It’s been a relatively quiet past few years for Father John Misty. His most recent album is 2018 God’s Favorite Customer and he’s only popped up with new material on occasion since then, like when he dropped “To S.” And “To R.” in the summer of 2020. Now, though, it appears Misty may have something going on, even if it’s not entirely clear what it is.
This afternoon, he took to Instagram to share a mysterious 15-second video. The clip shows a nighttime cityscape and an object (or objects) in the distance in front of it, although it’s not easy to identify what’s going on. It looks like it could be a pair of people standing next to some sort of structure that’s a bit taller than they are, but again, it’s hard to say definitively. All the while, some reverb-heavy music plays.
The post doesn’t include a written caption and none of Misty’s social media platforms indicate anything about this video or anything the artist has coming up, and neither does his website. So, at the moment, all we have is this cryptic teaser. It’s also possible that this video exists in a vacuum and isn’t connected to anything else, but rather, is just its own mysterious thing.
Whatever the case may be, eager fans might want to keep an eye out for potential upcoming news from Misty.
There are two Ball brothers in the Charlotte Hornets system. LaMelo Ball, of course, is the reigning NBA Rookie of the Year and has established himself as the centerpiece of whatever the franchise is building going forward, and after spending some time with the team during the NBA Summer League, the Hornets decided to bring in LiAngelo Ball as part of their G League affiliate.
In the eyes of their father, that second thing is a bit of an issue. TMZ caught up with LaVar Ball and asked him about the team’s decision to keep LiAngelo in the G League, and he’s unsurprisingly not a big fan.
“They don’t understand what they got,” Ball said. “They need to let my boy go ahead and play. I dropped them a superstar in the G-League and they don’t know what to do with him.”
LiAngelo has played a little for the Swarm this season, averaging 9.3 points per game and connecting on 50 percent of his attempts from three, although he’s only shot 14 of them in the four games he’s played. The Hornets are 12-8 on the year and don’t especially need another sharpshooter, even though they’re 15th in the league in three-point percentage and can always use more shooting around LaMelo.
If this doesn’t come to fruition and the Hornets decide they don’t view LiAngelo as an NBA player, the Big Baller has an idea of where he can go next.
“I already said the Lakers, but then they got rid of Zo,” Ball said. “Then I said Charlotte, you got him in your backyard. Bring him in, let him play with Melo. Now, I got a new destination: LA Clippers, here we go!”
Beloved former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton has a Trivial Pursuit-based game show hosting gig on the way. He’s also expressed that he’d never host Jeopardy!, even if they producers asked him to do it. These remarks (and LeVar doesn’t have any hard feelings, he’s just being real) follow a fiasco of a year for the long-running show, after former executive producer Mike Richards held a disastrous one-week reign as host.
Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings continue to trade off hosting duties for the rest of the year, but of course, LeVar’s still fielding the occasional interview question on the subject. For the past few months, LeVar’s made it clear that he realized that the job wasn’t what he actually wanted, and his wife even let him know that the position didn’t come naturally to him. And here’s what LeVar has to say to Rolling Stone about those trolls who think he “sh*t the bed” while guest hosting:
“In the age of social media, you have access to the good, the bad, and the ugly of what people think about you, [like] seeing on my Twitter, ‘Oh, he was terrible!’ ‘He was the worst of all the guest hosts.’ ‘He sh*t the bed’ Sh*t the bed? I don’t think I was that bad! You gotta have thick skin. As Forrest Gump would say, ‘That’s all I’m gonna say about that.’”
Naturally, he’s taking the high road here while also acknowledging how “one of the downsides to fame is vulnerability.” That’s also one of the downsides to being a human being, so he’s not wrong because fame can amplify both positives and negatives to great degrees. He does, however, also reassure anyone who’s worried that “there was a lot of unnecessary concern that I was devastated,” when LeVar is doing just fine. The dude’s appreciative of those fans who came to him while saying he got stiffed, but LeVar wants to assure everyone that “one of the best things to come out of it was the love.”
Not only does LeVar have love on his side and a new game show in his future, but Ava DuVernay also expressed her hopes for a team up as well. The future is bright.
