JUDY GARLAND book review, in the midst of....

 no one was there except for those IN the conversations & situations. unless lauren bacall specifically spoke to thim (i.e. the author), there is NO record of ANY of these personal conversations, w/judy, her children, her husband, directors, help, whomever.

i get the concept of "poetic license" as it were, but straight out making up full on conversations, situations, u name it, that just really, really bothers me. anyone can pull this stuff out of their behinds, right? "oh, i had convos w/judy garland, let me tell u verbatim every single word we said for years, though i wasn't alive or anything." 

i DO appreciate the wealth of pictures of judy, her films, et al, i have & have read other books where u were lucky to get a few, very few, lacking pics. so that is definitely nice to see. i'm placing the high price of this book (kindle version for me) on that alone, though the book IS long as well, it's overpriced in general. 

i also object to the ads for other books INSIDE this book as you're reading along, hawking books from the same publisher & of the same nature: celeb tell-alls, reveal-alls, again most HAD to be made up as well! there's only so much research can get u when it comes to these things. there is no private conversations & exact sexual descriptions to be had, again, unless u were there OR spoke to the other person who was there & i guarantee that didn't occur. those people are deceased and/or would NEVER tell a writer such things. 

okay, i had more to write, but gotta run, that's sufficient anyway...

WALMART ISSUES: AGAIN!! they asked me to review the agent i sat on the phone for an HOUR w/regarding my order left on a sidewalk, etc....

 because NOTHING WAS SOLVED!! now u have to sit on hold for 30 minutes to 1 hr, just to find out u have the WRONG DEPT or so they say. now refunds, returns, NON-DELIVERED orders w/liar drivers or just crappy drivers r NOT re-sent EVER, nor refunded (quickly, if at all). returns i sent in, orders i didn't receive, walmart cash that was STOLEN FROM ME (& not returned) and a $25 gift code u GAVE to me to make up for another crappy non-delivery issue and/or broken stuff, has to be sent off to a different dept! who will "decide" on such issues in 24-48 hrs which it has PASSED NOW! no decision, lovely. u guys really don't give a CRAP ABOUT UR CUSTOMERS DO U???? thanks for NOTHING & i DO MEAN NOTHING! where is my money back? where is my stolen walmart earned cash back?? WHERE IS MY GIFT CODE $25 STOLEN FROM ME BY AN ORDER U CANCELLED CUZ U HAVE DRIVER WHO DON'T TRY OR CARE, WHERE IS MY RETURN REFUNDS? MY REFUNDS FOR ITEMS NOT RECEIVED? WHERE IS ALL OF THIS WALMART?  i may as well burn my $$ in the trash or just hand it over to u to KICK ME or spit on me, this is how u are RUNNING YOUR COMPANY! not good. not good. get ready to kiss ur millions goodbye! oh wait, u still sell guns, right? oh, you'll be okay then. since everyone is in the people killing, gun owning business, you'll keep flourishing. good job!! NOT!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so fed up w/you & disgusted w/your lack of customer CARE & service! i should sue u for all the stress & turmoil u put me through! 

a stupid item i bought @ walmart, from 3rd party seller that just never arrives! this is my "question to seller" note...

 hi, i purchased this from u 8 DAYS AGO! i STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT!! i don't understand what & why it is taking SO long! u r 1 state away from me, a 5 hr drive, i was supposed to receive it YESTERDAY! after waiting ages, nope, still didn't come, now it's "delayed" wth?? what is the problem? i sell on sites & i mail THE DAY I SELL SOMETHING! i gave u leeway, a courtesy wait, for something USED & OVERPRICED & yet i STILL dont' have it! again, ,wth? u really should get ur stuff together if u want to sell products! i still don't even have a "due delivery time"!! will i still be alive when this item arrives?" ok, hope to see it VERY SOON NOW! i could've driven to vegas 40 times & back by now & picked it up!! thanks!!!!!!

