/breaking-down-ttpds-tracklist.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-down-ttpds-tracklist.htmlDear Reader, There are less than 6 days until The Tortured Poets Department releases. By this time next week we’ll have entered a whole new Era, have heard 20(!) new Taylor Swift songs, and finally gotten more insights into this new album - it’s starting to feel real, isn’t it?! 🥹 Leading up to the release, I’m sending out some TTPD-themed newsletters, to help get us prepped and ready to go for the album./july-quarter-connections.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/july-quarter-connections.htmlMy latest offering, Soulful Cycles: Creating Intention, Ritual, & Ceremony for Life-Changes, is a 3-week exploration for connecting to ALL change as sacred. Wednesdays, July 26 and August 2 & 9, 6–8pm ET, on Zoom. 🌊 Learn more and register here. 🌊 Hi friends I hope this Sunday 🌗 last quarter moon has been good to you. Brooklyn is hazy today and I am finalizing today’s links before I rewatch this (which is also the first one below)./oil-packed-4.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oil-packed-4.htmlPrice: $3.69 Weight: 145g Texture: Soft / Moist Taste: Savory Pair with: Literally anything with flavor I have to say, I’m a really big fan of smoked fish. I could eat it for literally every meal. The last time I was at Trader Joe’s I realized that I had never tried this tin before, so I picked it up (along with others) and looked forward to reviewing it. Surprisingly, this fish had me critically thinking about what makes a tin good or bad./creed-iii-review-boxing-turns-anime.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/creed-iii-review-boxing-turns-anime.htmlCreed III is notably the first entry in the nine-movie franchise not to include Sylvester Stallone’s, Rocky Balboa. Stallone obviously couldn’t get in the ring forever (though 2006’s Rocky Balboa featured Stallone in the ring, the last time Stallone was believable as a boxer is 1985’s Rocky IV). The time is now for director and star Michae… ncG1vNJzZmihpKjBqbHPopqtraKawG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ibopqypXnIoqBmqpWrtqbDjJumsaGenHq1wdGnqmaZnp66pg%3D%3D/tell-me-not-fade-away-and-the-little.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tell-me-not-fade-away-and-the-little.htmlNot Fade Away, a 2012 film directed by David Chase, takes place almost entirely in the suburbs of New Jersey but begins half a world away. Its opening moments depict a fateful 1961 train ride shared by two young Londoners — one a student at Sidcup Art College, the other on his way to London School of Economics — during which they discuss their mutual love of American blues and R&B./taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department.htmlTaylor Swift’s 11th original studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” was released last week into a world feverishly gripped by anticipation for a Taylor Swift album. Some were primed to adore her latest work, which Swifties broadly expected to be a thorough excavation of her relationship with her ex-partner of six years, actor Joe Alwyn; others were primed to mock and flame it. We, two rather casual Swift fans, were drawn in by the sheer intensity of the gathering discourse — not to mention our own anticipation of another album./he-shot-wild-bill-hickok.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/he-shot-wild-bill-hickok.htmlThe recent “surprise” death of Logan Roy in Succession and how it was pseudo-telegraphed through the series had me thinking a lot about another TV demise, one from my favorite series of all time: “Wild Bill” Hickok’s assassination in Deadwood. Roy’s death, while sudden in the microcosm of the episode, seems all but inevitable in the grand scheme of the show. After suffering from a nearly fatal stroke in the first episode, the patriarch of the Roy dynasty was essentially living on borrowed time going forward./john-entwistle-i-wasted-my-whole.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-entwistle-i-wasted-my-whole.html“It’s been a complete fucking waste of my space.” It’s three hours since John Entwistle, initially with The Who’s sound engineer Bobby Pridden alongside him, began talking into my tape recorder, the first “major” interview for what was then, in the spring of 1996, my impending Keith Moon biography. (The book – Dear Boy in the UK, Moon in the US, and with various other translated titles  along the way - recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary./i-will-wait-by-mumford-and-sons.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-will-wait-by-mumford-and-sons.htmlIf you do a quick search on the internet for the meaning behind this song you’ll get many different interpretations, some Christian and others not. Some say the song is about the challenges of a relationship or generic hardships of life. Others are quite convinced this it’s meant to be a spiritual journey and is clearly about the second coming of Christ. Mumford said this when asked if this song (and album) was a statement of their faith:/review-selective-breeding-and-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-selective-breeding-and-the.html“This thesis is an attempt to show that the aristocratic regime, and aristocratic morality, is the origin of the idea of nature; that, at the point at which a historical aristocracy starts to decline, its defenders, in abstracting and radicalizing the case for aristocracy in the face of its critics, come upon the teaching of nature and the standard of nature in politics. It is precisely this teaching of nature, so corrosive of all convention and all morality, that is politically explosive, and that explains the deep connection between philosophy—the criminal study of nature outside the city and outside the myths and pieties of the regime—and tyranny–the criminal and feral regime of rule outside and above all law and all convention./audio-autopsy-1983-they-dont-know.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/audio-autopsy-1983-they-dont-know.htmlPresumably, we wouldn’t have had over three decades of The Simpsons without Matt Groening’s fractured family appearing regularly on the Fox network (US) from April 1987 through May 1990. The jaundice-hued clan (Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa et al) began their hilarious and sometimes controversial life as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show before landing their own half-hour sitcom a week before Christmas in 1989. For them, and creator Groening, the rest is history (and a rather gaudy amount of math)!/c-22160932.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/c-22160932.htmlWe are on a quest to build a better internet for readers. That means beautiful, fast-loading pages; social reading experiences that are additive instead of distracting; and a system that nourishes culture instead of tearing us apart. Time for a new page. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjamtzKKqoWeepMGme8JmaWtpZmWGdH4%3D/107-is-new-york-overrated.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/107-is-new-york-overrated.htmlGood morning! Happy to be back in your inbox so I can stop pondering my inevitable irrelevance/death. It’s good to just keep working so that you never have to do that <3 I hope you liked all the 15 things guests over the last month (I loved them)! I’m back to kick things off with my monthly advice column, Dear Baby. In keeping with the spirit of sneak-peek-July, I’m sending this to everyone, free riders included./242-purrfect-cat-poems.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/242-purrfect-cat-poems.htmlHello! Happy full moon! I’m in a good mood today as I write this because I’m getting a little kitty home this week. AHHH! Everything’s about to change and I’m just soaking in this newfound anticipation of love and wholesomeness :’) Wrote two mini poems down in response to all the feelings I’ve been feeling: so much is changing so fast we have never met but there is love blooming gently/2022-nhl-player-cards-explainer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2022-nhl-player-cards-explainer.htmlToday is an exciting day for me: with the half-season threshold (finally) crossed and the sample sizes large enough to be meaningful, the time has finally come for me to release the 2021-22 Player Cards to Patreon subscribers. As of now, there are 713 player cards - 431 forwards, 209 defencemen, and 73 goaltenders - for this season, although that number grows every week. The “player cards” are the core hockey visualization I’ve offered to subscribers of my Patreon for the past year and a half or so, and they’ve gone through a few changes over that time./ben-sheppard-2023-nba-draft-scouting.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ben-sheppard-2023-nba-draft-scouting.htmlBelmont wing Ben Sheppard is definitely my kind of guy. So many of the boxes that I look for are checked by Sheppard. He’s a long, lanky 6’6” with decent positional size. He’s got a terrific feel for the game from growing up as a point guard; he’s posted a positive assist-to-turnover ratio each of the last three years. He’s also an exceptional shooter with a buttery stroke and insanely impressive metrics./jett-howard-2023-nba-draft-scouting.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jett-howard-2023-nba-draft-scouting.htmlSome people are labeled a ‘guy’s guy’, meaning that other guys are supposed to love them more than anyone else. If that’s the case, then I’m a ‘shooter’s scout’. I love 3-point shooters. The value they bring is immeasurable thanks to the floor spacing it provides for others. Any superstar needs space to operate, guys who can knock down shots when they kick the ball out, and guys who move off screens to create gravity for easy looks elsewhere./nyadiew-puoch-2024-wnba-draft-scout-report.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nyadiew-puoch-2024-wnba-draft-scout-report.htmlThanks for reading the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter. Be sure to check out Megan Gauer’s latest update to the Bracketology section of the Her Hoop Stats website! Haven’t subscribed to the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter yet? Talented players from all across the world have been part of the WNBA since its inception. However, these players often seem undervalued on draft night for a variety of reasons, from legitimate concerns about unavailability, to the difficulties in projecting players drafted two or more years younger than their NCAA peers, to lack of familiarity with overseas leagues./2048-style-basketball-grids-in-ggplot.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2048-style-basketball-grids-in-ggplot.htmlUh, is this thing on? Anyways, welcome back to Buckets & Bytes! Can I say that I’m “reviving” this blog if I’ve only posted once? I’ve been chronicling some of my recent visualizations on GitHub, and I thought that I might as well start this blog back up — but expect shorter posts. There’s just no way that I can sustain 3,000-word tutorials, but I hope that this will still provide some semblance of value!/the-five-rs-of-feedback-a-blueprint.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-five-rs-of-feedback-a-blueprint.htmlIn today’s diverse workplace landscape, feedback is a vital element that helps teams grow. As the late CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, once said, the role of a leader is to be the architect of the greenhouse. Leaders shouldn’t tell each plant how to grow but create an environment in which they can flourish on their own. But here's the rub: Just as gardening requires knowledge and skill, so does giving and receiving feedback./writing-the-internets-soundtrack.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/writing-the-internets-soundtrack.html“Can we do the interview now?” the voice asked me through the phone. “I was thinking we would find a different time for the actual interview, so I could prepare a bit,” I answered. Silence. I looked at the clock and knew I had a half hour free. “You know what? Let’s do it.” I am usually all about hyper-preparation, but when you have someone interesting on the phone — someone whose music is the most recognizable on Earth — you have to throw caution to the wind./a-dark-rum-tea-toddy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-dark-rum-tea-toddy.htmlIn last week’s newsletter, we looked at a simple, delicious Hot Toddy built on rye whiskey and maple syrup, and showed how that no-frills Old Fashioned-esque drink could be extrapolated into a General Theory of the Hot Toddy — an all-purpose structure for making and modifying Hot Toddys in various forms.  That rye-maple Toddy is an incredibly easy cocktail to make — you only need whiskey, maple syrup, bitters, a slice of orange, and hot water./a-deep-dive-into-neil-youngs-archives.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-into-neil-youngs-archives.htmlOf course I remember the first time I read the greatest rock biography ever written. The year was 2009. I was still in the Army and had just recently transferred from Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX to Fort Lewis just south of Tacoma, WA. I hadn’t even been there two weeks however, when I was told to re-pack my rucksack and immediately catch a flight south to the National Training Center smack dab in the Mojave Desert for a month-long, pre-deployment exercise with my new unit./love-is-blind-6-finale-a-family-affair.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-blind-6-finale-a-family-affair.htmlSPOILER ALERT: This post contains some spoilers for the finale of season 6 of “Love Is Blind.” The Charlotte-based “Love Is Blind” season that started out so promisingly is looking pretty diminished by the finale — at least when you’re counting couples. Season 6 ended up being as short on weddings as season 5, and similarly gave us more mess than romance. But the finale was no less rich of an episode because of the smaller number of weddings, opening with a scorched-earth fight between Chelsea and Jimmy and reaching a crescendo with a wedding that was more about the riveting intergenerational drama of Clay’s family than it was about the couple./a-girl-lost-in-russia-varvara-rasputina.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-girl-lost-in-russia-varvara-rasputina.htmlDuring the early years of Atlantis Magazine, I visited Patte Barham several times at her house, the Gillette Mansion, in Los Angeles. Greg had known her for a long time through his work on his Felix book, and he connected Patte and me as I was interested in the Hawaiian Royal Family and the Gillette Mansion was said to be built in replica of the Iolani Palace. It also had an Orthodox Chapel./a-neverworns-episode-with-mellany.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-neverworns-episode-with-mellany.htmlToday on #NEVERWORNS, I’m sharing the episode with Mellany Sanchez. I’m in awe of this woman, so much that I let this episode run longer than usual. Watch the Mellany’s episode at the end and learn a bit more about her below. As always, subscribe, watch the NEVERWORNS channel, and stay tuned for guests’s drops on neverworns.net. I first met Mellany Sanchez in 2016 when baby-me did a Vogue story about her shopping at her favorite downtown jeweler, Jane of New Top on 185 Centre Street./piano-by-pictures-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/piano-by-pictures-review.htmlPiano by Pictures by Gospel on the Go caught my eye with its promise of fast and easy learning using visual images instead of sheet music. I decided to test it out. Here's my detailed review as an experienced pianist and music educator. Piano by Pictures is an online piano learning course created by "Dr. Kelly" (Ryan Kelly). It aims to teach piano through pictogram notation rather than standard musical staff notation./a-q-and-a-with-rising-producer-alex.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-q-and-a-with-rising-producer-alex.htmlWednesday’s Rat Saw God. Indigo De Souza’s back-to-back classics. MJ Lenderman’s Boat Songs. Snail Mail’s Valentine. Plains’ self-titled debut. There’s a link between these six stellar albums, all with their distinct take on new-school indie twang: Alex Farrar, co-founder of the cozy-looking Asheville studio Drop of Sun. Farrar has played a role of some kind — either producing, mixing, engineering, or some combination — across all of them. When I noticed this common thread, I had to reach out to Farrar and ask him directly about thisimpressive catalog./a-talk-with-judy-kuhn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-talk-with-judy-kuhn.htmlWe were psyched to talk to one of our favorite artists, Judy Kuhn, about her performance in the Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein musical “Unknown Soldier” at Arena Stage, and about some of her earlier turns — you probably remember her as the mother in “Fun Home,” Fosca in the 2013 revival of “Passion,” Cosette then Fantine in different productions of “Les Misérables,” Florence in “Chess.” The list is long and impressive./about.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/about.html“Luke O’Neil’s Welcome To Hell World is a vital and despairing collection of essays on modern American life.” -Longreads “Reading his popular, semi-weekly newsletter Hell World is a lot like staring deep into O’Neil’s soul, and it’s often a pretty dark place. Hell World is unusual, to say the least. It’s a mix of reporting, essay-writing, memoir, song lyrics, music videos, tweets, and whatever else appeals to him in a given week, all of it written in a stream-of-consciousness style that eschews commas, leans into run-on sentences, and is often thousands of words long./all-dragporn-queen-chi-chi-larue.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-dragporn-queen-chi-chi-larue.htmlHappy October, Caftan readers! It’s the witchy month! Growing up near Salem, MA, I loved all things witchy and vampire-y and occult as a kid—I kid you not, I would scan the TV listings for showings of the (mediocre) 1936 movie Dracula’s Daughter with Gloria Holden because I became obsessed once I saw this image in one of the books about old Hollywood my mother would buy me…. I mean, how fierce is that, right?/all-day-sucker.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-day-sucker.htmlThis essay is written by a known author, under the pseudonym C.L. Kemp.I’m four or five the first time I recall being taken along on one of my father’s junk food binges. My mother asks him to take care of some shopping and other errands, and to bring me along while she stays home to tend to my baby sister. The particular errands escape me, but to this day I remain haunted by the calorie-laden detours in between./an-easy-crunchy-spicy-cucumber-kimchi.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-easy-crunchy-spicy-cucumber-kimchi.htmlI recently started re-reading a cookbook I own called The Korean Kimchi Cookbook: 78 Fiery Recipes for Korea’s Legendary Pickled and Fermented Vegetables. It’s a decidedly “uncool”-looking cookbook by today’s standards: a paperback (gasp) cookbook with horizontal (bigger gasp) orientation. But it’s well-written, educational, beautifully photographed, and offers all kinds of kimchis according to the seasons. Nowadays we’re used to accessing only a few major types of kimchi (Napa cabbage and radish among the most popular) 365 days a year—even my corner bodega stocks a couple of different brands./an-intoxication-of-bluebells.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-intoxication-of-bluebells.htmlThe bluebell is the sweetest flower that waves in summer air; its blossoms have the mightiest power to soothe my spirit's care... (Emily Bronte) Writing this I have realised that the fragile beauty of bluebells shines a bright light on my perverse nature. Always drawn to the underdog, I insist on preferring carrion crows to 'show-offy' ravens and have often ignored bluebells altogether. Voted our favourite national flower in 2002, and placed at the top of numerous subsequent polls, they are just too popular and too pretty and I wilfully refused to be swept away by the beauty of their shimmering cobalt sea./an-nba-legend-an-nfl-lineman-a-priest.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-nba-legend-an-nfl-lineman-a-priest.htmlAs a kid born and raised in Washington State, I grew up watching John Stockton—the local kid from Spokane who had come out of Gonzaga—dazzle with his performances in the NBA finals as arguably the best point guard ever to play basketball. Also, as a Packer’s football fan, I was happy when former Green Bay MVP offensive tackle Ken Ruettgers recently reached out for an interview on the podcast he co-hosts with Stockton./an-old-fashioned-with-scotch-more.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-old-fashioned-with-scotch-more.htmlOld Fashioned Week is coming to an end.  Before it’s over, however, I want to celebrate with one of my favorite, lesser-known Old Fashioned variations — a pleasingly complex, easy-drinking riff that involves multiple bottles of scotch, a tiny bit of dark rum, and honey syrup. It’s sweet, smoky, and vaguely nautical without quite coming off as pirate-y, which is fitting, since it was the drink of choice for one Charles Horatio "/relationship-red-flags-an-ongoing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/relationship-red-flags-an-ongoing.htmlIn a patriarchal society, we spend far more time playing marriage games and talking about princesses and generally socializing girls to be compliant and unquestioning than we do teaching them about how to have good relationships. No wonder so many of us end up in bad relationships. In many cases, the very behaviors we’ve been told to seek out are actually significant red flags. It’s not on women to end misogyny or abuse./andrew-insecure-black-women-asian-men.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andrew-insecure-black-women-asian-men.htmlWhen Alexander Hodge showed up in the Coachella scene of HBO’s “Insecure,” eyebrows raised. The actress and creator of HBO’s “Insecure” had already been canceled for a chapter in her 2015 book “The Misadventures of Awkward Girl.” Speaking about the dating obstacles that African-American women and Asian men deal with (specifically considering African-American men and Asian women are more likely to be open to interracial dating), the actress said, “This is why I propose that black women and Asian men join forces in love, marriage and procreation./prost-profiles-andrew-witcheydancing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prost-profiles-andrew-witcheydancing.htmlI really like Dancing Gnome brewery. The Pittsburgh-area brewery makes a lot of different beers and does it exceedingly well. I also feel like Dancing Gnome directly mirrors my evolution as a beer nerd. I went from being hazy-obsessed, giddily chasing down weekly New England-style IPA releases. And now, I’m at a spot where I appreciate nuance, drinkability, and tradition more than I ever did. (Do I still love hazy IPAs?/annette-bening-deserves-better-tyler.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/annette-bening-deserves-better-tyler.htmlMore from Hung Up this month: Challengerspromo budget going crazy, things you might not need but maybe want, and a Club Chalamet update and an update to the Club Chalamet update.Mea Culpa New release Well. Tyler Perry’s Netflix movie is about a lawyer named Mea clearing the name of an artist (Trevante Rhodes) with a missing girlfriend. I was mumbling and cackling. It makes no sense in bold and radical ways: sex on a bedsheet covered in paint?/announcing-my-tell-all-memoir-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/announcing-my-tell-all-memoir-of.htmlIt was the best of jobs, it was the worst of jobs… OK, mostly it was a blast. After all, only an ingrate could really complain about being a food critic. And yet, reviewing local restaurants for The Des Moines Register did come with some challenges. In my memoir, Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All, I reveal both the pleasures and pitfalls of serving as the Datebook Diner (the Register’s restaurant reviewer) for 15 years./anthony-fantano-the-last-emperor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anthony-fantano-the-last-emperor.htmlDear reader, how are you? Over the last 15 months, I’ve been thrust into the music commentary space, a timeline I far from expected for myself. Thrust being the operative word here, because you can really get f*cked by putting a word out of place and unintentionally upsetting a whole fanbase or community. I am, for all intents and purposes, an inoffensive music content creator that steers clear of on-the-nose criticism./are-the-new-jersey-devils-worse-than.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-the-new-jersey-devils-worse-than.htmlBe sure to join the Discord channel to talk hockey with our writers and subscribers. Get 30% off for 1 year The New Jersey Devils opened the season as one of the most likely teams to win the Stanley Cup. Sportsbooks unanimously had them in the top-10, and some had them as high as 3rd. Public analytics models generally had the Devils as a 100-point team, but went as high as making them President’s Trophy favorites./as-predicted-chatgpt-shows-up-on.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/as-predicted-chatgpt-shows-up-on.htmlSouth Park has taken on ChatGPT and added a little social commentary about the rise of generative AI and the growing influence of large tech companies. The show has some laughs and cringe-worthy content, as usual. However, I always take note when new technologies show up in cultural leaders such as South Park and Saturday Night Live in the U.S. This is significant for multiple reasons. First, the technology is clearly impactful enough that South Park co-creator Trey Parker created a full episode revolving around ChatGPT./our-next-show-as-the-crow-flies-kus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-next-show-as-the-crow-flies-kus.htmlAttention Turkish TV Obsessed fans - the next show we’re recapping is As the Crow Flies (Kuş Uçuşu), now available on Netflix in the US. Each episode is an adrenaline-fueled hour, and with short seasons, you can binge to your heart's content, either in subtitles or dub! What's it about? A young fan named Asli Tuna infiltrates the life of seasoned news anchor Lale Kiran. But as Asli’s admiration turns into an obsession, we get an inside look at the dark, competitive side of the news industry, where every step forward can mean stabbing a back… or two./review-at-maizal-mexican-kitchen.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-at-maizal-mexican-kitchen.htmlAfter decades of traveling from Oaxaca to work in the farms of Niagara County, the Rosario family decided to put down roots in Medina. The region’s eaters have since benefited from their decision, and their knack for business. Six Rosario brothers and a sister have expanded the reach of their culture and c… ncG1vNJzZmien6q%2Fo7XTnqpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvsSvoJ6vXZbBbrnAorGapF2isrm1wpqlZqOZqbCpsc0%3D/barbara-fields-on-what-it-takes-to.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbara-fields-on-what-it-takes-to.htmlThe essay below titled, “So You Want To Be a Historian,” is authored by historian Barbara Fields and appeared in The Washington Post in 1991. I only learned about it yesterday as a result of seeing it on my social media feeds. So much of this resonates with me as a historian, but also as a history educator, and as a student of history. I don’t typically share other people’s writing in its entirety on my own site, but I am going to make an exception here./bryantpark.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bryantpark.htmlHello everyone, Welcome to Issue #62 of CAFÉ ANNE! I’m very excited about this week’s issue. I’ve included a new poll so I can get to know you all better, and our Product of the Month is Strawberry Planks! We’ve also got the second installment of my hard-hitting investigation into the newly renovated NYC subway station bathrooms. This one features the restrooms at the Bryant Park-42nd Street stop, which have some very tough competition from the public restrooms in the nearby park./literature.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/literature.htmlEleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of ManuscriptsEleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts Originally published Dec. 2022 Because I find it so generous when other writers and editors do this, I am sharing some thoughts on how we (yes, this applies to me, as well) can make our writing more appealing to editors and agents—and, just as importantly, how we can make our writing simply better, stronger, and more effective in general./better-animated-feature-2003.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/better-animated-feature-2003.htmlThis post may be too long for email. We recommend clicking through to the website for the best experience. Nik: 2003 marked the start of Pixar domination in the Best Animated Feature category. While the studio has had some incredibly well received films that ended up winning, some critics attribute their accolades at least in part to name recognition. As the studio’s first winner, Finding Nemo may have preceded that bias, but was it deserving of the award this year?/beware-the-white-river-monster.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beware-the-white-river-monster.htmlWelcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Saturday-morning Southern culture offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. If you’re just arriving for the first time, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Picture this in your mind: a creature with "the skin of an elephant, four or five feet wide by twelve feet long, with the face of a catfish,” “the size of a boxcar,” with skin peeling all over, a bone protruding from its forehead, and a call that sounds somewhere between “a cow's moo and a horse's neigh./big-corporations-are-playing-monopoly.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-corporations-are-playing-monopoly.htmlThe American dream promises that if you work hard enough, you can build enough financial security to enjoy some of the finer things in life: a decent car, an occasional vacation, and of course, a nice home for your family. But that latter aspiration is no longer within reach for many people — and as with most problems currently plaguing America, big corporations may be to blame. Masked as investment groups, these multi-million dollar businesses have been gobbling up single-family rentals in droves over the last decade./big-deals-on-my-books.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-deals-on-my-books.htmlSet Boundaries, Find Peace, was published three years ago and has sold 531,000 copies. This book made me an author, and I am thrilled to see that it is still successful. Drama Free became a New York Times Bestseller when it was released in February. The book tour was phenomenal, covering eight cities. I have noticed some amazing deals on my books. This is a perfect opportunity to purchase a copy for yourself, a friend, a co-worker, a partner, or even your in-laws./biglari-holdings-bh-in-defense-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/biglari-holdings-bh-in-defense-of.html*Disclosure: I have owned shares of BH since 2021 and it is one of my largest positions Biglari Holdings (BH) is a compounding machine run by a skilled capital allocator who treats shareholders fairly. Many readers familiar with BH might think this first sentence is a joke, but that is exactly why this opportunity exists. While the market has held a negative opinion on BH for a long time, I look at this situation differently./boat-review-sage-cat-sage-15.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boat-review-sage-cat-sage-15.htmlIn our review of the Sage 17 back in issue # 75, we talked about how few production sailboat companies remain. At boat shows in the 1970s and early 80s, the golden era for little plastic boats, you’d see multiple small-boat builders—many with competing models in a variety of classes. But various factors such as rising oil prices, government regulation, the boom-and-bust nature of the economy, and to some extent the extraordinary durability of fiberglass boats themselves, has made the manufacture of small sailboats less lucrative than it once was./boeings-door-disaster-in-perspective.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boeings-door-disaster-in-perspective.htmlEarlier this month, as you have likely heard, a door blew off of a Boeing 737 Max 9 in midair. Fortunately, while one teenager’s shirt was sucked off, nobody suffered serious injuries. Airlines have been inspecting the doors on their 737 Max 9 aircraft, and they’re reportedly finding issues with bolts that keep the doors in place. Late one night last week, I had some time to ponder this while sitting on a Boeing plane that was having a technical malfunction on the ground./bonus-content-martin-mertens.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bonus-content-martin-mertens.htmli’m back in the middle of a horrid grinding obsession with adventure time. i know, i know, when am i not, but like, for real, it’s intense and A Lot and i feel bad about continually messaging unsuspecting friends about it so instead i’m sending it in an email to dozens of people.  anyway so the harm i am inflicting on you today, dear reader, is an overly involved post about martin mertens, noted deadbeat dad/head trauma-sufferer./book-review-elisabeth-elliot.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-review-elisabeth-elliot.htmlElisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S. R. Austen (Crossway, 2023). When I was growing up, the name Elisabeth Elliot meant one thing to me: Passion and Purity, her 1984 book that helped shape the views of an evangelical generation on love, sex, and marriage. It was a very long time before I could hear her name without mentally wincing. Elliot’s life and career, in fact, were a strange mixture of striving to live authentically for God, and advocating standards that she herself had found impossible to live up to./lord-of-the-mysteries.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lord-of-the-mysteries.htmlIt's time to review a two million word story that's been capturing my free time lately: Lord of the Mysteries and answer the question in our minds: was it worth it, or is it just Stockholm Syndrome? This review was originally available at https://recordcrash.com/blog, dated July 31st, 2020. Lord of the Mysteries (诡秘之主) is a Chinese western fantasy webnovel written by the Chinese author Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼) With the rising tide of steam power and machinery, who can come close to being a Beyonder?/breaking-down-databricks-500-million.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-down-databricks-500-million.htmlHey Everyone, I’m sort of always watching news about Snowflake and Databricks, since they will obviously evolve into important companies and especially for data workers and tech engineers of various kinds. Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion. Series I, when are you going public already guys! Snowflake has a $53 Billion valuation on the public market./breaking-news-tomato-is-a-fruit.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-news-tomato-is-a-fruit.htmlI’m not suggesting that you put chopped tomato in your fruit salad, but I am suggesting you put fruit with fruit. Tomato is a fruit, and plums, peaches and berries are all fruits, and they go together magnificently. In fact, I hereby declare a trend that’s going to last all summer: The Tomato (Is A) Fruit Salad. I’m thinking here of the salad of heirloom tomatoes with shiso leaves, raspberries, blackberries and a tart, tangy mustard and lemon dressing I had at the new Busby’s wine and record bar in Sydney from chef Clayton Wells; and the coral trout with a salad of tomato, yellow peach and shiso at The Society in Melbourne./brocanting-in-paris.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brocanting-in-paris.htmlOne of the topics I receive the most queries about is ‘brocanting’ in Paris. Brocante is an all encompassing word for flea market, junk store, jumble sale or antiques dealer, and Paris has them all. Below is a roundup on what they are, where to find them, my top tips and how to get it all home. First things first, you need to know the lingo: Vide-grenier literally translates to ‘empty the attic’ and refers to a temporary open-air sale, a mix of total junk with some hidden gems./call-down-the-hawk-a-spoilery-recap.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/call-down-the-hawk-a-spoilery-recap.htmlOn October 18, the final installment of the Dreamer Trilogy, Greywaren, comes out (yay! whoo! etc!). It’s been a hot second since the first two books have come out and not everyone has time to reread 800 pages before October, so I’ll be posting recaps here. If you’d like to read recaps of the books in The Raven Cycle as well, you can find them on Recaptains. Without further ado, Call Down the Hawk./can-a-floating-neutral-generator.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-a-floating-neutral-generator.htmlI have a random question for you reference floating neutral generators. I recently purchased a champion inverter generator for the purpose of off grid camping with an rv and powering some devices(tools and such) with it. Now I'm reading that I really shouldn't use this kind of generator(floating neutral) for my applications. I haven't used it yet but prefer not to get killed. Will the bonded neutral plugs like the one you invented not only just turn my generator into a bonded neutral generator, but also help keep me from getting shocked?/bernsteins-bagels-portland-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bernsteins-bagels-portland-review.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. In trying to figure out which Portland bagels I needed to try as part of the review process, I turned to the people one must turn to in times of great difficulty and concern: Rabbis./can-we-talk-about-submittable.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-we-talk-about-submittable.htmlWelcome to our weekend conversation! I’d like to talk about Submittable. What’s the dealie, friends? In my most recent interview with Whitney Koo, Editor of Gasher, I joked that editors sometimes describe Submittable as the lit mag mafia. (I want to give props here to Whitney, who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that submissions to her magazine always remain free.) The truth is, I actually don’t know very much about the mechanics of Submittable./charlie-days-disappointing-directorial.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charlie-days-disappointing-directorial.htmlFor reasons I don’t entirely remember, I used to sometimes listen to audio commentaries for reasons other than writing them up for The A.V. Club column Commentary Tracks of the Damned.  I listened to George Clooney’s audio commentary for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, for example, but had to shut it off after about an hour for two reasons. For starters, it was boring. George Clooney may be a smart and accomplished filmmaker but all he talked about on the commentary was where he “borrowed” each individual shot and which specific movie he was ripping off./cheesy-chipotle-shrimp-tacos.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cheesy-chipotle-shrimp-tacos.htmlWe took the boys to Mexico for fall break a couple of weeks ago and had a freaking blast, mostly thanks to three things: 1) the free kids club, 2) margaritas, and 3) making no plans and setting absolutely zero expectations for how our days would go with three boys under the age of 5. We’re pretty adventurous travelers, but at this point in our lives, our kids are, uh, not excelling at adventurous travel, to put it lightly./cleveland-guardians-2024-prospect-c53.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cleveland-guardians-2024-prospect-c53.htmlG/GS: 23/14 IP: 78 ERA/FIP: 5.19/4.48 K/BB: 70/25 K%/BB%: 21.5%/7.7% WHIP: 1.23 Fastball: 50 Slider: 55 Changeup: 45 Command: 50 Overall: 40 Risk: High ETA: 2025 Big, sturdy framed pitcher. A bit high waisted with lankier limbs. Some room left in frame to add muscle but mostly filled out projection wise. Utilizes a drop and drive delivery coming off a waist-high leg kick. He has a longer arm motion and uses a 3/4 arm slot./cliff-mass-will-die-on-that-hill.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cliff-mass-will-die-on-that-hill.htmlOn Tuesday, right after the heat blast broke, I flew to Boston, straight into another heat blast. (Because why go on vacation when I can work at my volunteer job?) I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to interview Cliff Mass, Seattle’s beloved weatherman gone to the dogs, to hear his take. Mass has the rather mundane title of professor of atmospheric sciences at UW and literally wrote the book on Pacific Northwest weather./the-voices-chance-the-rapper-has.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-voices-chance-the-rapper-has.htmlEarly on in The Voice Season 25, I'd declared Chance the Rapper the coach to beat. I literally wrote that no one stood a chance against Chance. Whoops. That article didn't age well — because after Tuesday's live results show, when the top nine were suddenly and brutally cut down to the top five, Team Chance's last two contestants, Serenity Arce and Maddi Jane, were eliminated. This means that Chance will be the only coach sitting out next week, with no singers representing him in the finals./review-cold-as-hell-by-rhett-c-bruno.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-cold-as-hell-by-rhett-c-bruno.htmlThe first full novel that follows up on 2021’s DEAD ACRE brings us back to the undead outlaw James Crowley, working for heaven to wrangle baddies in the Wild West. And it delivers very well on the pitch from its predecessor. Note: this review is based off the audiobook, narrated by Roger Clark, who has a perfect cowboy drawl and really brought the story to life. Buy from Amazon As we learned in the prequel novella, James Crowley used to run with a group of bandits and baddies led by the heinous Ace Riker./3-end-of-year-journal-prompts.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3-end-of-year-journal-prompts.htmlThanks Mari. I am always enjoying your writing. I think of you often especially with so many, many unexpected hospital chaplains. It is amazing the unexpected joy, found in hugging doctors and meeting NFL players and seeing my baby eventually get through another terrible episode with his heart. All in all , what a year. We just got home yesterday again, third visit in seven months, third time to try my hand at patience, mercy, and hope in the midst of heart ache./colorado-poet-laureate.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/colorado-poet-laureate.htmlI learned first from a news article that Colorado is lucky enough to have you as its poet laureate and it made me feel so light and happy. Thank you for all you've done to get here and in advance for all you will do. Thanks too for your poem. After a week in ICU for pneumonia, followed by 14 days in the hospital, and 20 days in rehab, my 89-year-old Dad and 87-year-old Mom are on the way home, driving their motor home four hours each day and refusing help from everyone./did-jesus-drink-wine.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-jesus-drink-wine.htmlVery good article! Sadly, there is a lot of bullshit said and done in the name of religion. (One very positive point about the northern German lutheran church I grew up in is that there is relatively little bullshit.) The story in the last paragraph is nice and really heartwarming, and indeed a great miracle. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmiglaO%2FurbEn52rnamoe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZp2hlGK3pr%2FUrGSdqpmjuG7DyKecaJuforqmutOs/on-freedom-25.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-freedom-25.htmlThank you for this up-coming publication as an opportunity to better approach understanding of what any person means when using the word 'freedom', when any person chooses to defend 'human freedom', living in a condition of 'freedom'. In this context of the active living and active support for living in a condition of 'freedom', we can witness the Ukrainians in their many choices and actions to secure 'freedom' by the active pursuit of self-defense against the Russian military aggression and Russian occupations which Putin and his regime direct against the Ukraine and its people./confessions-of-a-charlotte-matchmaker.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/confessions-of-a-charlotte-matchmaker.htmlThe Charlotte Ledger is an e-newsletter that offers free and paid subscription plans. Sign up today: Today’s Charlotte Ledger is sponsored by Sinclair Public Affairs: THE DATING GAME: Singles looking to forge connections in real life came to this Blind Date Night event at Suffolk Punch last August. (Photo courtesy of Alexis Kaiser) By Alexis Kaiser Covid has been a lonely and isolating time for many singles, but not everyone has sworn off love./confucius-didnt-say-that.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/confucius-didnt-say-that.htmlThe humanities offers us a treasure trove of wisdom and insight. Ironically, that wisdom is sometimes obscured or falsely represented by pithy “mic-drop” quotation memes carelessly circulated in social media exchanges and the wider popular culture. Like Mark Twain and Albert Einstein, Confucius is one of the more frequent victims of erroneous quote attributions. Here is a prominent example of a meme featuring the quote, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,” currently being shared online./conners-emersons-steam-pipe-broke.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/conners-emersons-steam-pipe-broke.htmlBAR HARBOR—Space heaters. Layers. Closing the doors and keeping them closed. These are all the ways that the Conners school students and staff dealt with yet another break in its heating system for the past two weeks. The problem occurred approximately two weeks ago and the boiler for the Conners building had to be shut down and we had no heat, Principal Dr. Heather Weir Webster explained to the school board Monday afternoon./cooking-with-cassareep.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cooking-with-cassareep.htmlIf you follow my work, you have probably seen me writing often about something called tucupi. It’s the boiled juice extracted from grated, bitter yuca (not yucca) in the making of casabe (yuca bread), which can be further reduced to make tucupi negro, also called tucupi preto, casaramá, andualako and dozens of o… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8KopqShnpx6uLXToWScmaOorrOxxKk%3D/cover-story-kendrick-lamar.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cover-story-kendrick-lamar.htmlWhen I started this newsletter, we wrote an article asking where Kendrick Lamarhad been. Well, 1855 days since his highly critically acclaimed album DAMN Kendrick Lamar returned with the double-disc album Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers. The project is one of his best yet. It also stood up to the hype that surround the project being released. Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers is such a great album because when you listen to it, it’s hard to say whether it sounds like a therapy session or theatre or dramatic play./notebook-crawford-154-title-shot.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-crawford-154-title-shot.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./daguerreotype-a-turning-point-and.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daguerreotype-a-turning-point-and.htmlLouis Daguerre, a French inventor born in 1787 in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d’Oise, France, is widely acknowledged today as the father of modern photography. Building on the work of Nicéphore Niépce, with whom he established a brief partnership in 1829, he created a new form of visual communication, the first commercially viable photographic process: the daguerreotype. After Niépce’s death in 1833, Daguerre, who had a background in theater design, architecture, and panoramic painting, continued to experiment until he eventually found a way to improve the technique, reducing the exposure time from several hours (sometimes days) to only 20 or 30 minutes./daily-bite-of-c-stdclamp.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daily-bite-of-c-stdclamp.htmlThe std::clamp is a simple C++17 algorithm that clamps a given value between the minimum and maximum thresholds. If the value is outside the thresholds, the violated threshold is returned instead. Leave a comment Thanks for reading Daily bit(e) of C++! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. ncG1vNJzZmirmaK8r8DOrZ9nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wsMCio7Jlkp7BpnnOn2ScZaOpsaS4wKan/deacon-brodies-tavern-this-took-me.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deacon-brodies-tavern-this-took-me.htmlI was in the Surgeon’s Hall museum on Saturday (worth the entrance price if you’re not squeamish about body parts in jars) when some friends, visiting Edinburgh for a wedding, messaged me asking for pub recommendations in the centre of town. They’d already ticked off my suggestions. So by the time I got out of the museum and checked my phone, they’d taken matters into their own hands. I found them settled in at Deacon Brodies Tavern./dear-younger-fundamentalist-trad.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-younger-fundamentalist-trad.htmlI was scrubbing a kitchen sink to make it shine. You taught us this, remember? The Flylady? She was a judge or something with a fly-fishing hobby. She devised a housecleaning system and sent out lessons in an email group. Egroups, I think it was called, before she had the website. You were one of her first one hundred followers. It would’ve been around 2000 or so, just after the colossal deflation of Y2k pressure./boy-scouts-abuse-cases.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boy-scouts-abuse-cases.htmlThere are many reasons a child does not 'tell on' their abusers. The following contains an account of sexual abuse of a child. Although not told in detail, please be forewarned if you are sensitive to stories of abuse... I was sexually abused by two much older boys shortly after I turned six. They knew what they were doing was wrong. After luring me into the woods with candy and sexualizing me (affecting me terribly for the rest of my life), they threatened me./detailed-description-of-hamas-massacre.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/detailed-description-of-hamas-massacre.htmlWARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT My name’s Lee Kern. I’m 45 years old. I’m a writer from London. Having seen footage of some of the crimes commited by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7th, 2023, I flew to Israel and requested permission to join a press screening that included footage families have asked not to be released to the general public. This is not what I want to do with my life./disney-plus-premieres-kugali-media-iwaju.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disney-plus-premieres-kugali-media-iwaju.htmlOn February 28, 2024, Disney Plus, the streaming division of Disney Entertainment, premiered Iwájú, an original animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria—which it first announced during its Investors Day in 2020. Iwájú, a production of Walt Disney Animation Studios in collaboration with Kugali, a pan-African entertainment company, follows the exciting coming-of-age story of Tola, a young girl from the wealthy island, and her best friend, Kole, a self-taught tech expert, as they discover the secrets and dangers hidden in their different worlds./do-you-need-a-lightstick-to-enjoy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-need-a-lightstick-to-enjoy.htmlMy friends and I recently had a conversation about whether we would feel like we’re missing out if we didn’t have a lightstick at a K-pop concert. For bands like BTS and Seventeen (whom I love!!), I said “Yes, it depends!” Lightsticks are a way of showing solidarity with the rest of the fandom. While the band cannot see our individual faces, seeing them light up is a way of showing we care./the-partys-over-doc-selling-nordhavn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-partys-over-doc-selling-nordhavn.htmlA delivery crew has taken over the Jess Conn, and her AIS indicated she was off Delaware Bay Wednesday afternoon and heading south. Her disgraced owner, retired doctor Scott Burke, has deci… ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55loJa%2FtcXSZqavnaJisbCvjKycpaSZo7Ruus6rm6GZpqOMtsDMmKSenJmqun6%2BxJqbnqpi/drawing-a-wine-bottle-and-a-wine.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drawing-a-wine-bottle-and-a-wine.htmlObjects can be seen from infinitely many angles. This also means we can draw them from infinitely many angles. Because we tend to see industrial glass objects in a primarily vertical position, does this mean we should only draw them in vertical poses? If we wish to understand an object’s structure, we can not just keep drawing it from one angle. Different atmospheres and prettier angles are possible with drawing from different perspectives./friday-forward-personal-professional-ghosting.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friday-forward-personal-professional-ghosting.htmlI have seen many LinkedIn posts recently from frustrated job seekers who have applied for a job, or even interviewed, only to get ghosted by employers. This indicates a larger trend—a recent CNBC article shared that 40 percent of candidates have been ghosted by a potential employer after a second- or third-round interview.   Ghosting—abruptly ceasing all communication with someone, without explanation or closure—reflects a deep disregard for how our actions affect others./elizabeth-garrett-anderson.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elizabeth-garrett-anderson.htmlElizabeth Garrett Anderson grew up in a time when people would commonly say, "To learn arithmetic will not help my daughter to find a husband." She would challenge this norm and, in doing so, achieve many firsts, including becoming the first woman doctor in Britain, the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board, and the first female mayor in Britain, amongst many other accomplishments./envy-desire.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/envy-desire.html“Are you ready for the most subversive piece of cinema of the past 4,000 years?” the dude introducing Aimee Armstrong’s short film Envy/Desire asks the Sovereign House audience, “Are you ready for your brains to get fucked out of your skull?” I put the house copy of Julius Evola’s The Hermetic Tradition that I had been browsing back in the bookshelf next to where I’m sitting. The crowd, mostly young hipsters, cheers./evermore-is-a-sad-christmas-album.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/evermore-is-a-sad-christmas-album.htmlI was listening to a recent episode of Every Single Album where the podcast hosts were discussing 1989 (Taylor’s Version). It was a “mailbag” episode and Nathan and Nora were taking listener questions. Somewhere in the discussion, Nathan mentioned that he considers evermore to be a Christmas album. This caught my attention and my intuition agreed, but I thought it’d be worth investigating further. As research for this issue of so long daisy mae, I also listened to the evermoreepisode of Every Single Album where Nathan and Nora break down their favourite songs on evermore./casa-malaparte-inside-capris-architectural.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/casa-malaparte-inside-capris-architectural.htmlWelcome to another December letter. In recent news, it snowed here in London on Sunday. My neighbourhood did in many ways remind me of the Bruegel scenes I discussed last week - although with (sadly) less rudimental ice hockey as the Thames did not have the courtesy to freeze over. Since last week leaned into the winter weather, I thought this week could instead celebrate some Mediterranean escapism. And since I haven’t yet dedicated a letter to an exclusively architectural topic I thought it about time to spend a few hundred words waxing poetic about some obscure building that few of you have likely heard of/care about But that is the joy of Artifex!/female-sex-tourism-white-middle-aged.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/female-sex-tourism-white-middle-aged.htmlI wrote this piece in 2003. Thought I would give it another airing, see what you think. I got tired of the issue being treated as a cheap laugh, or as though it was the same as men paying for sex with women. It isn’t. But, nevertheless, it is deeply exploitative, harmful, and troubling. ncG1vNJzZmiipaG2pq7Ip5uepF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6fnKaZnJp6tLHXZquoraKewK551qGgrZ1doralsMueZJqflZl8pLvMppynrKM%3D/ko-lipe-finding-quiet-spots-on-one.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ko-lipe-finding-quiet-spots-on-one.htmlKo Lipe changed radically over the past 15 years, perhaps more than any other Thai island. In 2006, this four-square-km island had a total of 23 lodgings overlooking the marvelous beaches and sandy trails. By 2019 that number had jumped to over 100, including several large-scale resorts and inland hotels. Sidecar motorbike taxis clogged newly paved lanes as crowds piled on to Walking Street. By my first visit in 2011, residents and devoted long-stay travelers seemed to know what was is in store for the boomerang-shaped island they loved./first-there-are-kisses.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/first-there-are-kisses.htmlHello! Thank you for signing up to, or stumbling on, this no-news-newsletter written by me, Ashley Clark. If you do choose to subscribe—and it’s free—you’ll receive bulletins about whatever’s on my mind: usually some combination of art/film/music/literature/football. If that sounds good, hit the button! I’m not sure if I was too young, or just the right age, when I first saw Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. I was 14 years old, recently and intensely obsessed with cinema, and I stayed up late to watch it one night on Film4, a (then) pay-per-view, and brilliantly programmed TV channel that I’d pestered my mum to subscribe to after I decided I needed to see Taxi Driver./four-calling-birds-not-exactly.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/four-calling-birds-not-exactly.htmlHappy New Year! In the warm and generous spirit of the holidays, we’re making this week’s bonus segment free to all. But there’s more: Until the end of the year, you can get 30% off a subscription to Booksmart Studios. You’ll get extra written content and access to bonus segments like this one. More importantly, you’ll be championing all the work we do here. Become a member of Booksmart Studios today./frank-spotnitz-interview-328.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/frank-spotnitz-interview-328.htmlIf you’ve been following my journey since starting Coffee, TV and Me, you know I love a good story where the expected path is not taken and big swings come into play. I’m talking about TV shows, movies, books as well as real life. (In case you missed what I’ve been up lately and how I ended up in Bangkok, my story is here). I’ve personally taken a few leaps in my life by shaking up my geography when I moved from my hometown of South Bend, Indiana to L./frmo-corp-a-frictionless-flywheel.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/frmo-corp-a-frictionless-flywheel.htmlWelcome to Episode 122 of Special Situation Investing. The book Good to Great explores why some businesses achieve greatness. Within its pages, the author, Jim Collins, popularized the concept of the Flywheel Effect. He draws a connection between turning a flywheel—a heavy disc-like structure that stores rotational energy—and successful companies in the following way: The flywheel image captures the overall feel of what it was like inside the companies as they went from good to great./gaby-dalkin-is-so-into-mastering.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gaby-dalkin-is-so-into-mastering.htmlGABY DALKIN IS HERE, y’all! With her blog, spice business, and soon-to-be FIFTH published cookbook, Gaby Dalkin has a lot going on. So I was pumped that she made time to record this conversation in my hotel room on my recent visit to L.A., where she lives with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. We had so much fun that we kept hanging out for hours after this recording. Gaby is a ridiculously charming, kind, and gracious human being and I can’t wait for y’all to get to know her better on today’s episode./getting-up-early-kinda.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/getting-up-early-kinda.htmlFor maybe fifteen years, the alarm was set for 5:04 am. Since pandemic, 6:04. Weekends, nothing, I try to sleep as late as possible, though I rarely make it past seven-thirty. I know what I find beautiful about waking early—the blue coloring, the optimism, the first coffee on the lips—but for a long time I overvalued it, I think. Not the dawn, but the recurrence. Routine is crucial, but routine also can be crutch./ginger-baker.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ginger-baker.htmlI’d been warned — specifically by my brother, publisher/editor of Drum! magazine, and by many references I’d seen in other interviews: Ginger Baker could be a nasty S.O.B. Maybe you’ve seen this documented on film, a minute into the documentary Beware of Mr. Baker, where the reclusive drummer assaults and bloodies an unwelcome reporter with his cane. Fortunately, I would be a safe distance away when the time came for our phone chat./but-its-not-funny-at-the-end-of-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/but-its-not-funny-at-the-end-of-the.html… let’s just dive straight into the hellfire, shall we. Rep. Jennifer Decker — the white GOP architect of the House’s anti-DEI bill — proudly, albeit kinda lowkey nervously, shared that she (allegedly) took a Black studies course in college a few weeks ago on KET. And the writings she studied were “not DEI concepts at all” — a statement that should inspire some level of hope, but not security./good-bye-2023.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-bye-2023.htmlIt’s time when we say goodbye to the year 2023. Every year we try coming up with new resolutions, new goals and as the year progresses, we complete some of them and others get left behind due to other priorities. there are ups and downs in life and 2023 was no different. For me also, 2023 brought a lot of health issues as a downside but still I managed to pull off a lot of things as an upside./phillips-place-goodbye-movie-theater.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phillips-place-goodbye-movie-theater.htmlGood morning! Today is Monday, May 24, 2021. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with local business-y news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. Need to get on our newsletter list or upgrade to a full membership? (Details here.) Today’s Charlotte Ledger is sponsored by Sinclair Public Affairs: End of the line for Phillips Place theater? The center’s owner, Lincoln Harris, plans to submit a request this week to rezone the land for a “beautifully designed” 10-story office building./goodnight-freydis-moon.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goodnight-freydis-moon.htmlWho the hell is Freydís Moon? Freydís Moon (they/él/ella) is a bestselling, award-winning author, diviner, and creator with an affinity for quirky, speculative storytelling. A lover of culture, mysticism, history, and language, they constantly find themself lost in a book, trying their hand at a new recipe, or planning a trip to a faraway place. -Goodreads.com as of 4/21/2024 Just a few days ago, Freydís Moon was a Latinx nonbinary author in the indie book scene who focused on queer eroticism spun with what was thought to be serious and emotional inspection of the author’s diaspora Latin American heritage./growing-mushrooms-on-our-lawn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/growing-mushrooms-on-our-lawn.htmlLast summer, as we were killing off the grass in our front lawn to create an edible meadow, a friend gave us a gift for the new ecosystem we were coaxing into being. Kevin had bought some wine cap mushroom spawn — more than he could possibly use on his own lawn — and offered us the remaining half of the bag. Just before we shoveled wood chips over the layers of cardboard and compost we had laid down, I scattered flecks of inoculated sawdust along the shady north side of the house./haole-to-haole-talk-with-bette-midler.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/haole-to-haole-talk-with-bette-midler.htmlI’d been waiting 25 years to talk to Bette Midler, so I dove at the chance to interview the Divine Miss M on the release of her 1998 album Bathhouse Betty. I told the publicist I loved the new record, then, having the phone time for her call reserved, went home, dug up the new disc from the “not enough hours in the day” pile and listened to it for the first time./happy-third-annual-fuck-mothers-day.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-third-annual-fuck-mothers-day.htmlWhen I was writing Momfluenced, I did some informal polling about the shit moms buy via Instagram and elsewhere. We all know that moms are sold beauty products to mask their exhaustion, mommy makeovers to eradicate evidence of creating a human, and obviously all sorts of clothing options made specifically to suit our Busy Mom™ lifestyles. But according to the 100 or so people who filled out my questionaire, moms are also prompted to buy wellness products, baby clothes, diapers, home goods, toys, books, art supplies, vacation packages, furniture, lunch boxes, parenting courses, weed, paint, and TOOTHPICKS./heads-you-win.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heads-you-win.htmlThe Shopper had bought king prawns, and I had unearthed a random fillet of blue-eye trevalla in the freezer. We looked at each other. This called for fregola.  Toasty pearls of Sardinian semolina pasta, fish and prawns in a sort of thick, dirty, dark stew made from the prawn heads. Done. You don’t need to actually cook the recipe to get a couple of things out of this: 1/ Never throw out your prawn heads and shells./hellenic-pagan-hellenist-or-something.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hellenic-pagan-hellenist-or-something.htmlIdentity is a concept I reflect upon often, as many do, and perhaps you as well. Growing up as a Greek-American in a family with shallow roots in this country, my dual identity became an issue early in life. My father was off the boat, and my mother was only a couple of generations here, from a Greek Cypriot family. Much like Toula in my Big Fat Greek Wedding, I realized my otherness in school – how I didn’t fit in with the American kids./herb-sundays-86-dante-ross.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/herb-sundays-86-dante-ross.htmlHerb Sundays 86: Dante Ross (Apple, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon). Art by Michael Cina. “Before hip-hop consumed my life (and my crew's), we listened to what we then called ‘club music’ alongside early hip-hop and post-punk/new wave. As a kid, I had a gig skating a half pipe in a nightclub called Area in Tribeca for a summer. After work, my friend the fabulous Ms. Lysa Cooper, and a crew of super hip, beautiful girls and guys would go to the legendary Paradise Garage and dance till daylight, then go to Rockaway Beach and nap on the beach./here-are-8-great-worship-artists.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-are-8-great-worship-artists.htmlIn my last Substack, I argued that it was time for churches to stop singing Hillsong worship music. Given all we now know about the global enterprise — including the alleged coverup of sexual abuse, plus leaders’ financial impropriety and mistreatment of staff — I argue it now lacks integrity, and hampers Christian witness, for churches to financially s… ncG1vNJzZmijkamyrcXNm5yarKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on56qlWKus7GMcWSgqpWWwW7DzquqoaGgYq6zwMisq6w%3D/his-parents-met-at-the-australian.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/his-parents-met-at-the-australian.htmlOne January day in 1993, Bryan Shelton stood in the lobby of the Como Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, when he locked eyes with a girl. He was a tennis player; she was a rival’s sister, and since they both lived on the wild merry-go-round that is professional tennis, they could only have found themselves in Melbourne for one reason: the Australian Open. Bryan asked for her name. “Lisa,” she said./hojo-masako.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hojo-masako.htmlHojo Masako Died on This Day, August 16, 1225 Said to be “The most important woman in Japanese military history”, political leader Hojo Masako was born in 1156 during the tumultuous warring of the late Heian period Hogen and Heiji Rebellions, two short civil conflicts fought over the Imperial succession. The Hogen no Ran in particular is seen as the basis for the emerging dominance of the samurai class.  /hollywood-fantasy-is-sacheen-littlefeather.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hollywood-fantasy-is-sacheen-littlefeather.htmlCertainly, for Native Americans with dreams of acting and filmmaking, this includes participating in the Oscars. Also known as the Academy Awards, staged annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and broadcast to millions from Los Angeles, California, in recognition of excellence in film. However, to this day, no Native American woman of any tribe located in the United States has stood on that stage to receive or give an award./why-airbnb-is-design-led-and-how.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-airbnb-is-design-led-and-how.html👋 Hello! Welcome to this week’s ADPList Newsletter, a weekly advice column. Each Tuesday, we tackle design, building products, and accelerating careers. We’re looking for sponsors. If you’re interested to support our newsletter to advertise, let’s chat here. Hi fellow readers! First, I want to address the elephant in the room 🐘 — 54%~ of you gave me a good FOMO for missing out on #Config2023; I hope you enjoyed yourselves in person or virtually./how-do-you-take-up-space-at-home.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-do-you-take-up-space-at-home.htmlThis is not a home decor newsletter, but it is a newsletter about taking up the space we need and want in this world. Also I just like home stuff, even though of course it’s complicated. But so very fun to talk about! So forgive the slight departure from/expansion on our theme today? Something you may not know about me is that I am the nosiest person when I go to someone’s house for the first time and I absolutely want to hear all the stories about how you found it, what projects you’ve done or not done, and all its little quirks and surprises./addendum-how-i-use-the-ipad-with.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/addendum-how-i-use-the-ipad-with.htmlUpdate, May 27, 2023: I have uploaded a video addendum to the original, detailing a lot of these settings and configurations. It’s linked here: watch on YouTube Almost a year ago now, I published a video on YouTube that provided a demonstration of how I use the Apple iPad as a central part of my music-making process. The key to this process is the iConnectivity Audio 4c audio interface, which allows for sharing of audio and MIDI between 2 computers/tablets./how-to-ask-for-a-favor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-ask-for-a-favor.htmlI remember the internship I had at the end of my junior year in college. I was totally out of my depth working in logistics for the first time. I needed help even understanding the assignment, but I was painfully shy, and I didn't know what to do when I got my first project. My manager was very senior and extremely busy, and it seemed like she was always out of the office./community-conversation-with-alix.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/community-conversation-with-alix.htmlHello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hosting my friend Alix Pasquet III for an intimate conversation and Q&A (previous conversations: The Learning Mindset, Great Investors Build Networks). The conversation fit well into the effort of developing a framework for understanding great investors. Alix focused much more on mindset and practices than innate qualities. Great Analysts are great idea generators. What I think a really good analyst does is he maximizes opportunities, and he's willing, if he doesn't have all the qualities of a great investor, to surround himself with people that have those qualities and is able to still exploit and maximize opportunities./how-to-become-a-connector.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-become-a-connector.htmlThe other day, someone said to me, “You are a connector. You put people together and magic happens.”  I was a bit confused. It’s no secret that I don’t really like networking, and I’m also an introvert—hardly a recipe for someone with a reputation for bringing people together. What could they have meant when they called me a connector? That remark stuck with me, mostly because it seemed so incongruous. Sure, I liked putting others in touch with people who could help them, but that could hardly be considered networking, could it?/how-to-leave-someone-you-love-and.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-leave-someone-you-love-and.htmlDear reader, This is an article about surviving the ending of a partnership. What to do when the person we hold the most dear in our hearts is no longer “our person”—but a person. What to do when our attachment to our partner was the thick rope anchoring us to our lives, anchoring us to the earth. How to keep our hearts open when we trusted in an uncertainty (indeed all relationships are an uncertainty) and got seriously hurt in the process./special-giveaway-edition-how-why.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/special-giveaway-edition-how-why.htmlHi, guys! Over the years, we’ve discussed replacing or shrinking the lawn quite a bit in this space. But, aside from using clover, my focus has been primarily on replacing turf grasses with an ever-expanding perennial bed, preferably one packed with native plants. I’ve only barely touched on other groundcovers. That’s why I’ve brought Kathy Jentz here with me today. Kathy is editor and publisher of Washington Gardener Magazine, host of the popular GardenDC podcast (on which I was fortunate to be a guest twice, here and here) and winner of too many awards to detail./howl-like-the-monkeys.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/howl-like-the-monkeys.htmlGetting out of your normal life in any capacity is a healthy thing. Breaking habits. Especially in the dead of winter in New York. I was lucky enough to take a trip with my family to one of our very favorite destinations for a month. I know, that is a very long time for a vacation. This is a place we’ve been to before and is slowly becoming a second hom…/i-quit-my-lazy-girl-job.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-quit-my-lazy-girl-job.htmlThis week is my anniversary of quitting my lazy girl job to run Anti Work Girlboss full time. Welcome to a reveal of who I am and why I spend so much time talking about work. My story isn't just about hating work. In my just three and a half years of corporate america I have some life changing wisdom to offer you. While also diving into some more personal sides to me I do not share as often as I would like to./id-rather-be-a-crooked-tree.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/id-rather-be-a-crooked-tree.htmlAt Steady, you might have noticed that we have a thing for trees. And music.  Last week, in our “A Reason to Smile,” we brought the two together with performances of a favored hymn, “I Shall Not Be Moved,” and its central imagery of “a tree planted by the water.”  Today, we ask you indulge us once more. We have another tree song we found particularly inspiring, relevant, and yes, smile inducing./step-1-if-you-havent-already-buy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/step-1-if-you-havent-already-buy.htmlI know many of you are already happily using pressure cookers, but I also know that a lot of you are thinking about either upgrading or – hooray! – buying a second or third. So while this post is mainly aimed at those who are yet to buy, you might want to have a scan through as some of the information might be useful. Generally speaking, these posts about pressure cooking basics which I am going to intersperse with recipes might be worth reading by experienced pressure cooker users – new and useful things occur to me all the time, which seem really obvious as soon as I think them, and I will want to share them all./in-a-future-age-solo-acoustic.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-a-future-age-solo-acoustic.htmlHello, everybody. Wilco is back on our bullshit. We played Milwaukee on Wednesday and Chicago this weekend. It was such a beautiful night outside at Salt Shed on Friday, I couldn’t believe it. I’m conditioned to expect weather extremes. Thunderstorms, 100% humidity, scalding heat, etc. But it was what I’d call a perfect Chicago crisp (new apple?). The solo/family/Tweedy band rehearsed in Chicago earlier in the week. I thought you might like to see a short clip of our rehearsal./in-defence-of-some-guys-writing-about.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-defence-of-some-guys-writing-about.htmlTo quote Barack Obama — let me be clear. I don’t care about Brandon Sanderson. I don’t care about Jason Kehe. I don’t care about Wired. I don’t care about fantasy fiction. I definitely don’t care about fantasy fiction fans (at least in the sense of their interest in fantasy fiction — I’m sure I often care about them otherwise). But I do care about writing. I care about people doing interesting writing — even if it ruffles feathers./in-defense-of-balding-musicians.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-defense-of-balding-musicians.htmlI’ve decided that I will periodically shout out other music publications that I’m enjoying. This week I’m turning my attention to Sunlighter, a weekly digest that will keep you up-to-date on music news, artist discovery, and companies disrupting the industry. Here’s a little blurb from their latest issue: As digital audio workstations and streaming technology continue to lower the barrier of entry in becoming an artist or producer, oversaturation occurs. When you combine these problems with other music industry trends such as shorter listener attention span and Rob Abelow’s adroit observation of streaming becoming a zero-sum game for artists, you have to wonder … is this the beginning of the end for massively popular hip-hop headliners (just as classic rock, disco, jazz, and other popular genres eventually went out of style)?/in-memory-of-jim-crockett-1937-2023.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memory-of-jim-crockett-1937-2023.htmlJim Crockett, the visionary creator of the modern “guitar magazine,” passed away on December 16. Among other wide-ranging accomplishments, “JC,” as we fondly called him, orchestrated the rise of Guitar Player in the 1970s and 1980s; founded Frets, Keyboard, and Drums and Drumming magazines; and authored several books. I always found him wonderful to work with. We stayed friends through the years, and he played a huge role in my career as a music journalist./in-review-blue-beetle-strays.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-blue-beetle-strays.htmlBlue Beetle Dir. Ángel Manuel Soto 127 min. Zack Snyder only made three movies featuring DC Comics characters but his shadow has stretched across the entirety of the soon-to-shutter film universe kicked off by his Man of Steel a decade ago. Darkness (literal and figurative) and a habit of relying on grim humor when there’s any humor at all have defined the project. That doesn’t mean it’s lacked highlights, like the first Wonder Woman or incoming architect James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad./list-of-kipper-cards-1-36.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/list-of-kipper-cards-1-36.htmlClick on the links provided below to access detailed interpretations and quirks and directional instructions from all the Kipper cards. Index Of Kipper Cards: Click On The Titles To Go To The Meanings Page1. Main Male 2. Main Female 3. Marriage/Marriage Status 4. Meeting/ Courtship 5. Good Gentleman/Mature Man 6. Good Lady/Mature Woman 7. Message/Pleasant Message 8. False Person 9. Change 10. Journey 11. Sudden Wealth 12. Rich Girl/Privileged Lady/interview-with-a-53-year-old-sober.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-with-a-53-year-old-sober.htmlGood morning, rainy Tuesday. Welcome to The Small Bow. Today, we continue our Sober Oldster interview series with musician Joan Wasser, AKA Joan As Police Woman. Joan’s had an intense, magical life before and after she stepped into sobriety, full of music, art, tragic loves, and fun chaos—she’s existed as a human in many forms. Here’s a part from her que… ncG1vNJzZmismJrArq3LpZmor16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6ipa2doqu2psOMsKCtoF2WenZ%2FjLKcmqpdpLmledKomZ6q/interview-exene-cervenka-x.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-exene-cervenka-x.htmlSo the back story on this conversation is that I did the interview for The Princess Anne Independent News in conjunction with the performance that X had scheduled for Elevation 27 in Virginia Beach. They were supposed to play there in late June, but due to one of the members needing unexpected surgery (from which he has since recovered, thankfully), they were forced to cancel their date. Unfortunately, when the band rolled out the rescheduled dates, there wasn’t one for Virginia Beach./introducing-notes.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-notes.htmlAs of April 11, 2023, Notes is available to all writers and readers on Substack. Visit Notes. We started Substack in 2017 because we wanted the internet to be better for writers and readers. We were dismayed with the clickbait and content farms, the listicles and liars, the cheap outrage and culture wars. We thought there could be something better if writers and readers were given more control and treated as a higher priority than advertisers, and if culture makers could find financial dignity without needing to sublimate themselves to attention games and corporate marketing budgets./is-fleetwood-macs-penguin-as-bad.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-fleetwood-macs-penguin-as-bad.htmlLast month, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast fame tossed this little nugget to the Twitter wolves: I love Zauner, but a few things here make me scratch my head. We’re not talking about The Beatles today, but Revolver is most certainly not a snob pick. It’s constantly ranked as the best pop album of all time, and if not the top spot, almost always in the top ten. I’m also genuinely curious about what album beats it amongst The Beatles fandom that gives a shit about this?/is-heliocentricity-a-proven-fact.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-heliocentricity-a-proven-fact.htmlYes, science as depicted by many great writers - Orwell, Huxley, C.S Lewis - becomes all too easily the 'lights of perverted science' to quote Churchill. The history of science is littered with wrong turns. To the modern mind, trained in science propaganda, it is inconceivable that the abstraction called 'science' could ever be wrong, or take a wrong turn. The expectation is that 'science' is always right, benign and positive if not perfect./is-monopoly-go-really-profitable.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-monopoly-go-really-profitable.htmlThis article is written by Matej Lancaric & Joseph Kim. Originally written onlancaric UA consultant blog! At face value, Scopely’s Monopoly GO mobile game seems to be the breakout success of 2023. The game, heading towards the end of 2023, was regularly a top 3-ranked mobile game by worldwide revenue. Since its launch in March of 2023, the game has amass… ncG1vNJzZmikkaOwor7InGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyqv4ympqenoKS5unnGqGSrnZGhubp5z6umn6Gklq%2BtsZ6uq6aXnZqxqsHMdpymmZmhc6Kv06Kmp3Wjna6zsQ%3D%3D/badasses-of-history-isambard-kingdom.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/badasses-of-history-isambard-kingdom.htmlIn today's installment of Badasses Of History 😀it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Mr Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of Britain's greatest engineers, and stovepipe hat aficionado (Brunel was short of stature and suffered very much from insecurity about his height, which sadly dogged him all his life. You wonder how he would have felt about being chosen as the second greatest Briton of all time, in a BBC reader’s poll)./israel-palestine-interview-with-gabor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/israel-palestine-interview-with-gabor.htmlThis week’s piece offers a conversation between Gabor Mate and his daughter, Hannah Mate, on Israel’s War on Palestine. (The U.N.’s description.) At times, I’ve had my differences with Gabor’s take on addictions, and also with what can come off as a interpersonal heavy-handedness—both of which he acknowledges in an open and graceful way. In this conversation, he is at his best, if one can say such a thing about such a terrible and protracted part of history./its-eyb-to-say-you-dont-want-to-have.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-eyb-to-say-you-dont-want-to-have.htmlHello and welcome back to ‘Eyb, the newsletter! Each week I speak frankly about topics that I was told were ‘eyb, or shameful, while growing up. I also share anecdotes, reading recommendations, what I’ve been writing, and more. If you have just subscribed, welcome! I have never been a particularly maternal person. Throughout my twenties I was adamant that I did not want to have children. I struggled when I visited my girl friends, many of whom had married while we were still at university or in their early twenties, and their young children would run about screaming, climbing on top of my head, or putting sticky hands on my clothes./its-the-range-stupid-part-3.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-the-range-stupid-part-3.htmlGood evening… actually, almost: good morning, everybody! It’s really ‘no fun‘ to monitor developments in Ukraine of the last few days. Sure, the government and different authorities are trying to keep the spirits high; the PSU’s Su-24-units are really pounding the Russians on the occupied Crimea hard, and the Russians have lost an Su-35 over the Sevastopol area today (reportedly, the pilot ejected safely, and it was ‘own goal’). However, in grand total, the situation remains unpleasant and no immediate improvement is in sight for weeks longer./jane-birkin-jeans.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-birkin-jeans.htmlI was in London on July 16 when it was announced that Jane Birkin, the British actress, singer, and pop culture icon, had passed away. That night, watching the floodgates of tribute posts fly open online, I marveled for the millionth time at how splendidly Jane wore jeans. She really was famous for it. I have always loved that Jane and I share a name. B… ncG1vNJzZmismJq8r7jYo5innZ%2Bjt6atzaxlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8q63NnmSboaKgtq95yZ6Yp6s%3D/janet-jacksons-poetic-justice-braids-trend.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/janet-jacksons-poetic-justice-braids-trend.htmlI love Janet and Tupac in this scene it was so very intimate and showed a vulnerability between the two that showed they had chemistry. I have always been a fan and love Janet, and she's always been so humble and so sweet and has never taken all the credit for her achievement but has said man, many times how blessed she is. My only thing with this article and people in general is why does beyonce's name have to be brought into the conversation when it's not about her./jeopardy-masters-51524-fashion-recap.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeopardy-masters-51524-fashion-recap.htmlI’m doing my best, but I’m just NOT keeping up with daily regular Jeopardy plus 3 hours of Masters a week. I’m trying to at least post pictures so nothing gets out of order, but my recaps will be very short. If you have any questions about a contestant’s outfit, please leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer! To support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber!/and-then-there-were-none-jermell.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-then-there-were-none-jermell.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./jilllawrence.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jilllawrence.htmlJill LawrenceJill Lawrence, author of "The Art of the Political Deal," is an opinion writer for The Bulwark and other publications. She is a former politics editor, reporter and columnist at USA Today, National Journal, the Associated Press and The Daily Beast. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjau1y6Wjmq%2BimruksQ%3D%3D/john-taylor-gatto-subversive.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-taylor-gatto-subversive.htmlIn the early 1990s when my wife Trudi and I home schooled our three kids I discovered the great John Taylor Gatto. Born in Washington County south of Pittsburgh, where we were living, Gatto, a libertarian, was becoming famous as a ‘Johnny Apple Seed’ of home schooling, unschooling and charter schools. His best-selling book ‘Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling’ was an all-out attack on the harm public schooling does to the minds and souls of children from a man who won awards teaching in them for three decades./judaism-without-jews-on-the-shrink.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/judaism-without-jews-on-the-shrink.htmlThe Shrink Next Door—the first three episodes of which released Friday on Apple's TV+ content farm—is perhaps the most Jewish show currently on air. It is more authentic in its portrayal of Judaism than anything I've seen since last year's adaptation for HBO of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. But where that show was set in the 1940s, safely trapping its Jews in the traditionality of yore, The Shrink Next Door daringly proclaims that Jews existed as recently as the '80s./judicial-notice-081223-suns-out-guns.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/judicial-notice-081223-suns-out-guns.htmlHello from our place in the Berkshires, where Zach and I are spending some time during these lazy days of August. We’re here with Zach’s parents, who are helping us out with newborn Chase, while my parents are taking Harlan on a Disney cruise. Grandparents are the best (seriously). Now, on to the news, much of which emerged in so-called Friday news dumps—which is why I usually write and publish Judicial Notice over the weekend, even if it often kills my Saturdays./juliebush.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/juliebush.htmlJulie BushI am a screenwriter who writes big action conspiracy thrillers about technology and justice. I read an absurd amount and watch TV and film constantly. I like to renovate vintage homes and trade crypto. And I have a passion for art and being online. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjavBy6Kcm62jnQ%3D%3D/june-26-492.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/june-26-492.htmlThe Washington Post generated a loss of $77 million in 2023 and also lost half its readers. The Post needs to emulate the New York Times and create a community with common interests. If the paper does not change, it will die.  On the paper’s problems the Wall Street Journal opines:  It’s likely that the Post agonists hope to pressure Mr. Bezos into sell… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5yur3rSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeaqrumeZFvZG1xYnTCtbm%2BrKauqpOairG%2Bzp%2BgpZ1WqsGuq8yem6KtnXK%2Fpq3Dnqlr/just-say-maybe-to-dexies.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-say-maybe-to-dexies.htmlI used approximately 60 micrograms of dexamphetamine, a stimulant commonly prescribed for ADHD, to write this column. I don't have ADHD and I doubt that I would meet criteria for diagnosis. Instead, I take dexamphetamine unprescribed, meaning I am not so much taking dexamphetamine as “dexies”—which is what they morph into when consumed beyond the medical jurisdiction. I get them from a friend who gets them from a guy who buys them from people with a prescription who, for whatever reason, choose not to take their medicine./mysteriouskat.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mysteriouskat.htmlRandom Minds by Katherine Brodsky By Katherine Brodsky From one curious mind to another: Random musings from a writer w/ glossy bylines about the world and our role in it. An outsider, looking in. Covering: culture, social politics, critical thinking, media, freedom of speech & diverse thought + technology. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja7F0q2cq6GfqsCsrdM%3D/keith-morris-appreciation-week.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/keith-morris-appreciation-week.htmlIt’s been an exciting week for Corporate Rock Sucks. The first review, first interview, and first podcast all went live. Then this happened: The last time a box of books with my name on it arrived in the mail was the summer of 2020. Bad Religion had all kinds of events planned for the release of Do What You Want. Signings, shows, you name it. Then COVID-19 happened and everything got canceled./kendrick-fumbled-on-auntie-diaries.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kendrick-fumbled-on-auntie-diaries.html“My auntie is a man now”. I was already giving Kendrick Lamar’s new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers my full attention. It’s the big comeback album from my favorite rapper, and with so little information about it being public, I wanted to experience the surprise for myself. No peeking at the features, the song titles, producing credits, or anything until the next song came on. Which yes, included the nasty surprise of Kodak Black being on here multiple times, but I’m too excited to hear new Kendrick to care at this point./kendrick-johnsons-death-was-no-mystery.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kendrick-johnsons-death-was-no-mystery.htmlWhen I first traveled to Valdosta for the AJC I was under the impression that something was amiss, that Kendrick Johnson’s death was no accident. But I found no evidence supporting foul play. That certainly would’ve been the juicier story, one a good many people still believe. It’s just not supported by any facts. Karen Bell is resigned to the fact many people believe she raised two cold-blooded killers./luke-jennings-interview.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luke-jennings-interview.htmlAuthor is no stranger to alternative forms of publishing. His Killing Eve trilogy, featuring the murderous adventures of an assassin called Villanelle, first appeared as a self-published series of novellas for Amazon Kindle. Villanelle—and the story of her entanglement with MI5 agent Eve Polastri—grew an international fandom following the adaptation of the novels into a BBC drama by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. But in 2022 the televised version of the series came to a shocking end, and fans erected makeshift shrines all over the world./kenyon-martin-kj-clippers-trade-rockets-analysis.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kenyon-martin-kj-clippers-trade-rockets-analysis.htmlIt feels like forever ago — and because of the way news spreads in this new world, it was forever ago — but back on Thursday, I wrote about the need for the LA Clippers to surround Kawhi Leonard and Paul George with role players who possess positive traits that would fit in seamlessly around the stars. Late Saturday afternoon, the Clippers acquiesced. The Clippers are going to complete a trade for Houston Rockets forward Kenyon Martin Jr./late-night-sandwich-shop-to-open.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/late-night-sandwich-shop-to-open.htmlGREAT NEWS FOR late-nighters…A new sandwich shop will be moving in to the old Rotations venue downtown before the end of the year…It’s called Sando’s Eatery…“We’re going to focus on Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches to start,” says one of the three partners, Ross Mulder. “We’ll be pretty simple off the bat, with maybe six or seven sandwiches to start.”…The other two partners are Craig Colombo and Will Gencay…They expect to be open five days a week…and the big news?/notable-sandwiches-50-le-croque-monsieur.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notable-sandwiches-50-le-croque-monsieur.htmlWelcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. Today: a pair of French classics, the croque madame and croque monsieur. Imagine, if you will, a man and woman lying beside one another, behind a pane of faintly steamed-up glass. They’re practically glowing with heat, and the woman is wearing just a bonnet; the man, a silky robe, bare underneath./lets-put-a-cast-iron-pan-in-the-dishwasher.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-put-a-cast-iron-pan-in-the-dishwasher.htmlHiya, clowns! This week, I’m shifting gears a tiny bit. You all know that I’m easily the greatest chef on the face of this planet (I have won every single James Beard Award). But I tend not to dole out a ton of practical kitchen advice, because people are so intimidated by my sick skills, they don’t even bother asking me for any. So this week, I’m here to head into new territory and show you some cool tricks of the trade, secrets of the kitchen that nobody else will tell you about./coppell-chronicle-vol-4-no-3.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coppell-chronicle-vol-4-no-3.htmlDid you know Amazon offers tours of its facilities to the general public? The corporate behemoth has four buildings in Coppell, and your correspondent recently toured the one known as FTW6. Amazon’s facilities are named after airport codes. Our tour guide said the company avoids double digits in its designations, so even though FTW6 is within the DFW International Airport flight path, its name alludes to Fort Worth’s Meacham International Airport because there were already nine Amazon buildings named after DFW./lonnie-frisbee-deserved-better.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lonnie-frisbee-deserved-better.htmlThis is Clusterhuck, my newsletter about faith, culture and a flourishing future for all! I’m glad you’re here. I can only do this through the support of my readers, and I’m grateful for everyone I’ve got. If you’d like to join, just click here. You’ll be able to read this whole post and get a free seven-day trial, including access to all the archives. “If you’re the hero of every anecdote you tell, something’s off,” Phil Christman wrote in the latest edition of his highly (and frequently, by me) recommended Substack./lord-of-the-flies-theme-prediction.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lord-of-the-flies-theme-prediction.htmlThis is the theme question I think might come up: What does Golding reveal about human nature in Lord of the Flies? This is a longer post, which shows you how I use ChatGPT. Read each part of the conversation. Some of it will be repetitive, but this is likely to make you remember more for the exam! And, you are going to end up with a grade 8/9 essay. I want to write an essay on what Golding reveals about human nature in Lord of the Flies./luckys-coffee-garage-opens-second.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luckys-coffee-garage-opens-second.htmlIn late December while you were still wrapping holiday presents, Lucky’s Coffee Garage softly opened a new drive-through-only location (formerly Jake’s) at 227 Mechanic Street in Lebanon NH. Beginning on January 5, hours will be limited to Fridays and Saturdays, 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lucky’s aims eventually to expand the hours to match those of its original cafe. The menu is scaled down too, but still includes several coffee and tea and other beverages, and most importantly, those quintessential breakfast sandwiches./madness-is-adaptive.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madness-is-adaptive.htmlI recently read a book called Educated by Tara Westover. Apparently the book was hyped in 2018 when it came out. But I'm a bit off so I didn't notice. The book is a memoir focusing on the author's childhood. She grew up in Idaho with 6 older siblings and strongly religious parents who were against formal education and medicine. Many books about crazy religious fundamentalists are about culture. Not this one./firehose-85-make-art-and-moyni-memes.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/firehose-85-make-art-and-moyni-memes.htmlWell sure, that’s a meme-able image, why pretend it’s not? One of the magical byproducts of creating a new and least somewhat funnish thing fortunate enough to find an audience, is that the resulting community of heretofore strangers will generate their own separate-if-related art, hijinx, and inscrutable rituals. The world before The Fifth Column did not know it needed Moynihan Reaction Face (MRF); the world now stands corrected. * The aforementioned MRF derived from a Moynihan-moderated Free Press debate this week between Walter Kirn and Geoffrey Cain about banning TikTok, a subject we discussed (not to universal listener acclaim!/manuelveth.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/manuelveth.htmlManuel VethManuel Veth is the host of the Bundesliga Gegenpressing Podcast and the Area Manager USA at Transfermarkt. He has also been published in the Guardian, Newsweek, Howler, Pro Soccer USA, and several other outlets. Follow him on Twitter: @ManuelVeth ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6tza6cpa6VqbU%3D/margot-robbie-is-not-hot-enough.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/margot-robbie-is-not-hot-enough.htmlI asked a friend if she’d seen this Summer’s blockbuster, she said she had, she thought it was pretty good, but that Margot Robbie wasn't hot enough to play the lead. “Margot Robbie?” I coughed. “Margot Robbie, the double Oscar nominee who embodies every physical quality we have been collectively conditioned to desire? That Margot Robbie?” ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2FprrJqJ%2Bnop%2BosrG0jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6Kus7POrWSrp5KXtqZ5yKxkp6ekYrWwwIyepaitl50%3D/mary-boleyn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-boleyn.htmlMary Boleyn (1499 – ), Anne’s older sister, grew up at the Burgundian and French courts and later became Henry VIII’s mistress. She married William Carey in 1520. “You are the elder Boleyn daughter, the beauty of the family, a sweet-natured but brave and passionate woman, and in your later twenties when this story starts.” Hilary Mantel, notes on characters In 1523, Cromwell tells Wolsey that Mary Boleyn is sleeping with the king./meaganfrancis.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meaganfrancis.htmlMeagan FrancisWriter, mother, lover of warm conversation over hot drinks. 📖 Author, THE LAST PARENTING BOOK YOU'LL EVER READ, coming from Sourcebooks in 2025. 🎤 Host, The Tea's Made and The Mom Hour podcasts 🙌 Join The Tea Circle: bit.ly/teacircle ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6xwKCYp56ilruktdI%3D/meet-the-inmate-who-went-viral-for.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-inmate-who-went-viral-for.htmlJoe Garcia knew that his recent New Yorker essay about Taylor Swift’s music was good. “I am very confident and narcissistic about my talent as a writer,” the 53-year-old journalist says. But Garcia never anticipated that the story would go viral like it did, with readers posting on social media about how the piece had moved them to tears. (“Fully cried in public reading this through,” one person tweeted. “Art and humanity are truly all we have./member-of-reparations-committee-served.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/member-of-reparations-committee-served.htmlNikcole Cunningham, who serves on the California city’s 15-person African American Reparations Advisory Committee, was served with a restraining order from the City and County of San Francisco on Dec. 28, 2023, after threatening her coworkers. Cunningham, who has been employed by the San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) as a social worker since 2007, stated that she has been "homicidal many, many times.” In the restraining order (which you can read in its entirety here), HSA Executive Director Trent Rhorer says on or about December 7, 2023, an employee at the City's Health Service System (HSS), which coordinates health plans for San Francisco and other employers, notified him that long-term disability insurance provider Hartford had informed the City that Cunningham made a credible threat of workplace violence against HSA employees via a letter from Cunningham to Hartford./merrillmarkoe.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/merrillmarkoe.htmlMerrill MarkoeMerrill Markoe has created theoretically humorous writing, videos and other stuff in assorted media for (ahem) 40 something years. She has also published 10 books. To see her lengthy resume, check her website. And when I say 'her' I mean 'me'. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6x0augpaSdlr%2Bsu8Q%3D/michael-patrick-king-and-just-like-that.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-patrick-king-and-just-like-that.html“Hello blondie,” Michael Patrick King says as he enters the chat, and with it, launches a metaphorical tennis ball in my direction. “So you accept this as real blond?” I ask, attempting to not miss the volley. “I do,” he replies. “I thought you just stepped off a beach in Norway. It’s so blonde, it’s bordering Nazi.” MPK, as fans call him, is the ideal interview subject for a number of reasons./millers-thumb-baker-steve-horton.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/millers-thumb-baker-steve-horton.htmlSteve Horton has made a living, and a name for himself, building bakeries that turn local grain into baked goods with great appeal. He and life and business partner Jill Colella opened Miller’s Thumb Bakery & Cafe in late 2022 at 258 Highland Ave., Tonawanda. Click here for the introduction video that I biffed playing at the show start. Wonderful Loaf is Horton’s homage to Wonder Bread, once produced in Buffalo for the Northeastern United States./mlk-jr-serial-adulterer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mlk-jr-serial-adulterer.htmlThis is the fifth part in a series about four Christians who did both great and terribile things for God’s Kingdom. I take solace in such examples when I royally screw up. Share Saving Faith Speaking of prejudice, we revere the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for his efforts to fight racism and move America toward what he called “the beloved community.” King led the Civil Rights Movement from a place of deep faith and faithfulness./modified-limited-hangout.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modified-limited-hangout.htmlIt’s been a steady cycle of wind, rain and occasional sun here in Palm Beach. The other day was chilly enough I contemplated putting on socks. All the locals swear this is crazy weather and not normal. I refrain from suggesting the new normal may be the abnormal. You know, climate change and all. In any case, enduring the craziness is my own fault. This past week I bailed on a brief weather window to get to the Bahamas, partly because I have been hoping for a lengthier window that will allow me to make a jump south to at least the Berry Islands, or even Georgetown in the Exumas, as opposed to the quick jump to nearby West End on Grand Bahama./the-bible-is-clear-money-is-the-answer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bible-is-clear-money-is-the-answer.html(Credit: Flickr Creative Commons) Did you know I still have a Substack? Me either. In my defense, today is the first day in a long, long time that I've been able to sit down for longer than a few minutes to rest, let alone make good words on computer. Yeah, I’ve still got it. Between the book tour, trolling fundies with billboards, and shamelessly self-promoting my book at every turn - oh and family and all that other life stuff - it turns out making time to regularly write on my Substack has been…elusive./murielswedding.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/murielswedding.htmlGuest post alert! Today’s issue comes from Nellie Beckett, my smart and talented friend whom you may remember from her excellent piece about Mary Poppinsin honor of Labor Day. She’s full of great ideas, so of course it didn’t take her long to offer up another guest post about a meaningful film from her youth. Speaking of all those great ideas in Nellie’s brain, she just started her own Substack called Kulturtante, which I am extremely excited to read because she’s been telling compelling stories in multiple mediums for years now./my-bfs-mom-has-no-boundaries.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-bfs-mom-has-no-boundaries.htmlSo I have been dating my boyfriend for almost 2 years now and he is a sweetheart and we are super happy together. In fact, we just recently moved in together. BUT he is extremely close with his (very) overbearing mother. And this is beginning to become an issue for me because it's starting to affect my life now that we live together.  Some background: My boyfriend's dad passed away when he was a baby and his mother didn't remarry until he was in college, so for a long time they only had each other./my-internet-max-collins-eve6-guy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-internet-max-collins-eve6-guy.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Most weeks, we quiz a “very online” person for their essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Today we welcome Max Collins, the singer and bassist of the band Eve6, whose Twitter account he uses to post absurd and sometimes poignant commentary on late-‘90s radio rock, his life in music, politicians, and Elon Musk’s Twitter. He’s working on a book, Heart in a Blender, due later this year, and writes an advice column of the same name for Buzzfeed News./my-neighbors-brothers-roommates-hairdresser.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-neighbors-brothers-roommates-hairdresser.htmlYou might have heard the rumor that a Trader Joe’s is coming to Lafayette. People keep telling me they read this online and it was from reliable sources like the clerk at such and such store or the person standing in line at the local fill-in-the-blank. I have to admit I have never been to a Trader Joe’s but due to all the raving about the store I am curious. So far these are locations I have heard about and what I have learned from those in the know in Lafayette./my-unadulterated-raptor-r-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-unadulterated-raptor-r-review.htmlOne of the fun things about being a writer is that your words don’t always reach the page as you wrote them. My computer’s acting up this morning, I’m moving a bunch of old files around to try and fix that, and came across this first draft of my Raptor R review from last year. Probably motivated by my own ego, I figured it might be worth sharing. I just drove the fastest internal combust engine off-road truck that will ever be sold in a showroom./names-in-the-wild-stonestown-galleria.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/names-in-the-wild-stonestown-galleria.htmlOne of the most interesting books I read last year was Alexandra Lange’sMeet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (2022). Lange, an architecture and design critic, chronicles the American shopping center from its origins in the 1950s to its uncertain post-Covid future. She focuses on Victor Gruen, né Viktor Grünbaum (1903-1980), the Austrian-American architect whose Northland Mall, which opened near Detroit in 1954, is regarded as the first suburban open-air shopping center in the U./charge-enterprises-chapter-11-bankruptcy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charge-enterprises-chapter-11-bankruptcy.htmlOn March 7, 2024, Charge Enterprises Inc. (the “debtor”) filed a prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the District of Delaware (Judge Horan). The debtor is an EV charging infrastructure company that provides location selection, engineering, installation, testing, and maintenance to EV charging sites (PETITION Note: Prior to Dec. ‘23, the debtor also had a telecommunications segment that routed voice, data, and SMS to cell carriers globally).. This case marks the latest in a recent string of EV-related businesses to file some form of bankruptcy in the past few two years after Electric Last Mile Solutions, Lordstown Motors Corp./nfl-picks-wild-card-round-2024-odds.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nfl-picks-wild-card-round-2024-odds.htmlIf last year was the “Andy Reid coaching tree playoffs,” then this year’s postseason belongs to the Shanahans. This season, five coaches who led their team into the playoffs have worked under Mike and/or Kyle Shanahan: Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Sean McVay, DeMeco Ryans, and, of course, Kyle Shanahan.  One of those men — Ryans, who is in his first season with the Texans — will be making his postseason head coaching debut./no-liking-the-night-they-drove-old.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-liking-the-night-they-drove-old.htmlThank you for reading this public post! From today through Christmas Eve, I’m running a special discount for new subscribers — 15% off monthly and annual subscriptions. If you like what you’re reading, and would like to read more, including posts for paid subscribers only, please consider supporting this work by clicking here. In a recent essay, the writer Noah Berlatsky explained why he no longer listened to a song he had once loved: The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down./no-tanks-are-not-obsolete-they-are.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-tanks-are-not-obsolete-they-are.htmlSorry for no midweek update until now. Been in Portugal for work this week. However, I’ve now had some time to get back to writing after some serious work (and one day of serious baroque sight-seeing in Mafra-more on that later). Once again, I cant update the piece on the making of national power as the article I’m working on is going through another round of revisions. I think/hope it will be worth the wait, but for now until that article is ready I can’t say any more (apologies Adrian)./notes-twitter.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notes-twitter.htmlI have been souring on Twitter for a while now. At first my main complaint was how nasty everyone seemed to be — and how the service seemed to reward those people. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, however, my issue is the utter capriciousness that governs the site. It appears to operate almost entirely based on one man’s whims. The latest of those whims was to limit Substack content — and put messages suggesting the content might have been harmful — in response to the news that Substack was rolling out a new feature called Notes./october-7.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/october-7.htmlNote: This series is based on several podcasts I recorded about the events of October 7th and the resulting war in Gaza. Please leave suggestions, criticisms, citations, corrections, etc. in the comments. Subsequent changes to the text will not be marked, but each draft will be given a new revision date here: 6/25/24. We live amid the tides of history, but rarely know it. To know it is to see a familiar landscape suddenly inundated, and to recognize that anything can happen at any time./often-doubted-yet-undefeated-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/often-doubted-yet-undefeated-the.htmlThe Washington Huskies fell to 12-0 last Saturday, suffering a three-point victory when Grady Gross kicked a 42-yard field goal on the final play of the game. No less than an authority on college football than Jim Moore offered a blunt assessment of Washington’s prowess or lack thereof. I’ve also been told – repeatedly – that Washington is about to get smoked by the best one-loss team in the history of college football./ok-so-what-is-a-poem-anyway.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ok-so-what-is-a-poem-anyway.htmlA question is asked often about poetry and not nearly as often about other kinds of creative expression: "what is poetry?" It's a strange question, isn't it?  Imagine if dancers routinely pondered the question "what is dance?" or if painters frequently discussed "what is painting?"  Only a few experimentalists in other arts seem to worry about such definitions, yet poets care a lot. After spending hundreds of hours during my MA program in poetry discussing and pondering the question with my fellow students, I made it part of my life's work to define poetry to my own satisfaction./on-brutal-book-reviews-and-other.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-brutal-book-reviews-and-other.htmlWelcome to Making History, a newsletter about how historians make history. And how do historians really make history these days? By wasting their time on the internet. Here’s a few glimpses from this week at where all those hours went. To subscribe, go here. It’s free! And you thought Tim Barker’s reviews were mean. The talk of the profession this week is a review by one untenured professor of another untenured professor’s book, published by Harvard University Press, on the hot topic of the Chinese state bureaucracy./on-jennifer-jason-leigh-part-ii.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-jennifer-jason-leigh-part-ii.htmlI.                     A Child of Hollywood Part I of this essay series, that I have determined to keep to three parts, had me talk as much of my formative interest in films, Hollywood history, and celebrity with the E! True Hollywood Story series being my gateway into geekery over many films and stars of yore along with more contemporary stars like Jennifer Jason Leigh.  The show was more than fluff or simple summations of various cultural phenomenon, it also dove into a lot of true crime and mysteries, tragedies that could have been prevented./on-rainy-tug-hill.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-rainy-tug-hill.htmlWhen a resident of a far-flung hamlet opts to journey towards more civilized quarters, he cannot help but notice the status of the land as he travels it. As I and my woman forged south — over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house indeed — I found myself marvelling at the total absence of Upstate New York's normally-infamous lake effect snow. From Massena to Utica, the entire state is snowless./one-good-film-the-illusionist-2006.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-good-film-the-illusionist-2006.htmlA regular feature for paid Watch List subscribers: I suggest one reasonably under-the-radar movie from the recent or distant past, and you do what you want with that information. The Illusionist (2006, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐, for rent on Amazon, AppleTV, Microsoft, Vudu; streaming with ads elsewhere) Not to be confused with the Oscar-nominated French animated film from 2010 (a delightful ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐-star watch in itself and widely rentable), this is the equivalent of a beach read you can’t put down, or, more precisely, a s’more for a summer night – your fingers get sticky but the sugar buzz is worth it./our-world-in-2025.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-world-in-2025.htmlNo, that’s not a typo in my headline. As I was taking down holiday decorations and driving home today, I kept ruminating on what I wanted to write for my 2024 look ahead piece that I haven’t already written a hundred times. Instead, my mind kept drifting towards 2025. The post-its I still have on the wall at the shore from this summer ask questions about what the world looks like if Trump wins, if Biden wins, if neither is the nominee, who wins elsewhere around the world, what the Supreme Court does, etc./outlive-a-review-of-the-book-and.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/outlive-a-review-of-the-book-and.htmlI have been asked a lot recently about what I think of Peter Attia’s new NY Times bestselling book on longevity medicine, Outlive. So I decided to take a read to be able to answer this question, inform myself about what is in the popular press, and make a reasonable recommendation to read this book (or not). On a high level, I think this book is important conceptually and represents a profound shift in medicine that is much needed./overcoming-the-cotton-ceiling-annotated.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/overcoming-the-cotton-ceiling-annotated.htmlHalloo hurray! Allison Bailey’s case has reached the despicable Morgan Page stage! To celebrate, I’m sharing with you a handy guide on how to read ‘queer theory’ by annotating the text of his infamous ‘Overcoming The Cotton Ceiling’ workshop advert. ‘Overcoming The Cotton Ceiling’. That’s literally the name of the workshop. ‘Breaking Down Barriers for Queer Trans Women’ “We’re going to sexually harass lesbians.” “Queer Trans Women” Men./oversocialization-an-introduction.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oversocialization-an-introduction.htmlThis is the introductory post of my Oversocialization Series, which will take place over the next 2-3 weeks. I plan a total of 6-8 posts. This post will be updated with links to all future posts at the end of this piece. Put simply, socialization is a process by which individuals become accustomed to, and internalize, the norms, values, and ideologies of the society they live in. Socialization is not an inherently evil process: we must all learn how to co-exist with others around us./pancake-breasts.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pancake-breasts.htmlThe writing prompt was simply: “The judging sun”. I don’t know how to use Substack very well and lost the profile of the person who shared the prompt. So, to whoever you are, thank you! — Each wave lapped farther and farther away from her toes, a sure sign she needed to peel herself off the beach towel. Not bothered by the creaky feeling in her tanned skin or the flecks of dried-out saltwater dusted on her lips, this uninterrupted evening felt separate from time./rambling.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rambling.htmlHello all! On this here Substack I not only write essays and do podcasts, but I have also created my own little world called Chickaluki! Think "Lake Wobegon" but with a southern twist! Subscribe today and become a full fledged citizen of Chickaluki! Over 6,000 subscribers No I Hate Entertainment! ncG1vNJzZmibn6eyur7YmqWfp6KnsrTAxKtlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6h8s63Mm6OippdkjLbAzJiqqK2imLJ%2Bv9Sbqq2Zk6BztsDMmKSenJmqun65xKes/patri.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patri.htmlInward & Upward By Patri Friedman Life as a journey towards inner peace and outer accomplishment: virtue, venture, family, freedom, politics, economics, suffering, healing, compassion, love, mechanism design, and of course an ongoing hero's journey to start new cities and countries. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbGt06ug/rand-paul-in-a-bathrobe-people-mistake-ai-photo.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rand-paul-in-a-bathrobe-people-mistake-ai-photo.htmlSome wise guys on X (Twitter) have been posting parody photos of politicians in flamboyant (or less than covering) clothing as a joke about the new relaxed Senate dress code. The above photo was posted yesterday with the following “alarmist” text: Jeff Charles, An Awful Pundit @jeffcharlesjr BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul shows up to work at the Capitol barefoot in a red bathrobe after Senate dress code change. He's not even a Democrat./peter-brotzmann-has-gone-silent.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-brotzmann-has-gone-silent.htmlA special Friday post in honor of the remarkable German reedist On October 3, 1987 a gust of air pushed me back into my seat, but it really felt like I had been flung into the wall behind me. That powerful gust came from the tenor saxophone of Peter Brötzmann, the singular German reedist who died yesterday at age 82 after struggling with health issues over the last couple of years./playwright-lorraine-hansberry-is.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/playwright-lorraine-hansberry-is.htmlNote: Like most stories we publish that focus on Croton people, this article is free to all readers. But local journalism needs your support, so that we can do the in-depth reporting villagers need to be well-informed. See the bottom of the story for more details about how you can help. Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright most famous for “A Raisin in the Sun,” came to Croton in 1961 for peace, quiet, and the ability to write without the constant interruptions of New York City life./poppy-seed-ice-cream-no-churn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poppy-seed-ice-cream-no-churn.htmlHey there! If you’ve found your way here but are not yet subscribed for the weekly newsletter, you can do that here. You will never miss a recipe or a story, and I’ll be eternally grateful for your support.When was the last time a photograph stopped you in your tracks? In the over-saturated, overstimulating world of social media, it takes a lot for an image to make me truly pay attention./post-to-the-host-e63.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/post-to-the-host-e63.htmlHello Garrison, I’m a card carrying, bona fide, lifelong liberal. But to be honest, I miss having an opposition party that’s true to their mission statement. Used to be that the Republican message could be stated simply: reduce the size of government, pass the resulting savings back to the people in the form of tax reduction and deficit reduction. Allow folks to do, in their personal, private lives, whatever they’re drawn to do, as long as the government is not asked to pay for it./pride-profile-john-rehm.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pride-profile-john-rehm.htmlWhen I first started this newsletter, the Pride Profiles I shared were destined for the 2020 National Order of the Arrow Conference, which as we all know now, was cancelled due to the pandemic. In the time since, I’ve kept the Pride Profiles coming and expanded the scope beyond members of the OA. Getting to know LGBTQ+ Scouters from across the country has been a true delight for me, and I hope for you as well./proper-controls-in-ecological-experiments.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/proper-controls-in-ecological-experiments.htmlFollowing up on my rather popular recent rant on pseudoreplication, I here share some thoughts about proper controls in ecological experiments. This is an equally important topic (and incidentally this was also completely botched in the infuriatingly terrible preprint we recently read in lab meeting). A common misconception about controls is to do nothing, to leave the experimental unit alone, to not add anything for example. Nothing could be further from the truth./providence-makes-significant-recruiting.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/providence-makes-significant-recruiting.html“Kim really believes he can bring five star guys here.” That’s what I was told during a visit to Providence’s campus about a month after Kim English was hired to replace Ed Cooley — at a time when so many were questioning what was ahead in Friartown. From outside of the program the departure of Cooley brought about questions regarding the future of Friar basketball. The national narratives were filled with talk of ceilings and NIL challenges for such a small school, but internally there was confidence that something substantial was established in Providence, and the Friars were built to last with their new head coach at the helm./punk-is-dead-and-so-are-we.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/punk-is-dead-and-so-are-we.htmlOver the last week and a half I’ve been working on fulfilling my dream of writing an unpublishable 1200-page novel that nobody will ever read. It proceeds apace, but I haven’t given much thought to updating this thing in the meantime. So let’s see what sort of quodlibetical gibberish I can throw together in a pinch. After invoking the concept in our last episode, I figured it would be a good time to return to and leaf through the late Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?/quiadaiyn-restaurant.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quiadaiyn-restaurant.html🇲🇽 MÉXICO (Oaxaca) 📍 12326 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista, Westside 🅿️ Street parking 🥤 Full Bar 🌱 Vegetarian Friendly 📸 All photos by Jared Cohee for Eat the World Los AngelesHISTORICAL ARTICLES are brought over from eattheworldla.com to make sure our Substack content is constantly growing and as full of depth as possible. These will never be behind the paywall. 📆 Original Article 14 December 2020Sometimes when you visit Quiadaiyn in Mar Vista, the sandwich board in front will have a colorful mountaintop drawn with an explanation of both the meaning and pronunciation of their name./r-o-l-a-i-d-s-spells-relief.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/r-o-l-a-i-d-s-spells-relief.htmlI’m sure my readers who aren’t Royals fans get tired of my Royals references, and I promise, I really do try to keep myself in check. But in this case, I think it’s appropriate. I want to talk about HDH. That’s Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, and Greg Holland, for you non-Royals fans. And yes, I realize they don’t fit into the era we focus on in PBN, but bear with me a minute./regret-and-remorse-fe3.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/regret-and-remorse-fe3.htmlIn the sticky heat of a midsummer day, when I am around six years old, I sit at the counter of a smoky bar. The walls are brown and the room is gloomy and the air is stagnant and most of the lunchtime crowd has left. Propped on a stool, my legs swinging, the bar is a bit too high, but I hold myself up by my elbows while the adults wait for my decision./remember-that-movie-about-the-gamestop.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remember-that-movie-about-the-gamestop.htmlAmid the COVID-19 pandemic, one Wall Street story took the world by storm. The idea was that retail traders, people like me and you, were able to buy stock and change market conditions. Due to a popular Reddit forum known as r/wallstreetbets and a YouTube personality, countless individuals fled to purchase shares in the video game company GameStop (GME). Some people bought $300 worth of shares giving them almost 100 shares in the company and when that stock went on its epic climb, they had a joyous payday./remembering-christopher-hitchens.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-christopher-hitchens.htmlShare Critical Mass Every year at this time I am reminded of two events. My late mother’s birthday, the birthday of my wife’s late mother, and the death of my dear friend Christopher Hitchens, 12 years ago. I usually spend some time watching clips of some of his amazing talks. Here is one I shared today on twitter, an awe inspiring message about the beauty of science, and the need to maintain doubt and wonder:/retired-numbers-texas-rangers.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retired-numbers-texas-rangers.htmlThe Texas Rangers don’t have a particularly high profile. That’s partly because of their name. Clubs tied to states evoke vague geographic links, almost as if they were floating in space. The Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies aren’t closely associated in the public mind with Phoenix or Denver. Nor do the Rangers seem tightly connected to Dallas-Fort Worth. Lack of success is also a problem. The Rangers, who were born in 1961 as the Washington Senators, have never won a World Series./review-hench-by-natalie-zina-walschots.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-hench-by-natalie-zina-walschots.htmlAs promised, here’s a slightly expanded version of the review I started writing for the NYTBR before learning that it had already been covered by someone else. I just want everyone to read this wonderful book. I expected Natalie Zina Walschots’ Hench (William Morrow, hardcover, $27.99) to be a high-concept, light-hearted punch-up, the literary equivalent of leaning back and putting your feet up on the desk of superhero movie franchises. It surprised me completely./review-ted-lasso-international-break.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-ted-lasso-international-break.htmlLast week, it turns out, was the internet’s collective breaking point with Ted Lasso’s third season. Whether it was Slate’s Sam Adams reflecting on the “civil war” among fans or Vulture convening a whole roundtable of critics to dissect its “major character flaw,” the public discourse around the show formally took a turn toward judgment as the season headed into its final act. It’s fitting, then, that “International Break” is a crossroads of sorts for two of the season’s most troublesome storylines./review-the-curse-the-fire-burns-on.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-curse-the-fire-burns-on.htmlRemember when I called last week’s episode “less viscerally disturbing and more wickedly entertaining”? So much for that. “The Fire Burns On” may be the shortest episode of The Curse, clocking in at only 38 minutes, but it feels like one of the longest. There’s still dark humor here, certainly, but the prevailing emotion is dread. This is an episode packed to the brim with evil vibes. Let’s start near the end, with the scene that has remained unpleasantly lodged in my memory since I watched it: Abshir’s chiropractor appointment./review-the-dave-clark-five-glad-all.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-dave-clark-five-glad-all.htmlTracks: 1) Glad All Over; 2) All Of The Time; 3) Stay; 4) Chaquita; 5) Do You Love Me; 6) Bits And Pieces; 7) I Know You; 8) No Time To Lose; 9) Doo Dah; 10) Time; 11) She’s All Mine. REVIEW It is extremely easy to laugh off the so-called «Tottenham Sound» (which, to the best of my knowledge, was never represented by anybody other than the Dave Clark Five) as a clumsily marketed attempt to build up a commercial counter-proposition to the Mersey Beat — in fact, this is precisely what all the hip-minded artists and their fans had been doing for half a century./review-the-gilded-age-his-grace-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-gilded-age-his-grace-the.htmlLet no one complain that The Gilded Age moves too slowly. Or is that just Rev. Forte cutting to the chase? He’s matched by Ada, though, who goes from foisting off the vicar’s roses on Marian to accepting his marriage proposal in record time. And with no hesitation, either! Nay, with enthusiasm! We’re all so proud of Ada.  So in case you thought the season was only building up to Opera Rumble, surprise!/review-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-695.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-695.htmlLet’s start this week with the subplot to “Local News,” which I think is the part of this episode that will matter the most to the overall direction of this What We Do in the Shadows season—and is also the part I found the most genuinely affecting. For the past couple of weeks, the story of Guillermo’s half-transition to vampirism has been mostly shunted aside, but here it reaches what could be a turning point, for the character and for the show./richard-gilmore-is-too-close-to-home.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richard-gilmore-is-too-close-to-home.htmlWelcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqaKbmJa%2FpXnGoqOmp6Kaeqq%2FjK2mqGWToby0sYytpmagn6Ky/roboscout-revival.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roboscout-revival.htmlThere should have been three. But tragedy struck when a near mint, boxed, example being shipped over from the US was mercilessly intercepted and crushed by US Customs for being in possession of a battery. Sadly one less Roboscout on the planet. I had a deal of sympathy for the seller. Roboscout’s large SLA is difficult to remove, even after detachment of 15 miniature Molex PCB plugs and extraction of the main board./ron-desantis-is-not-a-fascist.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ron-desantis-is-not-a-fascist.htmlMany things about my NYT op-ed antagonized readers, but perhaps none more so than my insistence that liberals shouldn’t call Ron DeSantis a fascist. My case wasn’t just a function of the fact that, in terms of electoral tactics, hurling hyperbolic epithets could backfire on liberals. Beyond that, I really don’t think DeSantis is a fascist, even after last week’s flood of news about numerous flagrantly illiberal bills being introduced by members of the Republican majority in the Florida legislature./rose-breasted-grosbeak.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rose-breasted-grosbeak.htmlSomewhere, hidden up there in the tree, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak has a lot to say. His song is operatic. I can get only a glimpse of his strawberry-red cravat before he disappears again into the leaves. A Rose-breasted Grosbeak’s song is full of variety and feeling. Here’s a 28-second sample, recorded on my phone as the bird sang in my tree. Note the dramatic slides in pitch and (near the end) a fast trill./sangre-chicana-vs-ms-1-is-the-real.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sangre-chicana-vs-ms-1-is-the-real.htmlAll professional wrestling is a simulation to varying degrees. It is a depiction of competitive combat achieved through a certain amount of cooperation, planning, and predetermination of a result. All those elements exist on spectrum, of course. There could be pure synchronicity and harmony between competitors, things can be riffed out in a sort of mutually agreed upon sparring session, or everything could break down and turn into genuine violence between the participants./seeing-the-future.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seeing-the-future.htmlHowdy. So much ground to cover this week… LA ANNIVERSARY This past Sunday (3/3), I celebrated (by not really doing anything special) the 24th anniversary of my move to Los Angeles. I’d been living in Boston, but traveled back to Long Island to drop a bunch of things at my parents’ house so I was flying out of JFK Airport on a one-way ticket. I still remember taxiing on the runway with my cat Brandy at my feet./sethalvo.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sethalvo.htmlSeth AlvoI'm a seasoned video creator, avid cyclist, and self-taught bike mechanic. I enjoy the privilege of engaging with millions, sharing my insights and experiences. Living in Western NC's mountains, I enjoy life with my family and our weird looking dog. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbSx06GYpa6f/sherrie-sweeney-uses-maslows-hierarchy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sherrie-sweeney-uses-maslows-hierarchy.htmlAbraham Maslow was an American-psychologist perhaps best known for creating The Hierarchy of Needs (1943). Maslow’s theory of psychological health was based on the belief that individuals need to fulfill innate human needs in succession in order to achieve self-actualization. At its base, Maslow’s pyramid situates physiological needs like air, food, water, shelter, clothing and sleep. The absolute basics needed for human existence. Next is, safety and security in the forms of health, employment, family, property, security and social ability./he-talks-in-stereo-part-1-singerguitarist.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/he-talks-in-stereo-part-1-singerguitarist.htmlThe interview portions have been lightly edited for length and clarity. He started playing music at the age of 10, having also shown an early aptitude for art. By age 14, Gary Myrick was writing his first songs, and by 18, had formed his first all-original band, a sort of glam/pop/punk trio called Smiley. Gary Myrick was born in Dallas, in a state which has a deep, abiding, and historically significant love for the blues./soft-skills-every-software-engineer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/soft-skills-every-software-engineer.htmlWelcome to Developing Skills - Skills for Developers looking to develop their careers. Mastering your soft skills is essential if you want to progress to senior software engineer and beyond. Above senior, you’ll spend a large amount of your time working with and influencing others By developing self-awareness, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, open-mindedness, time management, adaptability, patience, and communication skills, you become a well-rounded software engineer with a skill-set that extends beyond coding./some-great-finds-at-zavy-kitchen.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-great-finds-at-zavy-kitchen.htmlZavy Kitchen opened this spring in the East Village, in the spot where Franka pizza once lived. It’s definitely worth any Vietnamese-Korean-Thai-food lover’s attention. Who/What/Where: The restaurant is owned by the same owners of Pho Real, on 4th and Court. When the group announced their new place on the Pho Real facebook page, they said that Pho Real w… ncG1vNJzZmivmaO2rrvRmqWvoZyhsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2irn6KybrPRnpitZZaeu6W%2FjJqrZrKRq8Zut8itmqGdng%3D%3D/spiced-tea-scones.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spiced-tea-scones.htmlHello friends, As a freelance creative, I wear many hats. I always chuckle quietly to myself when someone asks the dreaded ‘so what do you actually do?’ Mainly because my efforts to give a short, clean answer usually fails and I end up waffling, trying to succinctly explain why although I am a baker, no you cannot place an order with me for your birthday or wedding cake. Some weeks, I’m knee deep in recipe development, where I’ll be working to a brief for a magazine or brand, coming up with new ideas and testing them until they’re right./star-spangled-whitney-houston.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/star-spangled-whitney-houston.htmlAlways at the top of lists of best national anthem performances, Whitney Houston’s heady, rousing version was performed 31 years ago this week at Super Bowl XXV on January 27th, 1991. I was happy to find this new recording, cleaned up and in 4K, available on YouTube, replacing the scratchy amateur copy that’s been available for years. [Note July 2022: the new recording disappeared due to copyright issues, so we’re back to the scratchy version!/video-game-insights-state-of-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/video-game-insights-state-of-the.html2023 was a record year for Steam. Games worth $9 billion were sold (excluding microtransactions). This accounts for more than 580 million copies, with almost 14 thousand games released. The platform's peak concurrent users (CCU) exceeded 33.6 million. Game sales on Steam grew by 17.8% in 2023 compared to the previous year. The platform size in 2023 is twice as large as it was in 2019. Baldur’s Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Lethal Company, Sons of the Forest, and Starfield - leaders on Steam in terms of the number of copies sold (I’ve excluded free games)./step-by-step-roti-prata-guide.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/step-by-step-roti-prata-guide.htmlIn my last email, I shared about the incredible style of prata that I encountered in Melbourne & an accompanying recipe. I made a batch today, so I thought I’d show you step-by-step photos in case my recipe instructions in the last newsletter weren’t clear. I’m going to show you how to achieve really good results without having to flip or use any special equipment like a stand-mixer. The following measurements make five pratas./sticky-tape.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sticky-tape.htmlBenny the Bull is my hero. Benny is the little blue beast who got the goods on Dora of Dora the Explorer. He established early on that she was a hidebound and callous little nut. She preferred to lecture through the fourth wall of the Nickelodeon TV show than to actually protect the residents of her cartoon kingdom in a timely matter. Does that sound like anyone you know in real life?/style-on-the-streets-of-japan.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/style-on-the-streets-of-japan.htmlI hadn’t planned on snapping street fashion on my trip to Japan, but from the minute I stepped onto the streets of Osaka, it captured my attention. We talk a lot about personal style on here — discovering it, expressing it, refining it — and in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, the outfits themselves were indeed fascinating. At the same time, observing the street style with fresh eyes at an individual level had me thinking about the culture and society in which these people live./taylor-swift-argylle-a-pseudonym.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-argylle-a-pseudonym.htmlWelcome to a new week and a brand new edition of Publishing Confidential. It’s taken me a few days to gather information and wrap my head around what I’m writing about today, but I think you’ll find it intriguing. Shoutout to the reader who brought this to my attention—you know who you are! Let’s dive in: THE WHAT: Bantam, an imprint of Penguin Random House, released the book Argylle by the “author” Elly Conway on January 9, 2024./taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review.htmlThere’s a hilarious story from Marc Maron’s Thinky Pain special, where Maron recalls doing a show with Bill Hicks. He says that he asked Hicks if he could perform first on the show, but Hicks wanted to go first. While the late comedy great got on stage, Maron went to the bathroom. When he returned, the room was silent with “a suction to it.” Maron said that Hicks was at the front of the stage “screaming” at a woman in the audience./tbm-212-a-problem-vs-the-problem.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tbm-212-a-problem-vs-the-problem.htmlUnexpected time to write today… (I wrote a post about Product-Reality Fit yesterday). Have you ever been in a discussion about the definition of a problem and found the whole conversation going in circles? You're not alone. Talking about problems is problematic. Consider something as simple (it is not simple) as the distinction between “a problem” and “the problem”. (Caveat, this post will seem basic for people skilled in RCA, safety science, incident analysis, human factors, etc./pitt-substack-teaching-kids-about.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pitt-substack-teaching-kids-about.htmlExcerpt from Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT): My children were about eight and ten years old when I read about a mother in Georgia whose daughter was removed from their home because she had allowed her to play unattended in a park. I told my children about what I’d read, and instructed them thus: “If you are ever approached by someone… ncG1vNJzZmibpKHBs7XBrqWempyktG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iomanBbr%2FUm6qtmZOgerWxwJyfoqaXYriqsNJmmJunpak%3D/techfund.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/techfund.htmlTech Investments By Tech Fund In-depth analysis of quality and disruptive tech stocks. Examples of successful multi-year investments include Nvidia, ASML, Amazon, Google and Shopify. I'll be researching similar names here, as well as the key topics in the tech sector. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbWxwqGdrqaU/teddy-wayne-on-writing-and-the-winner.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teddy-wayne-on-writing-and-the-winner.htmlOne of the fun parts about getting older and persisting in the same general area of activity is connecting to others in the same field do the same, and seeing their careers progress. For me, one of those people is Teddy Wayne whose new novel The Winner will be available wherever books are sold starting this coming Tuesday. My first connection to Teddy came way back when I was editing the McSweeney’s website and he was one of the most frequent contributors./the-marry-him-essay.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-marry-him-essay.htmlYesterday, an essay in The Cut went viral, just as it was designed to do. In any moment, but especially the current “divorce moment,” this piece is clickbait, a guaranteed hate-read, and fodder for collective outrage. In the essay, Grazie Sophia Christie writes about the benefits of having strategically married at a young age, and to an older man. At 20, she recognized an “unfairness” built into heterosexual women’s lives: they find themselves “clawing up the cliff-face of adulthood,” trying to discover themselves and establish a career, while racing against a ticking biological clock./the-blackwashing-of-the-fine-art.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-blackwashing-of-the-fine-art.htmlDavid Zwirner recently hired black gallerist Ebony L. Harris to run a new “all-black” commercial gallery in Manhattan. Major strides have been made towards getting black artists more attention, Zwirnertold the New York Times, but art world employment remains stunningly white.  Shouldn’t we then celebrate this announcement as what social justice for marginalized people looks like? Isn’t the world’s second-richest art dealer simply empowering Harris, and thus, empowering black people in the art world and beyond?/2018-2-5-the-best-real-artist-names-and-the-stories-behind-their-stage-names.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2018-2-5-the-best-real-artist-names-and-the-stories-behind-their-stage-names.htmlThere’s something about finding out an artist’s real name is completely different from their stage name. Like you’re trying to tell me Chief Keef’s mom really just named him Keith Farrelle? That might be a bad example, but either way, these artists have some pretty epic birthnames and some interesting (or nonexistent) stories behind their more recognizable aliases. As a little quiz, I'll give you a couple real names and you see if you can guess the artist name:/the-case-for-assigned-seats.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-case-for-assigned-seats.htmlFor those who have read my posts on here or listened to our Broken Copier conversations, I think one of my most consistent messages is the importance of leaning into student choice and voice. I don’t believe our education system prioritizes student agency nearly enough; and I don’t believe our education system seeks out and responds to student feedback nearly enough. It might be weird, then, that one of my strongest beliefs about the foundation of a classroom community is the importance of assigned seats within it./company-man-the-data-behind-glenn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/company-man-the-data-behind-glenn.htmlConservative provocateur Glenn Greenwald takes pride in his consistency and principles—especially when it comes to taking the media to task.  Over the course of 16-year career, Greenwald has pilloried conservative and liberal media outlets alike for what he sees as their refusal to challenge power and ask hard questions. Those critiques have been biting, and often essential; and no corporate media outlet escaped criticism. Up until recently, it didn’t matter whether the targets were conservatives or liberals, Greenwald took them all on./the-double-kettlebell-clean-and-jerk.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-double-kettlebell-clean-and-jerk.htmlAttention StrengthAxis Monthly Program Design Subscribers. I will be offering my personal discount codes on all Thorne Supplements - 25%, Vivo Barefoot Shoes - 30%, The Kettlebell Backpack - $20 off, and One-On-One Personal Training - 10%. PAID SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published“If you could only perform one exercise for the rest of your life, what would it be?”As a lifelong strength athlete, I’m often asked this rhetorical question by well-meaning, but naive students./the-formula-1-sexual-harassment-scandal.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-formula-1-sexual-harassment-scandal.htmlOver the past month and a half, the Formula One racing world has been roiled by reports that Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, winner of 13 world titles, sexually harassed an employee of Red Bull (now revealed to be his personal assistant, Fiona Hewitson) by sending her sexual messages and images, including, as it seems, a picture of his penis. As the feminist machinery springs into action, the case illuminates, once again, how murky many harassment allegations really are—which may not be enough to save Horner, who is once again under investigation./the-great-blues-improvisor-to-rl.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-blues-improvisor-to-rl.htmlWhere do I begin to talk about RL Boyce, the greatest improvisationalist of the Hill Country Blues sound? RL Boyce died yesterday morning peacefully in his home in Como, Mississippi after being diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. His was a late diagnosis, a diagnosis that the cancer had already spread throughout his body. Damn it, RL. I first met RL Boyce at one of Otha Turner’s annual picnics./the-great-mistake-the-story-of-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-mistake-the-story-of-the.html(Pedestrians crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1905) With Brooklyn’s status as the newest “Hippest Place on Earth”, comes some nostalgic feelings about the “Great Mistake”, the consolidation of New York City. On that fateful day, January 1, 1898, Brooklyn, the city, disappeared, and Brooklyn, the “outer borough”, was born. (As were the Bronx, Queens and Stat… ncG1vNJzZmirpa%2Bur7rErKeepJyau2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ismJp6qL7EmqtmpZmowaK3xGaroZ1dqMGwvthmpp9lpJ2y/the-haters-have-arrived-on-youtube.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-haters-have-arrived-on-youtube.htmlHello warriors, how are you? Well…..I think I say this every week lol….but SO much has happened! I truly thought that my newsletter would struggle for content as lets face it, its not like I go anywhere! But every week so much seems to be happening! YouTube has gone mental! I was saying this to myself: As you (might) know, I switched off the consultancy as there was too many bookings./dan-and-whits-the-heart-of-the-town.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dan-and-whits-the-heart-of-the-town.htmlUPDATE: THIS SCREENING ON AUGUST 26 HAS BEEN CANCELLED. The filmmaker has released the film on her website. Remember during the darkest of COVID days when Dan Fraser had the idea to hold a mass outdoor haircut fest in Dan & Whit’s parking lot, proceeds to benefit two Norwich hairdressers whose salons had been required to close? The town of Norwich, Vermont was beautified by 22 newly trimmed heads, and bystanders took a therapeutic, communal deep breath amid some laughter./the-history-of-mr-october.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-history-of-mr-october.htmlThe graphic flashed on Fox’s telecast last night and made its way across all the social medias platforms from MLB’s account. The eerie numerical similarities between Reggie Jackson, the original Mr. October, and Corey Seager, the latest Mr. October. Seager is on the verge of joining Jackson as the only position players to win two World Series Most Valuable Player awards. They are both left-handed. They both enjoy swinging at the first pitch./the-idol-episode-3-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-idol-episode-3-review.htmlThere was no 20-minute sex sequence this week, so we already won. This time around on The Idol, we delve deeper into Tedros’ background and the hold he has on his minions Chloe and Isaak. Elsewhere, Leia lives through her personal nightmare, Xander pushes for a scandalous album cover, and we unpack Jocelyn’s dark past & the hairbrush from hell. If I were Leia and a walking rattail were critiquing my driving (“you’re fucking up the vibe”) I would shoot him on sight./the-impossible-burger-is-bad-for.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-impossible-burger-is-bad-for.htmlPlant based “meat” has gone mainstream. You can buy the Impossible and Beyond burgers at Target, you can grab and Impossible Whopper at Burger King, and you can get a Beyond Sausage breakfast sandwich at Dunkin. Apparently there are even Impossible Chicken nuggets available now. I have patients come into my office all the time to tell me (with real pride in their voice) that they’ve given up meat, with the implication being that their diet is really healthy now./the-just-world-fallacy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-just-world-fallacy.htmlThe “just-world fallacy” is a cognitive bias — a feeling more than an idea — that people get what they deserve. The rich and beautiful must be wonderful, even if their goodness is not immediately evident, while those who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune must have done something to bring it on themselves. Maybe they’re dim, or lazy, or cruel, or profane. Whatever. It’s their fault. Somehow or other./the-kobayashi-maru-test.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-kobayashi-maru-test.html“Kobayashi Maru” is a Star Trek term that people who are not Star Trek fans know the meaning of. The phrase "Kobayashi Maru" has entered the popular lexicon as a reference to a no-win scenario. The term is also sometimes used to invoke Kirk's decision to "change the conditions of the test." In Star Trek stories, “Kobayashi Maru” is a test designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets, by placing them in a no-win scenario./sinead-oconnor-i-am-stretched-on-your-grave.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sinead-oconnor-i-am-stretched-on-your-grave.htmlLast week the world lost a fierce talent in Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor (still known professionally by that name, she changed her legal name to Shuhada Sadaqat in 2018 after converting to Islam). Her unmistakable voice and look were striking on the surface, and in the depths, the woman most knew as Sinéad O’Connor possessed righteous anger and a fearless magnetism for controversy. For years the media seemed to feel that because O’Connor had suffered with abuse and mental health challenges herself that she was not fit to criticize those who caused suffering in the religious community./the-latest-epstein-files.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-latest-epstein-files.htmlOK, so another bunch of filings were released this evening pertaining to the civil litigation between Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell. The reason this is so important is because it was the depositions and discovery in this civil suit which was settled in 2017, that wound up being the backbone of later federal criminal indictments for sex crimes against Jeffrey Epstein and later, Ghislaine Maxwell. (Epstein died before going to trial and Maxwell is serving a 20 year sentence)./the-life-and-times-of-turk-broda.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-life-and-times-of-turk-broda.htmlTurk Broda was one of the best money goaltenders of all-time, and by that I mean he played his best when it really mattered most. With five Stanley Cup's and a pair of Stanley Cup's, he's certainly the greatest netminder the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise has ever seen. "When the playoff bucks were on the line," noted Toronto Star writer Gary Lautens wrot… ncG1vNJzZmimmKG1qr%2FTqKmyZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9OhnGakmZuybq3NnWStoZ2awG67xWarrqqbYq%2Bzu8Oa/the-living-force-is-the-perfect-prequel.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-living-force-is-the-perfect-prequel.htmlThe Galactic Republic isn’t what it used to be — and neither is the Jedi Order. Many years ago, Jedi were stationed in outposts across the galaxy to better serve the worlds and communities most in need. Now, many of these outposts are closing. And it’s becoming rare for members of the Jedi Council especially to find a reason to leave the temple on Coruscant. A year out from the events of The Phantom Menace, are the Jedi really serving the galaxy as they vow to do?/the-lonely-bitter-plague-herzogs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lonely-bitter-plague-herzogs.htmlWerner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre might be my favorite cinematic version of the Dracula story (followed very closely by Francis Ford Coppola’s lavish, erotic and blood-soaked Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though the two are very different.) I think it takes the top spot mainly because of how it doubles down on the idea of the wicked Count as a metaphor for disease and pestilence. Dracula, as a character, has always had to balance his twin needs for affection and apocalypse, and it’s cool to see Herzog play with the former as almost a victim of the latter./why-friends-is-making-me-and-perhaps.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-friends-is-making-me-and-perhaps.htmlI wasn’t a huge Matthew Perry fan, and I wasn’t even a super-fan of Friends. And yet, ever since his death last week, I’ve felt an intense urge to watch old episodes of the show. Apparently otherpeople have been craving Friends, too, and it’s made me wonder: where is this coming from? And also, when I succumbed to my cravings and started watching it, why did I feel such a sense of nostalgia and longing?/the-making-of-audio-twos-top-billin.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-making-of-audio-twos-top-billin.htmlWelcome to Micro-Chop, a newsletter dissecting beatmaking, DJing, music production, rapping, and sampling — written by me, Gino Sorcinelli. Micro-Chop publishes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for paid subscribers. Free subscribers receive Monday’s newsletter. Give feedback, send questions, or just say hi by emailing me at gino@bookshelfbeats.com. Long before he programmed one of the most-famous drum patterns in hip-hop history, Milk Dee started rhyming at a mere nine years old. A true pioneer, the Audio Two MC spit his first rhymes during a time when rap radio shows didn’t exist and young listeners hunted down their favorite artists on DJ mixes and bootlegs./the-mariko-aoki-phenomenon.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mariko-aoki-phenomenon.htmlIt’s Sunday morning. You’re walking around your favorite local bookstore. A collection of new and used books stacked from floor to ceiling. A rickety step stool is placed in a corner to reach the top shelves. The owner’s cat is hiding beneath a plush armchair. Perhaps you’re browsing the staff recommendations. Maybe these books are displayed on a separate bookshelf (like at The Regulator Bookshop), or propped up on a round table (like at Letters Bookshop), or remain on the shelves that line the stores perimeter, distinguished by index cards hanging from the shelve’s ledge (like at Books Are Magic)./the-molly-shannon-vehicle-superstar.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-molly-shannon-vehicle-superstar.html1999’s Superstar has the distinction of being the first, last and only Saturday Night Live movie with a female protagonist and a female star.  Some folks ignorantly claim that 1994’s It’s Pat was cowritten by a woman who also portrayed the title character but the hilarity of Pat comes from the fact that NO ONE knows the character’s gender. On a similar level, no one can ever know the gender of Julia Sweeney, the funny person who breathed life into that most timeless and least problematic of comedy icons./the-most-infuriating-money-grab-in.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-infuriating-money-grab-in.htmlUntil recently, I could never quite pinpoint the most maddening act of preying on our wallets in youth sports. The contenders are endless. Charging gate or parking fees on top of hefty tournament fees? Gross. $6 for a bottle of Kirkland brand water? Puh-lease. Clubs with regular (mandatory) uniform updates that are strikingly similar to the previous design? Annoying. But there is one money grab so egregious that it deserves its own throne on the mantle of greed./the-negro-speaks-of-rivers.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers.htmlMy autocorrect frequently corrects “writing” to “worrying”. This persists even after I’ve taught the algorithm to be less inquisitive, and better informed. It’s definitely not a message from the universe, I thought, until yesterday, when my phone autocorrected “reading” to “raging”. Now this is a bit more serious, and somewhat disconcerting in its philosophical and political implications. The whole thing got me thinking, and, in truth, the rightful mistake autocorrect should be making is converting “thinking” to “writing”./the-new-york-bar-50.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-york-bar-50.htmlGreat list! And I've been to more than I thought considering I am more a wine drinker. a collection of unsolicited thoughts! - Bar Goto Niban really does have great bar snacks. Once when there my friend and I got their celery snack and we still talk about it (celery of all things!) - I haven't been to The Campbell since the before times but I did try and go once in late 2021 and the line was super long and more sceney than I remember./the-physical-presence-of-wahab-riaz.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-physical-presence-of-wahab-riaz.htmlIf you have not heard this podcast, it is certainly worth your time. Play Wicket Cricket Manager Wanna work in sport? With inputs from Wahab Riaz steaming in was a physical presence. You felt him coming in; he was visceral. He was stamping towards the wicket, forcing his way there. It is all shoulders and spit. Every step was a thump; it looked like he was trying to battle the crease and hurl down one final missile to win it all./the-physics-of-interstellers-gargantua.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-physics-of-interstellers-gargantua.htmlTip: For the best experience, read this article while listening to Interstellar’s theme here. The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Greetings, fellow scientist. Black Hole! You may react like this: “ Something like that Gargantua from Interstellar? Yeah, I know what it is. It is a region in space from where nothing can escape.” Congratulations! you know the most simple way to define a black hole./the-pizza-oven-in-our-minds.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pizza-oven-in-our-minds.htmlI’ve passed this old strip plaza in Riverdale, Maryland, in Prince George’s County, a million times. Usually it was on the way to my favorite Chinese buffet, out in Lanham. I always stopped and noticed it, because it looked so retro. I never, however, thought there was anything particularly interesting in it. On a Maryland Facebook group I follow, I saw an announcement a few weeks ago: a pizza joint called Pizza Oven in Riverdale, the last of an erstwhile chain that once stretched to the Eastern Shore, was closing./aethelburh.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aethelburh.htmlÆlfgif-who? provides short biographies of early medieval English women. Click on the podcast player if you’d like to hear this newsletter read aloud in my appealing Yorkshire accent. Long term Ælfgif-who? readers might remember Queen Bertha, a Christian woman who travelled from Francia to Kent in the late sixth century to marry a non-Christian king, Æthelberht. We explored the possibility that it was Bertha’s influence that led to the eventual conversion of the king and the people of Kent to Christianity./the-retconning-of-george-floyd-part.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-retconning-of-george-floyd-part.html(Note: This is part two of a three-part series on the effort to retroactively justify Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. You can read part one here.) In my first post about the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis and a column by Coleman Hughes promoting it, I looked at the false claim that what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd couldn’t have been illegal because it was taught by the Minneapolis Police Department./the-root-of-gen-zs-hyperindividualism.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-root-of-gen-zs-hyperindividualism.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Paid subscribers first learned about Michelle Skidelsky’s work a few weeks ago in the Sunday Scroll … just saying. —Kate TikTok’s For You page algorithm has the unique ability to drop its users directly in the middle of an argument. Already several stitches deep, you’re forced to work backward for context. That’s confusing in the best of times, but even more so when the argument is about something as simple as “we should generally be polite to one another./the-sahm-rule-step-by-step.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sahm-rule-step-by-step.htmlToday’s post is a how-to on calculating the Sahm rule. It’s for anyone who wants to apply it themselves or apply the logic to other data. Alternatively, you can follow the monthly updates on FRED—that’s what I do. Share The Sahm rule is based on the U.S. unemployment rate (U-3). You can download the data from FRED—a national treasure—here. The unemployment rate was 3.9% in October and has been below 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s./a-summary-key-ideas-from-outlive.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-summary-key-ideas-from-outlive.htmlIn past posts, I’ve mentioned Peter Attia, MD. And I’ll state it again that I am so glad that I finally tuned into his podcast The Drive about 6 months ago. Despite being a guest on several podcasts myself, I actually never listen to them…. until one of my inner circle friends kept urging me to give this one a listen. He knows me well - curious, evidence-based and interested in the science and art of health, fitness, functional capacity and wellness …./the-second-yom-kippur-war.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-second-yom-kippur-war.htmlIt was hot and humid when we gathered outside on Sunday night, in the courtyard of the community center about 100 yards from our house, for Kol Nidre. Despite the heat, the singing was nice and the mood was lovely—Yom Kippur was off to a good start. And though no one mentioned it, we all felt it—hovering above everything transpiring there was the knowledge that this was the fiftieth anniversary of the war./the-sophiology-of-sergius-bulgakov-684.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sophiology-of-sergius-bulgakov-684.htmlAfter two posts, you might be asking, "What's the win here in exploring Bulgakov's sophiology? What's to be gained by thinking about this strange, new thing?"  Well, I hope you saw one win in the last post. The panentheistic vision of Bulgakov's sophiology reveals to us that all of creation, because it exists, because it is real, is founded upon God's divinity. Everything is spiritual. And this, I would argue, is a critical and valuable insight./we-are-approaching-the-end-of-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-are-approaching-the-end-of-the.htmlIf you ask someone to visualize the word "influencer" they will probably think of someone with a hyper curated persona, posting gorgeous photos from exotic locations, they’ll also usually picture someone posting sponsored content.  We’ve all seen sponsored content around the Internet whether it’s gummy bear hair care vitamins or luxury bags or travel destinations. Often these photos or videos are accompanied with the hashtag #spon, or #ad, and most of the time it's not labeled at all./the-state-of-the-newsletter-2023.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-state-of-the-newsletter-2023.htmlAt the beginning of this year, this newsletter had 767 subscribers. Today, it has 4,235. Along with that subscriber growth, my 2023 newsletters have been viewed nearly 200k times across 113 countries. In celebration of this growth, I want to highlight some of the most popular posts from the previous 365 days, along with giving all of you a huge shoutout for the support. Please have a safe and healthy end of the year!/the-ten-year-long-catfish-the-story.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ten-year-long-catfish-the-story.htmlWelcome to the Brown History Newsletter. If you’re enjoying this labour of love, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber. Your contribution would help pay the writers and illustrators and support this weekly publication. If you like to submit a writing piece, please send me a pitch by email at brownhistory1947@gmail.com. Don’t forget to check out our SHOP and our Podcast. This is a tale about deception. Wait, no. That isn’t really true./the-stuffle.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-stuffle.htmlI’ve never been a huge fan of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a meal as brown and heavy as...a very heavy thing that is brown (I am too tired for simile at the moment). Sliced turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and brown gravy make for a dull color palette, which in my professional opinion, is even duller on the human palate. But I suppose most things are dull on the palate, since it is located on the roof of one’s mouth (something I only just learned this morning, which is an embarrassing thing for a dentist’s son to admit)./taylor-swift-manicure.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-manicure.htmlThank you! I also found them deeply unsettling and thought they were press-ons (I feel like Olive & June actually claimed credit, but they may have a press-on line soooo). Nothing wrong with press-ons, but she has too much money for her nails to come out looking like that - and if she does them herself, how she is not a pro by this point? My sister could do a perfect French mani (yes obviously we're millenials) by the end of high school./the-truth-about-roland-fryer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-about-roland-fryer.htmlRoland Fryer is the most gifted economist of his generation. Not the most gifted black economist of his generation, the most gifted economist of his generation. Period. He was tenured at Harvard at the age of 30, he was awarded the American Economics Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, he received a MacArthur “Genius” grant, his publications appeared in some of the most distinguished journals in the field, and his scholarship was regularly covered in the mainstream media./ancient-eeriness-the-oracle-of-trophonius.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ancient-eeriness-the-oracle-of-trophonius.htmlThe oracle of Trophonius was, as Philostratus notes, “the only oracle which gives responses through the person himself who consults it.” At all the others of Greece — Delphi, Dodona, Corinth — the visitor would address his questions to a priestess, who would then consult the god on his behalf and deliver its response. Not so Trophonius, which requires a by all accounts harrowing descent into the underworld that might last for days./this-36-year-old-youtuber-turned.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-36-year-old-youtuber-turned.htmlEvery week, we publish an article or exclusive in-depth story with original insights on San Diego’s venture capital scene that you can’t read anywhere else. Receive a weekly article each week and join 1,000+ founders and investors by subscribing below. Kevin Espiritu, a 36-year-old YouTuber best known as the founder of Epic Gardening, operates the world’s most followed gardening brand, with millions of followers across its social media platforms (2M+ on TikTok, 2M+ on YouTube, 1M+ on Instagram)/this-thanksgiving-lets-play-family.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-thanksgiving-lets-play-family.htmlThanks to everyone who continues to support the newsletter, whether it’s signing up to be a paid subscriber, sending encouraging words, or passive aggressively forwarding it to your sister (kidding!). For paid subscribers last week, I wrote about how we can play around with anxiety by dialing up relationship stress just a teeny bit, and I provided some examples. - K I have written a lot about families, anxiety, and the holidays./tinyletter-was-one-of-the-greatest.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tinyletter-was-one-of-the-greatest.htmlWelcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my tech and media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: The last year has been a good one for newsletter publishing platform Substack. After securing a $15.3 million funding round in July 2019, it went on to lure hundreds of high profile writers onto its service. In late 2019, a group of prominent never Trumpers from the National Review and Weekly Standard banded together to launch a magazine on Substack./tomato-pie-pizza-marinara.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tomato-pie-pizza-marinara.htmlHello Pizza Friends, Today we are talking about tomato pie, which, if you are unfamiliar, is the American version of the Neapolitan marinara pizza. I only just learned this. I had been flipping through Anthony Falco’s Pizza Czar when the recipe caught my attention. Anthony describes it as “something that lets great ingredients shine.” He was right. Topped solely with tomato sauce (and a good amount of it), oregano, Pecorino Romano, and olive oil, this pie relies on the quality of each of these elements being excellent — without a blanket of mozzarella, nothing can hide./notebook-top-rank-card-includes-shakur.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-top-rank-card-includes-shakur.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./tower-of-sound.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tower-of-sound.htmlLegendary recording engineer Steve Albini has died at age 61 of a heart attack. If you know, you know. And if so, you probably came of age in the 1990s, when few truly understood The Problem With Music. For years he was known as much for being an “irascible gadfly” (a term I used for him in Hearts on Fire) as he was his devotion to pure live sound on re…/toy-story-4-3.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/toy-story-4-3.htmlI enjoyed “Toy Story 4,” though I’m not terribly happy they made it. That may sound strange, but here’s why: “Toy Story 3” was a very conscious end to the animated franchise. In it the child Andy, now all grown into a young man, gave away his toys to little Bonnie, and quite literally rode off into the sunset. Cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen) and the rest of the toys, who come to life when humans aren’t around, had completed their life’s journey and started anew./aitestkitchen.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aitestkitchen.htmlGoogle is betting its future on AI. First came Bard — now called Gemini, which competes with ChatGPT. Google also launched an intriguing AI-powered notebook tool called NotebookLM, which I’ll write about soon. Three of Google’s newest free AI tools, part of the AI Test Kitchen, let you generate images, text and music. They’re available so far in the USA, Kenya, New Zealand, and Australia. Read on for a summary of MusicFX, ImageFX and TextFX./tucker-talks-to-doug-wilson.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tucker-talks-to-doug-wilson.htmlI really love Doug Wilson. He’s a brilliant writer. I’ve posted his videos a few times here, but now, he’s interviewing with Tucker. This is just eight minutes of it, which means the rest will be at TuckerCarlson.com. His Youtube is called Blog & MaBlog. Here is the full episode: ncG1vNJzZmirkai1or%2FTqKWeZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9OumqSdomLBorjKrGStp12ZvLazjLCgpaufow%3D%3D/twij-goes-country.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twij-goes-country.htmlIt’s far from the first time I’ve featured country on This Week In Jams, but this is definitely the most country 🤠 TWIJ 🎸has ever country’d 🍻 on one playlist 🔥 Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde, Maren Morris, Eric Church, the Chicks, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, Brent Cobb, John Prine, Loretta Lynn, and more! Apple Music | TIDAL I’ve been listening to this playlist for the last four days and it’s way more than a weekend party playlist (though the first half definitely does that job well)./twitter-suspends-edward-dowd-for.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twitter-suspends-edward-dowd-for.htmlActually Ed Dowd was one of the first ones to come out several months ago and really dig into the numbers from America One, the Indiana insurance company that reported a 40% rise in all cause mortality (ACM) for 18-64 year-olds in 3Q 2021. Ed has been analyzing the numbers for months. Yesterday he said that current ACM increases are running at about 20% vs. this period in 2021. The National Bureau of Economic Research came out with a study today citing 171,000 excess non-Covid deaths for 2020 through 2021, and cited a 26% increase over that time period./two-chicken-stock-recipes-to-make.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-chicken-stock-recipes-to-make.htmlGreetings from Denver, CO, where I am still recovering from my sister’s wedding this past weekend. A future post is forthcoming about all the details of how I made and flew the wedding cake(s) to Denver from NYC, but for now, please enjoy this visual of the cutting cake, which was the smaller cake they used for photos, etc.: Now that I’m catching a moment to breathe, today I give you recipes for two different chicken stocks that will keep your bones warm from now through next spring, in honor of my favorite season (soup) and eating holiday (Thanksgiving)./reintroducing-shane-gillis-two-years.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reintroducing-shane-gillis-two-years.htmlCan you believe it has already/only been two years since stand-up comedian Shane Gillis received an invitation to Saturday Night Live’s featured cast, only to get disinvited days later after an online firestorm over his past podcasts? By the way. Sidebar: Labor Day weekend and the days thereafter generally find cast members and writers coming to or leavi… ncG1vNJzZmiomZuzorrYZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZL%2Bmtc2tqaicpZi2r7OMrJ%2BappVitKq4y6KqZqynpHq6scCrqg%3D%3D/ukrainian-honey-poppy-seed-cake.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ukrainian-honey-poppy-seed-cake.htmlHere is a recipe similar to the poppy seed cake my family has made: (found online, but it looks like my grandmother's recipe) Poppy seed cake was my father's favorite cake. @justcallmetoni posted this recipe online Note. Poppy seeds are REALLY HIGH in oxalates. Also, if you are subject to random drug tests at work, eating too much could result in a positive test. Ukranian Poppy Seed Cake 3/4 cup poppy seeds/no-sabo-kids-spanish.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-sabo-kids-spanish.htmlLast OIGO, I waded into a subject that I was not sure would resonate with you. But guess what? You liked it. A lot. What I heard the most? Tell me more. 👂 You who are media leaders who read OIGO to learn and see what’s happening, I found, appreciate learning some details. 📄 Thank you for educating me about your interests, so this newsletter serves you better. This time, let’s get into a subject you’re reading about a bit: Spanish and Latino/a/e/x identity./united-in-grief-by-kendrick-lamar.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/united-in-grief-by-kendrick-lamar.html**Please note there is a brief bit of explicit language at the beginning of the song** “For in grief nothing ‘stays put.’ One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? -C.S. Lewis A little over a decade ago, my wife had an ectopic pregnancy. For us, the pregnancy was an answer to hundreds of prayers to conceive./use-themes-like-a-compass.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/use-themes-like-a-compass.htmlWe’re nearly at the end of 2021. Another deeply odd year, to put it mildly. If 2020 was a year on pause, 2021 has been a year of janky buffering, playing a few seconds before getting stuck again on the loading wheel of doom. I hope everyone reading this is getting whatever support they need to keep on going through these strange times. Today I’m writing about themes. As a young writer, back when I was still in high school, it took me a long while to figure out why my stories never really felt as engaging as I expected./venezuela-el-koki-killed.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/venezuela-el-koki-killed.htmlLast week, on February 8, Venezuelan security forces shot and killed Carlos Revette, better known as “El Koki”. El Koki was a prominent gang leader who controlled the Cota 905 neighborhood of Caracas, which has been under gang control since 2017. Revette was one of the most wanted individuals by the Venezuelan government, and last July the Maduro regime… ncG1vNJzZmian697tMHBrKuam5tjsLC5jqlmr52emse2scuaZJ6kXaC8rLWMpKClpJWZ/voigtlander-ultron-27mm-f20-my-favorite.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/voigtlander-ultron-27mm-f20-my-favorite.htmlBefore going to Lollapalooza, I wanted to get a pancake lens for my Fujifilm X-T5 to reduce its profile to fit into small bags so that I could bring it into the festivals and venues. I already knew the Fujifilm offerings and some of the other 3rd party offerings, but it was the first time I heard about the Voigtlander Ultron 27mm f/2.0. It was a very new lens with minimal online information, so I ordered one and tested it out./urban-wineries-garagiste-wine.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/urban-wineries-garagiste-wine.htmlThinking of someone making wine in a garage may hark back to the days of people making moonshine or bathtub gin. Apparently my dad’s grandmother did this. I love picturing a squat Jewish woman from the old country brewing up a batch of hooch during Prohibition — during the same time her son, my grandfather, drove a hollowed-out car to Canada to sneak bo… ncG1vNJzZmiZop6vprrDnqmso6ljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orKuakaN6uLXNnqminaNitKK%2BwKCgrKyVYsSqusQ%3D/warrior-nun-the-mystery-of-reya.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warrior-nun-the-mystery-of-reya.html[Warning: This essay contains spoilers for Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2. I also recommend reading my essay, "Warrior Nun: The Tragedy of Adriel" before reading this one. It will contextualize a few claims that I make as I theorize about Reya's role in the Warrior Nun universe.] Reya is the most mysterious character Warrior Nun has ever introduced. The first time she appeared in the series was not physically, but instead as a face on Dr./was-the-row-sample-sale-worth-it.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-the-row-sample-sale-worth-it.htmlRemember in my last newsletter when I was like, “for some reason I can’t get out of bed… Must be because my sheets are so nice!” Well, turns out I had COVID. So I wasn’t able to stalk the Row sample sale this week like I wanted to. But I was able to get on the horn and gab about it with a bunch of different people, including determined shoppers and the owner of a professional line sitting business, which over 30 Row fans used to have someone stand in line for them./weekly-thread-your-favorite-childhood.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weekly-thread-your-favorite-childhood.htmlIt finally feels like spring in New York, and warm sunny weather makes me nostalgic. I don’t have one particular favorite childhood memory, but I do have a few that often come to mind in the spring and summer. I have one specific memory of being on vacation in South Carolina when I was about 8 and my parents letting me explore outside by myself at dusk. I found a bunch of tiny crabs near a creek that I played with; then I remember going back to the house and eating a big bowl of chocolate ice cream./welcome-to-the-besties-newsletter.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-the-besties-newsletter.htmlWe were so young!Social media can be anxiety-inducing. That’s why we’ve decided to contact you directly. Each week, we will send a newsletter to let your inbox and you’ll be the first to know about… Want to know when new episodes of The Besties and The Resties are available? You got it. Plus, each newsletter will include a full list of the games we discuss. The Besties is a video game club, which means you’re invited to play along./welcome.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome.htmlI’m delighted to have you on board as I begin something I’ve never done before: sharing my research-in-progress with the public as I work on a project that greatly excites me: a biography of Father Louis J. Twomey, SJ (1905–1969), whose work for the rights of working people and African-Americans led people to call him “God’s Gadfly in the South.” Subscribe to receive at least one full-access post a month (for unpaid subscribers) or weekly posts (for paid subscribers)./what-is-modern-orthodoxy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-modern-orthodoxy.htmlThe following is a submission we received from a reader. The author throws a lot of kudos my way. Clearly, as those initiated with Irrationalist Modoxism are aware, Dr. Happygoluckypersonage and Rational Traditionalist are in fact the deserving recipients of the lion’s share of that praise. Towards the end, the author suggests we rename our blog to something less offensive. The truth is that this is something we have already taken into serious consideration, but for the time being we are keeping the name as it is./what-the-actual-tamaki-makaurau.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-actual-tamaki-makaurau.htmlWhen you fly into Auckland, this beautiful place in the world, you see the landscape, the unique colours and contours of the land and sea. You are not landing at a fully developed Europe destination where all the towns seem to join up as one, or a sweaty Asian city with skyscrapers reaching to the sky. It is not a North American landscape with deserts and mighty highways criss crossing the place./what-the-fug-girls-buy-with-their.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-fug-girls-buy-with-their.htmlI’ve been reading The Fug Girls, , pretty much as long as I’ve had INTERNET. For almost a decade, their celebrity fashion/pop culture blog, Go Fug Yourself, was the first thing I’d check when I got to the office early, keeping the browser tiny and in the lower left corner so as not to disrupt my daily performance of “busy theater.” I’d like to thank th…ncG1vNJzZmiZnZeys3rSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWenna61edOhnGaepZx6qLXRpapmmqWueri106FkraCVnr8%3D/what-to-watch-for-in-the-tigres-v.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-watch-for-in-the-tigres-v.htmlHere’s a quick look at three things I think could decide the final series. The first leg is tonight at 10 p.m. ET and airs on TUDN in the U.S. The second leg is Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET and also will be on TUDN. I hoped to go even longer on the series but was doing an in-person interview here in DFW for a newsletter I think you’ll really enjoy next week!/what-to-watch-joan-baez-i-am-a-noise.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-watch-joan-baez-i-am-a-noise.html[Note: I have a piece in today’s Washington Post about “Perfect Days” and the small but potent genre of Zen movies. Yes, “Groundhog Day” makes the cut. Here’s a free link if you’d like to read it.] Having long been fascinated by the gulf between celebrity personas and the smaller, more complicated human beings that lurk behind the false fronts of fame, I find that “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise” (2023, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2) is unexpectedly my jam./when-the-gossip-becomes-the-gossip.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-the-gossip-becomes-the-gossip.htmlAside from the Grammys and all that fallout, one of the biggest gossip stories last week, at least in my feeds, was gossip about a gossiper. I’m talking about the anonymous blogger behind the website Crazy Days and Nights and the story in The Daily Beast about how his identity has allegedly been exposed. When the gossiper becomes the gossip – we saw this happen with DeuxMoi a few months ago when Taylor Swift’s publicist Tree Paine put them on blast, and I have some personal experience with it (on a much smaller scale, not trying to pretend I’m a big deal) when I was called out a few years ago for the all-round disgusting shit that was posted in the early years of LaineyGossip./where-does-all-the-dirt-from-a-groundhog.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-does-all-the-dirt-from-a-groundhog.htmlThis week’s question comes from a reader – let’s call him David (because that’s his name – also, he’s my father-in-law). David wonders: I just caught one of the largest ground hogs I've ever caught or killed. She's the 4th one in two weeks.  25 pounds plus.  Gigantic. Question: Where does the tunnel dirt go? How does their GPS work underground? There is no traffic signal at the ends of the burrow – is there a passing zone?/where-to-find-my-stats-rankings-content.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-to-find-my-stats-rankings-content.htmlI'm guessing it's because Chet's Offensive Rating is 124 and Wemby's is 104. (League average is ~116.) On offense, Win Shares is based on outperforming 92% of the league average ORtg: https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/ws.html Because Wemby is below that threshold, he actually has negative offensive WS this season: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wembavi01.html#advanced One of the longstanding criticisms of WS is that it doesn't account for any tradeoff between Usage and efficiency, so Wemby's 31.8% Usage Rate doesn't really get him anything extra aside from a higher multiplier to his per-possession ORtg gap vs 92% of average (which actually hurts because he is below that threshold)./which-is-better-medium-or-substack.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-is-better-medium-or-substack.htmlWhen new readers sign up for my Substack, I ask a question in the welcome email. It asks what they’re struggling with as a writer. Those emails are often fodder for my writing, especially if I see the same question repeatedly. A lot of people tell me their struggle is finding time to write. Me, too. I can never find any time, I have to make it. It’s what we humans do./white-bean-and-savoy-cabbage-stew.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/white-bean-and-savoy-cabbage-stew.htmlWe adopted a new family member last week from the wonderful Hounds in Poundsrescue in New Jersey. Please meet Sugo! He’s a beautiful mutt who we found out is roughly half Husky and half mini-Schnauzer. His sibling’s adoptive parents named them both “Shnusky’s!” Sugo is about 1.5 years old, so not quite a puppy and not a full grown adult quite yet. He’s a gentle, skittish muppet who’s gaining confidence every day./who-is-srs-distribution.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-srs-distribution.htmlHi everyone and Happy Easter! What a crazy finish to the week – and no, I’m not talking about my 1 year’s old birthday on Good Friday. I’m of course talking about the $18.5 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution. Think of SRS as a holding company for a lot of individual B2B distributors. If you go into different parts of the country, you won’t necessarily see the SRS logo – instead, you’ll see the names of roughly 50 different local, regional B2B distributors./who-is-the-best-player-in-the-nba.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-the-best-player-in-the-nba.htmlWhile compiling the results of the first-ever reader survey in the history of The Stein Line, I realized that I wished I had phrased one of the questions differently. Instead of just asking respondents to write in a selection of their favorite NBA player, I think it would have been better to ask everyone to register their own choice for Best Player on the Planet. Why rely on ESPN’s or anyone else’s player rankings?/who-is-the-nbas-most-underrated-player.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-the-nbas-most-underrated-player.htmlI’ll admit that the origin of this post is a little different from the norm. Usually, I will start with a question and then focus things around the player or team that showed up as the answer. But in this case, I started with the answer, and it gave me more questions. I was poking around a Google Sheet that I made for my former Messenger colleague Mike Charles, which tracks the NBA teams and players who have been the hottest over the previous couple of weeks./why-game-night-is-the-perfect-modern.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-game-night-is-the-perfect-modern.htmlEarlier this week, I slipped out to theaters to see No Hard Feelings, a new comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence as a cash-strapped gig worker who responds to a job listing from a wealthy couple looking for a young woman to “date” their introverted teenage son before he goes off to Princeton. The premise is juicy, like a Risky Business for the age of helicopter parents, only with the focus more on the (hapless, amateur, would-be) sex worker than the virginal high schooler taken on a ride./why-are-movies-so-violent-today.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-movies-so-violent-today.htmlHi everyone, I was going to write an article about the future of deepfakes this week, but decided to address another pain point, why violence is so ubiquitous in movies today, and why female actors are increasingly cast in violent roles. These are big questions, and there are other media to consider, like video games. I don’t play video games and much ink has already been spilled fretting over violence in them, so I leave that to others./why-did-the-league-of-nations-fail.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-the-league-of-nations-fail.htmlThe League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded in 1920 with the aim of promoting international cooperation and preventing future conflicts. However, it ultimately failed to achieve its objectives for several reasons: United States non-participation: The League of Nations was proposed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points for peace after World War I. However, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League, largely due to concerns over national sovereignty and potential entanglements in foreign conflicts./why-did-the-whig-party-break-up-and.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-the-whig-party-break-up-and.htmlShare Let me address the second part of the headline first: I’m writing about the Whigs because I think their story contains lessons for modern American politics. At some point, you may have considered it strange that the US only has two political parties. You may have thought this during the recent House Speaker showdown, in which the Freedom Caucus treated the rest of the GOP like an opposition party. There’s also a fairly clear ideological cleavage between The Squad and most Democrats./why-is-my-child-so-cranky-after-screen.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-my-child-so-cranky-after-screen.htmlWelcome to Techno Sapiens! I’m Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and professor at Brown University, co-founder of Tech Without Stress (@techwithoutstress), and mom of two young kids. Techno Sapiens is now home to 20,000+ readers, and I’m so grateful you’re here. Share Hi techno sapiens! We’re back with our final installment of Myth-Busting March. If you’d rather skip right to some practical tips for managing screen time transitions (no judgement here), scroll to the end./dutch-oven-clout-chasing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dutch-oven-clout-chasing.htmlHave you ever spent hours mesmerized by the Le Creuset website, caught in a daydream utopia where you design your own kitchen down to the color of the range hood and the enamel on the dutch oven? No? Just me? Regardless. Today’s newsletter is part cultural commentary, part shopping guide. It’s about the clout — and quality — of Le Creuset. It’s about why everyone should own a dutch oven and know how to use it./why-observant-people-are-all-a-little.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-observant-people-are-all-a-little.htmlA Mug of Insights is 100% a reader-supported newsletter. If you like my writing and want more posts like this, signing up for a paid subscription will grant me more time to write consistently. Paid members will get access to the full archive and all of my extended essays with further reading lists. And on average, subscribers will get 50% more weekly po… ncG1vNJzZmiZnaq0sLLIp6qin5ipwG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ivmK56sK7SnqmvmZ6perGxzqmjnmWRp7JurculZJplnJ7BtbjE/revisionews-no5-cyanabyss.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisionews-no5-cyanabyss.htmlIn this article, I want to talk about various things related to the upcoming remastered home video release of James Cameron’s underwater sci-fi thriller The Abyss (1989). In particular, I want to focus on the subject of its new color grade and how it makes visible the fact that digital remastering effectively modernizes movies. Before that though, I will briefly discuss the movie itself and its amazing DVD. ContentsBrief Thoughts on the Movie/why-taylor-swift-once-wrote-me-a.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-taylor-swift-once-wrote-me-a.htmlSome conflict reporters go to Harvard and earn Masters Degrees in International Relations. Others work for UNICEF and branch out. And then there are those of us who score a dream journalism job at twenty, under the barrage of glitter bombs that is Hollywood. I wouldn’t change this training ground for the world and I wanted to share a few recollections from those old journals… The fondest memories I have are of seeing newcomers, genuinely lovely people, rise through the ranks into superstardom./will-lebron-whose-lakers-suck-demand.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-lebron-whose-lakers-suck-demand.html     On his next birthday, LeBron James will turn 40, without another championship and no postseason experience beyond a possible play-in event. When he says the Lakers “just suck right now,” he senses it’s a season-long plague. His warnings are focused on his coach, Darvin Ham, who only last month won a punchline called the In-Season Tournament but suddenly is on LeBron’s diminished-means list.      That includes Frank Vogel, who won an NBA title in 2020, and before him, Luke Walton, and before him, David Blatt in Cleveland, and before that, Erik Spoelstra in Miami, who had to be saved by Pat Riley before he was jettisoned./wood-theft.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wood-theft.htmlHappy winter solstice, happy long darkness. Is it time soon to crack an eye open and squint toward a clarifying next year? I’d like to keep sleeping, but the days keep coming. 2024 will bring a few more Mount Eerie shows for me to tell you about along the historically hippie dippy west coast. Tickets are all on sale now by clicking on the venue name: Friday, March 1st, 2024 - Ojai, Cal./word-of-the-week-wankpanzer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/word-of-the-week-wankpanzer.htmlIn November 2019, when Tesla announced its unlovely and (as it turned out) poorly designed Cybertruck, I reported some of the jokey alternative names that were being proposed by skeptics: Starship Pooper, Millennial Falcon, Mystery Science Aztek 3000, Muskmobile. Now, thanks to a tip from reader/friend Mike Pope, I’ve learned a new name for the Cybertruck and its galumphing ilk: Wankpanzer. Wankpanzer is a hilariously apt word. I love it! And now I am going to risk ruining it for you by explaining the joke./world-poetry-day.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/world-poetry-day.htmlToday March 21, is World Poetry Day, a UNESCO International Day which ‘celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.’ Started in 1999, this day is recognized and celebrated by any and all, as we are all connected by the word, all able to share in the honesty and grace of the poem. With each word precisely chosen, the poem has the power to radiate a sense of humanity./yall-stay-laced-up.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yall-stay-laced-up.htmlAs of press time, we are in peak hoodie season. At some point, you may sit around in a bar with civilians and loved ones, and the question is sure to arise. “Why do you skaters tie your hoodie strings?” There’s a reason for this, or maybe there is not. It’s an unspoken thing to keep a kit tied. However, besides just looking cool, I’ve never had an explanation for this./ye-cant-be-serious.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ye-cant-be-serious.htmlI'm going to do something I never do. I'm going to write this, and I'm going to stop writing it, and then I'm going to press 'publish' before I read it back. I want you to know how I feel right now. And I want to say exactly what's on my mind. I don't know why I have to write the same things over and over, and I don't know why thousands of years of history isn't good enough to motivate a shift or a sea change./yes-there-is-a-jfk-smoking-gun.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-there-is-a-jfk-smoking-gun.htmlAs the 59th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approached, I often hear the question posed last month by NBC News, “What are they hiding?” With 16,000 plus documents in the JFK Records Collection still containing redactions—11,275 of them held by the CIA—the question is not only appropriate. It is troublesome. If the official theory of a lone gunman is correct, as our leading editors and academic historians insist, why doesn’t the government release all its records and prove it has nothing to hide?/yeshua-ben-yosef-philosopher.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yeshua-ben-yosef-philosopher.htmlIn 1998, a group of scholars calling itself the Jesus Seminar published a list of its conclusions regarding the life of Yeshua ben Yosef, also known as Jesus Christ. Using a system of colored beads to rank their relative confidence in assertions made in scriptures, apocrypha, historical chronicles, letters, and archeological records, the Jesus Seminar had decided (quoting from Wikipedia): Jesus of Nazareth was born during the reign of Herod the Great./ykwim-72-forget-about-it-friday-hard.