Brooklyn rapper Kota The Friend‘s had a relatively quiet second half of 2021 after dropping off two distinct projects at the top of the year. The first, Lyrics To Go, Vol. 2, was more of an abstract effort that featured Kota giving freewheeling takes on minute-long instrumentals, tackling any subject that came to mind. The second was To Kill A Sunrise with Statik Selektah, which was nevertheless a laid-back attempt to have fun rapping on a cohesive, lyrically-focused project.
Since then, he has stuck to more “Lyrics to Go”-style freestyles and videos from those two projects, until October, when he dropped “Bitter,” on which he vented about an ex-girlfriend who spread rumors about him on Twitter after a bad breakup. However, now he’s back on a positive vibe, celebrating the spirit of Thanksgiving and re-centering himself with “Grateful,” a gracious, mellow meditation on all good things in his life. Fittingly, the video focuses mainly on his son, cutting clips of home movies with tour footage from Kota’s independently-funded travels as he details all the things he’s grateful for, including summers spent in warm weather, having the resources to take care of his family, and even the setbacks that have come up and taught him valuable life lessons.
The flag-filled Thanksgiving matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders was seen by 93,483 people at AT&T Stadium — and over 38 million at home. The game, which Las Vegas won in overtime 36-33, was watched by an estimated 38.531 million viewers, making it the “most-watched NFL regular-season game on any network since 1990,” according to a press release. (That 1990 game was between the NY Giants and San Francisco 49ers — the 49ers won 7-3.)
The game delivered an estimated average viewership of 38.531 million, up +26 percent from last year’s comparable game window (30.680 million on FOX from 4:38-7:47 p.m.), based on preliminary data. The Raiders-Cowboys game also is the most-watched television program on any network since Super Bowl LV programming on CBS on Feb. 7, 2021.
Those are some staggering numbers, but even the tragic Lions vs. Bears game on Fox was seen by 27.09 million viewers, making it the largest audience for the early Thanksgiving game since 2016. That’s 10 million more people than the biggest scripted series on TV. Remember all that concern about the NFL’s slipping ratings? Oops.
The Raiders’ win has them in third place in the AFC West at 6-5, behind the 7-4 Kansas City Chiefs and 6-4 Los Angeles Chargers. As for the 7-4 Cowboys, Dak Prescott & co. are in first in the NFC East with a two-game lead over the 5-6 Philadelphia Eagles.
If you hosted a dozen of your closest friends and family members for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, you had more people at your dining room table than Mike Lindell was able to scrounge up for his Fox News protest.
On Wednesday morning, the tenacious pillow salesman enlisted a group of, oh, I don’t know, maybe 11 people to stand outside Fox News’s Manhattan HQ and shout “Shame on Fox!” Honestly, it sort of looked like even Steve Bannon was stifling a laugh while airing footage of Lindell’s protestella—and he’s about to end up in jail.
Lindell called for a protest outside Fox News, and at least 10 people were there. He says he is upset that the only thing Fox wants to talk about is Biden staying at “a rich guy’s house” in Nantucket, and Hunter Biden, instead of the election fraud lawsuit that he just revealed. pic.twitter.com/ZiRhURpS7t
But as he has proven so many times before, the MyPillow Guy doesn’t give a fig about failure—or just has an inability to recognize it. Because, to hear him tell it, the fact that there was anyone at all chanting outside Rupert Murdoch’s home away from home made it a success. So just what Lindell—who still drops mad cash with Fox on MyPillow advertising—asking this group of people, which had about as many members as Arcade Fire, to protest in the first place? “Election deflection,” Lindell told Bannon. In short: Lindell is annoyed that Fox News was reporting on how Joe Biden was spending his Thanksgiving instead of real news … like the election fraud that happened during the 2020 presidential election, even though he has no proof of any such fraud.
The Daily Beast was actually on the scene—unlike Lindell himself, though he did tell the outlet that it was there that “the names of the mystery plaintiffs bringing his mythical filing to the high court would, at last, be revealed.”
