The Monday Edition - Aug 5, 2019
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Movies, Avengers: Endgame, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark

Speak for Yourself, Endgame Writers. I Wanted to See Tony Stark Deal With a Pregnant Pepper Potts.

Pepper Potts and Tony Stark in Iron Man 2
It'd be funny if I weren't so annoyed, but it seems as if screenwriter Christopher Markus is out here continuing to make unnecessary comments about Avengers: Endgame.
AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, fandom, memes, Twitter

The Internet Presents Truly Impossible Choices With the Lunch Table Meme

Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried in "Mean Girls"
Even though no one particularly wants to relive high school, the latest meme trend takes us back to the days of figuring out where to sit at lunch.
Movies, Avengers: Endgame, Leslie Jones

Leslie Jones’ Livetweet Is the Best Way to Experience the Magic of Avengers: Endgame All Over Again

the gang is all here for avengers: endgame.
Leslie Jones livetweeting is always a gift to us all but Leslie Jones livetweeting Avengers: Endgame and calling Cap's ass "Leslie's ass"? Priceless.
Big on the Internet, ancient Egypt, baking, seamus blackley

Baking Bread with 4,500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast Is a Pursuit We Can Appreciate

Seamus Blackley baked ancient Egyptian bread
On Twitter, physicist (and "father of the X-Box") Seamus Blackley shared his adventures in gastroegyptology. Blackley recently worked with some specialists to bake a rather unique bread fit for a Pharaoh, and it's hard not gaze in wonder at what science hath wrought.
Big on the Internet, donald trump, mass shooting, white supremacy

Trump Blames Mass Shootings on Mental Illness, “the Media,” & Video Games

Donald Trump speaks in front of a portrait of George Washington.
Trump had a whole host of ideas of who to blame for America's epidemic of mass shootings, but he's not going to change any of his own behaviors.
TV, A Black Lady Sketch Show, HBO, Issa Rae

A Black Lady Sketch Show Is Groundbreaking and Funny AF

Angela Bassett leading the 'Bad Bitch Support Group'
HBO has finally aired A Black Lady Sketch Show, the first sketch comedy written by and starring Black women. It’s about time.
AMP Featured, Movies, It Chapter Two, pennywise, Stephen King

So What’s the Scene That Stephen King Added to IT Chapter Two?

Pennywise is back and scarier than ever in IT Chapter Two.
The countdown is on for IT Chapter Two, one of the most highly anticipated horror films of the year.
AMP Featured, TV, Bull, CBS, Michael Weatherly

CBS Admitting They Care More About Money Than Women’s Safety Is Certainly One Excuse for Keeping Bull on the Air, I Guess

Michael Weatherly in Bull (2016)
Well, in more Men Failing Upwards news, the CBS show Bull has been renewed for another season, despite the multi-million dollar settlement that actress Eliza Dushku received after she was fired following her allegations of harassment against lead actor Michael Weatherly, and Steven Spielberg’s production company leaving the show over it. Why is the show being renewed? It’s just so darn popular!
AMP Featured, News, donald trump

Donald Trump Sent Thoughts and Prayers to Toledo for Mass Shooting in Dayton, and the Internet Took Notice

Trump yells nonsense at no one.
He blamed the internet, said it radicalized people, but it also doesn't help that everyone can walk into any ol' Walmart and get a damn gun. But whatever, the president can't even be bothered to learn which city had a mass shooting because there were two shootings in the span of 24 hours.
AMP Featured, Movies, contributors, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Are Tarantino’s Leading Men in Love With Each Other in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Rick and Cliff in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Yes, I have heard that they are just close friends—that they are like brothers. I don’t buy it. Would it have been better if they had acknowledged their relationship to the audience? … Did they not?
Big on the Internet, George Takei, The Terror: infamy, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: The Terror: Infamy Marries Supernatural Horror With a Dark Chapter of History

derek mio in the the terror: infamy
Check out this first look at a unique series which promises a strong and effectively scary season of television.
AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, mass shooting, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Twitter

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Insensitive Tweet on Mass Shootings Misses the Entire Point

neil degrasse tyson
Really Neil? Really?
Big on the Internet, TV, Arrowverse, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Kevin Conroy

Iconic Voice Actor Kevin Conroy to Play Bruce Wayne in the CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths

kevin conroy batman
Conroy has been providing the voice of Batman for 25 years now, beginning with his legendary work on Batman: the Animated Series in 1992.
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