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Following the cancelation of the When We Were Young festival, fans took to social media to express their disappointment. While many were understanding that the cancelation was a result of inclement weather, they were also very upset to have to miss out on the festivities.

“Unfortunately, just like high school when your parents grounded you from going to warped tour. You run to your room, slam the door & throw on some My Chemical Romance & cry yourself to sleep. Today will be no different with the cancelation of day 1 of When We Were Young festival,” said one Twitter user.

“For [the] When We Were Young festival to be canceled an hour before it starts is literally so saddening especially the people that flew out and drove hours and spent so much money on the tickets and plane tickets and hotels gas just wow,” said another.

Some fans had a sense of humor about the situation, and even referred to one of My Chemical Romance’s signature songs.

“Just read that they canceled the first day of the When We Were Young festival because of strong winds. Imagine the Vegas strip tonight with a bunch of angsty emos… wow lol. An authentic Black Parade,” said another Twitter user.

My Chemical Romance themselves took to Twitter to express sympathy for fans who wanted to attend the festival today.

“we are so sorry that dangerous weather caused the show to be canceled,” they said.

The festival is still set to take place tomorrow, and next Saturday on October 29.

My Chemical Romance is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Portland Trail Blazers and the Phoenix Suns needed overtime to determine a winner on Friday night. Ultimately, Damian Lillard was able to carry his team across the finish line, as Portland picked up a 113-111 win in overtime behind a 41-point, 7-rebound effort by their All-Star guard.

Avoiding a second overtime was not guaranteed. With that exact score and a little more than a second remaining in the game, Phoenix big man Deandre Ayton, a career 75 percent free throw shooter who his only other attempt from the charity stripe on the evening, got fouled and sent to the free throw line for a pair of shots.

Before that could happen, though, cameras caught Lillard trying to get into Ayton’s head, as he told the big man that he doesn’t think Phoenix trusts him at the free throw line in this sort of situation.

Lillard got asked about the exchange after the game, and made clear that he thought he got to Ayton due to his lack of a response.

Ayton had an otherwise good night, scoring 26 points on 12-for-22 shooting with six rebounds, three assists, a steal, and a block. But before the biggest moment of the night, Lillard was able to throw him off his game just enough to give the Suns their first loss of the year.

Dwayne Johnson is in the midst of his biggest solo opening ever. The film is Black Adam, and it introduces the movies to arguably the most powerful figure in the DC-verse: a semi-hero with the powers of an Egyptian god. Often depicted in comics as a villain, he’s none-too-pleased to have been locked away for ages. But how long will his first big film be kept away from streamers?

The answer is still up in the air. Black Adam is a Warner Bros. Discovery product, and the company is no longer doing what they did last year and dropping new films in theaters and on their streamer, HBO Max. Instead, they tend to stick to a 45-day window, which means Black Adam could drop online on or about Dec. 4.

However, Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t always consistent. Elvis, their hit musical biopic about The King, took a whopping 71 days to hit HBO Max. If they decide to take the Baz Luhrmann route, that means subscribers might not be able to stream Black Adam until January of next year.

In the meantime, those wishing to see the erstwhile The Rock kill a bunch of people — an anomaly for comic book movie fare — can always do so the old-fashioned way: By purchasing a ticket and sitting in a darkened room with total strangers talking along to the Nicole Kidman AMC ad à la The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Due to inclement weather conditions in Las Vegas, the first day of the When We Were Young festival has been canceled. The city is currently under high wind warnings. Fans were expecting to see a variety of punk, alternative, emo, and pop acts, including Avril Lavigne, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Taking Back Sunday.

The festival’s organizers issued a statement today via social media.

Fans will be refunded for the tickets purchased for today.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

The Russell Wilson experiment has not worked out the way the Denver Broncos wanted. The team paid a hefty price — both in terms of the amount of stuff they sent to the Seattle Seahawks and the amount of money they gave to Wilson when he signed a contract extension — to make him the franchise signal caller, but through six games, the Bronco offense has scored the second-fewest points in the league and Wilson has really struggled.

Now, an injury will force a change in the plans for who lines up under center during the team’s game against the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon. According to multiple reports, Wilson attempted to get himself ready to play this week but is not healthy enough to go. As such, backup quarterback Brett Rypien will serve as his replacement.

The Broncos eventually confirmed the news.

Rypien, who played his college ball at Boise State, went undrafted in 2019 but has been with the Broncos ever since. He has appeared in four games, with his only start coming during the 2020 campaign against the Jets. Denver won that game, 37-28, with Rypien completing 19 of his 31 pass attempts for 242 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions. The last time he threw a pass came on Jan. 2, 2022 when he had a pair of attempts against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Episode nine of Pod Yourself The Wire is now available early at Patreon.com/frotcast. Episode eight is now available for free.

“A show about the Eastside would be boring because Prop Joe is running it well.” -Cullen Crawford.

On the latest edition of Pod Yourself The Wire, Matt and Vince invite writer, podcaster, and host of the Football Friends Who Are Gambling podcast, Cullen Crawford to be a basketball friend who is not gambling, but rather, discussing The Wire season one episode nine, “Game Day.”

Every day is game day for Avon, Stringer, and Prop Joe, but especially today, because the boys have hoop dreams. The annual East vs. West basketball game has everyone coming together. Prop Joe is there with a fake clipboard and Avon in a very aughts visor. Herc & Carv are in the stands chopping it up with Poot and Bodie, watching a 37-year-old JuCo baller cross up a collection of normal guys from the Eastside. Even Lt. Daniels stops by to try to get his peepers on the head of the Barksdale syndicate. Daniels gets the peek he wants, but is met with a Mutumbo-esque finger wag from Avon. …That reference was for the real sport heads, you’re welcome.

