Early Addition: The French Are Teaching Birds To Pick Up Cigarette Butts
Aug. 15, 2018, 10:48 a.m.
Because celebrities should stop interviewing other celebrities, check out today's midday links: Alex Jones briefly suspended from Twitter, TMZ looking for next celebrity president, Kenan Thompson reflects on SNL, new Cat Power, and a blessed dog.

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- TMZ head Harvey Levin wants to find the next celebrity president.
- Kenan Thompson has been on SNL for 15 years, but he's only now starting to feel comfortable.
- The Ringer makes the argument that Korn were the last real rock n roll band.
- Omarosa apparently has enough secretly-recorded audio from her time in D.C. "for a White House Greatest Hits box set."
- Cat Power and Lana del Ray teamed up for a new song which you can hear here.
- Twitter has suspended Alex Jones for a week, that oughta do it, good job everyone.
- The French are very ahead of us when it comes to cigarette butt-removal technology.
- Celebrities interviewing other celebrities for major magazines can be really god awful.
- Vermont candidate Christine Hallquist, a Democrat, became the first transgender candidate to be a major party’s nominee for governor.
- You can enjoy art from problematic men like Woody Allen and Bill Cosby guilt-free now that Amber Ruffin from Late Night with Seth Meyers has recreated their work.
- Sometime Trump advisor/ally Roger Stone posted a picture of himself wearing a swastika on Instagram.
- Gauntlet, thrown: Is this the toughest mini golf hole in NJ?
- And finally, may this dog bless your day:
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🎥 petsinpastelpencils pic.twitter.com/fw5Dqc8vPX— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) August 14, 2018