- What has Denzel Washington been up to lately? Other than
starring in Hollywood blockbusters, going to red carpet events and hanging with
fellow A-listers, of course? Funny you should ask, because it turns out that a
massive movie star also likes to hang out in hellhole college towns in
Tennessee doing bong rips in cheap apartments and lying to the police about who
he is. Such is the story from Murfreesboro,
Tenn., where police arrested a man claiming to be Washington after responding
to a noise complaint at an apartment on Huntington Drive. When they rolled onto
the scene, officers had to be stunned to smell the scent of marijuana smoke
because no one ever does anything remotely stupid when they’ve spent the night
getting high with friends. Actually, stoners having enough energy to make
sufficient noise to register a complaint is somewhat curious, but the officers
figured something might be up and called for backup. When the legal posse went
inside, they found the drugs they had sniffed out earlier and began to process
the scene. Everyone inside the apartment reluctantly identified themselves to
the officers, but one man offered up a name that seemed to be a potential lie.
He identified himself as Denzel Washington, but officers weren't buying it and
did some digging. Stunningly, they learned that Denzel was not Denzel at all,
but rather Justin Seay. Seay then added a charge of criminal impersonation to
go with the drug and parole violations he was already facing, making it a
“Harold and Kumar”-worthy night that should be up for consideration in the
Stoner Hall of Fame………
- How is the season going to go for the Los Angeles Lakers? Try
asking rookie forward Julius Randle,
the team's top draft choice in June, and make sure you can understand him
through the weeping and tears coming from his hospital room once they wheel him
out of the operating room. Also, pull up a chair and get comfortable because
he’s going to have plenty of time to talk, what with his right tibia being
shattered less than one game into his NBA career. In a double-digit home opener
loss, Randle went down and the team has already announced that it expects him
to miss the rest of the season. "It is heartbreaking, because I saw him
all summer," coach Byron Scott said. "I saw the work that he was
putting in. I saw the progression that he was making, the steps that he was
taking to get better. And his first game, he goes down.” The injury could
actually be a positive for both Randle and the team, because he doesn’t have to
be directly involved with what’s going to be the worst season in franchise
history and the team can suck even worse than it otherwise would have thanks to
missing its prized rookie, therefore increasing its odds of winning the top
pick in the draft lottery. According to players near Randle went he went down,
there was an audible popping sound and he held his leg for several minutes
while medical officials tended to him. Randle went off on a stretcher and the
Lakers went down by 18 points as aging superstar Kobe Bryant fought with former
teammate Dwight Howard over a cheap shot elbow. The Lakers couldn’t stop
anyone, surrendered 50 free throw attempts and saw their offense look every bit
as punchless as expected. In short, it was a horrifying preview of what the
team and its celebrity fans can expect in the months ahead and this
could be the most terrifying horror story in Hollywood in a long time………
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! Long overlooked in the African and
Middle East dissidence scene, Benin is getting into the mix thanks to the opposition's call for local elections and the willingness of
some 30,000 supporters to take to the streets and demand the change their
government is unwilling to give them. The massive crowd gathered in the capital
city, Porto-Novo, to support the call for elections that were supposed to take
place in March 2013. They have been repeatedly postponed due to alleged issues
with electoral lists and despite showing no actual inclination to hold the
vote, officials continue to insist that the elections will take place before
the end of the year. Not satisfied with those lies, opposition parties called
the rally to make sure the issue could not continue to be back-burnered in the West
African nation. Opposition leader Oswald Homeky said the country is at an
impasse and reiterated claims that the opposition will not back down until its
demands are met. President Boni Yayi was elected in 2006 in a landslide vote
and won re-election in 2011, but he’s locked in as the leader of the country
through 2016, so changing local leadership is the next best option for those
seeking change. The drama became even more intense last yet due to a surprise
government reshuffle and that sparked a growing protest movement accusing Yayi
of seeking to remove term limits to increase his time in power. Should that be
his dastardly plan, he has nearly two years to execute it and if that means two
more years of angry uprisings featuring increasing levels of violence and
dissidence, then it’s a win for the world………
- Let the hipster condescension begin. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is arguably the most
pompous indie rocker in a world full of people who like things ironically and
believe they’re cooler than you, so one can only hope that Vernon hosting his
own festival will bring out the fake-glasses-wearing, flannel-rocking,
obscure-band-loving tools to celebrate with one of their icons. The Eaux
Claires Music And Arts Festival will take place next summer on Foster Farm in
Eau Claire, Wisc. which is normally not a place anyone would ever want to go
without a gun pointed to their head, but it is Vernon’s hometown and therefore
deemed worthy of such an event. The plan is for a capacity of 25,000 and for
the event to take place July 17-18, with acts playing on two stages and in one
large tent. Because he loves him some spotlight, Vernon will curate the
festival line-up himself. There is no lineup as of yet, but Vernon is a sure
bet to play either as a solo act, with Bon Iver or with his side project,
Volcano Choir – maybe all three. He hasn’t exactly been busy of late and his
last public move was releasing a new Bon Iver song earlier this year. That
track, “Heavenly Father,” featured on the soundtrack to Zach Braff film “Wish I
Was Here.” It was the first new Bon Iver material from Vernon since his
self-titled 2011 album and it put Vernon alongside fellow indie favorite like
The Shins and Cat Power. Summer
time is festival time and tossing another one onto the heap will hardly
overload the concert scene, but the idea of the a-holes who like and support
Vernon gathering in one place for two full days is either an opportunity to
quarantine them all from the rest of society or a surefire way for any
non-hipsters in attendance to reach a breaking point in their tolerance for flannel……..
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