Radiohead Still Oddly Silent Over Beefs With Hold Steady and Silver Jews: On Sunday, bespectacled, cirrhosis-livered Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler set off a music-blog firestorm by brutally slagging off Radiohead during an interview with BBC’s Radio 6. “I think they’ve lost the plot,” he said. “I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don’t really care for. I’m a fan of rock music, and what they’re doing now I don’t think is very good.”
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The first Olympian disqualified for doping
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall (born July 9, 1941) is a Swedish modern pentathlete who caused the disqualification of the Swedish men’s team at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City for his alcohol use. Liljenwall was the first athlete to be disqualified at the Olympics for drug use, following the introduction of anti-doping regulations by the International Olympic Committee in 1967.
Liljenwall reportedly had “two beers” to calm his nerves before the pistol shooting portion of the modern pentathlon. The Swedish team eventually had to return their bronze medals.
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My friend Eric snapped this picture of The Daily Show billboard that is up near 494 and 77 to welcome those in for the RNC.
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