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Things you might want to know, for May 21, 2023:

• Hot Wheels car designer Harry Bradley dead at 84 — Hot Wheels were —amusingly— a giant part of my childhood. I had several plastic storage cases full of them, one of which was molded to look like a Goodyear tire. My brother and I raced them down home-made courses because we used the official plastic strips of track to hit each other, I lingered over them in the toy aisle at Kmart like an art collector at a museum, and sat in my room making up elaborate stories for them akin to what girls were doing with Barbie. Only I never made my cars scissor with one another.
• ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’: Every Episode Ranked From Worst to Best — Any list that suggests there were 24 episodes of Buffy —an entire season!— worse than “Doublemeat Palace” was created by someone who is both sad and stupid. (Probably an AI.) I’m okay with someone preferring it to, say, “Beer Bad” or “Where The Wild Things Are”, but DP is a top five, all-time worst for the show.
• Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87 — It seldom gets mentioned, but he was also an elite lacrosse player in college, a nationally competitive runner in track-and-field, and a decent basketball player… there was pretty much no sport Jim couldn’t have dominated if he’d cared to try.
• Can casual sex ever really be casual? — “Yes.” There, I’ve answered this piece’s insipid opening question.

• ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ Review: Joanna Arnow’s Hilarious and Clever Debut
• The Smiley Face Killers Conspiracy Theory Died Down. Then Came TikTok — PROTIP: the more ephemeral the medium, the less seriously you should take it… TikTok has nothing to teach that you need to learn.
• How BDSM & paradoxes inspired director Zachary Wigon to make his new erotic thriller ‘Sanctuary’
• The Ephemeral Tattoo Studio provides tattoos that completely fade away after 1-3 years — I’m in favor of anything that makes a girl’s dumb decisions less permanent.

• Anna Nicole Smith’s Father ‘Tried to Have Sex’ with Her After Playmate Party, Friend Claims in Netflix Doc — Of course he did.
• I founded SNCTM, the world’s most exclusive sex club — it ruined my marriage — Of course it did.
• Illicit sex parties enjoyed by Silicon Valley’s finest at ‘warehouses’ — Of course they are.

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Things you might want to know, for May 20, 2023:

• PSA: Death Stranding Is Free On PC Right Now — I find it maddening to actually play, but as an experience, DS is as fascinating and stupid as all Kojima games. Definitely worth downloading as a freebie.
• ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Stan Maren Morris Turned Tom Schwartz’s Blubbering Into a Country Song
• “Marvel Comics in the 1970s” is a new book about a wild and trippy creative era — I dunno… I feel like identifying every “wild and trippy creative era” in modern comics is as simple as tracking Jack Kirby’s place of employment.
• Human-evolution story rewritten by fresh data and more computing power

• It’s the End of The CW As We Know It, and We’re Not Fine — Voyager, Everybody Hates Chris, Buffy, Dawson, Roswell, Veronica Mars, Gilmore, Smallville, Charmed, Felicity, Popular… even if you ignore the last decade of Arrowverse shows, the death of UPN/WB/CW is one more nail in my youth’s coffin.
• OpenAI launches free ChatGPT app for iOS — This thing has needed a native iOS/iPadOS app from the beginning, and I’m delighted it has finally arrived.
• Dynamite & Disney announce DISNEY VILLAINS: HADES comic series
• ‘Futurama’ returns July 24th as a Hulu original after a 10-year hiatus — …and honestly, I don’t care. I know Futurama is beloved by many, but I’ve always found it little more than “faintly amusing.” But I’m in favor of anything that keeps Katey Sagal employed, so I hope it works.
• Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back — Yeah, so… this does seem like a rather dumb idea.

• Watch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon — The first Scorsese movie I’ve been eager to watch in at least seven or eight years.
• A pan that makes both a pancake and a waffle… at the same time

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Things you might want to know, for May 17, 2023:

• Liz Phair to Play ‘Exile in Guyville’ in Its Entirety on New Tour — “And when I asked for a separate room/It was late at night and we’d been driving since noon/But if I’d known how that would sound to you/I would have stayed in your bed for the rest of my life/Just to prove I was right”
• Why is everyone so into rough sex right now? — Because they always were. They’re just talking about it now.
• Pest banned from talking about sex to women across England and Wales
• Loki season 2 hits Disney Plus this October — I’m tempted to say “and no one will care,” but nerdy girls need masturbation material too.
• Echo Season 1 Will Drop All at Once in November — Ah, how handy, I can say it after all… and no one will care.

• Did We Upset You Abel? The Weeknd Responds to Rolling Stone’s Expose on ‘The Idol’ — Dear Rolling Stone: if you think he’s actually upset by your coverage, you clearly don’t grasp just how appealing you’re making this show sound. You’ve turned it into a “can’t miss” for me.
• iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
• ‘Just Do What I Say’: 10 Women Claim Comedian Chris D’Elia Preyed on Them — Targeting vanilla girls and just hoping they’ll play along is the surest sign that you’re made the transition from Mean Man to Misogynist Dickbag.
• We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies — Surveillance Culture is bigger than omnipresent security cameras and drones.
• PSA: time to recycle your old Wemo smart plugs (if you haven’t already)

• Martha Stewart STUNS in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover — Oh, it’s stunning, that’s for sure. (Like a 2×4 to the face.) I can only assume this is Martha’s revenge for Kathy Ireland getting her own housewares line 25 years ago.
• Google will start deleting inactive accounts after two years
• Drunk driving suspect switched seats with dog when pulled over — I feel like the audacity and cuteness of this move deserved some sort of reward.
• A high-schooler filmed her teacher using the n-word, then got suspended
• Indiana Jones: Disney Plus Release Announced for First Four Movies — Only one of which is actually worth watching. Yay.

