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Blog Post Date Comment WFMU's Beware of the Blog Finally some MJ Memorabilia worth paying for 07/08/09 here's the comment poem dedicated to you and the two people who commented on my other: http://visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com/2009/07/and-heres-translated-version-of-my.html thanks for the mention. ... THE RISING STORM Mickey Newbury “Heaven Help The Child” 07/07/09 i had to come back when i saw ‘wybgsl’. i never heard it till tonight. it’s one of my top 10 Jerry Lee covers. I got to see MN in NYC at the old Lonestar, Chet Atkins joined him ... THE RISING STORM Harvey Mandel “Cristo Redentor” 07/07/09 so great you did harvey, and the only reason i found out is from my “pete drake” alert. [a little weird, i know, but it helped me find the forever video so i could repost it everywhere: i... WFMU's Beware of the Blog like flies on sherbet 01/13/09 w.e. was born in memphis like you were
TCC: Twitter Community College
Netizen: TCC: Twitter Community CollegeTwitter Community College
(This used to be a Google blog. Now it seems to have become a Twitter blog. It looks like it: Twitter Tips: It's A Bird, It's A Bird.)
In my last post I said I wanted to follow around 100 people, and now I find myself following 237, and I am not complaining.
This article jolted my apple cart: Twitter Professors: 18People to Follow for a Real Time Education. I immediately proceeded to follow all 18. Then I realized this list had a media bias, as in this was like the Media Department at the TCC, for the most part. So I googled up the "top techies to follow on Twitter" and came up with a wonderful list: The 10 best techies worth following on Twitter | Between the Lines....After all that school work, it was time for a coffee break, so I went ahead to this list: New York Top 1,000 Tweets. I decided to follow many of the attractive women on the list. Women are more likely to respond back on Twitter than on Facebook or Plenty Of Fish, I think. On Facebook, it is like, oh no, I don't even know this guy. On Plenty Of Fish, it is like, do I want to spend the rest of my life with this guy? I don't think so. On Twitter there is none of that pressure. And so people talk. Women talk. Not all of them. But a few.
If you can find great people to follow, Twitter becomes a whole different experience.
Let me go ahead and list the people from the first two lists.
Twitter Professors: 18 People to Follow for a Real Time EducationThe 10 best techies worth following on Twitter
- @cspenn
- @JOHNABYRNE
- @jowyang
- @Kanter
- @MarketingProfs
- @chrisbrogan
- @PRsarahevans
- @missrogue
- @mediaphyter
- @jayrosen_nyu
- @laureltouby
- @Meryl333
- @shelisrael
- @2020science
- @levyj413
- @chrisheuer
- @brianstelter
- @fec139
And then there is a B list.
- Harry McCracken (Editor of Technologizer)
- Padmasree Warrior (CTO at Cisco Systems)
- Dave Zatz (Digital lifestyle writer)
- Rafe Needleman (Editor of Webware)
- Jason Snell (Editorial Director of Macworld)
- Charlene Li (Author and thought leader)
- Lance Ulanoff (Editor in Chief of PCMag)
- Jeremiah Owyang (Analyst, Forrester Research)
- Paul Thurrott (Founder, Windows Supersite)
- Rob Enderle (Analyst, Enderle Group)
Here's some high powered Tweets tweeting in my direction. jobsworth doesn't count. He is an "old friend." He is the one who got me on Twitter: I Get Twitter.
