Welp, that didn’t take long. Within hours of the White House disclosing that President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID and is experiencing mild symptoms, Fox News host Joey Jones suggested that it was an act of “karma” after Biden made a gaffe about having cancer. Earlier in the week, Biden misspoke and made it sound like he currently has cancer, prompting the White House to quickly clarify that he was referring to his bout with non-melanoma skin cancer from before he took office. Jones decided to connect the moment with Biden’s COVID diagnosis, but even the Fox News host realized mid-rant that his karma theory might not be the best thing to say right now.
“You don’t want to fool with that. You don’t want to put into the universe something like that,” Jones said about Biden’s cancer gaffe before attempting to soften his remarks. Via The Daily Beast:
“I think life comes at you fast! I think when you’re pretending you had cancer one day and you’ve got COVID the next, you might want to recalibrate how you treat things and how you talk,” Jones declared before backpedaling a bit: “But, you know, I don’t wish bad luck on him and I’m not going to say that’s the reason why, just that maybe it’s a good opportunity for him to have a reality check.”
While Jones went off on this particular tangent, the rest of the network surprisingly handled Biden’s COVID diagnosis with tact. During American Newsroom, Fox News anchor Bret Baier and others repeatedly emphasized the importance of the COVID vaccine and touted their role in keeping Biden out of the hospital, unlike Donald Trump’s pre-election bout with COVID that saw him airlifted from the White House over concerns for his oxygen levels.
According to Mediaite, Baier also brought on two medical experts who continued to hammer home the benefits of Biden being vaccinated and double boosted. Clearly, a better approach than the whole karma thing.
You might be picturing watermelon as the topping in this unique dish—much like its fruity predecessor, the pineapple. But no. As the creator of watermelon pizza, Oliver Paterson, reveals in his now viral TikTok, the juicy fruit actually serves as the crust.
There are a few key details that make this recipe work, as Paterson, known on TikTok as @elburritomonster, explained to Fox News.
First, the watermelon has to be grilled on both sides for five minutes prior to toppings, to “remove as much moisture as possible to avoid a soggy mess,” according to Paterson.
It’s also “vital” to substitute the standard tomato-based sauce with barbecue sauce, as “BBQ is already a tried and tested flavor combination with watermelon.” (I for one did not know this to be true, but sweet and tangy is a pretty unbeatable combo.)
Lastly, Paterson swaps out chorizo for the usual pepperoni. Then, voila. You have a dish that “tastes sweet and smoky, with fatty salty richness,” he told Fox News.
However, get just one of these three things wrong, and the results are less than fruitful. This was the case for Domino’s Pizza in Australia when it tried and hilariously failed to recreate Paterson’s recipe in their own TikTok video.
Unsurprisingly, watermelon pizza has sparked a heated culinary debate online. Comments were across the board on this one, ranging between “I’m calling 911” to “I mean… add melted cheese to anything and it would be delicious.”
No one seems to agree on the legitimacy of this new flavor combination. Still, watermelon has undoubtedly done the impossible—using it for pizza has put an end to the war on pineapple.
“Suddenly pineapple on pizza isn’t so bad,” one person admitted in the comments.
Another conceded, “Pineapple on pizza is normal compared to this.”
There you have it, folks. Watermelon isn’t just for outdoor picnics and a Harry Styles song. Not anymore.
Paterson seems to know a thing or two about creating quirky snack options. His TikTok is an online buffet of unique food creations—in particular, epic burritos.
You name it, and the guy has somehow turned it into a burrito. I’m not kidding.
The cooking instructions are sung to Billie Eilish, no less.
As for his watermelon pizza, it might become a passing internet trend, as so many things on TikTok do. Or, it might surpass the Hawaiian, who knows? The only thing to know for sure is that life is about all kinds of experimentation.
