tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77309126833824906152023-11-16T11:34:24.075+01:00Jeff Glovsky (Words By)The Fall of Jeff GlovskyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-3211049002469455682015-12-24T01:24:00.000+01:002017-11-12T19:45:45.118+01:00P.S. - Merry Christmas!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">May your upcoming</span> weeks and <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: mediumblue;">New Year</span></b></span> be HAPPY!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">HAPPY HOLIDAYS</span></b></span> and a <i>Successful</i><b> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2016</span></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-59937070443477405632015-12-04T06:14:00.001+01:002015-12-04T15:14:19.762+01:00Jeff Glovsky (Words Bye)<div style="text-align: center;">
"<b><i>I feel so old. I wish I was mold!</i></b>"</div>
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- Little Greg (age 10)</div>
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Having just "celebrated" -- endured, really -- the one-year-shy-of-my-Big-5-0 day -- my 49th, to be exact -- and presented with the painfully script-titled, "<a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/03/massacre-in-san-bernardino-touches-off-gun-debate-as-sales-of-firearms-rise-across-america/" target="_blank"><i>Massacre at San Bernardino</i></a>" that day... on <i>my</i> day, December 2nd, to live now in infamy...</div>
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And after a few months of silence, occasionally suffering, wondering what the continued <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2015/01/JeffGlovsky-intents-and-purposes.html">point is?</a> My sad <a href="https://jeffglovsky.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/poetry-challenge-new-poems-byjeffglovsky/">whims</a> and <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2013/12/JeffGlovsky-Remember-John-Lennon.html">heroes</a>, <a href="https://jeffglovsky.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/through-me-new-poem-by-jeffglovsky/">repulsions</a> and <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2013/11/JeffGlovsky-Inspiration.html">rages</a>, important to no one; my <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2014/02/JeffGlovsky-Heat-Interlude.html">caustics</a>, obnoxious ... <a href="https://jglov.wordpress.com/">my poems</a>, increasingly best expressed <a href="https://photosbyjglo.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/film-photography-jeffglovsky/">wordless</a>...</div>
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I've decided to end here, "<b>The Fall of Jeff Glovsky</b>".</div>
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It was more than <a href="https://medium.com/jeff-glovsky/i-suck-ed-83ff4c2f4326#.azcg25krq">five years ago</a> things fell apart ... I've spent <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2015/06/we-the-internet.html">almost three</a> now, undoing some damage...</div>
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One learns by (un)doing. One burns to move on.</div>
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For anyone reading -- or Googling and looking, then 'stumbling upon' -- my cozy, empty nest in the blogosphere, <span style="font-size: large;">Thank You</span>.</div>
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For reading.</div>
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I'll write again soon.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-37486499889855584082015-09-13T21:17:00.001+02:002015-09-13T22:39:02.938+02:00Geschloßen<div style="text-align: justify;">
It was a beautiful thing to see and feel ... the <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2015/09/back-to-work-Europe-migrants-in-Munich-Fluchtlinge-Banhof-refugee-crisis.html">warmth of the <i>Willkommen</i></a>, reach for ideal ...</div>
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As the <b>Munich HBF</b> has become increasingly a protected zone -- and too easily, <a href="http://web.de/magazine/politik/fluechtlingskrise-in-europa/bombenalarm-muenchner-hauptbahnhof-30914254" target="_blank">perhaps a target</a> -- the gift-givers and welcome-<i><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps">Sänger </span></span></i><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps">advised to stay home, the permanent residents of <i>Stadt München </i>incovenienced and detoured onto their own separate overcrowded and painfully <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2015/03/going-down-Germanwings-plane-crash-East-Village-buildings.html">efficient</a> Z</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps"><i>üge </i>and<i> Wagen</i> just to get where they're going, back home or to work each day ... Reality is biting back.</span></span></div>
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<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps">First of all, there is no more room at the <i>Gasthof</i>. The <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-needs-help-to-deal-with-migrant-crisis-cabinet-minister-says-1442155684" target="_blank">borders are now closed</a>. Munich has "welcomed" (allowed in) more than 13,000<i> </i></span></span>refugees <i>this weekend alone.</i> Just overnight, from yesterday to today! Sexy, <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-26/it-s-the-end-of-berlin-s-sexy-era" target="_blank">but not <i>arm</i></a>, proud M<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps">ü</span></span>nchen <i>can</i> ...</div>
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Luckily. Since the end of August -- in <i>less than two weeks</i> -- the city herself has seen (and admirably, handled) an influx of <i>63,000</i> people. That's almost 5,000 human beings per day ... pouring in on the trains, into HBF ... to the city, the country and hopefully, the <span style="font-size: large;">societal fabric</span>.</div>
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They're not here for Oktoberfest. They won't be buying Lederhosen, beer and <a href="http://www.bavaria-lederhosen.com/Bavarian-attire/Men/Trachten-Hats/" target="_blank">Trachten hats</a>, and bringing these back with them to Aleppo. <i><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps">Die Flüchtlinge</span></span></i> are here to stay ... and as warmly and efficiently as Munich, Bavaria and Germany have so far rolled out the welcome mats, <a href="https://youtu.be/iNFoYk8zmzE" target="_blank">practical <span style="font-size: large;">integration</span></a> must now be applied.</div>
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I stop just short of saying "enforced" ... yet that, in fact, is what must be <span style="font-size: large;">reality</span>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-35108676289973061852015-09-07T02:40:00.002+02:002015-09-08T19:06:14.873+02:00Care, and Vigilance<div style="text-align: justify;">
