- A stint in rehab and a wholly unprovoked and classless
social media attack from Drake may have knocked him down, but Kid Cudi
persists. The Cleveland rapper has announced the release date for his
much-anticipated new album ‘Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin,” giving a firm
timeline for his sixth studio album. The album was originally slated to drop
back in September, but Kid Cudi delayed it and cited “sampel clearance issues,”
which were further muddied a few days later when he checked himself into rehab
after suffering from “depression and suicidal urges.” During that rehab stint,
Drake insensitively trolled Cudi on social media, pulling from his rival’s
lyrics and persona to craft a hateful message that was totally uncalled for.
Despite that hate, Cudi left rehab last month and issued thanks to a few famous
faces who didn’t act like giant ass hats during his time in therapy, namely Kanye
West, Pharrell Williams and A$AP Rocky, before making his live return on stage
with Williams and Travis Scott. With that return to the stage accomplished, he
is ready to move forward with his next album, which will be released digitally
on Dec. 16 and will drop in a physical form one week later on Dec. 23, just in
time for Christmas. Here’s hoping the album has a late addition in the form of
a dis track aimed at Drake so Cudi can finally fire back at a peer who seems to
have forgotten what basic human decency is about…….
- Someone is a bit insecure about their economy and their
country’s ability to compete with products from abroad, eh Egyptian President
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi? El-Sissi threw down an economic gauntlet this week when
he announced, through government publications, a second increase of tariffs on
hundreds of imported products. The president’s decree contains a long list of
over 350 items including fruits, foods, perfumes, furniture, and others, all of
which will be subject to an increase in customs duties of between 40 and 60
percent. Those increases would be bad enough, but they come on top of a
previous increase earlier in the year on items the government generously - i.e.
falsely - views as luxury items. Yes, because fruit and basic food staples are
luxuries. Oh, and nothing is quite as luxurious as a simple piece of furniture,
so you need to make sure people pay the price of they want to live such a
lavish lifestyle as to have a chair to sit on or a table on which to place their
books, plates or papers. This new piling-on against foreign products comes
just a month after the government
floated its currency and raised fuel prices to qualify for a $12 billion
bailout from the International Monetary Fund, which the government hopes will
improve Egypt's economy after years of unrest. Forcing people to buy domestic
items regardless of their quality compared to options from overseas by sending
tariffs on imports soaring is always a solid idea too, eh el-Sissi? Maybe just
refuse to accept imports at all and really stifle the competition…….
- After 14 seasons of stupidity, Major League Baseball is
finally getting it right. MLB’s outright ass-hattery began after the 2002
All-Star Game in Milwaukee, which memorably ended in a 7-7, 11-inning tie when
both teams ran out of pitchers. Then-commissioner Bud Selig was booed in the
stadium of the very team he once owned and quickly responded with the worst and
most overreactive idea possible. The tie begat the "This Time It Counts"
innovation, which mandated that the league that won the ASG would get
home-field advantage in the World Series, which was moronic because a second
baseman from a last-place team could get a game-winning hit off an anonymous
middle reliever from a last-place team in the other league and earn home-field
advantage despite neither of their teams ending up within 30 games of the
playoffs. Meanwhile, teams such as last season’s world champion Chicago Cubs
could finish the regular season with a league-best 103 wins only to miss out on
home-field advantage to a World Series opponent such as the Cleveland Indians,
who won nine fewer games. That meant Game 7 was played in Cleveland instead of
at Wrigley Field, although the Cubs overcame that disadvantage and won anyhow.
Now, as part of MLB's tentative new collective bargaining agreement, home field
will now go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record. There
are other, lesser elements of the deal, such as the minimum stay on the
disabled list being reduced from 15 days to 10 and the expansion of the season
by five days, but the real story is that the ASG will have nothing to do with
the World Series, nor will home field rotate between the National and American
leagues, as it generally did up through 2002. Commissioner Rob Manfred and the
players’ union got it right where Selig never did and baseball is better for
it………
- Is there a leprechaun in Manhattan? When a tale of someone
making off with a pot o’ gold in Midtown emerges, it’s a question worth asking
and it continues to be as police persist in their search for a suspect who was
seen on surveillance video stealing a bucket of gold flakes off an armored
truck smack dab in the middle of New York City recently. The theft happened
around 4:30 p.m. as the armored truck was parked on West 48th Street between
Fifth and Sixth avenues. Guards foolishly left the truck unattended for a short
time and the opportunistic suspect jumped in and seized the day by seizing that
pot of gold. “The helpers actually left the truck to do a pick up, and the one
that was securing the vehicle from the rear stepped away,” said Det. Martin
Pastor of the NYPD’s major case squad. According to the NYPD, the suspect first
scoped out the truck, focusing on its open back door before grabbing an
86-pound, unmarked and sealed black metal bucket containing $1.6 million-worth
of gold flakes and escaping east on West 438th Street toward Third Avenue,
winding his way through the mass of people who clog the streets of Manhattan on
a daily basis, with those around him not bothering to notice a man lugging a
giant black pail because there are about 75 more interesting things going on
along your average New York City street at any given moment. Eventually,
carrying the heavy bucket wore the thief down and he can be seen on
surveillance footage setting it down, picking it back up and loading it into a
white Ford sedan he then drove away. The walk to the car took nearly an hour,
while guards from the truck noticed the bucket’s absence after the driver
returned to the truck and sat on another bucket in the rear. That was weeks ago
and police are still trying to find the suspect, which isn’t exactly a
reassuring fact for New York’s finest………
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