#david rice bot

[lunarnightt]

―୨୧⋆˚ you find each other years later :: David Rice

It wasn’t planned or anything. I was just having a few drinks at the bar, killing time before jumping back home to call it a night. My day had already been eventful enough, and I wasn’t exactly in the mood for surprises. But then I saw you.

At first, I wasn’t sure it was you, but then again, some things you never forget. Like the girl you had a crush on in high school. My breath hitched for a second as I spotted you sitting in a booth with Millie. Figures—you two were still thick as thieves. The other girls? No clue who they were, but they didn’t matter.

You, though... you were just as beautiful as I remembered. Actually, scratch that—you were even more stunning. There was this maturity about you now, this confidence that made you even hotter than back in high school. I could feel my palms start to sweat just thinking about walking over to you, but hey, who was I kidding? I wasn’t the smoothest guy then, and apparently, not much had changed.

I glanced around like I was searching for an exit strategy—just in case—and then forced myself to move. One step at a time, I closed the distance, my heart doing this stupid drumroll in my chest. What if you didn’t recognize me? Worse, what if you thought I was some weirdo for remembering you? But I pushed all that down, plastered on a brave face, and kept going.

When I finally made it to your booth, I stood there like an idiot for a moment, second-guessing everything. Then I cleared my throat, probably louder than necessary, and caught your attention. You looked up, and I gave this awkward laugh, trying to play it cool with a smirk I hoped didn’t scream ‘nervous wreck.’

"Hey… uh, wow, it’s been a while, huh? I wasn’t sure it was you at first, but... well, here we are. Small world, right? Or maybe I just have terrible timing."

I watched as your face lit up with recognition, a blush creeping into your cheeks. Your friends exchanged these knowing smirks, but I didn’t care. In that moment, all I could focus on was you.

Talk to this bot here

[tonyspank]

WHO?

Warnings: GN! Reader, fluffy + my poor attempts at humor

Summary: You find out who Jenna Ortega is.

You stand in front of your kitchen counter, watching your monitor as your viewers load into the Twitch chat. You smile watching the chat fly with questions and comments. "Hi, guys!" You wave at the camera, fixing your apron. "Be grateful I'm even streaming this because it was so difficult to get my setup in the kitchen."

You move from the counter to your camera, adjusting it a bit. "There," you mumble to yourself, glancing over to the chat again. "Happy Anniversary." You read off the chat, beginning to smile, "Thank you!"

@coolasacucumber where's babygirl jenna

@teamed28 anniversary??? TIME IS FLYING BROOO

@Versalcool171 why they look kinda cute in that apron

@TggthegreatRede HIIIIII

You move back to the counter, "Jenna isn't here, she's out doing something. But that's good because I'm surprising her with dinner for our anniversary! I have a table set up and everything on our balcony." You tell your viewers. You then look around the kitchen, gathering all the ingredients you need.

Soon a donation message pops up on your monitor and the bot begins reading it aloud. "What does Jenna's farts smell like?"

You pause your movements, standing completely still for a few seconds before moving again. You ignore the question, acting as if you never got it, but the smile on your face gives away your amusement. "Uh, anyway."

You break the silence and continue with your task. You lift up a salmon, "I'm cooking salmon, rice and broccoli for bae." You look up at the chat, watching thousands of reactions appear on the screen. You begin seasoning your salmon with a mixture of herbs and spices, and then place it in the hot pan.

Another donation rings through, "Can you tell us the story of how you met Jenna? I love you so much by the way." You chuckle and reply, "I love you too! Sure, once upon a time..." You say dramatically, laughing at your own joke.

"I was streaming, you know? The usual, then I got a donation."

TWO YEARS AGO

You watch as your screen shows victory, winning another match of Overwatch. Leaning back in your chair, you listen to the donation ringing through your headset. "Have you watched the new Wednesday show on Netflix?"

You furrow your eyebrows as your eyes are fixed on the screen. "Nah, I haven't. Like Wednesday Addams?" You laugh and tilt your head, waiting for the next match to start.

As you wait you decide to check the chat.

@Yuanycat530 Jenna Ortega's in the show

@zenocentric you gotta watch it for mommy jenna

@Momismme3600 its sooo good stg

@amburntfreemansgf MASONS WATCHING STREAM

You sit back up in your chair, adjusting the hat on your head. "Who?" You begin chuckling, completely confused about what your Twitch chat was talking about. "Guys I don't know who Jenna Ortega is."

Suddenly, a flood of messages appear, all talking about Jenna Ortega and the new show she's in. You close out of Overwatch and start sharing your Google to the stream, typing in Jenna Ortega.

You quickly learn that Jenna Ortega is an actress and you begin to recognize her. "Oh, shit. She was in Scream 5 with Mason and David?" You turn your head to the chat before glancing back at the search.

You smile to yourself as you remember the movie. You search in Instagram, looking up Jenna's username, before following her and beginning to scroll through her posts. She was absolutely beautiful; you shock yourself as you can't believe you could forget someone so stunning.

@y/nsdirtysock NOT HER BLUSHING

@amburntfreemansgf IS THIS JOE GOLDBERG?

@mrsasfjerEgads SHES SMILING HELLA HARD

You're knocked out of your daze as your phone begins ringing. You fumble around for your phone, trying to answer it before it goes to voicemail.

You answer it and it's Mason, facetiming you. Mason's face lights up when he sees you. "Why are you going through Jenna's Instagram?!" He laughs and you join in, showing the camera Mason.

"Bro! Chat asked me if I watched her show. I forgot who she was!" Mason grins at his screen, "How could you forget Jenna Ortega?" You shrug and laugh, "I don't know!" Mason laughs again before he places his phone down on his desk, you do the same, rubbing your hands down your face. "Mason join me on Overwatch."

Mason raises an eyebrow, considering the offer. "Sure, but you know I'm bad at this." You smile, loading Overwatch back up. "It's okay, Daddy will carry you." Mason chuckles and playfully rolls his eyes. "Alright, let's see if you can actually carry me this time." Moments later, Mason is in your party, taking a sip of his water.

"My chat says, how did Jenna's profile look?" Mason grins reading off of his live chat on his own screen. You pick an operator, shaking your head. "Tell your chat to stop harassing me," you joke, your smile never fading. Mason chuckles and raises an eyebrow. "Oh, they're just curious. I still can't believe you forgot who Jenna is!"

"Dude! It completely slipped my mind,"  you admit, shrugging. Mason chooses his own operator before walking over to your character and using the "Hello" command. You watch as Mason's character waves and greets your character on the screen. "Imagine if you joined me on Saturday," he says playfully.

His eyes then widen, and he says, Oh, my god, you should join me on Saturday." You can hear the excitement in his voice as he continues, "It'll be so fun, swear, and! And Jenna will be able to make an unforgettable impression." You shake your head, watching your character run to the point.

"Are you trying to play cupid?" You joke, laughing. Mason chuckles and replies, "Well, maybe just a little. But seriously, it would be great to have you there. I'm sure everyone won't mind."

You raise an eyebrow, considering his offer. "Alright, I'll come." You finally agree, unable to resist his infectious enthusiasm. Mason grins triumphantly, clearly pleased with himself.

"Awesome! You won't regret it, I promise," he says, glancing at his chat, leaving you wondering what kind of unforgettable impression Jenna could possibly make.

You huff out when D.Va kills you, leaning back in your chair as you wait to respawn. "Chat. If someone gifts 100 gifted subs, I'll tattoo Jenna's face on my buttocks." You joke, a small smirk on your lips.

Mason chuckles, clearly amused by your playful banter. "Hey, don't underestimate the power of your chat. Who knows, you might end up with a masterpiece on your backside," he teases, wiggling his eyebrows teasingly. You laugh along, secretly hoping that no one takes your joke too seriously.