In this summer of our discontent, with shootings and <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2015/05/JeffGlovsky-Racism-rears-its-ugly-head-again.html">racism</a>, homelessness, shootings and <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/rachel-dolezal-new-interview-pictures-exclusive" target="_blank">racial insanity</a>, shootings, <a href="http://www.musictimes.com/articles/46742/20150901/prince-bad-time-music-cites-lack-creativity.htm" target="_blank">bad music</a>, the death of <b>Bill Cosby</b> and racial shootings in the United States ... and (im)migrants stealing across borders in Europe, invading, creating <a href="https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">encampments of despair</a>, yet boundless hope "over there"-- and <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/brazil-petrobras-scandal-president-dilma-rousseff-approval-rating-falls-7-percent-2018322" target="_blank">Brazil going south</a> -- </div>
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When I care but can't help, or can't care to help (can't be bothered) - because after all, what's the point (When I fall in the forest, does anyone hear <i>me?</i>)? Feeling helpless, without hope myself, I succumb: to inaction, and try to profess an "indifference" ...</div>
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While seismic demographic shifts take place, overtaking the landscapes and bludgeoning hegemony; the <i>Banhofs</i> and <i>Autobahns</i>, shorelines and coastlines awash with a tidal surge of humanity ... Families escaping, in flight -- <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="hps"><i>Flüchtlinge</i></span></span> ...</div>
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Refugees fleeing -- <i>fugindo</i> -- seek <span style="font-size: large;">refuge</span>. The words hang together, saying similar things ... a melting pot of assimilations, sharing a genesis ... Like "those people" pronouncing or spelling them differently. Borne of the same place, the same etymology, if you will ... We are all of us human.</div>
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While it's "polite" and "correct" to "welcome" an influx of displaced humanity, and humans, sharing genesis, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-24/merkel-blasts-anti-immigration-riots-in-eastern-germany" target="_blank">for the most part</a> <i>want</i> to ... On a practical level, the borders should not, cannot, be simply flung open.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Inasmuch, the (im)migrants, refugees, all "those people" seeking asylum and better lives in the West via Germany and other places, aren't the problem. The problem inherently lies in wait, in a societal home opening its doors to guest strangers ...</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then there lurk larger, much darker, <i>non</i>-human issues, unable ever to be solved <i>practically</i> ... With <span style="font-size: large;">September 11th</span> approaching, and the world well-aware how things changed since '01, it's not inappropriate to point out that any mass influx of humanity to "the West", <a href="https://home.bt.com/news/world-news/hungary-abandons-visa-checks-to-let-migrants-head-west-11364002093413" target="_blank">unfettered by visa regulations</a>, could -- COULD, it's conceivable -- include a bad apple.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or two. Or 1300 ... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The USA's near total <i>laissez-faire</i> on USE's latest migrant drama (the worst <a href="http://www.cfr.org/migration/europes-migration-crisis/p32874" target="_blank">since 1992</a>) -- uncharacteristically not butting in, but remaining fairly silent to see how Europe fares -- is surprising, in this regard. Is a full-bellied Trojan Horse marching westward ... ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is "the East", figuratively speaking, '<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/donald-trump-mexicans-119849" target="_blank">sending rapists</a>'?</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-3132770216445467352015-07-26T01:28:00.000+02:002015-07-27T22:59:15.825+02:00Bon(ed) Soir<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>"<i>a musical wasteland of endless bass solos and fart-like runs ... </i>"</b></div>
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When I used to immerse in the scene, in the clubs, eating cheeseburgers ... waitresses (swimming in sax!) ... with the crowing, old voices of jazz legends nightly, and <i>Wryly Sardonix</i> demanding I leave ... which I did one night, mid-set, when he yelled from the stage that he sounded "like shit" and the cause of that mess fell on <i>my</i> deaf ears ... WHAT!?</div>
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I went to see <b>James Brown</b> once, back in the day when we <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw7ni_james-brown-living-in-america_music" target="_blank">lived in America</a> ... and shuffling around the stage at Radio City Music Hall at one point with an <a href="http://www.synthfind.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/rk1002.JPG" target="_blank">RK-100</a>, he launched into a noodling rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" ...</div>
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Now don't ever let anyone try and tell you that James Brown, 'the Godfather', was NOT a show-stopper! He stopped that show dead ... ground to a halt, as he strutted and poked on his shoulder-slung Korg, an eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth verse. Of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".</div>
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"The hell is he <i>doing</i>?" a guy behind me asked his date. Something large and thrown fell just short of the stage ... A chorus of "boos" began, like an imagined <span class="_Tgc">cliché</span> scene, and rose in cresecendo until filling the theater.</div>
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James Brown stripped to his undershorts and started kicking <a href="http://www.saltlakemagazine.com/site_media/uploads/2010/08/Rockettes-011.v51.jpg" target="_blank">Rockette-like</a>, as the curtain came down and there wasn't an encore.</div>
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But I remember that night well ... I hooked up with a girl who thought she had tickets to see <b>Jethro Tull</b> ... and experienced something like it last night <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">seeing Wycliffe</span>.</span></div>
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<i>Dividing his time between </i><b>München</b><i> and </i><b>New York City</b><i>, Jeff Glovsky is a dedicated business owner / entrepreneur with an ear for writing and an eye for photography; and a multimedia / presentation support specialist with a background in live music and years of hands-on experience in touring, club, festival, hotel, university and Tier 1 financial settings.</i></div>
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When I was very young, my mom gave me a watch ... a Mickey Mouse watch with a <i>pleather</i> red band ... and I didn't like it. I made some face, or remark, of displeasure upon receiving the gift and my mom was disappointed. <i>Her</i> face fell.</div>
