- The “Veronica Mars” movie was a curious and successful endeavor
that raised more than double its original budget via a Kickstarter campaign, so
it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the cult favorite franchise still has life
left in it. After a three-season run that ended abruptly in 2007, creator Rob
Thomas and most of the cast worked to revive the franchise in movie form, with
their efforts culminating in March with a feature film that showed in a limited
number of theaters and was released via online media marketplaces the same day.
The movie was well-received and answered many questions left hanging when the
show came to a screeching halt despite having many stories left to tell. Based
on that success, Thomas is hard as work on “Play It Again, Dick,” a web
series revolving around Ryan Hansen’s fan favorite “Veronica
Mars” character,
Dick Casablancas, that was announced in January. The nebulous series will exist
somewhere between reality and the fictional world created by the show and movie
and Thomas laid it out in a mildly confusing way. “The web series will have
more in common with Party Down tonally, but it will be about Ryan
Hansen, or at least a version of Ryan Hansen, deciding to capitalize on the
current Veronica Mars heat to get his own series on the air.
He’ll try to pull his actor pals into the venture with varying degrees of
success,” Thomas said. However, he has gone silent of late in regards to the
project. All eight of its episodes have been filmed and it has leaked that
Hansen — who plays Dick Casablancas
and a fictionalized version of himself — will have series star Kristen Bell and
several other cast members in a story line built around a fictional “Veronica
Mars” spinoff
that Hansen has “written” as a star vehicle for himself titled “Play
It Again, Dick.” The premise might be a bit confusing, but given Thomas’
track record, it’s worth watching……….
- Long live the glorification of being fine with who you are
and not feeling the need to aim for something better. Sure, it’s nice when people don’t feel
shame about who they are or how they look, but there is something to be said
for being able to look in the mirror, admit that you’re not in the sort of
physical condition you could be in any work toward that improved self without
it being a huge ordeal. Instead, too many elect to lament the societal pressure
place on them by images of folks thinner and healthier and lash back by claiming
that they should be wholly accepted for who they are without needing to
improve. Such is the thinking behind the #fatkini campaign on Facebook and
Instagram, a campaign in which women who are, um, plus-sized post photos of
themselves in swimsuits with the aforementioned hashtag. Billed as a push for
empowerment, it is the brainchild of Virgie Tovar, a Bay Area
fat-discrimination lecturer, and plus-sized fashion blogger Gabi Fresh. “Fat
girls are told that we’re not supposed to wear bathing suits, that we’re
supposed to cover up and wear as much clothing as possible,” Tovar said. Fresh
began using the term on her blog two years ago, telling women of all sizes to
“find something that makes you feel gorgeous.” It only recently caught on and
as Tovar sees it, there’s good reason for that fact. “I think we’ve hit this
tipping point where I feel like people are done. There’s only so much shame and
self loathing that one human being can handle,” Tovar said. “The Fatkini is
this movement toward refusing to do that saying, ‘I’m alive right now. I can
wear this bathing suit right now and look good.’” Ultimately, anyone has the
right to post (legal) images of their choosing on their social media feed and
no one should be mocked or derided because of their appearance, but the #fatkini
push walks a dangerous line between acceptance and telling ladies who need to
lose a few pounds that they shouldn’t bother because who they are is awesome……….
- Don’t f*ck with Oakland Raiders fans. Most people – NFL
fans, players and owners as well as those outside the football world – know
this to be true and abide by this simple principle. The freaks in Skeletor
masks, spiked shoulder pads and face paint come to Raiders games packing
weapons, court-ordered ankle-based monitoring devices and a willingness to
fight anyone who even thinks about disrespecting them or their team, so it’s
best to avoid eye contact and keep moving when in their vicinity. That message
clearly did not reach Dallas Cowboys
cornerback B.W. Webb prior to the commencement of Tuesday's joint practice
between his team and the Raiders in Oxnard, Calif. A melee broke out when Cowboys
cornerback Morris Claiborne slammed Raiders tight end Mychal Rivera to the turf
by the sideline, just a few yards from a section of the crowd that was
predominantly Raiders fans. That was a problem because the teams had a verbal agreement
that there would be no tackling at the practice, but Claiborne said he decided
to take down Rivera after the tight end lowered his shoulder. In the aftermath
of the hit, Claiborne walked over Rivera and celebrated his tackle. Oakland
receiver Greg Little took exception and got in Claiborne’s face, spurring dozens
of Dallas defenders and Oakland offensive players to jump into the fight just
feet from the barriers behind which Raiders fans were standing. From there,
sh*t got real as an unidentified Raiders fan hit Webb in the back twice with
his hand and a third time with a helmet, spurring Webb to swing back before he
was pulled away. "Two teams going after it and happened to be some fans,
too," Webb said. "Hey man, it happened. I wasn't expecting that. But
whoever jumped on my back, I had to get them off. Hey, you got to let them
know, man, the only thing protecting you is this fence." It’s a bold
sentiment, but given the rap sheet of the average Raiders fan, not a wise
one……….
- Who isn't pissed at Russia right now? Ukraine isn't really
a fan, the United States is breathing all manner of threats against Vladimir
Putin and his crew and now, Poland is peeved at the communist hell hole
formerly known as the U.S.S.R. It all started with controversial comments
by nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who said Poland and the Baltics
would be "wiped out" in the event of a war between Russia and the
West. Those remarks were destined to go over poorly in Poland and every other
country allegedly poised for extinction in the event Russia’s overzealous
ambitions led it into a conflict with Western powers. Polish Foreign Minister
Radek Sikorski was the man to step up and demand answers for the offensive
comments and announced that he had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest Zhirinovsky,
the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party and a deputy speaker of the parliament's
lower house. Speaking on state television Zhirinovsky insisted "they will
be wiped out” when talking about Poland and the Baltic states, pronouncing all
of the aforementioned nations to be “doomed” in the event of such a war. The
meeting between Sikorski and the Russian ambassador took place earlier this
week, but neither man addressed what was said behind closed doors. One would
imagine that it wasn’t too substantial because the original remarks came from
an extremist kook with a history of making outrageous comments, mainly to cater
to his nationalistic supporters. Once Poland settles its beef, it will
then be time for another nation to raise its own stink over something Russia
has said or done lately………
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