(12/19 response to VICE Magazine: I know these 2 recently divorced, & the guy who was foolish enough to take her last name despite never marrying her went public with his equally foolish attempt to get his otherwise unknown (at least to me) group some publicity, but that doesn't give you the right to just bash everybody involved in the proceedings! Just because her latest album was a so-called "eponymous" album, doesn't give you the right to call her irrelevant at this stage of her life! Last time I checked, your organization was irrelevant until crazy guy Dennis Rodman came calling & begged you to visit the "hermit kingdom" of North Korea with him! That's not even 1 of my biggest complaints with your critique of this woman & her music… My biggest complaints with your pointless critique of this album are, in no particular order: 1: You mentioned the Sex Pistols, who, last time I checked, haven't released anything new since 4 singles in 2007 & a bootleg concert album the following year! I don't really give any you-know-whats about the fact that most of Ms. Lavigne's newest album was on the radio last year, & for that matter, I don't really give any you-know-whats that she hasn't followed the conventional music industry track (no pun intended) record by releasing any sort of "best of" albums yet… The fact that you insulted everybody else's intelligence by claiming that she didn't know the "Sex Pistols", or that she "wasn't punk", is where you crossed the line with me! I'd also like to remind you ******* about the way Sid what's-his-face went out: 10/12/78: stabs his GF dead in an NYC hotel room - tries to commit suicide 10 days later; 2/1/79: after 55 days at Rikers Island, shoots himself full of heroin; dies at his new GF's apartment during a celebration of the ****** having received a bailout in the 1st place!
(12/20 UPDATE: Dennis Rodman is apparently back in the "hermit kingdom", North Korea, yet again… VICE "bankrolled" him last time, & apparently, they're at it again!
Rodman on his newest dictator friend, Lil'Kim (the emphasis in the quotes is mine): "I can't control what they do with their government, I can't control what they say or how they do things here," he said. "I'm just trying to come here as a sports figure and try to hope I can open the door for a lot of people in the country." "I've come over to see my friend, and people always give me a little hard time about me saying that." "I'm very proud to say he's my friend, because he hasn't done anything to put a damper, to say any negative things about my country." As if those comments weren't enough for Dennis, he then took those comments 1 step further: "North Korea has given me the opportunity to bring these players and their families over here, so people can actually see, so these players can actually see, that this country is actually not as bad as people project it to be in the media."
On VICE Magazine itself, according to http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/mar/30/pressandpublishing.tvandradioarts?gusrc=rss&feed=media: from founder Shane Smith: 'We wanted to be the first international voice for the universality of youth sub-culture. There was a time in the Nineties when it was all about cocaine & asymmetrical zippers. We did a lot of drugs & went to a lot of parties and had sex with a lot of supermodels. But you realize there's a whole world out there, & as we've expanded, the scope of the magazine has gotten broader. We became a magazine when the barriers to making a magazine effectively became nonexistent. You could do desktop publishing on a Mac & print for cheap. Now you get a digicam and a Mac, & you can have something broadcast on the net within 15 minutes.'
You might think that Smith & his VICE colleagues would stop their culture bashing right there, but in a January 2012 interview with Forbes Magazine (1 of our political right wing's favorite rags), he goes from being this countercultural icon to anti-almost everything imaginable!
On our 2 main political parties & their associated "movements": "When you get down to it, the politics of it is juvenile. There’s no real cohesive manifesto or even cohesive ask. They’re saying, well, we should tax the rich and give it to more people. And I say, well, I get it, but you understand that government tax redistribution has another name, and that’s communism. You want to take from rich people and give to each according to his need. I mean, you don’t want to say it, but that’s what you’re saying. The economic system here is ******. But if you’re going to try to fix it or change it, you have to have something a little more cohesive than “redistribution of wealth” and then not even know what communism or socialism is. Have you not read a book? I like the fact that they’re protesting. It’s just really sad when you go down there. It’s like talking to kindergarten children. What are you doing? Why are you even here? If there was a real revolution, man, I’d be there just for the fun of it."
