A Florida Man Was Arrested While Drinking “Florida Man” Beer – LINK
Historic Main Street in St. Charles closed due to water main break – LINK
“Controversial” Things People Pretend to Hate . . . Like Pumpkin Spice – LINK
Fourth of July travel expected to reach record-high – LINK
A Texas airport worker died after being sucked into the engine of a Delta plane – LINK
Pineapple in frozen fruit potentially exposed to Listeria, prompting wide recall – LINK
Did FedEx Pull a Ferris Bueller? – LINK
Do Stores Like T.J. Maxx and Target Have a “Laxative Effect”? – LINK
We’re So Old! The Median Age in the U.S. Is Now 39, the Oldest Ever – LINK
Arizona Iced Tea Has a New Alcoholic Version . . . But It Won’t Be 99 Cents – LINK
Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Gwen Stefani, Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker, Toni Braxton, Dr. Dre, Brandy and the late Otis Redding are among the music artists who’ll get stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2024.
David Lee Roth has posted a video in which he’s dressed in camouflage and seen sneaking up on a statue of a squirrel while his 1988 song “Just Like Paradise” provides the soundtrack.
More than 100 artists have pledged to boycott venues like Madison Square Garden that use facial recognition technology at their shows. Signers include Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, Wheatus and Boots Riley. Twenty-five venues have also pledged not to use facial recognition.
On Sunday night, Offset and Quavo reunited to pay tribute to their late Migos band member Takeoff at the “BET Awards”. Then yesterday, Offset followed up that triumphant, celebratory moment by hitting up Instagram and accusing his wife, Cardi B of having sex with another man. Cardi says Offset is, quote, “spiraling and thinking” things that aren’t true. And she asked him to, quote, “stop acting stupid.” She also says that if she WAS cheating, it would have come out by now . . . because she’s Cardi Freakin’ B, and the guy would tell. Quote, “If I was giving this [kitty] to anybody, it would be out.” Listen to her Twitter Spaces message here: – LINK
Lindsay Lohan’s baby is almost here, and sources say the actress is having a boy! Sources close to Lindsay tell TMZ that she and her husband, Bader Shammas, are expecting the boy; it could be any day now! It’s being reported that her mother will be by her side in Dubai for the birth and some of her siblings will also be overseas around the same time as the birth to meet their new nephew.
Harrison Ford is 81 but has no plans to retire from Hollywood. When talking about playing the iconic Indiana Jones at his age in the upcoming ‘Dial of Destiny’, Harrison said he wants to “confront the question of age straight-on, not to hide my age, but to take advantage of it in the telling of the story.” He did say, though, that it’s time to move on from ‘Indiana Jones’, adding “It’s time for me to grow up”. ‘Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny’ hits theatres this Friday.
Season 1 of HBO’s “The Idol” will come to an end on Sunday, after five episodes. Fans were expecting six, but after some creative shuffling behind the scenes earlier this year, they cut the episode count by one.
James Gunn, who’s now in charge of the DC Extended Universe, thinks superhero movies have gotten lazy and generic. Gunn said. “And they have gotten to the place where, ‘Oh, it’s a superhero, let’s make a movie about it.’ And then, ‘Oh, let’s make a sequel, because the first one did pretty well,’ and they aren’t thinking about, ‘Why is this story special? What makes this story stand apart from other stories? What is the story at the heart of it all? Why is this character important? What makes this story different that it fills a need for people in theaters to go see?'” Gunn’s Marvel swan song Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 is the second-biggest box office success of the year so far, but would-be blockbusters like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and DC’s own The Flash have struggled with audiences – LINK
Pink’s was playing at Hyde Park in London the other day, and during “Just Like a Pill”, a woman threw her mom’s ASHES onstage. Luckily, the ashes weren’t loose or in an urn. They were in a sealed plastic baggie. And no, they didn’t hit Pink. She picked them up and said, quote, “Wait, this is your mom? I don’t know how I feel about this.”
But she bent down and gently placed them out of the way, in front of a speaker, then continued on with the song – LINK
Regan Starr
Today’s birthday girl has been in 191 fine films, including:
– The Bare Bitch Project
– Butt Hutt
– Debbie Does Iowa
– Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 6
– Fire in the Hole
– Gutter Mouths 10
– Liquid Gold 1 & 2
– Spin The Booty
– And who can forget her role in 2005’s Pass the Ass Please
Regan Starr 47 years old
Remember when I mentioned that Wainwright allowed 7 runs in three innings on Saturday in England and after the game he took responsibility for it? What I did not know he did after the game was..deactivate his twitter account. Polo Ascencio, a Spanish-language broadcaster for the team and friend of the Rizz Show, made the paper this morning because he had tweeted photos of Wainwright interacting with fans and “spreading joy” in London at the same time as “some Cardinals fans decided to hate, be ruthless against him.” Apparently twitter acted like twitter and Adam had enough. Wainwright is in his final season with the Cardinals and sits at 198 career wins. Only two Cardinals have more, Bob Gibson (251) and Jesse Haines (210). After Adam Wainwright deactivates his Twitter account, Cardinals fans, followers express dismay (stltoday.com)
The Southeastern Conference on Monday announced the home and road conference opponents for each team for the 2023-24 season. Mizzou’s marquee home opponent in the coming year could be Tennessee, ranked No. 6. Mizzou will play rival Arkansas, ranked 14th, as well as Texas A&M, ranked 19th, both at home and on the road.
The Tigers will face Alabama on the road as well. Conference play begins January 6 and goes through March 9, with the league tournament set to return to Nashville, Tenn., from March 13-17. 11 new comers are on the roster since last year’s 25 win team ended the season. Dennis Gates and Mizzou learn their SEC men’s basketball opponents for 2023-24 (stltoday.com)
Belgian shot put thrower Jolien Boumkwo competed in the 100-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Team Championships on Saturday after her teammates had to withdraw through injury. She placed 7th in the shot put on Friday, then turned her attention to the hurdles at the last minute and duly finished 19 seconds behind the seventh-placed athlete. Footage of Boumkwo carefully stepping over each hurdle while the other athletes race away ahead of her has since gone viral on social media. She smiled and laughed throughout before being congratulated by other competitors at the finish line. Just having an athlete take part in the event earned Belgium two points and saved the team from disqualification. Belgian shot put thrower Jolien Boumkwo competes in hurdles (stltoday.com)
Over to the college World Series. Sunday’s game Florida historically destroyed LSU 24-4. Then the next day it was winner take all.
It took less than one full inning for there to be a controversial call in tonight’s Game 3 of the Men’s College World Series title series.
Florida, the home team on Monday jumped out to a 2-0 lead on a Wyatt Langford home run, and might have been able to put more runs on the board if shortstop Josh Rivera wasn’t called out for runner’s interference on a close play at first. Instead of Rivera being safe, he became the second out of the inning. Fans and media were ticked off. To make matters worse, Florida’s two-run lead didn’t last long. LSU struck back for six runs in the top of the second, and they did so with smallball. Eventually, The Tigers flew past Florida 18-4 in Omaha to close out the Men’s College World Series and win the national championship. It marked the program’s seventh title, and the first since 2009. According to one of our emailers Mike who has two first names the starting pitcher was named Thatcher and there are a ton of high draft prospects in this batch of fellers.