Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert adores guns so much that she once (as shown above) open-carried in her now-defunct restaurant, Shooters Grill, in Rifle, Colorado. She also posed with a t-shirt that labeled guns as human-hole punchers, and she recently trashed a pin that was meant to commemorate a school shooting victim.
Her love for the Second Amendment does win fans over to the Boebert side, however. That led one of her followers to make an inquiry (while using this Getty image) to ask people if they’d want to “go shooting” with the lawmaker from Colorado. To that, Boebert posted an even more rootin’ tootin’ photo of herself while apparently operating an M203 grenade launcher, and that type of ammo (even training rounds) does not exactly sound like the cheapest hobby out there. This is perhaps literally rich, given that (only a few tweets prior) she had been complaining that “groceries are up” due to “Bidenomics.”
Groceries are up. Rent is up. Interest rates are up. Gas is up.
The latest jobs report is down. Real wages are down.
To that, Boebert’s followers were weighted in a blue-check way so that the thirsty responses floated to the top. However, it wasn’t lost on everyone that Boebert can “afford f*cking grenades,” so she “can afford avocados, too.”
This is a US Congressperson. Hard at work on the issues that concern most Americans. A few tweets down, she was whining about the cost of groceries. Shit, Boebert, you can afford fucking grenades. You can afford avocados, too. pic.twitter.com/QvHy5ZUrCq
— Jack’s House Band of NAFO (@FluteMagician) August 5, 2023
A grenade is just an exploding avocado. Don’t put it in your mouth. And don’t complain about the price of groceries when you can post them through an automatic grenade launcher. Some of us are content with three per engagement.
Still, you gotta hand it to Boebert for some creative points. There’s a whole lot of right-wingers out there who have gun-filled Christmas card photos like she does, but FWIW, she one-upped them in outrageousness.
The 1975’s set was cut short, and Healy informed the crowd he and the band had “just got banned” from Malaysia. The rest of the festival was subsequently canceled, as explained in a statement posted to its website that notes the cancelation was ordered by the Ministry Of Communications And Digital in response to “the controversial comments and remarks made by” Healy and The 1975.
According to The Guardian, Future Sound Asia (FSA), Good Vibes’ promoters, “are now pursuing a claim against the British band calling on them to acknowledge liability and compensate FSA for damages incurred.”
The publication relayed, “If they fail to do so, FSA will take action in the UK. FSA claim that Healy’s actions ‘tarnished’ the festival’s reputation and that they ‘intentionally contravened the agreement [the band] had with FSA.’”
The Guardian previously reported on July 26 that “a group of Malaysian musicians and festival vendors” were “preparing a class action lawsuit against The 1975.”
In the days after the festival’s cancelation, The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas commented on Instagram that Healy and The 1975’s performance “def helped the white outsider awareness” but “likely will change little to nothing in Malaysia.”
All pilsners are lagers, but not all lagers are pilsners. This is because the pilsner is a style of pale lager. The pilsner is a great choice to drink any time of the year because of its floral hoppy flavor and crisp finish always works — rain or shine, snow or sun. That makes pilsners the perfect beer for a “desert island” option — or the beer you’d be happy drinking for the rest of your life.
Before we get to that, let’s dive into what a pilsner is. The classic, crisp, easy-drinking, and effortlessly refreshing beer gets its name from the city of Plzeň (Pilsen) in Czechia. This is where the pale lager “pilsner” was refined in 1842 when the iconic beer Pilsner Urquell was first brewed as a commercial beer by a Bavarian brewer, one Josef Groll. Fast forward a couple of centuries and pilsner’s biscuit-like malt backbone and use of bottom-fermenting yeast and floral hoppiness has made the style one of the biggest and most ubiquitous beer styles in the world. Another big reason for that belovedness is that pilsners are almost always sessional brews, clocking in at or under 5% ABV. Crisp, malty, easy-drinking, and accessible, what more could you want from beer?
Now, it’s time to make difficult choices. What if you were stranded on a desert island and you could only pick one to bring, which one would you choose? To help you choose, we asked some craft brewers to tell us the one pilsner they’d drink for the rest of their lives if they could only pick one. Keep reading to see them all.
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The first time I had Firestone Walker’s Pivo Pils, I was down in Texas for a wedding. We went to a bar where I saw it on tap, and I ordered one. To set the scene, this was very much a social gathering, but all I did was sit in a corner and exclaim comments to myself after every sip like, ‘Oh God’ and ‘It smells so good’, etc. I wanted to bathe in it.
