Luka Doncic is a man of many talents. He’s currently leading the NBA in scoring at 33.4 points per game while trying to pull the Dallas Mavericks out of the play-in tournament. Doncic consistently dazzles on the court with no-look passes and stepback threes, but he’s reticent to discuss all the things he loves to do off the court — a Doncic press conference is rarely revealing outside of consistently calling things amazing.
One thing we did learn about Doncic during his rookie season: he loves video games. In fact, he loves them so much that he recently hopped into an Overwatch 2 game that was being broadcast on Twitch and coyly revealed his occupation.
Doncic is simply a guy being a dude on the stream, as basketball is merely a hobby for the three-time All-NBA First Team player who lead his team to the conference finals last year. The stream participants want to know if he plays varsity, and while you could describe the Mavericks defense as varsity, Doncic responds with a simple Dallas Mavericks. He’s a man of few words, and the guys on the stream had to verify Doncic’s identity with a very high level question.
Clipped this additional bit.
Luka gets interrogated to make sure it’s actually him.
They ask “Luka Donovich” to verify his birthday to confirm his identity and also gave Luka a great pseudonym for hotel check-ins. Let this be a heads up that if you’re playing Overwatch 2 online, you just might match up with Luka Donovich.
Today, the “Heavy Heart” performer unveiled “Daily News,” a track that was previously only available on the Farm To Table vinyl. Strange’s poignant voice is the centerpiece of the song from the get-go, singing with a special vulnerability. The soaring guitars create an immersive whirlwind of sound. It’s entrancing, and it only becomes more powerful as it goes on. It ends with stunning instrumentation that keeps building into a massive crescendo.
It’s going to be a good year for Strange. In the fall, he’ll be opening for The National on their tour for their forthcoming record First Two Pages Of Frankenstein. Last year, he even joined them on stage to help with the performance of “Mistaken For Strangers.” It was an important moment considering his 2020 EP Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy had five covers of songs by The National.
The Good Place ended a little over three years ago, bringing to an end another top shelf Ted Danson series. Was the afterlife comedy as much of an all-timer as Cheers? Probably not, but what is? Besides, perhaps it will seem that way in a decade or so. In the meantime, Danson isn’t sitting on his laurels: He’s set to reunite with the show’s creator for something completely different.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the erstwhile Sam Malone and Good Place instigator Michael Schur are teaming back up for another scripted comedy, this one based on a true story. It’s an adaptation of the 2020 Chilean documentary The Mole Agent, which his described by the IMDb thusly: “A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.”
The series has been picked up for an eight-episode order by Netflix, which is one place where you can currently find The Good Place.
Schur has a pretty sterling CV. He’s co-creator of not only Parks and Recreation but also Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The guy knows office culture as well as the post-mortem, which should do him well in a retirement home setting where Danson has gone undercover — especially considering the guy can dance.
We’re another day closer to the release of Black Thought & El Michels Affair’s joint album Glorious Game, and today, the rapper and his other band rewarded fans for their patience with the title track from the album. “Glorious Game,” like “Grateful” and “That Girl” before it, sounds like an excerpt from a 1970s-era Blaxploitation film while Black Thought displays his usual virtuoso, rhyming an ode to the titular “Glorious Game” and detailing the secrets to his effortless cool.
Glorious Game is Thought’s second joint project in as many years, following 2022’s Cheat Codes with Danger Mouse, which saw him take a step back from his duties as the frontman of The Roots to spit alongside some of the rap biz’s finest MCs, including Joey Badass, MF DOOM, and Run The Jewels. Meanwhile, the multitalented rap pioneer has also been busy as a producer of film, television, and stage, most recently teaming up once again with his bandmate Questlove to produce a four-part documentary series about James Brown for A&E titled James Brown: Say It Loud. Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones is also listed as a producer.
Glorious Game is due for release on April 14 through Big Crown. Find more information here.
Ron DeSantis hasn’t even formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign yet, but it’s already clear how he would rule if he won. As governor of Florida, he’s sung the glories of freedom all while punishing those he hates. So when word that a Republican state legislator proposed a chilling bill that would require bloggers writing about elected state officials to register with the state, it didn’t seem far-fetched to imagine DeSantis himself supporting it. Alas, it’s so extreme that it’s being met with pushback from such progressive figures as…Newt Gingrich…and even Meatball Ron.
