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Oh wait, should that read that PETA IS a Nut Shell? 

By Stevie Z

    Here’s the Dilemma:  the world needs groups like PETA (which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals……not People Eating Tasty Animals, as some suggest) to help look after the welfare of critters.  In fact, nothing in this world pisses me off more then someone or something that is being mistreated, especially when that someone or something can’t defend itself or speak out - this includes animals and children, and in some instances women.  Don’t send letters - I’m referring to people that are abusive - to women, children, animals, etc.

   I think the basic concept of PETA is a good thing, and that they should be looking out for the welfare of animals, and decrying things like fur coats (hey, I come from a northern town that was founded on the fur trade, and know what trapping animals is like) and abuse of animals in general, but come on, they go way beyond ‘hard sell’ into ’stupidly pointless and ridiculous sell’.    That little stunt they pulled comparing the gruesome murder of a man on a GreyHound Bus to the slaughter of animals, went way too far and they obviously didn’t really take into consideration the friends and relatives of the victim, did they?  Using a person’s pain and suffering to further your own cause is bullshit, and they should be punished for that kind of crap.

   They have a forum on their site, and I’m not making this up, it’s called the “Peta Files”.  Say that out loud.  I don’t know if they’re trying to be clever or cute or just insulting again, but I find the name deplorable.

   Their outlandish over-the-top bullshit hurts them in the long run, because instead of having their name associated with a noble cause that people would want to support, they’re known by and large as a bunch of nut jobs that most people don’t want anything to do with. 

   Here’s a perfect example of how they hurt themselves:  my wife works for a company that, among other things, does architectural design work for slaughterhouses.  I have about as good an idea of what goes on in those places as a person can without actually being on the kill floor and seeing, hearing (and smelling!) things for themselves.  Over the past couple of years my wife and I have been doing a fair bit of research and are looking at cutting meat out of our diet.  Technically speaking, PETA should be a great place to start looking at ideas, recipes, support, etc.  They even have a ‘Vegetarian Starter Kit’ that you can order and they’ll send it to you for free.  But here’s the thing - I wouldn’t give them my home address in a million years.   I’d honestly be worried that they would start sending, I don’t know, pails of blood to me in the mail to drive home the point that animals are being killed.  Think I’m being silly?  I’ve seen the kit - a co-worker ordered it.  Sure, it’s got recipes and substitutions and such, but it’s also got a lot of photos of maimed and disfigured animals, along with great stories of abuse.  Hey asshats - I know about all this already, you can DIAL IT BACK A BIT!   Their websites are the same thing - you can’t just get helpful, friendly tips and advice without the bullshit propaganda.

   I can totally visualize walking into their offices and saying “Hey guys, I know that eating meat is all bad and stuff, and we treat animals badly, and I’ve already read about all that, so I want to forego eating meat forever and only eat lettuce” and they react by screaming at you “ANIMALS ARE BEING CRUELLY MURDERED, AHHHHH!” and then slapping you in the face with a pig fetus or something.

   Seriously guys, relax.  And oh yeah, having someone like Pamela Anderson as one of your biggest spokespeople isn’t (in my humble but accurate opinion) the best idea ever.   Actually, come to think of it, maybe it IS a stroke of genius, after all, she appears to have about the same intelligence as the cows and chickens she’s trying to save.

Of course, I’m just sayin’

Stevie Z

   Okay, I DO have to admit that some of their ads are pretty awesome though

By Stevie Z

 *sigh*   Yannow, I hate when I disagree with smart people, especially quite a few smart people.  You see, I’m not very bright and when I try to think too much about big pictures and overall directions and the future of…well…anything, my head starts to hurt, I see glowy spots in front of my eyes and I feel an overwhelming need to lie down.

  That’s why I’ve been trying to grapple with something since August 16th, when I was at the Niagara-On-The-Lake podcaster/blogger meetup.  Sean McGaughey did a presentation entitled “I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like” in which he discussed, among other things, our habit of getting hung up on the name of things, and what names can represent, instead of moving forward with what we can do with things.  And I agree wholeheartedly.

But…

Then he brought up the word “podcasting” and a discussion ensued in the room by people much brighter then I about how the word ‘podcast’ is bad because it makes people think that you need an iPod to listen, and people should work to change the name to something else, etc.