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In high school, against all odds at the time in northern Wisconsin, I had a friend who was black. I'd cart her around town, to and from school, we'd drink bottomless cups of coffee (or beer) together ... We <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Cha-Cha" target="_blank">danced the Cha-Cha</a> one night in my white tuxedo!<br />
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So "Micki", as I'll call her here, and I had Spanish class together. One day, during another interminable lesson by<b> </b><a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post.html">Se<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: "yes";">ñ</span>ora Lulu</a>, we started fighting over a <i>pluma ...</i><br />
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Years later, I was <a href="http://avglov.com/">working on this show</a> with the lovely actress <a href="http://i.tm-cdn.com/photos/77147.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Leila Martin</b></a>. She and her husband, or collaborator (writer/director), John, I think, were doing this cabaret tribute to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1175140/The-rumbustious-life-Gertrude-Lawrence--Hollywoods-maneater.html" target="_blank"><b>Gertrude Lawrence</b></a> ... and already disillusioned with the strange, internecine theater world I had gone to school to be a part of, I began recounting one day all the <span style="font-size: large;">diva nutjobs</span> I had thus far worked with (and/or dated or was lucky (or drunk) enough to 'get with' <i>;</i>) ...<br />
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There was Luba, who lost a glove and burst into tears; Mary Kate, who lost a goldfish and burst into tears ... Scott and Debra, who used to call me "Biff" (don't ask) ... and all these people prancing around, overfull of themselves, obnoxiously so ... and this was well before our present day world of selfie whores, delusional "Idols" and narcissistic self-absorption.<br />
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Today, all the world really <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/you-it-act-ii-scene-vii-all-worlds-stage" target="_blank"><i>is</i> a stage</a> ... but this was just <span style="font-size: large;">theater folk</span> back then.<br />
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And I started opining to Leila Martin that every diva "has their little favorite" ... their little <i>celeb</i> <span class="st"><i>célèbre</i></span> that they celebrate ... imitating ... or in worse-case scenarios, <i>becoming</i> (or trying) ... backstage one day, while she was putting on make-up, at work at 'becoming' Gertrude Lawrence. <br />
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Completely clueless, yet compelled, I went on ... trashing the "conceit" of theater in general, theater <i>people</i> especially -- and most especially, "diva nutjobs" -- while indirectly trashing the performer who was paying me! Neither Leila Martin nor John (Meyer) ever thanked me for my work on their lovingly crafted and <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19910118&id=UWxGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7ugMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1216,3841094&hl=en" target="_blank">reverent tribute</a> ... nor spoke to me again during the run of that show.<br />
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It's in this spirit of occasionally speaking too much or too loudly, of saying wrong things at worst possible moments, and eventually regretting (or not) what you realize too late you may have been stupid in saying ... that I throw my support into the ring for <b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump in 2016</span></span></b>.<br />
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Like him or not, Trump gets things done - and says things, unscripted, which he doesn't regret. There are few more "presidential" traits I can think of, that would actually seem to be <i>requirements</i> for the job of president of the United States, than <i>track record</i>, <i>accomplishment</i> and a firm <i>sense of commitment</i> ... which is exactly the trait which spurs <i>accomplishment</i> and creates <i>track record</i> ... On and on.<br />
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(And Mom: I really did like the watch :)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-74924715589239839172015-07-04T14:59:00.001+02:002015-07-05T15:22:02.092+02:00My Baggage Thanks You<span style="font-size: small;">I'm always amazed when individuals "in charge" -- those wearing clothing emblazoned with company logos ... In uniform, running the shows, ostensibly, and holding down forts in exchange for their paychecks -- <i>engage</i> that representative power to help ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You'd think this is something that should go without saying ... and in Europe, across much of the airline, food service, banking, car rental, hotel and other hospitality sectors, it does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is pride in a uniform "over there", still ... A sense of contributing to the common goals of a shared community as much as an overriding ... if not <i>desire</i>, than at least, <i>obligation, </i>to represent their company logos appropriately, and <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/06/JeffGlovsky-Thanks-Some-of-You.html"><span style="font-size: large;">make an effort</span></a> -- in a pleasant way -- to provide assistance, if and as needed, to other human beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the States, this is often sorely lacking. There is laziness. Indolence. Pushback. Sore attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All of the above being preferable, arguably, to <span style="font-size: large;">stark indifference</span>: the apathetic numbness shown by employees too bored to give a shit. </span></div>
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Thus, happily, did I arrive to depart recently at one of New York's better known "third world" airports ...</div>
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For some reason, my flight was being "operated by" another airline - not the airline whose website I visited, and which collected my payment.</div>
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... Ergo, a different airport terminal than the one in front of which a taxi deposited me and <span style="font-size: small;">my baggage.</span></div>
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To my further dismay, I realized I was already about 45 minutes from my scheduled departure; and walking (or running!) between hugely spaced, unconnected terminals at <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/biden-airport-workers-thanked-me-for-comparing-laguardia-to-third-world-country/article/2555089" target="_blank">this particular third world airport</a> would not be an option.</div>
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So I flailed around trying to find a ride for a minute ... then fumed as I heard a harried shuttle driver bark into a dispatcher's radio, "Ten minutes! Be there in five to ten minutes!"</div>
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I waited. I fumed. A shuttle finally arrived, and I climbed aboard with a pilot or two ... a baggage handler ... and sped off toward the correct terminal ... which again, <i>for some reason</i>, did not belong to the airline I was supposedly flying!</div>
