- It never rains in Southern California, so when the freak
rain storm blows through town, the whole world comes crashing down. People
start driving their cars into one another, many Los Angelinos are afraid to go
outside and even the billions and billions of dollars the NFL is pouring into
the City of Angels to bring two teams to the city can’t overcome nature. That
means the highly anticipated, $2.6 billion stadium in Inglewood, California,
destined to be the home of the Rams and Chargers won't open in 2019 and will
now open in 2020 instead. Uncommonly heavy rainfall in Los Angeles means the
new facility will take longer to complete and as a result, the Rams will remain
squatters at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for an additional year and the
Chargers will do the same in a soccer stadium, the 30,000-seat StubHub Center
in Carson, California. Come 2020, the Chargers can then crash on the couch at
the Rams’ new stadium, which it will be because the new venue is funded by Rams
owner Stan Kroenke. Assuming that 2020 date stands, the new stadium will still
be able to host Super Bowl LV in February 2021 - as long as the NFL waives its
rule that a team cannot host a Super Bowl at the end of a stadium's inaugural
season. Waiving rules in the name of big paydays is something the league has
done before, including when commissioner Roger Goodell previously waived the
NFL's rule on minimum temperatures at the Super Bowl so that MetLife Stadium in
New Jersey could host Super Bowl XLVIII. Thus, even though the Rams and Chargers’
stadium developers "lost the better part of two months from early January
into the beginning of March," this show will go on……
- Nothing says classy, wealthy business magnate quite like a
YouTube attack on one of your rivals. Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov knows
that and it’s why he launched a video
attack on opposition leader Alexei Navalny just days before the trial in
a Usmanov vs. Navalny defamation case was to begin. If it seems like you’d want
to root for Navalny here, it’s because a) he’s not a billionaire asshole in the
Kremlin’s pocket and b) he’s the driving force behind massive anti-corruption
protests that swept through Russia in March and has released a documentary
about the alleged secret wealth of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. In other
words, he’s looking to stick it to The Man and Usmanov is the über-wealthy
prick you’d hate unless he gave you one of his spare billions. He was
embarrassed after Navalny published legal documents showing that Usmanov along
with several other Russian billionaires transferred lucrative assets to a
charity foundation run by Medvedev's former classmate. Medvedev insists he has
no ties to the property, while Usmanov claimed that the transfer of the
ownership of the mansion to the charity foundation was a legit business deal.
In his YouTube assault, Usmanov denounced Navalny as a "loser" and a
"failed businessman,” which is the most lame an unimaginative insult
possible. "I spit on you. You will have to answer to me for this anyway, Lyosha,"
Usmanov said, using the short form of Navalny's first name, in the video.
"You should have apologized and lived in peace because someone like you
would never ever be able to prove that I'm a criminal, that I'm a thief."
Not exactly helping your case, A. Saying he couldn’t prove that you’re a
criminal and a thief isn't exactly denying that you’re either……..
- Rap’s “Chinese Democracy” it ain’t. After teasing the
not-really-awaited collaboration between the Overly Auto-Tuned One, a.k.a.
T-Pain, and Lil Wayne nearly a decade ago, the rap buddies have finally dropped
“T-Wayne,” a long-awaited and probably forgotten mixtape that could be amazing
… or an unmitigated disaster. Unlike Guns N’ Roses oft-postponed dumpster fire
of a project, “Chinese Democracy,” was pushed back for a decade and finally
released, this one wasn’t delayed because its asshole frontman (hey there, Axl
Rose!) couldn’t find anyone willing to work with him long enough to make the
album happen. This one has drifted along aimlessly since T-Pain actually recorded
and teased it back in 2009. He didn’t really go into detail about how they’d
just lingered on the scrap heap for the better part of a decade, but tweeted
out an announcement about the project. “These the lost files from ’09 and I’m
tired of em just sitting on my hard drive,” he wrote. Shortly after that post,
the mixtape popped up on Soundcloud, serving as something of a sonic time
capsule of a bygone era, one that brings more of two popular artists to the
masses but doesn’t offer fans any hope that either of them will be releasing
any new material any time soon. Even so, this is a rap rarity because it’s
lost, forgotten or never-released music from rappers who were still alive when
their unknown recordings went public, so that’s certainly a nice change of pace…….
- And the daredevils are getting exactly what they want:
views and likes. When a video shot by a pair of thrill seekers who want out on the
Golden Gate Bridge, doing flips and walking hundreds of feet in the air on
walkways, went online two weeks ago, it was bound to get some attention, but
not nearly the eyeballs it’s not drawing after the video became the source of a
large-scale security review at the iconic structure by officials who want to
know how Peter Teatime and his partner, Tommy Rector, were so easily able to
sprint up the bridge at night and find both time and unfettered space to do a
backflip and somersault atop the main towers of the span. The video started on
YouTube and is now licensed to Caters Clips and it shows the dynamic duo
dangling their bodies over the edge of one of the bridge's towers, putting them
in a position where a fall would almost certainly mean death. The hilarious
part of all of this is that according to Golden Gate Bridge general manager
Dennis Mulligan, officials were not aware of the incident until it was posted
online and someone shot them a link. "The Golden Gate Bridge is not an
amusement park ride," Mulligan dryly noted, adding that the two men
climbed the structure's vertical suspender ropes without any harnesses or fall
protection. To those two, it clearly was, taking advantage of the fact that the
hundreds of security cameras set up around the bridge are largely to protect
against terrorist attacks and vandalism. That means no alarms go off for what
Mulligan deemed “reckless behavior,” but he promised officials will “be taking
steps to make sure they will not be able to do that again.” That’s what the
uptight squares always say, Denny……..
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