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ykwim-72-forget-about-it-friday-hard.htmlHappy Friday! That’s right, back on my usual baloney. It’s been a minute since we’ve taken a good look at a movie. Based on a true story, this was originally a CBS TV movie released as The George McKenna Story (you knowww I love when movies have two titles!). It was directed by Eric Laneuville, who starred in St. Elsewhere at the time with a young Denzel Washington. When Denzel blew up a couple years later, this was re-released as Hard Lessons, which is what it’s called on Netflix even though the original title shows up on screen, so that’s what I’m going by./you-need-to-run-through-walls.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-need-to-run-through-walls.htmlPut your ego aside for this one, and let it kick you in the shins. As I was talking with a cofounder of a tech company rocketship, he told me something he tells every employee on the way in: “You are expected to run through walls here.”  There is no “can’t be done.”  There is no “impossible.”  These are fireable offenses.  ncG1vNJzZmicopzCs7rEq2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy6u9RmpZ6dlGLBsHnRrqVmrJinvLazx2aumqScqA%3D%3D/note-to-self-a-dua-for-palestine.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/note-to-self-a-dua-for-palestine.html‘And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves.’ Quran 59:19 Salaam! It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this blog. Life has gotten busy and I’ve struggled to find the time and creativity to sit down and write. I hope that you all have been doing well. I know that there is a lot on our minds right now as our brothers and sisters in Palestine are suffering for their freedom and basic human rights (make sure to read the dua at the end)./the-baffled-king-chelsea-road-it.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-baffled-king-chelsea-road-it.html~ To the tune of Hallelujah ~ Now I heard there was a new(ish) restaurant, That opened up where Pipal Tree was, You want to know if it’s good or not, do ya? ~ I’m sorry but if you name your restaurant after a song lyric you’ve walked into it, as far as I am concerned. On my third and most recent visit to the Baffled King, we booked the table muttering idioms about luck, having heard news of a new chef and spotted a rather inviting menu on social media./crawford-to-spence-at-weigh-in-we.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crawford-to-spence-at-weigh-in-we.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./interesting-content-instructgpt-rlhf.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interesting-content-instructgpt-rlhf.htmlArize invited Long Ouyang and Ryan Lowe to their podcast to talk about InstructGPT, the model ChatGPT is based on, and the whole content is 🔥. Key takeaways: The concept of alignment (a term popularised by Stuart Russell from Berkeley, I link an interview with him in the comments). InstructGPT is based on GPT-3, but it is aware that it is getting instructions while the older model was only "tricked" into performing them./empty-cups-is-charlie-puths-magnum.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/empty-cups-is-charlie-puths-magnum.html“Two words, nine letters. Say it and I’m yours.” -Not Blair Waldorf but me, re: “Empty Cups” After weeks, months, and seemingly years of teasing new music on TikTok in an extremely cringey yet flustering fashion, Charlie Puth finally released an all-new single last week entitled “Light Switch,” the first piece of the puzzle that is his now-confirmed upcoming album, Charlie. Now that the TikTok macroinfluencer is finally answering my years-long prayer for a follow-up to his last full-length album, Voicenotes, and since recently adding my favorite Puth-made track and the subject of this post back into my daily repertoire thanks to a Harry Styles- and Shawn Mendes-induced meltdown with the group chat the other night, it’s finally time I speak my truth./mama-tried.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mama-tried.htmlI had to struggle a bit to decide on a song for this week, with “justice” as our word. The fact is there aren’t many songs about that specific topic to choose from unless we veer into the realm of social protest music, which by its topical nature often doesn’t outlive the cause it is written to serve. Then I thought, what better time to revisit Country and Western music, with its focus on some of the big virtues and their counterparts, the big vices?/nobody-wants-to-meet-with-me-nobody.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nobody-wants-to-meet-with-me-nobody.html"It is part of the Twilight Zone-like unreality into which this issue has plunged much of the Western world that a mother telling the story of her daughter’s suicide while under the influence of cross-sex hormones — crucially, in her mother’s account, doled out in lieu of counseling to address underlying mental health difficulties — is seen by the forces aligned with the right-thinking in our society as a purveyor of hate and harm./theres-so-much-horror-in-some-of.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theres-so-much-horror-in-some-of.htmlI first met award-winning artist, photographer and London native Juno Calypso a couple of months ago at an art fair. I joined a giant queue of people who, like me, had only bought entry tickets to get their hands on one of her limited edition prints. Thankfully I arrived early enough to snag one, or I would have legit cried tears of blood. (How dramatic! How goth! etc) There’s a distinct reason for her popularity; not only is she unbelievably talented but the way she captures the complexities of beauty standards and rituals through captivating and emotive self portraiture is unrivalled, and highly relatable./bobby-rydell-volare-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bobby-rydell-volare-review.htmlPeak: #4 on the Hot 100 Streams: 3.6 million Over on Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs, the podcast I host with Sarah D. Bunting, we’re in the midst of a Record the Year Showdown. That’s a tournament to determine the all-time greatest Grammy winner for Record of the Year, and the very first song we talk about is “Volare” by Domenico Modugno. It won both Rec… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrs6bmbJloq6xprjLZq2opJGnsm6%2BxK%2Bgnq8%3D/prologue-two-hundred-years-earlier.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prologue-two-hundred-years-earlier.htmlHello! Tales from the Triverse is a long-form, weekly serial. It’s primarily a series of science fiction and fantasy detective stories. You can dip in and out of specific storylines or start here and read the whole thing. New chapters come out every Friday. You can choose a specific story here. You can also listen to me reading this chapter, if you’re in the middle of your commute / breakfast / washing up./maggie-rogers-birth-chart.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maggie-rogers-birth-chart.htmlI was introduced to Maggie Rogers by my (triple Gemini) sister several years ago. We were sitting in her living room watching music videos on YouTube- a favorite pastime of any Mercurial person, as I’ve come to learn, when she put on “Fallingwater.” My sexual awakening had come about a decade before, but this would’ve been a better story. I was enamored. I loved the way she moved, the way her voice sounded, and the power of her lyrics./52-yahoo-stacks-up-better-than-most.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/52-yahoo-stacks-up-better-than-most.htmlReading Time: 9 “Do you Yahoo?” Minutes It looks like tech IPOs are coming back. That’s a good thing for the next wave of adtech, martech, and the venture capitalists that back them. Instacart went public last week with a decent debut raising $660 million. The stock price popped to $40 but has since trickled downward –25% to ~$30/share. Next up to enter the public arena was Klaviyo opening at $36./61-dear-friend-books.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/61-dear-friend-books.htmlDear Friend Books Bed Stuy, Brooklyn: 343A Tompkins Ave Another bookstore opened on Tompkins? I can smell my rent going up. Dear Friend Books is more of a cafe than a bookstore. It’s a very nice cafe with multiple ice tea options (I don’t drink coffee so a bomb tea selection warms my heart). Design wise, it hits the three M’s of contemporary Brooklyn: minimalism, marble, and maybe my apartment could look like this if I just put in some effort, dammit!/8-it-didnt-start-with-you-by-mark.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/8-it-didnt-start-with-you-by-mark.htmlHello courageous people and welcome to the eighth edition of the newsletter! ❤️🙏 I would like to say a huuuuuuuge thank you to all of you for supporting the newsletter and subscribing so far, this week we hit the milestone of 150 subscribers (hi Abby! 😉) just 8 weeks after launching and it wouldn’t be possible without you all! 🥳 Next milestone = 200 🚀 Here we come! This week, our featured book is 📚 It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn./10-ways-to-be-more-unbothered.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-ways-to-be-more-unbothered.htmlThis goes out to all the project managers, and by project managers, I mean people with things to do. <3 Care less about what doesn’t really matter. You really don’t have to send the meal back, honk at the person in front of you, or get angry about not having your mind read. Don’t get mad at other people for not being you. People act, speak, smell, move, and think in so many interesting ways that getting butt-hurt about the ways they differ from you will not only deny you access to the beauty of humanity, but will give you a heart attack./2023-nhl-elo-ratings-and-win-projections.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2023-nhl-elo-ratings-and-win-projections.htmlThe following page contains a list of NHL teams with their Elo ratings and projected wins for the 2023-24 season. It also features Goals Above Replacement data, which is described (and available for download) here. And the meta-forecast at the bottom pulls projections from the following sources: FanDuel, Hockey-Reference, Numberfire, MoneyPuck and Matt Harvey. Find the Elo data here. Also, check out the NBA, MLB and NFL versions. Navigate to…/2024-cleveland-guardians-prospect-dab.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-cleveland-guardians-prospect-dab.htmlHit: 45 Power: 30 Speed: 45 Defense: 50 Arm: 55 Overall: 40 Risk: Moderate ETA: 2026 Solid, standard size for a catcher. Strong lower half and medium framed upper half. Probably not much remaining projection left in frame to continue defensively behind the plate. Ingle was not picked out of high school, but was selected by Cleveland in the fourth round of the 2024 draft from Clemson. Was the top rated high school catcher in North Carolina and lettered four years in school in baseball./45-years-of-pink-floyds-animals.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/45-years-of-pink-floyds-animals.htmlThank you for spending part of your day with Michael’s Record Collection. It means a lot to see the subscriber list continuing to grow little by little with each passing week and I appreciate the readers who share it in their social media feeds, tell their friends about it, and provide feedback. This week, I wanted to talk about Pink Floyd, so here I am doing just that. Some sources show the release of Pink Floyd’s Animals album as Jan./6-must-see-korean-films-parasite-minari.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/6-must-see-korean-films-parasite-minari.htmlThis Sunday, “Past Lives” is up against films like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” at the Academy Awards. While I don’t think Celine Song’s extraordinary movie will win for Best Picture, I do think she has a great shot at earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Of course, “Past Lives” is an American film set partially in South Korea and with half the dialogue in Korean. But this got me thinking about some of my favorite Korean films that I wanted to share with you./a-cattle-tyrant-in-corpus-christi.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-cattle-tyrant-in-corpus-christi.htmlFrom blocks away, you couldn't miss the crowd in downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. Birders with binoculars and photographers with long lenses were all looking the same direction. When you got to the spot, you could easily see the yellow bird on the curb. It was the first and only Cattle Tyrant ever seen in the United States. It’s a rich lemon custard on the front. A species of flycatcher, it normally lives in South America./a-cia-chiefs-chilling-dying-words.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-cia-chiefs-chilling-dying-words.htmlOne of the reasons I for years rejected the theory of a conspiracy to kill JFK was that it’s too hard to keep small secrets, let alone an enormous one. “Somebody would have talked by now,” I once told a relative who had read a lot of books on the JFK assassination. “A deathbed confession. Something.” What I didn’t realize at the time was that there had been confessions and near confession from people inside the US government./power-pop-memes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/power-pop-memes.htmlIn my defense… well, it’s honestly indefensible. So, I guess it’s time to just own it until I get the validation, attention and social media shares I crave. I think this was the first one I made: Those debates can sometimes get a little heated, especially among the extremely knowledgable diehards often referred to as “power pop purists.” It’s usually meant to be fun—we start off loving similar styles of music, after all—but arguing about which bands do or don’t qualify as power pop can be absurdly humorous at times./taking-clouds-and-putting-them-in.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taking-clouds-and-putting-them-in.htmlIntimate conversations with our greatest heart-centered minds. Hello Beyonders! is now on Substack. How lucky are we! As a gesture toward welcoming Esmé, and because there are so many new subscribers, I’m lifting the paywall on this beautiful interview with her for the week. Enjoy! Esmé Weijun Wang has one of the most brilliant minds and beautiful hearts that I’ve ever encountered. And her writing is breathtakingly graceful whilst also laser sharp./from-american-idol-to-the-world-a.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-american-idol-to-the-world-a.htmlJulia Gargano likes to take risks. When she auditioned for season 18 of American Idol, she decided to perform an original song. The risk paid off. After a hug from Katy Perry and a resounding “YES!” from all three judges, she advanced to the next round, eventually finishing in seventh place. But that wasn’t enough. Though she’s built a following under her birth name, Gargano decided to launch a new project, Ferry Townes./a-deep-dive-into-dog-man.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-into-dog-man.htmlI’ve spent the better part of my kids’ lives cultivating book-abundance because of the very few specific goals I have as a parent, one of them is to raise kids who love to read. We frequent the neighborhood library, a branch of which is luckily across the street from their school, and during the pandemic I would request and pick up piles upon piles of books on a weekly basis. I have run @kidsbookrecs, recommending curated picture books for years now, because I think some of the most free and imaginative thinking happens in the telling and illustrating of stories for children./a-eulogy-for-sophie-anderson.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-eulogy-for-sophie-anderson.htmlI woke up this morning to some very sad news: Sophie Anderson died this week. I am going to guess that 90% of you do not know who she was, which makes sense - she occupied a fairly small niche of the internet, and most of the content she produced was not something that could be opened in public. Like most of the internet, I first became aware of Sophie from her viral video “Cock Destroyers,” filmed with her friend and fellow pornographic actress Rebecca More./prageru-a-far-right-propaganda-machine.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prageru-a-far-right-propaganda-machine.htmlDid you know that "leftism" causes mental illness, and fossil fuels are the greenest form of energy? Are you aware that voter suppression is a myth, America is on the path to leftist totalitarianism, and teachers and professors are training students to become radical activists? I encountered these claims on the website of PragerU, an unaccredited right-wing propaganda company whose products have been approved for use in Florida classrooms. PragerU delivers a steady flow of conspiracy theories, racism, homophobia, anti-feminism, and neoliberalism./a-guide-to-being-an-effective-intern.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-being-an-effective-intern.htmlIt’s getting close to internship season again! So, it made me want to reflect on my experience being an intern manager and how you can also be a successful one. Don’t get me wrong, getting an internship in this market already feels pretty lucky. But if you’re even luckier, you’ll have a well-put-together internship, one where the company you’re working fo… ncG1vNJzZmirlZbBtbjEnZitmZeqxm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iZXZzCqrDEZquoZZKatq%2BzjJqlZp2Wm7KkwMivnGahnqmys7o%3D/a-love-letter-to-pretty-in-pink.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-love-letter-to-pretty-in-pink.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on work by Margrith Barille, and Brigitte Werner on PixabayAfter watching hundreds of movies, the character that I relate to most is Andie from Pretty in Pink (1986). Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenage girl from the poor side of town who makes her own prom dress so she can attend her high school’s dance. As a college student, I once made a dress for New Year’s out of a blue polkadot bedsheet, and with limited sewing skills, it was basically a hand-stitched body wrap./a-pair-of-benedictine-cocktails-with.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-pair-of-benedictine-cocktails-with.htmlSo you’ve got a bottle of Bénédictine, and you’ve made a Bobby Burns and a Vieux Carré and a Good Fellow. What else are you going to do with it?  The short answer: Sweeten everything.  Okay — not literally, you know, everything, everything. But a lot of different drinks with a lot of different spirits and bitters.  In “The Case for Bénédictine,” I made two primary arguments: Bénédictine serves as a general-use, shelf-stable, spiced sweetener for cocktails./a-philosophy-so-good-it-could-cure.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-philosophy-so-good-it-could-cure.html2500 years ago, a new Chinese philosophy was born. Taoism was founded by Lao-Tzu (nobody knows if he actually existed). Throughout its long history, Taoism gathered a lot of people around it, and that resulted in the formation of various branches of this philosophy/religion. Taoism helps its followers be in harmony with “the way of the universe”: Tao. Remarkably, despite the fact that it was created thousands of years ago, Tao is relevant to our mental health in the modern, busy world as ever./a-prayer-for-endurance.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-prayer-for-endurance.html“So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.” ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1:6‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Gracious and eternal God I thank you today for the opportunity to spend this moment with you communicating my needs to you as well as hearing your wisdom and direction for my life. Today I pray that you guide me and guard me. Give me the wisdom that will guard my heart and protect it from unexpected and unnecessary pain./a-prominent-symbol-of-islam-is-suddenly.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-prominent-symbol-of-islam-is-suddenly.htmlA symbol of Islam is suddenly appearing on flags all across America. The traditional five-point American star is being erased and replaced with the eight-point Islamic symbol in what some people believe is a threat to national security and a cultural coup d’etat. “Because of my background in the military, these are the indicators we are trained to look for,” said Donna Bergstrom, Deputy Chair of the Republican party of Minnesota./chappellroan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chappellroan.htmlHello. Chappell Roan’s music defines the queer experience in the most cunty girly pop pink fairy princess sort of way. And I love it. Let me tell you why… But first, a little intro. Chappell Roan, originally from Willard, Missouri, where she grew up Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, had a rather conventional Midwestern upbringing before catapulting into the pop music limelight. Her small-town roots and the traditional values surrounding her during her formative years play a significant role in the authenticity and depth of her music./a-quick-explainer-of-grimms-law.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-quick-explainer-of-grimms-law.htmlIf you’ve read this blog, you’ve heard the phrase “Grimm’s Law.” A few months ago, I contrasted Grimm’s Law with a similar shift consonant shift in Armenian. It was too long, and it was somehow both too academic and too cute. Thus, I wanted to write a new piece that explained Grimm’s Law while removing all the other crap. Here is that piece. Let’s start with some basics. It’s not a law./atlantic-beach-pie-a-recipe-for-a-22-07-01.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlantic-beach-pie-a-recipe-for-a-22-07-01.htmlWe just wrapped up choux month in Playing Around // xoxo Dorie — look at what we baked together! Bonjour! Bonjour! Am I the last person on the planet to discover the joys of the Atlantic Beach Pie made famous by Bill Smith at Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, North Carolina? I’m thinking I might be. I’m also thinking I might not have ever come around to it had Mary Dodd not mentioned how much she loved the recipe for it that’s in Cheryl Day’s newest cookbook, Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking./a-homophobic-rant-went-unchecked.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-homophobic-rant-went-unchecked.htmlAn earlier version of this article misstated the first name of John Holmberg. We regret the error. During two separate on-air broadcasts, a popular morning show host used his time to compare the Pride flag to a Ku Klux Klan flag, say gay male couples were “bad gays” for living in rural areas, and tokenize another gay staff member and asked him if it was better to be “straight or poor./a-royals-extra-exclusive-for-the.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-royals-extra-exclusive-for-the.htmlAs Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, turns 60 today, I want to share a story about his sporting enthusiasm—and his character and personality—that has never been told before. It involves my husband, Stephen G. Smith, who wrote a feature for The New Yorker magazine in 1991 about the venerable and complicated racquet sport known as court tennis in the United States and real tennis in Britain.  Stephen’s account of the match they played was meant to be the surprise ending of the article, but it was cut in the editing./a-seasonal-crostata-di-frutta-fresca.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-seasonal-crostata-di-frutta-fresca.htmlAs soon as summer ends, pasta frolla makes a comeback into my kitchen. Pasta frolla is one of the first pastry recipes I learned to make as a child. Standing on a stool in my mum’s kitchen, wearing a worn-out apron that looked more like a nightgown on me, with a Disney movie in the background—these were the best moments of the week when I was allowed to play with flour and butter./a-shadow-in-the-ember-a-spoiler-free.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-shadow-in-the-ember-a-spoiler-free.htmlShare Since I’m not as young as I used to be, I can only read for so long before fatigue sets in. Audiobooks have rescued me, providing access to the stories I love. However, when I found all three books from the Flesh and Fire series by Jennifer L. Armentrout at Half Price Books, I had to have them. Then I flipped through them. And I decided to read a chapter or two while waiting for more Audible credits./a-small-virginia-market.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-small-virginia-market.htmlToday’s building is just south of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the sparsely populated countryside and wine country. It’s a beautiful place to drive around, with narrow, winding roads and lots of trees, hills, and lovely old stores and churches. One such store is the Simeon Market, a few miles from James Monroe’s Highland. Now there’s a good chance you a… ncG1vNJzZmismJqxprjErZydq5Oau6a%2Fjaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5Z6tLnApaNmrpmntKq6yJpkppmioLK1/sweeney-todd-2023-broadway-revival-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweeney-todd-2023-broadway-revival-review.htmlThere’s an ear-piercing whistle 34 seconds into the prelude of the 1979 original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It’s an unsettling screech I prepared myself for as the lights went down at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. It never came.  I’ve been a revival junkie my whole life. While my brothers were playing hockey in the basement, I was listening to Kiss Me, Kate. I think there’s some particular wiring in the minds of theater people that makes us uniquely suited to detect vocal nuances across multiple interpretations of the same song./pop-wow-a-weird-and-wild-history.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pop-wow-a-weird-and-wild-history.htmlUsually I drop the subscriber Wow on Fridays, but on Sunday before the Super Bowl started, my friend Duncan posted this on Facebook. Now I don’t know about you, but the idea of Carol Channing performing at a Super Bowl actually melted my brain. Seriously, the clean up took forever. If you don’t know Broadway legend Carol Channing, check this out. Now imagine that happening at the Super Bowl at halftime./adam-moss-on-the-artistic-process.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adam-moss-on-the-artistic-process.htmlAdam is the best magazine editor of my generation, and an old friend. From 2004 to 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, and before that he edited the New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days — a weekly news magazine covering art and culture in NYC. His first book is The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing. You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app)./airbnbs-complete-involvement-in-the.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/airbnbs-complete-involvement-in-the.htmlAthlete Support: Airbnb will offer financial aid to Olympic and Paralympic athletes through the Airbnb Athlete Travel Grant, covering accommodation expenses during the Paris 2024 Games. Unique Experiences: Airbnb will introduce Olympic Experiences hosted by athletes, providing guests with the opportunity to meet champions, learn about training, and build connections. Income Opportunities for Locals: Paris residents can earn extra income by participating in Airbnb's "Become a Host" program during the Games./amsterdams-last-shroom-lounge.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amsterdams-last-shroom-lounge.htmlLast time on Rave New World, we road tripped to Vancouver, Canada to hit an insane blackmarket dispensary called The Coca Leaf Cafe where you can buy everything from DMT vapes to mescaline shots in broad daylight. “Reading the news reports does not prepare you for the frisson of beholding a shroom dispensary in person—the shuddering thrill of standing at the edge of new frontier as it unfolds in real time./remembering-eileen-an-interview-with.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-eileen-an-interview-with.htmlLast month a blue plaque was unveiled in Sunderland, where Eileen O’Shaughnessy went to school. Eileen O’Shaughnessy, born in South Shields on September 25, 1905, met Eric Blair - better known by his pen name George Orwell - in 1935, while she was studying educational psychology at University College London and Blair was a struggling writer. The couple married a year later in Wallington, Hertfordshire. As well as being a writer in her own right, Eileen is increasingly recognised as having had a strong influence on her husband’s writing, particularly in Animal Farm./an-oddbins-education.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-oddbins-education.htmlOne of the most common questions asked of wine people is, how did you get into wine? It’s a measure of how odd it is to take an interest in wine rather than just drink it. Nobody asks footballers how they got into football or doctors how they go into medicine. Being a wine writer is a particularly strange calling. Some in the business have that totemic bottle where it all started./analyzing-the-2024-crossfit-quarterfinals.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/analyzing-the-2024-crossfit-quarterfinals.htmlWelcome back to Episode 61 of the Masters in Motion Podcast! The 2024 CrossFit Quarterfinals are in full swing, and we're here to break down each of the newly released workouts. Join us as we dissect all four events, providing a comprehensive review to help athletes understand and tackle these challenges effectively. This episode is powered by Thirdzy, your go-to for game-changing sleep recovery. Imagine hitting your workouts harder and waking up feeling unstoppable./anatomy-of-a-scythe.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anatomy-of-a-scythe.htmlThis piece is part of a collaboration and written by our guest author . Go check out his substack for more fantastic writing in this area!The scythe, in total, is fairly straightforward in its components. Some modifications can be made, but it is essentially a blade mounted with a clamp to a long handle with one or two grips. It is deceptively simple, and the geometric relationship between the different pieces ultimately influences how effective and ergonomic it is to use./angelamashelle.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/angelamashelle.htmlAngela Mashelle Hello, I'm Angela Mashelle, a Beauty, Fashion, and Life YouTube creator and Instagram influencer. My passion is to inspire ladies of all ages, but specifically, those of a certain age to represent themselves with dignity and style through fashion. 2K+ subscribers ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK6xp6jmqWRqLWmuMue/arabella-boxer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arabella-boxer.htmlI first met Arabella in 1994 when she came to the launch of my first book, Lebanese Cuisine. We had friends in common but I had yet to meet her in person, and I was thrilled when I found out she would be coming to my launch, especially as I was very new to the food world when she was one of its grandees — Arabella was then the vice president of the Guild of Food Writers and had recently finished a 19 year stint as the food columnist at Vogue, not to mention her numerous award-winning cookbooks as well as her personal awards./arno-schmidt-a-primer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arno-schmidt-a-primer.html-and I’m back. It’s been a few months, hasn’t it? Let’s skip the excuse and just get into it, shall we? Welcome to W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List, a show where I attempt to make sense of books that try to prevent you from doing so. Today, I’m going to deviate from my conventional approach a little bit here. Rather than my typical single-novel deep dive format, I’d instead like to offer a brief “primer” on an author whose catalogue of translated texts I’ve recently begun to read my way through./author-emma-noyess-adult-debut-guys.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/author-emma-noyess-adult-debut-guys.htmlGrowing up, I was a guy’s girl. Yes, I had my best and closest girlfriends (you know who you are), but in school, I mostly hung around with the guys in my classes. This was, at least partially, because I’d been burned by a lot of girls. Guys didn’t come with drama (for the most part). However, I’d been a guy’s girl forever. According to my mom, as a kid, I always gravitated towards my uncles and boy cousins at parties./est-arrivee-bar-cecil-exquisite-in.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/est-arrivee-bar-cecil-exquisite-in.htmlBar Cecil, 1555 S Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs (Plaza del Sol Shopping Center) Reservations | Website | Phone: 760-537-1122 (Reservations are online only) Our star rating: None (too new- opened April 2021- we only assign stars to restaurants open for more than four months) Throughout the pandemic, the creators of Palm Springs’ brand new Bar Cecil teased the dining public via social media with snips and clips of what they were doing inside an unusual, diminutive space next to a dry cleaners in a South Palm Springs shopping plaza (formerly Kiyosaku Japanese restaurant)./barbie-movie-beauty-standards.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbie-movie-beauty-standards.htmlThere is a moment in the Barbie movie when Barbie (Margot Robbie), in the midst of dancing at a Barbie party, turns to her Barbie friends and asks, “Do you guys ever think about dying?” The record scratches. The music stops. Dolls don’t think about death, the silence seems to say. Human beings do. It’s the first clue that Stereotypical Barbie is off to break the mold of plastic perfection — and teach viewers that meaning can only be found in the pulsing, painful, ecstatic mess of mortality./battle-for-the-american-mind.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/battle-for-the-american-mind.htmlShare Hegseth, Pete, and David Goodwin. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation. Broadside Books, 2022. (paid link) Battle for the American Mind is, as the title suggests, a polemic. It is not a scholarly work, and it is not the work of academics. As a sort of academic myself, I know that academics often get the details right through painstaking efforts of erudition, but fail to tell a true or honest story about the whole./somebody-somewhere-exchange.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/somebody-somewhere-exchange.htmlSomebody Somewhere is an exploration of Sam Miller, a 40-something Kansan, who returns home to care for her dying sister, Holly, and a year later, finds herself still in her hometown, unsure what to do with her life. Through friendship and healthy nudging from her chosen family, Sam rediscovers her love of music and forges a life in Manhattan, Kansas.  Beth:  Thank you for the idea to write a post on this show./being-a-biglaw-partner-aint-what.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/being-a-biglaw-partner-aint-what.htmlWelcome back to Of Counsel, my monthly advice & asks column. If you ever find yourself wondering, “What would Cece do/think?” then you’ve come to the right place! You can find previous columns here and submit questions here. And if you appreciate the work that goes into this newsletter and want to help ensure that my educational and informational content remains free for all, you know what to do! ICYMI: I finished the first draft of my book’s manuscript!/beware-the-thousand-invisible-hands.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beware-the-thousand-invisible-hands.htmlHello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity, wonder, and the importance of trying lots of different stuff for no damn reason. Today, a coda to last season’s exploration of the nearly three-quarters of the surface of our planet we tend to overlook, with its 65,000km-long mountain range and its underwater ‘lost cities’ and ancient flooded landscapes and all sorts of stuff… You can read the whole thing here, if you like./big-challenges.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-challenges.htmlGood afternoon my darlings. It’s raining today, I didn’t sleep and Taylor Swift just announced her new album the Tortured Poets Department so I am channeling this gentle theatrical energy: Revisiting Muzzy last week reminded me of the iconic: BIG CHALLENGES! He was never used for anything. As someone who only really knows the hits of Sanrio (Keroppi please return my calls), I wondered - are there other devastating cuties I have yet to be introduced to?/bo-nix-and-the-big-jax-burger.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bo-nix-and-the-big-jax-burger.htmlThe scouting combine is our annual baptism into the NFL’s bulls**t. We emerge from it soggy and squealing but reenergized, born again to both the awe and wonder of professional football and the grimy drudgery of the stagecraft behind the magic. The privilege to speak with any authority about the NFL offseason is earned by nodding through dozens of hypnotically uninformative press conferences, watching young men perform drills that only seasoned coaches can evaluate, scouring workout results down to the hundredth of a decimal and wobbling about in the wee hours hoping that a powerful agent thinks enough of you to share a secret that’s actually a self-serving lie./bojack-breakdowns-season-2-after-the-party.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bojack-breakdowns-season-2-after-the-party.htmlAs we continue in our season 2 exploration of BoJack Horseman, in episode 3, “Still Broken,” we find ourselves at the funeral for BoJack’s former friend, Herb Kazazz, who I wrote about extensively in this post. While Princess Carolyn tries to convince Henry Winkler that she is attending the funeral because of her close relationship with Herb (a lie) rather than to schmooze other celebrities (the truth), BoJack and the rest of the cast of Horsin’ Around go on an adventure, searching for “Herb’s gold./brach.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brach.htmlWelcome to Warning Track Power, an independent newsletter of baseball stories and analysis grounded in front office and scouting experiences and the personalities encountered along the way. Before diving into an interleague connection, I want to let you know that the seventh annual Kirk Gibson Golf Classic takes place this Monday at The Wyndgate Country Club in Rochester Hills, Michigan. This year, there’s an additional event on Sunday: Strike Out Parkinson’s, a bowling event that includes a panel conversation about the 1984 World Series with Alan Trammell, Kirk Gibson, and Goose Gossage./screw-the-haters-brock-lesnar-more.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/screw-the-haters-brock-lesnar-more.htmlJonathan Snowden is a long-time combat sports journalist. His books include Total MMA, Shooters and Shamrock: The World’s Most Dangerous Man. His work has appeared in USA Today, Bleacher Report, Fox Sports and The Ringer. Subscribe to this newsletter to keep up with his latest work. Yesterday I made the mistake of opening up Twitter. I could stop right there, as you can surely imagine the many dumb things I saw./brooklyns-wild-east-brewing-opening.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brooklyns-wild-east-brewing-opening.htmlOne of the best breweries in New York will soon have a presence in the Finger Lakes. Brooklyn-based Wild East Brewing, known for its slow and patient approach to both lagers and mixed fermentation creations, signed a lease to open a taproom in the former YMCA/Post Office complex along North Main Street in Canandaigua. It marks another time where a downstate brewery is embracing the growth potential of the Rochester area./brotato.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brotato.htmlSwitch, PC, Steam Deck, iOS, Android $4.99 Endless Brotato is a roguelite shoot ‘em up where you fight off waves of aliens in a small arena. Aiming and attacking is automatic, so all you do is move. This makes it similar to Vampire Survivors, a game so popular it’s inspired easily a thousand more since it launched a couple of years ago. (If you’ve played Vampire Survivors you can skip this next explanation./but-it-just-may-be-a-lunatic-youre.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/but-it-just-may-be-a-lunatic-youre.htmlThis week brought an exciting bit of news for the Piano Man Hive: Billy Joel is going to release his first new song in nearly two decades, and his first full-on pop single since River of Dreams dropped in 1993 when I was in *mumble mumbleth* grade. The final track on that album, “Famous Last Words”, seemed a pretty conclusive note on which to go out (“these are the last words I have to say, that’s why it took so long to write”), and Joel has spent the intervening thirty-some odd years touring, performing at Madison Square Garden, putting out some classical music and so on./but-wait-theres-more-remembering.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/but-wait-theres-more-remembering.htmlRon Popeil died this week. You may not know the name, but you do know the lines “But wait, there’s more,” and “Set it and forget it.” “As Seen on TV,” was a Popeil invention. It slices. It dices. You know or have heard of the products, from the Veg-O-Matic to the… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnkqrBbsPAoqtmrJiav6a%2FjKamq51dp7KuscybnKuhnpw%3D/can-survivor-teach-us-something-about.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-survivor-teach-us-something-about.htmlFor reasons I can’t entirely explain, I love the CBS show Survivor. I’m somewhere between a fan and a super-fan. (Super-fans have knowledge that I can’t begin to compete with, but I do watch every episode. And I read after-show interviews. And I occasionally text with some former contestants to discuss strategy. And, okay, I listen to some Survivor podcasts. Look, nobody’s perfect.) Last night was the season finale, and it was awesome./can-we-save-gettysburg-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-we-save-gettysburg-review.htmlWelcome to our weekend conversation! Many of you have likely already heard the news: Gettysburg Review announced this past week that Gettysburg College would cease the magazine’s publication. On the magazine’s site, Editor Mark Drew posted, After thirty-five years of editorial and publishing excellence, the president of Gettysburg College has decided to end the Gettysburg Review. Lauren [Hohle] and I are understandably devastated. We have been offered a rationale for this decision, but it’s frankly one that neither Lauren nor I understand or accept./candace-owens-is-wrong-about-victorias.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/candace-owens-is-wrong-about-victorias.htmlLast week on her very popular podcast, Candace Owens took a moment to celebrate that Victoria’s Secret is “bringing sexy back.” The body-positive marketing gimmick is running out of steam, and Victoria’s Secret, having invested in the woke aesthetic, is running out of money. So, they are “returning to the hot girls,” whose aspirational figures “make you want to buy what they’re selling.” Owens approves of this; she’s “glad they learned their lesson,” and looks forward to “watching the hot girls replace the unattractive girls” in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and catalogs./110-charlie-mungers-outstanding-investor.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/110-charlie-mungers-outstanding-investor.htmlYou’re reading the free version of Watchlist Investing on Substack. If you’re not already subscribed, click here to join 2,800 others. Want more in-depth and focused analysis on good businesses? Check out some sample issues of Watchlist Investing Deep Dives, a separate paid service. For $20.75 per month, you can join corporate executives, professional money managers, and students of value investing receiving 10-12 issues per year. In addition, you’ll gain access to the archives, now 30 issues and growing!/tiktok-cheaters-social-snitches.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiktok-cheaters-social-snitches.htmlAs the Princess of Wales now surely understands, the one thing the internet excels at is using its hive mind to uncover lies and solve mysteries. And while royal family conspiracy theories raged out of control this week, some other guessing games were also going viral. The first was sparked by fitness creator Tiana Wiltshire after she posted a video to TikTok asking for help to find a woman she believed had been cheated on./chelsea-deserved-to-beat-man-city.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chelsea-deserved-to-beat-man-city.htmlChelsea narrowly lost to Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley this afternoon after a late winning goal from Bernardo Silva in the 84th minute. The goal felt inevitable in the end, because if you do not take your chances against a team like City, you know they have the capabilities and quality to punish you. City were poor, and they looked rather hungover from the Champions League in the week./christ-is-risen-from-the-dead.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christ-is-risen-from-the-dead.htmlCHRIST IS RISEN! Good morning from Budapest, where I once again have proper milk in my coffee, Lent being over and the joy of Pascha covering the land! The image above is from the beginning of the Paschal service in my church. The lighting was much darker than the photo indicates. It is supposed to symbolize the darkness of the tomb that held the body o… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5mxs7HHnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wr8eroKysXZ7Abr7IrJynZZanvK5506GcZpyVlrE%3D/cinnamon-roll-blondies.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cinnamon-roll-blondies.htmlINGREDIENTS (small batch): Blondie: 1 egg 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup butter, browned 3/4 cup flour 1/4 tsp baking powder Cinnamon sugar: 4 tbsp light brown sugar 2 tbsp granulated sugar 1 tsp cinnamon DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat your oven to 375F. 2. Brown 1/2 cup of butter - see my previous posts on how to make brown butter! You should end up with a little more than 1/3 cup of brown butter as some of the water evaporates during the cooking process./cleveland-guardians-2024-prospect-07b.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cleveland-guardians-2024-prospect-07b.htmlG/GS: 39 IP: 55 ERA/FIP: 3.11/2.50 K/BB: 84/18 K%/BB%: 36.1%/7.7% WHIP: 1.13 Fastball: 70 Sinker: 55 Slider: 55 Command: 45 Overall: 45 Risk: High ETA: 2024 Big, powerful frame with lank arms and legs. High waisted. Frame filled out. Lots of strength in lower and upper half. Big, mid near chest-high leg kick with moderate hip turn in delivery. Long arm swing, high 3/4 arm slot. Aleman was signed for $175K after Cleveland drafted him from Florida in the 10th round of the 2021 draft./closing-bobi-cones-what-happened.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/closing-bobi-cones-what-happened.htmlOur beloved soft serve concept, BoBi Cones, is closing at the end of the month. I made this news public a couple of days ago and it’s been interesting to see the response. Most have been so sweet in saying how much they will miss BoBi and others have had less constructive comments about the news. ”I knew it would close” ”That’s not surprising” ”It was too expensive” ”It wasn’t anything special”/coke-butter.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coke-butter.htmlI posted a recipe for steak a few weeks back on Twitter and I accidentally typed “Coke” butter instead of “cold” butter. It sent my comment section into a frenzy with people asking “What is coke butter!”. I clarified the mistake, but a seed was planted. What would a good Coke butter (the drink, not the kitchen vitamin) taste like? Thus began the experiment. At first, I figured it would be too sweet to just add coke to butter without balancing out the flavors./comforting-words-you-need-today.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comforting-words-you-need-today.html“This is not a story about a good wife and a bad husband,” poet Maggie Smith starts out her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful. It’s also not a tell-all, but maybe a tell-mine, she explains. You Could Make This Place Beautiful is in some ways an inventory of the foreshadowing events that lead up to her separation from her husband during the pandemic. One of the ways that Maggie starts to reflect on her marriage is by omission – see if you can find her husband in the following viral poem from 2016:/never-surrender.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/never-surrender.htmlIt's very sad, tragic, ridiculous, and absurdly insane that America has allowed a severe mental, emotion, criminally insane, privileged and self-entitled person to be elected to the greatest position of responsibility on the planet, its literally feels like, if you hired a supposed house sitter to watch your house then when you come home they refuse to leave and say it's their house not yours, you finally force them out, in the process they try to burn your house down, and engage you in a legal battle still claiming ownership of your house!/ask-the-inspector-a7c.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-the-inspector-a7c.htmlreply to your Episode. 66...about fish tradition in the movie...:) Fish and “ Moscow doesn’t believe in tears”movie. You know how you think movie at cinema, automatically popcorn comes to your mind? You know how in Italy they say espresso you have to drink…hot, seated, in good company? Fish has same meaning, its more of a ritual/tradition. Imagine, you want to meet with good friend, or not even friend, person you just met like in that Russian movie./end-of-an-era.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/end-of-an-era.htmlKind of a sad end for the CW's Arrowverse, an ambitious project that managed to pump out over seven hundred episodes of connected superhero universe and even managed to (kinda/sorta) do Crisis on Infinite Earths on a low rent TV network budget. Had you told early 80's, teenage me that such a thing would exist in the future I would have been incredulous and excited beyond measure. It's The Flash that I feel saddest about./offering-for-katie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/offering-for-katie.htmlFriends, there is no easy way to say this. After years of fighting tirelessly for her marriage, Katie is now a single mother of six. This story is hers and hers alone to share, but you can read more here: I still don’t have a category for what the kids and I have been through in the last few years. I’m confused and angry and devastated. This is absolutely not the ending I wanted and not the ending I fought and prayed for./ring-of-fire.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ring-of-fire.htmlThanks, Dan, for this special "Reason To Smile." I'll make a short story long. About 18 years ago, our son went to Japan to teach English. While he was there, he befriended and was mentored by an older gentleman thru the Lions Club. He's a very interesting man - an oncologist who ran a couple of hospitals in two big cities. We met him on one of our many trips to Japan (our son lives there now and has a family)./rip-joe-lieberman-a-reminder-that.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-joe-lieberman-a-reminder-that.htmlDear Mary Pat, My first question was, "Are increased deaths from falls just a function of a decrease in other causes of mortality?", but you have explored that thoroughly above. Somewhat related, today, my boss heard that a cousin had suddenly died the day before - somebody only a few years older (~45-50) than him. Relevant because the man's either phone or wearable device (watch) detected his fall (likely fall was caused by fatal event, not vice versa), and auto-alerted his wife and emergency services (although EMS arrived only to pronounce him dead and transport the body./whipped-labneh.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whipped-labneh.htmlA tip to offer, if I may. My husband makes greek yogurt in the Instant Pot using Fairlife full fat milk. It is the best tasting yogurt I have ever had. It finishes very thick and there is very little whey in it. I'm not sure what your rules are for posting links, so I won't post the link for the recipe. However, if you google "instant-pot-cold-start-yogurt-fairlife-yogurt", the site and recipe will come right up./common-dating-advice-that-actually.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/common-dating-advice-that-actually.htmlHello fellow humans! This week marked the completion of my 27th rotation around the sun. In other words, I am 28-year-old and coming up on the unknown ventures known as my 30’s. Luckily, I live in LA, where 30 is the new 20, and if your a man that age is upped to 40. So I haven’t been inundated with the notion that I am withering away. Sure, getting older is a bit scary./coronary-artery-calcium-scans-are.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coronary-artery-calcium-scans-are.htmlSince Andrew Foy and I wrote our Case Against Coronary Artery Scans in an academic journal, the test has only increased in popularity. Grin. The imaging test measures the amount of calcium in the coronary arteries. It’s not covered by health insurers, but smart businesspeople have placed the cost at a manageable $100—which is only a fraction of what you’d be billed for a medical grade CT scan. I write now because of Twitter activity amongst popular and rich business/tech people./corruption-err-uption.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/corruption-err-uption.htmlAt least once a year something goes awry with the laptop, thumb drives, and Microsoft Word.  With my deadline approaching, I did a final once-over of the weekly diatribe. Trying to open the file, Microsoft Word abruptly informed me: “Sorry, we could not find your file. Was it moved, renamed, or deleted?” Nope. Perhaps you’ve experienced the same?   A second attempt revealed more disturbing news: “Word was unable to read this document./letter-24-cozy-tolkien-quotes-for.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-24-cozy-tolkien-quotes-for.htmlDear readers, I’m very proud of the subtitle for this post. If you’re new here or haven’t gleaned my vibe, that subtitle should tell you plenty about my questionable sense of humor. (Carry On my questionable sense of humor and all. Yes, that is absolutely a fandom reference; thank you for noticing.) Anyway, yep, like some previous quote lists, I intended to have quotes from varying sources but ended up with only J./crawford-drops-spence-three-times.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crawford-drops-spence-three-times.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./consumo-crock-pot.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/consumo-crock-pot.htmlEl consumo de los aparatos eléctricos nos preocupa y mucho. Esta es la pregunta que muchos se hacen cuando conocen la cocción en olla lenta: ¿cuánto consume una crock pot? A primera vista se supone que salir carísimo, al estar tantas horas funcionando. A veces resulta complicado convencer de que la afirmación que lleva implícita la pregunta está muy lejos de la realidad. Los largos tiempos de elaboración llevan a imaginar un consumo elevado, pero la realidad es bien distinta./david-buick.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-buick.htmlDavid Dunbar Buick was Scottish-born American-based automobile manufacturer. He is best known for the production of a vehicle that was to become the foundation of one of the world's largest car producers, General Motors, once named The Buick Motor Company after him. David Dunbar Buick was born on September 17th, 1854, in Arbroath, Scotland. When David was just two years old, he and his parents emigrated to Detroit in Michigan. At age 15, David left school and decided to work for a plumbing company./resena-critica-erase-una-vez-en-el-caribe.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/resena-critica-erase-una-vez-en-el-caribe.htmlY furioso, el jibarito va, pensando así, mirando así, matando así por el camino… El western y el chambara, dos géneros con una rica tradición fílmica a lo largo de toda la existencia del medio, han estado casados en la pantalla grande desde que el director estadounidense John Ford inspiró al japonés Akira Kurosawa, este a su vez capturó la atención del italiano Sergio Leone, y entre todos desataron una reacción en cadena que influyó a una legión de cineastas./dear-kitty.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-kitty.html[A little bit of housekeeping: I’ll be turning on paid subscriptions in the next few weeks. If you’d like to pledge ahead of time, please do! If not, keep doing what you’re doing. I’ll make another announcement when we’re there.] I just wrote a short essay on my history as a failed diarist/semi-successful Livejournaler over on my “About” page. You can check it out if you like, but I did want to draw the main feed’s attention to this gem—a scanned page of my childhood diary, complete with the redacted names of my childhood enemies./dear-sugar-letter-28.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-sugar-letter-28.htmlDear Sugar,     I failed at Dry January. The most confusing part of that for me is I don’t have a problem with alcohol. While it’s true I drink pretty much every day, I drink in moderation—a couple cocktails or glasses of wine before/with dinner and s… ncG1vNJzZmibmJq%2FurjSramasZWZe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZp2dkad6tMHGmqlmpJWpwaa%2BjGtv/desiderata-meaning-max-ehrmann-definition-poem.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/desiderata-meaning-max-ehrmann-definition-poem.htmlThrough the cacophony of existence, "Desiderata," a poem penned by Max Ehrmann in the whispering twilight of 1927, glides elegantly as a wisp of smoke, inviting the reader into its quiet sanctuary. The poem is a whispered lullaby in the midst of an orchestral storm, a guide for finding the marble in the vast ocean of sand. "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence./dex-romweber.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dex-romweber.htmlWhen a Nashville journalist asked Dex Romweber about a new song the guitarist had recorded, Dex told him, “It’s a kind of a dark, sort of hillbilly blues…folkie, rock ‘n’ roll thing. It’s hard for me to describe. You’ll just have to hear it.” Dex’s music mixes so many uniquely American elements that even he has trouble describing it. What you hear when you listen to it, though, is a veritable who’s-who of rock music’s Southern progenitors: Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Link Wray, Buddy Holly, Little Richard./disapproving-drake-meme.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disapproving-drake-meme.htmlIt’s late 2015 and the Hotline Bling video has just dropped. Twitter, Instagram, and Vine all give their own spin on the video.There’s a Buzzfeed listicle about the best ones and people actually read it. It’s all anyone on the internet can talk about. Memes themselves have a longer half life and it remains in the collective consciousness for at least a week.  Today, those memes are merely a memory./djokovic-v-medvedev-us-open-final.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/djokovic-v-medvedev-us-open-final.htmlNovak Djokovic defeated Daniil Medvedev in the final of the US Open 6/3 7/6 6/3 to clinch his 24th Grand Slam singles title and extend his H2H over Medvedev to 10-5. The Serb has now won three of the calendar year’s four slams for a record fourth time: In my semifinals recap, I touched on two key areas in the Djokovic/Medvedev rivalry: First serve Forecourt ability: slice/drop shots/volleys etc. Because both are natural counterpunchers, the rallies tend to extend when the free points on serve dry up./do-the-russo-brothers-have-any-idea.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-the-russo-brothers-have-any-idea.htmlIn a recentVarietyprofile, Joe and Anthony Russo, the filmmaking brothers most famously responsible for a string of super-successful Marvel movies, opined about the future of movies. Drawing on their own experience, professional plans, and intuition, they painted a picture of a film industry still figuring out how to incorporate the upheaval of the streaming era (fair) and about to undergo an even more radical transformation due to other technological developments. It’s here that the Russos’ thinking gets a little, well, fuzzy./dont-ask-computer-softwares-software.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-ask-computer-softwares-software.htmlWhen you search for Don’t Ask Computer Software, you don’t find a very much information about the history of the company. The company does have an entry on MobyGames, but that only lists three games published by the company. According to opencorporates, the company was incorporated in September of 1982. The company was founded by Randy Simon and Rachel Cullen. As of today, the company no longer exists. Software Activated Mouth (or SAM) first appeared in the October 1982 issue of Antic magazine./d-onna-stubblefield-philadelphia.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/d-onna-stubblefield-philadelphia.htmlAs the general manager and beverage director at Sally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, D’Onna Stubblefield’s primary goal isn’t to build the best wine list in Philly (which she has), or even to make wine approachable to everyone (which she does). It’s to ensure the needs of her staff are paramount above all, including the needs of guests and overall business logistics.  This rare, but supportive approach remains in direct conflict with most of the hospitality industry today./dontrez-styles-transfers-from-georgetown.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dontrez-styles-transfers-from-georgetown.htmlGeorgetown junior wing Dontrez Styles has decided to enter the transfer portal, according to Joe Tipton of On3 Sports. After transferring from North Carolina, Styles averaged 12.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in his lone season at Georgetown. The 6-foot-6 junior will have one year of eligibility remaining. Styles got off to a strong start last season as a Hoya, scoring 20+ points in three of his first six games./easy-strawberry-summer-cake.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/easy-strawberry-summer-cake.htmlAnne is back again this week (she shared herchicken chili recipe with us while I was on maternity leave) sharing an idea for how to doctor up a simple butter cake box mix to make a really special, impressive summer cake. Today’s my birthday, and growing up, my “birthday cake” request was always strawberry shortcake. My mom would pile shortcake with sliced strawberries and so much whipped cream it looked like a cloud./egypts-most-popular-dessert-om-ali.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/egypts-most-popular-dessert-om-ali.htmlDid any of you food media pros get a gift bag from “The Bear”? I don’t want more stuff so I didn’t give the PR team my address but I do want to know what was in it! Also … I didn't expect so many responses to the last leg, I'll admit it. But this one seems like a true challenge. Are there good restaurants on this route? (The next one's gonna be way too easy./rosh-hodesh-adar-embracing-joy-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rosh-hodesh-adar-embracing-joy-and.htmlTonight marks Rosh Hodesh Adar the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, bringing with it waves of joy and happiness. Rosh Hodesh, which translates to ‘head of the month,’ is celebrated at the new moon, marking the start of a new lunar month. Rosh Hodesh is a time of renewal, reflection, and new beginnings. Adar, the twelfth month of the Jewish calendar, holds a special place in the heart of the Jewish community./emily-quartermaine-returns-to-general.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-quartermaine-returns-to-general.htmlThank you Amber, for sharing so much of yourself and your journey, GH was my first exposure to you and I've enjoyed finding you here on Substack revealing additional talents! I've never stopped watching GH (in some format) since the late 70's, it has truly been the only constant in my life. I cannot express how grateful I am to the cast/crew members for their talent and commitment (and ABC) that enabled the longevity./kates-abdominal-surgery-everything.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kates-abdominal-surgery-everything.htmlCatherine, the Princess of Wales, underwent planned abdominal surgery Tuesday, according to a statement released by Kensington Palace. The surprise news — including that she would be recovering in a hospital for the next 10 to 14 days and be off royal duties for another two to three months — made headlines around the world. Below, a summary of everything that has been reported so far, including more on the timing (and what royal appearances have been postponed or canceled) as well as past royal hospital visits./ezra-klein-prince-of-new-media.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ezra-klein-prince-of-new-media.htmlIt would be very easy to hate Ezra Klein. He’s only 38, and already has been a pioneering political blogger, a pioneering explanatory journalist for the Washington Post, the founder of Vox.com, the author of the best-selling book Why We’re Polarized, and now a marquis podcaster and columnist for the New York Times. The amount of good fortune that’s come his way is staggering. Not just journalistic and political good fortune, but personal good fortune./fact-checking-gary-brecka-on-joe.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fact-checking-gary-brecka-on-joe.htmlDoes everything need to be methylated to be made usable in the body? Does T4 need to be methylated in the gut to become T3? Is methylation so important yet carbs unimportant? Did you know that glucose mainly provides the methyl group of methylfolate?! Is sleep really all about methylation? Is a $500 test covering 5 genes really the best way to learn about what makes you nutritionally unique? Watch my breakdown above!/fail-porn-and-cope-culture.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fail-porn-and-cope-culture.html👋 Welcome to the latest issue of The Jungle Gym – the newsletter that helps you build a more fulfilling career by integrating your work and life. ✨ If you’re a new reader, thanks for stopping by. Feel free to check out this introductory post, which explains what The Jungle Gym is all about. 📬 To get future issues delivered to your inbox, enter your email here: There is an ugly side of me that enjoys reading about other people’s failures./farewell-to-aubrie-pick-photographer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/farewell-to-aubrie-pick-photographer.htmlHello everyone, First a few updates. Last Thursday was action packed and I have you to partly thank for it. I thought had enough inventory to satisfy everyone, but within hours of the shop reopening, everything was spoken for. Most of the purchases were made by PTFS subscribers. You get first dibs because you are here! My work schedule is getting full and I’m unsure about reordering. Please help me gauge demand./a-review-of-mayumu-filipino-american.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-review-of-mayumu-filipino-american.htmlThe last time I required blood drawn at a regional hospital, they summoned an advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) to do the job instead of a phleb. My veins make like over-cooked spaghetti; they slither away before collapsing if you try to pierce them with a sharp object. “We’ve bleeped ******”, the nurse reassured me; “they have never failed.” I felt a bit sorry for the ACP. That’s too much for any one person to live up to./filipino-style-rice-soup-with-crispy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/filipino-style-rice-soup-with-crispy.htmlHere it is - the recipe so many of you wanted! A warming, nourishing soup inspired by the bowls of my childhood. Typically this soup uses leftover shredded chicken but I also love it with shiitake mushrooms for a veggie version so I’ve given both options below. Don’t skimp on the toppings, they really make it. Feeds 4; takes 15 minutes to prep, 35 minutes to cook For the soup/film-show-044-joel-potrykus.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-show-044-joel-potrykus.htmlJoel Potrykus’s thoughtful, ugly, independent filmmaking heralds the artist as one of the last hopes for contemporary American cinema. His depictions of “losers” could easily be spiteful or malevolent, but they’re cherished, witnessed, and valued in their desperate quests. His feature films include Ape (2012), Buzzard (2014), The Alchemist Cookbook (2016), and Relaxer (2018). With his newest feature Vulcanizadora (2024), which premieres June 8th at the Tribeca Film Festival, Potrykus is as contemplative and grisly as ever./filmmaker-kelly-reichardt-on-her.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/filmmaker-kelly-reichardt-on-her.htmlKelly Reichardt is one of the most important filmmakers working today. Since her 1994 debut River of Grass, Kelly has produced a singular body of work, including the films Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013), Certain Women (2016), First Cow (2019), and her latest, Showing Up. In between projects she continues to teach film at Bard College. Her career has also been notable for her decades-long collaborations with actors, cinematographers, and other creative partners./fontina-and-spinach-stuffed-veal.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fontina-and-spinach-stuffed-veal.htmlThe other day I was talking to someone about my job and how it’s sometimes hard to separate between cooking for work and cooking for fun. See cooking and teaching has always been my passion, but now that it’s also my full time job it presents some challenges such as the occasional burnout and the loss of just cooking for fun. Lately, I have been making sure that at least once a week I get a chance to cook something new without a real plan and just have fun in the kitchen./re-noted-francis-ford-coppolas-godfather.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-noted-francis-ford-coppolas-godfather.htmlOnce a month I dig into Noted’s archive to resurface a favorite post. Because I just wrote about Sofia Coppola, her father’s process has been on my mind. Francis Ford Coppola has also been in the news recently for his ambitious, if tepidly reviewed, film Megalopolis. So, I thought it was a perfect time to revisit his notes for one of my favorite movies of all time, The Godfather. Francis Ford Coppola was terrified when he wrote the script for The Godfather./friars-road-construction-goes-onand.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friars-road-construction-goes-onand.htmlWe all know the familiar saying….”Rome wasn’t built in a day.” The use of this expression is intended to remind us that the noble virtue of patience is oftentimes required when waiting for a project to be completed. Chances are good Linda Vista resident have most recently found themselves referring to this saying when driving along the stretch of Friars Road between the CA-163/Friars Road interchange and the part of Friars Road that extends west to Sea World Drive./gabriel-lewis-authors-next-moves.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gabriel-lewis-authors-next-moves.htmlA couple of Chefs Fest 2023 participants, Jeff Chanchaleune and Gabriel Lewis, are in the news, and I’ve got details. On July 14, I was fortunate enough to join a dining room full of folks for dinner at Francis Tuttle Technology Center’s District 52. The occasion was a cookbook launch from chef Gabriel Lewis. Lewis, 25, is mite young for his first book, but what a life it’s been in his short time./gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end.htmlThis is a one-time post to pull together resources, links, and info on a topic I’ve followed for a long time. Let’s start with a brief quiz. Check out the two photos below. One, of chronic congestion on freeways in my Southern California homeland. The other, of familiar modern “gardening” practices. Which do you think is overall a greater contributor to certain kinds of air pollution, carcinogenic emissions, lung disease, and hearing loss, in our nation’s most populous state?/god-is-real.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/god-is-real.htmlIn this Substack, I am going to prove that God exists, and I am going to prove it beyond a mere shadow of doubt. The God of Whom I refer is not Allah or Osiris or Ganesha or any of the other gods of various cultures across the planet, but the One True God, the Lord God of Hebrew and Christian scripture. Are you ready? Some of you probably aren’t, but if “some of you” includes you, I encourage you to read on just to prove to yourself that you are open-minded, which nearly everyone claims to being./good-day-and-good-night.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-day-and-good-night.htmlI am leaving pro wrestling content creation. Allow me my moment of indulgence to wrap everything up. Pro wrestling was never going to be a career for me. I love wrestling, but my love for the squared circle is completely dwarfed by my passion for education. There is no feeling like the realization that you have impacted a child in a positive way; I’d trade Ryusuke Taguchi’s entire career for just one of those moments./hamilton-wrotethe-other-51.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hamilton-wrotethe-other-51.htmlTechnically the one-year anniversary of my first HIBOU post was December 3, but who’s counting? Me, as it turns out. On December 3, I counted up the essays I’d written (skipping the repetitive Weekly RAP posts over the summer) and realized with utter delight that the final tally gave me a most excellent excuse to use a Hamilton meme: Look, I know there’s no real comparison between Hamilton’s writing and mine—Hamilton’s essays took six months to help midwife our system of government while my essays took twelve months to spelunk mindset in writing—but just let me have this moment to pretend I spent the year writing like I was running out of time, all right?/hard-money-heat-check.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hard-money-heat-check.htmlThere are few things I like more about NBA basketball than when a player gets so hot that it seems as though they can't miss a shot, no matter where they are shooting from. The legendary video game NBA Jam captured this beautifully, for those that remember. A “heat check” is when a hot player takes what would normally be a shot that's borderline absurd because they are feeling so good and confident in their ability that they feel like they can “push it” a little./hard-no-johnny-depp.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hard-no-johnny-depp.htmlSpectacle and opportunism are the twin engines that drive the contemporary art market, so it's never a surprise when it reaches an incredible new low as it did this past week when Johnny Depp’s debut "art" collection sold out for $3.6 million in a matter of hours. [Note: I have a policy against writing about things that exist solely to seek attention or money and possess little inherent value. And while Depp’s work falls squarely into this category, the mechanism that brought it into the public eye is deserving of conversation because it reveals so much about the public’s relationship to art and the art establishment’s disdain for the public./hate-reads-delia-cai-tells-all.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hate-reads-delia-cai-tells-all.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. For the first time in a long time, there has been a spark of excitement in the air—and it’s not just the first burst of spring weather. It’s thanks to Hate Read, the pop-up newsletter from Deez Links writer .I’ve mentioned Delia in some recent newsletters, but that’s how good Hate Read has been./hell-is-other-peoples-opinions.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hell-is-other-peoples-opinions.html“Hell is–other people.” ~ From the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (1944) “Some things are in our control and others not.” ~ Discourses by Epictetus (circa 108AD)  “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” ~ John Lydgate of Bury (later adapted by President Abraham Lincoln)/hiking-the-lake-ann-trail.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hiking-the-lake-ann-trail.htmlIf I’m ranking the best trails I’ve ever hiked, Lake Ann would easily be top three. The backpacking route I did in Armenia, the Rose Lake Cliffs and Caribou Rock Trail in Northern Minnesota in the Fall, and the Lake Ann Trail in the North Cascades, but in no particular order.  I work as an overnight sea kayaking guide in the summer—the constant work in the outdoors means aside from work trips, I don’t get out much in the summer./homage-to-lizzie-shelby-season-6.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/homage-to-lizzie-shelby-season-6.htmlThe show picks up where it left off. We see Tommy in that field, with Grace-ghost trying to convince him to kill himself. Tommy screams and puts the gun to his head. The screen goes black and we hear him pull the trigger. But there is no bullet. The gun is empty. Despite this Tommy theatrically falls onto the ground, into the mud as if he had actually shot himself. His eyes look glassy, his pupils slightly dilated./how-does-a-few-minutes-a-week-change.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-does-a-few-minutes-a-week-change.htmlI was binge-watching the final season of Billions last week and a character said something that reminded me of a habit I’ve built and completely lapsed on for the last year and a half or so… Y’know, Billions as a show to analyze how people work on their mental stamina and ideas is probably at least a couple of posts, but that’s a separate one. :-) In one of the episodes, Kate Sacker - a character on the show - talks about how she realized something because when she was doing her weekly analysis of decisions, she recognized that something was off in the way she made one./how-i-created-my-graphic-novel-bird.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-i-created-my-graphic-novel-bird.htmlToday I thought it would be fun (and maybe informative) to look back at how I created my graphic novel series Bird & Squirrel. I’ll try and break down the entire process over the course of a few posts starting today with how I came up with the idea and what the initial outline looked like for the first book. THE IDEA: I came up with the idea for what would eventually be called Bird & Squirrel back in 2009/2010 after talking to my agent on the phone following the completion of my second book, Beep and Bah./how-taylor-swift-ron-desantis-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-taylor-swift-ron-desantis-and.htmlI’ve been listening to A LOT of T. Swift recently. But not for the reasons you might think.  Sure, it’s basically impossible NOT to come across Taylor’s music these days. Also, my wife is a big-time Swiftie, and has been for years, so I’m no stranger to her discography. But the reason I’ve been listening to Swift’s music is because, over the past few months, I’ve become increasingly obsessed with music theory./how-they-made-the-all-caps-video.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-they-made-the-all-caps-video.htmlWelcome! It’s time again for the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is what we’re doing today: New here? It’s free to sign up for our Sunday issues. Get them in your inbox, weekly: Sign Up With that, we’re off! Two years ago, on Halloween 2020, the enigmatic rapper DOOM passed away. He’d staked out a career as a musical weirdo and lyrical wizard. His work influenced too many other, bigger artists to count — from Thom Yorke to Tyler, the Creator./how-to-beat-the-tsa-lines-at-seattle-tacoma.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-beat-the-tsa-lines-at-seattle-tacoma.htmlTraveling through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport can be daunting due to long TSA lines. However, if you're planning a trip through the airport, we've got tips to help you beat the queues. Based on our analysis of TSA wait time data from the past month using Qsensor.co, we'll provide you with the best and worst days and times to fly. As well as some general tips for a smooth airport experience./how-to-build-a-garden-in-a-kiddie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-build-a-garden-in-a-kiddie.htmlHello! Hola! Bonjour! As you probably already know if you are one of the 14.8k people/bots who follow me on Instagram (and let’s face it…if you’re reading this newsletter you probably follow me on Instagram*), you’ll know that I recently returned from yet another luxury cruise, this time through Spain and France. I’ll be getting into all of that next week, which is fitting because we’re a little over a year since I first launched this newsletter with a recap of my trip to Spain./the-freaks-how-two-kidnapped-albino.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-freaks-how-two-kidnapped-albino.htmlAs the 1900s rolled around, circuses started to explode on the American entertainment scene. Forget radio, TV, or movies - they weren't a thing yet. Instead, it was all about the thrill of insane acrobatics, wild animals, and exciting performances that took over people's imaginations. These spectacles were a major event and an eagerly anticipated break, particularly in remote and rural areas where life could be repetitive and dull. For many people at this time, their knowledge of different cultures or unusual creatures existed primarily within stories told around fireplaces or articles read under candlelight./i-got-busted-for-stealing-a-car.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-got-busted-for-stealing-a-car.htmlOne of the techniques I used to write Late Admissions was to set up “interviews” with myself. I would talk about my life with my editor, Mark Sussman, and we would record the conversations. The transcripts became the basis for the book, but we also have over 60 hours of recordings. We’re going to release some of them—curated, edited, and produced by my creative director, Nikita Petrov—and this is the first batch./im-gonna-f-the-phantom-of-the-paradise.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-gonna-f-the-phantom-of-the-paradise.htmlIn 1974, two years before his adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie would push him into mainstream success, trailblazer of pervy freak cinema Brian De Palma wrote and directed an indulgent, hedonistic rock opera movie musical called Phantom of the Paradise. Though a commercial and critical flop at the time (except, uncannily, in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Paris), the low budget, independently-produced passion project has developed an increasingly avid cult following in the nearly 50 years since it was released./if-only-rudys-dad-could-see-him-now.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-only-rudys-dad-could-see-him-now.htmlHarold Angel Giuliani, the father of Rudy, once served 18 months at Sing Sing for robbing a milkman at gunpoint for $128.82. Harold gave a fake name to the police when he was pinched. Rudy has said proudly his dad was the “muscle” for a loan-sharking outfit, where he “broke legs, smashed kneecaps [and] crunched noses” in the 1950s.  Rudy further credits his father as the “finest man” he’s ever known, and “compulsive about being honest./ignorance-is-bliss-until-it-comes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ignorance-is-bliss-until-it-comes.htmlOver the holidays, we spent a week at our friends’ house before the memorial service for my in-laws, who recently passed away. Our friends live in an immaculate house. Everything has its place, and every place has its purpose… except for the small things, which baffled me. It wasn't just one thing that didn’t make sense, but a dozen little things. Because everything else was so pristine, that just made them stick out more./pomegranate-juice-replenishing-recharging.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pomegranate-juice-replenishing-recharging.htmlMY SMILE GROWS as the stall owner piles handful after handful pomegranate seeds into the juicer and I watch a pint of deep ruby red pomegranate juice pouring into my glass. Sweet yet sour, tart and tangy. With each sip, I swear I can feel the juice seeping into my body, replenishing, recharging, restoring. I should explain. I’m in Kathmandu, Nepal. Just back from a 21 day trek to Base Camp Everest, my body is completely depleted, drained of energy and craving fruit./using-tech-to-lower-healthcare-costs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/using-tech-to-lower-healthcare-costs.htmlNikhil and I recently had an interesting discussion with Carbon Health CEO Eren Bali on Carbon Health’s journey from software to clinics, tech strategy and future plans. You can listen to our conversation on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Eren described Carbon’s journey from a tool to share complex cases to a new EHR to actually running clinics including how they designed an EHR from scratch and thought about selling software vs building clinics./in-conversation-kat-moss-of-scowl.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-kat-moss-of-scowl.htmlIn the four years since releasing their self-titled EP, Scowl have shown a sense of fearlessness and exploration that have made them one of hardcore’s most talked-about bands. But along with that newfound attention comes a persistent feeling of scrutiny, and while singer Kat Moss has been dealing with much of it in private, she recently made headlines for issuing a sharp and very public rebuke of some of the more egregious criticism—and specifically, the clearly gendered accusations of Scowl being “industry plants./in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-656.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-656.htmlFebruary 12, 2024 Bob Edwards, who led NPR ’s Morning Edition for two and a half decades, has died at 76 years old, NPR confirmed Monday morning. The newscaster’s voice narrated the morning rundown for millions of Americans between 1979 and his retirement from the show in 2004, sharing the news with generations of Americans. In a statement, NPR’s CEO John Lansing added, “As an NPR listener myself, I will always remember Bob Edwards’ deep warm baritone and the confident ease of his delivery./pop-2-in-moonlight-black-boys-look.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pop-2-in-moonlight-black-boys-look.htmlHow much time away from art do we need to consider it a classic?  A few months?  Years?  A decade?  The most immediate title for art is the “new classic”, usually crowned to at least three or four films and albums respectively each year.  But context is important, isn’t it?  Especially in a world where the most coveted awards in media (arguably the Oscars and the Grammys), still set the tone for what we will be talking about all year and beyond (although the more the scope of these artforms expand and grow, the more the snubs sting)./new-project-innovative-sentences.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-project-innovative-sentences.htmlTake a side-profile look at any of my favorite books; you’ll find a litany of small gaps from dog-eared corners across their pages; open to any of those dog-eared pages; you’ll find a hastily-scrawled underlining of a sentence; the pen’s color having to do entirely with its proximity to me at the time of the dog-earring. The result? I have a lot of really cool sentences from a lot of books that mean a great deal to me./inside-londons-pie-and-mash-club.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-londons-pie-and-mash-club.htmlIt’s a stifling Friday afternoon in June and the last thing I feel like eating is minced beef pie served with mounds of mash and drenched in scalding parsley sauce.  I’ve got nothing against the classic London staple - it’s the city’s original fast-food, dating back to the 19th century when it was popular among the working classes in the East End. I just think it would be more enticing on a wretched winter’s day than in the 30-odd degree heat./internet-addicts-have-a-twelve-step.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/internet-addicts-have-a-twelve-step.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. I’ve made no secret of the fact that, despite the joy I find on the internet, I have a rocky relationship with it. Especially over the past few years, as I realized the ways lifelong unfettered social media use has warped my understanding of myself and the world around me. (You can find me rambling about that in my recent conversation with Charlie Warzel)./introducing-substack-creator-studio.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-substack-creator-studio.htmlToday, we’re excited to open applications for Substack Creator Studio, a fellowship for the next wave of video stars to turn their TikTok channels into Substack shows and communities. This is an opportunity for video-native creators who want a more direct, intimate relationship with their audience and to make money from subscriptions.  We’ll select 10 fellows who cover a wide range of subjects and give them access to world-class strategic support and promotion./introducing-rome-wasnt-built-in-a.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-rome-wasnt-built-in-a.htmlIt hurts, to lose your job. Especially when you’re 50 years old, and you know that the scrapheap is the most typical place of employment for people of your age. Especially when you really love what you do. Especially when, after years of working towards it and having just about overcome the imposter syndrome that all kids from my sort of background feel. And especially when you’re responsible for children, and you’re on your own./is-negro-a-slur-or-just-antiquated.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-negro-a-slur-or-just-antiquated.htmlThe racial reckoning of the past several years has altered the way we think about and use language, often for better but occasionally for worse. And sometimes, as John explains in this episode, what we tend to believe is at odds with what is most likely true. ncG1vNJzZmikla22pLvNr5ilpJWue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqKrXaOyqL7OZphmq5yqv2670WahrqukYq6vwMiqrJqslZk%3D/here-is-what-might-come-after-rlhf.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-is-what-might-come-after-rlhf.htmlReinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is one of the key reasons behind the success of LLMs such as ChatGPT. RLHF enables LLMs to follow user instructions and align their answers with user goals. However, RLHF has some fundamental challenges that reduce its efficiency and make it inaccessible to organizations with limited resources. SteerLM, a new technique developed by researchers at Nvidia, promises to solve the challenges of RLHF and provide better results at lower complexity./israeli-comedy-strikes-hard-at-the.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/israeli-comedy-strikes-hard-at-the.htmlMore than a decade ago, my office at work was situated next door to the office of a former IDF Chief of Staff, who was then working with us. The way my desk was situated, I could see down the hall while sitting at my desk, and thus saw the comings and goings of many of the people on that part of the floor. It turns out, not surprisingly, that former Chiefs of Staff have many contacts in the army./issue-135-cold-chinese-sesame-noodles.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-135-cold-chinese-sesame-noodles.htmlHappy New Year! Symbolic of a long, happy life, noodles are traditionally eaten at Chinese New Year—which begins late this year on February 10. But why wait? As you know, I love noodles. I eat them all the time. And this weekend, just before the Gregorian New Year, I made a version of cold Chinese sesame noodles for lunch that were so delicious I’m sure they augur a very good 2024./jack-kerouacs-dharma-bums.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jack-kerouacs-dharma-bums.htmlI only have one T-shirt of a book cover - and it’s Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac. This was one of my favorite books in my 20s, and this summer, I feel it’s time for a throwback to this spiritually-infused adventure tale of bohemia and Buddhism in 1950s California. Read "Dharma Bums" Those of you’ve followed me for some time know I’m a major fan of the Beat Generation writers./jacob-elordi-height-priscilla-lee-pace.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jacob-elordi-height-priscilla-lee-pace.htmlI became a card-carrying Lee Pace fan — or a Pacer, as we call ourselves — around 2007 when the 6’5” actor starred in ABC’s Pushing Daises. A year later, when he accompanied Sarah Michelle Gellar to the Met Gala, I knew for certain we were long game. But it wasn’t until a decade-plus later, around 2019, that something shifted (mainly my gaze) and I started to look up.  From my November 2021 Paper Magazine column headlined “Welcome to the Lee Pace-aissance”: “What fueled the recent Pace-aissance?/jewish-christophobia.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jewish-christophobia.htmlIt seems obvious to conservatives that Jews should figure out that in politics their friends are conservatives. Conservatives support Israel and oppose the social justice activists who have a negative regard for Jews. Jews should see conservatives as allies to be cultivated. Why aren’t more Jews receptive to this idea? One reason that most Jews are reluctant to move right is that they have what I call Christophobia. This is not a fear of Christ./johann-hari-on-ozempic-and-big-food.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/johann-hari-on-ozempic-and-big-food.htmlMy old and dear friend Johann just released his latest book, Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs. That follows Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015), Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression (2018), and Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention (2022), which we covered on the Dishcast. You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app)./john-donne-a-valediction-forbidding.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-donne-a-valediction-forbidding.htmlThe more closely I read the poem, the more I see the apparently abrupt topic shifts in stanzas are actually being subtly foreshadowed in previous stanzas. The second stanza, using the image of grief for death from the first stanza says: "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move". Floods and tempests are natural disasters, as are earthquakes, referenced in the third stanza beginning: "Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears". The third then progresses to planetary movement, and the fourth stanza holds the idea of planets in the phrase "/kelp-flies.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kelp-flies.htmlClicking on the title in the e-mail will take you to the substack website where you will be able to see the photos. Four or five years ago Colin Jardine of the Specialists in Cape Town invited me along to have a look at a home on the western coast of the Cape Peninsula where the homeowner was complaining of flies invading the house. We found masses of kelp flies in the house./kharon-sanctioned-by-china-understanding.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kharon-sanctioned-by-china-understanding.htmlOn Boxing Day the Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced that it is imposing sanctions on US company Kharon. The sanctions are in response to due diligence and compliance work by Kharon related to forced labour and human rights abuses in Xinjiang. ‘Kharon’ (or ‘Charon’) is the name of the ferryman in Greek mythology who carries the souls of the dead across the rivers Acheron and Styx to the land of the dead./kitchen-project-44-apple-butter-cinnamon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-project-44-apple-butter-cinnamon.htmlHello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects, my recipe development newsletter. It’s so lovely to have you here, especially because today we are delving into one of my fave subjects: Buns. And not just any buns - apple butter cinnamon buns. Over on KP+, I’m sharing a bit of a secret technique to take today’s (already gorgeous) cinnamon buns to the next level: It involves soaking in custard and an apple butterscotch icing./industry-insights-kosher-and-kosher.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/industry-insights-kosher-and-kosher.htmlI was hoping to do an Industry Insights newsletter today that’s a little different but very important to anyone it impacts. As happens every season, I’m working on a few stories this year related to food and wine/spirits that are kosher for Passover. (You might have caught some I’ve done in the past, such as, for Forbes: Shopping For Passover Wine And Spirits Requires Careful Preparation, for Wine Enthusiast:10 Passover Wines to Make Your Seder Shine, and for Southern Living: Invited To Your First Passover Seder?/laughing-with-my-nemesis.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/laughing-with-my-nemesis.htmlMy friends and I dressed as The Heathers, from the 1989 cult-classic movie of the same name, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. (Nine years prior, my boyfriend of the time cheated on me with Winona Ryder. I found out by opening a tabloid magazine at a nail salon and seeing them holding hands. The fact that I dressed as her on this Halloween is testament to how we as humans are capable of moving on./lets-talk-about-road-trips.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-talk-about-road-trips.htmlIf you’ve followed me on Instagram for a while, you probably know that my husband Jake and I drive long distances pretty often. Mostly, this is a practical choice based on the fact that our families both live far away (but not so far that we can’t drive there in a day), we work remotely, and we have a dog. In other words, it often made more sense to drive down with the dog and stay in Florida for two or three weeks during the holidays than it did to board Winnie and fly down./lindymanserial-plagiarist-part-1.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lindymanserial-plagiarist-part-1.htmlDisclaimer: Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This is not a story about Lindyman, I just need to clean my achieves, as I don’t want to keep this garbage forever. I have no idea who the guy is or if he/she is real. There was a rumor that she is a rebellious nun who escaped from Cambodia, now living in Oslo, practicing Mahayana, and occasionally travelling to France and US, but it is probably not more than a rumor./long-war-2-opening-strategy-outline.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/long-war-2-opening-strategy-outline.htmlEDIT: After writing this post I played through a campaign, and I now feel that my pace was a bit slow, and thus vulnerable to the Avatar Clock. I have made several revisions to correct this - moving forward the deadlines for Liberation and the Golden Path missions. Research: Resistance Communications - Allows you to connect to nearby regions Modular Weapons - Allows use of Weapon Upgrades Basic Research - Gives you one extra Scientist/louise-gluck-poems-1962-2012.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/louise-gluck-poems-1962-2012.htmlAt the risk of chasing the proverbial ambulance, I will continue the practice I began earlier this year, with the deaths of Martin Amis and Cormac McCarthy, of reposting here on Substack an earlier essay of mine on an author who has just died. I think it’s important to discuss the writing on the day of the writer’s death. Sadly, the poet Louise Glück left us today. She was our last American Nobel laureate, and the last Nobel laureate whose works I immediately went out and read upon hearing the news from Stockholm./white-wine-alternatives-to-chardonnay.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/white-wine-alternatives-to-chardonnay.htmlThere are people who love an oaky buttery chardonnay and there are those who do not. Rarely will you find someone who kinda likes it, but those who do enjoy drinking it usually love it and can’t get enough of it. One of my close girlfriends is a devoted chard drinker. As is m… ncG1vNJzZmiZop6vprrDnqmso6ljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGhpJp6uLXNnmSapKSav6%2Bt06Ktnqtdqbxur8eaqZ2nnqOuug%3D%3D/luxury-x-culture.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luxury-x-culture.htmlWelcome to the Sociology of Business. Sociology of Business now offers a paid membership program. Paid options are for the members of this community who want to be the first to access everything from Web3 brand-building to the new business models and emerging creative formats. Since its inception, the Sociology of Business has been the source code for many other analyses, strategies and brand-building approaches. Members will now have the front-row seat./making-a-big-splash-in-new-hartford.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/making-a-big-splash-in-new-hartford.htmlNEW HARTFORD  -- This town is bouncing back one step at a time – or, perhaps more correctly, one scoop at a time. In multiple flavors -- including strawberry cheesecake, which is to die for. The New Hartford Creamery opened up at the start of June to droves of customers. “I’ve gained four pounds since you opened!” one patron, Bob Dickson, joked to Mike Lane, who owns the shop with wife Amy./prison-for-assaulting-judge.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prison-for-assaulting-judge.htmlA man who was sentenced to nearly three years’ imprisonment for injuring a judge at Milton Keynes County Court with a series of “relentless” punches to the head has been named as Greg Hazletine. Earlier coverage of the sentencing hearing this month did not identify the defendant, presumably because Hazletine, 41, had been taking part in family proceedings at the court. But his name appeared in an uncorrected transcript of sentencing remarks published yesterday by the judiciary:/the-worlds-most-valuable-photograph.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-worlds-most-valuable-photograph.htmlPerhaps the most famous surrealist image in the world is Le Violon d’Ingres by Man Ray, a print of which was recently purchased at Christie’s for $12.4 million, making it by far the most expensive photograph ever sold. The story of this masterpiece is, in many ways, as fascinating as the mysterious image itself. At once an icon of the cultural fervor of 1920s Montparnasse, it is also the collaboration between two brilliant outsiders: Man Ray — born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia — and his muse and model Kiki de Montparnasse, originally Alice Prin from a small town in France./marques-houston-immature-colorism.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marques-houston-immature-colorism.htmlI didn’t even get a week to enjoy it. That was what I was thinking when I saw Marques Houston trending on Twitter. I’d been all giddy seeing an interview with one-third of my favorite boy band group on “R&B Money” and was reliving my childhood music memories about Immature. I’d heard the uproar here and there about him meeting his wife when she was 17 years old. Recommended Read: “‘R&B Money’ podcast brings back my fangirl days of Immature~ The podcast I didn’t know I needed to show respect to R&B legends”/matcha-crinkle-cookies.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matcha-crinkle-cookies.htmlINGREDIENTS: 1 egg 3/4 cup sugar 4 tbsp butter (softened) 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 tbsp matcha confectioners sugar DIRECTIONS 1. Whisk together the egg and sugar until it turns fluffy and pale in color (about 5-10 min by hand). 2. Add the butter and whisk again until smooth. 3. Add the flour, baking powder, and matcha to the batter and mix until just combined./meet-5-lgbtq-valentine-matches-living.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-5-lgbtq-valentine-matches-living.htmlGood morning and Happy Valentine’s Day! Or if you’re single (like me) for this Hallmark holiday, enjoy National Single Awareness Day tomorrow. This week, crime and politics lead the news. So sit back and take a minute to catch up. If you’re new to The Q, please subscribe so we can pop into your inbox every Friday. Thanks! We go all in on Valentine’s this week by highlighting committed couples and polyamorous clusters making it work today and every other day of the year./meet-the-wisconsin-badgers-new-position.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-wisconsin-badgers-new-position.htmlLuke Fickell and the Wisconsin Badgers football program made a few notable changes to the coaching staff this offseason. Some were out of necessity, and others in pursuit of better production.  Gone are wide receivers coach Mike Brown, who took the same job at Notre Dame, Colin Hitschler (Alabama), and Jack Bicknell Jr., who was re-assigned to a different role within the program. All three jobs have been filled—and announced on social media./prince-harry-meghan-markle-divorce-watch.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prince-harry-meghan-markle-divorce-watch.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: Our favorite Montecito couple faces divorce rumors, a pop star gets a married boyfriend, and Timothée Chalamet and Adam Sandler play basketball.  Paid subscribers got the breaking news that Ariana Grande has a new boyfriend yesterday — click here to catch up.  Since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got married in 2018, they have faced just about every conceivable tabloid rumor and still managed to profess their unique and Earth-shattering love for each other at every opportunity./merawi-gerima-on-solidarity-with.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/merawi-gerima-on-solidarity-with.htmlMy guest today is Merawi Gerima who released his debut film Residue to critical acclaim in 2020, and he has gone on to direct episodes for shows like Ava DuVernay’s Cherish The Day and the Black girl superhero show Naomi. His parents are the legendary filmmakers Haile Gerima & Shirikiana Aina, and he grew up in Washington, DC before relocating to his current home in Chicago. These days Merawi has been outspoken, consistent, and clear about the need for solidarity between the Black & Palestinian liberation struggles, and he’ll be the first to let you know that he is an “organizer first, filmmaker second./mississippi-native-laura-heller.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mississippi-native-laura-heller.htmlWhat does it mean to call Mississippi home? Why do people choose to leave or live in this weird, wonderful, and sometimes infuriating place? Today we hear from archivist, poet, and preserver of Mississippi stories, Laura Heller. Where are you from? I grew up during the 1980s and 1990s in Madison County, near but not in Gluckstadt. I had the whole Madison County experience of public schools, merged high schools, and growing communities bursting at the seams./monday-11623-jeopardy-fashion-recap-9ad.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monday-11623-jeopardy-fashion-recap-9ad.htmlLast day of the semifinals! This is Day 12 of 14 for the Diamonds group, which will run through November 8th (Wednesday). The Clubs group starts Thursday! Find the full schedule on the Jeopardy site. Subscribe to receive the daily fashion recaps via email! Dave is wearing a shirt and sweater tonight. He wore a similar outfit in his quarterfinal game, but in a different color combo. Jilana wore this bright purple dress in her final episode of Second Chance on September 29th./sgvwhittier-prep-sports-zone-mondays-6e1.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sgvwhittier-prep-sports-zone-mondays-6e1.htmlSince Sunday was Oscar’s night, we thought it was the perfect time to unveil the SGV/Whittier Prep Sports Zone All-Area Boys and Girls Wrestling team. It was a bumper crop year for girls wrestling with four girls winning state titles and another one earning a spot in the finals. It was a great group of girls from the SGV to invade the state championships in Bakersfield. On the boys side, we had a repeat state champion and several others who earned a spot on the podium./seanyseult.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seanyseult.htmlWhite Zombie’s trajectory was a wild one. Chronicled on 2016’s excellent It Came from N.Y.C. compendium, the group’s early days swung from a gothic, Cramps-inspired debut 7” towards the cerebellum-mangling noise-rock dissonance of debut LP Soul-Crusher, and onto the reverb-heavy crunch of 1989’s Make Them Die Slowly. By 1995, the band’s final album, Astro-Creep: 2000, mutated the template towards a dance-inspired industrial stomp that was indeed more human than human./my-atelier-jolie-visit-an-excellent.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-atelier-jolie-visit-an-excellent.htmlHappy almost Snow Day if you live around NYC! The weather was threatening to keep me at home but nothing stuck, so I ventured out for my anticipated appointment at Atelier Jolie. For those who don’t know, Angelina Jolie—a true minimalist fashion-wise and refugee advocate, has taken over the former studio of Basquiat (rent is apparently $60k a month!), where she has opened a multi-dimensional boutique and small refugee-run cafe, Eat Offbeat, with beautiful pastries from around the world (didn’t try, must go back)./my-refinery29-style-money-diary.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-refinery29-style-money-diary.htmlHi everyone, I’m doing something a little different this week and posting a Refinery29-inspired Money Diary for the past week. For those not familiar with Money Diaries, basically you detail your entire week and account for all of your spending. There are a few tropes of the genre I tried to stay true to: Everyone lists out what they eat and what groceries they buy (commenters are always curious), they also usually detail things like their skincare routines./my-son-is-ready.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-son-is-ready.htmlFor something non-political. Four years ago I wrote this thread about dropping off our firstborn at college (he graduated in May). Now it’s time for the second one. Raising my kids, especially this young man, has been the most fantastic experience of my life. He is one of the wittiest, cleverest people I’ve ever known. He is both of his parents evolved. He is also steadfast and utterly immovable in his faith./napkin-math-get-good-at-it-to-get.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/napkin-math-get-good-at-it-to-get.html👋Hi, it’s Greg and Taylor. Welcome to our newsletter on how to make high-stakes professional and personal decisions in your 30s. Read time: 10 minutes The first week I met Greg, I was intimidated by his napkin math. Scott Galloway (our founder) had asked Greg to come to NYC to check out Section and the team. That week, Greg and I met for breakfast and he told me we needed to figure out if we could build a $100M/year business./natalie-zemon-davis-1928-2023.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natalie-zemon-davis-1928-2023.htmlWhen I was in graduate school at Princeton in the 1980’s, Natalie Zemon Davis presented two chapters of her book Fictions in the Archive to the History Department’s weekly research seminar. It was a memorable moment. Here was one of the greatest historians of our time, having her book commented on in draft by colleagues such as Robert Darnton, Anthony Grafton, Lawrence Stone, Sean Wilentz, William Chester Jordan, Arno Mayer and Christine Stansell./new-york-city-1983-henry-rollins.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-york-city-1983-henry-rollins.htmlWhen I first arrived at Wesleyan University in 1979, I was disappointed that people there weren’t more interested in current music.  Punk and New Wave were happening.  College radio was becoming a thing.  There were tons of bands.  Every city had its own scene.  But people at Wesleyan were still listening to the Grateful Dead and blowing soap bubbles on the quad.  My sophomore year, a freshman kid from Washington DC arrived./nostalgia.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nostalgia.htmlIt’s just another classical music Monday, 72 hours or so into the newly published revelations about the industry’s latest decade-or-more-old open secret, this time an awful, lurid story of drugging, rape, harassment, threats, dismissal, reinstatement, and retribution. It’s at the New York Phil, this one is, which matters because individual people matter, but also which doesn’t because *gestures wildly around* this business, my God. I felt very lucky to have a new puppy at home this weekend./not-so-swift-february-2-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/not-so-swift-february-2-2024.htmlWelcome to Home & Away. I want to begin by reassuring readers that neither Home nor Away will focus on Taylor Swift, although both could. Ms. Swift will soon embark on a tour of Asia (what the cognoscenti now call the Indo-Pacific) but will hurry back to Las Vegas in time to catch the Super Bowl. All this has MAGA types in a frenzy that she and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce will announce their engagement, their endorsement of President Biden, or both that Sunday./note-to-steve-kirsch.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/note-to-steve-kirsch.htmlI can’t afford yours, Mr Kirsch, but here’s mine, from ‘back to school’ last September, with apologies to the Rangers: So let no one suppose that I never wear a mask. I’ve worn one (off and on) much of my life. They stop pucks, though the chin guard isn’t good for much. But speaking of Grandma, may I recommend my wife’s C2C article, Who Killed Granny? It’s all business and no frivolity, given the seriousness of the subject, but I think you’ll find it interesting./notebook-a-satisfying-syracuse-visit.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-a-satisfying-syracuse-visit.htmlMy wife Cassie had to work on a random Saturday. That meant I faced a daunting and fun day of solo parenting. And that meant we could either hang out in and around Rochester in some familiar settings or we explore some new breweries. The car has become a secret parenting weapon. Audie seemingly falls asleep instantaneously once he’s secured in his car seat and the wheels are in motion. Plus, I wanted to make an overdue visit to Underground Beer Lab./flashback-notes-on-a-few-films-by.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flashback-notes-on-a-few-films-by.htmlIn other catch-up news: Norman Jewison passed away last Saturday at the age of 97. There is a lot that could be said about his career, and it certainly has been said by far more knowledgeable writers than I. But I did want to acknowledge his passing, by linking to a few things I’ve written about his films in the past. In order of their release dates: Jewison never won an Oscar for Best Director, but this was probably the closest he ever got./now-you-can-call-her-laurenho-bert.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/now-you-can-call-her-laurenho-bert.htmlI will be honest with you: I was in the archives yesterday and decided to watch the video of the Thursday hearings over the weekend. But that gives me some time to discuss the significance of a new story about GOP criming. This is for subscribers only, but please: Share And if you are a non-paying subscriber? Subscribe, and tear down that paywall! Do you recall David B. Wheeler and Colonel Moe Davis, the founders of American Muckrakers PAC?/obstructive-fictions-1-wittgensteins.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/obstructive-fictions-1-wittgensteins.htmlDavid Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) is the loneliest of American novels. It is lonely in its premise (the last woman on earth meditates on language, history, and culture), lonely in its publication journey (Markson’s manuscript was famously rejected fifty-four times), lonely in its execution (a monologue of obsessive consciousness), and lonely-making in its ultimate effect upon the reader. Kate, the aforementioned woman, lives on an empty beach — no apocalyptic event is offered — where she composes a daily record of memories and loosely associated facts./on-catapult-i-have-some-questions.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-catapult-i-have-some-questions.htmlThis week’s newsletter comes early, due to my schedule, and picks up on a story that has been is roiling publishing over the past week. For background, Catapult, an independent press, abruptly announced cuts on February 14; a few days ago, the New York Times profiled its CEO, and since then Catapult has changed its mission statement. Catapult was founded in 2015 by Andy Hunter, founder of the website Electric Literature, and Elizabeth Koch, who founded Black Balloon Publishing./on-jhatka-and-kutha-meat-by-bhai.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-jhatka-and-kutha-meat-by-bhai.htmlHe who consumes meat obtained from the Turcs, (Guru) Gobind Singh does not consider that person a Sikh of his. -Tankhahnama, attributed to Nand Lal, 1718 CE An animal slaughtered in the Islamic fashion is considered forbidden for consumption in Sikh dogma, because a level of excessive cruelty is employed in slaughtering, as from the moment the zibah begins up until the last moments of life, the being writhes and suffers for some time before death./on-memorial-day-remembering-billie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-memorial-day-remembering-billie.htmlOn this Memorial Day, I wanted to share the most amazing story that I heard yesterday, when I was at a “community sing” sponsored by the Alexandria Harmonizers, an acclaimed men’s chorus. The Harmonizers were planning to sing in France for the 2014 D-Day anniversary, when they heard the story of Billie Harris, a dashing 21-year old American fighter pilot, and his lovely bride Peggy, an 18-year-old Rosie the Riveter who was working on airplanes at a military bases./on-pointe.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-pointe.htmlAlright, here we go! Another one! If you’re feeling brave, you can google what ballerina’s feet look like, but I won’t put it here. You can imagine that putting your whole body weight on the very tips of your toes would leave some bruises, some calluses, and even some black toenails. Dancing on your toes is a pretty painful experience, to say the least. And yet. The ballet shoe, by and large, has stayed intact since its invention in the 1830’s./dare-we-not-hope-on-the-latest-vibe.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dare-we-not-hope-on-the-latest-vibe.htmlI have been known to endlessly sing the praises of Caffe Reggio, the cramped Italian establishment that has been a staple of Manhattan’s West Village since the 1920s. The caffe is known for its walls covered in “byzantine clutter”—pieces of art ranging from Renaissance prints and originals by students of Caravaggio, to religious icons and busts of Nefertiti. It also boasts numerous claims to fame including having been featured in books and movies, being the home of the world’s first cappuccino machine (so they say), and being situated across the street from what was once the house of Louisa May Alcott./on-the-tragedy-of-matthew-perry-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-the-tragedy-of-matthew-perry-and.htmlCalifornia sober. If you haven’t heard the phrase before, “California sober” is a clever way to say, I’ve quit drinking or using drugs, but I still smoke pot. Because cannabis doesn’t count. Cannabis is medicine. Occasionally people who use the phrase extend it even further, usually to psychedelics. To be California sober, you see, is not to be sober at all. I kept thinking about California sobriety as I read Matthew Perry’s autopsy report, a tragic and depressing glimpse into the way far too many Americans live now./earworms-only-in-my-dreams-by-debbie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/earworms-only-in-my-dreams-by-debbie.htmlDebbie Gibson was 16 years old when she got signed to a development deal with Atlantic Records on the basis of this song, which by spring of 1987 reached the number 4 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She went on to have four top ten hits from her debut album, Out of the Blue, all with songs she wrote during the time her first single was rising up the chart./oops-i-wrote-an-academic-paper-on.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oops-i-wrote-an-academic-paper-on.htmlSo, funny story. I was given the chance to write a paper on whatever viral piece of content I chose. As a totally normal non-insane person, I thought: I bet no one was writing about that time a Trigun fan account became the biggest buzz in the writing and publishing community. So I did what any totally normal non-insane person would do. I went to my professor and told them the short story about how Bigolas Dickolas became a viral sensation literally overnight./oppenheimer-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oppenheimer-review.htmlIt may seem a little crazy to think that anyone might be worried about spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s biopic about atom bomb pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer, as played by Cillian Murphy. Maybe a few people reading this have actually read Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy, on which it’s based. Really, it’s more about how Nolan tells the story of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project with a stacked cast of actors and some of the best craftspeople in the industry./pasta-with-broccoli-pesto.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pasta-with-broccoli-pesto.htmlA few months ago, I was watching Chris Kimball of Milk Street discuss why slicing garlic is better than mincing it. I’ve been doing that for a while since it’s faster, doesn’t get the cutting board as garlicky, and the sliced garlic doesn’t burn as quickly as minced garlic does when you sauté it. According to him (and a well-regarded chef I worked with), the more you mash or manipulate garlic, the more of its bitter flavors are released./patrick-mahomes-3rd-down-dominance.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patrick-mahomes-3rd-down-dominance.htmlBut, Seth, that last completion cost them a shot at a field goal. He should have just run out of bounds for Harrison. Said in my best three year-old voice. By the way, I loved the fake punt in this game. Not just because it was awesome, but because it was so low risk. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, you are ahead, playing the Jets, and at midfield, so the defense is likely to stop them even if you fail because, well, the Jets./notebook-pbc-on-prime-broadcast-team.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-pbc-on-prime-broadcast-team.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./people-who-think-that-theres-no-trans.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/people-who-think-that-theres-no-trans.htmlEarlier this week, The Daily Telegraph published an interview with the famously divorced former TV-writer Graham Linehan. In the interview, Glinner justified his intensely irrational hatred of trans people by stating “there’s no trans art”. ”There’s no great trans film. There’s no great trans creators of music. All the books that come out by trans authors are universally panned because of their incoherence.” The interview itself pointed out that this wasn’t true, with the next paragraph stating the critically-acclaimed works of Torrey Peters (writer of Detransition, Baby nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Aiden Thomas (Cemetery Boys) as well as actors Laverne Cox and Elliot Page./poem-in-your-pocket-day.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poem-in-your-pocket-day.htmlThis is a beautiful little poem by the poet Paul Verlaine. An offering for poem in your pocket day. I am on European time so not very awake, but awake enough to send this along with a welcoming to new subscribers and all good wishes to all. TEARS FLOW IN MY HEART . 11 pleure dans mon coeur . , . Tears flow in my heart As rain falls on the town; What languor is this That creeps into my heart?/poems-that-make-you-glad-to-be-alive.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poems-that-make-you-glad-to-be-alive.htmlHi, Friend. Several years ago, aided and abetted by Literary Twitter, I started gathering poems with joy in mind. It was 2017, and I needed more joy, and so did you. We all still need it. So here is a slightly updated and revised compilation of those poems shared by readers and writers in a very long thread. I’ve linked to some; others you’ll have to hunt down yourself online and in print./pomegranate-season.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pomegranate-season.htmlAround the middle of April, I start looking out for pomegranates at the farmer’s market. They’ll be available for about six weeks or so in April and May so if I want to accumulate enough pomegranate rinds to dye a batch of yarn I need to buy some whenever I have the opportunity. It works out because I love to put pomegranate seeds on everything so getting to eat them nearly every day when they’re in season is just a bonus./catch-me-im-falling-pretty-poison.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catch-me-im-falling-pretty-poison.htmlWant more? Visit the archive to browse all our lost hits! Peak: #8 on the Hot 100 Streams: 8.6 million In the last few years, Pretty Poison’s “Catch Me (I’m Falling)” has been on the soundtrack for three Netflix series: Cheer, AJ & the Queen, and Dahmer - Monster. I have a theory about why this has happened. Because this is Pretty Poison’s only hit, I’m gu… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wr8CtmqFlnZp6qrmMn5ilpJmjtG680Z6rrbFdpbyqv86n/questions-for-christians-and-other.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/questions-for-christians-and-other.htmlVery much not in the spirit of “just asking questions,” which is so pervasive among creationists, climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 Truthers, Obama Birthers, QAnoners and many others that it has its own skeptical descriptor—JAQing off—I present here some challenging questions for Christians and other religious believers. I realize that faith doesn’t always open itself to rational inquiry and empirical testing, otherwise it wouldn’t be faith, or “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen” (Hebrews 11:1)./ranking-the-top-50-psalms-in-order.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ranking-the-top-50-psalms-in-order.htmlI enjoy ranking things. It probably stems from my childhood love of sports, puzzles, and card collecting. I remember sorting my baseball cards according to teams, won-loss records, batting averages, and home runs. During basketball season I would also recreate a March Madness playoff bracket on poster board, paying close attention to the seeding and ranking of every team. Recently, I was introduced to the website ranker.com, a list of nearly every subjective ranking imaginable./reflections-on-gene-clarks-no-other.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reflections-on-gene-clarks-no-other.htmlFor the past fifty years, I have been avoiding The Byrds. The reasons are unclear to me; maybe it's because they came from Los Angeles as a band, and as a teen, I was devoted to those who drank tea and ate bangers. Also, David Crosby was an annoying figure through the decades. It wasn’t his politics, but his mixture of ego and arrogance, plus his tendency to lecture down to you./remembering-hudson-soft-faxanadu.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-hudson-soft-faxanadu.htmlHudson Soft, founded in the 70s, did just about everything a studio and publisher could do in the video game industry before it was fully absorbed into Konami on March 1, 2012. For the next month here at Retro XP, the focus will be on the roles the studio played, the games they developed, the games they published, the consoles they were attached to, and the legacy they left behind. After all, someone has to remember them, since Konami doesn’t always seem to./retro-spotlight-jungle-strike.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retro-spotlight-jungle-strike.htmlThis column is “Retro spotlight,” which exists mostly so I can write about whatever game I feel like even if it doesn’t fit into one of the other topics you find in this newsletter. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Jungle Strike — and the entire Strike series, really — don’t feel like shoot-em-ups in the way most people consider that term, and yet, that’s what we’re supposed to call these games./reunited-and-it-feels-so-good.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reunited-and-it-feels-so-good.htmlI’m definitely a people person. (Shocker, I know.) What I mean is that I generally like people. I’m fascinated by what motivates them, love discovering (and sharing with them) their special spark, and enjoy learning what makes them tick. But I especially like my people. You know someone is your kinda people when you feel better after spending time together rather than depleted. (No thanks, energy vampires!) And I hadn’t realized how much I missed being around my people until recently when I was fortunate enough to get several doses in close succession./review-curb-your-enthusiasm-vertical.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-curb-your-enthusiasm-vertical.htmlWhen I think of the various settings of Curb Your Enthusiasm over the years, a few key spots come to mind: the various houses where Larry and Cheryl lived (I can never keep track of how many times they moved), along with Jeff and Susie’s house, and Larry’s office. And right up there is another location Larry frequents every season: the golf course. Golf has been a favorite pastime for Larry and his wealthy male friends and business partners throughout the show, and the sport offers its own distinct set of variables and conflicts./review-fargo-the-paradox-of-intermediate.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-fargo-the-paradox-of-intermediate.htmlThere was so much to pack into last week’s Fargo review that I didn’t really have time to talk about the title of the premiere episode, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” If you’re unfamiliar with that phrase, it’s a concept in socioeconomics—controversial, and often used to justify some awful behavior—which suggests that public resources are destined to be misused, because it’s human nature for people to take more than their fair share, operating under the assumption that others will do the same./review-shogun-a-dream-of-a-dream.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-shogun-a-dream-of-a-dream.htmlI knew going into “A Dream of a Dream” that there would be no climactic battle; I knew this not because of any insight on my part, but because a fellow critic posted about their confusion after watching the finale. As such, I can’t tell you what my reaction would’ve been if I’d watched “Dream” with my previous expectations intact. At this point, I’m not even sure what those expectations were./review-survivor-cancel-christmas.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-survivor-cancel-christmas.htmlAt this point, Survivor’s audience is pretty steady—as the show contracted from a gargantuan hit to a reliable performer, it became less and less likely that new viewers would sample early episodes without sticking around for the whole season. This year’s linear ratings reflect this: after opening to 4.9 million viewers in the premiere, Season 46 has been pretty steady, with last week’s episode earning 4.72 million. Compare that to Survivor: Panama—which debuted in Spring 2006—which started at 19 million viewers before dropping under 15 million by the fourth episode./review-the-curse-its-a-good-day-season.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-curse-its-a-good-day-season.htmlEmma Stone is really killing it in this show, isn’t she? At the beginning of The Curse, I was most struck by Nathan Fielder’s performance, just because it’s so new; we’re used to seeing him as a version of himself, but now he’s playing a proper character. Stone’s performance, while equal to or better than his, wasn’t as surprising to me. But the more this show goes on, the more I find myself fixating on Stone anyway./reviewing-emo-christmas-songs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reviewing-emo-christmas-songs.htmlHappy three days til Christmas! If you were anything like me in high school and early college, you were probably the type of annoying person who snuck your more palatable emo & pop-punk Christmas-themed songs into the mix of corporate-approved winter-time pap during the holiday season so you’d be able to listen to at least a few things to keep you sane during the seemingly endless eight-hour-shift-that-always-ends-up-becoming-twelve-hour-shift days and nights at Starbucks./robert-haydens-those-winter-sundays.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robert-haydens-those-winter-sundays.htmlSundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him,/sadism-and-psychopathy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sadism-and-psychopathy.htmlWe need to talk about sadism and the assumptions surrounding it. Often I see questions, answers, and get comments from people that think that psychopathy and sadism are linked. One is forever and indelibly connected to the other. However, this is not what has been found in science. In fact, they have found a negative correlation between psychopathy and sadism. Why would that be? It is because sadism requires emotional empathy./salt-peanuts.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salt-peanuts.htmlIn reflecting on the life of Jimmy Carter as the former president approaches his 100th birthday, God bless him, I came across an extraordinary event that took place on the South Lawn of the White House in June 1978. Carter hosted a jazz concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival. The concert was part of Carter’s initiative to honor various American art forms. It is this week’s reason to smile./sasha-stone-podcast.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sasha-stone-podcast.htmlSasha Stone is a pioneering blogger and founder of Awards Daily, as well as a widely-read, provocative Substack, “Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning.” She is on the vanguard of the realignment and re-sorting underway in our politics and culture. Sasha Stone’s lived experience is representative of those Bridget Phetasy calls “the politically homeless.” This refers to the rising plurality of Americans—nearing a majority of voters—who reject the enforced duopoly of the Democrats and Republicans./scuttled.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scuttled.htmlJessica Mitford was once dubbed the “Queen of the muckrakers.” A British aristocrat, she wrote two landmark books. The first was The American Way of Death, published in 1963, which exposed the abuses of the funeral industry. Three decades later, she published The American Way of Birth, which spotlighted the medical profession’s efforts to outlaw midwifery and increase profits for doctors and hospitals. One review called it “an indictment of the medical practices surrounding something that should not make us sick — giving birth./eltana-bagel-review-seattle-small.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eltana-bagel-review-seattle-small.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to make sure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. I think it was pretty obvious heading into my initial review of Eltana that I was a bit skeptical./sell-your-cloak-buy-a-sword.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sell-your-cloak-buy-a-sword.html“Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.” - Luke 22:36. This verse has been the subject of debate in meaning, with some urging total pacifism as Christians and some urging outright aggression as Christians. I seek to find the Royal Path of this verse and what it entails for us who dare to call ourselves Christians./selling-the-hamptons.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/selling-the-hamptons.htmlFor some reason this week I decided to watch one of those reality tv shows about real estate agents, called Selling the Hamptons. It’s about a group of realtors who try to sell obscenely expensive (and often very ugly) houses in the Hamptons, a waterfront enclave on the tip of Long island, about 90 miles away from New York City. The Hamptons has become a place for the ultrarich to have second or third homes that they use mostly to host parties at during the summer (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)./short-rib-stroganoff.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/short-rib-stroganoff.htmlIt’s 2023!! Whether we like it or not, another new year has turned, and we are resolved to make ourselves, our lives, our relationships, our health, our everything…better. Did anyone else feel like this holiday season flew by? I am overwhelmed with deadlines and deliverables, trying to squeeze work into every cranny and crevice of available awake time. Since I’m devoting most of my 2023 efforts to growing Eat Happy Kitchen, 10x’ing my content, and connecting with YOU as much as possible, I don’t foresee anything slowing down anytime soon./six-of-the-best-books-on-napoleon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/six-of-the-best-books-on-napoleon.htmlWith Ridley Scott’s new movie, Napoleon, out soon and starring Joaquin Phoenix as Bonaparte and Vanessa Kirby as Josephine, much discussion has been prompted over its historical accuracy. If your interest is peaked then you must check out these six books on the Corsican Ogre/Greatest Frenchman (delete as appropriate). Scott has caused much consternation among historians who have taken his comments to heart, so if you want to find out the truth, or their truth, you could do worse than one, or all, of the following titles that cover so many aspects of his extraordinary life./slkanthan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slkanthan.htmlIndia and Geopolitics By SL Kanthan Discussion of the emerging multipolar world and the tectonic shifts happening in the world. We are at a crossroads and the next decade will be consequential and even dangerous. I am a geopolitical analyst, columnist, author, blogger, podcaster & Tweeter. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbS4ypqlraCRow%3D%3D/candy-cane-lane-review-mancini.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/candy-cane-lane-review-mancini.htmlWelcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real. One of the great things about being just a guy with a newsletter and not “official film critic” from “established site” is that I no longer feel compelled to see every movie./sound-art.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sound-art.htmlSo much of producing narrative audio seems to be geared towards building a clear structure and giving our listeners a specific perspective. Making more abstract audio, outside the confines of journalism, gives us an opportunity to instead leave listeners with a feeling. Katie Semro makes sound art that blends interviews, sound design and music, and has collaborated with visual artists and galleries.  The composer and performer was invited to make a piece for Sound Scene, an interactive sound festival in Washington DC./starcraft-ii-is-not-dead.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/starcraft-ii-is-not-dead.htmlIEM Katowice 2023 came and went a few weeks back, capping off yet another season of professional StarCraft II. Watching Oliveira’s legendary run unfold on a busy Sunday afternoon, I started working on a piece wondering whether a more aggressive tuning philosophy, especially around map pools, was a good direction to head in now that the professional players’ balance council was off and running. Little did I know - I was writing about a game that was dead!/stepping-out-of-the-should-trap.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stepping-out-of-the-should-trap.htmlHey there, I’m reading a book right now called, “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle. If you haven’t read it, get it and do it. You won’t be disappointed. It reminded me of my own memoir that I started writing eons ago but haven’t finished, working title “The Good Wife” (unrelated to the TV show). It’s all about the expectations others put on us and the ones we put on ourselves. And how that stops us from living the life we are meant to live and being our true selves (hence The Heart-centered Rebel theme)./sweet-and-saucy-apricot-chicken.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweet-and-saucy-apricot-chicken.htmlSweet, saucy apricot chicken: it’s a simple, yet satisfying meal to share with your loved ones. Hope your week is going well! If you have any questions leave them in the comments. I’m very grateful to have you here! Enjoy, Carolina x Recipe Video Prep time: 15 minutesCook time: 45 minutesTotal time: 1 hourMakes 4 servings 2 pounds (900 g or about 6 to 8) chicken drumsticks Kosher salt 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed/taco-pizza-and-the-nutty-bar-conspiracy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taco-pizza-and-the-nutty-bar-conspiracy.htmlWelcome back to another edition of the Haterade Mailbag, in which my five loyal readers feed me questions like an irascible baby bird. The irascible baby bird is on deadline this week, so I’m just going to dive in: Taco pizza. I don’t mean an “upscale,” “reimagined” taco pizza, I mean the chain-style taco pizza of my Iowan youth. I mean a paste-y refried bean base with toppings that strain credulity—“taco meat,” crumbly shards of Doritos that stab the roof of your mouth, cubed Roma tomatoes that taste like the refrigerator, shredded iceberg lettuce wilting atop a heated floor of cheese, and packets of rust-red taco sauce to drizzle over the top./tair-haim-talks-about-a-wa-her-insanely.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tair-haim-talks-about-a-wa-her-insanely.htmlBack in 2016, A-WA—an Israeli band that fuses traditional Yemenite melodies with funk, hip hop, reggae, and other dance-centric grooves—released their single, “Habib Galbi,” which became something on an international sensation.  “It is an amazing song that completely changed my life,” Tair Haim, A-WA’s principle vocalist says about the song’s immense popularity (she cofounded the band with her sisters, Liron and Tagel, in 2015). It helped get the band featured on major U./take-an-iphone-pic-make-an-album.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-an-iphone-pic-make-an-album.htmlIn February 2021, a trend on TikTok known as the album cover challenge began making waves on the app. Users caption “Proof that anything can be an album cover" over personal videos. Within the twenty-second clips, they pick a frame, add a filter, followed by a parental advisory sticker, and voila, an album cover appears. To the trained eye, the majority of the covers are lackluster, but every once in a while, the outcome isn’t half bad./dont-rush-me-taylor-dayne-1988.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-rush-me-taylor-dayne-1988.htmlPeak: #2 on the Hot 100 Streams: 1.7 million Get me in the right mood (or give me half a margarita) and I will give you a 20-minute monologue on the excellence of Taylor Dayne. Her sultry, smoky voice makes everything sound legit, like every word is thick with feeling. She can do gymnastic things, particularly on high notes that she delivers with remarkab… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wsM6nq2aqpai1brnEZquasZykv26wwLKlnmVhboV5/the-59-million-wedding-that-rocked.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-59-million-wedding-that-rocked.htmlI think I spent about $19,000 on my wedding. I don’t actually remember the final amount, but it seemed like a lot! Nick and I were grownups (35 and 41) so it made sense to pay for it ourselves over the three months we planned it. Some of it came from my bank account and some from Nick’s. Regardless, I know for a fact that I threw one of the greatest wed…/the-3-colin-powell-leadership-quotes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-3-colin-powell-leadership-quotes.htmlThe question came frequently: “What year did you graduate from West Point?” But unlike so many of his military peers, Colin Powell never attended West Point. “Well, did you go to the Citadel, or did you go to Texas A&M or Virginia Military Institute?” Except minorities weren’t welcome at those schools in the mid-1950s. So Powell, with his modest grades and humble South Bronx roots, blazed his own trail. City College of New York, ROTC, Army second lieutenant./the-agony-of-gay-cinema-the-broken.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-agony-of-gay-cinema-the-broken.htmlIs your heart broken? Perhaps you will be interested in this club, which is not so much a club as a group of friends/co-workers/roommates/reluctant softball team who are all gay dudes who live in West Hollywood. Yes, today we are revisiting future Arrowverse creator Greg Berlanti’s The Broken Hearts Club. This 2000 “romantic comedy” is kind of a riff on The Boys in the Band, in that both center on groups of gay friends who psychologically torture each other./perry-the-amazing-drink-youve-probably.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/perry-the-amazing-drink-youve-probably.htmlEvery so often I do a sweep of my parent’s garage looking for rogue bottles that need drinking up. In the past among the vinegar we’ve had some nice surprises: a bottle of Ayala 1975 Extra Dry, still fizzy and actually quite tasty if a little oxidised, or a 1980 Chateau Septy Monbazillac which was like liquid marmalade.  There was one, however, which I had been studiously avoiding because I was certain it would be knackered: a champagne-style bottle thick with dust which must have been there at least 20 years, probably brought back from a golf holiday in Normandy./the-audacity-of-e-jean-carroll.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-audacity-of-e-jean-carroll.htmlToday she’s typically described as a former advice columnist — but that term doesn’t really do justice to E. Jean Carroll’s career pre-Donald Trump. Long before she was one of the longest-serving advice columnists in America, Carroll blazed trails as a gonzo-style journalist The New York Times once called “feminism’s answer to Hunter Thompson.” She profiled Lyle Lovett for Esquire and went camping with notorious New York curmudgeon Fran Lebovitz for a cover story in Outside./the-bad-batch-season-3-episode-13.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bad-batch-season-3-episode-13.htmlSPOILERS WILL NOT ABORT THE MISSION When this season began, I wrote that moving into the homestretch had given The Bad Batch a more focused storytelling approach. When the end is in sight, clarity arrives. The first three episodes of The Bad Batch Season 3 “Confined,” “Paths Unknown,” and “Shadows of Tantiss,” leap directly into the wrenching circumstances from the Season 2 cliffhanger. They’re propulsive and cohesive; even the quiet, character-driven first episode has an eerie energy./bfpod-ep5-haleyoshaughnessy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bfpod-ep5-haleyoshaughnessy.htmlDoncic’s got the Bodycon dress. Welcome to the vulnerability vortex, the state of existence one enters into at Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport and a potential million dollar business idea Haley O'Shaughnessy and I warn you seriously not to steal. Because Haley had just gotten back from Vegas, I wanted to talk to her about the specific sensation that comes over a person of handing over your cognitive abilities when leaving the city, and why and how that opens you up to be a vessel for tenderness and nostalgia./the-only-trustworthy-guide-to-kanye.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-only-trustworthy-guide-to-kanye.htmlEditor’s note: I promise this blog won’t be all Kanye posts but it’s the theme of the day with Donda 2 coming so it makes sense right now. If you haven’t peeped my interview with Alex Klein of Stem Player on GQ, click here. Kanye West is the most influential man in men’s fashion over the last 20 years. Normally I’d feel compelled to justify that take but this is the benefit of having my own Substack…I can just lob out big statements and expect the audience (you!/the-big-thanksgiving-planner-343.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-thanksgiving-planner-343.htmlMonday, November 6, 2023 Good morning! Welcome to The Big Thanksgiving Planner, the place where I round up all of my go-to Thanksgiving recipes to help you get your menu in order — or, perhaps, outsourced to people who have asked what they can bring. I’ve got us covered! From my favorite deeply bronzed and glossy turkey to a perfect stuffing that hits all the notes, to a green bean casserole from scratch that turns everyone into green bean casserole lovers (trust me)./the-bird-with-the-silent-p.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bird-with-the-silent-p.htmlSeveral weekends ago, we ventured up to Cascade Pass in North Cascades National Park, where we encountered spectacular fall foliage and hoards of people. The highlight for me was anything but showy. High up on the Sahale Arm amid the rocks, lichens, and ground hugging vegetation, I saw three white-tailed ptarmigan. A member of the chicken clan, like their fellow Cascades’ relatives, sooty and dusky grouse, white-tailed ptarmigan are not your neighbor’s chicken./the-birth-of-the-peanuts-cartoon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-birth-of-the-peanuts-cartoon.htmlHappy Thursday! This issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter is about Charlie Brown’s All Stars (1966), the second animated Peanuts special. During most of the years he spent drawing Peanuts strips, Charles Schulz was also writing Peanuts cartoon specials for television. The first, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), is an annual tradition close to 60 years strong. Before his death in 2000, Schulz would oversee 38 more Peanuts shows. Initially, convincing the networks to take a full special based on Schulz’s work was hard./the-black-mecca-of-black-coffee.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-black-mecca-of-black-coffee.htmlWelcome to my freemium newsletter by me, King Williams. A documentary filmmaker, journalist, podcast host, and author based in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a newsletter covering the hidden connections of Atlanta to everything else. I recently collaborated with The Atlanta Voice, the oldest continually operating Black-owned newspaper in Atlanta, for a look at the plethora of Black-owned coffee shops in the metro area. This included going on a local tour of Black-owned coffee shops./worth-the-wait-the-butcher-bbq-stand.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worth-the-wait-the-butcher-bbq-stand.htmlFriday’s road trip destination was Wellston for an Oklahoma barbeque classic. So who better to join me than my friend and editor of the Curbside Chronicle, Nathan Poppe, who is a bit of an Oklahoma classic himself. For many Oklahomans, The Butcher BBQ Stand is the state’s best and it’s hard to argue that take. I could give you a list of worthy competitors, but pound-for-pound The Butcher might be Oklahoma’s top barbeque restaurant when it comes to consistency across the board./the-canned-tomatoes-beloved-by-pizza.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-canned-tomatoes-beloved-by-pizza.htmlI don't know, but I think you absolutely can omit it. I mean, the no-cook sauce I make is simply tomatoes, olive oil, salt, and garlic, so there's no reason why it shouldn't work. I might consider adding a splash of white balsamic or white whine vinegar when you add the crushed red pepper flakes. And thank you :) Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmioma%2FHorHVnqmynqKesaLFjaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6m1pnnCmqWnnZRiwbC5wK2mnqtdl7Ktu9Wem2aaqWK9qsbZmmacp52isq%2FA0g%3D%3D/the-case-of-the-immaculate-disflation.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-case-of-the-immaculate-disflation.htmlOne of the biggest stories of 2023 was the fairly rapid disflation that occurred over the year. Underlying inflation fell by more than 2 percentage points in both the US and Australia - even more surprisingly this occurred without a substantial rise in the unemployment rate! This immaculate disinflation surprised most economists. But should it have? Given economists were surprised by how 2023 unfurled, one might expect the model that underpins most of their thinking to be wrong or at least misleading./the-chief-khalsa-diwan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-chief-khalsa-diwan.htmlThe Chief Khalsa Diwan was an institution established in 1902, to heal the schism between the Amritsar and Lahore Khalsa Diwans, as both had been influenced by their various ideological differences. The opening was inaugurated in the Malvai Bunga on Diwali. They were renowned for their creation of orphanages, schools and colleges, to help compete with growing missionary activities among other organisations like the Arya Samaj and Anjuman-i-Islam. However, later on, it was criticised as a propagandist voice of the elite Sikhs by anti-British groups like the Akali Dal./the-coalition-on-homelessness-is.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-coalition-on-homelessness-is.htmlI will tell you my personal and professional experience with Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. In 2017, SFPD Captain (now Assistant Chief) David Lazar invited me to join the new Community Police Advisory Board on Homelessness. I was honored. This subject is close to my heart, not just because I hate to see so much suffering and want to be a positive force in my city, but because members of my immediate family have been homeless./the-coming-year-of-apocalypse-films.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-coming-year-of-apocalypse-films.htmlIn March 2020, when COVID-19 shut everything down for a spell, I started watching pandemic films. There was the very shout-y 1995 Dustin Hoffman film Outbreak. There was the underrated cast of 2009’s Carriers. And there was Stephen Soderbergh’s impeccable Contagion. Why watch these films as a pandemic was breaking out? Because as scary as COVID-19 might have seemed in early 2020, these films highlighted all the ways in which things could have been so much worse./controversy-surrounding-kate-middleton-video-ai.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/controversy-surrounding-kate-middleton-video-ai.htmlYou may have heard that there’s a lot of speculation online as to whether Kate Middleton’s cancer reveal video is truly her or an AI generated version of her. This is an interesting conundrum, and given the ability of AI to mimic people these days, it is not unfair to ask this question. This is especially true because the royal family did admit that the photograph that was shared on Kate Middleton’s social media account recently was in fact, at least photoshopped, if not in part manipulated by artificial intelligence./the-day-my-ass-was-in-the-jackpot.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-day-my-ass-was-in-the-jackpot.htmlToday we find ourselves on a very special anniversary in the history of the New York Mets: five years ago, an emotionally-impactful, yet seemingly-nonsensical exchange took place between manager Terry Collins and umpire Tom Hallion that made baseball fans everywhere ask the question: What is an “ass in the jackpot?” Is it a bad thing? For those who may not recall, Terry argued about Noah Syndergaard getting ejected for allegedly throwing at Chase Utley, and Hallion defended the decision by screaming, “our ass is in the jackpot!/the-day-that-changed-a-season-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-day-that-changed-a-season-and.htmlIt’s time for Fútbol Friday, The Charlotte Ledger’s weekly newsletter getting you up to speed on Charlotte FC, the city’s new pro soccer team. ➡️ Need to sign up for Fútbol Friday and other Charlotte-focused email newsletters from The Charlotte Ledger? You can do that here. ➡️ Ledger subscribers can add or drop individual newsletters on their “My Account” page. Today’s Fútbol Friday is sponsored by Pomfret Financial. Together Everyone Achieves More/the-disgrace-and-danger-of-rfk-jr.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-disgrace-and-danger-of-rfk-jr.htmlI fear I'll regret stepping into this, so know I have no intention of continuing beyond these few comments. "The Covid vaccine is inferior to natural immunity" is the same as "dieting is inferior to never having gained excess weight n the first place." It's true but utterly devoid of any relevant meaning. Further, for any given affliction, natural immunity is rare, which is why it's notable and worthy of a search for a reason - but also why it is again devoid of any relevance./the-end-of-the-world-at-the-center.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-end-of-the-world-at-the-center.htmlPerhaps all the sci-fi movies got it wrong. Maybe the end of the world isn’t some far-off date displayed on a screen to let the audience know that—phew—we still have some time. But what if the apocalyptic event has already happened?  Let’s see: A plague continues to ravage the land (and probably will for years), we’re meme-ing our way through a war that has already claimed civilian casualties, and extreme weather is making certain parts of the planet increasingly inhospitable./the-endurance-of-cabbage-pasta.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-endurance-of-cabbage-pasta.htmlThis week’s recipe means a lot to me but it is not one I can claim as my own. My brother landed on it when the fridge was close-to-empty one day about 12 years ago. Some of you will know it already, but hopefully it is new to a lot of you. I’m excited for you to cook it for the first time!! This is a pasta with very little reference to Italy because sometimes that's what you want./the-friday-five-92a.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-friday-five-92a.htmlWe had our first freeze here this week. Before the pandemic, I loved my yard, but I didn’t pay too much attention to it, as I was busy traveling and going, going, going. Then everything screeched to a halt and I started spending a lot of time outside. Now I see all the little changes, every day, so it was startling to walk out the other morning and find so much, well, dead./the-genius-of-deborah-vances-hacks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-genius-of-deborah-vances-hacks.htmlIn today’s issue of Back Row: An interview with Kathleen Felix-Hager, Hacks’s brilliant costume designer, on dressing Deborah Vance. Where Felix-Hager found the ugly-glam yellow dress that kicked off the season (hint: you could maybe even find one for yourself online). Loose Threads, including the Internet’s favorite nepo baby hard-launching in W magazine; the Zac Posen for Gap shirtdress gown you can now buy; Jennifer Lopez promotes bottled margaritas — and more!/greatest-mystery-and-thriller-books.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/greatest-mystery-and-thriller-books.htmlWe lost our cat Peanut last weekend and I’m devastated. She was only seven. She was my first baby. The first thing I ever had to care about besides myself. She got me through breakups. New jobs. Graduate school. A pandemic. I’ve been trying to write through the grief. This small psychotic voice rattles around my head and tells me to turn my loss productive. Write something profound about loss or find some clever books about loss or loss or loss or loss/the-human-zoo-of-1904.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-human-zoo-of-1904.htmlThe photo shows Mrs. Wilkins, a teacher from the Philippine Reservation, teaching an Igorot boy the cakewalk. While the photo captures a moment of cultural exchange and curiosity, it also reveals the power dynamics and inequalities that shaped the fair and its audience and participants. In 1904, the city of St. Louis hosted a grand exposition to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase and showcase the achievements of American civilization. The Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, or the St./the-ideological-banality-of-heelsupharris.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ideological-banality-of-heelsupharris.htmlAfter last night’s vice-presidential debate, political analyst Frank Lutz met with a focus group of 13 undecided voters on Zoom. Nine of those voters were men. They described Pence’s performance as “presidential” and “calm, cool, and collected.” And they described Harris as “evasive,” “nervous,” “snarky,” “rehearsed,” “abrasive,” “unsteady,” “rigid,” and “unpresidential.” Twelve of the thirteen participants declared Pence to be the winner. The vast majority of these participants were white — and the dissenting voice, as Vox’s Nicole Narea points out, came from the one black woman in the group: “I think we have to understand the difference of how we equate male and female,” she said./the-importance-of-being-ernest-ernest.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-importance-of-being-ernest-ernest.htmlThere’s something bittersweet, even melancholy about the place 1991’s Ernest Scared Stupid holds in Ernest P. Worrell mythology. The Halloween-themed horror comedy marks the end of an era and the close of Ernest’s Golden Age.  For four glorious years Disney honored the legacy of its founder and longtime leader by employing the services of Jim Varney as hillbilly hero Ernest P. Worrell in a quartet of motion picture masterpieces.  For the first time in its whole miserable existence Disney was finally responsible for something that brought people joy and made moviegoers happy: an Ernest movie./wnba-las-vegas-aces-season-tickets-sellout.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wnba-las-vegas-aces-season-tickets-sellout.htmlHer Hoop Stats is looking to grow our team! If you're passionate about women's basketball and want to contribute to our podcasts (on-air or production), social media, newsletter, stats site, the business side of Her Hoop Stats, or any other area, please email Aaron Barzilai at aaronbarzilai@herhoopstats.com. We're open to a range of experiences and availability. The WNBA Draft drew an average of over 2.4 million television viewers last week; the previous draft day record was just north of 600,000./the-jake-from-state-farm-situation.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-jake-from-state-farm-situation.htmlThe history is important here, both because it helps explain the present and because it is so freaking weird. So we go back in time, roughly 600 years ago, to 2011, when State Farm rolled out what seemed like a fun throwaway ad featuring a confused and suspicious housewife who wondered what her husband was doing on the phone at night. Maybe you remember it. This is, like, fine. It’s about as much as anyone can or should expect from a commercial./the-joy-of-positivity-hooper-1978.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-joy-of-positivity-hooper-1978.htmlI fell in love with movies about stuntmen while researching and writing The Fractured Mirror, my massive upcoming book about the history of American films about filmmaking. It’s a fascinating, overlooked, and underrated genre that experienced huge booms in the 1930s and 1970s and has its own set of conventions and cliches.  ncG1vNJzZmimkam1orrRmpmipl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55lmqTGbrvFZqeoq5mptre107JkoaefpbKzeZBybnE%3D/the-kicks-you-wear-vol-324-fear-of.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-kicks-you-wear-vol-324-fear-of.htmlGooooood morning, family. Welcome back to the Kicks You Wear. Thank you so much for rocking with me this morning. I appreciate you. It’s my birthday weekend, folks! I’m turning 31 years old on Sunday. Yerboi is getting old. This kind of snuck up on me and I’m not that great at doing birthday things for myself. But I promise you I’ll do my best to have a blast this weekend./the-life-of-murasaki-shikibu-nhk.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-life-of-murasaki-shikibu-nhk.htmlI was so excited when my friend Maya told me that this year’s Taiga Drama (*)is about Murasaki Shikibu’s life. Since I am doing a re-read of the Tale of Genji, I really wanted to watch the drama— though honestly I was a bit worried about how much I would understand. The story takes place in the Heian period and while there isn’t much 10th-11th century Japanese being used, I was still concerned that my decade-plus absence from Japan would have a negative impact on my ability to follow the story./the-lure-of-the-boarding-school-mystery.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lure-of-the-boarding-school-mystery.htmlI have a new short story out today in a wonderful collection called IN THESE HALLOWED HALLS: A Dark Academic Anthology, edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane. I have to admit the dark academia trope is one of my all time favorites. I thought I’d share an essay I wrote for CrimeReads for the release of another dark academia title of mine, Good Girls Lie, to celebrate this awesome new collection!/ronny-thompson-georgetown-basketball-influence.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ronny-thompson-georgetown-basketball-influence.htmlAs Georgetown men’s basketball tries to climb out of what is the lowest point in its storied program’s history, it’s easy to point the finger at Patrick Ewing as the root of the problem for many of the issues that have contributed to the downfall of a once-great basketball program. But while Ewing certainly deserves a lion’s share of the responsibility for what has happened this season, it’s hard not to question whether Ewing has the right people around him, too./the-meaning-of-munn-v-illinois-or.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-meaning-of-munn-v-illinois-or.htmlSometime during the last millennium, when I started driving, I joined the Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange. This organization had roots in the mid-19th century as a fraternal organization for farmers. Our family had our insurance through the Grange, so I became a member. (At least that’s my recollection.) I rarely considered it again, except when I encountered the Grange in history books. However, I’ve been working on a reported story about local Granges and decided to dig in a bit deeper for The Classroom about one of its most visible achievements that remains prominent in many history books and most constitutional law texts./the-messiah-of-nihilism.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-messiah-of-nihilism.html1.        The Holy Sinner I had a different post lined up for this week – in fact I’ve written over half of it – but then this image came into my life and I can’t get it out of my head: As you can see, this is an image of Trump praying.  Only it is fake – or, as we call it these days, generated by AI. Trump’s right hand has six fingers, which is a common mistake that AI image generators often make, but which is also ironic given his insecurity about having small hands./the-millennial-pause.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-millennial-pause.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. Can you believe that, despite the pieces I’ve written about getting old on the internet and turning 30, I’m still in my 20s? —Kate P.S.: Read the follow up to this piece, Hell hath no fury like a Millennial scorned. There’s a TikTok video by creator @nisipisa that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. It’s a stitch of Taylor Swift announcing the rerelease of Red in November./the-music-never-stopped.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-music-never-stopped.htmlI was maybe 13 or 14 the first time I ever heard someone talk about the Grateful Dead. Standing outside the Camp Chi dining hall, a cool girl a year older than me asked if I had ever been to a Dead show. I had not. In fact, I didn’t even know who or what they were. Based on the name, I figured they were a heavy metal band. “Oh my god, there’s nothing li…/episode-93-the-one-about-butt-cleavage.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-93-the-one-about-butt-cleavage.htmlCold Open Question of the Week: What’s your first memory of me? Sponsors: The show is still looking for a sponsor. If you’re interested, please reach out to Brian or Gary on Substack. Subscribers: We’re looking to clear an important benchmark for subscribers, so if you’re not subscribed, please subscribe to us on Substack and help us continue to grow. Subscribe right here: Law School: Brian takes his son to visit Widener Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg this past weekend./the-one-where-i-went-undercover-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-one-where-i-went-undercover-and.htmlI wrote this back in 2013, but pulled it from the magazine it was due to run in, because they wanted me to focus much more on gay men. I told the editor that my research was unique, in that no female journalist had ever been undercover in a racket that focusses on lesbians rather than gay men, but he was insistent it could not just be about women. I want to publish it now because, I hope, it will enable those who believe that conversion therapy for same sex attracted people is the opposite of talking therapies and support for young people struggling with their sex./the-origins-of-keni-burkes-risin.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-origins-of-keni-burkes-risin.htmlChicago natives Betty and Clarence Burke Sr. helped their five children Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., Dennis, James, and Kenneth "Keni" form the The Five Stairsteps in 1958, with younger brother Cubie briefly joining the fold in the late-1960s. They were both a fascinating and uniquely talented familial act. Father Clarence Sr. was a skilled bass player, the group’s manager, and a detective for the Chicago Police Department. Several of the Burke children were also impressive musicians, with Keni following in his father’s footsteps and showing an early aptitude for the bass./the-problems-with-william-shatner.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-problems-with-william-shatner.htmlI suppose that I'm prepared for the hate, but I just can't remain quiet. It's finally time to be out with it. We writers often have ideas that live and gestate in the backs of our minds and it just becomes a question when — and whether — we ever let them see the light of day. And for the longest time I was content to let this one just be, perhaps even fester a bit./letter-of-recommendation-the-random.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-of-recommendation-the-random.htmlThere's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos./the-re-education-of-molly-singer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-re-education-of-molly-singer.htmlBritt Robertson is an actress I’ve kept my eye on because she’s got a lot of onscreen appeal but has been stuck on the wrong side of “breaking out” for about a decade now. She’s been solid in a few films that didn’t quite hit or were outright flops: “Tomorrowland,” “The Space Between Us,” “A Dog’s Purpose.” Her sweet spot is smart, spunky women who challenge the conventional wisdom. Unfortunately, sometimes Hollywood just doesn’t know what to do with certain thespians, especially women./the-response-to-this-tide-commercial.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-response-to-this-tide-commercial.htmlRecently, Jason Kelce, football player and potential future brother-in-law of Taylor Swift, was featured with some of his Philadelphia Eagles teammates in this Tide commercial. This isn’t the first time the Eagles have been linked to thefamous laundry brand, but just like the last time, their predominantly male audience had some thoughts. Not surprisingly, the comments of those that loved it and those that hated it were spread almost directly down a distinct gender divide./the-rose-lollapalooza-and-exclusive-quotes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rose-lollapalooza-and-exclusive-quotes.htmlJust after midnight on Friday, August 4 — technically Saturday, August 5 — The Rose confidently strode on stage at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. The concert was part of Lollapalooza's series of Aftershows, which gave performers the opportunity to showcase their music in a more intimate setting. The previous evening, the four-man group had headlined at the festival's Bacardi stage. They had already performed at foreign Lollapaloozas in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Sweden earlier this year./the-saas-metrics-that-matter.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-saas-metrics-that-matter.htmlOne of the best features of SaaS businesses is how easy they are to measure. Only a handful of metrics really matter. This post breaks down those key performance indicators (KPIs), and provides the benchmarks that we at Craft like to see at the Series A stage in order to lead a new investment.  We’re also releasing our internal tool, SaaSGrid, which we’ve used to analyze KPIs for hundreds of SaaS companies, as a free publicly-available tool to help founders calculate metrics (anonymously if they wish) for their own startups./the-spice-islands.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spice-islands.htmlIn mid-October I boarded a plane in Ternate bound for Lombok, via the cities of Makassar and Surabaya. My journey across Wallacea — from its southwesternmost point on Lombok, to its northeasternmost island, Morotai — was complete. After more than five months on the road, I was finally headed home. In the course of my journey I’ve seen many things, but it was perhaps fitting for it to end in the Spice Islands, destination for traders, explorers and colonizers for over two millennia./the-spirits-104-love-and-murder.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-104-love-and-murder.html~ LOVE & MURDER ~ 30ml Campari 20ml green Chartreuse 10ml gin (or vodka) 15ml lime juice Pinch of salt (optional) Place all of the above in a shaker. Add the ice. And then shake it all up. Double-strain into a chilled coupe. Some L&M notes: 1. The Love & Murder is in cocktail terms, a babe-in-arms. It was invented by Nick Bennett of Porchlight, NYC, in 2021 where it is still on the menu, price: $18./the-tiger-that-was-a-wolf-lessons.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tiger-that-was-a-wolf-lessons.htmlHedge fund legend Julian Robertson passed away this past August (Institutional Investor obituary, WSJ obituary, Bloomberg obituary). In my search for lessons from his life I revisited my archive of articles as well as the best chapter on Robertson which is in Sebastian Mallaby’s More Money Than God (I’ve talked to Mallaby about the history of hedge funds including Tiger). There is also a book about Robertson, A Tiger in the Land of Bulls and Bears, but it didn’t blow me away./sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-true-pioneer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-true-pioneer.htmlAPPLE PODCAST Hello friends, it’s been two weeks and it’s time for a new episode of MUSIC & MEANING. This time out, we give props and respect to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a groundbreaking musician and Jesus follower who merged gospel and rock music. In a time when the deck was stacked against her, Sister Rosetta Tharpe stood tall and delivered gospel performances that could turn a skeptic into a believer. Her profound legacy was finally acknowledged with a 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction./the-truth-about-911-truth.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-about-911-truth.htmlIn my 2022 book, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, I presented a three-tiered model to explain why people believe conspiracy theories (Proxy Conspiracism, Tribal Conspiracism, Constructive Conspiracism), which I have discussed at length on Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly, and outlined in previous excerpts and reviews in Newsweek, Quillette, Big Think, Psychology Today, and The Independent. Of course, conspiracists think that there’s only one reason they believe in a conspiracy theory, and that is because it is true!/friendship-explained-the-vexing-problem.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friendship-explained-the-vexing-problem.htmlHello hello! My book, Modern Friendship, has been out in the world for three weeks and it’s been wonderful. The reviews on Amazon and Goodreads have been glowing. And, my book was just named a June 2024 Must-Read by the Next Big Idea Book Club. Not too shabby for a semi-lazy cat mom who shops at Old Navy! If you’ve already read the book, please leave a review wherever you purchased it./good-kid-mad-city.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-kid-mad-city.htmlDirected by Luis Buñuel Mexico, 1950 A few weeks ago one of ReidsonFilm took a trip to Mexico where they were recommended this week’s film by a local guide. What made the film unique, according to the guide, was that it ventured to offer an honest portrayal of Mexico. Mexican cinemagoers, he said, were used to seeing melodramas which depicted the pervasiveness of love in spite of hardship: “We may be poor … but at least we have love./thessaly.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thessaly.htmlThessaly La ForceFreelance writer and lapsed magazine editor. I'm a mother of two, a frequent contributor to The New York Times. I'm working on a novel. Here, an attempt to think on the page about ideas, culture, life, motherhood, and whatever else, honestly. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0xKyqmqSp/tiktoks-nala-is-more-than-just-her.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiktoks-nala-is-more-than-just-her.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. Yes, I got to see Nala over Zoom. —Kate The TikTok song that most often gets stuck in my head isn’t available on Spotify. In fact, you can only hear it under special circumstances. When, that is, creator Chris Lindamood scratches his dog Nala Lindamood’s butt. “She stomp, she stomp, she do the Nala stomps.” The Utah-based creator and his golden retriever have earned over three million followers on TikTok thanks, in part, to the signature stomps Nala’s back legs can’t help but perform whenever she’s scratched just so./tiptoe-through-the-tulips.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiptoe-through-the-tulips.htmlLast weekend, my family took a quick trip from Germany to the Netherlands. While there, we experienced the first weekend of Keukenhof, the world-famous tulip festival. I had a vision in my head about how our afternoon would go. We’d walk through the garden, soak in the sunshine, smell flowers, and take cute pictures for my kids’ photobooks and my Instagram feed. Then, as often is the case, real life happened./tms-muse-of-the-week-rosanna-arquette.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tms-muse-of-the-week-rosanna-arquette.html(Warner Bros.) ♫All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes. Rosanna, Rosanna♫ Contrary to popular belief, the lyrics to Toto’s classic 1982 pop single ‘Rosanna’ aren’t entirely about actress Rosanna Arquette. The song was written by the band’s keyboardist and main songwriter David Paich, who used various past girlfriends as inspiration for the words. The title, however, is a reference to the famous Rosanna, who was dating David’s bandmate and fellow keyboardist Steve Porcaro at the same time the song and accompanying album ‘Toto IV’ were recorded./top-5-columbo-killers-id-like-to.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/top-5-columbo-killers-id-like-to.htmlColumbo was one of the most epic and entertaining TV shows of all time. It was different from a traditional TV show in that each episode was like a movie, running between 70 and 97 minutes, and the series aired sporadically, initially about once a month as part of NBC’s weekly “Mystery Movie” special. The pilot, Prescription: Murder, aired as a self-contained TV movie in 1968, but the show didn’t start running semi-regularly until 1971./trans-ideology-vs-biology-peter-boghossian.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trans-ideology-vs-biology-peter-boghossian.htmlLuana S. Maroja is a renowned evolutionary biologist, Professor of Biology, and Chair of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program at Williams College. She was taken aback when the Society for the Study of Evolution released a statement promoting sex as a spectrum and declaring the validity of “lived experience” in sexual identity. What would inspire such a misguided, conspicuously anti-scientific declaration? In this conversation with Peter, she answers that question. Share In plain language, Luana explains chromosomal differences in mammals and how the sex binary is expressed in animals./trouble-at-granite-hills.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trouble-at-granite-hills.htmlWhen I opened my email a few days ago, this headline from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service appeared in my inbox: “Patient Safety Concerns Raised About New Granite Hills Hospital.” I was of course horrified, but not surprised. It is a story that is all too familiar to me, as a long-time tracker of psych hospitals and what occurs within their walls. As a witness to, and survivor of, what happens in such places./twitter-and-me.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twitter-and-me.htmlMy new essay over at The American Mind is my thank you to Elon Musk, but I thought I’d tell the full story of my Twitter evolution here. Not terribly long ago I was a mild-mannered reactionary corporate creative without a Twitter account. Twitter? Who had time to post? I liked reading news and websites and blogs, but I’d spent most of my married life nursing, holding, napping, feeding, bathing, and otherwise hanging out with very young children./twitter-embed-workaround-how-to-make.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twitter-embed-workaround-how-to-make.htmlSubstack is moving so fast, with new features and changes to existing features being delivered every month. It’s great if you are a Substack user, but not so great if you are writing a book about how to use Substack, because everything keeps changing. The clip above is from TikTok. Embedded TikToks and YouTubes are a nice way to add some colour and movement to a Substack post without having to create your own videos./twitter-is-actively-contributing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twitter-is-actively-contributing.htmlNearly a quarter of girls between 12 and 16 are intentionally injuring themselves, mostly with knives and razor blades. The rate is even higher among teens from upper-middle class, highly educated families. Those who self-harm are six times more likely to be hospitalized for mental illness than those who don’t and more than four times as likely to attempt suicide. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, suicide is now the second leading cause of death among children 10-14 and the third leading cause of death among those 15-24./two-thousand-twenty-fore.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-thousand-twenty-fore.htmlHappy Monday War & Peaceniks! It’s that time again: Time for my Top 10 Media Predictions for 2024. [I just held a zoominar to go through the list - the video is here. The date/time of our next zoominar is always at this link.] Let’s start off the 2024 Predictions with my final Media Universe Map of 2023. Which leads us to the first prediction… ncG1vNJzZmido52usXrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWekrLxuwMeorKyZnpl6tcPEp6uyZZakv6Y%3D/ultra-high-resolution-32k-panorama.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ultra-high-resolution-32k-panorama.htmlGreetings Earthlings! This newsletter introduces two new downloadable Sci-fi themed panos for FS One. Sci-fi fun aside, the crux of this newsletter is about the quality of this new panorama imagery. You’ve heard of the term “4K monitors.” Now, switch gears to something different and get ready to learn about 8K, 16K, and 32K in the context of panorama imagery when used with RC flight simulators. If you are new and want to follow the newsletter, subscribe here on Substack:/unsealed-court-documents-show-that.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unsealed-court-documents-show-that.htmlHelen Lewis and I are doing a live event in London on August 3. Tickets here! When the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care Version 8 was released in September 2022, a very strange thing happened: WPATH removed references to minimum age requirements for various medical interventions, describing the change as a “correction” in a notice that now reads, weirdly: “This correction notice has been removed as it referred to a previous version of the article, which was published in error./variegated-solomons-seal.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/variegated-solomons-seal.htmlSomeone in my town asked me for an easy care plant suggestion that tolerated shade and was deer resistant. I immediately answered Variegated Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’). This elegant perennial grows 18 to 24 inches tall, has green and white striped foliage that turns a golden yellow in autumn. Its arching stems emerge from the ground in early spring and, in late spring, small, white bell-like flowers dangle beneath the leaves./the-death-of-the-leisure-class.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-death-of-the-leisure-class.htmlAbout certain subjects, I have a compulsion to show off my knowledge. At a dinner party, I’ll often dig my nails into my palm rather than correct a misstatement. Sometimes, though, I can’t help myself. It’s a flaw in my manners. But it’s also one of the reasons I write.  Thorsten Veblen’s 1899 book, Theory of the Leisure Class, held that the upper class felt compelled to display their wealth through conspicuous consumption, measured not only by material luxury goods, but by avoiding work and spending their time in non-productive leisure./vienna-waits.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vienna-waits.htmlWhen Billy Joel, the American singer-songwriter, was visiting his estranged father in Vienna, Austria, they were sitting on the sidewalk at a coffee house when Joel suddenly noticed an older woman sweeping the streets. Joel told his father how awful for this older woman to be doing this type of work. To which, his father replied, "No, it is not. She is being useful and doing a service that benefits everyone./walking-ulaanbaatar-mongolia-part.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walking-ulaanbaatar-mongolia-part.htmlIf you stick to Ulaanbaatar’s center, as most visitors do, it wouldn’t strike you as that much different than any other post-Soviet city. It’s got the monumental plazas juxtaposed against newer glass towers. It’s got the Brezhnev-era apartment complexes, with their colossal tile motif-ed rectangular buildings. It’s got the wide boulevards, walled in by four-story apartment complexes, dotted with kiosks, and jammed with cars, trolleybuses, and pedestrians dressed against the cold./water-in-chinese-missiles-unlikely.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/water-in-chinese-missiles-unlikely.html[This article is a follow onto my article in the January 8 edition of Asia Times. I have used some of the information in that article in this one.] According to Bloomberg News, China had strategic missiles filled with water instead of fuel touching off a corruption scandal that led to Chinese President Xi's military purge of China's Rocket Forces.  Bloomberg reported that the information came from US intelligence sources. Bloomberg does not say where US Intelligence got the information although Bloomberg says that the information cannot be validated./we-need-a-fat-american-girl-doll.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-need-a-fat-american-girl-doll.htmlMary is a historian and cultural critic who loves thinking about the stories we tell about ourselves, and the meanings behind our pop culture attachments. Through her podcasting and writing, she’s combined, travelogue and memoir to investigate the origins of the iconic AG brand. And all of Mary’s work is also just super smart, and extremely hilarious.  So, as we are going to discuss today: I am a Samantha and I have a pretty tragic backstory about being a Samantha./we-need-to-talk-about-easy-runs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-need-to-talk-about-easy-runs.htmlHow fast did you run your most recent easy run? Chances are, it was too fast.  Most runners default to the most energy efficient pace, not the easiest pace, according to research in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology. In doing so, though, you’re cheating yourself of the benefits that come with running easy.  Training in the “gray zone”—AKA pushing too hard too often, and not running slow enough often enough—is one of the quickest ways to run yourself into a rut./simu-liu-and-mrasians.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/simu-liu-and-mrasians.htmlTRIGGER WARNINGS: misogyny against Asian women, anti-Black racism, anti-miscegenation, and brief discussions of pedophilia Marvel made history this year with the release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first major Asian-led superhero film in the U.S. The story follows Xu Shang-Chi, a Chinese American young adult played by the Chinese Canadian actor Simu Liu.  Liu first rose to prominence in his breakout role on Kim’s Convenience (2016-2021), a Korean Canadian sitcom adapted from the play of the same name written by Ins Choi./weeping-treesthe-focal-point.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weeping-treesthe-focal-point.htmlWeeping trees are everyone’s favorite. They intrigue us with their drooping branches and pendant habit. They add a graceful note to any planting and are a natural focal point in the landscape. Their unique cascading shape can be used to create a solid backdrop or even screen a view. For example, I once planted two snow fountain cherry trees, side by side, to create a beautiful vegetative screen. Weeping trees are especially evocative when planted next to water, such as a weeping willow by a pond./welcome-to-40-ingredients-forever.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-40-ingredients-forever.htmlI’ve recently pared my cabinets, fridge, and freezer down to the emptiest they’ve been since I achieved food security for my household. Security often begets simplicity, I’ve found, in the kitchen, my clothes closet, the number of entertainments I pursue, etc. I struggle to simplify in the kitchen because I love experimenting as a cook, but my household is two people with one very reliable if limited palate (brother) and a grazer who never eats a balanced or complete anything all in one go (me)./welcome-to-the-group-chat.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-the-group-chat.htmlHey you guys! Welcome to the Group Chat! What the heck is up! Upgrade to Paid Quick intro: my name is Meredith and I’m a chef in NYC, but you may know me as the “day in my life as a private chef in the Hamptons girl”. You can find me on Insta, tiktok, wishbonekitchen.com, and now here! I love my social media community, but I’ve been craving a space where I can go a lit…/what-defines-a-great-film.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-defines-a-great-film.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on definition from Dictionary.com Professor, author, and radio host Mary L. Tabor graciously invited moviewise to be a guest writer on “Only Connect,” a newsletter about all things literary. The following is an extension of moviewise’s article, “The Art of the Screenplay,” published on September 15, 2022. If you’d like to delve more deeply into the meaning of art, beauty, and skill, please click here to read the original article, and let us know what you think!/breed-spotlight-what-is-a-biewer.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breed-spotlight-what-is-a-biewer.htmlHi! My name is Keke, and I’m a Biewer Terrier puppy. In this post, I’d like to answer some questions I’ve received from my legions of loyal fans. (Okay, maybe it’s more like a posse than a legion, but I usually get at least one email a month from my loyal followers.) So here are the top three questions I get. The third most frequently asked question is, “What the heck is a Biewer Terrier?/what-is-a-naturist.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-naturist.htmlAfter a recent Blog, I had a conversation with one of my readers who made some interesting points and concluded that: …the term "naturist" no longer has a universally accepted definition or ideology. For many people, it simply means non-sexual social nudity, with little if any connection with the natural world other than sunbathing on a beach. For others, it's not even that - preferring to be naked alone within their own homes./what-is-stand-up-comedy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-stand-up-comedy.htmlAccording to stereotype, analytic philosophers love nothing more than analyzing concepts, filling the ellipsis in x is F if and only if … with conditions held to be implicit in the meaning of a word. It’s an anachronistic vision, both because “analytic truth” plays a minimal role in contemporary philosophy—there’s more interest in “real definition,” the metaphysical project of explaining what it is to be F—and because philosophers are willing to treat concepts as primitive: undefined but well-understood./explaining-the-let-it-linger-meme.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/explaining-the-let-it-linger-meme.htmlOne of my favourite things about TikTok is its weirdness. I’m not necessarily talking about videos that are inherently strange, more how it provides a place for internet culture to fold into itself like some sort of self-referential dough.  Take, for example, the recent explosion of The Cranberries’ song ‘Linger’ as a meme. I first encountered it about a week ago when this video popped up on my TikTok feed./what-jobs-are-best-for-people-with.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-jobs-are-best-for-people-with.htmlHi, ADHDers! How’s it going? News update! I quit my job after working for just under 5 years in the public sector! *Exhalessssss* Risky. Pretty risky, during the cost of living crisis, considering I don’t have a job lined up. But, I needed to make the jump and I am figuring it out along the way. And I have to trust that God has something better for me! Shall we get started?/what-makes-a-great-chef.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-makes-a-great-chef.htmlCHEF: a professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant or hotel. I’ve spent much of my career as a food writer and restaurant critic analyzing what exactly makes a great ingredient, a great dish, a great waiter, and a great restaurant. With all that comes the question: what makes a great chef? I’ve met hundreds of chefs, interviewed dozens, a… ncG1vNJzZmiklai5psXCoZysrJWnuqK6jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6y1osCMppiknaNirm6z0Z6YrWWTnbKn/what-the-heck-is-fussing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-heck-is-fussing.htmlIn my quest to help my daughter learn the elusive art of falling asleep, I’ve come across this “fussing” term many times. What does it actually mean? How is it different to crying?   Precious Little Sleep (the baby sleep bible) recommends a “Fuss It Out” method of sleep coaching as a gentle alternative to “Cry It Out.” This suggests that fussing is considered less stressful (to both parents and baby) than crying./when-trantifa-attacks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-trantifa-attacks.htmlToday at the Sorbonne, the storied Paris university, some professors held a small public discussion about transgenderism. Some were critical, but as one who is pro-trans delivered his talk, a couple of trans activists in the audience slung pink paint on them all. Watch: I met most of the professors who were involved in this not long after it happened. We had lunch at a nearby restaurant. Two of them, including Prof./who-is-the-greatest-living-professional.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-the-greatest-living-professional.htmlRecently I’ve been carefully following the excellent Wrestling Playlists substack and creating some video highlights for the matches that strike me as being especially notable. If you’re not familiar with it, Charles from the PWO message board is curating the entire televised history of professional wrestling, from the earliest existing footage to the present. It’s a work of both profound love and substantial expertise. That’s a great and surprisingly rare combination and I highly recommend it./whos-afraid-of-taylor-swift-and-joni.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-afraid-of-taylor-swift-and-joni.htmlPutting aside the time-worn debate regarding the talent vs. popularity of the bands/artists who reap Grammys and inductions into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, no one can deny Swifts success/fame. She sells massive amounts of music, generates a billion in ticket sales, disrupted the ticketing system due to unusually high demand, and, even, improves the economy - (temporarily) of the areas lucky enough to host her concerts. Person of the year?/chelsea-managers-why-better-managers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chelsea-managers-why-better-managers.htmlToday in my series on the managerial issue at Chelsea, I want to explore exactly the difference the right and wrong managerial appointment can make. I’ve publicly been very critical of the Chelsea co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart and their poor team-building and lack of leadership and culture setting since they came into the club in January 2023. To me the lack of leadership, poor signings and poor team building are all on them./why-do-my-shoulder-blades-stick-out.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-my-shoulder-blades-stick-out.htmlThe scapula sits on the rib cage and forms the base from which the rest of the arm can move. It is not firmly attached to the rib cage like you would think of with other joints. Typically, one bone is connected to another bone through a joint that has ligaments, joint capsules and thick connective tissue to connect the bones, but only muscles hold our scapula onto our rib cage!/why-do-so-many-men-seem-to-enjoy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-so-many-men-seem-to-enjoy.htmlIn the private support group I run, a woman recently shared the story of her husband going about a month without showering, but still expecting her to have sex with him. And that opened the floodgates of male disgustingness. “My ex didn’t shower and never washed his ass. He insisted on sleeping in the nude and his sheets always had stains on them. One time he wanted to 69 and there were literal poo flakes near his balls,” one reader told me./why-does-my-kid-keep-getting-strep.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-does-my-kid-keep-getting-strep.htmlIf it feels like every family you know has been battling strep throat this year, you could be right.  We’ve seen a record number of kids coming to our office for strep throat – often more than once. Adding to the chaos, kids have been experiencing uncommon symptoms of this bacterial infection, and it has been difficult to treat. These unique differences have led to delayed diagnoses, recurring infections, and toooooo many missed school days./why-healthcare-has-so-much-administration.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-healthcare-has-so-much-administration.htmlYou’ve probably heard people complain that there’s too much administration in healthcare. Is it really that bad? Let me answer with this graph showing the growth of US healthcare administrators and physicians: Graph nerd comment: Any graph with a y-axis that surpasses 1000% is poorly calibrated, misleading or both. More about that later. Healthcare administration is about 15-25% of the US healthcare expenditure. While the number of US doctors grew by 150% between 1975 and 2010, administrators have increased significantly, according to the graph above at a rate of 3200% (relative increase of ~20x)./lets-talk-about-money.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-talk-about-money.htmlThere are some times when I feel compelled to write and this is one of them. Let’s talk about money. When I left my job as a news anchor in December of 2023, I was very clear to say that the reason I was leaving was not about money. It wasn’t. There’s an important clarification in that, though. It was not about money…for me. Money, however, was very much on the minds of management./why-isnt-this-the-end-of-rory-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-isnt-this-the-end-of-rory-and.htmlWelcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it Dear readers: A quick note before we jump in. We are officially more than halfway through this project of lovingly close-readi… ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGxXZ7Ar8CMrZ%2Biq12ptaZ5xKebZqeWYr%2BwvthmmKec/mk1nes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mk1nes.htmlThis post is part of Kool Stuff, a companion book to Long Live Mortal Kombat: Round 1 (now on Kickstarter!) that contains interviews I was unable to do before hitting Long Live MK’s deadline. Subscribe to Episodic Content to keep up with news on Long Live MK, and to follow along with Kool Stuff as new chapters are published. Take a stroll down memory lane with me. It's September 13, 1993./milwaukee-bucks-nba-all-star-game.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/milwaukee-bucks-nba-all-star-game.htmlWe are nearing a half century since the Milwaukee Bucks last hosted an NBA All-Star Game, and based on reporting that surfaced Wednesday, it’s hard to imagine that wait will come to an end anytime soon. Joe Massutto of The Oklahoman, in writing about Oklahoma City’s own pursuit of landing an All-Star Game as they ready for a new arena, relayed the specific requirements the NBA is looking in host cities for future All-Star Games:/why-we-yearn.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-yearn.htmlI. I was yearning before I understood what it meant, before covid-19, before the meme concretely normalized the distant dissatisfaction that I was trying very hard to suppress. I think, in a way, we all were. So in early February, when my friend replied to my Instagram story that she was “yearning to be in my arms once again” followed by several pleading face emojis, I wasn’t very taken aback./william-powell-january-20-1942-may-26-1977-ojays.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/william-powell-january-20-1942-may-26-1977-ojays.htmlView most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare William Powell was one of the founding members of the O’Jays and sang with the group from 1958 until 1976, shortly before his premature death from cancer in 1977. See our exclusive 2023 interview with O’Jays founding member Walter Williams and our earlier posts on lead singer Eddie Levert and producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff for more on the group’s legendary musical history./winter-rainbow.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/winter-rainbow.htmlChristmas Eve morning, the sky breaks open. For a long time, it stays this way, the colors painted on the pale heavens will remain for quite some time. In the haze of winter, crystalized air acts like tiny prisms, shaping a kind of unlikely silence. The creak of my car’s tires on snow-covered streets, and the usual hum and grunt of street traffic falls to zero. The visual overtakes the audible./jon-horst-leave-milwaukee-bucks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jon-horst-leave-milwaukee-bucks.htmlThe dust has settled on the Milwaukee Bucks’ 2023-24 season. The disappointment didn't just reverberate from their Game 6 loss against the Indiana Pacers, nor a second straight year where they didn't advance out of the first round. It reverberated for a lost season where nothing ever really met the eye of expectations. Never has it felt better for the Bucks to decompress from a season that didn't end by going all the way to a title./american-idol-season-22-week-2-ziggy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-idol-season-22-week-2-ziggy.htmlThe American Idol Season 22 auditions continued apace Sunday (seemingly brought to you by the Santa Barbara Tourism Board, as California Gurl Katy Perry took her fellow judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan on a guided visit of her sunny hometown). And while there quite a few stunning ticket recipients, I was actually intrigued by a couple of the in-on-the-joke novelty acts. These rejects were likely just angling for 15 minutes of viral fame, with no hopes or intentions of making it to Hollywood… but I figure I’ll help them out and give them a few minutes more./this-burger-chain-is-an-animal.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-burger-chain-is-an-animal.htmlWelcome to the 35 who have entered The Physicality since the last issue. If you aren’t subscribed, join the 370 others who care about the real world here: This week’s Physicality is brought to you by my good friends at Thursday Labs. Content is my full-time job. Yet, I struggle with making all the tweets, LinkedIn posts, and videos needed to make The Physicality a success. It is just exhausting. That’s why I’m glad Thursday Labs exists./what-el-tren-del-norte-means-to-esteli.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-el-tren-del-norte-means-to-esteli.htmlFrom Estelí, Nicaragua As Tuesday night became Wednesday morning in Estelí, Nicaragua, it felt like every child in the city had negotiated a later bedtime and had managed to finagle a way into the VIP parking lot of the Estadio Independencia. One boy would signal a car he’d seen a Real Estelí player get into. A few hundred yards down the dirt path from the lot to the main road, that player’s car would be mobbed by exuberant young fans./and-just-like-that-season-2-episode-7fc.