- Twenty
years later, no one involved in the cult favorite movie “Trainspotting” has
found anything better to do. Two decades after the dark drama hit theaters, a
sequel will hit theaters some time in 2017, with filming to begin next spring. Sony’s TriStar
Pictures owns the rights to the film and director Danny Boyle and screenwriter
John Hodge return alongside all of the original title's principal cast. That
cast includes Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle,
some of whom have carved out respectable careers, but all of whom haven’t
become big enough stars to pass on the sequel. Boyle has already admitted that
he’s worried about making the sequel because he knows he will be mercilessly ripped
if the movie is bad. "We're going up to Scotland very early and we're
going to do a week's workshop up in Edinburgh working on the script,” Boyle
said recently. “We're filming in May and June of next year. Obviously it's
worrying because people will kill us if we made a bad job of it. I will get
absolutely crucified. But you have to thrive on that potential danger within it
and if it feeds into it, you might get a decent film out of it, you know."
One goal, according to the director, is to complete filming in time to release
the project in 2016 in order to commemorate the original film’s 20th
anniversary. Details about the sequel’s plot are beginning to leak out, but
news that the entire core cast from the original is the biggest development to
date……..
- Duuuuude,
Canada's new Liberal government is looking pretty
legit, brah. New Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party swept into
power earlier this year and are wasting no time trying to live up to their
name. Gov. Gen. David Johnston, outlining the party’s agenda as Parliament
resumes after the Oct. 19 election, delivered a promise to legalize marijuana
as well as regulate the recreational use of the sticky icky. Trudeau has been
pushing plans to take pot mainstream since becoming leader of the Liberal Party
in 2013, but this is the first time the national government has said it will
push in that direction while still restricting access to chron. According to
the prime minister, Canadians would benefit from analyzing the experiences of
Colorado and Washington state, which recently legalized pot and have yet to
descend into the depths of anarchy. In Johnston’s speech, he also expanded on
five themes that were central to the Liberals' election victory. Ending the
near-decade-long reign of the Conservation Party has the Liberal Party thinking
big on its promise to cut the tax rate for middle-income earners and provide a
more generous child benefit to those who need it while hiking taxes by 1
percent on the wealthiest denim enthusiasts, er, Canadians. Trudeau is
definitely thinking liberal in a big way after getting back from the global climate
conference in Paris and also wants to continue working with provinces to put a
price on carbon, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and introduce a new
environmental assessment process. Still, saying you’re going to green light
ganja is always going to grab the most attention even if those who would be
happiest about the news are too stoned to actually pay attention……….
- Dean
Blandino has a difficult job. No, not overseeing the NFL’s officials and making
sure that games are officiated properly. Mean Dean’s truly challenging gig is
trying to put a pleasant scent on the steaming, stinking pile of monkey turds
that his officials submit on a weekly basis as they blunder, stumble and fumble
their way through missed calls, botched explanations and misinterpretations of
rules. Blandino claimed officiating crews are averaging 4.3 mistakes in roughly
160 total plays per game this season and a dubious face mask penalty that
extended Thursday night's game between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions
by one play and allowed the Packers an untimed down on which they ultimately
won the game was the latest black eye for the league. Yet like any good corner
office-dwelling executive stooge, Blandino has his guys’ backs even though it’s
abundantly clear that they’re sticking knives into the backs of teams whose
games they officiate by failing to do their job correctly. The VP argued that officials
have made what he called "a very small number of mistakes" and said
the mistake rate is completely normal. "There is a perception now that
officiating is not very good at the moment," Blandino said. "But the reality is that the officiating
is very good." Oh, OK then. You and the league’s multimedia department
crank out a two-minute video where you assure the world that all is well
despite rampant evidence to the contrary and we’ll all believe you. Hey Dean-O,
the 2015 season has featured near-weekly instances of questionable calls and
you might argue that it isn’t any worse than in the past …. but the reality is
that it’s not good. Trying to make the case that fans and media simply notice
the mistakes more due to advances in technology for broadcasting and watching
games is weak and a predictable example of you grasping at the nearest straw in
order to make your case, but just don’t expect anyone to actually buy what
you’re selling…….
- Some
crimes were just meant to be. Fate, poor name choices by parents and a scary
combination of opportunity and low intelligence all collide and with them comes
an occurrence that was all but unavoidable. That’s precisely what happened this
week when the Budweiser brewery in St. Louis, Missouri
received an illegal visit from a man whose actions may have been wrong, but
whose name was oh, so right. Nineteen-year-old Bud Weisser was cited for
trespassing and resisting arrest after he was found in a secured area of the
brewery early in the evening. According to police, they were called to the
scene when brewery security officers told Weisser to leave and he resisted
arrest. Left unsaid was how Weisser got into the restricted area in the first
place and whether he was fueled up on any product samples from the brewery at
the time of his crime. At least his lack of intelligence didn’t extend to
assaulting any officers and he was taken into police custody, then issued
summonses for trespassing and resisting arrest. It’s a single bad night for a
guy who might have a lot more of them in store if this incident is any
indication of his personal intelligence, discipline and internal moral compass.
If nothing else, maybe he can parlay his name into a free drink or two in a
couple of years when he’s legally allowed to further dilute his subpar
intelligence with a little liquid courage……….
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