According to TMZ, The Blazers were scheduled to fly from Portland to Sacramento, California for their matchup with the Kings tonight, February 23, “but a severe snowstorm delayed their chartered flight for seven hours” last night, February 22.
While stranded, Lillard transformed into Dame D.O.L.L.A., his musical alter ego, to spit a freestyle over the beat to GloRilla’s “Tomorrow 2” remix featuring Cardi B (as noted by TMZ).
Lillard posted the video to his Instagram with the caption, “When you stuck on the plane for 7 hours and the flight get canceled [shrug emoji] … guess we try again TOMORROW [cry-laughing emojis]”:
“How the f*ck we stuck up in the snow? Guess we fly this b*tch tomorrow,” Dame rapped while reading from his phone. Later in the freestyle, he referenced his “Dame Time” nickname — “I’ma tap my wrist, it’s Dame Time / I give them fits” — and cleverly demanded, “Captain, let me in the pit!”
Lillard has been delivering cold bars for years, and he’s a respected rapper by his NBA peers and rap legends alike.
His debut project, The Letter “O,” arrived in 2016, and it housed collaborations with Lil Wayne and Jamie Foxx. Confirmed (2017), Big D.O.L.L.A. (2019), Live From The Bubble (2020) and Different On Levels The Lord Allowed(2021) followed suit. Wayne, Blxst, Mozzy, Q-Tip, and Raphael Saadiq were among the featured artists on Different On Levels The Lord Allowed.
Are you aware of what’s happening with CSI these days? It’s kind of incredible. There’s a show out there called CSI: Vegas. If you read that just now and said “Wait, wasn’t CSI always in Las Vegas?” then you are both right and wrong and about to go on a real ride. That original CSI ended in 2015. There were others in there for a while, too, most notably CSI: Miami (Caruso, sunglasses, etc.), but also CSI: NY (Gary Sinise solving City murders), and my beloved CSI: Cyber (Ted Danson and Patricia Arquette doing computer things, sometimes using a Roomba to solve a murder). Those all ended and then CBS brought back some of the original crew in 2021 and plopped them back in Sin City and called this revival/continuation CSI: Vegas, which is somehow both less and more confusing than if they had just called it CSI again. It’s really a lot, and that’s before we even get to the various NCISes or the thing where Without a Trace and Cold Case exist in the same fictional universe as CSI, too. Ask your dad about it. He’ll probably have most of it nailed down.
In fact, buckle in for a long chat about television with your dad, or any dad, really. The last few weeks have been kind of wild for them. There are spinoffs and continuations and prequels of so many of their favorite shows happening or about to happen right now. Most of the shows are going to Miami, like many dad shows and dads eventually do. It must be so thrilling. The Dad Show Extended Universe is growing at an exponential rate.
Let’s start at the top. The top of the ratings, at least. Things are happening in the world of Yellowstone. So many things, honestly, in addition to all of the other things showrunner Taylor Sheridan has going on right now. The big one is the chaos of the original, which could be ending soon on account of Dad North Star Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Tin Cup, all the dad classics) allegedly wanting to step away from the show soon. But fear not! Plans are in place! Probably!
What all parties are now wrangling is a Yellowstone franchise extension that Sheridan will write with McConaughey as the star. The True Detective star is currently in negotiations.
Because of the wild success of the prequel series 1883, 1923 and expectations on upcoming Sheridan shows, the studio has more flexibility and isn’t as dependent on Yellowstone as was the case two years ago.
Matthew McConaughey stepping in for Kevin Costner for a spinoff of a show about a ranch where sometimes murders happen. This is some powerful business. But let’s not miss the other key part of this. There are so many Yellowstone spinoffs already and there are going to be so many more. Look at this list.
Prequel limited series 1883, which starred Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Sam Elliott, premiered in December 2021 and told the story of how the Duttons came to own the land that became the Yellowstone ranch.
1923, which stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford, premiered in December 2022 and is set for a second and final season, taking in the time of Western expansion, prohibition and the Great Depression.
As Deadline scooped last October, also on the drawing board are two separate limited series that encompass the struggle to hang onto the ranch in the 1940s and the 1960s.
For the math-averse, this adds up to four Yellowstone prequels, in addition to the original and the McConaughey extension of that. My great hope is that this universe keeps growing in both directions and the next batch of spinoffs includes one called like 3023 set 1000 years in the future but nothing has changed on the ranch. Maybe the cars fly now. That’s it. Everyone still in cowboy hats and working the soil as the sun expands and threatens to swallow the planet whole. Or maybe they are ranching on Mars. Maybe both. The only thing limiting us is the furthest reaches of our imaginations.
