- Apparently you can talk about a revival of Fight Club. The
1996 movie starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt was based on a comic book that
not many people know or talk about because of the movie’s cult classic status,
but creator Chuck Palahniuk is bringing back the less-heralded part of the
franchise for a 10-issue comic book sequel series that will debut in May 2015. The
Dark Horse series, illustrated by Cameron Stewart, will pick up Tyler Durden’s
tale a decade after the ending of the original book and film. “Fight Club 2” will
take place in both the future and past, with the unnamed narrator married to
Marla Singer and raising their 9-year-old son Junior. Many of the characters
from the first comic book will be back, as will Project Mayhem, the anarchic
organization that still wields influence over the narrator as he tries to save Junior's
life. Perhaps the most interesting part of the tale will be the exploration of the
true origins of Tyler Durden, who turns out to be more than the narrator's
embodied id. "Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries
and is not just this aberration that's popped into his mind," Palahniuk said.
What may give the sequel a different flavor is that Palahniuk admitted that his
own views on the story’s central themes have changed. The first book was
"such a tirade against fathers — everything I had thought my father had
not done combined with everything my peers were griping about their
fathers," Palahniuk added. "Now to find myself at the age that my
father was when I was trashing him made me want to revisit it from the father's
perspective and see if things were any better and why it repeats like
that." Palahniuk explained that the narrator will have moved on from the
fight club scene, but will try to revisit it and find the endeavor difficult……..
- Russia doesn’t get many things right. This is one that the
Communist hellhole dwellers hit right on the button. The country’s consumer
protection agency has filed a suit against international purveyor of greasy,
unhealthy eats McDonald's for allegedly selling food that does not meet legal
standards. And yes, there are countries that have legal standards for what fast
food eateries can and cannot serve. The agency, Rospotrebnadzor, announced
Friday on its website that it was bringing the suit in the wake of inspections
of two of the company's restaurants in Novgorod. And yes, McDonald’s does have
restaurants in Novgorod and yes, Novgorod really does exist. In its statement,
the agency said some food was found with microbial contamination and several
items had caloric values two to three times higher than allowed by national
regulations. This feels a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, as all McDonald’s
food is virtually guaranteed to have excessive calories in it if anyone actually
bothers to take a look. Russia wants to take it a step further, having the sale
of McDonald's products that do not meet the regulations be declared illegal.
Beyond that, it’s unclear what sort of penalties the restaurants could face for
their indiscretions with crappy food, but they were allegedly 70,000 rubles
($2,100). Best of all, this entire matter could be a sham, as the consumer
protection agency is often alleged to initiate legal actions for political ends………
- Texas football
coach Charlie Strong is swinging a big hammer and smashing anything that moves
in an inappropriate way within the UT program. Here’s hoping his players get
the message soon because if they don’t, the Longhorns may not have enough
players left to field a team this season. Strong, in his first season after
being hired away from the University of Louisville, has kicked at least six
players off the team since becoming coach, in addition to suspending two
Longhorns players Thursday after they were arrested for sexual assault. So far,
Strong has excommunicated safety Josh Turner, running back Jalen Overstreet and
defensive back Chevoski Collins for violating team rules and senior running
back Joe Bergeron followed suit this week. Texas has yet to officially
acknowledge any of the dismissals, but at some point it will have to address
why a projected starter like Turner isn't, ya know, starting or in uniform. None
of the dismissed players was an All-America candidate, which always makes it
easier to get rid of them, and none of their dismissals should come as a surprise.
Overstreet previously battled academic issues and was ruled ineligible last
December for Texas' Valero Alamo Bowl loss to Oregon and Strong has made a
point of laying downhis rules for the program and making sure those rules are
followed to the letter. The first two victims of his executive hammer were fullback
Chet Moss and defensive back Leroy Scott, who were kicked off the team in March
for a violation of team rules. The are rumors that as many as five more Texas
players could be facing dismissals due to violations of team rules and that
doesn’t include receivers Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander, who were arrested
on sexual assault charges Thursday for an incident in June. Both players were
suspended indefinitely by Strong and their names already have been removed from
Texas' official roster, further depleting a talent base that was weak enough to
get former coach Mack Brown fired and lead to Strong being brought in to return
UT to the lofty perch to which the university and its fans believe they are
entitled……….
- Children can be a pain in the ass. They can also let fly
with some inappropriate comments they simply aren't savvy enough to know that
they shouldn’t make. Four-year-old Justin Otero is an ace when it comes to opening his
big-but-small mouth and allowing inappropriate words to slip out and as a
result, he can no longer patronize his favorite local doughnut shop. Otero and
his mother Rebecca visited the Doughnut Inn in Connecticut this week and while
they were inside picking out a selection of glazed, frosted and cream-filled
treats, Justin spotted another patron who caught his attention. He proceeded to
ask the female patron if she was pregnant. “It looked like she was pregnant and
I asked her if she was pregnant,” he said. The woman, it turned out, was not
pregnant and Justin’s over-the-line query was overheard by a store manager. It
seems the manager was not happy with having one of her customers rudely
questioned by a young boy with a curious streak, so when Justin’s mother took
him back to the store a few days later, an awkward encounter ensued. “She said
‘he’s not allowed in here.’ I looked around and was like ‘him?’ She said ‘Yeah’
and I’m like, ‘Why, what did he do?’ And she said, ‘He’s rude,’” Rebecca said. The
store has since taken a lot of social media heat for its stance, but so far,
ownership continues to stand by its decision and enforce a doughnut ban on a
4-year-old who will simply have to find another place to buy his fried balls of
dough……….
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