On corporate culture & companies themselves: "I’m gonna get myself in a lot of **** here… Obviously, Facebook is great. The problem is Zuckerberg, who’s the Stalin of Facebook, is his own worst enemy. If he was a different guy, everyone would like him. There’s so much pent-up animosity against Facebook because of him and his culture. When Google+ was released, everyone wanted it to work, even though it was a piece of ****. I think it would have a much better public perception if he was a different dude or if he wasn’t, like, the face. I was at Facebook, & if you go there, the ******* campus is great, and its super good vibes, the people are great. But the perception people have in their heads is these entitled, socially awkward nerds. But as a company, you have to respect the **** out of what they’ve done. It started as this little thing, & now it’s the thing."
On potentially selling VICE: "The reason why I would do that is if we became the network of Facebook or the network of Google, we’d achieve that dream of mine overnight of being the next CNN & the next ESPN & the next MTV with the largest audience in the world; it would be hard to say no to that not because of the money, but because of the ******* cultural impact you would have. At this point, I don’t give a **** about money. Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I’d rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
Just like his stooge, Dennis Rodman, Smith also manages to offend yours truly, this time with a rather nationalistic comment more typical of political talk show hosts than magazine co-founders: "I grew up being a socialist & I have problems with it because I grew up in Canada & I’ve spent a lot of time in Scandinavia, where I believe countries legislate out creativity. They cut off the tall trees. Everyone’s a C-minus. I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. Thanks, Canada."
As usual, I'd like to defend Canada from its misguided critics, like Shane Smith, but instead of doing so with my own words this time, I'd like to quote the late CFRB Toronto radio broadcaster Gordon Sinclair, who delivered the following staunchly pro-American speech on the aforementioned radio station the afternoon of June 5, 1973:
"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, & this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous & possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well, who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who. They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water, & no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan &, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, & their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help… Managua, Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. The Marshall Plan... the Truman Policy... all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans. Now, I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes. Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, & you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, & you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, & you find men on the moon, not once, but several times … & safely home again. You talk about scandals, & the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are right here on our streets in Toronto, most of them… unless they are breaking Canadian laws... are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here. When the Americans get out of this bind… as they will… who could blame them if they said "the **** with the rest of the world"? Let someone else buy the bonds, let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of them are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, & I am one Canadian who is ****ed tired of hearing them getting kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high, & when they do, they are entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. Finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke. This year's disasters… with the year less than half-over... has taken it all & nobody... but nobody... has helped."
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/avril-lavignes-ex-husband-deryck-whibley-dropping-her-164000043-us-weekly.html
http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/07/avril-lavigne-deryck-whibley-files-name-change-divorce/
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/avril-lavigne-met-fiance-chad-kroeger-while-dating-deryck-whibley-2013235
(PUN-WORTHY HEADLINE ALERT!) http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/11/08/avril-lavigne-ex-husband-finally-drops-her-last-name-most-complicated-celebrity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fentertainment+%28Internal+-+Entertainment+-+Mixed%29
(EDIT: The pun that Fox News used in that headline, according to pun fusion.com, is called a "recursive" pun; in other words, you'd have to understand that Ms. Lavigne released a song with the aforementioned title (in 2001, not 2002, BTW!) to understand the headline's "hidden meaning", or whatever you call those!)
