- Twerk hard, especially when The Man tells you not to. No
one had to tell that to Gainesville, Florida resident Danielle Jefferson, who
just had herself quite a night. Gainesville Police responded to a noise
complaint from a resident who was inexplicably angry because there was someone
who had their music on far too loud at 3 a.m. It’s weird how that can rub some
people the wrong way, but when officers responded to the scene, they
encountered Jefferson, who subsequently refused their orders to turn her tunes
down to an acceptable level. Not only did she refuse those demands, but she
responded the way anyone does when they know how to party and they’re also
facing wholly unreasonable demands from John Q. Law: She got up on her car and
began to twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk. It was an inspiring display of
insolence and even then, the officers managed to maintain a reasonable handle
on their emotions and gave her 15 minutes to comply with a noise warning
notice. Jefferson soon started dancing again and helpfully informed police they
could arrest her if they wanted. After being apprised of their rights, the
officers issued her a citation and handed the paper to her to sign. She
politely took the paper and rather than slap her signature on it, she
metaphorically slapped the officers in the face by crumpling the paper up and
throwing it at the chest of one of the officers. That proved to be just enough
to get her arrested for resisting an officer without violence and Jefferson got
to spend the night in jail, where presumably she could get some more twerk work
in…….
- What do the masses enjoy more than seeing one of the 1
percent hauled in front of a (proverbial) firing squad and be interrogated for
their amusement? South Koreans know that to be true and that’s why a lot of
them had a damn god time this week watching Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman at
Samsung Electronics and the only son of the ailing chairman, get shouted down
and admonished by lawmakers for the bulk of a 2 ½-hour parliamentary
questioning tied to the country's biggest political scandal in years. The sight
of one of South Korea's most powerful business leaders having one of the worst
days of his life and to have it all broadcast on public television was a nice
change of pace for those trying to grind out a daily existence while Lee lives
in his ivory tower. Lawmakers berated Lee on a variety of issues, including why
Samsung sponsored the family of President Park Geun-hye's confidante and
Samsung's treatment of sickened workers. The entire hearing was broadcast live
on major TV channels and Lee was one of nine leaders from South Korea's biggest
business groups who faced unprecedented questions about their alleged roles in
the scandal involving President Park and Choi Soon-sil, her mysterious
confidante. Lawmakers are probing prosecution claims that South Korean
President Park Geun-hye allowed a corrupt confidante to pull government strings
and extort companies and corporate titans like Lee are obvious targets. Park is
under scrutiny due to deep ties between politicians and the country's top
family-controlled businesses, known as chaebol, and now prosecutors are trying
to determine whether some of the 53 businesses that donated funds received any
favors in return. Lee in particular was questioned about his company's business
deal with the Choi family-owned company and a contentious merger of two Samsung
companies last year. All in all, not a bad span of daytime TV……..
- Where, oh where, is restricted free agent Donatas
Motiejunas? It’s a question the Houston Rockets and the basketball world at
large would like answered after the Rockets matched an offer sheet for him less
than a week after Motiejunas signed a four-year $37 million offer sheet with
the Brooklyn Nets last week and expressed he could play for the Rockets or
Nets. Now that they’ve chosen to match, the Rockets can either keep the offer sheet open and wait for
Motiejunas to report or they can pull it and Motiejunas returns to being a
restricted free agent. However, it would be helpful to know his whereabouts
after the power forward failed to show for his physical and is reportedly
fighting for his free-agent rights, a claim that doesn’t have any factual
backing at this point. It’s been a long, drawn-out tale for Motiejunas, who the
Rockets have high value for as a stretch 4. "He's skilled, 7 feet, knows
how to really play basketball, a hard worker," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni
said. "Above all, just his basketball intelligence will be great for any
team; it will be great for us. We just got to fit him in and work it out and
get him into shape. It's going to take a little bit, but there's time."
Yet a player the team seems to hold in such high esteem doesn’t seem to have a
similarly lofty opinion of them, otherwise Motiejunas would have reported for
his physical and taken the next step toward getting back on the court with a
team that has indicated its willingness to pay him more than $9 million a
season. For now, it’s a fun game of “Where in the world is Donatas Motiejunas?”
and the answer is that no one outside of Donny and his crew have any freaking
idea………
- How long will the world have to wait for another round of
robot-human drama in an artificial old West town? HBO and series creators Jonathan
Nolan and Lisa Joy revealed that it will be a long freaking time before fans of
the show will see new episodes. The first season of the show premiered on HBO
in October of this year and wrapped up this week, with the show and its
über-graphic displays of violence and sex eliciting strong reactions and a big
fan following. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean those responsible for the show
will rush to have the second season ready. “We won’t be on the air until 2018,”
Nolan said. “We started that conversation with the network when we were
shooting episode two and we realized the complexity of trying to write and
produce the show at the same time.” That long wait could definitely dampen the
enthusiasm for the sci-fi western thriller based on the 1973 film of the same
name, but the prototypical difficult artist/Hollywood mindset of dedicating
more time to each aspect of making the show rather than juggling them all at
once prevailed and therefore, the world will wait. “Sometimes you find yourself
in this place where you have to wear all these hats at once,” Nolan added. “You
have to write, shoot and cut simultaneously. We wanted to in the second season
spend more time writing, then switch gears into production, then cut. So we’re
not going to follow the annual year-on-year tradition of television.” In other
words, y’all can wait and we’ll have Season 2 for you when we’re damn well good
and ready and we’re banking on the fact that you’ll come crawling back for more
rather than move on to the next big thing…….
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