A guy in Nebraska threatened Walmart employees with a MACHETE on Christmas Eve . . . because he was upset he didn’t get a receipt when he bought the machete. The cops eventually got him to surrender, and he’s facing several charges. (Full Story)
What if 2020 was a sandwich? Here’s how Burger King Brazil imagined it – Pennlive
Pizza Hut Is Giving Away Rings of Stuffed Crust – Chewboom
Pickle-flavored DORITOS just went on sale nationwide. These things popped up in a few spots last summer, and I guess they were popular enough that Doritos decided to give them a wider launch. (Full Story)
Flavanols in hot chocolate boost brain power, improve cognitive ability, small study suggests – FoxNews
One Of The World’s Great Sandwiches Is Making A Comeback – Bloomergquint
There’s a warning going out to stores that kids are wearing masks and dressing up to look older so they can buy alcohol.
Here Are the States People Moved Into and Out of the Most Last Year – United Van Lines
A Woman Figures Out Her Resume Wasn’t Working Because of an Unfortunate Autocorrect – Reddit
26% of People Kept All of Their New Year’s Resolutions Last Year? – YouGov
You Really Don’t Want To Know What Caused This Guy’s Itchy Ears – Huffpost
COVID Is Killing the Cocaine Market, But People Are Smoking More Weed – Observer
A coronavirus outbreak at a hospital in San Jose, California has been linked to an employee wearing an inflatable Christmas tree costume on Christmas . . . and the fan in the costume spreading droplets.
As you probably heard, the coronavirus relief bill that Congress passed was filled with all sorts of pork that was totally unrelated to the pandemic. One thing that was in there: The Pentagon has to release its intelligence about UFOs within six months.
There’s been a schematic going around in some conspiracy circles online, and they say it’s the architecture of the 5G chip that’s being implanted when you get the coronavirus vaccine. Except . . . it’s actually the schematic for an electric guitar pedal.
Jackass 4: Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O in hospital after just two days of filming – Independent
TANYA ROBERTS isn’t very dead after all. Tanya collapsed on Christmas Eve after walking her dogs. She was put on a ventilator because she was having trouble breathing. On Sunday, Tanya’s agent reported her death, saying he got the news from her “husband”, Lance O’Brien. Well, it turns out Lance isn’t Tanya’s husband, but her longtime boyfriend. And yesterday, he was being interviewed by “Inside Edition” about her death, when he got a call from the hospital telling him she was STILL ALIVE. TMZ spoke with both Lance and Tanya’s rep, and Lance told them that he went to the hospital Sunday after doctors called and told him Tanya was fading fast, and wasn’t going to make it. When he got there she opened her eyes and tried to grab him, then closed them again. He apparently ASSUMED she was dead, and left the hospital without speaking to medical staff. Mike says he picked Lance up at the hospital, and Lance told him, quote, “She died in my arms.” In yet another interview, Lance said a hospital worker told him that Tanya opening her eyes was just a reflex, and that “for all intents and purposes she was gone.” He also said she’s since been taken off life support, and there’s no chance she’s gonna make it.
If you want to give your newborn daughter a name that calls to mind a powerful queen, you could look up powerful queens the internet. Or, you can just name her Powerful Queen. So says Nick Cannon and his partner, Brittany Bell. “The best gift ever,” wrote Cannon over the weekend on Instagram“A GIRL!!!!! Powerful Queen Cannon came this week perfect timing for Christmas.” Cannon, who is Mariah Carey’s ex and host of the Masked Singer on Fox, also has a son with Bell named Golden “Sagon” Cannon. Cannon’s 9-year-old twins with Carey are named Monroe and Moroccan.
OLIVIA WILDE and HARRY STYLES are apparently riding the hobby horse. They were holding hands at the wedding of Harry’s agent in California this past weekend. She’s 36, he’s 26. They met during a movie they did together. Olivia and her husband JASON SUDEIKIS split up at the beginning of 2020. They have a son and a daughter together.
If you could trade places with one celebrity for a day, who would it be? A blog conducted a poll, and more than 650 people weighed in.
The choices were: Beyoncé, Meghan Markle, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Drake, LeBron James, Taylor Swift, or Kim Kardashian.
And the most popular answer was . . . J-LO, with 18% of the vote.
Coming in second place with 15.7% of the vote was Taylor. Meghan Markle got 12% . . . LeBron got 11.9% . . . Beyoncé got 8.4% . . . Kim Kardashian got 8.2% . . . Drake got 7.8% . . . and Rihanna got 6.5%.
