Through the years, orneriness seems to have always been in his genes:
Wherever he is, Narnia has no doubt he'll be celebrating with Austin and the brood. Happy Birthday, Jake!
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| with Ang Lee in 2016 |
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| Haughty Jake at his best Pt I |
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| Haughty Jake at his best Pt II |
• We can't resist the opportunity to give a Narnia wink at the all-too-familiar GPS spoon-feeding of a management team to portray Liam Payne as having been spending his pre-Christmas holiday time with beard, Mayo "Maya" Henry. Having followed the similar geographic "organic photos" of Jensen or Jared in Austin TX or Jake Gyllenhaal in New York City, or Austin Nichols in Austin, TX which occur around a holiday or birthday, the customary fan-photo-on-the-street isn't faze-inducing any longer after all these years. But the "leaving TX" airport photos are a joke.
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| wah, wah, wah |
And as we saw so many times with Jake before his people even stopped trying with the airport pics (pre-COVID), where is everyone? No one else is going through security? What airport was this, I would love to fly out of there, lol.
And fun photos of Liam at an amusement park which must be accompanied with the now-obligatory fast-sweeping video where we assume that's supposed to be the beard, but who in the heck can tell, we're not even going to pause it to try and decipher...and photos like these are easy to swap out faces with, especially when the black clothing blends into the black roller coaster seat:
I mean, whoever is responsible for all of that waste of energy and time with the photo shopping?
We know what we know.
Next!
• This article was interesting.
At first, it appears as yet just another clout-chasing by Big Sis Maggie Gyllenhaal, absorbing water from Jake's sponge of larger popularity and fame, but when you look at the emphasis of the story (not to mention the professional unlikelihood), of Jake as a sound consultant of her first directorial debut, one should look a little deeper than the surface.
"I don't know if you know this about him, but he's got really terrible eyesight, he wears contact lenses, but it's really bad," Gyllenhaal said. "Having lived like that has made him really tune in to sound and when I showed him my first cut he had the notes...It changed the way I thought about starting out on that [sound] process...Jake really opened that door to me." - 'The Lost Daughter': Maggie Gyllenhaal Said Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Terrible Eyesight' Changed the Whole Process With Incredible Results' on Canada News, 19 December 21.
And wonder if the headline which includes the words "Jake Gyllenhaal's Terrible Eyesight", wasn't more likely intended to help perpetuate Jake's former beard Taylor Swift's song lyrics from "All Too Well".
"You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed." - from All Too Well, songwriters Elisabeth Wagner Rose and Taylor Swift
You know that song. From the album Red, the one that Swift just issued the re-release of and has trended Maggie's brother for days on social media, been the butt of jokes on talk show stages, and really made him famous? The scarf? The one Maggie even talked about on Andy Cohen's talk show to say how she didn't know what happened to it?
Big Sis is still working it! Still trying to help sell that story, way to go, Maggie. Never underestimate the wily ways of the closet...
• And speaking of the Big Sis and filming process and Little Bro's help. Sounds like this means Jake was over in Greece (where filming took place)? So Narnia knows that Austin isn't going to pass up a chance for travel and doesn't Greece offer some of the most beautiful waters around? You know what THAT means....
Well, if you look back at that time period when filming was going on with The Lost D, we had Austin pretending to be in Michigan (is that why the smirk?)
Now even though Jake was not being seen, it doesn't mean there weren't social media filters. He had the announcement of The Son project with ol' Denis Villenueve going on in mid-late October (just days after Baby Tile's birthday),
as well as this lame, befuddling meme which totally dominated his twitter search, that Jake had a doppelganger who was an actor in the film by the name of Oliver Jackson Cohen. This time, the tweets began their "stuffing" just days before Baby Tile's birthday. Well, well, well...
So, was the above twitter search stuffing activity about the doppelganger, intended to provide cover in case Jake was spotted on set? "Oh, that can't be Jake. That's that Oliver Jackson-Cohen chap. He looks like Jake, you know." 😉👀 Indeeeeeeed. Perhaps now that makes sense.
So...Baby Tile number one son birthday celebrated in Greece??? Looks like it very likely was. Thanks, Maggie! 😂 😂
• Phew! Well, that was awesome, I mean ahem, interesting. One more topic that happened late last week, which Narnia wanted to make note of, even though it is not positively clear at this point in time, what the whole show was about. On Thursday morning, Dec 16, Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes' brother Jackson, was trending early in the morning hours. Come to find out, the commotion was over a Kansas City bar's Instagram post which criticized the young man for behavior exhibited when he and his group were turned down admittance (due to too large of a party for space requirements).
And when you read the post by SoT Bar, the message was sharp, clever and biting. And Twitter was all abuzz over it. In fact, Jackson Mahomes was the number 1 trend in the United States for quite a while. And when did this happen? On the morning of the biggest game of the season thus far for Patrick's team, who were playing the LA Chargers. It was a game of tremendous magnitude for both teams. The tweets were overwhelmingly in favor of the bar and author of the scathing post. People who had never even heard of SoT Bar were singing its praises and support from all over the country.