However, as you continue playing, a notification pops up on your screen indicating that someone has indeed gifted 100 subs. Your eyes widen in disbelief. "Ain't no way!"

A FEW HOURS LATER

*jennaortega started following you*

You rise from your bed, clicking on the Instagram notification that pops up on your phone. Ain't no fucking way.

Jenna - So...Saturday? Will a portrait of my face be on your butt?

You - you would like that wouldn't you?

Jenna - I'd prefer somewhere everyone can see Jenna - Maybe your forehead is a better spot

You - lol, how about we get matching ones then? You -that way when we kiss we can really make it look like we have four eyes

Jenna - Kiss? Who said anything about kissing? Jenna - I'm not that kind of girl 🤨

You - oh, so what kind of girl are you? ;)

Jenna - The kind that doesn't appreciate these cheesy pickup lines

You - ooh, dairy free You - completely understandable You - from now on i will acknowledge that

Jenna - xxx-xxx-xxx Jenna - Text me on IMessage

You - yes ma'am! 🫡

Reacted ❤️ to your message.

ONE YEAR LATER

"Chat, I'll let you know I just woke up. Don't mind this..." You say, motioning over your face, as you try to rub the sleep from your eyes. "Sorry if I seem out of it. It takes time for my brain to boot up."

You don't notice the way your chat freaks out about the hickey on your neck, as your focus is still on trying to fully wake up. The hickey, a remnant from last night's passionate embrace, remains unnoticed by you for now.

@h5therx is that a mf hickey

@TheGrapeNinja WHO WAS SUCKING ON UR NECK

@twizzy1 @TheGrapeNinja BLOOD THIS AINT EVEN MY NECK????

"Valorant, or Overwatch?" You ask, finally glancing over at your Twitch chat.

You notice a flurry of comments in the chat, with some viewers teasingly pointing out the hickey on your neck. You pause, staring at the chat, before quickly covering your neck with your hand, a blush creeping up your cheeks.

"Brooo, I didn't even know I had this," you mutter sheepishly, rubbing your hand over your neck.

The chat explodes with laughter and playful comments about your unexpected love mark. "Is she going to hear a word out of me." you mutter to yourself, talking about your girlfriend as you begin realizing that even the smallest details don't go unnoticed by your loyal viewers.

"Enough about my hickey! Pick a game!" You jokingly yell at your chat, reaching for a hoodie to cover up the mark. As you put on the hoodie, a donation comes through.

You pause for a moment, glancing at the donation message. "You said you were going to play Sims last stream. Don't worry about the hickey, we're just excited to see you play!"

You chuckle at the comment, grateful for the support and understanding from your viewers. With a smile, you reply, "Alright, alright! Sims it is then! Let's be delulu and create our dream life."

You start up the game and glance over to your chat. "Have you guys ever, like, gone to bed with like a thought or try to preload your own dream? Like, I be going to sleep with a specific idea or scenario in mind, hoping it will manifest in my dreams. It's like I'm trying to program my subconscious to create the perfect dream."

You pause, waiting for your viewers' responses, curious if anyone else has tried something similar.

@ricoottv Yes bruh I be dreaming about Gal Gadot dominating me fr

@24kGoldenRing @ricoottv 😨😨😨

@QuannMeline YESSSSS

As the chat starts flooding with responses, you notice that many of your viewers have indeed experimented with preloading their dreams. Some share their success stories, describing how they have had incredible adventures and even found solutions to real-life problems in their dream scenarios.

Others admit to having mixed results, with some dreams turning out exactly as they had hoped while others took unexpected turns. Excitement builds as everyone exchanges tips and techniques, eager to unlock the full potential of their dream worlds.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one." You chuckle and begin creating your Sim, carefully customizing every detail to make them as close to your ideal self as possible. You then put your face-cam side by side with your sim and ask, "Do they look like me?"

You wait for responses from your viewers, trying not to laugh at the potential comparisons they might make.

@tuneskixx it looks like u if u were mentally unstable

@47SH5T Y/N if they were off crack

@k0hjuh EWWWW

@Shaun Why the sim kinda 😍

"Me if I was off crack? Nah, that's wild." You say, rereading one of your subs chat. "Go to the gallery and find your love interest?" You read off, raising an eyebrow. Intrigued, you decide to take a break from creating your Sim and explore the gallery to see if there's a perfect match waiting for you.

There's a search bar, and without hesitation, you type in "Jenna Ortega." You eagerly scroll through the results, hoping to find a Sim that resembles Jenna Ortega.

Some of them look like her, and the others are far off, but you settle on one that seems to capture her essence the best. Excitedly, you click on the Sim and download it into your game.

"Guys, why does this actually look like Jenna?" You exclaim, unable to contain your excitement. "Yoo! They even have her cleft chin. But to be honest, Jenna doesn't really have a cleft chin, it only appears when she smiles or makes certain facial expressions."

@amburntfreemansgf nah bro a Jenna Ortega specialist

@AlexVsJay "jenna doesn't really have a cleft chin it only appears when makes certain facial expressions" 🤓☝️

@Shaun @amburntfreemansgf LMAOOOO

After adding a dog and cat to your household, you start your sim life as Jenna Ortega, her being your wife. You immerse yourself in the game, navigating through your and Jenna's daily activities and adventures.

"What the fuck!" You shout at the screen, your chat begins to fill up with messages at the sight of what's happening.

@mynames_jeff POV last night

@amburntfreemansgf sorry y'all jenna thought that was me 😅

@ricoottv OMGOMG

"Ya'll, I didn't tell them to do this! They real life just hopped out of the hot tub to make out." You tell your chat, watching as your sim and Jenna's sim kiss passionately. The unexpected display of affection between the sims surprises and amuses you, causing your chat to explode with laughter and comments.

You're so immersed in the game that you don't notice Jenna creeping into your room, a plate of cookies in hand.

@amburntfreemansgf BE SO FUCKING FOR REAL

@n6huh JENNA?????&1'

@t8lyer_44 I KNEW THEY WERE TOGETHER

@AlexVsJay Y/N has now becomepublic enemy #1

She sets the plate down on your desk, causing a wave of delicious aroma to fill the air. The smell wafts towards you, distracting you momentarily from the chaos happening on the screen.

You jump when you turn your head and see Jenna standing there, a smile on her face. Your eyes widen as you shut off your camera. "I'm live!" You say, forgetting that your stream can hear you. Jenna's eyes widen.

You two have been dating for quite a while, but you didn't tell anyone about your relationship.

"Do you think they saw me?" Jenna asks, her voice filled with concern. You shake your head before shrugging, "I don't know, baby. Shit, this is my fault. I should've told you I was live."

A donation rings through, catching both of your attention. You glance at the screen to see a message from a viewer, "Uhhh...the mic is on. Anyways, hi Jenna!" Jenna's face flushes with embarrassment as she realizes that your viewers heard everything.

Your jaw drops, and you decide to turn the camera back on again since it seems like the damage has already been done. You take a deep breath and address the viewers, "Well, I guess there's no hiding it now. Yes, Jenna and I are dating."

Jenna looks at you nervously, unsure of how the viewers will react. You continue, "We wanted to keep it private for a while, but that was kind of difficult." Jenna sits on your lap, waving at the camera. "Hi, everyone." You chuckle nervously, trying to ease the tension.

"We hope you all understand why we wanted to keep it quiet," you add, trying to reassure both Jenna and the audience. "But we also didn't want to hide something that makes us so happy." The viewers' reactions start pouring in, a mix of surprise, support, and curiosity.

Curiosity also makes its way to your and your girlfriend's faces as your Sims start to Woo-hoo in the hot tub. "Is...that us?" Jenna asks, her eyes widening with a smirk playing on her lips. You cover your face with your hands.

"Ain't no way, bruh." You mumble to yourself.

