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Glazer: World’s Nicest Guy, KC Export Rob Riggle Plays Bad Guy in 21 Jump Street
Rob Riggle playing a bad guy?
It’s true. The KC export’s new movie, 21 Jump Street has him cast as an evil teacher with a secret. It’s a take off from the old TV series as noted in Jack’s review below.
Rob’s one of several Stanford’s alums who’ve had nice Hollywood careers. Guess what? Not all of these stars were even comics at Stanford’s. At least not at first.
Rob Riggle came to do his first stand-up with us a couple years ago. He was best known for his role on The Daily Show with Live From Baghdad, It’s Rob Riggle.
Starbeams: TIPS Line Goes American Idol & Prez Salutes KC Afrikan Nerds
Jermaine Jones was kicked off American Idol for his criminal background. However, you can still vote for Jermaine by dialing 474-TIPS.
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De Soto High School Band students are in a Pittsburgh hospital recovering from a nasty illness. They were on a spring break trip to New York when several students became nauseous and started vomiting…just like every other kid on spring break.
Leftridge: Tournament Kicks Off, Work Production Plummets, Your Wife Doesn’t Get “What the Big Deal is”
Of the 15 college basketball experts on the front page of ESPN.com (Jay Bilas, Doug Gottlieb, Dick Vitale, et al.), nine have Mizzou advancing to the Final Four, five have KU going, and K-State… yeah, so anyway… It’s pretty clear that lofty expectations are being placed upon the Big XII Champeen, the evil dissenter, the little team that could, the Missouri Tigers. Obama’s got them in HIS Final Four as well and you KNOW that’s a big deal because, well, the president is never wrong, right? If I’m not mistaken—and I don’t believe that I am—he has the presidential authority to veto whatever ACTUALLY happens in order to make his bracket accurate.
Congrats in advance, Mizzou!
But if I’m not mistaken, I think they have a few games to play before they can begin cutting any nets and/or punching people at nightclubs (I’m not passing judgment on any particular team with that last statement, simply stating what happens to be a growing national trend with most college athletics participants).
The excitement gets under way on Thursday at 11:40 CT when Manhattan’s finest take on ninth seeded Southern Mississippi in Pittsburgh (PA, not KS).
Sounds Good: Galactic@Liberty Hall, Jane’s Addiction@Uptown, Kepi@Replay, Elders@Uptown St. Pats, We Were Promised Jetpacks@Riot Room
I don’t even have time to… 
It’s jam packed with great shows to go to along with a disturbingly nice basketball tournament. Could it set up any better for a Lawrence chap?
We’ve got KU on Friday along with Kepi at the Replay, St. Patty’s/barf at LIVESTRONG Saturday Night, more KU Sunday, then we all get jetpacks! Like we were promised.
Who’s with me?…
Hearne: Vivien Jennings & Rainy Day Books Battle to Save Local Bookstores
Are the days of local bookstores numbered?
With mom and pop book shops few and far between, the death last year of book behemoth Borders and word that Barnes & Noble is hanging on by the skin of its teeth, it’s easy to make that case.
It’s already painfully obvious that music CDs and DVD movies are not long for this world. Chances are if you’re still buying those, you’re mulling over things like AARP memberships and Jack’s erectile disfunction ads.
Face it, what local businesses really are "safe" anymore outside of clothing, drugstores, groceries and necessities people need to purchase in person?
But back to books…
Glazer: KC Confidential Sign of the Apocalypse – Scribe Pens a Fiat Story
Maybe Hearne’s car isn’t so gay after all…
His Fiat may be a lot cooler than many of you thought.
MEET THE FIAT 500 Abarth…in the new Charlie Sheen TV Ad that ran during the NCAA’s yesterday. Wow, what a great ad!
Sheen is seen driving this hot black Fiat Abarth through an Italian Mansion at a super high speed. Shifting, racing, bustin up stuff, while a well-placed group of hotties watch and hope he stops for one of them. He eventually does and climbs into the arms of a beautiful lady.
I thought at first it was maybe his real life girlfriend but it’s Romanian supermodel Catrinel Menghia from that other Fiat ad that ran during the Super Bowl.
