Good 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.

Monday 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.

In 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™.

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