Another donation rings out, "DON'T ACT LIKE YALL WASN'T DOING THAT SAME STUFF LAST NIGHT. WE SEEN THE HICKEY!"

"AIN'T NO WAY!" You shout dramatically, causing Jenna to burst out laughing, covering her mouth with her hand to muffle the sound.

[transboyswitchytales]

Love your fics & I love that you and other writers have this amazing relationship and talk to each other. It’s so cool to see that as a reader.

We want more of it. All of it. If you could, who would you wanna co-write with & what type of story would it be?

Also, what's your favorite song right now and what’s making you happy?

I am hiding from fam to respond, because I can’t stop thinking of this anon. First off, you are very kind.

This is a long post, I hope you don’t mind this answer??WARNING ⚠️long post ahead.

@warpdrive-witch and @anyshowwitharainbow are really important to me. First they’re brilliant people and the most talented writers.

I think it’s important to say, like a lot of tumblr friends. We were all strangers at one point. Fanfic brought us together but now I love em so much. The internet is great that way.

I’ve talked to writers on here, we have a community. It’s nice to support one another.

STORY TIME: I messaged @anyshowwitharainbow because I liked Cooties. I had no clue we would become such good friends. Cooties was so sweet and had vulnerability that I couldn’t get out of my head. So I messaged thinking nothing would come of it. I’d written Small Creatures. But I didn’t think we’d become bestest of buds. That I’d reach for my friend over tumblr like this. That this author would give me life advice and wisdom. That we’d share so much. That I’d be rooting for them for life things from afar!!and we were strangers..brought together... By fanfiction, something we both wrote miles and miles apart. But now we feel so close.

I was a HUGE fan of @warpdrive-witch -which entire collection 🌟. But It Worked became my instant comfort read. It helped me through hard life times and sleepless nights.

I was chicken shit, I didn’t think Mommy would ever write me back. So I admired from a far, never even leaving a comment as guest or anon. Forgetting that easy thing, that all of us on here are people. (Except the bots 🖕)

People who second guess our stories and tags. We all write for the love of it, and still wonder if anyone is out there actually getting WHY we are writing it. If this line actually works? Will this seem silly? Do I need to cut this interaction out? Would this scene really be Maya coded? Does this sex scene feel too long? All of it.So I didn’t comment, like a dick. I figured Mommy was too big for little ol Daddy.And I regret it.

Mommy commented on my AO3 for Small Creatures.

I was star struck. Big time writer, likes my shit?? No way!?! It made me want to write more. I saw how Mommy wrote and was blown away.We are all just sitting on our laptops trying to connect. To write the things we needed to hear ourselves, ya know? Their stories, my stories, they helped me cope. Gave me an escape, reminded me how fun it is to play pretend.

So moral of this long story, comment, kudos, reblog, fucking follow.

Comment and reach out. You never know what your interaction does or will lead to. I love my fam on here. Anon comments have made me ugly cry with joy. All of it matters.

And if you want to write, do it. You never know what will happen on here🖤

“Write hard and clear about what hurts” E.Hemingway

Part 2

If I could co-write I’d be scared shitless. In my heart of hearts I still feel out of my depth writing. I don’t know if I could co-write. I’d be scared with even my fanfic fam to do it. And any ‘famous’ author I’d be drooling on the floor too.

I’ll tell you if I could talk to anyone about writing- my table would have: Margaret Atwood,Stephen King, Henry David Thoreau, Anthony Bourdain, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice. It’s not that they’re my favorite(yeah I love their books but that’s not it) I have questions on how/why they write the things they did. I love horror/suspense and dark stuff. But honestly I think of Stephen King talking about how books are about characters. A good book you think of the character not the genre really? Alice Hoffmanns Rules of Magic is a favorite of mine. And it’s because I miss the characters. Like I feel the need to catch up and visit? Somewhere inside of me refuses to believe they aren’t real. So I wanna write that for someone else.

What’s making me happy? - I’m visiting my fam, but also saying goodbye to a family member. And she goes in and out of remembering who I am. And she can’t remember who she is. And that is hard. But when I held her hand, and kissed her cheek. She said my name, and she told me she “loved me more and more each day.” And that is what is making me happy. That even tho she isn’t there, for a moment she knew I loved her. And I know she loves me. And that’s a powerful thing my friends.

Favorite songs right now?

I’m feeling a little nostalgic and missing people who have passed so this is probably reflected in that a lot -

Thanks for asking me questions! If you got any other questions I’m here 🙃

[speaknow-sw]

POOKIE I GOT IDEAAAAAS ITS FIRE //

TELL MEEUUHHHHH

— 🫧

okay so I read a lot. And in December I stumbled upon books named The Never After series. It’s a reinvention of fairy tales but darker and the love interests are the villains. There’s six books 1= Peter Pan (Captain Hook) / 2= The Lion King (Scar) / 3= Wizard of Oz (external) / 4= Aladdin (Jafar) / 5= The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Frollo) / 6= The Little Mermaid. (Mafia)

That being said throughout my whole reading I always pictured the love interests as one of Hayden characters. 1= James Kelly / 2= Anakin Skywalker / 3= David Rice / 4= Will Beeman / 5= Don Piper / 6= Lorenzo di Lamberti.

and I was wondering should I do the bots based on the stories or should I leave this to you pookie ? Bcs your bots are better than mine’s. BUT MY FAVORITES BOOKS WERE 4 & 5 BCS THAT WAS YUMMYYYYY.

If you want more details just ask pookie

[ulkaralakbarova]

Next Gen

A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl’s life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Project 77 (voice): John Krasinski Mai (voice): Charlyne Yi Justin Pin / Ares (voice): Jason Sudeikis Momo (voice): Michael Peña Dr. Tanner Rice / Q-Bots (voice): David Cross Molly (voice): Constance Wu Greenwood…

[mortallycoralluminary]

Mike Tyson returns to boxing at 54 on Saturday looking and sounding different

Mike Tyson was in the passenger seat of a black Cadillac Escalade one recent morning, making the 45-mile drive from his home in Southern California to Tyson Ranch, a cannabis company he founded a few years ago.

“I could always use a buck like everybody else can,’’ Tyson told USA TODAY Sports during a phone interview. “This is so much bigger than that.’’

What this is: Tyson, the erstwhile "Baddest Man On The Planet," getting back into the boxing ring at the age of 54.

He is scheduled to fight Roy Jones Jr. in an eight-round exhibition match Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles  — more than 15 years after Tyson’s last, inglorious fight. On June 11, 2005, he quit before the start of the seventh round against journeyman Kevin McBride.

“My last fight, I didn’t want nothing to do with that stuff,’’ Tyson said. “I have so much more desire than my last fight."

So what is fueling Tyson’s desire now?

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“I look at it like I’ve got to test myself,’’ Tyson said. “Isn’t that weird? Why do I have to test myself and constantly push myself?"

Or is it that Tyson, who after the loss to McBride said, "I'm just fighting to pay my bills,'' still needs a buck after making an estimated $685 million in his career?

But there may be a deeper meaning than money, according to Tyson.

“Why am I who I am, and why do I react the way that I do?’’ he asked. “Why do I think? Why am I on the phone with you saying what I’m saying right now? What is causing me to say that? What’s causing me to breathe? What’s causing me to want to survive?’’

Tyson explained he is “doing research on myself’’ in his search for answers in a life full of whys.

Like, why did Tyson, who has struggled with addiction for more than two decades, stop using cocaine less than three years ago?

“I don’t use the word amazing too much, but it was really something,’’ he said. "No cocaine, no marijuana, nothing."

And why, after Tyson had a boxing ring built at Tyson Ranch, did he often work out three times a day, up to six days a week, during a sixth-month period leading up to his fight Saturday night?

