- I didn’t realize Theta Chi Colombian Nose Candy was a recognized fraternity, but a branch seems to exist at San Diego State, a school already known as a major party school. That rep is only going to grow now that members of the school’s Theta Chi fraternity have been arrested for dealing drugs and going as far to send out mass text messages advertising cocaine for sale at the Theta Chi house. Acting on a tip, investigators raided the house and found more than two kilos of coke, making this by far the coolest frat house in the history of frat houses. I don’t remember Frank the Tank or Blutarsky ever having their frat houses stocked with a couple keys of blow in Old School or Animal House. But lest you think these SDSU students and Theta Chi frat boys were a one-trick illicit drug pony, know that there were other illegal narcotics and prescription drugs seized in the raid. So these guys were your one-stop drug store, assuming the drugs you wanted were weed, coke, X, etc. Also seized by police from the house was $60,000 in cash, which seems a bit low for a house in possession of that many drugs. A total of 96 arrests were made, including 75 students. This story actually makes a lot of sense when you consider that San Diego is literally ten minutes from the Mexican border and from Tijuana, making it an obvious place to find drugs of all kinds. I just wish I’d been there to see the looks on the faces of the Theta Chi brothers when police busted down their door. “Put down the beer bong and last month’s issue of Penthouse, fellas, and put your hands where I can see them!” Parties on the San Diego State campus just won't be the same without the Theta Chi’s, that much is certain. I’ll give it about a month before other drug dealers in the area find a way to cash in on their downfall and to take over the share of the market that the frat dudes once occupied.
- That didn’t take long. With the reigning box office champ Iron Man barely a week into its run in theaters, Marvel Entertainment has already announced plans for a sequel. Iron Man 2 even has a scheduled release date - April 30, 2010. Now I’m not sure if you can snag tickets on Fandango yet, but you may want to check on it just in case. Thankfully this isn’t one of those Lord of the Dorks/Rings or Star Wars movies, because if one of those flicks were given a specific release date two years in advance, you know there would be scores of losers ready to camp out in front of theaters in the hopes of being the first to see trailers for the new movie and the movie itself. The success of Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man has also inspired Marvel to put two other projects into production based on its comics. Thor is scheduled to drop in June 2010 and in the summer of 2011, Marvel will be rolling out a two-part Avengers-themed project. The first of the two will be The First Avenger: Captain America, released on May 6, 2011. Following in July 2011 will be The Avengers. Amazing what the success of a comic book-themed movie can precipitate. But hey, Iron Man was a heck of a lot better than the other crap currently occupying screens in our nation’s multiplexes (yup, looking at you What Happens in Vegas), so maybe this isn’t such a bad thing.
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! Yes America, your favorite focus on social dissidents and dissidence worldwide is back and whipping you to two locations around the globe to keep you up to date on some notable rallies, riots and protests that have gone down this week. One of those protests of note took place in Moscow, where Kremlin police detained and clashed with dozens of protestors looking to get to an opposition rally the day before new president and Vlad Putin lackey/mentee Dmitry Medvedev was set to be inaugurated as the country’s new president. Why so upset, Russian citizens? Just because a near carbon copy of the leader who steadily dragged your country back to Communism and increasingly isolated you from the rest of the world is taking the place of that outgoing idiot leader, it doesn’t mean you need to riot and protest….oh wait, yes it does. Well done, Russkies. Same goes for hundreds of Somali youths who staged a much larger riot over an equally pressing issue in their own corner of the world. The rising food prices worldwide have hit especially hard in impoverished nations like Somalia, leading hundreds of youths in the country to block roads and hurl stones to speak out against the rising prices and the food shortage they are creating. You definitely can’t blame these kids, because they have no means to acquire the money needed to buy the food they require just to stay nourished and healthy, so what else can they do but riot? Rioting to demand basic items like food in a price range you can afford is as good a reason to get violent and dissident as any. Plus, it’s always encouraging to see kids take it upon themselves to become the next generation of rioters. It warms the hearts of lovers of social unrest worldwide to see sights like this, especially for a great cause. So riot on, Somali youth, make some noise, throw some rocks, burn, loot, riot, pillage and clash with police, you’ve got plenty of supporters behind your cause.
