- Fenway
Park has long been rapped for being too small and lacking space for the
expected amenities at a modern Major League Baseball stadium. If there isn't
room to expand and add in more restrooms and bigger clubhouses, though, at
least the Boston Red Sox can make better use of the space they have to go green
- and not just with the park’s famed Green Monster wall in left field. Now, the
Sox are growing vegetables and herbs in a rooftop garden and using the
produce in food and cocktails sold at the concessions, at nearby restaurants
and in the team's flagship restaurant that prepares meals for about 40,000
people during home games - all at a substantial markup, of course. Yes, that
lettuce may have cost less than 50 cents to grow, but each leaf of it is going
to sell for abiut 100 times its actual cost, just like every other food item in
an MLB park. The garden, which measures 5,000 square feet and is located on the
third-base side of Fenway, was planted in a previously unused part of the
historic stadium and interestingly enough, it is not the first garden growing
in a Major League Baseball stadium, according to Chris Knight, manager of
facilities services and planning for the Red Sox. Fans have responded well to
the sight of a lush, green garden on the
third level of the stadium. It’s an odd garden because its crops are grown in
milk crates, making it possible to move the farm if needed. A company called Green
City Growers is responsible for planting and maintaining the garden and it uses
intensive methods, including drip irrigation and planting fresh crops right
after others are harvested. So far, the garden has yielded more than 2,000
pounds of tomatoes, cucumber, eggplants, all sorts of peppers, rosemary, basil,
dill, parsley, tarragon and kale in the first three months. Sadly, not quinoa
so far……..
- Anyone
who has ever traveled to Spain knows that you do NOT f*ck with the siesta. The
Spanish take their midday napping seriously and some places elevate simple
snoozing to a science - places like Ador, a small
farming town in eastern Spain. Perhaps it’s a ploy to get international
attention, maybe it’s sheer laziness or it could be something in between, the
in Ador, every summer day sees a local police officer read out a town hall
proclamation recommending that locals observe the traditional siesta period
between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. In exactly the fashion you’d want to receive a
suggestion that you lay down, close your eyes and cease with being productive
for a few hours, the advice is blasted over a loudspeaker system. It encourages
people to keep children indoors and turn down the volume of TV sets and music
equipment and while that may sound like what the crotchety old man down the
street demands those damn kids do after getting off his lawn and pulling up their
sagging pants, Mayor Joan Faus said the town hall strongly recommends they stay
indoors because "at that time of day it is dangerous to be outside"
because of the summer heat. Faus, who noted that locals are not legally
required to observe the siesta period, claimed that town authorities and other
nearby municipalities have been issuing the recommendations for years. It’s
fitting that government officials are urging people to be as unproductive as
possible because it makes them look less lazy for doing the same on a regular
basis, so credit to Ador’s leaders for finding a subtle way to mask the
inefficiency of their slacker regime……….
- Somewhere,
Snooki, The Situation and Ronnie are fist-pumping, downing another Irish car
bomb and looking for someone to punch out of sheer elation. “Jersey Shore” may
have died a long overdue death in 2012, but MTV’s concept of jamming six or
seven appearance-obsessed ass hats with precious little self-awareness into a
beachside house and putting a drink in their hand from the time they wake up
until they pass out drunk and half-clothed in the middle of the boardwalk is
alive and well and now it’s going to the place where the rich, privileged and foam-party-loving
of the world travel to get their drug-fueled freak on. Yes, MTV has announced plans to make an “Ibiza Shore” reality series. It
will be a sort of all-star show uniting cast
members from several international versions of MTV's popular 'Shores'
franchise, including Spain's “Gandia
Shore,” Mexico's “Acapulco
Shore” and "surprise arrivals from Italy and Brazil.” In other
words, all of the usual drama of people too old for college but not old enough
to feel bad about contributing nothing of worth to society but with the added
possibility of racial and cultural tensions added in. "Everyone
knows Ibiza is one of the party capitals of the world, so we can't wait to see
what happens with this unique mix of characters, personalities and
cultures," MTV executive Tiago Worcman said in a statement. The network is
reportedly “excited to…take the Shores
franchise to the next level.” It may be next level, but it will never be able
to match the magic of “Jersey Shore,” which launched the franchise in 2009 and
immediately made everyone who saw even two seconds of an episode lose 50 IQ
points before they could find the remote and change the channel. You’re
welcome, world, for America’s greatest cultural contribution now infecting the
rest of the planet……….
- Some
men accomplish more in three decades of life than the rest of us will get done
in three times that many years on this planet. Brandon
Hayes of Central Falls, Rhode Island is one of those men and sadly, it’s likely
going to cost this rebel without a cause a lengthy prison sentence. That tends
to happen after your 41st arrest, an arrest that came when Hayes was in a car
that was pulled over for traffic violations on Interstate 95 in Warwick, state
police Col. Steven O'Donnell said. O’Donnell performed what he thought would be
a routine traffic stop when things turned shady on account of Hayes, a
passenger in the vehicle, stashing three bags of marijuana on his person. Oh,
and the trooper also found out that as
the vehicle was pulling over, Hayes removed a loaded handgun from his waist and
put it under the passenger seat. Weed and a gun? That’s not a recipe for
success when you already have more than three dozen arrests on your record. O’Donnell
located the 9mm pistol along with drug packaging material in the trunk and Hayes
was subsequently charged with several drug offenses and with being a felon in
possession of a firearm. This multi-state felon has racked up 38 arrests in Massachusetts and two in Rhode
Island, including gun and drug charges, state police said. The last time Hayes
was behind bars was 2012, when he served 18 months for an assault conviction. It
should be good for him to be back home and he’s likely to be there for a long
time, as a conviction for his latest gun charge could mean up to 10 years
behind bars. That’s sad mostly because it’s going to seriously impair his
pursuit of that impressive 50-arrest rap sheet……….
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