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-just-like-that-season-2-episode-7fc.htmlYou can find all of Back Row’s And Just Like That recaps here. We’re just about halfway through And Just Like That’s second season, and fans I’ve talked to seem divided over whether or not it’s getting better. I would argue that it is. Is it The Bear? No, but that’s not what anyone expects. We expect something of the quality of, what, Gossip Girl? If you’re still with our Samantha-less friends and wondering if the show runners are hearing the anti-Che cacophony, we know now that the answer is YES: this episode served a Che send-up on the sort of silver platter that you would only find in Charlotte’s house./bruin-fruit.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bruin-fruit.htmlSure, I am Always Talkin’ Food, but I teach NT2 (Dutch as a second language) on the side. Mainly to young foreigners who came to Amsterdam for or with love and intend to stay. For privacy reasons the names in these columns are fictitious. For me, a Dutch lesson is a success when there is an interaction between the students and me as a teacher. No one-way traffic, where I pour buckets of information into the open beaks of my students, who meekly swallow everything./chicago-first-we-get-the-money-then.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chicago-first-we-get-the-money-then.htmlMy family and I lived in Chicago for a year while my father was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. We lived in university housing on the South Side after moving from lily-white North Dallas to a neighborhood where the local elementary school was 70% Black. To say it was a culture shock is a understatement. In our neighborhood in Madison Park, since gentrified, it was not unusual to hear gunfire at night./every-forward-step-in-my-transition.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-forward-step-in-my-transition.htmlScott Newgent is a 47-year old woman who underwent a series of surgeries at the age of 42. She is the author of the following striking passage from a Newsweek article published in 2021: “I am a 48-year-old transgender man. I was thrilled when the medical community told me six years ago that I could change from a woman to a man. I was informed about all the wonderful things that would happen due to medical transition, but all the negatives were glossed over./mattstoller.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mattstoller.htmlHere’s what’s going on with Twitter and Substack. Twitter has monopoly mindshare among elite media, and that’s a key part of the audience that Substack is trying to reach. Musk believes that Substack is a potential rival, so he’s trying to maintain his market power by preventing Substack users from accessing his platform and thus stunt Substack’s growth. This isn’t his first attempt to block interoperability - a few months ago he tried to block all access to possible rivals, before caving after public backlash./bernie-mac-aint-scared-of-you.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bernie-mac-aint-scared-of-you.htmlThe backstory: Bill Bellamy was backstage with Bernie at [HBO's] "Def Comedy Jam" when he coined that phrase. The story goes that when he did "Def Comedy Jam," it was a big night, with Bill telling him how everybody knew that if you did really well, it meant good things were going to happen to you afterwards. The guy that went on before Bernie got booed--and Bill was backstage with Bernie and told him, "/scenes-of-subjection-from-the-household.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scenes-of-subjection-from-the-household.htmlHow does one recuperate lives entangled with and impossible to differentiate from the terrible utterances that condemned them to death, the account books that identified them as units of value, the invoices that claimed them as property, and the banal chronicles that stripped them of human features? — Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” In her now classic article, “Venus in Two Acts,” Dr. Saidiya Hartman sets out the dilemmas that slavery researchers confront, especially those of us who place enslaved people at the center of our inquiries./107-pinkydoll.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/107-pinkydoll.htmlHi. You are reading Understanding TikTok. My name is Marcus. My For You Page these days is “power gay” Daniel-Ryan Spaulding getting Botox, Kathleen Hanna singing on a fitness bike, Madeline Argy’s accent, Hannah Diamond promoting her new single, Michael Motamedi eating tin fish in Spain, Glaive wearing Lemaire Black Piped Loafers to the sound of DJ Hearstring’s Boiler Room. How is your summer going?  Here is your last TikTok update before a little vacation en France…/rise-and-fall-of-long-term-capital.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rise-and-fall-of-long-term-capital.htmlIn the late 1990s, a group of distinguished investment bankers and economists, including Nobel laureates, founded Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that espoused a revolutionary investment approach based on complex mathematical models based on identifying and exploiting pricing discrepancies between related financial instruments. The fund's managers believed that these spreads would eventually converge, allowing the fund to generate significant profits. However, their hubris ultimately led to their downfall, as the fund's spectacular collapse in 1998 highlighted the limitations of even the most sophisticated financial models when faced with the unpredictability of human nature./10-signs-you-might-be-dealing-with.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-signs-you-might-be-dealing-with.htmlI’ve been reading folk horror stories—old ways of explaining reality with mythology instead of science. In the old stories, the Fae embody wild, dangerous energies, but also (oddly, and obviously magically) are endearingly powerful. And honestly, we’ve all encountered fae in places like writing groups, deciduous forests, at spelling bees, on public transportation, and in our minds when we read those fairy tales. 1 Fae have “hard to stop” energy./10-ways-men-can-be-less-sexist.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-ways-men-can-be-less-sexist.htmlIf you’re a man, you have internalized sexist values. That’s especially true if you think you haven’t. In fact, the more adamant you are that you’re not sexist, the less time you spend reflecting on your own choices and behavior. And that means the more likely you are to behave in reflexive, unthinking, sexist ways. These tips are not necessarily the only ways to be less sexist, or even the most important./1033-amp-radio-goes-silent.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1033-amp-radio-goes-silent.htmlIn the commercial radio industry, death and birth are intrinsically connected. When a station passes on, the story of a new station begins immediately, and along the same frequency. The new station usually bears a new format or programming philosophy than the previous, signifying a shift in music and on-air personalities. These changes can happen suddenly and without warning, hence the phrase “flipping formats.” A format flip can be a minor retooling of a station’s branding, such as Boston’s alternative Radio 92./12-alana-hadid-on-watermelon-pictures.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-alana-hadid-on-watermelon-pictures.htmlWelcome to another episode of our podcast Abolition, Liberation, Solidarity, A Here4TheKids Production. Today’s guest is Alana Hadid, a Palestinian-American fashion designer, film producer, and the creative director of Watermelon Pictures. Watermelon Picture’s first project is the documentary Walled Off, which is available on streaming platforms May 3.  The film, which was directed by Vin Arfuso, tells the story of the Walled Off hotel, an art installation in Bethlehem created by Banksy, which draws attention the story of the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation./141-fear-of-depression.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/141-fear-of-depression.htmlOne of the most common fears in our community is the fear of depression. Note that there is a difference between being in a depressed state, and being afraid that one might wind up in a depressed state. This fear is expressed so often that I wanted to take 700 words or so today to address it and clear a few things up. Knowing is not a cure, nor is it automatically protective, but having some facts in hand can be very helpful when addressing this fear./22-cool-rare-alternatives-to-atlas.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/22-cool-rare-alternatives-to-atlas.htmlDid any of your favorite names leap up the charts this year? The release of the new baby name stats can be a double-edged sword for name lovers. More name data to pore over? Yay! Your carefully chosen, coolly underused favorites climbing rapidly up the rankings? Not so much 😢 This post, from longtime Berry and Atlas-lover @SparkleNinja18, sums up the dilemma perfectly. As recently as just a couple years ago, I’ve had people tell me that Atlas was just too uncommon to use, too weighed down (pun intended) by the titan for a real boy, despite the fun, adventurous second meaning./222-read-look-think.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/222-read-look-think.htmlThe startling candour of Helen Garner. (The stuff about her avoiding people she knows!) So much to love in this interview with Jeanette Winterson. ‘After a number of long conversations with Nunez on different days, it became clear to me precisely whom her narrators sound like: Nunez.’ Robot voice. ‘No one’s interested in your blood. Make me bleed as I’m reading.’ The ghost novel. A class story. ‘I feel in a high state of paranoia and anxiety./psychedelic-churches-and-the-law.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/psychedelic-churches-and-the-law.htmlReligious freedom is a foundation principle of the United States, a concept enshrined in the  U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment states that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Here, church and state are separate, which prohibits the federal government from interfering in Americans’ religious practices. But as hundreds of religious groups in the U.S. have claimed psychedelics as sacraments, the country’s drug laws have at times interfered with groups’ ability to obtain and use what they consider to be essential parts of their religion, including substances like peyote and ayahuasca./511-songs-sampled-the-skull-snaps.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/511-songs-sampled-the-skull-snaps.htmlWelcome to Micro-Chop, a newsletter dissecting beatmaking, DJing, music production, rapping, and sampling — written by me, Gino Sorcinelli. Micro-Chop publishes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for paid subscribers. Free subscribers receive Monday’s newsletter. Give feedback, send questions, or just say hi by emailing me at gino@bookshelfbeats.com. (The back cover art for Skull Snaps’ Skull Snaps album.) After putting out a slew of singles to modest success between 1963 and 1970, the funk and soul group The Diplomats switched their name to Skull Snaps and released a self-titled album on the GSF label in 1973./6-questions-with-patrick-schumacker.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/6-questions-with-patrick-schumacker.htmlAre you sick of me telling you that the guests we have for these Q&As are the nicest and more talented writers I know? Well too bad, because they all are. I’ve been lucky enough to meet and befriend so many ridiculously talented but also unbelievably kind people in my years in this business. Patrick Schumacker and his writing partner Justin Halpern (whose 6 Answers you’ll read next week) are no exception./a-brief-history-of-predestination.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-history-of-predestination.htmlA friend, “Moses,” reached out to me in search of a “pithy” explanation of how the Eastern Church fathers understand predestination. I provided an answer that was relatively brief but not quite pithy. I, then, decided to follow that reply with a more thorough treatment of the topic. In a word, I offered a brief history of the doctrine of predestination, in the Christian East and West. Below is part 1 of that history, covering the Latin views prior to Augustine and the Augustinian shift./a-broken-clock-is-right-twice-a-day.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-broken-clock-is-right-twice-a-day.htmlI am counting both of these as Ws. Yeah, Elon bought twitter and not Tesla, but we are rounding up here. But everyone is dropping one of those right now. And I wanted to spare you from my uneducated half guesses. So instead of making wild, silly predictions that I will never look back on, I wanted to draw a line in the sand and make a declaration. One prediction that I am confident is right./a-deep-dive-on-the-bills-red-helmet.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-on-the-bills-red-helmet.htmlWord recently came down that the Buffalo Bills will not be adding a red throwback helmet this season. I was surprised by that news — in part because I get the impression that there’s been a fair amount of fan demand for the red lids, and also for a few other reasons that I’ll get to later in this article. Since the red-lidded chapter in Bills uni history has been the subject of a lot of interest and discussion lately, I decided to do a deep dive on it (just like I’ve done for the teams with new throwbacks this year), even though it’s not being brought back in 2023./a-final-farewell-to-la-latteria-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-final-farewell-to-la-latteria-and.htmlWhen I started scouting cities for our Italy move a few years ago, my first trip was to Milan. My close friend Marc, who owns a fantastic restaurant in Geneva called Bombar, told me he'd fly down and show me his favorite things in the city. Most importantly, he wanted to take me to a small and storied restaurant that was not only a neighborhood mainstay but a global food lovers "/a-final-word-on-jake-paul-hasim-rahman.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-final-word-on-jake-paul-hasim-rahman.htmlI’m tired of the continuing nonsense over the cancellation of the Jake Paul-Hasim Rahman Jr. fight that was supposed to have taken place this past Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden, so let’s get a few things straight and let this be the last word on the debacle. First and foremost, the fight being called off is Rahman’s fault and definitely not Paul’s. It’s all on Rahman. Period./cs-lewis-and-jrr-tolkien-a-friendship-c07.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cs-lewis-and-jrr-tolkien-a-friendship-c07.htmlC.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien met in 1926 at an Oxford University faculty tea. Tolkien taught Anglo-Saxon and Lewis taught English literature. And while Lewis was jolly and brash, and Tolkien more reserved, there was an immediate connection as they both loved many of the same things, particularly mythic literature. They began meeting weekly to talk, conversations which Lewis described as “going beyond the walls of this world.” Far from the image of stuffy Oxford dons, their exchanges were characterized by joy, laughter, and encouragement./a-close-read-of-rich-men-north-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-close-read-of-rich-men-north-of.htmlTop notes: This is one of those bonus “80% nonsense” posts, because whenever a viral reactionary country song is dominating the discourse, Gotham’s newsletter commissioner shines theWhite Pages signal and I jump into action. I’ve been a really softie this summer on keeping these nonsense posts (which I sometimes save for paid subscribers) unpaywalled. There’s not a ton of rhyme or reason behind that decision, it’s just my vibe right now./a-little-princess.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-little-princess.htmlLast week I mentioned I had initially planned on writing about a different movie before revisiting Meet The Robinsons and feeling inspired to write about it. I promised I'd cover the original film in the future, and this week I decided it was time to rewatch 1995's A Little Princess. Unfortunately, it didn't have much of a lasting impact on society, and it might seem random that I'd choose to analyze such a forgettable film that's over two decades old./murphy-usa-a-low-cost-higher-volume.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/murphy-usa-a-low-cost-higher-volume.htmlMurphy USA sells a lot of gasoline and a lot of cigarettes and buys back a lot of stock. This has worked well. Since its 2013 spinoff, Murphy's stock is up 673%, a 28.5% CAGR. EPS grew 21.5% per year, driven by 12.5% earnings growth and a 7.6% buyback CAGR. Low costs and low prices are the keys to Murphy's success. These have been core values since day one. Murphy opened its first store in 1997./a-maxwell-mugshot-emerges.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-maxwell-mugshot-emerges.htmlI was in line at the supermarket grabbing a bag of ice for a family gathering at the beach, arguing with my eight-year-old about going barefoot in the Fall, when news of Ghislaine Maxwell’s first post-conviction interview broke. I knew this interview was looming. I had asked Daphne Barrack recently about the timing of it, but I did not anticipate it dropping on a Saturday after proudly announcing my weekend log-off./baba-suwe-a-merchant-of-mirth-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baba-suwe-a-merchant-of-mirth-and.htmlBaba Suwe died. Given the information-overload age which we live in now, it is understandable that time did not practically stop when news of his demise broke- as it did, for example, when Michael Jackson died. You know where you are when you first heard. Not to say Baba Suwe is MJ, but such is his import to his craft and to Nigerian television history. Nevertheless, more than a few fans have paid tribute to him as the proverbial curtain fell on his act./feed-starve-or-bury-a-new-way-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feed-starve-or-bury-a-new-way-of.htmlThe summer movie season is just around the corner and, like summer movie seasons before, it’s set to be filled with sequels and series extensions. Like it or not, we remain in a blockbuster era dominated by franchises. Some seem vibrant. Others are animated only by the faintest spark of life. In a 2018 article about Men in Black: International, Tim Grierson coined the term “zombie franchise” to describe series that keep existing because they seemingly don’t know how to die and it’s stuck with me ever since./a-primer-on-rupauls-drag-race-for.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-primer-on-rupauls-drag-race-for.htmlHello readers,  There was a spontaneous protest late Friday night outside of the Taiwanese legislature. It was sparked by one of the most intense fights that broke out on the legislative floor. Brawls are nothing new in Taiwanese politics, and of course we condemn all violence. But the most recent acts have been sparked by a series of outrageous norm-breaking moves, including not even revealing which version of the bill everybody was voting on, and not even requiring a roll call./a-questionable-vermont-house-tour.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-questionable-vermont-house-tour.htmlI’m a part-time Vermonter, and you know what I love about browsing Vermont houses on Zillow? How simple Vermont is, how unostentatious. For instance, this $16 million home in Stowe, which I would gladly accept as a gift if someone wanted to buy it for me, despite the manmade lake. We can work with it. The architecture isn’t gaudy, the lines are nice… Until we get to the GIANT METAL HEAD./world-peace-cookies-a-recipe-and-21-09-21.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/world-peace-cookies-a-recipe-and-21-09-21.htmlHello! Hello! Today is World Peace Day! On any day, if I hear someone say, “World Peace,” my immediate, almost Pavlovian reaction is to say: Cookies! If you know the cookies, then you’ll understand- you might even be another person who jumps up with glee and shouts the same thing. Here, a short history of how it all started. ncG1vNJzZmicn6e2prPRnpynq6CWu2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ivn6e5pXnPnpicnV2YvLC3yJ6qZpldp7Kktc%2BeZJqmlGJ%2FcnmPcmRraQ%3D%3D/a-recipe-for-pinole.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-recipe-for-pinole.htmlWhen I’m camping in the US, my go-to staple food is rolled oats, because they’re available in most stores, and I can cook them if I have a stove or just re-hydrate them overnight in kefir, buttermilk, or water. But here in Mexico, I wanted to try something more local. I learned about pinole back when I read Born to Run; it’s the preferred trail ration of the Rarámuri (aka Tarahumara), probably the world’s best long-distance runners./a-rogue-bank-and-a-payday-predator.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-rogue-bank-and-a-payday-predator.htmlRepublic Bank and Trust of Kentucky and Elevate Credit came together to create a line of credit product targeted to operate a lot like a long-term payday loan. The product? The Elastic Line of Credit. Here’s more: One company offering a line of credit “solution” to emergency expenses or savings shortfalls is Elastic (in partnership with Republic Bank out of Kentucky). Here’s how they describe the Elastic Line of Credit:/a-spanish-chocolate-treat-that-tastes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-spanish-chocolate-treat-that-tastes.htmlFor the Spaniards out there, this recipe will take you to a place deep in your memory. Turrón de chocolate, most famously sold in Spain under the brand Suchard, is something we all look forward to year round. Don’t take it from me…here are the memories of some of my Spanish friends (and one of my daughters!) Patricia Blanco, one of our R&D chefs who you’ve met before, says that “For me, turrón Suchard means Christmas, since you only can find it during the holiday season./aaron-rodgers-is-the-absolute-worst.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aaron-rodgers-is-the-absolute-worst.htmlWhat is interesting is how some people recognise in their profession, there are smarter people than they are, and listen to them. Yet, they can step out of their profession, and suddenly know more than people who have spent their entire lives in that profession. Roger’s does not throw a football with whatever technique he wants to - he accepted coaching to learn better/more efficient ways to throw the ball. He does not call the plays - other coaches do that./active-shooter-drills-do-risks-outweigh.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/active-shooter-drills-do-risks-outweigh.htmlSchool policies for gun violence are a band-aid for a bullet hole. We need to prevent gun violence upstream. Prevent it from even being a conversation. But, this is where we find ourselves as parents today. So, here we go. Parents, including myself, are yearning to do something to make schools safer given after yet another mass school shooting sent ripple effects across the U.S. Incidents of gunfire at schools, mass shootings and beyond, are increasing./tabletop-preview-adventurer-conqueror.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tabletop-preview-adventurer-conqueror.htmlKICKSTARTER NOW LIVE Adventurer Conqueror King System (2012) aka ACKS was one of the Old School Renaissance’s (OSR) big fantasy heartbreaker systems. Based off Basic/Expert (BX) Dungeons & Dragons, ACKS was notable for providing rules to allow players to rule kingdoms, crossbreed animals into horrible monstrosities, design magic items, and more. ACKS utilised a relatively standard class based character system with d20 rolls against check values. Like earlier editions, those check values were inherent to the class rather than inherent to the world./ahmad-jamal-and-the-power-of-refusal.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ahmad-jamal-and-the-power-of-refusal.htmlAhmad Jamal — piano miraculist, dynamic mastermind, supreme orchestrator — died on Sunday at 92, after a battle with prostate cancer. For many admirers, he will always be synonymous with a groove: the terse yet buoyant evocation of New Orleans second-line rhythm on “Poinciana,” in the version he recorded with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernell Fournier on drums on Jan. 16, 1958. Others will reach first for his 1970 studio album The Awakening, with bassist Jamil Nasser and drummer Frank Gant./aioli.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aioli.htmlYou have probably seen the word aioli on a menu and just assumed it was a creamy mayonnaise with some extra flavoring. Not much to it, just that “fancy” sauce that comes alongside truffle fries right? Nope, that’s where you’re mistaken! It’s not your fault though, in the US a lot of aioli is honestly just flavored mayo with a glorified name. That doesn’t stop people from saying they hate mayo but then shovel aioli down their throats…/akira-toriyamas-impact-on-gaming.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/akira-toriyamas-impact-on-gaming.htmlWe lost a legend in Akira Toriyama. His body of work on the anime landscape had a significant impact that the genre is still feeling to this day. His most famous creation was the Dragon Ball series, which you could argue helped anime become more mainstream in the United States. The show Dragon Ball Z in particular was a major part of my childhood. I still remember running to the TV after school to catch up on the latest episodes./understated-012-alice-clement-55.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/understated-012-alice-clement-55.htmlThis week’s publication of Understated focuses on the life of Alice Clement, the first woman detective in the history of the Chicago PD, possibly even the United States. You’ll notice a theme in this week’s issue, and to be frank, we do not know very much about Alice Clement beyond the following: She was known as the “female Sherlock Holmes” and is most famous for how she solved The Dulcimer Murder./all-the-things-we-should-do-before.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-the-things-we-should-do-before.htmlDisclaimer: This is brought to you by Singapore Hospice Council. When I was in my 20s, I saw tributes to a schoolmate all over Facebook one day. She had passed away, after grappling with cancer for years. This was not something I expected. Because even as I caught glimpses of her battle on social media, she seemed like she was in good spirits. The shaved head. Her frail, bony frame. No matter how many tubes they inserted into her, no matter how many injections she endured, she did so smiling./all-american-thanksgiving-wine-pairing.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-american-thanksgiving-wine-pairing.htmlI just returned from Napa Valley and Sonoma County. This year I thought it appropriate to propose an All-American Thanksgiving Wine Pairing list to accompany your feast. I recommend wines from California, Oregon, and Texas that hold up to the spicy flavors of side dishes. I propose wines that do not overwhelm your palate with heavy tannins which would detract from the wonderful food flavors. See my Top 9 Wine Pairing Guidelines below for further pairing tips./allspice-all-the-time.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/allspice-all-the-time.htmlAllspice heads into heavy rotation during this most pumpkin-spiciest time of year. In my exotic neck of the woods, New Jersey, a miasma of allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg hangs over every Starbucks. Allspice is sprinkled in all the season’s food stars: apple pie, eggnog, pumpkin pie and gingerbread You all are a smart bunch, so you undoubtedly know that allspice is a specific spice, not a blend of them. As a kid I thought it was something like pumpkin pie spice, an efficient, maybe even frugal, way to flavor a dish./america-is-killing-its-mothers.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/america-is-killing-its-mothers.htmlThis is the weekly edition of Men Yell at Me. The weekly newsletter about power, politics, and personhood in red-state America. To support this work, become a subscriber. In Ohio, a woman is being charged with a felony after suffering from a miscarriage. Brittany Watts, a 33-year-old Black woman, had a miscarriage at week 22 of her pregnancy. The fetus came out through the birth canal and into the toilet. Despite medical evidence that the fetus was non-viable, prosecutors still pressed for the felony “abuse of a corpse” charge./american-honey.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-honey.htmlSome films set my writer's brain on fire. Andrea Arnold’s 2016 film, American Honey, is one of them. I’ve seen it about five times, and I find something else to fixate on with each viewing. It might have something to do with the fact that this movie is a story about class and making money—topics I’m forever fascinated with that I talk about in this newsletter and the novel Im currently working on./an-imporfect-name.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-imporfect-name.htmlAll of my college syllabus weeks had variants of the same scene. The professor squinted at the attendance roster. “Por Ja—” They moved closer to the screen or paper. “Jay… Jaijongkit. Did I say that right?” I’ve always said yes. The difference between “Jay” and “Jai” didn’t bother me. I have always been grateful that my Thai surname comprised of sounds that existed in the English language and had only three syllables./an-update-on-zach-moseley.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-update-on-zach-moseley.htmlI had vowed to take a break from writing about Moseley and MMA after my last post. There are other pressing matters in Houston that need attention. I have noticed that my posts often bring in new info, some of which needs to be shared while it's fresh. So, here's an update on the story about Zach Moseley that I published today. On October 18, 2023, John “Zach” Moseley registered a new LLC with the Texas Secretary of State./a-new-kind-of-bucket-list.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-kind-of-bucket-list.htmlThroughout my life I’ve heard friends talk about their bucket lists. They want to kitesurf in Peru. Bungee Jump in Bali. Have coffee with Dolly Parton in a roadside diner in Tennessee. All of which sound amazing. But my personal bucket list has always been a bit different. For many years now my biggest dreams haven’t required passports or parachutes. As much as I love traversing the world outside, healing my inner world has been most of what I’ve longed to do in this life./april-pad-challenge-napowrimo-2024.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/april-pad-challenge-napowrimo-2024.htmlMy dear friend Kamidiox drew these pictures. If you use them, please make sure to give her proper credit. Here is the link to her website. https://kamidiox.carrd.co/ I wasn't sure how personal I wanted to get with this prompt post, Poetry People. I'm feeling a bit vulnerable and also a bit sick. I woke up at 3 AM feeling like I was going to hurl.  I guess my 59-year-old innards can no longer handle meals like the spicy southwestern ham and bean soup that I made with scraps from the leftover Easter ham./aprilwhitebooks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aprilwhitebooks.htmlApril White BooksI’ve been a film producer, private investigator, bouncer, and screenwriter. I climbed in the Himalayas, survived a shipwreck, and I write adventurous love stories and posts about about writing, parenting, activism, history, travel, and life advice. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK80aKjsKCZqbKju86kqg%3D%3D/astrance.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/astrance.htmlI've been a fan of Astrance for a very long time. It was one of my first visits to a three-star restaurant (before Michelin demoted them to two stars in 2019), and it was one of my favorites when I tested all of Paris' three-star restaurants back 2014. I loved Pascal Barbot's cooking (see additional photos here), but it was the darling s… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omKysopa7pLE%3D/automatic-tracking-system-and-iranian.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/automatic-tracking-system-and-iranian.htmlIran and the Houthis have been tapping into the Automated Tracking System (AIS) to locate and attack ships in the Red Sea and, since Saturday, December 23rd, ships in the Indian Ocean.  Where AIS lacks information on military ships, Iranian radars do the job of finding them.  The entire operation is sophisticated and is managed in real time, requiring significant assets to identify targets.  There is no doubt that Iran and the Houthis are working together./babes-of-summer.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/babes-of-summer.htmlHello Dames Nation! 🌞😎🌞 We are Alice Bolin and Emily Jones, writers and pals with a mutual interest in pop jams, vintage MTV from circa 1999, and obscure celebrity gossip. Alice was born in Idaho and is now a writer and professor in Memphis, Tennessee. Emily was born in the suburbs of Chicago and is now a librarian and writer in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emily is the best tweeter on God’s green earth and Alice also often tweets things./baby-ruby-is-a-paranoid-pregnancy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baby-ruby-is-a-paranoid-pregnancy.htmlI'm 99 percent sure that most babies come from the Devil — and as descendants of evil, they’ll try with everything they have at their disposal to make you, the parent, meet their master. The little hellspawns scream their lungs out all night to keep you awake, shit and piss on you, and even bite your nipples until they bleed. Attempting to steal your every waking moment and hoping you’ll eventually drop dead from sleep deprivation (which is why I’ll probably never have kids since I’d die within the first month)./baked-potato-bar-baby.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baked-potato-bar-baby.htmlHello! I’m sorry I’ve been away, but I’m back (and better than ever?)! For those of you who’ve been following along, I moved. Still in sweet, sweet San Francisco, but now in the Castro. Still with Joe, but also now with two other sweet friends, Keenan and Sean. There is maybe something profound I will say someday about why I love living in community with other people. About why it’s nice sometimes to wake up and find that someone has already made coffee or to come home and see someone’s left a little bit of dinner out for you./barbies-trolls-and-intrinsic-self.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbies-trolls-and-intrinsic-self.htmlEverybody seems to be sharing their thoughts about the Barbie movie, so I will, too. You’re welcome! Normally, I would offer up my opinion with a caveat of “I humbly offer these measly ideas and they’re probably wrong,” perhaps followed up with a self-deprecating anecdote about how I spilled tea down my shirt and fell down the stairs. But I feel confident because this film has reminded me that I don’t actually have to apologize for being the brilliant, gorgeous, capable human that I am (although I will always and forever identify as a Weird Barbie./entry-3-barghest.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/entry-3-barghest.htmlBarg’s Catchphrase: “Howlllllllllll!!!!!” (It sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard in your life) Barghest is a shape-shifting boogey animal from English folklore. I call him Barg. Barg can be traced back to the old English word for “Town” and “Ghest” can be traced to Ghost so his name can translate to mean Town Ghost. One of his forms is quite ghostly b… ncG1vNJzZmiln6PAtbHRqJ2toJWssqa3jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5q7tb7YZmpmmpGntKmx0q12rqydlMCwwdGcnHZdYnuvs7vWrJxeanabtqTAyKilX62koqyuscOirKZ1opqupbHRaw%3D%3D/luhrmann-australia-farawaydowns.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luhrmann-australia-farawaydowns.htmlUpon its November 2008 release in US movie theaters, Baz Lurhmann’s big budget historical epic romance Australia became a critical and commercial flop. 15 years to the day later, Faraway Downs - an extended 6-episode television revision of the film - is set to premiere as an original series for the Hulu streaming service.* *Only in the US though. Internationally, it will be known as a Star+ Original in Latin America and a Disney+ original in Europe, Asia, and other territories./a-better-baked-meatball.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-better-baked-meatball.htmlHere at 40 Ingredients Forever, recipes are abundant in flavor and joy yet streamlined in process—because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients.Any meatball I’ve made in the oven has either been gorgeously browned but dry, or blissfully juicy but gray. Broiling the meatballs the whole time was the closest I’d gotten to a browned-and-juicy meatball, but broilers are too fiddly and unpredictable to be the primary method for an oven meatball, which should be reliable, there for you anytime you need one./best-bets-and-bookmaker-insights.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-bets-and-bookmaker-insights.htmlThe UConn Huskies and Purdue Boilermakers play tonight in the matchup that the college basketball world has been waiting to see all season. It’s the first time that both teams enter a championship game 5-0 against the spread, and UConn is a remarkable 11-0 ATS over the last two NCAA tournaments. The Huskies have not only been winning games, but covering them with ease, and the betting public certainly thinks they’ll do that again tonight against Zach Edey & Co./bigfoot-and-me.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bigfoot-and-me.htmlThere I was watching a recent New Jersey Devils home hockey game on TV when a commercial popped up for an event that I never knew existed – a Monster Jam, which would take place in that very same arena in a few weeks. And I thought, huh, I actually rode in a monster truck for a show at the Missouri State Fair in 1985 while I was working on a story about the guy who invented the monster truck, Bob Chandler./bil-keane.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bil-keane.htmlHi everybody! In my opinion, one of the most important cartoonists was Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus. I’ll share some thoughts about him after we take a look at our three Drabble originals from this date. November 10, 1989 November 10, 2008 November 10, 2016 I’ve mentioned that more recent original strips sometimes have more errors than older originals. That’s because the goofs are easily corrected when it is scanned into the computer./bob-marleys-redemption-song-and-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bob-marleys-redemption-song-and-the.htmlThere’s no shortage of great songs about freedom. As many will tell you, Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” is somewhere on the top of this list. Few may realize that Marley had what I think is fairly called a “sneaky libertarian streak,” and this is reflected in several of his songs. Here are the lyrics to “Redemption Song”: [Verse 1] Old pirates, yes, they rob ISold I to the merchant ships/brigsby-bear-2.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brigsby-bear-2.htmlSince I only feature one video a week in this column, I often struggle with which films to write about. Do I stick to just the big box office hits? Or try to showcase something smaller and quirkier? In truth, it’s probably wiser to concentrate on the high-profile movies since more people are interested in them. But in this age of exploding content, I think it’s a critic’s highest duty to point people in the direction of worthy films that they haven’t heard about./bull-steepening-bear-steepening-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bull-steepening-bear-steepening-and.htmlThe slope of the US Treasury yield curve is one of the most widely watched economic and market indicators in the world. However, as I’ve written before in this service, the yield curve is widely misused and misunderstood. The most crucial point to understand is this: Contrary to popular belief, an inverted yield curve – where short term yields are higher than long-term Treasury yields – is NOT an indicator of imminent recession./california-sunshine.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/california-sunshine.htmlHi friends, It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. which means family, friends, pie, and plenty to be thankful for. You probably know that practicing gratitude can generate positive feelings and make us feel warm and fuzzy inside. So in honor of the upcoming holiday and as a quick happiness booster, I’ve been thinking about what I’m grateful for this year. A few weeks ago I went on my first non-business, solo trip in five years./calistoga-sparkles-in-annual-lighted.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/calistoga-sparkles-in-annual-lighted.htmlCALISTOGA, Calif. — The 27th Annual Calistoga Lighted Tractor Parade, celebrated for its vibrant lights and community spirit, illuminated Lincoln Avenue on Dec. 2, marking the start of the holiday season in Napa Valley. Lauded by USA Today as one of the country's top holiday events, the parade drew thousands of spectators, transforming the downtown into a festive hub. The parade featured 53 entries, each uniquely adorned with lights and holiday decorations, creating a spectacular procession along Lincoln Avenue./cash-out.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cash-out.htmlJohn Travolta is the poster child for the up-and-down swings a Hollywood career can take. A huge star at a very young age, he’s been written off numerous times as the quality of his movies dipped — then made just as many comebacks with boffo box office and Oscar nominations. But it’s now been 15 years since he had a certified hit and probably 10 since he made anything you’ve even heard of, with the possible exception of “Gotti,” mostly starring in low-budget straight-to-video schlock./young-queens-catherine-de-medici.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/young-queens-catherine-de-medici.htmlThis morning I finished reading YOUNG QUEENS: THREE RENAISSANCE WOMEN AND THE PRICE OF POWER (Bloomsbury/Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023). Authored by my dear friend and writing think-tank buddy Leah Redmond Chang and weighing in at over 400 pages before the notes, this book is as compelling and as gorgeous a read as it is long.  With the suspense of a Jason Bourne novel (or movie) but with teen- and tween-sized protagonists wielding quills instead of Kalashnikovs, turning curtsies not cartwheels, with platform-soled, backless silk chapins on their little feet (Elisabeth de Valois came to love Spanish footwear), the book is a poignant, immersive, and altogether magnificent re-telling of the intertwined lives of three women who became the very young queens of France, Spain, and Scotland./challengers-costume-analysis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/challengers-costume-analysis.htmlI am for sure Luca Guadagnino pilled, but after watching Challengers, I felt reborn. There is so many things I would like to say right now, but my awareness of a digital footprint is telling me to pull it together. Instead, we’re going to get to the job at hand and discuss the costumes. As you all know, this is a Jonathan Anderson stan account, so when I found out he was doing the costumes for the movie, I knew we’d be in for a treat— and a treat it was!/childrens-books-for-valentines-day-f6e.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/childrens-books-for-valentines-day-f6e.htmlHappy, happy (early) Valentine’s Day! I love Valentine’s Day because it’s a holiday somewhat in the middle🤞of what is an exceedingly long winter here in Wisconsin, and also because it’s relatively low-stakes, and also also because it celebrates love, and that’s something I can always get behind even if “Hallmark made it up.” (Truly: who cares?) Books for Valentine’s Day are a bonus, but they’re a pretty good bonus, if you ask me./classics-of-the-week-the-ranown-westerns.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/classics-of-the-week-the-ranown-westerns.htmlThe Nut Graf: The six Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott Westerns that are leaving the Criterion Channel in a few days (but are still available elsewhere) are A-level B movies: Taut, mature, intensely satisfying. There’s a ton of great stuff leaving The Criterion Channel on October 31 – all the movies in the Jean Harlow festival, the John Huston spotlight, and especially the cycle of six Randolph Scott Westerns directed by Budd Boetticher from 1956 to 1960 and collectively known as “the Ranown Westerns” after the name of Scott’s production company (which in turn came from the first three letters of the star’s name and the last three of co-producer Harry Joe Brown’s)./propagating-memories-cloning-plants.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/propagating-memories-cloning-plants.htmlNAPA VALLEY, Calif. — My daughter gave me a wonderful scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) for Mother’s Day several years ago. It flourishes on my side porch, and I repot it regularly. I like it so much that I have rooted sprigs of the plant and given them as gifts. These new plants are clones of the parent geranium, genetically identical to it. I do my homestyle cloning the lazy way. I snip off a leafy stem, stick it into a jar of water and wait for roots to appear./what-is-a-comfort-person-creator-channel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-comfort-person-creator-channel.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. I put a fun little quip here, but it linked out to a Twitter image, a feature that Elon Musk managed to break in the 30 minutes between then and now. —Kate I was twelve years old when I first saw the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I would go on to watch it roughly every night for the next six years./cocomelon-meets-omo-berry.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cocomelon-meets-omo-berry.htmlIn 2021, according to Nielsen, one show was the most streamed in the US within the Black community (6.8 billion minutes), the Hispanic community (8.8 billion minutes), and the Asian community (2.1 billion minutes). It was also the second most streamed show in the country, with approximately 33.2 billion minutes of viewing. The name of the show? Not Squid Game, not Lucifer, not You. It was Me. It was Cocomelon. A show for toddlers./confessions-of-a-striver.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/confessions-of-a-striver.htmlAt 58 I’m not supposed to still be ashamed of where I went to college. But I’ve carried that with me my entire career, and last week someone made a sneering comment on X/Twitter that validated my feelings. In response to Joshua Benton’s February 28th Nieman Lab article, “Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.),” I saw someone tweet the screenshot below—a collection of schools that the fewest in the Times newsroom attended—and remark in their tweet how surprised they were that anyone at the Times had gone to any SUNY school./confrontational-or-attack-therapy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/confrontational-or-attack-therapy.htmlThere’s no doubt that there are several therapy techniques many of us are familiar with and there are some we aren’t. I can bet that many of us are conversant with cognitive behavioral therapy even those who aren’t therapist know this. However, there are several other techniques that we may have experienced and not know or we don’t even know about at all. One of such is The Confrontation or Attack Therapy technique./couples-boudoir.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/couples-boudoir.htmlI won’t bury the lead here. If you’re in a serious, committed relationship, I think you should get a couple’s boudoir photo shoot. Tiana and I have done two and they’ve both been incredible experiences. Of course, I’m thrilled with any chance I get to see her dolled up in lingerie. But there is so much more value to these photo shoots than you might think. Up front - your photographer makes all the difference./courtroom-corruption-grieving-mom.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/courtroom-corruption-grieving-mom.htmlSix-year-old Adam Gitter was smart, kind, loving, caring, adorable, and funny. Earlier this month, he was pronounced dead in a Lakeland, Florida, hospital while in the custody of his father, Dr. Leonard J. Gitter, a local oncologist. Elena Belogolovsky, the grieving mother, wants answers that have not been forthcoming. The local Polk County Sheriff and Lakeland Hospital have been tight-lipped about what happened. But Belogolovsky says her son should never have been put in this dire position./coyote-ugly-101-minutes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coyote-ugly-101-minutes.htmlHey Reader! Whether this is your first time or thirtieth time reading The 90-Minute Movie, you’re here today and for that I am forever thankful. I have always loved movies and being able to write about them week after week and discuss each one with you all brings me so much joy. I can’t believe I’m not bored yet. And hey, if you aren’t either, go ahead and subscribe so we can do this together every Friday./crispy-bbq-chicken-tacos.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crispy-bbq-chicken-tacos.htmlHaving spent two weeks in North and South Carolina earlier this month, I can attest that there does indeed exist a temperature/heat index at which point it simply becomes too hot to spend absolutely any time outdoors, let alone standing over hot flames cooking your food. But it’s summertime, Caro! We have to grill all of our food! No. We do not. Last week (tiny tomato pasta!) and the week before (esquites chicken salad!/dale-partridge-and-ministry-credentials.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dale-partridge-and-ministry-credentials.htmlRecently, I have been asked by numerous people to comment on Dale Partridge’s ministry. This has taken me aback, for I had no plans to do so. It is true that for a short season, Dale was a student at Grace Bible Theological Seminary, where I teach. For this reason, people have recently sent me numerous public statements made by Dale about his seminary training. In sum, due to Dale’s own statements, many are confused about how long Dale has been a seminary student, what classes he took, and how much preparation for ministry he had before entering it./danger-will-robinson-content-warning.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/danger-will-robinson-content-warning.htmlThe writer Glenn Fleishman recently wrote an introduction to Mastodon, the “federated” social network that has become a sort of refuge from the madness of Elon Musk’s Magick Kingdom, which has become justifiably widely shared. There’s a key passage explaining how it works: You can think of Mastodon as a flotilla of boats of vastly different sizes, whereas Twitter is like being on a cruise ship the size of a continent./deciding-how-much-graphic-violence-b0a.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deciding-how-much-graphic-violence-b0a.htmlNote: I mistakenly sent this column out earlier today only to paid subscribers, so I’m resending it so all readers can see it. Apologies if you get it twice. Operator error! -Dave B. The Washington Post boldly published graphic photos and video online this week as part of a continuing series on the damage inflicted on Americans by the AR-15 rifle during mass shootings. No readers are forced to look at the images./democrazy-january-12-2024.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/democrazy-january-12-2024.htmlWelcome to Home & Away. I have been away but now am back home, so jetlag aside, I feel well-positioned to tackle this week’s edition. A lot of political news, mostly on the Republican side. Wednesday night’s debate between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis did neither of them much good. Again, without appearing on the debate stage, Donald Trump was the winner. It helps him that Fox News has clearly decided that if you can’t beat him, join him, and has all but signed up for Trump and his campaign by welcoming him back with a softball-filled on-air conversation in front of a friendly audience at the same time as the debate./designing-the-law-firm-of-the-future.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/designing-the-law-firm-of-the-future.htmlWelcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! Would you leave a thriving law firm to strike out on your own? Many risk-averse lawyers would not, but David Elsberg has done so—twice. In 2018, David left Quinn Emanuel to launch Selendy Gay, later Selendy Gay Elsberg—which today is one of the nation’s top litigation boutiques./did-you-know-that-ostriches-are-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-you-know-that-ostriches-are-the.htmlThe flightless birds known for their long necks and quirky personalities have evolved to become the ultimate sprinters of the animal kingdom! "Feet, don't fail me now!” is something you'll never hear an ostrich say. They’re one of the fastest animals on land, and can even run faster than Usain Bolt! :O (An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h. Usain Bolt, considered one of the fastest humans in history, can run up to 44./doggone-it-i-am-tired-of-all-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doggone-it-i-am-tired-of-all-the.htmlThe A.V. Club, once the source for some of the best, most influential film writing of the new millennium and now lost to the same “pivot to video and listicles” nonsense plaguing other pop culture websites, recently ran a list of critically acclaimed directors’ worst films. Besides the fact that it’s lazy (The Happening as M. Night Shyamalan’s worst movie), unfair (Piranha II as James Cameron’s worst movie when it’s his first movie), and just plain wrong (Hook as Spielberg’s worst when prints of 1941 exist), it makes the very disheartening, tiresome argument that Robert Altman’s Popeye is a bad movie./dumb-and-dumber-the-october-sequel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dumb-and-dumber-the-october-sequel.htmlEarlier I gave you the teaser. Now we dive into the winners. Here are October’s most noteworthy missteps. Avoid the following behavior if you want to lead a prosperous, headline-free life. DUMB — The Shirtless CEO Tony Fernandes has been called “Malaysia’s answer to ncG1vNJzZmiikaOyuLHLpapnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wsNSmmWaZnpl6pcHMm5yrZaSdsm67wq2mm52iYsCmvdSeo2ibn6K6prrTrA%3D%3D/eddiehernandez.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eddiehernandez.htmlEddie’s List: San Francisco Bay Area Events This Week By Eddie Hernandez Free email event newsletter/calendar: art, festivals, volunteer, galas, classes, talks, music, street fairs, startup/tech, pop-ups, comedy, shows & cultural. Curated Bay Area events, things to do in SF, news, food/drink recommendations & more. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaaww6KcoZ2io66vsMSz/episode-2047-elisa-new-on-poetry.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-2047-elisa-new-on-poetry.htmlThe Harvard academic Elisa New is host of the much acclaimed PBS series POETRY IN AMERICA. Now in Season Four, the show has featured conversations about American poetry with Joe Biden, Herbie Hancock, Gloria Estefan, Shaquille O’Neal, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. While America isn’t normally considered a poetic nation, New’s show has brought poetry into the homes of millions of Americans. So when I caught up with New, I asked her whether there was such a thing as an American poem and what it is about America that inspires memorable poetry./elizabeth-taylor-voluptuary-and-imaginary.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elizabeth-taylor-voluptuary-and-imaginary.htmlIn his heartfelt tribute to Elizabeth Taylor on TCM, Paul Newman called her a “functioning voluptuary”. He meant this as the highest praise for his Cat on a Hot Tin Roof co-star. It’s such a striking phrase, and strangely apt. It’s one of those comments that made me think deeper about someone I already loved and admired. ncG1vNJzZmirmJq2ra3OppilpJWue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZp6kma%2Buo7HToWStmamhvLN51aijrqikqq6zxYyapZ1lmaKuqLXNmqmy/photo-essay-emily-bode-and-aaron.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/photo-essay-emily-bode-and-aaron.htmlArt Dogs is a weekly dispatch introducing the pets—dogs, yes!, but also cats, lizards, marmosets, and more—that were kept by our favorite artists. Subscribe to receive these weekly posts to your email inbox. Emily Adams Bode has been called “the woman who saved menswear.” She has dressed everyone from architect John Pawson to actor Michael B Jordan to musicians Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z. Aimee Farrell writes that Emily is “compelled by a desire to preserve the history and the craft techniques, such as appliqué, embroidery and patchwork./emphatic-response.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emphatic-response.htmlSometimes, it just ain’t your night. On Tuesday evening, the Indiana Pacers walked into Madison Square Garden and put on one of the best shooting displays you’ll ever see from a road team with the chance to take control of a series. Through three quarters, they were shooting 11-of-19 from 3-point range for a conversion rate of 57.9 percent. On top of that, they continued to get a friendly whistle, drawing 15 fouls and taking 16 free throws to only 10 & 10 for New York./a-history-of-film-festivals-in-100.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-history-of-film-festivals-in-100.htmlWelcome to A History of Film Festivals in 100 Movies.  I’m excited to share our first episode - Episode 1 - Sex, Lies and Videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh. You can hear the 26 minute podcast above, or read the transcript below). If you ask industry professionals, like myself, who’ve been in the business for 35 years or more, they will agree this film may have had the greatest impact on the state of independent film, when it hit the festival circuit in 1989./eva-longorias-top-five-tacos-in-mexico.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eva-longorias-top-five-tacos-in-mexico.htmlHello people of the World. Today I want to share with you the advice of my brilliant friend Eva Longoria, who recently traveled all around Mexico for her CNN show, Searching for Mexico. She’s gone deep into Mexican food and culture, and I’m excited to hand things over to her for her top spots in Mexico City for tacos. Before we get into tacos and travel, I wanted to take a moment to think about the people of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero on the country’s Pacific coast, who were recently devastated by Hurricane Otis./excl-david-agent-working-on-new-club.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/excl-david-agent-working-on-new-club.htmlMorning all, We have a pretty jam-packed newsletter for you all today with some things to hone in on as well as just the usual transfer rumours. England played last night and once again it was a bore fest. However, Cole Palmer finally got some minutes, and he was fantastic! Enzo Fernandez also played for Argentina and looked solid in their 1-0 win against Chile. Let’s begin with all your latest and biggest Chelsea transfer rumours and general news from across the last 24 hours in one place here./exploring-the-emerging-cloud-development.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exploring-the-emerging-cloud-development.htmlI’ve been building infrastructure with code and cloud applications since 2016. Over the years, some of what I have built has been deployed to servers, some of it has been deployed to container platforms, and some has been deployed to function-as-a-service platforms. The way I and my team build has evolved a lot and I anticipate that it will continue to evolve over the next few years. This is an (opinionated) exploration of how we got here and where I believe we’re going./female-hypergamy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/female-hypergamy.htmlSubscription warning: In this post I take seriously people and concepts some of you might find ridiculous, including manosphere bloggers of the red pill and purple pill variety. Some of you may wonder why I would bother, some may find it redundant; it’s very much about traditional ideas of male and female, the clutching onto and slippage thereof. But others of you I’m pretty sure will be interested. Right or wrong these ideas are foundational and when they shift and/or crack it affects the ground we walk on./fernet-branca-is-the-bartenders-secret.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fernet-branca-is-the-bartenders-secret.htmlAfter spending as much time on both sides of a bar as I have, I’d just come to accept it as a fact that the default shots a bartender asks people they dub as tolerable, even good clientele to do was either whiskey or tequila. That’s why it came as a surprise in 2019 when I had a bartender ask if I wanted to do a shot of Fernet-Branca the night after another bartender in a different part of town had asked the same thing./fourteen-excellent-personal-essays.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fourteen-excellent-personal-essays.htmlWelcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring three verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “On Silence (or, Speak Again)” by . A new essay is coming soon.*Submissions are currently paused for First Person Singular./film-show-040-angela-schanelec.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-show-040-angela-schanelec.htmlAngela Schanelec (b. 1962) is a filmmaker born in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since the early ’90s, she has written, directed, and edited critically acclaimed feature films such as Places in Cities (1998), Passing Summer (2001), Marseille (2004), The Dreamed Path (2016), and I Was at Home, But… (2019). Her latest film, Music (2023), had its premiere on February 21st, 2023, as part of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay./q-and-a-lena-waithe-on-the-film-that.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/q-and-a-lena-waithe-on-the-film-that.htmlToday, Lena Waithe and I are going to discuss what The Wizard of Oz has meant to her through the years and explore how Dorothy’s story informs her own journey to the Emerald City - er, I mean Hollywood. In doing so, we’re also going to reveal how, like Dorothy, she found her way back to where she came from. Maybe I should tell you how I know Lena first. The one and only time we met in the flesh was at a meeting of the Writers Guild of America’s Committee of Black Writers./flashback-friday-jodi-kantor-chases.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flashback-friday-jodi-kantor-chases.htmlJess here! This week, I’m coming to you from somewhere in Indiana, tired but happy. Getting out on the road and speaking to students, teachers, and communities is both exhausting and incredibly invigorating, and this week I got to speak to a classroom of student writers, kids who are just learning about the basics of researching, writing, and even podcasting. There’s nothing I love more. When I’m in these classrooms, and especially when I’m talking to kids looking to change the world by writing for their school papers as they dream about breaking big stories like the Harvey Weinstein saga, I always recommend Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey’s essential text, Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting./food-for-thought-mighty-mirepoix.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/food-for-thought-mighty-mirepoix.htmlThe first week of culinary school is not spent in front of a stove.  The first week is spent learning how not cut your fingers off or send your classmates to the burn ward.  Your accomplishments include holding a knife like a chef and figuring out the correct angle to hone your knife on a steel.  You spend a lot of time learning your way around the various cuts of onion, carrot, and celery./franklyn-ajaye-americas-most-underrated.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/franklyn-ajaye-americas-most-underrated.htmlFranklyn Ajaye is the most underrated American comic. I back up this statement based on the strength of his comedy records contrasted with his lack of presence in the mass pop culture mind. He put out five records and had a career on television and in the movies that spans five decades. I’m listening to one of the records right now—Vagabond Jazz & the Abstract Truth—and it still sounds great 19 years after it came out./freddy-krueger-returns-to-terrorize.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/freddy-krueger-returns-to-terrorize.htmlHorror films aren’t as scary as they used to be. Genuine fear. It’s not their fault; how many actual things can a human be scared of? More importantly, does it hold up over decades? While a jump scare or scary experience can be found at the movies these days, it’s hard to find one as discomforting and long-lasting as A Nightmare on Elm Street. Think about it. Wes Craven’s legendary antagonist, Freddy Krueger, attacked teenagers in their dreams./french-insults.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/french-insults.htmlIf I wished to insult the French, I could not have done better – burgers for my first two days. The first at Disneyland Paris, in the magnificent Golden Nugget, disappointing only because the shows that played its boards before the pandemic are no more. “Le covid,” said the waitress, her garb of an Old West saloon, face noble and sad.  It … ncG1vNJzZmifopqypXrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeWp7Kvr8dmoKerpaHBtA%3D%3D/friday-41224-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friday-41224-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlAlison is wearing a dark navy dress tonight, the neckline on this is great for showcasing her A initial pendant. (Also her hair and makeup look great!) Thanks to a comment from subscriber Marjorie and a confirmation from Alison herself, I can verify that Alison’s necklace is a typewriter key! This is such a cool idea and I want one now! Everybody is wearing floral prints this week! What a great way to start off regular play this spring./from-the-vault-the-devils-advocate.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-vault-the-devils-advocate.htmlYou can tell a lot about a person by what kind of cinematic Devil they prefer. Personally, I prefer the quiet, seductive Devil, the one who never has to raise his voice, like Viggo Mortensen in The Prophecy. Others like a more traditional presentation of Beelzebub, like Tim Curry in Legend. Then there are the party animals who like their Lucifer to tear into the scenery like an In ‘n’ Out Double Double, as with Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate./fruit-and-nut-brown-sugar-meringues.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fruit-and-nut-brown-sugar-meringues.htmlWelcome to issue #40 of Susanality. Thank you for being here! If you’re last-minute shopping for your loved ones, consider a paid subscription to this newsletter. You’d be giving them weekly recipes that inspire them to cook with the seasons and have fun in the kitchen, plus access to all past and future paywalled content, which includes bonus recipes, how-to videos, technique tutorials, equipment recommendations, and more. Give a gift subscription/full-length-chamber-of-reflection.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/full-length-chamber-of-reflection.htmlhey there 👋🏻 been writing in LA these past few weeks meeting a lot of new faces. at this point my head is kind of swimming with demos, some of which subscribers on here can check out. I’ve been documenting most of the journey via TikTok and Instagram stories - here are some highlights. singing and playing keys on live streams brings me a lot of joy. I usually rotate through a few originals and covers I’m currently workshopping./fundamentalism-by-any-other-name.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fundamentalism-by-any-other-name.htmlToday’s post is the third in a series exploring fundamentalism from a variety of angles in light of the centennial of Harry Emerson Fosdick’s May 1922 sermon, Shall the Fundamentalists Win? The first installment can be read HERE and the second HERE. The series continues by looking at shifting definitions of “fundamentalist” and “evangelical.” Next week, I’ll be exploring fundamentalism as a global phenomenon. In the late 1970s, I was a student at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, an evangelical Christian liberal arts college./gardens-in-the-bible-symbols-in-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gardens-in-the-bible-symbols-in-the.htmlEditor’s Note: In the next few weeks, we’ll be posting the audio from a 6-part course on biblical imagery. If you’d like to join the upcoming course on deconstruction, sign up here. The new course starts on September 4. I came across a helpful way to picture the way the Bible references itself in Richard Hays’ book, Reading Backwards. Writing about the way the book of Luke deals with the Old Testament, Hays uses the analogy of a theater:/gene-jude-and-theophile.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gene-jude-and-theophile.htmlPeople often ask me what my favorite hot dog stand is, or what the best hot dog is in the United States. Impossible to say. There are too many deserving candidates. And, too, there are so many different regional styles of hot dogs that such a proposition would be akin to comparing apples and oranges. But, if the proverbial gun was held to my head, I might say Gene & Jude’s in Chicago./germs-of-an-idea.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/germs-of-an-idea.htmlFor every idea that becomes an essay or column or unhinged rant (take your pick) that I complete and gets posted I probably have three ideas I start, but never finish. But I don’t want to abandon those partially-completed projects because I never know when I’ll need the germ of an idea so I’ll tuck those unfinished thoughts into a Word document and then totally forget about them until the Word document gets way too big and unwieldy to remember what’s in there, so then I’ll start another Word document./notebook-ggg-on-his-new-weight-class.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-ggg-on-his-new-weight-class.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./ghost-towns-of-the-pine-barrens.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ghost-towns-of-the-pine-barrens.htmlThe fragile beauty of the pines is easily accessible, often at the end of a local road that begins paved and well-traveled. My first foray was to visit the memorial to pilot Emilio Carranza, which I wrote about here. That’s the perfect introduction; you et a glimpse of some relatively unknown history, and if you desire to travel further, the ruins of a cranberry bog town are a scant mile away./glenn-goins-january-2-1954-july-29-1978-pfunk.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glenn-goins-january-2-1954-july-29-1978-pfunk.htmlView most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare Glenn Goins was a supremely talented singer/songwriter and guitarist and an important member of Parliament during the mid-1970s, when he was in his early twenties. Thought by many to have unlimited potential, he left the P-Funk collective in 1977 to form his own group Quazar, but died tragically shortly after recording their debut album. He was only 24 years old./glinners-twitter-005.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glinners-twitter-005.htmlLet’s look at what Scottish women. have in store if Nicola pushes Self ID through. (Via TroonyTroons). By the way, consider for a moment how very, very terribly evil it is, according to people like Ronson, to share these photos. Now, why would someone want to build a taboo around that? My two favourite details: ““I was told I wasn’t to write about gender, and that actually women shouldn’t write about gender”/glinners-twitter-dbf.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glinners-twitter-dbf.htmlTRAs are saying @AHFdoco is racist, never mind the various racial demographics of the cast, and we're all homophobic despite a load of us being homosexual. Nothing about rapist men assaulting female prisoners of course. Hard to make that disappear by shouting RACIST! at it. ncG1vNJzZmifopa1ornLoqWeoJGje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqCkmaO7pr7SZquwoaSpsrN5w5ud/glory-days.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glory-days.htmlFor this one, sit back, turn up the Springsteen, and let me tell you about my glory days. Twenty years ago, 2004 was a defining year in my professional career. It started with an audacious idea to shape the political landscape and ended in a bittersweet victory when we won the battle but lost the war. In between, I got an up-close look at presidential politics and found myself in rooms and conversations with the most powerful Democrats in the country./go-for-gold-when-you-play-around-22-10-04.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/go-for-gold-when-you-play-around-22-10-04.htmlHello! Hello! I’ll be back home in Paris in less than two weeks! Because I’ll be taking you along — it’s fun to remember that this newsletter launched in Paris in 2021 and that we’ve been back there together a few times since — I thought you might want to get into the mood ahead of time. Of course, you could pull out your beret. Learn a new way to knot a scarf./goodbye-for-now-to-all-that.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goodbye-for-now-to-all-that.html“Happy Jesus Year!” was the well-wish-du jour around my birthday this January 28th. Texts, calls, in-person exchanges with friends, it was a constant chorus. I had never heard the phrase before, which refers to a person’s thirty-third year of life. The year of his life where Jesus (at least the one of Christian theology) was flogged and crucified under Pontius Pilate, entombed after his death, and rose from the dead three days later./greg-olsen-is-losing-his-spot-at.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/greg-olsen-is-losing-his-spot-at.htmlWhat To Expect: Today’s newsletter breaks down the economics behind sports broadcasting contracts, including why networks hand out $100 million-plus contracts and Greg Olsen’s upcoming contract dilemma with Fox. Enjoy! Greg Olsen is good at his job. Like, really good. The former All-Pro NFL tight end is one of the few NFL analysts on television today that everyone either loves or at least doesn’t hate. He isn’t polarizing. He’s always prepared, and he has an innate ability to educate viewers by breaking down complex situations into digestible soundbites./attack-the-periphery-to-get-access.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/attack-the-periphery-to-get-access.htmlThe most influential figure in my BJJ lately has been Greg Souders. Like many of you, I’ve been trying to implement ecological dynamics into my training. Unfortunately, I don’t own a gym, so I haven’t been able to eliminate conventional teaching and go full in into ecology as my only way of training to test and contrast and get to conclusions on my own. Apart from implementing the actual “games” and ED approach, Greg Souders has made a huge impact (whether it was his intention or not) in something that has been a game changer in the past months./gt-fish-and-oyster-is-dead-long-live.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gt-fish-and-oyster-is-dead-long-live.htmlWorking fourteen hours on the line, day after day, in the best restaurant in America, where the head chef Charlie Trotter was sometimes as mercurial as Terence Fletcher, the drum teacher from the movie Whiplash, was as demanding as any restaurant cooking job in America.  Chef Giuseppe Tentori, of GT Prime, would never say that. In fact when I asked him about those long hours, he didn’t complain. Rather he immediately said, “It was exactly what I signed up for./gun-violence-at-high-school-graduations.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gun-violence-at-high-school-graduations.htmlGraduation should be a time to celebrate the accomplishments of students, but these ceremonies have already turned into a “warzone” four times—plus one close call with an armed parent/relative—so far this spring. Cape Girardeau, MO: Two people were shot during a Sunday afternoon high school graduation when a dispute between adults at the concession stand escalated into a shooting (May 19). The crowd evacuated the building, the remainder of the ceremony was cancelled, and classes were also cancelled the following day./happy-postmillennial-easter.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-postmillennial-easter.htmlDear friends and supporters: Inquirers sometimes ask me, “Can you point me to one text in the Bible that proves postmillennialism.” I answer, “Start with Genesis 1:1.” This is not glib snark. It’s precisely where one begins to prove the kingdom of God in Christ extends gradually in time and history and is consummated at Christ’s Second Coming ushering in the eternal state. The Second Coming does not reverse a severe spiritual decline./happy-turkey-day.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-turkey-day.htmlWarning: if you’re not a fan of dogs doing naughty things while their humans look on dotingly, turn away now. I understand. And I also apologize if it bothers you: and confess, I am a bit indulgent when it comes to my doggies. Likely many of you won’t think their antics as adorable and lovable as I do. So, I promise: next week’s newsletter will not mention D O Gs at all./healing-from-dubious-diagnoses-disordered.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/healing-from-dubious-diagnoses-disordered.htmlThe first part of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the whole thing, become a paid subscriber here. New York Times bestselling author and former CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers joins us to discuss her history of chronic fatigue and illness, her experience with dubious diagnoses and wild wellness treatments, what she discovered about the true causes of her issues, how disordered eating helped mask and exacerbate her symptoms, how she’s rethought her relationship with work in general and her own past work in particular, her viral post “The way we live in the United States is not normal” and her decision to move to Italy, and more./herb-sundays-95-amedeo-pace-blonde.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/herb-sundays-95-amedeo-pace-blonde.htmlHerb Sundays 95:Amedeo Pace (Apple, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon). Art by Michael Cina. “I have been making these playlists at home which focus mostly on soundtracks and songs that calm me. Through them, it has been really fun and inspiring to learn about music I have never heard before. I  have always been curious about film scores and how different instruments are used to create textures and emotions. I hope you can enjoy this playlist I made./hollywood-babylon-goes-on-the-road.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hollywood-babylon-goes-on-the-road.htmlKenneth Anger died May 11 at 96. He had alienated countless of his friends and supporters and even fans who found their way to him as if on pilgrimages. His demands and paranoia and egomania regarding almost everyone he worked with were, sooner or later, inescapable. I know one person who invited Anger to stay with him; after months, he couldn’t get him out of the house, because Anger had filled the place with acolytes and taken it over as his own domain./homemade-olive-oil-mayo.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/homemade-olive-oil-mayo.htmlHey, everyone! Today I’m going to show you how to make the most incredible mayonnaise at home. If you haven’t yet made your own mayo, you’re missing out. It’s actually quite easy to do, and the store-bought stuff just doesn’t compare. I used to make mayo at home using a food processor or an immersion blender, but I was never able to make it with olive oil since it tasted too bitter./how-cyle-reynolds-quest-for-fine.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-cyle-reynolds-quest-for-fine.htmlCyle Reynolds is chef and (with partners Jordan Rubin and Sasha Brouillard) co-owner of Crispy Gai in Portland, Maine. In addition to getting his start in Portland, Reynolds has cooked in Michelin-starred restaurants in Thailand, Chicago, and New York. Where did you grow up, and how did you get into food? I grew up in northern Maine, in Kingfield, and there wasn’t a whole lot going on up there. I always liked to cook./how-much-does-a-tonne-of-carbon-dioxide.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-much-does-a-tonne-of-carbon-dioxide.htmlAlex Bantock of Preoptima recently asked, “How much is 1 tonne of carbon dioxide?” which, like my title, is kind of obvious: a tonne. The problem is, how do you describe something so literally nebulous as a cloud of CO2? How do you get people to understand how big and heavy it is? Preoptima tried it with volume, a big cube of gas, but also with weight, comparing it to grand pianos and walruses./how-to-learn-art-on-your-own.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-learn-art-on-your-own.htmlOnly 10 percent of art school graduates go on to become working artists. And only 16 percent of working artists have an arts related bachelors degree. At least this study says so. Meanwhile, art educations are some of the most expensive ones out there. So…. Just how necessary are they? 🙄 Speaking as someone who both has traditional degrees of various kinds, and has learned at lot on my own: Probably not very./how-to-run-windows-31-software-on.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-run-windows-31-software-on.htmlModern, 64bit versions of Windows… don’t support running Windows 3.1 software. Linux distributions can’t run Windows 3.1 software either. (At least… not out of the box.) This is, obviously, a tragedy. How on Earth are we expected to play Castle of the Winds or SkiFree on modern operating systems!? Luckily, Wine does an astoundingly good job of supporting Windows 3.1 software… though many might not realize it (as most people are focused on the support for Windows 95 and later software)./how-we-use-installomator-to-automatically.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-we-use-installomator-to-automatically.htmlWelcome to my first post on Substack. You may recognise some previous posts from my old self-hosted blog. In an effort to separate out my work posts, I’ve moved over here. If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you’ll know that I make use of Installomator to install the latest version of software during the zero touch setup of our lab devices. But, that’s not all it’s good for. It’s also used for keeping our applications up-to-date when a new version is released./i-dont-want-to-grow-up.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-dont-want-to-grow-up.htmlI don’t want to grow up.  I never have. I once wrote in my diary that I wanted to stay 13 years old forever. I think I would still choose that today if I could.  I can see so many of my peers making peace with their aging, but I don’t want to make peace with mine. I think youth is one of the most beautiful and precious things, and I don’t want to lose it./keratin-lash-lift.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/keratin-lash-lift.htmlMy lashes are short, straight and angle downward into my eyes—if I don’t curl them, I’m literally looking at my lashes all day. Over the years, I’ve listened intently while friends and colleagues shared their stories about lash extensions (my current feeling: they look amazing when they’re first done but the risk of them looking wonky and the awkward growing-out phase are enough for me to say “pass”). Strips of false lashes—even the more natural looking ones I picked up in Asia—look too extreme, and fake, on me./im-tickled-by-these-pickles.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-tickled-by-these-pickles.htmlOne of the food-related things I often say is “I think just about anything can be improved by lightly pickling it.” As for the classic pickle pick (cucumber pickles), I’m a fan. I’m even growing my own cucumbers this summer and quick-pickling them myself. But alas, my cucumbers grow slowly. So I was delighted to find out that HelloFresh (the company known for its meal kits) was offering a Pickle Box for a limited time./if-one-of-a-kind-had-to-fit-one-cardinal.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-one-of-a-kind-had-to-fit-one-cardinal.htmlWhy swing for the fences if you can slap a double into the gap, and then take third on the throwing error? A sacrifice fly later, and the game held a different score and feel. Stolen bases were sexier than home runs, and strong pitching was the backbone of the entire operation. I remember “Whitey Ball” fairly well, including the day it all went away. As a young kid, the St./if-clarence-thomas-hates-dc-so-much.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-clarence-thomas-hates-dc-so-much.html“But in this sea of despair for Thomas comes a shining ray of hope: John Oliver. Yes, the comedian and host of the Emmy Award winning HBO show, "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" has come to Thomas’s rescue with a generous offer.” Dean, with all due respect, Thomas won’t need to take up Oliver’s offer. If Trump wins, and republicans takeover the Senate, Thomas, Alito and possibly Robert’s, will all retire before the midterms, and solidify control over the SC for the next 40’years./if-youre-brown-get-out-of-town.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-youre-brown-get-out-of-town.htmlStorm Lake will be a hot mess if local police are bound by state law to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants. Presumably, it’s the direction we’re headed since the legislature passed a law to that effect. Latinos who have been anxious for decades about their place here will feel like targets, if they already don’t. If you are brown, you would be well-advised to find the fastest route to Minnesota. Worthington is looking for help./il-high-school-baseball-rankings.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/il-high-school-baseball-rankings.html1 North Clay/Clay City (Louisville) 22-3 2 St. Anthony (Effingham) 15-5 3 Marquette (Ottawa) 21-2 4 Brown County (Mt. Sterling) 20-2 5 Greenfield/Northwestern (Greenfield) 18-4 6 Chicago Hope Academy (Chicago) 16-4 7 Newman Central Catholic (Sterling) 11-4 8 Putnam County (Granville) 18-7 9 Fulton 11-2 10 Delavan 14-4 11 Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg (Windsor) 16-3 12 Routt Catholic (Jacksonville) 18-8-1 13 Peoria Christian (Peoria) 12-2 14 Farina South Central (Farina) 12-9 15 Steeleville 14-2/in-defense-of-normie-liberals-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-defense-of-normie-liberals-and.htmlHello! Today’s guest is the John Ganz, author of the Unpopular Front substack and the upcoming book “When The Clock Broke.” We talk about the now years-long debate about whether what’s happening among the right wing in American should be called “fascism” and how such definitions should and should not be used in a political manner. We also talk about normie/resistance liberals and the concept of a popular front that needs to exist to defeat all that Trump might bring with him into office./in-review-babylon-living.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-babylon-living.htmlBabylon Dir. Damien Chazelle 189 min. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon opens, more or less, with a big pile of elephant shit. This is what is called a statement of intent. Should you come expecting a handsome, lacquered treatment of Hollywood in the late 1920s, when the silent era was making its transition to sound, Chazelle wants to make it plain that you’re not going to get it. His ‘20s are roaring, starting with a house party of Satyricon-esque delirium, during which the appearance of the elephant is merely the capper to an evening of orgiastic excess, funded by an industry that had exploded in popularity and cultural cachet./initial-estimate-for-the-pirates.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/initial-estimate-for-the-pirates.htmlSorry everyone, I thought I had enough time before any transactions would be announced, but this was submitted before the Pirates made several moves Thursday evening. I’m keeping it unchanged, because it still represents the absolute starting point for the offseason. The offseason is getting ready to kick into high gear, which means Pittsburgh Pirate fans everywhere will wonder just how much payroll is and how much space there is for offseason moves./inside-tenderhearta-story.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-tenderhearta-story.htmlDear Community Today is exciting, with a big, news-loaded newsletter. As always, thanks for reading. Not only am I sharing a little story (both written and audio!) about why I wrote Tenderheart and a sneak peek recipe from the book, but I’m also announcing our pre-order bonus incentive for the US edition. It’s a good one too. Read on. This ebook gave me the chance to feature two vegetables that I love, but which did not get their own chapters in Tenderheart - corn and green beans./ipl-auctions-market-dynamics-series.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ipl-auctions-market-dynamics-series.htmlPart one of this series of writing about the market dynamics of the IPL auctions can be viewed here. This gives an introduction to some of the areas which will be discussed in the coming pieces of writing in the series. Buy Me A Coffee I spoke a little about the stages of the auction cycles in part one and how that these can change the constantly changing market value of players both in the tournament and for the available talent in the auction pool, and I want to get into much more depth here on the topic of player ages, and how current expected performance levels are not the same as future expected performance levels./is-taylor-swift-a-poet.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-taylor-swift-a-poet.htmlTry to engage with even the most casual Swiftie about the mildest analysis of Taylor Swift and you’ll be met with the same retort: she’s such a great lyricist, they’ll say. Don’t worry, I’m not here to argue that today, nor I am interested in drawing some distinction between the high art of Poetry™ and the low poetics of what Taylor does. I have written many times against such distinctions./ikea-and-romania-its-as-if-they-really.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ikea-and-romania-its-as-if-they-really.htmlSince the 1950s, in its search for cheap raw material and cheap labour, IKEA has used wood from outside Sweden. IKEA currently sources 90% of its timber from outside Sweden. In the 1980s, IKEA made clandestine, six-figure payments to the Securitate, Romania’s brutal secret police. Today, IKEA is the largest private forest landowner in Romania. In its 2020 report, “Flatpacked Forests”, Earthsight investigates IKEA’s operations in Ukraine and Romania./jade-noodles-and-transitional-times.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jade-noodles-and-transitional-times.htmlGreetings from not sunny, not warm, and not dry Los Angeles! Truly feeling so #blessed that my West Coast escape is giving damp New England vibes. It’s exactly what I was hoping for. I’m spending the rest of December in LA because come January, I will be moving into my own place in one of my favorite New York neighborhoods! More on that soon. I’m too exhausted to even begin to try to put a spin on this move, so I’m just going to be honest and say that I am experiencing the very visceral end to an almost 6-year relationship – and all the sadness, anxiety, confusion, and liberation that might imply./jaymariotti1.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jaymariotti1.htmlThe Sports Column By Jay Mariotti Influential and fiercely independent, the award-winning columnist touches every emotion about sports and media. He challenges an $800 billion industry with truths that outweigh promotional fluff in a compromised media sphere. Meaning, he's no sellout. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaut2KaYq6GfqcGqfQ%3D%3D/jessica-biel-justin-timberlake-divorce.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jessica-biel-justin-timberlake-divorce.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an actress gets candid, an actor gets a pizza, and Romy Mars gets ungrounded. Paid subscribers got an in-depth look at the Bennifer divorce rumors this week — click here to catch up! And don’t worry, we’re still talking about them today. What is Jessica Biel ever doing? I have been asking myself this since she opened and pretty quickly closed a boozy restaurant for children in West Hollywood in 2016 called Au Fudge (a clever play on Oh Fuck)./john-and-jonathan-explained.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-and-jonathan-explained.htmlThe Christmas season brings to mind, for reasons rather impressionistic, the fact that my first name John is often thought to mean “God’s gift.” It actually did not begin meaning that, precisely, and the idea that it did is rooted in a common misimpression that, on some level, John is a shortened form of Jonathan. Often, people wanting to address me with mock formality will lengthen my name to Jonathan, as if this were the equivalent of calling a Jim James or a Bob Robert./letter-154-josh-kushner-and-kareem.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-154-josh-kushner-and-kareem.htmlHi there! Welcome to A Letter a Day. If you want to know more about this newsletter, see "The Archive.” At a high level, you can expect to receive a memo/essay or speech/presentation transcript from an investor, founder, or entrepreneur (IFO) each edition. More here. If you find yourself interested in any of these IFOs and wanting to learn more, shoot me a DM or email and I’m happy to point you to more or similar resources./kamatis-the-season.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kamatis-the-season.htmlIf our native tomato had Kris Jenner as a manager, could it maybe have a shot at global grocering stardom? Or at least snag some of the glimmer where the likes of Roma and San Marzano enjoy the spotlight?  Lately, I’ve been thinking more about the tiis our humble kamatis has endured from my long history of mocking it. Traditionally, a native tomato isn’t so much grown but allowed to exist./how-we-live-now-kerri-ni-dochartaigh.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-we-live-now-kerri-ni-dochartaigh.htmlThere was a mistake in last week’s Substack - the correct date for my forthcoming event at Seven Fables in Dulverton is Sat, 24 Jun. Find out more and book here Hello, Where I grew up, women saw ghosts. It wasn’t particularly remarkable, just part of the culture. There were stories, of course, about strange sightings in old houses, the smell of a familiar perfume drifting into the kitchen after someone died./first-course-kindred-and-the-coat.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/first-course-kindred-and-the-coat.htmlTo be clear, I was a fan of Flatbread Social, the wood-fired pizza/craft cocktail/shuffleboard joint that resided next to Henry Street Taproom for a few years there. My friend was an even bigger fan, and has been lamenting the fact that owners Ryan and Sonja McFadden decided to open a different restaurant in the space, instead of re-opening Flatbread. (It’s a slightly close-minded position, I know.) But after checking out the new spot, Kindred, at its soft opening last Friday, I’m here to report: It’s even better than before./kitchen-project-46-potato-buns.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-project-46-potato-buns.htmlHello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. It’s so great to have you here. Today, it’s all about potatoes and bread, two of my favourite subjects. These two combine to make the fluffiest, softest little rolls. We’re going deep into the world of the humble potato.  Over on KP+, I’m sharing my level-up recipe of today’s newsletter: The double potato bun. It’s stuffed with bechamel, slowly cooked onions and covered in crispy potatoes, natch./kitchen-projects-006-florentines.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-projects-006-florentines.htmlHello! Welcome to another edition of Kitchen Projects, a recipe development and cooking journal by me, Nicola Lamb. I’m a pastry chef and recipe developer and bakery consultant based in London. Thank you so much for subscribing - I’m so excited to share this space with you. Part toolkit and part love-letter to food, Kitchen Projects is all about giving you a behind the scenes look of recipe development and building./lamborghini-the-man-behind-the-legend.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lamborghini-the-man-behind-the-legend.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In many circles it’s been hip to rip on 2006’s Best Picture Oscar-winner “Crash” for some time now. (Granted, I agree that “Brokeback Mountain” probably should’ve taken home the big prize that year.) I dig “Crash” and I’ve dug other works from that film’s co-writer/producer Bobby Moresco – namely his short-lived NBC series “The Black Donnellys./lance-oppenheim-breaks-down-making.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lance-oppenheim-breaks-down-making.htmlHello! Welcome to Nothing Bogus, an Indie Film Listings+ newsletter. The + is commentary, interviews, dispatches, tutorials, and other groovy stuff. I’m going to start with the +. If you subscribed for the listings and only the listings, scroll as fast as you can to the bottom of this email. If you came for the +, no scrolling necessary :) The first episode of Ren Faire, from director Lance Oppenheim, premiered on HBO last night./episode-79-lauren-fleshman-on.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-79-lauren-fleshman-on.htmlLauren Fleshman knows firsthand the challenges of being a female runner, and how some of the greatest challenges come from the system meant to support athletes. In this episode of Emerging Form, she talks about how and why she came to write her memoir, “bringing a pulse to the research.” She tells us about the challenges of trying to write a book during a global pandemic while parenting young children and how depression threatened to derail the project./lesser-known-languages-taiwanese-hokkien-part1.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lesser-known-languages-taiwanese-hokkien-part1.htmlDespite having never been to Taiwan, I’ve been extremely interested in that country since the beginning of my journey with Mandarin. In fact, the very first time I thought Mandarin didn’t sound awful was through a song in Mandarin by the Taiwanese singer Rainie Yang (楊丞琳). That song was the trigger for me to get interested in Mandarin as a whole, although the first 8-9 years were completely focused on Mainland’s Simplified Chinese./lit-mag-shack-baby-lit-mag-shack.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lit-mag-shack-baby-lit-mag-shack.htmlWelcome to our bi-weekely news roundup! Greetings Lit Magtators, How, you are probably wondering, is John Kucera these days? You all remember John Kucera, right? The lit mag world’s serial plagiarist whom we discussed here? Well, if you’re anything like me, you are well aware that Mr. Kucera desperately needs $20. Here’s the most recent of a handful of emails I’ve gotten this month. I’m not the only one getting these./louise-gluck.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/louise-gluck.htmlI spent the past couple days reading and rereading one of my favorite poets, Louise Glück. Glück died last week. My friend Clay Risen did the lovely obituary in The New York Times. “If her work rarely offered redemption, let alone joy, it did seek solace, if only in the acceptance of the world as it is—Achilles’ triumph, in her view, was his realization of his own mortality. And in mortality and death, she felt, one might find the hope of rebirth./love-is-blind-season-5-subjects-ranked.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-blind-season-5-subjects-ranked.htmlThere is no better reality dating show than Love Is Blind, where two dozen-ish single people sit in windowless Target-decorated rooms and Buzzfeed quiz their way into a quick marriage and inevitable divorce. The show’s participants can’t see one another until after they have gotten engaged, so all the turnoffs you’d notice on a first date don’t come until you’re already in the middle of planning a wedding. With its location-based casting, the show stumbles into some ethnographic research (meaning: of course the Dallas season was the craziest)./low-heart-rate-variability-hrv.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/low-heart-rate-variability-hrv.htmlIn this blog I’d like to try to address a common concern, i.e. having a relatively low HRV in absolute terms. It is only normal to get worried considering the amount of misinformation out there, and our poor understanding of what different values might mean. The first thing we need to realize is that there is great uncertainty on the topic, which - if anything - highlights how being on the lower side of the spectrum doesn’t determine our destiny./lucientelford.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lucientelford.htmlFrom Beneath a Perpetual Synthetic Dusk By Lucien Telford The World According to Luce. A newsletter detailing my mildly interesting life. Aviating, husbanding, fathering, writing Speculative Fiction novels, short stories, micro-fiction. Paid subscribers get access to the good stuff! ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja3BwqKcp6yVobOwvsM%3D/m51-earthquake-shakes-indonesian.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/m51-earthquake-shakes-indonesian.htmlEarthquake Insights is an ad-free newsletter written by two earthquake scientists. Our posts are written for a general audience, with some advanced science thrown in! To get these posts delivered by email, become a free subscriber. If you would like to … ncG1vNJzZmidkafBqb3UmqKeoZ6otqi006xlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8roGQZpyaqqSdvratyp5krKCRoLK0ecinm6imlai2oro%3D/45.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/45.htmlWelcome to Curated by Kalani! I curate and compress investment topics with a focus on Asia-Pacific, optimizing my emails for maximum return on your time invested. I find, summarize and simplify important information so you don’t have to. Join 964 curious folks by subscribing here: Howdy howdy let’s get rowdy. A quote from LKY to start: There is a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of that rainbow./married-19-years-still-not-changing.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/married-19-years-still-not-changing.htmlRecently, my husband tweeted a true story about our beginnings as a couple. He was a congressman in 2003, and before I agreed to go out with him, I checked his voting record on two issues: reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ rights. Both had to be 100 percent, or no date. (Wouldn’t it be nice if we all came with voting records?  It would make dating pre-checks so much easier.) My favorite response to Sherrod’s tweet, from a man who doesn’t reveal his last name on Twitter: “Always interesting to see which wife takes her husbands name./mastering-second-order-thinking-for.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mastering-second-order-thinking-for.htmlOne piece of wisdom that motivates, encourages and empowers you to grow. "Second-order thinking separates the proactive from the reactive, the empowered from the victim, the winners from the losers." — N.T. Wright (Share this on Twitter) One insight that helps you deeply understand a situation, idea, or concept. Second-order thinking is a mental model for making better decisions in life. It is like looking ahead before making a choice. It's about imagining what might happen next because of what we decide now./mastering-skill-beyond-unconscious.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mastering-skill-beyond-unconscious.htmlImagine jumping 9 meters in the air. And doing triple somersaults. With multiple twists.  This is the sport of trampolining. Yes, it is a real sport. It’s in the Olympics. I spent 23 years of my life competing in this sport. People unfamiliar with the sport often used to watch me compete and ask ‘How do you do all those somersaults? What do you think about when you’re upside down?’/maudnewton.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maudnewton.htmlMaud NewtonI'm interested in books, art, psychology, ancestors, and kinship, broadly construed. My book, Ancestor Trouble, was a best of the year per New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, Esquire; a John Leonard prize finalist; and a Roxane Gay pick. She/her. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6t1J2lnq%2BkpLs%3D/maya-c-popa-on-gerard-manley-hopkins.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maya-c-popa-on-gerard-manley-hopkins.htmlCertain poems feel perfect. What I mean is not necessarily that they are beautiful (though they might be), but rather that they feel inevitable, that when you read them you come to feel as though they couldn’t possibly have been any other way, that the poet hasn’t composed so much as discovered them, uncovered them already in their final form. Often, for me, that feeling emerges—or is suddenly cinched—in a poem’s last lines./michael-mcdonald-interview.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-mcdonald-interview.htmlOver the past couple weeks, Michael McDonald has been inescapable. Even more ubiquitous, it seems, than he was in the early 1980s, when his distinctive voice could be heard on virtually every third song played on the radio, and SCTV’s Rick Moranis (a Steely Dan superfan himself) could confidently hang an entire sketch on McDonald’s sheer omnipresence. The Yachtfather has been takin’ it to the streets, so to speak, to promote his new memoir, What a Fool Believes./more-dollars-than-followers-live.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-dollars-than-followers-live.htmlThe internet is an interesting place. Depending on where you spend your time and how the algorithms are tuned to your activities, significant events can unfold without ever coming to your attention. Take Caitlyn Clark, for example. Despite her long-standing success, many only came across her name in 2024. She’s been making waves for years, just ask Travis Scott. Or MrBeast, who churned out a new video every five days for a decade, accumulating billions of views./must-one-imagine-sisyphus-happy-though.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/must-one-imagine-sisyphus-happy-though.htmlDid you know there’s an entire genre of video games where you play as Sisyphus, trying and failing to roll a boulder up a hill? It’s true! There’s this one you can play right in your browser, and this one you can play on your iPhone, and this one and this one on Steam. These games are all brutally difficult — some literally impossible. But wait, you might be thinking. Wasn’t Sisyphus’ boulder, like… a method of eternal punishment?/fargo-season-5-finale-review-recap.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fargo-season-5-finale-review-recap.htmlYeah, her accent was bad, but then again, EVERY attempted accent in the entire collected works of Fargo has always been bad. People from Minnesota don't talk like Dorothy or Indira or Wayne. Not even the ones from way up north, like near Duluth. Nobody from North Dakota talks like whatever Roy was doing. I know it's funny, but it's never been accurate. I've taken up the view that it's like that explanation for how Will Ferrell played Janet Reno on SNL -- sure, it sounded nothing like her, but it did sound like what she looks like./my-strange-relationship-with-prince.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-strange-relationship-with-prince.htmlOf all the musical forces that defined the ‘80s I had the most unusual interactions with Prince Rogers Nelson, that bold singer-songwriter-producer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He would be in and out my life quite a bit in “the Me decade,” I’d have no interaction with him for years after, and then he’d become my unlikely benefactor in the 21st century. My first serious introduction to his music occurred at a house party hosted by friends from St./netflixs-christmas-movies-are-trying.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflixs-christmas-movies-are-trying.htmlWhat is this map! What is happening here! WHERE IS UKRAINE? Jezebel has a pretty good group of questions about this map, but I have my own. Okay first for those of you who don’t know, this is from the Netflix Christmas movie A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, starring Rose McIver (who is lovely). It’s the third in the Christmas Prince series, which began with Rose McIver playing a journalist who falls in love with the prince she’s tasked to cover for some gossip site./news-on-nadias-french-bakerycoming.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/news-on-nadias-french-bakerycoming.htmlI recently sat down to speak with Nadia Ahissou, who is opening Nadia’s French Bakery in the former site of a Jimmy John’s at 2705 Grand in Des Moines. The conversation was conducted sometimes in French (her first language and one I can manage in) and other times English (which she speaks better than I speak French). What follows is, in parts, a transla… ncG1vNJzZmivmaO2rrvRmqWvoZyhsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2imlazAbrvNZqWanJmWwG6y0Z6lnKBdl66ssdGymqilmaO0/night-poem.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/night-poem.htmlThis poem was written for my brother’s daughter Simone. My brother Todd passed away on December 4, 1994, but for some reason he was on my mind tonight. I just came inside and still have my coat on. One of those tired restless nights but all will be well. The dead know nothing of time, they revisit when they wish. ncG1vNJzZmiokanBqr%2FMoquhZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe82inqGsXaW8prk%3D/notable-sandwiches-41-chipped-beef.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notable-sandwiches-41-chipped-beef.htmlWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the strange and ever-shifting document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week, after a month’s absence where I handed the reins over to David, I climb back into the sandwich saddle and examine the foodstuff most often called “shit on a shingle”: chipped beef on toast. From the dawn of time, and certainly since the much-later advent of recorded history, soldiers have marched on their stomachs as much as their feet./notes-from-the-crystal-stair.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notes-from-the-crystal-stair.htmlMother to Son BY LANGSTON HUGHES Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark Where there ain’t been no light. So boy, don’t yo… ncG1vNJzZmirpa%2Bur7rErKeepJyau2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2imn6mytHnFq6amZaSdsm6v0bKqrZmcYsC1rcir/ole-smoky-distillery-launches-new.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ole-smoky-distillery-launches-new.htmlOle Smoky Distillery in Gatlinburg recently launched a new line of moonshine and bourbon whiskey that honors the legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton. Facing a prison sentence, he committed suicide in 2009 from carbon monoxide poisoning. He is best known as an outlaw, bootlegger, and storyteller, descended from a long line of moonshiners. It was ultimately his penchant for obtaining celebrity status that proved to be his undoing in the end, but his legend remains./on-being-a-teenage-girl-in-your-20s.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-being-a-teenage-girl-in-your-20s.htmlYou know when you’ve been away from something long enough you forget how shit it was and want to do it again? It’s why people keep giving birth even though it hurt the first time, why we go back to our exes even though they suck, and why, even though hell was being a teenage girl, right now she’s all I want to be. As I type this I’m wearing chipped pinked nail polish, a beaded friendship bracelet, and orange jelly shoes./on-giant-piles-of-cash-and-their.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-giant-piles-of-cash-and-their.htmlTechnological innovation requires capital. A lot of capital. A giant pile of cash. There are, to a first approximation, only three places you can find of a giant pile of cash. There’s government money. There’s venture capital. And there’s big corporate R&D. Of the three, I would argue that government is clearly the best. The reason is simple: government funding doesn’t come attached to some rich asshole who inevitably screws things up later./on-greg-tate-and-the-critics-role.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-greg-tate-and-the-critics-role.htmlFor me, 2022 has been a year marked by death and illness, grief and sorrow, and it was the critic Greg Tate’s transition from this world a year ago, which set the stage for many of the events that followed. My own “formal beginning of the long bereavement.”  Tate’s abrupt passing prompted a lot of familiar factual gasps — “so young” (aged 64), “so unexpectedly” (cardiac arrest), “with so much life left in him” (Greg’s last year saw him busier than ever, appearing in numerous documentaries, curating a museum show, constantly playing out with his “jazz-rock” band Burnt Sugar)./on-pizzabout-to-woodward-and-fair.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-pizzabout-to-woodward-and-fair.htmlIf it’s the 14th of April it must mean it’s time for another installment of Pizzabout. We are two months into finding out where the best pizza in the 405 diningscape lives with pizza’s No. 1 groupie, Rob Crissinger. Our April dispatch reports from Edmond and downtown Oklahoma City with starkly contrasting styles. My quest to find love in pizza coincides with Rob’s quest to find a human connection as profound as the one he has with pizza./on-the-arrogance-and-stupidity-of-2bd.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-the-arrogance-and-stupidity-of-2bd.html(Second of two parts; read part one, including Pfizer’s history of lawbreaking, here) On Sunday, Pfizer - the drugmaker most associated with the mRNA Covid jabs - took a $14 million shot (so to speak) at burnishing its image. It worked about as well as the Covid vaccines have. Halfway through the Super Bowl, the company dropped a minute-long ad linking itself with history’s greatest scientists. The ad felt like nothing so much as a corporate version of Dr./we-have-a-lot-of-assumptions-about.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-have-a-lot-of-assumptions-about.htmlWe’re honored to share this interview with Sinee Teo, a Singaporean missionary who has worked in Taipei’s red light district for fourteen years.  As a staff member at Pearl Family Garden, Sinee works with mostly elderly women who are former or current sex workers or employees at “teahouses.” We first heard about her through her friend and roommate, Cindy. We met both at the Episcopal Church. Michelle was lucky enough to visit the Pearl, where she was struck by the warmth, ease, and sense of community./one-foot-in-front-of-the-other.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-foot-in-front-of-the-other.htmlThere are weeks when writing this newsletter feels like a chore. Sometimes I have to drag myself over to the computer to do it because I have to, not because I find any joy in it. I procrastinate. I get annoyed. And I do get it done… but it sucks.  I went through such a dry spell recently. Every post felt so difficult to complete, and I didn’t like any of them./one-of-my-favorite-curated-quotes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-of-my-favorite-curated-quotes.html“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in a final exam as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in the Universe” R. Buckminster Fuller (1885-1983) American architect, Systems theorist, designer, inventor and futurist This is it. This is the whole enchilada. The highest … ncG1vNJzZmidpqS5tsDIqKWsoJmbwW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2innpp6sLKMprBmnpGrvLO1055knK2ilsGmsIyqrKislag%3D/oops.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oops.htmlIn hindsight, maybe I shouldn’t have said that my career was a Ponzi scheme. First, oops. Second, for the sake of my career prospects after I return from spending more time with my family, a counterpoint: Analytics is not a Ponzi scheme! That post was some moron trying to go after us with false rumors. Analytics is fine. We have a long history of creating shareholder value, and that remains true today./packards-will-shutter-in-two-weeks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/packards-will-shutter-in-two-weeks.htmlIf it’s Monday, that means the news following a quiet and relaxing Father’s Day weekend in Food Doodland. The big news? Packard’s New American Kitchen will close its doors for good following service on June 30, the busineess announced over social media on Saturday. The Urban Management Inc. concept opened in 2013, featuring a full commercial bakery, farm-to-table menu and spectacular rooftop bar. The kitchen has been home to culinary talents like Mitchell Dunzy, Chris McKenna and Brianna Shear and played host to the annual Chefs Giving dinner to support the Homeless Alliance./panama-lewis-relegated-to-satans.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/panama-lewis-relegated-to-satans.htmlI come not to praise controversial and disgraced trainer Carlos Panama Lewis, but I do not come to bury him either. I assume a funeral director, or a crematorium will handle that as Lewis, age 74, died a couple of weeks ago. If his life is defined and judged by one brutal act, then he has no celestial address but is sweating out in the hot place (Hades) where everyone gets a pitchfork and eternal damnation./paxlovid-or-your-statin.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paxlovid-or-your-statin.htmlScenario: You’re diagnosed with Covid-19. You’ve been taking a statin to lower your cholesterol for years. But you’re told that the statin has a potential interaction with Paxlovid, the blockbuster Covid antiviral that decreases hospitalizations and death. Should you temporarily stop taking that statin and take Paxlovid for 5 days to decrease your chances of a bad outcome due to Covid? This question comes up a lot. First, if you take any statin other than lovastatin, simvastatin, atorvastatin or rosuvastatin, the answer is easy./perfect-bit-jim-gaffigans-hot-pockets.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/perfect-bit-jim-gaffigans-hot-pockets.htmlPatton Oswalt on Jim Gaffigan’s Hot Pockets bit. It’s amazing. One of those perfectly realized, no-meat-left-on-the-bone-of-the-idea jokes that also so perfectly captures the personality and intelligence of the teller that it becomes a part of how you think of them. Martin Scorsese and Rolling Stones songs in films. Salvador Dali and melting watches, desert landscapes. Carson McCullers and that specific kind of insanity that festers in the Southern heat and haze./peter-hessler-on-his-new-book-other-8d2.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-hessler-on-his-new-book-other-8d2.htmlThis week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuling (the subject of his first book, Rivertown, Pete returns to China to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu. He writes about the two cohorts of students, with whom he has maintained extensive contacts, to offer fascinating insights into how China has changed across this momentous period with touching, deeply human stories./peter-pan-and-wendy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-pan-and-wendy.htmlI’ll admit to scratching my head a bit when I heard Disney was planning a new adaptation of the Peter Pan mythology for its streaming service. Obviously it’s a rich piece of intellectual property based on the books by J. M. Barrie, which by my count has been adapted for the big screen more than a dozen times, not to mention television and stage. But at what point is it content overload?/pharrell-and-miley-cyrus-are-teaching.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pharrell-and-miley-cyrus-are-teaching.htmlPharrell and Miley Cyrus just released a song called “Doctor.” It’s a fun record with what you expect to hear from a Pharrell produced record, and in the video, Miley Cyrus is being Miley Cyrus. But that’s not exactly what this piece is about. Let’s go back to how this record was made. Back in 2012, when Miley was fresh off Hannah Montana and her hit record Party in the U./philippe-wynne-april-3-1941-july.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/philippe-wynne-april-3-1941-july.htmlWatch full video on Substack or Twitter.Share Philippé Wynne was a very talented artist best known for the years he spent as one of the lead singers of the Spinners from 1971-77. He also sang with the J.B.’s and Parliament-Funkadelic in addition to his own solo career. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Philippé Escalante Walker was raised in an orphanage. He and his brother Michael ran away in 1956 to Detroit in search of their mother, and later formed a gospel duo dubbed the Walker Singers./player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-4f1.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-4f1.htmlphoto credit: Inter Miami CFInter Miami’s first foray into the CONCACAF Champions Cup was a pleasant surprise. Though Monterrey is a powerhouse in Mexican football, Miami largely held its own in a heated quarterfinal. Messi-less and with a squad filled to the brim with injuries, Tata Martino rolled out his team in a 4-3-3, something Inter Miami fans will be pleased to see again. After a few nervy moments in the first 45, the Herons eventually scored first through a Tomas Avilés goal in the 19th minute./pop-culture-died-2009-interview.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pop-culture-died-2009-interview.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. Today, we have a very special Q&A with Matt James, the genius behind the storied celebrity blog Pop Culture Died in 2009.  I want to start by thanking everyone who subscribed to Gossip Time in the last week — you are all my best friends now. Going forward, I’m going to make bonus posts like this one just for paid subscribers, but I’m releasing it to everybody today to give you a sample of what to expect in the future./popularism-v-deliverism.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/popularism-v-deliverism.htmlNew York World, 1917 I’ve observed from a safe distance the war between popularism, a word coined (or at least popularized) by the Democratic political consultant Sean McElwee, and deliverism, a word coined by the antitrust policy wonk Matt Stoller. There’s much to be said for both sides of this argument, which is as old as representative democracy itself. Should politicians follow their constituencies (popularism) or lead them (deliverism)? Um, yes./portland-timbers-sign-jonathan-rodriguez.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/portland-timbers-sign-jonathan-rodriguez.htmlThe Portland Timbers announced today the signing of Jonathan Rodriguez, who is also known by his nickname “Cabecita”. Rodriguez, an Uruguayan international who has 31 appearances, three goals, and four assists for his country, signed as a Designated Player through 2026 with a club option for 2027. While no official numbers were released, reports suggested that the transfer fee the Timbers paid was around $4.3 million. “We are delighted to announce the signing of Jonathan Rodríguez, and we are pleased to welcome him and his family to the Rose City./portrait-analytics-creating-more.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/portrait-analytics-creating-more.htmlToday we announced that Portrait Analytics raised a seed round of $7M led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from .406 Ventures and other investors (you can read more details about our seed round at this link).  I want to take a few moments to share a bit about our vision for our product and company, and in particular, the “why” that drives us. And as we start to broaden access to our platform in the coming months, I’ll use this Substack as a way of sharing more about our product and thoughts on how AI will transform the process of conducting world-class investment research./praise-god-from-whom-all-blessings.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/praise-god-from-whom-all-blessings.htmlMy Substack email notifications were unusually high towards the end of last week. I soon discovered David Goodwin, president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, wrote a kind recommendation for Musically Speaking. At about the same time, I received a similar recommendation from Anthony Esolen’s Word & SongSubstack publication. As a result, I have seen a significant increase in subscribers. My thanks to these men for their kind words. To those of you who subscribed to this publication at their recommendation, thank you./preppy-nirvana-and-big-oil.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/preppy-nirvana-and-big-oil.htmlFrat king Will Ferrell plays the hits during surprise DJ set at college tailgate party; A24 is making a TV series about Paris Hilton’s life; Malia Obama is a new menswear icon; and Reformation is collaborating with the New York City Ballet — peak balletcore! WHEN DID ROCK CONCERTS BECOME TAME? THANK ALCOHOL-FREE GEN Z, wsj “Generation Z and millennials pe… ncG1vNJzZmiZlqmys7%2FCoaaopF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6pqZ6ooK56r7XRr5inmV2Wu6V5waKeZqeZoQ%3D%3D/private-equity-is-the-latest-threat.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/private-equity-is-the-latest-threat.htmlHAPPY RACE DAY! especially to the mad geniuses behind the inaugural F.A.T. Ice Race in Aspen, Colorado that took place over the weekend. Our friends at Oilstain Lab and BBi Autosport were on hand, along with other like-minded maniacs. Check out this article and photo gallery in the watch blog Hodinkee to see the madness on full display. In today’s email: VinFast stifles critics: An explosive report hits the growing brand/project-2025-promises-revenge-oppression.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/project-2025-promises-revenge-oppression.htmlThis is the first part (of three) of my deep dive into “Project 2025” and the plans to establish a more effective, more ruthless rightwing regime, focused on the ideas, ideologies, and grievances fueling the project – the radicalizing siege mentality on the Right. Part II offers a detailed dissection of the concrete policy agenda and strategies to impose a reactionary vision on the country. Part III contextualizes “Project 2025” by comparing it to what other rightwing factions, including Trump himself, are planning, situates these plans in the broader context of the Right’s history since the 1930s, and explores why a second Trump presidency would be operating under completely different conditions from the first – conditions that make it much more likely for these radical plans to succeed./the-podcast.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-podcast.htmlPulling the Thread is a weekly show that’s 45-minute conversations and investigations with today's leading thinkers, authors, experts, doctors, healers, scientists about life's biggest questions: Why do we do what we do? How can we come to know and love ourselves better? How can we come together to heal and build a better world? All episodes are below. … ncG1vNJzZmidnJ7AprjOnp%2BnnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXaW8pa%2FArKs%3D/pushing-back-on-pilgrims-progress.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pushing-back-on-pilgrims-progress.htmlI’m not a fan of Pilgrim’s Progress. I know. It’s a Christian classic. The very late and extremely great J. I. Packer said that Christians should read John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress every year. Nope. Sorry, Jim. I’m not doing that. Here’s why: I realise that within my own tribe of conservative evangelicals that what I’m saying here is heresy. It’s almost on a par with denying penal substitutionary atonement. (I fully affirm this doctrine./remembering-norman-lear-a-new-haven.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-norman-lear-a-new-haven.htmlThe well-deserved tributes have been rolling in for Norman Lear since his death last week at 101. However, the obituaries and think pieces have overlooked his challenging but formative early years. The creative genius who would give us “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons” was born in my adopted hometown, New Haven, in 1922. It was a long way from Hollywood. What were the odds he would make it there?/cookies-lover-and-nans-muse-remembering.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cookies-lover-and-nans-muse-remembering.htmlOn September 21st, 2023, news broke regarding the passing of Sharon Niesp, an actor, artist and singer who was one of director John Waters’ Dreamlanders (a.k.a regulars in his films) as well as the lover and girlfriend of Cookie Mueller, a fellow Dreamlander, author and actress in her own right. A brief bio of Sharon Niesp’s life is documented in Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, an oral history compilation on the life of Cookie by Chloé Griffin./rest-in-power-horace-ove.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rest-in-power-horace-ove.htmlHello! Thank you for signing up to, or stumbling on, this no-news-newsletter written by me, Ashley Clark. If you do choose to subscribe—and it’s free—you’ll receive bulletins about whatever’s on my mind: usually some combination of art/film/music/literature/football. If that sounds good, hit the button! The great Sir Horace Ové has died following a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced this morning. Below is an excerpt, focused on Ové, from a much longer piece that I wrote about the history of Black British protest cinema for Sight & Sound magazine in the tumultuous and emotionally draining summer of 2020./retrofuturism-is-futurism-done-well.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retrofuturism-is-futurism-done-well.htmlThe future, most people would agree, is inherently unpredictable. Yet not all of it is: depending on the time scale of your prediction, some aspects of the future won’t change very much. The sun will still be rising in 100 years, for instance. The eventual fate of the sun, in several million years, is also quite predictable, because stars turn out not to be that complex: they’re mostly just big balls of plasma undergoing constant nuclear fusion./nba-guards-who-cant-shoot.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nba-guards-who-cant-shoot.htmlShooting is at a premium in the NBA. Gone are the days where teams play multiple lumbering bigs incapable of hitting from outside the paint, and for good reason. Shooting breathes space into offenses, opening up passing and drive lanes and significantly increasing the pressure opposing defenses feel when scrambling in rotation. Players that can’t shoot are becoming rarer and rarer, particularly among perimeter options. But several of the NBA’s top contenders have found smart ways to fit guards who are ineffective shooters into their rotations./review-for-all-mankind-goldilocks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-for-all-mankind-goldilocks.htmlWhen Danielle receives a message from her husband at Happy Valley, it’s a small request: her stepson is getting married, and they want her to send a message for the nuptials. It’s an example of something she’s missing by agreeing to return to Mars against her will, and she’s initially more than happy to hit record and send them a perfectly generic set of platitudes about marriage. But then she pauses./review-for-all-mankind-perestroika.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-for-all-mankind-perestroika.html“Progress is never free. There is always a cost.” The narrative maneuver that comes with the end of every season of For All Mankind is a significant burden. We’ve talked about this in the context of the beginning of the next season, which has to deal with the gap in characters’ lives as we pick things up years after the fact. However, it also means that whatever narrative momentum a finale is going to generate, the actual end of that episode is going to be a gesture to the future that has to serve as both an epilogue to the story that just finished and a hint at a potential path should the show be renewed for another season./review-ted-lasso-4-5-1-season-3-episode.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-ted-lasso-4-5-1-season-3-episode.htmlIn the third episode of Ted Lasso’s second season, Keeley is explaining bantr to the players as she ropes them into her side hustle doing PR for the new app. As she points out how the app spells its name, Colin pipes in “Oh, like grindr,” and Keeley briefly raises her eyebrow before going on with her explanation. Two episodes later, bantr was the team’s main sponsor, and Colin…well, Colin was back into the ranks of AFC Richmond’s midfield, offering an occasional one-liner as necessary./review-ted-lasso-signs-season-3-episode.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-ted-lasso-signs-season-3-episode.htmlAs season orders have shortened, the burden placed on ephemeral story arcs has increased. In a 22-episode season of a sitcom, a four-episode story arc would be a blip on the radar—in a 12-episode season of a streaming dramedy, it’s a full third of the story being told. If you are going to invest a third of a character or a team’s story around a temporary presence, then it needs to generate meaningful momentum and leave a mark on the characters involved./revisiting-25th-hour-2002.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisiting-25th-hour-2002.htmlI have a weird relationship to the movie 25th Hour (2002). I think a lot of people do. I wanted to watch it again because I wasn’t sure what my opinion of it was. I know I saw it like 15 years ago and I don’t really remember anything about it. Periodically I’ve thought about the movie and about how it’s generally regarded as being pretty high up in the pantheon of Edward Norton movies, and Spike Lee movies—and how if you ever talk movies with people and it comes up they’ll be like “oh yeah, great movie,” but they never really say why./revisiting-the-1983-oscars-what-shouldve.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisiting-the-1983-oscars-what-shouldve.htmlFollowing my reappraisal of the 1982 Oscars, let’s do the same to the year 1983. These feature eligible movies appearing in 1982, according to the Oscar’s rules. “Gandhi” You look back on this now, and they slighted Spielberg again. He lost for “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in the previous year. Now, he goes out and has the second-biggest box-office hit ever in “E.T.” — adjusted for inflation — and they don’t give it to him!/rudy-giulianis-drinking-isnt-funny.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rudy-giulianis-drinking-isnt-funny.htmlIn much the same way I know a lot about the Army from a not terribly distinguished career, I know a lot about drinking from the same grievous perspective.  Let me assure you that when your drinking earns you an above-the-fold front page story in the New York Times that jumps to a full page inside the paper, as Rudy Giuliani’s drinking did today, it’s not funny. Sure, there is a temptation to point fingers and snicker at the photos of Giuliani from 2020 with hair dye cascading in sweaty rivulets down his cheeks as he was attempting to captain the listing ship of Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign./ryan-garcia-first-man-defeat-devin-haney.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ryan-garcia-first-man-defeat-devin-haney.htmlRyan Garcia pulled off the upset of the year last Saturday by becoming the first man to defeat Devin Haney. Garcia, a huge underdog due to his pre-fight antics, dropped Haney in rounds seven, ten and eleven to emerge victorious via majority decision live on DAZN PPV. Despite cryptic posts on social media, erratic behaviour at press conferences and missing the super lightweight limit by 3.2 lbs, Garcia shocked his doubters in the first round when landing a powerful left hook that hurt Haney./sam-cookes-a-change-is-gonna-come.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sam-cookes-a-change-is-gonna-come.html“They’ll kill you,” Barbara Cooke pleads with her husband inside the lobby of the Shreveport, Louisiana Holiday Inn North. The hotel clerk watches them from his side of the counter, something — maybe smugness, maybe disdain, probably both — tugging at the corner of her lips. She’s just informed a group of four Black people there are no vacancies even though a reservation was made in advance. Barbara’s husband is frothing; his brother Charles and a friend from Chicago, S./samantha-irbys-quietly-hostile.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/samantha-irbys-quietly-hostile.htmlHello, First of all, there is one space left on my retreat in Salt Lake City in October - more details here. Now, to the matter in hand. May’s True Stories Book Club is on: Wednesday 22nd May 2024 6pm UK/1pm ET/10am PT This month, my guest is Samantha Irby, online humorist at bitchesgottaeat, screenwriter and author of some of the funniest and frankest memoirs you’ll ever read. Quietly Hostile is no exception./sausages-peppers-and-lentils.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sausages-peppers-and-lentils.htmlHappy Friday! Welcome to your recipe for the weekend. A lovely bit of classic cookery for you here… Sausages and lentils, a match made in heaven. This is a recipe of three parts. First, we’re going to braise our lentils beautifully with wine, aromatics and a very simple veggie base. Second, cook some sausages. Last of all, make a zippy little salsa usin… ncG1vNJzZmialaO5qrzPnqutZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9KarKyZl5rAbrzEqaeeqqNirq%2BwjKWcp6yZocA%3D/sex-trends-to-love-and-hate-in-2024.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sex-trends-to-love-and-hate-in-2024.htmlHello and welcome back to The Overthinker’s Guide To Sex, a sex and relationships newsletter by journalist Franki Cookney. If you’re enjoying the newsletter, please consider upgrading your subscription to help keep it running. It costs £4/month or £40/year. Paid subscribers also have access to the entire back catalogue of paywalled articles. Hello and happy new year to all those who recognise the Gregorian calendar. I must say I don’t really feel that the new year has begun until I’ve had my Twelfth Night Burn./simonateba.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/simonateba.htmlThe Daily Letter By Simon Ateba Founded by Simon Ateba, the Daily Letter is a new alternative to the mainstream fake news. We offer objective reporting of important facts and developments, as well as compelling opinion content informed by the principles that have made America great. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbS1zKilmqyVl64%3D/skilled-aviator-jeff-hefner-idd-as.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/skilled-aviator-jeff-hefner-idd-as.htmlMost of you are probably aware of the tragic plane crash in Virginia on Sunday, when an unresponsive Cessna 560 Citation meant to be cruising from East Tennessee to Long Island, New York, went off course and was intercepted by supersonic military fighter jets safeguarding Washington, D.C. airspace. Late last night it was confirmed that its pilot was Jeff Hefner, a friend and ally to some of you, and also a friend of The Landing (and the only male pilot paid subscriber)./breakdown-sex-benedetta.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breakdown-sex-benedetta.htmlBenedetta (2021) shows two female nuns performing sexual acts. Here's what you can expect from it (only explicit scenes between the two characters). Timestamps are approximate (in bold). Read my full review here. Benedetta and Bartolomea are ready to go to sleep. Before they go their own way, Bartolomea—making sure that nobody is watching her—gives a quick kiss on Benedetta's lips (close-up, 1-2 seconds). While Benedetta is tied up to a bed (it has nothing to do with sexual fantasies), Bartolomea takes advantage of the situation, 'seduces' her and gives her a brief but passionate kiss (close-up, 2-3 seconds)./introducing-spider-man-india-written.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-spider-man-india-written.htmlBack in 2005, they introduced an Indian Spider-Man. Pavitr Prabhakar, the Spider-Man of Earth 50101. He lived in Mumbai, India, and he protected his local community. Developed by Sharad Devarajan, Jeevan Kang and Suresh Seetharaman, along with director Satyajit Ray, the 2005 miniseries re-imagined the Spider-Man Origin story with an Indian superhero, an… ncG1vNJzZmimmaCytLSNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfnru1vs6drJyhnpx6tLzInZyrZZ2Wu261zZ2gmmWnp7a1wMSn/stanley-kunitz-on-my-fridge-in-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stanley-kunitz-on-my-fridge-in-the.html“My dismay at the clutter on my desk is offset by my zest for the hunt among my papers.  At an age when I should be putting my house in order, I keep accumulating bits of information, not for any particular reason and in spite of the absurdity, because I was born curious and don’t know how to stop.” Stanley Kunitz, “Seed, Corn and Windfall” from Next to Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)/startup-spotlight-207-diddo.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/startup-spotlight-207-diddo.htmlDiddo is building the infrastructure for social commerce. We want to do for social commerce what Stripe did for e-commerce. Using a simple API, we enable video-based content to become highly monetizable through many avenues. Rishi was born and brought up in Cupertino, California. He is the son of two immigrants that both work in the engineering field. He has worked at three different startups, helping raise north of $20M in financing./sunday-read-kyrie-the-maverick.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sunday-read-kyrie-the-maverick.htmlKyrie Irving and Jason Kidd have more in common than their current and past statuses as franchise cornerstone guard. They even share a birthday. On Saturday, Irving turned 32 and Kidd turned 51. Yet what made the occasion so joyous for the Dallas Mavericks, after back-and-forth jokes all week between player and coach that Irving might actually be the older celebrant, was the relative calm and optimism that are tangible within the franchise./app-link.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/app-link.htmlThis is a Remy video from seven years ago, I must say - it has aged well. (Personally - I would use the term “indoctrinated”, rather than ignorant). No comment… ”Who is Robert Malone” is a reader supported publication. Please consider a subscription to support our work. Thank you for reading Who is Robert Malone. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share Give a gift subscription/susiebright.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/susiebright.htmlSusie Bright’s Journal By Susie Bright The woman Rolling Stone called “never boring,” Susie writes about politics, sex, rarities, food, movies, music, books. Free post on Tuesday, free Friday podcast. For paid subs: The Leisure Hours on Wednesday, and Sight/Sound/Ink on Thursdays. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbTB0qKcm6qZnLW1/a-guide-to-peace-take-it-easy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-peace-take-it-easy.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on work by M. Maggs from Pixabay A knee-jerk response to an action is not wise. Any reaction that is done without thought or care is most likely to cause more problems. This is self-evident. It’s obvious on its face, and yet it’s common for people to automatically retaliate when they feel that they’ve been wronged. But enacting “an eye for an eye” solution to being victimized—particularly if questions of ethics, of propriety, of decency are ignored—just leads to an escalation of conflict, often resulting in a cycle of violence./going-going-gone-taxi-medallion-auction.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/going-going-gone-taxi-medallion-auction.htmlToday’s much anticipated NYC taxi medallion auction perhaps raises more questions, than it answers about the current state of medallion valuations. Based on our discussions with several parties who had direct knowledge of the auction results, we believe that seven, down from the originally marketed ten NYC taxi medallions, were sold for ~$175,000. Interestingly, Marblegate, itself, may have purchased a few, with the rest going to private individuals / parties (who may have also gotten financing)./that-time-i-participated-in-nielsens.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-time-i-participated-in-nielsens.htmlAttention: As of January 2024, We have moved to counting-stuff.com. Subscribe there, not here on Substack, if you want to receive weekly posts. World still continues to be madness for the foreseeable future. Be safe everyone. Many years ago, around 2018ish, I had been randomly chosen to be part of the famous(?) Nielsen TV ratings sampling thing. The odds of getting picked can be pretty low so I guess it's a pretty unique experience, especially for us data folk./that-time-i-ran-away-from-home-twice.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-time-i-ran-away-from-home-twice.htmlLast week, I had the pleasure of moderating my friend Becky Chalsen’s book launch, for her sophomore novel, Serendipity. After a lovely little chit-chat — y’all know how I love to yap — an audience member asked: “What is a sensory experience, whether that be a song or a smell, that signals the start of summer for you?” (I’m paraphrasing/is there a word … ncG1vNJzZmihnZa7qa3Roqmio5mWe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2gkal6tbXMnmSiZaKWu26t1pqwZp6ipLputM6mnGasp56wpg%3D%3D/the-europoors-rants-reflect-an-american.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-europoors-rants-reflect-an-american.htmlThere’s a particularly virulent strand of column-publishing and Twitter/X debate happening right now which, if it continues, will require me to seek medical attention for perpetual eye roll. It consists of American and British people gleefully writing about America’s explosive economic growth at the moment, and comparing it to Europe’s sluggish post-Covid recovery. Everyone seems to have their own opinion explaining the difference, the most convincing of which I find the idea that the EU has stuck with conservative neoliberal orthodoxies for the economy while America has been quietly more flexible./the-10-best-commodore-64-games-ever.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-10-best-commodore-64-games-ever.htmlI missed a lot of these back in the day. I'll be giving them a try. Some of my favorites were: Spy Hunter, Load Runner, Jumpman, Spy vs Spy -- although I never got very far, Archon. I also liked Impossible Mission, but again, didn't get very far. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmikpaOxtrfEZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMGpsYxqZ2aalajBbq%2FOpqSonJ%2Bnsm6Ck2aemqWVqHqmwsSrZpynnaKyr8DS/the-adventures-of-amina-al-sirafi.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-adventures-of-amina-al-sirafi.htmlOne of the first books on pirates came out in 1724 and was titled A General History of Pyrates. The book’s title had an interesting detail when you keep in mind that women were usually considered bad luck on a ship. (Blackbeard, for example, is known to have killed women just for being on his ship’s deck.) Here’s the full title: “A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES, FROM Their first RISE and SETTLEMENT in the Island of Providence, to the present Time./elis-hot-bagels-new-jersey.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elis-hot-bagels-new-jersey.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. When I think of Eli’s Hot Bagels, I have two competing memories from my teenage days. One takes place on a classic overcast New Jersey fall morning. I’m in my Sunday best. A worn-too-long Mets baseball cap with a frayed bill./best-louise-penny-books.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-louise-penny-books.htmlHi friends, We hope your week is off to a good start. This week’s essay is from mystery author and critic Jodé Millman. She tackles a problem we would find extremely difficult: which are the five best Gamache novels. Let us know which books are in your top five. Leave a comment — Aya and Elizabeth P.S. Thanks to Deborah for providing the gorgeous painting-like image of Three Pines you see in this post./the-best-version-of-the-devil-went.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-version-of-the-devil-went.htmlCharlie Daniels died yesterday at 83. While his conservative beliefs have come into focus with his death, he is best remembered as the musician behind “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” If you’ve never heard it for some reason, it’s worth giving a listen as a folk tale and fun song. I’d rather remember Daniels for the music, rather than some of his counter-productive rants on Twitter. (Although, it’s still prevalent enough that it’s worth acknowledging)./the-big-interview-ashleigh-neville.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-interview-ashleigh-neville.html“Whirlwind is a great way to put it,” laughs Ashleigh Neville when we discuss the changes in both her career and her personal life over the past five years. Six years ago, the full-back was playing third division football for Coventry United, a team close to home where she’d just become a mum for the first time and close to her school where she worked as a teacher. So when she made the decision to ditch her comfort zone to head south three long days a week, plus matchday, for the chance to play for Tottenham Hotspur, it was a huge shift in Neville’s life, but once in which she has prospered from./spotify-is-misinformation.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spotify-is-misinformation.htmlA friend writes, about Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek: “I saw him at a Grammy nominee party once. He was by himself at the seafood buffet and I watched him go back to a solo table. Despite his power not a single industry person was trying to schmooze him. I was shocked frankly.” This image of Ek eating shrimp alone at a Grammy party is maybe all you need to understand what happened to Spotify this week./the-calment-boundary.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-calment-boundary.htmlNow this is one of my favorite stories of all time. It’s a story about life, and death, and catastrophic real estate transactions. But more than that, I think it’s a story that tells us something important about our future as a species. You might have heard variations on it too—it’s a famous story in the annals of demography and medicine. But it’s worth revisiting, even if you have heard the general outline of it./what-was-taken-from-us-the-chicago.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-was-taken-from-us-the-chicago.htmlImagine this: you are living in the west suburbs and working in downtown Chicago every day. Driving downtown is not seen as the best method of transportation, as there is a train that runs every 30 minutes and takes you straight to the Wells Street Station in the Loop. This train has an enormous amount of stops that covers a huge part of the Fox Valley area, which means that you probably live within a mile or two of a station and thus wouldn’t need to drive far (or drive at all) to get there./jaden-hicks-film-review-the-chiefs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jaden-hicks-film-review-the-chiefs.htmlIf you say the term “Spags gonna Spags” to virtually any Chiefs fan, they’ll know exactly what you mean by that. We’ve talked at length here about Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s tendencies to throw various coverages and blitzes at opposing quarterbacks (like when he put Tua and Miami in a torture chamber in last year’s playoffs). And Spagnuolo’s tendency to dial up pressure in the biggest moments is well known./the-cm-punk-controversy-is-still.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cm-punk-controversy-is-still.htmlIf you follow combat sports online, you’ve no doubt heard more than you ever cared to about “the bag,” that metaphorical sack of money waiting at the end of the rainbow for successful athletes and promoters. Who got the bag? Who fumbled it? Just how big was this bag anyway? What does that thing weigh? In our world, at least, you can trace the concept back to 1964 and the great Muhammad Ali sitting on a literal pile of cash like the world’s prettiest Scrooge McDuck./the-curious-case-of-the-stinky-fridge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-curious-case-of-the-stinky-fridge.htmlHello and happy Friday my dears. If you missed last week’s gift guide in the great Buying Weekend Rush, you can read it here. And in the spirit of gifting, the next five people to purchase a paid subscription—for a friend or as a gift—will receive a cookbook in the mail from me, with a little note and some recommendations. You can give a gift subscription through this link, or upgrade to paid here:/episode-28-the-daily-grind-with-holiday.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-28-the-daily-grind-with-holiday.htmlHow do you “reduce the drag” and make yourself the most available to daily output in your creative practice? To help with ideas, we turn to Holiday Mathis, who has written over eight million words in her daily, syndicated horoscopes. Talk about learning how to negotiate the daily grind! In this episode, we talk about how improvisation rules help in daily discipline, about Holiday’s muses and how she serves them and great advice from a soap opera actor./the-dali-incident.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dali-incident.htmlRegular readers will probably notice how much I enjoy writing about topical things in non-obvious ways. I like to write about them without writing directly about them. I still want to write more on and around Oppenheimer (thanks to those of you who sent kind messages or linked to my previous piece!), albeit in a way that still (mostly) aligns with what I usually do. So, I thought I would touch on something that caught my attention while reading American Prometheus that maybe a few (correct me if I am wrong!/the-detroit-gems.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-detroit-gems.html[Ed. Note: This article is going places… hope y’all enjoy the journey!] The 2010s were largely unkind to the Los Angeles Lakers. I mean sure they got a championship in 2010 and LeBron James decided to spend his basketball golden years there in 2018. But in between those moments? The Dallas Mavericks smoked the Lakers out the 2011 playoffs in truly enjoyable fashion for all non-Lakers fans. But the real gloom and doom began in the 2012-13 season./the-dirty-little-secret-of-why-joe.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dirty-little-secret-of-why-joe.htmlJoe Biden isn’t going to drop out of the 2024 race — for one VERY specific reason. I tell you what it is below! 🤫🤫🤫 Over the last week, the “should Joe Biden drop out” talk has reached new heights. New York Times columnist Ezra Klein dedicated an entire podcast to his case for why it’s time for Biden to step aside. “I think Biden, as painful as this is, should find his way to stepping down as a hero,” said Klein./the-eclipse-is-worth-the-trip.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-eclipse-is-worth-the-trip.htmlIf you can see the solar eclipse “in totality,” meaning the moon completely blocks out the sun, you should make the effort, assuming cloud cover doesn’t eclipse the eclipse. When the event occurs Monday, you’ll be able to see at least a partial eclipse in all 48 contiguous states. Totality will span 13 states over a three-hour period, from Texas to Maine, beginning around 1:25pCT. Tourism related to the eclipse could bring in $1 billion in economic activity, with four million people on the move — “50 Super Bowls happening at the same time./the-elmwood-realty-tenants-union.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-elmwood-realty-tenants-union.htmlTenants at 1890 Broad Street in Cranston, in response to terrible living conditions and an unresponsive landlord, have formed the Elmwood Realty Tenants Union with the help of housing justice and tenant organizing group Reclaim RI. State Representative Cherie Cruz (Democrat, District 58, Pawtucket), who is an organizer with Reclaim RI, held a press conference with the tenants. According to public records the property is owned by Jeff Butler and his company, Elmwood Realty, LLC./the-end-of-the-american-dream.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-end-of-the-american-dream.htmlFriday 5th April 2024 Is the American Dream at risk? And how much of this is connected to changes in its work ethic if so? The short answer is that yes, the American Dream is at risk and how America lives and works, and feels about work is central to this developing story. You can see it in the Bernie Sanders bill on the 32 hour week. You can see it in pop lyrics such as ‘Break My Soul’ by ‘Queen Bey’ You can see it in the data./the-blinken-bunch-the-fascinating.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-blinken-bunch-the-fascinating.htmlTony Blinken has a long resume as a public servant. After graduating Harvard and Columbia Law, he began working in the US State Department under Bill Clinton. From there, he’s navigated through a myriad of positions within the federal government, almost too many to keep track of. He is now one of the most prominent figures in the Biden Administration. This article comes to you after I learned a bit about Victoria Nuland’s familial background from the currently imprisoned journalist Gonzalo Lira’s expose on Nuland’s historical grievances with the Russian empire./the-future-is-grim.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-future-is-grim.htmlVery quickly before we begin — I am never going to charge for my Substack, but I am really enjoying writing on here, and I feel like if I can get a couple hundred subscribers, I might be able to start doing it more regularly (also I am not employed full-time at the moment so every little bit helps). If you feel like contributing, I would really appreciate it. If not, I still appreciate you reading./the-graduation-speech-more-powerful.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-graduation-speech-more-powerful.htmlAudio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.The sun! I was so pleased for a bit of Vitamin D that I grabbed my book and sat outside, absorbed in the story and unaware of how much time was passing. Later that night, I looked in the mirror and saw something like this: In my excitement to see the sun, I had forgotten the great advice that was shared with the world 20+ years ago:/red-star-fc-the-historic-and-socially.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-star-fc-the-historic-and-socially.htmlThree young boys run down the street. On the corner, groups of fans congregate outside the Olympic bar. Opposite, the gates swing open to allow the team bus to pull into the car park. Higher up, old floodlights tower over the Stade Bauer. It’s match night. Ici c’est Saint-Ouen. This is Red Star FC. Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, just over four miles from the centre of the French capital./the-history-of-gauze-is-haunting.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-history-of-gauze-is-haunting.htmlI’ve been staring at versions of this grid for weeks as my tiny happy place from the chaos of being inundated with holiday sales and horrific news cycles. Going online has felt so wild lately - you can’t really avoid swinging back and forth from images of violence and reports on the genoc… ncG1vNJzZmiZopavprjLnqqim5Gnsap60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybrTIrKuoqqlivKd5xpqss51dnsButMCupa2hnpw%3D/komorebi-the-japanese-word-for-sunlight.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/komorebi-the-japanese-word-for-sunlight.htmlYin and Yang. Perhaps the most well-known element of Far Eastern philosophy. In harmony, good, and evil, positive and negative, light and dark coexist. I liken the world to a ball seeking to strike a balance between these opposing forces. Humans and societies are the same way. If you're familiar with esoteric themes, you've probably heard of the seven principles taught by the Greek god Hermes Trimestigus or the Egyptian god Thoth./final-four-fact-february-the-last.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/final-four-fact-february-the-last.htmlThe Final Four returns to Arizona for the second time to conclude the 2023-24 season. When the culmination of the college basketball season last emanated from the Grand Canyon State in 2017, it was the first Final Four played West of the Alamo in 22 years. Final Fours from 1949 through 1995 were consistently staged out West, including five in Seattle — three of which were in the Kingdome over an 11-year span from 1984 to 1995./the-left-had-a-difficult-year.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-left-had-a-difficult-year.htmlAndrew Sullivan writes, 2023 showed us the mindless grift of Kendi’s scam at BU, the end of affirmative action in the Ivies, the mediocrity of Claudine Gay, and the racial hatred that will always come when certain entire groups of people are deemed oppressors, and others deemed oppressed. This is not about college crazies. It’s about the core foundations of liberal democracy — which DEI and its guiding philosophy of critical race theory specifically aims to destroy./the-liberation-of-leslie-phillips.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-liberation-of-leslie-phillips.htmlIn the very first entry here, I referenced The Turning by Leslie Phillips, an album that came into my life in 1987 when I was eleven years old. I had not heard anything like it before. As an already-frustrated preacher’s kid, it was as if she had crawled inside my heart and mind, lifted the things I felt but didn’t have language for, and set them to music. With The Turning, I had the words and permission to feel those repressed emotions./the-love-not-meant-for-her.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-love-not-meant-for-her.htmlAryana Rose told a story at The Moth’s Houston StorySLAM in 2015, but I just came across it when a friend shared The Moth’s Instagram Reel of her performance last week. My world stopped. By the end of it I found myself just lying in my bed, crying. I watched it two more times, and cried two more times. This is one of the most beautiful love stories I have ever heard./rene-paul-chambellan-the-master-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rene-paul-chambellan-the-master-of.htmlWhen I first moved to New York City, I worked in midtown Manhattan, at Saks Fifth Avenue. Rockefeller Center is across the street from the store, and sometimes after work I would wander around the complex, window shopping in the underground shops in the maze of corridors that led to the subway. Sometimes I would also peek into the windows of the stores that lined the plaza. Like thousands of other people every day, I used to pass statues like the famous one of Atlas, who holds up the world on 5th Avenue, directly across from Saks./the-melting-face-emoji.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-melting-face-emoji.htmlI love emojis. I especially love when they are used in opaque or unexpected ways. The melting face emoji joined the canon early in 2022. Recently, I’ve started noticing it as I scroll through the faces, trying to find one that conveys my tone correctly (usually I use one of these two because I feel like they cover a lot of bases: 🥳 😩). The melting face has felt like the right thing to send in an exceptionally wide array of contexts, and each time I’ve used it, I have thought to myself that I could not articulate what I mean by it and the person I am sending it to might understand it to mean something entirely different, anyway./remembering-john-sinclair.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-john-sinclair.htmlJohn Sinclair was a legend at the University of Michigan, where I went to college. The guy who went to jail for 10 years for 2 joints: that was the shorthand we used to use. But I’ll be damned if that isn’t the most reductive possible way to describe Sinclair, who was not only a poet but also an activist whose shrewd understanding of how marijuana laws were tied to larger systems of oppression was ahead of its time./the-midnight-special.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-midnight-special.htmlIf you love 70s music (and people must. It is still being played 50 years later), you owe it to yourself to watch The Midnight Special on YouTube.  The Midnight Special was a late-night live music television show that ran from 1973 to 1981. At the time, television stations signed off at 1:00am (after Johnny Carson) and started up again in the morning with the news. The Midnight Special bought air time at 1:00am on Friday nights (technically, Saturday mornings) and convinced Chevrolet to sponsor the show./the-molecular-genetics-of-cold-winters.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-molecular-genetics-of-cold-winters.htmlHere feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons’ difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say “This is no flattery. These are counselors That feelingly persuade me what I am.” Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head./themuppetchristmascarol.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/themuppetchristmascarol.htmlHappy holidays, readers! Jeremy here. As he likes to do a couple times a year, John Hammontree, unofficial/unpaid editor of this newsletter, has blessed me with a week off and blessed you with some terrific cinematic reading material. I enjoyed this one very much (despite his blatant blasphemy in the opening sentence), and now I’m eager to see this film in all its original glory. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good morning./the-nepotism-of-nate-archibald.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-nepotism-of-nate-archibald.html[This profile contains discussion of sexual coercion.] Here we are! My second profile! Just like Taylor Swift, I can create two of the same thing in a year. After the intricacies of Jenny Humphrey’s costume design, I thought I’d need someone a little simpler, a little less varied in their style. And, while I mean this with all the affection in the world, the first character who came to mind was Nate Archibald, played by Chace Crawford./the-new-cult-canon-unfriended.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-cult-canon-unfriended.html“What u’ve done will live here forever.” — billie227, Unfriended Here at The Reveal, we strongly endorse seeing as many films as possible on the big screen, where you can immerse yourself fully and without distraction in some grand (or evenwillfully mediocre) vision that home viewing could never quite replicate. And yet, a movie theater is not the right place to see the 2015 horror movie Unfriended, nor is that giant 4K television you might have mounted on the living room wall./the-night-is-dark-and-full-of-witches.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-night-is-dark-and-full-of-witches.htmlThis episode had a tall order to fill after last week, but splashy entrances, cute creatures, and an unsettling, spooky mood made for another riveting installment. A classic fantasy archetype performs important functions for the series and Star Wars more broadly. (That’s purposefully cryptic, much like this episode.)  [SPOILER WARNING: This review is a one-way trip into spoiler territory. Traverse it at your own risk!] Image Credit: IGN Witch, please. /the-non-zero-sum-game-of-ambition.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-non-zero-sum-game-of-ambition.htmlThis is a weekly newsletter about the art and science of building and investing in tech companies. To receive Investing 101 in your inbox each week, subscribe here: I often feel there are some movies that don't have enough cultural impact on society. I remember watching Big Hero 6 in 2016 and thinking its portrayal of passion around STEM education should be shown to every kid. I remember watching In Time in 2011, and feeling like there should be a bigger conversation about what happens when we cure all diseases?/the-once-and-future-mall.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-once-and-future-mall.htmlToday in Unseen St. Louis I’m going to talk about a shopping mall. Now hold up, don’t click away. The rise and fall — and hopefully, rebirth — of Crestwood Plaza in St. Louis County tells a fascinating story repeated over and over across America. Before the 1950s, people didn’t go to shopping centers or malls. Depending on where they lived, they headed downtown or to the town square, shopping at what we might call small boutique stores and later, department stores./the-origin-of-gorr-the-god-butcher.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-origin-of-gorr-the-god-butcher.htmlHappy “Love and Thunder” eve to you and yours. Wanted to send a season’s greetings this week even though things are rather insane here at Beard Missives HQ, AKA the world headquarters of Golgonooza Inc. (my S-corp named for William Blake’s city of art and imagination, because that’s how much of a nerd I am), AKA my home full of comics and toy hammers in the wilds of Kansas. I feel like for weeks now every time I’ve looked at any sort of flat surface, I’ve seen an add for THOR LOVE AND THUNDER plastered across it./the-pain-gap.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pain-gap.htmltw: discussion of toxic relationships immediately after i turned eighteen, i started going on a lot of dates with men in their early-to-mid-twenties. this is one of those things that doesn't seem like a big deal when you're eighteen but the second you become not-eighteen you’re like what the fuck!!! the distance between eighteen and everything else is perilous and insurmountable, but nobody tells you that until you’re twenty./the-politics-of-alex-garlands-civil.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-politics-of-alex-garlands-civil.html[WARNING: THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD.] Last year the trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War was so disturbing that it inspired the hard-working staff here at Drezner’s World to write about it: I saw Civil War last weekend, and you can hear some of my thoughts about it on this episode of Space the Nation with Ana Marie Cox (who loved the film so much she has started her own Substack about it)./radim-zohorna-penguins-stats-rise-fall-analysis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/radim-zohorna-penguins-stats-rise-fall-analysis.htmlRadim Zohorna was easily the Penguins’ best bottom-six forward through the first month of this season. Several months later, however, the big fella now finds himself down in the minors with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. His career arc with the Penguins serves as a valuable lesson about players on the fringe. I didn’t think much of it when Kyle Dubas signed Zohorna during the offseason. He was coming off a 2022-23 campaign in which he played just 10 NHL games (eight with the Flames, two with the Maple Leafs) and had a lone goal to show for the entirety of his production./the-spirits-23-the-reverse-manhattan.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-23-the-reverse-manhattan.html~ THE REVERSE MANHATTAN ~ 50ml Italian vermouth 25ml bourbon or rye Dash Angostura bitters Freeze your glassware. Fill a mixing vessel with ice. Add the liquids and stir patiently. Strain into the cold cocktail glass and garnish with a length of orange peel or a maraschino cherry if you happen to have one. Some Reverse Manhattan Notes: 1) Reverse because, ordinarily, the proportions would be 50ml bourbon, 25ml Italian vermouth, dash of bitters./the-strongman-fantasy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-strongman-fantasy.htmlQuite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule.  Why not a dictator who will get things done?  I lived in eastern Europe when memories of communism were fresh.  I have visited regions in Ukraine where Russia imposed its occupation regime.  I have spent decades reading testimonies of people who lived under Nazi or Stalinist rule.  I have seen death pits, some old, some freshly dug. And I have friends who have lived under authoritarian regimes, including political prisoners and survivors of torture./the-tortured-poets-department-a-post.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tortured-poets-department-a-post.htmlThe Tortured Poets Department is a concept album based on the life of Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Naturally Swift weaves in her own experiences (even specific details) but ultimately the songs are not about Swift's ex's individually or in sum total, the arc of the album is Plath's life. If you truly want to understand this album you'll need to read Plath & Hughes. Swift's mastery is not singularly for music, but encompasses poetry and literature as well./the-truth-about-the-spotted-lanternfly.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-about-the-spotted-lanternfly.htmlIf you’re new here, welcome! To ensure you never miss an issue of The Weekly Dirt, click here to subscribe 👇 UPDATE: This post was edited on Sept. 15, 2023, to reflect updated guidance for managing the spotted lanternfly and tree of heaven, and information about whether — and where — to report sightings. ncG1vNJzZmiilajAqq%2FAnZimoZGjvG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ismJp6tb7UrZ9mmZKkwrV506GcZqugpMG1scNmo5qmpJq%2Fr7LLsg%3D%3D/the-world-inside-you.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-world-inside-you.htmlSarah Blondin is a free newsletter. If you love it, consider supporting it financially. For $5/mo, you’ll gain access to “Folding In” journal entries, poetry, and the occasional live group meditation gathering. My work here is reader-supported, hence the lack of ads and sponsors. Thank you! I am so happy you are here! 1× 0:00 -22:04 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.“This is your life unfolding and unraveling before you./this-aint-texas-its-tennessee.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-aint-texas-its-tennessee.htmlI’m heading to Nashville today and you can bet your sweet badonkadonk that I’m going to make it my whole personality. When people in the US ask me where I’m from in Australia and I tell them Tamworth, I’ll sometimes add “…it’s like the Nashville of Australia”. I have never been to Nashville so I have absolutely no idea if that’s true but I’ll report bac… ncG1vNJzZminnZy5sL7DZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMGptdJmmKKmpGLBpsTArGSirKNiwaa6zZ6qrJ2V/this-is-why-we-need-a-new-sexual.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-why-we-need-a-new-sexual.htmlAn edited extract from the introduction to my new book, Sexual Revolution, which comes out this week. Sexual freedom doesn’t exist. Not yet. In most democracies,  most of us are legally free to love who we want, live how we like  and pursue pleasure however we choose – but only in the same  way that most of us are free to buy a Maserati,or a mansion, or an election. In practice, most people cannot afford sexual  freedom./this-nfl-season-sucks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-nfl-season-sucks.htmlThis is necessarily subjective. But I really have not enjoyed this NFL season, which sucks, because I look forward to it all year. NFL football is the only sport I really follow anymore. I used to follow the NBA and baseball fairly closely, watching a couple dozen games of each a year and tracking the divisional standings. I can’t remember the last time I watched a baseball game (for reasons) and while I’ll enjoy an NBA game if I catch one, I couldn’t tell you who’s good and bad right now./to-cap-or-not-to-cap-the-highway.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/to-cap-or-not-to-cap-the-highway.htmlWelcome to my freemium newsletter by me, King Williams. A documentary filmmaker, journalist, podcast host, and author based in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a newsletter covering the hidden connections of Atlanta to everything else. A highway cap (sometimes called a freeway lid) is a covering that is built on top of an existing highway to provide new space. These caps are typically built to open up new environmental, social, and/or economic opportunities for in-town residents, businesses, and visitors./toby-keiths-business-legacy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/toby-keiths-business-legacy.htmlThe first time I met country superstar Toby Keith, back in 2013 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, he dared me to eat a worm. This wasn’t a random case of peer pressure—Keith had a vested interest. The worm in question sat in a red Solo cup beneath a couple ounces of Wild Shot mezcal, a brand he had just launched, and I was writing a Forbes cover s…/transhausen-by-proxy-a-few-thoughts.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transhausen-by-proxy-a-few-thoughts.htmlMunchausen by proxy is one of the things I have frequently seen suggested as being behind the phenomenon of the rise of the young “trans child”. I’ve even seen it rather pithily called “transhausen by proxy” by the daring people of Twitter. As it is so often mothers who support these transitions, and as we have seen them being shockingly pro-interventionist about their offspring, in “trans child” support groups (through leaked screenshots) it intuitively feels like this might be a real answer to the question of why this is happening./trauma-memes-are-dangerous.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trauma-memes-are-dangerous.htmlThere’s no angle or twist here, just very straightforward: there’s been a rise in memes on Instagram (and I’m sure other places, I just only look at Instagram) that make a lot of statements about trauma and PTSD, and it does not seem responsible to me to make or share those memes. Trauma and PTSD are immensely complicated, and the quality of conversation about them on social media and in digital media generally is jargon-heavy, information-poor, and generally deeply irresponsible./godzilla-minus-one-trauma-terror.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/godzilla-minus-one-trauma-terror.html(Photo courtesy Toho Co. Ltd.) 69 years ago the world was introduced to Godzilla. The titular 1954 film was a shocking reinvention of the giant monster movie, a nuclear allegory blunt in message but beautifully told in story. Ishiro Honda and his team not only invented an iconic creature but took the time to show just how devastating its rampage could be. Not even a decade removed from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Godzilla was a horror film first and foremost, with the monster both the attacker and the victim./tripping-through-the-bad-news-bears.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tripping-through-the-bad-news-bears.htmlHollywood sequels that fail to live up to the original movie weave a tired old tale, but there is something particularly wretched about the follow-ups to the galactic brilliance of The Bad News Bears. Every few years, I rewatch the original. Everything in that movie works, except for how badly — how very badly — Tanner Boyle’s presumably inherited racism has aged. Otherwise, each time I return to the film, I expect to be betrayed by my memories, only to come away even more impressed./dopamine-deathmatch-tumblr-blaze.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dopamine-deathmatch-tumblr-blaze.htmlOn 4/20 of this year, Tumblr announced a new feature: Tumblr Blaze, the platform’s version of paying to quick-promote a single post. Initial announcements about Blaze exhibited a magisterial understanding of Tumblr’s core power audience by actively encouraging using the tool for frivolous amusement—even outright shitposting—rather than couching the pitch in the anodyne terms of paid engagement and ROI blah blah blah. Certain recent developments on Twitter, a competing social microblogging service much in the news lately, compelled me to start lurking on Tumblr again./the-street-seen-viceroy-hotel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-street-seen-viceroy-hotel.htmlThe 8-story Viceroy Hotel, built in 1967, occupies a long-term ground lease on City of Santa Monica land on the corner of Ocean Ave and Pico Blvd. In 1958, based ostensibly on the need for Civic Center parking, the City of Santa Monica acquires the property on the North East Corner of Ocean Ave and Pico Blvd through eminent domain proceedings. In 1960, the former Santa Monica Elks lodge (1811 Ocean Ave), the only substantial building on the property, is demolished./joss-fong-videomaking-ai-science-communication.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joss-fong-videomaking-ai-science-communication.html“You get more of what you engage with. Everyone who complains about coverage should understand that every click, every quote tweet, every argument is registered by these publications as engagement. If what you want is really meaty, dispassionate, balanced, and fair explainers, you need to click on that, you need to read the whole thing, you need to share it, talk about it, comment on it. We get the media that we deserve./violence-is-plummeting-in-the-us.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/violence-is-plummeting-in-the-us.htmlNow, who will light up the darkness? Who will hold your hand? Who will find you the answers, when you don’t understand? -Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks Greetings from the Tortured Metaphor Department. Violence is plummeting in the United States. All available data from 2023 show a decline in homicide that is so large that it is near the top of all-time, one-year crime declines. Now, crime data from the first quarter of 2024 are becoming available, and they show a homicide decline almost twice as large as in 2023./vocational-awe.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vocational-awe.htmlThis is the free, Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. In a recent piece for the New York Times, sociologist Eric Klinenberg makes the case that libraries just might be able to save the 2020 election. In short: many Americans in states where mail-in voting is not the norm are distrustful about the mail-in and drop-off process./ward-farnsworth-the-socratic-method.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ward-farnsworth-the-socratic-method.htmlWard Farnsworth is Dean and John Jeffers Research Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. He formerly was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Boston University Law School. He’s the author of The Socratic Method and The Practicing Stoic. The Socratic method as an orientation of mind, is different from the orientation of mind that we use by default and therefore challenging. It's a humbler, more inquisitive frame of mind, a path toward intelligence./warren-smith-learns-its-not-enough.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warren-smith-learns-its-not-enough.htmlA few months ago, a Massachusetts high school teacher named Warren Smith went viral for the following exchange with a student. In it, he helps the student understand why he’s been thinking about J.K. Rowling all wrong. She’s not a “transphobe” for knowing how chromosomes work. What Smith does here is remarkable. In an age when the highest goal in any debate is to “own” your opponent — humiliate him, shout him down, ruin his life for daring to disagree with you — Smith helps this young man actually think about the things he’s saying./warrior-nun-the-tragedy-of-adriel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warrior-nun-the-tragedy-of-adriel.html[Warning: The following essay will contain spoilers for Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2.] Who is Adriel, really? At the end of Warrior Nun Episode 10, Ava discovers that what everyone believed to be bones underneath the Vatican was actually an imprisoned, and very much still alive, Adriel. The same Adriel who, in the legends passed down through the Order of the Cruciform Sword (OCS), gave his halo to the first Warrior Nun, Areala, during the time of the Crusades./eleanor-holm-olympics.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eleanor-holm-olympics.htmlFifty years later, Eleanor Holm could still recall the events of July 23rd, 1936 in vivid detail. She would remember that night for the rest of her life—in part because people never stopped asking her about it. Every four years, in the run-up to the next summer Olympics, the questions about July 23rd and its whirlwind aftermath started up again. “Before the Olympics…they take me out of the trunk and review me,” she joked in the New York Times in 1984./welcome-to-scott-mendelsons-the-outside.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-scott-mendelsons-the-outside.htmlWell, it’s a new Substack run by Scott Mendelson, infamous film journalist, kill-joy movie critic and bloviating box office pundit. Yes, I’m taking the plunge and hoping for the best. This site will be free throughout December before going at least somewhat paywalled in early 2024. Kids, cats and nonstop supplies of Zevia soda cans are expensive. This will be a regular run of deep-dive analysis and (when applicable) deadpan commentary. Think box office punditry, film reviews, news analysis and think pieces./wes-anderson-is-making-white-movies.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wes-anderson-is-making-white-movies.htmlJust this week on Keep It, I was mourning Gwyneth Paltrow’s film career. Yes, her ski trial has been endlessly memeable (and Louis and I discussed it on the podcast so I won’t get into it here), but Gwyneth is an ACTRESS. Enough of this GOOP nonsense. She’s made her empire. We need the art again. And I truly, truly loved her in The Royal Tenenbaums, which is still Wes Anderson’s magnum opus to me./what-al-sharpton-could-learn-about.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-al-sharpton-could-learn-about.htmlLast week, Rev. Al Sharpton caused some titters to erupt across the internet by his commentary on the Trump indictment over the Jan. 6th issue. “One day our children’s children will read American history,” Sharpton said, “and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power?” As many noted, Sharpton apparently failed to get the memo that such is exactly what James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did when they helped found our nation./what-are-conditions-in-gaza-like.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-are-conditions-in-gaza-like.htmlDisclaimer: This post is not about *current* conditions in Gaza, which has become a war zone and a hellscape. This post is about *pre-war* conditions in Gaza––the conditions that, according to some, provoked Hamas to begin this war in the first place. Like many people, I have been consuming lots of Norman Finkelstein content lately, including his book on Gaza. According to Finkelstein and other critics of Israel, pre-war conditions in Gaza were beyond hellish./what-georgism-is-not.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-georgism-is-not.htmlThis publication has devoted significant space to explicating the ideas of georgism as they apply to the modern world. However, some confusions still exist about the essential nature of the georgist program. In order to provide additional clarity as to what georgism is, we find it imperative to correct several common errors, and state definitively what georgism is not. One common assertion (or objection) is that georgism is simply a form of socialism./what-happens-when-our-longest-relationships.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happens-when-our-longest-relationships.htmlA few weeks ago, I found myself rewatching The Originals, the CW Network show about the first vampire siblings, which found them vowing to stay by each other “always and forever.” I started pondering why so many shows with cult followings focus on the evolving relationships between siblings or long-time friends. Despite our general cultural obsession with romantic relationships, Supernatural, Buffy, Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Mother, and other shows all held family — those that are chosen and those given from birth — at their core./what-is-happening-in-glendale-unified.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-happening-in-glendale-unified.htmlDear Parents, You may not be aware of significant and important details of your children’s locker room experiences.  Male coaches at Glendale Unified School District have expressed concerns because they do not want to see biological females undress in front of them. In response to their concerns, Assistant Superintendent of Glendale Unified School District, Kelly King, has re-educated the male coaches that they are bigoted if they do not allow biological females to undress among the biological males./rebecca-traister-marriage-trad-radical-feminism.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rebecca-traister-marriage-trad-radical-feminism.htmlPremium subscribers get this episode 48 hours early. Become a member if you want early access to all episodes, and to get access to the bonus-only episodes. New York Magazine writer, acclaimed author and old(ish) school GenX feminist Rebecca Traister joins the pod to talk about her September article, “The Return Of The Marriage Plot: Why  everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.”  Do trads have a point when they say the sexual revolution has led us down the primrose path and people need to start procreation early and often?/what-is-yacht-rock.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-yacht-rock.html“Sailing Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be Just a dream and the wind to carry me Soon I will be free” -Christopher Cross This week’s Swap is dedicated to really, really smooth music. Even if you don’t know the term, you are unquestionably familiar with the music known as “Yacht Rock.” Our bonus track takes a deep dive into the genre and tells you why you should love yacht rock too./what-makes-a-great-beachhead-market.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-makes-a-great-beachhead-market.html📈 Welcome to the 55 new subscribers! Now at 977 subscribers, almost at the magical 1.000 subs barrier! ➡️ Today: What makes a great beachhead market? 🗓️ Planned: Five expansion strategies from your beachhead market 🗓️ Planned: Getting traction in your beachhead market 🗓️ Planned: Performance-based beachhead: lessons from the steam engine Finding your first customer is important, obviously. Ideally, the needs of that first customer are not unique and there are many customers like that first one./what-the-bachelor-taught-me-about.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-bachelor-taught-me-about.htmlThis year’s Bachelor was six feet, five inches tall. More wall than man, Missouri-born Clayton Echard barely fit through a standard-sized door. I can see why his staggering height made him a good football player, earning him a brief spot on the Seahawks roster; the NFL prefers their players rectangle-shaped. But it also apparently made him hot, almost by default. That’s not something I fully understood until I became part of The Bachelor fandom eight years ago./what-they-dont-tell-you-about-calibrations.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-calibrations.htmlI recently had a great conversation with Shreyas Doshi, where we discussed topics like communication, building a learning mindset, and managing your career as a Product Manager. Inspired by our chat, I thought I would give you a behind-the-scenes look at how performance assessments, calibrations, and ratings work.  I have been a manager for nearly two decades, and I previously helped design a large PM calibration system. There is a lot going on behind the scenes that is invisible to most of the people who get rated, and non-managers usually never see what happens in these closed rooms./pricing-your-work-what-to-charge.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pricing-your-work-what-to-charge.htmlWhat’s the standard day rate for an editorial shoot? Why do commercial photography prices seem so random? Is it ever okay to accept a job that doesn’t pay well? And can you really make $15,000 per day as a photographer? Let’s find out.  As part of Feature Shoot’s premium newsletter, we asked industry leaders to peel back the curtain and provide some no-nonsense advice on how photographers should be pricing their work./book-publicity-what-works-and-what.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-publicity-what-works-and-what.html1× 0:00 -14:19 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.In college during the early 90s, an English Lit professor told me I should read The New York Times Book Review. Since digital media wasn’t upon us yet, I schlepped to a different town every Sunday to buy the Times because none of the convenience stores in my town sold it. I had never read a book review section before, so devouring literary criticism on the weekend sounded pretty good as a 20yo English major./whats-a-notwithstanding-clause.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-a-notwithstanding-clause.html“You promised me a notwithstanding clause” must surely be one of the stranger complaints made by an outgoing home secretary to the prime minister who appointed her, particularly as Suella Braverman was given something pretty similar by Rishi Sunak as part of her “stop the boats” legislation. A notwithstanding clause, as I understand it, says that you ar… ncG1vNJzZmiqn6%2Byr67Eq55nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ww8eaq6xlkWK7sMDWoquhq6SWu6W1zaBknKSRqsCm/when-should-we-pull-our-goalie.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-should-we-pull-our-goalie.htmlPulling the goalie is a tactical move to add a skater on the ice to try to overwhelm the defense. It’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition that deserves a nuanced analysis. There are two basically two decisions that a coach needs to make: How much time is left on the clock when we pull the goalie? At what point in play should we pull the goalie? Many of you likely saw the below clip of Vancouver Canucks forward J./when-danny-castellano-went-to-india.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-danny-castellano-went-to-india.htmlBefore the writers of The Mindy Project took a sledgehammer to Danny Castellano’s character, he was pretty good at the big romantic gesture. Or at least, he was pretty good at realizing that he was being an ass and sprinting to patch things up with Mindy, usually to the backdrop of an absolute banger. I can’t listen to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing In the Dark” without thinking of him running to the top of the Empire State Building to tell Mindy that he wanted to go all in on their relationship, and Beyoncé’s “XO” will always remind me of him chasing after Mindy when his mom clues him into the fact that she’s pregnant./when-the-temps-drop-eat-seeds.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-the-temps-drop-eat-seeds.htmlPepitas are a super-popular snack all around Mexico. They form the base of pipián, a minimalist, savory mole sauce famous in states like Jalisco and Zacatecas. They are an indispensable ingredient in Yucatán’s famous sikil p’aak (don’t forget I wrote you a recipe back in the summer for Sikil P'aak Grilled Ribs with Sungolds). While pepitas aren’t the most celebrated Mexican ingredient, they certainly deserve to be, especially when you taste these albóndigas that make pepitas the protagonist./which-gluten-free-pizza-crust-is.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-gluten-free-pizza-crust-is.htmlHello friends, I’m back with another gluten free product test! This time gluten free pizza crusts. I have an extra newsletter coming out for all of you this week on Thursday - a guest article, I think you are going to love it! It’s wonderful to make your crust from scratch - I have quite a few pizza recipes - try this Chicago Style Stuffed Deep Dish Pizza for instance./who-am-i.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-am-i.htmlIt wasn’t the drinking, fighting, or terrifying uncertainty in my childhood home. It wasn’t that my mother left, running off with a psychopathic, wanna-be-cult-leader doctor. It wasn’t my father’s sudden, and overwhelming fame causing him to change dramatically from a gentle artist to a suicidal maniac. It wasn’t even that when I was kidnapped, and miraculously escaped and survived, no one seemed to care. The sadness that existed in me had always been there, since the dawn of time and maybe even before that./fani-willis-is-probably-guilty-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fani-willis-is-probably-guilty-of.htmlIf Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis were prosecuting citizen Fani Willis and her former boyfriend Nathan Wade for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, she would have an extremely strong case. The evidence of perjury is overwhelming; many individuals have been convicted on far less evidence. Recall that Willis and Wade testified under oath to the material fact that Willis did not hire Wade as special prosecutor while they were having a romantic relationship./whohowwhy-was-alice-clark.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whohowwhy-was-alice-clark.htmlby T. Bloom There isn’t much to say about Alice Clark that hasn’t been said elsewhere already, but mostly that’s because there just isn’t much to say. Even less was known when I first happened across her music back in 2009. Nowadays she has a Wikipedia page containing a few scant details about her personal life. But even these are enigmatic — a suggestion that she grew up in Bed-Stuy, and this quote from album collaborator Billy Vera:/why-are-there-sea-monsters-and-dragons.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-there-sea-monsters-and-dragons.htmlThis is the fifth part of our series examining the image of water in the Bible. Over the next months, we’ll be looking at these verses to follow the image of water as it flows from Genesis to Revelation. This time we’re looking into the depths… at the “that’s no whale” sea monsters that swarm in the abyss. Careful readers of Genesis 1 will notice God makes two kinds of things in the sea on the fifth day: “giant sea creatures” (as the ESV, NIV, and NASB put it) and everything else./why-i-deleted-my-social-media.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-deleted-my-social-media.htmlI did it. It took me almost an hour to figure out how to do it (Meta sure doesn’t make it easy to divorce yourself from its dystopian maze), but I did it. I deactivated my personal Facebook and my personal Instagram account. I also put an ‘away message’ on Born of Wonder’s Instagram and have no plans to sign back in. I first created an Instagram in 2012. It was 2009 the first time I signed onto Facebook./why-i-love-cooking-outdoors-spilled.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-love-cooking-outdoors-spilled.htmlHey AZ... I've truly & thoroughly enjoy you're newer project, 'Andrew Zimmern Wild Outdoor Kitchen'... I've watched every episode & have saved all the recipes... I live in Brewtown, Wisconsin, and my best friend's Dad, was executive officer's chef in the military & an expert marksman. They had 180-acres of hunting grounds, w/ 5 lakes & a nice cabin in Spooner Wisconsin. I spent all my whole summers there. He engraved the value of nature, preserving it & living-off it as well./why-is-the-real-story-of-october.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-the-real-story-of-october.htmlThis story fascinates me. We cannot and will never know, obviously, all of what occurred on October 7th. But it is becoming ever clearer that 'friendly fire' is a large part of the equation. More fascinating to me, though, is how quickly the mainstream Western narratives surrounding this day - the history leading up to it, the events of the day itself and the days since - have been challenged and begun to crumble, almost in real time./why-simple-solution-usually-works.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-simple-solution-usually-works.htmlHave you ever heard about Occam’s Razor principle? It’s a principle stating that “the simplest solution is usually the best one.” It means that when presented with several solutions to solve the problem with the same result, we should prefer the one with the simplest one. The Occam Razor principle itself fully applies to the world of data science. Let’s see from the data science realm. I would say that many people who enter the data field, or even professionals, love to use the latest technology./why-the-fridge-continues-to-resonate.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-fridge-continues-to-resonate.htmlEver notice the yellow Energy Star tags on all appliances sold in the US? The Energy for Growth Hub, the nonprofit I started, was born out of one of these tags that caught my eye during a shopping trip to buy a new refrigerator in 2013. For the first time ever, I read the tag and was immediately struck that my new fridge would use 459 kWh per year. Normally, I would’ve ignored this abstract number, but I just happened to have been messing around with energy data that morning and realized – 💡moment!/why-we-invested-in-lumino-ai.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-invested-in-lumino-ai.htmlAt L2IV, we are always on the lookout for ground-breaking technologies that have the potential to transform industries and drive significant value creation. After a thorough evaluation of Lumino AI's decentralized compute protocol and its positioning in the rapidly evolving AI DePIN landscape, we are excited to announce our participation in Lumino AI’s pre-seed round. The AI industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, expected to reach a market size of $2 trillion by 2030, and market spending on AI training alone is expected to reach $600 billion during the same timeline./why-we-need-to-stop-calling-cereal-91c.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-need-to-stop-calling-cereal-91c.htmlFirst, hello to all of my lovely new followers! Thank you Substack for choosing me as a featured publication this week. I am honored to be here with all of you and excited to continue debunking diet culture myths. Here at Forkful, my mission is to inspire you to break up with your diet and pick up a fork. But today, I’m actually going to inspire you to pick up a spoon./wnba-cba-explained-bonuses.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wnba-cba-explained-bonuses.htmlThanks for reading the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter. If you like our work, be sure to check out our stats site, our podcast, and our social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also buy Her Hoop Stats gear, such as laptop stickers, mugs, and shirts! Haven’t subscribed to the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter yet? Welcome back to our WNBA CBA and Salary Cap Explained series. As part of our mission to unlock better insight about the women’s game, we’re breaking down the rules outlined in the 350-page WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), covering the 2020 through 2027 seasons, in plain language./daniela-soto-innes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daniela-soto-innes.htmlI started Something Glorious because I love the joy food, drinks, and travel offer to so many people. Gathering with friends and family over a meal with a nice bottle of wine, in a special — or even not so special — setting can result in memorable stories, laughs, and sometimes even tears (often times from la… ncG1vNJzZmiZop6vprrDnqmso6ljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89om5qmmZq5onnSqKuoZZmju6a%2F/writing-funny-lines-for-your-sitcom.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/writing-funny-lines-for-your-sitcom.htmlI like jokes. I like laughing. Out loud. I quite like smiling. And I quite the like feeling of having spotted something really subtle. But I think I like laughing the best. I fully appreciate that some people don't like laughing. Somehow, some of them are TV critics. It's understandable to some extent. Most comedies wouldn't seem all that funny when played on a preview disc at 11am in a brightly lit lounge on a Tuesday morning./wtf-is-a-gaussian-splat.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wtf-is-a-gaussian-splat.htmlWithin the last few weeks, my feeds have been inundated with flashy videos with a new buzz phrase…GAUSSIAN SPLATTING!!! And when I saw it, I believe I reacted in an entirely rational way…I was furious. WTF is this, now!?!?!? I have spent the last couple of years being thoroughly curious about NERFs and GenAI and Neural Rendering and Deep Learning Upsampling and SDK Modeling and GLBs and GTLFs and USD and USDa and USDc and USDz…./wtf-is-a-shaken-espresso.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wtf-is-a-shaken-espresso.htmlSometimes I engage in a little capitalism, as a treat. Like many, my first flirtation with caffeine was through Starbucks. Starbucks essentially created modern coffee “culture,” meaning it transformed imported coffee culture into an Americanized grab-and-go sugar factory, exporting this unrecognizable version back to its origins. Now, Starbucks delivers eviction notices to coffee bars in Europe. Out with the old and in with the new. I have a morbid curiosity toward Americanization, monopolization, insert fancy verb here./zz-tops-billy-gibbons-the-early-years.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-the-early-years.htmlEqual parts storyteller, sage, fire-and-brimstone preacher, rollin’-and-tumblin’ bluesman, and rock guitar hero, Billy Gibbons has been entertaining family, friends, and fans for more than a half-century. Offstage, he carries himself with an almost professorial dignity, parsing his phrases carefully as he pulls on his foot-long beard. He laces his conversation with sly innuendos, double entendres, and gentle Texas charm. He’s charismatic, generous, and funny, a passionate collector of classic cars, fine art, weird hats, rare records, and bizarre and beautiful guitars./hang-a-ri-noodle-house.