- The months of speculation, weeks of rumors and days filled
with drama, Disney
Channel has finally announced the debut date for its much-hyped “Boy Meets
World” spin-off, “Girl Meets World,” will premiere Friday, June 27. Its
über-odd start time will be 9:45 p.m. ET/PT as part of a multiplatform roll-out
that will make the premiere episode available to verified viewers on WATCH
Disney Channel, its streaming site, beginning May 21. There will also be a nice
tutorial for anyone who is ignorant of the show that spawned “Girl Meets
World,” with a marathon of “Boy Meets World” on June 15. Picking a peculiar
start time is clearly part of the promotional plan, as after its June 27 debut,
“Girl Meets World” will settle into its regular time slot at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT beginning
July 11. “Boy Meets World” was part of ABC’s “Thank Goodness It’s Friday (TGIF)
block of programming known and aired from 1993 through 2000. Its two
main character’s were teenagers Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence, played by Ben Savage and Danielle
Fishel. The pair will be the central block of “Girl Meet World” as the parents
of a 13-year-old daughter named Riley (Rowan Blanchard), the protagonist of the
new show. “Boy Meets World” creator Michael Jacob will helm the spin-off and
perhaps proving that their respective careers haven't exactly gone through the
roof in the past decade, William Daniels (Mr. Feeny), Rider Strong (Cory BFF
Shawn Hunter), William Russ and Betsy Randle (Cory’s parents), Lee Norris (Stuart
Minkus) and Danny McNulty (Harley Keiner) will all be a part of the show. All
in all, it’s a nice blast of nostalgia that could be a huge success or a
colossal failure…….
- Is Sinn Fein ever NOT angry? The answer, of course, is
no. The current source of rage for the rowdiest group in Northern Ireland is
the continued detention of party leader Gerry Adams. The senior Sinn Fein
politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded Adams’ immediate
release and accused police of attempting to illegally extend his interrogation
over the IRA's 1972 killing of a Belfast mother of 10. Deputy First Minister
Martin McGuinness verbally b*tch-slapped the police's continued questioning of
Adams after the 48-hour detention
period was set to expire Friday night but a judge gave permission to extend it.
McGuinness went verbal commando by accusing "a cabal" of officers
within the Police Service of Northern Ireland of pursuing "a negative and
destructive agenda to both the peace process and to Sinn Fein." Adams was
arrested on Wednesday night as a suspect in the IRA abduction, killing and
secret burial of Jean McConville. The British law that much of Northern Ireland
opposes mandates that suspects must be charged or released within 48 hours,
unless police receive a judicial extension. That extension then allows
terrorism suspects to be detained up to a maximum 28 days. However, in Northern
Ireland, terror suspects' detentions are extended by one to five days. The
funniest part of the whole charade was McGuinness saying the arrest and
unexpectedly long detention of Adams were designed to tarnish Sinn Fein's image
and damage its prospects in council and European Parliament elections taking
place in both parts of Ireland this month. It’s almost as if Sinn Fein has no
self-awareness about how it is perceived on a larger scale. "This is a
very, very serious situation," said McGuinness, a former IRA commander who
has jointly led Northern Ireland's power-sharing government alongside British
Protestants since 2007. "I believe that Gerry Adams will be totally and
absolutely exonerated, and Gerry Adams will continue to lead this party."
