Now that was a beating. a beating for the ages…
I don’t know that I’ve seen a more one-sided MLS match. Ever.
This one got ugly early, due in part – but not entirely – to the red card that the Montreal Impact earned in just the 17th minute for an intentional handball on the goal line.
The card was shown and Dom Dwyer stepped in and buried the spot kick, earning what would be the eventual game-winner. Continue reading
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Pardon the interruption but the Scribe is pissed, really pissed…
The Kansas City Chiefs are born losers and totally suck. So says, Stanford & Sons main man Craig Glazer, a longtime follower of the game and amateur sports handicapper.
Take the team’s first round draft pick of Auburn defensive end Dee Ford.
“What does that say about the Chiefs ineptitude?” Glazer says. “They’re losers, man. That draft pick was absurd. I have no other words other than, blithering idiots.
“Let me get this straight; the current Chiefs quarterback wants out of here and they go out and pick an undersized defensive end that injury prone and a concert pianist, as if that matters. There were a couple of great wide receivers available and god knows we need that. It’s another classic, mind-boggling Chiefs move.”
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You can’t keep a dead man down, apparently…
Next week, Xscape, the second posthumous Michael Jackson album, will be released. Critics received an advanced screening of the record at a private party, and their reviews have been somewhat mixed. I’d say the majority is in the camp that this is a real MJ record, while a decent-sized minority sees the release as only capable of tarnishing the musical legend’s legacy.
Either way, don’t think for a second that there’s not going to be a “new” album rolling out every few years for the next several decades. Word is, Jackson has a massive amount of unreleased recordings and demos that never quite made the cut.
I haven’t heard the record yet, but I suppose I can make my own judgment next week… Continue reading
We live in a time where we often dismiss facts by considering the source…
For example, the Obama administration’s first move on any bad news has usually been to caution against watching Fox News. So we listen to that warning and often never look at the facts. Another common tactic for the intellectually lethargic is to find one wrong detail then dismiss the rest without any additional thought.
Last week, North Korea issued a report on The USA’s Human Rights abuses. There is a strong urge to just consider the source and refuse to look at the facts. Let’s resist that lazy urge and look closer at some of what was presented.
“Under the citizenship act, racialism is getting more severe in the U.S. The gaps between the minorities and the whites are very wide in the exercise of such rights to work and elect.”
Can this be true? Continue reading
I officially don’t give a shit about the NFL Draft.
Maybe it’s the fact that it now seems to be a month-long process teeming with pre-draft shows leading up to the actual event.
Video vignettes about how a 400-pound orphan from the mean streets of Minneapolis overcame the odds to become a superstar after walking on at the University of Schenectady. Excruciatingly long ESPN: Behind the Balls pieces about the scrappy quarterback who, despite having one leg an inch shorter than the other, defied skeptics by becoming the starting left tackle at Teddy Roosevelt Community College, and now, holy shit, he’s got a chance to go in the seventh round!
Or maybe it’s because the whole production is now about pageantry instead of practicality. Continue reading
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Producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are a laugh factory…
Their specialty: raunch comedy, including previous outings such as KNOCKED UP, SUPERBAD, THE GUILT TRIP and THIS IS THE END.
And let’s be clear, since BRIDESMAIDS raunch has become the new norm.
In NEIGHBORS it’s a basic family versus frat romp – a tale of two parents (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) with an infant daughter moving into what they expected to be the perfect home in the perfect neighborhood.
So far. So good.
However new neighbors are moving in next-door.
As in the Delta Psi Beta fraternity that’s hell bent on debauchery and about to turn the hood into party central. Continue reading
The U.S. National Climate Assessment says so called “Climate Change” is already here and more extreme weather is on the way. They also forecast that the more they extreme weather they predict, the more federal grant money they will get.
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Ukraine has cancelled all flights into the country. SORRY KIDS! There goes your summer vacation! Continue reading
There was a Republican primary election on Tuesday to see who gets to face incumbent Democrat Senator Kay Hagan in the Fall…
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I don’t want to get carried away being always aware of how Republicans can screw up a sure thing, but thus far it looks like the GOP will be taking this seat from the Dems.
Why you ask?
First off, the winner, Thom Tillis is a solid candidate – no Todd Akin here. As the Speaker of the State House., Tillis is a somewhat moderate and congenial fellow. And even though the Dems spent $6 million trying to destroy this man he still got 45% of the vote in a crowded primary. They were so desperate that an ad was produced in which Tillis said ObamaCare was a “great idea,” even though Tillis said he was being sarcastic.
The Democrats are toast this fall, mark my words. Continue reading
You gotta love PR people…
You know, the folks who pride themselves on putting one over on the general public and mild-mannered journalists almost as worried about not offending anyone in a position of “power” as they are of getting laid off.
Take the case of KU point guard Naadir Tharpe. In an announcement last week crafted by KU, Tharpe said he was leaving the team to move back east to be closer to his two year-old daughter who has health issues.
“Naadir has been a good player for us in his three years here,” Self is quoted in the release from KU. “But we also respect the fact that he wants to be closer to his daughter.”
One guy and one guy alone – Lawrence Journal World columnist Tom Keegan – had the guts to call bullshit on KU for its phoned-up quotes in the release about the reasons behind Tharpe’s departure.