**to any readers, i figure i'm already typing up some crap, may as well post it elsewhere to vent my frustration, anger. funny, had a boyfriend w/a band name re that & that was their saying, about venting their anger, just occurred to me. seriously, though, it prob. seems like that's ALL i do, is vent, but no, it's totally not. i am generally a positive person & i REALLY, truly try to be positive, grateful, have gratitude everyday, etc. was thinking about that. how people rarely leave reviews about GOOD experiences, unless it was over the top great, something that blew their minds, but r SO quick to post bad reviews, cuz we r pissed, frustrated, feel unfairly treated, etc. want to BE SEEN/heard! also, to warn others. that is generallyl my main reason for reviews good or bad, to tell others, a recommendation or a warning if they don't like such & such to NOT go. so yeah, there's that...(as walt in "breaking bad" said). cheers :)

ELAINE DANCING. omg the HELL i have gone thru, the hoops i have jumped thru 2 try & share this on INSTAGRAM!! not happening....

the HOURS i have spent, trying to copy it, embed it, email it to myself, share it, every fucking single thing to post this bloody thing on instagram, all for naught! wtf? i don't like instagram! i always refused to join it. 1. i don't take hundreds of pics of myself a day or even a year! 2. i'm not in LOVE WITH & OBSESSED w/myself, like so many others. 3. i HAPPILY do NOT live on my phone, the internet or social media. my life is NOT dictated by tik tok & trends like apparently almost everyone else who's alive, or below the age of ummm, 60? 40? i don't know. everyone else, their phone is like oxygen to them. i still remember the days (oh god, that makes ME sound old as dirt) when we barely had cell phones, or few had them, i had 1 i left in my car for emergencies only, that i would buy a card to add minutes. or even before when we had NO cell phones! NO INTERNET!! imagine!! gasp! kids are horrified at that prospect. horrified! haha, behind me the news on my tv just went to a commercial where someone is SCREAMING" WHERE IS MY CHARGER"? HAHA. oops, caps still. fyi, i use caps like italics i suppose, to emphasize a word, maybe looks shouty? i hope not, hence the explanation. 

yeah, so horror. u know christopher nolan, the great, esteemed, just won an OSCAR for best film "oppenheimer" & best director, et al, does NOT allow cell phones ON HIS SETS! (not sure about the crew, but actors for sure), which i think is BRILLIANT!! people's heads were NOT down, not focused on their phones & every incoming ding, ting & just plain hand grab addiction just to check, they were all FORCED TO SOCIALIZE, talk to each other, focus ON their jobs, be regular human beings, w/out the assistancce of technology. i think EVERYONE should jump on that bandwagon. 

back when i was on sets, they would just announce for us to silence our phones, etc. but back then people weren't so addicted. 

do how the fuck do u post other media to fucking instagram anyway? it's done! i've seen it done. the emailing it to myself to then create a file didn't even work, pulled up some old, funky version of my email (blame at & t/yahoo & their crappy service, professionalism, they literally blocked my out of my own email on & off for 2+ yrs, mostly during covid & they had NO CUSTOMER SERVICE, NO ONE ANSWERING PHONE CALLS, took me yrs for them to fix it. was all kinds of fucked up!).i tried to create a file & folder on my computer, but that wouldn't work either. WTF? i ended up w/hrs of wasted time, a backache (my chair in front of my laptop is too high, so it's PAINFUL to sit on compuer for hrs), same if i use my other laptop sitting indian style wherever, not so comfy after a certain point. ut still hunching over basically. i've only posted a few pics i uploaded on instagram. i joined to contact my former therapist, as she's on leave & i just wanted to tell her some GREAT news! that was months ago, she still hasn't responed. then friends found me, started following me. so i only uploaded 1 pic of myself for friend purposes, then others like my dragonflies having sex, family w/guns (BAD!), that's about it. y am i going on about this? gotta go. computer back is setting in, plus i have to work & do 1,000 other things. sigh. 