- Remember when Heroes used to be on TV every Monday night, giving up the dramatic, supernatural small-screen goodness we came to know and love? Way back then (ok, so maybe it was a few months, but it seems like a lot longer), there was regular news to keep tabs on for one of the best shows on TV. Despite an uneven, sometimes-erratic second season that wasn’t as good as the scintillating first one, Heroes was still the best show on Monday nights. Well, despite being in an über-long, excruciating hiatus, there is some news on the show courtesy of TVGude.com. The site is reporting that Bruce Boxleitner, who played Scarecrow to Sabrina Duncan's Mrs. King in the mid-80s (yeah, I’m too young to get that reference either), has been cast a top-secret recurring role that was originally going to be modeled after Sen. John McCain (old, rich, white and unappealing to conservatives). With the aged McCain now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the character has obviously been revised. Thus, not much is known about him other than the fact that he’ll share most his screen time with one of the show’s establish female leads. However, don’t allow the recent announcements of new characters for the show to make you think that we’re in for another season filled with new faces we don’t care about while the show’s established favorites are largely ignored, as we had last season. One NBC insider insists that's definitely not the case. and that the primary focus, according to what this source told TVGuide.com, will remain “on the core characters from the pilot.” I hope that’s true and that their assessment of focusing on the core characters from the pilot is the same as my idea of focusing on the core characters from the pilot. For now, it’s just nice to have any kind of news at all on a show that feels like it’s been gone for a couple of years instead of a few months.
- I haven’t liked Rich Fraud-riguez for a while now. It started long before he took over as the head football coach at the University of Michigan and started offending current and former players and others around the program in rapid-fire fashion. It started back when Fraud-riguez flirted with the University of Alabama and actually accepted their head coaching job following the 2006 season, only to reverse field when he was excoriated by West Virginia fans and boosters for bailing on a program he claimed to love. He doubled back in very cowardly fashion, inked a new contract with WVU and pledged his undying love for the state and the university. That undying love last all of one year, right up to the point when the 2007 season ended and the University of Michigan came calling with a fat new contract offer. Fraud-riguez jumped at it like Rosie O’Donnell jumps at a Twinkie waved in front of her fat, disgusting face and he was gone from Morgantown again, for the second time in just over a year. Worse still was the fact that he refused and has continued to refuse to live up to the $4 million buyout clause in his West Virginia contract. Never mind the fact that it was a contract he signed of his own volition and one he understood fully, he wasn’t going to live up to the terms because he didn’t want to give up his precious jack. Things aren’t going much better for Fraud-riguez at Michigan, where he made a significant negative impact on the program in less than a month. That was the length of time it took junior offensive lineman Justin Boren to transfer from UM to archrival Ohio State, citing a “lack of family values” in the Michigan program in the month since Fraud-riguez took over. Nice job, Richie, running off a starting offensive lineman in less than a month not because he didn’t fit your system (the reason likely starting quarterback Ryan Mallett transferred from UM to Arkansas), but because he thought you were ruining the values that made the program great. Former Wolverines great Braylon Edwards would second that notion based on his reaction to Fraud-riguez’s latest decision to slap the respected Michigan football program traditions right in the face. The tradition in question is that of giving the No. 1 jersey to the team’s elite wide receiver, a practice that dates back to Bo Schembechler’s days as the UM coach in the 1970s. Getting that jersey number is an honor and a privilege, one that Edwards himself earned while playing at the school. It means so much to him that he actually set up a $500,000 scholarship fund for guys who receive that jersey number. Making that kind of investment shows a lot of respect for the tradition, but what Fraud-riguez did with it does not. The new coach gave away the jersey number to freshman defensive back XXXXXXXX, a guy who probably won't see the field on game days in 2008. Edwards wasn’t shy about his feelings on the decision, saying, “I am already mad that Rich Rod because he gave the No. 1 jersey to someone other than a wide receiver, which is breaking tradition,” Edwards declared in an interview. “Rich Rod gave the No. 1 jersey to an incoming freshman DB and the No. 1 jersey has never been worn by anybody outside of a wide receiver,” Edwards said. “It dates back to Anthony Carter, (Greg) McMurtry, Tyrone Butterfield, Derrick Alexander, David Terrell, and yours truly. So I’m going to have a talk with him about that the next time I see him.” Sounds like that will be a very pleasant phone call, doesn’t it? Memo to you, Fraud-riguez: you went to the University of Michigan, one of the most storied programs in college football. This isn’t some random, also-ran school you can go to and just slap your own system in while wiping out a large part of what the program has stood for over the past 100 years. When you go to a place like UM, you need to know and respect the traditions and incorporate them into your way of doing things. You might think your way of running things is the right way, but at a school like that you can’t blatantly disregard everything that was there before you. Get a clue, Fraud-riguez, before you ruin the Michigan football program any further.
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