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Praying this wasn't some sort of mistake (or a sick prank ... Deceived again!) ... I climbed over the pilots, the baggage handler ... Did a lap dance with an elderly couple ... and leapt from the shuttle van. Ran into the airport and up to the kiosk ... Swiped this, and entered that ...</div>
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My flight, by this point departing in only thirty minutes, was already closed. As instructed on-screen, I went to 'see attendant' ..<br />
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To make a long story medium-length, this lovely lady <span style="font-size: large;">loved her job</span>. Respected the uniform she wore, and the corporate logo she represented, and skillfully, <i>helpfully</i>, whisked me to the front of the security line ... Rock star-like bypassing the holiday throngs, with a hastily printed standby ticket for any random later flight (This lovely lady <i>knew things</i>! ;) ... so I was able to get to the gate and catch <i>my</i> flight. Against the clock, and <span style="font-size: large;">against all odds</span>.</div>
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I'm on that flight now ... and as the sun sets above the clouds, it dawns:</div>
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We Americans ... Hectic, obnoxious, harried, demanding, rude, preferring to be left alone; inconveniencing others when we're inconvenienced (often through nobody's fault but our own) ...</div>
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Or <i>I</i>, in any case; <i>ME</i>, American ... get the service and treatment too often deserved.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-12937428083144561612015-06-28T15:21:00.001+02:002015-06-29T16:04:55.786+02:00(Who Will) Go There<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-7911149795297480352015-06-26T04:49:00.000+02:002015-06-29T17:24:33.372+02:00We, The Internet<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<b><i>"A marketplace has emerged where shame is a commodity and public humiliation an industry"</i></b> - Monica Lewinsky </div>
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As those who know me (and that one person who reads me here) will attest, I started this blog <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2013/06/Welcome.html">two years ago</a>, in an effort to reclaim and restore the health of my name ...</div>
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Today, if you search me by name online -- Google or otherwise, <a href="https://medium.com/jeff-glovsky/i-suck-ed-83ff4c2f4326">the name "Jeff Glovsky"</a> -- you may be confused, a little bit ...</div>
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but you won't be <span style="font-size: large;">alarmed</span>.</div>
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You won't be "advised" or "warned" about me. It won't be opined that I'm a "fraud" or running a "scam" ... egregiously reported I've 'changed my name' or "disappeared" (?, ?! and ??).</div>
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Instead, you'll see <a href="http://avglov.com/">what I do</a>, <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2015/03/going-down-Germanwings-plane-crash-East-Village-buildings.html">where I am</a> and <a href="http://de.gravatar.com/avglov">who</a> ... What I think <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/02/JeffGlovsky-Heat-Interlude.html">about <i>you</i></a>, if you try to exploit the professional, then needlessly public, resultingly <i>personal</i> failure in my life five years ago;</div>
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if you try to cash in on that, as <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/12/JeffGlovsky-winter-blues-and-defamation.html">some have</a>, without even <i>knowing</i> me, let alone knowing the full and accurate picture back in 2010, or the context of public accusations and their actual circumstances ... Instead, just piling on hysterically, flailing in response to the damaging, (<i>thus far</i>) <b>permanent</b> online "yelps" which remain -- those few that I haven't (<i>yet</i>) been able to remove from the internet -- you'll end up frustrated. And/or legally thwarted.</div>
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There is <span style="font-size: large;">nothing that's worse</span> than the fears, paranoias, mistrusts and mistakes that the internet, in its ease-of-use ubiquitousness and far-flung global reach, can breed. The righteousness, the indignations, Schadenfreude and misplaced anger it creates ... the fanning of flames, the men and women it blames ...</div>
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The damages that YOU -- "the internet" -- can too easily cause.</div>
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In some cases (too many!), your harshing and judging and chiding and "owning" ... Your relentless attacking, name-calling, <i>abusing</i> if you feel aggrieved or inconvenienced, or because things can't be "instant" and you're impatient ... or just.because. ... can <a href="http://nobullying.com/six-unforgettable-cyber-bullying-cases/" target="_blank">end in tragedy</a>.</div>
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In my case, after several years of shell-shock subsided and I was finally able to rise from the dead and fight back -- in part, by <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2013/09/jeffglovsky.apartmentrental.html">calling out new aggressors</a> while unequivocally identifying <span style="font-size: small;">crimes of <a href="http://jeffglovsky.pen.io/">theft</a><a href="http://jeffglovsky.pen.io/"> of reputation</a></span> -- I find, in my favor, <span style="font-size: small;">I'm not alone</span>.</div>
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<a href="http://jeffglovsky.tumblr.com/post/119072859734/social-shaming-the-right-to-be-a-giant" target="_blank">Online shaming</a> by kangaroo court is increasingly recognized as the <span style="font-size: large;">bullying</span> and intimidation that it is ... and every website that provides a one-sided, unbalanced, often un<i>moderated</i> public forum for such ranting and venting: opinions, "reviews" or accusations without verification -- <span style="font-size: large;">guilt before innocence</span> -- should be <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/06/vrwdown.html">taken down</a>.</div>
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Just as we -- "the internet" -- are for some reason required to "opt out" of things, as opposed to being asked to <i>opt in</i> ...</div>
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We, The Internet, have got everything else wrong also. Nobody should be required to <a href="http://de.viadeo.com/en/profile/jeffglovsky">"sign up" to view</a> a website. Nobody should need to use Facebook for "verification". Nobody should ever accept being charged -- sorry, <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/06/JeffGlovsky-Frustrations-in-America.html">"authorized"</a> -- on a credit card <i>before</i> making a purchase ...</div>