now here's elaine. the whole reason i am here. thought maybe if i posted it here, i could save/share it to myself & upload on INSTAHELL! cheers!

 https://youtu.be/_NxIo6a6sHk?si=LALYzAPl0xuzgo0x

and now for something different..haha, no python here. another review CHIPOTLE BAD TIMES (i like never eat fast food, it's been a rough couple of months that i hit up these 2-3 places)

 I & we have been here numerous times over the years. it's across the street from where i used to live, so convenient. it was mostly okay for yrs EXCEPT for there ALWAYS having FAT, tons of fat in any/all of it's meats. i ask, every time, that they try to give me NO fat or as little as possible. have tried every meat, the least fatty, or findable turns out to b the barbocoa, still TONS of fat though. was there recently after some time & yes, the portions get smaller & smaller. I always get a bowl.  Usually add a bag of chips (cuz I like the corn salsa), to eat another day. This recent time i again asked to give me NO fat if possible. he dug thru it, we both studied it, barely gave me any meat btw, or much of anything. no grilled veggies, my favorite, can't do too much wrong to them, though too greasy, it seemed less fat-y, nope, get home & almost every bite is fat or filled w/fat, HUGE CLUMPS OF FAT! i set them aside (even my cat has never eaten them), it's gross! i should have taken photo of the fat as well. i was gonna take it back, but that's a pain in the ass & i was too busy. who wants to go back & forth every friggin time? isn't that Y we get "fast food", 2 be quick about it? not have to call them afterwards, drive back there, yada yada, nothing fast about that! the carne asada (or anything else), LOOKS fat free & i've had many of the staff tell me there "is no fat", ha! r they blind? they have no taste buds? seriously, the general public just LOVES eating fat? even in sandwiches? or simply chews & eats so quickly as to cut thru everything & swallow it down lickity split. i don't get it. it's disgusting! i don't even want fat on a steak, cutting it off or not. *when i have a steak, every decade or so*, filet mignon baby! i digressed. the carne asada LOOKS lean, but is loaded w/fat, gristle, u name it & chewy as a tire. pick up stix (who just closed btw) famous for this too. food cooked w/in an inch of being charcoal or IS charcoal. same w/that bowl place, the teriyaki place in park plaza as well. briquettes! even when u ask him (the owner) to not cook it so well done. & the prices! for some charcoal, half an orange & a couple veggies, really? Ur mouth is sore after a couple bits, from chewing. mine is anyway. 

so yeah, the portions, in agreement w/many a review i read previous to typing this, SO much smaller, rice does taste odd, i get very little rice & beans (also not so tasty), NO guac, No sour cream & not even cheese, so the less & less they give u, the less i even have in my bowl. a handful of bites, of not so tasty food & a bunch of fat, for $15 or so? really? i used to have a full meal & another 1 or 2 depending. cuz i don't eat a lot, not saying they gave soo much before, but they gave enough for 1 meal at least, as they should be. again, what happened to quality & retaining customers & getting NEW customers as well? have the not noticed the multitudes of businesses in that/this area that have shuttered their doors, vanished into the ether? if they have, they simply crank up the prices even further! everyone, everywhere. greedflation rampant. quality? screw it! money, oh yeah!! bring it on, bring it in!

now onto the chips. oh yeah. kept wondering y over the yrs the chips, which had always been good, the lime-y taste, salt, crisp, started getting crappy. no lime taste mostly or only on a couple chips (salsa still seems good), stale half the time. well, this particular time, they were not stale, they seemed fresh-ish, i tried 1on way home, but guess what? once i got home, i noticed almost the entire bag was almost transparent w/grease. YUCK! reminds me of a Simpson's episode, Home was trying to gain weight to go on disability, dr. nick was showing him the "window of grease" on bags, that were "good" for him to eat. i forgot what term he used, but was funny, that window of grease, making bags see thru. so yes, SATURATED IN GREASE CHIPS & BAG. i DID take a pic of that. (this was after i had tossed the meat fat, unfortunately, which were quite big hunks! big, big hunks! like off a roast, 2" in size & diameter... now that is some fat!

