Ali Wong’s superior sun protection

Everyone’s Favorite Couple Update: Bill Hader and Ali Wong are still together. They were photographed at a farmer’s market in Los Angeles today, looking cute and fun and PROTECTED FROM THE SUN! There has been a conversation recently about sunscreen on The Squawk, inspired in part by the youths embracing “base tans” and eschewing sunscreen…because sunscreen is, I guess, the latest target of the wellness industry. 

Check out Ali Wong’s superior sun protection—long pants, long sleeves, giant hat. I love a giant sun hat, I’ve been building my collection and they’re so fun. But this is the way to protect yourself from the sun, which is our enemy: long, loose, lightweight clothing, and a giant hat. Sunscreen, too, because a “base tan” isn’t protection, it’s just sun damage and skin cancer IS real. I love Australian Gold’s mineral-based sunscreens, for my face, and Lainey has turned me onto Round Lab’s Birch Juice sunscreen (this is an affiliate link).

Slather yourself in beef tallow and bake in the sun, enjoy smelling like roast beef and having skin like a saddle bag. I will be over here, like Ali Wong, properly protected, fresh faced, and, hopefully, skin cancer free. 

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What else happened today…

Las Culturistas’ Best New Artist Gabby Windey is talking body hair and the cancellation of pre-sex routines. Every time I watch a Nineties movie and someone “gets ready” for sex I laugh, as if anyone has that kind of time. When the mood strikes, you seize it, especially as you get older and the whim ebbs and flows more. (Popsugar)

Matthew Gray Gubler’s unsettling scroll down surprise. Brace yourself. Also, is he still friends with Taylor Swift? (Go Fug Yourself)

I know everything with Tom Cruise comes with a huge culty asterisk, but also…when the Golden Globes got called out for being a sh-tshow and all the celebrities were like “it was dumb anyway”, Cruise actually sent his trophies back in protest. And now he’s turned down the Kennedy Center Honors being bestowed by Trump. Tom Cruise is like…a real one? 

Everyone wants to make this about MAGA, but frankly, I think it’s about age. The Kennedy Center Honors is basically a lifetime achievement award, I don’t think Cruise believes he is old enough to earn a lifetime achievement award. How do you achieve when your lifetime is forever? I fully believe the real, behind closed doors logic is some kind of batty “I’m immortal” nonsense. But still. Tom Cruise kinda sticks to his guns about these awards. When he doesn’t believe in them, he doesn’t show up for them. Makes you wonder what will happen when the Academy offers him an honorary Oscar. (Celebitchy)

Texas Monthly has a new true crime deep dive into the 2020 disappearance of Jason Landry and the impact of online sleuths on investigations. The internet detectives range from well-meaning amateurs to looky-loos, but the end result is the same: a young man disappeared and has never been found. It’s a sadly common story, but people online do get very territorial about their preferred missing person’s case. Just google the names “Maura Murray” or “Brandon Swanson” and watch everything from in-depth factual reporting of timelines to wild conspiracy theory speculation roll in. That said, the circumstances of Jason Landry’s disappearance are unsettling, including law enforcement’s slow response to take it seriously. He remains missing. (Texas Monthly)