“Alas, the names were not revealed,” Daily Beast wrote. In fact, the only crime their reporters appeared to witness was one against correct spelling, as they noted seeing “A billboard truck parked on the street [that] appeared to take aim at ‘Faux News,’ asking ‘WTH?!?!’—i.e., ‘What the hell?!?!’—and imploring the network to ‘Talk about THE BIGGEST CRIM IN HISTORY! 2020 ELECTION FRAUD.’”
“I didn’t coach them,” Lindell said, clearly missing the comedy of the situation.
“No media turned out to cover the poorly publicized last-minute confab, though Lindell at one point urged The Daily Beast to send these ‘evil’ D.C.-based reporters to cover it in person. But Lindell didn’t even attend his own rally—despite past promises. Instead, he said, he was busy traversing the U.S. to allegedly persuade state attorneys general to co-sign his unhinged election-fraud complaint to the Supreme Court.”
Lindell was also likely busy prepping for what he deemed his “Thanks-a-thon,” a 96-hour marathon in which Lindell promised to reveal all sorts of titillating election fraud details… but apparently hit the hay just 90 minutes in, because lunacy is tiring.
Last night at 1am est Mike Lindell kicked off his 96-hour straight “thanks-a-thon” event but after an hour and a half, he called it quits for the night. The pillow tycoon said he would return at 10am est, but there’s one problem: no sign of Mike Lindell yet!
Lindell did eventually return to the airwaves on Thursday, and at one point claimed that “millions” of people were watching—forgetting, or not knowing, that anyone viewing this spectacle could see just exactly how many people were tuned in, which was about twice as many people who showed up to his MyProtest.
Mike Lindell started his 96 hour insane-a-palooza “give me moneython” today….and then promptly left bc his wife said thanksgiving dinner was ready so they just replayed clips from his August failure
Eventually, Lindell checked out of his own marathon yet again on Thursday evening when his dinner was ready. Because while election fraud can wait, Thanksgiving dinner cannot.
Earlier this week, Mura Masa’s Alex Crosson received a Grammy nomination for the fourth time in his career. The British electronic producer’s frenetic remix of PVA’s “Talks” is included in the 64th Annual Grammy Awards Best Remixed Recording field along with the likes of Mike Shinoda remixing Deftones’ “Passenger” and Dave Audé’s remix of Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato’s “Met Him Last Night.”
Now Crosson has shared the first new Mura Masa track of 2021 and teased an upcoming album. “2gether” stands out for the sputtering rhythm and pleasantly warped backing vocal hook on the calmly longing love song that features London vocalist Gretel Hänlyn. On his Instagram feed, Crosson relished in the feeling of finally releasing new music again by stating that he was “overwhelmed at the love so far and I hadn’t even posted. 100,000 streams in a few hours is different!! Feels so good to have taken so much time away from releasing my own music to get my mind and my ideas right and come back to such warm reception. Love u all my lil demons.”
This marks a flurry of activity from Crosson on social media, teasing sample pack giveaways on his mailing list and hopping on the TikTok train to preview songs from an upcoming album.
During a special screening of Red Notice just before Thanksgiving, The Rock showed that his generosity is as freaking huge as his muscles. The actor gave away his “personal custom truck” to audience member Oscar Rodriguez, whose story clearly touched the actor and led to a heartwarming and emotional moment as Rodriguez couldn’t believe what was happening.
Prior to the screening, The Rock had discovered that Rodriguez is a hard-working personal trainer, Navy veteran, and just all around good guy. While the initial plan was to have Porsche give Rodriguez one of their cars from Red Notice, they opted not to, so The Rock stepped up in a big way by giving away his personal truck. Via Instagram:
I gathered as much information as I could about everyone in the audience and ultimately, Oscar’s story moved me.
Takes care of his 75 year old mom. Personal trainer. Leader at his church. Provides support and meals for women victimized by domestic violence. Proud & humble Navy veteran. Kind human being.
Oscar said it right, just before he drove away ~ it’s just love.
You can watch the video below, and the moment Rodriguez finds out he now owns The Rock’s truck is right at the beginning. The Navy Veteran is clearly overwhelmed by the moment, and later on, you can hear more his story that moved The Rock to gift him with a new set of wheels.
