Month: January 2022

Yellowjackets, an intense survival epic and psychological horror story, is the show to watch and theorize about. There are two timelines (and they are less confusing than The Witcher timelines because they’re spaced 25 years apart) with two stellar sets of castmates, and even though the subject matter is often gruesome, you won’t want to look away from the screen.

People are captivated by the mystery what happened to the high-school soccer team and how the teens transformed into savages. There’s a sprinkling of supernatural happenings throughout and plenty of mystery left open in the season finale. And Showtime already announced in mid-December that, yes, there shall be a Season 2.

In fact, actress Jasmin Savoy (who portrays the younger Taissa) let slip to ComicBook that the creators have five seasons mapped out in their minds. Likewise, star Melanie Lynsky (who portrays the older version of Shauna) recently spoke with NPR and let everyone know that this is a long game:

“I think the story of exactly what happened in the woods is a longer story because, you know, it’s, like, a group of teenage girls. They don’t just instantly turn into savages… It takes some time. And I think the way the show is having those things happen is really real and beautiful. Like, you’re getting very invested in every character and in the relationships. And I think when it starts to turn into that, it’s going to be very meaningful.”

When will the Second Season actually come together for airtime, though?

The first season premiered in November 2021, and we can cross our fingers for a yearly cycle. Granted, we must think about the Omicron variant and how that could slow down production. However, consider this: Ella Purnell (who portrays the younger version of Jackie) told CBS Chicago that the first season took six months to shoot in mid-2021, at the height of Delta. By mid-October, shooting finished and the series premiere aired a month later (on November 14). So, there’s hope that strict Covid protocols could keep this joint on schedule for late 2022, maybe early 2023.

Fingers crossed! Also, don’t be like this team and hop on an airplane (which you arguably shouldn’t be doing right now anyway) anytime soon.

In recent days, an attention-grabbing rumor about Drake has been floating around. An Instagram model told the Too Much Hot Tea blog (as Rap-Up notes) that a few weeks ago, she and Drake had consensual sex at a hotel. After engaging in some intimate moments, the model says Drake went to the bathroom to dispose of his condom. At that point, the woman removed the condom from the trash and inserted the opening of it inside of herself, in an attempt to get pregnant. She quickly felt a burning sensation, after which Drake admitted that he poured a packet of hot sauce in the condom with the intent of killing sperm and thus preventing the outcome the model was hoping to achieve.

Now, Drake may have discretely addressed the rumors on Instagram via some low-key captions.

In a post from January 10, Drake shared various photos and wrote, “There’s a point in the ‘fake it til you make it’ theory where you actually gotta make it…” In his most recent post, from January 11, he wrote “You can have your 15 minutes of fame…I’ll take the other 23 hours and 45 mins.”

It’s worth noting that Drake rapped about pretty much this exact situation (minus the hot sauce) on his Brent Faiyaz collaboration “Wasting Time,” on which he says, “Flushed the Magnums just so they not collectin’ my specimens.”

This article originally appeared on 04.07.16

This post was originally published on Wait But Why.

I woke up this morning to a text. It was a link:

“optimistic-people-have-one-thing-common-always-late.”

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Intriguing. Nothing’s better than the headline: “The reason people are [bad quality that describes you] is actually because they’re [good quality].”

I got to reading. And as it turns out, according to the article, late people are actually the best people ever. They’re optimistic and hopeful:

“People who are continuously late are actually just more optimistic. They believe they can fit more tasks into a limited amount of time more than other people and thrive when they’re multitasking. Simply put, they’re fundamentally hopeful.”

They’re big-thinking:

“People who are habitually late don’t sweat over the small stuff, they concentrate on the big picture and see the future as full of infinite possibilities.”

Late people just get it:

“People with a tendency for tardiness like to stop and smell the roses…life was never meant to be planned down to the last detail. Remaining excessively attached to timetables signifies an inability to enjoy the moment.”

By the end of the article, I had never felt prouder to be a chronically late person.

But also, what the hell is going on? Late people are the worst. It’s the quality I like least in myself. And I’m not late because I like to smell the roses or because I can see the big picture or because the future is full of infinite possibilities. I’m late because I’m insane.

So I thought about this for a minute, and I think I figured out what’s going on. The issue is that there are two kinds of lateness:

1. OK lateness. This is when the late person being late does not negatively impact anyone else — like being late to a group hangout or a party. Things can start on time and proceed as normal with or without the late person being there yet.

2. Not-OK lateness. This is when the late person being late does negatively impact others — like being late to a two-person dinner or meeting or anything else that simply can’t start until the late party arrives.

John Haltiwanger’s Elite Daily article is (I hope) talking mostly about OK lateness. In which case, sure, maybe those people are the best, who knows.

