MARCH JOURNAL 2017

 Hi There Once again DA Family,

     Its me ei9 with yet another Journal for all of you to enjoy Well February's over and now MARCH is here and along with the traditional Saint Patrick's Day Holiday and of course The March Madness that is the NCAA college Basketball Tournament for both men and women later this month. Well there were some very early march madness at the Academy Awards this past Sunday with the big snafu at the end. Well at least one thing that This year's Oscars was more diversive and equality than last year's Whiteout in fact it was so white that they needed Chris Rock to be the host(ha-ha!) anyway the 89th edition was filled with fun, music, Politics and even some Surprises From Justin Timberlake starting off the evening with a rousing performance of his song from the Animated movie Trolls "Can't stop the feeling then morphed to a touching remake of Bill withers timeless classic Lovely day, To Oscars Host Jimmy Kimmel bringing his rauchy and funny style from his late night talk show from reading Mean tweets about his show, to bringing an unsuspected Starlite Tour group on to the stage to rub elbows with the big time celebrites including Denzel Washington to even reading Donald Trump's Tweets thru the night and that was a hoot itself. To Bright young star Auli'l Cravalho accidently being hit on the head by a stray fabric wave during her performance with her Moana Co-Star Dwanye" The Rock''Johnson, To the director of Best Foreign flim"The Salesman" choose not to appear in person because he was taking a standing against Trump's Muslim Ban and the crowd cheered when one of the actresses accepted the award in his behalf and made the speech. Now as for the Oscar winners of the night Disney's Zootophia Won Best Animated Feature Flim, ESPN's Very Powerful 30 for 30 made TV movie OJ;Made in America won Best Documentary Flim and also ESPN's first Oscar, Hacksaw Ridge won two Oscars including best flim editing, one of Disney's other smash hits of 2016  the live action versionThe Jungle Book won best Visual Effects, The Harry Potter prequel ''Fantastic Beasts won Best Costume Design and Yes the biggest shocker of the night No not the Best Picture gaffe I get to that later is that DC Comics Movie Suicide Squad won a Oscar!?! That's right it did and it was for best makeup and hairstyling Well I said that it was the best movie made by DC Comics last year while poor Batman Vs, Superman was in the running for Worst movie of the year at the RAZZIES  the bizzaro answer to the Oscars for bad movies of this past year.Now for the main awards Ben Affleck Little Bro Casey won Best Actor for Manchester by the sea even though I wanted Denzel to win for Fences, The very beautiful Emma Stone won her first Oscar for the musical La-La Land while her director Damien Chazelle won the Oscar for Best Director and its was great to see two more Black performers win a Oscar First Viola Davis who had a very memorable 2016 and was Emma stone's Co star in the 2011 hit movie the HELP along with fellow Oscar nominee Octivia spencer for Hidden figures and also was Amanda waller in Suicide Squad and even got her own hit ABC-TV series ''How to get Away with Murder'' won for best supporting actrees for Fences and gave a really powerful and poigent speech at the end and of course the Cinderella story of the night has to be former college basketball player to actor Mahershala Ali (No relation to the greatest Muhammad Ali) a man who had indeed played his dues in acting in both Television in the Movies and is a Proud Muslim himself, take that Donald1 won Best Supporting Actor for his Powerful role as the Drug dealer and father figure to a young Gay Black teen living in povelity in Miami,Florida, Moonlight and speaking of that The show ends with its regular Best picture announcement and with legendary Hollywood Stars Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as the presenters but things got a little wild and comical after that when the envelope was passed to them when Faye announced that La-La Land was the winner but there's one Big Time problem... THEY HAD THE WRONG ENVELOPE!!!!! But Warren quickly knew about this after all He was Dick Tracy you know(ha-ha!) and bravely told the La-LA land crew that they had made a mistake in that Moonlight was the Real winner and everybody was in shocked indeed including the Cast of Moonlight who was already on stage, Well Steve Harvey all is forgiven you're finally of the Hook! Overall a very strange, funny powerful but better Oscars than last year's #WHYOSCARSSOWHITE Fiasco and still hope that show will have many more deserving minority nominates in the future.
