For those of you from Umass.. you may remember this was the best part of the Daily Collegian. A section of lil blurbs on all the stupid shit kids were doing to get themselves arrested. Of course, Umass kids were pretty stupid, but not sure any of them would be so dumb as to..
We actually have a 57-way tie this week.. thanks to two posts from FOD (yes, it took me a minute to add that up.. hey, I was an English major.. at Umass)
A congressman took great exception Tuesday night to being
questioned by a New York cable news reporter about allegations surrounding his
campaign finances and was heard on-camera threatening to throw the reporter off
a balcony if the reporter brought up the topic again.
Following President Obama's State of the Union address, Rep. Michael
Grimm, a Republican from the New York City borough of Staten Island, was asked
for his thoughts by New York 1's Michael Scotto.
According to NY1, Grimm called the address
"divisive."
After Grimm finished answering what he thought was the last
question of the interview, which was conducted on a balcony of the U.S. Capitol
building, Scotto added, "And just finally before we let you go, since we
have you here: We haven't had a chance to kind of talk about some of
the..."
"I'm not speaking about anything that's
off-topic," Grimm interrupted. "This is only about the president's
speech tonight. Thank you."
He then walked away, and Scotto said, "So Congressman
Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning
his campaign finances. We wanted to get
him on camera on that but he, as you saw, refused to talk about that. Back to
you."
With the camera still rolling, Scotto suddenly looks up,
clearly startled.
"What?" Scotto asks.
And Grimm, again on-camera, though
off-mike, can be heard speaking to Scotto in a low voice.
Grimm says, "Let me be clear to
you, you ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this f-----g
balcony."
"Why?" Scotto says. "I just
wanted to ask you..."
In muffled cross-talk, Grimm is heard
again saying, "If you ever do that to me again..."
"Why? Why?" Scotto asks.
"It’s a valid question."
After more cross-talk, Grimm says,
"No, no, you're not man enough, you're not man enough. I'll break you in
half. Like a boy."
Grimm then walks away.
I know, I know.. sounds too good to be real, right? Let's check the videotape..
New study says Salt Lake City, not Providence, is least into the Bible
A study
from the American Bible Society purported to rank the
“Bible-mindedness” of 100 American cities last week, and based on how
often respondents read the Bible and how accurate they believe the good
book to be, it found Providence, R.I., and Bedford, Mass., to be the two
least “Bible-minded” cities in America. But that didn’t sit well with
the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island—and he’s not alone.
Sadly.. as expected.. the ABB have announced this is the end.. which was to be expected after Warren and Derek announced their departures. So, get out and seem em while you can.. and let's take a moment to reminisce about jams gone by..
Earlier today we posted about Gregg Allman's revelation that the Allman Brothers Band are calling it a career at the end of 2014. The Allmans have been a fixture of the jam scene since their return in 1989 and it's tough to imagine our neck of the music world without them. Yet we're happier to see them end on a high note than try to replace the unreplaceable Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes.
The Allman Brothers Band formed in 1969 and went on despite the losses of Duane Allman and
Berry Oakley until 1976. In 1979 the group re-formed, though they disbanded once again in
1982. However, from 1989 until 2014 they brought their music to new generations of fans.
We'll be rolling out tons of Allman Brothers Band-related content over the next few
months, but we want to start off with a three-part Through The Years feature. In
today's Part One we share a handful of YouTube clips featuring the Allmans in the '70s. As
you can imagine, there isn't much in the way of ABB footage from the '70s, yet what there
is must be seen by fans of the group. Check out rare video of Duane crushing "Mountain
Jam," audio of one of the few "Blue Sky's" featuring Skydog, footage from Berry Oakley's
last show, a bit of Saturday Night In Macon and Geraldo Rivera's feature on the
group from 1979:
And I hate to be lame.. but really can't help but acknowledge what everyone else has been acknowledging all week long. A little band from Liverpool, perhaps you've heard of them?
Forty-five years ago this month, on January 30, 1969, The Beatles performed live for the last time in their historic career. The quartet and guest keyboardist Billy Preston set up on the roof of Apple Studios on Savile Row in London as the climax of the Let It Be film they were producing. The band played for 42 minutes, 22 minutes of which were shot for the film and circulate on YouTube.
It's insane to think The Beatles not only stopped touring in 1966, but rarely played even
a song together outside of the studio during the last four years of their career. The
Rooftop Concert gives us a glimpse at what could've been had The Beatles toured behind
Let It Be. Paul McCartney was a big proponent of The Beatles returning to the
road
in '69, as he felt that was the only way to bring the warring factions of the band back
together. However, John Lennon was not looking to tour and won out in the end.
Watch The Beatles last live performance from 45 years ago this month:
((once again, click link above for videos..these damn sites are starting to figure out my scam.. guess they deserve the clicks though... enjoy!))
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