Chris Pratt Is Mario Now, Like Nintendo Mario. The World’s a Messed Up Place, Man

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | September 23, 2021 |

Because God is dead, Chris Pratt will be the voice of Mario in the new Super Mario Bros. animated movie. Kind of an odd, boringly safe choice, but the rest of the voice cast is admittedly stacked. (Kotaku)

Huge congrats to Sarah Marrs on becoming Lainey Gossip’s new Deputy Editor! Always happy to see fantastic writers doing well in this poophole of an industry. (Lainey Gossip)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take Manhattan. (Dlisted)

Christopher Meloni addresses the absolute horsesh*t of having to go to church on Sunday mornings as a kid. Just the worst. (Celebitchy)

I just want this man to calmly and assuredly come free me from whatever existential fence I’m tangled in https://t.co/TTqXxchns7
— emily hughes ✨ (@emilyhughes) September 23, 2021

The other day I wrote about Kara Bell, who successfully managed to get Out of Darkness pulled from a Texas middle school by screaming about anal during a school board meeting. So to put the focus where it really belongs, here’s a great thread by the book’s author addressing the book’s critics. (Ashley Hope Pérez)

Sounds like Britney Spears is getting a pre-nup. (The Cut)

“Amber Heard Drags LAPD Further Into Her Legal Battle With Johnny Depp” is one way to word a headline, I guess. (Deadline)

Unvaccinated Mom Wants To Know If You’re Coming Home For Covid This Year https://t.co/ZFNASLNMfF pic.twitter.com/8kpyRC6lV4
— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 22, 2021

Cassandra Peterson on coming up with Elvira, coming clean in her book, and her recent coming out. (Jezebel)

Cary Fukunaga says Connery’s Bond is “basically” a rapist. Accurate. (IndieWire)

Jared Harris talks about Foundation and how the new Apple series superpower is… math? Chris Pratt is Mario. What even matters anymore? (Collider)

Postcardsandbooks wants to make sure that you don’t ever have to read The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, even if it has been called "the Harry Potter of the 1700s". She says, "Honestly, he’s just an arsehole who blames everyone else for his perceived misfortunes and I just wished he had died earlier, possibly from an infant illness so I never had to hear from him to begin with." Have you read any of the Sturm und Drang novels of the late 18th century? (Cannonball Read 13)

Lee Pace just posted this video of him sauntering through the desert shirtless and it's now THR's frontrunner for Best Picture at the 2022 Oscars pic.twitter.com/y8pZB0yH3b
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) September 23, 2021

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