- Prepare to be revolted. In fact, find a waste receptacle
nearby because this story is going to turn your stomach in ways that you never
thought possible. Once you’ve braced yourself, journey south of the equator to
Brazil, where three people have been charged with killing at least two
women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh in pastries. Yes,
it’s “Sweeney Todd” come to life, except without good-looking people playing
the central parts. Exit Johnny Depp, enter Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da
Silveira, his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina
Oliveira da Silva. This entire story is just so twisted and sordid that it
seems beyond belief. A dude convincing his wife and his mistress to work
together on anything is far-fetched, but to have that plan involve going
cannibal on two people just pushes it over the edge. The trio were arrested in
April 2012 and allegedly confessed to luring women to their house by promising
them a job as a nanny, but it was just this week that Jorge Beltrao Negromonte
da Silveira was sentenced to 23 years in prison – hopefully in solitary
confinement – and his two leading ladies each received 20-year terms. According
to prosecutors, this collection of freaks kill their victims and stuffed their
flesh into meat pies they sold to neighbors, schools and hospitals claiming
they contained tuna or chicken. Unfortunately for these nut bags, they didn’t go
Native American and use every part of their kill, do police found remains of
two women in the backyard of the suspects’ house. The clincher, though, was
when police found a 50-page book titled Revelations of a Schizophrenic that was
written by de Silveria in which he claimed he heard voices and was obsessed
with killing women. Yet at the start of his trial, he offered up a remarkably
non-insane defense that didn’t do him much good. "I committed a horrible,
monstrous mistake. It was a moment of extreme weakness and brutality that I
regret,” he said. A moment? Here’s guessing it took more than a moment to carry
out your sinister lot, you sick, sick freak……….
- Look who’s not so indie and obscure anymore, Ryan Adams. Adams,
who has existed for two decades in an oft-ignored worm hole of indie rock
success and built a loyal following among fans on the musical fringe, has
gained more mainstream notoriety in recent years and he’s about to get even
more thanks to a gig scoring a new Al Pacino movie. Adams will pen the songs
for “Danny Collins,” a project starring Pacino and directed by Dan Fogelman.
The film is set for release next year and will feature Pacino as an aging rock star determined to
change his life after finding an old letter from John Lennon. Adams will team
with Theodore Shapiro for the project and for anyone thinking the singer might
be a bit dry on ideas after releasing his eponymous new album earlier this
year, just know that Adams is famous for having scores of hoarded material in
his musical reservoir and records much more than he’ll need for any new
project, so the odds of him having a tough time coming up with satisfactory
material for this one are slim. The real question is whether Pacino, who
doesn’t exactly have a storied history of crooning convincingly on the silver
screen, can convincingly pull off whatever songs Adams and Shapiro craft for
him. Given Pacino’s trademark screaming of at least half his lines in every
movie, perhaps screamo is the right genre choice for any and all songs on this
one………
- Victoria’s Secret, you have company. The overweight out
there are coming for the maker of overpriced undergarments, but they’re also
gunning for the maker of affordable casual clothing for the masses, Old Navy. The retailer,
owned by San Francisco-based The Gap Inc., was cruising along with its annoying
ads when trouble came knocking digitally in the form of customer Renee Posey,
who was surfing Old Navy’s website and noticed that plus-sized women’s jeans
cost $12 to $15 more. She then scanned the site to check the prices for
plus-sized men’s jeans and found that the price was the same as with
regular-sized jeans. “I was fine paying the extra money as a plus-sized woman,
because, you know, more fabric equals higher cost of manufacture,” Posey wrote
on a petition on Change.org, which has drawn more than 23,500 signatures.
“However, selling jeans to larger-sized men at the same cost as they sell to
smaller men not only negates the cost of manufacture argument, but indicates
that Old Navy is participating in both sexism and sizeism, directed only at
women.” Ouch, R.P. Those are hurtful words. Posey’s petition demands that Old
Navy “stop charging plus-sized women more for clothing than you do
straight-sized women and men and ‘big’ sized men.” As one would expect, Old
Navy has a damn good reason for the price discrepancy. “For women, styles are
not just larger sizes of other women’s items, they are created by a team of
designers who are experts in creating the most flattering and on-trend plus
styles, which includes curve-enhancing and curve-flattering elements such as
four-way stretch materials and contoured waistbands, which most men’s garments
do not include,” the company said. In other words, women are more discerning
about style, so you can’t give them drab gear like you can to fat dudes. In
response, Posey denounced the explanation as spin. “Don’t your regular women’s
clothes include figure-enhancing elements? Or do you only charge extra for them
when they’re for big women?” she wrote. In a nation with an alarming 100
million plus-sized women and where the average now a size 14, this is a fight
of note………
- Golfers bleed too. They may seem like out-of-shape slugs
who swing a light club once, walk at a leisurely pace to where their ball lands
and have a caddy carry their bag, but that doesn’t mean they don’t suffer on
the course. French golfer Victor Dubuisson was proof of that fact during the second
round of the $7 million Turkish Airlines Open on Friday. Dubuisson, the
defending champion and a key contributor on the Europe Ryder Cup team that curb
stomped the United States in Scotland in September, needed on-course assistance
to treat a persistent nose bleed in Belek and was a bloody mess by the time he
finished his round. The Frenchman, who suffers from allergies, was clearly
struggling midway through his round. Blood fell from his nose onto his golf
shirt and in very distinguished fashion, he crammed a Kleenex up his nose to
stem the crimson flow. "It's not good and I didn't feel well at all,"
he said after his round at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course. Sure, other
athletes may get bloodied from on-field collisions or hard falls to the court,
but that doesn’t make Dubuisson’s on-course bravery any less impressive. After
firing a 5-over-par 77 on Thursday, he battled back to just two over par through
13 holes when a storm rolled in, forcing the suspension of play and providing a
chance for much-needed medical attention for the man who vaulted onto the
international stage 12 months ago with his first European Tour win at the same
event he is now trying to survive……..
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