Let’s start with the former Speaker of the House and GOP boogeyman of the Clinton era. Gingrich — a man so principled he divorced his first wife when she had cancer and left his second after she’d been diagnosed with MS — was not only appalled at the authoritarian idea of restricting a free press, but also that a Republican in the year 2023 could dream it up.
The idea that bloggers criticizing a politician should register with the government is insane. it is an embarrassment that it is a Republican state legislator in Florida who introduced a bill to that effect. He should withdraw it immediately.
“The idea that bloggers criticizing a politician should register with the government is insane. it is an embarrassment that it is a Republican state legislator in Florida who introduced a bill to that effect,” Gingrich tweeted. “He should withdraw it immediately.”
It’s a pretty insane bill, even for a guy who openly complained about how easy it was for Georgians to vote. As proposed by one Jason Brodeur, it would require any bloggers covering state officials to register with “the appropriate office” five days after their first post. But that’s just the start. They’d have to file monthly reports if they continue to blog about them. Failure to file reports could lead to $2,500 fines per story — well above what anyone’s being paid per blog.
Given DeSantis’ open hostility towards the free press — and his silence when the bill was proposed — it was assumed that it had his tacit approval. And yet, miraculously, it does not. As per Mediaite, DeSantis belatedly distanced himself from the bill during a press briefing on Tuesday.
“There’s articles with my face on the article, saying that ‘Oh, they’re going to have to, bloggers are going to have to register for the state’ and it’s like attributing it [the bill] to me,” DeSantis. “That’s not anything that I’ve ever supported, I don’t support [it].”
Or at least he doesn’t support it now. DeSantis is MAGA Republican lawmaker, whereas Gingrich hails from a very different and very bygone version of the GOP, when there was at least a modicum of respect for journalists and their rights. Maybe DeSantis will change his tune.
One of the biggest festivals of the year is HARD, a long-running festival that began in 2007 to highlight alternative and electronic acts and has been running ever since. This year, though, it’s making some big changes, moving to a new venue in Los Angeles and continuing to expand its horizons, adding hip-hop acts such as 21 Savage and Kid Cudi as special guests after bringing in Megan Thee Stallion and Lil Uzi Vert last year.
HARD Summer 2023 returns to Los Angeles, the festival’s birthplace, for the first time in 10 years on August 5 and 6, leaving behind the San Bernardino NOS Event Center for the Exposition Park area near downtown, which includes both the Coliseum and BMO Stadium (formerly the Banc Of California Stadium).
And although there are some other rap names on this year’s lineup, including Fat Joe and Ludacris, HARD’s keeping things mostly the same, with headliners Kaskade and Skrillex joining a lineup that includes standouts such as Four Tet, Diplo, Black Coffee, Dillon Francis, Oliver Tree, and more. There also appear to be some surprise artists on the bill who will presumably be announced as the festival nears. And don’t discount the possibility that Drake, who collaborated with Black Coffee on last year’s Honestly, Nevermind, might show up too. Never forget who started EDM in the first place.
HARD Summer
Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 10 at 10 am. You can get more info on the official website.
While discussing this year’s CPAC event, Kilmeade and co-hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt weren’t interested in talking about such wild shenanigans as Kimberly Guilfoyle turning a speaking engagement into a Home Shopping Network segment while peddling gold coins like an unhinged leprechaun. Nope, they wanted to talk about the things that mattered — including the ongoing beef between Trump and DeSantis. Kilmeade made it clear that he thinks the Florida governor is a pretty a-ok kinda guy, noting that “he’s extremely personable.” Which is most certainly the number one quality you want in the leader of the free world.
Kilmeade was less impressed by Trump’s insatiable desire to come up with the perfect DeSantis put-down, as “Ron DeSanctimonious” is not sweeping the nation in the way the former POTUS hoped. While he noted that “Ron Dishonest” and “Ron Deestablishment” were among the contenders, Kilmeade — who once kind of bragged about reading Mein Kampf cover to cover — is really not on board with what seems to be Donald’s chosen winner: “Tiny D.”
“I don’t know,” said Kilmeade. “It’s hard to label somebody who is so similar to him with a nickname… It makes everybody on all sides seemingly uncomfortable. Even people reporting it.”