Tasting Notes:
Pivo is an amazing showcase of Noble hop character that I’d never experienced before in a beer. It has punchy grassy, spicey, aromatics along with some lemon zest that is so inviting. It’s a beer that will never grow old to me. I love it.
If there could be only one, that would have to be Bierstadt Lagerhaus Slow Pour Pilsner on draught. It’s beautifully pale yellow and crystal clear with a solid dense head of foam.
Tasting Notes:
It begins with an aroma of toasted biscuits and light floral hops. The taste is crisp and bready, full of its slow cold German lager yeast fermentation. There’s a snappy carbonation that lingers on the pallet. This beer finishes dry with a slight hint of minerality and a touch of sweetness. There’s excellent balance with a high drinkability rating.
Nothing beats a nice fresh can of Troegs Sunshine Pils. Once relegated to seasonal status, I was overjoyed when they freed it to year-round availability.
Tasting Notes:
It’s crisp with a firm bitterness that steps aside to allow a peek of bready malt. The flavor and aromatics just drip with floral Hallertau hops.
If I was only going to drink one pilsner for the rest of my life, it would be Rothaus Pils Tannenzäpfle. It’s pricey for a 6-pack but delicious if you take the plunge.
Tasting Notes:
“Tannenzäpfle” is a “fir cone,” and this pilsner has a great spicy character that reminds you of being in a forest.
Notch Session Pils by Notch Brewing Co. is my pick. Calling this a “Session Pils” may seem a little redundant, but crushable low-alcohol versions of popular styles are Notch’s whole bag. Lesser inebriating power takes away nothing from this Czech-style lager.
Tasting Notes:
It jabs the nose with dead-on peppery and lightly floral Saaz hops alongside a hint of sulfur threaded through doughy croissant-like malts. On the tongue, subtle malt sweetness spreads under earthy/herbal hops, trailing off at the finish into a gentle but noticeable bitterness.
Kent Falls Brewing is one of my favorite breweries. Their focus on quality and the use of locally sourced malts just hit right for me. The Hollow is their house pilsner. Kent Falls brewers really dig deep into tradition and care deeply for their roots and place. They have a northeast sensibility focused on farmhouse beers.
Tasting Notes:
The Hollow is dynamic, crisp, and clean and is hopped with Brewer’s Gold that is grown on their farm.
Wiseacre Tiny Bomb
Wiseacre
Garth Beyer, certified Cicerone and owner of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
Wiseacre’s Tiny Bomb is an epic pilsner. It elevates your standard pilsner style with a bit of local wildflower honey.
Tasting Notes:
There are delicate floral aromas and a steady sweetness. It’s a pilsner that feels like it gives you energy. A light version of liquid bread, if you will.
If I could only drink one pilsner for the rest of my life, it would have to be Trumer Pils. That has always been one of my go-to pilsners and served as a model and inspiration for us when we created East Brother Bo Pils.
Tasting Notes:
Trumer is crystal-clear, starts with a touch of honey, and shifts to a grassiness on the palate followed by a bready finish. It’s always consistent and always delicious.
Silvaticus Sovereign Pils
Silvaticus
Frederic Yarm, USBG bartender at Josephine in Somerville, Massachusetts
ABV: 5.3%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
Brewery Silvaticus specializes in German lagers and Belgian ales and makes my favorite pilsner that I could return to again and again without getting tired.
Tasting Notes:
Their Sovereign Pils is an unfiltered kellerbier-style pilsner with delightful cracker, honey-floral, lemon, and grassy notes. Pair that with any of the brewery taproom’s German foods — like their pretzel or pickle plate — and I’m in heaven.
Bitburger Premium Pilsner is known for its hoppy, crisp, lightly bitter flavor profile. It’s definitely a beer that belongs in your refrigerator all the time.
Tasting Notes:
It has a crisp, refreshing flavor that is more floral than sweet and enough hops to balance it all out.
When it comes to her peanut allergy, Leah Williams isn’t messing around. After airline employees refused to make an announcement about her condition during a recent flight from Germany to London, so the 27-year-old passenger woman took drastic action by literally buying up every single pack of peanuts on the plane.
