A great video, featuring Jason Riley, at Prager University:
Thursday, January 17, 2019
More on Idiot Instagram Influencer Caroline Calloway
Following-up from yesterday, "The Case of Caroline Calloway and the Influencer Economy."
See Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell."
See Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell."
Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell https://t.co/tk3evITb8W— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 17, 2019
h/t @Ceilidhann (and @FlyingDog beer) pic.twitter.com/jjM6gmGcdn
Miss Calloway is 27 now. She’s no longer the fresh-faced girl posting #adventuregram photos and spending Daddy’s money on an extended vacation “studying art history” in Cambridge. She’s got hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers but has yet to succeed in monetizing her “brand” because she’s unwilling to do any actual work.RTWT.
Like, you land a $500,000 book contact — half a million dollars! — at age 24, and you can’t deliver the manuscript? Why? Because you were too busy “studying art history” and hanging out with Oscar? Or was it because you realized that your shallow life wasn’t really interesting enough to merit a “memoir”? But if somebody’s willing to pay you $500,000 for it, maybe you could fake it? For $500,000 I could write all kinds of wild stuff, maybe even the True Story of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Robbery, although otherwise I’d have to invoke my Fifth Amendment rights on advice of my Samoan lawyer...
Can Dems Keep a 'Big Tent' in 2020?
Nah.
It's going to be a two year clown show at this point.
At McClathcy, "Democratic leaders fret: Can we keep our big tent in 2020?"
It's going to be a two year clown show at this point.
At McClathcy, "Democratic leaders fret: Can we keep our big tent in 2020?"
So @katieglueck and I talked to a bunch of county chairs from areas Democrats flipped in '18, to see what they think the party needs to do to win in 2020: Energize the base, show statesmanship, and ...
— Alex Roarty (@Alex_Roarty) January 17, 2019
“People want to have a selfie with candidates”https://t.co/D3x8HoFeS7
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
The Case of Caroline Calloway and the Influencer Economy
Every semester I have students read this Cal Newport op-ed at the New York Times, "Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It."
When I announce this as required first week's readings I usually see a few frowns and long faces, and one semester a student challenged me about the article, saying that people make money as "influencers," or some such thing.
The influencer thing was new to me at the time, but I got it. Nowadays it's a big thing.
I really like Sally Fitzgibbons, for example, but she's so into the product promotions, she never even likes a tweet from a follower. (I like interaction. I've had likes from television stars [Angie Harmon, for example] and lots of interaction with hot sports media and television personalities [like Liz Habib, who's the local Fox 11 sports anchor and a smokin' hottie].)
In any case, you can see why I'm not so sold on the "influencer economy." And after reading this bombshell from Kayleigh Donaldson, it's case closed.
See, "The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy: The Case of Caroline Calloway and her Creativity Workshop Tour."
Mind-boggling, really. (*SMH.*)
When I announce this as required first week's readings I usually see a few frowns and long faces, and one semester a student challenged me about the article, saying that people make money as "influencers," or some such thing.
The influencer thing was new to me at the time, but I got it. Nowadays it's a big thing.
I really like Sally Fitzgibbons, for example, but she's so into the product promotions, she never even likes a tweet from a follower. (I like interaction. I've had likes from television stars [Angie Harmon, for example] and lots of interaction with hot sports media and television personalities [like Liz Habib, who's the local Fox 11 sports anchor and a smokin' hottie].)
In any case, you can see why I'm not so sold on the "influencer economy." And after reading this bombshell from Kayleigh Donaldson, it's case closed.
See, "The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy: The Case of Caroline Calloway and her Creativity Workshop Tour."
Mind-boggling, really. (*SMH.*)
For the full story in excruciating detail, here is my piece on @pajiba on Caroline Calloway, her brief creativity workshop & the hollowness of "authenticity" as a brand.https://t.co/GxezF5WytL— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) January 14, 2019
Nina Agdal Takes It Off
At Drunken Stepfather, "NINA AGDAL NAKED OF THE DAY."
And at the Sun U.K., "Supermodel Nina Agdal shows off sensational figure as she poses in white bikini."
Still more at the New York Post, "Nina Agdal says she wouldn’t date Jack Brinkley-Cook if he were broke."
BONUS: Nina Agdal Topless.
And at the Sun U.K., "Supermodel Nina Agdal shows off sensational figure as she poses in white bikini."
Supermodel Nina Agdal shows off sensational figure as she poses in white bikini https://t.co/jjv0iq5lpe— The Sun (@TheSun) January 15, 2019
Still more at the New York Post, "Nina Agdal says she wouldn’t date Jack Brinkley-Cook if he were broke."
BONUS: Nina Agdal Topless.
Monday, January 14, 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Helen Flanagan in Yellow Bikini
At Taxi Driver:
Helen Flanagan Yellow Bikini Pokies - https://t.co/BZ4v5arcKh - pic.twitter.com/bLXJW1caUa
— Taxi Driver (@TaxiDriverMovie) January 9, 2019
'This is Communism'
It is.