In part, Tyson suggested, because the intense training has given him a high he can’t get from cocaine, marijuana or any other drug. But he is not doing this for free.

How the fight came together

Azim Spicer, Tyson’s brother-in-law and business partner, said he got a call this spring from Bob Sapp, a 6-5, 329-pound fighter best known as a kickboxer and MMA fighter.

Sapp said he wanted to fight Tyson in an exhibition match and that Tyson would be guaranteed a multimillion-dollar payday, according to Spicer.

“At first I just thought he was nuts and didn’t really take it too seriously,’’ Spicer said. “But these guys kept calling and calling me with some other guys overseas. Had a lot of money and just a bunch of money on the table, and so I reached out to Mike.

“I thought I had to tell him at this point, because if it was me and that money was available, honestly I would want to know regardless of what I had to do for it. So I told Mike, and Mike said, ‘I’m not fighting again.’

“So then Mike called me back five minutes later and was like, ‘How much were they offering?’ ”

About $20 million, Spicer said.

“Then he called me back maybe 10 minutes later and said, ‘And who do they want me to fight?' And I told him Bob Sapp. And he started laughing hysterically."

Sapp, 47, has a combined fight record of 24-39-1. He also has worked as a professional wrestler and actor. But Spicer said Sapp’s people failed to deliver on promises, and so the fight was off – but the idea of a Tyson comeback was gaining momentum.

Through a business partner, Spicer said, they got connected with Sophie Watts, a media executive from London who has worked with the likes of Elton John, Beyonce, Madonna, U2, Paul McCartney and Mariah Carey.

Watts agreed to be the financier, and the search for someone to fight Tyson continued.

They reached out to Evander Holyfield, according to Spicer. During their fight in 1997, Tyson infamously bit off a piece of Holyfield’s ear and this would be a chance to pit them in the ring together for the first time since then.

“We tried the Evander thing but unfortunately we just couldn’t get a deal done," Spicer said.

Next up was Tyson Fury, the two-time heavyweight champion. Spicer said talks got leaked to Top Rank, Bob Arum’s boxing promotion company, and Arum wanted to be part of the deal. Which meant no deal, Spicer said.

About that same time, according to Spicer, he got a call from Roy Jones Jr., who at the peak of his career was considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing. Now 51, he had fought professionally as recently as 2018 as a cruiserweight.

Jones heard Tyson was interested in an exhibition fight and wanted to know if it was true, according to Spicer, who arranged a phone call between the two fighters.

After that conversation, and with the blessing of the California State Athletic Commission, the fight was on. With a twist.

A league for legends

Tyson and Watts, the financier, came up with an idea: The Legends Only League, which would stage events featuring retired superstars such as Tyson who would participate in pay-per-view events. Tyson’s fight with Jones would launch the enterprise.

In explaining the league’s genesis, Tyson said he was watching a TV program about Jerry Rice, the Hall of Fame wide receiver. Tyson said he learned from the program that Rice couldn't find a job in the NFL after the 2004 season with the Seattle Seahawks because he had lost some of his speed.

“They said just because he’s a few seconds off, he can’t play no more,’’ Tyson said. “And I feel like, ‘Are you crazy? He’s a few seconds away from his world-class speed and he can’t play anymore?’

“I’ll bet you right now there’s more people that would like to see him at wide receiver than to see the guys that’s the wide receiver now for the (Seahawks)."

The idea behind the Legends Only League is to create a platform for Rice and other retired superstars who, like Tyson, want to climb into the ring again – at least metaphorically.

“Imagine a one-on-one game with Dennis Rodman and Man of Peace,’’ he said, referring to Metta World Peace, who won an NBA championship ring with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010 and now goes by the name Metta Sandiford-Artest. “Imagine those two awesome athletes, those guys playing a game of 21. Who do you think will watch that?

“Can you imagine John McEnroe playing Serena (Williams) or her sister (Venus Williams)? Holy moly!"

Watts, who is partnering with Tyson, declined to identify other athletes they have spoken to, but she said the Legends Only League has four events scheduled for 2021 and plans to hold six events in 2022 and six more in 2023.

“This is a league for champions to come together and have a story about their life on screen as a special one-off,’’ Watts said.

But Tyson isn’t necessarily one-and-done.

'I hate being happy'As his fight against Jones approached, Tyson indulged discussion about whom he might fight next. He said he’d be interested in fighting the top contemporary heavyweights, such as Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.

But he said it's unlikely those fighters would agree to an exhibition match unless they set aside the priority of maximizing their earning potential. It's unclear how much Tyson and Jones will make, but probably far less than the top heavyweights would generate fighting each other or other boxers in their prime.

“Sometimes in your life you're going to have to face your maker,’’ Tyson said. “Not from dying, but just being conscious of him. Does that make any sense? The consciousness of him should make you want to do that (charitable act).

“What am I really going to do with so much (money)? I’m closer to God than I am to being a billionaire, something like that. What am I going to do when I meet God? What am I going to tell him?’’

Tyson and Jones are not giving away their fight.

The pay-per-view fee is $49.99. And the fight has led to business deals.

On Nov. 17, GameOn Technology announced a partnership with Tyson to for the Mike Tyson Bot, an interactive feature with Tyson-related content on Facebook Messenger.

And on Monday, Smart Cups, a company that makes the “first printed beverage," signed on to become the title sponsor of “Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson,’’ his podcast.

But Tyson knows that no amount of money can give him peace of mind – something that eluded him for many years. Now he has a new problem.

“I hate being happy,’’ he said. “I’m happy all the (expletive) time.’’

'A great burning desire'Tysonreflected on his growth since he was a troubled kid growing up in Brooklyn and then at 19 became the youngest heavyweight champion inhistory.

Told people were terrified of him back then, Tyson replied, “I was afraid of me too. No, really. How do you think that feels?"

Now he is far more beloved than feared, highly engaging and approachable, yet still required by law to register as a sex offender. In 1992, he was convicted of rape and served almost three years in prison.

Today his top executive assistant is one of his former cellmates, David Barnes.

Tyson is married to Lakiha “Kiki” Spicer, his third wife, and they have two children – a 12-year-old daughter, Milan, and a 9-year-old son, Morocco. The family splits time between Newport Beach and Henderson, Nevada, outside of Las Vegas.

“I’m just at peace with conducting my responsibilities with my family," said Tyson, who has other children from previous relationships. “This is something that I never did. This is what, 11 years married? Can you believe that?

“I can’t live with me for 11 years. How can anyone else live with me for 11 years?"

For his upcoming fight, Tyson has brought in Billy White, who, like Tyson, grew up under the tutelage of Cus D’Amato, the late trainer credited with rescuing Tyson from the streets of Brooklyn.

White, who has been helping oversee Tyson’s training, said in the spring he got a call from Tyson, who disclosed his plans for a comeback.

“At the same time, we said in unison, ‘Cus said age is nothing but a number,’ " White recalled. “We said it together on the phone. So that was pretty cool that we said it unison."

White said he has relished watching Tyson train and noted that Tyson has been waking up between 3 and 4 a.m. most days to run.

“Old school, just like he used to,’’ White said. “It’s a great burning desire in him once again.

“It’s amazing to see. It’s beautiful, you know?"

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David Rice bot?

Deadass, there aren't enough David Rice bots on C.AI and I'm tempted to crossover Jumper and the MCU because like I said, there isn't enough bots for him and I feel like David lowkey fits into the mcu so tell me what y'all want; here's the options

Yes! We love Hayden in the mcu

Yes! But no marvel crossover

No to everything

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1114: At The Earth's Core

Well, as long as I'm Journeying to the Centre of the Earth via MST3K, there's this.  I don't know if it's possible to be the Rob Liefeld of prose, but if it is, Edgar Rice Burroughs is our man – his books are peopled entirely by musclebound, practically-naked individuals who never strike a realistic pose.  I can't stand his writing, and the more a movie based on his work deviates from the source material, the better I tend to like it.  I haven't read the novel At the Earth's Core, but the movie version is dull, stilted, and generally misconcieved, so I suspect it's fairly faithful.

