Subtitled; "Getting My Excuses in Early."
Having arrived in South Africa yesterday (12/10/13) Rihanna will this
evening perform a concert in Johannesburg. This is the first concert of
this third leg of Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour that will happen more or
less in my timezone. However this actually presents me with a different
set of problems.
As I think it is well established that Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live
Nation (the management) will be insisting on their information blackout
it will take 1-2 hours for unofficial information about the concert to
become available. As South Africa is a developing rather then a
developed nation this may take even longer. It will then take me about
another hour to process that information and at least a further hour to
write up a review. Assuming that Rihanna takes to the stage on time this
takes me through to around 00:00-01:00 by which time I plan on being
far too drunk to write a detailed round up of recent events surrounding
Rihanna.
Take for example the fact that on Friday (11/10/13) a Court in Los
Angeles granted Rihanna a temporary restraining order against Jonathan
Whopper who attempted to break into Rihanna's home on September 29th
(29/9/13) and October 4th (4/10/13). According to the application Mr
Whopper believed that Rihanna was to be his future wife and on the
October 4th visit threw a garden chair through a glass door at the
address. As since the 2012 para-Olympic closing ceremony I have taken to
referring to Rihanna as my 'Twittter wife" and am currently facing
charges over some glass smashing related matters this clearly seems to
be intended as a reference to me. As such the attack on Rihanna seems to
have been carried out in order to leave Rihanna with no other option
then to apply for a restraining order against Mr Whopper. The intention
being that in low level gossip this will be interpreted as Rihanna
rejecting me and my views and fully endorsing the management's plan for
Rihanna's tour and her relationship with Chris Brown.
Coming on the International Day of the Girl when her western puppeteers
were hoping that Malala Yousafzai would be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for her campaign for women's education the management were hoping
that in more intellectual circles the restraining order hearing would be
viewed as part of the "Rehabilitation of Rihanna" narrative that
they've be trying to run since roughly the 2012 para-Olympic closing
ceremony. The idea being that they are setting Rihanna these sort of
challenges in order to empower her by teaching Rihanna to take
responsibility for aspects of her own life through things like applying
for a restraining order against Chris Brown. This "Rehabilitation of
Rihanna" narrative is of course a nonsense intended to give a fig leaf
of respectability to what is in reality just an attempt to inflict pain
for the sake of inflicting pain.
As such unless there is some major crisis to deal with I don't intend to
review tonight's concert until tomorrow - probably in the afternoon.
That decision of course has nothing to do with the fact the concert
clashes with "Homeland."
(Originally Posted) 12:20 on 13/10/13.
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