Starbeams: Mitt’s Mop Makes Liberty. Model T Makes Liberty Memorial, Big Bang Theory
Mitt Romney will make a campaign stop at William Jewel in Liberty this afternoon. The city is preparing for his arrival by bringing in several truckloads of hair jell.
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A restored Model T ambulance was donate to the National WW I Memorial and went on display Monday. The Titanic exhibit is on display across the street at Union Station. Downtown has cornered the market on the 120 demo.
Glazer: Scribe Tries to Make Sense of Senseless Killings in Afghanistan, My Lai
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Almost 44 years ago exactly, on March 16, Lt. William Calley of Charlie Company led a raid on a Village in Vietnam…
The Village was My Lai and a massacre ensued with between 350 to 500 villagers being executed by U.S. Troops. The civilians were unarmed, mostly women and children. All killed for no clear reason.
Sound familiar?
A few days ago a U.S. soldier – again for no clear reason – went into a village in Afghanistan and shot and killed at least 16 people, again mostly women and children. It’s being called the worst atrocity U.S. forces have committed during the 10 year war that began as a mission to find Osama Bin Laden.
Oh wait a minute – we already killed him – nevermind.
Donnelly: Ava Luna & Night Moves at the Jackpot in Lawrence, March 9, 2012
“What do you guys do for fun around here in Lawrence, drink?”
The question was posed midway through Night Moves set at the Jackpot on Friday, where the new Minnesota band was opening for NYC headliner Ava Luna. The audience glanced nervously around, nodding and shuffling their feet.
Pretty much, yeah. Well, that and watch basketball.
With the crowd now fully engaged by their witty stage banter, Night Moves busted into another psych-rock soundscape, the boom boom bass combining with a hip hop backbeat. The lead vocals were high and reverb-soaked, in the now crowded vein of MGMT or Band of Horses.
New Jack City: Jack Wrestles With The Selling of The Great American Hard On
Next to long-form obituary ads, one of the fastest growing profit centers for local newspapers are the display ads heralding treatments for erectile dysfunction…
Yeap, E.D.
What does that tell you about the age demographic and physical condition of newspaper readers?
Check out the sports section. It’s chock full of full color ads with ridiculous statements like, "I don’t want to talk about erectile dysfunction."
When that’s exactly what they are talking about!
Glazer: The Somewhat Obvious Reasons KU & MU Didn’t Make the Cut as No. 1 Seeds
It’s like this, Missouri was expected to be a No. 2 seed in the Big Dance…
There was a glimmer of hope they could move up to a No. 1 but Michigan State already had a lot more noise around them and because MU is NOT an elite basketball program that didn’t help. Despite that MU won the Big 12 tourney this past weekend.
You know, maybe if Kansas had made the final and Missouri had beat them, MU might have had a shot. But obviously that didn’t happen.
Glazer: Peyton Manning Disses Chiefs, Threatens KC Chances for Division Title
Peyton Manning doesn’t believe the Kansas City Chiefs are a Super Bowl team…
Not even with him at quarterback. In fact, he said yesterday the Chiefs were OUT! WITHOUT EVEN A SIT DOWN OR VISIT.
Wow, what a slap in the face to his agent Tom Condon‘s former team. Condon played his entire career with KC as an offensive lineman. And sources close to the super agent had just told me KC was definitely in the running.
Hearne: City Fathers Turn ‘Fake St. Patty’s’ in Manhattan from Wilding into Snoozefest
It doesn’t get much cruder and crasser around these parts than St. Patrick’s Day in Westport…
With the possible exception of Fake St. Patty’s Day in Manhattan. More on that in a minute.
But here in KC, drunken dudes in green and bar owners revere the Green Day madness. However having worked in Westport for several years, I can tell you it’s one sick puppy that many non booze-based businesses avoid by closing that day to escape streets and sidewalks beset with wiped out women and messed up men publically puddled in greenish fluids and gosh knows what else.
Truth be told, for those who hold their Irishness dear – my mother’s maiden name was O’Callahan – it’s a one day black eye for the Mother Country that lasts about a year…until next St. Patrick’s Day.
Which brings us to the K-State party headquarters known as Aggieville in beautiful downtown Manhattan.
