- Frank
Ocean has been cryptic about his long-awaited new album, dropping small hints
here or there but often rescinding those hints shortly after putting them on
various social media outlets. If Ocean isn’t going to talk about the follow-up
to 2012's 'Channel Orange,” maybe his friend Chance The Rapper can shed some
light on the subject. Chance has done just that, saying that Ocean is "making
a masterpiece,” which is good news for fans who expected the album last July,
but haven’t heard much since they and haven’t seen a shred or single from the
album in the interim. Chance released his own 'Coloring Book' mixtape last week
and was asked about his pal Ocean’s slowness to drop his new album. "I am
good friends with Frank. His new album is amazing," Chance said. "No one
is really able to find Frank when Frank goes away, literally no one, not just
publications. I know he's away making a masterpiece. I think that Frank is
very, very focused on his catalogue. Anything that you hear him on that's a
feature was recorded a long time ago." Back in February, Ocean was reported to have debuted new music at a secret
listening party, but samples of tracks he reportedly performed at the party
were deleted shortly after being uploaded to Soundcloud. Last April, he posted
a picture on his Tumblr, teasing what could have been a possible album release.
"I got two versions. I got twoooo versions #ISSUE1 #ALBUM3 #JULY2015
#BOYSDONTCRY," he wrote with the image of him sitting with a stack of
magazines titled “Boys Don't Cry” in the picture. Neither of those
happenings amounted to much and so the mystery around this entire process
continues to build……….
- Irony
resides at a cemetery in Moscow. That’s where a day that should have been all
about honoring someone who had just passed away instead ended with three people
who arrived at the cemetery alive and breathing and ended up sharing far too
much in common with the property’s permanent residents. Police aren't sure what
caused a violent brawl involving about 200 people in an apparent turf war, but
they know that the melee left three people dead and 23 others hospitalized.
Rather than the peace and calm that typically prevail at such places, this
cemetery was the scene of psychos firing guns and weaponizing shovel handles,
steel bars and baseball bats against their opponents. Two of those who died did
so after sustaining fatal injuries that occurred when they were struck by a car
driven by someone trying to flee the scene, Moscow police spokeswoman Sofia
Khotina said. The prevailing theory is that the brawl centered on who controls
providing burial services at the sprawling Khovanskoye cemetery in southwest
Moscow, but this is the sort of violence you’d expect to see when billions of
dollars in drug money and territory are one the line, not when the topic is who
will provide professional, compassionate service to the families of those who
have passed away. According to police and emergency personnel, four of the 23
hospitalized were in serious condition. This being Russia, one has to wonder
how much vodka was involved in fueling this total mess………
- Before
this weekend, it’s doubtful anyone beyond the hardcore golf fans of the world
knew who Russell Knox was. So even though Knox took a blowtorch to his chances
to contend this past weekend at the Players Championship by putting his ball in
the water three times at the infamous par-3 17th hole of the TPC Sawgrass
Stadium course, at least people know his name. Knox actually lives in the
Jacksonville area and has played the course many times, yet had never put his
tee shot in the drink until the third round. The young Scot, Knox, who won the
WGC-HSBC Champions in November for his first PGA Tour title, ended up making a
9 at the famed 17th, tying the fourth-highest score on the hole in tournament
history. “You've got thousands of people laughing at you,'' Knox said.
"It's a very uncomfortable feeling. That was an epic fail. Until
you're in that position, you don't understand what it feels like.” Knox said he
actually felt like his first shot was good, but when it went into the water
hazard, the pressure and adrenaline began to mount and rather than go to the
drop zone after the first shot, he tried twice more from the tee, which cost me
four shots probably, but I've never shanked a pitching wedge off a tee before,
so that was a first.'' His first shot came with a pitching wedge and fell just
short on the right side of the green, followed by a second shot shanked well to
the right. After his third shot fell well short, he finally went to the drop
area and, hitting his seventh shot, found the green. With his score of nine on
the hole, he fell from 8-under par and in the top 10 to 2 under. By the end of
the day, he was in a tie for 40th and a part of every future failure montage
during broadcasts of the Players Championship………
- Donald
Trump has finally found a business where his asinine brand of whatever the hell
it is he does makes sense. Much like two-time reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry,
the presumptive Republican presidential nominee (are we sure we can’t avoid
that?) is now the hijacked face of a local brand of heroin. Curry’s name and
face recently showed up on packets of smack in Philadelphia and while it’s
pretty clear Curry didn’t give permission to dealers to use his likeness to
promote their product, it’s clear the trend is catching on and taking root
elsewhere, specifically Springfield, Massachusetts, where two drug dealers were
arrested late last week as they were about to make a delivery of heroin stamped
with the name of the oranged-up, blowhard GOP nominee. According to Springfield
police Sgt. John Delaney, suspects Mark Hunter and Seneca Johnson, both of
Springfield, were arrested following the surveillance operation outside
Johnson’s Westford Circle home. Narcotics detectives obtained a search warrant
for the house and were conducting surveillance when they saw Hunter and Jonson
leaving. Both men were known drug dealers and when they came out of the house,
they were arrested and police found a large amount of heroin stamped with the words
“Donald Trump.” A search of the house turned up even more Trump-stamped heroin,
with 193 bags in all being seized, as well as a large amount of packaged
cocaine that, in the interest of fair and balanced drug dealing, should have
been labeled with the names of Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hilary
Clinton. There was also plenty of drug paraphernalia, packaging materials and
cash and at least one of those three things would have been very useful to the
two suspects as they were arraigned in Springfield District Court and sent off
to face the numerous criminal charges against them………..
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