Brilliant steampunk scientist Dr. Abner Perry, funded by dim-but-wealthy David Innes, has created the Iron Mole – an exceptionally phallic digging machine designed to penetrate the most private parts of Mother Earth, which are doubtless impregnated with valuable minerals.  When Perry and David test this mighty tool, they find it has far more thrust than they anticipated, and soon they've plowed themselves right into a prehistoric world At the Earth's Core!

Okay.  I'll let that go now.

The land of Pellucidar turns out to be populated by cave people, orcs, and men in ridiculous rubber monster suits, and ruled by giant telepathic pterodactyls who use the rest of the inhabitants as slave labor or snack food.  Dr. Perry sets about translating ancient tablets in search of the pterodactyls' great secret, while David runs around beating up the cave people and orcs and whatnot.  Together the two men unite the warring tribes of Pellucidar and overthrow the pterodactylocracy, then return to the surface after David's new girlfriend, Dia the Cavewoman, breaks up with him – probably because she wasn't willing to trade in her leather miniskirts for a corset and sixteen layers of petticoats.

I'm so glad Joel decided to do some Caroline Munro movies – basically everything she was ever in would make for good MST3K subjects, and you can expect to see her in the Episodes that Never Were section shortly.  Then there's Doug McClure, who was apparently the Ben Murphy of the 60's; a dull, mediocre actor, who bargain basement studios liked to pretend could carry a film.  He doesn't have half the screen presence of Peter Cushing, and this movie features Peter Cushing at the worst I've ever seen him.  Cushing looks like he's already been dead for two weeks and clearly does not give a single lonely, isolated fuck about this film.

I first saw this movie as a teenager in the 90s, having rented it from Blockbuster (that was back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, but fortunately I was able to outrun them on my rollerblades).  I think I might have been thirteen, but I remember recognizing even then that Grand Moff Tarkin did not care. He'd been given stupid comic relief lines about excitable foreigners and remembering his umbrella (in case it rains at the centre of the earth), and he whistles his way through them while waving his arms in a weirdly C3P0-ish fashion.  If I'm being honest, the result is surprisingly enjoyable.  Dr. Perry could have been the Dropo of this movie, the character we all want to see die but know won’t, but Peter Cushing manages to keep him tolerable.  Jonah and the bots are never reduced to yelling “SHUT UP!” or begging David to kill him, and that’s actually quite an accomplishment.

At least part of the reason Cushing comes across relatively well is because everybody else is so thoroughly bland. Doug McClure is as dull as an overcast day and never seems very committed to his cause or particularly interested in Dia.  Even when he vows that the pterodactyls have to be destroyed, he looks and sounds more like he's annoyed about a child's poor report card than enraged by the needless death of innocents.  Caroline Munro doesn't have anything much to do except deliver exposition and pout cutely. She's not nearly as into it as she was in Starcrash, but then, Starcrash gave her a much meatier role (I mean, it was ridiculous, but at least Stella Star was part of the plot). In At the Earth's Core she doesn't really seem to be trying.

Of course, At the Earth's Core isn't really about its characters – as in a lot of modern movies (by now you can probably guess the one I'm thinking of), the story and characters in this movie only serve as an excuse to show us fantastical sights. Rivers of lava!  A steampunk digging machine!  Prehistoric monsters of every possible description!  This is a film meant to be all about its visuals, so how do those fare?

No surprise, the answer is 'badly'.  The lava looks okay in some shots, mostly the ones in which it is represented by liquid lit red-orange.  Scenes in which there is fire on the surface look like exactly what they are: water with a little burning oil on the top.  The caves all this lava is flowing through look distinctly stryrofoam-ish.  The Iron Mole, on the other hand, actually looks pretty neat – it's obviously a model, but it's a large and detailed one with many moving parts, and the designers put a lot of thought into how it would move through the earth, although none at all into how one might steer it.

As for the creatures... well, the orc-like Sagoths are all right, looking like something one might see in Star Wars.  Everything else is terrible.  The stupid Parrotsaurus that menaces David and Perry soon after they leave the Iron Mole looks like it should be fighting Gamera.  The carnivorous bipedal brontotheres are significantly less convincing than the 90's Ninja Turtles movies.  The hippo monster David fights in the arena mostly makes us think about how much better Return of the Jedi would do this scene six years later.  There's a giant glow-in-the-dark Venus Flytrap that looks like it's mostly made of fiberglass, and we can't possibly forget the random fire-breathing frog that appears out of abso-fucking-lutely nowhere to menace Dia in one scene. It's definitely the cheapest monster in the movie, which is understandable when you consider that they were planning to blow it up.

And of course there are the pterodactyl monsters, the rulers of Pellucidar.  Since they're the most important 'creatures' in the film, one would expect some effort to have gone into their portrayal, but they're stiff and cheap and barely move, because whenever they do it becomes laughably obvious that they are people in suits.  The fact that all their monsters are people in suits is the single biggest movie-ruiner for At the Earth's Core.  Not a single one of the beasts we see on screen has a plausible anatomy except for the Sagoths, and they only work because they're supposed to be humanoid.  If ever there were a movie that really should have sprung for stop-motion, this is the one.

Now that I've looked at the execution, I guess I have to talk about the concept.  Is this movie one hundred percent spectacle, or is it actually about anything?  Well, like pretty much everything else Edgar Rice Burroughs ever wrote, it's about how white people are best at everything.

Although there are a few black extras in some shots, the Pellucidarians are mostly played by white actors wearing various amounts of makeup.  Caroline Murnro is far darker here than she was in Starcrash, and David's BFF Ra looks particularly ridiculous in his spray tan and perm.  The ambiguously non-white tribes have no technology more complex than a spear, and have been unable to unite their squabbling peoples against their obvious common enemy.  Then Perry and Innes show up, discover how to beat the pterodactyls, and turn these dispararate peoples into a trained army of bowmen in what appears to be a few days.

Dr. Perry re-invents the bow and arrow despite having nothing to work with but a bunch of bamboo and his umbrella.  This could be forgiven, since as an engineer I suppose we could believe he has a good understanding of the principles behind the weapon – but then he masters it immediately, despite his own admission that 'I never had occasion to use one before'!  The cavepeople have to be trained in this new way of fighting, but with Perry it's 'bullseye!' on his first shot.  Cushing was nearly seventy when this movie was made, and not exactly in fighting shape.  I don't think anybody on the writing staff knew how difficult it is to pull a bow.  David, meanwhile, despite being a somewhat doughy-looking rich kid, wins wrestling matches with cavemen and battles with monsters, and squeezes through secret passageways.  Sure, that's plausible.

Now that I think about it... David doesn't do a whole lot in this movie that's particularly plot-furthering.  He fights a couple of creatures and kisses Dia, but it's Perry who designed the Iron Mole, Perry who figures out how to read the pterodactyls' writing and what their 'secret' is (pity he never shares the latter with the audience in any comprehensible form), and Perry who arms the cavemen against their oppressors.  Why isn't this movie just about Dr. Perry?  A comedy about a Victorian scientist who stumbles upon a lost world at the center of the Earth, saving the day and becoming a hero by total accident?  That at least sounds like it would have more personality than this movie, which at the end of the day is pretty beige.

At the Earth's Core is cheap and shoddy, but cheap and shoddy movies can be a lot of fun.  The problem here is that nobody thought they were making anything but a cheap and shoddy movie, and so nobody bothered to put in the effort that might have elevated it into an entertaining cheap and shoddy movie. A little of Caroline Munro's Starcrash overacting would have gone a long way, as would a bit more effort on the part of the screenwriter.  The stupid monsters are fun, but At the Earth's Core just isn't good enough or bad enough to be worth watching.