As you can probably tell by those headlines, another celebrity divorce has stirred up some controversies among the tabloids & related media outlets everywhere….. I had never heard of Sum 41 before I read these articles, but I'm sure almost all of you have heard about everybody else involved here..... I'm sure you already figured it out just by looking @ her name, but the now-29-year-old (more on that later, BTW!) Avril Lavigne is, in fact, Canadian..... In fact, I just found an article from Blender magazine from 2001 (thanks, Buzzfeed!) that mentions that she was born in "the tiny town of Napanee, Ontario (population 5,000)..... relocated to NYC..... left Manhattan for LA....." so on & so forth..... You probably also figured out by now that Nickelback is also Canadian, & that the group's 2001 single "How You Remind Me" reached #1 on the Billboard Top 100..... Now, that might have been where you 1st heard them, but that's not where they were most recently..... Most recently, their single "Burn it to the Ground" , when it wasn't being featured in NHL 10, reached 4 different positions on the Billboard charts, the highest of which was #3, & they performed the Olympics in February 2010 & the NFL Thanksgiving halftime show in 2011, after NHL 10 gave that single some much-needed exposure! (EDIT: I would be mistaken in claiming that Sum 41 was completely nonexistent a few years ago..... In fact, they appeared in NHL 2002, right around the time of Nickelback's #1 hit & Lavigne's 17-year-old debut & success in her own age group, as she won multiple awards early on in her career (Radio Disney, which I've never liked, in 2002, 3, & 4; & Nickelodeon in '03, which might seem like "gimmick" awards to you, & quite frankly, those seem like gimmicks to me.....)..... but she was also nominated for a few actual awards, such as the Grammys in '03 & '04, the Brits that same year, &, considering everybody mentioned in this post is Canadian, the Juno awards in '03,'04, & '05!
COURTESY OF TMZ: "He didn't even know who I was at that point!" she said of Kroeger, 38. (who's to say that she knew anything about him back then?) "I had just gotten on the radio." (2001) The angst, pop (star) later went on to say "Now that I'm somebody, people are taking notice. Chad couldn't have known me at all back then, when I was nobody, so I don't fault him for that. I mean, what was there about me to get to know? There were no lyrics. (.....but there was 1 quite common question!)There was no music. (not for her, that was.....) No mention of my name in the media. It was as if I didn't exist. Like I was just another nobody human out there with nothing to offer. But now, now everything is different. It was beautiful when he first noticed me, like a pedophile at a park coming through the trees just before the sun sets and there's that special glint of light on the swings. Anyway... As long as I stay relevant, we can get through anything."
(12/20 UPDATE: Dennis Rodman is apparently back in the "hermit kingdom", North Korea, yet again… VICE "bankrolled" him last time, & apparently, they're at it again!
Rodman on his newest dictator friend, Lil'Kim (the emphasis in the quotes is mine): "I can't control what they do with their government, I can't control what they say or how they do things here," he said. "I'm just trying to come here as a sports figure and try to hope I can open the door for a lot of people in the country." "I've come over to see my friend, and people always give me a little hard time about me saying that." "I'm very proud to say he's my friend, because he hasn't done anything to put a damper, to say any negative things about my country." As if those comments weren't enough for Dennis, he then took those comments 1 step further: "North Korea has given me the opportunity to bring these players and their families over here, so people can actually see, so these players can actually see, that this country is actually not as bad as people project it to be in the media."
On VICE Magazine itself, according to http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/mar/30/pressandpublishing.tvandradioarts?gusrc=rss&feed=media: from founder Shane Smith: 'We wanted to be the first international voice for the universality of youth sub-culture. There was a time in the Nineties when it was all about cocaine & asymmetrical zippers. We did a lot of drugs & went to a lot of parties and had sex with a lot of supermodels. But you realize there's a whole world out there, & as we've expanded, the scope of the magazine has gotten broader. We became a magazine when the barriers to making a magazine effectively became nonexistent. You could do desktop publishing on a Mac & print for cheap. Now you get a digicam and a Mac, & you can have something broadcast on the net within 15 minutes.'
You might think that Smith & his VICE colleagues would stop their culture bashing right there, but in a January 2012 interview with Forbes Magazine (1 of our political right wing's favorite rags), he goes from being this countercultural icon to anti-almost everything imaginable!
On our 2 main political parties & their associated "movements": "When you get down to it, the politics of it is juvenile. There’s no real cohesive manifesto or even cohesive ask. They’re saying, well, we should tax the rich and give it to more people. And I say, well, I get it, but you understand that government tax redistribution has another name, and that’s communism. You want to take from rich people and give to each according to his need. I mean, you don’t want to say it, but that’s what you’re saying. The economic system here is ******. But if you’re going to try to fix it or change it, you have to have something a little more cohesive than “redistribution of wealth” and then not even know what communism or socialism is. Have you not read a book? I like the fact that they’re protesting. It’s just really sad when you go down there. It’s like talking to kindergarten children. What are you doing? Why are you even here? If there was a real revolution, man, I’d be there just for the fun of it."
