Meeting Look-a-Like

I just had a presentation to make at work and we probably had about 40 people in the room.  Sitting dead center was this guy that was a dead ringer for Kevin Spacey  and it was totally distracting.  At first I was like, "Wow, that dude looks like Kevin Spacey."  By the end of the presentation, I had convinced myself that it was Kevin SPacey and was really trying hard to be an impressive speaker.  During Q&A, bizarro Kevin asked a question and while the tone of his voice was very similar, he clearly hailed from a Western European country (but Kevin Spacey IS AN ACTOR, HE COULD TOTALLY PULL THAT OFF!!!!).  

It ends up it wasn't him, but I was talking to him after everything was done and it could have been a brother or a cousin and it totally threw me off.

-Big Ran

Proof There Is a God

Rolling Stone -  It took Perry a while to learn to embrace her body. "I started praying for [breasts] when I was, like, 11," she says. "And God answered that prayer above and beyond, by, like, 100 times, until I was like, 'Please, stop, God. I can't see my feet anymore. Please stop!' I was a lot more rectangular then. I didn't understand my body. Someone in sixth grade called me 'Over-the-shoulder boulder holder.' I didn't know I could use them. So, what I did was, I started taping them down. How long did I tape them down for? Probably until I was about 19. And, no, I don't have any psychological pain because of it."

I'm not trying to get religious on The Takeover, but just in case anyone was on the fence about a higher power, maybe this pushes you over the edge.  Not sure.  Maybe it was just the power of positive thinking.  Whatever it is, they are real and they're SPECTACULAR!

-Big Ran

Thomas Continues to Own Luongo

Hell yeah, Tim Thomas.  A congrats to Luongo was not only classy, but probably pissed Roberto off and caused more riots in Vancouver.  Also, the fact that he is still rocking the 70s stache because his daughter likes it is fantastic.  When you're that good, you can crush a stache and not have to explain it to anybody.

Did everyone know that "Vezina" is German for whale's vagina?  Stay classy, Tim Thomas, stay classy.

-Big Ran

Whitey Busted in Santa Monica

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CBS/AP) — Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger was captured near Los Angeles after spending the last 16 years on the run during an epic manhunt that served as a major embarrassment to the FBI and made the fugitive a global sensation as he constantly found a way to elude authorities.

The FBI finally caught the 81-year-old Bulger Wednesday at a residence in Santa Monica along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig just days after the government launched a new publicity campaign to locate the fugitive mobster, said Steven Martinez, FBI’s assistant director in charge in Los Angeles.

The arrest was based on a tip from the campaign, he said.

However, television ads from the campaign did not run in the Los Angeles area, but they were seen in San Diego and San Francisco.

The FBI had been conducting a surveillance operation in the area where the arrest was made, said police Sgt. Rudy Flores, who gave no details of the arrest.

So, after 16 years, Whitey Bulger has finally been brought to justice along with his ride-or-die bitch, Catherine Greig.  I've lived in MA most of my life, and I feel as though Whitey has become this sympathetic hero over his time on the run.  It seems as though people started to believe the tails that he was the Robin Hood of Southie.  This dude killed at least 19 people, was responsible for all the drugs in Southie and diddled little girls, and other mobsters hated him because he ratted them out to the feds.  Have fun in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.   

-Big Ran