Billy Corgan’s tea shop in Highland Park reopens on Sunday at 8:30am. They’ve been offering the community free coffee and food to volunteers all week too at Madame Zuzu’s. Also, July 27th, they’re having a special fundraiser live on YouTube, including a live performance! Find out more here on Corgan’s Instagram post…
Police in Colombia burned 1.5 tons of weed in a seizure of illegally grown marijuana creating a giant cloud of smoke. Then the wind changed forcing the cloud over a nearby town and everyone benefitted. Watch!
Hard to tell who's "winning" the war on drugs in a Colombian town that's now completely shrouded in marijuana smoke, and it's all because the cops lit up a huge pile of pot at the wrong time. https://t.co/6Jxd1pqc4z
A McDonald’s was unable to make food because the employees ran out of gloves. This woman wasn’t having it and took matters into her own hands. She insists on making her own food and climbed through the window to get in and start her own order!
Marcus Mumford is going sans “sons” and releasing a solo album. Marcus’ self-titled album features collaborations with Brandi Carlisle, Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo and will be released on September 16th.
Check out the first single “Cannibal” here:
(self-titled) Tracklist: 01. Cannibal 02. Grace 03. Prior Warning 04. Better Off High 05. Only Child 06. Dangerous Game (feat. Clairo) 07. Better Angels 08. Go In Light (feat. Monica Martin) 09. Stonecatcher (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) 10. How (feat. Brandi Carlile)
Thanks to Stranger Things, artists like Kate Bush and now Metallica have seen a resurgence in popularity in their music. Since being used in an episode, “Master of Puppets” is now in the top 100 in the Billboard charts. They even made a duet on TikTok that has almost 2 million views. Watch!
There’ a website called The Real Me. It’s got a free test to see what your ‘metnal age’ is vs your actual age. The test defines “mental age” as your psychological abilities compared to the, quote, “number of years it takes for an average [person] to reach the same level.” It’s 30 questions, mostly true or false. Things like, “Could you kill a cockroach with a book?” and “I like to be friends with [people] older than me,” true or false? At the end, it tells you your mental age. Like, you might be 42, but your mental age is 26.
The Hasbro Pulse app will scan your face and apply it to a number of popular action figures from the past until now. The cost? $60. Download the app and get notified when it’s ready to make your dreams come true.
Weird promotions were pretty common at Comisky in the late 1970’s. This one seemed no different from the beginning. People paid a dollar admission for a double header if they brought a disco record to destroy between games, it’s Disco Demolition Night baby! After the Tigers won the first game, disc jockey Steve Dahl knew it was time to blow up some records. They weren’t sure if a lot of people would show up, that’s why promotions director and the owners son, Mike Veeck, thought to give the discount. 70,000 people showed up. After the records were destroyed, people slowly started to leave their seats… running onto the field while the Sox were warming up and suddenly… the field was on fire…. watch!
Listen to the click track that Josh has in his “in-ears” during the show. Not only does it help him keep perfect time, it also counts down for him after long breaks in a song. Pretty sick!
Chad Smith, drummer extraordinaire for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, will be at Soldier Field with the rest of the band this August. We’d like to send you for free, perhaps. Cross your fingers. You could be seeing John Frusciante on stage with the rest of his bandmates for the first time in about a decade!
Do you remember when apparently former conjoined twins Will Ferrell and Smith once partook in epic drum off for the ages on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And now you can enjoy. — [eric]