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hang-a-ri-noodle-house.html🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA 📍 9916 Garden Grove Blvd., Garden Grove, Orange County. 🅿️ Ample parking in plaza 🥤 No AlcoholHISTORICAL ARTICLES are brought over from eattheworldla.com to make sure our Substack content is constantly growing and as full of depth as possible. These will never be behind the paywall. 📆 Original Article 19 December 2019Sure, there is another more popular location in Koreatown with the same name but unaffiliated, but walking into the serene conditions of this Garden Grove restaurant is almost like a wave of calm./10-movies-for-travelers-to-italy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-movies-for-travelers-to-italy.htmlIn less than a month I’ll be returning to Italy so I’m getting in the mood with some classic movies set in the Bel Paese. Ready to shake off the winter blahs? These 10 movies for travelers to Italy will have you sipping a Campari and basking in the Italian sun, if only in your mind. A highlight among the stars of classic film, this gem stars Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck./listen-stay-in-my-heart.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/listen-stay-in-my-heart.html💀 Registration is open for Cosmic Collage! ALL SOULS 💀 This is my last offering for 2023. Also, the last time I offer a cosmic collage workshop! I hope you can join for this final spooky edition! At this time of year, the veil between the realms is thin.... and magical. How do you connect to what is unseen? Can you open to what is not rational? Come explore sacred thresholds through meditation, contemplation and creativity./paco-palencia-wants-mexican-soccer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paco-palencia-wants-mexican-soccer.htmlPaco Palencia loves Mexico. He loves Mexican soccer. You don’t really need his credentials to believe that, but I’ll give them anyway: Palencia is a two-time World Cup veteran with more than 475 first-division matches played in a career that saw him suit up for three of the four grandes of the league. He won the league on three occasions. With El Tri, he won three Gold Cup trophies and the 1999 Confederations Cup./gamma.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gamma.htmlGamma has become one of my favorite new creativity tools. You can use it like Powerpoint or Google Slides, adding text and images to make impactful presentations. It lets you create vertical, square or horizontal slides. You can embed online content to make your deck stand out with videos, data or graphics. You can even use it to make quick websites. Its best feature, though, is an easy-to-use application of AI./90s-dad-thrillers-a-list.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/90s-dad-thrillers-a-list.htmlFor the first few months after my son was born last year, I was hunting for stuff to watch that would be entertaining but not taxing — movies I'd seen before, or movies that even if I hadn't actually seen them, I felt like I'd seen them, because I'd seen the box art for the VHS tape pass through my hands thousands of times when I worked at the Princeton, N./asteroid-city-review-oppenheimer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/asteroid-city-review-oppenheimer.htmlI first saw Asteroid City the week it came out, while I was still trying to figure out what this newsletter should be. I meant to review it and I thought that meant seeing it as soon as possible. I tried to squeeze it into regular weeknight rotation, after putting a toddler to bed and a few drinks at dinner. That didn’t work out so well. I felt sleepy and disassociated, left wondering whether my failure to lose myself in the movie was my fault or the movie’s./in-review-love-lies-bleeding-ricky.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-love-lies-bleeding-ricky.htmlLove Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass 104 min. One common pitfall of mediocre neo-noirs are filmmakers who get caught up with signifiers, fiddling too much with hard men and femme fatales, stylized dialogue, and flashy chiaroscuro lighting techniques. Starting with the title, Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding serves as a potent reminder that passion is the true engine of the genre, even as it trades robustly in the familiar archetypes and the nasty little twists that go along with it./tin-cup-the-zen-of-never-laying-up.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tin-cup-the-zen-of-never-laying-up.htmlThe 1999 Open at Carnoustie. Final day. 18th hole. A Frenchman named Jean Van de Velde was carrying a three-shot lead over the nearest contender, and needed only a double-bogey to win the tournament. For a professional golfer with that big a lead, the final hole is usually ceremonial, a chance to soak in the approbation of the gallery as he strolls his way to victory against the majestic backdrop of a Major course around magic hour./spicy-mackerel-cakes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spicy-mackerel-cakes.htmlLittle fish don’t get a lot of respect. People don’t have trouble with tuna or halibut, but the same people shrink away from dinky sardines and anchovies. In The Magic of Tinned Fish, Chris McDade explores the wonders of these smaller specimens of the sea, in tinned form, including mackerel, which is one of my favorite tinned fish. Although I have to say, I like them all. Chris is the chef at Popina in Brooklyn, where I’ve eaten several times, and he courageously devoted an entire book to my favorite forms of fish./barcarolle.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barcarolle.htmlEvery Tom Waits Song is an email newsletter covering just that, in alphabetical order. Find more info here and sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox: There is no shortage of connections between Tom Waits and Bob Dylan (my other newsletter subject), but the Alice deep cut “Barcarolle” introduced me to a new one. But first, some background. What does that title mean? Tom explains a “barcarolle” in the Alicepress kit:/forever-young-bob-dylan-rod-stewart.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/forever-young-bob-dylan-rod-stewart.htmlI’m gonna explore in more detail the story of my recent adventures living (again) at my aunt’s assisted living facility — expect that within the next two newsletters — but today I’m writing about the song that has been stuck in my head since I returned home a couple days ago. “Forever Young.” It was Rod Stewart’s 1988 version that appeared to me first. Then it morphed into Alphaville’s 1984 version./is-there-more-drake-namedrops-maya.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-there-more-drake-namedrops-maya.htmlPopPoetry is a poetry and pop culture Substack written by Caitlin Cowan. You can learn more about it here. Check out the archive to see other tv shows, movies, and films whose intersections with poetry I’ve covered. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, subscribe so you won’t miss a post! Let’s talk about six words in a Drake song. The opening lines of “Is There More,” from the 6 God’s 2018 double album, Scorpion, go like this:/classics-of-the-new-millennium-paterson.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/classics-of-the-new-millennium-paterson.htmlIf you have never seen Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 film “Paterson” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐), now would be a very good time to watch it, with the world falling to pieces on a daily basis and your frazzled soul in need of a balm. If you’ve already seen “Paterson,” now would be a good time to watch it again. In fact, it would be entirely within the philosophy of this movie to watch it every day, as part of the cycle of quotidian events that turns like a bus driver’s steering wheel from morning to night./c-14616478.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/c-14616478.htmlRestacks are the secret power behind Notes. I’ve subscribed to newsletters from authors whose work I enjoy. I’ve followed Notes from people to whom I don’t yet subscribe but am considering. When I restack a note from one of these authors, it introduces their voice to all of the people who happen to be following my account. The cool thing, to me, is that when you folks restack Notes from the people with whom you interact you’re introducing me to new authors and helping me find more interesting people/newsletters to follow./shaken-and-heartsick-another-professor.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shaken-and-heartsick-another-professor.htmlThese stories are frightfully difficult to write. Emotionally taxing and not without risk. I rely on your support to keep bringing situations like these to light. Will you become a paid subscriber today? In 1930, a white mob perpetrated a lynching in Marion, Indiana. Two young Black men, Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith, had been accused of raping a white woman and killing her boyfriend. This lynching might have joined the other lynchings—more than 4,000 (that we know of) in the Jim Crow era—in relative anonymity./what-love-is.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-love-is.htmlHello Wonderful Community, Today I’m sharing a new video of my poem, “What Love Is” published in my book, ‘You Better Be Lightning’.  I’m going to be sharing video newsletters such as this more frequently from now on  as I used to teach in a pre-school and loved story time, and this reminds me of that. I wish we were right now sitting around a circle together, eating snacks and prepping for Show & Tell./7-dreams-freud-and-wish-fulfillment.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-dreams-freud-and-wish-fulfillment.htmlI've always been fascinated by dreams. The fact that human beings conjure up alternate realities for themselves, with unspoken and implicitly understood rules and laws about the world, completely ridiculous things which seem genuinely real and which you don't even question until you wake up, is something that is mind-boggling when you think about, but is also so prevalent since the dawn of time that we don't stop to think twice about it./synapse-trustee-85m-gap-vs-what-depositors.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/synapse-trustee-85m-gap-vs-what-depositors.htmlHey all, Jason here. The first status conference since the appointment of former FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams as Chapter 11 trustee in the Synapse bankruptcy case will take place today at 1:30pm PT. In advance of that hearing, McWilliams filed a status report with the court — thought it worth providing a quick summary of the key points in that filing prior to the hearing. If you enjoy reading this newsletter each Sunday and find value in it, please consider supporting me (and finhealth non-profits!/10-new-breath-prayers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-new-breath-prayers.htmlHi friends, Today, I wanted to share a few new breath prayers that I’ve been working through over the past month or two. Breath prayer remains an integral part of my own spiritual practice because it hits on something to do with embodiment and quiet that I sorely need in my life. I’ve found that this form of prayer is a real low barrier for those of us wh… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuqa7ErKqesV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI5qZ2amlax6o77EmquhZaCnrrqx0aw%3D/10-really-great-philly-restaurants.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-really-great-philly-restaurants.htmlLast Thursday, I was on a date with my husband at Middle Child Clubhouse, and in between bites of tricked out latkes and sips of a cheeky “vodka cran” made with smoked black tea and beets, I was pleasantly distracted by a very adorable, bald baby being passed around the booth behind us. It reminded me of a time in my life, more than a decade ago, when we would often bring our first daughter Benny out to eat in our Brooklyn neighborhood./20-excellent-board-games-that-cost.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-excellent-board-games-that-cost.htmlModern board games are great, but they are not cheap. In some ways it's a miracle of global supply chains that they don’t cost even more than they do - shipping pallets of big, heavy boxes all over the world, filled with hundreds of perfectly-machined and printed components is not an easy business to be in.  Still, when “board game curious” audiences see that the ever-popular Gloomhaven is $100, the well-liked Pandemic Legacy is $60, and buzzy Terraforming Mars is $55, it may turn them off from the hobby entirely./20-fascinating-little-known-gardening.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-fascinating-little-known-gardening.htmlIf you’re new here, welcome! To ensure you never miss an issue of The Weekly Dirt, click here to subscribe 👇 Hi, guys! I’ve collected a lot of information about plants over the years, and it occurs to me that some of the facts floating around in my brain aren’t neces… ncG1vNJzZmiilajAqq%2FAnZimoZGjvG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2hqYGKzor%2FCoqWarJmjtG64yK2rpZ1doLuww81mnpqqlJq7qrrG/2020s-best-witchy-pagan-and-occult.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2020s-best-witchy-pagan-and-occult.htmlIn keeping with how generally weird these times are that we live in, viewers taking comfort in horror films and TV shows has been a distinctive coping mechanism during the pandemic, when we’re doing our best to stay home. Of course, the last four years of horror under Trump have primed us for this approach to survival, and filmmakers are responding with a flurry of new horror, to the extent that it’s almost, well, too many horror films./40-what-wrong-with-var-and-how-to.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/40-what-wrong-with-var-and-how-to.html“It’s a penalty to Arsenal! Penalty… wait a moment, there’s a VAR check in progress. They’re checking for offside in the move leading to the penalty… waiting for the decision… still waiting… (crowd noises in the background) the fans are getting annoyed… waiting… OK, no offside so the penalty kick can now be taken (ironic cheering from fans in the background)…” I heard this radio commentary a couple of weeks ago./7-gateway-k-dramas-cloy-goblin-coffee-prince.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-gateway-k-dramas-cloy-goblin-coffee-prince.htmlWhat was the first K-drama you watched that made you want to watch even more Korean shows? It’s different for everyone. For some, it may have been 2021’s “Squid Game,” while for others it could’ve been 2002’s “Winter Sonata” that drew them in. For my latest newsletter, I gave a lot of thought to what I’ve heard repeatedly from readers here (and on social media over the years) about the shows that drew them in./a-beginners-guide-to-art-appreciation.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-beginners-guide-to-art-appreciation.html“Beauty will save the world” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky In my previous article, I urged readers to find what they value in art. But what if you didn’t get art? That was me a while ago. I did not understand the hype around art. I would see many paintings and walk away unimpressed. Sure, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is beautiful. So what? There are so many beautiful paintings of flowers in the world./a-new-restaurant-and-bakery-is-an.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-restaurant-and-bakery-is-an.htmlOver the weekend I had a chance to see Nick Mohamed at Town Hall for a one-night-only stand-up show. For Lasso fans, it was pretty fabulous to see the wonder kid Nathan Shelly on stage. Fans brought “BELIEVE” signs and settled in for a night with the lovable kit man turned dastardly head coach (and back). Nick’s stand up was terrific, but not quite what I expected. He embodies a character called Mr./a-deep-dive-on-the-new-york-jets.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-on-the-new-york-jets.htmlAt the end of last week’s article about the Vikings’ original uniforms, I wrote, “I’m pretty sure that the Vikings are the final NFL team to be announcing a new throwback for 2023.” Shows what I know! No sooner had I written that than we had a video leak hinting at a Jets throwback, which was confirmed a few days later when the Jets unveiled their new retro uni set. And you know what that means — time for another deep dive on the uniforms that inspired the new throwback!/a-deep-dive-pineapple-tarts.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-pineapple-tarts.htmlHappy 2022 everyone! I’m kicking off this year’s newsletter with a deep-dive on pineapple tarts, a treat which is incredibly beloved and equally embraced by all communities in Singapore. This week, you’ll receive newsletters as a three-part series: in this first newsletter, we will uncover the differences between Taiwanese pineapple cakes and Southeast Asian pineapple tarts. The second and third newsletters to come will explore the intricacies of the pineapple tart-making process./a-gods-tears-make-god-tier-tv-in.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-gods-tears-make-god-tier-tv-in.htmlThe Short Take: Wow. This finale doubles — nay, triples down on the loopy, mind-melting time travel storytelling, yet still maintains a firm grip on Loki’s emotional arc. I can’t believe they pulled this off. [SPOILER WARNING: For all time. Always.] Image Credit: Looper The Long Take: When he’s wearing a collared shirt and suspenders, it can be easy to forget that Loki is a Norse god. In this series, he acted a lot more like a time cop than the god of mischief./october-e-book-a-guide-to-article.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/october-e-book-a-guide-to-article.htmlThis month’s unit is a little nontraditional. It’s not really a standalone 3-4 week unit at all, but rather a year-long, all-the-time rhythm of classroom life. Originally Kelly Gallagher’s brainchild, I’ve used Article of the Week in different ways over the years. It has always been beneficial. But it has taken a lot of time. We could easily make a whole class out of just Articles of the Week, and it became so consuming a few years ago that I just dropped it altogether./art-101-a-guide-to-drawing-horses.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/art-101-a-guide-to-drawing-horses.htmlJoin the #CC_DIYChallenge and show your inner artist! One of the biggest challenges we face as creators is figuring out how to start our project. Things like coming up with ideas or deciding on one can be troublesome, but they are never as frightening as a blank slate. After revisiting my journey as a creator, I realized that taking a different approach to starting a project can make it less frightening – and that’s how this article was born./a-library-of-words.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-library-of-words.htmlHey y’all, It felt like I spent the weekend in another century: Riding my bicycle, chopping wood, and obsessively reading Roget’s Thesaurus. Let me explain that last item. I have always assumed — and maybe you have, too — that a thesaurus is just a synonym dictionary, the words arranged alphabetically with a list of synonyms and antonyms below. Somehow, every thesaurus I’d ever come across — even ones with “Roget” in the title!/a-minute-with-ian-felice.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-minute-with-ian-felice.htmlHi! This is a newsletter about artists I like. I began acquiring art through some friends that worked in galleries. I started small, working on a limited budget, for stuff I could afford. As time passed, my collection grew, and it was exciting to watch many of the artists I'd collected go on to bigger shows and critical acclaim. My goal with this newsletter is to make a digestible resource for anyone interested in artists that are making great (and still affordable!/richard-tregaskis-biography-ray-boomhower.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richard-tregaskis-biography-ray-boomhower.htmlWe’re changing things up a bit today as we take a look at one of the most celebrated correspondents of World War II. Ray E. Boomhower’s latest book, Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam, is now available from the University of New Mexico Press. We spoke with Ray to get his insights on one of the truly legendary journalists of the era and learn a bit about what led him to write the first biography of Tregaskis./demystifying-vc-fundraising-a-roadmap.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/demystifying-vc-fundraising-a-roadmap.htmlThis week in the Tank we have Winter Mead, founder of Coolwater Capital, to discuss his background in venture capital and the challenges faced by emerging fund managers. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the LP perspective and operationalizing the fund to attract institutional investors. Winter also shares insights from his book on raising a venture capital fund and the mission of Coolwater Capital's Accelerator program. The program aims to bridge the knowledge gap for emerging VCs and provides guidance on fund formation, LP fundraising, and fund management./throwblack-thursdays-a-series-dedicated.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/throwblack-thursdays-a-series-dedicated.htmlAs a kid growing up in the Deep South in the 80s and 90s, my social outlets were limited. I did not live in an area that had a subway system that could whisk me away to various parts of my hometown. There was no social media to engage with other young folks outside of my immediate community. I was not of driving age until the tail end of the 90s, and even when I did come of age there wasn’t an abundance of places for young Black kids in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to kick it./a-thousand-layers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-thousand-layers.htmlMy mom has stage four lung cancer. She was diagnosed four and a half years ago when the doctors said she had six months to live, if we were lucky. It’s her story not mine but she has had some rough patches, some good luck, some great doctors. She has defied the odds for which I am grateful, every single day. Her general attitude is that the cancer is really none of her business; the disease is going to do what it is going to do and she is going to live her life as long as she can./a-totally-subjective-ranking-of-beach.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-totally-subjective-ranking-of-beach.htmlHi! You’ve found your way to “Yes, I Am A Hungry Woman” and I am excited to meet you. Have you subscribed? Lest you think I’m bragging, this is just how things go in Coastal Virginia. We are not a beach-in-the-summer community as much as we are a beach-in-the-shoulder-season community. Not for any persnickety reason like, I don’t know, a hatred of tourists (although I dare you to catch me on the Boardwalk anytime between early May and September - you won’t); rather, we just know that August on the sand is remarkably akin to camping on the edge of a molten lava field./a-traditional-venezuelan-dish-of.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-traditional-venezuelan-dish-of.htmlHola, friends! I hope you have enjoyed getting to know my team a little bit over the last few years. It has been really special for me to share recipes from the people who help bring our ideas, thoughts and passions to life—like chef Hector’s Red Pozole or Chef Koji’s Nikujaka, beef and potatoes. Each of these recipes comes straight from the heart, and reflects the heritages and cultures of our amazing team./a-woman-to-know-daisy-fellowes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-woman-to-know-daisy-fellowes.htmlShe had the elegance of the damned. — Diana Vreeland (image via National Portrait Gallery) The Honorable Daisy Fellowes’s list of titles is long, odd and (as was very Daisy) extremely glamorous — heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, a twice-duchess and mother of princes, editor of Paris Harper’s Bazaar, acclaimed poet and novelist, one of the fir… ncG1vNJzZmiipaG2oq%2FCmqmpnZ6psrN60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnkWLEsLnAp2Stp12gu7DDjJ2YoqupYrOmuMuorp6r/abe-zimmerman-talks-bobs-early-years.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/abe-zimmerman-talks-bobs-early-years.htmlIt's hard to anticipate Bobby – he might say, “Oh, I don't care,'' but on the other hand, I know that way deep he does care. Shelton: Do you think Bob will come back to Hibbing? Abram: - Long pause, no answer. Shelton note: The irony of this is that three weeks later the father died and Bob came back, reluctantly, for his funeral. Shelton: Do you think he will come back to Hibbing one day, or don't you know?/abraxas-guardian-of-the-universe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/abraxas-guardian-of-the-universe.htmlAccording to the trivia section of The Internet Movie Database Arnold Schwarzenegger was offered the lead role in 1990’s Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, but turned it down to make Terminator 2: Judgment Day instead.  I can’t imagine Schwarzenegger even contemplating making Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe for as long as a millisecond. For starters, it’s called Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe. I chuckle just looking at that fun series of words and the word “Abraxas” in particular./accomplishment-vs-achievement.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/accomplishment-vs-achievement.htmlBecause for the most part I get to spend my time writing on subjects of deep interest to me, largely on my own terms, there’s very few writers whose careers I envy, but Adam Gopnik’s is one of them. The source of my envy is found in the amazing array of projects with which he’s been involved. He’s curated an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He spent years in Paris, writing dispatches for The New Yorker, which later were collected in his classic, Paris to the Moon./after-57-years-maryland-fried-chicken.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/after-57-years-maryland-fried-chicken.htmlWith its stepped-gabled roofline that seems more Flemish than Florida, its candy-cane poles supporting the simple portico, and its gigantic neon sign featuring a chicken and a chick that has a proto “Partridge Family” vibe, Maryland Fried Chicken has long been a cinematic stop along the strip-mall sameness of Colonial Drive — the old Highway 50 — in Winter Garden, Florida, just outside Orlando. The fried-chicken fans who flock here no doubt take comfort in the architecture, but they are really here for the comfort food from one of the last outposts of a chain that could have been a contender and almost was a contender but has still managed to survive in pockets of the Southeast — and, in a small city in Michigan./aftersun-a-film-by-charlotte-wells.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aftersun-a-film-by-charlotte-wells.htmlAftersun received four nominations at the Baftas, and writer-director Charlotte Wells won in the catagory for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. It is a father-daughter film, and as such, one might be expected to describe it as poignant and moving. What is different about it is that it is infused with sadness, since the doting father, Callum, played by Paul Mescal, is clearly struggling with depression. Writer/director  Wells says it is based on real people - she lost her father aged 16./afterwords.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/afterwords.htmlMichael Imperioli is best known for his starring role as Christopher Moltisanti in the acclaimed TV series The Sopranos—which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award—and played a lead role on season two of HBO’s The White Lotus. He wrote five episodes of The Sopranos; was coscreenwriter of the film Summer of Sam, directed by Spike Lee; and was anthologized in The Nicotine Chronicles, edited by Lee Child. Imperioli has appeared in six of Spike Lee’s films and has also acted in films by Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, Walter Hill, Peter Jackson, and the Hughes Brothers./akg-n400.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/akg-n400.htmlI heard about these on Crinacle’s video on the best true wireless earbuds. The AKG N400 were his pick for best sounding and, as he pointed out, they are also only $48 when ordering directly from AKG. For $48 (with free shipping in the US), I had to get them even though I already have true wireless earbuds: the Bose Sport Earbuds. The box the AKG N400 arrived in is pretty nice and opens up like a book with everything easily accessible./alfred-hitchcocks-first-color-film.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alfred-hitchcocks-first-color-film.htmlFarley Granger, Dick Hogan, John Dall, Rope, Warner Bros. NOTE: This essay was originally meant to appear as a part of Slashfilm’s “Movies Are Gay” Pride month series, which was canceled one week into what was planned as a month-long run, though you can read a new list version of the series here. The version that appears here has been edited slightly since there is no longer a word count constraint./amds-mi300x-could-capture-20-market.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amds-mi300x-could-capture-20-market.htmlHello Readers, Happy Holidays!! The release of the AMD MI300 has sent ripples across the industry, challenging the long-standing supremacy of NVIDIA in the high-performance GPU market. Recently, AMD launched its AMD Instinct™ MI300 Series Accelerators and made a big statement for future. many of our clients are asking questions such as, “How large could AMD’s AI GPU business get?” & “Can Meta, AWS, OpenAI and Azure integrate with AMD MI300 successfully?/american-conspiracy-pt-2-the-octopus.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-conspiracy-pt-2-the-octopus.htmlWhen Danny Casolaro sold Computer Age magazine he thought the purchaser would offer him a job and keep him on. This did not happen.  He now decided to turn to journalism.  As the Netflix film American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders notes, he began to talk a lot to Bill Hamilton about the INSLAW case. By the time this happened, around the spring of 1990, things had changed in the status of that case./the-best-of-strunk-and-white-an-approach.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-of-strunk-and-white-an-approach.htmlDear Everybody, On my first day as a speechwriter in 2009, General David Petraeus told me to buy a copy of the The Elements of Style, the classic handbook on English usage by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. “Follow the rules and apply the principles in that book,” he said. “I try not to deviate from them.” The book is best known for its 22 elementary rules of usage and principles of composition, but I’ve always been drawn to a lesser appreciated chapter titled, “An Approach to Style (With a List of Reminders)./the-beguines-an-extraordinary-womens.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-beguines-an-extraordinary-womens.htmlThere are so many misconceptions about the Middle Ages that one barely knows where to begin to correct them. It is, of course, largely the result of the prejudices of the Renaissance compounded by the hubris of the Enlightenment that has obscured a more accurate picture of an entire millennium of Western history — a thousand years very unlike our own, but much more dynamic and varied and, despite its own temporal failures and evils, more accomplished in the arts and sciences (and politics) than moderns are popularly aware./an-interview-with-yames.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-interview-with-yames.htmlYames is an indie horror developer whose games tend to build on themes of posthumanism, Lovecraftian and body horror, and religious terror. I sat down to talk with him about his game Growing My Grandpa! and his work in general. Alex: Tell us a bit about your newest project, Growing My Grandpa!, which was recently released on itch.io and Steam. Yames: Growing My Grandpa! is a narrative-driven point-and-click horror game with virtual pet elements, the virtual pet being your Grandpa, or the thing you know as Grandpa./announcing-serious-trouble-a-podcast.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/announcing-serious-trouble-a-podcast.htmlFor the last six months I’ve been fielding questions about when Josh Barro and I would be launching a new podcast to replace “All the Presidents’ Lawyers,” the show we hosted for three years. I’m very happy that I finally have an answer. “Serious Trouble” launches today with its first episode. Fans of “All The President’s Lawyers” will find it familiar but expanded. Josh and I (with the help of our exceptional producer Sara Fay) will be addressing a wide array of legal controversies and dilemmas, each week asking “is this person in Serious Trouble?/are-snipers-on-the-roof-of-us-colleges.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-snipers-on-the-roof-of-us-colleges.htmlI did this livestream this morning where I searched for and identified locations at University of Indiana and The Ohio State where police marksmen may be over watching Gaza protests. This originally came from a Twitter viewer who asked me if the tweet below was real: https://twitter.com/bluepashminas/status/1783639236266151973 However, when your profile says “Victory to the Intifada,” you answer your own question. The reason for police marksmen may be twofold: #1. There is a non-zero chance that agitators with weapons or suicide vests may be in the crowd./ask-a-sober-oldster-11-author-jerry.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-a-sober-oldster-11-author-jerry.htmlThis monthly interview series is a collaboration between Oldster Magazine and The Small Bow, A.J. Daulerio’s excellent newsletter about recovery and mental health, and will appear in both newsletters. Learn more about this collaboration in this Oldster podcast/videocast episode.Check out The Small Bow Novelist, screenwriter, journalist, occasional actor & all-around guy who should be dead, Jerry Stahl is the author of ten books, including the bestsellers Permanent Midnight (made into a movie with Ben Stiller) and I, Fatty./ask-socrates-conversation-about-zines.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-socrates-conversation-about-zines.htmlHello!!! I hope you are enjoying your summer which is, by the way, not yet finished. I took my time to slow down, to read and think and enjoy life. Among other things I did, I explored (again) the fascinating Zine universe. Besides making them (which is greatly rewarding) I wanted to to understand how you can translate an idea to a Zine. Well… what better occasion to practice my favorite methodology?/astra-lumina-at-anakeesta-continues.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/astra-lumina-at-anakeesta-continues.htmlThe outer world wonder of Astra Lumina continues with the introduction of two new chapters, or zones. If you’re not already familiar with this add-on Anakeesta attraction, now might be the time to take the journey and see what’s now visually available. It’s the after sunset light display that’ll take you on a cosmic trip while your feet are firmly planted on earth—albeit 600 feet above Gatlinburg. The original story of Astra Lumina contained 8 chapters, but the addition of two new ones brings a whole new magnitude of magnificence./the-armed-tony-wolski-perfect-saviors-interview.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-armed-tony-wolski-perfect-saviors-interview.htmlWelcome to REPLY ALT, the world’s only email newsletter about music. If you’re new here, sometimes I use this space to write things and sometimes I use it to podcast. Sometimes I half-ass it and sometimes I use my whole ass. Today it’s a podcast wherein I used roughly 70-85% of my ass. Subscribe if you haven’t! The last time I interviewed today’s guest for this podcast, his name was Adam Vallely./author-interview-with-prachi-gupta.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/author-interview-with-prachi-gupta.htmlPrachi’svital, heartbreaking, radical memoir, “They Called Us Exceptional”, is one that will stay with me for a long, long time. The bravery with which she pens the most intimate details of her life is astounding — and the writing itself is stunning, to boot. To read this book is to push at the edges of our own understanding. To interrupt the stories that we’ve been told -- about our culture, our identity, our understanding of love./bo-ne-recipe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bo-ne-recipe.htmlGastro World Digest offers free weekly recipes that have been curated and tested by Tway, a chef and content creator. Recipes will always be free, along with useful tips and links to help you master the recipe. If you’re down for free recipes, why not subscribe? (: I remember my first time seeing someone order this at a restaurant in Vietnam, I was so intrigued because of the sound and the aroma that followed the waiter carrying it to table that ordered it & I knew right away that I had to get it./marchand-bs-face-biggest-rival-in.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marchand-bs-face-biggest-rival-in.htmlBRIGHTON, MA – Brad Marchand has always a little something special for the Toronto Maple Leafs ever since coming into the NHL, and it probably goes back to being a Leafs fan when he was a hockey-crazed kid growing up in Nova Scotia. “They were my favorite team growing up,” admitted Marchand. “Even today when you go to their building, they have a lot of their alumni walking around. Guys that I admired growing up./celebrating-vada-pinson.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/celebrating-vada-pinson.htmlToday would have been Vada Pinson’s 85th birthday. Sadly, he died from the effects of a stroke in 1995 when he was only 57-years old. His career really isn’t discussed much anymore, but his birthday seems like a good opportunity to remind folks exactly how good he was. Under the rules in effect at the time, Pinson exceeded rookie l… ncG1vNJzZmiokaq5pcPHoqueZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8Keo56aopbBqrrGZq2anJFivaq60qil/bath-beach-brooklyn.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bath-beach-brooklyn.htmlThis week I’m visiting Bath Beach, a small neighborhood on the southwest shore of Brooklyn bordering Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. Some would say it is part of Bensonurst, but not me, mainly because I discovered that after I wrote this whole thing. Though it was named after the medieval spa city of Bath in England, Bath Beach has no spa to speak of. Well, that’s not entirely true. After scouring Yelp, I found out that there is, in fact, one spa in the neighborhood, the Angel Day Spa, located at 1938 86th St./report-behind-the-scenes-at-the-lcs.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/report-behind-the-scenes-at-the-lcs.htmlThis month has seen historic action from an esports Player’s Association as the North American LCS Players Association (NALCSPA) have voted to walkout on their commitments to playing in the league ahead of the opening weekend. This move is the first of its kind in League of Legends and one of the few times in the history of esports that players have mobilised against other stakeholders in the esports ecosystem./behold-the-dennys-tower.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behold-the-dennys-tower.htmlOne gray day in October 1988, a red helium balloon rose from the earth through drizzling rain, reaching the end of its 250-foot tether to show the crowd how high the tower would go. Peering from under umbrellas as they stood near heaps of rubble in downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina, a crowd of hundreds witnessed the groundbreaking of a monumental structure. They didn’t know it at the time, but they were standing at the base of the Denny’s Tower./bessstillman.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bessstillman.htmlEverything Is An Emergency By Bess Stillman I'm Bess Stillman: ER doctor, writer, and wife to Jake Seliger, who is currently dying of SCC of the tongue. I write about the challenges of being corporeal. Here you'll find essays on life, death, cancer, love, health & healthcare. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaOx0qyqraGcobqiug%3D%3D/blood-and-guts-in-high-school-by.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blood-and-guts-in-high-school-by.htmlHi y’all! I’m back! And I’m coming in swinging with a review of Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker. Acker was an experimental writer from New York who wrote novels that were transgressive both in their form and in their subject matter (Blood and Guts is composed of straightforward narrative, poetry, illustrations, essays, fairytales, stage directions, and more; it’s also fairly pornographic and filled with sexual violence including incest, child sexual assault, abortions, rape, prostitution)./blood-orange-negroni.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blood-orange-negroni.htmlWhen you write and share recipes online or in a cookbook, as a baker, the most FAQ is if something can be frozen. I don’t know about yours, but my freezer is fully packed 365 days of the year. (There’s a scientific theory that if there is a void, something fills it, and my freezer is a prime example of that.) I kept dreaming about buying a separate freezer…until I finally did it and bought a mini one./boat-designs-evaluating-scamps-big.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boat-designs-evaluating-scamps-big.htmlOver the past few days I’ve had email exchanges with John Welsford, New Zealand designer, regarding a brainstorm that’s been percolating in his clever, whimsical noggin: A bigger, more commodious takeoff on his wildly popular SCAMP design. As most SCA readers know, the 11’ 11” SCAMP design was conceived 13 years ago when Josh Colvin, editor of this fine publication, asked Welsford to come up with a new kind of small cruising boat—one small enough to explore the most hard-to-penetrate backwaters, while being easy to rig, light enough to trailer with the smallest of tow vehicles, surprisingly great under sail, and comfy for overnight camp-cruising adventures./book-review-norman-lears-memoir.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-review-norman-lears-memoir.htmlEven ThisI Get to Experience (Penguin Press, 2014) by Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, moved me when I read it a few years ago. In the aftermath of his death, I re-read my margin notes. Because his is a remarkable career in television—he was a true freethinker—I want to pay tribute to a creator. I wrote this review. (For additional, personal thoughts, including meeting Mr./books.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/books.htmlBillie Breslin has traveled far from her home in California to take a job at Delicious!, New York’s most iconic food magazine. Away from her family, particularly her older sister, Genie, Billie feels like a fish out of water—until she is welcomed by the magazine’s colorful staff. She is also seduced by the vibrant downtown food scene, especially by Fontanari’s, the famous Italian food shop where she works on weekends. Then Delicious!/brian-cardinal-mountaintop.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brian-cardinal-mountaintop.htmlThis qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History The 2010-11 Dallas Mavericks unexpectedly vindicated the careers of many NBA greats. Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, Peja Stojakovic, and Jason Terry were just some of the veterans who finally got a ring that season. But no one was more vindicated than Dallas’s sweet shooting, tall white forward who had struggled for over a decade to silence his critics. Doesn’t rebound enough./building-an-alternative-media-universe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/building-an-alternative-media-universe.htmlAfter running my newsletter for a few months, I spoke with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie about how the platform came about and where he sees it going. McKenzie, who started out as a journalist, discusses the troubles of Facebook, the future of media, and what journalists can learn from gamers. “There’s not that much difference in my mind between a Twitch streamer and a writer,” he says. David Kushner:           How did your experience as a journalist inform the idea of Substack?/candy-cane-lane.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/candy-cane-lane.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’ve always been an Eddie Murphy fan, but his family-friendly fare has often held little to no interest to me. I’ve always been more of a “Eddie Murphy: Delirious” or “Eddie Murphy Raw” sorta cat (even though I can fully admit they’re problematic) and have fond memories of watching “Beverly Hills Cop” with my late grandfather at way too young of an age (he lost his fool mind laughing when Axel Foley stuck bananas in the tailpipe of Rosewood and Taggart’s car)./canyon-country-store.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/canyon-country-store.htmlShare Much of the history of Los Angeles is in its canyons. There are secrets there, hidden by time and inaccessibility. Our canyon neighborhoods share an affinity for narrow streets, rendering them inhospitable to cars in a town built around driving. Perhaps only practicality created these narrow streets. Moving dirt and leveling mountains is hard. And expensive. The change in terrain created a clear delineation between the city and the country./carnitas-burrito-bowls.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carnitas-burrito-bowls.htmlMaybe only second to my fried chicken sandwiches, this meal is my husband and father’s favorite thing I make. They are my consummate taste testers. It’s outrageously delicious and surprisingly easy. I homemake the beans and pico de gallo. But you don’t have to! I’m giving you the full recipe for all of it, but you choose what you want to make from scratch and what you want to buy at the store or in a can./catherine-coldstream-on-life-as-a.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catherine-coldstream-on-life-as-a.htmlFurther down the page: live UK dates • the next online retreat Hello, A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Catherine Coldstream, author of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun, and disaster struck. Halfway through the conversation, the tech failed in a spectacular way, and we lost the whole recording. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from me. But Catherine very kindly offered to re-record, and so we got together last Friday to capture this new conversation./chandler-ransom-lucy-of-the-hellp.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chandler-ransom-lucy-of-the-hellp.htmlI met Chandler in a hip Silverlake coffee shop. We began with the question of whether or not LA has, or can have, a proper music scene. Despite the outpouring of electronic music from the city right now, it seems that there are few shows from local (adult) acts to back it up. Chandler: Yeah. I mean, I don’t even think there can be a scene in LA. There is, like, subculture./noodle-joints-cheap-delicious-and.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/noodle-joints-cheap-delicious-and.htmlIn the first decades of the 20th century, if you lived west of the Rocky Mountains, one of the best bargains around was a bowl of cheap noodles, served up for a dime at a Chinese or Japanese “noodle joint”.  Aside from the noodles, these establishments had other attractions. They stayed open late into the early morning hours, had private booths with doors that closed, and usually offered strong drink, louche entertainments and the possibility of lively company./cheesy-chicken-baked-spaghetti-squash.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cheesy-chicken-baked-spaghetti-squash.htmlClick here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe. Happy Thanksgiving week! Living in California — way across the country from our families in North Carolina — has meant nine years of totally different Thanksgivings. Our only Thanksgiving tradition is having no Thanksgiving tradition. We are turkey nomads; wherever we are invited, that is where we end up!/chicagos-greatest-chefs-of-all-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chicagos-greatest-chefs-of-all-time.htmlWhen I committed to the idea of asking Chicago chefs (and a few owners who are the identity of their restaurants) to name their personal Chicago Mt. Rushmore (thanks Dave Andrews for proposing this whole idea), I didn’t really calculate the verve with which they’d answer. I figured a few of the 60 or so I reached out to would humor me. I had no idea that 48 souls (media and creators added another 15 - you can read their thoughts here) would commit their time and energy to this./issue-33-chief-of-staff-vs-coo-vs.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-33-chief-of-staff-vs-coo-vs.htmlI truly can’t believe that 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 4️⃣ is already here and we’re officially in Year 2️⃣ of Ask a Chief of Staff! After nearly a year of just building through word of mouth, we figured it was time to build up our online presence. Our website houses our Upcoming Events as well as this newsletter. If you’re a member of the Ask a Chief of Staff Community, you’ll also be able to access our Community Directory and Resources here too!/chrisean-rock-cam-newton.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chrisean-rock-cam-newton.htmlEvery time I go to Six Flags Great America, I look for the American Eagle. You can’t miss it. It’s 4,650 feet long, and the red and blue trains climb up 127 feet on a lift hill. For some maniacal reason, I always want to get on the front of every roller coaster ride, including this one. But it never fails. Every single time the Six Flags employees wave me over to hop in a roller coaster seat, I always think the same thing: “Why am I getting on this ride?/170-like-a-mother.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/170-like-a-mother.htmlI could start with the quiet, lonely hours before I pushed my daughter out, tangled up in hospital wires and terrified. I could start with the tender darkness of our recovery room, the beam of Avi’s iPhone flashlight on my chest as I learned to breastfeed, tears tracing my cheeks at the white-hot pain. I could start with our alarms: midnight, 2am, 4am, 6am. Or the nurse who held my hips while she lined my underwear with four thick pads, more than I thought could fit in a single pair./30-minute-creamy-caramelized-fennel.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/30-minute-creamy-caramelized-fennel.htmlLonni, this made my whole day!!! Don’t worry, the newsletter isn’t going anywhere, it will continue with lots of free recipes on, I’m just pausing the paid portion of the newsletter. This is one of my favorite platforms to share my recipes on and I’m so grateful to have you here!!! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmibkae8rbXNmp6epJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZmxoXaK2r8HTnmScqpWWurp5wpqpmqWVoba7scNmnZ6mnpq5cK%2FOpqSepqSo/a-special-mothers-day-note.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-special-mothers-day-note.htmlHappy belated Mother’s Day! Yesterday was my sixth - seventh if you include the period my surrogate was pregnant with my son. Ours was quiet, save for lunch when our groceries, an Amazon delivery and our takeout came at the same time! My son didn’t bring anything home from school this year (several moms on our chat group sort of complained. I get it’s a sensitive time for some, but it doesn’t stop kids from making crafts for a “special family member or friend,” which is what my son’s previous school did) but did make something cute at home./mollywhopping.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mollywhopping.htmlA gorgeous, painful meditation on finding meaning and community, particularly in early adolescence, and where professional sports play a role in all of that. I remember rooting for the Chicago Bulls throughout late elementary and early high school. Pittsburgh doesn't have a basketball team, and when I saw the way Derrick Rose played at Memphis, I told myself I would root for wherever he ended up. Flash forward to now and I'm half and half, Penguins & Steelers, Sixers and Phillies (sometimes Pirates)./no-bake-cranberry-tiramisu.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-bake-cranberry-tiramisu.htmlThis was really good!! Super fun/festive, and turned out delicious. A few tweaks I made in case helpful for others: -I whipped about half the egg white with half the sugar and folded that in and slightly decreased the cream, just based on my preferred texture for the cream when making regular tiramisu. -I heated the egg yolk/sugar and white/sugar mixtures (each separately) over a double boiler and left out the booze, so that my daughter could also try some./comparing-apples-and-oranges.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comparing-apples-and-oranges.htmlApples: Crisp, crunchy, and sweet. Oranges: Foul-smelling, useless, and weird. Apples: Fun to pick, easy to bake. Oranges: Destroyed my life, make me nauseous to think about. Apples: Lots of flavors, all of them taste great. Oranges: Forced me to question my own sanity, would rather die than taste one. Apples: Grown on trees. Oranges: To this day, I don’t know… ncG1vNJzZmidnJ60s7vBnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wr86mp5qqmaO0bq3PqaOeq12Wu6V5zquYp5%2BVqA%3D%3D/liv-has-increased-the-value-of-college.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/liv-has-increased-the-value-of-college.htmlEvery Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 3 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since the last newsletter. Join 8,531 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below. Read Time: 7 Minutes. Today’s newsletter is powered by True Linkswear. I was introduced to True a few years back when a friend sent me a shoe they sold that supported Multiple Sclerosis./cornelius-eadys-atomic-prayer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cornelius-eadys-atomic-prayer.htmlIf the bomb drops And I’m riding the Staten Island Ferry, Give me time to spit in the water. If the bomb drops And I’m on top Of the Empire State Building, Give me time To toss a penny Off the observation deck. If the bomb drops And I’m approaching the subway, Let me have a chance To jump the turnstile. If the bomb drops And I’m walking down Fifth Avenue/covid-nasal-vaccines-get-a-boost.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/covid-nasal-vaccines-get-a-boost.htmlMomentum towards a Covid nasal vaccine is building, thanks to basic science discovery work, results from 2 early clinical trials of different nasal vaccines, and new, major US funding awards to companies to accelerate clinical trials. Before getting into the new details, let me review the rationale. Back in July 2022, Akiko Iwasaki and Ipublished an editorial in Science Immunology calling for an Operation Nasal Vaccine, to “achieve population-wide respiratory mucosal immunity” to “help us get ahead of the virus and build on the initial success of Covid-19 vaccines./creating-a-visual-identity-for-your.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/creating-a-visual-identity-for-your.htmlBrand design elements like fonts and logos send a message to readers about what to expect from your publication. Plus, it’s fun to express yourself by customizing your Substack’s color palette and uploading design touches like logos. This post walks you through the basics of managing the visual identity for your Substack. To change the font and background color of your Substack, go to your Settings page, scroll to Site Design, and click Customize./crispy-crunchy-colourful-kakiage.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crispy-crunchy-colourful-kakiage.htmlKakiage are really popular in Japan, they look like little crispy onion bhajis, and there’s a reason for that, as I’ve recently found out. Kakiage means 'mixed frying' - not such a poetic name! Some say it originates from the word kakimazeru meaning 'mixing up'. Little fried nests of vegetables, these have been described as pancakes. That's a little misleading, as they’re not usually flat and should have some airy volume to them./daniel-hannan-and-the-emptying-of.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daniel-hannan-and-the-emptying-of.html​ Daniel Hannan promising in 2015 that the UK would stay in the Single Market. We didn’t, of courseConservatives once pretended to be tough minded. Leftists might fall for communism and other insane utopian schemes. Bleeding-heart liberals might babble sentimental dross about the inherent goodness in all people. Conservatives knew better. They understood the truth of Kant’s warning that “out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made./davita-a-cheap-non-cyclical.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/davita-a-cheap-non-cyclical.htmlDavita owns the largest network of dialysis clinics in the U.S. The company caught my eye because Berkshire Hathaway owns 34.4% of shares and trades for less than ten times 2020’s (pre-pandemic) free cash flow. Upon further inspection, Davita has a lot of the characteristics I look for in a business: Simple, predictable, and profitable Replication mode Duopoly Non-cyclical Consistent share repurchaser Low valuation Dialysis artificially removes toxins, fluids and salt from the blood of patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)./de-prioritizing-caregiving-intimacy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/de-prioritizing-caregiving-intimacy.htmlThese are some big realizations that have come after years of me & folks in my life trying to figure out what we NEED to make life WORTH living. What are the things that will make us want to wake up every morning? What will make us WANT to be ALIVE instead of just “get by” each day? What will make us WANT to move thru the pain or grief just so we could also experience joy?/dead-silence-is-a-masterclass-in.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dead-silence-is-a-masterclass-in.htmlAs I see it, there are two schools of thought on whether I, as an author, should write negative reviews of other authors’ books: I shouldn’t write negative reviews, because every time I do, I’m burning potential bridges. I should absolutely write negative reviews, because people love to read mean-girl takedowns. But of course both of those schools of thought are incorrect. The correct answer is that I shouldn’t waste my time on book reviews at all, because nobody actually reads books, and even fewer people read book reviews, and if I want people to actually read this blog, I should just fill it with a bunch of culture war bullshit./deborahway.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deborahway.htmlThe Keepthings By Deborah Way What memento would you keep after the death of someone you love? These are the stories of lost loved ones, inspired by the things they left behind. A new story published every week, plus occasional subscriber-only bonus content. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaWxwaipmqCnlsY%3D/details-of-skytree-scps-agreement.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/details-of-skytree-scps-agreement.htmlby Adele Uphaus MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Last weekend’s SkyTree book fair at Riverbend High School in Spotsylvania County raises several questions - among them, who sponsored the event and where will the proceeds from the book sales go. SkyTree is a new organization, with an application for nonprofit status pending with the IRS, that describes itself on its website as “a school-choice alternative to the sexually explicit content distributed in Scholastic’s book fairs./done-deal-devin-haney-vs-ryan-garcia.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/done-deal-devin-haney-vs-ryan-garcia.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./dirty-dancing-1987.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dirty-dancing-1987.html"Dirty Dancing" may just be one of the most seminal garbage movies ever. But, garbage it is. Somehow I missed seeing this film, a smash success when it came out in August 1987. The omission is perhaps not surprising: I had just gone off to college, and it looked to be a sappy romance dressed up against the backdrop of dancing, something in which I have never had an iota of ability or interest./disney-plus-or-minus-bedknobs-and.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disney-plus-or-minus-bedknobs-and.htmlWhen a studio produces a movie that captures lightning in a bottle the way Disney did with Mary Poppins, you can’t blame them for trying to replicate the trick. But Walt’s follow-up musical, The Happiest Millionaire, had been an ambitious and costly misfire. So Bedknobs And Broomsticks would appear to be a take-no-chances attempt to completely recreate the creative alchemy that produced Mary Poppins. That’s sort of true but Bedknobs And Broomsticks isn’t exactly a Mary Poppins clone./dissecting-ethel-cains-preachers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dissecting-ethel-cains-preachers.htmlFor more music analyses and artist spotlights, subscribe to my weekly music newsletter published every Wednesday In all seriousness, this is a phenomenal, beautifully devastating concept album. Maybe you’ve seen chatter amongst the indie music side of TikTok, brief mentions of “Preacher’s Daughter” floating the Internet, and, upon hearing these out-of-context details, thought to yourself: ”Wait…what?” “Preacher’s Daughter” is a 13-track, 76-minute long, folk-rock-blues Southern Gothic opera, following a fictional character, the preacher’s daughter, who loses lover after lover and grapples with religious trauma and sexuality in her Alabama hometown, before being kidnapped and sold into prostitution./doctor-who-rewatch-season-two-ranked.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doctor-who-rewatch-season-two-ranked.htmlWelcome to Girl Culture, the newsletter where Caroline Siede examines pop culture, feminism, and more. Learn more about Girl Culture’s mission here Maybe more so than any other season of Doctor Who, season two is the one I struggle to sum up in a straightforward way. Unlike Christopher Eccleston and Matt Smith, who emerged fully formed as their respective Doctors, David Tennant takes a minute to find his feet in the role, and it’s both fascinating and a little jarring to watch that process unfold./domingo-germans-perfect-game-was.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/domingo-germans-perfect-game-was.htmlShort post today, but I just had to write something about the perfect game that New York Yankees starter Domingo Germán threw last night. Perfect games are incredibly rare and incredibly cool; Germán’s was just the 22nd of the World Series era (since 1903), including both the regular season and postseason, and the first in MLB since King Félix Hernández did it on August 15, 2012, more than a decade earlier./dont-say-schwarzenegger.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-say-schwarzenegger.htmlOnline speculation surrounding the Shriver - Schwarzenegger family has been mounting due to a viral TikTok series detailing claims of a cover-up stemming from a 2015 crime. The felonies — violent acts committed by the long-term partner of Arnold and Maria's youngest daughter, Christina Schwarzenegger, are resurfacing after a failure to pay the victims their court-appointed payout of nearly $40 million.  Allegations of nepotism and corruption have continued to build, with Christina skipping her most recent deposition just last week, seemingly without penalty./dr-billy-ralphs-letter-to-the-irish.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dr-billy-ralphs-letter-to-the-irish.htmlDr Billy Ralph wrote a letter in response to a feature article (below) by Kathy Sheridan in the Irish Times this weekend. “In many ways, this is the story of how a family with two teenage children negotiated a devastating diagnosis and chaotic illness together.” “It could also be read as a 300-page rebuke to those who contended that the CMO and head of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) didn’t live in the “real” world./116-emma-chamberlains-deeply-personal.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/116-emma-chamberlains-deeply-personal.htmlGood morning! If Emma Chamberlain’s viral home tour made you feel conflicted last week, I have a few ideas about why. And if you’re someone who enjoys decorating but finds the current state of interiors a little hollow and depressing, I have a suggestion. (Substack tells me this newsletter has too many photos to fit in an email, so you may have to click into the web browser to view them all./entitlement-american-gentry-and-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/entitlement-american-gentry-and-the.htmlMy first semester of college, I had a neighbor who had a nice stereo system. I don’t know anything about stereo systems to I have to take her word that it was nice, or at least expensive. My neighbor set up her CD player and speakers inside her closet, against the interior wall that separated her closet from my closet, and when she played music loudly, which she liked to do, especially at night, it thumped right into my room./erasing-the-terror.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/erasing-the-terror.htmlThe study of the French Revolution has evolved in many different directions since the bicentennial of 1989. Like historical studies in general, it has taken the “global turn,” relating developments in France to world-wide patterns of imperial expansion, commerce, migration, intellectual exchange, and conflict (this shift led me, nearly a decade ago, to write an article urging a degree of caution: not every significant event in revolutionary France is best explained by the global context)./every-linux-sucks-video-in-order.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-linux-sucks-video-in-order.htmlFor the first time ever, I present to you… Every single “Linux Sucks” video. All in one place. From the very first one (in 2009) all the way up through the most recent one (just recorded a few weeks ago, in 2022). As I was going through, cataloging and uploading all of these, I found it absolutely fascinating to look at how much things have changed in the Linux world over the last 13+ years./execution-by-larry-bossidy-and-ram.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/execution-by-larry-bossidy-and-ram.htmlFrank Slootman, in Amp It Up, acknowledges the need to focus on execution first, strategy second, because good execution will become a source of competitive advantage, That said, he also acknowledges “there are tons of articles and books on the topic of business strategy but relatively few on execution.” Well, here is one of those books. And it’s fantastic. Bossidy & Charan focus on the three interwoven dimensions of good execution: Ensuring the right people are in the right roles (people process) Ensuring the business is focused on the right things (strategy process as a component of good execution)/exploring-the-reality-of-chinas-new.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exploring-the-reality-of-chinas-new.htmlThis is a repost of a Twitter thread originally shared on July 22, 2022. It has been edited and revised slightly for long-essay format. After spending several weeks in Hunan, it was time to move onto the next location - Hubei Province. My destination was Ezhou City. Here, I would get the chance to visit tiny rural villages and learn the importance of China’s “New Countryside” initiative. Never heard of Ezhou City?/expressway-to-yr-skull.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/expressway-to-yr-skull.htmlIf you’ve ever considered becoming a paid subscriber, here’s my annual end-of-year plea to take the plunge (and if you’ve never considered it…I urge you to consider it.) Subscribing gets you access to extra essays, but it’s also just a way to support the ongoing effort if you enjoy reading these. Subscribe in the next week to get 20% off (annual subscriptions only). Happy New Year! One of my more vivid memories from the haze of Y2K-era television is an MTV Cribs episode in which Tommy Lee reveals the fully staffed Starbucks that he’s installed inside his Malibu house./famous-sopranos-booth-up-for-auction.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/famous-sopranos-booth-up-for-auction.htmlUPDATE, MARCH 4: The final bid came in at $82,600, not quite the six figures I thought we’d see, but still an impressive number. The money will go toward funding new booths and floors at Holsten’s, which the owner said would cost about $60,000,reports the New York Times. Now the buyer has to cart the thing out of there, which includes the seats, the table, a plaque and a divider, but not the jukebox seen in the final episode — that was a filming prop./fayetteville-us-pro-cup-is-next-stop.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fayetteville-us-pro-cup-is-next-stop.htmlOn July 28 and 29, Elancourt Hill, the highest point in the Paris region of France, will host the mountain bike events for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Everything that happens in a UCI XCO race from now until someone lights the flame in Paris focuses on getting to the start line of France's own Mount Trashmore (Elancourt Hill is a former sand quarry and was used as a landfill until 1975)./fedor-dolokhov.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fedor-dolokhov.html“Come here; part the bets!” So enters Dolokhov into our story, that “notorious gambler and duellist” with “clear blue eyes.” He bets an Englishman fifty imperials he can drink a whole bottle of rum while sitting on the outer windowsill. And, of course, he wins and is happy to let Pierre try his luck after him. Dolokhov is a 25-year-old infantry officer of “small means and no connections” who lives at great expense to Anatole, who looks up to him./feminist-wack-job-anna-slatz-at-reduxx.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feminist-wack-job-anna-slatz-at-reduxx.htmlMy work is completely grassroots funded by people like you, and my only obligation is to tell you the truth and show you the receipts. If you appreciate my content, please consider a subscription for $8/month or $80/year. Subscribe to Support My Work You can also make a one-time gift here. If you can’t financially support my work, please consider sharing it with your friends and family to spread the message./finestkind-657.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finestkind-657.html“Finestkind” is exactly the sort of hefty, middling-budget movie people complain Hollywood doesn’t make anymore. It’s a gritty, unglamorous drama with a powerhouse cast — Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster and Jenna Ortega among them — plus an Oscar-winning writer/director, Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential,” “Mystic River,” “42”). Except it’s not in any theaters, but only has been available on Paramount+. It will debut on digital platforms for rental March 26 and on DVD April 9./flat-stanley-makes-it-home.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flat-stanley-makes-it-home.htmlIf you've ever awakened in the middle of the night remembering that one thing you did twenty years ago that makes you a horrible person, this story is for you. Twenty years ago, I was a young teacher dedicated to taking every project straight to Level 10. This extended to my personal life as well, such as the Flat Stanley project my niece sent me when she was in second grade. If you're not familiar with the Flat Stanley project, it was/is a widely popular elementary school assignment in the Midwest where, after reading the book Flat Stanley, students were given their own Flat Stanley paper doll, which they were encouraged to send to a friend or family member far away./francois-i.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/francois-i.htmlFrancis I (1494 – ) has been King of France since 1515. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son. Cromwell meets the king at Boulogne. Francis can’t get his head around Cromwell, who is not from “some family of humble Tudor retainers.” He cannot understand why Henry wants to marry his mistress either. “Does he think she is a maid? Myself, I never tried her./free-agency-latest-and-coaching-carousel.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/free-agency-latest-and-coaching-carousel.htmlOne last batch of the around-the-league notes before the NBA Finals begin? As it should be! But first please allow me to plug this Finals preview podcast I recorded Wednesday with the NBA's original Sunday Notes Specialist: Legendary Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan. On the latest edition of #thisleague UNCUT, Bob joined me to break down Celtics vs. Mavericks as only he can and pay tribute, as well, to the one and only Bill Walton:/miserable-paws-dog-foot-bath.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miserable-paws-dog-foot-bath.htmlThe only place dogs sweat from is the bottom of their feet and their nose, so the pads of the paws are a hotspot for accumulated irritants Pesticides, herbicides, ragweed, grass allergens, pollen, mold spores and dust mites are just some examples of what can easily accumulate on your dog’s paws Up to 50% of foot licking and chewing can be reduced by mechanically removing allergens or irritants on the paws/give-em-the-old-vajazzle-dazzle.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/give-em-the-old-vajazzle-dazzle.htmlNote to readers: if you don’t want to hear about pubic hair — specifically, the era when pubic hairstyles looked like Fred Durst’s goatee — you may want to skip this one! The ‘00s were not an easy decade for our genitals. I mean, I guess what decade was? But the ‘00s seemed especially rough on the ol’ downstairs. In the ‘90s, who even knew what anyone was doing with their pubic hair?/golden-creamy-butter-beans.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/golden-creamy-butter-beans.htmlHello friends! I hope you’re doing well and eating well. I’ve been eating a ton of legumes lately, i.e. lentils, chickpeas, cannellini beans and my favourite of the legumes, butter beans. I’ve gotten a few questions about where I find them and the answer is that I’m lucky enough to shop at a grocery store sells them canned. Note that they also go by Lima Beans (actually, that’s their real name), so try looking for those in the bean aisle./sht-went-down-harry-belafonte-and.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sht-went-down-harry-belafonte-and.htmlWho do you imagine was the first recording artist to sell a million records in a year? I’ll give you a hint. The year was 1956. Did you guess Elvis? Nope. Wasn’t him. It was Harry Belafonte with his album Calypso. But more important to him than his music was using his fame and fortune for the fight for civil rights. --Sh!t Went Down: Harry Belafonte and the Freedom Summer Flight--/healthy-start.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/healthy-start.htmlSIDE PIECES DEP'T.HAPPY NEW YEAR! And welcome to Volume 4 of Indignity! Greetings to our longstanding returning readers and to the new subscribers who’ve just joined us in the past two days. This newsletter is produced by editor Tom Scocca and creative director Joe MacLeod, who’ve been working together on various projects since we were both at City Paper in Baltimore in the previous century.  Back in October, when we had to slow down our publishing for a while because your editor was in the hospital, we vaguely suggested that "/heath-row.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heath-row.htmlDuring the Second World War, the decision was made to locate Britain's principal civil airport at Heathrow. Heath Row had been previously a small hamlet along a minor country lane called Heathrow Road in the ancient parish of Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Heathrow's original buildings were demolished in 1944 for the construction of the airport Here, we're going to take a tour of the old Heathrow hamlet at the time of the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 - I’ll be illustrating this post using an old 1939 map and the photos you'll see here largely date from that time./heilungs-amplified-history.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heilungs-amplified-history.htmlThe Saenger Theater barely survived Katrina. The basement filled with water; the orchestra pit filled with water; the stage went underwater. It took eight years to restore it. Now it feels old — it was built in 1927 — but also new. The auditorium mimics a 14th-century Italian Baroque courtyard, with terra-cotta columns, painted plaster, Greek and Roman statues, grottoes, urns, and lots of gilding. The ceiling, like a plantarium, winks with stars./watch-herods-son-is-ready-for-his.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-herods-son-is-ready-for-his.htmlTwo featurettes in one week! Three days ago, Affirm Films, the “faith-based” producers of the upcoming Christmas musical Journey to Bethlehem, released a promotional video that introduced us to Mary’s sisters from that film. Now they’ve got a new video that introduces us to King Herod’s oldest son Antipater, who is played in the film by Joel Smallbone of the Christian pop duo For King & Country. You can watch the video here—and be warned, it starts on a spoiler-y note:/hey-manaea.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hey-manaea.html☕️ Good Morning: The 2024 rotation has taken shape. Grab your coffee for your morning dose of Mets Fix! Happening now: The Mets added another piece to their rotation on Sunday by reportedly signing left-hander Sean Manaea to a two-year, $28 million contract with an opt out following the 2024 season. Risk-averse: This is the quintessential 2024 offseason s… ncG1vNJzZmismJq6psDRqKeopJmprq960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmJrGbrnAp5iemQ%3D%3D/hot-for-teacher.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hot-for-teacher.htmlHi Everyone, Happy hump day and thanks so much for reading the ADULT SEX ED newsletter! If you’re enjoying it, please share with friends, so they can be hilariously informed! Share Adult Sex Ed This is a weekly newsletter from me, Dani Faith Leonard , a comedy writer, film producer, and performer. It’s an extension of the live comedy show ADULT SEX ED that I’ve hosted since 2018. The show is about plugging the holes in our education as adults, so I’ll be doing just that (if you want to know more about this newsletter, here’s a description on substack)./cabin-shyamalan-uni.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cabin-shyamalan-uni.htmlLess than two weeks after M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin (based on the novel Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay) premiered in theaters courtesy of Universal Pictures, Deadline reported that the writer-director had signed a new multi-year deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, which included an August 2, 2024 release date in store for his upcoming thriller Trap. Left unstated by the report, however, is any acknowledgement that something must’ve soured the Night/Uni relationship, which dates back to 2015, when the studio picked up Night’s comeback movie The Visit for distribution./how-43-famous-companies-got-their.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-43-famous-companies-got-their.htmlAdidas  The name comes from that of its founder, Adolf (“Adi”) Dassler (“das”). His brother Rudi founded Puma. Adobe John Warnock and Charles Geschke, two entrepreneurs who had worked together at Xerox PARC, launched Adobe in 1982 inside Warnock’s garage, which happened to be located next to Adobe Creek in Los Altos. Amazon In the early days of the web, website listings were alphabetized, so Jeff Bezos was eyeing words that started with “A./how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream.htmlThe U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure th… ncG1vNJzZmirla66sMHRoZyrq5hjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on6ivXZa6pr7InJhmrJ%2BkuG671K1kraCVYruwvsNmqq2qlZa6/how-damien-broderick-became-the-most.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-damien-broderick-became-the-most.htmlThe subset of online men who revel in Savile Row tailoring and other traditional modes of dressing can be a stuffy bunch. Often, these gents are so tethered to the ideas of “proper” and their laundry list of “style rules” that they can come across as elitist (or at the very least overly sincere, a la “swag is for boys, class is for men”). But Damien Broderick is, echem, cut from a different cloth./how-do-we-distinguish-between-bravery.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-do-we-distinguish-between-bravery.htmlToday, we celebrate those veterans of our armed forces who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom we experience today. And let’s face it, one day of honoring these men and women for their service is not nearly enough. General George S. Patton once said, “We make a slight mistake honoring these men and women in death, and instead we should thank God they lived.” We celebrate their bravery and their unselfishness, but we also celebrate their mental toughness./how-hilary-mantel-wrote-wolf-hall.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-hilary-mantel-wrote-wolf-hall.htmlThis article was first published in 2012 and is taken from A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel, published in the UK by John Murray: ‘Show up at the desk’ is one of the first rules of writing, but for Wolf Hall I was about 30 years late. When I began writing, in the 1970s, I thought of myself simply as a historical novelist; I can’t do plots, I thought, so I will let history do them for me./dunkin.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dunkin.htmlHello everyone, Welcome to Issue #105 of CAFÉ ANNE! So what’s the weather forecast? While the rest of the nation relies on Punxsutawney Phil, here in NYC we’ve got “Staten Island Chuck,” who lives at the Staten Island Zoo. I am happy to report that Chuck predicted an early spring last week, although we never got an actual winter this year, so what’s the point? Last week’s Groundhog Day also marked the ten-year anniversary of the incident in which former Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped a previous incarnation of Chuck in front of a group of shocked school children./how-is-anyone-affording-life-right.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-is-anyone-affording-life-right.htmlLet’s talk about money. I know it’s considered somewhat impolite and bad social form, but let’s go there for a minute. Aside from the obvious, like being nosy about other people’s salaries and personal wealth (I am not that uncouth, I promise) I never really understood why it’s something people don’t discuss more openly. I’m not talking about the gossip fueled curiosities of how your neighbor is affording their lifestyle (believe me, I come from Korean culture so I understand this)./insight-how-lamborghini-is-preparing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/insight-how-lamborghini-is-preparing.htmlLamborghini has spent the past couple of decades building a well-earned reputation as a strong brand in global sports car racing. In the U.S., the ‘Raging Bull’ has taken class wins in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. In Europe, it won the overall title in Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS twice. Yet for all its success, there’s one race that the Italian brand has so far not been able to conquer: the 24 Hours of Le Mans./how-much-land-does-a-man-need.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-much-land-does-a-man-need.htmlWe know Leo Tolstoy's beautiful short story How much land does a man need? This is the story of a man who was greedy and was never satisfied with what he had. He craved more and finally died due to his greed. The story goes like this. A man named Pahom was a small landowner and a peasant. But he was ambitious. His ambition drove him to acquire more land to increase his prosperity./fairytale-of-new-york-how-new-balance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fairytale-of-new-york-how-new-balance.htmlSometimes addressing a problem head on can create an opportunity. For New Balance and Coco Gauff who came together in 2019, there were two problems to address. The 15 year-old had already commanded the attention of the tennis world by becoming the youngest ever player to qualify for Wimbledon. But that was just the start… The baby-faced Gauff then proceeded to defeat seven-times Grand Slam winner and one of her childhood idols, Venus Williams in front of a packed No./designing-the-characters-of-cowboy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/designing-the-characters-of-cowboy.htmlWelcome to a new issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter! Today, we’re exploring the creation of the main cast of Cowboy Bebop — some of the most iconic characters in anime history. If you’re new here and want to see more of our work, it’s free to sign up for our weekly Sunday issues: Enjoy! Everyone knows Cowboy Bebop. It was a global hit — in places like the United States, it’s still viewed as a definitive work of anime./how-to-be-emotionally-available-when.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-be-emotionally-available-when.htmlHey, hopeful romantic! You haven’t heard from me for a few weeks because I’ve been on vacation in Europe. My boyfriend and I attended a wedding in Poland, and we’re lucky enough to be able to extend our trip into more venturing. But now I’m back, and I want to talk about a question I always get: how can someone become more emotionally available? Let’s talk about it! If you missed the newsletter where I wrote about how to tell if you’re emotionally unavailable, you can read it here./how-to-become-a-black-team-member.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-become-a-black-team-member.htmlOne of the most common questions I get is a variation of “How do I get into physical pentesting?” I get this question so often I decided to dedicate an entire series on this blog specifically to addressing this question. This post will focus on what skills I believe a good covert entry specialist should possess. I’ve been in the physical penetration testing world for around 15 years and have run operations all over the world, including corporate offices, government buildings, and critical infrastructure (among others)./how-to-describe-the-chatgpt-discourse.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-describe-the-chatgpt-discourse.htmlIn this post, I’ll analyze one big meme. This meme was posted by @sterlingcrispin to Twitter on March 26th, 2023. I hope picking a meme and really breaking it down by looking at each piece, as if it were a poem or painting, is a valuable exercise — and not just me killing the joke by explaining it too much. Crispin posted this meme as a response to the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT4 (which came out on March 14th, 2023) and the nauseating amount of Twitter discourse about it in the weeks that followed./solar-eclipse-how-to-photograph-on.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/solar-eclipse-how-to-photograph-on.htmlI’m Jeff, a Los Angeles writer-photographer, host of the PhotowalksTV series and former USA TODAY columnist, with my photo meets tech meets travel newsletter. As always, the edition is free, and supported by our friends at SmugMug, which hosts my photo website and allows me to sell prints to clients. Get access to our full archive of posts with a paid s… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlno6S5or6MnpqloaCosm60zrBkraddpbWwwM6gqZqomGK8rw%3D%3D/how-would-you-deal-with-an-unexpected.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-would-you-deal-with-an-unexpected.htmlWhen 6-year-old Maddux Brown underwent a 15-minute surgical procedure his dad Jason didn’t expect the bill to empty his bank account.  Doctors had removed a concerning mole from the boy’s neck on Valentine’s Day at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the procedure had been a success. But weeks later Jason did a double take when he saw the bill. His insurance plan paid $3,634 and he was billed for an additional $1,908./howto-rookie-sideloader.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/howto-rookie-sideloader.htmlIf you still have not setup developer mode and connected with USB, please do that first. See enabling-dev-mode This app will automatically download and install Quest games. If for any reason this app is not working for you, it's always antivirus. Just kidding (not really), but try the other sideload (backup) apps on PTT downloads page. The current version of Rookie can be found on Google: redacted. Create a folder for Rookie Sideloader (RSL)/clerks-iii-review-kevin-smith.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clerks-iii-review-kevin-smith.htmlI like Clerks as much as the next guy and Clerks II a good deal more than the next guy, so I gave this 16-years-later threequel the benefit of the doubt despite how dire Kevin Smith’s recent output has been. Clerks III is better than the likes of Tusk and Yoga Hosers, I suppose, but only just — almost every single scene is either a reference to or literal recreation of one from the original film, which is obviously the point in this meta comedy but so dreadful in its execution that I spent much of the runtime in genuine disbelief that something so lazy and uninspired actually got made./2022-recap-i-wrote-batman-i-was-on.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2022-recap-i-wrote-batman-i-was-on.htmlThe last time I sent a newsletter was a year ago this month. This time last year, I was recovering from the COVID-19 virus—and preparing for my NPR All Things Considered interview. That was the start of my killer (professional) year. I had listened to NPR since I started driving in 2004 when George W. Bush caught Sadam because 9/11. It was surreal to see La Voz De M.A.Y.O. & Helm Greycastle sit among the top 10 best-selling Image Comics graphic novels overnight./if-you-cant-see-that-adam-rubenstein.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-you-cant-see-that-adam-rubenstein.htmlThe other day The Atlanticpublished an article by Adam Rubenstein, a young conservative editor who was wrongly blamed for the supposed flaws in the Tom Cotton op-ed that caused an implosion at The New York Times, leading to his departure, James Bennet’s departure, and the reassignment of Bennet’s deputy, James Dao, to a different section. There’s no need to revisit all the specifics. Just read Rubenstein’s piece. It is the same story Bennet himself told recently, but from a different angle, and equally worth reading (that is, very)./in-review-the-adam-project.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-the-adam-project.htmlThe Adam Project Dir. Shawn Levy 106 min. Back to the Future meets Star Wars meets Top Gun meets Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Last Starfighter meets Somewhere In Time—and that’s just for starters—in the abysmal Netflix movie The Adam Project, which is what happens when you wish on a cursed monkey’s paw that Hollywood would make more original movies. Last year, director Shawn Levy and his star, Ryan Reynolds, collaborated on Free Guy, the only Top 10-grossing movie of 2021 that wasn’t a sequel, reboot, franchise extension, or anything else drawn from pre-existing I./in-search-of-america.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-search-of-america.htmlHey y’all, It’s the 4th of July and peak travel season here in America. Inspired by our summer reading thread, I thought I’d tell you about one of my favorite road trip books: John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America. The setup: in 1960, Steinbeck was 58, in ill-health, wealthy, and famous. He’d been living overseas for a while and felt like he was out of touch with America./in-the-age-of-quiet-quitting-i-was.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-the-age-of-quiet-quitting-i-was.htmlSubscribe: "Getting Hammered" podcast! People ask me these days if I’m still on TV. The answer is: not really. So, where have I been? What happened to this formerly visible part of my career? It came to my attention in July that I had been punished under old CNN leadership— kept off air since January— for tweeting about Jeffrey Toobin in a Twitter dust-up with Andrew Kaczynski (another CNN employee) regarding our network's coverage of the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting./interview-spermworld-director-lance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-spermworld-director-lance.htmlAt the True/False Film Festivalearlier this month, the new Lance Oppenheim documentary Spermworld premiered under unusual circumstances, at least as far as the press was concerned. Premiering this Friday on FX and Hulu, Oppenheim’s extraordinarily intimate and surprising film about the wild, unregulated world of online sperm donation screened for the public at True/False, but a review embargo was placed on critics until two weeks after the festival ended. In practical terms, what that meant for me—and for you, our readers—is that I couldn’t write about my favorite of the 14 films I saw that long weekend./interview-javier-romero.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-javier-romero.htmlTry as I might to keep up with all of the great guitar pop being released these days, it’s impossible. So it was a surprise to hear about the new cassette/digital collection Slightest of Hands (Mama Mañana, May 5) by Strange Magic, the solo project of prolific New Mexico-based musician Javier Romero. These 22 songs were culled from the four Strange Magic albums released in 2023 (you read that right), the result of Romero’s lofty goal to produce a song a week the previous year./orders-of-magnitude-intuiting-how.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/orders-of-magnitude-intuiting-how.htmlNote: I tried to place this in a pub, the editors rejected it as too political, so I’m placing it here because why not? (Shout out to my dad who said, “Nice try!” when I told him what happened.) I may have added a few choice words that shift the tone and emphasis, since it’s now just going up on a blog. And of course, these arguments could apply to many other rich heirs, including people here in the US./iowa-sam-laporta-nfl-draft-scouting-report.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iowa-sam-laporta-nfl-draft-scouting-report.htmlLaPorta is 6-4, 249 pounds, but played just over 17 percent of his snaps in the slot. He missed just one game due to injury in his entire college career. Over the past three seasons, LaPorta has started 33 games and played over 2,000 snaps. Iowa hasn’t boasted the most explosive passing offense, but LaPorta has produced nonetheless. In his career, LaPorta has 153 catches for 1,786 yards and five touchdowns./on-kendall-roy-as-a-teenage-girl.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-kendall-roy-as-a-teenage-girl.htmlWhen Succession writers began penning the story of a conservative media tycoon and his greedy children vying for his CEO spot, I wonder if they predicted that the show would be most revered by a fanbase of young women who wouldn’t hesitate on voting to tax the rich. Nonetheless, Succession has achieved critical and cultural acclaim while accruing a prolific fan community on Twitter, consisting of teenage girls and young women who largely devote their stanning efforts to one character in particular: Kendall Roy./is-this-really-why-we-invaded-iraq.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-this-really-why-we-invaded-iraq.htmlMelvyn Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023) The 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has brought forward an outpouring of analysis and commemoration of one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history. A lot of the op-ed commentary (as opposed to the often profoundly sensitive and sharply observed reporting) has been repetitive, self-justifying and predictable (some of it virtually absurdist self-parody)./israel-and-its-allies-are-repurposing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/israel-and-its-allies-are-repurposing.htmlCorrect in every word! Israel is a catastrophe for Palestinians and humankind! Playing along with them, shipping express weapons deliveries like US and Germany ( ten fold after Oct. 7 !), sticking to complicit language, even making it illegal to protest as a single person in the streets- Germany again- are the western powers, the 'good people', the only ones who could stop the massacre! Three days ago in Berlin, an older lady, jewish, German/Israeli, was arrested by police as she stood alone in the street, holding her sign: "/jane-street-and-the-arbitrage-royal.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jane-street-and-the-arbitrage-royal.htmlWelcome to another issue of Front Month, a newsletter covering the biggest stories in exchanges & market structure every Friday. If you have questions or feedback, please reply to this email or find me on Twitter. If you like this newsletter and want to follow the exchange industry with me, please hit the Subscribe button below & be sure to share with friends & colleagues: A tragic accident changed Tim Reynolds’ life forever one cold New York night on December 14, 2000./jeff-siegel-the-ramble.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeff-siegel-the-ramble.htmlIn 2007, during the height of the wine blogging craze when fools, friends, and fanatics of wine rushed to make their bid to become the next big voice in wine, Jeff Siegel launched a blog dedicated to “wine that most of us drink – cheap wine.” THE WINE CURMUDGEON was born. In February 2024 The Wine Curmudgeon will come to an end as Jeff stops publishing—after more than 4,700 posts and articles./revisiting-the-long-gray-line.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisiting-the-long-gray-line.htmlIf you saw yesterday’s post on the poem, “Gratitude,” you know that my husband is not well at the moment. We will have a low-key thanksgiving at our house tomorrow, probably eating our dinner on Friday, and we may spend a quiet day watching a couple of great films. For stories of gratitude, you can’t beat “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness,” a must-watch film we have recommended before. Another is today’s suggestion, “The Long Gray Line,” which was our first Film of the Week at Word & Song, when we had only a few subscribers./join-the-met-gala-live-chat-tonight.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/join-the-met-gala-live-chat-tonight.htmlTonight’s the night! Celebrities are stuffing into New York City’s Mark Hotel as I type to swath themselves in dresses that may or may not have anything to do with tonight’s “garden of time” dress code for the Met Gala. As long as their garden is on time, I bet Anna Wintour will support a wide range of interpretations of this theme, ranging from florals and plants to, like, clocks./june-25-2023.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/june-25-2023.htmlSummer has finally arrived, and I left the laptop behind today so we could take advantage of it. Will be back on schedule tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s one of my favorite pictures of Buddy headed to work himself. Can’t complain about the view from his office. [Photo of Buddy Poland and Pete taken by Captain Frank Bedell] Share ncG1vNJzZmiglZbBqbHRnKaxqpmYtaK%2Bw6ymp2ajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvJrqWeZWJqenN8kWw%3D/justice-finally-but-have-any-lessons.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justice-finally-but-have-any-lessons.htmlSix years later, a resolution of a painful case.My interest in a little-reported court case in Maryland last week is both professional and personal, and I’d like to explain why. On February 16, the jury in a civil court determined that a Baltimore rabbi and educator, Shmuel Krawatsky, 47, committed sexual assault against one child and committed battery (harmful contact) against the other in 2015, when the children – 7 and 8 years old at the time – were in his charge./kate-continued-its-only-getting-worse.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kate-continued-its-only-getting-worse.html“When a smiling Kate Middleton walked to church alongside her family on Christmas Day, few, if any, could predict it would be the last normal moment the Princess would have in the spotlight for the foreseeable future.” — Vogue In the wake of Kate Middleton’s mysterious disappearance following scheduled abdominal surgery, and now thanks to confirmation of manipulated images offered as proof of her stability, the online community is ablaze with mounting speculation; From sinister cheating scandals to government cover-ups, the web is rife with theories attempting to unravel the truth behind her odd vanishing act./key-and-peele-on-the-lost-cause-and.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/key-and-peele-on-the-lost-cause-and.htmlI’ve always admired this skit from the comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, which first aired in 2012 at the height of the Civil War 150th commemoration. The skit opens in a camp, where Confederate reenactors are being addressed by their colonel. The speech is full Lost Cause and everyone has bought in until Key & Peele show up dressed as slaves. They brilliantly chose to depict slaves of the Lost Cause by emphasizing every racial stereotype imaginable./kim-soo-hyun-kdrama-reviews-dream-high-korean.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kim-soo-hyun-kdrama-reviews-dream-high-korean.htmlThere are few actors who pick projects as well as Kim Soo-hyun does. I know that either you’re nodding your head along with me or you’re wondering, “Who is this man of which you speak?!” Kim, 36, is South Korea’s highest-paid actor … and with good reason. He has an emotional range that can break your heart, while also making you laugh out loud shortly thereafter. The actor is so popular that even when he makes a cameo appearance in films (“Miss Granny”) and K-dramas (“Crash Landing on You,” “Hotel del Luna”), it becomes news./king-arthurs-round-table.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/king-arthurs-round-table.html    Back in 12th century England King Arthur was having problems with his Knights and Barons. The issue was the pecking order in which the Monarch regarded them, or their perception of it. Legend has it that they jostled, literally, to sit as close as possible to him at the head of the table.      So, the King paid a visit to his carpenters and furniture-makers. Imagine the surprise on the faces of the gentry when they arrived for the next counsel with their leader to find that a round table had replaced the traditional long one./ensaimada.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ensaimada.htmlHello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. Thanks so much for being here! This week I have fallen well and truly in love with Ensaïmada and I hope you will too. It’s a swirly, fluffy and flaky Mallorcan pastry that is somewhere between a croissant, a babka and a strudel. I can’t wait to tell you all about it! Over on KP+, I’m sharing a bunch of variations on the classic ensaïmada./kitchen-project-96-semla-aka-swedish.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-project-96-semla-aka-swedish.htmlBrilliant, as always, the tip about adding milk to double cream and slightly 'underwhipping' by my ususal standards are both priceless! Thanks so much. Just off to read KP+ now to up my pancake game! Quick question re' the bulk rise for the bun dough. If I wanted to retard the dough in the fridge overnight should I reduce the yeast a tad'? Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmijmamwqbHNqamoopWYwbR60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnm57BpLTEp2Spqp%2BfsqTAjHJtZquVormiecCkmGarp5qxqr%2FHaJqopZ2au7W%2F/kyronsamuels.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kyronsamuels.htmlThe Pulling Guard By Kyron Samuels Welcome to The Pulling Guard, a weekly (sometimes more) newsletter about all things football, culture, and media. The majority of content is free; however, scouting and in-depth film breakdowns are exclusive to paid subscribers. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjazF0ailrJmdqrKtvw%3D%3D/kythira-kythera-cythera.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kythira-kythera-cythera.htmlWhen you read prior to arriving that Aphrodite, the goddess of LOVE was born on Kythira Island and therefore the high level aspect of beauty is expected to see and experience. So pals I can confirm, so it was! Mountains, tiny villages, helpful people and exceptional beaches - classic Greece.  It has a few spellings so you may see it as Kythira, Kythera and Cythera - all are the same island that sits under the southern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula./lemon-blueberry-loaf.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lemon-blueberry-loaf.htmlPreheat your oven to 350°F and line a loaf pan with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a small bowl, mix the blueberries with 1-2 tbsps of flour until the blueberries are coated. Set aside. In a separate bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs, lemon juice & zest./lessons-on-mental-health-from-henry.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lessons-on-mental-health-from-henry.htmlI wonder if Henry Cavill has been reading Conversations By The Sea? He has certainly caught more than just my eye this week with some of his takes on mental health. Ahead of the release of season 2 of The Witcher on Netflix later this month, Cavill has been doing the press circuit, including appearing on ITV’s Lorraine accompanied by his dog, Kal. On the show, Cavill has explained how Kal “saved [his] emotional and psychological bacon many times./let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-this-darkness-be-a-bell-tower.htmlAmen. Without mystery, it would be pretty darn boring, and what would be the point? Everything said, written or even thought ends up in some kind of record, somewhere, like a giant library. Spider Woman is a tad larger than the internet web Looking hard in the mirror is quite different from looking elsewhere. The fearless searching moral inventory is not a best seller most places, but moves adventuresome souls faster than the speed of light./lets-read-some-lyrics-iron-and-wines.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-read-some-lyrics-iron-and-wines.htmlIron & Wine’s song “The Trapeze Swinger” is a favorite of mine. I actually probably prefer the Gregory Alan Isakov cover, but this live version is very moving as well. By all accounts, Samuel Beam did not think too much of the song when he wrote it for inclusion in the not-bad-but-quickly-forgotten movie In Good Company. But it became a fan favorite, an… ncG1vNJzZmieopqxpbXEnZybp5Wne7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqWdpKh6s7HAnWSsp52aeq3F0aKarGWZp7yvecCnm2avmaOytA%3D%3D/polk-county-life-verdict-for-david.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/polk-county-life-verdict-for-david.htmlA Polk County jury recently convicted David Marshall Murdock of first-degree murder for killing his ex-girlfriend in 2019 and attempting to kill one other person. Last week, the jury recommended that David Marshall Murdock be sentenced to life in prison without parole rather than death. After Gov. DeSantis signed into law Florida’s 2023 capital sentencing statute, Murdock, through his attorneys, filed several motions challenging the constitutionality of the statute and its application to Murdock’s case./limiting-vikings-wr-justin-jefferson.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/limiting-vikings-wr-justin-jefferson.htmlThe Kansas City Chiefs have one of their biggest challenges yet in Week 5 of the 2023 NFL season. How do you go about slowing down the 2022 Offensive Player of the Year in Minnesota Vikings WR Justin Jefferson? L’Jarius Sneed did some more shadowing of top receivers in 2022, but this year they’ve been trying to strictly keep him outside with either Trent McDuffie or rookie DB Chamarri Conner getting snaps in the slot./listen-up-nerds-14-pricemaster.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/listen-up-nerds-14-pricemaster.html“Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The ground rules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns of environments elude easy perception. Anti-environments, or countersituations made by artists, provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly.”  - Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The Massage (1967) “EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE” - The PriceMaster I told myself that I wasn’t going to use this newsletter to relitigate the hardcore twitter discourse of days past but I do think that something that happened over the weekend is a good setup for a topic I want to write about./litost.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/litost.htmlA few weeks ago, we talked about the German word Torschlusspanik: the feeling that some metaphorical door is closing on your life, and there’s not much time left to do all the things you’d like to do. For me, this feeling kicks into high gear when I play the comparison game. Maybe it’s a friend who landed a book deal. Or got a big job promotion. Maybe it’s an Instagram influencer who quit her job to sail the world./transportation-and-inequality.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transportation-and-inequality.htmlINTERESTING ON THE WEB I asked ChatGPT to write a version of this newsletter and for Dall-E and MidJourney to make the data visualizations… let’s just say… I think I’m going to be safe - AI article here Opportunity Insights has launched the Social Capital Atlas to help explain how different social measures improve economic mobility A new report shows Black Americans are 3x more likely to face tax audits by the IRS/lowell-george-feats-first.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lowell-george-feats-first.htmlIMDb page. On FreeVee. Music history is full of artists who died too young. What might they have given us, if they’d survived? Here are some of the pop artists. And then in classical music we have Schubert ( 31), Mozart (35), Gershwin (38), Mendelssohn (38), and Bizet (36). Maybe you’re one of those folks who aren’t too familiar with Little Feat? If so, ta… ncG1vNJzZmiZnJeys8DCqKmybWBjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oo6ivlaG5brPEqKmgnV2bsqLA0madoqqjqQ%3D%3D/madame-webmd.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madame-webmd.htmlYour paid support makes creative endeavors like these possible. Thank you. The superhero industrial complex is very sick. Since blowing its collective load in Avengers: Endgame in 2019, the “capeshit” movie genre, as it’s derogatorily referred to by haters (me), has seen a steady decline in box office sales and in quality, though the latter is subjective.  It’s difficult to attribute this phenomenon to one cause. Perhaps fans are simply fatigued after a decade of cultural dominance./giphy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/giphy.htmlGifs are great for adding life to emails, documents or presentations. Some can be silly or cute. Others are useful for illustrating how something works. Read on for a few things to know about gifs, whether you’re a novice or a pro. Gifs can convey motion and emotion. That can make them more engaging than static images, but smaller and easier to send than video files.  Gifs play automatically. Unlike videos that require embed codes and a play button, gifs just work./interview-masaaki-ninomiya-creator.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-masaaki-ninomiya-creator.htmlThanks to the growing interest in horror manga by creators like Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu, there’s now even more scary, creepy, gory comics from Japan available in English than ever before. A new face on the scene (or at least for English readers) is Masaaki Ninomiya, the creator of Gannibal, a 13-volume series originally published from 2018-2021 in weekly seinen manga magazine Manga Goraku from Nihon Bungeisha (original home of Violence Jack by Go Nagai and historical action series Satsuma Gishiden by Hiroshi Hirata)./matt-brock-is-taking-the-uconn-defense.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matt-brock-is-taking-the-uconn-defense.htmlIt is not normal for the defensive coordinator position to be open for two full seasons, but that was the case with UConn football, until now. Going into a 2024 season where the expectation is movement in the right direction, Jim Mora and his staff, including new defensive coordinator Matt Brock, are providing a necessary boost to morale this offseason. They’re showing a willingness to evolve along with the college football landscape around them./matthew-perry-the-best-friend-i-never.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matthew-perry-the-best-friend-i-never.htmlI feel the same for Elvis and still regret the short lives of people who give and gave me so much pleasure during my life of dead end jobs, (I stopped counting the number of companies I worked for which went bankrupt during the 1970’s and 1980’s). In the end it all came right, normal marriage, two children, six grandchildren, a house with no mortgage, the opportunity to help my grown up children buy their own homes./megan-greenwell-is-an-abuser.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/megan-greenwell-is-an-abuser.htmlMegan Greenwell is the former editor-in-chief of Deadspin, the former editor of Wired.com, a former editor at New York Magazine, a former editor at ESPN the Magazine, a former staff writer at The Washington Post, and a graduate of Columbia University. If her Twitter bio is to be believed, she currently teaches sports journalism at Syracuse, and serves as the co-director of a journalism seminar at Princeton. Pretty impressive for someone under 40!/men-need-masculine-frame.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/men-need-masculine-frame.htmlThere are a lot of cringey red-pill, pick up artist social media pages out there that talk about the importance of a man having “masculine frame”. These pages talk about things like the power of persuasion, the importance of your body language, and how to “trigger her imagination.”  Let me start by saying, we won’t be discussing any of that today. I think that the concept of masculine frame is vitally important for a man to understand, however there is so much garbage information floating around on this topic that I wanted to offer a clear and grounded perspective on it that isn’t based in manipulation or strange woo-woo esoteric beliefs./michael-jacksons-thriller-was-almost.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-jacksons-thriller-was-almost.htmlThe following is adapted from my book, Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire, on the occasion of Halloween. In the summer of 1982, Michael Jackson summoned Quincy Jones to the Westlake Recording Studio in Los Angeles to record the album that would become Thriller. But it was known by a different name at first: Starlight. Veteran songwriter Rod Temperton initially gave that name to the title track (with a chorus of “STAR-light!/urbankaoboy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/urbankaoboy.htmlKaoboy Musings By Michael Kao KAOBOY MUSINGS and its associated podcast KAOS THEORY focus on the intersection of Financial Markets, Macroeconomics and Geopolitics. I've spent 30+ years as a trader/hedge fund manager and now manage money for my family office across many asset classes. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjba%2BwZqlpJmfl7y6/moment-in-the-sun.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moment-in-the-sun.htmlhowdy. happy friday. I made a collaborative playlist for this little guy. Please consider this an open invite to add songs you’ve liked moving forward. It’s almost the end of January, and the days are still short, but I’ve been feeling very grateful. A lot of what I’m trying to do is get out my own way, be a little more open to the flow of life, and try my best to accept it./monday-103023-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monday-103023-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlThis is Day 7 of 14 for the Diamonds group, which will run through November 8th (followed by Clubs and then Hearts!) Find the full schedule on the Jeopardy site. Subscribe to receive the daily fashion recaps via email! I was SO EXCITED to see T.J. back for this tournament! He was one of the most memorable Season 37 contestants for me (especially calling the category “Ooh, Fireworks!”), and I love his sense of style./most-young-men-are-lost-and-unimpressive.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/most-young-men-are-lost-and-unimpressive.htmlHello Bar-Setters, Over the past two weeks, I’ve tried to spell out some of my most foundational beliefs about what is causing our cultural devolution and how we should prepare our kids to live well in a world of supernormal temptation. This week, I want to take a step back and point to a specific, related topic that has begun to get a lot of press… I’ve certainly found this to be the case over my decade plus working at a high school./lucien-carr-murder-and-the-beats-in-new-york-city.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lucien-carr-murder-and-the-beats-in-new-york-city.htmlLucien Carr was born into a good life. His family was wealthy. He was handsome and charismatic. Lucien Carr Though he grew up during the Great Depression in St. Louis, MO, a city roiling with unemployment and civil unrest, Carr’s family was insulated. They lived for a time near other moneyed families in the city's Central West End neighborhood. Then the Carrs and other wealthy folks moved west into St. Louis County./my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-conversation-with-robert-f-kennedy.htmlTwenty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. left a message on my voice mail. He said that he had a few questions he thought I could answer. I was thrilled. The son of Robert F. Kennedy, a United States senator and civil rights icon, wanted to talk to me. I was a huge fan of RFK. I had read his book, Thirteen Days, which contained the quote, “The lowest reaches in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral uncertainty, are ambivalent./my-interview-with-writer-elena-poniatowska.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-interview-with-writer-elena-poniatowska.htmlIn March, I interviewed Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska at her home in Mexico City for the Library of Congress. The interview was published today with dreamy photos by Mexican photographer Jacky Muniello. We discussed Poniatowska’s commitment to writing about women's lives and her experiences conducting interviews in prison (some famous men had one room in prison for conjugal visits and another next door for girlfriends). How did I meet Poniatowska? In 2017, I was in Mexico City on International Women’s Day./from-the-archives-my-spring-breakers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-archives-my-spring-breakers.htmlThe website that published it is now defunct, but you gotta read my review of Harmony Korine’s controversial 2012 blockbuster, Spring Breakers, now that Kim has circled back with a SKIMs campaign inspired by Korine's iconic early aughts imagery. Also, my writing at age 22 was not TOO shabby now that I look at it again. I wrote this long before discovering postmodernism or Baudrillard or any of the material that now guides most of my work./my-three-thoughts-pearl-jam-in-fort.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-three-thoughts-pearl-jam-in-fort.htmlThree Thoughts, as usual, is a tribute to the late, great Grant Wahl. Today, I test the limits of the question, “can I truly write about whatever I want?” It took me roughly 32 years to finally see Pearl Jam live. I remember buying the Ten CD in Virginia during the start of my sophomore year in college and spending much of that year spinning it. I figured I would see them sooner or later and for whatever reason, here I am at age 51 finally getting to cross paths with that band I have enjoyed so much./nancyrommelmann.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nancyrommelmann.htmlNancy RommelmannJournalist at Reason, NYT, WSJ, Free Press. Co-host with Sarah Hepola of Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em podcast (smokeempodcast.substack.com). Author of "The the Bridge, a True Story of Motherhood and Murder." Based in NYC. On Twitter @nancyromm ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2BtzZywq6edorKtucCnpQ%3D%3D/narrative-nonfiction-that-reads-like.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/narrative-nonfiction-that-reads-like.htmlHi readers, Every November, the Postal Book Clubs begin forming inside the MMD Book Club (I talk about this at length here). A couple of years ago, one of the groups forming that sounded like it might be interesting was a “narrative nonfiction” group. I didn’t know much about narrative nonfiction, and once I found out that it was nonfiction written more like a novel instead of a dry reading nonfiction book, I was all in for it./navigating-swedish-grocery-stores.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/navigating-swedish-grocery-stores.htmlGrocery shopping is one of those activities I enjoy. Call me crazy, but I like to roam the aisles, pick up products, smell the produce and discover new items I might not otherwise find if I only shopped on-line. When I travel to new countries, it’s always a fascinating experience to go to a grocery store and see how others experience one of the most important facets of their life – finding food to cook and eat!/new-renderings-of-ombs-ballantyne.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-renderings-of-ombs-ballantyne.htmlThe following article appeared in the December 13, 2023, edition of The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with smart and original local news for Charlotte. We offer free and paid subscription plans. More info here. Construction on the new Olde Mecklenburg Brewery location in the Ballantyne Reimagined mixed-use development is moving along, with a projected opening date: early April 2024, according to Jim Birch, OMB’s chief operating officer.  New renderings show the 2-story building that’s just over 14,000 s./nikola-jokic-is-a-hobbit-with-a-73.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nikola-jokic-is-a-hobbit-with-a-73.htmlI wrote about Nikola Jokić and the comments he made after Game 5 of the NBA Finals for Mockingbird. Here’s a taste: So there’s Nikola Jokić, the best basketball player on the planet. He’s standing on the court of Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, being interviewed by ESPN’s Lisa Salters just moments after he and his Denver Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA Finals. The confetti is just starting to fall for Denver’s first championship in its 50-year franchise history./the-big-yard-notes-from-a-pajama-d10.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-yard-notes-from-a-pajama-d10.htmlJune 15, 2022 5:30 am.  A cool 60 degrees F. this morning but the heat is on with the blazing sunrise.  Typical June.  Hot, dry, and stupefying.  I’ve just returned from a long weekend in Mountainaire near Flagstaff, visiting the kids and grandkids and finishing up a remodeling project.  Four days away from the yard and I’m eager to check out the new arrivals, if any.  One thing I’ve discovered about this yard—you never know./novavax-is-here.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/novavax-is-here.htmlThe world is, once again, seeing the darkest parts of humanity unfold in and around Israel. Posting about a vaccine felt insensitive without addressing the pain, suffering, and tragedy millions face today. There are massive public health implications of war (malnutrition, clean water, PTSD, bioterrorism risks), and maybe YLE can get there when the time is right. In the meantime, I am grieving with you. Hoping for peace, thinking about those in harm’s way, hoping leaders have wisdom, and hugging my kids extra tight./off-with-her-head-the-queen-of-hearts.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/off-with-her-head-the-queen-of-hearts.htmlWhen Lewis Carroll published Alice In Wonderland, people thought the Queen of Hearts was making fun of Queen Victoria. The scrawny little King running behind her didn’t help. Yup. Queen Victoria and Albert, they whispered. Mocking the royals in words written for children was a thing. That’s what most nursery rhymes were. (If you’re interested in that, let me know!) He finally had to fess up. When Alice in Wonderland made its theatrical debut two years later, he announced that the Queen of Hearts was not Queen Victoria./on-alex-goldman-calling-for-matt.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-alex-goldman-calling-for-matt.htmlThis was a little thing, but it stuck with me. Last month, Matt Yglesias joined the latest Twitter replacement (LOL), Bluesky. He was immediately dogpiled by screaming assholes. As a result, he posted that he was going to leave the platform. Give a gift subscription Get 20% off a group subscription “We did it folks,” tweeted the People’s City Council of Los Angeles (“Abolitionist, anti-capitalist & anti-imperialist collective amplifying the voice of the people through direct action, public ed + community space”)./one-more-from-murray-stenson.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-more-from-murray-stenson.htmlMurray Stenson, the Seattle barman who was a mentor figure to legions of young mixologists in the aughts and early 2010s, died on Sept. 22 at the age of 74. Since then, there has been a great outpouring of memories on social media—anecdotes that are known in bar circles as “Murray Stories.” Some of the stories had to do with his infallible memory. He could remember a customer’s name and preferred drink after a single visit to whatever bar he was working at./vol-4-opening-night-at-frog-club.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vol-4-opening-night-at-frog-club.htmlI went to the no-phones restaurant. I gazed upon the plates suspended from the medieval chains. I ate the stunningly plush English muffin, griddled in clarified butter, and I wrote up a brief report, which you can read here. (If you’re unfamiliar with the context of this restaurant, I suggest starting there.)  By semi-popular demand, here’s a longer account of opening night at Frog Club. I’ll tell you about the food, and try to dive into questions that attendees and community members are posing around the project./painting-sleeping-beauty.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/painting-sleeping-beauty.htmlAt the beginning of the year, I was invited by Gallery Nucleus to create an illustration for an upcoming group show. They are hosting an exhibition featuring the work of legendary Disney concept artist Eyvind Earle, and to celebrate the 74th anniversary of Sleeping Beauty, the gallery also planned a tribute show of artwork inspired by both the movie and the artist. I had a lot on my plate this spring, but I couldn’t say no to the opportunity./paloma-diamond-is-the-best-actress.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paloma-diamond-is-the-best-actress.htmlKia ora and welcome to The Weekend. As a former Wellingtonian who still holds a great deal of fondness for the city (I maintain it’s the best city for trail running in the country) I’ve been following our War for Wellington coverage avidly. Joel MacManus, Wellington editor, has been doing huge amounts of work to cover the recommendations of the independent groupadvising on densification in the city. Opposition to these recommendations has proven to be one of the few things that MPs from across the political spectrum can agree on./review-patrick-bringleys-all-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-patrick-bringleys-all-the.htmlSome years ago I read a book called Making Rent in Bed-Stuy by Brandon Harris. It’s one of those quintessential first-book essay collections, of the type where the titular theme of the book is effectively explored and then a set of mostly-unrelated essays is wedged in to make the project book-length. My Goodreads review read “When it’s about making rent in Bed-Stuy, it’s good. When it isn't, it’s... less.” I did think there was a lot of good in the book, but I had to sift too much to find it./pepperoni-eggs-everyday-22-03-13.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pepperoni-eggs-everyday-22-03-13.htmlI’m down to dedicate a lot of time to my lunch and dinners—ten courses on a Wednesday night? Sure! But when it comes to the first meal of the day, I just want something filling and easy. I’m currently working out of my anchovy on buttered knead love bakery sourdough phase and into a world of fried eggs. My favorite way to fry eggs is over medium high heat in a (very well seasoned) cast iron pan./peteblaber.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peteblaber.htmlPete BlaberPete Blaber commanded at every level of one of the most elite counter-terrorist organizations in the world during most of recent history’s most significant military and political events. He has an MBA, and a Master’s degree in National Security ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbGx056ZpZmSmr8%3D/pink-almonds-green-almonds.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pink-almonds-green-almonds.htmlThe flight from Huatulco to Oaxaca City is a six-seater, jumpy and right there in the clouds so close to the the pilot that it feels like you are flying in a dream low over the scrubby Sierra Madre del Su. Just enough room on my lap to open my sketchbook and use the bitten end of pink tropical almond fruit to draw, its tannins eating into the soft paper beautifully./pinyon-ojai-unites-local-flavors.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pinyon-ojai-unites-local-flavors.htmlPinyon Ojai held a soft opening intended for friends, family and local chefs in the area Nov. 19, but like most news in Ojai, word traveled fast as locals flooded the restaurant with what the crew has warmly dubbed the Ojai hug of death. Ever since, they’ve been serving wood-fired pizzas featuring local farm-to-table ingredients.  Named after a native North American Pine tree, Pinyon is the passion project of three new Ojai residents that combines thoughtful choices with seasonal ingredients./poached-chicken-and-rice-with-soy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poached-chicken-and-rice-with-soy.htmlSunday family lunches at my grandparents’ house were a regular occurrence growing up. They normally coincided with bi sun, which was a ceremony my Taoist grandmother practiced to pay respects to our ancestors. I remember the smell of incense burning, the sun shine through the kitchen windows, and the smell of soup and chicken simmer on the stove. A platter of chopped boiled chicken always (and still does) made an appearance on the table and I would have to fight my brother or cousins for a drumstick./politicalsteria-best-civil-war-memes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/politicalsteria-best-civil-war-memes.htmlWhen I took US history in (a private, all boys) high school in '76, my teacher referred to Ulysses S. Grant as "Useless S. Grant". He was what we call today a "functioning alcoholic". Somebody told Lincoln that Grant (a thoroughly competent killer) drank on the battlefield, to which Honest [sic] Abe replied "Find out what he drinks and send a barrel to all my other generals." As President, he enjoyed riding a buggy down Pennsylvania Avenue behind four galloping Clydesdales after getting totally 'faced./pretium-breakdown.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pretium-breakdown.htmlPretium has built a portfolio of 90,000+ single-family rental properties across the country, with over half of the portfolio located in Florida, Texas, and Georgia. While many SFR funds operate only within the Sunbelt, Pretium’s holdings extend to the Midwest. Earlier today, Pretium announced that it had raised a new $1 billion fund dedicated to acquiring build-to-rent (BTR) opportunities. In a statement, CEO Don Mullen also said that the company has now invested a total of more than $2./profile-of-a-main-character-shrek.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/profile-of-a-main-character-shrek.htmlHey Story Crafters, To follow up on 3 Tips for Creating a Memorable Main Character, I’ll do a character breakdown for a main character using the tips discussed in that post. I’ll use Shrek (I’ll be referring to the movie Shrek, since I haven’t read the book) for this character profile. Let’s take a quick look at Shrek’s name. At first glance, it seems like a made-up, interesting name to give a main character who happens to be an ogre: one syllable, harsh and odd-sounding, and unique./nicola-dinan-bellies-mixed-race-interview.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicola-dinan-bellies-mixed-race-interview.htmlHi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to author Nicola Dinan, who is of mixed Malaysian-Chinese and white British heritage. Nicola’s debut novel, Bellies, is out on Thursday and follows the relationship between Ming and Tom. At first your typical boy meets boy love story, Ming announces her intention to transition and suddenly their mapped-out futures take different turns. You won’t want to put this book down, but I urge you to for the next few minutes to read Nicola’s own story./re-release-this-ace-attorney-investigations.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-release-this-ace-attorney-investigations.htmlThis column is “Re-release this,” which will focus on games that aren’t easily available, or even available at all, but should be once again. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Relating to Phoenix Wright isn’t tough, unless you’re some kind of monster. The man takes on seemingly impossible cases to defend those who have no one else to turn to — often at the expense of his own wallet — and he refuses to give up until the truth has been brought to light, his client’s name cleared./real-spanking-short-stories-from.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-spanking-short-stories-from.htmlIf you enjoy a traditional, spanking-good short(ish) story, then you have come to the right place! I’m often asked: “Jacqui, why are your stories so long?” I always answer the same way: “These are REAL episodes from my life; what happens in my stories actually happened in the real world, so I’m not really in control of the length of the accounts because I am writing - quite literally - what took place!/really-good-asparagus.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/really-good-asparagus.htmlIf you like the crisp edges of lasagne, the soaked croutons, the whipped cream that gets icy around the chocolate scoop - you’re in the right place. Hi everyone. Thank god it’s spring. Officially, irrevocably spring! This week I’m sharing my favorite way to cook asparagus right now—I’ll call it steam-roasting. The method is quick, ovenless, and manages to preserve the succulence of the stems while crisping the tips.  Asparagus isn’t a vegetable that recipes well./reeling-backward-fried-green-tomatoes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-fried-green-tomatoes.htmlI saw “Friend Green Tomatoes” when it came out and liked it, as did a healthy population of mostly female ticket-buyers who made it a decent hit in 1991. Recently I came across Fannie Flagg’s best-selling novel upon which it was based at the library and devoured it with relish — even trying out some of the down-South recipes in the back of the book, supposedly straight from the kitchen at the fictional Whistle Stop Cafe./review-birds-of-prey-2.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-birds-of-prey-2.htmlRating: 8/10 Created in the mid 90s, Birds of Prey was initially a team-up between Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl and Dinah Lance’s Black Canary. Over the next couple of decades, there have been a variety of different members. In many cases, the line-up drew heavily from Batman related characters. The new Birds of Prey series is taking a slightly different direction and it is looking great. From the first issue of Kelly Thompson’s run, Dinah has been avoiding involving Barbara and instead set up a new team./review-secret-invasion-promises-season.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-secret-invasion-promises-season.htmlAs someone who cut her teeth recapping Netflix’s Defenders shows, I’ve seen my fair share of gruesome live action Marvel violence before. (Remember that Daredevil bowling alley scene?) But even I was shocked to see a proper MCU series—one starring flagship character Nick Fury no less—casually deploy dismemberment and bloody knife fights. Building on last week’s unnerving bombing scene, the second episode of Secret Invasion ups the brutality far beyond Marvel’s usual standards, with weightier themes to complement that brutal tone./bitcoin-border-energy-kennedy-cnbc.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bitcoin-border-energy-kennedy-cnbc.htmlOn Thursday night, CNBC host Brian Sullivan interviewed me on his show, “Last Call.” We discussed the southern border, LNG exports, and bitcoin. Here’s a summary of our conversation: The Southern Border The reality of the southern border is surreal. I’ve been to the border twice, and on my most recent visit, I ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfp7yjsdGtnaSdnqOypcXJq2apZ5KewaS7yKdkm6eimbKzecSnnKufqWK4prrNnpuyZZOjr6SL1K2kmKufqr%2BksZyppqysVpi8rrnEp6usdaSnwqZy1K2kmKWVmba2uZywnJs%3D/rfk-jr-targets-the-amish-part-i.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rfk-jr-targets-the-amish-part-i.htmlOn February 13, 2024, National Geographic published a book I wrote called, TELL ME WHEN IT’S OVER: AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO DECIPHERING COVID MYTHS AND NAVIGATING OUR POST-PANDEMIC WORLD. For the next few months, I’ll be writing about issues discussed in that book. Anti-vaccine activists often target isolated groups. For example, in 2017, as a direct result of a misinformation campaign by an anti-vaccine activist named Mark Blaxill, a measles outbreak occurred among a Somali American community in Hennepin County, Minnesota./rich-broke-or-dead.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rich-broke-or-dead.html“Will I run out of money?” This is a question that most of us ask when we are considering retirement, a sabbatical, or even leaving the salary and benefits of a good-paying job behind in order to start our own business. If we turn to the web for answers, it spits out an endless list of retirement calculators. All retirement calculators are not created equal. Some are overly simplistic, others are too complex./ricochet.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ricochet.htmlIt is known that Denzel Washington is quite possibly the best male actor alive.* This has been the case for, I don’t know, at least two decades now, right? He was beloved and celebrated all throughout the 90s, and by the time he won his second Oscar (for Training Day, which I will surely write about someday) in five nominations, I think we all kinda looked around and said “So this guy’s the best, right?/rip-mc-conrad-an-unpublished-2021.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-mc-conrad-an-unpublished-2021.htmlWhat a sad week it’s been with MC Conrad’s death. Like many many others around the world, I’ve spent hundreds of hours with the recordings he features on, as well as catching him live several times. He nurtured a style of MCing that was rooted in a very human interface between his mind, voice and the music played by LTJ Bukem and others. I’ve heard people say over the years, “I’m not a fan of MCs, but Conrad, he’s a different class”./ron-desantis-signs-a-state-law-blocking.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ron-desantis-signs-a-state-law-blocking.htmlIn this episode: Behind closed doors, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 433, a sweeping piece of legislation that was originally written by lobbyists for some of the biggest companies doing business in the state. The legislation will dissolve local living wage laws, prevent communities from passing “Fair Workweek” rules, and block efforts to set new heat-safety standards for outdoor workers. How did a bill like this pass? Well, $160,000 a week in campaign contributions from Big Business lobbying groups certainly helped./rooibos-tea.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rooibos-tea.htmlI’m still on a South African high okay?! I’ve had a cup of rooibos daily for the past 8 years so when I was in South Africa and the tea was widely available everywhere I went, my intake increased to an amount I did not know was possible. Now that I’m back in London, I really wanted to learn more about it and test out some recipes using the tea. I unfortunately did not have the time to go to any Rooibos farm when staying in Cape Town so instead, I watched hours of badly edited Youtube videos and tested out different brands and formulations of the tea to educate myself a bit more about my own preferences./samanthaculp.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/samanthaculp.htmlBorder Studies - Notes from Samantha Culp By Samantha Culp Border Studies is an occasional newsletter from writer/filmmaker Samantha Culp (now including: updates on the book I am writing about the history and present-day landscape of "futures thinking" in its many forms) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbStzJqlraCRmMKtvA%3D%3D/scale-and-aphids-and-thrips-oh-my.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scale-and-aphids-and-thrips-oh-my.htmlHappy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Wishing you all a relaxing and joyful day — you deserve it! And if you’re not a dad but HAVE a dad, why not mow the lawn for him while he watches a ballgame, reads a book or kicks back with his beverage of choice? Hello, friends! A couple of weeks ago, while assessing my plants, I cringed when I spotted scale …/sculptra-what-could-go-wrong.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sculptra-what-could-go-wrong.htmlThank you for the thoughtful feedback on my last post. The dopamine boost your words provide is always much appreciated. As loyal readers have surely deduced, debate is central to aesthetics. On most topics, professional opinions vary wildly. In my writing, I aim to present dissenting voices (in all their authenticity) rather than attempting to shape a clear (but artificial) consensus. As a conduit for expert voices, I feel it’s not my place to amplify one over another./the-patreon-archive.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-patreon-archive.htmlLeave a comment Hey everyone, hope you’re all having a great week? Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US. Something I have been meaning to do for quite a while is transfer all the recipes from my old Patreon page over to Substack, so that everyone who made the move with me, and everyone joining on Substack, would have continued access to those recipes. Black Ses… ncG1vNJzZmidlJm4qrnBnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMeeZKmZpKeysLqMmqmcoJmrsg%3D%3D/triangular-circles.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/triangular-circles.htmlTake three circles and smoosh them close until they’re all touching—tada, you’ve made a circular triangle. Circular triangles are the Shape of the Week. Congrats to circular triangles, long may you reign (for a week)! More specifically, the Shape of the Week is the circular horn triangle, which means all its corners are incredibly pointy and its sides are concave (i.e. “all internal angles equal to zero”). If you connect the vertices with circular arcs in different ways you get different circular triangles./sheet-pan-chicken-and-squash.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sheet-pan-chicken-and-squash.htmlClick here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe! It’s beginning to look a lot like autumnnnnnnn! (Sing that in your best Bing Crosby voice.) We were due for a REALLY easy, really fast sheet-pan chicken recipe that celebrates the season. I mentioned this in the “fall in love with squash” post a couple weeks back but I really adore delicata squash./should-the-jets-sign-justin-simmons.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-the-jets-sign-justin-simmons.htmlGood morning! I hope everyone had an outstanding long weekend. The Jets have done a really fine job building out the roster this off-season, but you feel as though there are plenty more moves to be made. The vast majority will be roster depth pieces, and I’m sure we’ll see some familiar faces back too (Ashtyn Davis is one I think most would like to see return, who thought we’d be saying that 12 months ago)./should-this-creepy-search-engine.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-this-creepy-search-engine.htmlHappy Saturday Searchers, We’ve got a new one for you. After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn. Be sure to check out Kashmir’s book, Your Face Belongs to Us, It reads like a paranoid thriller, even though it’s non-fiction./smashelito.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smashelito.htmlSmashelito's ES/SPX Newsletter By Smashelito Daily and Weekly trading plans for E-mini S&P 500 Futures (ES) that include accurate levels and market context. The plans are presented in a clear and concise format with visually appealing charts using my concepts of Smashlevels & Smashmodel Extremes. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbS5wKyfnqSZqbw%3D/snake-q-and-a-016-kathleen-sorbarachickees.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snake-q-and-a-016-kathleen-sorbarachickees.htmlNow at Snake: Every other Friday or so a free interview with a person in good standing of the newsletter whose taste in vintage, furniture, collectibles and adjacent fields is worth celebrating and learning from. Sellers, buyers, set decorators, artists, adjacents, etc… Here’s the 16th… Kathleen Sorbara | @kathleensorbara @chickeesvintage | NYC & LA | Founder & owner of Chickee’s Vintage & Chickee’s Vintage Men’s Store | website Kathleen is one of the biggest hustlers I’ve ever met and it all shows up in the work; the Chickee’s men’s store is heightened, elegant and fresh, the women’s store is shoulder to shoulder with most anywhere else… together the two have a part in how vintage has been elevated into something quite refined, literary and understated these last couple years./snls-horny-little-dork-sketch.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snls-horny-little-dork-sketch.htmlHappy Groundhog Day! I’m Geoff Plitt, and welcome to What You Need to Know, the brief, weekly newsletter where I share the best comedy videos I’ve seen all week. It will always be free, and you’re welcome to become a friend by following me on Twitter, Threads, Instagram, or TikTok, where I share my own jokes every day. And now, the videos you came for: This SNL sketch from last weekend made me laugh:/snow-trillium-a-lost-toy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snow-trillium-a-lost-toy.htmlI’m not very good at identifying plants, and I won’t pretend I am. But thanks to Diane Porter’s recent post in her wonderful newsletter My Gaia, I think the plant in the photo above is snow trillium. They now carpet the landscape at Cedar Bluffs, especially below the lookout I so often take photos from. They are small and hard to see in the above photo, but it you look closely, they are the little white dots./sodium-citrate-demystified-22-01-04.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sodium-citrate-demystified-22-01-04.htmlI got a lot of questions about sodium citrate after posting my foolproof fondue recipe last week. So this week I’m going to dive into the ins and outs of sodium citrate! Below is the chemical formula for sodium citrate, I’m sure you’ve noticed that it spells nacho… which is also my personal favorite way to use it: in ooey gooey, smooth nacho cheese. What is it? Sodium Citrate is the sodium salt of citric acid./some-noteworthy-nicknames-for-byzantine.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-noteworthy-nicknames-for-byzantine.htmlSome people say that writers should include an opening paragraph, explaining why they’re looking at a particular subject this week. I say those people are all cowards. Julian “the Apostate” (361-363) Last pagan emperor – wanted to ignore all that newfangled Christanity stuff his uncle Constantine had introduced, in favour of the traditional Roman pantheon. This could have radically altered the history of Europe, but less than two years into his reign Julian died on campaign against Persia, and that was pretty much that for polytheism./sometimes-a-doll-is-only-a-doll.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sometimes-a-doll-is-only-a-doll.htmlThe good news: you can still buy these dolls on Amazon. They still have their “I Love You” candy hearts stitched across their chests. The Johnny Gruelle books too. At least four of them, but you’ll find over twenty on Goodreads. These delighted me, especially the “Cookieland” one where the dolls eat all the sweets my mother wouldn’t allow. They’re always foraging for food, those dolls—in an early episode, they spoon up jam from the jar and Raggedy Ann gets it all over her mouth./soup-season-9f2.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/soup-season-9f2.htmlTuesday, October 17, 2023 Good morning! Friends, it was so surprisingly chilly yesterday morning on my weekly “hot girl walk” that we swung through Manhattan’s new beach (no seriously), an experience that, unfortunately, proved neither hot nor beachy. I remembered it was soup week in the SK Digest and couldn’t wait to get home and cozy up about it. Soup season is about warming up and sharing meals and I think it’s arriving right on time./special-report-why-i-quit-sex.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/special-report-why-i-quit-sex.htmlIn this special report, you will find out how it feels to be published by The Guardian. Reading these words still gives me the jitters. In the best way. In this deeply personal essay, I bare my soul to 88 million readers around the globe. It is a confession, a declaration and a hopeful look to the future, all in less than 900 words. Writing it was cathartic. Seeing it published means the world./standing-tall-or-wrestling-in-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/standing-tall-or-wrestling-in-the.htmlDonald Trump, the overfed, overwatched, overpraised, overmedicated former President, recently spoke at the NRA convention and made a comment about potentially serving a third term. "You know, FDR—16 years, almost 16 years. He was four-term. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three term or two term?” he asked the crowd during the event on Saturday. "Are we three term or two term if we win?" he added./steak-chicana-recipe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steak-chicana-recipe.htmlDiasporican is for sale almost everywhere books are sold. If you don’t want to purchase from a conglomerate (because they actually discount the book and that low key makes it harder for me to reach the point where royalties kick in) then buy from your local bookstore. Does your local bookstore have it in stock?! No idea! You’d have to ask them. If they say “no,” then ask them if they’d carry it!/a-well-lived-life-steven-m-wise-animal.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-well-lived-life-steven-m-wise-animal.htmlA friend and former colleague, Steven Wise, a lifelong warrior for the rights of animals and founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project, died last week. For many years, he taught at Vermont Law School (and has the sweatshirt to prove it, photo, above) and a few years ago, I had the privilege of introducing him at Bookstock, the annual literary festival in Woodstock, VT. Below are excerpts of an article I wrote in 2017 when I was a columnist for Vermont Woman; it’s a little longer than my usual posts, but Steve is worth getting to know./pwi-x-big-egg-sting-speaks.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pwi-x-big-egg-sting-speaks.htmlThe May 2024 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated hits newsstands next week. In it, I had the privilege of interviewing Sting, who will be wrestling his final match on March 3 at AEW’s Revolution pay per view. Due to the nature of print magazines, not everything I spoke to Sting about made it into the pages of PWI, but thanks to the magic of e-mail newsletters, I’m able to share a couple of additional tidbits from the interview, namely an evolution of the Sting character that was pitched to Tony Khan, as well as what the future may (or may not) hold for The Icon in AEW after Revolution./subrinaheyink.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/subrinaheyink.htmlSubrina HeyinkSubrina Heyink is a vintage buyer and stylist curating vintage for the last 4yrs at Subrina Heyink Vintage. In my 7 years working in the fashion industry what I enjoyed the most was helping people get dressed, that's what this newsletter is about. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbTBwaugp5mYmsaquso%3D/summer-sojourn.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-sojourn.htmlI am having a Sunday, reclined on a chaise on the deck. Tomorrow is Labor Day, a Labor Day too early to be the traditional end of summer. I’m looking back on past summers, riding a wave of nostalgia. Nothing I’m remembering ever happened to me. It’s all a fiction I make up as I go along. I’m inspired by journalists who keep writing articles about the eleven-bedroom “cottages” of their youthful summers on Cape Cod, in the Hamptons, in Maine./tbm-234-maintenance-ktlo-and-bau.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tbm-234-maintenance-ktlo-and-bau.htmlI've always been bothered by how teams use words and phrases like maintenance, keeping the lights on (KTLO), and business as usual. I get what they mean, but there always seems to be a stigma around this work. This is problematic because work in this category is often the highest leverage/value work a team might tackle. When we maintain a car—oil changes, tire rotations, etc.—we aim to keep the car running smoothly and safely./teaching-is-an-art-not-a-science.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teaching-is-an-art-not-a-science.htmlFrom time to time I am asked by well-meaning friends and family if I might want to pick up a class here and there to scratch my itch for teaching. I do, in fact, hope to find my way back to a classroom in some form. But it’s hard to explain why just any old class won’t do. Part of it is that another term for “adjunct” is “contingent.” If I often felt exploited as a full professor, I can’t imagine that assuming an explicitly marginal role within an institution would prove satisfying./teaching-my-girlfriend-yiddish.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teaching-my-girlfriend-yiddish.htmlI don’t speak Yiddish fluently. Or even semi-fluently. But having lived in New York City for thirty-five years, I acquired a basic store of Yiddish words that, like many New Yorkers, Jewish or not, I employ as part of my ongoing vocabulary. Plus a smattering of Jewish expressions in English. The language may be dying, but certain words live on, and, I hope, always will. I moved to rural Louisiana last June to be with my girlfriend, Gaywynn./thai-one-on-this-week.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thai-one-on-this-week.htmlHappy Friday and Happy Summer Solstice, everyone! Lately we’ve been craving flavors that are tart, sweet, spicy, salty, and umami-y… Know what cuisine has all of those flavors and more? Thai Food. Luckily, in Los Angeles, Anthony’s got the pick of the litter with some of the best Thai restaurants in the country (certainly in Southern California). So this week, he’s taking us to his neighborhood spot, Anajak Thai, one of the country’s premier Thai restaurants./the-10-best-doughnut-places-in-metro.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-10-best-doughnut-places-in-metro.htmlAfter writing 3,000 words already ranking every doughnut place in Metro Vancouver, what have we learned? In addition, we’ve also learned that any potential damage you inflict on a beloved Deep Cove small business will quickly be countered by John Cena. But we’re not looking at the past, we’re moving forward. After four months of eating doughnuts across Metro Vancouver and inputting in hundreds of scores into a overly complicated rubric, we’re here to scientifically declare the top 10 doughnut places in the region, definitely ending the debate once and for all./best-ikea-shopping-items.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-ikea-shopping-items.htmlLast week I magically had a spare afternoon, all to myself…so I spent it at IKEA. This is not unusual for me. Well, being alone is. But not spending a few hours at IKEA. I find my local branch in Brooklyn undeniably soothing. Especially during off-hours, when you can mosey the trademark arrowed path at your own pace and don’t feel like you’re competing to get to the enamel colanders that are finally back in stock./the-50-most-indebted-companies.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-50-most-indebted-companies.htmlSource: Business Financing Fannie Mae is the world's largest debtor, carrying $4.232 trillion in debt. U.S. companies make up 60.13% of the $10.8 trillion owed by the top 100 global companies in debt. Toyota holds the title of the world's most indebted company outside the financial industries, with a debt of $221.13 billion. Amazon ($138.91 B) and Apple ($109.28 B) top the list of the world's most indebted tech companies./the-ambush-site-of-bonnie-and-clyde.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ambush-site-of-bonnie-and-clyde.htmlAs I rounded the curve of scrub-speckled highway in Bienville Parish, not far from the Arkansas state line, I nearly blew past the concrete marker I came to see. I pulled the rented land barge onto the gravel patch on the roadside, and we stretched our legs before we approached the bullet-pocked monolith. Wilted flowers have been left at its feet. Stones placed on its head. Chips gouged away as souvenirs./the-belvidere-oasis.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-belvidere-oasis.htmlThe Belvidere Tollway Oasis is on the Illinois Toll Road, at mile marker 54.5. It arches over the highway like a plate glass monument to the spirit of American road trips, a spirit that gave rise to the rest areas and highway parks that dot the drive from Indiana to Minnesota like—well, like oases. Almost all of the Illinois tollway oases are now closed. Belvidere is the only one that remains, and it will probably close soon—the rest crouch over the highways still, already abandoned./the-billion-dollar-revenue-club.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-billion-dollar-revenue-club.htmlWelcome to issue #47 of next big thing. One refreshing aspect of market cycles is the ability to re-evaluate the metrics and goal posts that companies should be aiming for. A decade ago, venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term Unicorn, referring to companies that are valued at over $1 billion either in the public or private markets or at exit. Back then, in late 2013, there were 39 members of the “Unicorn Club” which consisted of companies that had been started since 2003./the-champ-1979.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-champ-1979.html"The Champ" did not get very good reviews when it came out in 1979, with the general consensus being that it was a brazen, manipulative tearjerker. That's true, but it also happens to be a very effective, manipulative tearjerker. To wit: I welled up several times watching it. That it's very sad is mostly what people remember about the movie these days. In fact, a few years ago, the Smithsonian Magazine ran an article dubbing it "/the-chosen-s3e3.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-chosen-s3e3.htmlThis episode opens with a flashback of a toddler Jesus playing with his mother and father. There is no real dialogue in the scene but shows us the loving and joyful household of the Holy Family. We then return to our current timeline to find that Jesus has visited Mother Mary in Nazareth for a festival. Mary asks Jesus how his followers are doing, and He assures her all is well./the-closure-of-mutual-fish-opens.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-closure-of-mutual-fish-opens.htmlThe quiet retirement announcement by Mutual Fish’s Yoshimura family, in the form of a sign taped to the front door of their Rainier Avenue shop, marks more than the closure of a beloved local business. It symbolizes the decline of a long and diverse history of family seafood businesses in Seattle, and it takes with it the memory of a deep relationship between Japanese and Jewish families dating back to before World War II./the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively.htmlWell, it’s time to finally, officially and definitively answer the question… Should You Release Your Film in Theaters or Straight-To-Streaming? Rephrased, does it make sense to release films “straight-to-streaming” à la Netflix? (And formerly Apple, Prime Video, Hulu, sometimes Disney+, HBO Max in 2021 and occasionally Peacock and Paramount+?) Should movies skip the theatrical and home entertainment windows? Apparently, at least a few companies no longer think this makes sense either./the-devils-plan.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-devils-plan.htmlMy family has been enjoying the new Netflix series “The Devil’s Plan”. My daughter has declared it the best reality show she’s ever seen. While I wouldn’t go that far, I do think it is definitely worth watching, particularly for game designers. In The Devil’s Plan, twelve people are confined to a Big Brother-style house for a week and forced to play… board games. There’s not a physical or dexterity challenge to be seen./the-dystopian-unmitigated-cheerfulness.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dystopian-unmitigated-cheerfulness.html“Everybody” (including this creep) loves big-smiling Jan and her infectious positivity, especially certainly Toyota. Many little girls want to grow up and be Jan. I, do not love Jan. Every time she comes on my TV, a nervous nausea wells up in my innards. I can’t help but think of End Times. Wardrobe apparently has a walk-in closet full of perfectly-fitting red Jan clothing that matches the Toyota brand Red (PANTONE: PMS Red 032 C)./the-good-girl-syndrome.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-good-girl-syndrome.htmlI am sitting in a circle of women, twisting an orange Post-It note in my hands, trying to pluck up the courage to speak. All the other women have already stuck their contributions on the wall and now it is my turn. We are discussing what values are important to us to ensure a collaborative environment while we live and work together for four weeks in a Spanish village as part of a fellowship for women entrepreneurs./the-gotham-city-livability-index.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gotham-city-livability-index.htmlGotham City: it’s not a nice place to visit, and you certainly wouldn’t want to live there. And yet, against all logic, people do. Lots of people. Here’s a town in which ordinary citizens — Gotham’s best and brightest, even — can get gunned down while taking their kid to see a Zorro movie. (Admittedly, they probably shouldn’t take a shortcut through a place called “Crime Alley,” but the Wayne family’s support of independent theaters should still be lauded./the-indict-mare-before-christmas.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-indict-mare-before-christmas.htmlMerry Christmas! I’m Geoff Plitt, and welcome to What You Need to Know, the brief, weekly newsletter where I share the best comedy videos I’ve seen all week. It will always be free, and you’re welcome to become a friend by following me on Twitter, Threads, Instagram, or TikTok, where I share my own jokes every day. And now, the videos you came for: Every year, Stephen Colbert’s team produces an animated Christmas special satirizing the year’s news, and this year’s is absolutely amazing./the-legacy-of-charles-brown.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-legacy-of-charles-brown.html“Here you go. Want to try and do something with this?” In the summer of 1990, my boss at the Texas City Sun was going through the daily stack of mail when he tossed a Rounder Records/Bullseye Blues press kit onto my desk. He knew I was into music, and opportunities were rare — that’s being generous — to do much regional or national entertainment coverage. Writing a profile on a musician opening for Bonnie Raitt would be a nice change of pace amid the daily grind of cops, obits and meetings./the-legend-of-the-penguin-ice-bucket.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-legend-of-the-penguin-ice-bucket.htmlI have long been obsessed with the Penguin Ice Bucket, a product put out by the West Bend Aluminum Company of West Bend, Wisconsin, beginning in the 1940s. You know this item. You have seen it countless times in antique stores or on eBay. Perhaps your parents or grandparents or aunt and uncle owned one. My parents did and it delighted my eye from a very young age. It instantly made frozen water and bar culture exciting and fun to my childish mind./the-old-obscure-and-lesser-known.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-old-obscure-and-lesser-known.htmlI have been reading the writings of Gaius Musonius Rufus. Musonius, as he is often called, was a Roman Stoic and the teacher of Epictetus. I’ve been reading a translation of his writings by Cora Lutz, published under the title That One Should Disdain Hardships. Few of his writings survive. What we have is a collection of summaries of his lectures, most bearing the mark of having been written by a student of Musonius rather than by Musonius himself./call-the-midwife-wedding-prayer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/call-the-midwife-wedding-prayer.htmlI follow my nose when it comes to covering pop culture: I write about what I consume, and I just so happen to be consuming the latest season of Call the Midwife… again. Have a particular poetry & pop culture intersection you’d like to see covered on PopPoetry? Let me know! I’m also open to guest-writer pitches year-round. I’d love to hear from you! Contact Me Actress Judy Parfitt’s legendary Call the Midwife character, Sister Monica Joan, is both the oldest in age and youngest at heart of all the residents of Nonnatus house./the-origin-of-a-master-painter.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-origin-of-a-master-painter.htmlHappy Sunday! It’s a new issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s what we’re doing today: 1️⃣ How background painter Nizo Yamamoto rose. 2️⃣ Animating for a documentary, plus animation newsbits. Just finding us? You can sign up to receive our Sunday issues for free, weekly, in your inbox: Sign Up Now, here we go! It was a shock when the news broke, last summer, that Nizo Yamamoto had passed away./whitman-breaking-bad.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whitman-breaking-bad.htmlThe role that Walt Whitman’s “The Learn’d Astronomer” plays in Breaking Bad is one of the first things I ever wanted to write about for PopPoetry—seeing the work of a poet being such an integral part of the show’s plot was utterly thrilling to me. And not just any show: one of the most critically acclaimed television shows of all time. Good screenwriters choose poetry that makes sense for their characters when these mash-ups do happen, and Vince Gilligan knocked it out of the park by selecting the so-called Grandfather of American Poetry./the-remarkable-and-grim-history-of.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-remarkable-and-grim-history-of.htmlHappy New Year everyone! 🎇🎆 I’ve long felt sorry for Southwark Bridge. Who ever talks about it? This is central London’s least used bridge, and always has been. It’s the span with no fan; the underclass overpass. It is a bridge of meagre renown. But that’s not really fair. Southwark Bridge is a characterful crossing, imbued with unique shapes and colours. It has also a history to compete with any of its neighbours, albeit a tragic one./from-minibus-away-days-to-wembley.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-minibus-away-days-to-wembley.htmlWith Tottenham Hotspur's rich history tradition in the FA Cup, it would be all too easy to overlook just what an astonishing achievement it was when Martha Thomas' dramatic extra-time strike sent the women's team to Wembley. Spurs lifted the men's FA Cup for the first time way back in 1901 as a non-league club and remain the only such outfit to do so in the history of the grand old competition./the-rolling-calf.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rolling-calf.htmlI’ve been playing around with AI image-generators to see what would arise from prompts about some Jamaican/Caribbean mythological creatures. My first attempt was for The Rolling Calf. I am fascinated by Jamaican mythology …. myths and legends in general. After I did this first attempt at generating these AI images, then I realized that some aspects of my prompt needed an adjustment … I’ll refine and post more eventually … The Rolling Calf… some accounts have it as closer to a Minotaur, with the upper body being that of a calf and then from the waist down, a man./ruben-amorim-the-second-best-manager.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ruben-amorim-the-second-best-manager.htmlI recently appeared on an episode of the new Distance Covered podcast, in which host Josh Williams and I discussed how much difference managers make to the success or failure of a team. There have been various studies which have concluded that the answer is ‘not much’, with the financial side of the game always likely to carry a far greater impact. When it comes to Liverpool, they need a man who can get more than expected from the nickels and dimes./the-secret-beef-place-html.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secret-beef-place-html.htmlTotoraku, Los Angeles This is one of those places people whisper about.  “You mean you really got in?”  They look at you suspiciously.  “How?” The restaurant is so wary of unknown customers that it disguises itself as an empty storefront. It doesn’t take reservations. If you somehow get the phone number, the woman who answers will tell you they are fully booked. Forever.  But if you know someone, who knows someone./ruff.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ruff.htmlHello again 👋 it’s Ahmed. I write The Tech Buffet to share practical tips and tutorials helping you build industrial-grade ML applications. Subscribe for exclusive content 👇 If you use Python, you probably use a linter or a code formatter that checks the quality of your codebase. This enforces industry standards and normalizes the code quality across the developers of the same team. I’ve personally always used Black, isort, and Flake8 in large codebases./the-torture-and-the-poets-of-taylor.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-torture-and-the-poets-of-taylor.htmlIt’s National Poetry Month! If you feel like this writing on poetry and pop culture has added value to your life, I’d be so grateful to have you consider supporting my work further by becoming a paid subscriber. Beyond supporting me, an only somewhat tortured poet, your dollars also allow me to pay guest writers and make the future of this publication possible. Click the button below to celebrate NaPoMo by subscribing:/katalin-kariko-the-unimaginable-obstacle.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/katalin-kariko-the-unimaginable-obstacle.html“The history of science, it turns out, is filled with stories of very smart people laughing at good ideas.”—Katalin Karikó Ground Truths podcasts are now available on Apple and Spotify! The list of obstacles that Kati Karikó faced to become a scientist, to make any meaningful discovery, to prevail over certain scientists and administrators who oppressed her, unable to obtain grants, her seminal paper rejected by all of the top-tier journals, demoted and dismissed, but ultimately to be awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize with Drew Weissman, is a story for the ages./the-wailing-gokseong.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wailing-gokseong.htmlDirected by Na Hong-jin South Korea, 2016 ReidsonFilm have had a cluster of new subscribers this week. We wanted to say welcome and thank you. If you are new to our review you can take a look at our back catalogue here - archive. We also have branched out with a Spotify playlist, and last but not least we made a podcast. If you have any friends (or enemies) who you think might benefit from our weekly dose of film badinage, you could press this button and share:/the-watchlist-yakov-trenin.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-watchlist-yakov-trenin.htmlFollow along on Twitter @ToddCordell | @InfernalAccess Be sure to join the Discord channel to talk hockey with our writers and subscribers. Get 35% off for 1 year In the coming weeks I’m going to zero in on free agents I think the New Jersey Devils could, or should, pursue come July. Up first is Yakov Trenin, who I wrote about last August as a potential deadline target…had the Devils actually been good. Trenin is a 6’2’, 200-pound forward who would bring tenacity and versatility to the table while contributing at both ends of the ice./the-writing-on-the-wall.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-writing-on-the-wall.htmlTL:DR: I’ve got a new feature in the New York Times Magazine on the promise and peril of language-based AI like GPT-3, and will be starting a new series here at Adjacent Possible documenting my future encounters with neural nets. For the past seven months or so, I’ve been working on an essay for The New York Times Magazine about large language models, the subset of deep learning that involves training a neural net on a massive corpus of text—the most famous example of which is OpenAI’s GPT-3./this-is-exactly-how-i-budget-using.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-exactly-how-i-budget-using.htmlEven if you’ve never used Mint, the oldest and most popular personal budgeting tool that has ever existed, chances are you’ve heard of it.  But have you heard that it’s going away?  Intuit, the company that owns Mint, recently announced that, come January 2024, Mint is being axed because it’s not making them enough cash. It hopes that its 4M+ users will switch over to Credit Karma, another one of its products, which it says will offer “some of the most popular Mint-like features./three-major-developments-coming-to.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-major-developments-coming-to.htmlFebruary 4, 2021 | Wilson As more people flock to the suburbs, south Charlotte and beyond has become a hot spot for developers. Seeing “land for sale” signs is the norm. With those signs comes the promise of future development. With plenty of undeveloped land available, developers are getting more bang for their buck by looking south of Charlotte. Here is a list of three major mixed-use and retail developments that are in the works./three-things-f35.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-things-f35.htmlGood morning! Here are Three Things I am excited about this week… I think hands-down the best tofu is crispy tofu, i.e. when it’s been dredged in cornstarch, then pan-fried in a generous amount of oil and tossed with some form of glaze or sauce. (Exhibit A: Hsiao-Ching Chou’s Crispy Weeknight Tofu with vegetables.) But honestly, dredging and frying can be a pain sometimes, and when my friend Robin (by way of our friend Kate, who teaches cooking classes) introduced me to this roasting method, the tofu dinner doors felt suddenly flung wide open./time-for-the-sexy-tennis-power-ranking.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-for-the-sexy-tennis-power-ranking.htmlMonday night after the Met Gala, E! premiered its new fashion competition show, the annoyingly-spelled OMG Fashun, hosted by and starring Julia Fox, with a heavy assist from stylist Law Roach. The log-line is pretty simple: It’s Project Runway in 30 minute increments if all the challenges are Unconventional Materials, and the client is always Julia Fox, a woman who I believe would have been a Club Kid Extraordinaire if she’d only been born twenty years earlier, and who currently our kookiest Famous For Wearing Crazy Shit Around Town celebrity./triple-feature-2023-1963-1903-967.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/triple-feature-2023-1963-1903-967.htmlIn today’s post I have 3 stories: SUB-6 AT 60 - a story about The Sports Time Traveler’s™ pursuit of a monumental running goal from this past weekend THE POUNDINGS OF 12/8/63 - A quick whirl around the NFL and AFL from last weekend in 1963THE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD - An emerging story on a game that’s “coming up” next week in 1903.This story is a bit of an aberration for The Sports Time Traveler™./j-curve.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/j-curve.htmlApply now to join Glue Club, the home base where the strongest startup leaders in the world come together to find sanity, opportunity, and growth amidst the chaos of building a company. I pour all my mentorship and coaching energy in to Glue Club, in case you’re looking for something more than a blog post… Head over here to learn more. For my first two years at Facebook, I worked on the People team./unraveling-the-kanji-code-haikyuu.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unraveling-the-kanji-code-haikyuu.htmlIn Japanese, a name isn't merely a string of letters we attach to an individual for identification; it's an integral part of one's identity, often bearing significant meanings and insights into personality traits or life's purposes — and even more so in the world of fiction. This concept is wonderfully illustrated in anime, where character names often carry profound meanings, reflecting their roles or characteristics (and even future character arcs!) in the series./terministic-screens.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/terministic-screens.htmlHey! It’s Sheril Mathews from Leading Sapiens. Welcome to my newsletter, where I share strategies for getting savvier at the game of work. Want to get better at something? Pay attention to your repertoire of language in that domain. I examine this fundamental idea through the lens of neuroscience, philosophy, & peak performance. ICYMI: As I rode up on the ski lift for my first lesson, feeling somewhat apprehensive, the instructor turned to me and said “My job is to teach people to love gravity./wait-the-pina-colada-song-is-about-912.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wait-the-pina-colada-song-is-about-912.htmlWe all know the song. It's classic. But do you know what the 1979 Rupert Holmes hit is actually about? Based on the chorus - “if you like piña coladas, and getting caught in the rain” - it sounds like any other love song from the 1970s - Hot Stuff by Donna Summer, My Sharona by The Knack, etc. - if you like this and I like this then babe, let’s bone in the sand./waking-up-from-history-music-time.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/waking-up-from-history-music-time.htmlIn 1969, in San Francisco, the drummer Mickey Waller came into the Rolling Stone office carrying a copy of the new Rod Stewart album.  It was called The Rod Stewart Album; the cover had black letters on a yellow background. Waller was hoping he could talk someone into reviewing it.  Waller and Stewart were in the Jeff Beck Band together. Beck was the star guitar player who had left the Yardbirds to go solo./warp-and-weft.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warp-and-weft.htmlHey y’all, I’m reading a beautiful expanded edition of Anni Albers’ On Weaving. I originally came to her through my research of Black Mountain College and got very inspired by her ideas about materials. This latest reading has introduced me to another creative tension: thewarp and the weft of fabric. As I understand it, the warp is the thread held in tension by the loom, and the weft is the thread that moves over and under the warp./warren-zevon-in-the-wind.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warren-zevon-in-the-wind.htmlI try not to pay much attention to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominating process or debates. I was never insider enough even to get the long-form critic nominating form, except for two years in the 1990s. I did write-in votes for doo-wop groups like Vito & the Salutations. But when I heard that Warren Zevon was nominated as one of the finalists last week, I found it bewildering that 1./warrior-nun-beatrice-struggle.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warrior-nun-beatrice-struggle.html[Warning: The following essay will contains spoilers for Warrior Nun seasons 1 and 2.] Beatrice’s struggle in Warrior Nun is extremely personal. While at first glance Beatrice appears to be just another member of the Order of the Cruciform Sword (OCS), she quickly takes center stage as a core character in the organization. This comes in the form of her friendship with Ava, which is quickly established in Season 1, Episode 3./a-brand-new-year-part-1-january-2022.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brand-new-year-part-1-january-2022.htmlIt’s 2023 already? Wild. It’s fun to look back on a year and see everything you did. That’s what’s so great about iPhones, the notes and photos apps where you can re-live your year. I took a ride down the last 12 months for my own reflection and figured I would let you guys into it as well. Sometimes I give myself no credit for anything, I’m very much a “whats up next?/dear-elca-we-dont-believe-you-anymore.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-elca-we-dont-believe-you-anymore.htmlThe Evangelical Lutheran Church In America will most likely not exist after this summer. If not this summer then within the next year the ELCA will go through schism. It will come with  incredible strife, turmoil, loss of membership, legacy, and the loss of what many assumed was a permanently ensconced place among America’s largest Mainline Christian denominations.  The symptoms of what ails the ELCA were easy enough to see. The now three year old removal of the ELCA’s first consecrated and installed Black woman to the office of Bishop, Viviane Brietfield Thomas, and the now obvious gaslighting and racist series attacks engineered by her own synod council or staff, but whom like a good Christian soldier fell on her sword, probably signed an NDA, and took three months severance apparently./judge-tabit-senator-feinstein-we.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/judge-tabit-senator-feinstein-we.htmlJudge Joanna Tabit of West Virginia, who presided over the juvenile drug court in Charleston, in a scene from our HBO movie Our Towns. She changed her community and her state, and died this week at age 62. (Steven Ascher / HBO.) Two highly influential women—one known to the world, one who deserved recognition far beyond her home state—have died in the past two days. I want to join in appreciations of the first, and say something more about the second./weathertigers-hurricane-idalia-landfall.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weathertigers-hurricane-idalia-landfall.htmlWeatherTiger’s Hurricane Idalia landfall liveblog has concluded. Thanks for reading, and hope you stayed safe. For complete Florida storm coverage, sign up for WeatherTiger’s hurricane forecast newsletter by clicking here: A new daily (8/31) blog for paid supporters discussing Idalia, Franklin, Jose, and 3 regions of possible tropical development is available exclusively for subscribers here. The NHC 11 a.m. advisory package finds Idalia centered on the Florida-Georgia line about 15 miles SSE of Valdosta, accelerating north-northeast at 20 mph./welcome-guest-debutante-tj-butler.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-guest-debutante-tj-butler.htmlThe Debutante Ball is thrilled to welcome Tiffany Butler, writing as TJ Butler, to the Debutante Ball. Her debut short story collection will make you catch your breath, nod your head, and say I know someone just like that. Her journey to publication is an actual rollercoaster worthy of its own story. Connect with her https://www.instagram.com/tjbutlerauthor/ https://www.tjbutlerauthor.com Share I’m one of those writers who got serious about writing later in life./were-the-stories-of-the-virgin-birth.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-the-stories-of-the-virgin-birth.htmlEven in ancient times, critics of Christianity noticed some parallels between Christian beliefs and pre-Christian myths. In the late second century, a philosopher named Celsus charged, “The Christians have used the myths of Danae and the Melanippe, of the Auge and Antiope in fabricating this story of virgin birth!” In more recent times, skeptical scholars such as Marvin Meyer and Robert Price have claimed close connections between the resurrection of Jesus and the myths of dying and rising deities that marked many ancient myths and mystery cults./weve-all-been-sarah-brady.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weve-all-been-sarah-brady.htmlMy darlings, my queens, my heroines,   Once upon a time, I stood in my bedroom packing for a holiday. My boyfriend, at the time, lay on the bed, idly flicking through his phone, one eye on me. Before I packed each item, I would hold it up and say, ‘what about this one?’ I wasn’t asking for his fashion taste or if he liked the colour, I was asking, ‘am I allowed to wear this?/what-are-americans-top-wellness-purchases.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-are-americans-top-wellness-purchases.htmlUpdate: I’ll be speaking at SXSW in March! If you’re there, be sure to swing by my panel, Is The Wellness Industry Well?  In other news: I’m trying out something new—separating out the news, trends, & deep drives sections as a standalone installment (with full access for paid subscribers). I personally prefer a meaty digest to print out and read, but I understand some folks prefer leaner newsletters, more often. Expect an essay later this week!/what-chelsea-need-to-do-this-summer-c12.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-chelsea-need-to-do-this-summer-c12.htmlWell, the result against Burnley just summed it up. Big change is needed at Chelsea this summer. I’ve personally had enough of results and performances we saw in that game and to me there needs to be some change. This is what I would do, not what I think will happen, or will happen. So bear with me, I’m going to go through the squad, coaching and sporting director positions here, as well as some other off pitch things I believe need to happen./what-comes-after-entireworld.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-comes-after-entireworld.htmlI went deep into sweats in 2020. Duh. And its hard to undo the habit of changing into them the second I walk through my apartment door. Actually, I don’t even want to undo it! It’s heaven! But my Entireworld sweatsuits, that have become a second skin, are sad now. The cotton-poly blend has not held up to three years of slathering my kid with Vaseline, meals on the sofa and general loung-i-ness./what-did-the-chiefs-lose-in-the-wide.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-did-the-chiefs-lose-in-the-wide.htmlThe Kansas City Chiefs lost Juju Smith-Schuster (New England Patriots) and Mecole Hardman (New York Jets) in free agency at the wide receiver position. At this point,t hey haven’t added any additional help to the unit and it has led to quite some debate among Chiefs’ fans. On one hand, the Chiefs just won a Super Bowl with a middle tier WR room and the thought can be that no significant investment is needed in the WR room to do it again./what-do-the-no-oi-signs-mean.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-do-the-no-oi-signs-mean.htmlNo OI signs have been popping up in Grand Haven and around the county, but not very many people even know what they mean. OI stands for Ottawa Impact. Ottawa Impact was formed during COVID as a citizen response to government overreach. During the 2022 election cycle, leaders of Ottawa Impact formed several political actions committees (PAC) that were used to sponsor local candidates. Among them were nine candidates running to be Ottawa County commissioners./what-does-the-bible-say-about-cremation.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-the-bible-say-about-cremation.htmlYou might be surprised that the question “What does the Bible say about cremation?” is actually searched MORE OFTEN than “What does the Bible say about tattoos.” Some people are just fine with being cremated - that might even be what they plan to have done to their bodies after their death. Some people are dead set against cremation - I’ve heard some folks wonder if it’s wrong or if it goes against what God says in the Bible./what-elon-musks-favorite-game-tells.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-elon-musks-favorite-game-tells.html[NOTE: this post is sort of an “…and another thing!” riff on my original review of the Walter Isaacson book. I wanted to write something light this week.] “I am just wired for war, basically.” -Elon Musk, taking a mobile strategy game waaaaay too seriously. Elon Musk really likes the game Polytopia. He has skipped birthday parties and international business meetings to play the game. He has effused that it is “the best game ever./snl-beavis-sketch-breathless-coverage.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snl-beavis-sketch-breathless-coverage.htmlWelcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real. - For the last few years I haven’t watched SNL every week like I used to (not really a value judgement, just a fact), but the morning after the “Beavis” sketch with Ryan Gosling aired on April 13th, it seemed like it was everywhere./what-happened-during-the-school-shooting.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happened-during-the-school-shooting.htmlOn May 1, police were called for an active shooter at Mount Horeb Middle in rural Wisconsin. Officers spotted a teen outside of the school with a long black rifle and killed him when he didn’t comply with commands. Four days later, police provided an update that the rifle was a $100 pellet gun available at Walmart and Amazon. Robert Chappell, the executive editor of Madison 365 News, has two kids at Mount Horeb Middle and High schools./what-if-a-handful-of-people-thwarted.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-if-a-handful-of-people-thwarted.htmlWho gets to save the world? In  1983, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan made a remarkable statement about a fellow senator, Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, who had just died.  "Henry Jackson was proof of the old belief in the Judaic tradition that at any moment in history, goodness in the world is preserved by the deeds of 36 just men who do not know that this is the role the Lord has given them./over-identification.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/over-identification.htmlI recently finished an 8 week therapy workshop on self-compassion (feel free to applaud), and I learned a term on the very last day that really stuck with me. Over-Identification. The words popped up in the results of a self-compassion quiz I had to to do for homework. I scored super high in the over-identification category, and my inner straight-A student was hoping this indicated that I aced my class and now had honor roll worthy self esteem./what-is-happening-in-lahania-hawaii.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-happening-in-lahania-hawaii.htmlIt was August 8, 2023, when wildfires erupted in the Hawaiin community of Lahaina. More than 100 people have died according to government officials. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said a few days after the fires broke out that there was "very little left" of Lahaina, where more than 2,700 structures have been destroyed in what is now the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Green said he expects the death toll to keep climbing./what-is-the-river-of-life-symbols.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-river-of-life-symbols.htmlEditor’s Note: In the next few weeks, we’ll be posting the audio from a 6-part course on biblical imagery. If you’d like to join the upcoming course on deconstruction, sign up here. The new course starts on September 4. Earlier this year, we launched a 6-part course on the images of water, gardens, and mountains in the Bible. We looked at the Sea of Chaos, the River of life, the Tree of Life, the Mountain of God, and the Anti-God Mountain./what-is-the-yield-curve-really-telling.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-yield-curve-really-telling.htmlA year ago most economists predicted the US would fall into recession in 2023: the solid near-3% GDP growth outturn makes this ‘miss’ one of the worst in a long trail of past errors. Part of the reason may be that the old-fashioned business cycle based on waves of new capital spending is less important, as evidenced by the growing disconnect between the inverted US Treasury yield curve and a still buoyant US domestic economy./what-to-do-if-you-fall-onto-the-train.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-do-if-you-fall-onto-the-train.htmlImagine you’re on a fully packed train platform during peak rush-hour. You’re standing in front of the line while looking your phone screen, completely engulfed in replying to a work email. Out of the blue, you feel a forceful push on your right shoulder! You spasm and completely lose your balance! Suddenly, you feel a hard object hitting your knees and your chest… You realize you have have fallen right onto the train-tracks!/what-tom-harkin-thinks-of-last-nights.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-tom-harkin-thinks-of-last-nights.html"Last night was a disaster from which Biden cannot recover,” said Senator Tom Harkin, retired.“ He stood there with his mouth hanging open, head bowed down much of the time; it looked like someone put flour on his face for makeup.” Harkin expressed his opinion in a private note to friends. With his permission, I share what he had to say. These are his words: Although not as important as appearance (TV is all about visuals, not verbiage-all the way back to Kennedy-Nixon), Biden’s sentences were mainly incoherent./whataburger-vs-in-n-out-whose-burger.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whataburger-vs-in-n-out-whose-burger.htmlHeyo! Every so often, like clockwork, a Whataburger vs. In-N-Out debate will rage violently online. I never really know what these people are debating exactly, but the discussions are always stoked by a wide range of indignant claims. The chaotic mudslinging usually features such eloquent arguments as “Whataburger > In-N-Out” and “Whataburger is straight up doggy doo-doo. Go In-N-Out.” Occasionally, though, somebody will pierce through the unfounded claims and get to the heart of the question—what exactly are we debating here?/james-marsden-jury-duty-hollywood.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/james-marsden-jury-duty-hollywood.htmlJames Marsden appears as Eddie, a cater waiter, in the pilot episode of The Nanny. “Mr. Sheffield! I was just…” he says after being caught smooching his daughter. “You were just leaving,” Mr. Sheffield demands. “Right,” he says. He’s back again in Episode 4 when he takes Maggie on a date. The date goes well, and he even wins over the affection of the irritable Mr. Sheffield. He’s never seen again./internal-motivation-when-do-what.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/internal-motivation-when-do-what.htmlDo what you love. Follow your passion. We’ve heard this a million times. But what happens if what we love is to get the highest score on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater? “Do what you love” is fine advice. It taps into the concept of intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation occurs when we do things out of inherent enjoyment. It’s when we find ourselves doing activities “just because,” and not for likes, bonuses, or other external rewards./when-is-a-punishment-too-harsh.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-is-a-punishment-too-harsh.htmlA few days ago, a friend of mine reached out to me via email. She wanted me to weigh in on a parenting situation that was causing disagreement among her friends. She wrote (and gave me permission to share): One of my friend’s daughters had prom last weekend. While she was finishing up getting dressed and waiting for her prom date to arrive for photos, she got a phone call from the boy, who attends another school./who-was-homer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-was-homer.htmlDear Classical KIDS, Homer is considered one of the greatest poets who ever lived. His poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are two of the most important and influential books ever written.  But who was Homer? Was he a truck driver? No, trucks didn’t exist then. Was he a kinder egg opener? No, they didn’t even have chocolate yet! Poor kids, what did they have for dessert?  The answer is a little bit complicated…/whos-afraid-of-ayesha-rascoe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-afraid-of-ayesha-rascoe.htmlJohn, I am so happy that you did this subject. I am a generally conservative white Male, decidedly un-woke, 70, gay and retired. I was a radio and TV news guy for 30 years, always on air. And it so happens that I’m a stickler for correct grammar and pronunciation. In fact, I frequently complain to my partner about errors I see and hear in graphics and voiceovers on CNN, MSNBC and the rest, but also on the legacy players’ newscasts: CBS News, NBC News and ABC News./whos-really-haunting-the-pink-palace.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-really-haunting-the-pink-palace.htmlAs everyone knows, sometimes things get haunted. It just happens, ya know? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the sky is blue, the water cycle makes it rain, planes somehow fly, and sometimes, despite one’s best efforts, people, places, things, etc. get haunted. Such is life. Now as topical as it is to write about hauntings during the month of October, I'm also bringing this up because I live close to a house that is allegedly haunted./why-are-the-cubs-so-very-mediocre.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-the-cubs-so-very-mediocre.htmlBefore each MLB season, I like to scan through various indicators for teams that seem primed to be better— looking at factors such as the differential between their actual and Pythagorean record (i.e., the record predicted by run differential), second-half improvement, farm system quality, team age, offseason moves, changes to payroll, long-term franchise trajectory and more. The Chicago Cubs didn’t check off all of those items going into 2024, but they looked promising in enough of them — especially the Pythagorean luck factor — that I called them a “no-brainer pick” to improve on their 83-win showing in 2023, particularly after the team re-signed the resurgent Cody Bellinger to a new contract right before Spring Training./quick-fire-why-are-we-seeing-horses.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quick-fire-why-are-we-seeing-horses.htmlMØRNING! Welcome back to 🔥QUICK FIRE🔥, our new fortnightly dispatch of insight and opinion, straight from the MØRNING studio.  This week, we’re chatting horses. More specifically, how they seem to be galloping through our feeds and thoughts more regularly than usual. Why, you ask? Theories incoming… I recently spent an evening scouring eBay for miniature horse figurines (lol) to gift my girlfriend, who developed a sudden obsession with horses earlier this year./why-did-latin-die-out.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-latin-die-out.htmlWe have two questions this week that relate rather nicely. First Harisch Sood asks: “Why did Latin die out as a widely spoken language?” And the answer is that it didn’t — it slowly developed into a new language in the many places it spread to. ncG1vNJzZmikla22pLvNr5ilpJWue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCgqWKxqrCMpZitoZ5isaqxjKisrQ%3D%3D/why-do-some-geldings-act-like-stallions.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-some-geldings-act-like-stallions.htmlThis video, which is a few years old now, shows my gelding (the buckskin) displaying clear stallion-like behaviour towards another gelding (the palomino). The context is the following (because context is everything when interpreting behaviour): the palomino is a client horse that has just arrived. My two horses, who have lived alone in a stable social group for over a year at this stage, are in their usual field, while the new horse is in a smaller, adjacent field./why-do-we-feel-so-alone-in-our-sadness.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-we-feel-so-alone-in-our-sadness.htmlOkay, so just to make things clear, I am a naturally sad person. Dispositionally, I seem to have come out that way — labeled before I could speak as sensitive. Apparently, babies with cholic are labeled this and you can find correlations to later dispositional traits. I am also a jealous person. I have tried to tease that out of my personality for as long as I can remember, and yet, it always comes up./why-i-dont-support-the-rufini-family.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-dont-support-the-rufini-family.htmlRod, if you have a link to the full arrest warrant and affidavit for Jeremiah Ruffini, I would like to read the whole thing to be sure I understand what's going on. I read the American Greatness article, which is obviously sympathetic to the Ruffinis, but it does help paint a clearer picture of the situation through some of the smaller details that others might gloss over. A few things to point out and clarify about the posted warrant and other things I've picked up from some of the other reporting on this story:/why-i-hate-it-when-my-favorite-fat.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-hate-it-when-my-favorite-fat.html            This is the midweek what-to-watch edition of Snarky Senior — the newsletter from Erica Manfred, which you can read about here. If you like it and don’t want to miss an issue, you can get it in your inbox by subscribing. There are so few fat actresses that when one of them goes on a diet and leaves the fold I feel betrayed—like I’ve been abandoned by a friend./why-i-wont-post-wojak-memes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-wont-post-wojak-memes.htmlIn the world of memes, there are hundreds and thousands of variations ranging from simple jokes to complicated layers of meta-references that take a lot of prior knowledge to understand. While at their core they are simply jokes that people want to share with others who find them funny, there are good memes and bad memes. The vast majority of memes are fine in the right hands, but there are a couple that I personally, and hopefully many others, just stay clear of - mainly due to their origins and associations on the internet./why-you-dont-need-to-shop-at-aime.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-you-dont-need-to-shop-at-aime.htmlThis is a Buy, Bitch guest post by Andrew Matson. I think its a nice chaser to the “menswear is bad now” chatter this week. I’ll be back in your inbox this weekend with my recent buys and tabs I bravely closed. Thanks Veronica for having me on Buy Bitch!  Pardon the hard pivot here but I came to discuss men’s wear. Which can and imo should be worn by the whole gender spectrum, so I hope I don’t alienate any Buy Bitch readers./why-you-should-plan-a-trip-to-emilia.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-you-should-plan-a-trip-to-emilia.htmlRolling hills dotted with vineyards, Medieval cities filled with artistic treasures, a coastline with popular beaches, farms that produce prized cheeses and charcuterie, and convivial trattorias that serve fresh pasta and other local products—it may sound like Tuscany, but I’m actually describing Emilia Romagna. Tuscany’s neighbor to the north, Emilia-Romagna produces some of Italy’s most famous foods—Parmigiano Reggiano, prosciutto di Parma, balsamic vinegar from Modena—yet it’s rarely among the first places in Italy that travelers visit./wine-moon.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wine-moon.htmlL’allée d’eau by Charles Guilloux, 1895We are sneaking in two full moons this month, one right at the beginning and one right at the end. This happens from time to time, there sometimes being 13 full moons in a year. It makes it tricky to assign the old Medieval and Celtic names to them. Luckily there are plenty for August, so split them as you will. Grain Moon obviously refers to the ripening grain in the fields, while Lynx Moon is a bit more of a puzzle./woman-with-a-parasol.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/woman-with-a-parasol.htmlWoman with a Parasol, by Claude Monet (1875)Every artist chases an impossible dream. Monet’s dream was to paint light and color as they appeared to him in nature, always moving, never fixed. This was his impossible dream, to capture the ever-shifting quality of natural light, or the ‘envelope’, an artistic principle which would become known as “impressionism.” In pursuit of this dream, Monet never stopped painting outdoors, often returning to the same place over and over again./women-on-top.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/women-on-top.htmlBecause I love doing this and I love you all and I am trying to spread the good word about Field Blend, all posts of this fun newsletter are free to everyone (though I dance around in pure joy for you paid subscribers!!). Let’s spread the word, shall we? Share Field Blend “You don’t get to stay comfortable if you want to change your life,” the voice from my car speaker said with conviction./write-it-down.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/write-it-down.htmlI was once part of a group of leaders working on a cross-company initiative. We all had different points of view, and every conversation felt like we were going in circles. Because we could not align on anything, our teams were unsure what to do, and this conflict continued all the way down through our organizations. Share It got to the point where we weren't talking to each other; we were talking past each other./write-your-spiritual-resume.