It’s been an exciting week for Corporate Rock Sucks. The first review, first interview, and first podcast all went live. Then this happened: The last time a box of books with my name on it arrived in the mail was the summer of 2020. Bad Religion had all kinds of events planned for the release of Do What You Want. Signings, shows, you name it. Then COVID-19 happened and everything got canceled.
“My auntie is a man now”. I was already giving Kendrick Lamar’s new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers my full attention. It’s the big comeback album from my favorite rapper, and with so little information about it being public, I wanted to experience the surprise for myself. No peeking at the features, the song titles, producing credits, or anything until the next song came on. Which yes, included the nasty surprise of Kodak Black being on here multiple times, but I’m too excited to hear new Kendrick to care at this point.
When I first traveled to Valdosta for the AJC I was under the impression that something was amiss, that Kendrick Johnson’s death was no accident. But I found no evidence supporting foul play. That certainly would’ve been the juicier story, one a good many people still believe. It’s just not supported by any facts. Karen Bell is resigned to the fact many people believe she raised two cold-blooded killers.
Author is no stranger to alternative forms of publishing. His Killing Eve trilogy, featuring the murderous adventures of an assassin called Villanelle, first appeared as a self-published series of novellas for Amazon Kindle. Villanelle—and the story of her entanglement with MI5 agent Eve Polastri—grew an international fandom following the adaptation of the novels into a BBC drama by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. But in 2022 the televised version of the series came to a shocking end, and fans erected makeshift shrines all over the world.
It feels like forever ago — and because of the way news spreads in this new world, it was forever ago — but back on Thursday, I wrote about the need for the LA Clippers to surround Kawhi Leonard and Paul George with role players who possess positive traits that would fit in seamlessly around the stars. Late Saturday afternoon, the Clippers acquiesced. The Clippers are going to complete a trade for Houston Rockets forward Kenyon Martin Jr.