That kinda upset me.

Why?  Because it doesn’t matter what you call it, you’re still going to have to explain to people what it is, where to find it, and how to listen to it.   I’ll give you an example of what I mean:

A)  You tell someone you have a podcast.  Then you have to explain that it’s like an internet-based radio show that they can listen to anytime they want to.   No, they don’t need an actual iPod unit to listen. They can download it to any mp3 player they like, or burn it to a CD, or listen to it right there on their computer.  Here’s the address for it.

Neato.  Fairly simple.  Here’s the alternative, and this time lets call it, say, Kukuxumushu (great song title by a band called Electric 6)

B) You tell someone you have a Kukuxumushu.  Then you have to explain that it’s like an internet-based radio show that they can listen to anytime they want to.  They can download it to any mp3 player they like, or burn it to a CD, or listen to it right there on their computer.  Here’s the address for it.

 What’s the difference?  1 sentence and about 4-5 seconds of speaking time, 5-10 seconds of typing.

I’ve spoken to people who have discovered podcasting because they had an iPod and heard about ‘podcasting’ and checked it out because of the name.  I’ve also spoken to people who had heard about it but thought you needed an iPod - some of them looked into it further and realized that you didn’t, so they are now consumers of podcasts, and some didn’t bother looking into it further, and face it - those are the ones who are only going to listen to the Oprah and NPR podcasts anyways.

The term podcasting is more popular then anything else out there now anyways.  If some people spent as much time spreading the gospel of podcasting and learnin’ people about the who’s and why’s then that many more people would be consumers instead of just having more people confused about what it’s all about anyways.

I hate the term ‘blog’ with all my being.  It sounds like the sound someone makes when they’re throwing up after drinking too much Tequila in Duluth, Minnesota.  C’mon, say it out loud with me “BLOG!”  See?  I actually delayed starting my blog for a month because I hated the term so much.  I fought against it, and tried to call it something else, but then the people who did know what a blog was were confused.  So I accepted it and moved on…I still don’t like the term, but I’ve stopped debating with people on what else to call it, and trying to change what the majority of people think.

Stop getting so hung up on what it’s called, and make it better instead.  It’s up to podcasters to find a simple, succinct way to introduce people to podcasting without getting tangled up in words and language.  If you have to print out a simple statement about what it is and how to consume it on the back of business card with your podcast on it, so be it.  Do it, and you’ll turn more people into consumers.

Besides, it could be worse, it could be called Kukuxumushu.

Of course, I’m just sayin’

Stevie Z

By Stevie Z

Okay, comedy per se isn’t dead, but something about comedy and death occurred to me today. What do you think of when I give you names like George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison, Andy Kaufman.

All very famous, all very ground-breaking…..all very dead…way before their time.

George Carlin died at the age of 71 (oldest of the lot, by far, but still), Bill Hicks was 32. Thirty-freaking two! Richard Pryor was a young 65, Lenny Bruce a paltry 40 years old, Sam Kinison taken at 38, and Andy Kaufman at the ‘tender old age’ of 35.

What do these names all have in common? A few things:

1. They’re all dead. (yes, we established that)
2. They all died too young.
3. They were all controversial - some would, and have, used the word ‘obscene’.
4. They’re considered ground breaking.
5. They all made you think.
6. They’ve all been imitated (plagiarized?) by others, often with disappointing results.
7. They all had vowels in their names.

Okay, that last point was lame. But I like the number 7. You could argue that their lifestyles had to do with their untimely demise - Bruce was an alleged drug overdose, and Bill Hicks was cancer and they both lived very unhealthy lives, but Andy Kaufman was a vegetarian who didn’t smoke or do drugs, and HE died of lung cancer! Richard Pryor was cardiac arrest, the result of his multiple sclerosis, and I’ll give you that George Carlin dying at 70 of cardiac arrest isn’t that unusual, but he was a health nut. Sam Kinison on the other hand is just an example of epic irony - he lived a life that would have killed 10 ordinary mortals - huge amounts of drugs and alcohol, and then he decided to stop, and cleaned up…then he got killed by a drunk driver, which, if you consider the amount of impaired driver humour he used to use in his act, is hysterical in a way that only a true connoisseur of irony can appreciate properly.