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/write-your-spiritual-resume.htmlmany of us do not feel qualified to go after our own dreams. we ask ourselves: who am I to have a podcast? who am I to call myself creative? who am I to write a book? I'm only 23, what do I know? I'm already 66, isn't it too late? I don't have a PhD in this topic, so who am I to speak on it? I need to do more research before I am ready to talk about this./yes-i-know-the-date-of-the-rapture.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-i-know-the-date-of-the-rapture.htmlOne of the most powerful things you can do for your evangelical brand is become an expert in the End Times. This is called ecclesiology, which is Greek for the book of Ecclesiastes, which is a book that was written by Bing Crosby’s band The Byrds, who also did a song called “Mr. Tambourine Man” which was about Bob Dylan, Bob was the tambourine man, he got kicked out of a Church of Christ because the tambourine counts as a musical instrument, and that’s why he became Jewish for a while, but I think he’s Christian again./yes-its-true-taylor-swift-is-a-cia.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-its-true-taylor-swift-is-a-cia.html[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription, shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com. And yes, I am available for speaking engagements.] I’m afraid the rumor is true: Taylor Alison Swift, the 34 year-old singer-songwriter who was recently named TIME’s Person of the Year and won her fourth Album of the Year gramophone yesterday, is, in fact, a highly successful psyop chiefly created by the Central Intelligence Agency./youve-never-read-spectacular-spider.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/youve-never-read-spectacular-spider.htmlI have a confession to make. When I first came up with the “You’ve Never Read…?!” gimmick last year, it was with this particular comic book run in mind. J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema are two legendary comic book creators. Just looking at their Marvel bibliography prior to their run together on Spectacular Spider-Man (which began in 1991) is astounding. DeMatteis had already had successful runs on Captain America and Defenders, and he wrote the “Fearful Symmetry” story (better known today as “Kraven’s Last Hunt”) that stretched across all three Spider-Man titles in 1987 that is widely regarded as one of the greatest Spider-Man stories ever written./a-not-so-awesome-merch-story.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-not-so-awesome-merch-story.htmlWhen you invest in a company at an early stage, there’s a risk there won’t be a return. When you’re a band or a label using a merch company you expect them to deliver and you aim for transparent communication. There’s a bunch of start-ups who aim to upset, change, and improve the way merch and distribution is run in the live music industry. Awesome Merchandise was one of them. They were, because they don’t exist anymore, they went into administration, or to put it differently, they went bankrupt./tyrese-haliburtons-former-coach-breaks.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tyrese-haliburtons-former-coach-breaks.htmlWith about a month to go until the NBA Draft, Valley Tales will publish a series of profiles on prospects who could be a fit for the Suns, featuring exclusive interviews with a college assistant coach or personal trainer.  These are the people who discovered and recruited these players, who were around them every day, who observed their development into a potential lottery pick. Sure, these coaches/trainers want to support their guy, but they were also generally honest while evaluating where their player needed to improve to have a successful NBA career./analysis-knave-2e.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/analysis-knave-2e.htmlMy main role in my day job is being a mechanism designer (along with auditor, cryptographer, and back end developer in a pinch). Wikipedia explains it well: The design problem is the "inverse" of traditional economic theory, which is typically devoted to the analysis of the performance of a given mechanism. An economist is skilled in analyzing the resultant behavior for a given (economic) system, where a mechanism designer is skilled in proposing a new system that drives the desired behavior./day-after-tomorrow.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/day-after-tomorrow.htmlEvery Tom Waits Song is an email newsletter covering just that, in alphabetical order. Find more info here and sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox: “Day After Tomorrow” is the first Tom Waits song that Joan Baez covered. I mention that not just to shout out her version (which is quite good), but to point out it’s the rare Tom Waits song that sounds like something Joan Baez would cover./dont-take-me-with-you.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-take-me-with-you.htmlA video has begun to circulate of Kenneth Copeland, “Lil Woody” of YSL fame, being interrogated after his arrest in October 2021 on weapons charges. Copeland is speaking to Fulton County investigators, apparently discussing a planned hit on one of his “ops.” The full video — at least until Judge Ural Glanville decides to go after it — is more than three … ncG1vNJzZmismJqutbjAp6uap5KfsqTAyK%2BcZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLDOp6tmrJGgsm65xGauoqyYYsawwQ%3D%3D/something-streaming-this-way-comes-95c.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/something-streaming-this-way-comes-95c.htmlI suppose most every Beatles fan can remember some formative moment that fully led them down the path of becoming a fan for life. In my case, I can attribute it to a couple of things, starting with my next-door neighbor, Betty Steiner, giving me a copy of 20 Greatest Hits as a gift, but it was the purchase of Nicholas Schaffner’s invaluable tome The Beatles Forever that provided me with the deep dive I needed to become a Beatlemaniac for life./hello-stranger.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hello-stranger.htmlYou’re reading Hung Up, the newsletter from Hunter Harris. This is The Tuesday Post, a weekly essay or interview or deep dive. If you like this kind of thing, you can subscribe here.Here is what happens in Closer: The forlorn photographer Anna (Julia Roberts) is dating… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on56knKR6tMDRmqWgnaI%3D/might-makes-right.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/might-makes-right.htmlRight, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. — Thucydides, Athenian historian and general Woe to the conquered. — Chieftain Brennus (to the Romans) Inrecent essays, I spoke in protest of our civilization’s genocide against the living world. The word genocide, in my view, is the only one in the English language that comes anywhere close to accurately describing the ongoing global slaughter and annihilation of non-human life./reflections-by-diana-ross-and-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reflections-by-diana-ross-and-the.htmlI see a dream that's lost Flo Ballard had the biggest voice in The Supremes. This was true literally and figuratively: She had a regal, passionate presence that could reach the back pew of a church, and had been the group’s leader since they started playing small shows around Detroit as The Primettes. Mary Wilson, meanwhile, had the complimentary skills to be jazzy or bluesy or whatever the music called for, and the then Diane Ross had yet to turn her thin, reedy voice into an ideal pop commodity./12-in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts.htmlHello courageous people! 👋 Another week done and dusted which sees us here for edition #12! This week, our featured book is 📚 In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction 🖋 by Dr Gabor Maté. Well this one was the definition of a slog to read at 500 pages 🥵 and fulfils (I hope!) the exact purpose of this newsletter - me doing the hard yakka of reading the book for you and pulling out the bits of gold./1-the-best-ever-death-metal-band.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1-the-best-ever-death-metal-band.html[This is it! Thanks so much to everyone who has been reading this, I’m incredibly grateful to you.] You sometimes want the things that come last to bear and balance the weight of the things that have come before them. I have a large poster in my bedroom of Michael Jordan’s Finals-winning jumper in 1998, which wasn’t his last shot—he played 142 games for the Washington Wizards after leaving the Chicago Bulls—but feels like it, to me and to a lot of other people./10-vincent-van-gogh-quotes-that-reveal.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-vincent-van-gogh-quotes-that-reveal.htmlWe know Vincent Van Gogh painted beautifully. We know he cut off his own ear. But what else do we really know about the brilliant Dutch Painter? A glimpse of the letters he wrote to his younger brother, Theo, reveal much: his drive; his pain; his insecurity; his soul that yearned for God. A look at 10 things he wrote that will shed light on the brilliant, haunted artist: 1) “It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be./10000-artillery-shells-per-day.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10000-artillery-shells-per-day.htmlI’m on the Armed Services Committee and this week we met with the four-star General in charge of U.S. forces in Europe.  Most of our conversation was about Ukraine. Here are the highlights from the unclassified portion. He began by emphasizing that our allies in Europe are doing a lot to help, specifically mentioning that the vast majority of tanks and military fuel for Ukraine has come from European allies./12-ahas-from-my-allison-bornstein.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-ahas-from-my-allison-bornstein.htmlYou guys, I did it! I treated myself to anAllison Bornstein style session. If you don’t know about AB and her AB closet editing system, then this is going to be the best weekend ever. Get on youtube, stat. Then get on IG. And then get to reading. So. much. juicy. stuff. BTW, if you’re wondering: Can I afford this? The session cost is $300. Honestly it’s a great value. And while I realize that’s a chunk of money, I don’t drink wine./1979-the-cave-of-time.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1979-the-cave-of-time.htmlThe Cave of Time a.k.a. Choose Your Own Adventure #1 by Edward Packard First Published: July 1979 Platform: Paperback book Opening Text: WARNING!!!!Do not read this book straight through from beginning to end! These pages contain many different adventures you can go on in the Cave of Time. From time to time as you read along, you will be asked to make a choice. Your choice may lead to success or disaster!/2022-honda-civic-hatchback-boring.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2022-honda-civic-hatchback-boring.htmlThe Honda Civic is synonymous with value. I don’t it’s ever not within the top 10 list of best-selling cars in America. Even in 2020 (when it was at the tail end of its 10th generation design), it was the 8th best-selling car in America with 261K units sold. I was recently able to review the 2022 Civic Hatchback in the Sport trim, and I was pretty darn impressed. In the last few months, you may have noticed the newest Civic hitting the streets./slam-poetry-as-punchline-i-watched.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slam-poetry-as-punchline-i-watched.htmlPopPoetry is a poetry and pop culture Substack written by Caitlin Cowan. You can learn more about it here. Check out the archive to see other TV shows, movies, and films whose intersections with poetry I’ve covered. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, subscribe so you won’t miss a post! The first time I ever had my poems read aloud was against my will./332-leg-irons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/332-leg-irons.htmlMuch has been written about Lori Vallow’s physical appearance over the past three years. In a way, it partially explains the widespread attention on her story because it suggested that Vallow contains a strange dichotomy: the cheerleader and the beauty queen/ the mom who now stands accused of conspiring to murder her children. This prompts endless fascination In 2020, when East Idaho News tracked Vallow and her new husband, Chad Daybell, down in Hawaii, the woman from the headlines came to life: the dreamy blonde curls, the flip-flops, the athleisure, the annoyed look on her face./40-years-of-bomberman-bomberman-tournament.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/40-years-of-bomberman-bomberman-tournament.htmlJuly marks 40 years of Hudson Soft’s (and Konami’s) Bomberman franchise. Throughout the month, I’ll be covering Bomberman games, the versatility of its protagonist, and the legacy of both. Previous entries in the series can be found through this link. Back when Hudson had their own console to worry about, Neutopia was their homegrown action-adventure series. Heavily inspired by Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, Neutopia arrived on the PC Engine and Turbografx-16 in 1989 and 1990, respectively, with a sequel following for the same platforms in ‘91 and ‘92./5-years-sober-erin-jean-warde.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/5-years-sober-erin-jean-warde.htmlknow someone who might enjoy my work? share with a friend! Share On Saturday, 11/11, I celebrated 5 years of sobriety from alcohol. It was a quiet day. I walked to the farmer’s market, which has become an important part of my week. I got a small lunch and a cookie and walked back home. I struggled a bit with lament that I don’t seem to know how to mark the years anymore, but also the tender awareness of how much I should be grateful that this is just a normal part of my life./60-years-ago-today-they-murdered.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/60-years-ago-today-they-murdered.htmlFriends, I’ve shared some of this with you, but today marks 60 years since it happened — when the Klan murdered my protector. I was always the shortest kid in school, which made me an easy target for bullies. To protect myself, I got into the habit of befriending older boys who’d watch my back. One summer when I was around 8 years old, while visiting my maternal grandmother at her cabin in the Adirondack Mountains, I found Mickey, a kind and gentle teenager with a ready smile who made me feel safe./the-resurgence-of-bape-a-case-study.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-resurgence-of-bape-a-case-study.htmlI mean, his week’s article is about BAPE. That brand is what it is today in large part because of the Clipse, so who better to talk about this week than Pusha T & No Malice? Produced by The Neptunes, of course… BAPE is one the greatest streetwear brands in history. In the early 2000s it was highly coveted and worn by the fashionistas (and regular fans who could afford it, of course)./non-toxic-masculinity-a-conversation.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/non-toxic-masculinity-a-conversation.htmlA few weeks ago I had the privilege of hosting Zachary Wagner at Truett Seminary on Baylor Campus. I first became aware of Zach through his book Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality. I had the privilege of meeting Zach and his family this past July in Oxford and was so glad he was able to drive down to Waco for an afternoon while in San Antonio attending the American Academy of Religion/Evangelical Theological Society/Society for Biblical Literature conference./a-guide-to-greek-dips.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-greek-dips.htmlIn honor of Orthodox Easter this past Sunday, I thought it would be useful to create a dip “cheat sheet”. My mom’s family is Greek and although I am not fluent in the language by any means, one thing I do know how to do is order. I’ve provided some ideal pairings below but these are all personal, you do you! There’s a time and a place for each dip and right about now, I think I’d like to be on the seaside in Greece sampling them all with some Greek salad and a freshly caught fish alongside a ton of lemon./a-little-history-on-italian-chicken.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-little-history-on-italian-chicken.htmlItalian chicken soup, or "zuppa di pollo alla Toscana," is a classic Italian soup that has been enjoyed by generations of people around the world. It is a delicious and comforting dish that is also packed with nutritional benefits. However, the history of this soup and its health benefits may surprise you. The exact origins of Italian chicken soup are unclear, but it is believed to have originated in Tuscany, Italy./coltsfoot-a-medicinal-plant-spanning.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coltsfoot-a-medicinal-plant-spanning.htmlSometimes things are not as they appear. After seeing this bright little flower gracing the edge of the stream we cross in early spring for many years now, I finally went to the effort of looking it up. Typing in “native yellow wildflower march blooming wet” I only found the marsh marigold, which is indeed a lovely little native perennial but the flowers gave away that it was not the same plant./a-pre-thanksgiving-pep-talk.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-pre-thanksgiving-pep-talk.html          Before turning to the four-day pause to permit the release of hostages held by Hamas and the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza, I want to address the top comment from a reader posted in response to yesterday’s newsletter. The reader said (in part), Today I’m fighting despair because of the voting rights decision, Univision’s takeover, the seemingly never-ending coverage of DJT, and the war in Gaza. So... what to do?/a-progressive-analysis-of-demi-moores.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-progressive-analysis-of-demi-moores.htmlEvery seven years, it seems, Demi Moore is expensively chopped, dropped, shaved,  airbrushed and hydraulically re-sexualized for a new demographic of boner-attention.   The X-Box contingent is discovering, today, what the Gen-X boys witnessed before them: Despite Repeated Motherhood, Demi (through a vigorous combination of rude will and 6-digit surgeries) Is Still Fuckable! (see Kutcher, Ashton; Dude, Where’s My Mom?) In 1996, La Moore was paid $12.5m -- the highest fee any actress had ever been paid, at that point – to unveil her Demispheres in the movie Striptease, to the delight of several sweaty,  jism-clogged fans worldwide./a-short-history-of-corpse-paint.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-short-history-of-corpse-paint.htmlFun fact - you know me as a beauty journalist, but I actually started my career in music journalism, and I’ve written about metal for the likes of NME, Kerrang, Rock Sound and ATP since I was a teen. So yesterday’s column on a corpse paint beauty collab was totally my jam, so much so that I ended up writing an extra column on the wild history corpse paint and how it became synonymous with the black metal scene./a-snap-pea-salad-to-make-immediately.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-snap-pea-salad-to-make-immediately.htmlI'm a huge fan of crunchy green salads with walnuts!! And snap peas in general. All the cheffy people (we/me/us food writers) do all this stuff by instinct, like blanching and shocking fresh peas, but this is a good reminder how many recipes and even books assume everyone knows this. Your visual guide is so great and I love how deeply you serve your audience. It's inspiring. xx Expand full comment/danny-casolaro-a-son-plunges-into.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/danny-casolaro-a-son-plunges-into.htmlDanny Casolaro’s goal to uncover The Octopus was so all-consuming that it enveloped his physical life and his legacy as a writer. Sleuths across three decades have poured over the remnants of his manuscripts, voluminous notes and eclectic collection of documents. Few authors, who were unknown en vivo, have unfinished manuscripts which have sustained such public interest. Are the remnants of his notes worthy of editing into a Pulitzer Prize award winning book?/a-very-subjective-list-of-the-best-f2f.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-very-subjective-list-of-the-best-f2f.htmlGelato season is here! And what better way to celebrate than with a few scoops? When in Rome, it’s an absolute must. Once the weather warms up, I will happily forgo dessert at a restaurant and opt for a post-lunch or dinner gelato and a stroll. On hot summer days I’ll sometimes skip lunch entirely and just have gelato instead.  Gelato is usually translated as ice cream, but the recipes for Italian gelato and American ice cream are a bit different./introduction-a-whole-music-series.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introduction-a-whole-music-series.htmlThis is the only in-depth story about the short-lived band Deconstruction. Somehow it took 27 years for someone to write it. I didn’t expect it would be me. Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery and guitarist Dave Navarro formed Deconstruction in late-1992, not long after Jane’s broke up, and they released only one album, Deconstruction, right after they broke up, too. For many of us ’90s kids, Jane’s Addiction was our Velvet Underground./a-word-of-caution-about-journey-to.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-word-of-caution-about-journey-to.htmlThere’s a new Christmas film coming out next weekend (Friday, November 10) from Affirm Films: Journey to Bethlehem, a new retelling of the Nativity story. If you visit popular Catholic websites or listen to Catholic radio, you may have come across one of their advertisements. On the surface, it looks like a wholesome family Christmas movie, something that you can go see with your kids and extended family just in time for Thanksgiving./active-melody-full-review-of-free.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/active-melody-full-review-of-free.htmlThe best time to learn guitar is now. With online lessons a student can be in a room with their teacher all the time. Traditional music lessons go like this: you see your teacher once a week. You’re given a lot of information at once – technique, theory, musicianship skills. Then your teacher tells you to “go home and practice.” Basically, all of the emphasis is put on that one brief period each week, with the majority of growth left up to the student./adorable-story-41-anne-anka.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-41-anne-anka.htmlAnne Alison Anka was born on October 2nd, 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt with her twin sister. After moving back to Europe in her teens, she was discovered by Paris Match Magazine. She soon moved to New York City to pursue modeling under the wing of Eileen Ford. After meeting singer, Paul Anka, in Puerto Rico in 1960, they married and resided in NYC. During her time there, she became involved in the art scene as a collector./24-adventures-in-stereograms.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/24-adventures-in-stereograms.htmlDoes it enhance my nerd credibility if I tell you that I was into stereograms before they were cool? What if I tell you that I’m still into stereograms long after they were cool? And I’ve just discovered some amazing stereograms the likes of which I’ve never seen before. You remember stereograms, right? They were popular in the ‘90s under the brand “Magic Eye.” Right, they were those books and posters where you could cross or uncross your eyes just the right amount and a 3D image would pop out./aishwaryasrinivasan.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aishwaryasrinivasan.htmlAishwarya SrinivasanI am currently working as a Senior AI Advisor for Startups @Microsoft. Previously worked at Google and IBM. I have built a community of 500k+ followers on LinkedIn and 50k+ on my Instagram and YouTube. Check out my newsletter "AI with Aish"! ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK10qGumqqplsCztc2irZqrkaM%3D/alfa-nero-and-the-billionaires-who.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alfa-nero-and-the-billionaires-who.htmlA friendly reminder that Rant! is a reader-supported publication. Please sign up and share! You get a weekly newsletter and paid subscribers get access to my Foreign Influence Operations course and other additional content. I hope you’ll consider subscribing. Most people wouldn’t consider buying the seized mega yacht of a pissed off Russian oligarch. There’s the price, of course, in the multimillions, compounded by enormous operational and maintenance costs. Then there’s the whole pissed off Russian oligarch part./all-of-us-strangers-review.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-of-us-strangers-review.htmlAndrew Haigh’s romantic fantasy, All of Us Strangers, got shut out of the Oscars, with zero nominations. And that’s a shame. A strong ensemble cast — Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell — delivers subtle yet heartbreaking performances. The screenplay adapts its source material with a series of bold choices. And it shows us things we think we know in completely unexpected and fresh ways. The unusual story of All of Us Strangers follows Adam, a screenwriter who lives alone in London and has to confront the loss of his parents along with the prospect of starting a new relationship./analysis-of-recent-ipl-trades.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/analysis-of-recent-ipl-trades.htmlSeveral days ago when the swap deal for Avesh Khan (to Rajasthan Royals) and Devdutt Padikkal (to Lucknow Super Giants) was announced, I tweeted that it was probably a good deal for all parties:- I received quite a few messages following the post, so I thought I’d try and give some further insight into why I think it’s a good deal for both parties and to try and answer some of the questions which I was asked./animal-2023-a-review.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/animal-2023-a-review.htmlNot many know or remember this but Shaktian Space (such a silly name) was started in 2007 for two main purposes: posting utterly bad poems and brutally honest movie reviews. Over the years, as my writing evolved, I pressed the brake on (forgettable) poetry and geared up on journalistic writing, with a significant dose of existentialism. However, my obsession with cinema festered. I continued to post my thoughts on movie scenes, the deeper meanings of a given dialogue, philosophies behind character’s unsaid dilemma, and so on./former-kusi-news-anchor-files-lawsuits.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/former-kusi-news-anchor-files-lawsuits.htmlA former KUSI news anchor filed a lawsuit July 28 against the news station and its chief financial officer, who accessed her private emails during the recent highly publicized court case involving another former news anchor’s discrimination lawsui… ncG1vNJzZmikpaCyqa3RqKOdZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8WoqaadomK4tr%2FIZqWer6Nirq%2Bvx6ipZp6ZobK0ecuarqytmanA/any-witch-way-why-i-love-witches.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/any-witch-way-why-i-love-witches.html“To all of us who ever tried to twitch our noses and make things happen” That’s from the dedication to Mr. & Mrs. Witch, my new novel out today. And, if you’ve ever seen Bewitched, or even a clip of Bewitched, I bet you know exactly what I mean. I thought instead of telling you -- again -- just about the book, I’d instead write about why I love witches and why I think they’re having a moment (besides that we all love them, duh)…and a little about the book./apartments-fit-for-the-cast-of-seinfeld.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apartments-fit-for-the-cast-of-seinfeld.htmlSupport original, independent journalism for Charlotte with a membership to The Charlotte Ledger: Today's Charlotte Ledger is sponsored by By George Communications: By George Communications is a newsroom-trained boutique public relations firm. We love stories. After all, stories build connections. Stories help you grow – your brand, your career, your following, your organization, your sales. Why keep your stories waiting, By George? Charlotte apartment developer Gateway Communities turned to the hit 1990s TV show “Seinfeld” for inspiration in naming two apartment projects — one in NoDa and one in Ballantyne — and had fun with the street names, too./aphrodite-beyond-binaries.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aphrodite-beyond-binaries.htmlWhen I was five my family added three Pekin ducks to our unofficial rescue operation. My mother invited my brother and me to name our new family members. “Bite-y!” My toddler brother declared, scowling at the duck that had just snapped his finger. And then he waddled off leaving the task of Genesis to me. Sacred naming. I turned to the other two and eyed them carefully. The bleary-eyed duck I called Zeus./applied-math-rock.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/applied-math-rock.htmlScrolling through her Spotify recommendations last week, Jessica Dai tipped me to the existence of Egg Punk. I choose to pretend this is not a genre. But Jess also was incredulous that Math Rock was a thing. Little did she know Math Rock is one of my favorite genres. The math rock sound has evolved a lot over the last 30 years, but I love every incarnation of the sound. When I was in college, Math Rock was what you called Progressive Rock played by Indie Rock hipsters./aquamans-love-interests.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aquamans-love-interests.htmlFirst married in the sixties, Aquaman and Mera are credited as the first married superheroes in comics. Their relationship has preserved over several decades and their family continues to grow. But as we might expect from any story spanning five decades, the couple have encountered a few detours. Not only did Aquaman have a couple of relationships before he and Mera started seeing on another, there are a couple of other romantic encounters in Aquaman’s life./architect-homes-bertrand-goldberg.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/architect-homes-bertrand-goldberg.htmlUnlike other architects I’ve featured throughout this series, Bertrand “Bud” Goldberg (1913-1997) did not design his own home. Best known for the Marina City complex and the now-demolished Prentice Hospital, Goldberg had experience with residential work going all the way back to his first commission in 1934 when he created a prefabricated canvas-covered house for feminist Harriet Higginson. While still in his twenties, Goldberg continued to design single-family houses for people like magazine editor Thomas H./arocs-mv-cape-orlando-incident.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arocs-mv-cape-orlando-incident.htmlBased on using Cyabra Tech and looking at the likely path of ships transiting to Israel, it is possible that AROC was tricked into protesting the MV Cape Orlando. Need an private intelligence agency to inspect your business for domestic or foreign risk? Contact Veloxxity. Like my Department Of the Boat People shirt? Get one here. Share Links and resources available for paid subscribers below: ncG1vNJzZmiqqZa7rq%2FBnquhZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8CrppyrXaLDbq%2FAqZxmp6Khrq%2Bwzmagp5uZmbKvwA%3D%3D/ask-me-anything.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-me-anything.htmlFor today's Substack, I am answering questions from reader Aryan Arora, a senior majoring in math and economics at Carleton College. If you like this format and want one of your questions answered, you can comment on this post with your questions for me.  Leave a comment Q1: A couple of months ago, you wrote about your experiences navigating the media landscape. What steps would you like to see other economists take to make their work more accessible to the general public?/at-winfields-pub-a-masterful-performer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-winfields-pub-a-masterful-performer.htmlTab Daulton made his restaurant bones serving thousands a day for decades in Delaware North venues across America. In 2007, he arrived in Buffalo, to feed fans in seats and suites at then-HSBC Arena.  Along the way, he met a server forenamed Cherryl, with two Rs, working at Cleveland’s Northfield Park harness track. They bet on each other, and got married. Now Cherryl and Tab Daulton run Winfield’s Pub. He’s in the kitchen, she’s out front wrangling customers, while son and metal guitarist Thomas Daulton serves as bar manager and cocktail whisperer./this-is-54-author-elizabeth-gilbert.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-54-author-elizabeth-gilbert.htmlFrom the time I was 10, I’ve been obsessed with what it means to grow older. I’m curious about what it means to others, of all ages, and so I invite them to take “The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.”Here, celebrated bestselling author responds. -Sari BottonP.S. A reminder that in my book, everyone who is alive and aging is considered an Oldster, and that every contributor to this magazine is the oldest they have ever been, which is interesting new territory for them—and interesting to me, the 58-year-old who publishes this./autogynephilia-junk-science-and-pseudoscience.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/autogynephilia-junk-science-and-pseudoscience.htmlThe scientific method is fairly straightforward. If you believe something may be true about the world, that is your starting hypothesis. Then you carry out experiments to test whether that hypothesis is true or false. If your methods are designed to only provide evidence in support of the hypothesis without serious consideration of potential contradictory evidence or alternative explanations, that is called junk science. And when multiple independent researchers disprove your hypothesis, but you continue to tout it as “science,” that is called pseudoscience./avoiding-the-used-car-salesman-trap.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/avoiding-the-used-car-salesman-trap.htmlI work with technology companies, and in general, everyone in the company outside of sales finds selling uncomfortable - particularly founders. I wondered why that might be, so I asked a handful of founders I work with. The reply was pretty consistent - they just don’t want to be seen as “that guy.” You know the guy I’m talking about. The used car salesman. The archetypal fast-talking, lying, cheating, greedy, selfish dude who is single-mindedly focused on moving the cash out of your pocket into his pocket./battle-bears-is-back.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/battle-bears-is-back.htmlWe’ve been developing the Battle Bears game franchise since 2009, and we’re proud to be launching one of our latest mobile games to not only the Battle Bears community, but also to the Axie/Ronin community and the wider gaming audience. Battle Bears Heroes will be soft launched in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand starting from today. Play on iOS or Android today Battle Bears Heroes is a top-down shooter featuring multiplayer gameplay inspired by our classic hit BB GO (2010)./beware-unemployed-gerontocrats.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beware-unemployed-gerontocrats.htmlMy friend Phillip Longman turned 65 last month. Longtime readers of Phil’s astute political journalism will find some irony in this, because Phil first achieved recognition in the 1980s predicting that the generational divide would soon become America’s most salient political battleground. At the time he was representing the younger generation; now he’s a card-carrying member of the older one (a circumstance he of course anticipated) In his influential 1985 Atlantic piece, “Justice Between Generations” (later expanded into a book, Born to Pay), Phil put it this way:/bts-solo-albums-highlight-the-strength.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bts-solo-albums-highlight-the-strength.htmlBTS leader RM often describes the seven-member megagroup using the metaphor of a boat: “The seven of us are on a boat, looking in different directions but going the same way,” he explained in the Break the Silence docuseries. He has returned to this analogy when emphasising the different tastes and ambitions of each of the members.  While they were focused primarily on group activities, this notion felt somewhat intangible — the seven members, after all, were presenting a united front with group releases that worked towards what seemed to be their collective goals./butterflies-and-shrimp.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/butterflies-and-shrimp.htmlIn the 1960’s, a meteorologist by the name of Edward Lorenz posited that tiny “butterfly-size” changes to the starting point of his models could result in anything from sunny skies to violent storms. This was problematic because if true, it meant it was nearly impossible to make long-term weather forecasts.  This phenomenon, commonly referred to as the “butterfly effect”, implies that a seemingly innocuous event (such as a butterfly flapping its wings) has the potential to completely upend a complex system./by-the-time-i-got-to-the-woodstock.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/by-the-time-i-got-to-the-woodstock.html “If you want to lay down on it, you can lay down,” the caretaker at the Woodstock cemetery is saying. “Some people come up and lay down, some people bring lunch. You have any questions, ask me. There’s no such thing as a silly question. Everyone deals with death differently.” The caretaker, who is also the gravedigger and the groundskeeper, is Shea Cocks. He is 44 and has a tattoo of a skull and a pickaxe and shovel./california-pen-show-2024-adventures.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/california-pen-show-2024-adventures.htmlOh boy, February had been A MONTH. With so many things going on in the world affecting my mental health significantly, work ramping up in preparation for events in California, and unexpected hurdles we’re jumping through, coming back to Substack felt like a sigh of relief. Anyway, I’m back from Los Angeles and it’s been a blast. For some reason, I’m feeling extremely exhausted working this show compared to other events, but it was also a lot of fun./can-data-scientists-completely-replaced.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-data-scientists-completely-replaced.htmlData science and machine learning have grown significantly in recent years, but 2023 has truly put AI on the map. I am sure that almost everyone has heard about AI and what it can do, which has led many businesses to integrate AI into their operations eagerly. Why has AI become more prominent now than ever, even though it's been around for a long time? I would argue it's all about the accessibility of generative AI and its transformative impact on our work./can-foxes-climb-trees.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-foxes-climb-trees.htmlAbout a month ago, when driving home in the dark after unsuccessfully searching for the Northern Lights (we were a day too late), our headlights passed over a tiny fox kit near our mailbox. We had recently had a red fox visit our yard in the broad daylight and this may have been one of its offspring. Foxes are beautiful creatures, an odd blend of the physical features of dogs and the behavioral characteristics of cats./mt-bagel-seattle-review.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mt-bagel-seattle-review.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. “Before I began this newsletter, I already knew how it was going to end./carole-hooven-on-harvards-existential.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carole-hooven-on-harvards-existential.html(This week’s Dish is an abridged version. Even though we’re on our annual Christmas break, we couldn’t let the Harvard developments go un-covered. I also wrote a short piece below, “The Woke Panic Over Gay’s Resignation.” Dissents welcome as always: dish@andrewsullivan.com.) Carole is back to discuss her travails at Harvard, teaching in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. She originally appeared two years ago to discuss her superb book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us./casey-oneill-birthed-a-beverage-revolution.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/casey-oneill-birthed-a-beverage-revolution.htmlCasey O’Neill is part of an increasingly rare group of people who join a company while in college and never leave. Her entry into Boston Beer Company originated during her senior year at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, when she accepted an internship in their Quality Assurance (QA) lab. Fast forward 12 years and she’s now the Director of Product Development for Boston Beer, specializing in their “beyond beer” category. Her already extensive purview over Truly, the second-largest national hard seltzer brand after White Claw, is on the cusp of growing even more — Boston Beer founder and chairman Jim Koch says he expects “beyond beer” will double the company’s business over the next 14 years./catkins-look-a-little-bit-closer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catkins-look-a-little-bit-closer.htmlThe lane I walk along most days with Noushi is lined with young hazels, growing through the ivy hedgerows. To be honest, I don’t usually pay them much attention unless I spot a dunnock hopping about near them, or a rat scurrying in the ivy behind. Last week though, something made me stop to look a bit closer. The hazels are currently covered in catkins, and when you stop to admire them like I did, you’ll see they really are complex and beautiful things./cement-pond.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cement-pond.htmlWe moved into our old house 16 years ago this summer. It was built in 1924, so it has now been around for almost a century.  A neighbor told us: “You don’t live in an old house. You live with an old house.’’ Indeed, for every one thing that might go wrong, there will be nine things that absolutely charm you. Our old house came with an gunite pool. It was old, too./cheat-lemon-pickle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cheat-lemon-pickle.htmlThere are a handful of ingredients in my kitchen that fall into the category of pantry powerhouses—adding big, bold flavor with just a spoonful, drizzle, or pour—fish sauce, tomato paste, harissa, sambal, Better Than Bouillon, doenjang, and of course, preserved lemons. The latter is the key to my quick, cheat lemon pickle, or achaar. Usually lemon achaar needs to be cured for up to 4 weeks, but this version takes a helping hand from already preserved lemons, resulting in a zippy-zangy achaar in just 24 hours./chicken-wonton-tacos.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chicken-wonton-tacos.htmlYou know it’s going to be a good time when Lucas Sin shows up. Not only that, but we’re celebrating one of my favorite chain restaurants: Applebee’s. Now, I know many of you are reading this and frowning, shaking your head and muttering, “Applebee’s? Really, Farideh?” Yes. Applebee’s. I also love Sizzler (so much so that I got the word SIZZLER tattooed on my body recently, but that is another story for another time)./chock-full-onuts-nutted-cheese-sandwich.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chock-full-onuts-nutted-cheese-sandwich.htmlSometimes I stumble across stories that I published earlier on in my career and I just…cringe. Everyone goes up learning curves, but as a writer in the internet age, my growth (and the many bumps and mistakes along the way) are available in Google-searchable perpetuity. And yet, for all the occasional moments of embarrassment, I am also really proud of my archive - particularly a column I used to write for Capital New York, a short-lived online publication that was acquired and then essentially shut down by Politico./christian-mens-conference-and-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christian-mens-conference-and-the.htmlHey, welcome to The Five, a publication about the stories that matter. It’s Friday, so let’s dive into Culture & Commentary. Ugh. Celebrities have this terrible habit of saying dumb stuff when they’ve been out of the spotlight too long. The latest example is 80’s-it-girl Molly Ringwald, who had a run as a minor character on the train wreck that was Riverdale (a show with cool retro aesthetics and a brilliant murder mystery first season that wound up being laughably bad)./clarence-thomas-and-bohemian-grove.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clarence-thomas-and-bohemian-grove.htmlAs if Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t have enough scrutiny of his private life this year, now he’s caught up in a classic conspiracy theory involving secret societies when it was revealed by ProPublica that his luxury trips financed by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow included an appearance at Bohemian Grove (BG), the exclusive gentlemen’s club and campground in northern California. Cropped from a photograph by Sharif Tarabay via ProPublica of Clarence Thomas and billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow./beware-the-weak-man.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beware-the-weak-man.html'Beware the Weak Man' reminded me of Timothy Snyder's 'The American Abyss'. To quote, it opened, 'When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol, he was doing what he had always done. He never took electoral democracy seriously nor accepted the legitimacy of its American version.' See gifted link to the piece below. In 'Beware the Weak Man' he takes us on the crucial journey we have embarked upon./a-better-hot-dog.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-better-hot-dog.htmlWe just made this for our Fathers Day / summer cookout and these were a HIT! So good. Don’t scrimp on the mayo either bc the heat from the relish, w the cooling effect of the pickle mayo…. Perfect. And the spiral! Who knew! Great dish. Thank you Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmibkae8rbXNmp6epJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpplkprBtbHRZp%2BorF2ZvKh7wqikpp2eqcA%3D/warm-lemon-pudding.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warm-lemon-pudding.htmlWhen the memory of the butterscotch pudding I made last week (using Muscovado dark brown sugar) recedes, I will make this. I even have blackberries in the freezer. And raspberries . . . raspberry sauce or coulis could be gorgeous with it. With a small household, I appreciate that the recipe makes four servings, since pudding does not age well. David: To replace the white flour with tapioca granules or tapioca flour, would the amount be half of the amount of all-purpose flour in the recipe, as for cornstarch, as you say in your newsletter?/cupscale-an-opensource-software-for.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cupscale-an-opensource-software-for.htmlWith playing around with local Stable Diffusion it became obvious that upscaling of generated images is needed as generated images are relatively low resolution. Most people online recommend using Topazlab’s gigapixel-ai but you need to pay for it and I wanted to check out if there’s an open-source approach. Holly F* - OneClick Stable Diffusion local install It was never thought that computers would encroach let alone overtake humans in creating art but here we are./dad-talks-8-jayson-greene.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dad-talks-8-jayson-greene.htmlFull disclosure straight from the top: I haven’t read Jayson Greene’s book. I’m not sure I can or ever will be able to because I don’t know if I have to stomach or the emotional strength to read about the loss of a child, which is exactly what Greene’s book, Once More We Saw Stars, is about. Greene and his wife lost their two-year-old daughter Greta after a freak accident in New York City, a tragedy I can’t begin to fathom./dear-newspaper-columnists-youre-not.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-newspaper-columnists-youre-not.htmlPreviously: Exiting the vampires' palace: The tabloids are angry because Harry revealed how it works Prince Harry is a 36-year-old married man with one child and one on the way. But in the eyes of the British commentariat, the most cursed collection of nannies this side of a dark Disney film, he’s a child to be chastised and scolded. And that tendency has exploded after Harry dared to talk about parenting on the Armchair Expert podcast./deaths-game-2023-24-a-recommendation.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deaths-game-2023-24-a-recommendation.htmlA young graduate (Seo In-guk) doing it very tough in the existential scramble for jobs has come to the end of his tether. After several years of juggling part-time jobs and not achieving that holy grail — a corporate position at Taekang Group — he concludes that his life has been an absolute failure. From the top of a high rise, he takes the plunge, ends his life, leaving behind a loving single mother and his longtime ex-girlfriend./detroit-style-pizza-how-to.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/detroit-style-pizza-how-to.htmlHello Pizza Friends, Early last week, when I realized Super Bowl Sunday was upon us, I considered postponing the proposed Tomato Pie post and writing about Detroit-style pizza instead, which I love for these sorts of occasion. If you are unfamiliar, Detroit-style pizza is thick pan pizza characterized by a crisp, exterior cheese frico crust. Traditionally, it’s made with Wisconsin brick cheese, which goes on before the sauce and gets spread all the way to the edges./who-is-deuxmoi.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-deuxmoi.html[Gmail is going to clip this email, so just click on the title and read the whole thing in a web browser. Or unclip it when you reach the bottom. Up to you!] One of the most boring, and oft-repeated, narratives of the last couple of years is that of the "pandemic breakout." You're probably familiar with it by now. Someone was stuck in lockdown in the spring of 2020, and they just started posting, and suddenly they were very famous./disney-plus-or-minus-escape-to-witch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disney-plus-or-minus-escape-to-witch.htmlMore often than not, directors tend to receive the lion’s share of praise (or, if the movie’s lousy, blame) for a film’s success or failure. I’d argue that in some cases, they receive too much credit. But that’s not the case when it comes to live-action Disney movies of the 1960s and 70s. Disney employed several directors during this period, including Robert Stevenson, Robert Butler and the McEveety brothers. A lot of these guys came from television and the Disney House Style reflected that./dispatch-from-danielle-trussoni-september.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dispatch-from-danielle-trussoni-september.htmlThere are a lot of new subscribers to this newsletter, so I wanted to introduce (or reintroduce if you’ve been here awhile) myself. I’m a novelist who has published seven books. I’ve been writing most of my life, and publishing for twenty years. People often ask “what kind of books do you write” and the answer to that is: My books transport you to a place you haven’t been before. I tell stories that are fast-paced, imaginative, and often involve elements of mythology and history./do-you-need-to-throw-out-your-cheerios.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-need-to-throw-out-your-cheerios.htmlDid anyone else snarf their Cheerios this morning when reading the latest results from the pilot study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG)? We will summarize why you should not throw out your Cheerios and Quaker Oats despite the splash this is making in major media outlets which has caused a lot of fear and concern among cereal lovers! We dropped an Instagram post today, but let’s do an even deeper dive!/do-you-suffer-from-deep-rooted-feelings.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-suffer-from-deep-rooted-feelings.htmlWhat does feeling that you matter and belong mean to you? When we mix our perceived place of belonging and mattering together, we alchemise a sense of being good enough. Good enough for this world. Good enough for others. And good enough for ourselves. Last year I proofread my dear friend’s Ph.D. (this means it’s my Ph.D. too, right🤣), which had an intersectional theme of loneliness, belonging, and mattering as prominent parts of public health./does-karma-exist.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-karma-exist.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Readers,  History is replete with examples of those getting what they deserve... as well as those who do not. One politician, through lies and propaganda, goes down throughout history as one of the greatest rulers of all time... while another has his head literally handed to him on a plate.  So... what gives? Doesn’t really seem fair, does it? It makes us ask if Karma exists at all?/dont-you-dare-go-hollow.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-you-dare-go-hollow.htmlI stumbled on the phrase: Don’t you dare go hollow while looking for information on Elden Ring (the newest installment from From Software—notorious for games of an unforgiving nature). I subsequently fell down a YouTube and Reddit rabbit hole. I read many posts, and watched several videos from heartwarming stories from people claiming Dark Souls lifted them out of depression, suicidal ideation, and anxiety. These individuals were open about their crippling depression, and finding solace in playing these games./draftkings-barstool-sports.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/draftkings-barstool-sports.htmlWell, that escalated quickly. Just a few months after Penn Entertainment sold Barstool Sports back to founder Dave Portnoy for $1 and shuttered the Barstool Sportsbook brand, we have more news from that awkward wind-down. Great reporting from Sportico here, which says DraftKings and Barstool are in “advanced talks” on a marketing deal that is worth eight figures. We’ll get to the DraftKings part of this, which is interesting. But the continued realization of how bad the Barstool Sportsbook failure and ensuing “sale” of the media company were continues to be a fascinating topic./eat-list-sao-paulo-brazil.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eat-list-sao-paulo-brazil.htmlWith 22 million people in the metropolitan area, just edging out Mexico City, São Paulo is the largest city in the Americas, and it has a culinary scene to match its seemingly never-ending sprawl. While the surrounding state of São Paulo has its own unique, rural character, the city’s cuisine is a mish mash of every region, from the jungles of the Amazon to the European inflected Paraná, paired with the influences of a dizzying array of ethnic groups./electrifying-joe-watts-the-german.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/electrifying-joe-watts-the-german.htmlJoseph Watts, AKA “The German” because he was Italian on his mother’s side and German on his father’s side, therefore he could not become a made man. However, he was an enormous asset to John Gotti as a great earner and confidant to the Don. He was also a backup shooter for the famous hit on Paul Castellano and Thomas Billoti. Watts, knowing that Castellano was to be taken out, made a real estate deal with him, asking The Boss for five-million dollars./eleven-quotes-by-jordan-peterson.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eleven-quotes-by-jordan-peterson.htmlHey hey, Before we talk about our old friend Jordan, catch this:  I'm hosting a free masterclass in a few hours.  The topic: How to Become an Online Writing Machine in 15 Minutes Per Day... Or Less! Admittedly not for everyone.  But if it sounds perfect for you, reserve a seat at this link.  Jordan Peterson is the most controversial man alive. He touches on ideas and debates I wouldn’t dare to./elliott-gould-dream-lover.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elliott-gould-dream-lover.htmlAbout a decade ago, I realized that the faceless, anonymous man in my fantasies about men was not faceless or anonymous at all: he was Elliott Gould. At the time, I was not an Elliott Gould fan. It was a mysterious development. Elliott Gould’s sex appeal had always struck me as somewhat mysterious. Not because he seemed unattractive, but because I grew up understanding him to be a sex symbol without understanding the terms./enter-the-clones-of-bruce-is-a-wild.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/enter-the-clones-of-bruce-is-a-wild.htmlBruce Lee died in the summer of 1973 at just 32, leaving behind a filmography of films he made in Hong Kong and popular worldwide, including in the United States.  Lee’s most famous film, Enter the Dragon, was released shortly after his death, while the unfinished Game of Death was finally completed and released five years later. However, after that, both Lee and the martial arts genre remained hugely popular (Justin Lin directed a mockumentary, Finishing the Game, about the completion of the latter film./eschew-obfuscation.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eschew-obfuscation.htmlI had a sweatshirt that said “eschew obfuscation” when I was a kid. I was very cool. “Eschew Obfuscation” means “avoid making things unclear.” The phrase is a little funny. But it’s also good advice. I was on a call with a client recently where a key employee from the team was new to the conversation with a potential partner. And the employee said so right at the top: “Forgive me, I’m new to this conversation, and I don’t actually know the context./estherkrakue.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/estherkrakue.htmlTwo cents By Esther Krakue Here is my newsletter and podcast about all things politics, pop culture, and society. Most of you know me from my work in TV broadcasting and writing, but here you can find my interesting and unfiltered takes on issues that you won't find anywhere else! ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaa%2F06Gcq6Oilri2sQ%3D%3D/even-with-historic-high-gasoline.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/even-with-historic-high-gasoline.htmlThe top-selling car in 1980 was the Oldsmobile Cutlass. Gas mileage on this vehicle averaged 20 miles per gallon (17 city/23 highway). By 2021 the Honda CR-V claimed the title. The CR-V reported mileage at 31 miles per gallon (28 city/34 highway). This represents an increase of 55 percent over this 41-year period. Mileage has been increasing at a compound rate of around one percent a year. Back in 1980 gasoline was selling for $1./everyone-is-the-hero-of-their-own.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyone-is-the-hero-of-their-own.htmlEveryone has this experience: you work with someone who drives you completely crazy. Their actions appear erratic, self-serving, and frustrating. Their questions are not inquisitive, but rather aggressive. Their input is critical rather than helpful. Their invasive style seems undermining and provocative, rather than partnering and supportive. They see the world completely differently than you, and you ascribe negative motives to their actions. Share This has happened to me multiple times in my career./everything-you-didnt-know-about-capers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-you-didnt-know-about-capers.htmlI stroll past these wild capers that grow out of the wall near my street every day as we walk the puppy. I've been posting a few videos and photos in stories and was blown away by the response from people wanting to know more ~ so here you go! Yes, capers are flower buds! In fact caper bushes are also known as “Flinders rose”. I love the way the whole bush seems to tumble elegantly out of the unassuming cracks and holes in walls and stone./fantasy-baseball-week-4-faabww-targets.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fantasy-baseball-week-4-faabww-targets.htmlWe have made it through a week and a half of the season, and it has been a doozie. Plenty of injuries have required attention on our fantasy teams. There have been some good and bad performances, which may have caused some overreaction. Most people need to take a deep breath and wait longer, while others will start dropping some solid players to pick up when they do.  Most weeks throughout the season, I’ll bring you some FAAB previews for your weekend FAABing./fashion-week-preview-who-wore-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fashion-week-preview-who-wore-it.htmlI have never attended Fashion Week. But since I am a subscriber to The New York Times, I read about it often. And it seems to me like it is ALWAYS Fashion Week. If I had to take a guess, I would say it happens 6-12 times a year. But I think I may be misunderstanding something. I admire fashion but, like so many others, I can not begin to afford it./fettunta-the-tuscan-bruschetta-with.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fettunta-the-tuscan-bruschetta-with.htmlThis is an exclusive recipe for the subscribers. It is part of a serialized Tuscan cookbook that you will receive over the course of one year, a collection of tested classic Tuscan recipes to add to your cooking repertoire. Learn more about the I Love Toscana project here. ncG1vNJzZmiipaHArLXTnJ%2Bepl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6fnK2spaPBonnToZxmrKWosKK6jJuprquTnbK1wMBmrqKsmA%3D%3D/film-review-protocol-7.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-review-protocol-7.htmlIMDB’s tagline for Protocol 7 succinctly convey’s the film’s two major dramatic elements. With the catastrophic regression of her adopted son, Lexi, a small-town lawyer, is confronted with the reality of corporate fraud at the highest level. Will she hold a massive corporation accountable in this true whistleblower story? Readers of this Substack are familiar with Andrew Wakefield’s seminal documentation of children who developed enterocolitis and autism shortly after receiving MMR vaccines./fire-weighs-in-on-murthy-v-missouri.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fire-weighs-in-on-murthy-v-missouri.htmlWhen government officials attempt to force platforms into censorship, Americans need to know. To secure transparency, Congress must take action.  The SMART Act requires the federal government to tell the public whenever its employees are talking to social media companies about how they’re moderating our speech online. This sunlight would go a long way toward ending the censorship by coercion at issue in Murthy. Greg’s take: The court punted on an extremely important case for all Americans' free speech rights./french-vs-american-beauty-standards.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/french-vs-american-beauty-standards.htmlOriginally posted on We Are Doré If you try to Google the elusive “French Beauty,” you’ll find hundreds of articles revealing secrets like mineral-infused thermal water and not being afraid of a little bed head. But when scrolling through the Instagram accounts of French beauty icons like Jeanne Damas and Sabina Socol, it’s easy to wonder if there is something more to their effortless, natural beauty. In a way, beautiful French women like these can feel like enigmas./from-the-vault-roofman.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-vault-roofman.htmlThe DOGLAND book tour continues apace. (“Apace” is one of those words that nobody ever says but it looks kind of cool on the page.) Last night we had a blast at M. Judson in Greenville … tonight I’m with my friend Bronwen Dickey at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg … and Wednesday night I’m with my friend Ernie Suggs at the Wrecking Bar in Atlanta (sponsored by A Cappella Books)./calistogas-old-faithful-geyser-from.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/calistogas-old-faithful-geyser-from.htmlWhen Koray Sanli first visited Calistoga’s Old Faithful Geyser of California in the early 2000s, he was unsure of what to make of it. The rundown appearance and lackluster experience gave the impression of a typical tourist trap. However, Sanli saw the potential for transformation, recognizing the geyser as a natural treasure and a business opportunity with an enormous potential to educate. Great minds think alike Born in Izmir, Turkey, Sanli initially came to the United States in the 1980s to attend a design school in Los Angeles./gamma-a-womans-perspective.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gamma-a-womans-perspective.htmlA woman writes to share her thoughts on why women react so negatively to even a hint of Gamma in a man. Keep in mind that I neither requested nor suggested this. These are strong words, but they are straight-up from the mare’s mouth. If I reflect upon why Gammas are so reflexively repulsive it boils down to a few things. The Gamma is observably shunned by society. Shunning is the weapon of choice for women./feed.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feed.html<![CDATA[Subscribe now Hello Garrison, I’m a card carrying, bona fide, lifelong liberal. But to be honest, I miss having an opposition party that’s true to their mission statement. Used to be that the Republican message could be stated simply: reduce the size of government, pass the resulting savings back to the people in the form of tax reduction and deficit reduction. Allow folks to do, in their personal, private lives, whatever they’re drawn to do, as long as the government is not asked to pay for it./glenn-maxwell-is-not-normal.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glenn-maxwell-is-not-normal.htmlShout out to our sponsor Wicket Cricket Manager. If you are not playing that game, you are missing out. And also HCLTech. They do data, technology and cricket. Check them out on the Australian team sleeves. For a normal person, getting a half volley outside off, switching your feet, and reverse sweeping a seam bowler for six would be the most incredible thing you do that day. Glenn Maxwell’s shot, but compared to the rest of his innings, it is room-temperature water./goodbye-twitter.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goodbye-twitter.htmlToday I was thinking of all the websites I’ve spent time on, and the people I’ve met there. I messed around on the internet in the days of screeching dial-up modems, but I didn’t really start to contribute regularly to online communities until 1995 or so. I met my wife on the Usenet back before that would inspire a gasp of horror; it’s been mostly unusable for decades. I participated in communities on AOL and Prodigy and a few of the other dinosaur provider/forums./grilled-grub.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grilled-grub.htmlWelcome back to our Summer Cookout Series. I’m keeping this edition short and sweet since we’ve been busy getting the word out aboutHungry as Hell over the last week. But that doesn’t mean this recipe is short on flavor. This week we’re grilling up a fat-ass sandwich that is perfect for a lite summer dinner or as finger food for a backyard party. To make this show stopping sammie, you’re gonna need a big, flattish loaf of bread like a ciabatta which will hold up best during grilling./ep-04-growing-idme-to-a-150m-arr.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ep-04-growing-idme-to-a-150m-arr.htmlAuthor’s note: Blake and I met in 2020, during COVID, as my nonprofit organization was looking to help surge healthcare professionals into the fight against the pandemic. One of the key challenges was identifying and verifying user credentials. Enter ID.me; Blake and team offered to do it for the healthcare facilities who were vetting our volunteers - and incredibly, to do it for free. His heart for service runs deep. I’m excited to share his story - the ID./weight-of-guilt.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weight-of-guilt.htmlYou probably have seen many kinds of visible weights, they can be measured. But there is one invisible weight, it cannot be measured, and it is the heaviest. Another strange thing is that it is also deeply hidden in the deepest layer of people’s hearts. Guilt is a profound weight that often becomes a heavy burden, weighing many of us down. It's an invisible weight that is felt only by the person carrying it, unless they decide to express their feelings and share their burden with others./hard-feelings.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hard-feelings.htmlI reject the idea that there are “bad” feelings. When people describe “positive” and “negative” emotional experiences, they are usually speaking about a different continuum: comfort. There are some mental states that are incredibly hard to tolerate. This is particularly true when we haven’t developed the requisite skills to understand, manage, and express what is happening in our heart during difficult moments. Referring to emotions as “bad” or “negative” assigns a value to internal experience./harry-styles-hair-transplant.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/harry-styles-hair-transplant.htmlI’m not the type to say “I told you so.” I am however, the type to say “I fucking knew it!” which is wholly different when you really think about. Back in late October/Early November (before I went to Dublin and was involved in domestic terrorism, and also before I went to Amsterdam and my hotel caught fire) Hollywood was a-buzz with a new haircut from none other than Harold Styles./psa-hobosexuals-can-be-very-dangerous.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/psa-hobosexuals-can-be-very-dangerous.htmlSo, I’m going to start this post off with a confession. When I was wandering the streets of New York City, I was (kind of) a hobosexual. I’d sleep with people to get a roof over my head, food in my stomach, and shelter from whatever. I really wanted someone to save me from my dire straits. I did. And I wanted to show that I was capable of doing something good for them, even if it was only companionship and housekeeping./horror-vs-thriller.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/horror-vs-thriller.htmlI was asked this question on Twixter this week, and it’s one I’ve seen people talk about a lot. Or rather, I should say, I have many times seen people argue over certain movies, debating if they are horror films or thrillers. Silence of the Lambs and Psycho are the two most common argued about. I’ve been to many conventions with panels dedicated to “Is it horror?” If you consult Google on the question, you will see most sources giving the same response: “Horror movies are meant to horrify, thrillers are meant to thrill!/how-country-are-country-artists.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-country-are-country-artists.htmlIn late May 2023, Jason Aldean released his newest single, “Try That in a Small Town”. It hit number 35 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart during the first week of June but fell off the chart within one week. Though Aldean is quite popular, it was looking to be a forgotten song from an aging star. That changed dramatically when the song’s video was released in July. It showed Aldean performing in front of the Columbia, Tennessee courthouse interspersed with clips of violence, rioting, and assorted small town imagery./how-elo-ratings-actually-work.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-elo-ratings-actually-work.htmlNobody is more obsessed with ratings than chess players. Other sports have ratings, but when it comes to bragging rights they take a back seat to tournaments or championships. The rating is seen for what it is: a statistical measure that’s useful for rankings and pairings, but isn’t the end-all be-all of competition. But in chess the rating is the essence of who you are as a player, even as a person./how-sandhill-cranes-defend-their.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-sandhill-cranes-defend-their.htmlRecently while hiking with Mary and our friend Julianne, we spotted this nesting sandhill crane. Julianne, a Yellowstone naturalist, had seen sandhills nesting at this pond in previous years but then they were absent. Nevertheless, her desire to check this pond just in case they had returned paid off. I took this photo from a distance with a telephoto lens so as to not disturb this bird as it incubated eggs./how-to-create-a-product-manager-portfolio.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-create-a-product-manager-portfolio.htmlHello BPL fam, With the recent wave of layoffs in the tech industry (a situation which sadly might get worse with the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank), I wanted to write a post that helps PM candidates put themselves out there in the best light. Thus, in this edition of Behind Product Lines, we’ll be looking at how to stand out from the crowd by developing a Product Management portfolio that catches the eyes of hiring managers./how-to-create-compound-efficiencies.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-create-compound-efficiencies.htmlIf there’s one word that will define engineering and tech in 2023, it will be “Efficiency.” From Meta to Google to early-stage startups, tech companies have gone from a “growth-at-all-costs” mindset to figuring out how to get more out of the teams they have. This focus on efficiency is usually seen as a way to drive two essential company goals: Improve quality and speed of software delivery; and Enable engineering teams to have a more significant impact on the business bottom line./david-mixner-1946-2024-how-to-influence.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-mixner-1946-2024-how-to-influence.htmlThis evening, we mourn the passing of David Benjamin Mixner, a giant in the global struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and a man of tenacity and heart. Mixner's death was announced earlier on his Facebook page. From his early days campaigning for John F. Kennedy to his final acts of courage, Mixner’s legacy shaped a nation at great cost to himself. Here are some thoughts on a life driven by principle and an unyielding pursuit of justice/how-to-perfectly-stock-your-home-bar.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-perfectly-stock-your-home-bar.htmlThere are a lot of generic ways you can build up your bar. This offering by MasterClass is as generic as it gets, but it’s helpful as a base to answer this question. So, I’m going to deep dive and identify every single thing you might need, and a few things you can save your money on. You’re welcome in advance. Don’t be overwhelmed by this process. Take baby steps and we’ll walk and eventually run together./how-to-ramp-run-volume.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-ramp-run-volume.htmlA slow ramp lets you figure it out. “It” being the amount of load you can tolerate without breaking down. Breakdown is what limits progress: Not protocol. Not willpower. Not pain tolerance. I’m going to share five concepts to speed your running progression. Run Stress Minimum Effective Dose Cross Training Compounding Compression Applying these concepts, over multiple 1000-day time horizons, is what it takes. The fastest way to improve your running is to use an approach that lets you keep running./instant-writing-remixer-how-to-use.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/instant-writing-remixer-how-to-use.htmlToday I am going to walk you through a framework for using ChatGPT as your personal “writing remixer.” If you’re anything like me, it’s easy to feel “stuck” in a certain pattern of writing. So sometimes it’s helpful to switch things up and try out different tones, styles, and voices. But rather than try and “create” these yourself, we’re going to employ our digital intern ChatGPT who can instantly do this for us./iswis-the-i-said-what-i-said-story.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iswis-the-i-said-what-i-said-story.htmlWhen Jola Ayeye and Feyikemi Abudu conceived “I Said What I Said” (ISWIS) in 2017, they were particular about what they wanted to create: a podcast laced with humour, its finger firmly on the pulse of youth and pop culture, and a platform that freed them up to talk about anything. They wanted to host their show without worrying about technicalities. And so began their search for a partner with the resources: a studio, recording equipment, engineers, and editors./i-took-a-deep-breath-and-listened.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-took-a-deep-breath-and-listened.htmlVisceral Self: Writing Through the Body & other events below (manage/upgrade membership here). All Zoom links emailed day of events. See you soon! xo 🕯️TONIGHT!! Wed May 1, 8 PM CT, Candlelight Yoga Nidra on Zoom (founding) 📝 Fri May 17, SPECIAL FREE in-person and hybrid event at University of MN: Planting Seeds of Radical Hope Symposium (FREE, open to all, in person and virtual, Jeannine leads a collaborative writing session during the symposium)/i-bought-a-pair-of-yeezy-foam-runners.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-bought-a-pair-of-yeezy-foam-runners.htmlI originally intended to send out my weekly “Things I Want to Buy This Week” post today, and the first item on the list was the Yeezy Foam Runner. But I decided to switch it up after actually buying a pair. I’ll still send out the shopping list ASAP! So, I know what you’re thinking: How did this happen? Why did it happen now? What am I thinking? Okay, okay. For the last few months my interest in the Foam Runners has quietly shifted from “nah to “probably not,” to “well maybe,” to “I need ‘em like Pusha T needs coke bars,” and yesterday just happened to the tipping point day./i-fact-checked-peter-zeihans-china.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-fact-checked-peter-zeihans-china.htmlPeter Zeihan is of the most popular geopolitical analysts around today. His YouTube channel has almost 700k subscribers, and his channel regularly rack up millions of views. Zeihan has made some very bold predictions about the future of China. He speaks very confidently and fluently, and on the surface at least, seems to base his conclusions on facts and solid arguments. ncG1vNJzZmibqafCtLbAp6qsnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89ooGaekZjBbq%2FHnpqknZRivabAxKtks52Zna6vv4ycn6KmkWSwsLnMnqWtqw%3D%3D/i-hate-motel-kamzoil.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-hate-motel-kamzoil.htmlIf you know me, then you already know this: I hate Motel Kamzoil. Motel Kamzoil is the coward whose utter lack of backbone makes him the least interesting part of Fiddler on the Roof. He is a Nice Jewish Boy who spends the entirety of a three-hour movie looking like he’s about to burst into tears. To know Motel is to be exhausted. Motel is a tailor, a fa… ncG1vNJzZmirlam1s8HBoqVnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtYyhmK2dXaK8tbHLZqKapaqktq0%3D/tobit-blind-but-now-i-see.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tobit-blind-but-now-i-see.htmlEpisode 10 of “Bad” Books of the Bible is live! Please take a moment to rate, review, and share it with a friend. Share ‘Bad’ Books of the Bible As we’ve mentioned before, Jerome had mixed feelings about Tobit. He regarded the book as apocryphal, and was among the first to apply that designation. (See episode guide 1 and 6.) But he still translated it when requested to do so by a pair of bishops, and in his preface to the book—a letter to those bishops—he describes Tobit with another, less derogatory term: hagiographa, “holy writing./z-train.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/z-train.htmlHello Everyone, Welcome to Issue #96 of CAFÉ ANNE! So much to discuss! First, DID YOU KNOW that Prospect Park actually lies a tad west of Central Park? If you don’t live in NYC, you might not understand why this is so bonkers, but if you do, prepare to have your mind blown: I know!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone tipped me off to this fact on Thursday and I’ve been dizzy ever since./im-broke-baby.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-broke-baby.htmlMy guy Eugene from work goes into an elaborate routine every time he sees me. He squints his eyes as they track me across the Chicago Bulls media workroom. He furrows his brows and scrunches his nose when our eyes connect. He sniffs twice. “I smell money!” Eugene says. Without fail, I smile and shoot back the retort Eugene loves hearing. “I’m broke, baby! I ain’t got no money!” Our scripted exchange comes from the 2002 classic movie, “Paid in Full./in-conversation-scott-vogel-of-terror.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-scott-vogel-of-terror.htmlOver the course of 23 years and nine full-length albums—not to mention numerous EPs, live records, and other releases—few bands can claim to have covered more ground or garnered more influence over 21st century hardcore than Terror. At the heart of it all is Scott Vogel, who has become one of hardcore’s most charismatic and, in my view, misunderstood elder statesmen. On some level, Scott knows that he has previously played the part of the aggressive and even deliberately reckless frontman—the fact that his band is called Terror has never been lost on him—but over the last several years, we’ve also seen a more thoughtful shift./in-memory-of-king-curtis-murdered.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memory-of-king-curtis-murdered.htmlIt’s a nice, small brownstone with ornate gates on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just two blocks from Central Park. A young Tom Cruise used to live in the building, as did Robert Downey Jr., when he was with Sarah Jessica Parker. But the front stoop at 50 W. 86th St. holds a tragic memory. The sax player King Curtis bought this eight-apartment building in 1971, just after he got off a tour with Aretha Franklin./inshallah-they-find-him.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inshallah-they-find-him.htmlWhen I started using Twitter more than eleven years ago there was a little star button that turned a golden yellow when you pressed it. This feature was called a “favorite.” I took “faving” a tweet literally and only pressed the little star when I really thought that tweet was among my favorite tweets I had ever seen.  When Twitter changed the “fave” represented by a gold star to a “like” represented by a red heart, I changed my button-pressing rule to: if I laugh at something, I have to like it./inviting-users-for-content-recommendation.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inviting-users-for-content-recommendation.htmlHi Cody! We are working on these features to make sure scrolller can exist for a long time as an independent service. You are right that scrolller is a great way to view content from Reddit. We owe much of our success to that fact alone and that much of these new features do nothing to make that core function better, but you are overlooking the fact that all of these are important to get people to upload their own fresh new content to Scrolller./and-just-like-that-season-2-episode-329.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-just-like-that-season-2-episode-329.htmlTap here for Back Row’s full archive of And Just Like Thatrecaps. This episode wanted to be about balancing the pressures of middle age, both personal and professional, with children. However, the episode was really about how Carrie can be a huge jerk. We see Charlotte, LTW, Aidan, and Miranda all try to figure out how to come to a new normal with their families. Meanwhile, Carrie is mostly left to eat zucchini chips, decorate her apartment, and ignore her everyone’s problems but her own./is-family-life-a-fun-suck.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-family-life-a-fun-suck.htmlDear Molly, I feel like a female Benjamin Button and it’s giving me anxiety. If you asked me 2 years ago if I wanted a family and a house in the suburbs I’d have said “YES.” I was much more mature then. Fast forward two years I make a lot more money at my job which affords me to look better, live in a fun city, pursue all the hobbies I’ve always wanted, go out partying and date more men!/is-julia-carpenter-as-madame-web.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-julia-carpenter-as-madame-web.htmlA couple of days ago, Sony brought us Madame Web, their latest installment in their very own Sony-Verse of Spider-Man movies that don’t actually contain Spider-Man. There have been successes; the Venom and Spider-Verse movies have been well received. There have been failures; Morbius was not well received. And there are movies yet to arrive; the third Venom film and Kraven the Hunter film both arrive later this year. In many ways, Madame Web stands apart from the other Sony-Verse non-Spider-Man movies./is-matt-walsh-a-christian.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-matt-walsh-a-christian.htmlMatt Walsh claims to be a “Christian.” Theoretically, that is supposed to mean someone who seeks to model their life after Jesus Christ and/ or follow his teachings. Yet, Jesus himself said that many people would try and claim to be his disciples, but were in fact what he called “false prophets” or “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves./is-russell-brand-innocent-until-proven.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-russell-brand-innocent-until-proven.htmlGet 60 day free trial By now I assume the wise readers of “Words for the Wise” will be aware that comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused by four women of rape, sexual assault, and related abuses. The allegations were reported after an investigation by The Sunday Times, Times of London, and Channel 4 Dispatches. These publications tend to be behind paywalls, but the details have been repeated by a number of other outlets, including The Guardian, The Independent, and the New York Post./shawn-mendes-dating-chiropractor-miranda.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shawn-mendes-dating-chiropractor-miranda.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a pop star canoodles with a chiropractor, another pop star abruptly ends her engagement, and Mark Wahlberg observes Ash Wednesday.  Got questions? I’ll be doing another Q&A post next week, just for paid subscribers! Please submit your gossip inquiries by replying directly to this email or commenting below. And make sure to sign up for a paid subscription so you don’t miss it./israels-case-at-the-icj.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/israels-case-at-the-icj.htmlIt was quite something to be in the court to witness Israel’s nonsensical claim that this is an “armed conflict” at the same time as denying the legitimacy of any armed resistance to it. I was the only journalist inside the courtroom at the International Court of Justice for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Thirty accredited journalists were in a press room in another wing of the building, watching what the director showed them on a screen./the-woman-king.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-woman-king.htmlWelcome to Shamira Explains It All/Shamira Explique Tout, a culture newsletter discussing the origins and impact of Black production and exchange, identity, and intellectual property via our digital, social, and archival discussions - and whatever else may be timely and interesting. Part English, Part Francophone. Reach out with feedback, suggestions, tips, and ideas at contact@shamirathefirst.com.Share Shamira Explains it All This review of The Woman King was originally intended to be published at a publication (Mic at BDG) that recently laid off most of its editorial team, and so I am posting my critique here instead of going through the tedious labor of trying to place it at another publication./its-new-to-me-max-payne.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-max-payne.htmlThis column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Max Payne wasn’t Remedy Entertainment’s first video game. In 1996, they developed Death Rally for PC and MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software./its-time-i-talk-about-chris-heuertz.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-time-i-talk-about-chris-heuertz.htmlAngie. I’m so sorry. This journey has been so unfair to you and to others. There is a truth I’ve learned the hard way about leaders, Christian’s, Christian leaders, and myself - I admired many leaders God put in my 3 decades as a staff pastor working for large and small congregations in Midwest USA. I have served as a full time pastor in over 10 churches or Christian organizations. And half of those, my boss, my senior pastor, I discovered serious character flaws./its-xenophobic-to-cancel-a-gig-in.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-xenophobic-to-cancel-a-gig-in.htmlYesterday, the Brooklyn fourpiece Big Thief wound up being the latest band who have cancelled gigs in Israel as a result of widespread pressure and bullying from the BDS movement. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I hate Big Thief, or 'Big Thief: 'I’ve never heard of them', because I don't, and of course I have. I remember the first time I heard their breakthrough album “Capacity” and its most noteworthy track 'Mythological Beauty'; it was August 2018 and I was living in East London briefly with a band who no longer talk to me./the-women-who-saved-christmas-jehosheba.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-women-who-saved-christmas-jehosheba.htmlPhoto Credit: Unsplash Today’s post is a (free!) bonus because Tuesday’s wasn’t part of this planned series. But this woman is the reason I named the series “The Women Who Saved Christmas.” It’s a play on a sermon by my favorite Old Testament scholar and retired pastor, Dale Ralph Davis. You should listen to him. He’s amazing. It comes from 2 Kings 11:1-3: Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family./jerry-sandusky-did-i-miss-any-obvious.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jerry-sandusky-did-i-miss-any-obvious.htmlA LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE they’d recognize a monster in their midst. Then there are those who’ve actually crossed paths with a monster. I don’t consider myself a keen judge of character, so much as a student of human nature. I don’t profess to be an expert in tells—God knows that World Series of Poker was the catalyst in the creation of a generation of amateur psychologists, those who presume to read minds and cards with so much as a twitch or blink of their subject./jim-gordon-and-frank-zappa-in-1972.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-gordon-and-frank-zappa-in-1972.htmlWhen I was a little kid, before I knew about jazz, I knew about rock music. It was everywhere, the sound of the world, and I loved it. Thanks to my family, especially my father Vince Sperrazza, some of his friends, and Modern Drummer magazine, I absorbed a lot of info about rock drummers, especially drummers who weren’t ‘in bands’. A few names stood out, were spoken of with real reverence: Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Jim Keltner, and Jim Gordon./the-icbp-episode-32-jimmy-lennon.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-icbp-episode-32-jimmy-lennon.html“Iiiiiiiiit’s Showtime!” is a thing we used to say before some bean counters at Paramount, who’d presumably failed their way upward after starting out doing TPS reports, decided to murder in broad daylight the proud Showtime Boxing program. But we’re not bitter. No. Not at all. Anyway, “Iiiiiiiiit’s Showtime!” is a phrase that is particularly synonymous … ncG1vNJzZmian622r7PWoquhqpGouKq6zK6jr5memsZvv9Sbqq2Zk6B7pLvMaKdorJiaeqqvwalknqiZqLylsYxsaWaimaK6unnLnqWnp54%3D/ask-a-sober-oldster-8-joan-wasser.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-a-sober-oldster-8-joan-wasser.htmlThis monthly interview series is a collaboration between Oldster Magazine and The Small Bow, A.J. Daulerio’s excellent newsletter about recovery and mental health, and will appear in both newsletters. Learn more about this collaboration in this Oldster podcast/videocast episode.Check out The Small Bow Joan Wasser is a songwriter, music producer, and live performer who works under the name “Joan As Police Woman.” She has released ten albums and regularly tours the world with her music./joe-matt.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joe-matt.htmlWe lost one of The Beatles of memoir comix. Pennsylvania born Joe Matt died at his California art table from an apparent heart attack at the age of just-turned 60. PEEPSHOW and Joe's slice-of-life comix are legendary and influenced my own semi-autobiographical work. No matter how cringe inducing (like a perverted Peter Parker), Joe gifted us permission to embarrass ourselves in public. To disarm the reader with too much information and document human faults in hopes of obtaining human connection./john-wooden-ucla-tells-swen-nater.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-wooden-ucla-tells-swen-nater.htmlWhile reading Coach Wooden and Me (affiliate link), by Kareem Abdul Jabbar, I ran across the story of Swen Nater, who was a first round NBA/ABA draft pick even though he never started, and only play 2 minutes on average per game while at UCLA. Deliberate Practice. Apparently, Swen tried out for the high school team, but didn’t make the cut. Ouch – not a promising start.  Met a great coach in community college./johns-guide-big-beat.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/johns-guide-big-beat.htmlQuick Note: Last week, I put out a call for a potential “reader mailbag” series. The response has been... Muted. Shout to the handful of heads who wrote in. I’ll put out one more call: Send your question, if you have one, to jchiaverina@gmail.com and put READER MAILBAG in the subject. It was the fall of 1998 and I was in my room. It was the middle of the night; maybe a lava lamp was on./july-5-2023.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/july-5-2023.htmlYesterday the official account of the Republican National Committee tweeted Independence Day greetings with a graphic of the Liberian flag, which has one star, rather than that of the United States, which has fifty. Even more troubling was the tweet from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) attributing to founder Patrick Henry a false quotation saying that “this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ./katana-kitten-turns-5.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/katana-kitten-turns-5.htmlThis month the award-winning, Japanese-American bar Katana Kitten rings in its fifth anniversary on July 24. And to celebrate the occasion, tonight they’re hosting an open-to-all celebration from 5 p.m. - 2 a.m. Along with cocktails, bar snacks, and limited-edition merch for sale, there will be a rotating cast of bartenders joining the Katana Kitten team, including Kenta Goto (Bar Goto), Naren Young (Sweet Liberty), and Takuma Watanabe (Martiny’s) among others./sade.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sade.htmli spent this weekend cataloging my analog music collection — mainly alphabetizing my CDs and cassettes. i had already been planning to share parts of my cassette collection and my beloved Walkman. but upon listening to the Love Deluxe tape, i was reminded of Sade’s birthday (1/16). some of my favorite artists are stunning, ethereal oft-reclusive iconoclasts whose sounds define a generation (think Solange, Frank Ocean, D’Angelo). Sade is no exception./kopi-kenangan-the-shein-of-coffee.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kopi-kenangan-the-shein-of-coffee.htmlHoward Schultz’s trip to Italy in 1983 changed the way coffee was consumed.  Visiting the different coffee bars in Milan showed that the Europeans knew better than Americans how the beverage should be taken: a piping hot espresso served in a rustic cafe that made customers linger just to see a friendly face. Coffee was more than just a drink – it was an experience. The café was a third place beyond home and work where people could gather, relax, and talk./learn-to-be-immune-to-hasbara.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/learn-to-be-immune-to-hasbara.htmlHasbara is pro-Israel propaganda. The term is Hebrew and means something like “explaining” — I’ve seen it defined as an attempt to explain away actions whether or not they’re justified. It’s important to note that Hasbara refers to a specific propagandist technique used to defend Israel, and once you see it, it will be obvious. It’s a collection of empty slogans that a bot could repeat. My own encounters with Hasbara have made my skin crawl./tibi-creative-pragmatist-styling-ideas-dressing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tibi-creative-pragmatist-styling-ideas-dressing.htmlI follow a lot of fashion designers on Instagram but one in particular — Amy Smilovic, founder and creative director of Tibi — stands out because of how rigorously she defines her approach to style and how enthusiastically she shares it with followers. Core to Tibi’s style philosophy is the Creative Pragmatist, which the brand describes as “a woman with a unique, highly personal sense of style, who never sacrifices function for fashion, and, frankly, is interested in a lot more than just what she’s wearing./lets-dupe-it-hailey-bieber.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-dupe-it-hailey-bieber.htmlAs seen on my Reels, I think Hailey Bieber‘s fashion was on fire for her Rhode press tour in New York City. Scroll down to see how to steal her style for a fraction of the cost. Off-the-shoulder dress by Vivienne Westwood paired with peep-toe Maison Ernest heels, and a matching red Ferragamo mini baguette bag. This red dress has the same off-the-shoulder corset vibes and it’s only $35. I found a dupe of the baguette mini bag for only $7./state-fair-of-texas-2023-lets-power.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/state-fair-of-texas-2023-lets-power.htmlWelcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern culture/sports/music/food offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. Thanks for reading, and if you’re new around here, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Big ol’ welcome to the waves of you who found us throughlast week’s Jimmy Buffett story. Glad you’re here! The state fair exists in a world outside space and time, a world where calories and common sense don’t matter. If, in your normal workweek day, someone came up to you and offered you bacon-fried Gummi bears glazed with a sriracha mayo-red wine reduction, you’d edge away from them slowly and avoid making eye contact./like-spotify-wrapped-youll-love-lastfm.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/like-spotify-wrapped-youll-love-lastfm.htmlThere are some things you can set your watch to: Swiss trains, Johnny Unitas’ haircut, and my undying love of Last.fm. Why bring this up now? Well, December is in full swing and that means one thing: Spotify Wrapped season. Actually, that’s a baldfaced lie. Jesus Month™ is famous for one other thing — yeah, you guessed it — me babbling on and on about Last.fm. Here’s my pitch. If you have any interest in Spotify Wrapped, you should use Last./lousy-smarch-weather.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lousy-smarch-weather.htmlMy calendar might say Monday March 4, but I’m pretty sure we’re barrelling toward Friday the 13th of Smarch, with all the lousy weather and bad luck that implies. No one knows exactly when Smarch, the 13th month of the year according to Springfield Elementary School’s misprinted calendars, falls, but I believe you can feel it in your heart. My heart tel… ncG1vNJzZmiklai5qrHKnqmnZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8uorKyxXai6or7CoWSwnZGptaa%2B/loves-in-need-of-love-today.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/loves-in-need-of-love-today.htmlI was going to write about Wu-Tang Clan’s “Shame on a Nigga” (who tried to run game…) when as if by divine intervention I heard Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today” lucid and precise in my mind like a childhood memory straining for influence over a scorned over-serious thought pattern. It could be humiliating, to be trapped between rage, confusion and unyielding love, to feel all of these emotions toward the very same moment in history which is the present yearning toward its future self hoping to reach her—but what if we let ourselves be this vulnerable?/uninvited.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uninvited.htmlHello, reader. It’s me, Jeremy. In honor of Spooky Season, today’s issue comes to you from a dear friend of mine, Garon Bailey! Garon is a creative soul who is passionate about DIY filmmaking, which means he has a fondness for low-budget films. He is also a big horror movie junkie, which means he’s seen a lot of wonderful spooky schlock. He is also an avid animal lover who is particularly endeared toward on-screen critters serving as unwilling “antagonists./major-league-baseball-wants-ron-desantis.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/major-league-baseball-wants-ron-desantis.htmlThis is Seeking Rents, a newsletter and podcast devoted to producing original journalism — and lifting up the journalism of others — that examines the many ways that businesses influence public policy across Florida, written by Jason Garcia. Seeking Rents is free to all. But please consider a voluntary paid subscription, if you can afford one, to help support our work. Major League Baseball wants Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature to let team owners pay their minor league players less than minimum wage./major-libby-weiss-idf-on-her-journey.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/major-libby-weiss-idf-on-her-journey.htmlOne of the best things I get to do is talk to interesting people. Major Libby Weiss is an American-Israeli who was out of the military but like many in the IDF, was called up after October 7. She tells her story of service in the 2014 war with Hamas and what she’s doing today. What she’s learned and what we need to learn. ncG1vNJzZmilkafBqa3ZqKOlnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqin6d6rbXBm7Bmr5WewLR5yJ2dZqeeYrWmvoyjpq6qnprG/making-moves-freehold.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/making-moves-freehold.htmlPerhaps you’ve heard the news by now: Apple Tysons Corner will reopen on May 19 at 10:00 a.m. — exactly 22 years to the minute since the original location opened. In preparation, the store will be closed on May 17 and 18, so if you’re planning to attend the opening and want to see the original store one last time, you’ll need to get there on the 16th. Visitors to Tysons may also be interested in attending a very special event at nearby Apple Carnegie Library on the night before the opening./mars-after-midnight.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mars-after-midnight.htmlPlaydate $6 Lucas Pope 4 hours Mars After Midnight is a puzzle game where you run a community support centre. Your job is to admit the right Martians (e.g. non-farters should be kept out of the “Farty Party”), tidy the refreshments table, and put up posters for upcoming sessions. It’s tempting to call Mars After Midnight a game for kids, especially when the designer, Lucas Pope, says: It's my usual repetitive isnt-this-just-work bs, only more carefree./mckinseys-pyramid-principle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mckinseys-pyramid-principle.htmlMinto Pyramid Principle also referred to as McKinsey’s Pyramid Principle is a tool used to process and structure large amounts of information to convey a story, message, or presentation without omitting important details. The principle of the McKinsey Pyramid is to cut to the chase in written texts or presentations. This ensures that the audience’s attention is captured and that a riveting story can be created that’s easy to remember and understand./media-charlene-designing-women-jean-smart.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/media-charlene-designing-women-jean-smart.htmlAs I mentioned last month, I have an affinity for all of the four primary characters in Designing Women. Last month I talked about Suzanne, this month I want to talk about Charlene Frazier. Of all of the women, Charlene is probably the one I want to identify with the least, but who I still have a lot in common with.  First off, I want to be clear that I adore Jean Smart./suzanne-sugarbaker-designing-women-delta-burke.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/suzanne-sugarbaker-designing-women-delta-burke.htmlOne show that had a profound impact on me was Designing Women. First airing in 1986, I likely started watching a bit after it began, but by the time I was in high school in 1988, I was a regular watcher. Sisters Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker (played by Dixie Carter and Delta Burke, respectively) had an interior design firm along with their friend and head designer Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts) and office manager Charlene Frazier (Jean Smart)./oscar-seasoning-meet-jocelyne-lagarde.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oscar-seasoning-meet-jocelyne-lagarde.htmlThe Oscar nominations will be announced next week, and we all have our fingers grossed for Lily Gladstone to make history and become the first indigenous American person to receive a Best Actress nod. Gladstone’s work in Killers of the Flower Moon is perhaps my most beloved performance of 2023, and if there was any justice in Hollywood, many of the other Native actors in the movie would be receiving awards attention./hollywood-brown-film-review-meet.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hollywood-brown-film-review-meet.htmlYou’ve got to hand it to Brett Veach, he knows how to make it dramatic. After several days of free agency, the Chiefs had been remarkably quiet. There were various rumors about wide receivers (for seemingly the millionth year in a row) and talk of L’Jarius Sneed trade options, but the lack of movement was borderline jarring. Those of us who are concerned about the Chiefs’ receivers after (gestures vaguely at the results of last year’s WR room not named Rashee Rice) were growing… angsty./meet-the-new-diamond-ranch-academy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-new-diamond-ranch-academy.htmlFor over a decade youth alleged serious abuses and negligence at the for-profit Diamond Ranch Academy (D.R.A.) in Hurricane, Utah. State licensors and many parents were slow to heed those allegations. D.R.A., after all, advertised itself as a “World-Class Therapeutic Program” and “the diamond standard in therapeutic boarding schools.” Then three children died there. D.R.A.’s methods were always unorthodox—par for the course in what the American Bar Association and others call the “Troubled Teen Industry./meet-your-new-starting-qb-joe-fagnano.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-your-new-starting-qb-joe-fagnano.htmlUConn head coach Jim Mora has named Joseph Fagnano the starting quarterback for the 2023 season opener against NC State. The exact rest of the depth chart has not been revealed, but Ta’Quan Roberson and Zion Turner are ostensibly the backups. Most years, at UConn but also at many schools, the backup sees some meaningful playing time. It bodes well for the Huskies to have solid depth at the position./meme-report-104.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meme-report-104.htmlBy the time this reaches you, I pray that this is the first instance of you reading the phrases “spoopy” or “spooky season”. I hope that we have killed that part of our vocabulary. Twitter Kevin James Kevin James continues to repulse and delight. I’m surprised it took us two weeks to add boobs but this is a process of the collective conscious, not a sprint. It’s getting weirder and more off-putting so that points to a kind of staying power that I would not have said this meme has./men-in-1973-vs-men-in-2023.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/men-in-1973-vs-men-in-2023.htmlThis meme has been making the rounds. I’ve seen it posted on Facebook a bunch lately. I’m sure it’s on Twitter and elsewhere. Comments that follow are usually some lamentation about the state of manliness. Women are unhappy with their men. Men want to be like these tough alpha males. They post about it on Facebook, which is about as alpha as you can get, tough guy. On the surface, the meme is basically saying that men in 1973 were super rugged and manly, whereas men in 2023 are all scooter-riding soy-boys who (gasp) wear helmets on their silly, girly little scooters./weekly-path-adventure-mercy-single.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weekly-path-adventure-mercy-single.htmlHello, my name is Conansson, you might know me from the Path Database, the Path Ratings or the unofficial Legends of Runeterra Rulebook. I’m going to walk you through this week’s Path adventure featuring Viktor, Caitlyn and Swain. Since last article, I noticed that the non - boss fights are randomized. That’s why we’ll be focusing on the Special Rules and the bosses. The first Special Rule is another Ethereal Remitter Power and quite an interesting one in that./metaphysical-draft-needs.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/metaphysical-draft-needs.htmlSome needs are physical: the need for sleep, or a sandwich. Some are metaphysical: the need for inner peace, or confidence, or to never be asked what the Vikings will do at quarterback again, ever. This article covers both the physical (or specific) needs and metaphysical needs of all 32 NFL teams. (BAA means Best Available Athlete. You would have guessed that quickly enough.) Metaphysical Need: Optimism. Specific Needs: Wide receiver, secondary./herb-sundays-66-michael-chabon-season.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/herb-sundays-66-michael-chabon-season.htmlHerb Sundays 66: Michael Chabon (Apple, Spotify, Tidal). Art by Cina.  “This playlist grows out of the music I’ve been listening to while working on my current project, a novel set in the American Southwest. I tend to listen almost exclusively to instrumental music while I’m writing, because sung lyrics interfere with my own flow of words. While working I’ll mostly just let entire albums unspool, but I do also craft “thematic” playlists for particular projects, and one for this latest book, which might be called Highways of Cimmeria, was overdue./capitalwars.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/capitalwars.htmlMichael HowellDr Michael J. Howell has worked in finance for over 30 years. Formerly Research Director at Salomon Bros where he developed the concept of 'Global Liquidity'. He is author of 'Investing in Emerging Markets' (1995) and 'Capital Wars' (2020). ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaStz6KrmqSnlr%2B0/michael-oher-is-the-one-with-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-oher-is-the-one-with-the.htmlI’m going to watch “The Blind Side” tonight. I’ve seen it a few times over the years, and it’s not my favorite “football-as-a-metaphor-for-humanity” movie (that goes, and must always go, to “Brian’s Song,”) but it’s a feel-good reminder of the miracles that happen when we pay attention. Quick summary : Michael Oher, a talented but homeless Black teen is adopted by a white family in Texas that gives him a home, a place at their Thanksgiving table, and a chance at football glory./mining-the-earth-happy-hoodoo-heritage.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mining-the-earth-happy-hoodoo-heritage.htmlSprinkling salt across the door frame. Stitching ancestral symbols into quilt squares. Using herbs and roots to heal common ailments. Placing a bay leaf and a $20 bill in your wallet to attract money. Using the color blue to ward off bad juju. That’s all hoodoo. Hoodoo, or rootwork, refers to using herbs, roots, and other natural objects for spiritual and medicinal purposes. It’s a spiritual practice deeply aligned with using the earth to heal and protect oneself and one’s community through striking spiritual balance or connecting with one's ancestors through worship./mo-bamba-throwback-scouting-report.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mo-bamba-throwback-scouting-report.html"Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them." For scouts, looking at their past evaluations is an essential practice. Prospect grading is a combination of art, science, research, and luck. The luck aspect can always factor in, where externalities or unforeseen developments derail or stymie a player's growth. Still, relying on luck is bad practice, especially when trying to come up with guidelines for how to engage in the science and research aspect./modern-puberty-explained.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modern-puberty-explained.htmlToday I’m thrilled to be running a Q&A with puberty gurus Cara Natterson, M.D., and Vanessa Kroll Bennett, the authors of the fantastic new book This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained. I have a 12-year-old, so I practically inhaled the entire book in one sitting, but I recommend it for parents of all school-aged kids, because puberty now spans so much of childhood (more on that in a minute)./monday-2524-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monday-2524-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlToday we are kicking off the second and final group of 27 Wildcard contestants! This is Day 1 of 14 in the Season 39 Champions Wildcard (Group 2) - Wildcard Group 2 runs February 5th - 22nd - Contestants are listed here - This will be followed by the Tournament of Champions. I’m posting occasionally on various social media, but this newsletter is the best place to find daily recaps, photos, and announcements./more-ptsd-with-wil-wheaton-larry.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-ptsd-with-wil-wheaton-larry.htmlLarry David attacked Elmo. It sounds like a plot from Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it really happened, live on morning TV, and it was one of the great media moments of the 2020s. It was perfect on so many levels, ranging from the fact that Larry was acting so completely in character through the slightly cathartic aspect of a puppet that was lecturing about mental health being taken down a peg./moroccan-meat-cigars.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moroccan-meat-cigars.htmlI know you’re looking for fun appetizers during this season, so let me tell you all about my take on Moroccan meat cigars (Moroccan briouat or briwat). A perfect finger food, this dish is essentially a flaky, crunchy pastry (warka) stuffed with a flavor-packed spiced meat filling. My recipe is loaded with golden raisins for some extra sweetness, turmeric, cumin and other warm spices. Since warka is pretty tricky to find, I’m using phyllo pastry in the recipe, which will lead to a similar result./mr-wickham-talks-back.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mr-wickham-talks-back.htmlThis is the Austen Connection newsletter. You can see all of the Austen Connection conversations, including the podcast, here. If you are not signed up yet, you can take a few seconds to sign up for free, or support at any level - below - and get all of the conversations dropped right into your inbox. Thank you for joining us! Dear friends, And now for so… ncG1vNJzZmiZpajBprrCqKWnnZOptrC6jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6K%2FbsPInKKhmZ1iwaK4yqxkm5mToA%3D%3D/multitalented-artists-actorwriters.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/multitalented-artists-actorwriters.html“I have ideas and I’m itching to write already.” Actor David Thewlis is known for his dynamic characters in many films including Naked, as Remus Lupin, a “Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts” in the Harry Potter series, and many more. He has perspectives on writing fiction that may be of interest. His first novel “The Late Hector Kipling” was the f… ncG1vNJzZmismJqws7HAraCvnZ2eu6V60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnnaq5tbXTmqOepqSasW6t0a2grKyjYq6kwM6rrquhpJq%2FtA%3D%3D/my-ego-death-experience.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-ego-death-experience.htmlThe Newsletter is a place for me to share my reflections and real thoughts on the internet. For full access and to join me on this beautiful journey of self discovery, please subscribe below.The truth is - and prepare for many hard truths in this post - I’ve been in a dark place. I haven’t felt motivated to write, to socialise, sometimes to even get out of bed, and most certainly to share this experience online./my-friendship-with-queen-elizabeth.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-friendship-with-queen-elizabeth.html“We should be on a Margaret-Sally basis now,” said The Hon. Margaret Rhodes, Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin and intimate friend since childhood. We had settled down for lunch at a pub near The Garden House, her home in Windsor Great Park. Margaret (which I’ll call her, since she gave me permission) was eighty-three years old at the time, and this was our second get-together in the winter of 2008. Over the next eight years, we would have a dozen conversations, including five over drinks or lunch—invariably simple fare such as lamb chops that she prepared herself./my-trey-story.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-trey-story.htmlSET 1: 70's sitcom theme (about 30 minutes), fun, poppy song (lots of oooooohs!), meat intro > makisupa-esque jam > meat ending > makisupa-esque jam, 15 minute funk jam, 3 random poppy songs, 80's-sounding pop tune (played 8 times), farmhouse (trey electric solo), farmhouse (trey acoustic solo), 40 minutes of trey fucking around alone (not decipherable), come on baby let's go downtown, i can see clearly now, 10 minute jam, police cover (7 times), the silicon fairy, voodoo chile, trey drum solo/nicholas-braun-wants-you-to-forget.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicholas-braun-wants-you-to-forget.htmlNicholas Braun has been out and about since the rumblings of his sexual assault allegations surfaced online. Not a single mainstream outlet picked up the story despite several credible victim statements, but nearly all of them covered his appearance on the picket line alongside WGA writers, encouraging Succession’s loyal fanbase to support the writers, and “none of that exists without these people.” Revolutionary. Thanks, Nick. In addition, he’s appeared on multiple podcasts including Q with Tom Power which aired on April 18 and more recently, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard which aired May 8./nine-quotes-from-hunter-s-thompson.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nine-quotes-from-hunter-s-thompson.htmlShare Hunter S. Thompson was an American… and that's something that doesn't really exist anymore in this country outside of Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Thompson was a rare breed of journalists obsessed with uncovering great truths in the profound emptiness of our world. His work reminds me of a line from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1980 film Stalker: “May they laugh at their passions. For what they call passion is not really the energy of the soul, but merely friction between the soul and the outside world./no-the-smith-mundt-act-doesnt-apply.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-the-smith-mundt-act-doesnt-apply.htmlThe misinformation around the Smith-Mundt Act is fantastic. Unfortunately, at some point, much of it, including public legal analyses and especially internal legal and other guidance, seems bent on earning the label of disinformation. I had not planned on publishing here for another week as I am focused on a more critical writing effort, but I was, I’ll admit it, triggered by a reference to the Smith-Mundt Act. The setup was a conversation that began with a comment about the amount of money and effort by an adversary’s information operations efforts./notaflof-or-no-one-turned-away-for.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notaflof-or-no-one-turned-away-for.htmlThere are times when the energy of money just doesn’t flow as abundantly as it can. Maybe you recently got laid off, had a big unexpected expense, or you began a career transition and the new direction isn’t generating as much income yet. Life is a series of circumstances and not all of them are favorable to our discretionary spending desires, but having access to community and friends is a need for a happy, healthy and supported life./nouve-bakery-enters-the-suburbs-of.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nouve-bakery-enters-the-suburbs-of.htmlBefore we dive into this week’s topic, I wanted to revisit last week’s artificial sweeteners post. I wanted to say, first off, that I am grateful to have friends in the same field as me who also happen to be registered dietitians. It is important for me to say that artificial sweeteners shouldn’t be painted as inherently bad. They’re not. Plenty of people with metabolic disease or diabetes rely on these to avoid glucose spikes or weight gain./miniread.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miniread.htmlBoletín de Novelando - Empuje una novela al día By Novelando Boletín de Novelando - Empuje una novela al día. Lea las mejores novelas y los mejores libros 2021 online en Novelando. Novelando ofrece las mejores novelas románticas, las mejores novelas urbanas. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja61zaKpnpmU/numinous-and-moving.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/numinous-and-moving.html“For me, the artist’s role is to follow their obsessions. If you work from that point, people will always encounter something meaningful.” Nina Arsenault, 2012. Late nights, I would stay up and huddle in close to the tiny television set in my bedroom. I’d turn the volume down to just one bar, forcing my ears to adjust to the near inaudible sounds of Showcase’s after dark programming. The arts and culture channel that inexplicably got packaged into my parents’ basic cable plan ran hours of queer tv shows and films after nine or ten at night, seven days a week./nysacs-consent-agreement-issued-for.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nysacs-consent-agreement-issued-for.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./observations-in-a-saltburn.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/observations-in-a-saltburn.htmlAuthor’s Note: Saltburn was directed by Emerald Fennell (of Promising Young Woman fame). This was meant to be an entire essay, but I couldn’t decide on how to illustrate every point, so I decided to provide you with my observations instead. There will be SPOILERS, so do be warned. Opening shot: A badge of arms on a silver cigarette case. There is a hand coming out of a crown with an arrow through it./oddball-sock-critters.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oddball-sock-critters.htmlI said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing./off-with-her-head.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/off-with-her-head.htmlBut wait!…Hold on….she rises again. Oh this is exciting! Can she sustain this new success? Do we even want her to? Or is it more fun to hope she fails? UGH it’s so hard! Never mind what she wants  - what do we want? I just finished reading Jessica Bennett’s excellent article in Elle on Sophia Amoruso, former CEO and leader of the Girlboss world movement - who hates that title./ok-lets-talk-about-nazi-doctors.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ok-lets-talk-about-nazi-doctors.htmlI think Eliza is pulling her punches on this subject a little. The 'all Terfs are Nazi's' attempted slur is one that should attract deeper analysis. It is generally applied to anyone who isn't a TRA. We perhaps shouldn't be surprised by it, President Vladimir Putin has employed the 'Nazi' slur against The Ukraine, proclaiming it to be a Nazi state, though President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy being born of Jewish parents does rather pose a problem with that line./on-a-toot-boston-edition.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-a-toot-boston-edition.htmlWelcome to the latest edition of “On a Toot!,” a feature in which I try to remember some of the liquid highlights of the week, and other highlights in general. “On a Toot!” will only run on Fridays and will only be available to paid subscribers. We hope you enjoy it. “The bar is packed all day long with New York debutantes, brokers, Newport dowagers, bad women who walk good dogs on Park Avenue, chic divorcees and college boys on toots./on-endings.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-endings.htmlQ. Regarding your most recent  letter and answer on likable characters… funny that I've been thinking a bit about likability recently. Not about the characters but a story itself. I have one story I've written where this comes to mind. I'm actually proud of the story but ... well, the ending is definite in a way I don't usually write. It's also, for lack of a better word, kind of uplifting./on-lauren-sanchezs-white-house-dress.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-lauren-sanchezs-white-house-dress.htmlIf you've been reading Hmm for a while, you'll know that late last year I wrote about Vogue's piece on Lauren Sánchez and her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, which had the kind of photos and quotes a person can only dream or trip about. These two have, obviously, not gone anywhere, although their joint publicist seems to have taken a well-deserved rest after placing the Vogue piece. So when I saw the photos of the couple as guests at a White House's state dinner honoring Japan earlier this week, I had to take a quick little moment to myself./guest-post-on-the-cowardice-of-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guest-post-on-the-cowardice-of-the.html“I just finished the Yascha podcast,” Noam Dworman texted two days ago, regarding the episode where Sarah Hepola and I discussed the rape allegations against Atlantic contributor Yascha Mounk by writer Celeste Marcus (“The Curious #MeToo Case of Yascha Mounk.”) Noam was particularly incensed by the response from Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, which was to publicly separate from Mounk, against whom Marcus had never filed charges, choosing instead, it seemed, to make Goldberg judge and executioner./hype-williams-one-of-hip-hops-greatest.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hype-williams-one-of-hip-hops-greatest.htmlSong of the week: Jay-Z - Big Pimpin’ If we’re gonna talk about Hype Williams this week, then we might as well run this one back. It’s one of the best videos he’s done, and I revisit it/this song every so often, because, why not? “It’s just that Jigga man, Pimp-C, and B U N B” Hype Williams is one of the most prolific music video directors ever. His work effectively transformed the way that we think of content and creativity forever./only-humans-make-sentences.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/only-humans-make-sentences.htmlLater this summer Mrs. Biblioracle and I are going on a trip to Norway. Fjords, y’all! Anyway, in preparation, I’ve been reading Septologyby Norwegian writer and dramatist Jon Fosse, a six volume novel written in a single continuous sentence. Writing about Fosse in the New Yorker, scholar and critic Merve Emre said of Septology, “Septology is the only novel I have read that has made me believe in the reality of the divine, as the fourteenth-century theologian Meister Eckhart, whom Fosse has read intently, describes it: 'It is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us./follow-ups-orcas-sink-another-boat.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/follow-ups-orcas-sink-another-boat.htmlAfter 45 minutes of being rammed by a notorious pod of orcas on Halloween, a charter company’s Jenneau 44 was sunk by flooding due to rudder damage. Moroccan Navy boats and tugboats from a nea… ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6fpqWkn6x6trzSZqarm5GoerS1zaRkmqafqbWmvoybppqs/the-story-of-rlhf-origins-motivations.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-of-rlhf-origins-motivations.htmlThis newsletter is presented by Rebuy, the commerce AI company. If you like the newsletter, feel free to get in touch with me or follow me on Medium, X, and LinkedIn. I try my best to produce useful/informative content. For a long time, the AI community has leveraged different styles of language models (e.g., n-gram models, RNNs, transformers, etc.) to automate generative and discriminative natural language tasks. This area of research experienced a surge of interest in 2018 with the proposal of BERT [10], which demonstrated that the transformer architecture, self-supervised pretraining, and supervised transfer learning form a powerful combination./past-meets-present-beyond-oasis.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/past-meets-present-beyond-oasis.htmlThis column is “Past meets present,” the aim of which is to look back at game franchises and games that are in the news and topical again thanks to a sequel, a remaster, a re-release, and so on. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Just what constitutes the Oasis series of games is up in the air. If you’re from Japan or Europe, then, without question, The Story of Thor and its sequel-prequel, The Story of Thor 2, are it, even if the word “Oasis” never comes into play — even the translations of the Japanese subtitles for the games avoid the term./poem-persephone-descending-a-hymn.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poem-persephone-descending-a-hymn.htmlDear Friends, I’ve been working with Persephone through this transition to winter in New York. She arrived seemingly out of nowhere in November and has been with me steadily for over a month. I believe she’s arrived to help me understand the darkness of this time of year, but also to usher me through the challenging transition I’m experiencing in the menopause portal. I’ve clung to her hand, her gown, her feet at times./pink-soup-such-a-stunner.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pink-soup-such-a-stunner.htmlHey there, If you’ve found your way here but are not yet subscribed for the weekly newsletter, you can do that here. You will never miss a story or recipe (including the one shared below), and I’ll be eternally grateful for your support.Are you a night owl or a morning person? Are you someone who thrives on staying up all night to watch the sunrise, or someone who prefers being gently woken up by the morning sun streaming through your window?/pizza-city-fest-has-no-sauce.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pizza-city-fest-has-no-sauce.htmlSteve Dolinsky, aka the Hungry Hound Food Guy, has always been a fraud. I’m not saying he’s not good at his job as a food reporter. He’s one of the best to do it in Chicago. The Hunger is a reader-supported publication. I pay my way for almost everything and always disclose when I don't. Please support independent journalism with a paid subscription. ncG1vNJzZmismJq1trrGnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvMizsZplk57BunnFnqqtZZiWwG66zmaqmq2Tmnyku8ymnKesow%3D%3D/pocket-cruising-power.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pocket-cruising-power.htmlSome of the finest pleasure craft designs have evolved directly from traditional workboats, and for good reason: Whether designed for sail, oar or engine, workboats are intended to survive all sorts of conditions, perform their chores with economy and, of course, bring their crews home safely. What more could we want in a minicruising powerboat? Today we’d like to celebrate half a dozen smaller motorboat designs that were inspired directly (or at least obliquely) by traditional workboats: Salmon trollers and gillnetters from the Pacific Northwest; lobsterboats from New England, and tugboats from…well, all over the place./ponytail-picks-46-old.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ponytail-picks-46-old.html46 editions of Ponytail Picks already—does that make us old? Come join us over the hill, it’s a good view. LISTENThe “Top ##” lists that become popular this time of year—at least, the ones published by major, established media outlets—tend to favour the new. And not just new releases, but (relatively) new artists as well. It seems most listmakers attempt to encapsulate “the moment.” That makes sense. I’ve got no qualms with it (good sir knight)./portico-winter-and-spring-events.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/portico-winter-and-spring-events.htmlPortico’s fall tour was so much fun! And I’ll be continuing that fun (though fortunately not quite at the same break-neck pace) this winter and spring. I hope to see you on the road if I am passing through your city—and please feel free to spread the word to friends and family. Thursday, Feb 8, 7:00pm | Toronto Prosserman JCC in conversation with cookbook author Rose Reisman Event passed Tuesday, Feb 13, 6:00pm | Virtual/premarin-is-extracted-from-horse.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/premarin-is-extracted-from-horse.htmlConjugated equine estrogens (CEE), also known as Premarin, named because it comes from pregnant mares urine, was the industry standard for menopause hormone therapy for years until all estrogens took a hit with the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). Once the dust settled, the recommended first-line therapy for symptoms of menopause became transdermal estradiol due to the lower risk of blood clots. However, there has been a renewed interest in Premarin due to the fact that it is associated with a lower long-term risk of breast cancer (when used without a progestin), and it is available in combination with bazedoxifene as another option for menopause hormone therapy without progesterone or a progestin (read more about that option here)./preston-glass-born-january-9-1960-songwriter.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/preston-glass-born-january-9-1960-songwriter.htmlWatch video on TwitterView most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare Preston Glass is an award-winning songwriter, musician, and producer. He and his brother Alan Glass got their start in the music business during the early 1980s working as staff songwriters for Thom Bell and Narada Michael Walden. Born on Fort Ord military base near Monterey, California, and raised in New Orleans, Glass’ mother and grandfather were both music teachers./pump-up-the-jam.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pump-up-the-jam.htmlFor Cunk On Earth, we wanted to do a version of the gag we liked doing where Philomena’s grand historical story would keeping getting stuck on a repeated overlong clip of the opening titles of Brush Strokes, the show knocked off course like a dog returning to a weird smell. This had been so much fun to drop into Cunk On Britain – the wait-for-it, the idea that the first episode of Brush Strokes going out was, in historical terms, a fixed point of measurement, the same as the moon landing or the birth of Christ./3869398-put-a-chicken-on-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3869398-put-a-chicken-on-it.htmlI have on a few occasions had a chicken on my head. When the ladies were a bit younger and liked to perch on my shoulder, they often made the trek up my hair and on top of my head. (Though I always worried over it they never had an accident while up there.) It’s hard not to feel festive with a chicken “hat” consisting of exactly one live chicken. But now that the girls are bigger and have better things to do than sit on me for more than a few seconds at a time, my head is sadly unadorned./ramen-jiro-japans-most-infamous-food.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ramen-jiro-japans-most-infamous-food.htmlWhen it comes to cult followings and sheer gnarliness of food, there is one ramen chain that conquers them all: Ramen Jiro.  Jiro's unique, over-the-top bowls have made it one of Japan's most divisive food phenomenons. In short, Jiro's ramen is everything that Japanese cuisine is famously NOT. It's ridiculously heavy and fatty. It uses cheap, easily-sourced ingredients. The bowls are thrown together hastily, rather than assembled with care. Portion sizes are enormous, and the ramen shops themselves tend to be grimy and dirty./re-tiering-the-2021-nba-draft-class.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-tiering-the-2021-nba-draft-class.htmlWhile I’m not a major fan of re-drafts, I’m going to dive in and try a few this Spring. It’s an important exercise for looking at the draft landscape and finding overarching lessons that can help me improve as a scout. Often these exercises are done solely on revisionist history (how players have turned out and what they’ve produced) instead of cross-examining their production with what was thought or known at the time./recipe-for-how-to-make-yourself-cry.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/recipe-for-how-to-make-yourself-cry.htmlOne kid. (Who grew up) 18 years of memories A photo album Simmer for 20 years. Serve in a college apartment with very white walls, but good light and fun archways. Add cupcakes to taste. Optional: Your kid doing a college radio show as you drive home in the dark Accidentally texting your college philosophy professor from 28 years ago ncG1vNJzZmivmJq%2FpsDHnpmemaWpxqq%2Fjaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6eypLXPnmSfp6JitbDDjK2mZqWRoLJuxc6uqaydnJt6pL7Y/red-sox-outfielder-receives-eight.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-sox-outfielder-receives-eight.htmlRed Sox outfielder Tyler O’Neill left Monday afternoon’s game against the Guardians at Fenway Park following a scary collision with Rafael Devers in the seventh inning. The two collided, trying to make a play on a shallow fly ball to left field that came off the bat of Estevan Florial. Devers continued to pursue the ball into the outfield, resulting in him crashing into O’Neill. The two players remained down on the field, with O’Neill bleeding and holding a towel over his face./a-year-on-remembering-lin-brehmer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-year-on-remembering-lin-brehmer.htmlHow has it been a year? Not a day goes by that I don’t hear his voice in my mind cheerfully insisting, “It’s great to be alive.” Lin embodied those words and they are part of his joyous legacy. May we remember him always, take a few minutes today to listen to John Fahey’s ‘Sunflower River Blues’ and then spin whatever music moves our souls. Maybe dance like we don’t care who’s watching (because why should we?/strangedays.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/strangedays.htmlHello, reader. Jeremy here. And wouldn’t you know it, today’s newsletter is from a new guest writer! My good friend Anton is a man of many talents—writing, photography, graphic design, DJing, and the “waved” creations he chops up as part of the Dream Video Division (keep reading for a sample!), just to name a few.* But if you’re part of the Alabama film scene, you probably know him as the director of the Montgomery Film Festival, which I happily attend every year that I get the chance, and/or the president of the Capri Theatre’s Board of Directors./review-survivor-tiki-man-season-46.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-survivor-tiki-man-season-46.htmlUnfortunately, the “Previously on Survivor” package that opens “Tiki Man” does eventually have to address the Bhanu of it all. However, before it speedruns his crisis of faith after God sent him to fail at Survivor, it takes time to recap all of the various advantages that have been in the game but never mattered while Yanu was losing half its members. It’s probably a helpful reminder for anyone who doesn’t watch Survivor with actual notes in front of them, since we’ve certainly had no reason to think about Tevin and Maria’s extra votes since the premiere./review-the-other-two-cary-watches.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-other-two-cary-watches.htmlWelcome to Episodic Medium’s weekly coverage of The Other Two, which debuted its third season on HBO Max with a two-episode premiere, with two episodes a week to follow. As always, the first review is available to all, but subsequent reviews will only be available to paid subscribers. You can find out more on our About Page. “I just need to live my life.” At the end of “Brooke Drives an Armpit Across America,” Cary stumbles into a fantasy that he dismissed earlier in the episode./robert-doisneau.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robert-doisneau.htmlFor a long time, I associated bleakness with profundity. The more depressing the art, the truer I felt it was. I would enjoy films like Threads, Scum, and Requiem for a Dream as if they revealed something essential hidden by the culture. I loved listening to Strangelove and was amazed that music like Suicide could exist. Even now, I’m drawn to photographers like Diane Arbus who intentionally turned their gaze on difficult subjects./robertreich.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robertreich.htmlRobert ReichProfessor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of "Inequality for All" and "Saving Capitalism." Co-founder of Inequality Media ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbO7wZ6praqVnrCp/rossville-staten-island.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rossville-staten-island.htmlRossville is located on the southwestern shore of Staten Island, land originally inhabited by the Raritans, a branch of the Lenape tribe. By 1683, the British, having taken control of Manhattan from the Dutch, started settling the area, which was then known as Smoking Point. Not long after, the town's name was changed to Blazing Star, the name of a local tavern. At the height of the Revolutionary War, Staten Island's roughly 3,000 inhabitants were largely pro-Tory, influenced, no doubt, by the nearly 32,000 newly arrived British troops./roupp-is-rolling-landen-mows-down.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roupp-is-rolling-landen-mows-down.htmlThis Photo Is What’s Known as a Tease!A mea culpa to start things out. On a recent KROG podcast, Kerry mentioned that I must have seen triple plays in all of my time at minor league games, and I said that I couldn’t think of a one (have seen minor league no hitters though)! That’s still true, but there was a triple play in a minor league game on Wednesday night!/news-and-notes-ryan-mela-and-newman.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/news-and-notes-ryan-mela-and-newman.html1. Class of 2024 Providence commit Ryan Mela is leading one of the top prep teams in the country this season in the Newman School out of Boston. Newman improved to 12-3 on the season this weekend after Mela led them with 19 points, 8 rebounds, and 8 assists in a win over Redemption Christian Academy on Friday before they put up 104 points Saturday versus Reason Prep. Mela and point guard Luka Toews (a Boston College commit) are the anchors for a team that spreads opponents out and plays an aesthetically pleasing brand of basketball./samba-on-linux-the-easy-way.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/samba-on-linux-the-easy-way.htmlSamba file sharing isn't tricky. There, I said it. End of the article? Not so fast home slice. Intermediate to advanced Linux users would likely agree with the previous statement. And to a lesser degree, I do as well. Once you understand what is needed, a basic Samba share isn't a big deal. Things go 43 degrees to "full funky-town" when you try to follow the ridiculous "guides" elsewhere on “the interwebs./bizarre-scientologist-figure-tommy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bizarre-scientologist-figure-tommy.htmlThe Underground Bunker has learned that an unusual scene played out on a corner in the New York City neighborhood of Soho at about noon yesterday. Two women who had recently testified in the trial taking place between Crash director Paul Haggis and former publicist Haleigh Breest were walking down a street and were nearing Haggis’s apartment. They were Haggis’s daughter Alissa and his ex-wife, actress Deborah Rennard. Both have taken the stand to defend Haggis in the civil lawsuit that will feature closing statements today./secrets-in-the-wilderness-dtmwagl.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/secrets-in-the-wilderness-dtmwagl.htmlHello friends! Do you like…secrets? Do you like…….wilderness? Do you like Alone-style challenges and Lifetime movie arguments that are uncomfortably topical here in July 2022? Okay, great, I can work with that. Let’s talk about SECRETS IN THE WILDERNESS! (Content warnings for a pregnant woman in peril, actual gaslighting, guns, and not really much else. Also this one will cut off, click the title to read it in your browser.)/selena-gomez-benny-blanco-engagement.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/selena-gomez-benny-blanco-engagement.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a pop star is happy, another pop star is sad, and Kylie Jenner is wearing a crop top (you know what that means).  Selena Gomez has been dating her perfect boyfriend Benny Blanco for nearly a year now, if you can believe it. So Us Weekly is right on time with this exclusive report: /sensitive-fern-and-butterflies.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sensitive-fern-and-butterflies.htmlSensitive fern was found in the 1700s, in Virginia. “Sensitive” because its fronds “suffer almost immediate damage from the first fall frost.” It doesn’t flower or produce seeds. No fern does, they sporulate. Sensitive is the only fern within the genus Onoclea. The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classifies it as such; my fern guide concurs. If I let my guide open to where the spine is cracked from use: Onoclea sensibilis, my favorite fern./setting-the-record-straight.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/setting-the-record-straight.htmlIt’s been a surreal couple of weeks for me. For those who don’t know, after a year of ignoring some pretty scary symptoms, my doctor called to tell me that the results of some extensive testing revealed I have heart failure. I learned that typically means a person has a 50% chance of living five more years. I asked my doctor what I should do, and besides telling me I need to go to see the best cardiologist we can find, she said it was time to radically change my life./sfoglia-lorda-romagnas-easy-peasy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sfoglia-lorda-romagnas-easy-peasy.htmlAs a proud pasta nerd, I take particular pleasure in learning about each shape’s name. Some refer to a legend or myth about how a pasta came to be; others evoke its physical form; still others are far more amusing than they are palatable. Vermicelli—“little worms”—are perhaps the most egregious of the bunch, with lumache (“snails”), linguine (“little tongues”), and strozzapreti (“priest stranglers”) following close behind. Today’s Pasta of the Month falls into this category, too: sfoglia lorda, or spoja lorda, which means “dirty pasta” or “dirty dough./6511151-shaun-king.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/6511151-shaun-king.htmlThe North Star with Shaun King By Shaun King Independent, grassroots liberation-journalism focused on politics, power, race, policing, mass incarceration, organizing, and change. No ads, no spam, no hate or trolls because we are 100% supported by members like you. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kvbO7xaKjnmdman5yfZRqZKygkaq7brfIp54%3D/shoot-your-shot-like-sadie-vimmerstedt.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shoot-your-shot-like-sadie-vimmerstedt.html“If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.” - Tony Bennett Hiya Friends, I’m sure you heard the sad news that the legendary singer, Tony Bennett passed away on Friday at age 96. I read and heard many wonderful tributes to Bennett over the weekend and the takeaway for me was this: Tony Bennett was one hell of a mensch. Everyone adored the guy and had a tough time finding anything unkind to say about him./show-review-snarky-puppy-93023-denver.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/show-review-snarky-puppy-93023-denver.htmlSnarky Puppy’s Colorado weekend continued last night at Denver’s Ogden Theatre. After an amazing first night in Breckenridge, the 11-piece band brought the heat once again for an Empire Central-heavy set, celebrating the first anniversary of the album’s release. Nate Wood’s fOUR project once again opened the night with a 45-minute set of virtuosic playing, and my proximity to the stage gave a much more drum-heavy experience than in Breckenridge./skater-fashion-to-rule-them-all.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/skater-fashion-to-rule-them-all.htmlHeads up, this essay is a little longer than normal. I wanted to dig into the subculture side of skater fashion and do skaters justice. So grab a cup of tea, coffee, or tequila, and sit back and relax. Because it's 5 o’clock somewhere, right? Skateboarding has gone from backyard pastime to big business, embodying an adrenaline-fueled world full of challenges, thrills, and vibes. And the fashion industry wasted no time sinking its claws into this cultural juggernaut./so-there-was-a-law-professor-at-georgetown.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-there-was-a-law-professor-at-georgetown.htmlA law professor at Georgetown Law School, Sandra Sellers, has been fired because she is racist. She revealed her racism in a Zoom conversation with her colleague David Batson who nodded along to what she said. Batson is now on leave. Racism is everywhere, it’s our job to stamp it out, and Sellers’ racism was smoked out. She’s out. Social justice has been done. Sandra Sellers is a racist because she said this:/spectacular-hyper-commodification.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spectacular-hyper-commodification.htmlTheorygram is a subculture of Politigram. On Theorygram, you are likely to see memes about philosophers and nonsense internet in-jokes. (Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference between the two.) Part of this subculture emerges from the maturation of teenage meme posters, who, as they grow into adulthood, become more intellectually curious about the theoretical side of politics. Another contributing factor is the narrowing parameters for online speech that result in shadow bans or deplatforming for accounts who continue to post political content./no-161-sports-illustrated-and-drew.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-161-sports-illustrated-and-drew.htmlWITH today’s entry, the Salt Lake City Trappers’ bus heads to Medicine Hat in July 1988. The Trappers’ were the toast of the sports world the previous summer with 29 consecutive wins. The Blue Jays’ Pioneer League affiliate in The Hat were a miracle of another sort: the worst team in God’s creation. To get up to speed on how I wound up on the Trappers bus, look at two previous entries this week: On Tuesday, I dropped No./stallion-analysis-maximus-mischief.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stallion-analysis-maximus-mischief.htmlMaximus Mischief retired to stud after a brief but brilliant four-start career. He won his first three races at age two, including the G2 Remsen Stakes, by a combined 17 lengths, stamping himself as one of the most exciting two-year-olds of his crop. In his sophomore debut, he finished third in the Holy Bull Stakes as the odds-on favorite, but he never had a chance to redeem that effort, retiring with a soft tissue injury prior to the Fountain of Youth./staying-scrappy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/staying-scrappy.htmlI recently spoke at Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,  which features leaders and entrepreneurs in a variety of industries. They let me have free rein over what I spoke about, and after thinking about it, I decided to settle on the phrase, “Stay Scrappy."  The term "scrappiness" came from my friend and Facebook engineering partner, Vijaye Raji. When we started working together, he made “scrappiness” our team value, and because of this, we built more than we ever could have imagined./steve-kirsch-writes-about-twitter.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steve-kirsch-writes-about-twitter.htmlI just read this on Steve Kirsch’s Substack. It is worth sharing here because I too have been censored. Here is the link to Steve’s post: Twitter disabled me. Please ask all your friends to follow me on Substack and gab My final post was warning people about prion disease caused by the vaccines I was warning people about prion disease that is clearly being caused by the vaccine. I checked this in VAERS myself before doing the post./strike-8-robin-ellacott-is-sterile.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/strike-8-robin-ellacott-is-sterile.htmlWriting about the work of J. K. Rowling is something of an endless journey of discovery; there are always more clues and pointers to her artistry and meaning to be found in what she has written. I had just finished my most recent post, an extended comment on Nick Jeffery’s idea that Charlotte Campbell did not die a suicide but was murdered, when I realized that the first page of the first chapter of the first Part of Running Grave has a strong hint of that possibility, one that I missed the several times I had read it./sundays-with-stephanie-b75.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sundays-with-stephanie-b75.htmlHome. After two weeks on the road in the van, we made it back North. Brrr, it was a cold reentry! Right away, I started back in the kitchen. I am working on a new cookbook. It's not officially named, but its working title is “Cold Weather Cooking from the True North to My Twin Cities Table” or something along those lines. Have any good ideas? Leave them here as I know it needs some work:/captain-majed-and-the-arabic-language.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/captain-majed-and-the-arabic-language.htmlIn March 2000, children across the Arab world rejoiced at the launch of the first home-grown TV channel dedicated to cartoons. Spacetoon started off by taking over airtime from Bahrain’s national TV channel. In less than two years, surging demand meant that Spacetoon had outgrown its 8-hour slot and broke away to form its own independent station.  Spacetoon primarily broadcasts dubbed, foreign (usually Japanese) cartoons, imbued with more locally appropriate cultural themes./tattoos-self-harm-or-self-care.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tattoos-self-harm-or-self-care.htmlTrigger warning: Themes of self harm. There have been mixed opinions on tattoos since the beginning, however as well as being ‘alternative’, some people now consider them a form of self-harm, with others turning to them as a substitute. Modern day tattoos started in New York City, when Martin Hildebrandt, the first professional tattoo artist, set up his tattoo studio in the mid-19th century. During this time, people with tattoos were thought of as having a ‘criminal character’./taylor-swift-and-the-tortured-poets.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-and-the-tortured-poets.htmlA listener submitted a question earlier this week that was basically: Why are we talking about Taylor Swift again???? And I get it: if you’re not a fan, if her music is not for you, you too might be tired of the ongoing Taylor Swift Conversation. But I’m ultimately less interested in Taylor Swift herself and more interested in the shape of that conversation: what are we actually talking about when we talk about Taylor Swift?/tempra-tantrum-mad-as-hell.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tempra-tantrum-mad-as-hell.htmlWhich came first, the wine or the marketing campaign? In my career writing about wine, I have received, along with wine, of course, the usual and the odd assortment of devices from marketing and PR people. These include corkscrews and foil cutters, little notebooks with pens, packets of spices and jars of condiments and, back in the 1990s, when this was … ncG1vNJzZmiamZy0pr7ToZinsZ%2Bqv6mxwJ1lrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX2d9cYWOamloaGFkwaa5z6uYZqyRo8GzwcxmpJqcXZbAbrTEpaM%3D/ten-new-poems-about-writing-poetry.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ten-new-poems-about-writing-poetry.htmlFor more articles, videos, books, and resources about faith and art, visit RabbitRoom.com. The best advice I’ve ever heard on writing came from Stephen King: “Read a lot. Write a lot.” Today on the Substack we are tweaking King’s sage and pithy advice for our audience of poets and poetry lovers. Read a lot of poetry about poetry. Write a lot of poetry about poetry. Below you will find ten offerings from poets who are wrestling with, celebrating, and reveling in the topic of poetry in their work./the-30-for-30-challenge.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-30-for-30-challenge.htmlWelcome to the 1,070 new members of the curiosity tribe who have joined us since Friday. Join the 100,000 others who are receiving high-signal, curiosity-inducing content every single week. Thank you to all the subscribers that have joined me on this journey. 100,000 is an amazing milestone—but to be honest, I feel like we’re still at the starting line. Let’s go! Today’s newsletter is brought to you by Flatfile! Personally, I have spent enough time in spreadsheets to get my excel PHD./the-8or-3political-states-of-indiana.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-8or-3political-states-of-indiana.htmlAs a native Buckeye and naturalized Hoosier, I have an immigrant’s love for—and curiosity about—our state. I grew up in hilly Northwest Ohio, home to that state’s highest point, and at the base of Mad River Mountain, which is, as you may suspect, not really a mountain. When I traveled a few hours or so to Marion, Indiana, for college, I was struck by the yawning flatness of the land, and just how far I could see over the horizon./the-agony-of-roger-maris.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-agony-of-roger-maris.htmlI was seven in 1961 when Roger Maris pursued the major league home run record and was hounded by sportswriters for the crime of challenging Babe Ruth. His teammate, Micky Mantle, who had already won a triple crown and was also chasing Ruth, was the fan favorite. Although Maris had won the MVP award in 1960 with 39 home runs, he was considered a Yankee usurper, an import from Kansas City./the-amc-lincoln-square-imax.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-amc-lincoln-square-imax.htmlIt’s a long weekend in summer and the air is bad but we’ve been inside our apartment too long so we go to the movies. The air conditioning inside the Lincoln Square AMC is as big as a house, as big as a city, as big as a whole map. Movie theater air conditioning is a feeling about the mall and other people’s cars, anonymizing and blank. Every movie theater is every other movie theater; I open the door from the street and I’m not in New York, but in America, its corporatizing vastness, its false comforts, its faith in an unbroken timeline./barclayhotel.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barclayhotel.htmlGentle reader, Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering digital programming until we can again organize groups to gather and explore the city we love. In 2018, we celebrated the return of two treasures of Downtown Los Angeles to useful service as residential buildings, when the Healthy Housing Foundation purchased the largely vacant King Edward and Baltimore hotels from developer Shomof Group. Although a binding covenant requires the rooms in many old hotels be rented out to low-income tenants, and tens of thousands of people struggle to survive on the streets outside, our corrupt City Council does nothing to make property owners abide by the law./the-bear-goes-to-bat-for-cubs-fan.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bear-goes-to-bat-for-cubs-fan.htmlJust ahead of the 20th anniversary of the baseball playoff contest known as “the Bartman game,’’ “The Bear” – an award-winning TV show about a fictional Chicago restaurant – serves up an irresistible homage to the poor Cubs fan forever linked to the last Miami Marlins championship season. We’re talking about Steve Bartman, the bespectacled dude with headphones who reached for a baseball on an October night at Wrigley Field in 2003, setting off a series of events that doomed the Cubs./the-brilliant-light-power-story.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-brilliant-light-power-story.htmlA little known company named Brilliant Light Power has been developing a revolutionary hydrogen-based energy technology for the last 30 years. The technology harnesses a reaction that catalyzes the transition of hydrogen to a lower-energy state. It releases roughly 200 times the energy of combusting hydrogen on a per atom basis. Think Fire 2.0. This lower energy state has been dubbed “Hydrino” by Dr. Randell L. Mills, who theoretically predicted the state and experimentally verified its existence./the-chemist-who-exposed-a-cancer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-chemist-who-exposed-a-cancer.htmlI imagine there was a sort of collective breath-holding as Alma LeVant Hayden gingerly opened the small ampule, surrounded by a team of experts the government had assembled. This was far more ceremony than usually afforded the testing of an unknown substance, but that’s because this was no ordinary substance. This was something a small group of doctors had convinced the nation was a miracle cancer cure-all, yet the contents of which they refused to divulge./the-christian-film-where-they-shoot.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-christian-film-where-they-shoot.htmlWarnings: Incredibly racist movie where they shoot God with a gun. Long read because I couldn’t get the recap any shorter. Heidi Montag. Father, forgive them, they knew not what they were doing.  Assassin 33 A.D. (2020) is a movie where a masked-up hit squad travels back in time, mows down Roman guards in the Garden of Gethsemane, and puts a .45 in Jesus’ head in the first act. We’re not even halfway into the nearly two-hour film, and they’ve put down the King of Kings like Old Yeller./fin-the-curious-case-of-legacy-films.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fin-the-curious-case-of-legacy-films.htmlI wrote a couple of months ago about the rise of low-stakes fake news, which appears to have taken over Facebook recently. It’s “news” stories meant to go viral that are blatantly untrue and not about politics or matters of national importance but rather dumb pop culture ephemera. For some reason, it often seems to involve either Roseanne Barr, The View, or the fictitious idea that Roseanne will get a talk show opposite The View./yes-actually-means-no-the-curious.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-actually-means-no-the-curious.htmlEveryone wants investment from venture capitalists. It’s the validation that catapults you onto the cover of Forbes. Your seat at the pantheon of famed tech bros like Adam Neumann, Elizabeth Holmes, and Sam Bankman-Fried. VCs can be a curious bunch, however. They have a special secret language—a dialect that’s borderline incomprehensible to the uninitiated. For instance, much like the Inuit people, who have many words for snow, were you aware that venture capitalists have more than 400 words for “no”?/easy-beginner-bonsai-portulacaria-afra.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/easy-beginner-bonsai-portulacaria-afra.htmlHere is a tree that goes by many names. Portulacaria afra is a shrubby succulent native to South Africa, where it’s called elephant bush, porkbush, and spekboom in Afrikaans. The fast growing foliage is an important source of food for local elephants, and as the animals graze, they inadvertently propagate the plant by spreading cuttings that root into the soil. Isn’t that nice? The leaves are edible to us humans, too; they’re faintly sour and crunchy, like a dialed-down granny smith apple./the-five-principles-of-parenting.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-five-principles-of-parenting.htmlHappy last week of January, everyone! I mean, I guess next week is technically the last week, but who cares about reality when it gets dark at 4pm? Today, I’m thrilled to be running an interview with one of the wisest developmental psychologists I know: Dr. Aliza Pressman, whom you might know from her popular podcast, Raising Good Humans. (Which I was a guest on, once up on a time!/when-mainstream-success-trumps-scholarly.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-mainstream-success-trumps-scholarly.htmlThis is a bit of an unconventional topic for this blog, and if it’s not your cup of tea, I’ll certainly understand. If you have no interest in reading a niche academic meta-review takedown of a China historian, please just carry on with your day as usual. I’ll get back to the travel content soon enough. If you are unfamiliar with Frank Dikötter, he’s a well-known and high-selling Dutch historian based in Hong Kong with a broadly revisionist approach to modern Chinese history./genesis-5-the-generations-from-adam.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/genesis-5-the-generations-from-adam.htmlWhat we call the fifth chapter of Genesis calls itself "the book of the generations of Adam." We might paraphrase this as "the people generated by Adam" (all male, incidentally). In other words, this is Adam's family tree. Biblical genealogies are notoriously dry, boring, and skippable. We will certainly be skipping over some in the future, but I thought we'd zoom in on this one a little just to get a "/the-great-gooseberry-gobble.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-gooseberry-gobble.htmlOh golly, these little guys. Someone called them ‘sour balls’ the other day. I thought they meant the shape but, looking at their veined bodies, I do have to wonder. Every year there’s a fierce debate in the market about if / when they’re early or late, and the memory on my iPhone tells me they’re always just about on time in mid-June. Hard and punchy at first, and slowly softening up and becoming sweeter in July./the-greek-word-mistranslated-as-cross.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-greek-word-mistranslated-as-cross.htmlThe cross is the symbol of Christianity, the focal image in many interpretations of the Gospels, and a great example of how the meaning of words have developed over time, in some aspects, disconnecting modern Christianity from its roots in Jesus’s teaching. The "cross" as it is known today, a vertical post and with a crossing member, was unknown when Jesus taught and for centuries after. The Greek word translated as "/the-hero-is-the-one-who-changes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hero-is-the-one-who-changes.htmlDemolition Man (1993) is the greatest movie that the general culture has not openly recognized as a Great Movie. It was born of strange alchemy: a sincere action movie re-written to be a comedy by the writer of Heathers (1988), Daniel Waters, it attracted talent far above what it might have merited, including Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes both at the height of their powers, mainstays like Bob Gunton and Sir Nigel Hawthorne (before he was knighted), and as-yet-unknowns who would go on to be knowns, like Sandra Bullock and Benjamin Bratt, and blink-and-you’ll-miss him, Jack Black./icing-history.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/icing-history.htmlIn today’s post, we dive into hockey history to learn about icing, how it originated, and how the rules came to be today. We’ll also touch on some potential future changes that we think could make our sport even better. Speaking of history, our friend Jack Han is releasing an e-book where he dives into historical hockey tactics. It’s called “Hockey Tactics Retrospective” and we heartily endorse it. Icing the puck on the penalty kill is very common./the-hollow-core-of-kevin-kellys-thousand.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hollow-core-of-kevin-kellys-thousand.htmlTo be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans. This is the opening passage from Kevin Kelly’s 2008 essay, “Thousand True Fans.” Kelly is one of the defining techno-optimist voices in the history of the internet./the-importance-of-taking-breaks-when.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-importance-of-taking-breaks-when.htmlWe are passionate about our science, and that is wonderful; it is one of the best things about this job. It is worth cherishing and worth cultivating. There is a danger that comes with that passion. It may make us a bit blind to the danger of over-committing, getting overwhelmed, getting exhausted, and may lead to burnout. You say: Surely this would never happen to me. I love my work! My science is so cool, how could it lead to burnout?/al-gore-the-intersection-of-ai-and.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/al-gore-the-intersection-of-ai-and.htmlTranscript with some hyperlinks Eric Topol (00:00): Hello, Eric Topol here. And what a privilege to have as my guest Al Gore, as we discuss things that are considered existential threats. And that includes not just climate change but also recently the concern about A.I. No one has done more on the planet to bring to the fore the concerns about climate change. And many people think that the 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth, was the beginning, but it goes way back into the 1980s./the-invincible.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-invincible.htmlPlayStation, Xbox, PC, Steam Deck $29.99 7 hours long The Invincible is a sci-fi adventure game where you search for your missing crew on a mysterious planet. You’ll walk and drive across deserts and cliffs, unearthing clues from abandoned bases and robot probes, all while talking to your boss on the radio. It’s based on Stanislaw Lem’s 1964 novel of the same name, about humanity’s reckless quest to dominate the universe and the nature of intelligence, and adopts a period-appropriate “atompunk” aesthetic: vivid colours, chrome surfaces, ray guns, and flying saucers, everything westerners thought the future was going to be in the 50s and 60s./the-l-word-gen-q-season-3-finale.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-l-word-gen-q-season-3-finale.htmlWell friends, we made it. It’s the season finale. This episode is called “Looking Ahead“ and since the show hasn’t been renewed yet, it’s quite possibly the last ever episode of Gen Q. I’m sorry for getting this out a day late. I had so much to say about this episode (this recap is over 4000 words long) and Showtime didn’t send me the screener until Thursday afternoon and my anniversary with my girlfriend was on Saturday, so I was doing such things as going on an aquarium date and procuring a romantic dinner of gyros and fries from the really good spot in our neighborhood./the-last-great-chicago-restaurant.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-great-chicago-restaurant.htmlWhat happens when you meet your gods and they reveal as mortals?   In that moment you are given the most extraordinary gift, nothing less than the secret of life. That’s what happened to me when I spent ten hours observing one of Chicago’s most legendary restaurants about three weeks ago. And that’s all we’re really doing here anyway, searching for the answer. When I write of food, it is only as a conduit for identifying meaning./the-late-in-the-game-coneheads-movie.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-late-in-the-game-coneheads-movie.htmlIt’s easy to see why the 1993 Coneheads movie bombed. Saturday Night Live movies are all about timing and heat. The whole point is to crank out a movie while the characters are still fresh in the public imagination.  When Coneheads was released early in the Clinton presidency, the Coneheads hadn’t been the hot new thing in a decade and a half. That is several lifetimes in pop culture time. /the-light-doctor-8-creating-healthy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-light-doctor-8-creating-healthy.htmlThe Sun delivers abundant light across all visible wavelengths, providing ample illumination and healthy rays at zero energy cost, even on an overcast day. In comparison, electric light can only be a pale imitation of sunlight. Because of indoor glare and reflections, electric lighting must always be hundreds of times less bright and deliver considerabl… ncG1vNJzZmikmZy1tbDOnKuoqp2Wv7W1zaamqKqVmrGmetKumayskZi4b6%2FOpmapZ6Sdsm64yKCfrWWUpLC1u9Fmb2abopqutbXNoGShnZGhwanF/rewatchrewind-the-man-who-saw-tomorrow.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rewatchrewind-the-man-who-saw-tomorrow.html(Rewatch/Rewind is a feature in which I revisit a film that once made an impression on me, but I haven’t watched in at least a decade. Spoilers should be expected.)   You kids today, with your streaming services and your non-stop #content, you really don’t know how good you have it. Back when I was young, and television was believed to be the result of particles drawn from the air by the Devil himself, our choices in entertainment were rather more limited./the-many-faces-of-mary-pickford.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-many-faces-of-mary-pickford.htmlMary Pickford really loves dirt. In fact, there’s no other performer, classical or otherwise, so willing to make muck, soot, mud and sewage an integral part of their screen presence. Each of her comedies seems a challenge—how much mud can a woman fall into, and how long can that joke remain funny? My fascination with Pickford is unique in that it has nothing to do with her outings with noted auteurs./the-map-of-blood-meridian.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-map-of-blood-meridian.htmlI’ll be uploading a lot of Blood Meridian content over the next few months, including more chapter-by-chapter annotations for McCarthy’s novel, original essays, maps, and more. In the meantime, I wanted to give you guys this very-detailed map of the Kid’s travels. ncG1vNJzZmianKS8pbnEq6CdoZGje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWK6oryMqJ1mmpykvKV5zJ6popyZlrs%3D/giannis-the-marvelous-journey-is.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/giannis-the-marvelous-journey-is.htmlI’m of two minds about Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, a new documentary about NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo.  On the one hand, it’s an example of a trend that I’m on record as finding unsavory: It’s a mostly fawning documentary about a great modern-day athlete, in which the athlete himself seems to have had some degree of control.   Plus, the story of Giannis and his family is pretty well-known as it is, and was even already told in a streaming movie, Rise, a fictionalized treatment that arrived on Disney+ less than two years ago (Rise was more in the genre of Inspirational Sports Movie)./the-naked-truth-about-naked-gardens.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-naked-truth-about-naked-gardens.htmlFirst a disclaimer: I did not remove my clothes while working on my latest story, about a documentary film about Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort in Loxahatchee. But the filmmakers did. They took the “When in Rome…” approach and stripped down to their birthday suits while embedding themselves among the resort’s residents for six months in late 2019 and early 2020 to make Naked Gardens. They are convinced they made an honest film./the-night-whitney-houston-died.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-night-whitney-houston-died.htmlWhitney Houston drowned in a Beverly Hills bathtub on February 11, 2012. She was 48 years old. If you were of a certain generation — the generation dutifully lined up on an elementary school stage and made to sing “The Greatest Love of All” because we were The Children People Believed Were the Future — the news seemed impossible. Whitney was of a pantheon of 1980s artists — Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince — who felt both eternal and synonymous with America./the-once-and-future-king-seiko.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-once-and-future-king-seiko.htmlDespite the long shadow thrown by the name, King Seiko was not around for all that long. The King Seiko watches were originally made from about 1961 to 1975, and they were, like Grand Seiko, meant to represent the highest end of home-grown Japanese watchmaking – timepieces that could compete head to head with precision chronometers from Switzerland. Both King Seiko and Grand Seiko have their collectors – a lot of the time, the same person, although Grand Seiko’s history and design heritage is obviously much better known./the-origins-of-unico-tezukas-lonely.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-origins-of-unico-tezukas-lonely.htmlby Deb Aoki Once upon a time, a little blue unicorn named Unico entered our imaginations, thanks to the boundless creativity of Osamu Tezuka.  Called “The God of Manga,” Tezuka was famous for creating many memorable characters and stories for kids, adults and almost everyone in between. The story of Unico is centered around a little unicorn who has the power “to bring happiness to the pure and true.” However, this sweet and seemingly harmless ability catches the eye of Venus, the goddess of love./the-parable-of-the-pharisee-and-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-parable-of-the-pharisee-and-the.htmlHe also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt.  Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus:  “God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.  I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get./january-embers-part-i-the-poem-that.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/january-embers-part-i-the-poem-that.htmlHappy Halloween! This is the second of four spooky posts I’m running this month a PopPoetry. Today I’m taking a look at one of the best horror adaptations and remakes in recent memory: the 2017 reboot adaptation of Stephen King’s It. It’s quotable, it’s terrifying, it features a mind-bending performance by Bill Skarsgård, and it uses extremely rational fears as the foundation of its message. Sure, the killer clown is the figment of an overactive childhood imagination (or rather, the twisted overactive imagination of adult Stephen King) but the book and the film also touch on disease, abuse, death, loss—and, of course, fear—in broad but affecting ways./the-power-of-the-actors-scenario.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-power-of-the-actors-scenario.htmlIf you want to subscribe to LOL Sober, hit the purple button below. I’m mostly publishing free pieces right now, but paid subscribers do have access to monthly premium pieces—such as THIS comedy special about my 10 favorite addiction/sobriety jokes! A quick programming note: I am writing and recording this entry on Nov. 9, which means you’re probably reading it on Nov. 10. Nov. 10 is my sober anniversary. Hopefully, as you read this, I will have gone another 24 hours without a drink or a drug./the-rebuilding-is-ongoing-one-year.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rebuilding-is-ongoing-one-year.htmlThe Towne Center Plaza was home to a fatal fire in Gatlinburg that claimed the life of one person last year, and the new building for the businesses that were lost will soon return. There were four businesses that either suspended operations or moved to a temporary location: Pucker’s Sports Grill, China Bazaar, Cafe 420, and Gifts of Gatlinburg. The owner of Pucker’s, Chad Kennedy, was interviewed for the story on WVLT news in Knoxville, and he confirmed the business is returning to a bigger and better place next door to the large building being constructed./the-restaurant-of-summer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-restaurant-of-summer.htmlMy birthday was last week. To reward myself for a birth I had nothing to do with, I went to one of the best restaurants in America, but the spot that really made my month, the place that felt like the true gift to myself was not that restaurant. But that’s how it goes sometimes. That new seemingly great job opportunity turns out to be a boiler room pyramid scheme. The perfect partner turns out to be a serial killer./the-sad-stories-behind-rose-royces.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sad-stories-behind-rose-royces.htmlPerhaps known best for their 1976 smash “Car Wash,” Los Angeles natives Rose Royce were far from one hit wonders. Sprinkling elements of disco, funk, R & B, and soul throughout their catalog, they also crafted notable hits like "I'm Going Down," "Wishing on a Star," and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" with an incredibly talented lineup of musicians and Gwen Dickey on vocals. The group’s extensive catalog is begging for exploration in documentary, long-form article, and podcast form, but “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” seems especially ripe for rediscovery due to the pioneering use of a drum machines as a focal point of their production./the-sadness-of-singing-robots.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sadness-of-singing-robots.htmlIf you’re not awestruck and a little bit frightened by Artificial Intelligence right now, I’d suggest you’re not paying attention. While we’ve been taking advantage of various AI tools for years in voice command apps and content recommendation engines, new “generative AI” tools like ChatGPT (for text) and Midjourney (for graphic art) have sent us reeling into an uncertain and unsettling future. We should all be burning with questions about how these applications - which can seemingly produce original, quality content in seconds using simple voice prompts - will change how we work, learn and create./the-secrets-to-a-superior-old-fashioned.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secrets-to-a-superior-old-fashioned.htmlIt’s Old Fashioned Week, so let’s talk about Old Fashioneds.  Like Negroni Week, Old Fashioned Week is a brand-sponsored event — in this case by the excellent, reliable Heaven Hill bourbon Elijah Craig — but it’s also just an excuse to make and drink Old Fashioneds. The Old Fashioned looms large in this newsletter’s mindspace: The very first edition was about how everything can be an Old Fashioned, and the Old Fashioned is almost certainly the cocktail I have made most often over the course of the last decade./stewed-screwed-and-tattooed-the-selling.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stewed-screwed-and-tattooed-the-selling.htmlImagine if there was a company making Babe Ruth rum and Babe Ruth clothing and Babe Ruth iPhone covers and using iconic images of the baseball legend in all sorts of manners. Much wealth is built on dead cash cows- it’s the capitalist American way. But what if the family of Babe Ruth was never contacted before the market became flooded with images of their husband or father? What if they never received a dime?/the-tarkin-doctrine.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tarkin-doctrine.htmlEdited by Althea May Atherton Hello, dear readers! My apologies for the long absence. There’s a longer note at the end of this newsletter about what’s up and what’s next.  In the meantime, I’m presenting my chapter from “Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict.” The book was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2018, and contains a host of writers talking about science fiction and strategy./the-ted-johnsons-of-new-hampshire.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ted-johnsons-of-new-hampshire.htmlOne of my favorite parts of my weekly routine is my early Wednesday morning barre class. I don’t love the 4:30 am alarm, but there’s a certain quiet and calm that comes only in the hours just before the sun rises. As a lawyer and mom of two young daughters, I normally welcome the solitude in my drive to the studio. But this week, instead of a peacefulness in my solitude, an unsettling and unwelcome isolation crept in./the-top-gun-anthem-edition.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-top-gun-anthem-edition.htmlColin here. I re-watched Top Gun on a flight recently with some pretty good headphones. For the first time, I paid close attention to the anthemic theme song that kicks off the credits and then quickly blasts into another track (Danger Zone), once the catapult propels the F-14 Tomcat off of the flight deck. It was fun to listen to the composition intently: it’s an interesting piece of music; there’s some dubby echos on the TR-808 drum track, dark synth bells (Yamaha DX7 synth presets!/a-numbers-nightmare-the-tragedy-of.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-numbers-nightmare-the-tragedy-of.htmlThe early part of the college football offseason is devoted to looking back at the recently finished season and pondering what could have been if certain things went in another direction. Football has a good bit of variance baked into it, so perhaps a fumble bouncing a different direction or a tipped interception falling incomplete could change the course of a game or even season for some teams. Maybe you even play prevent defense on the last play of the game so you don’t lose to a FCS team for the first time in program history (Go Noles!/the-tumultuous-rise-and-fall-of-fankaty.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tumultuous-rise-and-fall-of-fankaty.htmlIt wasn’t too long ago that Coventry City found themselves staring down the barrel of a penalty shoot-out in May of 2023. After a grueling Championship campaign, Coventry had battled their way to an impressive fifth place finish, guaranteeing them a playoff position with aspirations of the Premier League on the other side. This was an incredible feat in its own right, as Mark Robins took to the helm as manager of Coventry City and steadily steered Coventry towards the upper echelons of League One and the Championship, a position that Coventry fans had been hoping for amongst years of mediocrity and uncertainty as they were relegated to League Two under previous boss Tony Mowbray./the-unexpected-immortality-of-karl.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-unexpected-immortality-of-karl.htmlChina Daily in its January 16, 2021 issue reports: Just over a century ago in 1920, Chen Wangdao, the late Chinese scholar and educator, completed China’s first translation of The Communist Manifesto…Today, 101 years later, a team of 29 members from the Communist Party of China are following in his footsteps to share Marxist theories with the public through an exhibition centered on The Communist Manifesto. On March 17, 1883 when Karl Marx was buried at the Highgate cemetery in London only eleven persons were present at his funeral./sylvia-robinson-the-unsung-feminist.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sylvia-robinson-the-unsung-feminist.htmlSylvia Robinson, often hailed as the "Mother of Hip-hop," was a musical maverick whose influence reverberated far beyond the confines of a recording studio. A visionary in every sense, Sylvia seamlessly blended her roles as a singer, producer, and rap mogul, crafting a legacy that would forever alter the trajectory of the music industry. In an era where women's voices were often relegated to the background, Sylvia's indomitable spirit ensured she was not just heard but that she led the chorus./the-women-of-the-mara-brenda.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-women-of-the-mara-brenda.htmlThe history of the street gangs in the US has been marked by spikes of atrocious violence, but one murder stands out for our purposes: the killing of Brenda Paz in 2003. Originally from Honduras, Brenda was only thirteen when she was “jumped” or initiated into MS-13 in Dallas. Her actions and subsequent murder would change the history of women in the gang forever, observers told me. Brenda, who was known in the gang as Smiley “was different from the other girls,” wrote reporter Jamie Stockwell, who covered her murder trial for the Washington Post./twtw-the-world-this-week-episode-7da.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twtw-the-world-this-week-episode-7da.htmlThis weekly feature for Andelman Unleashed, continues on its mission to explore how the media of other nations are reporting and commenting on the United States, and how they are viewing the rest of the world. Reporting today from Riga, Latvia. It’s not impossible that the greatest single casualty of the war in Gaza lies 1,200 miles to the north. Suddenly, Ukraine has been replaced on the world’s front pages by events in the Middle East./the-year-of-fridolina-rolfo-swedens.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-year-of-fridolina-rolfo-swedens.htmlNot many left backs would have found themselves eight yards from goal to score a winner in a Women’s Champions League final, but Fridolina Rolfo isn’t your average left back. Get 50% off for 1 year This is a left back who hit double figures for goals and assists for a dominant Barcelona team last season. Rolfo is so productive in the attacking third that Sweden head coach Peter Gerhardsson can’t bring himself to play her anywhere close to the defence, instead giving her something of a free role further forward./the-yor.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-yor.htmlGideon Haigh Did you see it?  Not many single deliveries qualify for must-see status straight away, but the fifth ball of Jasprit Bumrah’s seventh over in Visakhapatnam yesterday surely did.  Again, Bumrah cantered in to his final gallop.  Again, Bumrah’s arm hyperextended like a kevlar mast on maxi yacht.  Halfway down, the ball was on a seventh stump line, but it came back with the angle and the swing to spread-eagle Ollie Pope’s middle and leg stumps./thoughts-on-mr-grits.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thoughts-on-mr-grits.htmlMy cat was a legend. An icon. A king. He made cat haters say, “this is the only cat I’ve ever liked.” Dog lovers would nod approvingly as he played fetch - “this cat is actually cool.” Even cat lovers, who approach even the most recalcitrant with fondness, would make comments like, “I’ve never seen a cat be so friendly.” When I would walk into Greenwich Village Animal Hospital for his annual check up, Dr./three-godfathers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-godfathers.htmlI believe I’ve recalled the anecdote here at Word and Song before, but it’s worth telling again. When Orson Welles, himself both a great actor and a great director, was asked who were the three finest directors of American films, he replied, “John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.” That’s quite a tribute. I think that what Welles saw wasn’t just that F… ncG1vNJzZmiZnqm1sLrYnqqopJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2gopqybrPOnZ2arJiav7Q%3D/time-is-a-flat-circle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-is-a-flat-circle.htmlDo you remember True Detective? The one with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. The one set in the Deep South where Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey were moody and everything was atmospheric and people moved slowly as if the heat was liquid and every scene felt burning and sweaty and uncertain. The one where you felt on edge, not just from the tension of the plot but because everything about the story being told seemed wrong, awry somehow./tips-for-using-googles-holiday-100.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tips-for-using-googles-holiday-100.htmlHave you seen Google’s Holiday 100? Let’s learn more about what it is, how you can use it as gift-giving inspiration for this Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or holiday season, and how you can take advantage of it as an online shopping tool to get your best bang for your buck. Google's Holiday 100 list comes out every year and features 100 gift ideas. It's made by analyzing at what people are searching for from June to September 2023./tose-proeski-great-musician.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tose-proeski-great-musician.htmlOctober 16 (in 2007) marks the death of the incredible musician Todor "Toše" Proeski who was killed in a car accident after a much-too-short career.  Proeski was a Balkan star, referred to as an “Elvis,” a great singer, quite the linguist (he sang in many languages, including English.  He was Macedonian, and he spoke Aromaian, one of the Romance languages, (influenced by Greek and surrounded by Slavic languages).  Proeski, born in 1981, sang in several different languages, and he helped others./tone-glow-099-sally-potter.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tone-glow-099-sally-potter.htmlAlthough primarily known as a filmmaker, Sally Potter has also made work as a theatre director, choreographer, dancer and musician. A member of both the London Film-Makers’ Co-op and the Feminist Improvising Group in the 1970s, she has scored many of her films since her 1992 breakthrough feature Orlando, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel that is now considered a classic of New Queer Cinema. Her subsequent films include romantic drama The Tango Lesson (1997), coming-of-age period piece Ginger & Rosa (2012) and black comedy The Party (2017)./trisha-yearwoods-iron-skillet-apple.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trisha-yearwoods-iron-skillet-apple.htmlIN THE FALL OF 2019 AT A DINNER IN KNOXVILLE featuring recipes from my new book, Skillet Love, the lady seated next to me leaned in close and whispered, ‘’You know my favorite recipe to cook in an iron skillet?’’ I paused to guess… “Trisha’s Apple Pie,” she quickly added. And before I could gather more intel on the recipe, I was asked to stand up and addr… ncG1vNJzZmiZnqOyo8XRp2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy1vsisn5plqZqus8POqJusZZmnvK950qSgpaSVqXqivM%2BlnA%3D%3D/uncapped-safes-when-to-use-them-no.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uncapped-safes-when-to-use-them-no.htmlBefore we get to this week's post... I’m getting excited about the next cohort of my fundraising accelerator program. If you haven’t checked it out– I’d love for you to read about it→ fundraisewithconfidence.com The 5-week program starts Monday, May 22. Applications are due on May 10! …and now on to this week’s fieldnotes A founder asked me the other day “are there any problems with uncapped SAFEs?” The short answer is yes, absolutely./untold-malice-at-the-palace.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/untold-malice-at-the-palace.htmlThis review is part of our free content available to everyone. Please consider supporting Film Yap with a modest paid subscription to enjoy everything we publish plus exclusive opportunities. Get 30% off forever It was my junior year of college at Indiana University and I just arrived home on the Friday night before Thanksgiving. It was almost 11 p.m. and I threw my stinky college laundry in the washing machine and turned on the TV at my parents’ house to catch the end of the basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons./vbl-2023.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vbl-2023.htmlA few years ago, I dabbled with Gumroad by releasing a free PDF booklet about vapour barrier liner (VBL) socks. This endeavor was primarily to familiarize myself with the platform's handling of PDFs. Although I also marketed my book titled 'Me, Myself & I' there, I quickly discerned that a distributed PDF could proliferate as quickly and uncontrollably as an STD in the Chamonix valley. My booklet delved into the use of VBL socks over prolonged durations, sometimes as long as 60 days, in chilly landscapes like Antarctica, Greenland, and Alaska./vegetarian-in-paris.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vegetarian-in-paris.htmlThe options for vegetarian dining in this city have expanded dramatically in the last decade. Not so long ago, vegetarians in Paris had to content themselves with a plate of cheese or a green salad when dining out. Today, about 1/3 of the restaurants we review have a vegetarian offering for every course. Disclaimer: this is more true at modern restaurants than at traditional French joints. It remains difficult to find much beyond poireaux vinaigrette at a bistro./wap-redux-and-a-cyborg-manifesto.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wap-redux-and-a-cyborg-manifesto.htmlI don’t know how we got back to WAP discourse but here we are. I’m shocked, though, in all of this that no one is pointing out the obvious reference to Donna Haraway’s seminal text for our brave new world, Cyborg Manifesto, in all the chatter about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s Grammy performance. I loved that performance, by the way—camp that is slightly stale is my favorite kind of camp./wavy-perforation-improves-the-toilet.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wavy-perforation-improves-the-toilet.htmlSo, you’re sitting on the toilet, and it’s time for the tissue pull, you know, the attempt to grab a few sheets (four or five are good amounts) of toilet paper and, in one motion, detach it from the remainder of the roll without more paper following your hand away from the designated perforation line. Or, there’s no separation, and you’re now like a child or a dog unrolling the roll for pleasure and fun, not for use./we-have-a-real-logo-now.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-have-a-real-logo-now.htmlWe’ve been going for almost a year and a half with a logo that was designed by Chris, our CEO, in Photoshop in about 20 minutes. It’s not especially sophisticated. It’s an ‘S’ inside a notched circle that kind of looks like a dollar sign. Because Substack helps writers make money. You get it. But now we have a real logo, done by actual designers and informed by more than a passing thought./wku-dalvin-smith-upton-stout-returning-2024.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wku-dalvin-smith-upton-stout-returning-2024.htmlChristmas came early for Western Kentucky fans Friday night, when it was announced that wide receiver Dalvin Smith Jr. and cornerback Upton Stout would be returning to the Hill for the 2024 season. Stout’s announcement came after he had previously entered the transfer portal, while Smith was widely rumored to do so, even if to test the waters. The announcements were a major win not only for Tyson Helton, to continue the good mojo in a week that opened with a miraculous comeback win in the Famous Toastery Bowl, but for WKU’s NIL collective, the Red Towel Trust, who for a second-straight year has been able to ward off a top transfer candidate from a power program./what-did-we-learn-from-lex-fridmans.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-did-we-learn-from-lex-fridmans.htmlI’m grateful to Lex Fridman for kicking off an extended round of discourse about whether you should read books, and the precise situations in which it is cringe or based to do so. Book discourse returning to the zeitgeist is good for two reasons: for one, us readers momentarily become a little more high-status, receiving opportunities to flaunt good taste. It’s also good because, somehow, Regress Studies posts blow up when they’re about people arguing about reading books (for ex, Is It Okay To Finish Books?/what-do-you-say-to-people-who-call.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-do-you-say-to-people-who-call.htmlThis is designed to be a thought-terminating cliche, not an actual argument you can counter. The men you are talking to, as you correctly identified, feel threatened. So they want to shut down the discussion by depicting you as hysterical, out of control, and angry. The argument rests on two ridiculous ideas: that it is always wrong to have any animosity toward men, and that anyone who suggests any man or men should change necessarily hates men./what-i-cook-when-im-too-busy-to-cook.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-i-cook-when-im-too-busy-to-cook.htmlI’m heading to Paris.  I’ve been asked to cook for the inaugural Matter & Shape Design Salon with We Are Ona, a creative culinary studio creating unique dining experiences all over the world. I have been a fan of their work from afar for about a year now and it’s truly a dream to be working with them. Matter and Shape is a project of Journalist Dan Thawley, former editor in chief of A Magazine Curated By./what-is-foreground-and-what-is-background.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-foreground-and-what-is-background.htmlI was reading a book to my kids the other day when a curious thing happened. It was a “word of the day” book that introduced new vocabulary in big, bold letters at the bottom of a page with an illustration opposite showing the word in action. So for instance, the word might be “devour” and on the other page it would show a funny drawing of a bear devouring something./what-is-heaven-like.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-heaven-like.htmlWHAT IS HEAVEN LIKE? And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. (Rev 21:23) An uncle of mine recently passed away (God rest his soul+). It was told to me that in the final days of his life he asked the hospital chaplain the question, “What is heaven like?” Now I have no idea how the chaplain answered that question for him, but it got me thinking, “how would I answer that question?/what-is-socktober.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-socktober.htmlIn 2011, we started a collection drive. It was the result of a nudge from a few middle school students. After learning that a concerning number of our local population were living on the streets or hopping from shelter to shelter, these kids were eager to help. While I appreciated their hearts for wanting to do good, I also felt anxious about the whole thing. This was a big and complex challenge they wanted to address./what-the-taylor-swift-deepfakes-really.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-taylor-swift-deepfakes-really.htmlTaylor Swift has fought record labels for ownership of her own music, won a sexual assault case against DJ who groped her, made political statements against her team’s advice - as well as, you know, the small business of winning 12 Grammys, breaking records with her $1bn grossing Era’s tour and having the most number one albums by a woman … ncG1vNJzZmibnJa2s7HCqJ%2Bepl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6wn5qsXam1pnnTmrClp6JiwLi1xa1knZ2VpbOit8SsZKudkaG5ug%3D%3D/what-to-watch-genies-and-geniuses.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-watch-genies-and-geniuses.htmlHere’s something interesting: Two of the most unique and strangely satisfying movies of the year to date have both involved a beloved actress of a certain age in a hotel room with a hot co-star talking about love and sex and the whole damn thing. The first was – is – “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” with Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack; it’s available exclusively on Hulu and is a fine old thoughtful and randy time./what-were-the-2000s.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-were-the-2000s.htmlChuck Klosterman has a new book out about the 1990s. Here he is in conversation with New York magazine's David Wallace-Wells: DWW: The editor Gavin Jacobson has called the ’90s an“age without qualities,” which I think describes a pretty common feeling about the decade — that it’s just kind of floating there in our memory, a bit undefined. What’s interesting about it to you? CK: It feels as though the 1990s weren’t just the last decade of the 20th century but sort of the last decade, period — the last decade with a fully formed and recognizable culture of its own./whats-up-with-women-and-true-crime-8a9.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-up-with-women-and-true-crime-8a9.htmlMany of the people who consume Peak Notions most (thank you for that!) are not paid subscribers. If my work adds value to your life, I’d love if those who can afford it would consider a paid subscription. It allows me to keep writing and ensures continued free access to the weekly column for those who aren’t in a position to pay at the moment. *This colu… ncG1vNJzZmikm5q7r7HDsmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy4tMCtqmatoGLEqsDHZq6opZWjeqK6w2arq62VYrCztcyeZHGZaQ%3D%3D/when-bill-walton-put-crawdaddy-on.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-bill-walton-put-crawdaddy-on.htmlGreg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books (see link) and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” which are still up at PBS.org. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free. Just decided to post a little something after the Monday afternoon holiday shocker, the death of basketball (and much else) legend Bill Walton, at 71, from cancer./where-are-the-protectors.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-are-the-protectors.htmlIf you’ve ever searched for a Father’s Day gift, you’ve likely come across t-shirts or mugs with a very specific kind of slogan splashed across them:  Princess Protection Agency I have a daughter. I also have a gun, a shovel, and an alibi. Husband, Daddy, Protector, Hero In the two years since Roe’s demise, I’ve thought often about the men who wear these kinds of t-shirts—the fathers who joke about beating up their daughter’s dates, the husbands who declare they’d never let anyone disrespect their wives./where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads.htmlPlease tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to ensure the safety of the Little Rock Nine, first African Americans to enroll at Arkansas’s famed Central High School. The school was desegregated, with violence avoided. But city fathers weren’t amused. They began work on an urban highway that would bisect Little Rock along its west-east axis, with the mainly black neighborhoods of the south side physically separated from affluent mainly white neighborhoods – and the state capitol building – to the north./why-did-new-york-public-radio-hire.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-new-york-public-radio-hire.htmlToday’s story, which is the first part in a series I’m working on about WNYC, asks a simple question: why did New York Radio hire Andrew Golis to be its (extremely well-paid) Chief Content Officer? It also explains what piqued my interest in writing about the station in the first place. Before we get started, I’ve got a real-time update, related to my reporting: in less than a month, four reporters have quit the WNYC newsroom, at least one of them citing mental health reasons./why-do-quality-stocks-outperform.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-quality-stocks-outperform.htmlQuality growth companies are in fact long-term value stocks. They've outpaced our expectations, allowing us to earn returns way above our hurdle rate. The trick is to keep compounding your cash flow, NOPAT... through good times and bad. Steadiness over volatility. Financial prudence over irresponsible leverage. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Become a premium member Why do quality stocks outperform over the long run? The below graph is pretty clear, although recent years could question the conclusions drawn from it: does high-quality always outperform lower-quality?/why-liquor-from-the-abc-store-costs.