But if you read the comment section under Haltiwanger’s article, people are furious with him for portraying lateness in a positive light. And that’s because they’re thinking about the far less excusable not-OK lateness.

All of this has kind of left me with no choice but to take a quick nine-hour break from working on a gargantuan SpaceX post to discuss not-OK late people.

When it comes to people who are chronically not-OK late, I think there are two subgroups:

Group 1: Those who don’t feel bad or wrong about it. These people are assholes.

Group 2: Those who feel terrible and self-loathing about it. These people have problems.

Group 1 is simple. They think they’re a little more special than everyone else, like the zero-remorse narcissist at the top of Haltiwanger’s article. They’re unappealing. Not much else to discuss here.

Punctual people think all not-OK late people are in Group 1 (as the comments on this post will show) — because they’re assuming all late people are sane people.

When a sane person thinks a certain kind of behavior is fine, they do it. When they think it’s wrong, they don’t do it. So to a punctual person — one who shows up on time because they believe showing up late is the wrong thing to do — someone who’s chronically late must be an asshole who thinks being late is OK.

But that’s misunderstanding the entire second group, who, despite being consistently late, usually detest the concept of making other people wait. Let call them CLIPs (Chronically Late Insane Persons).

While both groups of not-OK late people end up regularly frustrating others, a reliable way to identify a Group 2 CLIP is a bizarre compulsion to defeat themselves — some deep inner drive to inexplicably miss the beginning of movies, endure psychotic stress running to catch the train, crush their own reputation at work, etc., etc. As much as they may hurt others, they usually hurt themselves even more.

I come from a long line of CLIPs.

I spent around 15% of my youth standing on some sidewalk alone, angrily kicking rocks, because yet again, all the other kids had gotten picked up and I was still waiting for my mom. When she finally arrived, instead of being able to have a pleasant conversation with her, I’d get into the car seething. She always felt terrible. She has problems.

My sister once missed an early morning flight, so they rescheduled her for the following morning. She managed to miss that one too, so they put her on a flight five hours later. Killing time during the long layover, she got distracted on a long phone call and missed that flight too. She has problems.

I’ve been a CLIP my whole life. I’ve made a bunch of friends mad at me, I’ve embarrassed myself again and again in professional situations, and I’ve run a cumulative marathon through airport terminals.

When I’m late, it’s often the same story, something like this:

I’ll be meeting someone, maybe a professional contact, at, say, a coffee place at 3:00. When I lay out my schedule for the day, I’ll have the perfect plan. I’ll leave early, arrive early, and get there around 2:45. That takes all the stress out of the situation, and that’s ideal because non-stressful commutes are one of my favorite things. It’ll be great — I’ll stroll out, put on a podcast, and head to the subway. Once I’m off the subway, with time to spare, I’ll take a few minutes to peruse storefronts, grab a lemonade from a street vendor, and enjoy New York. It’ll be such a joy to look up at the architecture, listen to the sounds, and feel the swell of people rushing by — oh magnificent city!

All I have to do is be off the subway by 2:45. To do that, I need to be on the subway by 2:25, so I decide to be safe and get to the subway by 2:15. So I have to leave my apartment by 2:07 or earlier, and I’m set. What a plan.

Here’s how it’ll play out (if you’re new to WBW, you’re advised to check this out before proceeding):

CLIPs are strange people. I’m sure each CLIP is insane in their own special way, and to understand how they work, you’ll usually have to get to some dark inner psychology.

For me, it’s some mix of these three odd traits:

1. I’m late because I’m in denial about how time works.

The propensity of CLIPs to underestimate how long things take comes out of some habitual delusional optimism. Usually what happens is, of all the times the CLIP has done a certain activity or commute, what they remember is that one time things went the quickest. And that amount of time is what sticks in their head as how long that thing takes. I don’t think there’s anything that will get me to internalize that packing for a weeklong trip takes 20 minutes. In my head, it’s eternally a five-minute task. You just take out the bag, throw some clothes in it, throw your toiletries in, zip it up, and done. Five minutes. The empirical data that shows that there are actually a lot of little things to think about when you pack and that it takes 20 minutes every time is irrelevant. Packing is clearly a five-minute task. As I type this, that’s what I believe.

2. I’m late because I have a weird aversion to changing circumstances.

Not sure what the deal is with this, but something in me is strangely appalled by the idea of transitioning from what I’m currently doing to doing something else. When I’m at home working, I hate when there’s something on my schedule that I have to stop everything for to go outside and do. It’s not that I hate the activity — once I’m there I’m often pleased to be there — it’s an irrational resistance to the transition. The positive side of this is it usually means I’m highly present when I finally do haul my ass somewhere, and I’m often among the last to leave.