And I can assure you that virtually nobody else halfway in the know is buying the excuse KU was serving up. Continue reading
Face it, television weather anchors are an odd lot…
Think about it.
Can anybody remember one who wasn’t? I mean, a successful, popular one. Yeah, there’s KCTV‘s Gary Amble who on the surface appears to be a regular guy. Until you remember he’s looney toon Michelle Bachmann‘s kid brother. Besdies, Amble’s not exactly wildly successful, given he barely lasted four years at Channel 5’s weather helm before being replaced by known nutball, Katie Horner.
Shall we continue?
Anybody remember that strange-seeming dude at Channel 9 and Channel 4 named Dave Dusik? Dusik left WDAF under a cloud after it was reported by a national business pub that he traded commodities using his TV weather predicting skills. Where do you suppose Dusik is now? I can’t find him. Continue reading
For a clash involving the top two teams in the Eastern Conference, it couldn’t have been set up more perfectly:
Photos by Alex Jinks
Sunday. 80 degrees. 3 in the afternoon. Grills smoking. Ring ceremony. Just about perfect.
And Sporting KC started about just perfect, as well. They were high pressing as far up the pitch as I’ve seen them. They were pressuring everywhere, even running down Columbus‘ keeper several times.
“Start to finish, an excellent performance by us,” said KC boss Peter Vermes after the convincing 2-0 win. “I think it’s the best performance of the year for us.”
Happy Cinco de Mayo! This is just one more day that I pour Jose Cuervo on my Fruity Pebbles.
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The northland streetcar option will cost over $100 million to run the line nearly 2 miles. For that kind of money, the city could buy us a Kool Nights limo ride.
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The Royals’ month of April was almost exactly how I would have scripted it, if someone came along and asked me to script how this season would start. (And yes, I understand that, much like the hypothetical situation of someone putting a gun to your head and demanding that you choose a single breakfast cereal for the rest of your life, it seems bizarre and unlikely that someone would have asked me to write a movie about the first month of the Royals’ 2014 season.) But had it happened, I would have gotten it mostly pretty close.
I would have thought that finishing the month 14-12 and in second place of the AL Central would have been about right; this is, after all, a team that I’ve continually said is only slightly above average.
I would have also predicted that the offense would struggle and the bullpen wouldn’t be as good as it was last year. Check, and check. (The less said about White Sox rookie phenom Jose Abreu finishing April with more homeruns than the entire Royals squad, the better, and this bullpen—with the exception of the closer—is shakier than an epileptic at a Pink Floyd laser-light show.)
But I’m happy to report, however, that I’ve been wrong, too. Continue reading
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Why wait for Halloween to do something really weird but legal?
Original art by Mark Valentine
This Sunday check out Mark Valentine‘s annual Chihuahua Parade and help catapult the event into the Guinness Book of Records as the “World’s Largest Costumed Dog Parade.”
It all goes down at the Barney Allis Plaza, 12th and Central in Kansas City, MO.
Dogs and their handlers will parade around the downtown park without ever touching paw to the street, Jack FM will broadcast a live remote and over 30 vendors will be on hand.
Humans get in free, but a $5 per dog entry fee will go to Great Plains SPCA which operates two of no-kill shelters in the area.
Valentine’s inspiration for the parade?
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 is a ton of action, emotions and fun even though it’s about 20 minutes too long…
Two hours of the web-slinging would’ve been plenty—for me at least. (I saw the ending approaching at least three times only for the movie to keep going, and going and going)
But hey, this Spidey marks the official kick-off to Hollywood’s summer movie season and should do the industry proud.
I’m expecting an $80 million+ weekend at the domestic box office.
This second chapter of Marvel’s reboot brings back Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in a storyline of the legacy with heavy emphasis on his family secrets.
The story covers Spidey being abandoned by his parents as a boy and finding out how he became the person he is today. A quest regarding his parents’ disappearance leads him to OSCORP and on a collision course with his father’s former partner, Doctor Curt Conners and his alter ego.
So are we talking less action here? Continue reading
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It’s my personal favorite main line grocery chain. It’s not Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, but as far as an everyday grocery store goes, Hy-Vee is for me.
I was at Hy-Vee’s new palace of a store in Olathe on day two of its operation.
And among other things, it houses a gorgeous, contemporary Asian restaurant, a deli, and every cuisine known to man – all ready to carry out – a bar even!
Hey, what’s not to like about a bar in the grocery store?
It gives us guys something to do while hanging with the wife at the store. And what a great business development tool – you sit down at the bar, throw back a few and buy three times as much as you ever intended.
However, that’s not what today’s story is about. Continue reading
New Record of the Week: Colfax by The Delines.
This Portland group was formed recently by novelist/songwriter Willy Vlautin, of the legendary alt-country band, Richmond Fontaine. It features road-weary lead vocals from Amy Boone (Damnations), and band members Sean Oldham (Richmond Fontaine), Jenny Conlee (Decemberists), Tucker Jackson and Freddy Trujillo.
Vlautin wrote all the tunes specifically for Boone, in a style that they’re calling retro-country-soul. It’s a mournful album that tells stories about the down-and-out, the never-were, and other kinds of assorted, broken characters.
And, oh yeah, you can listen for free right here. I recommend I Won’t Slip Up. Do it, you’ll feel better. Continue reading