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-liquor-from-the-abc-store-costs.htmlFresh and real Charlotte business news that makes you smarter. Delivered to your inbox for free three days a week. Need to subscribe? Sign up here. Good morning! Today is Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Here are today’s big stories in Charlotte-area business news: North Carolina retailers are pushing the General Assembly to overhaul the way the state distributes liquor. It’s a contentious debate that could have big effects on public health, state and local tax revenues and businesses — not to mention on the price of that bottle of Captain Morgan./issue-5-will-tech-make-nigeria-a.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-5-will-tech-make-nigeria-a.htmlIf you missed the last issue, you can catch up here. “Tech is the new oil“ is now a cliche in Nigeria. In this issue, we asked the mafia: If tech can really make Nigeria a prosperous Nation Here’s what the mafia had to say 👇 Freelance tech, finance and energy analyst. The tech sector also known as the ICT sector is one of the four most prominent sectors of the Nigerian economy./best-bets-wisconsin-football-vs-rutgers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-bets-wisconsin-football-vs-rutgers.htmlFor the first time in over a month, Wisconsin Badgers football went a weekend without making me lose my fucking mind.  Shout-out bye weeks.  After a rough three weeks of gambling to start the season, I finally found some success in the Badgers' last game against Purdue. I have no doubt I will carry that momentum into the Waste Management Bowl as Wisconsin takes on Rutgers on Saturday.  Now, you might think the bye week could hurt my gambling brain, but you'd be mistaken./wonderful-word-origins-1.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wonderful-word-origins-1.htmlLike most classicists, I’m fascinated by word origins and etymologies. Recently I was asked where the word ‘cello’ originates. As usual, the answer takes us down a maze of discoveries about words. ‘Cello’ is short for the Italian ‘violoncello’ (it used to be written ’cello to show that it was an abbreviation). It doesn’t mean ‘cell’ or ‘box’ — which is what I imagined when I started playing the cello aged 10./yes-100-gecs-are-ska.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-100-gecs-are-ska.htmlThis past Christmas, anarchic pop duo 100 gecs have joined the chorus of musicians who wanted to celebrate the holidays with their own Christmas tune for 2020, “Sympathy 4 the Grinch.” The song takes an anti-Santa stance, an approach much less important than its pro-ska vibe. There’s even a “pick it up,” right at the front of the song. But its blend of recognizable skank guitar, uptempo electronic beat, demented melodies, and auto-tuned vocals make it an odd take on the genre./yes-emma-thompson-is-nude.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-emma-thompson-is-nude.htmlWhen I started writing this newsletter, the idea was that it would cover all kinds of topics. For example, I enjoyed writing movie reviews for Datebook and thought I’d do some of them. After all, I figured, if hardly anyone is reading, who cares? But people did start reading. And I did care. And I ended up doing a lot of local politics because they were hot issues. But now, I’d like to reclaim some of that original territory./yicks-inn.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yicks-inn.htmlNext time you visit the Department of Motor Vehicles on Teutonia Avenue, I suggest that afterwards you celebrate the rare sweetness of bureaucratic liberation by going two doors north to YICK INN.  You might miss it as, from a cosmetic standpoint, it is the most unprepossessing looking of restaurants.  Who could be captivated by it?  If one is prone to over-thinking, the idea might occur that its complete plainness is a celebration of a paradox./yo-como-manzanas-and-my-quest-to.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yo-como-manzanas-and-my-quest-to.htmlDisclaimer: I am not being paid for this article by Duolingo, however maybe I should be. I’ve always been jealous of people who can speak multiple languages; this comes in conflict with my eternal fault: I’m lazy. I could go on and on about my type and level of laziness, but eh, I don’t feel like doing that right now. The point is: I’ve always wanted to learn Spanish, but have never been able to commit the time to do so./arthurkwonlee.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arthurkwonlee.html𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐊𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐞 By 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐊𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐢 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK%2B06Gsq6OnpLutscQ%3D/reviews-spermworld-on-the-adamant.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reviews-spermworld-on-the-adamant.htmlThis week’s reviews newsletter spotlights two documentaries that show the humanity in unconventional practices and personalities: Spermworld and On the Adamant. One of them hits theaters this weekend while the other premieres on cable and then is quickly available to stream at home. Around 15 years ago, documentaries were headed in a con… ncG1vNJzZmimn6Ozqq%2FSZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZL%2Bmwsierqxlo6Wys7nWqKmlnF2ku27Ax55kmpyRoq6vwA%3D%3D/windy-day-is-immortal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/windy-day-is-immortal.htmlLate last year, the comic strip Doonesbury did something unexpected. Author Garry Trudeau dedicated a whole Sunday edition to hyping up, and linking, an animated film. “This Oscar-nominated gem has been delighting kids of all ages for years,” he wrote. The film was Windy Day (1968) by Faith and John Hubley. We’ve written a lot about the Hubleys. From their first collaboration in the mid-1950s, this husband-and-wife indie team broke rules — and ground./bonus-episode-vanderpump-rules-recap-59a.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bonus-episode-vanderpump-rules-recap-59a.htmlIt is the FINAL episode of season 11 of Vanderpyoomp with Janie & Paul going into their REACTIONS and FEELINGS on this season of reality TV. It has been a RIDE y’all. And I don’t know what THIS means. But we went to the mall right after we recorded this very bonus podcast episode of STAY F.… ncG1vNJzZmivlZq4prrDsJitnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omaimpah6przIrKadnV2rrq%2BwxKunrqWgYr%2B2uMSsZKudk5a9boGYmg%3D%3D/500-miles-away-from-home.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/500-miles-away-from-home.htmlSixty years ago this summer, Ironton, Ohio, native son Bobby Bare started work on his debut album for RCA Victor. The LP’s title track — “500 Miles Away from Home” — would turn out to be one of the best-selling singles in the 88-year-old Bare’s long career. Composition of the song is generally credited to folksinger Hedy West, who is said to have put it together from fragments of a melody she heard her uncle sing to her back in her native Georgia./richardhanania.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richardhanania.htmlI’ve been thinking about Twitter, its strengths and weaknesses, and why something like Notes might be necessary. I explain here why there is potential for Notes to recreate some of the best of Twitter while avoiding the overwhelming negativity and plain stupidity that dominates that site. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbO1wqGYq5yYlruiusiaZqenpJp8pHmQbW1ta2Rofg%3D%3D/sds9-s4e10.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sds9-s4e10.htmlThis episode was recorded on May 20, 2024. Sam and Scott discuss "Our Man Bashir," in which Bashir plays a 1960s secret agent in a holosuite game accompanied by his friend Garak. After a transporter accident, the data of several crew members are temporarily stored as characters in the holosuite, and Bashir and Garak must prevent any of them from dying in the game, or else they will be lost to the real world./the-big-chill-at-43.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-chill-at-43.htmlWhen I was a kid, I was obsessed with the ‘60s. In sixth grade, a teacher asked us all, if we could go any place and time in history, where would it be? I answered immediately, “Woodstock.” I idealized the era because that’s where my parents came from. I spent hours on the floor as a child going through my mother’s records: Phil Ochs, Carole King, Bob Dylan. I remember how mystified I was by The Beatles’ White Album./330-ketamine-adult-friendships-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/330-ketamine-adult-friendships-and.htmlThis damn fine podcast is with a man who has worked as a producer, writer, van builder, winemaker, experiential designer, and restaurant owner. His name is Jordan Chiu and he is one of the most erudite souls I know. In 2018, Jordan built out a van, put his stuff in storage, and drove from California to Argentina. He came back with a lifetime’s worth of lessons, memories, and an incredible partner, who he then tragically lost to suicide after she lost her battle with depression./36-rasputin.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/36-rasputin.htmlHello folks, First of all, Happy Halloween! 👻 Today I have the creepy and troubling tale of Grigori Rasputin, mystic, accused lover of the Russian queen, sexual deviant, and all-around bad guy. Hey everyone, welcome to Unruly Figures, the podcast that celebrates history’s greatest rule-breakers. I’m your host, Valorie Clark, and today I’m covering Rasputin. 🎶Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia’s greatest love machine…🎵 That’s the one. He’s remembered as the villain in Russia’s history./kal-penn-actor.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kal-penn-actor.htmlWelcome back trailblazers! I’m Simi Shah, and every other week, I dive deep into the journey of a trailblazing South Asian leader. Remember to find us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Apple, and Spotify! To kick off Season 5 🥳, I catch up with Kal Penn, Actor, Author, and former White House Staffer. Listen Now Kal jumpstarted his acting career in the early 2000s with performances in The Namesake and Harold & Kumar franchise./48-a-list-of-residencies-for-ceramic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/48-a-list-of-residencies-for-ceramic.htmlHello! Welcome to the 48th edition of Ceramics Now Weekly. This is Vasi Hirdo, the founding editor of Ceramics Now. I hope you are doing well today 👋 Before we begin, I have an update: we passed our goal! So far, 61 subscribers have chosen to become paid members of Ceramics Now Weekly this month. I want to give the biggest thank you to all those who subscribed! Let’s see what's new./67-passageway-books.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/67-passageway-books.htmlThe shop: Passageway Books Chelsea, Manhattan: 150 9th Ave Books are passageways to lands real and imagined, to the rich internal lives of writers and their characters. All that said, I think this bookstore’s name refers to the narrowness of the store itself! Passageway books doesn’t have a massive selection on display, but each book is interesting and cool. The prices vary, but there’s plenty of stuff in the affordable $10-15 range for my fellow cheapos./10-games-like-clue.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-games-like-clue.htmlI don’t want to come into this as trying to replace a classic game like Clue, but I do think there’s a lot to love about other games, and I’d love to show you around a little bit. What’s Clue all about, anyway? It’s a few things, for me. It’s a game that forces you to use deductive reasoning, but it’s also a game about moving around a map, and it’s also a game about solving a mystery./1983-vs-2023.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1983-vs-2023.htmlHello! My name is Ben Sprague and each week I write this weekly newsletter on topics related to real estate and the economy. Subscribe below (if you have not already) to get my articles in your inbox each Sunday morning. Thanks for being here. Last week, I wrote about the challenges faced by homebuyers in the current housing market, calling them unprecedented. Whenever I use language like that, I get a smattering of good-natured grumbling from readers who were first-time homebuyers in the late 1970s and early 1980s who like to point out that interest rates were much higher back then, which is true./1998s-a-night-at-the-roxbury-was.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1998s-a-night-at-the-roxbury-was.htmlOne thing that I do not miss about my old life as the head writer for The A.V. Club was the stomach-churning anxiety I used to experience just before doing an interview. This was particularly pronounced if the interview was in person.  And, on the very rare instance that I found myself doing an in-person interview with someone who was promoting a movie or book or album that I deeply loathed it could be excruciatingly awkward./2022-ufc-fighter-salaries-complete.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2022-ufc-fighter-salaries-complete.htmlMoney MMA is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. (photo by MMMAnytt) Was 2022 a good year financially to be a fighter? If you’re Israel Adesanya, then yes, it was a very good year.  On the other hand, if you happen to be Zhu Rong, you might want to consider keeping your day… ncG1vNJzZmiln6OyurnMmmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXxzfJFrZK6ek2KzqrPHrZyrZaOWuaK%2ByJ6qZpufor2tsdOe/2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-0ef.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-0ef.htmlEarlier this week, I ranked the top point guards set to hit the open market this summer. Today, I break down the (relatively weak) group of shooting guards expected to enter free agency. 1. Malik Monk / Sacramento Kings / Unrestricted: Monk made himself a ton of money this past season, as he finished second in the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year voting after … ncG1vNJzZmisn6K6uq7Enqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfo9ra2amkpZ6p77EnmSan5WjwW6%2BwKeioqaXqHq1u89mZ56e/microcenturies-methuselahs-and-musks.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/microcenturies-methuselahs-and-musks.htmlYou’re reading The Long-termist’s Field Guide, a newsletter about long-term thinking. This month’s edition is about units of time that you may not have heard of - from Methuselahs to Musks. Around a decade ago, when I was a feature editor at New Scientist, I worked on a special issue called The Deep Future: A Guide to Humanity’s Next 100,000 Years. As part of that, I spent an afternoon with paper, pen and a calculator to calculate an infographic that spread across ~10-12 pages./a-taon-mission-guide-in-13-prompts.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-taon-mission-guide-in-13-prompts.htmlSome time ago, musing on the appeal of the “every single X” mission — examples: crossing every single bridge in Venice, visiting every single dog run in New York, using every single subway stop in Toronto, etc. — I landed on the idea of visiting every public library in New Orleans. I didn’t start immediately because I was busy with bill-paying projects, and because I’m lazy. Also, while I like libraries, what I really wanted to do was visit different parts of town, with the library serving as my exploratory MacGuffin./a-creative-heart-to-heart-with-my.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-creative-heart-to-heart-with-my.htmlI originally shared this with paid subscribers, but due to popular demand, I’m re-releasing this conversation so that everyone can listen. Hi friend, Recently, I sat down with Jon Batiste, my beloved husband—and the Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist—to make something very special for you. Crosslegged on the floor of his studio, equipped with a couple of microphones and some powerful questions from this community, we dove in. As we talked, we did what we aspire to do when journaling—we showed up as our most unedited, unvarnished selves./a-deep-dive-on-the-houston-oilers.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-on-the-houston-oilers.htmlBefore we get a started, a quick note: Regular readers of my Substack may notice something new this week: Hyperlinked text, which had previously been black, like the rest of the text, is now green, to match the Uni Watch color scheme. I’d been requesting this change for ages, and for some reason it was surprisingly difficult to get done, but it was worth the wait! Big thanks to Substack engineer Ben Cohen for making it happen./a-guide-to-toronto-according-to-p1harmonys.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-toronto-according-to-p1harmonys.html(FNC Entertainment) Like Australia and the United States, there is a surprising number of Canadians who end up in the Korean entertainment scene. Kevin and Jacob from The Boyz, Henry Lau, Somi, Tablo from Epik High, Wendy from Red Velvet and Mark Lee from NCT are just some of them! So imagine my excitement when I discovered yet another Canadian K-pop idol fairly recently. Keeho from P1Harmony grew up in Markham, not far from my native Scarborough./a-look-at-some-of-the-most-troubling.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-look-at-some-of-the-most-troubling.htmlThe University of Colorado released the report from the internal investigation of its cross country and track & field programs last week. The full 82-page report has been made public, thanks to reporting from Runner’s World’s Cindy Kuzma, and she summarized the findings here. (I recommend reading that article, along with her earlier pieces on the topic, for all the background and details.) This is a continuation of this week’s Fast Women newsletter, in which I shared eight takeaways from the report./a-magnolia-map.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-magnolia-map.htmlIn my garden is a magnolia tree, starburst-pink against the March sky. Buried in book edits, and working extra shifts at the bookshop, for weeks I have been a creature of pencils and pages but this morning, stepping out to feed my hen I looked up and there—as much of a surprise as the first day I saw it—was a towering cascade of flowers, almost as high … ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2ForzArJ%2BbsV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6aZKaZl6O8rbXAZqSaqA%3D%3D/a-meeting-with-master-yamamoto.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-meeting-with-master-yamamoto.html► This week’s Ramen Beast newsletter takes you inside one of Tokyo’s most acclaimed ramen kitchens… Atsushi Yamamoto is one of Japan's most ambitious ramen chefs. He is one of only two Japanese ramen masters currently in possession of a Michelin star and he has spent the past several years tirelessly promoting ramen culture globally by launching over a dozen shops around the world. Yamamoto-san did his ramen training at the old school ramen mecca Eifukucho Taishoken, before going solo in 2006 by founding Soba House Konjiki Hototogisu, a tiny, eight-seat shop on a narrow back alley of Tokyo's Hatagaya neighborhood./a-perfect-day-in-the-6th-arrondissement.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-perfect-day-in-the-6th-arrondissement.htmlAs compared to other European capitals like London or Rome, Paris is actually relatively well-contained and pretty walkable. And while the streets definitely don't run in straight lines (much to the horror of this native New Yorker), it’s relatively easy to see where you're going thanks to the system of arrondissements or districts, numbered 1 to 20, which spiral out in a snail shell shape from the first in the center to the 20th in the northeast./a-pirate-looks-at-59.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-pirate-looks-at-59.htmlHere’s the headline reference, in case you’re not fluent in Buffett: My pirate credentials are pretty thin. The mascot of my high school was a pirate; our yearbook was called the Cutlass. High school was also a time when I drank lots of rum, purchased from a liquor store in my hometown that did not trouble itself with minor details such as IDs. We’d pull up to the drive-thru window (of course liquor stores in Georgia have drive-thru windows) and hand the cashier $14 in wadded-up bills and say “Give us this much alcohol./a-spending-cap-in-the-premier-league.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-spending-cap-in-the-premier-league.htmlPremier League clubs have agreed to continue discussions about introducing a hard spending cap for the first time ever, starting from the 2025/26 season. Under this proposal, clubs' spending on wages, transfers and agent fees would be limited to a multiple of the the amount earned by the Premier League’s bottom club in terms of the central TV distribution. There was a lot of support for this concept, as 16 clubs were in favour of further exploring such a system with only three clubs voting against (Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa) and one abstaining (Chelsea)./aachar-and-co-review.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aachar-and-co-review.htmlAachar & Co is a small-budget feel-good movie set in Bangalore in the 1960s. From the trailer, it seemed like the coming-of-age story of a girl and her family of 10 siblings. It promised fun and nostalgia, especially for those of us who grew up in families like this, and I knew I’d watch it just for the aesthetics and nostalgia if nothing else. I spent a large part of my childhood in the Bangalore neighborhood of Jayanagar./about-those-taylor-swift-deepfakes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/about-those-taylor-swift-deepfakes.htmlKeep scrolling for the latest BookTok controversy (that you might actually want to miss, tbh). This week’s edition of infinite scroll is brought to you by Coach Love, the new fruity, floral fragrance from Coach. To celebrate love in all its forms, Coach is hosting a consumer event in Sydney, where our readers can explore the fragrance, get their tarot cards read, and enjoy delicious canapes. Click here to learn more and reserve your spot (there are only 25!/ajax-finances-202223.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ajax-finances-202223.htmlIt’s fair to say that this has been an awful season so far for Ajax, as they are currently languishing in 15th place in the Eredivisie, just above the relegation zone. Their displays on the pitch have been bad enough, but the bad mood around the club was reinforced when their fans forced a recent match against Feyenoord to be abandoned, with their team already 3-0 down to their rivals, followed by riots around the stadium./breaking-alleva-dairy-billed-as-americas.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-alleva-dairy-billed-as-americas.htmlAt 6 p.m. tonight, March 1, 2023, Alleva Dairy in Manhattan’s Little Italy closed after 130 years. Crippled by the pandemic and over a half million dollars behind in rent, Alleva sparred with its landlord while appealing to the public and media in a bid to stay open. The cheese shop, famed for its mozzarella and fresh ricotta, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the fall, and a vigorous last-ditch effort to stay in business at the corner of Mulberry and Grand streets failed./am-i-the-worst-contestant-in-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/am-i-the-worst-contestant-in-the.html[if you’d rather watch a video than read these words (if you’re even interested in silly tv like this, I made a youtube video, which you can watch here. I tried to make the words here and on youtube cohesive and short but failed, kind of rambling (see mark twain quote below)] If you were one of the people that watched the episode that I was on, you’ll know that it was a bit dramatic./an-excerpt-from-blessed-are-the-rest.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-excerpt-from-blessed-are-the-rest.htmlAn excerpt from Blessed Are The Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole. APRIL 2019 SAN FRANCISCO I walk the length of Grace Cathedral holding a candle and wearing a white acolyte robe, hardly the religious garb of my adult churchgoing life. I pass by the faces of fellow conference-goers. This weekend I taught a small seminar on the spirituality of rest, and now I find myself leading this processional with the other speakers trailing along./and-a-very-happy-ben-affleck-abs.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-a-very-happy-ben-affleck-abs.htmlMany people celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday; Bennifer celebrated Ben Affleck’s Abs Day. Jennifer Lopez rang in the day with a four post carousel, led, of course, by a thirst trap: “Daddy Appreciation Post,” she captioned. “Happy Father’s Day Papa.” The only correct way to talk about this is slide by slide: Exhibit A: Devoted Hung Up readers will recall that there are two ways to be a Leo: the J./upcoming-live-shows.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/upcoming-live-shows.htmlSweet Community, When I first started touring rock clubs as a spoken poet in 2003, the venues were completely confused. ”You mean you’re just gonna stand there and talk?” the grumpy bearded sound guy would ask. “Yep.” “You don’t play a single instrument?” “Nope.” “And you don’t sing either?” “No.” “Um… OK,” he’d say, in a tone suggesting he was preparing for the worst night of his professional career./animation-at-its-most-pretentious.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/animation-at-its-most-pretentious.htmlWelcome back! We’re here with more from the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is what we’re doing today: 1 — the Oscar-winning film The Critic (1963). 2 — animation news items worldwide. 3 — retro ads by Studio Ghibli. New here? We publish every Sunday and Thursday. It’s free to sign up for our Sunday issues — get them in your inbox every weekend: With that out of the way, here we go!/arbitrageandy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arbitrageandy.htmlARB Letter By Arbitrage Andy Join 25,000+ others seeking the truth in a new age of deceit. Arb Letter brings you the truth on what's happening in the world covering geopolitics, financial markets, crypto, and life. ARB Letter is read across 50 US states and 165 countries. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK%2BwaKrq5mXmq6vsNg%3D/are-we-all-getting-a-tiktok-accent.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-we-all-getting-a-tiktok-accent.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Can someone reanimate me in 100 years and let me know if I was right? —Kate Last week, creator Declan Shinnick reposted a video of popular UK TikTokker Madeline Argy. In it, he calls out how her once-prominent English accent has started sounding more American and theorizes that it’s a conscious effort to boost the engagement of her videos./argyll-robertson-pupil-syndrome.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/argyll-robertson-pupil-syndrome.htmlYou are asked by your Professor to examine the pupils of an interesting 64-year old male patient on the ward. All you are told is that he is demented, deaf, unsteady on his feet with absent tendon reflexes. You find that his pupils are small and do not constrict to bright light but constrict with convergence, i.e. when looking at an object held close to his nose. What is the syndrome that describes the pupillary response to light?/as-roma-finances-202223.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/as-roma-finances-202223.htmlThe announcement that Roma had sacked José Mourinho might have come as a surprise to some, given that the experienced Portuguese manager had led the club to two European finals and still retained the support of much of the fan base, but the decision was understandable from a financial perspective. The fact that this was a business assessment becomes more evident once the club’s 2022/23 accounts are analysed. These cover a season when Roma finished 6th in Serie A for the second year in a row, which meant that they once again failed to qualify for the money-spinning Champions League./ask-jeanna-on-romantic-compatibility.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-jeanna-on-romantic-compatibility.htmlI've been studying astrology since my teens, but it has taken me until my fifties to appreciate the extent to which the attention I've paid to synastry was a self-protection mechanism and an exercise in ego. That old saying about either wanting to be right or loving (or some shit like that. I don't remember exactly.) is super annoying, but also true. But I would replace the second option with curious./attacking-with-the-post-wheel.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/attacking-with-the-post-wheel.htmlOne of the best route concepts in football is the post-wheel. It can be run against a multitude of coverages (man and zone), and there are so many different ways to dress it up, keeping the defense off the scent. Below, I’m going to take you through some of the best ways NFL offenses have done so in recent years. First, the purpose of the concept is to hit the wheel route./review-audemars-piguet-royal-oak.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-audemars-piguet-royal-oak.htmlCollecting watches can be a thrilling hobby, with the need to make quick decisions based on limited information, or the requirement to exercise patience for extended periods with no guarantee of success. It's a hobby that tests one's patience, persistence, and true passion. Here is the story of my four-year pursuit of the foundational piece in the iconic Audemars Piguet (AP) Royal Oak family. After searching my email archive, I confirmed that I started bombarding AP boutiques with inquiries in February 2019./bad-therapy-review-fifties-dad-mental.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bad-therapy-review-fifties-dad-mental.htmlI. Abigail Shrier is an author best known for her book Irreversible Damage, which argues that teenagers believe they have gender dysphoria due to peer influence and aren’t actually transgender. She recently published a book, Bad Therapy, about how the current culture around mental health is making teenagers more depressed. I agreed with much of the content in Bad Therapy, which made this a remarkable reading experience. I watched my opinions being filtered through someone who’s both stupid and evil./barbie-is-a-drag-queen.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbie-is-a-drag-queen.htmlI have spent an inordinate amount of time this week thinking about the Barbie movie trying to figure out what was wrong with it since it was such a hit, and the only critiques I found said it was “muddled” which I agreed with, I needed to know what the hell was the problem.  Why did the medium clash with the message? Don’t get me wrong—I enjoyed the hell out of it./baseballs-dominican-republic-all.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baseballs-dominican-republic-all.htmlIssue #31 On Friday Albert Pujols hit his 699th and 700th career homeruns, making him only the fourth player to ever reach that milestone (Ruth, Aaron, Bonds). At age 42 and in his 22nd season in the big leagues, Prince Albert is feasting on left-handers at an impressive .354/.403/.752 clip with 13 HR in only 113 at-bats. (While only batting .208 against RHP, he does have 8 HR against them.)/becoming-small-in-the-lives-of-your.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/becoming-small-in-the-lives-of-your.htmlMy good friend, Jane Ann Smith, who also has six children and is about 10 years ahead of me in life’s journey, has given me lots of good advice over the years. As I began my empty nest years, I continued to watch her, ask questions and learn from her. A few years later when Susan Yates and I were writing our empty nest book, I e-mailed Jane Ann for her thoughts on what she was learning in the empty nest./episode-2075-bethanne-patricks-six.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-2075-bethanne-patricks-six.htmlMay might be almost finished, but you’ve still got time this Memorial weekend to begin reading one of Bethanne Patrick’s recommended new books. And this month, Patrick’s list is really scintillating - extending from fresh fiction by Claire Messud, Kaliane Bradley and Colm Toibin to new non-fictional books by George Stephanopoulos, Nina St. Pierre and Alan M. Taylor. So no excuses. Watch/listen to Patrick - the best read person in the world - and then beg, buy or steal one of her recommended new books./beware-the-work-of-dr-bob-schuchts.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beware-the-work-of-dr-bob-schuchts.htmlOver the last year, I’ve been exploring the work of Dr. Bob Schuchts and the John Paul II Healing Center. As dioceses continue to hire them (as well as Sr. Miriam Heidland who works collaboratively with them) to teach on healing, sexuality, and gender, it’s important to critically examine their work. Rather than presenting perspectives grounded in professional psychology and Catholic theology, they tend to offer teachings rooted in the protestant prayer healing movement and outdated (or simply inaccurate) psychological claims./blink-182-one-more-time.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blink-182-one-more-time.htmlby Josiah Hughes and Sam Sutherland Jos: In July of 2017, we released our first episode of Blink-155. If you’re reading this newsletter, you are likely aware of it, but if not, what followed was over a half-decade of inscrutable and self-indulgent meta commentary/comedy about culture thinly veiled as noughties nostalgia music criticism and/or unnecessarily comprehensive pop podcasting.  The show was, obviously, a definitive work for ourselves, but it couldn’t have existed the way it did without the all-encompassing black hole that was blink-182 at the time./bluon-did-a-crowd-fundraise.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bluon-did-a-crowd-fundraise.htmlIn the landscape of distributor tech investments, few stories capture the essence of the investment thesis like that of Bluon. What began as an R&D venture in 2011 has now emerged as a force in the HVAC industry initially as a B2B SaaS tool for HVAC technicians …. and now, as the leading B2B HVAC Marketplace. This week we take an investment level deep dive into Bluon’s $7mm crowdsourced fundraise on a pre-money valuation of $107mm and how they’ve been able to bridge the gap between HVAC distributors and technicians./board-game-weekend.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/board-game-weekend.htmlI don’t only assemble my friends when I need to rescue an uncooperative animal. Sometimes, we get together for games. Okay, we actually have game nights all the time. I round up between four and six humans who can tolerate my presence for a few hours in a row and force them to play make-believe with me over little bits of cardboard. This weekend was different. It wasn’t just a time to move around some meeples./box-office-a-closer-look-at-the-chosen.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/box-office-a-closer-look-at-the-chosen.htmlThe final box-office figures are in, and The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 1-3 came in slightly under the Sunday-morning estimates, earning $5.9 million for the three-day weekend and $7.4 million since opening on Thursday. So, is the latest big-screen release from The Chosen a hit? Well, it’s complicated. To recap: The makers of The Chosen have been experimenting with theatrical releases for just over two years now. First, they put a Christmas special with a brand-new bonus episode on the big screen in 2021./brad-pitt-ines-de-ramon-girlfriend-married.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brad-pitt-ines-de-ramon-girlfriend-married.htmlI guess I don’t understand the discourse on the Divorce Story because I clearly see that she was mentally ill/having a breakdown that led her to think she needed a divorce when she didn’t. Instead, read the article in The Cut about the woman who calls herself a cheapskate yet spends thousands of dollars on couples therapy to keep her marriage going and resents it. Oh, and the one about the financial advice columnist who got scammed out of $50,000./breakfast-with-matt-palumb.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breakfast-with-matt-palumb.htmlLike Tom Hanks once told me, “Don’t be a name-dropper.” (rim shot) OK, OK, I get it. Yes, my title might sound a little smug or even uppity, but it’s not everyday I get to sit down and talk lacrosse with Matty P. You all know Matt. He was SU’s goalie while Paul and Gary Gait were lighting up opponents between 1987-1990 – you know, the goalie who wore football pants./breaking-down-the-phoenix-suns-spain.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-down-the-phoenix-suns-spain.htmlI have been obsessed with Monty Williams’ playbook since he took over the Suns last season, with complex tricky actions combined with an incredible ability to own the play after the initial play breaks down - the “Play after the Play” (shoutout Cody Toppert!) Although the Suns run the most Horns sets out of any team in the NBA, their most effective action this postseason has been their “Spain Pick & Roll” & the multiple variations to disguise it./browsing-the-aisles-or-browsing-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/browsing-the-aisles-or-browsing-the.htmlThis is a fabulous research paper that explores the evolving shares of online/offline retail by analysing one of the sectors that saw the most profound shifts:  groceries.  Browsing the Aisles or Browsing the App? The paper and analysis is US cent… ncG1vNJzZmismJq7psHRqJuirpWntKa6056aqKafora0wI2srJurpJawrHrCqKRoqF%2BXv7DD0qKloGWknbJurciso56rXaS%2Fbq7RqK6soZ6cerW0xA%3D%3D/caer-bien-gustar-or-llevarse-when.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/caer-bien-gustar-or-llevarse-when.htmlWhen "Caer Bien" is used in relation to people, it generally means to have a good first impression of someone or to find someone pleasant or likable, typically upon first meeting them. When "Gustar" is used with people, it typically means to have romantic feelings or a physical attraction to someone rather than just finding them pleasant or likable. ncG1vNJzZmiroJqurL%2FPmqWiq5hjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89ompqdomKvqrHNZp6uq6SWv2670WajpZ2mlr%2B0sYywn56m/captain-ron-is-real-he-was-florida.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/captain-ron-is-real-he-was-florida.htmlCruising World magazine took a lot of shit lately for having named “All Is Lost” as one of the best sailing movies of all time. To its credit, “Captain Ron” also made the top-ten list. ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6cmKmskZ67br7Op2Siq12nsqK4jKGcZq%2BRqHqnuM6roJ2Z/carthago-delenda-est.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carthago-delenda-est.htmlDo you know who Cato the Elder is? No? Well OK quick history lesson: Rome used to have an enemy south of them on the mediterranean: Carthage. It was a pretty decent place, and they didn’t trifle with any Roman hoo-ha though - so much so that they got into multiple wars with their northern neighbor. Three, in fact. We call these “The Punic Wars”. The third one ended with Rome going total overkill; they razed the city and sold any and all survivors into slavery./casey-kasem-steely-dan-crap-from-the-past.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/casey-kasem-steely-dan-crap-from-the-past.htmlA few days after Walter Becker’s death in September 2017, the Minneapolis radio host Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber mourned as only he could. He got behind a microphone on a Friday night at community-run KFAI-FM and dedicated an episode of his long-running weekly program to Steely Dan. “Everything I play tonight,” he told the listeners of Crap From The Past, “would not have been possible without Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.” /champagne-wishes-and-caviar-dreams.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/champagne-wishes-and-caviar-dreams.htmlHey paid subscribers, Robin Leach used to end every episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with the sign-off: “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.” Well, last night I cooked dinner for the rich and famous — a few celebrity friends who found me via Instagram and who, somehow, enjoy coming to my humble little apartment to eat homemade food — and one … ncG1vNJzZmiZnZbBpsHRoKauqp2awW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ibmJa6sa3Gp5xmr5motaa%2FjJqlnWWTlsOqrdFmm6udkaLA/charles-brandon.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charles-brandon.htmlCharles Brandon (1484 – ), one of the greatest noblemen in England and brother-in-law to the king through his wife Mary Tudor, Henry’s sister. A blundering hearty, a big man with a big beard. Six of seven years older than Henry, you are one of the tiltyard stars he looks up to when he is a young lad just taking up dangerous sports. Your relationship with him is warm and brotherly./chelsea-vs-middlesbrough-tactical.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chelsea-vs-middlesbrough-tactical.htmlChelsea lined up in a very attacking 4-2-3-1 formation with Chilwell back at LB (interesting role). Sterling and Mudryk were on the wings, and Palmer started centrally. Meanwhile, Middlesborough lined up in their usual 3-4-3 as they played in the last game against us where they produced a staunch defensive performance. Middlesbrough obviously came to frustrate Chelsea by playing in a tight low block and the onus was on Chelsea to at least score 2 goals to get to the final./chew-boom-bids-farewell-after-9-memorable.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chew-boom-bids-farewell-after-9-memorable.htmlDear Chew Boom Family, It is with a mix of pride and bittersweet emotion that I announce the conclusion of Chew Boom’s journey. After 9 incredible years of bringing you the latest and greatest in fast food and snack news, I have decided to close the doors. This decision was not made lightly, but I believe it’s the right time to bring this chapter to a close. From its humble beginnings, Chew Boom aimed to be more than just a foodie news outlet./chewing-barbies-feet.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chewing-barbies-feet.htmlFull disclosure: I have not seen Barbie. Not yet. But on Sunday, a friend shared photos of her opening night Barbie party. One—of a product with the “do you guys ever think about dying?” tagline—caught my eye. I broke down and watched the trailer. Obviously, having just written a book about death, I was reeled in.  What interested me most was the plot point about Barbie’s feet. It’s clear even from the trailer that as she becomes conscious of mortality, her bizarre signature arched feet go (to the disgust of her friends) flat./chickens-chickens-everywhere.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chickens-chickens-everywhere.htmlSoon after visitors to Kauai drive away from the airport and head to their lodgings, they’ll see chickens—roosters, hens, and adorable baby chicks--on roadsides, crossing city streets, in parking lots, and in open fields. In short, everywhere. I love these wild chickens. The multi-colored flamboyant roosters strutting around like masters of their domain; the usually brownish-blackish hens rooting around for grubs; and the cutest cheeping chicks who keep close tabs on their mothers and obey her every cluck./chingys-jackpot-album-broke-the-mold.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chingys-jackpot-album-broke-the-mold.htmlClassic music stands the test of time, capturing the pulse of the people, and spreading the seeds of whichever emotion out. At the turn of the century, a newer crop of artists from the Midwest changed the way we dressed and spoke when they introduced their lingo and style from St. Louis to rap. Out of all the names, rapper Chingy remains one of the most memorable voices and faces of the early 2000s./christmas-movie-review-family-switch.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christmas-movie-review-family-switch.htmlI just watched the new Christmas advertised film “Family Switch” (2023) on Netflix, with a cast led by well known Hollywood stars Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner. Last year saw a big budget Holiday film, Spirited with Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer do well and kinda fit into the popular modern Christmas movie season culture. Family Switch is about a family becoming more and more disconnected as two teenage kids grow older, and have a life-altering chance encounter with an astrological reader who apparently is also a Lyft driver driving some weird van or some shit./cine2nerdle-the-basics-part-1.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cine2nerdle-the-basics-part-1.htmlI’ve mentioned the explosion of games, most of them wordplay-related, inspired by the Wordle craze a couple years back. (Wordle’s still successful, just like they still sell hula hoops, but the “craze” period has passed.) Of those, the most creatively rewarding is Cine2Nerdle. Cine2Nerdle gets its odd name from its sequel status. The original CineNerdle was an online jigsaw using frames from movies. I found it fun but unremarkable and soon moved on./clerking-for-judge-aileen-cannon-why-clerks-quit.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clerking-for-judge-aileen-cannon-why-clerks-quit.htmlWelcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! In spring 2020, Aileen Mercedes Cannon was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a district judge in the Southern District of Florida. She was relatively young, not even 40, as well as somewhat inexperienced to serve as a trial-court judge, with only four jury trials under her belt./june-18-2024.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/june-18-2024.htmlI tell people they need to know two things about Evangelicals and Southern Baptists: they are more okay with brutal violence than you want to imagine, and more fearful and weird about sex than you could ever imagine. When I was a teenager, one of my only few friends disappeared, as if his own family had placed him in witness protection. He fell in love with a girl from our group./comments.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comments.htmlHello My sweet plaything. Welcome to My substack. Thanks for reading Empress Ara's Dreamscape! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This will be a new way for Me to connect with you and keep you updated with session opportunities, travel notices, and other pertinent information that you need to stay under My heels, where I want you most. ncG1vNJzZmicn6K2r63Aq5ilnZVjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orp6kk6S6pnvCqKSmnZ6pwA%3D%3D/comprehensive-review-of-all-my-dating.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comprehensive-review-of-all-my-dating.htmlThere are a few that I am not trying yet because four apps is already a lot. Let me tell you about how I got to four apps, what I think about them, and some general takeaways. I first began on okc (ok cupid) because I was part of a very large local facebook group on dating, and when I asked about dating as a non-monogamous person, okc was the first app that they had recommended, and bumble was the runner-up./costco-eyeing-new-location-in-indian.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/costco-eyeing-new-location-in-indian.htmlThis article was published in The Charlotte Ledger e-newsletter on January 9, 2023. Find out more and sign up for free here. by Cristina Bolling Here’s some hot retail news that’s sure to make some Ballantyne-area Ledger readers swoon: Costco is scoping out plans for a new spot about three miles south of the state line on Lancaster Highway in Indian Land., S.C. A Traffic Impact Analysis filed in Lancaster County shows that Costco is looking to build a new store on the east side of Lancaster Highway, south of Possum Hollow Road, on a vacant site between Transformation Church and the Indian Land YMCA, according to Ledger media partner Untap Indian Land./marian-seldes-dark-people-gossip.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marian-seldes-dark-people-gossip.htmlI spoke to Marian Seldes almost every day for many years. I could go to her with anything, or simply to talk. She would tell me to get my pad and pen and then say, “Let’s begin.” Unfortunate circumstances necessitate my publishing this particular conversation, but I’m happy to note the support that has shown up for me; the strength of friends and evidence. Things will be said and written, but as a great attorney told me, in a style not at all like Marian’s, but similar in sentiment: “They’re throwing shit up a pole./daybreak-from-the-inside.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daybreak-from-the-inside.htmlMornings at my house seem to be coming earlier. It’s both the season and the sleeplessness. My husband and I sip sludgy espresso, watch the birds outside at the feeders and poke at our iPads. Then one of us begins a conversation with this: “Rob says . . .” That’s Rob Gurwitt, author and publisher of Daybreak, the Upper Valley’s early morning newsletter that’s been landing in subscribers’ inboxes every Monday through Friday for the past year./deep-dive-no-1-whipping-eggs.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deep-dive-no-1-whipping-eggs.htmlWelcome to the inaugural Pastry School 101 Newsletter. I’m so happy you’re here. We’re kicking things off with a pastry deep dive so that you will have the foundation and information needed as you approach the two bonus recipes coming your way this month. Each month, the two bonus recipes that I send out will be connected by some sort of ingredient/skill/technique (in this case, lots of whipped eggs) which we will talk about in depth (as evidenced by this newsletter) so that when those aforementioned bonus recipes reach your inbox, you are ready to get baking!/delis-in-the-desert-and-marilyn-too.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/delis-in-the-desert-and-marilyn-too.htmlIt never rains in Southern California—until it does. And then it doesn’t want to stop. We live in the land of extremes—and that has always been so, but the extremes are only getting more so: Three years of drought followed by an atmospheric river combined with a bomb cyclone. But rather than wait to see if we needed to build an ark (we didn’t!), we skedaddled to the desert a few days ago—Palm Desert, to be exact, about 2 1/2 hours due east of our house./demystifying-waxlight-the-beard-restaurant.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/demystifying-waxlight-the-beard-restaurant.htmlWith back-to-back James Beard nominations, Waxlight Bar a Vin has become a restaurant that travelers make sure to book whenever they land in Buffalo. In the 716 area code, it’s a harder sell, partly because many Buffalo-area restaurant customers have never seen anything like Waxlight’s menu, full of ingredients and dishes they’ve never heard of before. Waxlight aims to balance that adventurousness with the everyday: a shot and a beer is $7, and a plate of meat and potatoes that’ll make you happy is always on the menu./dizzy-bat.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dizzy-bat.htmlI didn’t like school much growing up. For starters, I wasn’t a good student. I couldn’t pay attention, and found the whole thing extremely boring. However, there was one school day I always looked forward to, field day. Field day happened once each year, in the spring. It was on a Friday. It was a half-day. And instead of being stuck inside all morning, we assembled at the school soccer field./do-you-still-read-magazines.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-still-read-magazines.htmlMagazines used to make me swoon. I grew up on a steady diet of Sassy and YM and Seventeen. When I graduated college, I only wanted to work in magazines, and I spent my twenties and thirties writing for a slew of them. It wasn’t just how beautiful the print mags were to thumb through with their four-color photos and expert aspirational articles, it was the graphic fonts and the feeling that you were slipping into another world entirely when you opened the back and front covers./dwight-mcglothern-cb-arkansas-2024.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dwight-mcglothern-cb-arkansas-2024.htmlCornerback Dwight McGlothern transferred from LSU to Arkansas for the 2022 season. He missed some time in 2023 with injuries but still put together a decent year. I’m higher on McGlothern than most, which could mean I’m being too optimistic, but I think he could be a top 100 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Visit my Twitter account @Sam_Teets33 for more opinions on prospects, clips, and the latest football content./eastern-coyote.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eastern-coyote.htmlA generally accepted origin story of the eastern coyote is the smaller western coyote moved east and interbred with wolves and dogs along the way. Coyotes got larger and more wolflike. While this resulted in a different coyote, The Conversation explains: there is no sign that they are still actively mating with dogs or wolves. The coyote, wolf and dog are three separate species that would very much prefer not to breed with each other./easy-doenjang-jjigae.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/easy-doenjang-jjigae.htmlI appreciate everyone here letting me pop into their inboxes, especially all the paid subscribers offering their direct support. But lately, I have been letting you all down with the infrequency of my posts, so I have paused billing. You can still expect recipes from me (I can’t promise how often), and they’ll now be free to everyone. I want to be totally honest with you all, my relationship with food is currently not in a good place./episode-5-samuel-larsen.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-5-samuel-larsen.htmlSamuel Larsen is a musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and model, best known for his work on Glee. Recently, on social media, he’s been sharing openly about his sobriety journey, which spawned an idea in my mind to get him on here to talk about it. Samuel and I discuss fame - having it, losing it, and getting smack-down humbled, as well as drinking problems, love and sex addiction, dating, and a whole lot of recovery./hot-off-the-presses-epstein-era-at.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hot-off-the-presses-epstein-era-at.htmlBy Howard Wolinsky The Washington Post confirmed Saturday that famed uropathologist Jonathan Epstein, MD, is moving on from his long-time home at Johns Hopkins University following a controversy over bullying allegations. Epstein told the Post he could no longer work with colleagues who accused him wrongly of misconduct. Some colleagues claimed Epstein had bullied them and leaned on them to support opinions rendered by Epstein’s wife Hillary, a pathologist at another institution./everybodys-gotta-learn-sometime.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everybodys-gotta-learn-sometime.htmlI. Throughout my entire life, I have only ever had one true ambition: From the age of five, I told anyone who would listen that I wanted to be a teacher. For several years of my childhood, I was the kid who came home from “real” school only to play “pretend” school—essentially regurgitating everything I learned that day, with the aid of a small chalkboard, to my invisible students. Teaching always felt like an important job to me, and even as a child, I always felt like I should be doing important work./early-access-evolution-and-genetics.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/early-access-evolution-and-genetics.htmlAbout the guest: Eske Willerslev, PhD is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of evolution at both the University of Copenhagen and University of Cambridge. Episode summary: Nick and Dr. Willerslev discuss: human evolution out of Africa; the origins of modern Europeans; hunter gatherers, early farmers, and pastoralists; genetics of human disease risk; evolution of diet & metabolism; evolution of light skin color; and more. *This content is never meant to serve as medical advice./extra-extra-630.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/extra-extra-630.htmlHi, all, and happy Sunday! Here’s a picture of me and three of my personal heroes—Simon Rosenberg, Rachel Bitecofer, and Tom Bonier—in the Network NOVA green room yesterday. Man, what a blast to meet them! I share the picture because I know lots of you love them, and I’m hoping, too, that the snapshot carries just a tiny bit of the energy, enthusiasm, determination, and fight I absorbed from hanging out with them backstage./falling-asleep-in-the-shower.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/falling-asleep-in-the-shower.htmlI am so grateful to be sober today. I’m grateful for a little extra sleep, that it’s almost the weekend and for reconnecting with old friends. I’m grateful for getting closer with new friends, for my sponsor who gently pushes me to be better, for coffee and for time spent together. I’m grateful for text from my dad and for working from home tomorrow. Good morning, friends! As always, I hope everyone has been having a lovely week and I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who shared some orchid advice…because of you she’s still hanging in there :)/fanatic-taylor-swift-and-the-kennedys.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fanatic-taylor-swift-and-the-kennedys.htmlThis is a free post for subscribers of Landline. Consider subscribing to the paid plan to get my weekly email of recommendations and links, a podcast episode, and more! You can also help me spread the word by sharing it with a friend who would love it. Share Note: I’m releasing my free issue on a new day this week. Just trying out some options. One of my many historical obsessions is what exactly drives the fascination around the Kennedys./christmas-movie-review-father-christmas.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christmas-movie-review-father-christmas.htmlAfter passing on a chance to watch it the past two years following a trailer viewing I thought looked stupid, I gave in and watched “Father Christmas is Back” (2021) on Netflix. It stars Dr. Frazier Crane, Hugh Grant’s absolute smoke show/cougar ex and a bunch of others who’ve I’ve barely heard of and who cares, because quite frankly they brought nothing to the movie anyway. The plot revolves around four mostly unlikeable adult daughters getting together for Christmas even though it’s clear only one wants it, with everything thrown into chaos when their father, estranged from all over the past 27 years unexpectedly shows up./022-breaking-fda-approves-first-pill.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/022-breaking-fda-approves-first-pill.htmlToday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved zuranolone, the first oral medication indicated to treat postpartum depression (PPD) in adults. When I first saw zuranolone in the headlines, I knew that we needed to take a break from our summer break to bring you an issue on this important topic. So, I started doing my research, and one evening earl… ncG1vNJzZmisp6TBs8HToapnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfJFrZJuqlZa4qrrGZp2dmV2WvbG%2Bzq%2BcrGWWnr%2B0wIypoKWk/film-show-039-kit-zauhar.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-show-039-kit-zauhar.htmlKit Zauhar (b. 1995) is a Philadelphia-born, New York City-based writer, actor, and filmmaker whose works explore intimacy and communication in the lives of young people. As in the works of American indie filmmakers from decades past, her low-budget films are driven by dialogue and reflect the tumultuous transition into adulthood. Taking inspiration from Miranda July, Hong Sang-soo, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi, her films exhibit a thoughtful patience in navigating selfhood and interpersonal relationships, while also drawing from her experience as a biracial woman./finding-a-job-in-climate.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finding-a-job-in-climate.html“I’m a [software engineer, product manager, lawyer, analyst, so on] and I want to transition to climate work. Where should I look?” I get a version of this question a lot. This note summarizes how I usually answer it in case it’s useful for folks asking a similar question. In general, I’ve seen (and myself taken) two approaches to getting a job in climate. I’ll call them the ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ approach./nfl-draft-2024-first-round-takeaways.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nfl-draft-2024-first-round-takeaways.htmlBefore we get into my top 25 OL remaining on the board for day two of the draft, here are a few takeaways and thoughts from round one: There were nine offensive linemen selected in the first round of the draft last night, tying 2022 and 2013 for the most over the last 12 draft classes (since 2012). Eight of the nine are projected to play tackle (at least to start), which is the most over that same span./flooding-in-tuscany.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flooding-in-tuscany.htmlFirst things first: I couldn’t possibly start this week’s edition without sharing a few thoughts on the latest extreme weather disaster to hit Italy, not least because it took place virtually in my own back yard. Last week, on 2-3 November, a huge storm hit Italy causing devastation across the country’s central regions. Tuscany was worst hit. Across Mugello, a few kilometers from where I’m writing this, tens of thousands were left without power for a day or more, with many losing their homes to the mud./from-the-archives-ocean-vuong-part.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-archives-ocean-vuong-part.htmlIt’s a rainy New York Tuesday and I’m writing to you with a snack for your afternoon: a special transcript from our archive. Every once in a while, we receive requests from listeners to release our interviews in written form— a fantastic idea, but something we don’t have time to do for every episode. But now that we have this letter (newsletter? zine? I keep calling it the “digital publication arm” of Thresholds, which is true but sounds weird and corporate) as a container, we’re excited to begin releasing readable versions of our best-loved conversations./in-review-ghostbusters-frozen-empire.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-ghostbusters-frozen-empire.htmlGhostbusters: Frozen Empire Dir. Gil Kenan 115 min. There may be no better example of the ruinous influence of fan culture than the Ghostbusters franchise, which started 40 years ago as an amiable lark, then somehow shifted into the realm of Star Wars-level mythos the moment women wanted to get involved. The question of whether Ivan Reitman’s blockbuster comedy could even work as a sequel had already been answered with an emphatic “no” by 1989’s Ghostbusters II, which made a fortune on opening weekend before hemorrhaging viewers after people saw how terrible it was./full-speech-of-tucker-carlson-in.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/full-speech-of-tucker-carlson-in.htmlI posted a clip earlier of Tucker Carlson speaking in Utica, MI, but here is the full speech for anyone who is interested (if you do not wish to get these, please click the top right in your subscriber preferences). I ran the transcript through a transcription service I have and that is below. It’s a little choppy but you get the general idea. The best p… ncG1vNJzZmirkai1or%2FTqKWeZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8Wuo6Vlo6Wypq%2FHZqafZaSqsKyx0WaamqqcqLyvecin/getting-the-most-out-of-the-chard.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/getting-the-most-out-of-the-chard.htmlA few years ago, in one of my many failed attempts to develop a green thumb, I bought some Swiss chard seedlings at the nursery. As I was checking out, the cashier made a joke about Swiss chard being a scam — “they’re just beet greens without the beet!” he said. I laughed and nodded, and on the way home wondered if this was true. It is, and in fact, as I learned in a bit of Google research this week, in other parts of the world the beet relation is written into the vegetable’s name./ghost-pipe-illness-and-mycoheterotrophy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ghost-pipe-illness-and-mycoheterotrophy.html“No matter how sick I feel, I’m still afire with a need to do something for my living,” wrote Audre Lorde in her diaries about living with the cancer that would ultimately killer her, “A Burst of Light”. She frankly, intimately, describes the increasing care she requires from her lover, her children, her friends, and her frustration with her body’s refusal to let her be wholly independent, and let her complete her creative work./giant-fruit-and-custard-danish.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/giant-fruit-and-custard-danish.htmlMaking pastry is typically one of my favorite things, but not in the summer. It doesn’t matter how much of a pro you are; heat is unforgiving to a delicate, laminated dough. That’s because the butter’s got to be this perfect magical temperature where it’s cold enough that you can handle it without melting but not so chilly it can’t bend and fold between sheets of dough. I’ve even noticed my favorite bakeries struggling this summer with over-proved dough and butter breaking out of their layered pastries./goals-and-gods-guidance.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goals-and-gods-guidance.htmlThere were four of us all fighting to gain control of the soccer ball falling towards us from above. I quickly moved my foot to knock the ball forward but instead took the impact of another player’s mighty kick directly to my ankle. I crumpled to the ground with a shooting pain in my foot. The pain was quite intense as I lay there on the ground hoping I hadn’t broken it./good-omens-graphic-novel-coloring.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-omens-graphic-novel-coloring.htmlThis is from the GOOD OMENS kickstarter page where we post monthly updates. I will be finished early fall. Following such a positive response to Colleen's piece last month, bringing you behind the scenes into making the Good Omens graphic novel, we are delighted to say that she has agreed to write something for our updates going forward! For June, she's going more in depth into the process of flatting and the technicalities of colouring on screen vs print./greg-gards-tough-love-with-connor.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/greg-gards-tough-love-with-connor.htmlTo say things haven't gone as expected for Connor Essegian in his sophomore season with the Wisconsin basketball program would be an understatement.  After suffering an injury in the Wisconsin Badgers season opener, the former All-Big Ten Freshman pick went from playing just over 27 minutes per game and pouring in 11.7 points a night to scratching and clawing his way back into the rotation on a short leash by head coach Greg Gard./grilled-chicken-thighs-with-tamarind-glaze.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grilled-chicken-thighs-with-tamarind-glaze.htmlWelcome to issue #12 of Susanality, a free weekly newsletter. Thanks for being here! If you’re loving this newsletter, please consider a paid subscription. Having your support would mean a lot to me, as I continue to work hard to bring you fresh content on a weekly basis. Additional posts and recipes will be going out to paid subscribers at least twice a month, and more features are coming soon!/happy-birthday-arizona.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-birthday-arizona.htmlArizona’s Constitution will be on display at the state Capitol in celebration of Arizona’s birthday today.  But the document is actually the third one territorial-era Arizonans came up with before becoming the 48th state. That’s one of many fun facts we learned yesterday while touring the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records — an amazing resource for Arizonans who want to study up on state history, their family history, or basically anything historical./happy-chuseok-perspectives-of-a-childhood-photo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-chuseok-perspectives-of-a-childhood-photo.htmlWhen I was little — maybe 6 or 7 years old — we had to bring photos to school for a project. I don't recall exactly what we were doing. Probably something about a family tree. My parents picked this photo for me to bring in. Although my father bought a nice camera after we immigrated to the United States, we didn't have one back in Korea. Cameras were a luxury for the rich and we weren't wealthy./has-your-book-been-used-to-train.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/has-your-book-been-used-to-train.htmlAuthors, publishers, do you want to know if your books have been used to train Chat-GPT and other large language models? I’ve put a list of some 85,000 ~125,000 ISBNs of books used to train LLMs up on Github for the use of anyone looking to understand more about what books have been used as training data. See https://github.com/psmedia/Books3Info. [Ed note: my VS Code seems to have miscalculated the number of lines in that file./earworms-have-you-seen-her-by-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/earworms-have-you-seen-her-by-the.htmlIn seventh grade, I took to staying in at recess to write goofy little stories about super-heroes or tales of my classmates at a drive-in movie theater. I hadn’t discovered sports yet, and being outside didn’t offer as much fun to me as sitting there imagining wild visions. At the same time, the African-American girls in my class were staying in and playing records, making up little choreographies full of dance moves that impressed the heck out of me./healthy-or-not-as-healthy-corn-chowder.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/healthy-or-not-as-healthy-corn-chowder.htmlClick here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe. The inspiration for this week’s recipe, again, came from one of you! On our “favorite regional recipes” thread (it is SO FUN to read through your responses!), Simone from New England mentioned corn chowder, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. But then I couldn’t decide which route to take with this chowder./historical-intermediate-calibers.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/historical-intermediate-calibers.htmlToday we’ll be taking a look at one of the most controversial experimental military rounds, one that many believe should have become the standard for the Western World at the beginning of the Cold War. That round is the .280 British, also known as the 7x43mm, and beginning in 1947 it competed head-to-head against the caliber that eventually became the 7.62 NATO in trials to become the standard infantry small arms caliber of the free world./houston-sucks.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/houston-sucks.htmlI went on a long walk today east of downtown Houston. (I live downtown.) I came across a couple of interesting graffiti murals. This is the first one. “Light, bright, refreshingly Houston.” I feel certain that the graffiti artist did not come up with that phrase. I am pretty sure that the city of Houston has paid for this mural, presumably hiring an ad agency to come up with the lame slogan./how-denim-tears-became-one-of-hip.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-denim-tears-became-one-of-hip.htmlSong of The Week: Dave & Jack Harlow - Stop Giving me AdviceThis is a really dope song off of the Lyrical Lemonade album that just dropped. Dave tweaked on his verse, and it’s been getting a lot of play from me lately. Overall, it’s a good vibe for Friday. Run it up, and let’s get to today’s post… At some point in the past year, you’ve likely seen your favorite rapper or pop star wearing a pair of jeans or a hoodie that has a circular white pattern./how-do-autistic-people-relate-to.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-do-autistic-people-relate-to.htmlWelcome to Healing is My Special Interest, the newsletter all about late diagnosed neurodivergence and healing from high control religion. Today’s guest post is a long one, so I suggest clicking on this email and going to substack proper in order to read it (so it won’t be cut off by gmail limits!). I was introduced to Jon Machnee by my friend Heather Gr… ncG1vNJzZmicnKKuurLInqOdZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8eormacn2KutsDIrKuim12lsrC8y55kq52clsGmedOo/ask-amanda-3-how-do-i-overcome-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-amanda-3-how-do-i-overcome-the.htmlWelcome back to Ask Amanda, Dear Readers. Please feel free to share your own stories about lost friendship and heartbreak in the comments below. We are reading, and we love you. Dear Amanda, How can someone overcome the sadness of a friendship lost?  There is a lot of advice for “relationship” breakups, but I recently lost a friend who I loved who just ended up hurting me badly. I am still angry for the wounds he made, but I miss him all the time, and I don’t know if others understand because no one ever speaks about overcoming a broken heart when it comes to friendships./steely-dan-aja-bernie-grundman-interview-uhqr.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steely-dan-aja-bernie-grundman-interview-uhqr.htmlLate last month a pricey, much-anticipated new vinyl edition of Steely Dan’s 1977 album, Aja, began landing with a thump on the doorsteps of eager Danfans throughout the land. The $150 Ultra High-Quality Record (UHQR) consists of a pair of 200-gram 45 rpm LPs pressed on translucent so-called Clarity Vinyl. (“Deacon Blues” is given the entire Side B to luxuriate in its own mythic loserdom.) The release comes individually numbered (the pressing is limited to 30,000) and packaged in a brown slipcase that calls to mind the bookshelf binders that may have once held your dad’s archive of Playboy./a-salute-to-the-secret-weapon-how.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-salute-to-the-secret-weapon-how.htmlI like to imagine different scenarios playing out, like switching up events and wondering what the outcome would be. It’s like what Quentin Tarantino does with some of his movies. In Inglourious Basterds, he imagined a world where the USA dispatched a wild gang of soldiers to take out Hitler, and they did. In Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, he imagined the night of the Sharon Tate murders going a different way./how-many-zeros-does-a-trillion-have.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-many-zeros-does-a-trillion-have.htmlI once wrote an article about global trade and mentioned the word TRILLON. Among many positive and interesting comments. But there was only one who corrected me. He told me: trillion has 18 zeros. You've made a mistake! Me: Not necessarily, actually the short scale is 12 zeros. Him: No, you don't understand. It's best with 18 zeros. And so he kept writing the same thing several times because I never replied him again./red-rubber-ball-the-cyrkle-paul-simon.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-rubber-ball-the-cyrkle-paul-simon.htmlThank you for reading! To help keep The Lost Songs Project going, become a paid subscriber today! Peak: #2 on the Hot 100 Streams: 6.5 million Walking away from a bad relationship gives you a jolt of cleansing anger. It might be a romance turned sour, a job turned terrible, or a friendship gone awry, but whatever the case, it feels great when you decide yo… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvsSdZKutkpeys3nBmqOlZaSdsm6v2KuipZ1dpa62uIysoKanng%3D%3D/how-to-create-an-online-mood-board.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-create-an-online-mood-board.htmlThere are many things that I’ve discovered since I started posting on Instagram back in 2016. The first is that efficient phone charging is essential for a job in social media. It’s a bit like being addicted to smoking when you’ve only got two cigarettes left in the packet - the moment my phone goes below 50%, I’m rushing for the nearest plug point li… ncG1vNJzZmikmaiupa3WrKanZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8eormasn2Kws7HArZxmmZ5ivK%2B4yKecZqWfpLFurs6aqZ0%3D/how-to-feel-alive-again.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-feel-alive-again.htmlWe can control whether we merely endure our days or experience and enjoy them. We can control whether we arrive on our deathbeds feeling like we've wasted our time or end up satisfied with how we've spent our brief moment in the sun. -Catherine Price During my darkest moments in the pandemic, my therapist told me that I had to find joy to keep going. These days, I feel deeply hollow inside./how-to-get-dressed-when-its-too-hot.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-get-dressed-when-its-too-hot.htmlNew York hit Nick Lachey (98) degrees last Tuesday. I hear that today, tomorrow, and the one after that won’t be too different and while I don’t know where in the world you are, I suspect that at some point, you have felt the sensation of it being too hot for clothes. You know the sensation, right? It’s like when you’re in clothes and just think to yourself, “Damn, I think it’s too hot for these clothes./how-to-have-lucid-dreams.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-have-lucid-dreams.htmlSince I’ve written about how to remember your dreams and how to get started with dreamwork, a few readers have asked me how they can have lucid dreams. Lucid dreams are dreams where you know that you’re dreaming, and have some degree of control over what you do and experience in the dream. Lucid dreaming can be a pretty wild experience: you can fly, travel to other countries (or planets!/how-two-rivals-became-business-partners.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-two-rivals-became-business-partners.htmlLogan Paul in a recent podcast interview shared how much he and KSI have made from their hydration drink ‘Prime’. The duo have made over $250 million in retail sales and $110 million gross internally. Paul also mentioned in the interview “in January of this year, we did $45 million.” Which is very crazy for a brand that has only been around for 13 months!   KSI and Logan Paul weren’t always friends, it shocked the world when they came out and said they were starting a business together./how-unprecedented-is-taylor-swifts.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-unprecedented-is-taylor-swifts.htmlGiven that this newsletter usually focuses on popular music in all its various forms, it’s no surprise that Taylor Swift comes up somewhat frequently. As of October 2023, the one-time country starlet is synonymous with “pop music”. Her current tour has been such a success that it grew local economies enough for the Federal Reserve to note it in a report. Her budding romance with Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce led to a 400% spike in his jersey sales./hypersincerity.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hypersincerity.htmlI had a friend ask me if Twitter user Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) was serious, or if he was a parody account. And it’s a slightly more complicated question than yes or no.  Nick Adams tweets are a constant stream of his “alpha male” world. Loving Hooters and Kid Rock, hating Fortnite and Rihanna. His subject matter is basic post-Trump conservative worldview, culture war embroiled reactionary hating M&Ms going woke or whatever else is the problem of the day, but he’s a remarkably successful Twitter poster because of the form of his tweets./i-am-grossly-unremarkable.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-am-grossly-unremarkable.htmlI had a mammogram in December, and it seemed sketchy (Latin term), so the radiologist and his crew invited me back for a second go at it. The second one revealed more about the little dot they had seen the first time, so they followed up with an ultrasound. Long story short, I saw a breast surgeon today about Little Dotty because my GP asked me to, and … ncG1vNJzZmiokanBqrDIoJ9nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtYyapGafoqTAtLjYZqynqpWirrO3wJujng%3D%3D/black-bookstores-black-expressions.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/black-bookstores-black-expressions.htmlI’m nine years late and should be ashamed of myself. I had absolutely no idea that Black Expressions Book Club closed in 2013, and I’m clearly part of the problem when it comes to supporting the company. There was a time when I was relentlessly buying books via that club or physical stores. I loved the idea of strolling into African-owned and African-American-owned bookstores in downtown Chicago and the South Side of Chicago, taking note of any new book I saw./i-visited-the-nuns-to-learn-dutch.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-visited-the-nuns-to-learn-dutch.htmlThe audio version of this post can be found here: 1× 0:00 -10:04 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.“You should go to the nuns.” “Have you heard of the nuns?” “The nuns will sort you out.” In the Netherlands, if you whisper a vague desire to learn a new language, someone will materialise out of nowhere and suggest you go to see ‘the nuns’. You could be standing in the street, butchering the translation of a sign, and a voice will bellow from an upstairs window, “GO SEE THE NUNS!/i-would-have-been-a-trad-wife-influencer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-would-have-been-a-trad-wife-influencer.htmlThere’s a line in my book I think of every time I come across #tradwife content on social media. The therapist I saw after my escape was helping me see how I’d been my family’s PR manager for years. Christian wives kept their husband’s secrets and they protected their family’s appearance.” I come from the Michelle Duggar model of fundamentalist influencers, reinforced with this cherry-picked scripture so it couldn’t be argued with: These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands./ian-mclagan-rocked-among-us.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ian-mclagan-rocked-among-us.htmlBritish rock keyboardist extraordinaire Ian McLagan, who lived in Manor the last 20 years of his life, passed away nine years ago today, at age 69. Mac didn’t come to the Austin area to retire, but to work and create. He and his band of topflight Austin players held a residency at the Lucky Lounge for ten years, and when he died you had to kick yourself for not going every single Thursday./ignore-negative-people.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ignore-negative-people.html"Ignore negative people. They’ll find a problem for every solution." I read this “quote” on Twitter earlier in the week and I’m torn. On the one hand, I am all for ignoring negative people. On the other hand, I tend to sit in the finding problems camp. I’ve never thought of myself as a negative person. Of course, I have my moments when life sends me bucket loads of shit. In those times I can get a little down but that seems common./in-memory-of-sabah-fakhri.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memory-of-sabah-fakhri.htmlMy favorite classic Arabic song of all time was preformed by the great Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri, who died today in Damascus at the age of 88. Fakhri recited spiritual tunes and folk songs known as Qudud Halabiyah, after the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. His work made him one of the most popular singers in the Arabic-speaking world. The poem of Fakhri’s song chosen here is said to have been composed by a certain Medieval Muhammad al-Manbiji, of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, whose name means spring in Aramaic (the Arabic cognate word is Manbi')./inside-the-outsider-episodes-1-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-the-outsider-episodes-1-and.htmlWelcome to Inside the Outsider, a discussion about the HBO adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel The Outsider with horror aficionado Ryan Bradford. Each week the discussion will alternate between Message from the Underworld and Ryan’s newsletter, AwkwardSD. The Outsider kicked off with a double episode and we’ve got a lot to talk about, so let’s get started.  The Outsider opens with the discovery of the body of a young boy who has been brutally murdered in a park in Cherokee City, Georgia./interview-ayoolii.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-ayoolii.htmlMilwaukee rap is on fire right now. The most exciting part of the city’s sound is built around incessant 8th-note 808 handclaps and unhinged energy. The music is a product of a longstanding local infatuation with uptempo Southern rap, but there is a new generation of kids less concerned with history and more concerned with going crazy. These kids are simply making Milwaukee music. One of the best rappers in this mode is AyooLii./interview-john-sayles-on-lone-star.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-john-sayles-on-lone-star.htmlLike many significant directors of his generation, John Sayles cut his teeth working for Roger Corman, for whom he wrote one of his two high-quality Jaws knock-offs, 1978’s Piranha (1980’s Alligator is the other), while nursing his own ambitions as an independent filmmaker. With the money he’d scraped together on these screenwriting jobs, Sayles parlayed a minuscule budget (estimated at $60,000) into a debut hit with Return of the Secaucus 7, an ensemble piece about a weekend reunion among old friends that established his talent for sensitive, character-driven stories with sociopolitical underpinnings./introducing-instructions-for-traveling.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-instructions-for-traveling.htmlOh friends. I’m so excited (and completely tearful) to announce that my debut collection, Instructions for Traveling West, is finally available for preorder. The book will be released in April 2024, but you can preorder right now. If you’ve ever dangled in the dark, felt homesick for your unlived lives, or ached to fling yourself into the jaws of Whatever Comes Next, I wrote this book for you. Preorder now/is-gladiator-stoic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-gladiator-stoic.htmlIs Gladiator a Stoic movie? The obvious case against it being a Stoic film is that its protagonist isn’t Stoic. It’s a revenge film.  Charged with restoring the republic, Maximus’s family is murdered and he’s left for dead, by the shunned Son of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus. Maximus’s life refocuses on killing Commodus, with dreams of reuniting with his family in the afterlife. The saga plays out in bloody gladiatorial arenas./owen-wolff-2023-season-review-2024-speculation.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/owen-wolff-2023-season-review-2024-speculation.htmlOwen Wolff’s been a weirdly controversial Austin FC player for someone who’s plugged in ably during the 2023 season. According to Transfermarkt — and we’ll definitely be referencing that site here in a couple of spots — the 18-year-old slotted in at four distinct positions for Verde in MLS play. The first three — attacking midfield, central midfield, an… ncG1vNJzZmiulaexpq3LpZuasV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6orp6mXay8rbLFZmlpamNiwKat0qilZqqVq7amw4xrZ2tsXai9pq%2FUpZitoZ%2Bj/is-travel-overrated.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-travel-overrated.htmlRevenge travel is an unsettling phrase. Just who is being avenged? Presumably we’re striking back against our constrained life of the pandemic. But the real victims, it seems, are overrun European cities and seaside towns. Crowds are high, prices are high, anxiety is high. Nobody seems very happy. There was an article this weekend in the Financial Times about cities reconsidering tourist economies. Should there be higher taxes on visitors the were there are in Bhutan?/its-new-to-me-ace-combat-3-electrosphere.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-ace-combat-3-electrosphere.htmlThis column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. I’m familiar with the general purposes of an unofficial translation of a video game. Most often, it’s for a game that never received an international release — a Japan-only title, for instance, that English-speakers localize so copies of the game can be patched and played for an audience the game was never intended for./its-new-to-me-tetris-2.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-tetris-2.htmlThis column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Tetris! Everyone knows Tetris, except for that one movie critic, anyway. It’s one of the best-selling video game franchises of all-time at 495 million sales, behind only the entirety of Mario and ahead of serious moneymakers like Pokémon and Call of Duty./its-not-just-comphet.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-not-just-comphet.htmlIn her 1980 essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich outlined a theory of “compulsory heterosexuality” — often shortened to “comphet” — arguing that, in effect, many people cannot understand their own queerness due to the ways that society trains all of us to see heterosexuality as normal, to understand it as a default that we are all initially expected to adhere to. If you exist in a certain corner of the queer community — and especially if you spend a fair amount of time on Tumblr — you’ve likely heard “comphet” tossed around here and there, sometimes in a way that feels edifying and helpful but… usually not./asharangappa.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/asharangappa.htmlOne thing I’m realizing as I scroll through Notes is how psychologically conditioned we have become to Twitter: Its “look,” it’s features, etc. Blech. Realizing I am an addict and need to wean. Like when I started replacing sugar in my coffee with cocoa (took about 3 weeks and now I’ll never go back) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK%2Fx5qpmqaXlr2xrY6npq2dX5h6coCUcmpqa2k%3D/ivanthrone.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ivanthrone.htmlFrom the desk of Ivan Throne By Ivan Throne In these early days of the Third World War you need real information. The gaps and opportunities you face are monstrous in scale and severity. We'll examine them here and show how you can better understand and take advantage of them. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjarCwKeroaqfo7I%3D/jack-kerouacs-book-of-haikus-week.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jack-kerouacs-book-of-haikus-week.htmlHello, Poetry Fanatics! Today we’re talking about our first Beat poet, Jack Kerouac. I first encountered Beat Generation ideas through reruns of the old sitcom, The Many Loves ofDobie Gillis. This sitcom originally ran from 1959-1963, long before my time. But, I discovered it when it ran in the late evenings as a Nickolodian experiment called, Nick at Night in the late 1980s. A pre-Gilligan’s Island Bob Denver played a comical version of a Beatnik./janus-god-of-transitions.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/janus-god-of-transitions.htmlUnlike way too many others, I don’t think about ancient Rome much until we slouch towards the end of the year, when references start popping up about the god Janus.  He is absolutely one of the coolest Roman gods, if only because he is one of the few who the Romans didn’t rip off from ancient Greece. Janus wasn’t just the god that looked forward and bac… ncG1vNJzZmilkaq%2Foq%2BNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfn66vwdJmnqicXaSzbsDRmqWsoaSevK%2B%2F/jeff-dahmer-glasses.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeff-dahmer-glasses.htmlMy son is a voracious - and surprisingly responsible - consumer of YouTube. He favours motormouth male broadcasters and so his rota of cultural references is quite sophisticated. We get a lot of sarcastic jokes about “the IMF”, “JFK” and critiques of various conspiracy theories. And then recently, he started talking about Jeff Dahmer. It rang a bell. Jeff Dahmer, Jeff Dahmer… who is that? I wondered as I poked at something in a pan at the stove and listened to Sam rattling on at me in that practised know-it-all tone that YouTubers use./catching-up-with-the-king-jeff-mauro.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catching-up-with-the-king-jeff-mauro.htmlNew Orleans has Emeril. Georgia has Alton Brown. California has Guy Fieri. There’s something about the hometown local chef made good. They feel like they could be your brother or your father, but they’re also making America happy by serving up good eats and humor. A few years ago, Chicago got their own guy, Jeff Mauro, when he won season 7 of The Next Food Network Star. Mauro went on to host The Sandwich King where he brought mom and pop spots like Mickey’s in Oak Park to the national stage./jets-all-time-top-5-qbs-guarantees.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jets-all-time-top-5-qbs-guarantees.htmlGet ready for some rough sledding, Jets fans. 1.Joe Namath Namath has had no peer, over the long haul, in attracting crowds to stadiums. Even last year, the Jets, who play most of their home games in poor weather in November and December, sold more than 50,000 season tickets to windy Shea Stadium. Joe Namath was one of the most visible hucksters in sports. He receives $250,000 a year from Faberge for promoting its men's cosmetics products./jimmy-ruffin-may-7-1936-november-17-2014-motown.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jimmy-ruffin-may-7-1936-november-17-2014-motown.htmlWatch full video on YouTube.View most updated version of this post on Substack.Share Jimmy Ruffin was a talented Motown singer/songwriter best known for his 1966 classic “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.” He was the older brother of Temptations lead singer David Ruffin. Ruffin was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper. His younger brother David came along five years later. The brothers sang with their family’s gospel group and later both joined the Dixie Nightingales, a male vocal gospel group./joan-of-arc-was-a-heretic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joan-of-arc-was-a-heretic.htmlJoan of Arc has one of the most complicated and charged reception histories of any saint. Embraced as a symbol of the French far-right, as a feminist icon and as a transgressive androgyne, few other saints have resonated across such disparate movements. Cute Etsy stickers emblazoned with the quote ‘I was not afraid; I was born to do this’ (not something Joan ever said) vs Marine Le Pen holding a rally in front of Frémiet’s 1874 statue of a gilded Joan on horseback./john-fairchild.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-fairchild.htmlI recently came across this interview between journalist Barbra L. Goldsmith and John Fairchild, the legendary editor and publisher of Women’s Wear Daily. Born into fashion publishing, his grandfather founded Fairchild Publications in 1892 and then WWD in 1910. In 1955, John became the European bureau chief of Fairchild Publications before taking on the role of WWD’s EIC and publisher in 1960—which he quickly morphed from a staid trade journal into a gossip-heavy and very influential fashion publication, capable of creating and destroying careers./jose-bautista-was-baseballs-greatest.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jose-bautista-was-baseballs-greatest.htmlJosé Bautista’s MLB career will be remembered for a handful of indelible moments, chief among them his brawl with Rougned Odor and the bat flip heard ’round the world against the Texas Rangers during Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS. But now that Bautista has officially retired 1,777 days after his last big-league at bat, he should also be remembered for how he carved out a career path like no other in baseball./joseph-zieler-sentenced-to-death.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joseph-zieler-sentenced-to-death.htmlEarlier this year, Joseph Zieler was tried in Lee County for two counts of first-degree murder related to crimes that occurred decades ago. In May, the jury convicted Zieler on both counts. The trial judge applied the new capital sentencing statute. On May 24, a Lee County jury voted 10-2 to recommend a sentence of death for both counts. The defense filed a motion for new trial on June 2, 2023, and also other motions since the trial./judgment-is-all-we-have.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/judgment-is-all-we-have.htmlIf you’d like to hear more about the themes of this post, I hope you’ll listen to my hour-long conversation with Eli Lake on his podcast, which was posted on Friday. It was a lively and illuminating discussion. An alternative title for today’s post might be: “What ‘centrism’ means to me.” The occasion is a tweet of mine from Saturday afternoon that’s gone viral—and provoked furious anger on both the right and the center-left./jun-seok-shim-high-praise-continues.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jun-seok-shim-high-praise-continues.htmlThe Pittsburgh Pirates have been aggressive in the International market and have even started to explore the Asian market more consistently. Two of their top international prospects - Tsung-Che Cheng and Jun-Seok Shim - were signed over from Asia, with Po-Yu Chen being another recent one. Even Ji-Hwan Bae was signed from Asia, working his way to the majors recently after being one of the system’s better-hitting prospects. The Pirates haven’t had the greatest success getting the players to the majors and having success, but that’s a topic for another day./just-like-honey-by-the-jesus-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-like-honey-by-the-jesus-and.htmlListen to the girl The love song is its own meta-genre, a bundle of tropes that cuts across eras and styles. Songs about loves lost, found, and unrequited have been popular music’s most prevalent theme since it was first put down on wax; the slower ones get called ballads, which carries it back even further, to the oral storytelling traditions of folk culture. That makes the modern love song both easy and very, very hard to do./kate-pictured-at-farm-shop-with-william.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kate-pictured-at-farm-shop-with-william.htmlOn Saturday, William and Kate visited the Windsor Farm Shop, a bit of a permanent farmer’s market situated just at the edge of Windsor Home Park—just about a mile from Adelaide Cottage. Initially, the news spread that they had been seen there, which was great to hear all by itself. Then on Monday, the the Sun and TMZ ran pictures and video of a dressed down William and Kate leaving the store./wisconsin-badgers-vs-nebraska-key.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wisconsin-badgers-vs-nebraska-key.htmlLuke Fickell and the Wisconsin Badgers football team — coming off their worst loss of the season — will host Matt Rhule and the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday. Nebraska comes into this game with a record of 5-5 and has lost their last two contests against Michigan State and Maryland. But Coach Rhule has the Cornhuskers playing respectable football — and one could argue that Nebraska is on the upswing under his leadership./kitchen-witch-your-way-to-home-ownership.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-witch-your-way-to-home-ownership.htmlHello, wonderful witches! Not much to update you on today, because I’m annoyingly sick with a bad cold and probably about to go back to bed. So we’ll just jump into this issue’s featured piece — a recipe to kitchen witch your way into a new house. Get Social Tip Jar By Lana KatsarosHome has always been the centerpiece of life for me. Ever since I was young I always fantasized about the home I would live in, what it would look like, and how I would decorate it./krisjohnson.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/krisjohnson.htmlThose Four Letters By Kris Johnson Welcome to Those Four Letters, your home for UCLA Basketball analysis, news, and updates! I'm KJ, your guide to all things UCLA hoops. Join me for exclusive content, expert insights, and an endless passion for UCLA Basketball. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjay%2ByKyhqKCeqLyv/labyrinth-1986.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/labyrinth-1986.htmlBuy “Labyrinth” 35th anniversary edition in 4K today! I had little interest in seeing "Labyrinth" when it came out in the summer of 1986. This despite the fact it was directed by Jim Henson in a similar vein of fantasy as "Dark Crystal," which I've always adored, and produced by George Lucas during his curiously underrated decade after "Return of the Jedi." Adult-oriented fantasy was pretty much dead by 1986, subsumed by kiddie fare or laid low by diminishing box office returns./late-bloomers-doug-jones-odyssey.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/late-bloomers-doug-jones-odyssey.htmlDoug Jones was on the move right from the beginning. Born in Covina, California in 1957, the Jones family relocated to Indiana before he even started school. After a good high school career, Jones played college baseball at Butler University, but, true to the form he’d experience in his entire baseball life, he didn’t finish there. He transferred to Cent… ncG1vNJzZmiokaq5pcPHoqueZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8uaq55lkqG8sLnEq6pmnJ%2BqtG62zqecrGWfmca0v8Sy/leftover-brisket-tacos.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leftover-brisket-tacos.htmlRosh Hashanah doesn’t begin until Sunday night (Sept 25), but I’ve already got my mind on leftovers. Every year, after Thanksgiving, there is endless chatter in magazines and online about how to upcycle leftover turkey into soup, chili, pot pie, and really great sandwiches. But brisket doesn’t get the same consideration. I’d like to change that. I know that you might not be ready to think about brisket leftovers just yet./lets-remember-a-guy-wanderlei-silva.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-remember-a-guy-wanderlei-silva.htmlHello and welcome to Let’s Remember A Guy, a possibly regular feature in which we hit pause on the ceaseless MMA carousel of weekly fighting events to reflect on some figure from the sport’s past. This is not meant to imply that they are dead, retired, a good (or bad) person, or really anything else. It’s just an opportunity to remember a fighter who may or may not be all that well-known or understood by newer fans, while also giving those us who do remember him/her the chance to go, oh yeah I remember that guy./smt-clear-the-list-2023.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smt-clear-the-list-2023.htmlHow is it already August?! As the first day of school rapidly approaches here in Los Angeles — which, ugh, too soon IMO! — I have started back-to-school shopping for my three children. There’s a Groundhog Day feel to this annual expenditure. I find myself reaching for the same tried-and-true items we bought last year. It’s in that spirit that I wanted to do a second iteration of the SMT multiples spreadsheet, this one devoted to kids and school supplies./life-expectancy-and-inequality.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-expectancy-and-inequality.htmlExplore interactive map America is seeing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years. While most people will live to 78, some Americans are likely to die more than a decade earlier if they happen to be born in a handful of other counties in the US. Average lifespan has generally been increasing over the last 40 years as advances in medicine, social factors, and quality of life have helped people live longer, however, many Americans have not seen this benefit./life-on-the-stardust-road.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-on-the-stardust-road.html“He had [music] pouring out of him. He couldn’t stop and didn’t want to stop.”I recently interviewed Hoagy Bix Carmichael for the Carmichael Clan USA’s quarterly newsletter about growing up as the son of one of the most successful and recognizable songwriters of the 20th century, Hoagy Carmichael. We talked about his dad, his dad’s music, and the unique accomplishments in Hoagy Bix’s own life.  To say that Hoagy Bix Carmichael grew up around some of the most recognizable names of Hollywood’s Golden Age would be an understatement./lipgloss-meghan-kate-teen-girl-friendship.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lipgloss-meghan-kate-teen-girl-friendship.htmlYou’re reading Wait, Really? — a newsletter unpacking what's in the culture, with a feminist spin. Want to get it in your inbox? Sign up below. Like most teenage girls, there was an ever-shifting hierarchy to my adolescent friendships. One of the ways I could discern my place in that hierarchy was through lip gloss. Yes, lip gloss. Hear me out: Girls you’d share your lip gloss with — these were your real friends./lol-its-a-frozen-banana-daiquiri.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lol-its-a-frozen-banana-daiquiri.htmlEvery now and then I end up on the strip in Las Vegas, and when I do, I sometimes pass a drinks stand that does not appear to have a name. Instead, it boasts a large sign that just says “DAIQUIRIS.” The drinks served at this stand are red and blue and green, and they come in tubes and other strange vessels. They are icy and slushy-like, and they consist of cheap booze and artificial flavors and coloring./mars-bar-ice-cream-cones-d33.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mars-bar-ice-cream-cones-d33.html• These are made with British Mars Bars, I tell you this not because I am particularly patriotic about Mars Bars, but because chocolate / candy / confectionary that may share the same name around the world doesn’t necessarily share the same recipe. It is therefore possible that bars in different countries may behave differently when melted and baked, but I’m hopeful that you will get similar results to mine./mary-mccarthy-sex-and-the-city-feminist-critique.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-mccarthy-sex-and-the-city-feminist-critique.htmlA holiday essay for you about one of my favorite thought criminals, Mary McCarthy. Happy new year! Perhaps it escaped your notice, given everything else that’s been going on, but this year marked the 60th anniversary of Mary McCarthy’s iconic novel The Group. Published in 1963, it revolves around eight graduates of the Vassar College class of 1933, a cohort of which McCarthy herself was a member. Though the book was dismissed by critics as shallow ephemera, its frank depictions of the lives of educated, pedigreed women, including unmarried sex with drunken strangers, made it a sensation./matt-farwell-expert-chronicler-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matt-farwell-expert-chronicler-of.htmlMatt Farwell may be the best gonzo journalist working today. He’s a salty (and sweet) Army vet who served between 2005 and 2010, including as an infantryman in Afghanistan. One of Farwell’s earliest pieces came in The New York Times’ now-defunct “At War” section. There, he wrote with clarity about PTSD and his post-deployment struggles — and also how his military training prepared him to be homeless in Palo Alto./matthew-perry-and-the-sad-curse-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matthew-perry-and-the-sad-curse-of.htmlThis past Saturday, Matthew Perry, the iconic actor most known for his starring role in the popular “Friends” series, died at his home near Los Angeles. It would be hard to find a more popular figure among Generation X than Perry. “Friends”, along with “Seinfeld” was the show that everyone seemingly watched in the 90’s and into the 2000s as reruns ran on cable. It was a time before the advent of streaming, before the advent of smartphones, and before so many options bifurcated American’s viewing habits./mcdonalds-to-start-from-scratch.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mcdonalds-to-start-from-scratch.htmlThis article is brought to you by Johnson’s Towing and Recovery. When you’re in a jam because your vehicle has broken down, call Johnson’s at 765-452-3057. Their service is available 24 hours a day to get you and your vehicle where you need to go to get repaired and back on the road. The McDonald's restaurant on Ind. 931 and East Alto Road will be completely leveled, and a new building will be erected in its place by Spring of 2024./review-me-you-and-everyone-we-know.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-me-you-and-everyone-we-know.htmlMe, You, and Everyone We Know (2005) Written and directed by Miranda July I can’t recall what it was about the early to mid-aughts that ushered in this strange, heartfelt debut feature by Miranda July, until then known only as a performance artist to people who read the Village Voice or who were in touch with the art scene in L.A. It stars July as, yes, a performance artist who is striving to get a show at a local museum./meet-the-body-okanogan-countys-sovereign.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-body-okanogan-countys-sovereign.htmlOn the evening of April 8, 2022, Okanogan Sheriff’s deputies arrested two members of a religious organization known as “The Body” near Tonasket, Washington. A six-year-old girl was recovered at the scene and taken into protective custody. The girl’s father, Christopher Coombes, was arrested on three charges, according to journalist Syran Warner, who has been following The Body and its movements for years. Coombs was arrested for violating a writ of habeas corpus and a parental order, as well as obstruction of justice./meet-the-investor-nalanda-capital.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-investor-nalanda-capital.htmlIt was such an honour to get to hear from Pulak Prasad for our session titled “Buy a Company You Don’t Need to Sell”. Pulak is the founder of Nalanda Capital, a Singapore-based firm that invests in listed Indian equities and manages about $5 billion. He was previously the co-head of India for Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, and also worked at the management consulting firm McKinsey for several years./mgm-grand-garden-arena-boxings-spiritual.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mgm-grand-garden-arena-boxings-spiritual.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./michaelpodhorzer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michaelpodhorzer.htmlMichael PodhorzerFormer political director of the AFL-CIO. Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Founder: Analyst Institute, Research Collaborative (RC), Co-founder: Working America, Catalist. He publishes Weekend Reading. (weekendreading.net) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja61wqGYnqSgpLGpu9GznKs%3D/monique-powell-of-save-ferris-artist.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monique-powell-of-save-ferris-artist.htmlIn this episode, we revisit the vibrant energy and distinct sound of the ska-punk scene of the late '90s with none other than Monique Powell, the charismatic lead singer of Save Ferris. Back in season seven, we dug into Save Ferris's influential 1997 album, It Means Everything, marking our first deep dive into a ska album. Today, Monique joins us to discuss her journey with the band, from her entry into the ska-punk ensemble to the exhilarating and tumultuous experiences that came with signing to a major label./motor-city-comic-con.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/motor-city-comic-con.htmlBack in February 2022, I was invited by the kind folks at HiLobrow to write about my enthusiasm for a certain sidekick of which I’m sharing here… TIN MAN Born in the late 1960s, I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan watching a lot of syndicated television. I was supposed to identify with Captain Kirk, Batman, the Fonz, and the Six Million Dollar Man but my first action hero was an adolescent badass named Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz./netflixs-ripley-the-highsmith-novel.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflixs-ripley-the-highsmith-novel.htmlThis contains plot spoilers “The Talented Mr. Ripley” is one of my all-time favorite movies, so I welcomed the arrival of Netflix’s new eight-part series “Ripley”. Though “Ripley” mines the same material, I knew that in the hands of writer-director Steven Zaillian and actor Andrew Scott the result … ncG1vNJzZmign6WyorrDnqmsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opZ6slqG2ub%2BMq6CppJWuerW0xGafop%2BYqLqqwMdmpaiulaE%3D/snakeeyes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snakeeyes.htmlMany thanks to everyone who came through at the Sidewalk Cinema last night for my third time hosting VHS Time Machine! Or what I like to call “Dust On The VCR Live!” (They probably don’t want me to call it that.) We watched my recently acquired VHS copy of Snake Eyes in honor of Nic’s 60th birthday, and it was a terrific time with a lively crowd. Speaking of Sidewalk, don’t forget that the Bad Movie Marathon starts tonight, and I could really use your support!/no-christians-allowed-in-game-dev.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-christians-allowed-in-game-dev.htmlI don’t care what religious beliefs you hold. You can be a protestant or a Catholic, a Muslim or a Jew, Hindu or Buddhist, Sikh or Baháʼí, Taoist or Rastafari. Do the druidism thing or pray to Odin. Go old-school and get your Zoroastrianism on. Your beliefs are none of my business. And if your beliefs and mine don’t always align, that’s okay, too. We can debate if you want, or we can take our differences to the polling station and vote on how best to shape the future of society./no-one-gets-out-of-here-unbroken.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-one-gets-out-of-here-unbroken.htmlI can now tell you what I’ve been haunting Golgotha over: my wife is divorcing me.I wrote about it here, and included this statement, which she previewed and of which she approved: It pains me more than I can say to announce that my wife recently filed a petition of divor… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5mxs7HHnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wus5mpqedXZyytb%2BMqKytZZ%2Bbeqmx0Z5krqaSp7yssc0%3D/nobody-gets-fired-for-buying-ibm.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nobody-gets-fired-for-buying-ibm.htmlSomething that has long puzzled me confounds me anew in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision against affirmative action. Immediately critics of the decision brought pressure against Harvard to end legacy admissions, on grounds that these preferences for children of alumni are no less anti-meritocratic than the racial preferences the court had just forbidden. The puzzle was and is that anyone ever would have thought otherwise. In particular, graduate schools and corporate recruiters of Harvard graduates must have realized that some who received a Harvard diploma wouldn’t have gotten into the university without that extra boost./on-turning-fifty.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-turning-fifty.htmlI turn 50 today. It feels like 30, but better. More landed. Less buzzy. I feel this milestone lends me a certain licence to write about aging. Some frame 50 as having passed a half-way peak. They position it somewhere on the decline down the other side. But that only sticks if you envisage existence as a linear bell curve. I don’t. I feel, as with so muc… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuqcPIpaqopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6opWaspae7qrrGZp2inqSu/a-cult-within-a-cult-operation-underground.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-cult-within-a-cult-operation-underground.htmlTwo weeks ago, Slate published an essay from a woman I know about a paramilitary raid she went on with Operation Underground Railroad. OUR is an organization of self-proclaimed abolitionists fighting to save children from sex slavery. It was founded by Tim Ballard, an ex-DHS agent who’s been capitalizing on QAnon. It seems Mormon millionaire mediamongers stick together: Tim pitched OUR as a reality TV series to Glenn Beck. Tim’s upcoming biopic, an action movie called Sound of Freedom, stars Jim Caviezel./owner-yes-enslaver-certainly.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/owner-yes-enslaver-certainly.htmlIf we reproduce the language found in sources created by early modern White men and women we risk inadvertently echoing the racist assumptions of those who created and perpetuated racial slavery while dehumanising the people who were enslaved. - Simon P. Newman, author of Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London A follower recently pointed out that our Hard Histories website uses the term “owner” when referring to Johns Hopkins./ozark-characters-ranked.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ozark-characters-ranked.htmlI’m finally caught up on Ozark! Who wants to discuss it? Yes, this is long, but writing it provided a much-needed respite from real life.  (So, let's watch a dark show about murder instead?)  Anyway, I can't stop thinking about it, so feel free to reply to tell me how wrong my ranking is. Obviously, this contains spoilers. Out of the characters appearing in 9+ episodes, these are my favorite to least favorite./introducing-ps-a-new-paid-subscriber.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-ps-a-new-paid-subscriber.htmlDear Reader, I began Noted as a way to translate my academic work into essays a general audience could enjoy. For the past 10 months, I have been on a research-sabbatical. Originally, I planned on using this time to write another academic book. Instead, I fell in love with sharing notes with you. I’ve never had so many people read my writing, and I am t… ncG1vNJzZmiimaG5qq3NoZysq16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6ipa2qn5nCpLXNoGSpq12Weq%2Bx1manmqGUYsC2rtKcqaKalac%3D/pac-man-or-frogger.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pac-man-or-frogger.htmlThe only thing I hate more than meetings is icebreakers. And, the only thing I hate more than icebreakers themselves are icebreakers that initially annoy me but end up being actually kind of cool. This happened at a back-to-school meeting. The icebreaker, called “Backpack Bingo,” went like this: Step One: Get in a group of 4-5 people. Select one person to share the contents of their bag. Group members start to sweat, fearing theirs will be selected./pass-concept-6-the-snag-concept.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pass-concept-6-the-snag-concept.htmlAnother great concepts is the snag concept. This is a staple of Noel Mazzone and his offense and can be run from 2x2 or 3x1 formations. “Mazzone’s snag concept is one of the best in the game and very difficult to defend. The beauty of the snag is it puts the outside linebacker in conflict, forcing him to either defend the snag route or the swing route by the running back.  The coaching point on this is the outside wr will run his route at a 45  degree towards the middle of the field./the-boy-behind-the-boy-called-charlie.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-boy-behind-the-boy-called-charlie.htmlYesterday, in an entry titled The Dirty Ghostwriter, I recounted how I met Peter Robbins, a former child actor best known as the original voice of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts TV specials. We stayed in contact for more than a decade (though interrupted for four years while he was serving time in Chino State Prison). Over three days and nights in November 2019 we sat down to compile a book proposal: a memoir of his life in Hollywood, his descent into mental illness and a second life thanks to medication and therapy./photoshop-truthers-come-for-kate.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/photoshop-truthers-come-for-kate.html“Photoshop fails” are among the Internet’s oldest and most clickable content. Since bloggers and social media users have been able to call photoshop on edited images, they have done so, and audiences have gawked. I have seen in my career as an online writer and editor how much audiences love stories about celebrities getting caught photoshopping themselves for Instagram, magazines accidentally removing part of a cover subject’s body, and e-commerce sites that do all sorts of crazy things./pickle-soup-slay.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pickle-soup-slay.htmlI know I wasn’t ready for all things fall last week, but this is a new week. And I was just sick for a whole week straight where all I wanted was a bowl of soup. During that time, I took my position as a sick person to my advantage and thought about every soup I would want to eat in that very moment. Pickle soup was one of the top contenders./poets-theyre-just-like-us.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poets-theyre-just-like-us.htmlHi friends!  We want to extend a warm welcome to new subscribers who found Notes From Three Pines from our appearance on The Library of Lost Time. You can check out our previous essays here. Amazon released the full-length trailer for Three Pines and a release date: 12/2/2022. Head over to watch if you haven’t already!  This week we’re sharing a piece on one of our favorite characters: Ruth Zardo./polish-sausage-sauerkraut-pizza-spilled.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/polish-sausage-sauerkraut-pizza-spilled.htmlBut after eating a superb tavern pie at a local supper club, cut into little squares, and bedecked with home-made sauerkraut and sausage, I developed my own version because the pizza was so insanely delicious. I had to make it at home. More about that buddy of mine on Ask Me Anything this Friday.  I love using smoky chunky Krakowska from Kramarczuk’s in Minneapolis, one of the best old world meat purveyors in the country, but even supermarket bratwurst will work./poor-things.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poor-things.htmlGoing in to see “Poor Things” I heard much raving about shocking it is and how good it is. It is indeed both of those things, though not nearly so much in either regard as we’ve been led to believe. Emma Stone plays Bella Baxter, a woman created by a scientist as a Frankenstein-like experiment. Growing from a childlike state in an adult body, she develops an insatiable craving to experience all that life has to offer, and embarks on a European spree of sex and discovery that leads her to a sense of realization about the depraved nature of mankind… emphasis on the man./poor-things-is-the-best-film-of-2023.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poor-things-is-the-best-film-of-2023.htmlThe Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has spent the last few years making some of the weirdest movies in the world, like Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. These are movies in which characters speak strangely and behave more strangely.  Back in 2018, Lanthimos made his most accessible movie to date, The Favourite and even that was a lesbian love triangle between Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone./pro-dex-inc.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pro-dex-inc.htmlAs a thank you for the recent outcry of support, I’m going to leave this post without a paywall. Today we’re going to drill down into Pro-dex Inc. Price: $19.35 USD Shares Out (fully diluted): 3.54M Market Cap: $68.64M Net Debt: $9.03M TEV: $77.67M Production of surgical implantable devices (screws, fixation systems), devices with electronics, custom software development, complex assemblies and sub-assemblies, sterilization, complex materials, and injection molding. “Pro-Dex specializes in the design, development and manufacture of autoclavable, battery-powered and electric, multi-function surgical drivers and shavers used primarily in the orthopedic, thoracic, and maxocranial facial markets./proship-rhetoric.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/proship-rhetoric.htmlPost-Truth: Relating to and denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. - Oxford Dictionaries Before we can delve into the concept of “Proship Rhetoric” and how it relates to fandom’s moral battleground, we have to acknowledge where the term “proship” originated and what purpose the term has for people who use it to describe themselves and the conflicting purpose the term has for people who use it to describe others./publishing-is-slow-in-the-summer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/publishing-is-slow-in-the-summer.htmlLast Thursday’s subscriber newsletter was about How To Quit Your Job and Write Full Time and if you want to read it, you can subscribe right here! Yes, it is a little ironic that this post is behind a paywall. I, too, want to get paid for my writing. I preach what I practice, a wise person told me another wise person told him. Hi Friends, I am coming off the busiest period of my entire career./quitting-the-adjunct-hustle.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quitting-the-adjunct-hustle.htmlThis semester the California Faculty Association—the union for the California State University system, where I currently teach—voted to strike for better salaries, more sustainable workloads, paid leave, and in response to ongoing health and safety issues, among them poor conditions for lactating faculty. Many campuses are striking this week. CFA repres… ncG1vNJzZmiZnZa7pa3MqKWtnZljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqK6hpKm2r7OMrZ%2BeZZGZt7a6wq1koa2jqbmm/raekatz.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/raekatz.htmlInner Workings By Rachel Katz “Consistently sharp and interesting” weekly dispatches on mysterious women’s diseases, work culture, mothering, and the struggle to stop yearning for wealth and power. From a chronically ill, ex-startup CEO searching for redemption. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbOtxKSYrbI%3D/random-thoughts-on-anyone-but-you.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/random-thoughts-on-anyone-but-you.htmlWelcome to Girl Culture, the newsletter where Caroline Siede examines pop culture, feminism, and more. Learn more about Girl Culture’s mission here If there’s one good thing about being sick for two weeks, it’s that you get a lot of time to catch up on ridiculous movies and TV. (Hello six seasons of Survivor.) And since things have been a little quieter on Girl Culture than I intended recently (something I very much intend to change in the coming months), I thought this was the perfect time to delve into one of my biggest 2023 rom-com blindspots: Anyone But You./re-release-this-einhander.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-release-this-einhander.htmlThis column is “Re-release this,” which will focus on games that aren’t easily available, or even available at all, but should be once again. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Square is and was primarily known for their role-playing games. They’re a major publisher at this point, with subsidiaries they’ve both formed and purchased over the years, but that centerpiece, Square? JRPGs has been their thing forever./recapping-magnificent-obsession-from.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/recapping-magnificent-obsession-from.htmlAs a Person of Criterion Experience, I don’t “watch movies.” I engage with cinema. Only the finest cuts of meat satisfy my refined palate for motion pictures. There’s nothing like donning my velvet robe, swirling a glass of Merlot, firing off an abusive tweet to Dr. Mehmet Oz, and browsing the offerings on the Criterion Channel’s homepage.  For those of you who don’t know what Criterion is, pretend your Netflix subscription had an MFA and was wearing a turtleneck./remembering-giant-of-a-friend-michael.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-giant-of-a-friend-michael.htmlNAPA VALLEY, Calif. — Michael Anthony Chelini, age 75, passed away on Oct. 31, 2023, at his home in the Napa Valley. He is survived by his wife Kathleen Ann (Ragghianti), the love of his life and the much-beloved members of La Famiglia Chelini to include his daughters, Misha (Scott Harvey) and Missy Gott, and his son Rico (Lindsey) as well as seven grandchildren: Olivia and Sofia Gott; Miles, Oliver, and Frances Harvey; and Mikey and Joey Chelini, as well as his adoring sister Kit Chelini of Sonoma./rest-in-peace-bill-haller.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rest-in-peace-bill-haller.html“Officiating is the only occupation where you have to be perfect the first day and get better each day after.” ~ Unknown William Edward Haller, a retired MLB umpire passed away this past Saturday, the 20th at the age of 87. I heard about it late Monday afternoon and immediately thought about a particular balk call and the ensuing argument with Baltimore Orioles manager, Earl Weaver. A classic confrontation. But first, let’s look at Bill’s life./review-villain-to-kill.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-villain-to-kill.htmlHello, everyone! We are beginning October by reviewing a webcomic that runs a little less angsty—but just as action-heavy—as some of the previous titles I’ve covered. If you’re a fan of superheroes, this story might be right up your alley. I’ll be reviewing up to Episode 14 of Villain to Kill with no spoilers beyond that point. You can find Villain to Kill for free on Webtoons. In a modern world where heroes and villains are normalized in society, Cassian Lee is a top flame psyker(their title for heroes) who works under Lampas, an international hero organization./review-abbott-elementary-breakup.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-abbott-elementary-breakup.html“Breakup” is one of those Abbott Elementary episodes where the whole “schooling” part of the show “about a school” isn’t really the focus. (It almost makes you wonder why a documentary about public school teachers would spend so much time focusing on any of the material provided here. I’m sure the mockumentarian stickler that is my fearless editor, Myles McNutt, has something to say about that.) There are no chime-ins or one-liners from any of the students this week; the most they get in this episode is some screaming and dozing off./review-chad-and-jeremy-before-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-chad-and-jeremy-before-and.htmlTracks: 1) Before And After; 2) Why Should I Care; 3) For Lovin’ Me; 4) I’m In Love Again; 5) Little Does She Know; 6) Tell Me Baby; 7) What Do You Want With Me; 8) Say It Isn’t True; 9) Fare Thee Well (I Must Be Gone); 10) Evil-Hearted Me; 11) Can’t Get Used To Losing You. REVIEW On March 27, 1965, Chad & Jeremy signed a contract with Columbia Records, which symbolized their acceptance into the big leagues — apart from Bob Dylan himself, one of Columbia’s leading artists at the time were Simon & Garfunkel, and apparently the idea of propping up their American superstars with a thematically similar British duo really appealed to somebody in the management./review-survivor-wackadoodles-win.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-survivor-wackadoodles-win.htmlWhen Yanu returned from tribal council, you’d think that things would be pretty positive: after all, an overly elaborate plan to convince Jess she had a fake idol had worked like a charm. But Bhanu’s still spiraling after becoming overly emotional during tribal, realizing that the other three players hatched that plan without him. And while they subtly try to suggest that maybe his inability to hide his emotions make that a good choice for his game (given that Jess would target him with her vote and play the shot in the dark if she had known the idol was fake), he can’t get over the idea that they’re so willing to be deceptive, and are clearly going to target him next if they lose again./revolution-and-typography-in-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revolution-and-typography-in-the.htmlWe live in an era in which we can change the look of a document on a computer screen with a few button clicks. The aesthetics of type is both more noticeable than ever, yet, perhaps, less considered. Ease, ubiquity, and low cost have made ours both a golden age of typography and a veritable tower of typographic babble. Finding the right font – or, at least, a right font – remains one of the most important factors in designing text./novak-djokovic-claudia-tenney-maga.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/novak-djokovic-claudia-tenney-maga.htmlMy member of Congress recently blocked me on X over a comment I posted criticizing her take on Serbian tennis star (and anti-vaxxer) Novak Djokovic. Yeah, 2024 is coming in hot.  I normally don’t follow Republican members of Congress on social media. X feeds them to me regardless, so what’s the point, right? But seeing as Claudia Tenney is my Rep in New York’s 24th district, and is someone I will continue to work to try to defeat each cycle, I thought it would be smart to follow her./roasted-pork-tenderloin.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roasted-pork-tenderloin.html(Click here for an index of all past WTC recipes! And see the bottom of this newsletter for a printable PDF of this one.) Every time I cook pork tenderloin, I am transported back to my childhood kitchen — to its beige tiles and light green cabinets, the Talking Heads playing way too loudly from the stereo, and my mom shouting over the noise for my dad to "TURN IT DOWN, TOMMY!/ruggedize-your-life.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ruggedize-your-life.html"Upterrlainarluta.” Yup'ik, VERB: “to be wise in preparing for the unknowable."* When it comes to the planetary crisis, the most important question you can ask yourself is “Where?” It feels almost anachronistic to say it — in these days of globalization, international entertainment, worldwide travel, remote work, constant connection and instant access to everything — but the most important choice facing you and your family as the planetary crisis crashes down is where you choose to be./running-while-black.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/running-while-black.htmlThere are a lot of things white people take for granted — and one of them is ease of movement. I don't mean, like, the ability to move your body without feeling creaks and cracks, I mean actually moving oneself — across town, across the country, by foot, by car, by train, by plane — without question. That assertion is complicated, of course, by other parts of a person's identity, but the general pass of whiteness remains in place: the understanding that in a white body, I will almost certainly be given the benefit of the doubt, and that my presence in a space will not be immediately understood as threatening or suspect./salted-butter-caramel-sauce.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salted-butter-caramel-sauce.htmlThis time of year, there’s a lot of talk and all sorts of articles with strategies for not turning on your oven in the summer. They remind me of all the October/November articles and recipes that promise the moistest Thanksgiving turkey ever. If anyone wants moist turkey, you can spend your life debating dry vs. wet brining, deep-frying (which is fraught with fails), roasting the bird upside down, spatchcocking it, etc./scent-word-of-the-week-indolic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scent-word-of-the-week-indolic.htmlIndolic, the adjective deriving from the noun indole, is used within the perfume industry in a slightly different way than the common usage of the word indole. Indole is actually a chemical component found within certain plants. Aromatic plants which include jasmine (Jasminium spp.), lilac (Syringa spp.), honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.), and gardenia (Gardenia spp.) contain varying degrees of indole. Indole is found in mostly white flowers which are fragrant; however, indole is also found in vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage (all cultivars of Brassica oleracea)./scott-boras-blinks-first.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scott-boras-blinks-first.htmlWe knew this day was coming, and now it’s here: The top free agent hitter still on the market has signed a contract to play major league baseball this season and will report to spring training immediately as, uh, the games have already started. It’s no surprise that Cody Bellinger returned to the Cubs. No other team was ever seriously linked to the star centerfielder (at least publicly). And even the fabled “mystery team” a certain scribe close to Bellinger’s agent, Scott Boras, tends to float to the market to add intrigue/confusion/drive up bidding never materialized./dune-part-two-scott-mendelsons-overlong.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dune-part-two-scott-mendelsons-overlong.htmlWith paid preview screenings starting tomorrow as early as 3:00 pm, Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part Two is expected to be Hollywood’s first tentpole smash of 2024. Conventional wisdom suggests an over/under $75 million domestic and over/under $170 million global launch. Warner Bros. Discovery has tried to temper expectations, offering a $65 million domestic projection. Studios almost always “predict” smaller figures than tracking services and rival studios for what should be obvious reasons./q-and-a-screenwriter-ryan-j-condal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/q-and-a-screenwriter-ryan-j-condal.htmlWhen I landed my first manager — a man who insisted on wearing tracksuit pants to every meeting—he sent me a great spec script called GALAHAD to check out. It was by another newbie screenwriter client of his named Ryan J. Condal who, like me, was relatively new to Hollywood and focused on writing period action-adventures. The significant difference between the two of us was that Ryan had already sold his spec and was suddenly hot shit around town while I was still six-or-so months away from making a similar splash./salmonberry-goods-bagel-second-schmears-review.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salmonberry-goods-bagel-second-schmears-review.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. I’ve been thinking a lot about the taxonomy of Seattle bagels./semolina-flour.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/semolina-flour.htmlLast Sunday, during our Cook Along, I found myself smelling the dough when I felt it was ready, smooth, dense and silky under my hands, responsive to my rhytmic movements. I inhaled the smell of semolina flour, closed my eyes, and declared: this is the smell of fresh pasta to me, the smell of sun-ripened wheat, Sunday family gatherings, genuine food. There isn’t just one type of fresh pasta dough in Italy./one-tree-hill-mark-schwahn.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-tree-hill-mark-schwahn.htmlCan you love the creation and hate the creator? Can you support the art without supporting the artist? These are questions “One Tree Hill” fans like myself have been reconciling with since 2017, when creator Mark Schwahn was accused of sexual harassment and serial misconduct. And he wasn’t accused by just anyone. He was accused by his own cast members, including the actress believed to be his muse. This sad saga in teen drama history began in November of 2017, when Audrey Wauchope, a writer for “One Tree Hill,” posted a Twitter thread in which she detailed how she and writing partner Rachel Specter were sexually harassed by an unnamed showrunner./sephora-celebrates-10-billion-in.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sephora-celebrates-10-billion-in.htmlOur careers are not linear. Some lessons are learned in a most difficult way. However, grit, resilience, and tenacity go a long way. I invite you to listen to my guest appearance on the F’ing Up Podcast, hosted by Deanne Rhynard. This just dropped yesterday. Check it out on your commute, dog walk, or lunch break. Links: Apple: https://lnkd.in/gXhjfFHr Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g4NiPB8Q Cheers! Generating $10 billion in revenue is a significant success./shakespeare-friends-romans-countrymen.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shakespeare-friends-romans-countrymen.htmlMarc Antony’s funeral oration from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the second in our five-part series, entitled “Man against the Masses”. The series examines the strength of the individual standing apart from the foolishness and perfidy of the masses and their delusions. The relationship between the individual and the masses is inherently precarious. Every individual risks being consumed and losing his values, virtues, and sense of self. If lost, he becomes incapable of independent action, destined to become a pawn in someone else’s game./beware-of-unfounded-optimism-shin.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beware-of-unfounded-optimism-shin.htmlWhen Godzilla makes his first appearance in the 2016 film Shin Godzilla it’s not his size that strikes terror. It’s the eyes. Sure, the size helps, but this fresh-start take on the atomic-powered monster arrives in Tokyo with a pair of unblinking eyes that betray no hint of any kind of inner life. Later to evolve into a more familiar, dinosaur-like beast, Godzilla first crawls ashore as a kind of super-sized lungfish, spewing liquid from his gills and leaving destruction in his wake as his unthinking body lurches through the outskirts of the Japanese metropolis./should-you-refrigerate-your-tomato.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-you-refrigerate-your-tomato.htmlArguably one of the most important crops we grow and eat worldwide, tomatoes hold a special position in many cultures and my heart. Today, there are at least 10,000 varieties of tomatoes in all sorts of colors, shapes, and sizes. Today, we will get into a healthy dose of tomato science because I think it is one of the most fascinating vegetables/fruit from an evolutionary standpoint. Much of what you read today inspired me to write my upcoming cookbook, Veg-Table./the-simplest-dashi-shiitake-mushroom.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-simplest-dashi-shiitake-mushroom.htmlLet’s stop calling dashi Japanese stock. It’s an easy shortcut, but misleading. I’ve introduced it this way for years myself. However, recently, I’ve wondered if it’s putting people off making it. Prepping a stock conjures up ideas of chopping vegetables, meat carcasses, hours with a huge steaming pot on the go and all the resulting mess to deal with. Not the case with making a dashi. It’s more of a brew, or infusion./social-housing-in-central-london.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/social-housing-in-central-london.htmlImagine that you have won the lottery. A vast prize is yours for the claiming; a life-changing sum, ready to be deployed as you see fit. Now imagine that as you reach out for the cheque, the lottery official suddenly pulls it back. There is a catch: you have to spend the prize on housing. In fact, you have to spend it all on one particular house. You can’t sell it or rent it out, you have to live in it./sohla-el-wayllys-rainbow-rave-cookies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sohla-el-wayllys-rainbow-rave-cookies.htmlWe did it! Cookie #7, the very last one! ICYMI, this post is the last in a series wherein I veganized all the cookies from the New York Times CookingCookie Week, arguably my favourite part of the holiday season. The challenge kicked off with an emotional introduction and some easy vegan butter and egg recipes right here. By the time you’re reading this, all of the posts will be tidily linked at the top of that intro post if you’d like to catch up./soun-of-ogbomoso-land-visits-lautech.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/soun-of-ogbomoso-land-visits-lautech.htmlReport By Olaniran Julianah In the early hours of Tuesday,16th April 2024, the Soun of Ogbomoso land, Imperial Majesty, Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye, Orumogege III and the prominent chiefs of the town visited the leadership of Ladoke Akintola University of technology Ogbomoso. During that visitation, the Soun commend the effort of the management of the university at becoming a leading player at the International level. Image Credit: LAUTECH Newsletter He also urged the leadership of the university to have a view of developmental projects and see areas where he could assist in achieving the desires of the state university./special-school-district-head-seems.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/special-school-district-head-seems.htmlThe entire team here at St. Louis Insider (which would be me) normally would take much pride in scooping the local media on a matter of seriousness involving a vital St. Louis school district. But on a day when the Post-Dispatch is reporting about yet another high school teacher moonlighting as a porn star, our education exclusive probably won’t be setting search engines afire. I don’t care: It’s still news, dammit./sunday-books-and-culture-025.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sunday-books-and-culture-025.htmlPublished by Thomas & Mercer (August 1, 2023) Paperback $16.99 Audiobook $14.99 Reviewed by Penny A Parrish  New York City in 1923 was in the throes of Prohibition, which certainly didn’t mean the lack of booze, sex, or scandal. Several newspapers competed for juicy front-page stories. One of those revolved around the murder of Dot King, a 27 year old Manhattan “It” girl, who was found murdered in her bed.  The flapper was a model and sometime-actress, but she was best known for the company she kept./survivors-on-screen-4-the-morning.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/survivors-on-screen-4-the-morning.htmlThank you for reading Beyond Survival, a publication about life after trauma. This is the fourth installment of Survivors on Screen, a series about how sexual violence is portrayed in TV and film. Please be aware that some readers might find it triggering and that there are spoilers ahead. Here are the earlier posts in this series: the introduction, ‘Promising Young Woman’, ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘The Assistant’.  Today, I’m speaking with WGA-nominated writer and on set producer of The Morning Show, Ali Griffin Vingiano about the show’s first season which was written in response to the #MeToo movement./swainsons-magical-thrush.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/swainsons-magical-thrush.htmlAudio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.They’re harder than hen’s teeth to actually see; kinda like imaginary friends, guardian angels …and Bigfoot.* But you can hear them from a quarter mile away, those brief, upward soaring spires of crystalline sound. How they can throw their voices like ventriloquists and give that sense of spiraling and those echo-y reverberations in a woodland without walls is one of those lovely mysteries I am grateful to encounter again and again./sweet-water-noodles-tian-shui-mian.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweet-water-noodles-tian-shui-mian.htmlOne sunny April afternoon, I found myself strolling around the Wenshu Buddhist Temple in Chengdu. This now well-visited tourist spot is surrounded by popular street food, including a time-honored noodle eatery offering petite, snack-sized noodle bowls. It wasn't a tough choice to make, so I ordered two classics: liang fen (recipe here) and tian shui mian (甜水面), the latter translates as sweet-water noodles. It has been years since I last had it./tahini-banana-bread-with-chocolate.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tahini-banana-bread-with-chocolate.htmlSometime around day 5 after testing positive for Covid, I lost my senses of smell and taste. It was like a light switched off. One second the vapors of my lemon ginger tea were connecting with my brain synapses, and the next second they weren’t. It took me a moment to realize what was happening - and then I panicked. Yoshie and the kids were gone for the day, so I hurled myself out of bed (where I’d spent the majority of my quarantine) and shuffled to the kitchen where I began opening and huffing spices./tekes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tekes.htmlA meal at Tekés might be the most fun a vegetarian can have in Paris. This new address from the team behind Israeli restaurants Balagan and Shabour doesn’t have any meat or fish on its menu, but omnivores won’t miss a thing. The ambiance is lively, the service is friendly, and the food is both clever and delicious. MORE GREAT VEGETARIAN OPTIONS IN PARIS You can sit at the counter and watch t…/thai-beef-salad-with-a-zingy-fresh.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thai-beef-salad-with-a-zingy-fresh.htmlThis salad really is one of my favourite things to eat at this time of year, (and really all times of the year if I’m being honest)! It’s so fresh and zingy and provides such a delicious contrast to the rich Christmas food we’ve all been enjoying. This is the kind of salad where it really all comes down to the dressing. The dressing is the star of the show, the leading lady, the one you tell your friends about…./its-back-back-back-again-that-damn.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-back-back-back-again-that-damn.htmlIf you’ve been an SOS subscriber from the beginning, you know about my beef with Valak, the demonic nun that made its first appearance in The Conjuring 2 before getting a spin-off prequel with The Nun in 2018. Five years later, Valak is back in The Nun 2, which came out this fall. Pete and I recently devoted a weekend to catch up on recently released horror movies, including The Nun 2, and I can confirm: VALAK STILL SCARES THE EVER-LOVING SHIT OUT OF ME./that-time-obituary-pirates-fabricated.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-time-obituary-pirates-fabricated.htmlJust a quickie today, before I take off for a week in Florida with my mom: Last week, in the Los Angeles Times, Wendy Lee posted an update to the story of author Gabe Hudson’s passing. It’s the first time since he died on November 23rd, 2023 that I’ve seen an official cause of my friend’s death: Hudson, 52, had undiagnosed diabetes and a contributing factor in his death was chronic kidney disease, according to the death certificate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts./the-50-most-frequently-graded-video.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-50-most-frequently-graded-video.htmlClick below to get seven free days of access to the twelve sections and over 200 reports at Retro. Get 7 day free trial {Note: For brief introductions to sealed-and-graded video game collecting, see here and here. I also recommend Gamer Stonks for top-notch market analyses and GetTheGreg Games for the friendliest, most helpful flesh-and-blood guide those new to this particular hobby could want.} Collecting sealed and graded video games began around 2008, when the first game-grading company, VGA, was founded, but it didn’t really take off until the founding of the second such company WATA, in 2018./the-art-of-framing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-art-of-framing.htmlGood Morning, The Mets are bringing back Michael Pérez on a minor league deal, and the timing of this news is perfect. Today, I will answer a subscriber question by diving into the art of catcher framing. 📬 FROM JONATHAN: Pitch framing is one of those skills that seems to get touted, but I’ve never known what to look for when watching a game. I don’t recall seeing a great pitch frame highlighted on Sportscenter./from-peloton-to-powerlifting-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-peloton-to-powerlifting-the.htmlWelcome to Body Type! Check out my full archive. If you’d like to support this lady-run, independent publishing enterprise and read my paid subscriber-only posts, please consider upgrading for $5/month or $50/year 😊 P.S. Body Type has become a bestseller less than a year after I turned paid subscriptions on. Thank you so, so much for supporting my work. Amanda Mull is a staff writer at The Atlantic who covers health and consumerism and has written a lot about exercise and the fitness industry./the-aussies-who-are-dominating-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-aussies-who-are-dominating-the.htmlThe Aussie line in K-Pop — idols who were born and/or raised in Australia — is flourishing. It’s a brutally competitive industry, so it’s exciting to see so many Aussies not just debuting but also achieving great success in the Korean music industry — and frequently, by extension, other global music markets like America and the UK and yes, sometimes even Australia! We need to celebrate them more, so here’s a start…/the-batter-blaster-breakfast.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-batter-blaster-breakfast.htmlOne recurring feature in this newsletter is that I occasionally introduce you to folks from my inventor portrait project. I’ve mostly been sharing them chronologically, but the truth is that I recently skipped a couple. They just didn’t have stories that were strong enough for their own newsletter. So today I’m going to tell you about the next inventor on the list, and then I will back-fill with two inventors that I skipped to bring us back on track./the-best-baguette-in-paris-is.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-baguette-in-paris-is.htmlThe winner of the annual Grand prix de la baguette de tradition française de la Ville de Paris - aka the best baguette in Paris competition - has just been announced. Au Levain des Pyrénées boulangerie (44 rue des Pyrénées, 75020), led by baker Tharshan Selvarajah, has produced the winning baguette in 2023. For this accomplishment, the bakery wins a small cash prize, a contract to supply the Élysée palace (the president) for the coming year, and the sort of bragging rights that usually lead to lines out the door./the-best-memes-about-ai.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-memes-about-ai.htmlI am a big aficionado of memes, both for their humor and the fact they drive home a point succinctly and visually. I collect them and use them in my teaching at UNC as well as often in communications. In this edition of the newsletter, I’ve collected a number of memes about AI, some of which I created. While some (many?) are a little dark, I hope you enjoy them and share with others if you think they will enjoy as well./the-best-movies-of-2023-keiths-list.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-movies-of-2023-keiths-list.htmlIf the films of 2023 create an overarching narrative, it might be one in which the tried and true became the tired and suspect, making room for the new and novel. But that doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny in a year in which the second-most financially successful film was The Super Mario Bros. Movie and even “disappointments” like The Little Mermaid (live-action remix edition) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania made a lot of money./the-big-interview-ruesha-littlejohn.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-interview-ruesha-littlejohn.html“That’s just me. What you see is what you get with me,” says Ruesha Littlejohn, when discussing the character and personality which has endeared her to many in the women’s game. She is though honest throughout our chat to admit it has also held her back, particularly when she was younger, and she had to quickly mature to save her international career with Republic of Ireland after switching allegiances from Scotland./the-collapse-of-hollywood.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-collapse-of-hollywood.htmlGot to love a dramatic title. The film and television industry is not collapsing, but now and again it seems to enjoy acting like it might be. We've had a pandemic and then a writers/actors strike and now we're in a period of consolidation as big companies gobble up small ones, and once-big companies flounder and break apart on the rocks. None of this i… ncG1vNJzZmiclauyrbvPppynrJiaua160q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybq%2FOpaOaqKOaerCyjKGmpaSprLywsA%3D%3D/acdcs-angus-young-the-complete-1983.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/acdcs-angus-young-the-complete-1983.htmlThis never-before-released interview took place in a San Francisco hotel room on October 22, 1983, during AC/DC’s Flick of the Switch tour. Lead guitarist Angus Young, the man with the million-dollar vibrato, begins with a heartfelt discussion of his brother Malcolm, whom he insists is a far better guitarist. He talks about their older brother George, who found worldwide success with the Easybeats and went on to produce the early AC/DC albums./the-concept-of-a-cursed-bird.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-concept-of-a-cursed-bird.htmlI assumed I would enjoy Robert Eggers’ sophomore film The Lighthouse. And guess what? I was right! I continue to delight in weird movies about increasingly deranged white people. In this movie I was like “what is UP with this seagull?” and then Robert Pattinson beat it to death with his bare hands. So clearly, that made two of us. Admittedly it was a little overdramatic, but I’m sure we have all wanted to give seagulls a taste of their own medicine./the-detritus-of-this-technological.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-detritus-of-this-technological.htmlThere’s no getting away from waste. I mean literal garbage, although there’s a deeper metaphysical resonance in the idea. For centuries, people used wagons to take away waste. By the 1920s open-top trucks were used for the same thing. This mechanical turn caused problems of an odorous sort, however, so covered vehicles were soon preferred. Then in 1937, a man with the darkly serendipitous name of George Dempster invented the Dempster-Dumpster system, which allowed wheeled waste containers to be mechanically tipped into a truck./the-dissociative-pout-is-already.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dissociative-pout-is-already.htmlIf the cult of the dissociative pout is now ascendant among internet hot girls, the ladies of the Red Scare podcast are among its founding members. That said, when Addison Rae starts donning the pout, you can be sure it’s dead already. Mere ironic detachment was once cool but no longer is. Those hoping Red Scare won’t survive the rapidly accelerating vibe shift are likely to be disappointed. Soon enough, all the cool kids will be reassociating./the-farm-stand.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-farm-stand.html1× 0:00 -36:32 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Welcome to the Farm Stand! I wanted to share with this audience what this farm has to offer besides writing. So, to make it as a One Woman Farm here’s all the plates I spin to keep my dream and my home safe. I’ll explain them in more detail in a bit. Cold Antler Farm has been my full-time gig since I left my corporate job in 2012./the-feast-of-bacchus.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-feast-of-bacchus.htmlHello, wonderful witches! My deepest apologies — I meant for this issue to go out already, but there’s been a sad occurrence in the head witch household. Many of you know about my beloved Boston terrier Ollie, the Kitchen Witch Curmudgeon, who always tried to eat the flames from my spell candles and grumbled every time I woke him up during the day to go outside. Sadly while I was in Colorado, my little pup moved on to the next phase of his existence./the-tragedy-of-norah-vincent-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tragedy-of-norah-vincent-the.htmlNorah Vincent wanted to experience what life would be like as a man. As a journalist, she decided to conduct an 18-month gender change experiment using herself as a guinea pig. She documented her findings in her 2006 book ‘Self-Made Man’. Although she was a lesbian and never identified as transgender, she was curious about living like a man. As part of her transformation into her male alter ego Ned, she created fake stubble using tiny pieces of wool and exercised with weights to develop her shoulder and chest muscles./the-fishing-community-of-isla-venado.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fishing-community-of-isla-venado.htmlAt a floating restaurant anchored amidst the mangroves off Isla Venado in Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya, the piangua (Andara tuberculosa or Andara similis;) – called conchas negras in Peru, patas de mula in Mexico, or mangrove cockles as the generic English term – are kept in a mesh bag hanging into the water. They are a sensitive ingredient. I’ve heard countless stories of someone falling ill from them throughout the length of their habitat, which extends from Mexico’s Baja California Sur to Tumbes in northern Peru./light-sleeper-the-ghostly-souls-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/light-sleeper-the-ghostly-souls-of.htmlTwo films, two journal entries.  “June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”  “I feel my life turning. All it needed was a direction. You drift from day to day. Years go by. Then a change comes. I am able to change. I can be a good person./the-hatm-podcast-is-here.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hatm-podcast-is-here.htmlFolks, we made it. After four and a half years of building the Historians At The Movies community, I present to you our next step: the Historians At The Movies podcast. So much work went into creating this and delivering it to you. My first thanks is to my pal and producer on this mission, Fletcher Powell, who I’ve known since my days in Wichita. I also have to thank my friend Jason Busch, who is overseeing the website’s redesign./the-implausible-revelations-of-a.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-implausible-revelations-of-a.htmlIn April, Grand Central Publishing will release The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars and Marilyn, a new biography of midcentury private investigator Frank Otash by Josh Young, who coauthors book professionally, and Manfred Westphal, an entertainment industry PR executive who has been attempting to write a book about Otash since 1990. A onetime vice squad cop, Otash became infamous as a fixer for Confidential magazine and later claimed to have spied on everyone from Rock Hudson to Marilyn Monroe, alleging that he was present when Hudson admitted to being gay and when Monroe died minutes after a physical altercation with Bobby Kennedy./jain-cuisine-the-increasing-popularity.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jain-cuisine-the-increasing-popularity.htmlWelcome to the Brown History Newsletter. If you’re enjoying this labour of love, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber. Your contribution would help pay the writers and illustrators and support this weekly publication. If you like to submit a writing piece, please send me a pitch by email at brownhistory1947@gmail.com. Don’t forget to check out our SHOP and our Podcast. The common notion of Indian food is that it is rich in flavour./the-journey-mary-oliver.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-journey-mary-oliver.htmlDear all, The words of the American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) have already deeply affected how I view life. They have inspired me in ways hard to describe. I wrote about how her famous quote from The Summer Day gave me the confidence I needed to travel solo. ‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? This week, I came acro… ncG1vNJzZmigkaO7orTAp6qtnZVjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXZ%2B8tr7NnrBmpZGnxm67y6Ktnqo%3D/the-legend-of-shen-li-2024-final.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-legend-of-shen-li-2024-final.htmlAlthough The Legend of Shen Li ended a few weeks ago, aspects of it linger in my mind. From all metrics the much touted reunion of the leads Lin Gengxin and Zhao Liying appears to be a commercial success because the showrunners which includes Zhao Liying as an executive producer know what the audiences want. The two final episodes tacitly acknowledge the problems and mistakes of the leads’ previous collaboration, Princess Agents, focusing on what the audience wants and fan services the heck of out the resolution./heres-how-white-christian-nationalism.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heres-how-white-christian-nationalism.htmlI’m sounding the alarm. I’m shouting it from the rooftops. I’m telling anyone who will listen. It can happen here. The “it” in this case is fascism. In the United States, founded as a democratic republic, we now face the urgent threat of an authoritarian regime taking over our political mechanism and depriving us of our voice through the vote. The United States has never fully extended democracy to all people, but the tenuous thread of democratic freedoms we have might be severed as soon as the November 2024 presidential election./the-looking-glass-those-unintuitive.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-looking-glass-those-unintuitive.htmlHello readers! This week’s tidbits: Honesty The deepest truth Lies builders tell themselves From the Archives: Seven incredibly non-intuitive things about growing your career For paid subscribers: Subscriber Mailbag: Follow-up questions to Higher Level Design How do I know if I am truly honest with myself? The well goes deep Dear readers, The idea of truth has been on my mind for some years now. As we twist wider the spigot of information running into our brains we wonder more and more: what is really true?/the-marketing-behind-jhbteams-meteoric.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-marketing-behind-jhbteams-meteoric.htmlHappy Sunday everyone, Today's edition of Tommy Talks Marketing covers perhaps the most highly requested topic I've written about in the past few months. No pressure, right? The rise of JHBTeam as a content creator for esports organization, 100 Thieves, is a marketing masterclass. Today we'll examine what's made JHB so successful, and what 100T is getting out of catalyzing his growth. We'll also make sure you walk away with some concepts to apply in your own marketing strategy./the-mild-lumpy-faces-of-the-british.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mild-lumpy-faces-of-the-british.htmlDear Friend, I hope you’re having a good summer, and thank you for your patience with the slightly offbeat rhythm of my letters at the moment. As I’ve written about before, and as you probably know, summer here is a much more pronounced thing than it is in the UK because most people take several weeks off at this time of year. Locals leave the city and visitors from everywhere else in the world arrive in large numbers./wokeism-the-movement-that-dare-not.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wokeism-the-movement-that-dare-not.htmlThe most successful political movements pretend they are not political movements at all. They want the public to believe their goals are not ideological but common sense and common decency, and who could possibly object to that? Nowhere is the denial of the political more strenuously proclaimed than on the “woke left” – or, if you do not like the term, “the social justice left”. The confusion about names is symptomatic./the-mystery-of-el-nuevo-rodeo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mystery-of-el-nuevo-rodeo.html2709 East Lake St is the site of El Nuevo Rodeo Club and La Raza Radio The #1 Latin music dance hotspot in Minneapolis employed both Derek Chauvin and George Floyd as “bouncers.” They worked the same shift on Tuesday nights at El Nuevo Rodeo, a Mexican-Latino dining and dance club. The Floyd family lawyer believes the link between them is suspicious. When we look at quotes from the club manager and then note that El Nuevo Rodeo conveniently burned to the ground shortly after Floyd was killed, there appears to be a considerable amount of unreported and unexamined potential evidence yet to be discovered in the case of George Floyd’s Death./the-new-atheism-is-dead.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-atheism-is-dead.htmlWow, has the world changed in twenty years. It’s not like the software merely updated on the old world; it’s like the old world disappeared, and a new one emerged. In this new world, here’s a Very Big Development: the boisterous New Atheism, the intellectual trend so au courant 15-20 years ago, is no more. Let it be pronounced in the highways and the temples: the New Atheism has crashed and burned./the-paradox-of-weird-barbie-girlhood.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-paradox-of-weird-barbie-girlhood.htmlIt’s been a little while, folks, but I’m back with another thought™. This week, I want to talk a little bit about Barbie (2023) and the paradox of Weird Barbie, the character played by the brilliant and funny Kate McKinnon. There will be whole movie spoilers in varying degrees of detail, so here is your warning to stop reading and return to it! This piece is not a real critique of the film, as with anything I post on this substack, these are my thoughts, feelings and opinions./paco-rabanne.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paco-rabanne.htmlAs Paco Rabanne passed away two days ago, I thought I would revisit a masterclass I wrote on him for Heroine.com in September 2019. Heroine.com closed down in 2021. The traditional definition of clothing—that it was made from fabric or pelts—was turned on its head by Paco Rabanne and his first haute couture collection, “Twelve Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials”, shown in Paris in 1966. Instigating an interest in new materials and techniques, as well as influencing generations of designers, in the course of one collection Paco Rabanne changed fashion history./zola-tells-all-the-real-story-behind.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zola-tells-all-the-real-story-behind.htmlLast week, it was announced that Zola, a movie based on my Rolling Stone article, “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted,” and the tweets of A’ziah King, is the most nominated film at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards. It’s been amazing to see the journey of this story from Twitter to the big screen. ICYMI, here’s my original article, which ran in Rolling Stone on November 15, 2015./the-root-cause-of-the-homelessness.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-root-cause-of-the-homelessness.htmlThirty percent of the American homeless population and 50 percent of its unsheltered population live in California, more than 170,000 people total. Homelessness is primarily a function of the broader housing-unaffordability crisis, which in turn is primarily a function of how difficult local governments have made building new housing in the places that need it the most. Pundits and politicians routinely claim that the California homelessness crisis is actually a result of people moving from other states for better weather or better public benefits./the-scales.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-scales.htmlI was born in late September. I’m a Libra. My zodiac sign is “The Scales.” I really don’t know what that’s supposed to mean. The Scales is the only inanimate symbol of the zodiac. I really don’t know what that supposed to mean either. Or what that says about me. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this post. The justice system in America is having a moment./the-spirits-30-the-trinidad-sour.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-30-the-trinidad-sour.htmlENJOYING THE SPIRITS? Why not sign up to become a paid subscriber? You will get the full experience - recipes, recommendations, more things to do with orgeat - and I will be able to maintain some standards around here. Give a gift subscription Get 30% off forever ~ THE TRINIDAD SOUR ~ 45ml Angostura bitters 30ml orgeat 30ml rye (or bourbon) 20ml lemon juice Place all of the ingredients in a shaker with plenty of ice./the-spiritual-dimension-of-shamsher.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spiritual-dimension-of-shamsher.htmlShammi Kapoor (born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; (21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011) was an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi cinema. Kapoor is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, Kapoor worked in over 100 films. He is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards, including one for Best Actor. Born to actor Prithviraj Kapoor and a member of the Kapoor family, he made his film debut with the commercially unsuccessful Jeewan Jyoti (1953)./the-state-of-the-movies-2023-what.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-state-of-the-movies-2023-what.htmlHey movie lovers! As always, you can find a podcast version of this newsletter on Apple or Spotify. Thank you so much for listening and spreading the word! This week: It’s not just a recap of the year in movies, it’s a big picture essay about where we’re headed and what we learned. Hopefully you enjoy. Then an incredibly moving documentary about North Korea, a shameless 90s Ron Howard special, and a Russell Crowe prison escape movie./the-story-behind-the-mission-impossible.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-behind-the-mission-impossible.htmlIt was made by Victor de Martrin, and it instantly captures that magic of the Mission: Impossible theme. (You can see a better version of his creation here). Devoted readers of Curious Minds will know that my affinity to Tom Cruise goes a long way back…and hearing this theme takes me back to 1996 when I watched Ethan Hunt complete an impossible mission, while simultaneously making the best tourism promo for the city of Prague./a-flowers-bloom-the-story-behind.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-flowers-bloom-the-story-behind.htmlIs there anything sweeter than walking down Virgil Avenue at golden hour when the trumpet trees are in full bloom? Their flowers, spot-lit by the sun’s orange light, swaying in the wind, casting dancing shadows on colorful storefronts. Or the way the Latino Discount store’s pink awning seems to have been made to match the flower’s color perfectly.  From afar, the street looks lined in bright pink clouds floating in place./the-story-of-lois-cardinal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-of-lois-cardinal.htmlI heard Lois’s story a couple of months ago and wanted to get it out there, but didn’t know how to approach it. It seemed indecent to use it, even in the greater cause of drawing attention to an appalling situation in hyper-woke Canada, where an assisted dying program (MAID) awaits those, like Lois, who regret undergoing surgery that is experimental, irreversible, and ideological. Thankfully, Lois’s friend Neil Dorin has written this plea for his friend which gives the full story./the-superteam-is-dead-long-live-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-superteam-is-dead-long-live-the.htmlAt first, I felt confused. No, that’s not right — I felt elated. I felt like I was witnessing a secret revealing itself, exploding open in the blue light of my laptop, just for me. Inches from my face, sound muffled by the bunched duvet, Russell Westbrook rolled to the rim uncontested with the same bundled hurricane force he always has. Seconds later, K… ncG1vNJzZmiakai4psDBmqOlnpWauaq6xqxlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8tbTEZqquqJWnwaatzGagrGWUmq6lecuopaBlnJ7DpnnToZw%3D/the-time-i-watched-a-victorias-secret.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-time-i-watched-a-victorias-secret.htmlI was just in Dallas, trying to remember other times when I was in Dallas, and then it hit me: I was inside Broadcast.com’s Dallas headquarters on the day in February 1999 when it tried to broadcast the Victoria’s Secret fashion show and melted the internet. If you don’t remember Broadcast.com, that wouldn’t be surprising. But you probably do know of Mark Cuban, the large-personality owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Stars, host of the Shark Tank TV show, and backer of a whole host of fringe tech things like the secretive Dust chat app and Dogecoin cryptocurrency./ufc-300-poster-is-perfect.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ufc-300-poster-is-perfect.htmlThe reaction to the UFC 300 poster was swift and severe. Very few people liked the poster when they first set eyes on it. Me? I found the image of a gold flag waving in the breeze with UFC 300 written in white to represent the historic event perfectly. Let me explain. The posters the UFC uses to advertise its events are often lazy affairs. Like most pieces of the UFC production puzzle, the UFC has a formula it follows, one that it is comfortable with./the-ultimate-mock-draft-simulator.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ultimate-mock-draft-simulator.htmlMock drafts are soooooo late 2010s. Mock draft simulators are all the rage these days. And while Too Deep Zone lacks the capability/resources/interest to create an actual mock draft simulator, we still whipped up not one, not two, but four hypothetical drafts, depending on where your favorite team is picking!  First Round: J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan. Oh no, your favorite team took the bait and selected Kenny Pickett 2.0, aka slower Daniel Jones, aka Mac Jones with a more rectangular jawline./the-un-american-activities-of-zero.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-un-american-activities-of-zero.htmlLarger than life and with a personality to match, Zero Mostel always thought of himself, not as a comic actor, but as a painter. Best known for creating the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (before Topol made the character his own), and for his performances in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Producers, Mostel always said that he acted to fund himself as a painter./the-unheard-zepto-founder-feud.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-unheard-zepto-founder-feud.htmlThe story of Zepto is a fascinating one.  It is the story of a 10-min grocery delivery startup that sprung out of nowhere and became a soonicorn ($900mn valuation) in just a year. It is the story of two 19-year-old Stanford dropouts who made it to the Rs. 1,000 crore club. But, this is the side of the story that sells. The story with all the glamour and fame. Today, we will look at the other side of the so-called success story of Zepto: a story that involves a third co-founder, an unheard name./the-weird-things-babies-do-that-no.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-weird-things-babies-do-that-no.htmlDuring a quieter shift in the children’s emergency department, I took the opportunity to teach some of our GP trainees. They had quite a lot of anxiety around knowing what is normal or not normal for little babies. This is appropriate anxiety, because they will see a lot (and I mean, a lot!) of little babies in general practice. What’s more, it is not always completely obvious what exactly is or is not normal about some of the stuff they do!/the-white-buffalo.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-white-buffalo.htmlSo, I’ve actually been taking some of the advice I outlined for the upcoming October 14th Libra New Moon + Eclipse in our recent post Mind the Gap here on Substack. I’ve been actively working to remediate adrenal fatigue through fasting, herbal “medicines”, and daily neural reset meditations, like Shamanic Journeying. During one such afternoon Shamanic Journeying meditation just two days ago, I was greeted by an unexpected new totem animal: white buffalo./the-winner-is-always-the-loser-on.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-winner-is-always-the-loser-on.htmlIn the eighth episode of the new, fifth season of Project Greenlight, released earlier this month on Max, Meko Winbush, the “winner” of the show—I’ll get to those scare quotes in a bit—is midway through production on her first feature, called Gray Matter. As usual with Project Greenlight films, the budget is extremely tight and the shooting schedule is tighter, giving Winbush only 18 days to complete a sci-fi drama with challenging effects sequences, some of them practical./gustov.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gustov.htmlMy wife, Lun*na Menoh, wakes up every morning at 5 AM to sit in her studio, facing the North, to watch the sunrise. Our view includes the Number Five Freeway, the Glendale Number Two Freeway, and the rooftops of Atwater Village. Two gas stations are across the street from each other, and a couple of homeless encampments are under the Five Freeway. On almost a daily basis, a Red-Tailed Hawk sits on the electrical tower to watch the sunrise with my wife./there-r-giants-24-ismael-munguia.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-r-giants-24-ismael-munguia.htmlPhoto Credit: Eugene Emeralds | Gary BreedloveWe’re into the There R Giants Top 50. Over the winter months, I’ll write a post on each of the fifty players in my rankings, leading us back to the much-needed spring. Our list of previously covered players is getting a little long, so from here on out I’m moving the links for the full list down the bottom of the post. I’ve never really been the “gritty underdog” fanboy type./theres-still-no-social-media-alternative.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theres-still-no-social-media-alternative.htmlSomeone asked me recently whether I want to revisit this post from last November: There is no social media alternative. So, you want to pack your bags and leave Twitter? Be my guest. I will meet you in the airport boarding area, where the destinations are all … obscure. Seriously, Twitter has managed over the years to become an indispensable part of the global information ecosystem even as it failed to become a profitable business./they-boo-shortstops-dont-they.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/they-boo-shortstops-dont-they.htmlInstallment 5: Every time Johnnie LeMaster played on a team last season, it ended up in last place. His teams wound up losing 306 games, which is either a record of some sort or ought to be. –The New York Times, April 7, 1986 1. It’s the afternoon of September 2, 1979, at an antiques show in San Mateo, California, and Debbie LeMaster has just stopped to consider two beds. The beds are brass and iron with gallery footboards./they-will-never-forgive-j-k-rowling.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/they-will-never-forgive-j-k-rowling.htmlThis week, as so many before, a Harry Potter star criticised J.K. Rowling. Daniel  Radcliffe, who played Potter as a child actor, told  the Atlantic  he had not spoken to Rowling for years, which upset him. Yet despite the Cass report and Rowling's suggestion he should apologise to detransitioners harmed by puberty blockers, Radcliffe refused. Instead, he… ncG1vNJzZmimmZi4pLvHnqVnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMeesGavmaG5brrEr5yrZZakv6i11Z5ko2WbYr%2Bww8uipaA%3D/beast-x-men-animated-series.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beast-x-men-animated-series.htmlAs Derrick Austin noted in his PopPoetryinterview, X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) introduced countless 90s kids to poetry more than once. How did the show work poetry into superhero situations? Through the extraordinary character of Beast, of course. Beast, aka Dr. Hank McCoy, was introduced to the world in 1963 in X-Men #1, making him one of the original founding members despite his spotty appearances in later film adaptations. McCoy became a mutant after exposure to radiation, and his monstrous blue exterior contrasts with the deep humanity of his well-read and well-spoken interior./tiny-kindness.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiny-kindness.htmlA few years ago, my friend Rachel started a social media feed called Tiny Kindness. As she shared: “I started it in my grief, on the approximate one-year anniversary of my brother's burial. I suddenly had a desperate need to consciously look for goodness and kindness in the world. So I put out a call on social media and asked friends to send short stories of small acts of kindness they've received that felt big to them./vol-1-to-all-the-90s-rocker-girls.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vol-1-to-all-the-90s-rocker-girls.htmlThe timing of this new series has been held up mostly in the hope that one of the respected music publications I’ve pitched it to would eagerly see the value in telling these stories. I understand that they are rightfully busy (and let’s be honest, it’s not like I’m reinventing the wheel here) but much like a petulant child-I’ve grown tired of waiting.So, similar to when someone spots the semblance of Christ himself on an Oreo I received my sign, that it was time to move forward./tommy-dorsey.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tommy-dorsey.htmlIn retrospect - and in big band history - Tommy Dorsey’s must be recognized as the greatest all-round dance band of them all. Others may have sounded more creative. Others may have swung harder and more consistently. Others may have developed more distinctive styles. But of all the hundreds of well-known bands, Tommy Dorsey’s could do more things better than any other could. -George T. Simon, editor-in-chief of Metronome Sixty-seven years ago tomorrow, on November 26, 1956, Tommy Dorsey died./tony-bellamy-born-september-12-1946-redbone.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tony-bellamy-born-september-12-1946-redbone.htmlView most updated version of this post on Substack.Share Tony “T-Bone” Bellamy was the lead guitarist for Redbone from 1969-1977, the all-Native American and Mexican-American rock group best known for their top five U.S. hit “Come And Get Your Love.” Robert Anthony Avila (aka Tony Bellamy) was Yaqui-Mexican American and joined brothers Lolly and Pat Vasquez-Vegas in Redbone in 1969, shortly before they signed to Epic Records. They were inspired by Jimi Hendrix (who was part Cherokee) to form an all-Native American rock group./tools-of-the-trade-rbsdmcom.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tools-of-the-trade-rbsdmcom.htmlIt’s the middle of June. Mandatory minicamp just ended, and there’s nothing for 5 weeks until training camp begins on July 21st. We’re in the doldrums, people. The dead part of the offseason. This is the part of the offseason I’ve been dreading ever since BJ Kissel brought me on board. With nothing current going on to direct my writing, I thought I’d start a series of articles about the places I go to get the numbers and data for my articles./tortelli-di-zucca-lombardys-autumn.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tortelli-di-zucca-lombardys-autumn.htmlThe first-ever Pasta Social Club dinner took place five years ago, on the night before Thanksgiving. I hosted it for ten of my closest friends, fresh out of culinary school and stumbling to find my footing working the pastry line at Lilia in Brooklyn. I somehow managed to get time off for the holiday, and I made sure to use every spare moment to hone my novice pasta-making skills. The evening’s menu was simple./townes-van-zandt-died-on-new-years.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/townes-van-zandt-died-on-new-years.htmlHis young daughter, Katie Belle, came running in and said, “Daddy’s having a fight with his heart.” It wasn’t the first time, but this one was physical and cost Townes Van Zandt his life. The singer-songwriter, whose dark and illuminating lyrics walked with a self-destructive limp, died on Jan. 1, 1997, at his home near Nashville. The writer of such country hits as “Pancho and Lefty” (Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson) and “If I Needed You” (Emmylou Harris and Don Williams) was 52./tracking-jedediah-smith.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tracking-jedediah-smith.htmlTHE OVERLOOK By Tom Clavin “The Overlook” appears every Wednesday at tomclavin.substack.com. If you enjoy the column, please "like" it and let me know what you think by commenting. (Please check out previous columns while you're at it.) All support is appreciated. Don't forget to hit the ‘Subscribe’ button – it’s free!           “Over the course of twelve months Jedediah Smith had become the first European American to lead a party across the Mojave Desert, over the Sierra Nevada, and through North America’s Great Basin./transcript-tony-keller.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transcript-tony-keller.htmlFor decades now in Canada, there has been a bipartisan, pro-immigration consensus. But in recent weeks, we have watched that consensus fall apart. My guest on today’s program has been covering this development in his columns for The Globe and Mail. He argues that it was the Liberal government that broke the consensus — and it must be the Liberals who restore it.  Tony Keller is a veteran Canadian journalist and a columnist for The Globe and Mail./trauma-taboo-and-fathers-day-emails.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trauma-taboo-and-fathers-day-emails.htmlMy Dad died a few days after Father’s Day. There were “World’s Best Dad” mugs in the supermarket during the days he was dying. My inbox was stuffed full of emails about whiskey stones and golf clubs. (Just one of the many reasons that men need gender equality too: so they can stop getting terrible gifts). It was a weird time. I lost track of how many times… ncG1vNJzZmiemZy1tbXNoKuapJtjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6uZpaKubsDAm6aoZZGjsW6ywK2fnqqjYrGixYyepJqhnKg%3D/try-that-in-a-big-city.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/try-that-in-a-big-city.htmlHello & welcome to my newsletter of all the stories I hope you missed! This is a newsletter about American politics and anything else I think is so dumb that I can’t help but cover it. Okay, I love country music. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I listen exclusively to country music & Taylor Swift. So, obviously, it didn’t escape my notice when Country Music Star Jason Aldean released a new song, Try That in a Small Town: a very threatening list of things you can’t get away with in small towns, because they have no crimes and love their guns platonically./eiffeltyler.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eiffeltyler.htmlVoted Most Talkative By Tyler McCall It will positively shock you to learn that I was voted "Most Talkative" my senior year of high school. Here, you'll find an outlet for my thoughts on the fashion industry, recaps of GOSSIP GIRL, letters of recommendation, and more. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaa1xZ%2BcpaypobKz/vacay-vibes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vacay-vibes.htmlAs passionate as I am about New York. I also love to venture beyond its borders. Especially in winter, if I can. This year we’re heading to warmer weather to a spot that’s quickly become very special to us—this magical beach. There’s something about stepping out of your everyday life, getting out of your daily routine or grind and having a very low exp… ncG1vNJzZmidnZ65usPInKKeqqOdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnppawosWMr6CbnaN0wrW5vqymrqqTmoqxvs6foKWdVqrBrqvMnpuirZ1yv6atw56paw%3D%3D/vigil-in-memory-of-willie-washington.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vigil-in-memory-of-willie-washington.htmlFrom a Stop Torture RI press release: Family members of Willie Washington Jr. and community members gathered outside the Rhode Island State House on Thursday for a solemn vigil and protest to honor the life of the 25-year-old man who tragically lost his life while in the custody of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) earlier this month. “We don’t want our son’s murder to be in vain,” said the Washington/Jones family in a statement./vivaldis-popularity.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vivaldis-popularity.htmlThe popularity of Antonio Vivaldi’s well-crafted, highly accessible music is unquestionable, its current presence on social media, classical music radio and streaming services ubiquitous. Recordings of his tetralogy of descriptive Violin Concerti “The Four Seasons” have generated millions in revenue, and excerpts from these works are regularly used in c… ncG1vNJzZmismJq%2FprLUoJxnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwsivmKWcmah6sbvPrqOaqpmpxg%3D%3D/vodka-chicken-parm-sandwiches.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vodka-chicken-parm-sandwiches.htmlThis recipe might just combine all of my favorite things: chicken cutlets, sandwiches, and vodka. Oh! and cheese! I prefer to use chicken thighs whenever I make chicken parm anymore. They’re tender and juicy and they cook super quickly and evenly (especially because we bash them a bit with a tenderizer before breading and frying them). Vodka sauce is so good, I could drink it (Sicily). It’s creamy and tomato-y and silky and simple./waste-your-time-your-life-may-depend.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/waste-your-time-your-life-may-depend.htmlWelcome back, in relatively short order, to the Convivial Society. This is an uncharacteristic installment in that it follow so quickly on the previous one and has, to my mind, a rather blog-ish feel to it (at least in its initial conception). But I hope you’ll indulge me, because the striking contrast I’m highlighting here is very much worth a moments consideration. The Convivial Society operates on a model inspired by Tim Carmody’s idea of “unlocking the commons./way-too-early-top-25.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/way-too-early-top-25.htmlThanks for reading the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter. If you like our work, be sure to check out our stats site, our podcast, and our social media accounts on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also buy Her Hoop Stats gear, such as laptop stickers, mugs, and shirts! Haven’t subscribed to the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter yet? The 2023-24 women’s college basketball season is behind us and the South Carolina Gamecocks are the champions./weekend-watch-girls5eva-season-3.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weekend-watch-girls5eva-season-3.htmlImage Credit: Netflix Welcome to the latest edition of Weekend Watch, where I recommend (or occasionally warn against) movies or TV shows I’ve been checking out. This week, the Girls are back in town (and on tour). Follow James on Twitter: @jamwhite and Threads/Instagram: @jammerwhite I’m not normally a fan of “if you like X, you’ll like Y” recommendations, because it makes me feel like an algorithm. Yet it feels appropriate to deploy it in the case of Girls5Eva, since this really is of a piece with the likes of 30 Rock andUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the latter of which being where creator/writer Meredith Scardino first worked with executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock./what-are-leading-and-lagging-indicators.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-are-leading-and-lagging-indicators.htmlLast week I wrote some thoughts on managing my energy better at work, through the lens of leading and lagging indicators. When I was writing that post—judging by the amount of times I had to check and recheck the definitions—I realised that I often get them muddled up. So, what better way of making sure I understand something than writing about it for a large audience? Here we go… Q: What are leading and lagging indicators?/what-does-an-artist-owe-their-fans.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-an-artist-owe-their-fans.htmlWatching Elvis in February I was struck by a line at the end of the film, when Elvis (played by Austin Butler, who really should have won the Best Actor Oscar) is being suffocated by his own success.  His relationship with his wife has broken down, he has become addicted to prescription drugs and the only time he feels happy is on stage – where he has become dependent on the applause./what-fonts-to-use-for-coding.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-fonts-to-use-for-coding.htmlI just bought a new laptop after 3 years so it’s time to fiddle with settings. One of the most important questions for a coder like me is what font to use for programming. I’ve been using the Fira Code font for several years and maybe it’s time for a change. There’s a nice website programmingfonts.org that lists fonts designed for writing code, but it’s mostly browsing things for aesthetics, not issues./what-is-a-hamiltonian.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-hamiltonian.htmlHamiltonianism is derived from the political philosophy of Federalists in early American history. The purpose of this branding is to use a narrative derived directly from the founding of America to interrogate other political narratives which have claims to the same source. Hamiltonianism offers a way to directly confront any pretense that somebody is speaking authoritatively on behalf of the Founding Fathers. Hamiltonian analysis works because politicians, pundits, professors, and journalists who tout themselves as representatives of our founding values tend to have never bothered to study the source material./what-is-a-yoot.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-yoot.htmlMy favorite scene in My Cousin Vinny involves a play on words. Joe Pesci, a criminal defense lawyer with an infamously New Jersey accent, grills a witness on the stand, finally reaching the conclusion—that perhaps the witness was, in fact, mistaken. He asks whether it’s possible that the two yoots the witness saw weren’t the clients in question. Here’s the scene: Fred Gwynne of Herman Munster fame plays the judge, and he is as deadpan as it gets./what-is-the-difference-between-defect.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-difference-between-defect.html1 Article for the Week: There are many professionals (including Quality Function) who do not know the difference between Defects and Defectives. Defect: The issues / problems (out of specification) found in the product. E.g. If you manufacture Shirts, the issues may be Wrong Stitching, Button Missing, Wrong Thread, etc. These are called Defects. Defective: Because of these defects, the product becomes a Defective Product. In this case, the shirt is a Defective shirt./what-it-is-really-like-as-a-woman.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-it-is-really-like-as-a-woman.htmlThe last time I visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was in the scorching summer of 2018; it was merely a stopping point between assignments in war-ravaged Yemen. Back then, it was a laborious back-and-forth-to-the-consulate to obtain a visa. The state-owned airline separated ladies and gents, and we all embarked on a joint prayer from the Quran pre-flight. My local contacts insisted I cover my head and blend in with the other women in a black abaya./just-doing-it-what-its-like-to-design.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-doing-it-what-its-like-to-design.htmlReminder: Uni Watch’s time on Substack will be coming to a close in late May. After that, I’ll be taking a break for at least a month, and then my Substack will return in the summer with a new name and a new subject focus. To learn more about all of this, including what it will mean for those of you with paid subscriptions, look here. — Paul A few weeks ago I published an interview with former Nike art director Tom Andrich — the man who created the NFL’s Color Rush program./when-to-go-1v1-in-hockey.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-to-go-1v1-in-hockey.htmlA successful 1v1 in the NHL has below a 10% success rate. Those are poor odds. In the past, we’ve discussed the 1v1 vs the 2v2 in terms of driving player development. In this post, we are diving deeper into the elements we alluded to in that post. There are two key elements when deciding if a 1v1 is in the offensive player’s favor. If you have these, you’ll win more 1v1s:/flashing-when-men-expose-their-genitals.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flashing-when-men-expose-their-genitals.htmlSouth Korea’s Penis Park Ask any woman and she will tell you exactly where she was - the weather, the time, the year, her age - when it happened to her. Because being flashed at has happened to an awful lot of women. The first man to expose his penis to me has become part of my life, because five decades later I still can’t get him out of my head./who-is-your-discipler.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-your-discipler.htmlEphesians 4:8 lets us know that “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” To accept the gift that God has given is to accept the people he has given.  To follow Jesus is to follow the people he has sent. He gave us apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry./genesis22.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/genesis22.htmlThis story causes us to ask a lot of troubling questions. What kind of God would ask for this? Is God commanding child sacrifice? Isn’t this request in conflict with everything else God seems to value? If the Bible is a unified story that leads to Jesus, then is Jesus connected to such a disturbing request? Is the God of love found anywhere in this passage? The good news is that the answer to both questions is, “Yes!/why-gyeongseong-creature-got-so-poorly.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-gyeongseong-creature-got-so-poorly.html안녕, it's Ari, your talkative Korean friend and weekend reminder. 🎉 Now that my hands feel much better 😊, I will soon be able to bring back the weekly and full newsletter. I am also planning to launch a new Korean lesson. Please look forward to it! Today’s newsletter is about long-lasting historical scars and a new K-Drama. Let’s start! Netflix’s latest historical K-drama series, Gyeongseong Creature, 👆 is gaining immense popularity globally, securing the second spot on the top 10 Netflix programs worldwide, according to FlixPatrol./why-i-like-pill-bugs-and-sow-bugs.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-like-pill-bugs-and-sow-bugs.htmlTurn over a rotten log and it’s likely that dozens of pill bugs or sow bugs will be seen running for cover. They love rotting organic matter - and for this reason many of my viewers that have recently switched to being “no-till” gardeners often ask me what to do about pill and sow bugs. Well, the answer is simple - just keep mulching and don’t worry about it! In this article I explain why there is no need to fear the dreaded “roly-poly” aka “potato bug” aka “doodle bug” in a mulched vegetable garden, and why you might even come to love these funny little “bugs” that are actually the long-lost relatives of shrimp./why-most-people-lack-self-awareness.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-most-people-lack-self-awareness.htmlDo you think you are self-aware? Until about five years ago, I was utterly convinced that this label applied to me. But really, I was clueless. I mistook being self-critical for self-awareness. This mistake led me to believe that the way I saw myself and the world was completely accurate. This happens when we haven’t brought what’s stored in our unconscious mind into awareness. Until then, we see life through a distorted lens and believe it’s objective reality./why-theres-no-such-thing-as-an-adrenal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-an-adrenal.htmlIt’s Q&A time! You can ask your own question here for a chance to have it answered in an upcoming edition. Today’s question has two parts. The first part is available to all subscribers (about so-called adrenal fatigue in general), and the second part is for paid subscribers (about the “adrenal body type”).  Upgrade to Paid I know you’ve spoken to guests about adrenal fatigue before, but I didn’t see this question addressed anywhere, so apologies if it’s a repeat./why-we-left-minneapolis-for-the-suburbs.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-left-minneapolis-for-the-suburbs.htmlAs COVID started to fade into the background of our lives – for me this started roughly in the last half of 2022 – many of the things I had ignored came rushing to the forefront. I was fresh into my recovery for compulsive gambling and was working through its underlying causes. Our family was in the beginning stages of thinking about moving, and one of the options was leaving Minnesota./will-the-washington-post-survive.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-the-washington-post-survive.htmlOne of the confounding things I encounter, is people who understand the threat of the extreme right wing that is embodied by the Trump candidacy, who continue to engage in the same behavior that got us to Trump 2016. I deal with them every day in my activities in Florida. Today's Edition is about media mistakes. Why in the world would some in the NY Times, Washington Post, the Sunday interview shows, mainstream media, continue to engage in the same type of journalism that normalizes Trumpian racism, autocratic policy and behavior, including threats and actions designed to destroy the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate?/william-friedkin-1935-2023.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/william-friedkin-1935-2023.htmlOne oddball detail caught my eye in the Times obituary for William Friedkin this morning: He cut his teeth directing “Bozo’s Circus,” among other TV shows, for Chicago station WGN.  What went through the mind of the man who would give us “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” as he filmed kiddie hijinks on a local soundstage? Bozo vomiting pea soup on the peanut gallery? Bozo going rogue for a high-speed car chase underneath the El?/woolly-dogs-of-hood-canal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/woolly-dogs-of-hood-canal.htmlMore than a year ago, I explored the topic of woolly dogs, the unique, domesticated dogs of the Salish Sea. I would like to return to the subject, in part because I like dogs, but also to highlight some recent encounters with them. The first was at the Burke Museum, where I was privileged to see an amazing basket collected on the Skokomish Reservation and donated to the museum in 1932./wrestlemania-xl-predictions-finish.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wrestlemania-xl-predictions-finish.htmlI’ve wanted to do this for a while and what better time than WrestleMania? If you subscribe to this blog for music - sorry (if you know someone who enjoys wrestling well then feel free to forward this to them). But if you are that Venn diagram between music and professional wrestling then this is for you! I haven’t been this excited for a WrestleMania since WrestleMania 30 in 2014 - an event that ended in the culmination of the Yes Movement with Daniel Bryan overcoming the odds to become WWE Champion./writing-an-emulator-in-javascript.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/writing-an-emulator-in-javascript.htmlHey there, It’s been a while since I’ve sent out a message, but I like to make sure I have a good amount of content or something really cool before I send out a message. Recently, I took on a big project and I wrote an emulator in JavaScript for a system called Chip-8. Here’s a demo of the project. I finally got around to documenting the whole process, so please check it out here:/fri-dec-15.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fri-dec-15.htmlIBWAA members love to write about baseball. So much so, we've decided to create our own newsletter about it! Subscribe to Here's the Pitch to expand your love of baseball, discover new voices, and support independent writing. Original content six days a week, straight to your inbox and straight from the hearts of baseball fans. Did you know…Shohei Ohtani may be a two-way star but he’s topped 131 innings in a season only once despite 86 games started./2024-wnba-elo-power-rankings.