- It took a little while, but the spirit of the bad girl is back with a vengeance in the world of beauty pageants. From Bossier City, Louisiana, it’s the story of Miss Teen Louisiana, who lost her crown 11 days early after being arrested on charges of leaving a restaurant without paying and carrying marijuana. Lindsey Evans, 18, of Blanchard, La., was arrested after Bossier City police were called to a Posados Cafe restaurant Saturday evening because a group had left without paying $46.07. Yes, it all started with a dine-and-dash, always great to get caught up in much more serious charges because you skipped out on a dinner bill of less than $50. But theoretically, if you are going to dine and dash, one thing you don’t want to do is leave behind your purse with your ID in it, as Evans reportedly did. The manager at the restaurant found a pocketbook at the table and inside police found Evans' driver's license and about 2 grams of suspected marijuana in it. Uh-oh! That can’t be good. I’m now waiting for Evans to go with the requisite “not my pot” defense and try to push this off on one of her friends, so keep an eye peeled for that. It’s a given any time a famous or quasi-famous person is arrested for drug possession; the weed or blow is never theirs, it’s always a friend’s drugs. As for dining and dashing, the story Evans and her friends are going with is that the three women with Evans had paid her bill. At least that’s the story the three friends are selling; someone should have told that to Evans, because she admitted to police that she had not paid and neither had her friends. In spite of that, I find it offensive that RPM Productions Inc., the sponsor of the Miss Teen Louisiana pageant, took back the title on after learning that Evans had been arrested. She will have to return her sash and crown, but at least she won't have to return any other prizes or cash equivalents. Those winnings should be helpful as she fights theft charges, drug charges and drug paraphernalia charges. Her crown will be awarded to the next Miss Teen Louisiana November 1 at a pageant in Lafayette. Personally, I’m glad to see this element back in pageants, because otherwise who the hell cares about over-makeup-ed girls in expensive dresses reciting poetry, singing and talking about how they want to make the world a better place by helping orphans in far-off nations? Bring me the Tara Conner’s, the Caitlin Upton’s and other pageant contestants who make out with other girls at clubs, take drugs and go to rehab, because that’s the only way you’re keeping me interested….
- This is one of those situations where you wait so long for something that builds up so much hype that it can’t possibly live up to expectations….or can it? For more a freaking decade, we’ve been hearing rumblings about Guns N’ Roses’ amazing new album, Chinese Democracy. But because its members are all alcoholics, drug addicts and/or a-holes who can’t co-exist with one another, the album’s release has been delayed time and again. Well, we’ve finally gotten a look at the album, at least the first single, “Chinese Democracy,” released this week. It’s the group’s first official single since “Oh My God” in 1999, and obviously the title track of their first album of original material since Use Your Illusion I and II in 1991. You can listen to the track here and judge for yourself whether it lives up to the hype. I will warn you that the first minute of the nearly five-minute track is basically sound effects designed to warm things up, and it isn’t until a minute and a half in, that you get a patented Axl Rose scream. The refrain is decent at best, but it’s not the amazing payoff that the song seems to be building up to. At present, the track isn’t yet available for official download (like that’s going to stop anyone), having only been released to radio with mixed reactions. But I guess that when you’ve waited this long for something, it is virtually impossible for it to live up to expectations, so just be glad that if nothing else, we can finally stop hearing all the postulating about when this album is going to happen…..
- Now this is getting good. Weeks after being arrested on charges that he took a minor across state lines for sex, evangelist/pedophile Tony Alamo’s prosecution is really getting interesting. and by interesting, I mean sick, perverted and pretty darn freaky. A federal magistrate in Little Rock, Ark. called Alamo a flight risk Wednesday and ordered the evangelist held without bail until his. This ruling came after Alamo's former followers testified at a hearing that they were often beaten at his instructions and that Alamo practiced polygamy with several females, including a 9-year-old girl. That is just disturbing on a lot of levels, and I’m not even talking about ordering his followers to be beaten. Never thought I would see the day when someone would order people to be beaten down and it would be the least offensive thing that person was charged with, but the polygamy that included a 9-year-old girl is just stomach-churning awful. How do you even get to the point where you find enjoyment in that sort of disgusting behavior? Thankfully, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant noted that Alamo is charged with a violent crime, which is why he won't be allowed bail. HAlso factoring into Bryant’s decision is the fact that Alamo fled a California child-abuse charge in 1989 and was arrested two years later in Tampa, Florida, living under an assumed name. Thus, it makes sense that he would be considered a flight risk, especially given that he now controls businesses and ministry locations in several states. “There is serious risk (Alamo) will flee or fail to appear,” Bryant said. So it hasn’t been a banner month for Alamo, beginning when he was arrested five days after a September 20 police raid on the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in the southwest Arkansas town of Fouke. Things didn’t get better when witness Jael Sprinkle testified that she was taken as Alamo's wife at age 17 and that Alamo had five other wives at the time, one of which was t a 9-year-old girl. That is just jacked up but not totally surprising when you consider that Alamo is an advocate of allowing girls to marry when they reach puberty. But hey, what’s statutory rape without some straight-up physical violence too? There was plenty of that, with
Sprinkle saying that she, her parents and others were beaten, one of whom was a 12-year-old boy was paddled to the point of bleeding. Was Sprinkle done? Heck no. She went on to allege that included in Alamo's control over people in his organization was the fact that even inconsequential expenses such as toilet paper and toothpaste had to be approved by him and him alone. This just sounds….yikes. It sounds like a very violent, perverted cult and one I am glad to see being broken down and hopefully dismantled with its megalomaniacal, disgusting leader heading to prison…..