That leads me to one of my main points - these guys were ‘funny’ yes, but they truly did hold a mirror up to society, and not to the banal, boring everyday mundane part of society - the part of society that involves hypocrisy, cruelty, and blatant inhumanity towards our fellow man . Sure, they could have joked about airline food, and the DMV, and babies, and old people driving in Florida, but after all that, where are you? Same place you were before.  And besides, Cosby, Seinfeld and the TV show Friends already have that part covered.

Whether it was tackling racism (Lenny Bruce), drugs and hypocrisy (Bill Hicks), what is considered ‘proper and normal’ (Kaufman - who used to drive people nuts because they couldn’t tell if he was insane, or just playing a character who was), the way people treat each other (Kinison), life as a minority (Pryor), or how hung up we get on things like words (Carlin) they ALL made you think. They also all challenged institutions. Whether it was organized religion, the government, the police, schools, bosses, no one was safe. And I think that’s what made people nervous, and made them feel offended. People took things personally, as one sometimes will when the things they hold dear are attacked. But if you listen, and I do mean truly listen, to what these guys were saying, then you’ll see that they weren’t mocking the institutions as much as they were questioning them and the reverence with which we often treated them, instead of intelligently questioning things, so that they could be changed and improved.

Unfortunately, a lot of people who thought that the aforementioned comedians were supporting racism, etc by the words they used, and rallied around them for all the wrong reasons, and that has gone a long way towards their vilification and their being categorized as dirty, racist, anti-religion, anti-societal, etc.

So to that end, I challenge YOU. Watch these clips that I’ve linked to below, really listen to what they’re saying, and if you’re offended, ask yourself why. Are you offended because of a word that somebody used? As Carlin used to say “it’s just a word, words can’t hurt you, if you don’t let them”.

“It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and to cross it deliberately” - George Carlin

“Laughter IS the best medicine, but the truth will always kill you in the end… ” Me.

Of course, I’m just sayin’

Stevie Z

Oh yeah, if you’re the offendable type…..umm, don’t watch these……

Mr Bruce

Mr. Carlin

Mr. Kinison

Mr. Pryor

Mr. Hicks

Mr. Kaufman

By Stevie Z

Okay, we all know I believe in Irony, but I also believe in Cosmic Justice and karma and all that stuff too. Here’s a good example of it in action:

I was putting together a (somewhat) substantial order for an online company that does marketing materials - I was looking for 2 sets of business cards, some car magnets, a table banner, couple of rubber stamps and some pens and keychains. Entire order was going to be a few hundred bucks.

Then, I don’t know why, I checked an old email account I used to use many years ago, but don’t really use anymore. Wow, a little over 2,000 messages in my spam mailbox. Just for the heck of it, I went into the spam box, and sorted the messages by sender. Turns out that I was getting spammed almost ONCE every TWO DAYS from this very same company that I was about to give final approval to the proofs to. This old email is a yahoo account, and I know that since I’ve only recently heard of this company that I hadn’t contacted them before with my old email address, and the old email address, as I said, has been in disuse, and pretty much anything that falls into it is spam.

So, I called the company, asked to speak to the head of their sales department, had them call up my order so that she could see what I was talking about, explained to her that I put spammers on the same level as cat excrement, and that I wished to cancel my order and I would NEVER do business with them again.

I refuse to do business with companies who use spam to sell their products or services. Not only that, but I wouldn’t even pee in their mouths if their TEETH were on fire. Harsh? Yes, but I had to delete almost 20 attempts today to spam my comments board on this blog, and have to deal with it in my inbox everyday. Just like you do. Maybe if we ALL got together and boycotted these asshats then they’d move along. That, or just start phoning them and screaming at them. That may or may not work, but damn, it’ll suuuuure feel good.

Of course, I’m just sayin’

Stevie Z

By Stevie Z

Hot on the trail of the “6 Things” Confessional, comes this little tidbit you may have not known about Yours Truly.

Billie Holiday makes me cry.

No, not the cowboy with the quick draw - that’s Doc Halliday. I’m talking about Billie Holiday, the Jazz Singer.

I think it’s because it’s one of those “perfect storms” of emotion.

