ENTERTAINMENT BUZZ
Society by the numbers: October 2017
By Joe Mack
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Many influential people are
using their Twitter handles to
negative ends. This should come
to no surprise if any of you have
followed news stories making
light of President Trump’s
barrage of social media
commentary. Chef and red dirt promoter
Becky Gragg (10/2); Cherokee
historian Gayle Ross, songwriter
Jared Deck, musician Katie
West (10/3); musician Emily
Smith (10/4); percussionist Ricky
Kemple (10/5); songwriter
Ramsay Midwood, percussionist
Mona Tavakoli, promoter
Jim Halsey, songwriter Chad
Sullins (10/7); songwriter Andy
Adams, guitarist Chris Taylor
(10/8); promoter Joel Woody
(10/10); artist Desmond Mason,
songwriter Rachel La Vonne
(10/11); Fun Girl Leatha
Pierce, guitarist Chris Combs,
bartender Bill Richards (10/12);
bassist Rhett Harvey (10/13);
photographer Peter Henshaw,
bassist Patrick Calaway
(10/14); musician/yarn slayer
Gina Gallina, songwriter
Melinda Mullins, comedian Seth
Joseph, photographer Greg
Holmes (10/15); percussionist
Dylan Golden Aycock (10/16);
incomparable Sue Harris
(10/17); bassists Joey Trevino
and Jordan Hehl, photographer
Wendy Thomas Pomeroy
(10/18); journalist Gretchen
Crowe (10/19); musician David
Calvert (10/20); bassist Annie
Paine (10/23); bassist Stacy
Liles (10/24); bartender Micah
Brown (10/25); WGC executive
director Deana McCloud
(10/28); number cruncher Susi
Charboneau, songwriter Scott
Carson, guitarist Ken Sohns
(10/29); songwriter Joshua
Yarbrough (10/30); artist Tonya
Sappington, and professional
fighter Steven Skoch (10/31).
But former OKC Thunder-
turned-Golden State Warrior/
NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant
recently kicked up dust on
Twitter, replying to a fan’s
question as to why he left the
Thunder, Tweeting in the third
person, “he didn’t like the
organization or playing for Billy
Donovan. His roster wasn’t that
good, it was just him and Russ”.
Whether or not that was indeed
KD or one of his handlers at