Since The Atlantic staff writer Kaitlyn Tiffany put out her book Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created The Internet As We Know It, Taylor Swift fans, also known as Swifties, came under fire for sharing screenshots of the “Blank Space” singer and her boyfriend Joe Alwyn at a funeral that was being livestreamed.
taylor and joe were seen at a funeral in the UK that was broadcasted live recently pic.twitter.com/NiO5FSvO1d
Swifties, safe in their anonymity usually with handles and avatars that have only to do with Taylor rather than their own identities, replied to the pictures with frantic affection: “Imagine sitting next to her,” “I’m like awww they’re so cute but I’m also like oh no rip HELP,” “the girl sat to next taylor is so lucky.” Some Swifties condemned this behavior (“what is wrong with u”), but it went viral nonetheless, whether for curiosity of seeing their fave or for notoriety that fans would make a spectacle out of such a private, sad event.
Everything I Need I Get From You is a study on this kind of community of devoted, frequently unhinged pop fans called stans. Tiffany taking on this task was undeniably brave; upon its announcement, she received a barrage of hate from stans asking why she was so obsessed with them, despite the fact that she had actually been one when she was younger. Of course, these stans have a reason to worry. Their image has never been clean. They are known for the dark side of their dedication, which mainly consists of harassing people who get in their way, like their fave’s new romantic partner or a harsh critic (Tiffany quotes a tweet of an example of the latter: “I want to f*cking mutilate your insides, feed them to my dog and burn your body in my own personal raging hell.”). But Tiffany’s book is not a takedown — it is an examination, but that is still too much for stans to fathom as well.
“Infatuation is irrational but it can be a precursor to introspection,” Tiffany asserts early on. It is hard to believe. If anything, it seems like the infatuation of these fans is the kind of coping mechanism that is numbing and distracting. But obsession can definitely be multi-dimensional; think Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick, a cult-followed autofiction masterwork that proves the way uncensored, indulgent female obsession can be a vehicle for creativity, knowledge, and power. Tiffany argues that the passion stans feel is similar, instead of the kind of blind consumerism that many think it is.
When I took a class on The Beatles during my last semester of college, my professor showed us photographs on a projector of crowds of hysterical girls. He said, “Let’s talk briefly about Beatlemania.” He clicked through the black and white pictures of the crowds of teenage girls, distraught, crying, possessed, their hands covering their faces or on their heads if they were pulling out their hair. The Beatles were different than any other band, my professor explained, because they allowed women to behave passionately in public with security. They could be assertive, and for once they were not the ones being pursued — they were the pursuers, and the band their object.
Tiffany, though, knows that stan culture cannot be reduced down to this simple explanation. She debunks the myth that One Direction’s fan base is mostly women due to their attraction to the boys; she dives into “Larry,” a shipping of bandmates Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. Tiffany quotes Hannah McCann and Clare Southerton, two cultural studies scholars: “Far more than lusting after their boyband idols, Larries desire desire itself.” This is special, especially for young people who haven’t yet had access to the experience of the intensities and thrills of adulthood: love, sex, yearning, want. In this way, the band is not the object that they are pursuing; One Direction is, instead, a vessel through which fans can escape reality and live vicariously through.
But it is true that being a stan is a route through which a young woman can be free and defy the conventional rules of femininity. Tiffany describes seeing One Direction as a college student: “Outside, the strange things we were capable of feeling were sneered at or smiled off or commercially packaged as ‘girl power,’ but here they were rough and loud. The sounds were ugly,” she wrote. Even if this power that the community holds often manifests in really ugly ways — like accusing Tomlinson’s girlfriend Briana Jungwirth of faking her pregnancy and attempting to prove it by tracking her menstruation cycle(! )— it also came in handy sometimes for the greater good. When Black Lives Matter protests broke out in 2020, K-pop fans flooded hashtags that cops had been using to try to find and criminalize protesters. Fandoms in general also “repurpose[d] news accounts with large followings that usually track chart positions or celebrity Instagram activity to instead disseminate information about the protests,” Tiffany explains, such as “reading material, bail fund links, shareable graphics.”
The best part about the internet age is that everything online is a project that others can become involved in. But this might also be the worst part. The mob mentality will probably never relent. But it also isn’t just exclusive to pop fandoms, or the music scene in general; it’s the entire way the internet operates, and it’s designed for such chaos. What drives more traffic? It is incredibly easy, probably inevitable, for someone to lose their sense of individuality. Tiffany, though, denies that fans are just feeding into the system; they are rebelling against it. What they partake in is democratic, and it’s personal and transgressive; everything they do is an act of their own volition. She even shares quotes from an article hailing One Direction as punk and DIY because of all of the fan’s antics with hacking security cameras and taking charge of music charts by making collective efforts to increase streams for a song, often through clever loopholes.