3. Finally, I’m late because I’m mad at myself.

There’s a pretty strong correlation here — the worse I feel about my productivity so far that day, the more likely I am to be late. When I’m pleased with how I’ve lived the day so far, the Rational Decision-Maker has a much easier time taking control of the wheel. I feel like an adult, so it’s easy to act like an adult. But times when the monkey had his way with me all day, when the time rolls around that I need to stop working and head out somewhere, I can’t believe that this is all I’ve gotten done. So my brain throws a little tantrum, refusing to accept the regrettable circumstances, and stages a self-flagellating protest, saying, “NO. This cannot be the situation. Nope. You didn’t do what you were supposed to do, and now you’ll sit here and get more done, even if it makes you late.”

So yeah, that’s why I’m late. Because I have problems.

Don’t excuse the CLIPs in your life — it’s not OK, and they need to fix it. But remember: It’s not about you. They have problems.

In December, Polo G dropped Hall Of Fame 2.o, the deluxe edition of his Billboard chart-topping album Hall Of Fame. Adding 14 new tracks to the Chicago rapper’s 2021 output, Hall Of Fame 2.0 features new cuts with Lil Baby, Moneybagg Yo, Yungliv, NLE Choppa, and Lil Tjay. While the release was definitely strategic in some regards, this was by no means cutting room floor material and these collaborations especially meant something more to the rapper.

On “Heating Up,” Polo G links up for the first time with Yungliv, the emerging rapper from West Philadelphia that is signed to Polo’s Capalot Records label, marking their first collaboration with each other. In a new video for the track, the pair are joined by a whole crew of friends, flexing their muscle in a barbershop, a bodega and then in the streets as guns, racks, and drinks abound. “Sundown ’til the sunup, pick a gun up, who you ridin’ with? / You would think the block a barbershop the way we linin’ sh*t,” Polo raps. It’s a fierce call out from one crew to anyone within an earshot.

Watch the video for “Heating Up” featuring Yungliv above.

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The collegiate summer baseball world was turned on its head earlier this week when Dillon T. Pickle, the mascot for the Portland Pickles of the West Coast League, posted a “disturbing image” to Twitter at the start of a mascot takeover. While the team quickly ended the takeover and claimed that “Dillon would like to go on record and say that he was trying to give his fans a thumbs up,” the matter has not been resolved, thanks in part to a video posted to Twitter on Friday afternoon.

The video served as Dillon responding to the “scandill,” which, I hope someone in the team’s marketing department gets a raise for this. After posting a picture of the original tweet, running through a collection of tweets that showed people reacting to the image, and showing off some headlines about the incident over somber piano music and audio clips of stuff like Joe Buck reacting to Randy Moss fake mooning some Packers fans. Then, the mascot announced that it had been been framed.

What does this mean? Who knows! But give the Portland Pickles credit: This is a very good and very silly way to kill some time before their season starts a little later this year.

Never one to hold back his thoughts when he sees people spreading stupid and highly dangerous conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine, comedian Bill Burr absolutely unloaded on the “f*cking morons” who are now claiming that his dear friend Bob Saget died because he was vaccinated. During the latest episode of his Monday Morning podcast, Burr said it’s been a “sad week” dealing with the “f*cking brutal” shock of losing Saget. And it’s that pain that fueled Burr’s rant as he went off on people like conservative personality Candace Owens who claimed the vaccine killed Saget, mirroring a talking point that foolishly kicked up after Betty White‘s death at the end of 2021.

“The amount of dumb shit that people are saying,” Burr said before going to town. Via Mediaite:

Burr went on to joke that anti-vaxxers have modern medicine to thank for their “existence,” as it kept their parents alive so that they could “f*ck and then make them so that they could then go on the internet and express their ideas.”

“F*cking morons, you know, and this is coming from someone who went to summer school almost every year,” he said, adding, “Somebody gets mad about something and comes up with this angle of f*cking horseshit and these people just, they just run with it.”

Burr has been a vocal critic of anti-vaxxers and routinely putting them on blast has become a staple of his show as the pandemic continues to rage on thanks in no small part to conservatives refusing to get the shot.

“It’s so f*cking dumb, this ‘I don’t trust it,’ you’re full of shit that you don’t trust it,” Burr said back in July. “Cause I’ll tell you right now, if they came out with a shot that gave you a flat stomach and abs, all of these same people that ‘you ain’t f*ckin with my freedom,’ they’d be right down there getting that f*cking thing.”

(Via Mediaite)

The Atlanta Hawks traded third-year wing Cam Reddish to the New York Knicks in exchange for a 2022 protected first-round pick and Kevin Knox on Thursday. Solomon Hill and a 2025 second-round pick were also sent to New York in the deal.

