NYUUGGEE's Person Of The Year 2023

It's Barbie!  Why?  Well for starters, she's a doll.  And no, not just because she looks so sweet but because she's an actual doll made out of whatever they make dolls out of.  And Barbie came into this world in 1959!  That's 64 years ago and in that time there have been one billion, that's billion with a B, Barbie dolls sold!  That means a billion little girls all over the world played out their dreams with Barbie.  And, Barbie has been everything from a doctor to a lawyer to an Astronaut.  In fact, Barbie made it to the moon four years before Neil Armstrong did!  And, while the original and standard Barbie is the one pictured above there is every kind of Barbie, in all kinds of skin tones and there is even a Barbie in a wheelchair.  So, there's a Barbie for everyone.

Now some of you might be saying, she's not real!  She's not a person!  But then they made a movie about her, where the Barbie doll becomes a real woman!  And, there's a little speech in the movie where one of the characters explains the difficulty of being a real woman.  It's kind of silly and funny but James Cameron said of the speech.  "You basically sum up thousands of years of female dilemma in one minute."  And, James Cameron in case you didn't know made the movie 'Titanic' and the Avatar movies too.  And, those movies made billions!  That's Billions with a B, just like Barbie.  In fact the movie Barbie grossed over 1.4 billion dollars.  So, who are we or you to argue?  And, as all these other sites weigh with who they think was the person of the year, just ask, how much did they make?

Okay, okay this is a joke.  Barbie is not a real person.  Of course in this age of unbridled narcissism and staged events everywhere you look, you might ask, is any thing we view real anymore?  With all the images popping up on the various screens, can we tell the difference between people selling us stuff and people who are actually doing something of value?

Well yeah.  And, our real person of the year is the IDF, as in Israeli Defense Forces.  When their nation was attacked, they answered the call.  They are defending their homes, their families and their liberty with the skill and courage, that would make any nation proud.  They are also paying the price.  And, they are for real.

Anyone out there who tells you some nitwit celebrity or politician is their person of the year, well... Like Barbie at the top of this page, its just a joke.

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Person Of The Year 2023?

This week our runner ups.  Number 1 runner up Bob Iger, the embattled CEO of Disney.  His company lost billions in 2023 and they are due to lose billions more in 2024.  He seems to be driving this once great company off a cliff.  But Bob Iger is still in charge.  Still the CEO of Disney.  This reminds us of Jake LaMotta a middle weight contender and even  champion of the 1940's and 50's.  Jake fought Sugar Ray Robinson six times.  Many in the world of boxing consider Ray Robinson to have been pound for pound, the greatest fighter of all time.  Jake managed to win one of their fights but lost the other five.  In their last fight Sugar Ray just pounded Jake into a bloody pulp.  As the fight came to a close, through a face that was a total mess with his eyes looking like slits and his lips all bent out of shape, Jake managed to mutter.  "Never knocked me down Ray.  You never knocked me down."  Ray Robinson had beaten him five times but never knocked Jake LaMotta off his feet.  And, Bob Iger like Jake LaMotta is still standing.  He maybe losing more billions for his company than any CEO in history but no one's knocked him down.

Number 2 runner up Meghan and Harry.  They lost their 20 million dollar Spotify deal.  Netflix dumped them. The Royal family dumped them.  They have been dissed by the Royals in more ways than we can even count.  It seems no one explained to them that a 'Tell All', never has a sequel.  The very nature of the 'Tell All', is you 'Tell All' and there shouldn't be anything left.  But even if there is or might be more, no one speaks to people who do 'Tell All's for fear of being in the next one.  But they're still together!  Who'd a' thunk that one?  We would have bet good money that they'd gone their separate ways by now.  With Harry on his knees begging his Daddy to let him come home, so he could play the Prodigal son.  The Prodigal son meme would play really well, as no one has done it in a long, long time.  It would blow up the internet.  It would make the Mass Hysteria apoplectic.  Even the Cognoscenti Of The Known World, would weigh in on a daily basis.  And Meghan, we figured she'd be in another 3rd rate, cable only TV show.  Or she'd be one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  But what can we say?  Sometimes, we're wrong.  But they are still together!  Amazing!

Tune in next week for our Person of the year 2023.  Or maybe the week after, as this might be harder than we think.  But no, our person of the year will not be Taylor Swift.  We think that Time Magazine who made her their person of the year, is just a shadow of their former self.  No, more like an echo.  They put Taylor Swift on the cover of their magazine because her concerts sold out and a movie of her concerts, grossed over 249 million dollars, world wide.  So they hoped that with her on the cover they might get someone to look at their archaic construct.  Maybe they'd even get some likes on Tik Tok, Twitter and Youtube.  No one reads the thing anymore and hasn't for a long time.  It's not like Taylor Swift did anything of note.  Gone are the salad days when Time Magazine's Man of the Year was Adolph Hitler and the sane world gasped.

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Smelling Like A Rose Or Not

John Kerry Climate Czar, former Secretary of State, former Senator from Massachusetts, former Congressman from Massachusetts, who was in Viet Nam by the way, was decrying the state of Climate Change and the fact that the adults of the world were just not listening!  He was on a TV show bemoaning the use of coal in specifics but also the whole climate change thing, to a group of other Climate Change Aficionados, who listened with great empathy to his exhortations.  Then he farted.

Now we are not saying that this was the ultimate statement on Climate Change but if we stop to think about for a minute, maybe it was.

And love springs eternal!  Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are still together and still in love.  If you remember the big scandal last year.  It was these two co-hosts on ABC's Good Morning America fell in love.  They met on that show and it should have been a great story but they were still married to their respective spouses and ABC fired them.  This in an industry that has had many many members of its profession accused of and fired for sexual harassment and even pedophilia.  In fact the co-hosts of Morning Joe did the same thing and while the Joe of Morning Joe was not married the Mika of Morning Joe, was.

Now we wondered at the time if their firing had anything to do with Amy Robach being a white woman and  T.J. Holmes being a black man.  Joe and Mika of Morning Joe, are both white.  But then the people who scream and cry about these things didn't raise a peep, so who were we to make such a suggestion.

But as we said love springs eternal and Amy and T.J. have resurfaced where all fired TV hosts resurrect, on their very own Podcast.  Maybe those lines from the old Bette Midler hit song 'The Rose' are appropriate here.

'Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose'*

And across the pond in Venice a group of tourists were told repeatedly to sit down, they were rocking the boat.  But they were busy taking selfies while in a Gondola and like a lot of today's youths, they could not stop stop taking selfies.  The Gondola in turn capsized and all the selfie takers went into the Canal.  Luckily all the selfie takers were saved but sad to say all their phones were ruined and the selfies lost for all time.  And, we're not sure what gets dumped into those Canals in Venice but we're pretty sure that the fished out selfie takers, didn't come up smelling like roses.

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* Amanda McBroom