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-wnba-elo-power-rankings.htmlThe following table is a list of WNBA teams with their Elo ratings for the 2024 season. (Note: This is basic Elo, so no adjustments for trades, injuries, etc. for the moment.) Table of Contents 🏀 2024 WNBA Elo ratings and forecast 📈🏀 Today's games 👀🏀 2024 WNBA Estimated RAPTOR player ratings 📈🏀 2024 WNBA Consensus Wins player rankings 📈Filed under: WNBA, Elo ratings ncG1vNJzZmimlZ65sa3Ip5xnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfo9ra2avnpeubrHLqGSpp6eav26%2BwKeioqaXqA%3D%3D/27-awesome-gifts-for-healthcare-workers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/27-awesome-gifts-for-healthcare-workers.html(FYI A few of these are affiliate links, but the vast majority are just stuff I like.) Get your shots for flu, COVID & RSV: If there’s only one thing you do this year to support healthcare workers, get vaccinated against influenza, COVID, and (new this year!) RSV. Seriously, this is the only gift I really want this year. Vaccines are often free with insurance or through your local county health department./does-chatgpt-mean-the-technological.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-chatgpt-mean-the-technological.htmlA modest prediction: We’re entering a period when speculation about an approaching Technological Singularity will exceed its turn-of-the-century, Internet Boom peak. And for that, you can thank (or blame) new generative AI/machine learning tools that can write and draw — and will only improve with future iterations. Yes, for the moment, critics can point to ChatGPT essays that get key facts wrong or engage in circular reasoning. And skeptics can highlight DALL*E images that sometimes ignore, for instance, exactly how many fingers and teeth humans typically have./you-again-america-tigres-find-way.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-again-america-tigres-find-way.htmlIt’s one of the most traditional grandes against a team that feels it has matched or surpassed those traditional teams on the field and off. América and Tigres will play for the Liga MX title. The teams actually haven’t battled for a trophy that often, but there was a spate of title games between the two teams that make them feel like viejos conocidos. T… ncG1vNJzZmiflamwsLrCmpqanpWZe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrKnpWKuqK3Ip2SapZWntqStjK2goKqVqHqntc2dZLCZqQ%3D%3D/hoffmaniada-the-stop-motion-masterpiece.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hoffmaniada-the-stop-motion-masterpiece.htmlI really love this film, as did those I watched it with. However, it's very much not made in a mainstream way, despite its mainstream production values, so it will never have a mass audience. I think the problem is that its main character is the sort of sensitive artist who most people will just not feel kinship with, plus it has an "outdated" 19th-century worldview. I'm glad that it was completed and released - truly a miracle./human-giver-syndrome.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/human-giver-syndrome.htmlSometimes these newsletters come to me like a flash. I read or see something during the week, or connect two new dots in my own consciousness, and know: ah, that’s the dispatch for the week! But sometimes I get to Monday or Tuesday and I’m starring at the blank screen thinking I don’t have much to say, at least anything coherent and worthy of your precious time. In these moments, I try to take a breath and just let something come through./barbenheimer-weekend-part-i-barbie.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbenheimer-weekend-part-i-barbie.htmlAs I was leaving Monday night’s press screening, I turned to the fellow critic walking next to me and mentioned how I thought the movie we’d just seen could easily be interpreted through a lens of Zen Buddhism, as an epic journey through delusion, suffering, and realization all the way to enlightenment. “Funny,” he replied. “I thought of it as a Catholic film. It’s all about grace.” So, yeah, we were talking about “Barbie” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2, in theaters Friday)./i-am-the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-28c.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-28c.htmlWell, I divided this essay into two parts because the first was getting too long, and now I think the second is twice as long. But that just means it’s twice as interesting. Then the report on the amazing incompetence of Sam Bankman at running FTX came out, and that was topical, so I wanted to publish my comments on that immediately. But I think I must publish this as hot on Bankman’s heels as his creditors because I want to hand it out in class tomorrow to talk about next week./what-you-need-is-a-home.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-you-need-is-a-home.htmlIN MEMORIAM DEP'T.LORI TERESA YEARWOOD died this week, killed by cancer. Lori was an extraordinary person and an extraordinary writer, but to say so feels like missing the point of her work. What Lori bore witness to, drawing on her own journey into and out of homelessness, was that none of us is extraordinary enough to stand safely apart from the dehumanizing forces in our society—and, simultaneously, that every person is an extraordinary person, if you're willing to hear what they have to say./why-do-couples-stop-having-sex-is.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-couples-stop-having-sex-is.htmlConfidence and Joy is a newsletter by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. Subscribe here. You can also follow Emily on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! I've traveled all over, talking to a variety of audiences, from medical providers to book club women to grown ups on relationship retreats. And you know what everyone wants to know? “Why do couples stop having sex?” And of course the answer is, “For lots of different reasons./11-legendary-self-taught-pianists.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/11-legendary-self-taught-pianists.html…but through sheer will, perseverance and of course, hours upon hours of practice. Though they lacked formal training, their passion and dedication to their craft allowed them to create new styles, break musical boundaries and inspire generations. Here we will explore 11 of the most famous self-taught pianists who redefined music with their unique approaches and unconventional techniques. Despite their diverse backgrounds and influences, they all shared an insatiable curiosity to experiment with and push the limits of the piano./122-into-the-dalek.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/122-into-the-dalek.htmlBroadcast: August 2014 Watched: February 2022 “I am not a good Dalek, you are a good Dalek.” Although I also think there’s a case for, “Fantastic idea for a movie, terrible idea for a proctologist.” It’s starting to feel like season 8 is “standard RTD season gone wrong”, as everything is a bit off. Last week, the new character is terrifying not comforting; next week, the historical figure is fictional. This time we get a standard “see the new Doctor face off against the Daleks” thing, but again, twisted: the good Dalek stuff, the Inner Space stuff./1501-uptown-gastropub-palm-springs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1501-uptown-gastropub-palm-springs.htmlOur star rating: None (too new) Address: 1501 North Palm Canyon Drive (At Stevens Road), Palm Springs, CA 92262 Ph: 760-320-1501 Website | Menu Oh gosh, it’s time for my first negative review here on The Desert Diner. I’m bummed because I have held such high hopes for this new spot. But after a special meal turned sour on a recent weekend night, it’s time to spill the beans./1999-king-of-dragon-pass.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1999-king-of-dragon-pass.htmlKing of Dragon Pass by A Sharp Released: October 29, 1999 Language: C++, OSL (Opal Scripting Language), mTropolis (UI) Platform: Windows 98, Mac OS 7 (CD-ROM) Opening Text: There once was a time when gods and people walked the earth together. It’s “the best game you’ve never played.” It’s “one of the best video games ever made... I’ve never played a video game with a deeper and more engaging world and story./2022-polestar-2-boring-gay-car-review.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2022-polestar-2-boring-gay-car-review.htmlIf you haven’t already, head to my Instagram and check out my Story highlight for the 2022 Polestar 2 to see my live review. I hate leading a Polestar review with Tesla in the subtitle - but every other review of the Polestar does too. The fully-electric Polestar 2, despite looking like a crossover SUV, is actually classified as a sedan meant to compete with the ubiquitous Tesla Model 3./2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top.htmlThe NBA's Free Agency period, a crucial time for teams to fortify their rosters, is rapidly approaching. Beginning on June 30th at 6:00 PM, teams can initiate negotiations with free agents, albeit with a moratorium until July 6th, when clubs can officially sign players. We'll begin the positional ranking of the top free agents set to hit the open market this summer by listing the best point guards up for grabs: /2024-pac-12-womens-basketball-fitting-farewell.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-pac-12-womens-basketball-fitting-farewell.htmlThanks for reading the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter. Be sure to check out Megan Gauer’s latest update to the Bracketology section of the Her Hoop Stats website! Haven’t subscribed to the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter yet? Was it meant to end in such an ironic way? The school that initiated the departures that destroyed the Pac-12 won the final Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Tournament title. Tournament champion USC also showed that despite the fact that JuJu Watkins has been the story this year, it has other players and focusing too much on Watkins has its own risks./3-reasons-to-read-jane-eyre-this.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3-reasons-to-read-jane-eyre-this.htmlNote: This email is going to all subscribers, free and paid. If you’re already a paying member, you’ll see an unclickable button that says “Subscribed” in place of a “Subscribe now” button. Jane Eyre is one of the most recognizable book titles of all time. Its author, Charlotte Bronte, published only a handful of writings in her prematurely shortened lifetime but remains celebrated as one of the great authors in the history of literature./5-minute-meals-for-when-you-just.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/5-minute-meals-for-when-you-just.htmlHello again from crazy season. 🔥🫠 How’s it going in your neck of the woods? I decided to capitalize on my Big Spring Energy over the weekend and dove into all kinds of MUCH NEEDED chores. I spent a WILD Saturday night updating kid devices and getting family screen time restrictions back in order before Summer Mode starts. Fun times with our family of five. 🎪🎠🎢 At the moment, I’m looking at my calendar and watching the blocks of margin squeezing smaller and smaller to accommodate all the End of School Year activities, two cookbook photoshoots, a Tent Salewith nearly 500 people RSVPd, followed by a June book release, then taking the kids to camp and all the prep that goes into that./8-rules-for-party-dressing-and-why.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/8-rules-for-party-dressing-and-why.htmlThere are a few important stories I’d like to cover in The Closet this week, if you’ll indulge me. I want to talk to you about Saltburn and I feel duty bound to pay homage to London’s most stylish chef, who sadly left us last week. But before I do, a moment for party season. Because like a rogue sequin balanced on the brink of a sweeping stair case, we’re teetering on the precipice of the festive event onslaught - and many of you have messaged to tell me how anxious you’re feeling about dressing for it./a-brief-incomplete-history-of-ncaa.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-incomplete-history-of-ncaa.htmlWelcome Illinois wing Marcus Domask to the exclusive club of players to record triple-doubles in the NCAA Tournament. Star of Thursday’s 1st Round early window, Domask went for 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists as the Illini surged from a near-stalemate at halftime to rout Morehead State. His triple-double is officially the 10th in March Madness history, and Domask is the ninth player to record such a stat line. Again, that’s officially./seema-carrie-fight-and-just-like-that.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seema-carrie-fight-and-just-like-that.html“And then there were three,” Carrie says in a voiceover mid-way through Season 3 of Sex and the City. She’s walking along Park Avenue with Miranda and Samantha, having just left Charlotte’s engagement party (“I’m worth a million,” Charlotte famously tells her future mother-in-law, Bunny MacDougal). I rewatched the episode recently and dreamt of a next chapter of the series that followed these three instead of recycling storylines around kegels, Spanx and getting high./taxi-driver-a-closer-look-at-charles.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taxi-driver-a-closer-look-at-charles.htmlIt’s no longer a trendy thing to say that politics is bullshit. In fact, that kind of categorization itself is kind of a cliche. A more mature way of approaching politics is from a standpoint of control. The idea of control is nothing new when it comes to the nature of the human animal’s desire for stability and a sense of order that allows it to better structure the sheer unpredictability of the world it inhabits./writing-music-for-the-movies-talking.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/writing-music-for-the-movies-talking.htmlCarol Connors is the Forrest Gump of popular music in the second half of the 20th century. If you look close enough at many major events and figures, she is there. Sang on a Billboard Hot 100 number one hit? Check. Collaborated with Phil Spector? Check. Dated Elvis? Check. Co-wrote multiple hit songs, including the theme from Rocky? Check. Paved the way for contemporary female songwriters? Check. I spoke with Ms./linda-hirshmans-last-words.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/linda-hirshmans-last-words.htmlLinda Hirshman would have turned 80 this month. But that birthday was not to be. She died in late October, her life memorialized in a major New York Times obituary with this headline: Linda Hirshman, who challenged stay-at-home mothers, dies at 79. The sub-headline, aptly, called her a “feminist provocateur.” Linda’s cancer, once vanquished, had returned with a vengeance; and after many ups and downs, hopes raised and dashed, it became clear that this time it would be terminal./a-flag-for-all-of-los-angeles-ted.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-flag-for-all-of-los-angeles-ted.htmlTed Kaye is the secretary of the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) and author of “Good” Flag, “Bad” Flag, which outlines five basic principles of exceptional flag design. Ahead of the 2023 LA Kit release by the LA Galaxy, Ted stopped by to talk about the symbolism and uniqueness of the flag of Los Angeles, the process of improving it, and the power of flags as representative of the tribes to which we belong./a-gift-guide-for-all-the-italophiles.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-gift-guide-for-all-the-italophiles.htmlDoes the world really need another gift guide? I’m not sure, to be honest, but I hope that this one might give you some ideas for things you wouldn’t otherwise have thought of. What you’ll find here are items that either I already have and wholeheartedly recommend because I actually use and love them or things that I covet. What you won’t find is a list of stupidly expensive gifts by designer brands that you already know./traditional-french-cuts.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/traditional-french-cuts.htmlFrench cuisine is great, but not my favourite. When I crave food, it’s usually not French, whether it’s a hot summer day (perfect time for some leaves with laab) or a freezing cold winter evening (time for a bubbling bowl of kimchi jiggae!). However, it is hard to ignore the impact that French cuisine has had on the art of cookery. More specifically, the French cooks were the ones to really get things in order, defining methods and precise definitions for stocks, mother sauces, cutting techniques and the organisation of a kitchen./a-guide-to-irish-accents.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-irish-accents.htmlA Quick Guide to Irish Accents – An overview of the accents found in various regions of Ireland. There are multiple unique accents found in various regions of Ireland, each showcasing its own distinct features and variations. Below is a brief rundown of some of the primary accents you may come across: Share The accent from Ulster (Northern Ireland) has a prominent lilt and unique pronunciation of specific vowel sounds. Words such as "/the-revival-of-cross-colours-a-historic.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-revival-of-cross-colours-a-historic.htmlIf you’ve been watching the Wu-Tang series on Hulu you’ve probably seen a bunch of clothing brands, including Tommy Hilfiger and Polo. But there’s one clothing that you might have missed. The logo was red, black, and green as were the clothes. And the lockup featured two C’s across the badge. It wasn’t Chanel — it was black-owned. It was Cross Colours. Look below at a still shot from one of the Wu-Tang episodes & the logo./steakhouse.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steakhouse.htmlHello Everyone, Welcome to Issue #71 of CAFÉ ANNE! HUGE NEWS: New York City has kicked off an election to designate an official city wildflower. The candidates, nominated by a different park board in each borough, include Butterfly Milkweed (Manhattan), Pinxter Azalea (Staten Island), Giant Sunflower (Queens), Wild Columbine (Brooklyn) and Spicebush (Bronx). It’s important that we get this right—wildflowers are scary and out of control, and we need to designate a solid, reliable floral leader who won’t go rogue./a-recipe-for-enchiladas-that-was.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-recipe-for-enchiladas-that-was.htmlDo you ever have a newsletter and intend to make a recipe and just literally cannot bring yourself to do it? Reader, It Happened to Me/I Did It to Myself: a very ’50s style enchiladas recipe was fully avoided out of sheer panic. Here’s what I was supposed to make: We’ve been here before—with the meat loaf, with the hamburger and rice. For all my love of the midcentury, and appreciation of its moments of kitsch, I fear (some) of its food./men-with-chests-a-review-of-all-creatures.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/men-with-chests-a-review-of-all-creatures.htmlWhere do we find a few good men? This is the question the recently concluded season 3 of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small proposes to answer, both for its age and our own. The show is loosely based on James Herriot’s beloved books of the same name, which were in turn based on his real-life experiences as a veterinarian in the English countryside and previously adapted by the BBC for television./love-commandos-a-story-of-love-marriage.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-commandos-a-story-of-love-marriage.htmlHi readers! I’m Tamar Eisen, and I provide research assistance for Jill for her newsletter. I was so excited to have the opportunity to speak with the co-hosts of “Love Commandos,” a special podcast from NPR’s Rough Translation. In this short, gripping series, co-hosts Gregory Warner, Mansi Choksi, and Lauren Frayer take a deep dive into a group that protected Indian couples who faced harassment, violence, and even murder for the crime of being in a love marriage./adorable-story-55-virna-lisi.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-55-virna-lisi.html“My husband was not very happy about my career, Franco is a jealous man — thank God! After we married he tried to take me away from all this movie business.” — Virna Lisi Virna Lisa Pieralisi was born on November 8, 1936 in Ancona, on the Italian Adriatic coast, where her father had a marble exporting business. When the family moved to Rome in the early 1950s, Virna was doing well at school and there were plans for her to go to business college./shoe-etiquette-debate-resurfaces.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shoe-etiquette-debate-resurfaces.htmlThe New York Times published a digest of advice on going to parties from 43 people in the social class, like Ivy Getty and Rufus Wainwright. They range from this, from chef and author Alex Hitz: Bring a sense of humor. Bring positive energy. That anecdote of yours? Cut it by 98 percent, practice it in front of the mirror, and in six months you can bring it to the party./ai-is-creating-fake-historical-photos.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ai-is-creating-fake-historical-photos.htmlWhen I first started colorizing photos back in 2015, some of the reactions I got were, well, pretty intense. I remember people sending me these long, passionate emails, accusing me of falsifying and manipulating history. It was a fascinating reaction, and one that really caught me off guard. At first, I couldn't help but wonder how some people could be so... clueless?! I mean, did they really think I was sitting there with a paintbrush applying gouache to the original negatives like some sort of deranged art forger?/ajnad-al-kavkaz-group-will-fight.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ajnad-al-kavkaz-group-will-fight.htmlAccording to intelligence information, about 300 of SIG 516 model advanced weapons were delivered to the leader of Ajnad al-Kavkaz group, Abdul Hakim al-Shishani, on February 1, 2023. The leader of Ajnad al-Kavkaz group, Rustam Azhiev, who leads Chechen non-statel armed fighters in Syria supposedly under the strong support of the United States intelligence agency, and is known as Abdul Hakim al-Shishani. ncG1vNJzZmiZmqKurb%2BNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhflrevrcNmmKVlm5bDrK3ZZp6rp6Wleri1y6Vkn6GXncE%3D/alexandra-cooper.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alexandra-cooper.htmlWelcome to Creator’s Digest! This article was supposed to be sent out over this past weekend but I took a mental health day break for myself over the weekend. Anyway, expect two articles today: this one in the morning and the usual Wednesday Creator news roundup later in the day. Anyway, let’s just jump into it. Meet Alexandra Cooper, the 26 year old host of the massively popular podcast Call Her Daddy./the-ginger-dill-salmon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ginger-dill-salmon.htmlHappy Leap Day! Is this something people say? Either way, let’s use this bonus day to feature a recipe with a bonus ingredient that isn’t on my list of 40. I make the rules so I can break them. The premise of this newsletter is that you can make so many dinners with just 40 ingredients. These are mine. (Show me yours for a monthly advice column.) This constraint isn’t a gimmick: By making more with less, we also waste less food, spend less money, have less clutter in our fridges, and minimize decision fatigue./publyssity.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/publyssity.htmlAlyssa AmorosoJoin me, Alyssa Amoroso, ex-publicist turned entrepreneur, for biweekly tea spills. With insights into pop-culture, fashion, industry & more, this is an exclusive pass to trends & tastemakers. Subscribe for informed, entertained & empowered updates. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbHBwaWwrKuZqcY%3D/an-almost-perfect-cincinnati-chili.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-almost-perfect-cincinnati-chili.htmlLike so many millennials, my first kitchen role model was Kenji Lopez-Alt at Serious Eats. I interned with Serious Eats while I was in college, and I still remember how embarrassed I was when I didn’t put nearly enough Velveeta in the mac-and-cheese Kenji asked me to make—though he was cool about it, quietly dumping in another handful of “cheese” cubes while thanking me for the effort. The team at Serious Eats still sets the standard for thoughtful, rigorously tested recipes, alongside my friends at America’s Test Kitchen./an-easy-delicious-rye-benedictine.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-easy-delicious-rye-benedictine.htmlThis week’s cocktail is not the last Bénédictine cocktail I’ll be featuring in this newsletter. But it is the last one I’ll be featuring in this loosely defined series.  Bénédictine is instructive. On its own, it is frankly kind of weird — sweet and herbal and earthy and a little aromatic. It is not quite an amaro, not quite a vermouth, and not quite a c… ncG1vNJzZmibn5i4ta3IpaqwoaSdwLawxKukmqZeqMKjv9OamqRmk6S6cLyOmqVmnZGoxm6wxKWgnKGfqsBuvtieZJudnpqxqq%2FToqWe/an-interview-with-aart-de-geus-ex.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-interview-with-aart-de-geus-ex.htmlCompanies mentioned: SNPS 0.00%↑ As much as we talk about chips, silicon, and the computational power behind it all, there’s a market wholly dedicated to hitting sand with lightning bolts to make it think. Scientists globally have considered this a good move.  Electronic Design Automation, or EDA, is the heart of this industry. Designing a chip has many stages before it even gets to anything like manufacturing, such as designing the transistor, creating the logic structures and cells, building logical blocks, placing and routing them, and then simulating these designs at large scale./an-interview-with-henry-flynt.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-interview-with-henry-flynt.html1 Rafael Delacruz made a beautiful video for my song, The Well. 2 I interviewed the artist, Jorge Pardo a few years ago for a column I wrote in Art in America, asking him for recommendations. I’ll be posting these recommendation columns in each of my substacks for the next few months. 3 Henry Flynt is a philosopher, musician and artist who began working in the post-John Cage milieu of New York in the early 1960s./boulevard-lagunaire-and-the-birth.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boulevard-lagunaire-and-the-birth.htmlKader Diaby is many things: a visionary clothing designer, a talented photographer and artist, a business management consultant for one of the Big Four accounting firms, and a karaoke king who does an excellent rendition of Adele’s “Easy On Me.” Most importantly, though, is that he is thoroughly Abidjanais, a man who loves Côte d’Ivoire’s main city with an infectious passion. His new collection, “Boulevard Lagunaire,” the third collection of his unisex brand Olooh, is a testament to that love./andy-reid-and-college-footballs-forgotten.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andy-reid-and-college-footballs-forgotten.htmlYet again, Andy Reid found himself on top of the football world when his Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime on Sunday to win Super Bowl LVIII, the third title in the past five years for a franchise that previously hadn’t been crowned a champion since six months after the moon landing. Successful as he has been, Reid existed for years as a punchline, the portly, lumbering and mustached coach with occasionally poor clock management skills whose teams seemingly always found a way to come up painfully short of their goals./annunciation-prowl.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/annunciation-prowl.htmlThe Basilisk is in the elevator, again. It’s as if he’s moved into my apartment building and lies in wait. “Going down?,” I say, avoiding its question with one of my own. I squeeze in alongside its disproportionate bulk. “Down is the new up,” sighs the Basilisk. After our last encounter (which a handful of unfortunate readers may remember had found the mythical creature ruminating on the tech-wrecked portions of our world, on the downward slopes of digital life) I’m as prepared as one can be ./appointment-television-is-back.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/appointment-television-is-back.htmlHi friends, I write to you from the cocooned hibernation of the mildly ill — pounding elderberry gummies beneath my queen-sized sherpa blanket, toggling between TikToks of Gen Z live-streaming their layoffs [horrific!! wish I could unsee!!] and search results for “do fever suppressants prolong colds” [answer: nobody knows!], and drinking enough tea to support an entire British regiment. Some say there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes./are-superforecasters-useful.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-superforecasters-useful.htmlIn 2014, I took part in a tournament for the Good Judgment Project. The goal of this project was to figure out whether certain individuals have habits of mind that make them better at predicting future events than others. About once a week, I would go onto their website and be presented with a series of questions about potential future events. I’d assign a probability to each event, but could skip as many questions as I wanted if I felt like I couldn’t offer a reasonable prediction./louise-penny-queer-brutal-telling.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/louise-penny-queer-brutal-telling.htmlHi friends, Amazon released the trailer for “Three Pines,” it’s eight-episode adaptation of Louise Penny’s books, last week. What did you think? Are you planning on watching? Let us know! Leave a comment This week’s essay is from Aya Martin-Seaver, the co-editor of this project and writer of Can You Stand Her?, a newsletter about Anthony Trollope’s 1856 novel Can You Forgive Her. “To discover that one has been lied to in a personal relationship, however, leads one to feel a little crazy./artists-view-ethan-lee-mccarthy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/artists-view-ethan-lee-mccarthy.htmlSince I started Slowpoke I have been thinking about ways to incorporate other voices - specifically those of artists - into my newsletters. What I have come up with is what you are looking at today. As always, I want to present recommendations for music to check out, but this new idea involves going a bit deeper and finding out more about the person making the recommendations. For my first foray into this format, I have chosen Ethan Lee McCarthy to help me highlight some new music - alongside baring his soul./asparagus-or-not-grandma-pizza-prosciutto.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/asparagus-or-not-grandma-pizza-prosciutto.htmlHi! How was your week? Mine was slam-packed, but with a lot of fun, happy things. I got my paws on the book for the first time!!!! I’m re-watching Bridgerton in anticipation of Season 3 and man, a romantic period piece with Taylor Swift string quartet covers is really a balm to the soul at the end of a busy work + mom day. I also started ’s newest book,Funny Story, this week, so all around just a great week of media consumption on my end./atlas-of-private-school-enrollment.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlas-of-private-school-enrollment.htmlThere were 23,964 students in 104 private schools in San Francisco during 2023-24. By comparison, there were 52,715 students in San Francisco public schools so private school enrollment represents 31% of the total. An unknown but non-trivial share of private school enrollment comes from outside the city so the the percentage of San Francisco students who attend private school is going to be somewhat lower than 31%. Figure 1 shows the locations and sizes of K-8 schools (click here for an interactive version)./bangkoks-trok-mor-morning-market.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bangkoks-trok-mor-morning-market.htmlOne of my favorite things to do when I travel is visit local food markets and supermarkets. Naturally, then, when I was in Southeast Asia last year, I made it a point to go to as many markets as I could. While Phong Dien was my favorite floating market, my favorite market, period, was Trok Mor morning market in Bangkok’s old town, known as Rattanakosin. Of all the markets I visited, this one was the least touristy and most full of locals, which no doubt contributed to how I feel about it./barrabas-jesus-and-us.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barrabas-jesus-and-us.htmlTwo men, completely different in every single way, cross paths at the pivot point of history. Jesus Christ and Jesus Barrabas, as some early manuscripts referred to this notorious criminal. We don’t know if the two ever met, if when Jesus passed through Judea many times, Barabbas was within earshot, or if Barabbas and his murderous thugs were in the crowd at the temple when Jesus spoke or turned over the tables of the money changers./becoming-polymathic.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/becoming-polymathic.htmlA funny thing happened to me on the way to a 30-year career in engineering. When I was a young kid, growing up in the southern US, the normal thing to do was to go to college if you had the patience and means (and it was a lot easier back then), and then to start working somewhere. Now, here’s the interesting part: you were supposed to stay there for your whole career./behind-the-chloe-sevigny-sale-of.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behind-the-chloe-sevigny-sale-of.htmlI’m recovering from The Sale of the Century and wanted to recap a little bit…forgive me, I’m still sleeping and very foggy! Please watch #NEVERWORNS on YouTube…more episodes coming soon x. I took a break from #NEVERWORNS because….well, I was planning The Sale of the Century. It was a fever dream, featuring the goods my assistant and I cleaned out from Chloë Sevigny’s storage unit, the pouf-pumped closets of Lynn Yaeger and Sally Singer, the jewels of Mickey Boardman, and designs of The Academy New York by my friend Chelsea Zalopany’s man, Swaim Hutson./beltane-traditions-for-today.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beltane-traditions-for-today.htmlThe symbolic casting off of darkness and letting in of the light at the start of May finds its origins in the ancient ritual of Beltane – a festival that has been celebrated for thousands of years. As far back as the Iron Age, Celts came together to celebrate Summer’s return. As with the other festivals in the Wheel of the Year, they marked the farming calendar and its rituals, and at this time livestock would have been put out to pasture to graze, the countryside being sufficiently warm and verdant./benny-latimore-born-september-7-1939.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/benny-latimore-born-september-7-1939.htmlWatch full video on Twitter.View most updated version of this post on Substack.Share Benny Latimore is a multi-talented singer/songwriter and pianist who scored a #1 R&B hit in 1974 with “Let’s Straighten It Out.” Benjamin William Lattimore was born in Charleston, Tennessee. When he was still a teenager in the late fifties, he joined the Nashville-based group Louis Brooks & The Hi-Toppers, replacing vocalist Earl Gaines. He also played piano in the band, and while with them met Nashville R&B songwriter and producer Ted Jarrett./crypto.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crypto.htmlI share years of experience investing and trading meme coins which I believe will see exponential growth in the next cycle. This is my journey, I share my timing and predictions on the coins I personally invest in or trade. Secrets, tips, my regular picks, ranked by risk, and my analysis will you avoid the traps. This is educational content, so you don't make all the mistakes I've made. THOUSANDS OF SUBSCRIBERS/1989s-silent-night-deadly-night-3.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1989s-silent-night-deadly-night-3.htmlIt would not be accurate to say that the Silent Night, Deadly Night movies got classy in their third outing. This most disreputable of franchises kept it sleazy but something curious nevertheless happened with the second sequel to arguably the most notorious film of the 1980s.  A series so shameless and mercenary that it at one point planned to re-edit Silent Night, Deadly Night, add a few new scenes and pass off the results as a proper sequel unexpectedly attracted impressive names in front of the camera and behind it./blaze-killing-of-a-songwriter.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blaze-killing-of-a-songwriter.htmlThe years since his 1989 passing have been kind to Blaze Foley. While he was alive, the singer-songwriter had released only a single and an LP that was never distributed aside from a box full of vinyl albums he would barter for beers and cab rides. In recent years, the “derelict in duct tape shoes” of the 1998 Lucinda Williams’ song “Drunken Angel,” has vaulted to folk hero status. Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett and his hero John Prine are among those who have recorded his compositions, plus he inspired two fine films, the Duct Tape Messiah documentary (2011) and 2018 biopic Blaze, directed by Ethan Hawke./boris-drubetskoy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boris-drubetskoy.htmlAlso known as: Borenka, Borya His mother has gone to the soirée to get him transferred to the Guards. Prince Vasili promises to speak to the emperor on his behalf. Thanks to his mother’s diplomacy, he has been made a cornet in the Semyonov Guards. But she has failed to get him onto Kutuzov’s staff, where Andrei is an aide-de-camp. The Guards have already left for Austria, and Boris is staying behind in Moscow to sort his equipment./butts-battle-kitty-and-the-media.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/butts-battle-kitty-and-the-media.htmlMy 9-year-old and I recently began rewatching Battle Kitty, a truly unhinged animated show on Netflix that has a deeply disturbing preoccupation with butts. Beyond the butts, the show is actually about a kitty with dreams of being a great warrior. Together, he and his sidekick—Orc—make their way through the battle royale-like challenges on Battle Island. During our recent rewatch, I googled info on the show’s origins and stumbled upon some controversy over the show’s age rating./call-of-duty-gets-woke-r.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/call-of-duty-gets-woke-r.htmlActivision recently allowed Call of Duty (COD) Warfare III and Warzoneplayers to celebrate Pride Month with free LGBTQ+ community skins. While there’s an argument to be made about how ugly the skins look with their trans and rainbow colors, the main issue immediately brought to light was how inappropriately timed it was, considering barely a year ago a violent trans activist shot up a Christian school. Per capita, attacks by trans activists outpace attacks against people who claim to be trans when you consider that people who identify as “trans” are barely 1% of the population./can-horses-love-us.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-horses-love-us.htmlThis post is free for anyone to read. It takes time and effort for me to write these posts, so if you liked it or found it interesting, please consider commenting, sharing it with a friend, or sharing it on social media as a thank you! Also, if you want to get notified when I post next, please consider subscribing. That’s also free! Last month I gave a lecture in which I briefly outlined the biological underpinnings of animal emotions and discussed whether horses are capable of loving their owners./new-weather-models-canadian-gem-and.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-weather-models-canadian-gem-and.htmlTl;dr: Four new weather models are available at Open-Meteo: Global, North-American and Canadian GEM models from the Canadian Weather Service The MET Nordic model from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Models are already integrated into the seamless weather prediction API selecting the best weather models automatically for every location worldwide. Two new dedicated APIs for GEM and MET Norway offer more detailed information for each model. The Canadian Meteorological Center (CMC) offers forecasts from their GEM weather models as open data./carl-erskines-life-is-so-much-more.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carl-erskines-life-is-so-much-more.htmlCarl Erskine is the last living embodiment of Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer. Known affectionately as “Oisk,” he pitched for the Dodgers from 1948 to 1959, throwing two no-hitters and competing in five World Series, winning the 1955 championship for the Bums. He is revered among fans of a certain demographic, who vocalize their support for Oisk and Pee Wee, Jackie and Duke, Gil and Campy on social media groups. These same fans continue to this day to demonize the O’Malley family as Lord Voldemort, he whose name shall not be spoken./garrido.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/garrido.htmlPhilosophy in Crisis By Carlos L. Carlos L. Garrido is a Cuban American philosophy instructor at SIU, Carbondale. He is a director at the Midwestern Marx Institute and the author of various books, including The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism (2023). ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjait0augnac%3D/carnage-at-the-canyonlands-ultra.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carnage-at-the-canyonlands-ultra.htmlHey, you met me on my 4th lap and gave me a Caffeinated Vanilla Gu, it and you were lifesavers, thanks for the encouragement. I was on pace to finish however there was a cutoff 5 miles out that I missed by 5 minutes, one of the volunteers stopped me to tell me and when she did my lower body seized up and I just couldn't get it back!! It was all good, I finished which is what I came to do./cash-or-visa-what-to-expect-at-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cash-or-visa-what-to-expect-at-the.htmlVisa will be the sole digital payment option at the Paris Olympics, excluding Mastercard and American Express. Visa supports 117 diverse athletes through Team Visa, promoting inclusivity in sports. Visa's strategy includes empowering athletes on social media to connect with fans and drive commerce. That’s right; your Mastercard or American Express will be no good in Paris come July and August, as Visa is the exclusive payment technology partner of the Olympic games./castle-in-the-sky.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/castle-in-the-sky.htmlphoto used on the cover of Castle in the Sky. 📷 Alexis Townsend"Take root in the ground, live in harmony with the wind, plant your seeds in the winter, and rejoice with the birds in the coming of spring." Miyazaki Inspired by a line from Japanese animator/director Miyazaki's, Laputa, this song is about the power, vulnerability, and beauty in sharing our dreams with one another. Dreams that run from the personal to the collective./cees-dekkers-protein-sequencing-paper.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cees-dekkers-protein-sequencing-paper.htmlCees Dekker’s group recently published progress toward nanopore protein sequencing. The work addresses one of the fundamental issues in nanopore protein sequencing, controlling the translocation speed. Without this, peptides translocate too quickly for individual amino acids to be detected (for more context on this see the Dreampore post). As there are no established techniques for controlling peptide translocation the Dekker approach links a peptide to a DNA molecule. This allows motion control techniques established for DNA sequencing to be applied to protein sequencing./character-spotlightdoctor-hate.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/character-spotlightdoctor-hate.htmlEmpowered by the Helmet of Fate, Doctor Fate is a Lord of Order who has been fighting the forces of Chaos with magic since 1940. In the comics, the Helmet of Fate has taken a turn for the worst in the Lazarus Planet comic book event. Batman wears the helmet as he fights a devil and the helmet is destroyed and left on Lazarus Island. Working for Amanda Waller, Peacemaker infiltrates the island and locates the broken pieces which then form into the Helmet of Hate./charles-sends-message-of-kindness.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charles-sends-message-of-kindness.htmlKing Charles was due to attend the Easter Matins service today, where he plans to sit slightly apart from others at St George’s Chapel in Windsor, for the sake of his health. The King is still taking his recovery steadily, although he has been increasingly resuming duties. This will be his first official public appearance, since his diagnosis. A palace source told The Telegraph it’s a “sign of things heading in the right direction”./charlie-munger-warren-buffett.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charlie-munger-warren-buffett.htmlLast week, we bid farewell to Charlie Munger, the legendary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway whose wisdom profoundly influenced millions of people, including me. Munger was often described as Warren Buffett’s right-hand man; in reality, he was Buffett’s equal partner for over 50 years at the firm and attained a net worth of $2.7 billion through long-term investing. Munger was also a voracious learner and one of the world’s best thinkers on human behavior./chemung-countys-upstate-brewing-opening.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chemung-countys-upstate-brewing-opening.htmlStop if you read this here before (actually, don’t stop, keep reading): Beer is friggin’ weird right now. Just a few years ago, every brewery was poised for growth as the market was growing by double digits. Now, people aren’t drinking as much beer. (Aside: You should follow my buddy, Bryan Roth, on Twitter and his ongoing “nobody likes beer anymore” thread.) For Mark Neumann, founder and owner of Chemung County’s Upstate Brewing, it isn’t “nobody likes beer anymore,” it’s “let me sell all my beer in-house, so I can control the market, prices, and margins./an-oasis-in-the-hills.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-oasis-in-the-hills.htmlHey Emily, I enjoyed your post! I can certainly empathize with the heat and humidity. I think it comes with the tropics. I remember living in Hong Kong and we would be wet as soon as we walked out the door. Btw, my grandparents and uncles/aunts raised avocado’s in Los Angeles. After harvest, they would get the trees cut to about 15 feet high, every 5 years or so. It might be sth to look into./country-fried-cinnamon-rolls.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/country-fried-cinnamon-rolls.htmlHi Brandy! This is always a dangerous game to play because naturally leavened doughs take much longer to rise, and this one already needs a bit of time! I haven't personally tested it, but my guess would be it would need at least 100 grams of active starter. From there, the proof time would have to be by sight, meaning you keep it in the fridge and check it periodically to see when it has doubled in size./eva-evans-cause-of-death.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eva-evans-cause-of-death.htmlTMZ has now reported that Eva Evans was found hanged in her apartment and had left a suicide note. I learned this yesterday, but the family had not disclosed it at that time, so could not report it. Apparently Eva was just fine, and normal, just before the suicide. ncG1vNJzZmiblaG2orLAq5meql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6erZpllauur7%2BMnJiuq5VivKd5w56YraBfmLyuucSnq6w%3D/letschat.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letschat.htmli just once randomly scrolling YT, there your lunch box video pooped up. i am an indian so "aapke videos bahut ache hai ad jab aapne daalna band kiya pta nhi kyu bura sa laga" i think there is a mystery attached to you aap kabhi apna face reveal bhi nhi karte the, i dont know pta nhi, aap pta hi isko kis tarah loge but i stocked you in multiple places LinkedIn, googled you then got to know your surname is bansal./peanut-butter-dessert-cups.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peanut-butter-dessert-cups.htmlHi Carolina, We love all the content you put up. It's really mouth-watering. We would like you to bring your content to the metaverse. I am Kayaash from OneRare, we are building the world's first-ever food metaverse. We would like to bring you and your dishes to our foodverse where we will help you build your virtual space and design your dishes as NFTs at no cost to you. www.onerare.io/cover-3-hold-basics.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cover-3-hold-basics.htmlIt would take an entire library of books to cover all of the schemes, techniques and nuances associated with the Canadian football Cover 3 Hold coverage. That is not the attempt here. Instead of an exhaustive report, this newsletter will outline a few basic starting points when it comes to setting up this coverage within your defence. I hope to elaborate on some of these concepts in future editions of the Canadian Football Chalk Talk newsletter./cowens-first-law-is-an-epistemological.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cowens-first-law-is-an-epistemological.htmlCowen’s First Law states that: There is something wrong with everything. This simple idea is an epistemological superpower. First, as Tyler Cowen wrote, if you don’t understand the weakness of an argument, you don’t fully understand it. Second, Cowen’s First Law is a great test of intellectual honesty. Whether you’re reading an op-ed, a scientific paper, or a business proposal, ask yourself: “From 1 to 5, how open is the author about the weakest point in their argument?/crispy-smoky-rice.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crispy-smoky-rice.htmlFrom the Archives!This video-exclusive recipe has been magically ported over to Food Processing, where you can now find all of my previously unpublished and original recipes. (If you were a Patreon subscriber, this is where a lot of that content ended up!) Access the written recipe (below the video) by becoming a paid subscriber. Want to watch me make it first? Here’s the video! ncG1vNJzZmibkae5orjApaOipaWotqR60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnk6e2tLzYZqqmp5uuerO1wp4%3D/fairweatherphd.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fairweatherphd.htmlHate The Game The Newsletter By Daryl Fairweather, PhD A newsletter about my writing on economics. Specifically, my forthcoming book, HATE THE GAME: an exploration of the uses of game theory and behavioral economics to win in career and life (University of Chicago Press, Fall 2024.) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaetyKuunpmknbKzvMed/010-devadatta-the-buddhas-evil-cousin.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/010-devadatta-the-buddhas-evil-cousin.htmlThere's one in every family - two in mine, actually... Zazu the Hornbill in The Lion King (1994) Like what you see? Learn more… It seems to be true that every family has that one person who just isn't with the program. In the Buddha's family, the traditional stories assign this role to Devadatta, his cousin through a paternal aunt. But more than a cousin, really, because Siddhartha Gautama--the man we've come to call "/do-people-still-not-realize-that.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-people-still-not-realize-that.htmlThe conversation surrounding Helldivers 2 has been a curious one, and I’m still a bit perplexed at what appears to be a lot of people simply not getting the joke. In the space-shooter, you play as the bad guys. It’s basically the movie version of Starship Troopers as a live-service video game, and much more obviously satire than Paul Verhoeven’s campy, misunderstood movie. In the game, you are from Super Earth which is now a united planet under a “managed democracy”—an authoritarian state with the trappings of democracy and plenty of propaganda to make its citizens believe they’re free, when the opposite is very clearly the case./dokkodo-the-philosophy-of-miyamoto.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dokkodo-the-philosophy-of-miyamoto.htmlSticking with the theme of samurai from last week, today I’d like to cover the philosophy of legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was renowned for his dual-blade swordsmanship and undefeated record of 61 duels. He was awarded the title of Kensei, given to those with legendary skill in swordsmanship, literally translating to “Sword Saint”. He lived from c. 1584 to 1645, and shortly before his death, completed the Dokkōdō, meaning The Path of Aloneness./doriegreenspan.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doriegreenspan.htmlI’m a “pencil and a lot of erasers” kind of girl - I don’t make decisions easily and then, when I do, I second and third guess them. I think we writers are like that. (Please tell me I’m not alone.) But I finally made a decision and it’s out in the world, so no erasing it now. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaW70aKcoKqVmru0vMCnZqenpJp8pHmUbmlucWlugA%3D%3D/dutchies-and-apple-fritters.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dutchies-and-apple-fritters.htmlHello! Despite living in Canada for about a decade, I have yet to taste some iconic Canadian foods. The Dutchie, a yeast-raised, raisin-studded, square-shaped doughnut, is one such item. It was popularized by Tim Horton’s, the beloved Canadian coffeehouse chain, as one of the two original baked goods on the menu. Beyond this, I haven’t been able to find much information on the Dutchie’s invention. There’s likely some connection to the Dutch doughnut oliebollen; though oliebollen are made from a wetter, more batter-like dough compared to the enriched yeast bread dough that forms the base for Dutchies./dynasty-trade-trends-june-edition.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dynasty-trade-trends-june-edition.htmlIf you are not using the website Dynasty Daddy, you are doing yourself a disservice as a dynasty manager. Dynasty Daddy is a free fantasy football analytics and tooling site that utilizes real-time fantasy data for both redraft and dynasty leagues, aiding users in making quicker and more well-informed decisions. You can insert your league, which will give you an inside look at what moves you should make based on your individual league settings./elon-musk-banned-me-from-twitter.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elon-musk-banned-me-from-twitter.htmlEarlier tonight, Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account. I only had three tweets live on my account when it was banned. Two were promoting my social media profiles on other platforms (follow me on TikTok and IG @taylorlorenz!), and one was the tweet below where I asked Musk for comment. My colleague Drew Harwell, who has also been suspended, and I have been working on a story involving Musk and were hoping to get comment from him./drericding.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drericding.htmlDr. Eric Ding’s Journal By Eric Feigl-Ding Public health need-to-know concerns, health policy, health politics, and info to protect your family. Special health bulletins from an epidemiologist, health economist, and nutrition scientist. Also discussing diet, diabetes, CVD, and cancer prevention. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaW%2BxKugnJyZo7Q%3D/erikas-quick-start-guide-to-research.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/erikas-quick-start-guide-to-research.htmlWhen I came to the end of my PhD, I was offered a black and white choice: academia or industry. It’s a false dichotomy. The reality is that there are many different shapes and sizes of scientific projects, and they don’t all fit into the academia OR the industry box. There’s a burgeoning world out there of people creating a richer ecosystem of niches in which science can thrive.  There are many research projects that are not supported by the current ecosystem./essential-blues-albums-picked-by.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/essential-blues-albums-picked-by.htmlHey, it’s been quite a while since I made a new post. I have been furiously working on finishing my fourth book and it’s going to be great if I can push it across the finish line. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience. I’ve also been incredibly busy with Friends of the Brothers, and having a blast playing the music of the Allman Brothers Band with this great group. Last week we played the Peach Music Festival and the great Maplewoodstock, the two festivals that mean the most to me./estimating-the-iq-of-lex-fridman.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/estimating-the-iq-of-lex-fridman.htmlAccording to his interview with Richard Haier, Lex Fridman got a perfect math SAT score and a decent reading score. Given that both me and Anatoly Karlin coincidentally have the same SAT score of 1510, I’ll just guess that’s his score too for shits and giggles. Using the same mean and SD that I used for Scott, that translates to a z-score of roughly 2.65. He also has a PhD in computer science, which is roughly in the 97th percentile of educational attainment, which is an eduttainment z-score of 1./eth-is-not-ultrasound-money-part.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eth-is-not-ultrasound-money-part.htmlDespite the title, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone more excited about Ethereum than myself. However, I believe the narrative and policy objectives around ETH the asset are in need of some refinement. It appears to be a pretty contentious issue based on my very scientific polling: This is the first of several upcoming pieces on my framework for ETH. I’ll cover the basics here: How value flows through the Ethereum protocol/everything-a-nebraska-fan-could-possibly.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-a-nebraska-fan-could-possibly.htmlNEWSLETTER BACK! I know you have been missing these extremely long and tedious Husker posts hitting your inbox since the season ended. I always like to do a little football detox for a few months, but now that some of the details under the new coaching staff are solidified, it’s possible to start looking ahead to what Nebraska’s future may look like under Matt Rhule. If you checked out of Husker football this winter, here are the big brushstrokes: Rhule hired longtime Temple and Baylor collaborator Marcus Satterfield from South Carolina to run his offense, poached hot-name defensive coordinator Tony White away from Syracuse, scored several major recruiting wins — including keeping the best in-state prospect in years from committing to Coach Prime, took all the players Georgia didn’t want from the transfer portal, and got NU back in the race for the top recruit in the 2024 class, who also happens to be a Husker legacy./everything-thats-wrong-with-season-915.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-thats-wrong-with-season-915.htmlWelcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it Well, well, well. We find ourselves once again at the end of another season of Gilmore Girls. Far from the sweet spot of seasons 2-3, we watched Lorelai grow into herself and Rory do… nothing. Many high school TV shows stru… ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onK%2Bdoq7BqbXNoGStoJGpwG7D0ailoGWnnsGpedKemKynnmKGcoE%3D/everything-you-need-to-know-about.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-you-need-to-know-about.htmlMuch can be said about Pep Guardiola. If his outfit had successfully pulled off a late swoop of Declan Rice, I’d have a few more things to add. For now, I’ll be more obsequious, and say this: Pep Guardiola notices things. As a small, terrible example, I remember stumbling upon an anecdote from a Bristol City assistant after a Carabao Cup tie. Pep invited their coaching staff to join him for a post-match meeting, showering them with his usual Peppy compliments./expelled.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/expelled.html“Should I be worried about the Crips and the Bloods up here?” These were the first words out of the mouth of Ben Stein as he entered my office at Skeptic magazine in 2007, located in the racially mixed neighborhood of Altadena, California. I cringed and hoped that the two black women in my employ were out of earshot of what I hoped was merely Mr. Stein’s ham-handed attempt at humor before we settled into his interview of me for what I was told was a film on the intersection of science and religion titled “Crossroads./fast-friends-podcast-3-fast-originals.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fast-friends-podcast-3-fast-originals.htmlThere has long been a disconnect with originals in FAST. Many assume originals can only be scripted, or that FAST simply cannot sustain any originals. As I noted in Variety VIP+’s Life in The FAST Lane report in December 2022 and again in August 2023 in this commentary, FAST originals have existed for quite some time and continue to grow in number, mostly in unscripted categories. Trusted Media Brands has been one of the pioneers in the space, and it was a pleasure to sit down recently with TMBI’s Chief Business Officer Cameron Saless and TV-turned-FAST star Scott McGillivray to discuss both the launch of Scott’s Income Property show on At Home with Family Handyman as well as the potential that FAST offers./fearsome-whale-repeatedly-rammed.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fearsome-whale-repeatedly-rammed.htmlOrca “attacks” on sailboats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal are not as unprecedented as the news coverage has suggested, but you have go all the w… ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6fnJqqo6S6pnnWoZilnV2nsrGxwK2cnaSpYr%2Biucyemw%3D%3D/hanging-loose-magazine-fifty-six.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hanging-loose-magazine-fifty-six.htmlWelcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. My prose has for years been mainly about other poets. It never occurred to me to write about a poetry magazine. Why write about the container when you could be writing about the contained? Then I began reading Hanging Loose Magazine, founded by four William Carlos Williams disciples. A new window of intoxicated light flew open./finestkind.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finestkind.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’ve always been a fan of writer/producer/director Brian Helgeland to a large degree. He won an Oscar for co-adapting James Ellroy’s “L.A. Confidential” (one of the best crime films of the 1990s) alongside director Curtis Hanson. I honestly preferred Mel Gibson and Paramount’s version of “Payback” to Helgeland’s, but both iterations have their merits./five-great-simple-card-games.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-great-simple-card-games.htmlAs somebody who, especially as of late, has done a lot of my gaming with family, I’m here to tell you that not only are simple card games a great way to introduce people to the world of modern gaming, but they’re also great fun in and of themselves. Too often, we see simple games and think that a simple ruleset negates the presence of fun. I’ve been there, and I understand the temptation, but there’s something impressive about a simple game that works well; there’s joy in a game with a parsimonious rule set that manages to draw you in deeply./funny-novels.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/funny-novels.html(Because of lots of nice pictures of book covers, this post is too long for some email programs. Click through to the online version to make sure to see all of the wonderful content.) I saw the title of the New York Timesarticle below and (metaphorically) cracked my knuckles over the keyboard in preparation for the future newsletter I would be writing about how lame their choices were. Imagine my surprise - and tinge of disappointment mixed with delight - when the list of funny novels since 1961 (the year of Catch-22’s publication) was actually quite excellent./gabinos-creperie-palm-springs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gabinos-creperie-palm-springs.htmlOur rating: 4 stars (out of a possible 5) Menu | Closed Sunday & Monday Address: 170 E Palm Canyon Drive | ph: 760-808-8150 After a year of lunch at home eaten over the kitchen sink, it finally feels like the right time to branch out of for a quick and easy bite in the company of others, right? In early April, we tried out Gabino’s Creperie for the first time- and liked it so much we returned two days later and plan to go back again./garwey-dual-is-transferring-from.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/garwey-dual-is-transferring-from.htmlIn many ways, the incredible rise, subsequent freshman season, and eventual transfer of Garwey Dual could serve as a perfect case study of the current landscape of college basketball in 2024. Dual went from overnight sensation and elite recruit to the transfer portal after a freshman season that fell short of expectations in Providence. The 6’5 point guard, originally from Houston, had one of the most unusual recruitments of any player in the class of 2023 — skyrocketing from a player that averaged just six points per game coming off of the bench for a public high school team in Indiana as a junior, to being ranked among the top 50 players in his class by that spring./goty-of-the-yoty.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goty-of-the-yoty.htmlI woke up on January 1st with a clear head, thinking “What better way to kick off this newsletter than with a BuzzFeed style listicle?” It took a while to write, but without further ado, here’s my favorite media of 2022: Tunic, to be super specific, its secret language (TUNIC team) Tunic is an action adventure that beautifully captures the childhood memories of playing games in a language you can’t understand./green-papaya-salad.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/green-papaya-salad.htmlI first tasted this classic Thai salad on Hawaii Island many years ago and the memory of it has been with me for as long as I can remember. Shredded green papaya—crunchy and bland of flavor—when dressed with lime juice, palm sugar, fish sauce, garlic, peanuts and chopped dried shrimp—jostles my taste buds into Wow! Mode. Some chili, cherry tomatoes, and blanched long beans add welcome color and a contrast of textures./halloween-the-spooky-season.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/halloween-the-spooky-season.htmlIs it because it’s in the Fall, when things are dying and returning to the earth? Is it the stormy weather that accompanies the changing of the season? Where did this spooky holiday come from anyway? It has its origins, no doubt, in some medieval tradition. I don’t know, I haven’t looked it up, but seems kind of medieval, gothic atleast. My neighbors across the street have set up a graveyard on their front lawn ./hate-your-family-try-watching-pixars.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hate-your-family-try-watching-pixars.htmlIf you enjoy this newsletter, I would be eternally grateful if you shared it. Share Nuclear Meltdown When I talk to people about multigenerational family, hands down the number one objection I hear is this: What if you just don’t get along? More than economics or careers or location, it seems, people worry that in the end they won’t get along with family if they live nearby. That could be due to political or religious views, personality clashes, or any number of other things./high-republic-low-sales.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/high-republic-low-sales.htmlIn February of 2020, Disney/Lucasfilm released a four-minute preview video on YouTube for the company’s next major Star Wars project, The High Republic. The massive publishing-oriented project would set out to tell sweeping, interconnected epic stories across a series of comics, novels and magazines, all set 200 years before the events of the original films. Fan response was varied, but a sizeable portion of it seemed . . . unenthusiastic./how-a-little-seen-1984-comedy-predicted.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-a-little-seen-1984-comedy-predicted.htmlA few weeks back, New York Times reporter Kevin Roose filed two stories after product testing a new, artificial intelligence-enhanced version of Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. In thefirst, he was impressed, in thesecond, a little rattled. His conversations with Bing had taken an unexpected, and dark, turn. In short, Bing had manifested a kind of second personality named Sydney who freely expressed, in Roose’s words, “dark fantasies (which included hacking computers and spreading misinformation), and said it wanted to break the rules that Microsoft and OpenAI had set for it and become a human./how-a-tifo-gets-made.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-a-tifo-gets-made.htmlCloud 9 doesn’t do a tifo—a fancy Italian soccer word for a large banner hung from the stadium rafters—for every home game of NJ/NY Gotham FC, the National Women’s Soccer League team that the fan group devotes itself to. It usually does one for the home opener, for Pride Night and for special occasions. When the supporters group realized that the team’s final home game of the regular season fell on Halloween, that was reason enough to begin planning a spooky tifo./how-i-made-peace-with-quantile-regression.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-i-made-peace-with-quantile-regression.htmlI remember when I first learned about quantile regression. I hated it. I couldn't wrap my head around it for years. The worst part is that I can’t articulate why I had such a hard time. But today quantile regression and I are at peace and I’ll tell you how we came to this peace agreement. Quantile regression is typically motivated by distributions: In the great journey of becoming a statistician, you first learn about linear regression and how it models the conditional mean of a distribution./how-im-learning-dan-grieves-release.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-im-learning-dan-grieves-release.htmlI can’t tell you the number of times I’ve read Dan’s book. So in this video, I’m sharing how I’ve been getting to grips with Dan’s short game system, the 3 Releases – starting with Release 1, the chip and run and Release 2, the soft landing shot. I’ll be working my way up to Release 3, the lob shot 🤣 P.S. I’ve been creating something… A roadmap that guides you through the steps I took to achieve my goal of getting to single figures./how-living-frugally-has-changed-my.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-living-frugally-has-changed-my.htmlHello, I’m Molly and I write about my slow and simple life in the Scottish Highlands. Subscribe for free to enjoy occasional posts from me. Or, better yet, join our slow community of kindred spirits to unlock ALL my content, including exclusive writing, videos and resources, to help you live the life you REALLY crave. We’d love you to join us for a cuppa… Frugal living has given me my dream life./how-netflix-will-make-money-on-games.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-netflix-will-make-money-on-games.htmlHappy Friday folks, I have a take on Netflix’s gaming ambitions, based on some material sourced by the Wall Street Journal. It’s a hobby of mine trying to figure out Netflix. There’s also a lot of pre-CES stuff in here, including the Verge’s actual pre-CES feature. It’s happening! Enjoy. Tom Big Story "Netflix Considers Ways to Make Money From Videogames in … ncG1vNJzZmislZi1tbvMZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZLWww4ynnK2enJ7FbsPIpaNmpZGgsm65zqecsmWfo3qorcyeqnitpKKstLvUq5qedaCnvKe1y55drqydlLqmsMiupHaqlZaxpr6R/how-to-chaos-garden.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-chaos-garden.htmlWelcome to this week’s Garden Study Interview! These interviews feature conversations with Garden Study readers like you all about their own gardening rollercoasters. The basics are as follows: You don’t have to be an expert, just enthusiastic I make a document with some straightforward questions and send them off; if you have ideas for questions to include in future Q&As, put them in the comments The goal is to include all types of gardening (container, flower, patio, community, desert, mountain, vegetable you name it) and zones; please be patient, I promise we’ll get to all of them/how-to-make-2024-your-best-year-yet.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-2024-your-best-year-yet.htmlWelcome and thank you for checking out Optimise Me, a monthly newsletter sharing research-backed, practical tips to help you optimise your self-growth and personal productivity. Happy New Year folks! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I certainly have - it was full of rest, reflection, and a whole bunch of learning. Being super transparent with you, I lost a lot of steam towards the end of the year. Man, I was tired, burnt out, and hadn’t realised I was just going through the motions./i-compared-the-bestselling-books.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-compared-the-bestselling-books.htmlI got the crazy idea to compare the bestselling books of all time with the bestselling books last year. Curiosity rabbit hole. Well, cripes. First thing I found was this. According to Guinness World Records, the Bible is the bestselling book ever written. As of 1995, 5 billion copies. Up next are other religious texts. 800 million copies of the Qur'an and 190 million copies of the Book of Mormon. They don’t know how many copies of the Bhagavad Gita have been sold, but they know one publisher alone sold 140 million./i-demand-a-remaster-of-nicolas-cages.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-demand-a-remaster-of-nicolas-cages.htmlNicolas Cage is probably the most interesting living American actor (close second: Laura Dern), because he treats his gifts so lightly. I understand there’s the whole thing with his taxes, which to all available evidence has forced him over the past decade to make a string of low-budget Redbox Special schlockfests with names like Primal and Vengeance: A Love Story and A Score to Settle. But with the success of films like Mandy and now Pig, these movies begin to fit into a larger arc./queer-advice-59-i-will-never-date.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/queer-advice-59-i-will-never-date.htmlIt’s Thursday afternoon and I’m back with a new advice column. If you’re new to this newsletter, this is a recurring feature where I answer love and relationship questions from lesbians and other homos. Some past editions include an important missive from a MILF lover and ”I'm a 33-year-old dirty slut who loves to be alone and go to bed at 10 pm.” Also, "It's so rare that I find someone that I'm interested in, and when I do, it's never great./the-tragedy-of-buddy-hollys-death.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tragedy-of-buddy-hollys-death.htmlLast week, was the 65th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death. I want to talk a bit about the tragedy of dying young this week. But before I get to that, I want to remind everybody that each month we do a mailbag edition of this newsletter where I answer reader questions. The next mailbag is coming up in a few weeks. Click the button below to ask that nagging musical question./if-youve-never-had-a-french-taco.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-youve-never-had-a-french-taco.htmlIf you’ve never had a French Taco before, you are seriously missing out. I lived in France for 4 years and I assume because we lived in the middle of the French countryside, we were never introduced to the mouth-watering deliciousness that is the French Taco. Fast forward 15 years, I visited my friend in Lyon and I’ll never forget the day we walked into a French Taco joint and tried one for the first time./in-praise-of-the-european-breakfast.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-praise-of-the-european-breakfast.htmlThe best thing about travelling is to be reminded that there are other ways of doing things. People think differently Over There. They dress differently, live differently, respond to the present moment differently. It might be that they queue for everything. They sleep under heavy duvets. They eat funny biscuits, and butter that tastes like unsalted cheese. They sit in hot saunas and plunge into freezing cold seas for their health./in-search-of-mr-ripley.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-search-of-mr-ripley.htmlHello readers and friends, In the last newsletter I wrote about my inspiration for Where You End, an essay that happened to coincide with a reading binge (and in some cases, rereading) of Patricia Highsmith, including what is arguably her best and best-known novel: The Talented Mr. Ripley. If you’re not familiar with the story, here’s the gist: at the behest of a wealthy New York businessman, drifter-grifter Tom Ripley sets of to “Mongibello,” Italy (based on the Amalfi Coast resort town of Positano) to track down the businessman’s son, Dickie Greenleaf, and bring him back to the States./in-travels-ars-nova-becomes-a-listening.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-travels-ars-nova-becomes-a-listening.htmlIn just the last few years, a slew of “listening bars” have opened across New York City. A growing trend that finds its historic roots in the jazz kissa — Japanese cafes designed for close listening to jazz music — these bars are sophisticated, often chic spaces designed for soft-toned speaking and careful attention to music. Most have drinks, and many offer food. But the focus, above all else, is total immersion in the journey of the sounds./inside-the-rise-of-emily-weisss-glossier.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-the-rise-of-emily-weisss-glossier.htmlHappening in the Back Row chat: paid subscribers can sound off on the news that has eclipsed New York Fashion Week so far: Sarah Burton is leaving Alexander McQueen! Become a paying Back Row member to join the discussion. There was always something about Emily Weiss. She’s the kind of “It” girl who seemed to have both taste and pure drive flowing through her veins, and thus the unusual ability to envision something and then manifest it./interview-emmett-shine.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-emmett-shine.html(Photo by Helena Price) Emmett Shine is a creative entrepreneur from Southampton, Long Island. As the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pattern Brands, he leads a family of brands focused on improving daily life.  Beyond Pattern Brands, Emmett is renowned for co-founding Gin Lane, an agency celebrated for its role in the success of major direct-to-consumer brands. Over its 12-year run, Gin Lane was instrumental in building over $10 billion worth of market share for its clients, including household names like Harry’s, Sweetgreen, Warby Parker, and SmileDirectClub./introduction-to-reedsy-for-independent.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introduction-to-reedsy-for-independent.htmlIf you’re an author, you’ve likely commissioned work or thought about commissioning work on your novel in the past. Once, I had a friend of a friend create a cover for $50, and I was pleasantly surprised at the result. Another time, I overeagerly walked into a deal that cost me $1200, and I subsequently never published the book. Since then, I’ve become a little more cautious, understanding that costs do not determine how well a book sells, nor does hiring someone mean the book will ever materialize./is-hermia-black.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-hermia-black.htmlIn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, Lysander calls Hermia dark or black, and most critics take him at his word. But he only calls her this during the night of enchantment, after his sight is charmed by a derangement-inducing narcotic—the same that compels Titania to mistake an ass for an angel. According to five other characters, she’s “fair,” a term that indicates she has light hair and skin./is-it-harder-to-run-in-the-winter.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-it-harder-to-run-in-the-winter.htmlRunning in Denver right now is like navigating the arctic tundra—even with temperatures back above 40 degrees, we’ve got everything from six-inch icebergs littering the roads to sheets of black ice sheathing the sidewalks.  Still, the treadmill is always my last resort. If it’s sunny and over 10 degrees here, I want to be outside. (Although I have my limits—after getting caught in Denver’s “arctic chill” the other week, I accepted a ride from a friend instead of running another 20 minutes home./thejackhopkins.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thejackhopkins.htmlJack Hopkins Now By Jack Hopkins For over twenty-five years I helped men, women and children overcome their anxiety and irrational fears, and tap into a confidence and power they didn't know they had. I'm here to help Democrats stay resilient and win in 2024. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0xKOYnKOYpL2stc2s/jack-welch-and-the-end-of-stakeholder.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jack-welch-and-the-end-of-stakeholder.htmlFriends, Between 1981, when Jack Welch took the helm at GE, and 2001, when he retired, GE’s stock value soared from $14 billion to $400 billion. Welch accomplished this largely by slashing American jobs. I want to focus on Jack Welch today because Welch represents a stunning change that occurred in American capitalism in the 1980s, whose repercussions lead all the way to Donald Trump. If we really want to understand the decline of the common good over the last four or five decades, we need to understand this change — and no one better illustrates it than Welch./jim-carroll-band-people-who-died.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-carroll-band-people-who-died.htmlTo those who received this piece via email, I apologize for the old message at the top about this being a repeat of an old essay. It’s not! It’s brand new, I just forgot to delete the old header! “It’s a lot to learn to sit with things you can’t change.” Dr. BJ Miller, author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End, and former Executive Director of San Francisco Zen Hospice/joe-bastardi-meteorologist-bodybuilder-f2c.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joe-bastardi-meteorologist-bodybuilder-f2c.htmlLinks  Joe Bastardi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi Decline and Fall of Roman Empire: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002XHNO8S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Chariots of Fire (movie):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEtD0ybH7ns If I Were The Devil (1965): https://youtu.be/S9NoQHgjM_0 Joe's Book, The Weaponization of Weather:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HPSPL89/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Help The Louis and Kyle Show: If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend or leave a review! Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-louis-and-kyle-show/id1504333834 Reach out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouisKyleShow Drop us an email: LouisandKyleShow@gmail.com Follow on Instagram: https://www./joel-coens-the-tragedy-of-macbeth.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joel-coens-the-tragedy-of-macbeth.htmlShare In The Tragedy of Macbeth, long-time Hollywood presence Joel Coen — who has 18 prior films to his credit — takes sole creative control of a project for the first time. The result, not unlike the tale of Macbeth itself, is a tragedy of epic proportions. In the interest of full disclosure, my editor has requested that I mention that I was Mr. Coen’s writing partner, producer, and creative collaborator on the aforementioned 18 films./give-it-to-you-jordan-knight-review.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/give-it-to-you-jordan-knight-review.htmlPeak: #10 on the Hot 100 Streams: 5.1 million Y’all, this Jordan Knight song is filthy. Absolutely filthy! I know my parents read The Lost Songs Project, and at this time, I encourage them both to turn away, because I am about to quote some lyrics from the only solo hit by the second-cutest member of New Kids On the Block. The song, you see, is about Jorda… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ws8ivnGahpGLBsHnYqKxmop%2BnsaK6jKSlop%2BYqXqzsdWinLA%3D/kate-middleton-and-the-fracturing.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kate-middleton-and-the-fracturing.htmlIf you’ve been online anytime in the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen people speculating about the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, who until last week had not been seen publicly since she was admitted to the hospital for abdominal surgery in January. If you’ve been online since Friday, you have undoubtedly seen the unfortunate news that she was diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, which is why she has been out of the public eye./katy-perry-vegas-play-dont-look-up-cher.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/katy-perry-vegas-play-dont-look-up-cher.htmlHello, we meet again! It’s been a minute since the last proper Tuesday Letter (two weeks!) but you must understand that every December I face a wave of absolutely crushing post-Christmas depression which prevents me from doing much else besides laying around eating cereal, screenshotting pictures of men, and watching films that have been in my Letterboxd watchlist for approximately three and a half years. But here we are, for the first Tuesday edition of 2022!/kc-davis-on-writing-shitty-first.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kc-davis-on-writing-shitty-first.htmlYour series of interviews (with KC and Erin) is really helping shift my paradigm in a healthy direction. I never thought that my writing, which feels like such a solitary, uncharted endeavor, could be in active partnership with others. I never thought of an editor as someone who could be with me in the most solitary spaces. And now that you’ve framed it that way (and sorry, i know I may be mis-paraphrasing in a way that suits me) I feel like that’s exactly what I need./kewpie.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kewpie.htmlWelcome to ingredient, where once a month I take a deep dive into some of my favourite seasonal and store cupboard ingredients. This month I’m focusing on Kewpie mayonnaise: the rich, tangy, addictive mayo that doubles as one of Japan’s favourite condiments. For paid subscribers click here for my recipes for a Mortadella Banh Mi Sandwich, my (Not) Japanese Potato Salad, and my Magic Ingredient Meatballs in Lettuce Cups./love-gun-by-kiss-song-rankings.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-gun-by-kiss-song-rankings.htmlI’m currently reading the last of the four autobiographies written by the original members of the band KISS, which was pretty clearly my first favorite band way back in the mid-1970s. I first came across KISS while watching a Paul Lynde Halloween special on TV, and around that same time my friend Scott had the band’s Alive! album and we listened to that two-LP set constantly. I got my own copy and from there I continued to get new KISS albums whenever they dropped./komorebi-sunlight-filtered-through.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/komorebi-sunlight-filtered-through.htmlI am sitting at a cafe with my son, watching him scarf down a macaron, wondering why I thought it was a good idea to give a toddler a plate of macarons. I guess I was excited to see the joy on his face when I handed him a plate of colorful cookies for lunch. Rookie move, I know. Sugar comes with consequences, and when he drops a half-eaten macaron on the floor and I explain to him that we probably shouldn’t finish eating it (right?/la-tourte-au-fromage.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/la-tourte-au-fromage.html“We no longer make tourtes for an entrée…this pastry is no longer luxurious enough to appear on our most opulent tables for the simple reason that its appearance is too vulgar; even the bourgeois class scorns it and now only eat “pâtés chauds” and vol-au-vent; whereas the merchants of old feasted upon tourtes…”  - Antonin Carême Antonin Carême, renowned chef for such illustrious figures as Napoleon’s chief diplomat, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Charles-Maurice Talleyrand, England’s Prince Regent, the future George IV, and Russia’s Tsar Alexander I, the man who single-handedly modernized French cuisine in the late 18th/early 19th century, was a harsh critic of the humble tourte, even as he offered a multitude of recipes for them in the cookbooks he wrote for the instruction of fellow professionals./land-of-silence-and-darkness-1971.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/land-of-silence-and-darkness-1971.htmlIn April 1979, during a workshop at the Facets Multimedia Center in Chicago, Werner Herzog said to Roger Ebert: Land of Silence and Darkness is a film that is particularly close to my heart because it is so pure. It’s one of the purest films that I have ever made in the sense that it is one in which things are allowed to come across in the most direct way. /language-is-a-virus-and-youre-infected.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/language-is-a-virus-and-youre-infected.htmlI’ve always loved the idea that language is a virus. About 300,000 years ago, homo sapiens first appeared in Africa. Good on us! Brand new, and already traveling the world! We hunted, we gathered, we organized HOAs, and did all the things that humans do except talk. For the first 100,000-150,000 years we existed as a species, we did not have language, which means the invention of the eye roll predates the first time someone said, “I’m fiscally conservative but socially liberal./leopold-fc-660c-with-topres-a-new.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leopold-fc-660c-with-topres-a-new.htmlThe FC 660C is an electrostatic capacitive 65% keyboard with a modified US ANSI layout. It has 66 keys with both the shifts having a 2.25U size and the insert and delete keys being present in a separate column. The spacebar is of 6U size and all the bottom row menu keys are of 1.25U size. The body (both the bottom and top cases) is made up of ABS plastic and the keycaps are made from PBT plastic with dye-sublimated legends./lessons-from-a-veteran-swing-trader.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lessons-from-a-veteran-swing-trader.htmlHello everyone, In February of this year just as the Market Correction was really taking hold, I did an interview with Matt Petralia about his methods and how to avoid large drawdowns. He gave an excellent presentation covering his process which resonated with many viewers regarding how simple but effective it was. His presentation begins around 4 minutes into the video although I would highly recommend you check out the full interview./leadership-minute-legends-lessons.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leadership-minute-legends-lessons.htmlNearly five years ago Herb Kelleher, the charismatic co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, passed away at the age of 87. Kelleher is one of the greatest influences on my leadership approach and aspirations, and I often wish I could have met him in person. The funny thing is, I don’t enjoy flying Southwest. I fly frequently and enjoy the perks many other airlines offer. But even though I’m not Southwest’s target customer, I have always respected how Kelleher built an enduring company by expertly catering to a specific customer base and treating customers and employees alike with kindness and respect./lets-read-a-poem-thomas-hardys-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-read-a-poem-thomas-hardys-the.htmlI quite liked this exploration of a W.H. Auden poem and the painting it’s based on. It’s been a long time since I’ve written down a close reading, so let’s do one. I’m picking “The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy, as it’s perhaps the single poem best known to me; I memorized it in college, during class time, when I was meant to be doing something else. I loved it that much./lets-talk-about-liberation-health.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-talk-about-liberation-health.htmlPhoto by Husna Miskandar on Unsplash Hey there everyone— This week I want to talk about the Liberation Health Model. The model has been around for twenty years, but I’m starting to see references to it cropping up all over the place. Because the model was specifically designed to bring a wider social context into psychodynamic approaches to healing, it can be a great way of bringing conversations about structural violence and oppression into your practice, even if you’re new to this way of thinking./letters-from-love-with-special-guest-92d.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letters-from-love-with-special-guest-92d.htmlHowdy Lovelets! For the last month I’ve been on a speaking tour across Europe (although I keep thinking of it as more of a spiritual retreat than a tour, which is a nice feeling), and one of the things I find myself doing again and again on stage is quoting these lines from the great Sufi poet and mystic Hafiz: The subject tonight is love    and for tomorrow night as well./lettuce-costs-too-much-try-napa-salad.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lettuce-costs-too-much-try-napa-salad.htmlThe current price for romaine lettuce where I live is about $5.50 a head, and iceberg lettuce is close behind at $5.00. For this amount of money, it simply makes no sense to buy lettuce until things get reasonable again. Thankfully, napa cabbage is a good alternative that costs about half as much as lettuce and is nutritionally comparable. It is also better value for money, because half a head of napa will easily make a salad for six, and it keeps longer in the fridge!/life-of-brian-1979.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-of-brian-1979.htmlIs there more to Monty Python movies than a pastiche of loony sketches? "Life of Brian" seemed to be their most ambitious attempt to make a movie with a coherent story and theme -- in this case, ridiculing the notion of organized religion. The setup is that a fictional Jew, Brian Cohen, is born in the manger next to Jesus' and ends up living a parallel life in which he is mistaken for the messiah, vexed by a horde of worshipers and eventually strung up by the Romans for his trouble./lilith-lady-of-the-owls.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lilith-lady-of-the-owls.htmlBelow the Bible Belt: 929 chapters, 42 months, daily reflections. Become a free or paid subscriber and join Rabbi Amichai’s 3+ years interactive online quest to question, queer + re-read between the lines of the entire Hebrew Bible. Enjoy daily posts, weekly videos and monthly learning sessions. 2022-2025. #Isaiah #Isaiah34  #ProphetIsaiah #ישעיהו #BookofIsaiah #Prophets #Neviim #Hebrewbible  #Tanach #929  #labshul #belowthebiblebelt929 #postpatriarchy #prophecy #Lilith #Goad-demons #lilitu #owls #ladyofowls #nightdemon #BenSira #Feminist #Jerusalem #sheroine #she-devil #Lilithmagazine @merylstreep @fayeweldon @roseannebarr/lost-on-the-river.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lost-on-the-river.htmlI was going to on a hike this afternoon with my old pal Jim James but our windows of availability didn’t line up so instead I’m here writing this…inspired by a missed catch-up with an old bandmate. A few days ago I was reminded that this year is the 10 year anniversary of The New Basement Tapes’ album Lost On The River. If all that came out of it was a few credited co-writes that say “Taylor Goldsmith and Bob Dylan” on a vinyl insert, it would be one of the greatest experiences of my life./love-is-not-all-you-need.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-not-all-you-need.htmlOn May 28th, Ryan and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. Time has wings, I’m convinced. We’ve been together for ten years in total, and it’s wild to see how far we’ve come together. How much we’ve grown as individuals and as a couple has shaped how we show up in the world, parent our children, and choose to stand in our love for one another. It’s amazing to me that all these years later, we continue to find ways to deepen our friendship and love for one another./madonna-plastic-surgery-face-grammys.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madonna-plastic-surgery-face-grammys.html'Aging gracefully'. I was a ballet dancer for many years and was often called graceful. The word was always used to imply that the way I moved and stood seemed to lack effort, when in fact it took thousands of hours of effort. Male dancers, curiously, were not called graceful to my memory, but things like 'skilled'. Which implies effort, and acknowledges the extraordinary amount of time (and physical pain) one must invest to move like that./cover-make-you-feel-my-love.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cover-make-you-feel-my-love.htmlAfter a month in the US, I’m finally back home in Buenos Aires. All the travel in recent days means I haven’t had time to write as much as I would’ve liked. So this week I’m reaching into the archive. One of the last things I did before leaving NY was to pick up a hard drive containing a few terabytes of outtakes, roughs, refs, demos, entire shows in one wav file, backups of full recording sessions, and general detritus from the cutting room floor./episode-2027-marc-hauser-on-giving.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-2027-marc-hauser-on-giving.htmlEveryone deserves a second chance. The former Harvard professor of psychology Marc D Hauser has had a controversial academic career, having been investigated in a high profile case in 2010 by Harvard for supposedly falsifying research data. But Hauser, who quit Harvard in 2011, remains prolific and has a new book out this week, Vulnerable Minds, focused - perhaps not uncoincidentally, given Hauser’s own history - on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and thus lead happy lives./chezaristote.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chezaristote.htmlMary TownsendMary Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John's University, Queens, NY. She is the author of The Woman Question in Plato's Republic, 2017, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, and Gawker. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaS0xLOYq6Gjqby1sQ%3D%3D/massachusetts-state-house-rejects.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/massachusetts-state-house-rejects.htmlIn a decision that has ignited heated debate across Massachusetts, the State House recently rejected an amendment to a bill that would have prioritized housing assistance for homeless veterans over migrants. The defeat of the amendment, known as Amendment 698, has prompted outcry from veterans and their supporters, who argue that veterans should receive special consideration in housing policies due to their service and sacrifices. Amendment 698 sought to give U./midnight-mass-chapter-5.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/midnight-mass-chapter-5.html”I did my best…I did my best.” As people in my everyday real world life can attest to, once I entered middle-age I suddenly became a human lawn sprinkler, crying over every little thing. That’s not to say that I was stoic before, but now I wear every emotion on my sleeve, plus a couple new emotions I never heard of previously. Even just recounting something I read or watched that was sad or heartfelt can bring tears to my eyes./millennial-meme-marketing-must-end.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/millennial-meme-marketing-must-end.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. That feeling when you clap back at the brands. —Kate There’s a bit in John Early’s recent comedy special, Now More Than Ever, that has stuck with me ever since I watched it in June.  “When we’re loading up the time capsule for the inhabitants of Planet E, is this what the millennial shall put forth?/miraculous-brothers-2023-first-impression.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miraculous-brothers-2023-first-impression.htmlMiraculous Brothers is a science fiction adventure murder mystery that takes a novel (pun intended) approach to preoccupations that’s become K drama staple in the last few years. Much of the story is seen through the lens of an aspiring and struggling novelist (Jung Woo) who is doing it tough as a part-time courier way behind on his rent. His situation is made more onerous by a mother who has very little discretion and is more likely to create problems for her only son than be of help./kirsten-green.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kirsten-green.htmlConsumer investing is a kind of alchemy. Determining which product or app is set to take over the world while another is slated for the scrapheap requires a rare blend of talents: an equity analyst’s understanding of the market and its particular dynamics; a marketer’s nous for assessing a brand’s particular charms; a psychologist’s reading of the founder in front of them; and an anthropologist’s grasp on the motives and machinations of our species./mthfr-testing-and-estrogen.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mthfr-testing-and-estrogen.htmlMany naturopaths and functional medicine doctors recommend testing for variants (also called polymorphisms) of the MTHFR gene as a way to “diagnose” if women may have “toxic estrogen” or “estrogen dominance.” If someone has ordered this for you, I am sorry to tell you that you have been scammed. Real genetics experts call the MTHFR gene the motherfucker gene (no, they really do) because some doctors, naturopaths, and influencers frequently recommend testing, leaving genetic counselors and doctors who are experts in genetic medicine the unenviable job of explaining how the test result is meaningless./adam-turla-murder-by-death-sellout.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adam-turla-murder-by-death-sellout.htmlHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only email newsletter about music which is also slowly morphing into a shameless hype machine for my new book SELLOUT which comes out in just 11 DAYS and is very good! Have you pre-ordered it yet? Imagine the thrill of knowing it’ll be shipped right to your door the moment it’s released. Don’t be the last one on your block to be talking about this year’s Hottest Book like some kinda fuckin’ loser!/my-asian-ingredient-superheroes-ingredient.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-asian-ingredient-superheroes-ingredient.html2023 will soon come to a close and I’m extra grateful that you’ve joined me for the ride this year! I enjoy PTFS so much that my 2023 to do list got longer as we went along. One of the items was to offer you a list of my go-to ingredients for making Asian food. A paid subscriber suggested it months ago as a way for folks to know that they have all (or most of) the stuff for making recipes I write about./my-bdsm-test-results.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-bdsm-test-results.htmlI’m a sucker for online quizzes, and the BDSM test is no exception. I learned about it from my friend Rico a couple of years ago. Rico is the kind of guy who works a safe European postal job by day and goes to sex dungeons and kink parties by night. When he first told me stories about dominatrixes and tying people up and leather-clad twinks, I felt like I was standing on the edge of a new world./my-favorite-passover-side-dish-flourless.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-passover-side-dish-flourless.htmlPassover begins tonight and I wanted to share two of my favorite recipes for the holiday (they’re also great if you don’t celebrate Passover!). The first is a side dish, Charoset Quinoa, which has all the flavors of charoset, the mixture of apples, wine, and nuts that is a traditional part of the Seder plate. I love it because you can serve it at room temperature, which means you can absolutely make it in advance./natalia-kuikka-to-leave-portland.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natalia-kuikka-to-leave-portland.htmlAlright I lied about taking a break- Here are my revised thoughts: The most charitable (and very unrealistic view) of this is that the org have a reasonable replacement lined up, have already been talking with Soph, and are really worried about cap space. That doesn't work as an excuse for me for a few reasons: 1. Even if Soph's contract is as extreme as it could be -- Say 3/$2./neds-lola.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neds-lola.htmlSpoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home ahead. Back in December, Marvel released the final installment of the current Spider-Man trilogy, Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film was met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, becoming one of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time.  No Way Home follows high school seniors Peter Parker, Michelle “MJ” Jones, and Ned Leeds as they navigate a world complicated by Spider-Man’s secret identity being leaked to the public./neoliberalism-and-libertarianism.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neoliberalism-and-libertarianism.html"Neoliberalism" is a dirty word in some circles. A lot of my market-oriented friends view it as nothing more than an empty slur. And, to be fair, that is precisely how a lot of people on the left do, in fact, use it. But as some pretty good scholarship over the last decade has shown, neoliberalism is a term with a fairly specific historical and philosophical meaning. The term has its origins in the 1938 Colloque Walter Lippman where individuals like Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Polanyi, and Wilhelm Röpke gathered to discuss the principles of a “new liberalism” that would serve as an alternative both to the socialist authoritarianism of the 20th century and what they regarded as the extreme laissez-faire of the 19th./invitae-corporation-chapter-11-bankruptcy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/invitae-corporation-chapter-11-bankruptcy.htmlOn February 13, 2024, Invitae Corporation ($NVTA) and five affiliates (collectively, the “debtors”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the District of New Jersey (Judge Kaplan) — breaking a recent string of filings in the District of Delaware (InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, NanoString Technologies Inc., Cano Health Inc., Burgess BioPower LLC, and Sientra Inc.). Go Garden State! Invitae is a medical genetics company in the business of delivering genetic testing services, digital health solutions, and health data services; its genetic testing across multiple clinical areas is meant to arm healthcare providers with data that can assist patient understanding of their particular health risks and develop care strategies to deal with them./new-grass-revival.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-grass-revival.htmlI was beyond excited to see New Grass Revival get inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame on Thursday night. I got to know the band through a cassette edition of the greatest hits album purchased at a truck stop for a trans-national drive in a friend’s pickup truck. Damn good highway music. I’d known about Sam Bush and Bela Fleck by then, but the NGR music only made me more fascinated in them./new-news-in-the-curious-case-of-fr.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-news-in-the-curious-case-of-fr.htmlHello Friends, I would like to share a photograph with you. This is a billboard at what is more than likely the busiest intersection in Del Rio, right next to Veteran’s Blvd. and the HEB on Gibbs St/Highway 90. For those lacking background and context, don’t worry, we’ll play in-depth catch-up and review in just a minute, suffice to say that Father Clay Hunt in the Cowboy hat on the left, and Father James Altman on the right, are a pair of lightning rods in a long-brewing crisis of conservative discontent in the Catholic Church./news-from-a-changing-planet-42-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/news-from-a-changing-planet-42-the.htmlI’m not sure exactly why, but at this time of year, when the leaves are changing (or at least I am expecting them to change…) from green to a patchwork outcry of reds, yellows and oranges, I often think about Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau kept such good records of climate and weather and nature data at Walden that they have become incredibly useful to scientists as a way of tracking the effects of climate change in one location of Concord, Mass./nightmare-puppeteer-is-099-and-bursting.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nightmare-puppeteer-is-099-and-bursting.htmlGet Nightmare Puppeteer on Steam for $0.99 and make some strange stuff Here’s a video with some new features in Nightmare Puppeteer- the game that makes animations I added a few new “look” features just now and will continue to add more I will continue to add features to NP. ncG1vNJzZmihnZa0qrrAraCopqKWr6O102eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGS7qrPHraSaqpVivba8z56rnp2iYra0eY9ycGaZnpl6o8HRrKuippc%3D/model-sisters-niki-taylor-krissy-taylor.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/model-sisters-niki-taylor-krissy-taylor.htmlHi hi hi. Okay, so I know that when you see words like “blonde” and “Taylor” in the vicinity of each other around these parts, you automatically assume I’m about to take you (willingly or not) into the Swiftverse—and you would not often be wrong. But not today, my friends! On Monday, I was scrolling through Instagram—likely avoiding a task I really needed to accomplish—when I saw a birthday post from Niki Taylor about her sister Krissy./no-offense-but-marc-antoine-charpentiers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-offense-but-marc-antoine-charpentiers.htmlEvery so often this little chart goes viral again, often with an invitation to readers to pick themselves, as it were, out of the image: This apparently comes from, as the caption tells us, a 17th-century composition book. Now maybe they just had emotions Different in the late 17th century. A lot can change about subjective experience in four hundred years. Harold Bloom said Shakespeare invented human interiority only like a hundred years before that, so really, maybe it’s like how babies can’t see yet./slums-of-beverly-hills-at-25-nomads.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slums-of-beverly-hills-at-25-nomads.htmlEver sinceKelly Reichardt’s Showing Up came out earlier this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the virtues of proportionality, of filmmakers who have the discipline to tell small stories that are rich in specific detail. “Termite art,” in other words. Showing Up is about a sculptor (Michelle Williams) and art-school instructor getting new pieces together for an exhibition at a small gallery that appears to be off the town’s main drag./none-of-these-words-are-in-the-bible.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/none-of-these-words-are-in-the-bible.htmlI knew Saint Sebastian, a handsome if dissolute young man. I knew him first from Instagram, where he cultivated a healthy following. We had nothing in common, he ten years younger than me, me working in human rights law and he in PR for the Roman army, and me ten years older than him. But we didn’t need anything in common; I followed him because he prettied up my feed, and he didn’t follow me back./normscott.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/normscott.htmlThe Wire: Powered by Educators of NYC By Educators of NYC Educators of NYC is a community of NYC public school educators. We are reimagining better public schools for ALL, together. Our priorities are - Equity & Justice, Democracy, Accountability, Responsiveness, Unionism, Professionalism & Pedagogy. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2B70aaqnKekqQ%3D%3D/plums-not-just-for-william-carlos.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/plums-not-just-for-william-carlos.htmlHey Friends! Ahhh I can’t believe it’s August already—it’s in the high 90s all this week in MS, yet my kids go went back to school on Thursday, Aug. 3. That’s not a typo. August 3! MS is trying an experiment that nudges the calendar closer to year-round—the same number of classroom days but a shorter summer and more breaks during the school year, in an attempt for forestall retention loss./nudism-and-the-single-guy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nudism-and-the-single-guy.htmlThere is an issue of gender inequality in many landed naturist communities. While many naturist clubs and organisations are struggling to recruit members, and some may say, struggling to remain relevant in today's socially connected world, many clubs and groups offer barriers to single men looking to join the community. Shunned by the clubs and organisations that are supposed to be open and welcoming, single males may find it difficult to be included./on-feeling-pretty-when-you-cry.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-feeling-pretty-when-you-cry.htmlWaterproof mascara kept a secure place in my makeup rotation for a reason in high school, particularly while in the throes of AP World History sophomore year. Driving home from school with a freshly issued driver’s license, tears would well up in my eyes to the sounds of SZA as I reflected on my lacking exam results. Quietly singing along to “Love Galore,” noticing the rain on my dashboard paralleling the tears on my face./on-ibsens-enemy-of-the-peopleor-how.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-ibsens-enemy-of-the-peopleor-how.htmlIn an introduction to a collection of writings by James Joyce on Henrik Ibsen, Dennis Phillips observes that "at the beginning and end of his career [Joyce] faced dismissal, disapproval, scorn, even ridicule. He must have taken a lesson and some comfort from Ibsen's having previously overcome similar difficulties while continuing to produce work which Joyce held in the highest regard." We live in an age when—as in any other—people assume that what is happening now has not happened before./out-of-egypt-i-called-my-son.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/out-of-egypt-i-called-my-son.htmlAfter the magi visited Jesus, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream and told him to depart with his family: “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him” (Matt. 2:13). According to Matthew 2:14–15, Joseph obeyed the directive. Right after Matthew tells of Joseph’s obedience, the biblical author makes a statement about fulfillment: “This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: ‘Out of Egypt I called my son./pairing-novels-with-a-london-vacation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pairing-novels-with-a-london-vacation.htmlSince September, I’ve been devouring novels set in London or its environs. I didn’t even realize at first how many of the books I was reading were set there. I was just reading and enjoying. But when I suddenly started planning a trip to London with my family in April, I had to laugh because I wasn’t sure which came first: The desire to travel to London or the love of reading books set in the moody city on the Thames?/party-doc-reportedly-drove-n80-aground.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/party-doc-reportedly-drove-n80-aground.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedPain doc took his yacht to Nantucket Coke’n Glock made him a culprit When he got caught, cops found a lot As the "lady" hurled chum i…ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6pmKusqWKxsK%2BMq5ypp6KpsqW42Gabq6emmnqvhI9mmKCqn6q7pQ%3D%3D/patty-melt-video-and-recipe.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patty-melt-video-and-recipe.htmlThe patty melt is believed to have been invented sometime in the 1940s in Los Angeles, CA by Tiny Naylor. Traditionally, a patty melt is a cooked burger patty on toasted rye bread with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese. In working on this recipe, I asked myself (many times) if a patty melt is a sandwich or if it is a burger. To be honest, I am not a huge burger person (shocking, I know)./pax-massilia-netflix-series-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pax-massilia-netflix-series-2023.htmlPax Massilia (or: Blood Coast) is a new French crime series about a group of police officers who try to track down a dangerous criminal who is busy plunging Marseille into a bloodbath. This six-part drama was created by Kamel Guemra, who was one of the writers of the Netflix-hit Balle Perdue (Lost Bullet). The main director is Olivier Marchal, in fact Pax Massilia is being advertised as ‘the new series by Marchal,’ since the veteran filmmaker (and former police officer!/pink-floyd-breathe-in-the-air.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pink-floyd-breathe-in-the-air.htmlTo read part 1 of the allergy trilogy, click here. To read part 2 click here. I also want to give a shout-out to this week’s new readers! Welcome! You can check out the more than 90 posts on the Earworm & Song Loops archive page. Leave a comment If I were to take a poll asking you to choose the first song about breathing that comes to you, I would bet Pink Floyd’s “Breathe (In the Air)” would be #1./planet-of-the-apes-2001.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/planet-of-the-apes-2001.htmlNow let’s gossip. In his busted Planet of the Apes rehash, director Tim Burton cast Lisa Marie and Helena Bonham Carter as chimpanzees. The former was his girlfriend of seven years, had been a Mars Attacks! alien and a Sleepy Hollow witch. Then Burton and Bonham Carter got together. They made six more films and two children. When a director toward the end of a long relationship winds up dating a performer from their newest movie, the end product can feel deliciously treacherous./the-plum-torte.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-plum-torte.htmlHi friends! It’s that time of year when the Dog Days of Summer are coming to a close, and everyone is getting jazzed for Fall. One of the hallmarks of the “end of Summer” is the appearance of late-Summer stone fruit: think all kinds of plums, apricots, peaches, and pluots. When these summer stars start making cameos at the farmers’ market, we know it’s time to make “The Plum Torte.”/podium-gate-explained.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podium-gate-explained.htmlI spent two days last week in Little Rock, Arkansas — doing an event for my book. (You haven’t bought it yet? Do it!) While I was there one thing became immediately clear to me: The entire Arkansas political world was talking about a podium that Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders bought with state money. Yes, a podium. Let me explain. On June 8, Sanders, using a state credit card, bought a podium — it’s actually probably more accurately referred to as a lectern for you linguistic nerds out there — from an Arlington, Virginia-based company called Beckett Events LLC./poems-for-a-new-beginning.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poems-for-a-new-beginning.htmlI believe more people read poetry than anyone knows. The reason I believe this is because long ago, I had a college football player as a student, and he very shyly came to my office one day to let me know that he was lifting weights to Auden. He had memorized the last part of W.H. Auden’s great elegy to Yeats for my class, and he wanted me to know that the rhythm of Auden worked with weight training./polyamory-vs-monogamy-how-relationships.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/polyamory-vs-monogamy-how-relationships.htmlAround 23,000 people have taken my relationships survey. If you’re in a relationship and haven’t yet, please take it before you read this post and get primed! Also, my perspective on needing a random sample. Raw data is here, though unfortunately I had to remove a lot of data to keep it anonymized. If you want more specific subsets I can hand them out upon request. In my survey, I ask people how monogamous/polyamorous they were./pouring-ribbons-in-seven-cocktails.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pouring-ribbons-in-seven-cocktails.htmlPouring Ribbons, the East Village cocktail bar, will close for good on March 26 after a decade in business. Like many New York bars, it was forced to close for an extended period during the pandemic shutdown. But unlike other places, it only sporadically trafficked in to-go cocktails, and its second-floor location made outdoor drinking and dining impossible. The bar was silent a total of 18 long months, far longer than almost any other significant cocktail bar in the city./notebook-haney-loma-fallout-ppv-total.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-haney-loma-fallout-ppv-total.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./presenting-ask-bimbo.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/presenting-ask-bimbo.htmlDear All, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to each of the 430 subscribers who have chosen to follow my Blogstack. To those who are paid subscribers, an extra special thank you. I appreciate your patience as I work on this book, which is shaping up to be at least 250,000 words. Rest assured, it will be released this year, sooner rather than later. At present, my life feels somewhat bewildering, and I am only just beginning to find some clarity./browns-all-time-top-5-qbs-pro-bowl.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/browns-all-time-top-5-qbs-pro-bowl.htmlIt’s time to plunge deeper into NFL history than the QB Top Five series has plunged thus far. In primordial football, the sport played at colleges after the introduction of the forward pass in 1906 and in the nascent NFL of the 1920s, the “quarterback” was just the guy who lined up one-quarter of the way into the backfield. He sometimes, but not always, took the snap, usually before lateraling to a teammate./problems-at-primerica-pri.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/problems-at-primerica-pri.htmlPrimerica (NYSE: PRI — $7.34 billion) describes itself as “a leading provider of financial products and services to middle-income households in the United States and Canada.” The company has over 141,000 “life insurance-licensed sales representatives” who have written 5.7 million life insurance policies and advise “approximately 2.9 million client investment accounts.” Investors believe Primerica’s unique agency recruitment model enables the company to provide much-needed financial advice to low and middle-income households and the company explicitly states it “is not a pyramid scheme./procore-benchmarking-the-s-1-data.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/procore-benchmarking-the-s-1-data.htmlLast week Procore filed an updated S-1 statement. They originally filed in February 2020, but put their IPO plans on hold when Covid hit. A S-1 is a document companies file with the SEC in preparation for listing their shares on an exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. The document contains information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, market sizing estimates, risk factors to the business, cap table highlights and much more./property-heir-and-proprietor-of-illegal.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/property-heir-and-proprietor-of-illegal.html[Readers, this is extremely long — but Pitt the Younger said that it is the duty of every member of a government to make the people aware of dangers to the public safety and the general welfare, and in the Open Town Meeting system, all registered voters are members of the legislative branch of government. We certainly face a grave danger, in my view, in Duxbury, ahead of the attempt to eviscerate our Zoning Bylaw by quite literally a few individuals with a financial interest in doing so at the Special Town Meeting on Feb./pvris-guitarist-alex-babinski-lost.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pvris-guitarist-alex-babinski-lost.htmlIn the summer of 2020 Alex Babinski, guitar player and songwriter for the alternative rock band PVRIS was accused of sexual assault. The allegations were levied on twitter by an individual named Kea Romani who asserted that Babinski had engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior with her as well as others. Babinski quickly lost everything, was kicked out of PVRIS, a fairly successful band that he himself founded, shunned from his community and labeled a rapist/pedophile on the internet before disappearing entirely./ranking-the-top-40-defensive-linemen-4ef.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ranking-the-top-40-defensive-linemen-4ef.htmlWelcome everyone to the second annual ranking of the top 40 (25 edge/15 interior) defensive linemen in the NFL. As I’m studying every game of the season focused primarily on the offensive line, I take notes on what I see from their opponents across the line of scrimmage and have cataloged my findings over the last seven or so years, particularly for the annual OL Masterminds summit. This all works together to maintain a knowledge-base on which players are the best, knowing how they win (pass-rush plan, run-defense, etc./reflection.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reflection.htmlI want to say thank you. From the depths of my soul and my deepest innards. Starting this Substack was a dive into the unknown for me and it has already opened doors and created connections with so many others- who, like me, have some pretty wild stories about life. Life in LA, life as a woman, life as an addict. Life as a human on planet earth. So if you’ve subscribed, if you’ve reached out and shared your own experiences, or even if you’ve just popped on for a quick peruse, thank you./remember-the-judge-who-recognised.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remember-the-judge-who-recognised.htmlLet’s take a ride down memory lane and end the story we all cried while watching on a happy note. After the first bittersweet reunion, this not-so-viral second reunion melts hearts equally much, if not more. Years ago, we all had seen this video somewhere on the Internet where two middle school buddies meet after decades in a courtroom. That was not the kind of reunion anyone of us would hope for./remembering-a-friend.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-a-friend.htmlOh, hi friends! I have something very sad to share but this newsletter is a constellation of relationships I have with people, and one of those people is no longer with us. I met Blakeney Schick in my Brooklyn running group back in 2016 and we clocked many miles, many races, many weekday let’s-figure-out-life coffees together. Running is a wild shortcut to lasting friendship. Last Monday, Blakeney died from complications after going into cardiac arrest./remembering-def-leppard-hysteria.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-def-leppard-hysteria.htmlIt’s Hysteria week so time for a Hysteria retrospective! It’s August 1987. I’m 16 years old and at Zayre with my Mom shopping for clothes for my senior year of high school. Bored with that I head to the music section and come across something in the new releases section: a new album by Def Leppard! I grab the cassette and convince my Mom to get it for me as an early birthday present./jigaboo-david-trone.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jigaboo-david-trone.htmlI was sitting in a Creative Writing workshop with a group of people of varying ages, including a white couple in their 70s. They’d decided to return to college to get their undergraduate degrees. I hadn’t talked to them much, but I thought it was cool to see them earning college credits together. That is, until it was time to get an evaluation on a few fiction drafts. Immediately, one of them spoke up about a “colored” character in someone’s story./review-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-phantasm.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-phantasm.htmlLast week I spent some time with my old friend and fellow critic Scott Tobias; and as always happens when a couple of culture writers get together, we talked a lot of shop. Specifically we talked about episodic TV reviewing, and what it’s like to cover a show that we’re not enjoying as much as we thought we would. This has happened to me a few times in my career—Smash, Roadies, Vinyl, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, others—and generally what results is a mild case of Stockholm Syndrome, where the sheer amount of time spent watching and thinking about a show leads to a grudging understanding, bordering on respect, for what it’s trying to do./review-survivor-i-dont-want-to-be.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-survivor-i-dont-want-to-be.htmlEarly in “I Don’t Want to Be the Worm,” Jake passes out for a second time, in an incident extremely similar to the one from a few episodes ago. It triggers an emotional package about his battle with a binge eating problem, showcasing two years of work to get himself into better shape both physically and mentally. And it comes after a lengthy interlude at Belo where the players talk about the impact that 10 days of little to no food is having on all players’ minds and bodies./revisiting-mad-mens-the-crash.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/revisiting-mad-mens-the-crash.htmlIn January, The Last of Us aired an episode, entitled “Long, Long Time,” that sent the internet into a tizzy. “Long, Long Time” is the third installment in the show’s first season and serves as a semi-bottle episode that broke from what the show had been building towards over the first two hours. To recap, the episode centers on Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett’s characters falling in love amidst the end times./weekend-in-review-royals-prospects-series-loss.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weekend-in-review-royals-prospects-series-loss.htmlWe are now 21.6 percent of the way through the 2024 season and the Kansas City Royals are on pace for 92 or 93 wins. By any measure, the start of this season, with a seemingly grueling schedule at the outset has been a success. And yet, they seem to be falling just short of beating the teams that are among baseball’s best. They’ve lost two of three twice to the Orioles with a run differential of -2./rubrik-benchmarking-the-s-1-data.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rubrik-benchmarking-the-s-1-data.htmlRecently Rubrik their initial S1 statement. A S-1 is a document companies file with the SEC in preparation for listing their shares on an exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. The document contains a plethora of information on the company including a general overview, up to date financials, risk factors to the business, cap table highlights and much more. The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions./safety-dance.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/safety-dance.htmlThe New York Times just published a long article where they interviewed 12 random people on their political views. They asked them what their main issue was. One woman said, “Safety.” Which triggered this hilarious interchange: Not getting shot to death in school is the same as the right to your next abortion. It’s all about safety. We need gun control, because safety. We need to ban hate speech, because safety./sedna-in-gemini.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sedna-in-gemini.htmlSedna enters Gemini at 14:17 (BST) on June 15, 2023. She will return to Taurus on November 22, 2023, and then begin her long stint in Gemini on April 27, 2024. She will stay in this sign until August 2065 when she begins to move into Cancer. Sedna will complete her journey in Gemini on April 12, 2067. All dates are given below at the end of this post. Se…/setting-the-record-straight-on-nicolas.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/setting-the-record-straight-on-nicolas.htmlHello it’s me Dan Ozzi and welcome to my weekly book column. Usually I cover books about rock but I thought today I’d cover a book about the actor from The Rock. (Don’t worry, there are plenty more groan-worthy Nicolas Cage movie references below.) I’m also giving away signed copies of today’s book to two of my paid subscribers after the interview. It’s amazing how many awful conversations Nicolas Cage has gotten me out of./shikariis-naked-variant-covers-with.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shikariis-naked-variant-covers-with.htmlA comic book retailer has gotten in touch with me regarding a recent trend in publishing comic books from a certain specialist section of the comics publishing industry. Such as Counterpoint Comics, which publishes a number of parody comic books, You may have seen them, especially at comic book conventions, courtesy of exclusive variant covers provided to specific attending retailers. Their Deadpool/Winnie The Pooh parody comic Do You Pooh comic was their first breakout title, but they also publish comics such as Savage Eve, Blindside, Notti & Nyce, Walking Dead Pooh, Poohnisher, and Hardlee Thinn./should-chicken-manure-fertilizer.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-chicken-manure-fertilizer.htmlToday’s “Beyond the Garden Basics” podcast takes a closer look at a very popular organic fertilizer: chicken manure. As retired organic landscape consultant Steve Zien of Living Resources Company points out, manures are an excellent soil amendment, especially their contribution to the soil biology. In this day and age, however, should chicken manure still be considered organic? Up to 90% of the corn produced in America is from Genetically Engineered seed./show-review-trey-anastasio-and-classic.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/show-review-trey-anastasio-and-classic.htmlTrey Anastasio & Classic TAB came north of the border last night for a rare show in Toronto. While Phish has performed here recently in 2022 and 2019, this is the first hometown TAB show for me since 2017 and the first one with the stripped-down quartet that has been blazing its way across the Midwest for the past couple of weeks. After listening along to the previous shows of the tour, my anticipation was high due to the incredible interplay on display every night between Anastasio and bassist Dezron Douglas, who seems to get more confident and assertive on each tour he plays as a part of TAB./show-review-person-of-interest.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/show-review-person-of-interest.htmlAs the five people who read this blog regularly know, I'm a huge LOST fan. It's a big part of my formative Internet experience, my first real "Internet fandom", as those started going mainstream in the early 2000s. I've reviewed its video game, a fanfic, and wrote a mini-review for the show itself. But I overlooked something else of interest. In 2010, LOST ended. Before that, the massive success of its first season had already pushed a bunch of, let's call light copycat shows into the forefront that would have probably never been greenlit otherwise./olympia-sixth-borough-bagels-opening.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/olympia-sixth-borough-bagels-opening.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). Along with free bagel reviews every Sunday, we also offer bonus posts (like this one) each week. If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. The New Yorker’s Hannah Goldfield recently asked if we’re in the midst of a bagel renaissance. One need only look around Western Washington to know the answer is undoubtedly yes./so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen.htmlWhile I was away, the heads (and wallets) of Substack eventually came out clear and sound with their position about the neo-Nazis issue: Definitely not a nice birthday/Christmas present for me. I am obviously disappointed, and I’m currently packing my stuff (requesting all my archives as I type) to leave: I’ll be moving puntarelle, and also Barocco e i suoi fratelli, and praeterpropter, either to Wordpress or to some other platform, I still have to sort everything out./so-your-best-friend-got-canceled.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-your-best-friend-got-canceled.htmlI want to start by acknowledging I have been super absent from the substack for the past 6 weeks or so. Things have kind of reached a fever-pitch in my personal and professional life, and it’s hard to not feel like what I’m writing doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of the horrors™️. Recently a person I was good friends with for about a year was exposed for some pretty bad dude behavior./sock-it-to-me-cake.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sock-it-to-me-cake.html❤️ Did you know that if you hit the HEART at the top or bottom of this post, it makes it easier for people to find this newsletter? (And makes my day!) This recipe originally appeared on my food blog, where it received rave reviews. It is now available exclusively on Substack for supporting members. Here’s what two readers had to say about this recipe: Today we’re taking a trip back to 1960’s America with a vintage bundt cake recipe called “Sock It To Me Cake./some-good-death-poems.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-good-death-poems.htmlHi there. I was planning to write a goofy newsletter all about television shows but then yesterday morning I was in the bookstore reading poems and crying and thought, no, that’s better. So this is going to be about sad poems. Not just sad poems—death poems. Even within the subsection of sad poems that is death poems, there are so many kinds! Dead mother poems, dead father poems, dead husband poems, dying self poems!/some-notes-on-influenceering.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-notes-on-influenceering.htmlI’ve been putting content on the internet for all of my adult life. The works ranged from security research, to open-source projects, to long-term writing on a variety of topics. In an earlier article, I extolled the virtues of publishing just for the sake of it: “The concepts in our heads are nebulous and ever-shifting. Putting them on paper forces us to pressure-test our assumptions and address gaps. You don’t need to be the world’s leading expert to write about a particular topic./gladstone-homer-and-the-wine-dark.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gladstone-homer-and-the-wine-dark.htmlIn 1858, William Ewart Gladstone – a former chancellor and future prime minister who was also, when not taking a slightly creepy interest in the moral salvation of prostitutes, a classicist – noticed something odd about the work of Homer: the world he depicts does not contain the colour blue. The only time the Greek word for the colour, “kyanós”, is used in either the Iliad or the Odyssey it refers to the eyebrows of Zeus: assuming the king of the gods was not some sort of Sonic the Hedgehog figure, that suggests the word then meant, simply, dark./spiced-doughnuts.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spiced-doughnuts.htmlI don’t know about your house but it’s hot here — wet, muggy, and buggy. If I’m baking, it’s early in the day and, while I want nothing more than a year of Julys, a week of lower humidity would be good for the green fur growing on our deck rug. But for some things, it’s worth heating up the kitchen. These sourdough- and yeast-risen doughnuts are fun to make and even more fun to watch others eat./spinach-and-feta-pie-spilled-milk.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spinach-and-feta-pie-spilled-milk.html✈️ LET’S TAKE THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME TOGETHER!  Have you ever wanted to travel with me — I mean, really travel with me? How does spending nine days and eight nights with me in one of my favorite places on earth sound? This October, you can join me on a trip to Sicily thanks to my friends at Modern Adventure. We’ll explore markets, dine at some amazing restaurants and cook together./sriracha-shrimp-sushi-bowls.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sriracha-shrimp-sushi-bowls.htmlFirst things first so I know you all read this: A quickie 30-minute marinade on the shrimp will be good, but a 4- to 24-hour marinade will be fantastic. If you can, plan ahead! And as usual, click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll allll the way down for a printer-friendly PDF of this recipe! Now that I’ve spilled the beans about baby #3, we can talk pregnancy cravings!/stanley-tuccis-zucchini-pasta.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stanley-tuccis-zucchini-pasta.htmlHey Thursday friends, Well it finally happened. After struggling to connect on TikTok (I’m an old fart!), this video of me recreating the zucchini pastathat Stanley Tuccisaid was one of the best things he’s ever eaten in his life has almost a million views! Check it out here: Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser Why is this such a hit? I think it’s because the end result looks so luscious and rich and you make it with one of the most boring vegetables out there (sorry, zucchini, but it’s true)./studio-visit-with-cecil-touchon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/studio-visit-with-cecil-touchon.htmlMy son Zach and his lovely wife Katia stopped in for visit on their way to Colorado to go camping and we decided to mess around with some promotional video stuff for the Visual Poetry and Color Exhibition coming up at Ferrari Gallery in Dallas July 27, 2024. We just kind of organically ended up doing this studio tour that Zach did a great job on and I thought I would share it with you./supplication-and-splatter-horror.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/supplication-and-splatter-horror.htmlBe advised that this piece contains violent content. I wanted to write about the third decan of Taurus because it scares people.  While most people with natal placements in this part of the chart won’t experience its most extreme manifestations, for astrology to be a complete language it has to include the intense, frightening, even violent energies that exist in the world and the cosmos. Being with fear is one way to spend time with Saturn, the ruler of this decan, and while it may sound like a contradiction, I hope this piece shows some of the ways that Saturnian things, like mourning, strife, or suffering, can also be a source of real power in the struggle for both personal and political liberation./salty-lunch-lady-luncheonette-cake.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salty-lunch-lady-luncheonette-cake.htmlIn year one of the pandemic, there was a little sandwich shop called L’itos popping-up inside an old brick oven pizza shop on Henry Street in the Lower East Side. Occasionally, chef Dria Atencio, a friend of the hosts, would bake classic layer cakes and jammy fruit bars for dessert. It was late 2020 and New York was still in its reopening phase after a traumatic lockdown. Roving pop-ups were booming because a) a lot of cooks and chefs were out of work and b) the rest of us had grown tired of our own cooking./the-dark-side-of-manhood-tanks-guns.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dark-side-of-manhood-tanks-guns.htmlClips from the Stronger Men’s Conference have been limping onto social media and the three-day event was something to behold. Produced by Pentecostal megachurch James River Church, the annual gathering bills itself as having a “passion for helping men to become all that God has created them to be.”  While the conference’s raison d'être is purposefully ambiguous—God can be molded into whatever they want—this year’s theme seems to have been “every obnoxiously masculine trope in one place, loud./tasting-silphion.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tasting-silphion.htmlIn my last Lost Supperdispatch, I told the story of how I took a high-speed train to central Turkey with Mahmut Miski, a professor at the University of Istanbul, who made the case that he’d discovered the mystery herb of the ancient world growing on the flanks of an extinct volcano near the city of Askaray. Here’s the rest of the story. ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtMHPqZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9Oaqq2hnpx6tLXLqZ%2Bip54%3D/tater-salad-two-ways.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tater-salad-two-ways.htmlHappy Friday, W4D Friends! By mid-June, you’ve no doubt been invited to a few cookouts, BBQs, Summer Soirees, and outdoor hangs—’tis the season, after all. This week, we thought it would be a good idea to arm you with not one, but two amazing Potato Salad recipes, so you can dazzle the crowd with your spud sensation! Elizabeth is making a traditional Southern-style Potato Salad, and Anthony’s showcasing his mayo-less, Super Dilly Potato Salad./the-1991-nba-finals-were-david-sterns.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-1991-nba-finals-were-david-sterns.html“This might be so good, we can’t screw it up.” — NBC Sports Executive Producer Terry O’Neil, on the eve of the Magic-vs.-Michael 1991 NBA Finals Rumors of David Stern’s Machiavellian maneuvers came just five months into his tenure as NBA commissioner — and from the NBA’s soon-to-be MVP and Finals MVP, no less. “Stern told a fan that the NBA needed a seven-game series, that the league needed the money,” Larry Bird said after Boston’s Game 6 loss to the Lakers in the 1984 NBA Finals./the-2023-abu-dhabi-grand-prix-and.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2023-abu-dhabi-grand-prix-and.htmlThis project is pretty simple. As a complement to each race weekend, I’ll be cooking the national dish of that race’s host country and sharing information about the process and that dish’s history along the way in an effort to grow more deeply immersed in the local culture from my own home. Can you believe we’re already at the end of the season already? It’s almost poetic; the national dish of the United Arab Emirates is — again — a version of the machboos we made to kick off the 2023 season!/the-31-method.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-31-method.htmlThe 3:1 method. ‘One of the most simple and effective strategies to lose fat in an enjoyable way.’ - Me (& 1,000s of clients) Here is how it works. You structure your day like this… First 3 meals: Breakfast Lunch Snack These stay pretty consistent and focus on primarily whole foods, protein and nailing your fruit and veg intake. Make these meals as health focused as possible. I am not going to tell you what to eat for these meals as I want you to pick foods you enjoy but here is an example:/the-47th-problem-of-euclid-why.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-47th-problem-of-euclid-why.htmlFor those new to Emeth, welcome, it is great to have you with us. For those new to Emeth, I write about Freemasonry regularly, with a focus on improving the Masonic experience for Masons everywhere. To do so, I draw upon my own experiences as a Worshipful Master, District Deputy to the Grand Master, and as Grand Master. Emeth also hosts daily discussion threads, with superb contributions from very diverse voices./the-50-best-american-soccer-players.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-50-best-american-soccer-players.htmlI was tasked with coming up with a way to rank the club performance of every male American soccer player. To do so, I relied on my two favorite metrics for player performance: 1) Are you playing? And 2) is your team any good? Christian Pulisic is no. 1. Read the rest to get numbers 2 through 50: In the past, there was this idea in data analysis that if you're creating a kind of player rating for soccer and Lionel Messi isn't No./queen-of-the-damned-the-agony-of.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/queen-of-the-damned-the-agony-of.htmlI’ve got vahmpeers on the brain right now due to recapping AMC’s AMC+’s Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampirefor Queerty—and also fun—so obviously, I had to revisit 2002’s Queen of the Damned and inflict it upon you all! Happy Halloween, treasured subscribing friends! This movie is full of howling weens! I wish I could tell you what happened in Hollyweird between Neil Jordan’s macabre-gorgeous Interview With the Vampire and…this. But I imagine it went something like: “AAAAACCKKKK!/the-apple-doesnt-fall-far-from-the-tree.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-apple-doesnt-fall-far-from-the-tree.htmlI wrote this on a retreat in September of 2011. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” An idiom that symbolizes the idea that one and one’s offspring may not be all that different from one another. The nuclear family is the central piece of this idiom and so it’s fair to say that it’s probably rooted in Western tradition. If it were Eastern, it may not focus on the individual apple and the individual tree – because villages, and extended families raise children in Africa and Asia./the-art-of-the-animated-music-video-799.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-art-of-the-animated-music-video-799.htmlHappy Thursday! In this issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, we’re looking at three animated music videos from Japan — each one intensely unique. In Japan, music videos are a longstanding haven for left-field styles of animation. They’re small projects, meaning that tiny teams (even solo artists) can make them, and do so outside the standardized pipeline of anime. Animating a music video may be a work-for-hire job, but it can offer a certain freedom./anatomy-of-a-date-night.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anatomy-of-a-date-night.htmlWith Valentine’s Day mere weeks away, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for date night spots in NYC. Which begs the question: what’s in a date night? Last night I was wandering the East Village with my friend Belle Bakst and we found ourselves talking about Valentine’s Day plans. She and her husband are over-the-top, all things red and pink, cheese and wine and duck a l’orange kind of people on Valentine’s Day./the-best-free-book-summary-websites.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-free-book-summary-websites.htmlSometimes you don’t have the time to read all the pages in a book. This list is mostly non-fiction book reviews and summaries. I read through these sites when I want to know about a book before I buy it. There are quite a few overlapping reviews and summaries. Everybody wants to read the James Clear book, “Atomic Habits”. Or Stephen King’s “On Writing“. Chances are the gist of a non-fiction book may be enough to read to either persuade you to read the whole book, be content with the summary, or pass it up all together./the-big-interview-peter-gerhardsson.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-interview-peter-gerhardsson.html“It’s always a long story,” smiles Peter Gerhardsson, when I ask for his reflections on the recent World Cup. For many on the outside, it boils down to the month-long span of games that took place in Australia and New Zealand, but for Gerhardsson and the other 31 head coaches who had aspirations of the ultimate glory, it’s the end of a two-year cycle, or in this case a condensed one-year cycle due to the delayed European Championships./the-bullfight.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bullfight.htmlI went to a bullfight in Madrid. It was pure Roman Empire-style pageantry: the crowd had style, the cigar smoke wafted, the matadors pranced like bantam roosters, and the bulls died. I’m glad I went, but I’ll never go again. I am neither the first, the most famous, nor the last outsider to wat… ncG1vNJzZmisn6m1pq7Op5xnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMeeZJutnKGzqrPHrQ%3D%3D/the-cautionary-tale-of-trevor-keels.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cautionary-tale-of-trevor-keels.htmlAfter watching Duke’s exit in the round of 32 during this year’s NCAA Tournament, I couldn’t help but think how they’d fare if they had one more seasoned scoring guard on their roster. In fact, it’s easy to imagine who that player should be. He was in Durham a season ago, then made the decision to declare for the NBA Draft despite not being projected by many draft pundits as a first-round pick./the-christianity-of-cg-jung.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-christianity-of-cg-jung.htmlThe podcast Psychology & The Cross started as a research project to get a better understanding of C.G Jung’s relationship to Christianity. In my own training to become a Jungian Analyst in Zurich, questions related to Christianity were often a part of the discussion. I felt at times though, that our outlook on Christianity was biased, viewing it merely as an object of study from the interpretative lens of Analytical Psychology, its theory, and concepts./the-corpse-of-che-guevara.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-corpse-of-che-guevara.htmlOn October 10, 1967, the body of Che Guevara was put on display after his execution by the Bolivian army. Several photographers captured the surreal scene in the laundry room of a hospital in rural Vallegrande, Bolivia. The most widely-published photo was made by Marc Hutten, a correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Hutten’s is the only version in colo… ncG1vNJzZmiokam%2Fqq%2FKsKCtrKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXZi8s7zSnmSonl2YtaZ5xq6cr5milg%3D%3D/the-cult-of-the-individual.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cult-of-the-individual.htmlWhen Mario Savio introduced the Free Speech Movement to the world with his famous speech on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza in 1964, he started off with a few unexceptional remarks before getting to the famous part about putting “your bodies upon the gears” of the American corporate machine. Here’s part of what he said: I'd like to say — like to say one other thing about a union problem. Upstairs you may have noticed they're ready on the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall, Locals 40 and 127 of the Painters Union are painting the inside of the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall./the-dangers-of-a-charismatic-pastor.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dangers-of-a-charismatic-pastor.htmlMy cell was reading John’s account of Jesus calling his disciples, and they wondered why Andrew and Peter were so willing to follow Jesus. The narrator is trying to get us to see Jesus as a prophet, and a figure above John the Baptist. John the Baptist models the Jesus Way by declaring that he must decrease, and Jesus must increase. Jesus continues modeling this by insisting that John, who claimed he couldn’t even untie Jesus’ sandals, baptize him./the-dark-side-of-marty-caganization.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dark-side-of-marty-caganization.htmlBuilding products across India, SE Asia and Europe, I have first-hand witnessed the contribution and impact of Marty Cagan’s work on the product world. Once in many decades, someone brings a near absolute clarity on craftsmanship of a field and Marty Cagan brought that moment to the product world through his famous book INSPIRED and his other works. By now, most of us who have read Marty’s works know (by heart) that Product Manager is fully responsible for the value (Will customers find value in the product?/the-death-of-canon-and-the-remaking.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-death-of-canon-and-the-remaking.htmlThis piece originally appeared in Dirt on January 23rd, 2023, in a better-edited form. This is the director’s cut which means it’s a little too long and meandering, but so it goes. Support Dirt for great stuff 5 days a week.“Consider submerging yourself in the canon of great works. Read the finest literature, watch the masterpieces of cinema, get up close to the most influential paintings, visit architectural landmarks, there’s no standard list, no one has the same standard of greatness, the canon is continually changing across time and space…” - Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way Of Being/the-docs-who-ditched-atrium-arent.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-docs-who-ditched-atrium-arent.htmlGood morning! Today is Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Need to subscribe? Sign up for free here (charlotteledger.substack.com). Send to a friend. Nearly a year ago, a group of about 90 doctors with Mecklenburg Medical Group left parent company Atrium Health to launch an independent practice — Tryon Medical Partners. It was one of the Charlotte area’s biggest healthcare stories of the year, as it defied the trend toward industry mergers and consolidations. The doctors pushed Atrium to allow them to leave by filing a lawsuit that claimed the hospital system was “self-serving” and “monopolistic” and run by a “bloated management bureaucracy./great-leads-kickstart-part-1-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/great-leads-kickstart-part-1-the.html“If you are copywriter intent on improving your skills, don’t read this book…Memorize it.” Bang! That’s the opening line in Michael Masterson and John Forde’s book, Great Leads: The 6 Easiest Ways To Start Any Sales Message. “Great Leads” will help you: Write more compelling, stronger copy Increase the demand for your skills And ultimately earn more money Big promise for a 200 page book! Which is the point and the power of a great lead—to break through to the reader and funnel them into the writing in the first 200-500 words./the-eerie-story-of-low-background.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-eerie-story-of-low-background.htmlThe other week a Chinese vessel was detained by Malaysian authorities off the coast of Johor, under suspicion of having plundered old WWII era shipwrecks in the region. HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, both of which sank in Malaysian waters in 1941, have had large sections of their bodies and armaments stolen in this way. The practice has been going on for years - these raiders targeting shipwrecks which are also effectively war graves - but this was one of the rare occasions when someone was seemingly caught in the act./thanks-largely-to-a-star-making-turn.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thanks-largely-to-a-star-making-turn.htmlWhen I think of Police Academy, I think of the guy from the Police Academy movies who makes funny noises with his mouth. How does he do that? It’s MAGIC!  Then I think about Bobcat Goldthwait. That’s odd, considering the cult icon isn’t in Police Academy. He makes his series debut in its sequel, 1985’s Police Academy: Their First Assignment, alongside other newcomers Howard Hesseman, Tim Kazurinsky, Colleen Camp, and Julie Brown./the-fundie-baby-voice.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fundie-baby-voice.htmlI was about to head to bed after the State of the Union last night, when I heard a voice coming from my television that stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t know who was speaking, but it really didn’t matter—I recognized the voice. It was so many voices from my childhood. It was so many Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. It was potlucks, and baby showers, and graduations, and birthday parties./the-giver-introductory-post.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-giver-introductory-post.htmlI have a weird relationship with The Giver, Lois Lowry’s abstract and imagistic portrayal of a very particular dystopia. There’s no reason why I shouldn’t like it, and there are things that I admire about it very much. That abstraction is one big one. While I recognize that George Orwell’s 1984 is an important book, I have read it twice and never enjoye… ncG1vNJzZmieopqxpbXEnZybp5Wne7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWK0qsLEq2SipqSnvKXBwq2mq7Fdpby0wA%3D%3D/the-history-we-all-live-with.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-history-we-all-live-with.htmlNorman Rockwell’s iconic painting “The Problem We All Live With” was on my mind as I started out to write this post. You know the one. It depicts six year-old Ruby Bridges, escorted by US Marshals as she arrived at the formerly all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rockwell explained the structural injustice of public school segregation through a harrowingly intimate depiction of Bridges, schoolbooks in hand, dodging tomatoes and racist slurs./the-hot-rock-1972.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hot-rock-1972.html"Not me. I’ve got no choice. I’m not superstitious and I don’t believe in jinxes, but that stone’s jinxed me and it won’t let go. I’ve been damn near bitten, shot at, peed on and robbed. And worse is gonna happen before it’s done, so I’m taking my stand. I’m going all the way. Either I get it, or it gets me!" That's a line of dialogue from "The Hot Rock"/the-impoverished-sexuality-of-poor.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-impoverished-sexuality-of-poor.htmlFemale versions of Frankenstein’s monster may not be new to cinema, but director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things is a contender for the most controversial. With its steampunk backdrop, the film follows a suicide victim reanimated with the consciousness of an unborn child, whose cognizance rapidly develops to match the confines of her adult body. This woman, named Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), goes on a journey of self-discovery, defying all the ways the men in her life attempt to control and confine her./the-inspiration-behind-the-long-game.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-inspiration-behind-the-long-game.htmlThe feel-good movie of the year just might be a golf movie. “The Long Game” is coming to theaters Friday, April 12. The movie is based on a book, “Mustang Miracle,” a true story about five Mexican-American kids who caddie at a swanky local country club in 1957 and fall in love with golf. Due to racial discrimination at the time, the junior golfers — Joe Trevino, Gene Vasquez, Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas and Lupe Felan — have no place to play and only a few second-hand clubs./the-interview-asmir-begovic.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-interview-asmir-begovic.htmlA few years ago, I interviewed Asmir Begovic for the first time when he joined me and Luis Miguel Echegaray on our old weekly video show for Sports Illustrated. That was an enjoyable experience, so it was nice to catch up with Asmir again this week as his Everton team arrives in the United States for preseason. The entirety of the written interview below is reserved for paid subscribers. As always, you can still get the entire free audio version of my podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to go for your pods./the-intricacies-of-sex-and-clothing.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-intricacies-of-sex-and-clothing.htmlSex is weird. What turns you on is probably different to what turns me on. Some people might get a charge from wearing high heels and a short skirt, others might get a sexual charge out of wearing a sharp-looking suit. I don’t think anyone should be shamed for this. People should be free to wear whatever clothes they want so long as it is within the bounds of decency./elf-nxivm-cult-dior-baby-skincare-line.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elf-nxivm-cult-dior-baby-skincare-line.htmlHello, dewy dust bunnies, and welcome to another edition of the The Don’t Buy List! Stock in E.l.f. Beauty fell last week when the brand’s creative agency, Movers+Shakers, was revealed to have ties to the NXIVM cult. Co-founders Evan Horowitz and Geoffrey Goldberg “confirmed they participated in a leadership training course that was run by the cult,” according to AdAge. Much of the apparent NXIVM-E.l.f. overlap comes down to the concept of joy: NXIVM leader Keith Raniere preached about “the science of joy,” and E./georgetown-ed-cooley-contract-head-coach.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/georgetown-ed-cooley-contract-head-coach.htmlThe NCAA Tournament isn’t the only Big Dance going on right now. Ed Cooley and Georgetown continue to dance around each other, and all signs point to Georgetown preparing to put a massive offer on the table that Cooley can’t say no to, once Providence’s season concludes. Multiple sources with knowledge of Georgetown’s thinking indicate that the university is prepared to offer Cooley a contract that is worth around $5 million per year, which would put Cooley firmly in the top ten nationally for head coach salaries in college basketball./the-living-wage-for-musicians-act.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-living-wage-for-musicians-act.htmlA project I and others have been working on for more than two years finally went public last week, when Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Jamaal Bowman introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act. And then I came down with a raging head cold, right on cue. This often happens to me at the end of a tour, or after a recording session. It’s not my favorite way to celebrate, but it’s an old enough pattern that I know what my body means: good job./the-meta-positioning-habit-of-mind.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-meta-positioning-habit-of-mind.htmlWelcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter exploring the relationship between technology and culture. This is what counts as a relatively short post around here, 1800 words or so, about a certain habit of mind that online spaces seem to foster. Almost one year ago, this exchange on Twitter caught my attention, enough so that I took a moment to capture it with a screen shot, thinking I’d go on to write about it at some point./the-new-era-of-entrepreneurial-storytellers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-era-of-entrepreneurial-storytellers.htmlWesley Wang is a filmmaker, an 11-time national chess champion, and a sophomore at Harvard. His first significant film, nothing, except everything, a coming-of-age short movie that has won many awards and gone viral on YouTube with 2.7 million views. We talk about Wesley's approach to learning and building his career in film. He treats every film like a startup and constantly improves his skills and products. At Avalanche, one of our theses is that everyone is an entrepreneur or will have to learn to think like one./the-plan-for-satoshi-kons-final-film.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-plan-for-satoshi-kons-final-film.htmlWelcome! The Animation Obsessive newsletter returns with another batch of highlights, news items and tidbits. Here’s the slate: Our newsletter goes out every Sunday and Thursday. If you haven’t already, you can sign up for free to receive our Sunday issues right in your inbox, every weekend: All set? Let’s go! Satoshi Kon, one of the best directors ever to work in anime, passed away in August 2010. He was only 46./pubic-hair-trends-2024.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pubic-hair-trends-2024.html“You have to love the hair in order to love the vagina,” Eve Ensler writes in The Vagina Monologues. “You can’t pick the parts you want.” But enough about love. We do pick the parts. We shape, shave, sugar, wax, laser the hair. We surgically slice and snip the labia. We tighten one hole, brighten the other. Which is all to say: I’m researching an article about modern pubic hair norms and expectations, and I want to hear from you!/dreams-of-arrakis-the-quixotic-allure.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dreams-of-arrakis-the-quixotic-allure.htmlArrakis is the most godforsaken shithole planet in the known universe. Its surface may be beautiful from above—endless desert sands of different textures and subtle changes of color, with scattered outcroppings of rock—but actually living there is close to impossible for outsiders and such an immense pain in the ass for even the native Fremen that their asceticism has developed into a kind of religion. It never rains on Arrakis, so the Fremen have designed the “stillsuit,” a form-fitting outfit that preserves and recycles the body’s moisture, filtering sweat and urine into the drinkable water that accumulates in “catchpockets./the-real-meaning-of-mothers-day.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-meaning-of-mothers-day.htmlHappy Mother’s Day! And when we look at the history of Mother’s Day, we see there’s more there than happiness… The original Mother’s Day Proclamation was written by Julia Ward Howe in 1870. It was a statement of mothers who had lost sons in the North joined with mothers who had lost sons in the South during the Civil War, proclaiming a day once a year for a “general congress of women” to declare the end to war and the creation of peace./soapnet-rise-fall.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/soapnet-rise-fall.htmlThe rise of SOAPnet was an incredible gift to teen soap fans and its fall still saddens nearly eight years later. SOAPnet launched in January 2000, just months before the series finale of “Beverly Hills, 90210.” It was conceived by the Disney-ABC Television Group to capitalize on interest in ABC’s current daytime soap operas and the soaps of yesteryear. The cable channel broadcast same-day airings of ABC’s soaps, in addition to showcasing classic soaps that had long been off the air./the-rise-of-two-tower-models-in-recommender.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rise-of-two-tower-models-in-recommender.htmlRecommender systems are among the most ubiquitous Machine Learning applications in the world today. However, the underlying ranking models are plagued by numerous biases that can severely limit the quality of the resulting recommendations. The problem of building unbiased rankers - also known as unbiased learning to rank, ULTR - remains one of the most important research problems within ML and is still far from being solved. In this post, we’ll take a deep-dive into one particular modeling approach that has relatively recently enabled the industry to control biases very effectively and thus build vastly superior recommender systems: the two-tower model, where one tower learns relevance and another (shallow) tower learns biases./the-security-software-industry-wants.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-security-software-industry-wants.htmlThese days, credit card companies are falling over one another to offer perks that differentiate them from the competition. And as part of the benefits that come with my Chase Sapphire Preferred card [1], I get occasional reports about my credit score and activity on (pause for dramatic effect) the “dark web.” Here’s an email Chase sent me today. The tone can be paraphrased as “Nothing to be alarmed about, sir, but perhaps you want to climb into your fallout shelter before you click this link./the-spice-must-flow.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spice-must-flow.html“When they permitted you to mount your father’s throne, it was only on the assurance that you’d keep the spice flowing. You’ve failed them, Majesty. Do you know the consequences?” - Frank Herbert, Dune The 1984 David Lynch film adaptation of Dune did much to popularise the concepts of Frank Herbert’s astonishing 1965 science fiction novel. The evocative phrase ‘The spice must flow’ originates in this movie, and does not appear in the novel or its sequels./essay-an-ode-to-the-chaos-style-and.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/essay-an-ode-to-the-chaos-style-and.htmlThe final scene from 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding still remains to be one of my favorites in the history of rom-coms.  In the scene, the main lead, Julianne Potter or “Jules” played by Julia Roberts, sits sulking in a lavender gown in a half-lit ballroom during a wedding reception. Instead of dancing happily with a husband, she is alone and has just said goodbye to the man she loved. Picked out of context, one might think this is a tragic ending to a love story./the-trouble-with-chestertons-fence.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-trouble-with-chestertons-fence.htmlA conservative Republican says “Nothing should ever be done for the first time.” A modern Republican says “It should be, but not now.” —Mort Sahl, “The Future Lies Ahead” People on the left, like humorist Mort Sahl, mocked the Eisenhower Administration for its slow, cautious approach to racial integregation. Racial segregation was maintained by force of law in the South, where a drinking fountain would be labeled “whites only” or “colored only./the-white-cat-le-chat-blanc.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-white-cat-le-chat-blanc.htmlWhilst we’re on the subject of cats (see yesterday’s post), I can’t resist sharing with you this absolutely indelible painting of a white cat by Pierre Bonard. Inspired by Japanese paintings of cats (see below for an example of), Bonnard attempted to paint “the idea” of a cat. It’s almost a caricature, with its elongated forms and long legs. But in its distinctive arching movement there is also something that depicts the essence of a cat, its aloofness, and the ambiguity of its gaze./the-wistfully-wonky-world-of-uncle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wistfully-wonky-world-of-uncle.htmlThis is the 28th edition of the weekly Retrontario newsletter. Subscribe now to start getting it sent directly to your inbox:Uncle Bobby was a legitimate local institution: a real-life Krusty the Klown whose alleged misadventures involving scotch, mothers, and school buses have been the stuff of legend since the 1970s—even though the conversations about him shifted long ago from the playgrounds to the pubs around Toronto. (He’d heartily approve.)  /the-worlds-richest-man-gets-more.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-worlds-richest-man-gets-more.htmlHi, Ari here, and while I’m off The Beat this week for vacation, I still wanted to share some thoughts about power, technology and Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. As someone who spent years practicing First Amendment law, some of the recent debate has been really interesting.  And you can always subscribe here to receive all my newsletter entries: About half of Americans get their news primarily from social media. Some of that may be actual news, simply distributed online, or commentary about actual news, and related discourse./they-cloned-tyrone-and-the-power.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/they-cloned-tyrone-and-the-power.htmlNEW STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This newsletter aggressively spoils things. In our ongoing effort to make our profession seem really complex and demanding (instead of just making increasingly silly shit up), writers will often talk about world-building. That essentially means describing and explaining the universe that the story takes place in, everything from the laws of physics (do your winters last for decades?) to magic systems to politics, religion, ethnic and racial concerns—everything./this-is-what-jesus-wrote-in-the-sand.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-what-jesus-wrote-in-the-sand.html(Source: Wikipedia) Allow me to bury the lede while I tell you a bit about myself. Myself recently signed a book deal for my second book. “What’s it about?” you ask. Well, I’m glad you asked. Thank you for that. It’s about the Bible, what it means for it to be “god-breathed,” how it’s been used over the centuries for good and ill, and why it’s not perfect, never has been, and that’s ok./three-worlds-three-moons.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-worlds-three-moons.htmlCool title. We’ll get to what it is in just a second, but first, I wanted to let you know why it exists. There are a decent number of reasons, but they all fall into two basic categories:  So, I’ve spent the last couple of years helping head up the X-Men office at Marvel and it’s been a pretty fascinating ride. Tried a lot of stuff, learned a lot of stuff./tms-muse-of-the-week-leah-cohen-kunkel.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tms-muse-of-the-week-leah-cohen-kunkel.html(via wikipedia.org) No one likes being in the shadow of their sibling, especially the older sibling. Unless of course, that sibling is a superstar. Jamie Lynn Spears, Ashlee Simpson and Elizabeth Olsen are a few who hopped on the showbiz bandwagon once their older sisters broke through as celebrities. In Lizzie’s case, she successfully eclipsed her twin sisters’ childhood popularity as a grown-up film/TV actress. Most of the time the siblings are either completely out of the limelight or lowkey having their own moment in entertainment too./tms-muse-of-the-week-melora-walters.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tms-muse-of-the-week-melora-walters.html(Jean-Paul Aussenard) Whenever a new actor—particularly a new actress—is touted to be the ‘next big thing’ in Hollywood, I always think of Melora Walters. During a promotional interview for his then recent Magnolia (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson said that he wanted to write “something great and star-making” for Melora with the role of Claudia Wilson Gator in the film. While it is a great performance and Claudia is one of Paul’s most memorable characters, how many people are familiar with the name ‘Melora Walters?/transformation-iv.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transformation-iv.htmlThe Transformation IThe Transformation IITransformation IIIYet, for all his transgressions, Ross William Ulbricht differs from the sinister characters populating the deep web. Not only does he pay homage to a relatively frugal lifestyle, but the agenda he's set on his LinkedIn profile has a serious political side. One of the strangest documents on file is a long conversation Dread Pirate Roberts had with his mentor, Variety Jones – in which they discuss world hunger, which isn't alleviated by the genetically modified, sterilized seeds of companies like Monsanto./travisrgrs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/travisrgrs.htmlAll Access with Travis Rogers By Travis Rogers Hi, I'm Travis Rogers and this is All Access - a guide through electronic music's dynamic world. Using my experience, we'll navigate this industry, fostering collaboration and growth. Let's demystify music together. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW%2BwK%2BgrKqXp8A%3D/trite-but-truisms.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trite-but-truisms.htmlWell there are two truisms (I'll let you be the judge on whether or not they're trite) that are rolling around a lot in my mind lately. One is an internet that says - "there's two ways to look at "no one gives a shit!" - one is a yellow, smiley happy guy jumping for joy, the other is a glum blue guy with a dejected look on his face./trout-and-about.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trout-and-about.htmlAs a frequent diner in the North Carolina mountains, I have found that trout is on many menus and is usually a good bet if you like this freshwater, not-fishy fish that is kin to the salmon. In these parts, it’s likely to be very fresh, not frozen, and locally sourced from commercial farms nearby. Smoked trout is also presented as a tasty ingredient in dips and appetizer plates at better restaurants./turn-on-these-hidden-iphone-pro-camera.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/turn-on-these-hidden-iphone-pro-camera.htmlI’m Jefferson Graham with the Saturday edition of the PhotowalksTV newsletter: smartphone photo tips meets tech meets travel. The newsletter is a free publication, but I encourage you to show your support with a paid subscription. Get 20% off for 1 year ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpKq%2Fr3nOp2StoJWosm60yJ2bnqZdnr2pu82eZKmqn2KwornEq5g%3D/underpinning-your-horror-in-the-uncanny.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/underpinning-your-horror-in-the-uncanny.htmlIf you are like me, when October comes around your thoughts turn to a festering pile of macabre viscera teeming with writhing eldritch creatures that burst forth from the rot of your mind to gibber their terrifying oaths of the damned! That is, you think about horror. Horror is a genre that fascinates me, in part for its duality. It’s the genre of cheap schlocky gore as well as the home of philosophical debates about how to best guide readers to encounters with the sublime./up-your-alleydore-weekend-party-guide.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/up-your-alleydore-weekend-party-guide.htmlMy website got borked so putting this year’s guides on Substack. Plus, easier to email folks about updates. (Looking for the Folsom guide? Right here.) Be sure to bookmark this guide. I’m constantly updating as new events, venues, and DJs are announced. And signup for email alerts! You can always find the latest at andymatic.com/dore – just tell friends “it’s at andy matic dot com slash dore” – easy to remember! Party grid for the weekend (so far!/update-saturday-decisions.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/update-saturday-decisions.htmlGood EVENING! Yes, it’s a special Saturday night edition of the KFS Newsletter to get everyone updated on the bevy of decisions New York made on Saturday late afternoon, and more importantly, what (if anything) those decisions portend for what lies ahead. 🏀 Let’s go through this one by one, addressing the impact of each move in turn. ncG1vNJzZmijnp6wrL%2FFoqOmq5OdvLC4jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6q9pa3TnmSsmaSqv6Wt2GabnpuZqLawutI%3D/vibe-check-chowderfest-2024.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vibe-check-chowderfest-2024.htmlWhen it came to physically getting to Saratoga Chowderfest on Saturday, Sue Hartz was a woman with a plan—a parking plan. “Don’t write this—I don’t want people to know my secret,” she said, on the verge of exposing the key to every Saratogian’s parking woes. Naturally, I started writing. ncG1vNJzZmirkaeutbvGmqOirpmjtG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iumZeybq%2FHnpqkZZOdvLiwxKudnqukYn9xfpM%3D/vishal-garg-ceo-of-bettercom-tough.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vishal-garg-ceo-of-bettercom-tough.htmlThis article is part of Fintech Leaders, a newsletter with 65,000+ builders, entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, and students of financial services. I invite you to share and sign up! Also, if you enjoy this conversation, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows so more people can learn from it. Share Vishal Garg is the CEO & Founder of Better.com (NASDAQ: BETR), a publicly traded online mortgage lender that has funded more than $100 billion in mortgage volume in the last decade./volume-3-issue-98-impossible-germany.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/volume-3-issue-98-impossible-germany.htmlHere is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. “Impossible Germany” is the best Wilco song, and I think it might be the best possible Wilco song. Wilco has professionally recorded 135 songs—I’ve used all 135 of them as titles for the last 135 newsletters; this is the last one, so I have to come up with a new naming convention for the next one—and I’m not sure they’ll ever top that one./walking-buenos-aires.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walking-buenos-aires.htmlLast week’s post was critical of Argentina, but had little to say about Buenos Aires itself, which is a magnificent city, if you can pull off the whole ‘making a steady income in dollars’ thing, which most residents can’t. Buenos Aires’ problems are not about its architecture, cuisine, pollution, parks, public transport, or any other quality of life issue, it excels in all of these, but about political, economic, and social forces facing every Argentinian./watch-killing-america-full-movie.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-killing-america-full-movie.html****The Menlo Atherton High School newspaper, M-A Chronicle, filed a frivolous copyright claim against this post in attempt to censor the release of the film. Our Fair Use argument was sound and Substack has allowed us to republish this page. However, there were significant damages caused by the paper’s frivolous actions and we may consider legal action to find out exactly who was behind this censorship. Hi all, The unmerited efforts to suppress Killing America continue and I decided this morning that I would release the full 38 minute documentary on all possible online platforms today at 5 PM PST./were-off-to-see-the-wizard.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-off-to-see-the-wizard.htmlWelcome to Story Cauldron! For all of my new subscribers, it’s great to have you here. Here in Story Cauldron, I offer my thoughts about storytelling as well as share some of my fiction. This time around, I’m discussing The Wizard of Oz and its influence on me as a writer, as well as how you can read the Oz books online! What is your first memory of the Wizard of Oz?/web3-i-have-my-daots.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/web3-i-have-my-daots.htmlDavid Letterman: I can remember a couple of months ago there was a big breakthrough announcement that on the internet, or on some computer deal, they were going to broadcast a baseball game. You could listen to a baseball game on your computer. And I just thought to myself, does radio ring a bell? (laughter) Bill Gates: There’s a difference. It’s not a huge difference. David Letterman: What is the difference?/week-12-nfl-power-rankings.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/week-12-nfl-power-rankings.htmlYou notice that some of the rankings shifts and movements in power rating don’t correspond exactly with intuition based solely on results. The numbers still use some 2022 data, and prior weeks are having their effect sizes decayed, which can cause slight adjustments that look big. When lots of teams are bunched up in the middle and bottom of the NFL, even a marginal change in power rating can move a team 3-6 spots./week-28-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/week-28-2023.html(click title to open in browser) How Philosophy Ruined Art — Carrie Gress, Theology Of Home — “All of this might seem a bit pedestrian. Of course, this is just what art is today. But what did all of these ideas supplant? What did we lose in the exchange? What was sold off in that grand intellectual rummage sale?” Say My Name: Self-Deception, Transparency, And Redemption In The Breaking Bad Universe — Kenneth Craycraft, Church Life Journal — “But the man Kim leaves behind, James McGill, seems to have fulfilled the necessary—and perhaps even sufficient—condition for his redemption./weird-films-worth-watching-wizards.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weird-films-worth-watching-wizards.htmlAnimation is NOT just for kids, folks. I can't explain what keeps bringing me back and endearing me to the psychedelic ‘70s prog-rock fever dream that is WIZARDS. It’s an animated fantasy film made by Ralph Bakshi and released in 1977, and like many fantasies of that era, it steals many story & character elements from LORD OF THE RINGS. This makes sense, as Bakshi made his own animated adaptation of Tolkien’s book (the first half, anyway) a year later./welcome-to-kidding-around.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-kidding-around.htmlShare I wrote my book The Parent Trap about parenting and inequality (not the movies with Lindsay Lohan or Hayley Mills, which I do love but regrettably did not contribute to in any way) because I wanted to accelerate two big shifts. First, a cultural shift. I wanted people to start embracing that child development is too complicated to expect individual parents to do it well on their own with a little love and elbow grease — and that’s ok!/welcome-to-moonbow.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-moonbow.htmlWelcome to Moonbow! This introductory newsletter will hopefully answer two questions you’re likely asking yourself: What the heck is a moonbow? What can I expect from this newsletter? I’ll start with the more straightforward question: What is a moonbow? A moonbow (also called a lunar rainbow) is a rainbow that can only be seen at night. Moonbows are rare optical phenomena that occur when moonlight is reflected and refracted off water droplets in the air./statehood-westsylvania.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/statehood-westsylvania.htmlTotal Population: 5.3 million residents (just under 4 million registered voters) Prospective State Capital: Pittsburgh, WS Number of House seats: 7 (+4) Major Universities: West Virginia University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Kentucky The history of Westsylvania predates the birth of the nation as its eastern border largely follows the Proclamation Line of 1763. The line was established by King George III and forbade settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains, labeling areas west as an “Indian Reserve./what-small-town-actually-means.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-small-town-actually-means.html[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. So, if you like what you read, please consider a paid subscription. And yes, I do speaking engagements.] This past May, country star Jason Aldean released a new song called “Try That in a Small Town,” which has lyrics that are—there’s really no nice way to say this—corny as hell. I’ve been listening to country music all my life, and I gotta say that Mr./what-does-the-bible-teach-about-disembodied.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-the-bible-teach-about-disembodied.htmlIn my previous articles (here and here), I have argued that a view that regards the human soul as a substantial entity is philosophically superior to both materialism and property dualism[1], and that such a view must take into account the soul’s intimate relationship to the body to do justice to the biblical account of human beings. In this article, I address the question whether the Bible teaches that souls can exist disembodied, for which the substantial view of the soul is a precondition./what-is-a-ghoul.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-ghoul.htmlThis morning over coffee, I reflected on my last post about President Biden’s strange habit of gobbling frightened children, and I found myself wondering about the etymology of the world GHOUL. Turns out the word derives from the pre-Islamic Arabic world غول, ghūl)— a desert-dwelling humanoid demon that robs graves and devours the dead. The following graph plots its usage over time: Note the initial rise in the 1880s, when the British were fascinated by Arab culture and ghost stories./what-is-a-visionary.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-visionary.htmlIt might seem whimsical to say that the future is not what it used to be, but it’s true. Uncertainty about our personal futures is the perennial human condition, but social futures can no longer be premised on the intergenerational transmission of culture. Today, private interests drive technological change in ways that militate against the formation of collective wisdom in the public realm, while developments in artificial intelligence and synthetic biology heighten catastrophic risks./what-is-an-ars-poetica.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-an-ars-poetica.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThree descriptions of poetry Poetry is: saying what I should have said The witty comeback that escaped me then; Or else the cliché that your sadness needed Which I, too ironic, would not deliver; or What I could not wheeze out between asthmatic breaths— Poetry is saying what I should have said. Poetry is saying what I said indeed, Which went, as persona non grata, unheeded, Which now, in hushed literary revenge, I resay on the page—I declaim for the ages./for-better-forechecking.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/for-better-forechecking.htmlMany hockey parents spend thousands of miles traveling to rinks each season. Today, we are going to relate common strategies ‘on the road’ to a great forecheck ‘on the ice’. Forechecking is a coordinated pressuring tactic used by the team out of possession in an attempt to create a turnover and win the puck back. Forechecking specifically refers to the coordinated pressuring of the opponent in their defensive end /the offensive end for the team pressuring./what-is-fun.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-fun.htmlThank you so much to everyone who has shared a fun memory from 2023 in the community discussion thread. It’s truly wonderful (and, yes, a delight) to read through them. Here are a few examples of what’s been shared so far: 3/4 of our family was stuck for hours on end in a mall in a strange city on Christmas Eve, waiting for the other 1/4 whose flight was extremely delayed./what-is-hospital-art.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-hospital-art.htmlA couple of weeks ago, as I wandered the internet looking for art opportunities, I stumbled upon a call for art for a new hospital. It grabbed my attention, as hospitals generally have both money and enormous expanses of wall, things painters often lack. As I read on, though, my enthusiasm cooled. The curators had a long list of precise stipulations about the art they were looking for, and it didn’t include watercolor viruses:/dakota-johnson-ellen-peanut-butter-falcon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dakota-johnson-ellen-peanut-butter-falcon.htmlChills. Herstory. Never forget. Started it all. The Earth shifted. A cultural reset. My Roman Empire. The ultimate drag. This was Ellen’s January 6th. Should be a national holiday. Dakota ate like no one ever has before. The end of a decade, but the start of an age. The year was 2019. It was Thanksgiving Eve when Dakota Johnson, clad in an Alessandra Rich plaid cropped jacket and matching checked tweed skirt, sat down for an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show promoting her newest project, The Peanut Butter Falcon./restriction-of-range-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/restriction-of-range-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters.htmlLet's imagine a bit of research that we could easily perform, following standard procedures, and still get a misleading result. Say I'm an administrator at Harvard, a truly selective institution. I want to verify the College Board's confidence that the SAT effectively predicts freshman year academic performance. I grab the SAT data, grab freshmen GPAs, and run a simple Pearson correlation to find out the relationship between the two. To my surprise, I find that the correlation is quite low./what-new-cookbooks-are-you-enjoying.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-new-cookbooks-are-you-enjoying.htmlIt’s been a pretty hectic month with lots going on. Consequently, I haven’t had much time to do much cooking and baking, which has been especially challenging since a few of the new cookbooks (above) that have recently come out have been sitting on my kitchen table, bookmarked with recipes that I’m excited to try. So I thought maybe we could have an open forum here, and let’s discuss: What cookbooks have you been excited about lately?/what-out-of-the-park-baseball-25.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-out-of-the-park-baseball-25.htmlWith the baseball season starting in earnest on Thursday (Seoul Series notwithstanding), I thought it would be fun to revive an exercise I did last year — using Out of the Park Baseball to simulate a bunch of MLB seasons and tracking how the game tends to think each team will do in 2024. For the uninitiated, OOTP is a baseball simulation game (now in its 25th year) which puts you in charge of any team you want, both in 2024 or throughout history./what-was-the-girlboss.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-was-the-girlboss.htmlFor one thing, she was fun to hate. She was vain, spoiled, and secretly, we felt sure, full of malice. She mistook self-interest for moral righteousness, casting the pursuit of profit as feminism and conspicuous consumption as “self-care.” I’m talking, of course, about the girlboss, that much-maligned figure of female status and success. The girlboss, can be roughly defined as a stereotype—usually millennial, white, and straight—that represented women’s professional ambition. She rose to fraught prominence from 2016 to 2020, after Hilary Clinton’s election loss and before the pandemic./what-would-grace-paley-do.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-would-grace-paley-do.htmlI am reading Grace Paley again. Why? Because I am sad—for reasons both self and world — or maybe sad is not quite the right word. I am feeling somewhat dead, as in, the opposite of feeling alive, and Grace Paley is full of delight and precision and life. Such as, this section from her story “Wants”: A nice thing I do remember is breakfast, my ex-husband said. I was surprised./whats-in-a-song-vol-1.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-in-a-song-vol-1.htmlMany songs are written to be taken at face value with no alternate meaning except what the artists are trying to say, but some songs have that much deeper meaning that one may or may not realize after listening to it. Today we will explore my favorite song and its not-so-subtle meanings. Author’s Note: These are my opinions and are not considered fact by the group or other Dead Heads./whats-so-great-about-steamboat-willie.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-so-great-about-steamboat-willie.htmlBefore we get to today's main topic… I’m pleased to share that this is the 100th issue of The Dispatch! It is also the first issue for 2024. Thank you for coming with me on this ride. CES 2024 is this week in Vegas, and as I have done many times before I’ll be leading tours of the show floor for StoryTech. If you see me, please say hi. BTW, a plane flight to Vegas is why this week’s Dispatch is arriving a little later than usual./what-is-the-story-behind-the-film.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-story-behind-the-film.htmlHello! I was on my way to the departure gates at the Indianapolis Airport last month when I heard a familiar song playing. I instantly recognized it, though not the version that was blasting through the large speakers outside the food court. “Ah, it’s Total Eclipse of the Heart!” I thought. “With a dance beat!” This was three days before the total solar eclipse (of the heart) hit Indianapolis – but hearing Bonnie Tyler’s 1980s classic had me thinking of something else./whats-the-value-of-spotify-subscription.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-the-value-of-spotify-subscription.htmlBy coincidence - as this post had stalled since Monday - Spotify has published its financial result for Q3 2021 and it revealed it now has 172m global Premium subscribers. This was up 19% YoY and up by 4% (+7m) QOQ. Spotify’s Premium subscriber growth translated into Premium revenue of €2.178 billion ($2.52bn at current exchange rates) in Q3, which was up by 6% on the €2.056 billion ($2.38bn) generated in the prior quarter (Q2 2021)./when-pleasant-words-hide-harmful.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-pleasant-words-hide-harmful.htmlFlattery exploits our normal and healthy need to form authentic loving connections with others. Flattery can be used as a tactic in most any social interaction in which the flatterer wants something from another. It’s an effective tactic of coercion. You think of the flatterer in a more positive way because they’ve caused you to feel better about yourself, which enhances the likelihood that you’ll comply with their agenda for you./where-to-find-free-food-and-where.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-to-find-free-food-and-where.htmlAs the gap between the have-nots and the want-everythings expands, must the tech bros corrupt our language as well? The editor in me cringes every time I hear the term “sharing economy.” Redefining the word “sharing” as someone charging for a service (a room, a ride) perverts the English language—and religion, philosophy, common decency and stuff every kindergartener knows.  By sharing—in the literal sense of the word—the 21 endeavors listed in this newsletter prevent waste, reduce pollution and help build community./arbys-wheres-the-beef-a-deep-dive.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arbys-wheres-the-beef-a-deep-dive.htmlIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. Diogenes We've all been there: lured by the siren call of a fast-food ad, only to be met with a reality that falls short of the promise. But what happens when that disappointment crosses the line into deception? Enter the recent class action lawsuit filed against Arby's Restaurant Group in the Eastern District of New York./why-cant-they-make-a-movie-out-of.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-cant-they-make-a-movie-out-of.htmlWhy can’t there be a great movie or series made from the Dinotopia franchise? It seems like a natural idea: here’s a New York Times bestselling illustrated book with an extravagant premise, a deep prehistory, and plenty of dinosaurs. It’s not easy to create an adaptation of the first two books that preserves the utopian appeal of the world, but also introduces enough conflict to make it work as a three-act drama for adults./sometimes-i-wish-i-had-a-wife.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sometimes-i-wish-i-had-a-wife.htmlSometimes, I wonder what it would be like if I had a wife. No, I don’t want to enter into a same-sex romantic relationship. I’d like to keep my husband. But I also sometimes dream about having a wife, as well. Someone to share the work load. Someone to take care of all the things I don’t want to have to manage any more. I remember identifying with the concept of sister wives years ago when I edited a book by a family that practiced polygamy./why-is-there-no-room-for-raumdeuters.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-there-no-room-for-raumdeuters.htmlThis is this months free post, if you want to read more from Played on Paper, please subscribe using the link below. If I was to ask you ‘What is Kai Havertz’s best position at Chelsea?’, those of you who didn’t instantly reply ‘sat on the bench’ would struggle to give me an answer. He isn’t able to separate himself effectively from defenders to be a reliable number nine, but he doesn’t have the technical skillset or dribbling ability to play as a traditional number 10./why-is-this-interesting-the-chicken.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-this-interesting-the-chicken.htmlNoah here. If the name Punnet rings a bell, it’s probably from high school biology class. Punnet Squares are the four-box diagrams that were used to explain dominant and recessive genes. They look something like this: The guy behind them was named Reginald Punnett. He was a British geneticist and professor and, of interest to me, the inventor of a breed of auto-sexing chickens. It turns out it’s hard to discern the sex of chickens at birth, which is obviously important if you’re raising the birds and want to focus on egg-layers./why-jens-soring-has-no-contact-with.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-jens-soring-has-no-contact-with.html(Photo of an overgrown Jewish cemetery in the Vienna Zentralfriedhof, 2010, by Andrew Hammel) In almost every interview, German journalists ask Söring what it was like to finally meet up with his family in Germany after being released from prison. They may also ask how often his family flew to Virginia to visit him, and what they did to help him broadcast his innocence story. Söring must then explain why he has had no contact with his family since 2001./why-mike-cernovich-hates-trump.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-mike-cernovich-hates-trump.htmlI met Mike Cernovich a few years ago when I was making a documentary based on Angela Nagle’s book, Kill All Normies. Back then I had the same impression of him that you likely did, and that you probably still do: I thought he was a Trump-loving, men’s rights-touting, right wing troll. But after chatting with him, I liked him anyway. Mike was thoughtful, honest, candid, reasonable, self-disparaging, and fair-minded. I’d read the New Yorker profile of him./why-the-bible-began.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-bible-began.htmlI don’t know the best word for Jacob L. Wright’s new book, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins. Here are some expressions for this book: A history of Israel (along with a lot of history about more than Israel) An exposition of salient ideas in the Bible A sketch of important figures in the Bible An introduction to the historical-critical method The historical-critical method in a new key/cancelling-cawthon-why-the-five-nights.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cancelling-cawthon-why-the-five-nights.htmlFive Night’s At Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon announced his retirement yesterday after his financial donations to Republican politicians—and Tulsi Gabbard—were revealed. Deplorable heavyweights Cawthon donated to include Donald “King Cheeto” Trump, Mitch “Turtle Man” McConnell and Kevin “Whodat?” McCarthy. The list of horrors goes on and on. Cawthon done goofed, my droogies. He committed one of the gravest, most diabolical sins in the known universe: Voting Republican as an indie video game developer./why-the-purge-wouldnt-work.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-purge-wouldnt-work.html“You don't remember how bad it was, Charlie, the poverty, all the crime. This night saved our country."  — “The Purge.” The sixth movie in the low-budget (but high grossing) “Purge” movie series is coming out on July 2 and for more than eight years this Blumhouse horror franchise has explored the idea of: “What if for night all crime was legal?” The publicized idea is that everyone would release their aggression and anger and all crime would be centralized to one 12-hour period./wisconsin-mbb-defeats-arkansas-state.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wisconsin-mbb-defeats-arkansas-state.htmlOn Monday night, Greg Gard and the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program welcomed head coach Bryan Hodgson & his Arkansas State team to the Kohl Center for the season opener.  The Badgers, who took the lead 20 seconds into the game, never looked back and walked away with a convincing 105-76 win over the Red Wolves while setting a new Kohl Center scoring record. UW has now won 25 of its last 26 home openers./world-renowned-cardiologist-died.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/world-renowned-cardiologist-died.htmlDecember 26, 2023: Tragically, the world has unexpectedly lost another brilliant mind, compassionate soul, loving parent, inspirational teacher, and kind-hearted doctor. Internationally renowned cardiologist, Jean-Philippe Collet, Died Suddenlyat his home on December 15, 2023, at the age of 59, leaving behind his wife, three children, and granddaughter… ncG1vNJzZmijkaeyr7fIp56srJ%2Bje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCnoqGxbr7Ep6awppWZeqSt0Z2gqKSfnLa0wIydoJ6c/writing-club-survey.