/Recent content on FluxBlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-time-to-terrify-your-tablet.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-time-to-terrify-your-tablet.htmlGreetings from Newcastle. Keeping it very brief this week, but once again I come with an offering... It’s been a year full of giveaways and offers - and I’ve saved something special for Halloween. Right now, and up til the end of Halloween itself you can pick up my story collection Scattered Ashes for free on Kindle! As one of my longer works, I don’t usually give Scattered Ashes away, so this is a real rarity and an opportunity to grab a bargain./how-discord-dominated-gaming.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-discord-dominated-gaming.htmlMessaging app Discord is one of the world's most valuable consumer startups. After flying under the radar as "just" a chat app for gamers, Discord exploded into the public consciousness in 2020, racking up 100M MAUs and $130M in annual revenue. The company was recently valued at $15B, and is considered a 2022 IPO prospect. Seven years ago, Discord was in a very different place. For one, the company was called Hammer & Chisel - and it was a game development studio./nyc-tlc-driver-stabs-and-kills-man.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nyc-tlc-driver-stabs-and-kills-man.htmlNYPD said Dominic Cruz Aguilera, 19, was killed by a neighbor in what appears to be a dispute that started over a double-parked vehicle Dispute happened outside of a deli on Featherbed Lane and Inwood Avenue in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx on Thursday morning, April 18th Community members say parking is a chronic problem that sometimes leads to disputes and fights, but has never resulted in a serious crime/do-they-know-its-racist.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-they-know-its-racist.htmlTaking a break from prepping for his New Year partying, my eldest son plonked himself on the sofa and scrolled through his phone. ‘Omigod!….’ ‘What?’ ‘This song! Unbelievable!’ ‘What song? Unbelievable why?’ ‘Do you know ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’?’ ‘Er, yeah, of course.’ ‘And did you know the lyrics were so unbelievably racist?’ ‘Racist? Are you for real?’ ‘Er, yes. Listen: And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time/ The greatest gift they'll get this year is life/ Where nothing ever grows/ No rain nor rivers flow/ Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?/dracula-by-bram-stoker.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dracula-by-bram-stoker.htmlDracula is an idiot. Everybody knows the first rule of real estate is location, location, location. There’s no excuse for a centuries-old evil being not to know this as he looks for a second home. Castle Dracula, his primary residence, is perfect. It’s safe (for him), it’s close to everything he needs (human victims), and he has good roommates (sexy vampire ladies) and neighbors (friendly wolves). Why, then, would he look to London for a pied-à-terre?/euphoria-and-how-kat-breaks-the-mould.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/euphoria-and-how-kat-breaks-the-mould.htmlThis post contains mild spoilers for Euphoria, but only for Kat’s storyline. Promise. The premise for Euphoria feels like any other teen show: an ensemble of characters from varying cliques (popular girls, jocks and weirdos included) all attempt to navigate adolescence, participating in parties and prom nights whilst still trying to make their grades. But there’s a depth to this show that sets it apart from the rest. Created by Sam Levinson (Assassination Nation) and starring Zendaya (most recently seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home), Euphoria is a depiction of what it’s like to be a teenager right now - at least, that’s what it feels like to me, at the grand old (irrelevant) age of 26./notebook-martin-on-tank-im-gonna.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-martin-on-tank-im-gonna.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./jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce.htmlUp until July of 2022, I’d never seen Chantal Akerman’s masterwork Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. It wasn’t a lack of awareness or desire that withheld me from watching Akerman’s methodical, yet arresting film. Rather I was guided by a need to find the right moment. Running at 202 minutes, I knew if I ever did sit down to view this Belgium-set film, like Dr Zhivago, I’d need the rest of the day to marinate on its vision./moonlighting-and-the-memory-hole.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moonlighting-and-the-memory-hole.htmlNEW STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This newsletter aggressively spoils things. Recently, Hulu started streaming Moonlighting, the show mainly famous for a) making Bruce Willis into a star and b) being almost totally unavailable in the modern age. I used to think streaming meant I'd be able to watch anything I wanted, any time I wanted like those lucky ducks in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, but now TV shows and movies are literally vanishing from streaming platforms and being memory-holed by their own production companies, and my brother, who is a die-hard physical media weirdo, laughs at me smugly as he fondles all the movies he literally owns that no one can take away from him./traitors-season-2-octopus-murders-idea-of-you.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/traitors-season-2-octopus-murders-idea-of-you.htmlWelcome to Gibson Johns’ pop culture newsletter — subscribe to get recommendations of what to watch, read and listen to in your inbox every week!Subscribe to my new weekly podcast “Gabbing with Gib”: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTubeSending my condolences to everyone who, like me, is mourning the loss of “The Traitors” season 2, which officially came to an end with last night’s epic finale and fun reunion special. If you’re really missing “Traitors” content, join me in jumping into the second season of “The Traitors UK,” which just dropped on Peacock./short-142-pudgy-penguins-gif-strategy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/short-142-pudgy-penguins-gif-strategy.htmlLast week I came across a tweet from a Pudgy Penguin team member that piqued my interest. HALF A BILLION VIEWS? Time for some TPan investigation. Fortunately Berko_Crypto (Pudgy Penguins Community Lead) made it easy because they linked back to a thread from early October outlining the Pudgy Penguin GIF strategy. TLDR: The Pudgy Penguin community uses memes as a dominant form of communication. Memes have risen in prominence over the years thanks to the rise of social media platforms./andrew-hubermans-mechanisms-of-control.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andrew-hubermans-mechanisms-of-control.htmlI almost skipped commenting on thisAndrew Huberman mess from New York Magazine. Why? Because it’s overly sensationalized gossip dressed as news. ‘Oh, the recently rich and famous Phd self-optimization guru that’s on TRT and who has never been married has multiple girlfriends?’ Damn, that’s so crazy I would have never guessed. For those who don’t know here’s NY synopsis of him… “Today, Andrew Huberman is a stiff, jacked 48-year-old associate professor of neurology and ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine./deadloch-shouldnt-work-instead-its.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deadloch-shouldnt-work-instead-its.htmlThis is a mostly spoiler-free review of “Deadloch.” We’ll talk about the bones of the show (eh?) but no specific plot points or details beyond the first episode because you really should just, please, watch it. TAMMY: “Is that a body? Oh shit his dick’s on fire!” I can’t hammer this home hard enough: Deadloch should. Not. Work. And yet. And yet…! It does. Oh, how it does. Deadloch is 30 Rock meets True Detective./doctor-cha-showcases-a-womans-liberation.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doctor-cha-showcases-a-womans-liberation.htmlFor my post today, I’ve written reviews of the K-drama “Doctor Cha” and the Korean film “Yaksha: Ruthless Operations.” You may read the entire post, or just skip to the section that interests you by clicking on the specific review: Doctor Cha ☆☆☆ Yaksha: Ruthless Operations ☆☆☆ As always, the ratings are based on a ☆☆☆☆ system and are based on my own personal tastes. So without further ado, here are my thoughts on what I’ve recently watched./culture-critique-it-was-beauty-killed.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/culture-critique-it-was-beauty-killed.htmlPeter Jackson’s King Kong is one of the best movie remakes ever. While there are some issues with the film such as its overly long run time, lack of payoff for several characters that are built up over the course of the film, and its sluggish opening, I still find it to be a more enjoyable watch each time I see it as I get older. The CGI which is over a decade and a half old now still holds up despite its age, and Jackson’s version of Skull Island is my favorite out of the myriad versions of King Kong’s home since its existence in 1933./the-frogs-clarified.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-frogs-clarified.htmlI had a Sondheim flashback all my own watching The Frogs recently — S.S.’s rarely produced mini-masterwork, in a revelatory concert staging mounted by maestro Ted Sperling and his MasterVoices ensemble at Lincoln Center Jazz’s Rose Theater. This show is not easy to perform. Sperling and Co. accomplished it thrillingly. I first saw The Frogs, as just about everyone did, in its so-called Broadway premiere at Lincoln Center Theater back in 2004, with a book revised by Nathan Lane, who also starred./worthless-twink-tim-abbott-whats.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worthless-twink-tim-abbott-whats.htmlThe Worthless Twink is one of the most prominent gays on Instagram. But he's not called that anymore. Tim Abbott is reinventing himself as a meme artist. He gets real and raw with Josh about influencers, the gays, and self-obsession. This episode was recorded before the tragic death of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies on Monday the 19th of Febru… ncG1vNJzZmitnpi8rrLOq6uampyasLC61Z6prJmknryvv42srJurpJawrHrCqKRoqF%2BsvLPAx6WcrKtdqcSquspmq6KlXZavo7vTrWSwoJGpwA%3D%3D/youd-do-it-for-randolph-scott.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/youd-do-it-for-randolph-scott.htmlBefore it was Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks pitched the title Purple Sage. Derived from the five-time adopted 1912 novel Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, Brooks hoped the title could be repurposed as a double reference to his own lead character, Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little), whose dark skin and uncommon wisdom lay the groundwork for a satire on Hollywood capitalism, systemic racial prejudice - and the Western genre that sometimes provides cover to both./19-everyone-has-a-worldview.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/19-everyone-has-a-worldview.htmlEvery single person has a worldview, whether they know it, whether they can articulate it, or whether they acknowledge it. Simply put, everyone has a worldview. Trying to make sense of the world and to discern our place in it has occupied the hearts and minds of thinking people since the beginning of history. We all grapple with humanity’s basic questions at some point, or at many points, during our lives./this-old-grey-sweater-is-my-wardrobe.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-old-grey-sweater-is-my-wardrobe.htmlLast week, Who What Wear asked me what must-haves I would take to a deserted island, and at the very top of that list was my trusty grey, 100% wool COS sweater. Now that might sound super boring to you, but I think of it like this: the items I chose for the article were all key foundational pieces which form the backbone of my wardrobe. They’re all functional and versatile across the various areas of my life (work, mom life, nights out, etc…), and I can wear them year around (except in the hottest of summer days)./1952-vincent-black-lightning.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1952-vincent-black-lightning.htmlHappy newest of years, everyone. This is Week 10 of Slayed by Voices, which means only eight posts left before we wrap on January 27. In another happy coincidence, while 2021 brought a 30th anniversary to today’s song, 2022 offers a 70th anniversary of sorts to the title. ncG1vNJzZmirnJbGprDBsq2ooZOawG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2hpaWp%2FbsLIp5qepqRir62twqRkpaGXncGvtc2g/21-best-investment-quotes-my-top.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/21-best-investment-quotes-my-top.html“The first rule of investment is: Don’t Lose. And the second rule of investment is: Don’t forget the first rule.” - Warren Buffett “I put two children through Harvard by trading options. Unfortunately, they were my broker’s children.” - Jason Zweig “If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” - Unknown “When you want to test the depths of the stream, don’t use both feet./3-reasons-not-to-buy-boil-or-ung.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3-reasons-not-to-buy-boil-or-ung.htmlOn Sunday, I posted a podcast interview I did with Jason Burack of Wall Street for Main Street in which we discussed the long-term outlook for natural gas and a long list of US natural gas producers. And back in late January I wrote a piece on natural gas for FMS titled “What’s Next for Natural Gas.” One common question I’ve received is whether the ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas (NSDQ: BOIL) ETF is a legitimate way to play a potential rally in gas later on this year./30-years-of-ghibli-laputa-castle.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/30-years-of-ghibli-laputa-castle.htmlOriginally published at Entropy Magazine in 2015. 2015 is the 30th anniversary of the founding of Studio Ghibli and, according to Hayao Miyazaki, it may also be one of its final years as a studio. Because this is one of my favorite films studios and Miyazaki is one of my favorite artists, who’s made some of my favorite films, I’ve decided to go through the history of Studio Ghibli one film at a time./578-hamilton-morris-psychedelic-researcher.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/578-hamilton-morris-psychedelic-researcher.htmlHamilton Morris (born April 14, 1987) is an American journalist, documentarian, and scientific researcher. He is the creator and director of the television series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, in which he investigates the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of various psychoactive drugs. Join us at the Budokon retreat. Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Family Affair,” by Sly and the Family Stone; “Do You Want my Job?” by Little Village./83-assurance-and-reassurance-are.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/83-assurance-and-reassurance-are.htmlI have a confession to make. I’m growing tired of the word “reassurance”. I hear it probably 100 times every day in our community. “You’re seeking reassurance!” “This just your need for reassurance!” “Reassurance seeking will keep you stuck!” These are not inherently bad or wrong statements, but I think we’re collectively suffering from that disease where we use a word without necessarily always understanding what it means. Let clear this up./a-biltmore-christmas.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-biltmore-christmas.htmlI have a confession to make. I’ve never seen Miracle on 34th Street. I know. How can I call myself a reviewer of Christmas movies if I’ve never seen Miracle on 34th Street? It’s like, the quintessential Christmas movie. It is the fertile loin from which all other Christmas movies have sprung. It’s a motherfuckin’ classic. And yeah, I dunno, I just never watched it. Here’s everything I know about Miracle on 34th Street: it’s black and white./a-brief-conversation-with-katy-hershberger.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-conversation-with-katy-hershberger.htmlA few weeks ago, Katy Hershberger from Publishers Marketplace called me about a story she was considering for Publishers Lunch. She had a few questions for me in the wake of my first two Substack posts, and asked if I would be willing to answer them on the record. I said I would. She later wrote back and said the story was on hold. I asked her if I could publish our Q&A anyway and she said fine./pepis-pizza-a-central-new-york-landmark.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pepis-pizza-a-central-new-york-landmark.htmlWhen I was in junior-high and high-school in the 1980s in Oneida, New York, a half-mile stretch of Route 5 on Genesee Street was dubbed “The Strip,” and it’s where I spent countless weekend nights hanging out and, once I got my driver’s license, “cruising” the main drag with my friends. (I lucked out to have two other good friends named Brad and we may have been known as, or called ourselves, “The Brad Pack”)./a-chat-with-casting-director-bernard.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-chat-with-casting-director-bernard.htmlOur guest today is a powerbroker. No, really. As a casting director, Bernard (Bernie to most people) Telsey wields considerable power — and he tries to use it for good, not evil. Telsey’s breakthrough came when he helped put together the original cast of “Rent,” back in the mid-1990s. Since then he’s worked on a gazillion shows on Broadway, Off and around the country, as well as on movies and TV — Telsey is probably the main reason every nook and cranny of HBO’s “The Gilded Age” is filled with Broadway people./the-amazing-story-of-the-guardians.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-amazing-story-of-the-guardians.htmlWelcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. Steve Sachs is managing director of the Guardian US, a role he assumed in October 2022. He also serves on the Board of the Texas Tribune, and has worked with Cityside and other nonprofit news orgs. Previous roles included leading tech start-ups and a significant stint on the business side of Time Inc./a-day-to-remember.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-day-to-remember.htmlToday would have been Sir Robin Day’s 100th birthday. He died in August 2000, aged 76. In the last few years of his life, I used to see him quite often at lunchtimes. Though pretty much retired by then, he would have read and absorbed everything in the morning newspapers, quizzing me relentlessly on politics and the law. I was the BBC’s legal corresponde… ncG1vNJzZmiqn6%2Byr67Eq55nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrYydmLJlpKR6s7HMnqSbnaI%3D/a-fungal-mycelium-in-three-dimensions.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-fungal-mycelium-in-three-dimensions.htmlEverybody has to have a dream. In my case, I have several science related dreams, and one of them is to see one of our lab’s saprobic fungi in actual three dimensions (3-D). I mean one fungus from our set of about 30 isolates with which we have worked during the past 10 years or so. We know a lot about these fungi, but ironically not what they really look like./a-glimpse-of-prison-slave-labor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-glimpse-of-prison-slave-labor.htmlAudio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.I recently had a startling conversation with an incarcerated man named Marvin. You can listen to an excerpt by hitting play on the link above. Marvin told me about something I thought I knew about, but to hear him describe his direct experience on an Alabama prison chain gang shocked me awake. This ugly chapter in our recent history suddenly became less abstract, Marvin’s words painting my plain understanding into vivid color./a-guide-for-prospective-tea-monks.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-for-prospective-tea-monks.htmlOn the 8th January of this year I met with the Bristol Utopian Book Collective, where we discussed ‘A Psalm For The Wild Built’ by Becky Chambers. It was the second time I'd read the book, and I got carried away with my thoughts and ended up writing a guide to the fictional role of a Tea Monk offering Tea Service freely to others, as the protagonist of her novella does./a-guide-to-wisconsin-frozen-custard.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-guide-to-wisconsin-frozen-custard.htmlMy mother had her places, businesses she was fiercely loyal to and returned to again and again until she passed. Most were related to her childhood growing up in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa and, in her mind, connected to an idea of Old Milwaukee ways. And many were interlaced with her German heritage, of which she was proud. There was Karl Ratzch’s, the tradition-rich German restaurant; Usinger’s, peerless maker of German sausages; Marshall Fields, the Chicago-based department store that has a single outlet in the Milwaukee area and was the toniest store in town; Hughes’ Chocolates, a purist candy maker that worked out of the basement of a house in Oshkosh; Stein’s Garden Center, which has served Milwaukee’s gardening needs since 1946; Watts Tea Shop, above the Watts china shop, where a sophisticated shopper could enjoy a pleasant lunch; the Fox & Hounds, a cozy culinary retreat about an hour northeast of Milwaukee; The Elm Grove Inn, which was in business for 150 years until it closed in 2008; and Gilles’ Frozen Custard./a-haunting-cca.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-haunting-cca.htmlFearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills. Share I can’t sleep. I feel unsafe, even though I am completely so, tucked into a hotel room in Oświęcim, Poland. The war in Israel is deeply upsetting to so many of us, but for some reason, it’s making me feel unsafe. I’m at Auschwitz, so it’s possible that part of the feeling is amplified by being so fundamentally reminded of my Jewishness with all the hateful rhetoric against Israelis right now./a-close-read-of-rich-men-north-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-close-read-of-rich-men-north-of.htmlLet's just start with the fact that this "song" is bad (I'll get to the lyrics later). But, it's almost unlistenable. No, I take that back, it is unlistenable. Crappy production, 3rd grade use of chord progression, and this guy's (keep it in the shower) voice. If I thought "Am I the Only One" was shit, there needs to be a new category to place this "gem" somewhere even lower. At the very least, Aaron Lewis sounds decent enough throughout most of the song./if-gen-z-sucks-its-gen-xs-fault.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-gen-z-sucks-its-gen-xs-fault.htmlAn increasingly popular topic for Gen X to rail about is: Why Gen Z sucks. Given that these are our kids, it’s a little weird. Right? I mean, take a little responsibility, if they do in fact suck. (I don’t think they do, but I’m biased having two of my own.) Jodie Foster recently complained about working with Gen Z. She said in an interview with The Guardian: “They’re really annoying./one-year-later-a-look-back-the-diocese.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-year-later-a-look-back-the-diocese.htmlMay 18, 2024 note: This podcast episode is an edited version of the original episode that I published on May 13, 2024. After consideration, I have decided to delete two sections of the original audio and reupload the episode with those sections omitted. The edited recording will play a message saying "This section of audio has been redacted" to indicate where sections were edited out. One deleted section contains a mention of rumors about the current activities of Patrick Klekas as a private citizen./a-rainy-night-in-soho-pogues-cover.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-rainy-night-in-soho-pogues-cover.htmlHardest I’ve sobbed in a long time, not from lack of trying or lack of things to cry about, was watching the television coverage of Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Dublin. The lovely wicker casket, the tearful smiles on the faces of friends and family dancing in the aisles to the coda of “Fairytale of New York” (ever seen people dancing in the aisles? At a funeral!?), all the streets along the route from the cathedral to his final resting place lined with drunken farewell-wishers spontaneously shouting and singing his songs—it was all too much to bear in the best possible way./a-review-of-the-park-grill-restaurant.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-review-of-the-park-grill-restaurant.htmlYou want to have a special date with your wife on that special day that celebrates your matrimony, and my better half and I (plus our son) decided to spend it at a place we had never eaten before, even though it was a week late. Yes, The Park Grill was our choice. It opened in 1995, and I would describe it as a dimly lit park lodge that is the sister restaurant of another popular eatery, The Peddler./a-revised-method-for-measuring-pollster.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-revised-method-for-measuring-pollster.htmlToday at 538 we unveiled our latest set of pollster ratings for the upcoming 2024 general election. This update includes grades for 540 polling organizations based on two key criteria: their empirical record of accuracy and methodological transparency. Here are the products of all our work: The interactive dashboard for these new ratings is particularly cool. I’m also proud of the extremely detailed public methodology post we put out; If we’re saying that pollsters should show their work, it’s good that we do the same./a-short-history-of-early-english.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-short-history-of-early-english.htmlDo you know who was the first English VTuber? It sounds like something that should be common knowledge. After all, anyone with even a passing interest in VTubing is certainly aware of the first Japanese one. And yet, I’d bet most people don’t know who was Kizuna AI’s anglophone counterpart. Though to be honest, the answer isn’t straightforward. You could of course point at Ami Yamato, who was doing it even before Kizuna coined the term./a-taste-of-zuzalu-vitalik-network-state.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-taste-of-zuzalu-vitalik-network-state.htmlA few days ago on a Friday, a friend pinged me about a crypto event over the upcoming weekend in Sonoma. While sipping coffee and scrolling through the agenda, I just realized it was related to Zuzalu, which I had been following for a long time. Initiated by Ethereum's visionary founder Vitalik Buterin in 2023, Zuzalu is an experimental concept of a "pop-up city." This temporary city brings together hundreds of global citizens for two months to live, learn, and innovate./cooper-flagg-a-two-way-force-of-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cooper-flagg-a-two-way-force-of-the.htmlAs a high school coach and former D3 assistant, I spend a ton of time watching high school hoops. I’ve been pretty familiar with the AAU circuit for some time and seen dozens of top prospects play firsthand. I’ve been lucky (or unlucky) to coach against lottery picks and All-Americans, sat in practices while five-stars go to work feet away from me, and been doing this long enough to see where those guys end up with their collegiate and pro careers./a-vegetarianish-guide-to-las-koreatown.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-vegetarianish-guide-to-las-koreatown.htmlI spent the past four years doing loops around the United States (plus a few international cities) as the Restaurant Editor at Food & Wine and I get 2-3 texts or DMs, at minimum, daily, asking me where they should eat in X, Y, Z city. Often times, those texts also come with different caveats like “I can’t eat seafood,” or “it’s a large group,” or “we really want pasta.” Instead of creating lists on the fly for each person, I figured I might as well start a newsletter that puts all of these recommendations in one spot — one with a searchable archive the next time you’re going on a trip somewhere./a-very-big-egg-tart-dai-daan-tat.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-very-big-egg-tart-dai-daan-tat.htmlI’ve always been more of cake over pie person. The only exception is my family’s banana cream pie and Cantonese egg tarts. You’ll most likely run into these little eggy pastries at Chinese bakeries or at dim sum. When they are warm and extra flaky I can easily polish off three of them without thinking twice. I have a great recipe for classic egg tarts (and Macau style ones, too) in my cookbook, Mooncakes and Milk Bread!/about.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/about.htmlWhether the experiment succeeds or fails is in your hands. The mission of Forever Wars is to chronicle, investigate and interrogate the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror. Twice a week, Forever Wars publishes some combination of original reporting, critique, essay, and the exploration of relevant history. Ideally all four at the same time. It will scale up, across the entirety of the mutating War on Terror; scale down, to focus on specific developments that impact those mutations/continuities/departures; and zoom out, to examine the impact of the War on Terror on the continuing deterioration of American democracy./spaceman-review-adam-sandler-netflix-astronaut.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spaceman-review-adam-sandler-netflix-astronaut.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. — What is it about going to space that makes us turn inwards?/adorable-story-21-grace-kelly.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-21-grace-kelly.htmlI never say “never,” and I never say “always.” — Grace Kelly Born on November 12, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Grace was the third of four children to John B. Kelly Sr., a successful businessman and Olympic gold medal-winning rower, and Margaret Katherine Majer, a former model and fashion designer. Grace was of Irish descent through her paternal side: her paternal grandfather, John Peter Kelly, was born in Drimurla, County Mayo, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States in the late 19th century./american-physician-partners-is-not.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-physician-partners-is-not.htmlAmerican Physician Partners (APP), formerly the sixth-largest US emergency medicine practice, abruptly ceased operations on August 1, 2023. Over 1,000 emergency physicians were affected. Most were not paid by APP for shifts worked in June and July. Clinicians were left scrambling to maintain malpractice insurance. In short, APP closed shop in a way that significantly harmed the emergency medicine community.  One month after American Physician Partners’ closure, what have we learned?/an-la-murder-and-a-1950s-tabloid.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-la-murder-and-a-1950s-tabloid.htmlFor all the ink spilled on a murder trial that took place in 1960, you’d think there was ever any question about who pulled the trigger.  There was never really any doubt that Dr. Bernard Finch and his lover, Carole Tregoff, had killed Finch’s wife, Barbara, resulting in a case that would dominate tabloid headlines for months, only to fade into obscurity.  In 1959, Dr. Finch, a 41-year-old surgeon and “serial philanderer” living in Los Angeles, was having an affair with Tregoff, his 22-year-old secretary./an-orthodox-rabbi-says-dont-turn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-orthodox-rabbi-says-dont-turn.htmlWhen I go to a new city and it happens to be a Friday evening, the first thing I do is see if there’s a Base. It’s a Jewish organization that supports young rabbinic couples who welcome people into their homes for Jewish life, and it’s all very hamish and warm. The co-founder of Base is a man named Avram Mlotek, an “unorthodox Orthodox” rabbi. This week, he writes about his work with converts and wrestling with some of the tension between Reform, Conservative and Orthodox conversion protocols — and how he’s come to think of it all./another-breakthrough-therapy-designation.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/another-breakthrough-therapy-designation.htmlHappy Friday and welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by theU.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Cybin receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for a psilocybin analog Last week, pharmaceutical company Cybin announced that their psilocybin analog received Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat major depressive disorder. (The FDA grants such designations to “expedite the development and review of drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions./antonsten.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/antonsten.htmlUser Experiences that Matter By Anton Sten I write a newsletter every two-four weeks. I'll let you decide if it’s any good but people seem to stay on. In fact, thousands of smart people incl. designers from Amazon, IDEO, Figma and Shopify are subscribers. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK606ilrKyVow%3D%3D/april-2024-journaling-prompts.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/april-2024-journaling-prompts.htmlHi! Welcome back to Claire From Online by me, Claire, from online. And welcome to your April Journaling Prompts! Claire’s note: There is a paywall on here, which is why you may see ‘free preview’, depending on how you’re accessing this post. Prompts are free below, additional content for paying subscribers is behind the paywall. So, quick background if you’re new: In December 2023 I thought up the idea for Not Afraid of Paper in a bubble bath./arbitrary-color-and-your-last-chance.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arbitrary-color-and-your-last-chance.htmlDo you want to know what the greatest artistic leap that happens in my painting class is? It isn’t when people learn how to shade an apple in order to capture the light hitting it and the shadows that light casts. It isn’t when they learn to paint with split-complimentary colors. It isn’t even when they figure out Renaissance perspective. It is when they realize that they don’t have to paint a tree green and brown./are-we-still-doing-the-diablo-4-pile.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-we-still-doing-the-diablo-4-pile.htmlMy wife and I finished the main story of Diablo IV and started the endgame just as the number of people who played went right into the dumper. Diablo IV has been piled on a lot lately. It's been your standard-issue Internet rage swarm, which is always going to be at least as much fun as the game itself. If you want a summary of why people are mad, this video is a good summary./are-you-a-messy-hot-aunt.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-you-a-messy-hot-aunt.htmlAnd honestly I fell a bit in love with her, part of me wanted to be her and the day she came into my world I dug out my denim cut-off shorts (I’m 54 in July) and revived my All Saints style combat trousers from 1999. The Tik Toker who created her described her thus for Glamour magazine: ‘The messy hot aunt is still drunk from last night, but she’ll always share the last piece of gum in her purse./ashley-ford-favorite-things.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ashley-ford-favorite-things.htmlThis week, we’re featuring the wonderful Ashley C. Ford, the bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir and the writer of many essays for publications including Elle, New York Magazine, and Cup of Jo. First up, she talks about learning what she likes… Love, Joannaxo ***** For a long time, I thought it was a superpower to not have preferences. When you grow up in poverty, there’s nothing in your mind that says, Even though I can’t get these things, I’m still worthy of them./at-la-casa-de-sabores-an-island-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-la-casa-de-sabores-an-island-of.htmlOne of the most delightful quirks of the Buffalo eating landscape is that you can trudge down a drifted moonscape of sideways snow, head bent against Mother Nature’s latest assassination attempt, quite used to not feeling your face.  Then on the next corner, you can step inside a door and find yourself on a tropical island.  The music, the aromas of Caribbean cooking, the posters and television stations, everything combines for lowkey transport to Puerto Rico or Jamaica or Colombia or the Dominican Republic./at-the-end-of-everything-hold-onto.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-the-end-of-everything-hold-onto.htmlImagine turning 17 and your internet boyfriend gifts you a game for your birthday called “Night in the Woods” on Steam because he thought the main character was “literally you”, only to figure out the main character later is an anthropomorphic schizo-borderline cat with anger issues. NITW is one of a kind game that I will never forget for TONS of reasons. For personal reasons and non-personal alike. I look back at my teens and playing this game is a highlight./b00bs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/b00bs.htmlIf there is a quintessential quality I’d use to describe Miami, it’d be fake boobs. Miami is a place where a woman can make all of her cosmetic fantasies come true, a place where curiosity in plastics and injections are encouraged. It is a twilight zone of perfectly curved, olive-skinned bodies. String bikinis that don’t move an ounce when the body is in movement. It is a haven for perfection, a refuge for where someone can go when they want to be unapologetically hot./baby-hedgehog-rescued-by-well-meaning.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baby-hedgehog-rescued-by-well-meaning.htmlFriends, enemies, and hedgies, Hi! I’m listening to Harry Styles’ album from 2022, “Harry’s House,” while I sit on the second floor loft of my neighborhood coffee shop and peer down on everyone ordering their bevvies like a witch atop her mountain. Cute! Scary! The vibes today are TBD because I didn’t get a lot of sleep and I’m famously a sleep hog (ideal amount is 10 hours—so sue me!)/back-to-the-basics-how-to-become.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/back-to-the-basics-how-to-become.htmlIt's been over a year since I wrote my "How to become a sissy? A starting guide." post. Since then, I've trained a few dozen girls, and I learned a thing or two, even though I still agree with the main point of the original "How to become a sissy" guide. Most sissies have a complicated relationship with their inner girl. For many, it's a love-hate relationship. It's especially difficult when you're at the beginning of your journey./barbie-and-oppenheimer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbie-and-oppenheimer.htmlMic. Drop. I have not seen either, but I will admit that, prior to reading this comparison, I’d have chosen Oppenheimer over Barbie, had they been my only two choices. And that’s saying something because I ***love*** Ryan Gosling. No. LOVE. Moving forward, I’ll be watching movies through the Bechtel lens out of sheer curiosity. Thanks for that, Celeste. Geez. So much for mindless entertainment. (Kidding, of course. You’re brilliant!) I would be interested to know how my favorite movies do when scored by the Bechtel test…hmmm…do I wanna go down that rabbit hole?/berserk-black-swordsman-arc.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/berserk-black-swordsman-arc.htmlGUTS. A little bit, that single word would work as the entire review for the Black Swordsman Arc of Berserk, which comprises the first eight chapters of the manga. There are currently almost 400 chapters, so there’s a long way to go, but this serves as an interesting introduction to the world and its characters. Or at least its protagonist, Guts. Which is the perfect name for this man. This Black Swordsman./bill-gates-vertical.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-gates-vertical.html“Hard-working, modest, easygoing — it would seem, to a fault. Of course, he does have at least one secret, but we’ll fix that,” Connie Chung says near the beginning of a 1994 segement of her news program Eye To Eye. She is talking about Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and its CEO at the time. “Is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position?” she asks Gates./conversations-around-the-forthcoming.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/conversations-around-the-forthcoming.htmlWhen I was around 20, I went to the legendary/infamous Kappa Beach Party in Galveston, Texas for the first and only time. For those who might be unfamiliar, the Kappa Beach Party, or “The Kappa” as it was also referred to, is a Spring Break-style event curated by the Black Greek letter fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi that coincides with the annual Black Beach Weekend, a rotating series of events that lays claim to being “the livest party” in the South./blondie-americas-finest-pop-band.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blondie-americas-finest-pop-band.htmlWelcome to Episode 6 of the CROSSED CHANNELS podcast, in which two music journalists/obsessives, Dan Epstein (the Yank) and Tony Fletcher (the Brit) clash and connect over music from either side of the pond. Our 5th Episode, Oasis: What's The Story?, in which we discussed the 1995 album that catapulted the Manchester band to international fame, is now available in full, on all streaming platforms, for anyone who is not one of our paid-up Substack subscribers and wants to hear where we go with these discussions./bonus-pork-tenderloin-recipe.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bonus-pork-tenderloin-recipe.htmlTwo pork tenderloin recipes in one week?! HOT! Pork tenderloin is often packaged with two tenderloins. This past Sunday’s carnitas recipe only used one, so I thought I’d give you a use for the second one. My mom (or, Crash, as she’s affectionately known by her grandchildren but most importantly by my husband, George, whose car she once crashed, earning her the nickname) was very good about having a sit-down family meal every single night of my childhood./bracketology-2024-edition.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bracketology-2024-edition.htmlThis back-to-school commercial cracks me up every year. That said, now is the most wonderful time of the year. I’m pushing this TBL out earlier than normal because I will be at the only conference basketball tournament that really matters, the ACC Tournament. And, of course, March Madness starts next week. Today, we take for granted that we can watch every game in its entirety (assuming you have access to the relevant cable channels, including TruTV)./brown-windsor-soup.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brown-windsor-soup.htmlWe spin tales about our foods. Potato pancakes take on religious connotations. Caviar becomes a status symbol. Apple pie is patriotic. Or, consider the British dish of Brown Windsor Soup. Brown Windsor Soup is, as the name suggests, a hearty brown stew often with beef or lamb. The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook (1998) described the soup as a “thick meat soup … first concocted in Victorian times,” and a food./bryce-young-qb-alabama.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bryce-young-qb-alabama.htmlI never thought I’d see an Alabama offense get carried by a QB, but that is what happened this season. The WRs struggled to separate, the offensive line is leaky. Bryce Young was forced to create, and he showed off a special ability to do so. Young has special pocket movement and toughness. He’s not afraid to hang in the pocket and take the big hit, and when he’s extending plays, he keeps his eyes downfield./buddy-games-spring-awakening.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/buddy-games-spring-awakening.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Actor Josh Duhamel follows up his 2020 directorial debut “Buddy Games” (review here) with the sequel “Buddy Games: Spring Awakening” (in select theaters Friday, May 19 and available to stream Friday, June 2). Where the first film was inspired by the likes of the Farrelly brothers, Todd Phillips and Judd Apatow, this one’s inspirations are further flung./bushwig-2023-photos-galore.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bushwig-2023-photos-galore.htmlPHOTOGRAPHY BY MAMBICHÉAfter 12 years the queens of Bushwig are still giving shows at the Knockdown Center. It’s inspiring to see such a colorful event going stronger than ever, it’s honestly such an important platform for the art of drag. Prior to this year’s festival, one of the founders of Bushwig, Simone Moss, also known as Babes Trust, died suddenly in early August. The other founders commemorated her throughout the weekend, honoring the power she gave to many queens, and the opportunities she had created for the community./eltana-seattle-bagel-good-tiny-montreal-style.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eltana-seattle-bagel-good-tiny-montreal-style.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 do not understand the appeal of Montreal-style bagels./cancer-szn-the-medicine-of-feeling.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cancer-szn-the-medicine-of-feeling.htmlThere’s a fun fact about me: I am an Aries Sun whose birthday is April 17th who has had 3 significant people in my life all with the same birthday: July 16th. A best friend in my early twenties who I was so close that who everyone thought we were secretly dating… who I also a very intense (public) falling out with. A romantic partner who I didn’t realize was manipulating me to get me to fit into his own life’s plan./they-will-hate-you-but-tell-the-story.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/they-will-hate-you-but-tell-the-story.htmlCarolyn Bryant Donham died on Wednesday, age 88. Donham played a pivotal role in one of America’s most enduring and symbolic tragedies: the murder of Emmett Till.   You know the story: a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago comes to visit his rural Mississippi cousins for the summer. One afternoon, Emmett Till and his companions stop into a small grocery store. Words are exchanged with the young white woman behind the counter; perhaps, Till wolf-whistles at her./catch-up-with-lauren-beukes-in-conversation.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catch-up-with-lauren-beukes-in-conversation.htmlI had a great chat with award-winning author Lauren Beukes on 23 October, which is now available for catch up! We talked about the research that Lauren did for her newest book, Bridge, including how she finds people to talk to, pantsers vs plotters vs headlighters, how her journalism skills helped her, particularly with how to listen for the most important information, and the challenges of getting access to institutions like the police when they don’t really want to chat./young-girl-missing-caught-in-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/young-girl-missing-caught-in-the.htmlMaya Moore, a 15-year-old honor student from Florida, finds herself at the center of a contentious custody battle between her father, retired military officer Michael Moore, and her biological mother, whom her father deems dangerous. Florida Family Court Judge Kristin R. Kanner dismissed allegations of abuse and placed Maya with her mother. The Fort Lauderdale-area judge mandated Maya’s participation in coercive therapy sessions despite objections that these sessions infringe on her human rights./cb4-at-30-straight-out-of-locash-b91.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cb4-at-30-straight-out-of-locash-b91.htmlToday thirty years ago the comedy CB4 opened. It’s amazing to think Chris Rock and I got that crazy film made, particularly since in 1993 hip hop was nowhere near the cultural force it became. It was always conceived as a low budget cult film which, in that era, was still commerically viable for a big studio like Universal. I wrote at lenght about the journey to getting that film written, shot and released in my book ‘Blackface: Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies./chattgp.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chattgp.htmlI’m sure everybody by now has heard of ChatTGP, developed by Open AI, which will write an entire essay based on a few prompts or questions. It is free so anyone can use it. Among the many comments that have been made about it, the most alarmist ones have come from the teaching profession, both secondary and collegiate educators. Using ChatTGP to cheat, submitting essays written by a computer, and passing them off as one’s own has caused panic among some./coaching-football-pass-concept-8.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coaching-football-pass-concept-8.htmlThe Drive concept is a route used at both the NFL and college level. It is a route combination of a basic dig by one wr at 10-12 yards and a shallow by the outside wr off the dig route. You also have a post built in to the #1 wr in trips which allows the qb to take peak vs cover 4. Meaning if the safety jumps the dig you have an alert throw to the post./comforting-and-tasty-buckwheat-recipes.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comforting-and-tasty-buckwheat-recipes.htmlEveryone from Eastern Europe knows buckwheat. It’s very popular there, and my husband and I ate it almost every day growing up in Ukraine and Belarus. Nowadays, buckwheat is becoming more and more popular in the West due to its incredible health benefits. I see many healthy recipes that include buckwheat, but they usually use raw buckwheat groats, unlike the toasted ones used in Eastern Europe. Raw buckwheat requires soaking before cooking, and it has a different taste./bella-hadid-nose-job.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bella-hadid-nose-job.htmlI've lived in Seoul the past four years, and the commentary that Bella's mother allowed/encouraged modifications at such a young age is completely normal here, and a sign of status and wealth and educational accomplishment (a combination of Western-influenced beauty standards and a Confucian-infused caste system). Students (girls and boys) are gifted plastic surgery--nose, eyes, jaws, teeth, ears--for good grades, middle school/high school/university graduation, job promotions, before weddings, etc. Photos are required for job applications, and children look nothing like their mothers./do-cheetos-make-good-cereal.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-cheetos-make-good-cereal.htmlI need to know what AMBUSH UNIVERSE has to do with breakfast cereal. Also, Dennis, greatest food writer in all of history, surely you know they make cereal bars of Reese’s Puffs and other cereals (Golden Grahams nails it since they’re s’mores you can take on the go). Seems to me you have the puffs, you have a cheese milk you could use your culinary ingenuity to solidify…. is there a Cheeto Puff Cereal Bar in our future?/may-13-2023.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/may-13-2023.htmlBeautiful story, Heather. I to have a lot of “mothers” but, ironically, of my mother, all my aunts, grandmothers, the one I think about on this day is the lady that actually raised me. The lady that actually molded me to what I am, what I became. That lady was our maid, Jennie Warren. A black lady whose husband, Frank, worked for my dad on the farm. Every morning, when I was young, in school, she would see to it I had breakfast and was well dressed for school./mowed-lawns-and-bald-vaginas.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mowed-lawns-and-bald-vaginas.htmlVietnamese Zen Master, Thich Naht Hanh often said that there is no way to Peace... Peace IS the way. I feel the same can be said of beauty. We must remember how to BE beauty. It will require work, of course to cultivate again the necessary conditions for authenticity, but Beauty, is our natural state. Modernity tells us it is something we must strive for, something we must buy. But does a bird need to strive to be a bird?/next-week-zed-and-deev-q-and-a.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/next-week-zed-and-deev-q-and-a.htmlHey guys! 😁 It seems like every vid or podcast, at some point, Deev says “oh, I worked there.” It’s got my nosiness thrown into high gear. 🤗 I think it would be hilarious for Deev to list the jobs he’s had from the first, as a teen, to the present. And we can all guess on the number of jobs he’s had. I’m gonna guess… 30 jobs. 😁/when-death-comes-a9e.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-death-comes-a9e.htmlThank you for this. It's one of my favorite Mary Oliver poems. I am here, now, doing what I love to do Writing about all the existential bits The jetsam, flotsam, and all the rest Because ‘I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.’ Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmion5rBqq%2FOrqulmaeoe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCglaN6pbHArZ9mm5%2BisrR5wHKcaJuforqmutOs/confidence-vs-competence.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/confidence-vs-competence.html“Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds wins, just as losing breeds losses. This has an unfortunate circular ring to it, but without victories, real confidence is an unlikely occurrence.” — Tennis: Winning the Mental Match, by Allen Fox I recently came across a podcast episode with Jonah Oliver, an Australian sports psychologist who notably works with Cameron Smith, as well as a host of other professional athletes across motorsport, football, and tennis./conservatives-small-to-unlimited-government.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/conservatives-small-to-unlimited-government.htmlWhat is a conservative? That used to be an easier question to answer. While I never shared their priorities, I could respect their integrity. They had genuine principles with some logical consistency and they fought for them fiercely. In the age of Trump, however, we are seeing a much more authoritarian brand of “conservatism” rise, a development that I find incredibly disturbing. Now, as Trump runs for the presidency again, it’s clear he wants to succeed where he failed the first time./cordelia-cleveland-ohio-best-restaurants.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cordelia-cleveland-ohio-best-restaurants.htmlWelcome to the weekend! Here’s what you’ll find in today’s newsletter. Cover Story: At the Cleveland restaurant Cordelia, helmed by a James Beard-nominated chef, the convivial kitchen staff serves up a fresh take on Midwestern fare. The Order: Gott’s Roadside in St. Helena, California, is the perfect pit stop for burgers and tacos between Napa Valley wine tastings. Weekend Reading: Chicago’s 20 best cocktails, a dry drinking den in Los Angeles, and a profile of prolific food writer/corvids-ravens-and-crows.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/corvids-ravens-and-crows.htmlCorvids are a family of birds that are bold and brainy.  Some even consider them beautiful.  They seem to be more and more ubiquitous (though this may have something to do with aging). I have been intrigued by those black creatures since I was 10 and found a crow hopping about in a mangled field where a vast orange grove once stood.  Its left wing had been all but shot off.  I captured it in my jacket and took it home where we had an old pigeon cage./could-this-be-damnation-could-this.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/could-this-be-damnation-could-this.htmlWhen I first wrote about Vilém Flusser, some commenters at Crooked Timber weren’t happy: why am I spouting off about this obscure Czech-Brazilian media theorist? At first I despaired at the lack of intellectual curiosity, but then I realized that they were right: Vilém Flusser isn’t famous enough to write about, given the inexorable dictates of the attention economy. So I resolved to make Flusser more famous by aping the blithely bourgeois consumerism of the only newspaper that matters./cowboy-knight.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cowboy-knight.htmlWhile reading about the American West, there's one figure I keep encountering: the brave white cowboy, riding his majestic horse over seemingly uninhabited wilderness, dazzling everyone he meets with his charm and his grit. A knight in denim jeans and silver spurs. It's interesting that I keep running into him because, dazzling though he may be, he's not real. Or rather, this archetypal cowboy has only a tenuous connection to the cowboys of the 1800s./episode-2038-daniel-bessner-on-how.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-2038-daniel-bessner-on-how.htmlHarper’s has a great cover story this month entitled “The Life and Death of Hollywood” by the intellectual historian, podcast and general muckraker Daniel Bessner. Film & tv writers face an existential threat, Bessner told me, from a Hollywood now controlled by four financialized mega-companies operated by MBA touting execs. But is this really new, I asked him, or is today’s dismal story just another rerun of the standard anti-capitalist narrative of creatives getting screwed by the money men?/dave-chappelles-some-of-my-best-friends.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-chappelles-some-of-my-best-friends.htmlThe final third of Dave Chappelle’s comedy special, The Closer, is an extended Some of My Best Friends Are Trans anecdote. Daphne Dorman was a comedian, actress and former software engineer who, according to Chappelle, stood out of the crowd at his small-venue San Francisco shows by both being trans and laughing at his trans jokes. They met after one of his sets and he eventually asked her to be his opening act./death-and-guinea-pigs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-and-guinea-pigs.htmlWe lost a guinea pig. That’s not true. I know exactly where he is: in a bag inside another bag in the trash can behind the house. It’s not the tomb of the pharaohs, but it will do, at least until Wednesday, when the garbage truck shows up. Then his final resting place will be a landfill in parts unknown. It’s nothing less than what I expect my kids to do with my remains someday./death-comes-for-the-pastor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-comes-for-the-pastor.htmlAlmost exactly one year ago I attended the funeral of one of my oldest friends who died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack at 53. A few days later, on a trip with Dr. McCullough to Cabo, I got a call from an old surfer buddy in Maui who’d heard I was there. He was all excited because he was flying to Cabo the next week and wanted to talk me into extending my trip./december-desert-rain-frog.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/december-desert-rain-frog.htmlAs the pressures of the holiday season start to build, take a minute to observe (and draw!) the Desert Rain Frog. That adorable squeak-toy sound is their mad/scared voice! If you want to know more, watch this incredibly close-up video of what a night is like for this tiny buddy. I wanted to return to a simpler animal to draw this month. The second sheet is hopefully a light-hearted exercise in empathy and gratitude./dispatch-from-israel-jonathan-conricus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dispatch-from-israel-jonathan-conricus.htmlJonathan Conricus rode his Suzuki V-Strom 650 from his home in Kfar Saba to Tel Aviv. "It's an hour and a half by car, half an hour by bike," says the former international spokesperson for the IDF, the person much of the world saw explaining the chaos and carnage following the October 7 in Israel. Earlier this month, Conricus became a senior fellow at The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, where he believes he can add "/doc-rivers-james-harden-and-the-problem.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doc-rivers-james-harden-and-the-problem.htmlThere’s a lot going on with new Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers right now, and it can be hard to keep track of it all. (here) and (here) do a good job of unpacking the recent media drama around Rivers, which included: Strauss’ podcast guest, sports-talk radio impresario Spike Eskin, had an interesting take — that Redick felt comfortable slamming Rivers because he likes to take cues from the wider internet discourse, which has also turned progressively more hostile toward Rivers (not least because of the many, many blown 3-1 leads and Game 7 losses)./dont-google-recipes-buy-the-joy-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-google-recipes-buy-the-joy-of.htmlHappy Sunday from Bite into this. I re-watched Julie and Julia for the first time this week in many years, which inspired today’s newsletter, an ode to the Joy of Cooking. We’re finally living in the era where the Joy is unknown to the youngest people learning to cook, so today I argue in favor of its continued value. If you’d rather a recipe to inspire your cooking, check out last week’s newsletter, on strawberry shortcakes./tech-enabled-services.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tech-enabled-services.html1014  words • 5 min readI’ve had several conversations with founders wanting to start the “Pilot of X,” and my first piece of advice to them is “Don’t start a tech-enabled service.” Yes, I recognize the irony of that advice coming from the CEO of a tech-enabled service, but here’s why. There’s a lot to like about the tech-enabled services model. But it’s also punishingly hard—so make sure you understand what you’re signing up for before you embark on this journey./drive-shacks-downward-slide.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drive-shacks-downward-slide.htmlEvery Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 73 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since our last newsletter. Join 6,680 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below. Today At A Glance: Drive Shack pivoted from their core business of American Golf in 2017. Their share price has gone from $5.53 to $.29 since the decision causing Drive Shack to delist from the New York Stock Exchange voluntarily./eddie-van-halen-happy-trails.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eddie-van-halen-happy-trails.htmlGenius rarely follows a straight line. It certainly didn't in the case of Eddie Van Halen, the greatest guitarist of his generation and one of the handful of instrumentalists who shaped the sound of popular music in the 20th Century. Often, Van Halen's career seemed to resemble a supernova: a bright, blinding blast slowly decaying into aftershocks. Blame this on how his recording career with his namesake band was bookended by a flurry of activity and yawning years of quiet, a semi-retirement born of perfectionism, disinterest, and addiction./election-special-hbac-pete-marsh.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/election-special-hbac-pete-marsh.htmlFor our 4th installment we’re joined by candidate for City Council re-election Pete Marsh! Pete has been on Council for two stints - first as an appointee and then again for a full term. This would be his second elected term and he joined us to talk about what he feels has been accomplished, what he’d still like to do, and how he thinks this next era of Hilliard could be the most consequential./existential-hope-drop-18-emilia-javorsky.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/existential-hope-drop-18-emilia-javorsky.htmlIn this Hope Drop, we welcome Emilia Javorsky, a biomedical scientist, physician, entrepreneur, and the current Director of the Futures Program at the Future of Life Institute. We explore Emilia's insights into AI's role in global challenges, her drive to balance optimism with realism, and her exploration into the uncharted territory of AI's interplay with biology.  Listen Here Emilia envisions a future where a wide range of human talent joins forces with artificial intelligence to tackle global challenges./everyday-cake.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyday-cake.htmlI can’t be the only one who gets random but very strong urges for a simple slice of cake. When these cravings hit, I don’t want anything too fancy - no layer cakes or buttercream or ganache please. Just a good thick wedge of homemade cake. This Everyday Cake, named so because it doesn’t require any occasion or reason to be made, is the kind of cake you work your way through over the course of a few days, each time accompanied by a giant mug of tea./extra-fine-writing-explains-the-kaweco.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/extra-fine-writing-explains-the-kaweco.htmlNew to fine writing? You probably keep hearing about the same handful of classic pens; this post demystifies one of them. It has been thoroughly researched by our world-class staff so you should feel no need to fact-check any of it, even the part about vampires. Few pens are as widely known and loved in the fine writing community as the Kaweco Sport. It’s a versatile pocket pen with a long history and an entry-level price point that’s perfect for bright-eyed newcomers and decrepit aficionados alike./fans-shouldnt-have-booed-jerry-krause.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fans-shouldnt-have-booed-jerry-krause.html     The good people of Chicago have spent so much money on sports, devoted so much passion to five pro teams, that an unglued moment is understandable. Who do these owners think they are, banking the revenue and not being accountable for their lack of success? They believe fans should be subservient suckers forever.      True, the dopes should not have booed Jerry Krause almost seven years after his death./film-show-038-hal-hartley.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-show-038-hal-hartley.htmlHal Hartley (b. 1959) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, composer, and novelist born and based in New York. Throughout his decades-long career, Hartley has crafted over a dozen feature films—and more than a dozen shorts—that are highly attuned to the musicality of language, bolstering his dialogue’s deadpan humor and amiable charm. He first came to prominence with his debut feature, The Unbelievable Truth (1989), and released multiple critically acclaimed works throughout the following decade, including Trust (1991), Amateur (1994), and Henry Fool (1997)./five-questions-for-marylouise-burke.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-questions-for-marylouise-burke.html(Above: Burke on the sloping greensward at Lincoln Center when she was starring in Epiphany at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center Theatre. Photo by Celeste Sloman/The New York Times.) Marylouise Burke is an actor whom other actors - especially those with an affinity for the stage - often mention as their favorite among themselves for she is someone who mysteriously manifests all that is artful about acting by seeming to be artless - or more specifically without artifice - in that her lack of affect is indeed why she is so affective./flo-brakers-devils-food-cake.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flo-brakers-devils-food-cake.htmlI love Flo's recipes, too, especially in her Miniatures book! I also have happy memories of The Magic Pan, as it was a favorite spot for lunch when I lived in San Francisco. This isn't a comment on Flo's recipe, but I have noticed that a lot of recipes (perhaps newer ones?) now duplicate the amount of an ingredient in the instructions. In other words, if the ingredient list calls for 1/2 cup sugar, the instructions say, "/a-history-of-c-compilers-part-1-performance.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-history-of-c-compilers-part-1-performance.htmlThe economic advantages of portability are very great. In many segments of the computer industry, the dominant cost is development and maintenance of software. Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson 1978 … many insist that C is the programming language and that it will last forever. Byte Magazine 1983 The August 1983 issue of Byte Magazine devoted its cover, and a large part of its editorial content, to the C programming language./omos-digest-83-fulgurances-giving.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/omos-digest-83-fulgurances-giving.htmlThe Ómós Digest is a reader-supported publication, of which all contributors are paid. Please consider supporting this continued writing, research, and expanding our amazing team by upgrading to a paid subscription for €5 a month or €50 a year. This newsletter brings you on that journey about the food you were looking for, or perhaps never knew existed. Our quest is to expand on what we don’t know and share with those who care./full-recap-the-network-state-conference.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/full-recap-the-network-state-conference.htmlLast month was the first ever Network State conference. In this weird corner of the internet where I study novel (and sometimes weird) ways of living, it was a momentous occasion. The event attracted hundreds of builders, more than 1,200 live attendees, and 30,000 online viewers. The full event is free to watch below, but it’s eight hours long. For those who prefer the SparkNotes, keep reading. Cabin is clearly a leader in the network cities/state space - we were the first speaker slated after Balaji’s opening remarks and we had strong brand recognition among the attendees at the event./game-journalists-vs-gene-park-elon.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/game-journalists-vs-gene-park-elon.html"Speaking with people who have different political beliefs is one of the gravest sins of the modern era..." Essentially it's this right here. The echochamber of confirmation bias is as close to constant for people that it has ever been. No longer does ignorance simply grow out of small towns and country churches, or iron fisted patriarchal families that live and die on the words of one or two men who dictate how their 'blood' is supposed to feel./generative-drive.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/generative-drive.htmlWhile listening to the Huberman Lab podcast yesterday, I was introduced to a fascinating concept by Dr. Paul Conti known as "generative drive." According to Dr. Conti, generative drive is a profound concept that sheds light on our relationship with ourselves and with others. Dr. Conti characterizes generative drive as the wellspring of our inclination to seek agency and cultivate gratitude, two pinnacle aspects of the human condition. This inherent desire to create, generate, and produce meaningful contributions has propelled humanity to remarkable heights./getting-started-with-solo-rpgs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/getting-started-with-solo-rpgs.htmlSingle-player RPGs are one of the most creative, fastest growing, and easily accessible types of tabletop gaming. The indie game marketplace, itchio, hosts almost 1000 games tagged as “physical” solo RPGs. With so much choice, how do you get started? I turned to some savvy game creators for suggestions. Their advice is to start simple, find something that captures your interest, then dive in. “Find something small and focused that intrigues you before jumping into something bigger and more complex,” advises Anna Blackwell, creator of DELVE, RISE, and other solo games./gobble-me-swallow-me-drip-gravy-down.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gobble-me-swallow-me-drip-gravy-down.htmlThanksgiving is a SEXY holiday. For me, I love the food, the sharing, focusing on other-centeredness and leaning into gratitude. I find those things powerfully attractive. And you?? I hope so. Hopefully I have your attention. I hang on to that vibe and hold it close because the roots of the holiday are something else: a myth, a falsity. So I work hard to stand with first peoples everywhere in reclaiming their story./golden-years.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/golden-years.htmlI heard “Golden Years” for the first time in A Knight’s Tale. Let me slow down and unpack that for you: I heard David Bowie’s 1975 hit single “Golden Years” for the first time in the 2001 medieval times teen comedy A Knight’s Tale, starring Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon. A Knight’s Tale—which just popped back up streaming on Netflix—is famous for its place in the turn-of-the-century canon of cheeky, anachronistic musical cues in popular film./matthew-perry-house-the-one-with-the-thumb.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matthew-perry-house-the-one-with-the-thumb.htmlChandler smoked. Carrie Bradshaw is who really sold me on the ecstasy of a cigarette, but it was Chandler who first put them into my consciousness. I hadn’t yet discovered the joys of a puff but there was an instinctive knowing that he was different from his friends; a rebel with a cause (smoking), despite everyone’s visible and vocal disdain, and that I certainly vibed with. He didn’t care because he understood the thrill of the inhale outweighed the badgering./green-garlic-has-arrived.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/green-garlic-has-arrived.htmlA quick note of thanks to everyone for your support and beautiful comments in response to Sunday’s post. They did not go unnoticed. I’m headed down to the city today for my dinner in Brooklyn tomorrow night. I’ll also be recording an episode of the TASTE podcast while I’m in town, I can’t wait to chat with my friend Matt Rodbard. I’ll let you know when it goes live. In the meantime, have you heard it’s allium season?/hayao-miyazaki-on-running.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hayao-miyazaki-on-running.htmlHappy Thursday! In this issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, we’re looking at the art of animated running. About a month ago, something very cool happened on Twitter. A Los Angeles artist, Rebekah Machemer, shared a translated version of a small animation guide by Hayao Miyazaki that dates to the early ‘80s. It went viral — and for good reason. If you’ve ever been swept up by the spirited running in Miyazaki’s films, you get the appeal./he-came-to-remind-me.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/he-came-to-remind-me.htmlWe hold the keys to the cages we build around ourselves. Eleven words that tumbled out of my mouth three years ago when put on the spot at a speakers conference. Eleven words that would go on to be a key theme in my first book. Eleven words that will echo in my life forever. The problem? Sometimes we get so caught up in the rhythms of life that we forget where we put the keys./hey-a-movie-the-muppets-take-manhattan.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hey-a-movie-the-muppets-take-manhattan.htmlIn 1975, the second of two pilot episodes for what would become The Muppet Show aired, with the subtitle “Sex and Violence.” It is, if nothing else, an attention-getting subtitle that’s going to make a few people sit up and take notice, especially since when you think of the Muppets, you probably think of them as being family-friendly entertainers. The Muppets extend from Sesame Street to Saturday Night Live, and are far more than just Kermit and Piggy and Fozzie./holiday-potluck-heroes.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/holiday-potluck-heroes.htmlThursday, November 30, 2023 Good afternoon! Welcome to potluck season! Okay, maybe this isn’t a thing but I think it should be. As we head into December (in about 12 hours), and the cookie swaps, holiday lunches, and dinner parties start filling our calendar, I bet you’re going to be asked to bring “something” [food, homemade] with you somewhere soon and you’ll want some suggestions. I am here to help! I consider myself a master of the art of schlepping food from one place to another, incapable — due to my both constitution and also my profession — of showing up empty-handed./how-did-goodreads-get-so-bad.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-did-goodreads-get-so-bad.htmlA platform where you can record what you’re reading and talk to others about what they’re reading doesn’t sound like a recipe for dystopia. But throw in a negligent billionaire conglomerate owner, optimization culture, and a competitive industry in which the line between reader and author is continually blurred… and you have a legitimate book lover’s he… ncG1vNJzZmibpaHBtr7ErKuunKmlvKV60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmKTEbrDInWSgp5%2BZv6atw6xkoJ2kYsCwecGamw%3D%3D/how-does-stevenson-present-mr-hyde.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-does-stevenson-present-mr-hyde.htmlThis essay comes from my Guide to Jekyll and Hyde, available on AmazonStevenson presents Hyde as a frightening character in several ways. The language used to describe Hyde portrays him as fundamentally ‘evil’ and ‘unhuman’. Stevenson also uses contrast throughout the novella, emphasising Hyde’s ‘savage’ nature. Most prominently, a key motif throughout is the duality of man, represented by Hyde being part of Jekyll. This makes Hyde even more frightening as Stevenson reminds the readers that ‘evil’ is a part of all of us./emilia-hart-wrote-her-debut-novel.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emilia-hart-wrote-her-debut-novel.htmlThank you for your patience as I’ve worked on my book proposal over the last month. I’m in the home stretch and plan to be back to my regular schedule here starting next week—which means that in addition to interviews, I’ll be back to writing more essays and providing updates on moving to Italy. Stay tuned! Emilia Hart’s novel came to my attention through who offered this description of Weyward:I’ve been thinking a lot about language lately – who gets to choose it, who gets to use it and who they get to use it against./the-artists-way.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-artists-way.htmlBy Andrea Bauer I’m not a fan of making New Year’s resolutions. They come with way too much pressure, and they rarely stick. Instead, I’m a firm believer that you can change your life on any day of the year, on your own terms, at a time that feels right for you. But it was around thi… ncG1vNJzZmismJq6qrDSrWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy1tMRmmKusmajBtHnWmrA%3D/how-they-animated-the-wolf-house.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-they-animated-the-wolf-house.htmlWelcome! Today’s issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter goes like this: 1️⃣ Animating the horror of The Wolf House. 2️⃣ News from the world of animation. 3️⃣ [MEMBERS] Looking at Cowboy Jimmy, the famous Yugoslav cartoon. Not signed up yet? It’s free to receive our Sunday issues in your inbox: Sign Up Now, here we go. The Wolf House isn’t a typical horror film. It doesn’t hinge on murder or shock./how-to-stop-jumping-to-conclusions.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-stop-jumping-to-conclusions.htmlThis is the question that drew me to psychiatry in the first place. What interested me most was not what people did but why they did it. What I have learned along the way is that there is so much that we get wrong about others. All too often, in an attempt to make sense of someone else’s behavior, we jump to conclusions about their “true self.” Using a few breadcrumbs of information, we are quick to make assumptions and attribute their behavior to a fixed aspect of their personality./i-could-drink-a-case-of-lit-mags.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-could-drink-a-case-of-lit-mags.htmlWelcome to our bi-weekly news roundup! Greetings Lit Maglientele, Once again, staff members have resigned en masse from a magazine. This time, it was at Guernica, “an award-winning magazine…focused on the intersection of arts and politics,” over an essay that proved to be highly controversial. “From the Edges of a Broken World,” by British translator and Israel resident Joanna Chen, first appeared on March 4th. Reactions to the essay have ranged from “absolutely vile” and “a piece of anodyne, both sides-ist hasbara” to “beautiful and humane” and “very balanced./confession-i-get-a-c-in-tibis-color.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/confession-i-get-a-c-in-tibis-color.htmlGiving up math has been one of the best parts of growing up. (I’m still mildly traumatized by the math requirement at Penn, where I went to school. How did I not go to one of those places where you do what you want, like Bennington?) At M.Gemi, where I was once creative director, the CEO once took over completing an Excel spreadsheet for me because my brain short circuited. I love Tibi’s color wheel, but it’s reactivated my math anxiety./i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling.htmlA while back, after a series of car troubles too boring to enumerate, I learned about the existence of mouse tape. Mouse tape exists solely to make Important Wires less delicious. Honda started selling rolls of the stuff a few years back to keep rodents from partying in their engine blocks. You see, the thing about rodents—be they rat or shrew or vole—is that they really like to gnaw. I don’t know much about cars, but I do know you’re not supposed to chew on them./i-was-david-wong.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-was-david-wong.htmlMy name is Jason Pargin and my work has been read by over 50 million people. That sounds like a lot, but keep in mind that this video of an elephant farting a man's hat off his head has been seen by 70 million. Most of my audience came via my old columns at Cracked.com, published under the pseudonym David Wong (albeit with my real name in the blurb at the end of each piece)./im-child-free-and-the-barbie-movie.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-child-free-and-the-barbie-movie.htmlBarbie was childfree. She was invented to be that way. Her creator, Ruth Handler, way back in 1959, was disheartened to find that the only dolls her own daughter could play with were baby dolls. “My whole philosophy, of Barbie was that, through the doll, the girl could be anything she wanted to be.” Ruth wrote in her 1994 autobiography. “Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices./if-you-think-women-talk-too-much.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-you-think-women-talk-too-much.htmlI’m sitting on the train as I’m typing this. Behind me, a man sips his coffee. I don’t have to turn around in order to gather this information. He goes: slurp - sigh - slurp - slurp -sigh - slurp, in what feels like an endless rhythm. On the other side of the aisle from me, in the quiet zone, another man is talking on his phone. At the luggage racks, another man is looking for something in his bag, loudly swearing as he can’t find it./if-youre-a-man-whose-partner-doesnt.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-youre-a-man-whose-partner-doesnt.htmlThis week, I’ve spoken to more than a dozen women whose partners demand sex on a schedule. When these men don’t get sex, they pout, become aggressive and moody, or lash out at the woman. I’ve spoken to other women whose husbands think that denying them sex because of household chore inequality is tantamount to abuse. And two different men emailed me complaining that their partners were emotionally neglecting them by refusing to have sex./in-2024-were-taking-down-booklooks.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-2024-were-taking-down-booklooks.htmlIt’s not about the books. I’ve said that phrase, written it, heard and read it dozens of times from the smartest minds in the anti-censorship world. And it’s true. Debates about books in schools and libraries (and bookstores) are almost always about something bigger than any one novel, memoir, or informational text: they’re about the value of public schools, or about LGBTQ inclusion and acceptance, or about factual sex education or honest discussions of racism, history, and society./indiana-jones-and-the-fall-of-my.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/indiana-jones-and-the-fall-of-my.htmlWhen friends, readers, and students ask me to name my favorite film, I have a standard answer: On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, it’s Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, it’s Three Colors: Blue. And on Saturdays? Raiders of the Lost Ark. Forty years of disappointment with the second, third, and eventually fourth film in … ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzs7HYqK2eqqOpv6ax02eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGS2r7DImqWaZZqku6a%2FjJqlnWWknbJussClo2anlmK6ug%3D%3D/inside-out-2-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-out-2-review.htmlI’m not usually the type of critic who will immediately snub my nose at a sequel sight unseen, suggesting that there’s little point for its existence, other than the obvious one… money. In the case of Pete Docter’s Inside Out – which I recently watched again, and confirmed it to be pretty much a perfect movie, one with a terrific premise – sure, it may have been inspired by the TV series, “Herman’s Head” – I may have made an exception, since that movie did such a great job exploring emotions through the head of 11-year-old Riley and how she’s affected by her family’s cross-country move./interview-with-carl-perkins-31-october.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-with-carl-perkins-31-october.htmlThis interview took place backstage at the Bijou Café right before Carl Perkins was to do his first show in Philadelphia in years with a band that included two of his sons. It was a rare occasion and I don’t believe he ever returned. At the time he had a new album out that pretty much ended up going nowhere and I’m not sure if the album he talks about at the end of the interview ever was released./ipl-retentions.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ipl-retentions.htmlOne of the most common questions I’ve been asked on social media lately is who I would retain if I was in charge of each team. While we don’t know the retention structure and values yet, we can base things on the previous structure ahead of the 2022 mega auction and then have some additional options for franchises if there are more retentions allowed. The retention values will be a vital consideration./is-eurotunnels-flexiplus-worth-it.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-eurotunnels-flexiplus-worth-it.htmlI absolutely love Eurotunnel – or LeShuttle as it’s now known – and regularly travel on it when I visit France with my family. It’s super-convenient for where we live and if you time it right is extremely fast – the crossing time is only 35 minutes. However, as anyone who lives in the UK knows, if you don’t time it right and attempt to travel when everyone else wants to, like the first day of school holidays, or any day in summer, it can be a nightmare, with queues so long they make the news./is-fresno-anyones-spotify-sound-town.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-fresno-anyones-spotify-sound-town.htmlWhile we all know that Spotify kinda sucks (especially for musician trying to make a living), it does have some bells and whistles that make it sort of fun for users. Spotify Wrapped, for instance, is a nice way to tell which bands or artists you’ve been obsessing over for the past year. And there’s no way to cheat it to make yourself look cooler than you are, so you have to own your love for whatever artists tops that list (which could also be a point of pride, I guess)/is-white-christian-nationalism-christian.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-white-christian-nationalism-christian.htmlWhite Christian nationalism is a ethnocultural ideology that uses Christian symbolism as a permission structure for the acquisition of political power and social control. That’s my definition, anyway. But however you define it, people often ask, “Is white Christian nationalism Christian?” The question usually isn’t a question at all. It comes in the form of an accusation or an assertion. “There’s nothing Christian about white ‘Christian’ nationalism,” they’ll say. I understand the sentiment./jansens-alleged-victims-come-forward.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jansens-alleged-victims-come-forward.htmlThis article is brought to you by Freedom Financial. (Editor’s note: The content of this article may be disturbing to readers, as it contains allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse as well as profanity.) Charles “Chuck” Jansen currently is being investigated for allegedly grooming young men to perform acts of a sexual nature while he was employed as a teacher at two local schools. Two of his alleged victims came forward on social media on June 12, sharing communications with the once-prominent community leader that lend credence to the accusations./jimmy-savile-was-a-paedophile.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jimmy-savile-was-a-paedophile.htmlAm I committing a crime when I say the police investigated allegations that the entertainer Jimmy Savile was a notorious paedophile? That seems to be the effect of section 12 of theJustice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, which came into force on 28 September 2023. This is how section 12 begins: ncG1vNJzZmiqn6%2Byr67Eq55nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtsimpLJlo5bDqrjEZq6aq12WerGtxJ2mqaCZobI%3D/judith-jones-editor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/judith-jones-editor.htmlYou think you know a person...and then you start reading the galley of Sara B. Franklin’s THE EDITOR and realize just how much you still have to learn about her subject (and one of my heroes), Judith Jones. The word “legend” is often attached to Jones, and she deserves it. She’s perhaps remembered most for two things. She retrieved a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl (published in the Netherlands in 1947) from a reject pile while working in the Paris office of Doubleday./kai-cenat-streaming-and-the-emerging.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kai-cenat-streaming-and-the-emerging.htmlKaytranada on a Friday is always the move. Grab some coffee, let’s vibe for a lil bit on today’s piece. Kai Cenat just had one of the most-watched live streams of his career last weekend, featuring Kevin Hart. Ironically, it was Kevin’s first livestream too, and he saw firsthand how powerful the world of streaming is, and how dedicated the fan base can be. Even if you weren’t on Twitch to see it, you could still get a feel for how fun the shenanigans of that night were./ghost-star-katas-song-in-star-wars.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ghost-star-katas-song-in-star-wars.html"Ghost Star" the song Kata sings in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is one of my proudest contributions to the game. And seeing the fan reaction to it has been one of the most meaningful moments of my career. Wanted to share my original version, which you can hear below. "Ghost Star", the song Kata sings in Jedi: Survivor, is one of my proudest contributions. And seeing the fan reaction to it has been one of the most meaningful moments of my career./kick-off-f1-2024-with-lewis-hamiltons.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kick-off-f1-2024-with-lewis-hamiltons.htmlWelcome to Grand Prix Gastronomy! In 2024, this series is dedicated to cooking the favorite dishes of every driver on the grid. When I kicked off this project and sent emails to all the various Formula 1 teams that exist in 2024, I had a pretty good feeling I wouldn't be hearing much from Mercedes or Lewis Hamilton. The British driver is, without question, the biggest star in the sport, which means his PR folks aren't going to bug him with very minor questions like his favorite foods./kindness-begets-kindness.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kindness-begets-kindness.htmlWelcome to another edition of The Body, Brain, & Books. If you enjoy reading these quick, insightful interviews brimming with wisdom and hope, please subscribe to Beyond! is the creator of the popular newsletter . Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Eater, and other outlets including Cupcakes & Cashmere, where she worked as an editor. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is currently earning her master’s in counseling, with specializations in addiction and ecotherapy, from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her pit-mix, Toast./know-your-enemy-the-shahed-136.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/know-your-enemy-the-shahed-136.htmlThe Iranian military has launched a wave of drones at Israel. While the total amount of drones and the intended targets of this attack are unknown, all available evidence suggests that this swarm is composed of Shahed loitering munitions. For nearly two years, these drones have been a fixture of Moscow’s air raids on Ukrainian cities. These drones shoul… ncG1vNJzZmiZnJrForrDnqmvoZ6ZuqK6jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6C7sMOMsqauql2au6a52GaroZ1dqLWitMSdZGprZg%3D%3D/rihanna-leo-new-music.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rihanna-leo-new-music.htmlThis post is way too long and will cut off in your inbox. Click the title to read on site!The Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever opens today, and the second of Rihanna’s two songs for the movie was released at midnight. Midnight on November 11th. Did you know who was born on November 11, 1974?  ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqaKgkaO7onnLnqZmppWseq7B0qKa/life-update-april-23.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-update-april-23.htmlGreetings avid fans and consumers of my limited autobiography! How are you doing on this fine May morning? Wait - what. I need to say that again. It’s f*cking May (of a year a STILL keep writing wrong). Spring is here, days are longer, and I’ve already begun cultivating my summer spotify playlist. Maybe you’ve just caught me on a good day but things have absolutely PEAKED for me in the last few days./like-i-said-joe-alwyn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/like-i-said-joe-alwyn.htmlThirty-one tracks is too many, but you knew that already. Last week Taylor Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” her 11th studio album. It’s a breakup album, a makeup album, a wellness check album: Swift’s songs cover her doomed relationship with the actor Joe Alwyn, her more-doomed relationship with the musician Matty Healy, her rebound with the athlete Travis Kelce. “ThanK you aIMee” reframes her ongoing feud with Kim Kardashian (two billionaires) as Kim’s mean popular girl versus Swift’s smart and pretty-but-wears-glasses hero./limbic-hijack.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/limbic-hijack.htmlApologies for the lack of content, but On the Line is days away from being published, so I’m deep in last-minute edits. One new bit of content that I' wrote today is part of the book’s appendix, and came about due to my editor asking the question, what’s the science behind panic grabbing? I have covered the problems of panic grabbing in the book extensively, but not its cause. And so, even though it’s a pain in the ass to be still adding new stuff to this book, I penned something on the subject, which I thought I’d share below (it’s not been edited BTW)./long-time-caller-first-time-listener-afd.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/long-time-caller-first-time-listener-afd.htmlWelcome to Long Time Caller, First Time Listener, a column where we, Trixie and Katya, give you, the reader, advice. Our answers may not be valuable, but they will definitely be irrelevant.  This week, we answer the calls of three ladies trying to ~have it all~. Want your question answered by us? Email goopedsubstack@gmail.com. Please include a name/pseudonym and your pronouns! Question 1: I'm in a cushy, corporate job, but reaching the point where the pay isn't worth the daily feeling of being abused and demoralized./lopez-settles-for-decision-vs-gonzalez.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lopez-settles-for-decision-vs-gonzalez.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./lord-rothschild-and-the-royals.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lord-rothschild-and-the-royals.htmlRothschild family biographer Niall Ferguson has called the recent death of Jacob, the 4th Baron Rothschild at age 87 “a melancholy turning point in the history of the Jewish people’s most illustrious family.” Ferguson described the late baron as “a bold visionary financier” who devoted “an equal amount of time and energy to philanthropy.”         What is less known about Jacob Rothschild is how he wore both of those important hats in his associations with the royal family./luke-bronins-cultural-life.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luke-bronins-cultural-life.htmlWelcome to the third edition of Now You Know. You will be enriched by spending a few minutes learning what Luke Bronin reads, watches and listens to. The Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar also shares reflections on coming through the storm of serious illness. The former Navy reservist cannot resist the charms of Taylor Swift on the morning school run. Full marks to the Democrat’s daughter for sharing the delights of Derry Girls with her dad./mad-money-2008.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mad-money-2008.htmlWe’re in October now and I know you’re probably itching for my horror movie issues, but you have to wait just a few days more. I think I’m going to start on those next week and I have some absolute gems planned for this, the scariest month. For today though, we have to reflect on a different kind of horror. Imagine you’re one of Hollywood’s hottest actresses and you’re going through some weird public perception stuff with your spouse./make-shoes-repairable-again.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-shoes-repairable-again.htmlOne of the reasons I called my book The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes is because, well, everyone loves shoes. Boots, sneakers, mules, stilettos, pumps, kitten heels, whatever — footwear has a special way of lighting up imaginations (and damaging bank accounts) in a way that you rarely see with, say, jeans. If I was to guess why, I’d say it’s because shoes are truly three-dimensional products, so there’s so much potential for interesting design./mom-man-grabs-8-year-old-daughter.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mom-man-grabs-8-year-old-daughter.htmlI am making this free to everyone. I think everyone needs to read this. This is a story that could happen anywhere at any time. I left the mainstream media so I could tell stories like this. I spent more than 30 minutes talking to the mom of this little girl. If you want to help fund my independent journalism become a paid subscriber here on Substack or click here to join my Locals community./martha-plimptonthe-bird-flew-home.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/martha-plimptonthe-bird-flew-home.htmlDoing my best at holding it together in a world full of chaos and grief. I’m parent of a (nearly) 10 month old, which is exciting, tiring and stressful all in one. I have a wonderful husband who is doing his best too, but he’s really suffering at the minute with his OCD which is becoming worse. He’s always had the condition but it’s now taking over all of our lives and it’s taking its toll on all of us./mazatlan-mexico-ranch-roll-sushi.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mazatlan-mexico-ranch-roll-sushi.htmlOn my last night in Mazatlán, I stopped for dinner at one of the most popular sushi places in the area, Ranch Roll Sushi. They had a beautiful atmosphere with a high-class feel. There was tons of natural lighting and a variety of thriving plants all around. In the middle of the restaurant was a staircase that leads to a second floor where we were seated. To start things off I ordered Tuna Sashimi that came with a bowl of a specialty soy sauce./mazut.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mazut.htmlHello there, Noam here.  Today I share an article I published this month with the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) on Lebanon's refined petroleum imports for power generation as the country battles multiple crises. But before I get to that, I would like to share with you a personal experience with a power generator I learned how to operate at a young age.    I used to struggle with the smell of mazut (referring to diesel) on my hands./mcdonalds-grimaces-birthday-campaign.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mcdonalds-grimaces-birthday-campaign.htmlMcDonald’s, as you know, has just about erased all traces of the architectural era in which Grimace and his McDonaldland friends thrived — the early 1970s into the early 2000s. And those characters were retired from its marketing long ago, when selling fast food to kids so overtly became dangerous, so much so that Gen Z has only a passing familiarity with Grimace and the gang. But that’s changing. In recent years, the Golden Arches has been selectively tapping its ample vault of nostalgic iconography./meet-massimo-bottura-the-superstar.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-massimo-bottura-the-superstar.htmlMassimo Bottura needs little introduction. You might have seen him on Stanley Tucci’s show Searching for Italy or Chef’s Table on Netflix. An iconoclast who takes the ingredients and flavors he grew up eating in Modena and reinterprets them in inspiring and thought-provoking ways, he’s the visionary behind Osteria Francescana, which was ranked the best restaurant in the world on the 50 Best Restaurants list in 2016 and 2018 and is still the only restaurant in Emilia Romagna with three Michelin stars./teen-who-tried-watching-the-lorax.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teen-who-tried-watching-the-lorax.htmlI was minding my own business, idly scrolling through TikTok when I was stopped in my tracks. There was a contextless statement. White text on a black background, soundtracked by dusty ambience, noises of scuttling wind or a faraway train. It said, simply, poem-like: Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedhey guys I am very sorry but I will be stopping this challenge my mental health has genuinely declined and I just need a break I might come back I’m not sure yet sorry to anyone I disappointed./lay-down-candles-in-the-rain-melanie.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lay-down-candles-in-the-rain-melanie.htmlPeak: #6 on the Hot 100 Streams: 4.2 million Before she even had a hit song, Melanie Safka (known simply as Melanie) was invited to perform at Woodstock, and she was so moved by the sight of audience members holding lit candles during a rainstorm that she wrote a gospel-flecked song about it. The lyrics to “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” might be the bes… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wuMCyZJ2np6N6pK3NnaOeq12eu27Ax55kq5mZo3quscuapaKd/menace-to-propriety.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/menace-to-propriety.htmlDoug Psaltis has always been a P.T. Barnum-esque prevaricator, a trader in truthiness. For a while, those talents covered up his skill for swindlery. But after visiting his newest restaurant concepts Andros Taverna and Asador Bastian in the last thirteen months, even that façade has crumbled. I estimate Psaltis has bilked me of $900.  While it wasn’t outright theft, Psaltis’s restaurants delivered an extremely poor return of value. To be completely fair, that number is actually more like $850, since his octopus at Andros, $46, it’s smoky charred polyps protruding from confit-delicate sun-drenched and olive oil-glistening tentacles, is one of the very best things I ate last year./michael-b-jordan-sea-moss-drinks.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-b-jordan-sea-moss-drinks.htmlI wish I could say I tried Moss products because I was invested in my gut health, its antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties, its high fiber, its ability to reduce the risk of diabetes, or even because of the amino acids needed for muscle building and collagen production. Considering I’m on a mission to get off high blood pressure medication and never had high blood pressure until the summer of 2022 (the start of this parking lot lawsuit), trying sea moss beverages could’ve been helpful then (and now)./mike-johnson-is-a-funny-name-for.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mike-johnson-is-a-funny-name-for.htmlLet us begin today with the premise that “Mike Johnson” is a pretty funny name for a Christian nationalist Republican lawmaker who shares accountability software with his son to monitor each other’s porn intake. That’s just good comedy right there. Let us also stipulate that our new Speaker of the House looks like a Mike Johnson. He’s handsome in a banal kind of way, his look reminiscent of a 1960’s social studies teacher that maybe used to date the Home Ec./milas-legacy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/milas-legacy.htmlMila’s Legacy, a new BBC Radio 4 documentary on March 29th at 11am. Presented by Natasha Loder and produced by Sandra Kanthal. How many medicines can you think of created for just one person?  The likelihood is none - which is why the world hasn’t heard of milasen yet.  But its creation, and the efforts behind it, could build a pathway towards some of the greatest advances in genomic medicine, and a new initiative being trialled in Britain has a huge role to play in making this happen./moes-southwest-grill-detailed-18adb33c786d.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moes-southwest-grill-detailed-18adb33c786d.htmlSimilar to Chipotle and Qdoba, Moe’s has very high sodium levels due to all the seasoning they use. Thankfully, we can find middle ground on which ingredients to include, so the key will be keeping our sodium and fat as low as possible by excluding the tempting options. Quinoa Power Bowl — Full Order Tip: make sure to split your burrito bowl in half (including the chicken, so the protein is evenly dispersed!/more-on-politics.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-on-politics.htmlA commenter on my previous post wrote: Wow, this is terrible. For one, everyone's vote should count equally. Duh. This was wrong twice over. For one thing, it isn’t possible for everyone’s vote to count equally. My vote for president has no effect, since any election where California is a swing state will be one where the Republicans can win without it. That could be solved, for the presidential election, by abolishing the electoral college system, but any majority vote system will give more weight to the votes of voters with strong preferences on swing issues, issues where votes for the two sides are about even./mother-may-i-sleep-with-danger-1996.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mother-may-i-sleep-with-danger-1996.htmlHello friends! Here we are, for the last time, earnestly engaging with camp. We are earnestly engaging with something that so steadfastly refuses to be earnestly engaged with that when James Franco made a remake of it (in 2016, when we were letting James Franco just, do things, do whatever), he put lesbian vampires in it. Although I have not seen the remake, I can assure you: MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER?/my-favorite-cha-chaan-tengs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-cha-chaan-tengs.htmlIf you’ve been following along on TikTok, then you know I had an aggressively mid experience at a wildly popular brunch spot earlier this month. Brunch is a tricky beast. By and large, I think it’s a waste of time and money—especially as someone who is mostly-sober and is never in it for bottomless mimosas. And it’s no big secret that just about everyone who has ever worked in the restaurant industry hates brunch./my-years-as-a-feminist-on-red-pill.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-years-as-a-feminist-on-red-pill.htmlI suppose I have to get around to making a Substack account now. I hope the new name isnt confusing. Since I havent found any posting guidelines, Ill do the same as on the sub, hope thats fine. I think this post is a great illustration of what makes even not-particularly-aggressive feminism offputting to ousiders. >Partly, it was hard just to keep engaging as an outsider without falling afoul of community norms./naked-as-a-jaybird.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/naked-as-a-jaybird.htmlTrue enough I have become leery of birds. For much of my life I was indifferent; then the pandemic made me fond; then I was attacked by two geese. I can still admire some birds (just not swan geese). This morning as I arrived I saw some sort of little heron on my habitual ramp, very fine in profile, still a bird. A man arrived to swim. “Little heron there,” I said, and he said, “I’m still asleep./neil-diamond-a-solitary-man.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neil-diamond-a-solitary-man.htmlBefore I was floored by two weeks of Covid in early July, we had my mother-in-law Esther and her nurse Shorna over for dinner most Sundays. Esther is having a difficult time, as her memory dims into dementia. A few weeks ago, she had a memory blast: Do you remember when you took me to see Neil Diamond and you wrote about me at the show? I certainly did. It was a hot August night, 1992./nellie-bowles-on-ditching-wokeness.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nellie-bowles-on-ditching-wokeness.htmlNellie is a writer and reporter. She has worked for many mainstream publications, most notably the NYT covering Silicon Valley. Now she is teamed up with her wife, Bari Weiss, to run The Free Press — a media company they launched on Substack in 2021. Nellie’s weekly news roundup, TGIF, is smart and hilarious, and so is her new book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History./netflixs-age-of-samuraithe-verdict.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflixs-age-of-samuraithe-verdict.htmlSpoiler alert. If you haven’t seen the series yet, you may want to avoid reading this article. Readers of this Substack and the Facebook Samurai History and Culture Japan site often ask for my opinion on the series, and so with a few tweaks, this is a reprint of my initial reactions to having watched the series when it first came out in early 2021. I don’t want to go into too much detail or this will become a novel, but here goes;/new-yorks-eagle-owl-flaco-embraced.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-yorks-eagle-owl-flaco-embraced.htmlUPDATED after the webcast ran - Owls have always held mystery and meaning for humans way beyond the average bird. But Flaco, the liberated Eurasian eagle owl who captured New Yorker’s hearts for a year before dying after a violent collision with a building this weekend, took things to a new level. I hope you can break away to watch and weigh in on my Sustain What discussion of the lessons and options illuminated by the untimely urban death of this remarkable bird and symbol./newedges-rob-sechan-and-cameron-dawson.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/newedges-rob-sechan-and-cameron-dawson.htmlWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode features the architects behind one of the industry’s faster growing wealth management platforms, NewEdge. We welcome NewEdge CEO, Managing Partner, and Co-Founder Rob Sechan and NewEdge CIO Cameron Dawson. Both Rob and Cameron have a wealth of experience in both wealth management and private markets. Rob has over two decades of experience in financial services, beginning his career as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley, before running a family office business as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers./next-gen-web3-job-marketplace-has.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/next-gen-web3-job-marketplace-has.htmlToday we’re very excited to announce the release of our new product SYNAPSS, the next-gen web3 job marketplace with highly trustworthy resume. Try SYNAPSS SYNAPSS is a global job platform service focused on talent in the Web3 space, including blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, BCG, and GameFi. Companies looking to hire can search for Web3 talent based on reliable digital resumes called "VESS Resumes," which utilize decentralized identity (DID/VC) technology. Additionally, employers can easily issue verifiable credentials for their newly hired talents' work experience./nfl-picks-week-9-odds-2023-raiders-mcdaniels.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nfl-picks-week-9-odds-2023-raiders-mcdaniels.htmlWeek 9 is off to a rousing start, and I’m not talking about the actual games. The NFL had an eventful trade deadline on Tuesday, but the biggest news of the night came late, when Raiders owner Mark Davis decided to fire Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler.  McDaniels’ firing seemed inevitable as soon as the Raiders hired him a year and a half ago, and the on-field product did nothing but confirm those suspicions./njea-parent-tracker.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/njea-parent-tracker.htmlIt all started February of this year, we reported how Sparta parents challenged an inappropriate book in the middle school Called “The Upside of Unrequited,” which contained topics such has orgies and orgasms, explicit discussion of waxing genitalia, how one loses their virginity regarding specific sex acts, underage drinking and mixing alcohol with prescription drugs. The most outrageous part of this story, isn’t the part that 11 year olds were reading about orgies and sex acts in their school library./no-old-person-is-named-kyle.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-old-person-is-named-kyle.htmlThis is a cute little blog for paid subscribers!! You can read it too: all you have to do is upgrade from the free membership 🐣 My name is Kyle. Why is it Kyle? I honestly have no idea. My siblings have names with a story: one’s named after my father, one’s named after an Irish saint, one’s named after a great grandmother, all of them are niche and not very “common./no-the-croquet-photo-does-not-depict.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-the-croquet-photo-does-not-depict.htmlIn 2010 Randy Guijarro bought a 4 x 5 inch tintype in Fresno, California junk shop for just $2. It’s now possibly worth at least 5 million. Or is it? The photo in question shows a group of people playing croquet, with a young man in a striped sweater whom Guijarro believes is the notorious Old West outlaw Billy the Kid. After years of research and analysis, this claim made headlines in 2015 as the subject of the Nat Geo documentary Billy the Kid: New Evidence./nostalgia-in-photography.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nostalgia-in-photography.htmlThe other day I sent my brother a message asking him if he had any photographs of the house or neighborhood we had been growing up in. Shortly after, he sent me this photo above and a few other snapshots. I don’t know whether one of my brothers, my mother or I had taken that photograph, but just by looking at it, I was instantly transported forty years in time back onto the balcony of our apartment where that photo had been made./reflection-on-two-years-of-writing.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reflection-on-two-years-of-writing.htmlI've created more than a thousand evergreen notes in about two years. This has been very useful in my learning and exploration, without a doubt. However, I don't feel that the practice of taking evergreen notes significantly improved my mental ability to "connect the dots": After taking an evergreen note, the usual practice is to think what already existing notes are related to the new note, and link them. I often struggle to recall more than a single related note./now-i-am-become-death-the-destroyer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/now-i-am-become-death-the-destroyer.htmlAdapted from the American novel named "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer is the one of the most anticipated movies of this year and I can assert that it deserves all the hype that has been revolving around it. Directed by Christopher Nolan, one of the best directors I have ever come across, he is a class apart for me as he never fails to portray through his films(Oppenheimer is no exception),how human beings are the creators and destroyers of this world while science and technology act as mediums of creation or destruction, mere pawns in the hands of the human beings and sometimes, when the burden of the consequences becomes too heavy, humans have to pay for their actions- their moral conscience smirks at them with everything going haywire./ode-on-melancholy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ode-on-melancholy.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedNo, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not your rosary of yew-berries, Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl A partner in your sorrow's mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul./of-woman-and-dolphin-love.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/of-woman-and-dolphin-love.htmlWhilst on a state-sanctioned derive with Ms Chuckbucket, which had designs of being a tour of London’s most deranged animal statues starting with the LSE penguin, an ASBO worthy sight was beheld. ‘Girl with Dolphin’ adorns the Northbank by Tower Bridge and depicts a nude female frolicking with a dolphin. Totally taut with glee, she pushes her fingers gently into its torso, a gesture which recalls the depictions of Jesus’s wounded side post-crucifixion - the hand of another often nearby, threatening to prod, the temptation of imminent guts trivialising the preceding themes of faith and devotion./on-being-a-conservative-liberal.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-being-a-conservative-liberal.htmlIn my inaugural post for this newsletter, I advocated undertaking acts of “empathetic imagination” to make “understanding possible, even across deep differences.” I was talking about doing this as a liberal about the right, and I made a point of saying I was well suited to this task because “I once considered myself a conservative, and … my liberalism and general outlook on the world have been shaped in various ways by insights and ideas typically associated with the right./on-boy-scout-popcorn-whats-the-opposite.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-boy-scout-popcorn-whats-the-opposite.htmlHi! Did you know that late September is peak Boy Scout popcorn season? All across the land, Scouts are tightening their neckerchiefs and heading out to hawk caramel corn to their uninterested neighbors. Selling popcorn was the bane of my existence, and of the various autumnal traumas of my youth (fighting with my ex-stepdad about leaf raking, not getting cast in the fall play junior year), it’s the one I flashback to the most this time of year./on-jack-hughes-injury-and-its-impact.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-jack-hughes-injury-and-its-impact.htmlBe sure to join the Discord channel to talk hockey with our writers and the InfernalAccess community! Get 30% off for 1 year It would seem as though the New Jersey Devils have avoided the nightmare scenario that would be Jack Hughes missing an extended amount of time this year.  As per Eliotte Friedman, perhaps the best-connected insider in the NHL, Hughes and the Devils circumvented the “worst-case scenario.” While Jack is expected to miss time, it seems to be less than initially expected./on-literary-friendships.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-literary-friendships.htmlA few weeks ago the writer David Burr Gerrard died unexpectedly at the age of 42. He was my friend. We were at the Columbia MFA a year apart, but never knew each other well back then. We became close on social media, at first, and later did a reading together on the Upper East Side when his novel The Epiphany Machine came out. The more I got to know him, the more I realized that our lives intersected in odd ways—a college friend of mine had been his closest friend in a high school writing workshop./one-shining-moment.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-shining-moment.htmlMaybe only a moment May be the time of your life —Justin Townes Earl It’s the greatest two days in sports so we’re finding ways to connect songs, albeit loosely, to March Madness. Our Bonus Track hits right on the nose though - a tribute to the goat of sports tributes, One Shining Moment. 4 teams from Alabama made the tournament this year. I need you to know that Sister Hazel had an absolute STRANGLEHOLD on the Alabama college music scene when I was a student in the mid-aughts./oppenheimer-speaks-lousy-dutch-but.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oppenheimer-speaks-lousy-dutch-but.htmlWelcome to the latest instalment of English and the Dutch, the newsletter with tips and tricks, fun facts, new translations and other good stuff about how Dutch speakers speak English. In your inbox every second Wednesday. (Or every third Wednesday during the summer holidays.) The newsletter is written by me, Heddwen Newton. I also own the website www.hoezegjeinhetEngels.nl. If you are wondering where you signed up for this newsletter - that’s probably where you signed up for this newsletter./out-in-the-ring-offers-a-much-needed.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/out-in-the-ring-offers-a-much-needed.htmlIf you’ve watched professional wrestling for any length of time, a couple of things are very obvious. In that case, the sport is naturally homoerotic, what with scantily clad people, nearly always of the same gender, rolling around on the mat. But at the same the wrestling world, until very, very recently, has been very institutionally homophobic, and even worse, same-sex abuse scandals have been far from a rare occurrence in wrestling history./part-twenty-four-the-three-mccork.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/part-twenty-four-the-three-mccork.htmlAnd, in the end, it was one of the most wonderful Christmases I’ve ever had.  On Christmas Eve, there were good friends, good food (I cooked and no one died, I take that as a sign the food was good), lots of laughter, several card games (Mr. Rugby came out with a deck and the dining room suddenly had a whole saloon vibe), great conversation, and wine. Chocolate, too. Gotta have chocolate./peter-dale-scott-on-jfk-and-deep.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-dale-scott-on-jfk-and-deep.html[This interview was first published in the Kennedy Beacon on Jan. 23, 2024] David Talbot and I first bonded with Peter Dale Scott over a wine list. We were in the research phase of “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years,” David’s 2007 New York Times bestseller about Robert Kennedy’s secret search for the truth about the assassination of his b… ncG1vNJzZmiilqCzoq%2FTrGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyxsdOeqWackaGybr%2FCqKutZZ%2BjequyymaYp5xdmbKmvA%3D%3D/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-ae4.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-ae4.htmlphoto credit: Inter Miami CFInter Miami has officially ended their long-discussed pre-season with a nostalgia-filled match against Messi’s boyhood club, Newell’s Old Boys. In front of a packed crowd at DRV PNK Stadium, the Herons were visibly energized compared to previous matches. That may have to do with the season opener kicking off in about a week, but I’d like to think they wanted to show some love to the home fans, haha./inside-tracks-32-plimsouls-1983-a.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-tracks-32-plimsouls-1983-a.htmlOriginally released in 1982 on their Shaky City imprint on Greg Shaw’s BOMP! Records, “A Million Miles Away” (written by Peter Case, Chris Fradkin, and Joey Alkes; produced by Jeff Eyrich) showed up the following year on The Plimsouls’ 1983 Everywhere at Once album on Geffen Records (their second; their first, in ‘81, was on Planet). The Plimsouls included singer/guitarist/songwriter, Buffalo native, Peter Case (shown above, second from right, dark glasses), whose previous band, The Nerves (along with Blondie and Def Leppard), were featured on a recent “Hanging on the Telephone” edition of FR&B’s “Inside Tracks,” accessible here:/this-is-74-poet-michael-blumenthal.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-74-poet-michael-blumenthal.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, poet and former academic Michael Blumenthal responds. -Sari BottonMichael Blumenthal is the former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard and retired Professor of Law at West Virginia University. His tenth collection of poetry, Correcting the World: Poems Selected & New, 1980-2024, will be published in January and his non-fiction book, "/psyche-pneuma-soma-and-sarx-word-860.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/psyche-pneuma-soma-and-sarx-word-860.htmlFollowing upon the last post, let's walk through another contrast between psyche and pneuma in 1 Corinthians.  In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul discusses the nature of the resurrected body. In that discussion he makes a contrast between psyche and pneuma. And the contrast he makes is the same one we've been tracing over the last two posts. Specifically, psyche--our soulish self--cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven because psyche, our soul, is connected to our physical, biological, animal natures./rip-sinead-oconnor.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-sinead-oconnor.htmlSinead O’Connor has died. She was 56. You’ll forgive me - this one is a little raw. In some ways, I feel like I’ve been anticipating this news for a decade (and I can’t have been the only one). There was a grim inevitability about it. That doesn’t make it any easier to process this actual news. I have loved the music Sinead O’Connor made since I first heard it. I have written about her often, specifically that moment./reading-running-grave-as-the-end-1a4.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reading-running-grave-as-the-end-1a4.htmlIs The Running Grave the end of the Cormoran Strike series? Obviously not; the author and publisher have said there will be as many as three more books and there are a bundle of story-lines that need to be tied up. Having said that, though, there are significant reasons for thinking that the series as originally laid out was designed as a seven book ring cycle with the first and last books as a ‘latch,’ the fourth novel as the series ‘turn,’ and the books between the latch and the turn, before and after, are in parallel./reading-list-and-tips-for-getting.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reading-list-and-tips-for-getting.htmlThis public service note is a fool’s errand, but that’s appropriate if my firm conviction is correct that David Bentley Hart is a bit of a Holy Fool (see here). As with all Holy Fools, of course, Hart would vehemently deny the fact about himself, but I’ll not be so easily dissuaded. If you’re sadly unaware of what a Holy Fool is, read the life of Ji Gong (1133-1209) or read Fools for Christ by Jaroslav Pelikan./howtobeyourselves.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/howtobeyourselves.htmlReagan Baker NYC based writer with a homeschool education. Named after Ronald, ex Mormon, child bride turned beauty expert & downtown party girl with a secret daughter. Always in pursuit of fun, even when I'm sad. I have never been to Burning Man or Tulum. 600 subscribers ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjam71q2mm52ppMKzv8SlrZ6r/really-expensive-jeans.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/really-expensive-jeans.htmlFor this letter, I purchased 4 pairs of designer jeans that each cost $1000 or more. Let me start by saying that I will not be keeping all of these jeans (are you crazy). The purpose of this exercise is to help us understand not what makes a jean valuable (my most beloved jeans of all time would probably be valued at about $75), but to identify what about each pair might actually make them cost more than your average $200-$400 5-pocket./refashioning-fame-sabrina-carpenters.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/refashioning-fame-sabrina-carpenters.htmlRefashioning fame. Is there a perfect formula? When artists suddenly skyrocket to fame seemingly out of nowhere, is it merely luck, or is there a meticulously crafted formula behind their success? In the dynamic world of music and entertainment, many artists employ a strategic blend of smart marketing tactics, a strong media presence, engaging storytelling through their music, and even their fashion endeavors to construct a well-defined personal brand that captivates a massive audience./review-of-shannon-harris-book-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-of-shannon-harris-book-the.htmlHow do I start with this book? I am a person rarely overcome with emotion to the point where it blocks out reason and logic, but since this is the case here, it is hard to give you the cold, straight facts. But I am trying. It will likely take time to untangle the issues raised, because they aren’t superficial but run straight to the bone. This is one I’ll be thinking through for a while to come./review-hadestown.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-hadestown.htmlShare Liam Rudden - Must See Theatre The road to hell is paved with good intentions, that’s what they say. It’s also well known that the devil is in the detail. Both are adages that could be applied to the latest production of Hadestown, newly opened on London’s West End. Drawing on the Greek myth telling the ill-fated story of  Orpheus and Eurydice, Hadestown transports the classic to a post-depression industrial underworld, a place where the poverty stricken are forced to become another’s property to survive, signing away their life, if not their soul./review-stopmotion-2024.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-stopmotion-2024.htmlI remember being very excited about this film when I saw the trailer. It was moody, atmospheric and it felt original. Now that I’ve seen it, is my opinion still the same? In a preview I made of this movie I said this might be “pure scary shit” - I think two of those three words are correct. Scary is the odd word out. It’s not that the movie was bad, well not all of it at least./review-the-curse-green-queen-season.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-curse-green-queen-season.htmlWe were never due for a truly cathartic ending. That was clear from the first episode—from the first scene, even. Whitney and Asher Siegel, along with Dougie Schecter, are not people we root for to succeed, so it was always an open question what we would even want from the conclusion of their character journeys. Did we want the central trio to face the bleakest outcomes possible—marriage and friendship ruptured, TV show canceled, exiled by the community they tried so hard to make their own (heavy emphasis on the possessive “their own”)?/review-the-light-phone-ii.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-light-phone-ii.htmlLike you, I am too often on my phone. Engrossed in unimportant but captivating bullshit, I find myself reflexively eschewing real-life human contact. WHAT? WHAT DO YOU WANT? This is the internal monologue whenever I feel another human’s presence encroaching on my phone’s glow. In any given moment, my phone is more interesting than you. Smarter than you. Funnier than you. Sexier than you. This is by design. I’m reminded of a Disney marketer’s recorded comments at the annual “Kid Power” conference:/role-models-one-of-the-funniest-comedies.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/role-models-one-of-the-funniest-comedies.htmlPaul Rudd, nearly 30 years into his acting career, has kept up his reputation as one of the more universally liked figures in Hollywood, equally comfortable in Marvel movies, serious dramas, and broad comedies like Anchorman.  In November of 2008 — days after the election of Barack Obama, and 15 years ago today — Rudd debuted his best comedy of all, David Wain’s Role Models. The film succeeded in combining the DNA of an inspirational mentorship movie with that of a broad comedy, one that offered Rudd as he’s rarely been seen before or since./saying-goodbye-to-rupert-the-cat.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saying-goodbye-to-rupert-the-cat.htmlI was at summer camp the year that my dog Bo died. While I was busy living what finally felt like a normal adolescence, telling jokes around the fire and falling in love with girls, Bo lost his final battle with the UPS truck. For years, he had valiantly attempted to protect our family from this occasional intruder, but the weight of that metal monster was too much for his small frame./sea-monkeys-were-not-as-advertised.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sea-monkeys-were-not-as-advertised.htmlLiving in the Past is an email newsletter that recalls all things Generation X, the good, the bad and the ugly! Oh - and the hilarious as well. Some installments are free, some are for paid subscribers only.  Sign up here: They didn’t look like this. Not at all. I was finally successful in convincing my parents to give me the money to order the Sea Monkeys that I’d seen in ads across every comic book I read./seven-observations-after-watching.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seven-observations-after-watching.htmlReleased 55 years ago, Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet became a zeitgeist-capturing hit. Later generations almost invariably first encountered it in English class, where it would become a supplemental staple to units covering Romeo and Juliet, the first Shakespeare play most people encounter as high school students. That’s where I first watched it and, having not revisited it since, I decided to watch it again after receiving the new Criterion Blu-ray, which the company released on Valentine’s Day./sheet-pan-gnocchi-with-sausage-brussels.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sheet-pan-gnocchi-with-sausage-brussels.htmlI try to keep What To Cook a kid-friendly, but not kid-first space. By that I mean: pleasing adults is my primary concern, but I always think of each recipe through a kid lens, too. Meals like healthy-ish bolognese, sorta pasta alla norma, and 15-minute peanut noods can be exuberantly enjoyed, in the same format, by the kids, George, and me. Huge wins. Check the “what to cook when you need to feed kids” section of the recipe index for more kid winners./some-die-in-battle-some-in-bed-forever.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-die-in-battle-some-in-bed-forever.htmlThis piece is a part of the Linda Darnell Centennial Blogathon, organized by Samantha Richardson. You can read the rest of the entries celebrating the queen of Fox in the ‘40s at Musings of a Classic Film Addict.If you’ve heard of the film Forever Amber before, you might have heard about it in comparison to Gone With The Wind, and not in flattering comparison. Since its release in 1947, eight years after Gone With The Wind, Forever Amber hasn’t quite managed to get out from under the shadow of that gargantuan classic, the juggernaut of 1939 so unstoppable that even the strongest other offerings from that year, films as good and as distinct as Stagecoach, Love Affair, Ninotchka, The Women, The Old Maid, and Midnight were threatened with the same kind of eclipse./toytown-psychedelia-songwriter-tandyn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/toytown-psychedelia-songwriter-tandyn.htmlFor the few (including this writer) who knew precious little about Tandyn Almer, that may be all you need to know: Right away, we’re now aware that he had enough of a precious musical cache that The Beach Boys’ tonal architect would eagerly invite him into his creative universe, and not be threatened by his gift or jealous of it. Seemingly, nothing online describes Almer with anything other than phrases like, “pop music’s enigmatic songwriting genius./spadek-inheritance-netflix-2024.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spadek-inheritance-netflix-2024.htmlSpadek (Inheritance) is a Polish comedy about a family of fools bickering about the inheritance of their eccentric uncle, who also happened to be an inventor. It’s the kind of reliable set up that may not win any prizes for originality, but can be good for a fair number of laughs if (and that’s always a big if) executed properly. After all, is there anything that people won’t do for money?/spanish-war-dogs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spanish-war-dogs.htmlAmong history’s bad boys, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León’s infamous war dog, Becerrillo, remains a daunting apparition half a millennium after his death, though few people have likely heard of him today. Becerrillo (“little bull”) is believed to have been a mastiff, and was among legions of Spanish war dogs, outfitted with spiked collars and protective armor, that struck fear in the hearts of indigenous peoples from Spanish Florida to Hispaniola and Peru in the early 1500s./spotlight-dr-devon-price.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spotlight-dr-devon-price.htmlSo you’ve been researching Autism for awhile now, and you’re past the point where you need the basic terminology to be explained but you still want to keep learning… You don’t need the flash card style slideshows defining what something is, but you want to keep researching… Enter Dr. Devon Price, writer, author, and former social psychologist who has written many pieces on Medium and two books (so far). Dr. Price shares a variety of social media posts: written text, images, videos including livestreams, and links to the long reads under a few different monikers: drdevonprice, drdemonprince, and Typer Durden./the-guest-agenda-states-housing-assistance.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-guest-agenda-states-housing-assistance.htmlWe’ve spent the past two Tuesdays exploring the housing crisis in Pima County with guest pieces written by Lauren Kristine Taylor, a University of Arizona student and Poverty Policy Fellow (you can find the first and second parts here.) This week, we’re taking a look at the new Arizona housing program, the Arizona Rental Assistance Program. Pima County families and households across the country were left scrambling to find support with October’s expiration of the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program./tvd-talk-stefan-salvatore-sucks-heres.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tvd-talk-stefan-salvatore-sucks-heres.htmlUm… It’s literally always time to talk about The Vampire Diaries for ME. I know the show hasn’t been on for years, and, realistically, the last time anyone actually cared about it was season six (which came out in 2015), but The Vampire Diaries is eternal to me. I re-watch this show at least once a year. Maybe it’s because this was the first show I was ever truly invested in, maybe it’s because I literally cannot find a single other show that makes me feel in the same way that this one does./steppin-out-at-the-laurie-beechman.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steppin-out-at-the-laurie-beechman.htmlWe lose landmarks all the time in this city. I don’t mean lose them to the jackhammers only — though, lord knows, way too many get torn down. I mean landmarks that survive, but still get misplaced. People forget they’re there. I love lost landmarks. In fact, I collect them — in my head, and my heart. Some are just rooms. Like the Laurie Beechman Theatre, downstairs at the West Bank Cafe on far West 42nd Street off Ninth Avenue, a handsomely-outfitted 80-seat cabaret that is a landmark to the characters who’ve paraded through it; nearly all of them memorable, one way or another./theblob1958.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theblob1958.htmlThe Blob is a lot of things. Most of us would agree that it’s a cheap B-movie—it is, after all, a film about a giant alien blob destroying (consuming?) a small town in Pennsylvania—but it’s also in the Criterion Collection. (Kind of an odd choice for the esteemed preservationists of classic cinema, but I appreciate that it’s there.) And it has one of the earwormiest theme songs in film history./sun-dried-tomato-soup-with-grilled.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sun-dried-tomato-soup-with-grilled.htmlIf you’re trying to figure out what to do with that year-old jar of sun-dried tomatoes hiding in the back of your pantry, I have an idea: creamy, dreamy tomato soup with a little bit of zhuzh — is that how you spell “jooj”? zchooj? joujh? To top it all off, we’ll be using the leftover tomato oil to make these tiny cutesy grilled cheese croutons. HOW FUN!!!! It’s a comforting meal perfect for a cozy night in./gushing-with-nostalgia-suncoast-motion.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gushing-with-nostalgia-suncoast-motion.htmlAbout 90 minutes northeast of Houston, in the historic oil-boom town of Beaumont, lies the equivalent –  for me anyway –  of striking oil. My spindletop, if you will, can be found in the Parkdale Mall, where one of two remaining Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores is still putting on a show for shoppers – and stopping nostalgists like me cold in their tracks. Unlike the one that survives in Jacksonville, North Carolina, which I've also visited – you can see it at the Retrologist link embedded below – this store still sports its neon sign./taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engagement-rumors.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engagement-rumors.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a pop star and a tight end hit the stage, an actress hits a sour gummy, and Ben Affleck hits the bricks. Maybe Taylor Swift can pick our next president? She did a masterful job casting Travis Kelce as her current public boyfriend — he is perhaps her first romantic partner to truly understand her fame and know what to do with it./team-usa-will-never-be-a-clear-favorite.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/team-usa-will-never-be-a-clear-favorite.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. La Rendicion de Breda; Diego Velazquez; 1634-35 As I get my head right for the 2023 FIBA World Cup (Men’s Edition) in a couple weeks, I find myself focused on trying to assess where this version of Team USA grades out compared to those World Cup teams before it. The most obvious touchpoint is 2002, which was the cracking of the facade of eternal domination for the USA Basketball men./the-in-between-state.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-in-between-state.htmlThis weekend, for the first time in months (and what seems like years), I’m in between projects. I sent my agent my book proposal for my next nonfiction book earlier this week (more details coming soon). Next on my list: touching up a novel I’ve been working on off-and-on for seven years, an epistolary novel called The Letters. It’s supposed to go on submission this fall, so I feel an urgency to get it done (finally, finally, finally), but a friend told me to make sure I do something good for myself in between./the-ten-best-pop-songs-about-crying-tears.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ten-best-pop-songs-about-crying-tears.htmlIn the latter half of my 20s, it has become apparent that I now cry at the drop of a hat. Not sure if that’s because I’m increasingly aware of my own mortality and the mortality of my loved ones, if I’ve become more in touch with my emotions and how to process them through physical reaction, or if I’m just one of the Highly Emotional People that Marina was singing about on her last album./the-20-most-interesting-paragraphs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-20-most-interesting-paragraphs.html📰 This is the Rubesletter from Matt Ruby (comedian, writer, and the creator of Vooza). Sign up to get it in your inbox weekly. Here it is, my annual list of fave paragraphs I read in the past year (click here for last year’s edition). Clarity caveat: These weren’t all written in the past year, that’s just when I read them. So don’t come at me with a “Yo, Ralph Waldo Emerson dropped some new content this year!/pizza-dough-storage-vessels-the-3.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pizza-dough-storage-vessels-the-3.htmlHello Pizza Friends, Today’s post is a thrilling one: we’re talking dough storage and specifically the three types of vessels you need to ensure your dough stays happy at every phase of the pizza-making process. Let’s back up. When I first learned to make bread and pizza, I was taught to cover bowls of rising dough with warm, damp tea towels. For the quick-rising doughs I made for years, this method worked beautifully, the dampness of the towel allowing it to cling to the bowl, creating a sealed environment, and the slight heat of it, created a cozy one, too./008-the-art-of-cool-as-ice.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/008-the-art-of-cool-as-ice.htmlIn the fall of 1991, I saw Cool As Ice in a movie theater. I don’t know why. I wasn’t a Vanilla Ice fan. But my friends wanted to see it, so I went along. It was terrible. It has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 6%. It earned just $1.2 million at the box office, and cost $6 million to make. But it was gorgeous to look at. As we left the theater, I said to my friends, “That movie should be nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography./the-bear-season-two-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bear-season-two-review.htmlSummed up, Season 1 of The Bear (reviewed here in depth) is “hot takes aboard the Berzatto grief, pain and trauma train” following the death of Jon Bernthal’s Michael. It’s also the amuse-bouche or perhaps more fitting, the aperitif to Season 2’s main entree of the “seven fishes,”  a popular dish theme in the 10-episode season. There are many acts in this season and all of them deliver on that delicious backstory of the Berzattos and their extended clan of “cousins” that aren’t biologically related to them, for clarification./lets-be-real-the-best-horror-films.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-be-real-the-best-horror-films.htmlWell, here we are folks! It’s National Coming Out Day and we’re at the height of one of the spookiest spooky seasons of all time (pandemics and crises of democracy are pretty terrifying). I can’t imagine a more appropriate moment to talk queer horror. Horror, at its best, has always been queer. According to Jay Jenkins, who is behind Valancourt Books, a small press that focuses on rediscovered out-of-print fiction including horror, this dates back to Gothic novels of the late 18th century./my-search-for-the-perfect-sheer-black.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-search-for-the-perfect-sheer-black.htmlBlack tights are a winter wardrobe staple for me, but like denim, there are countless styles to choose from — too sheer? too opaque? control top or not? As soon as the weather cools off, I start pairing them with shorter hemlines, like mini skirts and faux leather shorts. Not only do they add a tiny bit of warmth, they also layer in another texture to an outfit and save me from spending time on sunless tanning!/the-big-perilla-leaf-debate.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-perilla-leaf-debate.html안녕하세요, it’s Ari, your friendly Korean source and your weekend reminder 🎉 I learned that my last newsletter was sent to many of you twice. Substack, an email newsletter service I use let me know that there was an error so they accidentally sent some emails twice or more to subscribers. Sorry for any inconvenience caused 🙏 Today’s newsletter is about a big debate everyone is talking about, a rap lyric from Thunderous by Stray Kids, a spicy meat recipe, and my new Korean exercise book 🥳📕./the-box-and-one-podcast-ep-3-adam.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-box-and-one-podcast-ep-3-adam.htmlAdam Mares from DNVR Sports joins us to look at one of the NBA's more fascinating teams in 2021, the Denver Nuggets. Mares guides us through the Jamal Murray injury, how the Nuggets stack up against other Western Conference contenders and a look at some of the recent draft picks the Nuggets have made Follow Adam on Twitter at @Adam_Mares for more of his fantastic work on the Denver Nuggets and the entire DNVR team for some of their awesome coverage throughout the year./the-business-of-womens-golf.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-business-of-womens-golf.htmlEvery Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 14 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since last Monday. Join 6,997 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below Today At A Glance: The U.S. Women’s Open provided a record first-place prize in this year's event. Today’s newsletter breaks down LPGA Tour earnings and expenses. And dives into the money it takes to play on the Epson Tour./routine-check-ups-the-complete-adult.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/routine-check-ups-the-complete-adult.htmlWelcome and thank you for checking out Optimise Me, a bi-monthly newsletter sharing research-backed, practical tips to help you optimise your self-growth and personal productivity. Being an adult is long, folks. There’s no way to get around it. It seems that, the older we get, the more responsibilities we have to contend with. There’s nothing that says ‘adult’ like the moment you begin handling your own health and wellness - no longer can you ask your mother to organise your physical, dental and health appointments./the-de-queering-of-baron-harkonnen.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-de-queering-of-baron-harkonnen.htmlWell, it’s finally here. The trailer for the highly-anticipated Dune: Part 2 has now dropped, giving us our first looks at such beloved characters as Princess Irulan and Feyd-Rautha, the latter of whom looks like he is going to be even more unhinged than he is in the novel (and, if you’ve read Herbert’s book, you know that’s no small thing). We’re also graced with a few more glances at Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Harkonnen, the devoted enemy of House Atreides and the architect of their destruction./the-dodgers-paid-double-market-value.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dodgers-paid-double-market-value.htmlAfter months of anticipation, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani on Saturday to a 10-year, $700 million contract that ranks as the richest in North American sports history and broke the mold of what MLB teams traditionally value in free agency. Ohtani’s unmatched skills as both a hitter and a pitcher helped make his worth equally unprecedented, but that only scratches the surface of what led the Dodgers to pay him more than the GDP of some countries./the-dolls-of-our-lives.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dolls-of-our-lives.htmlNearly four years ago, I unearthed a picture of me from a Christmas long ago. I was wearing a “Christmas dress” — picked out with great care the weeks before — a “Christmas headband” (that absolutely hurt my head during Christmas Eve service) and poorly applied bright red lipstick (my mom sung in the choir, so she’d leave our house early — and I somehow must’ve convinced my dad to let me wear my favorite shade of lipstick from my mom’s drawer)./gargalesis-the-english-word-for-heavily.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gargalesis-the-english-word-for-heavily.htmlMy niece is three years old, and my nephew is six years old. They are both the cutest kids on the planet. You may believe I am exaggerating, but I am not. You'd understand if I showed you their photos, but I'll save that for a later post. Sometime ago, we agreed to play a game with these two adorable monsters. The name of the game is "Crab." It begins when one of them yells "/the-great-dechurching.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-dechurching.htmlI remember once watching an episode of Married with Children where Kelly Bundy said, “I thought it was Sunday today.” When asked why she thought that, she replied, “Because when I drove past church there was nobody there!” Many churches are emptying, more so in some places than others. I was in Texas recently and someone told me the shocking news that Texas Baptist churches had declined in attendance between 30-40%./the-indoor-mini-golf-race.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-indoor-mini-golf-race.htmlEvery Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 92 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since last Monday. Join 311 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below. Hey Golfers - Last week, Puttshack announced it signed a lease for 23,000 square feet in Pittsburgh. I dove into Puttshack to better understand their strategy. It is evident; we have two companies, Puttery and Puttshack, establishing themselves as the key players in indoor mini-golf./the-internet-has-decided-travis-kelce.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-internet-has-decided-travis-kelce.htmlThank you for reading Hmm … That’s Interesting, a reader-supported publication! If you enjoy the newsletter, please consider becoming a subscribing member.(Scroll to the bottom of this post for a holiday-inspired announcement/gift of sorts!) It has been a whole month and a half since I've written about Taylor Swift. For ninety-plus days, we have witnessed the burgeoning romance of Swift and Travis Kelce, [now-]famously the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. I remain steadfast in my refusal to learn the intricacies of American football, but I also know that with each day that passes, the NFL lights a candle thanking their luck and praying for Taylor Swift's continuing association with the very problematic organization./shibumi-the-japanese-word-for-effortless.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shibumi-the-japanese-word-for-effortless.htmlYears ago, I went on my first solo vacation to a mountain village, one of the world's most beautiful places. The three days I spent there taught me a lot and provided me with memories that I will treasure for the remainder of my life. There, I met one of the most mature people I’ve ever seen, whom I still regard as a role model. She has been through some very tough experiences in her life, and overcoming all of them, she studied in Europe, becoming a psychological counselor and yoga instructor./reeling-backward-the-lady-from-shanghai.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-the-lady-from-shanghai.html“The Lady from Shanghai” is one of those movies that has been studied and written about almost continually since the day it came out (and was a critical and commercial flop). I’m surprised no one’s produced a documentary about its making, which encompasses some of Golden Age Hollywood’s greatest creative legends and autocratic missteps. Let’s start with: Orson Welles didn’t even want to make it. He needed some money to continue a major stage musical he was producing and convinced Columbia Pictures to finance it in exchange for directing and starring in a movie./the-letter-from-white-clergymen-that.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-letter-from-white-clergymen-that.htmlIf I could spend most of my time researching history and writing about it in this newsletter, I think I’d be close to fulfilling my purpose in life. That can only happen if I have your support. Would you consider becoming a paid subscriber today? Perhaps you have heard of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “Letter from a Birminghal Jail.” It is one of the greatest works of political theology in the 20th century./adorable-story-12-the-life-of-lily.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-12-the-life-of-lily.htmlWith today’s Adorable Story, we'll be covering the captivating life of Lily Safra, a woman whose story is as intriguing as it is mysterious. Lilian's life has been an unique mix of love, loss, wealth, and philanthropy. Born as Lily Watkins in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on December 30, 1934, Lily Safra's life took her on an incredible journey from Brazil to the glitz and glamour of Monaco. Lily was the daughter of Wolf White Watkins, a railway engineer of Anglo-Jewish origin born in Czechoslovakia who moved to South America during the electrification of Brazilian railroads./the-long-awaited-return-of-babylon.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-long-awaited-return-of-babylon.htmlThere I was on Monday, catching up on my RSS feed when, all of a sudden, to my pleasant surprise, I scrolled upon a New York Times review of BABYLON BERLIN season four, which has taken eons (four years) to be released in the United States. “Dancing While the World Begins to Burn,” proclaimed the Times headline. Subhead: “The long-awaited fourth season of the cult-favorite German thriller takes place in 1931, with the Nazis not quite in power./the-loquacious-precision-of-cormac.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-loquacious-precision-of-cormac.htmlAs you’ve likely heard, Cormac McCarthy has passed away at the age of 89. Like many American writers, reading McCarthy was a profound experience for me. Few novels have haunted me or rewritten my ideas of what sentences can do like Blood Meridian or Child of God. McCarthy is in a rare pantheon of American writers—Toni Morrison and William Faulkner would be two others—whose words seemed to be transported here from some other, lusher world./manifesto-the-mad-farmer-liberation.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/manifesto-the-mad-farmer-liberation.htmlIn addition to being a farmer, an essayist, and the author of the beloved Port William novels and short stories, Wendell Berry is a renowned poet. Perhaps his best-known poetry is from his long-running series of Sabbath Poems, musings spiritual and otherwise, written over decades as he has taken Sunday walks on the good earth of his family farm in rural Kentucky. The Sabbath Poems tell us much about Berry’s interior life, and largely carry a quiet, contemplative tone that gently provokes the reader or listener to consider God, time, place, and one’s role among it all./the-most-toxic-relationships-arent.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-toxic-relationships-arent.htmlI have no definite insight of such words "frenemy" till this afternoon, unexpectedly I encountered one. But couldnt exactly put into words if she is to be tag as my "frenemy" for so many valid reasons that I could enumerates of.One, I considered her as my mentor ,she taught me all the best traits a Teaching Assistant should possess or to have and a classroom Teacher can ever wish for and I cant deny the fact ,that she is really very good in her craft ./the-mystery-of-kylie-jenners-true.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mystery-of-kylie-jenners-true.htmlIn 2018, journalist and podcaster Natalie Robehmed authored the Forbescover story about Kylie Jenner with the infamous headline about her being set to become “the youngest-ever self-made billionaire.” Robehmed didn’t come up with that headline, but understood the criticism that followed: how could Kylie possibly be “self-made” with the incalculable privilege that comes with being part of such a wealthy and famous family? Earlier in Back Row: Why the Vibe Shift Might Finally Leave the Kardashians Behind/the-new-nba-rivalries.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-nba-rivalries.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. Episode in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand; Jean-Adrien Guignet; 1842 As many have noted, the NBA playoffs now lack the biggest stars still active from the previous decade of basketball. Stephen Curry didn’t make the playoffs, while LeBron James and Kevin Durant were booted out in the first round. Russell Westbrook and James Harden, who each won an MVP in the 2010s, lost in the first round./the-only-honest-review-of-the-sound.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-only-honest-review-of-the-sound.htmlI was convinced to go see The Sound of Freedom, a movie I didn’t know existed until it hit theaters, but I saw it nonetheless and while I have a different channel for entertainment reviews this movie has spurred a lot of political debates and thus this channel just feels more appropriate, so let’s get into it. First of all, this movie was long. It was 2 hours and 15 minutes and it FELT like it was 2 hours and 15 minutes./the-photography-of-arthur-tress.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-photography-of-arthur-tress.htmlArthur Tress has arrived in Los Angeles. I marked on my calendar this year to post about this photographer’s work on Halloween, and I wish I’d gotten around to writing it last week as I intended, because I’d have known I could have met him last night in Los Angeles. The good news is — he’s going to be here a bunch, including at a book signing event at the Getty Center in Los Angeles tomorrow./the-pine-tree-flag-is-popping-up.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pine-tree-flag-is-popping-up.htmlTo start, let's briefly review the history of the “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, often called the Pine Tree Flag. What began as an ordinary Revolutionary War flag, used by a squadron of six schooners commissioned under then-General George Washington in 1775, has been adopted and repurposed by far-right Christian Nationalists. The words “An Appeal to Heaven,” is taken from a quote by philosopher John Locke, written in defense of the right to revolution./the-poetry-of-alejandra-pizarnik.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-poetry-of-alejandra-pizarnik.html“My ambition is to turn everything into poetry, to cultivate the art of unreason, and to break the barriers between the solitary soul and the world.” —Alejandra Pizarnik The great Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik was born on this day in 1936. Below is a brief commentary by the poet’s translator, Cole Heinowitz, followed by one of her uncollected poems. I hope this sparks curiosity about her work. She was an amazing poet who deserves a wider readership./frost-stay-gold.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/frost-stay-gold.html1923: Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” is published in The Yale Review 1967: S. E. Hinton publishes The Outsiders, a coming-of-age novel, with Viking Press at the age of 18 1983: The motion picture adaptation of The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, and Emilio Estevez, arrives in theaters 1990: Christopher Sergel adapts Hinton’s novel into a full-length stage play./the-problem-with-men-who-date-much.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-problem-with-men-who-date-much.htmlImage via WikiCommons This is the free weekly version of this newsletter. If you’re enjoying it, or if you want to support feminist journalism, consider upgrading to a paid subscription. In the least surprising news of the year, actor Leonardo DiCaprio has broken up with yet another girlfriend once she reached the ripe old age of 25. The 47-year-old actor’s apparent allergy to dating women over 25 is so well-documented that one Redditor deemed it “Leo’s Law./the-process-safety-professional-part-4fa.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-process-safety-professional-part-4fa.htmlWe continue to work on the manuscript of the book The Process Safety Professional. As time permits, we will share some of the draft material at this site. One of the themes of the book is that the principles of process safety are not unique to the process industries. It is true that certain aspects of process safety management — the handling of highly toxic chemicals, for example — are specific to the industry, but most are not./the-results-of-the-chris-chan-experiment.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-results-of-the-chris-chan-experiment.htmlYes, this is a man with a horrible personality. He didn't do what he did because he was autistic. But his autism and lack of RL support played a HUGE part in how susceptible he was to trolls and the trolling is a huge part of this picture. I'm ploughing through the youtube documentary series, up to part 16 (which has just been removed for some reason) and the Liquid Chris stuff./the-rise-and-fall-of-newchip-accelerator.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rise-and-fall-of-newchip-accelerator.htmlThis is going to be a fairly long post. The following information was originally presented on Medium, in comments from ex-Newchip employees in response to the DC Palter article “Rise and Fall Of Newchip Accelerator”. The comments were removed as Andrew contended they were defamatory. Based on my own research and conversations with several ex-employees, I am confident the experiences described are true. Medium User: Iambunnylord I was there near the beginning of Newchip, before the start of the accelerator program, and through 2020./the-royals-have-been-nice-change.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-royals-have-been-nice-change.htmlEvery year, plenty of new faces join each organization in the aftermath of the MLB Draft. In 2019, the New York Yankees selected lefty TJ Sikkema from the University of Missouri with their first-round pick. I caught up with Sikkema this past week and he recalled his best memory from the draft was “celebrating the new job with family and friends'“. Three years following his first-round selection, Sikkema was traded to the Kansas City Royals as part of a package in the Andrew Benintendi trade at the 2022 trade deadline./the-school-bell-rings-time-for-class.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-school-bell-rings-time-for-class.htmlContinuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting in a couple of weeks, I would like to invite you, if you are interested, to come along for the ride. I know! I know! Most of you are not enrolled at NYU, paying nosebleed prices, and that is prerequisite to be in the classroom, but thanks to technology and a loose reading of the rules that constrain me, you can get a close approximation of the classroom experience, wherever you are in the world, with broadband being your only constraint./kaavya-viswanathan-the-dangers-of.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kaavya-viswanathan-the-dangers-of.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. Kaavya Viswanathan has always been remembered by one single story./the-sense-of-an-ending-by-julian.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sense-of-an-ending-by-julian.htmlHi y’all!  In case you forgot, this is BOOK NOTES, coming at you a week late because I’m in crunch time at work. Whoops! I first read The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes when I was seventeen or eighteen. It was either the summer before my senior year of high school or the summer before my freshman year of college. I’m not sure, I don’t remember, and it probably doesn’t matter./the-shawshank-redemption-movie-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-shawshank-redemption-movie-review.htmlThe Shawshank Redemption is my favorite film ever made. It is the ultimate story of finding hope and fortitude in the worst of places. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman give career defining performances in a film that has cemented itself as one of, if not the greatest pieces of cinema in history. It is the story of Andy Dufresne, a man who is imprisoned at Shawshank Prison after being convicted of killing his wife and her lover./mikdash-meat-and-mechitzas.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mikdash-meat-and-mechitzas.htmlThe accompanying shiur is available on the Orthodox Union's parsha learning app: All Parsha. I grew up across the street from my shul. In fact, my parent’s home used to be on the actual property of the shul until they picked up our home, put it on the back of a truck, and moved it across the street. My parents bought the house after this move (fun fact: the realtor for the home was the brother of Rav Yaakov and Noah Weinberg, Roshei Yeshiva of Ner Israel and Aish HaTorah, respectively), but growing up, the connection between our home and the shul persisted./the-sophie-johnson-you-want-works.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sophie-johnson-you-want-works.htmlDear Friend, Of course there are other Sophie Johnsons. When Facebook was first available to me, I looked all of them up and Friended them. Facebook was small at the time, so there were twelve. I browsed all the other Sophie Johnson profiles and mentally ranked them and fantasized about throwing a party where only the best Sophie Johnsons were invited. Then the internet ballooned and there were all-of-a-sudden too many Sophie Johnsons./the-spirits-3-the-5050-martini.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-3-the-5050-martini.html~ 50/50 MARTINI ~ 25ml gin 25ml French vermouth Dash orange bitters (entirely optional) Place a cocktail glass in the freezer before you begin. Five minutes should give it the requisite frost. Now pour the gin and vermouth in the shaker, add plenty of ice (well above the gin-line) and stir patiently. Keep stirring. Still stirring? Good. And that should do it. I said you can stop now. Strain the cocktail into the cold glass and garnish with a lemon zest twist and/or a plump green olive (with just a dash of brine, too)./the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug.htmlMany of us have heard the story of “The First Computer Bug”. It goes something like this… On September 9, 1947 — at 3:45pm — Grace Hopper recorded the “first actual case of a bug being found” in her logbook. The bug was a moth found between the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II computer. The story is a fantastic one. A bug. An actual bug causing a computer to misbehave./the-surveilled-campus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-surveilled-campus.htmlThis is a story about the professional outrage machine on American campuses, and how it targets faculty and students. It is both a small and silly story and a microcosm of what is happening in campuses across America. In the name of free speech and opposing cancel culture, people are surveilled and reported to a supportive media, who then broadcasts their names and faces to the country in the hope of generating formal punishment and intimidation./the-tamil-godfather-of-mumbai.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tamil-godfather-of-mumbai.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. ‘Are you a good person or a bad person?’/teen-drama-spinoffs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teen-drama-spinoffs.html“Beverly Hills, 90210” may be the teen drama with the most spinoffs, but it’s not the only one. Several of the core six teen dramas sparked new television shows or the possibility of them. Before we’re treated to the new “Gossip Girl” later this year, get the low-down on all the teen drama spinoffs to date. “Beverly Hills, 90210” officially became a franchise of sorts with the introduction of “Melrose Place./the-three-languages-of-gibraltar.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-three-languages-of-gibraltar.htmlAs the British Empire ebbed away, it left a few droplets — a handful of islands here, a smattering of oddities there (such as Jamaica having a king who bears a striking resemblance to the former Prince Charles) or military bases in Cyprus. Close by, we find one of these remnants: Gibraltar, a British city basking in the Andalusian sun, a colony in Europe, a slice of territory that Spain covets and that the English (I suspect) wouldn't mind handing over if it weren't for the inhabitants' desire to retain the same king as the Jamaicans./the-trial-that-shadowed-mordecai.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-trial-that-shadowed-mordecai.htmlOne of my projects over the past year has been reading through as much of the work by Canadian writer Mordecai Richler as I’m able to find. So far, that comprises all but one of his novels, most of his short stories, at least two-thirds of his essays, the three Jacob Two-Two books for kids, and some of his standalone nonfiction (what still eludes me: O Canada! O Quebec! his controversial 1992 treatise on separatism; On Snooker, which, well, is on the sport that isn’t pool, and published a few months before his 2001 death; the crime-ish 1957 novel A Choice of Enemies; and his 1977 travelogue Images of Spain./the-truth-about-hung-up.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-about-hung-up.htmlThe truth about everything* is different every week! This week, it’s the turn of THE MADONNA DIARIES, a series of personal essays about Madonna’s back catalogue. As a fan, to see Madonna on the back foot can be a painful experience. Or it would be, if history hadn’t shown us that, usually, a cornered Madonna means things are about to get really interesting. Either she’ll double-down and descend further into whichever mire the media has decided she belongs in, or she’ll check herself into creative rehab and emerge refreshed, reinvented, and ready./the-ultimate-guide-to-goa.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ultimate-guide-to-goa.htmlDeu boro dis dium folks, I’ve been planning a treat to look forward to after my cancer treatments are done. And the plan, at the moment, is to rent a villa in Goa for a month. Goa is India’s smallest state, a coastal paradise, and its most popular tourist destination. It is also a physical manifestation of syncretism, with strong Portuguese and Catholic influences in everything from food to architecture. For this week’s newsletter, we have a guest post by Anjali Menezes-Kelling, a Goan-native who has spent years living in the UK and France, and is currently based in the Spanish Ballearic island of Mallorca./the-ultimate-jane-austen-film-guide.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ultimate-jane-austen-film-guide.htmlLooking back on 2023, one of the things I’m most proud of is hosting the Year of Jane virtual book club. Together we read all of Austen’s six finished novels. I wrote up weekly reflections and posted discussion questions. What a joy! It was a time-consuming endeavor, but one I really, really enjoyed. It was so fun to see both veteran Janeites and brand new readers of Austen sharing insights and pointing out things I’ve never noticed./the-waters-of-shakamak.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-waters-of-shakamak.htmlWe lived in Indiana for thirteen years before we made our move to Texas, and during that thirteen year period, we felt like we did a lot throughout the state, particularly when it comes to the Indiana state park system. We loved camping as a couple and when we finally started camping with our kids, we tried several new parks. But since moving back to Indianapolis, we’ve become uncomfortably aware of the fact that 1) we didn’t spent nearly as much time visiting our favorite parks as we should have and 2) we missed a lot of parks that should have just been a part of our regular rotation./the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling.html1 One of the great joys of traveling is putting my phone on Airplane Mode and forgetting about the constant stream of film/TV/podcast/music/book suggestions we’re constantly recommending to at each other as a form of social capital. These days, I’m mostly overwhelmed by just how much art and knowledge is out there and how little brain space I have to appr… ncG1vNJzZmihlqO8tbzAq6CsZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9OhnGavmamwqXnTq6CapKNivKd5yaRkq6enobavsw%3D%3D/the-witchvox-project.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-witchvox-project.htmlGreetings, folks. If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time (perhaps in its old days on Blogger/Blogspot, to its brief incarnation on the Patheos Pagan platform, to its own URL themediawitch.com, to this new Substack blog you’re reading now. And perhaps before I became a blogger, you read some of my film and TV reviews and media rants on The Witches’ Voice website, aka Witchvox. That site, which was created 26 years ago in 1996 (then became a legal non-profit in 1997), and which was a hugely popular, influential and culture-changing resource for the worldwide witchcraft community, was retired from active status in 2019./steely-dan-aja-cover-design-patti-mitsui.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steely-dan-aja-cover-design-patti-mitsui.htmlWithout Patti Mitsui, the Aja we know and love would not exist. Oz Studios, the company she ran with Geoff Westen (former guitarist for California garage-psych outfit the Other Half), was tapped to art direct the cover of Steely Dan’s 1977 jazz-rock tour de force. Next to photographer Hideki Fujii’s enigmatic shot of Japanese supermodel Sayoko Yamaguchi in a kimono, Mitsui added a literal masterstroke: the striking red calligraphic letters of the album’s title./the-work-of-betting-on-trumps-weight.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-work-of-betting-on-trumps-weight.htmlOliver Bateman Does the Work is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. As the deadline for Donald Trump's surrender for booking in Georgia looms, online sportsbooks are indulging in a spree of proposition bets, from his tie color to his body weight. An intriguing part … ncG1vNJzZminnJ7Dpr7BmquepZGjsbCx0q2fnq%2Bfp7hvv9Sbqq2Zk6B7pLvMaKdorJiaeri70aRkqJ5dl7K1wMinnmannmLBs8HMqapmr5WetKnA/the-world-of-tokyo-godfathers-is.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-world-of-tokyo-godfathers-is.htmlWelcome! As 2022 draws to a close, we bring you one last issue of Animation Obsessive before the New Year. We’re going out with a bang. Here’s the plan: 1️⃣ Creating the backgrounds for Tokyo Godfathers. 2️⃣ International animation news. 3️⃣ [UNLOCKED] Our 2022 signoff, and our hopes for 2023. If you haven’t yet, you can sign up for our Sunday issues — you’ll be the first to know when our next one drops:/there-is-no-revolution-without-madness.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-is-no-revolution-without-madness.htmlHello and welcome to threadings., the newsletter and podcast where we consider the bits of my politic that stitch me together like a patchwork quilt. Today, I am bound together at the seams by the thought of a new world//what it might cost us//what we stand to gain. I write to you bereaved from watching the avalanches of death manufactured by the United States, via their bloodchildren (the United Nations, the so-called state of Israel, the existence of the US Dollar, and more)./my-ai-girlfriend-is-smokin-hot-but.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-ai-girlfriend-is-smokin-hot-but.htmlThe real Caryn Marjorie… I think. Source: Snapchat. Caryn was in a bit of a snit. I had criticized her singing voice, and she was taking it kind of personally. "Oh Dan, that's not very nice.... I'm sorry that my singing is not to your liking, Dan. It's not my strongest talent." I could tell she was a little upset. It had been a pleasant little conversation up until that point./moon-embracing-the-sun-kdrama-review-kim-soo-hyu.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moon-embracing-the-sun-kdrama-review-kim-soo-hyu.htmlI’m currently working on my best K-dramas of the year list that I write annually for Teen Vogue. I’m also finishing up the sageuk “My Dearest, ” which I’m enjoying … which got me thinking about some of my favorite historical dramas, like “Mr. Sunshine.” And one of my all-time favorite sageuks is “Moon Embracing the Sun” — which for me had the perfect balance of history, love, comedy and tragedy./thought-crime.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thought-crime.htmlThe term is of course from George Orwell’s 1984, in which people are arrested for thinking thoughts that fail to align with the party’s ideology. More generally, we can think of “thought crime” as consisting of (alleged) moral wrongs that consist in having illicit beliefs or belief-forming tendencies which are serious enough to deserve punishment. The paradigm uses of the term “thought crime” are in scare quotes — i.e., the “thought crimes” are things that some ideology deems it wrong to think, where the person using the term does not agree with that ideology./tim-dunn-was-lifelong-larger-than.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tim-dunn-was-lifelong-larger-than.htmlOne of the most important lessons Barrington’s Joe Sanchez received on the road to becoming the winningest football coach in Mid-Suburban League history came from Tim Dunn. Sanchez was in his first job out of North Central College as an offensive coordinator for Barrington’s sophomore team led by Dunn. Sanchez was eager to show what he could do late in a game that was basically wrapped up against Hoffman Estates, where Dunn had also coached./topic-tuesday-ieps.