We are all familiar with the stories of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. In every childhood tale, wolves were depicted as deceitful and threatening – creatures that would devour our livestock and grandparents. As a child, I had chills when wolves howled in films.
All it took to change this perception was taking one step into Wolf Park, a research and education facility in Battle Ground, Indiana. As a visitor, intern, volunteer, and now staff member, I’ve observed the wolves at Wolf Park mourning packmates who have crossed the rainbow bridge, gently tending to pups, and spending afternoons playing chase on frozen lakes or grassy meadows. Studying wolves at such a close distance is enough to alter anyone’s perceptions of this apex predator.
One of the things I always tell the more than 20,000 visitors that come through our facility each year is, “Disney got wolves wrong.” The deeply rooted misconceptions about wolves, reinforced by film and media, that prevent people from understanding the essential role of wolves in our environment are the same misconceptions that existed 50 years ago when Wolf Park was founded.
While many may think wolves live in every thick forest across the country, they’ve become functionally extinct in 90% of the lands they once lived in. Wolves historically lived throughout the country for thousands of years, but systematic killings by humans, falsely justified by these age-old misconceptions, have almost erased them from their historic habitats.
One key misconception is that predatory wolf packs are killing large numbers of ranchers’ livestock. However, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that only about 1% of unwanted livestock deaths are connected to wolves.
This misconception stems from the false notion that wolves wipe out other animals in an ecosystem. In fact, wolves are considered a keystone species, meaning that they actually regulate other prey populations. This, in turn, allows plant and other animal populations to grow and thrive.
Another misbelief is that gray wolves’ position on the food chain as apex predators will cause their population to balloon without human regulation. However, by living in packs, wolves are able to self-regulate and control their own populations by only letting certain members of the pack breed.
I believe my job became even more important after the US Fish and Wildlife Service removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in January of 2021. This controversial decision stripped wolves’ federal protections and brought back brutal hunting tactics, causing key wolf populations to plummet.
Since the delisting, multiple states have introduced aggressive wolf management plans that have been nothing short of death sentences for the remaining wolves in those states. Idaho’s plan, for instance, allows for up to 90% of the wolf population to be killed. Wisconsin was even forced to halt its hunting season after hunters slaughtered 119 wolves over the target in the first weekend of the season.
Officials claimed the decision to delist had been made after data showed that gray wolf populations had made a successful recovery, but multiple peer-reviewed commissions found the initial proposal misrepresented population data and contained “substantial errors.” It is clear that the decision to delist wolves was not made based on scientific evidence, but a legacy of hatred and misunderstanding wolves.
That’s why the campaign to relist gray wolves on the endangered species list has found support across the country and been championed by a coalition of conservationists, environmental nonprofit organizations, wildlife advocates, and scientists. Although federal protections were restored in a majority of the continental United States earlier this year, wolves remain vulnerable to hunts in the Northern Rockies where a majority of the slaughter occurs.
At Wolf Park, we’ve hosted summer camps where participants, having learned the legal status of wolves, have joined thousands of Americans across the country to advocate for federally relisting gray wolves on the endangered species list as part of the national #RelistWolves campaign. We must continue our calls on legislators to protect this iconic species.
But to truly protect wolves for generations to come, we must rid ourselves of the misconceptions that we’ve been exposed to since childhood. We must create a society that is not worried about the Big Bad Wolf coming to blow our houses down and instead sees the animal as protectors of our delicate ecosystem. Wolves deserve a place on our planet just as much as we do.
Christopher Lile is the Education & Advocacy Director at Wolf Park in Indiana and a member of the #RelistWolves campaign.
Statistically speaking, the number of humans who have traveled into space is insignificant. But the experience of leaving our home planet and venturing into the great beyond is incredibly significant for the individuals who have actually done it.
One of those fortunate humans is actor William Shatner, who spent three years pretending to hurtle through space in his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk on the original “Star Trek” series. As captain of the USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk was dedicated to exploring “strange new worlds,” seeking out “new life and new civilizations” and boldly going “where no man has gone before.”
