Early Addition: World's Richest Man Wants People To Move To The Moon
May 10, 2019, 11:41 a.m.
Because Jeff Bezos wants to colonize the moon, check out today's midday links: Party City helium crisis, Lil Nas X dissects 'Old Town Road,' Trump cheats at golf, cocaine island, and a very trusting dog.

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- Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus and more breakdown the creation and explosion of "Old Town Road" in the NY Times' awesome video feature "Diary Of A Song."
- Party City has had to close dozens of stores due to a global helium crisis.
- Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, wants humans to colonize the moon.
- Headline of the day: "NYC pizzeria waiter returns half-million dollar cashier’s check to retired social worker who failed to tip him."
- Is it worth paying a matchmaker in order to never have to use Tinder again?
- A new book entitled Commander In Cheat explores Trump’s "complicated relationship with the game of golf, and shows the near-heroic efforts he makes to lie about his scores, sabotage his opponents, and generally defraud the sport."
- Read about how "half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life" of the Atlantic island São Miguel.
- Is a Greenpoint board game shop actually a front for a gambling app?
- Three major film companies say they will boycott Georgia over its new abortion law.
- Silver Jews' Dave Berman secretly released his first new music in a decade under the name Purple Mountains today—it's only available at record stores, but a new album is on the way!
- The artist Tyree Guyton gained international acclaim making sculptures out of the wreckage in his neighborhood in Detroit—now he must effectively destroy his work in order to save it.
- And finally, Watson is far more trusting than me:
So much trust.. 💕
(wat_ki) pic.twitter.com/m7hjjDe8hS— Wina (@wawinaApr) May 9, 2019