After perhaps the greatest decade in the history of music, The Beatles famously broke up in 1970. In the years since, plenty of theories about why the band came to an end have been thrown around. One of the most prominent is that Yoko Ono, who was of course married to John Lennon, was a major contributing factor in the group’s demise. However, as fans watch the new Get Back documentary series — which offers an intimate look at the recording session for the final Beatles album, Let It Be — they’re starting to think that Ono has been unfairly blamed all this time.
Fans who have watched the documentary have taken to Twitter to share their thoughts on Ono, with a lot of them believing that not only did Ono not cause the band’s break-up, but that while she was in the studio, she really didn’t do much at all besides read the newspaper, check her mail, and perform other mundane tasks of that sort.
Watching “Get Back” and learning how Yoko destroyed the Beatles by sitting quietly and reading the paper and sorting through her mail.
Get Back director Peter Jackson feels the same way, as he recently told 60 Minutes, “I have no issues with Yoko in the sense… I can understand from George and Paul and Ringo’s point of view it’s, like, a little strange. But the thing with Yoko, though, that they have to say, is that she doesn’t impose herself. She’s writing letters, she’s reading letters, she’s doing sewing, she’s doing painting, sometimes some artwork off to the side. She never has opinions about the stuff they’re doing. She never says, ‘Oh, I think the previous take was better than that one.’ She’s a very benign presence and she doesn’t interfere in the slightest.”
Meanwhile, Paul McCartney recently declared that it was Lennon who brought the band to an end, saying, “I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny. I am not the person who instigated the split. Oh no, no, no. John walked into a room one day and said, ‘I am leaving The Beatles.’ Is that instigating the split or not?”
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the holidays. With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, we’re heading full force into the holiday season with all of its pine-scented trees, holly jolly jocularity, brightly lit menorahs, Festivus poles, gingerbread cookies, and eagerly-awaited seasonal beers.
The latter is where our focus lies today — the time is right to stock up on holiday brews. Regardless of which holidays you celebrate, you can probably agree that a well-made Christmas beer, wintry holiday ale, or spiced IPA are all something to get excited about when the calendar edges nearer to December.
That’s why we decided to list eight of our favorites below. Some are classic, spiced Christmas beers and others land a little on the hoppier side. There’s something for every palate and each pick is a lot better than a sock full of coal. Let’s dive in!
With a name like Fistmas, you can probably tell that this beer is like a punch of good cheer to your gut. This 6.5 percent red ale gets its seasonal flavor from the addition of ginger and orange peel. The result is a sweet, spicy, warming beer well-suited for cold weather.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of caramel, vanilla, floral hops, and slight spice meet you on the nose. The palate is centered around candied orange peel, shaved ginger, bready malts, butterscotch, and just a hint of biting spice. The finish is dry, warming, and a great combination of sweet and spicy.
Bottom Line:
This subtly spiced seasonal is a great beer for fans of hoppy beer that want to drink a Christmas brew, too. It features snappy hops that temper the other flavors nicely.
Clown Shoes is a big name in the craft beer world. Recently, the brand launched a “12 Beers of Christmas” mix pack featuring a slew of great beers. This includes Reindeer Games. Named for the extracurricular activities Rudolph wasn’t allowed to partake in, this beer is “Bavarian Style” IPA is brewed with Saaz, Mandarina, and Mosaic hops.
Tasting Notes:
Take a moment to breathe in the notes of bready malts, bright lemon zest, butterscotch, dank pine, and a slight, herbal backbone. The sip reveals caramelized sugar, orange peels, brown sugar, a pine forest, and a slightly sweet, subtly bitter finish that leaves you wanting more.
Bottom Line:
You probably thought that all Christmas beers were spiced. This one appeals to IPA fans by refusing to conform to the expected conventions for conjuring the season.
Deschutes fans eagerly await this seasonal beer. This complex “festive” winter ale is brewed with Pale, Extra Special, Crystal, and Carapils malts as we as roasted barley and Bravo, Cascade, US Tettnang, East Kent Goldings, and Delta hops.
Tasting Notes:
Nosing this beer reveals hints of bready malts, caramel candy, roasted malts, and resinous pine needles. On the palate, you’ll find myriad flavors — including fir needles, dank hops, bitter chocolate, butterscotch, and freshly brewed coffee. It all ends with a nice finish of floral hops, caramel, and just a whisper of seasonal spice.
