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Horror King Stephen King is also king of the dad jokes in addition to being an English muffin addict (so many layers.) This new addition to his collection of titles begins with a mention of how he’s not been thrilled about Elon Musk’s Twitter-boss behavior. The man who knows how to write a villain brought us a literary reference when the deal became concrete, and King hasn’t let up since with his disapproval, especially after Musk actually attempted to haggle over the price of now-easily-attained verified status.

Even though King remains a Tesla fan, he’s not letting Musk’s unleashing of right-wing chaos on Twitter stand. King started this newest round of swings with a so-bad-it-might-be-good dad joke.

“I had to take my biscuits to the doctor,” King tweeted to begin. “They felt crummy.”

He swiftly admitted, “Sorry. That one was pretty bad.”

Who’s got worse jokes, though? “Speaking of bad jokes, Elon Musk says Trump can get back on Twitter.”

King is certainly not alone in his perspective. Patton Oswalt recently expressed a similar viewpoint about how Musk tries far too hard to be funny. He even continued to tell his not-great jokes while laying off around half of Twitter’s staff, which led to a Space Karen projection that was undeniably funny. Everyone’s got jokes!

As Mark Zuckerberg continues to face scrutiny after his heavy investment in the “Metaverse” led to 11,000 layoffs in mid-November, employees are reportedly questioning his leadership and accusing the CEO of significantly damaging the company. After the Facebook founder announced the layoffs and apologized that he “got this wrong,” employees took to an anonymous forum, Blind, and proceeded to drag Zuckerberg for making Meta feel like the “Hunger Games.” Others called for a change of leadership and commented that Zuckerberg’s future at the company is “uncertain.”

Via Business Insider:

“The Metaverse will be our slow death,” one user, who called themselves a senior software developer, posted on Wednesday. They added: “Mark Zuckerberg will single-handedly kill a company with the meta-verse.”

While Zuckerberg did receive some positive reviews, the overall sentiment was clear: The Metaverse was a mistake. “I thought it was a data-driven company but actually it is one man’s gut feeling and emotions-driven,” one user wrote. “Nobody can overwrite his decision.” Several of the employee posts called for “layoffs in executive level” and questioned Zuckerberg’s direction. “Leadership is having no clue,” another user wrote.

The mass layoffs following the lackluster reception of the Metaverse is not the first time that Zuckerberg has faced calls for his resignation. According to The Wrap, major Facebook investors turned on Zuckerberg in 2018 after the social media company revealed an explosive and embarrassing data breach that affected millions of users. However, despite some heavy hitters demanding Zuckerberg’s head, he holds a “majority of supervoting shares.”

In short, unless Zuckerberg votes to make himself step down, it ain’t happening.

(Via Business Insider, The Wrap)

People from all walks of life get tattoos, so naturally, there’s a near-infinite variety of skin-adorning designs out there. Over the weekend, though, Anderson .Paak got what has to be one of the strangest ones, especially to fans of The Simpsons.

On November 20, Paak shared a post which he captioned, “RATE MY NEW TAT!” The gallery post shows off videos and photos of the tattoo, which is on Paak’s right bicep and is of a surreal combination of Marge and Homer Simpson. It shows Marge lifting her shirt, but her torso has been partially replaced with Homer’s head. However, Marge’s breasts have been made to look like Homer’s eyes. All in all, while it’s a bit odd, it’s a perfectly cromulent tattoo.

The past few months have actually been rich when it comes to musician tattoo news. Lil Nas X just got his first one ever, screaming in agony all the while. A tattoo removal studio recently offered to get rid of people’s Kanye West tattoos free of charge. Post Malone recently got another face tattoo, a big one on his forehead. Grimes is also considering a face tattoo, albeit a really different kind. Finally, this summer, it was revealed that Cardi B got a face tattoo.

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Brent Faiyaz appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday (November 21) to bless audiences with a performance of “All Mine,” off his recently released record, Wasteland.

The scene opens with Faiyaz conducting his band as the string instruments set the sonic bar high. The second Faiyaz starts to sing, the audience cheers. From there, he gives a soulful take that equally matches the effort of the orchestra and instrumentalists behind him.

“We both still young, so what’s the rush? / The night is young and we not drunk enough / You come around if I don’t do too much / We had our downs but we had way more ups,” Faiyaz notes on the track.

Also impressive in this performance of “All Mine” is the stage lighting setup. Instead of opting to flood the fans in the crowd with over-the-top stage design, the simple yellow lights are timed to the beat. This finds them getting dimmed on the verses to match the energy of the song. Oh yeah, and there’s also fog — because that is always essential.

“I’m excited to visually bring these songs to life, these records to life,” Faiyaz previously told Insider about his visual visions. “I think that’s going to play a huge part in how people receive this music. It’s all about the message that you portray.”

Watch Faiyaz perform “All Mine” on Fallon above.

There are two things we definitely know about the midterm elections in Arizona earlier this month:

1. Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake lost.

2. Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is refusing to admit she lost.

