A little of this and a little of that

 Parler, a conservative website that has gotten in some hot water for promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election, has a new owner.

Rapper-business mogul Kanye "Ye" West has bought the site, after getting booted from Instagram and other sites for his dangerous of late rhetoric, which, in reality, is just a case of Ye refusing to take his medication for bi-polar disorder. Rumors are circulating that right wing commentator Candace Owens, whose husband had been in charge of Parler, had a hand in brokering the sale of Parler to West, which Owens is denying.

Parler needed help, sure, considering its problems, but it's still lagging behind other right wing platforms such as Truth Social. We'll see if Ye actually can do anything with it if he ever gets back on his meds.

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Republican candidate for governor Lee Zeldin may have just gotten the kiss of death.

Zeldin was endorsed by ol' Pecos Pampers himself, Donald Trump, over the weekend, and while Zeldin's supporters have paid for attack ads against Governor Hochul, it's not going to help. Voters will choose between the previously unheralded Zeldin, who has refused to denounce the Archduke of Affluenza, and Hochul. The attack ads are trying to tie Hochul to her predecessor, Governor Casanova (Andrew Cuomo), by painting her administration as just as corrupt as Cuomo's was.

Upstate NY is largely Democratic. The GOPers have pockets here and there, mostly in, of course, rural and suburban areas, but it's not going to be enough.

Screw the politics. We finally have a female governor, so let's savor it.

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A new nightspot in town had a soft opening two months ago that went largely unnoticed.

This past weekend was a different story altogether.

YouniqueU, occupying the former Union National Bank space on 4th Street between Broadway and Fulton Street, had parties shut down by police on back-to-back nights. Owner Ashley Sanders has a webpage which was where all the publicity for the events came from.

Photo courtesy Albany Times-Union.

It is being implied in news reports that the crowds, numbering in the hundreds both nights, might've been over the limit for the building, and that, according to Sanders, the music was too loud. Not the first time that someone has tried to promote an event in the city via social media only, and have it end badly, but it probably won't be the last.

And this was two weeks after a Fulton Street business, Whiskey Pickle, hosted a three night music festival that went largely without incident. Hmmmmmm.