However, Vucevic actually tested positive and was forced to miss time back in November. Thankfully, the veteran big man is vaccinated and did not experience severe symptoms but, in the middle of a recent pieces from Rolling Stone, it was revealed that Vucevic spent part of his COVID-19 quarantine experimenting with a collection of Legos.
Alone at his very large place, the two-time NBA All-Star — all six feet, ten inches and 280 pounds of him — pulled a box of Legos from an ignored drawer and began to build the Batmobile. And a Star Wars battleship. A bust of Darth Vader, too. Vučević responded to some emails and waited out a breakthrough.
Given that Vucevic suddenly had more time on his hands than a typical NBA player ever would in the middle of the season, reaching for Legos to pass the time makes complete sense. With that said, Vucevic previously spoke about his plan with regard to Legos and, well, his aim was mostly on post-retirement life.
It feels like a safe bet that Vucevic already has plenty of Legos that he hasn’t built and, even if he didn’t, he could assuredly find more in the world when he needs them. It is still quite a visual to picture a mountain of a man building Star Wars and Batman-themed Legos in the middle of an NBA season, but that is apparently what transpired earlier in 2021.
Earlier this month, Mary J. Blige announced that her 15th studio album, Good Morning Gorgeous will be out next year. The follow-up to 2017’s Strength Of A Woman, Blige is ready to leave a new mark on her storied career and said as much in a recent interview on the Tamron Hall Show:
“Wait till you hear it, it’s gonna blow everybody’s mind. And it’s because it’s something I had to do, and something I had to say when I was in my darkest, darkest moments in that life, to build myself up to this person that I can see and accept my nose, accept my eyes, accept my cheeks, accept all the things that I used to hate. When I wake up with no hair and makeup, I’m accepting that chick that goes to the bathroom and I like her. I hang out with myself a lot. I’m my own best friend.”
That statement could mean a lot of things, and it could certainly be concerning to some fans that perhaps the R&B star has been going through some serious things. But judging by the new video for “Amazing,” she’s clearly focused on living her best life as a means to avoid depressive spirals and we support this turn up wholeheartedly. Blige takes a turn towards rap instead of R&B on the track, getting braggadocious on lines like “My crib is so big I tell the guests to use a map,” and tipping a cap to her Italian wine brand saying “Where the drink, where the drink? Sun Goddess All Day!” The clip is pure opulence. Styled out in all diamond everything and DJ Khaled as her ultimate hype man, Blige delivers the goods in front of a gorgeous poolside estate.
Watch the video for “Amazing” above and catch Mary J. Blige performing at the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on February 9th.
Good Morning Gorgeous comes out 02/11/2022 via Mary Jane Productions/300 Entertainment
After nearly two years away, French Montana returned with his fourth album They Got Amensia, featuring a heavy cast of guest acts including Doja Cat, Saweetie, John Legend, Rick Ross, Kodak Black, Pop Smoke, Lil Durk, Fivio Foreign, Ty Dolla Sign, Latto, and more. After sharing a collection of videos for its songs, French keeps the streak alive with one for “Business.”
It finds French Montana sitting around a gambling table with a group of friends as they play for a big prize. The camera then pans around the room and returns to the table to show French making the game-winning move. He celebrates with those around him, but things take a dramatic turn as it transitions to him waking up in a hospital bed.
“Business” is the latest track from They Got Amnesia to receive the video treatment, joining “How You King?,” “Handstand,” “Bag Season,” and “Panicking.” French recently caused a bit of controversy by saying that it’s harder to be successful in rap than it is in the NBA.
You can watch the video for “Business” above.
They Got Amnesia is out now via Epic Records. Get it here.
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Last week, Alicia Keys dropped her album Keys. Her eighth studio album debuted at #41 on the Billboard 200 chart, which may not have met the expectations surrounding this much hyped release. But Keys has been on the promo path all week to spread the word about a mammoth double album that was accompanied by a short film and which features Pusha T, Brandi Carlile, Khalid and others. But what happened today may get her some more attention.
Keys jumped on a Twitter Spaces conversation with Rob Markman of Genius to promote the album. “…another MAJOR special guest texted me that they are jumpin’ in with us,” Keys tweeted just hours before the chat began. “Please don’t say we didn’t warn y’all,” Markman tweeted. And then moments before it began, Keys went out on a limb to tweet “This twitter spaces is about to be one of the most legendary conversations of the century.”