Naturally, Shatner has spent a lot of time pondering what it would be like to actually experience leaving Earth, and when he took the opportunity to join Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin trip to space in October 2021 at age 90, he was able to compare how his expectations met up with reality.
Shatner shared an excerpt from his new book with Variety, and it reveals that his initial reaction to being in space was surprisingly dark.
“I love the mystery of the universe,” Shatner wrote. “I love all the questions that have come to us over thousands of years of exploration and hypotheses. Stars exploding years ago, their light traveling to us years later; black holes absorbing energy; satellites showing us entire galaxies in areas thought to be devoid of matter entirely… all of that has thrilled me for years…”
However, as he looked out the window of the spacecraft—a real one, not a screen on a film set—and looked in the direction opposite Earth, “there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold,” he wrote. “All I saw was death. I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing.”
As he turned back toward “the light of home,” he saw the opposite. “I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.”
Then he had a stunning revelation: “Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong.”
Again, this is a man who has spent much of his life thinking about space—not as an astronaut or astronomer or astrophysicist, but as a human being stuck on the Earth’s surface, struck with wonder about what’s out there. He explained what he had been wrong about:
“I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film ‘Contact,’ when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, ‘They should’ve sent a poet.’ I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.
“It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”
Shatner explained how this “sense of the planet’s fragility takes hold in an ineffable, instinctive manner” for many astronauts when they view Earth from orbit. It’s part of the “overview effect“—the profound shift in perspective that comes with seeing our collective home from a distance. With no visible borders between nations or peoples, it becomes clear that our divisions are all manmade, which can change the way we view humanity as a whole.
The experience left Shatner with renewed conviction to focus on what we share in common.
“It reinforced tenfold my own view on the power of our beautiful, mysterious collective human entanglement,” he wrote, “and eventually, it returned a feeling of hope to my heart. In this insignificance we share, we have one gift that other species perhaps do not: we are aware—not only of our insignificance, but the grandeur around us that makes us insignificant. That allows us perhaps a chance to rededicate ourselves to our planet, to each other, to life and love all around us. If we seize that chance.”
Just beautiful. Since most of us will never leave Earth, we can take inspiration from those who have, acknowledge our essential oneness and do everything in our power to protect our beautiful, life-giving home.
We’ve come a long way when it comes to how we view and treat others with disabilities. However, to say that our society has completely done away with ableism would be naive.
Dennis Peek, a man with Down syndrome, had worked at a Wendy’s in North Carolina for 20 years. According to his sister Cona Turner, Peek’s dream was to one day have a “huge retirement party.” Instead, he was abruptly fired after two decades of service.
“They told me [he] was unable to perform the duties of a normal person’s job!!!!,” Turner said in a now viral Facebook post. She added that she was looking into wrongful termination of a special needs employee and considering throwing a retirement party for Peek anyway.
“They have no idea how they hurt my brother,” her post concluded.
Little did Turner know, but voicing her frustrations online would be just the catalyst needed to turn things around in a positive way.
WSOC-TV reported that only a day later, Turner received a call from Carolina Restaurant Group, which owns and operates the Wendy’s, offering to give Peek his job back.
“We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for our employees and our customers. This was an unfortunate mistake and lapse in protocol; we are in touch with the employee’s family, and we are looking forward to welcoming him back to work in the restaurant,” Carolina Restaurant Group said in a statement, according to WSOC-TV.
Turner, “overwhelmed” by the support she and her brother were shown online, updated her post to include the Carolina Restaurant Group offer. However, she felt that it didn’t fully make things right. “To me that was giving a normalcy back to Dennis,” she said in an interview with WBTV. “Now is it fair? No it’s not fair at all. Should there be consequences? Absolutely. You can’t treat somebody like that.”
So instead of returning to work, Peek will be getting his long-awaited big retirement party.
“Wendy’s has offered to help with expenses and anything else they can for his special day,” she wrote in a subsequent post update. “I feel in my heart at this point I should do what is best for my brother.”
Turner told WBTV that Peek “enjoyed every minute working his job,” particularly interacting with other people. Knowing how much the job meant to him made it all the more devastating to receive the news—over the phone and minutes before Peek was set to be dropped off, no less. Turner added that the manager also failed to hand over any termination papers despite her request for them.
”He don’t understand if someone is coming against him,” Turner said. “He don’t understand not being treated fair. He don’t understand none of that. He don’t…it just breaks my heart.”
Peek’s much-deserved party might have never happened without the flood of positive comments Turner received online, making her post go viral. People who had been rallying for Peek to get his job back were celebrating his victory in the comments after Turner’s most recent announcement.
“Way to stand behind your brother in what is right! Praying for all of you in this special retirement party! Please set up a special retirement account that we can give to!” wrote one person.
“I am so happy for your brother for being offered his job back and his retirement party. Is there anything he really likes? I would love to send him a gift. He has a very big heart for others.,” wrote another.
Happy retirement, Peek. We hope it’s the shindig of your dreams. Sometimes social media really can be a force for good.
The last handful of weekends have seen something unusual happen at the box office: the top prize — and indeed most of the Top 5 — has gone to a non-franchise film, including Barbarian and Smile. It’s a big deal considering franchises have all but devoured the multiplexes. Still, there was one wholly original film that really didn’t click, despite a wealth of stars: Amsterdam, David O. Russell’s star-studded ‘30s romp, which opened in third but only scraped together $6.5 million. Problem is, the film’s budget was near-blockbuster-sized, and its underperformance may cost its production companies a lot of money.
As per Deadline, Amsterdam cost a reported $80 million, but right now it’s only slated to bring in a global total of $35 million. Throw in an estimated $70 million for advertising, and this film — which could have been a sleeper hit like Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook or American Hustle — stands to lose about $100 million.
How did Amsterdam wind up costing so much? For one thing, it’s period. For another, there’s the stars. (It seems like every role, even small ones, is filled by a big name, including a certain pop star.) It was also plagued. Deadline reports that a lot of the high cost was due to a change in location, moving from Boston to Los Angeles. It was also one of numerous productions that were delayed due to the beginning of the pandemic. Then there were the lackluster reviews — key to outside-the-box movies like this.
In any case, it’s not a great sign for big-budget original work from established auteurs. But if you want to check out what the guy who made Three Kings and Joy is up to, you might want to head to the theaters but quick.
When Emma D’Arcy landed one of the leads on House of the Dragon, it’s not like they weren’t a fan of the Game of Thrones franchise. They had just never seen it. Now the British performer is becoming a big star, praised for their work as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, ancestor of Daenerys, as well as one of their favorite beverages. They’re not even convinced they could have done it had they been some George R.R. Martin superfan.
“I hadn’t seen it before I auditioned, which I honestly think is the only reason I’m able to do the job,” D’Arcy confessed to Interview (as caught by Entertainment Weekly). “There’s no way I’d have made it through the audition process if, at that time, I had the love for the show that I have now. I think I’d have buckled under the pressure.”
It’s not like they were totally unaware of it. “I was aware of the show as a cultural phenomenon,” they said. “I haven’t lived under a rock and it was very much in my peripheral awareness.”
D’Arcy also discussed another, more personal aspect of the gig:
“This is the first job in which I’ve brought my nonbinary identity to work. And part of that was because HBO asked me what pronouns I use, and I thought a lot about whether this was the right time. The reason it’s important is that there was a point, earlier in my career, where I really worried that it wasn’t possible to be an actor if you aren’t a cisgendered person. Typically, within casting sites, there are two columns, and I wondered if those two identities were going to have to live separately in order for me to have a career. The reason I decided to be honest in my presentation professionally is that I really hope that younger people who want to do this work know that there is absolutely space and that space is opening up.”