See David Horowitz on Twitter:
See David Horowitz on Twitter:
This is communism. I suspect Eleanor had something to do with this. The American idea of rights is limits to government power, freedom for the individual. https://t.co/NGbWg2t6zT
— David Horowitz (@horowitz39) January 12, 2019
Democrats Look to Clamp Down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (VIDEO)
Norms? What norms?
Well, she didn't get an assignment to the Ways and Means Committee, but she won't stop shaking things up on the Hill.
Wait 'till next year. If she backs primary challenges against centrist Democrat incumbents, you know she's going all out to overturn the entire centrist-seniority system in the House.
At Politico, "Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez: The effort is part carrot, part stick. But it's far from clear the anti-establishment political novice can be made to play ball":
Well, she didn't get an assignment to the Ways and Means Committee, but she won't stop shaking things up on the Hill.
Wait 'till next year. If she backs primary challenges against centrist Democrat incumbents, you know she's going all out to overturn the entire centrist-seniority system in the House.
At Politico, "Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez: The effort is part carrot, part stick. But it's far from clear the anti-establishment political novice can be made to play ball":
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already making enemies in the House Democratic Caucus — and some of its members are mounting an operation to bring the anti-establishment, democratic socialist with 2.2 million Twitter followers into the fold.
The effort, described by nearly 20 lawmakers and aides, is part carrot, part stick: Some lawmakers with ties to Ocasio-Cortez are hoping to coax her into using her star power to unite Democrats and turn her fire on Republicans. Others simultaneously warn Ocasio-Cortez is destined for a lonely, ineffectual career in Congress if she continues to treat her own party as the enemy.
“I’m sure Ms. Cortez means well, but there’s almost an outstanding rule: Don’t attack your own people,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). “We just don’t need sniping in our Democratic Caucus.”
Incumbent Democrats are most annoyed by Ocasio-Cortez’s threat to back primary opponents against members of their ranks she deems too moderate. But their frustration goes beyond that: Democratic leaders are upset that she railed against their new set of House rules on Twitter the first week of the new Congress. Rank and file are peeved that there’s a grassroots movement to try to win her a top committee post they feel she doesn’t deserve.
Even some progressives who admire AOC, as she’s nicknamed, told POLITICO that they worry she’s not using her notoriety effectively.
“She needs to decide: Does she want to be an effective legislator or just continue being a Twitter star?” said one House Democrat who’s in lockstep with Ocasio Cortez’s ideology. “There’s a difference between being an activist and a lawmaker in Congress.”
It’s an open question whether Ocasio-Cortez can be checked. She’s barely been in Congress a week and is better known than almost any other House member other than Nancy Pelosi and John Lewis. A media throng follows her every move, and she can command a national audience practically at will.
None of that came playing by the usual rules: Indeed, Ocasio-Cortez’s willingness to take on her party establishment with unconventional guerrilla tactics is what got her here. It’s earned her icon status on the progressive left, it’s where the 29-year-old freshman derives her power — and, by every indication, it’s how she thinks she can pull the Democratic Party in her direction.
The Freedom Caucus didn’t win many popularity contests in Congress the past four years, but it’s hard to dispute the hard-liners’ success dragging the GOP to the right.
Still, fellow Democrats are giving it their best, or planning to in the near future.
So far, most of them have kept their criticism of Ocasio-Cortez private, fearful she’ll sic her massive following on them by firing off a tweet. But a few are engaging with her in the hopes she’ll opt for a different M.O., especially when it comes to trying to take out Democrats in primaries.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) is playing a key role. Like Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez knocked off a longtime Democratic incumbent to win her seat, and they share Puerto Rican roots.
In private conversations with Ocasio-Cortez over the past few months, Velázquez counseled Ocasio-Cortez against targeting her Democratic colleagues in future elections. The two had a “long, long conversation” about the dynamics of Congress and Washington, and how there shouldn’t be a “litmus test” for every district, Velázquez said in a recent interview.
After she defeated Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley in shocking fashion last year, Ocasio-Cortez supported primary challengers to Democratic Reps. Stephanie Murphy of Florida, William Lacy Clay of Missouri and Mike Capuano of Massachusetts.
Only Capuano lost. But Velázquez told Ocasio-Cortez she should think twice in the future before backing primaries against her colleagues. Murphy, the first Vietnamese woman elected to Congress, represents a swing district and could lose her seat if she’s forced to move left in a primary, Velázquez said during the talk...
Sunday Cartoons
At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."
And at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
And at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – That Was Then."
And at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
And at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – That Was Then."
Danielle Gersh's Sunday Forecast
Here's the fabulous Ms. Danielle, "Increasing cloud cover and colder temperatures expected Sunday before several storms move into the Southland this week..."
PG&E Prepares for Bankruptcy
This is big! At LAT, "PG&E may notify its employees this week of potential bankruptcy."
PG&E Corp., facing billions of dollars in wildfire liabilities, may notify employees as soon as Monday that it’s preparing a potential bankruptcy filing. https://t.co/jaJeXCBUX8
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 13, 2019
Bella Thorne Promotes 'F*** Me' Lip Stain (VIDEO)
She's still crazy, heh.
Bella Thorne dons red latex bikini to promote her new 'F*** Me Firetruck' lip stain https://t.co/eppzcXTPIa
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) January 13, 2019
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