For those who heeded Keys and Markman’s alarm calls, they would have heard the illustrious Jay-Z hopping on the call for a solid hour and a half. That’s a feat in and of itself, considering Hov follows exactly 0 accounts on Twitter and gave up on Instagram quick. But there he was, chopping it up with Keys and even having the conversation pointed back at him. When Keys asked him if he’d ever do a Verzuz Battle, he basically said no.
“Ain’t nobody that can stand on that stage with me. I ain’t gonna lie, no disrespect. Everyone’s amazing, they’ve done what they’ve done. No one can stand on that stage with me. Theres not a shot. Theres not a chance in hell that anyone can stand on that stage for I don’t know how long it is? 2 hours? 2 hours….That’s ain’t gonna never happen. Let’s move on from Verzuz and move on to this Keys album.
Jay-Z even said all he would have to do is drop his elusive Hot 97 Grammy Freestyle on the Verzuz stage and it would be over right then and there. We won’t disagree. Regardless, Keys pulled the ultimate ace up her sleeve to promote her new album, and her husband Swizz Beats even got a little promo for that little Verzuz project of his. You can listen to a portion of the conversation below.
The 2022 Academy Awards are less than three months away. Shortlists for ten of the show’s categories were recently revealed, including the one for Best Original Song. Members of the music branch voted to reduce the initial group of 84 songs to the 15 that appear on the shortlist. Among those who made the cut are Jay-Z and Beyonce, the former for “Guns Go Bang,” his collaboration with Kid Cudi, the latter for her single “Be Alive.”
Beyonce’s “Be Alive” appears in King Richard, which features Will Smith as the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. Jay-Z’s “Guns Go Bang,” on the other hand, appears in The Harder They Fall, which he helped to executive produce. The song also marks Cudi’s second appearance on the shortlist, as “Just Look Up” from Don’t Look Up, his collaboration with Ariana Grande, is on the list, too. If he’s nominated, he would be the first songwriter in 36 years to be nominated multiple times with songs from two different films.
Hard to believe it’s almost been a year since Donald Trump whipped-up a crowd of his supporters, who then stormed the Capitol building, leading to five deaths. Since Jan. 6, the former president has hardly backed off his baseless claims of voter fraud. All the while, hundreds of supporters, from the QAnon Shaman to influencers to Bob’s Burgers voice actors, have seen their lives turned upside down, all while he does little but give ranty wedding toasts and fail at blogging. But he has big plans for that day’s first anniversary.
As per Insider, Trump released one of his glorified press statements that would have been a tweet storm had he not been banned from the service. In it, he railed against what he called the “Unselect Committee” of representatives investigating the lead-up to Jan. 6. There were also a lot of lies about the 2020 election, none of which were new.
But the big news was that he had a big event to ring in that time his violent fans tried, and failed, to overturn Democracy and hang his vice president. “I will be having a news conference on January 6th at Mar-a-Lago to discuss all of these points, and more,” Trump wrote. “Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on November 3rd, it was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged election that took place on January 6th.”
The news came shortly after Pennsylvania representative Scott Perry, a key player in Trump’s attempts to overturn the will of that state’s voters, became the latest crony to defy the Jan. 6 committee. Perhaps he too will follow in the footsteps of Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows, both of whom were held in contempt of Congress and may very well be jailbound.
In his press statement, Trump wondered why the Jan. 6 committee isn’t spending more time investigating the voter fraud claims that got him and his lawyers laughed out of dozens of courts, many of them Republican-led.
“Does anybody notice that they want to stay as far away from that topic as possible, the numbers don’t work for them, or even come close,” Trump wrote. “The only thing they can do is not talk about it. Look at what is going on now in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and, to a lesser extent, Michigan where the numbers are horrendously corrupt in Detroit.”
Perhaps Trump forgot that his own Homeland Security officials deemed the 2020 election the “most secure in history.”
Capybaras might be known as the world’s largest rodent, but they are also experts on the finer things in life. Especially the ones that reside in Japanese zoos, who every year get to soak in a warm, steamy, citrus-scented yuzu hot bath.
The Japanese tradition of bathing in yuzu (which looks like a lemon, but is not a lemon, it’s more like an orange disguised as a lemon), dates back thousands of years. Done in an onsen—or natural hot spring—on the day of the winter solstice, these baths were used to ward off evil, and colds. Double whammy.