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And nobody should ever be blindsided online ... harassed and insulted, and forced to "fight back".</div>
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The <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/06/JeffGlovsky-Photography-Comments-Are-Open.html">public displays</a> can be embarrassing.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-8773756379557952332015-06-24T21:04:00.000+02:002015-06-29T15:11:14.919+02:00"Rages" ... Quoi?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I have NO IDEA why such a <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/25/europe/france-paris-uberpop-protests/index.html" target="_blank">sensationalistic, nonsense</a> headline? Seriously, <b>CNN</b> ...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-82362395930436232792015-06-21T19:41:00.000+02:002015-06-21T23:31:26.617+02:00Sad Father Land<div style="text-align: justify;">
I give up.</div>
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I've been fairly vocal about race in America: trying desperately to <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/09/black-and-white-eye-on-Ferguson.html">keep perspective</a> while all about me were losing theirs.</div>
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I've acknowledged <a href="http://jeffglovsky.tumblr.com/post/81384090046/ja-es-existiert">my shortcomings, on par with yours</a> ... yet endeavored to point out that "racism" is not, nor should it be, the automatic knee-jerk, go-to response to every frustration that comes down the pike.<br />
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It isn't always cut and dried ... It's certainly not always <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2015/05/JeffGlovsky-Racism-rears-its-ugly-head-again.html">black and white</a>;<br />
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I've <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/05/JeffGlovsky-Race-and-Privacy.html">empathized</a> with <b>Donald Sterling</b> ... not because he was "right", but because he's old. I was inclined, and still am, to step back and recognize an old man's f(l)ailings ... as I might recognize the increasingly churlish, not wholly appropriate remarks of my own 'old man' - born not of hatred, but of longing: for another era, another body, another lifetime to be able to choose more wisely ...</div>
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I 'got' Donald Sterling. And I get <i>you</i>, Dad. <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Happy Father's Day</i></b></span></span>.</div>
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<i>Though at times, the things you say are </i>not<i> right, I can't police your thoughts ... and your actions have always spoken louder than any petulant, unfunny words you might utter.</i><br />
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<i>You and Mom taught me well ... but I will also get old ... and toward that end, </i><span style="font-size: large;">I get you</span><i>.</i></div>
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Just like I 'got' Donald Sterling ...</div>
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I'm on record on <a href="http://bestofallworlds.com/" target="_blank">a social network</a> arguing, in terms of race relations, that "<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">in the United States, there has been VAST progress. Yes, there are still pockets of ignorance (and unwarranted 'fear') ... but they are shallower pockets, at this juncture in history, than in many other countries" and,<br /> <br />"To refute this, or keep trying to suggest otherwise, is as irresponsible as it is inaccurate" </span></span><span class="pre body"><span class="pre">(<i>December 2014</i>).</span></span><br />
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<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">Now, six months later, in the wake, and midst still, of <b>Treyvon Martin</b>, <b>Michael Brown</b>, <b>Eric Garner</b>, <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2015/04/JeffGlovsky-on-racism-walter-scott-shooting-ferguson.html"><b>Walter Scott</b></a>, <b>Freddie Gray</b> and <a href="http://jeffglovsky.tumblr.com/post/103807601184/jeffglovsky-the-appropriate-quote-by-mlk">Baltimore</a> ... New York City cop killings, Texas chainsaw pool parties ...</span></span><br />
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<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">This <a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2265181!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/usa-shooting-south-carolina.jpg" target="_blank">Stooge of the South</a>, showering pure <span style="font-size: large;">racial hatred</span> ... my <span style="font-size: large;">revised verdict</span> is in:</span></span><br />
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<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">The U.S. seems no further along than the early/mid-20th century, if not the 19th, in its white and black dynamic: its overall preference for segregation, its deep-rooted fear and mistrust of 'the other'; the tangible efforts that have been made, too often couched in a language of <i>equality</i> ... "affirmative action" and fulfilling of quotas, if not demands ... instead of, and at the expense of, <i>inclusion</i> or actual integration.</span></span><br />
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<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">Americans don't seem to <i>want</i> to be integrated. U.S. institutions, societal fabrics, don't -- in fact, <i>won't</i>, and <i>refuse to</i> -- support it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">Awareness -- thoughts, recognition -- are one thing. Action, and actual change, are another. As with Old Man Sterling (or <b>Stormin' Norm Glovsky</b>), these must go hand in hand before premature judgments get handed down. I don't believe Donald Sterling is "racist".</span></span><br />
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<span class="pre body"><span class="pre">I no longer believe the United States has made substantive progress in terms of race.</span></span><br />
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"<i>I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.</i>" - <b><span style="font-size: large;">Dizzy</span> Gillespie</b></blockquote>
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"<i>Clouds float in the same pattern only once.</i>" - <b>Wayne Shorter</b></div>
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"<i>When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.</i>" - <b>Don Cherry</b><br />
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"<i>Play what you want and let the public pick up on what you are doing, even if it takes them fifteen or twenty years.</i>" - <b>Thelonious <span style="font-size: large;">Monk</span></b><br />
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"<i>Don't play the saxophone. <span style="font-size: small;">Let it play</span> you.</i>" - <b>Charlie Parker</b></div>
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Without being hip to the fact at the time, each of the cats quoted above, in his own way, blew a eulogy for <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ornette Coleman</b></span>.</div>
