- Who are Fat White Family? They’re the guys trying to build some buzz for their
second album by recording it with John Lennon's old Beatles equipment while
working at his son Sean Lennon's recording studio in New York City, that’s who.
The London-based band also has Sean Lennon at the helm as a co-producer after meeting
him at a performance at SXSW last year. If it was only that for ties from the
project to The Beatles, then it would probably be a positive. However, the
walking (talent-deprived) freak show that is John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono is
also a part of this because work on the record is currently taking place at
Lennon's state-of-the-art studio in a remote upstate mansion owned by Ono. "Almost
everything we pick up, Sean'll be like, 'Oh that was my dad's'," guitarist
Saul Adamczewski said. "We've been using this old mellotron of his – I
don't know if it's the one on 'Strawberry Fields…', but for the sake of the
story, let's just say it is." Interestingly, Adamczewski admitted that the
band didn't know who Lennon was when they first met and were actually paying
more attention to his girlfriend because she’s freaking hot. "She's in his
band and she's stunning, so we were all staring at her going, 'Oh my god, who's
that girl?'" he recalled. "Joe [Pancucci, bassist] kept trying to
chat her up; he kept approaching her, and she kept moving away. It was our old
drummer who approached Sean, kissing his arse, basically, so they hit it off
and he took us all out for dinner. He's a cool bloke. A strange bloke.” So he’s
“a strange bloke,” you say? Lennon had some interesting words of his own for
Fat White Family, calling them "chaotic and out of control" with
"very extreme personalities." It sounds like a wonderful working
relationship and the recipe for an album that could be great or a total
dumpster fire………..
- This might be the most adorable request for help ever. It
comes from Australia, where there is an urgent need for donations of mittens for koalas
whose paws have been burned in recent bushfires. The International Fund for
Animal Welfare (IFAW) is asking for people to either donate or make cotton
mittens for the animals to help them in the recovery process. The fires have
raged over the past week in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, and
koalas, which (brace yourself for tear-jerking mental imagery) move very slowly
and haven't been able to get their furry behinds moving fast enough to evade
the flames. That has left many of them with severe burns and despite the best
efforts of rescue workers, there are a lot of hurting koalas out there.
"Just like any burn victim, koalas’ dressings need changing daily, meaning
a constant supply of mittens is needed by wildlife carers," IFAW native
wildlife campaigner Josey Sharrad said. The good news for anyone with a soul
and a pair of eyes is that the sad scene unfolding thousands of miles away is
one in which they can play a positive role. IFAW workers need mittens made from
clean, 100-percent cotton and you don’t need a fashion degree or advanced
sewing skills to participate. "These mittens are simple to make even if
you’ve never sewn before," Sharrad said. The IFAW has a special page with
a koala mittens template pattern and information on where to send the finished
mittens as well. With an influx of mittens and care from firefighters and
citizens in Victoria and South Australia, these koalas have a fighting chance
and the world will be a better place because of it……….
- Either former
Miami Dolphins fullback is a world-class badass or he’s a world-class
liar, with no alternatives in between. The six-year NFL veteran, who played for
the Dolphins from 1999 to 2004 and was released by Miami in March 2005, survived
a boating accident in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday night by swimming nine
miles to shore, according to the Coast Guard. The story Konrad told when he was
found on the beach by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office at 4:40 a.m. ET on
Thursday morning after he contacted them is that he was fishing alone off the
coast of South Florida when he fell from his 36-foot boat, which had been
operating on autopilot. Petty Officer Mark Barney of U.S. Coast Guard said
Konrad was believed to have been in the water for 10 to 12 hours while swimming
to the beach. Friends first became concerned when he didn’t show up for dinner
and contacted the Coast Guard, which later sent a helicopter to look for him.
After a tense night of not knowing where Konrad was, he turned up on the beach
in the early morning hours and was taken to a local hospital, where he was treated
for hypothermia symptoms and released. Playing fullback in the NFL and smashing
head-on into 250-pound linebackers for a living is tough, but being alone in
the ocean in the middle of the night, trying to swim for shore and knowing that
if you stop swimming you’re going to die, that’s a different endeavor entirely.
Konrad, perhaps not surprisingly, declined to speak to local media about the
event after his rescue. He is listed on a website for investment firm KT
Capital as a principal and perhaps has better things to do with his time than
spin tales of heroic swims/lies about what really happened out at sea. Athletes
and fabricated stories of great accomplishments are nothing new, but here’s
hoping this one is legit and that Konrad just went full-on badass when his life
was on the line……….
- Some flight attendants just have a crappy attitude. They’re
tyrants at 20,000 feet, domineering over their small sphere of influence in the
world the way secretaries, stadium ushers and other little people often do.
Others have a bizarrely positive outlook on the world given the steady slew of
ass hats they deal with on a daily basis. Thirteen former United Airlines flight attendants
are currently copping a major attitude with the company, but they may have a
good reason for doing so. The baker’s dozen claim they were fired for refusing
to work a commercial flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong after the airline
discovered "threatening" words and "menacing" images drawn
on the tail cone of the Boeing 747. While some loser getting inside the gate
and onto the tarmac to paint the words "BYE BYE" in 6-inch-high
letters above two faces, "one smiling and the other with a more troubling
devilish expression" in oil from the aircraft's auxiliary engine is a bit
weird, it’s hardly the sort of menacing message that ISIS is scrawling on a
plane before trying to blow it up or crash it. Yet the spooked flight
attendants became aware of the images on July 14, they say United Airlines
ignored a "serious and credible threat to the security and safety of
passengers by ordering them to fly in order to avoid cost and disruption to the
airline's flight schedule and revenue.” Attorney David Marshall claimed that the
flight attendants informed the airline they "uncomfortable flying unless
United took steps to address this security threat, including deplaning 300-plus
passengers and conducting a thorough security inspection of aircraft."
They wanted the plane search for explosive devices and the airline claims the
incident was investigated by its flight operations and safety teams.
"There was no credible security threat," the airline said in a
statement. "All of FAA's and United's own safety procedures were followed.
The pilots were willing to fly, but the air waiters and waitresses were not,
leading to their eventual firing. The federal complaint seeks the restoration
of all 13 jobs, back pay and compensatory damages……….
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