According to Williams, the situation went south on her return flight. Earlier in the week, the Eurowings cabin crew had no problem alerting passengers about Williams’ peanut allergy. But the next airline staff she encountered were not so accommodating and told Williams that the announcement is against policy.
“He wasn’t even looking me in the eye,” Williams said about the Eurowings attendant. “I think he was getting frustrated I was holding up the line.”
When Williams learned that the crew would be selling peanuts during the flight, she took action. Via Insider:
“I said: ‘I’ll buy them all so you can’t serve them. I don’t care how much it is. If you’re not willing to help me this is the only thing I can do,’” she told Insider.
Flight attendants then counted all 48 packs of peanuts to ensure they were charging her the correct amount, which ended up being 168 euros, or about $185, Williams said. “The worst thing was they actually asked if I wanted to take the peanuts, and I said obviously not.”
According to Williams, she has yet to get a response from Eurowings to either offer her a refund or adjust its procedures on dealing with peanut allergies. However, the airline did offer a comment to Insider.
“We are very sorry that the flight with us did not go as smoothly as desired and we regret any inconvenience this has caused Leah Williams,” a representative said before adding that the “cabin crew offered to inform passengers sitting near Willams of her allergy but that she later decided to buy all the packets of peanuts.”
Sharknado, the B-movie sensation starring Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, and hundreds of man-eating sharks that spawned multiple sequels, came out 10 years ago. I can’t put into words why this is upsetting, but it is. To celebrate the occasion, The Asylum released a Barbie-themed poster to promote the film playing in theaters for a “two-night-only cinema event” on August 15-16.
Here it is:
the asylum
The 10th anniversary cut of Sharknado includes “new kills” and “new thrills,” according to the trailer above, as well as “more sharks, more ‘nado.” Considering how much money Meg 2: The Trench made this weekend, there’s clearly an appetite for big sharks eating people.
The success of Sharknado led to Sharknado 2: The Second One, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, and The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, as well as spinoffs Lavalantula, Sharknado: Heart of Sharkness, and 2 Lava 2 Lantula. But the follow-ups couldn’t capture the WTF thrills of the original Sharknado, which almost went by a different title.
“I had made a film for The Asylum called American Warships, and we were talking about what to do next. They said they wanted me to do a movie called Shark Storm. And I said, ‘That sounds like a terrible idea. Haven’t we had enough shark movies and enough storm movies?’ They went away grumbling,” screenwriter Thunder Levin told the Hollywood Reporter. But a month later, they returned with a different title: Sharknado.
“It’s taken a complete turn as I’ve carried on working, and I really feel now that it’s starting to sound cohesive. So I’m going to keep writing in the early months of the new year and see where that takes me,” Lipa told Variety.
This morning (August 7), we received a fresh update. Within a spread for The New York Times‘ T Magazine, Lipa confirmed her third album is “due for release in 2024,” as written by Kurt Soller. She didn’t divulge much but did concede the highly anticipated project will feature “more personal” material.
Soller provided a bit more context:
“The next record will still be pop, she says, lest her ‘fans have a meltdown.’ She doesn’t want to ‘alienate’ them, although she’s developing a new sound that may be informed less by the house and disco beats beneath songs like ‘Physical’ and ‘Hallucinate’ than by 1970s-era psychedelia. She’s working with a smaller group of songwriting collaborators, supposedly including Kevin Parker of the Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala, a rumor she all but confirms by denying: ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ she says, then looks away and laughs a little. Lipa’s dressed — almost studiously — in pop star-off-duty drag: Ugg slip-ons, baggy white jeans, an old Elton John T-shirt, a few diamond-encrusted hoops in each ear.”
Since she was very young, @DUALIPA wanted to be a pop star. Now that she’s done that, she’s working through the rest of her list. https://t.co/XQTBoBLNzv
If you’re a famous person living in Los Angeles, there’s a decent chance you attended or will attend Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour (can you get me tickets?). The list of celebrities spotted during her ongoing six-night stay at SoFi Stadium includes Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Brie Larson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kristen Bell, Elle Fanning, James Marsden, Lupita Nyong’o, Alexandra Daddario, and so many more. But none of them had more fun than Channing Tatum.
CBS Morning host Gayle King shared a photo and video of Tatum attending one of Swift’s L.A. shows. “@taylorswift in LA w/fav daughter @kirbybump! Our 4th Taylor concert together over the years & she has taken things to another level! A round of applause to @channingtatum & @karomobrown who went all in!” she wrote. In the pic, Tatum is wearing a homemade “It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Daddy, It’s Me” shirt, a reference to Swift’s song “Anti-Hero.” King also blessed the world with the Magic Mike star singing and dancing to “Shake It Off.”