It was a big deal when Dragon did a big time jump and D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke took over the role of Rhaenyra and Queen Alicent Hightower from their younger performers, but the transition has been, fans have noted, smooth. But there’s a chance we’ll still see Milly Alcock and Emily Carey again.
No one would blame you for not being able to keep up with all the new whiskey drops these days. It’s endless and fall is a dense time when it comes to new whiskeys hitting the shelves. That’s especially true of American rye whiskeys, a segment growing by leaps and bounds as a whiskey style. Since there’s a nearly endless stream of new stuff right now, I figured I’d take eight rye whiskeys that landed on my desk, basically over the last month or so, and blind taste-test them.
For this blind tasting, I’m looking at the flavor of the whiskeys to rank them. I’m not concerned with the prices or the techniques employed. This is about what tastes good enough to actually seek out. The rest is all secondary to that prime tenant — does it taste good or not? Luckily, I had some killer new ryes to try, so ranking these wasn’t the easiest task I’ve ever had.
Dark cherry and butterscotch candies pop on the nose next to sour red wine mixed with mulled wine spices — lots of cinnamon, clove, and star anise — next to tart apple skins, apple bark, and a hint of singed marshmallow between lightly burnt Graham Crackers. The palate leans into spices in a subtle way with a nutmeg/eggnog vibe next to rich vanilla ice cream and smoked cherries with a minor note of fresh pipe tobacco and singed cedar bark. The end adds some dried red chili and sharp cinnamon to the tobacco with a pinch of freshly cracked black pepper and a supple sense of a fresh fruit bowl with a lot of red berries.
This is going to be hard to beat. It’s delicious.
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose on this is full of berries and orchard fruits with a hint of mint chocolate chip tying it all together as mild notes of sassafras, orris, and allspice linger in the background. The palate pops with the same bright red berries with a sweet and creamy vanilla/caramel vibe next to creamed honey, green tea, and menthol tobacco. The end has a hint of spiciness that’s more nasturtiums than peppercorn with a brief hint of burnt orange and eucalyptus next to a floral honey sweetness.
I’m never a big fan of eucalyptus, but it works here. There’s a nice subtlety to it.
Taste 3
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a mild sense of old lawn furniture sitting in partially dry grass on the nose with hints of soft leather and spicy nasturtiums. The palate leans into black peppercorns with a hint of lemon oils, cedar bark, and dried red chili pepper flakes countered by pancake syrup and mild vanilla sauce. The end has a touch of white pepper that leads to mint chocolate chip tobacco (almost like vape smoke) with a hint of humidor and lemon pepper.
This was perfectly fine but felt very much like a cocktail base.
Taste 4
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a heavy sense of dark fruits with rum-raisin and dates leading to sweet red berries and a touch of walnut loaf with a hint of bananas Foster with plenty of wintry spice and maybe a touch of sourdough pancake batter. The palate opens with cherry hand pies dipping in powdered sugar icing next to nut and dark chocolate clusters, poppy seed pounds cake, and a hint of salted caramel next to fresh leather. The end circles back around to the fresh and bright berries mild nuttiness and a whisper more of that maple syrup and a hint of cedar.
This is sweeter, sure, but really freakin’ good.
Taste 5
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
Cherries stewed with cinnamon sticks and star anise open the nose toward old vanilla pods and dried roses with a hint of burnt orange. The palate leans into the woodiness of the spices with a twinge of cedar next to spiced tobacco leaves cut with toasted coconut and vanilla pudding powder. The end creams the vanilla with some honey and layers the woody cinnamon with the spicy tobacco and dips it in salted dark chocolate.
Damn, this was pretty solid all around.
Taste 6
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a nice hint of sweet grains on the nose with a hint of caramel chocolate malts next to rum-raisin and a hint of nasturtiums. The palate is pretty washed out until the mid-point when a hint of black peppercorn, soft brown sugar, and floral honey counter sultanas and dates with a good dose of woody cinnamon and allspice. The end mixes creamy vanilla with soft pepperiness for a solid finish full of woody spice and honey-laced tobacco.
