Comedian Katt Williams was arrested outside of Atlanta, Georgia overnight, following an incident that resulted in charges of burglary and criminal trespassing.
A deputy at the Coweta County jail, about 40 miles south of Atlanta, has confirmed that Williams remains in custody this morning (November 9).
No additional details about the incident were released. The arrest comes a year after Williams was arrested in New York City on weapons charges.
Last year, Williams, was in New York for his debut performance at Carnegie Hall, which was scheduled for November 6.
My second piece as the editor of the Job of a Lifetime (JOAL) column in College & Research Libraries News became available online yesterday! For my first column back in June, I interviewed Brian Mathews about his job as the User Experience Librarian at Georgia Tech.
This time, I had the chance to interview not one, not two, but three very talented Emerging Technologies Librarians from Towson University. Carrie Bertling Disclafani, David Dahl, and Carissa Tomlinson were all hired at the same time and have been working on some interesting projects, including some new mobile services. Check it out!
Job of a Lifetime – Emerging technologies at Towson University: The hat trick
ACRL Podcast – Job of a Lifetime – Emerging Technologies
Once again, C&RL News Editor David Free kindly edited the podcast for us. A huge thank you goes out to Carrie, David and Carissa for their flexibility and quick turnaround time for the column and podcast! Emerging technologies librarianship is a field/position that varies widely from institution to institution, so it was nice to hear what exactly it means at Towson. I’m adding a link to LibraryTechTalk (the blog that Carrie, David & Carissa coauthor on the use of new technologies in academic librarianship) to my blogroll and you should too!
Do you have the job of a lifetime? I’ll be starting the next interview shortly, so if you think so, contact me. Enjoy & feel free to leave comments!
Here is the final results of the World Series of poker Europe Event #2 Pot Limit Holdem/Omaha. Winner is Full Tilt Pro Erik Cajelais.
1.
Erik Cajelais
£104,677
2.
Mats Gavatin
£64,705
3.
Robin Keston
£47,858
4.
Men Nguyen
£35,412
5.
Richard Gryko
£26,619
6.
Chris Bjorin
£20,106
7.
Hoyt Corkins
£15,302
8.
Ian Frazer
£11,732
9.
Howard Lederer
£9,117
10.
Nikolay Evdakov
The whole concept of this post came from someone who stumbled on my blog by searching for those exact terms “reasons why hockey players make bad boyfriends”. I saw it and thought, “Damn, that’d be a good topic for a post!”
I have never dated a hockey player, but I have had my fair share of experiences involving them. These are just my reasons why I think they would make bad boyfriends and why I might joke about the whole stay at home girlfriend thing, but I would probably never want to date one (I say probably because you should never say never).
I’m sure there are a bunch of reasons, but I’m just going to pick a few.
1. They’re not a faithful Labrador Retriever. I have seen and heard plenty of stories about unfaithful hockey players. Almost to the point of thinking, “wow, are there any who don’t cheat?” To which someone once replied, “very few.”
2. They travel frequently. Hockey players travel a lot. How much and what kind of travel depends on the schedule and the league. In some European leagues (I can’t speak for them all) I’ve heard where they never stay over night. When they travel, sometimes the team arrives in town a day early or stays a day late. Depending on travel situations. Think about this: guys away from their wife/girlfriend for days at a time, late nights out with their teammates, drinking, eager and willing girls everywhere. Where do you think #1 happens the most? That’s right. Also, they travel a lot. I don’t know about you, but I would hate for the person I ‘love’ to be gone frequently. Not saying we have to be together 24/7 (we’re not Bert and Ernie), but I can imagine it would be lonely to have a significant other being gone all the time.
3. Uncertain future. The chances of your hockey boy making it to the big time are slim. You could spend his career traveling around year after year to different destinations. Which leaves a wife or girlfriend no time to do anything on their own. Imagine blowing into a new town and getting into something you love doing, only to leave it a few months later to go back home during the summer. Oh, you think you’ll just come back next year and pick up where you left off? Yeah, not so much because your boy has signed in another city or league.
4. I hope you like guys with the smile of a jack-o-lantern and the body of a bruised peach because while hockey players can have excellent bodies (#KyleWellwoodIsSoFat), their bodies also take a beating. Looks aren’t the most important thing, but let’s be honest, they matter. No matter how pretty your boy might be now, just think of how he could look after getting beat down by another guy. You like guys with missing teeth, black eyes, stitches, bruises, compound fractures and shattered cheekbones (from a puck in the face)? I know what is broken can be fixed, but if you’re looking for your pretty, little metrosexual guy; a hockey player might not be it.
5. Ego. A lot of them have enormous egos that make them think they’re the world’s greatest thing. If you can handle that ego and put it in check, then good for you. I get annoyed with ego and have no time for it so I ignore it. At the same time, when that ego and player have a bad game, be prepared for a grouchy, Mr. Crankypants.
6. You have to take a lot of criticism. Not just from fans when your boy isn’t doing well, but from other girls. They may or may not want your man, but they will cut you down either way. I’m a girl and I’ll be the first to admit that girls are catty, jealous bitches. Which is why I’m not friends with a lot of them.
