- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! Kosovo has seen so much quality rage in recent month that
it’s bound to fall off at some point….but today is not that day. No, today is
the day when police in Kosovo used water cannons
and tear gas to disperse a group of violent opposition supporters who pummeled
them with rocks and Molotov cocktails following an anti-government protest in
the capital. Credit to those who kicked things up a notch for what began as a
lame (i.e. peaceful) rally where several thousand people called on Kosovo's
government to resign, arguing the executive violated the country's constitution
in reaching deals with Serbia and Montenegro last year. The boring part of the
rally came to a close and the real festivities began when some opposition
supporters pelted police and the government building with rocks and other hard
objects. These ingenious instigators ignored pleas from organizers to disperse
peacefully, knowing that peaceful people put those who record history to sleep.
A few pyromaniacs even set a government building on fire and according to police
spokesman Baki Kelani, eight policemen, two citizens and two journalists were
injured and 24 protesters were detained. The carnage also included two police cars and many other public and
private properties, all of which came a month after Kosovo's Constitutional Court decided that
part of a deal between Kosovo and Serbia, which would give more powers to
ethnic Serbs in Kosovo, was not in line with the country's constitution. Those
who gathered this weekend also oppose a border demarcation with neighboring
Montenegro and for four months, they have blocked Kosovo's parliament with tear
gas, pepper spray, whistles and water bottles to protest the deals. Clearly,
these rebels have made staying awesome and keeping the rage 100 one of their
resolutions for the new year……….
- Lupe
Fiasco fans were excited when the Chicago rapper revealed last year that he would release three albums in 2016. The prospect
of getting “Droga,” “Skulls” and “Roy” within a single calendar year was pretty
thrilling, but the thrills are apparently coming to an end sooner than expected.
Fiasco tweeted last week that “Roy” would be his final album, although he
stopped short of deeming it an official retirement. He was supposed to drop a
sequel to his 2007 album 'The Cool' called 'The Cool 2' in 2017, but that
appears to be off the table. Having these sorts of career-ending thoughts and
destructive ruminations is nothing new, as Fiasco said in September that he
wanted to destroy copies of his 2011 album 'Lasers' and asked dissatisfied fans
to send him their physical copies of the album in order to have them destroyed
with a laser. “My 3rd musically related thing I want to accomplish this year is
not to make another album but to do something waaaay stupider… I want to unmake
an album,” the rapper wrote in a Facebook post at that time. “I watched the
ATARI E.T. documentary and got inspired. So here’s my idea. For all you people
who really hated my 3rd album LASERS for whatever reason in the universe I want
you to send it back to me so I can destroy it with an actual Laser. You not
getting any money back or an apology or anything like that.” He noted in the
post that he and many others loved “Lasers,” but recognized that some haters
have deemed it one of the worst rap albums ever. Of course, maybe this is all
just one giant publicity stunt and if so, it’s a well-played one……….
- Looking
to buy your very own laboratory where you can observe, test and possibly even
contract every known STD ever to befall mankind - and perhaps discover a few
new ones? If so, then Hugh Hefner has an offer for you. Hef, whose skin
magazine Playboy announced late last year that it would be doing away with the naked
lady pictures that have long been the only reason anyone “reads” it, is
apparently making a lot of changes in his life and has decided to put the Playboy Mansion up for sale for $200 million. The
six-acre Beverly Hills estate will reportedly hit the market some time next
month, but with a catch - other than that insane price tag, of course. Whoever
spends nine figures to buy what amounts to a tear-down house whose real value
is the property on which it stands will apparently have to have give Hefner a
life estate that would allow him to live there until he dies and based on the
deal with the devil he seems to have made, that could be decades. Oh, and
anyone who wants to buy this site won’t be able to see the entire house because
Hefner’s palatial master bedroom will be off limits. Most observers believe
that asking $200 million is borderline insanity and expect that the house would
sell for something closer to the $60 million that other similar sites have gone
for. Toss in all of the parties, history and maybe a few of the bleached-blond
skanks upon which Hefner’s empire has been built and you might be able to bump
that number up to $80 million or so, but donating the house, grotto and its
many STD cultures located throughout the property to science might be the real
move to make. Here’s hoping that before the mansion is officially sold, Hefner
and his crew throw one final blowout party in which enough drugs and booze are
consumed to drain the entire Mexican cartel world of its supply and so much sex
is had that Trojan has to add an extra overtime shift at its nearest
factory……..
- Take
that, Hungarian Swimming Federation. Your star
athlete just stuck a giant middle finger in your face in extremely public
fashion and while it wasn’t as if millions of dollars were on the line, it was
still tremendous theater. Katinka Hosszu, one of the world's top swimmers, isn't
a household name only because swimming matters for only a few days every fourth
year when the Olympics roll around, but her lack of worldwide name recognition
is no reflection on her ability to put on a great show. Hosszu stuck it to The
Man by tearing up a contract from the federation at a news conference,
rejecting a deal worth more than $40,000 because it would force her to do
promotional work for the federation. She did so because she believes that a
swimmer who has won five gold medals at world championships, including two last
year, deserved the money without additional demands. In order to paint the
situation as more than one athlete holding out for a better deal for herself, Hosszu
also said she wants the Hungarian federation to provide more technical support
to its athletes. Federation president Tamas Gyarfas tried to do damage control
by insisting that officials had already complied with several of Hosszu's
requests for technical upgrades and tried to downplay the dispute as nothing
more than a typical family disagreement. There has also been collateral damage,
as Laszlo Kiss, who has led Hungary's male and female swimmers since 1999,
resigned amid the disagreement between the national federation and Hosszu. It’s
an ugly spat just months ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio, one in which
swimming success is probably the only place Hungary can expect to shine……..
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