11% selected “Other,” and wrote in responses like Ariana Grande, Blake Lively, and Machine Gun Kelly.
Time to hate on some low hanging fruit… CREED singer SCOTT STAPP is going to play FRANK SINATRA in an upcoming movie about RONALD REAGAN. And it’ll include a scene where Scott gets to PERFORM as Frank. DENNIS QUAID is playing Reagan. The movie is due out next year.
Netflix is in development with Robert Rodriguez on a sequel to superhero kids movie We Can Be Heroes. That’s kids from Spy Kids franchise and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. The children of Earth’s superheroes that have to take on alien invaders that have kidnapped their parents.
Also announced was Netflix’s holiday numbers. Keep in mind they count viewership based on just two minutes of viewing time by a subscriber, the 2020 Christmas week— running from Dec. 25 to Dec. 31— was the service’s biggest on record for the same week, year-over-year. AND over the first 3 quarters Netflix added about 28 million subscribers.
Hulu is about to make you take another look. They are adding Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, and Comedy Central to their lineup. And more. More than 14 ViacomCBS channels will come with Hulu with Live TV. Other channels include Paramount Network, VH1, CMT and Nicktoons. If Hulu is anything like YouTube TV, there will be a price hike in the future after adding ViacomCBS’ channels. Hulu with Live TV currently runs around $65 a month.
“Family Guy” creator SETH MACFARLANE is developing a reboot of “Revenge of the Nerds”. It’ll star KEITH and KENNY LUCAS, the identical twin brothers from “22 Jump Street”. And it really won’t be a straight-up remake. It’s a, quote, “contemporary reimagining [that] will pontificate about today’s nerd culture and what even constitutes a geek in the 21st century.” The original came out in 1984.
Remember “Night Court”? Well, NBC is developing a SEQUEL series. John Larroquette will be back as attorney Dan Fielding . . . but Harry Anderson won’t be able to reprise his role as Judge Harry Stone, because he died in 2018. Instead, the show will be about his daughter, Judge Abby Stone, who’s followed in his footsteps. The original ran for nine seasons, from 1984 to 1992. Larroquette won four Emmys, and the show was nominated for Outstanding Comedy three times. Melissa Rausch from Big Bnag Theory is Executive Producing
Will 2021 be the year we finally hear new music from Guns’N’Roses? Slash thinks so. He said he’s been jamming with GN’R bassist Duff McKagan and “would like to think we’ll have stuff out next year”. Slash has also been hard at work with his solo band The Conspirators. He said “I’m really not good at slowing down and just sitting around.”
According to the band Journey guess who is headlining Lollapalooza 2021? Journey. The festival’s official site currently makes no mention of their plans for 2021, after being forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to convert to online performances in 2020. Neal Schon of Journey said he “dying to get on stage again,” and that the band has “our first date booked for Lollapalooza, and we’re headlining in Chicago. And that’s supposedly in April. The group’s most recent concert took place almost a year ago, on Jan. 31, 2019 in Las Vegas. It turned out to be the last Journey show to feature drummer Steve Smith and bassist Ross Valory, who were fired in March 2020 after what Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain described in court documents as an “ill-conceived corporate coup d’état” designed to take control of the band’s name. Two months later, Schon announced that bassist Randy Jackson, who briefly performed with Journey in the mid-’80s, had returned to the group, joined by new drummer Narada Michael Walden and keyboardist / vocalist Jason Derlatka.
Ozzy Osbornes just released an album in February called Ordinary Man. He is set to release more music soon. He posted over the weekend that he is in the studio working on another record. The guy who produced Ordinary Man’s, Andrew Watt, said Ozzy had Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins in the studio to work on some new music, too.
Kristin Cavallari is 34. “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills”. She recently separated from her former NFL QB husband Jay Cutler.
Deadmau5 is 40.
January Jones is 43. Melissa on “Last Man on Earth”. You also know her as Betty Draper on “Mad Men” and Emma Frost in “X-Men: First Class”.
Bradley Cooper is 46. “A Star Is Born”, “American Sniper”, Phil in the “Hangover” movies, and Rocket Raccoon in “Guardians of the Galaxy”.
Marilyn Manson is 52. Hack who stole Alice Cooper’s act.
Carrie Ann Inaba is 53. “Dancing with the Stars” judge. She was also one of the dancers in the 1995 stripper-classic “Showgirls”.
Kate Schellenbach is 55. Luscious Jackson drummer . . . AND the original drummer for the Beastie Boys.
Ted Lange is 73. He IS Isaac the bartender on “The Love Boat”.
