Extra Extra: Don't You Want To Know What An 'Insanely Muscular' Monkey Looks Like?
March 15, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Because of course you wanna know what an insanely muscular monkey looks like, check out today's end-of-day links: RIP WS Merwin, Beastie Boys stage shows, GoT episode lengths, James Gunn rehired on 'Guardians,' and dog trinity.

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/8217077@N08/46646356754/in/pool-gothamist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raphe evanoff's flickr</a>
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- WS Merwin, one of the great American poets of the 20th century, has died. He was 91.
- Ugh: Trump said he “doesn’t really” think that there is a rising threat of white nationalism, despite reports linking the New Zealand mosque attack suspect with white supremacist views: “I think it is a small group of people that have very, very serious problems."
- Mike D and Ad-Rock, the surviving members of the Beastie Boys, have announced a series of stage shows around their recent memoir, Beastie Boys Book, including two nights at Kings Theatre.
- Of course the subway escalators are already broke at Hudson Yards.
- Check out the lengths of the final episodes of Game Of Thrones, including four that go well above an hour.
- Did you know that Beto O'Rourke was a member of America's oldest hacking group?
- Incredibly accurate headline of the day: "Insanely muscular monkey spotted in Finland."
- The Times has a very good piece about the New Zealand shooting and how "unmistakably online" the violent attack was: "In some ways, it felt like a first — an internet-native mass shooting, conceived and produced entirely within the irony-soaked discourse of modern extremism."
- Amy Klobuchar is really leaning into this whole 'abusive boss' thing.
- Thrasher editor Jake Phelps has died.
- James Gunn has been rehired to direct Guardians Of The Galaxy 3.
- Here are the 2020 presidential candidates as Vines.
- And finally, this is the holy trinity:
Triple the snoot, triple the boop!❤🤗💤🐽
📹: @matteo.goldenretriever pic.twitter.com/SGZiSd2x3q— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) March 13, 2019