We have seen people do reckless things to show off on camera and seek out viral fame, well this video from Youtuber Sonny is just that except the awkward ending is hilarious. This is not your usual wipeout clip where someone is really hurt, but it’s more how this inline skating show-off gets knocked down awkward right in the middle of this surprised women’s smoke break.
An Alaskan dentist has been found guilty on dozens of charges, one of which was filming himself performing dental work on a hoverboard — and sending it to friends.
The other charges are related to Medicare fraud because, SURPRISE — the guy who thought he could get away with filming an unconscious, non-consenting patient is also the same kind of guy who would charge patients for unnecessary procedures and then hide the money from his partners, according to this press release from the State of Alaska. In all, he reportedly pocketed a quarter million dollars.
Now, I don’t even know if this is LEGAL, but he may have been better off PROMOTING himself in the open as the Hoverboarding Dentist. He’d probably be rich and NOT facing sentencing in April of 2020, which may include restitution and jail time. — [eric]
My Chemical Romance’s reunion tour continues to roll out with online teasers and vague theatrical content to build to more shows following last month’s epic record-breaking show at the Shrine Expo in Los Angeles. The band’s fans lost it this weekend when a show announcement video featuring skeleton faced hooded figures gathered in a forest for a ceremony and the reveal the band will play the 30,000 capacity Stadium MK in Milton Keyes, England on June 20th.This show announcement was such a big deal it’s trending at number 10 on YouTube.
MCR is already committed to several big festival dates in Japan, New Zealand, Australia,and more. Obviously the speculation is running rampant as to where the Black Parade will be marching in Chicago this coming festival season but when we know we will pass it on here.
It’s always fun to listen to the retro alternative from the 1990s on Alt_Backspace every weekend….but how committed are you to keeping this fine decade alive? Would you consider spending your hard earned time and/or cash on things that have survived the test of time (sorta)? From the looks of it, the people behind these products are hoping you still might. Here are five things from the nineties that are still hanging around today:
Get beeped with your very own pager.
A company that has been in business since 1988 is still doing their thing — one-way numeric and alpha-numeric pagers. In fact, you can get a free pager just for signing up for prepaid service. And according to the coverage map, the city of Chicago is COVERED. All you need now is to find a pay phone.
Load up the Hampster Dance on your computer.
Granted, the original GeoCities website it once resided at is LONNNG gone, as they shut down more than a decade ago. But the original animation and something close to the original song is still live. And now they have merch.
Add a “Bop It!” to your toy collection.
Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Or in this case, buy it! — the mashup between the games Simon and Whack-A-Mole, that is. A modern looking version is for sale right now through Amazon (free one-day shipping with Prime!).
Give your hip adductors a squeeze with the Thighmaster.
The TV commercials brought Suzanne Somers into your home, doing things with her legs that were….athletic. The Thighmaster is still a part of her website (now available in the “Gold” model!)
Go watch the Hanson brothers in concert.
At the height of “MMMBop,” the governor of Oklahoma declared May 6th “Hanson Day” in the city of Tulsa. That tradition lives on….in fact, it is listed as a three-day event this year. Tickets are available through the band’s website.
The legend told in the Disney animated classic ‘The Sword in the Stone’ claims that only the most worthy shall pull the sword from the stone. Many visitors to California’s Disneyland have done attempted to do what King Arthur did in that film, but an anonymous source to WDNWT clarified the whole story, saying it was his beefcake buddy to removed the sword which has been next to associated ride since 1983.
As if it was not cool enough that he found out that his band NIne Inch Nails would be inducted in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the same day Trent Reznor’s wife Mariqueen gave birth to the couple’s fifth child together.
We got the sneak preview a couple of days ago, after being sworn to secrecy,” Reznor told Zane Lowe in an interview with Beats 1. “So I came home from the hospital, having a baby, to have a letter I had to open at midnight, that was that news. It was the icing on the cake of a pretty intense day.”
NIN will release new music in 2020 besides accepting the big Hall of Fame honors this spring in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sum 41 was forced to cancel a show tonight in Paris after a device exploded outside the venue doors.
There are no injuries reported by Alternative Press, who says the explosive device went off outside the main entrance of Les Etoiles while the band was doing a load-in for their second of two shows in the city. Fans are reporting the device to be “firecrackers,” but there was no official confirmation of that.
Green Day dropped a new song off their upcoming album ‘Father of All M****er ****ers’ called ‘Oh Yeah’ which utilizes a Joan Jett sample. It follows the title track and ‘Ready Aim Fire’.The video for the track is a satire of our obsessed-with-our-social-media times which unfortunately involves one of the members of the band getting hit by a car.
The sample from the classic hit “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)”. “Since one of the writers on that song is a total asshole, we decided to donate our royalties from ‘Oh Yeah!’ to Intl. Justice Mission and RAINN,” the band said in a statement and this references convicted pedophile Gary Glitter.
Full disclosure: I haven’t ridden a bike in a WHIIIIILLLLEEEE. But I am going to do it for my friend Blair (pictured below) and other survivors/fighters of rare cancers.
Cycle For Survival is 2/8 in downtown Chicago and we are on team ACCelerate Chicago! You can donate and/or join our team HERE.
On behalf of Brian, Ali and Justin and 101 WKQX, thanks for making AHOY (A Happy One Year) a huge success! We tried to grab as many of the night’s highlights as we could! Check out the galleries below!
He always teams up with the most interesting people. He has a cooking show with Martha Stewart, and who can forget his performance with Gorillaz back in 2010
Well, he’s doing it again! This time he’s teaming up with Guns N’ Roses in Florida at the end of the month for what can only be an amazing show.