Ever since Elon Musk took control of Twitter and rolled out his controversial (and now disastrous) plan to charge users for blue verified checkmarks, prolific author Stephen King has been trolling the Tesla CEO at every turn. As Musk fights off widespread concerns about an imminent collapse as Twitter experiences a mass exodus of employees, advertisers, and high profile users, King couldn’t resist taking a jab at the situation that John Oliver recently described as a “digital clown town.”
“Pretty soon the only advertiser left on Twitter will be My Pillow,” King tweeted in an obvious reference to Twitter’s recent right wing turn as Musk reinstated accounts for The Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Donald Trump, who hilariously rejected the offer. (At the time of this writing, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is still banned from Twitter, but with Musk at the helm, that could change very quickly.)
Pretty soon the only advertiser left on Twitter will be My Pillow.
Cementing his status as a full-time reply guy, Musk couldn’t resist the bait and hopped into King’s mentions on Wednesday morning.
“Oh hi lol,” Musk tweeted before launching yet another one of his numerous failed attempts at humor that have been the lynchpin of Twitter’s demise. “Is My Pillow actually a great pillow? Now I’m curious.”
Is My Pillow actually a great pillow? Now I’m curious.
Like most authors, King relied on Twitter to interact with fans and has been a prolific user of the platform. Under Musk’s management, that relationship is now in jeopardy and King has not held back his criticism of Musk despite being a previous fan of his work at Tesla.
“Musk makes me think of Tom Sawyer, who is given the job of whitewashing a fence as punishment,” King tweeted after Musk rolled out his Twitter Blue subscription plan that ultimately led to an expensive yet easily predictable run on impersonating brands. “Tom cons his friends into doing the chore for him, and getting them to pay for the privilege. That’s what Musk wants to do with Twitter. No, no, no.”
HBO Max is closing out 2022 by delivering fans an always-welcome streaming gift: new seasons of our favorite shows. From the latest installments of Gossip Girl, His Dark Materials, and Doom Patrol to fresh-from-the-theater blockbusters like The Banshees of Inisherin and Amsterdam, there’s plenty to keep you cozy and on the couch once the weather outside gets frightful this month.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO Max this December.
Gossip Girl: Season 2 (streaming 12/1)
The real-life DeuxMoi of Manhattan’s Upper East Side elite returns to spin more gossip in the show’s second season — and whoever they are, they’ve got plenty of material to work with. Newcomers disrupting the group hierarchy, throuples dealing with relationship woes, familial drama set to the backdrop of The Met’s steps — it’s safe to say that the tension this season is ramped all the way up.
His Dark Materials: Season 3 (streaming 12/5)
The final season of His Dark Materials is here and James McAvoy is battling God. No, seriously. This latest installment follows the storyline of Phillip Pullman’s third novel in the trilogy, and we’re warning you now, things get dark. Lyra (Dafne Keen) and Will (Amir Wilson) journey to a dangerous place no one has ever survived as Lord Asriel’s fight against the authority reaches its world-altering climax.
Doom Patrol: Season 4 (streaming 12/8)
What’s more important: personal happiness or saving the world? That’s what our favorite motley crew of superpowered freaks must decide in season four as the group travels to the future and faces off against some harsh truths.