Do you want the best crunchy taco you’ve ever had? Cool! Buy some hamburger meat, cut up a red potato into tiny pieces, and throw the two in a cast iron pan. Season with paprika, salt, black pepper, red pepper, cumin, and chili powder, drain the fat, put a lid on it under low heat, and wait until those potatoes soften. Then warm up some corn tortillas, spoon the meat inside, pin each end closed with a toothpick, and throw the whole thing in a hot pan with oil. Remove when it’s sufficiently fried (lighter than you expect) top it with lettuce, and cheese, and dip it in whatever makes you happy (sour cream, guacamole, salsa, all three) and bing bang boom, you’ve got the best fried taco you’ve ever had in your life in 20 minutes.
Crunchy tacos are so easy to make at home that it’s amazing to me that we even have a fast food version. But then again… so are burgers! Sometimes you just don’t have time, and we respect that. So if you’ve got a craving for crunchy tacos and you don’t want to do any work whatsoever, what’s the play? The closest taqueria with fried tacos of course! But if you don’t have one of those (we’re really meeting you halfway here), it’s going to have to be Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, or Del Taco.
Fast food crunchy tacos are weak. They’re not nearly as good as what you can easily make at home and the meat inside is questionable. Having said all that… I still love them. Don’t get me wrong, I fully recognize that fast food crunchy tacos are a sad imitation of the real thing but have you ever rolled up to a Jack in the Box or Taco Bell in the middle of the night, sufficiently buzzed (or high) and hungry? Few things in life are better than that first bite into a greasy flavor-packed taco that costs just above $1.
So who makes the best? We’re about to find out. That’s right, we’re giving crunchy tacos the blind taste test treatment!
PART I — Methodology
Dane Rivera
Sadly, there aren’t very many fast food chains with crunchy tacos anymore. You used to be able to get crunchy tacos at Burger King, Carl’s Jr, Del Taco, Jack in the Box, and Taco Bell, and now BK and Carl’s are out. You could, of course, go to Chipotle, but we’re willing to bet if you have a craving for crunchy tacos, you want the cheap stuff, not a $10 customizable taco plate.
So for this blind taste test, we gathered up tacos from Del Taco, Jack in the Box, and Taco Bell and put them to a blind test. Because I know these tacos well, I had my girlfriend bring each on a plate one by one and donned my trusty blindfold for all four tacos. Here is our lineup:
Del Taco — Crunchy Taco
Jack in the Box — Crunchy Taco
Taco Bell — Crunchy Taco
Taco Bell — Doritos Loco Taco
Let’s eat!
Part 1: The Tasting
Taste 1:
Ashley Garcia
Greasy, intensely so, there is so much grease I can straight up taste it, but it’s also… kind of interesting. The tortilla shell is very light and crispy, and I’m getting a hint of mild taco sauce in there.
This taco is incredibly wet. Is that grease, is that sauce, do I want to find out?! The cheese is gooey but a little too flavorless. It’s more texture than anything else. I can’t really get a sense of what the meat tastes like and the lettuce is awful and smells bad.
Taste 2:
Ashley Garcia
What the hell am I eating?! Not enough crunch here and a whole lot of conflicting flavors. I’m getting an intense zesty cheese flavor, a whole lot of salt, with watery lettuce that muddies the beef. The mouthfeel is also awful, it tastes almost dusty. Not a fan.
Taste 3:
Ashley Garcia
Pretty solid. The shell has a great crunchy texture and the meat is beefy and savory with a nice blend of spices. I’m getting salt, paprika, and a hint of garlic. I love the texture of this one, everything just comes together harmoniously. There is a strong grease flavor that stains the aftertaste, but that doesn’t bother my tastebuds as much as it bothers me on a mental level.
Biting into it I thought “I know this is bad for me.” But I also promptly took another bite.
Taste 4:
Ashley Garcia
I was certain Taste 3 would win the top spot but Taste 4 is the winner. This has everything the last taco had but a significantly better cheese flavor and that really makes a difference in a three-ingredient taco. The cheddar here is rich, with a balance of sweet, sharp, and nutty notes that perfectly blend with the savory meat.
The beef here isn’t quite as flavor-packed as Taste 3 but the rest of the ingredients, from the shell, which is sturdy and crunchier to the crispy lettuce, taste significantly better. Overall, the taco provides a better experience. As far as the meat goes, you wouldn’t think it was under-seasoned, but side by side with Taste 3 the difference is apparent. Not enough to hurt it though.
