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Extra Extra: Forget About Your House Of Cards, Try This Fragmentary Time Waster
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Extra Extra: Forget About Your House Of Cards, Try This Fragmentary Time Waster


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Sophia Chang

Published Feb 25, 2021


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  • Bobby Shmurda got a ride from prison on a private jet sent by his friend Quavo of Migos.
  • “Inside City Hall” host Errol Louis wrote a moving obituary of his father Edward J. Louis, who died this week.
  • Get lost in this 1,000-piece In Rainbows "fragmentary time waster" AKA a puzzle released by Radiohead.
  • Lady Gaga’s dogwalker, whose name hasn’t been released, was hospitalized after he was shot by a gunman while walking the singer’s French bulldogs Koji and Gustav, and the pups taken, LAPD police said. Lady Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward for the return of the dogs, “no questions asked.”
  • "Reply All" will not release the rest of the Bon Appétit podcast episodes, after the podcast’s senior reporter and co-founder both left in the wake of a former staffer alleging there was a “toxic dynamic at Gimlet” similar to the workplace culture the show was reporting on.
  • A farmer in British Columbia found a lynx in his chicken coop with two dead hens and ushered the wildcat out by the scruff of its neck (and kindly left the dead chickens with the lynx to eat).
  • John Mulaney has reportedly completed rehab and is "doing well."
  • The classic children’s spud toy with interchangeable parts will now be known simply as Potato Head.
  • And finally, stop copying me!

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Sophia Chang is a reporter on the NYC Accountability desk covering government policy, social structures and other issues that enable and complicate city life. Got a tip? Email schang@nypublicradio.org or Signal 347-688-7674.

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