              Now for the Obits and first an actor who never won an Oscar nor a Emmy but won over the love and respect of many his peers and fans though his years in show business William''Bill''Paxton(1955-2017) the Texas Native of the Dallas/Fort Worth area who appearered in such great popcorn action movies such as the Orginal Terminator(1984), Aliens(1986) Predator 2(1990) True Lies(1994) Twister(1996) and Oscar worthy flims like Apollo 13(1995) and Titanic(1997) he also started in the The HBO TV series Big Love(2006-2011) and was even nominated for a Emmy award for the miniseries the Hatfields and the McCoys. He Died of Complicians following heart surgery at the age of 61 on the eve of the Oscars. The next three obits are from the world of Wrestling  first  another Wiiliam, William James Myers(1937-2017) The Michigan Native that thrived on sports such as Track and field, Baseball, Basketball and football thru High school and after graduating from Michigan State with a Bachelor Degree in Science and later a master degree from Central Michigan he became a high school Teacher as well as a coach of Football and amateur wresting in a local Michigan high school and was even inducted into the State's coaches Hall of fame But We all remember mostly as one of the pioneers of Wrestling George the Animal Steele whose career lasted 2i years (1967-1988) but still was a poplular character and person both on and offstage and is a member of the WWE Hall of fame he died of Kidney failure at the age of 79. The second of the three who died a day later Ivan Koloff(1942-2017) The Canadian born wrestler who Nickname of the Russian bear and once held the then WWF Championship and had some great battles and rivaries with the great babyface Wrestlers back in the day Pedro Morales, Bob Backlund, Superstar Billy Graham and of course the great Bruno Samartino even ending Samartino's seven and a half year run as champion in 1971 in the mecca of all sports Madison Square Garden in New York City,and even teamed up with the other great heel wrestlers such as The Iron Sheik and Stan THE MAN Stasiak and also in the WWE hall of fame as well he died of Liver cancer at the age of 74 and finally the last one is a little personal for me became I was such a huge fan of hers ever since the 1990's and no matter what you say nor think that either she was really a woman or man She was indeed a big Goofy gentle giantless to all that she touched in their lives and hers as well including Howard Stern. That's right The one and only Nicole Bass(1952-2017) the proud native New Yorker who was at one point the world's largest female athlete standing at a towering 6'3 and 240ibs of pure muscle. She enjoyed a successful career in Bodybuilding at first including winning the 1997 nationals where she won both the Heavyweight division and overall and got her pro card in the process and even appeared in the Miss Olympia later that year before making the switch to Wrestling appearing first in ECW then later in WWE in 1999 she was also made TV appearences in both Montell Williams and Geraldo Rivera shows and was a regular guest on the Howard stern Show as well and the moment that I'll always remember is Howard telling her and her then husband bob fuchs who passed away a few years ago to tongue kiss each other to prove that they truly love each other and they did and I admit that was so hot make me wish wanting to kiss her. I have a few autographed pics of her though the years and always treasure them. She died of a stroke at the age of 52. Rest In Paradise to all of them partically to Nicole and she's the reason that I'm so in love with Big Female muscle artwork and photography as well as a fan of Women's bodybuilding, gymnastics Swimming, basketball and the  women's Crossfit games as well.
       Well Thanks once again for all your great support thru the years and Next time I will have my movie review of Hugh Jackman's last hurrah as the great X-man Wolverine in LOGAN which also the return of Patrick Stewart as Profeessor X and the movie debut of the new girl wolverine Laura AKA X-23 and I can't wait for it she's already a true badass! plus another top ten list for you Before I go here another Poem for you to enjoy and its the annual celebration down south in the end of February

                                                                   MARDI GRAS

Oh there's nothing like a Mardi Gras at this time of year
Where's New Orleans the party capital of the world where everyone spreading cheer

Its unique style of celebrations and food that makes it so very special
From the parade floats and performers to even its food festival

To the King Cakes, Jumberlaya and always great tasting gumbo
To the hot women willing to bare it all and getting some beets on the go

Listening to all the bands parading down bourbon street
Having the crowd dress in their costumers and masks dancing and on their feet

Its always a funtime to be there especially on Fat Tuesday
Where the really outrageous things happened peoples go all the way

So head down to Louisiana next February for the speculator wonder that you'll be in awe
Because its only comes once a year it's the annual New Orleans Mardi Gras

until next time America Eric Isaac ei9 Atlanta, Georgia

'Living out Loud is living a life that's bigger than yourself, Living out loud is long after you're gone, You leave something on this earth that's bigger than yourself-Viola Davis!