RIP Leonard Cohen, Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope Pens Letter to World, HBO's "Beware the Slenderman" trailer

Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen, whose career spanned more than five decades, has died. He was 82. A statement released via his Facebook page on Thursday reads: “It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away. We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries.” Born on September 21, 1934, in Westmount, Quebec, Cohen learned guitar as a teenager before forming a folk group called Buckskin Boys. He later immersed himself in the New York City folk scene when he visited the Big Apple in 1966 and followed that with the 1967 release of Songs of Leonard Cohen. His biggest hit was “Hallelujah,” which was released on 1984’s Various Positions and was later covered by Jeff Buckley. Cohen, whose cause of death has not been released, eerily spoke about his imminent death in an interview with The New York Times last month. “I am ready to die,” he said at the time. “I hope it’s not too uncomfortable. That’s about it for me.” A memorial for Cohen will take place in Los Angeles at a later date.

HBO released the first trailer for their documentary “Beware the Slenderman”

The film is based on the true story of the attempted murder of a 12-year-old girl by two other 12-year-old girls. It happened three years ago. The young girls testified that they were trying to impress the internet creation known as the Slenderman. Read the full story here (WARNING: Disturbing content)

The documentary premieres on HBO January 23, 2017.

In an open letter for Vox, Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope aka Amy Poehler expresses her disdain for president elect Donald Trump.

“I acknowledge that Donald Trump is the president. I understand, intellectually, that he won the election. But I do not accept that our country has descended into the hatred-swirled slop pile that he lives in. I reject out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and crypto-fascism … Today, and tomorrow, and every day until the next election, I reject and fight that story.

Then she says something similar to Hillary Clinton’s message to young girls everywhere:
“On behalf of the grown-ups of America who care about you and your futures, I am awfully sorry about how miserably we screwed this up. We elected a giant farting T. rex who does not like you, or care about you, or think about you, unless he is scanning your bodies with his creepy T. rex eyes, or trying to physically grab you like a toy his daddy got him (or would have, if his daddy had loved him). (Sorry, that was a low blow.) (Actually, not sorry, I’m pissed, and I’m on a roll, so zip it, super-ego!) You are going to run this country, and this world, very soon. So you will not listen to this man, or the 75-year-old, doughy-faced, gray-haired nightmare men like him, when they try to tell you where to stand or how to behave or what you can and cannot do with your own bodies, or what you should or should not think with your own minds … You won’t have time to be cowed, because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you. And when the time comes, you will effortlessly flick away his miserable, petty, misogynistic worldview like a fly on your picnic potato salad.”

Knope ends the letter with: “Find your team, and get to work.”