PAPA JOHNS NIGHTMARE EXPERIENCE! don't order from them! they SUCK!

(copied from review i just posted) i gave 1 star because u can't choose less. 

greedy morons!!!! should be ZERO STARS! 1st: i call due to a commercial: $13.99 stuffed crust large pizza. i'm told, no, i have to have a minimum of $30! so much for saving any $$. then, they don't answer the phone. i order double (not wanting to), give very careful instructions HOW to get to my place easily (it's 2 blocks away from them), after it's due, i get a call from a guy that speaks NOT ONE WORD OF ENGLISH!! no joke no exaggeration!

he's calling from his phone, not the gate here. has no clue what i'm saying & vice versa. he won't hang up. i'm trying to call papa john's asap to have them call him & explain. i have to go thru the whole select ordeal. u select "order already placed", an automated thing says "your order is on it's way", then disconnects u. yay! so i have to call over & over, the only spanish speaking guy is still on my phone, i can't disconnect him. i finally reach someone at location, have to tell 1 guy, then another. 1st guy: 1 i placed order w/is asking ME what to do. wtf?? i tell him U hired him, he works for U, can't U call him, can't u re-give him directions from 2 blocks away? can't U figure it out? someone speaks fluent spanish there right? someone can communicate w/him, but it's not me (i have some spanish, but not direction spanish), he puts me on hold, another guy gets on, have to ret-tell entire thing, on & on it goes. he puts me on hold. comes back later, tells me guy ONLY needed my gate code. huh. really? i gave it to them earlier & again! guess what? guy doesn't even USE gate code! he got in some other way. have no clue where or how. jumped the fence?

guess what? food is cold as shit! (well, shit would be hot eh?), there r barely any toppings, it's thin bread (fine w/me thin), but virtually no cheese, sauce, topping. it's like eating nothing. cold nothing. other thing they forced me to buy, still haven't tried it, it's next day now, i had had ENOUGH, didn't need any more stress from them. didn't look great though & highly overpriced of course. 

so.......here's the thing. never get pizza, used to get it once in a while yrs ago from this papa john's, it was GOOD then. it was. 

here is what boggles my mind about ALL food places, fast or non. restaurants, crap food, high priced food, fancy restaurants, (1 i can bitch about on here to from recently, italian place over on coast in PV, oh wow. sooo overpriced & unpleasing by far), i digress, WHAT BOGGLES MY MIND ABOUT ANY PLACE THAT HAS FOOD AND/OR SERVICE OF ANY KIND, PRODUCTS TO SELL..shouldn't u always care about the quality?? And the service? if u sell food/make food, shouldn't u want it to be the best possible food u can make? that ensures happy, return customers, right? right. same w/service. places will start out good, get customers, then turn to crap. get greedy, start cutting corners, get cheaper help (worldwide epidemic, esp. the US), crap  food quality. many don't care about their palate or have one. do'nt care what goes in their mouth. i do! i know lots of others do. when u skimp on ingredient quality, employment quality, on & on,  yet still raise prices (inflation, shrinkflation, greedflation), u slowly or quickly lose ur customers, then ur out of biz. it's happened time & again. WHY NOT stick to best quality food & service? be proud of what u sell & pleasing ur customers? they think no one will notice, a cut here, cut there, greed greed greed. i'm so tired of greed. i live in the wrong country to be tired of greed. its' disgusting. all of it. 

copy of my MESSAGE TO MARLBORO CIGARETTE CO. or is it still Philip Morris, since the days of I love Lucy & them sponsoring & vice versa?