Munskin.com delves into the science of yuzu’s health benefits a bit more, saying that the rinds carry a substance called nomilin, which promotes good circulation. Plus, with triple the amount of vitamin C as a lemon, maybe there’s something to this warding off a cold theory. Worst-case scenario, you come out with silky smooth skin and a relaxed mind.
Okay, enough science already, let’s see that capybara bath time!
Ahead of the winter solstice tomorrow, the capybara of Nasu Oukoku Zoo took their annual yuzu hot bath pic.twitter.com/IeYTnCWr8K
People visiting the zoos get to see these adorable plus-sized guinea pigs with their very own yuzu onsen on display, but seeing it on social media does wonders for the soul as well.
I think this person sums up the general consensus in their comment: “I aspire to be reincarnated as a Japanese capybara.”
I aspire to be reincarnated as a Japanese capybara.
These little bathers were even part of an experiment, according to Vice.com. Researcher Tohru Kimura and his team observed that 21 days of bathing did give dry-skinned capybaras a new dewy complexion.
This was more so to test the hot springs themselves, rather than the benefits of yuzu, but still, the science suggested that natural hot baths could have benefits for rodents and humans alike.
So there you have it. If ever you start to second guess your urge for a nice relaxing, hot bath, just think of those happy little capybaras. And remember that we can all stand for a little TLC now and then.
Those of us who are old enough to remember the world before we became completely dependent on the internet could never have predicted what life would be like now. Some of the things the internet has enabled us to do—wireless video chats with friends halfway around the globe, ordering food to be delivered to our door at the click of a few buttons, virtual support groups for every possible interest or ailment—were the stuff of imaginary, far-futuristic worlds, surely not realistic to expect in our lifetimes. (I mean, I figured we’d have flying cars before we’d have computers we could fit in our pockets, yet here we are.)
The 1990s were this weird in-between phase where the tech geeks were all about the .com world and tech-reluctant normies were all, “Gretchen, stop trying to make the internet happen. It’s not going to happen.” Once the internet started becoming popular, some people did try to predict how it would all turn out.
Some predictions were wrong. Ridiculously, hilariously wrong. And on the flip side, David Bowie, in his apparently infinite wisdom, was so spot on it’s almost scary.
Let’s look at a prediction that turned out to be embarrassingly off-base. Former Head of Strategy at Amazon Studios Matthew Ball shared a clip from the Daily Mail newspaper in the year 2000 with the headline “Internet ‘may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it.'”
Daily Mail 21 years agopic.twitter.com/urc1Wie3jA
— Matthew Ball (OOO) (@Matthew Ball (OOO)) 1639948210
“Researchers found that millions were turning their back on the world wide web, frustrated by its limitations and unwilling to pay high access charges,” it reads.
“They say that e-mail, far from replacing other forms of communication, is adding to an overload of information.”
(Go ahead and pause for maniacal laughter here.)
“Many teenagers are using the internet less now than previously, they conclude, and the future of online shopping is limited.”
Ah, the adorable, pre-Amazon naivete.
Even a counter to that piece written by one Jane Wakefield a few days later had some hilarious lines in it. While urging not to throw out the the baby internet with the bathwater, Wakefield wrote, “It should come as no surprise to us that people are failing to see the point of the Internet. If you don’t need access to a huge online encyclopaedia, if you don’t fancy trying to buy a cheapish CD online, if you don’t enjoy watching jerky videos of hardcore porn, then you might be right to question why you need a Net connection. Unlike TV (how many times have you heard the phrase “former TV watcher”) the Internet is still dispensable.
Except of course for email.”
BWAAHAAHHAAA. That’s right. The only indispensable part of the web in 2000 was e-mail, which in some ways feels like the most archaic part of the internet now. Too funny.
David Bowie, on the other hand, predicted the impact the internet would have on society in 1999 and totally nailed it.
He was so right in that we had barely seen the tip of the iceberg in 1999. He was also right in that the impact to society—both good and bad—was unimaginable. Exhilarating and terrifying. We’re living that now.
“The context and state of content is going to be so different to anything that we can really envisage at the moment,” he said. “Where the interplay between the user and the provider will be so in sympatico it’s going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about.”
Going back just a bit further, Matthew Ball also shared an op-ed from a 1995 Newsweek in which Clifford Stoll writes that he is “most uneasy about this trendy and oversold community” of the internet. Ball said it “reads exactly like Metaverse criticisms.”