Here’s everything coming to HBO and HBO Max this December
Avail. 12/1 3:10 to Yuma, 1957 10,000 B.C., 2008 Black Sheep, 1996 Branson, HBO Original Docuseries Premiere (HBO) Burn After Reading, 2008 Can’t Hardly Wait, 1998 Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams, 1981 (HBO) Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers, 1984 (HBO) Cheech & Chong’s Things Are Tough All Over, 1982 The Children Act, 2017 (HBO) De Palma, 2015 (HBO) First Reformed, 2017 (HBO) Friends with Benefits, 2011 Gossip Girl, Max Original Season 2 Premiere Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 2008 (HBO) The Murdochs: Empire of Influence Gone Girl, 2014 (HBO) Green Room, 2015 (HBO) Hellraiser III Hell on Earth, 1992 (HBO) Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, 1996 (HBO) Hellraiser V: Inferno, 2000 (HBO) Hellraiser VII: Deader, 2005 (HBO) Hellraiser: Hellseeker, 2002 (HBO) Hellraiser: Hellworld, 2005 (HBO) A Hollywood Christmas, 2022 Hook, 1991 Into the Forest, 2015 (HBO) Krisha, 2015 (HBO) The Maze Runner, 2014 (HBO) My Fellow Americans, 1996 (HBO) Paradise (Paraíso), Max Original Season 2 Premiere The Purge: Anarchy, 2014 Redemption, 2013 (HBO) Reindeer Games, 2000 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) The Sea of Trees, 2015 (HBO) Sesame Street’s The Nutcracker, Max Original Special Premiere Small Town Crime, 2017 (HBO) Sort Of, Max Original Season 2 Premiere Step Up All In, 2014 (HBO) Step Up Revolution, 2012 (HBO) Stomp the Yard, 2007 Stomp the Yard: Homecoming, 2010 Street Kings, 2008 (HBO) The Tomorrow Man, 2019 (HBO) Trumbo, 2015 (HBO) Two Can Play That Game, 2001 Urban Cowboy, 1980 ¡Viva Maestro!, 2022 Win Win, 2011 (HBO)
Avail. 12/2 Blippi Wonders, Season 2B Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe, 2016 Lellobee City Farm, Season 2
Avail. 12/4 Under The Stars (aka Sous les étoiles), Max Original Premiere
Avail. 12/5 His Dark Materials, Season 3 Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 12/6 Amsterdam, 2022 (HBO) Batwheels Holiday Special: Holidays on Ice Bugs Bunny Builders Holiday Special: Looneyburg Lights Sesame Street Mecha Builders Holiday Special: Yip Yip Tree Tree / The Snowman Scarecrow, Season 1 Unveiled: Surviving La Luz del Mundo, HBO Original Docuseries Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 12/8 Doom Patrol, Max Original Season 4 Premiere South Side, Max Original Season 3 Premiere
Avail. 12/9 Silos Baking Competition: Holiday Edition, Special Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, 2018 (HBO)
Avail. 12/10 Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder, HBO Original Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 12/12 Adult Swim Yule Log
Avail. 12/13 The Banshees Of Inisherin, 2022 (HBO) Meet the Batwheels: The Best Present in the World, Season 1
Avail. 12/14 Selling the Hamptons Serving the Hamptons Queen of Versailles Reigns Again Trixie Motel
Avail. 12/15 Jugada Peligrosa (ex El Patrón del Balón, Goles Limpios Dinero Sucio), Max Original Premiere
Avail. 12/16 Martin: The Reunion Special 2022 Ranch to Table, Season 3
Avail. 12/22 I Hate Suzie, Max Original Season 2 Premiere The Head, Max Original Season 2 Premiere
Avail. 12/23 Family Dinner, Season 3
Avail. 12/27 The Man From U.N.C.L.E., 2015 (HBO)
Avail. 12/30 The Established Home, Season 2 This Place Rules, Original (HBO)
Here’s everything leaving HBO and HBO Max in December
Leaving 12/8 Mortal Kombat, 2021 (HBO)
Leaving 12/13 Spark: A Space Tail, 2016 (HBO)
Leaving 12/29 Those Who Wish Me Dead, 2021 (HBO)
Leaving 12/31 12 Rounds, 2009 (Unrated) (HBO) 12 Rounds 2 Reloaded, 2013 (HBO) 2 Guns, 2013 (HBO) Africa, 1999 A Kind Of Murder, 2016 (HBO) A Perfect Planet A Simple Plan, 1998 (HBO) Against The Ropes, 2004 (HBO) Arbitrage, 2012 (HBO) Babylon A.D., 2008 (HBO) Baggage Claim, 2013 (HBO) Bend It Like Beckham, 2002 (HBO) Blue Planet II Blue Planet: Seas of Life Bringing Out The Dead, 1999 (HBO) Chaplin, 1992 Collision Course, 1989 (HBO) Damien Omen II, 1978 (HBO) Damsel, 2018 (HBO) Down Periscope, 1996 (HBO) Down With Love, 2003 (HBO) Dr. Dolittle: Tail To The Chief, 2008 (HBO) Dynasties Extraction, 2015 (HBO) Frozen Planet Fast & Furious 6, 2013 (HBO) Harlem Nights, 1989 Head Office, 1985 (HBO) Highlander, 1986 (HBO) Joyful Noise, 2012 Life, 1999 Life Story, 1987 Little Monsters, 1989 (HBO) Losing Isaiah, 1995 (HBO) Monster’s Ball, 2001 (Unrated) Nature’s Great Events Odd Jobs, 1986 (HBO) Omen IV: The Awakening, 1991 (HBO) Ouija, 2014 Planet Earth Planet Earth II Real Steel, 2011 Ricochet, 1991 (HBO) Rocket Science, 2007 (HBO) Romancing The Stone, 1984 Sabotage, 2014 (HBO) Serengeti Serengeti II Seven Worlds, One Planet Space Chimps, 2010 (HBO) Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back, 2010 (HBO) Starter For 10, 2006 (HBO) Sweet Dreams, 1985 (HBO) Switch, 1991 (HBO) That Awkward Moment, 2014 (HBO) The Chosen, 1981 (HBO) The Clearing, 2004 (HBO) The Counselor, 2013 (Extended Version) (HBO) The Final Conflict, 1981 (HBO) The Flight Of The Phoenix, 1965 The Hitcher, 1986 (HBO) The Hunt, 2020 The Jewel Of The Nile, 1985 The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003 HBO The Mating Game The Omen, 2006 (HBO) The Order, 2003 (HBO) The World’s End, 2013 (HBO) The X-Files: I Want To Believe, 2008 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Thor: Tales Of Asgard, 2011 (HBO) Thoroughbreds, 2017 (HBO) Voyagers, 2021
I was skeptical, too. I read the reviews that Disney+’s Andor “is the cure for Star Wars ennui” (Vulture), “differs from every Star Wars series before it, in the best ways” (TVLine), and is a “rich, patient story of how a rebellion sparks into flame” (Variety). But I chalked the excitement up to lowered expectations following the twin (suns) disappointment of The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi. My doubt remained after watching the first two episodes — but by the end of episode three, I was hooked. By the end of episode 10, I was ready to call Andor one of the best TV shows of the year.
If you haven’t given Andor a shot yet, either because you’re sick of Star Wars or because there’s no Baby Yoda, now’s the time to do it. It’s a four-day holiday weekend for many folks, and the first two episodes of the Tony Gilroy-created series (he wrote and directed Michael Clayton, folks) are airing on TV on ABC, FX, and Freeform. Or you can watch all 12 episodes — including the finale, which debuted today — on Disney+. What sounds better to you? Making awkward small talk with your relatives, or spending eight to nine hours with this cool guy? Believe the hype.
“It is long format to get the chance to go deep into the story of all these people. And I believe we are so lucky to have Tony Gilroy writing this, because his writing is so specific. It’s so complex and so real,” star Diego Luna told Uproxx. “There’s not a single moment that happens because someone said like, ‘Oh, I like the grass. Let’s have that cartoon walking in the grass.’ No. No. No. It’s grass because of something. There is an answer for every question in his writing and that, specificity, is beautiful.”
One of the biggest stories in the NFL this week revolves around the starting quarterback situation for the New York Jets. The team lost his past week’s game to the New England Patriots, 10-3, with Zach Wilson putting forth an absolutely terrible performance — Wilson, the former No. 2 overall pick, went 9-for-22 for 77 yards. In the aftermath of the game, Wilson made clear that he did not think the offense, which gained 103 total yards, let the team’s defense down.
It was the latest in what has been a rough season for Wilson, even as the Jets have turned into one of the bigger surprises in the NFL with their 6-4 record. The team’s head coach, Robert Saleh, left the door open for a quarterback change, telling the press that the team wouldn’t commit to Wilson starting until he got a chance to sit down and finish “evaluating everything.”
Apparently, Saleh has finished doing that, because according to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Jets will bench Wilson for Sunday’s upcoming game against the Chicago Bears.
Breaking: During a team meeting minutes ago, Jets players were informed that Zach Wilson is not starting Sunday’s game vs. the Chicago Bears, sources tell ESPN.
Wilson — who had a 5-2 record as a starting QB this season, with both losses coming vs. the Pats — is being benched. pic.twitter.com/fdl3mBmIHq
While the Jets have a 5-2 record with Wilson as the starter, his numbers on the year have not exactly been All-Pro caliber. Wilson is 105-for-189 (55.6 percent) with 1,279 yards, four touchdowns, and five interceptions, while his passer rating of 72.6 ranks 33rd in the league. It is unclear if New York will turn to Joe Flacco or Mike White in Wilson’s place.
The BTS Army is still elated over Jung Kook’s new single, “Dreamers,” which was released this past weekend ahead of the FIFA World Cup. On Sunday (November 20), he performed the song at the games’ opening ceremony.
The song is an empowering anthem, on which, Jung Kook sings about perseverance.
