On Wednesday (27/11/13) evening Rihanna returned to a New York City
hotel on the pretence of helping to support her brother's career as a
DJ. However if I was to politicise this for a western audience I would
say that it looked a lot like a glamorous version of a female victim of
domestic violence being sent to local council run emergency Bed &
Breakfast (B&B) accommodation. However if I were to say that
experience tells me Rihanna would only use it to reaffirm her life
choices by convincing herself that rather then f*cking up her life she
is instead making a bold protest in support of the less fortunate.
Anyway just as I was waking up on Thursday (28/11/13), switching off one
Blackberry, transferring the SIM card to another Blackberry and waiting
for the Blackberry to boot up Rihanna took to Twitter/Instagram to
confirm that not only is she in a New York even the hotel staff think
she really needs to sort her life out. I of course responded in the most
obscure way I could manage at the time.
Shortly after that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had to make the
final decision over whether the nationally famous Macy's Thanksgiving
Day parade could go ahead. Basically over the last week to ten days a
winter storm has been making its way across the east coast of the US
creating the possibility that wind speeds in New York could exceed the
maximum safe limit for flying the balloons that the Macy's Day Parade is
famous for. Although this storm had been weakening significantly over
recent day someone from the NYPD still had to make the decision that the
wind was within safe limits and give the balloons permission to fly. I
like to think that the wind suddenly dropped off at the last minute in
order to mock the notion that it is controlled by Rihanna by giving her
permission to fly on to somewhere else.
That is of course the same NYPD who had to deal with Chris Brown getting
beaten up by Drake. However I believe there is at least one rape
investigation they bungled. I decided to highlight this point by
Tweeting Chris Brown a picture of a stick man that was supposed to
indicate the anatomical diagrams that are used in police investigations
and trials to highlight where a victim has been injured. After all with
my fingers still sore from the COP19/CMP9 post that was so much easier
then simply typing all this up(!)
In between the start of the Macy's Day Parade and my COP19/CMP9 post the
Twitter account of the British Monarchy posted an open invitation to
visit the state apartments at Buckingham Palace that had been decorated
especially for Christmas. This appeared to me to be the British Monarchy
saying that it would quite literally roll out the red carpet for
Rihanna to come and visit me especially if they were able to bug the
room. I'm not sure if the British Monarchy realise that actually makes
it far less likely that Rihanna will visit or whether we're just dealing
with their usual level of stupidity.
Anyway long before that happened Justin Bieber decided to recreate the
scandal he caused by spraying graffiti in Brazil by spraying some Chris
Brown style graffiti on a wall in Australia. This was obviously intended
to convince the South Americans (Brazil and Argentina are really the
key markets) that Bieber was being used to have a very exciting
discussion between the US and Australia about Rihanna. The idea being
that the South Americans would be so intrigued by all this they would
beg for Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour to be extended to they can have a
good look at her.
Australia's response to this was nothing short of amazing. Firstly it
fell to the local Mayor of the Gold Coast Tom Tait to respond. Local
government such as Mayors was a big element of the COP19/CMP9 and
apparently has also been something of an issue in Toronto in the fellow
UK Commonwealth nation of Canada. Tait began by pointing out that Bieber
was setting a bad example to local children all of whom would be
sentenced to community service if they were caught doing the same thing.
He then went on to announce that he was sending cleaning equipment to
Bieber's hotel so he could remove the graffiti. Tait went on to list all
the things he would put in that cleaning kit. For example there would
be goggles to protect Bieber's beautiful eyes and gloves to prevent him
from injuring his soft and delicate hands. So basically the extent of
the bilateral was Australia telling the US to "F*ck off and grow up"
whilst having a bit of a giggle their expense.
In the meantime the hotel has claimed that it owned the wall and had
given Bieber permission to spray graffiti so I can't help but think
Bieber is going to be mailed a revised bill after his stay. Ideally from
the Sydney harbour hotel that Rihanna was forced to stay (twice).
(Originally Posted) 15:55 on 29/11/13 (UK date).
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