1. It’s evocative of a certain time of my life.
2. I was introduced to her music by someone I hold very dear to my heart.
3. C’mon, have you ever heard her voice and her music?!?!? hello!
4. Her life was tragic from start to too-soon finish, and you could hear it in every note.

Let’s explore, shall we?

I found Billie at a time when my life had no direction, and music was the thing I was clinging to…and hey, there are worse people you could cling to then Lady Day. Something about the pain in her voice…I was like an over-emotional teenager all over again. Then when I read about her life, it just amplified everything that much more.

Secondly, while I was ‘wandering through the wilderness’ I met someone who reminded me that I shouldn’t be such an Emo crybaby, and that I should accept what life throws at me, appreciate it, better it when I can, and not get all freaked out about the stuff I can’t do anything about…and oh yeah, by the way, check out this singer named Billie Holiday, you can borrow my CDs. The Ironic thing…and I do love irony…is that since that time that person has now lost their way, and gotten themselves into something that won’t be easy to extricate themselves from…and there is no way that I can help them as they once helped me. Sometimes, Irony sucks….a lot.

However, if you strip away all of the surrounding events and circumstances from my discovering her music, you still have the music itself - haunting, beautiful, timeless, agonizing, uplifting…those are only worlds, and words can’t quite get you there. Only the music, and the voice can. And damn, she sure is something to look at, too.

Finally, I don’t know how many times I’ve heard from people that when they’re feeling down they put on some Billie Holiday. There’s something instinctual about her voice and her music that just helps you get through, you know what I mean ?

Of course, I’m just sayin’

Stevie Z

By Stevie Z

    Okay, for those of you who don’t know what an “internet meme” is….well, don’t ask me, I can’t really explain it, if you’re that curious about the specifics go here.   If you’re lazy, like me, accept that I’m going to tell you it appears to be a question or set of questions that someone answers on their blog or podcast, and then ‘tags’ some other people, meaning that now they have to answer the question(s) as well, and then tag more people.  I guess it’s kind of like a chain letter, but one that requires effort.

   Having said all that, I’ve now been ‘tagged’ by 2 people - Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis to list 6 Random Things About Me….I’ll vary between the fun and frivoulous, and the stuff that inquiring minds want to know:

1.  If I had inherited all of my father’s creativity and all of my mother’s ambition, I would have been ruling the world by now…instead I’m just this kind of weird guy that a few people have heard about.
2. I have a love/hate relationship with cats.  And yes, I own 2.  I love their playfulness and intelligence, respect their incredible indifference to the world around them, and am very jealous of their ability to lick themselves anywhere, anytime.
3. I have huge self-doubt issues whenever I create anything, from a blog post to a podcast episode, to a song, to a comment on someone else’s site.  And that is really odd when you think that I take critisicm very well.  The biggest problem it creates is limiting my creative content and output.
4. I not only still own a rotary dial phone, it’s hooked up in my basement, and I frequently use it…especially when calling certain people because I know it drives them insane that I’m using such old technology.
5. I would probably be willing to give up a testicle for trade for an early 70’s era Fender Twin Reverb amp and a Telecaster Thinline guitar…especially in birdseye green with gold hardware…mmmmmmm.
6. I once got so drunk on Tequila in Duluth, Minnesota that I woke up in the hotel room in the morning in the bathtub naked except for my socks, covered in Dorito crumbs, and with a woman’s name, her phone number and the word “thanks” written on my arm in pen.  And I couldn’t find my jeans anywhere…till I got on the elevator to leave.  Then I found them.   I never did call the phone number….or drink Tequila again.

   So there ya go, that’s 6.  I’ll save the rest for the next time this floats around.   Now I’m supposed to ‘tag’ 6 other people to post this….well, a couple of them don’t have blogs, but I would love to know their anwers.

   My tagees are as follows:    Ignacio Castillo, Robbie Hancock, Sean McGaughey, Cat from The Catsfish Show (hey, at least it’ll give ya something new to put on your blog :) , Tommy Vallier,  and Bastion Feddern.

   Okay, for those of you tagged, here (apparently) are the rules, as I was given:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on the blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

    Okay peeps, it’s up to you now…..