Bottom Line:
For a holiday beer, this is surprisingly complex and well-balanced. There’s a great ratio of hops to malts to create a nice, piney, malty seasonal sipper.
Anchor Christmas Ale is not only one of the oldest holiday beers in the US, but it’s also one of the most eagerly awaited. Brewed every year since 1975, it’s available from November until January. While the recipe is a closely guarded secret, this winter warmer is known for its chocolate, malty, warming flavor.
Tasting Notes:
This beer smells exactly like you hope it would. Notable aromas like caramel, bready malts, dried fruits, cinnamon, cloves, and other baking spices fill your nostrils. When you take a sip, you’re met with hints of dried cherries, cinnamon, cloves, caramel candy, roasted malts, and a gentle, nutty sweetness throughout.
Bottom Line:
The folks at Anchor have had decades to perfect this beer and they absolutely have. It’s malty, rich, loaded with seasonal spice, and surprisingly easy to drink.
It feels like this list is filled with beers that have rabid fan bases. Tröegs Mad Elf is no exception. This highly awaited, bold, warming seasonal offering is 11 percent ABV and brewed with Chocolate, Munich, and Pilsner malts as well as Spicy Belgian yeast. It gets its wintry flavor from the addition of honey and Bing, Lambert, Van, Royal Ann, Montmorency cherries.
Tasting Notes:
This beer is truly unique. The nose begins with a symphony of dried cherries, clover honey, caramel malts, and just a hint of bitter, floral hops. The taste is a continuation of the nose with flavors like bright, tart cherry, sweet honey, vanilla beans, cinnamon, and a gentle, warming alcohol sweetness at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a potent winter sipper. It’s 11 percent ABV and should be treated as such. All of that aside, it’s surprisingly mellow, sweet, fruity, spicy, and easy to drink. Almost too easy.
This award-winning seasonal beer was created to literally taste like Christmas in a glass, with flavors like fresh ginger, honey, and cinnamon. It’s sweet, memorable, a great gift for a friend or family member, and a great beer to bring to a holiday gathering.
Tasting Notes:
This is a very aptly named beer as it begins with a nose of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, clover honey, and sweet caramel. On the palate, you’ll find notable hints of cloves, pine needles, candied orange peels, toffee, and wintry spices. The finish is a nice mix of fruitcake-like sweetness and bitter citrus.
Bottom Line:
This beer is like a fruitcake in a glass. And, while we can’t stomach the food, it shines in beer form. It’s a truly memorable holiday brew.
There are few contemporary traditions more beloved than the “ugly sweater” party. This festive brew pays homage to this new tradition. Brewed with rolled oats, Pilsner malts, and dry-hopped with Citra, Sabro, and Mosaic hops, it’s like a warm not-so-ugly sweater.
Tasting Notes:
This is a holiday beer for people who hate holiday beers. This seasonal, winter IPA begins with aromas of ripe pineapple, mango, melon, and zesty, piney hops. The palate is highlighted by more tropical fruit flavor, caramel malts, sweet cereal notes, citrus zest, and dank, piney, floral hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is the kind of beer you’ll crack open at a holiday party only to be knocked back by the bold flavors that somehow magically work on a cold, winter day.
You can tell from this beer’s name that you’re in for a classic, wintry beer. This 8.3 percent ABV English strong ale is brewed with Black, Bonlander Munich, Chocolate, 2-Row, and Gambrinus Honey malts as well as London ale yeast. It’s high in alcohol, rich, and exceedingly warming on a cold winter night.
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this beer’s nose. There are complex aromas of raisins, dried cherries, chocolate fudge, toasted vanilla beans, cinnamon, and an herbal, memorable backbone. One sip lets you know that you’re in for an exciting experience. There are notes of maple candy, butterscotch, dried fruits, cinnamon, cloves, caramel malts, and gentle, spicy hops at the end to round everything together.
Bottom Line:
This just might be the best holiday beer. It’s rich, sweet, and so full of flavor that it might take you multiple tastings to find and properly savor them all.
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