- This is one of the dangers of going to a show for a
hip-hop group that knows what it means to embrace the rap lifestyle. Sometimes,
you show up expecting a full night of bass, badass rhymes and lots of
secondhand marijuana smoke and instead, you get a truncated evening of music
that ends far too soon because two members of a three-man group are arrested
mid-show for
felony drug and gun possession. Such was life for those attending Georgia
Southern University's Spring Bling concert over the weekend and vibing to the
stylings of Migos. The evening was off
to a great start until police arrived and ordered a venue manager to
stop the music. One the sound stepped, Migos and their crew (which totaled at
least 15) left the stage to be questioned by the authorities. It took just a
few minutes before members Quavo and Offset were detained for felony possession
of a number of narcotics, including cocaine, Oxycontin and codeine. Mix in
charges of carrying a loaded gun on school property and misdemeanor marijuana
possession and it was the sort of evening that both boosts street cred and
wipes out the small amount of money you would have made from playing a college
party, but putting a price on the memories made for those in attendance is
simply impossible. The third member of the group, Takeoff, wasn’t arrested even
though other members of the crew were. Migos are actually from Georgia and are currently
preparing to release their debut LP 'Y.R.N.: Tha Album,’ which is due out June
16 and now has an extra publicity boost to help get it rolling……..
- Russia, you done gone too far this time. You can invade
Ukraine, you can try to annex Crimea and you can threaten to run roughshod over
everyone who tries to tell you that you can't simply take over the world because
you feel like it, but when you pick a fight with Norway, sh*t is about to get
real. The Scandinavian power has demanded that Moscow explain why Russia's
deputy prime minister visited the Norwegian Arctic Svalbard islands despite
sanctions imposed on him by the EU and Norway and if Norway makes a demand of
you, you had best come correct and ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION. Norwegian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen called Dmitry Rogozin's visit "regrettable”
and demanded an explanation. He noted that his ministry had informed the
Russian Embassy in Oslo earlier this year that people on the sanctions list
"are not wanted on Svalbard.” Being on the banned list for Svalbard could
be construed as a reputation booster for the right person and it’s not as if
Rogozin could deny that he visited, not when his Twitter account included a
photo of him purportedly in Svalbard with the text "arrived in
Longyearbyen on Svalbard." Andersen said Norway was considering options
"to reinforce measures for travel to Svalbard,” but didn’t elaborate.
Given the impending Russian invasion that seems to be inevitable any time Vlad
Putin is involved, keeping the details under wraps is always a wise choice………
- New York Mets reliever Alex Torres: trailblazing pioneer. His peers
may mock him and think he’s weird for becoming the only major leaguer to wear
the new approved version of the first MLB-approved padded pitcher's cap with
the padding on the outside, but he should pay those haters no mind. Torres entered
Saturday night's game in the ninth inning to stop the bleeding after the Miami
Marlins already had scored three times to cut New York's lead to 5-4. Proving
that the new cap, aimed at reducing the impact of balls striking pitchers in
the head, is not a hindrance to doing your job and doing it well is a good
first step in wider acceptance for it. "It felt OK, felt a little weird
the first time using that kind of model," Torres said. "I don't think
about that, I just go to the mound to make that out we needed to win the game.”
Torres wore the initial padded cap last year, but the company behind the
isoBLOX padding removed it from inside the cap in an effort to address its lack
of acceptance from pitchers other than Torres. MLB and players' association
approval finally came just before the season and the new padding to match
teams' official New Era caps is just now being completed, said Bruce Foster,
CEO of 4Licensing Corp., whose subsidiary Pinwrest makes the padding. Last
season, while with the San Diego padres, Torres got a lot of attention when he
began wearing the visibly bulkier padded cap, to the point that the Hall of
Fame obtained one to put on display. Rocking one with exterior padding looks a
bit bizarre, but that’s merely because it’s new and different. Give it time, y’all………
- Congratulations, losers in the Little Tokyo
neighborhood of Los Angeles. For the second straight year, you tools wasted
valuable hours of your life organizing and gathering for a truly pointless attempt
to set a new mark for the largest ensemble of ukuleles and for the second
straight year, you failed miserably. A collection of 1,102 participants got
together to play the Hawaiian instrument that looks like a mini guitar and in
what can only be described as five minutes of auditory agony for anyone
unfortunate enough to be in their immediate vicinity, they played the same song
for those five minutes in a state of blissful ignorance when it came to the
fact that they weren't even halfway to setting the record, which was turned in
by a massively loser-ific crowd of 2,370 tools in England several years ago. The
funniest part of this whole charade – and yes, finding humor in this painful
moment for humanity is über-difficult – is that even if the Los Angeles crowd had
managed to break the record set by a bunch of British ass hats, they may have
only had the record for a few weeks. A recent gathering in Tahiti claimed to
have attracted an as-yet-unverified 4,750 participants, which probably means
250 people showed up and event organizers did a little bit of creative math in
an effort to make their tiny island nation a bit more relevant. There is a
definite sense of sadness for humanity that so many people from so many
different places around the world are devoting time to breaking an inane and
hollow record and they all seem to be wholly oblivious to how pathetic they
truly are. If anyone wants to hold a massive international bonfire and take
care of every ukulele in the world before another gaggle of misfits has the
temerity to attempt a record-breaking effort of their own, now that would be a
truly beautiful and uplifting moment for all of mankind………
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