Tiffany primarily gave stans the benefit of the doubt, and they should be grateful. Everything I Need I Get From You ponders: “Even alone, even in secret, there must be a reason to do what we do.” Though fans can often cross boundaries and get a bad rap, Tiffany finds them redeemable, charming, and fundamental to culture. She knows they have good intentions. They are just doing what everyone else is trying to do — find solace in a tumultuous existence.
Disney+ is officially getting its first batch of R-rated movies. As the festivities for San Diego Comic-Con kick off, the streamer has announced that Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan will hit the platform on Friday, July 22. The films were originally released by 20th Century Fox as part of its X-Men film universe, but the mutants are now under the official Marvel Studios umbrella thanks to Disney’s acquisition of Fox.
While the House of Mouse has added some of the earlier X-Men films to its streaming platform, this marks the first time it’s delved into R-rated features. That said, the three films are fan favorites that crushed it at the box office, so it only makes sense for Disney to use them to expand the value of Disney+. It also shows that Marvel is continuing to dip its toe into more adult waters. Via Polygon:
Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan are unquestionably violent, and those movies have no shortage of salty language and other adult content, but Disney seems open to relaxing its stance on releasing strictly all-ages content. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has said that the next Deadpool movie coming from Disney will be R-rated, and upcoming fare like Blade could be too.
Obviously, Disney+ streaming R-rated films is a concern to parents, but the platform already tackled that problem earlier in the year when it added the Marvel Netflix series to its library. Ahead of those shows jumping streamers, Disney+ implemented parental control features that will keep the platform family-friendly for children while still allowing grown-ups to fully enjoy Deadpool’s raunchy attacks, or an elderly Wolverine stabbing people in the face. There’s something for everybody.
While it has been a few years since JID released his last album, that doesn’t mean he hasn’t had more than enough material to satisfy hungry fans at festivals like Governor’s Ball and Coachella. But the one song that’s really set the crowds off is “Stick,” from Dreamville’s DJ Drama collaboration D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape, which also features Dreamville team captain J. Cole, rising newcomer Kenny Mason, and the controversial Sheck Wes, fresh off a stint playing ball overseas. The raucous festival favorite now gets a swaggering video loaded with enough firearms to make an NRA PSA.
As JID’s promotion machine has spun up throughout the year, fans have become ever more convinced that he’s got a new album on the way. His reputation has also grown with each rapid-fire verse he’s laid down — so much so, that he’s convinced that a lot of bigger rap artists are afraid to collaborate with him. Fortunately, that paranoia hasn’t extended to names like 21 Savage, who teamed up with JID on his single “Surround Sound,” Denzel Curry, who put JID on his new album, or Dot Da Genius, who matched both Denzel and JID up with Kid Cudi on his own new single “Talk About Me.” Meanwhile, pop acts like John Legend and Imagine Dragons have been more than happy to secure his services — which may have helped him stand out even more.
Watch Dreamville’s “Stick” video featuring J. Cole, JID, Kenny Mason, and Sheck Wes above.
One reason people are attracted to college football is how it incorporates unique things you don’t get in other sports. Things like rivalry trophies do not exist in, say, the NFL, and in recent years, teams have been looking for ways to celebrate cool stuff that happens on the field, with the most prominent example of this idea coming when the Miami Hurricanes adopted the turnover chain, a gigantic, 10-karat gold chain that was meant to reward defensive players for being aggressive in forcing fumbles and interceptions.
But apparently, all good things must come to an end. New Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal told college football reporter Brett McMurphy that the turnover chain is going away next season.
Miami dumping Turnover Chain: UM coach Mario Cristobal said the ‘Canes are getting rid of the Turnover Chain “It’s not part of our culture,” Cristobal told me. UM has had the Turnover Chain since 2017
Cristobal, who played his college ball at Miami and came to his alma mater after serving as the head coach at Oregon, expanded on this and explained at ACC media days why the team is going in a different direction. Per ESPN:
“Certainly history is history, and whether it’s positive, whether it’s inconsequential, whatever it may be, it’s still history and part of your program,” Cristobal said. “We’re just moving in a direction that right now doesn’t involve it. That’s really the best way to address it.”