“Look who we are, we are the dreamers / We make it happen, ’cause we believe it / Look who we are, we are the dreamers / We make it happen ’cause we can see it,” he sings on the song’s chorus.
In the song’s new accompanying video, Jung Kook is seen dancing in the streets of Qatar, celebrating with the city’s people. Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi joins in on the bridge of the song, basking in the beauty of his home country.
In a recent interview with Weverse, Jung Kook said that listening for the mood of a song helps him get into the zone to record it in the studio.
…[T]o put it simply, I’d say I sang ‘For Youth’ in a very sorrowful way, ‘Run BTS’ in a way that sounds like we did a long time ago and ‘Yet To Come’ with a similar feeling to ‘Life Goes On,’” he said. “I kept thinking I wanted to try recording again. I think I could do better, just that things were a little hectic when we recorded.”
Saweetie made a recent appearance on the Bootleg Kev Podcast to share her thoughts about the state of current rap music. Specifically, the California native spoke about how she feels that women are dominating the current game in major cities, including Los Angeles.
“I mean, LA and other cities, it just goes to show that this is the reason why women is running rap and hip-hop,” Saweetie said (as HipHopDX notes). “Because there’s just so much violence and disrespect in the male music. You gotta think, like, remember, what was it, like ’16/’17, remember when like YG, Tyga, Chris [Brown], Big Sean, TeeFlii was out? It was fun, party music.”
“It wasn’t like, ‘I’ma do this to you, and this, and this,’ you know? I feel like we gotta raise the vibration with the music and get back to having a good time,” she added. “Empathy and love, for real.”
While it might have been perceived as “party music,” it’s worth noting that Saweetie not connecting Brown and Tyga with violence and disrespect in music is an… interesting list. Between Brown’s lengthy history and Tyga’s 2021 felony domestic violence arrest, they certainly haven’t been raising the vibrations for a while.
However, to give credit, Saweetie has also spoken in the past about specifically which female rappers have influenced her — from Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, Missy Elliott, and Nicki Minaj. “I’ve always liked their demeanor. I know that when they step into the room, you can just feel that boss-ness. They just always felt so powerful to me,” she told Apple Music last year.
Long live Virgil Abloh: Following the one-year anniversary of the fashion designer and entrepreneur’s passing, some of the biggest names in music are coming together to keep his legacy going.
As a driving creative force in fashion, visual arts, and music, Art Basel will host the inaugural Mirror Mirror Festival to honor the late culture innovator’s life. The one-day event is set to take place on December 3 at the FPL Solar Amphitheater in Miami, Florida.
The festival is curated by Benji B and will center on a mixture of Abloh’s passions, including music. The accompanying concert will be headlined by former collaborative partners Travis Scott and Skepta. Although this isn’t Travis Scott’s first performance since last year’s AstroWorld tragic, based on the relationship the pair had during Virgil’s life, this seems to be the most emotional.
Additional performers include Yves Tumor, Pedro, Venus X, BAMBII, Rampa, and Acyde. Festival curator Benji B will also share the stage with the featured musical acts for a guest DJ set.
According to the festival’s website, all net profits earned from the tribute will be used to launch The Virgil Abloh Foundation next year.
To purchase tickets for the Mirror Mirror Festival, click here.
At this point, Donald Trump’s tax returns — much like Donald Trump himself — are a bit like a mythical beast in that you’re not entirely sure their existence isn’t some giant hoax. But for those who still care and/or are interested, including Jimmy Kimmel, the Supreme Court might just have gotten us one step closer to actually seeing what the hell is hiding in the former president’s financial records.
As Kimmel shared on Tuesday night:
We may actually, finally, maybe get to see what Darth Tax Evader has been hiding from us. The Supreme Court today ruled against him and they denied Trump’s request to stop Democrats in the House from examining his taxes. The ruling was unanimous; there were no dissents. You know it’s bad when even Clarence Thomas is like, ‘I’m out, bro. You’re on your own on this one.’
Trump, of course, is not happy with this ruling. Because, as Kimmel noted, “as he told us many, many times, he was planning to release them himself.” The late-night host then shared a compilation video starting back in 2014 and going all the way through to 2020 in which the former (and sometimes, within the context of the video, current) president shares how willing and “proud” he’ll be to release his tax returns — if only he weren’t being audited.
“He promised to release these tax returns more times than he promised to release Melania,” Kimmel joked. “Like 10,000.” (You can watch the full Trump segment above, beginning around the 2:20 mark.)