Herc asks a very important question while watching a payphone from a roof, how do the pebbles get up there? Let us know your theories in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts

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What did you do on New Year’s Eve 2020? Probably not much. It was the first year of the pandemic and vaccines had yet to be made widely available. But whatever you did was probably better than what Donald Trump’s lawyers did. How did they ring in 2021? By frantically trying to overturn the election their client lost, of course.

Axios (in a bit caught by Raw Story) recently obtained emails between Eric Herschmann, a former White House attorney, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Cleta Mitchell, an activist and Trump lawyer. On Dec. 30, Mitchell had emailed Meadows an “almost final version” of a lawsuit against Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, which had been edited by notorious Trump memo-writer John Eastman. The next day, i.e., Dec. 31, Mitchell forwarded a version a “version from John Eastman with your edits.”

Alas, it didn’t take long for Herschmann to pour cold water on their actions. He pointed out that the lawsuit contained already debunked claims of voter fraud in Georgia, and he cautioned against Trump signing a sworn court statement alleging that they were true, especially when they were not.

Alas, Mitchell wouldn’t let a holiday keep them from keeping the wheels turning. With 30 minutes to midnight and a new year — not to mention less than a week from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — she wrote back to Herschmann, telling him she was frustrated with him and telling him to get on the phone with her “ASAP.”

But Herschmann — who later revealed he’d been exasperated with all the loopy conspiracy theories being bandied about by Trump’s associates — held steadfast, demanding that Trump not sign a draft until there was sound documentation attached. Trump did eventually sign it, but it’s not yet clear how he came to do so. Whatever the case, it doesn’t sound like there was much celebrating by the Trump team on NYE 2020. And there wouldn’t be anytime soon.

(Via Axios and Raw Story)

Fans are getting creative with their fun spoofs of Taylor Swift‘s Midnights cover art. As the excitement surrounding Swift’s 10th studio album is still high, several fans and public figures have shared their fun imaginings of the Midnights artwork.

Even if you’re not a Swiftie, you’ve probably seen the album’s standard artwork, which features a picture of Swift holding a lit lighter, encased in a white border with the album’s title overhead, and the tracklisting on the side.

On the heels of the album’s release, Food Network personality Guy Fieri shared a parody of the album’s cover, titled Flavors. The cover art also featured parodies of the album’s tracks, some of the most notables including “Lavender Cookies,” corresponding to Swift’s “Lavender Haze,” and “Midnight Snack,” for “Midnight Rain.”

Ahead of the Teletubbies Netflix reboot, the show’s official Twitter account shared their own version of the cover art, which was titled Midnights (In Teletubbyland), which featured Teletubby Laa-Laa holding a lighter. Like Fieri, the Teletubbies included their own versions of the Midnights track names, including, “Hugging Heroes” in place of “Anti-Hero,” and probably the most noticeable difference, “Silly Things,” in place of “Vigilante Sh*t.”

Swift herself has not yet commented on the parodies.

Midnights is out now via Republic. Stream it here.

Taylor Swift has long acknowledged the women in music who have inspired her. Ahead of her Lana Del Rey collaboration, “Snow On The Beach,” from her latest album, Midnights, Swift called Del Rey “one of the best musical artists ever” and said “[t]he fact that I get to exist at the same time as her is an honor and a privilege.” On the song itself, Swift shouts out another one of her inspirations, Janet Jackson.

“I can’t speak, afraid to jinx it / I don’t even dare to wish it / But your eyes are flying saucers from another planet / Now I’m all for you like Janet / Can this be a real thing? Can it?,” sings Swift on the song’s bridge, referring to Janet Jackson’s 2001 song and album, All For You.

On the day of Midnights release, Jackson shared a video of herself listening and reacting to the line.

“i LUV it,” said Jackson in a tweet.

Swift responded, saying, “I feel like I’m dreaming. I have so much love and gratitude for you and all you’ve done to inspire female artists everywhere.”

Check out the lyric video for “Snow On The Beach” above.

Midnights is out now via Republic. Stream it here.

You could argue that the modern comic book movie began with 1978’s Superman: The Movie. You could also argue it really began just over a decade later, with the release of 1989’s Batman. It’s a remarkably dark — and weird — blockbuster, though it’s markedly different than the ones that have all but taken over Hollywood. It’s so different that its director thinks it’s not even that dark anymore.

As per Deadline, Tim Burton — who at the time was coming off such eccentric hits as Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Beetlejuice — was speaking at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, France when he was asked about the genre he helped create. He remarked that, at the time, the 1989 Batman, with its “tortured superhero, weird costumes,” felt “exciting” and “new.”

At the time, he took some flak from execs and critics for how dark the second highest-grossing film of 1989 was. But compared to what followed — the Christopher Nolan trilogy, this year’s even more brooding The Batman — it’s nothing.

“The thing that is funny about it now is, people go ‘What do you think of the new Batman?’ and I start laughing and crying because I go back to a time capsule, where pretty much every day the studios were saying, ‘It’s too dark, it’s too dark,’” he told the crowd. “Now it looks like a lighthearted romp.”

He also pointed out that it helped kick off another major industry trend. “When I first did Batman, I’d never heard of the word ‘franchise’,” Burton said. “After that, it became something else.”

It’s not the first time Burton has discussed the Batman franchise, which he left after only two films (the other being the S&M-heavy Batman Returns). Over the summer he took umbrage with the Joel Schumacher-era Batsuit nipples.

Burton’s latest project isn’t even a movie. It’s Wednesday, the Addams Family spinoff he did for Netflix.

(Via Deadline)