On The Beat- Wednesday, April 1, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…
By Mr. Curmudgeon
Kurt Cobain's left-handed 60 Fender Mustang guitar used in the Smells Like Teen Spirit video sold for $6.907 million at a Christie's auction...and then the buyer smashed it*… Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old grandmother from Carter County, TN, was wrongfully imprisoned for over five months after an Al facial recognition system mistakenly linked her to a bank fraud case in North Dakota... A similar incident happened to a man in the UK for a burglary in a city he never visited...Back to the future…AI is all fun and games under it accuses you of being the Zodiac…Evidence has surfaced that Prince Harry got caught sending corny Facebook messages to Daily Mail journalist, Charlotte Griffiths, back in 2011-12. That is a long time ago? Prince Harry the bald one? I guess now that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are living in L.A., there is nothing to report about in Old Blighty...C.B. Bucknor's horrific missed call in the Brewers vs. Rays game is part of what is leading the MLB down the road of robotic umping. Last night the long-time umpire missed the easiest call of the yea, signaling Milwaukee's Jake Bauers out at first base for not touching the bag after a botched infield throw to first on a routine ground ball. However, Bauers did touch the bag and everyone in the stadium except Bucknor saw it. The missed call was quickly challenged and overturned…A UFO from Planet Nine has returned to take Bucknor “home” for repairs…Space X is working with 21 banks to fine-tune the mega IPO that could value at $1.75 trillion and raise Musk around $75 billion……Tiger pleads not guilty to 2nd DUI despite a pocket full of oxy…Shohei Ohtani soda cup selling for $68.99, which will be worth like 47,695,850 yen in 10 years…One of my two favorite actresses, Phoebe Tonkin, from Vampire Diaries, has a new show coming out, a Rom-dram-com called Two Years Later, I shall watch it. She got married last year. I personally think that, I too, would have been a good catch, nonetheless I am happy for her…Zendaya may or may not have married Tom Holland in a secret…which is smart to keep a secret, though it kind of isn’t because people get weird…A creepy night stalker weirdo was arrested by Police sneaking around Nicki Minaj’s property…when we hear about someone getting stalked we can't help but think about Salena Quintanilla-Perez, John Lennon, Rebecca Shaeffer, Gianni Versace, Christina Grimmie, and Dimebag Darrell. Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham was also recently attacked by a stalker in L.A.. Do people have nothing better to do? I’m all for robot tyrannosaurus rex security guards with detect infrared radiation sensory capability and hearing like a wax moth who is able to disarm intruders without worries of guilt or prosecution…In Lexington, KY, a man who won $167.3 million in April 2025, was reportedly arrested for breaking into a woman’s home and stealing $12,000 in cash. But why? How is it possible to so off the beaten path that you simply can’t change?…Artemis II successfully launched at 6:35 pm., today for a 10-day journey around the moon and back. Launching it would get up to 1,200 mph. A landing on the moon, with a handful of Go Pros and body cam videos would have been seriously worth the expense. I wonder why that was not factored into the equation? I doubt I’m the only one…Brad Pitt’s Los Angeles home was ransacked during a burglary. That place should be a fortress. In California it is probably against the law to have high tech security and deadbolt locks on the doors…Lawmakers set an April 14th deadline for the release of dozens of classified UFO videos held by the Department of Defense. I wonder how many years that goes back, and if the UFO I saw in 1983 will be part of that release? Those of us interested in this release are sitting on the edge of our seats. We are hoping for actual transparency. If only there were videos of say, the Nuremberg aerial battle that took place in the 16th century. There are so many questions. Why is it so secretive? For that we need an explanation. Either money or the security of civilization has to be a factor. It is not just, well because. That doesn’t make the nut. Why really is known? And if nothing, just give us specifics. The whole clandestine nonsense is old. It reminds me of Marilyn Monroe’s murder. Everybody was tapping her phones and watching her movements and for what, because she had some inside knowledge of that loser Castro? Nothing’s changed, the island is still a wreck, all these years later. What came of all the secrets? Nothing. Nothing at all. You want me to tell you what it is all about? People who want the citizens of America to think what they do 1.3matters, that they collect hundreds of thousands of dollars a paycheck for a reason. If it did matter, it wouldn’t be so wishy washy. Take a walk…
*The buyer of Cobain’s guitar didn’t actually smash it. April Fools!…