On corporate culture & companies themselves: "I’m gonna get myself in a lot of **** here… Obviously, Facebook is great. The problem is Zuckerberg, who’s the Stalin of Facebook, is his own worst enemy. If he was a different guy, everyone would like him. There’s so much pent-up animosity against Facebook because of him and his culture. When Google+ was released, everyone wanted it to work, even though it was a piece of ****. I think it would have a much better public perception if he was a different dude or if he wasn’t, like, the face. I was at Facebook, & if you go there, the ******* campus is great, and its super good vibes, the people are great. But the perception people have in their heads is these entitled, socially awkward nerds. But as a company, you have to respect the **** out of what they’ve done. It started as this little thing, & now it’s the thing."
On potentially selling VICE: "The reason why I would do that is if we became the network of Facebook or the network of Google, we’d achieve that dream of mine overnight of being the next CNN & the next ESPN & the next MTV with the largest audience in the world; it would be hard to say no to that not because of the money, but because of the ******* cultural impact you would have. At this point, I don’t give a **** about money. Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I’d rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
Just like his stooge, Dennis Rodman, Smith also manages to offend yours truly, this time with a rather nationalistic comment more typical of political talk show hosts than magazine co-founders: "I grew up being a socialist & I have problems with it because I grew up in Canada & I’ve spent a lot of time in Scandinavia, where I believe countries legislate out creativity. They cut off the tall trees. Everyone’s a C-minus. I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. Thanks, Canada."
As usual, I'd like to defend Canada from its misguided critics, like Shane Smith, but instead of doing so with my own words this time, I'd like to quote the late CFRB Toronto radio broadcaster Gordon Sinclair, who delivered the following staunchly pro-American speech on the aforementioned radio station the afternoon of June 5, 1973:
"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, & this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous & possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Well, who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who. They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water, & no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan &, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, & their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help… Managua, Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. The Marshall Plan... the Truman Policy... all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans. Now, I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes. Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, & you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, & you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, & you find men on the moon, not once, but several times … & safely home again. You talk about scandals, & the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are right here on our streets in Toronto, most of them… unless they are breaking Canadian laws... are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here. When the Americans get out of this bind… as they will… who could blame them if they said "the **** with the rest of the world"? Let someone else buy the bonds, let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of them are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, & I am one Canadian who is ****ed tired of hearing them getting kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high, & when they do, they are entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. Finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke. This year's disasters… with the year less than half-over... has taken it all & nobody... but nobody... has helped."
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/avril-lavignes-ex-husband-deryck-whibley-dropping-her-164000043-us-weekly.html
http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/07/avril-lavigne-deryck-whibley-files-name-change-divorce/
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/avril-lavigne-met-fiance-chad-kroeger-while-dating-deryck-whibley-2013235
(PUN-WORTHY HEADLINE ALERT!) http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/11/08/avril-lavigne-ex-husband-finally-drops-her-last-name-most-complicated-celebrity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fentertainment+%28Internal+-+Entertainment+-+Mixed%29
(EDIT: The pun that Fox News used in that headline, according to pun fusion.com, is called a "recursive" pun; in other words, you'd have to understand that Ms. Lavigne released a song with the aforementioned title (in 2001, not 2002, BTW!) to understand the headline's "hidden meaning", or whatever you call those!)
