- We
now know what iconic “Office Space” office lackey Milton Waddams did after the
iconic 1999 Mike Judge-directed comedy ended. Waddams, a man whose work existence
was a realm of constant torment featuring everything from his prized stapler
being stolen to having his desk moved to the rat-infested basement while being
told he technically hadn't work for the company for years and was only being
paid due to an accounting glitch, ended the movie by burning the company’s
headquarters to the ground and (ostensibly) getting away with it. It appears he
now lives in Russia and is still up to his old tricks. What other explanation
could there be for an angry retiree going
pyromaniac on a regional administration building in Siberia, burning it to the
ground in a housing dispute and killing three people in the process? According
to the Investigative Committee's branch in the Krasnoyarsk region in eastern
Siberia, the unidentified old-timer splashed gasoline in the regional
administration building in the city of Dudinka, then set the four-story
building on fire. Why was this old man so angry? According to the committee, the
man had previously applied to the regional authorities demanding the allocation
of housing and was unhappy with the options offered. That was enough to set a
fire in which two men and a woman died and eight others were injured. Not that
this idiot was thinking rationally, but at least wait until the middle of the
night when the building is empty and then go pyro on the place, making the same
point without getting arrested on three charges of homicide. Not your smartest
move, Vlada-Milton Waddamski………
- Dammit,
Meek Mill, the stray bullets in your one-sided rap battle with Drake had
finally stopped flying and although you were thoroughly defeated, at least you
were able to limp out of the arena alive. The beef began back in July, when
Meek Mill fired the opening shot by saying that Drake doesn't
write his own raps. Perhaps realizing he had picked a fight he could not win, he
soon apologized, saying, "I was upset as a fan,” but Drake had already
loaded up his hip-hop Howitzer and responded with a diss track, kicking off a
feud that was the musical equivalent of a much older brother giving his little
brother an atomic wedgie and shoving his face into a mud puddle while asking
him, “Are you gonna cry?” over and over again. Drake pummeled Meek Mill, but
eventually everyone got tired of seeing a one-sided fight and turned their
attention in other directions. So why the hell does Meek Mill seem to have
re-started the battle in a preview for his new mixtape “Dreamchasers 4” with a
line that isn't nearly subtle enough to just slide by unnoticed. "When I
was saying sh*t about the rhymes you ain't wrote, I can't wait until we run
into ya, I'ma put a gun in ya,” he raps in the clip. The previous salvo in the
exchange came from Drake, whose song “Back to Back” made reference to Mill's
girlfriend Nicki Minaj in the line, "Is that a world tour or your girl's tour?" Instead
of starting a new fight with Drake, maybe Meek
Mill, a.k.a. Robert Williams, should focus on the fact that he may soon be
headed back to prison following various probation violations. He is on
probation for a 2007 arrest where he was charged and convicted for carrying an
unlicensed gun and according to the judge in his case, he’s not following her
instructions and is all but asking to be put back behind bars……….
- Yes,
it turns out that it is possible to vandalize a Christmas tree fashioned out of
lobster traps. It seems unlikely on the surface, but according to the powers
that be in Gloucester, Massachusetts insist that it’s so. The historic Massachusetts fishing city's popular Christmas
tree has been set up on Gloucester's Main Street for 16 years running,
assembled from more than 300 lobster traps and decorated with 700 buoys
hand-painted by local schoolchildren, artists and adults. The tree stood in its
traditional spot for weeks and given that it made it to Christmas, it appeared
to be only a matter of time before it was taken down, put away or used to
capture some nice, fat lobsters to be served up in one of the town’s seafood
restaurants. Instead, over the weekend, unidentified hooligans tore off a number
of the tree's decorative, hand-painted buoys and ripped off a portion of its
lights. Not content with wrecking a treasured local tradition, the vandals also
extended their chicanery to a nearby building, but their efforts to quench the
holiday spirit have failed, as the vandalism has mostly been cleaned up and the
tree has been re-lit. Police Chief Leonard Campanello called the vandalism "an
assault on what Gloucester is all about and while it’s a bit sad to think that
a tree of lobster traps embodies the spirit of a city, the police department is
treating it as a crime against the community. Sounds like it’s time to go to
war, Mass-holes……..
- Is
the rage of Russell really a thing of the past? If you believe the
proclamations of one of the NBA’s most combustible players - both his game and
his emotions - then the answer is yes. Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell
Westbrook claims he’s done with the days of picking up an NBA-high 17 technical
fouls in a season, a number that led the Association last season. "I'm
done with those days," Westbrook said. “I learned in the summertime, once
they make a call, they ain't changing it. Took me a while, but I learned
it." Had he not had several techs rescinded last season, including one
against the Indiana Pacers on April 12 that would've resulted in a one-game
suspension, Westbrook’s games missed total could have been much worse. To
address the problem, over the summer he reviewed film on each of his technicals
and drew a vital conclusion. "I watched film. I watched all my techs and all
the dumb sh*t I was doing, so I decided to tell myself, there's no need to
argue," Westbrook said. "They're not changing it, so move on." Amazing.
He finally realized that players can't yell, cajole or argue their way out of a
bad call and that epiphany has overhauled his basketball world view. The new,
mellowed Westbrook has still has been hit with four technicals this season,
which is tied for ninth in the league, but has clearly been more under control
on the floor and that has slowed his pace on techs, a number that stands at 52
since the 2011-12 season. Whether he can keep this up is another matter, but it
looks as if someone may have finally growed up and realized he needed to stop
hurting his team with his lack of self-control………
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