It’s my daughter’s birthday today. She turned 13, so I somehow have two teenagers now. What in the hell? Anyway, huge thanks to Chris for making my night very easy with this blurb. For real, buddy, you did me a solid: SNL and Las Culturistas’ Bowen Yang is talking with Chappell Roan and the conversation is as fun and queer as that sounds. (Interview)
Is Dakota Johnson protesting way too much by blatantly flashing her engagement ring to the paps? (Lainey Gossip)
Glen Powell takes the Twisters kiss controversy in stride. (Celebitchy)
RIP Phil Donahue. (Mediaite)
Wonkette’s headline game does not miss. 🤌 🤌 (Wonkette)
Gina Rodriguez joins Will Trent Season 3. (TVLine)
From Petr: Lol, what a dweeb. “Jake Paul snaps on the crowd booing him in New York and calls them all Democrats.” (Reddit)
Shiloh Jolie has officially ditched Pitt from her last name, so remind me to never to take parenting tips from Brad. (Daily Beast)
Twitter updated its AI chatbot. The images are a dumpster fire. (Rolling Stone)
From Emma: The Demurest news. (Variety)
Michael Madsen got arrested on domestic violence charges. (THR)
Any military that rides into battle with the CyberTruck deserves the humiliating and presumably rusty loss coming their way. (Gizmodo)
From Nate: Ain’t that a pissah. (MassLive)
Katie71483 picked up Christina Dodd’s A Daughter of Fair Verona, in which Romeo and Juliet lived and had a daughter named Rosie. “It is clever and funny and surprising, and one of the things I love most about it is that it…is obviously written by someone who has a real love for language and words and is unafraid to use them to set mood and feeling and be evocative.” How do you feel about contemporary authors playing with classic stories? (Cannonball Read 16)