While the movie’s release is still a year away, Warner Bros. has revealed the official trailer for Wonder Woman. And it doesn’t disappoint.
While Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice featured a reluctant Wonder Woman attempting to avoid conflict, we weren’t sure why the superhero was behaving so. But it seems like the standalone Wonder Woman movie, the first female-led superhero movie in quite some time, will fill in the answers.
The movie features Diana not only as a true warrior, but also as guardian of Earth. Stepping back into the Great War, it shows Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman fighting to save humanity in historically dark times. (Maybe we need Wonder Woman now too…) The trailer goes slightly heavy on Chris Pine, who plays American pilot Steve Trevor, but it’s overall a great first look for the franchise.
This trailer comes as slight remedy to the negative air surrounding DC’s Cinematic Universe currently. Even ignoring the bad taste left in many fans’ mouth following Batman V. Superman, production for The Flash has stalled yet again as the movie lost Dope director Rick Famuyiwa over what he described as “creative differences.” The Hollywood Reporter indicates Famuyiwa’s “vision of making a movie with more edge clashed with the studio’s take.” This is now the second director to quit the movie this year.
Hopefully Wonder Woman will serve as corrective for DC and Warner Bros. It will be the first movie of its kind to be directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins. The movie also stars Robin Wright, Danny Huston, and Elena Anaya and will be released June 2, 2017.
No, but really — how does a person have better sex or a better relationship? The Fresh Toast has enlisted Rachel Krantz, a sex writer and proud canna-enthusiast, to help readers out with some answers as its sex columnist. No question is off limits, and all questions will remain anonymous. Please send your sex and relationship inquiries to freshlove@thefreshtoast.com. Now, onto this week’s topic: 9 sexy 2016 holiday gift ideas.
Q: Hey, so I need some advice about getting my girlfriend a gift for the holidays. She’s hard to buy stuff for — but she loves sex, and I love having sex with her…so I was thinking maybe I could just get her a sexy gift? The thing is, I don’t want it to be cheesy or cheap-seeming or to look like I didn’t put any effort into it. What would you buy a woman?
A: Ah, I love this question! There are so many sexy 2016 holiday gift ideas for your partner for the holidays — or any time of the year — that aren’t tacky or cheap, and that are actually quite romantic and fun. Though it’s hard for me to pick just a few, here are my top picks for this 2016 holiday season.
For the girl who has all the toys, this will be the one guaranteed to be unlike anything she’s seen before. With dual motors and a whopping 64 different stimulation settings, this thing quite literally f*cks you. The dual motor rocks back and forth in a way I’ve never seen another toy do, giving you a great show as well. You’ll both feel like she’s actually having sex with someone else, without having to go through all the trouble of finding another dude for an MFM threesome.
Recently, I wooed my man for the second year in a row with a fancy hotel booked on Hotels.com. You’d be surprised at what kind of last-minute deals you can find, even in your hometown, if you use their Deal of the Day. It’s been proven that experiential gifts satisfy people more than actual things, so book her a stay in the fanciest hotel you can afford. Who cares if it’s in your hometown? The point is to romance her with a bottle of wine, some bud, and a real big bathtub. She’ll never forget it.
OK, back to sex toys. This is my favorite new toy to hit the market, and I’m not alone. While most toys that try to mimic oral sex suck (or rather, don’t suck well enough) The Womanizer actually lives up to its regrettable name and makes just about every woman come. That little suction head grabs onto her clit and literally sucks with a vibrating pulse and intensity she or you can adjust. Even better, once it’s latched on, it’s quiet. This is another really fun one for you to watch. Trust.
If you live in a state where it’s legal, get her the much-hyped “weed tampon” AND weed lube. She’ll be thankful the next time she has cramps, and you know she’s going to want to see what weed lube does to her vagina when she’s feeling better.
I rock this necklace more than I use it, just because it’s really cute and it makes me feel like a badass to wear a stealth vibe around my neck. If you guys are fans of spontaneous quickies, it’s also a great way for her to signal she might be DTF every time she dons it.
