- How do you know you’ve aged out as a true rock star? Right
about the time you trade out an actual concert tour for a book tour, that’s
when and how you can be sure you’ve moved past your expiration date as a legit
rocker. Enter rock icon Bruce Springsteen, who has announced a tour to promote
his biography “Born to Run.” The Boss will make a series of appearances at
bookstores around the United States this fall, following the book’s release on
Sept. 27. Fittingly, the tour begins in his home state of New Jersey and
includes dates in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco. As for
why, other than making more money, he decided to write the book, Springsteen
explained that he truly wants to give fans an inside look at a life that has
included battles with depression. "I had to find the roots of my own
troubles and issues," he said, "and the joyful things that have
allowed me to put on the kind of shows that we put on. One of the points I'm
making in the book is that, whoever you've been and wherever you've been, it
never leaves you. I always picture it as a car. All your selves are in it. And
a new self can get in, but the old selves can't ever get out. The important
thing is, who's got their hands on the wheel at any given moment?" Ah, the
deep philosophical musings of a man who’s spent his years prancing around
stages across the world in tight jeans, jamming out with his band of musical
mischief makers. There is a musical side of the project, as the book will be
accompanied by a compilation album, ‘Chapter and Verse’, which includes five
new tracks……….
- It was always tough to cut a baguette with a plastic
knife, so no real loss in banning plastic cutlery, plates and cups, France. Technically,
this is part of France's latest efforts to reduce pollution, but it’s being
viewed as an outright attack by those looking to enjoy a sweet picnic in the
French countryside. The controversial new ban means diners won't be able to buy
plastic vessels for their drinks or plastic utensils to consume their meal.
Hell, even those looking for a quick jolt of caffeine in the office won't be
able to get a plastic cup in which to enjoy their joe. It’s all part of a plan
to be more environmentally friendly and it gives producers just four years to
ensure that all disposable dishes sold in France are made of biologically
sourced materials and can be composted. It comes on the heels of a ban on
plastic bags which went into effect in July, making France the first country to
introduce a blanket ban on plastic dishware. The French are still clearly
peaking on the high they got from Paris hosting a landmark conference last year
on fighting global warming. The country’s Socialist government is striving to
push France toward the forefront of environmental progress and these moves have
won praise from ecologists and environmental groups, but critics of the new law
argue that product bans hurt consumers, and that the French measures violate
European Union rules on free movement of goods. Pack2Go Europe, a
Brussels-based organization representing European packaging manufacturers, says
it will fight for Frenchmen’s right to plaaaaaaaastic, but this is clearly an
uphill battle that even the Beastie Boys might have a hard time supporting………
- The Cult of Personality brings with it a boatload of cash,
it seems, regardless of how the fight turns out. CM Punk didn’t exactly succeed
competition-wise in his conversion from WWE to MMA, but it hardly mattered to
the bottom line of the man whose birth name is Phil Brooks. Brooks, a tattooed,
straight-edge atheist who quit professional wrestling with a hail of critical
comments ripping WWE for its poor treatment of wrestlers in terms of their
overall health and well-being suffered a one-sided submission loss to Mickey
Gall in his mixed martial arts debut at UFC 203 over the weekend, but still
received a disclosed purse of $500,000 for his appearance inside Quicken Loans
Arena, which lasted 2:14. Brooks left WWE in early 2014 and signed with the UFC
despite a lack of prior experience and was supposed to fight months ago, only
to pull out after suffering an injury. He made no grand promises for his bout
with Gall, which is good because his foe - and Gall’s paltry 2-0 record coming
into the bout pummeled him from the start, took Brooks to the mat and submitted
him less than three minutes into the fight. That effort netted a cool half a
million dollars for Brooks, made - pun intended - more galling by the fact that
his foe received a disclosed purse of $30,000 -- a $15,000 show and $15,000
win. If nothing else, it’s proof that this is a bottom-line business just like
any other sport and those who draw the most eyes to the broadcast get the
biggest checks. Oh, and that $500,000 total doesn’t include any pay-per-view
bonus that Brooks (0-1) likely receives per his contract. Despite the sound
ass-kicking he took, Brooks has said he intends to fight again even though the
UFC hasn’t confirmed whether they intend to promote a second fight. At least
hometown hero, actual winner and UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic (16-2)
received slightly more than punk, banking $600,000 for his first-round knockout
victory over Alistair Overeem………
- This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you always make time to
help mom and dad set up their new wireless router when they ask. If you don’t,
then your parents end up making a haphazard attempt to set it up on their own
with tech support from someone who barely speaks English and lives half a world
away - maybe New Jersey? - and next thing you know, the cops are busting down
their door and asking why they’ve been using their Wi-Fi to download thousands
of child porn images and hundreds of perverted videos. Such is life right now
for a Clementon , New Jersey couple at whose home Camden County authorities
executed a search warrant at while seeking the person responsible for acquiring
more than 33,000 images and more than 700 videos of a highly illegal nature. However,
after speaking with the couple, police determined they weren't involved with
the procurement of the child porn. The focus of the investigation shifted next
door, where neighbor Louis LaSalle was committing multiple crimes by both
bogarting his neighbors’ Internet access and racking up a quantity of kiddie
porn that would make Pete Townshend blush. They confiscated LaSalle’s laptop
and equipment he used to hijack his neighbors’ wireless access and he was charged
with possessing and distributing child porn. Of course, this all could have
been avoided had someone told the couple that having a wireless network that wasn’t
password-protected is an open invitation for leeches, cheapskates and pervs to
take over your system…….
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