- If
you believe 50 Cent, then 50 Cent will be involved
with the upcoming “Predator” sequel. Bit actors vying for peripheral roles
typically don’t make casting decisions, but the rapper has been telling most
anyone who asks - and some who don’t - that he will score a role in the fourth
film in the franchise. No, the studio, 20th
Century Fox, or the director, Shane Black, has confirmed anything remotely
resembling this news, but 50 has been saying in every interview he does things
such as him “doing some new feature films and stuff like that too. I'll do
Predator.” Being attached to this project would be a big deal for 50, who has
done plenty of acting, but has never really been a cornerstone in a blockbuster
film. “The Predator” could be that movie, as it’s the latest sequel to the 1987
action classic “Predator,”
which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan 'Dutch' Schaefer, who leads a
crack team of American special forces soldiers into the South American jungle.
The Gover-nator has suggested that he’s open to being part of the new sequel
and Black was a part of the cast for the original, so there is a dose of continuity
for this one. Word on the street is that this well be a straight-up sequel and
not an attempt to reimagine the original with much better effects and
technology, but Black’s history with “Iron Man 3” and other such films of
recent vintage suggests that he’s very much going to make use of the CGI tools,
high-definition views and other weapons at his disposal to make this one
sparkle. Now the question is whether a past-his-prime rapper is one of those
weapons………
- Fatties,
stop acting all offended and surprised when the world pushes back against the
problems your immense girth creates. By now, you know that the rest of us
aren't down with you consuming 70 percent of the space on a bench seat on a
subway or bus when that seat is intended for three people, not you and a
waifish elderly woman who can barely squeeze her 85-pound frame into the room
left once your blubbery ass sits down. If you would take some of the very
simple steps to eat less unhealthy food, do even a few minutes of basic
exercise a day and shed even a few pounds, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
All of this comes to a head when we hear about the story of someone like Errol Narvaez, a Jersey City man who says he was publicly
humiliated and kicked off a packed flight because of his weight. Navarez, who
weighs in at 385 pounds, is that guy you hope doesn’t end up in the seat next
to you because you know he’s going to be oozing over that armrest and into your
space for the duration of the flight. He was returning from Las Vegas after
celebrating his birthday there and had a confirmed aisle seat on a United
flight to Newark. However, the plane to be used for the flight was switched at
the last minute and with the new aircraft came a new seating arrangement.
Nearby passengers complained and that’s when sh*t went down. An airline
supervisor came on board, according to Navarez, and asked him to get off the
plane without offering any other solutions. He was put on another flight
six hours later, but insists his feelings were hurt by all of this. "I'm already big and growing up you always get those
big jokes and what have you and 31 years of living with myself I know how I am,”
Navarez said. “I still look good, I still look good, I don't care what anybody
says.” And therein lies the problem. No one but you and others in the same spot
think you look good and against a backdrop of increased health care costs and
other burdens on society by the morbidly obese, looking good is something
you’re definitely not doing………
- Thank
God that Southern Californians have plenty to do and that San Diego is America’s
self-professed most beautiful city…because the only one of the city’s
professional sports teams currently playing is submitting some record-breaking
ugliness to start its season. The San Diego Padres are just three games into
the new Major League Baseball season and their futility at the plate is fast
becoming the stuff of legends. In the three-game, season-opening series against
the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Padres became the first MLB team to be shut out in
its first three games of a season. They capped their punchless performance with
a 7-0 loss to set the MLB mark with 27 consecutive scoreless innings to open a
season. In so doing, they eclipsed the old mark of 26 innings by the 1943 St.
Louis Browns. San Diego came oh, so close to ending its scoreless streak in the
third game when Cory Spangenberg was called out trying to score on a grounder
to first, but the Padres appealed and the replay appeared to show Spangenberg
got his foot across the plate before being tagged by Dodgers catcher A.J.
Ellis. The umpires upheld the call after a three-minute review, thwarting the
would-be sixth-inning mini-rally. "The reality is this: We had ample
opportunities to score runs, and I'm not going to cry about a call that is made
in New York," rookie Padres manager Andy Green said. "We still do
have 159 games left, and we will score runs this year. And we will win series
this year." Yes, but not being able to score a single run against an
archrival who limped into the series with 10 players on the disabled list
doesn’t really inspire much confidence in your future competence, skipper………
- Maybe
they don’t want to give up their midday siestas? Either that or ruling pro-independence parties in Catalonia have
reaffirmed their declared intention to disconnect from Spain despite a
Constitutional Court ruling suspending that declaration because they’ve been
pushing that agenda for months and refuse to break free from their desire to
break away. Lawmakers in the regional parliament in Barcelona gave their thumbs
up to a motion put forth by the "Together for Yes" group and its
anti-capitalist coalition partner, CUP, marking the next step in a contentious
process that has put Catalonia at odds with the national government even as it
deals with its own various crises, both big and small. Interestingly, the same
Catalan parliament that voted yea on this measure also rejected calls by CUP
for regional lawmakers and institutions, including local police, to disobey
Spanish courts. This particular vote came as a response to the Constitutional
Court's rejection of the original announcement of a road map for independence
by 2017 that was approved Nov. 10. Right now, pro-secession parties hold a slim
majority in the parliament, but the 7.5 million people they represent in the
region are evenly divided over splitting from Spain. The rest of Spain is hell-bent
on keeping the region as part of the country not because they’re jazzed about
the unique way it pronounces “gracias” or its many cultural contributions, but
because Catalonia accounts for nearly a fifth of Spain's economic output. You
know, just in case you forgot that it’s always about the money……….
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