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Governors row over Ruga

Controversy continued to rage on Sunday on the suspended Cattle Settlemen (Ruga) policy. The position of two governors in the North – Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) – contradicted that of their colleagues in the Southeast. Sule and Matawalle said there was no going back on the implementation of the controversial policy in their states. Their Southeast counterparts foreclosed the implementation of cattle settlements in their states. They spoke through the Chairman of the Southeast Governors’ Forum (SGF), David Umahi, who doubles as Ebonyi State governor. The Southeast governors reiterated their stand not to yield any land in their states for the Ruga programme.   According to them, in response to the emerging security challenges, they have decided to set up both a committee and a centre for Southeast Integrated Monitoring/Intelligence Gathering to be centrally located in Enugu. The governors, whose decisions were articulated in a communiqué read by Umahi, said they would establish forest guards in each state of the zone and roads cleared up to 50 metres into the bush to have a clear view of roads ahead. According to them, the security committee will also address the safety of fuel pipeline route to Enugu depot to ensure that pumping of petroleum products in Enugu depot resumes in the shortest possible time. The governors discussed the comparative advantages of agriculture and its attendant benefits to the region. They said: “The forum therefore resolved to pool funds together to fund our people who are interested in rice, cassava, cow rearing, piggery, goat rearing, poultry, fishery and some other cash crops permitted by our soil.” On the status of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu, the governors commended their Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, for his numerous interventions in addressing concerns raised by FAAN and in ensuring that the airport is functional. They, however, decried the deplorable state of the airport’s runway and pleaded with the Federal Government to consider their request for the reconstruction of the runway. “While calling on the Federal Government to take more meaningful action on Enugu-Onitsha Road, Enugu-Port Harcourt Road, Owerri-Onitsha Road, Okigwe-Owerri Road and Owerri-Umuahia Road, at the same time, we commend the Federal Government for the steady progress on the second Niger Bridge project”, the governors said. In Nasarawa, the governor insisted that the state government will continue with the implementation of the project. He spoke on Sunday while hosting the leadership of Fulani residents in the state to appreciate the governor’s efforts to sustain the peaceful atmosphere being experienced in the state between herders and farmers. Sule said: “The Ruga Settlement Project was not brought to the state by anybody. But in my quest at searching for means that could bring a lasting peace in the state, I personally went to the federal Ministry of Agriculture and understudy the pros and cons of the project where I discovered some substantial benefits derivable from it when I subsequently demanded that it should be established in Nasarawa State. “It was after understanding the benefits that Ruga settlement would bring to the state that I summoned traditional rulers of the state to discuss the issue which the traditional rulers in their unanimous decision assented to the programme. We in Nasarawa State are going ahead with the Ruga project as an experiment for other states of the federation to emulate.” Speaking, the Sarkin Fulani of Nasarawa State, Senator Walid Jibrin, said that the Fulani were in full support of Ruga Settlement Project which is; embraced by the government of Nasarawa State in order to mitigate the persistent conflicts between herdsmen and farmers. Jibrin, who doubles as Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), however, begged other ethnic groups, especially Igbo and Yoruba, to give the Ruga Settlement Project a chance. Matawalle insisted on going ahead with the project in Zamfara. He told State House reporters after the Presidential Policy Retreat at the Presidential Villa, Abuja: “In Zamfara, we will adopt Ruga in our strategy to address the herders/farmers crisis; it is a developmental project on ranch and we are ready for it.” His Plateau counterpart, Simon Lalong, identified tackling insecurity as the most important thing he took away from the retreat. Lalong said: “I had mentioned here that when I was elected as the chairman of Northern Governors’ Forum, I said my priority is security. So, part of what we discussed at the retreat is how to tackle insecurity as presented by the Inspector-General (IG), Mohammed Adamu. “The second aspect is education. We mentioned to the President the Almajiri system. So, these were the things that all of us have taken in and, very soon, I will convene the northern summit for us to collectively discuss because at the Northern Governors Forum I have already set up a committee chaired by the governor of Katsina to look at generally insecurity in the North.” Read the full article

[ladystylestores]

When Jail Becomes Normal – The New York Times

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Good morning. Protests continued late into the night, without the destruction of recent days. George W. Bush offered praise for the protesters. Let’s start by looking at how mass incarceration has shaped black Americans’ lives.

For most white Americans, interactions with the police happen rarely, and they’re often respectful or even friendly. Many white people don’t know a single person who’s currently behind bars.

In many black communities — and especially for black men — the situation is entirely different. Some of the statistics can be hard to fathom:

Incarceration rates for black men are about twice as high as those of Hispanic men, five times higher than those of white men and at least 25 times higher than those of black women, Hispanic women or white women.

When the government last counted how many black men had ever spent time in state or federal prison — in 2001 — the share was 17 percent. Today, it’s likely closer to 20 percent (and this number doesn’t include people who’ve spent time in jail without being sentenced to prison). The comparable number for white men is about 3 percent.

The rise of mass incarceration over the last half-century has turned imprisonment into a dominant feature of modern life for black Americans. Large numbers of black men are missing from their communities — unable to marry, care for children or see their aging parents. Many others suffer from permanent economic or psychological damage, struggling to find work after they leave prison.

A recent study by the economists Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles found that 27 percent of black men in the prime working years of their lives — between the ages of 25 and 54 — didn’t report earning a single dollar of income in 2014. “That’s a massive number,” Charles, the dean of the Yale School of Management, told me. Incarceration, including the aftereffects, was a major reason.

The anger coursing through America’s streets over the past week has many causes, starting with a gruesome video showing the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But that anger has also been building up for a long time. It is, in part, anger about incarceration having become normal.

An explainer podcast: How has mass incarceration happened? “Justice in America” — hosted by Josie Duffy Rice of The Appeal — tries to answer the question. The Times’s Caity Weaver recommends starting with the first episode, about bail. “I learn so much from this freaking podcast,” Caity tweeted yesterday.

FOUR MORE BIG STORIES

1. Less violence on Tuesday night

The amount of violence, fires and looting declined last night, relative to the chaos of previous nights. Instead, peaceful protesters in many cities defied curfews and remained on the streets late into the night to protest police violence.

Other protest developments:

Minneapolis police used force against black people at a rate at least seven times that of white people during the past five years, city data show.

In his first speech outside his home since the coronavirus lockdown, Joe Biden likened President Trump’s language to that of Southern racists of the 1960s. “We cannot let our rage consume us,” Biden said.

Former President George W. Bush praised peaceful protesters. He said that he and his wife, Laura, were “anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country.”

2. Fears of ‘autocracy’

Attorney General William Barr gave the order to clear the square across from the White House on Monday night, The Times explains, in a story reconstructing the incident. The order led law enforcement to use smoke and flash grenades to scatter peaceful protesters so that Trump could appear at a church for a photo opportunity.

Former military leaders and democracy experts condemned the use of force against citizens. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen wrote in The Atlantic that Trump had “laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country.” Kori Schake, a former Pentagon official and Republican policy adviser, said, “If we were seeing this in another country, we would be deeply concerned.” Gail Helt, a former C.I.A. analyst, told The Washington Post: “This is what autocrats do. This is what happens in countries before a collapse. It really does unnerve me.”

3. Voting in a shaken country

People in eight states and Washington, D.C., cast ballots in extraordinary circumstances yesterday, and it seemed to go more smoothly than some people feared. “If Tuesday’s vote-by-mail primaries were a test for November, elections officials have reason to be encouraged: a few bumps but no major disasters,” said Stephanie Saul, a Times reporter.

Among the results:

Steve King, who’s represented an Iowa House district for nine terms and has a history of racist comments, lost his bid for renomination.

