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  • As of September, Americans will be eligible for vaccination booster shots eight months after they got their second doses.
  • As if I couldn't love Larry David any more: David was overheard yelling at Alan Dershowitz and telling him he's "disgusting" at a grocery store in Martha’s Vineyard.
  • Gawker is back, but will it last? The only thing everyone's sure of is that nothing is assured: "One thing the staff of new Gawker share with almost all of us who have gone before is a sense of a limited future — that either one will be fired or the publication will cease to exist."
  • Awful, ironic headline of the day: "Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism."
  • If you really want to go viral, wearing a suit of armor in a Zillow listing is a pretty decent way of going about it.
  • The Biden administration will use the Department of Education’s civil rights enforcement authority to stop states from "banning universal masking in classrooms."
  • Mel Magazine has a beautiful oral history of Adam Sandler's legendary basketball skills.
  • The NYPD claims that it will discipline any unvaccinated officers not wearing face masks from now on.
  • Why does this 85-lb tortoise keep trying to runaway from home?
  • A Republican candidate who is challenging Gavin Newsom in the upcoming California gubernatorial recall was served "with a subpoena while onstage during a debate."
  • Only 19 more months until the release of the tenth film in the Fast & Furious franchise, which I will go out on a limb and guess will be titled Fast X Furious (or perhaps just FAST X).
  • Listen to "Walking At A Downtown Pace," the first single from Parquet Courts' upcoming album Sympathy For Life.
  • And finally, I did not realize this was a video at normal speed at first: