- It’s always funny when someone going to visit a loved on
in jail somehow manages to end up behind bars themselves. People like San
Antonio resident Jose Gonzalez provide entertainment for us all
when they do moronic sh*t like attempt to smuggle weapons into jail and expect
to get away with it. Gonzalez, giving a bad name to Swedish indie rock icon
Jose Gonzalez, was trying to visit his jailed son and went from free man to
cell block resident when prison guards caught him toting a combination cane and
2-foot sword. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office hit dear old dad with a charge
of unlawfully carrying a weapon and sheriff's spokesman James Keith confirmed
that the cane, with a handle fashioned like the head of a snake, was
confiscated. Sadly, it seems like a pretty badass cane/sword and it would
probably be extremely useful in a street fight, but there is no way it’s going
to get through security. Ma Beagle trying to bake a nail file into a cake for
her three imprisoned sons on the classic cartoon “Duck Tales” back in the 1990s
can't believe Gonzalez thought his weapons smuggling attempt would work. Guards
were tipped off when Gonzalez was able to walk through a scanner without
needing the cane, which went through another security device. The second device
went off and a guard popped the top of the cane off, revealing the sword
inside. It took all of five seconds to make the arrest, which should provide a
chance for a nice father-son reunion in the exercise yard very soon……..
- Will Smith or not, the “Independence Day” sequel parade
must go on. Smith won't be on hand to reprise his role as Captain Steven
Hiller, destroyer of alien spacecraft and smoker of stogies in the desert after
his big win, in the 1996 sci-fi favorite, but there’s no way 20th Century Fox
is going to let that stop them from trying to wring more money out of a tired,
already-been-done concept. Instead, they’ve cast Liam Hemsworth and rising star Jessie
Usher to head the new film, with Usher set to play the son of Smith’s
non-appearing character. Hemsworth's character is currently unknown, but he’s
still really good-looking and therefore should be swell wherever he lands. The
duo will be joined by the returning Jeff Goldblum, who will reprise his role as
scientist David Levinson from the first film. The studio green-lit the sequel
back in November and it’s slated for a June 24, 2016 release, which just
happens to be close to the 20th anniversary of the original starring Smith,
Goldbum and Bill Pullman. In the original, Smith was an ace pilot who headed up
a desperate effort to fend off an alien invasion taking place on July 4.
Somehow, Fox landed director Roland Emmerich to come back and helm this
excessive dumpster fire of cinematic greed – a massive budget and a ton of
power, perhaps – and Emmerich will have help of co-writer Dean Devlin, who
helped pen the original. Not only is a sequel in the works, but three years
ago, Emmerich was daydreaming about a sequel to a possible sequel, something
20th Century Fox has yet to approve. Here’s hoping someone at the studio has
the good sense to keep it that way………
- So….how’s the cleanup effort going in the crime-plagued Colombian port city of Buenaventura? Not well
if you ask international watchdog Human Rights Watch, which just dropped a
sadly picture-free and all-around sad new report claiming that gangs still
operate freely in Buenaventura, murdering people with impunity and dismembering
victims at an alarming rate. This news comes a year after Colombia created a
special task force to curb violence there and as we all know, government task
forces are always effective and never offer false hope of change while
delivering few results. President Juan Manuel Santos tried to look like a tough
guy when he sent additional police and prosecutors to boost security in what
has long been one of Colombia's most-violent cities, but his efforts have done
little to dislodge the paramilitary groups and drug traffickers who have long
toiled to make the city their productive home base. The HRW report says gangs
comprised of former right-wing paramilitaries still control entire
neighborhoods, threatening women with rape to keep them in line and extorting businesses
for protection money. It sounds like a bad gangster film that wouldn’t make it
past the first screening at any Hollywood studio, but these thugs continue to
dominate Buenaventura’s streets just as they have for years and an astute
observer might suggest that it’s going to take more than some flimsy government
task force to affect any real change in this town………
- The year may be new, but the New York Mets are the same
old, same old. The perennial not-so-little engine that couldn’t in the National
League East doesn’t win division titles or make the playoffs despite having a
lot of money to spend on an annual basis, mostly because its front office is
consistently inept and its players fail to perform up to expectations. Rather
than wait until the regular season to start disappointing folks in 2015, one
Met decided to get going early in spring training and his gaffe quickly became
a new chapter in Mets lore. Top
prospect Noah Syndergaard is still trying to make an impact on the major league
level, but probably not the way he did during an intrasquad game earlier this
week. Sure, intrasquad games don’t even matter as much as exhibition games that
still don’t count, but it’s never a good idea to be in the clubhouse powering
down your lunch while your teammates are on the field trying to get better. Syndergaard
has btoh too many vowels in his name and a need to earn back the respect of the
team’s veterans after captain David Wright saw him chowing down in the locker
room during the game and tersely informed him that should be in the dugout
learning from other pitchers, even though the right-hander was not scheduled to
throw in the game. Closer Bobby Parnell wasn’t quite so kind and dumped Syndergaard's
lunch in the trash, but the rookie did make one right move on the day. He owned
his faux paus as Wright offered a mea culpa for confronting him in front of the
media after the game. "It was just really a mistake on my part,"
Syndergaard said. "It was straight-up ignorance on my part, just thinking
I can go in there during a game and grab a quick bite to eat. It's just a
learning experience for me. I should have been on the bench." The Boston
Red Sox pitchers downing fried chicken and beer while playing video games in
the clubhouse during regular season games a couple years back this clearly is
not, but the incident still made the requisite trumped-up headlines in various
New York tabloids. Both Wright and Parnell both later tried to downplay the
situation as an internal matter and if Syndergaard pitches up to the lofty
expectations for him, this will merely be something he and his teammates can
laugh about in the future. Then again, it’s a truly Mets thing to do……..
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