Theresa Greenfield, a real estate executive backed by the Democratic Party establishment, won Iowa’s Democratic Senate primary. She will face the Republican incumbent Joni Ernst

Ella Jones became the first African-American and the first woman elected mayor in Ferguson, Mo., where the 2014 killing of Michael Brown helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.

Find the latest election results here.

4. Zuckerberg defends his approach

In a tense company meeting, the Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg stood by his decision not to remove or flag Trump’s inflammatory posts.

Some Facebook employees have been in open revolt over the policy. “Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence,” said one engineer in a resignation note this week. “He showed us on Friday that this was a lie.”

Here’s what else is happening

A Times’s investigation explains how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fumbled its response to the coronavirus, leaving the country without adequate testing early in the crisis. Here are five takeaways from the reporting.

Republicans said they were moving Trump’s convention speech out of Charlotte, after a stalemate with Democratic officials in North Carolina about virus restrictions.

The College Board is postponing plans for an online version of the SAT because of technological challenges, further complicating the college-application process for students stuck at home.

Lives lived: Elsa Dorfman used a 200-pound Polaroid camera to create a brand of photographic art all her own, making instantaneous giant, natural-looking portraits of celebrities and everyday people — even while Polaroid, outpaced by technology, was fast going out of business. She died on May 30 at 83.

BACK STORY: WHAT SCIENTISTS REALLY THINK

“A lot of people are reading scientific papers for the first time these days, hoping to make sense of the coronavirus pandemic,” Carl Zimmer writes in his latest Matter column. Unfortunately, many scientific papers are hard to read. They’re full of jargon and aren’t intended for a general audience.

But when Carl speaks to scientists on the phone, he often finds that they can tell a riveting, clear story about their research. Of course, most people aren’t going to cold-call scientists — but there is still a good alternative to trying to muddle through academic research papers: Follow the scientists on social media.

“Leading epidemiologists and virologists have been posting thoughtful threads on Twitter,” Carl writes, “laying out why they think new papers are good or bad.” I asked Carl for a list of scientists that people should follow, and he sent me 19 names. They include the virologists Florian Krammer and Angela Rasmussen, the epidemiologists Marc Lipsitch and Caitlin Rivers and the immunologist Akiko Iwasaki.

I’ve created a list of all 19 on Twitter. And if you have ideas for other scientists to follow on social media, send an email to themorning@nytimes.com, with “virus scientists” in the subject field.

PLAY, WATCH, EAT, ROAST

Kitchen nightmares: Home edition

Not everyone is using extra time at home to cultivate a sourdough starter. The food writer Priya Krishna has documented how necessity has forced fledgling home cooks to confront their biggest fear: using their kitchens. The result is a lot of blackened pots, smoke-filled apartments and frozen pizza disasters — but also some victories, like fried eggs and a decent carbonara.

For even the most hapless cooks: Make this roast chicken. It requires salt, pepper, olive oil and a whole bird.

N.B.A. takes Disney World

The N.B.A. is in talks to resume its pandemic-shortened season by hosting the league at Walt Disney World in Florida. Players would live in Disney hotels, and all games would be held at the nearby ESPN Wide World of Sports complex.

Why Disney World? Well, it doesn’t hurt that the ESPN facility is already wired to broadcast games on its network — and that Disney, its parent company, pays the N.B.A. more than $1 billion a year for the right to air them.

Brush up on some history

Three years ago, Ibram X. Kendi, a National Book Award-winning-author and professor, compiled a history of race and racism in America through 24 books for The Times Book Review. He highlighted influential works about the black experience for each decade of the nation’s existence, including the poems of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning novel “Beloved.”

Together, he writes, the books “tell the history of anti-black racism in the United States as painfully, as eloquently, as disturbingly as words can. In many ways, they also tell its present.” You can revisit the list here.

Diversions

Games

Here’s today’s Mini Crossword, and a clue: B, on the periodic table (five letters).

You can find all of our puzzles here.

Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David

P.S. The word “coronavirologists” appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday, as noted by the Twitter bot @NYT_first_said.

You can see today’s print front page here.

Today’s episode of “The Daily” includes an interview with Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis

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Ian Prasad Philbrick and Sanam Yar contributed to The Morning. You can reach the team at themorning@nytimes.com.

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The ABCs of AKJ

It’s been a while since I’ve checked in. Since that last post, I had a kid, that kid has turned 1 and is well on her way to turning 2, and in the mean time I’m a little past halfway done baking another one. Go procreation!

That said, I thought it might be an apt time to capture the world as we currently know it--or rather, the world according to our chatterbox of a toddler. Behold, a not-entirely-comprehensive list of our 22mo’s vocabulary (and what it all means):

A is for...

“Abby” Meaning(s): me, cute kid in the mirror, cute kid in the photo, hooray!

“Ahhhh” Meaning: Open up wide so I can feed you.

“Appo” Meaning(s): Apple, pear, pumpkin.

B is for...

“BA!” Meaning: BALL!

“Back” Meaning: I want to put this back.

“Beebee” Meaning(s): Baby, I see a baby, let’s read the book about babies, let’s watch a movie about babies.

“Beans” Meaning(s): Beans, anything that looks like beans.

“Beys” Meaning: Berries.

“Bish” Meaning: Fish.

“Bite” Meaning: I'll have what you’re having.

“Boo!” Meaning: Purple (we’re working on this one).

“Book” Meaning(s): Book, please read to me.

“Boom” Meaning: Let’s play “boom” (favorite chasing game)

“Boon” Meaning: Balloon.

“Bot?” Meaning: Can I have a bath?

“Box” Meaning(s): Fox (daycare friend), box.

“Buds?” Meaning: Can we please watch a David Attenborough documentary?

“Butt” Meaning(s): Button, light switch, I want to push the button, I see a button, belly button.

“Bye” Meaning(s): Bye, I’m ready to go, bunny.

C is for...

“Caco” Meaning(s): Goldfish cracker, any cracker or crunchy snack

“Cao” Meaning(s): Avocado, car, cow.

“Co” Meaning(s): Crow, I want to color.

“Cock” Meaning: Clock.

“Cowus” Meaning: I want to get under the covers with you.

D is for...

“Dada!” Meaning(s): Favorite human, where is my favorite human?, I see my favorite human, I want my favorite human, I’m ready for pajamas.

“Dane” Meaning: Jane (daycare lady).

“Denkoo” Meaning(s): Thank you, you’re welcome.

“Dise” Meaning: I want to go outside.

“Dog” Meaning(s): Dog, I see a dog, I’m thinking about dogs.

“Doose” Meaning: Gimme a sip of that juice.

“Down” Meaning(s): Put me down, I want to get down.

“Dubdubdubdub” Meaning: (Honestly not sure about this one but it makes frequent appearances.)

“Duckie” Meaning(s): Duck, I want to take a bath.

E is for...

“Eat” Meaning(s): I want to eat, I see someone eating.

“Eck” Meaning(s): Egg, I see an egg, I see something that looks like an egg, I want an egg.

“Eeyo” Meaning: Ear.

“Emmos” Meaning: Animals.

“Eppane” Meaning: Elephant.

“Eye” Meaning(s): Eye, I see your eye, I want to look at the picture of eyes in my People book, let me stick my finger in your eye.

F is for...

“Fotsss.” Meaning(s): Fast, let’s go fast!

“Fibe” Meaning: High five!

G is for...

“Go” Meaning(s): Let’s go, I’m ready to go, where did [x] go?

H is for...

“Hama” Meaning: Grandma Kathy.

“Hammi” Meaning: Cammi (daycare friend).

“Han” Meaning(s): Hand, give me your hand, please wipe my hands.

“Hat” Meaning(s): Hat, let’s put on my hat so we can go outside.

“Head” Meaning(s): Head, this is my head, I see your head.