On Friday, Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk — who had previously hinted that moves could be on the horizon — said Reddish approached the front office during the offseason hoping to land in a situation where he could play a more prominent role.

Reddish’s first 2.5 seasons have been full of peaks and valleys. As a rookie, he struggled for the first three or so months before hitting his stride as a shot-maker and continued to offer intriguing defensive playmaking skills. In year two, he opened the season on an encouraging note before enduring a lengthy cold streak and ultimately being sidelined for a prolonged period with an Achilles injury.

Then, he returned in the Eastern Conference Finals to average 12.8 points on 66.8 percent true shooting across four games. This season, he’s avoided injury and scored more effectively, but remains prone to inconsistent shooting and defense. Perhaps, New York provides a new situation for him to achieve consistency on both ends.

Regardless, good on Atlanta for accommodating Reddish’s request for a better landing spot. Hopefully, it’s exactly what he needs to thrive.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have forged quite the working relationship in recent years, as they worked together on their collaborative album Carnage and the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds LP Ghosteen. Now, Cave and Ellis have another project up their sleeves, as the two are releasing a new documentary, This Much I Know To Be True, which is set for a 2022 release.

Deadline notes the Andrew Dominik-directed film was shot last year in London and Brighton and that it will “document the duo’s first performances of the albums and will feature a special appearance by close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull.”

Furthermore, the publication reports:

“Interstitial pieces between the songs will ‘illuminate the cosmology and themes of the music.’ Viewers will hear about the process of Cave writing The Red Hand Files — the letters he chooses to answer and the replies themselves — and his method. The film will also visit the workshop where Cave is creating a series of sculptures depicting the life of the Devil. The series is described as ‘a portrait of the lives of all of us as we move from innocence to experience, attune to the world and its attendant loss, and eventually confront our own mortality.’”

A post about the project from the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Twitter account notes that there are “more details to follow.”

In a new $94 million lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti is suing over claims that he was “mistreated” while in federal custody. Avenatti claims that prison guards retaliated against him because of his criticism of Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr, who was the head of the Department of Justice at the time.

According to Avenatti, while serving time at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan following his conviction for attempting to extort $25 million from Nike, he was unfairly placed in solitary confinement and was allegedly only allowed to read a copy of Trump’s Art of the Deal. Via CBS News:

Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, a lawyer with ZMO Law who is representing Avenatti, said the filing was sent to the BOP on Wednesday. Avenatti is alleging in part that prison officials limited his contact with other inmates, friends and family, subjected him to harsh conditions in the wing where he was housed, and allowed him access to one book — “The Art of the Deal,” co-written by Trump — as retaliation for being a vocal opponent of the former president.

Avenatti’s lawsuit is requesting $1 million for every day he was in solitary confinement. Of course, the former attorney is going to need the money. While he’s still serving the Nike sentence at home after a judge agreed the conditions at the Metropolitan Correctional Center were “terrible,” Avenatti is still facing federal charges for allegedly embezzling money from clients including Stormy Daniels, who he famously represented when the porn actress revealed she had a tryst with Trump shortly after his son Barron was born.

Daniels also let everyone know that the former president’s penis looks like a mushroom, which is a visual image that will deeply scar this country for generations to come.

(Via CBS News)

With less than a month away until the NBA trade deadline, chatter of a potential Ben Simmons trade has continued to pick up. The All-Star guard has not suited up for the Philadelphia 76ers this season, and thanks to the team’s high asking price to acquire his services, Simmons has been stuck in a holding pattern all season.

One team that has been linked to Simmons is the Sacramento Kings, which are desperate to make the postseason for the first time in 15 years. There’s been reporting that Philly is interested in a deal where they’d land De’Aaron Fox or Tyrese Haliburton, and according to a new report by Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, there have been conversations recently about Fox heading to the City of Brotherly Love. They have, however, not gotten particularly far down the road.

The Philadelphia 76ers canvassed the prospect of a Fox, Ben Simmons trade package as recently as a few days ago, but dialogue remains exploratory due diligence, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

It has been reported by Kyle Neubeck of Philly Voice that the Sixers’ interest in Fox would “almost certainly” come via a three-team trade where the standout guard can be routed elsewhere so they can get the kind of haul back for Simmons that they want. There’s also the chance that Fox just sticks around in Sacramento — Haynes reported that the Kings’ hope is that they can hold onto both Fox and Haliburton and build around them going forward.

On the season, Fox is averaging 20.9 points, 5.1 assists, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.2 steals in 34.3 minutes per game. Sacramento sits at 17-27 on the year, which puts them in 11th place in the Western Conference and half a game behind the Portland Trail Blazers for the final spot in the play-in tournament. The 2022 NBA trade deadline is on Tuesday, Feb. 10.