- If
Subway is going to jack up the prices of all of its subs and make what was once
a $5 footlong a $6 slap in the face of its customers, maybe this is the kind of
show it should put on behind that 20-foot sneeze guard sheet of plastic it
calls a counter. The scene was a Festus, Missouri Subway eatery and the show in
question was put on by what the sandwich chain is calling a former employee
acting without authorization. Those visiting the Subway on Gannon Drive ran into a shirtless
man dancing and making sandwiches behind the counter, but this wasn’t an idiot
who showed up for work drunk or high and did something to get himself fired
from a job that it should be virtually impossible to lose. Several photos and a
video from customers concerned about the man’s behavior and the obvious health
code violations posed by his actions drew attention to the situation, yet Festus
police did not receive any complaints on the incident. Apparently some out-of-shape,
no-shirt kook who was either fired and looking for payback or quit but always
regretted never holding Shirtless Sando Hour when he was on the job was able to
gain access to the very secure area behind the counter and do his worst.
"The person behind the counter that appears in the video is not a current
subway sandwich shop employee and was not authorized to go behind the counter,”
Subway said in a statement. The former employee left the shop before further
action could be taken. We apologize to our guests for this unusual
occurrence." Apologize? You need to cash in on this and turn this freak
into the sort of distraction to make people forget how overpriced your food is……….
- Bizarre
musical pairings can produce masterpieces….or they can be utter disasters. It’s
too soon to say what will happen when Blink-182
drummer Travis Barker and Outkast leading man Andre 3000 team up in the studio,
but both mean are odd artists with distinctive styles, so at a minimum is
should be bizarre and an amusing train wreck. Barker started the conversation
when he shared an image of himself with the Outkast rapper on Instagram over
the weekend. The duo were hanging together at Coachella and Barker captioned
the picture: "Gonna make music very soon with this legend." It was
the perfect piece of social media gossip fodder because no one is sure what
this music will look like or whether it will be a part of some larger project.
The prevailing theory is that Andre 3000 is working on a solo album, with
comedian Chris Rock recently claiming he and Jack White will both feature on it,
meaning Barker would definitely not be the most unlikely contributor if that’s
what he’s going to be doing. Barker is a busy guy at this point, making music
as a solo artist while also cranking out a bastardized version of music with
what used to be Blink-182 and is now just a hack version of the formerly
awesome pop-punk rockers fronted by a dude from another band because Tom
DeLonge and his former bandmates could no longer get along. Perhaps is Andre
3000 has some spare time once his album is done, he can step in for new Blink
frontman Matt Skiba and further dilute what was once an amazing, badass punk
outfit……..
- Rage
against the machine, obscure Lebanese rockers Mashrou'
Leila ("Night Project"), rage against the damn machine. For those who
don’t know, Mashrou' Leila are actually one of the more popular Lebanese rock
bands - not a crowded field - and they are fighting an uphill battle against
Jordanian authorities, whom they accuse of banning them from performing because
their songs promote religious and sexual freedom. Jordan's Antiquities
Department initially told the band it could not perform at a Roman Theater in
the capital Amman because the show contradicts the venue's "authenticity,”
but protecting the integrity of an inanimate object is a dubious motivation for
forcing a band to pull the plug on a gig. The government doesn’t even seem to
be on the same page here because Amman governor Khalid Abu Zeid later said that
the group was banned because its songs "contradict" religious
beliefs. It could be a real black eye for Western ally Jordan, which likes to
position itself as an island of tolerance in a region where fundamentalist
Islam is on the rise. This decision is all the more curious because the band
has performed three times before at the Roman Theater, but what could possibly
be the reason to decide that their songs are socially and culturally
unacceptable now? Guitarist Firas Abou Fakher says the group has become
"large enough" to make it a target for political attacks, which would
make a hell of a lot of sense based on how governments work, but not a lick of
sense when it comes to the fundamentals of logic or reason……….
- Troubled
coaches and players around the NBA aren't the only ones b*tching about
potential rule changes they believe would make their sport better. Major League
Baseball has its own whiners and one of them manages one of the most expensive
teams in the league. That would be New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who
would like to ban to exaggerated shifts defenses play to shut down opposing
hitters they know will often put the ball in play to one specific side of the
field. "It is an illegal defense, like basketball," Girardi said,
alluding to certain defensive rules in the Association. "Guard your man,
guard your spot. If I were commissioner, they would be illegal." In other
words, glue your feet to one predetermined spot on the field and stay there.
Ironically, this guy played the shift earlier this week and it cost Yankee
starter Nathan Eovaldi a no-hitter in the seventh inning on a ground ball that
went through the area where the shortstop traditionally plays. Maybe Girardi is
feeling a bit guilty about costing his pitcher a chance at history, but he’s
also not going to stand on some high moral ground and try to enact change
either. "As long as it is legal, I'm going to play it," he said of
the shift even though he feels the strategy takes away from the original intent
of the setup of baseball. "I just think the field was built this way for a
reason, with two on one side and two on the other," Girardi said. Commissioner
Rob Manfred came into office two years ago talking boldly about banning the
shift, but he has since backpedaled from those remarks and appears poised to
the precisely nothing about the issue………
No comments:
Post a Comment