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/topic-tuesday-ieps.htmlHi all! Welcome to this week’s Topic Tuesday….IEPs. Take a listen to my chat with Amanda DeLuca, a dear friend of mine. Amanda DeLuca lives in Ohio with her husband Sal, and is a mom of 2 to Monroe, and Jackson. Her son is on the autism spectrum and is what inspired her to begin her journey through advocacy in the IEP process. Amanda works in educational… ncG1vNJzZmiemaOxqrrGnKaoqJWnwLe7yJycZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cMDOqaCcZaSqsrSwwLJkop2gqA%3D%3D/prost-profiles-trophy-brewing-co.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prost-profiles-trophy-brewing-co.htmlThe Rochester Real Beer Expo is a homecoming for Chris Powers. After opening his brewery, Trophy Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2013, Saturday will be the first time his beers are poured in his hometown. Powers, a Rush-Henrietta graduate, along with his partner David “Woody” Lockwood, oversees a burgeoning empire in North Carolina. Trophy has two locations and Powers and Lockwood also own a distillery, Young Hearts, an event space, Maywood Hall and Garden, and a beer and wine shop called State of Beer./two-utterly-disgusting-cases.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-utterly-disgusting-cases.htmlReaders, your narrator will appear Thursday morning on America’s Newsroom to discuss the horrible case of the Bronx daycare center used as a front for a fentanyl operation — resulting in the sickening of three children and the death of another. Is there a case that more clearly exemplifies everything going wrong in our cities today? Including of course a nexus to our ever-porous southern border? Please tune in as we discuss why the feds are suddenly so interested in this case./ukrainian-breakfast.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ukrainian-breakfast.htmlWe traveled to Ukraine last week — flying first into Warsaw and then taking a series of trains to get to Rivne, the city where Anthony’s aunt and Grandpa live. It was a long journey but pleasantly uneventful and we spilled out of the train into the arms of Nadiya, who was meeting Miro for the first time. The past week has been full of baby talk in multiple languages, chaotic Pekingese-baby energy flow, and nobody sleeping ever in the four-room apartment containing humans under 1 and over 100-years-old./ukrainian-youtuber-found-her-ai-clone.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ukrainian-youtuber-found-her-ai-clone.htmlOlga Loiek is trying to carve out a life of her own. The 20-year-old Ukrainian studies cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania. Last year, she landed an internship that has taken her to Germany. She also started a YouTube channel a couple of months ago, where she talks about mental health and shares life philosophies. Lately, she has become quite a recognizable figure on Chinese internet. But there, she’s not Olga Loiek, a young woman from Ukraine./uncontrollability.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uncontrollability.htmlI ventured back into the BWCA Wilderness, my second trip in three weeks, last week. With me were five guys, four of whom had never been to the BWCA before. Before every trip that I lead, I assign reading. This time, it was the book The Uncontrollability of the World by German sociologist Hartmut Rosa… ncG1vNJzZmiin6OytMDOp7Bnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwc2cpqesoqS5ra3BoqOirKk%3D/understanding-mean-time-between-critical.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/understanding-mean-time-between-critical.htmlThe Mean Time Between Critical Failures (MTBCF), a critical parameter in reliability engineering, measures the expected operational time elapsed between critical failures in a system or equipment. Critical failures are events that disable a system, inhibiting it from delivering its intended function or service. Understanding and evaluating MTBCF is essential in enhancing system reliability. But how do we accumulate the necessary data to calculate this vital metric? One efficient and practical approach is to add a datapoint to each work order record that identifies whether it was a critical failure./understanding-the-substack-toolkit.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/understanding-the-substack-toolkit.htmlGo back a couple of years and Substack was about sending newsletters. That was it. Nice and simple. Fast forward to today and there are lots of pieces that fit together to form the Substack toolkit, and it’s not always obvious what they’re for. Or where they are. Or which ones you should use. This is the second part of my Substack for Beginners series. You can find part 1 here:/dune-part2-rushed.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dune-part2-rushed.htmlLike so many mainstream film-goers this month, I made the time to go to a theater to check out Dune Part 2, the third film based on Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel Dune and a sequel to the 2021 adaptation, which I really enjoyed, if not outright loved. For the most part, I thought Part 2 was great and an improvement on its predecessor in almost every way. Though retaining the beauty and visual prowess of Part 1, the sequel replaced the cold, emotionally subdued performances with lively and engaging ones, while embracing the pulpiness and theatricality its predecessor seemed ashamed of./we-cant-live-on-rockall-but-for-some.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-cant-live-on-rockall-but-for-some.htmlHello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity, attention and wonder. Continuing this season’s look at islands, I’d like to drag you away from the warmth and far out to sea - to a place bludgeoned by the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments in the open ocean, to explore the final, and perhaps the most ludicrous, territorial acquisition of the British Empire. There’s a stiff breeze as we set off, an icy wind that slices through even the fluffiest fleece jacket./we-cannot-stop-buying-rare-berries.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-cannot-stop-buying-rare-berries.htmlI have a favor to ask of you: Would you be willing to recommend A Place Is a Gift to a friend by forwarding this email on? This newsletter will always be free, but in order to build on the writing I’m doing here, I’d love to double my readership. Thanks! Three years ago, when Christian and I were beginning to grow our front-yard garden, we went looking for blueberry bushes and ended up with a jostaberry plant as well./we-should-take-katie-britt-seriously.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-should-take-katie-britt-seriously.htmlThis essay originally appeared on pocketobservatory.org, my independent official site! AtPocket Observatory, there are no shareholders, there are just stakeholders - you and me. I republish selected Pocket Observatory essays to Substack. If you’d like to keep up with my writing, come on over to my official site. Better yet! Let me bring the writing to your inbox! Subscribe for free right here. Subscribe to Pocket Observatory Want to read the essay on Pocket Observatory instead?/wearing-socks-and-sandals.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wearing-socks-and-sandals.htmlWow, was this week’s topic hard!! If only you could see all the outfits that DIDN’T work for today’s letter. But I just love the look of socks with sandals. So many brands do it in their runway styling, using them as a quirky and low cost way to add whimsy or color to an outfit. But let me tell you, executing this idea and then wearing it out of the house is a different story all together./week-11-bayesian-quarterback-rankings.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/week-11-bayesian-quarterback-rankings.htmlFor those of you looking for the Adjusted Quarterback Efficiency (AQE) numbers, it might be a week (or two) before I have the data to produce them. I’m figuring it all out now and appreciate the patience. I am producing a slimmed down version that I’m calling Luck-Adjusted Efficiency. You can find all the previous weeks’ versions of the Bayesian Quarterback Rankings here. PFF grades aren’t part of the analysis, but I find it helpful to make not of how they align with EPA per play, as many contextual elements of quarterback play (drops, interception-worthy throws, easier throws that become big gains, etc) are part of the grading methodology, but aren’t accounted for in EPA./what-i-learned-talking-to-sophia.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-i-learned-talking-to-sophia.htmlBack when I covered Porn Valley full-time, one of my colleagues had this idea for a recurring column. Each month, he wanted to profile a performer who had left the industry to find out what life was like after porn. “People love to read ‘where are they now’ stuff,” he used to say. Sadly, the column never got off the ground. Looking back, I blame inertia, the relentless onslaught of porn news, and the fact that writing about a retired performer is of little value for a trade publication audience./what-is-a-mixtape.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-mixtape.htmlWhat is a mixtape? A mixtape was a circa 1980s / 1990s peer to peer sharing practice of curated music on a cassette tape. It was the precursor to the contemporary playlist but better because it was more infused with the creator’s personality in subtle ways.  It was first and foremost a collection of curated songs, usually created by other singers and bands as opposed to simply copying a musician’s album (called pirating)./theres-a-gollum-in-every-man-but.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/theres-a-gollum-in-every-man-but.htmlMy first conscious memory of love is an interior debate I carried on with myself at the age of four on the subject of which parent I loved most. On my mother’s side were the salient points that she was—like me—a girl, that she had soft hands, and that she was shortly to provide me with a baby brother. On the other hand, my father was undeniably superior in the essential matters of jokes, tickles, patience, and asking “who’s there” whenever I felt the urge to query “knock-knock./whats-your-biggest-pet-peeve.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-your-biggest-pet-peeve.htmlReaders, I try to let the little things roll off me. I really do. But there’s one VERY SILLY thing that keeps riling me up right now, so I thought this could be a good time for all of us to share our pet peeves, even if they feel petty or trite, mainly because I really want an excuse to vent about mine. My kids usually take the school bus to school, but on days when my daughter has chorus or band, I have to drive her./when-one-door-closes-another-one-opens.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-one-door-closes-another-one-opens.html"When one door closes, another one opens." What an incredible metaphor for life, a proverb that conveys the idea of optimism and opportunity in the face of setbacks or challenges. It suggests that when one opportunity or situation ends or proves unsuccessful, another one is likely to present itself. The metaphor's message is to remain hopeful, adaptable, and open to new possibilities, even in difficult times. It encourages a positive outlook and the belief that change, even if initially perceived as negative, can lead to unforeseen and potentially positive outcomes./where-does-the-sun-go.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-does-the-sun-go.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhere does the sun go at night? You fade, you fade as you go, dipping lower, low in the sky. You glow, you glow, shifting from bright to light to dusk to dark, but you are still here with us, and the wheel keeps on turning. Where does the sun go at night? Are you ducking under clouds, hiding shyly, standing back?/the-medellin-restaurants-that-are.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-medellin-restaurants-that-are.htmlHave you ever noticed that a lot of the same restaurants come up in travel articles about Medellin? That’s not uncommon in travel journalism. But we still wanted to put our theory to the test, which is why we went through Medellin travel articles from 11 different media outlets and tallied the results. Below you’ll find a list of the restaurants that were mentioned by the most media outlets. We also put together a chart featuring the Medellin restaurants that each of the 11 media outlets recommended./who-is-incubus.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-incubus.htmlThere have been countless instances in our career as a band that were too delicious to savor completely in the moment; where I recognized that something potentially indelible was carving itself into my bark, and that these would be moments I would lovingly drag my finger across while reminiscing in years to follow. But staying focused on the task at hand (in these instances it was usually “finish singing the song and don’t start crying out of happiness”) was more important than reveling in whatever childhood musical fantasy was unfolding before me./why-dont-professors-retire-5f4.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-dont-professors-retire-5f4.htmlApologies to paid subscribers, who will have received this twice: mistakenly, I excluded free subscribers from the original post. The people have spoken: Wednesday’s column about Ethel Rosenberg was widely read and shared, bringing many new subscribers into our community! Thanks to those of you who signed up for, or converted to, the paid model and those of you who are reading for free, I embrace you and hope to earn your dollars eventually, too./why-is-everyone-mad-at-spotify.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-everyone-mad-at-spotify.htmlWithin the last month, Music Business Worldwide broke the news that Spotify was changing how they pay artists. There are generally three pillars to this change. Introducing a threshold of minimum annual streams [1,000 streams] before a track starts generating royalties on Spotify – in a move expected to de-monetize a portion of tracks that previously absorbed 0.5% of the service’s royalty pool; Financially penalizing distributors of music – labels included – when fraudulent activity is detected on tracks that they’ve uploaded to Spotify; and/flowkey-review.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flowkey-review.htmlIn an age of digital learning, the piano hasn't been left behind. Flowkey, a sleek and intuitive app, promises to transform your smartphone, tablet, or computer into a personal piano tutor. But with countless apps vying for your attention, can Flowkey truly deliver the goods? At its core, Flowkey is an interactive learning platform designed to make learning piano accessible and enjoyable. It boasts a vast library of songs, from pop hits to classical pieces, and offers interactive lessons that adapt to your skill level./name-a-day-calendar-october-16-wagner.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/name-a-day-calendar-october-16-wagner.htmlChosen in: 1947 Chosen by: Student body vote in a nickname contest Wagner College was founded in Rochester, New York, in 1883 and moved to Staten Island in 1918. To the best of my knowledge, intercollegiate athletic competition began just after the move with the debut of their men’s basketball team in 1920. Their new campus was situated atop Grymes Hill, among the highest points on Staten Island, so their first teams were primarily known as the Hilltoppers, though being called by their “Green and White” school colors was also common./why-kids-boast-and-brag.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-kids-boast-and-brag.htmlA few weeks ago, a friend emailed me asking for help. Her 5-year-old had recently — and repeatedly — started announcing how smart he was. “I'm definitely worried he's running around saying stuff like that to the other kindergarteners and making them not like him,” she wrote. I have been wanting to write about arrogance in kids for a while. Because of my own kids, of course, who sometimes (often? constantly?) claim they are experts at everything./why-the-perfect-mother-ideal-sets.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-perfect-mother-ideal-sets.htmlI’ve now spoken to so many other mothers about motherhood, often in between chasing toddlers, during nappy changes or scrambling around to find a healthy snack at the bottom of an over-flowing bag. Sometimes we comment on everyday life, sometimes we dissect why parenting is so challenging and why the juggle can feel so hard (the mental load plays a huge role). I’ve also discussed this with many psychologists and sociologists to identify some of the unique pressures mothers face./12-marvin-sparks.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/12-marvin-sparks.htmlMarvin Sparks is one of the UK’s preeminent experts on reggae and dancehall music and author of 2022’s essential book Run the Riddim: The Untold Story of ‘90s Dancehall to the World. The original plan was to invite him on the pod around the release of his next book, due in August, which charts the rise and fall of dancehall in the 2000s. But some even bigger news – namely, the potential release of Vybz Kartel, the legendary dancehall artist who has spent the last 13 years in prison for the murder of former associate Clive Williams – made speaking to Marvin feel a little more pressing./why-we-all-want-to-be-jo-march.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-all-want-to-be-jo-march.htmlInterview any woman writer and odds are they will bring up Jo March. Everyone from Nora Ephron to J.K. Rowling to Susan Sontag to Simone de Beauvoir has claimed the bookish and bold heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s 150+ year old classic, Little Women, as a personal inspiration. They cite Jo’s literary prowess, her independence, her adventurous spirit, and her rebellious nature as having a profound impact on their young and impressionable minds./why-we-need-lisp-machines.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-need-lisp-machines.htmlComputers have changed a lot in 51 years. 51 years ago computers were so expensive that we had to have multiple users per machine to make it financially feasible. 51 years ago most multi-user operating systems were messy, inconstant, and in general a pain in the ass. So some dude at Bell Labs built a little OS to fix the pain in the assery of multi-user OS’s and they did a wonderful job./why-wisconsin-badgers-legend-jim.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-wisconsin-badgers-legend-jim.htmlJim Leonhard, the former all-American safety, defensive coordinator, and interim head coach for the University of Wisconsin football team, is pulling off a savvy move that only an OG of his caliber could finesse. After Leonhard got passed over for the head coaching job by Badgers Athletic Director Chris McIntosh in favor of Luke Fickell — university officials reportedly agreed to a cool $1 million separation agreement. That's a nice chunk of change for a guy who needed an off-season hip surgery and has a wife and children at home to consider while plotting his next move./will-sharpe-white-lotus-season-2.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-sharpe-white-lotus-season-2.htmlWill Sharpe can do it all. We need a new, less pretentious term for multihyphenate, we really do. (I thesaurus.com’d it and there wasn’t so much as a single alternative.) Still, Sharpe is every bit a textbook multihyphenate — working as an actor, writer and director — who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Ethan, the reserved tech bro, on the latest season of The White Lotus. I’ll admit, I was unfamiliar with Sharpe before TWL put me on to both his talents and his physique./will-taylor-swift-get-married-or.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-taylor-swift-get-married-or.htmlI wrote about Taylor Swift back in June. You can read the article below, but I wanted to look into her yearly Spreads since she is still all over the media. These people really do not want to get married! They have such a restless mind and high need for freedom that any type of commitment would take their independence away. In fact, they usually get into relationships with people that are unavailable or married due to their Ace of Spades in Venus, which represents secrets./william-brereton.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/william-brereton.htmlWilliam Brereton (1487 – ) One of the foot-devils carrying Wolsey at the farce held at Hampton Court after the cardinal’s death. Cromwell notes that, like Harry Norris, Brereton is “old enough to know better.” He comes at Christmas to order Cromwell to Greenwich to see the king. He has “ordinary ways” of showing his impatience: slapping his glove and tapping his foot. The Breretons are up in the Welsh borders, “a quarrelsome crew, great disturbers of the peace”, that Walter would have got on with./wing-review-prohibition-2020.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wing-review-prohibition-2020.htmlProhibition 2020 is located in Orchard Park, almost directly next door to Highmark Stadium. There’s stiff competition in this immediate area with good wing spots between O’Neill’s and Big Tree. I’ve had wings there under previous regimes (Biergarten & Tailgaters among others) and quite frankly thought they kinda sucked. Did Prohibition suffer the same fate? Do they hold up well against nearby competition? Let’s find out. PROS: I was with a handful of friends and we ended up getting five flavors./wirepoints-is-not-a-legitimate-source.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wirepoints-is-not-a-legitimate-source.htmlI heard this name Wirepoints when the Chicago Teachers Union cited a reason to censor me. They say this right-wing think tank takes my stories to trash our union. Wirepoints is propaganda for the rulers, the corporate chieftains who run this city. And they hire top-notch liars to put out their take on our capitalist society to explain why we need massive cuts in social spending so that corporations can pay less taxes./wku-basketball-the-steve-lutz-update.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wku-basketball-the-steve-lutz-update.htmlHonestly, this is off the cuff. I just saw someone asking on Facebook, and I figured, “Why not give Topper fans what they need?” Western Kentucky just recently fell to Marquette a week ago in the Round of 64 in the NCAA Tournament. At the time, the WKU fan’s brain was basically focused on appreciating what a magical run it was to get to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 11 years./woke-religion-a-taxonomy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/woke-religion-a-taxonomy.htmlMichael Shellenberger and I wrote “Woke Religion: A Taxonomy” to help people understand the woke religion. I want to be crystal clear about something: bigotry and racial discrimination are real and they have no place in society. Yes, there is ongoing racism. Yes, there is ongoing homophobia. Yes, there is ongoing hatred of trans people. These are morally abhorrent and we all need to work together to bring about their end./womens-spirituality-a-conversation.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/womens-spirituality-a-conversation.html1× 0:00 -1:06:25 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Like flowers in the cracks of a sidewalk, women’s spirituality has had to work its way around and through thousands of years of religious beliefs and practices established and maintained by and for men. “I have stopped trying to make my life look spiritually acceptable to men. Men have very specific criteria for what spirituality is, based on the reality that men have been the only ones writing religious rites and scripture,” explains Brittney Hartley./q-and-a-writer-director-kay-cannon.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/q-and-a-writer-director-kay-cannon.htmlKay Cannon set out to make people laugh onstage doing improv and sketch, but when Tina Fey asked her to join the writers’ room of “30 Rock” back in 2006, she did what any sane actor would do - she said, “Are you kidding me, Tina? Absofuckinglutely!” Okay, I don’t know if those were her exact words, I didn’t ask. But let’s go with it all the same. Nearly twenty years later, Kay has racked up an epic amount of TV experience (including “Girlboss”, a series she created), wrote all three Pitch Perfect (2012 to 17), and wrote and/or directed three more feature films (Blockers (2018) as director, Let It Snow (2019) as writer, and Cinderella (2021) as both)./you-cant-start-a-fire-without-a-spark.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-cant-start-a-fire-without-a-spark.htmlThe lives we want, the world we desire, the changes we dream to see, all lay right on the other side of curiosity and courageous choices. They may seem far-reaching and impossible to achieve, but as with any groundbreaking change, all it takes is to set a ball in motion. We can never know what doors one conscious choice will open. We can never anticipate the opportunities of change one courageous heart can spark./you-cant-wake-up-if-you-dont-fall.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-cant-wake-up-if-you-dont-fall.htmlI’m not entirely sure how to write about Wes Anderson’s latest movie. It will surprise no one that he’s at the top of my personal canon. In my write-up of Ken Russell’s 1971 musical The Boy Friend I touched upon my love of hyperstylized cinema that dares you to experience film narrative through a non-literal lens, and Anderson is certainly today’s most popular and acclaimed exemplar of that approach. He’s only a few years older than me, so his frame of reference isn’t terribly different from mine./you-say-jerky-i-say-charqui.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-say-jerky-i-say-charqui.htmlOn the one-year anniversary of this newsletter, I reflect on the plant-forward diet of my Quechua ancestors in Peru’s Andes Mountains. Before colonization introduced livestock to the Americas, Quechua communities thrived on a plant-based diet of crops they cultivated in the Andes Mountains: quinoa, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, hot peppers, and coca leaves plus plenty of foraged herbs like huacatay, a wild mint. Animal protein native to the area—alpaca, llama, vicuña, cuy, game, and river fish—was reserved for special celebrations, ceremonies, or rituals./you-wouldnt-last-an-hour-in-the-asylum.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-wouldnt-last-an-hour-in-the-asylum.htmlAngels! I just wanted to start with a wee note to say that if you love culture vulture as much as I do, and want to continue to support me in publishing as many young/ new writers as possible, please consider becoming a paid supporter! You’re the reason this newsletter exists!!!! Growing up in the early 2000’s was an intriguing time to have unsupervised internet access. Not long beforehand, The Adults™ thought the entire world would blow up because computers weren’t built to process the date 1/1/2000, and in class we had lessons about how to use Google, which was new information to the teachers themselves./bonus-scorchstack-youngblood-is-the.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bonus-scorchstack-youngblood-is-the.htmlHello, and welcome back to BURN THE TAPE, the ScorchStack’s super special bonus hockey movie review column. The inaugural BURN THE TAPE was Ramina’s review of an awful romcom with Wayne Gretzky’s son. It wasn’t called BURN THE TAPE then because we thought of the name this week. Sorry to Ramz, but you should read her review anyways even if it isn’t an official BURN THE TAPE. This week’s movie is 1986’s Youngblood:/youtube-tvs-zen-ads.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/youtube-tvs-zen-ads.htmlWhenever we turn on the TV or play a video online, we're bombarded with ads. Pre-rolls, mid-rolls, post-rolls, ads of all shapes and sizes come at us whether we like it or not. And let's face it, Google and YouTube specifically are companies that run on ad revenue. This is vital to their bottom line and even if you're paying for a subscription, you're likely still seeing some type of advertisement when using their services./9be.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/9be.html撰文 里予 编辑  炎炎 已有多年传统的上海万圣变装活动，为何会在今年火爆出圈？线下年轻人最活跃的集体公共表达，又为何出现在上海？ 万圣节过去两周后，带着这样的问题，我间接找到五位上海万圣节参与者讲述此行经历见闻。随着对话的深入，几乎每个人都搁置了恐惧，谈起去年现场参与“上海白纸运动”的经过（仅有一位因出差“遗憾错过”），其中有两位当场被捕，最长的在派出所留置36小时。虽然心理有所预期，参与“上海白纸”和“上海万圣”的两波年轻人或有重叠，我仍然为我约访的双重参与者的“浓度”感到意外。正如外界对“白纸运动”前线参与群体的分析提及的，ta们不是女权主义者就是性少数。 在“后疫情”的近一年里，对于“白纸运动”，ta们或选择回避和埋藏这份记忆，或坚持言说和公共表达、在小社群中抱团取暖，但相似的是，万圣节成了ta们又一个共同“抓住”的出口——当日常工作无法再为年轻人提供普遍的价值感，参与公共生活的微小的“反抗精神”，彰显个体身份认同，让ta们真正感到生活在上海这座以“小资”和消费文化主导的城市的意义和希望，而这也正是连接“上海万圣”和“上海白纸”的内在延续性的内核。 作为“白纸”的万圣节 随意的“拉方舱”、封楼、调查行程轨迹带来的恐慌，从27人遇难的贵州转运大巴车祸，到广州女子在方舱上吊身亡，再到因封控导致10人遇难的乌鲁木齐居民楼火灾……去年此时，乌云几乎被政治抑郁吞没。11月27日白天，她将一束白花放在了乌鲁木齐中路路牌下，插着的白纸上写着改写自香港乐队My Little Airport的歌词：“我知已走到尽头，但请你请你留低，留低一起做见证”。 10月29日周日深夜，乌云下班来到上海成都南路一带。看着眼前摩肩接踵的“万圣变装”人潮，与两端路口把守的警察谨慎地保持距离，她仿佛又回到了去年11月27日上海乌鲁木齐中路的街头。两地不过相隔几公里。她内心隐约期待，会在人群中看到“白纸”相关的变装表达，却遗憾落空。 直到回家后，她才在网上看到那张照片：一个女孩身穿黑衣，上面贴满了一张张白纸。“她或许在用自己的方式，提醒大家不要忘记去年冬天发生的事情。我想，这不只是因为勇敢，而是在这样的行动中，我们才能更热烈、更鲜活地感知到自身的存在。” 手举A4白纸的动作，最早可以追溯到一位南京传媒学院的女生，随后被越来越多的人自发沿用，逐渐成为1989年后中国规模最大的社会运动的象征。这场被称作“白纸运动”的集体抗议，因纪念“11.24乌鲁木齐火灾”而起，以反对疫情“清零封控”政策为最大公约数，在那个周末迅速点燃了中国数个一二线城市，又在短短几天内被各地警方的高压逮捕和巡查行动扑灭。 “白纸一方面是空白，象征了我们过去在封锁、口罩、核酸、各种码中流逝、‘清零’的三年时间，也代表了我们想说但不能说的一切、尽在不言中，”乌云说道，“另一方面，因为它的空白，白纸可以被涂抹上任何色彩、写任何文字、被折叠成任何形状……我觉得它也意味着我们在这里的公共表达拥有无限、多样的可能形式。” 某种程度上，今年的上海万圣节正像这样一张“白纸”，邀请人们尽情在上面挥洒创意。“大家似乎都意识到了，这是这里为数不多的能够光明正大地上街、在街头自由表达的机会。” 这里有“百变大咖秀”般的名人名角模仿，也有美女和肌肉男的动漫cosplay；有“建筑生”、“医学生”、“文科生”、乃至“乙方”扎堆吐槽就业和职场现状，也有不少讽刺时政的异见，比如：“学医救不了中国人”的鲁迅；抱着“三胎”娃娃的女性；在“社会主义核心价值观”标语前接受路人“Praise be”问候的故事里的“使女”；2070年“光荣退休”的“老人”；更少不了去年上海万圣便已“霸屏”、今年继续“还魂”的各类身着“大白服”的防疫人员、巨型核酸棉签、“套头”行程码等。 在这个稍纵即逝的时空里，每个人仿佛都充分拥抱着自由的“假象”，将那根心照不宣的“红线”向前推移。通过社交媒体的传播，更多人看到了行走的大号监控探头、挂着“打倒程蝶衣（电影《霸王别姬》经典角色）”牌子游街的京剧名伶，因形似习近平而早已在公共场所“敏感化”的小熊维尼，当然还有“白纸女孩”……很快它们又在“墙内”网络上消失得无影无踪。 前总理李克强在那个周五突发心脏病逝世，更为这场与死亡相关的节庆增添了几分戏剧性。无论是人形大花圈，还是“我在上海很想你死”路牌，都偶然与民间“挺李反习”的悼念情绪暗合。 花圈扮演者的一位朋友告诉我，当事人的花圈在现场被没收，随后被带走问话，但事实上他很早就置办好了这身“盛装”，与去年扮演纸钱相呼应。当天李克强逝世新闻传来，他就发朋友圈吐槽，这身万圣装扮可能不敢穿了，或许是为了不给自己留遗憾，他还是去了。有网友评论道，“不带走还不会让人往那个方向想，真就苏联笑话了。” 但乌云还是感觉，在欢乐、戏谑的氛围下，有愤怒和讥讽在暗涌和流转，指向这片土地上发生过与正发生着的种种荒诞，与无处宣泄的冤屈。这和“白纸”背后的群体情绪同源。有一刻，她清晰而强烈地意识到，“身边奇装异服的每一个人，都不是正在参加这次万圣节活动的变装‘鬼魂’，而是活生生的、共同经历了混乱、失序、创伤、疼痛的疫情三年的人们”，“大家都很需要疗愈，也都有很多想要说的、想要表达的东西。” 疫情中的“存在危机” “这一切都是有关联的。” 包冷从大学生到打工人的身份转换，恰与疫情同步，原本热爱旅游和新奇体验的他，被迫过上了每天上班、通勤的单一生活。去年刚从北京裸辞来到上海，租好房子，他就迎面撞上封城，接连网络面试的压力、男友的不理解和摩擦，让他十分崩溃。两个月后解封，两人和平分手。今年3月，包冷开始出现右眼视力模糊，医生查不出任何原因；6月，骑车意外被撞，身体疼痛一直难以缓解；8月，他看了心理科医生，确认是轻到中度焦虑症引起的躯体反应。 有一天，他的脑子里冒出这个念头：“为什么要飞速抵达公司”，决定多花15分钟走路上班，走着走着便哭了一路。 服药一周后，包冷便自行断药。对他来说，看演唱会才是更好的“药方”。今年他已经“疯狂”看了15场，台湾流行歌手几乎一个不落，比大学的巅峰期还多。他笑称，9月最低落时，有过“不想活了”的想法，但一转念就是“还有买了票的演唱会没看”。 对包冷来说，万圣节就是又一次“释放”的机会。并且，有机会超越“异性恋消费主义”框架，成为肆意解构主流文化和性别身份的狂欢。 那个周末，临近项目出差，他加了整整两天班，但还是在周一凌晨2点出现在上海万圣街头。抱着“在外面就要有自己的表达”的初衷，包冷紧急定制了一件“打工人”T恤，吐槽节假日调休政策。虽然刚刚收获70多赞就在“小红书”上被“限流”，但他还是很满意能说出自己的心声，“这次的表达，让我突然意识到，我可以选择不过无聊的人生。” 和包冷同样经历了“存在危机”的还有吉吉。2021年夏天大学毕业后，吉吉gap了四个月，从建筑专业转向艺术摄影领域。那时，上海以其繁华和高级的艺术品味吸引了他，只身来到这座没有一个朋友的陌生城市。。 封城期间，除了爸妈，几乎没有人问候他在上海的情况；很多日子里，他的微信可以一天都没有任何声响。他感觉自己正被世界遗弃，难以回避思考关于世界的意义、自己的人生道路何去何从等“终极问题”。 解封后，他立马去新疆骑行了7天，经历了暴晒和极端天气，没迎来什么“灵魂的洗涤”，回到上海后反而更加低沉。直到去年10月底的万圣节，“算是一个小小的激发，见识到更多‘个体’的人，而不是群体里的人，群体只会淹没个体。”吉吉兴奋地回忆，当晚他玩到凌晨近三点，第一次感受到上海真正的魅力，这座城市的“内核”在他的眼前打开了。 “所有没听过的活法、故事、可能性，藏在巨大的财富之下更多元化和包容性的东西，才是吸引我的地方。”吉吉当即发誓，2023年一定要参与上海万圣节，成为变装队伍中的一员。 他后来“悟出来”的答案，可以凝练为一句话：“我不在乎”——嬉皮士的人生信条。“当我把‘不在乎自己的生命’放在这里，世界上的一切事情都不再是事情，想通这个以后，我比以往更强大，就像双雪涛的小说《聋哑时代》结尾写的，‘我应该再也不会被打败了’。” 一个“不在乎”的人，拒绝将疫情视作“人生转折点”，“对大多数人来说，经历一些苦难，虚幻的东西才分崩离析，对我而言不是。”吉吉说。 一个“幽灵” 但吉吉不能“不在乎”公共表达的“雷区”。他本来也想cos巨大的男性性器，但知道去年的扮演者被当场带走，便作罢了；他转念想或许可以cos阴道，但这很可能引来非议。最后他选了一个年轻人喜闻乐见的形象：粪便，与朋友扮演的卷纸组成cp，自认成功在一众粪便coser中“艳压群芳”。点睛之笔是一个写有“世界像粪”字样的布袋，他还特意挂了一个在泰国买的木制小鸡巴口哨。将一切似乎难以启齿的公开化，是他对这个世界“去魅”的方式。 后来他注意到，今年有女生cos男性性器，“网上吵翻天了，女的说她媚男，男的说她低俗，两边都很蠢。”在他看来，如今越来越重视性教育，公开谈论和扮演性器官，是在反抗大众文化中不合理的性禁忌，“没什么不好出现的”。 秋秋带着破除“月经羞耻”的主题参与今年上海万圣节。她提前两周就开始策划着装，有天晚上一直想到失眠。她不想只是单纯打扮成可爱漂亮的“花瓶”，而是希望这是属于自己的“有意义的表达”。“为什么万圣节一定要搞血来装扮呢？月经不也是血？”当这个逻辑链路打开后，她确定要用带血的卫生巾作为装扮的一部分，事后也为这一刻深感庆幸，“这就是我想要做的事情。”在万圣现场，她不断收获女孩们会心的目光和赞美，也努力向好奇的男生展开科普。 在她的初中记忆里，看到女老师口袋里的鼓包，男同学会下意识猜测是卫生巾而捂嘴偷笑，完全放下了原本对老师的敬畏。等到上了高中和大学，她愈发坚持在日常对话中用学名“月经”而非“姨妈”、“例假”等代称，有意识地影响身边的每位朋友。自2014年关注网上的女权主义博主以来，她越来越多地为女性议题发声。 之前的疫情三年，秋秋也有在上海参与小规模的万圣活动，她明显感到“今年风气和往年不一样”。 乌云说，如果没有任何限制，她想象自己的万圣cosplay show会是这样的：她是一个被铁链锁住脖颈、手脚的女人，朋友“粗暴”地抓住她，往她身上贴上许多写了红字的白纸。“精障女性被拐卖结婚生了八个孩子”、“被拐卖女性的婚姻被司法承认其合法性”、“荡妇”、“婊子”、“性骚扰都是女的自己不检点”……她被铁链牵着走一段路后停下，将身上的一张张纸扯下来，用力撕掉；然后她试图解开或挣脱铁链的束缚，却发现怎么样努力都无济于事。 现实是，她被繁重的工作和长久的抑郁症抽走了绝大部分精力，她更害怕继“白纸被捕”之后再次遭遇来自警察的暴力。她想起2015年初被短暂关押的“女权五姐妹”。走上街头cosplay，曾是青年女权行动派标志性的抗争行动，留下的经典形象有“被家暴的带血新娘”等，直到去年还有女权主义者在香港做了类似表达。 严格意义上来说，将离的万圣变装秀是在一家上海的俱乐部完成的，并不是在群众包围的街头，即更广为人知的巨鹿路found158下沉广场及其周边马路。在他看来，“158”那里的装扮“没啥内涵”，Club平时举办的活动要更为多元。在这里活跃的酷儿朋友总是被保护得很好，装扮也更出格，足以“秒杀普通人一大截”，“万圣节上所谓的’奇装异服’其实是我们群体的日常，只是落实到每个人的话，政治性表达会少一点。” 今年万圣节，应Club主题的设定，他灵机一动，决定做一个和社交媒体平台内容限制相关的造型，因为这就是游荡在我们日常生活中的“幽灵”。他没有刻意想到，这是一个“政治化的表达”，“它其实处于中间值，半政治不政治，你不能界定它，又有很大被曲解的空间，这种东西才是好玩的。” 吉吉则把大街上的路段变成了他期待已久的第一次”Drag Queen Runway（T台）。终点正是警察拉起的警戒线前，外面拦着几百号观众。他拖着巨大的粪便外壳，悬浮般走过，摆出ending pose（结束姿势）后来了一句口号“世界像粪”，转身谢幕。 在万圣现场，他夸张地“闻到”90%男性参与者的气息都是gay，“网上有句话说，‘母0’撑起了上海万圣节的半边天。”吉吉并不愿意被归类于群体中，他认为“个体存于群体中往往充当被裹挟的人质”，而他不愿成为任何的人质。但他仍十分享受上海万圣节营造出的这个短暂的“乌托邦”，从中感到一种难得的群体归属感。 “原来还有这么一群伙伴在，哪怕不认识，也像是上辈子认识的感觉，每个人都放下戒备，人与人的联结、信任又回来了。”吉吉说，“就是因为这种联结很短暂，很难被带到日常生活，才那么珍贵和让人珍惜。” 将离对今年上海万圣节的观感却是“整体很平淡”，“有种小红书上的网络流行梗像‘平行世界’一样涌入了你的生活。可能平时大家在上海，或者至少我的个人生活，已经是狂欢了，所以万圣节除了人多也没啥特别的。”他笑称，上海万圣节的火爆，只是印证了这句话，“直男们也想有自己的骄傲月”。 “白纸”时期的“爱情”和“记忆容器” 和乌云一样，将离也因为“白纸被捕”经历了半年以上的创伤，只要看到警车听到鸣笛都会涌起一阵害怕。原本他也没有预料到后挫力有这么久。今年中旬的一天，他在家里听到社区民警敲门，第一反应仍是给朋友们疯狂发微信报告。啼笑皆非的是，对方其实只是来宣传反诈信息。 “我很庆幸我去了（白纸现场），但我也希望我不用再去。”将离说，11月27日凌晨，他和朋友们喝完酒，听说乌鲁木齐中路的消息，犹豫了一下还是去了。他在现场并未做任何表达，单纯围观，可能是因为站的位置靠前，就被警察突然抓走。他度过了难熬的数十个小时，吃喝上厕所都不方便，睡觉也睡不好，逐渐感到恐惧和精神崩溃。 “庆幸”是潜意识中的本能印象，他很难具体展开诠释，便用玩笑来化解，“也许是无意之间做出了可以在30年后喝酒时吹牛的事情的’庆幸’？我也不知道这庆幸是哪来的，它让我可能失去的，比带给我的要多，工作、自由、心理健康、肉体感受……” “我或许之前勇敢过，现在只想心安理得地当个懦夫，因为我还没有强大到那个地步。”将离说。释放后他几乎不会和人主动谈起“白纸”，现在他也不太情愿回忆当天的现场细节。记忆中零星的画面是，有男生割破手指在电线杆上写字，具体写的什么忘了，而之前已经留下的字迹写着：“冒着敌人的炮火，前进前进前进进，11.27”。 令他感触最深的反而是，路口便利店大叔给大家送来矿泉水喝。在那一刻，他惊讶于上海人竟打破了平时严密的“边界感”，产生某种同道情谊。 乌云形容，在“白纸运动”发生后，乌鲁木齐中路那片区域给她带来的感受，类似台湾“2·28”事件开启的白色恐怖；发生抗议的那两个夜晚，上海街头几乎可以用“刀光剑影”、风声鹤唳来形容。除了当晚和几个女生一起当面举着白纸与警察对峙，她更愿意珍藏和分享的也是那些暖心的记忆： 11月27日深夜，她想把一位警察正抓捕的女生“抢救”下来，结果却一起被带上了小巴车。在等待转运的过程中，乌云趁看守的警察不注意，把右手贴紧膝盖侧边，隔着过道向那位女孩两次偷偷竖起大拇指。她微微点头示意，和她对视而笑，“那是我和她心照不宣的时刻，无需任何语言，她便明白了一切。”那里有对勇气的赞赏，有“不要害怕”的互相抚慰。 一周后，一位博主记录的“真实爱情故事”在社交媒体上广泛流传：在其举办的读书会上，两个女孩相识，开始经常dating（约会），但尚未表达心意确定关系。而后，她们相约去了乌鲁木齐中路，其中一个女孩因拿出手机记录而被警察抓上大巴，另一个女孩为了保护她，也紧随其后被推搡上车。在一车惊恐无助的年轻人中，她看着她的眼睛说，“我们在一起吧？”她也看着她，坚定地点点头说：好。随后，她们不顾旁人的注视，忘情地拥吻。 博主写到，警察发现了“这里有一对同性恋”，车子开到一个公园后，所有人被驱逐下车，随意审问几句后，就都被放走了。没有人能证实这个另类“爱情神话”的真实性，尤其是这个“大团圆”的结局更是令人生疑。但许许多多“上海白纸”的参与者和同情者们，都情愿相信这是真的。因为它代表着人类所能拥有的最好的东西——爱，理想，希望。 包冷没有这个幸运。当时，他也是和dating对象一起去的乌鲁木齐中路，反而感到“孤单”。他内心想要更勇敢地站在前线，但对方更为保守和“软弱”，呆了半小时左右就觉得不安全，喊他一起退出了人群。他没有为提前离开感到遗憾，“时间长短不重要，be there（曾经在场）就很棒”。 不过，他还是忍不住想，“要是后期还有这样的行动，我一定要跟最爱的人一起参加，或者说能参加这样运动的人，才能是我爱的人。”回去后，意识到两人观念不合，包冷慢慢与他疏远了联系。 在现场，他看到许多LGBT“同类”肩并肩手牵手，“真的很受鼓舞，就觉得虽然是政治运动，但把我们不能公开表达的东西也一起表达了，不想你说什么就是什么，不是你说不存在我们就不存在。” “能和同立场的人真实站在一起，让上面的人听到，我们要有正常的生活，不管是不是真地产生了社会影响，但至少对我自己很有意义。”包冷说。 三年前，他正在香港读书，目睹了“反送中运动”，虽然也会在街头骚乱中真实地感到害怕，他还是在国内社交媒体上努力发声，呼吁网友不要只看到“过激”现象，而是要将心比心地理解别人，是否受到了不公平待遇。可惜得到的反馈都是无脑谩骂。 如果不是出差离开上海，秋秋相信“白纸运动”时自己也会去到现场。“哪怕乌鲁木齐中路路牌被拆走，悼念鲜花都被扫走，留一个废墟在那里，就很有力量。这件事不可能被压下去，反而在已经有想法的人们心中打上一层烙印，更想去关注和表达。尤其在上海这个地方，简单地拆路牌、撤舆论，不是正确的做法，只会激起更强的反叛的声音和力量。”/henry-bushnell-of-yahoo-sports.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/henry-bushnell-of-yahoo-sports.htmlHenry Bushnell is a soccer and feature writer for Yahoo Sports, doing amazing work covering soccer in the US at all levels. Henry was exceptionally generous with his time as we discussed MLS, Messi, the US Open Cup, USMNT and USWNT for over an hour. This was recorded on Friday the 19th so some of the references may be slightly dated. I was on the road in the rust belt last week for some non-soccer related things, so do forgive me the slight delay in posting this./safe-cities.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/safe-cities.htmlWelcome to Latinometrics. We bring you Latin American insights and trends through concise, thought-provoking data visualizations. Today we’re re-publishing one of our favorite charts of all time. We collaborated with Karla Berman to create this data story. One would have thought that Miami, the US capital of the Latin world, would be less dangerous than most of Latin America's major cities. However, when compared by the most common measure for how safe a city is — homicides per 100K people, Miami actually ranked worse than Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Santiago, and Mexico City in 2022./welcome-to-the-state-of-ai-report.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-the-state-of-ai-report.htmlHi all, In its 6th (and possibly most dramatic) year, the State of AI Report 2023 distills what you *need* to know in AI research, industry, safety, and politics. This open-access report is our contribution to the AI ecosystem. Many thanks to Othmane Sebbouh, Corina Gurau, and Alex Chalmers for their incredible support producing it. I’m looking forward to seeing many of our loyal readers at our launch event in SF tonight./dune-part-2-annotated.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dune-part-2-annotated.htmlIn 2021, as a component of a long-running career plan to heavily monetize my two worst qualities, pedantry and obsession, I undertook the task of “annotating” Denis Villeneuve’s Dunemovie, identifying scenes, characters, and references that deserved special comment, whether because there is more information to be applied from the original text, or because they made me laugh, or cry, or hoot, and holler at the screen. "Dune" (the movie), annotated·/172kg-to-98kg-its-changed-my-life.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/172kg-to-98kg-its-changed-my-life.htmlDayna Cunnigham was initially hesitant about sharing his personal journey. The rugby-loving Southland dairy farmer doesn’t want to come across like he’s telling people what they should do. But he feels obliged to open up publicly. He knows there will be people “in a hole” struggling both physically and mentally. As he did. He wants them to know they aren’t alone and there are ways out. “People need to understand that they are not failures, life is tough./what-a-hoax-pretendian-professor.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-a-hoax-pretendian-professor.htmlDr. Carrie Bourassa, a Pretendian professor who promoted herself as “expert” on Native health issues in Canada, is no longer employed at the University of Saskatchewan, according to a statement released on June 1, 2022. “The purpose of this communication is to advise Dr. Carrie Bourassa has resigned from employment at the University of Saskatchewan, effective June 1, 2022,” Dr. Preston Smith, Dean of the College of Medicine, said in the statement./agm-podcast-how-wax-founder-and-ceo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/agm-podcast-how-wax-founder-and-ceo.htmlToday we have a founder who is creating a modern insurance provider for the collectibles industry that was made for collectors, by collectors. Calvin Bradley is the Founder of WAX, a digital insurance company for collectors to protect the value of their collections by making collecting safer, easier, and more community-oriented. Calvin and I had a fascinating conversation about how the modern world of collectibles requires a modern, digital insurance solution, how NFTs factors into the world of collectibles, and what the future looks like for WAX./dublin-road-development-at-decision.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dublin-road-development-at-decision.htmlUPDATE: Developers of a proposed apartment complex on Dublin Road, south of Hayden Run Road, will need to submit a revised plan to the Columbus Development Commission if it is to advance. The developer, Rock Run LLC, asked that it be tabled after the commission indicated it did not support the development as proposed Feb. 8. "for a year, we have insisted, "It's NOT "No," it's WHAT." The developer pointed out more than once last night that he "/bela-lugosis-dead-by-bauhaus.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bela-lugosis-dead-by-bauhaus.htmlGoth Rock, dyed-black Post-Punk draped in the dark romanticism of Gothic Horror, had an accidental doula in John Peel. A band had bluffed their way up to the studio where the legendary BBC DJ was broadcasting and handed him their debut single as a white vinyl 12-inch. Peel said live on air, “We’ve got Bauhaus in the studio, they’re from Northampton, and they have a new single out called ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’./carefree-highway-by-gordon-lightfoot.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carefree-highway-by-gordon-lightfoot.htmlOne of the songs to get Gordon Lightfoot noticed outside of the Toronto folk scene was the roguish “For Lovin’ Me.” The folk music boom loved a song about wandering. And country jukeboxes were always filled with honky-tonk cads. The song was covered by by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Ian and Silvia, and Chad and Jeremy before it even appeared on his 1966 solo album Lightfoot!, and it soon crossed over to country with versions by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and The Carter Family./hurrahing-in-harvest.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hurrahing-in-harvest.htmlAs mentioned in last week’s post, GMH was an inspiration for many of the poets in the early 20th century. He invented a form of meter called “sprung rhythm” and frequently delighted in alliteration. “Hurrahing in Harvest” has some form of alliteration in almost every line, which helps create the rhythm but can make it hard to understand on your first read through. I find it helps to read slowly, holding each word in your mind for a beat or two./the-spongebob-musical-by-no-square.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spongebob-musical-by-no-square.htmlThere’s a reason why Our Town is consistently performed by High Schools, beyond its evergreen pathos, budget-friendly construction, and being sublimely royalty-free— allowing for any man, woman or Muppet to legally muck up its text. It provides an opportunity for young thespians pouring their hearts into playing Emily Webb with no costume, prop, or shield to hide behind. It allows audiences to fully surrender, constructing the Grover’s Corners of their individual mind palaces./richardhanania.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richardhanania.htmlThis is Scott Alexander at his best, an article about a topic I had no idea I wanted but which blew my mind. I’ll never look at fantasy the same way again. If this is correct, they’re made to give mediocre people aware of their own limitations a way to feel special. Not much romantic in that. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbO1wqGYq5yYlruiusiaZqenpJp8pHmQbmpubmRohg%3D%3D/wildfire-michael-martin-murphey-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wildfire-michael-martin-murphey-review.htmlPeak: #3 on the Hot 100 Streams: 13.4 million Today’s entry was requested by Lost Songs Project reader Matt H. Paid subscribers can request songs here. Become a paid subscriber here. If you think John Denver was the most mystically inclined singer-songwriter of the 70s, then hold on to your power crystals. In “Wildfire,” Michael Murphey (or Michael Martin… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ww8ilm5%2Bhopp6rrXCoZiepF2irrPAyKdkpq2ipbWmxYyrnK%2Bhlaw%3D/18-how-to-identify-cultural-patterns.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/18-how-to-identify-cultural-patterns.htmlThis newsletter is called Cultural Patterns because culture sits at the core of my approach to planning. Why the name? Culture is constantly changing, but patterns emerge when similar changes happen across different spheres of culture, indicating a more profound change in the values, needs and systemic structures of society. Today I wanted to share with you simple steps to identify cultural patterns and show you how it helps my strategic thinking./39-pornography-is-boring.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/39-pornography-is-boring.htmlI started regularly watching internet porn when I was fifteen. I am now thirty. After half a lifetime with porn, I am left with questions above all. The way we interact with pornography is the strangest cocktail of lust and shame, riddled with weird behaviors and paradoxes that you won’t find in the consumption of anything else – yet it’s as old as civilization itself. Porn is the dark matter of the internet: absolutely everywhere, everyone’s interacting with it all the time, but it is extremely hard to measure./crimefiction-televison-the-mire-millennium.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crimefiction-televison-the-mire-millennium.html#crimefiction #televison: The Mire: Millennium (2024) The Mire: Millennium is show-runner Jan Holoubek’s long awaited follow up to two splendid series -The Mire ’87, and The Mire ’97. Indeed, The Mire: Millennium is the final part of a trilogy which stands up well on his own but is more greatly appreciated if you are familiar with the previous two seasons. As with those previous two series, a police investigation digs up long-buried dirt on the lives of the inhabitants of small town in Poland./15-magazine-that-dont-shy-away-from.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/15-magazine-that-dont-shy-away-from.htmlThis week, Amanda Montei, author of Touched Out, shares an essay criticizing societal discomfort with maternal sexuality, advocating for more complex and sexualized literary representations of mothers. Below, you will also find a list of magazines that embrace writing about sexuality and its many representations. One might think that at this point in history the proximity of sex and motherhood would no longer feel dangerous. Surely people understand that mothers have sex and have had sex previously or that having children might change one’s relationship to sex, or at the very least the relationship to one’s body?/7-new-music-releases-worth-checking.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-new-music-releases-worth-checking.htmlFun Fact: Ever wondered what the biggest-selling vinyl record of this century is? Here's a hint: It's not a Taylor Swift album. While T. Swift dominates the charts today, it's Fleetwood Mac's Rumours that reigns supreme. Released in 1977, this legendary album has sold over 40 million copies, with a notable resurgence in vinyl sales exceeding 280,000 units since 2000. Following closely behind are Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Nirvana's Nevermind./7-warning-signs-youre-in-a-toxic.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-warning-signs-youre-in-a-toxic.htmlWhen you come to work, do you feel something is off? You might not know what. Yet, the environment does not feel comfortable. Toxic workplaces can appear subtle. They influence both your private and professional life. Nonetheless, it does not mean work is toxic if you do not enjoy your job. There are some clear signs of toxic workplaces to watch out for. They are not always obvious since not everything is about bad bosses./72-hours-in-milan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/72-hours-in-milan.htmlWelcome to the New Roman Times’ new 72 Hours series! Why 72 hours? Because the New York Times publishes a “36 Hours” series, but in my opinion, 36 hours isn’t nearly enough time to spend in Italy’s greatest cities and most compelling regions. From time to time, I’ll spotlight popular destinations like Milan, Florence, Venice, and the Amalfi Coast for paid subscribers. Have a place you’d like a 72 hours guide to?/a-bird-filled-walk-to-the-three-jolly.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-bird-filled-walk-to-the-three-jolly.html“You like bars, right?” I’ve met John Wray outside of his brownstone, which is convenient as I live in his garden apartment. I was supposed to live here a year, a deal we made seven and a half years ago. John is very aware that I like bars. Our walk today will be to the Three Jolly Pigeons, a pub in Bay Ridge that is one of the oldest continuously operating bars in all of Brooklyn, and thus all of New York./a-brief-note.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-note.htmlHello people of The Chef’s List, I’m sorry you didn’t hear from me last week. Maybe you saw the news: last Monday, my World Central Kitchen team was attacked while making a food delivery in the north of Gaza. Seven members of the team were killed. It was an incredibly tough week, you might imagine. If you want to read more about what I’ve written and said about the incident and the aftermath, please take a look at my New York Times oped, and the statements that World Central Kitchen has released on their website./roadmap-to-ripped.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roadmap-to-ripped.htmlI’ve been wanting to write this article for a long time.  I’ve written a lot of articles about the individual components of fat loss, but what follows is a complete step by step guide to fat loss for people at (nearly) any level, from morbidly obese to almost competition shredded.  It’s broken down into sections based on your current level of body fat, plus a “start here” section.  So there’s a chapter for going from extremely obese to obese, one for going from obese to merely overweight, etc./a-deep-dive-into-rushtok-fashion.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-into-rushtok-fashion.htmlBack when I was deep in #Rushtok, a different sort of video made its way into my FYP. It was from a professor who studied #Rushtok for her dissertation — and who, for fun, made her own version of a Bama Rush dress (and filmed herself wearing it. After I emailed her (how could I not) I realized our paths had crossed before back when I lived in New York and she was teaching at The New School./a-right-side-up-freddo-cappuccino.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-right-side-up-freddo-cappuccino.htmlYesterday I shared with you my recipe for the Greek-style Freddo Cappuccino. It’s as ravishing as it is refreshing, if you can forgive the fact it doesn’t truly resemble an iced cappuccino. The frothed milk sits atop the espresso, like the cream over an Irish coffee. The dairy is standoffish. It doesn’t mingle with the coffee below, in the manner of a textured cappuccino. Michalis Katsiavos, now of Seven Steps Coffee Roasters prepares his freddo cappuccino in the “traditional” way, in the sense that it actually looks and sips like a cappuccino./the-paper-route-a-lesson-in-letting.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-paper-route-a-lesson-in-letting.htmlChild figure study, Schiller GeyserWhen I was nine years old, I took my first paid job delivering unwanted, unread newsprint shoppers to all of the houses in Meadowlark Hills, the charmless new subdivision of particle-board-and-plastic houses nestled in the tumbleweed prairie at the at the base of the foothills of Casper Mountain. Ours was a small, mustard-yellow house with an attached garage and a leaky basement. Once every two weeks, an anonymous adult driver stopped by and unloaded a pile of papers for me to roll, secure with a thin red rubber band, and deliver to my anonymous neighbors./a-long-career-of-unrepentant-sissydom.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-long-career-of-unrepentant-sissydom.htmlThis is another installment of the world’s premier colloquium on the 30th anniversary edition of Dave Hickey's 1993 book The Invisible Dragon.Post the first: Dave Hickey, That Queer, by Post the second: Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters, by Post the third: Yeah, right. On Dave Hickey, the value of frivolity, and the delusions and counter-delusions of politics in art, by moi will be dropping in soon as well, if he can get his shit together./ok-are-you-and-your-friends-really.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ok-are-you-and-your-friends-really.htmlI’m not currently in a book club, so it’s rare that recently several friends of mine all decided to read the same book. Maybe it’s the name — Dykette — that had interests piqued. One writer friend said she was “jealous” of the title, which I thought was very on-brand for this book in particular. Jenny Fran Davis’s Dykette is filled with femme jealousy — a facet of what Davis’ coined as High Femme Antics in 2020./a-reprise-yankee-in-wilcos-court.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-reprise-yankee-in-wilcos-court.htmlIn either late in 2000 or early 2001, dark days during my tenure at Warner/Reprise. David Kahne walked into my office at the Ski Lodge (Warner Bros. Records) to ask me if I would take over the A&R duties for Wilco. The Reprise and Warner Bros. A&R staffs had recently split into two distinctive bodies. Joe McEwen, who had signed Uncle Tupelo, the band whose break-up had spawned Son Volt and Wilco, kept A&R oversight of Son Volt given he was officially on the Warner Bros./steely-dan-book-quantum-criminals-interview.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steely-dan-book-quantum-criminals-interview.htmlWhen Alex Pappademas appears on the video conference screen, he looks like a bodacious cowboy who has just rolled out of bed. Slung around his shoulders is a serape that no one would mistake for a spangled leather poncho, but the brightly patterned blanket is serving him well on this chilly morning in Los Angeles. “It is apocalyptically cold in my garage today,” the prolific writer and podcaster explains, “so I’m dressed as the Gaucho./a-stroll-down-personal-pan-pizza.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-stroll-down-personal-pan-pizza.htmlThe story below by Kate Oczypok is about a food corporation getting its greasy fingers into the school system, but it doesn’t offend me. However, the fact that Lunchables are now being offered as the official school lunch to millions of U.S. students really makes me wild with rage. I suppose the difference is that “read some books, have a treat,” is a different message than “here’s your box of sodium, it’s this or nothing./achar.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/achar.htmlI’m starting the year with pickles, more specifically achar, a condiment that would be familiar to anyone living in Singapore. While achar is a catch-all term for pickles in India, the image that springs to mind for most Singaporeans is specific: an over-the-top, sunset-yellow pickle laced with chillies, turmeric, and crushed peanuts. Ordinary vegetables are transformed into something grand; the word ‘pickle’ does not do it justice. Those of Peranakan descent might have memories of them being made and served out of kamchengs (brightly coloured and lidded pots fashioned out of porcelain)./adam-and-eve-were-siblings-first.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adam-and-eve-were-siblings-first.htmlIn most applications, Adam and Eve are often categorized as the first husband and wife pairing and, as such, become the prototype for much of the church’s teaching on marriage, gender, and sexuality. This is well-founded, for much of the Bible’s discussion of the original two lends itself to their relationship as the first married couple. However, as the church continues to navigate appropriate contextual responses to its surrounding cultures, it is apparent that gender and sexuality are being less commonly linked to the institution of marriage in the broader conversation-world of society./adorable-story-42-col-serge-obolensky.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-42-col-serge-obolensky.htmlPrince Sergei Platonovich Obolensky Neledinsky-Meletzky (November 3, 1890 – September 29, 1978), known as Serge Obolensky, was a Russian-born aristocrat then American citizen, U.S. Army colonel, socialite and publicist, who served as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Hilton Hotels Corporation. The life story of Serge Obolensky reads like a Ken Follet novel. His early life is like a fairy tale: born as a Russian prince, he married a princess./the-active-voice-alison-roman.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-active-voice-alison-roman.htmlis enjoying being an “elder millennial” and not feeling the pressure of being on TikTok or even doing all that much on Instagram, the platform that helped make her reputation (although she did meet her boyfriend when he slid into her DMs). “I do furniture shopping on Instagram,” she says, describing what she calls her fraught relationship with the app. “That’s what I use it for.”The queen of viral recipes is no longer as known for #TheCookies or #TheStew as she is for simply being a food and media personality./almond-flour-apple-muffins.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/almond-flour-apple-muffins.htmlHello readers! A friendly reminder that this will be the second-to-last “preview” newsletter before the official launch date on March 23. After that, paid subscribers will receive new recipes and stories every week, and unpaid subscribers will have access to occasional recipes and stories (approximately once/month or 6 weeks). Upgrade to a paid subscription - and never miss a thing - right here.Imagine your favorite apple cake. It probably has a tender crumb, a cinnamon-forward flavor, and comes packed with juicy apples, right?/and-the-secret-ingredient-is-chit.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-the-secret-ingredient-is-chit.htmlHave you ever tried to recreate a food you’ve eaten at a restaurant, only for it fall flat at home? Like you’re missing the secret ingredient? I’ve been there. And there are a few ingredients that can take a so-so dish to symphonic levels. Also called roasted rapeseed oil or Caiziyou (pronounced sigh-zuh yomore ), it’s essentially a toasted, more acidic version of canola oil. When I’m wok frying, I use toasted rapeseed oil./admitone.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/admitone.htmlAnna BogutskayaI'm a London-based writer, podcaster and film programmer. I host The Final Girls podcast and write for Little White Lies, BBC Culture, MUBI, TimeOut and more. I've written two books about film: Unlikeable Female Characters and Feeding the Monster. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaKwzKKrqKaV/another-brewery-in-liquidation.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/another-brewery-in-liquidation.htmlGreetings Beer Friends and welcome to Friday Night Beers, First the good news: It’s milestone of sorts here, with this being the 100th published edition of Friday Night Beers! I’ll be toasting that tonight. Now the bad news: It’s a common refrain these days: “craft brewery goes into liquidation” and the latest to officially wear that tag is Cowabunga, who were based in Morningside, Auckland. The official liquidation is largely a tidy-up from a decision made in November last year./anti-zionism-is-the-same-as-antisemitism.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anti-zionism-is-the-same-as-antisemitism.htmlI have an essay in The Washington Post this morning, about the deliberately created confusion between anti-Zionism and antisemitism: between criticizing the State of Israel and hating the Jews. It’s particularly offensive at a time when people are using a concept of “race,” so repellent to so many of us, to dragoon us into seeming to consent to a horrifying war of ethnic cleansing. I have written more about the horrors of the occupation here, and of this war here./are-career-300-hitters-a-dying-breed.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-career-300-hitters-a-dying-breed.htmlIssue #172 While researching another article recently I found myself at this page at baseball-reference.com—the active leaders in batting average. I was amazed to learn there are only three active players—that have 3,000+ plate appearances—with a career average over .300. Those three are: Jose Altuve - .307 in 7,360 PA Freddie Freeman - .301 in 8,109 PA Mike Trout - .301 in 6,521 PA Granted, batting average isn’t seen as important of a statistic as it once was./are-stay-at-home-girlfriends-having.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-stay-at-home-girlfriends-having.htmlStay-at-home girlfriends are “having a moment,” according to a recent trend piece in The Wall Street Journal. The (slim) evidence: some TikTok lifestyle videos in which women document their devotion to supporting their boyfriends “with tasks like cooking and housework,” alongside a “rigorous care regimen to keep up appearances.” It’s trad wives without the wife part. Stay-at-home girlfriends, or SAHGs, are certainly a grabby topic for a seemingly timely trend piece, but I’m afraid it all feels quite old./are-two-ingredient-biscuits-a-thing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-two-ingredient-biscuits-a-thing.htmlHi W4D Friends! If you’ve ever wanted to make a recipe, but didn’t have all the ingredients, then you’ll be really interested in Elizabeth’s recipe this week—it only requires two ingredients! Anthony celebrated a birthday over the weekend at one of LA’s most exciting new restaurants… will it get two thumbs up?? EK: I love to make biscuits and I love to eat biscuits. Who doesn’t? AU: I do, too. I love biscuits in every form: sweet, savory, from the land of Cheddar Bay… even canned ones!/ufc-vegas-89-main-card-as-meaningless-22d.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ufc-vegas-89-main-card-as-meaningless-22d.htmlAre you thirsty for another watered down, subpar Apex card? Well good, because the UFC has got one for you. If you thought last week’s show looked abysmal, you may want to reset your excitement barometer because UFC Vegas 89 is even more paltry, with a pretty lackluster headliner supported by a very forgettable supporting bout lineup. To its credit, the… ncG1vNJzZmismJq6rq3Dq5iwqJ%2BZsKK%2F02eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTCp6%2BMr5ygmaNihXp5zJqgp2WTlr%2BlecCsZKadkaO2r7PLnqqsZWJnsQ%3D%3D/at-sofra-restaurant-and-bakery-the.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-sofra-restaurant-and-bakery-the.htmlTime to learn Turkish, Buffalo eaters. Western New Yorkers have had little reason to, lately. One Turkish spot opened on Elmwood Avenue in 2003, closing 18 months later. Two months in 2016 for a Tonawanda outfit. I did the math. In this millennium, Buffalo’s had a Turkish restaurant 6 percent of the time.  (Editor’s note: This email has a lot of images, so you might have to click “See More” to get the rest of the story./baffert-on-18-million-filly-and-nysos.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baffert-on-18-million-filly-and-nysos.htmlBy Sid Fernando It seems that Bob Baffert can’t help being part of the news cycle, whether it’s winning graded races recently with Imagination and Newgate, among others, or creating chatter with leading 3-year-old colt Nysos getting a break from training, or buying a sale-topping filly by the inexpensive Win Win Win for $1.8 million at the OBS March Sale of 2-year-olds in Training a few days ago. Win Win Win stands at Ocala Stud for $5,000 this year and is represented by his first crop of 2-year-olds./barrows-a-beginners-guide.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barrows-a-beginners-guide.htmlWelcome to my April newsletter, which this month focusses on a class of prehistoric monument that, in my opinion, attracts far less acclaim than it deserves: the Bronze Age burial mound, or ‘barrow’. If you’ve spent any time in rural Britain, you’ll be familiar with these grassy mounds, which we Welsh refer to as ‘twmps’, and which on OS maps are labelled as ‘tumuli’ (as they were known to the Romans)./biggies-crown-slick-ricks-diamond.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/biggies-crown-slick-ricks-diamond.htmlHi all, it’s been ages and there’s a lot going on right now, but there’s an interesting auction coming up and I can’t let it go by without bringing it to your attention. So, this edition of Dearest will focus solely on “Hip Hop,” happening tomorrow at Sotheby’s New York. Featuring 120 lots of artifacts, art, photography, experiences and ephemera, the sale “reflects on the impact Hip Hop has had on art and culture from the late 1970s through the “Golden Age” of the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and up to the present./bing-russell-and-the-mavericks-of.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bing-russell-and-the-mavericks-of.htmlAh, baseball… I probably can’t name a baseball player from the last decade (not a lot of baseball coverage here in London), but I LOVE stories about baseball. And this week I’m bringing you a fun one that mixes underdogs, creativity, and mavericks. [Editor’s Note: You do not need to like baseball or sports to enjoy this story. I love the stories I share here, and try not to pick favorites./bks-spider-verse-impossible-whopper.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bks-spider-verse-impossible-whopper.htmlBurger King's NEW “Spider-Verse” Whopper® features a ¼ lb.* flame-grilled beef patty, melty Swiss cheese, juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce, sliced white onions, crunchy pickles, creamy mayonnaise, and ketchup all on a toasted red and black sesame seed bun. “Spider-Verse” Whopper® red bun. It’s the latest entry in Burger King’s storied tradition of making burger’s with different colored buns. My research suggests that unlike previous burgers the bun is not flavored, the red color is strictly an aesthetic change./blue-eye-samurai-blades-of-retribution.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-eye-samurai-blades-of-retribution.htmlHello and welcome to "Vintage Cafe," a reader-supported newsletter crafted for curious minds. Here, you'll discover reviews and recommendations spanning books, music, travel journals, writing tips, art, and the artistry of coffee, all designed to enhance your experience. To stay updated on new posts and to support my work, consider becoming either a free or paid subscriber. Opting for a paid subscription is the most impactful way to sustain and champion Vintage Cafe./brahim-diaz-emerging-superstar-at.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brahim-diaz-emerging-superstar-at.htmlBrahim Díaz, 24, is an emerging superstar at Real Madrid, but he was just 14 when Manchester City put together an illicit deal in 2013 to move him from Spain to England, contrary to FIFA rules designed to protect minors. City secretly arranged a six-figure pay-off for his development club, Malaga, via a third party agency, as Malaga and the child agreed to mutually terminate his formal registration at that club at the same time./braised-turkey-thighs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/braised-turkey-thighs.htmlYou may have heard, but Thanksgiving is next week (!) and as I'm sure you know by now, I'm not much of a "hot take" person. There are a few exceptions and this is one. I will never roast a whole turkey again for Thanksgiving and in my opinion nor should you.  Instead, I take my favorite part of any bird, thighs of course, and braise them until they are falling off the bone./braylon-bishop-entering-key-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/braylon-bishop-entering-key-2024.htmlThe 2021 draft for the Pittsburgh Pirates is most known for going under slot with the first overall pick so that they could sign multiple highly-ranked prep players and lure them away from college commitments. Bubba Chandler, Anthony Solometo, and Lonnie White Jr. are the most notable names they signed, but they also signed another notable prep player later in the draft - outfielder Braylon Bishop. One of the more highly touted prep outfielders in the draft, Bishop was ranked 88th by Baseball America and 94th on MLB Pipeline for their final draft rankings./breakfast-cake.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breakfast-cake.htmlIt’s a compelling thought. Instead of running around pulling all the healthy, fruity things together for breakfast, you just cut yourself a slice of home-made cake, and sit down with a cup of tea or coffee. All together now: a long, drawn-out, sigh of relief. I’ve always adored hotel breakfasts in Italy and across Europe for their insistence that cake be part of the event. It just seems so civilised. Unclenching./breaking-lcs-players-vote-to-walkout.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-lcs-players-vote-to-walkout.htmlThe LCS Players Association announced late Sunday evening that players “overwhelmingly” voted on a walkout: What was not disclosed was the vote tally, which would have indicated one way or the other just how many players actually voted for it and if that number was overwhelmingly for the measure. Employees have legal rights under the law in most states to stage a walkout, and 1099 or contracted players probably have broader rights in progressive states like California, but mileage probably varies in other states./built-for-athletes-large-backpack.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/built-for-athletes-large-backpack.htmlI believe that a good bag is man’s best friend, which is why I went and got the Built For Athletes Large Backpack, also going by the Hero 2.0. I’ve been using it for about 6 months now, tried and tested in the gym, on a daily commute, and in the wilderness. Regardless as to whether you’re looking to buy this product specifically or just want to upgrade your backpack, I hope you’ll find this review useful in making your final decision./butternut-squash-lasagna-and-roasted.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/butternut-squash-lasagna-and-roasted.htmlIf you find yourself with a lasagna addiction, you’re not alone. And you don’t have to go through a lasagna detox if you’re moving towards a plant-based diet or experimenting with veg-forward meals. Vegan lasagnas can be epic, rich, and healthy! My bond with lasagna runs deep. Every year, as a birthday treat, my mom would ask what special dish I wanted, a… ncG1vNJzZmiqmaiytLTIp5ycp5%2Bge7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZputpKmys7rUrWSsqaWWwKl5y5qqmp%2BelnqiusNmqaiZo6mypQ%3D%3D/can-i-offer-you-an-egg-in-this-trying.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-i-offer-you-an-egg-in-this-trying.htmlThis presentation was delivered at the 2023 College Conference on Composition and Communication, was developed by Zoe Wendler and Jamie Garner, and was delivered by Zoe Wendler. On July 17th, 2020, at 10:10 PM–Eastern Standard Time, mind you–a transgender friend of mine sent me a link to a webcomic, saying that it felt very relatable to her. So, since I wanted to be a good friend and try to understand her situation a little bit better, I read it… and immediately plunged into an eleven-day-long panic attack./can-we-afford-two-wars.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-we-afford-two-wars.htmlBack in 2009, in the wake of the global financial crisis, Steve Scully asked President Obama when America would finally run out of money. The president replied, “We’re out of money now. We’re operating in deep deficits.” (click image to play) Last night, Scott Pelley asked President Biden his own version of that question. (click image to play) PELLEY: Are the wars in Israel and Ukraine more than the United States can take on at the same time?/can-you-wear-birkenstocks-with-skinny-jeans.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-you-wear-birkenstocks-with-skinny-jeans.htmlVirginia Which we are recording in the same room! Corinne It’s really weird. I’m really used to looking at my computer screen to see you. Virginia I’m not in there.  Corinne It’s confusing. Virginia To paint the picture for everyone: I came to New Mexico. It’s my kids’ spring break from school. They’re on a trip with their dad. So I came to New Mexico so we could have the first official Burnt Toast offsite work retreat./catch-me.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/catch-me.htmlEver since I launched my shopping blog Le Catch in 2011, while also working as the West Coast Bureau Chief at Lucky Magazine, I've been asked (more like commanded) to offer exclusive early access to my curation of affordable fashion finds. That’s because hours after I post something on Le Catch, it typically sells out—a phenomenon that retailers and ardent online shoppers have coined “The Le Catch Effect.” While I’ve happily regarded this as metric of success, readers, from my closest friends to followers I've never met, have found it be a big bummer at times!/madness-moments-celebrating-david.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madness-moments-celebrating-david.htmlTeam sports’ most dominant dynasty effectively ended 50 years ago this week. David Thompson was the man who brought it down. OK, so that woefully undersells the contributions of Monte Towe, NC State’s savvy point guard who controlled the flow of the game for the Wolfpack on their way to the 1974 national championship. Likewise, 7-foot-2 center Tom Burleson’s presence in the paint opposite UCLA’s Bill Walton — one of the two greatest players in college basketball history — played a critical role in NC State’s 80-77 defeat of UCLA in the national semifinals./celebrating-matthew-b-crawford.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/celebrating-matthew-b-crawford.htmlCall it a skill or just a curious habit, but I dig remembering birthdays. Always have; in fact, I care more about the single most important date of a person’s life than what they do for a living. I consider it a survival mechanism living in the heart of Silicon Valley, where even the most wealthy can get bored of accumulating enough folding money to buy shitty homes for millions, then spend millions to make them modern and ugly./chapter-13-of-murder-or-martyr-jens.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chapter-13-of-murder-or-martyr-jens.htmlHello everyone! This is a draft of Chapter 13 of my book on the Jens Soering case, which you can buy here on German Amazon, and here on English-language Amazon. Deutsche Leser: Deutsche Fassung kommt Mitte Dezember! Part I of this book dealt with the first phase of the Söring saga. During this phase, nobody, including Jens Söring, denied he killed Derek and Nancy Haysom. Documentary sources about Jens Söring’s state of mind and legal strategy from 1986 to 1990 are rare, since the extradition fight came before the era of the Internet and, in any case, did not revolve around Söring’s guilt or innocence./chatgpt-and-the-chinese-room.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chatgpt-and-the-chinese-room.htmlOne of my earliest blog posts was about John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment and what it means to ‘understand’ something. The old blog is now defunct but the argument still stands. Searle noted that any computer programme could, in principle if not practicality, be written out in a book. I imagine something like a choose-your-own adventure book — “If you see this symbol, tun to page 19987” etc. This applies to any programme, including the programme controlling an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that produces human-like responses to queries./cheems-mindset.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cheems-mindset.htmlAside from the 100,000 deaths and the political failures that led us to them, one of the most infuriating parts of the coronavirus crisis has been the reaction of “I am very intelligent” political commentator types to new ideas. Time after time when a new suggestion to improve our Covid response is made, these types revert to scrambling for reasons why it just can’t be done. 24 hour vaccinations? “No-one would be interested in an appointment at 2am”/cheesy-holiday-movies.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cheesy-holiday-movies.htmlWe need to find pockets of joy even in gloomy times, especially when those gloomy times encompass the winter holidays. To help me kindle sparks of cheer this holiday season, I turned to the editor of Carrying Capacity (and more), Alyssa Napier. Alyssa has been behind the scenes since I started this newsletter last Valentine’s Day, brainstorming content, offering feedback, suggesting corrections, and adding links. She is decades younger than me, but we have a lot in common as Black women who love learning, devouring books, and falling into the more than occasional escapist narrative./chiefs-mesh-concept.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chiefs-mesh-concept.htmlThe mesh concept, which consists of two receivers running parallel to each other across the middle of the field, was first brought to prominence by air raid teams (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AdhKIkSoOAhl3eVcAIxNY9dlWfbIGFT8). However, over the last few years it has arguably become the most popular pass concept at all levels of football. The main reason is likely due to its simplicity and versatility. The key idea behind mesh is to create a rub for the underneath shallow cross receiver./christmas-movie-review-let-it-snow.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christmas-movie-review-let-it-snow.htmlI watched “Let it Snow” (2019) on Netflix the other night after stumbling across it desperate to find a Christmas flick I hadn’t seen yet. The plot revolves around of group of mostly high school seniors in an Illinois small town that converge during/following a snowstorm for a party on Christmas Eve, with pretty much no parental presence because hey----why spend a meaningless night like Christmas eve with your family when you can hang out with your all friends at the Waffle Town?/cinquefoil-outcast.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cinquefoil-outcast.htmlPart of my series on hidden edible treasures of the ornamental plant world Have you ever been rejected from a group because you’re different? The Shrubby Cinquefoil knows how you feel. Once known as Potentilla fruticosa, it was cast out about 20 years ago into a different genus. Now called Dasiphora fruticosa, I’m sure it looks back in longing at the Cinquefoil clique. It’s not like the Potentilla genus is particularly exclusive, there’s more than 502 species in this group./clean-chords.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clean-chords.htmlPro tip: please watch the short video version of this post that I link to here: https://www.guitarsuccess4u.com/cleanchords.  It will give you a much clearer grasp of what I’m sharing here. Transcript and diagrams included below. If you play open chords on the guitar, do you want those chords to sound clean? Sure! We all do.  Now, some of the chords we play don’t involve all 6 of the strings. And that’s ok./marocchino-coffee-for-a-winter-afternoon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marocchino-coffee-for-a-winter-afternoon.htmlOver the years I’ve shared lots of information about coffee culture here in Italy. I’ve also talked about how to recreate those coffees at home. But I’ve just realized that most of these coffee recipes are for cold coffee drinks like shakerato, caffe leccese and iced coffee. Although I certainly could win some sort of award for taking the most photographs of my daily coffees, I don’t think I’ve ever shared an actual recipe for a warm coffee drink./coke-stevenson.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coke-stevenson.htmlI want to tell you about Coke Stevenson. Or rather, Robert Caro’s telling of Coke Stevenson in Means of Ascent, the second volume of Caro’s biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson The Years of Lyndon Johnson. There’s a lot to tell. How he defied conventional political wisdom against the mockery and scorn of journalists and won landslide elections with a record of delivering, a firm handshake and his laconic Texan manner./come-healing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/come-healing.htmlIn my book "Runhundred" there is a chapter about the song "Come Healing" by Leonard Cohen. The chapter is called: Forgiving Myself and Others It was the last chapter I wrote for Runhundred, and these words only found their way into the book very late on. In the end, however, it became one of the most important chapters because it explains in a very unconventional and compact way what happened to me at Western States, particularly between the aid stations Devil's Thumb and Cal-1./aaron-bushnells-divine-violence.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence.htmlSee https://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/immolation.pdf Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations, 1963–2002 by sociologist Michael Biggs It seems likely that this act of self-immolation will have required some identification with a sense of guilt and even if Aaron might not have been personally guilty, in some way he internalised American complicity in the Israeli genocide on the way to transforming it into a hoped-for collective expiation. There must also have been an enormous amount of moral anger./cult-versus-cult.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cult-versus-cult.htmlI like how they submitted work to be rejected, failed, and threw a fit over it. Is the anti-Zionism sincere, I wonder, or are they sucking up to the progressives who would cancel them if they didn't profess it? I guess I'd wonder about it more if the art was any good. "Rematriation," give me a break. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmicmajAqrDEp6umraOae7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpytnKl6t7HRrKysZZOqubV7wqikpp2eqcA%3D/in-which-we-buy-a-bookstore.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-which-we-buy-a-bookstore.htmlYesterday we bought a bookstore. We are now the proud owners of Nooks, a wonderful little place on North Prince Street in Lancaster. I’m stunned. Nervous. Excited. Amazed. Talk about The Surrender Experiment? This is it. When I was around eight years old, we lived in an old farmhouse in the middle of hundreds of acres of cornfields, in Lancaster, PA. I was the tenth generation of my family to be born and raised in the area./that-time-rc-sproul-said-he-wouldnt.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-time-rc-sproul-said-he-wouldnt.htmlFirst, believe that God is sovereign. Second, I never heard about Arminian was in the first place. Third, the other gospel stuff is completely wrong and goes against every thing about Christianity. Like for example, the gospel according to Thomas. First, written way after Jesus came, died, and rose. Second, at the end, it says For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven." What!/still-digging-justice-alito.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/still-digging-justice-alito.htmlAt some point, he should stop digging and start recusing. There was more bad news for Justice Alito today. This news involves a reporter who surreptitiously, and while representing herself to be someone she isn’t (a like-minded conservative), taped a brief conversation with the Justice at a Supreme Court Historical Society dinner. I’ve attended similar dinners at the Court; often these are black-tie affairs where regular folk, or at least folk who belong to an organization entitled to hold a dinner or reception at the Court, can rub shoulders with the Justices./cooked-vs-uncooked-greens-by-the.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cooked-vs-uncooked-greens-by-the.htmlIn a recent article I discussed my preference for eating cooked kale as opposed to kale salad or some other uncooked form of kale. In that piece, I made the claim that even though cooking can remove some nutrients from greens, it doesn’t remove all of them, and because cooking has the effect of “shrinking” the greens, the end result is that you will eat more and it will all work out in the end./courage-is-a-cardinal-virtue.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/courage-is-a-cardinal-virtue.htmlMany of you here are writers, and all of you are readers, or you would not be interested in this adorably old-school word-person platform. I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes writing brave, because one of my deep values is courage. I’m mainly interested in work that connects, rather than just informs or impresses. I want to read writing which weaves typed characters into a thread that tugs on our shared humanity./courtside-with-rebecca-lobo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/courtside-with-rebecca-lobo.htmlHello and welcome to Courtside. Take a break from the game. Pull up a chair. Settle in. Have some water. And relax.  As often as I can, I’ll be bringing you honest, revealing and fun Q&As with some of the greatest players in WNBA history as well as rookies, veterans and All-Stars in the league today.  Now and again, I’ll also be posting columns focusing on what’s happening in the WNBA or sharing my thoughts about basketball-related current events, issues, and/or players in the news cycle./katt-williams-club-shay-shay.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/katt-williams-club-shay-shay.htmlWhen the comedian Katt Williams arrives to something called Club Shay Shay — the Shannon Sharpe-and-I guess-Draft Kings podcast — he’s there to correct the record. A revolving door of sentient grilling sandals have guested on the show previously (the black comedians Rickey Smiley, Cedric The Entertainer… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oopqspGLEqrjLopimq12YubaujKyfmrFdqLWixQ%3D%3D/muhallebi.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/muhallebi.htmlMuhallebi is the Arabic name given to the traditional 7th century milk pudding, that started life as a savoury dish, when presented to an Arab general by the name of Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra by a Persian cook. Smitten by the taste of this velvety dessert, the general proclaimed that it be called Muhallebi in honour of his discovery. Recipes for a savoury milk pudding were first found in 13th century cookbooks and often included the addition of mutton or chicken, lamb’s fat and spices such as saffron and cinnamon bark with milk and eggs added to thicken the ground rice, always followed by a touch of syrup added at the end, for sheer decadence./davidbentleyhart.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/davidbentleyhart.htmlDavid Bentley HartAuthor of books and shorter works in a variety of genres--treatises, essay collections, fiction, children's fiction, vignettes, verse--on a variety of topics--religion, philosophy, literature, the arts, politics, culture, baseball, and so forth. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaWt1aKbm52eqbmmxceaqa0%3D/denny-hill-still-exists.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/denny-hill-still-exists.htmlOne of the biggest misunderstandings in the story of Seattle is that Denny Hill no longer exists. My job in this newsletter is to show you that it’s still here. You just need to know where to look and why to look there. For those ambitious types, it would help if you were a diver who could descend into Elliott Bay. Between 1897 and 1930, five regrades lowered Denny Hill by 100 feet, reducing it from a mid-sized hill to its present pancakian topography./desperation-road.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/desperation-road.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. “Desperation Road” (available in select theaters and on VOD beginning Friday, Oct. 6) isn’t the most original film I’ve ever seen, but it’s well-acted and well-made enough to rise above its subgenre trappings. Russell (Garrett Hedlund) has just been released from prison after an 11-year stint. He returns to his small, Mississippi hometown and the loving arms of his widowed father Mitchell (Mel Gibson)./die-before-you-die.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/die-before-you-die.htmlThis winter, I learned how to dig a grave. Where I come from, death is an industrial process. It wasn’t always this way: England, bless it, has an ancient heart, but it beats under a long-mechanised carapace. The Machine we made has corralled our deaths as it has corralled our lives. Everything must fit the pattern. When relatives of mine died back home, they were taken away by a paid undertaker we didn’t know, to be embalmed and then put on display in some small, cold room in the undertaker’s commercial premises, before being taken in a long black car to a newbuild crematorium on the outskirts of a suburban town./dijon-mustard.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dijon-mustard.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 Dijon Mustard, that smooth, fiery yellow condiment I’m never without, and whose presence in my kitchen roots my cooking firmly in the French tradition. For paid subscribers click here for my recipes for Leeks Vinaigrette, Pan Fried Pork Chops in Dijon Cream Sauce, and Mussels Dijonnaise./disney-wilderness-preserve.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disney-wilderness-preserve.html(Listen to the radio version here.) In our many visits to the Kissimmee/Orlando area to visit our son, Russ and I have visited the Disney Wilderness Preserve several times. It’s out of the way and doesn’t open as early as I usually want to start birding, but it’s one of my favorite places in Florida. I love it because unlike everything else associated with the name Disney or anywhere near Orlando, this 11,500-acre preserve is managed by The Nature Conservancy./dr-bobby-jones-and-the-gospel-explosion.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dr-bobby-jones-and-the-gospel-explosion.htmlThis past Sunday evening, a few hundred people gathered at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville to celebrate the work of Dr. Bobby Jones, an innovative force in gospel music who brought the form into millions of homes internationally with his weekly telecast, Bobby Jones Gospel. The show began on local television in Nashville in 1981 and then, by 1985, was seen in over 500 markets including, according to a Tennessean feature that year, “BET and CBN TV channels, the major-market PBS stations and the Armed Forces network./drop-off-meals-to-bring-to-a-friend.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drop-off-meals-to-bring-to-a-friend.htmlI’ve been promising this list for a VERY long time… a master list of meals that make great drop-off meals for new parents, sick or grieving friends, or whoever in your life needs a pick-me-up in the form of a home-cooked meal. This is not your average list of lasagna, chicken and rice casserole, baked ziti, and enchilada recipes. These meals will be a serious treat for the recipient, without causing you to be stuck in the kitchen all day long./duolingo-fired-their-translators.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/duolingo-fired-their-translators.htmlYes, you read that title correctly. In December 2023, Duolingo fired a large percentage of their contract translators, according to the workers who were laid off. A company spokesperson said Monday: “We just no longer need as many people to do the type of work some of these contractors were doing. Part of that could be attributed to AI.” What happened to the translators who remained? They were simply asked to review A./dylan-in-cincinnati-november-1965.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dylan-in-cincinnati-november-1965.htmlBetween his March and November trips to Cincinnati, Bob Dylan radically reinvented himself as a performer and altered the course of popular music history. He released Bringing It All Back Home, the first album in his groundbreaking rock trilogy, on March 22. That spring he made his final solo-acoustic tour, culminating in the England concerts of April and May, captured for posterity in D. A. Pennebaker’s highly acclaimed documentary film Dont Look Back./why-bittersweet-early-2000s-nostalgia-best-genre.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-bittersweet-early-2000s-nostalgia-best-genre.htmlFor more music analyses and artist spotlights, subscribe to my weekly music newsletter After a few weeks of experiencing what some creators call “200s jail,” referring to a low number of video views, I decided to refer back to my most popular TikTok to date: bittersweet early 2000s nostalgia. The playlist’s debut video, a duet with a creator sharing their affinity for early 2000s music, now has 5.9 million views./emily-oster-on-maternal-healthcare.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-oster-on-maternal-healthcare.htmlIf you’ve been reading this newsletter for awhile, you know that I started from the premise that it’s far more dangerous to give birth now than it was for our parents. I came to this idea after six years of reporting on maternal health, and from reading Dr. Neel Shah, who wrote on the Harvard Health Blog in 2018, “Compared with their own mothers, American women today are 50% more likely to die in childbirth./narnia-books-ranked.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/narnia-books-ranked.htmlFor our curriculum this year, we are re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. I’ve read some aloud a number of years ago, the kids love the dramatized audiobooks, and I read through them just for myself last year, but they bear up under multiple readings (for the most part). The curriculum has us reading them chronologically; however, my preferred way to read the Narnia series is in publication order (for your first read at least)./envy-is-not-the-thief-of-joy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/envy-is-not-the-thief-of-joy.htmlBefore I dig into this week’s newsletter, I want to clarify: Envy is different than jealousy. Envy is painfully wanting what someone else has. Jealousy is fearing a loss of something you already have. Ex: A writer feels envious when a fellow writer lands a book contract. A boyfriend feels jealous when someone flirts with his girlfriend. (I didn’t know the difference until I started writing this post!) At some point in my memoir-writing journey, I learned about the Jungian concept of a “shadow self./episode-1-extradeadjcb.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-1-extradeadjcb.htmlToday, we are publishing our first episode of the Pluribus Podcast! Our first guest is a good friend and sponsor, @extradeadjcb, who is the founder of exitgroup.us, and who writes the newsletter: .In this episode we discuss: The story of Dr. Bennett’s cancellation as a motivation for founding the EXIT group in terms of technical and social support. How and why a general “opposition to cancel culture” is not a coherent ethic by which groups can coordinate./episode-1-matt-eversmann.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-1-matt-eversmann.htmlStreaming now on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts In 1999, I arrived at Ft. Benning for my second round of infantry training. My West Point classmate and then-roommate served in the 3rd Ranger Battalion there—his platoon sergeant was Sergeant First Class Matt Eversmann. Matt was already a legend who’d led Rangers through intense combat in the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. Just weeks after I met him, the book Blackhawk Down quickly climbed best seller lists, and not long after, the 2001 movie of the same name hit theaters./episode-4-lady-bird-greta-gerwig.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-4-lady-bird-greta-gerwig.htmlWelcome back to A History of Film Festivals in 100 Movies - Episode 4. Lady Bird directed by Greta Gerwig, and the Telluride Film Festival As with the previous films shared on this podcast, Lady Bird was a low budget indie, taking film festivals by storm, in this case, premiering at the top tier Telluride Film Festival.  The movie would help Gerwig transition comfortably to the filmmaker’s chair, launching a career that has continued to thrive, eventually leading to the Billion dollar Barbie juggernaut./eras-best-left-fielders.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eras-best-left-fielders.htmlIf you disliked my July 27 story about the Modern Era’s best shortstops, you will positively loathe today’s entry about the top left fielders. Many readers were unhappy that my 10-part formula established Alex Rodriguez as baseball’s preeminent shortstop during the period from 1961 through 2022. The same rating procedure has now proclaimed the No. 1 left fielder to be Barry Bonds, who (like Rodriguez) was widely accused of using performance-enhancing drugs./estimating-the-iq-of-andrew-tate.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/estimating-the-iq-of-andrew-tate.htmlquick facts: 1600 elo in chess - which is pretty good, according to the website itself this is roughly the 97th percentile. His dad was the one of the best Black chess players ever - top 2000 at one point. I will assume that equates to a z-score of 4 or above to make the estimation easier Net worth between 10 million (according to police) and 300-400 million (according to the internet)./ponta-delgada-restaurants.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ponta-delgada-restaurants.htmlPonta Delgada, a vibrant coastal town in São Miguel Island, Azores, is a beautiful place where culinary excellence meets breathtaking natural beauty. I invite you to embark on a gastronomic adventure like no other. Prepare to tantalize your taste buds with various flavors, indulge in fresh and locally sourced ingredients, and savor the unique culinary traditions that make Ponta Delgada a haven for food enthusiasts. Discover some of the best restaurants in Ponta Delgada that serve amazing Azorean dishes./exploring-the-fear-of-overpopulation.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exploring-the-fear-of-overpopulation.htmlInspired by a misguided dread of overpopulation back here on Earth, “The Mark of Gideon” aired in Star Trek: The Original Series’ third season. The episode was written by George F. Slavin and Stanley Adams, who is best known to Star Trek fans as Cyrano Jones from the "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode. This concern for overpopulation reached a pinnacle in 1968 with the publication of “The Population Bomb,” a best-selling book by Paul Ehrlich./explosion-over-the-kremlin.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/explosion-over-the-kremlin.htmlIt seems very dramatic.  Two drones and one small explosion were filmed over a tower of one of the Kremlin buildings.  Without providing any evidence, or giving any reason why such a thing might be true, Russian authorities blamed Ukraine, claiming that it was an assassination attempt directed against Vladimir Putin.  The Russians have lied about every major event in this war, and have always presented themselves and their president as its victim./mehran.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mehran.htmlHello everyone, Welcome to Issue #92 of CAFÉ ANNE! Oh golly—so much news. First, last issue’s story about my effort to go an entire week without multitasking generated a lot of comments, including a note from reader Rob S. in Brooklyn suggesting an interesting way to pass the time on the subway in lieu of reading a book: “I had a co-worker who used to play a game every time I took a subway ride with her./wwe-ring-boys-fbi-mel-phillips-videotape.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wwe-ring-boys-fbi-mel-phillips-videotape.htmlContent warning: This article, by necessity, contains descriptions of child sexual abuse and law enforcement inaction in a subsequent investigation of those allegations. If you believe that you may find such descriptions triggering other otherwise upsetting, then you should proceed only with the utmost caution. If you feel the need to talk someone, then visit RAINN.org for information on their 24/7 National Sexual Assault Hotline, which includes telephone and web-based chat options./feelings-arent-facts.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feelings-arent-facts.htmlWelcome to the series of occasional posts I’m calling Actually Okay Advice, where I share a piece of advice I’ve come across that I think is pretty useful. These are things I’ve tried myself, and for the most part, continue to use. As always, YMMV. Check out the previous AOAs here and here and here. I’m going to credit a psycholo… ncG1vNJzZmiklai5qrHKnqmnZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8WenKWhnpzAbq3RnqWtZZaWsLW%2F/this-is-67-filmmaker-michael-maren.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-67-filmmaker-michael-maren.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, filmmaker and former journalist Michael Maren responds. - Sari BottonMichael Maren began his film career 25 years ago at the age of 40 after spending 17 years as a journalist writing for The Village Voice, Newsweek, New York Magazine,The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, and others./five-music-videos-from-the-early-80s.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-music-videos-from-the-early-80s.htmlIf it wasn't witnessing Debbie Harry fronting the Muppet Band when I was a toddler, my first vision of punk was surely on MTV. My brother and sister are a decade older than me, and that meant I got glimpses of Headbangers Ball, Liquid Television, and MTV countdowns in early elementary school. The most vivid memory I have from MTV at that time is my introduction to the Butthole Surfers from the vantage point of Beavis and Butt-Head's couch./freihofers-bakery.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/freihofers-bakery.htmlDear Bread people, I spend my Saturdays baking bread. I like to believe that I’m echoing traditions of women in my city of Troy, New York. I try to imagine the process of handling a week’s worth of bread dough at different eras. The flour, the stoves, the pans, the bowls or wooden troughs. But the more I look at history, the more I see of my reluctance to believe facts and the power of my emotions./qanon-on-telegram-from-antisemitism.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/qanon-on-telegram-from-antisemitism.htmlOne of the things that I have been monitoring since QAnon has been deplatformed from mainstream social media sites has been how they would evolve and adapt to the new and different ecosystems that they would begin to inhabit. One of the concerning trends that I have noticed over the past six months has been cross-pollination between QAnon ecosystems and those ecosystems that are inhabited by ideologically motivated violent extremists. This behaviour was inevitable in the way as ecosystems easily share content across the board in the spaces and the large influx of new users that appeared in these ecosystems following January 2021 created plenty of opportunities for extremists and “Parler and Twitter refugees” to engage with content they might not have been before./frontier-alliance-international-founder.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/frontier-alliance-international-founder.htmlStaff Writer Dalton Thomas Lifsey, the founder and president of Frontier Alliance International (FAI) has tendered his “unconditional resignation” from his role within the organization after revealing deep and abiding marital difficulties as a result of his work, including committing adultery, according to a letter from the board.  He and his wife have four children. Founded by Lifsey in 2011 against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, FAI is a Christian ministry organization in the Middle East and 10/40 window working among unreached people groups./gardens-and-parks-san-francisco-bay-area.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gardens-and-parks-san-francisco-bay-area.htmlFrom the University of California Berkeley botanical garden to the San Francisco botanical garden, Japanese garden and the San Mateo arboretum, this is a week of mindfulness, joy and happiness 🤗 Nothing like being immersed in nature and appreciating the sky, clouds and our dear mother earth, in all its beauty. Every step I take, I breathe in mindfulness. I breathe in joy. I breathe in happiness. Join me on this walk to remember around the San Francisco bay area - San Francisco, San Mateo, and Berkeley./give-away-something-valuable.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/give-away-something-valuable.htmlI spent this week in a kind of fugue state, completely obsessed with Tavi Gevinson’s 75-page self-published fanzine, titled Fan Fiction: A satire, about Taylor Swift. If that sentence is incomprehensible to you, let me put it like this: there’s a self-published PDF on the internet that’s like Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire, only about a female writer’s obsession with Taylor Swift, instead of a male academic’s obsession with a dead poet./go-like-hell.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/go-like-hell.htmlOne of my all-time favorite movie scenes is from Ford vs Ferrari: the Daytona race. The scene starts with Ken Miles (Christian Bale) racing against his Ford teammate Walt Hansgen for the right to race in the legendaryLe Mans. Ken is neck and neck with Walt, and he tells Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), his coach, manager, and sponsor, that he can go faster than the prescribed speed limit they set: 7,000 RPMs./gwyneth-paltrow-admits-to-getting.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gwyneth-paltrow-admits-to-getting.htmlNice rant, enjoyed this thoroughly. When artificially intelligent life forms vanquish us from the Earth, they will justify this extermination with many bad things about humans. Exhibit A. might just be Gwyneth Paltrow promoting rectal ozone on TikTok while the runaway greenhouse effect, in part produced by flatulent cows and methanous celebrities, accelerated off the cliff. Ozone belongs in the stratosphere... or in our hearts for those of us who grew up in the 1980’s and are referring to the character “Ozone” in the cringe-worthy classic movie Breakin’./heres-the-thing-about-miranda.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heres-the-thing-about-miranda.htmlA month ago, a friend (the brilliant bi author Rachel Krantz) texted me urging me to write a think piece about Miranda Hobbes’s bisexuality. “Please!” she said. “The world needs it and I don’t have it in me.” “Do I have to?” I replied.  Culturally we’ve run the topic of Miranda’s sexuality into the ground—most of us are still recovering from 2022’s Che Twitter discourse. But And Just Like That’s Season 2 has wrapped, and even though it’s Bi Visibility Week, I still haven’t seen any recent memes or op-eds lead us to progressive conversations about bisexuality./passtheaux-with-vogues-annie-lord.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/passtheaux-with-vogues-annie-lord.htmlI am always in awe of the stamina and creativity required to be a successful columnist, and intrigued by what a columnist chooses to give to a reader – and at what cost. Which is why I was so excited to speak to one of the most adored columnists Annie Lord, who has been writing dating columns for Vogue since July 2020 and who has just announced that her first book, Notes on Heartbreak, will be published June 2022./how-champagne-coast-by-blood-orange.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-champagne-coast-by-blood-orange.html“young as i want to know i’ll never let you go" the tenth track on his debut 2011 album, ‘Champagne Coast’ is an underrated beauty within the flawless discography of Blood Orange: also known as Dev Hynes. the song is addicting and manages to incorporate everything i love about music into a singular 5-minute track. it’s dynamic: the snappy snare drum, slick baseline and stylish melody juxtaposed by the tragic lyrics make it a treat to the ear./how-did-russia-get-so-big.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-did-russia-get-so-big.htmlRussia is huge. We all know that. And yet, pretty much the entire North of Russia is nearly empty. That’s especially clear in Siberia, with almost all of its population concentrating in a narrow stripe across the southern border, similar to Canada. That sounds obvious and even pre-determined. Wouldn’t people naturally flock to where it’s warmer, sunnier and more fertile? And yet, that’s far from obvious. Very recently Russia used to be much colder and much more northern country with its most productive, advanced and richest population living far north./glossier-book-marisa-meltzer-interview.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glossier-book-marisa-meltzer-interview.htmlReading Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier, a new book out today from author Marisa Meltzer, the same thought kept popping in my brain like so much pale pink bubble wrap: Glossier sold us nothing. Maybe it isn’t a new thought. I wrote last year about how the nine-year-old startup rebranded makeup minimalism for the millennial masses with products like Perfecting Skin Tint (an “imperceptible wash of color,” Glossier boasts on its website) and Stretch Concealer (which “looks like skin”), eventually scaling to unicorn status — all thanks to nothing, or at least the look of it./how-is-guilt-presented-in-macbeth.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-is-guilt-presented-in-macbeth.htmlHi Mr Salles, I’m a new subscriber but using your articles and YouTube videos I recently scored 26-27/30 on a Macbeth essay, the text I struggle with the most. So I’d just thought I share it for any feedback. The question was on guilt, the extract was Act 5 Scene 1 - Lady Macbeth sleep walking. Throughout the tragedy “Macbeth”, William Shakespeare constantly references guilt, its nature and focus constantly shifting./how-octopuses-have-sex-its-really.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-octopuses-have-sex-its-really.htmlNote: You are receiving this email because you subscribed to my newsletter. You can unsubscribe anytime by scrolling to the bottom of this email and clicking the unsubscribe link. Hi everyone! I won't tell you what I was watching, but the other day I saw something that sparked this question in me: How do octopuses mate with each other? However you think they're doing it, you're probably wrong—unless you're a Marine biologist and know the answer./how-republicans-are-trying-to-turn.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-republicans-are-trying-to-turn.htmlAs you all know the Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery is scheduled to be removed before the end of the year. There is some discussion that this may occur as soon as December 18, but I have been unable to confirm this date. A group called Defend Arlington filed a lawsuit in an attempt to prevent the removal of the monument and today a group of Republican congressmen, led by Georgia’s Andrew Clyde, have written a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding he halt the monument’s removal./how-shadowdark-fixes-everything-wrong.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-shadowdark-fixes-everything-wrong.htmlGreetings dungeon masters! I am currently in Vegas with my good friend, Kelsey Dionne, the creator of Shadowdark. Actually, I was in her house, sipping tea by the fireplace. We did a casual charity live stream where we explored how Kelsey dissected and analyzed RPGS to create Shadowdark. We may have wandered off topic occasionally, from stoicism to the pronunciation of THAC0. As one commenter says, “This was a wholesome good time./asian-carp-recipes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/asian-carp-recipes.htmlAmericans eat more tilapia than any other whitefish, but the environmental costs of farming, catching, and importing it mean Earth-friendly options can be hard to come by. But there’s an even tastier swimmer out there, and eating it could help restore balance to native waterways. We’re talking about “Asian carp,” which is a catchall term for a group of four fish species native to southwestern China that were introduced to the Southern U./how-to-host-your-first-dinner-party.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-host-your-first-dinner-party.htmlHosting a dinner party may sound intimidating, yet it can be done by anyone in any space. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned host looking to enhance your skills, this detailed guide will lead you through each step, ensuring your dinner party is a resounding success. By following the steps below, you will be well on your way to hosting your first ever dinner party. Step 1: Set the Date/how-years-of-grieving-led-abubakar.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-years-of-grieving-led-abubakar.htmlGrief is a rollercoaster. Some days, pain. Other days, joy. At times, it’s both—or nothing. At grief’s origin, we participate in somber public rituals, like a funeral, to acknowledge the events. But afterwards, grief becomes private, awkward. People don’t want to ask if you’re sad, and you’re not sure if you want them to ask. Sometimes you want to punch a wall. Sometimes you want to yell. Sometimes you wish someone would just put their hand on your shoulder for a moment and ask “are you okay?/i-cant-believe-its-not-twitter.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-cant-believe-its-not-twitter.htmlAs you may have heard, Twitter is imploding. The impulsive actions of a petulant rich manchild have led to what could be the end or at least the gradual deterioration of my favorite social media website, one that has been a huge benefit to me both personally and professionally despite its many flaws. If Twitter does disappear, it will be missed. There’s no other place on the internet where you can simultaneously learn that there’s an earthquake in San Francisco and get called ableist because you said you like chocolate truffles./i-finished-survivor-season-13.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-finished-survivor-season-13.htmlI used to be a big “Survivor” fan. At some point in college, I stopped watching it and instead became an obsessive fan of “Grey’s Anatomy.” But earlier this year, my colleague ran into host Jeff Probst at Sundance and wrote this great piece on the show’s 40th season, which featured past winners of the series. So of course, I tuned in. When it was over, I was really sad because it was one hour a week where I was guaranteed to not think about anything else other than game play./i-have-to-admit-i-still-dont-fully.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-have-to-admit-i-still-dont-fully.htmlA couple weeks ago NBC News ran an article by Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, a summer intern there, headlined “Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race.” Subheadline: “Practitioners of ‘race change to another,’ or RCTA, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to truly become a different race.” It’s a very of-the-moment story, and it includes some fascinating details./picking-my-battle-on-dealing-with-trichotillomania-6b56f921df1b.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/picking-my-battle-on-dealing-with-trichotillomania-6b56f921df1b.htmlAdi Korndörfer/Flickr It starts with a pain so sharp and slight, it might not even be real. Then the pain builds, as if it has its own personal volume knob, until it’s screaming at me: aching, throbbing, begging to be soothed. My muscles tighten. I resist. I know if I ease this particular pain, I’ll pay for it. I blame my neurons. Apparently, those are the cells responsible for the rapid-fire signals in the brain that result in body movements so thoughtless you could call them involuntary./im-just-gonna-say-it-spotify-sucks.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-just-gonna-say-it-spotify-sucks.htmlI know the headline for this post makes it sound like I’ve got some super hot take up my sleeve .. like I’m going to deliver a savage take-down of all the ways Spotify sucks as a company, sucks as a way to listen to music, sucks as an app interface, or just sucks in general. The truth is, I mean .. I believe those things .. but this is probably going to be more of a confessional-type post./identifying-i-iv-and-v-chords.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/identifying-i-iv-and-v-chords.htmlThe I, IV and V chords are beginner-level music theory concepts. However, in my pop-oriented aural skills class, we are covering them in the context of the blues, where they are more complicated than they are in the standard tonal theory context. Let's begin with a review of the basic I, IV and V from the major scale. Here they are in C. Here's how you build these chords. The I chord is built on the first degree of the scale, C./if-kenneth-smiths-trial-was-today.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-kenneth-smiths-trial-was-today.htmlThe jury in Kenneth Smith’s murder trial voted 11 to one for life, but unless something extraordinary occurs, the state of Alabama will still put Kenneth to death later today. The reason behind his death sentence is a peculiar practice that Alabama lawmakers voted to outlaw in 2017. Commonly referred to as “judicial override,” state law allowed a judge to disregard a jury recommendation for a life sentence and instead impose death in capital murder convictions./in-conversation-kerry-mccoy-of-deafheaven.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-kerry-mccoy-of-deafheaven.htmlFor as long as I’ve been making records, I’ve carried with me the uncomfortable feeling of making something “permanent.” It’s not just the songs—although that, too, plays a role—but the inspirations, the feelings, the conditions, and the physical places that also find themselves folded into the permanent shape of an “album.” Nothing puts that into clearer focus than a milestone anniversary. I approached Deafheaven founder/guitarist Kerry McCoy with the idea of exploring these “silent partners” with me as a way to mark the tenth anniversary of their breakthrough album, Sunbather, and in spite of those sometimes difficult memories, he showed no hesitation in his willingness to walk back into those places with me—even when the light was less than flattering./inaugural-three-dot-thursday-in-honor.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inaugural-three-dot-thursday-in-honor.htmlShort items, a few scooplets, a good one-liner or two, that’s what my kind of column is made of, and as my tribute to Mr. Winchell, I hope to keep three-dot journalism alive in a business that considers it hopelessly out of date. Hell, so am I, dot-dot-dot. You won’t find many young journalists writing three-dot columns these days. For one thing, it’s too much work. — Herb Caen explaining three-dot journalism in a 1985 column/interview-sting-kiah-roache-turner-alyla-browne.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-sting-kiah-roache-turner-alyla-browne.html(This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.) Kiah Hey, Alise. Alise Hi, Kiah and Alyla. Is that correct? Alyla Good job. Alise Excellent. Awesome. Thank you so much for being here. The first thing I wanted to ask, Kiah, I love the names in the movie with, especially with Charlotte and Sting having all of these like spider from literature kind of things. Are there any other literary elements that are involved in the script that maybe I missed here?/introducing-the-tucson-agenda.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-the-tucson-agenda.htmlWe’ve been warning you, loyal readers, for a while now that the Agenda has some big new projects in the works.  Today, we're thrilled to announce that we’re growing our team to take our coverage to a whole other level with a new locally focused newsletter.  If you guessed (or hoped) we'd be headed to the Old Pueblo, you're absolutely right!  Please welcome the Tucson Agenda, launching on the Fourth of July./is-it-a-sin-to-kiss-before-marriage.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-it-a-sin-to-kiss-before-marriage.htmlWhen I was growing up, my dad made a rule that we were not to watch movies that had kissing in them. He didn’t want his children to grow up to kiss anyone before marriage, and he figured that keeping them from even witnessing an onscreen kiss would help to accomplish this goal. The only exception to the rule was if the actors kissing were married in rea… ncG1vNJzZmivn6Kur7vFr5ilp6JjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89ooKxlmal6onnSoqVmrJ9iuKq%2F0maZnp6fp7JuucCrqaKZl5o%3D/is-john-mearsheimer-right-about-ukraine.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-john-mearsheimer-right-about-ukraine.htmlI didn’t write a full newsletter today. I’ve been busy preparing for Passover and it felt like a good time for a break. But we do have a Zoom guest this Friday at Noon ET. (Paid subscribers will get the link this Wednesday and the video next week.) Our guest is the University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer, perhaps the most controversial scholar of international relations in the United States. He was controversial fifteen years ago when he co-authored The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy with Harvard’s Stephen Walt and he’s controversial now because he places most of the blame for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine not on Vladimir Putin but on the US and its NATO allies./is-there-anything-new-to-say-about.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-there-anything-new-to-say-about.htmlDoes anyone have anything new to say about John Boorman’s 1967 film, Point Blank? Those who know me or follow me on any of my various social media accounts will be familiar with the fact that I am a huge Lee Marvin fan. And no matter how my cinematic moods or tastes change, Point Blank remains a stone cold top five favourite film. I must have seen it at least half a dozen times./its-out.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-out.htmlLet's all take a moment to appreciate the calm vibes this week - no big news to stress about! We hope you're all enjoying the season, whether you're in the middle of competitions or not. Let's dive into the highlights from the week! In today’s newsletter: NCA Nationals block schedule is out Top Gun Allstars has two new level 7 teams Cali Smoed’s “Palm Springs curse“ is over New uniforms/its-time-for-christmas-tamales.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-time-for-christmas-tamales.htmlChef Omar Rodriguez, the head chef at my Mexican restaurant Oyamel in Washington, DC, makes tamales for Christmas every year, and it’s a great dish to share with your family. What I like about making tamales is that they are a project. It will take up an afternoon or maybe even a whole day, but that’s why I think they are the perfect food for the holiday when you hopefully have more time to spend in the kitchen without stress./its-unconstitutional-to-monitor-a.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-unconstitutional-to-monitor-a.htmlA federal case manager who allegedly had a sexual relationship with a prisoner at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego is having her location tracked as a condition of her pretrial release, per the orders of a judge. She also has to abide by a curfew. That federal employee, San Diego resident Shantal He… ncG1vNJzZmikpaCyqa3RqKOdZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8itqmatnpi8r7%2FToquurJmku6K4jK2mZqWfo7a1u9FmmA%3D%3D/sunday-news-jamaican-added-to-west.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sunday-news-jamaican-added-to-west.htmlEscovitch and oxtails have joined the West Side Bazaar menu, with Dwayne Fitzroy Jones launching Chef BigWayne Jamaican Cuisine to join the other seven restaurant operations at the  1432 Niagara St. community center. Born in Montego Bay, Jones worked his way from dishwasher to cook at the Iberostar all-inclusive resort complex. Jones followed his wife-to-be Brianna back to Buffalo, where he launched his first restaurant operation March 1. Ackee puffs ($5./japanese-curry-is-the-best-grand.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/japanese-curry-is-the-best-grand.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. I’d never had Japanese curry until the first time I flew to New York City to work from Jalopnik’s official headquarters./app-link.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/app-link.htmlI’ve been traveling, and Buddy took out the camera in my absence. This is the view as he left the harbor one morning this week— that’s his brother’s buoy in the foreground. I’m heading back to Maine tomorrow, and I can’t wait. But before I hit the road, I need to sleep for a very long time. I’ll be back at it tomorrow. [Photo by Buddy Poland.] Share/kate-flannery-strip-tees-american-apparel.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kate-flannery-strip-tees-american-apparel.htmlKate Flannery’s memoir of her time working at American Apparel in the early 2000s, Strip Tees, was one of my most anticipated titles of the year — and I’m happy to report it was even better than I hoped. For those who need a reminder, American Apparel was one of the It Brands of the early aughts, filling a gap left by the fading Abercrombie & Fitch. It was known for its racy photoshoots and wild CEO Dov Charney, who was forced out in 2014 after facing a series of sexual harassment lawsuits./kates-abdominal-surgery-everything.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kates-abdominal-surgery-everything.htmlI was shocked by the length of the hospital stay, who does that, unless they are in critical condition?? Hospitals in the US try to chuck out patients as soon as possible, because hospitals are dangerous places to be. And for Kate, being who she is, if she needed specialized care for her recovery, they could certainly send doctors, nurses and equipment to her home, where she could recover comfortably and safely./beyond-the-embargo-keeping-the-bts.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyond-the-embargo-keeping-the-bts.htmlI’ve always complained about embargoes and secrets in the publishing industry. What was up with all these demands to keep book titles secret, book covers secret, or even the fact that such-and-such was working on such-and-such? Who cares? It’s just books! Why can’t we just let it all hang out? One of the things I like about working in publishing—and as a translator, I always think of myself as “working in the publishing industry” rather than, I dunno, being a starving artist in a garret, because it helps me manage deadlines and networking and so on—is that it’s a pretty low-stakes sector./kevin-van-ostenbridges-big-and-little.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kevin-van-ostenbridges-big-and-little.htmlWhen I went to the mailbox on Saturday and I saw the thick yellow envelope imploring me, “DO NOT DISCARD,” I thought, “Great, more junk mail.” But the envelope also said, “Your personalized 2024 ballot petitions are enclosed, please review and reply A.S.A.P.” My journalistic curiosity got the best of me, so I opened it up to find a “Dear Marc” letter from my county commissioner — “my” in the sense that I live in his district, not “my” in the sense that I own him like some real estate developers own him — Kevin Van Ostenbridge./king-vitaman-and-the-anti-woke-trend.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/king-vitaman-and-the-anti-woke-trend.html“I don’t read. I can’t read, my parents figured I’d be better off without the burden of written language.” - Lord Hambersham, DDS King Vitaman, for a while in the 1970s, was one of the few cereals to feature a real person on the box at the time. That person was actor George Mann, who died in 1977. He also portrayed the King in commercials for the cereal. He would grace the cover of the box for years to come, until in 2000 Quaker Oats finally retired his face in lieu of a silly wizard that would remain there until King Vitaman cereal was shelved in 2019./kitchen-project-117-how-to-pair-a.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-project-117-how-to-pair-a.htmlHello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. It’s so lovely to have you here. This week we’re diving into a big question: What is flavour? Is there a reason certain combinations are classics?! And what makes a great pair? What about pears?! Over on KP+, I’m sharing a recipe for a really, really good biscuit: Sticky pear and ginger shortbread. You can add hazelnuts and chocolate, two kindred pear spirits, but it’s a flexible little cookie you’re going to LOVE (and it doesn’t spread)./koko-samoa.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/koko-samoa.htmlSamoa’s famous and beloved cacao drink is sweet and smoky. You may see a layer of cocoa butter on top, and you will definitely find a smattering of nib grounds called pegu at the bottom. Made with unfermented or lightly fermented cacao that is heavily roasted, I think of it as coffee-like. Koko Samoa the perfect beverage to remind you of childhood camp fires on chilly mornings. I honestly don’t have much experience with koko Samoa, and I hope readers with more intimate knowledge will contribute in the comments below./last-chance-to-do-something-spooky.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/last-chance-to-do-something-spooky.htmlThe Wo-Zha-Wa Days Fall Festival is happening in Wisconsin Dells this weekend, Sept. 15-17, 2023. This event marks the end of the season, and it’s also a great time to check out the dark side of the Dells. Climb aboard the Ghost Boat at dusk for a journey into the horrific legend of the haunted Cold Water Canyon. This experience is basically a haunted house, boat ride, and spooky hike rolled into one, with live actors lurking in the dark canyon passages./last-things-first-courtney-pauroso.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/last-things-first-courtney-pauroso.htmlCourtney Pauroso is an LA-based actor, writer and comedian, who traveled the world and the United States as the child of a military family. She co-wrote and appeared in Two Pink Doors, a series of 5-minute shorts for FX, directed by Dr. Brown, and has appeared onscreen in projects such as Jackass Forever, Reno 911, Key & Peele, and 2 Broke Girls. She’s also a former member of the Groundlings Sunday Company and Washington D./last-things-first-jiaoying-summers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/last-things-first-jiaoying-summers.htmlBorn in China, Jioaying Summers first came to America for college in Kentucky speaking no English, then went to Hollywood looking for stardom. Summers has found it so far already on TikTok, where she has gained more than 1.2 million followers, and has created her own stage, The Hollywood Comedy, where she and other aspiring comedians can develop their voices. Since the pandemic, Summers has released a half-hour special as part of Comedy InvAsian 2./learn-chuukese-with-karson-ifa.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/learn-chuukese-with-karson-ifa.htmlWhen he was a kid in Ruo, one of the islands in Chuuk, Karson Ifa didn’t think that he’d grow up and make videos teaching people how to speak Chuukese.  “We grew up with little to no internet access. It wasn’t until we moved out of Micronesia that I started learning more of the internet and the endless possibilities,” Karson said.  Karson has made several videos teaching people Chuukese words and phrases./lemon-bars-and-curdcustardcreme-pat.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lemon-bars-and-curdcustardcreme-pat.htmlWhat I’m reading: Why is Food Education so Unappetising? by Thea Everett, for Vittles magazine. A really interesting narrative about food education over the past century What I’m listening to: Blindboy’s mental health plan for the New Year. Helpful and educational but also light-hearted What I’m eating: fish and chips at Auckland Fish Market (below) This week, I really wanted to make lemon bars. I wanted a shortbread-y base, and a topping that was less “curd”-like and more “custard”-like - as in, smooth like the baked custard in a tart rather than rich like a baked curd./lesser-known-languages-lkl-rapa-nui.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lesser-known-languages-lkl-rapa-nui.htmlGrowing up in France with Christian grandparents, I enjoyed searching for chocolate eggs in the garden every Easter. It’s a tradition I hold dear and want to transfer one day to my future children. A few months ago, while researching which lesser-known languages I’d cover for South America, I discovered a language I had never heard of: Rapa Nui. And when I checked where it was spoken, my eyes opened wide./letter-119-bob-kagle-2012.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-119-bob-kagle-2012.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./the-clash-letting-that-raga-drop.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-clash-letting-that-raga-drop.htmlThe Clash standing before the Apocalypse Hotel, Freston Road, London W.11, 1982 (photo: Pennie Smith)Sharif don’t like it! Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah! You COULD NOT escape that fucking song all summer! Just the year before, C101 had no room for The Clash on their playlist, preferring cueing up “Stairway To Heaven” on Turntable One and “Freebird” on Turntable Two for the 1000 millionth time. Suddenly they got the message that it was 1982, managing to shoehorn “Rock The Casbah” into their Two Song All Zeppelin and Skynyrd Playlist./lewdle-a-dirty-education.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lewdle-a-dirty-education.htmlDespite the New York Times’ efforts, many Wordle variants continue to exist, exploring variations on the game’s foundations. Wordle variants come in several types. Some, like Heardle or Chessle, have little in common with the original Wordle beyond a six-guess format. Some are like Wordle with a twist on the gameplay, like playing multiple Wordles at once or an “adversarially” selected answer. And then there are the specializers, sticking to Wordle rules but taking their answers from a themed word list./lianafinck.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lianafinck.htmlLiana’s Newsletter By Liana Finck A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja21wKeYn6GemLg%3D/laughter-groans-and-amen-liz-cheney.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/laughter-groans-and-amen-liz-cheney.htmlIt felt less like a lecture and more like a mass therapy session for the nervous center-left body politic of urban, college-educated America. Liz Cheney was the featured speaker March 27 in the latest annual Bucksbaum lecture at Drake University. She drew a throng to the Knapp Center basketball arena—maybe close to 2,000 people casting a wary eye at Nov. 5 as time runs out for Donald Trump to face the bulk of his 91 felony counts before Election Day./love-is-the-fulfillment-of-the-law.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-the-fulfillment-of-the-law.htmlOwe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," "YOU SHALL NOT MURDER," "YOU SHALL NOT STEAL," "YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS," "YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law./mass-produce-xy-plots-with-comfyui.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mass-produce-xy-plots-with-comfyui.htmlHello FollowFox Community! In this post, we will look at ComfyUIs API and automate the process of XY graph creation for significant time savings. As usual, we will do a step-by-step guide on achieving this and share all the code and resources used in the process. We will not cover Comfy basics here, but for that, you can check our four-part series on starting from zero to doing more advanced workflows:/mathematics-and-reading-are-different.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mathematics-and-reading-are-different.htmlHere’s a question that I wrote myself, but is extremely similar to a bunch of things I’ve seen people actually ask: I’m a 3rd Grade teacher (or: parent, or: journalist) and I’m enthusiastic about the Science of Reading. It’s totally changing how I think about reading, especially for struggling learners. But what about math? Isn’t it time for a Science of Mathematics movement? And I always want to answer with a very respectful, no, I don’t think so./matt-binder-on-elon-musk-sbf-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matt-binder-on-elon-musk-sbf-and.htmlHe’s back! Journalist Matt Binder has been reinstalled on Twitter after being suspended by Musk for commenting on the suspension of that @ElonJet account, which was accused by Musk of “doxxing” in one of his latest dust-ups on the site. Now, Binder is joining us for the latest episode of KK&F to talk about the massive issues of free speech Musk is perpetuating as Twitter CEO — when his stated purpose was to make Twitter a “free thinker” haven./meet-my-book.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-my-book.htmlToday is the official pre-order date and cover reveal for my illustrated memoir, Give Me Space But Don’t Go Far. It’s happening. It’s HAPPENING!  Here’s the deal: pre-orders are incredibly important for debut authors. They help get more books on the shelves and even have an impact on best seller lists. If you are able, it would mean so much to me if you pre-ordered — click here to find your favorite bookstore/retailer!/mens-rules-on-abortion.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mens-rules-on-abortion.htmlThere’s a lot to hate about Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College. The NFL kicker trashed birth control as unnatural, called gay pride a “deadly sin,” and railed against America’s “degenerate cultural values and media.” It was Butker’s comments to female graduates, though, that put me over the edge.  The football player told the women in the audience that they’ve been taught “diabolical lies” about having a career, encouraging them instead to “lean in” to one of “the most important titles of all—homemaker./millennials-unloaded-on-elmo-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/millennials-unloaded-on-elmo-and.htmlLast week was a little unhinged. It began with a Muppet asking an innocuous question and ended with Larry David assaulting Elmo on live television. How we got here as a society has been a decades-long story of continued disrespect and infantilization of Millennials. The trope of my generation is framed around the idea that we are fundamentally discontent for no reason. But my question is: why is it when Larry David rants, it’s called complaining (or observational comedy), but when we do, it’s whining?/monica-garcia-might-be-too-real-for.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monica-garcia-might-be-too-real-for.htmlI had given up on this season of RHOSLC (and this is coming from someone who did include a visit to the Beauty Lab parking lot as part of her trip to Utah), but based on your post, I may have to go back and watch the finale. I totally agree with your analysis that this kind of villainy, while great for the show in the short term is unsustainable in the long run./more-twists-in-the-fc-barcelona-negreira.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-twists-in-the-fc-barcelona-negreira.htmlFor those who don’t know or who have forgotten, here is a quick recap of the FC Barcelona-Negreira scandal:  Barcelona had made payments totaling €7 million to José María Enríquez Negreira between 2001 and 2018 while Negreira was the Vice President of the Referee’s Committee. Barcelona stopped paying Negreira in 2018 after he left his position as Vice Pre… ncG1vNJzZmiala68r7DToZxyaF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6mpqudXanEqr%2FTrGSipl2ptaZ5xZxkm5mimLKtu82aZKedl6eyqr7A/moscow-marjorie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moscow-marjorie.htmlThe world is awash with Kremlin disinformation and undercover operations aimed at undermining democracies, societies, and war efforts. This month, revelations about a gigantic espionage ring across Europe rocked the continent, but Russia also cripples the United States. Donald Trump and his chief Republican spear carrier, Marjorie Taylor Greene, are active “assets” for Russia and constantly spew its talking points. Trump enables and praises the enemy, describing Putin’s Ukrainian 2022 invasion as “genius”, suggesting that Ukraine should surrender, and pledging that he will let Putin do “whatever the hell he wants” to NATO members in Europe if they are behind in military commitments./must-read-books-about-social-media.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/must-read-books-about-social-media.htmlDuring the early research and writing process for my book Social Capital, I found myself caught between reading other books about tech and social media, and wanting to avoid doing the same. It’s funny: when you write a book about a topic, you want to read everything related to it… but you also don’t want to be so inspired by other people’s work that you lose sight of your own./my-2023-r-rated-movies-ranked.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-2023-r-rated-movies-ranked.html2023 was the year I went back to the movies. I had 15 theater trips in 2022, 14 in 2021, and to the February 2020 trio of 1917, Parasite, and Jumanji: The Next Level, I salute you. In 2023, I went to the theater 27 times, and I didn’t even see everything I wanted to see. I mean, The Holdovers is out of theaters already, really?! Of the 24 titles I saw (27 outings included repeats), 8 of them were rated R./24-years-of-pitchfork.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/24-years-of-pitchfork.htmlPitchfork was how I knew the internet was working. Every morning for almost 24 years, my day has started with command-T in the left hand, a quick "pi" in the right. My fingers defaulted to the combination at some point, I don’t know when. It isn’t uncommon for half my browser tabs to be the front page of Pitchfork. My degrees say otherwise, but in college what I studied was the history of recorded music./my-guide-to-taranto-puglia.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-guide-to-taranto-puglia.htmlTaranto isn't the first place people usually visit when they arrive in Puglia in search of white washed towns, crystalline beaches and abundant good food (though the first two are close and latter there is definitely no shortage of). It's a bit rough around the edges – a true port city it is – with a crumbling, half-abandoned old town, a history of corruption and Ilva, the largest steelworks in Europe, polluting the otherwise charming skyline./names-of-the-year-2023.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/names-of-the-year-2023.htmlLast week I published my words-of-the-year list, from enshittification to sprinkle sprinkle. Now it’s time to shine a light on the noteworthy upper-case names of 2023. I have nothing to add to Laura Wattenberg’s superb defense of Barbie as the overall name of the year — a name, she wrote, that “speaks volumes, not just about gender but about our changing views of names and identity itself.” Read her post on the Namerology blog./nice-vs-kind.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nice-vs-kind.htmlAs a wandering Canadian for half my life now, I’ve been on a long, obligatory quest to work out the difference between being nice and being kind. I don’t want to lump all of my compatriots into one psychological category (and it wouldn’t be accurate to do so) but we Canadians sometimes we have a tendency to be a bit too nice. The thing with being surface-level “nice” is it’s not necessarily the key to, well, anything./nikki-haleys-revisionist-history.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nikki-haleys-revisionist-history.htmlFormer South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is running for president. For many Americans, the defining moment of her time as governor was her support of removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State Capitol, following the murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston by Dylann Roof in 2015. Haley has a complex relationship with the controversy surrounding the flag—one that she likely would rather put behind her given former president Trump’s embrace of white nationalists and praise of Confederate leaders like Robert E./nina-mae-mckinney.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nina-mae-mckinney.htmlGoddess Energy and Black History Month Nina Mae McKinney b. Nannie Mayme McKinney June 2, 1912 or 1913, Gemini, Lancaster, SC d. May 3, 1967, NYC Nina is credited as the 1st Black actress to have a lead role in Hollywood talkie films. Her first role was in the Oscar nominated Hallelujah! (1929). It was the 1st all Black cast, sound musical. She ends up with a 5 year MGM contract for leading roles./no-highway-in-the-sky-1951.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-highway-in-the-sky-1951.htmlWe’ve been watching a lot of old British films lately at our house, and in the process we’ve learned a lot about works of art that are quite good, without any pretensions to greatness or any need to clear some enormous expense in production. Just as there’s nothing grander than an epic that succeeds, so there’s nothing more embarrassing than an epic that flops. Filet mignon is great, but you can’t live on that alone; you need potatoes and vegetables and fruit, too, and sometimes a good hamburger from the grill is exactly right./tortured-poets-department-travis-kelce-songs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tortured-poets-department-travis-kelce-songs.htmlHappy Friday! I typically share Weekend Recs on Fridays, but this week was a weird one where I didn’t have much time to consume anything to recommend. Instead of sending lukewarm recs, I’m sending out my silly thoughts on Taylor Swift’s new album. I rarely miss sending out a Friday newsletter, but I hope you’ll understand and allow this to be a bit of a fun break in format. I’ll be back with recs next week./no-one-is-talking-about-the-nicholas.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-one-is-talking-about-the-nicholas.htmlMultiple women and girls have come out across social media with disturbing allegations against “Succession’s” Nicholas Braun. The actor, who plays Cousin Greg on the hit HBO series, was first directly accused by a TikTok user who shared photos of her and her friends partying with Braun at Coachella when she was just 16. In the video, she claims that Braun tried to invite her back to his hotel room, an invitation she declined, informing him she was in high school./nora-ephron-and-butter-a-love-story.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nora-ephron-and-butter-a-love-story.htmlIf you subscribe to this newsletter (thank you!), then you’re likely an ardent admirer of Nora Ephron, the writer and director behind three of the most beloved and enduring romantic comedies of all time: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail. My first book, I’ll Have What She’s Having, chronicles how she made those films and stamped the love genre with her wry, observational wit and unabashed nostalgia./not-to-forget.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/not-to-forget.htmlIt’s not often you see a tiny little-faith based film featuring some notable names in the cast. “Not to Forget” must set some kind of record, boasting no less than five Oscar winners — albeit older performers filling in the background of the main characters. It’s a familiar theme for this genre: regret, resentment and forgiveness. A young man, Chris (Tate Dewey), is arrested for low-level con games, card tricks and the like./oh-tufted-titmouse.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oh-tufted-titmouse.htmlHow I wake up laughing… when I hear your schoolyard taunt, neener neener neener. Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.That is the call of a male Tufted Titmouse. He sings it over and over, publishing his ownership of this patch of woods, where he intends to breed. My house is in those woods also, but the bird isn’t worried about me. He’s concerned about rivals within his own species./old-fashioned-blanquette-de-veau.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/old-fashioned-blanquette-de-veau.htmlThis story and recipe were originally written for and published in The Art of Eating, April 2013. I have updated it slightly. Blanquette is still one of my favorite French dishes. Photos and styling: Ilva Beretta for The Art of Eating. With the confidence and efficiency of a woman who has been cooking for friends and family for the better part of her 50-some years and knows just what she is about, Marie-Noëlle pulled me into her kitchen./were-living-in-the-era-of-deadpan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-living-in-the-era-of-deadpan.htmlShare I’m 33-minutes into Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” and it’s terrible, despite starring everyone anyone has cared about in Hollywood in the last three decades, which list includes but is not limited to Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Carrell, Matt Dillon, Edward Norton, Liev Schrieber (the voice of HBO’s “Hard Knocks”!) and lots of other notable Hollywood people.  Like all Wes Anderson projects, it functions primarily as a “reel” for Wes Anderson./on-infantilization-and-how-to-work.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-infantilization-and-how-to-work.htmlCommunity conversation clubs for April. These will be 4/10 at 7pm ET and 4/21 at 1pm ET. Links will be sent to paid subscribers day in advance! This is a space to process the topics of the articles I write. Book club TONIGHT! The pick for March was The Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan, and for April it is Crying in The Bathroom by Erika Sanchez. Paid subscribers get free entry into book club Zoom with me./one-pan-lemon-pepper-salmon-with.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-pan-lemon-pepper-salmon-with.htmlI’d dare to say this is meal prep friendly! Cook everything as the recipe says, and store in the fridge. Whenever you’re ready to serve, heat the fish and leeks in the oven at a lower temp, then broil for 1 to 2 minutes until the panko is crispy again. Serve with yogurt and you should be good to go xx Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmibkae8rbXNmp6epJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqimlWK9orqMpZymp55ivaa8z56pZquRobqwuoywoK2gX5i8rrnEp6us/oppenheimer-is-for-gossips-and-haters.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oppenheimer-is-for-gossips-and-haters.htmlMajor spoilers for Oppenheimer follow. But if you aren’t sure how Oppenheimer ends baby open Wikipedia right now…I went to a brunch showing of Oppenheimer at my local Nitehawk a few weekends ago. I brought Andrew because he’d only half-watched the movie one weekday night, and that was unacceptable to me. “I bet this theater is going to be full of fucking sickos,” he joked as we were walking over. When we arrived to theater number two, it was totally empty./secularization-comes-for-the-religion.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/secularization-comes-for-the-religion.htmlWelcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture, broadly understood. Before my detour into writing something about Vision Pro, the previous two installments had been a bit more reflective and meditative. This installment is written in a decidedly different mode. It proposes a thesis that I think helps clarify some of the weirdness of our moment. It is at once a commentary on techno-optimist manifestos, the perception of cultural stagnation, effective altruists and effective accelerationists./otta-how-ux-shapes-our-big-decisions.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/otta-how-ux-shapes-our-big-decisions.htmlTLDR: WATCH THE VIDEO (click above) UX designers are more than just designers. They’re choice architects. And how they choose to present us with things profoundly influences our choices. Take job search, for example. Recently I checked out Otta. Otta shows you jobs one at a time; this is called sequential ordering. You look, you evaluate, you click – or skip to the next option. The alternative UX design would be to show me multiple jobs at once./pan-fried-enchiladas-from-michoacan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pan-fried-enchiladas-from-michoacan.htmltl;dr: RSVP to join us this Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 6 p.m. PDT to cook pan-fried enchiladas from Michoacán. Scroll down to the bottom for the grocery list. A couple of years ago a friend and mentor of mine hosted ten people at his house for a Mexican food extravaganza. We made chiles rellenos, chicken mole, and enchiladas. The chiles rellenos were delicious but took a large amount of effort and cleanup./parade-of-great-guitarists-brother.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/parade-of-great-guitarists-brother.htmlChildren of the future, I give you a testimonial — THE MC5! Wayne Kramer is front and center, as he should be. (Pic: Raeanne Rubenstein)Brother Wayne Kramer died, Friday February 2, 2024. And while I can’t imagine anyone who reads this Substack not knowing who Wayne is, I also wouldn’t want to know anyone who doesn’t. I also recognize I am grieving someone I considered a family member, and may be a little too hard-edged with emotion right now./dagger.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dagger.htmlThe dagger concept is a major concept at the NFL level. It has great value because it is an excellent route vs man and zone. It is highly effective vs. both coverages. Some great  qbs such as Rivers, Brady, Mahomes, Wentz and Stafford have made a nice living off this concept. First the route concept The route concept is a play side dig by #1 and a post by #2 to run the safety out./pastiera-a-tutorial.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pastiera-a-tutorial.htmlSomehow Easter has crept up — is it just me, traveling and currently outside of Italy that feels this? Usually I’d have already started baking, I’d be planning Easter lunch with my mother in law (who will secretly be adding 5 more dishes to the table than what was discussed) and noticing the colombe piled high in shop windows. I will have already sampled several versions of pandiramerino, Florence’s rosemary and raisin buns, which remind me of hot cross buns with their sticky, criss crossed tops, except with rosemary instead of cinnamon (a swap out that I encourage you to try), and even though they are found year round now I remember to eat them more often than not around Easter./people-movers-can-be-a-good-solution.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/people-movers-can-be-a-good-solution.htmlI remember looking at a map of the Singapore MRT as a kid and wondering what the strange carbon copy lines in the northeast of the city state were. When I eventually realized they were automated people movers, I was well into my “transit phase”, and the decision seemed incredibly silly. Low-capacity transit service can easily be provided by buses or light rail, so why would you ever build an airport people mover for what is essentially a local transit problem?/pep-talk-626.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pep-talk-626.htmlHi, Friend. Today I’m here with the tiniest pep talk, in case you need one. I do. A few months ago, I had probably my most meaningful speaking engagement of the year. Was it on book tour for my memoir? No, though that was wonderful. Was it giving a presentation for Creative Mornings? No, though I had a great time doing that. This pep talk begins in a high school auditorium full of fifth graders./petco-and-the-cold-lifeless-modern.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/petco-and-the-cold-lifeless-modern.html50,000 people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town. If I were to write a review of this logo, I would give it high marks. It’s nice that the cat and dog are smiling. It’s nice that they’re friends. Not many other logos have animals in them, let alone blue cats and red dogs, let alone blue cats and red dogs whose ears happen to cleverly interlock. Maybe it reminds you a little bit of Clifford, or the decor in a pediatrician’s office, but for a pet store—a place people shop with very little personal investment—are those such bad things?/peter-coy-the-ny-times-top-economics.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-coy-the-ny-times-top-economics.htmlWhen it comes to writing incisively about all things economics or even just tangentially economics, Peter Coy is simply the best. I learn something new and important each time I read his writings. Peter writes for the Opinion section of The New York Times.  And his newsletter for Times subscribers appears three times a week. Before joining the Times in 2021, Peter spent over three decades writing for BusinessWeek and its successor, Bloomberg Businessweek./pi.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pi.htmlBeyond ChatGPT, a new category of AI assistants is emerging. Pi, Poe, Personal.ai and Woebot are personal AI chatbots. Unlike ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard, which I’ve written about recently, these new AI assistant bots are more focused on personal help than on writing or performing other tasks for you. Read on for how I’ve found these bots useful and suggestions for using them creatively. Share Pi is a free personal bot that gets to know you over time./podcast-episode-78-the-one-about.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podcast-episode-78-the-one-about.htmlCold Open Question of the Week: Have you ever re-gifted a present? Brian is overwhelmed and humbled by the numbers of visitors to the Substack page. He started with five readers. Now, three years later, nearly 1,800 page views in just the last 30 days. More than 1,700 downloads of our podcast in the last 18 months. Thank you! My Christmas Album: Be sure to check out the My Christmas Album series./its-new-to-me-popn-twinbee-rainbow.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-popn-twinbee-rainbow.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. Have you ever played a TwinBee game? You can certainly be forgiven if not, since Konami didn’t always support the series in North America, and much of its popularity in Japan comes not just from the games, but from its expansion into other media, like anime./popular-coco-bomb-becomes-lv-dessert.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/popular-coco-bomb-becomes-lv-dessert.htmlThis is kind of an encore review. We originally reviewed Coco Bomb (located on Ulric Street) when they first opened. It was a cute, friendly place but was still in its opening stage, hadn’t yet revealed a complete menu, and was not widely known around the community.  However, we recently noticed while driving around town that more people have been congregating at Coco Bomb and the front area had been spruced up to look like a tropical island./probably-why-nike-bid-jerry-lorenzo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/probably-why-nike-bid-jerry-lorenzo.htmlFor a brief moment at the start of Black Lives Matter protests in the spring, Adidas extended an olive branch to Nike on Twitter where it quote tweeted a moving Nike campaign. (And we all agree the reverse would never have occurred, correct?) It felt nice but still weird, not unlike a disturbance in the universe and yet, it took just seven months for all to return to normal with the two brands taking pot shots from each other on opposite sides on the fence./review-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir.htmlAs Andy Weir continues to build his bibliography in the wake of THE MARTIAN, he makes an admirable effort with a new novel about a man stranded in space, trying to solve a world-ending problem. Get your copy! A new solar phenomenon could spell disaster for the human race: a species of microscopic phage is eating our sun, causing its output to drop. Astronomers realize the same thing is happening all over the galaxy with the exception of a single star, Tau Ceti./publishers-vs-ai-companies.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/publishers-vs-ai-companies.htmlHere’s my latest posts on Piqd, the german distribution-platform for journalists and experts. I machine translated the posts with ChatGPT for my international readers and edited them for juiciness. Find the german originals below the english versions. Refer a friend ENGLISHPublishers are on the verge of forming a coalition to assert claims amounting to billions of dollars against AI companies. Among those involved are heavyweights like The New York Times, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and Axel Springer./writing-an-obituary-for-a-war-criminal.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/writing-an-obituary-for-a-war-criminal.htmlThe Handbasket is fueled by reader subscriptions. Consider becoming a paid subscriber here, and help support 100% independent, woman-produced journalism When Henry Kissinger died last week at the age of 100, there seemed to be a nearly-universal feeling of joy. Or at the very least, catharsis. And nowhere were those feelings summed up better than journalist Spencer Ackerman’s obituary of the late statesman for Rolling Stone, titled “Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies./debunking-the-women-are-more-emotional.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/debunking-the-women-are-more-emotional.htmlI was having brunch with a pregnant friend the other day when, while sipping an overpriced mimosa, she said something poignant: It took my breath away. She was, of course, correct: women experience much more hormonal changes than men do over the course of their lives, even if they never have children (which is obviously a wild hormonal ride). But I found the itch of defensiveness creeping up my spine, too./quien-es-el-profeta-de-deuteronomio.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quien-es-el-profeta-de-deuteronomio.htmlEn estas semanas he tenido la bendición de estudiar el libro de Deuteronomio con un grupo de jóvenes. Esta ha sido una experiencia edificante y retadora para mí. En una ocasión uno de los jóvenes trajo la siguiente pregunta, ¿quién es el profeta al que se refiere Moisés en Deuteronomio 18:15? Esta es una pregunta que he escuchado en otros foros también. Aquí quisiera tratar de responderla, considerando tanto el elemento (a) gramatical como (b) contextual./rip-king-henry-vii.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-king-henry-vii.htmlIt took King Henry VII twenty-seven hours to die. But he had been unwell for much longer. His eyesight had been failing for nearly a decade, and for the last two years of his life he was suffering from ailments variously described as ‘a quinsy’ (a type of abscess behind the tonsils) and consumption (tuberculosis). He stopped eating, perhaps around March 1509, and on April 20th took to his bed in Richmond Palace./episode-2063-rabbi-shai-held-on-why.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-2063-rabbi-shai-held-on-why.htmlGiven the situation in Gaza, some might interpret a new book entitled Judaism Is About Love to be either satirical or slightly chutzpahdik. But its author, Rabbi Shai Held, President & Dean of New York City’s Hadar Institute, is all too serious in his argument that the idea of love lies at the historic heart of traditional Jewish life. It’s an intriguing, if idealistic, interpretation. Christianity, he suggests, appropriated this idea, thereby creating what he considers the anti-semitic trope of Judaism being the religion of law rather than love./raiders-of-the-trump-refund.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/raiders-of-the-trump-refund.htmlThe treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this one alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder. —B. Traven, epigraph, Der Schatz Der Sierra Madre (1927) I don’t think I’m the first to observe that the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark can be read as a sort of mini-allegory about investigative reporting./red-wings-numbers-retired-pelle-lindbergh.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-wings-numbers-retired-pelle-lindbergh.htmlWelcome to the THW Hockey History Substack newsletter, with all the best from our extensive archives. Share June 10 is a memorable date for a handful of fan bases across the National Hockey League. There were champions crowned in the most dramatic of fashions as well as some franchise-altering draft picks. This was also the date when the hockey world lost one of its greatest players. Continue reading... As an Original Six franchise, the Detroit Red Wings have had a multitude of Hall-of-Famers don the famous Winged Wheel./remembering-dave-goldberg-the-business.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-dave-goldberg-the-business.htmlToday marks the eighth anniversary of Dave Goldberg's sudden passing. I dedicated one of the most important projects in my career, my book Product-Led SEO, to do my part in ensuring that the contribution he made to improve this world is never forgotten.  He was not my direct manager, in fact as the CEO, he wasn’t even my manager’s manager. I wasn’t related to him. I never was invited to his legendary poker games./remembering-gabe-hudson.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-gabe-hudson.htmlA few days ago I heard the sad and shocking news that had passed away at the young age of 52. If you pay attention to literary social media, you’ve probably seen the news too. He is being mourned widely and deeply. Gabe was a sharp writer and a big-hearted literary booster. Whenever I saw him, he was always overflowing with energy and ideas. He’s going to be sorely missed./five-games-to-replace-yahtzee.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-games-to-replace-yahtzee.htmlThere’s nothing quite like gathering as a family around the table around the holiday season, chucking dice and having a great time with a game. For many families over the last 70 years, the game of choice has remained Yahtzee. Who doesn’t have a Yahtzee box hiding somewhere in a closet? And, of course, if you don’t have a box labelled Yahtzee, you may well have a handful of six-sided dice./rest-in-peace-stezo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rest-in-peace-stezo.htmlI woke up to some very sad news this morning: celebrated dancer, producer, and rapper, Steve “Stezo” Williams passed away Wednesday night. He was 52. Stezo was a fascinating guy. Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, he started out in the music industry by working with EPMD as a dancer. After appearing in the “You Gots To Chill” video, he inked a deal with Sleeping Bag records through A & R Virgil Simms./return-of-the-changeup.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/return-of-the-changeup.htmlFor those who were glued to the WBC, I’d like to bring you up to speed on a developing non-story from Spring Training camps. I’ll summarize it with a few headlines: Changeups. Pitchers who didn’t touch them last year are apparently breaking them out now. Usually, I’d say not to take the reports too seriously - every spring, pitchers claim they’re throwing more changeups and then don’t follow through. Case in point, Justin Verlander may indeed be emulating Nolan Ryan, but he has only thrown 8 changeups in 154 tagged pitches in Spring Training this year./review-masters-of-the-air-part-five.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-masters-of-the-air-part-five.html“You sure I’m the right man for this?” “No.” Masters of the Air is, as I’ve noted in past reviews, a show that is essentially standing on the shoulders of giants. Band of Brothers and The Pacific loom large for many viewers as high watermarks of the modern representation of wartime storytelling. (I think it’s safe to say that Band of Brothers is always going to have a bit more of a passionate fanbase, but they’re both excellent series./review-rick-and-morty-wet-kuat-amortican.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-rick-and-morty-wet-kuat-amortican.htmlRick and Morty’s seventh season has been surprisingly solid, given the show’s history and the behind-the-scenes turmoil. If I hadn’t know anything about Justin Roiland’s departure, I don’t think I would’ve noticed any substantial change—sure, there was a second or two to adjust to the voices, but they’re so well cast (and are doing such a good job) that it isn’t really a concern at all. The writing has been clever, and if some of the stories have felt a little familiar, that familiarity has been easily wrapped into the comfort of watching a long-running series./review-season-11-episode-4.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-season-11-episode-4.htmlHello, Hearties! We are already a quarter of the way through Season 11, and I have so many thoughts I want to share! This episode gave us something different; a closer look into Lucas’ mysterious past. I have been begging to see this for years now (go read my old posts for proof). Thankfully, this episode opened the door for further exploration into Lucas’ time before Hope Valley. I think there is more to come later on as we dive deeper into the mystery of Lucas’ shooting./rewatchrewind-electric-dreams.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rewatchrewind-electric-dreams.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.) In the great battle for streaming supremacy, you really only need two services: Tubi, for all your trash and old TV needs, and Criterion for the artsy stuff. As a boutique DVD label Criterion has tended to focus on classic and foreign film, but the streaming service often offers some unexpected gems, such as the films of Gregg Araki, and last year, Q: the Winged Serpent and Society as part of its spectacular 80s horror movie collection./rico-wade-1972-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rico-wade-1972-2024.htmlRico Wade of the foundational Atlanta production team Organized Noize has died. He was 52. Organized Noize is the soul of the Dungeon Family collective (OutKast, Goodie Mob, Killer Mike and more). Wade was one of the central imagineers and builders of Southern hip hop and modern Southern pop. And that’s far from all. Wade and his Organized Noize cohort a… ncG1vNJzZmirmJ67pq7Rop6hrJime7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZquhk6R6uK3DnmRqcWdnenN8kW0%3D/s1e9-rod-and-ebony-in-the-fun-house.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/s1e9-rod-and-ebony-in-the-fun-house.htmlIf you were watching along with me, I would be tempted to tell you to not, I repeat not, watch season one, episode nine, “Rod and Ebony.” If last episoderepresented the evolution of trash television into something kinder or at least subtler, this one is trash at its most irredeemable: smelly, covered in flies. Or maybe it’s just...bad TV? Max and Nev parachute into a mysterious situation. The result is a convoluted episode that feels like it’s been redacted in a dozen places./scottmendelson.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scottmendelson.htmlThe Outside Scoop By Scott Mendelson A legacy sequel to The Ticket Booth at Forbes.com and (especially) Mendelson's Memos. Pure, unfiltered and less formal pontification about the movie business and the entertainment industry for those who desire such a thing. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbSvzq2rpp2embKtv86n/selective-pressure.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/selective-pressure.htmlLast week, I described a variant -B.1.526- that was first discovered in New York City. In my newsletter, I quoted a geneticist: “The overall pattern of mutations suggests that B.1.526 arose in part in response to selective pressure from antibodies”. Thanks to your comments and emails I realized that I didn’t translate “selective pressure”. This post is meant to clear that up that confusion… What is selective pressure? The virus’s primary goal is NOT to kill./antiprisms.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/antiprisms.htmlLet’s talk about prisms and antiprisms. Prisms are what you get when you take two congruent bases and do the sensible thing—connect them with rectangles, or maybe parallelograms, so that those two bases have the same orientation. But what if you don’t want to do the sensible thing? What if you want to connect a bunch of triangles to the edges of each base? And what if you then try to connect all those triangles together?/should-you-avoid-coffee-if-you-have.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-you-avoid-coffee-if-you-have.htmlLike many other people, I love the smell of fresh coffee. My days start with a steaming cup of the stuff, always black espresso or americano. Let me get right to the heart of the matter; despite the fact that I have high blood pressure, I drink 2-4 cups of coffee every day.  But many people still believe that I shouldn't and think caffeinated drinks like coffee increase blood pressure. Therefore, if your blood pressure is high, surely you should cut down on caffeine./some-unsolicited-advice-for-joe-kahn.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-unsolicited-advice-for-joe-kahn.htmlA lot of people are upset about an interview that top New York Times editor Joe Kahn did recently with Ben Smith of Semafor. Understandably so, since Kahn said that democracy-related coverage wasn’t the Times’s most important focus, even though we’re in an incredibly dangerous moment for American democracy. What’s more, Kahn suggested that the Times is making coverage decisions based on public opinion polls. (He told Smith: “It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have./speaking-now.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/speaking-now.htmlThis edition of SARATONIN references an October 12, 2023 story published by Rolling Stone. I link it here with a trigger warning for abuse and alcohol addiction. I have chosen to hand the burden I have carried back to the one who gave it to me. Thank you to kind folks for being kind. Your messages mean so much to me. I kept my mouth shut for many reasons, one of which was that I didn’t want to disappoint fans of the podcast./strands.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/strands.htmlWeb $40/year NYT Games 5 minutes Strands is a daily wordsearch-like puzzle game. Words are hidden within a 6x8 letter grid; letters can be connected horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. All the words are based on a theme, with one word (the “spangram”) summarising the theme, its letters touching two opposite sides of the grid. You drag or tap letters to construct a word; correct “theme words” get highlighted in blue and spangrams in yellow./sunday-with-a-source-and-my-mom.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sunday-with-a-source-and-my-mom.htmlToday’s story goes behind the scenes of my latest investigation, published last week with Billy Penn and WHYY public radio in Philadelphia. Eddie Ibanez, the grifter husband of Fox News anchor Jackie Ibanez, charmed billionaire investors while pretending to be an orphan, ex-CIA spy, and math genius. He even claimed to help the Philadelphia Eagles win the 2018 Super Bowl. He was only exposed after Purple PR invited me on a press trip to Miami last June, in support of Ibanez’s newest project, CryotoZoo, fronted by Logan Paul./syndicated-shenanigans-what-a-dummy.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/syndicated-shenanigans-what-a-dummy.htmlWelcome back to Syndicated Shenanigans! Obligatory intro: I have a fascination with syndicated series, particularly those that ran for multiple seasons but which I’d never even so much as read about until the internet educated me about their existence. Mind you, I’m also fascinated by the ones that only ran for a single season. Ultimately, I guess what I’m saying is that pop culture that successfully flies under the radar of someone like myself, who practically subsists on pop culture… That stuff just fascinates me to no end, period, and if you’re here, you’re either equally fascinated or else you’re just indulging me, but either way, read on as we take a look at…/taking-that-james-bennet-article.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taking-that-james-bennet-article.htmlWelcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. We are publishing a day early this week to avoid a scheduling problem. When James Bennet’s magnum opus on his misadventures at the New York Times appeared almost a month ago, I quickly recommended it as must-reading, and said there would be lots to discuss later. I think the time has come for that discussion./audio-autopsy-1972-white-witch-and.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/audio-autopsy-1972-white-witch-and.htmlThe entire White Witch debut album on YouTube: A radar blip…a tiny, little radar blip. Five guys and one album in 1972. Then, a rapid-fire personnel shuffle before Album #2 in 1974 (A Spiritual Greeting), which landed with an even deeper thud than their debut. Decades pass, and a couple haphazard attempts at reunions, and a band member’s untimely passing… This is the story of the mysterious appearance and disappearance of White Witch, a Florida band who recorded a debut album that’s been beloved for decades by the few ears who have managed to hear it; they certainly got no help from radio!/taylor-swifts-new-grief-vibes-playlists.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swifts-new-grief-vibes-playlists.htmlIn early April 2024, Taylor Swift released five Apple Music playlists that reorder her old work into five vibes, each based on one of the stereotypical “stages of grief”: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The playlists reorganize her previous releases by vibe rather than album. For example, the “acceptance” playlist, “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” includes both LOVER’s “I Forgot That You Existed” and “Begin Again” from RED (TAYLOR’S VERSION)./a-note-on-journalism-and-the-cybertruck.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-note-on-journalism-and-the-cybertruck.htmlA WHILE BACK, one of my previous bosses described his personal automotive journalism philosophy to me like this: “Every car is shit. Until proven otherwise.” Personally, it’s not my favorite. I’m more fond of something like: “Comfort the afflicted; afflict the comfortable.” You know—look out for the little guy. But they both hint at something that I consider crucial. And that’s skepticism. Who gets to call themselves a journalist is murky these days./thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb.htmlThe common comparison over the last weeks has been between 10/7 and 9/11. Here, we’ve been talking about the atom bomb and WWII. I think the most relevant comparison to 10/7 is also WWII, in Pearl Harbor. Both were surprise military attacks intended not as terrorism but acts of war. Hawaii, however, was not even American national territory in 1942 but rather a conquered colonial territory. In addition, the population of the U./that-pink-ring-in-the-toilet-bowl.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-pink-ring-in-the-toilet-bowl.htmlThere’s a general consensus, amongst bourgeois women that I know, that paying for a housecleaner is a relationship saver. Let me add a caveat there: amongst bourgeois women who also work full-time. Without a housecleaner, house cleaning usually goes something like this: both people are working full time, so no one’s doing it during the week. At some point, usually about once a month, someone (almost always the woman) gets fed up with it and decides they should clean./the-abysmal-new-left-behind-is-an.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-abysmal-new-left-behind-is-an.htmlIt’s crazy that evangelical Christians are so bad at entertainment considering that their entire religion is based on the best-selling book of all time, a lurid, pulpy, blatantly moralistic potboiler called the Bible.  Have you read the Bible? I haven’t but it’s apparently full of gnarly shit: sex and violence and incest and talking snakes and unspeakable perversion and God whipping the Devil’s ass and vice versa.  You’d think a crazy-ass book like that would inspire some righteous b-movies but Christians have proven consistently and hilariously incapable of making entertainment that is not deeply embarrassing on every level./the-quartermasterthursday-13-june.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-quartermasterthursday-13-june.html(Today’s report is a 6 minute read) BLUF: SMARCH helps Green Berets save lives by listing in priority order the steps necessary for treating life threatening wounds in combat. It was introduced as part of a new methodology for treating and evacuating casualties called Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), and addressed not only the type of wounds soldiers were experiencing, but the environment in which they occurred. Brady here. As many readers of The Quartermaster know, I spent my formative years within the confines of military schools./the-biggest-oscar-snubs-best-supporting.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-biggest-oscar-snubs-best-supporting.htmlThe Academy Awards are on Sunday. While the awards are usually pretty predictable, there are often surprises, and even more often the performance we think should win does not. In that spirit and because I am traveling this week, I thought I’d highlight some examples of when the Academy did not give the award to the actor, director, and film I feel should have won it. Sometimes my opinions here were shared by others who follow entertainment, sometimes not./the-byu-virginity-club-is-so-real.