As you can probably tell by those headlines, another celebrity divorce has stirred up some controversies among the tabloids & related media outlets everywhere….. I had never heard of Sum 41 before I read these articles, but I'm sure almost all of you have heard about everybody else involved here..... I'm sure you already figured it out just by looking @ her name, but the now-29-year-old (more on that later, BTW!) Avril Lavigne is, in fact, Canadian..... In fact, I just found an article from Blender magazine from 2001 (thanks, Buzzfeed!) that mentions that she was born in "the tiny town of Napanee, Ontario (population 5,000)..... relocated to NYC..... left Manhattan for LA....." so on & so forth..... You probably also figured out by now that Nickelback is also Canadian, & that the group's 2001 single "How You Remind Me" reached #1 on the Billboard Top 100..... Now, that might have been where you 1st heard them, but that's not where they were most recently..... Most recently, their single "Burn it to the Ground" , when it wasn't being featured in NHL 10, reached 4 different positions on the Billboard charts, the highest of which was #3, & they performed the Olympics in February 2010 & the NFL Thanksgiving halftime show in 2011, after NHL 10 gave that single some much-needed exposure! (EDIT: I would be mistaken in claiming that Sum 41 was completely nonexistent a few years ago..... In fact, they appeared in NHL 2002, right around the time of Nickelback's #1 hit & Lavigne's 17-year-old debut & success in her own age group, as she won multiple awards early on in her career (Radio Disney, which I've never liked, in 2002, 3, & 4; & Nickelodeon in '03, which might seem like "gimmick" awards to you, & quite frankly, those seem like gimmicks to me.....)..... but she was also nominated for a few actual awards, such as the Grammys in '03 & '04, the Brits that same year, &, considering everybody mentioned in this post is Canadian, the Juno awards in '03,'04, & '05!
COURTESY OF TMZ: "He didn't even know who I was at that point!" she said of Kroeger, 38. (who's to say that she knew anything about him back then?) "I had just gotten on the radio." (2001) The angst, pop (star) later went on to say "Now that I'm somebody, people are taking notice. Chad couldn't have known me at all back then, when I was nobody, so I don't fault him for that. I mean, what was there about me to get to know? There were no lyrics. (.....but there was 1 quite common question!)There was no music. (not for her, that was.....) No mention of my name in the media. It was as if I didn't exist. Like I was just another nobody human out there with nothing to offer. But now, now everything is different. It was beautiful when he first noticed me, like a pedophile at a park coming through the trees just before the sun sets and there's that special glint of light on the swings. Anyway... As long as I stay relevant, we can get through anything."
As for any sort of "image problems" this might cause any of the people involved, I think the only real differences between this & other divorces will be the fact that all of them are famous singers, either by themselves or in some band of some kind! The thing is, from a longevity standpoint, while Sum 41 fell off the face of the planet, @ least in this country, & Nickelback spent a few years in relative obscurity before the new decade returned them to prominence, as mentioned earlier, Lavigne debuted @ 17, received all of those aforementioned nominations for her earliest singles, & through it all, she somehow managed to keep herself out of scandals, unlike many of her fellow celebrities! In fact, according to the abovementioned Blender magazine article, she is quoted as saying "I'm not into glitz & glamo(u)r. It's sooo fake. But my 1st single (which I'm sure many of you people still remember!) is all over MTV, so I'm being recognized already. That probably means goodbye to my private life, but hey, it's cool. If anybody tries to kiss my butt, I'll just tell them, 'shut the **** up'." (Blender magazine, 2001)
That just goes to show you that no matter how many ***** you give about other peoples' opinions of you, if you don't like them, or vice versa, if they don't like you, & the reasons for doing so seem rather flawed instead of reasonable, then no matter what you try to do to change their opinions of you, or your opinions of them, then nothing will make you or the other person change your/their opinions! My overall point is, & I'm sure those of you who attended school with me prior to this year can probably attest to this, but I'd much rather have close to the utmost respect from just a few people instead of having just slight respect from bunches of random people! You might think that I'm planning on becoming 1 of those people who has people worldwide claiming to have known me "before (I) was famous", but in reality, I certainly won't mind telling a few of my future associates/acquaintances/co-workers/etc. that I knew a few of you "before (you) were famous", as I send multiple $1,000/$10,000/possibly even $100,000 checks your way via Western Union, or whichever money transfer company ends up being most common by then, from whichever Fortune 500 company/companies I end up working for..... After all, deep down, aren't we, & shouldn't we all, be like the 17-year-old Avril Lavigne, not in it for the fame, but rather, in it for the respect of past, present, & future members of society?
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