It’s not just Yellowstone that’s expanding its universe. Bosch is growing, too. At a rapid pace. Everyone’s favorite show about a loose cannon cop who gets results and listens to jazz in a glass house overlooking Los Angeles is getting two new spinoffs (spins-off?) in the next year or two, in addition to the spinoff it already has. Here, look, there’s one about Bosch’s partner, Jerry Edgar, played by Wire veteran Jamie Hector…
A police drama following Harry Bosch’s former partner, Detective Jerry Edgar, who is tapped for an undercover FBI mission in Little Haiti, Miami. In this glamorous city, he is forced to balance his new life with the gritty underbelly of the city, while being chased by his mysterious past.
… and there’s one about Renee Ballard, too, who is a figure in a series of books by Bosch author Michael Connelly.
Detective Renee Ballard is tasked with running the LAPD’s new cold case division. Beyond simply investigating unsolved crimes, Renee is dedicated to bringing credibility to the department and justice to the community. Having learned from retired ally and mentor Harry Bosch, Renee does things her way – solving cases in unconventional ways while navigating the politics of being a woman on the rise in the LAPD.
Which is fine. Great, even. My only request is that both shows let Lance Reddick’s character, police chief Irvin Irving, swing by every once in a while to grumble the lead character’s name and/or swear a little bit. I could use a few more screencaps like these.
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Sometimes I think about what I would do if Lance Reddick ever yelled at me. So far the best answer I have is “dissolve into a little pile of dust and blow away in the first reasonably stiff breeze.” I will continue to ponder this. I do not think I would enjoy it.
Hey, guess what other show is getting a handful of spinoffs in the next few years. Did you say Billions? Is it because Paul Giamatti is in the image at the top of the page? Hmm. Well, you’re right, for whatever reason. It’s Billions!
The looser plan for “Billions” is designed to give viewers various entry points to fictional worlds of money and power, and to provide Showtime with related content to premiere throughout the year. “Billions” co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien are developing a spinoff set in Miami, a hub of cryptocurrency (and tax breaks for TV productions). The producers will also oversee development of a potential London spinoff, plus two planned takeoffs on the “Billions” title: “Millions,” about young characters on the come-up in finance; and “Trillions,” a soapier foray into the ultrarich set.
My God. Read that again. And another time after that. Millions, Trillions, Billions: Miami, and Billions: London. This is incredible. I need the Miami one to star Giamatti and let him go full Caruso. Sunglasses, bright shirts unbuttoned to the middle of his chest, all of it. I need to see him do exactly this but with a golden suntan and a white linen suit, preferably as soon as this afternoon.
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The things I need you to take away from this discussion can best be summarized in three bullet points, so let’s go ahead and do that:
This is an exciting era for dads everywhere
I’m still kind of blown away by the CSI revival series being called CSI: Vegas even though that’s where the original series was set
We need to figure out a way to get Bosch, Billions, and Yellowstone to do a three-way crossover series, maybe about a crypto tycoon who gets murdered on a ranch in Miami that Bosch is visiting
Get your dad on the phone this weekend and ask him about it. He probably has lots to say about all of this.
In this day and age, a lot of people have side hustles. They aren’t really for fun, but more of a requirement if you want to be able to afford all of the various streaming services (looking at you, Netflix). But having multiple jobs and nighttime gigs is super common among both us normal folks and celebrities who are also trying to make a quick buck. Why do you think Super Bowl commercials have become so star-studded?!
Former Disney star Bella Thorne has had her fair share of side hustles: she became involved with helping to create a site similar to OnlyFans after crashing their own site, which is pretty good for just a “side gig,” in addition to acting in the high schooler-acclaimed Netflix film series The Babysitter. But her latest gig is about as far removed as you can get from her Disney roots.
Thorne recently revealed the success of one of her latest projects in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. When asked about how she finds the most financial success in her various business ventures, the actress had a surprising answer. “It’s hard to say now for sure but I would say my cannabis company. That’s the big revenue stream,” she explained.
Forbidden Flowers, Thorne’s personal weed brand, launched in 2021. Thorne explains that being financially stable allows her to pick and choose her movie roles without having to be afraid of not making ends meet. “I definitely make money in my film career for sure but when it comes to movies, I take more indie projects because I like small budgets and often you’re saying yes because you like the writing or think the director is going to be f**king awesome,” she explained, adding, “I have always wanted to have other businesses so that I could afford to take the projects that I really want to take. That was, that’s taken me I think a while to get financially really in a good place where I can afford to completely say no to things and feel good about it and not be genuinely worried.”