Stevie Z

By Stevie Z

    Good morning boys and girls!  It’s August 15′th and that means A) 1 more day to the NOTL meetup, and 2) only a couple more weeks left to write and record your song for the Sieve! Monthly Song Challenge for August.

    On a personal note, after 3 or 4 misfired attempts, I think I finally got the ball rolling creatively this morning in the shower…so I should have an entry too, (whew!)

   I’ve got a few ideas for the September challenge already, but I’d like to do this: 

   Everyone who submits a song, I’d like them also to submit a genre, a song topic, and a word or phrase.  I’m thinking that maybe I’ll draw 1,2 or 3 of those ideas out of a hat for each successive challenge.  That way it’s more random, more interesting, and maybe more challenging…I mean, anyone can write a country love song, right ?  I’m thinking it’d be harder to write, say, a Punk song about peach fuzz.

   Enough reading, get back to songwriting!  And I’ll see some of you tomorrow at Niagara-On-The-Lake!

   Happy Songsterin’

   Stevie Z

By Stevie Z

Okay, here’s the funny thing - A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog post announcing something I called the The Sieve! Monthly Song Challenge.  Then, I announced the details about the August challenge.   Then, I sat down to write a song for it, and a funny thing happened….

Since I did that, I’ve written A) A new theme song for my podcast, The Sieve! as well as  B) 2 songs that have NOTHING to do with August’s criteria, and C) a goofy jingle for a breakfast cereal that doesn’t exist, and that no one would eat if it DID exist.

But I haven’t been able to come up with ONE damn idea for a song for the August Challenge.  Ironic, yes, annoying, heck yeah.  Doesn`t seem fair somehow.  If I`d been smart, I`d have set the criteria to fit some brilliant piece of music that I`d already written (a-ha!  Trick statement…I`ve never written anything brilliant) but that would be cheating, and not in the spirit of the challenge.  Just as I`ve asked everyone to come with something original for the challenge, so should I myself.

And I will….I hope.

Got to go, now where did I put that acoustic guitar again……

Stevie Z

by Stevie Z

Okay boys and girls (and non-gender specified creatures of the world - I’m looking at you Ru Paul!) The time has come to spew forth the specifics for the first Monthly Sieve! Song Challenge…

I was undecided for what to do for this first challenge - I was going to make it something really challenging that only the strong would survive…and then the Luverly Michelle smacked me on the back of the head and told me to smarten up. So I did, to a point. I decided to make things fairly easy and universal for the premiere addition.

So here are the 3 Criteria for the August 2008 Sieve! Song Challenge:

1. GENRE - Country
2. TOPIC - Summer
3. WORD/PHRASE - Bridge

Details:

Country - It can be New Country (Garth Brooks - Sample 1 (with the Mystery 3rd Verse, and Sample 2) or Ye Olde Country (Hank - Williams OR Snow)

Topic - Since in the part of Canad that I live we haven’t had summer yet, only a prolonged period of melted snow (I.E. rain) falling since April, I want summer in some way, shape or form…if it has to come to me in song, so be it.

Word/Phrase - “Bridge”. It can be metaphysical, metaphorical, literal or otherwise. You can cross it, burn it, or build it on the river Kwai. It’s up to you.

Well, there it is. You have no idea how much I’m looking forward to everyone’s contributions. You can double check the guidelines here. One thing I did forget to mention on that post was Parodies. I’d rather you didn’t just yet…you see, I’m going to do a Parody challenge at some point in the future. Speaking of future challenges (if this goes well and there are some) I am starting to do a little bit of ‘work’ with a local comedy improv troop, and I hope to get some future ideas about topics and words/phrases from them…now that will be interesting.

So, get strumming/plucking/whacking/blowing/hitting/banging/whatever you do, because the deadline for submissions is Sunday, August 31, at 12:00 am Eastern Standard Time. They can be emailed to badlybentpub@yahoo.ca. Heck, I’m going to try to throw something together myself, and we’ll see what happens.

Good night, and Good Luck!

Stevie Z

By Stevie Z 

   The more that social media allows anyone and everyone to shout their viewpoint from their virtual soapboxes, the more people retreat into their own “my opinion is the correct opinion” realms.  It’s been said for many years that people will believe something a lot more if it’s in print…even, it would seem if that print is their own.

