Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-07-2010, 03:50 AM
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Replies: 164
Views: 14,054
Lucrative celebrity endorsement opportunity lost?
news.com.au <a href="http://www.news.com.au/business/lolita-bed-for-girls-withdrawn/story-e6frfm1i-1111115452539">reprints</a> a report, a portion of which appears below:<blockquote>'Lolita' bed for...
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Forum: The AAm Project
05-07-2010, 12:50 AM
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Replies: 310
Views: 72,588
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Forum: Off Topic
05-06-2010, 09:41 PM
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Replies: 1,214
Views: 130,874
European history
I knew little about Kossuth until I just skimmed the Wikipedia article, but a recent deep study of US history 150 years ago made me aware he was lionized by many in the US after his exile. I think he...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-06-2010, 03:25 AM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Video hosting reform
Of course YouTube still imposes a ten-minute limit on clips, but one can always catenate a set of them via a playlist. I remember when Americans had nothing but ad-interrupted TV, and it didn't kill...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-05-2010, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
No harm done
I agree, Junkmale. And I don't chastise Ben for not wanting to stretch himself thinner, or create/extend a precedent.
Thank you for the kind remarks. Alizée and her crew have been working very...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-05-2010, 02:50 AM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Raising and handling money
I don't think the people who pledged large amounts of money thought I was anything but serious, and I was. Yet I am someone people have only known for a few months, and never in a commercial...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-04-2010, 10:23 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Fundraising spins offsite, but PECUNIA NON OLET
To minimize the confusion which is likely afoot, here is the text of a PM I will soon send to each of the known recipients of the autographed CDs.
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I regret to inform you that the logistics...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-04-2010, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 20,075
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?
I think if Bigdan had been Mathew Brady and visited the antebellum South, he would have shot some photographs of dwellings which looked like the fictional manor house "Tara" from "Gone With The...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-03-2010, 10:52 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 20,075
Attitudes, not latitudes?
Of course I never said Corsica was the poorest part of Europe, and hardly the poorest part of the world. Indeed, I pointed out that even Mexico is among the better-off countries, because it lives in...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-03-2010, 03:59 AM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Game plan
I'm grateful some people are taking an interest in what we write here. But I'm not so lazy I would propose a scholarship to a school without looking up its fees. The first post in this thread links...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-03-2010, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 20,075
Updated post on Corsican poverty
I'm glad at least SOME people follow the links I put into my posts! I've now found time to get hard numbers directly from an official agency, the European Union. But I still can't say <i>how</i> poor...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-02-2010, 01:59 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 20,075
Corsica is the poorest part of France
<center><big><big>Introduction</big></big></center>
Alizee's new <a href="http://AlizeeRadio.com/">virtual Internet radio station</a> features several numbers by Brooklyn-born rap/hip-hop artist <a...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-01-2010, 11:55 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
The what and why of the scholarship
I never suffered under any impression that a scholarship was anything more specific than financial assistance to someone studying (i.e. a student), and I've even been awarded more than one myself....
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Forum: Off Topic
05-01-2010, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 3,108
Views: 259,326
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-01-2010, 09:17 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Supporting AAm, too
I don't want to get off-track here, but when it came time to finally collecting the pledges, I had planned to use this Web site's PayPal merchant account as the preferred means. That will provide an...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-01-2010, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Friends of Alizée Jacotey Fund
It is common enough for strangers to name awards, funds, schools and so on for illustrious people, especially if they are dead. (Of course we all hope Alizée's career is no more dead than is she!)
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-01-2010, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Art scholarship issues 1
Someone wrote:<blockquote>.... But please tell me this scholarship will be suggested to Alizée and Institubes before it is actually established. So if she objects (likely, as we all know she is very...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
05-01-2010, 12:09 AM
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Replies: 85
Views: 14,252
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-30-2010, 11:59 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 11,865
Art Scholarship honoring Alizée
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<big><big><big><big><big>Celebrate Alizée's<br>decade in showbiz</big>
ten years after...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-30-2010, 07:07 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,465
Brooklyn: Our mother-****ing song?
I suspect you led a more sheltered life than I did as a child of the inner city, growing up in a neighborhood keenly portrayed by my homies in the following video. We did not have a vast, no-charge,...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-29-2010, 08:43 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,465
Lily madness?
Is this thread "gateway psychology" to the "adventure" portrayed in the music video made for Lily Allen's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who'd_Have_Known"><i>Who'd Have Known</i></a>, which...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-28-2010, 10:29 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,465
The neediest case?
First, I guess it is heart-warming to see that the "celebrity charity kissing booth" is still open. But I have to confess, I'm very reluctant to touch strangers myself because of the true-life...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-28-2010, 01:05 AM
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Replies: 85
Views: 14,252
Scholarship idea brainstorming
Thank you for your interest and preliminary brainstorming.
I first sketched this revised idea at <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=162870&postcount=60"><i>The Alizée Jacotey...
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-27-2010, 11:54 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 14,252
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Forum: Alizée Discussion
04-27-2010, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 14,252
Try PM again if desired
In the course of soliciting participation in the poll during the last hour, I discovered more than one person who had blocked Private Messaging, including myself.
I think I have now enabled my...
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