
Michael Paul Gonzalez 🇵🇷🎃💀🇵🇷
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Michael Paul Gonzalez 🇵🇷🎃💀🇵🇷
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Author. If you like weird stuff, 80s and 90s nostalgia, or pro wrestling, you've come to the right place. Leaving here for bluer skies.
Los Angeles Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Writing these words is incredibly difficult for me right now, but I'm afraid that if I don't write them now, I never will.
I was only ten years old when I first saw the photo of Jennifer 'Precious' Finch below. I had just lost my mother after her long battle with cancer. Around that time, I was reading a book about Kurt Cobain and the author mentioned a bass player named Jennifer Finch.
Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl was her boyfriend and she was the one who introduced Courtney Love to Kurt, and she was an incredible bassist, artist, photographer and activist, and played in an all female band called L7. She seemed to have left her fingerprints all over the American punk scene.
After reading everything written about Jennifer over and over again, I remember my childself self thinking: 'An all-female punk band?'
I couldn't stop staring at her photos in amazement... The fire-red hair, the unbelievable energy bursting out of every image, the confidence, the attitude, the style...
I threw the book into my bag, rushed to the nearest record store, showed it to the owner, and asked, "Do you have LPs of any of these bands? Hole? Babes in Toyland? Sugar Babydoll? L7? The Gits?"
They had L7.
I bought the record and ran straight back home.
The years that followed were spent following these women... Their stage presence, their courage, their music, their politics. Even if Oliver Stone had opened Natural Born Killers with an explosion, it couldn't have made a bigger impact on me than hearing "Shitlist." I can't remember how many times that my childhood version watched the film just to hear L7. Or how many times I jumped off the couch when Jennifer appeared in a John Waters film. Or how many nights I stayed up in front of MTV, hoping they'd play another one of their videos.
My childhood, my teenage years were shaped by that world. My worldview. My confidence. My taste in music. My politics. Even my closest circle of friends.
Then life performed one of its impossible miracles.
Jennifer Finch transformed from one of my childhood heroes into a musician I eventually had the privilege of working with, then into a close friend, then an older sister and ultimately someone I call family.
The first real tour I ever organized with my friends as a teenager was for Jennifer's new band, The Shocker. Years later, in my twenties, we were sitting together in a kebab shop in Denmark talking about our shared love for Kanye and the Yeezy pop-up store in Los Angeles that had just opened.
As I approached my thirties, we wandered through museums together in Nuremberg before going to watch British bands play.
Another time, while I was visiting the incredible Raymond Pettibon retrospective in Moscow, I called her to show her the original SST fanzines. "Cali mention, Precious!!'
From the day I discovered her as a child until today, Jennifer's influence never left my life. I admired her, learned from her, and never stopped learning from her. I honestly don't think anyone else has shaped my life so profoundly or in so many different ways.
Jennifer was so down to earth that you could almost forget, for a moment, just how much she had lived through and how a legendary rockstar she really was.
But then she'd start talking about music, art, photography, or politics, and you'd immediately realize the depth of her knowledge. I have met very few people in my life whose understanding of music stretched so effortlessly from hip-hop to metal, from punk to jazz.
Jennifer wasn't just an icon of the Los Angeles punk scene. She reached people in the smallest underground communities all over the world and left a lasting mark on countless lives. You could write an entire book about the life she lived. Within seconds she could take you from a jaw dropping story to one that left you crying with laughter.
One day she told me she was proud of me. I still remember thinking "Life has been incredibly hard but hey, if I can make my childhood hero proud then it's ok, I made it."
I'm writing these words with incredible sadness, grief mixed with anger, because I truly believe that if the United States treated healthcare as a universal human right, Jennifer Finch would still be with us today. Instead, her treatment turned into a battle against private insurance companies that made everything harder, longer and more exhausting.
So yes, my heart is broken. And yes, forever, Free Luigi.
My deepest condolences to her life partner, Jack, and to everyone who loved her and everyone who was loved by her.
Until we meet again, may the stars guide you home. Precious. I'll miss you forever.
— Erin
RIP Jennifer Precious Finch (1966-2026)

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Roland Kippers ….. incredible
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@JaceyCockrobin I thought it was an aggressively okay movie, a. B- . There were a couple of really cool scenes, but I thought the last battle got a little too comical
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before I say anything else I have to know if this is a painful condition or not. is life an unceasing nightmare for Jimothy or is it mostly chill.
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Seattle has recently sighted a Raccoon named Jimothy that frequents the local parks with Short Spine Syndrome
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@TheAnjow Well at least it technically makes Lesnar seem even meaner. The mere act of speaking results in assault.
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Remember when we thought the attitude era was on it's way back because WWE was moving to Netflix?
With all these "extra brands" WWE keeps making, you'd think they'd put together at least one TV-MA brand, but god forbid they make money the intelligent way.
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Brock Lesnar’s already censored ‘Talk Sh*t Get Hit’ shirt has been edited on the replay version of the show on Netflix which has now removed the word ‘sh*t’ entirely now. (h/t @DreamWresling)
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@Bannef_ I don't think the time of day matters in this case. She'll do it again!
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My brother was a grade school teacher in Oakland California. The school told the teachers not to correct the grammer (ebonics) of black children. He retired 4 years ago.
My nephew who is a junior in high school in Pleasanton California has been taught the same and believes ebonics are acceptable as a style of grammer and should not be corrected.
Last Thanksgiving I argued this thought process with him and suggested it would harm them in the real world especially when trying to find work in the professional world.
My nephew is woke AF so of course he stormed away from the table confused and in tears.
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PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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