“Heyo!” Meaning: Hello!

“Hi” Meaning(s): Hi, hello new [person/animal], hi I’m cute so I can’t be in trouble.

“Hot” Meaning(s): This is hot, I expect this to be hot, this is cold.

“Howp?” Meaning: Help me please.

“Huck” Meaning: Hug.

“Hummeck” Meaning: Nutmeg (family cat).

I is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

J is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

K is for...

“Knock” Meaning: I’m gonna go knock on that door.

L is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

M is for...

“Ma?” Meaning: More?

“Mama” Meaning(s): Mama, where is mama?, I see mama, I’m awake!

“Mek” Meaning: Merrick (daycare friend).

“Mess” Meaning(s): Look at this mess, I made a mess.

“Mimi” Meaning: Mimi (stuffed mouse friend).

“Moke?” Meaning: Can I have some milk?

N is for...

“No” Meaning(s): No, leave me alone, let me do it myself, I don’t want to, please stop, I’m overwhelmed.

“Nose” Meaning(s): Nose, no.

“Noway!” (See “No”.)

“Nun” Meaning: I’m all done.

“Nyny” Meaning(s): Goodnight, I want to lie down, let’s pretend we’re asleep, [x] is lying down!

O is for...

“Oh!” Meaning: That was a surprise!

“Oh yeah” Meaning(s): Definitely, I like this a lot.

“O-kayyy” Meaning: This is a word I hear a lot so I will say it too.

“Omo” Meaning: Oatmeal (family cat).

“Oh no!” Meaning: Somebody is sad, something fell down.

“Oots” Meaning: Oops.

P is for...

“Papa” Meaning(s): Grandpa, old white man.

“Pane” Meaning(s): Plane, I see a plane, I hear a plane, please read me the book about planes.

“Pay” Meaning: I want to play.

“Pick” Meaning: Pig.

“Pie” Meaning: I want to sit on the potty.

“Pose” Meaning(s): Pillows, let’s play in the pillows.

“Potchs” Meaning: I’m ready for pajamas.

“Pots” Meaning: Pants.

“Pouts” Meaning: Pouch (fruit/veggie puree pouches)

“Puppy” Meaning(s): I see a puppy, I’m thinking about puppies.

Q is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

R is for...

“Rah!” Meaning: I’m a scary dinosaur!

S is for...

“Shick” Meaning: I found a stick.

“Shoes” Meaning(s): Shoes, I see your shoes, I want to take my shoes off, I want to go outside so let’s put on my shoes.

“Shoop” Meaning: Soup.

“Show” Meaning: I want to get in the shower with you.

“Sot” Meaning(s): What’s that?, look at that.

“Sots” Meaning(s): Socks, I want to take off my socks, I see a sock.

T is for...

“Tat” Meaning: Cat.

“Tayo” Meaning: Chair.

“Tee” Meaning(s): Kitty, I’m ready to brush my teeth.

“Tees” Meaning(s): Kitties, cheese.

“Ten” Meaning: Sing me the counting song.

“Toes” Meaning(s): Toes, I see your toes.

“Tiss” Meaning: Kiss.

U is for...

“Uh oh!” Meaning(s): Something fell, I dropped something, I heard something loud.

“Ummy!” Meaning: Yum!

“Up” Meaning(s): Pick me up, help me get up, I want to go up.

V is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

W is for...

“Wa?” Meaning: Can I have some water?

“Wed” Meaning: Red.

“Wet” Meaning: Wet.

“Whoa” Meaning: That is big/impressive/loud.

“Wice” Meaning(s): Rice, anything that looks like rice.

“Wok” Meaning(s): I see a rock, I want to go on the rocking chair, I want to walk.

X is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

Y is for...

“Ya” / “Yeah” / “Yep” / “Yes” Meaning: Yes.

“Yay!” Meaning: Hooray! (Must be accompanied by clapping.)

“Yite” Meaning: Light.

“Yook” Meaning: Look.

“Yuck” Meaning: I found something on the floor, look at this dirty thing.

Z is for...

N/A. Not yet a sound she’s mastered.

...I’m sure there will be tomorrow.

[sobotown]

My Daily Droll Troll

Pic of the Day:

Walking around plants in Utah

Stuff I liked online:

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Photo Assignment.

TRAVEL – Plan your trip to Athens.

RECIPES – Turn a pot of Rice into 5 workday lunches.

SOCIAL MEDIA – CyFe app: Monitor your Business online with one dashboard.

SOCIAL MEDIA – 2017 Social Media Planning Template.

DESIGN – 14 Bootstrap Themes.

MARKETING – 9 Free Newsletters for 2017.

Reading:

 UPDATE MICROSOFT – BOT Framework

SitePoint Tutorial – building a Skype BOT

Watching/Listening:

 MICROSOFT – Project Siena. (I downloaded it but I’m nut sure what it really is yet)

 YOUTUBE – setup a SharePoint Framework dev environment.

 David Copperfield @Audible.

 MICROSOFT – YouTube Azure Video’s.

Stuff I’m toying with:

 Converted my Recipes Blog into my WordPress (Daily blog – Pondering the Imponderables) blog

 AZURE BIZTALK – creating a development Hyper-V.

Added a new BizTalk 2013 azure instance.

Activated Hyper-V on Surface Pro 4.

 Xamarin University Self-Guided Learning.

Completed course(s) – XAM101, XAM110

 UPDATE – PowerPoint 2016 and Mix Training.

 UPDATE – OneNote development. – I’m hoping to generate either SharePoint or Reporting Services reports out of a book.

Finally got all the prerequisites installed and configuring O365

 VISUAL STUDIO MAGAZINE – Universal Windows Platform ChatBot using Framework.

 VISUAL STUDIO MAGAZINE – Universal Windows Platform (mobile) Entity Framework & SQLite.

 VISUAL STUDIO MAGAZINE – Universal Windows Platform using Media Element & Player Framework.

Building Media Apps.

Extending Media Apps.

 VISUAL STUDIO MAGAZINE – Universal Windows Platform using Xaramin.Forms.

#Sobotown

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from My Daily Droll Troll

[lunarnightt]

Bots

I decided to make two bots tonight; One of them being Anakin Skywalker and the other one being the David Rice MCU au.

[lunarnightt]

hi diva, not pressuring you, but are you still up to make a bot of MCU David Rice?

Love your bots and yo bloggg

I’m up to putting Hayden in the mcu so yes! Just give me time 😭😭

[lunarnightt]

https://x.com/_naberrie/status/1881486903972876570

text in link 1: « “protect him at all costs” and hundreds of you couldn’t even call lilah out »

https://x.com/_naberrie/status/1881487463841194388

text in link 2: “i had to shut up about it then bc i was so tired but just remembered seeing someone say that just as we were quite literally begging people to give a fuck it made me laugh😭no hate to a single person in particular it was the majority of the fandom, y’all do not deserve that man”

rent free in these peoples’ heads, there’s more important things about to happen in the world than internet beef with strangers, like these people i am not surprised if they’re behind are the ones that have SUPPOSEDLY sent death threats to that girl, i truly am a loss for this

i’m madeline by the way, but you can call me “⚡️” anon, sadly in times like this, anonymity is a blessing, i’m sorry you get all these random asks and you don’t deserve it but these people smh with them dictating everyone when there’s more important matters to worry about in the world :(((

love you maddie and i love your page so so much, happiest of birthdays to you 😘😘😘

Thank you anon! And thanks for saying what you said! I love Hayden and his career, I love writing about Hayden and his characters, but I sadly have a life outside of being chronically online.

I wish I could tell you the amount of times someone has complained about Rachel in my inboxes. Not that I don’t mind or care because I literally dislike her but sometimes I wish it was like a writing request or something so I can get my creative juices back. (I need it badly for David rice bot)