A focal point of NBA officials this year has been not calling fouls on non-basketball related moves. Some players have openly griped about this, and you can count Damian Lillard among those who aren’t a fan of the new approach.
“I feel like the way the game is being officiated is unacceptable,” Lillard said on Tuesday night after the Portland Trail Blazers lost to the Los Angeles Clippers. ” I don’t want to go too deep into it so they make a big deal out of it, but the explanations, the sh*t that’s getting missed, I mean, come on, man. I felt like coming in, the rule change wouldn’t affect me, because I don’t do the trick the referees, I don’t do the trick plays. It’s unacceptable.”
Lillard, who went 4-for-13 from the field against the Clippers on Wednesday before he offered his take on officiating, is off to a slow start this year. His scoring is down about nine points per game from last season and he’s taking four fewer free throws per game. He’s also only hitting 25.5 percent of his attempts from three, so it’s likely not all how he’s being officiated.
But he clearly feels that the way games are officiated has affected him — against Los Angeles, Lillard scored 27 points but only went to the free throw line once. On the season, Lillard is attempted 3.2 free throws per game, the lowest mark of his career.
Complain about Christmas creep all you want, but you know you can already hear those sleigh bells ringing — which means that it’s the perfect time for McDonald’s to announce its latest season-appropriate recording artist collaboration with Ms. “All I Want For Christmas” herself, Mariah Carey.
Mariah’s back for the holiday season and this time, she’s bringing a whole menu with her pic.twitter.com/loeeSfe6k2
That’s right, this December, the Mariah Menu comes to McDonald’s from the 13th to Christmas Eve. The menu will include daily deals — advent calendar style — on one free menu item each day (so long as customers spend at least $1). For instance, when the special kicks off on the 13th, they’ll be able to get a free Big Mac. Later on in the month, the free item is an apple pie, and on the final day of the promotion, you can get free cookies.
In the press release for the new menu, Mariah gives the following quote: “Some of my favorite memories with my kids are our family trips to McDonald’s, and of course, each of us has our go-to order,” she explains. “Mine is the cheeseburger, and I get it with extra pickles.”
The celebrity-branded meals McDonald’s has been pushing over the past two years have been incredibly successful, with the Travis Scott deal lifting the company out of a pandemic-fueled sales slump. Most recently, the company partnered with Bay Area star Saweetie, and now, even competitors like Popeyes have begun their own promotions with collaborators like Megan Thee Stallion.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Earlier this year, Marjorie Taylor Greene made headlines for shredding a memo from Nancy Pelosi and receiving her first fine for not wearing a mask on the House floor. Less than a week ago, she achieved the 20-fine milestone. That amounted to a $48,000 total, which is over one-quarter of her $174,000 annual salary as a freshman congressperson. Well, Marjorie wasn’t done yet. She defiantly tweeted, “Why do I get fined for not wearing a mask when I’m sitting in a chair on the House floor the same as people eating unmasked at a restaurant?” Marj added that she works out a lot, which she believes protects her from COVID, and then she decided to keep on being fined for refusing to follow Nancy Pelosi’s mandate. Well, congratulations (I guess?) go out to Marjorie for doing the unthinkable: whittling away all of her paychecks because she’s so stubborn.
The Hill now reports that Greene has blown past the $50,000 mark, but get this — she’s got competition (and it’s not Lauren Boebert, who will throw a mask at an aide, but she draws the line at opening her wallet for fines). Here’s what’s currently afoot, via The Hill:
But Greene wasn’t the only one — Rep. Andrew Clyde was also cited for not wearing a mask, with the committee detailing at least three instances Georgia’s second congressman broke the House mask rule.
Since last week, Green has been fined $50,000 for not wearing a mask, which Congress automatically will deduct from her $174,000 salary. Clyde’s latest violation makes his total fine more than $30,000.
Well, it’s a statement, alright. According to Pelosi’s mandate, the first mask-flouting offense comes in at $500. Each subsequent refusal notches another $2,500, and Greene previously boasted on Twitter when she hit the $25,000 mark. Can she actually whittle away her whole annual salary before the end of the year? It’s entirely possible. Since she’ll be working around the holiday schedule, Greene will need to squeeze in a lot of mask tantrums, fast. Yet if anyone can pull off this ridiculousness, it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene.
It may not be the full TV show I campaigned for last week, but Saweetie’s new Amazon special, “Icy Season,” is a perfect snapshot of exactly the qualities that make the Bay Area star so fascinating onscreen. In addition to putting the live band treatment on her fan-favorite hits — including a holiday remix of her breakout song “Icy Grl” — Saweetie shows off her upbeat personality, plays piano (with claws, no less!), and answers fan questions while sitting down with co-hosts Symone from Drag Race and Instagram comic Rickey Thompson.
She also debuts for the first time in a wide-share format the new song “Icy Chain” from her upcoming album Pretty Bitch Music. While she’s performed the song onstage a handful of times at recent festival appearances, this is the first time it’s been played during a widely accessible show. During the show, Saweetie and her co-hosts also promote the Calvin Klein brand, making the special a bit of a cross between a talk show, a variety show, and the Home Shopping Network.
While it’s unclear whether this is the event Saweetie teased would “unfold during the holidays,” she still has an SNL performance coming up later this month, so it’s possible that the official release date for PBM is still forthcoming.
After already being thrice denied for early release after a judge didn’t buy his “change of heart,” Jacob Chansley, better known as the QAnon Shaman, tried a different tact this time: Quoting Forrest Gump. Thanks to his “Chewbacca bikini” and outlandish outfit, the Shaman was one of the first Capitol rioters snatched up by law enforcement following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. And it’s because of that that (along with a continued insistence that he has denounced QAnon) he is requesting his sentence be reduced in considering for time served.
However, while quoting the famous Tom Hanks movie, the Shaman’s attorney made a glaring typo in the request, according to The Daily Beast:
Misspelling Forrest Gump’s name, Chansley’s attorney quoted the character in the petition for time served, writing, “‘My momma always said, you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.’ —Forest Gump [sic].” According to the filing, Chansley has served 317 days in “dank, fully enclosed” solitary confinement in Alexandria, Virginia due to COVID-19 restrictions since his arrest.
New court filings have also revealed that the Shaman has been scrambling to duck charges for the January 6 attack within days of his arrest. According to Raw Story, the Shaman’s attorney put in a pardon request with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on January 14, but Donald Trump did not deem the MAGA rioters worthy of his mercy despite personally inviting them to Washington D.C. for the insurrectionist “Stop the Steal” rally.
Yesterday, Beach House announced Once Twice Melody, which will be the duo’s first album in nearly four years when it drops in February 2022. Their plan is to drop the album in periodic four-song chunks, and the first of those chunks as now here, as the band shared the album’ first four songs: “Once Twice Melody,” “Superstar,” “Pink Funeral,” and “Through Me.”
As expected, the tracks fully inhabit the dream-pop wheelhouse the group has become so masterful at occupying, all while delivering a variety of moods and tempos.
In a January interview, Victoria Legrand said of her and bandmate Alex Scally’s songwriting process, “I’ve always said music is very personal to Alex and I, but it’s not just that I got my heart broken by this guy or girl, it’s I got my heart broken by the whole world. Or all the things I ever heard about somebody’s heartbreak, it’s in me somehow. It’s like this stain and it’s coming out because I hear these tones and these chords and these notes, and they make me feel like crying or they make me completely euphoric. That’s the thing that hasn’t changed, but I think it’s become amplified. And that is why I don’t think we’re done making records. Because if that ever stopped, if that really innocent reaction, where all of the angst and all of the sorrow and beauty didn’t just get triggered into something beautiful, or something that takes us out of the news or the car crash, then we would stop, I always said that. But it’s not stopping.”
Listen to the new songs as a group above or individually below.
Once Twice Melody is out 2/18/2022 via Sub Pop. Pre-order it here.
There’s been a lot of talk this year about the future of movie theaters and whether a group of four is willing to drop $60 on tickets when they can watch Dune at home. First off, don’t watch Dune at home; see it on the biggest screen imaginable. Also, while staying home might be easier, it’s a less than ideal way to watch a movie.
