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Jared Leto and  Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak played an April Fool’s Day prank on the show’s audience and contestants on Monday night by having Leto temporarily host the show. Instead of Sajak walking on set arm-in-arm with co-host and presenter Vanna White, it was Jared Leto — who proceeded to then carry on hosting the show as normal.”All right everybody, grab those devices, it’s time to give away some money,” said Leto in host-mode. “A $1000 in our first toss-up, the category is on the map.” Get 30 Seconds to Mars Tickets Here Eventually, Sajak stepped back in to hosting duties, but neither Sajak nor Leto acknowledged the swap. Jared Leto shared the televised clip of his entrance on Instagram, writing “How’d I do?” as he and Vanna White made their way onstage. Watch the clip of Leto hosting the beloved game show below. April Fools’ prank or none, those who felt the shock of seeing Wheel of Fortune hosted by someone other than Pat Sajak will have to get used to it — the longtime gameshow host will be leaving Wheel of Fortune at the end of this season, and he’ll be replaced by Ryan Seacrest. Meanwhile, Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars are gearing up for a European tour, followed by a lengthy North American stretch in the summer with AFI, Poppy, and KennyHoopla as support. See Thirty Seconds to Mars’ tour dates here, and get tickets here.

As far back as 2009, Jonny Greenwood was fed up with the faff of the world’s most studious stadium band. “He can’t stand it anymore, the pace of the way we work,” Thom Yorke said that year. Despite the guitarist and composer’s impatience, he was prone to obsessing over what Yorke called the “extra things”: the sly strings and choked squeals that thread razor wire into Radiohead’s pillowed luxury. “‘Come on, we need some wrong notes,’ he’s always saying. OK, you got ’em,” Yorke joked. But never have we heard Greenwood quite like this. On Wall of Eyes , the second album from the Smile, his hostile harmonies and expediency in the studio nudge the trio somewhere new; it is his most exciting and volatile performance since In Rainbows . No time for their usual effortful cohesion: Producer Sam Petts-Davies resolves to stress, not conceal, the eclecticism of Yorke and Greenwood’s songs, while drummer Tom Skinner squirrels around making nests in their inhospitable time signatures. After the debut’s big bang, Wall of Eyes connects the particles into somewhere you, and perhaps these restless musicians, might like to make a home. More than anything on A Light for Attracting Attention , the Beatlesy “Friend of a Friend” and riotous “Bending Hectic” present contrasting spectacles of the Smile’s allure. The former draws inspiration from lockdown footage of Italians uniting in song on their balconies; the coda juxtaposes that pandemic solidarity against the elites’ response. “All of that money, where did it go?/In somebody’s pocket, a friend of a friend,” Yorke laments, invoking the COVID cronyism of Britain’s Conservative Party. But the tune is divine, even hummable—his deftest lunge for your heartstrings since unshelving “True Love Waits.” At the other extreme, “Bending Hectic” indulges Yorke’s time-honored passion for calamitous automobile events—in this case the last moments of a public figure, apparently disgraced, who vows to drive off the Italian mountainside. The band plays the car-crash suicide ballad as a brilliantly twisted love song: Such is the narrator’s hubris that, when an orchestral crescendo signals the plunge, and Greenwood’s lustrous string bends transmute into tire squeals, we hear the infernal crusade as a valorous final act.

First Bob Tasca III, then Matt Hagan, and finally Robert Hight—the top contenders for the NHRA Funny Car championship—lost in Sunday’s second round of the In-N-Out Burger Finals at Pomona, Calif.

But Hagan had enough points to claim his fourth series crown. And Hagan wrote his name into the record book alongside those of John Force, Kenny Bernstein, and Don “The Snake” Prudhomme as racers to win at least four championships.

In the process, he gave team owner Tony Stewart his second series championship in as many weeks. Last weekend at the NASCAR races at Phoenix, Stewart Haas’ Cole Custer won in the Xfinity Series.

As Hagan stood at the top end of the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, awaiting Hight’s race against eventual event winner Chad Green and ultimately his own fate, Hagan (who had lost to Blake Alexander) said, “We really want to win this championship. You hate to sit here and hope somebody else loses. You want to go out there and just turn four win lights on and get it done.”