Diane Keaton is 75. Michael Corleone’s second wife in the “Godfather” movies. She also won an Oscar for starring in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall”.
Charlie Rose is 79.
Robert Duvall is 90. BAD . . . ASS.
“The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now”, “MASH”, “The Untouchables”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “The Natural”, “Colors”, “Days of Thunder”, “Newsies”, “Falling Down”, “A Family Thing”, “Phenomenon”, “Sling Blade”, “The Man Who Captured Eichmann”, “The Apostle”, “The Gingerbread Man”, “Deep Impact”, “A Civil Action”, “Gone in Sixty Seconds”, “The 6th Day”, “John Q”, “Assassination Tango”, “Gods and Generals”, “Open Range”, “Lucky You”, “Secondhand Lions”, “Thank You for Smoking”, “We Own the Night”, “The Road”, “Get Low”, “Crazy Heart”, “Jayne Mansfield’s Car”, “Jack Reacher”, “The Judge”.
George Reeves (1914 – 1959) Superman on the 1950s TV series.
Agatha Cristine
Today’s birthday girl has made her daddy pround in 85 fine films…including:
– Arab Street Hookers 8
– Booty Island 2
– Daddy I’m a Whore 1
– Pile Driver 6
– Shemale Mandingo 1
– Try Before You Bi
– Horse Ranch Girls
– And who could forget her unforgettable role in… Tanned Up Caboose
Agatha Cristine turns 39 years old today.
That’s your Porno Birthday… those were your Crappy Birthdays… and that was your Crap On Celebrities.
- The NHL has plans to play a series of games in Lake Tahoe, Nevada this February. Hockey bosses have the idea that since fans can’t come to the matches, they’ll at least make the games look spectacular on TV with two Natural Wilderness Games.
- The two day NHL event will take place at Edgewood Tahoe Resort, which is much more famous for hosting golf tournaments. The games will take place around the resort’s 16th, 17th and 18th holes.
- The NHL had looked at other outdoor venues for the games, like Alberta, Canada and Park City, Utah, before choosing Lake Tahoe.
- Vegas, Colorado, Boston and Philly will be the teams hitting the ice during theNatural Wilderness Games next month.
As if the Blues’ season needed more complexity, their AHL affiliate, the Springfield (Mass.) Thunderbirds, announced Monday that they would opt out of the 2021 season because of COVID-19, leaving the Blues without a dedicated minor-league team. Instead, the Blues will share the Utica (N.Y.) Comets with the Vancouver Canucks this season before returning to Springfield, they hope, in 2021-22.
Both the Blues and Canucks will provide players for Utica.
Utica will be the third AHL team the Blues will be affiliated with in the past five seasons, plus another season where they didn’t have an affiliate. They were with Chicago in 2016-17, no one in 2017-18 when there was one less AHL team than there were NHL teams and the Blues were the odd team, and San Antonio in 2018-19 and 2019-20. The Blues switched to Springfield after San Antonio was purchased by Vegas and moved to the Las Vegas area.
Some of the Blues’ top prospects, of course, might never see Utica: teams will carry a six-man taxi squad because of COVID concerns, so the Blues’ top minor-leaguers will stay with them in St. Louis.
The NHL gave the Blues a break on fewer late starting times in the new West Division. The starting times of all 56 games were released for every team Monday by the league, and among the 28 road games the Blues have only 10 games starting after 8 p.m.
three 9:30 p.m. starts; five 9 p.m. starts; two 8:30 p.m. starts; nine 8 p.m. The rest are before 8pm. Jeff do you have something to say? Skate boys.
Speaking of schedules:
The NCAA announced Monday that its showcase event — the Division I men’s basketball tournament MARCH MADNESS, all 67 games of it — will be played entirely in or near Indianapolis. The hope is to limit the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic cancels the wildly popular and lucrative tournament for a second consecutive season.
Indy was already scheduled to host the Final Four but original plan was for 67 games to be played at 13 sites across the country. Selection Sunday is still set for March 14, the tourney field is expected to remain at 68 and the Final Four games are still scheduled for April 3 with the title game two days later
After a decade of being the Denver Broncos‘ chief football decision-maker, John Elway and the team have decided it is time for a fresh set of eyes to make the calls on the Broncos’ roster.
As the Broncos’ playoff drought has grown to five seasons after this year’s 5-11 finish, Elway said Monday that he will remain in place as team president, but the Broncos will hire a general manager “to make all football decisions, working in partnership with [coach] Vic [Fangio].”
The new GM will control the draft, free agency and the roster, according to Elway.