Early Addition: Sad Billionaire Elon Musk's NY Times Interview Is Giant Cry For Help
Aug. 17, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
Because Elon Musk is no Tony Stark, check out today's midday links: Liam Neeson snowplow thriller, Zephyr Teachout wants to target Trump, bolo ties are in, Prince albums streaming, and how to trick your dog into eating vegetables.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/57283880@N03/42273942960/in/pool-gothamist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eric fleury's flickr</a>
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- Elon Musk seems like he may be on the verge of a breakdown in this intimate NY Times interview.
- Zephyr Teachout is promising to retool the powerful New York prosecutor’s office to go straight after Donald Trump.
- Liam Neeson has signed up to play a snowplow operator who takes "the law into his own hands with only the tools of an outdoorsman and snowplow driver" after his son is murdered by a local drug cartel, making this the perfect movie melding of Mr. Plow & Taken.
- Wesley Morris has a great piece about Aretha Franklin today.
- If you're going to watch one hilariously dumb video today, make it this one.
- Trump really wants to get into it with Cuomo over his "America was never that great" comments.
- Bolo ties are a thing now!
- Whale 1, Boat 0.
- Twenty-three Prince albums spanning from 1995-2010 have been released on streaming platforms for the first time, what are you waiting for!?
- Trump canceled plans for a $90 million military parade this fall in Washington, blaming local officials for inflating the costs and saying they “know a windfall when they see it.”
- And finally, this is one way to get someone to eat their vegetables:
Warning: Broccoli scam. 🥦
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