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“We just really focus on getting better as a program and have focused on technique, fundamentals, regimentation, academics, strength and conditioning, sports science, community service,” he said. “That’s what the focus has been on.”
Goodbye to the turnover chain, which was extremely cool.
As if you needed another reason to drink tequila this summer, July 24th is National Tequila Day. While we celebrate this agave-based, Mexican spirit every day of the year, this Sunday is the one day of the year that’s all about tequila. Drink it neat, on the rocks, paired with lime and salt, or any way you like it. Just enjoy nuanced and delicious tequila this Sunday.
To help you out, we asked a handful of well-known bartenders to tell us their picks for the best, most exciting tequila cocktails to celebrate National Tequila Day. Keep scrolling to see all of the sweet agave, fruity, and fresh cocktails. Though be warned, a few of these take some serious skill and bespoke ingredients. Choose your at-home tequila cocktail to try wisely!
Black Magic
The London West Hollywood
“Black Magic is the perfect drink for a tequila lover who loves a tequila mule but wants to take it to the next level. This drink is both refreshing and sweet (with the muddled blackberries) but also offers that little bite everyone loves from the ginger beer. The look alone is IG ready.” – Matthew Cato, bartender at The London West Hollywood in West Hollywood,California
Recipe:
1.5 oz. Don Julio Reposado
1 oz. lemon juice
.5 oz. Luxardo Marachino Liquor
1 oz. Turbinado simple syrup
8 blackberries
2 oz. ginger beer
1 dash saline
Preparation:
In a pint glass, add blackberries and muddle completely. Add spirits and the rest of the ingredients, except the ginger beer. Add ice, and shake hard for 10 seconds. Double strain into Collins glass, and add ginger beer. Garnish with two skewered blackberries.
El Jardinero
Kimpton Surfcomber
“This cocktail was inspired by the farmers’ intense desire of creating a cocktail that is as healthy and equally tasty with a kick.”– Fernando Velazques, bartender at Kimpton Surfcomber’s High Tide Beach Bar & Grill in Miami Beach, Florida
Recipe:
1.5 oz. Casamigos Reposado Tequila
0.5 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. lime juice
0.75 oz. simple syrup
red bell pepper
Serrano pepper
cucumber
spicy rim
Preparation:
Muddle slices of peppers and cucumber in a shaker. Add all ingredients and ice, shake, and pour over ice in a rocks glass with the spicy salty rim.
Hot Lava
Jenna Murray
“The Hot Lava is in essence a spicy margarita that incorporates the classic Asian flavor combination of nuttiness and spice. The seasoning comes from a very specific Pasilla Chili distillate made by our friends at Empirical Spirits, as well as a bit of hot honey, everyone’s current favorite topping. This is rounded out with fresh pineapple for brightness and a bit of Spanish vermouth for texture and depth.”– Will Krepop, bartender at Wiggle Room in New York City
Recipe:
1 oz. Blanco tequila
.5 oz. Mata Bianco Vermouth (Spanish Vermouth)
.5 oz. Empirical Spirits Ayuuk (Pasilla Chili Distillate)
3 dashes toasted sesame tincture
.75 oz. pineapple juice
.5 oz. lime juice
.5 oz. salted hot honey syrup
Preparation:
Shake all ingredients vigorously in a shaker. Strain into a chilled glass. Enjoy.
Cyan-Siam
Forsythia
“Sweet, sour, spicy, and bitter with a hint of salinity, this cocktail is a clarified milk punch, using coconut milk to create a mild coconut flavor while remaining light and easy to drink.”– Shawn Miller, beverage director at Forsythia in Philadelphia
Recipe:
4.5 oz. tequila
2 oz. Cynar
1 oz. green Thai curry tincture (.5 oz. green curry paste soaked in 1.5 oz. vodka overnight and strained)
1 oz. lime juice
1 oz. simple syrup
1 oz. chai tea
Preparation:
Mix all ingredients, then add two ounces of coconut milk. The mixture will immediately curdle. Let sit for twenty minutes then strain through cheesecloth, then a coffee filter. Served chilled over ice. It makes three cocktails, but the recipe can be multiplied to make a larger batch.