Later Hagan stressed that “That’s not my style of racing. It’s about my body of work.”

But at that time, he wasn’t convinced at all that fourth title he so longed for would be his: “More than likely, Robert, they don’t stumble. They runnered-up last year, and that’s how it goes a lot of times. Two of my championships out of three, I runnered-up and then come back and won it. So that’s just how fate is sometimes. But we’ll sit here and wait. I’m not going to sit up here and wish bad on nobody, man. Everybody’s trying hard, and the best man wins out here. We didn’t get it done, and it falls on us. There’s nobody to blame but us.”

He was blaming himself but at the same time sending up a prayer to his mother, whom he lost earlier this year. “I was doin’ some prayin’,” he said. “I never prayed to my mom before, but I said, ‘I don’t know what you and my brother are doing up there, but I sure could use a little help.”

But Hight did stumble, barely but enough for Green to move on to the semifinals. And help came in the form of tire smoke for Hight, who saluted Hagan directly and on the public-address system.

Hight said, “Congratulations to Matt Hagan. They’ve been there all year. We’ve been here just at the end. I’m still proud of my team.”

Meanwhile, Hagan said, “I jumped in the car over there with Chad Green and I told him, ‘Flip your visor up, because I’m going to kiss you on the lips.’ And Chad, I definitely owe him a beer.”

Hight had alluded to “The Pedregon Factor” before the weekend began, recalling that last year, Cruz Pedregon—in Hight’s words—“comes from nowhere and screws everything up – all the points, everything” by winning this race. Now Tasca understands what Hight is talking about.

Pedregon struck again Sunday in the second round, taking out Tasca and leaving Hagan and Hight to duke it out for the championship.

Tasca, who said, “It was a career year for me,” said that for his Todd Okuhara- and Aaron Brooks-led team, “The best is yet to come.”

Hagan closed his season with six victories in eight final rounds and a 41-15 record in eliminations.

NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series

Final Funny Car Point Standings (Unofficial)

Susan Wade has lived in the Seattle area for 40 years, but motorsports is in the Indianapolis native’s DNA. She has emerged as one of the leading drag-racing writers with nearly 30 seasons at the racetrack, focusing on the human-interest angle.  She was the first non-NASCAR recipient of the prestigious Russ Catlin Award and has covered the sport for the Chicago Tribune, Newark Star-Ledger, and Seattle Times. She has contributed to Autoweek as a freelance writer since 2016.

So still.  Nothing quite like it. The dense quiet in  an old empty church. The thick stone walls keep the world out. The exquisite colour of  stained glass lets it in. Not many come, though the doors  are unlocked. Some do. The Italian dad shows  his five-year-old  the water receptacle for his baby sibling’s baptism. A man does not  want to say hello. Maybe his wife died. Maybe he is dying. This is the place to come  for things like that. Life and death do not escape its thick stone walls. The teenage girls take photos below  the Virgin Mary. They muffle their amusement. It doesn’t matter. Life has the last  laugh on us all. And churches catch it. This poem is from Last Laugh (Book 2 of Poem and Prayer Series) which is currently being written. Here is Strange Words (Book 1 of Poem and Prayer Series).

Actor Funny Face has declared his intention to conduct a DNA test on all his daughters with his ex-wife Vanessa. Actor Funny Face has declared his intention to conduct a DNA test on all his daughters with his ex-wife Vanessa.
The comic actor came to this conclusion after a netizen commented on his post advising him to forget about Vannessa and move on. According to the netizen, Funny Face should ask himself why is his baby mama preventing him from seeing his daughters and how long it took her to start a new relationship. He posted: “……Sit down and ask yourself why she’s preventing you from seeing the kids … women are captor doing anything oo.. as she dawg you nu … how long did she take to start seeing a different man?” In response to the comment from the netizen, Funny Face replied that DNA will prove everything. Sharing the post, he warned that if he is not the father of his daughters, the whole country would dance for him if the result came out. See the post below: