- Stay
weird and overpriced, Japan. The land of the Rising Sun, a.k.a. the Place With
a Bizarre Hello Kitty Fascination, a.k.a. the Place Where All Sorts of Animals
Are Treated Like Deities, is at it again. Already home to cafés where cats,
rabbits, owls, hawks and snakes can chill alongside human guests, a new
establishment in the Far East is adding an exotic new spin on the idea of
having a dirty, supposed-to-be-wild animal sit next to you as you sip your tea
and eat your biscotti. A new café called Harry, patrons can fork over $9 to $12
to spend an hour with hedgehogs, the spiky-yet-cuddly creatures of Sonic the
Hedgehog video game fame. This new café is located in the Roppongi
entertainment district and it offers 20 to 30 hedgehogs of different breeds
that simply nap it out in glass tanks. According to café staff, the point of
their business is to show people the charm of hedgehogs by proving that they’re
not too prickly to handle. The thinking is that if you can win over these tiny
creatures and get them to open up and allow you to see their face, then it will
be a truly wonderful bonding experience for one an all. Oh, and the hedgehog café
is located in the same building as a rabbit café, so it’s a real wildlife
kingdom down in the Roppongi entertainment district right now. One can only
hope that something legit like lemurs or aardvarks is next……….
- If
the recent NWA biopic “Straight Outta Compton” wasn’t edgy enough for you, then maybe a Wu
Tang Clan movie will do the trick. According to RZA, one of the founding
members of Wu Tang, a biopic of his group is in the works and he believes it
will be a big hit between the tale of the Wu is "really an against-the-odds
story." While these seem to be more hopeful and long-term-dream
words, at least we know that the idea is being kicked around even if it’s going
to take a while to pull this disjointed mess together. After all, anything that
tries to reunite or revive Wu Tang at this point takes seemingly years to
happen, so agreeing to a movie and then walking it through the entire production
process could take a decade. "Yes [there will
be a Wu Tang Clan movie], but it's not easy. I've been having conversations
with some people, so we'll see if that's something we can tie together,” RZA
said. "I think it would be a blessing for American culture. It is really
an against the odds story. You're talking about guys with felonies on their
records, you know what I mean? Not that that's something to brag about, but
that's something to understand.” As RZA sees it, during his time a young black
man was all but destined to be dead or incarcerated by the time he turned 25,
yet he and his fellow Wu Tang members overcame those odds and in the process,
changed the rap game. Now, they want to cash in with, er, share their story
with the world on the big screen………
- World
prepare to be stunned. In a shocking turn of events, serious injuries have
befallen a man who makes his living strapping experimental human flight
apparatuses to his back and shooting himself into the sky. Denver’s own Jet
Pack Man was rushed to a local hospital this week with a head injury and minor
burns after he crashed during a test flight. Witnesses reported that Nick
Macomber, who was featured on a national morning show last summer for his
prowess in taking more than 600 flights with a jetpack, crashed around 9:30
a.m. on the 2600 block of West 8th Avenue, falling from an unknown
height after the jet pack malfunctioned. According to Troy Widgery, CEO of
Jet Pack International, Macomber wasn’t wearing a helmet during the test
flight, which came to a crashing halt during the landing process. “He should’ve
been wearing a helmet, but he’s so good, and again this was just a test flight,”
Widgery said. “If he would have been doing a performance flight he obviously
would have been wearing a helmet but he was just going 10 feet off the ground.”
Ten feet seems like a very conservative estimate given the damage Macomber
sustained, but at least Jet Pack Man wasn’t critically injured in the incident.
For a man who has flown over the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver and flown for
crowds inside professional sports stadiums, it would have been a bit of a
letdown to take his last flight on some random downtown Denver street and crash
and burn in front of some trendy coffee shop or thrift store………
- Nothing
shady or suspicious here, all. Just keep moving and ignore the fact that Russia
hurriedly changed almost its entire under-18 ice hockey team a day before the
team departed for the world championships in North Dakota. To the skeptic,
having both the coach and all Russia-based players removed and replaced with a
hastily assembled group of under-17s with no explanation would be a reason to
suspect that perhaps Russia’s pesky doping problems could be involved, but Russian
Hockey Federation president Vladislav Tretiak insisted it was "a tactical decision
by the coaching staff” and nothing more. Yes, because all good hockey
tacticians change their entire roster the day before a major tournament and
replace their coach in the process. "I ask you not to give in to rumor and
to speculate about what has happened,” Tretiak said. Hey Vlad, you may live in
a repressive country that stifles dissent as a go-to tactic, but you have to
realize you live in the 21st century with social media and 24/7 sports
coverage, so speculation is simply automatic at this point. The fact that the previous
players' profiles were deleted from the team website within hours exacerbates
the cause for speculation. Tretiak did say that the federation had not
conducted any informal doping tests of its players, which would be a breach of
anti-doping rules, but several recent Russian athletic doping scandals have the
spotlight on Vlad Putin and his crew ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games in
Brazil. But with such a über-trustworthy country with a long track record of
transparency and honesty, this is all probably much ado about nothing………
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