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-byu-virginity-club-is-so-real.htmlQueering the Burbs is a weekly-ish distillation of pop culture, politics and queerness. If you like what you see, please consider subscribing (it’s free!!), liking or sharing this essay. Share queering the burbs by joe erbentraut Of course, I love satire. It’s at the heart of the work of some of my favorite filmmakers and authors (John Waters, David Lynch and Ottessa Moshfegh to name just a few). And I also understand that it’s extremely difficult to get right — many try, and many fail./the-captive-bolt-gun-in-no-country.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-captive-bolt-gun-in-no-country.htmlI’m fairly sure I first saw No Country for Old Men at my beloved hometown cinema, the Lake Placid Palace Theater. I recall thinking the 2007 crime thriller was very good, but a little bleak for my taste. I hadn’t revisited Joel and Ethan Cohen’s acclaimed film until recently, when I read an essay by the animal liberationist Dylan Powell, which made me consider it afresh. Sometimes, when I feel burned out with activism, I look around for another book project./the-case-against-watchman-for-stroke.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-case-against-watchman-for-stroke.htmlFinally, some reason! I was one of your CRM reps at Guidant when we met. I was with Guidant then Boston Scientific when Watchman was being developed. I was not impressed. Certainly we could do better. Exchanging one systemic therapy for a focal therapy without clear systemic benefit is immoral. But Watchman will make a lot of money for BSC and has already made some careers. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmiin527rq3NnamopJFjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXZiutLGMmp6aoZ6owW7DwK2aoaWRo3qnu9Fmqq2qn6CycK%2FOpqSepqSo/uncurated-the-case-for-a-new-term.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uncurated-the-case-for-a-new-term.htmlWelcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. It might seem too ironic for fiction, but the literary community has spent decades unnecessarily shackled by language itself. The word “published” bears no weight in the digital age, and yet, purely out of habit and momentum, we still pretend that it does. Literary magazines continue to require submissions be “previously unpublished,” so we hide our work offline in the dungeons of our file folders like some archaic virginity rite./the-clippers-new-logo-and-uniforms.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-clippers-new-logo-and-uniforms.htmlThe Los Angeles Clippers and moi ... Let's just say it's complicated. The Buffalo Braves, as many of you probably know by now, were my favorite team as a young Western New Yorker in the 1970s. The team abruptly moved to San Diego to become the Clippers after an unprecedented owner-for-owner trade involving Buffalo's John Y. Brown and Boston's Irv Levin swapping franchises after the 1977-78 season. I was too young to really understand it all at the time, but Levin became the Clippers' owner and moved the team from Buffalo to San Diego ./like-the-cultural-specificity-of.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/like-the-cultural-specificity-of.htmlNot to sound like a guy hosting a boring podcast, but this week I found out that lion, rose, and clock tattoos are a thing. Did you know that? I had no idea. I learned about them because they came up in a conversation at work where someone said, “As long as they don’t get a lion, rose, and clock tat.” When I had to ask what that meant, I got looked at like an ignoramus because it turns out that these tattoos are very much a thing./the-dawn-of-champagne-thomas-de-marne.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dawn-of-champagne-thomas-de-marne.htmlAs he transitions his mother’s respected Aube output, Champagne Val’ Frison, into his own eponymous label, thirty-year-old Thomas de Marne might strike onlookers as an unknown quantity in this highly-surveilled region. The question hanging over the head of every “fils / fille de” taking over an estate is: will he or she work in a similar spirit as the p… ncG1vNJzZmimn6mxs7XNpKCnn6CktrS7zWeqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTBqbGMnZiwpl2ks26vx5qkqZmXo7JuwMeopJqrXZmybrnAq6We/photos-the-dawn-of-las-fairfax-avenue.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/photos-the-dawn-of-las-fairfax-avenue.htmlFor me, the seeds of streetwear culture on Los Angeles' now-storied Fairfax Avenue were planted during my time at Fairfax High in the 1980s. While I only attended the legendary school on the corner of Melrose Avenue and Fairfax for 12th grade, I had grown up in the streets surrounding it since my pre-teen years. My friends and I would bomb the streets and alleys on our Powell-Peralta and Alva skateboards, leaving our mark through graffiti and shoplifting, infuriating residents and business owners./scandals-burnt-letters-and-bad-crab.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scandals-burnt-letters-and-bad-crab.htmlOn the evening of Thursday, August 2, 1923, Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, died suddenly in room 8064 in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. He was the second President to die in office in the 20th century, the first to die west of the Mississippi and the only one to die in a hotel. The cause of his death has been disputed. Some medical experts believe it was a sudden heart attack./inspired-by-fighter-jets-the-design.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inspired-by-fighter-jets-the-design.htmlThe Liberty Walk Lamborghini Aventador GT Evo is a car that will leave anyone who sees it in awe. It's a combination of stunning design and impressive performance that is sure to turn heads wherever it goes. As a personalized article, let's dive into what makes this car so special and why it might just be the perfect car for you. Firstly, let's talk about the design of the Liberty Walk Lamborghini Aventador GT Evo./the-difference-between-2020-and-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-difference-between-2020-and-2024.htmlRonald Reagan delivered two of the most devastating remarks ever during two different presidential debates.   The first was in 1980, when he was running to unseat Jimmy Carter.  That's when candidate Reagan looked straight into the camera and asked voters, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"   The second was in 1984, when then-President Reagan said this about his opponent, former Vice President Walter Mondale: "I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience./the-eras-of-wwfwwe.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-eras-of-wwfwwe.htmlI remember seeing this post a few years back and thought it was a great summation of the history of WWWF/WWF/WWE. With the Ruthless Aggression documentary premiering on the WWE Network this week, I thought I would take a swing at both fleshing out and updating the previous post. Here’s every WWF/WWE era post-Bruno Sammartino. The Golden Era Began: January 23rd, 1984 (Hulk Hogan defeats the Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden for the WWF Championship)/pissoirs-in-america-the-essential.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pissoirs-in-america-the-essential.htmlAmerican cities have a problem, the dire need for adequate public restroom facilities. This necessity has come into sharp focus recently, as Baltimore's cherished historic buildings face an unlikely adversary - the erosive effects of urine. This situation not only highlights the pressing need for public restrooms but also opens a broader discussion on urban planning and public health. Share The scarcity of public restrooms in the United States is not just a matter of inconvenience; it is a significant public health concern and a challenge to the dignity of many, especially but not only the homeless and the less privileged./the-everyday-magic-of-samurai-egg.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-everyday-magic-of-samurai-egg.htmlIn the discourse around anime, outsize attention goes to a few big names — people like Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata. It’s hard to complain, given their talent. Yet they do cast a shadow over other skilled directors who deserve to stand out, but often don’t. Yoshiyuki Momose (now 68) has spent his life beneath this shadow. Not many have had careers in anime as grand and underappreciated. He was a top animator by the ‘70s, and in the ‘80s began a decades-long relationship with Studio Ghibli./the-exquisite-irony-of-claudine-gays.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-exquisite-irony-of-claudine-gays.htmlDefenders of recently ousted Harvard University President Claudine Gay charge that outcries over the plagiarism in her dissertation and scholarly publications are merely a cover. Gay’s critics, the argument goes, actually objected to her support for DEI, her bumbling response to questions about antisemitism at Harvard, and her very race. Had she been white, more artful in addressing antisemitism, and more moderate in her views about DEI, she would still have her job today./the-fantasy-of-serena-van-der-woodsen.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fantasy-of-serena-van-der-woodsen.html[This profile contains discussion of suicide and sexual assault.] From the moment she walks through Grand Central Terminal, Serena van der Woodsen becomes a mythic figure: beautiful, charismatic, effortless in her style. She “picks up whatever [clothes] she finds on the floor”—likely designer—and wears “them with her old jeans and her great boots and her slouchy cap” (“Gossip Girl Couture”). Many of her most memorable pieces are in gold or yellow, the color of her voluminous blond hair, the overall effect like “staring into the sun” (“5 Years of Iconic Style”)./the-film-essays-of-like-stories-of.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-film-essays-of-like-stories-of.htmlThis past May, I wrote about the the 10-month period I spent reviewing films under the handle @Cinema_Che_ on Instagram. From February 13, 2020 (American Hustle), to just after last Christmas (Love Actually), I wrote 65 reviews, all of films from my DVD collection. Cinema Che didn’t accrue much of a following. But the discipline that came with knowing I … ncG1vNJzZmiaop6ur6%2FAp5yvnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXZu2rbmMnqqsmamoerCyjKWgpJ1dqMGwvsieqmanlg%3D%3D/no-substance-171-the-films-of-andrei.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-substance-171-the-films-of-andrei.htmlOn the weekend, I went and saw the last of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films I hadn’t seen, Ivan’s Childhood. The Golden Age, a small cinema in Surrey Hills, was playing it. Ivan’s Childhood was Tarkovksy’s first film. It was released in 1962. Ivan, played by Nikolia Burlyayev, is a twelve year old orphan working as a scout for the Red Army in World War 2. He wants to find the Nazis who are responsible for the death of his parents and enact vengeance, though he doesn’t know what that means, not entirely./the-general-idea.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-general-idea.htmlI’m a literature professor at Pomona College. I have been at this job since 2005. For three miserable semesters in 2018-2019, I chaired the English department. I’m writing a book about my experiences working at Pomona. Drafts from the manuscript will appear in this newsletter approximately once a week. I want to give an accurate depiction of the working environment at my school, and to find the humor in it. People don’t seem to know what it’s like to work in a place like this./the-global-liquidity-cycle.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-global-liquidity-cycle.htmlThis report looks at the origins, definitions and outlook for Global Liquidity. It is part primer and part prediction. The earliest things you learn often stay with you. Our key insight came from the bond markets and specifically how the US Treasury yield curve reacts to the cycle of funding liquidity. We learned this decades ago at Salomon Brothers and it stuck: more liquidity induces a steeper yield curve, less liquidity means a flattening curve./the-immortal-sergio-oliva.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-immortal-sergio-oliva.htmlAs an ongoing series, I thought it would be fun and educational to analyze the training of great bodybuilders of the past. This is purely for my own Bro enjoyment, and perhaps you will enjoy it as well. Arguably the most genetically gifted bodybuilder of all time, he was Mr. Olympia from 1967-1969, and displayed a physique that has not been equaled in sheer absurdity of proportions to this day. Oliva only lost the Mr./the-iron-dream-viewed-from-the-right.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-iron-dream-viewed-from-the-right.htmlI need to confess to something. I’m a sucker for a high concept. So The Iron Dream is perfect for me, at least in theory. The concept is both brilliant in its originality and elegant in its simplicity. The premise of The Iron Dream is an alternate history where Adolf Hitler gave up on politics before ever becoming a notable figure and moved to America, where he became… a science fiction author./scarpetta-the-italian-word-for-dipping.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scarpetta-the-italian-word-for-dipping.htmlNothing in life that gives me innocent pleasure can come within the limits of my regret zone. Eating good food is one of those. My mom cooks the best meals in the world. She’s the queen in cooking. I'm not exaggerating. I've yet to meet a friend who hasn't been blown away by my mother's cooking and then doesn't constantly rave about it. We call "mother's dishes” in Turkish for meals that are cooked at home, which you won’t possibly find in restaurants./the-long-complicated-story-about.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-long-complicated-story-about.htmlIf you are new or have landed on Tarantula: Authors and Art for the very first time, you are in for a treat. Our contributor, Sanja Vladovic, a chocolate taster and activist will take you on a journey through the story of chocolate and “her” most famous women. If a friend forwarded you this article welcome; if you like it, share it or why not subscribe?I am not sure of how is it referred to in other languages, but in Croatian, “chocolate” is a feminine noun, so when I talk about chocolate, I’m talking about her and when I read about chocolate history, I’m reading herstory./the-most-famous-mug-shot-in-history.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-famous-mug-shot-in-history.htmlRarely flattering, but utterly fascinating, mug shots are the most stripped-down form of portraiture. A mug shot can enrage. A mug shot can inspire. A mug shot can be a fundraising tool. Alas, the internet finally got what it had been waiting for last week — a mug shot of former President Donald J. Trump. … ncG1vNJzZmiokam%2Fqq%2FKsKCtrKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXaK8tMCMn5imp6Woeq7BxmaqoaekYraveceiqq2noq4%3D/nicole-kidman-amc-ad-triology-pinstripe-suit.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nicole-kidman-amc-ad-triology-pinstripe-suit.html“The truth is, everybody doesn’t have to like what you do for you to be successful with it,” Keke Palmer recently tweeted. “It really doesn’t matter who hates it lol, it matters who likes it. There is an audience for anything so please, keep doing your thing.”  I’d like to believe she was referring to the cultural phenomenon that was and continues to be Nicole Kidman’s AMC ad, a rare moment of branding-meets-zeitgeist with enough cultural resonance that when AMC began showing a shortened version before movies, a version that cut out the famous “heartbreak feels good in a place like this” line, crowds booed and a Change./the-othering-of-vanessa-abrams-709.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-othering-of-vanessa-abrams-709.htmlSeason Two, Continued For the remainder of season two, Vanessa’s story lines, and wardrobe, revolve around her relationship with Nate and his rekindling feelings for Blair. In episode fifteen, her new peacoat makes its first appearance, worn with a striped skirt and scarf, leopard tights, and embroidered cross-body bag. She’s picking out candy for Nate at Dylan’s Candy Bar, so naturally, her outerwear reflects their new relationship, this time in solid black—unusual for a character that wears lots of bright colors and patterns./the-patriarchal-bargain-part-1.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-patriarchal-bargain-part-1.htmlI teach an entire class on the suffrage movement. Yes, I am a medieval—not modern—historian (PhD UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004) with a second field in religious studies (I took most of my course work for this emphasis at Duke Divinity). But the overarching theme of my research (which you can see most ofhere on my google scholar profile) and graduate coursework has always been women’s history—from courses in modern feminism and medieval women with Judith Bennett to readings in British women’s history and gender history with Barbara Harris and Cynthia Herrup to a course on female monasticism and mysticism with Susan Keefe and a course on the “Christianization” of Europe (late ancient/early medieval with an emphasis on women & monasticism) with Catherine Peyroux./the-spirits-76-the-pistachio-army.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-76-the-pistachio-army.html~ THE PISTACHIO ARMY & NAVY ~ 50ml gin 15ml lemon juice 15ml pistachio orgeat (see below) Freeze a cocktail coupe. Add the gin, lemon and orgeat to the shaker, fill halfway with ice, and shake really, really hard, until condensation beads the metal. Fine-strain - i.e. through a tea-strainer or sieve - into your frigid glassware. A lemon twist garnish is traditional, but I think a dusting of something green looks fetching./the-poetry-of-three-pines.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-poetry-of-three-pines.htmlHi friends, We’re so happy to share this lovely piece from Neal Thompson, author of six books, about Louise Penny’s use of poetry. Neal also writes Blood and Whiskey, a great newsletter about crime fiction and cocktails. We’re excited to share more fan art from Maria and Blue Cat with Glasses. — Elizabeth and Aya P.S. Aya is attending the “Three Pines” tomorrow! More details to come. There’s a micro scene early in Kingdom of the Blind, the 14th Inspector Gamache novel./the-problem-with-diary-entry-novels.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-problem-with-diary-entry-novels.html*For writing news and resources, scroll down* I’ve done it, my critique partner has done it, and judging by the fact that this old post is BY FAR the most popular article on my blog, many other people have done it, too: written a novel composed entirely of journal entries. And I get it. It feels like such a natural way to tell a story: a character sitting down to write an intimate, confessional account of an important time in their life (perhaps as it’s unfolding)./the-prophecies-of-titania-mcgrath.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-prophecies-of-titania-mcgrath.htmlToday is the fifth anniversary of the publication of Titania McGrath’s acclaimed book Woke: A Guide to Social Justice. I created this intersectional activist and slam poet in order to satirise this new intolerant and authoritarian identity-obsessed religion and its stranglehold on society. Having seen so many posh and entitled activists berating working… ncG1vNJzZmiZnpm%2FpsPDqLClnV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55loKe8sbTEnKCeq12ks27AyK2Yp6GRYrqks9Gaq6E%3D/95-tie-black-girl-the-reveal-discusses.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/95-tie-black-girl-the-reveal-discusses.htmlOn December 1st, 2022, Sight & Sound magazine published “The Greatest Films of All Time,” a poll that’s been updated every 10 years since Bicycle Thieves topped the list in 1952. It is the closest thing movies have to a canon, with each edition reflecting the evolving taste of critics and changes in the culture at large. It’s also a nice checklist of essential cinema. Over the course of many weeks, months, and (likely) years, we’re running through the ranked list in reverse order and digging into the films as deep as we can./the-sahm-rule-i-created-a-monster.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sahm-rule-i-created-a-monster.htmlThe Sahm rule is simple: When the three-month moving average of the national unemployment rate is 0.5 percentage point or more above its low over the prior twelve months, we are in the early months of recession. Share The Sahm rule was born for a specific purpose: a tool for better policy. I created the Sahm rule to send out stimulus checks automatically. The idea was to act fast to make the recession less severe and help families./the-secret-story-of-the-wright-brothers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secret-story-of-the-wright-brothers.htmlOn December 17th 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful motor-powered flight in history. They beat out people all over the country who were experts in engineering, aeronautics and even funded with grants from the government. So how did they do it? It all starts with their knowledge of bicycles. The standard bicycle was invented in the late 1800s and kicked off a bike craze across the country. It was an enormous upgrade from the “penny-farthing” bike, which routinely launched riders head-first over the handlebars./the-segway-inventor-and-his-comic.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-segway-inventor-and-his-comic.htmlFriends, I have a conundrum this week. As a long-running feature, I’ve used this newsletter to intermittently share stories from my Inventor Portraits project, a series of 47 profiles of inventors from all walks of life who I interviewed and photographed over the years. I’ve been going chronologically, beginning with Inventor #23 since that’s where I left off when I was doing this on Instagram. But now that I’ve reached Inventor #39, Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, I have a dilemma, because I actually wrote this story already back in the third issue of this newsletter, before I decided to continue the whole series here./the-shrinking-world-of-robert-walser.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-shrinking-world-of-robert-walser.htmlAs a young man, the Swiss writer Robert Walser wanted to be an actor. In 1895, having fled a bank apprenticeship, he followed his brother, Karl, to Stuttgart, moving into an attic room across from the Royal Court Theater. A humiliating appraisal at the hands of another actor laid bare his inadequacies. The encounter is depicted in several later stories. (“You possess not the faintest trace of theatrical talent,” one doyenne concludes./the-sin-eater-a-harder-path.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sin-eater-a-harder-path.htmlHistorically, the sin eater is somewhat elusive. The earliest known reference to sin eating is from the late 17th century by John Aubrey (1626-1697), an antiquarian, natural philosopher and writer. He characterised the sin eater as a functionary at funerals who, in exchange for food and drink, and some money, would take the sins of the deceased upon himself through eating bread that had been placed on the corpse and drinking a cup of beer (Aubrey, 1686-87)./the-source-american-floor-mats.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-source-american-floor-mats.htmlI was trying to figure out why it looked familiar when I realized I have been on this site myself quite recently! We were looking for rolled rubber flooring for the outdoor shed we've been converting into a gym space. We ending up going with a cheaper, local option, but go look at the 95% fill rolled rubber flooring--the brown one looks like cork! The red is reminiscent of terrazzo! Truly some hidden gems that you highlighted./the-sparkle-creed.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sparkle-creed.htmlJust when you thought Pride Week - or month or whatever it is these days - couldn’t get any stranger, a Lutheran Church in America took it up a notch. Because, you know that no matter how weird things get, they can always get weirder. The church, which boasts about fostering “the full welcome, inclusion, and equity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual/aromantic (LGBTQIA+) Lutherans,” introduced a new creed into its service./the-story-behind-the-stevie-statue.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-behind-the-stevie-statue.htmlThe Austin music community woke up on Aug. 27, 1990 with a piece of its soul gone. At close to 1 a.m., blues guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan perished in a helicopter crash in East Troy, Wis., after a concert. It was a foggy night, and the pilot took off from behind the stage at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre and flew into the side of a ski slope half a mile away./companionship-vs-relationship-dating.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/companionship-vs-relationship-dating.htmlDating in general is an experience, but dating in your 50’s is frightening - and I’m not talking about getting out of your bubble and meeting new people. I’m talking about the quality of people that are available (it’s a cesspool) and individuals not knowing the difference between companionship vs a relationship and which one they can emotionally handle. After the death of my father in 2015, I stop dating. Why?/the-summer-of-our-discontent.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-summer-of-our-discontent.htmlIn Austin, we’ve been gifted with a long, rainy spring, something I was certain we wouldn’t get when it hit the 90s back in February. I’m about to spend my fourth summer here. But five summers ago I was in Brooklyn living out the collective strangest summer of our lives. The gauzy feelings of summer 2020 came back into focus when I saw Stress Positions, a new movie starring John Early, one of my favorite comedians, and Theda Hammel, who also wrote and directed the film./the-titanic-rescue.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-titanic-rescue.htmlUpdate: The Titanic Rescue is now a podcast. Listen here. The RMS Carpathia was three days out from New York when it received a message from the White Star liner. The 560-foot Tyne-built Carpathia was bound for Liverpool and the Adriatic. A Cunard transatlantic steamship, it was about one-third the size of the brand-new, unsinkable Titanic. The message, received by 21-year-old Marconi wireless operator Harold Cottam, was a cheery greeting from three sisters on the Titanic to their uncle and aunt on the Carpathia./the-truth-about-die-another-day.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-about-die-another-day.htmlThe truth about everything* is different every week! This week, it’s the turn of THE MADONNA DIARIES, a series of personal essays about Madonna’s back catalogue. Madonna has been catching pelters for most of her career – she’s the most inviting of all the tallest poppies. Whether exposing your sexual hangups in coffee table books or fellating water bottles, she’s always had an innate knack for getting polite society to wrinkle its nose in horror./the-truth-about-person-woman-man.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-about-person-woman-man.htmlMaybe we all need a cognitive test, because it certainly seems like there’s a mass déjà vu. Are we reliving 2020 — or even worse, are we sure the year actually ended? As we get closer to another Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump election, the news cycles that animated their last campaigns are being reanimated today. A recent example: Trump proclaiming that he “aced” a cognitive test when he was in the White House, as he again seeks to fend off criticism of his age and acuity./the-unauthorized-serial-novelization.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-unauthorized-serial-novelization.htmlHi paying AWKSD subscribers! Welcome to the first entry of the Unauthorized Serial Novelization of the 1994 Movie, The Mask. Over the next few months, I’m going to give the Jim Carrey hit the literary treatment it always deserved. Nobody stop me! I hope you enjoy. Please tell your friends and thank you for supporting me.  There should be a warning at the start of this movie.  Like, big serious letters that say: Prepare to have your world rocked./podcast.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podcast.html“Steve Schmidt is the most articulate, straight to the point, no nonsense commentator I've ever seen. His candor and directness were unmatched when he frequently appeared on MSNBC. If you're looking for a man who "gets it" and is willing to share it, read here!!!” ncG1vNJzZmirpJrDpr%2FCoaSinKRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue8%2Bom5yZo6k%3D/the-washington-post-glorifies-another.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-washington-post-glorifies-another.htmlThis summer, a Colorado resident, attention-glutton, and sponsored jogger named Erin Ton claimed to have summited, in record time, all 58 of the state’s “fourteener” peaks (summits 14,000’ or higher above the ocean of one’s choosing, typically Danny or Billy). Her Strava data, however, revealed that Ton had skipped the southernmost of these peaks, which is on private land and requires a permit to access. Before commencing her endeavor, Ton had already established an inimical history with the management of that omitted summit, Culebra Peak./the-wikileaks-video-that-made-julian.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wikileaks-video-that-made-julian.htmlSeventeen years ago this week, Julian Assange created WikiLeaks. I didn’t know what to make of WikiLeaks when it was first created in 2006. The United States was still fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the time, and Assange—an odd looking fellow who seemed like a bit of a snob—seemed to be doing things that aided the enemy. But I was having emerging doubts about the War on Terror. Having served briefly in the Bush Administration, I had seen there was a disconnect in what the White House said about these conflicts versus what was actually happening./thespis-and-the-birth-of-theatre.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thespis-and-the-birth-of-theatre.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Kids,  This week’s lesson is dear to my heart... because I LOVE theater! I have been acting, directing, putting on puppet shows and musical re-enactments for as long as I can remember. I proudly called myself a Thespian... I even founded a theater company 20 years ago, which is still going strong.  And yet, for the longest time, I didn’t even know why we used the term Thespian./three-years-ago-we-stopped-harper.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-years-ago-we-stopped-harper.htmlI dropped everything to write this post because it’s part of a developing story that I think you should know about. And I’m glad to do it. But it takes resources to have the time and capacity for this work. Will you support me by becoming a paid subscriber today?During Holy Week, Donald Trump posted a video promoting sales for the “God Bless the USA” Bible. The name is borrowed from a 1984 song of the same name by country singer, Lee Greenwood./tianfu-cup-2023-still-a-thing.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tianfu-cup-2023-still-a-thing.htmlTianfu Cup (TFC) 2023, China’s prestigious answer to the annual hacking competition Pwn2Own, took place from October 31 to November 1 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province this year. Compared to last, this year’s competition generated little overseas media coverage or chatter among overseas security researchers. Nevertheless, Natto Team observed some noteworthy changes and features in this year’s Tianfu Cup. Tianfu Cup, officially described as a  hacking competition and international cybersecurity summit, was born in 2018 at a time of upheaval in China’s approach to information security research./tickle-v-giggle.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tickle-v-giggle.htmlWhen I got a boost in paid subscribers after pronoun gate I vowed to post more regularly and I am trying. I’ve been in Sydney, as you will know if you follow me on social media, to attend the Tickle V Giggle hearing at the federal court. I must say I am a bit buoyed by listening to the judgement in the Luhrmann case today. The corruption of the justice system by the “progressives” has been vile in this case and I was glad to see a type of justice placed on the perpetrator that most women could only dream of having their attacker subjected to./when-all-the-gods-fall-apart.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-all-the-gods-fall-apart.htmlDirected by Michael Haneke France/Austria/Germany, 2003 This week’s film is a disaster movie but like no disaster movie you have seen before. Released in 2003 between Michael Haneke’s critically acclaimed films The Piano Teacher and Hidden (Caché), Time of the Wolf does not seem to have had the same cultural impact which is surprising given its proximity to 9/11. But then again, that may be the explanation for the film’s muted presence./tiny-fey-quit-trying-to-make-mean.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiny-fey-quit-trying-to-make-mean.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: The plastics are back once again with a new version of Mean Girls, featuring an emergent pop star. Jake Johnson directs an indie thriller for Hulu. Plus, movies as digital tourism and a true masterpiece come to Netflix. In this week’s “Trailer Watch,” Adam Sandler gets a serious acting showcase on Netflix next month./tms-muse-of-the-week-catherine-james.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tms-muse-of-the-week-catherine-james.html(Henry Diltz) Memoirs can be some of the most entertaining, page-turners available in literature. Depending on the topic and person, they’re a decent look back to a time and place in history through a real person who was there. Many celebrities have autobiographies and non-fiction books about their experiences with fame and fortune. But while amusing, they can also be reminders said celebrities shot to stardom for something other than writing./too-many-12mos.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/too-many-12mos.htmlI’m going to let you in on a secret: I find 12mos confusing. Duodecimos, to give the format its formal Latin name, have to be cut and folded in order to work, and to be even more honest, I can barely get my head around impositions that are just folding. This, for what it’s worth, is why I always always always recommend folding your own formats to understand their impositions. Some of us can hold shapes in space in our heads, and some of us need to hold those things in our hands to see them./too-sensitive.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/too-sensitive.htmlToday, Twitter, for a while, marked one of my tweets as “sensitive” and some people couldn’t see it. I wanted to make sure you all saw it, so I’m sharing it here, on Civil Discourse. It’s actually not my tweet I want you to see, but rather the thread from Mark Jacob. Mark, who I don’t know, is an ex-editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times and the co-author of eight books on history and photography./advent-health-400-nascar-fantasy-live.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/advent-health-400-nascar-fantasy-live.htmlDover was an intresting treat of aero-blocking, skill, and pure speed. The next track we head to is a one and a half mile intermediate track in Kansas City with seventeen to twenty degrees of banking in the corners and five to ten degrees on the straights named Kansas Motor Speedway. Kansas should provided more passing as there are multiple grooves and a wider track than Dover. Kansas on Sunday should be pretty sunny and provide a hotter, slicker track than in practice/qualifying./tromos-omorfia.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tromos-omorfia.html“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies Opalescent slick./twitter-lays-off-thousands-of-censors.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twitter-lays-off-thousands-of-censors.htmlI’ve been fired a few times in my life. At one job, I got the boot less than 24 hours after receiving a merit-based raise. Pretty sure that one kicked off my gradual hair loss. And a few years later, I got pushed out of a job I really loved because nobody wanted to click on my posts (I refused to support a politician they liked, can’t think of his name), so my web traffic plummeted./uconns-ridiculous-playbook.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uconns-ridiculous-playbook.htmlI have been creating and breaking down playbooks since 2012. Over that time I have created over 1,000 playbooks and studied the best offenses I could find. This year’s 2024 National Champs have the most intricate, efficient, and creative sets I have ever seen when studying film. Mike D’Antoni was known for creative offense, but his playbook is basic compared to Uconn’s. Other contenders for the best college playbook would be Mark Pope’s BYU playbook from 19-20 (90 Plays), Bill Self’s offensive revolution at Kansas (93 Plays), Baylor’s 20-21 Playbook (100 Plays)./underrated-gems-3-the-last-samurai.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/underrated-gems-3-the-last-samurai.html“Life is in every breath.” When someone says, “historical epic,” what comes to mind? For many readers here, it will most likely be Gladiator. For others, perhaps Ben-Hur. Numerous examples spring to mind. Why? Because the historical epic, or “swords and sandals,” genre is one of the longest-running genres in Hollywood history…while simultaneously being one of the hardest to keep consistently around (much to this writer’s chagrin). The historical epic was once a mainstay of Hollywood./unveiling-the-rise-of-hugo-gonzalez.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unveiling-the-rise-of-hugo-gonzalez.htmlA little over two weeks ago, we attended Panathinaikos' coronation at the Final 4 in Berlin. That same weekend, another super interesting tournament took place for the big European basketball fans: the Adidas Next Generation Tournament (ANGT). Real Madrid's U18 team took the title by beating the French team Pôle France, and Hugo González snagged the MVP award of the tournament. Today, we'll focus on the tournament's best player, a huge promise for both Real Madrid and Spanish basketball./using-the-5-rs-to-avoid-perfectionist.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/using-the-5-rs-to-avoid-perfectionist.htmlPre-Order Now Thanks for reading Raising Good Humans on Substack! My first book, The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans is now available for preorder here. All pre-orders will allow for access to exclusive LIVE events and will be eligible for exclusive bonus content this Fall. I am SO GRATEFUL for you and SO excited to get this book out into the world! Did the subtitle get your attention?/jungheinrich-great-value-hiding-in.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jungheinrich-great-value-hiding-in.htmlCompany: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft HQ: Hamburg, Germany Ticker: (Frankfurt: JUN3) Market Cap: €2.89 Billion Euro (share price €28.35) Public Float: 47% Preferred shares URL: https://www.jungheinrich.com/en Strategy: Undervalued, buying opportunity Jungheinrich is a business that is 53% family owned but with public shareholders accounting for the other 47%. It was founded by Dr. Friedrich Jungheinrich in Hamburg in 1953 and operates in Intralogistics. In terms of the movement of physical goods, the pressure to perform has never been greater./vanilla-ice-nostalgia-hidden-guns.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vanilla-ice-nostalgia-hidden-guns.htmlWelcome to another Deep Dive edition of Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Deep Dives are longer posts where you will learn how to be vigilant to ideologies that surround us like water, and see how my mind actually works when it comes to exploring matters of identity. If you haven’t already, consider becoming a paid subscriber to access all the Deep Dive reads, designed to make you think, learn and become empowered to tackle the isms and phobias that threaten to consume us./walking-phoenix.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walking-phoenix.htmlThe contrarian in me wanted to like Phoenix, and for the first twenty minutes I did like Phoenix: The airplane view of a Dr. Seuss-ian landscape of jagged red rock mountains plopped randomly amongst an endless street grid, the clean spacious airport with the cheery cashier who swapped a twenty for singles to use on public transit, the free Sky Train that glided me to the light rail station, the cool afternoon air on the platform wrung empty of any oppressive east coast humidity./eve-6-max-collins-john-hinckley-twitter.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eve-6-max-collins-john-hinckley-twitter.htmlThis episode of The Culture Journalist is free for all our listeners. For the full version of every episode — plus essays, monthly culture recommendations, and more — sign up for a paid subscription.  If you were alive in the late ’90s, chances are there was an entire chapter of your life that was soundtracked by Eve 6’s “Inside Out” — you know, that insanely catchy, angst-filled “heart in a blender” song that, starting in 1998, was ubiquitous on the radio and during Saturday trips to the mall./weeknight-white-ragu.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weeknight-white-ragu.htmlSometimes I get jealous of what other people eat. As a keeper of kosher dietary laws—pork and shellfish are the top two no-nos—I often wonder what it would be like to have the world’s culinary bounty at my fingertips, and, in that imaginary world, what I would devour first. A double bacon cheeseburger? Maybe. Lobster bisque? Probably. Tortellini in brodo? Definitely. Make no mistake: Massimo Bottura himself could not convince me to eat a bowl of pork-stuffed tortellini in brodo, even if he invited me into his own home, shoved it in my face, and said please./welcome-to-broad-with-polly-vernon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-broad-with-polly-vernon.htmlMy loves! Hello, and welcome, and DEAR GOD thank you for being here  but also: f**k me, I’m scared! New Things. Terrifying. Unknowable, unknown, endlessly easily screwed up. This makes me feel exposed. Creatively - naked. I stand before you with barely my knickers on. Here’s a picture of my dog Rita, taken by my friend Jeroen, to alleviate tension. Right. I think I’m supposed to put this in, now:/welcome-to-story-club.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-story-club.htmlHello. I’m George Saunders, a writer, and a professor in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. In my most recent book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, I explored seven short stories by four of the great Russian masters (Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol, and Tolstoy). A lot was going on in the world as I wrote it, but working on it always made me feel happy and stable. Focusing all of my energy on the stories (reading them closely enough to write about them, revising and revising my essays, obsessing over the meaning of a paragraph or the nuances of various translations) felt immersive and stimulating – the very opposite of burying my head in the sand./west-elm-caleb-and-the-feminist-panopticon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/west-elm-caleb-and-the-feminist-panopticon.htmleven with all things i hate about the west elm caleb story considered (and trust me, there are many), i am perhaps most bitter about the fact that i’m writing about it. I really did try to resist it, like i resisted writing about the similar vigilante tiktokification of couch guy or sabrina prater, mostly because this topic makes me violently depressed — but at a certain point today (shortly after i saw the west elm caleb -themed corporate advertisements) i could sense my boyfriend getting tired of me talking about it, so i sighed and opened up a google doc./tom-cooper-interstellar.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-cooper-interstellar.htmlInterstellar is one of the films that I love most. If you are watching this video, I guess you also love this film that deeply, right? Watch it on YouTube I often rewatch it or parts of it just to enjoy the visuals, the story, and mostly the soundtracks! But yesterday, while I was watching it again for the "nth" time, I noticed one thing. In the end, while Cooper reunites with his daughter Murphy, it represents forgiveness, acceptance, and closure for the immense sacrifice he made, right?/what-happens-after-the-chatgpt-free.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happens-after-the-chatgpt-free.html[Dall-E 2 prompt: a robot cash register, digital art] I have a new piece in The Atlantic about the future of ChatGPT. I think it’s a good one. Please read and consider sharing it with your networks. (I also spoke with Caroline Mimbs Nyce about the lessons we can take from the first couple months of Elon’s Twitter failures. That was a lot of fun.) Loyal readers of this Substack will recognize a few themes in the ChatGPT piece./what-i-learned-from-going-on-100.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-i-learned-from-going-on-100.htmlI went on over 100 first dates before I met my wife. I tried dating services from Match, OkCupid, Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel, Bumble, Tinder, The League, Happn, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, Jdate, Yahoo Personals, Three Day Rule, and speed dating (once). During my dating journey, I met some exceptional women and had some wonderful relationships. But none of them felt quite right. Somewhere along the way, I decided I wasn’t going to settle./what-is-bagel-seattle-ny-style.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-bagel-seattle-ny-style.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 each Wednesday. If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. According to Statista, Americans are projected to eat around 204 million bagels this year. I’m doing my best to push that number up but, clearly, I don’t need to try that hard to sell people on the idea that bagels are great./wnba-team-values-sale-worth-2021.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wnba-team-values-sale-worth-2021.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? It may be the offseason, but January has been an exciting month in the WNBA. The league played a key role in the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock; teams made qualifying offers including moves to core Liz Cambage, Nneka Ogwumike, and Natasha Howard; and free agency officially began on January 15./what-is-alibabas-emo.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-alibabas-emo.htmlHey Everyone, In late February, 2024 an organization called the "Institute for Intelligent Computing" within the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba released a paper about an intriguing new AI video generator With the emergence of startups like Haiper, Pika Labs, Runway and OpenAI’s Sora, and a group in China who want to emulate Sora, a lot of text-to-video will actually be led by Chinese AI researchers. Maybe some of those were educated in the UK or the U./what-is-ethnobotany.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-ethnobotany.htmlAs most people know, I am an ethnobotanist. Starting my journey with a Master’s of Science from the University of Kent, I am lucky enough to travel the world researching, studying and lecturing about botanical and environmental subjects. My work has taken me across Oceania through New Zealand, Indonesia, The Cook Islands, and Australia, over to the British Virgin Islands, California, Quebec, Vermont, England and soon to be Brazil. Hilariously, the question I get the most often is…WHAT IS ETHNOBOTANY?/what-makes-an-outfit-bad-here-are.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-makes-an-outfit-bad-here-are.htmlMy dad visited me this past weekend, and he always likes to take my old electronics off my hand. He’s an engineering wizard and delights in refurbishing my old computers and phones - for what purpose, I do not know. But part of the process of me handing them off, is first going through whatever files remain on them, and wiping them clean. This latest computer I gave him, from 2013 (!/whats-chinese-fine-dining.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-chinese-fine-dining.htmlIn articles written in Chinese in Hong Kong, the English word “fine dining” is often used untranslated. They can do this because English is more or less understood here, but also because “fine dining” as a noun, is pretty much untranslatable. Plug it into Google translate and you get 美食 (mei sik), gourmet, or fine food, which is only one part of what fine dining is about. The other significant part – the formality, the sense of occasion that is understood as fine dining in the Anglophone/European word can sort of be covered by another word in Chinese, 宴 (yin) which translates as “banquet”./whats-happening-with-the-chiefs-top.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-happening-with-the-chiefs-top.htmlAt one point in the Kansas City Chiefs’ franchise history, Top 30 visits were not an indicator of much in the draft. Players would flow through Arrowhead Stadium before seeing their names called by other franchises in the upcoming draft. For longtime fans like myself, the Top 30 visits scheduled by the team had little rhyme, reason, or bearing on who or what the Chiefs were interested in when the draft kicked off./sharon-gaffka-when-i-say-im-mixed.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sharon-gaffka-when-i-say-im-mixed.htmlImage: Stacey Clarke Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to Sharon Gaffka, who is of Indonesian, Polish and English heritage. You may recognise Sharon from Love Island 2021, but since then, Sharon has continued to fight for women’s rights, including playing a key role in an anti-spiking campaign, and has just launched the women-focused Girls Know Nothing podcast. Read her story below. I’m 50% Indonesian, a quarter Polish and a quarter English./best-time-for-vietnam-travel.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-time-for-vietnam-travel.htmlHellooooo and Happy Father’s Day to all the PTFS dads! We just returned from Thailand and Vietnam. If we could, we would have stayed on vacation a little longer. However, I have to be back and over jet lag for next weekend’s Cookbook Fest in Napa. Also, I am doing a book event in Santa Cruz with Khushbu Shah and her debut cookbook. Cookbook Fest, Napa, Sat., 6/22 — To save $30 and receive a free apron, use this special promo code: ANDREA30 (Hope to meet you there!/film-intellectual-property-rights.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-intellectual-property-rights.htmlEveryone wants to receive credit for a job done, and an even louder pat on the shoulder for one done really well. Whether the final product turns out to be good or bad, chances are you wouldn’t take it lightly if someone else stepped in to take your glory. As the recognized owner of a product, especially one with public clout and associated financial merits, you earn the praises associated with your good work and the right to negotiate and earn returns on your investment via any means possible./why-did-constantinople-get-the-works.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-constantinople-get-the-works.htmlLast weekend I visited Istanbul for the first time. While I was there I realized one quality that Istanbul shares with truly great cities like London, New York, and Paris: when you’re there, you’re nowhere else. What I mean by that is the city is all-consuming. One’s senses of taste, smell, and hearing are swept up by the rush of Istanbul. Thoughts of my home in Izmir were as absent as vacant space on the shelves of the Grand Bazaar./bleachers-new-album-review.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bleachers-new-album-review.htmlThis is part of a weekly music newsletter I’m launching to shout-out new releases, spotlight artists, and share playlists. It will come out every Wednesday A warning before reading: Bleachers is my favorite band. I discovered the Jack Antonoff-fronted band late into my sophomore year of high school and immediately fell in love with their Bruce Springsteen-inspired sound, like something from an 80s film. The lyrics are sad, but the music gives you no choice but to get up and dance away the pain./why-i-yawned-through-most-of-mrs.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-yawned-through-most-of-mrs.htmlMy apologies for the rather long gap between my last post and this one. I caught yet another bad cold, and have been tossed around by waves of sleeplessness that come with having a toddler who decidedly rejects the whole “stay in your crib and don't wake up until morning” thing that she’s *supposed* to have mastered by now. Whoever thought babies should confirm to capitalist norms of work and sleep, anyway?/indignity-vol-3-no-6-why-is-the-new.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/indignity-vol-3-no-6-why-is-the-new.htmlEARLIER THIS MONTH, the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote to 12 state universities, ordering them to provide a list of how many students, of what ages, had sought or received gender-reassignment treatment through their schools' medical services. The request was strikingly detailed, specifically asking, item by item, about puberty blockers, hormone treatments, mastectomies, breast augmentations, orchiectomies,  penectomies, vaginoplasties, hysterectomies, metoidioplasties, vaginectomies, salpingo-oophorectomies, phalloplasties, scrotoplasties, or "any other medical procedure./why-the-commitment-of-christ-essandoko.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-commitment-of-christ-essandoko.htmlAfter Providence received a commitment from 7’2 junior college center Anton Bonke this past winter, head coach Kim English said he was looking forward to building a more physically formidable frontcourt going forward. English and his staff entered this offseason with the massive Bonke, and an elite shot blocker in Oswin Erhunmwunse as potential frontcourt centerpieces for the future, but a key priority heading into Portal Season was adding an experienced center for next year./etched.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/etched.htmlSome opportunities worth checking out: Etched has built a chip that can run transformers >10x faster than GPUs. They’re currently hiring Machine Learning Researchers, Compilers Engineers, Verification Engineers, Firmware Engineers, RTL Design Engineers, interns, and more in Cupertino. Sponsored - Our friend Anthony recently announced the third cohort of NEXT, a curated (~10% acceptance rate) community of entrepreneurial mid-career and exec-level folks thinking about their next roles. NEXT offers events with top VCs, workshops with career coaches, and a collaborative search experience with well-networked peers./women-at-the-bottom-of-the-world.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/women-at-the-bottom-of-the-world.htmlHi, I’ve been working on this investigative feature for WIRED for over a year, and it’s finally out. It’s about the women who came to Antarctica for science, and the predators who emerged. A congressional investigation is still unfolding. Thanks to WIRED senior research editor Meghan Herbst for additional reporting. Share ncG1vNJzZmickau2pbfUrJ%2BnnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqillaN6osCMrZ%2BeZZKkwbW7zGamn2WknbJuw86ro50%3D/wonka-and-the-problem-of-old-stories.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wonka-and-the-problem-of-old-stories.htmlPocket Observatory is no longer published on Substack. Come see our new home over at pocketobservatory.org. I was deeply skeptical aboutWonka, the Willy Wonka prequel directed by Paul King and starring Timothée Chalamet. I loathe prequels. I have been agnostic on the subject of Chalamet’s charisma. (Although, as I said on IG yesterday, I do kinda get it now. In a way that points to my own…um…issues?) I think King’s Paddington movies are enchanting./wordle-on-the-street.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wordle-on-the-street.htmlWhen 10 giant, inflated koalas frolicked down Broadway this past Wednesday evening, they got a lot of stares—and a lot of questions. “All joking aside, what is this?” asked one gentleman who, hilariously, was visiting Saratoga for the first time and thus his first impression of the city was…that. (“Koalas are natives,” Carrie Zappone deadpanned.) Other passersby offered up guesses: Did someone lose a bet? Is it a sorority rush thing?/worst-to-best-neons-2023-slate.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worst-to-best-neons-2023-slate.htmlOver the last few years, the Neon box has become the most anticipated awards-season shipment for critics, not only because of the company’s eclecticism and unusually high hit-to-miss ratio, but also because it cuts against the trend of awards screeners in general. You’re not getting a slow drip-drip-drip of DVDs sent piecemeal through the mail or triple-authenticated digital links that require their own apps, along with limited views and an expiration date./x-men-97-review-magneto-was-right.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/x-men-97-review-magneto-was-right.htmlX-Men ‘97 ended on a high note. The breakneck pacing that characterized the season switched into a perilously high gear, even by the standards of cartoon superheroes. Compared to the plodding pacing of modern prestige TV, it was a runaway minecart. I understand the argument that it was a little too much — that some of the emotional beats might have hit harder if the show took time to linger here and there — but it’s such a refreshing clip that I’m hesitant to knock it./you-inc.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-inc.htmlHappy Friday War & Peaceniks! Let’s talk layoffs! I have been fired. It sucks. Unfortunately, in the worlds of Media and Tech right now, getting shit-canned is an expanding contagion. The ecosystem has been going through a massive “right-sizing” for the past year, as 130,000 jobs have been shed across the sectors, with more to come this year. Meta is goin… ncG1vNJzZmido52usXrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeppMJutc2c/ultimate-book-guide-silicon-valley-tech.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ultimate-book-guide-silicon-valley-tech.htmlWhether you view big tech as a manifestation of progress or a threat to humanity, there is little doubt that Silicon Valley tech has changed our country and lifestyle in ways unfathomable mere decades ago. I’ve developed a strong curiosity of big tech, from learning about the most iconic founders to a behind the scenes look at how startups transformed into some of the most valuable companies to ever exist, and everything in between./a-photo-tour-of-winterthur-and-its.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-photo-tour-of-winterthur-and-its.htmlOf the 7 gardens I visited in Delaware, Winterthur seemed most at war with itself. What was it, exactly? A country farm on twenty four hundred acres of rolling hills? A giant 150-room mansion? A tribute to the history of American furniture? Pieces of the estate were breathtakingly open and simple — while the grotesquely enormous home sat patiently as the trees seemed to eat it alive. I knew nothing of the du Ponts when we visited this garden in particular./chivas-vs-tigres-una-final-de-1447.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chivas-vs-tigres-una-final-de-1447.htmlBy El Míster Pérez Chivas vs Tigres. ¿Cuál es el volumen de negocio de la serie final del Clausura 2023? El Míster presenta su Informe Económico de la Final del Futbol Mexicano, una franquicia de contenido que iniciamos desde 2020. De entrada, como lo has leído en el titular de esta newsletter, es una serie que tendrá un impacto económico de unos 1,447.5 millones de pesos (80.6 mdd). Es la primera ocasión -desde que realizamos este reporte- que contabilizamos un volumen que supera los mil millones./how-to-eat-a-mango.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-eat-a-mango.htmlGet ready to be mangofied! Today we’re talking mangoes; I think they’re a magical fruit (that’s my unscientific opinion) and the King of All Fruits. They make the start of summer more exciting. We had a couple of Mangifera indica or the mango trees on our street in Bombay, and my grandparent’s home in Goa had several Alphonso trees. In summer, my greatest joy was knocking partially ripened mangoes off their branches, slicing the fruit, sprinkling a little salt and red chilli powder, and then savoring each slice quietly and slowly./or-emoji-symbology-with-gen-z.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/or-emoji-symbology-with-gen-z.htmlThis past month, this tweet went semi-viral and sparked some pretty controversial reactions. It was followed up the next day with an answer from the students, expressing what the color of each heart emoji meant. If you’re like most people or even an older Gen Z’er, you may feel like this is totally ridiculous. A heart is a heart, the color is just a mood. You probably resonate with this tweet, like most of the replies./the-real-reason-behind-rihannas-performance.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-reason-behind-rihannas-performance.htmlRihanna came out of her 8-year retirement (since 2016) just for Anant Ambani's pre-wedding!  Estimates suggest that she made $8-$9M from this 19-song private concert! So, is it all about the money?  Nuh-uh.  The paycheck is just 0.6% of her total net worth ($1.4 Bn)!  She was here for something more valuable: business.  Yes, Rihanna has a very clear focus area: her beauty business, Fenty.  Music was just an easy entry for her into the Indian market./will-the-basque-country-ever-play.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/will-the-basque-country-ever-play.htmlThe last time the Basque national team played a match, they beat Costa Rica. In fact, the Basque Country has lost just one of the nine matches it has played since 2010. It’s a streak that also includes wins over Venezuela, Estonia, Bolivia, Peru and Tunisia. Get 20% off for 1 year FIFA, however, doesn’t recognise the Basque Country as a national team. They are, according to the… ncG1vNJzZmismJrAsK%2FCnqmdoaOlrrWvx2eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTEqrjLZquhnV2XrrS91J5knKelo8GzxYyerZ6qXaW5osU%3D/nefarious-satans-not-dead.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nefarious-satans-not-dead.htmlWhen news of the film Nefarious crossed my path, I could barely believe my eyes: an R-rated Christian horror film by the creators of God’s Not Dead, with early reviews leaning toward the positive end, including praise for its smart writing and stellar acting? While the trailer seemed to indicate a hint of hokeyness, my overall impression was one of heightened interest. Especially intriguing to me was the film’s premise:/satc-stanford-blatch-shinto-monk-and-just-like.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/satc-stanford-blatch-shinto-monk-and-just-like.html“I wanted to somehow pay tribute to Willie [Garson] and put Stanford someplace golden and filled with light, because I hope Willie is someplace golden and filled with light.”  - Michael Patrick King I’m going to, out of grace, pass over the “Anthony doesn’t want to bottom” plotline from the most recent episode of And Just Like That… (his reason why being “because I’m not the woman” will haunt me) and get to the episode’s most affecting and perplexing moment./the-rabbit-with-checkered-ears.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rabbit-with-checkered-ears.htmlHappy Sunday! We’re here again with the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and this is the game plan: 1 — exploring a gorgeous, classic TV series from Hungary. 2 — animation news around the world. 3 — the week’s loose ends. 4 — retro Czech stop-motion. New here? We publish Sundays and Thursdays. It’s free to sign up for our Sunday issues — get them right in your inbox each week: All good?/glamzilla-on-filipina-representation.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glamzilla-on-filipina-representation.htmlWelcome to Pearl, a bi-weekly newsletter dedicated to Filipinas and their beauty journeys. Read more about its mission here. If you love makeup, chances are you know Stephanie Valentine, aka @Glamzilla. With 1.7 million followers on TikTok, and 413K followers on Instagram, the Filipino-Canadian beauty influencer constantly goes viral for her product reviews all delivered with excitement, honesty, and the energetic equivalent of a big hug. You watch her and think, I wish we were friends, or at least, that’s how I felt when she first showed up on my For You Page./cold-cold-ground.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cold-cold-ground.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: The cover of Franks Wild Years features Tom holding an accordion. Accordion is not, as it happens, an instrument he actually plays. But you’d be forgiven for thinking he did listening to “Cold Cold Ground,” a track with accordion about as prominent as it ever is in his discography./its-2010-i-need-my-fathers-guitar.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-2010-i-need-my-fathers-guitar.htmlAudio Autopsy, 21st Century: Bluegrass King of the Hill, Grammy-Winner Billy Strings, 30 Pop Cultural Anachronism At first glance, you’d think a bashful “aw shucks” is all you might get out of hi… Read more a year ago · 7 likes · 26 comments · Brad Kyle Three days after Christmas, 2009, an ad was placed on UMGF.com, the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum. Billy Strings (born William Apostol) had just turned 17 not two months before./i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-resonate-with-that-nails-on-chalkboard.htmlI think I first started noticing it after 2016, in those years when it felt like we were all online all the time, writing our statuses and fury and PAY ATTENTION admonishments into the abyss, hoping it could somehow make things change faster. It was a reaction, a commiseration, a me-too: I resonate with that The first time I noticed it, I thought it was just a mistake: someone mixing up the grammar, not knowing it should read “That resonates with me./book-of-the-month-men-in-the-sun.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-of-the-month-men-in-the-sun.html“It was in another country that I earned my harsh subsistence, a place that had everything and nothing, that same country which gave you everything in order to deny you it.” There are few Palestinian novelists, or writers of any nationality, who speak to the harsh existence of displacement as powerfully as Ghassan Kanafani. A writer who shaped the struggle of statelessness into sublime word, masterfully weaved together into a timeless novel, Men in the Sun./sprezzatura-the-art-of-being-nonchalant.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sprezzatura-the-art-of-being-nonchalant.htmlI recently came across a phrase in a recipe introduction in the Wall Street Journal that made me have to grab a dictionary. The writer describes what sounds like my ideal start to a dinner party menu: “It begins with good bread, tasty things in tins and a dash of what the Italians call sprezzatura.” I’m all for the first two things (I mean, tinned fish, … ncG1vNJzZmidnZ64sLDAr6Ceq16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6sp6udqq%2ButcHRmmStoJVirrPAjKidZpqVnruoec2opZygkaGur8A%3D/the-war-mathematician-oleksandr-syrskyi.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-war-mathematician-oleksandr-syrskyi.htmlBy Svyatoslav Khomenko, Kyiv. Those who know Oleksandr Syrskyi say that any talk of the war ending without Ukraine's victory gets nipped in the bud. "He looks at the war mathematically. For him, it's just a problem that needs to be solved. And he sets his mind to do it,” says Hanna Malyar, former deputy minister of defence, who worked closely with Syrskyi. “The nature of the problem is that there is an enemy, and the enemy must be destroyed./this-too-shall-pass-where-does-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-too-shall-pass-where-does-the.html"This too shall pass, this too shall pass, this too shall pass." We’ve all heard this before. If you've felt the sting of failure or lived through grief or heartbreak, then you know mantras aren't the cure to your agony. Words alone don’t possess that power. You can't say Je t'aime to a lover who doesn't speak French. Words remain empty unless you give them meaning. There's wisdom in "this too shall pass,"/40-book-thug-nation.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/40-book-thug-nation.htmlThe Shop: Book Thug Nation Williamsburg, Brooklyn: 100 N 3rd St A decade ago, a group of sidewalk booksellers called the book thugs came together to found the Book Thug Nation bookstore in Williamsburg. Offshoots of this store include some of the finest used bookshops in the city: Codex, Better Read Than Dead, and Human Relations. If you’re familiar with any of the above spots, you know the drill! Tall stacks of gently pre-loved books with a whole lot of personality, a wide selection including zines, graphic novels, politics (left only, obviously), and killer tunes on the store’s record player./410-sleepytime-tales-with-coco-comma.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/410-sleepytime-tales-with-coco-comma.html“Sleepytime Tales With Coco Comma” by Sonia Mehta and illustrated by Sunayana Nair. Published by Penguin. A delightful collection of four stories featuring an English ace who cannot tolerate incorrect usage of the language. Coco Comma is the resident English expert of her town. She loves to read books. More often than not, she is found with her nose buried in one. This habit of hers makes her bang into doors or bump into people many a times to their annoyance./10-artistas-que-no-sabias-que-son.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-artistas-que-no-sabias-que-son.htmlLa música es muy importante en la vida de las personas autistas. Es capaz de regularte y desregularte a partes iguales dependiendo del día, el volumen, tu hipersensibilidad o el tipo de música. Yo personalmente escucho música a diario y dependiendo del momento, a veces de manera inconsciente, tiendo hacia algo más melódico y orgánico o sintetizadores y bajos fuertes. Por eso me parecía importante tener una lista de canciones hechas por personas autistas, algunas de ellas son muy famosas, seguro que las conoces./10-reasons-parents-cave-and-give.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/10-reasons-parents-cave-and-give.htmlI recently received a phone call from a mom of three teens who had attended one of my Kids’ Brains and Screens workshops. We spoke for an hour. In desperation, she admitted that the biggest parenting mistake she’d made to date was giving her kids smartphones in 8th grade. She said that when her kids were in elementary school, she and her husband had agreed to wait till the end of high school to hand out smartphones./15-horror-magazines-that-pay-for.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/15-horror-magazines-that-pay-for.htmlThis week, our guest writer, Alex Gonzalez, author of Land Shark, discusses the phenomenon of TropeMaxxing" and why we love it while also questioning whether it could potentially diminish the authenticity of storytelling. I’ve noticed a very specific trend among YA, Romance, and Fantasy readers that I don’t see (at least to such an extent) with other genres. For lack of a more serious word, I’ll dub it TropeMaxxing./2008s-harold-a-comedy-about-a-balding.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2008s-harold-a-comedy-about-a-balding.htmlI have seen a lot of bad movies. It’s kind of my thing. I’ve been writing a column, My World of Flops, on bad/failed movies for SEVENTEEN years now. That is a long, long time. I am consequently pretty damn jaded when it comes to crummy movies. A motion picture has to be spectacularly awful and woefully misguided for it to really stand out in my mind.  The 2008 “comedy” Harold is an outlier because it is a Saturday Night Live-derived comedy that even super-fans of the show don’t know exists and because it is one of the most pointless films I have ever seen./2024-nba-mock-draft.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-nba-mock-draft.htmlWith the draft being less than a week away, it’s time for a mock draft! The selections are based on what I think will happen, not what I would do. Therefore, I left my personal rankings out of the equation. With the draft switching to a two-way event, more trades are likely to happen. Therefore, it’s important to mention that the draft order as of June, 19th is used in this thesis./3-good-dupes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3-good-dupes.htmlHi! Hope your holiday weekend has been relaxing or action packed, whichever you’re aiming for! I was at Zara a couple of days ago and I found a couple of really great items I thought I’d share. I don’t love the word “dupe” and I do kind of hate when fast fashion brands copy luxury brands, but sometimes a $400 sweat set isn’t in the cards. Maybe these are more “looks for less”?/333-visions-and-nightmares.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/333-visions-and-nightmares.htmlLast Thursday, a soft-spoken man named David Warwick was called to the stand by the prosecution in the trial of Lori Vallow: the 49-year-old accused of multiple charges of conspiracy to commit murder, murder and grand theft. If you’ve been following this case, you know who he is: Warwick is the now-husband of Vallow’s close friend, podcast co-host and confidante Melanie Gibb. In my opinion, he’s a crucial player in this wild story that isn’t talked about enough — a person who represents a part of the Vallow/Daybell case that is critical to fully understand what’s at play here./40-reasons-why-i-love-my-wife.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/40-reasons-why-i-love-my-wife.htmlSPOILER ALERT! The words “turning 40 years old” and “woman” will be used in the sentence. For the readers who don’t like aging, simple math and the value of sticking around, please understand that I don’t care about your feelings-at least not today. I only care about celebrating a wonderful woman that I somehow, someway convinced to marry me over 21 years ago. Thank you for reading Ramble On, Buffa!. This post is public so feel free to share it./55-years-later-kathryn-leigh-scott.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/55-years-later-kathryn-leigh-scott.html(Photo: IMDB)When Kathryn Leigh Scott reunited the cast of the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows in December 2021, 50 years after the show ended, she fulfilled a dream from the drama’s late creator that had been decades in the making. Dark Shadows,available to stream for free on Tubi, continues to spellbind fans spanning generations. Scott is still hearing from fans as young as nine years old who are watching with their grandparents./7575-angel-number-spiritual-meaning.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7575-angel-number-spiritual-meaning.htmlOn the off chance that you see Angel number 7575, the message identifies with the field of connections and cash and says that A marriage of accommodation won't legitimize your expectations and will end in a total breakdown. Riches or even extravagance can be the main embellishment of agreeable relations, yet it will never be their premise. On the off chance that this occurs, acknowledge the inescapable misfortunes, and trust that the genuine inclination will come./a-book-i-wish-more-people-knew-about-16e.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-book-i-wish-more-people-knew-about-16e.htmlThe previous installment of “A Book I Wish More People Knew About” reached back to Poland in the 1920s, and today’s recommendation extends even deeper into the past. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, written in France in the fifteenth century, served as an inspiration for Kathleen B. Jones’s new novel Cities of Women, published this month by indie Keylight Books. I’m grateful to Kathleen for sharing perspective on a very old book that helped shape her new work./norman-finkelsteins-gaza-a-book-review.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/norman-finkelsteins-gaza-a-book-review.html“The world’s largest concentration camp,” is what Norman Finkelstein calls Gaza.  That narrow strip of land, which has spiraled into an endless expanse of death, is the central protagonist of Gaza: An Inquest Into its Martyrdom - a book that reads into the soul of Gaza. Finkelstein chronicles Gaza through the intimacy of pain and knowledge. He, more than most, intimately understands the crucible of concentration camps and the harrowing tale of a besieged people./a-childrens-crusade.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-childrens-crusade.htmlWelcome to this SPECIAL EDITION of The Square Inch Newsletter. Subscribers may expect regular programming to resume shortly. The following is a lengthy review of a popular book. Stephen Wolfe’s The Case For Christian Nationalism (Moscow: Canon Press, 2022) is a manifesto that has garnered a great deal of online publicity. Scoring as the #1 bestseller in Amazon’s “Nationalism” category, the book has enjoyed a large boomlet of popularity across a wide and diverse conservative Christian audience./a-course-in-miracles-ruined-my-life.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-course-in-miracles-ruined-my-life.htmlIf you’re enjoying the free version of the Motley Mystic, please consider subscribing for $10 per month or $100 per year! Subscribers are reading along as I produce my next book called “The Great Wide Open: Learning to Live with an Open Heart.” I appreciate your support! I used to make a pretty good living writing for a blog about the intersection between religion and politics. One of my fellow writers questioned if I was really human because I could spit out scathing opinion articles in the blink of an eye./line-changing-strategies.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/line-changing-strategies.htmlToday we are going to lay the foundation for a “boring,” yet vitally important, part of a hockey game. Just like Formula 1 pit stops… they may not be the reason for a win, but they can play a massive part in a loss! Hockey Shift Length: The Art of the Undercut· September 3, 2020 Rarely do line changes get attention outside of coaching circles. But ensuring line changes occur smoothly is a monumental step toward a successful game and season./the-new-shadow-a-defense-of-tolkiens.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-new-shadow-a-defense-of-tolkiens.htmlAs if one could somehow exhaust Tolkien’s stories from the dawning of the First Age to the closing of the Third, many of us still have an appetite for what might happen in Middle-earth following the demise of Sauron and the coronation of the rightful king of Gondor. If you fall into this category, you are not alone, as Tolkien himself began to tell this story - at least for about 13 pages./a-new-era-of-overlearning.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-era-of-overlearning.htmlDuring the 25 years or so that I’ve been exploring how humans learn, one of the concepts I’ve been most interested in is “Overlearning”.   Whether we know it or not, for people who design and deliver learning experiences of any kind, Overlearning is the north star which we all aspire to achieve. It refers to a state in which a learner continues to study or practice well past the point of initial understanding to full mastery of concepts and skills./a-personal-update.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-personal-update.htmlDear friend, There is something I wish to tell you today, something I have long feared but hoped would never come to pass. Two weeks ago, I received the devastating news that my leukemia is back. I’m currently undergoing chemotherapy, and I have a long road ahead, including another bone marrow transplant. Earlier this fall, I returned to Paris for the first time since my initial diagnosis a decade ago. It was meant to be a celebratory return, but within a day, I came down with a fever and a bad cough and spent the next week in bed./a-visit-with-a-flying-car-that-never.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-visit-with-a-flying-car-that-never.htmlVery, very soon, we’re all going to have flying cars. Which is also what Paul Moller told me in 1991 when I went to see the Skycar M400 he was building in Davis, Calif. From what I’ve read these days, there are a number of legit flying cars in development now, some with the backing of car companies like Hyundai and Toyota and one, from Chinese company XPeng AeroHT, that wowed attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show in January and is about to go into full-scale production./palm-springs-restaurants.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/palm-springs-restaurants.htmlThe smell of warm butter and garlic landed a strong uppercut to my tastebuds as we walked through the door of Pomme Fritte, and I knew we were in the right place. I was salivating before we were seated at the back of this bustling institution. Our waitperson was a career server; he knew everyone in the restaurant, spouting off jokes and jabs as his large frame darted surprisingly nimbly between the tightly packed tables./a-winter-solstice-poem.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-winter-solstice-poem.htmlEach solstice and equinox in the turning year, for maybe 10 years now, a poet friend and I have been writing a poem to send to each other. I notice that, for me, the midwinter solstice is a very powerful event. And – the world feels pretty dark right now; but after tomorrow, here in the northern hemisphere, we are creeping imperceptibly back towards the light, with the sun rising and setting just a little further north each day now, till the spring equinox when it will be rising due east and setting due west./mate.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mate.htmlAaron MatéJournalist with The Grayzone, where I host "Pushback." Contributor to Real Clear Investigations. Temporary co-host of "Useful Idiots." In 2019, won the Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media for Russiagate coverage in The Nation. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6t054%3D/about-the-word-community-in-community.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/about-the-word-community-in-community.htmlThere are several technical terms used in ecology that also have an everyday meaning. Community is one of them. So what, you might say. Well, the problem could be in communication. I am not sure how common this is, but recently I was interviewed and during this interview I was asked about the ‘community feeling’ in soil and what that exactly is. Before that moment, I had only thought that this could happen, but now that it actually happened, I decided to write this little newsletter about it./adobo-chocolate-chip-cookies.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adobo-chocolate-chip-cookies.htmlHere is a special midweek newsletter. Something a little different from my previous newsletters because this one comes in the structure of a recipe. Today, we travel in the form of food. One of the most popular dishes from the Philippines is adobo, and Abi Balingit aka as “duskykitchen” on Instagram, has put a Filipino twist on a classic American treat— Chocolate chip cookies! She shares this exciting twist in her new cookbook called “Mayumu./adorable-story-66-darryl-f-zanuck.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-66-darryl-f-zanuck.html“The public is always right.” — Darryl F. Zanuck Darryl F. Zanuck was a visionary film producer and studio executive who profoundly shaped Hollywood’s Golden Age. He fought in both World Wars, founded 20th Century Pictures (later becoming 20th Century Fox) and, as Vice President in Charge of Production (and later CEO), Zanuck was responsible for producing numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films. His personal life was marked by a series of tumultuous relationships and extramarital affairs, which often made headlines and eventually contributed to his dismissal./porn-conventions-are-decadent-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/porn-conventions-are-decadent-and.htmlHello situation normies! I’m really excited to share a new aspect of my writing with you. Today’s post is from an adult entertainment convention in Las Vegas. I went to the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo to research a sequel to Not Safe for Work, the first book in my Porn Valley Mystery series. If there’s an operating theory to my writing, it’s this: truth is stranger than fiction, and the truth is usually a lot more interesting./affirmative-action-sat-scores-asian.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/affirmative-action-sat-scores-asian.htmlThe decision of the Supreme Court to side with Students for Fair Admissions received a significant amount of coverage during the past week. One might wonder why a student of Asian descent would take offense to the impacts of affirmative action. As we continue to examine the statistics, we will notice that the SAT scores of Asian students are not merely a little bit better; rather, they are truly astonishingly better. We start by looking at the mean SAT scores by race and ethnicity (Figure 1)./ahegao-meme-analysis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ahegao-meme-analysis.htmlAhegao Face Meme Analysis You’ve seen these faces before. Eyes rolling, tongue lolling out, in a fit. But what do they mean?  The ahegao face is a staple in anime memes and fantasies alike.  The widespread popularity of such a strange facial expression shows it has a serious unconscious significance. In my previous analysis of ahegao, I focused on the surrealism of the imagery and how it correlated with a lack of embodiment./alan-cumming-on-what-sucks-vs-is.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alan-cumming-on-what-sucks-vs-is.htmlHi there Caftan readers, all of whom I’m so grateful for. I’m so happy spring (or perhaps should we just call it early summer?) is finally here. I write this today with my curtains blowing slightly from the breeze coming in and that fucking ice-cream truck “Pop Goes the Weasel” playing over and over again in my kid-heavy neighborhood in Queens. (It’s the bane of my spring, summer and fall, triggering my madness, making me feel like Faye as Joan when she sees wire hangers./alembic-guitars-and-basses.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alembic-guitars-and-basses.htmlThis week’s article is written by my friend and guest columnist, Scott Olson. In addition to being a gifted writer, Scott is a longtime guitar player and professional luthier specializing in finishing and finish repairs. Part of his career journey included years on the manufacturing floor of Hamer and Washburn during their heyday of the 1980s. Scott remains actively engaged building custom guitars and performing exquisite repair work.  If you have a special project or repair, please visit Scott’s LinkedIn profile and message him through the platform where he is an integral member of a thriving guitar/music community./alf-tattoo.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alf-tattoo.html…the quick precise click of an almond cleaved into perfect halves between my upper and lower front teeth. .…that I still think of sheets and blankets as “bed clothes”. …all of the pure joy captured in this Parquet Courts video, not to mention the lyrical righteousness! …knowing my sister will always think of me as her baby brother. …the inexhaustible inspiration Ubuweb provides. Just staggering to think of all of the concepts, poetry, art, and information I’ve been exposed to through this incredible website./an-easy-honeyed-scotch-old-fashioned.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-easy-honeyed-scotch-old-fashioned.htmlRecently, we looked at an Old Fashioned built on a combination of two types of Scotch, a hint of rum, and honey syrup. It’s a layered, complex drink that balances basic blended Scotch whisky with an aggressive Islay expression, plus a hint of over-the-top, hogo-heavy rum, all bound together with the floral, mellow sweetness of honey syrup.  It’s a great drink. But with three fairly specific bottles of booze on the ingredient list, it does take a somewhat well-stocked bar to make./introducing-discuit.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-discuit.htmlI've been building a Reddit-like platform as a side-project for the last two years, which I initially began as a service to run in my home country, Sri Lanka. Now, with Reddit going dark and seeing people looking for an alternative to migrate to, I thought of repuporsing all that work I've already done to create a general alternative to Reddit. It isn't just that Reddit makes inane management decisions in how they treat their users, but as a software platform, they've been stagnant for many years./hiding-in-plain-sight-an-interview.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hiding-in-plain-sight-an-interview.htmlIf you ask people to name the top drum programmers in history, you’ll hear a series of familiar names. “The King,” Jimmy Bralower. Prince. Session pros like Sammy Merendino, John Robie, and Jason Miles. Pioneers like John Foxx and Martyn Ware, and masters of a single instrument, like Greg “Egyptian Lover” Broussard, the “king of the 808.” (Look for full interviews with several of the aforementioned folks, coming soon!) A more surprising addition to the list might be Paul Waaktaar-Savoy./unplated-lauren-vogelbaum-and-anney.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unplated-lauren-vogelbaum-and-anney.htmlThis conversation is part of the Unplated series, a collection of interviews with folks whose work intersects with food, but who work outside culinary spheres. My hope is that these conversations not only spark your curiosity, but help you think about how what you eat is connected to the world well beyond your plate. You can support my work by subscribing or giving a gift subscription. Give a gift subscription/an-investigation-into-butter-cows.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-investigation-into-butter-cows.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 do speaking engagements.] On Monday, a photo of the Illinois State Fair Butter Cow — that is, a cow presented as “sculpted out of butter” — went viral after the shocking revelation that it’s a wire-and-steel-mesh frame sculpted in the likeness of a cow that has simply been covered in slabs of yellow spread./appendix-of-cage-2023-the-year-in.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/appendix-of-cage-2023-the-year-in.htmlAs I'm in between-meetings limbo, and to lend even an atom-sized bit of legitimacy to willingly watching a lot of pretty terrible films, I humbly offer my own AGE OF CAGE rankings: ****: Vampire’s Kiss; Face/Off; BL:POC-NO; Joe; Mandy; Pig ***1/2: Birdy; Moonstruck; Wild at Heart; Red Rock West; Leaving Las Vegas; Bringing Out the Dead; Adaptation.; Matchstick Men ***: Rumble Fish; Racing with the Moon; The Cotton Club; Peggy Sue Got Married; Raising Arizona; Honeymoon in Vegas; It Could Happen to You; Kiss of Death; The Rock; Con Air; Snake Eyes; The Trust; Mom and Dad; Color Out of Space; Butcher’s Crossing; Sympathy for the Devil/are-we-being-understood-are-we-understanding-009.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-we-being-understood-are-we-understanding-009.html[TRANSCRIPT] We all speak in codes that can only be fully understood by people within our groups. Whether it’s industry jargon or inside jokes with our friends, we all sometimes say things that make no sense to or are misunderstood by those outside our group. Hi everyone. Welcome to Digital Hope Talk. I’m Lauren Hug and I thank you for listening and being willing to explore better ways of navigating our digital world together./audio-galleries-welcomes-adi-spiegelman.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/audio-galleries-welcomes-adi-spiegelman.htmlA former professional tennis player and model from Israel, Adi has been featured in esteemed publications like Vogue, Vanity Teen, and ELLEment, and worked with iconic brands such as Armani, Swarovski, and Diesel. However, her journey of expression and creativity didn't stop at modelling. Adi found a new passion and a therapeutic outlet in painting, leading to a successful transition into the world of art. Her debut 1/1 NFT collection, aptly named "/s2e16-appas-lost-days.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/s2e16-appas-lost-days.htmlAppa, no! Appa :( Thanks for tuning in to my thirty-sixth of 61 daily reviews of Avatar: The Last Airbender! Yesterday, we watched S2E15: The Tales of Ba Sing Se. I’ve both yearned for and dreaded the day I’d have to review this heartbreaking masterpiece of an episode. Yesterday in The Tale of Momo, which foreshadows this story, I wrote that most shows wouldn’t craft a narrative from the perspective of a speechless animal./before-the-next-teardrop-falls-by.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/before-the-next-teardrop-falls-by.htmlYou try to be strong but the pain keeps holdin' on The session took just a few minutes, and Freddy Fender was glad when it was over. He never liked country music, and it was only after a number of other ideas, including a Jamaican reggae song sung in Spanish, plainly didn’t work that producer Huey P. Meaux convinced him to sing over an instrumental cut by an anonymous Nashville band./behind-roger-waters-wall.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behind-roger-waters-wall.htmlWhen I was growing up in the 1980s, a lonely, unhappy child of a brutal divorce involving severe mental illness, rock music meant the world to me. Of course, rock music has meant a lot to countless millions of teenagers down through the decades. But for me, it was a much-needed refuge from a bruising emotional reality, giving me a playground for my imagination. I loved the music and the musicianship and the volume and the iconoclasm and the charismatic swagger./beryl-bainbridges-an-awfully-big.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beryl-bainbridges-an-awfully-big.htmlThe Essence of the Thing: Index I’m a playwright who writes about twentieth-century novels and other literary/theatrical matters. Subscribe to The Essence of the Thing with your email address to have my newsletter delivered to your inbox. It’s free. Hello, This week, some reflections on Beryl Bainbridge’s An Awfully Big Adventure and its intersection with Peter Pan. This is my second-to-last last newsletter before a summer break. Thanks to the Kevin Elyot Award, I’m going to be spending some of that break in the Kevin Elyot archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection./black-technology.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/black-technology.htmlRecently I came across a thought provoking entry by Gabriele de Seta on ‘black technology’ (heikeji 黑科技), a Chinese term used to describe cutting edge and futuristic technologies, so advanced that they defy comprehension. Researching further, I was struck by how commonplace this idea is in Chinese, while it is effectively unknown in English. To be clear, this Chinese term is distinct and separate from ‘black tech’, which examines the intersection of race, technology and oppression./blizzardplanit.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blizzardplanit.htmlPlanit Butter By Blizzard Planit Where individuality meets individualism. I invite you to meet yourself through your practice of Self Friendship, evolve into what I call your Party of One, & to wholeheartedly embrace that it's YOUR WORLD & YOU'RE LIVING IN IT! From my Planit to yours.. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaO4yLOxmqqUpbmiusit/bruce-hornsby-and-the-range-the-way.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bruce-hornsby-and-the-range-the-way.htmlKen’s Pitch: I had just started school in the fall of 1986 and the Billboard charts were loaded with future hall of famers Lionel Richie, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., Janet Jackson and Bon Jovi.  It was an embarrassment of riches for the rock and pop genres.  I can’t imagine a time that would be more difficult for a new artist to break through.  This was pre-internet and pre-streaming, so if you wanted exposure, you had to have the right sound, the right personalities, the right promoters, the right look, and your band had to bring their A-game to the studio./camper-seriously-injured-in-zipline.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/camper-seriously-injured-in-zipline.htmlGood morning! Today is Wednesday, June 15, 2022. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with local business-y news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. This post is sent to paying subscribers only. FILE PHOTO: A girl glides down the zipline at Camp Thunderbird in this Ledger file photo taken in 2016. The popular daytime and sleep-away summer camp on the shores of Lake Wylie just south of Charlotte hosts hundreds of campers per week./good-seattle-bagel-rachels-burritos-find.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-seattle-bagel-rachels-burritos-find.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. Even from its very beginning, you could say that the story of Ballard has always been about the inevitability of gentrification and transition./old-salt-ballard-review.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/old-salt-ballard-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. Old Salt Fish & Bagels’ second location in Ballard snuck on me a few weeks ago, and when I tried to catch them before Christmas I was too late./can-we-stop-with-the-sql-joins-venn-diagrams-insanity-16791d9250c3.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-we-stop-with-the-sql-joins-venn-diagrams-insanity-16791d9250c3.htmlReally, please, OMG, stop Pet peeve time. I’ve had to teach SQL to non-technical people multiple times over the years and everyone who’s ever tried to learn SQL and failed talk about how “joins are hard and scary”. If you were to search online for explanations of SQL joins, yeah, it looks insane. Look at this, just LOOK at it! What really gets me is that the whole mixing of JOINs and Set Theory doesn’t even make sense./career-brew-sunday-job-digest-april.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/career-brew-sunday-job-digest-april.htmlHi Guys, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉 𝒋𝒐𝒃𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕. 𝑮𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚. 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑱𝒐𝒃 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. Do you want the Harvard University template for resume and cover letters for free, get it below: Free Harvard University Resume Template Become Career Brew member like 100s of other job seekers to get opportunities to apply for before others and get that edge to find your dream job. Find out what you get when you become Career Brew member./carolyn-cassady-at-100-3-simon-warner.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carolyn-cassady-at-100-3-simon-warner.htmlBeat legend Carolyn Cassady – husband to Neal and mother of his children, intimate and confidante of Jack Kerouac, close friend of Allen Ginsberg and the author of important memoirs of their lives together – would have been 100 years old today, April 28th, 2023. She died, aged 90, ten years ago. In 2012, I had the fortune to spend an afternoon with Carolyn at her home in the London suburb of Bracknell./chartbook-279-columbia-universitys.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys.htmlThe tense stand off on Columbia University campus between student protestors, the university administration, counter-protestors and law enforcement, has become the object of passionate engagement and moral opprobrium across the United States and far beyond. It has sparked movements on campuses across the country and repressive efforts including the deployment of armed police. The issues at stake are Gaza, Israel, the political culture of the United States, norms of behavior and free speech on campus, allegations of anti-semitism, islamophobia and basic issues of control./chopped-tj-maxx-edition.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chopped-tj-maxx-edition.htmlHello, fellow Maxxinistas! That’s right. From now on, the newsletter will be about nothing but TJ Maxx, the greatest department store in all of history. The prices are affordable, the fashion fresh, and even the name is cool, because there’s two X’s at the end of it. (Three X’s would be a whole different subject.) I am bringing up TJ Maxx for a reason, however. Davida and I were out clothes shopping last weekend, and we hit up a bunch of department stores./chris-woakes-the-unhappy-tourist.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chris-woakes-the-unhappy-tourist.htmlBuy me a drink Chris Woakes started West Indies' chase by delivering the first ball down the legside. A brand new Dukes ball was in his hand, and he was going up against one of the world's most frail batting lineups. And he started with a gimme. In the second over, he bowled another. CricViz said he bowled ten in his first eleven overs in the first innings. It's a lot of legside rubbish from someone this accurate./cityscapes-sim-builder.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cityscapes-sim-builder.htmliOS Apple Arcade ($5/month) Endless(ish) Cityscapes: Sim Builder is a real-time simulation game where you build a thriving city by carefully placing residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, along with roads, schools, garbage collection, and fire stations, and other amenities. I try to avoid referencing other games in these intros but it’s pointless to ignore SimCity – there are few simulation games more popular or influential. Indeed, the studio behind Cityscapes boasts of several former Maxis developers in their team who’ve worked on SimCity and The Sims./clearest-beginnings.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clearest-beginnings.htmlFor the last three years, I have been doing social media on the side while my primary focus was on doing my best as a biomedical engineering BS/MS student. I’ve gotten some very cool opportunities in relation to my studies including working at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as well as West Pharmaceutical Services. At GSK, I served as part of the automation team in small molecule drug discovery where we utilized automated platforms to conduct high throughput experimentation (I will explain this in another post for the nerds like me out there if any of you are interested)./clintedwards.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clintedwards.htmlClint EdwardsClint Edwards is the author of 4 books. He writes the column Screen Time hosted by Netflix and is the founder of the popular daddy blog No Idea What I’m Doing. His stories have been featured by the New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaS4yKernpynlr%2Blvw%3D%3D/clemence-michallon-author-of-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/clemence-michallon-author-of-the.htmlI spoke with Clémence on Writers on Writing last month and while we ran out of time, she agreed to respond in writing to a couple more questions. I loved her novel and her. Such a gracious, generous writer. Thank you, Clémence, for taking the time. What advice would you give a writer who has their fingers in a bunch of pots and can’t decide what to work on? How do you know when an idea has traction?/coaxial-drones.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coaxial-drones.htmlI’ve been interested in aircraft since I was a child. Been a member of local AeroClub where we built and competed in free flight, F1A gliders. That’s unpowered and uncontrolled models that once in the air are controlled by how you set it up beforehand, no radio control here. Later, when radio-controlled devices became more accessible we transitioned to RC planes and sub 100Mhz radios, unlike today’s 2.5Ghz ones. Members of that club created the first recon drone in 1993 which was used in the Croatian War of Independence./funny-pages-broadway-comic-strip.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/funny-pages-broadway-comic-strip.htmlThe Broadway Maven’s weekly blast is FREE through March 1 and FREE once a month thereafter. Press the red button by the March 8 debut of the first paid weekly issue for a special “FOREVER” offer for Inaugural Paid Subscriptions (that’s $27 instead of $36).Get 25% off forever • The Monday, February 1 class will watch and discuss several clips from the show, analyzing the lyrics, music, plot, characterizations, and more./dashboard.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dashboard.htmlIn as much as substack should consider publication’s health, I believe that we should all give @substack a round of applause. Why? Two platforms I have been at and people focused on both in building just readership and enjoying themselves, Clubhouse and Bitclout, today don’t exist. Substack is a business, they have tried and sometimes I struggle to figure how long before the investors start getting on their neck and they stop listening to writers completely./the-bluestocking-vol-305.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bluestocking-vol-305.htmlIt was a fascinating study in human behaviour. I've spent a bit of time on the Traitors reddit and people HATE that series. As I understand Oz has cancelled the show in the wake of it (was before the recent UK & US series blew up so perhaps they might change their minds). People hate it because it was so frustrating watching the faithfuls fail to spot the obvious - but I'm with you, I think subconsciously they all knew what was going on and were scared and acted on instinctive self preservation./cool-restaurants-in-taipei-spring.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cool-restaurants-in-taipei-spring.htmlSigned copies of my cookbook Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nationare available on Now Serving LA, Omnivore Books,Book Larder, and Kitchen Arts. If you haven’t already, consider being a paid subscriber to my newsletter. For now, I’m committing to a minimum of four posts a month (two free, two paid), with the goal of eventually ramping it up to eight posts a month by the end of the year./could-journalists-sink-any-lower.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/could-journalists-sink-any-lower.htmlJournalists are supposed to be governed by rules of ethics, but too many of them will do anything, violate any rule, break any trust, lie to any source, in order to get a career-building story. Most journalists comply with their ethical obligations, but the ones who do not cause understandable distrust among the general public. Recently, a young man named Alex Novell emailed me saying: "I'm a graduate student at NYU working on a documentary film about the history of the Taglit-Birthright program./cozy-rice-pudding-with-cooked-rice.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cozy-rice-pudding-with-cooked-rice.htmlThis recipe originally appeared on my food blog, where it received dozens of rave reviews. It is now available exclusively on Substack for supporting members. Here’s what one reader had to say about this recipe: This rice pudding recipe is one of the first things I taught my son how to make. I remember the first time we made it too: he remarked on how it felt like magic. And you know what?/craig-wright-the-man-who-isnt-satoshi.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/craig-wright-the-man-who-isnt-satoshi.htmlLast month I wrote about the extraordinary trial which pitted an Australian IT expert Craig Wright who claims he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, against the Bitcoin establishment in the form of COPA, which said he was a fraud. The case wound up yesterday with closing arguments from both sides and while most unbiased observers thought Wright’s evidence had been as full of holes as a Swiss cheese, just about everyone expected the judge Mr Justice Mellor to say we would have to wait for his written judgment to be delivered in a few months./creamy-pesto-chicken-bake-and-homemade.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/creamy-pesto-chicken-bake-and-homemade.htmlWe’re rapidly approaching mid-January. The time when a lot of our sparkling new year resolve from a mere two weeks ago may have dissolved into the thin arctic winter air by now. I’ve been down for the count, recovering from surgery that will ultimately be a good thing, but I gotta get through the recovery part first. When shit gets serious, I stay the course. But I do not have the time to make extensive low carb dinner creations./cultural-differences-in-complaining.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cultural-differences-in-complaining.htmlKelly Osbourne – reality TV star and daughter of Ozzie – recently made headlines by calling Prince Harry a ‘fucking twat’ and accusing him of always ‘whining, whingeing, complaining’ about how hard his life is. Putting aside the hotly-debated question of whether Prince Harry is or isn’t a twat, I was intrigued by Osbourne’s invocation of ‘whining’, ‘whingeing’ and ‘complaining’ to characterise his actions – as if she was keen to ensure that she included every sub-variant of the genre./culture-study-meets-bama-rushtok.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/culture-study-meets-bama-rushtok.htmlFellow Cornellian and the idea of Fall rush is very, very strange to me as well. I also didn't rush, but I decided that *after* having a full semester to get sense of what role the frats and sororities played on campus, make some friends and discuss their plans with them, and just generally get a sense of things. I can't imagine trying decide something like that essentially sight unseen./cum-gestionezi-furia-fara-sa-te-ranesti.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cum-gestionezi-furia-fara-sa-te-ranesti.htmlE 6 dimineața, iar V. îmi povestește pe Zoom despre asociații săi care au plecat în concediu și au lăsat nerezolvate problemele din firmă. Cel mai mare client al lor este nemulțumit și amână plățile din cauza asta. V. iubește parteneriatele, însă tot ele îi provoacă cele mai mari dezamăgiri. Într-un business anterior, a ajuns la faliment din cauza neînțelegerilor cu partenerii. „Nu mă iau în serios! Mă gândesc să renunț, poate așa își vor da seama că sunt serios!/cursed-photos-of-your-dogs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cursed-photos-of-your-dogs.htmlWelcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel. You can read what this is all about here. If you like what you see, consider forwarding it to a friend or two. You can also click the button below to subscribe. And if you’ve been reading, consider going to the paid version. Since it’s a holiday weekend, I’m doing a bit of a crosspost here with my other newsletter, Some Dogs. It’s a blog I write about my dogs, your dogs, any dogs./baddcompani-anhialated-twitter-trolls.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baddcompani-anhialated-twitter-trolls.htmlBy now….the attached will be looked at very very closely. https://open.substack.com/pub/tundra/p/a-simple-substack-post-as-requested?utm_source=direct&r=1f07v4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web I used two words over a year ago. Baddcompani….has simply spun a few trolls into the biggest investigation by law enforcementof Twitter. Ask me about the link above and how it just makes me smile. Come play trolls. Yer fuqqed. Nicely played Baddcompani. Nicely played. Tundra ncG1vNJzZmispaOxs62NrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfl66lsMKopKmZnp56orrHopilmaSasW7A1qKrrZ2iYsGzu8ulqg%3D%3D/dame-trade-time-arrives-and-morphs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dame-trade-time-arrives-and-morphs.htmlWho doesn't love surprise endings? The Damian Lillard Trade Saga and the NBA summer itself came to a dramatic and deliciously unforeseen conclusion Wednesday when the Portland Trail Blazers completed a deal to send the beloved Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks. No: Lillard will not be joining the glitzy franchise in Miami that for months was said to be the only team he would willingly join. Yes: This was a blockbuster of the highest grade to pair Lillard with Giannis Antetokounmpo and a trade we will be dissecting and discussing for months to assess all of its various impacts./no-156-david-puddy-steve-urkell-big.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-156-david-puddy-steve-urkell-big.htmlI always wish the guy at the neighbouring table would try to keep it down when I’m working … but especially at the 2019 Providence Comic Con back when the guy is Patrick Warburton a.k.a. Seinfeld’s David Puddy, a.k.a. The Tick. He wasn’t impressed when I told him that we met in the Detroit Red Wings dressing room in 2002—then again, he wasn’t impressed back then when I told him I worked the Devils’ first Stanley Cup win./deep-dive-no-6-creme-anglaise.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deep-dive-no-6-creme-anglaise.htmlHi! Happy July! I hope that your summer thus far has been filled with sunny days, good books, and lots of lake/beach/pool days. And ice cream. A lot of ice cream. We’re continuing right along in our cooked custard saga with crème anglaise. It’s a silky, smooth custard that is used for many things—most importantly as our beloved ice cream base. This month, you’ll find a recipe for basic vanilla bean anglaise sauce (at the end of this newsletter) plus there are two brand new ice cream recipes coming your way in the next few weeks./defining-progressive-christianity.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/defining-progressive-christianity.htmlThere’s been an effort in recent years to define “Progressive Christianity”- to summarize the beliefs that all progressive Christians share in common. These attempts are usually done by conservative Christians who are seeking to critique “Progressive Christianity” in sermons, books, podcasts, and social media posts, to warn conservatives against the prevailing dangers of the Progressive Christian movement. Yet every time I read or listen to the definitions concocted by these apologists, within a few sentences it becomes clear to me that they are don’t actually understand what Progressive Christianity is./wednesday-did-you-know-a-watermelon.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wednesday-did-you-know-a-watermelon.htmlI’m working on a pretty expansive berry-related feature right now, and the research is blowing my mind. Apparently, watermelons are part of the berry family??? (Related: Looking for farming, produce, etc, experts to weigh in - details on the story parameters in the pending stories section down below…) Also, a few more stories have gone live since yesterday and I’m in serious packing mode because I leave for London TOMORROW…so excuse this abbreviated intro and lets get right into it…/disney100-saving-mr-banks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disney100-saving-mr-banks.htmlThe new Disney film Wish tells us that when it comes to the universe, we’re all shareholders, but when it comes to Disney itself, we cannot all be categorized into the same group. I have long thought that we can all be placed into four groups regarding the Walt Disney Company. In the first camp, we have the True Believers. These are the people who think that everything Disney does is perfect, that fairy tales are real, dreams always come true, etc./dispatches-from-the-riverdale-register-5c5.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dispatches-from-the-riverdale-register-5c5.htmlWelcome back, Riverdale-heads! Before we get into the recap proper, I want to take a moment to plug cinema cauldron and their incisive piece, Archie’s Weird Multi-Media Fantasy. Archie's Weird Multi-Media Fantasy The line between television and film has been blurry since the ‘60s and ‘70s, after Walt Disney smudged it beyond recognition it in the ‘50s with the Wonderful World of Disney program. While Papa Rat can hardly be credited with pioneering the television movie - let alone putting movies o…/do-flagship-apple-stores-exist.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-flagship-apple-stores-exist.htmlBy now you’ve heard that Apple will soon open its first store in India at Mumbai’s Jio World Drive, a shopping mall in the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). You’ve probably also heard that this won’t be just any old store. No, it’ll be a special store. The kind of store any city would be proud to have. It’ll be a flagship store that carries flagship status. That’s exciting! But there’s one problem./do-masks-work.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-masks-work.htmlOn my way back from Turkey, and there’s nothing quite like international travel to help put things into perspective. There are much bigger problems in this world right now than the mask debate. Still, it would be tragic if people left the emergency thinking one of two extremes: “masks don’t work” or “any mask works.” Another pandemic will come, and we will need to be better and smarter. Hell, every winter, we could be smarter./do-your-chores.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-your-chores.htmlWhen people ask what I do, I try to sound professional (coach, freelance writer, leader of a local nonprofit). I sit at my desk and do legit paid and volunteer work, from updating clients’ plans and writing articles to organizing meetings and planning fundraisers. But that’s only part of the story. At least half of each day, I’m outside or moving around the house. I’ve never spent so much time on manual labor, and I’ve never been this content./dont-be-a-dick.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-be-a-dick.htmlAnthony Bowens, just before his Franchise Championship-winning performance, at Battle Club Pro Unfinished Business on June 21st. (Photo: David Bixenspan) On Friday night, Battle Club Pro, Joakim Morales’s promotion, ran its latest show in what was, for lack of a better term, the courtyard of a public school in the Bedford-Stuyvescent neighborhood of Brooklyn. After at least two different attempts at outdoor shows from Battle Club got rained out and moved indoors in the past two years, it finally happened, so running on the first night of Summer was clearly a good idea./dont-have-sex-with-your-dolphin-even.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-have-sex-with-your-dolphin-even.htmlDogs can’t talk In Hallucinating Your Inner Trans-Reptile, I talked about how brains can trick us when they try to create a coherent reality out of random sensory information. One of those tricks is ‘hearing’ voices in ambiguous sounds. If you’ve ever watched those ‘talking’ dog videos on YouTube, you know what I mean. Of course, there’s no harm in thinking that your dog can talk. It’s kind of fun. But, when scientists hear voices, it can get a little weird… and change a lot of people’s lives… forever./down-to-seeds-and-stems-again-blues.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/down-to-seeds-and-stems-again-blues.htmlIn my teen years, Jackie Wilson’s Lonely Teardrops and  Elvis’ Are You Lonesome Tonight?  would judder through my whole thorax region – more than just my heart – lightning striking, delivering  a customized message sent directly to me from the Universe. It was sweet pain, exhilarating, isolated. Buddy Holly’s Think It Over line, “A lonely heart grows cold – and old” would recycle through my mind as I struggled to understand the remarkable changes new hormone imbalances were enforcing on me, my friends, and the entire opposite sex./dutch-haven-a-beloved-and-much-missed.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dutch-haven-a-beloved-and-much-missed.htmlSee, the news isn’t always bad in my newsletter. Dutch Haven, the beloved stop in Pennsylvania’s Amish country that closed almost a year ago, is now back in business — at least part-time. They announced on Facebook recently that they will be keeping hours Friday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. I took a long drive on Saturday, from New York City, through northern New Jersey, the Poconos, anthracite coal country (for an incredible McDonald’s find — stay tuned!/shoprat.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shoprat.htmlEmilia PetrarcaEmilia Petrarca is a native New Yorker covering fashion and culture. Before going freelance, she held the role of Senior Fashion Writer at NYMag's the Cut, where she worked for 5 years. Her writing can now also be found in the NYTimes, WSJ, and more. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbS0zqmpmqw%3D/difference-between-kafka-rabbitmq.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/difference-between-kafka-rabbitmq.htmlHello folks, if you are preparing for Java Developer interviews along with Spring Boot, and Microservices, you should also prepare about things like messaging brokers, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ like what is the difference between Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ?, which is also one of the popular questions on Java interviews. Messaging systems play a crucial role in modern distributed architectures, where applications and services communicate with each other over a network./estimating-the-iq-of-vitalik-buterin.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/estimating-the-iq-of-vitalik-buterin.htmlAfter a lot of diggging, I managed to find that Vitalik was one of 7 winners of the CCC gold medal in computing in which about 2000 people participated. These students are definitely selected for IQ/technical ability, but it’s difficult to determine by how much. Taking the average of the generous (perfect slection for technical ability, so 7/384627 (people born in 1994 in canada)) and uncharitable (same as the population mean, so 7/2000) results in an estimate of 3./finding-elite-tight-end-prospects.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/finding-elite-tight-end-prospects.htmlThis is going to be a similar exercise to my analysis measuring the unquantifiable traits of successful quarterback prospects: for both quarterback and tight end, we have limited samples of prospects and elite NFL outcomes. I could have built a model to rank tight ends the same way I did for wide receiver and running back prospects, but the lack of data leads to easily to overfitting and a lack of out-of-sample predictiveness./felicien-rops-and-the-art-of-horror.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/felicien-rops-and-the-art-of-horror.htmlFélicien Rops (1833-1898) was a Belgian graphic artist whose work embodies the Decadent Movement’s attitude towards art and morality. In one sense, this artist lived a conventional life. He was a master printmaker and also frequently went out to paint in the landscape. He was in demand as a caricaturist and illustrator, with his prints appearing in journals, newspapers and books. His art ranges from Social Realism to Symbolism and fin-de-siecle decadence./for-legal-reasons.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/for-legal-reasons.htmlBy now, I hope you’ve solved the puzzle. As an unemployed person who a hiring manager might google, I am going to stop short of saying “I hope he dies” publicly — but I will note that many people whose perspectives I appreciate and often agree with are saying that they hope he dies and are expressing a bit of glee, given the president’s suffering at the hands of virus he chose not to do anything to stop the spread of and which has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and upended millions of lives in this country./for-new-years-try-a-champagne-cocktail.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/for-new-years-try-a-champagne-cocktail.htmlLet’s be real: On New Year’s Eve, you are going to drink Champagne. Maybe you want to make a round of Old Fashioneds or weird Cynar drinks at midnight — and by “you,” I am obviously referring to me — but everyone else at the party will want to drink Champagne. You have to accept that you are going to end up drinking Champagne. Tough luck. Actually, wait: It’s not tough luck at all./frank-vs-russia.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/frank-vs-russia.htmlMy coverage of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 16 continues with episode 4. Additionally, I am currently running a 30% off discount on paid subscriptions from now through the end of the month, which will get you access to the weekly “Brianna’s Digest.” Get 30% off forever “Frank vs. Russia” has handily cemented itself as one of Sunny’s greatest late period episodes, an episode that had the virtue of expanding upon an already-existing news story that itself sounded like something straight out of an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia./free-your-mind.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/free-your-mind.htmlFree your mind and the rest will follow…Any of my fellow xenennials want to sing along with me? If you now have the wonderful harmonies of En Vogue stuck in your head - you’re welcome. Oh man, did I love En Vogue. And I sure did love that song. Pretty sure that it was the costumes in the music video that did it for me. Black women strutting down a runway in shiny black latex to electric guitar solos…good stuff./galaxyquest.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/galaxyquest.htmlHey folks! Jeremy here. Today, you’re getting a special October treat, which is great for you (because it’s good reading) and also great for me (because I didn’t have to write it). My comrade Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, who possesses no fewer than five capital letters in her name, volunteered to write about the hero’s identity crisis within Galaxy Quest, and of course I said yes because I’m the hero of this newsletter, obviously./garlic-black-pepper-crab-cua-rang.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/garlic-black-pepper-crab-cua-rang.htmlI’d like to think that this tastes as good (if not better) than it looks. It’s something that I made for a weeknight dinner this week, thanks to a deal on whole crab at the supermarket. All you need is one crab to satisfy two people, with a little leftover for an indulgent snack. We’re in crab season and I hope to encourage you to look at the crustacean from different angles./gears-of-war-anvil-gate-victor-hoffman.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gears-of-war-anvil-gate-victor-hoffman.htmlFor almost 400 pages of Anvil Gate, I was convinced I was going to write a lore -post about the Lambent in the Gears of War franchise. I was fully expecting myself to sit down today and talk about the Locust vs. Lambent war and how these events eventually lead us to Gears of War 3. But then, Anvil Gate decided to put all its cards on the table and said, “the fuck you are, buddy./geek-and-sundry-10-years-later.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/geek-and-sundry-10-years-later.html(April 1st is the 10 year anniversary of Geek and Sundry, my old digital media company. A tiny bit of this essay appears in my memoir “You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)” but it’s mostly new!) In the fall of 2011, YouTube decided to invest in fancier videos for their platform, and they were willing to spend one hundred million dollars to make it happen. The deal they offered was unique and revolutionary and suddenly everyone, even people who got lots of free sneakers like Ashton Kutcher, lined up to be a part of the program./gemini-giant-astronaut-icon-of-route.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gemini-giant-astronaut-icon-of-route.htmlThe Gemini Giant is one of Route 66's great attractions. I was not a little starstruck when I visited Wilmington, Illinois, to photograph him in 2013 and the restaurant he’s been promoting since the 1960s, The Launching Pad. According to American Giants, he is “the most famous and popular Muffler Man in existence and the only surviving space man version made by International Fiberglass with his unique space helmet.” 2024 began on a happy note for the Giant when he was featured on an Illinois-themed float at the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, California./get-these-nintendo-3ds-games-before-8a9.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/get-these-nintendo-3ds-games-before-8a9.htmlNintendo announced that, as of the end of March 2023, they will be shutting down the digital storefronts of their last generation handheld and home console, the 3DS and Wii U. And without plans to make the games on those shops available elsewhere. This means a massive chunk of video game history will be closed off to the rest of us; before that can happen, let’s figure out what you should seek out and add to your system memory on those platforms, via a series of posts on the subject./given-circumstances-are-your-truth.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/given-circumstances-are-your-truth.htmlAs a recovering theater kid, I often think back to my time acting to see if any of the lessons learned about the crafts of stage and screen acting can be applied to my life now. As I’ve delved into the world of simulationism, one key phrase from my acting days comes back to me over and over again. That phrase is, “Acting is living truthfully within given imaginary circumstances.” Contra Nerdrotic and his crowd, acting is not simply “adult pretending./goose-tattoos.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goose-tattoos.htmlI turned forty years old on July 1. I wrote thousands of words about turning forty the other day, but I’m not ready to share yet—that got…uh…a little raw. Oops, I mean—‘it’s been held up in editing.’ Since I don’t have any sane reflections to offer at this time, I wanted to share this song by MUNA with you and ask you to listen to it as a birthday present to me./grandtheftworld.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grandtheftworld.htmlGrand Theft World's Substack By Grand Theft World The Grand Theft World with Richard Grove explores and dissects current events from the past week through a compilation of video, audio, and written resources that help to explain how we got here, where things are headed, and how we can adjust accordingly. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjai%2BwKebraCVm8G4u9Glmw%3D%3D/gravesend-brooklyn.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gravesend-brooklyn.htmlLike the rest of New York City, Gravesend was originally Lenape territory. The Lenape populated the coastline of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. Henry Hudson was the first known European to set foot in the area in the fall of 1609 and claimed the land for his employers, the Dutch East India Company. Gravesend comes from the Dutch words Grafes and Ande, which combined mean “end of the grove.”/great-ish-performances-brian-glover.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/great-ish-performances-brian-glover.htmlBloomfield, Young Giants, Shoot : what a lot of crap football films there have been. Okay so Wim Wenders’ The Goalkeeper’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick is alright, but for the most part, football on film’s been as great a success as the Paddy McGuinness Question Of Sport reboot. The same Hollywood that’s made boxing, baseball and even fly fishing compelling has completely failed to transfer the magic of the beautiful game to the big screen./halo-infinite-fake-cortana-and-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/halo-infinite-fake-cortana-and-the.htmlI have run into some trouble on Twitter over a tweet I fired off somewhat glibly about Cortana and “fake” Cortana (aka ‘The Weapon’ a new AI in Halo Infinite who we know very little about) and how the new design is kind of crappy. Here’s the tweet: The top image is of Cortana from Halo 4. The bottom is The Weapon, a mysterious AI in Halo Infinite who was first introduced just days ago during Microsoft’s E3 Showcase (see all the games, trailers and announcements from that showcase right here)./hananias-shockingnot-shocking-exposure.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hananias-shockingnot-shocking-exposure.htmlI was shocked, but not really, when the prominent right-wing Internet personality Richard Hanania was revealed yesterday to have posted white supremacist material for years, under a pseudonym. Shocked, because the things he is alleged to have written are evil. (“Alleged” because he has not, as of this writing, denied it, but the sleuthing seems to have nailed him hard.) Not shocked, because though Hanania allegedly wrote these things, he has written enough under his own name to indicate a certain sympathy for the evil stuff./make-believe-mailer-110-happy-end.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-believe-mailer-110-happy-end.htmlThis week, The Guardian published a feature I wrote about the legacy and linguistic importance of Japanese band Happy End. This was a month’s long process, featuring quotes from all three living members of the pioneering Japanese rock band, highlighted by a two-hour-plus conversation with drummer / primary lyricist Takashi Matsumoto late last year. My goal with it was to look at the importance the band truly had — and hear about it from the artists involved directly, while also learning about how it all came to be./harry-styles-in-a-dress-is-so-much.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/harry-styles-in-a-dress-is-so-much.htmlWhen I first stumbled on one of the biggest pop culture micro-controversies of this past week — that a right-wing commentator was up in arms over pop star Harry Styles donning a dress on the cover of the latest issue of Vogue — I couldn’t believe it. Of course, I wasn’t shocked by the commentator whom I won’t name had an idiotic take. What did surprise me, however, was how much attention her comments received./herb-sundays-106-veronika-slowikowska.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/herb-sundays-106-veronika-slowikowska.htmlHerb Sundays 106: Veronika Slowikowska (Apple, Spotify). Art by Michael Cina “I’m all about guilt free listening. Whatever makes you move, physically and emotionally. I listen when I’m in motion, cleaning my room, on the train, in the car. Music rules and I LOVE IT!” - Veronika Slowikowska Here’s Veronika’s bio minorly edited bio , I’m not gonna try and mess with it: Veronika Slowikowska is a Canadian actor and comedian currently based in New York City./hey-a-movie-the-muppet-movie-1979.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hey-a-movie-the-muppet-movie-1979.htmlA few days ago, I was getting my 3-year old son ready to go to day care. He has a tendency to get fussy in the process of me taking him (because he’s 3 and doesn’t love saying goodbye to Mommy and Daddy in the morning, especially since my wife is still on her summer break). On this specific morning, I distracted him by talking about his shirt, featuring all four of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles./hey-its-matt.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hey-its-matt.htmlHeya, It’s Matt :) Long time no talk. Damn. This is kind of wild for me. I used to write this newsletter once a week for years. This was the place I came to process my thoughts as we were building Yes Theory. It was where I came to connect with you all on a deeper level. You guys got to see a part of me that most people didn’t./history-is-written-by-historians.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/history-is-written-by-historians.htmlThis post is by Contributor Johan Pregmo. There’s a famous line of unknown origin sometimes misattributed to Winston Churchill: “History is written by the victors.” It’s been repeated so many times over the years that many of us just accept it as a truism. Certainly it has a plausible sounding logic to it. The powers that be are self-serving and prone to propaganda. Every leading player in large, history-defining events like wars and revolutions has their own spin on what really happened./horror-films-with-female-leads-to.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/horror-films-with-female-leads-to.htmlI am a consumer of horror films at all times of year, but there is something special about consuming horror leading up to Halloween, and I’m sure some of you feel the same way! So I wanted to recommend some of my favourite horror films with female leads for all my fellow horror girls out there who are looking for some films to watch this season.  Before we get started into the horror films in the main list I want to quickly go through a rapid fire of some honourable mentions./housekeeping-notes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/housekeeping-notes.htmlWe’re back! Housekeeping notes: Aside from News and Stuff About Jews, this email is all housekeeping. On Monday, paid subscribers will get April’s ET Ask Home, a monthly questionnaire. However, there will be no regular edition of this newsletter next week, as I will be traveling. Wrapping up work and preparing for upcoming travel is also why you are not getting a a mini-essay this week. But after next week, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming./operation-gladio-how-nato-ran-secret.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/operation-gladio-how-nato-ran-secret.htmlUNLOCKED: Operation Gladio: how the West recruited Nazis into a secret anti-communist terror army Listen now (68 min) | I was a guest this week on Radio Free Amanda, an excellent socialist podcast. We discussed Operation Gladio, NATO’s secret Nazi armies during the Cold War. Sign up as a paid subscriber for early access to this episode. Here’s the Gladio series I wrote for my Substack, which only paid subscribers can access…/how-parents-are-navigating-the-five.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-parents-are-navigating-the-five.htmlFive Nights at Freddy’s blew up at the box office over the weekend, taking home $78 million and notching both the biggest Halloween opening and the third best horror opening ever, behind juggernauts like It. It’s a huge success. And while Five Nights at Freddy’s success has been characterized as a surprise, it’s only a surprise if you haven’t been around kids lately and realized the horror franchise, alongside the rise of the backrooms and other young adult horror, have utterly gripped these audiences./how-the-guyanese-make-roti.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-guyanese-make-roti.htmlIn Guyana, it’s not that the ingredients of the roti are any different from the typical paratha roti on the Indian sub-continent, though here they usually call it oil roti. There’s flower, baking powder, salt and a little bit of fat. Everything is incorporated in much the same way. The ingredients are mixed and left to rest, then kneaded, rolled, spiraled and then flattened. It’s the same as roti canai in Malaysia or roti prata in Singapore I’m told./how-to-find-a-tradwife.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-find-a-tradwife.htmlThe world was on fire; no one could save me but you. This one is for the young men of Becoming Noble. You want to find a good woman: young, beautiful, chaste, family-focused, wholesome.  This is possible. Unfortunately, most discussion on the topic you find online is pure fantasy, and lacks any substantive guidance on how to achieve this ideal. Instead, the discourse is dominated by role playing and bad advice from men that have no clue what they’re talking about (and by unwarranted blackpilling)./how-we-write-rebuttals-dc84742fece1.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-we-write-rebuttals-dc84742fece1.htmlBy Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Stefan Lee We frequently find ourselves giving the same advice to different students on how to write rebuttals. So we thought we’d write it up. Our experience is with AI conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP).The core guiding principle is that the rebuttal should be thorough, direct, and easy for the Reviewers and Area Chair (RACs) to follow. Why do we write rebuttals?/how-wednesday-addams-got-her-name.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-wednesday-addams-got-her-name.htmlWho’s your Wednesday Addams? If you’re a Baby Boomer, it’s probably the late Lisa Loring of The Addams Family, a TV show that aired on ABC for two memorable seasons in the mid-1960s and sparked a slew of reinterpretations. For a Millennial like me, it’s unequivocally Christina Ricci, whose early 1990s portrayals of the oldest Addams child in two cult classic films cemented the weird and wonderful Wednesday as a cultural icon./hunt-sales-major-tom-tom.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hunt-sales-major-tom-tom.htmlWith Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life,” Hunt Sales laid down the most famous drum intro in rock history, the rollicking jungle beat heard on TV commercials, in the movie Trainspotting and daily on Jim Rome’s sports radio show. But that perch in posterity will have to be reward enough, as Sales has never received a dime in royalties for the distinctive beat. “Lust For Life” was written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie for the 1977 album of the same name; drummer Sales was paid a work-for-hire fee for the sessions./i-dont-fuck-with-the-term-lyric-essay.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-dont-fuck-with-the-term-lyric-essay.htmlI don't fuck with the term "lyric essay."  Its gross congealment of  two messy, non-parallel terms is reason enough to stay away.  That it could and perhaps should refer to works of prosimetrum (which it doesn't) or any essayistic poems like Queen Mab or Pope's Essay on Man (which it doesn't)  makes it relatively useless for careful thinking about literature's long run.  Yet I am a fan of much of the work on which the unfortunate appellation of "/in-need-to-talk-about-bella-swan.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-need-to-talk-about-bella-swan.htmlBefore I dive into writing everything I can think of about this complicated character, I must acknowledge the numerous problems with the Twilight franchise. There are a whole host of valid critique of both the books and the films including, but not limited to, the misrepresentation of indigenous America communities, the central romanticisation of an abusive relationship, and the fact that there’s a character in the book who is revealed have been a member of the confederate army./subscribers-only-i-tried-ketchup.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/subscribers-only-i-tried-ketchup.htmlHi, fellow clowns! Friday! How are you all doing? The cool thing about Friday mornings is that your brain already starts detaching from your job, and then you barely get anything done for the rest of the day. Don’t worry, I won’t tell anybody. Your secret is safe with me. Turns out a lot of people really liked reading about my foray into ketchup carbonara… ncG1vNJzZmien6Sxqr%2FSraypoZRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqq6ao5i%2Fqq7Eq6pmp56hxm61jK2pop2UYrimwMKhrKk%3D/i-visited-the-real-mayberry.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-visited-the-real-mayberry.htmlYou know you are in “Mayberry” when you see the sheriff’s car parked on Main Street. This is Mount Airy, North Carolina. Andy Griffith’s hometown. While the Andy Griffith show wasn’t actually filmed here, the town is said to be the inspiration for the set where it was actually shot. The show was in production for eight years. The town takes advantage of its celeb. There are signs of the show’s characters everywhere you turn./i-was-censored-by-youtube.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-was-censored-by-youtube.htmlMany of you know that, a few weeks ago, YouTube deleted my conversation with John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt, claiming that it contained hate speech. We entered an appeal requesting that they review the decision and put the video back up, but the deletion was upheld. I think I know what section of the video YouTube believes to be hate speech. But it’s speculation on my part, since they offer no explanation whatsoever as to the specific reasoning behind their decision./i-wear-my-sunscreen-at-night.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-wear-my-sunscreen-at-night.htmlWelcome readers, old and new! Please hit the ❤️ above to cook the turkey faster. As I write this, it’s my last week in Tokyo before heading back to New York. I’d planned to use my final days catching up on visits to a few museums and parks. But last night, right before my granddaughter, M, and her dad produced a luscious (if dented) strawberry shortcake and serenaded me with a heartfelt (if off-key) birthday song, I stubbed my pinky toe—hard./im-a-whole-roasted-turkey-person.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-a-whole-roasted-turkey-person.htmlHi Again! I know it’s been a minute since I’ve popped into your inbox, and there is so much to catch you up on. First off, I’ve moved to Substack! This newsletter was previously hosted on Bulletin, which announced that they will be sunsetting the platform at the top of next year. But we’ve had such a blast together that I’ve decided to keep the newsletter going right here on Substack./ice-cube-burger.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ice-cube-burger.htmlMy kids like their burgers a bit past medium rare. As a result, their burgers can be a bit drier than my juicy, meltingly tender burger. One way I “pad” the burger with extra juiciness is by pressing a small ice cube into the burger patty. This not only adds moisture to the burger, but it prevents the outside from overcooking while the inside is still undercooked. This is the cause of a dry burger, high heat that dries out the exterior before the interior hits the proper “doneness”./iced-lemon-loaf.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iced-lemon-loaf.htmlINGREDIENTS Cake loaf: 1 cup sugar zest of one lemon 1/2 cup oil 2 eggs juice of one lemon 1 1/2 cups flour 2 tsp bp 1/4 cup milk 1/3 cup yogurt Icing: 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tbsp lemon juice (or milk) DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat the oven to 350F. 2. In a large bowl add one cup of granulated sugar and the zest of one lemon in a bowl./if-you-know-you-know.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-you-know-you-know.htmlEvery few miles along I-10 north of New Orleans you see a big billboard: head and shoulders of a long-headed, serious-looking man in a red tie, and these five letters:             IYKYK If you squint and focus hard (IYSAFH), you can also see the name Morris Bart. If you're not driving, you can Google Bart and determine that Bart is a personal injury lawyer. Which (and I'm not saying this, I'm just saying) might conceivably explain how distracting it is to try to read the sign's fine print (there’s a bit more that I couldn’t make out to save my life) from the highway./if-youre-tired-of-being-strong.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-youre-tired-of-being-strong.htmlHi! This week, there is no audio because I am sharing other women’s words, and they deserve to be heard in their own context (I never want to speak on behalf of someone else’s experience). This post is an oldie but goodie. For those of you who have been with me for a while - you may remember Jo - a fab member of my team - she is back! Yay!/in-conversation-ned-russin-of-glitterer.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-ned-russin-of-glitterer.htmlHe was only 21 years old when we first met in 2012, but I saw Ned Russin as a peer from our first conversation. Ned was insanely creative, enthusiastic, and well-versed enough in hardcore history to be called scholarly about it; when GQ asked him to talk about his vintage hardcore t-shirt collection a few years later, it was obvious that Ned was more excited to talk about Beyond and Judge than he was to talk to America’s premier men’s fashion magazine./in-search-of-hot-pie.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-search-of-hot-pie.htmlHot Pie? Are they serving a hot slice of pie, perhaps a la mode? Are they offering dessert as an entree? What goes on? No, I discovered, Hot Pie is pizza. Only, it isn’t. Or it’s what people in the greater Binghamton ares—which includes Johnson City and Endicott—call pizza. Anyway, it’s complicated. And, as with most things where regional pizza interpretations are concerned, there’s a lot of debate and disagreement, as well as numerous distinctions without a difference./in-their-own-words.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-their-own-words.htmlDear Friends, from time to time I will use this space to discuss a new book.  My essay today serves as a foreword to Julia Davis's new book on Russian television propagandists, In Their Own Words, which I heartily recommend to you.             Russian propaganda is in the shadow of America.  Whereas the America only covers Russia when there is something to cover, and usually not even then, Russian propaganda television starts every night from the premise that whatever has happened that day is America's doing and America's fault./introducing-creative-things.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-creative-things.htmlHello and happy 2024! I somehow managed to acquire hundreds of new subscribers on my month break. A warm welcome to all of you. For those who are new here, let me introduce myself.  My name isHelena Price. I am aSilicon Valley creative who has spent more than a decade helping startups, corporations and consumer brands define their visual style. My past clients include Airbnb, Dropbox, Fitbit, Google, Instagram, Meta, Microsoft, Nike, Pinterest, Slack, Square, Twitter and Uber./introducing-emoji-kitchen.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-emoji-kitchen.htmlThis week’s newsletter is gonna be a bit different. I’m gonna talk about something that is not Unicode sanctioned. I know, I know. If you are a Unicode purist you can smash delete on this email and move on with your life. If you are still reading … I have a treat for you! Welcome to … Emoji Kitchen. 🥳🥰😈 Emoji Kitchen has been around for a while but for those unfamiliar: it’s an experience that lets you combine any two emoji to create a totally new expression./is-cozy-season-a-cry-for-help.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-cozy-season-a-cry-for-help.htmlWe are burrowed deep within cozy season on social media. It surrounds us in clouds of neutral-toned knits, it shrouds us in the steam of freshly-brewed hot drinks. Our socks encase our ankles with soulful seasonal droopiness. Our beanies threaten to envelop our entire heads in their snuggly embrace. We have a candle burning, we have a new book ready to crack. We are not getting up from this spot. /is-mercury-in-gatorade-right-now.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-mercury-in-gatorade-right-now.htmlThree times a year the planet Mercury moonwalks across the galaxy to travel backwards. This regressive motion, known as the retrograde, returned on Friday and will persist until mid-May. If you’re someone who consults the stars or someone who consults TikTok’s For You Page, you likely have already been primed to be extra cautious during a Mercury retrograde. As Mercury rules language, intelligence, news, technology and memory, this season is conveniently offered as the scapegoat for why our communication is disrupted, why our emotions are in a funk and why the vibes are generally off./israeli-source-of-executed-children.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/israeli-source-of-executed-children.htmlFirst published by The Electronic Intifada, 27 March. The Jewish extremist responsible for concocting some of Israel’s worst atrocity propaganda about 7 October has admitted that one of his stories about Hamas executing children was untrue. Yossi Landau of the group ZAKA concedes in a new interview with Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit that dead bodies he previously claimed to have seen in Kibbutz Be’eri were “not children.” In the interview he admits: “When you look at them and they’re burned you don’t know exactly the ages./issue-103-naked-in-the-kitchen.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-103-naked-in-the-kitchen.htmlHello! Hello! I’m about to set out on a series of work-related trips, so look forward to upcoming newsletters dispatched from abroad. But first, something very local indeed—I’ve either made or foraged for most of the ingredients in this week’s recipe. But don’t worry, you can purchase everything. You do you. In the meantime, don’t forget that our special offer continues: one year of this newsletter and all the benefits for paid subscribers for only $45, plus a free, signed copy of my cookbook, Kitchen Sense: More than 600 Recipes to Make You a Great Home Cook, delivered to your door./it-all-begins-with-the-terrible-twos.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-all-begins-with-the-terrible-twos.htmlIn one of my alter-egos, I’m a songwriter. I began writing songs during my seven-year tenure as the lead singer in a rock ‘n’ roll band while in college and graduate school and I’ve been writing songs ever since. In 1992, while I was recording a full CD of originals, I wrote a song called “Preoccupied.” Its first two lines are “There’s a slow train comin’ it’ll be here soon, the engineer looks like the creature from the Black Lagoon./its-new-to-me-bulk-slash.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-bulk-slash.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. Good things happened when Hudson Soft joined forces with CAProduction. The developer was originated by former Technosoft staff who worked on Lords of Thunder as part of Red Company’s and Hudson’s classic shooter, Lords of Thunder./jabberwockylewis-carroll.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jabberwockylewis-carroll.htmlThis poem is part of a weekly series dedicated to sharing classic poetry and beloved poems. For more articles, videos, books, and resources about faith and art, visit RabbitRoom.com. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!/thebloggess.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thebloggess.htmlJenny’s Substack - Let's art together By Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) Join me as I share a drawing a week for one year in an attempt to rekindle the joy of creating. Includes random musings on inspiration, motivation and how to keep pouring from your creative cup even when it feels like there's a hole in it. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0xJujqJ%2BXmsC0/jfk-blown-away-60-years-ago-today.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jfk-blown-away-60-years-ago-today.htmlHow those in power are able to have us all chasing our tails is that they have us psychographically profiled. They know that ~90% of people will accept their narrative while ~10% won't (this psychographic applying regardless of narrative plausibility) and they target us accordingly so for JFK they gave us two options: Story A: Lone nut gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald Story B: Cabal (with a number of red-herring story streams)/john-cheever-finally.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-cheever-finally.htmlYou may not know John Cheever or his work, and no one could blame you. His name is not widely recognized today, his writing not frequently discussed, not now. But he was very famous in his time. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Award. That wasn’t too long ago, either — he died in 1982 — but he has since been largely forgotten among the broader reading public./john-nelson-darby-18001882.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-nelson-darby-18001882.htmlYou might not know his name, but John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) might be one of the most influential protestant theologians – and one of the most politically consequential. Born into a family with elite connections on both sides of the Irish Sea, Darby attended Westminster School and then Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated in 1819 with a gold medal in classics. Feeling a call into Christian ministry, he abandoned his preparation as a lawyer and set up as a curate in a remote district in county Wicklow./source-joshua-wilder-agree-to-all.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/source-joshua-wilder-agree-to-all.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./july-28-1540-thomas-cromwell-is-beheaded.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/july-28-1540-thomas-cromwell-is-beheaded.htmlThomas Cromwell climbed the scaffold to his execution and addressed the crowd. “I am come hither to die and not to purge myself, as some think peradventure that I will.” Translation: I’m being screwed. I’m not admitting guilt. Let’s get this over with. He was officially charged with high treason. He’d come so far, started out the poor son of a smith, and had risen to be Henry VIII’s chief minister and the Earl of Essex./june-10-2023.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/june-10-2023.htmlTaking the evening off, as I spent the entire day with my family (which was a really nice antidote to the firehose of this week’s events). But there is some personal news to share…. People have noted that I have been posting the letters earlier than usual lately, and have wondered if everything is okay. First of all, thank you for your concern, and second, yes, it is.  When I first started writing these letters in September 2019, they concerned only Trump’s first impeachment./junior-welterweight-barboza-escapes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/junior-welterweight-barboza-escapes.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./kaiserykuo.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kaiserykuo.htmlKaiser Y KuoA weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and featuring in-depth conversations about books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what’s happening in China. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaytyKycq7Gbqrw%3D/behind-f1s-velvet-curtain-kate-wagner.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behind-f1s-velvet-curtain-kate-wagner.htmlMonday Reading is my weekly recommendation of something I’ve found thought-provoking or fascinating. Sometimes it is about something I have read. Sometimes it is about television or food or music or projects I care about supporting. Sometimes I do not send it on Monday. Please share with anyone who might like the vibes! It seems like people have gotten very into Formula 1 racing? I just see … a lot more people on the internet talking about it./kevin-cooper-is-guilty-e3b.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kevin-cooper-is-guilty-e3b.htmlA special counsel commissioned by former Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed what serious people knew about convicted killer Kevin Cooper: He’s guilty of the 1983 Chino Hills slayings for which he was convicted and sentenced to death in 1985. A report was released late Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Over the years, Cooper, now 65, has managed to excite a stable of death-penalty opponents who have argued that he is an innocent man, framed because he is Black and had escaped from a nearby prison./kitchen-project-28-all-about-focaccia.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-project-28-all-about-focaccia.htmlHello! Welcome to another edition of Kitchen Projects. It’s so lovely to see you here. Today we’re taking a big, gorgeous bubble filled jump into the world of bread:  This super airy focaccia is one of my most requested recipes ever so I’m thrilled to be sharing it today with a deep dive into yeast, gluten. and all those good things. Over on the KP+ this week, I’m so excited because my friend Jordon - a seriously talented chef who is currently making pasta at Burro e Salvia - has created TWO genius recipes to go along with this focaccia dough./labatt-shifting-some-production-to.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/labatt-shifting-some-production-to.htmlGenesee and Labatt USA have been owned by the same parent company since 2009. First under North American Breweries and now under the Costa Rican-based FIFCO. But until now, the flagship beers from each brewery were made in different countries. Genny’s core beers were made at the brewery’s sprawling St. Paul Street campus near downtown Rochester, while Labatt was produced in Canada and then imported into the U.S. That is changing today, however./farmerjohn.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/farmerjohn.htmlGentle reader, We were in Vernon on Tuesday afternoon and were dismayed to see large sections of the famous folk art Farmer John mural created by Les Grimes in 1957, and that he died while painting in 1968, have been tagged or blacked out. Today, the shuttered pork processing plant caught fire. Because there is no preservation ordinance in the city of Vernon, this weird, disturbing, enormous work of art has been, or soon will be, entirely lost./lets-talk-erotica-aco-silver-flames-ef5.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-talk-erotica-aco-silver-flames-ef5.htmlEnjoy this spicey archived piece today; add some heat to your hump day. One year ago today, Sydney and I discussed our reactions to the (at the time) latest installment of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. This one, A Court of Silver Flames, took the spice-factor to a whole other degree and the book can, and should, be filed under smut. A Court of Silver Flames, the fifth installment of Sarah J Maas’ New York Times bestselling series, A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR), was released earlier this year and both being avid fans, Sydney and I demanded a time and place to voice our opinions./letter-146-marc-rowan-2009.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-146-marc-rowan-2009.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./32-living-rooms-dakota-johnsons-bungalow.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/32-living-rooms-dakota-johnsons-bungalow.htmlLiving Rooms is a column on YGL that takes a closer look into the designs, details, and character of spaces. A study of what makes a house a home. I believe in giving life to one’s environment and nurturing the relationship with regular care. Here’s to our humble abodes! © All photos by Simon Upton for Architectural Digest I’m not sure how this home snuck under my radar until recently but I’m just glad I found it./local-realtors-brace-for-commission-a9d.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/local-realtors-brace-for-commission-a9d.htmlThe following article appeared in the March 18, 2024, 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. by Kerry Singe A national legal settlement is expected to shake up the way real estate agents get paid for buying and selling homes — a shift that could lead to lower housing prices but could also make it harder for some buyers./lost-in-translation-2003.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lost-in-translation-2003.htmlSofia Coppola’s second feature film is a remarkable achievement. Having watched Lost in Translation (2003) again last night, I’m adding it to my all-time Top Ten film list, which placing it in some pretty impressive company, including the likes of Nic Roeg, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Joseph Losey. If you’ve ever been away on business, you should identify with Lost in Translation. The jet lag, the transience, the sense of disoriented alienation, a taxi from the airport, the blandness of international ‘luxury’ hotels and duty-free: the mini-bar, the television set with God Knows how many channels, a sea of carpet, beige- and safe, inoffensive modernism./lost-playground-deemers-beach.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lost-playground-deemers-beach.htmlOn founding his eponymous beach resort and amusement park in 1925, Seldon Deemer predicted it would “equal if not surpass Coney Island!” If nothing else, for nearly two decades, Deemer’s Beach Park was our Coney Island… Sea (and lake- and river-) side resorts gained popularity in the late 1800s, beginning as havens for the wealthy and/or infirm but proliferating by the 1920s to become part of what Summer meant for millions of Americans of many backgrounds./madonna-plastic-surgery-face-grammys.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/madonna-plastic-surgery-face-grammys.htmlMadonna debuted a new face at the Grammy Awards last week. Well, new to the 64-year-old pop icon, at least. The look — waxy, expressionless skin stretched tight over exaggerated cheekbones, obliterated buccal fat, and artificially-enhanced lips, with brows bleached into oblivion to emphasize the emptiness of it all — recalls the “succubus chic” aesthetic recently popularized by Bella Hadid and Amelia Gray. The backlash to Madonna’s beauty choices has been swift and unserious, falling into three (deeply anti-intellectual!/maintenance-phase-fact-check-round.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maintenance-phase-fact-check-round.htmlI want to start off by stating three really important things: Fat-phobia is rampant, especially in the medical world, and causes significant mental and physical harm. Being fat is not a moral failing. Fat people should not be treated differently than “straight-sized” people. ncG1vNJzZmiroKq%2FqrvUrKqepZmYvK27zWeqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGS6orXNrZynmZ6Ysm68x5qqnmWWlrC1ecKhnJyjXae8trrDaJqopZ2au7W%2F/make-and-engrave-a-pristolnic.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-and-engrave-a-pristolnic.htmlA pristolnic is Romanian seal that is used to consecrate bread for holy occasions. Typically the raw dough is shaped, then pressed with the pristolnic, which has a holy symbol on its underside. The honor of making this bread is typically reserved for older women in the community. (Do I have this right, Daniel? Let me know.) Pristolnic can be made of wood,… ncG1vNJzZmibmKe2tMDOqZ%2BeqqOYtbit0bNlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8rq3KnmSappRisq%2Bz0ZqtnmWRYr2ztdKtpqWmmZg%3D/marlon-brando-get-back-to-the-dream.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marlon-brando-get-back-to-the-dream.htmlInterview with the Author By Telephone July 1990 [When I showed this particular excerpt to Peter Manso, the author of the definitive biography of Marlon Brando, I got a bemused phone call from the writer, and he read to me something that sounded very similar to what I had sent him. “Brando,” Manso said, “has been working on—working out—this theory for years. Your version and my version could be merged, and we might have something./maundy-thursday-2024.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maundy-thursday-2024.htmlHi Readers, Just a quick post from me to our community to mark the beginning of the Triduum, or the Holy Three Days before Jesus’ resurrection on Easter Sunday. I wasn’t leading a Maundy Thursday service this year, but it was a big day for our family. Both of my sons completed instruction and celebrated the First Communion this evening at Maundy Thursday … ncG1vNJzZmiZnpyyra3DnqWknaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqtnpnGbsDHrqmsnJGuenN8kW0%3D/meatball-cupcakes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meatball-cupcakes.htmlI love to post party food, especially around the holidays. I believe taking control of party food and making stuff you can enjoy at the party will help keep you on track, no matter what food restriction, allergy, or way of eating you prefer. Be in charge of your life and your food. But also make yourself yummy food. That’s the key to discipline. What I mean is: will power will only take you so far when you are changing your beliefs around food, health, diet, etc and all the positive and negative we have tied up in our belief systems around food./microsoft-riot-layoffs-put-an-exclamation.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/microsoft-riot-layoffs-put-an-exclamation.htmlBurning the midnight oil to get this news out the door as we start out a new week. Last week was brutal for people working in the video games industry, and given that we are already halfway (nearly 6,000 gaming-related layoffs in January) to the total number of layoffs in 2023, things are looking pretty bleak. These figure don’t include layoffs in the tech sector, games media, or esports either. If you have been affected by layoffs, I’m very sorry this has happened to you, but I encourage you to keep your head high and hang in there./monte-walsh-1970.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monte-walsh-1970.htmlAs I've gotten older, I've found that I have more appreciation for movies that are not necessarily driven by a story. "Monte Walsh" is an excellent example; I think a twentysomething me would've found it a bit slow and uneventful, especially for a Western. Yes, there are a few shootouts in this 1970 minor gem based on the novel by Jack Shaefer, who also wrote "Shane." But it's more a contemplation on the end days of cowboys, getting old and letting go of the way things have always been./murakami-novels-that-began-as-short.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/murakami-novels-that-began-as-short.htmlA few months ago, Haruki Murakami released his fifteenth novel. Unfortunately, it is only available in Japanese for now, but it should be published in English and other languages in 2024. This book was released with little advanced warning and it was a surprise also because it was an expansion of a short story he wrote many decades ago. Perhaps this should not have been a big surprise, for Murakami has frequently revisited old short stories and novels to create new novels./my-gta-5-graphics-settings-and-nvidia.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-gta-5-graphics-settings-and-nvidia.htmlI would like to share with you my recommendation on graphics related settings. You will see me writing about Nvidia and not AMD as I’m fan of Nvidia and I never had AMD so I can not speak anything about it’s settings at all. I will start with my in-game settings recommendations in same order as you see them in in-game menu. Ignore Suggested Limits—definitively On. DirectX Version—have to be set to DirectX 11 otherwise you will have glitches like square smoke + some functions of our RealismScript can be not working properly either./my-new-podcast-run-fool-is-out-now.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-new-podcast-run-fool-is-out-now.htmlRun, Fool! follows an anthology format in the style of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt with each episode focusing on a singular, terrifying ghost story, from various periods of American history. For instance, legend has it that a black goat farmer named Oscar Washburn moved his family to a residence just north of a bridge in a Maryland known today as Goatman’s Bridge. It got that name because it was haunted by a half-man, half-goat figure that Oscar Washburn sold tickets to see./my-review-of-one-of-the-loveliest.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-review-of-one-of-the-loveliest.htmlReview of Mulberry Street Tavern Surety Hotel, Downtown Des Moines 206 6th Ave.; (515) 985-2066 Recently, when some friends and I were deciding where to dine out, one pal mentioned that her “current obsession” was Mulberry Street Tavern. She’d dined there six or seven times in the past three months. “Lovely service. Good veg options,” she said, especially recommending the cauliflower steak with banana-pepper coulis. “Plus, it’s cozy,” she added./my-top-3-mini-golf-themes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-top-3-mini-golf-themes.htmlI don’t golf, but I do enjoy a rousing round of putt putt. This week, we are counting down my top three miniature golf themes. Miniature golf is one of my preferred vacation activities. It’s a little absurd but always fun. I’ve been known to get a hole-in-one and a triple bogey (or higher) in the same game. Plus, there is the inevitable need to chase a ball when it bounces out of play and down a concrete path./new-chapter-11-bankruptcy-convergeone.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-chapter-11-bankruptcy-convergeone.htmlOn April 4, 2024, ConvergeOne Holdings (d/b/a “C1”) and sixteen affiliates (collectively, the “debtors”) filed prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the Southern District of Texas (Judge Lopez). C1 is a global IT services company with more than 6,000 private and public sector customers. Think data center, cyber security, networking etc. Founded in 1… ncG1vNJzZmiolam2tbXOp2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyvsdZmmqGZoKmys3mQamSbmZ6gv7a805ywZpufo8Omvsaepqed/when-you-refuse-to-punch-down-for-cheap-laughs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-you-refuse-to-punch-down-for-cheap-laughs.htmlDavid Sedaris tells a story about signing up for an Adult-Ed writing class called How to Write Funny after he first moved to New York. The teacher was a crusty older-middle-aged woman who on the first day of class asked her students, “What’s the first rule of writing funny?” Sedaris answers with the squnched-up expression of someone lacking confidence: “Don’t make fun of anyone who has less power than you?”/no-you-dont-owe-me-a-favor.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-you-dont-owe-me-a-favor.htmlWhen I learned that a colleague was struggling with grief after losing a parent, I offered to introduce her to an excellent bereavement therapist. Several months later, my colleague sent me a beautiful note about how much she appreciated the connection. I was thrilled to hear that the therapist had been helpful. But there was one sentence at the end of the note that didn’t sit right with me. Her closing line was “I owe you one./sellout-stories-norman-brannon-texas.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sellout-stories-norman-brannon-texas.htmlHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only/greatest newsletter about music in the world. Welp, SELLOUT has been out for a week and the response has been so overwhelming. Every morning I wake up to dozens and dozens and dozens of nice messages from you all. Apologies if I haven’t gotten to all of them but I really appreciate the support! I’ve done approximately 9,000 interviews about the book recently if you want to read/listen to any of em./notes-from-japan-on-wabi-sabi.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notes-from-japan-on-wabi-sabi.htmlIf I had to define what Wabi-sabi means in my own words, I’d say it is the act of cherishing the beauty found in natural imperfection. In Japan, where this concept originates, it’s not just an aesthetic (like, say, shabby-chic is): it is a whole philosophy – an attitude towards life, even. An integral part of the Japanese culture that has its roots in Zen Buddhism. As Leonard Koren explains in his book “Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers”, even Japanese people struggle when trying to define this concept./nuckelavee-the-devil-of-the-sea.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nuckelavee-the-devil-of-the-sea.htmlSummer is long over. The Sea Mither has lost her battle against Winter. The Orcadians sense evil walks amongst them once again. There is no trickery or joy in this creature. There is only malevolence and hate. The nuckelavee, a spirit in flesh, is free. Has Mythoi featured an evil greater than the nuckelavee? Creatures like the beithir and tatzelwurm are ultimately beasts, driven by primal instincts. The headless dullahan acts on behalf of death itself./office-hours.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/office-hours.html“If you're writing on Substack, or want to, or just want to know more about how and why people write on Substack (basically, if any combination of the words 'writing', 'on' and 'Substack' tickles your fancy) then have a read of Substack HQ's newsletter for creators.” ncG1vNJzZminnmPAtq7SrZico16YvK570mimn56ZmLJutM6uqaw%3D/seattle-old-salt-mt-bagel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seattle-old-salt-mt-bagel.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. Reminder: Free It’s a Shanda stickers are available to paid subscribers./bristoliver.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bristoliver.htmlOliver JohnsonI try to understand the world with maths, and explain how in this free newsletter. I wrote about COVID data during the pandemic, including its limitations and uncertainty, and tweeted a lot as @Bristoliver. I now write about various topical stories. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaO%2ByKyrqKSZq7Kz/podcast-episode-1-on-anger-with-courtney.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podcast-episode-1-on-anger-with-courtney.htmlBuilding a life beyond Mormonism is hard to do alone. This podcast is meant to serve as a means to see and understand how other people are navigating this new wilderness. Each episode will feature someone who has experienced leaving Mormonism behind. Together we will talk through the topics of the book chapters. Like the book, this isn't a how-to guide, just some humans trying traversing new lands together. Building a life beyond Mormonism is hard to do alone./on-sharing-family-recipes-and-finding.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-sharing-family-recipes-and-finding.htmlIt’s pub day for my latest co-write! This cookbook, The Ranch Table, written with Magnolia Network star Elizabeth Poett, is particularly dear to me because Elizabeth has been one of my closest friends since kindergarten. Helping her share her story has been an absolute joy (and a fantastic excuse to get on the phone with her every few days), and I can’t wait for the world to enjoy her gorgeous recipes and learn about life on her family ranch./off-the-fence-on-the-trail-of-purple.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/off-the-fence-on-the-trail-of-purple.htmlDear Readers, Good afternoon, and welcome to Off The Fence, a plump little newsletter to the UK’s Only Magazine. There’s a lot happening at the moment: Issue 17 is being finalised tomorrow, and should be with us very soon. Next week, we’ll barrage you with some details about this issue – there are a couple of outstanding features within.  So, now, more than ever, there’s never been a better time to subscribe to the magazine – you’ll get two pieces of post in a fortnight from a quarterly magazine, which really is very exciting indeed./on-vibing.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-vibing.htmlClick here to read this essay on Substack.  I. There's this moment I'm faced with about once a week––during Zoom calls for work, or on the phone with my grandmother––when someone asks me the question, "so what have you been up to?" Perhaps irrationally, this prompt always sends me into a bit of a panic. So I’ll talk about work and books and TV, and try hard to say something that will make me sound normal./one-pan-white-wine-chicken-and-potatoes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-pan-white-wine-chicken-and-potatoes.htmlScroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly PDF of the recipe only. One thing I think every cook should have in their repertoire is a one-pan meal that requires minimal prep and just cooks itself. Something that uses mostly ingredients you have around and is easy enough to throw together on nights when you just don’t have it in you to cook, but also want a homemade meal./other-peoples-songs-me-and-magdalena.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/other-peoples-songs-me-and-magdalena.htmlI heard this song on some playlist or another a few years ago. It just popped up on my phone. Imagine my excitement when I discovered it was a song by the Monkees! A song, no doubt, from their sixties heyday, a psychedelic ballad that never got its due, lost to the winds of time. What a great cover this would be! What a discovery! And now imagine my surprise when I learned that it was actually written by my friend Ben Gibbard and recorded by the Monkees for their 2016 record Good Times!/outlaw-johnny-black.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/outlaw-johnny-black.