SoT Bar is a small, high-end bar. It appears their menu isn't focused near as much on food, but the main sell is expensive cocktails. After this incident? Everyone knew the name of the bar and just to make sure, there were plenty of folks on Twitter being oh-so-willing to publicize the name of the bar so that everyone knew who to commend, if you now what we mean. 😉😉
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| I mean, look at this one providing the visual aid |
Oh, so helpful. The free publicity!
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| Let's be sure to get that full name in! "SoT Cocktail Bar" |
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| Maybe she should've screenshot the drink menu? |
And talk about high profile, Pat McAfee tweeted and dropped that bar name,
SoT could have never paid for this much publicity. To add to the drama, the bar removed their initial post and retracted/apologized. So your first thought (at least my first thought was), is someone leaned on the bar to take down their slapping post and replace it with a polite, contrite one. And they posted it within hours, creating even more suspicion.
Not only did they take down the first post and replace it with this head-bowed, on-your-knees apology, but as one searched the ongoing story on twitter (and Methodical Muser and myself were monitoring in real time), one trend had to be noticed - that folks were tweeting about the first Instagram post, not the second, contrite one. Everyone was commending and back-slapping the bar, heaping praise upon praise for their verbal smack down. But not many were mentioning the re-write at all. Isn't that fascinating?
Now, the Kansas City Star wrote about the apology. They complimented SoT for taking the high road and suggested the tick sibling learn from it.
But this was an exception. Twitter was highly concentrated on the first post and complimenting the bar for the extraordinarily well written clapback. This alone sends up a red flag for manipulation. There were several red flags from this whole 12 hour social media brush fire.
* If the bar has a capacity for only 35 patrons, why was Mahomes trying to enter with a large party to begin with?
* Since his Instagram story criticized SoT's service and bartenders as terrible and rude, why was he even returning to visit?
* Narnia believes that the bar was put up to this. What would they get out of the manipulation? They got a ton of publicity. A TON. And it was all positive publicity. Talk about a win-win. In fact, we're willing to bet someone else wrote those two Instagram posts for them.
* TMZ was used to break the story on social media. That is always a big red flag of a publicist or marketer fast-fingering a speed dial.
* This is not the first negative incident concerning Patrick's brother. Narnia has posted before about issues with him and the "girlfriend", er "fiance". Isn't it interesting how it has been allowed to continue? This is going on three years of this type of negative publicity. Clearly, the younger sibling has the Mgmnt-strategized image of being problematic, a pain, and an embarrassment to the team and city. It's PR-approved. It's accepted. When a story like this one which occurred earlier this football season, and the city's mayor feels the need to tweet about it? After Jackson dumped water on a Ravens fan in Baltimore no less, Kansas City's mayor actually defended him! This sounds like the mayor of a city, doesn't it? #sarc
* Note the timing of the SoT Cocktail Bar incident. Again, the stunt, I mean incident began the night before the big football game. By game time on Thursday evening? It had been forgotten by the media. Everyone was ready to concentrate on football.
"Strike" the strike-through on the word "stunt", because we at Narnia have no doubt this was a stunt of highly manipulative proportions. The brush fire-like, viral nature of the story was too fast, too sweeping, and then died out as though a fleet of planes had dumped water all at once, atop of it. That means a story of this viral magnitude requires coordination and the use of many purchased twitter accounts to tweet so soon and heavily. Patrick Mahomes' marketer Jacquelyn Dahl specializes in knowing about the use of purchased accounts as we have noted before in a post from April 13, 2020 called Winter/Spring Musings: Same As It Never Was - NFL Marketing Pt 5A of 5.
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| no exaggeration here! |
So, what was it about, you ask? Well, that part remains unclear at this point. Sometimes stunts can be quite obvious, but it may not be obviously clear-cut what they are to sell or cover-up. Puzzling, isn't it? It certainly doesn't (and never has) put QB1 Patrick Mahomes in a positive light, but that hasn't stopped his Management team before.
And isn't this an interesting angle? Is it to garner sympathy for Patrick? This isn't a coincidence; there are too many tweets now comparing him to Aaron Rodgers, who is estranged from his family.
Hmmmmm...one has to admit this is quite interesting to have a similar pattern here between two quarterbacks. 👀👀👀
We're watching though, and keeping a chaise lounge situated on this ongoing melodrama. In the meantime, all we can say is it is extremely disappointing to see the general public played like this (myself included, who fell for it for awhile).
• Huge kudos to a Narnia honorary favorite, #87 Kansas City Chief tight end Travis Kelce on his walk-off touchdown run Thursday night in Los Angeles in overtime, to help the Chiefs be in a position for number 1 seed for the NFL AFC playoffs.
For awhile, the NFL's twitter account changed their twitter bio to "It's Travis Kelce's world".
Congratulations, Travis!!! What a finishing run.
Narnia has left a few stories on the table that did not make this post, but well, we do need to get it posted before it's the day AFTER Jakers' birthday. LOL!
Happy upcoming Monday to all and please stay safe out there.
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pic sources: tenor, postermywall, politepaparazzi, memeguy,
our playlist: And the Bells Rang - Bing Crosby, Jack Halloran Singers, and Les Brown and
his Orchestra
Finally It's Christmas - Hanson
Merry Christmas Baby - Otis Redding