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Ornette was "out". He was different. He '<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-why-was-ornette-coleman-so-important-jazz-masters-both-living-and-dead-chime-in-20150611-column.html" target="_blank">couldn't play</a>', yet "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/music/ornette-coleman-jazz-saxophonist-dies-at-85-obituary.html?_r=0" target="_blank">rewrote the language of jazz</a>" (no small feat in a musical landscape of perpetual innovation (once), and the ethereal dissipation of improvised note bursts nightly, on a '<a href="http://www.realbooksite.com/jazz-sheet-music-images/Jazz-Sheet-Music-Page-299.jpg" target="_blank">moment's notice</a>').<b> Maynard Ferguson </b>thought O.C. had "bad intonation, bad technique". <b>Miles</b> <b>Davis</b>, judging by the sounds Ornette's axe made, concluded that "talking psychologically", he must be "all screwed up inside." Another trumpeter (oddly), <b>Roy Eldridge</b>, thought Ornette Coleman was "jiving, baby." And even kindred free musical spirit, <b>Thelonious Monk</b>, likewise known for "<a href="http://mitchbogen.blogspot.com/2014/02/mingus-on-ornette-organized.html" target="_blank">playing wrong right</a>", was heard to exclaim, "Man, that cat is nuts!".</div>
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One of the few who seemed to 'get' Ornette was <b>Charlie<span style="font-size: small;"> Mingus</span></b>, who, another kindred musical spirit, was able to recognize the "organized disorganization" of Coleman's (non)playing ... yet at some point complained, "he can't play it straight."</div>
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Now as everyone acknowledges, and some admit (<a href="https://twitter.com/jazzistheworst" target="_blank">vehemently</a>), there is a lot of <span style="font-size: large;">jazz garbage</span><span style="font-size: small;"> out there</span>. There are the Spoogers, just gacking out notes for no reason ... the Noodlers, annoyingly poking, inserting ... the Vocalists (most of them), entirely disrespecting the "songbooks" they pillage (not to mention audiences' time, patience, money) ... There are literally people "performing" who shouldn't be.</div>
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"<i>Hell is full of musical amateurs.</i>" - <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>George Bernard Shaw</b></span></div>
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I myself am <a href="http://avglov.com/">no musician</a>. I don't capably play any instruments (<i>yet?</i> One of <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/05/JeffGlovsky.Words-By.html">my biggest regrets</a> in life, so far), and I'm no authority. But I do know well and appreciate jazz: its humor, its sense of chaos, its combustible spontaneity ... and above all, its take it or leave it, 'is what it is' ethos, too often <span style="font-size: large;">exploited</span> because, Hey! It's Jazz!</div>
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But I don't get the sense that Ornette Coleman was spooging (or noodling, or ever "jiving"). I think he was onto something bigger than jazz ... Not only taking the <span style="font-size: small;">invisible music</span> -- silences and "mistakes" -- received and famously transmitted by Monk, to inevitable <a href="http://www.monkzone.com/revanaly/Kelley%20New%20Monastery.htm" target="_blank">next levels</a> (albeit on <i>every </i>tune!) ... but also culturally prescient, in foreshadowing our present day aversion to "labels" - to <i>being</i> labelled, (mis)categorized, (mis)identified ... this rejection of easy, or '<a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2015/02/JeffGlovsky-uber-mistake-Nietzsche.html">normal</a>', classifications, indeed a '<i>shape of jazz to come</i>'; </div>
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For many years, I have had the good fortune to be a live sound engineer - mixing bands that can play actual musical instruments ... so that I, as any<i> actual </i>live "<a href="http://avglov.com/">sound engineer</a>" should be able to do, can discern between the varied sounds and tones of each instrument (the human "vox" included) ... as opposed to, say, sitting behind a computer (a <i>digital</i> sound console) and lazily babysitting "presets" (watching the faders zoom up and down together).</div>
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As any self-respecting musician (or <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/avglov">opinionated windbag in the business</a>) will tell you, there is <span style="font-size: large;">nothing worse</span> than a <a href="http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/9thingssoundguys_main.jpg" target="_blank">lazy sound guy</a>.<br />
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That said, there are clearly advantages to going digital in a live sound environment. Because digital processing is self-contained -- that is, all of the effects, equalization, compression, etc., can be accessed from within the sound console itself -- there is no longer any need for racks, and stacks of "outboard" gear cluttering the tech. table or mixing area ... so when babysitting digital presets myself, I can at least put my feet up.<br />
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Once I was doing this hotel gig, and we started discussing the lunch that was going to be served that day. As we were finishing breakfast, waiting for the morning's first presentation ... the in-house sound guy I was working with blurted, "Salmon! Never been much of a salmon guy. Just give me a nice piece of friggin' swordfish!"<br />
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That's the main difference between analog and <span style="font-size: large;">digital audio</span> mixing. It's apples and oranges<span style="font-size: small;"> ... salmon and swordfish!</span> <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Racism</b></span><br />
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It isn't always <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/09/black-and-white-eye-on-Ferguson.html"><b>black and white</b></a>. </div>
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To be honest, I question whether <a href="http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/648601/muslim-chaplain-northwestern-university-said-discriminated-united-airlines" target="_blank">some of this</a>, as reported, actually happened ("No Diet Coke for you"? Really?? Someone said that? Was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-Id-like-a-Coke-WaiterIs-Pepsi-ok-You-Is-Monopoly-money-ok/242088085879?fref=nf" target="_blank">Pepsi okay?</a> :).<br />
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Things are often embellished, blown out of proportion, (conveniently) misremembered or misheard ... and "The Internet", where the <b>Tahera Ahmad</b> / <b>United Airlines</b> discrimination story is the <i>virus du jour</i>, is simply not the barometer of truth that ... well, "The Internet" ... tries WAY.TOO.HARD to make us believe.</div>
