- If
you invite Philly fan to the playoffs, you have to expect this kind of result.
Much like inviting your one bro who always takes it eight steps too far to that
low-key house party you’re trying to throw when house-sitting for the weekend, having
Philadelphia sports fans in the playoffs virtually guarantees that sh*t is
going to get broken and a face or two may get caved in. This time, if was
Flyers fans temporarily hijacking Game 3 of their team’s first-round NHL
playoff series against the Washington Capitals by littering glow stick
wristbands on the ice during the Flyers’ 6-1 home ass-kicking. To show their
displeasure late in the game, fans at the Wachovia Center tossed their wristbands,
which had been used as part of a pregame lights show, on the ice as the Capitals
turned the game into a rout. Public address announcer Lou Nolan tried to stop
it by pleading with fans to "show some class" during the first wave
of band tossing, then cautioned that their team would be hit with a penalty if
people kept throwing the wristbands and garbage. Being Philly fans, they
refused to listen and pelted the ice with the giveaways at the same pace even
after Flyers right wing Wayne Simmonds raised his hand toward the crowd and
pleaded with fans to stop chucking the colorful bracelets on the ice late.
Seeing the visitors take a commanding 3-0 lead in the series with four goals in
the third period sent fans over the edge and after the Flyers were whistled for
the penalty, Nolan sarcastically snarked, “Way to go,” at the offending fans.
All in all, just about what we all should have expected……..
- They
won't win, but credit to seven environmental groups,
including WWF and Greenpeace, who are going to battle against a Polish
government plan for extensive logging in Europe's last primeval forest. The
consortium has lodged a complaint with the European Commission over the plan,
arguing they were forced to take that step after running out of options in
Poland. They claim this aggressive plan violates a key European conservation law,
arguing that last month, when Poland's Environment Minister Jan Szyszko
approved extensive logging in the Bialowieza Forest in northeastern Poland, his
reasoning was faulty. Szyszko argued that the plan was to help fight the spread of bark beetle, but
environmentalists see a much more sinister reason and are smelling a conspiracy
theory. Their theory is that this entire plan is merely a pretext for massive
commercial logging and they’re looking to wage war on behalf of a forest that is
on UNESCO's World Heritage list and is home to hundreds of wild bison, over 60
other species of mammals and hundreds of species of trees, plants and lichens.
That list might not do a lot for the majority of the world, but with news of
global warming’s effects speeding up and the impact that deforestation has on
this particular problem, not chopping down these trees does sound like a
defensible idea. Of course, that doesn’t mean the tree huggers have a real
chance to win here………
- Jim
Cameron is going full bore and electing to rip the band-aid off in one motion
rather than take a more gradual approach. Better known as acclaimed director
James Cameron, this cinematic savant is planning to
shoot four Avatar sequels all
in one push, even though that means the second movie in the sci-fi franchise
won't hit theaters until December 2018. The director recently announced that he
intends to turn the original “Avatar” film into a true ‘chise, releasing films
in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023. He could do it conventionally and film one movie
at a time, but he’s chosen to shoot all eight hours of the series concurrently.
“It’s not back-to-back. It’s really all one big
production. It’s more the way you would shoot a miniseries,” Cameron said. “ So
we’ll be shooting across all (scripts) simultaneously. So Monday I might be
doing a scene from Movie Four, and Tuesday I’m doing a scene from Movie One.
We’re working across, essentially, eight hours of story. It’s going to be a big
challenge to keep it all fixed in our minds, exactly where we are, across that
story arc at any given point.” If nothing else, shooting this way should help
with continuity, even if it has the potential to drive all involved with the
projects insane because of the butterfly effect of tweaking any detail in any
of the four films and impacting the other three in the process as they’re all
being shot at the same time. The first film was a colossal commercial and
critical success and these four films should be more of the same, but Cameron
seems a bit of a madman for how he’s making them……..
- Seriously,
trio of St. Petersburg, Florida teens? Your best idea for teenage hijinks and
shenanigans involves a used Toyota Camry and some forgetful dude who wasn’t
smart enough to take his keys with him when he went into his local coffee shop
for a cup of caffeine? Three teens, two of them 15 years old and one 16,
spotted an unattended Camry with its keys in the ignition and the engine
running at a coffee shop in the 1900 block of 53rd St. N and being a
group of teenage dudes and therefore having a collective IQ roughly 1/3 of what
it would be if you added up their individual intelligence, they decided it was
a great chance to take a clunky, used sedan for a joy ride in the Florida sun. St. Petersburg Police Department investigators
said the theft happened shortly before 7 a.m., which is astonishing because
what the hell kind of teenagers are up that early if they’re not in school? If
you’re the sort of teenager who commits grand theft atuo, then you’re probably
still napping it out at that hour and skipping school, but somehow these thre
knuckleheads were not only awake, but alert enough to spot the unattended car,
jump in and take off. Sadly, in addition to being morons, they’re also terrible
car thieves and their joy ride ended moments later when they - really - drove over an unoccupied car that was parked
about a block away. With the stolen car propped partially on top of the second
vehicle, the teens fled the scene, but a police officer spotted them a few
blocks away and arrested them. It was the inevitable end to one of the most
pointless crimes imaginable and now these three get an early start on the
criminal records they were bound to develop at some point. Well played, ass
hats………
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