- We
all make mistakes. Some of us leave our coffee mug on the roof of our car and
drive off, some don’t turn the oven off before leaving home and Chance The
Rapper leaves extremely talented female vocalists off his new albums. Chance
recently revealed that Regina Spektor was set to appear as a guest vocalist on
his recent mixtape, 'Coloring Book,' and called cutting her from the final
version his "greatest mistake." The album dropped last month with a
number of guests spots, including appearances from Kanye West and Lil Wayne, but
it’s the one that didn’t happen that has Chance shaking his damn head. He wrote
on Twitter that Spektor was set to make a vocal appearance on the song 'Same
Drugs,' but was cut late in the process. Now that he’s had a chance to let the
new one sink in and go back and listen to older demos of the track, he’s not
feeling good about his final decision. “Listening to old versions of the songs
from Coloring Book. Same Drugs had Regina Spektor on it. Not using this may be
my biggest mistake,” Chance wrote. When some of his Twitter followers suggested
going back and editing the song after the fact as West has done at times, he
shot didn’t seem eager to do so. However, Spektor responded to Chance's
admission later that night on Twitter with a string of seemingly forgiving
emojis, so at least she’s not holding a grudge about it and is happy that he
has realized the true error of his musical ways……..
- Ah,
the stresses of being a Polish nightclub owner trying to make your
strobe-light-flashing, EDM-cranking, expensive-drink-serving establishment to
stand out above the many other strobe-light-flashing, EDM-cranking,
expensive-drink-serving establishments in your city. That’s what’s currently
vexing the life of Rafal Pasionek, who owns both a decommissioned Soviet-era
tank and the Mono Club in Szubin and decided that the best way to promote the
latter was to take the former and send it hurtling through the front doors. Pasionek
crashed his crashed his tank through the club's doors in what’s being called a
promotional stunt gone very wrong and as with anything worth mocking these
days, there is video of the incident and that video quickly went viral, with Pasionek
saying the crash happened when “the brakes and steering failed as I was moving
the vehicle in front of the club.” However, the crash happened at a time when
no one is anywhere near a nightclub, the afternoon, and so no one was hurt. "I
was incredibly lucky that the vehicle went right between the posts flanking the
entrance - otherwise there would have been a lot of damage," Pasionek
said. Yes, and you would have looked like an absolute idiot who thought that a
Soviet-era tank driven by a man who had absolutely no clue what he was doing at
the controls was the perfect vehicle to use to make his club the place to be for
the good people of Szubin……
- Life
after football is a tough thing to transition to for former professional
athletes. Some ex-NFLers go into broadcasting to stay close to the game they
love, others go into acting or producing … and then there’s the select few who
decide that the best way to follow a life making millions of dollars to play
football is to try to create their very own drug empire. Former Chicago Bears
receiver Sam Hurd is the most famous example of an NFLer going full-on El
Chapo, but according to a man suspected of trying to extort at least $65,000
from former Ohio State star and NFL player Christopher "Beanie" Wells,
the ex-Arizona Cardinals ball carrier has a little bit of kingpin in him. Wells
testified at Franklin Conley's federal trial, denying Conley's allegations that
Wells was tied up in drug dealing, but prosecutors say the defendant threatened
violence toward Wells and his family if the former Arizona Cardinals running
back didn't pay between $65,000 and $175,000. According to Conley's attorney, Wells
and his brother helped arrange a bad drug deal for Conley and another man and
took their money. It could be a desperate claim by an overmatched attorney who
knows he has a losing case and Wells adamantly denied those claims in court,
but all of this does beg the question of how Wells became entangled with such a
shady character. Yes, he was released by the Cardinals in 2013, later tore his
Achilles tendon and hasn't played since, but does the end of an NFL dream drive
a man into the world of plastic baggies, eight balls and bricks of coke? Wells
had best hope not……..
- Maybe
Katie Miller was simply trying to even the score for the millions of families
Disney has gouged over the years for $100-plus dollars to get into its
contrived world of magic and mirth. Either that or she’s a duplicitous scumbag
who used her job at the Disney World in Orlando,
Florida to steal more than $100,000. According to police, Miller was a teller
at Columbia Harbor House restaurant in the Magic Kingdom theme part and was
caught making fraudulent refunds at the restaurant back in March. She would
allegedly process the refunds using the IDs of cast members not logged off
registers, along with her override privileges, and was able steal up to $6,000
a month starting in May of 2013. Her admitted era of thievery ran for 22
months, during which time police say she stole about $112,707. But as always,
at least when a person commits grand larceny of this sort, there was a viable
reason and it wasn’t just a lack of character, integrity and honor. No, Miller
told investigators that she started stealing after her car was repossessed and
it became an addiction. Maybe if Disney paid a decent living wage off the
exorbitant ticket prices it charges patrons for its theme parks, this problem
wouldn’t have come up. Miller was finally arrested this week even though Disney
fired her way back in March and quickly decided to prosecute her for stealing
the same amount of money it likely earns in sales at Columbia Harbor House
restaurant in an hour or two with the absurd menu prices at the establishment………
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