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Let's start 2021 with a terse and "to the point" start, people!  Welcome to the first Afronerd Radio broadcast of 2021 streaming under the guise of the infamous Grindhouse brand this Sunday at 6pm eastern.  The topics for the brand new year are as follows:  regrettably the world experienced yet another untimely death with the passing of iconic underground rap artist and graphic novel enthusiast, Daniel Dumile aka MF Doom;    

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You could say chocolates have become the food most associated with Valentine’s Day and all its commercialization. And you wouldn’t be wrong. But what sustenance someone craves or finds romantic on the holiday is absolutely subjective. A&W Restaurants is betting that at least a few people are all about chicken tenders. They’ve announced a sweepstakes pushing forth their savory chicken tenders for a little tender loving, which we learned about from Design Taxi.

A&W Restaurants

The giveaway offers some rather unique prizes: a body pillow replicating A&W’s Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders and tins of Tender Lovin’ Lip Balm. Yes, chicken tender lip balm. To achieve the exact flavor, A&W used some of their fryer oil in the batch. That’s weird, yes, but also probably moisturizing and quite delicious. No one tell A&W, but I’d totally purchase a tin of chicken tender lip balm. It seems like the kind of thing Rocket Fizz would stock near check-out for impulse buyers, and I’d fall for it.

I like chicken tenders, soft lips, and flavored lip balms. What’s not to love? I’m not going to abandon my vanilla or cherry lip balm for meat-flavored options anytime soon. But I’m just saying I’m not opposed to the concept. Especially if they packaged chicken tender lip balm with some BBQ flavored lip gloss.

A&W Restaurants

I don’t mean to overlook the chicken tender body pillow. It’s made for cuddling with on the couch while you eat chicken tenders. And I’m sure you could find a way to make it smell like the tenders too.

Anyway. You have until Wednesday, February 17, to enter the sweepstakes. Just visit A&W Restaurant’s website. If you win, please promise to share some chicken tender lip balm with us?

Amy Ratcliffe is the Managing Editor for Nerdist and the author of The Jedi Mind, available now. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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Face/Off is about to get a facelift from the director of Godzilla vs. Kong, Adam Wingard. That’s right, the 1997 action film that’s best known for the completely implausible but definitely memorable premise of stolen faces and such is finally getting, not a remake as we previously heard last year, but a direct sequel!

Wingard will write the script to follow up the story of Sean Archer, played by Travolta, who switched faces with evil criminal Castor Troy, played by Cage. Directed by John Woo, the original Face/Off is campy as hell and maybe the pinnacle of ’90s action in terms of glorious absurdity and showcasing Travolta and Cage at the peak of their hammy powers and stardom.

We do not know if Travolta or Casge have been approached for the sequel, but that could either be very interesting or entirely bananas (which could be interesting too, I guess). Travolta isn’t doing much lately, though there are several reasons we don’t really want him back for a sequel, but Cage has I think fully embraced his Nic Cage-ness as an icon of weird, so … I kind of hope he’s at least back.

I just hope that Wingard will keep the weird face touching thing from the original.

Extremely normal behavior in the cinematic classic Face/Off, which is now streaming PS. pic.twitter.com/dWcGXQBpvE

— Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) February 4, 2021

Also, there have to be doves right? You can’t do a sequel to a John Woo classic without doves.

(via SyFy Wire, featured image: Paramount)

Here are a few other fabulous things we saw today.

• Looking for some love magic for valentines? Check out the Reel Magic podcast’s talk about Rhe Love Witch and love magic of all kinds with author Gabriela Herstik.
• After controversy, a Bachelor cast member apologizes for racism. (via EW)
• Black Widow and F9 releases still seem in limbo. (via Variety)
• Frodo and Harry sharing a cover and a deep dive profile? Sold.
  

  20 years of magic. In a WORLD EXCLUSIVE, @elijahwood and Daniel Radcliffe unite for the very first time for Empire’s epic 20th anniversary celebration of #TheLordOfTheRings and #HarryPotter – on sale Thursday 18 Feb. Cover photo by Art Streiber. READ MORE: https://t.co/KnEuBz5WrC pic.twitter.com/fIGBp63V0b

  — Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) February 12, 2021

• There are some weird mascots fighting the coronavirus around the world. (via Washington Post)
• Sounds like Donald Trump was much sicker with COVID 19 than we were told. (via Huff Post)
• A new series from Issa Rae is headed to HBO. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
• Let’s celebrate spring around the corner with a great unpacking of the myth of Hades and Persephone.

Have a safe weekend, Suevians!

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Greetings, folks! And again, welcome to the new year!  Listen to the latest episode of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review (the first of '21) this Wednesday at 8pm eastern on BTalk 100.  The topics to be "chopped up" are as follows: bestselling novelist, Eric Jerome Dickey (Sister, Sister, Finding Gideon, Storm) succumbs to cancer at the age of 59;  WAP rapper, Cardi B causes a stir with some fans by not allowing her daughter, Kulture to listen to her oftentimes sexually charged music: the question remains, is actor, Michael Keaton's version of Batman (circa '89) going to be the canonical DCEU Dark Knight or what?; many thought esteemed actor, Avery Brooks (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; A Man Called Hawk) simply retired from acting but according to his TV series DS9 "son," actor, Cirroc Lofton, it's a bit more complicated than that (at the 21 min mark below)....hence, the #WeWantAvery campaign is afoot:

Well...whether it's pandemic related (or not), we're seeing more around the clock death and health scares pertaining to Black males (celebrities, notwithstanding)-iconic hip hop producer, Dr. Dre appears to be recovering from a brain aneurysm and with the untimely death of choreographer, Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quinones , what will it take for black men to be more proactive about their health and well being?  Dburt juxtaposes the triumphant story of budding 14-year-old Georgia restauranteur, Mason Wright against the observations of  Youtuber, Jenee Amore as noted by the rising Manospshere YouTube Channel, Mediocre Tutorials and Reviews:

There's a pretty interesting Wired piece highlighting the black/minority bias found in the venture capital industry;  And lastly, we never did speak on the firing of two black female executives by tech giant, Google....time willing.

*One thing that Dburt is doing (finally) is investing in cryptocurrency, courtesy of Roundlyx. We would implore our followers to investigate, discern and then explore by using our referral code: afro-87A4BF

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