- There’s nothing to welcome a teenage girl to adulthood
quite like spicing up her 15th birthday party with the wacky unpredictability
of edible marijuana goods, eh? Someone in San Francisco knows how to put the
kush in quinceañera and because of this adventuresome soul, the city's
Department of Public Health is trying to figure out just how it was that edible
marijuana offered at this party sickened 19 people in San Francisco's Mission
District. The initial findings came after preliminary lab tests showed that
gummy ring candy from the party contained THC, the psychoactive ingredient in
marijuana. "Anyone who attended the quinceañera and may have taken home
some of the gummy rings is urged to discard them immediately," said Dr.
Tomas Aragon, health officer for the city and county of San Francisco. All 19
people were taken to the hospital with symptoms ranging from a rapid heart rate
and dilated pupils to nausea, lethargy and confusion, which is amazing because it
suggests that none of these people had ever gotten high before and in a
wide-open city like San Francisco, what are the odds of finding 19 people
gathered in any one place, all without any stoner habits? But none of the
hospitalizations were too severe, as all were soon released, leaving health
officials to investigate the origin of the candy, including the catering
company, which is from Oakland. "The question remains, where did the
candies come from?" Aragon asked. "A situation like this, where they
were consumed by unsuspecting people, and many children, is greatly concerning.”
Wait….dosing unsuspecting children with uncertain quantities of ganja is a bad
idea? Maybe this crew just has a different view of how to celebrate a girl's
15th birthday in Latin American cultures………
- Yasiel Puig: Making baseball fun again, even if it’s just
for himself. The embattled outfielder was demoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City by
the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this month after the team failed to trade him
at the deadline and decided it was tired of his behavioral antics, at which
point he took his sweet time going to Oklahoma City. Now that he’s there and is
expected to work on his issues in order to get back to the majors, he’s going
to take this sh*t seriously…right? Or not. The team is now promising to
internally handle Puig's activity on
social media following a loss this week. Puig posted videos to his Snapchat
account of him partying with his new Oklahoma City teammates after a 3-2 loss
at the Iowa Cubs, beginning with a video of him shirtless in the team's locker
room, smiling and saying: "It's so funny. We lose today, and everybody's
happy." He chasd that with other videos showing he and his teammates
dancing, singing and chanting, often using profanity. A banner on one of the
videos reads, "I Love this Team." Probably not what Dodgers president
of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and his crew wanted to see two days
after Puig indicated through a translator that he was using his demotion to get
his act together in order to get back to the majors. But hell, the guy went
2-for-4 in his first game with Oklahoma City on Sunday and 0-for-3 the next
day, so clearly his game is right where he wants it to be. And it’s not as if
the Dodgers inked him to a $42 million, seven-year contract in June 2012 and
expect more big returns on that investment…….
- Ah, the truest and most violent of uprisings, built on a
foundation of warrior pose and downward facing dog. Yes, all great revolutions
start with stretchy pants, rolled-up rubber mats and finding your inner self. Organizers
of protests this week in Hungary know this truth and that’s why these yoga
instructors held classes for over 600 practitioners on Budapest's Freedom
Bridge. Sure, they’ll tell you the gathering was mostly an effort to popularize
the discipline and practice it in a unique location, but the truth is that this
is an effort to reclaim the span after the bridge was temporarily closed for
traffic due to renovations in June. But maybe this trendy yoga hangout has
become a little too trendy, as a dozen instructors held simultaneous classes there
earlier this week, with their sweaty devotees laying their mats on the tram
tracks on the bridge that crosses the Danube River. According to one of the
instructors, Judit Varga, she and her crew chose Freedom Bridge for their
activities "because a special location has a special vibe. Since its
closure, the bridge has become a community center, a place to make
connections." Participants noted that the views of Budapest from the
bridge gave the classes an added attraction, along with the middle finger extended
to those who took the bridge away from would-be visitors in order to renovate
it. Here’s hoping this starts a trend of yoga practitioners in Budapest taking
their mats to random places and looking to become calm and centered as the
world goes about its business around them……..
- When you bring back a dormant TV show, you may as well go
all-in, eh Fox? Now that the network has brought “The X-Files” back from the
dead and invested more time and money into the sci-fi franchise, Fox Entertainment
President David Madden said his company is now "in significant talks with
the three principals" for another batch of episodes. Those so-called three
principals - stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny and show creator Chris
Carter - probably won't mind a big payday after they reunited for a six-episode
event series on Fox earlier this year. While the new episodes, the show's first
in nearly 15 years, were ripped by many critics and fans, the ultimately pulled
big ratings and in the end, that’s all that matters to a network as it tries to
do its principal job of selling advertising time for as much money as possible.
"The show was off the air for a very long time," Fox's co-President
Dana Walden said in response to criticism of the recent episodes. "They
had the challenge of filling in the mythology. ... Going forward there won't be
the same obligation to reset the series. I think that there was some very
strong work throughout the season, and we look forward to more.” In other
words, we had some groundwork to lay and that’s why the episodes felt laborious
and dragged at times, but we promise, it will be better from here on out.
Before any more episodes are filmed, it’s probably good to tackle the fact that
Anderson was initially offered half of Duchovny's fee to re-join “The X-Files”
for this year's event series, only to wrangle an equal salary to her co-star. Don’t
lowball her this time around, Fox, and you might have yourself a revived hit………
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