Give her some lingerie that’s so comfortable she can wear it all day. I love Only Hearts’ ethically-made bralettes. They are sexy and comfy, without any underwire or itchy fabric. One of the best gifts you can give her is something sexy that also demonstrates you don’t need her to push up or confine her tatas to find them beautiful.
So I know I’m only suggesting pricier toys here, but I promise, I’m only telling you to consider the best of the best. This is my go-to toy for use during penetrative sex. It fits easily in your hand or hers’, is quiet and small yet strong, and can be used in a variety of positions. Give the gift of multiple orgasms, every time.
I wrote about my stay at a Bud & Breakfast called B and B 420, and it was truly one of the most unique and comfy experiences I’ve ever had. Take your love here for a trip she’ll never forget, and stay at a place that’s either 420 friendly — or, if it’s in a state where it’s legal — provides you with complementary bud themselves. There’s something pretty damn romantic about having a cozy, bud-filled snowed-in suite in Denver.
Now, I definitely thought that some things about OM One Taste’s Intro to Orgasmic Meditation workshop were weird. But I also can’t deny that it kind of rocked my world and changed the way my partner and I approach foreplay and pleasure. If she’s truly adventurous — and doesn’t mind having her pants off in a room full of other women getting “stroked” — this will be a gift you can bet you’ll both never forget.
Have a happy holiday season, and remember: the best sexy gift is one given without an implication of tit-for-tat. Give it for her pleasure without an expectation of “payback”— or don’t give it at all. But you knew that already, right? Have fun!
If you watched the Country Music Awards, you most likely caught the glam-twang performance put on by the Dixie Chicks and Beyonce. They sang a mashup of Bey’s “Daddy Lessons” from her visual album Lemonade, and “Long Time Gone” from the Chicks’ 2002 album Home. Long time, indeed.
Unfortunately, the video of the performance has been taken down, but you’ll have to take our word for it: Beyonce, Natalie and company of course killed it, but there was another standout star trying to break through last night. It’s the sax man, living his whole damn life in this moment on the CMA stage. Just look at him, the glorious white suit, the cowboy boots, the Zoolander hair. Tear it up, sax kid. Why we didn’t get a separate Sax Man Cam for that entire performance is beyond me. The baritone saxophone is not a nimble instrument, with most weighing over 10 pounds, but this musical genius appears to have been born to wail on one.
His name is Leo Pellegrino, a member of the New York subway busker group called Too Many Zooz. Here’s another video of Leo performing in Union Square two years ago:
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Leo is a CAPA Pittsburgh grad and the son of musician and performance artist Stephen Pellegrino. He’s also a member of Lucky Chops Brass Band, along with Too Many Zooz. “[Beyonce] saw the video of Too Many Zooz in the subway, and she liked it and got us in the studio,” he told the Post-Gazette.
From a funky dance in a subway station that smells like pee to the biggest stage in country music: This guy is #goals.
The National Football League and its players don’t see eye to eye on a lot of matters these days, but the league’s draconian stance on medical marijuana is wildy out of step with its athletes.
More than 60 percent of players surveyed by ESPN believe the use of pharmaceutical opioids would be reduced if the NFL OK’d marijuana for pain.
Medical marijuana is legal in 25 states and Washington, D.C., and yet the NFL still has it listed as one of eight drugs banned. A failed test leads punishment, including fines and suspensions.
The sports network also published a story on Wednesday detailing on former linebacker Eugene Monroe’s crusade to convince the NFL to change its drug policies.
According to the survey, more than 70 percent of the players believe marijuana should be legal. The league has two teams in legal states (the Denver Broncos in Colorado and the Seattle Seahawks inWashington). Alaska and Oregon also have legalized the herb. Five others states will vote on full legalization next Tuesday. Four other states have medicinal marijuana on the ballot.
Living in a dorm can be hell. Loud parties when you’re trying to study, weird people visiting your weird roommates at weird hours, your friend Ben keeps stealing your good face wash, etc. There is also the problem of neighbors constantly having extremely loud sex, which is just what one Syracuse student decided she’d had enough of last week.