On Tuesday, director Quentin Tarantino dropped by The Late Show, where he was asked by host Stephen Colbert to “make the case” for still going to the movie theater. “I think the main reason is, TV’s fun. It’s good. I’ve carried memories that I’ve seen on television for most of my life. But when it comes to watching a movie — and I’ve seen many movies that have become some of my favorite movies and the only way I’ve ever seen them is on television — but it’s also a disposable experience,” he answered.
Tarantino continued, “When a movie comes out that you’re interested in enough to see, and it makes you leave your house and buy a ticket and you can do anything in the world you want to do that night, but you decide to go see a film, one film in particular.” That’s when you have “an experience” with a bunch of strangers, he said, “and once the movie gets going, once the lights are down, you become a collective… There’s you by yourself, but then there’s all of you together. And you start appreciating the movie in that way.” The experience isn’t always good (there’s a lot of bad movies!), but when it is, “those are the things that stay in your mind and that you remember for the rest of your life.”
Emerald Robinson just can’t help herself. Last week, the Newsmax White House reporter—a staunch anti-vaxxer—had her Twitter account temporarily disabled when she tweeted some seriously insane theory about a link between COVID vaccines and Satan, noting that “the vaccines contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked.” It was such an out-there theory that even Newsmax was forced to issue a statement that they do “not believe the vaccines contain any toxic materials or tracking markers, and such false claims have never been reported on [Newsmax],” and pulled her off the air.
But as Daily Beast reports, when Robinson’s Twitter account was restored on Tuesday morning, she didn’t waste any time in starting up yet again with more of her COVID lies. Understanding that a permanent ban was likely going to be the outcome, she made sure to squeeze out a few more deranged anti-vaxxing posts before she was pulled from the platform.
Announcing that she’s back from her Twitter suspension, Emerald Robinson appears to throw shade at her employer Newsmax, who has benched her over her Satanic vaccine.
She did manage to squeak out a few tweets before the inevitable permanent ban happened, including this whopper of a lie:
“One more thing: the new COVID-19 antibody test is called SATiN and it uses Luciferase. No, I’m not kidding. It’s not an accident that they’ve given this name to this test. It’s a warning.”
According to Daily Beast, some vaccine research has utilized the enzyme luciferase, a bioluminescent ingredient that is not a part of any of the COVID vaccines currently on the market and comes from the Latin word lucifer, meaning “light-bearing.” Satan had no part in its creation.
While Newsmax has yet to speak out on this latest embarrassment, a Twitter spokesperson did tell Daily Beast that Robinson’s been “permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
Fortunately for Robinson, there’s always TRUTH Social.
My journey into urban agriculture started in the produce department. As a teenager, I discovered the allure of my local health food store for the first time, smitten with the free samples of vegan jerky and the lavender-scented shampoo aisle. But I quickly realized that my dog-sitting pocket change wasn’t enough to cover the cost of anything in the store except for the organic seed packets in the checkout aisle. So I returned home with a bag of vegetable seeds; each packet a promise, each seed an opportunity.
By 23, my daily routine was simple: picking produce at sunrise from the seven acres that I tended, cleaning the roots, carefully packaging each crop, securing boxes of veg in the backseat of the truck nestled neatly beside my backpack, and dropping off the produce to two local markets before my college classes started. I was the one who tracked red mud into the classroom and never had a pencil handy. I would stare out of the window that overlooked the grassy common lawn during chemistry and create a hypothetical crop plan for the fall. My daydreams were spent pondering the square footage of green space and debating between fescue or clover as a cover crop.
I learned to grow plants from the instructions on the back of a seed packet. I learned to grow food from my community. After college, I split my time between the seven-acre farm and a smaller plot on the south side of town. It was a piece of land that was part of a housing project for low-income families. I finally found an agricultural community that mirrored my image, a mostly black neighborhood of smile-line etched faces and strong hands. Here I learned to grow what people would eat, to turn seeds into sustenance.