- Ina Fried - News.com reporter
- Abbie Lundberg - Former editor of CIO magazine
- Matt Cutts - Google engineer
- Danah Boyd - Academic/researcher in new media
- Ryan Block - Former editor of Engadget
- John C Dvorak - Legendary tech pundit
- Tom Merritt - Host of Buzz Out Loud
- Guy Kawasaki - Venture Capitalist
- Sarah Lacy - Silicon Valley writer/reporter
- Michael Arrington - TechCrunch founder/blogger
- Sascha Segan - Mobile writer for PCMag
- Veronica Belmont - Revision 3 host
- Leo Laporte - Host of This Week in Tech
- Molly Wood - CNET TV host
- Om Malik - Founder of GigaOm
- Natali Del Conte - CNET TV host
- Jason Calacanis - Founder of Mahalo
- Robert Scoble - Fast Company blogger
- Kevin Rose - Founder of Digg
http://twitter.com/jobsworth/status/1218148520
http://twitter.com/levyj413/status/1217931176
http://twitter.com/shelisrael/status/1217776431
http://twitter.com/Colleen84/status/1217750375
http://twitter.com/fec139/status/1217609070
http://twitter.com/shelisrael/status/1217490648
http://twitter.com/shelisrael/status/1217268185
http://twitter.com/mriggen/status/1217240254
http://twitter.com/mediaphyter/status/1217194099
http://twitter.com/jobsworth/status/1216881893
Some of the professors started talking back right away. And these are busy people.
And my followers' count has gone up to 107. I think it was 70 before I enrolled at the Community College. I am calling it community college because I am glad the word community is in there.
Kai Chase Celebrity Chef World-Fusion Cuisine
As a private chef, Ms. Chase has delighted the palates of such notable figures as President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, NBA star-athlete Jalen Rose, singer/songwriter Macy Gray, comedians Cedric “The Entertainer” and Bernie Mac, and actors Jamie Foxx and Eriq LaSalle, among others. She has even cooked for radio and TV star Steve Harvey who featured her on his top-rated “Steve Harvey Morning Show” on 100.3 “The Beat” in Los Angeles. Kai has also worked as an assistant chef with Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events, Spago restaurant in Chicago, and several notable independent catering companies, including her own, Kai Chase Catering which she started and cultivated at the top of 1997.
Los Angeles native Chase—an alluring beauty of Creole, Cuban and Native-American Indian heritage—naturally reflects her colorful culture within the flair and spice of her tantalizing culinary style. Those who have had the pleasure of tasting her mouth-watering cuisine via her Kai Chase Catering and Kai Chase Private Chef Services companies, or elsewhere, champion the lady as a consummate professional —in possession of as much style as a striking, camera-friendly personality as she has five-star skills in kitchens around the globe.
“My passion resides in the art of food…and the way food makes us feel,” Kai shares.
“I believe that the foundation to good health, wealth and love stems from an internal peace only achieved by succumbing to our desires, passions and the enjoyment of life. Maybe it comes dining in the company of good friends. Maybe it’s in the anticipation of that first mesmerizing bite of a well-prepared dish or the final swallow of a libation made “just right.” ‘Savor all the Flavors!’”
Now, combining her artistic loves of journalism, from her years as a staff writer of a weekly music publication, the Urban Network and the culinary arts, Kai Chalon Chase is preparing two new next-level crossover projects - a cookbook spiced with tales of food, love and passion from her journeys as a chef to the stars, and a cooking show that will find Kai in the company of a who’s who of special guests in a state-of-the-art kitchen whipping up a cross-cultural fusion of food with ingredients from all over the world.
Who is this fetching and fascinating young multi-talent?
Born to a Latin-jazz musician father and a mother with extensive ties throughout the entertainment industry, Kai Chase grew-up in West Hollywood, attending famed Fairfax High School in the early `80s. It was a time when life was good, life was easy, and life was a whole lot of fun. Kai’s star-studded stomping ground was home to Schwab’s and The Candy Store on Sunset Boulevard, Flippers roller skating rink and Fred Segal’s clothing store which sold the chicest of designer jeans on the chi-chi westside of Melrose Avenue. Television and music were at their creative peaks in variety and style, and young Kai had the connections and determination to get in on a piece of the action!
Raised in a family of entertainers, artistes and musicians, Kai was blessed with an abundance of artistic career choices. Her godfather, legendary comedian Redd Foxx, made a point of telling Kai that she could accomplish anything she put her mind to. “Just be careful of the ‘jivers’—rich, poor or indifferent,” he schooled her. “Even yo’ mama could be jivin’ too!” Kai took heed and ventured forward on her joyous life path.