- Boy, the season really came off the tracks quickly for the East Carolina football team, didn’t it? It doesn’t seem like that long ago that the Pirates fired out of the gate 2-0 with wins over then-Top 25 teams West Virginia and Virginia Tech. They were the early season darlings of college football, looking ahead to an underwhelming Conference USA schedule that could give them a chance to go undefeated….and then it all came undone. The team has now lost 3 of 4 and sits at 4-3, plus its starting running back has decided that the middle of the season is a great time to go Animal House at an off-campus party. East Carolina running back Jonathan Williams finds himself facing new charges after two people said he hit them with a beer bottle outside a Greenville apartment complex last weekend. But hey, at least Williams turned himself in to Greenville police Tuesday evening at Pitt County Detention Center, that has to count for something, right? Maybe, but it didn’t prevent him from being arrested and charged on two misdemeanor counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Something about this gives me the sneaking suspicion that maybe, just maybe, my man J. Williams is not learning his lesson about criminal behavior. Why, you ask? Perhaps it’s because less than a month ago, he was arrested and charged with resisting a public officer for a separate incident. Nothing like stacking up arrests one on top of the other, bro. The East Carolina athletic department doesn’t seem enthralled with Williams’ behavior either; they have suspended him indefinitely from the team until his legal matters are resolved. The two alleged victims in the case, Douglas Robert Edwards, 20, and Bailey Hattem, 19, both of Greenville, say they were attempting to go back into a party at the apartment complex early Sunday morning when four men confronted them. As the story goes, one of the men hit Edwards in the neck and Hattem in the arm with a beer bottle and one of the victims said he recognized Williams from his days playing football at J.H. Rose High School in Greenville. The incident followed a very similar one outside the same apartment on the same day, when. Tyler James Kelly, 20, of Washington, N.C., was grabbed by four men who struck him several times on the head with a beer bottle until the bottle broke. Look, I know I’m always the guy saying that if you want to be an elite college football program, you need your share of felons and scumbags on the team, but I didn’t mean that you need one guy racking up tons of arrests all by himself, as Williams is doing. Heck, dude was charged in April for driving while impaired and underage drinking, so this is three in a six-month span. My man, allow your teammates to help you out. You get popped for underage drinking and let one of them get arrested for resisting arrest while another hits guys over the head with beer bottles at parties. It’s all about teamwork, because the way you’re going about it right now isn’t helping anyone, it’s hurting them……
- Tonight’s episode of Smallville featured the most scenes of Clark Kent acting like an a-hole that I can remember in the history of the show. With a mysterious killer wreaking havoc around Metropolis, CK was busy playing good Samaritan and helping those in need, whether they were the intended victim of a major crime or a small one. However, his good deeds also placed him at a major attack at the Ace of Clubs, where he found chaos, people injured, crushed, bleeding and unconscious. Under some of the rubble was Davis Bloom, a.k.a. Doomsday, the paramedic with whom Chloe has become close over the past few episodes. Amazingly, a bloodied Davis refused medical care and went back to the hospital, where he showered up and was stunned to find that he didn’t have a single scratch on him. Coupled with his recent rash of blackouts and the string of similar murders ravaging Metropolis, Davis worried that he might be the one behind the killings. He took his suspicions to Chloe, who refused to believe him and insisted that he couldn’t have done something this terrible. Clark wasn’t so trusting, confronting Davis later at the hospital and implying that because he had been the first paramedic on the scene at every one of the murders, maybe he was responsible. Davis shot back that Clark had also been spotted at every murder scene and had been there before anyone could have known about them. The two parted ways with tension in the air, but Clark wasn’t done throwing around accusations. He also went to Chloe’s revived Isis Foundation, where she had started support meetings for people with meteor powers. After one of the group’s members was among the murder victims and it happened the same night as one of their meetings, Clark stormed into the Isis office and demanded that Chloe give him the names of the people in her support group. She refused, but not before Clark got a look at the sign-in sheet from the last meeting and was able to speed-read through it. Chloe refused to provide an official list, vowing to protect the privacy of her group, but Clark had seen enough to pass names along to the Martian Manhunter, his other-worldly friend who lost his powers helping Clark stay alive earlier this season and is now working as Detective John Jones of the Metropolis Police Department. The detective visits the members of the Isis support group and questions them, leading them to accuse Chloe of selling them out to the cops. She then confronts Clark because he’s the one who is responsible, but he turns around and asks Chloe to use her supercomputer mind to read lab results he snagged from the hospital that Davis was looking at. The results show that Davis’ skin was under the fingernails of all of the murder victims, not a good sign. At that exact moment, Davis is out on patrol with Jimmy Olsen, who is hell bent on catching the mystery murderer. The two respond to an emergency call at a shady building in the ghettos of Metropolis and Davis heads inside, where he is attacked by a mysterious shadow creature. Jimmy calls for help on the ambulance’s radio, a call that brings Clark speeding to the scene. The Man of Steel fends off the creature from attacking Davis and choking him to death, but it then attacks Jimmy behind a dumpster. Clark thinks fast, uses his X-ray vision to see what’s going on and hurls a spare tire at the phantom, knocking it out and saving Jimmy. Clark goes to help Jimmy and finds the attacker as well, who turns out to be one of the members of Chloe’s group, just as Clark suspected. But life isn’t all bad for this bad guy, as when he is in police custody, one of Tess Mercer’s flunkies comes and offers him the chance to join the group of meteor-powered bad guys Mercer is assembling as the new CEO of LuthorCorp. It appears that the offer is accepted, adding another enemy to the anti-Justice League. As for the good guys, Clark and Chloe make amends, but Chloe and Davis have a problem when it becomes clear that he wants more from her than friendship. She wisely decides that the two of them need to not see much of each other for the time being, leaving Davis behind at the café where they met up. And that, amigos, is how things ended this week, so until next time….
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