Tatum’s girlfriend, actress Zoe Kravitz, wasn’t spotted at the concert, but she spent a lot of time with Swift while shooting The Batman during the pandemic. “She was my pod,” she told GQ. “She was a very important part of being in London, just having a friend that I could see and that would make me home-cooked meals and dinner on my birthday.”
You can see Tatum having the time of his life, not fighting dragons but attending the Eras Tour, below.
Helen Mirren has long been known for her charm, and 50 Cent is not immune. In fact, it seems like he’ll be under the 78-year-old actress’ spell for the foreseeable future.
In a new Men’s Health interview, 50 spoke about finding Mirren sexy and explained what makes her so appealing, saying, “She’s sexy. She’ll look at you, and you go, ‘Oh sh*t!’ I don’t care how old she get, I don’t give a f*ck what nobody says, she’s sexy… It’s her confidence, it’s everything that she is for all of these years. She’s gonna be sexy forever.”
50’s crush on Mirren isn’t new. In 2017, the two met at the Monte Carlo TV Festival and 50 later wrote on Instagram (as Harper’s Bazaar notes), “Yeah. I think I love her man, I’m trying not to stare at her. She know she turns me on. She just has that thing, you know I can’t describe it. LOL.”
He then talked more about Mirren on Conan in 2018, saying, “I just saw her in the south of France when I was out there and she was… she just looked at me and there was this interesting thing going on in her eyes. For real, it’s a different thing. […] It’s this confidence thing that’s there from being tested and proven, and she looks at you like she knows she’s sexy.”
Ole Pudding Fingers Ron DeSantis has recently been both confused and emboldened, but now, the candidate is sounding pretty hopeless. This revolves around his refusal to let go of his support of Florida public schools planning to whitewash slavery. It’s a tactic that has disgusted Black conservatives and The View ladies, but for whatever reason, DeSantis keeps that train going, even though it’s careening straight into an Iowan ditch.
The meatball extraordinaire somehow made things worse over the weekend (yes, in Iowa) by maintaining that slaves actually improved themselves with useful trades during captivity. Via NBC News, the Florida governor is yet again repeating himself, as if saying these horrible things over and over again would finally convince people, but now, he’s insisting that these are not “political” remarks, simply educational. Oh boy:
Asked about the topic Sunday, DeSantis said: “So that means they developed skills in spite of slavery, not because of slavery. It was them showing resourcefulness and then using those skills once slavery ended.”
“We’ve been involved in education, not indoctrination,” he added. “Those standards were not political at all. The Legislature didn’t dictate any of that. Governor’s office didn’t dictate anything of that.”
And because he won’t stop digging that hole, DeSantis discounted the counterargument by Sen. Tim Scott (the sole Black Republican in that chamber), who had declared, “What slavery was really about was separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating.” Scott had added, “I would hope that every person in our country — and certainly running for president — would appreciate that.”
To that, DeSantis replied, “Don’t indulge those lies” and “Don’t take that side of Kamala Harris against the state of Florida.” Somehow, the dude wonders why he’s polling so low, even with Republicans.
Donald Trump‘s very chill weekend included going on an ill-advised rant against a judge, calling “wicked witch” Nancy Pelosi a “sick & demented psycho who will someday live in HELL,” and blaming the United States women’s national team getting knocked out of the World Cup on Joe Biden. Can’t he ever just, like, drink a Diet Coke at a matinee screening of Barbie and relax?
Following the USWNT not making it past the round of 16 at the World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1991, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “The ‘shocking and totally unexpected’ loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.”
Trump has it out for Megan Rapinoe, in particular, after she declared that “I’m not going to the f*cking White House” during the team 2019’s title run. “Megan should never disrespect our country, the White House or our flag, especially since so much has been done for her and the team. Be proud of the flag you carry,” he said in response. Instead, Rapinoe was presented with 5,000 chicken nuggets, which is probably what Trump would have served anyway.
Meanwhile, here’s what Joe Biden told the USWNT:
Donald Trump just attacked the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team for losing to Sweden.
Meanwhile, President Biden told the team, “you’ve made your country proud.”
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