Thorne isn’t the only actress who has been open and honest about the various brand deals and projects that they sign on to in order to stay financially secure. And we all know how much celebs love weed, so she made a pretty smart move here. This means, thanks to the booming success of Thorne’s brand, there will be even more Babysitter movies to come! And that’s what matters most here.
The way we come across long-lasting friendships is often unexpected. But when you’re part of a military family. You learn to grab hold of the good people you meet and carry those friendships across states and oceans. You mark your friendships based off of what base you were stationed at when you met them and know those friendships can withstand just about anything because they’ve been tried.
So for an American family stationed in Japan, there was no doubt at least one lifelong friendship would be made. It just may have been surprising that the friend wasn’t affiliated with the military. Instead, the friend was an older Japanese man who didn’t speak English and lived next door to the young family in Yokosuka, Japan.
But this isn’t the first time this unique story went viral. In 2013, Reddit user Theresa52 posted a picture of a note that she received from her neighbor-turned-friend. People loved the letter and sweet story attached. Theresa explained that after moving to their new neighborhood in Japan, she and her husband passed out beer and chocolate to their neighbors. A few hours later, they met, Hiroshi Yamashita, their new neighbor and one of the recipients of their gift.
When Yamashita knocked on the family’s door, he presented them with gifts of his own—toilet paper, stuffed animals and a note. In the thread Theresa noted, “Things that are consumable and household necessities are popular gifts. We have heard lots of stories about people getting laundry soap,” after someone asked if toilet paper was a common housewarming gift in Japan. The stuffed animals were for their infant daughter at the time.
But the note is what keeps going viral. It starts out, “I can’t speak English. Thank you for the present. My name is Hiroshi Yamashita. I’m 52 years old. [I’m divorced] and I live alone.” Since Yamashita didn’t speak English, the note had some spots that were difficult to understand but the intent was clearly pure.
Theresa wrote in the comments of the post that it appeared that he was asking if her husband was in the Navy. While the sentences are out of order a bit, if you reorganize them a little, it seems Yamashita is attempting to say, “I have stuffed animals and toilet paper. You can use it if you’d like.”
The man concludes the letter with “Thank you for your friend operation.” It seemed that he was thanking the family for their hospitality, but Reddit users surmised that he was referring to Operation Friendship in 2011 when the United States aided Japan after an earthquake. Either way, it was still friendship operation because what says friendship like taking time out of your day to write in a language you don’t speak just to make sure your neighbors feel welcomed?
“It was adorable! We had brought him a six pack and some chocolate and tried to introduce ourselves to him. A couple hours later he brought over this letter with a pack of toilet paper and some stuffed animals for our daughter,” Theresa wrote in the comments while joking that their initial introduction probably amused Yamashita.
Further explaining within comment threads, Theresa said that they used pointing and Google Translate when they initially met Yamashita, and in turn, he used a translator app to write the note.
Theresa shared an update in the comments about six years after the story originally went viral saying, “We all exchanged gifts and food regularly for the four years I lived there. We would go to neighborhood festivals and have dinners together as well. I miss them all and think about them often.”
You never know when being kind will turn into a life long friendship. We certainly hope Yamashita and Theresa are doing just as well today and are continuing to spread their kindness around.
My friend and I were hiking along a beautiful coastal trail when her phone chimed. “Oh, time for my BeReal!” she exclaimed. She pulled her phone from her fanny pack, snapped a photo of our ocean view, then beckoned me for a quick selfie with her. A few seconds later, she put her phone away.
I had no idea what had just happened.
As she explained what BeReal was, my first reaction was, “Great. Another social media app. Just what the world needs.” She described it as being a more genuine version of Instagram, but I didn’t get the appeal.
Then I saw my teen and young adult kids using it. Then I downloaded it myself. Then I got it.
The beauty of BeReal is in its limitations. You can only post one time per day. There are no filters. No businesses to follow. No ads or sponsored content. Not even any DMs to slide into. You connect with your friends, and their daily BeReals are all you see in your feed.
A BeReal is simply a two-way photo—a snapshot of whatever the person is doing, wherever they are, and an inset selfie of them while they’re doing it. Everyone is prompted to post a BeReal at the same time with a two-minute window, though you can actually post any time after the chime rings. You can’t view anyone else’s posts until you share yours.
You can add a short caption once it’s posted, and your friends can react to your BeReal post with a “RealMoji” (an emoji you make with your own face) or a comment.
That’s it. That’s the whole app experience. Refreshingly simple.