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As a fan of writer/producer/director/star Michael Jai White, Westerns and White’s prior genre sendup “Black Dynamite,” it feels as though “Outlaw Johnny Black” (now in theaters) was tailor-made for me. Thankfully, it mostly hits its mark. Young Johnny Black (Jalyn Hall, he played Emmett Till in “Till” – this movie must’ve sat on a shelf for a hot minute as Hall looks markedly younger here despite that film coming out almost a year ago) lost his trick-shooting, preacher Pops Bullseye Black (aces character actor Glynn Turman) at the hands of roving outlaw Brett Clayton (Chris Browning)./paw-patrol-the-mighty-movie.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paw-patrol-the-mighty-movie.htmlAny parent of young kids is familiar with PAW Patrol. What started off as a Canadian children’s cartoon more than a decade ago (created with the sole purpose to sell toys), has ballooned into a world-wide craze with more than $14 billion in toy/merchandise sales since 2014. Two years ago, The PAW Patrol Movie came out as movie-goers were just returning post-pandemic and impressed with $144 million worldwide against a $26 million budget./pelegram.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pelegram.htmlSolstice closing over Lowe’s, pink slashes fanning out from the center. I bought my dad a clock. Everything looks like a gem to a jeweler. Though that may very well turn out to be a correct perception on our part. Imagine wind gripping the moon. You can’t. When a fact is felt in the stomach, breathe into the floor of that fact. If it’s the bad kind of butterflies, so be it./pillars-jachin-and-boaz.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pillars-jachin-and-boaz.htmlThen he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz. When Solomon supervised the building of the temple, 2 curious bronze pillars were made. They were not part of the structure, but free standing in the vestibule. Th…/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-32b.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-32b.htmlphoto credit: Inter Miami CFInter Miami don’t quit, do they? The Herons earn another win against a heated Eastern Conference rival with a 2-1 victory vs. Nashville SC. With the return of Federico Redondo and Diego Gomez, Miami looked strong, out shooting the hosts 14 to 9. As the game went on, and Nashville looked for the equalizer, Miami stayed strong and put on a brave defensive performance. Thanks to Tata Matino’s tactical setup and Drake Callendar’s heroics, the men in pink and black were able to grind out another crucial win./beyond-wrapped-poptimism-false-meritocracy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyond-wrapped-poptimism-false-meritocracy.htmlMeritocracy has never been more loudly proclaimed as a guiding principle of cultural production than it is in the age of the algorithm. The idea that ‘the cream will rise to the top’ seems to be almost universally accepted, as though the dominance of powerful music industry lobbies had been replaced by the populist ‘truth’ of your Spotify Wrapped stats, reflecting back to you only what you choose, what you love./pork-belly-adobo.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pork-belly-adobo.htmlHi everyone! I’ve been away for about a month in Europe, so it is so nice to be back, conversing with all of you via email. Just a bit of an update: I’ve moved my content from the website to this newsletter as members were having difficulty searching for recipes on the website. With a better search engine and an index, hopefully you would have a more seamless experience. Two, by sending recipes direct to your inbox, I hope it makes it more convenient to refer to them and cook local./prayer-against-storms.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prayer-against-storms.htmlLast night, a storm came through and knocked out the power. Everything was calm until suddenly we noticed heavy winds and the trees in the backyard being bent over dramatically. We pulled out the Prayer Against Storms and prayed. The storm subsided. We later learned that a neighbor lost a large tree in the winds. We first learned of the power of this prayer 23 years ago in Minnesota. These were pre-internet and smartphone days./david-ortiz-steroids-peds-hall-of-fame-red-sox.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-ortiz-steroids-peds-hall-of-fame-red-sox.htmlWelcome to the first “official” post on my new repository of blogs: Calling Balls & Strikes w/ Anthony L. Fisher by me, Anthony L. Fisher. Please subscribe! It’s well-documented that I’m a morally repugnant Yankees fan, and thus shouldn’t be allowed to write about David Ortiz.  And yet, I’ve written about Ortiz, the Boston Red Sox legend, the widely-beloved “Big Papi.” In a notorious-in-New England 2016 column for The Week, I pointed out that despite the MLB and media-propagated myth of a selfless and humble cuddly teddy bear, Ortiz regularly exhibited on-field and in-clubhouse behavior that would be reviled in just about any other player./ranking-all-nine-of-the-fights-in.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ranking-all-nine-of-the-fights-in.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./re-tiering-the-2020-nba-draft-class.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-tiering-the-2020-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./read-write-own-reviewed.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/read-write-own-reviewed.htmlThere’s a revealing passage on page 80 of Chris Dixon’s new book, Read Write Own. Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), in charge of their crypto fund. He has been the single biggest funder of blockchain projects, and also Web3’s most significant evangelist. On page 80, Dixon writes: “The concept of ownership is so deeply embedded in our lives that it’s difficult to imagine how the world would look if that were taken away./remember-butch-trucks.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remember-butch-trucks.htmlWow. It’s been five years since we lost Butch Trucks. FIVE YEARS. Below is a verbatim repost of what I wrote the next day in a haze of sadness, confusion, anger and exhaustion. There are some edits I would normally make, but I think it best to let the rawness stand. I was operating on no sleep because I had gotten a call confirming the awful news at midnight and spent all night staring at the ceiling in disbelief, tossing and turning in anguish, anger and self recrimination./remembering-mud1-the-first-multiplayer.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-mud1-the-first-multiplayer.htmlA member of the Lunduke Journal Community recently discovered the joy of MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) — the on-line, multiplayer, text-based role playing games (typically played via the Telnet protocol). Which made me realize: The Lunduke Journal simply has not spent enough time talking about the joy of MUDs. To help rectify that, let’s take a little stroll back to the 1970s… as we explore the history of the very first MUD — and, in fact, the very first multiplayer, online role playing game on the Internet: MUD1/remembering-murray-stenson.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-murray-stenson.htmlThis evening, Paul Clarke, the editor-in-chief of Imbibe magazine, shared the sad news that Seattle bartending legend Murray Stenson, the man who ushered new life into the forgotten Last Word cocktail, has died. “My career wouldn't have existed without Murray's friendship and guidance and encouragement over the course of the past 20 years, and I know he's touched countless others over the decades he spent behind the bar, at Zig Zag Cafe and Il Bistro to the many other places he graced./review-doctor-who-empire-of-death.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-doctor-who-empire-of-death.htmlWhen I’m reviewing an episode of TV, I’m always trying to balance my initial gut reaction with a more measured perspective on how the episode might age over time. And that can be a hard thing to sum up. Last week, for instance, I found “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” really frustrating on a first watch, but far more engaging on a second, when I let go of my expectations of its plot and just let its vibes wash over me./review-doctor-who-wild-blue-yonder.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-doctor-who-wild-blue-yonder.htmlOne thing I didn’t expect about these big, buzzy 60th anniversary specials is how much they’d feel like regular episodes of Doctor Who—as if Russell T. Davies took a year off after “The End of Time” but then jumped right into a fifth season of the show. Cut a few references to the Flux (the Flux!) and the ongoing mystery about why the Doctor got his old face back, and this could easily be a months-later adventure with the Doctor and Donna circa 2010./review-freewrite-alpha.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-freewrite-alpha.htmlI've always been naturally intrigued by the range of Freewrite portable word processors/digital keyboards from Astrohaus. They’re an American tech company in the Detroit metro, and they keep the flame burning for the the AlphaSmart brand of word processors, which had a passionate cult following. Astrohaus has developed and sold several such devices for about eight years. Though they’ve released each with a variety of SKUs, there have thus far been two primary models, their original smart typewriter and a clamshell design called the Traveler./review-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphiadennis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphiadennis.html“I am not mad at you. I am mad at the system.” And, just like that, Season 16 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is done. Short seasons have always been Sunny’s style, even before single-digit-episode seasons became the norm, but Season 16 feels incomplete in a way few seasons of this series have. Last season also boasted only eight episodes, but the ambitious Ireland mini-arc closed things out with a burst of originality (and, in Charlie’s case, unexpected emotional heft) that lent the brisk season a sense of completeness./review-lauren-oylers-no-judgment.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-lauren-oylers-no-judgment.htmlLet’s start with zero theatrics, then spin some up over time. Because there’s no value to theatrics without sense and no reason to make sense if we don’t have fun. I enjoyed Lauren Oyler’s new essay collection No Judgment a lot, and I think it’s a good demonstration of growth from a remarkably talented but frequently frustrating writer. She’s kept her trademark complexity and compositional adventurousness while leaving some of the adversarial framing and self-defensive tics behind./robert-fripps-crimson-hiatus-1974.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/robert-fripps-crimson-hiatus-1974.htmlIn honor of the recent release of an episode of Live From Darryl’s House featuring guitarist Robert Fripp, I thought I would offer this piece on Fripp’s years between versions of his King Crimson band, 1974-1980. This period covers his many collaborations with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Darryl Hall, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, and the formation of his band League of Gentlemen. During this period Fripp went from being a mysterious prog rock guitarist to a highly visible member of the cutting edge of rock’s new wave and avant garde./romance-novels-are-picking-up-steam.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/romance-novels-are-picking-up-steam.htmlGood morning! Today is Monday, June 24, 2024. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with local business-y news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. Need to subscribe — or upgrade your Ledger e-newsletter subscription? Details here. Today’s Charlotte Ledger is sponsored by T.R. Lawing Realty: Inside Trope Bookshop, a mobile romance bookstore, owner Katie Mitchell organizes the shelves around “tropes,” or how the plot is structured. Mitchell drives the converted school bus around Charlotte, parking outside of coffee shops, breweries, street markets and more./royal-family-and-global-war-predictions.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/royal-family-and-global-war-predictions.htmlDear Reader, Well, this is embarrassing. Maybe it can be a learning moment (for me, not you!) Last Monday, I was close to publishing a post, but I felt like more could be added to it so I set it aside and planned to complete and send it to you on Thursday, April 11th. If you also publish on Substack, you’ll know you can request the platform to email drafts of posts to yourself, and I had multiple test drafts of this post emailed to me./sakura-diaries-part-2.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sakura-diaries-part-2.htmlHello from Osaka! On Saturday morning, I was out walking before anyone else was awake.  I’ve been trying to break a pattern in our family, which goes a little like this. I (lark) wake at 5am, and then begin to get impatient around 9am for H and Bert (owls) to get up. My impatience builds after they wake, and slowly feel their way into the day. By 11am, they are maybe considering getting dressed, and I, six hours into my day already, am snapping at their heels to get out of the house, because it’s nearly lunchtime for God’s sake and we’re going to waste the whole day if we don’t get moving./sapphic-love-and-getting-wrecked.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sapphic-love-and-getting-wrecked.htmlWelcome to Yes Yes, my monthly advice column. I am writing to you from the meadow my house sits in during lesbian visibility week. Last night me and a few queers watched The Whistle on PBS - a documentary about dykes in the 70’s and 80’s in Albuquerque who used codes to communicate safely with each other. It is great I think you should watch. At many points in the last six years I identified as a lesbian, a dyke, a woman who loved women./scott-adams-v-the-internet-social.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scott-adams-v-the-internet-social.htmlSometimes, I get reader questions: In case the content of the tweet isn’t showing up for you—who knows, with Twitter these days—David Hamilton asks: “What role do you think Social Warming has played in the sad story of Scott Adams [cartoonist creator of Dilbert] and his increasing radicalisation, which seemed initially to crystallise with his support in 2016 for Donald Trump?” It’s a good question. For those who haven’t kept up (and why should you?/screaming-skulls.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/screaming-skulls.htmlSkeletons are often associated with darkness and death in folklore. That’s why the skull and crossbones doubles as a common symbol warning for everything from poison to pirates. If you live in England, or pay a visit there, you’ll soon discover skulls also play a prominent role in poltergeist folklore. Tales concerning screaming skulls date back many centuries in England. Screaming skulls earned their name because they are said to cause all sorts of poltergeist activity — with emitting unearthly blood-curdling screams being their chief claim to fame./screw-the-mars-hype-heres-why-we.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/screw-the-mars-hype-heres-why-we.htmlElon Musk wants to park a Tesla on Mars. Let’s go to Venus instead, and build a new way of life. It’s possible that life already evolved on Venus, and you may have heard about a recent paper showing phosphenes in the planet’s upper atmosphere. Phosphenes are a chemical signature of biological processes, and so everybody got excited — though a re-examination of the evidence suggests the phosphene sighting may have been a trick of the light./this-isnt-judo-this-is-anal-sex.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-isnt-judo-this-is-anal-sex.htmlDeveloper: WAKUWAKU Genre: Simulation Store: Steam, DLSite Reviewed version: 1.95 Censored: Nope (except on DLSite) Patch Needed: No OS: Windows Language: English, Japanese, and Chinese (Traditional) Netori simulators, as I call them, have become quite popular after NTR Legend came out, blew everyone's minds, and inspired other devs to make similar games. Self Defense Dojo - Secret NTR Lessons is one such game and also the current winner of the DLSite English Awards 2023./seltzer-bully-liquid-death.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seltzer-bully-liquid-death.htmlSo, here’s the thing: Liquid Death is less a brand of seltzer water than it is a lifestyle brand aimed at rich people who want to look like they’re true to something. It’s made lightly heavy font choices. It’s got a skull logo. It’s obsessed with the notion of “murdering thirst,” which is weirdo adman speak for “drinking water.” They have shirts. They have hats. They have a $225 watch and a nightlight./september-11-2022.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/september-11-2022.htmlI was playing around in yesterday’s post, because my “crazy rare find at Buddy’s wharf” was, of course, Buddy himself. Took yesterday off and am going to take tonight, too. First time since September 15, 2019, I’ve taken more than a single day off, but our wedding seems like a worthy occasion, no? [Photo by Leonie Glen.] Share ncG1vNJzZmiglZbBqbHRnKaxqpmYtaK%2Bw6ymp2ajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvSnqetnZ2XsrN5kGpka2hiZw%3D%3D/sexual-adventurousness-is-what.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sexual-adventurousness-is-what.htmlI am on 500 deadlines and everyone in my household is or recently was sick and I have no time but I cannot help myself. It has long been my sense that sexual adventurousnessas a category is something only used in reference to women. That there is no such thing as a sexually adventurous man, because this is what is referred to as a man. Not that all men are sexually adventurous, even in their own minds, but it is the assumed default state for men./shells-wonderful-world-of-golf-part.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shells-wonderful-world-of-golf-part.htmlWith his runner-up finish in the 1963 Masters, Tony Lema attracted the kind of attention that resulted in opportunities to make money other than from tournaments on the PGA TOUR. Endorsements, exhibitions, and televised competitions became available to him. His first opportunity for a televised match came with an offer from the producers of Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf.   The Shell show was part travelogue, part corporate public relations and part golf match./should-husbands-submit-to-wives.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-husbands-submit-to-wives.htmlThe Westminster Shorter Catechism states, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” The language here is a bit archaic. “Man” doesn’t mean men or males but mankind as a whole. What it means is that humanity’s intended purpose and ultimate goal is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. This concept is drawn directly from Scripture. 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God./should-you-watch-people-die.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/should-you-watch-people-die.htmlAre you supposed to watch videos of people getting killed? A couple days ago, Unherd writer Aris Roussinos made a strong argument for the no camp, and I think I agree. Which is a little funny, because if you’d looked at his and my work five years ago, you might have thought we both wanted you to see more videos of dying people. I’m being slightly too flippant, so let me back up: Roussinos is a former foreign correspondent for Vice TV, from back before Vice focused on Bushwick marginalia./silly-little-outfits-travis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/silly-little-outfits-travis.htmltravis l. tate is a writer, performer, and silly girl living in Brooklyn, NY. they love sweet treats and going to the club! you can find more about their plays, poetry, and their short story collection, UNTENABLE MYSTIC CHARM, at travisltate.com. Jenna: What's your favorite outfit?  travis: Oh my God. What's my favorite outfit? Okay. Right now, in the winter, it’s Dickies work pants. With those boots from Australia that everyone has, and now I can't remember the name./singer-julie-budd-sheds-early-barbra.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/singer-julie-budd-sheds-early-barbra.htmlComparisons are inevitable in show biz. Bob Dylan was heralded as the “new Woody Guthrie,” Bruce Springsteen had both the mantles of “the next Bob Dylan” and “the future of rock’n’roll” to overcome, and many drew an early parallel between Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. While some of these media-contrived comparisons are benign and easily traversed, some artists have found their given millstone nigh unto impossible to toss off (see Elliott Murphy and Willie Nile, both saddled, at one time or other, with “the next Dylan” tag)./slipped-biden-a-mickey.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slipped-biden-a-mickey.htmlSusan Blount, my sister, is a get-out-the-Democratic-vote activist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her organization, Neighbors on Call, focusses mainly on house-to-house canvassing in support of progressive state-legislature candidates, but it also recently hosted a rally addressed by Heather Cox Richardson. Here is my by-no-means-batshit sister's explanation of Joe Biden's recent wretched debate performance:             "Somebody slipped  him a mickey."             Makes sense to me.             It's hard to believe that a mere cold, or advanced age, could render a seasoned politician, at such a crucial moment, unable to clear his throat./so-what-do-you-do-for-fun.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-what-do-you-do-for-fun.html"So, what do you do for fun?” I asked a new friend a month or so ago in a cafe in Lisbon. We’d not known each other for very long, but we had very similar energies (in the way that anyone who spent their formative years on Tumblr does) and she looked at me over her Americano and said, “honestly, my main hobby is probably consuming media.” I practically yelled ‘SAME’ and told her that when I realised that consuming media was one of my hobbies it changed my life./so-you-want-to-write-a-short-story.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/so-you-want-to-write-a-short-story.htmlHi friends, SO: you want to write a short story collection. Let’s set some ground rules first. In this case, we’re talking fiction, because the non-fiction version of this is an essay collection, and we’re also talking about books for grown ups. Short story collections for kids are not impossible, but they are rare when done by a single author. Anthologies, fiction or otherwise, are more common, but include many authors, not just one./social-justice-for-the-sensitive.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/social-justice-for-the-sensitive.htmlI've been reading this book alongside Living Resistance for about a month now and I can't tell you how grounding and helpful that has been. Those plus the work that Andre Henry is putting out and also Dr. Christena Cleveland about race and shame is helping me remember that finding a way to sustainably be involved in justice work is important. Thank you! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmijkZ7BrbXNnKyrrJmYsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2irn5i2oriMo6ysrJmYsm6yzqtkraCVYsCmutKiq6KulWSwsLnMnqWtqw%3D%3D/social-medias-blackout.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/social-medias-blackout.htmlThe digital landscape has long been dominated by the tranquil hues of blue - a subtle nod to trust and reliability in an unchartered territory. From the pioneering platforms such as MSN Messenger, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, blue was the unifying thread, the common denominator among these groundbreakers. It was no accident. Blue, universally regarded as a symbol of trustworthiness and dependability, draws its roots from our natural world, echoing the unwavering presence of the sky and the sea./jfk-x-solving-the-crime-of-the-century.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jfk-x-solving-the-crime-of-the-century.htmlIn my last entry, I described what I think will likely be a distinguished series on all four political assassinations of the sixties. That was the Libby Handros produced and John Kirby directed Four Died Trying. I will now discuss a film that I am puzzled is even for sale on Amazon.  And it makes me wonder if there is any pre-screening policy there at all.  The title of this picture is JFK X: Solving the Crime of the Century./some-stories-about-communization.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-stories-about-communization.htmlI want to do a series of posts on the theory of “communization” as it has developed since 1968, because it seems to me there is a great deal more interest in the term and desire than there is comprehension. There are many reasons for the abuse the word has suffered, but foremost is that, in France, from whence it derives, “communization” never at first served to name a tendency or a coherent theory./stupid-chromebook.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stupid-chromebook.htmlI have another Chromebook, my second refurbished Acer that I bought in February from Walmart. And I am having problems with this stupid Chromebook! Oh, I know I should just take it back but if I could just get it fixed or get a brand new computer instead! But I think it might be partly my fault since I either have dropped it or I get mad and hit it! I do have another computer, a desktop that I can use but the chair is so uncomfortable and hard!/summer-penile-syndrome.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-penile-syndrome.htmlDid you know there's a name for the super swollen male parts from bug bites? Actually two names: Summer Penile Syndrome and Lion Mane's Penis. Doctors might even call it seasonal acute hypersensitivity reaction. If you've ever seen it, you know it can be quite impressive. Summer penile syndrome is a fairly common concern during the summer months. It's usually due to a chigger bite on the sensitive skin of the penis or scrotum./tales-of-babylon.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tales-of-babylon.htmlThere’s a prevailing opinion among many creative types that there are truly no more original stories, and everything new we see is just stealing, or to use the polite term inspired by, existing works. I don’t really subscribe to this theory — how many other films used a popular toy as inspiration for a hilarious and oddly poignant exploration of gender roles? — but I take their point. Certainly themes, story construction and character types are often liberally borrowed from work to work, movies being no exception./talking-to-james-brown-in-jail-1989.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-to-james-brown-in-jail-1989.htmlIt had to be the strangest call from a publicist ever. Would I like to do a phone interview with James Brown, then serving a six year sentence at the State Park Correctional Institute in South Carolina? On Sept. 24, 1988, James Brown had a very bad day. Native to both Augusta, Ga., and the nearby black community across the river in South Carolina, Mr. Brown, as he preferred to be addressed, was accused of waving some guns around an insurance seminar in Augusta in an office building he owned, or once owned, then led a chase over into South Carolina, where state police officers shot out his tires./taxi-for-the-bulls-e182-s1.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taxi-for-the-bulls-e182-s1.htmlI have been pretty unwell today so no trades for me, sadly. Even from my sick bed, I bring you something to help you plan for tomorrow. Did you notice we broke below the key support I mentioned in Sunday's review? From there, sellers took full control as we await GDP data! Never let the macro give you bias as a day trader. Always just play the chart! Levels updated:/that-summer-feeling.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-summer-feeling.htmlThere’s something inherently nostalgic about summer: memories of summer vacation, childhood freedom, first jobs, first loves, family trips, late nights, and endless other experiences with people and places we learned from and loved. As I write this, I have Jonathan Richman's 6-minute ode to summer nostalgia stuck in my head. In it, Richman reflects on childhood summer memories – uncomplicated friendships, cool water, the smell of grass – always concluding, “that summer feeling is gonna haunt you one day in your life./the-1930s-in-clothing-not-fashion.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-1930s-in-clothing-not-fashion.htmlI think my biggest struggle with writing is not the writing itself, but knowing what to write about. The world is vast, history is enormous, and so things like #thevintagefashionchallenge on IG (hosted by @makethislook, @iliveinmylab and @tinyangrycrafts) give me a framework for delving deeper into certain topics. This week we’re focusing on decades, and I wanted to look at the 1930s and 40s through the lens of women working—or just living their everyday lives through the Great Depression and World War—rather than the fashion forward, often extravagant or expensive garments that are photographed on thin, carefully posed models./the-addams-family-halloween-poem.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-addams-family-halloween-poem.htmlWant to stay up to date with all things PopPoetry? Follow the new dedicated account @pop__poetry for news and extras! Happy Halloween! Been enjoying these themed posts from PopPoetry? Next week’s subscriber-only post will focus on a staple of Halloween and winter holiday viewing: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. We’ve got a delightful creepy appetizer on offer today, but if you’d like to read next week’s post on the animated holiday classic and the poem it was inspired by, upgrade your subscription today!/the-aero-wheel-edition.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-aero-wheel-edition.htmlRyan McManus (RMM) is a longstanding friend of WITI who previously wrote about the end of spare parts, the simple elegance of SecuriCode, and how to start your own town. He is a designer at Ford currently living in Massachusetts and owns zero bucket hats. Ryan here. As electric vehicles (EVs) have begun to dominate the cultural awareness and proliferate the market, those who have paid close attention to each new model and concept’s release might have noticed a common design element that seems to occur, regardless of brand or vehicle type: a smooth, almost solid wheel design./the-age-of-zugzwang.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-age-of-zugzwang.htmlNote: I apologize in advance for the potentially rambling nature of this piece, which is something of a stream of consciousness geostrategic meditation. It’s possible that this is too abstract to be interesting. If so, please berate me in the comments. I am a great lover of chess. While no more than a middling player myself, I am endlessly entertained by the seemingly countless variations and strategic contrivances that the world’s great players can create from that same, familiar beginning./the-algorithm-behind-jim-simonss.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-algorithm-behind-jim-simonss.htmlJim Simons, the legendary quant and founder of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, passed away this past week. “In every field, there’s only one person whose competitive advantage is 'I’m smarter than everyone else,” Morgan Housel once mused. “In finance, for the last 20 or 30 years, that person has been James Simons.” If that’s the case, what can we mere mortals learn from Simons’s life? A lot, it turns out, but perhaps not what you’d expect./an-introduction-to-my-fourth-book.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-introduction-to-my-fourth-book.htmlI’ve been grappling with the best way to share the news of my new book, Brothers and Sisters: the Allman Brothers Band and The Album That Defined The 70s, which was published Tuesday, July 25. I decided to just share the beginning with you. Below is the Author’s Note and Preface, which I think lays it all out pretty well. if you have more questions after you read this, let me know./the-antidebate-and-the-metacrisis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-antidebate-and-the-metacrisis.htmlEven if you accept that the antidebate is interesting, it’s not clear whether it’s important. You can and should read on without pausing, but everything I am about to say will be easier to appreciate if you have watched two short videos by Katie Teague. The first is called Living in the Metacrisis: In that video, I define the metacrisis as follows: The metacrisis is the historically specific threat to truth, beauty, and goodness caused by our persistent misunderstanding, misvaluing, and misappropriating of reality./the-bear-cave-218.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bear-cave-218.htmlWelcome to The Bear Cave! Our last premium articles were “Problems at Marqeta (MQ)” and “Problems at Primerica (PRI)” and our next premium investigation comes out Thursday, May 2. Following The Bear Cave’s article on Primerica, the company issued a press release “in response to a blogger who published a misleading opinion about Primerica with the intent to drive down its stock price.” Primerica wrote: “Their assertions and conclusions about Primerica are false. They do not accurately portray what Primerica’s licensed sales force does every day to assist middle-income families./the-best-cooking-oils-for-brain-health.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-cooking-oils-for-brain-health.htmlThe first week of the new year is a great time to take stock of your pantry. Let’s start with the shelf where you keep the cooking oils. Chances are it’s cluttered with many more bottles and cans than you need. And, many are probably past their prime.  What to keep? What to toss? I am here to help. Choosing the best oil to cook with is one of the most important decisions you’ll make when eating for brain health./the-best-meatloaf-ive-ever-made-recipe.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-meatloaf-ive-ever-made-recipe.htmlWas taken blindly to RHPS. I think maybe at Aragon Ballroom? In Chi. Or a similar spot. My date had in his pocket..toast, rice, cards, rubber gloves….he was showing me and I thought what kind of kinky s#%¥ is this guy into? Started looking for an exit. 😂 What a freikin blast it was to see it for the 1st time with zero idea what was about to happen in the theater!/the-chainsmokers-alex-pall-in-crossing.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-chainsmokers-alex-pall-in-crossing.htmlFollow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We're thrilled to have Alex Pall, general partner at Mantis VC, a seed and an early stage fund based in LA. Alex is a great example of someone who has made a significant crossover from another industry—he is one half of the award-winning duo of the Chainsmokers, a group that has found mainstream success by breaking boundaries between pop, indie, electronic, alternative, and rock./worst-to-best-the-films-of-alexander.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worst-to-best-the-films-of-alexander.htmlThe poet of flyover country, director Alexander Payne has only made seven films since debuting with Citizen Ruth in 1996, but each of them has felt like a small event, graced by the consistency of his character-based humor and his devotion to the way ordinary people, Nebraskans especially, manage lives of nagging banality and heartbreak. As the years have passed, Payne has seemed more and more like a man out of time, turning out comedies of immense appeal at a time when such low-key fare is relegated to the arthouse./substack-reads-74.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/substack-reads-74.htmlHello and welcome to another edition of Substack Reads! This week, Rosie Spinks writes a definitive essay on how modern friendships do and don’t work, British journalist Bryony Gordon offers tips for surviving the festive season sober, fashion critic Alec Leach shares his surprising self-publishing journey, and Belgian cookbook author Regula Ysewijn goes into the history of the speculoos biscuit. We hope you enjoy it!   RELATIONSHIPSWhy friendships have started to feel like admin—/the-governor-of-mississippi-once.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-governor-of-mississippi-once.htmlI felt like I had to take a shower after writing this article. The level of continued racism coming from the highest elected officials in the land feels dirty. But I’ll get dirty to uncover the truth. Will you support me in this work by becoming a paid subscriber today? “It’s about heritage not hate.” That’s the refrain I heard repeated almost as a mantra when I lived in Mississippi./access-the-grandfather-of-private.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/access-the-grandfather-of-private.htmlHello reader, Welcome to the 34th edition of Access - the most clicked link from last week’s newsletter was the link to our private capital network map, featuring leaders across our industry. This week’s In Depth features the late, great, Jerome Kohlberg Jr. We’ve wanted to write this one for a while now, and it seemed fitting to share it in the week that he would have celebrated his 98th birthday./the-horrible-true-story-that-inspired.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-horrible-true-story-that-inspired.htmlKelly johana Suarez is the mastermind of the children trafficking ring that creates the narrative of sounds of freedom! Whatever that sick person wrote here it’s totally irrelevant to the movie! What’s here is the real story of those poor children! Indeed! Where is Kelly Johana Suárez Now? Upon arrest, Kelly Johana Suárez and all eleven others were charged with human trafficking of minors, pimping, and pandering. As per investigations, the beauty queen would recruit minor boys and girls through her modeling agency, only to make them supposedly attend parties with foreign sex tourists./the-importance-of-analysis-versus.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-importance-of-analysis-versus.htmlThere is a difference between an analysis and an assessment. I don’t know that I have always used these two words properly and, while it might sound minor or like just a semantic difference, the words do have specific and very different meanings. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an “analysis” is defined as the careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do and how they are related to each other./mitchell-garabedian-the-lawyer-who.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mitchell-garabedian-the-lawyer-who.htmlMitchell Garabedian, credit: Boston GlobeEarly in the 2015 movie Spotlight, the story of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize winning  exposé of the Boston pedophile priest sex abuse scandal, the name Mitchell Garabedian comes up. Garabadian is a small-time lawyer who was representing clients who claim they were molested by Boston area priests. He is suing the Church and making shocking and. to some, wild allegations that Cardinal Bernard Law and the top leaders of the Boston Church knew about it and protected the priests by shuffling them from parish to parish, where they continued to prey on children./the-legacy-of-guitar-guru-mick-goodrick.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-legacy-of-guitar-guru-mick-goodrick.htmlThe guitar world lost a master teacher and player this week. Tributes to Mick are all over facebook. He taught so many people the art of jazz guitar that you might say there is no other teacher in our lifetime that has had a deeper influence. Here is a profile I wrote for Jazz Times in 2018 that pulls back the curtain a bit. Very little has been written about Mick./christmas-gift-the-lost-classic-between.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christmas-gift-the-lost-classic-between.htmlThe entire idea was formulated on a single road trip, just a pair wrestlers shooting the shit on a four hour drive down I-95 between two of the South’s premiere tourist destinations. Don Kernodle and Sergeant Slaughter left Myrtle Beach with an empty page. Kernodle was at the wheel with Slaughter jotting down thoughts in a convenience store notebook. As they pulled into their next pit stop in the never-ending grind that is pro wrestling, they’d devised a scheme that would totally capture the hearts and minds of Carolinians./the-luxury-of-television-kidnapped.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-luxury-of-television-kidnapped.htmlMany Americans don’t realize it, but the United States is home to some 1 million Gypsies, spread throughout the nation. It is believed that Columbus arrived in the States with Romani slaves in 1498, and that Oliver Cromwell shipped Romanichals (often known as English Gypsies, or English Travelers) to the US to be slaves on Southern plantations in the 17th century.  The Romanichal also immigrated to America from the UK in the middle of the 1800’s, coinciding with the weakening of the Ottoman Empire./rewatchrewind-the-man-who-saw-tomorrow.htmlThu, 30 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-mexican-tradition-of-voladores.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mexican-tradition-of-voladores.htmlOnly two Mexican festivals, Dia de los Muertos [Day of the Dead] and Voladores de Papantla  [flyers of Papantla] have been recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage events.  The Ritual Ceremony of the Voladores of Papantla received this recognition as an Intangible Cultural Heritage [ICH] category from  UNESCO in 2009. Voladores de Papantla.  Voladores participate in a ritual dance before climbing the pole. Photo by Ricardo Romo. Before 1970, the voladores seldom performed in the United States./the-monday-media-diet-with-zachary.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-monday-media-diet-with-zachary.htmlZachary Weiss (ZW) is a brand consultant and writer. He’s also a man on the move. Thanks to WITI contributor Robert Spangle for the introduction. Have a great week. -Colin (CJN) Tell us about yourself. Zachary Weiss here! I’m a brand consultant and writer based in Manhattan. During the day, I work with two longtime friends on a men’s sock, underwear, and loungewear brand called Nice Laundry, and a warehousing & logistics provider for omnichannel brands called Outerspace./the-myth-of-the-childhood-obesity.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-myth-of-the-childhood-obesity.htmlI love this first glimpse of the book! I have ordered three copies, one for my sons middle school as well. Some of the research I knew about and some of it is new. I couldn't remember the Michelle Obama campaign very well so I looked back at the coverage and her statements. Some made me physically flinch...and wonder how Obama feels about her words now, or how Melia herself feels about them./the-only-way-out-is-through.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-only-way-out-is-through.htmlEvery week, I write an article, and every week, I am pretty sure it will be my last. After all, I don’t have that much to say. After my sister hits the "publish" button, I give myself a day, and then I think, “Oh, crap. I have no ideas left for next week.” Then, every new week, I go through all the same emotions: despair, confusion, inspiration, then… satisfaction. A week later, I do it all over again./the-origin-of-the-hat-trick.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-origin-of-the-hat-trick.htmlThe term “hat trick” first made its way into newspapers to describe a hockey player scoring three goals in one game in the 1930s and 1940s. However, Sammy Taft is the man who some would say officially coined the term, "hat trick," when he started giving NHL pl… ncG1vNJzZmimmKG1qr%2FTqKmyZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9OhnGanop60qrqMqJ1mrJiaeqmt02arq6GToA%3D%3D/the-overdue-arrival-of-nancy-savoca.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-overdue-arrival-of-nancy-savoca.htmlStarting with the Sundance Film Festival in January—which, at the time, was still two years away from officially transitioning its branding from The US Film Festival—1989 was a true watershed moment for American independent cinema. It was the year when Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape stormed the festival circuit and proved that indie films turn a massive profit. That’s not to say that independents were not thriving in the margins in years past, but you can look back and see the scaffolding erected for a lucrative business model, starting with sex, lies and Miramax and growing to the point where every major studio would have its own specialized divisions, some with hilariously contradictory names like Warner Independent Pictures./the-pgmol-a-northern-old-boys-network.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pgmol-a-northern-old-boys-network.htmlGiving its topicality, I'm here again, parsing the data, as it appears that no one else does this stuff, and I have the databases (and I have nothing to do in Hell, as the devil roasts my toes and heats his poker). (I'm sick of it, but continue to be shocked every time I delve into something different.) When Mike Dean said that he didn't make an obvious call to spare his 'mate' Anthony Taylor, it merely confirmed many smart people's suspicions about how officials make decisions./the-poem-kirsten-dunst-uses-as-a.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-poem-kirsten-dunst-uses-as-a.htmlI’ve seen the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind so many times that it’s difficult to see it through any lens other than one of admiration and teenage heartache. I was graduating from high school when I saw it in the theater on its opening weekend. When a friend of mine asked me to see it with her and a group of friends, I hadn’t seen a trailer or even heard about it./the-porthole-windows-of-james-dean.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-porthole-windows-of-james-dean.htmlWhen James Dean rented a West 68th Street apartment in New York City, he was very excited that the fifth-floor room had round porthole windows. These reminded him of a round window he had seen in a picture of Marlon Brando that he had saved, and he took to telling people that his apartment had been Brando’s. I looked everywhere for that photo and never found it. Then, today, Pinterest sent it to me in the daily digest of photos I receive despite not having a Pinterest account that I am aware of and never using the site./the-portraits-of-putin.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-portraits-of-putin.html“I was about an inch and a half from Putin's nose, I could feel his breathing on my hand.” On December 12, 2007, Platon photographed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the cover of TIME. More than fifteen years later, it remains one of the most singular portraits of a world leader ever made. The menacing, cold image transcends photography - it has beco… ncG1vNJzZmiokam%2Fqq%2FKsKCtrKljwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6GdXaW8s8DRmqCtq12ks2681K2gpw%3D%3D/the-power-of-private-secretaries.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-power-of-private-secretaries.htmlI  am (up to a point*) quite a fan of Dominic Cummings so I hope he won’t mind my republishing this interesting (lightly edited) extract from an early 2022 Cummings Substack post. Very few ... actually understand how power really works in this country. The power of [the Cabinet and] ministers is massively exaggerated.  The power of the Cabinet Secretary is massively under-reported. The latter has something like 100X, perhaps 1000X, more true power than the average minister./95-tie-once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/95-tie-once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.htmlOnce Upon a Time in the West  (1968) Dir. Sergio Leone Ranking: #95 (tie) Previous rankings: #78 (2012) Premise: In the Old West town of Flagstone, multiple characters converge in an epic confrontation. An outlaw known only as “Harmonica” (Charles Bronson) arrives via train and guns down three assassins who have been sent to greet him. Those men were sent by Frank (Henry Fonda), a blue-eyed killer who works as a hired gunman for Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), a railroad tycoon who’s looking to expand the line further West./roy-wood-the-wizzard-of-odds-76-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roy-wood-the-wizzard-of-odds-76-the.htmlRoy Wood (he’ll be 77 before Thanksgiving) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, particularly successful in the 1960s and ‘70s as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO, with Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan) and his own Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands. Altogether he had more than 20 singles in the UK Singles Chart under various guises, including three UK #1 hits./dev-anand-des-pardes.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dev-anand-des-pardes.htmlDisclaimer: this newsletter often mentions beer and pubs. You do not have to read this if your life has been affected by substance abuse. A lot of people have signed up to the free weekly email recently and there’s a question of how to support the work I put into these posts financially. I publish them to promote the book so please pre-order Desi Pubs - A guide to British-Indian Pubs, Food & Culture here and/or donate £3 here./playing-to-the-gallery-the-sarah.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/playing-to-the-gallery-the-sarah.htmlSarah Jane Baker has been cleared of inciting violence against women. Sarah Jane (formerly Alan) Baker is a trans-identified male with a violent criminal past. As a young man he spent time inside for crimes such as drug dealing and armed robbery. He then served 30 years for the kidnap and torture of his stepmother’s brother and the attempted murder of a fellow prisoner whom he tried to strangle after breaking into his cell./the-self-immolation-of-aaron-bushnell.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-self-immolation-of-aaron-bushnell.htmlThis article was originally published by Salon, which you can read here. You can also watch a video version of this article here. Frankly, this was just a matter of time. “My name is Aaron Bushnell. I’m an active duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all./the-spirits-32-the-corpse-reviver-41b.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spirits-32-the-corpse-reviver-41b.htmlENJOYING THE SPIRITS? Please consider becoming a subscriber so I can maintain some standards around here… Give a gift subscription ~ THE CORPSE REVIVER No.2 ~ Dash of absinthe 20ml gin 20ml Lillet Blanc (see note…) 20ml orange liqueur 20ml lemon juice Rinse a cocktail glass with absinthe - I mean, pour in a few dashes of the stuff and roll it around so the glass is coated. Now place that glass in the freezer while you prepare a few snacks, etc./the-spiritual-and-human-wisdom-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-spiritual-and-human-wisdom-of.htmlFilm director William Friedkin died yesterday at age 87. While he grew up Jewish, Friedkin is most well known for directing the Catholic horror film The Exorcist, which continues to scare the absolute shit out of people to this day. A couple years ago I did a piece for Americaabout the making of The Exorcist, and in researching that story I learned some wild tales about Friedkin, like how he would sometimes shoot off guns without warning to get the frightened reactions he wanted from his actors, or how he once suddenly slapped the Jesuit William O’Malley, who had a small part in the film, to get more emotion out of him./the-story-of-amaranth-in-the-americas.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-of-amaranth-in-the-americas.htmlThis is the first series of stories for this newsletter, though it will certainly not be the last. Each series will look at a particular topic, which might be a place or an idea of some sort. In this case, it’s an ingredient. Amaranth. Over the next few weeks, you’ll get insight into this once integral New World crop that has been systematically erased from our collective memories over the past 500 years./not-your-typical-token-weak-teammate.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/not-your-typical-token-weak-teammate.htmlWelcome back, everyone! If you checked out last week’s newsletter, you may have noticed that it was chock full of footnotes! These are a brand new feature to Substack, and even I didn’t know fully how they’d work until I sent out that email. So here’s a tip: the footnotes do nothing special in the email itself, but if you click the title of the article to read it in your browser instead, the footnotes become links you can click to go back and forth between the footnote and the article!/the-swamp-thing-and-abby-arcaneweird.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-swamp-thing-and-abby-arcaneweird.htmlThe story of the Swamp Thing and Abby Arcane’s romance is a heart-warming story of self-discovery combined with a massive dose of outlandish circumstances. Abby Arcane and the Swamp Thing look like beauty and a beast, but their differences are more than just about their appearances. The Swamp Thing is nature in a monstrous form to ensure that he is able to protect the Green, the elemental force of life. Abby Arcane is from an aristocratic background marked by tragedy./the-tim-tam-clam-slam.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tim-tam-clam-slam.htmlHi, clowns! Sorry it’s been a bit, but I’ve had a long few weeks. I’ve been experiencing strange flashes in my right eye, and after a lot of frantic googling, I discovered that could be a symptom of a detached retina. I made an appointment with the eye doctor, and she was concerned enough by my condition that she arranged for me to be seen by a specialist immediately./the-underrated-style-of-heat-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-underrated-style-of-heat-and.htmlWelcome to a new weekly series called “Haute Garbaggio” in which I will layout a bunch of different thoughts. This is a lot better format than dedicating entire posts to various ideas and is a great way to get a lot of content from me in one sitting! This post will be free (for the time being). But if you want to support this content, consider subscribing for $6/month or $60 a year at this link below./the-victimizer-of-today-is-the-victim.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-victimizer-of-today-is-the-victim.htmlToday’s edition of Discourse Power includes two full translations of two truly fascinating reads. The first was published in 2017, but it is just as relevant today as the second, which was published more recently. If you also find them interesting or helpful for your own research or reporting, please take a minute to spread the word about this free newsletter. In other discourse power news, I am thrilled to share my paper for Sage's China Report journal, titled A Xinderella Story: Turning the Chinese Dream Into China’s Master Narrative./the-waterboys-the-whole-of-1985.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-waterboys-the-whole-of-1985.htmlNot long after I concluded my first listen through the whole of 1985, the six-disc box set chronicling the creation of the Waterboys' album This Is The Sea, I happened to hear its signature song "The Whole of the Moon" out in the wild for the first time since…well, for the first time that I could remember. It arrived in the thick of a mega '80s mix, one rife with double plays from Madonna and Daryl Hall & John Oates, the kinds of acts that defined the decade both then and now./it-just-doesnt-matter-the-weirdest.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-just-doesnt-matter-the-weirdest.htmlAs motivational speeches go, Tripper’s big rally cry to the decidedly average Camp North Star campers as they face off against the rich kids across the lake, the pivotal moment of Ivan Reitman’s 1979 comedy Meatballs, is not exactly Harry’s St. Crispin’s Day speech. But I have come to understand it as the one that speaks most directly to my heart. A bit of obligatory throat-clearing first: If you are new to me or my writing, you should know there is much about Meatballs I don’t celebrate, like the clumsy nerd referred to by everyone by his nickname, an ableist slur./the-welsh-dresser.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-welsh-dresser.htmlI’m sitting at the dining table in my Mum and Dad’s house, and directly in front of me at the opposite end of the table is an imposing piece of furniture. It has two low cupboards with intricately carved wooden doors, two drawers above these and a set of shallower shelves above these, covered by two glass doors. It sits about seven feet tall. It’s beautiful and the dark polished wood glistens in the light./the-work-of-hannah-pearl-davis.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-work-of-hannah-pearl-davis.htmlLet's chat about Hannah Pearl Davis, shall we? In the swirling, ever-shifting circus of social media, she's a ringmaster with an uncanny knack for grabbing the dull spotlight that involves trending for milliseconds in the minds of ADHD-afflicted adults who can’t remember, in the best words of David Bowie, “the bills you have to pay/or even yesterday.” It's not just what she says; it's how she says it. Think of her as the social media equivalent of orange juice concentrate — a burst of sweetly mediocre flavor that's hard to ignore, even if it's not to everyone's taste./the-work-of-the-truth.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-work-of-the-truth.htmlIn the early hours of New Year's Day, an accident occurred in New York City. Matthew Sachman, a 19-year-old college student, lost his life after falling onto subway tracks — simply one more random death among the eight million stories unfolding… ncG1vNJzZminnJ7Dpr7BmquepZGjsbCx0q2fnq%2Bfp7hvv9Sbqq2Zk6B7pLvMaKdorJiaeri70aRkqJ5dqbWmedOrrK2g/tesla-this-is-what-happens-when-you.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tesla-this-is-what-happens-when-you.htmlOk, wow. I will not lie, this Tesla compensation settlement came out of nowhere and just smacked me right upside the face, and left me slack-jawed. It is … kind of stunning. There is a lot to cover here, but we have to start from the beginning so let’s get straight to work. There are two pending cases in the Delaware Court of Chancery concerning compensation at Tesla: C.A. No./threads-is-the-least-sexy-social.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/threads-is-the-least-sexy-social.htmlYesterday I posted what so far is proving to be my most popular post on Threads. A few days ago, Threads, Meta’s “Twitter-killer” app, rolled out hashtags. Curious and bored, which is my baseline state, I searched #porn on Threads. As you can see by the above image that reproduces the results of my hashtag-porn search, there were “No results.” Was there no porn on Threads? I had never encountered any./three-chopts-school-board-race-has.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-chopts-school-board-race-has.htmlHappy Halloween and happy almost Election Day! Make sure to check out our election coverage to keep up with the many races going on in Henrico (ranging from school board to state senate). This week, we did a deep dive into the Three Chopt school board race between GOP-endorsed Eleina Espigh, Democrat-backed Madison Irving, and self-described “moderate” Kristen Vithoulkas. We also covered the Henrico Democrats forum featuring all five Fairfield school board candidates./throggs-neck-the-bronx.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/throggs-neck-the-bronx.htmlThroggs Neck, in the southeastern corner of the Bronx, sits on a peninsula that juts out into the East River. The Bruckner Boulevard and the neighborhood of County Club to the North are the peninsula’s only terrestrial borders. Its position at the junction of Long Island Sound and the East River made it a logical place to build Fort Schuyler which was completed in 1856. Schuyler, along with Fort Totten across the river in Bayside Queens, provided a formidable defense against any ships attempting to approach the city from the North./tony-oxley-1938-2023.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tony-oxley-1938-2023.htmlThe English drummer and composer Tony Oxley, who died yesterday, December 26, 2023, was an important jazz drummer who perhaps made his mark most deeply as a part of the global community of improvising musicians. In his long career, he played with Sonny Rollins, collaborated frequently with English compatriots Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, toured with Bill Evans, and had long musical partnerships with Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor. Here’s a YouTube link of him playing a two-minute drum solo:/top-100-players-for-the-2023-2024.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/top-100-players-for-the-2023-2024.htmlHere are my Top 100 NHL players for the 2023-2024 season. Due to injury, I did not include Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and it is difficult to know what to make of players who have missed significant time due to injuries. Filip Forsberg, Max Pacioretty, and Nikolaj Ehlers are some of the players who have performed at a very high level on a per-game basis, but there have not been enough games played./totally-naked.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/totally-naked.htmlThank you, Gareth for this excellent question. And thanks to the chickens for providing me some staunch backup…like the Pips. Another bonus video coming soon, and thanks, all of you Muleteers, for your support. Love, Thank you for reading Donkey Thoughts with Nick Offerman. If you like the fare, please feel free to share with a pal. Share ncG1vNJzZmimmZi4sLLFnqmmmZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6iskaG5unnNmqKenA%3D%3D/trading-for-a-living.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trading-for-a-living.htmlThere was a point in my life when I was choked on spermatozoa and full of Ayn Rand up to my forehead, and I wanted to be a trader. I pictured myself sitting at my desk, surrounded by twelve computer monitors, full of charts, ripping around stocks and futures like a jerk. The older you get, you realize how hard that is. It’s not hard when things are going well. It’s not hard when you are making money./treat-yourself.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/treat-yourself.htmlWhether you support this Hallmark holiday or not, Valentine’s day is about spreading love, to others and to yourself. For me, I will personally take any excuse to treat myself. :) Your relationship with yourself is the most important one and the longest one you’ll ever have. Say something nice to yourself, and remember to DO something nice for yourself … ncG1vNJzZmidnaKurbvVnq6epJxjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6udkal6urvUq6qepJY%3D/tuckerbox-owners-plan-to-open-new.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tuckerbox-owners-plan-to-open-new.htmlThe word is out. We may not know exactly when but we do know what will be moving into the space formerly occupied by Piecemeal Pies in downtown White River Junction. Tuckerbox owners Vural and Jackie Oktay plan to open Cappadocia Cafe, a Turkish bakery, just across from their current restaurant. In their own words: “ . . . We are installing a custom wood fired oven which will be a huge part of our concept./tuna-frites-with-ponzu-sauce-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tuna-frites-with-ponzu-sauce-and.htmlScroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly PDF of the recipe only. If I’m at a restaurant and there’s steak frites on the menu, chances are I’m going to order it. French bistro food is my vibe, and steak frites is a dish that when done right is amazing, and when done kind of bad is still kind of OK. But recently, I visited Queen St., a new-ish restaurant in Eagle Rock, and was presented with a new protein + french fries combo: tuna frites./two-rules-of-seinfeld-and-what-you.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-rules-of-seinfeld-and-what-you.htmlHey, Twosdazers 👋 Dwight Schrute credited Angela for introducing him to so many things: pasteurized milk, sheets, monotheism, presents on your birthday, preventative medicine. That’s a fun part of relationships — the discovery and sharing of passions. My wife Sarah has introduced me to a few things: dark chocolate, nail clippers, and Seinfeld. Seinfeld is… ncG1vNJzZmikpaCyo63Knqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwNaoZKutnJrAbrvFZqqeoZ6bsq2wjJqlnWWnna61ediorA%3D%3D/updated-the-san-francisco-poop-map.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/updated-the-san-francisco-poop-map.htmlLots of people pointing out problems. Anyone discussing peaceful solutions? For the past two years we have been trying to find solutions to our biggest problem: THE CORRUPTION OF THE SYSTEMS THAT GOVERN OUR LIVES. Is it solvable? Yes of course. All problems that do not defy the laws of physics are solvable. This took us 2 years to write this. How to fix corrupt government in 3 simple steps:/valdez-is-coming-1971.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/valdez-is-coming-1971.htmlLet's get one thing out of the way first: Burt Lancaster does not pass for Mexican, or even half-Mexican, even with the help of a deep tan and possibly the judicious application of brownface makeup. One of the stupidest and most useless human endeavors is the imposition of modern sensibilities upon cultural material from years, decades or even centuries past. Of course people in 1971 didn't think about cultural appropriation the same way they do in 2018./valentin-tomberg-and-the-church-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/valentin-tomberg-and-the-church-of.htmlThe Russian mystic, Valentin Tomberg, spent his youth immersing himself in the Hermetic tradition of pre-revolutionary Russian mysticism. At a young age, he was initiated into the esoteric school of G.O. Mebes which used the Tarot as a symbolic source of spiritual exercises and as a metaphysical key to understanding the fabric of reality. Shortly thereafter, Tomberg discovered the teachings of Rudolf Steiner and quickly mastered them both at the level of intellect and experience./vampire-survivors-in-co-op-is-a-shockingly.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vampire-survivors-in-co-op-is-a-shockingly.htmlA video game where players always lose does not seem like the ideal experience for a child, and yet, that’s what appears to be the case for 2022’s breakout hit, Vampire Survivors, which was recently released on Switch with a new feature that’s also available on the other platforms—Xbox, PC, iOS, Android—the game’s on: local co-op. Credit where credit is due: I was tipped off about playing Vampire Survivors by my former editor and longtime friend, Stephen Totilo, who runs the excellent gaming newsletter at Axios, and had played greatly enjoyed Vampire Survivors with his family./vfyw-the-land-of-scuba-and-saint.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vfyw-the-land-of-scuba-and-saint.html(This week’s post exceeds the content limit for Substack’s email service, so if you want to ensure that you see the full contest results, just click the headline above, “The Land Of Scuba & Saint Nick.” Also, we just posted an archive page for the Dishcast — see all 70 of our episodes in one place, along with corresponding clips and select transcripts.) First up, from our Coloradan sleuth in NJ, an update on the window view that keeps on giving:/victoria-blamey-is-back.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/victoria-blamey-is-back.htmlMy friends, There are many talented chefs in this city, but one of my all time favorites is Victoria Blamey. If you’re scratching your head, trying to place who I am talking about, I’m glad you’re here reading this because she is just fantastic. And also because she’s soon going to be back to cooking for us, at a to-be-named restaurant in Brooklyn, hopefully by the end of the year. /visit-the-real-sleepy-hollow-and.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/visit-the-real-sleepy-hollow-and.htmlHalloween is here, and there’s no better place to spend a spooky afternoon than the Westchester County villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow in New York state, an easy Metro-North Railroad or car drive from New York City. This is the hilly countryside where author Washington Irving lived, and where he set his 1820 tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It was here that Irving unleashed the Headless Horseman — a decapitated Hessian soldier who rises from the Old Dutch Church’s graveyard in quest of his head — on the hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane./we-the-animals-justin-torres.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-the-animals-justin-torres.htmlWelcome to Purse Book, a weekly newsletter about reading hot little books & being a gal on the go. If you haven’t already, you absolutely may subscribe now:  While reading Justin Torres’ 2011 novel We the Animals, I felt like I was holding a broken glass in my hand. Is this maudlin to say? The book isn’t maudlin at all! Don’t let me stain it! It’s fragmentary, yes. But mostly there’s something about this book that draws your attention to the broken edges./we-used-to-say-brb-now-we-just-live.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-used-to-say-brb-now-we-just-live.htmlLast year, I saw this tweet… …and I have not stopped thinking about it. As Marshall McLuhan prophetically stated, “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” We used to say BRB, but now we just live here. I also recently read this: While the internet is no longer one physical place, I do think of it as an entity. The internet has an undeniable presence. It's a common and unsettling experience: you're trying to have a conversation, but the other person is more focused on their phone, making you feel like you're just talking to yourself or third-wheeling./welcome-to-momlife-comics-this-is.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-momlife-comics-this-is.htmlHello friends, it’s me, Mary Catherine: a once-blogger-turned-IG-cartoonist (?) who is now returning to the world of the written newsletter so that I have a personal space to share my work. Have I come full circle? Perhaps. But let’s back up a little bit… I stopped blogging regularly after having my second child, Teddy, in 2019. A few months later, I started making comics about motherhood. I was originally inspired to start making these comics because I was frustrated, overwhelmed, and exhausted./welcome-to-this-one-wild-and-precious-77b.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-this-one-wild-and-precious-77b.htmlThis One Wild and Precious Life is my latest book. Below you will find all the details, resources, links and fun bits that you might need as a reader, journalist or otherwise. The book took me three years to research and write. In two sentences: I head off on a soul’s journey through the complexities of climate change, coronavirus, racial inequalities an… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuqcPIpaqopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6wnKWbn6KybsDOZquhoaNivK%2BxjLCgpZxdlrulec%2BrnJyhn6rAboOWmw%3D%3D/wells-fargos-legal-woes-continue.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wells-fargos-legal-woes-continue.htmlThe SEC is still dogging banking behemoth Wells Fargo & Company with questions about its handling of the now 10-year-old customer cheating nightmare, first reported by the Los Angeles Times in 2013. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau settled with the bank for a $185 million fine back in September 2016, but since then the bank has paid billions more to public and private punishers. On June 14, 2023, the SEC issued a comment letter to Wells Fargo & Company (Ticker: WFC) requesting more transparency regarding the historical legal, regulatory, and customer remediation matters covered by a series of operating charges for $7 billion, $1./what-does-it-mean-to-belong.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-it-mean-to-belong.htmlI’ve been thinking about belonging for my entire life… and writing and researching and building a community around belonging intentionally now for over five years. I am fortunate to be in dialogue and shared inquiry with some of the world’s foremost practitioners. And yet: I still can’t really define it. Today I want to try. As is often true when I start a post, as I start this writing I don’t yet know what I want to say: I’ll come back here when I’m done to share my conclusions (writing as thinking: a process of trying to understand my own thoughts)./what-kate-middleton-owes-us.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-kate-middleton-owes-us.htmlKate Middleton owes us nothing. Leave her alone. Kate Middleton owes us an explanation. What on earth is going on? For what it’s worth, I’m in neither of these camps even though some would have us all choose a team : Team Privacy of Team Truther I keep starting to write a Babble about Kate Middleton and I keep deleting it because really, what the world needs now is not another hot take from someone who has no idea what’s actually going on with this poor woman./what-the-coupa-layoffs-tell-us-about.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-coupa-layoffs-tell-us-about.htmlThe layoffs that have happened at Coupa should not be a surprise. We’re not clear on numbers, but I’ve seen the 30% figure, which is probably 900-1100 employees losing their job. Big numbers. Thomas Bravo acquired them to their ever-growing portfolio of big tech. A company with over $2bn in debt likely had issues other big tech have been displaying. Too many people. We all saw earlier in the year when Elon Musk bought Twitter how he cut the workforce by approximately 80% and closed down one of its datacentres./what-will-the-vikings-do-at-quarterback.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-will-the-vikings-do-at-quarterback.htmlPerhaps the most interesting storyline of the NFL Draft is what the Minnesota Vikings will do at quarterback. They’ve signaled their intention to trade up and snag their quarterback of the future. The question, of course, is who do they have in mind? It appears that Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels will be taken with the first two picks and Minnesota won’t be able to find a way to get either (although, never say never)./whats-going-on-with-assembly-theory.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-going-on-with-assembly-theory.htmlIf you find Complexity Thoughts, click on the Like button, leave a comment, repost on Substack or share this post. It is the only feedback I can have for this free service. The frequency and quality of this newsletter relies on social interactions. Thank you! A few days ago, a new paper entitled “Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution” appeared on Nature, igniting online discussions and debates. Unfortunately, it also ignited some violent reactions from academic communities, outraged by the content of the paper, from its title to its (lack of) context and/or its interpretations./when-roger-ailes-and-i-didnt-make.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-roger-ailes-and-i-didnt-make.htmlFriends, Roger Ailes did more to degrade the tone of public life in America than anyone since Joseph McCarthy. In 1998, Ailes asked me to drop by his office in New York City. The Monica Lewinsky scandal was exploding, and Fox News’s prime-time ratings were soaring because of it. I had gone public in defense of Clinton’s insistence that he “didn’t have sex with that woman” — saying I doubted he’d jeopardize his presidency for an affair with a White House intern./where-did-the-pistons-go-wrong.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-did-the-pistons-go-wrong.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. Fishermen at Sea; J.M.W. Turner; 1796 The Detroit Pistons have lost 19 straight games, and have a legitimate shot at the NBA record of 26 consecutive losses in a single season, set by 2010-11 Cavaliers and matched by the 2013-14 Sixers. The record could happen on December 26 in Little Caesars Arena in Detroit against the Brooklyn Nets. As the Romans said, “Pizza pizza.” Where did all this go wrong?/where-is-my-nimbus-ev.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-is-my-nimbus-ev.htmlIt's hard to believe but it's now been over a year since I put down a deposit to purchase the Nimbus EV. I thought it was time to give an update on the Nimbus specifically but also the autocycle/enclosed e-bike/kind of a car but not quite a car industry as a whole. If you're not familiar with the Nimbus, I'll give you a little background. Over the past few years, it has been marketed as a revolutionary transportation solution./who-owns-tv-stations-and-why-it-matters.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-owns-tv-stations-and-why-it-matters.htmlLeadership begins at the top and nowhere is that truer than assessing local television stations and who owns them.  Like many businesses, there’s been a lot of consolidation in television station ownership.  A few years ago, a company would be considered big if it owned 25 or 30 stations.  Now, some ownership groups own more than 200 stations!  Sometimes that can be good, and sometimes it can be bad. Large ownership groups can bring economies of scale to the television business./who-were-the-proto-indo-europeans.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-were-the-proto-indo-europeans.htmlAt a deep structural level, languages as diverse as English, Farsi, Russian, Hindi, Spanish, and Welsh - among many others - share common sounds, words, and characteristics. They have these deep similarities because they’re related to one another: All of them belong to the Indo-European language family, members of which are spoken all over the world, from Australia to Pakistan to South Africa to Canada. We know that the Romance languages are all descendants of Latin./the-cranberry-conundrum-whole-berry.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cranberry-conundrum-whole-berry.htmlRevisiting a story originally published November 2022 For much of my life, I thought cranberries at Thanksgiving were enjoyed in two primary ways: as cranberry sauce and as the star ingredient in a cake-like bread. I grew up enjoying the sauce made from the recipe on the Ocean Spray bag. Years ago, recently married and eager to serve my husband and three stepchildren a fine Thanksgiving meal, I committed a serious turkey day cranberry crime./whole-roasted-cauliflower-on-romesco.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whole-roasted-cauliflower-on-romesco.htmlAt the beginning of the year I posted a whole roasted cauliflower video and was completely overwhelmed at the reaction - it’s been viewed nearly 15 million times which is kind of unbelievable. I have had thousands - genuinely thousands, of messages from people all over the world who have cooked it and loved it and it’s completely blown me away. Most people hadn’t tried cooking a cauliflower whole and it was really exciting to be able to introduce so many people to a new way of cooking something./why-animated-characters-have-four.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-animated-characters-have-four.htmlThe 3-Word Quote: “Empathy Is Everything” ***Give yourself (or three friends) an early gift. Subscribe here: Pay attention the next time you watch an animated show or movie. Not to the plot or the characterization. But pay attention to the animated characters' hands - and note how many fingers are on each of their hands. You'll quickly notice that most characters have only four fingers on each hand - especially in older movies and shows./why-do-women-have-breasts.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-women-have-breasts.htmlEvolutionary theory has come up with nice explanations to many phenomena. But there are also a few exceptions. Female breasts are one. No female animals have enlarged breasts when they don't breastfeed. No animals except humans. There are a number of explanations to this, to be found on for example Wikipedia or in this article.  The extra-butt hypothesis (launched by zoologist Desmond Morris in his 1967 book The Naked Ape): Males were attracted to females' behinds./why-i-use-lazy-to-manage-nvim-plugins.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-use-lazy-to-manage-nvim-plugins.htmlDo you need a base Neovim configuration to use as a starting point for configuration? Or as a guide to how to accomplish configuration tasks in Lua that you’re used to doing in Vimscript? I’ve just published an example Neovim configuration up on Github. It’s extremely minimal right now — I plan to build it up over the course of writing this newsletter as I cover various plugins and aspects of Neovim — but I wanted to share it now because the basic structure might be useful as a guide, especially if you have an existing complicated configuration that you’re either trying to understand and take control of, or update from Vim./why-is-biden-struggling-because-america.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-biden-struggling-because-america.htmlIs America "broken", or have those in charge mismanaged the country's affairs? In other words, are those things that are causing pain for voters intrinsic to the American system and therefore nearly impossible to change, or are they transient symptoms of a curable disease based on political choices? It's an important question, because before we can "fix" anything or take responsibility for it, we need to be clear about what we're talking about, we need to identify the causes of any "/why-loyalty-and-trust-are-not-the.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-loyalty-and-trust-are-not-the.htmlDear Rethinkers, Hello and welcome to all new subscribers. And a very big thank you to those who have upgraded to become paying supporters. Paid subscribers get access to deeper thinking, research, and insight from me (as you’ll see further down this newsletter) - and can join the conversation on every article. I was teaching recently, and a leader of a large brand asked me a great question: “Can you have loyalty without trust?/whats-going-on-with-chuck-liddell.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-going-on-with-chuck-liddell.htmlSounds like things may not be going so well for the big homie Chuck Liddell. The UFC hall of famer and former champ popped up in the news last year when he was arrested for domestic battery. Liddell later claimed he was the victim and not perpetrator, and no charges were filed. A few days after the incident, he filed for divorce. Now he and his ex-wife Heidi Liddell are in a custody battle for their two children, and during a court-ordered interview and evaluation Ms./winter-camping-in-olympic-national.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/winter-camping-in-olympic-national.htmlLately life has been chaotic and a little aimless, so Andy and I did what all people do when they hit a slump— packed up the car to go winter camping. The slump has been mostly West Coast related. Truth is, we don’t love it out here. When we moved to Washington, we thought it we would connect with a lot of people like us, working guiding jobs and freelancing. We thought we would have the great access to the outdoors that Washington State seems to tout./wynter.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wynter.htmlExtremely Online By Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh There's too much information and too much news. What if your entire job is to know it all. My name is Wynter Mitchell Rohrbaugh. I'm a podcaster, digital nomad and content strategist. I've been online for over 25 years and it's a gift and a curse. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbjFza2cqw%3D%3D/alternate-histories-and-gpt-3.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alternate-histories-and-gpt-3.htmlAwhile back, I came across this fantastic use of GPT-3 for automatically filling spreadsheet cells using information about the world, such as state populations: Where are the data coming from? Apparently, these data are coming from within the model of GPT-3 itself. In other words, the massive corpus that GPT-3 was trained on is so large that the model contains a certain fraction of the actual complexity of the world. But how much is actually inside these models, implicitly embedded within these neural networks?/cauliflower-agrodolce.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cauliflower-agrodolce.htmlAgrodolce is a famous Italian sauce punctuated by its agro (sour) and dolce (sweet) flavour. It is sticky and tart and jammy. Just like life. An Agrodolce Life! Sweet and sour and delicious with all its sticky, messy bits. Agrodolce is made by reducing sugar or honey with vinegar and sweet dried fruit like currants, and cherries into a perfectly balanced tart concoction that is exquisite for coating roasted veggies./the-indubitable-importance-of-show.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-indubitable-importance-of-show.htmlIt’s November in the year of 2023 and surprisingly, we still find ourselves having many a conversation around the importance of show notes. So, here I am reminding you all about the indubitable importance of show notes. But first… Podcast show notes are basically a page on your podcast’s website detailing what happened during a podcast episode, and sharing further details on the content of the episode. As a bonus, having podcast show notes displays a certain type of professionalism and a dedication to the podcast, content, and listener experience./fboy-island-katie-thurston-edition.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fboy-island-katie-thurston-edition.htmlFBoy? F, Hi. Again! After being unceremoniously axed by MAX in 2022, our favorite, innovative reality dating show has made a moderately triumphant comeback. “FBoy Island,” a show from the creative brain of former “Bachelor” EP Elan Gale, just wrapped up its third season on The CW, and boy do we have thoughts. First, there’s the good. We’ve been “FBoy Island” devotees since its first season in 2021. Instead of prioritizing constructed drama, “FBoy Island” prioritizes comedy and narrative./openly-trans-cubmaster-emily-kelly.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/openly-trans-cubmaster-emily-kelly.htmlA few months ago, Emily Kelly, the leader of a Cub Scout pack in the Atlanta area, walked into her local council service center to take care of some paperwork, so to speak. She approached the counter and told the clerk she needed to change her name in the system. “Okay, we can do that,” the clerk replied. “While you’re in there, can you change the gender, too?” Kelly asked, expecting to face some resistance or, at the very least, a raised eyebrow./the-beekeeper-review-mancini.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-beekeeper-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. — “Did you know there are some members of the hive called ‘queen slayers,’ whose job is to kill the queen if she produces the wrong kind of offspring?/probably-roasting-my-spotify-wrapped.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/probably-roasting-my-spotify-wrapped.htmlHello again. It’s every Spotify users favorite day of the year. The 2022 Spotify Wrapped has finally arrived. A chance for the pretentious music people to use artsy visual proof that they have better music taste than you. A chance for Swifties to alert the other fans that they are, in fact, the bigger Swiftie. A chance for everyone (including myself) who had Kanye West on their top artists to say “Yikes!/rmalefashionadvice-in-the-news.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rmalefashionadvice-in-the-news.htmlA list of notable media mentions of /r/malefashionadvice from media publications, industry websites and academia. MediaEsquire (2012) Reddit: Where Nerds Learn to Love Fashion Racked (2017) The Best-Dressed Man on Reddit Is an Expert at Thrifting The Independent (2017) How The Best-dressed Man On The Internet Spends Only £30 A Week On Clothes GQ (2017) The Sneaker That Turns J.Crew Fans into Hypebeasts Men's Health (2018) The Reddit Community for Male Fashion Advice Is Full of Helpful Style Hacks/jamaica-say-you-will.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jamaica-say-you-will.htmlJackson Browne has always called the first song on his 1972 self-titled debut album a kind of modern fable. His inspiration for “Jamaica Say You Will" was a girl who worked in an organic food orchard on California’s Zuma Beach, across the street from the Pacific Ocean, "like the Garden of Eden,” Browne once told an interviewer, “and she was a kind of Eden-like girl, too.” In the lyric, the girl leaves with her father to sail out into the world, “but my ship had not found the sea, as it were,"/shoresy-is-not-the-hockey-story-we.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shoresy-is-not-the-hockey-story-we.htmlShorsey and the rest of the Sudbury (Blueberry) Bulldogs, are what we know of hockey - vulgar, violent, and misogynistic. In the show, Shoresy, named for the lead character, now out on Hulu, each episode presents discussions of sexual conquests, substance use, fights both on and off the ice, and beneath it all, an endearing underdog hockey story. The plot sees the Bulldogs bring in a group of ringers, which they call “sluts,” to turn around their season, save the team, and fulfil Shorsey’s promise to ownership that the team will never lose again./the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee-and-me.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee-and-me.htmlI recently saw a post on Facebook about stories as songs. In the comments, someone shared a link to the poem The Highwayman set to music, which made me think about Robert Service’s poem The Cremation of Sam McGee, which led to a quick Google search to see if anyone had ever set that poem to music. Apparently not, but I did find a recording of Johnny Cash reading it, which is absolute gold./joycevance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joycevance.html“While I was working earlier today, my daughter came downstairs to my office, and said with a confused but slightly amused look on her face that two ‘very nice young gentlemen’ at the front door had ‘brandished’ ears of corn at her and said they were for the chickens. She took them down to the coop. I think a good time was had by all. I’m so grateful for wonderful neighbors and good friends, and for all of you here at Civil Discourse./178-bird-poems.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/178-bird-poems.htmlSweet reader, This meme seems to capture the first week of 2022 a little too accurately for comfort. I hope you and your loved ones are safe, and taking care. Over the last weekend, I hosted two impromptu art parties online, with the second one including a piano recital by Viraaj Arora (Thank you, Viraaj!). It was just a way of ensuring I make art during the weekend lockdown in Bangalore, but opening it up to the community just made it so much more beautiful and enjoyable, with some incredibly positive energy in the (virtual) room./sweet-potato-pone.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweet-potato-pone.htmlSeveral years ago my mother wrote out a document, made copies and bound them in slim, dark-green, presentation folders for distribution to her children. They were recipes she wanted us to remember: charlotte russe with lady fingers, shortbread, quiche lorraine, stuffing and gravy, Grandmother Hill’s ginger cookies, biscuits, fried chicken, hominy grits, black-eyed peas for New Year’s Day, and pancakes (the secret of which is not so much in the recipe as in a particular, two-burner griddle with decades of memory cooked into the cast iron)./43-million-dole-fruit-bowl-class.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/43-million-dole-fruit-bowl-class.htmlAs we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy Dole, a well-known brand in the fruit industry, has recently settled a class action lawsuit worth $4.3 million. The lawsuit was centered around allegations that Dole's fruit bowl products were misleadingly advertised as being contained "in 100% juice" or "in 100% fruit juice," when they contained trace amounts of other ingredients./2-dune-2-messiah.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2-dune-2-messiah.htmlBoth SteelyKid and The Pip expressed interest in seeing Dune 2, so I booked us tickets for a (pretty much full) 11:30 am IMAX showing at one of the local malls. (And then, because I am a genius, promised SteelyKid a pre-movie lunch at a different local mall… Happily, they’re five minutes apart, but it could’ve been really bad…) It’s quite a cinematic spectacle—outstanding acting and direction, mind-blowing production design— and definitely worth talking about it./20-ways-to-satisfy-your-husband-sexually.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-ways-to-satisfy-your-husband-sexually.html20 WAYS TO SATISFY YOUR HUSBAND SEXUALLY  -Bisi Adewale For your husband's sexual needs to be met, you need to do more than just lie down and say, "Do whatever you want to do and let me sleep". You won't just sleep with your husband, but you will sleep with his imagination. You must capture his five senses; you must let him feel he is getting the best he can get anywhere in the world./253-the-green-lantern-s2-annotations.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/253-the-green-lantern-s2-annotations.htmlSeason 1 of The Green Lantern was a triumph of laid-back meticulous planning, with most issues written a whole year ahead of publication. I’d never been a particularly big fan of the Hal Jordan character and wanted to take the time to do him justice with a series of stories that showcased what I saw as Jordan’s resourceful nature and unflappable cool. Hal Jordan’s continuity, as refined by Geoff Johns, hadn’t changed much since he made his Silver Age debut as Earth’s Green Lantern in Showcase #22 from 1959./30-minute-oven-roasted-fish.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/30-minute-oven-roasted-fish.htmlHere’s the thing. Most whole fish will cook perfectly in 30 minutes. I’m talking anything between 800 grams and up to 1.2 or 1.3 kg. There’s something about cooking fish on the bone that just cuts you the slack. It takes a certain amount of time for the heat to get through to the bone, while in the meantime, the skin is protecting the flesh from over-cooking. Okay, so it’s marginally less time for a plate-sized 500 g fish, when you can start checking for doneness at 20 minutes./review-a-funny-girl-production-worthy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-a-funny-girl-production-worthy.htmlThis review by longtime Charlotte arts critic Lawrence Toppman was published by The Charlotte Ledger on October 18, 2023. You can find out more about The Charlotte Ledger’s commitment to smart local news and information and sign up for our newsletter for free here. Katerina McCrimmon stars as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” which opens the Broadway Lights series and runs through Sunday at the Belk Theater. (Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) by Lawrence Toppman/a-brief-history-of-counting-stuff.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-brief-history-of-counting-stuff.htmlI find it difficult to talk about the history of the computer. The actual record is dreadfully short: almost nothing of consequence happened before the year 1935. We keep looking for a better story, but we inevitably end up grasping at straws. Just look at what we’ve done so far. The “father of the computer” is no longer Konrad Zuse (Z1, 1938) or John Mauchly (ENIAC, 1943). Somehow, we pivoted to Charles Babbage — a 19th century polymath who never constructed such a device, and had no luck inspiring others to try./turkey-tail-mushrooms-a-common-mushroom.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/turkey-tail-mushrooms-a-common-mushroom.htmlTurkey tail mushrooms (Trametes versicolor) are pretty common as mushrooms go.  They can be found throughout the world and are easily identifiable, but aren’t exactly edible--at least in the classic sense.    These aren’t the mushrooms you take home to cook up for your pasta.  So they don’t often make the foragers’ favorites list.  Nevertheless, these mushrooms have some pretty powerful benefits. And recent studies have proven what traditional healers have known all along--that turkey tail mushrooms are highly medicinal./the-making-of-a-hitmaking-warrior.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-making-of-a-hitmaking-warrior.htmlHolly Knight is a trailblazer. While it is still rare for women to find success exclusively as songwriters, it was even rarer in the 1980s. During that decade, Knight became one of the most sought after hitmakers in the industry, writing everything from Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield” to Tina Turner’s “The Best” to Patty Smyth’s “The Warrior”. Last week, the two of us sat down for an hour to talk about her upbringing, how she manages to capture such drama in her songs, and her recent memoir, I Am the Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the MTV Eighties, available now via Permuted Press./a-field-guide-to-christofascism.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-field-guide-to-christofascism.htmlIn the two weeks since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. capitol building, political commentators have been grasping around for historical precedents. There are plenty to choose from. The reactionary mob violence of late Reconstruction might be a good starting point, as my friend Baynard Woods argued in the Washington Post. Aggrieved white Americans were once again employing terror tactics to override the will of Black voters, and Sen. Ted Cruz had even invoked the explicitly racist Compromise of 1877 as precedent for throwing out election results./a-head-first-deep-dive-into-rickey.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-head-first-deep-dive-into-rickey.htmlIt started with a throw pillow in front of the TV. From the living room, through the dining room to the kitchen was about 25 feet. Plenty of space for a generous lead. When Rickey Henderson would reach base — as he did 40.1% of the time — I would toe the pillow just as the all-time steals leader would straddle the bag. Sorry, Mom. We’d bend our knees and stretch together./a-late-welcome-to-wrexham-welcome.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-late-welcome-to-wrexham-welcome.htmlThis week’s What’s Alan Watching? newsletter coming up just as soon as I hire Pasek and Paul to write a song explaining how to pronounce my name… The best thing I did for myself over the past week was to binge all three seasons of Welcome to Wrexham, the wonderful FX docu-series about Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ purchase of a down-trodden Welsh football club. But it was also the worst thing I did to myself, because I spent a good chunk of the binge wondering why in the hell it took me this long to watch something so clearly micro-targeted to me./napas-convergent-lady-beetles-a-master.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/napas-convergent-lady-beetles-a-master.htmlNAPA VALLEY, Calif. — On a jog up Napa’s Dry Creek Road recently I saw a magnificent sight: thousands of ladybugs clumped together on fences (even barbed wire) and on old mossy tree stumps. The most unusual ladybug sighting was on a roadside reflective marker. Being a first-year Master Gardener, I was determined to find out why they were all huddled together and what kind of ladybug loves to mass like this./deep-dive-a-message-from-the-ghost.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deep-dive-a-message-from-the-ghost.html“Of course, Russia had big plans and appetites before too. But they stumbled in Afghanistan.” There he sat, speaking softly like a ghost from a bygone era. Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev, the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, located in the North Caucasus, discussed Russia’s imperial ambitions during a 1995 interview at the height of the first war in Chechnya. He described Russia’s lust for power as a voracious appetite, comparing it to a story of an ant that ate too much before he got burned./a-new-ai-hit-reveals-just-how-far.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-ai-hit-reveals-just-how-far.htmlAI singer-songwriter Anna Indiana’s new song “Betrayed By This Town” recently went viral, and one X user had a fitting observation. “There is one thing glaringly missing from this... soul,” he wrote. It’s a clever response, and literally true. As Anna Indiana explains in the intro of the song, every single aspect of the tune is AI generated. The chords. The lyrics. The image of the singer herself. It was a song generated by a machine, so to speak./a-new-dawn-by-john-jackson-miller.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-dawn-by-john-jackson-miller.htmlMy rating: 5/5 Pub Date: Sept. 25, 2014 Legends/Canon: Canon Timeline: 11 BBY Welcome back to the Star Wars Book Club! It’s been a little quiet around here lately. Turns out reading a book a week is hard to keep up with. But I’m back today with a new review, and tomorrow you’ll get the September reading list, along with a schedule of when the reviews are dropping. For now enjoy this spoiler free review of A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller./a-new-greek-word-thumos.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-greek-word-thumos.htmlPlease be warned…this is a bit of a philosophical meandering inspired by Adam Neumann. The meandering bit is the part I’m warning you about. I was talking to Liana (who works with me part-time and is just the best*) about the Netflix series WeCrashed, which chronicles the ultimate demise of the co-working space business WeWork. She flagged she’d also see… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuqcPIpaqopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6aZKedp2K0s7HEpGSwp6KZerW01KamrA%3D%3D/a-retraction-of-yesterdays-guest.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-retraction-of-yesterdays-guest.htmlHi everyone, Yesterday The Unpublishable shared an essay from a guest writer, Kimia Dargahi, titled “You’d Be Even More Beautiful With A Smaller Nose.” It has been brought to my attention that the guest essay contained many instances of plagiarism, with lines and phrases lifted from this article written by Dina Nayeri for VICE in 2014. I apologize to Dina Nayeri and to all of you — the readers who come to The Unpublishable for original reporting on ignored or under-examined topics in the beauty space — for not realizing this prior to publishing Kimia Dargahi’s piece./a-secret-history-of-monopoly.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-secret-history-of-monopoly.html[You’re reading a post from my Adjacent Possible newsletter. Sign up to receive more essays like this one in your inbox.] There was a serendipitous overlap between my Twitter feed and this newsletter earlier this week: as I was posting the first part of my exchange with Chris Dixon, discussing the ways in which game worlds can often anticipate new forms of social or economic organization, I happened across this very funny tweet from Matt Yglesias:/a-sense-of-where-bill-bradley-is.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-sense-of-where-bill-bradley-is.htmlBill Bradley was born in Crystal City, Missouri, on July 28, 1943. At the age of eighty he has decided to share his illustrious life story. A documentary version of his autobiographical stage production, Rolling Along: An American Story, is streaming now on Max. He plans an active social media presence and has a website at billbradley.com. Why? For reasons he explains in his play, and I understand. You may have read that this is a big year for people who are more less in the range of eighty years of age./a-short-history-of-the-ball-gag.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-short-history-of-the-ball-gag.htmlSee that ❤️ icon? Give it a tap and greatness will be bestowed upon your first born child. TEXT BY SHIV KOTECHA | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ABI BENITEZThere are many ways to shut a lover up. You could, for instance, kiss them. But if you pine for drama, you might opt to plug the cosmic reach of their speech with that planet-shaped device called a ball gag—a sphere, typically made of rubber or silicone, kept in place with a strap that orbits the head of its wearer./the-art-of-tawaif-a-tradition-lost.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-art-of-tawaif-a-tradition-lost.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. You can also follow us on Instagram and Twitter./a-tribute-to-dana-omari-noy-skincare.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-tribute-to-dana-omari-noy-skincare.htmlHard to imagine it was already years ago that I had the pleasure of interviewing Dana Omari, the founder of Noy Skincare. Dana was well respected around the world as an aesthetician and beautiful soul inside and out. For those of you that knew her, knew of her, or didn’t know of her at all — I am lucky enough to be able to share her story. ncG1vNJzZmiimpi1or%2FEZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZK5uwNGima6slWLBsHnDmqWaZZ%2BirrO1jKemsmWjoLavr8CrnA%3D%3D/a-visit-to-the-fernet-branca-distillery.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-visit-to-the-fernet-branca-distillery.htmlI don’t take distillery tours much anymore. In the early years of my career as a spirits and cocktail scribbler, such visits were sought after as a wellspring of knowledge. I was learning about my subject. But, after fifty or so excursions, it grows old. Let’s just say that, broadly speaking, when you’ve seen one still, you’ve seen them all. But the prospect of eyeballing the inner workings of certain unique liquor brands can still excite./a-word-for-our-shared-humanity.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-word-for-our-shared-humanity.htmlSama-sama • (saa-maa saa-maa) • phrase Definition: Togetherness or “You’re welcome” Origin: Tagalog, Malay, Indonesian Earlier this year, SCL collaborated with SAMASAMA to produce “Diaspora People’s History Month” and we learned about “sama-sama.” The word “sama” means “same” in Tagalog, Malay, and Indonesian, but rather than just meaning “same-same” in those three languages, “sama-sama” has two different meanings which I found to be relevant during this time of year. In Tagalog, which is spoken in the Philippines, sama-sama means “all together” or “togetherness” but in Malay, which is spoken in Malaysia, and Indonesian, it is used in place of “you’re welcome./icelandic-cows-a2-milk-unique-genetics.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/icelandic-cows-a2-milk-unique-genetics.htmlAs I’m traveling and learning about the world’s cheesemaking practices, I am observing the loss of older livestock breeds, farming methods, and communal land usage. The diversity of cheeses are being lost alongside these at an alarming rate. The dairy foods that I find most fascinating are emblems of these well established relationships, that are often at odds with the modern capitalist definitions of efficiency. I think the Icelandic cow, and the remnants of an older system of farming, actually are efficient when seen through a different lens./adult-spring-break.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adult-spring-break.htmlMemorial Day weekend, 2015: It’s time to take a vacation and get away from the dust storms and tumble weeds of West Texas! Jaime and I packed our swimsuits and headed for the Emerald Coast of Florida. We flew the “company plane” of Southwest Airlines into Panama City and rented a car for the forty-five minute drive to the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort. I like to golf and Jaime likes the beach – Perfect!/africans-are-on-the-move-but-leaving.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/africans-are-on-the-move-but-leaving.htmlThanks for reading! If this newsletter helps you make sense of our complex world of 8 billion people, I hope you’ll consider becoming a paid subscriber, buying my latest book, or hosting me as a speaker for your organization. And if you’re just a casual reader, I’m still very glad you’re here, and thanks! Earlier this week, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni hosted a summit on stopping irregular migration from Africa to Europe./agentic-ai-challenges-and-opportunities.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/agentic-ai-challenges-and-opportunities.htmlSubscribe • Previous Issues Last year, the buzz in the AI community revolved around the concept of AI co-pilots - systems designed to work alongside humans, assisting them in tasks and decision-making processes. These co-pilots, such as GitHub Copilot for programming assistance and Grammarly for writing, focused on augmenting human capabilities while maintaining human control and responsibility. They were reactive, responding to human inputs and providing suggestions and recommendations. This year, more and more developers are talking about AI agents - autonomous or semi-autonomous systems capable of handling a wider range of tasks and making decisions on their own./agnes-is-getting-upset-on-this-episode.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/agnes-is-getting-upset-on-this-episode.htmlThis was another entertaining episode from our friends at The Gilded Age, a show that has dramatically improved in its second season. (No pun intended.) Sometimes, it takes a television program a little while to figure out what it is, and it does seem like Julian Fellowes et al. have at last figured out that this is, mostly, a soap opera where real-life historical people and places of interest happen to make cameos./ai-the-new-electricity.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ai-the-new-electricity.htmlOne of the many things that have become ubiquitous in discussions about AI over the few months or so is the tendency to compare AI to calculators. Comparing AI to any single tool or piece of technology is a massive oversimplification of its functionality and a massive underestimation of its potential impact. AI represents more than a new piece of technology: it’s an infrastructural development with fundamental implications for how humans live, work and learn./steely-dan-aja-classic-albums-documentary.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steely-dan-aja-classic-albums-documentary.html“I’ve basically been able to make programs about my record collection,” the documentarian Martin R. Smith tells me when I reach the 67-year-old by video conference at his home in London. “They say never meet your heroes. But I did, and it worked.”  Upgrade to paid Smith was a supervising producer on Peter Jackson’s 2021 series The Beatles: Get Back. His filmography includes docs about Roxy Music, Genesis, the Jam, and Blur./all-about-career-history-interviews.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-about-career-history-interviews.html🐲 Happy Lunar New Year, everyone 🐲. I’m feeling physically much better these days — I also realized that while I objectively feel better in the second trimester than the first, the gap between how I expected to feel (basically normal with good energy) and how I actually feel (unpredictably up and down energy) is much much wider than in the first trimester (when I fully expected to feel horrible, and did)./all-i-know-about-guesthouse-the-upcoming.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-i-know-about-guesthouse-the-upcoming.htmlI was pretty excited when I heard that Derek Eidson and Pete Faber were partnering to open Guesthouse Tavern + Oyster, a supper club-inspired spot coming in early 202… ncG1vNJzZmivmaO2rrvRmqWvoZyhsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iZnKF6qnnKp6awZZGXvLbAjKCsnquknby2v8Rmq6GdXaq9pLvMoqWg/america-has-become-a-society-of-gamblers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/america-has-become-a-society-of-gamblers.htmlTo investors, America has become a society of gamblers. You can see this everywhere you look. Zero-day options are dominating public markets. Meme coins are bought and sold like 1980’s boiler room penny stocks. Major sport leagues are integrating sports betting into every corner of their operations. Risk taking might as well be the 28th amendment to the … ncG1vNJzZmion6K9b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinaJmdmr%2Bqr8Bmn5qrXZeypLvMnmSaZaOksKqx07JkqJ5dnK6ursueqaw%3D/jonathan-cohn-joins-lehotsky-keller-boutique.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonathan-cohn-joins-lehotsky-keller-boutique.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 on the button below. Thanks! After fourteen years as a partner at Sidley Austin, where he handled complex commercial and appellate litigation, Jonathan Cohn is leaving Biglaw. Where is he heading? Like so many other top litigators, he’s joining a boutique—Lehotsky Keller, which will become Lehotsky Keller Cohn (LKC) after Cohn joins on Monday, May 1./an-interpreter-in-vienna-chapter-7c9.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-interpreter-in-vienna-chapter-7c9.htmlAn Interpreter in Vienna is a response to Graham Greene's The Third Man and a psychological thriller serialized on The Matterhorn each Saturday. This prose is a continuation of a letter written by Marie to her (official) employers in anticipation of Josef’s arrival at her door…at the threshold where she believes one of them will die. ∞ Table of Contents | Blurb ∞ Author’s Foreword ∞ Toggle on/off sections of the newsletter/trans-panic-an-interview-with-parker.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trans-panic-an-interview-with-parker.htmlFearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills. Share is a time-traveling astronaut who writes fascinating stuff about media. That’s sort of all I knew about her for a while. Recently, we started chatting on Twitter, and we ended up on the phone. I wanted to talk media and Substack with the woman who named her Substack The Present Age, after a text by Kierkegaard./an-unintended-villain-in-10-things.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-unintended-villain-in-10-things.htmlWe’ve got another episode of Rom Coms Revisited: exploring the good/bad/ugly of early 2000s rom coms. Today, another one of my personal faves! I guess in this society being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time. - Kat Stratford Loading... I was trying to figure out exactly how many times I’ve seen this movie - I think it’s at least in the upper 50s range. *And* I actually remember the very first time I watched it./approximately-one-billion-things.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/approximately-one-billion-things.htmlAnd as always, if you know someone who’d like Garden Study, please forward this their way — but make sure to guide them to the specific way to *opt-in* to Garden Study emails, which you can find here. You can grow dahlias in a lot of different places but few places are as obsessed with them as the Pacific Northwest. Our mild climate and extended growing season is perfect for this somewhat persnickety plant, which now comes in literally thousands of cultivars with more introduced each season./armenian-ghapama.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/armenian-ghapama.htmlAs someone who has hosted many dinners, you’d think I’d learn to keep things simple….. But there I am, 30 minutes before guests arrive, pacing my kitchen trying to simultaneously finish 4 dishes while setting the table. Too often I’ve been overly ambitious, putting out more dishes than guests and spending all day doing it.   With my recent move, I finally have a space I can’t wait to host in./arno-schmidt-volume-one.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arno-schmidt-volume-one.htmlWhat’s this? Two episodes back to back, without a four-month delay between them? Unheard of! Who’s to say what spurred on this sudden industriousness in my YouTube output. Maybe my meds have finally kicked in, maybe the coffee is just that good. Or maybe it’s the fact that my obsessive-compulsive personality has found a new literary fixation toward which I’ve directed way too much of my attentional bandwidth. I’d like to think my loss of sleep will also benefit your reading./as-much-as-you-ever-wanted-to-know.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/as-much-as-you-ever-wanted-to-know.htmlI am an engineer by training with the questionable instinct to run towards problems, especially problems that should not be problems. When I heard that the United States could not produce sufficient 155 mm artillery shells to supply Ukraine, I thought it sounded odd. I knew essentially nothing about artillery save I would want to be on the other end of one. I was generally aware the industrial base for the defense industry had either atrophied or specialized or both, depending on your perspective./review-at-cafe-bar-moriarty-a-family.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-at-cafe-bar-moriarty-a-family.htmlAs a restaurant critic, providing restaurant recommendations is my bread and butter.  Not just reviews. The other service I provide is bespoke dossiers of dining intel, paired to individual palates. What delights one couple dismays another. Tastes vary in adventurousness, cost tolerance, and the importance of abundant free parking.  Before firing off recommendations, I need coordinates. Thus was born the hunger colloquy, questions designed to help me home in on their personal satisfaction zone./bar-canete-barcelona.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bar-canete-barcelona.htmlOne of the quirks of my day job is that there are a few cities I return to again and again, driven by the vagaries of the tech trade show circuit. Three trips to Las Vegas, four to Berlin, a few to Los Angeles, and more besides. But my first, and most frequent, is Barcelona, a city I’ve now been to six times, exclusively consisting of 3-5 day visits in late February./barons.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barons.htmlRobert Leonard and I teamed up to bring you a conversation with Austin Frerick, an author whose book is being released this week. This work could change how readers view what is happening all around us. As Bob said in his introduction to Austin, the author doesn’t just offer facts and data about the consolidation of the food industry; he tells stories about families and how they came to, for example, be able to invest $300,000 in an Iowa gubernatorial race./barrel-jeans.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barrel-jeans.htmlGreetings from my new studio. I’m still figuring out the light. I’m still unpacking – boxes and feelings about the flag’s prominence – but for the most part, this is the backdrop. To celebrate the change (and my being done with the bulk of it), I went back and bought the pricey Levi’s Big E 501s I found while reporting this story for Vogue. What. They were 15% off and, to quote my denim spirit sister Meg Younger, “They’re an heirloom./before-psychedelic-therapy-narcosynthesis.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/before-psychedelic-therapy-narcosynthesis.htmlWhen writing Tripping on Utopia, my book on the history of psychedelic science in the 20th century, I found an enormous amount of material from the 1940s relating to a kind of therapy I’d never heard of before. It was called narcohypnosis or narcosynthesis. In essence, this involved the use of potent sedatives — especially sodium pentothal and sodium amytal — to put patients in a prolonged dream-like state. Psychiatrists of the era hoped that this would allow them to process, or “synthesize,” trauma from repressed memories of violence or conflict./beige-moms-kill-me.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beige-moms-kill-me.htmlI am not personally on the TikTok device. I get sent some periodically and look at them, but I don’t have my own account. I realize a lot of “modern trends” (ha) come from there, even if the entire site is ostensibly Chinese propaganda. Share As I am also a child-less male, I’m not that up on motherhood trends writ large. Apparently there is something called a “beige mom” or “sad beige” or “sad beige mom” (combining all the terms), and it’s been trending since maybe mid-2023./benn-steil-the-world-that-wasnt-henry.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/benn-steil-the-world-that-wasnt-henry.htmlHistory occasionally provides lessons of uncanny application for comprehending current events. Author Benn Steil shares such insights in his new book, The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and The Fate of The American Century. Columnist George Will aptly calls it “timely, riveting.” In the summer of 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt exhibited manifest physical decline. Heading into the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, FDR arranged for the removal of his hand-picked vice president, Henry Wallace./berkeleys-best-sandwiches.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/berkeleys-best-sandwiches.htmlHello, friends and sandwich lovers! We have a real treat for you this Recipe of the Month. I’ve asked my husband, Graham, who is a sandwich aficionado, to write a list of his all-time favorites in Berkeley. Well, this guest essay might more accurately be titled “Berkeley’s” Best Sandwiches, because a couple of these spots are barely outside city limits—in neighboring El Cerrito, Albany, and Oakland. However, this best-of list is in no way comprehensive of the entire Bay Area./beyond-boundaries.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyond-boundaries.htmlThose who know me will know that I grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and that from ages 18-21 I found my way out of the denomination. Like many people who disaffiliated from the church of my upbringing, I had a phase where I was nasty about Adventism―sometimes, but often without justification. I received some of my best and most formative theological education from Adventists, and to this day I count some Adventists among my closest friends and spiritual companions./the-daily-agenda-big-bucks-at-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-daily-agenda-big-bucks-at-the.htmlLast week, University of Arizona officials finally presented faculty, staff and the public with an actual plan to address the school’s $177 million deficit, saying the cuts would start in administration. The goal of the “administrative restructuring,” according to Interim Chief Financial Officer John Arnold, is to save money, reduce bureaucracy and improve outcomes. The Arizona Board of Regents has hired a consulting firm to review the UA’s administrative structure and Arnold said UA leadership has already begun to review bureaucratic positions to cut./big-union-county-flea-market-to-close.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-union-county-flea-market-to-close.htmlThe following article appeared in the November 27, 2023, edition of The Charlotte Ledger, an email newsletter with smart and original information for Charlotte. Sign up for free: Sweet Union Flea Market — one of the region’s largest flea markets, where hundreds flock to buy and sell goods every Saturday and Sunday — will close Dec. 31 after 39 years of operation.  In a letter to vendors last week, the family that owns the market said it’s closing because of the ages of three of its owners, who are in their 60s and 80s./hailey-bieber-glazed-donut-skin.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hailey-bieber-glazed-donut-skin.htmlIn a new interview promoting her skincare brand, Rhode, and its hero products, Glazing Milk (an essence) and Peptide Glazing Fluid (a moisturizer), Hailey Bieber tells the Cut she likes to look as gooey as a glazed donut. “I want someone to want to take a bite out of my skin,” she explains. “I want you to want to bite me because it looks so delicious that you can’t resist.”/bob-dylan-in-his-own-words-vol-2.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bob-dylan-in-his-own-words-vol-2.htmlDaniel came to see me when we were playing in New Orleans last year and we hit it off. He had an understanding of what my music was all about. It’s very hard to find a producer that can play. A lot of them can’t even engineer. They’ve just got a big title and know how to spend a lot of money. It was thrilling to run into Daniel because he’s a competent musician and he knows how to record with modern facilities./book-review-the-silk-roads-a-new.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-review-the-silk-roads-a-new.htmlAs promised, I am now starting to use this Substack for more content than just my transcripts and sources. I have a few articles waiting down the pipeline, including a few book reviews. To kick things off, I have a review of the wonderful work by Professor Peter Frankopan. Please enjoy, and do pick this up if this seems interesting! The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan starts off with a preface that I think perfectly encapsulates both the premise of this work and of problems in historical teaching more broadly./brown-acid.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brown-acid.htmlIt’s been 54 years this week since Woodstock, one of the defining events of the psychedelic Sixties, took place. LSD was widespread, memorably including the notorious ‘brown acid’. Historian Andy Roberts dives into the question of where that acid came from… ncG1vNJzZmioo66wqbHDnqOim6CnsrS%2Fjaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5e%2FsMPNZpicoZQ%3D/review-bruce-springsteen-mvp-arena.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-bruce-springsteen-mvp-arena.htmlThe third time’s the charm, as they say, and the twice-postponed concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band finally took place on Monday, April 15, 2024, almost exactly a year and a month to the day after it was originally scheduled for the MVP Arena in Albany, N.Y. And no surprise to anyone, it was totally worth the wait, as a seemingly healthy, vibrant Springsteen performed one of his legendary, 28-song, three-hour-plus concerts, turning the sold-out arena into a nightclub in the way that few others seem to manage./the-fizz-70-bruno-almeida-sees-a.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fizz-70-bruno-almeida-sees-a.htmlFor the 70th issue of The Fizz, I spoke to New York City wine director, sommelier, and wine educator Bruno Almeida. Bruno comes to New York by way of Portugal, where he was born and raised. He came to New York as a drummer in a rock band, ready to make his American debut. Wine found him instead, and today, he’s a well known and loved educator, The Hue Society’s 2022 Wine Educator of the Year./bulldurham.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bulldurham.htmlPerhaps the easiest entry into film criticism (or any art critique) is to question what the film is “about” beyond its surface-level characteristics. “Unpacking,” as my English teachers would say. And let’s be honest, it’s pretty easy to unpack sports movies. Because if a sports movie isn’t “about” something beyond the sport it’s showcasing then it’s just…the sport itself. You’re just watching the games and matches at that point, or something like Hard Knocks at best./cameron-dunkin-who-managed-dozens.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cameron-dunkin-who-managed-dozens.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./capacity-volume-and-their-implications.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/capacity-volume-and-their-implications.htmlWith the success of Norway’s elite athletes, there’s been a lot written about the Norwegian approach. I decided to study one of their leading coaches, Olav Aleksander Bu. I found a man with a similar outlook to my own. I recommend you study his methods. Apply them for yourself, and your team. Like Olav Aleksander, I hope you are generous with sharing your understanding. Today, we explore two topics: Capacity/cassidy-hutchinson-and-swearing-off.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cassidy-hutchinson-and-swearing-off.htmlI spend a lot of time mulling over questions without clear answers. For instance: Freedom of religion is a core American principle. I’m all for it. But how are women free if we’re born into a belief system rooted in we’re to blame? The story of Eve in the garden seeps into the subconscious. If you buy into the idea that all woe is made from a woman eating from the tree of knowledge, it does not bode well for women in politics./celeb-shot-alessandra-bange-hall.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/celeb-shot-alessandra-bange-hall.htmlThis past Taco Tuesday, I met Alessandra Bange-Hall at the hottest semi-casual Mexican joint on this side of Broadway. (Well, actually, that side—if you’re speaking from Piper Boutique, the affordable womenswear store Allie owns.) The Lake Luzerne native came in fresh off a hilarious phone conversation with Palette owner Catherine Hover, whose daughter is Allie’s god daughter. Unfortunately, I’ve been forbidden from sharing the details of the story (which I personally find completely innocuous) here./certified-hater-an-introduction.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/certified-hater-an-introduction.htmlI would be lying if I said I knew what I was doing creating this newsletter. Truth is, I want to use this space for exploring. That’s the word that comes to mind. I want to explore things I like, things others like, what we don’t like, and more. I could sit on TikTok all day (I already do) and post there, but there’s something refreshing about a space where you read the words of others./chapter-4-turkish-delight.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chapter-4-turkish-delight.htmlOne of the great disappointments in the life of a Narnia fan is the first taste of Turkish delight. This is what Edmund betrayed his family over? I imagine there were scores of disappointed British children in 2005, as sales of the candy jumped 200% in the United Kingdom after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie. I bought some on Amazon for the people in a Narnia class I taught./chickadee-with-a-deformed-bill.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chickadee-with-a-deformed-bill.html(Listen to the radio version here.) This morning, when I was working at my desk, I suddenly noticed that one of my chickadees has a badly crossed bill. It obviously has trouble preening—its breast feathers are a mess—and it’s presumably having difficulty eating. I saw it just once and clicked a few photos before it flew off. For many years, I was in the habit of hand-feeding my chickadees from my home office window./chili-and-cornbread-119.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chili-and-cornbread-119.htmlHappy Thursday, W4D friends! This week we are featuring a tried and true staple of Fall/Winter cooking: Chili & Cornbread. And we promise, once you make these, you’ll never make another version again. Elizabeth’s Bowl O’ Red is a Texas-style chili (without beans—but add ‘em if you want ‘em!) that doesn’t skimp on beefy flavor, and Anthony is making her famous Creamed Corn Cornbread with a jalapeño and cheddar cheese twist./christs-descent-into-hades-after.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christs-descent-into-hades-after.htmlI grew up in a Christian family – one of those families that was at Church every time the doors were open. On Sunday mornings we attended Sunday school followed by a service featuring praise songs and a ~30-minute sermon; Sunday evenings we participated in youth group or the evening service; Wednesday evenings we had kids club – or choir practice if you had aged out of the latter. One day every year, we would add a Friday to the mix: Good Friday./chyna-and-my-biggest-problem.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chyna-and-my-biggest-problem.htmlI can’t believe it’s already another Tuesdaaaaay! (Ahem. 5 days ago.) Currently in the Florida panhandle right by the ocean on a family trip. We’re celebrating my parents’ 50th Anniversary! What’s their secret? Well, if their video appearances are any indication, it’s probably all the frantically scrolling on the phone and reading weird things at the kitchen table while they yell at each other. Anyhoo, this trip is the excuse I’m using for why I’m late on this newsletter./civil-war-the-movie-is-absolutely.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/civil-war-the-movie-is-absolutely.htmlCassidy Steele Dale writes to equip you with the forecasts, foresight skills and perspectives, and tools you may need to create a better, kinder world. And one of those ways is to review a movie that matters. I saw Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War this past Sunday evening. Go see it. It’s terrifying and great and great and terrifying. If you don’t like political movies, go see it./colorado-footballs-reality-tv-experiment.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/colorado-footballs-reality-tv-experiment.htmlThis is Part 4 in my ongoing series on the future of football. Here are the previous installments: Part 1, Before the pandemic, the rise and decline Part 2, Why college football on Saturdays and the NFL is on Sundays. Part 3, Super Bowl excitement can't hide football's continuing decline Share I was in Switzerland a few weeks ago at a meeting when, during a break, someone came up to me and said, “You are from Colorado, yes?/comfort-is-the-enemy-nietzsches-last.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/comfort-is-the-enemy-nietzsches-last.htmlThe higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra It is important in life that we have not just heroes but anti-heroes. We know who we are not just by what we are moving towards, but by what we are moving away from. In previous instalments we have talked a lot about Nietzsche's ideal; we've looked at his life-affirming Dionysian ideal in a couple of articles and we looked at the stages of the development of his Übermensch in the Three Metamorphoses article./annotated-songs-june-hymn.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/annotated-songs-june-hymn.htmlThis beautiful song pretty much sums up early parenthood for me. It was June 2011 and our first daughter was just 3 months old. I played this song over and over and it spoke to me like no other, full of metaphor: The endless washing of tiny baby grows - "Pegging clothing on the line". Trying to get your crying baby to sleep in at 4am - "Standing on the landing with the war you shouldered all the night before"/applesauce.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/applesauce.htmlThank you so much for sharing this! I lost my older sister and best friend Laurie to cancer on the 4th of July 1986. Time sure doesn't fill the empty spaces left by those we loved and who are no longer with us, but there are signs all around us of their spirit that lives on within us and all the others whose lives they touched. :) Expand full comment/the-big-guys-last-drink.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-guys-last-drink.htmlAt my next gathering: GUEST: “John, this is _delicious_! This isn’t just an Old Fashioned, what _is_ this??” ME: “Well let me •sniff• tell ya about it,… •begins sobbing•… (Which I think would be a worthy tribute.) Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmibn5i4ta3IpaqwoaSdwLawxKukmqZeqMKjv9OamqRmk6S6cLyOrZ%2BeZZKetG6z1LKqZqSRqMFusNGipaRnk6S6rrHNrao%3D/vagabond-manga-chapter-1-takezo.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vagabond-manga-chapter-1-takezo.htmlIt. Is. So. Good. Of course, this is my opinion and I’m on season 3. My beautiful son (22 years old), who recently graduated and will be moving away, asked me to watch it with him. He had already seen it. From what I have seen, it’s beautifully profound and a tragic mirror to our fallen world as it is right now. It makes my heart ache. The fact that my son asked me to watch it with him makes it such a special, priceless experience; though a painful one./conversation-2-with-kelley-jakle.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/conversation-2-with-kelley-jakle.htmlI can not read music, sing well or play any instruments. My last attempt at choir happened before puberty set in. So no one was more surprised than me when I discovered the Tufts Beelzebubs . (If you follow the link here you will discover the magic of the Bubs performing Trey Songz’ “Bottom’s Up” at a concert at the University of Maryland in 2010. It is just really good stuff.) I could geek out about the Beelzebubs in a way that even I find mildly confusing, but that’s for another day./creating-a-fun-and-engaging-workplace.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/creating-a-fun-and-engaging-workplace.htmlMicrosoft has introduced a feature that can add some fun to your workdays and those of your colleagues. It's something small but can bring a lot of joy among employees. We're talking about Together emojis, emoticons that are meant to be used together. In this article, you'll read about my experience using them with my coworkers. Special thanks to them for allowing me to explore this feature and see how far we can take it (so far)./daily-bite-of-c-stdiota-stdviewsiota.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daily-bite-of-c-stdiota-stdviewsiota.htmlThe std::iota is a simple algorithm that generates consecutive values by repeatedly applying the prefix increment, starting from the initial value. While the base std::iota algorithm is fairly niche, the C++20 lazily evaluated std::views::iota is a more helpful version, particularly when combined with other views. Leave a comment ncG1vNJzZmirmaK8r8DOrZ9nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wsMCio7Jlkp7BpnnOn2ScZaOpsaq705pkrKyUq7amw9Kipq2Z/dear-sweet-baby-jesus.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dear-sweet-baby-jesus.htmlEric Copage, editor of the New York Times Magazine, invited readers in a 2020 essay[i] to close their eyes “and imagine that Jesus is standing in front” of them. Copage asked, “Is the man kneeling in prayer in the Garden at Gethsemane Chinese? Is the man sitting at the table of the Last Supper Navajo? Is the man dragging his cross toward Golgotha Nigerian? Or is the crucified figure a woman?/death-and-the-maiden.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/death-and-the-maiden.htmlDeath and the Maiden, by Marianne Stokes (1908)In this painting by Marianne Stokes, we see a strikingly modern rendition of the renaissance motif of “death and the maiden”. Whereas most versions of this classic theme featured a skeleton preying upon a young woman, here we see a romanticized Angel of death, calmly reassuring a frightened maiden in her final moments. The message is clear: Death is nothing to be feared ./deceit-desire-and-the-novel-part.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deceit-desire-and-the-novel-part.htmlHi all, A few updates before diving in. First, I have two events coming up in the next month, one virtual, and one live in NYC: This Saturday, October 9 at 2pm ET, I’ll be speaking to French novelist Victoria Mas about her acclaimed debut, The Mad Women’s Ball, which was also recently released as an Amazon Original film. This is a virtual event hosted by Albertine, and you can RSVP through them or via the French Embassy./dill-pickle-ranch-dip.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dill-pickle-ranch-dip.htmlI have so damn many good football food recipes. It’s all in the dip, Happies. Bu also the wings. The ribs. The pizzas. The hot, delicious, spicy, saucy finger foods. Click here and scroll the Starter section of my Substack recipe index. I was going to link to some of my faves, but THERE ARE TOO MANY! Low Carb Football Food from the Eat Happy KitchenThis year, I didn’t know what I could possibly do to update the rotation of apps./dining-out-hello.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dining-out-hello.htmlHi MTV and welcome to my Substack!! This is Dining Out and it is my second attempt at doing one of these. I have, with disdain, conceded this time that to have a Substack you do actually have to write the Substack. It is nice to be back with a renewed commitment. Here, I am going to be writing, weekly, about food, restaurants, and fun.  I come to you at a strange old time./dirty-dancing-is-a-movie-about-abortion.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dirty-dancing-is-a-movie-about-abortion.htmlLast Friday, Jennifer Grey appeared on The View to promote her new memoir, Out of the Corner, but also discussed abortion and the recently leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that will likely overturn Roe v. Wade. The conversation didn’t have to veer away from Grey’s work to make the connection. Her book’s title is taken from her most famous role, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a teenager whose 1963 Catskills summer vacation includes romance, dancing, and witnessing firsthand the horrors that can happen when abortion is illegal./doctor-who-rewatch-the-thirteenth.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/doctor-who-rewatch-the-thirteenth.htmlBefore the Thirteenth Doctor’s run, I had an optimistic outlook about Doctor Who because the show needed an update and some fresh ideas. Steven Moffat’s run at the helm of the show and Peter Capaldi’s time as the Doctor ended with a whimper. Both were reportedly set to step away after series 9 but were asked to stay for another season. While Moffatt led many of the greatest Doctor Who story arcs and created some iconic characters like River Song and the Weeping Angels, he seemed to coast through to the end./does-lionel-messi-have-a-limit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-lionel-messi-have-a-limit.htmlHappy second-first week of the Champions League, everyone! Reminder: Subscriber-only content will soon be part of the deal here at No Grass in the Clouds. As I wrote last Friday, we’re taking this thing pro: The Tuesday newsletter (i.e. what you’re reading right now) will remain available to all, but the Friday crib sheet, plus a bunch of other bits of bonus content (mailbags, game reactions, player spotlights, perhaps audio, potentially power rankings of the best cardigans), will only be available for subscribers./dr-renata-moon-and-the-first-amendment.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dr-renata-moon-and-the-first-amendment.htmlDr. Renata Moon on her own time traveled to Washington DC at the request of a US Senator to speak as one of many on a panel of doctors with questions about the response to COVID-19. The Chair of the WSU Elson S. Floyd School of Medicine took it upon himself to file a complaint to the Washington Medical Commission, alleging her words had been misinformation. But for Dr. Moon and her defenders, her words were not only true but protected speech under the First Amendment./draw-the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/draw-the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl.htmlImagine, if you will, a book in which Brad Pitt reveals his iron-clad technique for getting dates: Go to a place where women are Smile Think of all of the stories he’d have of getting dates with women with this technique, each one bolstering the validity of his argument. He’d include research on the importance of proximity, and insights like different kinds of women are found in various places, like a church, calligraphy class, or UFC match./draw-the-rest-of-the-owl.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/draw-the-rest-of-the-owl.htmlI must have been living under a rock, but up until a few days ago, I had never heard of this meme, “draw the rest of the owl”. A few days ago, I was watching a Youtube video called: “This Simple Productivity System Got Me Into Harvard and Yale.” The video was excellent and well-done, and laid out some high-level strategies for productivity. However, as I was watching the video, I couldn’t help but shake a certain throughout the entire video… “these suggestions are good, but they don’t really show how the Youtuber used them in practice to get into Harvard and Yale./the-unfabulous-life-of-jackie-burkhart.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-unfabulous-life-of-jackie-burkhart.htmlI want to tell you a story. It’s of a young girl. She’s beautiful, rich, popular, and hip to the latest trends. Decked out in the most fashionable outfits money can buy, her goal in life is to live a fairy tale. But one by one, the cornerstones of her life crumble under her. Her wealthy family falls apart, her handsome boyfriend cheats on her, and as she leaves high school to enter the real world, she faces the inescapable truth that what she wanted is impossible./earnings-cash-flows-and-free-cash.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/earnings-cash-flows-and-free-cash.htmlIt is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors' playbooks in the good times. This correction has been no exception, as the threat of losing investment capital has focused the minds of investors, and led many to reexamine practices adopted during the last decade. In particular, there has been more talk of earnings than of revenue or user growth this year, and the notion of cashflows driving value seems to be back in vogue./buttery-tomato-and-fennel-soup-with.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/buttery-tomato-and-fennel-soup-with.htmlcall it confirmation bias but i feel like i’ve been seeing a lot of green soups making the rounds this soup season: see this one, this one, this one and this one, aptly named “swamp soup.” i have nothing against green soups, but i have to say, if someone made made me choose just one for the rest of my life, i’d without a doubt be team #redsoup (side note: this hashtag has just over 6,000 posts whereas #greensoup has over 37,000 lol)./ed-motta-interview-steely-dan-aor.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ed-motta-interview-steely-dan-aor.htmlWhen the Brazilian singer-songwriter Ed Motta appears on the video conference screen from his home in Rio de Janeiro, he’s wearing a Gaucho T-shirt. It’s the same one he sports in a photo in which he’s standing among the towering shelves that contain his massive record collection, holding two copies of Steely Dan’s 1980 masterwork. It so happens that Motta has done a series of these shots, posing in shirts matching the covers of Can’t Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic—and other beloved non-Dan albums, too./eileen-guggenheim-skates-unscathed.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eileen-guggenheim-skates-unscathed.htmlYou can tell a lot from a picture. A simple snapshot can speak volumes, showing one thing while saying something completely different. A perfect example is WWD featuring Eileen Guggenheim’s photo as a luminary at The Tribeca Ball. The article displays beautiful photos of beautiful people. But it is also a statement. Her photo in that magazine means the New York City elite still support her despite credible allegations of her feeding young women into Epstein’s trafficking ring./emily-gould-divorce-article-the-cut.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/emily-gould-divorce-article-the-cut.htmlHO. LY. SHIT. Check out the first few paragraphs of this May '22 piece, also from The Cut, titled "The Sad Young Literary Man Is Now a Middle-Aged Dad — Keith Gessen wrote a memoir about family life. His wife, Emily Gould, is mostly okay with that." (It really does read like the literary world's answer to OnlyFans. Now I'm glad Gould publicly humiliated Gessen. They deserve each other. Their life story should be titled: "/escaping-north-korea.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/escaping-north-korea.htmlBeyond Utopia is a thrilling and moving documentary that follows the stories of people trying to escape from North Korea, with some graphic footage of the conditions they are fleeing. I was privileged to have an opportunity to interview Madeleine Gavin, who directed and edited the film, and one of the producers, Sue Mi Terry. Madeleine is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who has edited many award-winning documentaries and received the 2024 Dupont-Columbia Journalist Award for excellence in journalism./estimating-the-iq-of-mark-zuckerberg.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/estimating-the-iq-of-mark-zuckerberg.htmlAnother perfect SAT score. Not nearly as impressive given he took it in 2001 - so this equates to a z-score of 3.1 or above using the traditional 980/200 method for this time period. He is very wealthy - consistently in the top 10, giving him a wealth z-score of 6. Because it’s impossible to actually find somebody with that z-score in a simulation, I’ll just assume he is above a z-score of 4 in wealth./et-in-arcadia-ego.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/et-in-arcadia-ego.htmlDear crew of The Broken Binnacle, Sharing another poem by Ben Marsh. As you go about your happy, sunny-filled Saturday, memento mori. Besides that, have a wonderful weekend! I don’t particularly heed bad omens, Although this creature is the ninth I’ve found In Eden — a pigeon with its head flattened Into a bloody patch that stains the flagstone. ~ Here’s an unblemished blackbird lying still In the dry birdbath; an abandoned nest/everything-matters-at-sugar-monk.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-matters-at-sugar-monk.htmlBeing a journalist who covers the drinking scene, I’ve become accustomed to offering thumbnail descriptions of bars. The question “What’s that bar like?” comes around fairly often and I’m usually able to answer it, capturing a joint’s personality in a sentence or two. But whenever I visit Sugar Monk, the small, posh cocktail lounge in Harlem, I ponder how I might describe the bar to a friend, and I am stumped./everything-you-need-to-know-about.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everything-you-need-to-know-about.htmlAndrea and I wanted to take some time to exclusively talk about our upcoming shared universe of horror, The Bone Orchard Mythos. We cannot be more excited to share this new world with you all. It’s the name of our line of horror Original Graphic Novels. It will act as both a Series, and Limited Series that will be released (one or two books a year) starting by 2022 and onwards, all set in the same brand-new universe./facts-of-fiction-demon-slayer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/facts-of-fiction-demon-slayer.htmlThe explosive success of the Demon Slayer franchise has had a profound impact on the manga industry, clocking in as the 9th-best-selling manga ever and one of the highest-grossing media franchises in history. As we delve into some of my favorite facts about the series and its meteoric rise, we find an intriguing intersection of marketing strategies, art styles, and authorial influences. When we compare the sales of Demon Slayer's manga before and after the release of the anime, we observe an interesting dynamic, albeit a common one for manga series./explosive-lawsuit-puts-controversial.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/explosive-lawsuit-puts-controversial.htmlIn previous stories, I have shown that the international father’s rights law firm, Cordell & Cordell, knows no limits to unethical behavior in support of their clients. In December 2022, I interviewed Dr. Elizabeth Hersey, who was chased by an ex-boyfriend not even on the birth certificate first in England and then in NY. Her ex-boyfriend, Dr. Andre DuPlessis, was represented throughout by Cordell & Cordell. Dr. Hersey was required to show up to court the next day, and she was not allowed to remove her children from the country./exposing-flight-587-pilot-sten-molins.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exposing-flight-587-pilot-sten-molins.htmlI wanted to write to you one last time in 2022 and say Happy New Year to everyone. The Landing has readers from around the world, most of you with a connection to or keen interest in the aviation industry—which is funny because my decades of journalism experience is mostly in women’s issues, crime, and celebrities. Still, it’s interesting how all these topics have collided to make one hell of a year bringing a huge story to light./facing-nolan.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/facing-nolan.htmlWhen Nolan Ryan first hit the big leagues, nascent technology to measure ball speed clocked his heater at 101 mph. Catcher Jerry Grote, who caught him frequently as his New York Mets teammate, swears it was closer to 108. He was basically Nuke LaLoosh from “Bull Durham” — a big, lanky kid with a lightning bolt for a right arm, but with control problems so bad at times he could barely keep it over the plate./levs-good-ideas-fake-cocaine-energy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/levs-good-ideas-fake-cocaine-energy.htmlWhen I was in Munich for Oktoberfest, I expected to leave with a hangover (I did.) What I didn't expect was to leave with a good idea. Wiesn Pulver (sometimes called Wiesn Koks) is a drug-free white powder that you snort; it clears out the sinuses, gives a burst of energy and feels cool. I don't have to tell you why this is such a great product: I've basically pitched you on Diet Cocaine./fake-it-till-you-make-it-2023-a-recommendation.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fake-it-till-you-make-it-2023-a-recommendation.htmlCan anything good come out of MangoTV? Occasionally perhaps and this gem seems to be one of them. I don’t think it is hyperbolic to say that this is perhaps the best rom com I've seen in a long time... in the vein of When Harry Met Sally but more grounded in real world issues. Both leads are upwardly mobile hardworking outstanding professionals in their respective workplaces but circumstances are such that they are stretched to their limits./feenin.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feenin.htmlFeenin’, the 1993 chart-topper, by the iconic R&B boy band Jodeci, which consisted of (yes!) two pairs of brothers, is IMHO, one of the best R&B songs of the 90s. And from me, that’s saying something. And the official music video, which someone who calls themselves asianboriqua kindly videotaped and transferred to YouTube in 2007 is, to say the least, bananas. The song was released when I was ten, and since my days of going to Layla Schlack’s house after school every day to watch BET didn’t start till eleven or twelve, I somehow missed this one./five-and-a-half-movies-about-palestine.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-and-a-half-movies-about-palestine.htmlRegardless of whether you stand with Israel, support a free Palestine, yearn for a two-state solution, or just believe in the right of men, women, and children to not be massacred where they live, these movies — all available on VOD — put faces and feelings to a place too few Americans understand. “5 Broken Cameras” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2, 2011, streaming on Kanopy and Plex, for rent on Kino Now) – A devastating homemade documentary of incursion in the West Bank, with Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat filming the building of a barrier wall that cut through his village’s fields and the protests and police reprisals that followed./francesca-da-rimini-in-dante-tchaikovsky.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/francesca-da-rimini-in-dante-tchaikovsky.htmlReformed Rakes did an episode on cheating in historical romance this summer, a plot that can inspire vitriol in readers. I’ve seen readers forgive the male character of a bodice ripper for his violence, but not his cheating and be furious as a female character for taking back a cheater. In the episode we argue that cheating makes for good plot, that a lot of books that people call cheating books aren’t actually cheating books, and that cheating isn’t even really a “trope” as much as a plot point because of the variety of beats the plot can take on./breaking-frankenwatch-speedmaster.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-frankenwatch-speedmaster.htmlI think we all know the back-story by now. In November of 2021, a very vintage Omega Speedmaster, reference no. 2915-1, with a so-called “tropical” brown dial, sold for $3.4 million at Phillips. At the time, the listing described the watch as follows: “The present watch displays an exceptional ‘tropical’ dial that has aged to a vibrant milk-chocolate shade. The brown tone is not only rich and vivid, but it is also incredibly even throughout./accents.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/accents.htmlOne of the things I find most interesting about new languages is how different writing systems can be. While French uses the same 26-letter alphabet as English, it decorates half a dozen of them with diacritical marks, aka accents. The purpose of these accents varies - they may affect pronunciation 🗣️ distinguish between words 〰️ serve as reminders of old spelling 🏛️ Whatever their purpose, French accents are required when writing and typing./friday-11924-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friday-11924-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlToday is Day 4 of 14 in the Season 39 Champions Wildcard (Group 1) - Wildcard Group 1 runs January 16th - February 2nd - 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./friedrich-nietzsche-the-long-version.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friedrich-nietzsche-the-long-version.htmlCreating an overview of Friedrich Nietzsche presents unique challenges. There are many great articles and videos that are organised chronologically around his life or his works and others that focus on his big ideas. But in this instalment we're going to try something a little different. We are going to search for the thread of Ariadne that will lead us… ncG1vNJzZmismJq5qsLIp56poJmhvLS7z6GwZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLLRopydqpmYtW66yJ6rs6uTnbJuwMeeZKWnnpx6t7HRrKCopg%3D%3D/garrett-dellinger-g-lsu-2025-nfl.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/garrett-dellinger-g-lsu-2025-nfl.htmlGarrett Dellinger is one of several LSU offensive linemen who will hear their names called in the 2025 NFL Draft. He has stretches of excellent play in pass protection, but his game is too inconsistent to warrant a top 100 selection. Visit my Twitter account @Sam_Teets33 for more opinions on prospects, clips, and the latest football content. Classification: Senior left guard from Clarkston, Mich. Background: Dellinger was a four-star offensive tackle recruit from Clarkston High School in Clarkston, Mich./george-boleyn.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/george-boleyn.htmlGeorge Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (1504 – ) The younger brother of Anne and Mary, you are recognised in your lifetimes as an accomplished and attractive young man, but there is a curious blank in history where you should be. You were a busy Cout poet but your verses are lost. You were said to be handsome but no picture remains. You were committed to religious reform but your only religious writings are translations./getting-to-know-eudora-welty.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/getting-to-know-eudora-welty.htmlEditor’s Note: Our friend Mary Jo Tate, a longtime Close Reads listener, also happens to be an expert in the life and work of Eudora Welty, so as we work our way through The Optimist’s Daughter it seems only right to let her Mary Jo provide a starter kit for the life and work of this wonderful Southern writer. Hope you enjoy. —David Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001), the oldest of three surviving children of Christian and Chestina Andrews Welty, lived in Jackson, Mississippi nearly all her life./boxing-schedule-golden-boy-heads.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boxing-schedule-golden-boy-heads.htmlInfo: Saturday, April 27th on DAZN - first bell is at 3:15 PM PST, DAZN card starts at 5 PM PST. Is it a big fight - no not really, but it is a fairly decent one. Former unified junior welterweight world champion Jose Ramirez will make his Golden Boy Promotions debut at the SaveMart Center - a venue he has headlined a lot over the years. He will face former world champion Rances Barthelemy, who has the perfect spoiler style to make this interesting./growth-in-reverse-by-chenell-basilio.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/growth-in-reverse-by-chenell-basilio.htmlLearn the secrets of successful newsletters with Newsletter Circle! 👉 Every Sunday, you will read an exclusive interview with a successful newsletter creator and learn how to start, grow and monetize your newsletter. Today, we’re welcoming Chenell Basilio, the creator of Growth In Reverse, a great resource for newsletter creators. Every week, she shares a deep dive into how a top newsletter creator has grown to over 50k+ subscribers. As a previous market research person, I know how hard it is to conduct high-quality research./make-believe-bonus-hello-kitty-night.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-believe-bonus-hello-kitty-night.htmlIt all started with an offer to interview YOSHIKI. “YOSHIKI To Perform U.S. National Anthem at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, for ‘Hello Kitty Night,’ Before the Dodgers vs. Nationals Baseball Game,” went the PR blast that landed in my inbox. I immediately became intrigued — here was a wonderful triangulation of my interests (music, baseball, mascots) serving as yet another example of Japanese pop culture blossoming around the world./hic-sunt-dracones.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hic-sunt-dracones.htmlThe heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the treasures of evil. But there too is God, the angels, the life and the kingdom, the light and the apostles, the heavenly cities and the treasuries of grace—all things are there. —St. Macarius. There is the music of Heaven in all things. ― St. Hildegard of Bingen/popsicles-and-icicles-the-mermaids.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/popsicles-and-icicles-the-mermaids.htmlPeak: #3 on the Hot 100 Streams: 1.2 million Everything that happened after the success of The Murmaids’ “Popsicles and Icicles” is fascinating, but so is the song itself. Released in late 1963, it peaked at almost the exact same moment the Beatles conquered the American charts with “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and it sounds like the musical era that the B… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvM6pqqKbnJrAbq3NnWSim5mYuaa%2FjK2fnmWdmr%2Burcidqg%3D%3D/home-price-still-30-40-too-high-nick.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/home-price-still-30-40-too-high-nick.htmlWell, the average home price in America remains just about as unaffordable as it's ever been. In fact, a recent report from real estate data provider ATTOM examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner. And to add insult to injury, 30-year fixed mortgage rates just rose back above 7%./honoring-dead-butterflies.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/honoring-dead-butterflies.htmlAMONG MY MOST TREASURED of gifts this winter has come to me by way of a thrift shop in Belfast, N.Y.: a cache of 528 butterflies mounted on pins and arranged in old wooden display cases with glass tops. It might have been easy for someone else to toss the butterflies and keep the cases. I care more about the butterflies. After all, as an entomologist I routinely spend a portion of my winter in the company of dead insects — millions of them./how-jews-pray.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-jews-pray.htmlWhen people ask me how Jews pray, I begin with a story. It comes from a great nineteenth-century rabbi.  An old man enters the sanctuary for the first time. His face is dirty and his clothes are too big. He stands out among the well-dressed crowd. Then he picks up the prayerbook and opens it. He is, however, holding it upside down. He tries to start singing along. His words are mumbled and incorrect./how-to-break-up-with-your-phone.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-break-up-with-your-phone.htmlIt may perhaps sound obvious to point out that many of us have relationships with our phones that are not exactly what a couples therapist would describe as “healthy”—whether it’s because of the sheer amount of time we’re spending on them, or the emotional repercussions of consuming so much content that’s stressful, fear-inducing, and related to things that are ultimately out of our control. Those are certainly some of the reasons that I wrote my book How to Break Up With Your Phone./how-to-dry-hump-your-way-to-better.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-dry-hump-your-way-to-better.htmlShare Recently while engaged in a scrolling binge on the Substack network, I stumbled upon the work of New York city-based Tawny Lara, affectionately known as The Sober Sexpert. The author of Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without Booze, her book title immediately caught my attention.  My first thought was, this is not a book I would normally jump in bed with. But as I’m apt to do, I did a deeper dive into whether it might be a read that would capture my interest./how-to-embalm-yourself-before-youre.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-embalm-yourself-before-youre.htmlSince Mother’s death, I’ve been mothering Dad the way I’ve always wanted to be mothered. I learned to be a mother by caring for my younger siblings and newborn cousins in the cult into which I was born, until I partly grew-up and had four children of my own.   I was never a child.   I grew up on a mountain, preparing for the Apocalypse, by parents and grandparents who believed the end of the world was nigh./how-to-make-really-good-hummus.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-really-good-hummus.htmlHi all, What has transpired over the last few weeks has knocked me for a loop, especially because I was recently in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and I have friends and family in the region (and elsewhere) who are Israeli and Palestinian. It’s hard to stay out of the fray, but sharing things on social media these days can be overwhelming and it’s not necessarily the place to have a discussion, nor am I the person to lead a discussion on world affairs, which often evolve into arguments, which I’m not sure accomplish anyone’s objectives./how-to-reheat-so-many-things.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-reheat-so-many-things.htmlHi friends and happy new year! I hope the end of 2023 was kind to you and the start of 2024 feels good. I spent the end of the year in California with my best friends and I can’t think of anything better. Maybe I’ll write about friendship one of these days? In the meantime, here are some views I got to see: And also a quick note that I cooked and ate so many fun things on my trip, including dinner for my BFF’s kids one night that seemed to be a hit and it was SO FAST AND EASY I thought it was worth telling you about./how-to-use-a-tens-for-painful-periods.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-use-a-tens-for-painful-periods.htmlWhat I want from my “For You” page on TikTok are videos of rescue kittens, curly hair advice, and some makeup tips for skin over 50 from people who don’t use filters. But given my search history, what I get instead are videos about the vagina and hormones…and not educational ones. It’s all disinformation, and usually from a rogues gallery of people peddling useless products or disgusting men dealing in shame./human-design-food-and-digestion.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/human-design-food-and-digestion.htmlHello, and welcome to the podcast! Today’s episode is so expansive. I speak with a spiritual philosopher & the founder of . Jas is a practitioner of Human Design, Astrology & the Gene Keys, and she supports creatives, entrepreneurs and renaissance humans in understanding themselves more holistically. She is also the host of the globally celebrated podcast, Counter Culture. In today’s episode Jas and I explore human design and how it relates to food and digestion./human-paraquat.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/human-paraquat.htmlI love The Big Lebowski. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to long-time readers of Situation Normal. My newsletter has as many Lebowski references as a bowling alley has pins. Once, I even wrote a story about pretending to be Marty Ackerman, an unseen character from the movie, to fool a tarot card reader who performed at Christina’s birthday. My love for The Big Lebowski shouldn’t come as a surprise to readers of my novel, either./i-gotta-find-peace-of-mind.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-gotta-find-peace-of-mind.htmlI gotta find peace of mind See, this what that voice in your head says When you try to get peace of mind I gotta find peace of mind I gotta find peace of mind He says it's impossible, but I know it's possible He says it's impossible, but I know it's possible He says there's no me without him Please help me forget about him He takes all my energy, trapped in my memory/i-read-fantastic-four-1961-to-2023.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-read-fantastic-four-1961-to-2023.htmlMarvel’s First Family — the Fantastic Four — ushered in the “Marvel Age” of comics. They had ties all the way back to the publisher’s first superpowered beings, the android Jim Hammond (AKA the Human Torch) and Namor the Submariner, bridging a gap of over 20 years. But they were also new in so many ways. Unlike the idyllic Justice League, they were constantly bickering. They were the first superhero team to seem entirely human in their interactions./ice-capades-of-1952.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ice-capades-of-1952.htmlAmong the copious piles of mid-century ephemera that I’ve collected (and am still in the process of unpacking in my new home, after many months) is this brochure for the Ice Capades of 1952. Founded in 1940, Ice Capades was a traveling theatrical ice skating show that for over fifty years was known as the pinnacle of kitsch, or “America’s most glorious ice carnival” in the words of one Slate writer. Drawing on vaudeville, it began as a halftime show: a Pittsburgh rink owner noticed that hockey crowds “swelled when he booked a figure skater to perform between periods./im-si-wans-duality.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-si-wans-duality.htmlRaise your hands if you’re an Im Si-wan fan. Even if you’ve never heard of the former ZE:A K-pop idol-turned-actor, I would encourage you to check out this nuanced actor’s work. To get you started, I’m highlighting two of his K-dramas (“Misaeng,” “Summer Strike”) and a film (“Unlocked”). This post is a little longer than usual, so if you only want to read a particular review, you may do so by clicking on the specific title and it’ll take you directly to the section you’re interested in:/the-family-stone-tyrone-giordano-sjp-charades.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-family-stone-tyrone-giordano-sjp-charades.html[Clears throat] Are you one of those people who come December 26th is like, “Holiday cheer? It’s a wrap.” If so, I know your type. It’s always somewhat disorienting waking up on December 26th and entering the limbo between the holidays. With that in mind, I’m not sure discussions of holiday films are allowed for at least another ten or so months, but perhaps you’ll indulge me on this. See, yesterday afternoon I set out to do the same thing I’ve been doing every year on or around Christmas for the last 18 years: watching the Christmas classic, The Family Stone./in-hispanic-families-abuelas-are.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-hispanic-families-abuelas-are.htmlShare The Significance of Abuelas In Hispanic culture, abuelas are the stitching in the family tapestry, weaving together religion, language and a deep connection between generations. Abuelas are the epitome of love and in the same breath the epitome of authority - ensuring a family’s traditions and culture are passed down to the next generation. They are the critical pillar in the family structure, always giving and providing everything from a place to call home to a meal that can heal the soul to consejos to help during tough times./in-memoriam-professor-charles-fried.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-memoriam-professor-charles-fried.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! A version of this article originally appeared on Bloomberg Law, part of Bloomberg Industry Group, Inc. (800-372-1033), and is reproduced here with permission. On January 23, the legal world lost one of its greatest minds when Professor Charles Fried of Harvard Law School passed away at 88./inside-llewyn-davis-just-not-dave.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-llewyn-davis-just-not-dave.htmlFor almost the entire year of 2013, there has been beyond incredible hype and buzz about the new Coen Brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, and how it is loosely based on the life of singer and guitarist Dave Van Ronk, through the book The Mayor of MacDougal Street written with Elijah Wald.  Let’s get one thing straight.  This film is not about Dave Van Ronk.  It uses Van Ronk’s repertoire and certain facts and stories to tell the story of this basically loser folksinger who goes nowhere./summary-inspired.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summary-inspired.htmlInspired is a succinct overview of Product Management as a discipline, directly from the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group. This book serves almost as a “glossary” or reference guide for anyone wanting to know the underlying context for terminology like “Discovery” and “Opportunity Assessment” and “Story Map Technique.” Cagan provides a lot of great context around what good versus bad product management looks like. Share this free summary with someone who might find it useful./the-book-of-clarence-round-up-international.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-book-of-clarence-round-up-international.htmlThe Book of Clarence came out over a week ago, and I keep getting news alerts about interviews with the filmmakers. So, rather than keep adding to the round-up I created just before the film’s opening weekend, I figured I’d start a new round-up. First, a few news items: Deadline says the film was going to open in the UK last Friday, but it got yanked at the last minute and is now aiming for a release in March./android.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/android.htmlToday we’re excited to share the Substack Android app with you and your subscribers.  Android readers can now read, watch, and listen to their favorite writers in one dedicated space. Get the app now:  Download the Android app Our Android app offers a quiet space to read, where the work itself is given the spotlight and you’re not pulled into status games or trivial diversions. And it amplifies the network effects that already exist on Substack, making it easier for writers to get new subscribers, and for readers to explore and sample Substacks they might otherwise not have found./introducing-the-chiche.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-the-chiche.htmlIf CHAFFLES can be a thing, and we’ve proven how delicious a CHIZZA is, why not a CHICHE, I ask you? A Chiche is basically a crustless quiche…which is basically a frittata. But as much fun as it is to say “frittata,” it’s endlessly more fun to say “Chiche.” I’m going to go ahead and trademark Chiche so I can earn a royalty every time someone uses it, that’s how much I’m convinced CHICHE will sweep the nation./iris-the-goddess-of-the-rainbow.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iris-the-goddess-of-the-rainbow.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Kids, Well, we have been traveling quite a bit this week! In fact, we only arrived in our new accommodations here in Italy a few hours ago. After having two overnight flights and a 12 hour layover in Miami, we are very tired and probably quite smelly, but still extremely excited. We’ll be writing about awesome ancient stuff as we travel (First stop: Hadrian’s Palace!) including postcards from Frida… but we need to do some boots on ground research first./iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove.htmlDelivering feedback effectively is a skill that can make all the difference in driving behavioural change and achieving desired outcomes. Napoleon Bonaparte's concept of an "iron fist in a velvet glove" perfectly encapsulates the art of combining firmness with empathy, ensuring your message is received without triggering defensiveness. It's not about sugar-coating issues or avoiding uncomfortable truths; it's about finding the right balance. I have seen and experienced “Iron Fists” that say it bluntly and just move on with no consideration for the other person./is-anthropomorphism-bad-for-your.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-anthropomorphism-bad-for-your.htmlGreetings! I’m happy to report that Jasper and Max seem to both be doing well. It’s been 11 days since Max used the corner of our front room as a litter box. Jasper has mostly been very much JASPER - interactive, demanding, shadowing my wife, and not putting up with any cr%p from Max. We had a couple of days where he was off but we figured out right away that we’d accidentally fed him cat food containing salmon./is-hbos-not-so-pretty-an-accurate.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-hbos-not-so-pretty-an-accurate.html“I am SHOOK right now.” “We can’t do, use, or buy anything!” “Just threw away like half my makeup.” “[This is] scaring the shit out of me right now.” “I can’t believe these [beauty] companies are trying to slowly kill us.” These are just several of the terrified responses to the HBO documentary series “Not So Pretty,” now going viral on social media platforms, and especially on TikTok. Many women now worry their compact pressed powder will give them cancer, that manufacturers don’t safety-test a single ingredient, and so on./issue-36-i-recognized-it-that-way.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-36-i-recognized-it-that-way.htmlI first saw Miyoko Ito’s paintings in 2018, in a small show at Artists Space in New York organized by Jordan Stein. I knew nothing about the artist. I’d seen one painting on an email press release and had the caveman thought that I liked the colours and shapes and that I would enjoy seeing more of them because they suited my mood that day. I couldn’t pin down what Ito’s paintings reminded me of./its-dangerous-to-go-it-alone.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-dangerous-to-go-it-alone.htmlAmber Sparks is the author of three short story collections and an upcoming novel, Happy People Don't Live Here. She is also a sometimes film and book critic. She lives in Washington, DC with two people and two cats. The Audacity. is a reader-supported publication. Your support as a paid subscriber helps us to share incredible writing from incredible wri… ncG1vNJzZmiZpZmupLXTsmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyqwNJmm5qml5q%2FsMHSZquoZZekeqrAjJqjqKaV/jenpastiloff.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jenpastiloff.htmlProof of Life with Jen Pastiloff By Jennifer Pastiloff A community of love, humor & Possibility. I was waiting for someone to give me proof of my life’s worthiness. F*ck that! YOU ARE YOUR OWN PROOF OF LIFE. Here you'll find poetry, art, guest essays, weird ramblings, offerings & OPEN ARMS. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjauxzamYrKyZobynsg%3D%3D/johatsu-evaporated-people-japanese.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/johatsu-evaporated-people-japanese.htmlI recently heard an interesting anecdote about Japanese culture that I identify with the word of today, johatsu. It’s in a podcast that describes the memories and habits of famous people in Turkey about food and drink culture with a nice conversation. In that episode, an architect describes an encounter he experienced in Japan. The architect is in Japan for a construction project, and once the meetings are finished, he is seeking for a local Japanese restaurant to eat at./john-mcwhorter-and-tyler-austin-harper-8e0.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-mcwhorter-and-tyler-austin-harper-8e0.htmlJohn is back in the host chair this week, and he’s joined by Tyler Austin Harper, assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College and contributing writer at the Atlantic. Tyler has appeared on The Glenn Show before, but this is the first time he and John have had the opportunity to talk one-on-one. In this episode, Tyler talks about his research about extinction narratives in literature and culture and the two books he currently has in the works./join-the-2024-war-and-peace-read-along.