Even if all of that is true, rest assured that the party will find something
else to be pissed about………
- Cincinnati
Reds closer Aroldis Chapman is flat-out badass. One month after being blasted
in the face with a line drive that shattered his skull but clearly not his psyche,
the Cuban defector appeared in a minor league game Thursday night as part of
his rehab assignment as he makes his way back to the majors. Chapman said he felt
"normal" in his first game action since suffering a head injury in
March. "When I say 'normal,' I mean I felt like I have always been, the
way I felt before the accident," Chapman said through interpreter/trainer
Tomas Veras. "There is no fear, no hesitation with me." For anyone
with a shred of self-preservational instinct, fear and hesitation would be a
normal response. Instead, the two-time All-Star threw two pitches at 101 mph as
part of his rehab start with Class A Dayton. He pitched one inning and fanned
two batters. "My fastball felt really good," Chapman added. "I
threw one slider, which was not a good slider. I used a lot of changeups. The
pitches were all landing where I wanted them to." Simply seeing him on the
mound after being struck on the forehead by a line drive during a spring
training game in Arizona on March 19 and having a plate inserted above his left
eye and nose to help fractures heal was amazing and so is the fact that Dayton
Reds manager Bryan Price said earlier this week that he thought Chapman would
need only a few games in the minors to get ready for his return. Jonathan
Broxton is closing games in Chapman’s stead and if there were any doubts about
lingering psychological effects, Chapman insisted he “doesn’t think about that
at all.” He might be lying, but being able to block it out will enough to pitch
without curling up into a ball post-delivery is impressive regardless………
- Congratulations, PETA. Yes, the piranha-hugging kooks of People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have reached a new low and this one is
going down in Utah, where animal rights activists are asking for permission to
erect a memorial at the site where hundreds of turkeys died when a truck
crashed into Deer Creek Reservoir. The chief kook spearheading this effort is Salt
Lake City resident Amy Meyer, who sent a written request to the Utah Department
of Transportation on behalf of PETA asking the department to create the
memorial. Yes, this fool wants a memorial to commemorate the accidental deaths
of turkeys WHO WERE BEING SHIPPED OFF TO BE KILLED AND EATEN. The “Sorry You
Died Sooner Than Expected, Turkeys” memorial would theoretically be erected on
U.S. 189 near Deer Creek Reservoir. An accident occurred at the location on
April 24, as a truck carrying live turkeys to Norbest Inc. in Gunnison, Sanpete
County lost control and veered off the road. Only around two dozen of the 720
turkeys being carried by the truck survived. The proposed memorial sign would
read "Drive Safely; Buckle Up: In Memory of the Hundreds of Terrified
Turkeys Who Died Here in a Truck Crash." To further the kook-tastic
PETA message, the proposes sign would also include a picture of a turkey and
the phrase "try vegan." UDOT policy states that signs will only be
installed after the department has a written agreement with the family of the
person who died. Because the families of dead turkeys ARE STILL FREAKING
TURKEYS, this should derail this asinine effort, but in its request to UDOT,
PETA said this condition should be overlooked in this case because turkeys from
a factory-farming industry have no living relatives. Quality logic, you knobs…………
- Foursquare has spent the last few years trying to fend off
technological irrelevance. Some might call that attempting to convince users
it's more than just a check-in app, but fans of Tinder, SnapChat and
dozens of other social networking apps still don’t care. Foursquare’s latest
push began Thursday, when the company announced that it has effectively split
its app in two. One of the newly minted apps will provide local
recommendations, in a bid to pitch Foursquare as a legitimate challenger to
Yelp. Its sister app will serve up the sort of social heat map upon which
Foursquare has built its name, allowing users to check in and see which of
their friends are nearby and what they are doing. Because both can't be
called Foursquare and dubbing them Foursquare 1 and Foursquare 2 would
be totally lame, the two apps will have separate monikers. The
recommendations app will get the Foursquare name, while the check-in service
will be called (super creepy name alert) Swarm. Foursquare's social features
will all roll into the Swarm app, while it will peel off its discovery features
to form the core function of its original app. Those discovery features have
long been a chief interest at Foursquare headquarters, but the split is still a
dramatic turning point for the company. It mirrors (i.e. copies) the efforts of
other mobile companies, such as Facebook, to create separate products for
separate functions rather a single, multi-purpose app. Foursquare announced
that Swarm will be available for all iOS and Android devices in the coming
weeks, and soon after on inferior Windows phones……….
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