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Miles Archer
Miles Archer's Journal
Miles Archer's Journal
February 29, 2016
Sing me a song, you're a singer
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil
The Devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you're a taker
So it's on and on and on, it's Heaven and Hell, oh well
The lover of life's not a sinner
The ending is just a beginner
The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you'll know that you're dreaming
So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell, fool, fool!
Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion
For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
And it's on and on, on and on and on....
They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's Heaven and Hell, oh well
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It's Heaven and Hell, oh no!
Fool, fool!
You've got to bleed for the dancer!
Fool, fool!
Look for the answer!
Fool, fool, fool!
If you look closely at his right hand, you can almost see Rubio channeling Ronnie James Dio.
Sing me a song, you're a singer
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil
The Devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you're a taker
So it's on and on and on, it's Heaven and Hell, oh well
The lover of life's not a sinner
The ending is just a beginner
The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you'll know that you're dreaming
So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell, fool, fool!
Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion
For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
And it's on and on, on and on and on....
They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's Heaven and Hell, oh well
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It's Heaven and Hell, oh no!
Fool, fool!
You've got to bleed for the dancer!
Fool, fool!
Look for the answer!
Fool, fool, fool!
February 29, 2016
“Get on a plane and go home. It’s over there. You go home,” he said, patting Christie on the back.
Little video has the heads at Fox spinning.
Video clip is here if you want to see it: http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/02/28/donald-trump-tells-chris-christie-go-home
February 28, 2016
"Chris, don’t interrupt me." "Chris, please don’t interrupt me," Cruz tried again.
February 28, 2016
You may have seen two "food porn" posts I did recently from my new client, one of entrees and the other of desserts. In most cases, the food was plated very well and I got what I felt were some pretty decent shots.
My client sent me the photo above a few days ago. I have a few issues I'll list, but I'm more interested in hearing what you folks have to say.
1). This is a "sampler" plate from their menu which features lasagna, chicken parm, one meatball, and one sausage. Problem is that with the sauce and cheese covering, the only thing I can clearly identify on the plate is the meatball.
2). There is spaghetti on the plate, which is not in the menu description for this item, so I don't know if there's spaghetti AND lasagna or if they substituted spaghetti FOR lasagna.
3). Technical issues (like I said, it's not my photo)...I always center the plates, because I hate clipped edges like this. lack of symmetry, for me, is a badly composed shot. Strand of spaghetti on the rim of the plate, not good. I would put the lasagna, chicken parm, meatball and sausage on the plate with NO sauce, add enough sauce to each so that at least half of the item was still visible, and then top it with enough cheese to make it look plentiful but still allowing people to see what was under the cheese and sauce. One little dot of something in the sauce on top of the spaghetti...probably a sliver of garlic...but if I had been there taking the photo, I would have plucked it off for symmetry's sake.
Your thoughts?
Requesting your feedback on a client-provided food porn shot (it's not one of mine)
You may have seen two "food porn" posts I did recently from my new client, one of entrees and the other of desserts. In most cases, the food was plated very well and I got what I felt were some pretty decent shots.
My client sent me the photo above a few days ago. I have a few issues I'll list, but I'm more interested in hearing what you folks have to say.
1). This is a "sampler" plate from their menu which features lasagna, chicken parm, one meatball, and one sausage. Problem is that with the sauce and cheese covering, the only thing I can clearly identify on the plate is the meatball.
2). There is spaghetti on the plate, which is not in the menu description for this item, so I don't know if there's spaghetti AND lasagna or if they substituted spaghetti FOR lasagna.
3). Technical issues (like I said, it's not my photo)...I always center the plates, because I hate clipped edges like this. lack of symmetry, for me, is a badly composed shot. Strand of spaghetti on the rim of the plate, not good. I would put the lasagna, chicken parm, meatball and sausage on the plate with NO sauce, add enough sauce to each so that at least half of the item was still visible, and then top it with enough cheese to make it look plentiful but still allowing people to see what was under the cheese and sauce. One little dot of something in the sauce on top of the spaghetti...probably a sliver of garlic...but if I had been there taking the photo, I would have plucked it off for symmetry's sake.
Your thoughts?
