

When I was brand new to Facebook about ten years ago a friend and I were talking on the phone and he was talking about his brother and saying that his brother has like only 5 friends or something like that on Facebook and making a big deal of that. Well, if you’re familiar with my friend’s brother you know the guy is rarely if ever on Facebook. Almost never posts. Facebook might be to him right now what sunny day to the rest of us. Something we see almost everyday ( unless you live in the Northwest ) and not that big of a deal.

As I told my friend several years ago social media to everyone is what everyone makes it to be for themselves. If it’s something you really like regardless of the network and you post a lot of interesting things like status updates, photos, links, etc and you do that daily, you’re going to be popular on that network even if you don’t personally know a lot of people and don’t have a lot of personal friends.

By the way, personal friends and Facebook friends aren’t the same thing. Personal friends are people that you actually know and have not just met in person, but hangout with in person and talk to on the phone. Facebook friends, are people you meet, well on Facebook. But to sound nasty here, if you have a life outside of social media and have plenty of things that keep you busy like work, family, your personal friends even, or are just someone who is fairly private and only want to share your news with people you personally know and trust, you’re probably not going to be very popular on your social media networks, unless you have a lot of personal friends on those networks.

The other thing that  agree with Oliver Wilson here has to do with smartphones. My point earlier being that narcissism isn’t anything knew in America. Donald Trump, is not the inventor of narcissism, but perhaps just the king of it. What social network have done for narcissism has exploded it to the point that it’s everywhere now. If you go to a coffee house today and you’re not staring at your I-phone, you’re the outsider and the stranger at that coffee house, bus stop, train station, grocery store, whatever place you want to use as an example, bar would be another one. Social media and smartphones, both came out at about the same time which is the early and middle 2000s, unless you count blackberry’s as smartphone because people have internet access on their blackberry.

And because of this smartphones and social media have  made high school teenagers out of people in their 40s now and have given a lot of middle age Americans the need to be popular. Except high school, is over for most of those people ( you would think anyway ) and now they’re teenagers in their 40s with social media and a smartphone. Gaining 10 new friends on Facebook ( or whatever the big number is ) is like their OMG moment of the day that they just have to share that or won’t be able to get through the rest of the day. Even if they’ve never even met a single one of their new FB friends and don’t even live in the same country with any of them, let alone  short flight away from them. But being de-freiended by one person on FB during that day, is something that sends that person to their shrink or pouring a bottle of pills down their throat because they simply can’t deal with it. Or they go into a swearing rant on FB, to try to look cool again.

As I told my friend, social media regardless of what network or networks you prefer is what you personally make of it. For me Facebook, is just a place to posts my blog posts and to follow my favorite entertainers, as well as the real news, sports, etc. Especially since Facebook no longer allows their members to connect their Twitter with their Facebook page. Just another one of my annoyances with Facebook. If you really want to know what I’m up to online follow my blog, or my Twitter or Google+ pages. Where I also post my blog posts.

I just prefer Twitter and Google+, because they don’t have as many rules and you don’t have to friend request someone you personally don’t know just to follow them. With Twitter and Google+, you can follow anyone you want until they block you. Unless you’re an asshole or follow assholes, you’re probably not going to get blocked on Twitter or Google+. Plus ( no pun intended ) the communities on Google+ are great and are very active and is a great way to post your blog and get real reaction about what you’re writing with the GP communities. But for too many other people social media perhaps especially Facebook, has become a way of life. They can’t go to bed without knowing about everything that their so-called friends are doing and what they said on one of their own posts and it’s very sad to see people become so addictive to things that are just supposed to be hobbies and places where people can meet and talk.

Source: Austin Evans: Twitter vs Facebook vs Google+- Social media junkies?