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But the sad, New York asshole, above and below, whistling "America" from <b><i>West Side Story</i></b> as a Mexican (not Puerto Rican, mind you) family sat down on the bus beside him, IS truth. <i>You <b>do</b> exist, dude ... Saw and heard you behave that way!</i></div>
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It doesn't take a genius to realize -- nor should acknowledgement be particularly "grudging" in this regard -- that "<a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-fifa-officials-and-five-corporate-executives-indicted-racketeering-conspiracy-and" target="_blank">rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted</a>" corruption, graft, cheating and subterfuge <span style="font-size: large;">triumph<span style="font-size: small;"> in sports</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></div>
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From the littlest league to the global arena, the only <i>real</i> competitions are those waged trying to game the system ... and usually, these plays are not televised.</div>
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Nobody has broadcast rights, exclusive or otherwise, to the internecine maneuverings and greed-fueled strategies of the <b>Mad Men</b>-style executives posing as "chairmen" ... "commissioners" ... "coaches" and "athletes" ... of sundry "leagues" across every country.</div>
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It's business. As usual, behind closed doors ...<br />
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It's <span style="font-size: small;"><i>nobody's</i> business</span> when all goes well. When teams are winning and revenue's flowing, like Krug or the summer dresses of models, the Players (with a capital 'P') -- those chairmen, commissioners, coaches and athletes -- reap benefits <i>worthy</i> of high stakes <span style="font-size: large;">"winning"</span>.<br />
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When <a href="http://www.zeit.de/sport/2015-05/chuck-blazer-fifa-ermittlungen" target="_blank">one cog</a> in this wheel, though, "forgets" to <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2015/05/27/eu-and-switzerland-agree-to-clamp-down-on-tax-evasion/" target="_blank">file his tax returns</a> ... or a <i>codger</i>, seemingly divorced from reality -- running around with his <a href="https://twitter.com/AskMenDispatch/status/461687117807366144" target="_blank">visor-wearing</a> younger "girlfriend", much to the chagrin and mortification, but ultimately, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3039372/Shelly-Sterling-emerges-victorious-bitter-court-battle-judge-rules-V-Stiviano-pay-2-6-MILLION-claimed-ex-Clippers-owner-Donald-gifted-her.html" target="_blank"><i>vindication</i></a>, of his wife -- <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.de/2014/05/JeffGlovsky-Race-and-Privacy.html">pops off</a> ...<br />
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and the world, in its <a href="https://medium.com/life-learning/social-shaming-88dbb03c6bf0" target="_blank">self-righteous Schadenfreude</a>, piles on ... there is no <span style="font-size: large;">surcease from hell</span> raining down!<br />
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Along similar lines -- the rarefied worlds of loose money, fast women and scheming sports / business moves churning away behind closed, global doors (and colorful visors) -- <br />
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a dear friend of mine was impolitely asked to leave the <i>6th Annual</i><b> Better World Awards</b> in Monte Carlo a few weeks ago.<br />
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A quite noble endeavor (according to <a href="http://www.thebwawards.com/" target="_blank">its website</a>), the BWA "salute(s) philanthropic prominent celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs and corporations who are making the world a better place."<br />
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My friend is a journalist -- who will eventually tell this story, much better than I -- and was invited to participate in covering the BWA from their little "red carpet" on May 16, 2015. Smack in the middle of the much larger, far more accessible and Press-friendly <b>Cannes Film Festival</b> -- but not seeming to give a shit about its 'second class' status on the Cote d'Azur during the third week in May -- the Better World Awards proceeded apace ... this year to a largely empty house, and virtually zero "star power".<br />
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The lovely <a href="http://www.stylezza.com/gallery/better-world-awards-gala-in-monaco-261" target="_blank"><b>Eva Longoria</b></a> did show up (as did <a href="http://www.stylezza.com/uploads/photo_gal/2015/05/dsc0801_l1rx.jpg" target="_blank">Guy in the Plaid Pants</a>), to accept her <i>Global Philanthropist of the Year</i> award - following in the footsteps of previous Better World Award winners and honorees including <b>Boris Becker</b> and <b>Julian Lennon</b>.<br />
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My friend, though, the reporter, for reasons still not entirely (made) clear, was asked to leave, and <i>through the back door</i>, by <a href="http://www.internationalluxurymedia.com/" target="_blank">International Luxury Media</a>, the company that organizes this lofty annual event.<br />
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I was not there, and am simply responding based on what I've been told by several sources who were ... but by all accounts, there transpired <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">quite a <span style="font-size: large;">disgusting</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>public</i></b> display</span></span> by the <a href="https://twitter.com/ginadefranco" target="_blank">ILM CEO</a>, and my stunned friend (and writing colleague) was shown the<i> back door</i>.<br />
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So far, that's all I know. More will be written about this <span style="font-size: large;">grotesque</span> kerfuffle ...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-8098499105605559662015-05-25T23:46:00.000+02:002015-05-31T05:11:45.553+02:00Hello, Sailor!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Happy</i> <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/police-26-shootings-9-fatal-over-memorial-day-weekend-in-baltimore/" target="_blank">U.S. Memorial Day</a> </b><span style="color: black;"><i>2015</i></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-72008537277958669592015-05-19T01:25:00.000+02:002015-05-19T02:30:31.494+02:00Calloo! Callay!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did it! I <i>did</i> it, Mother! I <a href="http://jeffglovsky.tumblr.com/post/64604172335/made-brown-jeffy-made-brown"><i>really</i> did it</a>!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-35206884064416443062015-05-14T14:18:00.000+02:002015-05-19T14:57:03.037+02:00Postcard(s) at Night<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><i><i></i></i>"<i>To mourn a mischief that is past and gone</i></b></div>