February 28, 2016
MSNBC to sever ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email
Source: Washington Post
MSNBC intends to part ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network’s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said.
Harris-Perry refused to appear on her program Saturday morning, telling her co-workers in an email that she felt “worthless” to the NBC-owned network. “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” wrote Harris-Perry, who is African American. “I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by NBC executives or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”
The rebuke, which became public when it was obtained by the New York Times, has triggered discussions involving the network, Harris-Perry and her representatives about the terms of her departure, said people at MSNBC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks with Perry have not been finalized.
The flap with Harris-Perry, who did not respond to a request for comment, follows a strategic transformation of MSNBC that has swept up several of its minority program hosts. Specifically, the network — which typically finishes far behind Fox News and CNN in cable-news ratings — has been trying to emphasize breaking-news coverage during daytime hours while maintaining a slate of liberal hosts during prime-time hours at night. Like its competitors, it has emphasized breaking campaign coverage, which lately has bumped Harris-Perry from her regular spot.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/msnbc-will-cut-ties-with-show-host-who-wrote-critical-email-to-colleagues/2016/02/27/bce30c8e-dd82-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html
February 27, 2016
CNN Hollywood - The Republican National Committee has been seeing a "Reaganesque" candidate for 2016, and a voice from beyond may have just given them one.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told CNN reporters that he was standing on Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk Of Fame star this morning, looked down...and saw a banana.
Preibus' ruggedly chiseled features went ashen as he whispered "Bonzo." He was referring to President Ronald Reagan's 1951 co-star in the movie "Bedtime for Bonzo," and added, "This is a SIGN. We cannot ignore this endorsement. We prayed to our great leader to send us a candidate worthy of following in his footsteps, and he sent his choice to us via this fallen, heroic chimpanzee."
Priebus then added "We were hesitant at first, but rest assured, the RNC ground game and all of its might, including the financial power of our billionaire and Super PAC donors, will now be fully behind the Trump / Palin 2016 ticket. This is the dawn of the next great Republican era. THANK you, Bonzo."
RNC in MELTDOWN: Beloved Reagan co-star "Bonzo" sends Trump endorsement from Rainbow Bridge
NO LINK...breaking news.
CNN Hollywood - The Republican National Committee has been seeing a "Reaganesque" candidate for 2016, and a voice from beyond may have just given them one.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told CNN reporters that he was standing on Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk Of Fame star this morning, looked down...and saw a banana.
Preibus' ruggedly chiseled features went ashen as he whispered "Bonzo." He was referring to President Ronald Reagan's 1951 co-star in the movie "Bedtime for Bonzo," and added, "This is a SIGN. We cannot ignore this endorsement. We prayed to our great leader to send us a candidate worthy of following in his footsteps, and he sent his choice to us via this fallen, heroic chimpanzee."
Priebus then added "We were hesitant at first, but rest assured, the RNC ground game and all of its might, including the financial power of our billionaire and Super PAC donors, will now be fully behind the Trump / Palin 2016 ticket. This is the dawn of the next great Republican era. THANK you, Bonzo."
February 27, 2016
10 AM, Oval Office.
Christie: Yo, boss, got a second?
Trump: Hey, Chris, I was thinking about changing my comb-over to the other side. What do you think?
Christie: Shaves years off, boss. Years. Looking good, boss.
Trump: You think?
Christie: About what?
Trump: Years. I look years younger?
Christie: It's like I stepped into a freakin' time capsule or something, boss. Years. Decades. Hot outta the freakin' womb.
Trump: Yeah...you're right. I'm smokin' hot.
Christie: Smokin, boss, smokin. At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the
middle of my head.
Trump: I'm on fire.
Christie: Fire boss. Fire.
Trump: Who did I fire?
Christie: No, boss. You're on fire.
Trump: Got that right. Say, what did you want?
Christie: Huh?
Trump: You came in here to tell me something.
Christie: Oh yeah. You know that thing?
Trump: What thing?
Christie: You know, that thing. The thing.
Trump: Oh, yeah. What's going on with that thing? You take care of that thing?
Christie: Yeah, boss. I took care of that thing.
Trump: Anyone see you take care of that thing?
Christie: Just me and the paper shredder, boss. Just me and the paper shredder. On the down-low, Q-T, hush hush. fuggedaboudit.
