- Could
Michael Scofield be back in our lives? Scofield, of course, was the protagonist
in Fox’s short-lived drama “Prison Break,” in which his brother was framed for
murdering the vice president’s brother and needed to be broken out of prison
before he was wrongly executed. The show was only actually set in its original
prison, Fox River Penitentiary in Illinois, until Scofield and a gang of eight
escaped to end season one. From there, is stretched across the United States,
into Panama and then back to the U.S. Now, it may stretch even further into
a "limited series" along the
lines of last year's “24: Live Another Day,” which featured 12 episodes and a
self-contained storyline. What’s odd about the purported revival of “Prison Break”
is that Scofield, played by Wentworth Miller, died in the series finale and
yet, the possible return would allegedly reunited Miller and Dominic Purcell,
who played his brother, Lincoln Burroughs. Fox has yet to comment on the
possible return for the show, but network co-chairman Gary Newman admitted in
January that “Prison Break” could yield "the perfect event series.” According to Miller, he "floated the
idea" for more of the show to Fox executives earlier this year and
received a relatively positive response. Paul Scheuring created the show, which
debuted in 2005 to solid reviews, but saw its ratings dip substantially by the
time it ended in 2009 and its story arc had expanded to include a vast
conspiracy at the highest levels of government stretching across national
borders and involving a bizarre piece of technology that would supposedly allow
its holder to reshape the world’s economy. But why not bring back a show that
was great at one point rather than come up with an original idea for a new show……….
- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! Not only is sh*t getting real in Jammu, India, but The Man
is skittish enough that a curfew has been imposed in an attempt to stem the
tide of rage and calm down what has become a chaotic scene in recent days.
According to authorities in the region, they have imposed an indefinite curfew
in parts of the Indian Kashmir city after clashes with hundreds of Sikh
protesters. The violence erupted after bullets fired by police killed one
person and injured two more, which is generally a surefire way to turn the
populace against you and push your city to the verge of all-out anarchy. Police
fired at the stone-throwing protesters on Thursday after tear gas and warning
shots proved insufficient to slow the roll of the Sikhs who were protesting the
tearing away of posters of slain militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale by
police in Jammu ahead of the anniversary of his death Saturday. This all stems
back to the guerrilla war the militant Sikhs waged in 1980s for an independent
homeland in neighboring Punjab state. To this day, many Sikhs live in Indian
Kashmir and as the events of recent days have shown, they are as militant as
ever. Imposing a curfew doesn’t always have the desired effect, of course,
which should make the next few hours all the more interesting as the Sikhs
prepare to honor a date that has tremendous importance to them. Get those
Molotov cocktails ready, y’all……….
- The
real thing worth noting isn’t that the Houston Astros will remove the single
biggest field-based baseball atrocity this side of someone erecting a
concession stand behind second base, but rather figuring out why the hell it
was ever there in the first place. We’re speaking, of course, of Tal's Hill, a
signature feature of Minute Maid Park
since the stadium opened in 2000. The
hill features a steep slope up to a flag pole and both are in the field of
play, forcing center fielders to run uphill for no good reason and possibly do
a face plant while trying to track down a ball 436 feet from home. Both the
hill and the flagpole are situated in play and have been known to turn fly balls into circus sideshows, but that
will change for next season when the team finally does what it should have done
from the start and make the outfield flat across the entire playing surface.
The Astros will remove the incline and its flagpole as part a $15 million
renovation that would move the center-field fence about approximately 27 feet
closer to home plate -- to a new distance of 409 feet -- and would be completed
prior to the 2016 season. The center field fence will go from being the deepest
in the majors to the sixth-deepest when the renovations are complete, but the
distance is wholly secondary to, you know, taking a big damn hill out of the
way. "The new center field will not only be great for fans, but will make
Minute Maid Park an attractive ballpark for current and future players as
well," general manager Jeff Luhnow said. The official story has
always been that Tal’s Hill is a tribute to Cincinnati's Crosley Field and
other old ballparks, but there have been lots of terrible ideas in America’s
past and it doesn’t mean someone needs to revive them………..
- The
value of art is relative. It’s worth whatever someone is willing to pay for
it…or the price tag placed on it when someone who worked for the artist steals
it and it takes a year to track it down. Enter more than $3 million worth of
glass work created by artist Dale Chihuly, art that was missing for over a year
from a warehouse
in Tacoma, Washington, before anyone noticed. Normally, something being gone
from your life for 12 months without you noticing is a sign you don’t really
need it, but that hasn’t stopped the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's
Office from charging Christopher Kaul with stealing roughly 90 pieces of work
totaling $3,082,000. Kaul worked in the Chihuly warehouse for three years and it
seems he was a very busy man during that time - just not doing the job he was
paid to do. No, his on-job duties seem to have involved a lot of thieving from
his boss, according to a press release from the Pierce County Prosecuting
Attorney's Office. He sold them "for a small fraction of their
worth," prosecutors said, implying that Kaul was either not smart enough
to know how much the art was worth or didn’t have the savvy and connections to
move them for full value. Chihuly is a world-renowned artist whose art is in more than 200 museums worldwide, according
to his website. Kaul seems to be a real piece of work, as he was allegedly fighting
a pill addiction while working at the warehouse between 2010 and 2013. He
admitted to police that after a stint in rehab, he "started stealing items
from the Chihuly warehouse" and said he "would take items that he
believed would go unnoticed." He was right, at least until 2014, when
employees were contacted by an art appraiser who had some of the missing items.
Now, Kaul has been charged with theft in the first degree and three counts of
trafficking stolen property and pill popping is no longer his biggest problem………
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