Whenever I'm at the grocery store and I see someone bring a huge cart of stuff into the express line, I always think, "What an inconsiderate a-hole." But since I'm kind of a coward, I never actually say anything out loud.
--This week, at a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Saukville, Wisconsin, someone finally DID say something out loud. And things got UGLY.
--48-year-old James X. Cryns got into the 10-items-or-less line behind 56-year-old Grace Hernandez . . . who had 37 items in her cart.
--Apparently, when Grace got in the line there wasn't anyone waiting, so the cashier told her it was okay. But that wasn't good enough for James.
--He said, quote, "What is this? Eighty items at an express lane?" She responded, quote, "I got permission. Why, do you have a problem with that?" He responded, quote, "I do have a problem with that. You're fat and ugly."
--They kept arguing, and another customer called the police. A cop who was in the area came by. He witnessed James screaming and swearing . . . so he hit him with a $429 citation for disorderly conduct.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
44% OF MEN WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO HELP A LOST CHILD BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID THEY'D BE MISTAKEN FOR A PEDOPHILE:
Call this reason number 85,456 to LOATHE, DESPISE and HATE pedophiles. One side effect of their evil is they're scaring off a lot of good, kind-hearted people from trying to help kids.
--In a new poll, 44% of adult men say they'd be reluctant to help a lost child . . . because they're afraid someone would suspect they were a pedophile or a child abductor.
--Parents are also scared to let their children play outdoors . . . 90% of our generation played in the street with our friends, but today, only 70% of kids are allowed to play around outside without an adult directly supervising them. Daily Mail
--In a new poll, 44% of adult men say they'd be reluctant to help a lost child . . . because they're afraid someone would suspect they were a pedophile or a child abductor.
--Parents are also scared to let their children play outdoors . . . 90% of our generation played in the street with our friends, but today, only 70% of kids are allowed to play around outside without an adult directly supervising them. Daily Mail
A FAMILY FACING FORECLOSURE CLEANS OUT THEIR HOUSE . . . AND FINDS A COPY OF THE FIRST-EVER SUPERMAN COMIC BOOK:
Who says SUPERMAN doesn't exist? He LITERALLY just saved a family from absolute disaster.
--The family, who asked the press to keep their name and their location confidential, was facing FORECLOSURE . . . they couldn't afford the payments their home and the bank was getting ready to bounce them out.
--As they packed up their belongings to leave the house, they found an old box in their basement containing about nine comic books.
--One of those comic books was "Action Comics No. 1" . . . a.k.a. the comic book that featured the first appearance of Superman . . . a.k.a. the most valuable comic book OF ALL TIME.
--They looked it up online and found that copies of that book have sold for up to $1.5 MILLION at auction. So they contacted a comic book auction expert named Vincent Zurzolo who runs the website ComicConnect.com.
--He examined the comic and gave it a rating of "very good" based on its condition. Since it's not perfectly mint, it should only make about $250,000 at auction . . . not quite $1.5 million, but still enough for the family to easily save their house.
--And while that's amazing for them . . . unfortunately, most Americans DON'T have the most valuable comic book in the world in their basements. In the first six months of this year, more than 1.6 million homes were in foreclosure.
(ABC News)
--The family, who asked the press to keep their name and their location confidential, was facing FORECLOSURE . . . they couldn't afford the payments their home and the bank was getting ready to bounce them out.
--As they packed up their belongings to leave the house, they found an old box in their basement containing about nine comic books.
--One of those comic books was "Action Comics No. 1" . . . a.k.a. the comic book that featured the first appearance of Superman . . . a.k.a. the most valuable comic book OF ALL TIME.
--They looked it up online and found that copies of that book have sold for up to $1.5 MILLION at auction. So they contacted a comic book auction expert named Vincent Zurzolo who runs the website ComicConnect.com.
--He examined the comic and gave it a rating of "very good" based on its condition. Since it's not perfectly mint, it should only make about $250,000 at auction . . . not quite $1.5 million, but still enough for the family to easily save their house.
--And while that's amazing for them . . . unfortunately, most Americans DON'T have the most valuable comic book in the world in their basements. In the first six months of this year, more than 1.6 million homes were in foreclosure.