At the top of 1988, Kai contacted her cousin J.J. Johnson, a disc jockey at pioneering Los Angeles hip hop radio station KDAY-AM, expressing her interest in broadcast communications. He assisted her in landing the opportunity to work as a staff writer for the weekly music industry publication Urban Network, where Kai interviewed and wrote short stories on the elite personalities from the realms of radio and records. She then segued into music publishing at Chrysalis Music Publishing, where she assisted in executing her first administrative deal for her uncle: famed jazz musician Roy Ayers.
All the while, Kai was marinating her muse in another more sensual art form…food! Literally falling asleep reading cookbooks, Kai spent her leisure hours dreaming up delectable creations and cultivating a knack for baking. Her love for food, passion for creating beautiful designs and panache for organizing lavish parties led to her enrolling in Los Angeles’ Epicurean culinary school in 1995. She continued to work in the entertainment business collecting more top-flight connections while attending school on alternating days. Kai landed her first job as a cook for Hollywood superstar Pamela Anderson’s trendy, upscale restaurant Sanctuary, where she interned for 6 months.
After graduating from Epicurean, Kai quit the entertainment business and packed her bags in 1996 for Paris, France, where she pursued her desire to accomplish greater knowledge in the culinary field by attending Le Cordon Bleu culinary academy. There she completed her master studies while luxuriating in a world of to-die-for taste sensations and breathtaking sights. Most importantly, Kai developed a seasoned vet’s passion for palatable textures, colors, and the marrying of traditional and exotic flavors.
Independent and entrepreneurial to the core, Kai Chalon Chase is on a fast track to multi-media success, tickling the taste buds of the culinary elite as well as celebrity celestials of all stripes.
—A. Scott Galloway
Jackson chef recalls doctor's role, final days - Yahoo! News
Jackson chef recalls doctor's role, final days - Yahoo! NewsJackson chef recalls doctor's role, final days
AP – Kai Chase, Michael Jackson's personal chef, is photographed in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday, July …
LOS ANGELES – On the day Michael Jackson died, his personal chef says her first hint of something amiss was when his doctor didn't come downstairs to get the juices and granola he routinely brought the King of Pop for breakfast each morning.
Kai Chase, a professionally trained chef hired by Jackson to maintain a healthy food regimen, recalled the singer's final days in an interview with The Associated Press. She also spoke about the role of his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who is now the focus of a manslaughter investigation.
Chase said Tuesday that she had gotten used to seeing Murray coming and going from the mansion. The doctor usually arrived about 9 or 9:30 p.m. and would go upstairs to Jackson's room, and she said she would not see him again before she left — sometimes late in the evening — but understood he was staying the night.
In the morning, when she arrived for work, Chase said she would see the doctor coming down the steps carrying oxygen tanks. When Murray didn't come downstairs the morning of June 25, "I thought maybe Mr. Jackson is sleeping late," Chase said.
"I started preparing the lunch and then I looked at my cell phone and it was noon. About 12:05 or 12:10 Dr. Murray runs down the steps and screams, 'Go get Prince!' He's screaming very loud. I run into the den where the kids are playing. Prince (Jackson's oldest son) runs to meet Dr. Murray and from that point on you could feel the energy in the house change.
"I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter was crying. I saw paramedics running up the stairs."
At that point, Chase said, the small group that was gathered — the children, their nanny, a housekeeper and Chase — held hands and began to pray. As paramedics raced up to the room, Chase recalls, "We were all praying, 'Help Mr. Jackson be O.K.'
"Then everyone was very quiet."
At about 1:30 p.m. she said security guards told her and other staff to leave the property because "Mr. Jackson was being taken to the hospital."
When she came outside, she said, ambulances were in the courtyard and a crowd had gathered.