Red Hot Mama
Miranda Densford
“Whenever I think of tequila cocktails, my mind almost immediately goes to spicy. I love drinking tequila cocktails and enjoy it even more if it makes me sweat in the heat of summer. I’m excited to be working with a variety of pepper we grow here on Hermitage Farm. I challenge myself to use the same pepper for a drink in different ways (like pickles, infusions, salts, and syrup) to highlight the different textures and spice levels that pepper has. The Red Hot Mama has a surprising texture from the piquillo juice.”-Miranda Densford, beverage director at Barn8 Restaurant and Bourbon Bar in Goshen, Kentucky
Recipe:
1.5 oz. Fresno pepper-infused Tres Agaves Blanco Tequila
1 oz. fresh charred piquillo juice
.75 oz. ounce lime juice
.5 oz ginger syrup*
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake to chill and dilute. Serve over Kentucky Straight Ice, or a large ice cube, in a rocks glass. Garnish with a thinly sliced tomatillo and pickled Fresno pepper.
*Ginger Syrup ingredients:
1 large ginger root (peeled and chopped finely)
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
Preparation:
Warm the water and add sugar. Stir until dissolved. Add ginger and syrup into a blender and blend until smooth. Let sit for 1 hour and strain.
PaLima
Bryan Canales
“The Paloma is a staple tequila cocktail. It’s refreshing and incredibly tasty. This simple three-ingredient cocktail is a must-have, especially on hot summer days. Delicious and easy to make, it’s a no-brainer. The key here is quality tequila and mixers with fresh pressed juice to give it the bright and balanced flavor that has made this cocktail a true classic and has upheld the test of time. The classic calls for tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda. This version, the PaLima, inverts the ingredients using fresh grapefruit juice and lime soda instead.”– Bryan Canales, bartender at Baby Jane in Miami
Recipe:
1.5 oz. Tequila Ocho Plata
1 oz. fresh pink grapefruit juice
Top w/ Lime Jarritos
Preparation:
Rim the glass, if desired, with salt or spice blend of choice. Build inside of a high ball or Collins glass over ice beginning with the grapefruit juice, Tequila Ocho Plata, and finish by topping it off with Jarritos Lime Soda. Garnish with grapefruit wheel inside of cocktail and a lime wedge on the side.
Wana Bana
Rosewood Mayakoba
“This cocktail features the most famous Mexican spirit, tequila, but infused with lemongrass that adds an exponential flavor. We also add freshly pureed guanabana, a tropical fruit that carries the creaminess of banana with the kick of citrus. The combination is fresh, lightly floral, and very smooth.”– Joshua Monaghan, bartender Zapote Bar at Rosewood Mayakoba in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
Recipe:
.5 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. Soursop Purée
1 teaspoon agave syrup
2 oz. Wana Bana Batch (Cointreau, Tío Pepe, and peach liquor)
Garnish: pasilla chili salt, small dry apricot, mint
Preparation:
Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake vigorously to incorporate ingredients. Add the pasilla chili salt to the rim of a small old-fashioned glass filled with ice, then strain in the cocktail. Garnish with the dried apricot and mint.
Watermelon Del Sol Margarita
Rosa Mexicana
“We came up with the Casa Del Sol Watermelon Margarita as an ode to summer. Fresh, vibrant, and refreshing, with the vanilla and sweet tobacco aromas of Casa del Sol Reposado tequila, this combination makes for a delicious cocktail that is best sipped at the Golden Hour.”– Chef Manuel Trevino, vice president of culinary for Rosa Mexicano in New York City
Recipe:
2 oz. Casa del sol Reposado Tequila
2 cubed 2-inch squares of fresh watermelon
2 pieces of fresh mint
1.5 oz. organic agave nectar
1.5 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
Preparation:
Build a cocktail inside a shaker tin. First, muddle the mint and fresh watermelon together. Build the cocktail over ice with all mixed ingredients and shake vigorously. Pour it over fresh ice and enjoy.
