Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Perez Makes Jerk Comments About Michael Jackson, Everyone Gets Mad

Image originally from perezhilton.com

While the world still wasn't sure of the fate of Michael Jackson, Perez Hilton of celebrity blogging and more recently, getting punched in the face fame, was quick to judge the early reports of MJ's condition and...I'll just let you read what he had to say.

The original post:

We knew something like this would happen!!

Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance from his Holmby Hills home to a nearby Los Angeles hospital on Thursday afternoon!!

Supposedly, the singer went into cardiac arrest and the paramedics had to administer CPR!!!

His mother is even on the way to visit him!!!

We are dubious!!

Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in '95 when he "collapsed" at rehearsal!

He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50 date London residency at the 02 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates!!!

Either he's lying or making himself sick, but we're curious to see if he's able to go on!!!

Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!

If you look for it now (which you can read here) it's been edited with no acknowledgement of being edited. As someone who just got punched in the face for being insensitive, this type of commentary really didn't help his cause for the world to feel bad for him. Even though he soon edited the post, the message of the original entry wasn't let go by the readers of his site, lashing out with a ton of negativity towards him.

Here's just a sampling of the almost 300 hateful comments they had to say on his blog:

What if he's dying?

Seriously, I sort of get your point, but atleast wait with saying stuff like that until we know what the hell is going on…

- Shuyinda

I thought maybe you would have turned over a new leaf after all the negativity directed at you for your recent idiocy, but it appears as you are just the same old fat idiot. Making fun of someone that has had a serious medical emergency.

You are not worthy of being a human being…good thing you look like a pig, cause in the pen is the only place you will be accepted soon.

- KCP1967

Perez, for Christ sake, if he suffered cardiac arrest it means his heart stopped beating. If someone has a cardiac arrest and doctors don't administer whatever needed to restart the heart beating again, the person is DEAD.
My father had a heart arrest, the doctors worked and worked on resuscitation and brought him back to life. Next day in the hospital bed he looked better, and suddenly his heart arrested again, the line on the heart monitor went flat, and the doctors worked and worked on him, but he was dead.

- soccer mom

What happened to your original post on him Perez?!? You know, the one where you were "dubious" and thought he was faking this to get out of his concert tickets? The one where you told ticket holders to get their $$ back? It was mysteriously edited after you posted that he DIED.

YOU COWARD!!! I hope you feel disgusted and ashamed of yourself, you deserve nothing less.

- LOLA BB


What should have Perez done? Well first, not jump to conclusions. He made some very insesitive comments that angered many people, and they all called for him to edit what he said. Second, he shouldn't have tried to edit his post without any sort of apology or acknowledgement that it was edited. You can't sweep anything under the rug on the Internet, and for Perez to think all he had to do was edit the original post and act like nothing happened was really shady and unprofessional.

Once you've gone that far in, I think the only thing left for him to do is to clearly state that he edited the post and apologize for the original comments. He has yet to make it clear that he edited what he said and I don't expect him to now.

I know he's a celebrity tabloid style blogger, but he went too far this time. And the lack of any acknowledgement of his editing makes it even shadier. I hope we as bloggers and posters on the Internet can learn a lesson from this.


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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

PS22 Chorus = Coolest Choir Ever?



Last night, I saw the PS22 Chorus rendition of "Eye of the Tiger" on CNN and thought, "Wow! This is cool! I wish I had a music class as cool as this!" Today, I check into YouTube and their rendition of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is currently the second-most popular video on YouTube. They've made fans out of Perez Hilton, Tori Amos, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and more. And the PS22 isn't some special music school...just an ever-changing group of grade 5 NYC public school kids.

I love this whole initiative primarily for two reasons:

1) The implementation of more "popular" and "contemporary" music into its curriculum and

2) The leveraging of social media such as the PS22 Chorus blog and YouTube videos to not only keep the kids interested, but spread the word about what it is they're doing.

Personally, I've had a very weird and informal path discovering, learning and creating music. Little to none of which occured in school. A lot of that unsatisfactory feeling towards my school music experience came from not being able to sing and learn the songs we wanted to learn. It was always the by-the-book kiddie stuff or music we students couldn't connect with.

Why not work some work some "cooler" music into the curriculum?

I know school will never be the place for choirs to sing Crank That by Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, but is there any less musical merit in a Miley Cyrus song? A Fleetwood Mac song? Heck, "Eye of the Tiger" is almost 30 years old, but the choir sang that song because the lead singer loved that song in Guitar Hero. If part of your job as a music teacher is to get the kids to enjoy music, why not work with more songs that the kids like?

Also, can't let these boys and girls go without talking about their social media implementation. Their teacher has created a blog and a YouTube channel to document their performances and major accomplishments to add an extra level of legitimacy to what these kids are doing. Even if they weren't discovered by Perez Hilton or Ashton Kutcher, just being able to show my parents and my friends what I'm doing at school is super cool. Not only that, knowing that the whole world could be watching, I'd try a little bit harder to make a lasting impression too.

Great job everyone at PS22 Chorus. Can't wait to here more music from you!


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Monday, April 20, 2009

Twitter Wars: Niketalk Vs. Diddy

image from Niketalk

Niketalk is one of my favourite message boards on the Internet. No, I've never been an official member of the board since I started following it in 2002. And no, I haven't even been following the sneaker industry for years. But the Niketalk general message boards are a regular stop-over of mine, checking a few times a day at least. It's an interesting window into the world of sneaker fans that includes a unique perspective on the latest events of the world, lots of discussion about girl problems, and is one of my favourite places to get funny pictures.

I was on Niketalk just now and I found the community decided to do something I hadn't seen done before.

Gang up on a celebrity. First victim? Diddy.



In the "NT Roastin' ______ on Twitter Appreciation...Who's next?" thread, they coordinated an attack where numerous Niketalk members sent Diddy countless insults through Twitter. Let's look at some of the highlights:

@iamdiddy Ol, "You had a spark when you started / but now you just garbage" - type of man.

@iamdiddy Ol' "I've never even wrote helped compose the best songs on my own albums"-style man.

@iamdiddy Ol', "I charged Miss V. Wallace $$$ to use her son's music in his own biopic"-man. (-_-)

Dre_704
Ya moms didn't let you play baseball after ya greasy %%% slid from 1st base to centerfield. Umpires f'd around and called a travel @iamdiddy
pasCHITOWNyo ol selfish %%@ %@+!$..the least you coulda did was put craig mack in some proactive commercials @iamdiddy

I wish Jada woulda really hit you w/ the refrigerator @iamdiddy.
There were far too many insults thrown at Diddy for me to post here, so I'll leave it to you to find the rest of them. Diddy didn't respond directly to the outpouring of hate typed his way, but he did post this towards the end of Niketalk's tirade.

image from Niketalk

Certain companies and celebrities have opened themselves up more through technology like Twitter, for better or worse. On the other side of the coin, you, as an average person have power. If you know how to use something like a blog, Twitter, or Facebook, you could make something happen. Like making Diddy sad, if that's one of your goals in life, I guess. I'd hope you aim higher than committing the virtual equivalent of throwing a cream pie into someone's face, but I guess this is a start.


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