Part 2: The Ranking
Taco Bell — Doritos Locos Taco (Taste 2)
Ashley Garcia
I get that the Doritos Locos has fans but — why? Is it because it’s just a cheap taco in a giant Dorito? It’s okay if that’s the reason, but this taco has nothing on Taco Bell’s OG. As a novelty, it’s a lot of fun but I honestly think the idea of this taco is its best seasoning. As it stands on its own, it’s an assault on the taste buds in the worst possible way.
The Bottom Line:
I know I’m going to anger the Taco Bell fans with this one, but this taco is designed to be enjoyed solely by people who are stoned or drunk! Or people that really really really like Doritos.
I’m actually surprised this one isn’t at the bottom of the ranking. Like I said in the tasting portion, this taco’s flavor is just grease. It’s very crispy slightly mild grease. And I kind of like it. Does it offend me that there is American cheese in here? Absolutely. Is the lettuce legitimately some of the worst lettuce I’ve ever tasted? Absolutely. Would I order one of these again in a heartbeat? Abso-f*cking-lutely.
The Bottom Line:
I’m not proud of this one but what can I say? I kind of like it. It’s greasy and tastes like it might kill you but it hits some sort of pleasure spot in my brain.
Although it didn’t get the number one spot, I still think Taco Bell makes one of the best fast food crunchy tacos ever. Somedays, I’ll take this over a Chipotle taco, and they used marinated meat over there! There is just something special about this taco, it’s probably the reason fast food crunchy tacos are a thing in the first place.
With the right packet of hot sauce, you can easily take this taco from good to great. It won’t beat what you can make at home, but it satisfies if you’re too beat to cook and want a cheap and easy dinner.
The Del Taco does everything that Taco Bell’s taco does — but better. While the flavors are very similar, there is something about Taco Bell that comes across as incredibly cheap. It’s the sort of taco that you eat and it constantly reminds you throughout the day that you’ve eaten it, whether that be from burping its flavors to hurting your stomach. That’s not the case with Del Taco.
Both are cheap, but at Del Taco it actually tastes like you’re getting quality. The meat is a little drier, but you know it’s meat. The lettuce is crisp and tastes more like a leaf than water, but the real star of the show is the cheese. It’s hand grated from an actual block, which means it doesn’t have that weird powdery texture that cheap shredded cheese has and packs a whole of flavor.
It’s sweet, nutty, savory, almost… floral, and I’m just talking about that cheese!
The Western genre died at some point in the 1970s, and one movie star more than any other has spent decades trying to bring it back. That star is Kevin Costner. He’s made several Westerns over his career — Silverado, Dances with Wolves, Open Range — and while some have been big hits, they’ve never quite brought the genre back full-force. Now it appears he’s finally succeeded: Yellowstone has inspired everyone else to make their own oaters. And one agent explains why dusting off the Western is a no-brainer.
A new report by The Hollywood Reporter rounds up some of the other Westerns currently in production at other streamers, who are hoping to strike Yellowstone gold. Amazon’s working on one from True Detective’s Nick Pizzolatto. Netflix has two, including one from Sons of Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter. Then there are all those other Yellowstone spin-offs. Why did the Western even die? That’s what one unnamed literary agent is wondering.
“Yellowstone has super-dramatic characters, love triangles, shoot-outs, murders, surprise adopted kids … it’s a soap opera in the modern Wild West,” they told THR. “It’s where a majority of the world and this country live; it’s what we should have been making this entire damn time.”
It’s not that content creators haven’t spent years trying to rescue the genre. “Writers have always pitched Westerns, but execs never wanted them,” the agent said. “Yellowstone has reignited interest in Americana and actual real-world living.”
In the past, Westerns have occasionally broken through, on both the big and small screens. Something like the Coen brother’s take on True Grit will scare up Marvel cash… only to inspire no copycats. Then again, sometimes you just get Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West.
If we looked 60 years into the past, there are a lot of things that were accepted as “normal” that today most people find abhorrent. For example, people used to smoke cigarettes everywhere. They’d light up in hospitals, schools and even churches.
People also used to litter like crazy. It’s socially unacceptable now, but if you lived in the ’70s and finished your meal at McDonald’s, you’d chuck your empty styrofoam container (remember those?) and soda cup right out of the window of your car and onto the street.