And people have been flocking to it. The app was launched in 2020 and it kicked off 2022 with 920,000 monthly active users. By August, that number had skyrocketed to 73.5 million, according to Business of Apps. As TechCrunch reports, some of that growth was due to intentional, paid promotions among college students, but I’ve witnessed huge organic growth in my own social circles in the past six months. BeReal has quickly become my teen and young adult kids’ and their friends’ favorite social media app.
That tracks, since according to Statista, 90% of BeReal users are younger than 35. So what is it about the app that has Millennials and Gen Z so hooked? According to the young people I’ve spoken to, they like that the photos aren’t staged, there’s no pressure to post or comment and it’s “not addictive.” There’s no algorithm trying to suck you into whatever it thinks will keep you scrolling, and because people can only post once a day, it’s naturally limited in the amount of time you want to spend on it.
It’s also just fun to see what people are really up to in their everyday lives, even the mundane stuff. It feels far removed from the filtered, perfectly posed and curated photos people share on other apps, and you don’t have to wade through people’s political diatribes or sponsored content to use it. Kids can connect with their friends near and far, sharing silly daily life stuff without fretting over “likes” or trolls or other social media drama.
In other words, the kids who grew up with social media are tired of feeling overwhelmed by the over-edited, over-advertised, over-argumentative nature of it. BeReal feels genuine, which is exactly what its creators, French entrepreneurs Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perreau, intended.
The big question is whether or not the app will be sustainable as it is in the long run. Barreyat and Perreau have managed to avoid media interviews, so it’s hard to know what their plans are for the future. There has been some buzz about adding some paid features rather than relying on advertising, so we’ll see. But in the meantime, it’s a lovely respite from the fray and a brilliant way to keep young people connected online without the pitfalls of traditional social media.
You know those big giant antennas that look like they reach just below the wing of an airplane at cruising height? Well, someone has to climb them every so often to inspect them or change the flashing bulb. You’d think it would be easier to have a helicopter or something drop them off, but there’s probably a really compelling reason someone has to physically climb the antenna. If nothing else, it’s a good workout.
For Nick Wagner, climbing these huge antennas is just another Tuesday at the office. Wagner works for a company called National Tower Controls, LLC, and apparently, they do maintenance on these towers annually. I’m not sure if there’s some sort of process to decide who gets to be the one to climb the beast or if everyone that works there is expected to climb. But Wagner took everyone on his climb to change out the light bulb and inspect KDLT-TV’s antenna in 2015, and while the view is beautiful, I imagine it could also give you heart palpitations.
“Must not be afraid of heights” is likely in the job description multiple times, bolded, italicized and highlighted. It’s not like if you get a little wobbly you can just step down. You’d need an airborne rescue team or a parachute, which makes you wonder if that’s part of their climbing equipment. In the video, the climb itself took nearly 15 minutes and it’s not clear where in the climb Wagner started filming, but the view is so spectacular that you can practically see the curvature of the Earth.
What makes this whole process even more interesting is that if someone were to ask what he did all day, his answer could be, “I changed a light bulb.” Wagner can have those light bulbs and I’ll stick to the ones that require no more height than a kitchen chair.
You gotta feel for Fear The Walking Dead. The show finally hit its stride a few seasons ago, and a final season will premiere on Mother’s Day this year, but the franchise’s fans have largely moved on to thinking about the other spinoffs on the way. First up will be The Walking Dead‘s Negan and Maggie spinoff, Dead City, with an even more disgusting Walker take than fans have seen before now, and we’ve stomached the Meat Grinder scene. Then before Rick Grimes returns for his spinoff with Michonne, we’ll see Daryl In Paris.
Since we don’t really know the title of the spinoff yet, and Norman Reedus won’t get his wish of “Boom Boom,” god only knows what the title truly shall be. Perhaps I shall obnoxiously wish for “Can we get the man a crossbow and a Vespa?” From there, we know that French zombies aren’t as glam as they should be, and since I’m here to discuss any little tidbit available on this show, let’s circle back and revisit a gem dug up by Comic Book.
As Reedus has previously declared, he pointed towards how Daryl actually “smiled a little bit” in The Walking Dead series finale, and “and that tone kind of makes it into the spin-off a little bit.” Reedus also added, “The tone is much different, the [cinematography is] much different. The lighting’s different. We’re in castles, and the storyline has a religious vibe to it. Part of the story is me around a bunch of people speaking French. I’m trying to figure out like, ‘Is this gonna be a fight?’”