As the Daily Mailreports, Jenna Levine, 19, shared a note Twitter that she said she wrote to her loud-sex having neighbor. It reads: “Hello neighbor, Please have sex a little more quietly please. Some of us are trying to nap and not be reminded of how alone I am…feel free to make all the love you want. Just please, make it nasty at a lower volume. Thank you!”
It turns out being polite and self-deprecating in such a situation has it’s benefits, because the neighbor responded with a kind note of her own and a chocolate bar for Levine.
“Dearest neighbors, I’m so so incredibly sorry about that,” the note reads. “I didn’t realize how loud I was being, and ya know, sometimes having loud sex is low key kinda hot but obviously at your cost, which I apologize so sincerely for. I’m so so sorry, hope this hasn’t been occurring too often, and thanks so much for the incredible and hilarious card. I will for sure try to keep it nasty at a significantly lower level. And hey, don’t worry, you’re not alone forever. The right person will come along when the time comes. I was single for 18 years. Haha. Once again, I apologize so sincerely and deeply. Sorry, Room 338.”
The tweet has since gone viral, with more than 47,000 retweets and 120,000 likes.
Have you experienced a similar loud-sex story in your college dorm or apartment building? Let us know in the comments or shoot an email to taylor@thefreshtoast.com!
To many people residing in the city of Chicago, today is the best day of their lives. That is because their historically “cursed” baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, won the World Series last night against the Cleveland Indians.
However, in the minds of one television program, this outcome was pre-destined. While Parks & Rec has been off the air since 2015, it’s still delivering gems to viewers years later. The show’s final season was set in 2017, and one scene features Tom and Andy visiting Lucy in Chicago. She casually mentions that “everyone’s in a really great mood now because of the Chicago Cubs winning the Series.”
Now Parks & Rec showrunner Mike Schur is a man who knows his baseball. He used to write the cult-favorite baseball blog Fire Joe Morgan, along with fellow TV writers Alan Yang and Dave King. And as Schur explained to the Washington Post, the Cubs winning wasn’t a throwaway line, but rather, an honest prediction.
“As soon as we decided to throw the last season of ‘Parks and Rec’ into the future, into 2017, we sort of started calculating what the world might be like […]I was the only person on the staff who cared about baseball enough to track the Cubs’ minor league system,” Schur said.
While it’s still rather remarkable that Schur had the gusto to add such a prediction for a team with a 108-year curse, he’s not eager to take any credit for it.
“It’s not like I was only person who thought the Cubs were going to be good,” he said. “Every baseball writer in America knew the Cubs were going to be good. I can’t emphasize enough how little credit I feel like I should take for that prediction.”
As we all know by now, Bill Murray is a diehardCubsfan and one of the funniest people alive, which made him the perfect person to interview Cubs players and executives during the drunken, raucous celebration the followed last night’s exhausting Game 7 win.
“Is there anyone you want to say hello to that you haven’t thought about lately?” Murray asked Theo Epstein, the team’s legendary President of Baseball of Operations.
“Yeah, you,” Epstein responded, before uncorking a bottle of champagne and spraying the Ghostbusters star in the face. “Yeah, Bill! We just won the World Series!”
“Oh, it does burn,” Murray said, wiping the booze from his face. “It’s a good burn. It’s a good burn. I guess this means I get a 10-day tryout now.”
He ended the interview by thanking Epstein, who assembled the championship team: “My father thanks you, my mother thanks you, my sisters thank you, my brothers thank you, and I thank you.”
Later, Murray spoke with Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler. “You gotta pace yourself,” he advised the young player as Fowler drank champagne. “You’re going to be doing this for years. You don’t want to start drinking too early.”
“Bill, we do it for fans like you,” Fowler said. “Y’all been fans for your whole life.”
“My whole life,” Murray said. “I’ve been a Cubs fan longer than you’ve been growing that beard. It looks fantastic…I’m going to let my beard grow from now on. I want to look more and more like you.”
“I want to look like you when I grow up,” Fowler replied.
