Fun fact, enough time has passed that the Diamond Casino, introduced in 2019, has been in GTA Online longer than the original casino that stood before it.
October 13th 2013 - July 23rd 2019 (2122 days)
July 23rd 2019 - June 11th 2026 (2516 days)
Last thoughts on Karmelo Anthony before he disappears for a long time:
- The defense only called 6 witnesses and rested abruptly
- The only person to speak on his behalf during the punishment phase was his mother.
- The defense didn’t even think to prepare him to testify on his own behalf
Additionally, there were no teachers, counselors, church members, etc. willing to discuss his character in court and plead for him to have another chance at life. Nobody could vouch he was really a good kid and was going to be a contributing member of society someday.
The jury heard closing statements, deliberated, found him guilty, then completed the punishment phase all in one day.
In other words, there was no way to adequately defend or humanize this animal.
Forever Rowdy.
Kyle Busch has been added to our Pocono Walk of Fame.
8 NASCAR National Series Wins at Pocono.
2-Time Cup Series Champion.
All-Time winningest NASCAR National Series Driver.
Thank You for the memories, Kyle - You will be missed.
Anthony Bourdain had what looked like the best job on the planet. He got paid to roam the world eating whatever he wanted, and strangers everywhere told him things they would never tell a reporter. Eight years ago today, he died by suicide at 61.
For almost thirty years before any of that, he was a cook nobody had heard of, working long hot shifts for little money. He was in his forties when he wrote a book spilling the secrets of what really goes on behind restaurant doors, and almost overnight, the unknown cook became a star.
What made him different was that he never faked it. Other travel hosts smiled at pretty views and pretended to love everything. Bourdain sat on plastic stools in back alleys and ate exactly what the people there ate. Then he got them talking about their real lives, and they trusted him enough to tell him the truth.
He went to places most shows stayed away from, like the Congo, Gaza, Iran, and New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He once ate noodles at a tiny plastic-table joint in Vietnam with a sitting US president. His show Parts Unknown ran for twelve seasons and won a dozen Emmy Awards along with a Peabody, the top prize in broadcasting. It made a food show feel like real reporting on the world.
His death was so shocking because of the gap between the life everyone saw and the life he was actually living. Here was the guy who looked freer than anyone on TV, doing the job millions of people dreamed about, and the pain underneath was almost invisible to the people around him. He had actually talked about it in the open: on camera he once described how something as small as a bad meal could drop him into days of feeling low, and he had written about his heroin addiction from when he was young. None of it fit the cheerful, curious man people thought they knew.
He died just days after the designer Kate Spade died the same way, and that week, calls to the national crisis line jumped 65 percent. The conversation that followed kept circling one hard fact: the life you envy from the outside can be sitting right on top of pain you cannot see. What he left behind is bigger than any of the awards. He taught a whole generation that the fastest way to understand a stranger is to sit down and eat what they eat.