- The NBA playoffs just got real, y’all. Sure, the
postseason began weeks ago and we’re now in the second round, but everyone
knows it’s not really legit until someone is talking junk and dropping
profanities on someone else’s mother. Enter Los Angeles Clippers forward Matt
Barnes, who hit the mother of Houston Rockets guard James Harden with a profane
remark during Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night. The
Rockets informed the NBA about Barnes' verbal exchanges with fans in both games
of the series, which took place in Houston and were split between the two
evenly matched squads. That exact words Barnes said are clear, but according to
Harden's mother, Monja Willis, Barnes apologized at the request of Harden's
brother. "My older son walked over to him and told him to apologize,"
Willis said. "And he did." Barnes will talk sh*t to just about
anyone, but in this case, his team came up short in a 115-109 loss. Those
involved in the hotly contested game were well-aware of Barnes’ choice words.
"I heard about some of that stuff," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said.
"You don't say anything to [the mother]. If you got something to say, say
it to the guy you're playing against. I never thought of talking bad to Magic
[Johnson's] mother. It's hard enough talking trash to Magic." McHale
is clearly a relic of a bygone era in the NBA and doesn’t understand the next
generation of players, even if mother smack has always been a bit below the
belt regardless of era. Here’s hoping Barnes and Harden have plenty of matchups
during the course of however many games remain in this suddenly compelling
series……….
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! The rage is real in Macedonia,
where thousands of opposition supporters have joined nationwide
protests against alleged police brutality in what would seem like a possibly
ironic twist by virtue of taking actions that would incite the very behavior
you’re rioting against in the first place. The unrest followed reports that the
conservative government conducted a massive wiretap campaign and unlike the
United States, were the placated, fat and happy masses shrug off additional
government intrusion into their lives, Macedonia punching back. In response to
clashes during a protest that left 38 officers and one protester injured, police
blocked off streets leading to the government building in the capital, Skopje,
and yet it wasn’t enough to dull the sharp edge of snarkiness being put out by
the opposition. Some 1,000 people were spotted marching through the city and
according to multiple reports, smaller demonstrations were held in eight other
cities. Credit for this uprising goes in large part to opposition leader Zoran
Zaev — citing illegally recorded conversations — for having the temerity to
accuse the government of trying to cover up the 2011 police killing of a
22-year-old man. Zaev cleaarly knows how to fan the flames of public dissent
and incite the masses to revolt, namely by accusing Prime Minister Nikola
Gruevski of tapping the phones of 20,000 people, including police. Odds are
that in any country with even the most modest level of development, the
government is indeed listening and invading the lives of private citizens, so
rioting should probably happen much more often than it actually does……….
- Courtney Love’s ego is living large again….or still, as
odds are it never stopped being bloated and thinking its owner is much more
awesome than she’s ever been. Love and pop hack Lana Del Rey kicked off their
Endless Summer tour in Houston this week and like any tour worth a damn – and
ones such as this, that aren't – it needs something to elevate it above the
masses and make people want to throw away a lot of money for tickets, t-shirts
and concessions. Love is trying to provide that separation for her wildly
overrated, Kurt Cobain’s legacy-gravy-training ass and Del Rey and in that
pursuit, she has dubbed the two of them "the queen of rage and the queen
of anguish." Love, the never-was who is still trying to act like a legit
rock star, will support Del Rey for eight shows across the United States this
May, beginning with a gig at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston. When
she got her turn on stage, Love was at least smart enough to realize that there
exists a massive gap between the tone-deaf losers who support her and Del Rey's
fans. "You're too young to know my lyrics, which freaks me out," Love
said. "How many of you are gay? Thank God. OK, we're fine then."
Umm….OK. That was an awkard transition that led to a set in which Love
performed 'Skinny Little Bitch,” “Violet,” “Malibu” and “Celebrity Skin.” If
she wants to endear herself to audiences only suffering through her music to
hear Del Rey, though, she probably shouldn’t be refusing to perform one of her
songs from hit TV show “Empire,” which
is what she did in Houston. "Did someone just request that 'Empire'
song? So not gonna happen,” Love said. Neither is you ever being the rock star
you think you are, C……….
- Everyone wants to be the cool principal. Krista Morton of Wellington, Florida was simply willing to take
it a bit further than most and that’s why she was arrested after she was caught
partially unclothed in a marijuana-filled car with a student. Morton’s
relationship with the student is unclear, but it’s safe to say anything that
ends with a 45-year-old woman arrested in Palm Springs when police respond to a
report of people involved in sexual activity in a car and found with a high
school senior she appeared poised to coitus is not a situation that is going to
reflect well on said woman. There’s no doubt that parents at Mavericks High of
Palm Springs, a charter school, have to be immensely proud of the woman leading
their students through their final years of childhood as they prepare to head
out into the world and the scene on this particular day was an uplifting one
all around. When police rolled up on Morton’s car, she opened the door with her
shirt unbuttoned, exposing part of her chest. Thinking quickly, she lied and told
them she had just met the teenager. While the offer of sex and free pot from an
older woman would in fact be a strong draw for the average senior guy in any
high school, the student told the truth and informed police that Morton was his
principal. Oh, and that pungent odor of pot also tipped officers off. Both
Morton and her young conquest were arrested, but it is the principal who faces
possession-of-marijuana charges All in all, this unidentified boy should be
forever a hero among his classmates, who will have a new principal in charge of
them when they return for classes in the fall………
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