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This Guy is Quickly Gaining on Basil Marceaux for a Place in My Heart

I flew JetBlue down to North Carolina this week. The flight attendant that graciously catered to me offered a cold Coca-Cola (the whole can!) and a bag of animal crackers (the lady next to me also offered her Star magazine and told me I smelled better than her sisters, but that really has nothing to do with this story). There was no turbulence, and everyone on the plane obediently followed the pilot’s fasten-your-seatbelts sign.

However, this was NOT the case on a JetBlue flight into JFK yesterday, where flight attendant Steven Slater became so enraged at a passenger that he yelled obscenities into the loudspeaker of the plane, stole two beers, deployed the plane’s emergency blow-up slide, escaped the aircraft by sliding down said slide and went home to his house in Queens, all the while fist-pumping and yelling “suck on that!” Ok, the last part I made up.

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So I Guess We Can Forget About That Fugees Reunion

Just because you make music with someone doesn’t mean they think you are qualified to be president.

That’s what former Fugee Pras revealed in a statement yesterday regarding other Fugee Wyclef’s run for the presidential seat in Haiti.

“I endorse Michel Martell[y] as the next president of Haiti,” the statement reads, “because he is the most competent candidate for the job.”

Settle down Pras. Wyclef has been preparing for this his whole life. He’s the “Perfect Gentleman” for the job and will be “Gone ’til November” campaigning on the platform that “Two Wrongs Don’t Make it Right.

Let’s just hope “If I Was President” isn’t in anyway foreshadowing Wyclef’s future: “If I was president, I’d get elected on Friday, assassinated on Saturday, and buried on Sunday.”

Word on the street is Sean Penn is anti-Wyclef too. Could Sean Penn become the next Fugee? Where is Lauyrn Hill when you need her?

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But if You Can See Into the Future…

You don't take warnings very well.

…shouldn’t you have known this was coming?

According to the Southampton Press, a Hamptons-based tarot-card reader, who runs her business out of her home in Water Mill, filed a report with the Southampton Town Police last week charging that a “rival tarot-card reader” had harassed and threatened her while at her home.

The woman told police that her rival – who is described as having “dark hair and a gold tooth” (as well as an eyepatch and peg leg, oh no wait, I made that up) – came to her home under the pretense of wanting a tarot-card reading. Once she had entered the home, the rival allegedly told the woman that she doesn’t “take warnings very well,” and threatened to cut out her tongue if the woman didn’t take down her signs and close her business.

According to police reports, there is an ongoing dispute between the woman and her rival tarot-card reader, who she “doesn’t know but often sees at carnivals and festivals around the area.” Apparently the two had a “verbal confrontation” a few weekends ago in Amagansett.

Ok, three things. One, who makes enough money reading tarot cards to live in Water Mill? And where do I sign up for that job? Two, usually when I get in fights with people at the local carnival, I don’t do their tarot-card reading a week later. And three, this woman should just do her own reading and she what card she gets, then she’ll know how this thing is going to play out. Anecdote! In college, my Spanish professor read tarot cards on the Cape during the summer, and a few times we had to do our own readings in Spanish. I always, ALWAYS got the sword/skull of death – la espada de muerta?? So far, that thing’s been pretty spot on.

I don’t know about you guys, but I think these crazy kids are gonna work this out.

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