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Things you might want to know, for May 16, 2023:

• Frank Miller Wolverine variant cover ignites Twitter debate — It’s ugly. It’s not interesting. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a legitimate, thoughtful piece of art. That’s just where Miller’s head is at these days, for better or worse.
• Invisible creatures are having sex on your face — while you sleep — Your pores are literally cum dumpsters. Let that sink in.
• New study puts a definitive age on Saturn’s rings: They’re really young — Some day they’re going to run away from home, and then Saturn will really be sorry.
• The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse — Dash has always had lots of very confident opinions about matters he considered settled as soon as he developed an opinion. Which means he tends to be half-right about things, as he is here.
• 7 men, 1 depraved sex network: Unravelling the full story behind the wife-sharing drug rapes

• Justified returns July 18 but WHAT is going on with Raylan’s hat? — A studded hatband is Raylan Givens’ idea of exploring an alternative lifestyle.
• Twitter Fights Over Who’s Hotter: Young Al Pacino Or Young Robert DeNiro — Al’s worst looks were/are worse than Bobby’s, but when sufficiently cleaned up and styled, Pacino is better looking.
• Artist creates everyday objects out of Lego
• San Francisco women named Thor Kill sentenced to prison for possession of bomb-making supplies, ammunition — And now she just has to hope she doesn’t run into Zeus Rape at the correctional facility.
• The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed

• Archer’s superspy adventures are finally coming to an end after the series’ 14th season — I’m slightly sad, but mostly content. I more or less gave up on the show during Sterling’s coma, and while I’ve tried fighting my way through, it’s a struggle… they’ve never recovered the weird sincerity that once underpinned all the snark the show serves up.
• Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
• Double-screen ‘free’ TV will show you ads, even when not in use — Okay, so, the ONE thing I like here: the second screen keeping their ads off the content. (A handy way of avoiding lawsuits from content publishers.) Everything else about this whole idea is a surveillance nightmare that —sadly— might actually be successful.
• MTV News Confidential: Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, and John Norris Tell All
• Dedicated player builds Gundam in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — I remember having the kind of time and focus it would take to come up with this shit. Barely. Wow.

• Kanye West files trademark for socks that are also shoes — Excuse me, Ye? I believe Mr. Bundy has a concept you’re going to love…
• ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is coming to Disney+ and Max on June 7th — Does this mean I have to re-watch the first one? Should I take it as an omen that I really don’t want to re-watch the first one?
• Woman busted with 1,500 grams of cocaine hiding behind her fake pregnancy belly
• Why Gen Z loves Seinfeld — …when did this happen? I approve, but given Millennial indifference to the show, I’m surprised.
• Cash App founder Bob Lee was part of an underground party scene of sex and drugs called ‘The Lifestyle’ prior to his death, report says — This just keeps getting wilder and wilder.

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Things you might want to know, for May 15, 2023:

• Sean Gunn is done playing Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy (but Kraglin is another story) — Rocket can go fuck Kraglin, for all I care… Sean Gunn is Kirk from Stars Hollow, end of story. (I looked it up… I always thought it was “Star’s Hollow”. It isn’t.)
• My Hookup Was Going Great. Then “The Slap” Happened.
• The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared — Meanwhile, Nintendo has Zelda down to a tight and supple 16Gb, running on the technical equivalent of three rubber bands and a hamster wheel.
• New demon catshark species discovered off coast of Western Australia — Because shark.
• Side of beef in Arby’s freezer… was something much worse — But was it? Was it really worse?

• Is Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes canonically hot? — To answer: yes, she is. Just as importantly, Elaine and Jerry both think they’re hot. (Jerry’s track record of pulling fine pieces of ass definitely outstrips Elaine’s collection of old, off-putting, or poor dudes, so if she’s in fact hot as I believe, it’s significantly less so than Jerry.) Kramer is beyond question, especially when he has both The Jacket and The Kavorka. Meanwhile, George just wants someone who will watch him eat garbage and still let him touch her.
• EXCLUSIVE: Brave 13-year-old girl fights off shark during attack at Florida beach — Because fucking asshole sharks.
• South Las Vegas residents complain of alleged ‘sex club’ taking over neighborhood — Alternate title: “South Las Vegas neighbors don’t receive discounts or invites, decide to be bitches about it”
• My AI Girlfriend Charges $1/Minute and Only Wants to Talk About Sex — Optimistic take: the history of incels will be brief… AI girlfriends will provide enough intimacy to keep a significant number of boys from developing that particular variant of entitled resentment. Pessimistic take: the Optimistic Take happens, and they all transition into woman-hating dweebs who now resent everything female for not being as perfect and compliant as their multitasking girlfriend, SIMantha 4.6.
• How wood-scanning tech is taking the guesswork out of aging bourbon

• Media is invited to a private screening of “tOuch Kink” at DomCon, the largest convention of Dominatrixes in the world
• I Went to a BDSM Convention With My Ex
• Elon Musk names NBCU ad exec Linda Yaccarino new Twitter CEO — I suspect this will make zero difference. Elon will change his title, but not his influence or behavior.
• FOX concern trolls CNN over fact-checking