- The Biebs needs to take five ginormous steps back and keep
Metallica’s name the hell out his mouth. The Biebs is obviously famous, he has
obviously gotten there with a galling lack of musical talent thanks to the
public’s even more galling taste in crappy pop music and on some level, that’s
fine. Sing your garbage dance pop music, get a few tattoos to try to make
yourself seem badass and allow teenage girls everywhere to swoon over you on a
daily basis. While the world would be a better place if Justin Bieber just went
away, if he just keeps doing his talentless pop hack thing and stays out of the
real musicians’ way. However, when the Biebs shows up in a backstage video
performing the single most despicable cover ever of one of the biggest rock
bands in history’s best songs, then there’s a problem. The clip of the Canadian
pop-singing tool “singing” Metallica’s “Fade to Black” is only 15 seconds long,
but the sight of this ass hat playing air guitar while he tries to recreate the guitar solo from
Metallica's 1984 original with his voice does enough damage in those 15 seconds
to nearly wreck an iconic track. Perhaps all of this should come as no
surprise, as the Biebs has previously revealed that he is a big fan of early
Metallica and has cited “Fade to Black” and “One” as his favorite tracks. '"Those
are my jams," he once said of the song. Excoriating him over this egregious
musical party foul may not be enough, though, and so it is better to end with
the words of Deadmau5, who recently branded Bieber a "spoiled bitch"
following a row over the latter’s demands that hip-hop be played instead of
dance music in a nightclub. A specific description that applies to the whole of
Bieber’s life……..
- Life is not great for the Grambling State football team.
Their coach was fired, their athletic department doesn’t have a director and
now, school administrators are daring to make them travel by bus instead of plane to games in
Kansas City, Mo., and Indianapolis. That’s a long bus ride from Louisiana and
the prospect of making that trip with interim coach George Ragsdale was
unappealing enough that the entire football team reportedly did not show up for
practice Wednesday. A bad season that has featured losses in all seven of their
games took a turn for the mutinous when the whole roster used a practice
boycott to make their voices heard about their undesirable travel plans and the
firing of coach Doug Williams in September. The boycott came less than 24 hours
after a contentious meeting between the players and school administrators. The
meeting reportedly became extremely negative and confrontational and the
players walked out on university president Frank Pogue, athletic director Aaron
James, student government president Jordan Harvey and Ragsdale. "[The
administration] knew that emotions were raw," school spokesman Will Sutton
said. "No matter what, it was going to be a challenge for the team to feel
good after this season and last season. That's part of the reason why we have a
new [athletic director] and are looking for a new football coach. The president
wanted to make a point that the university supports and appreciates the team
and these students and that the administration will do everything we need to do
for the future success of the program." Williams was axed two games into
the season after losing by a combined score of 71-19 in those contests and
after a 1-10 season, he had run out of goodwill. Life won't get easier as the
Tigers – if any of them show up – face Jackson State (5-2, 5-0) on Saturday. No
one is quite sure what to expect from this mess next…….
- When an antagonistic a-hole puts up an offensive billboard
in any city around the world, their aim is always the same and the plan is
virtually foolproof. That person wants to say something completely over the
line and get a response out of people who aren't smart enough to know better.
That would be the plan of the anonymous author of a controversial new billboard put
up Tuesday in northern Arkansas and the plan is already working perfectly. In
fact, the billboard has begun to generate national attention in the three days
since it went up along bypass 62-65 in Harrison. Its message is simple,
grammatically incorrect and wholly transparent: "Anti-Racist is a code
word for Anti-White." Aside from the fact that “Anti-Racist” is two words
and not one, there are other problems with the billboard. No, one of them is
not that it is actually racist in and of itself. The biggest issue is that the
person behind it doesn’t have the kahones to put their name with whatever the
message is supposed to be and explain what their intentions are. Oh, and the
billboard stands in a town that has made years and years of efforts to distance
itself from the ugly and hateful image of white supremacy. Heck, Harrison has
its own diversity council and the local high school makes a point of promoting
diversity to students. Yes, the person behind the billboard has a right to use
his or her money to buy the billboard and put up whatever message they choose,
but remaining anonymous is a straight-up coward move. So far, all this
anonymous person has said about the billboard is that it is a political
statement of some sort. Another statement was made by ESPN Radio, which had a
billboard adjacent to this one but took its sign down once the “Anti-Racist”
billboard went up. Well said, ESPN Radio……..
- What the eff has gotten into Canada? The maple syrup
chuggers to the north are supposed to be placid, docile people who rock out to
Bryan Adams, rock mullets without irony, have a closet full of denim and enjoy
their round bacon. So why, then, are Canadian police saying they have arrested
at least 40 people in eastern New Brunswick at the site of a protest over shale
gas development that turned violent? Yes, fracking and natural gas are divisive
issues and they can bring out the worst in people concerned about the water
from their faucet bursting into flame, but in Canada? The power of fracking to
get people f*cking pissed off should not be underestimated, as no less than the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called in to corral angry rioters, some of
whom were arrested for firearms violations, threats, intimidation, mischief and
violating a court-ordered injunction near Rexton. The day was decidedly
rage-tastic, with at least five of the RCMP’s vehicles reportedly destroyed
after they were set on fire. Why they didn’t all show up on their horses
remains a mystery, but horses don’t always fare too well when Molotov cocktails
are involved. Oh, and there was also at least one shot fired by someone who
isn't a police officer, although police have not yet identified the shooter. The
drama began when an injunction was granted for SWN Resources to store exploration
equipment. An angry mob of rioters that included many aboriginals showed up to
speak out against the arrangement and renew their demands that SWN Resources
stop seismic testing and leave the province. Here’s hoping for more riots
soon……..
- AT&T is always working on plans to gouge consumers for
more money for communication services and so it is fortuitous that the comm
giant has developed a new plan for tablet owners who do not maintain a monthly data
plan for their device, but may find themselves in need of a temporary
connection. These glorified day passes were announced by AT&T
vice president Chris Penrose, who told a captive audience that the cheapest
option will be a $5, 250 MB day pass, slotted alongside a plan that provides up
to 1 GB of data over a three month period for a one-time $25 fee. Both plans
are targeted toward users who would otherwise be reliant on a hotel’s wireless
network or other public wireless system when on the road. "We really think
that a Wi-Fi only tablet is good, but it is not good enough,” Penrose
explained. He added that AT&T would "like to see tablet manufacturers
build just one tablet," a single model equipped with a cellular radio. At
present, most tablet makers offer two tablet versions — cellular-capable and
Wi-Fi only — to reduce costs for anyone who doesn’t need their tablet to
connect to a 3G or 4G network because they already have a phone, laptop and/or
desktop that do so. Signing up for one of the new AT&T plans is as simple
as accessing buyasession.att.com and completing the four-step purchase process
using their AT&T SIM card. What some tablet owners may not know is that
Apple has offered a $29.99-per-month unlimited data plan directly from the
tablet's Settings app on a month-to-month basis using a credit card since the
iPad’s debut in 2010. Now the house that Jobs built has some more competition……..
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