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Recently, for the first time in nearly five years ... Why, since literally being <a href="https://medium.com/jeff-glovsky/i-suck-ed-83ff4c2f4326">run out of town</a> back in '10 ... I spent an enjoyable extended stay in <span style="font-size: large;">Miami</span>.</div>
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Miami ... Where a young(ish) man's <a href="https://medium.com/mindful-memos/the-death-of-real-estate-85adaab4b2a3">dreams turned to ash</a>, along with the molt of his reputation.</div>
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Miami! <a href="http://jeffglovsky.blogspot.com/2014/10/JeffGlovsky-bm-and-pm-GTFU.html">Death of name</a> and pride ... The violent starvation of anything lovely, the horror of <a href="http://jeffglovsky.tumblr.com/post/119072859734/social-shaming-the-right-to-be-a-giant">shame-given life</a>, told to hide ...</div>
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Made to feel horrendous. <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">A</span> loser</span> inside.</div>
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Having nowhere to turn, or herself run and hide, she can only reluctantly flail and pile on; not wanting to feel her <i>love</i> for The Loser, she can only hold tight to her furies, resentments and 20-year grudges, and dredging these up to protect herself when she feels the way she's supposed to feel: <i>in </i>love and supportive, not wanting to harm ...</div>
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Not wanting to wound him and kill anymore than he's already crippled and dying inside ... her defense is to do exactly that: wound and kill, any love she feels might be alive still.</div>
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Protecting herself, because Loser's disabled ...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-8077834150049502382015-05-04T15:00:00.001+02:002015-05-04T15:12:47.967+02:00Monday People (Characters)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>People</i> <a href="http://be.net/jeffglovsky">on <b>Behance</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>by Jeff Glovsky</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07935706238562462499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730912683382490615.post-90336853098233882422015-05-01T17:43:00.002+02:002015-06-14T06:35:44.410+02:00Message Service<div style="text-align: justify;">
Late to the party again ... as I was with <a href="https://medium.com/jeff-glovsky/its-all-about-me-dium-aca7ef49d788">the original <b>Medium</b></a>, a once excellent, <a href="https://medium.com/philosophy-logic/from-medium-to-middling-656e7046be14">now tired</a> platform for written publication (and more importantly, reading / discovery) ...<br />
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It was amazing to me, as I tuned in to take in the <b>Bruce Jenner</b> interview, how transparent the whole thing, and particularly, Bruce, was. <span style="font-size: large;">Not honest</span>, mind you ... but transparent.</div>
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Bruce Jenner's a winner: One of the most celebrated athletes of all time, he is also all business. Like <b>Sharon Osbourne</b>, <b>Paris Hilton</b> ... his most recent (ex?)wife, <b>Kardashian</b> matriarch <b>Kris (Jenner)</b> ... this <i>reads</i>, and palpably emanates from him.</div>
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No matter what's up with his <a href="http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article5116399.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Bruce-Jenner-shows-off-his-long-hair.jpg" target="_blank">hair</a> or <a href="http://48iee3d13d13g5duyqt39y17.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Jenner-620x400.jpg" target="_blank">face</a>, or what he <a href="https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/FIT_TO_HEIGHT-h568/01b15e6c8df4bde2f128cb30f1fa248f15c4fdfb.jpg" target="_blank">decides to step out</a> in, Bruce Jenner is not a fool. If YOU were Bruce Jenner -- accustomed to achieving, to getting things done, building empires, endorsing and, overall, WINNING -- and you were offered <span style="font-size: large;">x amount</span> to become the (perfect) spokesperson for an undersung, misunderstood and still maligned in 2015 minority ... a previously unrecognized <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-thailand-politics-idUSKBN0KO0SC20150115" target="_blank">third gender</a>; by most accounts, one of the last communities vulnerable to being targeted by overt intolerance and societal hatred in our third millennium ...</div>
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You'd be foolish to lose the opportunity. </div>
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Bruce Jenner is not a loser. More than up to the task, he accepted the gig and signed on to de-<i>victim</i>ize, in fact, humanize, the struggle ... and his own (transparent, disingenuous, some might argue, alleged) "transformation", from man to woman, began.</div>
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I was put off by this. Not by the cause: I support <span style="font-size: large;">freedom of expression</span> and <span style="font-size: large;">oppose subjugation</span> ... and not by the undertaking: Who better to speak out for subjugated societal "victims", then one of the world's most well-known victors?</div>
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No, I was put off by <b>Diane Sawyer</b> ... and especially, the orchestrated attempts at manipulation: the "crying", the tissues, the ponytail coming down, why, <i>exactly</i> on cue! The pretzel logic verging on imbecility ("<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11556429/5-Things-we-learnt-from-Bruce-Jenners-interview-with-Diane-Sawyer.html" target="_blank">Are you a lesbian?</a>") ... The appearance appearing so <i>TV-typical</i> -- so <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/102622913" target="_blank">tightly scripted</a> -- that it became, in my mind, little more than a reality show episode, or an infomercial: no longer to be taken seriously ... thereby harming the cause, I thought, more than it helped.</div>
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And Bruce Jenner's appearance, to me -- in my instant assessment as I tuned in to gawk at this reality show episode -- was not one of "confusion" ... nor was it of a brave or confident "woman". Maybe I just tuned into the wrong channel, and was watching a different interview from everybody else ... Was I watching outtakes? Some footage that wasn't supposed to have aired?<br />
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For what I caught when I tuned in, was a very much in charge of things, secure with himself and with <i>being</i> in charge, paid spokesperson: an odd-looking guy playing up to the camera, declaratively stating that it's okay to feel, and to <i>be</i>, who you are.</div>
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And this is a good and powerful, on-point message, which should be imparted and widely absorbed ... I just think<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">a</span> better actor</span> could have been hired to put it across.</div>
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