La Mariposa
Hawksmoor
“Our La Mariposa is both complex and refreshing at the same time. The combination of stone fruit and tequila works incredibly well and is all tied together with a little earthiness from the mezcal.”– Adam Montgomerie, bar manager at Hawksmoor in New York City
Recipe:
2 dashes of saline solution (10:1)
1 teaspoon of Empirical The Plum I Suppose
.25 oz. sugar syrup (2:1)
.5 oz. lime acid blend*
.5 oz. Merlet Apricot Liqueur
.5 oz. Del Maguay Vida Mezcal
1.25 oz. Olmeca Altos Blanco Tequila
1.5 o.z Fever Tree Tonic Water
3 oz. club soda
Preparation:
Build all ingredients in a highball glass over a single spear of ice and garnish with a lime wedge.
*lime acid blend recipe:
.5 grams of kosher salt
2 grams of ascorbic acid
8 grams of malic acid
20 grams of citric acid
500 grams of water
Preparation:
Mix ingredients together and stir until dissolved. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to one month.
Zona del Este
Huntress San Diego
“This variation on an Eastside is the perfect summer refresher to enjoy for National Tequila Day. The light barrel notes of the Izo Cristalino tequila are complemented by the cucumber and mint. If you are looking to stay hydrated, this is the perfect tipple to sip by the pool or at your backyard fiesta.”– Joree Weatherly, IZO Spirits Mixologist for Huntress in San Diego
Recipe:
2 oz. IZO Cristalino Tequila
.75 oz. lemon
.75 oz. honey syrup
muddled cucumber and mint
Preparation:
Add ingredients to shaker tin, muddle, add ice, shake, and fine strain into a coupe. Garnish with cucumber.
El Rey
Costa Palmas
“The name was chosen after Jose Alfredo Jimenez, an iconic mariachi composer and singer that was named “El Rey” (the King) of the Mexican song. He was known for spending his time at the cantina drinking tequila, singing, and writing songs. The cantina is where he found his inspiration, so El Rey was the first cocktail that we created for our nightclub.”– Luis Fernando Garcia, mixologist at Costa Palmas Nightclub in La Rubera, Mexico
Recipe:
2 oz. Santanera blanco añejado
1 oz. Antica Formula Vermouth
2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
1 bar spoon Luxardo syrup
3 pieces of pink peppercorn
1 Luxardo cherry
Preparation:
Add all ingredients to an ice-filled mixing glass. Stir until combined. Strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with a Luxardo cherry.
Sun Clap
Chinola
“The star of this cocktail is the Chinola passion fruit liqueur. It mixes perfectly with the tequila and the pineapple sage juice adds just another tropical element that makes this drink a crowd pleaser.”– Aura Cocina in Brooklyn, New York
Recipe:
1 oz. Chinola Liqueur
1.75 oz. EL Tesoro Tequila Blanco
1 oz. fresh pineapple sage juice*
.75 oz. turmeric honey syrup**
.75 oz. fresh lemon juice
pineapple wedge
*Infuse fresh pineapple juice with fresh sage for three hours; refrigerate and strain before serving.
**Add a dash of turmeric powder to honey syrup and stir until well blended.
Preparation:
Pour Chinola, tequila, pineapple sage juice, turmeric honey, and lime into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a wine glass and fill with ice. Garnish with a fresh pineapple wedge.
Lucy Liu
Sama Street
“At Sama Street we are always looking for new ways to put Asian ingredients in cocktails in interesting ways. We draw inspiration from our travels and experiences and sometimes even from our guests. The original idea for our Lucy Liu cocktail came from one of our regulars, Isabella. Growing up Filipino, she always loved drinking lychee with coconut. We decided to use a pina colada template to showcase these flavors. Swapping the pineapple for lychee juice keeps the Lucy Liu super light and refreshing. We use a combination of Filipino rum, which gives a great vanilla note, and a blanco tequila that has been fat washed with chili oil. The resulting drink is refreshing, creamy, and has a little kick. Perfect for hot summer afternoons.”– David Muhs, head bartender at Sama Street in Brooklyn, New York
Recipe:
1.5 oz. chili oil washed blanco tequila* (or 1.5 oz. blanco tequila and 5 dashes of a chili tincture)
.5 oz. Filipino rum (preferably Don Papa)
2 oz. lychee juice
.5 oz. fresh lime juice
1 oz. Cream of Coconut
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients into a shaker and shake until chilled, strain into a hurricane glass, and top with crushed ice. Garnish with an Orchid.
