Monday January 23 Daily Links

MONDAY 1.23


NEWS STORIES

 



Monterey Park Shooter Dead By His Own Hand

A man who is believed to have shot 10 dead at a ballroom dancing studio in Monterey has killed himself after police surrounded his van.

Too bad he didn’t do that 24 hours earlier.

Read more at CBS


The Italian Mob in America Got Run Out By EuroGangsters

This article in The Sun claims that the downfall of the Sicilian Maifa and the US Five Families was the rise of Eastern European gangs and drug cartels.

That may be true….but their biggest enemy was type two diabetes.

Read more at The Sun


Trump Doesn't Know Who Silk Was at Diamond Memorial Service

The Don spoke at a memorial service for Lynette Hardaway who was the Diamond in the well known conservative vlogging duo Diamond and Silk. He praised Diamond but apparently never even heard of Silk. “I thought I knew them both, I didn’t, I knew Diamond, but I didn’t know Silk at all. I just learned about Silk. You’re fantastic, you’re going to carry on beyond, beyond anybody’s wildest imaginations,” he said.

He also said he knows Simon but not Garfunkel and oddly Oates but not Hall.

Read more at NY Post.


DOJ Finds More Docs in Biden's House

During a 12 hour search of the President’s home, they found more classified documents some docs from when he was in the Senate, and some notes from when he was VP.

Hunter said, “and everyone thought i was the fuck up.”

Read more at The Guardian


Crypto Queen Is the Only Woman on FBI's Most Wanted List

Ruja Ignatova scammed her victims– investors– out of over four billion dollars through her bitcoin competitor company, OneCoin. Then she just disappeared and hasn’t been seen since. This landed her on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list, and she’s the only female on the list

Yeah but that money would be gone now anyway so does it even matter?

Read more at CNN


People Waited Three Hours to Ride Splash Mountain For Last Time

Social media was full of videos and photos of the huge line to get onto Disney’s Splash Mountain ride before the popular attraction shuts down to be rebranded. The ride will remain the same but the imaging will be themed to “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, from the 2009 movie the Frog and the Prince.

On a normal day you wait two and a half hours so who cares.

Read more at barstool.



SPORTS



MRI Reveals Mahomes Has a High Ankle Sprain

Patrick Mahomes injured his ankle during this weekend’s game against the Jaguars. The MRI showed a high ankle sprain, which is a little more serious than a regular sprain, but the QB plans to play next week against the Bengals.

“Oh I feel so sorry for him,” said Jeremy Reiner.

Read more at NY Post


Damar Hamlin Went to the Bills Game This Weekend

Hamlin made his way into Highmark stadium for the first time since his injury, for the Bills-Bengals game on Saturday where he was escorted to a private suite.

That guys a real jinx.

Read more at TMZ


Ryan Phillippe Predicts Eagles Win

Phillippe tweeted that he knew the Eagles would win, because they had never lost when he wore a certain necklace, which he was planning to wear during the game Saturday night.

Why didn’t you wear that necklace every game?



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Celebs Show Up to Say Goodbye to Lisa Marie

Billy Corgan, Alannis Morisette, and Axl Rose all showed up to sing for Lisa Marie Presley at her Memorial service this weekend.

Everyone was waiting for Austin Butler to pop a tune.

Read more at ET Online


Bret Easton Ellis Wrote a Gen Z Love Letter

13 years after his last novel, BEE sat down to pen a new banger, The Shard, He says the book just “announced itself” to him in April 2020. It was a book he tried to write for 20 years, and “the key to unlocking it after all these years was that it needed an older voice, that it was, in fact, a memory.”

Shockingly it takes place in 1981.

Read more at thefp


Vanessa Hudgens Comment Will Divide Us All

Austin Butler and Vanessa Hudgens were together for ten years before they split up while Butler was working on the Elvis movie. Everyone knows she had a big hand in his decision to play the iconic rock star, but he never really thanked her or even mentioned her when asked about his decision to take on the role. Now she left a one word comment, “crying”, on a post about his continuing to use the Elvis accent, and the internet is deeply split on their reaction to the comment.

Way to stay in his life…V.

Read more at Buzzfeed


Rust Will Be Made and Will Star Baldwin

Despite that he has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Alec Baldwin will continue to star in Rust.

Would be much more interesting to see a Rust documentary…

Read more at CNN


Mandalorian 3 Trailer Breaks Records

85 million people watched the trailer for season 3 of the Mandelorian in a matter of twenty four hours.

Can’t you just watch season 2 again? The episodes are all kind of the same.

Read more at THR


David Crosby Was Working on an Album and Tour

Unfortunately it wasn’t the one we all wanted to hear: Crosby Stills and Nash.

Read more at Variety.


What TV Death Was the Saddest?

IGN put together a video compiling the most devastating television show deaths. Spoiler Alert, the video includes the loss of Dr. Mark Green on ER, McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy, Omar on the Wire, Hodor on Game of Thrones and more.

Hope they didn’t forget the quick and sudden death of Hello Larry .



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