- Well,
well. Look who’s having a, “Dammit, I’m Keith Hernandez” moment. Hernandez’s
famously cocksure portrayal of himself on “Seinfeld” just might be in Russian
despot Vladimir Putin’s Netflix queue based on the
dictator’s most recent verbal hatchet job on Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin for
placing a "time bomb" under the state. The “president” went on to
denounce brutal repressions by the Bolshevik government, but it was his nuke
dropped on Lenin, who is still revered by communists and many others in Russia,
that stunned the world because Putin has typically been cautious and measured
in his comments about the nation's history to avoid alienating some voters. Actually,
scratch that. Putin doesn’t give a damn about voters because he’ll just rig the
election in his favor or coerce the masses into voting for him because gulags
are still a thing. But whatever the reason, Putin's breakdown of Lenin's role
in Russian history during a meeting with pro-Kremlin activists in the southern
city of Stavropol was significantly darker and more critical than it has been
in the past. While it’s not clear whether his message was delivered shirtless
and on horseback, it is known that he denounced Lenin and his government for
brutally executing Russia's last czar along with all his family and servants,
killing thousands of priests and placing a "time bomb" under the
Russian state by drawing administrative borders along ethnic lines. Of
course, when you can simply banish or execute anyone who doesn’t like what you
have to say, that makes it significantly easier to speak your mind anytime and
anywhere………
- Fans
of one of the most tortured and mysterious musicians in recent years now have
another obscure song that no one has ever heard to enjoy at their hipster
parties. Late indie singer/songwriter Elliott Smith has long been a melancholy
icon for fans of the genre, having scored “Good Will Hunting” with his haunting
tunes and dying mysteriously of stab wounds in
October 2003 in a case that remains controversial and the source of many
conspiracy theories. His sweetly sad songs remain cult favorites for a lot of
music fans and with the upcoming release of the Smith-centric documentary
'Heaven Adores You,’ there comes the release of a new version of 'Plainclothes
Man' - originally recorded by Elliott Smith's band Heatmiser for their third
and final album 'Mic City Sons.' The song is part of the soundtrack for the
film, but it will sound much different than the version to which fans have
become accustomed. That take on 'Plainclothes Man' is a full-fledged
heavy-electric track on 'Mic City Sons,' but its reincarnation on the
documentary soundtrack is much more in the style of Smith’s solo work, a
laid-back version of the original. As for the documentary 'Heaven Adores You,'
it was funded by Smith fans using Kickstarter and rather than debate the
controversial fashion in which he died, it focuses on Smith's life in the three
cities he lived in, Portland (Oregon), New York and Los Angeles. Given
his knack for great songwriting and the poignancy of his tunes, both the film
and the soundtrack are worth checking out………
- Never
for a single second forget that there are scumbags and subhuman beings in every
race, religion and nationality on this spinning Earth of ours. One of these
d-bags is currently doing despicable things in New Jersey, treating other
people like animals or objects for his amusement merely because they happen to
occupy a lower socioeconomic level in life. The disenfranchised in this case is
Ronald Leggatt, a homeless man who recently agreed to allow another man record him pouring coffee on himself last
week in exchange for $5 cash. "Never thought I’d be in this position at
65," Leggett said after the video went viral and people started asking
questions of him. "I don’t even know what Facebook is, to be honest with
you." It makes sense that a homeless, elderly man with little or no money
to his name doesn’t have a Facebook account, but the truly sad part of this
story is that police say no charges will be filed against the stranger because
Leggatt consented to this nonsense. Leggatt said he was not aware the video was
posted to Facebook, but explained that he generally looks for discarded lottery
tickets in the area, hoping to pocket enough cash for food and coffee. His bed
each night is the dugout of a nearby baseball field and Rev. Steve Brigham, a
homeless advocate who knows Leggatt, expressed dismay that anyone would do such
a horrible thing to another human being. Bystander Carlos Mejia posted an
account of the incident on social media after confronting the young man who
paid Leggatt, claiming that the man who made the offer belonged to the local
Orthodox Jewish community and said police wouldn't try to prosecute him because,
"We run this town." The only possible positive from all of
this is that more people in the area know who Leggatt is and hopefully will
make an effort to help him in the future…………
- NBA
unicorns….they do exist. That’s according to Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin
Durant, a physical freak whose arms seem to be eight feet long but who shoots and
handles the ball like a point guard. Durant recognizes another freak when he
sees one and he sees on in New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis, an
athletic 7-foot-3 forward with a diverse game. "He can shoot, he can make
the right plays, he can defend, he's a 7-footer that can shoot all the way out
to the 3-point line," Durant said. "That's rare. And block shots --
that's like a unicorn in this league." Durant, a multi-time All-Star,
recalled texting former teammate and current Knicks head coach Derek Fisher
when New York drafted Porzingis and applauded the pick even though many fans
and analysts panned the selection. “A lot of people were down on him, but he
can play. He's a skilled guy and I think we've gotten away from enjoying
skilled players in this league,” Durant said. “We get so many players that are
athletic and big and strong, but he's a skilled player." In Durant’s eyes,
the young Latvian’s combination of size and skill are what make him an NBA
unicorn and after defeating the Knicks for the second time this season on Tuesday
night, it’s unlikely that opinion has changed. It’s not an uncommon take on
Porzingis, whose putback dunks and refined overall game have made him a
consistent double-figure scorer and a capable second banana to Carmelo Anthony
for a team with reasonable hopes of snagging one of the final playoff spots in
the underwhelming Eastern Conference and getting smashed by a much better team
in the first round of the postseason………..
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