(ABC News)
BLAKE SHELTON HAS CHANGED HIS MIND AND DOESN'T LIKE THE IDEA OF RELEASING "SIX PAK" ALBUMS ANYMORE:
BLAKE SHELTON has already soured on his "brilliant idea" of releasing 6-song EPs . . . which he calls "Six Paks" . . . instead of a full album of music.
(--His two Six Paks so far are, "Hillbilly Bone", which came out in March . . . and "All About Tonight", which drops next Tuesday.)
--Blake talked about the Six Paks during a live Nashville Webcast last weekend. He said, quote, "I don't like (them). I have made that decision finally and here's why. I just think there's still a lot of tweaking we can do.
--"It's frustrating to me because we moved onto the next Six Pak and this is a collection of songs I'm really, really excited about and I'm still thinking about the last one, too."
--Blake is frustrated that he only had enough time to release one single from "Hillbilly Bone" . . . that being the title track. He thinks he could have had two or three more hits off that EP.
--He explains, quote, "If there's one thing I heard about fans the last time, it is, 'Man, there was only one single off of it.' But the idea behind the Six Pak is you're constantly putting new music out there.
--"It's one thing to be constantly releasing new music and it's another thing when you realize that 90% of that was never heard on the radio because we went immediately to the new project."
(--His two Six Paks so far are, "Hillbilly Bone", which came out in March . . . and "All About Tonight", which drops next Tuesday.)
--Blake talked about the Six Paks during a live Nashville Webcast last weekend. He said, quote, "I don't like (them). I have made that decision finally and here's why. I just think there's still a lot of tweaking we can do.
--"It's frustrating to me because we moved onto the next Six Pak and this is a collection of songs I'm really, really excited about and I'm still thinking about the last one, too."
--Blake is frustrated that he only had enough time to release one single from "Hillbilly Bone" . . . that being the title track. He thinks he could have had two or three more hits off that EP.
--He explains, quote, "If there's one thing I heard about fans the last time, it is, 'Man, there was only one single off of it.' But the idea behind the Six Pak is you're constantly putting new music out there.
--"It's one thing to be constantly releasing new music and it's another thing when you realize that 90% of that was never heard on the radio because we went immediately to the new project."
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
THE NEW "GADGET CENSUS" SHOWS WHICH STATES HAVE THE MOST LAPTOPS, SMARTPHONES, IPADS AND MORE:
At this point, it's IMPOSSIBLE to avoid the sweet seduction of at least ONE electronic gadget . . .
--And the electronics store Retrevo.com has released the results of its state-by-state gadget census . . . which found the states with the highest concentration of all kinds of different tech products. Here are the results
--Most iPads: NEW YORK. 52% of households in New York have at least one iPad.
--Most smartphones: MARYLAND. The people at Retrevo think it might be because of all the government workers who live there, surgically attached to their BlackBerries.
--Most "dumb" phones: PENNSYLVANIA. 14% of people have a low-tech cell phone . . . like the one you get free for signing a new contract.
--Most laptops: COLORADO. 13% of households there have at least one laptop, just beating out Georgia and Minnesota.
--Most eReaders: MASSACHUSETTS. 49% of people in Massachusetts have a Kindle, Nook, or one of the other 8,000 high-tech ways to read a book.
--Most digital cameras: MICHIGAN. Households in Michigan are 8% more likely to have a camera than anywhere else. (--Of course, according to the media, there are only like 15 households left in Michigan, so take that for what it's worth.)
--The census also found that people in New York City are most likely to have the newest technology products, and people in Phoenix are most likely to have old tube TVs and VCRs. (Retrevo)
--And the electronics store Retrevo.com has released the results of its state-by-state gadget census . . . which found the states with the highest concentration of all kinds of different tech products. Here are the results
--Most iPads: NEW YORK. 52% of households in New York have at least one iPad.
--Most smartphones: MARYLAND. The people at Retrevo think it might be because of all the government workers who live there, surgically attached to their BlackBerries.
--Most "dumb" phones: PENNSYLVANIA. 14% of people have a low-tech cell phone . . . like the one you get free for signing a new contract.
--Most laptops: COLORADO. 13% of households there have at least one laptop, just beating out Georgia and Minnesota.
