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An 102-year-old woman is being evicted by her landlord because his daughter needs somewhere to stay. According to the Los Angeles Times Thelma Smith has lived in her Ladera Heights home for 30 years and her eviction is legal.

Her landlord reportedly ended her month-to-month lease because their daughter is graduating from law school and needs somewhere to live. In Los Angeles,  it’s totally legal to evict someone because your relative needs housing thanks to the Los Angeles’ Rent Stabilization Ordinance.

“The only thing I can say is that I’ve tried to live a good life,” Smith told KCBS-TV Channel 2. “I never wanted to harm anybody.”

Smith is leaning on family to find housing.  The Ordinance offers to find housing for people who are 62 and over and evicted however,  Smith lives outside the area that this applies to.

Her story has caught the attention of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who met Smith while she worked as an executive secretary for the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation.

Smith has to move out by June 30th.

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If you’re feeling nostalgic about your childhood, today’s a good day. River Gods have released the video for their latest track, “Stressed Out,” off of their upcoming Let Me Live EP, and the power pop tune is the perfect salve for millenial anxiety. The video features a young boy who has been tapped to film a commercial for the hit new sensation “Hatch-A-Friend,” a small Tamagatchi-like toy. Unfortunately, the boy’s new digital friend causes him to get lost in the imaginary world where love only goes one way. Raising a video game pet was always a big task as a kid, but it doesn’t feel far away from the pressures of today’s world.



As for the rest of the music video–oh man! Can you believe how obsessed we were with a small little screen meant to distract us from living an authentic life full of real experiences, all so we could lose ourself in a virtual world of nonsense that revolved around a creature who could never love us back? Glad those days are long gone. Must be why none of us are stressed out like we used to be…

The video’s director, Peter Rosati, said the idea for the video “hit pretty quickly” after he heard River Gods’ frontman Shiraz Dhume’s song the first time. “Something about a little kid singing these selfless lyrics of unrequited love to a Tamagotchi-like toy just felt too perfect,” Rosati said.

We agree, though things weren’t always so stressful in the ’90s. Sure, our obsession with video games and virtual realities should have been a warning for what was to come with our smartphones, but just like this song, the music was pretty great.

You can pre-order River Gods’ new album Let Me Live, due out 7/24.

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A good parody trailer is truly a thing of beauty. But few of them are so well thought out and detailed as this Trailer Time Warp, “John Wick Chapter 6: Contingency”. Youtuber Journey’s End recreates an 80s style Cannon Films trailer in the mold of Death Wish, Lifeforce, and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

The trailer imagines a sixth John Wick film, where everyone’s favorite assassin finds himself in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of The Matrix. The trailer is lovingly detailed to look like a low budget masterpiece, from the synth-heavy score to a grizzled voice-over to de-colored, skipping image.

Given how increasingly outlandish the world of John Wick is, it’s hardly a stretch to imagine a future-set film in the franchise where Keanu Reeves is unfrozen to battle the machines. The trailer capitalizes on the films’ combination of Laurence Fishburne and Reeves, as well as both movies’ usage of the phrase “we’re going to need guns, lots of guns.”

The newly rebooted Wick has to contend not only with his painful puppy-filled memories, but will also undergo the upgrades and enhancements that made Neo such a formidable fighter. Is it weird that I want to watch this movie? Because I would totally watch this movie.

(via AVClub, image: YouTube)

• Scarlet Witch may be rolling out some new powers in Disney+’s WandaVision. (via CBR)
• Patty Jenkins discusses Wonder Woman‘s 1984 setting on the Crew Call Podcast. (via Deadline)
• Stan Lee’s former manager Keya Morgan was arrested in elder abuse charges. (via AP News)
• A student posts a compilation of the best moments from his chemistry class and the results are…explosive:

I took Chem 100 this Spring semester and this is what it consisted of :) pic.twitter.com/szywu0edn2

— Daniel (@Simply__danny) May 23, 2019

• Bong Joon-ho became the first Korean filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes with his film Parasite. (via Collider)
• Put the controller down: the World Health Organization has just classified “gaming disorder” as a recognized illness. (via Kotaku)
• Harrison Ford randomly name-drops Chris Pine as a potential Indiana Jones. We’re not mad about it. (via io9)
• In the midst of Theresa May’s resignation, Downing Street’s most important resident is now answering questions:

While a political storm brews inside 10 Downing Street, Chief Mouser Larry is soaking up the sun and enjoying all the attention pic.twitter.com/NvHyFYChj8

— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) May 24, 2019

What are you up to this holiday weekend, Mary Suevians?

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