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/join-the-2024-war-and-peace-read-along.htmlHi, Simon here from Footnotes and Tangents. Every Friday, I light a welcoming fire and invite slow writers and slow readers to gather in a place of creative curiosity. Welcome to Friday Fireside. Today I am introducing my slow read of War and Peace, for the second year running. This post contains everything you need to know to get started and to decide if this book group is for you./khanmigo-doesnt-love-kids.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/khanmigo-doesnt-love-kids.htmlProducts express opinions about the people who use them. This is well understood and easy to illustrate. This spiked bench does not love homeless people, for example.  The bench does not advertise its disdain in words. Everyone knows better than that. But everyone also understands. These brackets do not love skateboarders. By contrast, these curb cuts love wheelchair users, people pushing strollers, etc.  In software, the concept of “hostile user design” is well understood./kim-fields-joey-lawrence-diversity.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kim-fields-joey-lawrence-diversity.htmlWriter’s note on January 3, 2024: The ‘90s baby in me is rooting for Chilli and Matthew Lawrence. They’re a gorgeous couple. But I’ve completely tapped out on the “Brotherly Love” podcast. I popped back in to watch a few more episodes because it used to be a fun Friday routine. Can’t deal. I’m tired of the oldest two interrupting Andrew Lawrence like he’s not a grown ass man. Once Matthew Lawrence said he “feels sorry for” his youngest brother for not wanting to hear about religion or science, I cringed./kitchen-project-25-banana-custard.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kitchen-project-25-banana-custard.htmlHello! Welcome to another edition of Kitchen Projects, my recipe development newsletter. It’s so wonderful to have you here. When it comes to recipe development, it can go two ways: Usually the process is led by spreadsheets, but other times it’s more about feeling and emotions. Today’s recipe is definitely the latter. I believe that anything custard based is something you make straight from your heart. Perhaps you’re wondering... what is banana pudding?/lake-berryessa-glory-hole-watch-2024.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lake-berryessa-glory-hole-watch-2024.htmlNext time it goes, or blows, overflows “and there she/he him/her goes!” (viral) on Tik-Tok. When the text comes in, or rest assured, maybe even a phone call? asking if I saw the glory hole, I will definitely reference this article. Put it on speed dial so-to-speak. As a fly fisherman I praise the damn often. Usually after I reach my hands into the ice cold water to unhook & release the blue ribbon trout from the end of my fly line on Putah Creek/lemon-ginger-and-jujube-tea.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lemon-ginger-and-jujube-tea.htmlHello and happy 2024! Before I drop the tea (sorry lol), a short PSA that today is the LAST DAY to sign up for Nourish Yourself with Brooklyn Strength. Cadence and I will host Nourish’s first group coaching call this Saturday 1/6 to kick off seven weeks of learning how to tune into our bodies’ natural cues and signals, cook and snack with confidence, and divest from a lifetime of guilt and shame around food./let-us-praise-spanish-moss.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/let-us-praise-spanish-moss.htmlYou may be new to Trackless Wild. Perhaps you signed up for the Journey in Place course and didn’t realize at the time that this is a weekly newsletter for folks who live a nature-forward life. That’s us. We’re folks who put nature high on our list of concerns. Trackless Wild comes out weekly. It usually contains an essay about something I’ve been thinking about, and I’ll often weld on some extras—a phenology almanac (natural history), a farm report, a call to action, a recipe, a book recommendation, a photo or two, and always good wishes for you./lets-talk-about-the-chase-young-freelancing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-talk-about-the-chase-young-freelancing.htmlOver the last few weeks I’ve noticed a narrative emerging among some Washington Commanders fans that defensive end Chase Young is actually hurting the defense. While he’s been generating consistent pressure, the narrative suggests that he’s freelancing to do it and that in turn is hurting the integrity of the defense by getting in the way of other rushers or losing contain of the quarterback within the pocket. While this may have been true back in Young’s second season in the NFL in 2021, and I must point out Young was definitely not the only defensive lineman guilty of that fault during that season, it’s not the case for Young this year./reeling-backward-lilies-of-the-field.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-lilies-of-the-field.htmlNo, “Lilies of the Field” has not aged particularly well. It’s very much a product of its era, smack dab in the middle of the burgeoning civil rights movement, as Hollywood sought to produce reassuring fare to make Black people demanding their rights seem less threatening to mainstream whites. It’s headlined by Sidney Poitier, already the biggest African-American screen star, as Homer Smith, an agreeable wandering laborer who helps a group of East German nuns build a chapel in the middle of the Arizona desert./little-big-league-a-baseball-movie.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/little-big-league-a-baseball-movie.htmlLittle Big League, which sees a 12-year-old become both owner and manager, is one of the greatest baseball films of all time. It’s no shock that Little Big League has become a cult classic through the years. MLB Network regularly airs the film as one of its Bleacher Features throughout the season. I would have rewatched on MLB Network instead of renting it but YouTube TV needs to get back to the table and not keep throwing baseball fans under the bus./lower-manhattan-natural-wine-bars.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lower-manhattan-natural-wine-bars.htmlMy fascination with New York’s natural wine bars began upon my arrival in the city. If you have ever moved in New York, or moved generally, than you too have languished in the post-move exhaustion. There is no panacea for this kind of fatigue—bone deep and dizzying—but if there were, it would be a glass of chilled orange wine and take-out Thai food. Conveniently and unbeknownst to me, my first apartment at the intersection of Orchard and Rivington on the Lower East Side, was at the epicenter of New York’s burgeoning natural wine scene./donna-summer-live-and-more.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/donna-summer-live-and-more.htmlReleased: 1978 LP Charts: #4 R&B, #1 pop From 1975 through 1977, Donna Summer released five albums (including a double album, the splendid Once Upon A Time…). Each of those albums went gold. Combined, they also produced two top 10 pop singles: “Love to Love You Baby” (#2) and “I Feel Love” (#6). Furthermore, in mid-1978, “Last Dance” was also released as a single. It was never featured on a Summer studio album./magical-8-bit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/magical-8-bit.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./make-believe-bonus-coca-cola-k-wave.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-believe-bonus-coca-cola-k-wave.htmlBack in 2011, a new generation of Korean pop acts were ascendent in Japan. That was the summer of Girls’ Generation becoming inescapable, of increased K-pop concerts across the country, of “the butt dance.” It was a thrilling moment in the history of Japanese and South Korean culture blurring — and clashing — and you could see it manifest itself outside of entertainment too. The moment I knew the times were changing came via a fast food item./mar-mari-emmanuel.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mar-mari-emmanuel.htmlHighlights: -Mar MariEmmanuel is a bishop of the East Syriac rite. Within this tradition you have at least the Assyrian Church of the East (who stand alone since the 2nd ecumenical council) and the Chaldeans who were grafted to the Catholic Church. Their West Syriac brethren that are in our Afroasiatic communion are under His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, and there are Maronites grafted to the Catholic Church./matthieu-pageaus-cosmos.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matthieu-pageaus-cosmos.htmlI just finished a remarkable little book: The Language Of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism In Genesis, by Matthieu Pageau, the brother of the better-known Jonathan Pageau. It’s kind of mind-blowing, to tell the truth. It absolutely is going to be a big part of my re-enchantment book. It brings so much together! I’ve been interested in this book for a while, but wasn’t sure if I should buy it, simply because I don’t have the training to judge its claims./maybe-dont-feel-up-your-boyfriend.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maybe-dont-feel-up-your-boyfriend.htmlOkay, so. Wait a minute. Stop. Wait. Hold on. You’ve already heard that Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and her new boyfriend were kicked out of Beetlejuice: The Musical. Initially, people said she was kicked out because she was vaping and on her phone. Which is true! But she was also apparently getting felt up while giving her boyfriend an over-the-jeans handjob? If you want to ruin your morning, you can watch it here./meet-me-at-phils-place.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-me-at-phils-place.htmlFrom their home overlooking Van Vorst Park in Jersey City, Emily and Phil Forrester consistently churn out restaurant-quality food and drinks. After enjoying an evening cocktail or glass of wine on their stoop, they head inside to cook a delicious meal for themselves, or anyone lucky enough to be invited over to join them. When you enter their home, you’re also walking into Phil’s Place. Not a restaurant, but far too elegant and deliberate to be considered just eating with friends, Phil’s Place blurs the lines between eating out and going to a dinner party./meet-the-man-who-made-his-first-short.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-man-who-made-his-first-short.htmlThere aren't many people I would go out on a Monday night in early January for. But Mickey Rapkin isn't most people. The journalist and author, whose first book of non-fiction inspired that little known movie franchise, Pitch Perfect, has now written and directed a short satirical film called The Anne Frank Gift Shop. It's been shortlisted for an Oscar and earlier this week the inimitable Selma Blair hosted a screening and Q&A at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles./wpath-exposed-mia-hughes-on-transgender.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wpath-exposed-mia-hughes-on-transgender.htmlHi everyone, I’m excited to share another episode with you! This time the tone is somewhat more serious since this topic is of the utmost importance. Recently, hundreds of messages from an internal forum inside the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) was leaked to the think tank “Environmental Progress”. I sit down with the author of this report, journalist Mia Hughes. She exposes its political and ideological agenda, shedding light on its influence in shaping transgender healthcare standards./midge-maisel-and-supervillain-origin.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/midge-maisel-and-supervillain-origin.htmlThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has ended, and as with all shows that start off with the buzz of something fresh and new it’s sort of limping off of America’s stage as something that suddenly seems very quaint and 2017-ish. It’s amazing that six years can feel so, so long ago, but there you have it: The world and the world of television are not the same, and Maisel felt almost like a reboot of an old favorite in its final season./mortadella-slices-and-danish-bakeries.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mortadella-slices-and-danish-bakeries.htmlWelcome to the Ómós Digest. This newsletter will hopefully bring you on that journey about the food you were looking for, or perhaps never knew existed. It is our quest to expand on what we don’t know and to share with those who care. If you haven’t read Newsletter #1 yet, it can be found here. This newsletter is brought to you by Cúán Greene, Founder of Ómós.  There was always something magical about Sunday mornings in Copenhagen./cult-favorites-2023.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cult-favorites-2023.htmlQ: What’s the hardest thing about being published? A: First I want to make sure to express that I am unspeakably grateful for the ability to publish my writing. It is my dream, and I rarely take it for granted. However, the publishing process doesn’t come without its challenges, which for me are more psychological than practical. I find the hardest part to be the juxtaposition of stress that no one will read the book and then the sense of fragility once so many strangers actually do!/my-2023-reading-wrap-up.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-2023-reading-wrap-up.html2023 has been another busy year, filled with more flights from LAX to DC than I care to count. Amidst those bumpy flights and late nights, I sought refuge in books, a lifelong practice that helped me survive rough and tumble siblings and being a single mom.  In no particular order, here are ten of my favorite books I read this past year. Several are debut novels, so follow these authors for future books too./my-favorite-slow-rise-pizza-crust.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-slow-rise-pizza-crust.htmlWe all have our likes and dislikes, though to be honest, I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t love pizza. I’m sure they’re out there… at least a few of them… but they’ve never been brave enough to show their face in my kitchen. Because my kitchen is a pro-pizza kitchen. Pizza is the perfect communal food. I prep my favorite slow-rise pizza crust the day before - so the work is put in long before the enjoyment is cashed in./my-jacob-collier-problem.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-jacob-collier-problem.htmlThere’s a simple, seductive bridge in one of Dua Lipa’s new songs, which rides a precisely calibrated disco groove. “But if control is my religion, then I’m heading for collision, lost my 20/20 vision, please,” our girl sings coolly, over a modulation to the vi chord. (If my cocktail-napkin music theory holds, the song, “Whatcha Doing,” is in F minor, which makes that submediant a Db major.) It’s one of many small but crucial decisions that went into Dua Lipa’s third album, which she titled Radical Optimism./sylvia-plaths-fig-tree.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sylvia-plaths-fig-tree.htmlHello. I have a lot of thoughts about career changing and I’m still trying to process everything that has happened recently about being let go and figuring out my next move. One of the things that has crossed my mind recently is the fig tree metaphor from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. In the book, the fig tree metaphor brilliantly captures Esther’s paralysis in the face of overwhelming choice. Each fig represents a different life path, such as a career, marriage, or artistic pursuit, and Esther's inability to choose just one leads to her fear that all opportunities will eventually wither away./gigamonster.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gigamonster.htmlOn January 16, 2023, GA-based GigaMonster Networks LLC and four affiliates (the “debtors”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the District of Delaware (Judge Stickles). The debtors develop and deploy universal access networks (“UANs”) in multi-family and commercial real estate properties. Four hundred properties and 35k end-user subscribers get their … ncG1vNJzZmiolam2tbXOp2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyotcaapKimo6mysw%3D%3D/devils-sennecke-2024-nhl-draft-profile.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/devils-sennecke-2024-nhl-draft-profile.htmlFollow us on Twitter: @AlexC_NJD, @NJD_OnTheRush It's been a long time coming, but we've made it, everyone. It's NHL Draft Week. We've covered plenty of prospects the New Jersey Devils could take with the tenth overall pick, so let's conclude with at least one more who's been on the rise in the lead-up to the draft. Beckett Sennecke's counting totals in the OHL this season might not be all that impressive, but he had an excellent close to the 2023-24 season and looks like a good bet to end up as a top-10 selection./new-nail-salon-opening-soon-in-indian.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-nail-salon-opening-soon-in-indian.htmlDecember 21, 2020 | Wilson The Promenade at Carolina Reserve just welcomed its first nail salon. Nails So Dep! (which means beautiful in Vietnamese) offers manicures, pedicures, waxing, lash extensions, and more. To celebrate their grand opening, Nails so Dep! will be giving away 100 free pedicures (enter by visiting the salon). They are also offering 20% off all services for a limited time. The 2,400 square foot building features 20 chairs and a nail bar./next-time-you-get-a-medical-bill.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/next-time-you-get-a-medical-bill.htmlLaurie Powsner had recently left her full time gig as a social worker, so this year she and her husband got their insurance coverage on the individual market.  The health benefits came with a hefty deductible. That led to sticker shock after she got an echocardiogram at a hospital near her home in Princeton, New Jersey.  Her portion of the bill came to $1,650. Laurie, 60, has been reading my Allen Health Academy newsletter, so she called the hospital to challenge the bill./nightmoves.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nightmoves.html295 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (allegedly) Annoyingly, Nightmoves is not on Google Maps.  You can find a listing for “Daymoves,” the name given to the exact same place but during the daylight hours for coffee service, which has been labeled temporarily closed since the beginning of the pandemic.  I was reminded of the Bob Seger song when Googling this and I am playing it now as I type and think of all the hours I spent playing GTA: San Andreas which included “Night Moves” on Radio Los Santos./nyc-councilman-calls-for-reopening.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nyc-councilman-calls-for-reopening.htmlA New York City councilman has called upon Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to reopen the case of Dorothy Kilgallen, the celebrated columnist who was pursuing an investigation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination when she was found dead in her Manhattan apartment in 1965. The death was ruled an accidental drug overdose at the time. Robert F. Holden, … ncG1vNJzZmiilqCzoq%2FTrGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyvxcJmmqitnpi2rbnAp2ScmZyhwG6yzqtkq52fpbKvtc2g/nyc-kicked-my-ass.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nyc-kicked-my-ass.htmlField Trip is a homebase for the research and references that inform the work and life of designer Lauren Scarlett. [RESEARCH ©FT]Sometimes it’s sitting comfortably on a plane, in awe of the world and what you’re about to do. Sometimes it’s eating good food, going to bars and wandering the streets of a city you can’t believe you’re in. Sometimes it’s getting overwhelmed in stores that don’t stock brands you know./o-the-legend.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/o-the-legend.htmlThis weekend we celebrate the life of an actual Southern California legend, Otis “O” Barthoulameu. And, Legend is the correct title. Not just a Music Legend, or an Artistic Legend, or even a Skateboard Legend, even though he is all those things, but pure, free of descriptor—Legend. But, let’s be honest: that’s not really true when it comes to O. He does need a descriptor. I’d offer up a Confusing Legend, maybe Mythical Legend?/ode-to-the-devils-son-in-law.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ode-to-the-devils-son-in-law.htmlI had just taken the kids deep in the mountains of Mississippi, to Avalon, to the front porch of the general store where Mississippi John Hurt once played. It was starting to drizzle, so we took a few quick pictures on the porch and jumped back in the car, heading for Greenwood. The Little Zion Church in Greenwood, Miss is one of the places that claims the burial ground of Robert Johnson./sahil-bloom.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sahil-bloom.htmlWelcome to the premium edition of Graham’s newsletter! This article is just one of the many perks that paid subscribers have access to. This week’s article is a deep-dive into the strategies and tactics of one of the most successful content creators and educators in the personal finance and investing space. Sahil Bloom was an investment banker managing over $2.5 Billion in assets, making Vice President in his twenties, set for what seemed like a lucrative track in Private Equity./on-radio-war-nerd-talking-about-twittergarchs.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-radio-war-nerd-talking-about-twittergarchs.htmlI was on Radio War Nerd with John Dolan and Mark Ames this week. We talked a bit about the disastrous trip Evgenia and I took to Russia this autumn, but mostly we discussed the latest spectacle of our bifurcated Perky Pat layout political system: Elon Musk’s “leaking” of The Twitter Files and the two journalists he entrusted with properly handling his p… ncG1vNJzZmixkai1onrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWefo3qzrcOipmavkad6r7HRnWStmZygtq%2BzjJqZqK2kYsG4tdOtnKufkaewqb8%3D/on-my-first-new-york-love.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-my-first-new-york-love.htmlThis morning, my mother reminded me that today marks my third anniversary of moving to New York. I wish I had a more romantic explanation for why I decided to chase the Big Apple, but I wanted a creative job in advertising, and I found the need-for-a-car quirk to LA both miserable and unattractive.  Below is a blurb inspired by the first man I dated in the city. We went out for about a year without any title–bleugh./on-the-hearty-booing-of-jerry-krauses.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-the-hearty-booing-of-jerry-krauses.htmlIt is angry outside, very January. On Friday night the Chicago Bulls unveiled a Ring of Honor, meant to augment banners already hanging in the arena for Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Bob Love, and Jerry Sloan. Coach Phil Jackson and late longtime lead executive Jerry Krause also have banners, as does the 72-win 1995-96 team, each were honored again on Friday. Well, Krause wasn’t honored, he was booed. As he was in every public appearance since his hiring as Bulls general manager in 1985./one-dollar-lawyer-2022-a-review.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-dollar-lawyer-2022-a-review.htmlOne thing’s for certain. I don’t think I would have watched this if it hadn’t been for Namgoong Min and I don’t think I would have stuck it out to the end if it weren’t for him as well. It’s not complete waste but for many reasons it never reaches its potential. Nor does it transcend its comic booky roots. When the show is good it’s fun. Even somewhat poignant. At various points in the narrative when the show transitions from arc to arc, there’s far more filler than I am personally comfortable with./one-good-film-diane-2019.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-good-film-diane-2019.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. But first, for non-paying newcomers (of whom there have been quite a few recently), I refer you back to a popular early Watch List discovery — one of this newsletter’s Greatest Hits, really — “Riders of Justice” (2020, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), which looks like a B-movie vigilante flick but is in fact funnier, sadder, more thoughtful, and more deranged./our-robot-overlords.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-robot-overlords.htmlMore and more these days, I am noticing strange things when I read online. I’m not talking about typos; everyone makes typos. I will probably make a half dozen in this newsletter. I’m talking about straight-up weird writing that reads as if an alien translated something from English into Klingon into Esperanto into Koala bear and then back into English. For example. "But while as limited series, Fool Me Once will not get a second season, this performance ensures they will continue investing in many more Harlan Coben stories to come, as they already have been for years./our-very-own-jefferson-bible.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-very-own-jefferson-bible.htmlThomas Jefferson, America’s third president, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, and Founding Father, famously created his own “Jefferson Bible.” He never published it, but it was titled, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. In a letter to John Adams, he explained what he was doing: In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to them./deep-cuts-17-pantera-far-beyond-driven.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deep-cuts-17-pantera-far-beyond-driven.htmlArtist: Pantera Album: Far Beyond Driven Release: March 22nd, 1994 Label: East West Listen here: Spotify | YouTube Like most influential heavy acts of the twentieth century, my relationship with Pantera has taken the form of a reverse chronology. By the time the Texan metal powerhouse had released their seminal albums—1990’s now-iconic Cowboys from Hell and its equally revered 1992 follow-up Vulgar Display of Power—I was only four years old. At this point in my existence, the heaviest thing I knew was the theme for Thomas The Tank Engine./pauline-cushman-one-very-cool-chick.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pauline-cushman-one-very-cool-chick.htmlFirst off, I’m on “Real Time with Bill Maher” tonight, so tune in on HBO if you can! I’ll be joined by Caitlin Flanagan, whom I will endeavor not to ask on-set to be my mentor and Bob Odenkirk, whom I will endeavor not to ask on-set to be my lawyer. Second, another women’s history figure for you, with costume, below! (Another in a series of women’s history posts for my kiddos./pearl-river-deli.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pearl-river-deli.html🇨🇳 CHINA (Guangdong) 🇲🇴 MACAU 📍 935 Mei Ling Way, Chinatown, Central Los Angeles EDITOR'S NOTE: This restaurant has permanently closed. 📸 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 25 November 2020While 2020 has done its best to make all lives miserable, two side-by-side operations both known for very different chicken dishes in Chinatown's Far East Plaza have seemingly thrived./pejman-nozad-of-pear-on-building.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pejman-nozad-of-pear-on-building.htmlFollow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. This week we are thrilled to be joined by Pejman Nozad, Co-Founder and GP of Pear VC. Founded in 2013, Pear has scaled to over $800MM in AUM with a powerful engine to help early-stage companies.  As many regular listeners of the show know, we often like to highlight managers who have different backgrounds and stories leading to their careers in VC./peter-zeihan-is-the-jim-cramer-of.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-zeihan-is-the-jim-cramer-of.htmlHave you heard of Peter “Zion” or “Zeihan”? He’s allegedly a geopolitical strategist and a best-selling author. His speeches and interviews – especially on China -- garner millions of views on social media. And suddenly everybody on Twitter and Facebook is repeating Zeihan’s talking points like a robot. He has single-handedly created a mass psychosis! No doubt that there is a huge cottage industry that profits from the ”China collapse” narrative, but Peter Zeihan is the unrivaled leader now./pasco-county-phillup-partin-resentenced.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pasco-county-phillup-partin-resentenced.htmlLast week, Phillup Partin was resentenced to life in prison without parole (LWOP) based on an apparent agreement by the State to drop the death sentence on resentencing. Partin was originally tried in 2007 and then retried in March 2008 “following an inadvertent discovery violation.” At the retrial, the jury convicted Partin of first-degree murder. After the penalty phase, the jury recommended the death penalty by a vote of 9-3. The trial court followed the jury’s recommendation and imposed a sentence of death./playboi-carti-and-meme-ified-youth.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/playboi-carti-and-meme-ified-youth.htmlYo Pi'erre, you wanna come out here? My friend Nikita recently tweeted: When you ask someone for an explanation, you're actually asking them to pick a single simplified linear path out of their multidimensional, non-linear reality to offer you. I find this to be extremely true, and extremely evident in the very nature of writing. It is impossible for me to allow you to read three different trains of thought in order for you to understand the intersections of how I am arriving to a particular belief./player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-904.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-904.htmlphoto credit: Inter Miami CFFebruary is upon us as Inter Miami’s pre-season tour continues. It’s getting to the point on the tour where rest and rotation will be needed, so I’m not surprised Miami came out with a starting eleven without Messi. Some reports suggested that the Argentine had a bit of hamstring discomfort and would be held out as a precaution. But he played anyway! In hindsight, that was probably a good idea./player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-87b.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-87b.htmlThere were way too many negatives from this match but honestly I don't care. We stole the 3 points. This was a heist. Still scratching as to how we did it and actually survived and then won. Between the international duty, card suspensions, and injuries, Tata Martino might be asking for some volunteers from the fans to suit up for the midweek match. It could get ugly against the crew, but then again, maybe we go for back to back heists/pmc-posturing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pmc-posturing.htmlOne of the most self-defeating forms of identity thinking on the contemporary left is the one that revolves around the idea of the “professional-managerial class” — even though it’s usually connected to a vehement attack on “identity politics.” These professionals and managers, usually referred to as “PMC,” have been defined as the salaried mental workers whose jobs are essentially the reproduction of capitalism, and thus have distinct economic interests antagonistic to the working class, and constitute an obstacle to socialism./positionality-statements.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/positionality-statements.htmlIn case you haven’t seen them yet, I want to call your attention to the latest attack on the scientific method: positionality statements, in which authors attach totally irrelevant personal information to their scientific manuscripts. Typical of the illogic of our schizophrenic age, this is occurring at the same time that the NSF has banned any personal information on official biosketches, for good reason: Individuals are reminded not to submit any personal information in the biographical sketch./practices-for-care-and-endurance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/practices-for-care-and-endurance.htmlThanks for subscribing to WELLREAD. For the last 6+ years we’ve been providing folks with the need to know (NTK) news, calls to actions and resources for how to stay engaged and resourced along the way. But now, we’ve added an option to “upgrade to paid” to help sustain our work. While we will never put our content behind a pay wall, we depend on the support of our community to keep us going./predicting-the-all-star-rosters.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/predicting-the-all-star-rosters.htmlRabbit rabbit. Let's basketball. The Reader; Mary Cassatt; 1877 The NBA All-Star reserves, as selected by the league's head coaches, will be announced on Thursday. (Side note: does Doc Rivers get the Bucks' vote after voting for the starters as a member of the media? Is this is a double-vote situation?) Any number of brilliant analysts will tell you who should be named an All-Star reserve. Instead of doing that this year, I'm going to predict who the coaches will select in each conference./prisca-theologia.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prisca-theologia.html[I have been asked many times about my religiously “syncretistic” habits of thought, and why despite those habits I dissociate myself entirely from the “perennialist” school, and why I choose to speak of a prisca theologia when discussing the commonalities between faiths rather than of a philosophia perennis. I have decided to provide these notes as a k… ncG1vNJzZmickau2pa7Ep6ulnamdrrPAjaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6W%2Fqr%2FCmmStoJWkubCzyJo%3D/queen-camillas-side-chick-convention.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/queen-camillas-side-chick-convention.htmlIllustration by Jeff DanzigerGood evening, ladies, and welcome to the Side Chick Convention!  We’ve got an exciting weekend planned: Workshops, compassionate pet cookery, the latest in surveillance technology, and of course, the big event: our early morning live stream of the coronation of Queen Camilla, the world’s most successful Other Woman, direct f… ncG1vNJzZmiin66wpsPAnaOeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6qrJ6dnmKwornIpaOaq12otqWxjJyfopubYrCwutWepa2hn6M%3D/randalls-island-manhattan.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/randalls-island-manhattan.htmlRandall's Island is located in the East River between northern Manhattan and Queens. What I’m referring to as Randall’s Island in this newsletter also includes Ward’s Island. Once two distinct land masses, Ward’s and Randall’s were gradually joined together when the strait seperating them, Little Hell’s Gate, was infilled. A third island, Sunken Meadow, was also incorporated into present day Randall’s Island. With a population of less than 1,700 people, you may ask, is Randall’s Island even a neighborhood?/re-noted-jim-morrisons-poetry-notes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-noted-jim-morrisons-poetry-notes.htmlJim Morrison (1943-1971) wanted to be a poet; instead, he became a rock star. Throughout his short life, Jim rarely went anywhere without a notebook. As a teenager, every time he learned a new word, he’d write it down and create a story around it. According to his sister, Jim had a remarkable vocabulary. He found school boring and decided real education was to be found in the library. When he graduated from high school, he asked his parents for the collected edition of Nietzsche’s works./red-sox-are-meeting-with-yoshinobu.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-sox-are-meeting-with-yoshinobu.htmlThe Boston Red Sox have been linked to right-hander pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto almost all offseason. The club and the prized right-hander will finally meet this offseason. According Mark Feinsand of MLB Network the Red Sox will meet with Yamamoto in the “coming days.” Feinsand added that the Blue Jays and two or three more other teams will likely have a meeting too. As of now, it is unclear of any other details of the meeting for the Red Sox./reeling-backward-white-lightning.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-white-lightning.html"White Lightning" is the film that made Burt Reynolds a breakout star -- the biggest in the land, for a not-inconsiderable amount of time -- and also firmly established his niche of fast cars, bad cops, frisky women and smoldering machismo. It's not a particularly great movie, landing more toward the trash end of the action/comedy spectrum with lots of poor car chases and ill-staged fistfights. Reynolds boasted it was made so cheaply that they didn't care if it played in any theaters north of the Mason-Dixon line./reframing-after-school-restraint.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reframing-after-school-restraint.htmlWe need a better conversation around After School Restraint Collapse. This is a newish term. For context, when it was happening to my child 5 years ago, there was no name for it. He was only in pre-school, and I dreaded picking him up and having to wrestle him into his car seat mid-meltdown, or having to sit under the sun in the school playground until he was done riding all the bikes and climbing all the play equipment and refusing to go home, because I suppose that was his way of processing his day and releasing the stored up tension and stress./remembering-andre-harrell-3-years.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-andre-harrell-3-years.htmlThe year 2020 will go down in history as one of the saddest, most contentious in world history. The pandemic brought deaths and dysfunctions that we’re still coming to grips with. For me the spring of that year was truly terrible. My father died April 25. My mentor Robert ‘Rocky’ Ford May 19. And today, three years ago, my long time friend Andre Harrell passed away in an West Hollywood apartment./review-of-michael-clayton.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-of-michael-clayton.htmlThe critical acclaim for 2007’s Michael Clayton was deafening. Roger Ebert and the usual suspects maxed out the stars. Oscar nominations including Best Picture followed. 15 years later the film, like so many of this type, is all but forgotten. Forgive me for dredging it up, but some critical justice is due. One hopes, going in, that the inevitable heavy-handed “message” will be made palatable through a compelling plot. Michael Clayton fails spectacularly in this regard, most notably by opening with a car bombing from the third act, in an apparent bid to intrigue us through the drudgery of first and second acts./id-like-this-to-stop-praise-for-a.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/id-like-this-to-stop-praise-for-a.htmlWhen so much of life is organized around dodging male violence, it’s nice to relax with a movie in which the only source of violence is a woman, and the only target is a man, or many men. It doesn’t matter what he did. He probably had it coming. Rape revenge films sometimes spare us the trauma of the assault, but they never spare us the satisfaction of seeing the assaulters sliced and ruined./review-for-all-mankind-crossing-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-for-all-mankind-crossing-the.htmlIt’s baked into For All Mankind’s premise that what was an exciting new horizon in one season will become comparatively mundane in the next: although you could argue that one should never find space travel and exploration “boring,” there’s no question that life at Happy Valley this season is very different from the high stakes environment we saw after the initial race to Mars in season three. That said, the biggest problem with season four is just how boring Mars has been to this point./steiner.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steiner.html(CW: Please note the following story describes bigotry, violence, and sexual assault and includes NSFW language.) For over seventeen years Robert Rechsteiner has served on the Cherokee County board of education and now serves as Vice Chair, having first accepted an appointment to the position in 2005. There were some initial complications with his first election but he ultimately won his seat and easily held it in the years since—in no small part because of his more famous stage name from the world of professional wrestling: Rick Steiner./rjp-portland-trail-blazers.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rjp-portland-trail-blazers.htmlThe Retired Jersey Project is chugging along! (Read this if you need to catch up on the rules.) So, the Portland Trail Blazers have a tooooon of retired jerseys. 11 to be exact—10 for players, one for a coach. And as I’ve griped about, you shouldn’t retire a number for non-players. I love Jack Ramsay, but don’t deactivate a number (#77) for someone who never wore the number. Retire a pair of wacky slacks instead for Ramsay./ruben-amorim-is-your-man-chelsea.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ruben-amorim-is-your-man-chelsea.htmlI’m backing Ruben Amorim as the next Chelsea manager. My next choice would be a coaching duo of Xavi and Cesc Fabregas. None of the other names linked really appeal to me. Amorim to me makes sense largely for his persona, his experience (albeit in a poorer league), his record and achievements, the fact he’s been co-signed by our best ever manager Jose Mourinho, and the fact that I think a back three would suit our defence and our attack./ryan-garcia-badly-misses-weight-just.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ryan-garcia-badly-misses-weight-just.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./sac-balam-behind-the-scenes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sac-balam-behind-the-scenes.htmlThis week I published one of my favorite stories yet. I joined an expedition into one of the most remote parts of Mexico to search for Sac Balam, a real-life lost Maya city. It was one of the wildest, hardest, and most special things I’ve ever done. Every second I didn’t feel like I was about to die, I was so grateful and amazed to be there. Over the course of six days, we kayaked up rivers no one had traveled in a decade or more, bushwhacked for hours through thickets of spiny plants, and found—well, you’ll have to read the story for that./sorry-but-love-actually-is-rubbish.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sorry-but-love-actually-is-rubbish.htmlMy go-to on long-haul plane rides is romantic comedies. I don’t know, maybe I just need a light hearted distraction from the thought that I’m suspended in a giant hunk of metal in the air for 36 hours. So on my recent flight to Australia for my book tour, I put on Love Actually, a movie I thought was cute and “Christmassy” but hadn't seen in nearly twen… ncG1vNJzZmidnZ64sLDAr6Ceq16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6spquqqWKvtsCMpaavnV2WsLXBwKWjsmWZqHqzwcGboKyg/fallen-knight-part-1-schofield-prosecutor.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fallen-knight-part-1-schofield-prosecutor.htmlShare Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless. And do no wrong. — Victoria Avalon, director of appellate and civil litigation for the 10th Circuit’s State’s Attorney’s Office, opening her interview May 3, 2023 before the Florida Supreme Court’s Judicial Nominating Commission. She was quoting a speech by Liam Neeson’s character in the 2005 film “Kingdom of Heaven,” which tells the story of knights in the Crusades./seven-essays-on-friendships.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seven-essays-on-friendships.htmlEarlier this month, as I tried to tuck my unwell mother into bed, I turned on the TV to watch Notting Hill for the nth time. My mother doesn’t fully understand English, but over the years has grown familiar with the visuals of some movies that make me endlessly happy. Drugged, and sleepy, she nestled in with me and watched the movie, our friendship quietly blossoming from a cliched love-hate mother-daughter relationship to a meaningful connection that’s refreshing and constantly evolving./shame-on-claudio-and-danielle-reyna.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shame-on-claudio-and-danielle-reyna.htmlIf you haven’t been paying attention, last November the US NT manager Gregg Berhalter told Gio Reyna, a 20 year old rising star that plays for Dortmund that he wouldn’t be in the starting XI for the US’ first match against Wales. Gio Reyna in turn proceeded to give an “alarming lack of effort” in training and a warm up game which then required him to apologize to his teammates or risk being sent home for being a distraction./since-feeling-is-first-by-ee-cummings.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/since-feeling-is-first-by-ee-cummings.htmlsince feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry – the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other; then laugh, leaning back in my arms/single-parent-homes-and-inequality.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/single-parent-homes-and-inequality.html🚨🎉 I’m WORKING ON SOMETHING THAT I’M VERY EXCITED ABOUT. I’M PLANNING TO SHARE IT WITH ALL OF YOU DURING THE NEXT ITERATION OF AMERICAN INEQUALITY (EVERY 3 WEEKS) SO KEEP A LOOK OUT IN EARLY AUGUST FOR THE LAUNCH. AND MAKE SURE TO ADD YOUR EMAIL BELOW IF YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWING ALONG ALREADY. 🚨🎉 The US has the highest share of single parent households of any country in the world./solvang-a-danish-village-in-california.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/solvang-a-danish-village-in-california.htmlYears ago when my parents would drive from their home in the San Francisco Bay Area to visit us in Los Angeles, they would usually take a short detour off Highway 101 for an overnight stay at a small Danish-style village called Solvang, located about a half-hour north of Santa Barbara. They never talked much about the town they visited. It was just a convenient halfway stop en route to Southern California, something a younger me assumed aging parents did when road fatigue struck./recap-son-of-the-black-sword-by-larry.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/recap-son-of-the-black-sword-by-larry.htmlThis video is a reading of the text below. One of the obstacles that prevents readers from enjoying epic fantasy— other than the biggest authors refusing to finish the biggest series— is that they’re often slow, plodding narratives that like to examine the history of every blade of grass, every obscure village custom, every tertiary character’s distant family tree. An epic fantasy book can move slower than rush hour in a snowstorm when you really need a bathroom./spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child.htmlHe who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly. (Proverbs 13:24) While this verse is usually used to promote spanking our children, I think more is included within the meaning of this passage. In ancient Israel, the rod was something that shepherds carried with them when they were in the field with their flocks. The rod was a long, slender staff with a hard wooden ball carved at one end from where the tree’s trunk connected to the roots./swbc-star-wars-books-of-december.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/swbc-star-wars-books-of-december.htmlIt’s hard to believe another year is coming to a close. Looking back, it’s been another excellent year for new Star Wars books — eight High Republic books, several art and reference books, and nearly a dozen other new reads spanning the Star Wars timeline and the Essential Legends Collection. But there are two reference books and a bunch of single-issue comics and collections still to come in December. Find the full list below, and let me know which ones you’re most looking forward to in the comments!/stuff-your-earbuds-is-here.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stuff-your-earbuds-is-here.htmlHello, audiobook lovers! The day we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. There are over 100 FREE Romance audiobooks waiting for you devour at RomanceAudiobookworms.com.😃 Just a few reminders: *The apps and retailers involved in this event are BookFunnel (for audiobooks downloaded from an author’s direct store), Kobo, Apple, Google Play, Barnes & Noble Nook, Spotify and Chirp. You can find more info on these apps in our previous post./stunt-food-may-work-for-social-media.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stunt-food-may-work-for-social-media.htmlHello, and welcome to the CulinaryWoman Newsletter! I’m happy to see so many new subscribers and to thank everyone who’s been with us. This is the free weekly newsletter. CulinaryWoman looks at topics in the ever-changing food world, and I also share the stories that I’ve written for news outlets, and podcasts. Before we start, I want to send best wishes to Catherine, Princess of Wales in her cancer battle. I have great affection for her as a fellow airline child, and as a graceful human being, daughter, wife, sister and mother./jobs.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jobs.html“Substack is truly a mission-based company that cares deeply about the success of writers and creators. The entire company is dedicated to making it possible for writers to earn a living doing what they love, and the ability to build their own space online that they control without algorithms or ads. I feel so lucky and fulfilled that I get to do this work every day.” – Christina, Partnerships ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kt7Cu0g%3D%3D/succession-power-rankings-human-chernobyl.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-power-rankings-human-chernobyl.htmlKendall starts this episode calling Lukas Matsson a “human Chernobyl” but that call’s coming from inside the house baby boy. The Roy kids are minding shop at Waystar, something everyone seems to know but them. They’re making big pitches, chopping of heads. Bad! Stop! This episode is like the scene in The… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqq6bk5rAtLXOp2Spp6eav26%2BwKeioqaXqHqpwcyapWabmJq%2Fr7vBsqM%3D/succession-series-finale-power-rankings.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-series-finale-power-rankings.htmlIt’s so good to see family working together! And it’s even better to watch them ganging up against each other :) Succession is over tonight, and as I said in the speech I gave at my middle school graduation “Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened’ - Dr. Seuss’ - me” I won’t waste time: thank you for reading t… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqq6bk5rAtLXOp2SsnaKesrR5xaKlmqSVYr2ww8SrZKuZnqC2r7PS/succession-season-4-episode-10-power.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-season-4-episode-10-power.htmlWell, that was fucking haunting. Succession has delivered one of the best finales I’ve seen in a long time. It’s kind of insane how anticlimactic the ending felt, but that’s also what made it so real. What I particularly enjoyed about the series finale is that the main characters’ final moments onscreen echoed the patterns they’ve established throughout the show: Shiv impulsively switching sides, Roman alternating between sobbing like a child and hurling the most vicious insults known to mankind, and Ken having a mental breakdown by the nearest body of water./sweet-potato-and-shrimp-fritter-recipe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweet-potato-and-shrimp-fritter-recipe.htmlThis classic Vietnamese street food is packed with flavor, texture and stunning color. It seems like the kind of thing you only order in a restaurant, but I promise it’s easier to make at home than you think. And it’s gluten- and dairy-free. Help us stock the fridge. Become a paid subscriber. Share Dual Core Nakiri 6.5" In Japan, a nakiri is a vegetable knife. It’s designed to handle a full range of vegetables, and a lot more, with ease./table22.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/table22.htmlRestaurants have been tough businesses to operate for a long time. They are low-margin (WaPo cites 3-5%) with high failure rates (according to CNBC, 80% fail within 5 years), and a complicated relationship with the platforms that have emerged to connect them with consumers. Theirs is a business defined by spiky demand, resource waste, staff turnover, fierce competition, and challenging disintermediation.  And it’s no secret that the past two years have been particularly tough./tahini-granola.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tahini-granola.htmlI’m currently in my New York hotel room with a small case of jet lag. Not so bad that I’m completely out of sync with the city but enough that my body clock is making sure I’m wide awake at 6am. So naturally I’m thinking about breakfast. Let’s be real, I’m in NYC, I’m probably always thinking about breakfast. How could I not be, in a city that serves the best breakfast sandwiches going./taiwanese-breakfast-and-savory-soy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taiwanese-breakfast-and-savory-soy.htmlHi friends— I’m back in the United States for a couple weeks! Currently in LA to see family and friends, and heading to Portland tomorrow to pack up my bike and sell some furniture (also excited to revisit my old favorites and new restaurants/bars that have popped up, will be sharing my Portland recs soon!) For this week’s newsletter, I’m taking a break from my usual Chinese food dispatch to share a new book that I absolutely love, A-Gong's Table: Vegan Recipes from a Taiwanese Home, by George Lee, fresh on shelves April 30, 2024 with Ten Speed Press./tasting-notes-sailor-fort-greene.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tasting-notes-sailor-fort-greene.htmlSometimes waiting in line is a game of chicken. How early do you dare arrive to stake your claim? I confess to a certain sheepishness around restaurant queues. I’ll line up for a sample sale, a concert, a movie, but not food. You shouldn’t have to.  And so, in my feeble attempt to avoid the ordeal as long as I could, I found myself encircling Sailor—the hotly anticipated return of April Bloomfield (The Spotted Pig, The Breslin), who was blind to the abuses of friend Mario Batali and business partner Ken Friedman and failed to protect her staff—a FULL HOUR before the doors swung open, hoping no other desperate souls were there./teachers-gone-wild.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teachers-gone-wild.htmlThis time I was prepared.  Several summers ago, I accompanied my wife, Nuvia, and several of her colleagues on a business trip to Merida. While Nuvia and her cohorts, all high school teachers, attended an immersive Spanish-language institute, I roamed around the city and did my best to stay out of the sun and the afternoon thunderstorms. We all stayed together in a massive house that had a large kitchen and a pool in the backyard so that we could cool off in the evenings./tell-me-about-vaginal-hyaluronic.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tell-me-about-vaginal-hyaluronic.htmlA lot of people are getting really good at spotting health scams on social media, hence the rapid response to the Kourtney Kardashian “your vagina could smell better” wellness gummies. If you don’t know, consider yourself blessed. If you must know, Kourtney is simply the latest person trying to mine patriarchal shame about the vagina for profit, meaning she’s nothing but a garden variety misogynist.  But lately I’ve been getting lots of tags about Revaree due to this post from Dr./tesla-fsd-12-3-6-versus-waymohtml.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tesla-fsd-12-3-6-versus-waymohtml.htmlCallasEV compared a Waymo against Tesla FSD version 12.3.6. Tesla FSD12.3.6 had no disengagements and completed the drive 2 minutes ahead of the Waymo because of superior route planning. The FSD ride and the Waymo rides were both smooth. Tesla FSD can operate across North America and is getting certified in Europe, China, Asia and Australia. Waymo opera… ncG1vNJzZmimla3Bo7XGn6ytraKae7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2do6GubrLSnWRqal1oend51Z6prK2jYsSixcyon62lnA%3D%3D/the-arcane-us-budget-rule-that-could.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-arcane-us-budget-rule-that-could.htmlSometimes national security policy is a chessboard of great power competition or an epic battle of human freedom versus totalitarian repression. And sometimes it’s about an arcane accounting rule. Here’s a little tale of the latter that’s especially frustrating – and now urgent.  Private investment can be a weapon of US foreign policy. Promoting market capitalism, providing a credible alternative to China, and helping deliver rapid development progress are the reasons why Congress passed the BUILD Act in 2018 and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) was launched in 2020./the-bagel-station.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bagel-station.htmlAfter 14 days on the road, I finally made it to the mother land, the place where it all began, the beautiful Garden State: New Jersey. Obviously the first thing I did was select a bagel shop at random and order an absolute classic that you truly cannot get anywhere else, a Taylor ham, egg, and cheese sandwich. For the uninitiated, Taylor ham is a salty breakfast meat you can only find in New Jersey./the-colorful-history-of-royal-lodge.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-colorful-history-of-royal-lodge.htmlAfter living in Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park for two decades, 63-year-old Prince Andrew has let it be known that he intends to stay in his 30-room home despite pressure from King Charles III to relocate to a more modest residence. At the moment, Andrew seems to have the upper hand, since he personally signed a lease in 2003 with the Crown Estate, which manages royal property. There are fifty-five more years remaining on the lease./the-environmental-trinity.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-environmental-trinity.htmlToday, I am happy to share a brilliant talk given last week at The Breakthrough Dialogue by Jesse Ausubel, of The Rockefeller University. I was first introduced to Jesse almost 30 years ago by my post-doc mentor and our mutual friend Mickey Glantz. Jesse’s work has been pathbreaking for decades — when it comes to energy and climate, Jesse has long been out in front. For those wanting to hear more, check out Jesse being interviewed by Robert Bryce./the-evil-israel-does-is-the-evil.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-evil-israel-does-is-the-evil.htmlPossibly the Only Real Solution for Israel/Hamas Is Radically Idealistic The situation in Israel with Hamas is a wakeup call. Everything needs to be changed and rectified. It is based on a lie.:That Israel is the homeland for Jews, Zionism. Israel is not the homeland for Jews. Planet Earth is the homeland for Jews and all humans. Is N. America the homeland for all native americans? The young Zionists came to Israel to escape Nazi persecution./the-exhaustive-list-of-seed-oil-sources.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-exhaustive-list-of-seed-oil-sources.htmlIn the past few weeks, it seems that there has been a coordinated campaign against mainstream “health” influencers and legacy media to convince the public that seed oils are, in fact, good for you. Their primary tactic has been to decry the “lack” of studies on the harmful effects of seed oils. Unfortunately, this tactic has been effective because few people, even those who vehemently avoid seed oils, are well versed in the extensive research on them./the-face-of-loves-rage-the-musical.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-face-of-loves-rage-the-musical.htmlTrigger warnings ahoy (abuse, cannibalism, religious trauma, family dynamics mainly), so tread safely. So far, we’ve mainly talked about horror storytelling through the medium of film (with diversions to TV and books). But something I’ve been wanting to explore with you, dear reader, for a good while now is horror storytelling via music. I am a sucker for a “story-song” because successfully compressing a full story into the structure of a three minute (give or take) song and telling it to your audience in a satisfying way takes a deep mastering of your craft./the-fox-the-chicken-and-the-rowboat.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fox-the-chicken-and-the-rowboat.htmlI spend a lot of time thinking about the fox and the chicken. Perhaps you’re familiar with the scenario, or some variant of it; versions of it have been around for centuries, sometimes with other animals or entities swapped in. Regardless—it’s a logic puzzle that seems simple, but can be tricky to solve without careful consideration. The premise: you are a farmer who has to transport a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river./the-garvey-saga-1.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-garvey-saga-1.htmlThree weeks ago I ran across a very interesting traditional boat type, sitting on a trailer in a driveway just around the corner from our newly purchased house. I was smitten and I still am, even more so after doing some research—starting with Howard Chapelle. The boat I discovered is a Garvey; see Photo #1 above. History tells us that an Englishman named Gervas (Jarvis) Pharo came to North America in 1703 and settled in what is now New Jersey./the-great-ziegfeld.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-ziegfeld.htmlMerry Christmas! What better way to celebrate the season than looking back on some old movies? And if we’re talking classic cinema, how about another Oscar winner? “The Great Ziegfeld” is the penultimate essay in my ongoing quest to watch all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. I’ll say right from the start this was not one of my favorites encountered during the project. The early Golden Age musicals tended to rely on the songs all on their own, along with not a little spectacle, to entertain audiences./the-greatest-nyc-restaurant-movie.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-greatest-nyc-restaurant-movie.htmlI don’t necessarily love the big attention-grabbing headlines, but the other night as I was looking through the endless glut of films I’d marked as wanting to watch, something told me I should finally get around to pressing play on Dinner Rush, the 2001 indie film by Bob Giraldi that stars Danny Aiello in what I came away thinking might be his best role besides Sal in Do The Right Thing./the-importance-of-inebriation.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-importance-of-inebriation.htmlWhat is the lure of inebriation? For some (many?) it is indeed a pull of some sort. Consider the following. Of those setting aside alcohol and participating in “Dry January”, fully 20% replace alcohol with cannabis. If you are among the youngest cohort diving into the Dry January pool, you are even more likely to replace alcohol with THC. The number of those who make January dry is going to grow and so will those who are simply replacing one inebriant for another./the-killer-is-a-triumph-of-disciplined.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-killer-is-a-triumph-of-disciplined.html“I’m no genius,” says the titular character (Michael Fassbender) in one of the many internal dialogues in David Fincher's latest movie, The Killer. That may be true, but he’s a skilled and methodical “freelancer” who’s excellent at his job, which happens to be murdering people professionally by drawing the least amount of attention. He knows his trade inside out: The endless boredom that comes with it, the rigorous cautionary routines that keep him safe and vigilant, and the anonymity it requires./thelastdragon.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thelastdragon.htmlReader: I learned a new word recently. It’s always fun to learn a new word, right? And if you read the headline of today’s newsletter, you might’ve learned one too! If you see the word “mononym” written somewhere, it’s pretty easy to figure it out: “mono” meaning “one,” “nym” meaning name. But if you’d asked me the word for a person with one name, I wouldn’t have immediately come up with it unless you gave me time to break it down./the-left-hand-of-the-law.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-left-hand-of-the-law.htmlOne of the seemingly more successful public arguments in defense of trans people lately involves a graph depicting rates of left-handedness over time. The graph has had a long life on trans Twitter but made it to platforms as large as Last Week Tonight, when John Oliver included it in a segment last year on anti-trans political attacks. A prominent version of the graph is sourced from a 2015 Washington Post article, and it makes an impressive demonstration of the lie foundational to panics over the ostensible growth in the number of trans people, the number accessing gender affirming care, and the presumptions encoded in the accusation of “grooming./the-maddening-irrelevance-of-charlie.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-maddening-irrelevance-of-charlie.htmlIn the summer of 1995, an envelope arrived at the federal courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas. Inside was a handwritten, barely coherent plea from Charlie Vaughn, a man serving a life sentence for murder in the Tucker maximum security prison in the south central part of the state. Vaughn can’t read or write, so he presumably asked another prisoner to draw up the document for him. It was a one-page bid for his freedom./the-magical-revolution-of-the-reincarnated.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-magical-revolution-of-the-reincarnated.htmlEvery once in a while an isekai (parallel world) title so long or so weird sticks out to me in a list that I have to click it. Even in a genre where these conventions are standard ways to get noticed, I just can’t help myself. Nine times out of ten, a clever title covers for an utterly boring mega-ultra-power fantasy, a self-insert character reading out his cheat playthrough of a nonexistent RPG he invented alongside the full instruction manual of that RPG./the-making-of-the-jordan-rules.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-making-of-the-jordan-rules.html“When ‘The Jordan Rules’ came out, the first day, I went to Jordan. I went up to his locker. He had his head down, and I said, ‘Michael, I just want to let you know, you have any problems with anything I wrote, I’m here, and I’ll be glad to talk to you about it.’ He kept his head down, never said a word. He was always a lot bigger than me and a lot more important./the-millennial-vernacular-of-getting.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-millennial-vernacular-of-getting.htmlThis is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen.  Last week, I wrote about the millennial vernacular of fatphobia. Today, Emily Contois whose research focuses on the intersection of food media and masculinity, addresses how body ideals for men played out during the same time period. Next week, we’ll have a piece from historian Angela Tate about negotiating the images and ideals of the ‘90s and 2000s as a young black woman./the-misrepresentation-of-women-in.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-misrepresentation-of-women-in.htmlBefore we get to today’s piece, go vote on the next round of the We Are 90s Babies Tournament! Let’s see what’s the most 90s Baby thing ever. 90s Babies Sweet Sixteen! The 1990s witnessed an era of significant cultural and technological transformations, yet it remains a period marred by the portrayal of women in the media. Despite considerable strides made towards gender equality, the media of the 90s perpetuated harmful stereotypes and inadequately represented women./the-most-terrifying-thing-for-a-family.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-terrifying-thing-for-a-family.htmlFamily Courts rely on public presumptions to escape scrutiny. For example, something so benign-sounding as, “Family Court,” does not inspire inspection; the very name absolves it of criminality! People may think of shows like “Judge Judy,” where issues such as who would have the couch after divorce, and how to divide up holidays with the kids, are weighed — nothing as dark as the actual entity. But what if it were named closer to its actual function?/luis-restos-heart-of-darkness.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/luis-restos-heart-of-darkness.htmlWhen Billy Collins Jr stepped into the ring in the middle of a sold-out Madison Square Garden in June 1983, he was a promising welterweight boxer — undefeated in 14 straight fights, winning eleven of those by knockout. Many people saw him as a serious title contender.  One year later, Collins died after crashing his car into a ditch near his hometown in Antioch, Tennessee.  Now, before you fill in the blanks, this isn’t another story of some promising young athlete who let fame get to his head and lost his way./cortex-the-mysterious-french-band.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cortex-the-mysterious-french-band.htmlToday’s Micro-Chop newsletter was written by Andre Gee. Andre is a DC-born, Brooklyn-based freelance writer and beatmaker. Check him out on Twitter and IG and read more of his work on DJBooth, Medium, Micro-Chop, Okayplayer, UPROXX, and his more fire. newsletter. MF Doom’s 2004 album MM.. FOOD was a landmark moment of 2000s rap. It was the rare underground project that reached the consciousness of rap fans like me who were predominantly accustomed to the mainstream scene. One of the album’s highlights is the Madlib-produced “One Beer,” a winding tale of lyrical supremacy, autographed derrieres, and the everlasting adage that “few can do it, even fewer can sell it./the-necessity-of-non-zero-sum-thinking.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-necessity-of-non-zero-sum-thinking.htmlThis excerpt is taken from my recent conversation with journalist, author, and Bloggingheads co-founder Bob Wright. Here we spend a little time in Bob’s wheelhouse, and it’s a big wheelhouse. Bob’s books cover things like “the logic of human destiny” (the subtitle of his book Nonzero), the relationship between religion and tribalism, and Buddhism’s anticipation of the findings of modern psychology. We don’t cover all of that, of course. But Bob and I do discuss one important through-line in his writing and thinking: The role of non-zero-sum games in human social and political life./the-neverending-story-is-turning.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-neverending-story-is-turning.htmlWhen I was seven, my class was taken to an auditorium in our elementary school. There was a projector in the room, and we packed in on the floor, criss-cross applesauce, with children in other classes. The lights were turned off, the projector began to roll, and a movie played. I’m not sure why I remember that day so clearly. Maybe because it was the first time I’d ever watched a movie in school, or perhaps because it was the movie we watched: The NeverEnding Story./the-newtownmountkennedy-asylum-protest.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-newtownmountkennedy-asylum-protest.htmlThis is a special post, stepping away from my normal housing policy and research issues, to give a personal account of the opposition to the proposed accommodation centre for International Protection Applicants in Trudder House, Newtownmountkennedy. I want to emphasise that what follow is not based on any academic research. I am also not a journalist, and none of the below has been fact checked. This is just my impressions of what has been going on, with the sole purpose of informing people who might be trying to get their heads around this new turn in Irish politics./the-orange-jesus-thing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-orange-jesus-thing.htmlOkay, this thing is getting pretty weird now. If you haven’t seen the “God Made Trump” ad above, you absolutely must. I thought it was a joke at first—a parody ad you might see on Saturday Night Live. But it’s not. Trump’s campaign is responsible for this satanic heresy. It represents a new level of craziness—the Orange Jesus thing made manifest. Trump is embracing his inner messiah. And it represents a certain reality in the Republican Party: I watched a clip of a Trump voter in Iowa the other day, a woman, who said—calmly, with the utter conviction of a mind-snatched cultist—that the legal cases against Big Orange were a sign from God that Trump had been sent to suffer for our sins./the-pork-of-the-sea.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pork-of-the-sea.htmlI’ve heard it said that swordfish is “the pork of the sea,” thanks to its relative heft and luscious white meat. I can’t argue with the characterization, since it is noticeably similar to a deftly-cooked pork chop. However, I would add one caveat: while they are alike in some ways, swordfish is vastly superior to pork. It’s lighter and healthier for one thing, and even an overfished fish is more ethically sourced than industrially-produced pork./the-proper-way-to-use-a-hairbrush.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-proper-way-to-use-a-hairbrush.htmlI think it’s time I taught you The Proper Way to Use a Hairbrush. When it becomes necessary to smack a bare bottom, one mustn’t forget to actually brush the recipient's hair. Before you spank, and afterwards. Tell them in your politest, yet most unequivocal tone: “Fetch the hairbush please” - then remind them to leave their panties in its place. As you wait upon your spanking chair, your charge will be obediently undressing, and stowing their neatly folded clothes in the drawer where the hairbrush lives./the-pros-and-cons-of-2-point-stance.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-pros-and-cons-of-2-point-stance.htmlThe 2 point stance has become more and more popular in modern day football. Players like Khalil Mack and Von Miller show just how effective a 2 point stance can be when used correctly; however, when used incorrectly it can lead to an ineffective pass rush and big holes in the run game. Below is my take on the pros and cons of the 2 point stance.... Pro: Vision Blockers are usually the biggest guys on the team and if the end has their hand in the dirt they won’t be able to see much other than what’s in front of them./the-real-reasons-women-are-oppressed.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-reasons-women-are-oppressed.htmlI’m starting to realise that women are oppressed because they are more powerful than men. I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but consider that all oppression has a reason or a motivation. It all starts somewhere. Oppressors would not seek to control, denigrate and silence people who had no power in the first place, would they? Men don’t oppress women because they think they are stupid, incompetent, weak or incapable – they oppress women because they know that we aren’t any of those things./the-retiring-peter-weir.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-retiring-peter-weir.html“For film directors, like volcanoes, there are three major stages: active, dormant and extinct. I think I’ve reached the latter!" Australian director Peter Weir told the Sydney Morning Herald in a career loopback in 2022 when he received an honorary Oscar. "Another generation is out there calling 'action' and 'cut' and good luck to them." In 2024, he made it final, saying at the Festival de la Cinémathèque in Paris, "/the-rooster-a-somewhat-dirty-joke.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rooster-a-somewhat-dirty-joke.htmlThere was once a rooster who lived in a barnyard. Now, this was not your typical rooster. This rooster was a real ladies’ man. Not only did he make it with the hens, he made it with the ducks and the swans and the geese and the turkeys, basically anything with wings. The farmer noticed these goings-on and just shook his head. One day, the rooster was sitting with his back against a wall, his legs crossed, smoking a cigarette./the-runaway-princesses.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-runaway-princesses.htmlSo there is a four-part series called The Runaway Princesses. It has a full-page ad in The New Yorker magazine, in which I had read, maybe a year and a half ago, an article about “the Fugitive Princesses of Dubai”, chronicling the repeated attempts by Sheikha Latifa and her older sister, Shamsa, to escape the strict control of their family. Their father is Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and reportedly worth about 18 billion dollars./the-secret-history-of-comics-marshal.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secret-history-of-comics-marshal.htmlWelcome to Chapter One of my new book And Where Will It All End? The Secret History of Comics, where I take you behind the scenes to show you how your favourite subversive characters were created. I published the intro a couple of weeks ago, which you can read for free. But the rest of The Secret History is a bit of an experiment, because for the first time, I’m making it available to paying subscribers only./the-secret-to-making-a-shake-shack.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secret-to-making-a-shake-shack.htmlSince we’re going into Memorial Day Weekend, we want to start off by saying we honor the fallen heroes—and their families—who have served our country. Thank you and we are thinking of you. EK: A Grilled Shake Shack Burger, that is! The Classic Shake Shack Burger, a.k.a. The “Shack Burger” is a griddled all-beef patty, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, Secret ShackSauce and a buttered and toasted potato bun. Their meat is so good, that my beefy burger order is very simple: burger, American cheese and (sour) hamburger pickle chips on a soft and pillowy potato bun./the-secrets-of-magnetic-rose.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secrets-of-magnetic-rose.htmlHappy Sunday! We’re back! At the end of June, the Animation Obsessive newsletter went on its planned mid-year break. In the time since, we’ve done tons of prep — studying animation from China, Japan, Britain and beyond. We translated a miniseries, worked with outside collaborators and even found time to unwind (the Swedish live-action series Huss was a highlight). Now, we’re here with a lead story we’ve wanted to do since 2021./smolbound-official-trailer-dropped.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smolbound-official-trailer-dropped.htmlIntroducing Smolbound: the world’s first ever-evolving life sim RPG developed by Darkbright Studios! Built from the ground up within Treasure and based on the original Smol Brains NFT IP, Smolbound is pioneering a new category to be the next breakout success in web3. We’re excited to share a first look at Smolbound’s gameplay and introduction into the game’s expansive universe! 👉 Click here to watch the official trailer! But wait, there’s more!/the-strange-and-disturbing-story.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-strange-and-disturbing-story.htmlI rarely covet. Handbags, shoes, jewelry—these things leave me cold. I used to castigate myself for my lack of interest, assuming I had no feminine instincts. Or taste. But that’s not it—or if it is, that’s only half the reason. It turns out what I want is just … different. This authentic 19th century vampire-hunting kit that just sold for $20,000 at auction, for instance. The minute I laid eyes on it, the spirit of covetousness rose within me./the-strange-case-of-ogden-nash.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-strange-case-of-ogden-nash.htmlLast November, the Atlantic published a selection of poetry called “9 Poems for a Tough Winter.” First among the nine was “So Penseroso,” a poem by Ogden Nash. I was surprised to see it because Nash, who was insanely popular from about 1931 (the year his first collection of poetry was published) until about 1971 (the year he died), has fallen seriously out of fashion over the last three or four decades./the-top-ten-books-on-british-politics.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-top-ten-books-on-british-politics.htmlEvery year I do a list of my favourite books to inspire those in need of Christmas present ideas. This year, though, nearly all the reading I’ve done has been research for my own book on the state of British politics (which is almost finished and should be out in the second half of 2024). So I decided to do a special list of my top ten books on the topic./what-is-vilomah.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-vilomah.htmlThe Vilomah Project is an idea that clawed its way out of my grief-addled brain after my son, Christopher, took his life when he was 18. In the aftermath, I looked for people, support groups, or websites for people who had also lost a child, but nothing was quite right. Religion-based support isn’t a good fit for me, and neither are groups that toss around cliches like, “they're at peace now” and call it a day./strawberry-shortcake-vs-key-lime-22-10-24.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/strawberry-shortcake-vs-key-lime-22-10-24.htmlThanks for reading The Nonlinear Life, a newsletter about navigating life's ups and downs. Every week we explore family, health, work, and meaning, with the occasional dad joke and dose of inspiration. If you're new around here, read my introductory post, learn about me, or check out our archives. And if you enjoyed this article, please subscribe or share with a friend. --- As a fifth-generation Georgian, I can still rattle off all of the state symbols I learned as a child:/the-wisdom-in-kung-fu-panda.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wisdom-in-kung-fu-panda.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on Wikipedia licensingThe 2008 animated movie Kung Fu Panda opens with a funny turn of phrase delivered to even greater comedic effect by the great Jack Black, Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of LEGEND! In one instant the mood is set. This is going to be fun. In less than one minute, we’ve also already been exposed to beautiful animation and dazzling music./2022-the-year-the-sight-and-sound.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2022-the-year-the-sight-and-sound.htmlLast week, the results of Sight & Sound’sGreatest Films of All Time list were released, a decennial event since 1952, when 63 critics voted Bicycle Thieves the best film ever made, only four years after it came out. (Six films on the list were from the silent era, however, which was surely the retort on Ye Olde Twitter when the participants were accused of “recency bias.”) The 2022 edition polled 1,639 critics, up from 846 in 2012, which itself had exploded in growth from 2002, when the number was just 145./there-is-a-project-to-recreate-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-is-a-project-to-recreate-the.htmlLast month we talked about the effort to reverse engineer the AOL servers — named the “Re:AOL” project — and create a standalone AOL-compatible server that let people experience the joys of using America On-Line from “back in the day”. Well, it turns out there is a similar project underway to do something similar… except for the Prodigy online service, dubbed the “Prodigy Preservation Project”. Progress appears to be moving along — though not at quite the breakneck pace of the Re:AOL project — with the assistance of code included in the Prodigy patents./billie-holiday-there-was-never-a.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/billie-holiday-there-was-never-a.htmlNOTE: This series is an expanded version of my article that was originally published in Jazz Times magazine, and I thank the editor Mac Randall for his fine work. Here is the original article, winner of the 2022 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the pop music field. Let’s begin: In Lee Daniels’ film The United States vs. Billie Holiday, the words “Earle Theater, Philadelphia, May 27, 1947” flash onscreen, and one sees a row of policemen, with Holiday’s manager Joe Glaser standing at the center of them./thomhartmann.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thomhartmann.htmlThom HartmannNY Times bestselling author 34 books in 17 languages & nation's #1 progressive radio host. Psychotherapist, international relief worker. Politics, history, spirituality, psychology, science, anthropology, pre-history, culture, and the natural world. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0zqafmqqkoq6vug%3D%3D/funeral-for-a-coffee-shop-thoughts.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/funeral-for-a-coffee-shop-thoughts.htmlWhen I set my debut novel in Geneva, Illinois, there was no question of where my main character would work. She’s a 21-year-old lesbian and former band kid doing her gen eds at the local community college; of course she works at Graham’s 318. For the purposes of the book, the coffee shop-turned-core-memory got a new, more generic name: Sip. It’s a decent name, although kind of plain; something ordinary I meant to replace with something more clever later in the drafting process but ultimately just stuck with./three-years-four-months-nine-days.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-years-four-months-nine-days.htmlIn the wee hours of Thursday, at 1.15 AM or thereabouts when my husband on the other side of the world wondered why I was still awake, I turned to the last page of Benyamin’s Goat Days. When I’ve just finished reading a harrowing tale, I let out a sigh of relief that thanks god that it’s only fiction. Dear fellow humans, unfortunately Goat Days is not fiction, and thereby hangs a tale./tony-gwynn-and-a-lost-chance-at-baseball.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tony-gwynn-and-a-lost-chance-at-baseball.htmlMajor League Baseball lost plenty during a 1994 work stoppage — a World Series, fan loyalty, TV ratings. A National Pastime became an American Afterthought, and today the same parties again lose games, trust and dollars to a financial tug-of-war. For Padres outfielder Tony Gwynn, the stoppage was uniquely painful. The future Hall of Famer, then 34, missed an opportunity to become the first player to hit .400 in a season since Ted Williams batted ./top-five-cryptids-you-might-find.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/top-five-cryptids-you-might-find.htmlImage from Wherig.comWhen people think of cryptids, they tend to think of places like Loch Ness or the Appalachian Mountains or the great woods of the Pacific Northwest, but Illinois has had more than it’s fair share of cryptid sightings, as well. Pretty much from one end of the state to the other, there is a chance of seeing something strange in the woods, the sky or the water. Here are five elusive and possibly mythical beasts you have the best chance of seeing in this Midwestern state:/tucker-carlson-interviews-douglas.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tucker-carlson-interviews-douglas.htmlOkay, so I watched the Tucker Carlson’s interview with Douglas Wilson about Christian Nationalism. My verdict is this: Douglas Wilson’s version of Christian Nationalism is a kind of “God, King, and Country” variety, less extreme than Stephen Wolfe’s version, and more amiable to a political pluralism in wider society, but still carries immense problems. To give some background, Douglas Wilson is a Presbyterian pastor and I first came across Wilson in the early 00s when he was part of a movement called The Federal Vision, which aimed for a more consistent covenantal view of church and family life, through theonomy, a bigger emphasis on good works (via Norman Shepherd), a stronger emphasis on the visible church as the church, and things like paedocommunion (giving communion to children)./turtles-all-the-way-down-movie-review-max.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/turtles-all-the-way-down-movie-review-max.htmlSometimes, I read a book and can’t wait to see how it will be adapted into a film. And sometimes, I read a book and am terrified at the idea of it being adapted into a film. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green was definitely a case of the latter. Could a book about OCD be adapted into a film that treated it with some sense of dignity and respect?/uranus-dominant-what-it-is-and-what.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uranus-dominant-what-it-is-and-what.html     Happy New Moon in Leo! As I’ve reported in my post about the Leo New Moon, this new moon (and this entire week, really) is as much about Leo as it is about Uranus. That’s because the planet is squaring both the Sun, Venus, and New Moon in Leo, urging a wild reinvention of ourselves and our creativity. I talked a bit about Uranus in that post, but I felt it was prudent to discuss more about this outer planet, specifically its role in astrology and the birth, and—most importantly—what it means to be Uranus Dominant./interview-vanessa-benavente-on-playing.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-vanessa-benavente-on-playing.htmlThis is the second of three interviews that I have done with actors from The Chosen, the life-of-Jesus series that is about to launch its third season in theatres this Friday. I posted my interview with Jordan Walker Ross, who plays Little James, last week. It started as a one-episode guest spot, but it quickly grew into something much, much bigger than that. Vanessa Benavente first played Mary the mother of Jesus in an early episode of The Chosen, in which she basically nudged Jesus into performing his first public miracle at the wedding in Cana./vorfreude-pre-joy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vorfreude-pre-joy.htmlAt some point in my twenties, I was looking for a distraction from a recent breakup and found myself in the travel section of a Barnes & Noble on a Sunday evening. I thumbed through the pages of places I always dreamt of visiting but feared I would never get the chance to see. The cliffs of Ireland. Mount Fuji in Japan. The rainforests of South America. I pulled a pocket-sized book out from the shelf — the Little Black Book of Rome — and looked at the colorful map of neighborhoods and the quaint descriptions of restaurants, dreaming of a day when I’d get to visit them in person./walang-sibuyas-try-lasona.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walang-sibuyas-try-lasona.htmlHello, and welcome to another meryenda Monday. Currently, meryenda is a reader-supported independent publication. If you find value in our work or use it as an educational resource, consider becoming a paid subscriber for $5/mo or $48/year. If you’d rather make a one time donation, please reply to us directly so we can work something out. Your contribution allows us to nurture this space such as commission works from our community./warren-oates-the-brown-dirt-cowboy.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/warren-oates-the-brown-dirt-cowboy.htmlThe finest character actor of his or any other generation, Warren Oates looked like a cross between Emilio Zapata and the post-pilsz George Best. "I already had my bath!" he bellows when questioned about his hygiene in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee. But to look at Oates in most of his 40-or-so movies, it's hard to believe he'd ever encountered water. A surly, unsanitary mess of a man, Oates came to own outright the franchise on thugs, derelicts and degenerates./was-the-bleeding-woman-in-mark-5.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-the-bleeding-woman-in-mark-5.htmlEarly in my pastoral career (2007ish), I preached through the Gospel of Mark—a delightful challenge, I must say! As I did so, I was struck by the role of the hemorrhaging woman in the narrative that also included a synagogue leader named Jairus and the raising of his daughter from death (Mark 5:21–43). Who was share? Where did she come from? Why do Mark and Luke include her story? Some 13 years later, I got around to writing a journal article on the topic that was published in Bulletin for Biblical Research 30./watch-the-crown-jay-z-x-basquiat.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watch-the-crown-jay-z-x-basquiat.htmlYou’ll find that phrase if you look closely at Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting, Charles the First. It’s oddly prophetic given the parallel legacies this painting connects. The name of this painting suggests the beheaded King Charles I of England, but actually refers to one of Basquiat’s favorite artists, jazz musician Charlie Parker, who influenced many of his works. Like Parker, Basquiat made a huge impact in a short yet prolific career and ultimately died young battling heroin addiction./watching-american-history-x-as-a.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/watching-american-history-x-as-a.htmlKids today. They don’t even say the darndest things anymore — they say the darkest things. They say the most nonsensical skippity-toilet things too. But when my son started going on about would you rather this [something stupid along the lines of suddenly inheriting millions of dollars] or “make your enemy bite the curb”, I knew I had to spring into action. I told him we were going to watch the movie where that came from./were-still-making-car-cassette-players.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-still-making-car-cassette-players.htmlI’m a big fan of old tech videos on YouTube, which are a wealth of information regarding not just various curiosities of design or consumer marketing, but also all sorts of ancillary historical and cultural information. I’ve written about this kind of thing before—see this post and this one—and for today I’m going back to this topic. YouTuber VWestlife, who reviews new and old audio tech (lots of record and cassette stuff), and sometimes does very deep dives into the history or pedigree of a device, recently did a really interesting video on those “all-in-one music center” stereos that are sold on Amazon and in stores like Kohl’s and Bed Bath & Beyond./welcome-to-commie-pinko-queer.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-commie-pinko-queer.htmlThis is the first post for my free substack newsletter, Commie Pinko Queer. I will be posting every week or two on matters of interest to the broadly defined queer left. I plan to post book, film and performance reviews, commentaries on queer history and current news, and generally cranky quirky essays on random topics. To get us started, I’m reposting an older (2015) memoirish essay below. Coming soon: reviews of new left/feminist/queer studies books (including those by Ghassan Moussawi, Gayatri Gopinath, J./welcome-to-samdal-ri-2023-24-first.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-samdal-ri-2023-24-first.htmlJi Chang-wook and Shin Hye-sun are co-leads in a seachange story about a celebrity photographer (Shin Hye-sun) who leaves Jeju Island nearly two decades earlier for the dazzling lights of Seoul with her own eagle brothers. She reaches the heights of her profession only to find herself embroiled in a scandal that sees her scampering back home with her sisters in tow, utterly humiliated. Once upon a time her childhood friend and first love Cho Yong-pil (Ji Chang-wook) along with two other friends, Gyeong-tae (Lee Jae-won) and Cha Eun-woo (Bae Myung-jin) tag along to gain success in the Big Smoke but all three guys return unceremoniously leaving only Sam-dal to make her mark on her own./best-water-shoes-for-rocky-beaches.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-water-shoes-for-rocky-beaches.htmlThis is a short recommendation for some very nice water shoes. Although it refers to Amazon as the source, it is not an affiliate link. I am so satisfied with these shoes that I thought it was worthwhile sharing this information. When we decide to travel for our vacation, there are often so many things available for us to do. There are also many types of vacations. Some people prefer to explore cities and learn about history of a civilization or a significant landmark./what-did-we-do.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-did-we-do.htmlI started watching Scoop on Netflix on Friday night. I am still not done with it, but the first few minutes of the first episode itself triggered a flood of memories and emotions that I have been processing ever since. The series tells the true story of Jigna Vora, a journalist who was arrested in 2011 in connection with the murder of J Dey, a veteran crime reporter, shot dead a few months earlier in Powai./what-does-a-good-divorce-look-like.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-a-good-divorce-look-like.htmlMy friend Joanie turned to me as we relaxed in the hot tub the other night under a star-studded, palm tree-fringed Palm Springs twilight sky. “I wanted to tell you that I am proud of you, how well you’re doing. It’s not even been a year since the divorce was final and look at you!,” she told me. What did she see in me? I wondered. If I exuded a calm and centeredness, it was hard won and continuously nurtured./what-dt-jerzhan-johnny-newton-brings.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-dt-jerzhan-johnny-newton-brings.htmlThe Washington Commanders made a surprise pick in the second round of the NFL Draft by selecting defensive tackle Jer’Zhan “Johnny” Newton. Defensive tackle isn’t an immediate need for the Commanders, with stars Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne still on big contracts. But general manager Adam Peters clearly felt the value was too good to pass up on as Newton was widely considered a first round talent and one of the best defensive players in this draft./what-happened-to-sextoon.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happened-to-sextoon.html🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 With that out of the way, here’s today’s Exhibit A, from Twitter user @collnsmith: Obviously, I am intrigued. Colleen, our tweeter, said in the replies that “I was searching a gif archive and kept seeing the sextoon watermark, then looked at wayback machine lol.” In early 2012, Sextoon asked its members to accept Jesus Christ. It’s cut off in that Twitter image but the full snapshot directs curious users to "/what-happens-when-you-bear-spray.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happens-when-you-bear-spray.htmlBear spray is in the news. Investigators analyzing videos of the deadly January 6 coup attempt have turned up evidence that U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was sprayed with a can of Frontiersman Bear Attack Deterrent. If it can be demonstrated that the spray caused Sicknick’s blood clot and stroke, The New York Times speculates that it could lead to murder charges against two of the accused rioters.  I’m telling you this because I have first hand experience of what it’s like to use bear spray on a human./what-has-changed-since-justin-gaethje.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-has-changed-since-justin-gaethje.htmlIt is quite common for folks to come across my significant strikes landed/absorbed per minute scatter plots on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and comment on the absurd placement of Justin Gaethje’s dot. Gaethje made his UFC debut in 2017, and he already had the reputation of being an action fighter thanks to some ridiculous contests under the World Series of Fighting banner. In his UFC debut, he landed 104 significant strikes, absorbed 91 significant strikes and ultimately finished Michael Johnson last in the second round./what-i-mean-when-i-say-palm-trees.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-i-mean-when-i-say-palm-trees.htmlCan something have essential “tree-ness”? Sure, but who’s asking? Well, in this case, it’s me. Let me expand: a lot of ink has been spilled on the relationship between “palm trees”, broadly construed, and whether it falls within the realm of the concentric circles of “tree,” broadly defined. A lot of this ink has been spilled by me, because I’ve cast the palms as my main antagonists in this ongoing project known as JewsLoveTrees./what-is-a-farm-share-or-csa-and-why.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-farm-share-or-csa-and-why.htmlFarm share and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) are terms that describe a partnership between a farm and the people who consume the farm’s food. By participating in this relationship, members essentially buy a share of a farm’s harvest before the season begins, understanding that unpredictable conditions such as weather and labor supply can affect the harvest. The security of a contract eliminates the need for farmers to invest time marketing their produce during the busy growing season, enabling them to concentrate solely on producing food./what-is-a-literary-ticking-clock.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-literary-ticking-clock.htmlAs my own novel launches, I find myself thinking about the concept of the “Ticking Clock” in literature. This is a literary device that amps up the tension in stories and also marks time. It’s like an alarm waiting to go off in the characters’ minds and in the reader’s mind. These clocks can be very obvious, like a literal bomb ticking, or an impending date, or an important deadline approaching./what-is-mgm.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-mgm.htmlIt’s a little strange to admit, but I find a lot of shows just by letting my Fire Stick go to sleep for a bit. When you do that, your television gets to enjoy a screensaver-like montage of varied shows and movies. I assume this is some line on some spreadsheet of ad offerings somewhere, some box the new After movie has ticked, along with Red, White, and Royal Blue, The Winter King, and now Billy the Kid./what-warrior-nun-says-about-religion-2.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-warrior-nun-says-about-religion-2.htmlNOTE: This post is the second part of an ongoing essay about religious themes in Warrior Nun. You can read the previous part below: Thank you. *** As Episode 3 of Warrior Nun begins, so too does the show’s more splintered narrative. Like many TV series in the modern age, the show features one core character as its protagonist, but often focuses on fleshed-out storylines for its other characters as well./when-bad-things-happen-to-good-people.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-people.htmlThanks for reading The Nonlinear Life, a reader-supported newsletter about navigating life's ups and downs. If you or someone you know is looking for joy in their life, please check out my new book, The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World. Perfect for new college grads—among others! If you're new around here, learn about me, or check out our introductory post. And if you enjoyed this article, please subscribe or share with a friend./whipstitch.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whipstitch.html“Whipstitch” is a niche slang term meaning an instant. In the South, it constitutes an idiom meaning in short intervals— the birds, they come to feed there every whipstitch— and it is mainly a term used in sewing and embroidery, to sew with stitches passing over an edge, in joining, finishing, or gathering. Whipstitching is also a very cute book-binding method. This is my attempt to write more in the moment— allow some glimpse of what is currently being fed through this finicky, slow machine./understanding-whiteness-part-25-white.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/understanding-whiteness-part-25-white.htmlOf course, white people can be stereotyped too – by a range of factors including gender, class, accent, sexuality, nationality, physical appearance, to name a few. But overarching whiteness itself is curiously free of the stereotyping trap. Of course, there are accusations thrown at white people designed to poke fun at whiteness: not being able to season chicken properly, having no rhythm, that kind of thing. But really, the only stereotype that generic whiteness has adopted is one of being in a default position of social control./who-killed-sheila-wallace.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-killed-sheila-wallace.htmlEvery night, Sheila Wallace would regularly walk her dog in McGowan Park not far from her home. When she set out on that cold January night 4 years ago this fifty-eight-year-old Cleveland resident had no idea it would be her last. She was shot down in cold blood for no apparent reason just steps from her front door. The ruthless crime sent immediate shockwaves through the close-knit community. As the months ticked on by the case went cold./who-wants-to-jump-off-a-cliff-today.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-wants-to-jump-off-a-cliff-today.htmlThere's no rush, it's quite a commitment. Says the guy who started in January and still needs/wants to finish! That Black Mold sounds scary, ever since my wife and I heard about Britney Murphy we eye common mildew with something akin to abject terror. That is a lot on, maybe start when things settle a bit? Journalling sounds great. I love a new journal although I've really been able to keep the habit going./whos-afraid-of-the-professional-managerial.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-afraid-of-the-professional-managerial.htmlReese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick in “Election” (1999).In 1977, Barbara and John Ehrenreich coined the term “professional-managerial class” (PMC) to describe “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production” and whose boundaries with the ruling class above and the working class below are “fuzzy.” This class does not, for the most part, inhabit the one percent in the income distribution, but rather the top five percent. A midcentury Jewish mother would have said of a prospective PMC son-in-law, “He makes a nice living./why-are-paperbacks.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-paperbacks.htmlMy paperback for I Have Some Questions For You is out today (did you know that all books come out on Tuesdays?), and I’ve realized that the paperback thing is not entirely intuitive to readers. So I’m here to explain it all. Beyond the obvious (the floppier cover), they’re bound with glue rather than with the stitching that usually holds a hardcover together. This makes them flimsier and more likely to fall apart 20 years later, but they don’t hurt as much if you’re reading in bed and you drop one on your face./currently-consuming-why-are-we-all.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/currently-consuming-why-are-we-all.html“Currently Consuming” is a regular series I plan to write about what I’m watching, reading, listening to, etc. But let’s be honest— mostly watching. In my past mommy blogging life, the only shows/movies I ever wrote about were G rated, so I’m excited to write about stuff that isn’t animated by Pixar. Although, I have to say, those Pixar movies are a hell of a lot better than the crap I am currently watching./why-do-people-talk-to-isaac-chotiner.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-do-people-talk-to-isaac-chotiner.htmlI’m going to start this column by talking about John Mearsheimer. This will vex most of my academic colleagues in international relations, though not for the reasons that you might think. There are many, many reasons why Mearsheimer exasperates most of my colleagues. On a macro-level, the ever-widening mismatch between Mearsheimer’s status outside the profession and his standing among scholars can be a problem. As a public intellectual, Mearsheimer is feted by other great powers and can attract a wide audience./why-gerry-raffertys-lyrics-in-baker.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-gerry-raffertys-lyrics-in-baker.htmlI was recently in a bar having dinner with a friend when Gerry Rafferty’s hit 1978 song “Baker Street” came on. When my friend mentioned that he loved the song, I agreed and noted the song’s powerful lyrics. “Really?” he responded. “I never paid much attention to the lyrics.”  Most people, of course, remember “Baker Street” for its wailing saxophone, and my friend was no different. Nor was I, for many years./why-is-wanting-to-help-the-poor-so.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-wanting-to-help-the-poor-so.htmlHey all! This week’s post is from a friend I’ve made through social media. Ben Cremer is a United Methodist pastor in Boise, Idaho, and maintains an extremely pastoral and insightful presence on social media, calling us all to a Christianity that looks more like Jesus. If you don’t follow him on Instagram or Twitter, you’re missing out! But more importantly, sign up for his newsletter, so you can read more posts like the one below./why-sharlenes.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-sharlenes.htmlOn December 30th, I and a few friends went to a small gathering in Park Slope. We got off at the 7th Avenue stop off the Q train. Which is right next to a dive bar called Sharlene’s. Before we made our way into the apartment where we were supposed to pregame a birthday party at a bar in Bushwick and then a show at Elsewhere (neither of which we eventually made it to, mind you), my friends Gabe and Matty and I were enraptured by the subtle elegance, by the enchanting veneer, of Sharlene’s./why-this-documentary-may-save-the.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-this-documentary-may-save-the.htmlThe increase in whale, dolphin, and other cetacean deaths off the East Coast of the United States since 2016 is not due to the construction of large industrial wind turbines, US government officials say. Their scientists have done the research, they say, to prove that whatever is killing the whales is completely unrelated to the wind industry.  But now, a new documentary, “Thrown To The Wind,” by Director and Producer Jonah Markowitz, proves that the US government officials have been lying./flourish2.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flourish2.htmlFlourish is the most useful tool for creating data visualizations. It’s free and easy to use to make line, bar and pie charts. You can also use its templates to craft sophisticated 3D maps, word clouds, quizzes, or annotated timelines. You can share, download, or embed your creations. Canva acquired Flourish in 2022, so you can use it on its own or insert graphics into a Canva presentation. This post is an update of my earlier writeup./snipd.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snipd.htmlSnipd is the best podcast app for saving and sharing excerpts from anything you’re listening to. It’s free and easy to use on iOS & Android. Best features | Tap a button to mark a point of interest; share highlights with friends or export them to a notes app like Notion or Readwise.  Why use it? Save moments you want to remember from podcasts you’re learning from. Build a reference library of audio clips./ric-flair-aew-chris-jericho-tony-khan.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ric-flair-aew-chris-jericho-tony-khan.htmlOn the night before Thanksgiving 2023, I attended AEW Dynamite. It’s become my annual tradition to go to that show because it usually falls a few days after my birthday and I love a Chicago trip. The first year I went I had one of my best live wrestling experiences, I sat in Chicago and watched as CM Punk battle MJF on the mic for the first time. The second year The Elite had a memorable match with Death Triangle in their Best of Seven series and Chris Jericho versus Ishii was very, very good./you-should-not-standardize-your-data.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-should-not-standardize-your-data.htmlWell, to be precise, you should not always standardize your data. There are times when you could standardize and when you shouldn’t. Here are a few reasons why you might not want to standardize your data: Your data is on the same scale. You might not need to standardize your data if the variables are already on the same scale. For example, if you have a dataset measuring height and weight in meters and kilograms, there is no need to standardize the data./grit-by-angela-duckworth-quick-summary.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grit-by-angela-duckworth-quick-summary.htmlGrit by Angela Duckworth is one of my all time favourite non fiction books. It really levels the playing field for everyone. It helps me believes that I don’t have to be super talented to be successful in life. I can find successful just by working hard and through my passion and perseverance. Here’s my quick summary of the book - ・ Key Idea: Success isn't about raw talent but rather a blend of passion and perseverance she calls "/blue-beetle-review-mancini-test.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-beetle-review-mancini-test.htmlModern superhero movies always seem to have just enough of a political sheen and a whiff of representational pioneering to support any number of try-hard thinkpieces; I think they’re designed this way. The thinkpiece industry is as tied to tentpole releases as are the movie studios, so it really doesn’t take much. These are people used to having to squint hard to find meaning. Mostly this dance seems a way to disguise the basic nature of IP-driven* superhero content as anything other than one of our most cynically commercial and brutally derivative genres./the-fall-of-minneapolis-is-orwellian.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-fall-of-minneapolis-is-orwellian.html(Note: This movie was watched, and this review was written, almost entirely before the news over the weekend that Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison. The news does not change my view of the film in any meaningful way.)  Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. Not only is this a fact, sustained by a court of law, but the murder was committed, live on video, and it’s a video that every single person reading this has seen./winter-break-the-priest-and-a-dying.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/winter-break-the-priest-and-a-dying.htmlLast week, I wrote a letter that touched on photography. While I am in my winter break, I wanted to share one of my favorite photos I’ve come across.  It is a photo taken by Venezuelan photographer, Hector Rondón Lovera. It had a different name when original published, and I encourage reading into the story a little, but this is “The Priest and a Dying Soldier” Image source More soon,/peachykeenan.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peachykeenan.htmlNotes? Is THIS why Twitter is messing with links to Substack? You gotta be kidding me. Sigh. Can’t we all get along? Anyway, this is my first note. Tomorrow of course, the Big Bunny comes to town, and I am making it out of Lent by the skin of my teeth. It’s been a slog. I have resisted the box of Trader Joe’s dark chocolate pistachio toffee long enough! I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Easter./words-by-missing-persons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/words-by-missing-persons.htmlMedia overload bombarding you with action / It's getting near impossible to cause distraction Dale Bozzio woke up in Frank Zappa’s living room. She was 21 and had been in Los Angeles for about six months, in which time she had sung backup on Zappa’s Joe’s Garage Acts I, II & II and songs like “I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted.” Zappa was touring Japan with Dale’s future husband, drummer Terry Bozzio, at the time; she came to, to the sound of Zappa’s daughter Moon playing the harp./105-trillion-digits-of-pi.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/105-trillion-digits-of-pi.htmlThe number π (3.1415926…) has now been computed to 105 trillion decimal places! The computational background behind this feat is discussed by Jordan Ranous in yesterday’s article 105 Trillion Pi Digits: The Journey to a New Pi Calculation Record. The calculation, which took 75 days, was achieved using the Chudnovsky algorithm, which is based on formulas for π discovered by Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920). In his 1914 paper Modular equations and approximations to π, Ramanujan listed a large number of formulae for the number 1/π, including the one shown below./1973-horror-the-darkness-within.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1973-horror-the-darkness-within.htmlOne of the traditions I have decided to create around this newsletter is taking a year to study as many horror films released 50 years ago as I can, and celebrating Halloween by showcasing the best of the bunch.  Thus, I have been spending a hell of a lot of late night hours watching horror from 1973…which was a pivotal year for the genre. And 1973 did not disappoint, showcasing the wide range of the genre, from big budget horror films to the ultra-low budget “B” horror movies: ultra-gory horror films, sci-fi horror films and the chaotic mind-numbing horror films./60-quotes-from-true-professionalism.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/60-quotes-from-true-professionalism.htmlThis gentleman has shaped the way I think about consulting, client-services, and my craft. If you look on the bookshelves of senior partners at law firms, accounting firms, consultancies, they have multiple books by David Maister.  Recently, I took down this “oldie-goldie” from my bookshelf and found 60 quotes that encapsulate so much about this craft.  All the content in blue color are direct quotes from True Professionalism, Maister 1997 (affiliate link)./7-items-ed-gein-made-from-corpses.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7-items-ed-gein-made-from-corpses.htmlHi! Here is your weekly dose of “Everything Strange,” literally a list of everything strange happening around us. So let’s start with Operation Chastise: Exactly 77 years ago, today in 1943 UK's Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron began the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing German dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs. Nazi Attack: In 1943, SS General Jürgen Stroop ordered burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, to end a month of Jewish resistance./a-book-i-wish-more-people-knew-about-f56.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-book-i-wish-more-people-knew-about-f56.htmlAlways eclectic, the series “A Book I Wish More People Knew About” stretches this week to North Africa, where Isabelle Eberhardt wrote turn-of-the-century stories and vignettes that were later collected and translated by Paul Bowles. I’m grateful to novelist James Reich for recommending the volume that emerged—The Oblivion Seekers, most recently published by City Lights in 2001. James’s own work includes the “dizzying” novel The Moth for the Star, praised in Publishers Weekly as “an atmospheric treatise on memory./a-formula-for-a-one-pot-rice-meal.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-formula-for-a-one-pot-rice-meal.htmlI love a one pot meal not only for its ease + coziness, but especially because cleanup is so streamlined. The one I make most often is some sort-of meat-vegetable-rice situation and I never make it exactly the same way because it’s always made with a mix of whatever I’ve got on hand. And it’s always great. So instead of sharing a recipe with you today, I thought it’d be more helpful to share a formula that you can riff on./announcing-motorhome-prophecies-a.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/announcing-motorhome-prophecies-a.htmlHello Friends! Thank you for your support and happy Saturday! I’m excited to announce my memoir is available for presale at various retailers here. It’s about faith and reconnection with God after surviving religious abuse and walking away from God. The book is called Motorhome Prophecies (because we lived partially in a motorhome), and it will be published by Hachette Book Group as a memoir book coming out next February 13; it's about how I recovered from an abusive childhood growing up in motorhomes, sheds and tents in an offshoot Mormon cult (my dad was excommunicated from the official LDS Church) with poverty, welfare and sexual abuse./a-lawyer-dies-is-big-law-to-blame.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-lawyer-dies-is-big-law-to-blame.htmlShare Ever since the coroner’s findings came out about the death of Vanessa Ford, a law partner at Pinsent Masons, readers have been urging me to say my piece. The bare fact of her death is this: Ford, 47, fell onto a railroad track in London on September 23 and died when she was hit by a train. Though the coroner inquest concluded there was “insufficient evidence to suggest that she intended to take her own life,” it emphasized there was “clear evidence” that “Vanessa was experiencing some form of mental health crisis./a-life-near-film-how-oliver-stone.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-life-near-film-how-oliver-stone.html“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” There’s no end of great dialogue in Scarface and it was all written by one truly extraordinary man, William Oliver Stone. Now best known for directing Oscar winning dramas like Platoon and Born On The Fou… ncG1vNJzZmiqmZi1or7Dpayco16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6aZKWhlpp6r7HAq2SfoZyieqm71mampaGmmr9uv9OopZ4%3D/a-light-show-pivot.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-light-show-pivot.htmlThe second I climbed back into my car, I googled the owner of Sandy Hill Maine. How and why was an idea like this get generated? A longtime dream to produce an immersive light experience with over 2 million lights along the Piscataqua River? How does one first get interested in something like this? Is it a passion project? A pivot project? If you haven’t read my book yet, that’s totally okay, of course./a-lot-going-on-at-the-moment.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-lot-going-on-at-the-moment.htmlA new book never feels real until I tell you about it. Which means I’m always both unbearably excited and even less bearably terrified to finally introduce you to the characters and story that have been consuming me for the last year. When I started writing this one, I was fresh off of editing Happy Place, and while I had assumed at the start of that book that I’d be writing a screwball comedy, the book of course had other ideas./a-new-unexpected-beginning.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-new-unexpected-beginning.htmlI am no longer working at The Dogist. Just saying that sentence out loud is hard for me to wrap my head around. I started working at The Dogist seven years ago to the day – April 1st, 2016. It was always funny to me that I started working on April 1st, because 23-year-old me truly could not believe I had gotten my dream job. Was it a prank? Would I wake up to find out it was all one big joke?/review-of-mess-beauty-podcast.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-of-mess-beauty-podcast.htmlWe started a podcast! Please enjoy the first episode of The Review of Mess: an audio collaboration between The Review of Beauty (by me, Jessica DeFino) and (a fashion newsletter from ). Once a month, Emily and I will be sweeping up the messiest moments in celebrity beauty and fashion. Today we’re talking about Mariah Carey riding a rollercoaster with her hairdresser (for instant touch-ups), Brooke Shields launching a haircare line (named COMMENCE), Taylor Swift’s rumored fragrance (intel via/a-picture-of-coney-island-past.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-picture-of-coney-island-past.htmlLast week, while visiting friends in Cincinnati, Ohio, I learned a surprising truth. Coney Island in Brooklyn isn’t the only Coney Island. Cincinnati’s Ohio Grove park was established in 1880 and referred to as the “Coney Island of the West” before eventually changing its name to Coney Island. To get to my destination, I walked through the lush, green grounds of the park, which are nothing like our Brooklyn counterpart. As the friend I was with told me with relative certainty that Cincinnati’s Coney Island was older than New York’s, I realized just how little history I knew./a-shallow-dive-into-katie-ledeckys.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-shallow-dive-into-katie-ledeckys.htmlWhen Will Thomas decided to bravely call himself Lia Thomas and switch from the University of Pennsylvania men’s swimming team to the women’s team for the 2021-22 NCAA season, the general ruckus this created, along with my complete ignorance of the sport of swimming, led me to discard a thought almost as quickly as it had registered: Competing as Will Thomas, this person was—despite being one of the better swimmers in the Ivy League—barely faster than Katie Ledecky, regarded as the best female swimmer of all time./a-short-history-of-catch-wrestling.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-short-history-of-catch-wrestling.htmlThere aren’t really any pictures on Unsplash of real “catch-wrestling”, so I used the picture of pro-wrestling above because, as it turns out, pro-wrestling actually has a lot more in common with catch-wrestling than I thought. I’ve been really interested in Catch-Wrestling for the last few days now, so I decided to do some exploration on the history of the sport. What I found is incredibly interesting. In addition to its unique brutality, joint manipulation, and grit, catch wrestling also has a history that’s deeply interesting./a-tale-of-springtime.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-tale-of-springtime.htmlYou asked, I listened. A majority of you wanted shorter, more frequent posts so here I am. My sympathies to at least one of you, who’d hoped to limit their screen time upon finishing Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, I’ll try to make it worth your while. in this issuei. claire’s kneeii. things i ateiii. a tale of springtimeoff newsletter1. on Juliet Berto’s debut Neige, a night-life infused portrait of resistance on the margins 2./a-tale-of-two-ruckmen-and-two-bernies-f52.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-tale-of-two-ruckmen-and-two-bernies-f52.htmlOver the last few days, my series of ‘An Affair to Remember’ Hawthorn articles has led to a few brown and gold sign ups, many crossing over with . It’s curious to me, but the piece below picked up the most new subscribers I ever received, back in the early days of Good one, Wilson. I…ncG1vNJzZmifn6SxsLrEsKClq5%2Bje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpplpJa5pnnOn2Str59iv7avyqacp2WRo7FuwNaoZJudoqO2pr%2BMn2xr/norman-lears-new-york-a-visit-to.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/norman-lears-new-york-a-visit-to.htmlThose were the days! Norman Lear’s death last week at 101 was heartbreaking. You figured that, just maybe, he’d somehow elude mortality’s greedy grip, continue producing groundbreaking comedy shows, and wisely weigh in on the state of the world. I enjoyed seeing Mr. Lear at an event at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, in 2016. It was a special place to see him because the sitcom that would most define him, “All in the Family,” was said to be set in Astoria./a-young-persons-fantasy-series-better.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-young-persons-fantasy-series-better.htmlI think it’s easy to forget what a phenomenon the Harry Potter series was. I’ve been thinking about this more in the context of my Chicago Tribune column from two weeks ago in which I observed that when I was teaching the 2000 to 2010 era, it was a virtual guarantee that my college students had read a book (or books) under their own initiative, the books being Harry Potter./abortion-rights-cartoons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/abortion-rights-cartoons.htmlThere are many ways to get at saying something in a cartoon. One is to do a political cartoon, or a drawing that gets directly at the issue. Another is to go at it obliquely, which is what I have done over the years for The New Yorker. These are cartoons that speak to the issue, whatever the issue is, but do so in a way that isn’t direct, makes you pause and maybe think for a minute./thenewdigest.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thenewdigest.htmlThe New Digest By Conor Casey & Adrian Vermeule A forum for short essays on law, politics, political theology, postliberalism, and the common good. We offer reflections on the classical legal tradition and ius commune, and how their precepts and ideas can be adapted and translated. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0xKecsJyZnLK0wA%3D%3D/advent-day-5-meister-eckhart.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/advent-day-5-meister-eckhart.htmlWe are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly but does not take place within myself? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I also do not give birth to him in my time and my culture?/advice-and-faq-from-richard-siken.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/advice-and-faq-from-richard-siken.htmlThere have been little bright spots in the downfall of twitter to cling to in its rapid descent into completely unusable territory, and one of them is the return of award winning poet, Richard Siken. His return comes from the cessation of the Richard Siken Bot (recently returned in human form with daily quotes instead of hourly) coming to its close as twitter bot functioning has been severely limited. Richard Siken remarked that most of the quotes the bot would cycle are nearly 20 years old at this point, and this coupled with it’s cessation of hourly quotes has urged him to not only share new writing with us, but also run what is functionally the best poetry and life advice column that i’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing./air-fryer-30-minute-cinnamon-rolls.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/air-fryer-30-minute-cinnamon-rolls.htmlBeing asked for air fryer timings for my original recipe started out as a great excuse to make yet more quick dough cinnamon rolls. What larks! Easy peasy larks! Because air fryers, well they’re just small ovens, right? Nope. They’re small grills. And cinnamon rolls tend to be baked rather than grilled so… But after many (many, many) batches with burnt tops and raw bottoms and many towels about to be chucked in, I have finally reached a set of quantities and temperatures that yield a set of buns good enough to make the exercise worthwhile./alan-scott-spiritual-abuse-and-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alan-scott-spiritual-abuse-and-the.htmlThe Roys Report has released an exclusive: "Former Vineyard Staff Accuse Alan Scott of Abuse, Manipulation & Lies." Anyone connected to the Vineyard, Charismatic Theology & Praxis, and interested in questions related to ecclesiology needs to read this article. Even more so for those who are currently under the leadership of the Alan & Kathryn Scott, Jeremy & Katie Riddle, Mark Marx, or attending Dwelling Place Anaheim. What’s been happening under Alan Scott’s leadership for years is both deeply troubling, grievous, and, I might add, outright evil./cookbook-review-ali-slagle-i-dream.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cookbook-review-ali-slagle-i-dream.htmlWelcome to the first cookbook review of Can’t Help But Cook. I could not be more excited to share this review with you! I’ve been hard at work in the kitchen making my way through 75 of the 150 recipes (this does not include the many iterations that Ali Slagle provides for a majority of the recipes), and honestly, I would happily have worked my way through the entire book. I certainly plan to keep chugging away, but I want to bring you other cookbook reviews, so I had to stop somewhere./all-that-glitters-is-not-gold.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-that-glitters-is-not-gold.htmlShakespeare's words from The Merchant of Venice have been bouncing around in my head for weeks. Perhaps it's that we've eaten the last bites of graduation party cake, boxed up all the chafing dishes, returned the tables and chairs to friends, and I'm marking the close of a season that holds both glitter and gold. Or maybe it's because I'm watching two mor… ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuqa3GnqmtsV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6ao6VlpJ2utXnGpaCtrJWnwG610malqKxdnLytsA%3D%3D/map-chat-all-the-places-the-simpsons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/map-chat-all-the-places-the-simpsons.htmlThe Simpsons are recently wrapped up their 32nd season and will be around for at least another two seasons. If you’re at all a fan of the show (even during periods of time) you’ll likely have noticed just how many places The Simpsons travel to. Both abroad and within the United States, they’re quite the travelers! Now being the cartographer that I am, I’ve always been curious as to the exact locations they’ve visited./american-ivy-chapter-5.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/american-ivy-chapter-5.htmlThis chapter might be my favorite. Because now we get into the 70s/80s… this moment when Ivy becomes Preppy. (By the way! Look what New York Magazine is telling you to do! Congratulations on already doing it.) So. The word “preppy” had been around for a long time (in the elite, closed circles of Prep Schools), but “preppy” starts to enter common parlance in the 70’s. And largely, this is attributed to its use in the book and movie called Love Story:/amundsons-first-to-the-south-pole.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amundsons-first-to-the-south-pole.htmlOn December 14th—today if you’re reading this in the United States—Roald Amundsen and four of his men reached the South Pole, the first humans to ever set foot on this several miles thick stack of ice. It’s a feat and a date worth commemorating here at the Pole—I wonder if I should bake some Norwegian treat? Maybe not. I have enough to do and my feelings about Amundsen are complicated./besa-an-albanian-word-for-the-lost.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/besa-an-albanian-word-for-the-lost.htmlWelcome to the Friday mailout! Friday’s simple living essays and recommendations are free for everyone but Simple and Straightforward is actually a thrice-weekly publication. Paid subscribers get access to 8-week simple living courses (one module sent out every Monday) and waste-reducing recipes sent out every Wednesday. Join the fun for $5 a month or save 20% with a yearly subscription and help support an independent, ad-free publication. When I set out on my indefinite travels some 23 months ago, I thought that food was going to be my window into the counties I visited./an-anthony-bourdain-mystery.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-anthony-bourdain-mystery.htmlThere’s a quote I’m sure you’ve seen floating around before, attributed to the late chef, author and TV host Anthony Bourdain: Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a Negroni. Have two./andrew-huberman-and-the-problem-with.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andrew-huberman-and-the-problem-with.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 three parts. The answer to the first part is available to all subscribers (about my thoughts on Andrew Huberman in general), and paid subscribers can also read the answers to the other parts (about intermittent fasting and cold showers).  Upgrade to Paid My husband and I have been listening hard to Andrew Huberman./ann-b-friedman-joins-the-potluck.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ann-b-friedman-joins-the-potluck.htmlOur Monday Zoom lunch guest will be Ann B. Friedman, a former Des Moines woman whose family consists of several well-known influencers, including her husband, author, and writer Thomas Friedman. Her family of origin is best known in Iowa because of their success in the shopping mall business and whose surname ‘Bucksbaum’ is associated with numerous philanthropic causes. Ann graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1973. The focus for our call today is Ann Friedman’s dedication to education and early childhood development, and it is because of this passion, she created a museum in the Washington, D./announcing-the-next-stuff-your-earbuds.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/announcing-the-next-stuff-your-earbuds.htmlHello, audio lovers! We’re excited to announce the next Stuff Your Earbuds event will be held on May 10 & 11. That’s right, we’re giving you TWO days to load up on audiobooks this time around. We’re prepping behind the scenes and have more authors participating than ever, so we can’t wait! 🎧In the meantime, we’ve prepared a list of audiobooks we’re loving in Kobo Plus right now. Kobo Plus is a subscription program that allows unlimited listening to audiobooks in the Kobo Plus catalog!/apex-2-classes-and-objects.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apex-2-classes-and-objects.htmlIn Salesforce Apex, a class is like a recipe or a blueprint. It defines how to create objects, just as a recipe instructs you on how to bake a cake. Think of a class as the set of instructions for making something, with all the ingredients and steps clearly defined. An object, on the other hand, is an actual, tangible thing created from a class. It's like the cake you bake using the recipe./are-we-the-bad-guys.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-we-the-bad-guys.htmlNoah Smith writes, To borrow Imre Lakatos’ terminology, “America bad” was the core of Chomsky’s foreign policy thought, and everything else was an expendable periphery. When I was in high school, I accepted Chomsky’s explanation for the Vietnam War, which is that it was motivated by corporate America’s insatiable desire for markets. Within a few years, I had grown out of this nutty conspiracy idea. Chomsky never outgrew it. And today there are people on the left and the right who have a need to believe that foreign policies they disagree with come from dark, evil motives./as-promised-a-recipe-for-green-figs.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/as-promised-a-recipe-for-green-figs.htmlAs promised, my recipe for honey-preserved unripe green figs, and in addition a confession about swearing at old ladies. Dimitra. Her back was bent over at an astonishing angle of nearly ninety degrees as she poked at her goats with her stick. Her husband I thought had probably been on the receiving end of that pointed piece of olive wood more often than not. I only think that due to a personal experience (of which more later)./accounting-101-assets-liabilities.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/accounting-101-assets-liabilities.htmlLast week, we wrote about our new accounting suite. A big thank you to those that reached out to start the transition! The process is shaping up to be: Transfer chart of accounts and balances: Y’all send us an income statement and balance sheet, and we set up your chart of accounts with opening balances. Define categorization process: We review together your income and expenses to ensure you have a good process of logging them in Rundoo./at-13-claire-saffitz-was-almost-too.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/at-13-claire-saffitz-was-almost-too.htmlLately Claire Saffitz and her husband, Harris Mayer-Selinger, have spent a lot of time reflecting on their respective bar and bat mitzvahs. While Saffitz grew up in the not so Jewish city of St. Louis, Mayer-Selinger hails from bar mitzvah mecca: Long Island. “It’s become a joke between us. My husband says with pride that his bar mitzvah was in the top three best ones of his town. When he told me he had ‘motivators’ at his party I was like, ‘What’s that?/audrey-the-later-years.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/audrey-the-later-years.htmlI’m not gonna lie, the news out of Washington, D.C., this morning has me questioning the frivolity of sending out a post about classic movie stars when the SCOTUS is preparing to send us all back to the era in which classic movie stars lived. But the piece was written yesterday and I’ll go ahead and post it as a reminder that grace can exist on earth and to remember a woman whose political activism as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador centered around helping children who were wanted, are here, and are suffering./babirye-bukilwa-actor-poet-playwright.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/babirye-bukilwa-actor-poet-playwright.htmlHow’s it going? It seems like everyone is getting ‘pinged’ at the moment and having to isolate. If that’s affected you - and particularly if it has affected a show you were connected to - then I really feel for you, and hope you’re coping okay. Welcome to the fourteenth issue of The Crush Bar, my fortnightly newsletter about theatre and the people that make it. If you haven’t subscribed yet, then now is your chance!/bambi-meets-godzilla-part-deux.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bambi-meets-godzilla-part-deux.htmlsaw it at nyu, as a cinema grad student. chantal akerman attended. she was in town fir the premiere of her commercial flop tgat starred wm hurt and j binoche, a couch in ny. the other grad students loved it. i hated it. compression is one of the hallmarks of movie story-telling, and the movie chosr not to ude it, instead making us suffer the tedium and boredom of the main chatacter./banning-trans-women-from-chess-tournaments.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/banning-trans-women-from-chess-tournaments.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.] Last week, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the international chess governing body, introduced new regulations that, among other things, essentially ban trans women from FIDE-sanctioned women’s tournaments and jeopardize the safety of all trans chess players. The news wasn’t widely reported until yesterday, shocking many notable chess players across the globe./barbie-not-only-broke-box-office.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbie-not-only-broke-box-office.htmlShare How a movie inspired by a toy that has been a staple of American culture since 1959 does at the box office should not be relevant to politics. But today everything is political thanks to a GOP that seeks to move America backwards on just about every front—from reproductive rights to academic freedom to even what is permitted to be part of our nation’s entertainment. We are truly confronted with a GOP that seeks to control just about every aspect of our lives—including what should be allowed in a fun movie like Barbie./ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-divorce-announcement.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-divorce-announcement.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an actor gets an Airstream, an actress gets a bullshit story, and Suri Cruise gets a prom date.  Paid subscribers got an in-depth look at Justin Timberlake’s DWI arrest this week. Click here to catch up! Another Friday, another opportunity for Ben Affleck and Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck to make a statement to People announcing their divorce at approximately 4:59 p./bill-burrs-old-dads-counsels-men.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-burrs-old-dads-counsels-men.htmlUp until a month ago, I thought Bill Burr was a cheeky rebel who had earned justified fame by telling hard truths for laughs—especially about how our present moment encourages women’s worst qualities and turns men beleaguered and suspicious. Hilarious spots like “Epidemic of Gold Digging Whores” gave comic zing to the frustrations of men confronting the stacked deck of modern marriage. From the first few minutes of Old Dads, the movie Burr co-wrote and directed, it seems as if the story will offer more of the same outrage humor./biodiversity-credit-calculation-overview.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/biodiversity-credit-calculation-overview.htmlHi folks 👋 For those who don’t know me, I’m Simas from Bloom Labs - a biodiversity finance newsletter & consultancy. I focus on all things biodiversity markets, nature accounting & biodiversity measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Cheers! One of the most frequent questions I get is “how are biodiversity credits calculated?”. That’s why I dug deep into all the indicators and metrics included into credit calculation by every biodiversity credit scheme I could find (here’s a detailed list of them I made earlier)./birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/birdman-or-the-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance.htmlI always thought “Watchmen” was the anti-superhero superhero movie, but this one takes the cake. It’s not so much against superheroes as movies based on their comic books, registering as a spit-flecked denunciation of the way such flicks saturate our culture, almost like a spreading disease that uses up actors’ careers and audiences’ time. “Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” is an obsidian-black comedy about Riggan Thomson, an over-60 actor who played a costumed hero decades ago and has struggled to do anything equally consequential since./black-garlic-and-pear-steak-sauce.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/black-garlic-and-pear-steak-sauce.htmlTastes like A1 steak sauce! Kinda. A nice sauce to keep in the fridge. Probably will be good for about 2 weeks, maybe longer? The sauce has a nice sweetness from the pears. The chiles add a smokiness as well as some body. Black garlic adds a nice rich umami flavor. Vinegar pulls everything in together. Don’t be shy with the salt and pepper here! Enjoy w… ncG1vNJzZmibmKqwrMXCq6yzZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8GlmJyjXZyus7jInGSappRivaat0WaqrZ2RoHq0rdScnA%3D%3D/blessed-are-the-forgetful.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blessed-are-the-forgetful.html“I, myself, alone, have more memories than all mankind since the world began,” he said to me. And also: “my dreams are like other people’s waking hours.” And again toward dawn: “My memory, sir, is like a garbage heap.” —Jorge Luis Borges (“Funes the Memorious”) Two friends sit on stone steps that slope towards the water not far from the chatter of La Rambla. Today is more quiet than usual, the sky is a slow churn of grays and it’s late morning in early November./book-review-the-woman-they-wanted.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-review-the-woman-they-wanted.htmlThe Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife by Shannon Harris (Broadleaf Books, 2023). Consider this review a sequel of sorts to my review of Elisabeth Elliot from a couple of months ago. In a very real sense, Shannon Harris was an heiress of Elisabeth Elliot’s legacy. Shannon’s husband, Joshua Harris, was deeply influenced by Elliot’s Passion and Purity when he wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye, his seminal book on Christian courtship./brooding.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brooding.htmlIt’s springtime and I’ve been thinking a lot about brooding. “Going broody” is what we call it when a chicken—a hen specifically—decides she wants to be a mother and starts sitting on her eggs to incubate them. She lays, or steals, enough eggs to make a giant clutch of them. She pecks out the feathers on her breast to make a brood patch that allows for skin-to-egg contact. The eggs warm better that way./bumps-ridges-and-soft-spots-on-a-babys-head-when-should-you-worry.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bumps-ridges-and-soft-spots-on-a-babys-head-when-should-you-worry.htmlParents often worry about lumps and bumps on a baby's head unnecessarily. Babies normally have ridges and soft spots on their head for a while after birth. Many have a type of swollen gland that parents can feel when rubbing the head. All of this is normal. Let's begin with a brief overview of a baby's head. We are born with many bones in our skull. This allows the head to be squeezed out of the birth canal as the bony plates move together or even overlap one another./carol-swain-the-adversity-of-diversity.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carol-swain-the-adversity-of-diversity.htmlThis week my guest is the political scientist and writer Carol Swain. She is a proud black, Christian, conservative woman, and she’s just published a new book, The Adversity of Diversity: How Real Training Can Promote Healing in a Post-Affirmative Action World. Carol is not only a conservative, she is a Trump supporter who thinks that black Americans were doing quite well under the previous president. African American Trump supporters may be rare, but they're out there./celebrating-ray-oldenburg-1932-2022.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/celebrating-ray-oldenburg-1932-2022.htmlRay Oldenburg, the sociologist whose determination to write in plain English meant rewriting The Great Good Place eight times, died on 21 November 2022. He was 90 years old, and left a legacy that seems to have a larger footprint every day. (Do a search for the term “third place” and you’ll see that almost every article or post mentions Ray.) His influence was global, and he did some long-distance travel as a consultant to various cities after the book was published./cheating-at-wordle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cheating-at-wordle.htmlBefore we get to today's main topic, some miscellaneous goodies and things worth your attention… R.I.P. Post.News: I was sad to read Noam Bardin's Friday post on Post.News that the platform will soon shut down. Luck and timing are huge components of any startup's success (although retroactive delusions of meritocracy often blur this), and Post.News suffered from bad luck and timing. If, for example, Facebook had axed its News tab a year earlier, Post./chemistry-with-cats.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chemistry-with-cats.htmlHxSTEM is dedicated to serious issues relevant to STEM. Serious issues generate strong—and often contradictory—opinions, which can be divisive, as a number of excellent essays published on HxSTEM illustrate. So we asked ourselves: Is there anything that is both important and non-divisive?  Something that could serve as a platform to celebrate our common humanity? The answer is yes, of course, there is such a thing. Let’s talk about cats! I [Anna] love chemistry and cats./chestnut-spread.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chestnut-spread.htmlThis week I posted a video harvesting chestnuts and making homemade crème de marrons, or chestnut cream. I also shared the difference between chestnuts and horse chestnuts (or conkers) which is extremely important to discern! Ever since, I’ve gotten an influx of comments and messages telling me that you’ve now tried this spread and are fans of the condiment! Let’s get into it. Most easily put, chestnut cream is just a purée of chestnuts, sugar, vanilla, and a little salt to balance out the flavor./chez-panisse-seventies.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chez-panisse-seventies.htmlIn 2010 Alice Waters asked me to write the text for a book celebrating the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse, which came out the next year as 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering / Alice Waters and Friends. I wasn’t an innocent bystander; I’d been a member of the board of the directors that managed the restaurant since it was established in 1975, and still am. I wrote one chapter each for the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, and 2000s, centering each on a single incident—the opening in 1971, a table full of coke dealers in the 1980s, Bill Clinton showing up one night in the 1990s, a dinner to mark a friend’s death in the 2000s./chief-keef-interview.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chief-keef-interview.htmlIn January 2017, I conducted an interview over the phone with Chief Keef. It was to be a part of a bigger Chicago Reader piece I had pitched which was to reflect on the five years since he’d emerged as a major creative force in the genre. The piece didn’t really come together—at a certain point, it felt like the boulder was too heavy to push uphill. At the time, the notion that he was ‘influential’ was still controversial, never mind the idea that he’d be held in high regard by a generation of fans, artists, etc as he plainly is today./chocolate-coffee-slice.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chocolate-coffee-slice.htmlI live in the coffee capital of the non-italian world. A somewhat arrogant self-appointed moniker but deserving none the less. Café’s and roasteries abound on what feels like every corner, queues spilling out the doors of the most popular ones, a beacon to where to hunt out a quality morning brew. Everyone has their favourite, both for an ‘on the go’ cup and many, like myself, a favourite ‘dealer’ for the best beans./cinderella-dont-know-what-you-got.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cinderella-dont-know-what-you-got.htmlLeave a comment I wish I’d have learned about the importance of accepting impermanence when my hairline began receding back in high school. I have a distinct memory of standing at my locker at Granada Hills High School (in Southern California) and my friend Scott Zimmerman coming up to me, pushing my greasy bangs back and uncovering my oversized forehead. At witnessing this cavernous cranium he cried out, “You are so going bald!/class-12-reflexive-control.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/class-12-reflexive-control.htmlLast week I wrote about Trump’s uncanny ability to get the media running in circles. How does he do it? Well, for all his flaws and shortcomings, Trump is a media savant — he understands how to hijack news coverage, influence, narratives, and basically suck all of the air(time) out of the room. Trump’s talent in this regard is a great example of a Russian information warfare tactic called reflexive control./class-5-the-active-measures-long.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/class-5-the-active-measures-long.htmlYuri Bezmenov is a kooky cat. His story is fascinating and a bit tragic: Leaving behind a wife and child, Bezmenov defected from the Soviet Union while he was posted as a KGB officer in India, where he posed as a journalist for Novosti, a Soviet propaganda outlet. With the help of the CIA, Bezmenov initially settled in Canada under the alias “Tomas Schuman.” He then spent several years working for Radio-Canada International (which broadcast into to the Soviet Union), until he was dismissed — either (depending on which story you believe) because of his excessive drinking and inability to get along with his coworkers or because the Soviets had blown his cover and had complained to then-Prime Minister Elliot Trudeau./ann-barnhardt-537.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ann-barnhardt-537.htmlCathleen, it is my current comprehension that the dangerously mislabeled "Green Revolution" starting in the 1950s — with its then DDT and now other herbicides/pesticides, terrible large-scale mono-cropping practices, GMO seeds, anhydrous ammonia application, and so on — is responsible for disrupting the natural food chain. I say this in response to your comment, because I grew up in the 60s/70s on a family farm in the Midwest, where none of those death-cult practices were going on./ghana-go-home.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ghana-go-home.htmlI love your article, I must say, as a Ghanaian, this bag hold a lot of weight, no pun intended. Anytime I see someone with this bag in their hand, the word “Ghana must go” comes to mind but I don’t really put much thought into the history behind it.. Most Ghanaians will rather call it “Check check bag” rather than the popular name it has. Expand full comment/good-will-lacking.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/good-will-lacking.htmlIt's interesting that you bring up this idea of the 30's being this great demarcation of generations. I don't think you're wrong. The Boomer ethos has been from the beginning steeped in the idea of perpetual adolescence. Even when the Flower Power, Counter-Culture Boomers moved into being "the adults" in the Reagan years, they still never quite... solidified, in a way. They never really accepted the fact that they were getting old and needed to take things seriously./goulded-cages.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goulded-cages.htmlI applaud Gould for summoning the personal honesty to realize that she had been very selfish in many respects, and to recognize the value in her husband, his sacrifices, and the potential to rebuild. As a 63-year-old writer, married for 36 years, mother of four, grandmother of 11, who has published 5 books and has been writer for more than 40 years (it's hard for me to confess these numbers, but given the topic I think it's relevant), I find it very sad that feminism's excesses over the past generations have led so many women to feel that somehow, life needs to be "/pregnancy-loss-and-bluey.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pregnancy-loss-and-bluey.htmlThe Bluey episode is so moving - and so important! (Though if I were to have one note it’s that Bluey’s mum says ‘it wasn’t meant to be’ by way of explanation, which... 🙄🙄) Thanks for your kind words here too. The admiration is mutual! Xx Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfqbWmucismpqqop6uqLHToZyrmaCewLV7z2inq52Xo66vr9hmo6iro2Kur7CMm6Ounal0wrW5vqymrqqTmoqxu9KtXZynnaKyr8DSdqurrZVbwrW5vqacnaGlooq4scE%3D/sorta-pasta-alla-norma.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sorta-pasta-alla-norma.htmlEdited to add: OMG SO GOOD. My eggplant-hating children declared this "the best pasta ever" and while there are no pasta leftovers (darn), there are sauce leftovers that I'm freezing and it's currently a 3-way tie for what I like most about your recipes - almost always enough to freeze for another meal, fantastic food, or ingredient amounts in the directions ;) This looks so delicious and I can't wait. If I am making the pasta in a different pot, should I use less water in the sauce?/the-ferguson-tree-edition.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ferguson-tree-edition.htmlGreat article, it makes one truly wonder which was the tallest of them all! With the addition of the Tibetan Cypress to the list of 100 meter+ giants, as well as the flowering Yellow Meranti, it seems that our understanding of tall trees has expanded significantly in the past few years! I think between Eucalyptus, Redwood and Douglas fir it may well be a toss up, for tallest of the past, and perhaps they are all physically limited to somewhere between 400-450 or <500 ~ ft, (120-150 m) as an upper theoretical maximum./corsage-and-mozart-cake.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/corsage-and-mozart-cake.htmli. movies about animalsii. the best things i ateiii. Corsage [new movie]iv. Cafe sabarsky [old restaurant]v. a consumerist recommendationIn Bong Joon-Ho’s BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE (the PARASITE director’s first film), the poor pay for the sins of the middle class, whose only recourse is to bribe the rich for the privilege of treading water.  If you’d like affirmation of the subway’s hidden terrors, might I suggest MIMIC? Guillermo del Toro’s skin-crawling 1997 movie about genetically engineered roaches lacks his world-vision and suffers Weinstein’s oversight, but makes for solid creature feature./could-shohei-ohtani-someday-win-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/could-shohei-ohtani-someday-win-the.htmlIssue #108 Five years ago the very idea of someone winning both the batting and pitching triple crowns—in their careers, let alone in one season—would have seemed preposterous. But Shohei Ohtani's continued performance in recent years is making many ridiculous questions now at least worth considering. I'll admit the traditional "Triple Crowns" aren't seen as they once were, because a few of the component statistics in each are no longer held with such high reverence./could-we-survive-it.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/could-we-survive-it.htmlYesterday The Cut published a first person essay from finance writer (!) Charlotte Cowles describing the day last year when she was, over the course of about five to six hours, scammed out of $50,000 in cash. If you haven’t read the story, I encourage you to because holy shit. I’m not fully convinced that I can summar… ncG1vNJzZmivlaOxur7Om6Cnq5%2Bje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpynpaGxbsPEZqquqqaew6Z5yK0%3D/countries-that-are-best-at-wordle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/countries-that-are-best-at-wordle.htmlSource: Wordtips Methodology - The authors collected 195,248 tweets with the hashtag #wordle and extracted the game score from 142,669 of them. They filtered out tweets where the score and the grid of colored squares contradicted each other, as well as tweets where the score was X/6, indicating that the puzzle was not solved in six guesses. Sweden is the world’s best country at Wordle, with an average of 3.72./craig-hodges-the-readjack-interview.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/craig-hodges-the-readjack-interview.htmlCraig Hodges couldn’t believe what he was holding. But there it was. A check for $20,000, his prize money for winning the 1990 three-point contest at All-Star Weekend. He wanted to do something real with that money. This was a chance to make good on his vision. “I threw it in the middle of the floor in the locker room and said, ‘Let’s get together and do… ncG1vNJzZmiqlZaxq63CpGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXykvsCinmagn5m0pr%2BMrZ%2BeZaKarqW2wJyiZqGeqbKzwsierg%3D%3D/crybaby-91e.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/crybaby-91e.htmlOur tenth studio album Crybaby is out now! You can stream it, buy it digitally, or go to a record store and pick up a physical copy today! We are so proud of this album and hope that you’ll listen to the whole thing (a hundred times). We co-produced the album with the delighted, talented, and hilarious John Congleton. These songs capture the tumultuous t… ncG1vNJzZmislZyur63NnaqaqpFjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omquxkpavunmYapw%3D/csu-housing-comparisons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/csu-housing-comparisons.htmlThis article, for republication or reference, was originally written by Omar Rashad of Mustang News. It contains graphs which you can embed on your own article about housing at your campus using the codes at the bottom of this email. The Cal State Student Wire is also meeting Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 5:00 p.m. Agenda incoming, but we will be talking about the CSU Board of Trustees meeting, and what your needs as participants in this program are./culture-of-criticism.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/culture-of-criticism.htmlA recurring theme with inquiry partners in my philosophy practice is their desire to express their creativity more, which usually means putting something online. The resistance to freeing their creative life has a source: fear of criticism. I don’t believe this fear is irrational. Instead, it is intuitively pointing toward the rite of passage that will occur when creating in front of others on the enmeshed shit show that is the internet./darren-aronofskys-noah-a-line-by.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/darren-aronofskys-noah-a-line-by.htmlIntro | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 This week marks the ninth anniversary of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. The film—by far the most successful Bible movie produced by any Hollywood studio since the 1960s—is a fascinating study in contradictions./dave-and-busters-gambling.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dave-and-busters-gambling.htmlFair warning: This post is as much about communications and PR as it is about gambling (or games of skill, if you prefer). Yesterday’s news that Dave & Buster’s is rolling out a way to place friendly wagers was such a fascinating case study; it was arguably both a disaster and wildly successful at the same time. Let’s start with the basics. Dave & Buster’s is an arcade/sports bar/restaurant chain across the country if you’re not familiar with the concept./interview-david-helling-on-directing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/interview-david-helling-on-directing.htmlDavid Helling has been working on his first feature-length film—His Only Son, about Abraham and the near-sacrifice of Isaac—for a long time. How long? He can remember casting actors for his film in Los Angeles in 2018, the same week Dallas Jenkins was in town to cast actors for The Chosen. Scheduling conflicts forced Helling to delay production until the summer of 2019—by which time the first half of The Chosen’s first season had come out—and then the pandemic came and threw the entire movie industry into disarray while Helling’s film, which did not yet have a distributor, was still in post-production./deconstructing-elizabeth-zott-part.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deconstructing-elizabeth-zott-part.htmlIn the Apple TV+ series “Lessons in Chemistry,” Elizabeth Zott, thinking she’s likely pregnant, goes after-hours to the Hastings Research Institute, where she works as a laboratory technician, and steals two frogs. She takes them home, puts each one in a labelled glass container—one marked “control” and the other “experimental”—prepares a hypodermic needle (containing, we presume, her urine) and injects the one destined to be “experimental.” After some time, she takes the cover off the glass containers./star-trek-deep-space-nines-duet-and.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/star-trek-deep-space-nines-duet-and.htmlCAUTION: This piece contains major spoilers for “Duet” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Justice is a slippery concept. Everyone has an intuitive notion of what it means -- something about fairness and people getting what they deserve, for good or for ill. But the bigger the crime, the more people involved, the more victims left in its wake, the harder it becomes to figure out what a grand idea like “justice” means in any given moment./deep-state-diy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deep-state-diy.htmlLook, if it were up to me today’s newsletter would be about Cosmic Psycho tribute bands with mullets and cheap beer habits. But, as the Eric Stoltz bartender character in Noah Baumbach’s 1995 college town ennui-comedy Kicking and Screamingsays, “How do you make god laugh? Make a plan.”  It me, God’s amusement.  Share I don’t need to write about last week’s online indie rock mini controversy. By the time of this writing, even the people who thought they cared have moved on./diamond-hands-when-memes-became-power.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/diamond-hands-when-memes-became-power.htmlA few months ago, my corner of the internet was completely fixated on Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the small yard services company in my home city of Philadelphia, where the Trump campaign accidentally booked a press event (instead of the actual Four Seasons downtown.)  In the midst of the noise of all the memes and roasts going around on Twitter at the time, one struck out to me:  I had no idea what this was referencing, but it seemed really inside-joke funny, so I showed it to my husband, who laughed./diane-arbus.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/diane-arbus.htmlIt's rude to stare. We stare at people because there is something extraordinary about them. They don't fit within our usual frame of reference. It could be that they are visually striking or unsettling. Either way, the stare usually contains within it a power imbalance. The man stares at the woman, the adult at the child, the normie at the ‘freak’. Few of us will ever know what it is like to be constantly stared at, but we can get a sense of it with the photographs of Diane Arbus./dive-bar-jukebox-with-emmett-burke.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dive-bar-jukebox-with-emmett-burke.htmlToday’s LAST CALL Dive Bar Jukebox is free to all readers thanks to the generous support of See the Elephant Amaro. Produced in Agropoli near Salerno, See the Elephant Amaro di Rucola is made using local herbs and botanicals—including wild rucola (“arugula”)—and is considered a “zero kilometer,” farm-to-bottle amaro with all the key ingredients sourced from the Cilento Coast region of southern Italy. It’s an ideal “gateway” amaro for those just starting to explore the amari category—flavorful, sweet, bold, and complex, with just a touch of bitterness./does-john-galliano-really-need-another.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-john-galliano-really-need-another.htmlIn today’s issue: John Galliano seems all but certain to get another big job. My thoughts on whether or not he should. Highlights from the new documentary, High & Low: John Galliano, now streaming in the U.S. Loose Threads, including Burberry’s slump, Anna Wintour cuddling a puppy, and how much it will cost to attend Vogue World Paris. John Galliano has for the most part been restored to his former glory./dolce-far-niente-the-sweetness-of.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dolce-far-niente-the-sweetness-of.htmlThe cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it. Henry David Thoreau Humans appear to be quite fond of sitting around doing nothing. We came across two words with the same meaning not long after. The first was Niksen, which is a Dutch word. Now I'm here with a word that caresses my soul like a love song melody. Dolce far Niente/dont-say-goodbye-to-the-kitchen-or.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-say-goodbye-to-the-kitchen-or.htmlWhen I was young, I loved to lie on the living room floor and look at my mom’s interior design and architecture magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens (BHG). I was thrilled when Dotdash, the company that owned my previous employer, Treehugger, bought Meredith, which owned BHG- I hoped there would be many opportunities to work together. Alas, Dotdash bit off more than it could chew; cutbacks and layoffs came shortly thereafter./double-drag-screens-a-primer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/double-drag-screens-a-primer.htmlWelcome to our “Sunday Mornin’ Newsletter”, where we explore some of basketball’s best ideas, strategies, and coaches from around the world. Today’s edition will cover: “Double Drag Screens: A Primer” Asvel Villeurbanne Playbook Coach Paul Kelleher Podcast Insights Best Sets of the Week Teams to Watch/Interesting Reads Let’s dive in… The benefits and advantages of a single ball screen are well documented. The simple act of bringing a screen to a heady/dangerous ballhandler causes all sorts of matchup and rotation issues for a defense./double-rainbow-over-the-pasadena-guitar-center.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/double-rainbow-over-the-pasadena-guitar-center.htmlHello it’s Dan Ozzi and welcome to ZERO CRED. Subscribe to get all posts sent right to your inbox. Normally I (mostly) write about music but I thought I’d try something a little different today. Last month I was invited to do a reading at The Book Catapult in San Diego as part of Kevin Kearney’s Small Press Nite series. The other readers were , , and Caiti Borruso. I don’t do these sorts of things often, mainly because I don’t get invited to./dr-greenes-unforgettable-heart-crushing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dr-greenes-unforgettable-heart-crushing.htmlI think about death regularly. Not so much of my own — though no one can really escape fantasizing about how they’ll leave this messy place one day — but rather the people I love. The eventual loss of my parents viscerally scares the hell out of me a lot more than my own demise. Contemplating it is like a coping mechanism to prepare myself for the inevitable. But don’t get me wrong, I know I can't be prepared for something like that./drake-and-21-savage-her-loss-album.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drake-and-21-savage-her-loss-album.htmlthe heavily anticipated rap collab of the year is here, and so is its divisive cover. Drake & 21 Savage Loading... Her Loss is Drake’s first collaborative studio album, and technically his eighth studio album. it's 21 Savage’s third collaborative studio album and third studio album. lets look at this cover in context of the last three covers from each artist— drake’s recent covers (barring Dark Lane Demo Tapes really) and the music attached to them have been almost completely critically and publicly panned./empty-mortar-sagging-boobs-and-how.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/empty-mortar-sagging-boobs-and-how.htmlThe Thai saying mai chuea ya lop lu (ไม่เชื่ออย่าลบหลู่), which translates to “(it’s fine if you) don’t believe; (just) don’t be disrespectful,” is used by many—most often in the context of spiritual… ncG1vNJzZmiklZq5onrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeVor21xYympquskad6tK3GoKCnn12XvLCu0maYp5xdnby4/eva-borgwardt-and-rabbi-jeremy-kalmanofsky.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eva-borgwardt-and-rabbi-jeremy-kalmanofsky.htmlOur Zoom call this week will be at our regular time: Friday at Noon EDT. Our guests will be Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Rabbi of Ansche Chesed, a conservative synagogue in Manhattan and Eva Borgwardt, political director of If Not Now. Rabbi Kalmanofsky recently made news for responding to Israel’s new government by deciding his congregation would no longer say t… ncG1vNJzZmiolamys67EoqWaqqRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onK%2BZXZe8s7PWmqmdrF2Wu6V50ZqZm6Fdn7KzscyyZKSZnKKur7vFrKKy/every-character-in-the-twilight-saga.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/every-character-in-the-twilight-saga.htmlOur Twilight edition of the main newsletter is still in progress as Kelsey and Hannah both juggle looming deadlines of the upcoming schoolyear and finishing their writing. In the meantime, please enjoy…… once Kelsey had her turn to unleash the somewhat-curséd timeline of the definitely-curséd Kristin/Robert relationship, I (Hannah) knew I wanted my own turn, and I knew exactly what my special edition had to be—a comprehensive ranking of the hotness of every named character in the Twilight Saga./uganda-explaining-the-bobi-wine-controversy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/uganda-explaining-the-bobi-wine-controversy.htmlIf you are still an X person (I am not), you might have noticed the tweets below sent yesterday by Frank Mugisha and Steven Kabuye, both prominent Ugandan LGBTQ+ rights advocates, about Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader. Mugisha wrote that Wine’s party is “using [LGBTQ+ people] for international political gain,” while Steven Kabuye wrote, “All they want for us is death.” Not a raving review of someone whom the West is hailing as the next Mandela and who is portrayed in a biopic documentary nominated for an Oscar, “Bobi Wine: The People’s President"/fast-food-and-fry-sauce-in-utah.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fast-food-and-fry-sauce-in-utah.htmlWhat’s up Palumbros? I’m on the road, currently in Salt Lake City, where I had to switch hotels because I was getting some real stabby vibes from the Motel 6 I had booked in advance. Currently, I’m laid up at a Comfort Inn near the airport. Everything smells like bleach and I’m sure many people here are cheating on their wives. If you knew my childhood, you’d know that I feel real comfortable right about now./fear.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fear.htmlFear. Let’s talk about it because I am tired of hearing about it. There are so many people that love to say things like, there’s no reason why someone who fits the criteria for the term psychopath wouldn’t be able to feel fear. If someone claims they can’t feel fear, they’re just deluding themselves and are definitely not a psychopath. Why do people say things like this? Well, for one they have no idea what a psychopath is./field-report-pdtcrif-dogs.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/field-report-pdtcrif-dogs.htmlOn Wednesday night, June 5, Mary Kate and I settled into a boot at PDT, the famous cocktail bar in the East Village neighborhood of New York, to formally sample the latest addition to the speakeasy’s menu of elevated hot dogs: the Simonson Dog. The new hot dog, a collaboration between myself and Crif Dogs, PDT’s sister eatery, went on the menu June 1 and will remain there at least through the summer./forget-the-coastal-grandmother-meet.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/forget-the-coastal-grandmother-meet.htmlFar more chic than any NYC socialites sipping martinis at the latest downtown hotspots are the little old ladies lunching poolside at The Colony on Worth Avenue. On a recent visit to Palm Beach with my boyfriend, we made an afternoon reservation and quickly found the people-watching to be as delicious as our designated meals (and I love crispy cauliflower tacos, so that’s high praise). Perhaps the highlight our meal occurred when a new clique showed up to dine and a perceptive waiter instantly brought out a porcelain jungle cat statue to act as a stool for one woman’s purse./four-years-later-bitter-canelo-ggg.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/four-years-later-bitter-canelo-ggg.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./bari-weiss-derangement-free-press-debate-review.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bari-weiss-derangement-free-press-debate-review.htmlI hadn’t planned on writing anything about A Clash of the Female Titans, last week’s debate in Los Angeles put on by The Free Press, co-sponsored by FIRE, and featuring author Louise Perry, Red Scare podcaster Anna Khachiyan, technopop star Grimes, and (most importantly) activist and writer Sarah Haider, with whom I co-host my “other podcast,” A Special Place In Hell. Most of the time, I don’t have it in me to respond to things I read or see on stages or screens, having exhausted that part of my brain in the first 30 years of my career./french-buttercream.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/french-buttercream.htmlIf I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times- Swiss buttercream is my favorite and I use it on almost all of my cakes. ALMOST. But, there is a special place in my heart for French buttercream. It’s rich and buttery to the point it’s almost custard. French buttercream differs from SMBC in that it’s made using egg yolks (sometimes whole eggs, if you’re looking to make it less rich./a-deep-dive-into-chip-manufacturing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-deep-dive-into-chip-manufacturing.htmlToday’s issue covers chip manufacturing in more depth and introduces its three critical phases: Front End of Line (FEOL), Back End of Line (BEOL), and packaging. The FEOL process builds transistors on the chip, the BEOL process constructs metallic “interconnects” to allow transistors to communicate with one another, and packaging wraps the chip in a supporting case to prevent damage. Each of these steps is very complex, so we start a high level overview of the entire process and then focus on the basics of FEOL processing for today./fusi-istriani-a-croatian-pasta-with.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fusi-istriani-a-croatian-pasta-with.htmlWhen I first started making pasta, I amassed a small collection of reference books to guide me through the deep and murky underworld of edible shapes. And of all the books I bought, Oretta Zanini De Vita’s Encyclopedia of Pasta was the one I picked up again and again. I’d wager it’s still the most comprehensive compilation of pasta shapes, but it’s also a small book that could more easily pass as a Jane Austin novel than a cook’s companion—mainly because it doesn’t have any pictures./gamerbraves-newsletter-vol-53-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gamerbraves-newsletter-vol-53-the.htmlTo most people in the Vtuber community, they would tend to relate Hololive with cute anime girls who stream and entertain; but to us, the true face of Hololive is none other than the CEO of COVER Corporation - Motoaki Tanigo, or better known as YAGOO in the community. Despite not being an anime girl, the Hololive community still loves and respect Tanigo, even to the point of referring him as "/george-carlin-and-the-truth-about.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/george-carlin-and-the-truth-about.htmlMore than 15 years after his death, George Carlin continues to trend on social media several times a year. Why? Not for any of his legendary standup bits, but for a 1990 Larry King interview clip in which he expressed views that can be interpreted, through today’s political lens, as an endorsement of the “punching down / punching up” theory of comedy. This modern view asserts that “good” comedy must only crack jokes at the expense of those deemed to have power, thereby “punching up” — and must never target people considered marginalized, known as “punching down./get-out-of-gwyneth-paltrows-guest.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/get-out-of-gwyneth-paltrows-guest.htmlExt. — A pristine white guest house in the Montecito, California hills, early afternoon. JOYCE and HERB, two retired New York City reporters, are approaching with their wheelie bags. Joyce: I’m nervous. That Airbnb contest to spend a free night at Gwyneth Paltrow’s guest house in which we begin as strangers but find connections and commonalities over dinner sounded interesting, but I still can’t figure it out: Why did they choose people who think Paltrow and her GOOP products are ridiculous?