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If You Still Haven’t Had Enough of the Girl Scouts

~ Pharmer ~ 2 Comments

This will bolster your confidence in the  Girl Scouts organization, which helps to bring up the girls of America.

You might have encountered Josh Ackley in his day job as spokes-person and public relations face of the Girl Scouts of America.  Austin Ruse at Breitbart.com is telling all about Josh’s night job, however.  Ackley has  had a little hiatus from his music career with the Dead Betties,  a band of the “homo-punk” or “homo-core” genre, under the stage name Joshua Starr.

Learn more about the Dead Betties  in a book which follows the rise of “Queer Rock”, or a video called Hellevator, uploaded to Youtube on September 18,2007, currently with 4188 views, and Pharmer is not linking it.

You’ll be comforted to know that Josh has brought the Dead Betties back together, and they performed on Nov 30 in New York.   O Goodie!  They’re putting out another album, (No Love Lost,) and are shopping for a label to accept it.

100questionsforthegirlscouts.org,  which now has 117 questions, is an exhaustive reference detailing the reasons that would prevent most Americans from choosing the Girl Scouts program as an extra curricular activity for their girls.  Question 14 and question 89 address Joshua Ackley’s function within the organization and supplies this profile, which is excerpted below.

Joshua Ackley's Dead Betties Band, profiled at 100questionsforthe girlscouts.org
Joshua Ackley’s Dead Betties Band, profiled at 100questionsforthe girlscouts.org


Here’s a screenshot of Ackley’s profile page at the Girl Scouts Blog, and below is a screen shot from the blog itself.

Joshua Ackley Girl Scouts Blog

joshua ackleys girl scout blog.girlscouts.org

Dead Betties at Wikipedia

Rion Paige Blows them Away

~ Pharmer
Rion Paige – Blown Away

Rion Paige blew the X Factor judges away, covering a Carrie Underwood song.  She’s got great vocal chops for a 13 year old, and is somewhat of a celebrity already, in Jacksonville, Florida.   Click HERE to listen up.   She’s going to get big fame. Pharmer hopes that she rides the wave well and goes far.

While you’re at it, here’s another mini-star from Australia, Jai Waetford.  He sang his pre-arranged cover, Different Worlds,  and then fulfilled a request to sing a song he wrote himself, Don’t Let Me Go. Check him out HERE.

Jai Waetford, mini-star from Australia

A Musical Cure for Miley-mal

~ Pharmer

The Blaze has offered this touching song and story of a 96 year old man, who wrote  song lyrics about his recently deceased wife.  On impulse Fred, the grieving widower, snail-mailed it in to a local studio as a contest entry. He never imagined his song going viral on the net.  This Video tells the story of the song and the decision by Jacob Colgan of  Greenshoe Studio to professionally produce it.   Should you choose to purchase “Oh Sweet Lorraine”  on i-Tunes, the proceeds will help to support Fred Stobaugh, who says his 75 year marriage was like a dream, and he wishes he could do it all over again.

Songwriter Fred Stobaugh

 

Listen UP!   <–click for the cure for that tonic clonic, pelvic seizure known as Miley-mal.  You will feel much better.