“Hitting bottom never felt so good.”
Ol’ Dirty Omar

Michael K. Williams has signed on to play the Ol’ Dirty Bastard in the upcoming biopic Dirty White Boy.
via, avclub
Weekend Watching: Japan’s Children of the Tsunami
A BBC documentary using interviews with children to describe the March 2011 Tsunami/Nuclear Radiation disaster in Japan.
Morning Dose of Music and Murder
On the 15th anniversary of his death, we look back at an ABC Primetime special on Biggie Smalls.
The First Climate-Induced Relocation of a Country

Rising sea levels have forced the Pacific nation of Kiribati into negotiations to buy land in Fiji.
note: in the picture above is a seaweed farm.
Random Good News From a Coal Mine in China

A Permian period forest was found fully intact after being buried in ash around 298-million years ago in a region near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, China.
The Woman Who Fell To Earth

About a year ago Vice interviewed Juliane Koepcke, the lone survivor of a 1971 plane crash in Peru. The resulting read is fascinating.
via, @fucknfilthy
The Final Piece in the David Choe Media Puzzle
NMA gets involved.
Round and Round He Goes

Because of a CCTV operator, an undercover cop in England chased himself around for a while.
From the Daily Mail:
“The CCTV operator soon had the suspect on camera and everywhere he saw the male the keen PC was on his heels – radioing in to say he was in the same street… Every time the man darted in to another side alleyway, the PC was turning immediately into the same alleyway, but every time the CCTV operator asked what he could see there was no trace.”
Six Toe Joe

The polydactyl Somali pirate who’s been called “the modern day Long John Silver” was nabbed by the Royal Navy along with 13 others in the Indian Ocean.
Holla Back

Chinese shipping magnate Hu Zhen Yu bought a Dutch pigeon at auction for roughly $330,000, making it “The World’s Most Expensive Pigeon.” Wonder if he’s gonna get Iron Mike to train them?










