Alberto and Alejandro Jiménez were more than brothers: They were colleagues, having worked together on the Mexican midget wrestling circuit, and they were friends, having enjoyed the services of prostitutes together in a low-rent hotel rooms.
The brothers’ story, however, took a grim turn earlier this week when they were found dead in a Mexico City hotel room. It’s believed that they were poisoned by the prostitutes they’d hired.
Read about the tragic comedy – or is it comic tragedy? – in the Daily Mail.
It’s bad enough that Jason Bay, one of the all-time best Canadian baseball players, is on the Boston Red Sox. Yesterday the Trail, BC-born outfielder became a full-fledged U.S. citizen. We can’t blame Bay for wanting to vote in his adopted country, but wouldn’t he save a bunch of trouble if he just joined the Toronto Blue Jays? Come home, Jason.
Russian gas giant Gazprom has merged with Nigeria’s state-run NNPC, creating a conglomerate known as…Nigaz.
Though the name is meant to be pronounced nye-gaz, the webosphere has been buzzing about the racist-sounding potential pronunciation. Impromptu Facebook groups like Nigerians No Nigaz are lobbying for a name change, but those calling the shots seem happy to wait for the furor – and dumb jokes – to disappear.
We’re all for Hollywood adaptations of video games. Without them, we’d have no Resident Evil, and more importantly, no Lara Croft. But an adaptation of “Asteroids”? Now that seems like a stretch.
The classic game, as you recall, consists of shooting one-dimensional asteroids with a white line, representing a gun, at the bottom of the screen. There are no characters. There is no plot. It’s like adapting “Pong.”
Producers are clearly banking purely on the nostalgia factor to get guys out to theatres; until Universal landed the rights, four major studios had been bidding for them.
A naked video of SI swimsuit model Bar Refaeli has surfaced online. The vid’s provenance is unknown; its merits too obvious to state. Only one question remains: Is Bar Refaeli the most beautiful woman on earth?
See stills from the NSFW video, or watch the whole thing, at the Superficial.
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