Authorities in the UK seized almost 363 pounds of heroin at London’s Heathrow airport that was hidden in souvenirs from South Africa. |AFP|
Graffiti-Hating Vandals Star in New Documentary
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- Jim Sharp
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- The Grey Ghost
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- The Grey Ghost
A forthcoming documentary focuses on anti-graffiti zealots who commit the same crimes they crusade against. In “Vigilante Vigilante,” San Francisco filmmakers Max Good and Nathan Wollman successfully stalk and unmask a local man, known as the “Silver Buff,” who “surreptitiously spray paints metallic silver blobs over existing graffiti, almost always doing more damage than was there to begin with.” Along the way, the filmmakers also profile other prolific graffiti-hating vandals including New Orleans’ “Gray Ghost,” Fred Radtke, who was recently busted for vandalizing a legal mural and ordered to get permission to paint on other people’s property. Watch a preview from “the battle for expression” after the jump. Read more »
HA! I don’t know about you, but I just love it when celebrities, especially those who carry a distinct air of pompousness about them, appear on game shows and prove themselves to be, well, kind of dumb. To that end, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, the guy that “the most trusted name in news” employs so our nation’s leaders can appear on national television and recite talking points virtually unchallenged, flamed out spectacularly on Jeopardy last night. Read more »
When it comes to controversy and such, rapper Jay-Z often likes to step back, let the drama build, and then weigh in a week or media cycle later. And so he did, reminding people that Kanye may have raped Tayor Swift’s soul, but it’s not like he drove a knife through her beating heart: “I think it was rude but the way they’re treating him… He’s on the cover of every paper. He didn’t kill anybody. No one got harmed.” |BBC|
The attorney for accused domestic terrorist Laguerre Payen, who was one of the four men recently arrested for plotting to bomb local synagogues, argued in court yesterday that evidence against his client should be thrown out because a government informant treated Payen to free food with his charge account at Crown Chicken. Sometimes the politically incorrect jokes just write themselves. |Daily News|
A school district in bumble-fuck Georgia will start allowing K-9 units to search its middle and high schools as if every student was a suspect. The superintendent of Bibb County says the policy is a necessary preventative measure: “These searches will allow highly trained handlers and police dogs to examine our building in an effort to deter wrongdoing and seek out potential illegal items such as drugs or guns.” For historical context, this is the same lovely school district that notoriously tried to fight desegregation orders in the 1970s and as recent as 2006. |GPB|
Who’s Having Their Period Today?
Twitter gives the world access to people’s most mundane details and it’s amazing how many women love to announce to the world that, yes, they’re on the rag. Here are today’s brave, bloated over-sharers. Read more »
Understanding Hip Hop Through Charts and Graphs
Finally, something to help white people fully understand Hip Hop music. The whole set is pretty amazing. |Jamphat via Model Behavior|
Scientists say that a smaller (9 ft. tall) “punk size” Tyrannosaurus rex terrorized Asia years before the giant killing machine version of T-rex we’ve all come to know and love roamed the earth. |Nola.com|
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