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What Ya Missed, Broke Ass Meals, Whats The Worst Thing Your Kid Has Said To You, Is It Florida, Woman Mad About Service Dog, Lou Tucked A Napkin In His Shirt
Here’s an early Halloween NIGHTMARE for you.
A 44-year-old female truck driver was hauling a load of PUMPKINS on Interstate 75 near Tampa, Florida on Friday when she hit the guard rail . . . and the truck caught on fire. Then it EXPLODED . . . and flaming pumpkins flew everywhere.
Fortunately, no one was hurt including the driver. READ MORE
Tonight ESPN is reporting that Dwayne Wade and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to a buy-out on his contract. Wade will compete in his 15th NBA season coming up , after averaging 18.3 points, 3.8 assists and 4.5 rebounds last year in his first season with his hometown team, the Bulls. Wade prior to his NBA career which saw him win championships with the Miami Heat, attended Richards High School in Oak Lawn, IL and he had a standout performance for Marquette University during the 2003 NCAA Tournament.
It is believed that Miami, Cleveland, and San Antonio are possible suitors for Wade. It has been widely reported that both Wade and the Bulls agreed to the buyout. The rumors around Wade’s Bulls exit and where he could end up next have been running since August. Many basketball insiders expected this move after fellow Bulls star Jimmy Butler was traded since the Bulls finished their season.
TMZ Sports caught up Wade who addressed the speculation in late August in this video.
Now this is a spa treatment that I can fully endorse as a no-nonsense manly man (who may or may not occasionally get a pedicure).
The foreign language and subtitles make it all the more enjoyable! — [eric]
Artificial Intelligence is all the rage in tech right now with car companies in a race to get autonomous vehicles on the road, which is still pretty scary to many people looking into the future. Before we have to worry about a driver-less semi truck cutting us on the Stevenson, we can play with this new AI engineered software that let’s you upload a jpeg image of a face and you get a free 3D. YEAH, IT’S FUN! Try it out here.
Yes, i am aware there is other things like this but I have not seen one that is so interactive in just a few clicks.
Here is a breakdown of how the tech works and how it produces these really fun images.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong warmed up for today’s Global Citizen Festival in New York with a solo acoustic of the ballad ‘Ordinary World’ on Friday’s episode of ‘Tonight Show’. The song which was originally recorded for Armstrong’s independent movie of the same name but was re purposed to close out the band’s ‘Revolution Radio’ album. “After all of the chaos that’s on the album, whether it’s pop culture or whatever new apps we’re using, everything gets so complicated. At some point you want something simple. That’s sort of what ‘Ordinary World’ is about,” said Armstrong in an interview with Rolling Stone.
We asked a lot of questions of Green Day and we got answers…some of them gave us more information than we were expecting in our exclusive ‘press conference’ with Billie, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool before their massive show at Wrigley Field in August. Watch it here for stories about a stripped joining the band on stage and all the weird things Tre will eat.
Appearing on ‘CONAN’ this week, actor Luke Wilson made a pretty hilarious observation on the Millennial generation and their lounging habits at an airport. “They’re just sprawled out to where it looks like a Civil War battlefield,” the star of ‘Old School’ said. Conan O’Brien seemd to agree referring to Millennials when their comfortable as “gelatinous” but whole segment goes over the top when Wilson lays on his back and pantomimes a text with an invisible phone. He also quipped about their unique ability to find an outlet to charge a phone in almost any situation.
Meanwhile Conan continued to break new ground with another international special this week from Israel, where joked in the streets of Tel Aviv and of course sang with an Elvis impersonator on a beach to middle aged men in speedos.