Chase, 37, who has cooked for other celebrities and comes from a show-business family, was hired by Jackson in March, let go in May, then returned on June 2. She said the pop star's focus was on fresh, healthy food for him and the children.
She said she prepared meals for the family and occasionally for Murray. She said Jackson was in training for his upcoming shows in London and told her: "You have to take care of me."
On most days, she said, Murray would bring Jackson the special fruit juice drinks Chase prepared for him, followed by granola with almond milk. For lunch, Jackson would eat with the children from a menu that included such things as spinach salad and chicken.
Murray sometimes joined them for dinner, which might be a seared ahi tuna. She said the doctor conferred with her about the 50-year-old pop singer's food and made sure that he ate.
The only oddity was the oxygen tanks. Chase said she never asked about the purpose of the oxygen and she saw no sign that Jackson was on drugs or was in failing health.
"Normally in the morning, he would bring oxygen tanks from upstairs downstairs, one in each hand," she said.
Authorities searched Murray's Las Vegas home and medical office Tuesday as part of an investigation that included raids last week of his clinic and storage in Houston.
With toxicology reports pending, investigators are working under the theory that the powerful anesthetic propofol caused Jackson's heart to stop, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Murray told investigators he regularly administered the drug to help Jackson sleep, and had done so sometime in the early morning of June 25, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Propofol is supposed to be administered only in monitored medical settings by trained personnel; the official told AP that Murray left the bedroom and returned to find the star unresponsive. Police have said Murray is cooperating and have not labeled him a suspect, and his lawyer, Edward Chernoff, has said the doctor "didn't prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson."
Like Murray, Chase said she was hired to accompany Jackson to London for his comeback concerts and the request was personally made to her by his 12-year-old son, Prince Michael II.
"Prince said, 'Daddy wants me to tell you he wants you to go to London with us,'" she recalled. "I said, 'Tell your daddy that I'm pleased and honored."
She said she had already filled out paperwork and submitted a copy of her passport to the Jackson staff and expected to leave for London on July 3.
On June 23, she said Jackson told her: "I'm packed and I'm ready to go." Two days later, he was dead.
It was the end of her dream job and an idyllic time in Chase's life, a time that had begun in March with a call from Jackson's assistant, Michael Williams. She was told that "a client" wanted her services as personal chef but she was not told the client was Jackson until she was hired.
"I couldn't believe it," she said. "I asked him if I was on 'Candid Camera.' I said, 'Am I being punked?'"
She said Jackson had seen her resume which included jobs cooking for Macy Gray and Jamie Foxx as well as catering a fund raiser for President Barack Obama. She said he also knew she was from a multiracial background and her godfather was Redd Foxx.
But before she started she had to pass muster with three other people: the Jackson children.
"I came to the house and the first people I met were the kids. They started interviewing me," she said. "They told me: 'We're into healthy eating.'"
When they approved her, she went to work and "we developed a really great bond."
Most days, she said, Jackson made a point of having both lunch and dinner with the children, Prince, 11-year-old Paris and 7-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, and each meal was preceded by Paris saying grace. After weeks of healthy food, she said she wrote Jackson a note with a suggestion:
"I said, 'What about doing comfort-food Saturdays? We could do barbecued chicken and corn on the cob, maybe Mexican food or soul food.'" She said he loved the idea, but as the concerts approached, healthy eating returned full time.
"He said, 'I'm a dancer,' and he wanted food that would not make him cramp up while he was dancing."
She now treasures little notes she received from the children and from Jackson and a present he gave her.
"One day he handed me a little gift bag and said, 'This is for you from me and the children.' He had given me an iPod Touch because the children told him I still had a Walkman. It had the 25th anniversary 'Thriller' album loaded on it."
She said she has visited with the children since Jackson's death and they are doing well. "They have so many cousins to play with."
As for Chase's future, she said Jackson encouraged her to write a cookbook and she has written one tentatively titled, "Fit for a King." It includes recipes she cooked for Jackson and the story of the time she worked for him.
"He was an inspiration to me," she said.
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