End of the Week: 09/18/11- 09/24/11

END OF THE WEEK:

Welcome back to The mj15 Blog's coverage of the best that was from the previous week that was! We've got a lot to cover this week, from executions of the innocents to big ratings for the undeserving, mullet contest winners to mugshot Hall of Famers. So, with that in mind, here we go:

Mugshots of the Week: Andy Huynh, Nicholas Kalscheuer and Nicholas Fiumetto of Covina, California
for these three glorious mugshots, each taken after the three of them were arrested Wednesday on charges of robbery, resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon after they stole a 30-pack of Tecate beer:










According to the Los Angeles Time's report of the story, the first man brought to justice was Kalscheuer (right) after he got knocked down by a few of the store's employees. After another employee successfully stopped the other two from driving away by jumping in front of the car's hoodie, Fiumetto was caught by two policemen running through an operating carwash while Huynh later turned himself in after authorities found an ID of his that he dropped. Both of them are in prison with $50,000 bail each at the moment, but that doesn't really matter. I mean just look at those mugshots, so awesome in many different ways, with Huynh for looking like the lead singer for an emo pop band, Fiumetto for looking like a spoiled twelve year old upset that mommy didn't give him "Gears of War 3" to go with the new XBOX-360 Kinect that she bought for his birthday, and Kalscheuer for looking as like a self-loathing trailer park resident. Should be interesting to see if their suburb kids boredom will bring them back in the penitentiary in the future.

Stories of the Week:
-The Actual Story of the Week: Troy Davis Executed After Appeal Denied by Supreme Court
This is just a story that just makes your blood boil and once again rethink the way the U.S.'s judicial system works. At around 11 p.m. Tuesday night, the 42 year old Davis was executed in a Georgia penitentiary after waiting over three hours for a a Supreme Court ruling which basically refused to postpone and/or reject his death row sentence. Twenty years earlier, Davis was convicted of murdering Mark Allen McPhail, a police officer. However, in the years since, seven of the nine witnesses that the prosecution used recanted their statements, saying that they were lying and that their previous testimony was due in part to intimidation from other police officers. Not only that, but there was no DNA evidence of fingerprints linking Davis to the scene of the crime. Maybe if she was a white brunette women, things would have been different. Either ways, may this man R.I.P., hopefully will now be in a better place than the one he was in for the past two decades.
- The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week: Irish Pensioner's Death in Fire Caused By Self-Combustion
I think I just found an cool idea for a limerick!

Internet Meme of the Week: First Place Mullet Winner- 1994
Why do I have a feeling that this little boy grew up to be a pawn shop owner?
















Break-up of the Week: R.E.M.
And somehow all teenagers of the '90s just died a little inside.

Video of the Week: "What Does It Feel Like to Fly Over Planet Earth?"
This just in: watching things from space is really cool.



Battle of the Week: Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney II in Thursday's Republican Presidential Debate
In response, former Utah governor John Huntsman and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum said that they were just happy to watch it all unfold in person.

TV Premiere of the Week: 'Two and a Half Men" with Ashton Kutcher
for attracting an average audience of 28 million curious viewers (the largest season premiere for any scripted show since the season 2 premiere of "Desperate Housewives" in 2005) during their season 9 premiere Monday, the show's first with new cast member Ashton Kutcher after former star Charlie Sheen was fired earlier this year because of...well, you know. In it, the show spent the episode's first ten minutes bashing and humiliating Sheen's character on the show, Charlie Harper, as a form of payback (giving him an closed casket funeral, a death by explosion and even appearances by several ex-girlfriend describing all the STDs he gave them) while the other twelve were spent complementing Kutcher's penis. It was cruel, it was crude, it had a lot of fart jokes; basically, it was a typical episode of "Two and a Half Men," just with a bearded Kelso from "That 70's Show."

Kutcher's debut also resulted in a major halo effect for the rest of CBS's comedy line-up, which included over 12 million viewers for the one-hour season premiere of "How I Met Your Mother" (the most watched episode of the show ever) and 19 million viewers for the series premiere of "2 Broke Girls" (the largest premiere ratings for any new comedy in the past ten years). Meanwhile, much better and smarter sitcoms like "Community" and "Parks and Recreations" could barely muster 4 million viewers for their season premieres. There's a point that I want to make of this, but quite frankly, I'm just too angry to think of one. Let's just hope that ratings for this show decreases continually within the coming months.

Persons of the Week: Fans of Autumn (like me!)
The best season of the entire year returned this Thursday, and all that comes with it. In entertainment, the first week of the 2011-2012 TV season began with the premieres of a ton of new network shows like "2 Broke Girls," "New Girl," "Revenge," "Person of Interest," "Prime Suspect," and "Whitney" (some better than others, obviously) and the return of some beloved favorites like "Community" and "Parks and Recreations" (mentioned above), "The Office" post-Steve Carell, "Fringe," and (later tonight) "Boardwalk Empire." In sports, the NFL is well into their season, and college football is just starting to heat up. Meanwhile, in baseball, we are in the final week of the regular season, and two of the eight playoff spots (the AL and NL wild cards) are still being determined, with the Boston Red Sox currently 1.5 games up on the Rays and the Braves 2 games up on the Cardinals. And in movies, all of the major and independent studios are beginning to bring out their top guns, releasing movies that they feel will be critically praised and possibly result in Oscar buzz in the months to come. It's the season changing leaves, Thanksgiving, and temperatures so nice that all you need to wear most of the time is a light jacket, and it's back in our lives, baby! POP POP!

-Runner-up: HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant
for making the ending to the Mayweather-Ortiz fight last Saturday night even more infamous with this trash-talking session to Mayweather after the fight, telling him that he wished he were 50 years younger so that he can kick his ass. The thing is, I see that Mayweather-Merchant fight happen more than I see the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.

And that's the way it was! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Now, here's some famous R.E.M. song to end the post in honor of the band's break-up.



Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15





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