Belly up, fired, and retired

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant … don't give in to the lies."

Serbia’s PM Vučević steps down over mega student-led protests

quite a bit more than a slap on the wrist… good riddance

Former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has just been sentenced to 11 years in prison

Welsh band The Rusty Nutz

They even left us with a farewell video

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RUSTY NUTZ… GOODNIGHT https://youtu.be/u0zndSqVMNw

it should be noted they did the whole release an album on several obsolete forms of media before Green Day did…

https://therustynutz.bandcamp.com/album/the-rusty-nutz-we-tried-to-make-it-big-but-something-somewhere-went-wrong-and-we-cant-work-out-what-that-something-is-2

they formed a new band called The Kobayashi Maru described as "Featuring 83.33% of The Rusty Nutz."  which of course shouldn't be confused with all the other bands using that name… do a search people…

kosmo wrote:
Welsh band The Rusty Nutz

it should be noted they did the whole release an album on several obsolete forms of media before Green Day did…

whoa a release on a Rev disk

this one as well is an odd format that I don't even think I've ever heard of
Sound tape cartridge



found out it was It was introduced in 1958!
Despite its convenience, the RCA tape cartridge was not much of a success
The same design concept would later be used in the more successful Compact Cassette, introduced by Philips in 1962

USAID

Space wrote:
USAID

Seriously? Wow

Ah fake news

The word is usaid moving to state department

Nice play for Rubio

Space wrote:
USAID

I was wrong
Appears to be correct per Musk announcement last night.

The 9 hour Prince Netflix documentary that Ezra  Edelmen spent five years working on. Blocked by the Prince estate so they could produce their own presumably sanitized version. 

kosmo wrote:
The 9 hour Prince Netflix documentary that Ezra  Edelmen spent five years working on. Blocked by the Prince estate so they could produce their own presumably sanitized version. 

the estate won out by offering netflix access to audio and video from prince's vault, whereas edelmen's effort was unofficial and made using public sources… so netflix chose unreleased over unredacted.

Billabong

hutch wrote:
Billabong

Quicksilver and Volcom too: their parent company = Chapter 11.  all stores will close, if not closed already.

sweetcell wrote:

hutch wrote:
Billabong

Quicksilver and Volcom too: their parent company = Chapter 11.  all stores will close, if not closed already.

Thoughts and prayers to Pac-Sun employees everywhere.

Vince Neil’s private jet

So looks like Allmusic.com is trying to make 'fetch' happen

Error 503 Backend fetch failed

bummer

Landmark’s E Street Cinema

Hooters is prep'ing to file for bankruptcy.

comments on twitter are what you'd expect.

"Hooters is filing for chapter 13 bankruptcy. Now if you want chicken wings and the objectification of women you have to go to any sports bar in America"

"Imagine how MAGAts would've reacted if Biden bankrupted Hooters in his first month."

"4 years of woke didn't kill Hooters, 1 month of MAGA did."

"Tough break Hooters, there’s always Onlyfans. :)"

"Hooters goes tits up."

"I saw "Hooters" trending and my first thought (no kidding) was: Who have they tapped and for which cabinet?"

etc.

David Shipley at Washington Post Opinion Editor wouldn't bow a knee to Bezos

Jeff Bezos has announced a significant shift in the Washington Post's opinion section, focusing on personal liberties and free markets