   Case in point, I’ve recently read a lot of blog posts and heard a lot of podcasts about how we’re at a ‘tipping point’ where it matters what people think about the corporations they buy from, and that corporations had better shape up because consumers are so in tune with environmental impacts of corporations, corporate policies etc.   Some people are really excited because of this…

   Really?  You think it effects corporate policy all that much?

   I’ll tell you something - go to Wal Mart on a Saturday afternoon and look around.  Joe and Jill Nascar don’t give 1 crap about what companies do, as long as it makes their pork rinds and big screen TV’s cheaper - and they’re in the vast majority!  What was that?  These particular sneakers are made by 8 year-olds in sweat shops in Asia somewhere? Gee, I wouldn’t buy em, but Wal Mart just had a price rollback on them! How can I resist?!  Sure, they’re also crap, and I’ll have to buy 4 pairs a year, and they’ll end up in a landfill in 3 months….but look! The happyface says they’re only $19.99!

  For everyone who goes to their local market and buys Fair Trade Organic Hand-Picked-By-Virgins and Processed Using Only Unicorn Piss coffee beans, thousands go to Sam’s club and buy 270 Pound bags of whatever coffee the 30 second commercials during the breaks of watching Dr. Phil  told them to buy.

   For every smiles-and-puppies corporation that is actually trying to do some good in the world there’s 10 Monsanto types doing their best to destroy it for the sake of buck:  for every consumer that feels they have to have a ‘bond’ with their suppliers and know that the companies that they’re buying from are planting trees and monkeys in a rain-forest somewhere, there are 3,000 people buying McDonald’s hamburgers, which are made from beef raised on rain-forest land that was clear cut.

   I’m not saying don’t pay attention to corporate actions, particularly the ones that are doing the most harm - I’m as likely to joust at windmills as you are - but realize that while you ARE doing your part,  too many more aren’t, and frankly, most companies don’t care.  And please don’t get all high-and-mighty about it.  Why is it that one of the first places costs are cut is the customer service departments?  Because they don’t care.  Oh well, it’s harder to deal with them, too bad, stay on hold for an hour…they know you will.

   However, none of that was really what I was trying to say in the first place…that was just a little detour through Rantville.

   I started off talking about people inflating themselves up and talking like they are the sole voice of reason, and what they have to say is so damn important because they are so damn important.    Just because you have a blog doesn’t mean that your opinion matters any more then anyone else’s.  Sorry, Princess, but that’s the way it is.  At this point tens of thousands of people have blogs, and almost that many have podcasts as well.  If you can educate people, or entertain or inform them in some way, that’s great and it’s an awesome thing to do.  On the flip side though, are people that get drunk with their own imagined ‘power’ and start pontificating about how things ’should’ be, and criticizing others because the other person’s viewpoint doesn’t match their own omnipotent one.   A perfect example of that was a tiny, innocent little promo I did for Podcasters Across Borders, and the debate it started over at Mitch Joel’s blog and podcast: Six Pixels of Separation. 

   Don’t get me wrong at all - I love debate, and some of the conversation it started was awesome and enlightening…and some of it was pure drivel spouted by people who think that they are so important that everyone needs to hear what they have to say.  I’ve got a thick skin, and intelligent criticism never bothered me (if it did I sure wouldn’t put out the weird stuff that I do) but…….bah, I’ll finish that in another post, so I can get into more detail, since I already sort of covered it in this post.

   To Summarize:   Get a blog or a podcast, or both, and tell the world what you think about things.  That’s what’s great about social media - it’s social - you and I and her and him and everyone can do it.  But if you’re going to criticize, do it intelligently, and don’t just rage against the winds like some useless afternoon radio talk show host, state your opinion, then back it up with intelligent reasons, and offer solutions.  I know that I’m also guilty of wandering over the line into Rantland on occasion, but I like to think that I keep it under check most of the time, an try to keep it entertaining and helpful.  Above all else though, don’t get drunk with power just because you have the means to spew your words out into the world where anyone can hear.  Once it’s out there, it’s out there, and is out of your control.  And you can’t take it back.  And another caveat: some people may react in unexpected, disappointing ways.  So choose your words carefully, especially when you condemn or criticize someone else…it may come back to bite you, hard.

Of course, I’m just sayin’,

Stevie Z

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