- Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has never been the spotlight-loving
egomaniac that so many lead singers tend to be. He has been downright reclusive
at various points during his career and yet, here he is on the verge of
becoming a network TV star. Cuomo is set to star in a new comedy based around
his own life and the project will air on Fox. It is based on Cuomo’s life story
and the series will be written by Steve Franks, who had an über-successful run
as the scribe for the former USA network series “Psych.” The as-of-yet-untitled
Cuomo-based series will tell the tale of a 30-something rock star who is
worried about his success and makes the difficult decision to walk away from
music at the apex of his career to rediscover the parts of his life he missed
out on when he was becoming famous. It will approach the story from a
semi-autobiographical angle, including real events from Cuomo's own life such
as him attending Harvard University on and off from 1995 to 2006. In real life,
Cuomo took a sabbatical from his successful rock career eight years ago to
return to Harvard full-time, living in dorms and dining in the cafeteria with
his fellow Harvard smaht kids. In addition to writing, Franks will executive
produce the comedy with Tagline Television's Chris Henze. It is the next
project in a busy time for Cuomo, who along with his Weezer bandmates just
teased the latest track from their forthcoming album “Everything Will Be
Alright In The End.” The project is set for release on Oct. 7……….
- The fight for Scottish independence is heating up ahead of
the Sept. 18 vote to decided whether to break away from the rest
of the United Kingdom. With three weeks to go before the decision is made on
staying in the union or going its own way, Scotland is as divided as ever and
groups from every direction are banding together to make their final pitch for
either side of the issue. That includes 200 business leaders who have offered
support for the idea of Scottish independence from Britain, speaking out in
response to a letter from other companies contending that there are too many
uncertainties surrounding independence to approve the measure. An open letter
lays out the case for independence, with the business leaders claiming that the
real threat to Scotland's economy comes from the British Conservative Party's
willingness to hold a referendum on taking Britain out of the European Union.
It’s a bold counterpoint, but at this point, most polls and experts believe
that the odds are against Scots having the kahones under their kilts that it
will take to strike out on their own and be a free nation. Warring factions of
business leaders arguing back and forth isn't likely to sway too many votes and
with vital issues such as what currency the country would use still unresolved
and Prime Minister David Cameron traveling to Scotland Thursday to campaign to
keep Britain together, this fight is a long way from over……….
- Josh Gordon is having himself quite a week. First, the NFL
upheld his season-long suspension for a third violation of its substance abuse
policy and he had the temerity to chastise the league for not exercising better
judgment and discretion in its decision on his appeal. If that wasn’t enough,
word leaked later in the week that the troubled receiver was considering
playing in the Canadian Football
League while serving his ban. The idea of one of the best receivers in the NFL
toiling on 120-yard fields in the great white north for minimal money was
equally hilarious as Browns fans expecting the league to rule in Gordon’s
favor, but the dream of Canadian football fun ended before Gordon could say
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. No sooner than rumors rose of Gordon’s interest in the
CFL, NFL sources said that provisions in his Browns contract would prevent him
from doing so. CFL officials confirmed that under their rules, Gordon would not
be eligible to play because teams are prohibited from signing a suspended
player of any league who is under contract with his league. Unless the Browns
do an about-face and release their most talented player, that won't change.
Instead, arbitrator Harold Henderson decision to uphold Gordon's 2014 season
suspension for a failed test for marijuana will prevent Gordon from balling
anywhere other than a grassy lot at the local elementary school and he will
have to focus on staying in shape, staying out of trouble and dealing with the
myriad mountains of sh*t threatening to turn him into the latest über-talented
NFLer who weeded, stupid-ed and bumbled his way out of the league despite
mountains of raw physical ability………..
- Congrats, kooks of Minnesota’s Audubon Society. You’re slowly but
steadily backing down an NFL franchise worth hundreds of millions of dollars
after it muscled the people of your fine state for the tax dollars to build
itself a shiny new football palace. The Audubon fools already convinced the
Minnesota Vikings to turn off stadium lights at night during migration season
for birds getting the hell out of their frozen tundra of a state, but that wasn’t
enough for these avian-loving losers. No, their next demand is for specially
glazed bird-safe glass installed in the stadium to protect the lives of
thousands of birds. According to the Audubon Society, thousands of people are
concerned about birds hitting the large glass windows that will be in the new
Vikings Stadium. To make its case, the organization delivered a petition
containing 70,000 signatures – no word on how many are legit - to Gov. Mark
Dayton’s office. “Gov. Dayton has called it the people’s stadium,” a spokesman
for the organization said. “These are the signatures of the people and now we
want the people’s government to make the stadium safe for the people’s birds.”
The people’s birds? Hey ass hats…..they’re not YOUR birds. They don’t belong to
you, you didn’t raise them, they don’t live in your home and they don’t know
who the hell you are. They’re just birds and while they shouldn’t be abused or
tortured, they also can't hold the world hostage with ridiculous demands to
protect their tiny-brained selves from the harsh realities of a modern world.
Yes, the Audubon Society says adding bird-safe glass to the $1 billion stadium
will add about $1 million in extra costs and that seems like a small amount,
but this isn't about money. It’s about the cost of capitulating to the whims of
people whose idea of a fun weekend is crouching in some soggy marsh land with
their high-powered binocular in the hopes of spotting some rare winged creature……….
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