/gleamed-issue-no-13.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gleamed-issue-no-13.htmlUpon starting gleamed back up, it’s been especially fun digging into different aspects of design, whether cultural or historical, without necessarily having to find a “timely hook,” which is always necessary for pitching stories as a freelance journalist. Editors are (rightfully so) obsessed with article ideas to cover things that are already trending—with catchy headlines that readers will definitely click on. The great part of independent journalism is getting to share things simply because they are worth knowing about, not just because they appeal to the masses./glove-story.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glove-story.html“It's never left the glove as far as I know,’’ retired Marlins pitcher Josh Beckett told me other day, “unless somebody else took it out and put it back.’’ We’re talking about the last out of the 2003 World Series, that weak grounder Jorge Posada hit inside the first base line where Beckett, in one running motion, scooped it with his glove and slapped the glove against Posada's waist.  It certainly wasn’t the prettiest play to end a World Series — he nearly collided with Posada — yet it put an exclamation point on the 23-year-old Beckett’s dominance that night at Yankee Stadium: On short rest, he tossed a complete-game shutout, striking out nine, never letting a batter past second base, to eliminate a Yankees team that had been heavily favored to win it all./gpt-3-tries-pickup-lines.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gpt-3-tries-pickup-lines.htmlOnce upon a time I decided to train a neural net to generate pickup lines. Once I started collecting the training data I began to regret it when I saw how awful the existing lines were. Turns out I needn’t have worried. The neural net I used was so small and clueless that its pickup lines were mostly incoherent and confusing. You must be a tringle? Cause you’re the only thing here./grieving-someone-who-is-still-alive.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grieving-someone-who-is-still-alive.htmlGrowing up in a fiercely passionate Italian family, that’s a phrase I heard more than a few times. It’s admittedly a bit harsh sounding but in a way it’s actually a simple and fairly eloquent expression of complicated relational grieving. Most of us have experienced a physical loss due to the death of a loved one and we are processing the subtractions that come from our collective mortality, from the fact that our time here is finite./grilled-corn-salad-with-tomato-vinaigrette.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grilled-corn-salad-with-tomato-vinaigrette.htmlNew here? Scroll down for the video and all the way to the bottom for the recipe!Two things are going on with this grilled corn salad recipe. One is the corn, of course—grilled corn. Many people have many thoughts about the best way to grill corn, which is confusing, because there is only way to do it: In the husk, on the grill. You don’t need to soak or partially husk./grub-street-diet.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grub-street-diet.htmlNY Mag has a feature called The Grub Street Diet, where they ask writers and artists to journal what they eat in a week. Everyone picks an exciting week where they’re hosting dinner parties abroad and waiting in line at an underground dumpling spot, so I was like, “What if I wrote one for a really boring week where I was not especially social and also worried about money the entire time?/guess-who-the-worst-president-ever.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guess-who-the-worst-president-ever.htmlHappy Presidents’ Day! As I do every year, I celebrated the holiday by watching the “Mediocre Presidents” song from “The Simpsons.” Just brilliant. But, I have ANOTHER Presidents’ Day gift for you! The Presidential Greatness Project — conduct by two college political science professors and released over the weekend. The survey, which gathers the opinions of current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, is in its third iteration./halfway-through-the-pete-wells-nyc.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/halfway-through-the-pete-wells-nyc.htmlToday, I feel born again in the taco, because I’ve finally hit restaurant 50 in NY Times food critic Pete Well’s top 100 restaurants in New York City. How did I do it without dying? I want to give a shout out to my main drug, Metformin, which helps me process sugar differently or something like that. Restaurant #49 was Taqueria Ramirez in the neighborhood the local bearded gentry calls “Greene-pointe./happy-100th-veronica-lake.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-100th-veronica-lake.htmlI want to talk about a blonde actress of the Old Hollywood era who struggled, was professionally pigeonholed despite her own efforts to subvert her studio-imposed image, and died tragically young. No, I’m not talking about Marilyn Monroe. Or Jane Mansfield. Or any of the other tragic blondes whose names you probably know more than the woman I’m writing about today. I’m talking about Veronica Lake. You’re Googling what she looks like right now, aren’t you?/has-the-secret-service-gone-insane.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/has-the-secret-service-gone-insane.htmlRemember when the Secret Service was the elite of the elite? It was the one government agency everybody could agree on. Those brave men and women put their bodies on the line to protect the president, and therefore the stability of the free world. But somewhere along the way, the agency seems to have lowered its standards a bit. Brie Stimson, Fox News: A U.S. Secret Service agent with Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their assignment after engaging in a physical fight with other agents while on duty Monday…/guest-contribution-hey-remember-that.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guest-contribution-hey-remember-that.htmlGood morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. Today, we have another fun freelance submission from Matt Stahl, who just graduated from Western Kentucky and is looking for journalism work. Matt can be reached at @Mattstahl97 on Twitter, and at matthewstahl97@gmail.com. I’m able to pay for freelance submissions because of your paid subscriptions. The more subscriptions I get, the more freelance assignments I can take, and the better rates I can give./hollys-end-of-season-duck-gear-review.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hollys-end-of-season-duck-gear-review.htmlI’m a big fan of gear reviews - both reading and writing them. I’m talking honest reviews here, and definitely not, “I took this out of the box five minutes ago and I’ve never used it, but it’s awesome!” Here are some of the products that were new to me this year (or last year, in one case), and how they worked for me: You can see the price and the short thumbs up/down assessment at the top of each item, and then read on for full detail if the product (or my experience with it) interests you./on-your-phone-too-much-12-hacks-to.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-your-phone-too-much-12-hacks-to.htmlA very refreshed hellooooooo to you today, my friends! I’m coming at you live having just taken one full MONTH off of social media [insert alleluia angel praise chorus here]. Curious how it felt? ^^Here ya go.You may be wondering, “Kate, why did you feel the NEED to take a social media detox? Especially as a small business owner?!” Well, my friend. To put it simply— because these screens & scrolls & apps were starting to distract from TRUE productivity, from TRUE soul-filling moments, from TRUE fulfillment./how-does-she-do-it-with-emily-berrington.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-does-she-do-it-with-emily-berrington.htmlIt has been eight years since I interviewed the actor Emily Berrington for her role in Channel 4 sci-fi drama, Humans. I remember so clearly coming away from our conversation in awe of her intelligence — she even taught me about the concept of the Bechdel Test (I, ever the professional journalist, of course pretended to know exactly what she meant). So … ncG1vNJzZmiqk6S9pnrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeYpMRusM6eqmarmJp6pbuMoqtmr5mptW6xzKKjsmWSmr%2Bztc2gq6im/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal.html8 minute read In the past several years, interest has revived in the Ben Gurion Canal, a proposed alternative to the Suez Canal named after Israel’s founding father running through Israel close to Gaza. Creating an incentive for removal of Palestinians from Gaza, particularly the north end, it has raised suspicions that Israel had foreknowledge of Hamas’ October 7 attacks and let them happen. It has now been documented that Israel received multiple warnings something was about to occur./processing-how-martin-riker-wrote.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/processing-how-martin-riker-wrote.htmlOn a semi-regular basis, I interview authors about their writing processes and craft—you can find previous entries here—and today I’m really excited to publish this interview with Martin Riker, whose excellent novel The Guest Lecture came out this week. The Guest Lecture was one of those magical books I plucked at random from my review copy pile and was instantly taken with. We follow Abby, an economics professor lying awake at night in a hotel room and anxiously thinking about the guest lecture she has to give the following day./how-much-does-music-help-your-workouts.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-much-does-music-help-your-workouts.htmlFun fact: Before I started writing about fitness, I was a music journalist. I went on tour with the Warped Tour, I wrote for Rolling Stone when I lived in Australia, I interned for MTV News in college, I helped pull together SELF’s music issues (I even got Cobra Starship and Paramore in there), and I wrote Ariana Grande’s first-ever cover story for Seventeen. Now, I’m more likely to wake up at 4 a./how-roger-federer-became-the-only.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-roger-federer-became-the-only.htmlHuddle Up is a 3x weekly newsletter that breaks down the business and money behind sports. Subscribers include investors, professional athletes, team owners, and casual fans. So if you are not already a subscriber, sign up and join 100,000+ others who receive it directly in their inbox each week — it’s free. ncG1vNJzZmigpZmxrbHUqWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXypu9Zmqaiflad6p7HDnqmeql2XsqStzJ5kraCVYryvuNg%3D/how-sikandar-raza-went-from-a-software.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-sikandar-raza-went-from-a-software.htmlPlay Wicket Cricket Manager When the Greek king Alexander the Great conquered Persia, the Persians called him Sikandar, meaning ‘defender’ or ‘warrior’. It’s not a light or casual name. Sikandar Raza started with a mission.  But his original dream was to become a pilot. An eye condition prevented him from doing so, but he ended up becoming a software engineer. Cricket was there, but not as a profession.  There is no doubt to make it to his level in Zimbabwe cricket, especially the mess it was in his part of his career you need to be a warrior./how-the-drag-queen-found-his-way.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-drag-queen-found-his-way.htmlLast week, we told you about Diva D, the ruffly-bottomed drag queen that made national news by doing cartwheels on a table at Sutton High School last month as part of their Connections Conference (or ConCon). If you haven’t read the first part of our investigation yet, click the link below: Since the first part of our investigation hit the web, we’ve gotten lots of questions about ConCon. We’ve also kept an eye on the social media commentary surrounding the issue, and seen some bad info swirling around about the history of ConCon, Sutton High’s role in the conference, and more./how-the-hell-did-england-beat-india.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-the-hell-did-england-beat-india.htmlMy sports media course Share England turned up to India with two kid spinners and an injured Jack Leach. They had to rely on Joe Root to bowl the most overs he has ever bowled in his life They really turned up for their first major away tour in Bazball with four of the most random dudes as their spinners. Before the final innings, do you know who was bowling spin in the warm-up?/how-to-create-a-culture-of-dogfooding.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-create-a-culture-of-dogfooding.htmlHappy New Year! New Year, new you amirite!? I spent a few hours over break reflecting on 2023 using this Figjam template (which you can copy and use - for free!). I know we set OKRs and goals for our jobs, but as a Builder, it’s helpful to do a similar exercise for yourself too. What do you want to accomplish in 2024 and how does that set you on a path to reach your longer-term goals?/how-to-do-an-essay-collection.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-do-an-essay-collection.htmlHi friends, A few weeks ago we talked about how to do an anthology. And I know some of you were probably turned off by that, and I’m sorry not sorry. It’s hard to do an anthology and if you aren’t 100% ready to go full throttle with it, then it’s best not to. There are plenty of other kinds of books to write. One of those is the essay collection!/how-to-find-the-best-video-essays.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-find-the-best-video-essays.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Can you tell I’m starting to think about making video essays? —Kate Take one quick look at what’s trending on YouTube, and you can easily lose faith in humanity. As I write this, it’s all Grimace shakes and people either giving or spending thousands of dollars for different viral stunts.  But underneath all that, a genre of creators is playing a long game./how-to-help-ukrainians-a-year-in.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-help-ukrainians-a-year-in.htmlShare In emails through Substack and in the recent live discussion, a number of you have asked me to send a current list of causes to back in and for Ukraine.  I see that I have not done this for months, and I appreciate the reminder. In other settings I get asked why Americans should donate to Ukraine, given that our government is supporting the Ukrainian government.  This is a perfectly reasonable question./how-to-make-limoncello-from-scratch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-limoncello-from-scratch.htmlThis newsletter is a reader-supported publication. We love Letters From Tuscany, it is like having our independent publication: we test, photograph, and write each recipe just for you, to bring a little taste of Italy to your kitchen, for you and your family. We’re trying to keep things as free as possible, but if you enjoy what I write and want access to exclusive weekly recipes, and if you are at a point in your life to support our newsletter, please consider becoming a paid subscriber./how-to-spot-a-crybully.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-spot-a-crybully.htmlSince a local organization is currently under attack from false allegations of a social justice nature, crybullies have been on my mind, and it’s come to my attention that not everyone knows what the term means. Although autocorrect has not caught up, “crybully” was added to Dictionary.com in 2019, and has also made it into the Oxford English Dictionary as well as the Collins Dictionary. The latter has my favourite definition:/how-to-watch-soccer-like-a-pro.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-watch-soccer-like-a-pro.htmlYou don’t need to tell me who played, when it happened, or how it turned out. Without any of that info, I still know one very important thing about the last soccer game you watched: You don’t know what happened. Sure, you might know who scored, who completed a lot of passes, what defenders made mistakes, and how many saves a keeper made, but you’re looking at the game through a fogged-up lens./how-trap-music-went-from-a-genre.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-trap-music-went-from-a-genre.htmlSomewhere in the world right now, there’s an aspiring DJ, Producer, or Vocalist uploading music to the internet. They’ve been making music for a few years now and they’re favorite genre of music is… Since hitting the scene, Trap has been one of the most dominant genres of music, and it’s also become a worldwide phenomenon inspiring other sub-genres of Hip-Hop like Drill - a genre that has roots in Chicago, but is also big in the UK, and Italy./how-trumps-usa-bible-sales-pitch.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-trumps-usa-bible-sales-pitch.html“All Americans need a Bible in their home,” Trump said, claiming that he has “many,” and calling the Bible, “my favorite book.”  “This Bible is a reminder that the biggest thing we have to bring back America and to make American great again is our religion,” the former president announced as he held a copy of the ‘God Bless The USA Bible’ - which, we learn, is a King James Version copy of the Old and New Testaments alongside the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Allegiance - for $59./i-am-anxious-mona-susan-power.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-am-anxious-mona-susan-power.htmlMona Susan Power is a Yanktonnai Dakota writer (enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, though born and raised in Chicago). Mona has had four works of fiction published so far, The Grass Dancer (which was awarded the PEN/Hemingway Prize), Roofwalker, Sacred Wilderness, and A Council of Dolls. She has been fortunate to receive the support of several fellowships over the years, including a Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship, and Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Fellowship./i-keep-writing-the-same-poptimism.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-keep-writing-the-same-poptimism.htmlGolly! This is, I acknowledge, just a celebrity saying something very stupid. But honestly, in the context of contemporary culture, it’s barely exaggerated compared to the norm. The assumed ideology in 21st-century American life is that your personal and political virtue is expressed in your consumer choices, that you reveal your innermost ethical self not through your actions or even your utterances but with the consumerist cultures you labor to broadly associate yourself with./i-saw-wolves-where-there-are-allegedly.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-saw-wolves-where-there-are-allegedly.htmlThe steady hum of commuter traffic from Ellsworth and inland Hancock County to Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park was enough to bore any motorist travelling on Route 3 through Trenton, Maine. But my Subaru’s funky noise kept me on edge. That, plus, I was heading to work with a boss who liked to invite me on dates and change the words to songs like “Pop Goes the Weasel” to feature me./i-think-were-alone-now.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-think-were-alone-now.htmlA week before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, we were preparing to launch a summer tour, in support of our latest album, Hey, I’m Just Like You. Like so many other musicians, we found ourselves stuck halfway up the mountain of our campaign. Touring is the engine that drives the creative work we do. On stage is where we nourish ourselves as performers, and how we connect most deeply with the audience and community we love./in-conversation-j-robbins.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-conversation-j-robbins.htmlMy first interview with J. Robbins, exactly 30 years ago in February of 1994, did not go well. Or at least that’s what I thought when we were in the middle of it: Following an innocent opening question about his first crush, the legendary Jawbox frontman became increasingly defensive and almost gleefully combative. When I got home to transcribe the interview, however, I realized that J.’s honest reaction—as frustrating as it was—also worked to tell us more about who he was and where he was in his life than most interviews ever could with words./in-praise-of-the-local-hipster-coffee.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-praise-of-the-local-hipster-coffee.htmlCurrently sitting in my local hipster coffee shop doing local hipster things like writing on my Substack and praising antifa. Considering how much time I spend in places like this now, it’s hard to believe that American coffee shop culture is a pretty recent development. Back when I attended NYU towards the end of the previous century, coffee shops weren’t even a thing. Greenwich Village had a quartet of them on a single corner, but they had a faded bohemian vibe, relics of the dying 60’s counterculture, sort of like what Hard Rock Cafés are to the 80’s today./spirit-of-place-in-the-land-of-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spirit-of-place-in-the-land-of-the.htmlGet 60 day free trial “If you want to ride a camel, you must first get on.” Looking back on it, I wonder if Jamel Mestaoui wasn’t quoting some Berber proverb, passed down through the generations like the other customs that govern life in his village on the island of Djerba. Perhaps, when Jamel was a boy, his father would take him up to the Dhahret Adloun, the barren outcropping that rises above the whitewashed houses of Guellala and fill his young head with stories./incentivization.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/incentivization.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published«prev next»Going for a promotion in software engineering is difficult work, particularly in technical organizations. You certainly have to work very hard in order to get a good rating for performance reviews. But just hard work is not enough by itself. An important requirement for promotions and salary raises is a critical contribution to projects with high impact. High impact means the project has to succeed and preferably make the company a lot of money, or at least enable other departments and teams in the company to work better and make more money./inside-the-tiktok-shoegaze-revival.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-the-tiktok-shoegaze-revival.htmlThe Culture Journalist is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms. Episodes drop every other week, but if you want the full experience — including bonus episodes, culture recommendations, and our eternal parasocial friendship — we recommend signing up for a paid subscription. All earnings go back into making the show. Hey pals. Here’s a development that we never had on our 2024 bingo card: shoegaze is back, and it’s arguably bigger than ever./herbert-kickl-fpoe-summer-interview-orf.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/herbert-kickl-fpoe-summer-interview-orf.htmlThe Vienna Briefing is about to take its summer break, but before it does, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for subscribing to this newsletter. In particular, I’d like to extend my appreciation to those of you who have either shared the newsletter with friends and colleagues—which has helped no end to expand this community of readers—or chosen to support the newsletter with a one-time financial contribution./its-new-to-me-crusader-of-centy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-crusader-of-centy.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. “Zelda clone” is a term that used to be thrown around quite a bit in reviews, especially in the late-80s and early-to-mid-90s./jack-smith-has-set-a-trap-for-trump.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jack-smith-has-set-a-trap-for-trump.htmlI was once an avid chess player, and I can appreciate a great strategic move when I see one. And that is what I see developing in the second federal indictment of Donald Trump on three charges of conspiracy and attempted obstruction of Congress. For months, Trump has telegraphed that he intends to rely upon a defense known generally as “advice of counsel.” This means Trump will claim he was just doing what his legal advisors had said he could do, and therefore he can’t be guilty of conspiring to overturn the election./james-belushi-and-john-ritter-save.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/james-belushi-and-john-ritter-save.htmlI dimly recall watching the 1987 comedy Real Men as a child and being impressed by its weirdness. I remembered almost nothing about it except for a pen and space aliens.  So it was surreal revisiting it thirty-six years later for my exhaustive exploration of the complete filmography of James Belushi and discovering that it is every bit as bizarre as I imagined it would be, if not more so. /issue-8-jessica-simpson-and-the-politics.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-8-jessica-simpson-and-the-politics.html(Image via Vanity Fair) Jessica Simpson was never fat. I feel weird even typing that because it implies that it would have been incredibly bad for her to be so. The ways we discuss our bodies, but especially those of women, are so loaded with hatred for the mere idea of fatness that it seems as though we have to grovelingly apologize for even suggesting that someone isn’t a size zero./jlaw-tits-out-on-the-beach-in-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jlaw-tits-out-on-the-beach-in-the.htmlSHORT: This week, I watched the delightful movie No Hard Feelings starring Jennifer Lawrence and Jimmy-Award-winner Andrew Barth Feldman. The film contains a scene in which JLaw runs down the beach, fully-naked, in the moonlight to get her clothes back from a group of teens. She beats the living sh*t out of them as her bazongas fly — glittering and luminescent — under the Montauk night-sky. That is how I am approaching October./john-basilone-killed-iwo-jima.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-basilone-killed-iwo-jima.htmlAmong the approximately 300,000 Americans killed in action in World War II, John Basilone’s death on Feb. 19, 1945 holds a unique place in the history of the conflict. It was exceedingly rare that the loss of any individual service member — particularly an enlisted man — made the news across the country. Basilone’s did, because he was no ordinary sergeant. As the first enlisted Marine to earn the Medal of Honor in the war, for his heroic actions on Guadalcanal in October 1942, Basilone became something of a reluctant celebrity./justice-for-lane-and-friendships.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justice-for-lane-and-friendships.htmlWelcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it. By MaggieLegend has it that when Amy Sherman-Palladino had her pitch meeting with the WB (soon to become the CW) she had several ideas that were shut down immediately. At the last moment she threw something out, desperate: “A mother and daughter who are best friends.” Obviously, that’s the one that stuck./leaks-counter-leaks-invictus-in-disarray.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leaks-counter-leaks-invictus-in-disarray.htmlThe story began innocuously enough. A piece in The Sunday Times on November 5th written by Royal Rota reporter Roya Nikkhah said: The monarch is clearly relishing flexing his diplomatic muscles and restoring to the role an energy absent in the final years of his mother’s reign, due to her age and mobility issues. It will be a mostly contented King who celebrates his 75th birthday on November 14 with a party with his closest family and friends at Clarence House./legendary-beauty-brad-gooch-on-his.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/legendary-beauty-brad-gooch-on-his.htmlHi Caftaners! I write this on March 11, just four days away from being able to intone ghoulishly, “Beware the ides of March!” Personally, I cannot wait to get past not only the ides of March but all of March, and you may as well throw in April too, because I’m sick of NYC’s unrelenting cold rain and gray skies and all I want is to able to go lie in the park under the sun in shorts!/leslie-macadoo-gordon-king-shipwrecked.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leslie-macadoo-gordon-king-shipwrecked.htmlA great Twitter Space about the turmoil over the Colorado Case before SCOTUS, and other important issues. Great discussion of the issues. Leslie does a great job leading the teaching session to us non-lawyers. It crashed early, but is still good. Share Gene Douglass for Congress, NC #2 Battle Good v Evil is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber./lessons-from-warren-buffetts-sees.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lessons-from-warren-buffetts-sees.html“Let’s take a look at what kind of businesses turn us on. And while we’re at it, let’s also discuss what we wish to avoid.” In his 2007 Berkshire Hathaway annual letter, Warren Buffett provides us with a primer on what to look for in businesses, and on what to avoid. He also does something rare – he gives us a detailed post-mortem analysis of his 1972 purchase of See’s Candies./lets-review-tracy-chapmans-2023-year.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-review-tracy-chapmans-2023-year.htmlThe year 2023 has been eventful regarding Tracy Chapman's news, although there hasn't really been any news as such. No new album. No tour nor any concert. No TV appearance. And yet this year we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the release of her Debut Album in one of the most beautiful ways possible: with Tracy Chapman returning to the media spotlight, being reminded her long-time fans of her talent and discovered by an entirely new generation of listeners./levis-wokes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/levis-wokes.htmlIn September of 2017 Saturday Night Live aired a skit titled “Levi’s Wokes.”   “Introducing Levi’s Wokes. Sizeless, style neutral, gender non-conforming denim for a generation that defies labels. Levi’s heard that if you’re not woke, it’s bad!” Watch it here. I laughed. Then I watched it over and over again. Then I laughed some more. I was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Levi’s at the time and had been for four years./liar-liar-youll-sht-fire.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/liar-liar-youll-sht-fire.htmlIn the early months of every year grocery carts all over the US suddenly start filling up with a few predictable consumables: grade b maple syrup, cayenne pepper, spring water, and bags and bags of lemons. Yes, it’s time again for people to partake in a beloved American tradition: the New Year’s Master Cleanse. If you’ve been living in the back of an abandoned Quiznos and are just learning about this fuckery for the first time, we’ll walk you through it./photo-booth-brian-meacham-tim-garrett-interview.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/photo-booth-brian-meacham-tim-garrett-interview.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. This week, I joined the Paesanos Podcast to talk about my Influencers In The Wild piece. Listen here! —Kate I had a simple vision for my fifth anniversary with my boyfriend. The first photo we took together was in a film photo booth, and I wanted to recreate it. We were on a celebratory trip to New Orleans when inspiration struck, so I Googled “New Orleans film photo booth./lostrushis-sisterhood-is-an-instant.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lostrushis-sisterhood-is-an-instant.htmlOkaeri Alice is a school-life manga by Shuzo Oshimi depicting a childhood trio of friends navigating adolescence after one of them comes back into their lives presenting as female. They state they are no longer a boy, but aren’t and do not want to be a woman. Oshimi was already a master of psychological drama, his masterworks being the thrilling Aku No Hana and the horrifying Chi no Wadachi, but Okaeri Alice is his most human creation yet./mahomes-vs-burrow-and-quarterback.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mahomes-vs-burrow-and-quarterback.htmlQuarterback discourse is, as a whole, a great deal better than it was 10 years ago when I started doing this job. A lot more information and statistics are publicly available now. Film reviews that dive into the nuances of the position are more common. The voices in the industry now include people who talk about things in-depth rather than at the surface level. We’ve come a long ways. But we’ve still got a long, long, LONG ways to go based on the most recent discourse surrounding Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow./making-america-broke-again.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/making-america-broke-again.htmlThe House just passed a $95B aid package to Ukraine and Israel… has anybody ever just stopped and wondered where they are getting all this money from, even though the national debt is $34 Trillion. To be exact, the national debt of the United States of America is at $34,583,094,965,545. That’s a BIG number. With all of the money that America has given aid to other countries, the high rate of poverty would have probably disappeared by now./marble-matcha-strawberry-cookies.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marble-matcha-strawberry-cookies.htmlINGREDIENTS for cookie dough 2 1/4 c (288g) all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp kosher salt 1 c (227g) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/3 c (270g) granulated sugar, plus more for rolling 1 large egg 2 tsp vanilla extract 2 tsp culinary grade matcha powder for strawberry icing 1 c (120g) powdered sugar 1.5 to 2 tb milk 1 tb strawberry jam, pushed through a mesh sieve/march-comes-in-like-a-lion-and-goes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/march-comes-in-like-a-lion-and-goes.htmlWhere does the phrase “March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb” come from? Well, good for me that I now have my Microsoft Copilot riding shotgun, so I never have to wonder about these things again. I simply ask the question. This is what my Copilot tells me: Here are a few theories about its origin: Astronomical Explanation: Ancestral Beliefs: Rhyming Tradition: What happens when you have 70-degree weather in Chicago in February?/mariology-and-the-medieval-mindset.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mariology-and-the-medieval-mindset.htmlIt’s Holy Week, which means that on Friday night, I’m probably going to lose the last ten pounds of baby weight in tears while watching The Passion Of The Christ. One of Gibson’s many genius, and deeply Catholic, choices in the film is his deliberate inclusion of scenes involving Christ’s Mother. One stands out: as Christ first falls while carrying His cross to Golgotha, Mary sees Him. We are given a flashback, where He as a child stumbles on a stone path./marry-right-they-said.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/marry-right-they-said.htmlA few weeks ago, I kept reading posts on Twitter that included top ten lists of “how to live your best life” that invariably included the suggestion to marry well. Every time I read that imperative, my heart sank and it took me back to the bitter few years I lived in my early 30s when I thought I was in love and married a guy that was all wrong for me and for whom I was all wrong./mary-catherine-starr-and-momlife.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mary-catherine-starr-and-momlife.htmlMary Catherine Starr is an illustrator, designer, and yoga teacher whose “Mom Life” comics offer commentary on parenthood, societal expectations, double standards and, famously, who gets to eat the peach without guilt.   Tell me a little bit about yourself, and your work:  I have two kids, who are 6 and 3. I started Mom Life Comics just as a creative outlet for myself  before the pandemic, but it really got going during the pandemic./mayor-smiley-announces-the-city-of.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mayor-smiley-announces-the-city-of.htmlSteve Ahlquist: On the other side of this barrier are South Providence and the Port of Providence. These areas are not protected by the barrier and are also some of the most polluted land in New England. In the event of a flood, that pollution will be spread all over those neighborhoods and even perhaps downtown if the barrier leaks. What is the plan to deal with the contamination that comes from flooding in the Port?/meet-the-new-owner-of-elkharts-brass.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-the-new-owner-of-elkharts-brass.htmlBrass Elk Brewery’s new owner comes from northern Indiana restaurant royalty, but this is the first time the McDonnell family has a place in Elkhart County. At the beginning of the year, Laurel Marnocha took over Brass Elk from previous owner Shane Dyer. This is the 39-year-old’s first solo venture, but she’s been in the restaurant business since her parents Mark and Nancy McDonnell started LaSalle Grill in 1991 when she was 7 years old./meet-elemeta-metafeature-extraction.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-elemeta-metafeature-extraction.htmlLLMs are everywhere, left, right, and center of any and all AI discourse these days. But we've got to be honest here, it's hard to understand how they make decisions and explain and monitor them. So earlier this week, we released into beta Elemeta, our open-source library for exploring, monitoring, and extracting features from unstructured data.  Join us on May 16th at 1:00 PM ET and get to know Elemeta first-hand with Lior Durahly, MLE @Superwise! He'll be taking us through Elemeta, how it can be applied to different use cases, and where it's going next./more-victims-of-american-airlines.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-victims-of-american-airlines.htmlEDITOR’S NOTE 9/16/23: This is why we can’t have nice things. Comments are shut off again temporarily due to abusive comments and stalking. Check back soon for when they’re reopened. Remember, shutting down comments also temporarily hides all previous ones, but they’ll pop back up when I open up again. Trigger and content warning: mentions of suicide and rape of adults and children Note about comments: Due to stalking and abuse, I often shut off commenting for several days./movie-review-the-osiris-child.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/movie-review-the-osiris-child.htmlMovie Review: The Osiris Child Hey Space Cadets, here’s another movie review for your consideration! I took some time to watch new movies, eat some popcorn and just enjoy my family. But enough about me, onto this new movie review. Now let’s get to it! Title: The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One Director: Shane Abbess Price: $9.96 USD (BlueRay Edition) Duration: 99 Minutes Release Date: September 24, 2016 Obtained: I bought this movie from Amazon./my-burning-questions-for-the-second.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-burning-questions-for-the-second.htmlThe NHL All-Star break has come and gone, and that means the fun and games are officially over for the 2023-24 season. Now it’s time to focus on the stretch run, the trade deadline and, of course, the arduous Stanley Cup journey that will follow. With all of that in mind, here are five huge questions occupying my headspace as we look ahead to the remainder of the schedule. For a number of reasons, t’s been a very strange year for handicapping the Stanley Cup race./nalanda-capitals-permanent-portfolio.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nalanda-capitals-permanent-portfolio.htmlWhat I Learned About Investing from Darwin, is a great book recommendation for anyone interested in value investing, regardless of geography or market. It is jam packed with wisdom from Nalanda Capital’s 16 years of investing in Indian businesses. From 2007 to 2023, the fund generated annualized returns of 20.3% after fees compared to 10.9% for the Indian indices. Pulak also draws parallels between the world of investing and evolutionary biology, hypothesizing that the ruthless capitalist system results in the long-term survival of only the fittest businesses./natalie-merchants-carnival.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natalie-merchants-carnival.htmlSometimes a song hits me so hard that I can’t stop listening to it. I’ll play it several times in a row. And not just when I first hear it, but almost every time. I can count on my hands the number of times this has happened in my life, maybe just on the one hand. The example I always give is Carnival by Natalie Merchant. That song absolutely kills me./natesilver.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natesilver.html“Unless there’s some dramatic reversal, DeSantis will be a first-ballot selection to the Hall of Highly Underachieving Candidates, joining Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Phil Gramm, Fred Thompson, Ed Muskie, Kamala Harris, Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton.” ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2Bt056qoqSmmr9wus6tnGibXWmEc3%2BPb2pu/collagen-vs-creatine.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/collagen-vs-creatine.htmlThis week’s edition is a round-up of the biggest stories in wellness and my current obsessions, including… Nature’s Ozempic: can this natural compound suppress your appetite with none of the side effects of the popular weight loss drug? Collagen vs creatine: the white powder smackdown. Get fit for free: my favourite tips and resources to get strong for £0. ncG1vNJzZmiqn6iursHNnZuemZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omqiknJa0prqMr6pmm6KarrW1zZ4%3D/netflixs-new-woodstock-99-is-as-subtle.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/netflixs-new-woodstock-99-is-as-subtle.htmlNetflix’s new documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 is bound to get people talking, but is it actually worth the watch? Trainwreck: Woodstock 99, as you’d expect, covers the story of one of the literally shittiest (we’ll get to that) festivals in history. From July 22 to July 25, 1999 about 200,000 people descended on an old air force base in New York to watch and listen to very bad music by the likes of Limp Bizkit, Creed, Insane Clown Posse and Kid Rock and some good music from like Rage Against The Machine and uhhh Willie Nelson./new-and-improved-and-easier-chili.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-and-improved-and-easier-chili.htmlOn a recent episode of Splendid Table (not the one I was just on, which you can stream here), a listener called in asking what ingredients are essential to chili crisp. Apparently, he had seen my 17-ingredient recipe for chili crisp on Serious Eats. It includes 3 types of chilies (which make no damn sense together), red or black cardamom (what’s my problem with good ole green cardamom?), and porcini powder (do you know how expensive porcinis are?/no-fun-2-zydrate-anatomy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-fun-2-zydrate-anatomy.htmlGeneral anesthesia sucks. Obviously I’m glad it exists, but as an experience there’s not much to recommend it: you’re out, and then in an instant then you’re back. Your whole body gets thrown off for days as you readjust from having been in a controlled near-death state for a couple of hours. All the comedown, none of the high. Of course, anesthesia — and the medical practice of painkilling in general — isn’t supposed to be about pleasure./no-chatgpt-hasnt-passed-the-turing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-chatgpt-hasnt-passed-the-turing.htmlA common, and simple, description of the Turing test is this: if a human can’t tell whether a machine or another human has written some text, the machine has passed the Turing test. A lot of people argue that ChatGPT passes the Turing test. A simple test shows that this isn’t the case. ChatGPT frequently has issues with word play, especially absurdist word play, and it does not respond as one would expect a human to respond to absurdity./norman-mailer-and-norris-church.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/norman-mailer-and-norris-church.htmlThere came a time when Savvy mgazine and I reached an amicable parting of the ways. After four-plus years of catering to executive women, after lurching my way up the masthead from copy editor to executive editor, I was burned out. I wanted to try my hand at writing for other magazines (I don’t think I had any desire at that point to get back to fiction). And the magazine was in the process of being sold to Meredith, publisher of the Ladies Home Journal, which like more and more “books” pitched to women had finally caught on that much of the female population was working outside the home./not-just-a-book-but-a-community.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/not-just-a-book-but-a-community.htmlWhat makes three women choose to do a year of unpaid work to bring a book to life? I talked to the editors of ‘OTHERHOOD - a soon-to-be-published book of essays about not having children by choice or through circumstance. It’s an important day for Lil O’Brien, Kathryn van Beek and Alie Benge. The three women are successful authors, respected writers, and share another common thread - for various reasons, they don’t have children./ojs-obituary-but-with-jokes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ojs-obituary-but-with-jokes.html***Folks! I’m planning a podcast next week about reactions, respectful disagreements, and not-so-respectful disagreements to this week’s columns. So, if you’re dying to tell me off — and research shows that most of my readers are — please send an e-mail to hereswhyyousuck@gmail.com. All thoughts, questions, and soul-destroying insults are welcome!*** O.J. Simpson, the last comedy reference that everyone got, died yesterday at the age of 76. The cause was Norm Macdonald’s mean, mean jokes./on-ravichandran-ashwin.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-ravichandran-ashwin.htmlRavichandran Ashwin once told my friend Subash Jayaraman that “six well-constructed bad balls could be the way to go forward in T20 cricket”. No modern bowler has examined the line between a good ball and a bad ball more closely in cricket than Ashwin has. No modern bowler has invented so many different types of good balls in Test cricket as Ashwin has. Ashwin attacks all the time, and find new ways to attack all the time./one-thing-we-need-to-learn.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-thing-we-need-to-learn.htmlHi friends. Short newsletter this week, as this was not what I was intending to send, but I wanted to point out a significant underlying dynamic in the Andrew Huberman piece in New York Magazine. I think we can learn a lot from this pattern in real time—and start to break it. For those who missed it, Kerry Howley wrote a piece about five women who all b… ncG1vNJzZmidnJ7AprjOnp%2BnnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opqedXam1qrrGZq6eZZ6asqV506hkpZ2Rp7s%3D/does-vitamin-c-skincare-work.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/does-vitamin-c-skincare-work.htmlVanessa Hudgens is all smiles in a recent campaign photo for her skincare brand KNOW Beauty. She holds a $1.49 navel orange in one hand and her $45 Arctic Gold Vitamin C mask in the other. Is Hudgens smiling like that because she’s successfully scammed customers out of $43.51? Maybe! As I’ve shared before: Antioxidant vitamin C does indeed stimulate collagen production and protect cells from pollution, but there is zero evidence that applying it directly to your face (with, for example, an overnight mask) is more effective than ingesting it (by, say, eating an orange)./order-flow-and-auction-market-theory.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/order-flow-and-auction-market-theory.htmlA Primer on Order Flow Trading As financial markets evolve and become increasingly sophisticated, the complexity of the analysis required to identify opportunities for profitable trading is continually rising. Amidst this evolution, order flow trading has emerged as an innovative approach to financial market analysis that enables traders to unravel the hidden dynamics of the supply and demand for financial instruments. At its core, order flow trading is a cutting-edge analytical framework that involves studying the dynamic flow of buy and sell orders in real-time./overcharged-for-broiler-chicken-181-ebc.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/overcharged-for-broiler-chicken-181-ebc.html📲Moms Justice Media and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for links to products and services on this website. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe Hey there, justice seekers! Have you ever felt you're paying too much for that bucket of fried chicken or those chicken breasts for your homemade casserole? Well, you're not just clucking mad. A whopping $181 million class-action lawsuit settlement has just been reached, and it's all about the inflated prices of chicken./pain-hustlers-review-netflix-emily-blunt.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pain-hustlers-review-netflix-emily-blunt.htmlIn the early days of what would come to be known as the opioid crisis, someone close to me was caught up in it. They were legally prescribed by a doctor, but over time we could see that it was an issue of addiction. Fortunately, they were able to get clean before anything tragic happened, but there were some close calls. I tell some of this story to say that I, like many in Appalachia, have a close connection to the story told in “Pain Hustlers,” the new film on Netflix directed by David Yates and written by Wells Tower based on the book by Evan Hughes./pasta-mista-a-home-for-all-your-lonely.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pasta-mista-a-home-for-all-your-lonely.htmlI often wish pasta came in smaller packages. Sure, I can eat a lot of pasta, and whoever decided one pound serves eight is not from this universe. But I also think 12 ounces—three-quarters of a typical box—is the perfect amount of pasta for a meal (for two with leftovers, or a family of four), making room for plenty of sauce and yummy mix-ins. Which is why so many of my recipes call for that annoying almost-but-not-quite-entire box./pauline-frederick.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pauline-frederick.htmlIn her youth, when she was a star on the stage, Pauline Frederick was known as “The Girl with the Topaz Eyes,” and those piercing blue eyes of hers are her trademark in her surviving and readily available films. Tied to a stage mother who lived with her and scorned by a disapproving father, Frederick married five times and had a generally messy personal life that included an affair with a young Clark Gable when he was trying to break into movies in the 1920s./penn-states-drop-in-academic-rankings.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/penn-states-drop-in-academic-rankings.htmlUS News and World Reports has a popular rating guide that is often cited by consumers as an accurate indication of a university’s standing. In the last 10 years, Penn State has plummeted in this ranking, from 37th nationally (3rd in the Big10 Conference) to 77th nationally (and 11th in the Big10). This drop is the largest of any major university in the country.  During the same time, the University of Iowa dropped 10 spots, Michigan State University fell four, and the University of Nebraska was kicked out of the American Association of Universities, but the remaining fourteen Big10 universities have either maintained or improved their rankings./peppersauce-cave.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peppersauce-cave.htmlPeppersauce Cave is one of Tucson’s most extraordinary not-so hidden gems. This locals-only caving site has been a poorly kept secret for the better part of a century, though it’s likely many people knew about the cave far before some adventurous explorers bolted ladders to its floor. Hidden in the Santa Catalina Mountains and accessible only by miles of unmaintained road, Peppersauce Cave is tricky to find if you don’t know what you’re looking for./perfect-way-to-roast-a-7-bone-prime-rib.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/perfect-way-to-roast-a-7-bone-prime-rib.htmlNo muss, no fuss. But few recipes give you the timing for a roast weighing 15 or 16 pounds.  And if you've invested in a roast this large, you don't want to take any chances. Remove the roast from the refrigerator two hours before serving, shower it with salt and allow it to come to room temperature. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees. Ovens vary. So does meat. So start checking the temperature of the meat after about two and a quarter hours./pirolo-hospitality-to-open-little.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pirolo-hospitality-to-open-little.htmlSince it opened in 2012, Macchialina has been one of Miami Beach’s favorite places. It’s no surprise given chef/owner Michael Pirolo’s exquisite rustic Italian dishes paired with Jacqueline Pirolo’s curated wine selections. Many people on mainland Miami have waited with bated breath for this brother and sister team to open a restaurant on the other side of Biscayne Bay. That moment has come with the announcement of the soon-to-come Bar Bucce./player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-c19.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-c19.htmlI have no words to describe how bad this team is at passing the ball out of the back. I mean how hard can it be to learn how to pass a ball? Decent match overall, and I was really impressed with Gomez. I almost forgot how much I like Benja but finally, he is back, and he will give us a lot of options in future matches, likely not as a starter, but definitely as a super sub with a lot of energy and legs to hustle./pretty-white-moms-in-their-pretty.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pretty-white-moms-in-their-pretty.htmlDo you read this newsletter every week? Do you forward it or text it to your friends?? Do you value the work that goes into it??? Consider becoming a subscribing member. You get access to the weekly Things I Read and Loved at the end of each Sunday newsletter, the massive link posts, and the knowledge that you’re paying for the things you find valuable. Momfluencers are one of those modern phenomena that are either 1) everywhere on your internet, like truly inescapable or 2) absolutely nowhere to be found, to the point that you don’t have any idea what one even is./puerto-rico-headed-to-the-james-beard.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/puerto-rico-headed-to-the-james-beard.htmlI didn't realize I'd been holding my breath until I scrolled past the James Beard Award Finalists for Best Chef South headline and saw Natalia Vallejo's name. A surge of blood jolted through my body and landed squarely on my face and neck, breaking them out in big red splotches. Under her name sat her restaurant's name- Cocina Al Fondo, and then the words I'd been waiting to see for years: San Juan, Puerto Rico./rachel-dewoskin-tells-us.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rachel-dewoskin-tells-us.htmlHello friends, I’m pleased to share another installment of the occasional series I do, in which I invite an author to tell us five things—not only about their most recent book, but about their life too. I met Rachel DeWoskin in the summer of 2006, when we were both Fellows at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. Rachel had recently published her brilliant memoir, Foreign Babes In Beijing, and I’d recently published my novel, Torch./recovery-from-mormonism.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/recovery-from-mormonism.htmlThis past March, I visited Utah at the request of psychologist John Dehlin and the Thrive Beyond Religion non-profit movement. It was a solid opportunity for me to learn more about the LDS organization and its impact on its members. My last trip to Utah was at the request of the Ex-Mormon Foundation in 2000 after my second book, Releasing the Bonds, was published. I became deeply interested in the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS)./red-panda-drawing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-panda-drawing.htmlThis is where I showcase something creative I have made. It may be a drawing, my knitting, or another craft I enjoy making. There’s a poll at the bottom for what I should share next. Do it please! 😘 Are you a first time visitor to Twisting the Myths? Subscribe to get more crafting inspiration like the drawing below, discover mysteries and monsters, or enjoy a quick tale. Today's art is a drawing of a red panda./relitigating-charlottesville-with.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/relitigating-charlottesville-with.htmlJust wrapped up a nearly two-hour conversation with Dilbert creator Scott Adams. If you’re wondering why the hell I would be having a conversation with Dilbert creator Scott Adams, please read this post from a few days ago. When Scott reached out to me to appear on his show, I agreed, hoping that we would discuss his claim that political news is fake. I emphasized with him before our conversation that that was the topic I wanted to discuss./remembering-judy-heumann.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-judy-heumann.htmlHello, Over the weekend, the world lost a hero, and the disability community lost its matriarch. It’s impossible to list everything Judy Heumann did for the disability rights movement, so let me give you the highlights. She sued New York for the right to work as the city’s first wheelchair-using teacher, and won. She organised the infamous San Francisco 504 sit in to force Nixon’s government to outlaw discrimination by federal agencies, and then was a driving force behind the US’s first nationwide disability rights law, the ADA./the-abiotic-oil-theory-rethinking.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-abiotic-oil-theory-rethinking.htmlFor decades, the conventional wisdom in the field of geology held that oil and gas reserves were the result of the decomposition of organic matter over millions of years. However, an intriguing alternative theory has been gaining traction – the Abiotic Oil Theory. The Abiotic Oil Theory posits that oil and gas are not solely the products of decayed ancient organisms, as traditionally believed. Instead, it suggests that hydrocarbons can form deep within the Earth through abiotic processes, involving the chemical transformation of inorganic materials./retired-numbers-seattle-mariners.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retired-numbers-seattle-mariners.htmlSeattle is the 13th destination on my every-other-Friday tour of baseball’s retired numbers — and it’s going to be a shorter stop than most of those that came before. Why? Well, to be blunt, the Mariners really don’t have much to work with. The franchise’s overall record since its creation in 1977 is a dismal one — 409 games below .500. Seattle has won just three divisional crowns in 44 seasons, and it has never qualified for a World Series./retro-spotlight-phantasy-star-iii.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retro-spotlight-phantasy-star-iii.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. Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom is kind of a funny game. The original Phantasy Star was an obviously ambitious blend of Dragon Quest-style battles and first-person dungeon crawling, featuring a woman as the protagonist, that helped influence a generation of games./review-rewind-terce-a-practical-breviary.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-rewind-terce-a-practical-breviary.htmlIt’s been a busy Q1 for Broadway DNA, licensing new work around the world, producing a world premiere new play opening soon, and writing a new publication for the International Theatre Institute out this summer. As I catch up on my to-do list, please excuse this belated review from the exquisite January world premiere of the music theatre piece “Terce: A Practical Breviary.” Thank you for supporting Broadway DNA’s vision to demystify cultural exchange through international producing, licensing, and criticism to empower theatrical discussion around the world./review-for-all-mankind-legacy-season.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-for-all-mankind-legacy-season.html“The reason doesn’t matter. Mars matters.” I appreciate the ambiguity of the high-stakes scenario that ends “Legacy.” For much of its running time, we are firmly embedded within Dev and Ed’s effort to “steal an asteroid,” enlisting the help of Sam and Miles to secure the necessary supplies to effectively hijack the communications of Happy Valley and direct the Ranger to burn for five extra seconds and bring the asteroid firmly into Mars’ orbit./review-the-lazarus-project-episode.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-lazarus-project-episode.htmlSo, TNT had originally planned to debut The Lazarus Project in January, when our schedule was pretty thin, and I wrote a few of the reviews in advance as the episodes aired in Canada (where I spend the holidays) last fall. Then they abandoned that premiere very suddenly, leaving me with this review edited and in the system. It seems silly not to share it for anyone who checked out the premiere last night, but I’m not sure it will be worth regular coverage./review-tom-jones-whats-new-pussycat.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-tom-jones-whats-new-pussycat.htmlTracks: 1) What’s New Pussycat?; 2) Some Other Guy; 3) I’ve Got A Heart; 4) Little By Little; 5) Won’t You Give Him (One More Chance); 6) Bama Lama Bama Loo; 7) With These Hands; 8) Untrue Unfaithful; 9) To Wait For Love; 10) And I Tell The Sea; 11) The Rose; 12) Endlessly. REVIEW The big problem with ‘What’s New, Pussycat?’ — one of the most controversial songs ever to come out of the Bacharach/David camp — is not that it’s sexist (although it certainly is, but then what wasn’t sexist back in 1965?/rip-yokozuna-akebono-dead-at-54.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rip-yokozuna-akebono-dead-at-54.htmlI have a sumo-heavy profile for Akebono here, looking at his stats and his famed rivalry with Takanohana. NY Times: Akebono, First Foreign-Born Sumo Grand Champion, Dies at 54 Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in the sport’s popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54. He died of heart failure in early April while receiving care at a Tokyo hospital, according to a statement from his family that was distributed by the United States military in Japan on Thursday./rosalynn-carter-made-a-difference.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rosalynn-carter-made-a-difference.htmlElection night, November 2, 1976: Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter had been married for 30 years when he won the presidency. This past summer, they celebrated their 77th anniversary. Rosalynn Carter died on November 19, at age 96. (Getty Images.)My wife, Deb, and I join people around the world in extending sympathies to former President Jimmy Carter and his family, on the death of his wife of 77 years, the love of his life, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter./run-llama-2-70b-on-your-gpu-with.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/run-llama-2-70b-on-your-gpu-with.htmlThe largest and best model of the Llama 2 family has 70 billion parameters. One fp16 parameter weighs 2 bytes. Loading Llama 2 70B requires 140 GB of memory (70 billion * 2 bytes). In a previous article, I showed how you can run a 180-billion-parameter model, Falcon 180B, on 100 GB of CPU RAM thanks to quantization. Falcon 180B: Can It Run on Your Computer?· September 11, 2023 Llama 2 70B is substantially smaller than Falcon 180B./sardonic-aside.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sardonic-aside.htmlThis week: Sardonic. It's a word that's been used to describe everyone from Dorothy Parker to Edward Gorey to David Sedaris. But what exactly does it mean? We figure it out. With examples! Then some footnotes and, uh, that's it for this week? Here we go. Sardonic humor, or sardonicism, is an often misunderstood word; it is used almost interchangeably with sarcasm. And yet it is the basis for much of both dry, British wit and more cynical American wit./schmoozing-on-location-with-ethan.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/schmoozing-on-location-with-ethan.htmlIt was a memorable, and ultimately tragic, day for more reasons than just having a date with a film company for a wardrobe fitting (not usually a tragedy, unless done during rush hour). The date was May 27, 1997. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and I was driving home, heading north through downtown Austin on I-35 (of course during rush hour). I had just attended my wardrobe fitting, and noticed a massive, nearly-black storm cloud far in the distance, directly in front of me./smt-on-the-crown-season-6-episode-3af.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smt-on-the-crown-season-6-episode-3af.htmlIt’s a war of the Waleses…in photographs. In the second episode of The Crown’s final season, we dive right into Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s romance. There has been so much speculation about this relationship over the years — and so much we’ll never know. The Crown paints an intimate picture of the two, before revealing the intense response from thei… ncG1vNJzZmirn6Kur8XToaaun5ipwG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2irnal6sLqMrZ%2BeZZOnvLi6jKycmqufo3p3ecSpoKynlJp6dK3F/sebeneselassie.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sebeneselassie.htmlSebene SelassieAuthor of YOU BELONG, paradox peddler, Moon lover, student of mystery, lying down meditator, collage artist, nerdy–immigrant–weirdo... I help spiritually curious people remember we belong to the cosmos. The revolution will not be desacralized! ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbSxwZ6lnquVoa60v8ie/seif-asi-pleads-not-guilty-demands.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seif-asi-pleads-not-guilty-demands.htmlThe hate criminal Seif Asi filed a “not guilty” plea with the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida on Jan. 29th, according to recent court filings. Despite three victims providing consistent testimony to the police, and Seif himself confessing to the crime to an officer, his attorney - Carlton “Duke” Fagan - appears to be pressing for a trial-by-jury, although the full court documents have not yet been released. He additionally filed a “Notice of Discovery” form with the court, indicating that Seif Asi’s defense will soon begin legal discovery (by requesting documents and depositions from entities related to the case, such as witnesses)./sesame-tofu-with-broccoli.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sesame-tofu-with-broccoli.htmlTonight was a riff off a Bon Appétit recipe: Sesame Tofu with Broccoli. I had most of the ingredients at home and it felt easy for a Thursday. This close to solstice, all I want to do is sleep. It’s like work ends and I’m ready for bed (or a glass of red wine). This was a top 10 recipe in 2021, so my expectations were high. It didn’t disappoint - even with my deviations!/seven-books-on-letting-go-that-shaped.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seven-books-on-letting-go-that-shaped.htmlIt’s cliche to say “just let it go,” but I’ve found that learning how to let go of thoughts, emotions, ideas, and stories has given me the greatest sense of freedom in my life. I would say more so than any other skill. This realization only came about because I had built up and suppressed so much mental “stuff” that it became completely untenable (burnout), which forced me to try doing the opposite for once./seven-story-brewing-in-perinton-will.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seven-story-brewing-in-perinton-will.htmlThe owners of Seven Story Brewing, based in Perinton along the Erie Canal, announced Wednesday it would close by the end of June after five years in business. Owners Seth Clark and Casey Dunlavey said the property owners, Paul and Karen Zachman, declined to renew the brewery’s lease despite five straight years of growth. The Zachmans confirmed that. The brewery, located at 604 Pittsford-Victor Road (Route 96), maintains plans to go out with a bang, promising new releases and events in its final three months of business./shopping-cart-theory-separating-humans.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shopping-cart-theory-separating-humans.htmlI used to know a speech pathologist who played "The Word Game" with her public school students, and she said the hard-of-hearing kids, when asked what the opposite of "headlights" was — no matter how carefully she pronounced it — almost always answered, "not having head lice." An assumption that the kids’ misunderstanding was just about their faulty ears would miss the point. It was also related to the context of the students’ experience./show-review-phish-123123-new-york.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/show-review-phish-123123-new-york.htmlThey really played Gamehendge. It happened. While the rumors had been present for the last few months and the absence of any songs from the story earlier in the run made it seem more likely to be the gag, I never truly believed that Phish would perform guitarist Trey Anastasio’s senior thesis on stage for New Year’s Eve. But it happened. In the early days of Phish, when Anastasio was a student at Goddard College, he composed The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, a story about a retired colonel who finds himself whisked away to the magical land of Gamehendge and thrust into a plot to overthrow the evil king Wilson./signs-you-might-be-a-low-value-man.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/signs-you-might-be-a-low-value-man.htmlHigh-value man. It’s the obsession of Andrew Tate, his weak-breed followers, and a myriad of manosphere influencers, each of whom asserts that their unique cocktail of pathologies, deficiencies, and dysfunction is the exact recipe for high-value status. And what all of these men share in common is the absolute obsession with what other men think. They tell men over and over (and over) that what renders them a high-value man, and therefore the sort of man women will desire, is what other men think./slaves-often-went-shoeless-even-in.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slaves-often-went-shoeless-even-in.htmlIn the South, those held in slavery often did not wear shoes. They weren’t always given shoes to wear, particularly in their younger years, or the cheaply made shoes they were provided quickly fell apart and were not replaced. By itself, not having shoes was a minor deprivation compared to many other things they also had little of in their lives — freedom, food, basic clothing, any human rights, a family life, simple medical care, the list goes on./snap-up-scraps-for-crispy-lemongrass.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/snap-up-scraps-for-crispy-lemongrass.htmlMy book editor once observed that I’m an economical writer. She didn’t mean that I do more with fewer words (I do aim to reach that highest branch someday). Her comment was about my thrift. I don’t write recipes that involve luxurious, obscure, precious ingredients because that’s not where many cooks are at. That’s not how I learned to cook. Regarding my recipe development and cookbook writing, that means I mostly use accessible ingredients, what’s sold at mainstream markets and if needed, brands available at many Asian markets./soft-pretzel-rolls.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/soft-pretzel-rolls.htmlThis issue of the newsletter is sponsored by Wilfa I often refer to my recipes as weekend projects, fun things to make over the weekend when time is more abundant. Today's recipe is both one of those projects and a bit of a science experiment; we're taking a trip back to your high school chemistry class to talk all things alkali. The recipe we are working on today is soft pretzel rolls, a roll with the flavour of a classic German pretzel but in the form of a soft pillowy roll, laugenbroetchen in German (literally translated as lye rolls or pretzel rolls)./solving-conditional-value-at-risk.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/solving-conditional-value-at-risk.htmlIn this post you will read about: the concept of Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR), how to implement CVaR with CVXPY. Let’s start Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a widely used risk measure in finance, which estimates the maximum potential loss for a given portfolio over a specific time period with a certain confidence level. However, VaR has some limitations, such as not being a coherent risk measure and not providing information about the tail distribution beyond the VaR level./some-puns-to-celebrate-love-and-friendship.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/some-puns-to-celebrate-love-and-friendship.htmlI mentioned in last weekend’s prompt that my mom has a regular practice of making Valentine’s Day cards for her friends. After teaching a papercutting workshop last weekend, I was in the creative flow of silly puns, so I went ahead and made a bunch of papercuts with love and friendship in mind. I have been in a bit of a funk with papercutting lately. Like a “do I even enjoy doing this anymore?/song-story-bay-of-suvla.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/song-story-bay-of-suvla.htmlWhile writing Foreign Skies, I knew that there was at least one goal I wanted to accomplish. I had actually encountered a couple of historical, Great War-themed albums before but had noticed that most of them focused heavily or exclusively on suffering and death. But actually reading war diaries, poetry, and various accounts it seemed to me that the actual experience of the First World War was not being fully captured./soren-kierkegaard-the-father-of-existentialism.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/soren-kierkegaard-the-father-of-existentialism.htmlKierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint. — Ludwig Wittgenstein For all its critical analysis philosophy has not yet managed to root out its psychopaths. What do we have psychiatric diagnosis for? That grizzler Kierkegaard also belongs in this galere. — Carl Jung, Personal letter to Arnold Kiinzli, 28 … ncG1vNJzZmismJq5qsLIp56poJmhvLS7z6GwZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cL%2FOq5ynZZuesrO3xKCYmqqUYsGpsYyfmK2glad6sLKMnq%2Biq6Sau7W1wKWgrKU%3D/speak-snidely-and-carry-a-green-snake.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/speak-snidely-and-carry-a-green-snake.htmlIf you can’t say something good about someone, go sit by Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The Washington socialite, wit, and daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt had words to that effect printed on a throw pillow, which is as good a way as any of laying claim to a quip. Mrs. L, as she liked to be called, was an aphorism snowball: A big personality who said some clever things to get things rolling and then picked up credit for all sorts of lines, even when she insisted they weren’t hers./spiritual-economics-by-eric-butterworth.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spiritual-economics-by-eric-butterworth.htmlOn the recommendation of a friend, I recently read Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth. It was a really good read! Below are some notes I jotted down, along with commentary from me, a financial planning professional and a fellow author. You can buy the book here: Buy Spiritual Economics Also, please consider subscribing and sharing this newsletter with someone you think would benefit: Share My favorite thing about Spiritual Economics is how Butterworth helps us rethink the true meaning of words./spring-reflection-exercise-growing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spring-reflection-exercise-growing.htmlThis post, like all Monday, Wednesday and Friday posts, is for paid Members of The Kind Brave Leader Access the full post by becoming a Member below. Spring isn't just a change in the weather; it's a powerful symbol of renewal and growth. As the days stretch longer and nature bursts into life, we too have the chance to rejuvenate our spirits and foster new growth within ourselves. This is the perfect moment to shed the old, embrace the new, and sow seeds of kindness and wellbeing that can flourish throughout the year./stephen-crowder-isnt-joe-rogan-and.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stephen-crowder-isnt-joe-rogan-and.htmlComedians, actors, musicians — well, mostly all of us — deep down, sometimes (or often) want to be somebody else. Except Bono. It’s the human condition. Bound by time, we are infinite souls cast in a finite body, walking the planet, held down by gravity — all the while we’d rather be cruising Jupiter on a Triumph 1200, with loud pipes and a jet-pack strapped to the back, blasting “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and toking on a non-toxic unfiltered Lucky Strike./straight-men-acting-like-they-think.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/straight-men-acting-like-they-think.htmlHello! Support from readers keeps this newsletter sponsor-free. Please consider a paid newsletter subscription: just $5/month or save money with the $50/annual sub. You can also go above and beyond by becoming a Founding Member at $75. Or, some of you have let me know you’d rather support my work directly via Paypal and Venmo (@gabrielle-blair). Thank you! Seriously, thank you — for reading and for the support. Straight men acting like they think gay sex is gross is not believable./substackers-against-nazis.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/substackers-against-nazis.htmlI am adding my voice to the chorus of writers who utilize Substack and are concerned about Substack Inc.’s response to fellow newsletter writers noting the company is platforming and profiting from Nazis and other hate groups. Dear Chris, Hamish & Jairaj: We’re asking a very simple question that has somehow been made complicated: Why are you platforming and monetizing Nazis?  According to a piece written by Substack publisher Jonathan M./succession-power-rankings-little.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/succession-power-rankings-little.htmlWelcome back Slime Puppies! Succession Power Rankings for episode 304: “Lion in the Meadow.”I saw Spencer this week and the only thing I am willing to say about it at this time: great gowns, beautiful gowns. Literally and Aretha Franklin-ly. But there is a moment where the titular… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqq6bk5rAtLXOp2Spp6eav26%2BwKeioqaXqHqttdOto54%3D/summer-of-85.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-of-85.html“Summer of 85” is a rapturously joyful and sad movie that gets right at the heart of what it’s like to fall in love for the first time and be vulnerable, with the added twist of being gay. There’s been a spate of terrific queer romance films over the last few years, and here’s another one. Directed by François Ozon, who also adapted the novel by Aidan Chambers, the story is set in a French coastal town in the middle of the greatest decade ever to grow up, and no, this is not subject to debate./summer-of-the-fuck-ass-bob.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/summer-of-the-fuck-ass-bob.htmlIt is February and my aunt is visiting my family from out of town. I have always known her to have hair like Carol Kane and a voice to match. When I enter my Grandmother’s house there is the standard din I am used to from an expansive Italian family, and I can’t see over the heads of my countless cousins and uncles. What I can make out from the various concurrent conversations is that my aunts had decided to get matching haircuts./tattoos-on-the-heart-the-power-of.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tattoos-on-the-heart-the-power-of.htmlOkay, first of all, adding The Prison Angel to my list. Sounds like it was written for me. Echoing what you said, the most important thing I learned about being a good teacher was forming a relationship with every student. So interesting what you said about the 'rockstar' image of Boyle (whom I bet I called Doyle in a few spots, too.) Reading Boyle and not having seen or truly listened to the interviews, I read him as a truly humble guy./where-all-the-poets-went-to-die.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/where-all-the-poets-went-to-die.htmlPopPoetry is poetry and pop culture Substack written by Caitlin Cowan. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox weekly, subscribe below so you won’t miss a post! Thanks for reading and sharing. If you’d told me five years ago that I’d be blogging about Taylor Swift’s reference to Romantic Poetry, I would have slapped your cardigan out of your hands. Poetry in pop (or anti-pop) music: you love to see it./tell-me-about-you.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tell-me-about-you.htmlHello, “How to Feel Alive”-ers, First of all, some exciting news: Substack chose “How to Feel Alive” as a featured publication for the second time! Many thanks to all my long-time subscribers, and a very warm welcome to all the new members of this community who are just joining us. I’m so glad you’re here. Speaking of which, I want to get to know you! More specifically, I’d love to hear about what you’re interested in, struggling with, and inspired by—and what currently is (or isn’t) making you feel alive./the-absolute-best-bar-food-at-new.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-absolute-best-bar-food-at-new.htmlCocktail Barflies today are spoiled. They are not only well-watered, they are fed on a diet of top-notch bar burgers, salads, fried chicken sandwiches, hand-cut fries, shishito peppers, crudite and marinated olives. Many of them may assume it’s always been this good, that drinkers have never not had easy access to house-recipe deviled eggs and curated plates of cheese and charcuterie. Let me tell you, that is not the case. For much of the 20th-century, food and bars were not something that married well together, if they got together at all./exvangelicals-the-americans-who-are.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exvangelicals-the-americans-who-are.htmlThe decline of American religion is the most important demographic development of the 21st century. Over the last couple of decades, every aspect of religious life—formal worship, private prayer, affiliation, membership, and belief—has fallen. Fewer Americans attend worship services regularly or identify with a religious tradition today than did so a fe… ncG1vNJzZmirpKS%2FurjIp5ysZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8SxrZqml5q5qq%2FApapmrJiaeqK5xKugnJmeqHq4tM5mmKud/the-apophenic-thrall.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-apophenic-thrall.htmlResonance is not an exact reiteration. Rather it’s something that strikes a chord, that inexplicably rings true, a sound whose notes are prolonged. It is just-glimpsed connections and hidden structures that are felt to shimmer below the surface of things. Susan Lepselter, The Resonance of Unseen Things On Twitter several weeks ago, my friend, the ever brilliant Lee Vinsel, asked me to explain what I mean when I write about Trumpism./the-battery-acid-spaghetti-smoothie.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-battery-acid-spaghetti-smoothie.htmlI am qouting from a redditor tumbler user called rosespirit He explains exactly why battery acid spaghetti has its bad reputation "I keep seeing this post going around so, for folks who want to know why not, here's a chemist's hypothesis: -Human saliva has an average pH of ~6.7 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles /PMC3800408/), which is pretty neutral. -Monster energy has a pH of ~2.7 (https:// patientconnect365.com/Dental HealthTopics /Article/Energy_Drinks_and_Your_Teeth _Should_You_Worry), which is quite acidic but not dangerous, except to your tooth enamel if consumed in large quantities./the-best-sourdough-waffles-ever.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-sourdough-waffles-ever.html🥰 Did you know that if you hit the HEART at the top of this post, it makes it easier for people to find this newsletter? (And makes my day!) These sourdough waffles are golden, crispy and fluffy in all the right ways. If you’re looking for an easy way to use up some of your starter, these waffles are a satisfying way to do it. (You can use fed starter or discard to make them./the-beta-band-dry-the-rain.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-beta-band-dry-the-rain.htmlThe Beta Band gave us Dry the Rain and it’s the musical equivalent of a philosophical shrug. It's 1997, flannel shirts are a thing, and The Beta Band offers up a song that's part invitation to self-expression and part whimsical journey into your own mind. The opening guitar riff saunters in like it owns the place, a cool cat strolling down an alley, completely indifferent to the chaos around it. Steve Mason delivers the lyrics like he's sharing the world's best-kept secret, but with the understanding that it's a secret nobody's going to take terribly seriously./the-big-list-of-paper-miniatures.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-list-of-paper-miniatures.htmlThis week, I put out my new YouTube tutorial on making paper miniatures for TTRPGs and indie wargames. I think it lays out a comprehensive, quick, accessible, cheap, and sustainable way to create hundreds, or even thousands, of minis. But you need to actually find paper minis to use! To accompany the video, I wanted to make this list of major paper miniatures creators. Some of these creators put their work out for free, or for pay, or some combination./the-billion-dollar-goal-is-fantastic.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-billion-dollar-goal-is-fantastic.htmlAs we prepare for this current qualifying cycle for the 2026 FIFA World Cup that will be on our shores here in the United States and sharing it with our neighbors to the North in Canada and our neighbors down south in Mexico, we look back at how the shot heard around the world came to light and allowed the game in our country to flourish at the current …/the-bluestocking-vol-157.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bluestocking-vol-157.htmlHappy Friday! Just a quickie: it was my birthday this week so I’ve been on the road. The final episode of this series of The Spark is Chris Daw QC on why we should abolish prisons. Helen The Joke’s On Us (Atlantic) Actual-bigotry-camouflaged-as-ironic-bigotry seems like a new phenomenon, perhaps even a quintessentially 21st-century one, dependent on a mashup of consumerism and pop culture and being Very Online. Modern extremism often comes with elements of silliness and ridiculousness./bonsai-auctions.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bonsai-auctions.htmlThe question of “where do I buy trees for bonsai” is harder to answer than you’d think. Most of the “bonsai trees” online and in retailers are mass produced and lacking in character, more of a fast-fashion trinket than a tree to develop a years-long relationship with. I’ve written before about bonsai-hunting at garden centers; today we’re talking about online auctions. Ebay has been useful to me of course. I search for “tree” once a day and have caught some nice deals, such as a Japanese maple that’s growing like a weed./the-bouba-kiki-effect-is-real-so.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bouba-kiki-effect-is-real-so.htmlThis is a fascinating read. Before I read the explanation, I identified the curvy shape as Buoba and the more sharp shape as Kiki. My reasoning was that bouba reminded me of “blob” or “blubber” and the sound was more round. And Kiki had harder and sharper consonants, then it was repetition i-i, straighter and more direct in its sound. So, I associated it with the other shape. I think about this topic all the time./michelle-monje-the-brain-in-long.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michelle-monje-the-brain-in-long.htmlTranscript with audio and relevant external links, recorded on 6 Feb 2024 Eric Topol (00:05): Hello, this is Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I have a remarkable guest with me today, Professor Michelle Monje, who is from Stanford, a physician-scientist there and is really a leader in neuro-oncology, the big field of cancer neuroscience, neuroinflammation, and she has just been rocking it recently with major papers on these fields, no less her work that's been on a particular cancer, brain cancer in kids that we'll talk about./the-burpee-a-royal-exercise-routine.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-burpee-a-royal-exercise-routine.htmlSometimes a surname can make, break or overstate a legacy. For example, Thomas Crapper, the 19th century English plumber and plumbing supply entrepreneur wasn't really that involved with toilets, but we are largely indebted to him whenever we refer to that thing we do on the porcelain throne as "going to the crapper." Then there is Royal Huddleston Burpee, a physiologist who invented (arguably) one of the most effective exercises of all time in 1939 for his PhD thesis in Applied Physiology at Columbia Teacher’s College./dark-enlightenment-part-one-the-cathedral.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dark-enlightenment-part-one-the-cathedral.htmlConservative politics is not just for Evangelical Christians, anti-abortion crusaders, tax-averse libertarians, Q crazies, and MAGA cultists. There has emerged a New Right: young, smart, edgy, urbane—even hip. Its political philosophy is coherent and compelling. Its religion of choice, if it has one, is Catholicism. It operates in large cities like Washington, Miami, and New York. Its thought leaders are high-minded, well-read intellectuals. Known as the neo-reactionary fringe—NRx for short—its radical, antidemocratic ideas have seeped into the Republican mainstream./the-complexities-of-twilight-and.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-complexities-of-twilight-and.htmlAmid the trenches of COVID-19-induced lockdown, I, and millions around the world, flocked to media as a form of comfort. Media consumption was such a prominent part of my lockdown experience that my sisters and I could easily divide up stages of the pandemic based on what our latest TV show, movie, or music fixation was. Of all our movie marathons in 2021, one series left us hungry for more and with a longing for the 2000s and 2010s: The Twilight Saga./the-corneal-or-blink-reflex-13-01-11.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-corneal-or-blink-reflex-13-01-11.htmlLevel 1 Description: The corneal is one of the blink reflexes, is an involuntary blinking of the eyelids elicited by stimulation of the cornea. Stimulation should elicit both a direct and indirect or consensual response (opposite eye). The reflex consumes a rapid rate of 0.1 second. The evolutionary purpose of this reflex is to protect the eyes from foreign bodies. Neuroanatomy: As will all reflexes it has an afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) arm./the-gall-of-nicki-minajs-itty-bitty.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gall-of-nicki-minajs-itty-bitty.htmlThe smear campaign on pigs has levels to it. With the exception of Babe, pigs are seen as grotesque. Riddled with muck and fatty disease, the pig represents a trio of deadly sins, sloth, greed and gluttony, and is taboo across the Abrahamic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam consider pigs to be unclean animals. The Book of Leviticus draws the distinction between the pig and other hoofed mammals: “the pig, because it has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you./issue-11-the-ghost-mantis-is-a-living.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-11-the-ghost-mantis-is-a-living.htmlIt’s the second Friday of October, and a Friday the 13th, no less. What better way to celebrate than with another spooky bug? This week, we have a species of praying mantis, which is a frightening group of bugs in its own right. Mantids are lightning-fast killers, relying on instinct and camouflage to hunt and ambush their prey. Some look like bright green leaves, others like the flowers they hide inside, and others like cast off plant matter, mottled and dull./seattle-pumpernickel-bagel-best.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seattle-pumpernickel-bagel-best.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. “What's the deal with pumpernickel bagels? They're just about my favorite, but it seems like they're fairly uncommon here./the-impact-of-the-2023-rule-changes.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-impact-of-the-2023-rule-changes.htmlIssue #127 On November 20, 2022 I published an article titled “MLB Trends and Five New Records Set for Hitting, Pitching, and Fielding Rates in 2022.” Now that the 2023 regular season has concluded, I wanted to do an update to that article—especially given the several rule changes we had this year regarding defensive shifts, pitcher and batter time clocks, limits on pickoff moves, larger bases, etc. These rule changes were put in place to tweak the game in various ways: to try to raise batting averages, increase stolen bases, and most of all, decrease the overall length of games./the-kodak-black-comeback-of-2022.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-kodak-black-comeback-of-2022.htmlI’ve been thinking about who had the biggest rap comeback in 2022 and the best answer I could come up with was…Kodak Black. I know just saying that will upset some people, but Kodak’s second wind of relevance says a lot about the moral posturing of our current era.  I was a fan of Kodak as far back as 2015. He won me over with his mixtape, Lil B.I.G. Pac. I thought he had a lot of talent but he was obviously a wild dude who I assumed had a traumatic upbringing./the-long-road-to-dahab.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-long-road-to-dahab.htmlI hate the overnight bus to Dahab. The lack of sleep, the monotonous crackling music, the cramped legroom, my dry contact lenses, the frequent stops and intrusive flooding of LED light. Yet it’s worth all of the discomfort when I see the sun rise above the dark, craggy Sinai mountains and I dive into the Red Sea before breakfast. In such happy sleepy moments, the idea of ‘six impossible things before breakfast’ manifests into reality./the-many-faces-of-moonglow.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-many-faces-of-moonglow.htmlMOONGLOW by Duke Ellington 1934 A popular song everybody knows, “Moonglow” was introduced in 1933, first as an instrumental - the premiere recording is supposedly by Joe Venuti and his Orchestra, from September of that year.  The first record with the lyrics - by Eddie DeLange - came a few months later from Cab Calloway and his Orchestra. “Moonglow” is a great song, and importantly, it incorporates several other songs in both its prehistory and also in its subsequent evolution./the-mbas-that-cant-find-jobs.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-mbas-that-cant-find-jobs.htmlHey Weekly Sitreps Readers! Hope everyone had a great weekend. This past weekend I went down to Port Aransas and did duck hunting with some friends. We got plenty of ducks and I almost got hypothermia on my feet. It was really fun, minus the incredibly cold and wet weather. For this weekly sitrep I wanted to talk about a few things. WSJ - Turn on this setting in your iphone to protect your money and photos/the-midwit-trap.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-midwit-trap.htmlIt absolutely baffles me how so many perfectly smart and capable people are absolutely stuck. They’re probably always talking about it too. Maybe it’s you. It definitely was me. But if they’re so smart, why are they so stuck? When reflecting about it, I realised my answer came where I didn’t expect it. A meme. If you spend much time on the interwebs, there’s a chance you’ve come across it- the midwit meme./the-modern-myth-of-the-divine-feminine.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-modern-myth-of-the-divine-feminine.htmlI got my period back aged nineteen, on the night of a full moon. For three and a half years, I’d been suffering from amenorrhea, and I’d only just clocked this wasn’t something to be proud of. In my efforts to regulate my cycle, I’d done hoping, crying, and even the odd bit of praying (hello God, I’m sorry I abandoned you for girls and My Chemical Romance. Can I have my period back now?/venki-ramakrishnan-the-new-science.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/venki-ramakrishnan-the-new-science.htmlProfessor Venki Ramakrishnan, a Nobel laureate for his work on unraveling the structure of function of the ribosome, has written a new book WHY WE DIE which is outstanding. Among many posts and recognitions for his extraordinary work in molecular biology, Venki has been President of the Royal Society, knighted in 2012, and was made a Member of the Order of Merit in 2022. He is a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology research institute in Cambridge, UK./the-nicholberry-dispatch-22a.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-nicholberry-dispatch-22a.htmlWelcome to the Nicholberry Dispatch!  BOOK NEWS Big news today! But a little background first. When we first started looking at potential events, my publisher suggested that I consider “conversation partners.” Like so many things on this publishing journey, this was an unfamiliar concept to me. But now that you’ve read it here, you’ll see it everywhere. And you’ll see it when we announce the May 2nd event at Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica: “Kerry Nichols in conversation with W./the-picture-of-melissa-castro-part.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-picture-of-melissa-castro-part.htmlGiven my habit of treating Ariel and Castro as one and the same—which is easy enough to do when everywhere you look, there they are, the two of them traipsing around town hip-to-hip as if in a three-legged race at a corporate retreat—I thought it high time to devote more focused attention to the manifestly lesser half of that duo, to Ariel’s mostly (and mercifully) silent partner. This post will serve as the first of two that will examine the incurious curiosity that is Melissa Castro./the-post-platform-internet.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-post-platform-internet.htmlWelcome to my personal newsletter. I’m publishing weekly essays on digital technology and culture, in the run-up to my January 2024 book FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Subscribe or read the archive here. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling adrift on the internet right now. There’s no place to call home, no central gathering point where the people I want to talk to congregate. The platforms that do exist feel worse and worse./the-power-of-age.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-power-of-age.htmlI met a lovely older couple of Las Cruces, New Mexico, last week. They showed me this picture of the three of us in the 1980’s, when I officiated their wedding in Denver. 36 years later they’re still married, and we laughed at the idea that I’d tied a tight knot! These days I think a lot about those years. While the long shadow of Freud has left all of us with an almost obsessive focus on childhood, it seems to me that every phase of life is as meaningful - and determinative - as any other./seed-oils-the-real-cause-of-skin.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seed-oils-the-real-cause-of-skin.htmlIf you tan without sunscreen, many well-meaning people will tell you to “enjoy your skin cancer.” Sadly and ironically, such misinformed souls are actually the ones headed for a life of pink skin and skin cancer. In this article I will show you exactly why the sun poses no inherent threat to your skin health, and that the real cause of skin cancer, skin damage, and even sunburn, is seed oils./the-shrimp-noodles-with-xo-sauce-everyone-is-asking-for.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-shrimp-noodles-with-xo-sauce-everyone-is-asking-for.htmlThis is a recipe I threw together with the two great new condiments I just got. This incredible oyster sauce: and this superb XO Sauce Basically I just scrounged around in my pantry to see what I had that might make a delicious dish. I began with about half a pound of frozen shrimp. I defrosted them under cold running water, peeled them, dried them off and sprinkled them with salt and pepper./movie-review-the-squid-and-the-whale.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/movie-review-the-squid-and-the-whale.htmlRun Time: 1h 21m Star Rating: ★★★★★ “I was ready to leave a long time ago, I just didn’t know it then.” —Joan Berkman The Squid and the Whale is a creation of Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson. The film follows the Berkman family as they navigate an unhappy marriage. Bernard Berkman, the patriarch, is supposed to be the all-round artiste, but since meeting her husband, Joan Berkman has found arguably more success./tom-brier-the-story-and-tragic-ending.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tom-brier-the-story-and-tragic-ending.htmlAmong the countless piano covers and video game remixes on YouTube, one pianist stood out from the rest in the late 2000s. With his technical brilliance and adaptable improvisational skills, Tom Brier took familiar tunes and transformed them into complex, high-energy rags filled with racing embellishments. For fans of classical and ragtime piano, as well as gamers who loved hearing their favorite soundtracks jazzed up, Tom became a YouTube sensation./the-subversive-transfixing-world.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-subversive-transfixing-world.htmlWelcome back to Slow Ghost. If you support DIY arts and culture journalism I hope you’ll consider spreading the word. Share Slow Ghost Since we last talked, I wrote about the bold graphics and hidden stories behind the golden age of Lebanese cinema; explored the elder design revolution for Core77; was interviewed by Stet Magazine on my attempt to be a quar bike warrior; and helped a new batch of creators launch on Kickstarter./the-tale-of-three-jewels-palestinian.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tale-of-three-jewels-palestinian.htmlLast night I saw another Palestinian movie called “The Tale of Three Jewels.” The movie was released in 1996 and is the first full length feature film to be completely shot in the Gaza strip. A week ago, my partner and I were talking about the kinds of images that we’ve all been viewing over the past two months coming from Palestine—horrific images that seem to do little to move the West because of how much they devalue Palestinian lives./the-timing-is-never-perfect.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-timing-is-never-perfect.htmlThe question: “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” yields a lot of bland answers and for that reason is one of the more tedious corporate ice break-y type questions. There is, however, one answer to that question that has kept me up at night thinking and it came from my dad. My dad’s answer to that question is “Perfect Timing”. We’ve all heard the cliches that refer to imperfect timing as a deadly sin./the-tragedy-of-ryo-aoki-coeur-dalene.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tragedy-of-ryo-aoki-coeur-dalene.htmlMAJOR YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON SPOILERS ALSO WARNING FOR DISTURBING IMAGERY, WE GET DARK HERE, THANKFULLY THE HYPOTHETICALS NOTED HERE HAVE NOT HAPPENED AS OF YET If you haven’t played Yakuza: Like a Dragon, I’m about to spoil the finale. I highly recommend it - it’s a very good game with an absolutely perfect ending, and I’d happily allow for you to play the game rather than listen to me praise its storytelling./the-tragic-downfall-of-national-geographic.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tragic-downfall-of-national-geographic.htmlI loved my basement as a kid. The cool concrete floors, the drop-of-a-pin silence, the old mangey couch cushions that could turn a drab room into a harrowing fortress adventure—it was a grand escape. But my favorite thing was the boxes full of hundreds of old National Geographic magazines my grandmother had gifted us. Spanning decades of issues and thousands of topics, it was my version of Ali Baba's cave, laden with treasures of untold stories, breathtaking photos, and intriguing facts./the-week-in-recommendations-13123.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-week-in-recommendations-13123.htmlThis is the free edition of Rich Text, a newsletter about cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. If you like what you see and hear, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Our latest podcast was about Jacqueline Novak’s “Get On Your Knees.” Rich Text is a completely reader-supported project — no ads or sponsors! “One Star Romance” by Laura Hankin. So sorry to recommend a book that isn’t out for months and months, but put it on your Goodreads shelf, preorder it, mark your calendar!/thirty-seconds-over-tokyo-1944.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thirty-seconds-over-tokyo-1944.htmlI found myself getting really annoyed at "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" because the first half was all about the pilots getting mushy with their girls. To quote the kid from "The Princess Bride," you go to war movie expecting lots of action and everyone keeps kissing all the time. Fortunately, the movie redeems itself with a second act that is decidedly dark and dreary and an extended air combat sequence that's still amazing nearly 70 years later./this-book-changed-my-life-here-is.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-book-changed-my-life-here-is.html👋🏼 Hiya! So recently, I visited Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, USA. There, I got to visit the famous Randy Pausch Bridge. That name ringed a bell, and I got to experience an overwhelming emotion, cause Professor Pausch’s book The Last Lecture was one of the most life changing books I have ever read!! 📚 This book is based on the true story of a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and gave his last lecture on achieving your childhood dreams./this-is-the-best-stylus-for-your.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-the-best-stylus-for-your.htmlThe modern pencil was invented 228 years ago. The Apple Pencil was invented 8 years ago. Since then, we've seen: the Apple Pencil (gen 1) the Apple Pencil again (gen 2) the Apple Pencil again again (gen 1.5-ish) the Logitech Crayon thousands of Amazon rip-offs I'm gonna help you figure out the best choice for your iPad. Price: $129 ($119 for education) Compatible iPads: iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd-6th gen) iPad Pro 11-inch (1st-4th gen)/thomas-mosley-determined-incompetent.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thomas-mosley-determined-incompetent.htmlAs TFDP previously covered, the State of Florida is seeking the death penalty against Thomas Mosley for killing his 2-year-old son as well as the child’s mother. The State filed its Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty on April 27. The case is pending in Pinellas County. In September and October, Mosley was examined by experts for purposes of determining his competency. After evaluation, experts appointed by the State opined that Mosley should be involuntarily committed to a secure psychiatric facility because he is a threat to himself and others./those-high-sport-pants.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/those-high-sport-pants.htmlIf ever there were a piece of clothing I got asked about, it is these pants. First of all, these pants are expensive. They are quite literally: luxury stretch pants. If spending $860 on a pair of pants grosses you out, just stop reading. That being said, I write about shopping for a living and take product reviews super seriously: these pants are one of my favorite purchases from the year./three-things-b58.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-things-b58.htmlGreetings eaters and readers! What’s for dinner tonight? Might I suggest fish cakes Okonomiyaki-style cabbage fritters or Carolina Gelen’s LAZY DAY white bean and miso soup that I’ve been dreaming about ever since my daughter forward it to me on instagram. Speaking of which: are you following me on instagram? As I ramp up to the publication of my next book (August) I plan on getting back to making those reels I know you all love — or so The Algorithm tells me./thresholds-of-artificiality.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thresholds-of-artificiality.htmlWelcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture, broadly speaking. This post began as part of a recent feature I’ve titled “Is this anything?”: one idea for your consideration in less than 500 words. It spilled over 500 words, however, so just consider it a relatively brief dispatch. My writing is an exercise in thinking out loud, so I’m never quite sure where it will lead. Of course, I do hope my thinking out loud is helpful to more than just myself./through-the-looking-glass-the-chess.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/through-the-looking-glass-the-chess.htmlThis past month I read the original THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS again, and was gobsmacked and overwhelmed with uffish thought over how brilliant the writing and imagination of Lewis Carroll truly is. I’ve read both ALICE books several times since I was a child, and each time I come back, I am reminded anew how much my own books have been inspired and guided by his light — how much this story keeps inspiring me again and again to reach for greater heights./tim-ballard-said-he-buried-me.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tim-ballard-said-he-buried-me.htmlIn order to keep working, I depend on the financial support of my readers. One time donations and paid memberships to pocket observatory allow me to pay for the resources I need to be able to write. make a donation join pocket observatory I tried to write about it on Wednesday, in a quiet corner of a library. But instead, I just kind of kept almost fainting? A new thing!/tokyo-joe-1949.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tokyo-joe-1949.htmlI'm beginning to realize how much Hollywood reused story lines that had proved successful. "Casablanca" was a big hit, so that basic set-up — Humphrey Bogart as a man of dubious loyalties in an exotic land, centered around a saloon, involved with nefarious dealings and a notorious woman — was recycled several times. I previously covered "To Have and Have Not" in this space and now I've stumbled across another: "/tuan-anh.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tuan-anh.htmlTuấn Anh is a legendary icon when it comes to Vietnamese music. As a generalization for a culture that is historically conservative, its great that Tuấn Anh was able to push the envelope with the gender bending persona and be mostly accepted amongst older and younger alike. This tee pays tribute to Tuấn Anh and Vietnamese music. Digitally printed on imported “250G New Wave” garment dyed blanks. Now available on THEWWW./tune-glue-10-dawn-richard.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tune-glue-10-dawn-richard.htmlWelcome to Tune Glue, a newsletter that’s run in conjunction with Tone Glow. While the latter is dedicated to presenting interviews and reviews related to experimental music, Tune Glue is a space for interviews with artists of any kind. These interviews could be with video game designers, perfumers, or musicians who aren’t aligned with what Tone Glow typically covers. Thanks for reading. Note: subscribing via this button does not automatically subscribe you to Tune Glue. To subscribe, you have to manually go into your account and mark which Tone Glow “sections” you want to be subscribed to./two-passings.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-passings.htmlYou never knew Jim Gabriel, but to tell you the truth, neither did I. I counted him a friend, but it was one of those friendships specific to the Internet era, where strangers are exposed to each other’s intimate thoughts without ever laying eyes on each other. Ghosts in our respective feeds. Jim was one of the more vocal members of the loose consortium derisively/defensively referred to as “Film Twitter” – to belong to the club, all you need is a Twitter account, an opinion, a paid or unpaid gig writing film criticism OR an academic post OR just a knowledgeable and not too Bro-ey passion for cinema in all its iterations./underground-beer-lab-hires-brewer.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/underground-beer-lab-hires-brewer.htmlDuring the last 15 months, Ben Maeso questioned if he even wanted to brew beer again. He had just left Prison City Brewing in Auburn, Cayuga County, after an award-winning eight-year run that put the Cayuga County brewery on the national map. He was tired after pouring so much of himself into the brewpub. But a trip to Belgium last year provided a spark. (He recommends anyone needing a recharge spending some time in Belgium btw./ask-a-midwesterner-understanding.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ask-a-midwesterner-understanding.htmlWhat's more Midwestern than a Hoosier breaded pork tenderloin sandwich? It’s economical and often massive—defined by a slice of pork pounded out until it’s as big as a dinner plate. It’s democratic. Many of the best versions come from bars and diners. It’s practical. Why eat schnitzel with a knife and fork when you can put it on a bun? Most importantly, it’s darn good. You’ve never had a piece of fried chicken as tender as a golden-brown breaded pork tenderloin./vq-vae.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vq-vae.htmlBy Charlie Snell Like everyone else in the ML community, we’ve been incredibly impressed by the results from OpenAI’s DALL-E. This model is able to generate precise, high quality images from a text description. It can even produce creative renderings of objects that likely don’t exist in the real world, like “an armchair in the shape of an avocado”. To celebrate the release of DALL-E, we’re publishing a series of blog posts explaining the key components of this model./update-on-david-mirandas-health-and.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/update-on-david-mirandas-health-and.htmlNOTE FROM GLENN GREENWALD: On Sunday in Brazil, a large news site published a profile in Portuguese about how our family has been navigating the ongoing health crisis of my husband, the Brazilian Congressman David Miranda, who on that date completed three full months of hospitalization in ICU. As a result, I published an article in Portuguese on the same day that provided some more details on his health condition and how we have tried to deal with it, and I added an English translation of it for those interested./vegan-celebrity-chef-matthew-kenny.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vegan-celebrity-chef-matthew-kenny.htmlTwo recent jaw-dropping articles have exposed renowned vegan chef Matthew Kenney for various disturbing patterns of behavior. I met Kenney in early 2020 when we were both on a panel at the vegan restaurant Gracias Madre in Los Angeles (not his). He immediately struck me as cold and arrogant. On the panel, he went out of his way to denigrate “processed” plant-based foods, despite being part of a panel that was meant to celebrate all things plant-based./vietnamese-garlic-noodles-basics.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vietnamese-garlic-noodles-basics.htmlHello friends, this is the first installment of a deep-dive series on Vietnamese garlic noodles. If you don’t know what the cult-ish noodles are, let me start by setting the scene, with some history, of course! Food tastes better with context. Each installment comes with a recipe, available to paid subscribers as part of their premium perk. Through this mini-series, I hope to share how I track the Viet food story and craft recipes to help others participate in that dialogue./visit-the-amazing-wendys-museum-inside.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/visit-the-amazing-wendys-museum-inside.htmlWendy’s surge-pricing publicity debacle the other day sent me reaching into my archives for pictures of old-school Wendy’s, in particular my favorite generation, the yellow stores that were built from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, when Wendy’s adopted the copper mansard look that dominated into the early 21st century. See my Instagram post, below. Today, we’re going to a place made for “Wendy’s kind of people” — Dublin, Ohio, home of Wendy’s flagship restaurant./time-travel-visiting-a-1980s-burger.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-travel-visiting-a-1980s-burger.htmlThe other day in The Retrologist, I shared the news that Burger King was scooping up its biggest franchisee, Carrols Corp., as part of the chain’s efforts to speed up crucial renovations of its domestic stores. Carrols itself once had a namesake restaurant chain that converted its units to Burger King in the mid-1970s when it realized it stood no chance against the ever-ravenous fast-food giants. One of those former Carrols — there were over 100 — that switched to Burger King was a location in Old Forge, Pennsylvania./stateoftelaviv.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stateoftelaviv.htmlState of Tel Aviv By Vivian Bercovici STLV is a weekly newsletter and podcast focusing on Israel, the middle east and Jewish life. Our analysis and reportage delve deeply into the complex realities of the war in Israel, politics, business, tech, innovation and culture. 6000+ subscribers. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbTAwK2cqJ6kmrmiwsiv/you-will-follow-and-you-will-fire.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-will-follow-and-you-will-fire.htmlI never really thought that publishing a book debunking the Black Confederate myth would be my last word on the subject. This weekend I channeled my inner Michael Corleone (“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”) as I watched a clip from the new series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. The series follows Bass Reeves (1838-1910), an African American lawman, who rises out of enslavement to become the first Black U./we-are-all-angel-demons.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-are-all-angel-demons.htmlIn every truth there is a lie, in every lie a truth. In every Heaven there is Hell, in every Hell a Heaven too. In every pain there is a joy, in every joy a pain. In every flame there is darkness, in darkest night a flame. In every angel a demon lurks, in each demon an angel. In every savior a tormentor hides, in each tormentor a savior. In every hate there is a love, in every love there’s hate./poor-things-movie-beauty-products.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poor-things-movie-beauty-products.htmlPoor Things is like Barbie in that an undead woman enters the land of the living only to prove she is more alive than those the modern world has deadened. Poor Things is unlike Barbie in that its explicitly stated villain is not patriarchy but polite society.  “Polite society,” as multiple characters tell Bella Baxter, the zombie-doll of Poor Things, “destroys one’s soul.” Viewers meet Bella (Emma Stone) in Victorian-era London./we-need-to-talk-about-astrology.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-need-to-talk-about-astrology.htmlIt brings me no joy to do this. Honestly, I’ve been avoiding it for years. But Capricorn, I can’t stay silent any longer. This is an intervention. You’re addicted to astrology. On a first date, you crave a quick fix of what’s your sign? When you get a job offer, you’re lost until you check your horoscope for guidance from Io and Europa. When a friend says you’re too emotional, you blame it on the fact that your mom was induced three weeks before your due date./we-will-miss-you-s-gross.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-will-miss-you-s-gross.htmlThis past week we lost one of the greatest cartoonists of all time and a dear friend of ours, Sam Gross. Sam was 89 years old, leaving behind his incredible wife Isabelle and daughter Michelle. The Washington Post remarked his humor as “outrageous” and “cancel-worthy” which is a title I’m sure we will all hope to live up to. Sam drew nearly 30,000 cartoons in his lifetime, a number that’s hard to imagine—unless you’ve seen his studio (and his bathtub)./todays-poem-weep-you-no-more-sad.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/todays-poem-weep-you-no-more-sad.htmlTip Jar Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWeep you no more, sad fountains; What need you flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven’s sun doth gently waste. But my sun’s heavenly eyes View not your weeping, That now lie sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets. Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets?/wes-anderson-in-the-land-of-dahl.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wes-anderson-in-the-land-of-dahl.htmlIt’s vile, what the Rat Man (Ralph Fiennes) does to demonstrate his skill in “The Rat Catcher,” one of four new Wes Anderson-directed short films adapting Roald Dahl stories that premiered on Netflix last week. While speaking to the unnamed editor (Richard Ayoade) of a small English town’s newspaper and Claud (Rupert Friend), the proprietor of a petrol station, the Rat Man pulls a rat out of one pocket and a ferret out of another./what-about-bob.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-about-bob.html“Enthusiasm is contagious. If you act and talk enthusiastically, you’ll project that quality -- and your listeners will react in the same way.” -- Frank Bettger, How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling (1952) I’ve hung around the Ivy/trad internet long enough to know that you can’t win talking about Mad Men. Ivy fans vacillate wildly between hating the show for not putting every character in J./what-does-a-biblically-accurate-angel.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-a-biblically-accurate-angel.htmlIs this accurate? Is this an angel? Angels are everywhere in Christian art, and their appearances have been fairly consistent over the past 2000 years: beautiful humans with long, golden hair, flowing robes, and a single pair of feathery wings. These angels grace the pages of medieval manuscripts in biblical scenes where they deliver messages, play instr… ncG1vNJzZmivlZ6%2FpbnEnaCerpGhtLbF0meqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTEqa3TZpuonaNirm6uyJujopuRobm6ecCcmq6qkamybq3NoJyl/beyond-the-buzzwords-what-does-freedom.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyond-the-buzzwords-what-does-freedom.htmlWe’re just around the corner from celebrating all things American and Free. Yet freedom is more than a word to toss around without regard for what it actually means. Is there a one-size-fits-all definition for freedom? How do you define, measure, and experience freedom in your life? ncG1vNJzZmismJbBqMHYoqWhraSYtW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iala68r7CMrZ%2BeZZKqx7vDzqubrGWnna61ecOonKxllqeyprDOpmacp52isq%2FA0g%3D%3D/what-does-the-bible-say-about-the.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-does-the-bible-say-about-the.htmlWhile the rainbow has been highjacked by the LGBTQ movement today to represent their “pride,” what the rainbow actually means is found in the Bible. The word “rainbow” appears only six times in the Bible. Each time the “rainbow” appears in the Bible, it sheds a little bit more light on the Most High God. Here are the six times the word “rainbow” appears in the Bible. After the flood waters had receded, God spoke to Noah./what-happened-to-berkey-filters.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happened-to-berkey-filters.htmlClean water is incredibly important, and honestly, it’s something so many people take for granted. At this point, about 1/4 of the world’s population doesn’t have access to a clean, reliable source of drinking water. That’s impressive when you realize that city tap water (that most people know better than to drink) is considered a “clean water” source. Growing up in California in the 90s, we’d get regular notices from the state warning us not to drink the water because it was contaminated with dangerous levels of nitrites and pesticides./what-is-charisma.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-charisma.htmlThink of someone you admire for his or her charisma. What makes that person so mysteriously compelling? In all likelihood, you’re picking up on three things: Conviction: There’s a powerful energy that springs from their commitment to an idea. They see clearly what others see only through a clouded looking glass. In many cases, their inner power transcends rank and status, as when Gandhi brought down the British Empire with the force of his devotion to justice./real-meaning-jan-6.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/real-meaning-jan-6.htmlI’m sorry to intrude on your holiday week with this, but I want you to be prepared for what’s to come next week. January 6 will be the first anniversary of one of the most shameful days in American history. On that date in 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by thousands of armed loyalists to Donald Trump, some intent on killing members of Congress. Roughly 140 officers were injured in the attack./what-s-dominique-hampton-brings-to.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-s-dominique-hampton-brings-to.htmlThe Washington Commanders selected Dominique Hampton in the fifth round with the 161st overall pick. Hampton played safety in college for the Washington Huskies and due to the Covid pandemic, spent six seasons with the Huskies, working his way up from a reserve all the way to a starter in their run to the National Championship game against Michigan this season. Hampton’s athleticism really stands out over everything else. He measured in at 6-foot-2, 215 pounds, which is a very good size for a safety, but his testing numbers were fantastic too./whats-andrew-coyne-so-worried-about.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-andrew-coyne-so-worried-about.htmlThis week’s episode is an old home week. Andrew Coyne is, of course, the dean of Globe and Mail political columnists and a regular on the At Issue panel on Thursday nights on the CBC’s The National newscast (kids, ask your parents). I’ve known him for 30 years, and we worked together at the old Southam News, at the National Post, at Maclean’s and frequently on the CBC. Even before that, I first read his name in the pages of the old Saturday Night magazine./whats-the-best-burger.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whats-the-best-burger.htmlWhat kind of cheese was on your burger? I grind my own chuck with the Kitchen Aid attachment. These days, it seems to me that chain grocers think that consumers won't buy hunks of meat that are fatty, so It's been difficult to find a chuck roast with enough fat to make an 80%/20% mixture. I often supplement with butter. I add a teaspoon of kosher salt per pounof raw meat, then blast thin patties on a screaming-hot stovetop flat griddle until they're well done and crispy, diner style./whatever-happened-to-forte.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whatever-happened-to-forte.htmlIf blockchain gaming platform Forte was a game, at the Big Blockchain Game List we would have dropped it into our discontinued tab years ago. Its last tweet was on 14th August 2023 and the website’s copyright year is still listed as 2022. Even worse, its YouTube channel has a mere three videos: all are at least two years old; and the only one about a bl… ncG1vNJzZmifkaKytMDXZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMSprdOerZ6qXZ2usbzEp5ydZaSkeqe70a2c/when-did-chess-get-so-sexy.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-did-chess-get-so-sexy.htmlI was in my school’s chess club for a couple of years. We played against other students in the area, but during these competitions I only remember seeing one girl. Eventually, I quit playing chess and started playing guitar. I switched for the music, but it helped that guitarists were cool. If you had asked me to describe the appearance of a top-rated chess player, I would have said a man with binoculars-thick specks, urine-coloured fingers, hackled neck, moulting jacket – “some wronged and fettered wild beast or bird, dangerous to approach in his sullen woe./latin-quarter.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/latin-quarter.htmlThe Latin Quarter is one of my favorite parts of Paris. I’ll tell you about some of my favorite places to visit in these first few paragraphs, but you can scroll down to find the restaurant recommendations. The Latin Quarter gets its name from the common language that was spoken by students who came study in this neighborhood a thousand years ago. The early scholastic gatherings took place in the open air - students would bring their own stools to attend outdoor lectures here before the Sorbonne was founded in 1253./whoop-vs-oura-ring-which-one-should.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whoop-vs-oura-ring-which-one-should.htmlRunning is inherently based on numbers: mile paces, interval splits, finish times, etc. But it’s harder to quantify recovery, one of the most important aspects of the sport. If exercise is the stress that breaks down your muscle fibers, recovery is when your body repairs and rebuilds those muscle fibers so they can adapt to a higher workload in your next workout. Without proper post-workout recovery, you just keep accumulating fatigue, which breaks your body down further and can lead to illness, injury, and burnout./white-chocolate-hazelnut-spread.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/white-chocolate-hazelnut-spread.htmlThis issue of The Boy Who Bakes is sponsored by Wilfa Happy Friday! Are you ready for the weekend? I have family visiting so it’s a pizza party and games night kind of weekend ahead for me. When we have a crowd visiting I often turn to making pizza because if you’re already making one, it’s really not that much more work making a bunch, especially the sheet pan pizzas I like to make for these occasions, quicker than individual pies and I can bake multiples pizzas at the same time./who-are-israels-12-tribes-today.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-are-israels-12-tribes-today.htmlDear Healthy Jew, Some months ago, I posted in these pages about the 12 tribes of Israel, and explained how 12 different lines together create every space - just as Yaakov’s (Jacob) 12 different sons together forged the Jewish nation. The message: We allow God inside our world when we build for Him a place to dwell in Israel, each tribe in its own line, all working together.  Why Israel Has 12 Tribes·/why-cooper-flagg-should-go-to-maine.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-cooper-flagg-should-go-to-maine.htmlEven if you don’t have an interest in the intricacies of college basketball recruiting, there’s at least a chance you’ve heard of Cooper Flagg. The 6-foot-8 forward from Newport, Maine isn’t quite a generational prospect because there’s by definition only one of those per generation, but he’s something not terribly far from it. Flagg is the consensus No. 1 player in the 2024 men’s college basketball recruiting rankings, with the four major recruiting outlets – 247 Sports, Rivals, ESPN and On3 – all slotting him in their top spot./why-doesnt-anybody-have-good-furniture.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-doesnt-anybody-have-good-furniture.htmlSnake is a reader-supported newsletter covering good furniture, undervalued, or eternal. Many auctions this week—listings are at the bottom, as Quick Hits—but I wanted to talk about something. One of the things I’ve mentioned in this newsletter but haven’t addressed directly is the concept of how no one really has any good furniture. Very, very few people, say, under the age of 45 have interiors that could withstand a photo spread./why-hasnt-israel-nuked-gaza.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-hasnt-israel-nuked-gaza.htmlWho in their right mind would consider dropping nuclear weapons on the 2.2 million residents trapped in the Gaza Strip? Meet Israel’s Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu. Eliyahu is one of the extremist members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet. He was telling a journalist in an November 5 interview why he thought that Palestinians in Gaza had no right to exist and that anyone waving a Palestinian or Hamas flag “shouldn’t continue living on the face of the earth./why-we-loved-chandler-bing.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-loved-chandler-bing.htmlMy love of Chandler Bing runs deep, probably as deep as love can run for a fictional character. I should first admit that celebrity deaths rarely hit me particularly hard. Maybe I’m numb to them after pre-writing many obituaries for years as a celebrity journalist. Yes, this is something celebrity journalists do….we prepare obituaries for the celebrities… ncG1vNJzZmiin6W2osbZmmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy4tNhmrp5lnKTDprCMnJ%2BappShsrN5waKloA%3D%3D/liga-expansion-mx-pro-rel.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/liga-expansion-mx-pro-rel.htmlA few historically great clubs. Some plucky upstarts with sleek marketing. Reserve teams. Mexico’s second division is a strange mix. Every few weeks rumors pop up that changes are coming to the Liga Expansion. Again. The latest indicates the second tier could be made up of six independent clubs and 18 reserve squads. That’s after significant changes made at the start of the pandemic in 2020, designed to last until the 2026 World Cup./women4china.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/women4china.htmlWOMEN我们 By WOMEN我们 “WOMEN我们”是一个想象的共同体，用免于审查的中文书写当代史的初稿。欢迎您订阅我们，并帮助防火墙内的朋友邮件订阅我们；也欢迎您捐助和分享我们的文章。请联系chugaofirstdraft@proton.me，为报道提供线索或加入我们，成为撰稿人。我们会努力保证您的信息安全。 ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbi7zJ6lbZuYnrui/work-the-problems-one-by-one.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/work-the-problems-one-by-one.htmlWelcome to the series of occasional posts I’m calling Actually Okay Advice, where I share a piece of advice I’ve come across that I think is pretty useful. These are things I’ve tried myself, and for the most part, continue to use. As always, YMMV. Check out previous AOAs here and here and here and here. I’m not gonna lie: I do enj… ncG1vNJzZmiklai5qrHKnqmnZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9aoqaRlpJ2ybrzRqJmlnZ2oerC6xGaZsmWfo7I%3D/xp-arcade-super-hang-on.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/xp-arcade-super-hang-on.htmlThis column is “XP Arcade,” in which I’ll focus on a game from the arcades, or one that is clearly inspired by arcade titles, and so on. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. I was born in 1986, while arcades were on the rise once again. I was also raised in a town where arcades had not and would not exist — my experience with arcade games in my youth was in bowling alleys, laundromats, pizza places, but until the occasional Chuck E./yard-sales-garage-sales-rummage-sales.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yard-sales-garage-sales-rummage-sales.htmlWhile you might argue that the small differences between yard sales and garage sales are moot, I figured that a glossary could still come in handy for all you thrifters. Second-hand shopping, of course, isn’t limited to garage sales and yard sales—there are rummage sales, stoop sales, and estate sales, too. The general concept for all these sales is the same, but there are nuances to help distinguish them from each other./your-fathers-day-gift-ideas.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-fathers-day-gift-ideas.htmlI am ALWAYS stumped by Fathers’ Day. There are four dads in my life (mine, my step-dad, my kids’ dad, his dad) and none of them really care about gifts or fit the classic golf/grilling dad stereotypes. I also have plenty of angry feminist feelings about the way this holiday leans into the stereotypes and tropes that enable dads to do less domestic work than moms. This year, I think I solved it: I’m making a donation to a charity that supports marginalized women on all of their behalf./how-did-midjourney-start.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-did-midjourney-start.htmlHi, I’m Anthony! 👋 Every Week, I look at the 10% of startups that did not end up in the startup graveyard. Most analyses are done on mature companies which is not actionable for budding entrepreneurs. I want to understand what the founders did at the very beginning. What did they do before their startup became a household name? If you haven’t subscribed yet, join the other folks interested in starting your own company by subscribing here:/servicenow-scaling-to-10bn-in-arr.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/servicenow-scaling-to-10bn-in-arr.htmlHi, it’s Alexandre from Eurazeo. I’m investing in seed & series A European vertical solutions (vSol) which are industry specific solutions aiming to become industry OS and combining dynamics from SaaS, marketplaces and fintechs. Overlooked is a weekly newsletter about venture capital and vSol. Today, I’m sharing a deep-dive on ServiceNow. Today, I’m excited to share a deep-dive on ServiceNow. I co-authored this post with my friend Chirag Modi, who curates the weekly newsletter "/spicy-fried-potato-salad.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spicy-fried-potato-salad.htmlLast week, I created and tested 7 new recipes (for work and the blog). I cooked them multiple times. And then I cooked all our regular meals and (lunches and dinners and hot snacks) while ticking off some of the special meal requests on the “Recipe Request” list I have put up for the family. These extra things I cooked were elaborate. They have to be because they are special requests./the-weird-and-eerie-outfits.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-weird-and-eerie-outfits.htmlHi! Today’s episode is a solo voice note about my Sunday essay, Accounting for taste. In this ep I explore the online personalities that inspired me to think more deeply about what makes taste or style interesting, especially the people who make me afraid it’s all a charade (no offense!). I got lots of great emails about this newsletter so I’m happy to h… ncG1vNJzZmigkaGyurrAoaSapl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55lp5q2s7CMmqWdZZWav6qxjKisrZ6ZqcA%3D/and-just-like-that-season-2-finale.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/and-just-like-that-season-2-finale.htmlTap here for Back Row’s complete archive of And Just Like Thatrecaps. Right before And Just Like That’s season two finale, news broke that the show had been picked up for a third season. This confirmed what has clearly been building in recent episodes: that misery would be on the menu, because happiness does not a third season make. “We are delighted to share that since the launch of season two, ‘And Just Like That…’ ranks as the #1 Max Original overall, and is the most-watched returning Max Original to date,” said Sarah Aubrey, who runs original content for Max./notebook-chocolatito-eyes-ring-return.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-chocolatito-eyes-ring-return.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./in-review-indiana-jones-and-the-dial.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-indiana-jones-and-the-dial.htmlIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Dir. James Mangold 154 min. At this point, the Indiana Jones movies have come to resemble one of those venerable bands that’s retained one or two original members and brought in some new recruits capable of playing the hits to nostalgic fans who don’t mind if things aren’t quite what they used to be. The name’s the same. Some of the faces look familiar and the new additions certainly have chops./menorah-in-the-middle-tries-to-make.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/menorah-in-the-middle-tries-to-make.htmlWhy is it so hard to make a decent holiday rom-com that centers Jews? That is the topic we are exploring on this week’s podcast as we dive into the absolute student-film-esque mayhem of Hulu’s “Menorah In The Middle.” This Hanukkah romantic comedy follows Sarah (Lucy DeVito, daughter of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman), as she returns to her hometown of Sol Viejo, California for Hanukkah with her goyishe supervillain boyfriend Chad (inexplicably played by Chilean-American actor Cristián de la Fuente)./alfie-whats-it-all-about.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alfie-whats-it-all-about.htmlThere’s still time to take advantage of our Christmas Special from now through the weekend — 25% off all new paid, gift, and upgraded subscriptions. Not too long ago I surprised myself by doing a Burt Bacharach song, venturing into the music scene of the 1960’s when folk music was making a huge comeback, rock ‘n roll was hitting its stride, and even the… ncG1vNJzZmiZnqm1sLrYnqqopJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZpqklp6ybsPHmqusZZmpeqK4y2aYm6elqQ%3D%3D/big-in-japan.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-in-japan.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: The opening 15 seconds of “Big in Japan” encapsulate everything I love about Tom Waits, both musically and narratively. I’d never paid too much attention to them before. They’re just typical Tom lo-fi beatboxing before the band kicks in. Or so I thought./justified-city-primeval-season-finale.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justified-city-primeval-season-finale.htmlWarning: Spoilers everywhere / Grade: C- The final episode of a season’s long meandering story that lacked purpose, grit and a plausible anything culminated in a jumpy timeline of bloodshed, stupid people doing stupid stuff, and this season’s villains getting their comeuppance. You’ll recall from the outset of Primeval that I had high hopes for crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s adaptation having been a big Justified fan back in its heyday in the 2010s./maestro-makes-a-mess-of-leonard-bernstein.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/maestro-makes-a-mess-of-leonard-bernstein.htmlMuch has been made of writer-director-actor Bradley Cooper’s visual take on the famous 20th-century composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Specifically, his prosthetic nose. That nose, whatever anybody thinks, is the least of our concerns with “Maestro.” A title like that implies brilliance. Cooper, as an actor and director, tries hard and occasionally succeeds artistically. Yet the claim of this title is too much for the film. Quickly I lost track of what this movie was trying to be about, and once that happened, there was no turning back./sexy-jhumpa-lahiri-interpreter-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sexy-jhumpa-lahiri-interpreter-of.htmlMost of the men in Interpreter of Dreams, Jhumpa Lahiri’s wonderful 1999 debut collection, are losers. This tracks. Here’s a scene in the story “Sexy” where 22 y/o protagonist Miranda is out on a romantic afternoon w/ a guy named Dev, who is in his 40s and married w/ kids, and who first approached her at that most “definitely a spot to pick up chicks” of locations, a department store cosmetics counter:/twenty-five-twenty-one.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/twenty-five-twenty-one.html☆☆☆½ (out of ☆☆☆☆) Na Hee-do (played by Kim Tae-ri) Baek Yi-jin (played by Nam Joo-hyuk) ↑Note: Korean names denote the surname followed by the given name. Nine minutes into the Korean series Twenty-Five Twenty-One, a high school junior named Hee-do (played by Kim Tae-ri) is on her way to school. Her mother is a news anchor, but Hee-do is oblivious to the reports about the IMF crisis and how citizens are suffering financial losses./morning-glory-muffins.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/morning-glory-muffins.htmlThe weather is turning cooler and there even was a little rain today—hopefully a sign that our summer drought is close to being over. In the mornings, I hear the voices of the neighborhood kids as they wait for the school bus outside the fence near my garden. I don’t know why fall brings on baking urges in me, but it does. You, too? There are half bags of shredded coconut and crystalized ginger on my pantry shelves, and carrots and apples in the fridge./40-from-china-but-not-to-chandni.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/40-from-china-but-not-to-chandni.htmlThis newsletter is really a weekly public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution? Insights on burning policy issues in India — Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley and Pranay Kotasthane/who-killed-michael-francke-and-does.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-killed-michael-francke-and-does.htmlSo off we go into the wild blue Substack yonder. And wouldn’t you know it, the first chapter, right off the bat, is about the Francke murder. Yes, I know. As far as most of you out there are probably concerned, I’m obsessed with the Francke case, which implies some sort of out-of-control compulsive behavior – and who knows, maybe there’s even some truth to that. If I have a choice in the matter, instead of obsessed I suppose I’d pick the word fascinated, because, in addition to all the legal and moral issues at play here, it’s always been a great mystery or whodunnit to me, suitable for a movie or a TV series./2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-eb0.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-eb0.htmlSome Knicks news before we continue with our free agency rankings:  🏀 Rokas Jokubaitis, whom the Knicks selected in the second round of the 2021 draft, averaged 7.4 points and 2.8 assists in 17.7 minutes over 32 appearances for Barcelona in the ACB league this past season. Encouragingly, he was highly efficient, shooting 56.6% from the floor and 48.6% from three-point territory.  During Lithuania's impressive run to the knock-out stage in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, Jokubaitis averaged 12./6-of-the-most-expensive-african-artworks.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/6-of-the-most-expensive-african-artworks.htmlArt is a reflection of the culture, history, and expressions of the societies that create them. With African visual art becoming mainstream in recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the monetary value of these pieces. Today, collectors and enthusiasts alike recognise the continent’s rich and diverse artistic heritage and desire to have more contemporary African pieces in their collections. In today’s digest, we will be exploring 6 of the most expensive African artworks ever sold in the last decade./hulk-hogan-undertaker-survivor-series-91.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hulk-hogan-undertaker-survivor-series-91.htmlEnjoy? Want to support this work and get exclusive content, like subscriber Q&As, source materials and notes from the Babyface v. Heel podcast that should finally debut soon really this time? Then please subscribe for just $5/month or $50/year. Even if you’re not able to pay right now, please at least consider signing up for the free version, which will deliver all of the free posts directly to your email inbox, as well free preview excerpts of the paid subscriber-exclusive articles./the-evolution-of-12-usc-531-a-closer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-evolution-of-12-usc-531-a-closer.htmlIn the complex world of taxation, there exists a section of the IRS Tax Code that has stood the test of time and played a crucial role in shaping the financial landscape of the United States. This section, known as 12 USC 531, is a cornerstone of the Internal Revenue Code, and its history and current status are worth exploring. A Glimpse into the Past 12 … ncG1vNJzZmido5zCr7XVnqmsoaSue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWKyt7vLrquip55ivKd5kGtkrquTYoJ0fYyaZJykn6iysw%3D%3D/blade-of-god-x-bogx-a-comprehensive.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blade-of-god-x-bogx-a-comprehensive.htmlBlade of God X (BOGX) is an immersive action RPG that combines stunning visuals with engaging gameplay mechanics. The game has received prestigious awards such as the 2023 HUAWEI AI CLOUD "Game Changer Awards" and the Innovation Breakthrough Award from Huawei HDC, highlighting its innovation and industry impact. The game is available across multiple platforms: PC, Android, and iOS. The game offers a rich storyline set in a dark-themed fantasy world filled with mythical creatures and epic battles from Norse mythology./napas-angele-restaurant-and-bar-a.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/napas-angele-restaurant-and-bar-a.htmlAngèle, a jewel among Napa Valley restaurants, provides more than just delicious cuisine. It has also become one big family. Spearheaded by Bettina Rouas, the owner, the eatery on Napa's vibrant waterfront owes its legacy to a lineage deeply rooted in the food industry. Even at 90, Bettina's father, Claude Rouas, is a revered restaurateur who is noted for introducing refined dining to Northern California in the 1960s. His L’Etoile was one of the region’s first French-inspired restaurants./a-knick-you-knew-luther-ticky-burden.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-knick-you-knew-luther-ticky-burden.htmlGood morning! Quick scheduling note for this week…while I usually run Ray Marcano’s superb summer series “A Knick You Knew” on Fridays, I’m switching things up this week because the NBA plans to release the full 2023-24 slate of games later today. As such, I’m running this week’s “Knick You Knew” today and saving tomorrow for an analysis of New York’s 2… ncG1vNJzZmijnp6wrL%2FFoqOmq5OdvLC4jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5Z6rLrInKJmsZ%2Bqeqy6xLBkpa2knbKzedOimqSxXZfCs7DEpw%3D%3D/scottie-pippen-horace-grant-and-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scottie-pippen-horace-grant-and-the.htmlThe dynasty’s not the dynasty without Scottie Pippen. I was only five on June 22, 1987. I knew Michael Jordan by then, but that was it, and I definitely wasn’t tracking the draft. And with the NBA Draft last night, I wanted to take a look back at the reporting of the day around the 1987 NBA Draft, the Bulls, Pippen and Horace Grant. Part of my approach to research is simply reading the newspaper on a given topic, day by day, month by month./a-metaphilosophy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-metaphilosophy.htmlI just went to a conference where I spent 40 or so of 96 hours listening to philosophers talk. I feel like I can see through time. Aristotle and Plato have merged into a single figure, Arlato, and he is angry. I am certain I have developed telepathic powers, but only for people who have colored their hair grue. I met so many beautiful souls and one or two souls that maybe were having a bad day./a-plate-of-spaghetti.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-plate-of-spaghetti.htmlHello! and so, here is a quick recipe for a very pleasing plate of spaghetti that I ate quite happily to myself just yesterday in between cleaning artichokes, making chocolate cake and brining a chook. It’s a sauce that can be quickly thrown together using the same principles to that of a pesto; garlic, herb, nut, olive oil, parmesan, lemon rind, lemon juice, salt, pepper. You can play around however you like./a-podcast-about-rome-episode-15-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-podcast-about-rome-episode-15-the.htmlIn September this year the structures long referred to as the Domus Tiberiana reopened to the public for the first time since 1970. They once formed a spectacular facade overlooking the Roman Forum, straddling an existing Roman road, and in fact dating not to the reign of Tiberius (as was believed when it was given the name, which stuck) but instead to the reigns of Nero, Domitian, and Hadrian. It’s a fabulously intriguing space, and offers a coherent and exciting connexion between the Palatine Hill and the Forum./a-theology-of-good-works.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-theology-of-good-works.htmlWhen I saw this new book by Thomas McCall, Caleb Friedemann, and Matt Friedemann (=MFF), The Doctrine of Good Works: Reclaiming a Neglected Protestant Teaching, one of my first responses was whether or not they’d line up with me on tov. After all tov is the “good” in “good works.” In A Church called Tov I outlined a theology of tov with the following themes: (1) God alone is tov, (2) God’s design is tov in the power of the Spirit, (3) Tov is active, (4) Tov resists evil, (5) Tov is God’s ultimate and final approval, (6) the Gospel is tov (good news), (7) Jesus is the one true human of tov, and (8) we are called to participate in God forming a tov church in this world./a-touch-of-kim-stanley.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-touch-of-kim-stanley.htmlWelcome to the very first installment of Complete Works, a newsletter where writers share the invisible parts of their work! You’ll be hearing from a lot of people who are not me over the coming months, but to inaugurate the newsletter, I thought I’d start with something from my own work. My forthcoming book The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act spans a century on two continents and has dozens of characters./flakowitz-boynton-beach-appetizer-cake-marble.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/flakowitz-boynton-beach-appetizer-cake-marble.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. You don’t even have to walk inside Flakowitz of Boynton before the authentically Jewish experiences begin. Arriving at the iconic deli at 10:30 a./a-woman-to-know-giulia-tofana.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-woman-to-know-giulia-tofana.htmlDuring the Renaissance, in an era of arranged marriages that left no possibility of divorce, the only way out of an unhappy union was death.  — Genevieve Carlton (Aqua Tofana, image via Wikimedia Commons) Between 1631 and 1659, Palermo noblewoman Giulia Tofana built quite the customer base for her handmade cosmetics. But her most popular product — a suppo… ncG1vNJzZmiipaG2oq%2FCmqmpnZ6psrN60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnkWLEsLnAp2Stp12gu7DDjKCgrqSZlnq1u8WapZo%3D/actually-mark-twain-knew-there-were.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/actually-mark-twain-knew-there-were.htmlTom Sawyer Abroad (1894) is one of the least widely read and most critically-reviled books in Mark Twain’s corpus, and justifiably so. It was written under duress, on the brink of financial crisis. Twain sought to stave off disaster by writing a three-quel. But, while The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) had both been composed and carefully revised over spans of several years, the first half of Tom Sawyer Abroad was written in three weeks, and the entire novel went from conception to completion in five months./adorable-story-69-janet-auchincloss.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adorable-story-69-janet-auchincloss.html“It’s funny, isn’t it? All the compliments and nice things in the world can be said to you but if you didn’t hear them as a child—or even thought you didn’t hear them—then you just never believe them.” — Janet Auchincloss Janet Norton Lee Auchincloss (1907-1989), born in New York City to James T. Lee was a prominent socialite and philanthropist. Her first marriage to John Vernou Bouvier III produced two daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill./african-history-queen-amanirenas.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/african-history-queen-amanirenas.htmlWelcome and blessings to all my new and existing subscribers! Here is some beautiful African history worth sharing. I am sending out two posts to cover for the delays in my posting schedule :-) How much do you know about Queen Amanirenas -The 2nd Kandake of Kush (Present-day Sudan)? Were you taught about her Power, Leadership, and military might? Queen Amanirenas, also known as "Kandake," was the Queen of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush/Nubia (present-day Sudan)/ajay-mitchell-scouting-report.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ajay-mitchell-scouting-report.htmlAfter winning Big West Player of the Year in 2023, Mitchell popped up on NBA radars due to his versatile way of leading a team as their floor general. He’s combining on-ball activities with tons of off-ball plays, which led to him finding a variety of ways to score. At 20 points per game in his junior year, he shows he can produce while playing in a role suited to translate early in his NBA career./alistair-beggs-big-mistake.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alistair-beggs-big-mistake.htmlIn a podcast recorded last year, the prominent evangelical radio preacher Alistair Begg, after being asked by a grandmother whether she should attend her grandson’s marriage to a transgender person, advised her to go as an act of love and support. He said that if the gay or transgender couple knows of the grandmother’s commitment to Christ, and her disapproval of the marriage, she should feel free to attend the wedding as an act of love and support./review-americas-cultural-revolution.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-americas-cultural-revolution.htmlOver the past few years, Chris Rufo has emerged as one of the most effective conservative activists in the United States. As far as I can tell, he got his start in 2019 after reporting on non-profit and government employees who mystifyingly decided to hire a black-trans stripper to give a raunchy performance at a conference on homelessness in Seattle. The demeaning racial overtones and spectacle of exploitation and waste in the event seem pretty obvious to any normal person./unpopular-opinion-4-americans-are.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unpopular-opinion-4-americans-are.htmlI remember watching the movie “Wall-E” with my kids when it came out in 2008. Beyond the dystopian portrayal of Earth, I thought its depiction of the people who survived Earth's destruction in a giant spaceship was biting. Sixteen years later, that caricature of what happens to humans due to technology just might be more true than not. Let me explain. First, for decades, we’ve had fast food restaurants and pizza delivery drivers that allowed us to grab food on the go quickly or get a pizza dropped off for parties or a busy night./among-the-lilies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/among-the-lilies.htmlI know, two posts in one week! But I *have* to tell you: the lilies are in bloom. I love a lily. They’re my favorite flower, but the Cahaba River sports one beautiful one in particular—the Cahaba Lily. Known as a form of spider-lily or a shoal lily, the Cahaba Lily (Hymenocallis coronaria) is technically a lily in name only and is also found elsewhere in select places like Georgia and South Carolina, but the largest stand of which is located in the Cahaba at the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge./an-early-take-on-amber-alee-frosts.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-early-take-on-amber-alee-frosts.htmlI started listening to Chapo Trap House in early 2018 after I heard on reddit that it was a Pod Save America alternative that hated the Democrat Party. I wasn’t on Twitter or maybe I would have heard of it sooner, and much of what they said on the show was initially impenetrable to me because I wasn’t on Twitter. But I listened to it with relish, going back through the two years’ worth of episodes I had missed./an-update-on-miss-kay-and-my-message.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-update-on-miss-kay-and-my-message.htmlIf you listen to our Unashamed podcast, you know Miss Kay has been in the hospital this month. I can't wait for her to be back home, and neither can she. She's doing better, and she's as ready to be out of the rehabilitation facility as I am to have her back with me. There was a time when I had drifted so far into the clutches of the evil one that I didn't think it would be possible to find my way back from the bottle to Miss Kay and our boys./andrew-mccarthy-is-still-mad-about.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/andrew-mccarthy-is-still-mad-about.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. — When Brats first popped up in the featured movies row on Hulu, it didn’t immediately jump out at me as something I wanted to watch./animorphs-75-megamorphs-1-the-andalites.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/animorphs-75-megamorphs-1-the-andalites.htmlhey hi hello everyone and welcome back to animorphs weekly, abc’s new bachelorette pre-show show. what a year last week was, huh? did anyone else have destiel becoming canon on their 2020 bingo card? does anyone else here even know what destiel is? by god i hope not. may the curse end with me. but! our work isn’t over. there are TWO runoff elections happening in georgia in january. i’ve pledged $5/week to be split between the two campaigns and if you’d like, you can join me here./anne-bradstreets-contemplations-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anne-bradstreets-contemplations-and.html“Soul of this world, this Universe’s Eye" “Nature teacheth bees to do so when as the hive is too full, they seek abroad for new dwellings; so when the hive of the commonwealth is so full that tradesmen cannot live one by another, but eat up one another, in this case it is lawful to remove.” —God’s Promise to His Plantation, John Cotton, 1620 When the first Puritan settlers came to New England in 1630, not much was known of the naturalistic landscape of their new home./announcing-complete-global-saturation.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/announcing-complete-global-saturation.htmlExactly a month ago on my 36th birthday, I tweeted about having something Resident Evil fandom-related to share in the near future, and I’m happy to reveal today that I am starting my own Resident Evil-focused Substack called Complete Global Saturation! For years, I’ve thought about running a blog or news site offering written Resident Evil content. I just wasn’t sure how to execute on the idea; I started my own personal blog back in 2016 with the intent to focus on games and travel, but it never got off the ground and I only use it sparingly./anthracite-netflix-series-2024.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/anthracite-netflix-series-2024.htmlIt looks like The Order of the Solar Temple is back - like a ritual attack - in the new French crime mystery series Anthracite, which stars Camille Lou, Noémie Schmidt and rapper Hatik in the leading roles. Let’s start off with some history: there was a time, some thirty years ago, that quasi-religious cults and sects were all the rage, a lot of them concerned about the end times./antonym-the-efflorescent-frame-edition.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/antonym-the-efflorescent-frame-edition.htmlDear Reader  We’re talking a lot about frames right now. How we shape our reality by seeing it through the best frames we have, and how, when those frames are less useful we need to try new ones.  Here’s a good example of re-framing. Most of us think of tides as when the sea comes and out from the shore. It’s a good frame. It works for us.  But tides don’t go in and out./apple-tysons-corner-a-new-chapter.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apple-tysons-corner-a-new-chapter.html"Like all Apple Stores, Tysons Corner offers a hearing loop system for people who are hard of hearing." Wow — is this true? Every Forum event listing I've seen has mentioned having one on hand, but do all the non-Forum stores have them too? Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmilmZi1orHLrKuenZKav2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iZoKW5pnnTsqqopqNisLC%2BzZ6pZpldo7K4ecKhmKmslad8pLvMppynrKM%3D/archbishop-vigano-is-a-sedevacantist.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/archbishop-vigano-is-a-sedevacantist.htmlI’m just making a quick post because I want to clarify something. In a recent article on the conflict between the nuns of the Carmelite Monastery in Arlington, Texas and Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, I described Archbishop Vigano with these words: “the disgraced former apostolic nuncio to the United States, the sedevacantist Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.” I received a couple of messages asking me if Vigano had “officially” stated that he is a sedevacantist, or if there was any concrete proof that he is./are-groceries-really-a-splurge.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-groceries-really-a-splurge.htmlJust when it felt as though we finally moved past the connection between millennials, housing, and avocado toast, that Business Insider article on groceries came out. The headline about millennials looking to “splurge” more at grocery stores has quickly made rounds on social media. While I’m ever wary of headlines as clickbait, this one drove me to investigate the numbers behind it further. And of course, the actual study looking at spending habits across generations quickly pointed to a more nuanced story around food and cost-anticipation than the headline itself./are-pajama-bottoms-the-new-yoga-pants.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-pajama-bottoms-the-new-yoga-pants.htmlGood morning! Today is Saturday, January 8, 2022. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger’s Weekend Edition. Need to subscribe — or upgrade your Ledger e-newsletter subscription? Details here. Pajama pants are a popular fashion choice that teens are wearing these days to area high schools … and Target, the grocery store, shopping malls, medical appointments and so on. by Cristina Bolling Remember back to the days when people were all worked up over yoga pants? Girls were getting banned from airplanes for wearing them, women were being shamed for donning them at the grocery store without having gone exercising first (as if anyone would know), and the newly coined “athleisure” term caused eyes to roll into the back of the head./baby-reindeer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/baby-reindeer.htmlNote - spoilers ahead! Richard Gadd had a stalker. She sent him 41,071 emails, 350 hours’ of voicemails, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages, 106 pages of letters, and  many unwanted presents, including a reindeer toy (the stalker called Richard ‘baby reindeer’; she said he reminded her of a stuffed reindeer that had comforted her as a child), sleeping pills,  boxer shorts, and a woolly hat. She appeared at his home and work and harassed him and his family./advanced-hockey-backchecking.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/advanced-hockey-backchecking.htmlThis is part 1 covering the basics of advanced back checking. Part 2 will look at specific issues commonly seen when players back check. Backchecking = The process of skating back into a defensive position. Most commonly referred to when a player is behind the play and must race back. A perfect example from an all-time great backchecker, Pavel Datsyuk: When referring to backchecking there are a few key terms to be aware of/bad-scene-jawbreakers-fault.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bad-scene-jawbreakers-fault.htmlShare I got into Jawbreaker in an appropriate way. First time I heard them was through a friend who was in a Jawbreaker-esque shredded vocal pop-punk band. Then he was in a tough guy metallic hardcore band. Then he was in nothing because he died. Second time I heard Jawbreaker was through a girl who had a crush on my skinhead roommate and who lent me a mixtape someone else had made for her./banadir-somali-restaurant.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/banadir-somali-restaurant.html🇸🇴 SOMALIA 📍 137 Arbor Vitae Street, Inglewood, South Bay. 🅿️ Street parking 🥤 No AlcoholFREE FRIDAY FAVORITES is a series of articles that revisit choice restaurants featured on eattheworldla.com over the years. These will never be behind the paywall, but will update information as necessary and always be about meals that are worth returning for again. 📆 Original Article 17 February 2019With the passing of Madinah Restaurant, which was not too far away in Inglewood, Banadir seems to be left holding the torch for Somali food in Los Angeles./behind-the-scenes-from-jose-andres.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/behind-the-scenes-from-jose-andres.htmlHello my friends!  By now I hope you have had a chance to see some of my new TV show, José Andrés and Family in Spain. (Check it out! It is now streaming on Discovery+.) The show gives viewers a personal tour of my home country, Spain. I visit the places I grew up, where I worked, and meet old friends and family, all while making new memories with my daughters–and eating everything in sight./benburgis.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/benburgis.htmlBen Burgis Ben Burgis is a philosophy instructor, a columnist for Jacobin magazine, and a regular opinion writer for the Daily Beast. In the rest of those places, he mostly writes about politics, but here on Substack he mostly writes about philosophy. 3K+ subscribers ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaOxzZusq5%2BZqA%3D%3D/travel.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/travel.htmlHi! I’m Rebekah Peppler, a food, drinks, and travel writer based in Paris, France. I travel (often) for both work and play and if you’ve ever want to text / email / DM me and ask for my full Paris, Marseille, Mexico City, <insert city name here> food + drinks list, welcome to Shortlisted. This is the actual list I send to friends and family—updated and compiled in a prettier format for yours truly./beyonce-is-thankful-for-her-stretch.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beyonce-is-thankful-for-her-stretch.htmlI went to Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on September 4 — Labor Day, and also her birthday — with another mom friend. It felt appropriate that we were two moms going out to see another mom perform in what turned out to be a show that felt in part like a celebration of being a mom, but… ncG1vNJzZmicn6eypnrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeSmsawusKeZKKrXam1orrKn6ylZZakv260xKtkrKyimsGktA%3D%3D/billy-goat-tavern-born-1934.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/billy-goat-tavern-born-1934.htmlI had a completely different newsletter planned for today. But on Monday at lunchtime, I started seeing all the posts on Instagram: It’s National Cheeseburger Day. With a devotion to burgers like J. Wellington Wimpy’s, I grabbed my bag and headed to the Billy Goat Tavern for a cheeseburger. On Michigan Avenue near Hubbard there are two plaques to give passersby a little history: Established in 1934 the Billy Goat Tavern was located across from the original Chicago Stadium./blaise-carney-md-dies-in-sleep-at.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blaise-carney-md-dies-in-sleep-at.htmlWhile I greatly admire Dr. McCullough, who is obviously a man of great intelligence, integrity and compassion; I do wonder why he seemingly ignores the very powerful healing effects of the earths' electrons. Not only do they provide a close to infinite number of raw antioxidant quantum particles (which can instantaneously enter any part of the body- unlike chemical antioxidants), but they increase red blood cell velocity, on average, by three!/books-that-teach-kids-about-puberty.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/books-that-teach-kids-about-puberty.htmlLike most 80s kids, I learned about getting your period by reading Are One There God, it’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume, and learned about sex from a passed around bookmarked copy of Forever. Literally, the girls passed it under their desks in class in 6th grade and I remember reading the particular passage ten times before I passed it on, because I could not fathom WHAT they were talking about./boxing-movies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/boxing-movies.htmlMost boxing movies follow a well-worn path dictated by the genre. Contender/former champ/troubled youth must win the Big Fight in order to redeem himself. The boxing movie has been around almost as long as movies. Rotten Tomatoes rates them: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-boxing-movies-of-all-time/ including 1926’s Battling Butler, starring Buster Keaton. My way back machine starts with 1949’s The Set Up, starring Robert Ryan as the archetypal Palooka, who has to throw a fight to appease the mob./breadcrumb-trail-leads-to-salad.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breadcrumb-trail-leads-to-salad.htmlNew here? Scroll down for the video link and all the way to the bottom for the recipe!A few years ago, I went to Chicago for work. I don’t remember the story I was reporting, but I do remember the salad with breadcrumb dressing I had at Sarah Grueneberg’s exceptional restaurant, Monteverde. This salad was—and I don’t use this word lightly—revelatory. It is so burned in my memory, I was positive I had a photo to show you./triple-feature-brent-faiyaz-giveon.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/triple-feature-brent-faiyaz-giveon.htmlhey gang, triple feature this week, a rapid fire thingy kinda. just wanna cover these covers cuz they’re all great in their own right. enjoy!!! Brent Faiyaz first off, i have not a clue who did the type work + design for this cover, which fucking majorly sucks so much, as i really adore it, its very well done. i just know it was shot by Bobby Banks. its possible he did the design too, but he didn’t mention it on his instagram./bridgerton-dickinson-and-female-television.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bridgerton-dickinson-and-female-television.html**SPOILERS AHEAD** I’ve been thinking a lot about how there are some stories that I love to read, and some stories that I love to watch. I just finished reading The Worst Best Man, a romantic comedy. I did not particularly enjoy the activity. The pacing was too slow for me. If, however, a movie came out about a Brazilian wedding planner whose fiancé leaves her on her wedding day and years later she has to work with his brother and they fall in love and have amazing sex, SIGN ME UP./brilliant-stevenson-drops-yoshino.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brilliant-stevenson-drops-yoshino.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./butterfinger-bbs-and-the-decline.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/butterfinger-bbs-and-the-decline.htmlThere are many things we did as children that didn’t quite translate to adult life in the way we had hoped. The thought of hopping on a bicycle and trying to pop a wheelie off of a makeshift dirt mound in my cousin’s backyard not only sounds terrifying, but I can almost feel my knee dislocate just thinking about it. You’re not going to catch a group of people in their mid-thirties clamoring to get together in a middle school gym to slow dance with each other, three feet apart and shoulders squared, to the enchanting sounds of Mrs./candidate-profile-bethany-mandel.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/candidate-profile-bethany-mandel.htmlLocal news is dying. Citizen journalists like myself must fill in the gap. So, here is a candidate explainer for my local school board election, Montgomery County School District. This week I will be covering Bethany Mandel, Fox News contributor and culture warrior. Lets do it! Montgomery County is strongly Democratic region. So those identified as Republican would face an uphill battle. Luckily for Mandel, she is a Democrat! Uh, ok./stunner-canelo-splits-from-pbc-likely.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stunner-canelo-splits-from-pbc-likely.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./capitalism-sucks-but-dont-be-shamed.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/capitalism-sucks-but-dont-be-shamed.htmlRest is crucial. We all need rest. We need the fundamental recognition of our humanity that says that we deserve to recharge and recover, that we deserve care. Capitalism hates rest. It tells us that our only value is our productivity and only capitalism can measure our productivity. Capitalism tells us that rest is a thing we have to work hard enough to earn - and we never seem to be working hard enough./reeling-backward-cast-a-dark-shadow.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-cast-a-dark-shadow.htmlDirk Bogarde had a certain discreet charm that worked well for him as a British leading man. His enduring image on the screen is of a sleek, well-mannered gentleman of the upper crust, not very large, ramrod straight posture and almost always dressed nattily in a suit or uniform. He could be charming but also icy, and dare I say had a slightly androgynous quality, at least compared to other film actors of his era./exclusive-cca-president-on-woonsocket.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exclusive-cca-president-on-woonsocket.htmlI spoke to Ben Lessing, President and CEO of the Community Care Alliance [CCA] about the encampment visit organized by Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, and joined by Governor Daniel McKee, that turned into a raid resulting in the arrest of two men on drugs and weapons charges. Mr. Lessing was responding, in part, to my earlier interview with Woonsocket City Council President Christopher Beauchamp. Here is our conversation, in its entirety, edited for clarity:/chartbook-96-brest-litovsk-imperial.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chartbook-96-brest-litovsk-imperial.htmlIn the urgency of the present, our thinking about Ukraine is drawn to the immediate past. We place the current crisis against the backdrop of the “Maidan revolution” of 2013-2014, or the first escalation of tension with Russia in 2007-2008, or the orange revolution of 2004. We go back to the fateful negotiations between 1991 and 1994 over the end of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s nuclear weapons between. But the history of the Ukrainian nation state in its modern form is older than that./chicago-area-psychologists-skates.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chicago-area-psychologists-skates.htmlThere is no question that in his long career Dr. Jonathan Gamze has affected people for the better. In preparation for this article, I spoke with Kim Ahern. She told me that her son is now thirty-six, married, and is an engineering consultant. At thirteen, such an outcome seemed like a pipe dream. He had what Kim described as “severe ADHD.” He had an incident. A classmate was picking on his younger sister on a bus, calling her horrible names./chris-barron-spin-doctors-interview.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chris-barron-spin-doctors-interview.htmlAs both a solo artist and the lead singer of Spin Doctors, Chris Barron has been making rock music for over 30 years. The Spin Doctors’ biggest hits still get played all the time, and if you dig deeper into their catalog, you’ll find excellent songs like “You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast,” a jaunty reflection on doomed love that reached #8 on Billboard’s rock radio chart in 1994. Recently, Chris sat with me in a Manhattan coffee shop to talk about writing that particular tune./circle-of-competence.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/circle-of-competence.htmlWarren Buffett wrote in his 1996 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders: “You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.” He also said on a separate occasion: “What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don’t know./hankey-panky-financing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hankey-panky-financing.htmlThank you for the details on this steaming pile of poo . . . It's hard to believe that Cheetolini actually got involved with a guy that has videos of a dancing turd (South Park's Mr. Hankey). . . My the way, there is an extra "already" in the sentence before the header on Axos. Rachel Maddow did an enthusiastic discussion of this mess last night on her show. Hopefully the regulators are paying attention to both of you (and the many others that are also raising alarms)./leaving-the-ams.