Finally, someone interviewed Murray about the win. “It means a huge weight has been lifted,” he said. “All this effort, the wishing and hoping that they’d win, and now it comes true. It’s wonderful, it’s fantastic. You believe in something and it actually comes true…The great thing about it is we became such great losers. Good sports, good losers. I hope we’re good winners.”
He then finished his champagne and turned back to the reporter with the empty bottle: “Do you recycle?”
Bill Murray: "Do you recycle?"
[hands reporter an empty champagne bottle he just chugged]
Four states have a referendum legalizing adult use of cannabis on the ballot this year. Five other states have initiatives for medical marijuana programs. What does legal marijuana mean for you?
As a licensed urologist, I encourage the voting for and passing of these referendums.
My reasoning for this is that I feel there is a place for legal marijuana in the arsenal of wellness and health. We have 25 states and Washington D.C. where it has been legalized in some form or another. The addition of other states will put pressure on the federal government to legalize the use of legal marijuana.
Why is a federal mandate important?
Right now, it is illegal for a medical practitioner to prescribe cannabis by federal law. It falls under the same jurisdiction as the prescription of heroin. By prescribing this, licensed medical doctors can have their DEA license revoked. A DEA license is earned through many years of hard work and few physicians want to lose this license.
Therefore, few practicing physicians try to fit the study of the properties and use of cannabis into their knowledge base. Most gain knowledge from anecdotal stories from their patients.
My experience is that patients who have good effects are happy to discuss the use of medical marijuana with their physician if they trust that the physician will not stigmatize them for use. Those patients who have no effects, an adverse effect or worry about their physician’s thoughts on the matter will probably not discuss this with their physician.
The anecdotal stories can be over-weighted on the positive side or not discussed at all. Most physicians prefer properly studied peer reviewed articles about the merits and potential side effects of drugs before they will prescribe them and risk the health of their patients.
A federal law allowing medical marijuana would have a significant effect on the proper use of cannabis. This would encourage pharmaceutical companies to study the drug and would allow for peer reviewed articles about it’s use. Our knowledge base would significantly increase to allow us to use this on a more scientific rather than anecdotal basis. There would be less of a stigma regarding physicians who prescribe it and patients who use it.
So now it is up to us, the people of the United States to take a stand. Medical marijuana is not going away. Vote yes to increase our knowledge and awareness.
Dr. Green is a board certified Urologist with a passion for minimally invasive prostate cancer treatments who specializes in all aspects of Adult Urology focusing on Prostate Cancer.
Anthony Bourdain, chef and author of the famed memoir, Kitchen Confidential, was recently interviewed by Thrillist about a myriad of topics, from food to craft beer. Bourdain took the time in this interview to describe his hatred of beer culture. As a longtime bartender and lover of beer, here is my rage response:
Dear Anthony Bourdain,
I read today you don’t like craft breweries. That one afternoon in San Francisco, you were “desperate” for a beer and you walked into a bar and couldn’t get the pint you were looking for. (It’s highly unlikely, by the way, that the bar wouldn’t have a cold pilsner or lager, but whatever). You were disgusted by the folks talking about and drinking different shades of craft beers as if they were diners talking over the traits of their appetizers. Let me jog your memory.
I walked into this place…and I noticed there was a wide selection of beers I’d never heard of, which is fine. But I looked around: the entire place was filled with people sitting there with five small glasses in front of them, filled with different beers, taking notes. This is not a bar. This is f—ing Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This is wrong. This is not what a bar is about.
People in bars. Taking notes and inspecting samples of beer. Discerning flavor and composition and complexity of something they’ll soon consume with their bodies.
I’m sorry, did I miss something? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING WITH FOOD. Except in this case, the bar was down the block from whatever hotel you were staying at and not in a restaurant in some developing nation that you could exploit on television.