So, that’s it. I am not dissing wives or girlfriends or anything like that. I have no problem with them as they’ve never done anything to me. So I’m not a jealous puckbunny looking to start drama. I’m just saying that life as a wife or girlfriend isn’t probably what everyone thinks it is.
It takes a certain type of person to date/be married to someone in that life. A lot of girls probably think it’s great. That it’s Louis Vuitton’s, designer clothes, partying all the time, and people knowing who you are (I still don’t get for the life of me why some people think being with a hockey player gives them status. Hockey players get dressed one leg at a time. They burp and fart just like you and me. Don’t lie, you fart too).
Sharing a meal with family and friends can be one of the most wholesome and enjoyable of experiences.
An Austin, Texas couple decide to share their morning breakfast with the rest of us.
Hat tip, Bits And Pieces.
Breakfast In Texas with wild Deer
December 29, 2008
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Margaret, I got a lot of crap. How about you? If it’s the thought that counts then I want to know what some of my family members were thinking? Candles and exotic soaps are gifts that tell me the giver didn’t give much thought. To all my loved ones: Please stop buying me things for the sake of buying me things. In the future, bake me something nice and if you don’t bake, a hug will do just fine. And for the record, Harold hasn’t done anything that requires a screw driver set for almost twenty years. We have people for that now. And speaking of people…
Welcome back everyone. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. We had a lovely time with family stopping by for long overdue visits. It was even good to see the vegetarians, but I couldn’t get them to try some stuffing. Honestly, how can someone not like bacon? It just doesn’t make any sense.
But I was so happy to see my nephew home from Iraq. At least that is where I think he’s been. As a member of the special forces, he can’t tell me what he’s been up to. Instead he gave me a hug and told me he’s been getting the bad guys. I hugged him back and held my tongue because I support the troops.
Support the troops. You know saying those words takes about as much energy as putting one of those god awful yellow ribbon stickers on your car. It’s meaningless unless you follow it with action. When dealing with war, it’s more than the thought that counts.
If you want to support the troops then you do everything you can to work for peace. You march… you write letters to your editor… you call your elected officials…. and you teach your children that bad guys are rarely found on the field of battle.
When it comes to war the real bad guys are usually hundreds of miles away surrounded by men with money to gain and power to loose. It’s a shame that the guns are almost never aimed at the bad guys. But I understand why the army has to convince my nephew and other soliders to see it that way. I imagine it would be hard to pull the trigger if you realize the guy you’re aiming at is probably just like you. Yep. You don’t win many wars that way. Instead you have to turn “us” into “them” and “we” into “they”. It’s hard to hate people. It’s much easier to just hate a country or a regime. It’s hard to kill someone’s son or father or brother, but pulling a trigger when you are aiming at a terrorists… well that’s another story entirely. You know, I can’t help but wonder what color the ribbons are in Irag. I mean you realize that mothers in Iraq support the troops too, don’t you?
So my New Year’s resolution was going to be to stop calling Sarah Palin a bitch and to kiss and make up with George W. Bush. But you know what they say about New Year’s Resolutions… they’re too easily broken. Besides Sarah ” I see terrorists” Palin is a bitch. And the only kiss that will ever happen between me and George W. Bush will be when his lips meet my ass.
So let’s see if we can all come up with a better resolution. One that we can actually keep and one that is in keeping with the spirit of this blog. For me, in 2009, I resolve to point the gun at the bad guys…starting with myself.
I have no idea if my little rants on this internet have had any type of positive impact, but I cannot point the gun at Palin and Bush without blaming myself as well. I sat by for eight years when I should have been getting active every day in our politcal system. It’s the only way democracy works. So until they put me in a rest home, I’ll be watching – and writing. I voted for Obama, but that doesn’t mean I gave him a free pass. And I’m pretty sure we haven’t seen the last of that moose hunter in heels. Trust me, I’ve learned my lesson. There will always be bad guys – at home and abroad.
So Happy New Year everyone. Leave your New Year’s Resolution before you go and make it one you can keep. Thanks for stopping by again. I mean it. Really.
Once upon a time, there was a wireless carrier named Verizon and something that can only be described as an internet overlord named Google.
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Google had just been through a rough divorce, but was already on the mend and out on the town, looking for some action.
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Verizon, long having the reputation of being self-centered and a giant pain in the ass (albeit the nation’s most reliable pain in the ass), met Google, and immediately decided to change it’s selfish ways, proving it’s love by showering the world with Android devices that totally work with Google Voice and aren’t all closed off and stuff.
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The iPhone was lonely.
(I love happy endings).
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I may be biased in my extreme excitement about this because I have turned down the possibility of an iPhone, and really want an Android, but this really is meaningful to the world. Not only will Verizon have some not-completely-sucky phones, but they are totally on board with the whole “open” platform thing, including Google Voice. Which for Verizon is quite a shock – they usually mess with all their phones so you get the worst experience ever. They’ve done a complete 180, and the world should be excited – because Verizon just became the best wireless carrier, hands down.