This almost didn’t recover from that washed-out flavor on the tip of the taste. Then everything really came together.
Taste 7
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a deep mix of old oak staves dipped in a mash of dates, figs, and prunes with cinnamon, black licorice, and clove next to soft leather pouches full of fresh pipe tobacco with a hint of apricot and blackberry in the mix. The palate opens with soft marzipan laced with orange oils and dipped in salted dark chocolate with sticky toffee pudding, minced meat pieces, orange marmalade, and creamy honey. The end leans into the dark and almost bitter dark chocolate with a hint of espresso bean before a mild sense of old oak leads to a nutty and dark orange-forward finish.
This is another winner. It’s damn tasty.
Taste 8
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
The nose opens with a nice mix of dark berries and old leather next to cinnamon bark and clove berries with a hint of caramel. The palate starts off pretty thin but ends up hitting a mint chocolate chip vibe and a dash of black peppercorn with a hint of red berries floating in vanilla-laced cream. The end is pretty thin with brief hints of oak staves and cinnamon next to very mild menthol tobacco.
This is really proofed down and it washes out some of the nuances of this one. That’s a shame since there’s some good depth somewhere under all that proofing water.
Part 2: The Ranking
Zach Johnston
8. Filmland Spirits Presents Ryes of the Robots Small Batch Straight Rye Whiskey — Taste 8
This brand-new whiskey blends Hollywood B-movies with sourced whiskey is very new. The actual juice is a 95/5 rye/malted barley sourced whiskey from Kentucky. Beyond that, not much is known. Though there’s been an incredible amount of work about writing a script and drawing up storyboards around the release.
Bottom Line:
Maybe a little more time should have been spent on blending the juice than writing a faux script for the release…?
There’s good whiskey here, it’s just not quite there yet.
This yearly release from Iowa’s Templeton Rye is the peak of the brand. The release is a small blend of their best barrels of 95/5 rye/malted barley whiskey barrels. The age of the barrels doesn’t matter as much as the flavor profile, hence this release doesn’t carry an age statement. Beyond that, the barrels are batched and bottled without proofing.
Bottom Line:
This was fine. There’s a lot of nice nuance at play. Ultimately, I was just thinking about mixing this into a nice cocktail rather than reaching for it as a sipper.
This affordable rye is a sourced whiskey from MGP. It’s the famed 95 percent rye — aged for just under three years — that’s dominated the market for the last decade or so. The juice is blended by Master Blender Dave Carpenter and is brought down to a very reasonable 92-proof with soft Kentucky limestone water.
Bottom Line:
This is another whiskey that feels like a very solid cocktail base, rather than something you’re keen to sip straight.
5. High West Double Rye Blend of Straight Rye Whiskeys Batch No: 22B16 — Taste 2
High West’s Double Rye is quickly becoming a modern classic. The Utah whiskey is made from a blend of 95 percent rye from MGP of Indiana and two-year rye from High West’s Utah distillery with a mash of 80 percent rye and 20 percent malted rye. All the whiskeys in the mix are at least two years old before they’re blended and proofed for bottling.
Bottom Line:
This is a really solid pour of whiskey. I think it hits just right as a lower-proof pour. You can sip this on the rocks (maybe with a dash of bitters) and be content. It also makes a great bottle to have on the bar for cocktails.
This new release from Smooth Ambler mixes some very interesting whiskeys together. The blend is two Tennessee ryes (one 70 percent rye, one 51 percent rye), MGP’s 95 percent rye, and Smooth Ambler’s own rye which has a mash bill of 88 percent rye. Those whiskeys are then blended, proofed, and bottled in the hills of West Virginia.
Bottom Line:
This is another whiskey that’s really nice. It’s not the most complex one on the list, hence its ranking, but there’s nothing wrong with it. I like it on the rocks and actually finished my bottle last year.