Trump: You sure?
Christie: Yeah, I slipped Wolfowitz a fiver and had him watch the door. Some Secret Service guy tried to stick his head in the door and I yelled "HEY, I'm WORKIN' here," and scared the beejezus outta him. He won't be giving us any more trouble. Has a mother out in Scranton. I asked "How's your mom" and I think the son of a bitch pissed himself.
Trump: This mom, is she with us?
Christie: Voted for Hillary, boss.
Trump: Okay, do this, send some of the boys in a van. White van, unmarked. Have them sit on mom's house for a while. Take a fish, wrap it in newspaper, leave it on mom's welcome mat.
Christie: Done, boss.
Trump: Now, about that thing.
Christie: Took care of that thing, boss.
Trump: No, not that thing. The other thing.
Christie: Which thing, boss?
Trump: You know, the thing. That thing.
Christie: Oh...gotcha, boss. The thing.
Trump: You take care of that thing yet?
Christie: This afternoon, boss. Guy won't see it coming.
Trump: Now, I got this other thing I need you to handle.
Christie: Another thing, boss?
Trump: yeah, I got this thing. You up for it?
Christie: I dunno, boss. I mean, he's the Pope.
Trump: Where are you, Chris?
Christie: The Oval Office?
Trump: Goddamn right. And who sits behind that desk?
Christie: Uh...you, boss?
Trump: Goddamn right. And if I was able to get that desk, tell me what I can't do.
Christie: Uh...heal the sick and blind, boss? Take five small loaves and a couple of fish and feed 5000 people, boss?
Trump: Did that yesterday. Everyone was saying "This is some very good fish, President Trump." Fish everywhere. Never seen so much fucking fish in your life.
Christie: But the Pope, boss?
Trump: Get on it, and take Liddy with you.
Christie: Liddy? Jesus, he's crazy, boss.
Trump: And I'm not?
Christie: When you're right you're right, boss. Got me on that one.
Trump: Goddamn right.
Christie: You were right, boss. You have made America great again.
Trump: You believed that shit?
Christie: Er...no, boss, I was just makin' a joke about all of the rubes who did.
Trump: Good one, CC. Now get your ass out of here and go see that guy about seeing that guy so he can go see the other guy about our friend in the Vatican.
Christie: You got it, boss.
A day in the life of Vice President Chris Christie.
10 AM, Oval Office.
Christie: Yo, boss, got a second?
Trump: Hey, Chris, I was thinking about changing my comb-over to the other side. What do you think?
Christie: Shaves years off, boss. Years. Looking good, boss.
Trump: You think?
Christie: About what?
Trump: Years. I look years younger?
Christie: It's like I stepped into a freakin' time capsule or something, boss. Years. Decades. Hot outta the freakin' womb.
Trump: Yeah...you're right. I'm smokin' hot.
Christie: Smokin, boss, smokin. At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the
middle of my head.
Trump: I'm on fire.
Christie: Fire boss. Fire.
Trump: Who did I fire?
Christie: No, boss. You're on fire.
Trump: Got that right. Say, what did you want?
Christie: Huh?
Trump: You came in here to tell me something.
Christie: Oh yeah. You know that thing?
Trump: What thing?
Christie: You know, that thing. The thing.
Trump: Oh, yeah. What's going on with that thing? You take care of that thing?
Christie: Yeah, boss. I took care of that thing.
Trump: Anyone see you take care of that thing?
Christie: Just me and the paper shredder, boss. Just me and the paper shredder. On the down-low, Q-T, hush hush. fuggedaboudit.
Trump: You sure?
Christie: Yeah, I slipped Wolfowitz a fiver and had him watch the door. Some Secret Service guy tried to stick his head in the door and I yelled "HEY, I'm WORKIN' here," and scared the beejezus outta him. He won't be giving us any more trouble. Has a mother out in Scranton. I asked "How's your mom" and I think the son of a bitch pissed himself.
Trump: This mom, is she with us?
Christie: Voted for Hillary, boss.
Trump: Okay, do this, send some of the boys in a van. White van, unmarked. Have them sit on mom's house for a while. Take a fish, wrap it in newspaper, leave it on mom's welcome mat.
