- There
is literally no one who followed Cliff Robinson’s basketball career who didn’t
see this coming. Robinson was affectionately knowing as Uncle Cliffy during his
career, but anyone who paid attention knew that dude could just as easily have
been called Uncle Spliffy because he had a definite affection for ganja. He was
twice suspended for marijuana use during his NBA career and now that he’s well
on the other side of his playing days, he’s chasing down his clear destiny with
a new business venture under that Uncle Spliffy moniker. Yes, the former UConn
star has registered the name for his upcoming career in the marijuana business.
He has the domain name locked down in and in true stoner fashion, the site is
almost entirely incomplete. It features a marijuana leaf and a promise that the
rest of the site is "Coming Soon,” a promise that friends and family
members of stoners know all too well. Robinson, along with a group of
investors, will open a grow operation in Portland, Oregon, and this outfit
wants to have its product on the market by the end of the year. Those who know
know that Oregon legalized recreational use of marijuana in July, becoming one
of four states, plus the District of Columbia, to jump into the battle for
America’s official stoner haven. As of October, recreational pot could be
purchased from medical marijuana dispensaries, with retail stores to come later
this year. Robinson is promoting his new business by any means possible,
including serving as the keynote speaker at next month's Cannabis Collaborative
Conference………
- Dammit,
who forgot to pay the rent on Adolf Hitler’s bunker? It’s one of those things
that you always assume someone else took care of because dammit, it’s the rent,
it’s due every month and it’s not like all of you can forget it. Yet it appears
that’s precisely what happened and it’s why a Polish court ruled that the state
was right to terminate the lease of Hitler's World War II bunker to a private
company because that company failed to
pay rent or upgrade it as a tourist attraction. Forestry authorities in Gerloz,
in northeastern Poland, terminated the lease of Hitler's Wolf's Lair in March,
but the company that owns the site protested the decision despite the fact that
it owes the state some 1.2 million zlotys ($290,000). Judge Wieslaw Kasprzyk of
the provincial court in Olsztyn ruled that the termination of the agreement was
justified, to which the private company immediately replied that it would
appeal. In the meantime, forestry authorities will move on as if that appeal
didn’t exist and seek other partners to finance their plan of maintaining the
historic site and turning it into a real tourist attraction. Chief local
forester Zenon Piotrowicz announced the new direction for the plan to care for
the system of some 200 Nazi bunkers and military barracks hidden in deep woods.
Yes, the more famous bunker was in Berlin, but the Wolf's Lair served as
Hitler's chief quarters from 1941-44, when the area was in Germany. It was
there that Col. Claus Stauffenberg set the stage for one of the most
over-the-top Tom Cruise performances ever with his failed assassination attempt
on Hitler by on July 20, 1944, for which
he was executed. Stauffenberg’s story became the 2009 Hollywood movie
"Valkyrie" starring Cruise and Kenneth Branagh and turned the bunkers
into a major tourist attraction visited by some 200,000 history enthusiasts
annually………..
- The
world has long wondered what the hell Quentin Tarantino is thinking. Not that the quirky cinema savant is ever
going to make sense, but maybe this will help a bit. “The Hateful Eight”
director has confirmed long-standing speculation
that the characters from his films exist in the same universe. The world
already knew that “Inglorious Basterds”
character Donnie Donowitz was the son of “True Romance character” Lee Donowitz and “Reservoir Dogs” key man Vic Vega was
the brother of “Pulp Fiction” bumbling stooge Vincent Vega. Tarantino has often used his movies to provide teasers
for future projects, including the memorable scene in “Pulp Fiction in which Mia (Uma Thurman) describes a pilot episode of
a TV show which features the same plot and characters as “Kill Bill,” a movie Tarantino went on
to make nine years later. “There is actually
two separate universes,” the director said of the world in which his characters
exist. “There is the realer than real
universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But then there's this
movie universe. So From Dusk Till
Dawn, Kill Bill, they all take place in this special movie universe. So
when all the characters of Reservoir
Dogs or Pulp Fiction,
when they go to the movies, Kill Bill
is what they go to see. From Dusk Till
Dawn is what they see.” To further play out the tease and build some
more buzz for his latest project, Tarantino also implied that a character from “The Hateful Eight” is related to one
of his older characters and suggested that fans of his past work could dig in
and figure out the mystery. It’s all quite a tangled web of cinematic
intrigue and for fanboys who love Tarantino’s bizarre style and sense of humor,
it’s another layer to enjoy………..
- In
this crazy world of ours, someone needs to stand up and fight for the everyman.
Sacramento Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gatto is that someone, at least for
residents of one neighborhood in California’s capital city. Gatto knows that
some shady business is going on in his ‘hood, as evidenced by city parking
enforcement records showing 93 street cleaning tickets written for the
three-block stretch of P street, totaling $4,882.50, for the period July 1 and
Nov. 20, 2013. Knowing that people hate parking tickets and some can’t afford
the fines their questionable parking tactics incur, the assemblyman is proposing
a parking bill of rights that would prevent California cities and counties from
writing street cleaning tickets after the streets have already been cleaned. Gatto
believes drivers shouldn’t be ticketed if cities aren’t actually cleaning the
streets and say his bill will also outlaw tickets at broken parking meters,
keep cities from hiring private companies to act as “parking bounty hunters”
and make it illegal for valets to use public parking spots. “Occasionally the
state needs to step in and remind our local governments that parking a vehicle
should be an efficient practice, and not another big hassle designed to
separate motorists from their money,” Gatto said of his proposal. “These simple
and practical policy changes will make life easier for Californians who just
want to park their cars and go about their business.” Sacramento has faced this
issue before, but following a 2014 investigation, the city refused to dismiss
the parking tickets written when the streets weren’t being cleaned and so far hasn’t
commented on Gatto’s idea……….
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