It’s time to get paid to watch March Madness. And not the usual way you get paid to watch: Watching basketball when you’re technically on the clock at work.
CableTV.com is offering to pay someone $1,000 to sit around watching March Madness this year. You’ll need to watch 40 hours of games and post about it on social media, but hey, you’re getting paid to watch basketball.
If you’re interested, applications are due tomorrow night.
Grouplove just released a video for another song off their upcoming album Healer, out 3/13. Watch the video for Youth and scroll down for info on their next Chicagoland show!
Grouplove are playing our next Courtesy Concert – a FREE show 21+ all thanks to Coors Light! The show is first come, first served at Durty Nellies April 7th, and you can enter to win guaranteed entry passes HERE!
Prepare yourself for the darkest children’s TV show ever.
In the early days of Thomas the Tank Engine, a lying train named Henry was forced to pay the ultimate price for his transgressions. He was essentially buried alive, forced to live out his last days watching helplessly as well-behaving trains zipped by with big smiles plastered onto their smug train faces.
Imagine the horror when Henry was told, “We shall take away your rails and leave you here for always and always and always.” That’s when the “Fat Controller” and his minions built a brick wall to entomb Henry in a tunnel. Shortly thereafter, “his fire had gone out.” And then, the narration: “I think he deserved his punishment… don’t you?” Um, nope. Holy crap. NOPE.
This episode has everything. Pathos. Drama. Suspense. The promise of terrifying children into correcting bad behavior. Check it out:
With fears over the global outbreak of the Corona virus and shortages on hand sanitizer, many people have gone to different means to keep their hands clean to avoid the germs but a vodka company has to come out to tell people that their booze will not do the trick. Tito’s Vodka has made many kicking drink, but the distillery has stomped online chatter out about using their popular vodka to clean your hands with a responsible series of posts on social media.
You have to have 60-70% alcohol content to kill a virus or germs on your hands.
Tito's Vodka has spent the last 24 hours explaining to people that it *cannot* be used as a replacement for hand sanitizer.
The first of its kind at any sports arena or concert venue, Uber has opened the first permanent indoor drop-off and waiting area — and it’s right here at the United Center.
Getting out of Chicago winter weather is enough of a bonus for me, but it turns out the Uber Zone has room for about 1,000 patrons, is temperature controlled, and yes — you will be able to charge your dying mobile devices while you wait for your ride.
For more details, like — how your driver will find you — the Chicago Sun-Times has you covered. And scroll down — we have you covered for upcoming shows at the United Center that you might be interested in. — [eric]
She’s back to remind us how bad the Corona virus and everything else around us is. Second City vet Rachel Dratch made a surprise return to ‘Saturday Night Live’ this week as the forever buzzkill Debbie Downer in this must-see sketch with dark jokes about all the bad things that you should not bring up at a friend’s wedding.
From 2004, here is the all-time best ‘Debbie’ sketch with several performers cracking up, unable to maintain their performance, and the general energy of playfulness leaping off the screen, It’s been seen over 10 million times on YouTube so you know it’s good.
From the post: “This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of HYBRID THEORY. We have some special things planned throughout the year and want you to be a part of it. We’re looking for photos, videos, ticket stubs, merch, flyers, souvenirs and anything else you collected from the early days of the band in the late 90’s through the HYBRID THEORY era of 2000-2002. Some great examples include (but are not limited to) live concert footage and photos, pictures of band members and signed goodies from LPU meet and greets.”
When he played a very compelling version of Batman in the ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy, the theory he was a hero who could become a villain well now Christian Bale is about do just that. According to a report this week by ComingSoon.net. the beloved actor will take on an unknown villainous role in the next Marvel film, ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’. Fan speculation at the moment has Bale assuming the role of Balder the Brave but it has yet to be confirmed. Actress Tessa Thompson who play Valkyrie, says her character will face Bale’s character in some conflict. Christ Hemsworth returns as Thor with Natalie Portman playing Jane who now wields the mighty Mjolnir hammer.
The film is set to hit theaters in November 2021.
Fandom breaks down all the possibilities for how this could all affect the phase of the MCU.
On a scale of 1 to Saved By The Bell Jesse Spano with a drug problem, I am off the charts excited about this new Local H album! Lifers comes out 4/10/20, more on that and a gift from Scott and Ryan HERE.
Hold That Thought ( ps there are a couple naughty words ahead)