This Newsweek OpEd from 1995 by Clifford Stoll (who also wrote the book Silicon Snake Oil) is equally delightful and reads exactly like Metaverse criticismspic.twitter.com/f6Xu2I7fEJ
— Matthew Ball (OOO) (@Matthew Ball (OOO)) 1640020159
Indeed, Stoll basically describes our current living situation with “telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms…electronic town meetings and virtual communities” and more as if it were some kind of absurdity.
And maybe it is. After all, he accurately described the other part of our current living situation, which is that “Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophony more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harassment, and anonymous threats. When everyone shouts, few listen.”
Wowsers. Yep. Good times.
So what did we learn here?
Don’t underestimate the future of technology. And always listen to David Bowie. The end.
Baby elephants are already adorable without having to do a thing. But watching them learn how to do things is extra adorable, and watching them learn how to use their own body is super extra adorable.
Like most four-legged creatures, elephants are able to walk within hours of birth. They have to be able to stand under their mother’s belly to breastfeed, and they have to be able to follow the herd as it moves around. Their trunk, however, is an entirely different story. Because they drink their mother’s milk exclusively for the first six months and still rely on her milk in addition to other foods for years afterward, they don’t have a need to use their trunk for eating right away. It takes time to learn how to wield that long dangly thing hanging from the front of their faces.
In fact, some baby elephants seem to “discover” their trunks much in the same way that human babies discover their hands and feet. Have you ever seen a baby suddenly look at their hands in amazement, moving them around with the first semblance of recognition that they are attached to their body? Watch these baby elephants doing the same thing with their trunks.
Cute Elephant Discovers Trunk
This little elephant looks like it’s trying to shake that thing off of its face. It even bops at it with its foot. You can almost see that moment of recognition when it realizes it’s actually attached and that it can move it around, however haphazardly. And then it just flings it up and down and around and around, sometimes trying to catch it in its mouth, sometimes trying to catch it with its foot. It’s so all over the place, it’s hilarious.
The ranger’s blog at South Africa’s Tintswalo Safari Lodge explains:
“At first, baby elephants don’t really know what to do with their trunks. It’s amusing to watch as the calves swing them to and fro and sometimes even step on them. They will stick their trunk in their mouth just as a human baby might suck its thumb. With more than 50,000 individual muscle units in the trunk, it’s a complex skill to learn.
By about 6 to 8 months, calves begin learning to use their trunks to eat and drink. By the time they are a year old, they can control their trunks pretty well and, like adult elephants, use their trunks for grasping, eating, drinking, bathing.”
This kiddo hasn’t quite gotten the hang of the whole eating with the trunk thing. Either that, or it’s showing off how well it can fling it around, but either way, it’s so dang cute.
Once they do learn to use them well, there’s almost nothing they can’t do with their trunks. As Katherine J. Wu writes in The Atlantic, “The trunk of an African elephant is an evolutionary marvel. Clocking in at weights well over 200 pounds, it ripples with thousands of individual muscles that help the superlong schnoz lift barbells, uproot trees, and fling bothersome lions into the air.” Wu shared that elephants can also pick up a tortilla chip—notoriously fragile—without breaking it.
“It’s a muscular multi-tool,” Georgia Tech engineer Andrew Schulz told Wu. “It pushes all of the extremes of what we understand animals to be able to do.”
Freaking amazing. All the more reason to protect our planetary home and the creatures we share it with.
The NFL has a rare two-game Tuesday night slate after a pair of divisional tilts from the weekend had to be rescheduled due to COVID-19 breakouts. On one coast, the Philadelphia Eagles are playing host to the Washington Football Team. On the other, the Los Angeles Rams are at home against the Seattle Seahawks.
That first game gave us one of the weirdest moments in the NFL this season. Philly faced a third-and-1 from its own 22 and opted to have Jalen Hurts throw the ball. It was an easy pitch-and-catch to his tight end Dallas Goedert, but Goedert couldn’t quite hold onto it. The ball looked like it hit the ground and Philly’s punt team came out onto the field.
The problem: The ball did not hit the ground. Instead, it somehow fell directly into the path of Goedert’s right heel. It went straight up into the air, and in one of the more impressive heads-up plays we’ve seen this year, Landon Collins was able to secure it for a pick.
Philadelphia got quite lucky, because if this was called a pick on the field, Collins could have walked his way into the end zone. Then again, Washington scored a few plays later, but hey, at least it wasn’t on a weird pick six.
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