*Chili Oil Washed Blanco Tequila preparation:
Combine three ounces of Chili Oil, one broken dried Puya Chili, one broken dried Thai Chili, and one liter of blanco tequila in a container. Let sit at room temperature for two hours while stirring occasionally. Freeze for 24 hours so that the chili oil freezes solid over the tequila. Remove the layer of chili oil from the top of the tequila and strain the tequila before using it.
Speaking with BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo, Eilish said, “We wrote these songs recently and we were kinda sitting on them, just had written them. And there was just this moment where I was sitting and I was like, ‘Can we just put these out? Like, why are we not just putting these out?’ You know? I think when you get bigger and more eyes on you and whatever, it’s like… a release is so much more pressure and so much more build-up and it’s gotta be a whole strategy and this and that. And I just was like, ‘I don’t… I just want these to be out.’ So literally from then on, it was just like, ‘OK, well, let’s do ’em live, let’s do ’em on this tour, like the old days, and just do a song that’s not out and just have it be like a sweet, intimate fan moment during the show.’ We haven’t done that in, like, years, and so I was like, ‘Let’s just do what we used to do.’”
“Can we just put these out?” @billieeilish on why she decided to drop ‘TV’ and ‘The 30th’ as a surprise
That echoes the statement Eilish shared alongside the new songs, writing, “Finneas and I really wanted these to be yours as soon as possible. So here they are!! Performing ‘TV’ on tour was such a highlight for us too, so we took the audio from the first night we played it in Manchester and put it in the song. I get shivers every time I hear it. Hope you love the songs and thank you for letting us share our music with you.”
Ethel Cain‘s colossal debut Preacher’s Daughter immediately proved her as one of the most fascinating rising pop stars at the moment. She’s quickly gained a big, devoted following, and now she’s blessing them with a video for her much-loved track “American Teenager.”
“I was lucky enough to spend the weekend with one of my favorite people Silken Weinberg, who flew down to Florida and spent a couple days with me in my hometown, running around getting sunburnt and riding bikes to the high school football field in town,” Cain said about the video. “I dug my mom’s old cheerleading uniform out of the closet for the occasion. Looking at old pictures of my mom when she was my age cheering on that same football field was a huge inspiration when I was writing the song, so it only felt correct to play in her footsteps for the video. We shot it on the same camera we shot the ‘God’s Country’ video on, trying to avoid any strict rules and just have a good time and shoot what felt natural and true to the essence of the song.”
In the caption of the video on YouTube, Cain added in parentheses that she wanted to pay homage to “to the gods of midwest emo. American Football forever!”
Great news for anyone who loves some 19th-century gossip! The mysterious Lady Whistledown and her readers are gearing up for the third season of Bridgerton, which just began in London.
In a new video posted on Netflix’s social channels, the cast is seen preparing to film the highly-anticipated third season of the hit drama. Despite the monumental temperatures across the pond, the cast is decked out in their era-appropriate hairstyles, and each of them holds up three fingers to signify the upcoming third season.
I spy the makings of a new social season. By the looks of things, it would seem the third installment of Bridgerton is officially underway. pic.twitter.com/Ts4xDHlOwA
The upcoming season will center on Penelope (played by the iconic Nicola Coughlin) and her love story with Colin (played by Luke Newton). Of course, she is also keeping a very monumental secret regarding the elusive Lady Whistledown…what could go wrong here?
Amongst the familiar faces are three new gentlemen who are probably competing to win the hearts of this season’s most eligible ladies (it is the 1800s, after all). The three new characters will include Harry Dankworth, a good-looking but painfully dim-witted character portrayed by James Phoon. According to People, what Dankworth “lacks in wit and intelligence, he more than makes up for with seriously good looks.”
Lord Debling on the other hand will play a mysterious new man with “unusual” interests, whatever that can possibly mean during the Regency era. Debling will be portrayed by The Crown’s Sam Phillips. Finally, Daniel Francis will play newcomer Marcus Anderson, the charismatic new character who “lights up any room he enters.”
With all of these new characters come new drama and conflict, but more importantly, great monologues about the power of love and all that good stuff, with some period-specific costumes. It should be the event of the season!
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