Indy Srinath
My work was not solitary, I want to be clear about that. I had a lot of help turning compost from a local group of previously incarcerated men. I can still smell their sandwiches, stuffed with chilis pickled in vinegar and ham. The local church-goers loved to help plant the rows of seeds. They ate okra fried in buttermilk on Sunday afternoons. Tasha lived down the street. I learned to weed wack as she ate strawberries from the vine, sucking seeds from her teeth while she showed me pictures of her 3-month-old son.
I began to think of people like the foods they ate and their crop placement. The chili men grew in row seven with full sun and strong stalks. They could turn cow manure into lunch. The church group had strong roots in row five where purple stalks grazed the cloudless sky. Their seeds saved well through winter. Maybe growing food is just another metaphor for connection — not just to the land but to other people.
Indy Srinath
In Los Angeles, I have the privilege of growing food with the unhoused. Here you can grow food on the sidewalk, on a rooftop, in the alley, and on a balcony. My favorite question has become, “Do you think I can grow food here?” Sometimes the “here” is a windowsill in a homeless shelter or the sidewalk in front of a tent. I’ve had the opportunity to help reinvigorate existing gardens and plan new urban farms.
It’s incredible to think my journey started with a seed packet. I try to remind people of the intricate nature of a seed. Like people, seeds don’t require much — just nourishment, light, water, and community.
More than growing beautiful crops, more than planting immaculate rows, I want you to grow food with me; and with one another. It’s a privilege to nourish your community, and the journey from seed to food truly changes you. If you’re thinking of growing food in your neighborhood, here are three simple steps you can follow:
Connect with Your Neighbors:
Growing food is about community. Learn what your community likes to eat or what they would like to see growing. This will ensure a mutually shared harvest.
Create a Community Garden:
It’s not as complicated as you might think! Most cities have a directory of community gardens and if there isn’t one in close proximity to you, you can create one of your own. Gather a list of signatures in support of your venture and present the proposal to your local governing body.
Occupy Unused Land:
You might notice that medians, alleys, or even yards are not producing edible plants in your area. Contact the owner of the land by searching the deed online. Most people are incredibly open to others growing food on their unused land!
Emily Ratajkowski recently threw down a convincing theory about how “only other men” are confused about Pete Davidson’s attractiveness in the eyes of women, and she’s here to level the field on a more serious subject. That would be her revelation (as published in her My Body memoir) that Robin Thicke groped her on the “Blurred Lines” set, an account that was backed up by video director Diane Martel, who cut the shoot short after the incident. Emily visited with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, where she revealed what she’s gained in perspective from that experience.
Let’s just say that she likely did not set out to level Robin Thicke with her declaration, but that’s still part of the effect because her take is incredibly effective. She suspects that maybe Thicke felt powerless on the set (which was run by a female director and filled with women owning their sexuality, contrary to the song’s lyrics) and was acting out as a result. Yup, she said this, and Emily totally took the high road while responding to Noah’s question on how she views the experience through the lens of time:
“I think that I’m really not interested in blaming individuals. I think that we live in a culture that allows a lot of these situations to occur. [Not just in] professional settings but on dates. Again, not to beat the horse, but power dynamics is what I’m interested in talking about and really revealing because I think that, in some ways, maybe that was like an attempt at leveling the power for him, and I think we need to look at how maybe this culture is bad for both men and women.”
Again, Emily did not appear to set out with the intent of making Robin Thicke look like a disempowered presence on his own video set, but oh boy, that’s how it’s looking now. And it’s a powerful move on her part to make this observation, and it’s completely her prerogative to look at the situation as reflective of the whole culture. The entire The Daily Show interview is a fascinating one, and it began with Noah admitting, “This is one of the most interesting and complicated books I’ve read about the subject.”
From there, Emily discussed what empowerment really means and how our culture has commodified women. She sees this as extreme in society, to the point where the OnlyFans back-and-forth on whether to ban explicit material was a way for someone to attempt to take power from those women. She compares that situation to the “Blurred Lines” video, and she further says, “Every woman can relate to the experience of getting dressed and knowing, you know, sort of the negotiation of how tight to I want my shirt to be? How, you know, much do I want to cover up?” Emily Ratajkowski gets it.
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