- Life’s
rough kids, so wear a helmet and learn to love getting sand kicked in your
face. Some may argue that childhood is a time where you should get to be
innocent, sweet and naïve, but those people are myopic fools who deny the true
nature of the world. Thankfully, 8-year-old Andria
Green and her 7-year-old sister, Zoey, will no longer be able to sleep walk
through life and foolishly believe that people are good and kind and want to
help them out. They know this because these two Texas girls found their lemonade
stand on the receiving end of a governmental b*tch-slap that saw their
operation shut down because they lacked a permit . This story went viral after
a police officer on Monday approached the stand, which offered lemonade for 50
cents and "kettle korn" for $1. The officer, acting as a cold, harsh
and unforgiving voice of reason, can be heard on the in-car dash camera video asking
the girls' mother, Sandi Evans, for a permit. Evans tried to play dumb and
claim that she didn’t know they needed one, but that didn’t fly with the
officer. A family friend was dispatched to city hall to pick up a permit and
while authorities waived the $150 fee, but said health department officials
needed to inspect the stand. For the time being, the Evans sisters will take
only donations for lemonade in their neighborhood of Overton, about 120 miles
east of Dallas. So what’s the official stance on this one? Overton's police
chief says police must follow state health guidelines and like it or not, there
is no room for cute, adorable, bow-in-their-hair exceptions serving up
under-sugared lemonade……..
- Actor
Idris Elba isn't just famous for
his good looks and acting ability. Sure, the start of “Luther” can act really
well and he’s got an awesome look, but dude also has some pipes and he’s out to
prove it again. Elba announced this week that he’s working on an album inspired
by his TV show and he’s pitching the hell out of this thing, saying that it will
make listeners feel like they are driving through London when they listen to
it. Elba, who also appeared in the Academy Award-nominated “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom,” announced
a few months ago that he was hard at work on an album inspired by his Luther character, John Luther, and it
sounds like he’s doing it very much from the perspective of blending his acting
and music as much as possible. "From an actor’s point of view, doing music
is very precarious. People are just not willing to accept it,” Elba said. “So I
decided to keep my music close to what I do for a living, and make music from
the perspective of the characters that I play.” Interestingly, Elba has released
an album before, titled “mi Mandela,” which was also based on one of his
projects. It was based on his character and the perspective of that movie,
while “Murdah Loves John” is a perspective on his current character. As for the
London link, there’s a reason for that too. "London’s a big character in ‘Luther’
and I’m trying very hard to make this album, when you put it in your car, to
feel like you’re driving around to a soundtrack that reminds of the U.K., and
of London especially,” Elba said. “I’m going to get a lot of new artists and
voices that we haven’t heard before, and bring together a cool album."
Probably so, E., because you’re a cool dude………..
-
Eleanor Hawkins may be sorry now, but fans of mountain porn are not. Hawkins is
now world-famous because she and nine friends decided to get naked on the side
of a mountain in Malaysia and post photos of the display on social media. She was among four Western tourists detained in Malaysia's
Sabah state this week for their role as part of a group of 10 who stripped
naked at Mount Kinabalu on May 30 and then posted the photos, proving that
social media is a loaded gun capable of shooting oneself in the foot anywhere
in the world. While Hawkins was detained, her father tried to wage a public
battle to get her released and claims that his fun-loving daughter knows what
she did was "stupid and disrespectful" and is sorry for the offense
she has caused to Malaysians. Hawkins' father, Tim, said she is "obviously
quite scared and upset,” and judging from the response of local authorities,
she has every reason to be. Not only is getting naked in public pretty damn disrespectful
to the locals, but Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan has
blamed the foreigners' "disrespect to the sacred mountain" for a
deadly earthquake at the mountain on Friday. Granted, Eleanor Hawkins is hot,
but even super-hot British women don’t generally have the power to cause
earthquakes or other acts of God merely by showing off their awesome bodies. If
Hawkins really does have this power, then Britain has just found itself a
potent new weapon with which to reclaim its role as a true world power………
- Torii
Hunter is one of the best guys in baseball. The veteran outfielder is in his
second stint with the Minnesota Twins and he’s been beloved by fans and
teammates at each of his three stops during his 18 seasons in Major League
Baseball. He’s quick to crack jokes, soon to smile and genuinely seems to enjoy
playing baseball for a living…with the possible exception of Wednesday night’s
7-2 loss to Kansas City. Hunter had himself a short night in Minneapolis
because he was ejected from the contest for arguing a called third strike late
in the Twins' loss to the Royals and chased that with the sort of tirade rarely
seen from him. After having to be restrained following his ejection by plate
umpire Mark Ripperger, Hunter proceeded to deposit the vast majority of his
equipment on the field before he headed back to the clubhouse for the final few
innings. Hunter tore off his elbow pad, shin guard, batting gloves and even his
jersey threw them toward the batter's box after his ejection and wasn’t
exactly backing off of his anger following the game. "We have bad days,
all of us, as hitters, pitchers," Hunter said. "Even umpires have bad
days, and he had one. I thought it was a ball. The pitch before that, I thought
it was a little up. He called it a strike, that's fine. I thought the last
pitch he called a strike was revenge because I said something about the pitch
before that, because it was definitely a ball." During his on-field
tirade, Hunter appeared to make contact with one of the umpires and could face
a suspension from the league. "That's always a possibility," Twins
manager Paul Molitor said. "I don't want to try and predict or speculate
how the league offices are going to respond to his actions. Molitor also got
himself tossed during the dispute, so he can't exactly be too hard on Hunter,
even if it appeared for a moment that the veteran outfielder was going to fully
disrobe on the field and take things to a really inappropriate place……..
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