Meanwhile, Kimmel continued, Fox News seemed more interested in turning centuries-old presidential traditions into a scandal. Over on Laura Ingraham‘s show, they were aghast that the presidential turkey pardon took place on the same day as the delivery of the White House Christmas tree. My stars!
“The turkey pardon had barely happened, or it was barely finished, when Jill Biden went out to receive the White House Christmas tree,” lamented Ingraham’s guest. “At this rate, New Year’s Eve could be coming tonight at midnight! I mean, can we take a breath between the seasons?!”
Admittedly, even Ingraham seemed to realize that this bit of performative outrage was a little desperate — her main contribution was adding in a few gasps and eye rolls. As Kimmel pointed out, “maybe the funniest part of Fox complaining about the White House skipping Thanksgiving and going straight to Christmas: Earlier that night, they had a big show of lighting the Fox Christmas tree, complete with Santa and top-quality Christmas-themed merch.” And one evil Grinch co-host (a.k.a. Jesse Watters).
TikTok is great (hear me out) because when someone has a really good storytime, there is no telling where it will go. For instance, a man named Ron Clark recently decided to tell his tale of a fateful Dunkin’ Donuts shift that landed him in the ER…and he told this edge-of-your-seat story by rapping it (rhymes and all!)
After pulling a last-minute shift, Clark was bored with his co-worker when he decided to play hide and seek, which sounds dangerous to do in a kitchen filled with hot coffee and sharp knives, but hey, you have to learn somehow. He sang, “I went inside to find a place to hide, I’m very competitive and that’s not a lie. I saw the oven and I knew I could fit. I thought like that because I’m an idiot.” If your first thought is “I can fit in this oven,” maybe it’s best to have someone with you to tell you that that is not a very good idea.
But! It gets worse. Clark sang, “The oven stayed on all day it was always hot. It’s where we cooked our muffins, brownies, and croissants. And so I crawled inside and I pulled closed the door, and then I realized you cannot open an oven door from the inside,” in an effort to have the best hiding spot in the history of hide and seek, Clark had locked himself in the oven. If you can believe it, it gets even worse.
Clark yelled to his co-worker for help, “I quickly knew what had to do, ‘Ryan crawl through the drive-thru!’” In a stunning turn of events that mimics a SpongebobSquarepants episode, Ryan was then stuck in the drive-thru, while Ron was stuck in the oven. So who was manning the Dunkin’ Donuts counter?! Nobody! Are you on the edge of your seat yet? Does this type of thing ever happen at Starbucks?
The duo ended up in the ER, where Clark said most of his hair had burnt off, but they survived and he did not get fired… just lightly toasted…. get it?!
The moral of the story here is that it’s probably not a good idea to play hide and seek in a Dunkin’… unless you are Ben Affleck. He could probably pull it off.
After Sam Bankman-Fried got blasted in court for using FTX as his own “personal fiefdom,” the embattled crypto bro issued an apology of sorts to employees. While Bankman-Fried regrets some of the decisions he made leading to the exchange’s embarrassing billion dollar crash, he spent most of the mea culpa pointing fingers elsewhere.
Specifically, Bankman-Fried railed against the new management’s rush to file for bankruptcy, which he previously complained about in a series of frank and potentially incriminating, surreal direct messages to reporters following his ouster.
“We likely could have raised significant funding,” he wrote. “Potential interest in billions of dollars of funding came in roughly eight minutes after I signed the chapter 11 docs. Between those funds, the billions of dollars of collateral the company still held, and the interest we’d received from other parties, I think that we probably could have returned large value to customers and saved the business.
“An extreme amount of coordinated pressure came, out of desperation, to file for bankruptcy for all of FTX – even entities that were solvent – and despite other jurisdictions’ claims … I reluctantly gave in to that pressure, even though I should have known better; I wish I had listened to those of you who saw and still see value in the platform, which was and is my belief as well.”
Bankman-Fried blamed an $8 billion liability that he just kinda forgot about it because it was old. What Bankman-Fried didn’t mention in the apology is that the $8 billion hole was a result of FTX’s hedge fund Alameda Research, where The Guardian reports “deep-rooted mismanagement resulted in billions of dollars of cash being waylaid.”
If you haven’t picked up on it by now, “mismanagement” has been a recurring theme since the FTX crash, which could have potentially devastating impact on the crypto market. When new FTX CEO John J. Ray III took over the company after Bankman-Fried was removed, he didn’t hold back describing the chaos he found.
“Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here,” Ray said in legal fillings. “From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.”
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