- The spin-off for “The Walking Dead” many not yet have a
title - at least not one that’s not a) temporary and b) totally lame - but its
cast is beginning to take shape. British actor Frank Dillane – who played Tom
Riddle, a.k.a. Baby Voldemort, in “Harry
Potter And The Half-Blood Prince” – has snagged a spot in the new
“Walking Dead” spin-off, which is operating under the working (and terrible)
title “Cobalt.” The new show is set in the middle of the same zombie apocalypse
as its predecessor, but will take place in a totally different location that is
still being overrun by zombies. The spin-off has been co-created by Robert
Kirkman, whose graphic novel provides the tale off which “Walking Dead” is
based. In addition to Dillane, several other members of the cast have been
chosen. The show’s leading male will be a divorced teacher and its lead female
will be a guidance counselor and Dillane will play the woman's son. Rising
Australian actress Alicia Debnam Carey will play the guidance counselor’s
daughter and the two primary roles are being kept under close wraps for now.
Ratings remain sky-high for “Walking Dead,” which had its Season 5 premiere in
October and drew the largest-ever audience for an episode of a drama in U.S.
television history. The pilot for “Cobalt” has already been ordered and is
expected to begin shooting soon, but there is no officially announced air date.
Expect it to find a home shortly after or before a season of “Walking Dead,” so
as to get the maximum chain-smoking effect from the original series’ great
success………..
- Does being arrested and hauled off to jail feel slightly
less day-ruining if the person doing the apprehending is really, really
good-looking? The New York Police Department doesn’t seem to buy into that
theory, otherwise they wouldn’t be pursuing possible penalties against several
female officers for seductive selfies of themselves they posted on Instagram.
The lady officers could be docked vacation days for posting pictures of themselves in
their uniforms beside images of themselves in, um, less professional attire.
The officers in the crosshairs posted photos to the Instagram account
@blueline_beauties, which is “dedicated to law enforcement women” and features
photos of female cops from around the United States. The president of the union
representing the officers is against any discipline - shocker - because she
says the photos merely show what the officers wear in when they’re off the
clock. Unfortunately, the NYPD has a policy against officers posting photos of
themselves online while in uniform, unless they’re at official ceremonies.
According to an NYPD spokesman, this policy is aimed at both protecting
officers and maintaining their credibility, which apparently takes precedence
over sexiness. There was also a male counterpart to the Instagram feed,
@blueline_beefcakes, but both accounts were taken down once the controversy
around them boiled up. The odds of anyone who encounters one of the hundreds
and hundreds of NYPD officers on the street actually having seen any of these
photos and have said photos negatively affect their opinion of the officer in
the images are ridiculously low, but props to the NYPD for showing its lack of
a sense of humor extends even to its own……….
- Fake playing surfaces in sports have gotten much better
over the years and nowhere is that more obvious than Toronto's Rogers Centre, which housed the most odious of all surface
choices during its previous incarnation as the Sky Dome. The Sky Dome had
old-school artificial turf, which amounted to a very abrasive form of synthetic
carpet stretched over a concrete floor. It obliterated knee cartilage, shredded
skin and generally made playing any sport a minimum of 50 percent less
enjoyable. These days, the Rogers Centre uses Field Turf, just like every other
professional sports venue in North America that doesn’t have actual grass.
That’s still not good enough, according to the guy who just got done manning
third base for the Toronto Blue Jays as he was traded to Oakland. New Oakland
Athletics third baseman Brett Lawrie has his own theory about why he’s missed a
robust 184 games since the start of the 2012 season. "It treats my
body kind of silly and throws it off," Lawrie said of the artificial turf.
"I just want to go out and be healthy, and I feel like this getting off
the turf is a big step forward for me." Sure, because the only reason you
played just 70 games last season, with only one at-bat after June 22 and
sustained a broken finger and an oblique strain isn’t because freak injuries
happen in sports or because you might be a bit brittle, but rather because the
turf on which you played 81 home games was mean to you. Lawrie hit .247 for the
season with just 12 home runs and 38 RBIs, but believes big things are in store
for him in California. "Give me 550 at-bats. These are things I haven't
had yet in the big leagues," Lawrie said. "Hopefully, getting off
that turf will do my body wonders, and I really think that it will.
"[Injuries] are part of the game, and I've come to grips with that.
Really? Because it doesn’t sound like you have……….
- Say it ain’t so, three founders of Hong Kong’s protest
movement who are now waiving the white flag and cowering in the corner rather
than continue their nation’s violent push for long-overdue democratic reforms. Yet
there were professors
Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man and pastor Chu Yiu-ming, calling for an end
to street demonstrations to prevent further violence and to take the campaign
for democratic reforms to a new stage. Yeah, a new stage of lameness, yo. All
three men have decided that now is the time to surrender to police to take
responsibility for protests that have shut down parts of the Asian financial
center for more than two months. Unless responsibility is a bizarre synonym for
credit in this case, none of these men should be apologizing for anything. Yes,
they want to keep chasing democratic reform, but through lame means like networking
among civic groups, community organizing and education in democracy and human
rights. Booooorrrrrring. Guys, you three are founders of the Occupy Central
movement to force China's central government to scrap its requirement that
candidates for the semiautonomous region's chief executive be approved by a
panel chosen by Beijing and while that’s a wordy way of saying China controls
your government, it’s also total bullsh*t. The good news is that the
surrendering trio represent only one faction of demonstrators, most of whom are
students, and even their followers aren’t bound to accede to the leaders’
request. Joshua Wong, a prominent student leader, said he and two other members
of his group plan to continue their hunger strike. "We admit that it's
difficult in the future to have an escalated action, so besides suffering from
batons and tear gas, we would like to use our bodies to direct public attention
to the issue," Wong said. Meanwhile, the supposed leaders Wong has been
marching behind were serving up weak sauce platitudes like their surrender
serving as a "silent denunciation of a heartless government." Sounds
like it’s time for new management here………
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