Wednesday, November 15, 2006

We do a bad ass impression of Dave Matthews

Thanks to MJ, and yes, we mean our friend MJ and not the one who used to slice the hearts out of Cleveland fans with sick fadeaways.

Aries Spears is pretty much the motherf*cking man. Where his dawgs at, indeed.

2 comments:

Old Man Snap said...

And now back to real news...

Seriously?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061115/D8LDF2L00.html

We remember sitting in our Intro. to Journalism class (!) as a junior in college, totally crushing on Julie Morrison, who was dreamy.

We had the lede written out.

Guilty. That's what a jury in...

Nevermind the hack junior year cutesy lede. He was found not guilty, you know.

So if he didn't do it like the jury said, then, wait, well, how would he know if he would have done it how it could have looked like if had had maybe done it, hypothetically speaking, of course.

Does anyone read the f*cking comments, anyway? Is the OJ really marketing a book about how he would have done it if he did it which he didn't do, of course?

Our head hurts.

Old Man Snap said...

And in more real news, there's this, from the Star-Ledger Web site:

Two former students accused of setting the fatal Seton Hall University dormitory fire reached a plea deal today that will allow them to plead guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Joseph T. LePore, 26, will get 16 months to 5 years in prison for pleading guilty to arson, tampering and a disorderly persons charge under the deal. Obstruction charges against his parents and sister will also be dismissed.

"I did not intend to harm anyone. It was a prank that got out of hand," LePore told the judge.

Sean Ryan, 26, will get the same jail term in exchange for pleading guilty to arson and witness tampering.

The pair will be sentenced Jan. 26.

The agreement came as opening arguments were set to begin in the long-awaited case. It has been nearly seven years since the early-morning fire swept through Boland Hall on the South Orange campus.

The fire killed three freshmen and injured 58 other students. LePore and Ryan were accused of setting fire to a paper banner draped over a couch in the lounge near their room.

The announcement that a last-minute plea deal was reached was made in a packed courtroom in the Essex County Courthouse in Newark.

The families of the three students killed in the fire filled two rows in the courtroom. They sat across the aisle from Ryan and LePore's somber-looking families.

LePore's mother and sister wiped away tears as he plead guilty before the judge.

LePore and Ryan each faced a minimum of 30 years in jail if convicted on felony murder, the most serious charge.

Their trial was originally set to begin Tuesday, but the judge sent home the jury before opening arguments began. The two sides spent much of the day negotiating a deal.

Contributed by Kelly Heyboer and Brian T. Murray