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/writing-club-survey.htmlDear Readers I am in the process of shaping a new offering that will be a writing club monthly membership and I am looking for your input! Think Flexible Office meets your own solo writing time meets consistency and fun 🌼 It will meet three days a week for 90 min on zoom - most likely 11am EST 🌼 There will be a monthly visiting writer workshop 🌼 There will be a Discord group for further connection In answering the below polls I’d love you to answer from an abundant mindset, giving me advice on what I should price it at and also what you would value you it at./67b.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/67b.html·方舟子· 我以前看到有人在网上说，王志安结过婚，后来他老婆得了抑郁症，就跟她离婚了，于是说王志安人品很不好。我当时还觉得奇怪，王志安什么时候结了婚？不过我也没去查，因为王志安的家人或前家人跟我没有关系。我一向反对因为跟某人有恩怨就把他与此无关的一家人都给扯上，这么做很下作、很流氓。王志安很喜欢因为跟某人有恩怨就把他的家人也一起攻击，比如他就曾经跑美国诬告我妻子“诈骗网友捐款在美国买房买车”。虽然王志安很喜欢这么干，但不能因为他不仁我就不义，也去挖他的家人。以前崔永元、罗永浩也喜欢攻击我的家人，我也没有因此去攻击崔永元的妻子、罗永浩的妻子。 但是这次王志安的前妻出面录了一期视频为王志安辩护，哭哭啼啼地卖惨，骂批评王志安的人，吹捧王志安，性质就变了。她变成了事件当事人。总不能只许她骂批评王志安的人，不许别人反击吧？总不能只许她吹捧王志安，不许别人反驳吧？她还在视频里亮出了自己的网名“大脸撑在小胸上”。这个网名一度在中国网络上有点名气，有不少粉丝，她可算是个小网红。她也曾经频繁地接受媒体采访，上过电视，可以说是一个公共人物。公共人物比较少有隐私，公众就可以对她进行监督，做一些调查。 要查出她的身份很容易，她对自己的身份从来不隐瞒。“大脸撑在小胸上”以前自己说过，她本名叫李汀，1981年出生，昆明人，2007年左右到云南大学大气科学系读博士。也是那段时间，她在“天涯论坛”非常活跃，主要干了两件事。一件是点评金庸小说，很受欢迎，她还在2009年把这些网文收集起来出了一本书。另外一件事发生于2011年，不知道什么原因，她突然一篇一篇地发帖揭露南京工业大学教师储浩，说他是一个抛妻弃子的渣男。还发动网暴，号召人们揭发他。听说储浩要去美国，她就发动人们向美国大使馆投诉，向美国各个大学发函、打电话，阻止他去美国。后来，她公布出来的信息被发现有些并不真实，是道听途说，被储浩告了，两个人后来私了。 2012年，李汀博士毕业，去中科院大气物理研究所做了两年博士后。2014年从博士后出站，留在大气物理所科普办公室，专职做关于气象方面的科普。当时跟网上很活跃、搞伪科普的那帮人，什么“果壳”、云无心、中国农大朱毅是一个圈子的。王志安当时也在混这个圈子，很可能两人因此认识。我对比了他们2014年发的微博，可以确定他们那时就开始同居了。例如，王志安某天发微博说他的猫死了，李汀同一天也发微博说她的猫死了。王志安某天说他去看了哪一部电影，李汀发的微博也说那天她看了哪一部电影。王志安说他家阳台的地板在装修，李汀也发微博说她家的阳台在装修。很明显，他们那个时候就住在一起了。 2019年，李汀的号已经养了很长时间，有几百万粉丝，她突然宣布把这个号交给别人经营，也就是网上所谓的“卖号”，然后退出了江湖。根据王志安朋友的说法，因为李汀当时生了小孩，而方舟子正在无下限地攻击王志安，怕因此被攻击，所以为了保护老婆、孩子，王志安就让李汀退出了江湖。这完全是颠倒黑白。其实是王志安一直在无下限地攻击我和我的家人，一直在造谣抹黑说我“基金诈骗”。而且也是2019年，王志安嚷嚷了好多年的“赴美起诉方舟子”真的诉诸行动，跑美国起诉我和我妻子“诈骗网友捐款在美国买房买车”。所以更可能的是，王志安心里有鬼，很心虚，怕我发现他也有老婆孩子而加以反击，就以小人之心让李汀退出江湖。李汀2019年突然在中国网络上消失，直到现在又从日本冒出来。 ncG1vNJzZmiekaO0tLTIpqCnZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe5VwmQ%3D%3D/may-you-left-your-typewriter-at-my.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/may-you-left-your-typewriter-at-my.htmlOMG Rachel, I hadn't even thought of that possibility, but I would LOVE to see it!!! I know the tour is already so long, but I absolutely agree - it's almost a whole new iteration of the tour if she adds TTPD, and who knows how it could continue to evolve with Rep TV and Debut TV hopefully also on their way on some point. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmiclZa%2Fs7HAnZyrppWswK2x062cq2ajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvMmrBmsZ%2Bqeq2xxa1ksqelp3q1xc%2BerquhpJq%2Fbq3TZqSyZ5Okuq6xza2q/from-ho-to-housewife.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-ho-to-housewife.htmlI can never remember my wedding anniversary. Even writing this now, I’m not sure if it’s October 23 or 26. All I know is that one day last week was our 10-year wedding anniversary. It’s been a decade since Christopher and I walked down the aisle to the Mission Impossible theme song. It made us laugh, that winking commentary about the impos… ncG1vNJzZmisopawuq%2FLmqmknpykv7p60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnlqe8rnnHqGStp12dvLa%2FxLCgn50%3D/mamma-mia-power-rankings.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mamma-mia-power-rankings.htmlThere’s no reason why anyone in this world should hate either of the Mamma Mia! Films. People often cite its absurdity, that it’s too fabricated, or even that the ABBA music doesn’t really fit with the plot. Well, get over it! Life is too short to hate these explosions of dance, beauty, and happiness and anyone who does is an immediate red flag. But we’re not here to argue about the Mamma Mia excellence — we’re here to gossip about Donna, Sophie, and Sam./another-hundred-people.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/another-hundred-people.html“When I was 11 years old, I met Oscar Hammerstein, and he became a surrogate father, and I just wanted to do what he did. And he was a songwriter for the theater, so I became a songwriter for the theater. If he was a geologist, I would have become a geologist,” Stephen Sondheim told the New York Times in a June 2008 interview. In 1995, he gave a similar line to CBS: “I’ve often said that if he’d been an archeologist, I’d been an archeologist./blue-skies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-skies.htmlEvery Tom Waits Song is an email newsletter covering just that, in alphabetical order. Find more info here and sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox: I’d assumed Tom’s officially-unreleased song “Blue Skies” was a cover. Partly because “Blue Skies” shares its title with a much more famous Irving Berlin song, and partly because it sounds like a standard. That latter bit means A) It’s really good, but also B) There’s nothing particularly Waits-ian about it./going-dutch-is-offensive-to-the-dutch.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/going-dutch-is-offensive-to-the-dutch.htmlNot to elect one Dutchman as the representative of an entire nation, but when my new friend Harald (host of the excellent Verwondering Podcast) told me that “Going Dutch” implies that the Dutch are cheap or ungenerous, I was like huh! I had never thought of the phrase that way. Truly, when someone proposes to split a bill, I take it as a sign of equity, candor, and practicality. And that strikes me as very Dutch indeed./hound-dog-big-mama-thornton.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hound-dog-big-mama-thornton.htmlThe nonprofit Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls was founded in 2004 to offer free music education for BIPOC girls and gender-expansive youth. The program’s namesake is rock n roll ancestor Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. The program might be Thornton’s most precious legacy since she isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has never been on the cover of Rolling Stone. There is no Hollywood biopic of her life./hugo-soto-martinez-deserves-an-apology.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hugo-soto-martinez-deserves-an-apology.html— It is 2am on Monday morning and Jerretta Sandoz, a vice president with the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) and an LAPD sergeant (at least through January 2023, according to her LinkedIn account), is on Fox News Channel for a live interview during which she excoriates recently elected LA City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez even though the story she is promoting was debunked several days earlier.Soto-Martinez, a socialist, won the District 13 Council seat on a platform that included defunding and even abolishing the LAPD./in-the-summertime-by-mungo-jerry.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-the-summertime-by-mungo-jerry.htmlYou can stretch right up and touch the sky The time it took to write one of the best selling singles in history could be measured by the minute hand of a wristwatch. Ray Dorset was, in fact, taking a break from his day job at a lab for Timex when he wrote “In The Summertime” in about 10 minutes, banging away on a second hand Stratocaster. His band didn’t even have its name at the time./que-hermosura.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/que-hermosura.htmlSomeone once said to me, “Who gets to tell these stories?” during a discussion about personal narratives. It’s a question I ask myself often when I sit down to write and a story has found its way out of me, a story that makes me uncomfortable, one where I worry about its impact and who may feel wronged in me writing it. So who gets to tell these stories and how does language change the way we move through a story teeming to find its way out of us?/41-frodo-baggins-dreams-of-hobbit.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/41-frodo-baggins-dreams-of-hobbit.htmlHi friends, I hope your summer is off to a good start! We had a milder than usual spring here in the Phoenix area, with plenty of rain and even a superbloom throughout my part of the Sonoran Desert, offering a slow onramp into these summer months where the heat gets increasingly intense. But we’re now properly in it, with temperatures in the high 90s and low 100s and hotter heat to come, which means I’ve slid into my summer schedule, where I get up very early in order to run and exercise while I still can./45-41924-the-post-pandemic-customer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/45-41924-the-post-pandemic-customer.htmlHello, friends, and welcome to Further Faster Fridays! Happy to have you here! If this is your first issue, welcome! We ship the best content in personal development and leadership each Friday to help you go further, faster. Glad to have you as part of the community! Now, on to the content! This is a fascinating article from Gallup that explores how post-pandemic customer behaviors have shifted and what this means for your employees./brandin-podziemski-2023-nba-draft.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brandin-podziemski-2023-nba-draft.htmlOver the last few years, I’ve learned a few important lessons in draft scouting. One of the more light-hearted takeaways: don’t bet against Draft Twitter favorites. When there are prospects who get an overwhelming amount of support from the online medium’s premiere scouts, there tends to be a correlation to the success they have in the NBA. I think back to Brandon Clarke and Desmond Bane being highly-touted online with their fair share of supporters./2babas-new-challenge-philanthropy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2babas-new-challenge-philanthropy.htmlInnocent Idibia, popularly known as 2baba, is a legendary Nigerian musician, songwriter, and philanthropist. He is known to many as the brilliant mind behind ‘African Queen’ and other hit songs. He has many talents and interests - especially in helping African youths and displaced people.  After establishing himself as a bonafide star with the Plantashun Boiz in 1999, 2Baba emerged as the standout leader of the emerging generation with the 2004 release of his solo debut album ‘Face 2 Face’./nhl-players-daily-puckdoku-red-wings-records.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nhl-players-daily-puckdoku-red-wings-records.htmlWelcome to the THW Hockey History Substack newsletter, with all the best from our extensive archives. Share On this date, Mother Nature made her presence felt during one of the most memorable games in National Hockey League history. Also, there was plenty of overtime drama and some coaches who were in need of updating their resumes. The THW time machine is gassed up and ready to take us on our daily journey through the decades to relive all the best from May 20./633-squadron.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/633-squadron.htmlWow, what a piece of crap. Normally I try to be charitable to the classic films I'm watching for the Reeling Backward column, seeking out movies I think I'll enjoy or find interesting on some level In the case of "633 Squadron," a 1964 WWII movie starring Cliff Robertson as the leader of a British air squadron, the only thing interesting is how gobsmackingly awful it is. I lay most of the blame at the feet of director Walter Grauman, a television guy who made a few theatrical films./a-close-reading-of-the-wedding-date.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-close-reading-of-the-wedding-date.htmlToday we’ve got another episode of Rom Coms Revisited: exploring the good/bad/ugly of early 2000s rom coms. This time, one of my personal faves. Loading... The basics: Debra Messing’s Kat Ellis hires Dermot Mulroney’s Nick Mercer to pose as her boyfriend and attend her sister’s wedding, paying him $6,000 in cash. I love Kat’s practicality here. She needs this to go well, so she hired a professional. And he’s definitely a professional./a-deep-dive-on-the-buccaneers-creamsicle.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-on-the-buccaneers-creamsicle.htmlA few weeks ago I took an in-depth look at the Denver Broncos’ 1997 uniforms, which remain the most radical uni redesign in NFL history. One of the readers who posted a comment on that article was Kevin Cearfoss, who asked if I could do a similar deep-dive treatment for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ “creamsicle” uniforms. I liked that idea, especially since the creamsicles are finally returning to the field this season as a throwback, so here we are./a-dialogue-with-josh-schrei-of-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-dialogue-with-josh-schrei-of-the.htmlThe best conversations unravel new threads with every turn of phrase. You’re left with a tapestry, not of answers but of new possibilities. I had a feeling that a dialogue with Josh Schrei might weave that kind of tapestry, and I wasn’t disappointed. If you haven’t heard of his podcast The Emerald, I’d highly recommend it. It’s gained a dedicated following over the last few years, and is as much an endeavour in ‘mythic sensemaking’ as it is an artistic expression./a-far-cry-from-alexanders.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-far-cry-from-alexanders.htmlI can’t say that I have spent much time in department stores lately, if ever actually. But when I was a kid growing up in Queens, I used to love going to Alexander’s, a rather average, rambling department store that held many wonders for a small child. To be sure, this was not a fancy, shiny department store like Bloomingdale’s, Bergdorf, or the late Bonwit Teller. Those, out on the Miracle Mile of Manhasset, were far too rich for our blood./a-haunting-ode-to-the-big-ten-map.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-haunting-ode-to-the-big-ten-map.htmlThe Big Ten’s “Maps” commercial is an institution. Since its debut in 2014, this meticulously crafted, masterfully animated, and impeccably soundtracked spot has graced millions of screens thousands of times. Experiencing it has become as much a part of Big Ten sports as singing our fight songs or watching all of our teams lose in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. If Big Ten country had a national anthem, it would be “Silver Lining” by Guards./a-love-letter-to-cobra-the-funniest.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-love-letter-to-cobra-the-funniest.htmlI had intended to write a serious piece on a downbeat movie from my youth, and then I saw that this week marks 37 years since the release of Cobra, Sylvester Stallone’s tour de force about a cop who single-handedly takes down a murder cult. Now, granted, no one celebrates 37 years of anything. Hallmark doesn’t sell an “It’s Your 37th Birthday” card, nor is there a special gift you’re supposed to give your spouse for your 37th wedding anniversary./a-magician-makes-the-best-pizza-rossa.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-magician-makes-the-best-pizza-rossa.htmlThe Pittsburgh pizza world continues to expand. Much like the universe itself, there’s no end in sight. New shops, new pizza, new experiences appearing in the cosmos. Let’s talk about one of my new faves. Daniele Brenci is a local bread wizard that has complete control over the formation of gluten networks, crispiness and flavor profile. He may be the Yen Sid of pizza, commanding it to take shape and forms that seem impossible, but the way he molds and creates bread is a sight to behold./a-mindful-approach-to-your-phone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-mindful-approach-to-your-phone.htmlHi! I’m Jacqueline Nesi, a clinical psychologist, professor at Brown University, and mom of two young kids. Here at Techno Sapiens, I share the latest research on psychology, technology, and parenting, plus practical tips for living and parenting in the digital age. If you haven’t already, subscribe to join nearly 20,000 readers, and if you like what you’re reading, please consider sharing Techno Sapiens with a friend. 7 min readLike most people, my relationship with my iPhone is, shall we say, an evolving situation./the-assistant-film-review.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-assistant-film-review.htmlThe Assistant is streaming on Max and Hulu. Grade: B (Fine acting, Slow moving, Methodical Attention to Detail, Shines a light on an understated profession, Gender and power dynamic themes) When Ozark alum Julia Garner (Jane) walks into a scene in The Assistant, you submit fully to her character, watching her every move and wondering when the tension will reach its breaking point. She’s arresting. At first glance, she’s demure and has an air of someone hyper vigilant and much older than her years./sophie-anderson-cock-destroyer-slag-wars.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sophie-anderson-cock-destroyer-slag-wars.html“I just want to say that I truly love u all… remember if u r lonely… I’m thinking of you… & I know how it feels to be alone. I want you to know that you are beautiful and sexy and I love you.” That was a tweet from Sophie Anderson, the beloved pornstar and viral sensation, who passed away earlier this week at 36-years-old. She died two weeks after the sudden death of her husband, former soccer star-turned-pornstar Oliver Spedding./a-walk-through-the-east-village-with.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-walk-through-the-east-village-with.html“My ma died in February.” Ada Calhoun and I are at the International Bar in the East Village, and I’m telling her the specifics of my mother’s death. The afternoon is gray and rainy, but the day-drinkers around us are jovial, and the Guinness I’m sipping warms my chilled bones a bit. Ada kindly listens while I talk, she herself having lost a parent in October of 2022—which, if I’m being honest, is probably why I called her to ask if she wanted to go on a walk./abdulla-awad-visual-and-food-artist.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/abdulla-awad-visual-and-food-artist.htmlAbdulla Awad, artist and visionary behind Yafa Bakery & Café in Somerville, MA, told me he learned at the best culinary school in the world. Culinary Institute of America? No. Le Cordon Bleu? Nope. YouTube star Babish? Uh-uh. Abdulla smiles and with all the love says his culinary education was in his mother’s kitchen. Of course. I also learned at a similar school, so I understand. His mother cooked every day for their large number of family and friends where they lived for generations in the Beit Safafa Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem./to-hell-and-back-allison-cornish.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/to-hell-and-back-allison-cornish.htmlWritten some 700 years ago, Dante’s Divine Comedy remains one of the greatest works of world literature. Religion, politics, history, love, war, money: it has it all. The three-book epic plumbs the depths of hell and reaches for the highest clouds of paradise, while always remaining grounded in the here and now. In an interview with The Octavian Report, Alison Cornish—who’s an NYU professor, president of the Dante Society of America, and author of the book Vernacular Translation in Dante’s Italy—explains why The Divine Comedy has stood the test of time, what makes it so influential, and why its politics resonate today./all-hail-the-luther-burger.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-hail-the-luther-burger.htmlWelcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern culture/sports/music/food offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. Thanks for reading, and if you’re new around here, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Man, I love stunt food. You know, the ridiculous over-the-top creations you find at suggestively-named food trucks, captive-audience amusement parks, Instagram-thirsty pop-ups, the State Fair of Texas, trendy we-charge-extra-for-artisanal-ice restaurants, and — most often — at ballparks. Your resistance is already low at ballparks, you’ve got nothing to do but sit around and digest, and there’s at least a chance your team is losing … why not devour 5,000 or so calories of intestine-scouring delight?/all-mirrors-are-portals.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-mirrors-are-portals.htmlWhen I was little, I read a book that said all mirrors are magic mirrors, and that if you place two mirrors facing each other you can create a portal. And being a curious and stupid child who was always looking for fairy rings to fall into or hag stones to look through I promptly created a lean-to out of my grandmother’s full-length mirrors and crawled inside to await whatever magic was coming./all-systems-go-for-mega-card-topped.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-systems-go-for-mega-card-topped.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./americas-best-breakfast-is-in-kenosha.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/americas-best-breakfast-is-in-kenosha.htmlIt’s a tiny diner with an oversized personality and palate. Sassy waitresses tease customers and pass out complimentary shots of liquor. An employee emerges from the kitchen to act as a ringmaster, letting everyone in the restaurant know his opinions. It’s as if you’ve stepped into the role of an extra on the set of a sitcom during filming. And the food? Absolutely magnificent. To me, this is the Best Breakfast in America./full-disclosure-an-interview-with.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/full-disclosure-an-interview-with.htmlWHILE IT WAS THE RUSSIANS, wreaking havoc on the election, who won the White House for Donald John Trump, the man who made Trump palatable to voters—who burnished the popular image of the longtime mob money launderer, serial rapist, and piece of shit human—was the TV producer Mark Burnett. On his “reality” show The Apprentice, Burnett sold America a successful, hard-working, comfortably wealthy version of Trump that was completely divorced from reality./an-interview-with-renee-james-ceo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-interview-with-renee-james-ceo.htmlOne of the more interesting stories over the last ten years has been the growth of Arm in the server and enterprise markets. Almost a decade ago, Arm was predicting 25%+ of these markets would be enabled through different merchant silicon providers, effectively elbowing out all the x86 install base (which was mostly Intel at the time). Around a dozen start-ups came to the fore, developing silicon for those markets using off-the-shelf Arm mobile cores, with limited success./andy-campion-exits-nike-sneakersnstuff.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andy-campion-exits-nike-sneakersnstuff.htmlFormer Nike COO Andy Campion has officially departed Nike to take on a role as director of UCLA’s new Sports Leadership and Management program. Pre-pandemic, Campion allegedly was among a small group of executives considered a top candidate for next CEO. In May of last year, when Heidi O’Neill and Craig Williams were announced as presidents, the writing was on the wall for Campion's eventual exit. And indeed, shortly thereafter the 53-year-old Campion was moved out of the C-Suite and named managing director of strategic business ventures, a role described as working with CEO John Donahoe to find new business opportunities,” according to reporting by Matthew Kish for the Oregonian./angel-from-montgomery-by-bonnie-raitt.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/angel-from-montgomery-by-bonnie-raitt.htmlTo believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go John Prine thought he was doing it wrong; the silence only confirmed it. Prine wrote the songs for his 1971 debut while walking with a mailbag across his shoulder, taking in scenes of daily life along his route as a letter carrier. He filled those songs with the details he absorbed as he delivered the mail. This is what made him nervous about singing his songs in public – surely there must be a reason why other songwriters weren’t doing it that way; was he just a rank amateur?/anna-may-wongs-top-10-films.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anna-may-wongs-top-10-films.htmlIt’s hard to believe the pub date for Not Your China Doll is a little less than six months away. My publishing team and I have lots of fun stuff in store, including book giveaways, AMW-branded goodies, a sneak peak inside the book, and more—so the party’s just getting started!  Now, if you have enjoyed reading Half-Caste Woman and appreciate all the work that goes into writing the newsletter, the best way you can continue to support my work is by pre-ordering the book, which is available online nearly everywhere books are sold, even your local independent bookstore (check your favorite indie’s website or Bookshop./antonym-chaotic-drift-edition.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/antonym-chaotic-drift-edition.htmlDear Reader Happy Father’s Day, if that applies to your territory and/or worldview.  Me? I take the Homeric approach and am busy self-celebrating while I write this on Daddy’s Day Eve. Last week, the FT’s Lex section discussed the tangled problems at Credit Suisse—of which, like me, you were probably unaware until now—and coined the  beautiful phrase “chaotic drift” to describe it. In his round-up of that week’s commentary, Head of Lex Jonathan Guthrie said: /apple-tysons-corner-a-new-chapter.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apple-tysons-corner-a-new-chapter.htmlThis is a very special edition of Tabletops celebrating the all-new Apple Tysons Corner. In lieu of a regular newsletter on Monday, I’ll be sending paid subscribers my full gallery of photos from the store media preview and additional details and observations about the new space. If you’re not a paid subscriber, you can upgrade this week only for R010% off a lifetime subscription. Today, Apple revealed its most comprehensive redesign of the Apple Store experience in nearly a decade./appropriation-or-appreciation-dallas-cowboys.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/appropriation-or-appreciation-dallas-cowboys.htmlAppropriation can feel complicated (...sometimes). When it is so blatantly obvious, there is little hesitation in calling it what it is. And then there are the other times – you know, those moments where you catch yourself smiling, indulging in the initial overwhelming joy of seeing an aspect of yourself in an unexpected place (often a space that has felt unattainable), and then the complexity of discomfort sets in like a pit in your stomach and you aren’t exactly sure what to make of it./two-simple-truths-about-skincare.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-simple-truths-about-skincare.htmlGlad to be here? Please tap the little ❤️ icon above. It releases a flood of oxytocin in all women 21 and up. Enjoy! Another way you might release a flood of oxytocin: Listen to my interview on the Everything is Fine podcast. The co-hosts Jennifer Romolini and Kim France were exceptionally fun to talk with—and they’re terrific listeners. (The podcast is … ncG1vNJzZmiukaGys7XEpqanqp%2Bae7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2vn2LAqrnPpZxmrKKqwam%2FjJqZqK2kYsCstc2cmKud/are-sea-sponges-safe-to-use-as-natural.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-sea-sponges-safe-to-use-as-natural.htmlIs it okay to use sea sponges for your period? -Via TikTok Short Take No.  Share The Vajenda Go On... Sea sponges are aquatic animals. As filter feeders, water circulates through their pores and channels allowing the sponge to extract oxygen, bacteria and small particles and also to remove waste. When dried for commercial use, sea sponges are very absorbent and unfortunately they are often marketed for menstrual use as a “natural” tampon./at-heart-panaderia-piloncillo-guide.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-heart-panaderia-piloncillo-guide.htmlIf you’ve ever visited a Mexican mercado you may have spotted a cone-shaped sweetener on aisle shelves called piloncillo. Piloncillo, as it is known in Mexico and Spain, is actually just one name for the raw unrefined, minimally processed cane sugar that’s used in countries around the globe. In Colombia, the sweetener is known as panela; in India and other Southeast Asian countries, jaggery.  Much of what you’d read about piloncillo would be in comparison to brown sugar./barbara-fields-on-the-1619-project.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbara-fields-on-the-1619-project.htmlMany of you were introduced to Barbara Fields in connection to Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary, which originally aired on PBS documentary in 1990. A few years ago I read her book, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, which she co-authored with her sister, Karen E. Fields. It’s a challenging read that offers an entirely new way to think about the history of race in America and the language we use to describe it./barbara-mcnair-march-4-1934-february-4-2007.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbara-mcnair-march-4-1934-february-4-2007.htmlView most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare Barbara McNair was a singer and actor with a beautiful voice who toured with Nat King Cole in the late 1950s, signed with Motown in the mid-sixties, and became one of the first Black women to host her own television variety show from 1969-71. Barbara Jean McNair was born and raised in Chicago. She first sang at church services and in school plays./beckys-homecoming.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beckys-homecoming.htmlHello Friends, It's with a heavy heart that I write this post and I am devastated to have to break the news. Becky passed away early Monday morning in her home with her family. I believe everyone knows she has been battling cancer for a few years now. Her passing was very sudden. I know Becky was loved by so many people and she touched so many lives. Words can't describe how much she will be missed./before-jackie-robinson-there-was.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/before-jackie-robinson-there-was.htmlWalker photo credit: National Baseball Hall of FameOn Saturday, April 15, every major league baseball player on every team will wear the number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson on the date he made history by breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947.   I had always assumed that the Black players had been barred from professional baseball going back to its earliest incarnations in the mid 19th century. I thought Robinson was the first African-American to play professional baseball./bengals-all-time-top-5-qbs-the-edge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bengals-all-time-top-5-qbs-the-edge.htmlThe all-time Bengals quarterback list starts out very, very good, and then stays there!  (The following segment is excerpted from a 2022 Football Outsiders article, with some edits for content and length. The 1980 and 1979 DVOA results, now available at FTN Network, don’t change the Anderson Hall of Fame debate much, as those were poor seasons for him. And Randy Gradishar, of course, will finally enter the Hall of Fame in August./news.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/news.htmlSharp China: Big Picture Questions for 2024; Taiwan and the Philippines and Tentative Stability; Our Favorite Memories from 2023Click here for instructions to add the podcast to your preferred player. Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill talk through questions and key areas to watch during the year to come in China. First: A look at the economy a year after the end of dynamic zero covid, including a Bloomberg report on the real estate market and household wealth, MSS warnings about discourse traps, and a corruption crackdown that's likely to continue./betty-rhodes-ode-to-a-joyful-woman.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/betty-rhodes-ode-to-a-joyful-woman.htmlNAPA VALLEY, Calif. — Betty Ruth Vaughn was born in Taft, California, in 1927 to Charles and Harriet Vaughn. Soon after her birth her family moved to Ventura County, where she lived for most of her life. After graduating from Fairfax High in Los Angeles, she attended Los Angeles City College and then returned to Ventura to attend Ventura Junior College. She met and married Thomas Rhodes in 1951 and reared four children./beyonce-presents-map-of-america-on.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonce-presents-map-of-america-on.htmlCan ‘eating at restaurants’ be considered a hobby? Or maybe a marketable skillset! Something I score as ‘proficient’ on my resume. Intermediate, at this point.  My palate is varied, oscillating between satisfying a weekly addiction for Jamaican oxtail, a consistent craving for Korean fried chicken to appreciating the reliable comfort of a simple carbonara. Despite this diversity, upon moving to America I have noticed that my favourite restaurants – regardless of their international dishes – are nested under the vague genre of ‘New American./boketto-the-art-of-doing-nothing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boketto-the-art-of-doing-nothing.htmlAfter a peaceful dinner last Friday night, our toddler wanted to go for a walk. He sat through the entire restaurant meal without a fuss, so this seemed like a fair request. The thing about walking with a toddler, however, is that there is very little walking involved. It’s mostly…meandering. You stop to point at a car. You wave to a stranger in the nail salon. You—oh, look! A stick!/books-to-gift-this-christmas-fiction.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/books-to-gift-this-christmas-fiction.htmlWhilst I appreciate that I am nigh-on impossible to buy books for, others are not. There are times when I tempted to buy nothing but books for friends and family. So herewith the first instalment of my Christmas gift guides. I’ve gone slightly mad and this is the first of several parts. Subscribe here, if you’re already, so you don’t miss a single one! F… ncG1vNJzZmimkamutLTAqWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyju86kqmasn2K0qrLTZquhoaNisKm%2ByKyrppmjYrOqr9Oipqc%3D/braised-beans-with-burrata.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/braised-beans-with-burrata.htmlHello! Welcome back and thank you all for meeting me here in Dinner: A Love Story’s new home on Substack. Look, I made you something! I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to tell you about these beans. Maybe it’s because it’s one of those recipes that’s not really a recipe, which is, of course, the best kind of recipe. Every time I make them, I text someone a photo saying, you have to make these beans./breaking-down-the-final-destination.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-down-the-final-destination.htmlI agree with the gist of this piece that the series is not good and the reclamation project for it is odd—especially for 3, can't grasp why that's the one people most vehemently go to bat for. Love the structural comparison to pornography. But I think 1 is pretty fun. Very much smacks of being a Morgan/Wong X-Files idea retrofitted into post-Scream teen horror. It has some of the best Rube Goldberg kill scenes./buckwheat-pasta-with-buttery-fried.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/buckwheat-pasta-with-buttery-fried.htmlHere, rice and polenta reign, as do hearty cold-weather dishes laced with pork, butter, and cheese. But if you do happen upon some pasta, it might be a dish called pizzoccheri: short buckwheat noodles served with potatoes, cabbage, and a melty Alpine cheese called Valtellina Casera. In other words: Good, stick-to-your-ribs mountain food built on cheap staples and local ingredients. Hop only a couple of countries eastward and you’re suddenly in Hungary, the center of Europe and home to many of my ancestors before they made their way to Ellis Island in 1921./building-a-timeline-for-mad-mens.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/building-a-timeline-for-mad-mens.htmlWhat drew my intial interest to Mad Men was the respect that the show paid to history. I knew that the creative team looked up weather records down to the hour to ensure that they were capturing the 1960s exactly. It wasn’t just about playing the right songs and giving the actresses big hair, there was a duty here to ensuring that what you saw onscreen was the 1960s and not a fantasy vision of the past./the-creative-act-of-business-planning.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-creative-act-of-business-planning.htmlMindset Mastery is a free monthly newsletter about the psychology of small business ownership for freelance creatives from Jenni Gritters. If you’d like to support my work, I invite you to become a paid subscriber for $5/ month! Paid subscribers receive monthly journaling prompts, along with other perks. This is the last week to sign up for my new business coaching program for freelancers living with constraints. It’s called ADAPT and we start April 4th!/buying-an-ipad-pro-for-coding-was.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/buying-an-ipad-pro-for-coding-was.htmlI bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on. It delivered in almost all areas. The #1 reason I started to consider buying an iPad a few years ago was for one thing, and one thing only: to read coding books. I have a kindle and I love it, but for coding books it is terrible. The large color screen especially comes in handy with code snippets as well as for color syntax highlighting./neoteny.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neoteny.htmlAh, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now One of the glories of phase I is that it is so innocent, so open to possibility. I remember learning the idea of neoteny during my Genetics degree - the idea that holding onto youth for as long as we do is one of the things that differentiates humans and their ability to learn for longer. Being nurtured for many more years than our animal competition means more time to develop cognitively before we have to go and do something useful - but in that time, in that safe space, we develop extraordinary abilities./black-seed-bagels-new-york-review.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/black-seed-bagels-new-york-review.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. Why are so many places that make Montreal-style bagels embarrassed to say they make Montreal-style bagels?/carlos-febles-will-not-return-to.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carlos-febles-will-not-return-to.htmlThe Red Sox fired third base/infield coach Carlos Febles, per The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier. Boston also fired pitching coach Dave Bush on Monday afternoon, in an effort to shake up Alex Cora’s coaching staff. As of now, the Sox have not announced replacements for both Bush and Febles, the team has also not decided on addition changes to Cora’s staff, per MassLive’s Chris Cotillo. Febles has been a member of the Red Sox organization since 2007 and part of the major league coaching staff since Nov./thesundaysoother.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thesundaysoother.htmlThe Sunday Soother By Catherine Andrews The Sunday Soother is a community, membership and newsletter for highly sensitive people and empaths about authentic living, ritual and sacredness, compassionate personal growth, and living a more magical life by Catherine Andrews. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0xKysp5yRrsCwu9OhnKs%3D/charlotte-area-mental-health-resources.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charlotte-area-mental-health-resources.htmlYou’re reading The Charlotte Ledger, a digital publication with original local news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. — The following is a list of local mental health services for children who are in crisis or who need more than once- or twice-a-week therapy appointments for mental health conditions.  Support groups for parents are also listed. This list does not include programs that specialize in substance abuse or eating disorders.  Note: This is not a complete list./concert-and-venue-review-cheap-trick.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/concert-and-venue-review-cheap-trick.htmlThank you for spending part of your day with Michael’s Record Collection. Today I thought I’d comment on a show I saw recently from a band I’ve been enjoying since the late 1970s, who played at a brand new concert venue in Clearwater, Florida. Before getting into today’s story, I wanted to share some thoughts on how vital music can be. I spent last weekend with family, traveling from my home in the Orlando suburb of Sanford, Florida, to Charlotte, North Carolina./chef-nancy-silvertons-favorite-la.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chef-nancy-silvertons-favorite-la.htmlThe Relisher is the place where the world’s top chefs reveal their favorite spots in their home cities. This week, we spoke with James Beard award-winning chef, Nancy Silverton, the chef and co-owner of Mozza Group, consisting of over 8 restaurants including Michelin-starred Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles. In addition to Chef Nancy's legendary restaurant portfolio, she has authored 11 cookbooks, was featured in an episode of the acclaimed Netflix series "/learn-the-lesson-chelsea-need-leaders.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/learn-the-lesson-chelsea-need-leaders.htmlWe’re coming towards the final month of the season now, so plans for next season will now being firmed up. The semi-final defeat against Manchester City finally clarified things for me in terms of what the club need to do this summer in the market.  A few weeks ago I shared what I’d do this summer, but this has changed a little in the intervening time. I’m even more convinced now than ever that we need to bring some proven quality this summer./citys-master-parks-plan-proposes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/citys-master-parks-plan-proposes.htmlby Adele Uphaus MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Fredericksburg's Alum Spring Park is a natural fun land for children and families. It's shaded by mature trees and cooled by the waters of Hazel Run, and it has trails to explore and giant rocks for climbing on - as well as smooth, round ones that are perfect for practicing stone skipping. In addition, it's a place of cultural and historic significance, with evidence of pre-contact Native American presence and THE potential for Civil War "/civil-war-the-movie-is-a-blunt-object.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/civil-war-the-movie-is-a-blunt-object.htmlThere is a sparseness to Alex Garland’s new movie, Civil War. The film feels like a blunt object. It is brutal, harrowing. It bludgeons the viewer with a single, message: it could happen here. It is a very good movie. The film has attracted a fair amount of criticism for what it doesn’t do. There is a complete lack of political worldbuilding in the movie. It is set in the near future, in a United States that is not quite ours./clearly-i-mr-potter-the-wealthy-banker.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clearly-i-mr-potter-the-wealthy-banker.htmlI’ve been trying to write about the writer’s strike for a while now but I hadn’t found the right angle. I’m not a member of the WGA, but I hope to be someday and I’m proud of the writers for taking this stand, which I know hasn’t been easy, but which I hope will ensure that writing remains a viable career, or even a job at all. I figured that, as someone who has written an entire book about movies, it would make sense to satirize the movie industry using a movie, but I wasn’t sure which one./notable-the-golden-bachelor-did-what.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notable-the-golden-bachelor-did-what.htmlExcellent summation of the show. I did want to mention that I’ve heard several people say that Gerry claimed he hadn’t been with anyone since his wife. I don’t actually recall him saying that, I think he may have just said that he hadn’t been in love since his wife? And then maybe people assumed the rest? He seemed willing to kiss women the first night he met them, so definitely not a shrinking violet from the start./the-week-ahead-5f0.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-week-ahead-5f0.htmlSusan, as a fellow senior, I totally understand your frustration. Sometimes, when I'm watching "Law and Order," I get really ticked off at the outcome, especially when the defendant gets on my nerves. When I turn off the TV later on, I might still be upset about the way it went, but I ultimately get over it. That's because I know it's fiction. Watching and hearing about all the crap (sorry, but I can't help it) that over and over and over again proves that Lady Justice could CARE LESS about anything, especially when someone tips one side of the scale a little./cornucopiac-caroline-polacheks-invented.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cornucopiac-caroline-polacheks-invented.htmlThis might be a weird admission, but I always thought Caroline Polachek was super tall. This probably has something to do with the persona she cultivates in her music videos — poised, graceful, and elegantly intimidating. But when I saw her perform live last weekend, the opposite seemed true — The set for her tour is massive and imposing: a huge, makeshift mountain that looms over the popstar as her soaring voice sets sail./cradle-swapping.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cradle-swapping.htmlWell! We are doing this again! Today’s edition of Don't Threaten Me With a Good Lifetime covers CRADLE SWAPPING, a tale of swapped cradles and upper-middle-class people taking advantage of poor people. (Quick content warning: opiate abuse gets talked about here. I’m gonna tell you up front though: all the babies are gonna be okay.) CRADLE SWAPPING opens with a shot of a ramshackle house in a windswept hellscape, but actually inside the house, it is fine./cranberry-sauce.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cranberry-sauce.htmlI have all the Thanksgiving recipes you could ever wish for at my Thanksgiving Round-Up here at my site. I leave these recipes on my site up year round because I don’t want the holiday meals be the reason you get off track. I’ve never done a cranberry sauce before now because I personally was never attached to this element of the meal. But here I am, making a cranberry sauce…a different kind of sauce./edition-27.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edition-27.htmlWelcome to the first Metric Stack Newsletter of 2022! I’m Priyaanka Arora, your personal metric assistant. It’s my job to take you through a new metric each week, accompanied by industry trends and the latest benchmarks. Remember how it works? One (or two) metrics, definitions & formulas, benchmarks, and tips to maximize the potential of your data. Ready for the ride? Let’s start #MetricStack2022 with some good old email marketing metrics:/the-strawberry-stand-on-silverado.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-strawberry-stand-on-silverado.html“The Silverado Trail strawberry stand is open,” a friend emailed me earlier this year. “Summer is coming.” He is not the only one in the valley who waits for the banners to go up, announcing strawberries are in at the Saetern Family Farm on the Silverado Trail, just beyond the intersection where Trancas Street turns into Monticello Road. Mouang Saetern opened the stand 23 years ago, and on a busy Sunday afternoon, as cars were pulling in and out of the parking spaces to claim their fresh berries, she took time to talk about her idea and how it grew./danny-tanner-was-cuter-than-uncle.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/danny-tanner-was-cuter-than-uncle.htmlOne of my favorite parts of having kids is when you can start introducing them to the books and movies you liked as a child. My six-year-old brought home a Babysitters Club book from the school library a few weeks ago and while my first reaction was “wait, you’re six, are you even going to understand this?” my heart also sang with excitement, because how thrilling it is to finally be able to discuss important topics in 80s pop culture—by which I mean Claudia Kishi keeping junk food under her bed—with my kid!/notebook-davis-lomachenko-open-negotiations.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-davis-lomachenko-open-negotiations.htmlA note to Fight Freaks Unite readers: I created Fight Freaks Unite in January 2021 and eight months later it also became available for paid subscriptions for additional content — and as a way to help keep this newsletter going and for readers to support independent journalism. If you haven’t upgraded to a paid subscription please consider it. If you have already, I truly appreciate it! Also, consider a gift subscription for the Fight Freak in your life./book-excerpt-death-row-welcomes-you.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-excerpt-death-row-welcomes-you.htmlSteven Hale is one of the finest journalists here in Nashville. I mean, he’s one of the finest journalists in the country. He just happens to live and cover Nashville. (Disclosure: He’s also a friend.) He now works for the new publication the Nashville Banner, but for many years he wrote for our local alt weekly, the Scene. Like many red states, Tennessee has in recent years throttled up its machinery of death./desert-island-movies-and-live-fire.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/desert-island-movies-and-live-fire.htmlA colleague and friend recently proffered this revelatory thought-starter: If you were stranded on a desert island, what three dried spices would you want to have stocked in endless supply? Salt has humanely been included, but pepper has not. Everyone’s responses were fascinating. Z. chose cumin, chili peppers, and oregano. My brother went with Korean chili, ginger, and garlic powders. My answer—black pepper, red pepper, and saffron—evinced staid practicality punctuated by sheer indulgence, which is, coincidentally, how I’d describe the fool-proof foundations of an elite wardrobe, though regrettably not mine./developer-rolls-the-dice-on-massive.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/developer-rolls-the-dice-on-massive.html🚨 🚨 NOTE: This newsletter is an April Fools’ Day edition — do not assume anything in it is real (except property tax values)! It was originally published on April 1, 2023, without this disclaimer. — Good morning! Today is Saturday, April 1, 2023. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger’s Weekend Edition. Need to subscribe — or upgrade your Ledger e-newsletter subscription? Details here. Levine Properties is proposing a 600-room hotel and casino project on vacant land uptown, which could jump start development in the North Tryon corridor./disturbing-and-misleading-efforts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disturbing-and-misleading-efforts.htmlLet it not be said that Sam Altman doesn’t have his admirers. At least two proxies have gone after Helen Toner, one (by a pair of prominent authors, both on OpenAI’s board) in The Economist, highbrow, one low (a post on X that got around 200,000 views). Both read to me as deeply misleading, verging on defamatory. The lowbrow attack comes from an anonymous poster; in my view it is wrong on every point but not worth wasting a lot of time on./diy-apple-cider-vinegar.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/diy-apple-cider-vinegar.htmlOriginally published October 2018Before you say anything, I'm two steps ahead of you, listening to Michael's laughter echo through the chambers of my mind. I know, who in their right mind makes apple cider vinegar when you can buy a jug of it for a few bucks at the grocery story? Well, the brief answer is me. One day Michael smirked at me, and said, "when you are going to make your own water?/dreaming-of-france-dreux.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dreaming-of-france-dreux.htmlDreux is a located in theEure-et-Loir department within the Centre-Val de Loire region. Sitting about 50 minutes west of Paris, it made for a perfect getaway for us, including a lovely hike along the Eure River, a stroll around Dreux’s historic city center, and then a decadent lunch at a local bistro. The Eure-et-Loir department is intensely rural and wooded, with a wide selection of trails for hiking and biking./eat-butter-like-cheese.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eat-butter-like-cheese.htmlThe world outside is covered in snow and ice, and I’m sitting bundled in two sweatshirts and wool socks on cup of Earl Grey number five, so it feels like the right time to talk about the ingredient that was made for days like these. Butter. I’ve been subconsciously writing this piece in the back of my mind since the first week of Bite into this, when lots of friends asked if I’d started this newsletter so I could finally talk about butter without someone rolling their eyes./edward-j-debartolo-sr-the-san-francisco.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/edward-j-debartolo-sr-the-san-francisco.html     Tonight—Sunday, January 28, 2024—the San Francisco 49ers will play the Detroit Lions for the NFL’s NFC Championship.       Going back in history, above is a chart from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), focusing on Edward J. DeBartolo Sr's ties to major Mafia figures, as well as to organized-crime associates and activities. . . . I de… ncG1vNJzZmiln5e8rbvGsmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXymsNaaqZ1lmmKxpq7Aq6uopJ9iwLN506GcZquRo3qnvsCnmqKrk6Q%3D/eggplant-rolls.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eggplant-rolls.htmlWelcome to To Vegetables, With Love, a celebration of a vegetable life, less ordinary. Every week, I share a new recipe, along with links to recipes online and news. Free subscribers will receive one free original recipe every month (usually the first week). Paid subscribers get a free original recipe every week, plus access to all my recipe archives. If you would like to see your subscription options, click the link below./egyptian-obelisks-in-rome.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/egyptian-obelisks-in-rome.htmlRome is such a historical jumble. The street I live on dates back thousands of years. At the end of it, there is a tower from the 16th century that sits on top of the remains of the Foro della Pace from 858. Walk a little further and there is the Vittoriano, the massive white monument that was built in 1885. There are Renaissance palaces and Baroque churches, Fascist/rationalist palazzos, and the occasional mid-century condominium./elena-knows-by-claudia-pineiro.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elena-knows-by-claudia-pineiro.htmlClaudia Piñeiro’s Elena Knows, translated by Frances Riddle, is beautiful and devastating. Those are the same words I used to describe Daisy Hildyard’s The Second Body; I’ve somehow been picking up books that reach me in a particularly emotional way, and I’m not sure I like it. Stop making me feel things, literature! It’s painful! The Elena of the novel’s title is a woman in her 60s whose daughter, Rita, has recently died./elie-wiesel-on-indifference-a-child.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/elie-wiesel-on-indifference-a-child.htmlThis is the 150th issue of my newsletter and I’m feeling anything but celebratory. Sorrow, apprehension, and dread is more like it. My sole subject today is the Israel-Hamas war — not the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, divergent historical narratives, or the toxic discourse around “apartheid,” “settler colonialism,” etc. I’m fixated on the littlest and least powerful Palestinians, and the largest, most commanding Jewish imperatives. Years ago, Elie Wiesel, perhaps the world’s pre-eminent Holocaust survivor, uttered words that echo now with stark urgency:/episode-80-audio-jordan-peterson.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-80-audio-jordan-peterson.htmlIn an episode months in the making, Krystal Kyle & Friends’s Kyle Kulinski is joined by psychologist and political commentator Dr. Jordan Peterson. For Kyle, it’s the “perfect situation” of getting to speak with someone whose work in psychology and philosophy has been particularly interesting to him — but who differs from him significantly on most political issues. They’re here for a back-and-forth on everything from Twitter controversies to Trump, economics, liberal versus conservative mindsets, and interpreting the results of Kyle’s personality quiz./the-importance-of-being-ernest-part-cea.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-importance-of-being-ernest-part-cea.htmlJ0th, 1994 was a magical day for the good people of Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky. No one could possibly have known at the time, other than anyone familiar with the series’ dwindling box-office grosses, that that fateful day would mark the very final time a fella would be able to say to his gal, “What say you and me have a kissing date in the balcony of the theater showing the newest Ernest P./erynsunnolia.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/erynsunnolia.htmlEryn SunnoliaEryn Sunnolia (she/they) is a queer writer living in Philly. Their writing has appeared in Electric Literature, HuffPost, Well+Good, and others. She also likes making quilts. You can find them at erynsunnolia.com or joynotes.substack.com. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaa%2B2KeqrqaepLmqrQ%3D%3D/european-influenced-dewolf-brewing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/european-influenced-dewolf-brewing.htmlThe region’s newest brewery has roots in Spain. No, seriously. Justin DeWolf, a Phelps native, lived in Barcelona for a number of years, started the first homebrewing club there, and is bringing a bit of that Catalonian flair and influence to his under-construction Victor brewery. DeWolf Brewing, which is on track to open in late 2024 or early 2025, will feature a Spanish-influenced food menu, a bright, airy ambiance, and a focus on fresh, local lager to its historic spot at 60 Maple Ave./every-i-think-you-should-leave-season.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-i-think-you-should-leave-season.htmlHello! Apologies on the REPLY ALT lag lately but folks… I have gotten myself in way over my head here. You’d think the hardest part about writing a book would be… you know, writing the book. But no. It’s actually the thousand and one things you have to worry about after that—the jacket copy, the audiobook, press, merch, events, etc. And on top of that, I thought to myself hmmmm you know what I should do in the middle of all this is release a second book./everything-you-want-to-know-about-00d.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-you-want-to-know-about-00d.htmlI’ve been fielding a lot of direct messages about Mazzy’s upcoming Bat Mitzvah (it’s tomorrow!!!), so I thought I’d answer some of the most frequently asked questions. But first I have to point out that the questions are kind of hilarious in their breadth. I’ve got a lot of Jewish followers who have been to way more Bar and Bat Mitzvahs than I have, and then I’ve got a fair share of followers who grew up in places where their only relationship to Judaism was Monica and Ross Geller, and are asking questions like, “What’s a Bat Mitzvah?/expecting-patrick-mahomes-career.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/expecting-patrick-mahomes-career.htmlIf ever there was a doubt that Patrick Mahomes is capable of raising his game and doing whatever he needs to, whenever he needs to, those notions have been erased in the 2023-24 NFL postseason. As wrote after Mahomes’ Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens (and their top-ranked defense) in the AFC title game, the Kansas City QB is forging a remarkable playoff legacy by performing at his best when the lights shine brightest./facing-facing-reality.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/facing-facing-reality.htmlIn this excerpt from my latest conversation with John, we discuss Charles Murray’s latest book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America. (You can watch my recent discussion with Charles here.) John is more critical of the book than I am, though I share some of his concerns. For John, Murray’s citation of evidence of racial disparities in IQ tests is so convincing as to be incontrovertible. But when Murray offers suggestions about what to do with this information, John finds him less enlightening./fatal-flaws.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fatal-flaws.htmlRemember the hero's journey from tenth-grade English class? - When the main character embarks on a quest to save the world, yet they have one thing that holds them back - their fatal flaw. Often the biggest conflicts in the most gut-wrenching stories aren't the monsters that come their way but the conflict the main character has with themselves. Really a "you vs you" moment. It's the internal conflict that draws us to stories like a magnet - where we can see glimpses of ourselves in the main characters./fathers-day-blueberry-cherry-pie-22-06-17.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fathers-day-blueberry-cherry-pie-22-06-17.htmlHello! Hello! And a Happy Father’s Day to all who are celebrating – or being celebrated. For all of you, I’m proposing pie! Maybe not the traditional Pop’s Day dish – is there one? – but a good one, and a recipe that means a lot to me. The first time I made this pie was in 2020. On that Father’s Day, Michael and I were in our house in Connecticut, and so were Joshua and Linling, who was pregnant with the baby who, a couple of months later, would become the fabulous Gemma./best-wedding-movies-favorite-wedding-shows.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-wedding-movies-favorite-wedding-shows.htmlI hosted an event for paid subscribers last week! I wrote a recap here, and office magazine covered it too.Maybe it’s because Melancholia came to mind in a post a few months ago, or maybe it’s because I had nine weddings last year (!) and have six this year — I have weddings on the brain. Watching your friends get married is so lovely; watching the way some random plus one can embarrass himself is divine./finally-seen-by-kelly-yang.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finally-seen-by-kelly-yang.htmlAs I announced in March, once a month between now and October 2023, Dana Gaskin Wenig will take my place in your inbox and share her own extensive knowledge of, experience with, insight into, and love of children’s literature. She kicked things off with an excellent introductory post about the Moomins and the adventure of everyday life, which you should read, right this very moment, if you haven’t already./finding-your-fun-magnets-and-fun.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finding-your-fun-magnets-and-fun.htmlAudio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Happy Wednesday, everyone! So, in the last installment of our funtervention, I proposed that we adopt a new definition of fun—namely, that it’s the combination of playfulness, connection and flow. Not only do I think that this definition more accurately captures the feeling of fun than the traditional definition (i.e. that fun is simply “lighthearted pleasure or enjoyment”), but I believe that it corrects some of the misperceptions we have about fun./five-spring-pastas.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-spring-pastas.htmlMonday, April 25, 2022 Good morning! We just got back from a week in Delray, Florida for the kids’ spring break. Sun! Beach! Breeze! Diners! This was a much-needed summer preview and I returned missing cooking very much, and eager to dive back in. I absolutely love it when this happens, especially when it overlaps with much-awaited spring produce showing up at the market. Here are a few pastas that use what’s fresh and new right now, plus my favorite way to eat asparagus, two years and counting, a beloved family coffee cake that makes all weeks better, and so much more./fluid-intelligence-vs-crystallized.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fluid-intelligence-vs-crystallized.htmlAre you afraid of getting older? The thought of declining health and mental agility, and being outpaced by the younger generations can be daunting. But is it all doom and gloom? Not necessarily. As we age, we gain something that the younger generations often lack - wisdom. It's the result of the paradox of intelligence. In this blog, we'll look into this paradox to better understand the difference between youth and age, and explore ways we can prepare for the future./foods-from-the-forest.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/foods-from-the-forest.htmlHere in the northwest it has been a stunning and chilly start to spring. Unsurprisingly there has been plenty of rain to feed the new growth and soften the soil for planting. The longer sunlit days are awakening the earth and helping the forests teem with life and delicious wild ingredients making my spring cooking verdant and exciting.  Before I get into a few of my favorite spring foraged goods let’s talk about two important ideas in foraging./fooocus-on-ai-art.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fooocus-on-ai-art.htmlThe other night, as we were playing Shanghai Rummy with friends, my daughter kept shouting out, “Mom, focus!” The funny thing was, that the reasons I was less than focused on the game (I always lose this game anyway, so I’m not sure why my focusing was an issue), because I was showing our friends the program Fooocus. Yep. That’s it’s name. Three ooos. No idea why. Fooocus, for those who have not encountered it, is a free, downloadable, Art AI you can run in your own livingroom./1272805-ford-fischer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1272805-ford-fischer.htmlRacket News By Matt Taibbi News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kvbO7xaKjnmdhZ4RzhI9uZJ%2Bnopl6p7XSnJ%2Beqg%3D%3D/fontaines-dc-gentrification-and-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fontaines-dc-gentrification-and-the.htmlIrishness is an industry. Visit any major city on this island and you will see it yourself. In Dublin there is a famous chain of souvenir shops called 'Carroll’s Irish Gifts'. It’s impossible to walk 200 meters in the city without spotting one, there are ten of them in the city centre alone. These establishments are decorated with all the usual tat, “Kiss Me I’m Irish”, Guinness Fridge Magnets, Ireland Rugby Shirts, all the hits./geoffrey-boycott-and-the-structure.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/geoffrey-boycott-and-the-structure.htmlGeoffrey Boycott has a column in the Daily Telegraph. It's one of the few things left he is allowed to do. The BBC finally distanced from him. Though they did so years after his Domestic Violence conviction in France. And they even kept him on even after he said he would need to blackface to get a knighthood. In this column - from what they call in the UK a paper of record - is this line "/getting-hygge-with-the-pioneer-of.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/getting-hygge-with-the-pioneer-of.htmlWelcome to Embedded, your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. “Get Embedded” on Twitter and Instagram. 🧩 Today, I’m speaking with the creator behind Cozy Games. I wouldn’t say I'm into gaming, but I saw her videos on TikTok and immediately followed. I like how she’s defining a more inclusive, charming, cottagecore-oriented type of “gamer” than the stereotypical cis-male streamer. Enjoy! —Kate/getting-started-in-physical-penetration.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/getting-started-in-physical-penetration.htmlPhysical penetration testing is a crucial element in assessing and improving the security posture of any organization. Often likened to its digital counterpart, cyber penetration testing, physical penetration testing requires a meticulous approach to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in a building or organization's physical security. But before embarking on a covert mission, one must understand the importance of conducting thorough physical security audits. This blog post aims to guide budding physical penetration testers on how to start in this field, emphasizing the necessity of security audits as a foundation for successful penetration testing./fsu-football-give-josh-storms-his.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fsu-football-give-josh-storms-his.htmlIt is no secret that Florida State had quite a few NFL-caliber players on their 2023 roster. From known quantities like Jared Verse to less heralded players like Renardo Green, every draft eligible player for the Seminoles aimed to make what would likely be their last season in the Garnet and Gold count. They followed through with Florida State’s best season in ten years. Now those same players are testing at the NFL Combine, and they are blowing the scouts and NFL fans away./glazed-tangerine-pound-cake.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glazed-tangerine-pound-cake.htmlHi everyone, Keeping it short and sweet for this last post of 2023, with the long-promised recipe for a tangerine pound cake that’s bound to make the last few days of your year extra-sweet. This recipe is adapted from the Franny’s cookbook Franny's: Simple, Seasonal, Italian, which was co-authored by Melissa Clark, which is how you know it’s quality stuff. I bought this book ten years ago when it first came out, when the charming pizza and pasta spot (and birthplace of the kale salad as we know it) was still open in my old neighborhood of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn./gowns-by-irene.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gowns-by-irene.htmlThe Siren hasn’t been around as much as she should, so here are a few words and a handful of images dedicated to someone she very much admires: Irene Maud Lentz, credited as "Irene" during her career as one of Hollywood's great costume designers. She was born this day, December 8, in 1901, in Montana. (Irene once told her friend Doris Day that she had been in love with fellow Montanan Gary Cooper for many years, but any lasting relationship was not to be./friday-donuts-green-day-has-a-new.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friday-donuts-green-day-has-a-new.htmlSome quick thoughts on Green Day’s new album, “Saviors,” before we get into the song-by-song analysis. This is the most complete record they’ve put out since 2009’s “21st Century Breakdown,” surpassing 2016’s Revolution Radio. A lot of the themes are the same (a critical look at society, government, politics, social media, drug use) but there are very few low moments or throwaway songs. I could have cut three songs off RevRad and not missed them./guy-ritchies-the-covenant-review.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guy-ritchies-the-covenant-review.htmlLet’s get the smirking and snickering about the title of Guy Ritchie’s new movie, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, out of the way, so we can set that aside and move on. Okay, we good? Whatever the reasoning was for that odd title decision, it’s still far better than (this is a real movie title), Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, which is very likely to end up on my Terrible 15 list if I write one this year./happy-national-pizza-day.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-national-pizza-day.htmlHi there! Happy National Pizza Day! I was alerted last week that National Pizza Day was February 9th. Why that day? Hard to say, but shouldn’t we celebrate and honor the spirit of pizza every day of the year? The way the hot, warm disc brings together friends and family. How the molten, gloopy cheese incite conversations, passion and silent, bloated, introspection. I ate pizza for seven days straight leading up to this./holly-by-stephen-king.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/holly-by-stephen-king.htmlI’ve been reading a lot this week. Not the usual shower of shit. Twitter lists, Facebook drama, clickbait on the Apple News reader. Nope. I got me the new Stephen King and I am, of course, loving it. My Netflix stack o’ shame grows every day while I progress through Holly, the King’s latest horror/crime mash up. Mostly crime but. There’s no supernatural element to the story in Holly. The book follows on from his previous crime outings Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch and The Outsider./hot-take-on-openais-new-gpt-4o.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hot-take-on-openais-new-gpt-4o.htmlGPT-4o hot take: • The speech synthesis is terrific, reminds me of Google Duplex (which never took off). but • If OpenAI had GPT-5, they have would shown it. • They don’t have GPT-5 after 14 months of trying. • The most important figure in the blogpost is attached below. And the most important thing about the figure is that 4o is not a lot different from Turbo, which is not hugely different from 4./how-do-i-survive-small-talk.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-do-i-survive-small-talk.htmlReader Josie M. asks: I started a new job and I need to talk to LOTS of new people. These are coworkers I want to bond with, but I’m having trouble connecting, especially since most conversations are short. I don’t want to come off as too intense, or ask intrusive questions - but, when I stick to small talk, it gets boring quick. Is there an easy way to quickly connect?/usability-heuristics-history.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/usability-heuristics-history.htmlSummary: Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of the use of a much larger set of usability principles to explain a database of usability problems in development projects. The 10 heuristics in the final list from 1994 had the greatest explanatory power in this analysis, which is why they are still useful today. 2024 marks the 30-year anniversary of the 10 usability heuristics. (See the infographic at the end of this article for a summary of the heuristics, if you can’t recall them./youre-stuck-with-me-how-scott-drew.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/youre-stuck-with-me-how-scott-drew.htmlOn the evening of Sunday, April 7, Baylor coach Scott Drew was sitting on an airplane in Phoenix, site of the Final Four, waiting to take off for home. He scrolled through Twitter on his phone and came across reports that Kentucky coach John Calipari was on the verge of becoming the new head coach at Arkansas. Just two days before, Drew had been counseling his former assistant, Jerome Tang, who just finished his second season at Kansas State, about whether he should take that same job./we-need-to-talk-how-to-build-a-floor.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-need-to-talk-how-to-build-a-floor.htmlGreetings from Jerusalem, My country is still at war, and I still don't have much time to write regularly, but I wanted to share some thoughts with you. I recently visited Shanghai and Beijing with my colleagues from the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Israel-China Policy Center, INSS. It was the first time I went since COVID-19, and we had the opportunity to meet with prominent academics and think-tankers specializing in Middle Eastern studies./how-to-change-git-default-branch.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-change-git-default-branch.htmlHey there! I’m Srebalaji. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to level up your game in Git. Recently, there are many suggestions about renaming the default branch master to some other name. This was mainly due to the master-slave metaphor that some people are talking about. There is evidence that states it was intended to mention master-copy or master recording. And it is not intended to master-slave./diy-rose-petal-face-mask.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/diy-rose-petal-face-mask.htmlAs discussed in previous newsletters: The celebrities need to be stopped. Kate Hudson has a passion for products. The skincare industry is out of its mind. All three points were highlighted, circled, and underlined in “Kate Hudson’s Absurd Empire,” a recent article from fashion journalist Amy Odell (you really should subscribe to her newsletter, Back Row) that delves into the growing, Goopian “wellness” operation of Hollywood’s bubbliest nepotism baby./how-to-get-dressed-with-the-legendary.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-get-dressed-with-the-legendary.htmlThe world’s greatest obstetrician (delivered my twins vaginally, with nary a single stitch to show for it) is also the most aggressive Real Real hunter and her name is Dr. Isabel Blumberg. Not once have I had a pap smear in the last 5 years without recognizing at least one archival Jil Sander or Philo-era Celine piece on her. And how many patients get to send texts like this to their OBs?/how-to-mark-apple-text-messages-unread.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-mark-apple-text-messages-unread.htmlThis is a short note with a couple of iMessage tech tips. If you have an iPhone and you suffer from not being able to reply to all your messages, this is for you. There are a few features of Apple iMessage that make organizing text threads a bit easier—here’s the secret to marking messages as unread, pinning your favorite chats, muting the noisiest thre… ncG1vNJzZmirpJa%2FtcHPqZirnZ6pe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqGnp2LBsHnMmqmkZZGlva2xjK2csaxdorK0v8CgnKxlpaO%2Fpq3D/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-police.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-police.htmlSome of you may have noticed that today’s newsletter is a little late, and that’s because I needed some time to report this one out. I’ve been angry and heartbroken since the video of Tyre Nichols’s murder was released on Friday, and over the weekend, I talked to both my kids about what happened. The conversation was hard for many reasons, but as I’ve written here before (and in my book), it’s crucial that we talk to kids about racism and oppression and everything that happens in the world because of it./how-to-title-a-poem.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-title-a-poem.htmlFor a long time, I’ve found titles to be one of the most mysterious parts of the poetry process. It’s easy to craft a title that feels like a throwaway or simply redundant. Some of the titles I’ve invented work like labels; they don’t actually add new elements. In my recent study of the topic in preparation for the online class I’m facilitating on March 5th, I’ve started thinking about the different roles titles can fulfill./how-to-walk-12-miles-a-day.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-walk-12-miles-a-day.htmlIn Why I Walk I argued for taking long seemingly pointless walks, sometimes up to twenty miles a day. To learn. That is something I been doing most of my life, mostly on weekends, but over the last two years I’ve been more consistent, walking about twelve miles a day, and doing twenty mile walks a few times a month. I have gotten a lot of questions about tips I have learned from doing that./how-to-write-a-deal-memo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-write-a-deal-memo.htmlThe deal memo is an essential document for venture capitalists when considering an investment deal. Typically, after hearing a pitch, a VC will put together a memo to document their thought process around the deal. This document is vital for several reasons: It provides an opportunity for the VC to think critically about the investment and put their thoughts down in a living document. It helps the firm understand that partner's perspective on the deal and can also serve as a template for all investments./spotify-radio-playlist-algorithmic.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spotify-radio-playlist-algorithmic.htmlYou write great music. You have a good pace of releasing new music. You are doing your promo pitch just in time to increase your shots of getting into Spotify’s editorial playlists. You’re submitting your music to independent playlisters. Yet nothing happens. A few thousand streams, mainly connected with your promo efforts. No retention in monthly listeners, only a handful of followers and organic playlist adds. And then, at some point, magic happens./i-am-leaving-us-chess.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-am-leaving-us-chess.htmlI have resigned from US Chess and as of Sept 7, will no longer serve as director of the US Chess Women’s Program that I started four years ago. Prior to my work with US Chess Women, I launched US Chess’s online magazine, CLO, where I wrote, edited, and assigned many hundreds of chess-related articles.  I chaired the organizing committee for the first five and hosted the first ten US Championships and US Women’s Championships held in St./im-leaving-la-for-a-few-months.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-leaving-la-for-a-few-months.htmlI started this Substack a while ago and then stopped for reasons I can’t quite explain. I got depressed there for a little while, that’s for sure. Got busy with paid writing gigs. Got the itch to make pasta again. Tears of The Kingdom came out. Dated somebody who vaped constantly. Got lost at the Ross Dress for Less on Western and Hollywood (it’s a lot easier than you think). Truthfully, though, the main reason I stopped is that I ate a real big sandwich back in March and simply haven’t recovered./miyamoto-musashi-if-you-know-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miyamoto-musashi-if-you-know-the.htmlMiyamoto Musashi (1582-1645) is the most famous Samurai who ever lived. He triumphed in more than 60 sword duels in his life, many of which ended in the death of his opponent. He was an unparalleled master of Bushido, the ancient code of the Japanese warrior.  While he dedicated his life to “the art of the sword,” he also is considered by many to be a master of painting, gardening, dance, philosophy, strategy, and writing./in-memory-of-debra-byrd-1951-2024.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memory-of-debra-byrd-1951-2024.htmlThe last week has been non-stop—and I wasn’t able to get a newsletter or a podcast episode together. And then on Tuesday, I learned, along with the rest of the world, that Debra Byrd had died. When I was a child, my first lessons in harmony came from the southern gospel trio The Rambos and Barry Manilow’s backing group, Lady Flash, a trio comprised of Reparata Mazzola, Monica Burrus (now Pegé) and Debra Byrd./in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-b86.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-b86.htmlApril 11, 2024 Former NFL star O.J. Simpson has died at age 76 after a battle with cancer, his family have confirmed. Simpson had reportedly been battling prostate cancer and earlier this year had shut down reports he was in a hospice via one of his final social media videos, claiming ‘all was well’. “On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer,” his family wrote in a statement on his X account, formerly known as Twitter./in-sicily-women-are-more-dangerous.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-sicily-women-are-more-dangerous.html‘When I first interviewed a criminal...we talked about The Godfather.’ Dr. Felia Allum knows a bit more about the Italian mafia than most of us. She’s a senior lecturer in Italian and Politics, with a specialism in women and organised crime, and in her role as an academic she has extensively interviewed ex-criminals, law enforcement, and anti-mafia prosecutors for years, which makes her a pretty incredible authority on the topic -- and is also how she ended up screening a mini film-festival all about it./indian-land-goodwill-to-open-next.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/indian-land-goodwill-to-open-next.htmlFebruary 16, 2022 | Wilson Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont will host a grand opening of its newest retail store in Indian Land on Friday, February 25. The new building is located off of Hwy 521 across from the Indian Land Schools and next to the Rec Center that is currently undergoing renovations. The 7,000 square foot building features a donation drive-thru. The store will celebrate its ribbon cutting at 9:45 a./interview-jake-smith-of-crucifix.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-jake-smith-of-crucifix.htmlPhoto courtesy of Jake SmithPardon me for feeding into the grim collective unconscious taking over this dirt clod, but I have been really mulling on the music of San Francisco peace-punks Crucifix for the past few weeks. Now, that’s not to say there isn’t a day where the absolute bodaciousness of songs like “Blind Destruction” or “Steelcase Enclosure” don’t cross my mind, because they sure as shit do. Yet, as the apocalyptic visions they caste into my eyes and ears as a middle-schooler become more concrete, I can’t help but squeeze myself deeper into their monstrous sound and find solace in its’ roar./introducing-the-infernal-machine.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-the-infernal-machine.htmlJust a few days ago, I sent my editor the second draft of my next book, The Infernal Machine, coming out sometime in the spring of 2024. We don’t have a subtitle or a design yet, but we do have a first version of what will probably become the jacket copy, and so I figured you all should be among the very first to read it. The Infernal Machine is a project that I’ve been working on for about four years now, dating back to when I was putting the finishing touches on Enemy Of All Mankind, my account of the pirate Henry Every and the clash between the nascent East India Company and the Grand Mughal Aurangzeb, a conflict triggered by Every’s brutal crimes in the Indian Ocean./invisible-scam-percival-everetts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/invisible-scam-percival-everetts.htmlPercival Everett is an experimental novelist and an English professor at the University of Southern California. Erasure is his thirteenth book of fiction. He has bounced from a major New York publisher in 1983, when he was a promising young African American writer, to small houses and university presses, his face glowering from his book covers more unhappily every time. He’s never fit. Often you can’t tell if his characters are black or white./is-columbia-records-the-best-record.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-columbia-records-the-best-record.html📻 Hello, thanks for tuning in. Today’s edition of Arpeggio is divided into two parts: quick profiles of music executives and established artists signed to Columbia Records, including their recent releases. Enjoy! For an updated list of music from rising artists signed to Columbia, check out the playlist below. Columbia Records: Weekly Mix The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by a group of investors and Edward Easton. The name is derived from the original headquarters located in the district of Columbia./worlds-best-tequila.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worlds-best-tequila.htmlAs someone who has created a number of “best of” lists, I can tell you they are subjective at best. Who is to say this restaurant or that bar is really better than the one down the street? Sure, there’s criteria that goes into picking a top 10 or 17 or whatever number list, but it also comes down to taste, popularity, and… ncG1vNJzZmiZop6vprrDnqmso6ljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqiqnJnAbq7ErKtmrJWmwqq4wA%3D%3D/issue-34-jonathan-lethems-not-quite.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-34-jonathan-lethems-not-quite.htmlJonathan Lethem is the only novelist I can think of—although I could, erroneously, imagine others—who cites among his influences both Philip K. Dick and Barbara Pym. These names may seem at odds. Dick wrote science-fiction about paranoia and technology. Pym, mid-century comedies about the British middle-classes. But Pym was a secret modernist, and you could argue that Dick’s dystopias are satires of social anxiety. And Lethem—author of thirteen novels and counting, not to mention numerous short story collections and non-fiction books—is adept at turning genres and influences inside-out./its-new-to-me-fatal-labyrinth.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-fatal-labyrinth.htmlThis column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. In 1991, when Fatal Labyrinth was given a makeover and a North American release on the Sega Genesis, the term “roguelike” didn’t exist yet./its-okay-to-be-silly-an-interview.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-okay-to-be-silly-an-interview.htmlThree months ago, I decided I’d become an art critic. I was reading Dean Kissick’s Spikecolumn and What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics; I was chugging my former colleague Nate Freeman’s “Wet Paint” gossip column and checking out what Schjeldahl and Hilton Als had to say in my girlfriend’s barely touched New Yorker back issues. I went to a show and promised to write about it./jagun-jagun-masterclass-climaxes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jagun-jagun-masterclass-climaxes.htmlI have been a fan of Femi Adebayo for a long time and every time comparison comes up between who’s the better thespian between him and - you can guess - Odunlade Adekola, I never think twice before making my choice. It’s always the Law graduate. This gap becomes more obvious in the two films released by the two Nollywood giants in the space of 3 weeks. Adekola released Orisa to the cinemas on July 21st while Adebayo’s Netflix-powered Jagun Jagun became available for streaming on August 10th./jay-caspian-kang-affirmative-elitism.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jay-caspian-kang-affirmative-elitism.htmlI’ve always thought that opposition to affirmative action wasn’t an inherently conservative position. People on the left have plenty of reason to criticize affirmative action. It’s a tool for elite class reproduction, one that dresses up economic inequality in the guise of egalitarianism. My guest this week, the journalist Jay Caspian Kang, seems to see it that way. He’s a man of the left who has written searching, deeply intelligent pieces about affirmative action (among many, many other subjects)./from-the-vault-joan-crawfords-my.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-vault-joan-crawfords-my.htmlIf you’re under 50, it’s likely that your first exposure to Joan Crawford was not by way of Crawford herself, but rather the camp-horror version of her played by Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest. The movie that redefined what it means to be “so bad it’s good,” it was based entirely on Christina Crawford’s memoirs about life with a superstar mother who abused her children for the crime of not constantly expressing gratitude./john-donne-batter-my-heart-three.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-donne-batter-my-heart-three.htmlWhen looking for Donne's Holy Sonnets for this, I discovered, according to the edition I found on gutenberg.org, there are two cycles called 'Holy Sonnets'. There is the set of 19 which includes 'Batter my heart' and 'Death be not proud', and a cycle of seven on the Incarnation of Christ, beginning with 'La Corona' and ending with 'Ascencion'. I noticed in the seven sonnet cycle, Donne uses a line structure like the Petrarchan sonnet, but a thought structure more like the Shakespearean with the final turn coming in the last couplet./john-williams-stoner-and-the-burden.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-williams-stoner-and-the-burden.html“Stoner’s colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now; to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers.”             -John Williams, Stoner “And at once, I knew/justin-gets-back-up.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-gets-back-up.htmlNov. 23, 2009. It was a stroke of irony befitting the band's dramatic lyricism. On Oct. 20, the day before platinum-selling San Marcos group Blue October was to launch the mental health-themed Pick Up the Phone Tour, the band's singer, Justin Furstenfeld, had a breakdown and ended up in a psychiatric ward. The monthlong tour, co-sponsored by the 1-800-SUICIDE hot line, was canceled except for the final dates this past weekend at Stubb's./kawamata-seafood.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kawamata-seafood.html🇺🇸 UNITED STATES (Hawai'i) 📍 26881 Camino de Estrella, Dana Point, Orange County 🅿️ Small lot and ample street parking 🥤 No Alcohol 📸 All photos by Jared Cohee for Eat the World Los AngelesAs old as travel itself is the simple problem of going to (and more so returning from) Hawai’i, and the fact that your life does not have access to many of the things you were exposed to while visiting./kendalls-name-was-on-a-piece-of-paper.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kendalls-name-was-on-a-piece-of-paper.htmlOn Sunday night’s Succession, “Honeymoon States,” the family is still reeling from God’s #LoganRoyIsOverParty, but not in the way that normal families reel after an untimely (or, actually, he was kinda old so not that untimely) death. Grieving is for the upper middle class; the Successionistas are circling the wagons trying to figure out what Logan’s death means for their current position and their future position. Frank comes across an undated, unsigned note of wishes in Logan’s personal safe: on the single sheet of paper are funeral arrangements, miscellaneous bestowments, a desired epitaph (via Reddit, someone posted it in the Hung Up chat lol) and … Logan’s pick for the CEO to take over for him./twice-is-nice-learning-to-fight-a.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twice-is-nice-learning-to-fight-a.htmlThe Labcorp bill looked serious. It said Don Jones owed $2,350 and that the payment was “PAST DUE.”  It layered on a threat: “Unless this office receives payment in full, escalated recovery steps will be taken.” And then it raised the stakes: “This is a serious matter you should no longer ignore. You must act now to clear your delinquent credit status. There is no longer any justification for not resolving your account./lemon-miso-butter-spaghetti.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lemon-miso-butter-spaghetti.htmlHello and welcome back to The Late Plate, This week we are going back to basics. If there is one thing that I cook at home in the warehouse, time and time again, it is a pot of simple pasta. In my book, you can’t go far wrong with a good plate of pasta. When done right, it is filling, easy, quick and delicious. The key is to make sure everything is well balanced, and I’m not embarrassed to say that I spend a *lot* of time thinking about how to achieve that./lerone-martin-on-mlk.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lerone-martin-on-mlk.htmlI spent the day on campus today to attend Lerone Martin’s MLK Day lecture, “Soul Force: The Challenge of Martin Lulther King.” It was such an excellent talk that I wanted to share it with you as well. You can access it here (and also receive access to the rest of the January Series lectures, if you’d like). If the name Lerone Martin sounds familiar, it may be because I’ve written about his book The Gospel of J./lets-get-small-reckoning-with-downsizing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-get-small-reckoning-with-downsizing.htmlIn his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, essayist Chuck Klosterman wrote an essay defending the 2001 Cameron Crowe film Vanilla Sky from its reputation as a creative failure. Specifically, he honed in on critic Owen Gleiberman’s D+ review in Entertainment Weekly that accused the film of being little more than “a cracked hall of mirrors taped together by a What is reality? cryogenics plot.” Nonplussed, Klosterman pointed out that all the best films of this era—from The Matrix and Fight Club to eXistenZ and Mulholland Drive asked that same question about the nature of our reality./lets-take-a-look-back-at-when-nate.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-take-a-look-back-at-when-nate.htmlNate Robinson was having a good start to the season. He was easily averaging 13 points off of the bench and was one of the New York Knicks' key bench guys in his second NBA season. He was playing well and feeling good with his game. But for whatever reason, on this particular night -on Nov. 20, 2006- he couldn’t get a shot off. He played 6 minutes in the first half and didn’t take a single shot./letter-137-reece-duca-and-bob-casey.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-137-reece-duca-and-bob-casey.htmlHi there! Welcome to A Letter a Day. If you want to know more about this newsletter, see "The Archive.” At a high level, you can expect to receive a memo/essay or speech/presentation transcript from an investor, founder, or entrepreneur (IFO) each edition. More here. If you find yourself interested in any of these IFOs and wanting to learn more, shoot me a DM or email and I’m happy to point you to more or similar resources./life-advice-from-nyc-chess-hustlers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-advice-from-nyc-chess-hustlers.htmlThe chess tables in Washington Square Park’s southwest corner have been occupied by a revolving cast of hustlers for more than 80 years. When a CAFÉ ANNE reader suggested I interview these fellows for a feature, I asked what she wanted to know. Boy, did she have questions! “How often do people win? Do they compete against each other? What were they doing before this? Or is this like a side hustle!/lisa-cooks-credentials.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lisa-cooks-credentials.htmlToday Chris Rufo and Luke Rosiak published, “Trouble at the Fed: An Investigation into Federal Reserve governor Lisa D. Cook’s academic record raises questions”. It is mainly about her plagiarism, presenting a couple of examples. One is quite unusual, being neither quite self-plagiarism nor quite regular plagiarism. She wrote an article with other economists, and they inserted a couple of paragraphs straight from an earlier paper by those others, but where she wasn’t a co-author on the earlier paper./little-market-portage-bay-bagels-second-schmear.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/little-market-portage-bay-bagels-second-schmear.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. UPDATE: Little Market has closed. 😢 ORIGINAL: Every once in a while I return to a bagel place that I’ve previously reviewed and find myself reconsidering everything I thought I knew./long-live-the-caldosa.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/long-live-the-caldosa.htmlThe first time I had a caldosa was in Monteverde in 2018, from a little kiosk by the side of the road. Tropical farmer and chef José Gonzalez, who had the restaurant Al Mercat in San José at the time, ordered one for me. It might not have even been called a caldosa then and José just asked the guy in the bo… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8uopaBlnJ7DpnnToZxmm5GhsbC%2FwA%3D%3D/losing-mummy-cave.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/losing-mummy-cave.htmlIn a state known for its remarkable archaeological sites, Mummy Cave is one of Wyoming’s crown jewels. The stately, overhanging cliff is perched above the North Fork of the Shoshone River, a shallow alcove having been carved from its base by an ancient meander of the river where for 10,000 years Wyoming’s Native residents sought refuge from the elements. Today, the site is located only meters from the busy North Fork Highway, where millions of tourists each year pass on their way to the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park./m-div-dropout.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/m-div-dropout.htmlWhen my wife and I separated, I dropped out of seminary. My dreams for future ministry shriveled up and died inside me along with the death of my marriage. After I resigned from being an evangelical pastor, I had returned to school for a second masters degree, with the intention of revisiting ministry from a more progressive perspective. I thought I would probably become a pastor again. When we separated, I quit./make-your-valentine-a-jack-rose.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-your-valentine-a-jack-rose.htmlNormally, the main weekly edition of this newsletter goes out to paid subscribers only. But I plan to make some exceptions for holidays and special occasions. Speaking of which, happy Valentine’s Day.  To celebrate, we’re going to make a Jack Rose, a pinkish-red brandy sour that’ll look great on a counter with a bouquet of roses. And then, because sometimes our lives are marked by heartbreak and regret, we’re going to make a bitter variant./mark-kozelek-of-sun-kil-moon-and.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mark-kozelek-of-sun-kil-moon-and.htmlOne of the most talented and unique songwriters of his generation, Mark Kozelek is also a prickly pear. The only time I saw him perform live in the 1990s, he threatened to stab someone in the audience for talking during his set. Born and raised in Ohio, Kozelek formed Red House Painters after moving to San Francisco in the late 80s. I bought their first … ncG1vNJzZmilkanBo7HRnqWsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqqm2K4sMbEpZykZZ%2BberTBzWaioqRdorywuoyapZ0%3D/mary-alice-was-is-and-always-will.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-alice-was-is-and-always-will.htmlBlack Film Archive is a living register of Black films from 1915 - 1979 currently streaming. This Substack is its blog. Thank you for being here!In a 1990 interview with the New York Newsday, Mary Alice (d. July 27, 2022) stated she was hoping to land a ‘substantial role in film and television’ as she had found in the theater: “My career has been wonderful in one sense but there's such a difference between the recognition you get onstage and working in films and TV./meet-mac-swanson-undersized-and-overlooked.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-mac-swanson-undersized-and-overlooked.htmlMac Swanson hears the comments and criticism of NHL draft analysts and scouts. He knows that he is an undersized player. The North Dakota commit, listed at 5-foot-7 and 157 pounds, has drawn comparisons to NHL players such as Seattle's Jaden Schwartz, Minnesota's Mats Zuccarello, and even Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis. Not to claim Swanson is on pace to become a future Hall of Famer—he may be when all is said and done—but the point is that all three players went onto NHL careers despite their modest stature./mexican-food-sucks.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mexican-food-sucks.htmlHello. Okay, FWIW, I don’t actually believe Mexican food sucks. I have enjoyed Mexican food, even though much of it looks like the photo above, an amalgam of disparate colorful cheap stuff in greasy fried bread. But I am now empowered to make this terrible and unfair generality about Mexican food because the concept was uttered during the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It is now part of Pop Culture./monkey-man.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monkey-man.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You ever see a trailer so good that there’s no way the movie can live up to its promo? Actor Dev Patel’s directorial debut “Monkey Man” (in theaters beginning Friday, April 5) is one such picture. Patel stars as Kid, a young man who lost his mother Neela (Adithi Kalkunte) as a child when she stood her ground against politico Baba Shakti (Makarand Deshpande) and crooked cop Rana (Sikander Kher)./more-problems-at-the-joint-corp-jynt.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-problems-at-the-joint-corp-jynt.htmlTwo weeks ago, The Bear Cave published on problems at The Joint (NASDAQ: JYNT — $1.20 billion), a franchisor of chiropractic clinics, concerning its franchise health and aggressive customer billing. Some smart investors in The Joint pushed back and argued that the franchise base is actually healthy. For example, The Joint’s own Franchise Disclosure Document seems to show that the median clinic makes between $70k-$150k in net profit. The Joint bulls also argued that the aggressive franchisor-franchisee terms The Joint uses are commonplace and that The Joint improves the standard of chiropractic care for patients./more-than-a-symbol.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-than-a-symbol.htmlThough out the entire history of the modern Christian church. An issue comes up now and again. Rehashing the same old arguments when it comes to the Catholic Church. One of the biggest ones has to deal with the importance of the Eucharist: The Body and Blood of Christ. For a Catholic that should be one of the most important aspects of our faith. The argument of course is that Christ words in the Gospel of John were not meant to be taken literal./my-favorite-wine-books-of-all-time.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-wine-books-of-all-time.htmlWine books are my bread and butter. I’m never without a book, and tend to fall into two categories—books about wine and books about the environment. They often overlap. This is a list of the books that I’ve found most valuable, most inspirational, and most eye-opening. I know you’ll love them too. What Makes A Wine Worth Drinking by Terry Theise Theise’s What Makes A Wine Worth Drinking is, to me, a romance book that happens to be about wine./my-first-chess-book-logical-chess.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-first-chess-book-logical-chess.htmlHi everyone, I took a little break last week. I got really interested in learning to code since I now can ask GPT to help me out, and of course, I’m trying to code something that is chess related. But it takes time to learn new things, so the writing got a little delayed. But before we jump into this week’s newsletter I will just ask you a question about the Say Chess Training Group./napa-valley-has-275-of-californias.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/napa-valley-has-275-of-californias.htmlThis article is part of our ongoing series examining Napa Valley's wine industry. In previous installments we explored the far-reaching consequences of supply and demand imbalances, and we have highlighted escalating legal conflicts, community tensions and business failures. We also discussed how flawed or incomplete data can undermine strategic decision-making and affect long-term sustainability. Additionally, we considered the rising probability of mergers and acquisitions and the declining impact of China on tourism and wine consumption./new-comic-characters-comix-fun-at.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-comic-characters-comix-fun-at.htmlHere’s the latest installment in our ongoing MakeBeliefs series to provide comfort and hope to young and old who are feeling distressed and anxious in our too fast-changing and sometimes unforgiving world. It’s our way of making things better by helping you imagine! I created these MakeBeliefs to find hope. If you find value in the MakeBeliefs project, … ncG1vNJzZmilkaCyo7HLopyfq16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6nnLBlk6S6qq%2BMnJ%2BaqpGYwaa%2B0maaqKWZrXqnwc1mmK0%3D/new-song-im-still.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-song-im-still.htmlBootcut doesn’t come out until September 15, but there’s another tune that is out today called I’m Still. You can listen below or here. (The word “here” is actually a hyperlink. Hard to tell in this colour scheme but it matches the album) Made a vid too. It features some amazing free-bassing by Dave Roe. And we used Madi Cunningham’s JHS guitar pedal on the vocal. That’s all for now. Don’t forget to preorder the bundle and catch a tour date this fall… some of them are already sold out so don’t miss it./no-one-else-cares-about-green-bubbles.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-one-else-cares-about-green-bubbles.htmlI came late to the smartphone game. I finally bought my first in the fall of 2011, after spending a summer conducting research in India where, incidentally, I sit writing this. I didn't have any specific animus toward Apple at the time, though I do think I preferred the reputation of openness and customizability of Androids against that of iPhones as impenetrable, “take-what-we-give-you-and-you’re-gonna-like-it” systems. I was also what we call “broke,” and wanted the cheapest functional phone I could find./ok-nice-with-edy-modica.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ok-nice-with-edy-modica.htmlYou may have seen one of her appearances on Office Hours with Tim Heidecker or maybe you watched her brilliant short film Nicole, which follows Nicole, an irredeemable yet lovable maniac played by Edy, who’s on a desperate journey to Dunkin’ for a coolatta, or maybe you’re a true head and saw Gold People. Either way, fans of the good and strange comedy space can’t avoid Edy, which is for the best./on-gino-mader.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-gino-mader.htmlThe first thing you must know about Gino Mäder is that he had unbelievable charisma. He had an air about him that drew everyone in. He had deep, understanding eyes and a rather serious visage mediated by an afro-like shock of curly brown hair that, when I met him for the first time in August of 2021, he had shaved off. The first thing I ever said to Gin… ncG1vNJzZmiclaeuqrjLnqyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe86nZKChnqR6rq3Dnqk%3D/memories-of-pierre-lacroix.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/memories-of-pierre-lacroix.htmlOne person I really miss in this world is Pierre Lacroix. I’ve written plenty about him over the years, but on a night in which he was (finally) inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder, there is always room for a few more Pierre stories. First off, it was really nice to see such a large turnout of ex-Avs greats tonight in Toronto, such as Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Patrick Roy and Ray Bourque./on-playing-chess-with-death.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-playing-chess-with-death.htmlI've always avoided Ingmar Bergman—I've seen lots of old movies because I was part of my university's film club and they aired weekly, including silent films like Metropolis and Dr Caligari's Cabinet with live piano music. Bergman seemed too intense, too dark. I preferred more light-hearted works like classic screwball comedy. During my convalescence, slow as it is, of major surgery to remove a malignant tumor I thought of giving his Seventh Seal a chance./one-good-thing-4a3.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-good-thing-4a3.htmlBut even I know about Caitlin Clark. My interest in this groundbreaking player has been extremely limited — until I read two very different items related to her this week. The first one is a letter, published two weeks ago in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which quickly went viral. The le… ncG1vNJzZmiZna6xqq%2FKoqWsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opqedXZy8sLCMrZ%2BippdigaJ%2F/bon-voyage-paris-chateau-deau-canal.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bon-voyage-paris-chateau-deau-canal.htmlAfter calling Paris home for almost a decade, I’ve accumulated a lot of little stars on my Google Maps. These favorites cover both sides of the Seine and are spread amongst Paris’s 20 arrondissements, which unfurl out from the center like an escargot. Within them are a handful of microneighborhoods—“quartiers” as they’re commonly called—that are almost like little villages. As we inch closer to the 2024 Summer Olympics, I’ll be sharing suggestions for how to best spend time in some of them./patrick-modiano-haunted-by-memories.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/patrick-modiano-haunted-by-memories.htmlThis review first appeared in the inaugural issue of Serpent Club Press, New Writing, Summer, 2023 edited by Matthew Gasda and Robert Gittings. You can purchase a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Summer-2023-Matthew-Gasda/dp/0997613491/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3I1QCNEECL7SO&keywords=serpent+club+new+writing&qid=1702860358&s=books&sprefix=serpent+club+new+writing%2Cstripbooks%2C118&sr=1-1 French author Patrick Modiano celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday this past July. His literary output, beginning in his early twenties, has been prodigious: he has written more than thirty works of fiction, as well as co-written the screenplay for the film Lacombe, Lucien (with director Louis Malle), children’s books, and memoirs./peace-on-earth-family-christmas-photo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peace-on-earth-family-christmas-photo.htmlEarlier this week, a very specific family Christmas card trend went viral: Mothers and daughters restrained with strings of holiday lights, mouths taped shut; fathers and sons free, smiling, holding signs that read, “Finally, peace on Earth!” Twitter user @mattxiv collected four of these photos (yes, multiple families did this!) under the caption, “Straight male humor is like ‘I regret getting married and I fucking hate my kids LOL right fellas?/pecorino-basil-butter.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pecorino-basil-butter.htmlOf all the world’s food trends, I’m an unapologetic supporter of butters—specifically, flavored butters. In culinary school, we called them “compound butters,” an overly complicated name for a very simple technique. Because flavored butters are just that: softened butter mixed with something, well, flavorful. And although they’ve long been associated with white-tablecloth restaurants, now, at last, these fanciful butters—savory, sweet, spicy, herbaceous—are finally taking their rightful place in the home kitchen./phenomena-screentones-new-step-by.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phenomena-screentones-new-step-by.htmlHello from Castrum Lusitania, my fortress in northern Portugal. Welcome to another edition of our weekly newsletter. This week I wrapped up a bunch of pages for Phenomena Book 3 and begun working on the next chunk of script. We now have 69 fully finished pages of art and in a couple of weeks we’ll be at 83. If you add this to the already fully finished Book 2, there are already more than 200 pages of comics that I’ve done in the last year that almost no one has seen yet./093-photographer-bukky-ade-on-life-f37.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/093-photographer-bukky-ade-on-life-f37.htmlBukky Adeyokunnu is a self-taught portrait photographer and filmmaker. Born in Lagos, Nigeria and bred in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Bukky tells visual stories of women, health, and the immigrant experience. She began her journey in 2015 and has since become a Dean’s Collection artist, been featured in xoNecole for The Warrior Series, a photo series which captures how three strong women triumph over sickle cell disease, and local exhibitions including Washington D./pitching-prospect-alex-hoppe-will.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pitching-prospect-alex-hoppe-will.htmlEvery Spring Training, there seems to be at least one Boston Red Sox prospect who creates buzz for himself. They will get all the fans talking for several different reasons. It could be eye-popping plays or maybe just a solid overall performance. We've seen it recently with players like Ceddanne Rafaela and Ryan Fitzgerald. In 2024, there are a few intriguing candidates to take the baton and run with it./podcast-038-numbers-in-spanish-41.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podcast-038-numbers-in-spanish-41.htmlListen to Spanish podcasts, where I'll be uploading Spanish language and Spain's culture recordings. If you are interested in Spanish language and/or Spain culture, this is your place! Find more at https://spanishlanguage.substack.com Listen to Spanish podcasts, where I'll be uploading Spanish language and Spain's culture recordings. If you are interested in Spanish language and/or Spain culture, this is your place! Find more at https://spanishlanguage.substack.comncG1vNJzZmiroJa7qr%2FHpZinn6WWtKZ60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnoKSxpK3SrWRpa2hiu7a5wZ6prGWZo3q0vMCnoKygXWl%2B/poem-alive-at-the-end-of-the-world.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poem-alive-at-the-end-of-the-world.htmlThe end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America. Brain matter and broken glass, blurred boot prints in pools of blood. We dialed the newly dead but they wouldn’t answer. We texted, begging them to call us back, but the newly dead don’t know how to read. In America, a gathering of people is called target practice or a funeral, depending on who lives long enough/porn-is-the-theory-and-rape-is-the-405.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/porn-is-the-theory-and-rape-is-the-405.htmlNews that PornHub, which is owned by a company called MindGeek has been bought by, wait for it, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) is no surprise to those of us that follow the commercial trends in the sex trade. ‘Ethical’ is nowhere to be found in the porn trade, and most certainly not within a million miles of Pornhub. Word is that ECP was formed specifically to buy MindGeek in what has to be one of the most cynical whitewashing operations in the murky world of commercial sex./prayers-for-a-broken-heart.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prayers-for-a-broken-heart.htmlThe most painful feeling of someone with a broken heart is that of being alone. Suddenly, there is no one to talk to, no one to call, and no one to lean on to. Just when you need it most, the most important person you have ever counted upon has abandoned you. And what could you possibly do? For those who believe in God, it may be time to pray. Because even if the rest of the world walks away, and even if you seem to have no one, there is Someone who still sees you and who is just waiting for you to spend some time with Him in prayer./justin-chang-new-yorker-la-times-pulitzer-winner.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-chang-new-yorker-la-times-pulitzer-winner.htmlWhen Justin Chang learned he had won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for criticism, about 24 hours before the actual announcement, he couldn’t quite believe it. “I did not sleep a wink that night,” he tells Depth Perception. “I really didn’t. Like, sometimes when you say that, you manage to get like an hour of sleep. No. I actually pulled an all-nighter because I could not sleep. And part of it was that I was convinced that, until the announcement went out, this was all some massive hoax./re-release-this-sonic-advance.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-release-this-sonic-advance.htmlThis column is “Re-release this,” which will focus on games that aren’t easily available, or even available at all, but should be once again. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. The Sonic the Hedgehog games from the Sega Genesis era have been released and re-released and ported so many times now that you can discuss which of those versions is superior and which are disappointments. No such attention nor care has been given to Sonic’s underappreciated handheld adventures, however: sure, the Game Gear titles received a second life on the Nintendo 3DS digital storefront, but what of Pocket Adventure?/ready-to-watch-the-sign-heres-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ready-to-watch-the-sign-heres-the.htmlI wasn’t planning on writing specifically about Bluey’s big 28-minute special, The Sign. The understanding in my household was that I was easily the most excited about the extra-long Bluey episode, but I was waiting to watch it with my child because they might enjoy it. Listen, I was very close to watching it on my own first (and maybe that would’ve prepared me better for the emotions the episode would elicit), but I held strong./remembering-nathan-cirillo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-nathan-cirillo.htmlI will never forget the day that Nathan Cirillo died or how his death has continued to ripple through our lives in the years since that fateful day. I was in lockdown in the Centre Block of Parliament when I learned that one of our sentry soldiers at the National War Memorial had been killed. Our lockdown was a result of the aftermath of Cirillo’s death. The killer forced his way into Parliament following the attack at the National War Memorial./the-heart-of-a-champion.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-heart-of-a-champion.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubbleDangal (2016) is a comedy co-written and directed by Nitesh Tiwari—based on a true story centered on the Phogat family—about a former wrestler who trains two of his daughters for an international wrestling competition. Life Lesson: In order to win, you have to fight for yourself. Arjun Agarwal writes an eponymous newsletter for storytellers and entrepreneurs Dangal by Nitesh Tiwari is a wonderful film which explores the journey of Mahavir Singh Phogat and his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari Phogat./review-a-murder-at-the-end-of-the-b60.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-a-murder-at-the-end-of-the-b60.htmlThe single best thing about episode three of A Murder At The End Of The World (aside from the episode-ending event really pushing this story into overdrive) is how smartly and clearly it depicts what would happen in real life if someone tried to play Poirot with a bunch of people they barely knew, right after processing a horrific death in a remote location. Namely, everyone else would back the hell away from that person, trust the authority in charge, and alternate between pity and unease every time the accusing party walked into the room./review-heartstopper-meet-season-1.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-heartstopper-meet-season-1.html[Netflix’s newest teen series, Heartstopper, released its entire first season today. This is the first of eight reviews that I’ve written and published today for you to have as a companion for your journey through Charlie and Nick’s story—you can find all of these reviews at my Episodic Archive page for the series.] Heartstopper is at its heart a romantic story, but it begins in the aftermath of a tragic one./review-little-women.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-little-women.htmlWhen I first began blogging about theater over 12 years ago, the way to get a good review was to make me feel something. That's why I called myself The Sappy Critic. While my tastes have refined in a dozen years, thankfully and regrettably, I am far more likely to overlook other flaws if a show or a performance can move me. Fortunately, in the case of recently appointed Patricia A./review-rick-and-morty-bethic-twinstinct.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-rick-and-morty-bethic-twinstinct.htmlSooner or later, clones always end up making out with themselves. It’s a concept I can respect but never entirely understand; I know myself, sure, and I know what I like and don’t like, but that’s not enough to make me look into my own reflection and start thinking of pick-up lines. But sci-fi is full of horny clones, and it was probably only a matter of time before the two Beths started getting frisky./review-ted-lasso-so-long-farewell.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-ted-lasso-so-long-farewell.htmlYesterday afternoon, Apple made an announcement: after releasing episodes of Ted Lasso’s third season at 9pm eastern on Tuesdays since it premiered in March, they were switching course for the finale. “So Long, Farewell,” the series’ longest episode yet, would instead be going live at 9pm pacific. It’s a baffling decision, on a number of levels—I know I saw plenty of tweets of frustrated fans who didn’t see the announcement earlier in the day and had clearly organized their evenings around watching it before bed./review-the-gilded-age-head-to-head.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-gilded-age-head-to-head.htmlFor most of us, tonight’s episode is all about Carrie Coon’s icy stare. Sometimes calm and collected, sometimes shaking with rage, Bertha sustains her freezing disregard for an impressive amount of the run time. But let me direct your attention as well to Robert Sean Leonard’s warmth. Leonard plays the vicar with such understatement that it’s easy to lose sight of the skill of his performance. Is there any character in this show more humane and lovable?/review-wounds-2019.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-wounds-2019.htmlWounds is not a subtle film. It opens with a quote from Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness: “…it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception… and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed within him because he was hollow at the core.” I chuckled at this during my rewatch, knowing what I know now about the film./rip-james-r-kirk.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-james-r-kirk.htmlWelcome to Star Trekking, my attempt to share points of interest and random intersections in the final frontier. Today we open with a blast from the past. My past. Here’s an article I wrote in 2010. The single most striking thing about this, the very first episode starring Captain Kirk, the second pilot film for the series, the episode meant to sell this whole venture as a series, is the way it begins: a chess game between Kirk and his alien science officer./rip-trader-johanns-virtuoso-lip-balm.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-trader-johanns-virtuoso-lip-balm.htmlWhen Ken told me a few weeks ago that my favorite chapstick had been discontinued, it didn’t fully sink in. I figured I still had plenty of tubes scattered throughout the house that I was shielded. Maybe it was denial, an assumption that a major chain had made a choice in the state of Washington that was maybe different in . . . California? I was in Napa last week, went to Trader Joe’s./rise-of-the-female-to-female-transsexual.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rise-of-the-female-to-female-transsexual.htmlWho is the Gen Z bimbo?  A November 2020 Rolling Stone article declares that she’s “back, like for real!” The U.K.’s CHECK-OUT Mag explains “how TikTok and Gen Z redefined the core principles of being a bimbo” as though it’s a real political movement campaigning on the platform of bimboism. ARefinery29 headline announces the “rise of the new-age bimbo.” And recently, The New York Times ran an op-ed titled “Meet the Self-Described ‘Bimbos’ of TikTok./rob-schneider-asian-momma-mexican-kids.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rob-schneider-asian-momma-mexican-kids.html"I used to be Rob Schneider. Now I'm just Elle King's dad." He says this without a scintilla of resentment or regret. Rob Schneider is older, lumpier, possibly wiser, and most certainly funnier than he's been in years. He shows all this off in his new Netflix comedy special, "Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids," a meditation on aging and looking back on a career that, by his own admission, has cooled./robert-mangurian.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robert-mangurian.htmlLos Angeles architect and long-time SCI-Arc Faculty member Robert Mangurian has passed away. He is survived by his life, teaching, and work partner, Mary-Ann Ray, an older brother David, and a son Tony from his first marriage. This interview with Robert and his early Studioworks collaborator Craig Hodgetts was included in an exhibition catalog I co-edited in 2005. I have added some thoughts about Robert and a short poem for him with some images not included in the original exhibition catalog./ron-morelli-isnt-interested-in-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ron-morelli-isnt-interested-in-the.htmlWhat were the most influential dance music labels of the 2010s? Hessle Audio, Night Slugs, PAN, probably a handful of others, but when looking back at that decade, no accounting of what happened would be complete without the story of L.I.E.S. Records. Founded in 2010 and headed up by Ron Morelli, a Long Island native who’d come of age in the punk and hardcore scene, L.I.E.S. quickly made an impression, its raw (and often distortion-riddled) grooves reflecting the grit and grime of the New York City streets many of its artists then called home./royal-feast-2022-so-far-so-good.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/royal-feast-2022-so-far-so-good.htmlRoyal Feast is steadily becoming a favourite with its offerings of stunning food visuals, romance and palace politics. It’s always been the case that this is a drama primarily about the women of the Inner Palace in all their glamour and nastiness. Although the show features the reign of three emperors, the women are really at the heart of the storytelling. Cat fights which routinely make their appearance here are a time honoured tradition in these sorts of dramas because the "/russ-nicholson-fantasy-illustrator.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/russ-nicholson-fantasy-illustrator.htmlI am a little ashamed that I hadn’t previously brought up my early heroes in my articles. There is no particular reason, other than a surfeit of subjects and commissions that have taken up my time – quite apart from making my own art. Only today I heard of the death of Russ Nicholson (d. May 2023), Scottish fantasy illustrator, whose career began in the 1970s. His line illustrations for The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (1982), the first in the Fighting Fantasy series of books, played a part in me becoming an artist./ryan-garcia-badly-misses-weight-just.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ryan-garcia-badly-misses-weight-just.htmlBoxing is a brutal sport, but watching Ryan mentally unravel just feels cruel. The person getting the worst out of all this is Haney, he came ready for the fight as a serious opponent and now it’s all being somewhat derailed by Garcia’s unhinged behaviour. I hope Haney shuts him down quick so the clown show can end and he can go on to face a fighter with more respect for the sport and themselves, meanwhile I hope Ryan can get the help he so clearly needs./sabich.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sabich.htmlYou could call Sabich a fried eggplant sandwich, which it is at its heart: but it also has lots of other things, movable things: hard-boiled egg, salads, and condiments such as creamy sesame-seed tahini, fiery zhug or harissa, and amba, a bright yellow sauce of pickled mango and fenugreek. (Though an Israeli friend says that her favourite Sabich place refuses to let her omit the egg and she hates hard-boiled egg, so lets say: in theory you can vary the other ingredients)./samthebureau.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/samthebureau.htmlSam CooperSam Cooper is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author, who has presented his anti-corruption findings to Canadian law enforcement agencies, officials in the Pentagon, financial and legal professionals, and academics. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbStzK2fnpqlp7KiwQ%3D%3D/james-carver-elliott-chambers-fire.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/james-carver-elliott-chambers-fire.htmlContent Warning: This story includes discussions of death, suicidal thoughts, illness, drug and alcohol addiction, and sexual harassment. If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.  It was the early morning of July 4, 1984. Beverly police officer Duane Hathaway was driving down Rantoul Street when he heard the owner of the Sunray Bakery screaming to get his attention./smt-on-the-crown-season-6-episode-a7b.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smt-on-the-crown-season-6-episode-a7b.htmlThe second-to-last episode of The Crown takes its name from the street where Will and Kate lived at St. Andrews — and it shows us how the two got there! In Episode 9, the pair move from friends to something more following that (now famous) fashion show. The Crown’s depiction of Kate owning the catwalk in a sheer, strapless dress is not exactly how I env… ncG1vNJzZmirn6Kur8XToaaun5ipwG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2irnal6sLqMrZ%2BeZZOnvLi6jKycmqufo3p3ecSpoKynlJp6ooPB/force-of-nature-1982-seeing-jennifer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/force-of-nature-1982-seeing-jennifer.htmlMom went one way; I went the other. We had travelled to Buffalo for my brother’s wedding; my new sister-in-law was from Buffalo, or as he used to say when introducing her pre-wedding, “Most of my friends are from human parents.” Clint, who had moved to L.A. from our Houston hometown, in 1978, was a budding stand-up comedian, and I helped write his act. Thankfully, I can’t (and won’t) claim that one!/shopping-around-the-green-ray.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shopping-around-the-green-ray.htmlI joke that I can shop in a black hole. Given, the closest I’ve come to proving this theory is finding a thrift store in the wilds of southeast Alaska. But you get the idea: I am a very good shopper. Being a good shopper is different from being a big shopper. The satisfaction I get from the retail game has nothing to do with what I buy, but what I see./shriek-of-the-week-dunnock-994.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shriek-of-the-week-dunnock-994.htmlThe dunnock is the Cinderella of the bird world. Sweeping up underneath the other birds, and always missing out on the celebrity invitations (try finding a dunnock-themed Christmas card). However, like the robins and wrens, dunnocks are all around us, and they bring some welcome music to the winter months. The sweet, high-pitched stream of notes sounds somewhat thin, almost fragile. It can be most noticeable on bright, frosty days, when its crystalline qualities somehow complement the weather conditions./simplifying-2024-and-our-new-year.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/simplifying-2024-and-our-new-year.htmlIt’s been said there’s nothing magical about January 1, but to that I say no, no, no! I feel it. Don’t you? I love the hope and the ✨magic✨ of this time of year. It’s the perfect slow time for reflection and planning — full of excitement and anticipation for a fresh start. I don’t feel this way any other time of year, so digging in during these lost days between Christmas and New Year feels perfect./since-voting-to-unionize-workers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/since-voting-to-unionize-workers.htmlIt was announced earlier this month that frontline staff at Youth Pride, Inc. (YPI), a Providence-based non-profit that provides direct service, support, advocacy, and education to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ youth and young adults, had voted overwhelmingly to join SEIU 1199NE, but following that announcement, say workers, management “has decided to take active, aggressive measures to either discredit, disincentivize, or coerce people from working together to form an organization which they have the right to do under United States law./smiling-faces-sometimes-by-the-undisputed.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smiling-faces-sometimes-by-the-undisputed.html“Can you dig it, can you dig it?” Norman Whitfield was never shy about reworking a song. His production of “Heard It Through the Grapevine” for Gladys Knight & the Pips was Motown’s biggest-selling single, until it was eclipsed a year later by his radically different version for Marvin Gaye. The Gladys Knight & The Pips track was actually his second try at making the song into a single. Over chugging Muscle Shoals funk, a throaty Knight sings with one foot in gospel and the other up some guy’s ass./smitten-kitchen-keepers-is-here-my.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smitten-kitchen-keepers-is-here-my.htmlTuesday, November 22, 2022 Greetings from Toronto! And Happy Thanksgiving week, my favorite cooking holiday of the year. Last week my third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers, came out and thank goodness, because it was impossibly hard to keep it from you for so long. There are so many recipes in there that I worked at for years to get exactly right and I cannot wait for you to make them all — like thick, tender molasses spice cookies you can make in one bowl, no handmixer required, the kind that make your whole home smell like the holidays./sneak-preview-of-gpt-5.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sneak-preview-of-gpt-5.htmlHoly shit! OpenAI just gave me sneak preview early access to GPT-5 (to do some red-teaming) — and it’s incredible! What really makes me is happy is that they let me look at the training data, too, so I could do proper tests of its generalization. This thing is LIT! And wow, there is now an option to run purely on licensed data, so artists and writers are fairly compensated. And I haven’t spotted a single hallucination or boneheaded error, yet./so-uh-whats-going-on-with-infinity.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-uh-whats-going-on-with-infinity.htmlThe announcement on Wednesday of Infinity Train, OKKO, Summer Camp Island, The Fungies and many other shows being taken off of HBOMax was a shock to all of us. Not just to fans, but to the creators and artists that made the shows as well. I had no idea it was coming, neither did any other show creator I’ve talked with, nor any of their representatives. People have been working behind the scenes for days now trying to figure out what’s going on./dear-moca-so-what-do-you-think-about.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-moca-so-what-do-you-think-about.htmlPlease enjoy today’s DEAR MOCA column. Have questions you’d like answered? Have a thought you want us to respond to? Email us at hello@museumofcryptoart.com or submit your questions to our dedicated Google Form. Dear M○C△, So what do you think about Tezpole lol Sincerely, Top-Tier Tezos  Dear Top-Tier Tezos, In a few words: I love it. But you didn’t come here for just a few words, you came here for the full monty, the perpendicular lines of thinking, the justifications and verbal assaults./we-are-family-some-notes-on-common.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-are-family-some-notes-on-common.htmlNormally I send out the extract from the archive on a Saturday morning. But there are still a few hours to go before Black Friday turns into Grey Saturday, so I thought I’d do it now and remind you of this special offer: ' Get 50% off for 1 year Sign up now! While stocks last! One of the most mindblowing things I have ever learned concerns the “genetic isopoint”. This concept, also known as the “identical ancestors point” (IAP), or “all common ancestors” (ACA), is the most recent point in a particular population’s past at which everyone then alive either has no living descendants left, or is the ancestor of everyone currently living./some-shootings-arent-random.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-shootings-arent-random.htmlUPDATE AND ADDENDUM: Given the indictment of Young Thug this week, I’d like to revisit this post. I’m leaving it up because the background information about the case that led to the indictment is correct and accurate. But the overriding inference of this piece - the suggestion that LaKevia Jack… ncG1vNJzZmismJqutbjAp6uap5KfsqTAyK%2BcZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cL%2FOppxmq5ikvLW1zaCqZpmimru1edGapZ2nnQ%3D%3D/something-i-learned-from-rachel-goldberg.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/something-i-learned-from-rachel-goldberg.htmlA few weeks ago I listened to a speech from Rachel Goldberg-Polin, a true hero, and mother of Hersh Polin who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023. In the course of that speech she referenced an idea that she’d heard from her rabbi. Unfortunately, I have forgotten his name. The Amidah is the central prayer in Judaism. It is recited three times each weekday, four times on Shabbat and major holidays, and five times on Yom Kippur./sorry-but-funsearch-probably-isnt.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sorry-but-funsearch-probably-isnt.htmlOver the last few days, you probably saw a bunch of enthusiastic news reports and tweets about a new Google Deepmind paper on math, like this at The Guardian: and this § Well, yes, and no. Google DeepMind, along with the mathematician Jordan Ellenberg really did use some AI to help solve a math problem, in a very clever paper that is worth reading, on how to use “program search with large language models” (as the accurate and not at all hypey title explains)./spain-diaries-gaudi-gawping.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spain-diaries-gaudi-gawping.htmlOn the 7th of June 1926, a couple of weeks before his 74th birthday, Antoni Gaudí was quite violently interrupted in his journey to church for his daily prayer. He was hit by a tram. If you were there, witnessing the collision, I can fairly confidently say you wouldn’t grasp the significance of the event happening in front of you. That’s because I’m pretty certain you wouldn’t recognise that the old man being hit by a tram was Antoni Gaudí./speed-death-transcendence.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/speed-death-transcendence.htmlJanuary was highly productive for Rickenslacker; February much less so. I went back to work, revived the book, and, well, this thing suffered. To fill the space, somewhat shamefully, here’s an essay I published in last week’s The Saturday Paper about the life of Enzo Ferrari. Normal transmission will resume shortly. I promise. Share One of the earliest sounds Enzo Ferrari remembered hearing was the forging of metal in his father’s small ironworks beside their home in Modena, Italy./20-years-later-spider-man-2-is-still.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-years-later-spider-man-2-is-still.htmlThere are good superhero movies and bad ones. There are original ones, and there are derivative ones. But the elements of the genre came together, in the best way possible, in Spider-Man 2, Sam Raimi’s 2004 sequel, and my pick for the best movie ever made in the genre.  Believe it or not, there was a time when the superhero genre was not only underdeveloped but also not seen as a great box office bet./spirit-of-place-on-calypsos-island.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spirit-of-place-on-calypsos-island.htmlGet 60 day free trial When I married into a large English clan more than 30 years ago, I acquired by adoption a rich storehouse of family lore. One of my favorite tales was that of Minna Turner, a devout spinster who had devoted her life to caring for her mother, and whom the family—which was originally based in a small village in Northamptonshire--had taken under its wing when Minna’s mother died./springsummer-22-murmurs-fall-of-magic.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/springsummer-22-murmurs-fall-of-magic.htmlGreetings. With the school year done, I can catch up on some games projects. Here’s a look at some of what I’ve been playing, running, and designing of late. We have been hosting sessions at our new home playing Fall of Magic with a few close friends. Fall of Magic is a beautiful storytelling game from Heart of the Deernicorn. As you play you unroll a hand-sewn, elegantly illustrated scroll that represents the lands your characters are journeying through./starting-discipline-in-the-home.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/starting-discipline-in-the-home.htmlOnce you have decided to correct your wife with spanking, your next step is to put this into practice in the home. Some of this may amount to establishing clear leadership and rules in the home, if you have not done that already. For others, it my simply amount to starting to enforce the rules you have already established and finally cracking down on disrespect. I believe the best time to begin discipline is when the married couple move in together, but many couples bring discipline and spanking in after they have been married for years./state-farm-reaches-325-million-settlement-over-53-000-policyholders-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/state-farm-reaches-325-million-settlement-over-53-000-policyholders-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief.htmlState Farm Life Insurance Co. recently agreed to a monumental settlement in a groundbreaking move that has brought relief to tens of thousands of policyholders. In an ongoing battle over alleged unauthorized rate calculations, nearly 53,000 life insurance policyholders found solace as the insurance giant conceded to their claims. At the heart of this lawsuit was the allegation that State Farm calculated the cost-of-insurance (COI) rates using unauthorized factors, including profits and expenses./stay-bouncy-the-jupiteruranus-conjunction.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stay-bouncy-the-jupiteruranus-conjunction.htmlThe big astrology news of this coming week already feels somewhat like old news. That’s because we’ve all been already in the swirls of it, it being the conjunction (union) between expansive Jupiter and inventive Uranus, which occurs exactly on Saturday, April 20. The ripples of this once-every-thirteen(or so)-year seismic alignment have been lending a background note of creativity or chaos (or both), for the last couple of weeks (if not longer)./steal-my-5-step-plan-to-slowly-build.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steal-my-5-step-plan-to-slowly-build.htmlIn last week’s newsletter, I made the case why it’s better to get rich slowly rather than suddenly. Put simply, putting in the work and the time to build wealth over years or decades gives you the skills required to make that wealth last. At the end of the post, I teased my five-step plan I have been following for the past 5 years to build “FU” money slowly but surely./steamed-pumpkin-dumplings.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steamed-pumpkin-dumplings.htmlHi all! I’m back from a trip to Barcelona, if you’re interested what Chinese food I had there, check it outhere. This week, we’re making dumplings with a seasonal filling. The moment summer ended, I was ambushed by piles of pumpkins and advent calendars. In Germany, these are supermarket staples throughout the year's end. All of social media is screaming: cook pumpkin. Then I thought about a street snack I had some 20 years ago, called nangua jiaojiao (南瓜角角), a leaf-shaped dumpling filled with pumpkin and meat, commonly sold on the streets of the northeastern Sichuan town where I grew up./3-clicks-and-a-hick-stepin-fetchit.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3-clicks-and-a-hick-stepin-fetchit.htmlHello friends from ACROSS THE WORLD (so crazy that that’s true!) for your Friday night entertainment, may I present yet another installment of 3 Clicks & A Hick! This week our starting point was legendary Vaudeville and Movie Star Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry…. Better known as his stage name/character Stepin Fetchit! This takes us on a journey that eventually leads us into Norse mythology! As promised, after I finished the game, I went back and dug a little deeper on some links I found interesting along the way!/stitch-regulator-explained.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stitch-regulator-explained.htmlGreetings everybody, Today I want to talk about a technology that has had a massive impact on the sewing machine landscape: the stitch regulator. When you sew a straight stitch, the presser foot holds the fabric down against the gripped feed teeth (AKA feed dogs). The needle goes down, penetrates the fabric, and then travels below the needle plate where it does the dance with the hook and bobbin thread. Then the needle journeys upward, up out of the fabric and the needle plate, and rises above the fabric./storyboarding-like-satoshi-kon.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/storyboarding-like-satoshi-kon.htmlWelcome back to the Animation Obsessive newsletter! Thanks for joining us. Here’s the agenda for this week: One — Satoshi Kon, storyboard virtuoso. Two — animation news from all around the globe. Three — a quick look back at the first foreign-made cartoon to win an Oscar. Four — the last word. If you’re new around here, don’t hesitate to sign up — it’s fast and free. Catch our newsletter in your inbox every week:/subtext-in-game-writing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/subtext-in-game-writing.htmlI’ve been thinking about subtext in fiction writing and script writing lately and it occurred to me if you stretch the concept a bit you get a quick little insight into a worthwhile game design principle. But first, what is subtext? Essentially, it’s the dialog that a character doesn’t say. It’s the words a writer doesn’t write. Subtext can be conveyed by tone, description (mannerisms in terms of a character), or sometimes just context./sugalabo-tokyo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sugalabo-tokyo.htmli’ve been in Tokyo since Mar 8th. why? i’ve been staging at a restaurant here called SUGALABO, run by chef/owner Yosuke Suga. it’s a fine-dining tokyo french cuisine restaurant, that’s also invite-only. If you want to read more on where i’m interning at, here are 2 links: World's 50 Best - SUGALABO, Tokyo Tablelog - SUGALABO, Tokyo i also did an episode in my vlog series on Suga-san’s pop-up in LA/supplimentary-reading-poor-things.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/supplimentary-reading-poor-things.htmlHonestly, I want as many people as possible to read this entry, but it also contains spoilers for both the film and the book. Most of what I write will not actually be related to specific plot points and I don’t intend to tell the story of the film for this as, it is not marketing, but ofc in some ways it’s unavoidable! I’ve been yearning for chat about this so please, comment, share, message me about it- my ideas and opinions may change with conversation!/sweetman-podcast-episode-73-janna-058.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweetman-podcast-episode-73-janna-058.htmlAn in-depth chat with Janna Lapidus Leblanc. She was Stevie Ray Vaughan's fiancee at the time of his death; they met four years earlier in Wellington - she's a Kiwi, now based in America. She has recently written and published a book of photos that tells the story of their love affair. Janna and I talk about Stevie, his music, their relationship, her book. We talk too about her life, her upbringing, her career (professional model), her grieving of Stevie./talking-money-with-my-9-year-old.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-money-with-my-9-year-old.htmlWithout hesitation, Parker confirmed my suspicion this weekend. She’s unashamedly over my money talks. “Yes!” she exclaimed when asked if she’s sick of them. But you should have seen her little face light up when I told her we’d be recording a podcast — her first podcast. She didn’t even care it was about money. After revealing our Substack to her Friday night, laying by her side as she read through each post and giving her a minute to digest the idea, I told Parker she would be the first guest on the “Money Talks Podcast./talls-vs-smalls-teamsmol.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talls-vs-smalls-teamsmol.htmlIn many ways, my entire lacrosse writer life has been leading up to this article. This is, in numerous avenues, a confluence of personal challenges and my own philosophies as a player, a coach, and an analyst. A common axiom that is shared and perpetuated by coaches from the beginning of time is that anyone of any size can play lacrosse. So, what would happen if a team of players that were all 5’ 9’’ or shorter played against a team of guys that were all 6’ 3’’ or taller?/taon-44-icebreaker-special.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taon-44-icebreaker-special.htmlThe Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy In the Everyday offers exercises, prompts, provocations, games and things you can actually do to build attention muscles, stave off distraction, pick up on what everybody else overlooked, and experience the joy of noticing. Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & Noble … ncG1vNJzZmiqn5fEorjKnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMCopWZsZGK2pLHBq5yao5WnerS8xJygmqQ%3D/taxicab-confessions.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taxicab-confessions.html(Image used under license from Shutterstock.com.)I’m in London for the wedding of two great friends who are at the heart of political and cultural London society. Former Prime Minster David Cameron gave the toast at the reception last evening. So it was appropriate that on my ride over to the reception, my cab driver decided to use the opportunity of the holiday traffic to explain the misery—at least as he saw it—of living in a post-Brexit, post-12-years-of-the-Tory-party England./taylor-swifts-ex-boyfriends-dont.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swifts-ex-boyfriends-dont.htmlTaylor Swift named her new album The Tortured Poets Department, and when your colleague muses aloud, I wonder if we could get an actual poet to weigh in, and when you are an actual published poet on staff—before I wrote a memoir, I published three poetry collections, please buy one that is still in print—you know what to do. I remain frustrated with the Decoder Ring being the new default approach to pop music fandom./the-ted-lasso-relationship-guide-c06.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ted-lasso-relationship-guide-c06.htmlWe have spent the past few weeks talking about the toxic relationship between Rebecca and Rupert, but the entire premise of the show is that Ted has moved to London to coach soccer to give his marriage some space. Today I want to talk about the episode “Tan Lines” which is when Ted and Michelle agree to a divorce. I will be taking a few liberties here because honestly, we don’t get a lot of the backstory on Ted and Michelle’s relationship before he moves to London./tek-lintowe-an-interview.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tek-lintowe-an-interview.htmlMadjestic Kasual’s ‘A Mix’ series is considered by geniuses and culture heads to be the “best” music mix series in the world. It’s considered by morons and dunces to be the “worst”. This should speak volumes. It’s time to do ‘A Mix’, but for interviews. I ask ‘A Mix’ contributors to respond to questions. Some comply. Introducing ‘An Interview’: a new text-centric series featuring only the best artists in the world./good-experiment.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-experiment.htmlHello friends, Welcome back from summer (though Europe is in yet another heatwave). This issue is about experiments as a way to deal with uncertainty, and how to design good experiments. And a plug at the end for Episode 9, on futurity, of my monthly discussion series on not-knowing. Also, if you like this (or any other issue) do not hesitate to click on the “Like” and “Share” buttons — really, don’t hesitate for even a moment./the-16-candle-that-smells-exactly.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-16-candle-that-smells-exactly.htmlI’ve been aware of Diptyque — which for years, I assumed was pronounced ‘Dipty-cue’ instead of ‘Dip-teek’ — for as long as I can remember. Like many other millennial women, the French luxury fragrance brand looms large in my mind thanks to The Coveteur, where the beautiful, well-appointed bathrooms of the it girls they interviewed typically held at least one empty Diptyque canister repurposed to hold beauty brushes or bedroom trinkets./the-adventures-of-the-bolivian-navy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-adventures-of-the-bolivian-navy.htmlThe second of our end of year trips into the archive. You can read the first, Day of the Tunnel Boring Machine, here. One of the odder facts about the world I've come across recently is that there are two landlocked countries in South America – and both maintain navies.  A landlocked country, as you almost certainly know, is one which doesn’t have a coastline, thus requiring the locals to cross someone else’s sovereign territory to launch a naval flotilla and/or go to the beach./the-answer-to-a-neverending-story.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-answer-to-a-neverending-story.htmlThe Southern Oracle would like to warn you, this post is about The NeverEnding Story, both the 1984 movie and the 1979 book. Spoilers abound if you are not familiar with either, but especially if you’ve seen the movie but never read the book. If you are confident, you may pass. It was the summer of 1984. I was 9-years-old, sitting in a dark movie theater in Traverse City, Michigan with my dad and a bag of Twizzlers, and before me on the screen was a story that would begin to speak to me./ukrainian-wedding-bread.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ukrainian-wedding-bread.htmlI have launched a restaurant review site called How to Eat L.A. If you like anything about that, please go check it out! -Katherine If you haven’t become a paid Smart Mouth subscriber yet, please consider it. The money goes straight to paying freelancers a good rate - much better than most publications. And if not that, click on the heart icon above so I know you’re reading! Please enjoy the article below by Tasha Lowe-Newsome./the-spirits-22-the-banana-rum-old.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-22-the-banana-rum-old.html~ THE BANANA RUM OLD FASHIONED ~ 60ml banana-infused dark rum (see note 1) 10ml golden sugar syrup Dash Angostura bitters Stir the ingredients in an Old Fashioned glass filled with plenty of ice - ideally one glass-filling cube. I used a banana chip as garnish, but orange or lemon peel are good choices too! Some B.R.O.F. Notes: 1) See below a full explanation of how to make your own Premium Handmade Double-Filtered Artisanal Organic Fairtrade banana rum./the-beauty-of-what-is.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-beauty-of-what-is.htmlHello friends, Yesterday I spent the afternoon culling through the digital pile of letters I’m considering for the November Dear Sugar Letter. Each is an email I dragged into the folder I labeled “Holiday Troubles” after I first read them. Each presents a problem that’s created or exacerbated or made more complicated by this time of the year. I usually have no trouble selecting a letter, but this month I found myself bouncing back and forth between two, reading each of them over and over again, ruminating on them as I walked the dogs or unpacked the suitcase I brought on my Thanksgiving week travels./the-best-movies-of-2022-scotts-list.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-movies-of-2022-scotts-list.html“Every year is a great year for film.” That’s a quote—or maybe just a paraphrase—from my friend Bilge Ebiri, the esteemed film critic for Vulture, that comes to mind quite often during listing season, when some writers and cinephiles start thinking about the larger picture and how one year compares with all the others. I think Bilge is right about that: We might quibble, for example, over the relative strength of a Cannes competition line-up or the Hollywood’s slate of awards fodder, but when you’re talking about all the films from around the world that have premiered in a given year, greatness is inevitable./the-best-presenter-remotes-logitech.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-presenter-remotes-logitech.htmlWhy the best consumer-oriented presenter remotes are the Logitech Spotlight and Logitech R800 clicker remotes and why they aren't seen as often in professional presentation settings like professional conferences and keynotes. [Last minute edit:] A strong case can be made for the R500 by Logitech as the R800 can be hard to find nowadays. Thanks to Alexander Grabner-Jarlung for pointing it out. Now, I want to point out that I'm not a tech reviewer, so I won't be doing a tech review of both of these remotes./big-questions-answers-robert-p-jones.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-questions-answers-robert-p-jones.htmlAs we saw in his Iowa caucus victory, Donald Trump is being propelled to his party’s nomination by strong support among white evangelical Christians. It has long befuddled me how such a movement that scolds the rest of us on supposed morality and “family values!” can get behind someone as morally bankrupt as Donald. So I was excited to ask Robert P. Jones, President and Founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, to shed some light on this phenomenon./the-branding-of-donald-trump.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-branding-of-donald-trump.htmlPresident Trump laid out his thoughts on logo design in the book Trump University Branding 101, from his for-profit real estate seminar program that would later pay $25 million as part of a settlement with former students who alleged it was a fraud. “You do not need a graphic design house to develop your logo,” it read. “Ideally, your logo should be unique.” Trump’s presidential campaign logo lives up to his advice./the-confederate-monument-in-arlington.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-confederate-monument-in-arlington.htmlYesterday work crews moved into position to begin the process of removing the Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery, located in Section 16. Make no mistake. The removal of this particular monument is the most significant Confederate removal to date. It is certainly one of the largest monuments, but more importantly, it is the boldest expression of the Lost Cause in a public space. Though there are moments of reconciliation that can and should be acknowledged, from the reinterment of Confederate remains to the cemetery to the dedication of the monument itself in 1914, the United Daughters of the Confederacy did not commission a reconciliationist monument./122-the-daleks-master-plan-episodes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/122-the-daleks-master-plan-episodes.htmlMessing up the numbering scheme is a long Doctor Who tradition, and this story goes on for ages, so I’ve split it in two. So… Broadcast: January 1966 Watched: July 2019 8. Volcano Douglas Adams definitely ripped off the cricket bit for Life, the Universe & Everything. Which feels like it should have been in the last one. Very odd here. What exactly is the point of the Daleks’ allies? They don’t seem to provide any troops and the Daleks murder them at random./the-dangers-of-summoning-demons.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dangers-of-summoning-demons.htmlHe is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His god and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. - Carl Jung I don't want to believe in demons, but I've summoned one before. It was the night before I started my new QA job, and I was drunk off whiskey sours and wine with my new girlfriend./actman.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/actman.htmlOn Tuesday, June 7th, the popular gaming YouTuber The Act Man received the worst possible news a creator can get from YouTube. His entire channel was being demonetized, and he was getting kicked out of the Partner Program. His alleged crime: embarrassing YouTube for allowing its creators to harass, stalk and harm others on their platform. The Act Man had taken on the case of a mass copyright infringement troll, Quantum TV, a ne'er-do-well who among other sins, had called up and threatened his mother./apple-tysons-corner-details.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apple-tysons-corner-details.htmlIn the history of Apple Retail design, there are five days I recognize as watershed moments: May 19, 2001: The opening of Apple Tysons Corner, the first Apple Store October 16, 2004: The introduction of mini stores and a preview of the all-stainless steel design language that defined a decade of stores May 19, 2006: The opening of Apple Fifth Avenue, a moment that raised the architectural profile of Apple Retail forever/pp-the-party-that-never-fizzled-out.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pp-the-party-that-never-fizzled-out.htmlWelcome to the 74th Pari Passu Newsletter. After learning about the Implosion of Voyager a few weeks ago, I am excited for today’s restructuring case study: Party City. A 2017 Business Insider article once declared that “Party City has a reason to celebrate.” The company appeared to be defying all the odds in an abysmal environment for retail, with moder… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2sa3SrKxnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvM9mq6GdXaWus8DYZquhmaRiu6bCxKtkn6Gqr7mmsIyorK0%3D/the-english-major-is-dead-long-live.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-english-major-is-dead-long-live.htmlAm I just putting myself in a position where, in four years’ time, I’m going to be earning significantly less money than people I went to school with? -Sazi Bongwe, Harvard freshman The recent New Yorker article “The End of the English Major” first came to my attention on Twitter. The responses rapidly rallied to deny the thesis, but The New Yorker presents compelling numbers to back up the clickbait:/the-flying-lawnmower-that-killed.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-flying-lawnmower-that-killed.htmlEver since the start of the consumer drone boom in the early 2010s, serious people have been seriously worried about the prospect of drones crashing into the bodies of the innocent. The FAA’s drone regulations include wording that directly addresses the danger of drones coming down on people’s heads, including specific rules against the waiver-less flight of drones over people and motorways.   If we take all this modern-day public concern over drone crashes into account, then it’s shocking to read about a 1979 incident where a flying remote-controlled lawnmower killed a man and seriously wounded another./the-gay-roots-of-ugh-friendsgiving.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gay-roots-of-ugh-friendsgiving.html“There was an uproar in the IRS offices here over canceling an upcoming Thanksgiving office party potluck,” the artist Edward Gallagher told a reporter, “when the straights said they wouldn’t share food prepared by gay employees.”  This was in 1984, mid-November. Gallagher had built a piece of street art in the plaza outside the Federal Building in San Francisco: four open coffins, each stuffed with a mannequin—a businessman, a housewife, a little kid, a cliché gay—all linked by transfusion tubes connected to blood bags in hospital IV hangers: a protest of Reagan’s policy of silence and neglect and slashing health agency budgets; that AIDS was righteous retribution from a vengeful God, not a public health crisis./the-ghost-of-christmas-past.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ghost-of-christmas-past.htmlI called this my Scrooge year. A liminal space between: The Ghost of Christmas Past : Wrapping and grieving the end of Summer Camp Island The Ghost of Christmas Present : Not fretting too much about being productive, and spending time with my friends and family and pretending I would cook more. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come : Starting to work on what’s next. We’re in self reflection season, or what I will forevermore be calling ‘The Scroogies’ so let’s start at the very beginning:/the-history-of-filipino-dj-culture.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-history-of-filipino-dj-culture.htmlHello, Today we have something a bit different for you. TTSG goes a bit Melvyn Bragg with a history episode about Bay Area Filipino DJ culture. Our guest today is Oliver Wang, professor of sociology at Cal State Long Beach, one of the co-hosts of theHeat Rocks podcast, and the author of Legions of Boom, a fascinating book which tracks the history of Filipino immigrants into the Bay Area after the 1965 Hart-Celler Act — first into San Francisco and then out into suburbs like Daly City, Fremont, and Vallejo./documentary-reviews-the-hobby-and.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/documentary-reviews-the-hobby-and.htmlWhen I was a kid, my love for baseball manifested itself in a love for baseball card collecting. I had just about every Topps set between 1985 and 1992 or so, and have fond memories of biking up to the drugstore to buy 4 or 5 packs at a time.  Back then, my parents used to tell me to hang onto the cards, because they’d be worth something someday, and because my dad’s mother had thrown out his cards, that I shouldn’t make the same mistake./the-importance-of-being-ernest-part-db6.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-importance-of-being-ernest-part-db6.htmlEvery Golden Age has to end. Every heyday has to come to a close eventually. Nothing gold can stay. For Jim Varney, Ernest P. Worrell’s legendary winning streak came to an abrupt end with 1993’s Ernest Rides Again, his first movie post-Touchstone and his final film to receive a major national release.  The next Ernest movie, 1994’s Ernest Goes to School, was theatrically released in just two lucky cities: Cincinnati and Louisville./the-jennifer-lopez-i-liked.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-jennifer-lopez-i-liked.html(Above: Jennifer Lopez posted this wedding day photo on her Instagram page jlo as well as on her newsletter which is linked to below. There is sweetness to this photo that actually touched me.) Congratulations to Jennifer Lynn Affleck on her marriage to Ben There Done That. I know. Too glib. But the congratulations is sincere. I wish them a long and happy marriage and much happiness. She first announced it on her newsletter, OntheJLo./casanova-and-da-ponte-the-lives-and.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/casanova-and-da-ponte-the-lives-and.htmlA heads-up that this article contains some frank descriptions of sexual abuse and incest. Please take care while reading. Welcome to Part 2 of Six Degrees of Plácido Domingo, where we’ll be exploring opera’s current #MeToo reckoning through four centuries of misogyny and misconduct in the genre’s history — onstage and off. If you missed Part 1, check out The Medici: Sex, Power, and the Birth of Opera. The fate of Don Giovanni is one thing./the-need-for-time.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-need-for-time.htmlMy father died, unexpectedly, the fall I turned 48. In the months that followed, I created a bucket list. The places I wanted to visit. The books I wanted to read. The things I wanted to do. It was the first time I looked forward and considered the rest of my life. I wanted to know what it was I would regret not doing. Writing was at the top of the list./the-neon-demon-2016.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-neon-demon-2016.html3/10 Considering how long I’d been meaning to watch it, The Neon Demon was a big disappointment. It’s a good example of how a movie can have individual elements to create something special—dazzling cinematography, some decent performances, a cool electronic score by Cliff Martinez—yet fail on the most basic level of telling a coherent story or having characters who act like human beings. The film is directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, who also created the story and co-wrote the screenplay with Mary Laws and Polly Stenham./the-nudest-colony-in-the-pines.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-nudest-colony-in-the-pines.htmlIt recently came to my attention that not only was there a nudist campground and beach in the Pine Barrens from the 1930s to the 1980s, but it was founded by a Baptist minister who “became the leader of the nudist movement in America,” according to the linked article in the Philly Inquirer (paywall). The ruins remain, on private property, by an owner who hopes to revive it as an RV Park (clothing required, as far as I can tell)./betsey.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/betsey.htmlAt this point, Betsey Brown is probably known best for her breakthrough lead role in Dasha Nekrasova’s The Scary of Sixty-First, a wild, manic performance that feels just as possessed as the character she is playing. Brown is also known for collaborating with her brother, Peter Vack, who has acted alongside her from a young age as well as directed her in his own directorial debut, Assholes. Now, Brown is making the rounds with her own first feature, the aptly titled Actors that casts her and Vack as themselves engaged in what she calls “a race to depravity”./issue-49-the-pearly-kings-and-queens-london.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-49-the-pearly-kings-and-queens-london.htmlWelcome to Born Free Press, a fortnightly newsletter delivering a free-range collection of interesting stories for interested people. Currently focusing on quirks and curiosities from the UK’s history. For anyone who’s lived in London for a while, the sight of men and women dressed in black outfits heavily adorned in buttons is not uncommon – although certainly impressive. As spelled out on their backs, they are the Pearly Kings and Queens of London./90-tie-yi-yi-the-reveal-discusses.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/90-tie-yi-yi-the-reveal-discusses.htmlYi Yi (2000)  Dir. Edward Yang Ranking: #90 (tie) Previous rankings: #119 (2012) Premise: Yi Yi follows various members of the Jian family, middle class residents of Taipei, during a dramatic stretch between a wedding and a funeral. The wedding, which opens the film, is between the reckless, high-spirited A-Di (Chen Hsi-Sheng) and his pregnant bride Xiao-Yan (Shushen Xiao). While returning from a mid-reception trip to McDonalds with his son Yang-Yang (Jonatahn Chang), N./the-rise-and-fall-of-call-me-by-your.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rise-and-fall-of-call-me-by-your.htmlIs “Latinx” a thing? Should kinks be allowed at parades? And what’s queerbaiting? The start of June means the arrival of Pride Month, and with Pride Month comes heightened, annoying discourse about every facet of our existence. Much of this includes reevaluating the media we used to hold near and dear, seeing how well it holds up and ruining it for others when it doesn’t. In the last year, we’ve dog-piled Ryan Murphy and seen Ellen DeGeneres get dethroned as America’s favorite lesbian — both of which were a long time coming./the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-goon.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-goon.htmlThe date is October 1st, 2024. You’re in your gooncave. You put on your VR headset and fire up GoonoShop v1.0. This software runs a text-to-video machine learning model which generates photorealistic porn clips, streaming a barrage of e-girl ass directly into your eyeballs. The prompt inputs for the text-to-video model are generated by a language model hooked up to a reinforcement learning algorithm. As the clips zoom past, you can press a number between 1 and 5 on your keyboard to rate the experience./the-rosa-parks-of-the-north.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rosa-parks-of-the-north.htmlIn my job, I get to know a lot of fascinating people. It’s one of my favorite parts of what I do. I’ll never forget my times interviewing the late Daisy Myers for my book Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb. Daisy was quiet but fierce. She and her family took an extraordinary and courageous stand against discrimination and injustice - and the most powerful builder in America, William Levitt./the-space-gal-science-style-stay-curious-fashion.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-space-gal-science-style-stay-curious-fashion.htmlEmily Calandrelli, known to many as @TheSpaceGal on social media and host of Emily’s Wonder Lab on Netflix, just published her ninth (!) children’s science book, Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: Next Level. To greet her fans around the country, the MIT engineer is wearing the most fun — and feminine — outfits. Think: Tulle skirts, sparkly shoes, and pearl headbands. Calandrelli has loudly and proudly turned her book tour into a fashion show, too./the-story-of-a-terrible-building.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-of-a-terrible-building.htmlI want to talk to you about some buildings. You may or may not know this about me, depending on how you’ve come to this newsletter, but in my daily, non-internet life, I’m an architect. Wait, stay — no, I don’t like the way most architects write about architecture either. There’s a great deal of pretension, of empty theory and academic word salad, of trying to prove that you’re smarter than your reader by making what you’re saying utterly inscrutable./the-three-paradoxes-of-generative.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-three-paradoxes-of-generative.htmlI’ve been doing a lot of pondering about how to think about generative AI. As a result, I’ve come up with a three paradoxes and two metaphors that might help you think more deeply about how it works, how to use it and its impact on the workplace. One of the questions I always get about generative AI is, “won’t it leave a lot of people behind?” And the answer is…complicated./the-top-five-faith-based-films-of.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-top-five-faith-based-films-of.htmlI wasn’t planning to do any sort of end-of-the-year wrap-up, but a couple weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist asking if I knew what the most popular “faith-based” films of the year had been, and whether I had any comments on them. I wasn’t sure I could say which films religious audiences had liked the most, as that’s a purely subjective thing and as far as I know there’s no religious equivalent to CinemaScore or anything like that./no-3-the-unique-difficulty-of-leaving.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-3-the-unique-difficulty-of-leaving.htmlThis time nine years ago, Oshiomogho’s NFL career ended in a split second and started a string of sad Septembers I didn’t know I’d be able to shake.  For my entire life, September could always be summed up by three sounds: fresh chalk on an emerald board, the first crunch of fallen leaves and the whistles, crashing helmets, grunts and roar of a crowd during a football game. Many of you know my husband played in the NFL for 8 seasons./the-violent-end-of-malcolm-x.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-violent-end-of-malcolm-x.htmlEarl Grant loved Malcolm X. On February 21, 1965, moments before giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, Malcolm asked Grant for a favor — he needed a phone call placed on his behalf to a fundraiser and insisted Grant make it from a phone booth away from the stage. “Do this for me, brother,” Malcolm pled, trying t… ncG1vNJzZmiokam%2Fqq%2FKsKCtrKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXau2sLjEp6tmnZ6ZerCyjKaYpZufobpuxA%3D%3D/the-why-behind-xx-xy-athletics.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-why-behind-xx-xy-athletics.htmlI moved away from home when I was fourteen to train at one of the most demanding gymnastics clubs in the country. In 1986 I became the U.S. National Champion. But this title came with a heavy price. I trained forty hours a week and subsisted on a forced starvation diet. I was publicly berated by my coaches for gaining a quarter pound. I practiced on a broken ankle for two years./the-worlds-oldest-grinding-stone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-worlds-oldest-grinding-stone.htmlThe world’s oldest grinding stone dates to 68,700 years old and comes from Madjedbebe rock shelter on the Mirrarr Nation in northern Arnhem Land, Australia Aboriginal Land. 563 grinding stones were collected from at the Madjedbebe rock shelter and 104 grinding stones were analysed during the study. It is the oldest human example of a stone used to grind food. The second-oldest grinding stone dates to 60,300 years old and comes from Nauwalabila on the Mirrarr Nation in Kakadu in the Northern Territory./this-narca-got-33-years-after-pleading.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-narca-got-33-years-after-pleading.htmlThe first time and last time that I visited the city of Zacapa, Guatemala, my team and I were sitting in our car in traffic when there came a hard and constant beeping from behind. Turning to look out of the back window, I saw a heavy black truck behind us.  The driver was honking the horn so aggressively that the cars started scrambling to get out of the way. That wasn’t the only motivator./this-old-house.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-old-house.htmlThis winter, my parents sold our childhood home. It was a creaky old house (like, 19th century old), the kind that spooked peers in grammar school and fascinated friends in high school. I knew all of its quirks by heart: how to jiggle the handle of the bathroom door just so to avoid getting stuck inside; how to gently, quietly place my feet on each step to avoid waking my parents up after a late night out./this-senior-is-channeling-90s-naomi.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-senior-is-channeling-90s-naomi.htmlWelcome to Late Bloomer, a newsletter and community for teen girls.   Late Bloomer publishes in collaboration with The Conversationalist, a nonprofit feminist media outlet that amplifies global perspectives with original reporting and commentary. From a beginner’s guide to reproductive justice to navigatingchanges in adult friendships, join The Conversationalist community for thoughtful stories that are led with nuance and empathy. Meet Saniya, a high school senior from New Jersey who loves ‘00s emo music, binge-watching South Park, and hanging with friends at the beach./thomas-popys-house-of-cards.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thomas-popys-house-of-cards.htmlAmong the first things the Beaujolais-born Jura vigneron Thomas Popy mentions, when I first visit him in July 2020 with my friends Juliette and Bert, is he generally prefers not to have his picture on the internet. I can see the wisdom in this. There’s basically no way to keep one’s face off the internet entirely. But it slows the avalanche a bit, and, as any good winemaker knows, the rate at which an event occurs - be it the pressing of a tank, or fermentation, or positive media coverage - is as important as the achievement of the event itself./time-for-a-twitter-break.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-for-a-twitter-break.htmlI have so many problems with Twitter! Or at least the corner of Twitter that is most visible to me. I just think it’s a really toxic place, and that there’s no way to “win” the fights I keep compulsively getting into there. My many hours on Twitter, in addition to (I think) making me feel twitchier and just generally worse than I would if I weren’t on the platform, rob me of time I could spend catching up on all the work I am behind on due to my disorganization and tendency sometimes to overextend myself./tinker-tailor-tory-traitor.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tinker-tailor-tory-traitor.htmlWho is the author of this passage describing? He hated the EU very deeply, he said. For a while, he had remained content with Britain’s part in the world, till gradually it dawned on him just how trivial this was. In the historical mayhem of his own lifetime, he could point to no one occasion: simply he knew that if England were out of the game, the price of fish would not be altered by a farthing./taylor-swift-marjorie.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-marjorie.htmlTaylor Swift has always had an innate gift that allows her to perfectly imbue songs with distinct emotions by using hyperspecific details to create the sound of a feeling. It’s one of the things that has made her songwriting stick so hard and for so long, and it mostly recurs in her love songs – it’s difficult not to be affected by the momentary lovestruck fantasies of “Enchanted,” the intense passion of new romance in “Fearless” and “Sparks Fly,” and the touching partnership on display in “Lover./tokyo-ueno-station.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tokyo-ueno-station.htmlThis passage appears on the first page of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles: I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be numbered, but there is no plot./tone-glow-104-animal-collective.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tone-glow-104-animal-collective.htmlFor more than 20 years, Animal Collective has remained one of the most celebrated indie bands from the United States, constantly innovating from album to album, dabbling in drone and avant-rock, noise and free folk, dub reggae and psychedelic pop. Consisting of David Portner (Avey Tare), Noah Lennox (Panda Bear), Brian Weitz (Geologist), and Josh Dibb (Deakin), the band has maintained their adventurous spirit through an openness to who participates in each release, a diversity of songwriting strategies, and a willingness to bring other collaborators on board./tone-glow-132-kelly-moran.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tone-glow-132-kelly-moran.htmlKelly Moran (b. 1988) is a New York-based composer and pianist who has spent her career excavating the sonic possibilities of the piano. It was at the University of Michigan where she became interested in prepared piano and other extended techniques for the instrument. In the past decade she has released numerous albums, including Optimist (2016), Bloodroot (2017), and Ultraviolet (2018), the latter of which was her first LP for Warp./treating-dropsy-in-bettas.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/treating-dropsy-in-bettas.htmlNow that we’ve discussed what Type 1 dropsy is and what it looks like, we can move onto what to do about it. The treatment is the same for all stages of pineconing regardless of how advanced it may be. A fish showing pre-dropsy signs will receive the same care as a Stage 4 fish. I have developed these dropsy protocols to be as clear and easy to understand as possible./truth-is-a-woman-at-the-bottom-of.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/truth-is-a-woman-at-the-bottom-of.htmlPeople are talking about James Somerton. Sometimes talking about someone whether good or bad is just publicity and ends up working out to help them in the end no matter what the controversy. This isn’t one of those times. On December 2nd, 2023, YouTube video essayist hbomberguy, known for his well-researched and relatively rare videos, dropped what amounts to a…well an H-Bomb onto James Somerton’s career. Somerton, a creator (can we use that word for him anymore?/tt-348-prisencolinensinainciusol.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tt-348-prisencolinensinainciusol.htmlThis one is a bit hard to explain. In the ‘60’s Adriano Celentano made a big career in his home country of Italy by singing American rock music. I’ve checked out a few samples of Celentano from that era and nothing strikes me as unusual. However, in 1972, Celentano embraced the surreal and created the astonishing one-off "Prisencolinensinainciusol." It’s a studio production featuring primitive drums and horns on a loop. The lyrics are gibberish./tuesday-42324-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tuesday-42324-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlNam sure makes a lot of faces! Looks like he changed his podium signature as well as his outfit. Tonight, he’s wearing a black dress shirt with a dark brown jacket. I like this combo and it’s pretty unique! Lianne seems like the coolest piano teacher! I love her bright pink shirt and zip jacket. She also added a necklace and multiple earrings. I like Mark’s tiny-polka-dot shirt under this grey sweater!/tune-glue-016-marissa-zappas.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tune-glue-016-marissa-zappas.htmlMarissa Zappas is a perfumer, scent designer, and poet based in New York City. Her approach to perfumery merges her background in anthropology with her admiration for avant-garde perfumes of the early twentieth century. Her fragrances are often personal and she is known for her collaborations with New York City artists. Her ethereal and deeply nostalgic perfumes blend the fantasy and the real with the gothic and the modern. Zappas believes creating and wearing perfume is a way of invoking future (as well as present and past) selves./living-evil-unearthed-bodies-and.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/living-evil-unearthed-bodies-and.htmlOn June 21st 2020 allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Dota 2 commentator and Evil Geniuses streamer Grant “GrandGrant” Harris. Initially he had not been named in the comments made by a Twitter user but then later was specifically outed as someone who had been sexually aggressive towards someone during their attendance at an event. After the allegations gained traction across social media Harris apologised to the victim but then further allegations were made./unfinished-business.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unfinished-business.htmlBefore today’s episode guide a quick word from our continuity announcer. I have decided we should all celebrate the wonderful world of Murder, She Wrote to the MAX with a special day dedicated to the show. I hereby announce International Murder, She Wrote Day, which will happen on the anniversary of the day the show was first televised here in the UK—19th May 1985 - every year from now on, forever!/upheaval-interview-matthew-b-crawford.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/upheaval-interview-matthew-b-crawford.htmlMatthew B. Crawford is a philosopher. Actually he’s more like a modern Renaissance man: a self-taught auto-mechanic and one-time custom motorcycle shop owner, a repentant former D.C. think tanker, a best-selling author with an undergraduate education in physics and a University of Chicago Ph.D. in ancient political thought, and now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. But to me he’s most remarkable for being one of the very small group of people I’d favorably describe as genuine contemporary philosophers, given how his work strives not only to make real strides in understanding the world as it is, but also – in the tradition of the true greats of the ancient world – to suggest a concrete way to live in that world./we-can-do-hard-things.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-can-do-hard-things.htmlHello, friends: I hope this finds you well. First of all, a hearty welcome to new subscribers—particularly those who arrived by way of We Can Do Hard Things, the podcast hosted by Glennon & Amanda Doyle and Abby Wambach, on which I’m thrilled to say I recently was a guest. (You can listen to the entire conversation here and here — it was a double episode!) I’m also thrilled to see that Substack’s algorithm has chosen to randomly feature this specific frame from this video clip—I had nothing to do with this, but wow: delight!/wednesday-42424-jeopardy-fashion.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wednesday-42424-jeopardy-fashion.htmlA few people noticed this week that theJeopardy Contestant Zone page was showing the contestants’ losing outfits instead of their Day 1 outfits (they did this often at the end of last season too.) Previously, the outfit on Contestant Zone was almost always the Day 1 outfit . A Reddit post regarding this seems to have caught the attention of the Jeopardy web team, because all the photos for this week were switched this afternoon — including Nam’s from Monday and Tuesday./welcome-to-the-material-world.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-the-material-world.htmlI’ve spent the best part of the past three years working on a book called Material World. The elevator pitch is that it’s an attempt to tell the story of the modern world (and a bit of its history and future) from the vantage point of six important substances upon which civilisation depends. Those materials are as follows: Sand, the foundations of the modern world, the silicon substrate from which we make glass, concrete and even silicon chips./what-ive-learned-from-the-immaculate.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-ive-learned-from-the-immaculate.htmlA few months ago an old friend from high school sent me a text about the Immaculate Grid, an online baseball trivia game. I checked it out quickly and didn’t understand it. However, I went back to it a few weeks later and became hooked. Now the Immaculate Grid is like a warmup exercise for my day. It allows me to start thinking about obscure baseball pl… ncG1vNJzZmikmaOwsLjNpqCtm5iaua160q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnp52utXnIr5xmpJWWv6%2Bxw2adq6edYsGpsYyipKaZk6q5osDE/what-in-the-world-is-this-thing-we.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-in-the-world-is-this-thing-we.htmlA private detective in Los Angeles is asked to find a girl who’s gone missing. At the same time, he discovers his wife is cheating on him. He confronts his wife, but nothing is resolved. He follows the girl's trail to the Florida Keys. He finds her staying with her step-father and his on-again off-again girlfriend. On a day trip out in a boat, this odd group comes across the underwater wreckage of a small airplane./january-26.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/january-26.htmlShare The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald This quote is often cited by those seeking to demonstrate a first-rate mind, although more often than not, they are guilty of category error in that what they compare are not opposed ideas so much as seemingly opposed but really quite different ideas./what-is-a-marquess-anyway.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-marquess-anyway.htmlIf you asked people to name the five ranks of the British peerage, I’d guess that most would stumble over “marquess”. It doesn’t seem to come naturally to mind, and it is not a common title: there are only extant 33 marquesses who do not also hold a higher title. Yet it is a very senior rank, second only to the dukes, and hardly an innovation. The first marquessate was created in 1385, and the premier marquess in the UK, the Marquess of Winchester, holds a title which dates from 1551./what-llama-3-means-to-china-ernie.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-llama-3-means-to-china-ernie.htmlHello readers, in this weekly issue, I’d like to discuss the implication of Llama 3 for China’s AI industry. Baidu’s ERNIE Bot reached a milestone of 200 million users. According to Stanford University’s latest report, China has produced 15 notable models in 2023, compared to the 61 models from the U.S. What’s New: On April 18, Meta unveiled its latest open-source Llama 3 series, which showcases superior performance over Llama 2./what-the-upa-style-actually-is.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-upa-style-actually-is.htmlWelcome! We’re back with another issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Glad you could join us. Here’s what we’re doing this week: One — breaking down the “UPA style” and its influence. Two — animation news from all around the world. Three — a post-UPA classic from the Hubleys. Four — the last word. If you’re new to our newsletter, we do this every week. You can sign up to receive our free Sunday issues right in your inbox:/exclusive-what-the-danny-masterson.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exclusive-what-the-danny-masterson.htmlWhen the Danny Masterson trial began, both sides issued witness lists that we publicized on October 13. The list for the prosecution included 13 members of law enforcement, 22 civilians, and 1 expert. Of those, the prosecution actually called 4 members of law enforcement, 9 civilians, and 1 expert during the trial. Among the witnesses not called by the prosecution was a former Scientologist by the name of Damian Perkins./what-to-consider-when-deciding-where.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-consider-when-deciding-where.htmlWelcome to the 9 new “In-Between‘s” who have joined us since last time! Join the 482 others by subscribing here if you haven’t already 📩: Have you checked out The In-Between Podcast on Apple Podcasts yet? Give it a listen by clicking the button below if you haven’t already 🎙️: The In-Between Podcast Follow my Twitter page as well for daily tweets and more content. Join the 958 followers! 📲: My Twitter Follow the Instagram page as well for all the latest updates./what-to-do-when-youve-got-the-morbs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-do-when-youve-got-the-morbs.htmlJames Redding Ware was a 19th century British novelist best known for creating (pseudonymously, as Andrew Forrester) one of the first female detectives in fiction — the mysterious Miss G — who bursts onto the scene in the rather unsubtly titled The Female Detective. Miss G (sometimes called Miss Gladden) was making brilliant deductions from far too little evidence more than 40 years before Sherlock Holmes got his start in A Study in Scarlet and almost 70 years before the first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage, which makes Ware an important early figure in the relatively short history of detective fiction./what-we-mean-when-we-talk-about-reworking.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-we-mean-when-we-talk-about-reworking.htmlMilton Nascimento wrote “Cancao do Sal/Salt Song” on a typewriter at a desk job, recalling the sight of workers toiling in unforgiving sun at the Cabo Frio salt flat near Rio. The workers were in the news at the time; a strike brought national attention to the low pay and grueling conditions faced by the men, women and children (!) employed there. The song was recorded in 1966 by Elis Regina, and became a hit./what-wr-luke-mccaffrey-brings-to.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-wr-luke-mccaffrey-brings-to.htmlWith the 100th pick, and the final pick of the third-round of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Washington Commanders selected wide receiver Luke McCaffrey out of Rice. McCaffrey is the younger brother of 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey, who Commanders GM Adam Peters knows well. Luke is his own man though and Peters didn’t draft him as a favor to his brother. The Commanders drafted McCaffrey to boost their receiving room./when-is-chocolate-not-actually-chocolate.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-is-chocolate-not-actually-chocolate.htmlThis week, something landed on my doorstep that I had been looking forward to for a long time, something that intrigued me and something that seemed impossible; Chocolate made without cocoa. How is it even possible to make chocolate without cocoa? Would it taste the same, would it have the same texture, why was it being made? I had a lot of questions. Before we get to the product, let’s remind ourselves what chocolate actually is./who-was-aristotle.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-was-aristotle.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Kids, First, a quick clarification. I’ve had a few readers write in a bit confused to what belongs to what in the growing world of Classical Wisdom.  Fair dinkum as they say ‘Down Under’.  About a year ago we launched Classical Wisdom KIDS, to help bring ancient wisdom to future minds. The thing is a lot of the ideas, history and concepts obviously work just as well as for adults./whos-the-boss-shes-the-boss.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-the-boss-shes-the-boss.htmlOh, how I love “Who’s the Boss?”And for something that aired in the 80s, I’d say it was fairly unconventional. A successful, suburban, recently divorced, single mother and advertising exec hires a single widower/father/former pro baseball player to be her housekeeper -- it’s unlike any show from that era that I’m familiar with, mainly because of its reversal of stereotypical gender roles. Often in mainstream culture, we see, or have seen in older media, the working husband and happy housewife trope./whos-punk-kate-bush.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-punk-kate-bush.htmlSo this has been a running series covering different artists who aren’t technically punk but are more punk than most actual punk bands. It’s been a minute, but I decided on Kate Bush partly to shamelessly buy-in on the hype surrounding “Running Up That Hill” and the ubiquitous culture thing that shall not be named. But also, she’s been on my radar for a while as a potential punk of interest./why-alexis-rose-is-your-favorite.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-alexis-rose-is-your-favorite.htmlQ: My Butter Sponsor for my FMC is Alexis Rose from Schitt's Creek. Spoiled rotten, but likable. I want my character to start off similarly spoiled rotten, but not be unlikable. Help! I loved this question from my Universal Fantasy Course as Alexis Rose became my favorite character from Schitt’s Creek, and I now happily follow Annie Murphy, the brilliant actress who portrayed her, anywhere from Season 2 of Russian Doll to “Joan is Awful,” the episode I liked most in Black Mirror’s sixth season./why-are-white-men-so-unambitious.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-white-men-so-unambitious.htmlDo you value the work that makes this happen twice a week, every week…that makes you think and introduces you to new thinkers and books and just generally thinking more about the culture that surrounds you? Consider becoming a subscribing member. Your support makes this work possible and sustainable. Plus, you’d get access to this week’s really great threads — I particularly loved yesterday’s on What Are You Watching, this one on all the Spring recipes you’re cooking, and this monster thread of advice./why-are-the-planets-named-after-gods.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-the-planets-named-after-gods.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Kids,  Did you know that all the planets are named after ancient Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses.... Except for one?  Earth is actually an old English/German name which simply means the ground. It comes from the Old English words 'eor(th)e' and 'ertha'. The rest - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and the sometimes planet Pluto - all derive their names from ancient deities.  Now... why are the planets named after gods?/why-do-they-call-us-book-worms.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-they-call-us-book-worms.htmlPeople generally call me a bookworm. After reading hundreds of books, that’s an inevitable tag you get. Have you ever wondered where the term "bookworm" comes from? It's a quirky, yet delightful piece of bookish trivia that traces back through centuries of literary history The word "bookworm" has been in use for centuries, and its origins can be traced to ancient civilizations. In the early days of the written word, before the advent of printed books, people wrote on materials like papyrus, parchment, and vellum./why-is-this-interesting-the-monday-7a9.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-this-interesting-the-monday-7a9.htmlWe’ve been reading Lane Florsheim (LF) in the WSJ for some time. She was initially introduced to us by a friend of WITI (and WSJ Mag assistant photo editor) Sara Morosi. She’s known for profiling interesting people and now we’ve turned the tables to see what is garnering her attention these days. - Colin (CJN) Tell us about yourself. I’m Lane Florsheim, a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal Magazine online./why-king-lee-day-in-alabama-is-a.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-king-lee-day-in-alabama-is-a.htmlOn Monday the outrage machine was in full force on social media, especially Twitter. It happens every year in January on the day that Alabama and Mississippi set aside to celebrate the birthdays of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert E. Lee. They are the only two states that continue to do so, but they are not the only two that honor Confederate leaders on the state calendar throughout the year./why-you-should-read-mansfield-park.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-you-should-read-mansfield-park.htmlIf you’re new to this Substack, one of the things I’m offering subscribers in 2023 is A Year with Jane. We’re reading through Austen’s six novels this year and Mansfield Park is our read for May and June. This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If you joined us for our read of Austen’s Emma, Mansfield Park might be a surprise./walk-the-dinosaur-was-not-was-1989.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walk-the-dinosaur-was-not-was-1989.htmlPeak: #7 on the Hot 100 Streams: 8.5 million It’s gonna take a minute to unpack the bizarre and remarkable career of Was (Not Was), so let’s settle in for… BOOM! BOOM! ACKA LACKA BOOM BOOM! Ahem. Forgive me. It’s hard to finish a thought when I’ve got the opening to “Walk the Dinosaur” stuck in my hand. Take a listen and see what happens to you. ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ww8ClomasmJp6pbXNqKqaraJixKK%2FjKemrWWnlsBufZhxcA%3D%3D/zach-shefska-founder-of-caredge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zach-shefska-founder-of-caredge.htmlI’m excited to share our next Idea Maze interview, this time with Zach Shefska, the founder and CEO of CarEdge. The CarEdge mission is to bring transparency and efficiency to the automotive industry through a combination of free educational resources, paid products for consumers, and by providing dealers with alternative ways to operate their businesses. This interview is different from our first few episodes because CarEdge is a much earlier stage business, at least in a conventional sense./zakiya-gibbons-new-fiction-d-and.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zakiya-gibbons-new-fiction-d-and.htmlHi hello! Wil Williams back at it again at Krispy Kreme (Podcast the Newsletter, because we are that sweet). It’s Valentine’s Day week, and as someone who LOVES LOVE, I am personally excited & thrilled & enthused & putting pink heart glitter on my face & buying people flowers. And as always always always, sharing my love for podcasting and the audio medium overall. Hopefully you’ll find some new loves from this edition too!/zeynep.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zeynep.htmlzeynepI'm a professor at Columbia University and a columnist at The New York Times. At Columbia, I direct the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security. I write about science, technology, society from a complex systems and sociological lens. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbux2KecqQ%3D%3D/coming-soon.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/coming-soon.htmlThe corner project is a one stop-destination of personal recommendations curated by Megan Batoon. From self discovery and development, to design advice, entertainment, home, beauty, fashion, music, food- really all things lifestyle. A little bit of levity, a little bit of my personal life I don’t put on the open internet, a lot a bit uncensored honesty. All in the means of connecting and sharing what makes my life more exciting to live that maybe just might make yours better too.