It’s hard to imagine that just 60 years ago spousal abuse was considered family business and wasn’t the concern of law enforcement.
It makes me wonder when people in the future look back on the year 2022, which things will they see as barbaric? Almost certainly, the way we treat the animals we use for food will be seen as cruel. The racial divides in the criminal justice system will be seen as a moral abomination. And I’m sure that people will also look at our continued reliance on fossil fuels as a major mistake.
A Reddit user by the name u/MEMELORD_JESUS asked the AskReddit subforum “What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?” and the responses exposed a lot of today’s practices that are worth questioning.
A lot of the responses revolved around American work ethic and how we are taught to live to work and not to work to live. We seem to always be chasing some magical reward that’s just around the corner instead of enjoying our everyday lives. “I’ll get to that when I retire,” we say and then don’t have the energy or the inclination to do so when the time comes.
There are also a lot of people who think that our healthcare system will be looked at with utter confusion by people in the future.
Here are 17 of the best responses to the question, “What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?”
1. Work-life balance
“Working until you’re old, greying, and broken then using whatever time you have left for all the things you wish you could have done when you were younger.” — Excited_Avocado_8492
2. Rest in comfort
“That dead people need pillows in caskets.” — Qfn4g02016
3. I.R.S. mystery
“Guessing how much you owe the IRS in taxes.” — SheWentThruMyPhone
4. You get the leaders you deserve
“Politicians blatantly lying to the people. We accept it so readily, it’s as though it’s supposed to be that way.” — BlackLetyterLies
5. The booze-drugs separation
“Alcohol is so normalized but drugs are not. It’s so weird. I say this as an alcohol loving Belgian, beer is half of our culture and I’m proud of it too but like… that’s fucking weird man.” — onions_cutting_ninja
6. Stage-parent syndrome
“People having kids and trying to live their lives again through them, vicariously, forcing the kids to do things that the parents never got to do, even when the kids show no inclination, and even have an active dislike, for those things.” — macaronsforeveryone
7. Priorities
“Living to work vs working to live.” — Food-at-last
8. ‘The Man’ is everywhere
“Being on camera or recorded any time you are in public.” — Existing-barely
9. Tragic positivity
“‘Feel-good’ news stories about how a kid makes a lemonade stand or something to pay for her mom’s cancer treatment because no one can afford healthcare in America.” — GotaLuvit35
10. Credit score
“As a non-American, I am amazed at their credit score system. As a third-world citizen, credit cards are usually for rich (and slightly less rich) people who have more disposable money than the rest of us and could pay off their debt.
The way I see people on Reddit talk about it is strange and somewhat scary. Everyone should have a card of his own as soon as he becomes an adult, you should always buy things with it and pay back to actively build your score. You’re basically doomed if you don’t have a good score, and living your life peacefully without a card is not an option, and lastly, you’ll be seen as an idiot if you know nothing about it.” — BizarroCullen
11. The retirement trap
“Spending 5/7ths of your life waiting for 2/7ths of it to come. We hate like 70% of our life, how is that considered fine?” — Deltext3rity
12. Yes, yes and yes
“Child beauty pageants.” — throwa_way682
13. That’s not justice
“The rape of male prisoners. It’s almost considered a part of the sentence. People love to joke about it all the time.” — visicircle
14. Customers aren’t employers
“Tipping culture in the US. Everyone thinks that it’s totally OK for employers not to pay the employees, and the customers are expected to pay extra to pay the employees wages. I don’t understand it.” — Lysdexiic
15. Staring at your phone
“Having smartphones in our faces all day. This shit isn’t normal…imma do it anyway…but it is not normal.” — Off_Brand_Barbie_OBB
16. Homework on weekends
“Students being assigned homework over weekends and only having a two-day weekend. The whole point of a weekend is to take a break from life, and then you have one day to recover from sleep deprivation then one day to relax which you can’t because of thinking about the next day being Monday. And the two days still having work to do anyways.” — MrPers0n3O
17. Kids on social media
“Children/young teens posting on social media sites. I’m not necessarily talking about posting on a private Instagram followed by friends, I’m talking about when kids post on tiktok publicly without parental consent.” — thottxy
This article originally appeared on 03.11.22
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