--Most eReaders: MASSACHUSETTS. 49% of people in Massachusetts have a Kindle, Nook, or one of the other 8,000 high-tech ways to read a book.
--Most digital cameras: MICHIGAN. Households in Michigan are 8% more likely to have a camera than anywhere else. (--Of course, according to the media, there are only like 15 households left in Michigan, so take that for what it's worth.)
--The census also found that people in New York City are most likely to have the newest technology products, and people in Phoenix are most likely to have old tube TVs and VCRs. (Retrevo)
FOX IS LAUNCHING THEIR OWN COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS SHOW IN DECEMBER:
Fox is launching a brand new country music awards show called "American Country Awards". It'll air from Las Vegas on December 6th.
(--That's less than a month after this year's CMA Awards, which is going down November 10th on ABC.)
--But how will this show be different than the CMAs, ACMs or CMTs? Well, the new show, the ACAs if you will, believe their hook is that fan voting will decide ALL of the winners . . . not just a handful of them, as in some of the other shows.
--But can the market sustain FOUR country music awards shows every year? According to "The Hollywood Reporter", there's been an increase in numbers for awards shows.
--Last year's CMAs pulled in 16.8 million viewers and was its most-watched show in four years. And the biggest awards show of them all, the Grammys, had seven million MORE viewers this year than last.
--It's pretty clear that Fox is betting their fan-voted hook will bring in the younger demographic everyone covets because they're the ones who do the majority of voting on these shows.
(--That's less than a month after this year's CMA Awards, which is going down November 10th on ABC.)
--But how will this show be different than the CMAs, ACMs or CMTs? Well, the new show, the ACAs if you will, believe their hook is that fan voting will decide ALL of the winners . . . not just a handful of them, as in some of the other shows.
--But can the market sustain FOUR country music awards shows every year? According to "The Hollywood Reporter", there's been an increase in numbers for awards shows.
--Last year's CMAs pulled in 16.8 million viewers and was its most-watched show in four years. And the biggest awards show of them all, the Grammys, had seven million MORE viewers this year than last.
--It's pretty clear that Fox is betting their fan-voted hook will bring in the younger demographic everyone covets because they're the ones who do the majority of voting on these shows.
JARON . . . FROM JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE . . . SAYS COUNTRY WENT POP . . . NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND:
JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE have had one hit country record, "Pray For You". The rest of their music has an arguable "pop sound". Singer JARON (LOWENSTEIN) offered this take on the pop crossover in today's country music.
--Here's how he explained it to "Entertainment Weekly", quote, "The reality is that if you ask KID ROCK or DARIUS RUCKER . . . they'll tell you the same thing: country went pop, we didn't go country.
--"We set out to make music and find an audience, we just need an audience that appreciates us and connects with us. If you listen to a KEITH URBAN or LADY ANTEBELLUM song, those are straight-up pop songs. Country just expanded.
--"They still have traditional, but they have new country too. I think there was a redistricting, a rezoning of genres, and country said, 'Hey, we'll take those listeners.' People don't care anymore what it's called, they care about engagement."
(--Do you agree with Jaron? Do you belive it was a natural progression that we started hearing the music of TAYLOR SWIFT and CARRIE UNDERWOOD and LADY ANTEBELLUM.)
(--Or do you disagree with Jaron? Do you think pop artists "invaded" country music? Is that bad for the genre? Are you mad or just annoyed?)
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--Here's how he explained it to "Entertainment Weekly", quote, "The reality is that if you ask KID ROCK or DARIUS RUCKER . . . they'll tell you the same thing: country went pop, we didn't go country.
--"We set out to make music and find an audience, we just need an audience that appreciates us and connects with us. If you listen to a KEITH URBAN or LADY ANTEBELLUM song, those are straight-up pop songs. Country just expanded.
--"They still have traditional, but they have new country too. I think there was a redistricting, a rezoning of genres, and country said, 'Hey, we'll take those listeners.' People don't care anymore what it's called, they care about engagement."
(--Do you agree with Jaron? Do you belive it was a natural progression that we started hearing the music of TAYLOR SWIFT and CARRIE UNDERWOOD and LADY ANTEBELLUM.)
(--Or do you disagree with Jaron? Do you think pop artists "invaded" country music? Is that bad for the genre? Are you mad or just annoyed?)
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