Nobody in Florida shows more 'Imagination' than me! Emma's Imagination (Emma Gillespie) LIVE cover of Bic Runga's "Drive" -Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011

Emma's Imagination (Emma Gillespie) LIVE acoustic cover of Bic Runga's "Drive" -Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011. This single is on Emma's 2011 Polydor debut album, "Stand Still." http://youtu.be/Y5rXIat43fM


My last blog post about Emma was my January 15, 2011 essay titled, Talent & Moxie Straight From the Heart of Scotland. 
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/talent-moxie-straight-from-heart-of.html


Studio version of the same song from her album:



http://youtu.be/6pKXq8Tu95k


Emma's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/EmmasImagination
Emma's Twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/ems_imagination
Emma's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/EmsImagination

Emma's official website: http://www.emmas-imagination.co.uk/ 

A hoax swallowed in one big gulp!: The curious case of the faulty Mainstream Media gaydar and the kidnapped lesbian blogger

The Guardian video: Gay Girl in Damascus hoaxer - Edinburgh-based American student Tom MacMaster, 40, talks to the Guardian's Esther Addley via Skype, and explains why he pretended to be a lesbian Syrian blogger with the A Gay Girl in Damascus blog and claimed to have been kidnapped.

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"You can't con an honest man" - Phineas T. "P.T." Barnum

American hoaxster Tom MacMaster completely fools the Mainstream Media not by claiming to be a 'Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,' but by playing on their latent news/political bias and claiming to be a lesbian blogger in Syria -who was kidnapped!

News media can't get out of their own way fast enough, disavow the expected wariness and vetting and swallows in one large gulp!

Well played, sir, well played!

Still, in the end, that hoax was not nearly as insidious as the one perpetrated on the American people by John Edwards of North Carolina, the future prison-yard lawyer and celebrity, who was exposed not by the dogged investigation and muckraking of the Washington Post or NPR or the New York Times or ABC News or... but by The National Enquirer.

I mention them just in case you forgot who did the real sleuthing.

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The Guardian

Gay Girl in Damascus hoaxer acted out of 'vanity'

Tom MacMaster, heterosexual American, contrite over fictional lesbian blogger 'Amina Abdallah Aral al Omari'

By Esther Addley, guardian.co.uk

Monday 13 June 2011 16.58 BST

The male American PhD student who confessed to being an internet hoaxer masquerading as a lesbian blogger in Damascus has spoken publicly about the reasons behind his deception, saying he was motivated, in part, by his own "vanity".

Read the rest of the story at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/13/gay-girl-damascus-tom-macmaster

See also:

Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion, by Robert E Bartholomew & Hilary Evans.

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2167/outbreak.html

Talent & Moxie Straight From the Heart of Scotland: Emma's Imagination (Emma Gillespie); This Day, 500 Miles; Wow!

Emma's Imagination - This Day (official video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsS9IwR6n-U

From Emma's debut album, Stand Still

So, tell me that when you watch this video of the amazingly-talented Emma Gillespie, the 27-year old Scottish singer-songwriter whom I've been following for a few months, that you don't see her resemblance to actress Sean Young -whom I love- right?
Wow, what a voice!

The LIVE performance of This Day at Wembley Arena on Sept. 19, 2010 that garnered Emma first-place in Sky1's Must Be The Music talent contest -and changed her life.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQl034uA8g


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Emmas-Imagination-Wins-Must-Be-The-Music-Final-Sky-1-HD-Talent-Show-At-Wembley-Arena/Article/201009315735117




Emma's Imagination - 500 miles
from BBC Hogmanay Show, December 31, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8Dwn-8jPY

BBC: Emma's Imagination returns home to Dumfries

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-12165481

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More on Emma at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EmsImagination
http://www.emmas-imagination.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/EmmasImagination

Earliest snowfalls to hit England in 17 years has Britons looking for True Grit -for the roads. Why did Britain slide into snow chaos?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Today's Daily Telegraph headline asks the simple question that people were asking throughout England on Wednesday:
Why did Britain slide into snow chaos again?
An inquiry into how the freezing weather crippled Britain's transport network ordered by the Government
Caroline Gammell and David Millward 10:19PM GMT 01 Dec 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8175167/Why-did-Britain-slide-into-snow-chaos-again.html




Channel 4 News -Half of England & Scotland stay home from work due to heavy snow and transport problems, especially smaller towns. Scotland gripped by the worst winter in 45 years
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid601325122001?bctid=694613892001
http://www.channel4.com/news/uk-snow-arctic-weather-set-to-stay

The bad weather created a larger than usual captive audience for BBC Radio 5 live and listeners took advantage by generating lots of calls and emails about what people were doing with their time, or, alternatively, relating their "war" stories.

Over 150 motorists were stuck in their vehicles on the A57 for two days and were helped by Mountain Rescue teams.

On Richard Bacon's afternoon program it was apparent that residents of Kent, Surrey and Essex largely stayed home, staying out of gridlocked, motorways and London after driving 6 hours hours to get 15-20 miles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pstlg
http://www.channel4.com/news/snow-gallery-november-2010

In Kent, estate agents (real estate) signs were being snatched by kids from in front of properties and being used by kids to slide down hills, i.e. what we call sledding, but they call sledging.
And reports are that the snow is only getting worse there.

One particularly interesting conversation I heard concerned the Halifax Courier publisher discussing the era of the new media, but then saying that while he was in charge of a media business with a newspaper component, at times of such bad weather, those abstract ideas about the future would have to take a back seat to him and his team trying to cope with getting news to readers while snow made deliveries impossible on Wednesday, with no print edition.



http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/View-a-digital-edition-of.6645971.jp
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/

At one point, someone, I don't know who, even remarked that they couldn't wrap a set of dishes in an iPad, which caused me to laugh, but depending upon your point of view, that's either an overly-romantic image of the news business, or merely stating the facts Jack Webb-style.

Gatwick Airport is now officially closed until Friday.

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index.asp?partner=dailytelegraph