Good morning. May your Thursday be brief and breezy, and haunted not by Wednesday's ghosts. (After you haunt yourself a little with these ones here, I mean.)
Lose a Batman, gain a witch: Tampa Bay Comic Con has filled the void left by Val Kilmer's cancellation with an appearance by Rose McGowan, who's known for everything from Doom Generation and Jawbreaker to Scream and, of course, Charmed. But to us, she'll always be Cherry With The Machine Gun Leg from Planet Terror. I'll be in my bunk.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it has identified the assholes in a video showing said assholes laughing as they drag a shark behind a boat at a high rate of speed, torturing the animal to death for fun. "Who cares? It's just a shark," said some people whom, given that's the only thing I know about them, I must assume are also assholes.
And finally, a Pinellas man arrested last month and charged with stealing from the seniors over whom he was given power of attorney had his bond refused after his call from jail telling family members to move funds from those suspect business accounts into their personal accounts was recorded by the jailhouse phone system. As are all phone calls from jail. As the jail phone actually tells every single person who uses the jail phone, right when they start to use the jail phone. Did he think people hid burner cell phones up their butts so they could play Candy Crush Saga after lights out?
This article appears in Jul 27 – Aug 3, 2017.