Liam Gallagher making tea is the best thing you'll see today. As you were. pic.twitter.com/JaAB0p6Qr2
— BBC Three (@bbcthree) September 20, 2017
(from stereogum.com)
Last year, the former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha rejoined his old band onstage in Los Angeles. It was his first time playing with Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan in 16 years, and since the two didn’t exactly have the best split, it was a nice surprise. It also led to all sorts of speculation that we’d be getting a classic-lineup Smashing Pumpkins reunion. While that hasn’t yet happened, Iha and Corgan are, it turns out, working together. Corgan says that Iha plays guitar on two of his new songs. It’s their first time recording together since the Smashing Pumpkins’ 2000 album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music. (MORE HERE)
Still one of my favorite Pumpkins songs is “Drown”. Watch this 1994 performance below
(chicagoreader.com)
Thanks in large part to Jordan Klepper, from 2005 to 2007 Chicago comedy connoisseurs had their Saturday-night plans locked down. They’d go to a party or check out an art show, then hurry over to the iO Theater, then located in Wrigleyville, just in time for the midnight performance of The Late Night Late Show. The weekly talk show featured local improv luminaries in character, guests such as Hoop Dreams director Steve James, and a lot of unabashed absurdity in the service of meticulously crafted conceits, such as an evening in which the show was hijacked by Russians.
Its host was the magnetic, deadpan, unflappable Klepper, whose new Monday-through-Thursday program The Opposition With Jordan Klepper debuts on Comedy Central on September 25. Occupying the time slot following The Daily Show, on which Klepper was a correspondent for the past three years (MORE HERE)
Earlier this year, Stone Temple Pilots announced a massive reissue box set for their debut album Core.
In addition to a remastered album, it comes with lots of goodies including unreleased demos and live recordings, One of those unreleased tracks is “Only Dying,” a demo originally intended to be on the 1994 soundtrack for The Crow but was scratched after Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee) was killed on the movie set.
I love this song but could do without the creepy clown music around the 3:40 mark…
And I wonder if the reissue will have lyrics as to what Scott is whispering around the 3:48 mark…
The Core reissue is due out September 29.
<3 @laurenoneil
OBJECTified reveals how Hulk Hogan overcame the low point of his life when he put a gun in his own mouth. SUNDAY on @FoxNews, 8p ET / 5p PT
He’s a legend. An icon. At one time he could do know wrong. He was beloved. Then a sex scandal + audio tapes surfaced of him using racial slurs and most of us were like, NOPE!! Hulk Hogan was close to ending his life, but decided not to. He believes he can be a better person. Honestly I don’t know if his heart has changed but this show looks interesting enough to check out.
(from howtogeek.com)
Starting with iOS 11, you can now customize the Control Center you see when you swipe up from the bottom of your iPhone or iPad’s screen. You can remove shortcuts you never use, add new shortcuts, and rearrange the shortcuts to make the Control Center your own. (MORE HERE)
Still trying to find out how to have my work email and gmail use different notification sounds like they did before I updated. 🙁 Anyone else have this issue?
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Summer is officially over! Collective Boo Hoo 🙁 But there is still lots of fun to be had… and wine and beer and cocktails to drink! Here are Kelly Rizzo’s favorite picks right now as well as a cool contest!
Is the world ending tomorrow? We spoke with an astronomer from Adler Planetarium to find out!
WKQX’s “OMD Text” Contest
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Announcing PILLBOX, a short film written by Billy Corgan and soundtracked by his new album, OGILALA. https://t.co/S1koiklTM4 pic.twitter.com/OA1TgWxbdM
— WPC (@Billy) September 20, 2017
William Patrick Corgan announced a new silent film set entitled ‘Pillbox’ today which portrays a hero’s tragic journey, which is set to music from his upcoming solo album ‘Ogilala’. Corgran directed the film with Linda Strawberry and both will be appearing at a special screening on Chicago’s north side at the famous Music Box Theater on October 11th.
The trailer posted on Corgan’s twitter shows off an aesthetic that reminds me of the early 20th century art influences we saw in the Smashing Pumpkin;s videos and album visuals for ‘ Mellon Collie and Infinite Saddness’. Anyone else get that vibe?
Last month, Corgan issued a new single off the Rick Rubin-produced album, ‘Aeronaut’ which is a the piano ballad alludes to a traveler losing himself in the path he is on. ‘Ogilala’ is due out October 13th.
(from chicagoist)
A little bit of our pop-cultural childhood is about to get knocked into rubble.
The address 1516 W. Wrightwood Avenue alone probably won’t mean anything to you, but the house that stands there might, especially if you were raised on ABC’s TGIF lineup in the early 1990s. That was the house that served as the Winslow’s home in the opening credits of Family Matters—and we’re sorry to say it’s slated to be demolished. (MORE HERE)