 dear Marlboro,

WHY don't u snail mail out ANY coupons anymore? i know u print them out! so don't lie. we see them. new coupons. how about the lovely "promotion" you had that u mailed out to ex-smokers or everyone BUT me? the $25.00 off coupon? that you couldn't even call or request for? the reps stating they were "random", i noticed ex-smokers received them aplenty, isn't that sweet of u?  also, where are my Xmas & bday coupons & gifts i used to get? u raise ur prices non-stop but not ur coupon value or how many we can get. we spend ALL of our money on YOUR PRODUCT & our health & u can't reward us w/coupons or gifts or price incentives or anything at all? we get a measly $3 off coupon a MONTH? r u joking? u must be laughing ur asses off! we just give give give & u take it ALL!! & whistle all the way to the bank? ur rewards r a joke! 18,000 entries, u pay w/ur points 500 times the amount that the item's worth AND your time (OUR time), by typing them in for centuries. capitalism is 1 thing, but insatiable greed is another! raise ur coupon values too! the other brands have, u greedy bastards! how's everything on your yacht i paid for? your children's private schools? good, i hope! thanks ever so. :)

just a lovely VENTING customer service message to Marlboro, who does piss me off. yes, i realize smokers choose to smoke! but they didn't know it was SO addicted & made to be addictive when starting. all the extra chemicals added. walmart SO ripped me off & bent me over this morning for the 800th time, it's not even funny, so i'm uber pissed off about that right now & happen to see Marlb somewhere & voila! :)

WALMART GREED, ONCE AGAIN! SORRY TO BE A BROKEN RECORD, but this is a good one. email to all the powers that be @ walmart, or all the powers i can reach, which ain't many. ;)

 ok, WHAT is going on? this order was PROMISED TO ME to be delivered TODAY!!  & normally (lately anyway), it would be here by NOW! it SAID 1 day shipping & i spent ALL of the rest of my money on this order, which has ALL of my food for today, tomorrow, etc. so now i have NOTHING TO EAT! now i have to go out & spend more money, that i DON'T have to buy myself shakes, etc. to be able to EAT TODAY & TOMMOROW (supposing this doesn't arrive at the crack of dawn, which it never does).

i buy from you guys once or twice a week, regularly now, for like 8 yrs or so? i have been nothing but a faithful customer!

yet, i have been screwed over numerous times, countless times, yet i still order from you, which has not been cheap or easy for many, many months now, as you have gotten insanely GREEDY w/your prices. you used to be as cheap, or almost as cheap as almost anyplace else, then your prices started doubling, tripling exponentially & where they stop no one seems to know. almost EVERYTHING i buy from you now, i can find cheaper prices at almost all of my local grocery stores. here's a good example: (1 of the very many), you have an air freshener that used to sell for .99 cents. not all that long ago. i bought it many times. it is now $30-40 & even more! for 1 can of air freshener! i literally saw 1 roll of bounty paper towels on your site for $80!!! i'm not kidding. some for up to $90. a short time after i bought the exact same one for 99 cent! what is that? a thousand percent markup? more? and as i stated, that is just ONE EXAMPLE! everything is like that! the muscle milk that i buy also doubled, tripled, quadrupled in record time! even amazon has been cheaper than you in many cases. that is crazy. who is minding the store, so to speak? the greed police?

if you're not careful, you will lose ALL of your customers. 

the last time i was at the grocery store, a couple days ago, i purchased hydrogen peroxide, toothpaste and a tooth brush, EACH of them i would have normally purchased from you, but you have lost your mind with your prices on most items & i literally paid 1/10th of what you would have charged me on EACH of those items!

