Update: Whitney’s people seem to have gotten to the links.  This link, the YouTube link and even Mr. Hilton’s link are all disabled.

 

The newest Whitney Houston track, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength” by legendary song writer Dianne Warren was leaked to the internet on Thursday, July 2.
The track is from her September 1, 2009 CD, “I Look to You.”
Without doubt, this is the Whitney most remember and love. Some will argue her voice isn’t the same, or that she isn’t quite where she once was, etc. Regardless, she’s still the best out there. And her voice has changed just a bit: more mature, more real, more ‘emotional’, if you will.
Congratulations to her, and to her team, she’s well on her way to making music history, again.
Listen her new song for yourself, you’ll be glad you did.
Whitney Houston, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength“

No idea of it was real. Just won an online Twitter contest from @OfficiallyWhitney. I will be receiving a copy of her new CD “I Look to You” on it’s release date September 1. It was fun. Glad she’s back.

Learning how to post. Looks like I can update my blog from my iphone!

I was talking to someone who works for me today and I asked a very serious question. Why can’t we do a better job regulating internet pornography? EVERYONE I know, which is thousands of people, agrees we should have better defined and better inforced internet regulations. EVERYONE agrees it is much too simple for young people to gain access to pornography on the internet.

So if we all agree, why isn’t our government doing a better job of crafting legislation which will protect our young people?
Seriously, think about it. We don’t agree at all, as a country, when it comes to health care. We didn’t agree on a President. And we’re all divided over gay marriage. And inspite of our inability to agree: we’re going to see a new health care plan in the next 2 years, we elected a president, and gay men and women are forming families (which is their right.) We don’t agree on these things, but we’re moving forward.
And on a matter which we agree, we aren’t moving forward.
WHY!!!!! (No it’s not a question, it’s an exclamation.)
Is it too much trouble to write your senator? Your congressman? Your congresswoman? Seriously?
I am appalled at our lack of attention, as a people to this matter.
I believe those that chose, should have the right.
But I do not believe it should be so readily available.

(I’ll step down off of my soap box, but I will not let this go!)

Really?  If you click on the link, the Rolling Stone article says Adam “finally just admits he’s gay.”

Was it a secret?  And “comes out” implies he was “in the closet”.  The people who knew Adam before will tell you, he was living his life out loud and in the open. 

“Finally just admits he’s gay”

Does it really matter?  Why does he have to finally just admit?  Is it really a big deal?  Still? 

It does remind me of a conversation I had with a bank teller in Cape Girardeau, MO, who asked if I’d “heard the rumor that Adam’s gay?”  (As if Southeast Missouri was the only place in the world that knew of this coveted secret.)

It’s not a secret, it shouldn’t be, and for those who feel he’s finally just admitting it, maybe you’re finally just admitting it to yourself.

Good luck to Adam Lambert.

Yahoo has somehow become the puppet of the conservative media who refuse to report properly on the new movie “Outrage“.  Regardless of your opinion on the movie and its controversial subject matter, the fact Yahoo opted to mislead the public is troubling.  While Yahoo hasn’t returned a request to comment, as of Sunday night 11:19 PM CST they have not fixed what will certainly be explained as a “technical glitch”.

Yahoo regularly reports on weekend box office numbers.   (Click the link and then click on #51 “Outrage”.  The movie you’re taken to isn’t the movie “Outrage”. )  If you’re interested, you can click the links and learn more about the movies listed on the chart.  One politically charged movie, getting critical attention is the new movie “Outrage”.  Because of its charged subject matter, Yahoo has replaced the link which allows interested parties who click the link to learn more, with a link leading to a similarly named movie.  Interestingly, the new similarly named movie hasn’t been released yet and doesnt’ seem to have a distributor.  It seems highly unlikely the movie made any money this past weekend at the box office.  Oddly enough, another move “Outrage”, did.    As reported correctly by Boxoffice Mojo, the movie earned $26,610 (more than Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire.)

Yahoo could have chosen to just stay out of it.  But instead, they mislead the public.  I wonder which political insider is responsible for this “technical difficulty.”  Is it the same guy who caused the Amazon.com mistake a couple of weeks ago?

I guess make mine a google.

Thursday was a lot of fun.  Checked out the Getty museum with old buddy Robb (that’s Robb with 2 “b”s).  We were basically stalked and almost ran out of the place for taking a flash photo of a blank red wall.  The small polynesian man said “Stop playing in the musem” when I hid behind a sculpture to scare him.  I mean he was following us around his sector because we took the photo.  And seriously, after they told us to stop with the flash, we did.  No need to have Mr. Hawaii Five-O follow us around.  Seriously.

Thursday night was drinks in WEHO and just chilling.

Friday so far as been getting to the new hotel and lunch at Starbucks.  Yum.

Relaxing.

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Arrived in LA yesterday and already remember why the big city and I were such good friends: the diversity of experience. Already I’ve seen and talked to my more diverse people in a 12 hour span than I did in 12 weeks in other parts of the country. From the elderly black man who explained the Lesbian connection to the Aztecs to the lady who explained how the trains is full of “loons who will talk to anyone.” (She is herself a professed loon and loves it!!!)

I miss it. I miss it a lot.

The hustle and bustle of it all. The randomness of the order. Or the order to the randomnes… I don’t know which. The conversation at one table to my right about a start up company and the one to the left about seeing Janet Jackson at the mall.

Life is so many experiences.

Today will be fun.

More later.