Last week, Lake — one of Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidates who sh*t the bed on November 8th, yet who also has a history of hating on Trump — headed down to Mar-a-Lago to seek counsel from the former president/election denier supreme and possibly get some pointers on how to continue to insist you won an election you lost with a straight face. On Monday, a newly energized Lake took to Twitter to restate her commitment to seeing the results of her totally legitimate election overturned.

As Mediaite reports, Lake posted a video in which she broke the news to the people of Arizona that, at least in her kooky mind, their state’s elections were “botched.”

Lake, who looks and sounds like an HSN host, got her lighting just right and probably put on some Enya before sitting in front of the camera and lamenting the fact that “Election day was 13 days ago, and Maricopa County is still counting ballots.” Lake then went on to state that, “Printer problems, tabulation errors, three-hour long lines and even longer, and confusing instructions given by election officials made this Election Day the most chaotic in Arizona’s history.”

“Half of the voting centers that opened for the first time on Election Day where the overwhelming majority of voters were voting for Kari Lake, were not operational or had significant failures,” Lake said (we’re guessing that bit of illeism was a Trump suggestion). “Would you get on an airplane if half of the engines didn’t work? Would our friends in the media be able to broadcast their nightly propaganda if only half of their studio equipment was working? The 2022 general election in Arizona was botched and broken beyond repair,” Lake said.

While Lake swore that, “This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats,” you had better believe it’s all about making sure she is handed the keys to the governor’s mansion. The one-time news anchor claimed that “tens of thousands of you have reached out pleading with me to fight this fight” (Hmmm…) and vowed that “Rest assured I will — because if we give up now, we will no longer have a country.”

Meanwhile, Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates (no, not that Bill Gates) has been forced into hiding in an undisclosed location because of threats against his life from election deniers egged on by the likes of Lake.

You can watch Lake’s full speech above, or read the text of it here.

(Via Mediaite)

Brent Faiyaz appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday (November 21) to bless audiences with a performance of “All Mine,” off his recently released record, Wasteland.

The scene opens with Faiyaz conducting his band as the string instruments set the sonic bar high. The second Faiyaz starts to sing, the audience cheers. From there, he gives a soulful take that equally matches the effort of the orchestra and instrumentalists behind him.

“We both still young, so what’s the rush? / The night is young and we not drunk enough / You come around if I don’t do too much / We had our downs but we had way more ups,” Faiyaz notes on the track.

Also impressive in this performance of “All Mine” is the stage lighting setup. Instead of opting to flood the fans in the crowd with over-the-top stage design, the simple yellow lights are timed to the beat. This finds them getting dimmed on the verses to match the energy of the song. Oh yeah, and there’s also fog — because that is always essential.

“I’m excited to visually bring these songs to life, these records to life,” Faiyaz previously told Insider about his visual visions. “I think that’s going to play a huge part in how people receive this music. It’s all about the message that you portray.”

Watch Faiyaz perform “All Mine” on Fallon above.

Love is a powerful thing, and recording artist August Alsina knows this all too well.

The past few years have been rough for the New Orleans native. Alsina has been engaged in an intense ongoing medical battle due to a hereditary autoimmune disease. He’s overcome heartache after finding himself in a public love affair with actress Jada Pinkett-Smith. Then he was physically assaulted by rapper Tory Lanez. The “No Love” singer is looking for serenity and he may have found it.

In the season final of VH1’s The Surreal Life, Alsina, gushes about finding love again. During his closing confessional, the singer shared his journey up until this point, stating, “I want to share that and really honor the person that I love and that loves me back and teaching me so much about love and healing,” adding, “I want to do that in front of the world because it defies all the constructs that one would say love is supposed to be or love should look like.”

The singer then invited a mystery man to join him in the taping stating, “And then what do you know? Love showed up, but in a new way.”

The man in question is recording artist LA Zu, or Zu for short. The two have a long standing history having had worked together on the track, “2 AM.”

Based on the outpouring of intimacy, viewers took to social media assuming the reality star was coming out as bisexual, while others dismissed any romantic undertones sharing a video in which Alsina clearly states that Zu was a “brother” to him.

Alsina hasn’t confirmed whether or not he is indeed bisexual. However, in a past interview with media personality Angela Yee, Alsina shared that he discovered he was demisexual after the breakup with Pinkett-Smith. Demisexuality falls on the asexual spectrum but isn’t exclusive to any one attraction label.

Viewers took to social media to embraces Alsina’s public declaration. While some fans congratulated him for supposedly “coming out” others saw it as embracing platonic love.

August Alsina has not publicly stated whether or not he is bisexual but we’re just happy to see that he’s happy.

There are two things we definitely know about the midterm elections in Arizona earlier this month:

1. Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake lost.

2. Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is refusing to admit she lost.

Last week, Lake — one of Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidates who sh*t the bed on November 8th, yet who also has a history of hating on Trump — headed down to Mar-a-Lago to seek counsel from the former president/election denier supreme and possibly get some pointers on how to continue to insist you won an election you lost with a straight face. On Monday, a newly energized Lake took to Twitter to restate her commitment to seeing the results of her totally legitimate election overturned.

