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In the “Countries That Shouldn’t Emulate America” category, comes the tale of six of London’s finest metro police. After apprehending a couple suspects who were carrying a large weed shipment, the officers decided to seize the property of the suspects, and give them the old Dick Cheney workover for good measure.
We here at TMR usually pride ourselves on the ability to wade through the internet’s digital morass of celebrity nonsense, gadget fetishism, and vacuous top-10 lists, to bring you something unique and substantive every day. Today I’m going to have to temporarily surrender.
You see, a certain unnamed former sexpot and pop-star died today. Therefore, there is no other news.
Passionately following a losing sports franchise is sort of like having a mal-formed congenitally attached twin fetus to your skull. It serves as a constant reminder that you have invested a great deal of emotional energy in something that will never be a source of pride or happiness.
Sure, you can put a scarf on your head. You can change the topic of conversation. But short of dangerous surgery, you can never separate yourself from the fate of this being that nature has declared unfit to thrive.
Look out, Canadians… Skynet is now online.
The US Border Patrol is preparing to deploy a ‘Predator B’ unmanned drone aircraft along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, presumably to detect drug growing and smuggling operations along the US-Canadian border.
This mashup via “directorial collective,” Crush, is comprised of over 400 intertwined video pieces. The result is a little overwhelming — it’s hard to know where to focus your attention. I found myself drawn to the giant wormhole into nothing on the third tier — and then found a line of treadmill runners to the left. Overall, it’s a strangely addictive mishmash.
Finally willing to be intellectually honest about its product, Pizza Hut is changing its name to “The Hut.”
While the company claims that this is a branding move to keep in touch with the “texting” (read as “illiterate”) generation, it does afford several advantages to the franchise:
Ever wanted to be depressed by Youtube in five minutes or less? Check out this interview series from the Resident (known in our world as the owner of a highly popular non-Mep Kurt Vonnegut video.)
Of course, none of the attendees can actually verbalize what’s good or useful about Twitter, they just enjoy being around like-minded Twits.
I want you Meppers to know that this video was incredibly difficult to find. HBO has been on a censorship rampage in trying to shield Buck from the humiliation of having his first talk show railroaded by the longtime Howard Stern co-host.
This was amazing to see live. You could tell that Lange was at least half in the bag, and that Buck had neither the charm, nor skill to stop him. To be fair, Buck was a particularly useless talk show host. He isn’t witty, engaging, or even particularly interesting. He has a job because he inherited his father’s pipes. That’s about it. I don’t think we’ll be seeing him in Bob Costas’ seat again.
Specifically, promotion of Greg’s new novel, just released by Five Star Press. The Third Sign, a work of epic fantasy called “a very satisfying tale from an intriguing new voice” by Bram Stoker award winning author David Niall Wilson and “memorable…gripping…if this book is any indication, the author is in for a long and successful career” by reviewers from The Beezer Review to SFFWorld to Library Journal, has gotten positive pre-publication attention, and if you have any interest in fantasy (or in supporting a Mep Reporter 😉 ), please stop by Greg’s personal webpage for information on how to order the book. And thanks in advance for putting up with a bit of self-promotion!