This actually sounds like high comedy in a way, although I’m not suggesting that this spinoff will be categorized as comedy. But it could be lighter, and if Daryl keeps smiling, so be it. Also, no way in heck does Daryl Dixon know how to speak any French at all, and that’s fine. It’s not as though he’s Emily Cooper heading over to France to take the marketing world by storm and intentionally doing so while not speaking the language.
As for how he gets to France, that detail remains a tantalizing mystery. AMC has revealed that he simply washes ashore and has no idea how he got there. As though he went exploring after the events of The Walking Dead and, like Bugs Bunny, took a wrong turn at Albuquerque or something.
However, the Dixon spinoff series does sound like a refreshing turn on the franchise. I have fingers crossed that he’ll venture into the catacombs because that would be wicked cool, and Reedus has explicitly promised, “We’re destroying the Louvre and stuff.” Reedus will be surrounded by French actors, including Clémence Poésy (The Essex Serpent, In Bruges) and Adam Nagaitis (Chernobyl, The Terror). So far, it doesn’t look like we’ll see Melissa McBride’s Carol, but Reedus has cautioned people not to draw conclusions on that note. Hopefully, we’ll receive a premiere date soon.
Wednesday‘s music is full of casual mayhem, especially in their latest album, 2021’s Twin Plagues. In “Cliff,” ashes are kept in a Dallas Cowboys urn; “Gary’s” begins with a screen door being ripped off its frame. Cigarettes and disillusion abound. Their forthcoming album Rat Saw God is sure to exist in a similarly chaotic world.
Following “Bull Believer” and “Chosen To Deserve” is “Bath County.” “I can walk on water / I can raise the dead,” Karly Hartzman begins the track singing. Quickly, it transforms into a whirlwind of twangy, heady indie rock emphasizing the seismic feeling of Hartzman’s hook: “Every daughter of God / Has a little bad luck sometimes.”
“This is a song I wrote on a porch in Bath County, Virginia when me and [lead guitarist] Jake [Lenderman] were visiting Jake’s moms hometown,” Hartzman explained in a statement. “It includes some imagery I saw on that trip as well as a description of a guy we saw overdosed in a parking lot early one morning on our way to Dollywood.”
About the video, Hartman added, “The video I made myself is an homage to PJ Harvey’s video for ‘Man-Size.’ I’ve never seen someone emit as much confidence as she does in that video. I wanted to pretend for a minute I possessed that attitude but it was harder than it looks! Endless respect for Peej.”
Listen to “Bath County” above.
Rat Saw God is out 4/7 via Dead Oceans. Pre-order it here.
Ahead of the epic performance, which will somehow be his first time playing MSG, Nas returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbertfor the first time since 2018 on Wednesday night, February 22.
“It’s sort of surreal. It’s like a dream. I never thought I would be there. I thought about it when I got into music, and I thought, like, ‘I gotta play that place when I make it,’” Nas told Colbert. “And all the years escaped me because I got busy doing so many other things, and then I started releasing music again, so I said, ‘Now’s the right time.’”
With Colbert, Nas unpacked what King’s Disease actually means.
“Over-indulgence,” he said. “[The king] gets what he wants, and too much of that is not good.”
Colbert wondered if Nas has “ever had the King’s Disease,” to which Nas said, “I guess some elements of it. Here and there, you know. It’s a wake-up call. You wake up before it’s too late. I read about a lot of artists that came up in our time or before our time, and some of them were wild people. And I learned a lot from them, and it kind of gave me some of the guidelines in this business.”
“How do you cure the King’s Disease?” Colbert asked.
Nas continued, “You kill the ego, and you make it about the music. Make it about the art. And live your life.”
Nas’ conversation with Colbert also touched on the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and which artists Nas would like to collaborate with, including Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. Watch it above.
The world will soon be blessed with not one, but two TV series where Pedro Pascal plays a gruff but lovable father figure to a youngster. On The Last of Us, he’s taking Ellie across the country; on The Mandalorian, he’s going on adventures throughout the galaxy with Baby Yoda. I can’t imagine too many parents watching the HBO show where a fungal beast rips a dude’s head in half with their kids, but The Mandalorian is friendly enough for the whole family to enjoy. Just don’t ask Pascal to do The Voice if you see him in person.
“People come up to me and ask me to do the voice [from The Mandalorian] for their kids,” the actor said during an interview on The Graham Norton Show. “But I think it sounds inappropriate because it is a breathy, low register ‘bedroom’ voice.” Pascal added, “It is so creepy and doesn’t work in real life.”
As established, Pascal is Daddy (where’s that bumper sticker?), so pretty much anything he says could be considered inappropriate. “This is the way.” The way to what? The bedroom? Just leave innocent Baby Yoda with a sitter, OK?
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