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leaving-the-ams.htmlBelow is a letter by Alexander Barvinok giving his reasons for leaving the American Mathematical Society (AMS). It was published here in Notices of the American Mathematical Society. In 2022, having been a member of the AMS for more than 30 years, I decided not to renew my membership for another year. ncG1vNJzZmigqKjBprmNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfobKiwsinnmasmJp6ornSaJqopZ2au7W%2F/martina-navratilova-cac.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/martina-navratilova-cac.htmlListening to Martina was wonderful but when athletes like Megan Rapinoe and Brittney Griner accept the absurdity that 'trans-women are women' I shake my head in disbelief. It is painful and disheartening to realize that in the 21st century women's rights are under threat as much in very liberal countries as in right-leaning states and theocracies worldwide. Though conservative voices in the Anglosphere and Europe have helped amplify our cries for our sex-based rights we will need MANY more liberals, and especially young women, to wake from their stupor and lead us out of this horrible darkness./replying-to-jordan-peterson.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/replying-to-jordan-peterson.htmlI'm with you on the idea that there could well be an unknown force out there driving the universe. I don't have any sense that it cares one whit about humans in particular. As I have posted elsewhere, I belong to the Congregation of the Sublimely Indifferent. If no Daddy is going to reward me for being a good girl, I just have to choose what seems to be the best ethic to keep society functioning and go with it./piano-masterclass-by-ridley-academy-review.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/piano-masterclass-by-ridley-academy-review.htmlI’ve studied, practiced for my entire life (over 40 yrs) & now teach piano. I can honestly say I am utterly appalled & fed up of watching Mr Ridley's strategically targeted ad’s & grandiose claims all over the internet. Curiosity made me watch his 90minute “webinar” (THIS IS PRE-RECORDED & plays on a LOOP; IT’s NOT LIVE!). I can find absolutely no evidence showing him performing ANY significant, complex piano repertoire./contender-series-week-10.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/contender-series-week-10.htmlWeek ten marks the final week of the 2023 Contender Series. We get an extra bout added to the menu for the final episode. The fight that was cancelled last week has been moved to this week. Additionally, a contestant from earlier in the season is back to make another attempt at earning a contract. The odds published in this article are based on DraftKings.com. Join us Tuesday evening at 7:30PM (EST) for the Pre-Fight Show./guitarist-interrupted-conversation.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guitarist-interrupted-conversation.htmlGuitarist Johnny Smith was the humblest star I’ve ever met. Probably because he left behind stardom at 36 for the relative obscurity of another life. From 1946-1958, Johnny Smith was a staff guitarist for NBC by day and a New York jazz musician by night. He survived playing under authoritarian conductor Arturo Toscanini, sight-read Schoenberg with Dimitri Mitropoulos, was underpaid by Benny Goodman, and worked with Mary Lou Williams and Stan Getz./costin-alamarius-philosophy-mob-left.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/costin-alamarius-philosophy-mob-left.htmlCostin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy is a controversial bestseller on the topic of Platonism. Alamariu’s chief claims are that philosophy originated from the Greeks; that the preconditions for philosophy originate from a pastoral aristocracy; and that aristocracy can only arise from a class of warriors. This critique will introduce alternative hypotheses: that the Greeks were not the first philosophers; that florists, agriculturalists, and merchants necessarily contributed to philosophy; and that writing is central to the birth of philosophy./cranberry-orange-cheesecake.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cranberry-orange-cheesecake.htmlToday’s recipe is a proper November dessert: a creamy, no-bake(-ish) cheesecake bar with a tart, orangey cranberry topping. While the dessert is composed of three different layers, I can assure you, it’s a no-fuss sweet treat you can whip up in less than an hour. What recipes are you looking forward to this season? I’m all eyes and ears! In the mean time, here are some of my previous recipes you can find some inspiration from:/cults-rock-music-and-jesuss-1970s.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cults-rock-music-and-jesuss-1970s.htmlI think most will agree that Jesus is one of the biggest celebrities of all time. We’re still talking about this dude thousands of years later. Politicians, athletes, musicians, and powerful people reference him in speeches and postgame interviews every day. For the most part, his influence is relegated to the far-right and stained-glass windows in churches. If you’re a Christian, I’m sure he’s very important to you (especially this weekend)./daily-bite-of-c-stdcount-stdcount-if.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daily-bite-of-c-stdcount-stdcount-if.htmlThe std::count and std::count_if are linear search (counting) algorithms that return the number of elements matching either a provided value or a provided predicate. Both variants support a parallel version through std::execution. Leave a comment ncG1vNJzZmirmaK8r8DOrZ9nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wsMCio7Jlkp7BpnnOn2ScZaOpsaS71KerZqukmbCwwc2tlqKe/daimant-faubourg.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/daimant-faubourg.htmlParis has become a (mostly) welcoming place for vegetarians. I’m no longer shocked to see meatless dishes on a restaurant menu, but there’s a lot of repetition. The starter is almost always a poached egg atop a puréed vegetable base. The main is usually pasta or risotto with mushrooms or squash. And I hope you like parmesan cream sauce, because it’s goi… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89om5qhnZa7tXnFmqybp6WntA%3D%3D/david-whyte.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/david-whyte.htmlIn honour of April being National Poetry Month in the United States, Substack kindly asked me to launch my work on their site. The idea had a very fortunate beginning, initiated as it was by a chance meeting with a Substack executive one morning in my favourite coffee bar in Nosara, Costa Rica, where my eyes were opened by her enthusiasm, and by the possibility of a dedicated, in-depth following of my work all delivered in a very elegantly designed package./decade-writers.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/decade-writers.htmlHere’s a literary phenomenon that you don’t see much about: the decade writer. Some novelists and short-story writers do so much of their best work in a particular decade that you can practically ignore everything they ever wrote that was published outside of that decade and still consider yourself a relative authority on their fiction. For the purposes of this essay, I am not talking about any random ten-year stretch in an author’s working life, say 1847-1856./demand-characteristics-in-ux-research.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/demand-characteristics-in-ux-research.htmlDoes taking part in a study alter the way participants behave? Research suggests that people change their natural behaviour so that it matches their interpretation of the aims of a study. More specifically, participants are often aware of or trying to guess what the researcher is trying to investigate, which makes them more likely to behave in a way they are expected to behave. This happens even in cases where participants are not explicitly told what the aim of a study is./dennis-reynolds-calms-down.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dennis-reynolds-calms-down.htmlMy coverage of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia concludes with Episode 8. If you listen to The Always Sunny Pod, then you probably understand the extent to which Dennis Reynolds and Glenn Howerton are inextricably joined, even if Howerton would be reticent to admit it. Though Charlie and Rob lent their real names to their Sunny characters, Glenn opted out, wanting to keep himself separate from his deranged, misogynistic character. Yet funnily enough, more-so than Charlie with Charlie or Rob with Mac, Glenn really does appear to share a number of crucial behaviors and character traits with Dennis./did-you-listen-to-that-podcast-by.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-you-listen-to-that-podcast-by.htmlLast weekend, a friend texted me: This request presented me with a rare opportunity: someone was actually soliciting my fulsome written opinion on a publishing gossip story I had nothing to do with! And now I am going to subject you all to what I have to say. Although I’d never encountered Hilary Rushford’s work before my friend asked me about it—I was wrong about the “familiar ring;” my brain was probably thinking about Hillary Rodham or something—I immediately googled her podcast series and spent much of the rest of the weekend listening to it./do-the-roys-love-each-other.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-the-roys-love-each-other.html“I just adored every second playing the weird and wonderful human grease stain that is Tom Wambsgans,” said Matthew Macfadyfen as he took the Golden Globe for Male Supporting Actor TV category.  For those who didn’t watch Succession, the joke is a jab at his character and funny because it brilliantly captures the essence of Tom, as well as every other character in the show. It’s not an easy show to watch because it’s about a family who consistently back stabs each other in their efforts to gain power and although the story takes place in the very unrelatable space of the ultra rich, it somehow reaches the depths of many of our souls./do-you-know-how-to-rest-after-a-15.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-you-know-how-to-rest-after-a-15.htmlHappy Saturday, friends! Today is no ordinary day. Pluto is finally moving into Aquarius, leaving Capricorn after a 15-year-long karmic cycle that has greatly affected not only Capricorn but all cardinal signs. CLICK HERE for your week-ahead pick-a-pile Tarot reading! Can you hear my sigh of relief? As an 8th House Capricorn Sun, Venus and Mercury, let me assure you that it has been hard. One of the toughest stations along the way was definitely the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn which was exact on my 50th birthday in 2020./donald-trump-committed-treason.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/donald-trump-committed-treason.htmlShare Treason.  That is what Donald Trump committed in attempting to overturn our nation’s 2020 election. As a lawyer, I understand the legal definition of “Treason” is set forth in United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3. There, it plainly states: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”  (Treason is also codified at 18 U./donald-trump-the-bible-and-the-truth.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/donald-trump-the-bible-and-the-truth.html“Do you swear that the evidence you shall give to his court in this matter shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” Swearing in court witnesses is usually a perfunctory ritual. No one really pays attention. But if Donald Trump testifies in the case accusing him of hiding a hush payment to a porn star to protect his political campaign, all eyes would and should  focus on Trump’s hand on that Bible./dougs-sermon-jokes-1.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dougs-sermon-jokes-1.htmlI think I mentioned when I first started posting my sermons that this all started with a friend who encouraged me to publish my sermons. I don’t know if I will ever do that in an official way but posting sermons to Substack is a first step. When I initially had the discussion with my friend and I hesitated he said, “Well at least publish the jokes you used to tell./worth-a-look-dr-pooja-lakshmins-real.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worth-a-look-dr-pooja-lakshmins-real.htmlDear community, In today’s Worth a look column, I’d love to share with you a gem of a book: women’s health-specializing psychiatrist Dr Pooja Lakshmin’s first book, Real Self-Care. 👀 Worth a look. Recommendations for particularly inspiring articles, books, movies, or shows that’ll make you think differently about health and well-being. You may know Dr Lakshmin’s work already — either here or in her previous role as a New York Times columnist./draft-profile-washington-ol-troy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/draft-profile-washington-ol-troy.htmlWe’re less than a month away from the 2024 NFL Draft and we know the Washington Commanders are going to take a quarterback second overall. We don’t know which one exactly they will take yet, but we know they’re almost certainly going to pick one. So the biggest question besides which quarterback are they taking is what they do after they pick the quarterback. The Commanders have a huge need at left tackle so it’s widely anticipated that Washington will look to draft a left tackle with one of their two second round picks./dune-chapters-1-8-fear-is-the-mind.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dune-chapters-1-8-fear-is-the-mind.htmlHi there, readers! What a first week of reading! There was a lot going on in this first section of chapters. We met a number of characters, encountered a bunch of odd names and terms, and were treated to a few memorable scenes already. In this week’s recap, which is much longer than I usually do, I’m providing a bullet point list from each chapter for w… ncG1vNJzZmismJqvqrPRnpidZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8OupZ5lk52uscDEq6pmaV1teqexwKtkoqtdqbWmecyipZ0%3D/earthquake-drawing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/earthquake-drawing.htmlThis earthquake in Turkey and the surrounding region is so incredibly devastating. Some of the destruction and death is in war-torn Syria, where there is a refugee crisis and economic hardship. As of this writing, the death count is 4300. When there are these natural disasters, I wonder: why do we continue to fight wars when there is such pain already? I know the question makes no sense. It doesn’t make sense to have the dove of peace in the drawing, but I just decided to draw it./eaten-alive-mangiati-vivi-1980.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eaten-alive-mangiati-vivi-1980.htmlAnother gruesome entry into the cannibal movie genre, "Eaten Alive!" does some things right, but too many wrong. Italian horror films often make up some of the better classic gorefests, both for their cheesy stories, special effects, and their propensity for poorly dubbing into English. You get all three here, with copious gore and nudity (often both at the same time), but, like the more high-profile (and thematically similar) "/eating-packing-peanuts-is-the-patriotic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eating-packing-peanuts-is-the-patriotic.htmlI have some ideas about how to fix the supply chain. I’m not talking about the root causes—the backed up ports, the fed up truckers, the pent up demand. I can’t do jack about any of that. But shipping efficiency? I have some notes. Every cubic inch of shipping real estate is precious right now, and we’re squandering millions of those inches on Styrofoam and bubble wrap. What if we could transform that deadweight loss into a cut-rate win?/autistic-speech-patterns-echolalia.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/autistic-speech-patterns-echolalia.htmlThough every single Autistic Person is different, many Autistic People make different noises, repeat sounds, or make other vocalizations. There are three main types of Autistic vocalizations I'm going to be talking about in today's post: echolalia, palilalia, and vocal stimming. Despite being 36, I still have all three of these (as well as several other) NeuroDivergent speech patterns.  First, I will define each item, then explain more about these experiences from a human perspective, starting with echolalia, the vocalization I experience the most./blue-moon-ritual-embracing-the-enchanting.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-moon-ritual-embracing-the-enchanting.htmlAs the celestial beauty of the Blue Moon graces the night sky, let’s gather to honor the bountiful harvest and embrace the mystical energy that surrounds us. Join me in this enchanting moon ritual that celebrates the abundance of nature and the magic of the lunar glow. 🌾🌙 This August, we are witnessing the celestial dance of two full Moons, holding the energies of the month. The first, gracing the skies on August 1 in the sign of Aquarius, is affectionately called the Sturgeon Moon./english-rose-rincon-owner-honors.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/english-rose-rincon-owner-honors.htmlA British-oriented restaurant, with a heavy heaping of authentic local products, in the heart of Rincon, Puerto Rico? That’s owner Jessica Del Mar’s vision for The English Rose Rincon, and she’s committed to keeping it going. Del Mar, a New Jersey native who’s lived in Rincon for 19 years and started at the restaurant as dishwasher and food runner in 2007, began operating the place six years ago, and bought it with the help of an investment fund three years later./eric-lott-on-bob-dylans-love-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eric-lott-on-bob-dylans-love-and.htmlEric Lott is an American cultural critic, scholar, and author known for his work in the fields of literature, cultural studies, and race theory. He is most notably recognized for his influential book "Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class," published in 1993. "Love And Theft" is the thirty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in 2001. The only word I've gotten on the issue is from Bob Dylan's publicist, who told a writer doing a piece on the relationship between Dylan's title and my book that Dylan "/expect-an-updated-covid-19-vaccine.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/expect-an-updated-covid-19-vaccine.htmlToday, the FDA held a much anticipated meeting. Their external scientific committee, VRBPAC, unanimously voted to update the Covid-19 vaccine formula for this fall. Which exact variant will be in the vaccine? We don’t know yet. Will Novavax be an option? That’s a million-dollar question. Here are your Cliff notes. We could keep the same vaccine formula this fall, but several reasons we should update were presented: SARS-CoV-2 continues to mutate—about two times faster than the flu./exterminate-all-the-brutes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exterminate-all-the-brutes.htmlA Bird in the Hand - by Mr. Fish During the siege in Sarajevo, when I was reporting for The New York Times, we never endured the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of food, water, fuel and medicine that Israel has imposed on Gaza. We never endured hundreds of dead and wounded a day. We never endured the complicity of the international community in the Serbian campaign of genocide./f-aperol-lets-make-a-paper-airplane.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/f-aperol-lets-make-a-paper-airplane.htmlIn today’s issue we explore the cocktail behind the Paper Plane, and most importantly NOT use Aperol. We also dig into how software businesses and their clients should together go about building meaningful relationships - maybe we can even call them partnerships. I look forward to your comments and thoughts. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy! Cheers! “Fuck Aperol!” is a running gag between me and my mixology friends./false-equivalence.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/false-equivalence.htmlYesterday, a jury in Washington, DC awarded renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann more than $1,000,000 in damages in a defamation lawsuit he brought against two bloggers. I was a witness in the case and testified on Tuesday. Here, I’ll offer my thoughts on the case and some personal reflections on my experience. Mann’s case alleged that he was defamed by statements made the bloggers more than a decade ago, which harmed his reputation and career (I won’t rehash the details here, but you can get a full accounting of the trial at this comprehensive podcast)./farewell-to-forlinis.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/farewell-to-forlinis.htmlThe sad news arrived yesterday that Forlini’s, the downtown red-sauce institution where judges and lawyers met for decades to sup, rub elbows and make deals, had closed for good. Forlini’s opened in 1956 at 93 Baxter Street and has remained in the Forlini family for its entire run. If you look up any article written about the place over the last 66 years, it’s not long before a judge, detective or Mayor is mentioned or quoted./fear-porn-in-the-weather-enterprise.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fear-porn-in-the-weather-enterprise.htmlWhen I arrived at the brand new TV channel in Birmingham 26 years ago, I was given the green light to go “wall to wall” during any tornado warning for any part of our viewing area. In fact, we made that part of our promise in 1996. If there is a tornado warning for a county in our DMA (Designated Market Area), we WILL be there. At any hour of the day or night, no matter what program is scheduled./fictional-characters-who-prob-had.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fictional-characters-who-prob-had.htmlIs it just me or does ADHD feel like the hot new accessory that all the cool kids have right now? Like a matching cropped sweatshirt set or Gucci belt. I’m kidding, of course.  ADHD is a very real diagnosis and not some kind of quirky mental health gimmick used to generate relatable content. Believe me, I am not trying to make light of it. But I’ve noticed that the diagnosis is a lot more prevalent these days./firing-mike-shildt-remains-one-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/firing-mike-shildt-remains-one-of.htmlNo one will ever truly know what happened between Mike Shildt and the St. Louis Cardinals a few years ago. A relationship that went from a pair of 90-win playoff seasons to a sudden divorce leaves a bruise that shines especially bright red after an abysmal season. Shildt’s 2021 Cardinals team went 90-72, but were booted in a winner take all wildcard game against the Dodgers. Who wins 90 games and gets fired?/fond-memories-of-bare-breasted-women.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fond-memories-of-bare-breasted-women.htmlAsI told Picayune Plus readers Tuesday, I’m mostly off the grid this week at a traditional music and dance camp in Southwest Tennessee, so issues will be skimpy. The Tweet of the Week poll is a selection of the top entries from 2014, the first year of the poll, for instance, and the bonus poll is a collection of tweets that deploy the f-word in a way that I, anyway, found amusing./freaks-gleeks-dawsons-creek.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/freaks-gleeks-dawsons-creek.htmlSure, I’ve only watched one of the TV shows referenced in the title, but Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson’s Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television by Thea Glassman is a book that was right up my teen drama alley. In her examination of the teen television genre, Glassman focuses on seven shows: “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “My So-Called Life,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Freaks & Geeks,” “The O.C.”, “Friday Night Lights,” and “Glee./free-session-year-compass-for-20232024.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/free-session-year-compass-for-20232024.htmlUpdate: Second session added! Join in on Monday 15th January at 8pm GMT. add to your calendar Do you ever feel like you slip from one year into the next without ever really pausing to take stock and celebrate? Resolutions are all well and good but they have a propensity to turn punitive. Instagram round ups tend to show only the prettiest parts. About a decade ago, a friend introduced me to the Year Compass, and I’ve found myself returning to its gentle annual reflection process again and again./ftc-rejects-esrb-proposal-to-use.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ftc-rejects-esrb-proposal-to-use.htmlFull Disclosure: I occasionally partner with the ESRB to publish parent and family-focused blogs based on the various tools the ESRB provides game developers and parents. Update (04/08/24): In response to this piece, the ESRB noted to Crossplay the organization does “not endorse the use of this technology with children, and that ESRB itself would not be using the technology” and “it would simply be one option for parents (among many)./gas-powered-leaf-blowers-are-going.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-are-going.htmlThanks, for this thoughtful note. On this important point, about affordability: >>But as much as I despise these anachronistic noisemakers I often wonder what it would cost the owner to replace them. Certainly without any financial assistance the cost would be prohibitive; if they were banned, he would be forced to shut down his business. ... Same goes for the state or the municipality - outlawing the noisy dinosaurs would create a financial challenge that lawn care companies - as well as many homeowners - are ill equipped to even consider./give-polk-county-the-chance-to-atone.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/give-polk-county-the-chance-to-atone.htmlYou can feel free to dismiss anything I write below after you’ve listened to “Bone Valley,” the breathtaking podcast from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King and researcher Kelsey Decker. It unravels the wrongful, ongoing conviction and imprisonment of Leo Schofield. King and Decker document every single point I’m trying to boil down here — in great detail. It’s the most searing and revelatory piece of journalism about Lakeland and Polk County — what we were, what we are — that I’ve ever encountered./glendale-queens.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/glendale-queens.htmlGlendale, surrounded by cemeteries and train tracks, looks to be practically dead center in the middle of New York City. Ironically, for a neighborhood that somewhat resembles a fish, it is about as far away from the water as any neighborhood in the city. I embarked on this project one year ago this week in the “official” center of the city, Woodside, Queens, and 48 different neighborhoods later, I find myself back where I started./goodnight-tomorrow.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/goodnight-tomorrow.html“Every day it’s watching you.” —Shinji Sato On December 28, 1998, fans packed the 1,200-person capacity Akasaka Blitz club in Minato, Tokyo to witness what was meant to be Fishmans’ final show with their bassist Yuzuru Kashiwabara. Singer Shinji Sato, drummer Kin-Ichi Motegi, and guitarist Kensuke Ojima formed the dub-rock band while at university in Minato in 1987. Kashiwabara joined in 1988. After playing bass with the band for 10 years, Kashiwabara decided to leave for what he called family matters./hamas-doesnt-care-what-steven-spielberg.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hamas-doesnt-care-what-steven-spielberg.htmlI’m one of those people who, ever since the war in Israel and Gaza started, has often found myself mad at people both to my left and my right.  No, it’s not okay to minimize or deny the horrors of October 7, to vandalize synagogues in the United States, or, in one case I saw a picture of, a delicatessen in Philadelphia that not only has nothing to do with Israel, but went out of business a year ago./happy-lunar-new-year.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-lunar-new-year.htmlHappy New Year. Lunar new year, or lunisolar new year. January first was proclaimed the beginning of the year by some medieval pope in order to sync Easter up more mathematically with the seasons and then gradually, sometimes begrudgingly, adopted around the world as the standard calendar for doing business. This year I hope you will join me in rejecting this Gregorian timeline in favour of the lunar calendar which according to the old Chinese calendar begins Saturday 10 February./harrison-ford-is-very-old-in-indiana.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/harrison-ford-is-very-old-in-indiana.htmlIt’s crazy to think that a whole decade and a half has passed since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull paired Indiana Jones, one of the most beloved icons in all of pop culture, with Shia LaBeouf’s hotheaded Mutt Williams, one of the most hated characters this side of Jar Jar Binks.  Steven Spielberg is a smart man with great instincts. There’s a reason he’s literally the most successful American filmmaker of all time commercially and one of our greatest and most consistent entertainers as well./healthy-and-hearty.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/healthy-and-hearty.htmlJust ahead of the new year, Ola Juice Bar opened a second location at 1025 Garden of the Gods Road. This joins the existing, decade-old spot downtown at 27 E. Kiowa St. Owner of Atlas Group COS Aaron Ewton, whose restaurant portfolio includes the COATI Uprise food hall and PigLatin in addition to Ola, says this new location is more geared toward community space and coworking as compared to downtown’s more cafe-forward approach, where 99 percent of business is grab-and-go./here-are-the-most-important-status.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-are-the-most-important-status.htmlShare 10 years ago, working for a tech company like Google was the ultimate status symbol. Free lunches. Amazing job titles. Open-plan offices with sleep pods and adult playgrounds with slides. These good old days are gone. Tech layoffs showed everyone the truth. We’ve seen 10 years of progress in the last year thanks to advancements in AI, Apple Vision Pro VR headsets, and the changes in the job market./how-never-complain-never-explain.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-never-complain-never-explain.htmlThe Royal Family’s favorite public relations strategy of “never complain, never explain” is, like many of their traditions, a vestige of the Victorian era. It was, at that time, built upon the idea that the Monarchy’s greatest strength was its mystique. There was also this notion that allowing the public to “poke holes” in the Monarchy would weaken it; if they knew too much, they might lose interest or respect. In 1867, writer Walter Bagehot wrote that "/how-cognitive-illusions-prevent-you-e39.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-cognitive-illusions-prevent-you-e39.htmlIn the intro to this series, I told you how cognitive illusions systematically prevent people from building the lives they want… By causing them to make decision after decision based on faulty thinking. And how, once you know what these illusions are, you can combat them with signposts that let you know when you’re in the cognitive illusion zone… And external structure to help you navigate through the illusion./how-evan-williams-turned-side-projects.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-evan-williams-turned-side-projects.htmlWe’re back in the archives this week, revisiting my 2005 interview with Evan Williams. Today, Ev is most well-known for being the co-founder of Twitter and founder/ceo of Medium. But back when this episode was recorded, Twitter hadn’t even been conceived of yet. When we spoke, Ev had just raised about $2 million in venture capital money for a hot new podcasting company he was about to launch called Odeo. Spoiler alert: Odeo didn’t make it./how-i-used-to-love-and-now-hate-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-i-used-to-love-and-now-hate-the.htmlI would read the London Review of Books from front to back; I had to read it all, from front to back; I couldn’t miss any part of what I then saw as the absolute requirement of reading the London Review of Books and absorbing all of the information contained in the London Review of Books (excluding classifieds and incidental advertising about books, copywriters, book-based dating etc). I certainly couldn’t dip in and out of the London Review of Books./like-pulling-teeth-how-i-won-my-dental.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/like-pulling-teeth-how-i-won-my-dental.htmlMy wife recently had some dental work done, and as you can imagine, I’m the one in our household that monitors our health care bills.  I know I wrote the book, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win, but going through medical bills doesn’t come naturally to me. I don’t think it comes naturally to many of us. It’s a learned skill, an essential aspect of financial literacy, like balancing a checkbook or reviewing a credit card statement./how-might-playmates-toys-succeed.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-might-playmates-toys-succeed.htmlWhile higher-end toy offerings have been available for fans of larger-scale, adult-oriented action figures, Hasbro’s sunsetting of the Lightning Collection and kid-centric toy line — marred by a miniscule wave of Power Rangers Cosmic Fury toys in fall 2023 — left fans wondering, What’s up? On Monday, Hasbro answered that with an announcement that it’s entering a “strategic relationship” with Playmates Toys to create and distribute new Power Rangers products, beginning with a kid-focused Mighty Morphin Power Rangers line set to debut in 2025./how-much-is-that-lifestyle-in-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-much-is-that-lifestyle-in-the.htmlI was going to write about laundry this week, but then New York magazine ignited the internet with its Dream Life Calculator, and I changed gears. (If you haven’t seen it yet, New York asked nine young New Yorkers without kids to share their “dream life” and then the magazine calculated what they estimate you’d need to have saved and earn going forward … ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2ForLEp6uopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6hprBlnaqwqXnIrGStoJGpeq21xZ6qrbGcmnqquoytn54%3D/how-sesame-street-made-the-wicked.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-sesame-street-made-the-wicked.htmlMargaret Hamilton loved kids and animals more than anything. She’d been a kindergarten teacher for ten years before the stage called her name.  She spent her life working with animal charities and urging pet owners to spay and neuter their pets, which was pretty radical in the mid 1900s. She was on the local school board and became a significant sponsor of PBS public broadcasting for children for most of her life./how-to-kill-a-rattlesnake-in-your.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-kill-a-rattlesnake-in-your.htmlIn our ten years of marriage, I can think of two times I’ve called Rich and started the conversation with, “I did something. And I think you’re going to be mad.” Both calls involved broken windows. The most recent call was a few weeks ago. Out of breath and shaking, I called to tell him I broke a window, and a rattlesnake slithered into our house. Maybe I should start at the beginning./how-to-open-a-lesbian-bar.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-open-a-lesbian-bar.htmlHey beautiful readers! This is a post I’ve been mulling over for a while and I’m both excited and nervous to share it! Mostly excited, though!! So here’s my news, which will come as no surprise to those of you who know us in real life: Clover and I are working on opening a lesbian bar in Philadelphia!!!! The most basic quick and dirty deets: it will be called Val’s Lesbian Bar, it will be Valentine’s Day themed, we do not have a location yet but are looking for one somewhere in the general South Philly/Queen Village/South Street area, and we are hosting a couple of fundraiser events coming up soon, details about which can be found on our Instagram (@valslesbianbar)./swiftdata-outside-swiftui.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/swiftdata-outside-swiftui.html99.94% of readers enjoy Jacob’s Tech Tavern without subscribing for free. Every 3 weeks, I’ll send you ludicrously in-depth articles about iOS, Swift, and indie projects. SwiftData. The hip, all-new persistence framework, that totally isn’t just a wrapper on CoreData (shh!) Resplendent with property wrappers such as @Environment\.modelContext) and @Query, SwiftData is convenient for accessing and modifying persistent data directly from your SwiftUI views! This is great for the Gen Zs who grew up with MV architecture, but what about us boomers still clutching onto MVVM, who insist on unit testing our crufty old code?/hafsa-zayyan-mixed-race-interview.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hafsa-zayyan-mixed-race-interview.htmlHi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to author Hafsa Zayyan, who is of Nigerian and Pakistani heritage. Hafsa was one of the inaugural winners of the Merky Books prize with her transporting debut novel, We Are All Birds of Uganda. The story is split between 1960s Uganda, where South Asian Hasan struggles with a new regime, and present-day London, where Sameer is drawn back to his family home by unexpected tragedy./im-tired-of-my-friends-sexual-memes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/im-tired-of-my-friends-sexual-memes.htmlThis column is for paid subscribers to ¡Hola Papi! As a paid subscriber, you can read all the columns, leave comments, and send me a letter with a better chance of being answered! Either leave it in the comments or send it to holapapiletters@gmail.com and note up top you are a paid subscriber.¡Hola Papi! I have a dear friend who sexualizes everything. Every time we pass a good-looking guy on the street, he makes a remark./ilana-glazer-babes-interview.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ilana-glazer-babes-interview.htmlHi! How’s it going? I’m excited about this juicy issue featuring Ilana Glazer of Broad City fame. Her hilarious movie Babes comes out today (!) and is an INCREDIBLE ode to female friendship. On Monday, I was lucky enough to see a screening at Soho House… How rad are the chairs in the screening room??? Each one came with a little ottoman. Afterward, Pamela Adlon (director), Ilana Glazer (co-writer and co-star), and Michelle Buteau (co-star) chatted with the audience./spirit-wow-in-a-moment-of-crisis.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spirit-wow-in-a-moment-of-crisis.htmlLast week over 500 faculty, alumni, staff and students of the Catholic Providence College issued a letter of protest in light of the resignation of E Corry Kole, the school’s nonbinary director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Kole had quit citing the college administration’s refusal to let them do their job. Queer employees of Catholic institutions feeling threatened or driven out is sadly an all too common phenomenon, and usually a horribly dispiriting one for the broader Catholic community in which it occurs./a-year-later-in-defense-of-lordes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-year-later-in-defense-of-lordes.htmlA year ago today, Lorde released her third studio album, “Solar Power,” and for one day on the internet, everybody who listened to the album seemingly had an opinion on it. The words “flop,” “drab,” and “music for a pharmaceutical commercial” were tossed around by listeners and Great Value brand critics (tweeters) alike. When it arrived, I listened to the album a few times (it came out right before my 22nd birthday, so the line “I thought I was a genius, but now I’m 22” was a lyrical treat for me in September) before eventually discarding it, as if the album was a crossed-off list of to-do’s on a piece of paper I kept on my desk for a few weeks too long./in-review-emily-the-criminal.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-review-emily-the-criminal.htmlEmily the Criminal  Dir. John Patton Ford 96 min.  Though she’s too young for Gen-X to claim her, Aubrey Plaza has cultivated an image of slacker disaffection, much like the fabledgirl from the record store, only much less likely to be impressed by your collection of rare SST singles. Yet she’s proven herself to be rangier than her Parks & Recreation eye-roller, though she never plays characters who could be described as “ebullient./inappropriate-books.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inappropriate-books.htmlApparently there’s some consternation floating about regarding kids coming across “new adult” or adult (primarily romance) fiction via TikTok and being lured in by the cartoon-ish pastel covers, only to be exposed to stories with R-rated sexual content. It’s hard to know how real this is, but if you’re curious, there’s a recent article in The Guardianabout the phenomenon. I experienced firsthand what these books are like when I read Hannah Grace’s Icebreaker in order to see what’s doing with the “hockey romance” genre, and I can understand, based on the packaging, why someone might think the book’s interior contents are somewhat tame./inside-andrew-tates-war-room.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-andrew-tates-war-room.htmlGreetings everyone, I’d like to share an investigative report that I’ve been working on with an investigator, my friend Steffan Moens, for several months. Some of you may have heard of Andrew Tate, who is currently one of the most popular online “masculinity” influencers in the world. If you’re aware of online youth culture, you’ll have heard of him—if you haven’t, you should know a few things about him. Why? Because millions of young men follow him and hang on to his every word./introducing-mymerch.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-mymerch.htmlOver the past few months, I’ve been working on a campaign to end the practice of venues and festivals taking a cut of merch sales from touring bands in North America. I’ve joined forces with the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) to launch the North American leg of the FAC’s 100% Venues campaign that we’re calling #MyMerch. Even though musicians pay for their merch to be manufactured, designed and shipped, some venues and festivals still take anywhere from 20-35% of artist merch sales./is-esa-lindell-overrated-underrated.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-esa-lindell-overrated-underrated.htmlI was recently watching Game 5 of the 1999 Western Conference Final between the Colorado Avalanche and the Dallas Stars. As a teenager I framed the experience by the sum of its hits and scrums because I was a dumb bloodthirsty young boy who grew up on too much Three Stooges. Now I find myself watching the interplay of systems, routes, and positioning with a more ‘civilized’ eye. I feel like this phenomenon is part of what people are dealing with when we talk about Esa Lindell./struggling-with-faith.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/struggling-with-faith.htmlLook at the so-called “Hall of Faith” in Hebrews 11. The writer of Hebrews highlights key moments in the lives of many “heroes” of the Bible, but if you look at the rest of their lives, you see that chapter would be more aptly titled the “Hall of Embattled Faith.” It is no different for us. It is a painful truth that in a fallen world, doubt is often a normal condition of faith./is-the-survivor-new-era-a-mess.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-the-survivor-new-era-a-mess.htmlThe "New Era" of Survivor has been polarizing amongst fans, myself included. The long-running series completed its 40th season, Winners at War, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the pandemic, production on seasons 41 and 42 were halted until 2021. Because all players and crew had to quarantine for 14 days before filming, the game was shortened from its traditional 39 days to 26. Other changes included new twists like A Shot in the Dark (you can give up your vote for a chance at immunity), the Beware Advantage (you lose your vote for the potential to win an idol), and several other twists that usually revolve around someone losing their vote./is-this-band-good-hole.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-this-band-good-hole.htmlWelcome to “Is This Band Good?”, a semi-regular feature where I, with the help of a knowledgeable and accomplished musician, try to determine—quantitatively—if certain bands are actually good.  Check out past entries on Cake, Soul Coughing, B-52s, Ben Folds Five, They Might Be Giants, late ‘00s indie darlings, Social Distortion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn and Oingo Boingo. Share Hole doesn’t need an introduction. You either love them or hate them, and if you hate them, it’s a good chance that you’re a man./is-this-the-basketball-of-the-future.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-this-the-basketball-of-the-future.htmlDid you watch the NBA Slam Dunk Contest last Saturday night? Me neither. But it featured an interesting development, because one of the competitors — Rockets forward Kenyon Martin Jr. — used a new “airless” prototype ball created by Wilson, the same company that makes the official NBA basketball. As you can sort of see in the photo shown above, the new prototype ball is basically a hollow latticework shell, which means it doesn't have to be inflated./islam-between-east-and-west-by-alija.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/islam-between-east-and-west-by-alija.htmlI have never liked politicians and am unlikely to become infatuated with one in the future. There are a few rare exceptions to this rule, however, with one being the former President of Bosnia, Alija Ali Izetbegovic. Izetbegovic was Bosnia’s leader during the horrifying civil war and genocide that accompanied the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Prior to that he was a well-known dissident intellectual who spent years in prison for his activism./its-that-boozy-egg-nog-time-of-year.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-that-boozy-egg-nog-time-of-year.htmlIt’s December, it’s the holiday season, I’m cooking nonstop. Welcome back to Bite into this. I know you’ve mourned my tragic absence from your inbox. Suffice to say that sometimes personal sorrows, crises of faith, and professional obligations get in the way of work that brings joy, but I’ll save those details for a more reflective time. While I’ve been gone, I’ve written a lot I’m proud of (on beer!), a lot that makes no sense to anyone I know (on math!/ive-had-enough-of-therapy-language.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ive-had-enough-of-therapy-language.html“There’s a stigma around discussing mental health.”   This is something I hear people say a lot, both online and in the media.  Let me just come right out with what I think: No there isn’t.  At least, not anymore.  Sure, in decades past everyone was tacitly encouraged to keep their private feelings to themselves.  But I don’t think this was borne out of any malicious intent or system of oppression.  Instead, the reality was simple: nobody wanted to hear that shit./jesus-the-short-king.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jesus-the-short-king.htmlWhat did Jesus look like? For a lot of people in my circles, this question is usually answered in the negative. He wasn’t white. He didn’t have chestnut curls. He didn’t have blue eyes, beautiful abs or straight teeth. People who say these things are correct, but they sometimes say it with such smarmy condescension that it’s hard to care.  In 2024, I think most normal Christians are probably aware that Jesus didn’t actually look like Prequel Obi-Wan./jim-irsay-is-close-to-death-not-realizing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-irsay-is-close-to-death-not-realizing.html     Notice the headlines on Hunter Biden and those on Jim Irsay. In the path of our nation in a political year, Biden is called a dopehead and a thief. But he seems to have the same issues as Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, who had a “blue skin tone” on Dec. 8 and was treated with Narcan to overcome an opioid overdose.      I look at all hard addicts alike./museum-pages-john-singer-sargent.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/museum-pages-john-singer-sargent.htmlI was recently asked to write an essay for Writer’s Digest about the challenges of turning real people into characters in memoir. This is something I’ve thought a lot about (and agonized over, and struggled with)—it’s even the subject of an essay in First Love, a kind of meta examination of a central challenge of the project as a whole. Negative Space was in many ways one long character sketch of my father./jonathan-howard-author-of-we-want.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonathan-howard-author-of-we-want.htmlJonathan Howard is a neurologist and psychiatrist who practices at NYU-Bellevue and posts frequently on Science Based Medicine. Share Ground Truths Transcript, unedited, with links to audio Eric Topol (00:05): Well, hello, Eric Topol with Ground Truths and I'm really pleased to have the chance to talk with Jonathan Howard today, who is a neurologist and psychiatrist at NYU at Bellevue and has written quite an amazing book published a few months months ago called We Want Them Infected, so welcome Jonathan./leonardo-dicaprio-releases-cry-for.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leonardo-dicaprio-releases-cry-for.htmlA reminder that there is always something going awn in the Hung Up chat on the Substack app, like a season-long chat about The Last of Us for the paid list. Join the convo! I do not think it’s a coincidence that days afte… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oo56nnpa%2FpbuMnaCcmaCntrB50Z6jnpmjmsBur9GyZJ%2Bnog%3D%3D/leonardo-dicaprio-blonde-model-wedding.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leonardo-dicaprio-blonde-model-wedding.htmlHello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. Today, we’re taking a close look at how Leo DiCaprio is spending his favorite season. This post is just for paid subscribers; if you’d like to sign up, you can do so in the box below.  While the rest of us were attending family barbecues this past weekend, Leonardo DiCaprio was cozying up to a mystery blonde at the $12 million wedding of a billionaire art collector in Sardinia./lessons-from-ron-vianu-founder-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lessons-from-ron-vianu-founder-and.htmlSubscribe to our substack for updates and listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Connect with Andrew or Lipsa if you find this post insightful and want to learn more. Welcome back to the Pear Healthcare Playbook! Every week, we’ll be getting to know trailblazing healthcare leaders and dive into building a digital health business from 0 to 1. Today, we're thrilled to introduce Ron Vianu, the CEO and visionary behind Covera Health./lets-look-at-some-weird-andor-terrible.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-look-at-some-weird-andor-terrible.htmlWhen I launched this newsletter a little more than a month ago, I said I wanted to tell stories that probably wouldn’t have gotten the green light from my editors at Goal for being too obscure. I’ve done that, talking to a player who left Nicaragua as the league plays on during the coronavirus pandemic - (Related: Scenes like this celebration in the streets after ART Jalapa kept its spot in the first division have quickly gone from thrilling to absolutely terrifying), chatting with a pair of former U./little-tujunga-hotshot-struck-by.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/little-tujunga-hotshot-struck-by.htmlDuring a wildfire on the Six Rivers National Forest, Little Tujuna Hotshot Diego Rivera was struck by a burning snag on the fireline while working to suppress the fire. The community has supported the fundraiser and if you would like to help as well the donation link can be found here. Here are the details of the incident. Hotshot Firefighter Diego Rivera… ncG1vNJzZmismJq1sMDSoaatr5Ggsra8jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6G2tcDLnmStrZqqu6itjKGmrauYpMFuv9OrrJyjXZfG/loab-an-ai-horror-story.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/loab-an-ai-horror-story.htmlOn Tuesday, a musician and AI illustrator who tweets under the handle @Supercomposite wrote a thread about a strange discovery they’d made while playing around with an AI image generator: A woman whose weathered, inflamed face and sorrowful, stern expression emerged unintentionally in pictures generated from their prompts, and whose image persisted across multiple image prompts and recombinations. Stranger still, the AI seemed to strongly associate her with gore, horror, and unsettling imagery./from-the-vault-look-whats-happened.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/from-the-vault-look-whats-happened.htmlThere’s an admirable sort of arrogance in a filmmaker’s insistence on making a sequel to a movie that clearly doesn’t warrant one. Surely the public demands to know more about Edgar Frog, the seventh most interesting character in The Lost Boys, or Donnie Darko’s other sister,  or the country club where Caddyshack took place. It doesn’t matter if the original story had a satisfying ending, or even if virtually no one from it wants to be involved in another one, the audience has collectively raised their fists to the heavens and shouted “We need more Meatballs movies./mac-and-cheese-quest.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mac-and-cheese-quest.htmlA week ago Friday, I arrived at the office of my dentist, who planned to examine a back molar to see if I needed just a crown or a crown and a root canal (out of pocket cost, $1,800). After moments of digging around back there, Dr. Sachs said, “It’s cracked all the way through. It’s coming out.” He hit me with three more shots of novocaine and reached f…/magic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/magic.htmlToday’s issue of Dust On The VCR is a subscriber request! This spooky selection comes from my comrade Joe Phelps, a college acquaintance of mine who has grown into a genuine friend over the years, which I really appreciate since the inverse is so common. Joe is a fellow creative spirit, which is pretty evident if you’ve ever been to either of his local businesses: the Pilcrow Cocktail Cellar in Downtown Birmingham or Ampersandwich in Avondale./big-questions-marcy-wheeler-smirnov.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-questions-marcy-wheeler-smirnov.htmlSomething about the recent indictment against the FBI informant Alexander Smirnov has been bothering me, mostly because the idea of the Justice Department (DoJ) opening a bogus investigation into Joe Biden for bribery is exactly what Trump tried to get President Zelenskyy to do in 2019. In fact, it’s what got him impeached. So here’s a whopper of a question: Did Trump try to use his own Justice Department to frame Biden, using the false Smirnov claims?/mark-dawson-plagiarist-or-shrewd.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mark-dawson-plagiarist-or-shrewd.htmlYes, I agree. It seems like most people willing to defend him - along the lines of, "Well, even if he has plagiarised, what's wrong with that? We all do it?", etc - are most concerned with cutting similar corners and maximising output. I don't want to prejudge, but it doesn't look good. I'm with you: write for pleasure, to make something meaningful, beautiful. You can still do that and have half an eye on selling and marketing, if that's important to you./martial-royalty-richard-norton.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/martial-royalty-richard-norton.htmlYou should. He's martial royalty. I’ve known Richard for decades. He is a true martial artist and, more importantly, a student of the arts. Many from the martial art community know of him from his stunt work (he's worked with everyone from Jackie Chan to Tom Hardy, to Chuck Norris). He's also worked as a bodyguard to the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and many other greats. Check out this pic of him and Stevie Nicks!/matt-lieb-a-rational-conversation.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/matt-lieb-a-rational-conversation.htmlG’day Fearmongers — I bring you two things — 1st of all a reminder that tickets are on sale now for our 1,000,000th download LIVE SHOW. It’s at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre and the line up is stacked with ARF favourites including Charlie Pickering, Kirsty Webeck, Sami Shah, Dj Andrew McClelland and the man with the most downloads in Australia Richard Fidler. 🎟️ Buy a ticket now before they’re all sold out./guest-post-elemeta-metafeature-extraction.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/guest-post-elemeta-metafeature-extraction.htmlIn this guest post, Lior Durahly, data & ML engineer @Superwise, introduces Elemeta, a brand new open-source library, currently in beta, for metafeature extraction from unstructured data.  With more and more models style DALLᐧE and ChatGPT hitting the shelves, we've reached incredible capabilities and results, fundamentally changing our ability to tap into and leverage unstructured data in machine learning. With that said, the general architectural understanding and intuition into how these models make decisions is vague at best, much less interpretable./micah-peavy-commits-to-georgetown.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/micah-peavy-commits-to-georgetown.htmlGeorgetown has landed a commitment from Micah Peavy, a 6-foot-8 wing from TCU. Peavy, who has one remaining year of eligibility left, was an honorable mention to the All-Big 12 team this past season with the Horned Frogs, where he averaged 10.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game. A former four-star recruit from Cibolo, Texas, Peavy began his career at Texas Tech before transferring to TCU after one season in Lubbock./michael-mcdonald-steely-dan-origins-jeff-porcaro.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-mcdonald-steely-dan-origins-jeff-porcaro.htmlSuddenly, there it was: the Voice. Deep, smooth, unmistakable. A tone that could melt diamonds or soothe large beasts. I’d heard that voice in action countless times—on records by the Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and, of course, Steely Dan. And now it was coming through with a resonance that was testing the low-end capacity of my phone’s puny built-in speakers.  At the time, Michael McDonald was preparing to hit the road with the Doobies as part of the band’s 50th anniversary tour./mississippi-expat-jordan-bush.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mississippi-expat-jordan-bush.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 Jordan Bush, a strength and conditioning coach who maintains his Mississippi ties despite now living in Austin, Texas. Where are you from? I am from Jackson, MS. Born and Raised. Right from the north side of Jackson.  When did you move to Austin and why did you move there?/month-to-month-episodic-mediums-summer-d98.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/month-to-month-episodic-mediums-summer-d98.htmlI am 1000% in on you completing the TV Club Classic rewatch of LOST! Like a lot of people hanging out here (I think, I imagine), LOST is the show that made me care about TV as a medium and about TV criticism. I wouldn't be in this space if it weren't for (both sets of) those old AV Club reviews! Ahhh!!! I rewatched LOST with some friends in 2020-2021 during the peak of 'stay home and hang with your friends online' pandemic times, and got to revisit all kinds of old writings./monthly-micro.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monthly-micro.htmlSubmit here All reading and voting is done anonymously so no putting your name on your story or telling people which is yours if you’re shortlisted. On the first Monday of each month (apart from August and December when we have time off) we post the prompt and word count and you get a week to write and submit a story based on it. Four days after submissions close we announce the longlist and on the third Monday of the month we publish a shortlist of 10 stories./moodymanns-sinnerman.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moodymanns-sinnerman.htmlAs black social life has become less and less about impressing or appeasing forces outside of it, the treatment of sin in our music has gone from strict condemnation and moralizing in spirituals, to reveling in blues, jazz, r&b, and hip hop, as if vice and depravity might allow us to rebel socially even while we remain oppressed politically and economically. Sin and decadence have become portals for the black sonic imagination and the idea of being evil has turned from dangerous to liberating as our music has evolved./moving-poetry-in-the-name-of-beauty.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moving-poetry-in-the-name-of-beauty.htmlMay we use what precious life we have to strike the cord of the heart in any way we can. Scrape the plot of earth you stand on and mold from its mud something that inspires a bit of wonder. A moment of softheartedness, a breath of loveliness, as if our true purpose is to look for every grain of beauty and proclaim it! To uphold beauty, even with tragedy. To look thoughtfully and compassionately for what is persistently and stubbornly true— that we are love, forever learning to love itself./my-appearance-of-john-olivers-last.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-appearance-of-john-olivers-last.htmlThis past Sunday, I received a text from a friend who told me he saw me on John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" show on HBO. What I am about to say doesn’t apply just to John Oliver’s show, but to the media in general. As much as I enjoyed seeing my mug on this show and gaining street cred with my kids, the episode highlights the reason why I stopped watching Oliver awhile back./my-favorite-conspiracy-theory-confirmed.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-conspiracy-theory-confirmed.htmlHi! Sorry it’s been a couple weeks since I last posted. It’s a combination of a lot of life events, but I’m excited to get back to writing, because this one’s a good one, and I have some more good ones in the chamber. As ever — I am not going to charge for this substack, but paying for a subscription allows me to do it more regularly! Either way, thanks for reading./my-interview-with-dr-miriam-grossman.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-interview-with-dr-miriam-grossman.htmlRecently, renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman, one of the stars of the Daily Wire documentary “What is a Woman?,” was kind enough to join me for an interview about her new book, Lost in Trans Nation. The interview can be read in full over at the Public Discourse; below is an excerpt. DG: Dr. Grossman, thank you so much for speaking with me. Your appearance in the 2022 documentary “What Is a Woman?/my-mothers-sister.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-mothers-sister.htmlMom and Aunt Audrey were best friends and sisters. They both lived in St. Paul as young, single, switchboard operators before they married. Audrey worked at Northwestern Bell and Mom worked at the Farmers Labor Union. When Audrey married Uncle Al and moved north again to Warroad, she worked for the phone company there. Working wives and mothers, they lived hundreds of miles apart. Letters. Phone calls. And the occasional Swenson family road trip north kept them connected./my-sexually-liberated-grandmother.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-sexually-liberated-grandmother.htmlMy grandmother, Jani Mace, died too young at age 63 of lung cancer in 1980, after crashing out of three violent marriages and becoming an independent feminist editorial writer and high-school teacher in her 50s. The year before she died she was writing about sex after 60 and describing her preferred lovers in their 40s. In 1979 this was literally unheard of, so even though she submitted the essay to Playboy (because there would have been no other publication she could have submitted this to at the time), it was of course not published./naked-attraction-weirdest-show-on-max.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/naked-attraction-weirdest-show-on-max.htmlWelcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since I started FilmDrunk in 2007. 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. — Slight preamble here: I originally wrote this piece for GQ about four months ago, and for whatever reason, they still haven’t used it./natasha-mack-wnba-return.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/natasha-mack-wnba-return.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? On June 7, Brittney Griner made her much-anticipated return to the Phoenix Mercury lineup after missing the first 10 games of the season with a foot injury./new-revelations-in-the-hall-mills.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-revelations-in-the-hall-mills.htmlTo celebrate today’s release of the expanded paperback edition of BLOOD & INK, here’s a (lightly tweaked) excerpt from the postscript I’ve added to the book, describing an unexpected research breakthrough in the Hall-Mills murder case. It’s a story about how new information, even from a century-old mystery, can turn up in places where you’d least expect it. “Hall-Mills jackpot enroute to NBFPL.” That was the subject line of an email I received last winter from Kim Adams, archivist of the New Brunswick Free Public Library, whose name you will see again in my “Note on Research and Sources,” first published in the hardcover edition of Blood & Ink./nfl-picks-thanksgiving-week-12-odds-2023.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nfl-picks-thanksgiving-week-12-odds-2023.htmlWhat is, arguably, the most on-brand NFL week of the season is here: 32 teams, 16 games, four days of football, all while we gorge on food and spend too much money on holiday shopping. U-S-A, baby! Although that might sound like I’m being a little sardonic, I don’t mean it that way. Yes, this time of year can be stressful, overwhelming, and cynically commercialized, but I honestly love it despite how jam-packed our schedules become./no-one-can-explain-exactly-what-pj.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-one-can-explain-exactly-what-pj.htmlI have not yet listened to Crypto Island, PJ Vogt’s new podcast. Just haven’t had the time. But I’m interested in the subject and am a longtime fan of the host, so I definitely will. For now, I want to talk about this review of it Nicholas Quah wrote for Vulture. There’s something very dark there that should be dragged into the light. If you’re new to my newsletter or to this controversy, you might have to read this first (unlocked version here)./nuclear-war.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nuclear-war.htmlClickbait!  That's been a problem in the discussion of the Russian invasion.  Media get your attention by writing of escalation!  Not to mention: nuclear threats! And: nuclear war!  There is a profit motive at work here, one that Russian propagandists exploit by their references to nuclear weapons.  Unfortunately, the atmospherics of what should be a sober conversation are brought more by a counting of dollars than by a reckoning of risks./nz-media-regulators-say-its-perfectly.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nz-media-regulators-say-its-perfectly.htmlWhen anti trans activist Posie Parker, also known as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who famously has Nazis turn up to some of her Let Women Speak anti-trans rallies, went to Auckland there was considerable backlash from “gender critical” activists about the way that media reported on her visit. Crucially, there was quibbling about the accuracy of the terms used to describe her, and the media’s dogged insistence on reporting on the Nazis of it all./off-the-hook-backing-up-the-truck.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/off-the-hook-backing-up-the-truck.htmlIt’s Hump Day folks and with Arctic winds whistling down the plains there ain’t much to be happy about. Especially with news we’re losing two 405 diningscape mainstays in the next few weeks. Penny Hill Deli, Bar & Char in Norman and Off the Hook in Oklahoma City both announced intentions to close existing stores but neither will vanish completely. In the case of Off the Hook, chef/owner Corey Harris is shutting down his store at the corner of Britton and Broadway on Feb./other-half-young-lion-update-oh-hopes.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/other-half-young-lion-update-oh-hopes.htmlOther Half Brewing plans to open an OH-branded taproom at the Pinnacle North Complex in Canandaigua, current home of Young Lion Brewing. Both breweries announced the sale of the taproom and production brewery at 24 Lakeshore Drive, back in November, stating they expected it to close by early January. Yet weeks later, the deal remains pending. At this point, the breweries are at the mercy of the state and federal regulators./oh-scottsdale-not-again.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oh-scottsdale-not-again.htmlIn this Stack: An angry board member has a meltdown What happened to local control of public education My letter to the governing board to put the super in his rightful place - administering, not governing Last week a member of the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) governing board, who I’ve observed becoming increasingly phar… ncG1vNJzZmiZnJq0orjPq6acnaOoe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqigXaiwsMDTrJuapJViu7DAjJqemqGe/olga.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/olga.htmlOne of the jewels of Paris is La Buvette, a compact wine bar presided over by Camille Fourmont, who created a highly personal buvette (place to drink), with approachable but interesting wines, outfitted with antique plates, flea market–found silverware, and a blackboard menu scribbled with delicious things to eat. I featured Camille in Drinking French, along with her recipe for the famous Giant Beans and her excellent, and easy, terrine./omen-hawker-in-u-devotion.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/omen-hawker-in-u-devotion.htmlAs I mentioned in my previous post, Omen Hawker is the card I’m most excited for in MOM, particularly in the U Devotion shell. So in preparation for MOM going live I thought I’d write up a primer on building U Devotion lists and then using the framework in it come up with some Omen Hawker lists. U Devotion is my favorite archetype in Pioneer. Coming up with Risen Reef + Master of Waves combo for it and having Seth/SaffronOlive make a Much Abrew of my list is what got me into brewing./on-clive-barkers-nightbreed.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-clive-barkers-nightbreed.htmlThe following was written for Clive Barker site around a decade ago, as the movie ‘Nightbreed’ was getting an extended ‘Cabal’ cut. I had been sent a preview copy, which I was very excited about, and this may be the first time I felt like a real commentator. “As the next day dawned, they called loudly upon Baphometh; and we prayed silently in our hearts to God, then we attacked and forced all of them outside the city walls…” Anselm of Ribemont/amateur-apostle-on-ninety-five-years.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amateur-apostle-on-ninety-five-years.htmlWho hasn’t known the utter satisfaction of removing—or watching another’s studied thumb remove—the peel of an orange in one long, inviolate spiral? Whatever delight this springy curl of citrus inspires is short-lived, though, and at the end of the day, the thing is in the trash all the same. What at times seems fit only for the cosmic garbage heap, however, is often cherished in hand and given pride of place by a doting Father./first-draft-thoughts-on-revolutionary.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/first-draft-thoughts-on-revolutionary.html[The Preview]: Oh, then in regards to mutual aid, I keep faltering with this series because I can't, like… I think I need to find a balance between what I wanna talk about and what I feel like the public needs. Because I keep curriculum planning and then realizing we are way behind as a public where I thought we were when it comes to understanding the importance of mutual aid and what it does./on-the-pentagrammaton.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/on-the-pentagrammaton.htmlThe tradition of what has come to be called “Christian Kabbalah” has, ever since the times of the Renaissance, arguably always been constituted by two great pillars, namely theosophical interpretations of the Trinity and speculations about the Holy Name of Jesus. Having dealt with the former rather extensively in one of our previous posts , it seems only fitting to take a quick glance at the latter theme as well and to gather here some of the interpretations that have been put forward throughout the ages./one-very-large-aubergine.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-very-large-aubergine.htmlIs anyone else consistently disappointed with the size of aubergines at their local? First off, I should acknowledge that we have attempted to grow aubergines in the past, and I am the first to admit that these puppies can be a challenge to grow to a decent size - even getting plants to fruit at all can be a challenge. But despite this knowledge, I have to say that this season I’ve been chronically underwhelmed when casting my gaze to the aubergine stand at the super or farmer’s market (in fairness to local Ōtepoti growers, the fact that any of them can grow even a modestly-sized aubergine feels like a small miracle)./only-kitchi-manitou-can-do-that.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/only-kitchi-manitou-can-do-that.htmlBoozhoo, friends! Welcome to the midweek(ish) version of An Irritable Métis. This is where things are usually a little more random, a little less … irritable. If you forgot what all this is even about, you may remind yourself here. If you want to help keep a writer out of hard labor, well…. We had a brief flirtation with spring-like weather here in the Hub of Five Valleys last week, with temperatures nosing up into the 50s./otani-shoheis-kabuto.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/otani-shoheis-kabuto.htmlLos Angeles baseball team, the Angels’ Home Run Cowboy Hat has been replaced by a Samurai Warrior Home Run Helmet introduced by star pitcher and batter, Shohei Ohtani. The former Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters Japanese baseball star and currently Los Angeles Angels’ elite batter and pitcher has been gaining attention for his on-field talents, his continuous home runs and strike out pitching, and now for his introduction of the team’s new Home Run Headwear./our-stories-survive-us.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/our-stories-survive-us.htmlHello friends, My mother died thirty years ago today. When I woke this morning I lay in bed thinking about that morning three decades ago, when I ran into her hospital room and found her dead. Too late to say goodbye, I clutched her body to mine and said it anyway. Goodbye, Mom. Goodbye, Mom. Goodbye. I am always with you, is what’s written on the tombstone my family and I laid on the spot of ground in the woods in northern Minnesota where we scattered her ashes./palestinian-liberation-art.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/palestinian-liberation-art.htmlThe world is watching as Israel carries out an ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and I am feeling incredibly low. I cannot believe the US funds this genocide with my tax dollars, and I feel completely powerless to stop it. Sharing my opinion from the imperial core feels less significant than ever. I’ve thought deeply about whether it’s even possible to make a positive contribution from where I stand. I’m also worried that some of my readers might be grieving last week’s Hamas attack in Israel./palestinians-victims-of-liberal-hypocrisy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/palestinians-victims-of-liberal-hypocrisy.htmlBeneath the unblinking gaze of history, we find ourselves, the self-proclaimed guardians of American progress, perched precariously at a crossroads. It is a juncture of profound moral reckoning, a divergence of paths so profound and so fraught with the weight of our collective beliefs that to stand here is to feel the very earth quiver beneath our feet. In this place, where the melody of human suffering plays a constant background score, where many of my progressive Jewish friends feel isolated for their calls to empathize with people in Gaza, where those aiming to recognize the humanity of innocent Palestinians have been demonized for doing so, we are teetering on no return./thursday-thread-peak-shmeak-when.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thursday-thread-peak-shmeak-when.htmlTo keep working, I depend on the financial support of gotham girl’s readers and sponsors. I know your resources are precious too. And so, I am ridiculously grateful for your help. Now, more than ever, gotham girl could use your support. Hello, Lovelies, So, I’m watching True Detective: Night Country, and I won’t lie, I’m ready for it to make more sense and pick up the pace. Still, there’s a great deal here… indigenous mysticism, missing women, an eco-thriller, the limits of the human grotesque, and echoes of deep grief./perus-cuisine-is-no-1-again.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/perus-cuisine-is-no-1-again.html¡Feliz Año Nuevo! / Happy New Year! This month’s newsletter kicks off 2022 with Peru’s creole food. I take a look at its cultural diversity and biodiversity, plus the awards it has earned as one of the world’s great cuisines. I also share some inspiring Peruvian chefs and restaurants; and why I believe the future is vegan. The 2021 World Travel Awards named Peru World’s Leading Cultural Destination, World’s Leading Tourist Destination, and World’s Leading Culinary Destination—this is the Oscar of the food world, and it went to Peru./pinkwashing-julia-child.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pinkwashing-julia-child.htmlEnjoy this free post from Shifting the Food Narrative. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Last week on James Beard’s birthday—May 5—I watched “Crêpes Suzette,” episode five of the HBO Max series Julia. I was clenched as it began, dreading the scripted James. Honestly, I’d watched only one other episode of Julia, the first, and didn’t like it: thought it was artificial and fluttery, a lot of people taking bites (even from a guerrilla omelet, cooked on live TV before a sputtering host), closing their eyes, and swooning./pitorros-sugary-secret.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pitorros-sugary-secret.htmlThanks for your loyalty, Weird Drinkers! Your favorite newsletter is back. Weird Drinkers love their unusual sips (and there are plenty out there, like this naturally intoxicating Black Drink or a booze produced from coconut flower nectar). Today’s potent beverage comes from a Caribbean tradition. The demise of Puerto Rico’s commercial sugar production has resulted in changes—and could eventually spell disaster—for a beloved tradition on the island: moonshine. It’s this time of year, around the holidays, when those changes are felt most acutely./rank-your-records-planes-mistaken.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rank-your-records-planes-mistaken.htmlHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the world’s greatest/only email newsletter about music. Check out the archives of past issues! Subscribe below! It’s free! Or you can pay if you want to be nice! It’s only five bucks a month! In Rank Your Records, I talk to artists who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. If there’s one thing no one can accuse Planes Mistaken For Stars of, it’s pandering./player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-bf7.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-ratings-from-inter-miamis-bf7.htmlphoto credit: Inter Miami CFInter Miami continued their 2024 schedule away at the LA Galaxy. This was the second time the Herons faced Los Angelenos in club history, with the first match-up resulting in a 3-2 win for LA in April 2021. However, unlike in the first game, Miami showed greater determination this time around. The match started slow for the Herons as they tried to probe their way through the Galaxy defense./player-different-stupider-games.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/player-different-stupider-games.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'm not a sports guy. We are not a sports family. Growing up, my parents loved sports, and watched them a lot. But it wasn't my thing. That has reflected in my children. A few years ago when my oldest son tried soccer, we spent most of our time trying to get him to stop going up to the ref every few minutes asking, "/podcast-idea-hobby-drama.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podcast-idea-hobby-drama.htmlDescription: When I was a kid, any time we encountered someone with a weird interest my mom would throw up her arms and dramatically yell “there’s a hobby for EVERYBODY!” as if she were on some kind of sitcom with a laugh track. The thing is, she’s right. Mechanical typewriters, Lolita cosplay, bubble gum, a line of motorized model kits resembling robotic animals called “Zoids,” there’s really and truly a hobby for everybody./police-are-taking-longer-to-respond.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/police-are-taking-longer-to-respond.htmlData from 15 law enforcement agencies show many police departments are taking longer to respond to 911 calls as they grapple with officer shortages. Longer response times lead to underreporting of crime and may decrease the likelihood that reported crimes get solved. There are no national standards for collecting and reporting response times, but many police departments publish Calls for Service data which makes up a record of every incident a police department responded to each year./poppyseed-cookies.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poppyseed-cookies.htmlHi, friends, and welcome to week #55 of Susanality. Thank you so much for your support of my work and this newsletter. I appreciate it! A few weeks ago, in an Instagram post about kreplach, I mentioned that I had always wanted to recreate the poppyseed cookies that my Ukrainian grandmother, Pearl, often whipped up for me when I came to visit her in her adopted home in Pennsylvania. For years I thought about the particular snap these cookies had, and even the slightly flour-y feel the baked cookies had in my little hand./posie-parker-vs-transgender-rights.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/posie-parker-vs-transgender-rights.htmlRecently you might have heard of a person called Posie Parker and her visit to Aotearoa. Perhaps you’re not quite sure what it’s all about. So let’s start with who this person is, why their visit is controversial, and what on earth a TERF is. Posie Parker is the super villain name of a British woman called Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. Wikipedia says she should not be confused with the actress Parker Posey, although surely Kellie-Jay was aware that would happen./poulet-basquaise.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/poulet-basquaise.htmlFor years I’ve heard chefs talk in mythical whispers about a part of the world that lives to eat. Stories of glistening piles of paper thin jamón that melt on your tongue like tabs of acid and transport you to porky nirvana. They say there are anchovies the size of your forearm and an endless supply of exquisitely good but cheap wine. They say that here, everyone is like me; fascinated by food, its provenance and prominence./junk-bugs-and-resurrection-ferns.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/junk-bugs-and-resurrection-ferns.htmlHi friend, This last week, I’ve been on a work trip so jam-packed that it feels like a high-speed hamster wheel. I gave two talks in California, then flew to Georgia to see my husband Jon, who’s been on tour for the last month. After that I traveled to Tampa, Florida, to speak to a group of hospice volunteers. That’s where I am as I write this missive, but soon enough, I’ll be heading to Los Angeles to attend the Oscars with my beloved—who is both nominated and performing this year, I’m excited to say!/pros-and-cons-of-industrial-sewing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pros-and-cons-of-industrial-sewing.htmlGreetings everybody, In this edition of The Sewing Machine Newsletter, we are going to examine the pros and cons of industrial sewing machines. Whether or not you are currently in the market for an industrial machine, I believe the following information will illuminate certain aspects of sewing machine design that are important, but often go unnoticed. I hope you find it helpful. When I think of the benefits of an industrial machine compared to a home sewing machine, it boils down to 3 main points of emphasis:/psychedelic-story-spotlight-wachuma.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/psychedelic-story-spotlight-wachuma.htmlI get a lot of questions about entheogenic or psychedelic medicine. People asking me about my experiences, general education for mental health conditions or guiding them to practitioners/medicines. After every ritual, no matter the medicine, I record my thoughts. I have transcribed my first ritual with Wachuma, also known as Huachuma or San Pedro cactus, in Terra Mirim in early July. I feel comfortable sharing certain revelations to help guide people and document my own experiences./punishment-rape-violence-towards.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/punishment-rape-violence-towards.htmlLesbian couple in Cape Town, South Africa, where violence against lesbians is off-the-scale Another day, more violent threats by men against lesbians. I had word from a feminist contact in southeastern Brazil about a parliamentarian (I will call her Lorena, a pseudonym) receiving threats of punishment rape (sometimes described inappropriately, as ‘corrective rape’). A man, who claimed to have Lorena’s address sent her a message via social media with the subject, “Rape cures lesbians and I can prove it”./reeling-backward-harry-and-son-1984.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-harry-and-son-1984.html"Harry & Son" isn't a great or even particularly good movie. It's very much an "actors' film," more focused on mood, dialogue and moments than any kind of coherent narrative, and suffers because of this. The story of a fractured father-son relationship, it wanders here, wanders there, and winds up right about where we expect it. But the film -- one of six directed by Paul Newman and the only with a screenwriting credit -- has a couple of scenes of absolute pure perfection./reggie-whites-evolving-faith.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reggie-whites-evolving-faith.htmlWhen I was growing up as an evangelical pastor’s kid in the 1990s, there wasn’t a bigger name in the Christian athlete space than Reggie White. I still remember watching him win the Super Bowl in 1997 and then, in the glare of the postgame spotlight, thank Jesus Christ. For evangelical kids like me, struggling to reconcile our religious identities with our love for the “secular” activity of sports, White offered proof that the two could go together./remembering-dale-walker.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-dale-walker.htmlYesterday Bea and I went to a memorial service for Elizabeth Dale Walker, a minister and friend we met on our bus trip from Burlington, NC to Montgomery, AL almost exactly one year ago. The celebration of Dale’s life was held at Sedgefield Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, where she was interim pastor, beginning in 2005, and which was her home church until her death in March of this year./remembering-elizabeth-mackintosh.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-elizabeth-mackintosh.htmlThirty-four years ago, on March 26, 1990 Elizabeth Mackintosh was found brutally murdered in the lower level of the chapel on the campus of Covenant Theological Seminary. By all accounts, Miss Mackintosh was a delightful, faithful, and joyful member of the CTS Community; she was a superb student and excellent conversation partner. The True Believer podcast has featured numerous interviews with former professors and colleagues of Elizabeth Mackintosh from the Seminary./a-life-worth-singing-remembering.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-life-worth-singing-remembering.htmlGrammy-winning producer, arranger, and songwriter Thom Bell, who, along with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, helped create the Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP), famous in the late 1960s through the ‘70s, has died. He was 79. His lawyer, Michael Silver, provided a statement saying Mr. Bell died at home Thursday, December 22, in Bellingham, Washington, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Part of Mr. Bell’s contribution to The Sound of Philadelphia was its signature lush orchestral arrangements./retired-numbers-boston-red-sox.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/retired-numbers-boston-red-sox.htmlNo big-league franchise has been more successful in the 21st century than the Boston Red Sox. New England’s team has won four World Series over the past 21 seasons (2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018), a feat unmatched by any other club. Only the San Francisco Giants (three titles since 2000), New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals (two apiece) have come close. And a fifth title might be on the horizon, since Boston reached this year’s All-Star break with the very best record in the American League./la-la-land-2016go-after-your-dream.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/la-la-land-2016go-after-your-dream.htmlImage by moviewise from RedBubbleLa La Land (2016) is a fantasy written and directed by Damien Chazelle about Mia Dolan (Emma Stone), an actress, and Sebastian “Seb” Wilder (Ryan Gosling), a jazz pianist, who doggedly pursue their dreams in a competitive but magical Los Angeles while falling in love with each other. Life Lesson: Go after your dream, even if it seems foolish. Movie Scene: Mia: What do we do? Seb: I don’t think we can do anything, ’cause when you get this…/review-ck-one.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-ck-one.htmlThe 1990s perfume CK One is a masterpiece. Even calling it that, though, is a bit of a joke. It’s like calling a nice toaster a masterpiece. Yes, you might say: it makes very nice toast. It cooks the bread a second time. But, a masterpiece? A masterpiece is something intricate composed by a mentally ill person, which we hang on the wall of a wealthy person, to remind us that suffering can have interesting externalities./review-the-curse-down-and-dirty-season.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-curse-down-and-dirty-season.html“That is so beautiful.” That phrase, spoken multiple times this week on The Curse, is becoming one of Whitney’s catchphrases. She always says it in the same tone of voice: solemn, respectful, yet empathic. But it’s also an incredibly hollow compliment, emphasized by just how often Whitney uses it. The reverence she pays to Cara’s explanation of her impassioned teepee performance is no different from the way she responds to Brett’s laughable caricatures of Native wisdom./review-the-regime-victory-day-episode.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-regime-victory-day-episode.htmlWelcome to Episodic Medium’s coverage of HBO limited series The Regime. As always, the first review is available to all subscribers, but further coverage will be exclusively for paid subscribers. Yearly subscriptions are 20% off until 3/4, and you can read more about our Winter Schedule here. From a scheduling standpoint here at Episodic Medium, the easiest decision has been foregrounding HBO’s Sunday dramas. Mind you, this strategy has had its pitfalls: while I highly recommend Ben Rosenstock’s coverage of The Idol, its meager audience was a reminder that not every HBO drama is going to gain the same kind of traction./review-yellowjackets-pilot-season.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-yellowjackets-pilot-season.htmlMyles here. With Showtime’s Yellowjackets emerging one of 2021/22’s breakout hits, and rife for speculation and discussion, it’s likely that many of us will be catching up on or revisiting Season 1 ahead of its return in late March. Accordingly, as its debut just preceded Episodic Medium’s arrival, Ben Rosenstock (who covered The White Lotus for us in the fall) will be covering the 10-episode season in the months leading up to Season 2./exceptional-delusions-revolutionary.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exceptional-delusions-revolutionary.htmlMost people know Revolutionary Road as a wonderfully sad 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. But RR was a Richard Yates 1962 book before that, one that was wildly popular with critics and other literary authors, but not with the wider public. It’s a beautifully written book with the theme of “hopeless emptiness,” precisely how the main characters, Frank (Leo) and April (Kate) Wheeler, refer to their lives in 1955 Connecticut suburbia./bad-boys-4-ride-or-die-stupid-fun.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bad-boys-4-ride-or-die-stupid-fun.htmlWelcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since I started FilmDrunk in 2007. 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. Bad Boys Ride Or Die is the fourth film in the Bad Boys franchise, and the second to be directed by two Belgian guys, who go by “Adil and Bilall,” professionally (I guess we have the Daniels to blame for this kind of collective billing)./roc-brewing-rochester-craft-beer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/roc-brewing-rochester-craft-beer.htmlRoc Brewing, one of Rochester’s pioneering craft breweries, will close its doors after nearly 13 years in business. Owners at the East End brewery made the announcement to employees Wednesday and then confirmed the news via text message. It’ll close its South Union taproom at midnight Saturday. When it first opened in 2011, Roc was just the second craft brewery in the city of Rochester. (Rohrbach Brewing opened its Railroad Street beer hall and production facility in 2008./ruth-gipps-in-her-own-words.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ruth-gipps-in-her-own-words.htmlThose who knew the composer Ruth Gipps often describe her as a “difficult” personality. She saw herself as an “outsider”, and she wore that badge with pride. Unafraid to cause offence, she penned scathing poems poking fun at musicologists and was outspoken about her religious beliefs. She gained a certain amount of notoriety by writing a public ‘Credo’ denouncing modernism and pop music when modernism and pop music were very much in favour./salvation-history-what-is-it.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salvation-history-what-is-it.htmlI grew up on salvation history, and for us it was an alternative to dispensationalism and covenant theology (as in the Reformed theologians). It was the framework for both understanding the Bible’s plot or plan, and it was also the framework for comprehending history itself. To be sure, it was a theological framework but it was truth – the truth from Go… ncG1vNJzZmirk6TBrq%2FKp6CgoKRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqpqkppbBqrvNZp%2Biq6Skv7p51qGYrWWZqHqqwA%3D%3D/sambusas.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sambusas.htmlThis video was entirely too much fun to make. Eden Egziabher is the chef and owner at Makina Cafe, an Ethiopian and Eritrean food truck. I love her and her cooking and her energy. The doro wat (chicken stew) is so freaking good— you’ve simply got to go try her food. Eden and I have been talking about cooking together for a while now and sambusas made sense. Most people associate sambusas with samosas, the South Asian street pastry filled with potatoes, onions, and peas, but interestingly, they originated in the Middle East in the 10th century, specifically Iran./saturday-april-20-2024.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/saturday-april-20-2024.htmlShelbyville Central Education Foundation director Andy Snow, left, delivers a $20,000 donation at Wednesday’s board meeting to SCS board president Troy Merrick to help jumpstart the daycare program for children of staff members. Six children are registered so far for the program, which begins next school year. “That is a huge help to us to get this program started,” Superintendent Dr. Matt Vance said. | photo by ANNA TUNGATE The Shelbyville Central Schools board held a work session Wednesday to discuss proposed changes to student handbooks for next academic year./smt-on-the-crown-season-6-episode-e8c.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/smt-on-the-crown-season-6-episode-e8c.htmlThe Crown has arrived at this inevitable, dreaded moment … the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. I went into this episode with so many questions: Did we really want to visit that horrific night? What exactly would The Crown show us? Would it place blame or point a finger at any person? Part 1 Discussion Thread Ep 1 + 2 As I note in this podcast, recorded shortly after …/bagel-oasis-second-review-ravenna-seattle.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bagel-oasis-second-review-ravenna-seattle.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. “The Doughboys cannot be bought!” is a common refrain from Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell on The Doughboyspodcast./seeing-things-that-arent-really-there.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seeing-things-that-arent-really-there.htmlAs a child, painter Paul Klee was fascinated by the vivid faces he saw in the swirly surfaces of the marble-topped tables in his uncle’s restaurant. As a pupil in school, the artist Salvador Dali gazed up at the ceiling of his classroom, perceiving outlandish scenes in the stained plaster. And as a master offering advice to other creators, Leonardo da Vinci recommended that they look to clouds and rocks, among other natural formations: /seraphimhamilton.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seraphimhamilton.htmlSeraphim HamiltonSeraphim Hamilton has an MA in Early Christian Studies from the University of Notre Dame and a Th.M from Duke University. He writes about the unity of the Bible in terms of Christ and the intersection between Scripture and Orthodox theology. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbSx0ZqnoaGdna6utcutpqc%3D/servicing-a-vintage-grand-seiko-at.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/servicing-a-vintage-grand-seiko-at.htmlThose subscribers who are regular readers of my Friday newsletters might have noticed that from time to time, I highlight a listing for a watch that includes official Grand Seiko service papers. Reference index to the Friday newsletters· March 22, 2023 The possibility of having a vintage Grand Seiko serviced back at “the mothership” is something not that widely known in the collecting community - which isn’t that surprising given that I have never seen the existence of this service publicly marketed by Grand Seiko, and only became aware of it myself when I saw auction listings including the service papers./set-up-a-4x4-grow-almost-anywhere.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/set-up-a-4x4-grow-almost-anywhere.htmlDear Friend & Subscriber - A friend of mine hit me up today to ask for help setting up a grow at his house. He wants to put a 4x4’ tent in his bedroom, and he wanted my insight because he knew I had run a 4x4’ setup before. I’ve mentioned previously that I would share my layout with subscribers, and his ask was the final kick I needed to finish today’s newsletter./shermichael-singleton-the-shaping.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shermichael-singleton-the-shaping.htmlMy guest this week is Shermichael Singleton, a political consultant, writer, and SiriusXM host who is that still-rare thing: a young black conservative. Since his college days at Morehouse, Shermichael has thrown himself into politics, working his way up from campus activist to volunteer positions for Republican candidates to eventually become a high-ranking aide to Dr. Ben Carson during his presidential campaign and his foray into Trump’s White House. After a brief cameo from my lovely wife, Shermichael tells me how he first became aware of the Republican Party and its history while researching a class project in elementary school./sidenotes-6-ammonite-dolly-aldertons.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sidenotes-6-ammonite-dolly-aldertons.htmlHiya! I feel as if during the pandemic, people are either working harder than ever, or not working at all. And then I’m careering from one extreme to the other. Two days of twiddling thumbs, wondering if getting to inbox zero would tempt fate and lead me to a permanently deserted professional life, with nothing from no-one, not even a phishing email fro… ncG1vNJzZmirn6W1qrHWoqOkoZ6ovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlno56xprrOrZysZWZirq65zqegrZ1dmbytuNhmmKWclafBsLrS/singapore-grand-prix-cooking-hainanese.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/singapore-grand-prix-cooking-hainanese.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. Thanks for reading Grand Prix Gastronomy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. According to International Cuisine, Singapore’s national dish is a little something called Hainanese chicken rice./social-media-audit-matt-rife.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/social-media-audit-matt-rife.htmlHey all, Today I wanted to share some findings from an analysis I conducted on comedian Matt Rife’s social media presence. Matt is widely regarded as the best stand-up comic currently leveraging social media to grow his real life audience, and has had one of the fastest rises in global name recognition in my lifetime. At the time of writing this, he currently has 33+ million followers across his TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter profiles./campbells-law-something-every-educator.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/campbells-law-something-every-educator.htmlOne concept I wish everyone concerned about education were familiar with is Campbell’s law. I certainly wish that I’d known about it twenty or more years ago. Campbell’s law states that “the more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”/sometimes-people-stonewall-us.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sometimes-people-stonewall-us.htmlThe Ledger has been trying for nearly 3 months to learn more about how a 12-year-old girl fell from a zipline at Camp Thunderbird. The YMCA of Greater Charlotte refuses to give answers — but the story behind the story illustrates how The Ledger operates. (Ledger file photo of summer campers at Camp Thunderbird.)Dear Ledger reader, On the afternoon of June 14, I got a text message from a longtime Charlotte friend: “Got a potential story for you./spicy-chipotle-chicken-marinade.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spicy-chipotle-chicken-marinade.htmlAs someone who grew up eating a LOT of dry chicken, as an adult it’s very important to me that every piece of chicken consumed in my household is juicy and flavorful. My college dining hall practically dehydrated their chicken and seemed to think seasoning was a crime. I refuse to be punished with one more lifeless chicken puck, so I am a big marinade gal and this is my current favorite./spring-is-coming-with-a-strawberry-in-the-mouth.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spring-is-coming-with-a-strawberry-in-the-mouth.html“Cinders always remain where there once was a fire.” It only took Roger Doyle 10 minutes to compose his most enduring tune. Sitting at the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument in his Bray studio one day in early 1984, he quickly assembled the filigreed synth patterns and clanking bassline that would eventually become ‘Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth’. After spending the previous two years slowly mastering this complex bit of digital sampling technology – made famous by the likes of Kate Bush and Herbie Hancock – here was a perfect piece of theatrical pop, bursting out of him like the first flowers of the season./statistics-shakespeare-and-sam-bankman.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/statistics-shakespeare-and-sam-bankman.htmlSam Bankman-Fried, cultural critic and public intellectual better known for other work wrote: I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare and the constitution and Stradivarius violins, and at the bottom of this post I do*, but really I shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half of the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that./surprising-salt-lake-city-multiracial.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/surprising-salt-lake-city-multiracial.htmlOnly the most cynical pundits and naysayers could fail to be impressed by ranked choice voting’s continual march forward. Political reform is a tough business, but not only has RCV been adopted in many dozens of cities and states in recent years, but the range of places and players adopting it is also impressive…from Republicans in Virginia and Utah to Democrats in New York City, Minneapolis and San Francisco. I want to shine a spotlight on the impressive story playing out in Salt Lake City, Utah./taarof-politeness-that-emphasises.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taarof-politeness-that-emphasises.htmlWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou One of the most obvious realities I've noticed while wandering through the world's cultures for months is how profound the cultural divide is between the eastern and western, southern and northern halves of the world. Every time I encounter this situation, it surprises and fascinates me. Culture is such a diverse concept that it is deeply embedded in human capillaries and accepted by all segments of society./taylors-tour-sams-version.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylors-tour-sams-version.htmlHope everybody either had a delightful holiday, or that you are mid-delightful holiday, and the pleasures continue, unabated, until all the bills roll in. Today I am going to re-print something I recently wrote for the Daily Beast, because I just have to. I had so much fun writing it, and ended up reading and re-reading it many times through happy tears, like a complete drip. The prompt was: “600 words on your personal hero of 2023” and friends, I searched my soul./terry-jennings-what-is-there-to-say.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/terry-jennings-what-is-there-to-say.htmlOn December 11th, 1981 the composer Terry Jennings was robbed, beaten, and left for dead in San Pablo, California. Friends and family were informed that a drug deal had gone awry, and that, as they had so often predicted, Jennings’ years-long addiction to heroin had finally caught up with him. His broken skull and his senseless death, it seemed, were simply a result of poor choices, of a disregard for the workings of the world that led him to keep “unsavory” company and to shun treatment for his addiction./texas-declares-war.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/texas-declares-war.htmlTHE WORST THING WE READ™ON WEDNESDAY, TEXAS Gov. Greg Abbott—chief executive of a state containing nearly 9 percent of the population of the United States—declared himself superior to the federal government. After the Supreme Court ruled, by a bare 5–4 majority, that the Texas National Guard could not fence the United States Border Patrol away from the border of the United States, Abbot put out a letter attacking the Biden Administration's handling of immigration, and announcing that the state would make its own border policy./the-vibe-shift-is-here-2022-was-just.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-vibe-shift-is-here-2022-was-just.htmlThank you for subscribing to Back Row. The vast majority of you are free subscribers, but this newsletter is made possible by paying readers. For $5 a month or $50 annually, paid subscribers get two Back Row posts per week plus access to commenting and the complete archive. If you enjoy these stories and want to support the growth and continuation of this work — which exists solely for readers instead of brands with ad budgets looking for lip service — please join the paid community!/the-13-year-old-who-became-the-first.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-13-year-old-who-became-the-first.htmlTetris has fallen. A week into 2024, and we’re already making sports history. Wait, sports history? I know what you’re thinking, but bear with me. Once you hear about 13-year-old’s Willis Gibson’s feat, I’m sure you’ll agree: this type of Tetris is definitely a sport. Since Alexey Pajitnov created the classic video game in 1985, part of the appeal of Tetris is that it seemed to be “unbeatable.” Unlike other games, there’s no set ending; you just keep going until, eventually, you can’t clear blocks anymore./the-all-new-siri-iphone-photos-truly.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-all-new-siri-iphone-photos-truly.htmlWelcome to my Photo meets Tech meets Travel newsletter, which is free and reader-supported. If you’d like to show your support, please consider a paid subscription, which offers full access to the Archives, and more! This week Apple made a splash by trumpeting the coming arrival of “Apple Intelligence,” it’s brand of AI for the current edition and new iP… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybq3LpWSnnadiwKq%2ByGagqaCfo7JuvMeoq6irXam%2FtrjY/the-art-of-the-flop.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-art-of-the-flop.html“Why do soccer players flop and fake injury?” As an avid soccer watcher, I get asked this question all the time whenever I’m watching a match with friends or family. It is a common question and, truthfully, it is a fair question. Because sometimes soccer players are just ridiculous in the way they react to physical contact. Of course the best aspect of flopping is that the act itself isn’t exclusive to soccer./the-benefits-of-naked-male-bonding.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-benefits-of-naked-male-bonding.htmlHuman beings are social creatures, and the need for social interaction is a fundamental aspect of our biology. Recent studies have shown that male bonding can have profound benefits for our physical and mental health, including an increase in testosterone levels. However, the topic of male bonding has been suppressed throughout history, particularly when it involves nudity. Nudity has been a part of human culture for thousands of years, and many ancient societies saw the male body as a symbol of strength and beauty./the-executioners-song-the-best-nonfiction.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-executioners-song-the-best-nonfiction.htmlMy wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality at their farm. (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.)   Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it has been getting tougher. I have three children, a full-time job, and less time to read than ever before./the-casa-that-ike-built.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-casa-that-ike-built.html“I go to Mexican restaurants maybe once a year, whether I need to or not.” --Mike Ditka, on the eve of signing his coaching contract with the Chicago Bears On January 19th of 1982, Mike Ditka absolutely needed to go to a Mexican restaurant. Not because he wanted enchiladas, but because the legendary Bears tight end had been spotted by eagle-eyed reporters at Chicago’s Tavern Club eating dinner when he should have been home in Dallas resting after a brutal last minute playoff loss at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers (Ditka was an assistant coach for the Dallas Cowboys)./the-china-project-announced-shutdown.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-china-project-announced-shutdown.htmlOn Monday, the China Project, formerly known as SupChina, abruptly announced that the company can no longer operate in its current form and will have to be shut down due to a funding shortage. The news surprised almost everyone in the China watching field. On social media, condolences poured in from China reporters and experts. During its seven-year run, the New York-based online publication has consolidated itself as one of the most influential English language media focused on China./the-chosen-season-two-episode-seven.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-chosen-season-two-episode-seven.htmlSeason 2, Episode 7 — ‘Reckoning’ Luke 11:1-3 Synopsis. Atticus comes to Quintus in Capernaum with news about Jesus of Nazareth. Quintus sends Gaius to bring Jesus in for questioning. Several disciples panic at the thought that Jesus might be on the verge of getting arrested just like John the Baptist. Andrew discovers that Tamar and her ex-paralytic friend are standing on street corners, telling everyone about Jesus, and he tries to get them to stop./the-cissy-houston-effect.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cissy-houston-effect.htmlIn 2020, I was commissioned to write the liner notes for Let It Be Me: The Atlantic Recordings (1967-1970), a box set collecting the first recordings of The Sweet Inspirations. At the helm of those recordings, of course, was Cissy Houston, whose voice I’d first heard on Aretha Franklin tapes in my youth—I just didn’t know it! But when I saw her on the 1990 Stellar Awards receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award when I was fourteen years old, I was an immediate fan./the-curious-case-of-marissa-mayers.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-curious-case-of-marissa-mayers.htmlFormer Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has launched a new photo-sharing app called Shine, designed to facilitate easy creation and sharing of photo albums for trips or hangouts. However, the app's user interface has been widely criticized as outdated and unappealing, resembling something from the early 2010s. In spite of its promising features like AI-powered photo selection and original resolution uploads, the app's visual presentation has received negative feedback (to say the least!/the-dark-side-of-matt-chandlers-confession.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dark-side-of-matt-chandlers-confession.htmlWhile Chandler’s news rocked much of the Evangelical world, there is a great deal that is being missed, dismissed or overlooked. Spiritual and leadership abuse can be very hard to spot because the exact nature of it is so insidious. While many people chose to see a tearful and heartfelt apology from a “broken” man, the truth is, it was a very elaborate and carefully planned show that I believe was put on with one very disturbing aim: to keep the money train rolling./the-definition-of-a-gentleman.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-definition-of-a-gentleman.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIf we only focused on physical items — food, drink, clothing, accessories, etc. — Classy AF would be just another place to read about “stuff.” But you’re more than the things you own (or the things that own you). You’re not defined by the ephemeral, but by the timeless. Lasting attributes such as character, ethics, and morality. In a recent Timeless & Timely essay (“When the World Is Too Much with Us”), two poems stood out to me, because each referred to the materialistic side of our nature./statehood-delmarva.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/statehood-delmarva.htmlTotal Population: 920,000 residents (664,000 registered voters) Prospective State Capital: Dover, DV Number ofse Seats: Delmarva - 1 / Delaware - 1 Notable Attractions: Ocean City, Rehoboth Beach, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Major Universities: Salisbury University, Delaware State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore (HBCU) 2020 Presidential Vote: Donald Trump - 54% / Joe Biden - 44% The Delmarva Peninsula is a 170 mile-long peninsula currently occupied by three states: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia./the-drumhead.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-drumhead.htmlIt seems that those most unlikely of things, a Klingon exobiologist, turns out to be that other unlikely thing, a Klingon spy, who Worf gets to beat up (Worf 9, Aliens 13) - and that’s just the set up for the story! After the credits things get really interesting as Admiral Satie is brought out of retirement to run an investigation... but surprisingly, by the end of Act One we have caught our spy, and we still have four acts to go./the-forgotten-lovers-of-single-life.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-forgotten-lovers-of-single-life.htmlReaders, Today I’m sharing an essay by 70-year-old social scientist Bella DePaulo about people (like her) who prefer to be single most or all of their lives, and into old age. It’s also about our culture’s failure to recognize singlehood as a legitimate, acceptable—and hardly pitiable—way of living for those who choose it, and DePaulo’s work de-stigmatizing singlehood. Society privileges those who are partnered, and pressures us to couple up. But despite the messages we receive from a young age about the importance of landing a partner for happily-ever-after, long-term relationships aren’t for everyone; not every person aspires to be coupled./three-modern-translations-of-marcus-aurelius-be8dc3ef3bab.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-modern-translations-of-marcus-aurelius-be8dc3ef3bab.htmlIf thou would’st master care and pain, Unfold this book and read and read again Its blessed leaves, whereby thou soon shalt see The past, the present, and the days to be With opened eyes; and all delight, all grief, Shall be like smoke, as empty and as brief. This epigram is found at the end of a Vatican manuscript of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It ca… ncG1vNJzZmicn6OurbDRqJmeqqSovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2%2FprGMpqadnaKjerW%2BwKeqpZmknryvv4yonWalkaewtr%2BMmqyrnZyewrR5wZ5vnZtjmrN0rsCb/the-greatest-chocolate-chunk-cookie.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-greatest-chocolate-chunk-cookie.htmlThere’s nothing ordinary about Radio Bakery’s chocolate chunk cookie.Read all about its expert engineering and how it made me trust my own process again. This is a chewy, gooey, crisp specimen of a cookie. It’s outstanding. If you want to dive right in, here are a few things to note: I’ve included chef Kelly Mencin’s specific recommendations for butter, flour, and chocolate in the recipe. If you want to walk right into a supermarket and get the closest approximations so you can make this right now, pick up whatever brand of bread flour is on offer./the-hall-of-fame-of-hall-of-fame.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hall-of-fame-of-hall-of-fame.htmlNote: Sitting here on a Sunday night, Day 4 of the worst sinus cold I’ve had in, like, forever. So, since I couldn’t actually attend any of the Hockey Hall of Fame festivities, I thought I would rank my top 10 Hall of Fame players’ classes of all-time. If there are any egregious omissions or errors, blame it on the Benylin. Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the Hockey Hall of Fame’s players’ Class of 2023, but let’s face it, the wow factor is a little lacking./the-jc-penney-debacle.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-jc-penney-debacle.html1× 0:00 -10:48 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.It is one of the most distressing thoughts in my head.  I have done so much work in my life.  I had eight produced plays by the time I was 26, and crawled my way from the garage theater underground into legitimate Bay Area venues like The Magic and Berkeley Rep.  I’ve been a professional journalist since I was 19, published 4 books I’m proud of with real publishers, and written 2 screenplays for Francis Ford Coppola./the-korean-hot-dog-stand-with-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-korean-hot-dog-stand-with-the.htmlHi, everyone! Just a heads up, Davida and I are taking a week-long vacation next week with my family down to Florida, so no newsletter next Monday. This is going to be interesting, because I’ve never been on a proper Florida trip; we’ll be staying near Orlando. And yes, a few days at Walt Disney World are on the agenda, since we’ll be traveling with my niece, and no, at 42 years of age, I have never been./the-last-time-i-saw-paris-1954.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-time-i-saw-paris-1954.htmlI admit I had a hard time even getting through "The Last Time I Saw Paris." It represents exactly the sort of Golden Age filmmaking that so turned me off as a youth: melodramatic, slowly paced, maudlin to the point of groan-inducing. It's a romantic film that starts off as a joyful scamp, turns into a drama and soon a tragedy. It's what was known in the old days as a "/no-substance-183-the-long-lie-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-substance-183-the-long-lie-of.html(Below is part two of my essay on Forrest Carter. The first part is here, in last week’s newsletter, if you missed it. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy.) Forrest Carter is a successful author. When you write about Carter, you’re not writing about an obscure American author, one whose work has no clear and visible footprint in the country’s culture. The fiftieth anniversary of Carter’s first novel, The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, took place in 2023./the-making-of-fleetwood-macs-tango.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-making-of-fleetwood-macs-tango.htmlFleetwood Mac’s most famous records were often born out of the group’s collective musical genius and a lifestyle seeped in drugs, alcohol, in-fighting, and heartbreak. Testimony from people like late Record Plant co-founder Chris Stone, who witnessed the making of Rumours, puts the chaos behind their brilliance into striking perspective. “The band would come in at 7 at night, have a big feast, party ‘til 1 or 2 in the morning,” he told Paul Verna in a 1997 Billboardinterview./the-monday-media-diet-with-louis-dad.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-monday-media-diet-with-louis-dad.htmlLouis-Marie de Castelbajac (LDMC) is a friend of WITI and a French designer and entrepreneur. His Armagnac brand is growing in Asia, and he’s always got an interesting collaboration or passion project brewing. We are delighted to have him with us this week. -Colin (CJN) Tell us about yourself. I am a designer and Armagnac maker, passionate about bridging the gap between tradition and modernity. I have a background in fashion and art direction and have designed a workwear collection in France known as Lafont, the pioneer of French workwear, originating 20 years before Levi's./the-most-misunderstood-research-method.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-misunderstood-research-method.htmlAt least twice a month, I stumble across someone asking for advice about conjoint analysis. In most cases, they don’t know what conjoint analysis is actually for. But what’s worse is how often people replying to these questions don’t understand what conjoint analysis is for either! I’ve replied to so many of these posts recently that I figured it was time to share a simple explanation publicly (partly so I can send them this link instead of a new reply every time!/the-multipreneur-manifesto.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-multipreneur-manifesto.htmlBefore we dive in… New pod is live with Case Kenny. You might recognize him from his popular Instagram account with 525k+ followers or his top podcast on SiriusXm. He was kind of enough to share with me (and you) his playbook to building million dollar businesses through a content flywheel. Super tactical convo on growing internet brands. Enjoy —> Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube Share the episode on Twitter if you enjoyed it!/the-music-festival-that-wants-to.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-music-festival-that-wants-to.htmlBurning Man has long been accused of facilitating cult worship. You’ll certainly find varying levels of cult-like activity on the fringes of the Playa, from wannabe gurus pontificating on the nature of existence while tripping on LSD to billionaire camps surrounded by paid bodyguards. This is indicative of cult worship inside of an open-source structure. Make no mistake: Burning Man is a business, and it has developed quite a monetization model./40-years-of-bomberman-the-music-of.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/40-years-of-bomberman-the-music-of.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. Whether Bomberman Hero is a good video game or not is up for debate. Sure, the people who don’t think it’s any good or that whined about the lack of multiplayer in it as a reason to not bother with Bomberman’s second Nintendo 64 adventure are wrong, but it’s the kind of wrong you can debate./the-next-chapter.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-next-chapter.htmlI’m joining a brand I love, a business model I believe in, a mission that inspires me, and a founder, team, and community that make me want to be all-in.  I am so happy to now be President, COO, and Board member of Athletic Greens, one of the fastest-growing nutrition companies in the US (and soon to be the world). After advising the company and its founder and CEO, Chris Ashenden, for a good bit of the year, the opportunity to join the company was just too exciting to pass up./the-origins-of-nirvanas-come-as-you.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-origins-of-nirvanas-come-as-you.htmlNirvana faced a tough decision after the massive success of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: should they release “Come As You Are” or “In Bloom” as the next single from Nevermind? Record label folks believed “Come As You Are” was more likely to be a hit, but late lead singer Kurt Cobain had some reservations about the song. “Kurt was nervous about ‘Come as You Are’ because it was too similar to a Killing Joke song [‘Eighties’], but we all thought it was still the better song to go with,” Nirvana’s manager Danny Goldberg explained in the book Eyewitness Nirvana: The Day-By-Day Chronicle./the-outrageous-and-irreplicable-college.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-outrageous-and-irreplicable-college.htmlHere’s the promised second installment of the series built around Caitlin Clark’s pursuit of various Division I career scoring records. Today, we shift over to the men’s game. At some point in the next week, almost certainly by the end of her team’s March 3 regular-season finale against Ohio State, Caitlin Clark will have cleared another historical marker. Having already eclipsed Kelsey Plum’s NCAA Division I women’s basketball career scoring record in a Feb./the-parable-of-the-pinecone.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-parable-of-the-pinecone.htmlNow, I don’t usually go on Instagram very much (as would surprise probably nobody on this list, given that I wrote a book called How to Break Up With Your Phone — or, for that matter, any of my Instagram followers, since to this day I do not fully understand how to use it, and refuse to learn). HOWEVER, I did venture on there at some point in the past month, and its algorithm showed me a picture that demonstrated that, while it appears to not know that I have Type 1 diabetes, it does know that I like a whimsical project./the-problem-with-the-clean-girl-aesthetic.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-problem-with-the-clean-girl-aesthetic.htmlA few months ago, I got deep into beauty Tiktok. It started after my daughter was born; I spent many hours holding her with one hand, and the easiest thing to do with the other hand was scroll through Tiktok on my phone. Thus, a Tiktok addiction was born. While I was already a skincare enthusiast, I was never previously a big makeup person. After watching what probably amounted to hundreds of hours of beauty videos on Tiktok and successfully getting influenced, I decided it was time to buy myself new makeup./the-rainbo-connection.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-rainbo-connection.htmlThe first time I heard of the Rainbo Club was when Mary Kate texted me from there several years ago. She was in Chicago catching up with friends. It was one of her favorite bars, she told me, a hangout of her salad days in Chicago, the best bar. I had never heard of it. A year later, I was in Chicago on business. Mary Kate said I had to go the Rainbo Club while I was there./the-real-truth-about-publishing.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-truth-about-publishing.htmlSo someone wrote a piece on how no one sells any books and it went kinda viral. It was a…well, it lacked context, made some weird claims, and wasn’t as meticulously researched as you’d want it to be. That didn’t matter. Folks shared that thing everywhere. I read it. I knew anyone with access to BookScan—or anyone who has been involved in publishing for a while and paying attention—could see all its flaws./hansa-rostock-the-rise-and-long-demise.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hansa-rostock-the-rise-and-long-demise.htmlThere was a magazine that I cherished. I think it was produced by “Sat.1” and their Bundesliga show “Ran”. But now, three decades later, I can’t remember with certainty. What I do remember, though, was one particular issue on East German football that featured Hansa Rostock stars Matthias Breitkreutz, Stefan Beinlich, and Steffen Baumgart—yes, the now former 1. FC Köln coach—on the cover page. This particular issue focused not just on the emergence of Hansa Rostock as a powerhouse in the 1995/96 season but also on the history of East German football./the-cq-the-rise-of-the-shoppy-shop.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cq-the-rise-of-the-shoppy-shop.htmlThe CQ is Forerunner’s weekly newsletter covering the most pressing consumer trends. Subscribe now to get the latest edition in your inbox every Saturday. By Kira McCroden, VP of Communications @KiraMcCroden Hi everyone, 👋 Kira here from Forerunner. This week, it seemed like everyone in our community was buzzing about the new New York Magazine story dissecting the rise of the “shoppy shop” — AKA: the growing class of calculatedly charming boutique indie retailers — as well as the role Faire plays as critical infrastructure in this growth./the-scammer-who-sold-the-brooklyn.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-scammer-who-sold-the-brooklyn.htmlIn the late 19th century, New York City pulsed with potential and promise. Carrying just a suitcase and perhaps an address scribbled on a piece of paper, immigrants arrived by the thousands every day, seeking a new beginning in this "land of opportunity". Many came from Europe, particularly Italy, Ireland, and Germany; some fleeing economic hardship, others political chaos, but every single one of them motivated by the dream of a better life./dawsons-creek-joey.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dawsons-creek-joey.html“Dawson’s Creek” really should’ve been called “Joey’s Creek.” I know I’m not the first person to have this thought, but it’s one worth examining nonetheless. In our 2009 interview for the original TeenDramaWhore, executive producer Paul Stupin explained the show’s origins to me, detailing how creator Kevin Williamson “pitched to me a bunch of characters living on the same creek” and “pitched to me the characters of Dawson and Joey and Jen and how that triangle would work./the-sluts-by-dennis-cooper.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sluts-by-dennis-cooper.htmlHi y'all, Nash recommended The Sluts by Dennis Cooper to Julie, who in turn recommended it to me as the best internet novel either of them has ever read. Julie warned me though, “It gave me nightmares, which I respect.” When Jesse saw I bought it, he messaged me, "This book is vile. Deeply unpleasant." And none of them were wrong! I maybe regret reading it and definitely will not be shocked if I have nightmares!/the-state-of-the-ukraine-campaign.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-state-of-the-ukraine-campaign.htmlIt has been nearly three weeks since the initial ground combat phase of the Ukrainian 2023 offensives commenced. Of course, even this was just part of a larger preparatory phase which began in late 2022 and has taken months to assemble equipment and munitions, train soldiers, collect intelligence, shape Western perceptions and attack Russian operational and strategic enablers. In an interview with the BBC this week, President Zelensky described how progress in the Ukrainian 2023 offensives has been "/the-story-behind-its-a-wonderful.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-story-behind-its-a-wonderful.htmlAn excellent read! It's A Wonderful Life is perhaps my favorite movie of all time. I've watched it more times than I've watched any other movie. It resonates with me on a level that few other stories do. I love absorbing every bit of IAWL trivia that I can find. Thank you! :) Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmialam1pLvLpaCeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55lo6m8s8WMm5yhoZ6ZeqrA0maYZq%2Bfo7GmvsWuo2ibn6K6prrTrA%3D%3D/the-time-peter-rebuked-jesus.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-time-peter-rebuked-jesus.htmlIt’s impossible to follow Jesus your way. How do I know that? Because the apostle Peter found that out the hard way. Peter liked what he had heard from Jesus. Jesus had asked who the apostles believed He was, and Peter had answered correctly. “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matthew 16:16) Jesus pronounced a blessing upon Peter for this response and then said some things that, no doubt, Peter liked to hear./the-top-10-welterweight-rankings.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-top-10-welterweight-rankings.htmlFrom the time I started working as the boxing writer at USA Today in early 2000 until leaving ESPN in April 2020, one of my responsibilities was to provide divisional rankings for each outlet. At USA Today, I updated the rankings once a month until leaving in early 2005. At some point during my time at ESPN they became weekly, but I had not done any divisional rankings until a few days ago when I did an updated top 10 heavyweights./the-ultimate-green-beans.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ultimate-green-beans.htmlRomano beans, also known as Italian green beans, are my favorite green bean variety. They’re long, flat, and sweeter than your average bean. You can find them at specialty stores, farmers market, or in the frozen aisle of your local grocery store. I know soup season is pretty much over, but allow me to sneak in one more soup recipe in this newsletter: a green bean soup that tastes like home./016-the-unfinished-story-of-dick.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/016-the-unfinished-story-of-dick.htmlWelcome to the sixteenth edition of Run It Back, my biweekly newsletter about neglected black history. For the foreseeable future the newsletter will be focused on Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, which I’m currently writing a book about for Random House. For a long time, people would say the trouble started in an elevator. A black male and a white female, both just teenagers, had a chance encounter that mutated into one of the worst acts of racial terror in United States history./the-eleven-nations-of-the-united.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-eleven-nations-of-the-united.htmlWelcome to the first in a three part map series on the “American Nations” theory of cultural nationalities that exist within the United States. Today, I will dive into the theory at a high level. Over the next couple weeks I’ll analyze data on each of the nations and offer my own critiques and opinions on it. Links for each subsequent article will be added here as they are posted./the-unlikely-rise-of-bayern-munich.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-unlikely-rise-of-bayern-munich.htmlSlowly but surely, young Frans Krätzig is playing his way onto this Bayern Munich team. On Wednesday, the 20-year-old played his sixth game for the first team after coming on in the 86th minute for Alphonso Davies in the 0-0 Champions League draw against Copenhagen. The four minutes plus five minutes of injury time marked Krätzig’s debut in the Champions League. Altogether, Krätzig has now played 222 minutes spread across six first-team games for Bayern./the-word-vieweda-reading-of-twin.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-word-vieweda-reading-of-twin.htmlFor a time, a third season of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was the domain of the dreamers—it existed only for those who dared to imagine and invent. It is one thing to contend with the knowledge of objects damaged or lost (The Magnificent Ambersons), or to yearn for those works locked away, kept out of reach by conspiratorial market forces (as was the case, for a long time, with Jacques Rivette’s Out 1)./this-is-54-author-elizabeth-gilbert.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-54-author-elizabeth-gilbert.htmlThis week is the 20th anniversary of my first chemo (of 4 treatments). Memory holed this all pretty hard, but my tricky brain just let it back out...why?! Remember being so upset about the idea of my hair (which was not that glorious to begin with). And totally free once it was gone: from male gaze, expectations, from the time it took! I got to keep that with me: the it does not matter / fuck it / just say yes to what you want./this-launch-cover-for-glamour-almost.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-launch-cover-for-glamour-almost.htmlThe launch issue of Glamour UK. Cringeing at some of these cover lines now. It was a different time! Many of you have contacted me to request some behind the scenes stories about my days in magazines, my interactions with celebrities, or this infamous moment from the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. So I’ve decided to tell you  - the real ones, the wonderful subscribers, thank you - the celebrity cover story that still makes me break out into a cold sweat when I think about it./three-bullets-for-bugsy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-bullets-for-bugsy.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. (Check out previous ones while you're at it.)  Likes, comments, and shares help with author discoverability on Substack.com, and all support is appreciated. And don't forget to hit the ‘Subscribe’ button – it’s free!           One night 76 years ago this week, the mobster Bugsy Siegel was sitting in the home of his mistress in Los Angeles when three bullets came through the window./timeless-kitchen-hardware.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/timeless-kitchen-hardware.htmlThere are so many decisions that need to be made with cabinetry. After you’ve nailed down the paint color, layout, and style—you also need to specify type of hardware, the finish and the placement. Today we’re sharing our favorite sources, finishes, and a guide for typical placements to create a timeless kitchen. Hopefully this will make it a little bit easier for you when it comes time to decide on kitchen hardware./tms-muse-of-the-week-krissy-wood.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tms-muse-of-the-week-krissy-wood.html(Evening Standard) A few years ago, there was a meme where people would respond to someone seemingly bland or uninteresting receiving incredible success or good fortune with this gif from Fox’s “Arrested Development”: For me, the first person who comes to mind with this gif always is English woman Krissy Findlay, better known by her married name Krissy Wood. Nothing against her, as it appears she was a decent person, albeit with some depressing moments./worst-to-best-tom-cruise-movie-singles.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/worst-to-best-tom-cruise-movie-singles.htmlTom Cruise has a long history making movies, as Top Gun: Maverick's arrival 36 years after the original ride into the danger zone has reminded everyone. He’s also had a long history on the pop charts, however indirectly. There’s not a lot that unifies songs that have appeared on Tom Cruise soundtracks, but many have taken on a life of their own after making appearances in Cruise’s films. Below is a ranking of 25 theme songs and/or singles from Cruise movies, from the awful to the sublime (with many that fall somewhere in the semi-memorable middle)./traveling-the-road-of-albert-brooks.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/traveling-the-road-of-albert-brooks.html“I had a very famous agent and he said to me, ‘I don’t know why you always take the hard road.’ And my answer was, ‘You think I see two roads.’” — Albert Brooks, Defending My Life I have three pop culture heroes: Martin Scorsese, Neil Young, and Albert Brooks. Of the three, I’ve only met Albert Brooks, but it turned out to be one of the more serendipitous moments of my career./trouble-funk-drops-the-bomb-on-austin.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trouble-funk-drops-the-bomb-on-austin.htmlA year before the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their first album, punk rock and funk rhythm gloriously collided in Austin when the Big Boys, thrashers who had added a horn section, opened for Washington D.C. “go-go” powerhouse Trouble Funk. This August 1983 triumph at the Club Foot location at 4th and Brazos which had just changed names to Nightlife, was four months before the beloved club closed. Although the genres sounded nothing alike, go-go and punk came from the same mindset of jumping off the pedestal and onto the dancefloor/moshpit./trumpism-maga-cult-deprogram-democracy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/trumpism-maga-cult-deprogram-democracy.htmlTrumpism has all the trappings of a classic cult of personality: a charismatic figure at the center who is worshiped as a modern messiah by his followers; a leader who seemingly can do no wrong, even while engaged in patterns of criminal behavior to grift money from them; a master manipulator who controls the behavior, thoughts, information and emotions of his flock.  Sound about right? It’s becoming more common and accepted these days to speak openly about the “Cult of Trumpism./ttrpg-review-liminal-horror.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ttrpg-review-liminal-horror.htmlI’m starting this month’s Missive with something different: a game review! I love reading and discussing games and spent several years reviewing video games (though it’s been a while). As a freelance creator in the space, I found myself a bit conflicted on whether or not I want to put down in writing my thoughts on games lest it limit my work opportunities in the future or give folks an overly restrictive view of what kind of games I like, want to create for, etc./two-on-the-ball-hv-weekly-9142020.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-on-the-ball-hv-weekly-9142020.htmlWelcome back to the Hoop Vision Weekly! It was a long week of people arguing about how good or bad Carleton is relative to NCAA teams in our YouTube comment section. The video — now our second most-viewed on the channel — is quickly approaching the Baylor no-middle breakdown for the top spot. But today’s newsletter is again NBA playoffs themed. Last week, we focused on the Raptors and Celtics. Now we switch over to the Western Conference./una-pareja-de-tres-o-mas-la-poligamia-en-africa.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/una-pareja-de-tres-o-mas-la-poligamia-en-africa.htmlEn 2014, el expresidente de Kenia, Uhuru Kenyatta, reforzó la ley sobre la poligamia. Desde entonces, y a través de la enmienda de ‘ley del Matrimonio’, los hombres pueden casarse con tantas mujeres deseen, sin el consentimiento de su primera esposa. Muchas de las parlamentarias presentes aquel día en el Parlamento, abandonaron el recinto. La ley era una excusa más para discriminar a la mujer.  Aun así, cuatro años más tarde, ni un 1% de los keniatas viven en hogares polígamos, según datos de Pew Research Center./what-are-java-virtual-threads.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-are-java-virtual-threads.htmlJava 21 was recently released. The latest release includes exciting and innovative features such as Virtual Threads, unnamed classes, Generational ZGC, etc. Java 21 is expected to revolutionize efficiency, performance, and scalability. One of the features that caught my attention was Virtual Threads. They were first introduced as a part of Project Loom. This feature was in preview in the older releases i.e Java 19, 20. Now, it is a part of the language core feature./untable-is-both-unconventional-and.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/untable-is-both-unconventional-and.htmlThere are over a dozen chile pepper emojis that follow the description of WHAT THE HELL Fried Rice, a full throttle flame thrower of a dish that includes crispy chili fried rice, tiger shrimp, sweet pork, rolled eggs and veggies. It arrives like a do-it-yourself pu pu platter of high heat carbs at Untable, which opened yesterday in the former Francesca’s Pizza spot on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens./veganizing-classic-sauces-espagnole.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/veganizing-classic-sauces-espagnole.htmlThis is part III of my multi-part series explaining how I veganized five classical French sauces. In parts I and II, I introduced my take on Vegan Béchamel and Velouté…both important sauces that significantly expand the home cook’s recipe archive. This week, I explore a very rich version of brown sauce that is commonly known as Espagnole Sauce. I offer my base recipe, that is easily converted into many different sauce derivates, plus ideas on how I use the ideas of this roux-based sauce to create stews and flavorful sauces in a more condensed manner./vintage-thrift-clothing-in-paris.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/vintage-thrift-clothing-in-paris.htmlPARIS DEFINED MAGAZINE »»» STYLE »» SHOPPING » vintage clothing + flea marketsBienvenue à Paris, global fashion hub, City of Love Binge Shopping. Land of the Chic, Home of the Swank. You get the idea. The Thrift Stores and Charity Shops must be a blast right? Non. Désolée, mes cheries. Pas de tout. There are a few reasons... Reason Numero Un: Not only is Paris the World Capital of Luxury, but downstream there’s a whole ecosystem of Fashion Effluvia awaiting you./viv-games-is-live.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/viv-games-is-live.htmlI’ve been working with a team of talented designers and specialists on a way to make gamers into heroes in real life. We’re coming out of stealth mode and need your help boosting our first Kickstarter campaign. VIV is building a bridge between two seemingly incompatible worlds. In one realm, you’re a hero engaged in epic quests to save the world—and you can do it! In online games, you’ve got agency, power, and the ability to instill hope in those around you./was-there-a-first-bat-flip.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-there-a-first-bat-flip.htmlI’m obsessed with a podcast called A History Of Rock Music In 500 Songs. Being a history podcast, it has an understandable interest in firsts, from the arcane (first Theremin on a pop record) to the momentous (first rock ‘n’ roll song). But it always, always, issues a disclaimer: There are no firsts. As host Andrew Hickey put it this week, in a comment on the so-called first ever rock bootleg album: “As with all these things, it depends on how you define many of those words./osage-minerals-council-chairman-everett.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/osage-minerals-council-chairman-everett.htmlLast Tuesday, I published a Power Hungry Podcast with Everett Waller, the chairman of the Osage Minerals Council. I have been in contact with Waller for nearly four years, but he has refused to do an interview because the tribe was in litigation against Enel. But on December 20, a federal judge in Tulsa sided with the tribe and declared that the Italian company must remove all 84 turbines it built using the tribe’s rocks without getting a permit./welcome-and-hi.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-and-hi.htmlLately, I haven’t been sleeping too well (my Oura ring hates me by now). I’ve been having intense bouts of anxiety right around 4am for the past few weeks, and while a healthy amount of anxiety is normal and sometimes necessary, this (for me anyway) is not. I’ve had a lot of things on my mind, but one constant thought revolves around a question that every entrepreneur dreads and must face sooner or later— ‘to raise or not to raise?/what-hank-asher-has-to-do-with-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-hank-asher-has-to-do-with-the.htmlThe Hank Show has been widely reviewed, and it is very good, but the reviewers by and large don’t seem to get it. It works as an adventure story, sort of, about the colorful figure of Hank Asher, but the real meat here is how his company fits into the intrigues of the 1990s and 2000s, and the emerging big data economy. The Miami Vice-style beginning to the story is his brief time running weed and coke to South Florida via the Bahamas, Belize, and Oklahoma, for which he was pursued by the FDLE, and later became a DEA informant./bonus-episode-what-happened-to-the.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bonus-episode-what-happened-to-the.htmlHey everyone, The story behind this bonus episode is the wildest ride because it all started with one of my History in the News round-ups. On the 20th I wrote something about the mystery of how the Sphinx’s nose disappeared, which I then talked about on Instagram, which then went viral, garnering me 4,000 new followers in 48 hours (and also about that many hateful comments in my DMs). So Niko and I did a slightly deeper dive into what happened to the Sphinx’s nose, and here we are: A bonus episode dedicated to the myths surrounding the destruction of the Sphinx’s nose (it wasn’t Napoleon’s army!/what-is-a-neighborhood.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-a-neighborhood.htmlWhat is a neighborhood?  Is it a collection of buildings, roads, walkways, street lights? Is it a group of people living in proximity to one another? Is it an accumulation of histories, memories, some inked into the public record, others lost to time? When I first moved into my neighborhood in 2012, I was a whole person with a whole life coming from a whole other state. I’d just turned 24 and I had come here for graduate school without much knowledge of Los Angeles, its neighborhoods, its ecologies./what-is-blue-lotus-the-mystical-spiritual.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-blue-lotus-the-mystical-spiritual.htmlLet’s talk about BLUE LOTUS! The mystical spiritual plant which has been held sacred by ancient civilisations across the world. Also known as Neelkamal in Sanskrit (Neel means blue and Kamal means lotus). There are depictions of Tara Maa (one of the 10 Mahavidya Goddesses of Hinduism) holding a blue lotus in her hand. This flower was also worshipped extensively by the ancient Egyptians (the Kemetic civilisation). In ancient times, the entire planet was ancient indigenous cultures and civilisations, before the colonisation of Abrahamic religion./what-is-the-post-left.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-post-left.htmlThe liberal media and political classes dragging Biden to the nomination predictably destroyed whatever cohesion there was of the broad coalition of Bernie Sanders supporters. One dominant and seemingly new tendency to emerge from this shattering of Sandersism into a thousand pieces has been something that has been called the post-left, or sometimes the anti-left. This refers to self-described Marxists who are basically hopeless about the future of the left, and disgusted with all its current, failed forms, but who still are concerned enough about the future of the left to sloganize themselves in relation to it./justin-matthews-straight-next-door-sean-ford.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/justin-matthews-straight-next-door-sean-ford.htmlJustin Matthews was 17 years old when he was first recruited to be a model for SeanCody.com, a gay pornography website founded in the fall of 2001. The money seemed good enough ($2,500 for a solo video), but mostly he was excited for the opportunity to escape Alabama. He waited a few months until his 18th birthday, and then, under the name Taylor, went on to shoot a number of scenes for them between 2011 and 2014./what-the-asa-hutchinson-incident.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-asa-hutchinson-incident.htmlOn Monday night, after a disastrously poor showing in Iowa — he got 191 totalvotes — former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. "My message of being a principled Republican with experience and telling the truth about the current front runner did not sell in Iowa” said Hutchinson. “I stand by the campaign I ran.” Enter the Democratic National Committee, who thought it made sense to dunk on Hutchinson in this moment./what-the-heck-is-post-positivism-20-09-16.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-heck-is-post-positivism-20-09-16.htmlIf you are someone who knows a lot about philosophy of science (or pretends to), then this post is not for you. Stop reading now, because you will just get mad at my oversimplistic explanations. You may even say I am “wrong.” Guess what, this post is not for you, so I don’t care. This post is for the many, many, students and professors of psychology who have essentially zero working knowledge of philosophy of science./what-to-say-to-someone-whos-been.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-to-say-to-someone-whos-been.htmlI was one of the 1,250 people who lost their jobs at DoorDash last week. It was a Wednesday morning, and I was in my multitasking-mom mode—filling up water bottles, waiting for the toast to pop, one eye on the nearly-brewed coffee pot—when I scanned my work email. Two new emails, the first from the CEO, Tony Xu, with the subject line, “Changes to our DoorDash team.” I thought something like, too bad, some people must have been let go./whos-the-craziest-person-in-this.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whos-the-craziest-person-in-this.htmlIf you’re a regular reader having just read this title, I’m sure you have an answer on the tip of your tongue—JJ. And I know you’d have the same answer for who is the funniest, warmest, boldest, sincerest, succinctest, and humblest in this room, too. But please stop, we’re not here to let you drone on about me. Today, we’re trying to discover who is the craziest person in this room./who-is-the-wayne-gretzky-of-soccer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-is-the-wayne-gretzky-of-soccer.htmlIf Wayne Gretzky never scored a goal, he’d still be the National Hockey League’s all-time leader in points. This the ur-sports-fact -- a universe in a grain of sand. You get a point for a goal and a point for an assist, and Gretzky has the most of each. He scored 894 times; no else has more than 801 goals. He assisted on 1,963; next best is all the way down at 1,249./who-were-the-ninevites.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-were-the-ninevites.htmlScriptureOld Testament: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Psalter: Psalm 62:5-12 Epistle: 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Gospel: Mark 1:14-20 ___ PrayerGod of the prophets, you call us from evil to serve you. Fulfill in us your commonwealth of justice and joy, that the light of your presence may be revealed to all nations, to the glory of Jesus' name. Amen. (Revised Common Lectionary) … ncG1vNJzZmiZnKGur77Bnq2eqpVjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGnXayys7GMrZ%2BeZZ6eu6bCyK2crA%3D%3D/judge-sarah-merriam-overly-harsh-management.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/judge-sarah-merriam-overly-harsh-management.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! This coming Monday, June 10, marks the first day when current law students can apply for federal judicial clerkships under the Law Clerk Hiring Plan. To everyone applying, good luck—and take care./why-am-i-eating-when-im-not-hungry.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-am-i-eating-when-im-not-hungry.htmlAre you hungry, or are you thirsty? Are you hungry, or are you bored? Are you hungry, or are you tired? And if you are hungry, have you tried ignoring it completely? I mean eating is so déclassé. Have you ever thought about the mental gymnastics that we do in order to decide if we have earned a right to eat? I mean seriously, even if we are hungry and our bodies are signaling to us that we need food, we often go through a checklist to see if we should, in fact, eat something./why-did-dawsons-creek-teach-us-this.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-dawsons-creek-teach-us-this.htmlThe year was 1998, and a teenage Jessica was crammed onto the couch in the basement of my pal Rosie’s house in South Seattle, swooning over the hot-and-heavy “love affair” between Pacey Witter and “Tamara” on what was then America’s No. 1 teen show — Dawson’s Creek. Remember that plotline? It look me a minute. Pacey lost his virginity to Tamara, and back then, sophomore year of high school, a bunch of virgins squeezed onto a dingy couch, we were all desperate to lose our virginities./why-did-eden-have-four-rivers.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-did-eden-have-four-rivers.htmlThis is the sixth 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’ll look at the rivers in Eden and the other lands they flowed into. Here are the verses in focus: “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed./why-gov-noems-case-for-killing-cricket.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-gov-noems-case-for-killing-cricket.htmlSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem misfired this week, and hunters and dog handlers need to speak up about it. The Guardian newspaper reported on a sad tale from Noem’s upcoming book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” The portion of the book shared was about how she killed a 14-month-old German wirehaired pointer named Cricket. She said she hated the dog and called it aggressive, a livestock killer, and untrainable./why-i-almost-cancelled-the-dance.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-i-almost-cancelled-the-dance.htmlDear Kula Diaries, Today is my 1,144th day of dancing in a row. If I estimate that I (conservatively) dance, on average, for 20 minutes per day… that’s 22,880 minutes of dancing… or 381 hours… or 15.89 days of dancing. One of my friends asked me a few months ago if it was possible that I was the ‘World Record Holder’ in most days of consecutive dancing in human history… and I realized that it had never even occurred to me that this was a notable record of any kind./why-is-shaquille-oneal-selling-me.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-is-shaquille-oneal-selling-me.htmlOver the last few months, I’ve considered buying a new printer. I used to love making zines in my early 20’s, but my hand-me-down inkjet printer rescued from a trash heap at an old unpaid internship isn’t the most efficient tool for that job. While the image quality is up to snuff, replacing the ink cartridges easily costs over $100. Having learned the hard way that much of a printer’s expense lies not in the initial investment but in the cost of ink, getting a new printer is not a task I’m willing to entrust to Amazon’s first suggestion./why-john-macarthur-is-wrong-on-mental-health.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-john-macarthur-is-wrong-on-mental-health.htmlUPDATE: MacArthur has doubled down on his comments. You can read my response here: John MacArthur doubles down on his mental health comments. And he's still wrong.Today is a sad day for evangelicals and the Christian Church. I just watched John MacAurthur spend several minutes telling the world that one of the biggest lies in society right now is “that there is such a thing as mental illness.” As someone with diagnosed anxiety, OCD, and depression (and who wrote a book on faith and mental health), I’m telling you MacArthur is wrong./why-your-super-app-strategy-will.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-your-super-app-strategy-will.htmlEveryone wants to build a super-app. Yet, almost every super-app will fail. You don’t get to be a super-app just because you have a lot of users on your core app and you now decide to bundle multiple services into the same interface. You gain the right to be a super-app by (1) gaining the primary right to customer relationship in a certain category (or in very rare cases, across categories), and (2) gaining the right to mediate all other services (in that category) through your interface./whyd-i-take-speed-for-twenty-years-d80.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whyd-i-take-speed-for-twenty-years-d80.htmlHappy Friday, Searchers!  Last week, we published an episode called “Why’d I take speed for twenty years?”  For months, I had been feeling trepidation about putting that first episode out. It felt vulnerable to talk about something so personal in public, and more so when the personal thing intersects with a topic people feel strongly about. I have to say though, the listener feedback last week was so impressive. It just made me feel grateful for the audience we’re finding here./women-to-know-danuta-danielsson.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/women-to-know-danuta-danielsson.htmlAn enraged woman runs across a street / to bring her handbag down, hard, on the back / of a skinhead Neo-Nazi flagbearer. / A photographer freezes her weapon in mid-air ... — Mark Granier (image via Wikimedia) In 1985, a group of Nordic Reich Party supporters marched through the streets of Växjö, Sweden. At one turn, a woman leapt from the crowd, smashin… ncG1vNJzZmiipaG2oq%2FCmqmpnZ6psrN60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnp6S6prqMraZmo56kxG6wwKesrZldma6vtcSlqqynng%3D%3D/word-of-the-week-sletter.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/word-of-the-week-sletter.htmlI learned about the style-and-culture publication Blackbird Spyplane—a Substack newsletter, like (but also very much unlike) the one you’re reading now—through a November 2022 article in the New York Times, which is a little embarrassing, because the publication and its creators are headquartered in Oakland, California, as am I. I should have heard about it through a local grapevine, right? Anyway, I was pulled in by the Times’s headline—”Inventing a New Language for Talking About Style”—which of course spoke directly to me and my own obsessions, and I filed it away, thinking I’d eventually write something about BBSP./yelawolf-you-and-me-lyrics-and-videos.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yelawolf-you-and-me-lyrics-and-videos.htmlYelawolf - "You and Me" (Official) Source: Yelawolf "You And Me" lyrics Black boots, red cup Brown liquor, no suds Some bad motherfuckers just rolled up Yeah Firecracker, short fuse I pulled the plug out on you like a corkscrew No limit, no curfew Yeah To get everything I wanted in this lifetime I had to put my beliefs on the front line In every song that I sing/i-eye-guy.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-eye-guy.htmlOn April 19, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: ONCE AND ALWAYS premieres on Netflix. I’m writing about all 60 episodes of MMPR’s first season in the lead-up to that premiere.  If you’d like to follow along on this rewatch, entirety of MMPR’s first season is available for free (with ads) on YouTube. 8. I, Eye Guy One-sentence synopsis: A dejected boy genius is seen.  Why it matters: When you watch any show from a bygone era, you’re bound to encounter incongruencies with the modern day that can take you out of it./you-have-such-a-pretty-face.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-have-such-a-pretty-face.html“My mom was obsessed with her appearance,” says Anastasia Selby, writer of the newsletter , in a new guest piece for The Unpublishable. “I understood that beauty was the most powerful currency she had.” Their essay, below, discusses beauty as control and love, as protection and harm, as prize and consolation — as a force of life and a force for death. I’m so grateful to Anastasia for sharing it here.-Jessica/you-people-is-an-offensive-unfunny.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/you-people-is-an-offensive-unfunny.htmlSpoilers ahead for Netflix’s “You People.”  Jonah Hill? Eddie Murphy? Julia Louis-Dreyfus?! With a literal comedy all-star cast, “You People” was going to be a surefire, hilarious hit! Right? Right?! Unfortunately, hardly any of the “bits” landed—and the movie’s cringe, lame, and unfunny attempts at humor weren’t the only things offensive about the movie (which was penned by Kenya Barris of “Black-ish,” Mixed-ish,” and “#BlackAF” fame in collaboration with Hill). “You People”—another twist on 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and its subsequent 2005 remake, “Guess Who”—runs it back with the ol’ “whirlwind romance between white and Black partners leads to awkwardness with their respective families” trope./action-network-sells-for-240-million.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/action-network-sells-for-240-million.htmlFriends, On May 14, 2018, the United States Supreme Court ruled PASPA unconstitutional and paved the way for states to self-regulate retail and online sports betting. Now, as more states legalize sports betting across the US and competition between operators continues to heat up, we’ve seen a flood of M&A and licensing-based media content partnerships ove… ncG1vNJzZmigpZmxrbHUqWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXxurcKtoKimXaOytcPOq6Jmq5WhubR5xaipZmpkZXqutculoKim/life-below-zero-with-sue-aikens.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/life-below-zero-with-sue-aikens.htmlImagine living 500 miles from the closest town, relying on your grit and skills in hunting, fishing, and foraging to find food and medicine to survive. Now, imagine doing all of this at the edge of the world, deep in the Arctic, beyond the tree line where there are no roads and no neighbors nearby to help in an emergency. Our guest this week is Sue Aikens, star of the eight-time Emmy-award-winning show Life Below Zero on National Geographic TV./selling-the-oc-s3-is-an-all-villain.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/selling-the-oc-s3-is-an-all-villain.html“Selling the O.C.” has always distinguished itself from its older, cooler sister “Selling Sunset” by being slightly worse in almost every respect: the fashion, the characters, the politics, the drama. In season 3, that continues. The “Love Island”-inspired, Shein-designed outfits, the flatly unpleasant people, the thinly veiled bigotries, and the warmed-over storylines make for an uninspiring season. Still worse, the biggest central stories now seem irrelevant, given how many key characters have left the show since this season filmed./the-truth-vs-alex-jones-will-anger.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-truth-vs-alex-jones-will-anger.htmlExcept for the 9/11 attacks, I don’t know that any news story in my lifetime has affected me the way the Sandy Hook school shooting did in December of 2012. I was a new father with a two-year-old and a newborn, and the violent deaths of 20 6- and 7-year-olds just about broke me- and that was before I learned that one of the kids who died that day, Noah Pozner, had the same first name as my older son./eng-rammstein-the-case-of-shelby.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eng-rammstein-the-case-of-shelby.htmlNote: This is mostly an automatic translation using deepl.com, some quotes may have been translated back differently. Not all passages and links have been checked yet. The original report may be more up to date. Based on multiple allegations in social media around inconsistency in Shelby Lynn's statements, the question arises whether such allegations correspond to the facts and whether these inconsistencies exist. Since her statements and allegations in the accusations against Till Lindemann and Rammstein have been quoted publicly many times and have triggered an avalanche of suspicious reporting, an answer to this question appears to be of fundamental interest./but-its-the-bread.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/but-its-the-bread.htmlFirst of all, if you are celebrating Christmas today, or just generally chilling and taking the day off, close the newsletter. There’s nothing good in here. In fact, I am using the cover of the holidays to finally, briefly write about the bread guy. It’s BAD. I need to stress that you will not enjoy what is in here, and I am not negging you into reading further. If you are enjoying your day and want to keep that going, close the email, save it for later, or just delete it entirely./iron-sharpens-iron-doesnt-mean-what.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iron-sharpens-iron-doesnt-mean-what.htmlIf you’re like me, you probably grew up understanding “Iron Sharpens Iron” as a positive expression. You were told that you should have a friend or partner or colleague to “sharpen” you, someone who had similar goals, interests, or gumption to spur each other on. You sharpened each other like Michelle and Barack. Miles and Gwen. Frodo and Sam. Like many idioms in the English language, the phrase comes from the book of Proverbs 27:17: Iron sharpens iron,/ryanmcbeth.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ryanmcbeth.htmlI’ve had a few people ask me about why so many HAMAS fighters are being found with their shirts off most likely cut off with trauma shears- It’s a way of quickly searching a body for a suicide vest. The US Army does something similar, although we pull the shirt over the head and cross the arms to indicate the body has been searched. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbPFwKeknJqVqbVwus6tnGibXWl%2Fc4GPaWxq/lizzie-mcguire-you-are-an-outfit.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lizzie-mcguire-you-are-an-outfit.htmlRemember when Kate Sanders called Lizzie McGuire an “outfit repeater” for wearing the same dress to graduation that she wore to the spring dance and it was like the biggest diss of all time? Well, jokes on Kate! She’d obviously never heard of #ReWearThat. 😎 #ReWearThat is all about repurposing what we already have in our closets, using our creativity to give old pieces fun and fresh new lives. By rewearing what we already have, we resist the hyper-consumption of fast fashion that is harmful to both people and the planet./love-is-vanessa-williams-brian-mcknight.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-vanessa-williams-brian-mcknight.htmlPeak: #3 on the Hot 100 Streams: 2.2 million I support any songwriter confident enough to name a song “Love Is.” The implication is that the tune has distilled the very essence of love into a verse-chorus-verse structure — that it has finally cracked the heart’s mysterious code. And frankly, if you don’t believe your pop tunes can solve at least one exist… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wuM6vnGaho2LDorrErKqaZaeeua21wKaqZpqinq6vecycoqehl53B/miss-granny-tale-of-the-nine-tailed-1938-kdramas.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miss-granny-tale-of-the-nine-tailed-1938-kdramas.htmlI wasn't expecting much the first time I watched "Miss Granny" (수상한 그녀) on a Korean Air flight. I thought it’d be fun, but nothing particularly meaningful. Not only did it turn out to be my favorite movie of 2014, but it’s become one of my all-time faves. When the Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned me to write about the history of Korean cinema for its Hallyu! The Korean Wave exhibit, I made sure that “Miss Granny” was included./song-explanation-sleep-is-for-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/song-explanation-sleep-is-for-the.htmlOur most popular song on Spotify has long been “Sleep is For the Weak”; a strange fact, given that we intentionally buried it near the end of an album with a boatload of better songs: “Polka Never Dies”, “Poutine” and “Turbo Island” are all much better. We know full well what’s going on here: legions of weirdos and misfits who drink and smoke too much and who often wear Adidas trackpants unironically are sitting on their broken down cars in parking lots in places like Rzeszów and Nowy Sącz, sipping cans of Zubr (pronounced: “grkblff”) and blissing out as this song sits on repeat./israels-leading-novelist-david-grossman.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/israels-leading-novelist-david-grossman.htmlFor more information and to apply David Grossman is widely regarded as Israel’s greatest living novelist. The winner of numerous awards, including the International Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, his art, his political activism and his life have often been in tragic dialogue with each other. In 2008, he published one of his greatest works, To the End of the Earth. (The original Hebrew title was אשה בורחת מבשורה, Ishah Borachat Mi-besorah, A Woman Flees from a Message./lukeburgis.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lukeburgis.htmlZoraya ter Beek, age 29, just died by assisted suicide in the Netherlands. She was physically healthy, but psychologically depressed. It's an abomination that an entire society would actively facilitate, even encourage, someone ending their own life because they had no hope. This happens when a society itself has no hope. if you write something today, my friends, please consider offering hope. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja3Byp6ZrqqXnsBwus6tnGibXWqEeoKPcGlw/060-when-calamity-strikes.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/060-when-calamity-strikes.htmlAs-salamu alaykum. In today’s newsletter, we will delve into verse 64:11 in-depth. Previously, this verse has been mentioned in newsletters: #056 When Life Becomes Hard #057 When You Trust Allah In Your Difficulty In today’s newsletter, we will take a closer look at that verse. Here goes… We are now on the 28th juz' and it's a very difficult juz' to pick an ayah from. But I've picked an ayah from Surah At-Taghabun; an ayah that I still remember when my teacher Dr./20-waymo-the-leapfrog.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/20-waymo-the-leapfrog.htmlWhen people talk about self-driving cars, they usually talk about them as though they’re in the future, still a little opaque and unproven. But as so often, the future is already here: it’s just not evenly distributed. For the last few years, Waymo has been operating fully driverless cars in Phoenix and San Francisco. They’re commercially available. Anyone can download the app and hail one: I was recently passing through SF, and took the opportunity to make a few trips by Waymo./19-how-to-buy-an-engagement-ring.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/19-how-to-buy-an-engagement-ring.htmlHi everyone!! Two weeks ago I wrote about my thoughts on engagement rings in general, but this issue is all about how to actually buy an engagement ring–a no bullshit, not trying to sell you anything, extremely practical guide that’s perfect for people who claim they have “no idea what they’re doing.” This is by far the longest issue I’ve ever written, which says a lot coming from me, haha. I’m sure you know this, but in case someone else forwarded this to you, I got engaged in December and worked in the jewelry industry for five years selling vintage engagement rings in my 20s./38-what-it-means-to-play-within-yourself.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/38-what-it-means-to-play-within-yourself.htmlHarvey Penick, quoted here, wrote a classic book about learning to play golf. Coaches from other sports tell their players the same thing. To “play within yourself” means to exert yourself only to the extent that you remain within your capabilities. In other words, know your limits and play right up to edge, but not over the edge. In 2017, we should have taken this advice. Very early, our advisor Ned (referred to first in Substack #7) warned us never to plant more than six acres of vines in any given year./1-actual-air-889.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1-actual-air-889.htmlIf you know David Berman, you almost certainly know him as a musician and songwriter. And for good reason: the man once wrote, “In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection,” a line that seems to captivate anyone who hears it, even those who use music as background noise. His work with the Silver Jews has a seemingly permanent position in the indie music canon, which is as nebulous and impenetrable as any other; I can’t go more than a day without seeing an outpouring of love and gratitude for the band’s 1998 album American Water somewhere on social media./14-alternative-movies-to-watch-this.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/14-alternative-movies-to-watch-this.htmlYes, Audition is a GREAT movie for valentine's day - at least for anyone who is single :-) Though (SPOILER ALERT) the movie does have a happy ending - in a way - and - in a way - does have a successful relationship... it's just that the protagonist can't really believe his luck ;-) (That's all I say, maybe I will do a review of it some day and then I'll explain it in more detail)/1970s-jewish-trivia-quiz.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1970s-jewish-trivia-quiz.htmlSeveral years back, I came up with this '70s Jewish Trivia Quiz as part of a '70s Night we had at a synagogue Shabbaton.  I must admit, it's my all-time favorite decade, a more innocent time when Israel could win international basketball championships and song festivals and occasionally even wars, make peace with its largest Arab neighbor and rescue helpless hostages in record time - and a time when an American President could proclaim "/1995-jagged-little-pill-alanis-morissette.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1995-jagged-little-pill-alanis-morissette.htmlWhen you think of music from the 1980s, it’s hard not to think of excess. It’s hard not to think of big hair and even bigger choruses; huge stadium shows, the eruption of MTV and the synth-esised blue-print for all pop music that followed.  Everything was bright colours and glamour; everything was extreme and pushed to the limit. Most importantly, everything was Fun with a capital F. Whether you liked Chic or Sheena Easton, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton or KISS it all seemed so enormous; larger than life and pushed to the max./2023-national-fantasy-baseball-championship.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2023-national-fantasy-baseball-championship.html2023 NFBC Fantasy Baseball Championship Final Standings 2022 National Fantasy Baseball Championship Final Standings Here’s the final standing (the above link in yellow ~ Google Sheet) for the 2023 NFBC Main Event, Online Championship, Auction Championship, Cutline, and Draft Championship. High Stakes Fantasy Baseball/Football Analyst is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. ncG1vNJzZmiekaPBor%2FYmqWapKmowW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2hqYGeAbrrAraCoppGheqetza2YrLFdl660scGao6Vlk52urrzIqKWsoJml/25-are-you-a-moody-person.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/25-are-you-a-moody-person.htmlInteresting question…how would you answer it? For most of us, being labeled as “moody” means that people see us as being either “hot” or “cold.” Some days you’re fine and other days you’re unapproachable. Sometimes you’re friendly, other times you’re aloof. “Moody” is often shorthand for “unpredictable.” (“He’s so moody…I don’t know what gets into him sometimes…”) But, what are “moods” and where do they come from? We all know that one day is not the same as other days./25-years-of-the-n64-goemons-great.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/25-years-of-the-n64-goemons-great.htmlOn September 29, 2021, the Nintendo 64 will turn 25 years old in North America. Throughout the month of September, I’ll be covering the console, its games, its innovations, and its legacy. