- Where there is one sequel or spin-off, there will soon be
many. Hollywood loves reviving, extending and shamelessly exploiting movies and
TV shows with a proven track record of anything remotely resembling success, so
it makes perfect sense for “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh to suggest that
there could be more spin-offs forthcoming after “T2 Trainspotting,” the sequel
to the cult favorite original. The sequel is based on Welsh’s sequel book
“Porno” and will see the original cast of the 1996 movie, including stars Ewan
McGregor and Robert Carlyle, reunite under the guidance of director Danny
Boyle. The new flick is set to hit theaters in February and the first trailer
was released last week. Welsh claimed the sequel will be better than the
original, which is exactly what someone associated with and who stands to
profit greatly should the new film succeed to say before its release. A
potential spin-off could come from “Skagboys,” which Welsh published in 2012 as
a prequel to Trainspotting and Porno. Welsh also published “The Blade Artist”
earlier this year, a work focused on
Trainspotting character Begbie. “Basically, I’ve plans for them all. All in
various kind of schedules or adaptations,” Welsh said of possible spin-offs for
other characters from the franchise. “It’s all ruling on cable TV, cable TV has
some interesting developments. We’re working on all these different kind of
things. I think now anybody who’s in the book, whether the like it or not,
they’re working on the way of being in the film.” Sounds like someone has
dollar signs dancing in his mind and dreams of Hollywood glory in his heart…….
- There are good ways to protest, bad ways to protest and
then that’s what an unidentified ass hat did at the World War II memorial in
Washington, D.C. This tool, who committed a crime in the name of opposing the
Dakota Access Pipeline, did so in secret and left the National Park Service to
find and clean up the resulting mess. This individual apparently vandalized the
North Dakota section of the memorial, according to spokesman Mike Litterst, and
a photo provided by the park service showed the phrase “#NoDAPL” was written in
paint. The unknown suspect spray-painted the slogan in the name of the Standing
Rock Sioux tribe, which has been fighting along with other tribes and
environmental groups to stop the completion of the $3.8 billion pipeline,
saying it would threaten the water supply for millions of people. U.S. Park
Police are investigating the vandalism and according to Litterest, a stripper,
er, a paint stripper was used to remove much of the damage. Whoever painted
this lame attempt at social dissidence did so one week after President Barack
Obama said that the federal government was looking for ways to “reroute” parts
of the pipeline. He clearly felt the need to weigh in after high-profile
clashes between protesters and law enforcement, saying government agencies will
let the situation “play out for several more weeks and determine whether or not
this can be resolved in a way that I think is properly attentive to the
traditions of the First Americans.” Somehow, that wasn’t enough for one idiot,
his or her Home Depot credit card and a can of Krylon……..
- Score one for those who insist that billionaire owners of
professional sports franchises build their own damn stadiums with their own
damn money. The voters of San Diego delivered an emphatic message to their NFL
team at the voting booth this week, rejecting Measure C, the team's $1.8
billion downtown stadium and convention center annex that proposed raising
hotel taxes from 12.5 percent to 16.5 percent to secure $1.15 billion in bonds
to help pay for the project. Proponents of the measure hoped that not raising
taxes on residents, but rather placing the burden on visitors to the
self-described “America’s Greatest City” would secure the two-thirds approval
the issue needed to pass, but it wasn’t even close. A mere 42.5 percent of
voters said yes, meaning nearly three-fifths of voters don’t want to build a
new stadium that keeps the team in town. The Chargers have worked for 15 years
to get a stadium built, but this citizens' ballot initiative required
two-thirds of the voting public within city limits to approve the project
proved to be too much to stomach for the majority. Chargers chairman Dean
Spanos thanked season-ticket holders and fans for their support in a letter
released after voting concluded, but refused to elaborate on whether he would
be moving his team to Los Angeles. "In terms of what comes next for the
Chargers, it's just too early to give you an answer," Spanos wrote.
"We are going to diligently explore and weigh our options, and do what is
needed to maintain our options.” In other words, we’re still a business and
we’re going to go where we get the best deal and can make the most money. If
that f*cks over loyal, longtime fans of the team who have supported us for
years, so be it……..
- Germany and organized crime aren’t two entities normally
associated with one another. Anachronistic, ass-hatted neo-Nazis who try to
keep the hateful, murderous policies of the Third Reich alive, sure. A nation
of people who treat beer with the same seriousness with which the Mafia handles
its business, yes. But apparently, organized crime is alive and well - albeit
with a few more dings in its armor than it had at the start of the week - as
evidenced by what went down in Deutschland this week. According to German
prosecutors, more than 1,000 police officers have made searches related to
criminals gangs across Germany and have seized weapons, drugs and documents.
This is the kind of wide-reaching operation that is planned out for months and
then executed in the blink of an eye, but it’s clear that this was a top
priority for the government and the raids took place early in the morning, all
carried out with the goal of obtaining enough evidence of illegal activity to
deal a significant setback to gangs across the country. The state interior
minister of Hesse, Peter Beuth, called the raids a "thoroughly planned
blow against organized crime in Germany,” but elected officials love to
oversell and over-tout the impact and effectiveness of their own plans, so it
will take time to determine whether this was merely for show and will simply
see gangs go into hiding for a bit, reorganize and re-emerge as strong as ever,
or if the government and law enforcement have actually affected real change
here…….
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