Credit: Brad Gregg First it was Lil Wayne, who took his “I didn’t get a courtside seat” rants to Twitter during last season’s NBA playoffs. Now the anti-Thunder grousing comes from Michael Balzary, better known as Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and an adamant L.A. Lakers fan. Evidently, Flea was denied access to […]
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Tishomingo blues
Credit: Brad Gregg On Sept. 18, the platinum-selling singer-songwriter posted, “If you live in Tishomingo Ok., our dog Loretta has been missing for 2 days. She is a small black lab. She has a pink collar w a tag.” A longtime champion of our four-legged friends, Lambert started the nonprofit MuttNation, which raises funds for […]
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Tweet fleet
Kevin Durant OKC Thunder überstar @KDTrey5 Number of followers: 2.28 million Did you know Durant follows: Entertainers, basketballers, models, celebrities. Follow him or forget it: Follow. You’ll have to wade through some serious jargon, Twitterspeak and inside jokes, but let’s face it: You love Kevin Durant, and you’ll put up with it because he can […]
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Tweet tweet
Credit: Brad Gregg One such faux Twitter account appeared shortly after Mustang-based Tate Publishing inadvertently found itself a viral sensation when an audio recording surfaced of its CEO, Ryan Tate, firing 25 employees — but not before calling them “stupid” and “morons.” Like a snarky phoenix rising from the ashes, @TaintPublishing emerged to unleash such […]
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CFN’s favorite recent tweets by lil wayne (@liltunechi) not
Credit: Brad Gregg 2. “Vampire sesh” 3. “Nino.” 4. “Fuk pusha t and anybody that love em” 5. “Bron Bron went ham”
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CFN’s favorite recent tweets by lil wayne (@liltunechi) not
Credit: Brad Gregg 2. “Vampire sesh” 3. “Nino.” 4. “Fuk pusha t and anybody that love em” 5. “Bron Bron went ham”
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Wayne’s whiny world
“Again I was treated like sh!t by the Thunder arena staff…dam..I hope da Heat beat da dog sh!t out em!!” he wrote about his time at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. The tweet marks Lil Wayne’s latest grousing about the Thunder. The hip-hop star tried unsuccessfully to sit courtside in Oklahoma City for Game 3 of […]
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Hasty release
Credit: Brad Gregg At this point, we’ve all learned never to open an @waynecoyne-issued Twitpic while at work, or in the presence of children and/or the particularly religious. Living with the possibility of accidentally glimpsing a 51-year-old man’s nether regions has been accepted as part of the local flavor. Coyne’s disregard for modesty and need […]
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Lil’ unprepared
Credit: Brad Gregg But the problem, according to a Thunder spokesman, was pretty simple: Lil Wayne didn’t have a ticket. The Thunder contended that the rapper only wanted to sit in the front row, but that no tickets — least of all the Nicholson seats — were still available. Did Lil Wayne have a special […]
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Super sizing
Credit: Brad Gregg KWTV Channel 9’s Gary England and KFOR-TV Channel 4’s Mike Morgan batted around the usual, tiresome comparisons: quarter-sized, golf ball-sized, baseball-sized, softball-sized. Yawn. Morgan briefly livened things by suggesting some of the hail was grapefruit-sized, but we took a look outside and think he got his grapefruits and clementines confused. But then […]