Christie: Done, boss.
Trump: Now, about that thing.
Christie: Took care of that thing, boss.
Trump: No, not that thing. The other thing.
Christie: Which thing, boss?
Trump: You know, the thing. That thing.
Christie: Oh...gotcha, boss. The thing.
Trump: You take care of that thing yet?
Christie: This afternoon, boss. Guy won't see it coming.
Trump: Now, I got this other thing I need you to handle.
Christie: Another thing, boss?
Trump: yeah, I got this thing. You up for it?
Christie: I dunno, boss. I mean, he's the Pope.
Trump: Where are you, Chris?
Christie: The Oval Office?
Trump: Goddamn right. And who sits behind that desk?
Christie: Uh...you, boss?
Trump: Goddamn right. And if I was able to get that desk, tell me what I can't do.
Christie: Uh...heal the sick and blind, boss? Take five small loaves and a couple of fish and feed 5000 people, boss?
Trump: Did that yesterday. Everyone was saying "This is some very good fish, President Trump." Fish everywhere. Never seen so much fucking fish in your life.
Christie: But the Pope, boss?
Trump: Get on it, and take Liddy with you.
Christie: Liddy? Jesus, he's crazy, boss.
Trump: And I'm not?
Christie: When you're right you're right, boss. Got me on that one.
Trump: Goddamn right.
Christie: You were right, boss. You have made America great again.
Trump: You believed that shit?
Christie: Er...no, boss, I was just makin' a joke about all of the rubes who did.
Trump: Good one, CC. Now get your ass out of here and go see that guy about seeing that guy so he can go see the other guy about our friend in the Vatican.
Christie: You got it, boss.
February 27, 2016
BREAKING: Donald Trump Held On Suspicion Of Being A Dick
It happened around 6 AM this morning. He was pouring a cup of coffee and his wife walked up and hugged him and said "Oh Donald, you may be a dick, but I love you anyway" and he responded "Make me some toast."
Film at 11.
February 27, 2016
IRS On Donald Trump: 'Nothing Prevents Individuals From Sharing Their Own Tax Information'
IRS On Donald Trump: 'Nothing Prevents Individuals From Sharing Their Own Tax Information'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/irs-donald-trump_us_56d083b5e4b0871f60eb2c06
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said during Thursday's GOP primary debate that he can't release his tax returns because he is currently being audited by the IRS, but the agency says nothing prevents individuals from sharing their tax information.
"Federal privacy rules prohibit the IRS from discussing individual tax matters. Nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information," the IRS said in a statement, responding to a HuffPost inquiry.
While the IRS says anyone can release their own tax information at any time, some tax lawyers advised it may not be in an individual's best interest to do so.
"Think of an audit as an investigation, an on-going investigation," Steven Goldburd, a lawyer who specializes in tax law, told The Washington Post. "Any person that has legal counsel, their legal counsel will say, 'If you're under investigation, you should not be talking to the media, you should not be talking to anyone other than your legal counsel or through your legal counsel.'"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/irs-donald-trump_us_56d083b5e4b0871f60eb2c06
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said during Thursday's GOP primary debate that he can't release his tax returns because he is currently being audited by the IRS, but the agency says nothing prevents individuals from sharing their tax information.
"Federal privacy rules prohibit the IRS from discussing individual tax matters. Nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information," the IRS said in a statement, responding to a HuffPost inquiry.
While the IRS says anyone can release their own tax information at any time, some tax lawyers advised it may not be in an individual's best interest to do so.
"Think of an audit as an investigation, an on-going investigation," Steven Goldburd, a lawyer who specializes in tax law, told The Washington Post. "Any person that has legal counsel, their legal counsel will say, 'If you're under investigation, you should not be talking to the media, you should not be talking to anyone other than your legal counsel or through your legal counsel.'"
February 26, 2016
WOW! Tonight at 7 on Fox, Herman Cain is going to "weigh in" on Super Tuesday. CAIN!
Fox promo blurb on Facebook:
Then at 7:00, Herman Cain weighs in on Super Tuesday strategies on On The Record.
Sneak preview:
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Name: Miles ArcherGender: Male
Hometown: Hamilton Massachusetts
Home country: USA
Current location: Nevada
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