- Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme is a role model for
parents everywhere. Sure, his parenting theology would technically leave both
he and his children sinking to a watery grave, but hear him out before you
judge him. Homme, responding to an interviewer’s question about the sort of
music he allows his children to listen to, proclaimed that he doesn’t merely
roll over and capitulate to whatever crap his little ones want to blast through
the speakers when they’re all together in the car. The interviewer mentioned
that he refused “to be a musical snob at this point with my kids” and therefore
decided that “if they wanna listen to One Direction, go for it, man.” Homme,
without missing a beat, returned fire in truly inspiring fashion. "Yeah, I
mean, that’s not necessarily my direction. I try to shy it away to a different
direction because I have to drive the car too,” he said. “And like, do you want
it to go over a cliff or do you want it to go to school? You decide – you’re
eight." It’s an awesome response to a quandary that faces every parent, as
well as a reaction that far too few moms and dads have the courage to utter.
Offering your child the choice between listening to the horrific drivel that is
One Direction and going over a cliff or making a better musical decision and
staying alive takes guts and Homme has the chutzpah to make that call. He went
on to say that his daughter is a fan of Metronomy and that Dean Martin is a
family favorite and while Dean-O isn't exactly rock and roll, he’s light years
less terrible than the over-producted ass hats of any boy band. World,
hope you’re taking notes from this frontman……..
- Rather than praise a spirit of international cooperation,
anti-crime
prosecutors in Romania are looking to bring the hammer down on an enterprising
crew that may or may not have counterfeited millions of euros. Romania's
anti-organized crime office said Friday it had teamed with Italian justice
officials dating back to last October to monitor the chief suspect, an Italian
living in western Romania. As the investigation progress, their scope widened
and as of now, officials are questioning 20 Romanians and four Italians
suspected of counterfeiting. According to The Man, the main suspect, an Italian
identified only as RV, fabricated the euros at his office in the western city
of Oradea. Like any reasonably
smart criminal mind, this fellow was at least sharp enough to spend his bogus
money elsewhere. He allegedly started floating the fake bills in other parts of
Romania as a sort of test run, then moved on to other European Union countries.
There have been multiple seizers of counterfeit cash during the operation and prosecutors
say they found 13 million fake euros in denominations of 20, 50 and 100, in
offices and homes in Oradea — and 55,000 euros on a garbage heap. Earlier this
week, Italian police confiscated almost 19 million euros in Italy counterfeited
in Romania and arrested the main suspect, bringing the operation to a crashing
halt. The above numbers are impressive to be sure and so is the fact that
Italians and Romanians were willing to join (ink-stained) hands in harmony and
conspire together to defraud the same government that oversees them all……….
- The good news for Darko Milicic is that he can’t be any
worse at his new sport than he was at his old one. The second overall pick in the
2003 draft never lived up to expectations after the Detroit Pistons bypassed
Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade to take him as the second overall
pick and after averaging a mere six points per game in his 10 NBA seasons with
Detroit, Orlando, Memphis, New York, Minnesota and Boston, he washed out of the
league and like all former professional athletes, he needed something else to
do with his life. His epiphany came a year when ago he came across a
humanitarian campaign that was raising funds by auctioning a kickboxing world
title belt. "When I got home, I told myself: Why buy it if you can win
it?" Milicic said. "I won't go deep into this [kickboxing] if I
cannot be devoted to it 100 percent. We will see what happens." That’s
right, a punching bag for anyone looking to compile a list of the biggest draft
busts in NBA history wants to beat the hell out of other dudes in the ring and
get paid for it. On one hand, it makes sense for a guy who has been without an
NBA contract for nearly two years and has an offer on the table from the World
Kickboxing Association to be both its promoter and a competitor. Milicic is 7
feet all and 250 pounds, so physically he has the size necessary to compete in
the ring and the reach to do some serious damage. However, a man who lacked the
basic skills necessary to capitalize on that size and become a productive NBA
player doesn’t exactly scream physical freak who’s going to dominate in
hand-to-hand combat. Fight on, Darko………
- Donald Trump enjoys pissing people off. If that’s not
apparent to you by now, then his combed-over pompadour must be obscuring your
vision. The billionaire real estate mogul has properties around the world, he’s
bagged multiple ridiculously hot blondes much younger than him and he’s built
gaudy skyscrapers from coast to coast. One doesn’t reach those lofty heights by
meekly tiptoeing through the world and trying not to offend anyone. Trump lives
to boost his ego and his bottom line and his latest effort to do both has run
him afoul of some South Florida residents who are ticked that a new line of
bushy trees are getting in the way of their views of his über-exclusive Trump National Doral golf complex in Doral. Trump has heard the
complaints, but dismissed them by saying the trees are part of his plan to
improve the world-renowned golf resort and the trees help give golfers a
feeling of isolation from everything but the course. In other words, he’s a lot
more concerned with the people on the course than he is with lazy, out-of-shape
people sitting on their back porch trying to look out at the view they could be
enjoying from up close if they got off their asses. Residents claim they have a
legal right to the views of which they’re being deprived because of the
agreements between the previous owner of the club and developers of nearby
homes. To protect their views, they are petitioning the city for an order to
cease construction until an agreement is reached. Trump’s counter is that the agreements
were terminated in 2012 when he bought the course out of bankruptcy and he doesn’t
give a damn what the 150 residents who have signed the petition think……..
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