- Grimes has clearly run out of things to write music about.
Making that sort of assessment about a recording artist can seem harsh, but
when a person is combining their future persona as Crazy Cat Lady with some of
the worst lyrical content possible, it is time to drop that hammer of judgment.
Grimes –
real name Clare Boucher – recently posted a song online about the very
important topic of her obese cat and how she decided to get Voignamir the help
the chunky feline needed. The track, which was recorded in 2009, is a
collaboration with Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz, the person with whom she
co-owned Voignamir. "Ooooh my gosh... found this song on my computer that
me and Dev of Majical Cloudz made in like 2009 about our cat Voignamir who at
the time was on very bad terms with us because we were forcing him to diet and
so he was like, very violent but literally like 20 or 30 pounds,” Boucher
wrote. “I don't know why it sounds like indie rock haha, neither of us really
make music like this.” Finding a forgotten song on the hard drive can be a
great thing, but not in this case. This is the kind of forgotten file you
stumble across, open and realize in less time than it takes for a program to
open why you never did anything with it in the first place. So why release it? "It's
our summer jam so we figured we should put it out cuz I am very bored of
waiting to finish my album b4 releasing new music haha,” Boucher said, nothing
that she plans to release the follow-up to her 2012 project “Visions” later
this year……….
- Election fraud is in style this year. It’s (allegedly)
happening all over the world in 2014 and it’s currently going down in
Indonesia, a place most people in the world cannot locate on the map and a
nation where presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto alleged there had
"been quite massive incidences" of fraud in general elections, so
much so that he might not be able to win one of the most divisive polls in the
fragile democracy's history. The Suharto-era general has touting himself as the
likely winner, but he boldly admitted late this week that he might lose to his
challenger, former Jakarta governor Joko Widodo, due to voting fraud. Nothing
says great character and integrity quite like realizing you might lose an
election you were sure you’d win and immediately reaching for the “fraud”
button. "Half of the Indonesian people support me," Subianto said.
"In my conviction, is it more than half, if there is no cheating."
Those actually counting ballots and not pulling favorable figures from their
asses claim to have carried out "quick count" of a sample of the
votes that showing Widodo with a small but decisive lead. These quick counts have
accurately forecast past regional and national elections in Indonesia, but they
are in direct contradiction to Subianto's insistence that he was on course for
victory. His claims have in turn sparked speculation that the superrich
candidate might be trying to himself fix the results or will refuse to concede.
Indeed, Subianto said he may well challenge the result in the Constitutional
Court because of the alleged vote fraud. That would be mighty rich considering
the court’s past chief justice is serving a life sentence for accepting a bribe
to rule in favor of a plaintiff in a regional election dispute. This is one
stinky electoral onion with many layers still to peel back………
- This is why Harvard exists. It’s not to cure terminal
illnesses, create innovative products that help solve environmental issues or
better the lives of impoverished people in Third World nations. No, the
wicked-smaht folks who call Cambridge, Mass. home gather in their ivy-covered,
hallowed halls every day so their amazing minds can find a way to speed the
interminably long trek between Americans’ desire to enjoy unhealthy and
disgusting food products and their disdain for actually putting forth any
effort to get fat. Enter two Harvard students, John McCallum and Brooke Nowakowski, and a
little something they call Spray Cake. It began as a class project, but has
mushroomed into something much more. “Honestly, we were kind of shocked that it
hadn’t been done before. In the process of getting the patent made we were
basically looking everywhere we could, high and low, for anyone who had done
something like this in the past, but we couldn’t find it,” Nowakowski said. “Spray
Cake is essentially cake batter in a whipped cream-style can.” Yes, it’s cake
without all the hassle of assembling the ingredients, mixing them up and
waiting for the finished product to pop out of the oven – or even going to the
store and buying an actual cake. “(When) you spray it, it comes out pre-risen,
so it bakes in less time. It’s microwavable. It makes more consistently than
traditional cake batter,” McCallum added. McCallum and Nowakowski admitted that
they were surprised no one else came up with the idea, which is on point in a
morbidly obese nation like the United States. Their creation is reportedly organic
and has less chemicals than traditional box cakes and won top prize at the
Harvard Innovation Challenge. The inventors have found a company to sell their
wonder spray and hope to secure a local manufacturer to get it on shelves soon………..
- The NFL doesn’t have quite the same issues as the NBA when
it comes to players leaving college when they aren't ready and chasing the
dollars of professional sports in an ill-fated pursuit that ruins a
once-promising career. That’s because the current NFL rules mandate that a player
be three years removed from his high school graduation to enter the league,
whereas basketball players can jump to the NBA one year out of high school. But
perhaps the NFL feels it’s not doing enough to discourage players who need more
seasoning to remain in college for their senior year, because the league is
tweaking its pre-draft process to
limit the number of underclassmen who can receive evaluations for the draft to
five from a single school, with special exceptions possible. Currently, the
league allowed possible underclassmen draftees to receive an evaluation on
where they would be picked – anywhere from the first through third rounds, and
whether a player had no potential of being selected. After seeing a record 107
underclassmen apply for this year's draft, and with 37 of them not selected,
the powers that be decided something had to be done to prevent players from
passing up the final year of being on scholarship and enjoying the college
life. As such, the league's College Advisory Committee has developed new
guidelines for players considering forfeiting their final years of eligibility.
According to Troy Vincent, the league's head of football operations, underclassmen
will be advised on their potential to be picked in the first or second round and
could also be advised to stay in school……….
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