Glazer: Funny Guy Jim Jefferies Brings Down the House While Buying a House
Jim Jefferies bought his dream home in the Hollywood Hills yesterday…
From right here in Kansas City he closed on that puppy over the phone for a cool $1.25 million. And he’s moving in with his TV star girlfriend – a really hot one.
On top of that, Jim’s been hired by FX to do his first TV series. It’s R-rated, of course. He also told me he’s changing his name officially to Jim Jefferies from his Australian-born, real name Geoffrey Nugent.
Now the big bucks are rolling in for him and Jim works mostly theaters for $15 to $20 grand a weekend or night. Yep, he’s gone Hollywood, but he’s earned it.
Jim’s been working the U.S. for just three years and he’s the fastest rising star in comedy today.
He’s had to go back to England every six months because he only has a green card, but he’s planning now to become a US citizen.
Donnelly: Sapong Stunner Earns Sporting 3 Points in Season Debut
In a moment reminiscent of Sporting KC’s first game of 2011, sturdy striker CJ Sapong again notched a crucial goal.
If you recall, in Sapong’s MLS debut last year he buried a goal just two minutes into the game, helping KC to a 3-2 win at Chivas USA.
This time, Sapong took a little more time to capitalize after he came on as a sub for the last fifteen minutes. But the result was the same – a road win to open the season at DC United. And this time, Sapong waited until the 93rd minute to do so…
Donnelly: Ashes to Immortality@The Barnyard, March 8, 2012
I took a sip of Barnyard Beer’s Bonfire Porter and looked around the room.
Hay bales bordered the stage at one end, concealing a recording setup that local country station 92.9 The Bull brought out to document the whole affair. The Bull was on hand to tape the bands’ sets, edit them down a bit, and then air them on what will become a weekly bluegrass/Americana program called LIVE!stock at Barnyad Beer.
On stage was Lawrence’s Menage of Twang picking through some original bluegrass/country tunes with a standard setup of guitar, banjo, upright bass, fiddle, and washboard.
The room sounded good, aided by the 100 plus bodies filling the wide open space that is the Barnyard. Towards the end of their opening set they launched into Take the Night Train to Memphis, which featured a nice down-home fiddle run that highlighted their set.
Hearne: An Invitation to Come Swim with the Sharks @ KC Confidential
Remember that Rip Van Winkle dude?
In a manner of speaking that’s been me the past week. I had a bit of surgery Wednesday and have been an absentee ballot ever since. Lame, huh?
Well, I’m back.
And mercifully, the ever-thoughtful souls in the comments section rose to the occasion and pounded poor Craig like there was no tomorrow. Which was entertaining, right?
Anyway, let’s get this show back on the road with a call for writers and other cutting edge marketing or advertising types to come hook up with KC Confidential. You know, now.
You guys know who you are, what you have to bring to the table, so bring it.
Whinery: Pat Robertson Comes to His Senses, Says Legalize Pot
In one of the stranger developments in the battle to legalize marijuana, comes a new ally from an unexpected source…
Right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson has called for the “drug” to be legalized and regulated like alcohol.
In a New York Times interview last week, Mr. Robertson correctly points out how being tough on pot has led to massive overcrowding in prisons, excessive penalties for possession and billions of dollars being wasted on law enforcement.
The statistics back him up.
Glazer: Vegas Bound Scribe Says Things Are Looking Up for This Year’s Royals
It happened…
Vegas moved the over/under on season wins for the Kansas City Royals up from 78 1/2 to 80 1/2 games. Wow, they’re buying in too! Undoubtedly because guys like me are all taking the over on the Royals…for once.
In other words, I’m betting the Royals are going to win more than 80 1/2 out of 162 games this season.
We have a talented young team that I expect to compete for the division title this season.
Regrettably the Royals have been in rebuilding mode since 1990. However now THEY’RE BUILT.
Jack Goes Confidential: ‘Friends with Kids’ Plays as Bridesmaids-Lite
Remember the sitcom FRIENDS on NBC?
Assuming you do, and you liked it, consider you’re a candidate for FRIENDS WITH KIDS.
Think of it as, FRIENDS: THE NEXT DAY. Or maybe, FRIENDS: MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.
Either way, what you’ve got is an ensemble comedy about a group of friends with the last two singles in the pack deciding to have a kid together sans the potential trap of a tragic marriage like the ones they find their best buds in.
