FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Naked Truth About the Naked Arsonist. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have the arsonist who really couldn’t help herself, our first stolen ambulance story for 2024, and the zombie apocalypse comes to California because of course that’s where it starts.”

I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Is our love affair with Huy Fong cooling? Sriracha lovers say the sauce has lost its heat. “The hot take from die-hard Huy Fong fans is actually a not-so-hot take: They say the Sriracha they once relished no longer brings the same heat. And that bellyaching is quickly spreading across the internet as people conduct their own informal taste tests to measure Sriracha zing.”

For what it’s worth, I’m on my second bottle of Huy Fong since it became easily available again, and I haven’t noticed that it’s any less hot. But I never thought it was all that spicy to begin with.

But when Huy Fong was hard to find, I got into Momofuku’s Chili Crunch that really brings the heat.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Case for Marrying an Older Man. Long, and self-obsessed, but revealing — and not wrong — in its neotraditionalism.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Elon Musk reveals plan for next Starship mission.

The SpaceX boss said the next Starship launch, which is expected to take place in early May, will focus on bringing the craft back to Earth safely from orbit for the first time.

On Wednesday, SpaceX completed a second static fire test of its latest Starship rocket at its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

“Getting ready for Flight 4 of Starship,” Mr Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.

“Goal of this mission is for Starship to get through max reentry heating with all systems functioning.”

Godspeed…