Over the years, Tony, you’ve become as well known for your criticism of other people as you have for your food. And the brewers and drinkers of craft beer have caught your eye now. Why? Because you would rather stumble into a dank, depressive bar — bars with patrons slung over the last bit of beer holding out hope someone will buy them one more shot. That’s your history, right? Drinking for depravity. That’s always been your thing. Lights low, so no one can see what you’re doing. You don’t want a room full of people articulating what they enjoy about a glass of something under warm lights. Well, not unless it’s something over which you can purport mastery.
And I get it. Craft beer is bougie. There is room to criticize, but not by you, Tony. Not by a scam artist. You appropriate culture and you’ve made gobs of money doing it. You bring cameras and artificial lights to fisherman docks in Vietnam, to noodle houses in Cambodia, to farms in Mexico and then take what these workers have made and put your name on it. You’re a cancer. You give back nothing.
And when you can’t get a cheap glass of cold piss beer to wash down your hip flask, you throw a tantrum. You go on a national platform and tell people craft breweries are turning people into zombies? Homie, you literally look like a zombie.
I’ve been a bartender in a beer bar for over six years and I’ve written about beer for the last two. Beer evokes fantasy and image, history and conversation. It’s one of civilization’s oldest creations and is experiencing a renaissance. And this new plethora is often digested in public. Deal with it.
If you walked into my pub tomorrow, I’d ask you to leave. I’ve always had this feeling you were an untrustworthy hypocrite, from your pithy east coast affect to this latest nonsense. So, Tony, I choose to raise a glass to you out of the goodness of my heart. Wherever you travel to next, I hope you learn a real lesson.
Nine states have marijuana measures on the ballot this November. Here’s a look at the ballots in Nevada, Arkansas and Florida and what the props mean to you.
Nevada: Recreational Marijuana
Nevada voters will see Question 2 on their ballots next week. Nevada has legalized medical marijuana, and decriminalized the substance, but Question 2 would legalize certain amounts of the substance for adults over the age of 21.
Question 2 would legalize the purchase and consumption of one ounce of marijuana or less, or ⅛ of an ounce of “concentrated” marijuana and adults could grow up to six plants, as long as they cultivate them in an “enclosed area with a lock.” The Nevada Department of Taxation would regulate the sale of recreational marijuana, and cultivation facilities would be subject to a 15 percent excise tax.
There’s been a range of polling on Question 2–some polls make it seem likely that voters will resoundingly vote “yes,” others make it look like the vote will be closer. Nevada is a state to keep an eye on the night of November 8. For more information on the state of marijuana legalization in Nevada, click here.
Arkansas: Medical Marijuana
Arkansas voters will weigh Issue 6 on November 8. A similar measure appeared on the ballot in 2012, but it was defeated by a slim margin. Originally, there were two competing measures on the ballot for medical marijuana–there was also one called Issue 7–but it was stricken from the ballot on October 27 due to invalid signatures. While it will still technically appear on the already-printed ballots, votes for it will not count.
Issue 6 would legalize marijuana for 17 qualifying medical conditions. It would also set up a Medical Marijuana Commission to regulate the implementation of medical marijuana in the state. Tax revenue would be used to cover costs of the program, and then designated percentages would go to the General Fund, vocational training programs, the Department of Health, and other specific departments.
Recent polling doesn’t look too great for the supporters of medical marijuana in the state, and it seems unlikely at this point that Issue 6 will pass. For more information on the state of marijuana legalization in Arkansas, click here.
Florida: Medical Marijuana
Floridians will be voting on Amendment 2, which aims to legalize medical marijuana for specific debilitating diseases and other conditions approved by licensed physicians. A similar measure was defeated by voters in 2014, but supporters of Amendment 2 hope that this measure clarifies some deficiencies in the 2014 measure that caused it to be defeated.
Amendment 2 would explicitly legalize medical marijuana for approximately 10 diseases, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and Parkinson’s disease, among others. Doctors would be able to certify other patients who have similarly debilitating conditions to the diseases already specified. Because this is an amendment to Florida’s constitution, it requires a supermajority of 60 percent of voters to pass.
Recent polling shows strong support for Amendment 2, above the 60 percent threshold. For more information on the state of marijuana legalization in Florida, click here.
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