3. Jack Daniel’s Distillery Series Straight Tennessee Rye Whiskey Finished in High Toast Maple Barrels Selection # 008 — Taste 4
The whiskey is created with a mash of 70 percent rye, 18 percent corn, and 12 percent malted barley. After sugar maple charcoal filtration, that rye is aged for four years in new oak before going into a high-toast, no-char maple wood barrel for another year of rest. Finally, the whiskey is batched from those maple barrels and proofed down for bottling.
Bottom Line:
This was a clearly solid whiskey all around. It was far fruitier than the others on the list, which gave it away as a Tennessee rye, but whatever. It’s still really well-made and has a great flavor profile. All of that said, I still think I want to roll this into a nice, simple cocktail or sip it on the rocks with a little bitters.
It’s not quite as subtle of a sipper as the next two.
This is Sagamore Spirit’s signature rye whiskey (95/5 rye/malted barley) that’s aged for four long years. That whiskey is then re-barreled into 132-gallon Pedro Ximénez sherry casks for an additional 18-month-long rest. Finally, those barrels are batched, proofed a tad, and bottled.
Bottom Line:
This just hit right today. It was deeply flavored and kind of fresh. I didn’t need any water or ice to cool it down. It felt right neat. Though, I imagine this would make one hell of a Manhattan.
This rare Michter’s expression is pulled from single barrels that were just too good to batch or cut. Once the barrels hit the exact right flavor profile, each one is filtered with Michter’s bespoke system and then bottled as-is at the strength it came out of the barrel.
Bottom Line:
This was undeniably the best pour of the panel. There was serious depth but the overall vibe was welcoming and engaging. The flavor profile was distinct and carried you on a journey. The finish was lingering and lush and hit a beautiful end. This is just great whiskey.
Part 3: Final Thoughts
Zach Johnston
This was a solid lineup of whiskeys. I wouldn’t turn any of them away. Though, it’s pretty clear that eight through three or four are really more of a cocktail base rye whiskey. That’s not to say you can’t pour them on some rocks and have a great time. You can. They’re just not quite as deeply flavored as the rest.
That all said, non of them really come close to that Michter’s Barrel Strength Rye. It’s just goddamn delicious and the one bottle you should be looking for.
The Crown is a Netflix drama slowly creeping its way into the present and causing all kinds of controversy across the pond. It comes with the territory when you’re making a show mostly based on the scandals of a royal family that is (mostly) still alive and certainly dealing with the fallout of all the scandals and drama covered in the series.
While the show’s filming was put on pause following the death of Queen Elizabeth, who is very much a main character in the show’s now-five seasons, one actress featured prominently in Season 4 seems preoccupied with a SpongeBob SquarePants meme about her own Crown character.
Gillian Anderson, who has brilliantly played both a sex therapist and Margaret Thatcher for Netflix in recent years, loved that fans are comparing one image of her playing Thatcher to a still from the long-running Nickelodeon cartoon. The image is taken from an episode that aired all the way back in the first season of the cartoon, which started in 1999. In an episode that introduced underwater heroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, SpongeBob dresses up like an old woman and pretends to get robbed by his friend Patrick, hopefully triggering a rescue from the now-elderly heroes.
That outfit, however, looks very similar to something Anderson wore as the Tory lawmaker. And a side-by-side of the two images went viral online on Monday.
Amazingly, Anderson seems to have seen this just hours after it was posted despite not being tagged in it. And she enthusiastically responded by retweeting it.
She then changed her Twitter profile picture to another image related to the meme, this time a photo of SpongeBob in that outfit with a Thatcher-esque wig on to finish the look. Credit to Anderson, she even gave credit to a Twitter user who made the image, which clearly made their day to say the least.
What we’ve learned here is that Anderson is probably one of the most Online members of The Crown‘s cast. And that she’s perhaps a big fan of SpongeBob. Either way, this is far less dramatic than anything that will occur on Season 5 of The Crown when Netflix lets it see the light of day.
It seems like SM Entertainment followers, including EXO-L (EXO’s fans), have been fed well the past couple of weeks with the amount of content coming from the label. Although EXO has yet to announce a group comeback (since it has been ages), solo projects where some members come together for a TikTok challenge or some type of content are the crumbs the whole fandom cherishes and consumes.
Following the solo debut of member Xiumin last month, one of EXO’s leading vocalists is set to make his solo return after two years. In an announcement made earlier today, Chen will be releasing his third EP titled Last Scene on October 31 at 6 p.m. KST — 5 a.m. EST/2 a.m. PST.
To kick off promotions, EXO’s social accounts released an image teaser below. (And it’s actually quite reminiscent of Chen’s solo debut in 2019, “Beautiful Goodbye.”)
While the announcement was made today, further details on the album, concept, and promotional schedule are soon to come, leading up to the 31st.
Chen’s comeback to the music scene comes after his return from the military, followed by the news of his marriage and two children — one of which was born earlier this year. Over the last couple of months, the power vocalist slowly started to appear in the public eye again by taking part in music festivals and concerts such as SMTown Live and HallyuPopFest London 2022.
Rootin’ Tootin Lauren Boebert may not be doing so well these days, politically speaking. Her Shooter’s Grill, which is also tied to her political image and gun-loving ways, recently lost its lease and had to saunter off into the sunset (in a brick-and-mortar sense). She also recently caused a debate ruckus as well while confronting a moderator and declared that D.C.’s biggest problem “is that there’s not enough of me.”
From there, Boebert’s poll numbers began to slide. Even though she’s in a red district, Axios reported that her “little known” opponent, Adam Frisch, advanced to the point where he’s right behind her, meaning that (if one accounts for the margin of error) he’s statistically tied with the controversial Rifle Republican. Boebert’s not acknowledging the poll so far, and she’s deflecting, which has led her to a blunder. This time, though, she’s not tripping over civics but, instead, chose to issue a “two words” tweet (while attempting to drag Joe Biden) while using three words: “Let’s Go Brandon!”
Naturally, people couldn’t resist the low-hanging fruit of Boebert declining to count her words, and after a few days of those responses on Twitter, Boebert fired back with many more words. She decided to be adventurous and (while linking a Fox News report noting the leftist response to her initial stumble) drop twelve words: “Thanks for proving that liberal pundits exist only in an echo chamber.”
Twelve Words: Thanks for proving that liberal pundits exist only in an echo chamber. https://t.co/ALdex9JWyn
Well, first off, mistakes happen. They do. No doubt about it, but as experienced as Boebert is at deflecting, she probably would have been better off ignoring the two-or-three-word tweet subject because now there’s a real question on how many times she counted the words in this comeback tweet:
How many people did you have count the words in your tweet for you before you posted that, Lauren?
— Lara reads banned books in Florida (@MadeInTheUSANJ) October 10, 2022
We’ll see how Boebert’s constituents feel on November 8.
Trump, who guested on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC talk show during his 2016 presidential run, logged onto his Truth Social platform to herald the demise of his least favorite TV genre. First, he congratulated Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld for his recent ratings victory. Gutfeld now hosts his own comedy talk show and, according to a Fox News report, its viewership is beating out the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. Add to that the recent announcement from The Daily Show concerning Trevor Noah’s surprising departure and, well, Trump seems more than happy to pat himself on the back for late night’s downfall.
“It was my great honor to have destroyed the ratings of Late Night ‘Comedy’ shows. There is nothing funny about the shows, the three hosts have very little talent,” Trump wrote referring to Kimmel, Colbert, and Noah.
But he had a specific grievance to air with Fallon, who’s publicly apologized for having Trump on his show and admitted he’d do things differently following the backlash from viewers that his chat with Trump sparked.
“When Jimmy Fallon apologized for having humanized ‘Trump,’ and his ratings soared, the Radical Left forced him to apologize—that was effectively the end of The Tonight Show,” Trump continued. “In any event, congratulations to Greg Gutfield!”
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