As Mediaite reports, Lake posted a video in which she broke the news to the people of Arizona that, at least in her kooky mind, their state’s elections were “botched.”

Lake, who looks and sounds like an HSN host, got her lighting just right and probably put on some Enya before sitting in front of the camera and lamenting the fact that “Election day was 13 days ago, and Maricopa County is still counting ballots.” Lake then went on to state that, “Printer problems, tabulation errors, three-hour long lines and even longer, and confusing instructions given by election officials made this Election Day the most chaotic in Arizona’s history.”

“Half of the voting centers that opened for the first time on Election Day where the overwhelming majority of voters were voting for Kari Lake, were not operational or had significant failures,” Lake said (we’re guessing that bit of illeism was a Trump suggestion). “Would you get on an airplane if half of the engines didn’t work? Would our friends in the media be able to broadcast their nightly propaganda if only half of their studio equipment was working? The 2022 general election in Arizona was botched and broken beyond repair,” Lake said.

While Lake swore that, “This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats,” you had better believe it’s all about making sure she is handed the keys to the governor’s mansion. The one-time news anchor claimed that “tens of thousands of you have reached out pleading with me to fight this fight” (Hmmm…) and vowed that “Rest assured I will — because if we give up now, we will no longer have a country.”

Meanwhile, Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates (no, not that Bill Gates) has been forced into hiding in an undisclosed location because of threats against his life from election deniers egged on by the likes of Lake.

You can watch Lake’s full speech above, or read the text of it here.

(Via Mediaite)

After months of dragging it out, Donald Trump has finally officially made the wholly expected announcement that he’ll be running for president yet again in 2024. While the world has changed a lot since Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election — mostly because of the chaos wreaked by Trump himself — something just seems very different about Trump this time around. Maybe it’s the fact that he’s still trying to sell us on the same old Big Lie he has been telling for years, or perhaps it’s that his run might be specifically timed to try and avoid being indicted on any number of alleged crimes. And, as Seth Meyers pointed out, it’s not just Democrats or non-MAGAs who are noticing.

“As we told you last week, Trump’s announcement speech was so boring even Fox News cut away from it before it was over,” Meyers said on Monday night. “Then on Friday, just to add insult to injury, the same thing happened to Trump again. Except this time, it was on C-SPAN.”

Last week, Mar-a-Lago hosted The America First Experience and Gala, a two-day event organized by a pro-Trump think tank, which sounds a bit like an oxymoron. On Friday, the former president took over the podium in an ill-fitting tuxedo that made him look as if he was cosplaying what David Byrne would look like as a croupier. (Or, according to Meyers, “the piano player at a Long Island steakhouse.”) When Trump began prattling on and comparing the death tolls of the war in Afghanistan to a regular weekend in the city of Chicago, even the programmers at C-SPAN decided this sh*t was mind-numbingly dull. As the network cut away from the speech, a narrator intoned that “former president Trump has moved on to other topics. We’ll take this opportunity to move on with our program schedule.” To Meyers, it was an epic “Ya Burnt!” moment.

“Even C-SPAN cut away,” marveled Meyers. “This is the network famous for showing wide shots of empty chairs! And even they were like, ‘This sh*t is boring!’ You know how bad your speech has to be for C-SPAN to cut away from it? You know what their program schedule was that they had to get back to? An old man silently doing the crossword by himself for six hours and then falling asleep.”

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 8:50 mark.

Love is a powerful thing, and recording artist August Alsina knows this all too well.

The past few years have been rough for the New Orleans native. Alsina has been engaged in an intense ongoing medical battle due to a hereditary autoimmune disease. He’s overcome heartache after finding himself in a public love affair with actress Jada Pinkett-Smith. Then he was physically assaulted by rapper Tory Lanez. The “No Love” singer is looking for serenity and he may have found it.

In the season final of VH1’s The Surreal Life, Alsina, gushes about finding love again. During his closing confessional, the singer shared his journey up until this point, stating, “I want to share that and really honor the person that I love and that loves me back and teaching me so much about love and healing,” adding, “I want to do that in front of the world because it defies all the constructs that one would say love is supposed to be or love should look like.”

The singer then invited a mystery man to join him in the taping stating, “And then what do you know? Love showed up, but in a new way.”

The man in question is recording artist LA Zu, or Zu for short. The two have a long standing history having had worked together on the track, “2 AM.”

Based on the outpouring of intimacy, viewers took to social media assuming the reality star was coming out as bisexual, while others dismissed any romantic undertones sharing a video in which Alsina clearly states that Zu was a “brother” to him.

Alsina hasn’t confirmed whether or not he is indeed bisexual. However, in a past interview with media personality Angela Yee, Alsina shared that he discovered he was demisexual after the breakup with Pinkett-Smith. Demisexuality falls on the asexual spectrum but isn’t exclusive to any one attraction label.

Viewers took to social media to embraces Alsina’s public declaration. While some fans congratulated him for supposedly “coming out” others saw it as embracing platonic love.

August Alsina has not publicly stated whether or not he is bisexual but we’re just happy to see that he’s happy.