WHAT IS GOING ON WALMART? i know there has been inflation, as of late, but there is price raising & then there is price raping & you are raping, in tons of cases. no, i am not referring to 3rd party sellers either. so don't try to tell yourselves that that is what i'm referring to. it's YOU! 

you save SO much money on your staffing, your customer service, you outsource it to ANY country buy America, to pay pennies on the dollar i'm sure, to not employ US citizens. you don't care about your own country's citizens? how much people are struggling to get by, to pay their bills, to simply LIVE/exist! why aren't u paying american's to do your customer service? in all the times i've called, i have talked to someone in every country BUT the USA. i've asked them, each of them, where they live, none here, that's for sure. i have NOTHING against other countries. i'm not racist or prejudice either. i care about people all over this earth, but isn't there a saying about taking care of your backyard before you take care of others? something to that effect. you know what i'm talking about. 

i'm not going to bother re-reading this to edit or spell check or anything. i never use spell check or anything, i edit myself always, but i'm a hurry, so forgive any bad grammar or structure. i am going to CC this to all the walmart email addresses that i have in hopes that someone will get their head out of their booty, so to speak, & address these plentiful issues. i haven't even gone into delivery issues, bad employee training & all of that, but you guys need like a gordon ramsey "kitchen nightmares" type person for businesses to come in & do a big OVERHAUL. i know the bottom line for you & all big corporations IS greed & the almighty dollar, so perhaps you are thrilled, pleased, overwhelmingly happy with your business & where you have gone with it? could be. BUT, any business, any successful business SHOULD be just as concerned w/their customers AND their customer service & their customer's happiness & sustainability, regarding prices & everything else. if you are BREAKING your customers & making them unhappy, you should be highly concerned! i can speak for myself, you have made me EXTREMELY UNHAPPY! mostly w/your prices, as i've already stated very clearly, though you needs lots of work elsewhere, bottom line for me as well is PRICE! & i don't like being raped. 

sincerely,

Julie Trotter 

WALMARTS GREED CONTINUES, IT KNOWS NO BOUNDS.....& i thought they had already peaked in their greed recently, but nope

 check THIS shit out: WALMART: $106 for 1 roll of paper towels! i copied/pasted it. what a GREAT DEAL! omg! unbelievable. know what else tics me off? the TP & PT math. 3 double rolls=6! 6 double=12, etc. Nooo it still equals 2 or 3 or 6!

besides that, wamart in general has started to lose their minds! they have up'd & doubled their prices like nobodies biz. later in covid, they started raising things, then when inflation hit, oh shit! they started REALLY going big! there are .99 cent cans of air freshener (for example) that are selling for up to $40! no joke. 1 can! that was 99 cents. same w/crystal light. same w/almost everything. most things have DOUBLED in price, but that $106 roll of paper towels really took the cake for me. SO GREEDY!! god, i hate greed!! causes so much death, destruction & suffering in this world!
oh here is what i copied from walmart's site:

Get ONE$106.14BountyBounty Select-A-Size Paper Towels, White, 1 Double Rolls

how some 3rd party sellers on AMAZON bend us over!...

 this is from a message I was just sending to this asshat company on amazon. u can read the deal here. bought an alarm clock from them, 9 days ago now *& i have prime, u know 1 day shipping, etc.. just a side note....oh, i was leaving a lovely review for them, as i wait impatiently......

i purchased this clock from them NINE DAYS AGO NOW! it delivers from Los Angeles TO Los Angeles, where i'm also at. there is a delivery estimate time of May 1-11th. okay, i LIVE in LA where it's coming from. it was shipped about 8 days ago. again, from LA TO LA! but guess what? they want to really charge u for shipping, which i happily paid, i NEED this clock desperately & was SO happy/excited to see it was coming FROM LA, my city, but nope...what they do is SAY it's shipped, but then someone sits on it til it's "delivery time" (they were charging $40 for me to receive it sooner. they sit on ur purchase & make u wait for no reason at all. it's HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE! I contacted amazon re this days ago, they were going to contact them & refund my shipping & insist they deliver it in a more timely manner & yet, here i sit. nothing delivered STILL! 9 DAYS IN THE SAME CITY BUT I CAN'T GET MY ORDER! don't we have enough problems in life, for these "people to add to them w/this asinine BS? i think we do. in fact, i KNOW we do!