It’s hard to imagine that a woman who looks like this could have done anything stupid, but she did. She literally froze her ass off.
This is Ravena Hanniely, 24, an “influencer” from Brazil. What she did that was so stupid is what you’re looking at. According to People Magazine, Ravena’s butt froze up in the 14-degree air. And that’s Fahrenheit — it was even colder in Celsius.
Despite planning the shoot “carefully,” she said “the cold was much more intense than I expected. At first, it felt manageable. But then my body started to lock up. I was freezing my buttocks off.” Dumbness set in, sorry, I mean numbness, and “I couldn’t even sit.” She went straight from the shoot to the ER where she was diagnosed with frostbite, or, in this case, frostbutt.
But we learn from our life experiences. As Ravenna shared with her 267,000 followers: “We get so excited about our ideas that we forget the risks. It looked beautiful, yes, but it was also very dangerous. The shot came, but so did the struggle.” Amen, girl.
One thing we can say for sure about the young woman — she was born for Owl Chatter. Keep in touch, Sweetheart.
This piece from tomorrow’s Met Diary is called “Wild and Free” and is by Avi Friedman.
Dear Diary,
We had been married for a year and were living in Kew Gardens Hills when we decided to make a Target run at 9 pm with our 3-month-old. We could still live wild and free, right?
We picked out two bright-green lawn chairs that would fill our porch (really just a tiny slab of cement off our kitchen). We were not sure they would fit in our compact car, but we bought them anyway. Somehow, stuff always fits, we figured.
When we got to the parking lot, our baby ran out of his patience, and we realized the chairs would not fit after all.
A man approached us to help. The woman he was with called out to him.
“Stop chatting,” she said. “It’s after ten o’clock.”
“They have a baby!” he yelled back.
He reached down, took the laces out of both of his sneakers and tied down our trunk.
I tried to pay him for the laces.
“Nah,” he said. “Just drive slow and take Jewel. You’ll make it.”
We did and we did.
The NYT ran a piece on the front page today about the 381 books the Administration removed from the U.S. Naval Academy library. Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is out. So is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” by Janet Jacobs. Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” made the cut (phew) and is still on the shelves, as is “The Bell Curve” which maintains Blacks are genetically inferior to whites, although a critique of it was removed. Is it me, or is that overt racism and anti-Semitism?
There’s a town in Georgia called Rome and their minor league baseball team is the Emperors. They were supposed to host The Winston-Salem Dash last weekend when a plumbing disaster badly damaged the clubhouse. The Emps asked the Dash if the games could be switched to Winston-Salem, with the Emps still batting as the home team. Of course, the Dash were happy to help out. So what if the Dash had already rented their stadium out for a Friday night prom? Students at Davie County Early College High School in nearby Mocksville were slated to dance the night away in the Stadium’s upper-level Flow Club.
F*ck it, said Dash General Manager Brian DeAngelis, we’ll just combine the two — the dance and the ballgame — what can go wrong? In fact, things just kept going right. For starters, the Dash told their fans it was “Prom Night” and encouraged them to come to the game in tuxes and gowns. Dash players were surprised with printouts of their own prom pics before the game; the prom king and queen were crowned on the field during the game; the T-shirt toss featured fans throwing T-shirts from the stands into the Flow Club where the prom was taking place; former prom kings and queens were invited to attend the game free of charge; and prom-themed clips from movies such as Back to the Future and Grease were played on the videoboard.
After the game, Dash players visited the students to sign autographs, pose for pictures and distribute game balls and a team-signed jersey. Here are a few of them with a very pretty prom queen.
Good job all around, gentlemen!
If you are a fan of The Simpsons and completed the NYTXW today, you appreciated the curve thrown your way at 6D. “Onetime first name at Springfield Elementary,” just had to be LISA, no? But it was EDNA — Edna Krabappel, the teacher. She was voiced by Marsha Wallace, but when Marsha died in 2013, the character disappeared. (Thus the “onetime” in the clue.)
15D was interesting (at least to me). The clue was “Improv tenet,” and the answer was YES AND. There are “rules” to how you would work with someone in conducting an improv skit. You should always agree with your partner, and then build. Not “deny.” So if your partner lays something down, you say YES, AND . . .
Here’s Tina Fay:
The ever-gushing Lewis coined a new word today (a neologism) in describing the joy he derived from today’s puzzle:
“Oh, that magical moment when, with the addition of one more cross, suddenly I see what was opaque every time I looked at it before. It’s not just an oh-yeah moment but more of a joyous eruption – a bliss-krieg.”
Happy Passover, to those of you who are so inclined. See you tomorrow!
The Wellington Files 