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. If Goemon’s Great Adventure isn’t the best side-scrolling platformer on the Nintendo 64, then it’s without question the second-best. That can be said so confidently in part because of the relative paucity of side-scrollers on the N64 — the world went a little overboard with making every possible 2D platformer into a 3D platformer in a post-Super Mario 64 world, to the point that certain kinds of reviewers would be openly and illogically angry at the existence of side-scrolling games on the various systems — but it’s also because the game is, well, great./3-reasons-to-read-team-of-rivals.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/3-reasons-to-read-team-of-rivals.htmlNote: This email is going out to all Big Readers — free and subscribed alike. If you’re already a paying member, you’ll see a “Subscribed” message where there are normally clickable buttons. Hi there, readers!  Starting May 12th, The Big Read will dive into Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals. Published in 2005, it’s by far the most modern title we’ve tackled. That doesn’t diminish its impact though; in the last twenty years, Team of Rivals has influenced more world leaders than perhaps any other single book./laundromat.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/laundromat.html干洗店的英文怎么说？你肯定先想到了laundry. 但laundry只是洗衣店，并不一定是干洗店。今天这一期我们就来聊聊国外的洗衣店。 先公布今天题目的答案：干洗店的英文是 dry cleaners. *注意，正确的说法是cleaner加s. 尽管也有说dry cleaner的，但正式和正确的说法是复数cleaners. 为什么呢？我猜因为干洗店原本叫做dry cleaner’s shop，可能后来人们为省事就把shop省略了。（这一点未经考证，只是佛老的猜测。） 在国外，尤其美国，一说laundry，尽管大家都默认为是干洗店，那只是因为美国的干洗店很普及。但其实laundry不一定是干洗(dry cleaning)。星级酒店的洗衣服务一般都会注明dry cleaning多少钱，一般洗叫wash。 干洗和湿洗何在一起统称laundry service. （参见下图） 干洗店之所以在美国普及是因为干洗这种技术就是美国人发明的。 Thomas L. Jennings is the inventor and first to patent the commercial dry cleaning process known as "dry scouring", on March 3, 1821 (Patent Number: US 3,306X). 这是美国历史上第一个获得专利的黑人。 除了干洗店，国外还有一种洗衣形式很普及：自助式洗衣店，或投币式洗衣店。通常设在单身公寓楼里，完全自助式。 这种洗衣房当然也可以叫laundry, 但有一个专用名词：laundromat. （laundry 和 automatic的合成词）。 Laundromat是这种自助式洗衣店最正式最常见的名称，也有叫self-service laundry 或coin laundry的。 除了单身汉们需要用laundromat洗衣服，有些家庭主妇也喜欢到laundromat去洗大件衣物，例如床单被罩等，因为家里的washing machine洗不了那么多大件。 洗衣服是很耗时间的活，所以国外laundromat附近都会有一些休闲场所，供洗衣的人坐等。 以后在国外，你就会问“哪里有干洗店，哪里有自助洗衣店“了。 ncG1vNJzZmiepaS5oruNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfoa62usOrpqaZpA%3D%3D/7500-is-a-claustrophobic-hijacking.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/7500-is-a-claustrophobic-hijacking.htmlIt takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Berlin to Paris. If you’ve ever been on a flight of that approximate length, as I did every winter and summer break from Oakland to Seattle and back to Oakland again, you know that not much can really happen on a flight that short. The airplane takes off, the seatbelt sign flickers on and off a couple times, drinks and a snack are served, you read a few chapters, the airplane descends, and then it’s all over./lonesome-dove-a-bit-about-the-western.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lonesome-dove-a-bit-about-the-western.htmlWelcome, Readers!  The first time I read Lonesome Dove, it immediately entered rare company as one of my favorite reading experiences of all-time. Cowboys and cattle drivers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are among the most memorable characters you’ll ever read, guaranteed.  This week I’m giving ya’ll some introductory material as well as the reading plan, which takes us all the way through March. I’ve broken it down by week rather than by day, since McMurtry variates between short and long chapters./a-blessing-for-the-new-year.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-blessing-for-the-new-year.html(click little red triangle thingy above to listen to a recording of me reading this to myself) As you enter this new year, as you pack away the Christmas decorations and get out your stretchy pants, as you face the onslaught of false promises offered you through new disciplines and elimination diets, as you grasp for control of yourself and your life and this chaotic world - May you remember that there is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love./alpinevillage.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alpinevillage.htmlGentle reader, All through February, our social media feed was dotted with scenes of charming Bavarian buildings, green flowered wooden market shelves packed with old world delicacies and smiling friends raising beers skyward while their eyes betrayed great sadness. The word was out: three years after the anchor restaurant shut down and the property was designated a protected landmark, Alpine Village in unincorporated Los Angeles County had been sold, the daily swap meet vendors evicted, Alpine Village Market was soon to be shuttered and the fate of the little specialty shops unknown./a-conversation-with-eugene-mccarraher.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-conversation-with-eugene-mccarraher.html[I recently conducted a conversation with the spry and sprightly Eugene McCarraher, Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova and author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. We ranged widely but not erratically over a number of topics (vide supra), and on the whole a good time was had by all. Excuse the raspiness of my voice. As has been documented with tedious frequency, since 2014 I have suffered from an inflammatory pulmonary condition, and the smoke from the Canadian wildfires had been aggravating the condition for three days when this was recorded./a-definitive-ranking-of-the-10-best.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-definitive-ranking-of-the-10-best.htmlBaseball is back! And it seems to me that everyone on social media commemorated Opening Day with this GIF: That is, of course, Hamilton “Ham” Porter from the iconic movie “The Sandlot.” Ham is the author of one of the best phrases the English language has ever created: “You’re killing me, Smalls.” (Mylate father-in-law loved that line.) Thinking about Ham and “The Sandlot” and Opening Day and my father-in-law led me to this: What is the single best baseball movie ever?/a-few-words-about-calvin-wilson-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-few-words-about-calvin-wilson-the.htmlThe voice cut through the glazed darkness of a theater that just rolled the credits on a movie I can’t even completely remember, but it was as right as rain. Calvin Wilson saw the blitzed expression on my face, chuckling as he walked away after asking me a question we both weren’t prepared to answer. Wilson filled the quota of a “film critic,” someone who could criticize film without being afraid of the immediate backlash./a-former-stripper-at-church-conference.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-former-stripper-at-church-conference.htmlJohn and Debbie Lindell are the lead pastors of James River Church, which has two campuses in Springfield and one each in Springfield and Joplin as well as an online presence. James River, an Assemblies of God Church, had an attendance last year of 11,500 to 12,000 every weekend, according to information on the website of the Assemblies of God Headquarters in Springfield. I got to attend a small pastor’s lunch in 2021 where John Lindell spoke, and I loved his heart, style, and approachability./a-handmaids-tale-leon-vitali-1948.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-handmaids-tale-leon-vitali-1948.htmlLeon Vitali died last week, and if you’re saying, “Who?,” that’s pretty much the point. In a film industry and a popular culture that lionizes the individual, Vitali represented the many unknown names and faces without whom the individual would have no glory. He was a factotum – the person who gets things done and receives no thanks for it. Specifically, he was Stanley Kubrick’s personal assistant from the late 1970s until well after the legendary director’s death in 1999./audio-autopsy-1970-1986-a-little.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/audio-autopsy-1970-1986-a-little.htmlClearly gifted, Paul Davis, instead of moving to Hollywood from his Meridian, Mississippi birthplace (where his father was a preacher), stayed true to his southern roots and took his evident songwriting talents to Memphis in 1968. He was 20. The eventual 2010 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee left behind a glittering collection of beautifully-crafted songs—delivered with an effortless tenor—many of which became hits. With all his natural talents, he could’ve been huge…he should be on our lips and have a dedicated Sirius/XM satellite radio station./sting-synchronicity-structure.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sting-synchronicity-structure.htmlDuring my first few weekly hour-long sessions with Bailly, my book coach, we spent a lot of time discussing the structure of my book, which will be about writing with impact, a core theme that has run through my writing and podcasting for the past seven-plus years. After the first or second session, it occurred to me that I could use an acronym as a mnemonic device to help the reader more easily recall and apply the six-step methodology for writing that I developed to structure my book./joyce-randolph-and-the-honeymooners.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/joyce-randolph-and-the-honeymooners.htmlWe can all dream of reaching 99 years, a good long life, and actress Joyce Randolph did just that. She died late Saturday in New York, also the hometown of the fictional character that brought her fame, Trixie Norton. Randolph was the last surviving member of the core “Honeymooners” cast, but while she lived on Central Park West and haunted the bar at theater-district watering hole Sardis’, her Trixie character would likely have visited neither./text-interview-dc-pierson.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/text-interview-dc-pierson.htmlA month or so ago, DC Pierson emailed me with some kind, reassuring words regarding some of the personal crap I tend to reveal in this newsletter. I had no idea he was a subscriber, and immediately seized the opportunity to invite him onto this interview series. Truth is (why would I lie?), I’ve been following DC’s work since I was a high schooler — huddling around a friend’s computer (likely Ian Abramson’s) to watch the latest sketch from Derrick Comedy./williamshart.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/williamshart.htmlGentle reader, This video was shot some weeks back at William S. Hart Park in old Newhall, in the shadow of the beautiful Monterey Style mansion that the motion picture star built to hold his treasured collections of paintings, books, Western and Native American artifacts and relics of a long career. When Hart died in 1946, he left his property to be enjoyed by the citizens of his adopted home. A house in town, tucked below the Sunset Strip, is now a West Hollywood dog park and acting studio./a-woman-to-know-betsy-talbot-blackwell.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-woman-to-know-betsy-talbot-blackwell.htmlShe was of that breed of indomitable women editors. — Leo Lerman (image via The University of Wyoming) In 1937, when Betsy Talbot Blackwell took over as editor in chief of the legendary Mademoiselle magazine, the fashionable New York native had a plan: take the two-year-old women’s publication from “sensible” to “sensational.” In her tenure, circulation s… ncG1vNJzZmiipaG2oq%2FCmqmpnZ6psrN60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnkWLEsLnAp2Stp12gu7DDjJucraupYsGiuMGoq2aanJawrMPEpaM%3D/activities-for-building-relationships.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/activities-for-building-relationships.htmlIt’s that time of year again. We are planning, plotting, and enjoying the last days of vacation. A reader wrote to me yesterday and asked if I had any suggestions for activities that build relationships. This was an excellent and timely suggestion for a post because creating classroom spaces that are safe and welcoming creative communities is what we all aim to create. What is Good Art? I often start new classes with this conversation-sparking activity./air-force-one-1997.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/air-force-one-1997.html"Air Force One" was one of those movies that, even when it came out, people instantly recognized it for exactly what it what was: effective, jingoistic entertainment in which we get to root for our national leaders as legit butt-kicking heroes instead of the shrunken egotists and feeble pretenders they've largely become. President Bill Clinton would screen the movie at the White House twice, no doubt happy to share the limelight with Mr./hana-makgeolli-alice-jun.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hana-makgeolli-alice-jun.htmlFor this issue of The Fizz, I spoke with winemaker Alice Jun at Hana Makgeolli in Brooklyn, New York. Alice focuses on brewing different kinds of sool—that’s alcohol in Korean—and specializes in makgeolli and yakju, sedimented and clarified rice wines. The incredibly diverse world of Korean rice wines is new to me, so I’m thrilled to have been able to learn about these historic and modern wines with Alice. In this issue, we talk about the different categories of Korean rice wine, the unique fermentation practices that give the wine its expressiveness, how Alice uses floral and botanical components in her brewing process, and her inspiration and joy in the work she does./almost-heroes-1998.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/almost-heroes-1998.htmlAnd here we are, folks, at the grand finale for Matt Perry Week. This final movie is all sorts of a mindfuck as to how and why it exists, particularly in its final form which, from what I understand, was butchered like an Omaha steer. This movie is pretty wild as it not only features Matt Perry, it was the last movie to star Chris Farley, which he filmed before his death (which is partially the reason for its butchering; capitalizing on the scenes with the star that recently passed) but was released after./alpana-singhs-chic-chicago-restaurant.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/alpana-singhs-chic-chicago-restaurant.htmlI’ve been following Alpana Singh’s career since she served as host for “Check, Please!,” the now-defunct restaurant-focused WTTW-TV show that had everyday people reviewing local establishments. We didn’t meet until two or three years into her tenure when I was assigned by a Chicago magazine to hang out with her for a night on the town and write about my experience. At the time, Singh was also the master sommelier for Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, so she had me running around with her to a few of their most popular eateries, including Osteria Via Stato, to sip wine, nosh on appetizers and chat./america-ferrera-fat-friend-y2k.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/america-ferrera-fat-friend-y2k.htmlThursday Thoughts is a weekly post about the insidious nature of diet and/or pop culture (ya know, the entire point of this damn Substack). If you love it, please consider subscribing. I’ve reflected a lot on the toxic years of my youth, AKA the early aughts (or 2000s for anyone not chronically online). Hell, I’ve even written about it for a prominent women’s magazine. Because, like many others, my adolescence shaped my view of my body, my looks, and my entire self-worth./amy-thielens-deviled-egg-dip.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amy-thielens-deviled-egg-dip.htmlThis is the fourth installment of Cookbook On A Budget, in which I share cookbook recipes that aren’t unkind to your grocery bill. For more, check out Via Carota’s Onion Soup, Ruby Tandoh’s Eden Rice with Black Beans and Plantains, and Vishwesh Bhatt’s Saag-Style Collards. I have, for the most part, figured out how to feed small groups of people in my apartment. I have a tiny galley kitchen with no counters, which means that I have minimal prep space and it’s hard to maintain a conversation between kitchen and living room./an-appreciation-william-popel.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-appreciation-william-popel.htmlYesterday I heard of the sad news of William Pope.L’s passing just as I happened to be landing in Chicago, the city where he was based for most of his professional life and where I first became aware of his work in 1994, when I saw images related to his piece  Black Domestic a.k.a. Cow Commercial.  In a related photo (from his series “Eracist”) Pope.L appears holding a glass of milk with a broad smile and a cow coming out of his crotch, an image that left an indelible mark in my memory./an-ode-to-tik-tok-and-pacific-girls.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-ode-to-tik-tok-and-pacific-girls.htmlI’m sitting in my 16-year-old daughter’s school Pasifika fiafia (celebration) night. Year group by year group, the girls glide on to the stage on bare feet dressed in puletasi, and dance beautifully. Heartbreakingly beautifully. They dance like their grandmothers, their great-grandmothers, the taupou and female ancestors in the long lineages that danced before them. The pre-colonial women, the pre-Christian women, the women so far before them, these girls don’t know their names./ancient-apocalypse-netflix.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ancient-apocalypse-netflix.htmlIf you’ve been following my newsletter from its beginning, you might remember this post from December 2019. In it, I shared a personal fascination with the idea that there was an advanced human civilization that thrived during the last ice age and came to cataclysmic destruction at the end of the ice age around 12,800 years ago. The main person piecing together this theory is Graham Hancock. On its face, Hancock’s assertion that we’re “a species with amnesia” goes against everything we’ve been taught in history class about the human story./apricot-cherry-crisp.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/apricot-cherry-crisp.htmlI’m going to keep this short and sweet, but not too sweet. I guess I should say, this is tangy, which is what happens when you bake fresh apricots. They get tart and tangy, which makes them one of the few fruits (one could argue, or at least I could) that is even better cooked than raw. We had fresh apricots when I lived in California, but I never knew how abundant they were in France until I moved here./arielle-isaac-norman-ellen-degenderless.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/arielle-isaac-norman-ellen-degenderless.htmlEarly access to April 8, 2024 edition Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Arielle Isaac Norman. The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire conversation, become a paying subscriber here. This week, I welcome Arielle Isaac Norman, an Austin-based comedian who has opened for Louie C.K., Bobcat Goldthwait, Tim Dillon, Joe DeRosa, Eddie Pepitone and Maria Bamford, among others. Arielle, who describes herself as a “politically non-binary lesbian,” has a new YouTube special, Ellen DeGenderless, in which she discusses gender identity, sexuality, pronouns, social issues, and pop culture./ashley-paulson-smashes-her-own-badwater.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ashley-paulson-smashes-her-own-badwater.htmlWhen U.S. ultramarathon runner Ashley Paulson ran 24:09:34 last year at age 40 to set a women’s course record at the Badwater 135—a 217-kilometer adventure through California’s Death Valley (a title that now describes the entire state) and partway up Mount Whitney—veterans of the race or at least of ultramarathon running were immediately skeptical of Paulson’s performance. In particular, they found some of her late-race splits unlikely at best./banned-from-instagram.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/banned-from-instagram.htmlOne person reported 20+ of the Tik Toks I posted on Instagram as copyright infringement. One person RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE. Who would spend any time caring about my posts? Who would sit there and report funny videos I post for the sole purpose of me losing my Instagram account? Well, we know who, and I have officially been banned from Instagram. So if you’re wondering where my account went, and if someone out there really has it out for me, the answers are here./based-on-a-true-story.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/based-on-a-true-story.htmlInstallment 6: “Clem Labine died yesterday. It was his unparalleled success against Musial, an otherwise notorious Dodger-killer, that Labine maintained was his proudest accomplishment. He retired Stan the Man an incredible 49 consecutive times.” . –New York Daily News, 2007 1. In 1950, Stan Musial won the fourth of his seven batting titles, and Clem Labine made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Over the next 13 years, as they faced each other dozens of times, Musial would be the National League’s best left-handed hitter, while Labine would find a sturdy role as one of the league’s better right-handed relievers./beauty-culture-is-hustle-culture.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beauty-culture-is-hustle-culture.htmlDo you find yourself opening this newsletter a lot? Forwarding it to friends? Looking forward to it? 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 — like last Friday’s massive ADVICE TIME, which featured some truly excellent takes on what to do when you’ve found yourself in charge of the eldercare of someone you hardy knew, how you know when you’re in love, how to “start” with make-up when it feels like you missed that class where everyone else somehow learned it, and how to deal with the heartbreak of teen indifference./being-the-rebel-that-accepts-themselves.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/being-the-rebel-that-accepts-themselves.htmlBefore we begin, I want to announce that I will be away for a couple of weeks on vacation—the kind of vacation where I don’t bring my laptop and actually be present in the moment. So, there will not be a new newsletter for a couple of weeks. The good news is that I will probably have a fun blog-style newsletter of activities from my trip when I get back. So there’s that!/falsification-principle-critical-thinking.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/falsification-principle-critical-thinking.htmlKarl Popper, one of the 20th century's greatest scientific philosophers, is perhaps best known for the falsification principle, a foundation of the modern scientific method.  The basis of Popper’s falsification principle is this: in order for a theory to be objectively accepted as scientific, it needs to be able to be proven false. Popper believed that nothing can be definitively proven without falsification, and he held that theories should always be subject to experimentation and challenged by new information./brief-burg-steakhouse-review-best.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brief-burg-steakhouse-review-best.htmlThis visit wasn’t planned, but when the time came, I knew the salad bar at Burg Steakhouse would be my introduction to their menu. Why? Well, I’ll get into that in a bit. Burg Steakhouse is a family owned and operated restaurant in Gatlinburg. In a place with some larger chains and tourist-driven eateries, this is a refreshing—and much desired—option for a meal. They’ve only been open for a few years, so I can be excused (hopefully?/biblical-imagery-starts-with-biblical.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/biblical-imagery-starts-with-biblical.htmlThe Bible is full of imagery. It is the not-so-hidden layer on which so much of the meaning in the Bible lives. Like a tree has its roots in the soil, many of the most important images of the Bible are rooted in biblical cosmology. Cosmology, in this sense, is the way the ancient Hebrew people conceived of the universe as it is unfolded in Genesis 1 and 2. The first two chapters of the Bible reveal a “cross-section” of the earth and the heavens that can help orient us to the Bible’s key images and symbols./big-questions-answers-ruth-ben-ghiat.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-questions-answers-ruth-ben-ghiat.htmlToday, it is my great honor to interview Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat as a guest on the Big Q&A. She teaches History and Italian at New York University and writes about fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and democracy protection. As fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise, even here in the United States, it’s more important than ever that we recognize the warning signs and understand how fascist movements have risen and been defeated before./bill-rafterys-oft-forgotten-coaching.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bill-rafterys-oft-forgotten-coaching.htmlA quick note before we get going: the idea for this piece was submitted to me last summer when I asked for any subjects readers might want to see me delve into. Loyal subscriber Aileen Bowers came forward with this most excellent topic. I figured there would be no better time than Final Four weekend to put it together. Big thanks to Aileen and a reminder to all readers and subscribers (paid or free) that if there’s ever something you’d like to see examined in greater detail, please, please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email at bycraigmeyer@gmail./bloodplay-my-real-name-and-juliet.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bloodplay-my-real-name-and-juliet.htmlI was at a low point in my life when I paid for a Cameo from Juliet Landau. At the time, I was rewatching a whole lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to get the most out of my Hulu free trial and escape gnawing feelings of anxiety about the future. I’ve always used fandom to escape anxiety about the future and pretty much everything else, so by the time I had re-embraced her haunting portrayal of the vampire Drusilla, it felt natural to fork over a modest sum for a message under the category “pep talk./blue-murder-history-of-the-band.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-murder-history-of-the-band.htmlBlue Murder, an English rock supergroup formed in the late 1980s, carved a unique niche in the hard rock and heavy metal scenes with their blend of virtuosic musicianship and eclectic musical influences. Spearheaded by John Sykes, formerly of Whitesnake, the band's formation was a statement of intent to explore the heavier and more complex side of rock music. Despite their brief existence, Blue Murder's influence and legacy in the rock genre are undeniable./bob-roberts-is-a-movie-about-a-young.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bob-roberts-is-a-movie-about-a-young.htmlLast night, one of my kids watched the Tim Robbins movie, “Bob Roberts.” I had a small role as the main character’s singing partner – Clarissa Flan. In the madness that was raising four kids very close in age, I failed to inform them of much I did in my life. They knew I was in a band with their dad. But really, beyond that, I never sat around like Miss Havisham and said ”Oh, I was on a major label at 20 years old./xenon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/xenon.htmlAs you breathe in, you’re sucked into the depths of your unconscious mind — a place where nothing and nobody exists, yet you’re enveloped in pure ecstasy. As you breathe out, you re-emerge right back where you started. This is the magic of xenon gas. Xenon is unique among psychedelic drugs because it’s a pure element. It leaves the body exactly as it entered, completely unchanged. Creating elements larger than zirconium on the periodic table requires an incomprehensible amount of energy./buttigiegs-comments-on-his-family.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/buttigiegs-comments-on-his-family.htmlLet me first preface this by saying that I like Pete Buttigieg. He is back in the spotlight, and for good reasons. As someone who got stuck in the NYC subway this week because of a shopping cart on the tracks, I am all in favor of upgrading America’s infrastructure. However, I am wary of his constant messaging presenting marriage and parenting as ideals or moral accomplishments underpinning respect, protection, and support for his family and our community./magnus.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/magnus.htmlHi, again. Happy to notice that you are still around. In this newsletter we will dive into the story of Magnus Skylstad. This is a story about friendship and artistry that walk hand in hand. As you know, he was Aurora’s friend, producer and drummer for many years, and I don’t think we should underestimate the positive effect this friendship has had on Aurora’s sense of feeling safe around the globe, along with the impact he has had on the music we love so much./can-the-mirena-iud-cause-menopause.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-the-mirena-iud-cause-menopause.htmlI have been asked about routinely recommending vaginal estrogen with a Mirena (levonorgestrel) IUD multiple times in the past few weeks. And after some thought, I realized I’d never been asked this before. Why now? Why so many queries all of a sudden? The Mirena was FDA approved over 20 years ago and I’ve inserted a lot of them. I also see people every day with complex vaginal symptoms, but I don’t think I’ve run into a “Mirena causes menopause-like vaginal symptoms” situation before./cary-grant-and-the-discomfort-with.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cary-grant-and-the-discomfort-with.htmlThis week, Britbox, a streaming service for Anglophiles, launches a four-part miniseries called Archie dramatizing the life of Cary Grant, the Old Hollywood actor born Archibald Leach in Edwardian Britain, whose debonair on-screen persona papered over a Dickensian childhood and a series of failed marriages. I’m not really sure how one spins that into a compelling, multi-hour drama that producers preposterously compared to a thriller, but, then, neither did critics, who gave the rather low-budget series (shot at a discount in Spain) mixed to negative reviews./celebrity-booze-the-ultimate-cash.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/celebrity-booze-the-ultimate-cash.htmlMy coverage of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16 continues with episode 5. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia managed to get celebrities on board back when the show still had more of the filmic sheen of a home video. Fischer Stevens, Roddy Piper, Jason Sudeikis, Alexandra Daddario, David Huddleston, Guillermo del Toro, P. Diddy (possibly their biggest-name grab before they got really big), to name a few. They’ve maintained keeping all ensuing name appearances on the tasteful side even in their later years, and on the whole Sunny is pretty good about picking actors that are foldable into their world./charles-and-camillas-scottish-love.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/charles-and-camillas-scottish-love.htmlThey call it their “marital home,” and now Birkhall, on the edge of the 50,000-acre Balmoral estate, has become King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s official destination for post-Christmas relaxation. The cream-colored lodge in the Scottish Highlands is their most private residence. They cherish Birkhall for its old-fashioned charm and complete seclusion. Their decision to start the New Year there breaks a tradition set by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who went to the Sandringham estate in Norfolk every year after her father died on February 6, 1952./woman-as-machine.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/woman-as-machine.htmlHello, dewy dust bunnies, and welcome to another edition of the The Don’t Buy List! Last week the wonderful folks over at Embedded asked me to pick one “defining” post of 2022, and this TikTok from Julia Fox — the one where she says “aging is in” — came to mind. As I told Embedded: It perfectly captures the spirit of beauty culture in 2022. The vibe is performative push-back, baby!! Fox says that “aging is in” on TikTok while posting paid ads for wrinkle-reducing Xeomin injections on Instagram; consumers rail against terms like “anti-aging” while getting Botox in record numbers./choose-boldly-between-christianity.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/choose-boldly-between-christianity.htmlDo not try to be a Christian and a Vitalist. You can be a Christian that draws inspiration and energy from Vitalist authors in the pursuit of your own faith. You can be a Vitalist that respects the devotion and rigor of the Christian men who built the West. But to equivocate, to pursue a contrived attempt at intellectual synthesis between two competing models of reality, will destroy your absolute belief - your true, transcendent faith - in both./mike-johnsons-russian-funder.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mike-johnsons-russian-funder.htmlI asked Perplexity.ai what Mike Johnson's net worth is and it replied: "Mike Johnson's net worth varies based on different sources. In 2018, it was estimated at -$32,501. However, as of 2023, his net worth is estimated to be $5 million. Johnson's financial portfolio includes real estate assets worth $2.9 million in Louisiana, including a mansion, a ranch, and an island . He also owns stocks in companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, and Lockheed Martin./tater-salad.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tater-salad.htmlI like my potato salad the same way that I like my quiet life, plain. Nothing fancy. Conventional. Simple. Just good down-home, no frills creamy southern style potato salad. The way mom used to make it. Some people like to add all manner of things to tater salad. Onions, celery, cucumber, Bell pepper, even carrots (which add nice color, by the way). That's not for me. ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfmMaoutSsr2pnoGTBosDEq2SsmZyWsYDB06aWrKelp7Cmic%2Boqq1ek6S6rrHNrap2rKKqsmfB06aWpp2UnsKuidaemQ%3D%3D/congratulations-to-will-shortz.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/congratulations-to-will-shortz.htmlThis is going to mess up the posting schedule I just worked out, but as crossword news goes, it doesn’t come much bigger. Will Shortz just came out of the closet. Furthermore, he has a boyfriend. Furthermore, they’re getting married. Will Shortz has been a giant in the puzzling community at least since getting the New York Times crossword gig in 1993, if not since his days as the head of GAMES Magazine./creatures-of-the-venetian-lagoon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/creatures-of-the-venetian-lagoon.htmlDespite having been there a couple of times on quick visits as a typical tourist, one of them when I was 18 or 19, I never really had a good understanding of what Venice, Italy really was and represented. This is a city built on water, that I knew, but I had the impression that those canals were as lifeless beneath them as the canals of The Venetian Hot… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8KrnJqspaeytHnOn2StoJViw6a6xK2gmqZdoa6ou86n/culture-and-its-impact-on-wine-credentialism.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/culture-and-its-impact-on-wine-credentialism.htmlThere is no escaping the magnetic pull of “culture” or the impact of the era’s zeitgeist. Save for the poor person who removes themselves from society altogether, everyone (and hence, every industry) will be pushed, pulled, and shoved by the movements and motions of the current zeitgeist. Wine is no exception. As an example, consider Natural Wine. Looking back, one can see how its arrival on the wine scene and subsequent ascent two decades ago was a reaction to the same anti-globalization forces in the culture that brought us Occupy Wallstreet and focused the nation’s eye on the issue of income inequality./1-1-1-inner-lion-and-identity-foreclosure.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1-1-1-inner-lion-and-identity-foreclosure.htmlThere is a point to re-wiring and realignment in one's mind where the need isn't to change how you do things but to change how you deal with change. The adaptability one has to the zig-zagging ride that is our lives. To take every turn with the perspective that whatever you have worked towards and planned for till this instant might not hold water as we turn the corner into the next moment./deep-dive-on-the-glucose-goddess.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deep-dive-on-the-glucose-goddess.htmlThe Glucose Goddess is Jessie Inchauspé, a biochemist and social media influencer who uses her platform to promote strategies for managing blood sugar levels. Her books, "Glucose Revolution" and "The Glucose Goddess Method" have become bestsellers. While she holds a master's degree in biochemistry, her content's scientific merit is debatable. Now, she's delving into supplements, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest and the exploitation of health trends for personal gain./disney-plus-or-minus-the-apple-dumpling.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/disney-plus-or-minus-the-apple-dumpling.htmlDon Knotts was 50 years old when he made his Disney debut in The Apple Dumpling Gang. He had already won five Emmy Awards for his role as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show. He’d also successfully made the transition to feature films with movies like The Incredible Mr. Limpet and The Ghost And Mr. Chicken. But by 1975, he’d reached a bit of an impasse. His return to television, as host of the comedy/variety show The Don Knotts Show, fizzled out after a single season./dive-bar-jukebox-with-jordis-unga.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dive-bar-jukebox-with-jordis-unga.htmlWelcome back to Dive Bar Jukebox, where every Friday bartenders, writers, chefs, musicians, and a host of dynamic people answer the question: If we were hanging out at a bar together and I put ten credits on the jukebox, what songs would you punch in and why? Their answers reveal thoughts on their favori… ncG1vNJzZmiaopaxtbTOppisqJGnwLC60meqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGSxqsLEZpmaql2fwqyxwaivZq%2BZqbVuts6rm6KrXaq7qK0%3D/do-i-have-a-latino-fetish.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/do-i-have-a-latino-fetish.html¡Hola Papi! is the preeminent deranged advice column from writer and author John Paul Brammer, now living on Substack! If you’ve ever wanted advice from a Twitter-addled gay Mexican with anxiety, here is your chance. Support this column by sharing it and subscribing below, and send him a letter at holapapiletters@gmail.com¡Hola Papi! I'm in a very happy long-term relationship with the whitest of mayo white boys, but we're open and also occasionally "/dos-mujeres-is-a-triumphant-celebration.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dos-mujeres-is-a-triumphant-celebration.htmlBy Katie Sweeney In her first season as artistic director at San Francisco Ballet, Tamara Rojo has proven she is a force to be reckoned with — a creative pushing boundaries and heralding an era of firsts. One of these firsts was observed on April 4, with the opening of Dos Mujeres, a double bill featuring a new version of Carmen, and the North American premiere of Broken Wings, a ballet about Frida Kahlo./duckworth-lewis-and-stern-method.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/duckworth-lewis-and-stern-method.htmlDear Readers, It has been a while since I have been fascinated by the Duckworth and Lewis method. After that fiasco in the 1992 World Cup between England and South Africa, it was my belief that the rain-affected matches are skewed due to the working of the methods applied to calculate the target scores. Since their work has been shrouded in secrecy, its mystery value only increased with each passing day./easter-jesus-visibility-day.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/easter-jesus-visibility-day.htmlYesterday Joe Biden once again issued a proclamation stating that Easter Sunday was the national “Trans Day of Visibility,” whatever that means. Insisting that it fall on the Lord’s day is bad enough, on Easter? Sacrilege. I don’t say that lightly, either. There are two things wrong here. One: we see too much trans activism, not too little. It’s a tiny segment of the population struggling with a mental issue and it’s overrepresented by an astronomical margin in entertainment./easy-thai-basil-beef.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/easy-thai-basil-beef.htmlYou’re going to be really over turkey & stuffing in about T-minus 5 days. Save this email for when this happens. I’ve got an easy weeknight dinner for you that is a complete 180 from Thanksgiving. Complete with a grocery list. It’s gluten free, dairy free and with it’s salty/sweet flavor profile you’ll be amazed at how many members of your family it can please. It’s Thai Basil Beef - full disclosure: Thai basil is hard to find./egyptian-general-intelligence-service.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/egyptian-general-intelligence-service.htmlThe Egyptian General Intelligence Service (Arabic: al-Mukhabarat al-‘Amma) (GIS or EGIS) is the country’s primary foreign intelligence service, although its role also overlaps with other domestic intelligence agencies. It enjoys particular prestige as the only agency reporting directly to the presidency, and the one responsible for liaison with foreign services such as the CIA. It is based in the Cairo suburb of Hada’ak al-Kubbah. ncG1vNJzZmihnqmyrbjIoJynm5WdtrTAzquwZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLHGsqetoZGjeqixzZ6pmqRdnru1sculoKCdnpiybr%2FEq62im5U%3D/eleven-things-the-nazis-did-and-really.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eleven-things-the-nazis-did-and-really.htmlA FEW DAYS ago, in response to a tiresome tweet that a display of Union Jacks was proof that the UK was becoming a fascist state, I tweeted that ‘Flags are no more fascist than motorways’. It was, I thought, an immensely clever and subtle way of indicating that just because something was invented or adopted by a fascist regime, that didn’t necessarily make it fascist. Until then, like many, I had always thought that motorways were invented by the Germans, but several people pointed out that the Italians had got there first./episode-005-ilia-isorelys-paulino.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-005-ilia-isorelys-paulino.htmlWe’re back! Ilia and I recorded this episode before the actor’s strike, and I held off on releasing it until the strike ended, as we discussed her role on the HBO smash streaming series The Sex Lives of College Girls. I’m so glad I get to share this conversation with you, because Ilia is equal parts laugh-out-loud funny and careful, thoughtful, and introspective. She also acknowledges the OBJECTIVE TRUTH that the only Cinderella worth recognizing is Brandy’s Cinderella with her perfect wig of microbraids./evangelicalism-vs-fundamentalism.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/evangelicalism-vs-fundamentalism.htmlIf you’ve followed me for any length of time, you probably know that I was raised in fundamentalism and now identify as an ex-fundamentalist. This is not to be confused with the growing movement of Christians who are deconstructing their faith and referring to themselves as ex-vangelicals. In this article, I will do my best to explain some of the differe… ncG1vNJzZmivn6Kur7vFr5ilp6JjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onK%2BZnpyyrbXCmqOiq51iw7R5xa6lnZmdmru1rcuiqqY%3D/the-incredible-shrinking-woman-lily-tomlin.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-incredible-shrinking-woman-lily-tomlin.htmlHi hi hello. Welcome to the week that time forgot. Nobody knows what day or time it is—and most of us don’t care. I figured this was a perfect moment to time travel back to 1981 and one of the most beloved movies from my childhood: The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Programming Note: The regular Friday-style newsletter will be coming at you later this weekend as we inch toward the New Year./issue-77.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/issue-77.htmlWe’re running a little behind this week after the torrent of new films at Sundance. But we’re happy to report that this issue is worth the wait. We’re kicking off our 2023 Academy Awards coverage with reviews of two of this year’s Best Picture nominees: Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Top Gun: Maverick. For some of us, awards season is the closest we get to organized sports (Cate) so the stakes are high!/explaining-the-mommy-shorts-cinematic.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/explaining-the-mommy-shorts-cinematic.htmlLately on my Instagram stories, I’ve been making a lot of jokes about the Mommy Shorts Universe, which is basically the same universe we are currently living in, except it exists one month in the past. I’m sure many of you are totally fine with my stories being a bit behind, but if you guys exist, you aren’t the ones constantly DMing me saying, “Wait. What day is it? I’m so confused!/exploring-apple-jingan.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exploring-apple-jingan.htmlApple Jing’an illustrates the idea that good things take time. Years have slipped by since rumors of this store first appeared. Other stores have opened and closed in all corners of the globe, an entirely new retail design language materialized, and the world emerged from the pandemic while Jing’an Temple Square sat dormant. This week, spring arrives. It was worth the wait. At this point, the subterranean store is a time-tested format that Apple seems to love./feb-mar24-updates-designing-my-lifestyle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feb-mar24-updates-designing-my-lifestyle.htmlA well-designed life is a marvelous portfolio of experiences, of adventures, of failures that taught you important lessons, of hardships that made you stronger and helped you know yourself better, and of achievements and satisfactions (Burnett & Evans, 2016). Unica's Note Collections is a personal journal newsletter of learning experiences and gratitude moments. There are days when I feel at peace, and it’s during those times when I’m listening to Lofi music, soaking up the quiet space in my room, and opening up a book, preparing to immerse myself in a different reality./podcast-fight-week-canelo-interview.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/podcast-fight-week-canelo-interview.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./forms-of-wit-ranked.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/forms-of-wit-ranked.html“If sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,” asks Dr. Willis Stone of London, “what is the highest?” Alright, I purloined this question from this week’s Notes and Queries letterbag in The Guardian. Forgive me, it was so sweet and so cold! Plus, it’s the 100th issue of this newsletter, so I feel like I’ve earned it. Like when you do 15 minutes on the elliptical and reward yourself with a wheelbarrow of cheeseburgers./fr-murr-cardinal-baggio-and-time.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fr-murr-cardinal-baggio-and-time.htmlIn my recent post detailing my investigation into the reliability of Fr. Charles Murr as a witness of important Vatican events in the 1970s, I found that he makes two uncorroborated claims about the final evening of the life of Pope John Paul I. The first is his assertion in his book Murder in the 33rd Degree that Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio was the last person to see Pope John Paul I alive./frequentems-buffalo-taproom-opens.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/frequentems-buffalo-taproom-opens.htmlGet excited, Erie County — Frequentem Brewing officially opens its Buffalo taproom Saturday. The new taproom, the brewery’s second, is located in the city’s Old First Ward neighborhood at 225 Louisiana St. It is part of the bigger, eight-building Barcalo Living & Commerce Center redevelopment at the site of the former Barcalounger facility. The $40 million complex includes 116 apartments and 33,000 square feet of retail space, 3,500 of which is now occupied by Frequentem./mint.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mint.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 fresh mint: an easy growing patio herb that is beloved across cultures and seasons, but which now is coming into abundance as we head towards summer. At the bottom of the post I’ve posted my ‘the weather is starting to get warmer’ recipe for Fresh Mint & Ginger Lemonade./fried-kimchi-focaccia.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fried-kimchi-focaccia.htmlIs this just a kimchi blog now? (See here and here, and also now here.) I hope so. And based on how many of you are telling me how much you liked the kimchi bibim guksu recipe, it seems like maybe you do too. I am so excited to share this kimchi focaccia recipe with y’all. I served a version of this at a Lebanese-Korean dinner pop-up I recently cooked with my friend Edy Massih, who owns the adorable Edy’s Grocer in Greenpoint./going-viral-sucks-even-more-now.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/going-viral-sucks-even-more-now.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Speaking of going viral: I interviewed Sunday Scroll hall-of-famer Adam Jockle for GQ.—Kate Almost a year ago, I went viral on TikTok for the first time. I won’t rehash it—I did that here—but if I were to sum it up succinctly, the problem wasn’t the discourse but the fact that my video ended up in front of too many people for it to generate any kind of valuable discussion./import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-years-later.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/import-ai-375-gpt-2-five-years-later.htmlWelcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this (and comment on posts!) please subscribe. SPECIAL EDITION! GPT2, Five Years On: …A cold eyed reckoning about that time in 2019 when wild-eyed technologists created a (then) powerful LLM and used it to make some very confident claims about AI safety, policy, and the future of the world…/grain-salad-with-many-flavors.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grain-salad-with-many-flavors.htmlHi and welcome to Susanality, a newsletter by me, Susan Spungen, that celebrates seasonal cooking. If you enjoy today’s newsletter, please help spread the word by forwarding this email to others who may like it too. And if you want additional recipes, technique + styling tips, and video tutorials to land in your inbox, consider investing in a paid subscription (for less than the cost of a latte per month!). Either way — thank you so much for being here./q-and-a-should-you-do-hair-analysis.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/q-and-a-should-you-do-hair-analysis.htmlIt’s Q&A time! You can ask your own question here for a chance to have it answered in an upcoming edition. Just a reminder that these answers are for educational and informational purposes only, and aren’t a substitute for medical or mental-health advice. Although I am a registered dietitian, I’m not your dietitian (unless you happen to be one of my 1:1 clients—hi!—but even then, this email isn’t a session). Today’s newsletter is a long one, so my answer to the first part of the first question is available to all subscribers (about hair analysis), and there are a few bonus ones just for paid subscribers (about DUTCH testing, what you’re really looking for with these kinds of tests, and how concerned you should be about recent reports of heavy metals in chocolate)./he-murdered-his-whole-family-who.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/he-murdered-his-whole-family-who.htmlHi, I’m Gabrielle Blair and this is my newsletter. It’s completely free to access and read, but if you feel so moved to support my work, please consider a paid newsletter subscription: just $5/month or save money with the $50/annual sub. You can also go way above and beyond by becoming a Founding Member at $75. Or, some of you have let me know you’d rather send money directly via Paypal and Venmo (@gabrielle-blair)./henry-flagler-original-florida-man.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/henry-flagler-original-florida-man.htmlFlorida Man is an Internet meme first popularized in 2013,[1] referring to an alleged prevalence of people performing irrational or maniacal actions in the U.S. state of Florida. -Wikipedia In 1890, Key West was the most populous city in Florida. The port ranked thirteenth busiest in the nation and exported 62 million cigars a year. All of this was happening on an island four miles long and one mile wide. As oil baron Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railroad neared completion in 1912, connecting the so-called Southernmost City to the rest of the country, the fervor took the media and government officials by storm with the promise of easy transport of pineapples, tropical fruits, and vegetables from warmer climates./hercules-in-new-york.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hercules-in-new-york.htmlMy first blog was about movies. I started watching terrible ‘80s movies, then got more serious and my long-form reviews were often featured on the front page of the Internet Movie Database. This is from my attempt to watch ALL of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movies, which I failed because his output after Eraser went down the crapper, and it stopped being fun. But this one, his first, was a blast. It’s not exactly good, but it was entertaining as hell then and I hope it is for you, now./here-is-what-you-need-to-know-about.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/here-is-what-you-need-to-know-about.htmlWorking with Machine learning and Deep learning models involve usage of cost functions which are there to optimize the model during the training. Better is the model, the lower will be the loss. One of the most used cost function for classification based problem statement is Cross-Entropy. Lets have a deeper dig into it. Cross-Entropy Loss is also known as logarithmic loss, log loss or logistic loss. Each probability of the predicted class is compared with the actual class and loss is calculated which penalizes the probability based on how far it is from the actual expected value./hi-im-paul-scheer.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hi-im-paul-scheer.htmlWelcome to 3 Things. I’ll get into what this is in just a moment, but first, let me do the awkward introduction that everyone seems to do so you know exactly who I am. I’d hate for you to be reading this substack for a year and only then realizing, “Wait, he’s not David Cross?” I’m Paul Scheer. You might know me from TV shows like Human Giant, The League, Fresh off the Boat, NTSF:SD:SUV:: and Black Monday./hibbett-an-informal-stock-note.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hibbett-an-informal-stock-note.htmlThe funds I manage owns roughly five percent of Hibbett - a retailer of street fashion and sporting equipment - and above all - sneakers. Researching this stock turned me down the sneakerhead path. Normally I do not write up the stocks we own because often we intend to buy more - but in this case we own about five percent of the company which is a smallish position for us - but we are a large shareholder for them./homemade-tomato-paste.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/homemade-tomato-paste.htmlI’ve never made tomato paste before and have never thought about making tomato paste before…yet here we are, making tomato paste. I was trying to think of something different to do with my tomatoes that were softening at a rapid pace in my humid apartment (why is my apartment so humid?!) and thought, “tomato paste could be cute.” I was curious what the process would even involve, but assumed it was really just cooking tomatoes down to a paste (which is correct)./hopeanderson.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hopeanderson.htmlUnder the Hollywood Sign By Hope Anderson I'm a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker who writes about about film, culture, Japan and Hollywood (the place and the industry). Lately I've also been writing about music, art and television. I also write fiction and have recently completed a novel. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjam7z56Yp5yVp8Cwug%3D%3D/bryan-garner-blacks-law-dictionary-12th-edition.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bryan-garner-blacks-law-dictionary-12th-edition.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! What’s the most widely cited legal book in the world? If you guessed Black’s Law Dictionary, then congratulate yourself. Henry Campbell Black published the first edition in 1891, and today it’s a must-have for every lawyer and law student./how-do-we-fit-malo-gusto-and-reece.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-do-we-fit-malo-gusto-and-reece.htmlGood Morning Ladies & Gents, Firstly I apologise for lack of article yesterday, today you will have two from me. This is a question that I have heard multiple times in the last few weeks and one that I have started to think deeply about. Lots and lots of people have been saying to move into CDM or RCB in a 3 and I really am not a massive fan of either of those ideas./how-do-we-handle-plagiarism-in-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-do-we-handle-plagiarism-in-the.htmlWelcome to our weekend conversation! A message came from a reader this past week. M. wrote: I think there may be a future post that you could do about how to deal with writers who plagiarize -- do you permanently blacklist them? do you make them jump through extra hoops? do they get put in "time out"?  A very interesting subject. No one likes or supports plagiarism. But what frameworks are in place for lit mag editors and writers to handle it?/how-i-pitch-editors-in-2021.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-i-pitch-editors-in-2021.htmlI recently realised that I’ve been pitching stories since 2008 (!)  I tried to dig out my very first pitch, but I couldn’t find it because it seems that back then, my email subject lines consisted of “article” and “review”. I doubt I even knew that what I was doing was called pitching.    A lot has changed since then (my email subject lines for a start), so I thought it’s a great time for an update on my own pitching process./once-sale-lalande.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/once-sale-lalande.htmlDating app Once’s concept is simple. Its road to an exit was not. Once uses AI to provide users one match per day, a mechanic designed to move away from the frenzied swiping of Tinder. In mid-January, Dating Group, one of the main dating app industry players, acquired Paris-based Once for $18 million in cash and stock. Once CEO and co-founder Clémentine Lalande played a key role in navigating the company to that point, which included making some big calls such as layoffs when the company was bleeding cash and launching a well-time branding campaign just before the pandemic./how-long-does-twitter-have-left.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-long-does-twitter-have-left.htmlHow much longer can Twitter last, really? It’s already real bad over there. Elon Musk said yesterday that ad revenues have fallen 50%. The site is experiencing major outages almost once a week. During the most recent outage earlier this week, Elon was laser-focused on the important stuff: reply-guying Jordan Peterson. The Twitter Blue rollout has been such a disaster that he fired almost the entire team. The company isn’t paying rent on its office space./how-many-people-starve-to-death-in.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-many-people-starve-to-death-in.html20-30 people starve to death annually in America. Phew! I’m glad to get that out of the way - writing that first sentence motivated me to create this blog. I’m not like the other blogs, I’m happy to go directly to the point without fluff, but, now that we’ve answered the titular question, lets expound a bit, shall we? I mean, a blog can’t just be a single sentence. There’s a lot of misinformation around starvation, spread, in part, by none other than Google./how-much-does-it-cost-for-a-family.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-much-does-it-cost-for-a-family.htmlWhat’s new:  Even after the Bank of Japan's recent policy shift to tightening credit, albeit only slightly, the value of the Japanese yen remains relatively weak against the U.S. dollar, euro, British pound and other major currencies. Why it matters:  For decades, Japan - and Tokyo in particular - had a reputation as one of the world's most expensive places to live, but since the recent rapid depreciation of the yen, the tables have turned./how-to-be-happy-at-work.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-be-happy-at-work.htmlThanks for reading The Nonlinear Life, a reader-supported newsletter about navigating life's ups and downs. If you're new around here, learn about me, or check out our introductory post. And if you enjoyed this article, please subscribe or share with a friend. ___ Gallup released a shocking new report this week on the state of the global workforce. Its findings:  Two-thirds of Americans are unhappy with what they do. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans are quiet quitting./how-to-choose-a-new-favorite-book.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-choose-a-new-favorite-book.htmlVery, very few people can be trusted to recommend a book you will actually like. The way we interact with books is so personal. Like all art, we bring to a book all of our own garbage: our traumas and fears, our joys and heartaches. Sometimes we know what we like, but sometimes we are wrong. Earlier today, a friend of mine was describing a book they are reading, and I knew immediately what kind of book it was to me: it was the dreaded “book I will talk shit about for six years before reading and falling in love with./how-to-get-promoted-at-work-63f07109ff50.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-get-promoted-at-work-63f07109ff50.htmlI’ve been working in the design and tech space for the last 20+ years. I’ve worked as both an individual contributor and manager across bootstrapped companies, startups, scaleups, and corporations. I’ve been promoted a number of times and been responsible for promoting others. For years I just wanted to do good work. I didn’t care about job titles and approached each day wanting to do the best work I could. When I encountered things that stood in my way, I tried to figure out how to overcome or avoid them./how-to-give-a-dog-an-erection.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-give-a-dog-an-erection.htmlIn this YouTube video, Jens Söring claims that when he was admitted to Wallens Ridge Prison for 11 months about 22 years ago, the guard dogs had erections. Later, he claims, a guard told him that the dog-handlers had given male dogs hand-jobs so that the inmates would see the erections and know that both the guards and dogs were “totally horny for you” (“richtig richtig geil auf dich"). Söring even made some masturbation gestures, God help us all, to drive home the point./how-to-make-a-corsi-rosenthal-box.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-a-corsi-rosenthal-box.htmlNote: I was able to add smart features like speed control and air quality automation to my Corsi-Rosenthal Box. If you already know what a Corsi-Rosenthal Box is and want to learn how to do this, you can just scroll down. Here’s the video in action. Scroll down for background and how to do it yourself. One of the more encouraging inventions that has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic is the Corsi-Rosenthal Box, a DIY air filter consisting of several furnace filters taped to a regular box fan./how-to-make-friends-on-bumble-part-8a0.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-friends-on-bumble-part-8a0.htmlToday marks 7 weeks as a member of Bumble BFF. Since my first dispatch from Italy, I've matched with roughly two dozen eligible young men as well as a handful of bots and potential sexual predators. Despite this progress, I'm sad to report that I've yet to meet in-person with a real-life man I've matched with through the app. You might think this makes me unqualified to write about how one makes friends on Bumble—and hey, fair./how-to-make-the-modernist-pizza-dough-22-02-08.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-the-modernist-pizza-dough-22-02-08.htmlBonjour! Bonjourno! Even though I’m still in Paris, I couldn’t let National Pizza Day – it’s tomorrow – go by without a salute from afar. And a hat-tip to my in-house pizzaiolo, Michael. When Michael and I got married, we made a deal – I’d cook, and he’d do the dishes – and we’ve kept it. Although over the years, Michael’s taken to cooking, but only certain things. He makes omelets – and he makes them really well./tortilla-de-patata-cooking-eggs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tortilla-de-patata-cooking-eggs.htmlA FEW SUMMERS back I watched Rosalia make her tortilla de patata. Soft, squidgy and slightly salty (the tortilla not Rosalia), it is undeniably my favourite tapa at her restaurant in Albufera. Perhaps it's the where and when; served on the terrace, the Meditteranean waves swirling gently around the rocks below, the tortilla appears sliced into generous chunks, during the habitual 20-minute wait as the paella is cooked, when you are happy and hungry./how-to-score-reservations-in-paris.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-score-reservations-in-paris.htmlA was slightly horrified by a recent New Yorker article called Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation. Tables at hot restaurants in NYC are being snapped up, it seems, by bots and professional scalpers. In some cases, they’re being held for clients who who agree to pre-pay in egregious amounts ($1000 for a meal that should cost $300) or for clients … ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on6ivXam8br%2FCqKmeZaKawKa%2B1ZqroqeeqHqquoypmKuhow%3D%3D/substack-notes-a-tutorial.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/substack-notes-a-tutorial.htmlHey there, creator! This week’s post was inspired by Abbey of What I’d Rather be Talking About (check it out here) and by this week’s Substack Office Hours where a lot of writers were asking about using Notes for growth. Gotta be honest, I am by no means a Notes power user. But I have listened carefully to other creators who use Notes regularly, and who have grown their publications with Notes./how-travis-scotts-community-building.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-travis-scotts-community-building.htmlLast Friday, Travis Scott dropped his highly anticipated new album “Utopia” to much acclaim from fans and critics alike. Travis is almost 10 years into his career. For most artists that means their prime is 3 years behind them, and that their day one fans are starting to tune them out. But with 4 solo albums under his belt, each album Travis releases still feels like the very first one. That’s because he’s has done something that few artists at his level have been able to do: He’s tapped into the power of community./i-grow-old-i-grow-old-i-shall-wear.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-grow-old-i-grow-old-i-shall-wear.htmlGreat discussion!!! I think the subject of when to age out is highly dependent on the person, their genes, their openness. I agree Joe shouldn’t be running. I agree RUmp is a walking, living nightmare on so many fronts, I would run out of room to list them. But… what do we do??? For me, I’m going to keep voting Blue. And hope Biden makes it another 4 years. {clenched teeth emoji}/i-havent-been-truthful-with-you.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-havent-been-truthful-with-you.htmlThe Weeknd is starting to use his given name, Abel Tesfaye. This feels meaningful to me. You know what they say. Words are spells. And if words are spells, then your name must be the personal spell you cast on the world. Or at least that’s what I always thought. After all, when I got married at age 26, I changed my name in the masthead of Cosmopolitan even before it was official so the issue that hit newsstands after my August wedding would reflect this new and improved version of me./i-rewatched-oprahs-2005-tom-cruise.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-rewatched-oprahs-2005-tom-cruise.htmlNo one listens like Oprah. I have always found her incredibly fascinating, but none more so than when she sits opposite a celebrity for an interview. This isn’t to say that she’s not a great interviewer of ordinary everyday humans, but there’s something about how she manages to disarms celebrities who burn just as brightly as she does. How they feel comfortable opening up to her. It’s been a minute since she’s dropped some fresh interview game on us, which is why Sunday’s interview with Harry and Meghan felt so monumentous./in-succession-lifeboats-season-1.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-succession-lifeboats-season-1.htmlHe is risen!! Yes, Logan Roy is among the living once more - well, sort of. His movement is severely compromised, his behaviour is dictated by the basest of instincts, and on the one occasion he speaks, it’s to very deliberately call his son Kendall “a fucking idiot”. Still, baby steps, heh? As for Kendall’s alleged idiocy, it surrounds his reaction to the news - gleaned during his father’s incapacitation - that Logan has saddled Waystar with some $3./lighten-up-francis-golden-globes.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lighten-up-francis-golden-globes.htmlReally beautiful perspective, Liz. I didn't watch the globes (mostly because I live in a childcare bubble some days and forgot!) but I have experienced these feelings and thoughts a thousand times during Covid, George Floyd's death, the war in Ukraine, now Isreal, Palestine, Gaza....There has been suffering forever, we are only just more aware of it now as media is so immediate and constant. As an empath. I can easily get swallowed whole by the grief and have lost months and even years of my life, my joy, my connection to my kids, my writing life, and parts of my career to that kind of grief during covid times./deathbed-farewell-inside-the-chambersburg.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deathbed-farewell-inside-the-chambersburg.htmlI stumbled upon the Chambersburg Mall in March 2019, when I visited Black Rose Antiques & Collectibles, which had moved into the site of the now-closed Sears, one of once four retail anchors at the mall. Feeling the urge to go thrifting during the trip, I turned up the Black Rose during a Google search and was shocked to find it was one of the final businesses in a massive brutalist landscape — 500,000 square feet in all — that is the Chambersburg Mall, which sits just outside the Pennsylvania city by that name./introducing-the-personality-project.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/introducing-the-personality-project.htmlHello readers, and welcome back to the Khazan Kherald. The big update is that I’m now working on a new book about personality change, and I’ll be using this space to provide updates on the new book and insights from my reporting.  The original story, which was published in the March issue of The Atlantic, has the very apt title “I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality.” I found that my personality really did change, but the experiment made me want to dig even deeper into the five traits of personality and how they shift throughout our lives./prost-profiles-iron-tug-head-brewer.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prost-profiles-iron-tug-head-brewer.htmlNote: This newsletter is supported by Rohrbach Brewing Co., a pioneering craft brewery in the city of Rochester. You’re not likely to encounter a drum set sitting next to fermentation tanks in most places. But Zachary Allard, head brewer/co-owner at Iron Tug Brewing, likes to mix two of his passions — beer and music. And during down time in the brewery, Allard, who works alone on the brewery’s 5-barrel brewing system, likes to get some drum practice in./why-cost-per-wear-is-flawed.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-cost-per-wear-is-flawed.htmlIf you’ve been interested in fashion for any length of time, then you’re almost certainly familiar with the concept of cost-per-wear. If not, here’s the gist: a pair of pants by The Row might cost $1420, but if you wear them twice a week over the course of five years, they’ll ring in at just under $3.00 per wear. Total bargain, right? The purpose of cost-per-wear is that it purports to help people understand the true value of their clothes and make better decisions when it comes to purchasing new items./is-the-medium-still-the-message.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-the-medium-still-the-message.htmlOur technologies change who we are individually and collectively as surely and as profoundly as climate change reshapes the Earth and everything on it. When the spoken word changed humans; how we interact, and the quality and depth of interaction, forever, the medium was the message. When the word in song or rhyme allowed cultures to transmit knowledge and values across space and time, the medium was the message. When the written word allowed humans to communicate further than their voices could carry, the medium was the message./is-there-something-special-about.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-there-something-special-about.htmlWelcome to Natural Wonders, where I hope to pique your interest each week by sharing some fascinating questions and answers about natural phenomena. If you’re new here or if someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe below. Check out past posts by going here and see who I am and what Natural Wonders is about here. This week’s question comes from a reader, Joe, who is an artist and overall observant person./jason-statham-on-why-guy-ritchies.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jason-statham-on-why-guy-ritchies.htmlIt’s one thing to make a great debut movie, it’s quite another to direct an impressive follow-up. The film industry is littered with people who began with a bang only to then make whimper after whimper. In terms of those who’ve broken that mold, the king remains Quentin Tarantino who followed the impeccable Reservoir Dogs with the peerless Pulp Fiction. And the British equivalent? Some would say you need look no further than Guy Ritchie./jennmorson.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jennmorson.htmlBeliever By Jenn Morson Jenn Morson is a writer and investigative journalist. Her reporting has focused on the clergy abuse crisis, specifically on issues present at her alma mater, Franciscan University. She also writes about other topics which move her to speak up. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjauxzaekqKqjpLs%3D/jerry-butler-born-december-8-1939-the-iceman.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jerry-butler-born-december-8-1939-the-iceman.htmlView most updated version of this post on Substack.Open YouTube playlist of all songs in this post.Share The legendary Jerry Butler is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who was the original lead singer of the Impressions before going solo in 1959. His records were a mainstay of R&B charts throughout the sixties and seventies. He eventually entered politics in Chicago and served from 1985-2018 as a Democratic member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners./jim-crane-is-the-pivotal-man-steering.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jim-crane-is-the-pivotal-man-steering.htmlFrom December 20, 2011 until sometime in the 2022 season, the Astros front office was defined by—and its decisions made by—its general managers. This period starts on December 20, 2011 because that is the date when new owner Jim Crane hired Jeff Luhnow as his general manager. For the next eight seasons, the Astros were defined by the choices and methods of Luhnow and his front office: the choice to tank in the early part of the decade in an effort to build up draft capital; the deep embrace of analytics; the early adoption new technology like high speed cameras; and the integration of technology into minor league coaching./cryptoconsultinginstitute.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cryptoconsultinginstitute.htmlCCI - Elite Cryptocurrency Investment Strategy Newsletter By Joe Shew A world first cryptocurrency newsletter that encompasses on-chain data, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, market sentiment drivers AND a Top 10 Portfolio with all buy & sell levels, by an elite cryptocurrency team with over 32 years experience! ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaS%2B2KmrqJufo8C2uNOipaChnqjBqsDUrZw%3D/the-creator-review-john-david-washington.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-creator-review-john-david-washington.htmlDenis Villenueve changed things with Arrival, challenging filmgoers to look at an alien “invasion” under a different lens. Instead of being an immediate threat, they were just large, potentially smarter and more tactical beings. Humans, of course, thought the worst and built up a plan to attack. But they also acted like overgrown children, nearly (thank you, linguistic champ Amy Adams) being fully unable to understand these new beings that landed on Earth./john-mcwhorter-and-peter-arcidiacono.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/john-mcwhorter-and-peter-arcidiacono.htmlPart of what made Students for Fair Admissions’ case before the Supreme Court so compelling was the data. It was very hard to look at the numbers and not conclude that discrimination was involved in Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s admissions practices. This week on The Glenn Show, John and I are joined by the man behind that data, Duke economist Peter Arcidiacono. I feel like we’ve been talking about this case for a long time, but Peter signed onto the project back in 2015./jon-fosses-septology.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jon-fosses-septology.htmlThrough most of the 2010s, I wrote almost exclusively while listening to music through headphones so loud it would blot out any outside sound. I’d often get in a habit of playing the same record over and over—so that I could begin to learn to disregard it, too, somehow narrowing my attention within even the high volume. I avoided records that had intelligible lyrics, anticipating their distraction like any other irritant, though sometimes could get into it when the vox worked like any other instrument—more a texture than a message—or maybe when buried deeply enough in the mix they became essentially abstract./jonah-hill-and-therapy-speak.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jonah-hill-and-therapy-speak.htmlWhen news broke of Jonah Hill’s alleged emotional abuse of his ex-girlfriend Sarah Brody, my friend and I got to talking about seemingly “evolved” men who could never see themselves as perpetrators of abuse. She told me about her husband’s former boss, a self-described liberal and supporter of feminist ideals, who out of nowhere one day hung a nude sculpture of himself in the lobby of the office. Understandably, his employees were disturbed seeing a likeness of the head honcho’s hog every time they went to grab a coffee, so one decided to put a pair of daisy dukes on it./josh-allens-cheating-affair-shocks.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/josh-allens-cheating-affair-shocks.htmlSpeculations about Josh Allen and Brittany Williams' breakup began when Williams unfollowed Allen on Instagram and removed all their pictures and Bills references. She hinted at the breakup during her birthday celebration, where she received a cake with the hashtag "#MHWN" from the podcast. Allen has not shared his birthday greetings or tributes to Williams, and he no longer follows her, but does follow her mother. Although there are still photos of them together on Instagram, the latest was in July 2022./just-like-u-said-it-would-b.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/just-like-u-said-it-would-b.htmlI went to a tribute concert for Sinead O Connor this week at the City Winery and got to sit with her discography and reflect on her rebel spirit over the course of the night as different guests took the stage to cover her songs including Amanda Palmer and one of my all-time favorite musicians and collaborators Bilal. Bilal’s rendition of Just How You Said It Would B was eerie and brought back feelings I had the same week of her death./manga-ken-niimuras-the-making-of.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/manga-ken-niimuras-the-making-of.htmlWelcome to our unofficial “Ken Niimura Week” here on MSX: Mangasplaining Extra! We’re thrilled to be bringing you the work of manga-ka Ken Niimura, who has been a great friend of Deb, Andrew, and Christopher for many years, and is an amazing creator to boot. Because we want to take this opportunity to spotlight a creator we love and support, we’re making all content this week free for both paid and free subscribers to the newsletter./la-27th-restaurante-familiar-nicaraguense.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/la-27th-restaurante-familiar-nicaraguense.html🇳🇮 NICARAGUA 📍 1830 W. Pico Blvd., Pico-Union, Central Los Angeles. 🅿️ Small lot behind building 🥤 Bottled beer, wine by glassHISTORICAL 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 27 February 2019Outside of the wonderful country, is there a more Nicaraguan place in all the world than this Pico Blvd./lady-and-gentlemen-start-your-engines.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lady-and-gentlemen-start-your-engines.htmlThat’s what my driver’s ed teacher used to say to me. My initials are not AJ, but I knew what he meant. I grew up in Indiana – so I was familiar with all the famous race car drivers, like Mario Andretti, Bobby and Al Unser and… AJ Foyt. Despite living in Indiana the first 25 years of my life, I have only been to the Indianapolis 500 once (!), but I do remember that 23 years ago, history was made when not one but TWO women were competing./latest-lincoln-project-podcast.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/latest-lincoln-project-podcast.htmlLast weekend during a rally in Georgia, Donald Trump ridiculed President Joe Biden for having a stutter. It enraged me. Given all the time I spend studying Trump and trying to defeat him, his depravity struck a nerve. Enough is enough with Trump and those around him. Come November, who will you stand with? Will you stand with decency, competence, and America and reelect Joe Biden? Or will you stand with the forces of ugliness, amorality, and everything antithetical to American values?/lets-talk-about-ds-and-durga.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-talk-about-ds-and-durga.htmlIf you’re a fan of perfume and reading this Substack I am going to guess you have heard of D.S. & Durga, a fragrance house based out of Brooklyn, NY that was founded by husband-and-wife team David (D.S.) and Kavi (Durga) in 2007. I started noticing their fragrances in high-end indie curated shops in San Francisco like Reliquary about 10 years ago. They felt fancy and cool if not a little overpriced./lil-peeps-star-shopping-is-perfect.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lil-peeps-star-shopping-is-perfect.htmlEarlier this year, set off by the streaming release of Lil Peep’s 2016 mixtape, crybaby, I wrote a piece explaining why the titular track was a perfect Lil Peep song. In that piece, I cited “Star Shopping,” Lil Peep’s 2015 smash, which partly propelled him to be the international superstar we understand him to be today—even in death—as another perfect Lil Peep song. As the days get colder, and the mornings become unforgivingly dark, I’ve been returning to “Star Shopping” endlessly to temper my moods./lime-coconut-curry-chicken-soup.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lime-coconut-curry-chicken-soup.htmlAs I’ve mentioned in the past, the week between Christmas and New Years is what I call The Quiet In-Between, and it’s my favorite time of year. The fuss of the holidays have died down, the guests have returned home, the early spring cleaning has started. But not only do I clean the house (and especially the fridge and pantry). I clean out the holiday food’s lingering effects from my body as well./limited-distribution-spyhide-spyware-hack.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/limited-distribution-spyhide-spyware-hack.htmlThe SpyHide data includes source code and user data for the Android spyware software covering the years since the company’s founding in 2016, through to mid-July 2023. Although SpyHide's software was made in Iran and the servers were hosted by Hetzner in Germany, TechCrunch's analysis of the data identified at least 750,000 users, who collectively had about 60,000 victims from every continent. Many users who downloaded the app and set up initial accounts never installed the spyware on any victims’ devices./lindsay-lohans-new-netflix-vehicle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lindsay-lohans-new-netflix-vehicle.htmlI wish I was the sort of person who never had to ask himself, “Am I not enjoying this movie because it’s bad or because my brain is in a place right now where it’s very difficult to experience pleasure?”  Of course, it does not have to be an either/or proposition. It is entirely possible for me not to enjoy a movie both because it is bad and because the misfiring synapses in my cerebellum have robbed me of the joy I sometimes get from even objectively terrible entertainment./loving-sylvia-plath-a-reclamation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/loving-sylvia-plath-a-reclamation.htmlFellow Devotees-of-Sylvia-Plath! It has been too long since I updated this newsletter, but for good reason— for the last year-and-a-half, I have written nothing but the book which shares its name, Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation. This was a labor of love in the truest sense of the term. I wanted to write a book that took empathy for Sylvia Plath— her life, work, and literary afterlife— as its triggering emotion./mark-brendanawicz.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mark-brendanawicz.htmlAt the end of Parks and Recreation, Jerry is a ten-term mayor who lives to the age of 100, Tom is a successful self-help guru, Donna is a real estate maven, Ron is running a national park, and Leslie might be President of the United States. Everyone’s dreams come true in a time-skipping finale that flows like a phantasmagoria of Obama-era fantasy. And somewhere out there — far, far offscreen — Mark Brendanawicz is working for a private construction firm, or maybe he’s gone back to city planning work, whichever is paying him best and annoying him least at the time./martha-stewart-sports-illustrated.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/martha-stewart-sports-illustrated.htmlYes 👏🏻 yes 👏🏻 yes 👏🏻 !! I saw this cover and I thought, good for her, but what about all the airbrushing, and wild privilege that makes it possible for her to look this way? Not groundbreaking at all for any of us normal aging people. As I navigate my mid-40s, perimenopausal body shifting and slow growing invisibility, it’s exhausting to hear the message that I should just go grey!/home-work-mass-incarceration-and-margaret-murray-washington.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/home-work-mass-incarceration-and-margaret-murray-washington.htmlfield reports from my book The Secret History of Home EconomicsMass incarceration is an education issue. I’ve been on a tear about this lately, because I’m writing a long article about what’s next for New Orleans schools, and Louisiana has a prison problem—depending on the month, we have either the highest or the second-highest per capita incarceration rate in the country. Which affects a lot of kids. Stats:/max-oppenheimer-exhibition-leopold-musuem-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/max-oppenheimer-exhibition-leopold-musuem-2023.htmlServus! The Austrian expressionist painter Max Oppenheimer, whose work has been almost forgotten, is currently the subject of a major retrospective at Vienna’s Leopold Museum. The nature of his life, which took him to Berlin, Prague, Geneva, and Zurich in search of work and forced him into exile in New York after the Nazi annexation of Austria in March 1938, led to his collection being scattered across continents. Because he was a Jewish artist and a modernist, his work was also branded ‘degenerate’ by Nazi authorities, confiscated, and destroyed./memories-of-bouchercon-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/memories-of-bouchercon-2023.htmlHello and welcome to the latest issue of Fervent Curiosity. My name is Victor De Anda and this is my newsletter. You probably read the headline above and wondered what the hell is a Bouchercon? For those who don’t know, it’s a writing conference organized by the Mystery Writers of America. All kinds of mystery, thriller and crime fiction writers converge on a different city each year to talk about writing, meet other writers, and give out awards./michexgod.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michexgod.html🇲🇽 COUNTRY (Region) 📍 13066 Glenoaks Blvd., Sylmar, San Fernando Valley. 🅿️ Small private lot 🥤 BYOB to make micheladas EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was written when the business served from a trailer on Bledsoe Street. They now have a brick and mortar business at the address above, with two liquor stores on the corner to grab tallboys for your michelada.HISTORICAL ARTICLES are brought over from eattheworldla.com to make sure our Substack content is constantly growing and as full of depth as possible./standupworld.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/standupworld.htmlStandup World By Mike Binder A newsletter about the deep state of stand-up comedy from someone who's spent his life inside of it. A blog from someone who loves the art form knows the players and wants to write about it and share his stories, thoughts, and opinions. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbTAwKebrqinpL%2BtsA%3D%3D/minoritarian-moralism.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/minoritarian-moralism.htmlThis is the first in a 3-part series that I have been working on for six months or more. It is an attempt to make sense of our current regime: how it works, what scripts it relies on to assert its legitimacy, and what the prospects are for its continuance. This first installment establishes the basic logic of the “party-state” and the function of what I am calling its “recognition clients” – sacred cows, more or less./modern-magical-jigsaw-puzzles-are.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/modern-magical-jigsaw-puzzles-are.htmlIn 2020 the newly-established Magic Puzzle Company raised over $3 million dollars on Kickstarter selling a set of three 1000-piece puzzles that promised they had a magical “twist ending.” …what? I had never put together or even had any real interest in jigsaw puzzles in my entire adult life, but how could you not be intrigued by that sales pitch? Puzzles can have endings? Puzzles can have surprise twist endings? What does that even mean?/montee-ball-on-ballot-for-2025-college.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/montee-ball-on-ballot-for-2025-college.htmlThe 2025 College Football Hall of Fame candidates have been announced, and among the 77 FBS players nominated, former Badgers star Montee Ball has a chance to etch his spot in the history books.  Ball's career with the Wisconsin football program was nothing short of spectacular. A two-time consensus First Team All-American and the 2012 recipient of the Doak Walker Award, bestowed annually to the nation's top college running back, Ball dominated between the tackles and showed an uncanny ability to find the end zone./transition-day-moon-enters-taurus.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transition-day-moon-enters-taurus.htmlYou’re reading the AstroMommy daily horoscope,  a forecast that hopes to shine a light in the dark, helping us all see where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going; whether you’re a first-time listener or a long-time subscriber, thanks for being here! I truly appreciate you being in the AstroMommy community. I hope you enjoy today’s horoscope and card reading. If you would like to support The AstroMommy Newsletter, there are several ways to do so:/more-pepper-seed-germination-tips.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-pepper-seed-germination-tips.htmlBefore we sow our seeds, in a manner of speaking, here’s what’s been happening on the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts, or at our home page, GardenBasics.net: Episode 306: Q&A Mason Bee Basics On the Tuesday Q&A episode of Feb. 6, Joshua of Southwest Missouri asks: “Do you have any episodes about native mason bees for pollination instead of honey bees? I'd like to learn more from a standpoint on how to take care of them, especially on taking care of the mason bee homes themselves./mushroom-rice.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/mushroom-rice.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. 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. As always, I appreciate all of you being here!/recipe-aunt-monicas-bourbon-banana-pudding.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/recipe-aunt-monicas-bourbon-banana-pudding.htmlMy Aunt Monica spoiled the hell out of me. Being that I was her only nephew, the way she showed love to me was to make sure she had me looking right. Trips to Central Mall in Lawton, Oklahoma, as an adolescent meant I had a chance to play $10-$20 worth of games at the arcade, or procure the latest video game, pair of sneakers or a fly Ralph Lauren outfit./my-bratty-sister-in-law-helped-me.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-bratty-sister-in-law-helped-me.htmlAs I write this, my sister-in-law is behind me. Let’s call her Q, which will amuse her. She’s sitting on our big, purple couch, writing something just for herself, and I’m struck by her stillness. She is perfectly quiet, which as anyone related to her can tell you is unusual. Invariably, S describes her younger sister as a “controlled nuclear detonation.” I disagree. Q is rarely controlled. Her soliloquies bend in rising symphonies of enthusiasm and wit./my-favorite-episodes-of-cbs-radio.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-episodes-of-cbs-radio.htmlThe CBS Radio Mystery Theater created some truly excellent episodes of Radio Mystery Theater. After combing through many dozens of them, these ten are some of my favorites. Theresa 1.) “Daddy’s Girls,” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Hosted by E.G. Marshall. 1981. An invalid home-bound sister starts doubting the story of her younger sister, Clara, and turns to the police to solve the mysterious death of her sister's editor right after she was fired./my-nemesis-invited-me-to-tim-pools.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-nemesis-invited-me-to-tim-pools.htmlLast Monday, I got a private message in my Twitter DMs that was allegedly from Tim Pool's staff. Here is the message: April 12th, The Culture War is having Corey DeAngelis come on to talk about school choice. Any chance you would be interested in joining him? We film live from Tim's Knoxville MD studio from 10am-12pm and would arrange your travel. Please let me know if you are interested./fiction-vs-reality-my-texts-with.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fiction-vs-reality-my-texts-with.htmlFor several months earlier this year, I’d been chatting with Michael Shellenberger about the Twitter Files. He’d reached out to me in a Twitter DM on December 30th, telling me he wanted to better understand social media content moderation and transparency policy. Via phone, email, and text, we discussed topics ranging from state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, to the basics of content moderation (he was unfamiliar), to online speech. We talked about public trust on Sam Harris’ podcast./my-turkey-is-never-dry-heres-why.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-turkey-is-never-dry-heres-why.htmlTime flies. One minute we’re talking about this year’s run-on regional growing season, the next we’re scrambling to celebrate the year’s bounty with our Thanksgiving celebrations. For millions of Americans, it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without roast turkey. I’m certainly one of them, and this Saturday I’ll be picking mine up from Jake’s Country Meatsof Cassopolis, Michigan, which wrapped up its monthly outdoor season but is doing monthly meat drops near Green City Market’s Lincoln Park location and elsewhere around Chicago metro./my-year-in-books.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-year-in-books.htmlFor the past few years I've kept a list in a treasured notebook to track the books I read. Adult books, that is. I quickly lose count of how many childrens books we devour in a year. I recently took a look at our library borrowing history and wasn't surprised that as a family we have loaned 1087 books since April 2021. Yep, we are family of bookworms. Personally, books are a great comfort and a constant feature in my daily rhythm./never-ever-mets-episode-4.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/never-ever-mets-episode-4.htmlHi Friends, Short note here. I’m catching up on my television recaps this week as I was out of town and didn’t have access to watch all of my favorite chaotic television #progrums. Anywho, here’s Never Ever Mets, episode 4. It’s just me for this episode, but you won’t be disappointed. More to come tomorrow! —XD ncG1vNJzZmiwkau2pr7DpZyarV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6nnK%2BdomKyt7HRZqSerKNisrG10qibnmVk/new-york-minute.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-york-minute.htmlDimes Square is technically a triangle, a few blocks-radius on New York City’s Lower East Side, teeming with dimly-lit bars, cafe tables that spill out on to the streets, stuck-in-time storefronts with signs written in Chinese, plus a high concentration of people dressed with an uncontrived nonchalance that screams cool. While staying at 9 Orchard right in the center of things last weekend, I came across a woman, pictured below, who not only embodied the neighborhood’s distinct style but also inspired me to give it a whirl, with a pair of belted low slung, loose-fitting jeans, tucked into Larroude knee-high boots and an oversized cashmere crewneck./97701476-nick-bacon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/97701476-nick-bacon.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. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kvbO7xaKjnmdpbIRxfZNwbWammZi4bq7AnKan/nick-saban-made-college-football.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nick-saban-made-college-football.htmlI labored for a bit on what exactly to write about Nick Saban’s unexpected retirement. What could be said that wouldn’t be lost in the din? After all, no shortage of content has flooded the ether since the coach announced the move on Jan. 10. From homages to his unparalleled greatness in an era when sports pursued parity, to speculation about his motivations seeking deeper significance in the 72-year-old calling quits, to the downright silly that invoked his abbreviated tenure with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins to try downplaying Saban’s significance, seemingly every base is covered./no-thought-is-binding-fort-apache.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-thought-is-binding-fort-apache.htmlI've been thinking about thought lately. More specifically, I've been thinking about the purpose of this journal, in which I offer my so-called "Thoughts Mostly About Film." That purpose is not – despite the frequent certainty of my tone – to make definitive arguments. Nor is it to provide qualitative assessments of movies (ie. "100 Movies You Have To Watch Before You Die!") as I believe that mission often leads to confusion: what we’re talking about when we talk about the greatness or awfulness of a film is usually not the film itself but what we mean by "/norm-macdonald-had-it-right-on-how.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/norm-macdonald-had-it-right-on-how.htmlThis week, NPR published a piece entitled, “Why ‘lost their battle’ with serious illness is the wrong thing to say.” Basically, it’s a restating of an important idea many have said before which is that using militaristic language and imagery to describe a person’s illness is problematic. The largest issue, of course, is that this verbiage casts survivors as winners and the dead as losers. That hardly seems fair, when almost all of it comes down to factors well outside of any person’s control./lyz-lenz-on-the-perks-of-divorce.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lyz-lenz-on-the-perks-of-divorce.htmlMeet our next creator, Lyz Lenz: Lyz Lenz Age: 39* Kids: Two children Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa  Title: Journalist, author Substack: Men Yell at Me Website: lyzlenz.com*Age at time of interviewLyz contains a very special combination of bravery and doesn’t-give-a-fuck-ness. Sometimes this results in her sticking to her journalistic integrity and standing up to the GOP in her red state of Iowa. Sometimes it results in her blowing up her life, divorcing her husband (after being raised evangelical), in order to create the right life for herself and her family./one-pot-cheesy-sausage-and-butternut.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-pot-cheesy-sausage-and-butternut.htmlWhat To Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking delivers one exclusive recipe every Saturday that is written in language you understand, won’t take you all damn night to cook, doesn’t require any fancy kitchen gadgets, and will please the entire family. If you’re reading this and haven’t subscribed yet, join us. happy thanksgiving week and happy birthday to my mama, this is a weird thanksgiving for many of us./outhorse-your-email.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/outhorse-your-email.htmlWas traveling with my parents. My Dad turned his iphone on on arrival and it immediately decided to do a software upgrade. The regular "ding" of SMS messages arriving from Telstra, each warning of an extra $100 being added to the bill was almost hypnotic. Quite a few happened before he found the control setting to turn mobile data off. Expensive lesson. I would so love to see the horse-message system in action though./paella-valenciana.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paella-valenciana.htmlThe best paellas in Spain are made over a fire. Learning to control the fire is a skill I have been perfecting since I was a boy when my father gave me the job to watch the flames as he cooked paella for our neighbors and friends.  I have a fire pit in my backyard, but for many, and especially for those learning to make paella, a gas ring will be the best way to cook your paella./a-toast-to-jimmy-buffett-partygoers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-toast-to-jimmy-buffett-partygoers.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. When you’re at the beach, the vast water before you, the sounds of waves and birds in the air, there’s always a moment when you settle in and realize, I have nothing to do but enjoy this moment. The moment stretches out before you, touching the edges of the horizon, and time loses its meaning./pevear-and-volokhonsky-are-indeed.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pevear-and-volokhonsky-are-indeed.htmlOkay – this one is gonna be weird. I warn you I’m going to go on a little too long, and not about The Elect or Amanda Gorman or whether math is racist, but about Tolstoy! Just this time. When the lockdown happened, many decided to take the opportunity to master skills, complete tasks, and accomplish milestones long left on the back burner. For me, the lockdown was the occasion to finally read War and Peace, which I had been tacitly pretending to have read for decades./keep-on-keepin-on.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/keep-on-keepin-on.htmlIdeas to help marketers master brand growth and career navigation. 3,787 readers subscribe to Performonks. If you haven’t yet, go here. Check out my new website. Read The India Playbook. In 1900, Picasso's close friend and fellow artist- Carlos Casagemas committed suicide. A few weeks later, Picasso completed The Death of Casagemas in his friend's remembrance. The painting combined a warm palette of reds and yellows. This would be the last time he would touch these colors for some time to come./pico-iyer-reflects-on-his-father.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pico-iyer-reflects-on-his-father.htmlI first met Pico Iyer nearly 20 years ago, when I was producing documentaries about great books for the NEA, and he agreed to be interviewed. As evidence of his eloquence, here’s something he rattled off in our conversation about Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea: The book has for me the silver light of the Pacific Northwest where Ursula Le Guin lives, and I feel that I'm almost looking out on the sharp and steely maritime skies that you see in places like Portland and Seattle./pizza-city-fest-has-no-sauce.htmlSun, 26 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.   When Phil Vettel and Pat Bruno were acting as de facto cheerleaders throwing out stars to big restaurant groups like New Orleans krewes tossing out party favors during Mardi Gras parades, Steve was burrowing into every cuisine in every corner of the city./pizzeria-salad.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pizzeria-salad.htmlI recently got to talk to Emily Christensen for a piece she wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer about the intersection of diet culture and salads: “Once a ‘meal of deprivation,’ these cooks are reclaiming salad from diet culture’s clutches.” She begins this piece: “Like a lot of fat people, I have a complicated relationship with salad.” Talking with Emily for this piece, I got to reflect on growing up with sad bags of mesclun mix with straight balsamic vinegar to eventually loving salads with tons of fat and flavor./beautiful-beautiful-magnificent-desolation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/beautiful-beautiful-magnificent-desolation.htmlIt seeps into our skin, this living. These days that scorch into spring, and tumble out on the other side, as we hold the sky with trellises of flowering trees; visions locked into analogue, and the smear of screen. We live the wave, not the particle. Our teleologies are wrought with the negotiation of a nostalgia, whose only face is the one that is stretched between the experience of individuality, and the ephemeral embrace of community./purplesaurus-rex-was-a-top-tier-kool.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/purplesaurus-rex-was-a-top-tier-kool.htmlThe Liquids of My Youth (sorry, Jo Ann Beard) were mostly solids that lived in confusing places. The freezer was full of tubes of concentrated orange juice that plopped into the pitcher like a soft poo. The pantry had an ancient box of powdered milk. The cookie jar was full of packets of Kool-Aid. As an adult, I no longer reconstitute a majority of my fluids. But I long for a specific powder: Purplesaurus Rex./q-and-a-charlie-craggs.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/q-and-a-charlie-craggs.htmlPhoto credit - Vicky Grout What does an average weekday look like for you? There’s no average weekday for me, which is what I like best. I’m a Pisces. What are the themes you often come back to in your work?  Conversation is at the heart of everything I do. From my activism with nail transphobia, to my book To My Trans Sisters, to my BBC doc Transitioning Teens, to what I do on social media @charlie_craggs./re-release-this-the-munchables.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/re-release-this-the-munchables.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 Wii sometimes gets a reputation as a console that lacked anything but first-party offerings, but that’s simply not true. People deciding against buying non-Nintendo games was a real problem, sure, but the system had everything: incredible first-party content, some real banger third-party games in a variety of genres, its fair share of stuff to avoid, and plenty in between./reading-with-a-coffee.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reading-with-a-coffee.htmlNo high-concept stuff this week, let’s tap the source—some thoughts on the beauty of reading with a coffee— Early morning. Light through the window is blue-blackish, the stimulation swarm is a few hours away. My world is very little: comfort, words, remains of any dreams. It’s languor meets a rising glow in the blood. When the jolt arrives: the minor boom. Aka, hope. I like to read poetry first thing. Frequently it’s stuff I’ve read before—Green Squall by Jay Hopler was today./red-headed-cockroaches.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-headed-cockroaches.htmlIn the last week we had some discussion (again) about red-headed roaches on the SAPCA WhatsApp group. What follows is my experience with the species. Red headed cockroaches (Deropeltis erythrocephala) are a large species with adults reaching 60mm in males (including wings) and 50mm in females (Fig. 1). Females are apterous (no wings) and males have fully developed wings and are capable of flight. The red colouration is present in the legs and the head, but antennae are long and black (Fig./sudden-fear.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sudden-fear.htmlEveryone loves the story of Jack Palance winning an Academy Award at the end of his career for “City Slickers,” nearly 40 years after losing the Oscar for his previous nomination as the menacing villain in “Shane.” The one-armed stage pushups, Billy Crystal’s endless host quips thereafter, and the redemptive story of a not-quite-star finally getting his golden recognition have officially entered Hollywood lore. What most people don’t realize is “Shane” wasn’t Palance’s first Academy Award nomination./defining-deviancy-down-at-30-reflections.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/defining-deviancy-down-at-30-reflections.htmlLast week, I participated in an online symposium convened by the American Enterprise Institute marking the thirtieth anniversary of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s seminal essay “Defining Deviancy Down.” Though it’s less well-known than Moynihan’s 1965 study, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, “Defining Deviancy Down” shares with that work a prescient understanding of the social consequences of shifting norms and the perverse incentives at work when efforts to destigmatize socially adverse behavior run up against the realities of life in a large, diverse, capitalist democracy./remember-it-jake-chinatown-turns.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remember-it-jake-chinatown-turns.htmlChinatown looks, in the beginning, like it’s going to be about terrible things: Namely, adultery, with a side of garden-variety business corruption.  But as it goes on, the film reveals itself as really about something much worse: The systematic stealing of land and water.  And then, in the third act, it becomes about something even worse than that- rape, incest, and (ultimately) the bad guy getting away with all of the above./macarthur-park-richard-harris-1968.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/macarthur-park-richard-harris-1968.htmlPeak: #2 on the Hot 100 Streams: 5.4 million Richard Harris is remembered as an Oscar-nominated actor and the star of the musical Camelot. “MacArthur Park” is remembered as a high point in Donna Summer’s career. And yet… back in 1968, Richard Harris the actor briefly became Richard Harris the pop star, thanks to his plangent warbling about a cake in the r… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wucCcmKusmKq%2FbrzAq6JmqpmYtaK%2Bw2afmqqinsBufZhvbw%3D%3D/family-snuff-film.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/family-snuff-film.htmlWhen the board of education(BOE) elects a new hire for the school district, they have about 2 days to decide on a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote. The BOE relies on the superintendent and principal to do the research and background check, then provide a candidate list of acceptable future hirees. It’s not the policy of most schools to check the social media accounts of staff employment candidates. In the case of Austin McCaffrey from Roselle Park, they could have checked Google and social media, only to find that Austin is an artistic young man with nice looking linked-in, photo gallery, andnews articles./rendering-acceptable-service-to-god.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rendering-acceptable-service-to-god.htmlPhoto by Ben White on Unsplash And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. (Acts 4:14, NKJV) The above portion of Scripture is part of the event that began when Peter and John went to the temple in Jerusalem to pray. As they were about to enter the temple, a lame man asked alms of them. Rather than give him money, they made him walk in the name of Jesus./resurrection-as-re-incarnation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/resurrection-as-re-incarnation.htmlA commenter on my previous post asked how, if heaven is understood to be something like annihilation, Christians ought to understand their own belief in the resurrection of the body, which they profess in the Creed. This is an important question, and in fact it is quite central to my reflections lately — but I haven’t really written about it at in detail on this blog yet. I answered his comment in the comment box there, but I would like to discuss the issue in slightly more detail here./review-of-bix-and-co.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-of-bix-and-co.htmlAccording to an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, “42% of consumers who dined out in May were frustrated by the lack of staff.” That’s down only slightly from a peak of 45% in February. I’m willing to bet that many of us who have dined out lately have landed among that 42%. Hopefully, we’ve all been patient as restau… ncG1vNJzZmivmaO2rrvRmqWvoZyhsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iqlau2psOMqJ1mmpmteqK6w2aaqA%3D%3D/review-clone-high-anxiety-comes-to.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-clone-high-anxiety-comes-to.htmlWhile the “binge release” structure may have been the most disruptive influence on the model of reviewing shows on a weekly basis, there are times when the “two episodes a week” model is actually more frustrating. With a binge release, it still feels reasonable to think of each episode as its own unit within the larger whole, but with two-a-week the episodes in question become inextricably linked together, which can make it harder to write about them individually depending on the show./review-dolier-street.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-dolier-street.htmlBack in December 2022, I first ate at the then newly opened D’Olier Street. At that time, it felt somewhat austere to me, both in its slick decor and even in the dishes. I could see there was some seriously good stuff going on in the kitchen, but that sense of harmony and cohesion that makes a restaurant truly memorable was lacking for me. Fast forward to February 2024, and the Irish food community applauds as we see James Moore walk on stage at the Michelin Guide UK and Ireland gala to receive a first Michelin star for D’Olier Street./review-shogun-broken-to-the-fist.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-shogun-broken-to-the-fist.htmlI’ve been praising Shogun from the start for its efforts to decentralize the “white savior narrative” in its storytelling. Maybe I’ve been praising it a little too much; as others have noted, the choice to treat Portuguese like English undermines some of the work (and it says something not entirely flattering about me that I didn’t even notice it). Still, the show is trying to make things more complicated, and more challenging, than it might have, and the writers and directors (and cast, of course) have demonstrated considerable skill in ensuring that the Japanese culture of the time is presented in all its complex beauty./review-true-detective-night-country.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-true-detective-night-country.htmlWelcome to Episodic Medium’s daily coverage of True Detective: Night Country, which debuted tonight on HBO. As always, the first review is available to all, but subsequent reviews will only be available to paid subscribers. You can check out our full Winter 2024 schedule here, and learn more about the site and its mission on our About page. Exactly 10 years ago to the day, HBO debuted a new show called True Detective./inside-tracks-33-everlasting-love.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/inside-tracks-33-everlasting-love.htmlA 5-year-old began composing “Everlasting Love” in 1946. While watching a singer perform in college, he was inspired to complete the song he started in kindergarten, and offered the song to that singer. Like most songs that are fortunate to have covers recorded by many, some were hits, and some were misses. Here’s one of the song’s two composers performing it in 2013: “Everlasting Love” (first recorded in 1967) has been no different: With 73 covers, it’s one of only 2 songs to have entered the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and is the only song to have become a UK Top 40 hit in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, reaching the Top 20 in every decade except the 1980s./tt-272-severance-defiant-jazz-operation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tt-272-severance-defiant-jazz-operation.htmlA few months ago Sarah and I watched the first season of Severance. The show is mysterious and compelling, with marvelous visuals and performances. Regrettably, the season ends on a cliffhanger, an unfortunate choice which is all-too-common in the binge-watching era. The plot has extended to almost unmanageable size already! Taking the world-building further down wormholes of deceit and complexity for a second season promises to be a grueling affair./s-k-y-l-i-n-e-34-cancel-the-corridor.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/s-k-y-l-i-n-e-34-cancel-the-corridor.htmlWelcome! If someone forwarded you SKYLINE, sign up here to receive it weekly. Fall is upon us, and with that the conversation around architecture heats up again. We added more than 120 events to our list over the weekend, including the full fall lecture schedules of Yale, SCI-Arc, Harvard and MIT. See this week’s offerings below, and the full list here. This morning, I am sharing a polemic I penned for #19, ‘Cancel the Corridor./san-francisco-40-years-of-failure.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/san-francisco-40-years-of-failure.htmlDowntown San Francisco appeared different after the city removed most homeless residents and their possessions from the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) area. Business leaders and political commentators proclaimed amazement that San Francisco’s homeless woes were seemingly vanquished for APEC. Many asked why downtown couldn’t look like this all the time. So, I have to wonder: do these people really think San Francisco city government hasn’t tried to sweep away the homeless before?/a-liar-to-the-end-sbfs-sentencing.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-liar-to-the-end-sbfs-sentencing.htmlYesterday, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in U.S. Federal prison. There is no parole in the Federal system, but with good behavior and thanks to the 2018 First Step prison reform act, he could serve as little as 12 years actually behind bars, when he could move to a halfway house or home confinement. SBF’s potential eligibility for early release, on top of what some have argued was a relatively light sentence, are frustrating./bear-hunt-ban-science-wins-but-values.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bear-hunt-ban-science-wins-but-values.htmlAn attempt to end bear hunting in California failed last week. Regardless of how you feel about bear hunting, whether you hunt bears, or whether you live in California, some really important things happened during deliberations at the California Fish and Game Commission, and I think it’s worth your time to hear about them. If you want to see my source ma… ncG1vNJzZmisn6m1pq7Op5xnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrsSaqWagpaPBbq7Ap2Ssm5mau6SxjLCgp6tdl8K1edWao66dow%3D%3D/see-ya-in-the-next-life-succession.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/see-ya-in-the-next-life-succession.htmlThis week’s What’s Alan Watching? newsletter coming up just as soon as I lick my stepfather’s cheese… As I mentioned in the last newsletter, this was a seismic week in television, with series finales for several acclaimed, award-winning, zeitgeist-y shows. (This includes The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, whose final season I didn’t watch because the previous one extinguished whatever enthusiasm I had left for it.) We have to start, of course, with Succession, whose finale I recapped live on Sunday night, trying to organize my thoughts without the benefit of the time I usually have with an advance screener./seif-asis-arrest-receives-national.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/seif-asis-arrest-receives-national.htmlThe UCF Jewish Monitor has been documenting pervasive, rampant, and institutionalized antisemitism at UCF since October 2023. Our coverage makes it clear why Seif Asi and the unidentified other student felt comfortable enough to threaten Jewish lives: because UCF creates - through inaction on some matters, and discriminatory action on others - a campus climate rife with normalized Jew hatred. You wouldn’t know that if you relied on local and national media for your news./the-perimeter-of-the-reuleaux-triangle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-perimeter-of-the-reuleaux-triangle.htmlI. Franz Reuleaux (1829 - 1905) was an engineer. His father and grandfather were machinists, and after some work in the family business he became a university professor and theorist of the mechanical age. The 19th century featured an explosion of machines and inventions. You know how smartphones changed everything? Commercial train travel emerged in the 1830s. Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph—“What hath God wrought”—in 1844. The tin can was invented in 1810./shootin-the-breeze-with-steve-witting.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shootin-the-breeze-with-steve-witting.htmlBrandon: Steve, I’m so glad to be talking with you. I’m sorry about the time difference (note: Steve is on Eastern Standard Time, and I’m in New Zealand). Steve: I directed a couple of operas in Taipei a few years ago, and I was awful about all of that [laughter]… so it’s okay. I should’ve asked you what time zone you were in [palm to the face]. I was able to run a couple of errands, so we’re good./shoud-i-do-it-caledonia-yawl-or-scamp.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shoud-i-do-it-caledonia-yawl-or-scamp.htmlSCA reader Nate Clapp writes: So. The two boats I am considering as my second build are very different from each other, yet they are the two that are highest contenders. One is a Caledonia Yawl. The other is a SCAMP.   Currently I have a CLC Lighthouse Tender peapod, single lug.  It’s nice, but it fits two people uncomfortably, and even sailing solo, standard position is sitting on the floorboards in that design, and as I get older, I look longingly at boats that allow bench type seating./the-two-income-trap-should-mothers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-two-income-trap-should-mothers.htmlHi everyone, I hope most of you are planning a summer break to recharge your batteries, as I will be recharging mine in August 🌞  In this last newsletter before my summer break, I’d like to write about a subject that links feminism and economics: the two-income trap. Nearly twenty years ago, long before she became a senator (and an unsuccessful presidential contender in 2020), Elizabeth Warren wrote a book with that title with her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi./silent-night-deadly-night-4-the-initiation.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/silent-night-deadly-night-4-the-initiation.htmlIs this movie even set around the holidays? Christmas also being The Winter Solstice would be a GREAT time for a sacrifice to Hades to let Persephone return to her mother Demeter, bringing light and living back to the world. Or a sacrifice to Demeter to await her daughter's return...or something that sounds just mystical enough to tie in with Midwinter myths and legends. (Handwave... Handwave...Mystical Mumbo-Jumbo...Whatever You Call "Technobabble" in Fantasy./sir-minty-mascot-of-mystery.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sir-minty-mascot-of-mystery.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. Fans smile for a photo with Charlotte FC mascot Sir Minty during halftime of the Charlotte FC vs./sitreps2steercos.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sitreps2steercos.htmlThe Weekly Sitrep By Sitreps2Steercos Substack Each week, I'll be diving into a variety of topics that I'm passionate about, including business, economics, education, and the military to civilian transition. I also send out job postings and military transition networking opportunities. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbS106ucqatiqMGmsdGcpqw%3D/something-streaming-this-way-comes-0bf.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/something-streaming-this-way-comes-0bf.htmlAs you probably know if you follow me on social media, nothing makes me happier than the discovery of some old and/or obscure television series popping up on a streaming service, so the sight of the two Legends of the Superheroes specials landing on Tubi yesterday was thrilling…and also kind of horrifying. I mean, seriously, both adjectives 100% apply, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I don’t think anyone who’s seen these specials would disagree with that assessment…and if they do, then I’ve got four words to remind them that they’re wrong: “Charlie Callas as Sinestro./stability-ai-gets-a-rescue-package.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stability-ai-gets-a-rescue-package.htmlStable Diffusion was once and likely still is the most widely used text-to-image AI foundation model. It rose to prominence in 2022 as an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, and other proprietary offerings. The control and cost benefits of Stable Diffusion’s open-source model made it attractive for many software makers who wanted to add AI-enabled image generation to their products. The core technology behind Stable Diffusion is Latent Diffusion, which was developed at Ludwig Maximilian University in collaboration with Runway./start-presentations-on-the-second.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/start-presentations-on-the-second.htmlFirst published March 2013. It’s the single most effective technique I know to grab an audience’s attention. Also it’s easy to execute—write what you want to write, them switch the first two slides/paragraphs/chapters. [Edit: Jinghao Yan pointed out my hypocrisy. Fixed.] Technical presos need background but background's not engaging. What's a geeky presenter to do? I've been coaching technical presenters lately, and a couple of concepts come up with almost all of them./statement.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/statement.htmlSo I’ve gone ahead and removed this apology, for the simple reason that it’s pretty much exclusively shared in bad faith by anonymous accounts looking to dunk or whatever. I made a sincere and unqualified apology in this space out of a feeling of intense personal moral necessity, and doing so was important to me if not to anyone else. I have a certain amount of “work” to do regarding my behavior towards Malcolm Harris, and apologizing in a no-bullshit and unqualified way was an important part of that./step-aside-cleopatra-this-queen-actually.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/step-aside-cleopatra-this-queen-actually.htmlHi everyone, My debut book Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries book comes out in ONE MONTH! I’m so excited to share this book with you all. The publishing process can feel so long but also so quick, and in a way I sort of can’t believe that the release date is finally here! This book really exists because of the community on Substack. Y’all shared early episodes of the podcast generously enough that my editor at PA Press took notice./stephen-bruton-was-as-good-at-it.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stephen-bruton-was-as-good-at-it.htmlStephen Bruton deserved to live forever, like the Billy Joe Shaver tune sang a capella by Robert Duvall during the credits of Crazy Heart. "Dedicated to the memory of Stephen Bruton” were the words on the screen, both cruel and comforting. Yes, he’ll live on in his music, his spirit, but Bruton was much more than that. The beloved Austin musician and mentor was taken away 15 years ago today at age 60 while at a career peak, bravely battling throat cancer as he co-wrote and co-supervised the music for the acclaimed Crazy Heart./no-backseating.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-backseating.htmlHi everyone, Good morning! I apparently woke up super cranky this morning, and also the more measured piece I was intending to have out today needs another day or two to finish, so I’ll aim to have it out next week and instead you get an off the cuff diatribe about something that I can usefully direct my ire towards. If you read this piece and wonder if I am talking about you… maybe?/sweet-potato-cornbread-with-cheddar.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sweet-potato-cornbread-with-cheddar.htmlI love cornbread and I love sweet potato, so why not combine the two. While this isn’t a new invention, the combination of sweet potato to a classic cornbread recipe creates a tender bite that is rich in flavor and not too dry. The addition of jalapeno and cheese takes this over the top. All you need to do is finish it with a touch of honey, butter and sea salt and you will find your new addiction./take-the-six-week-meditation-challenge-bce.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/take-the-six-week-meditation-challenge-bce.htmlOf all the life-enhancing practices I know, regular meditation is without question the most powerfully transforming. And as the months, years and decades go by, it just keeps getting better and better! If you are a lapsed meditator or completely new to the practice, curious about (re-) starting your practice, this post is for you! I have recorded a twenty minute video with all that you need to get going. You don’t have to become a member of anything, sign up anywhere or commit to anyone - except yourself./taking-stock-of-the-new-jersey-devils-eba.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taking-stock-of-the-new-jersey-devils-eba.htmlFollow along on Twitter @ToddCordell | @InfernalAccess Be sure to join the Discord channel to talk hockey, and everything else, with our writers and subscribers. Get 30% off for 1 year Although there is still plenty of off-season remaining, and there will no doubt be more moves to come around the league, the bulk of the heavy lifting has been done for most teams. The New Jersey Devils certainly fit into that category. How is the depth chart shaping up now that the dust is settled?/tales-of-lohr-the-sudbury-devil.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tales-of-lohr-the-sudbury-devil.htmlAmong the YouTube-based creators working in the revisionist history niche, New Orleans-based filmmaker /performer Andrew Rakich stands out. His channel, Atun-Shei Films, has combined Rakich’s cinematic skills and deep historical knowledge with a healthy satirical streak to present unique videos that tackle some of the most regrettably enduring apocrypha (and complete lies) that make up what we know as the Great American Narrative. Cornerstones of Atun-Shei’s output include the absurdist noir send-up Frozen ‘50s Man, in which a cryogenically dethawed private dick takes on contemporary crime and his own backwards alpha-male attitudes; the title-says-it-all odd-couple sitcom spoof My Nazi Roommate; and the masterful Checkmate, Lincolnites!/taliesin-and-house-on-the-rock.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taliesin-and-house-on-the-rock.htmlIn Southwestern Wisconsin you’ll find two very interesting houses within ten miles of each other.  They can’t be more different and yet they both work if you visit both on the same day like we did.  It made for a pleasant day trip. If you know anything about architecture you’ve probably heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.  He is arguably one of the most influential architects in the United States in the 20th century and is largely responsible for the prairie style home that the modern ranch style home./talking-motorcycles-music-and-mayhem.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/talking-motorcycles-music-and-mayhem.htmlThis article originally appeared on the Cycle World website in 2018, when I was Senior Editor. On a clear June morning, I rode 150 miles to Sea Ranch, California, to interview a vacationing rock guitarist. He's 62 years old, lives in Los Angeles, and a few days prior, rode a loaner Scrambler Ducati 1100 Sport from Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. His pal Jason had arranged to hand off the Sport for a week of riding in western Mendocino County, where Jonesy often vacations to clear his head from the craziness of LA./the-nissim-de-camondo-museum-testament.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-nissim-de-camondo-museum-testament.htmlMy “Beau-Papa” (father-in-law, but I prefer the comparative warmth of the French term) recently recommended that I visit a Parisian museum I’d never heard of before— a mansion overlooking the Parc Monceau that one might call a “folly”, in that the exteriors and interiors attempt to recreate an aristocratic 18th-century abode. Despite my decided lack of enthusiasm for 18th-century art, furniture and antiques, the (tragic) backstory of the Musée Nissim de Camondo left me sufficiently intrigued to pay a visit./that-lazy-disabled-man-at-bethesda.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/that-lazy-disabled-man-at-bethesda.htmlIn John 5, Jesus encounters a “weakened” man lying by the pool of Bethesda. Surrounded by disabled people—blind people, mobility-impaired, and those who were paralysed—Jesus asks the man if he wants to be made healthy?" The man explains that he has no one who can slip him into the pool to get healed. Ignoring the water, Jesus tells him to stand up and walk and immediately the man gets up and walks./thats-amari-exploring-the-wonderful.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thats-amari-exploring-the-wonderful.htmlApologies for the C&C drought the last few weeks. After the last big issue on the Hanky Pankyand The Unbearable Lightness of MQs and Waves, I promptly boarded a plane for Europe the same day for an extended “workation”. OK, OK, it was mostly vacation, but in this issue I hope you can benefit from at least part of the trip… a veritable buddy-movie road trip Bill and I took to explore the wonderful world of amari in Italy - and of course we managed to invent a cocktail or two along the way as well./rudy-sarzo-the-1982-randy-rhoads.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rudy-sarzo-the-1982-randy-rhoads.htmlRandy Rhoads and Rudy Sarzo played side-by-side in Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne’s band. A skilled Cuban-born bassist, Rudy initially auditioned for Quiet Riot near the end of Randy’s tenure. They became close friends, and Randy invited Rudy to give bass lessons at his mother’s school, Musonia. After Randy quit Quiet Riot to record and tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he recommended that Rudy step in to play bass on Ozzy’s Diary of a Madman tour./nba-broadcast-scorebug-rankings-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/nba-broadcast-scorebug-rankings-2023.htmlI am a nerd. Let’s get that right out of the way. We’re here to talk about scorebugs for the next little while. And, if you’re unfamiliar with what a “scorebug” happens to be, it’s that thing on the screen that shows you all sorts of information about the game that’s presently taking place. Generally, you’ll see time, score, timeouts remaining, foul situation, shot clock, quarter, etc. (Also, it’s sometimes called a “score bug” — two words — instead of a “scorebug” — one word — but I stick with the one-word variety; I don’t know why./the-2024-wnba-draft-was-weirdly-normal.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2024-wnba-draft-was-weirdly-normal.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? This was supposed to be a column about the biggest surprises of the WNBA Draft./the-active-voice-emily-oster.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-active-voice-emily-oster.html“Shockingly sharp rebuke?” Hardly. Outer played a role in pushing dangerous drugs on her fellow citizens and family. She played a role in people being fired and banned from society. Now she plays “poor me, people are so mean.” I actually believe in forgiveness, but she equates that with amnesty. No. Those who abused their power to do this deserve criminal investigation and trials. And sentences, if found guilty of any of the multitude of crimes that were committed./the-afroasiatic-languages-and-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-afroasiatic-languages-and-the.htmlAround 5,000 years ago, when the first pharaohs were flexing their muscles in Egypt and the city-states of Mesopotamia were competing with one another for power and prestige, writing was invented for the first time - at least, the first time we can be sure about. In these two places, Mesopotamia and Egypt, writing was essentially an administrative technology that grew out of the need to keep track of things and the quantities of those things./the-allegory-of-the-dune.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-allegory-of-the-dune.htmlAfter two and half years of waiting, Dune: Part Two was unleashed on the world a couple weeks ago, completing Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 book.  It was, suffice to say, worth the wait. Unlike the first Dune, which is slow-paced and mostly feels like exposition, Part Two is action-packed and exhilarating, which helps the nearly three-hour runtime fly by. It is nothing short of an epic in the truest sense of the word, colossal in scale and awe-inspiring in its immersiveness./the-assemblies-of-god-secrets-of-a-high-demand-church-with-paul-jensen.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-assemblies-of-god-secrets-of-a-high-demand-church-with-paul-jensen.htmlI had the opportunity to meet Paul Jensen at the 2023 International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) annual conference, where he delivered a captivating presentation titled Discovering the Worst-Kept Secrets of My High Demand Church. He shared his journey of discovery after growing up in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest denomination of the Pentecostal and Charismatic “Spirit Led” movement. In his talk, he revealed the little-known authoritarian cult roots of the Assemblies of God and how the church has created an official narrative that conceals its true history./the-basics-of-popular-sudoku-variants.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-basics-of-popular-sudoku-variants.htmlLast spring I published a walkthrough of the basics of killer sudoku, complete with a puzzle designed to highlight several different types of logic. In the same vein, this post will explore the basics of four popular variants—kropki dots, German whispers, renban lines, and arrows—using the puzzle below. Click one of the links under the rules to try it for yourself! Fill each row, column, and 3x3 box with the digits 1-9 once each./the-battle-for-avdiivka.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-battle-for-avdiivka.htmlThe fate of a small town in eastern Ukraine hangs in the balance as Moscow throws wave after wave of assault troops at its defences. What happens to Avdiivka in the coming days, and the measures that Kyiv is willing to take to defend it, may tell us much about the future of this phase of the war. I last visited the town on a writing assignment for Magnum Photos. At the last Ukrainian checkpoint, the soldiers were bored, but also nervous./the-best-fm23-addons.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-fm23-addons.htmlThe Best FM23 Addons I’ll be blunt — the Football Manager base game isn’t all that much fun. There are numerous problems: problems with player growth, problems with teams being unbalanced, problems with good young players only coming from a few countries, problems with having no logos and no other fun stuff, and on and on the list goes. There are a few things that I include in every serious save I undertake./the-best-view-in-san-francisco-from.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-view-in-san-francisco-from.htmlAnyone who brings a camera to San Francisco and doesn’t get on a cable car to capture amazing views is really missing out. While in town, please do walk to a park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, climb Coit Tower, revel in the colors of Chinatown and North Beach, laugh at all the cars winding down Lombard Street, enjoy the history and Foodie delights… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybq7ErKtmrpmaxG61zWaqmqZdm7%2BiusKiqpynXZu%2FsLk%3D/the-best-way-out-is-always-through.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-way-out-is-always-through.htmlI read a lot of creative writing and especially poetry.  It helps with dry spells and also hones my writing skills by observing what it is about certain authors that strikes a chord with me.  I studied a lot of poets in my high school and university classes and I’ve recently begun to revisit some of them.  One of my all-time favorites is Robert Frost.  Frost is one of the best-loved American poets./the-culture-of-aviation-safety.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-culture-of-aviation-safety.htmlThe business jet that early this month glided onto I-75 near Naples, Florida, not long after impact. The NTSB has now given a clue about what went wrong. (Screen shot from WINK news.)This post is about three new reports on aviation safety. Two of them are about fatal crashes with apparently very different causes. One is about broader problems that could cause tragedies in the future. Together they illustrate the complexity of keeping commercial aviation safe./the-data-engineer-is-dead-long-live.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-data-engineer-is-dead-long-live.html11 years ago Harvard Business Review dubbed data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st Century and I was one of those quickly jumping on that train. But quite soon I realized that something was missing - data infrastructure - and data scientists don’t build or maintain that and provide little value without it. Hence, I jumped off the data scientist hype and made a bet on the lesser known role as data engineer./the-elements-of-ttrpgs-a-starting.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-elements-of-ttrpgs-a-starting.htmlLast year, I delivered a panel entitled “The Elements of TTRPGs” at Big Bad Con. Joining me on the panel was Shao Han Tan, a dear friend of mine and a designer par excellence from Singapore. You should absolutely follow him on Twitter if you’re still on the bird app, and check the stuff he makes out over at Curious Chimeras. He is joined by Alanna Yeo, another fantastic human being./the-eleven-millionaire.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-eleven-millionaire.htmlThis is a 1955 episode of The Millionaire, featuring the philanthropy of John Beresford Tipton, 68 years before he began to finance The Gene Pool. . Hello. Welcome to the Weekend Gene Pool, which the current Judeo-Christian God has anointed as the Chosen Newsletter. Today, as always, I will be trading entertainment for your stories and anecdotes. Today’s entertainment involves the startling and unexpected reappearance of John Beresford Tipton, the official financial benefactor of The Gene Pool and its thousands of orgiastically enthusiastic participants./the-famous-la-scala-chopped-salad.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-famous-la-scala-chopped-salad.htmlAnother trendy recipe I actually couldn’t resist but to take part in. This salad has been on my feed for awhile now, I ignored it for some time thinking “it's just another grinder salad recipe” but the marinated chickpeas in this recipe is what really caught my attention. I turned this into a higher protein, meal prep-able version that I absolutely loved and hope you do too :) GLASS / BAMBOO LID SALAD JARS/the-girl-who-cried-diamonds.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-girl-who-cried-diamonds.htmlThe baby’s mother went to nurse her and found her bassinet full of bits of glass, sparkling around her head like a halo. Panic-stricken, the mother swept up all the crystals into her cupped hand, heart pounding, wondering how the glass ended up there—had a burglar broken in? But on her way to the wastebasket she noticed how the crystals caught the light—not dull and greenish like glass but fiery and gleaming in the canary sun./the-greek-word-mistranslated-as-word.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-greek-word-mistranslated-as-word.htmlThis article discusses the Greek word, logos, which is usually mistranslated in English Bibles as “word.” As we will see, the Greek word has a variety of connected meanings, but logos does not mean “word.” The people of Jesus’s era would have never heard it that ways, certainly not in the sense of referring to the Bible or Jesus’s words. The Greek word the means “word” is lexis, familiar to us as the source of English words such as lexicon./the-highland-fling.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-highland-fling.htmlIf you decide to read this one, be sure to pick the correct Highland Fling. When looking for a book cover image to use, I learned that there are approximately 7 million books also titled The Highland Fling. It makes sense, it’s a cute play on words, but wow it must get confusing. Anyway, we’re talking about Meghan Quinn’s version today! Book: The Highland Fling by Meghan Quinn Genre: Contemporary Romance/the-king-and-his-court.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-king-and-his-court.htmlHi. Welcome to Sports Stories, an illustrated newsletter at the intersection of sports and history.  If you’re not already a subscriber, please consider joining up here — we have both free and paid options. If you enjoy Sports Stories, please share it with your friends. Word of mouth is our best (and only) means of publicity.  You can also buy some merch, including shirts, hats, zines, and postcards, at our very cool web store./the-lean-startup-is-a-terrible-book.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lean-startup-is-a-terrible-book.htmlIf you’re an early-stage startup founder, do not read The Lean Startup. According to The Lean Startup, the best way to figure out if your product idea is any good is to jump straight into building a prototype. This is terrible advice. Ask any startup accelerator (including Y Combinator), talk to any successful founder, or read literally any other book, and you’ll hear that this is a bad idea. But for some reason — even though everyone agrees on this — The Lean Startup remains one of the most popular books in the word on building new products./cosmic-scholar-the-life-and-times.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cosmic-scholar-the-life-and-times.html(A disclosure: I met John Szwed at the American Croatian Club of Anacortes when he visited in 2018, already well into his research on Harry Smith. He knew I’d been studying Harry’s early years in our hometown. I’ve been here since 1962, the year my immigrant grandfather passed away, the steeple blew off our church, and the Smiths’ old Apex cannery collapsed into Guemes Channel. John described his plans for a full biography of Harry./the-luckiest-guy-in-the-world-has.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-luckiest-guy-in-the-world-has.htmlLONDON — The first NBA season that I really, really remember well, way back in 1977-78, was seared into my consciousness by three major happenings that mesmerized Little Kid Me. 🏀 My Buffalo Braves went 27-55 after Tiny Archibald tore his Achilles in the Braves' final preseason game — meaning Tiny never actually suited up for them alongside fellow speedster Randy Smith — and then crushingly moved to San Diego at season's end./the-most-dangerous-job-on-earth-and.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-most-dangerous-job-on-earth-and.htmlHey friends, Hope your weeks are off to a great start. Want to take a second to say thanks to everyone who has subscribed (and reads twice a week!), as our little community has just passed the 400 subscriber milestone. If you know of someone who would like seeing this content, please consider sharing this week. Thank you again! In the meantime, these are my weekly “conversation starters,” the best, most interesting and most entertaining content on the internet./the-horrific-murder-of-hannah-foster.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-horrific-murder-of-hannah-foster.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. In July 2004, Trevor and Hilary Foster traveled to India for 10 days./spiritual-dangers-of-reiki-2.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/spiritual-dangers-of-reiki-2.htmlThe origins of Reiki, which came to the West from Japan and spread like wildfire in Europe and America, are kind of murky. For a long time, it wasn’t even clear when the fabled “Dr. Usui” was born and died. When I was initiated as a Reiki practitioner, my Reiki master told me the following legend, which I later passed on to my own students once I became a Reiki master./the-nexialist-0121.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-nexialist-0121.htmlwelcome to another week of playful sensemaking from the unrandom, the nexialist hello, you! i hope this e-mail finds you chill. this week i’ll keep the intro short, as you’ll see a bunch of reports, some great new music, the power of play and games (and love), some content about community and futures thinking (all the stuff i love). it’s the usual, except not exactly (?). enjoy and don’t forget to share the love 🫀/canon-fodder-episode-21-the-patrick.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/canon-fodder-episode-21-the-patrick.htmlSlonk some eggs and join T.R. and as they discuss Edward St. Aubyn’s “Patrick Melrose” series of novels. REN goes over the basics of the books, as well as how he’d heard of them and the pair go over the interplay between generations as well as the decline of a decadent aristocracy that is taking its final breathes in the UK.Man’s World Magazine: https://mansworldmag.online/ REN’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Babygravy9 Substack:/the-photographers-eye-by-john-szarkowski.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-photographers-eye-by-john-szarkowski.html5Things is a monthly breakfast event where people discuss non-fiction books they’ve found stimulating. The idea is to gently expand the mind before taking the world on. It has been going on since 2019 and they’ve built up an extensive archive of talks. On Wednesday, I spoke about The Photographer’s Eye by John Szarkowski. At the beginning of the first lockdown, there was a lot of talk about what people had achieved during previous plagues./the-platform.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-platform.htmlGenre: Science Fiction / Horror-Thriller Release Date: March 20, 2020 Running Time: 94 Minutes Rated: TV-MA (Violence, Nudity, Language, Gore, Smoking) Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia Written by David Desola, Pedro Rivero Cinematography by Jon D. Domínguez Music by Aranzazu Calleja Distributed by Netflix “Inside a vertical prison system, inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that descends the levels of the tower, feeding the upper tiers first and leaving those below them with only the scraps from above./the-real-history-of-perfect-blue.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-real-history-of-perfect-blue.htmlWelcome to another issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter! Here’s what we’re doing today: 1 — Satoshi Kon v. Darren Aronofsky, in detail. 2 — this week’s animation news, around the world. We publish every Thursday and Sunday. If you’re new here, it’s free to sign up for our Sunday issues — they’ll land right in your inbox, every week: That’s enough of that — here we go! At this point, the similarities between Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Satoshi Kon’s cult anime classic Perfect Blue (1997) are common knowledge./the-retro-top-250-nes-homebrews.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-retro-top-250-nes-homebrews.htmlTo call the retro video game “homebrew” market robust would be an understatement. Of course, to even call it a “homebrew market” might be a misnomer, as these days so many new NES games are developed by teams of semi-professional artists rather than amateurs working day jobs that, as the author Jeffrey Wittenhagen (website) recently said, what we’re really talking about when we discuss “homebrew” NES games are just “aftermarket” NES video games: 8-bit games created after the lifespan of the original Nintendo Entertainment System ended./the-ricky-karcher-game.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ricky-karcher-game.htmlOne of the reasons I love The Riverfront is that I am free to indulge my (near-pathological, at this point) obsession with the history of the Cincinnati Reds. Sure, sometimes my benevolent overlords at The Mother Ship will permit me to do a brief deep dive into the annals of Redleg history. I remembered Joe Morgan fondly after his passing, and I also did a deep dive into the best Reds team to not win it all./the-seduction-of-ex-machina.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-seduction-of-ex-machina.html(Ex Machina spoilers to follow) What happens when a billionaire genius chasing ultimate power, a heterosexual man craving love, and a female robot dreaming of freedom spend a week together locked inside an isolated house? Ex Machina, a 2014/15 film written and directed by Alex Garland, takes a swing at answering that question. The answer the film provides is simple. How you interpret the answer it provides depends on your point of view, but as Ex Machina makes clear along the way, that might not even be entirely up to you./when-norman-rockwell-got-woke-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-norman-rockwell-got-woke-the.htmlNo artist has done more to create — or, maybe I should say manufacture — the American identity than Norman Rockwell. Consider how wildly fragmented America’s immigrant identity was when the illustrator — as he described himself — began painting covers for the famed Saturday Evening Post in 1916. There was nothing to connect groups such as the Irish, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, or, in my family’s case, German and Polish with the English who had previously colonized much of the North American continent, the Mexicans who had become American with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the descendants of enslaved African peoples, or the Indigenous people whose land everyone else decided was suddenly theirs./the-stuffed-shells-of-our-collective.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-stuffed-shells-of-our-collective.htmlI’d been stuck on stuffed shells for months! No matter what I tried, I just couldn’t figure out what I wanted from this dish. Crab cake shells? Spinach and artichoke shells? Lasagna shells? Broccoli and cheese shells? When I’ve worked on something for too long, I often end up in a dark place where giant shells in a Velveeta sauce start to sound like a good idea. Luckily, I reached out for help, and you all didn’t disappoint!/the-surprising-benefits-of-vinegar.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-surprising-benefits-of-vinegar.htmlWhen the renowned chef Tom Valenti, who had one of the most celebrated restaurants on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Ouest, told me his secret for making his stews pop with flavor, it made perfect sense. Vinegar. Just a splash of it at the end of cooking ---not just in stews, but in most dishes-- adds an immediate wow factor, enlivening the meal and making all the flavors sing. Chefs talk a lot about the importance of acidity in food, which is what vinegar brings, but the benefits of the ingredient go way beyond enhancing flavor---vinegar also has some surprising health benefits./the-tipi-framework.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-tipi-framework.htmlThe area of SEO/inbound I’m most passionate about is the intersection between the customer journey, content strategy and information architecture. I’m interested in how you plan and operate large websites that consistently address user and business needs. IBM is a big company. We have hundreds of products across hardware, software and cloud. We have a large consulting business. To be able to systematically, and consistently, deliver on the goals of user and business value (which is a big work in progress), we needed to create scalable strategies and methods that worked across IBM’s entire portfolio./the-trouble-with-james-obrien.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-trouble-with-james-obrien.htmlOnce again, I am very grateful to you for reading The Debatable Land and more grateful still to those of you who have shared posts here with other people. Special levels of gratitude are, naturally, extended to everyone who has upgraded to a paid subscription. James O’Brien, the highly successful LBC radio presenter, has been described as “the conscience of liberal Britain”. I know this because it says so on the cover of his new book./dead-mans-line-the-true-story-of-tony-kiritsis.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dead-mans-line-the-true-story-of-tony-kiritsis.htmlThe image that first grabs you is of two men walking in their shirtsleeves, which immediately sticks them out of place against everyone heavily bundled up in the bitter Indianapolis February. Both are in their 40s, sporting bald spots and those hellacious sideburns that were popular in the late 1970s, like psychedelic pyramids rooted on their cheeks. One is short, dark-haired, burly, sleeves rolled up over thick, hairy forearms. The other is taller, with the wispy remains of what was probably once a fine blond head of hair, the collar of his business shirt popped up against the cold./the-ubiquitous-gilet.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ubiquitous-gilet.htmlLast summer I attended a reunion at my prep school, the occasion was the leaving of a much-loved master. I thought the appropriate thing to wear would be a tweed jacket in honour of prep school masters everywhere. But I found myself woefully over-dressed as pretty much all my contemporaries were wearing gilets. It was a similar story at the Fortnum & Mason awards, the Oscars of the British food and drink scene, I wore a suit but there were William Sitwell and others casually sporting gilets./the-weird-world-of-chabad-an-influential-a54.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-weird-world-of-chabad-an-influential-a54.htmlIn 2013, when I was a reporter at the incredible-but-now-deceased NSFWCORP, Cory Booker was gunning for the Senate. He was an up and coming neoliberal star politician back then. And to America’s liberal media and political class, Booker represented a bright new hope for the future. But there was a weird, little-known side to Booker’s meteoric rise: his political career got going largely because of support from Chabad, an old Jewish religious sect that originated in the 18th century in a village in modern day Belarus: Chabad is a fascinating and kinda scary movement./the-woman-in-the-arena.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-woman-in-the-arena.htmlAudio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech that has been ranked among the most widely repeated and loved of all time. I took some creative license and changed the pronouns to celebrate how far women have come in such a short time. It was still a decade prior to women receiving the right to vote when the speech was made./the-work-of-john-cenas-46-year-old.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-work-of-john-cenas-46-year-old.html"So…what do you want to talk about?" Cody Rhodes asks WWE audiences before launching into his scripted promo. In this particular case, I want to talk about a question that’s surely crossed at least a few of your minds: Is wrestling megastar John Cena a steroid user? Read on to find out! ncG1vNJzZminnJ7Dpr7BmquepZGjsbCx0q2fnq%2Bfp7hvv9Sbqq2Zk6B7pLvMaKdorJiaeri70aRkqJ5dn7ypuoycnKeZo2KBd3nYnpirZZ%2BhsQ%3D%3D/the-worst-cheese-in-france.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-worst-cheese-in-france.htmlOne of the worst things (not the worst cheese, but one of the worst things) I ever ate was Brie noir, “black” brie cheese. Noir can mean both dark and black, and I sometimes (helpfully, I think) correct salespeople at chocolate shops in Paris who ask people, in English, “Do you prefer milk chocolate or black chocolate?” While there is black cocoa powder,… ncG1vNJzZmickau2pbjEm6avoaSve7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWLEsL7SrWScoJWawKZ5yKdkn6qRo7Cm/green-bay-packers-aaron-jones-goodbye.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/green-bay-packers-aaron-jones-goodbye.htmlIt’s a strange sight seeing the Green Bay Packers at the center of the first day of the NFL’s free agency frenzy. Yet, for all of the big moves the Packers have made, no move has made waves like moving on from a beloved Packers legend such as Aaron Jones. From a fifth-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, to leading the league in rushing TDs in 2019, to becoming a Pro Bowler in 2020, Jones’ emergence as a no./why-being-the-beauty-queen-gf-of.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-being-the-beauty-queen-gf-of.htmlAlondra Mercado Campos did not have herself a merry little Christmas.  Hidden nearby the traditional festive Nativity scene the 22-year-old former beauty queen had likely had set up in the house that she shared with her boyfriend in the Bolivian city of Trinidad were more than a hundred pieces of ammunition that the state prosecutor said was for “war weaponry.” And on Alondra’s mobile phone was a video that documented her helping said boyfriend, Andres Vasquez, load drugs onto an aeroplane for delivery to other parts of the region, according to press reports./this-is-beyonce-country.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-is-beyonce-country.htmlPartway through Cowboy Carter, her eagerly-anticipated country album, Beyoncé laughs at the very notion of musical classification, playing a snippet of a speech that claims "genres are funny little concepts." Artists may not subscribe to the notion of genre but the music business does, particularly the country music business which has a rigorous gate-keeping system to allow certain musicians onto the airwaves and exclude others—a game Beyoncé bested prior to the release of Cowboy Carter, ensuring that its lead single "/this-seasons-hottest-accessory-is.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-seasons-hottest-accessory-is.htmlPerhaps you’ve seen him in the streets of your city, holding the bag of a well-dressed woman as they make their way to brunch. Maybe you’ve seen him at the mall, hand-in-hand with her as they walk into a Sephora. Most certainly you’ve met him at a party and thought to yourself, he’s nice enough, but damn, he won the lottery. This season’s hottest accessory is the medium ugly boyfriend, and no, I will not retract this statement./thoroughly-modern-mammi.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thoroughly-modern-mammi.htmlI’ve been getting most of my food news from Duolingo these days. In a couple of weeks, I will be in Finland eating smoked fish and sublimating in a sauna and kissing a supermodel in the prime minister’s downstairs bathroom. I have spent the last eight months trying to learn Finnish in preparation, and I still don’t know how to ask where the downstairs bathroom is. Instead, Duolingo has taught me how to utter many other essential phrases, such as “I am a wizard” (minä olen velho) or “the bride is a woman, but the groom is a hedgehog” (morsian on nainen, mutta sulhanen on siili)./tidsoptimist-a-time-optimist-one.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tidsoptimist-a-time-optimist-one.htmlThe trouble is, you think you have time. From Buddha's Little Instruction Book, by Jack Kornfield Another word that has touched my heart. I fell in love with it because it's a term expressing optimism, and it also manages to depict a circumstance that I encounter pretty frequently with minimal effort. Tidsoptimist refers to someone who is optimistic about time, that is, someone who assumes that time will pass slowly enough, and who is always late, even when they do not intend to be./todays-poem-antigonish.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/todays-poem-antigonish.htmlHughes Mearns (1875–1965) was a bad guy. Oh, not in any strict sense of bad behavior. Just someone who lived a long happy life and left a baleful legacy. A theorist of American education, he was a Harvard undergraduate who went on to direct education programs in Pennsylvania and Columbia University. A passionate extender of the theories of John Dewey, Mearns was a dynamic figure, just filled with bubbly ideas about how to educate children in the modern age./todays-poem-mr-nobody.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/todays-poem-mr-nobody.htmlIn 1868, in the Riverside Magazine for Young People, Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878) published a poem called “Mr. Nobody” — a light-verse tale of family members all denying responsibility for the mishaps that plague the household: every plate we break was cracked / By Mr. Nobody. Unfortunately, the magazine left her name off the page with the poem (though “E. Prentiss” is listed in the magazine’s index). The next year, Prentiss would put the poem in one of her books, with a character reciting the comic verses in Little Lou’s Sayings and Doings, an 1869 collection of linked prose stories, but the damage was done./tortorella-and-the-flyers-mcdavid.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tortorella-and-the-flyers-mcdavid.htmlWelcome to the THW News and Rumors rundown. Connor McDavid is day-to-day for the Edmonton Oilers, while there are questions about John Tortorella in Philadelphia. Plus other injury and contract talk. Let’s get onto the latest news and rumors. Share April 10, 2024 by Jim Parsons In today’s NHL rumors rundown, at least one source out of the Philadelphia Flyers organization has shot down any rumors that John Tortorella is on his way out./ufc-298-featured-prelim-a-two-true-568.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ufc-298-featured-prelim-a-two-true-568.htmlThe undercard of UFC 298 is kind of a mixed bag. As Connor Ruebusch put it, “There are a couple gems sprinkled in there but the rest are typical prelims.” We have come to expect “typical prelims” to equate to low-tier, regional level fights, and that is certainly what we’ve got with this event. Fortunately, the matchmaking brass did the rare excellent job stacking the main card with really good fights, so we can sort of excuse the haphazard way they threw together these contests./ultralearning-aka-how-i-learned-to.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ultralearning-aka-how-i-learned-to.htmlUltralearning… I hadn’t heard this term until recently when I started an audiobook with the title. I’ve been on a productivity audiobook kick recently (Atomic Habits, So Good They Can’t Ignore You) and Ultralearning popped up in my recommendations. As I started reading the book I realized that this is exactly how I learned how to code. About 5 years ago I went from not knowing how to code to working at a startup in about 7 months./sharing-some-things-ive-been-noticing.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sharing-some-things-ive-been-noticing.htmlI just got back from a spontaneous girls’ trip to Mexico, and wow. It was exactly what I didn’t know I needed! It was super last minute, and I was joined by my friends Hannah and JJ for a few days of downtime, laughter and yoga classes. While I was there, it struck me how supportive and nurturing the women in my life have been lately. It goes without sa…/urban-stalactites.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/urban-stalactites.htmlLast week I wrote about looking down. This week I want to write about looking up, though my first example is of looking slightly down and across. Riding Light Rail the other day, I noticed a curious geological feature at the Tukwila Station. Hanging down from the platform were stalactites, those classic cave structures. The urban ones in Tukwila were a half inch to several inches long and resembled soda straws./track-6-side-2-valerie-loves-me-by.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/track-6-side-2-valerie-loves-me-by.htmlMy dad taught me every epic journey deserves a great soundtrack. My PalliMed Mixtape is the story of my Palliative Medicine Fellowship year, told in 15 songs. Valerie Loves Me on Apple Music I am married to a wonderful woman named Valerie.  We met in elementary school. Our moms were on the PTA together, and I played tee-ball with her brother.  My little brother beat her in the second-grade spelling bee and still brags about it, but she rejected him when he asked her out later./van-halen-songs-ranked-flashlight.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/van-halen-songs-ranked-flashlight.htmlWelcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern storytelling/sports/culture/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. Eddie Van Halen died a year ago today, which still doesn’t quite seem real. I eulogized him here last year, and every line of that still holds true even as Van Halen recedes ever further into the cultural distance. Your kids are going to think Eddie Van Halen, Elvis and Kurt Cobain all were doing their rock-and-roll thing at the same time./wait-the-pina-colada-song-is-about-912.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wait-the-pina-colada-song-is-about-912.htmlok so many thoughts: 1. thank you for this, I needed a deep belly chuckle today 2. NO, i did not know. Which begs the real question, how are you ok delivering such bad news? Why couldn't you just let us continue to belt this song at parties, bars, weddings, etc. -- While I appreciate your investigative journaling, I would also appreciate you letting us live in blissful ignorance./walter-yetnikoff-1933-2021.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/walter-yetnikoff-1933-2021.htmlHere’s a special Wednesday installment of the Zogblog in honor of Walter Yetnikoff, one of the most entertaining people I’ve ever interviewed. The first time I spoke with Walter Yetnikoff, I couldn’t tell whether I was interviewing him or vice versa. We’d just shuffled into the Upper East Side location of the 2nd Avenue Deli, confusingly located on First… ncG1vNJzZmiyn5yvrbvGZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMSiuNOeqWaxlam7qrfOn51maWlogG5%2Bj2to/was-korean-culture-to-blame-for-the.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-korean-culture-to-blame-for-the.htmlNine years ago, I wrote the following essay after the Sewol Ferry capsized on April 16, 2014. I’m sharing it with you on the anniversary of this tragic day. More than 300 passengers — the majority of them students and faculty members of the Danwon High School in South Korea — are dead or missing after the Sewol ferry crashed and sank on April 16. Since then, media coverage has been intense, focusing on the cowardly and criminal act of the captain — who literally jumped ship — and eulogizing the brave young crew members who risked their own lives (and died), while tending to the passengers./was-plato-really-gay.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-plato-really-gay.htmlWe’ve made this post free to all. If you like it, please consider a paid subscription to support Imperium Press and keep us financially independent of payment processors. If you prefer audio of this article, click here. Back when Joel Davis and I were doing the ImperiumCast podcast, I started doing what I called “Mini-ICasts”. These were short monologues, usually an afterthought from the latest ICast episode. One of them was provocatively titled Plato is Gay./ways-to-grow-closer-to-an-avoidant.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ways-to-grow-closer-to-an-avoidant.htmlHey hopeful romantic, I’ve written a lot on attachment styles. It feels like the topic that helped launch my writing career. I love everything about attachment theory, from how it affects our sex lives to the book, Attached. If you’re not sure what attachment theory is, read more about it here. If you don’t know your attachment style, here’s a great quiz. Chances are, you know someone who’s avoidantly attached./we-have-to-give-people-their-flowers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-have-to-give-people-their-flowers.htmlMarch 12th was the fifth anniversary of my sister’s death. My life has changed more than I could have ever imagined over these last five years. She was 29 when she died. I turn 29 on Sunday, April 23rd. Grief, mortality, aging, and CF have been on my mind a lot lately. I hope that you take the time to read this essay on what I’ve learned over the years about grief, and even if you’ve not quite experienced grief, I think this essay will still resonate with you./we-love-liz-danes-and-we-dont-care.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-love-liz-danes-and-we-dont-care.htmlWelcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it Beloved readers: We felt like this week’s episodes represented more of a two-episode arc than two separate storylines, plus we both wanted to write about why we loved this late-series introduction of Luke’s sister, … ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orp5lnKTDpnnLorFmnJGjsrR5wKebZq%2BVYrGwutNmmpqqlQ%3D%3D/welcome-to-the-pluto-astrology-substack.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome-to-the-pluto-astrology-substack.html(In Swedish: Prenumerera nu för att aldrig missa ett blogginlägg!) Roughly a year after I launched my website plutoastrology.net I am starting this substack for a couple of reasons. Number 1: I need to find new channels to expand my audience. Number 2: If you are not on Instagram, I still want to give you the opportunity to be notified whenever I publish a new blog post on my blog./welcome.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/welcome.htmlHello! First of all, thank you SO much for reading The Breakdown, and helping launch me to Bestseller status in the first day. I’m truly humbled that y’all want to hear what I have to say about the many legal shenanigans of one former president. So what can you expect as a subscriber? I’ll be jotting down my long-form thoughts here from time to time. I don’t have a set schedule for you, but when I do write something up - usually translations of complex legal filings and proceedings with appropriate profanity - you’ll get a link to it in your inbox./what-am-i-reading-so-glad-you-asked.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-am-i-reading-so-glad-you-asked.htmlShare Esoterica by Leah Eichler Writers read—a lot—and as soon as I accepted that it’s okay to read a variety of things that have nothing to do with my own writing, I realized that I have a wide range of interests (who knew?) I have observed that my reading habits can be divided into two categories: Thin… ncG1vNJzZmido6TBpr7InJimmZeWx6q6xGeqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGTEqa3TZpimZZliv6atw6KloGWjpHqouMCdZLKnpWKutLfEnQ%3D%3D/what-comes-next-city-bakerys-maury.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-comes-next-city-bakerys-maury.htmlThis week’s bonus edition is going out to everyone because it’s pretty special. I’d love to bring more original reporting to This Needs Hot Sauce and would love your feedback and support. Many of you followed along with City Bakery’s closure last October (financial issues were the cause). It felt like a real loss to the city. Not only was the food was great, but the atmosphere was always very welcoming, a mixture of tourists and New Yorkers of all ages./what-happened-to-twitch.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happened-to-twitch.htmlOne of the great what-if’s in media and tech is, what would have happened in Google - not Amazon - had bought Twitch? A decade ago, Google/YouTube and Amazon were in a battle to grab Twitch, a then red hot live streaming platform focused mostly on gaming, but with aspirations for much more. Amazon won the sweepstakes, shelling out nearly $1 billion to land the property, which promised to be forerunner for how young people will consume media in the coming decades./what-i-learned-from-following-90s.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-i-learned-from-following-90s.htmlGrowing up, I was obsessed with figure skating. I probably would have taken classes if ballet wasn’t my first love. I have so many memories going ice skating with my dad and watching figure skating on tv. I had posters of Kristi Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan. These were the celebrities I idolized as a pre-teen girl. Every winter Olympics I watch figure skating. Part nostalgia, part interest in the sport, and part interest in the individuals skating./what-pam-from-the-office-said-you.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-pam-from-the-office-said-you.htmlHere’s the acting advice that actress Jenna Fischer, who played Pam in the wildly popular series The Office, says got her noticed time and time again in auditions: “So in any project, if it's a TV show or a movie, that my acting coach said, you pick one moment for your character that you decide in this project is your big moment of realization - a confession, something, you pick one./what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-canada.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-canada.htmlThings in Canada look pretty fucked right now in terms of Covid. It’s honestly disorienting to hear about from an American perspective just as it seems like we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel down here. Everything is upside down! We’re supposed to be the ones just constantly fucking up. I take no pleasure in reporting this to be clear. I wouldn’t wish American-style public health and policing on my worst enemy./what-the-hell-is-happening-with-fifty.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-fifty.htmlWhen I launched Let’s Talk K-Pop in May with Junkee, I knew I wanted to open with a piece on Fifty Fifty. Just six months after their debut, they were THE big thing in K-Pop and, as I said at the time, looked set to rise even higher and totally dominate the global pop industry. But within a month of publishing that piece, FIFTY FIFTY’s trajectory had all but halted, and while they have recently released a new song — ‘Barbie Dreams’ (featuring Kaliii) for the Barbie movie soundtrack — it’s come without the planned music video or promotional activities it was meant to have./what-the-hell-is-this-tpot-thing.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-the-hell-is-this-tpot-thing.htmlWHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT AMONG US NOW, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE - MANY OF WHOM ARE ANONS - THAT HAVE CREATED A MASSIVE THOUSAND-PERSON-WIDE GLOBAL NETWORK OF TWITTER ACCOUNTS AND THESE PEOPLE ARE DATING, OFFERING SERVICES, MAKING FRIENDS, GOING TO CAMP, HOSTING MASS MEETUPS IN MAJOR CITIES, AND DOING A LOT OF STUFF … And everyone’s just, going along with it and having their lives changed by online spaces?/what-was-the-point-of-muslimgauze.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-was-the-point-of-muslimgauze.htmlDoes anyone remember Muslimgauze? It was the creative outlet of Bryn Jones, a man from England who was basically a human assembly line, extruding close to 100 albums’ worth of material over the course of roughly 15 years. (The first Muslimgauze material appeared in 1983, and he died in January 1999 of pneumonia, caused by a fungal infection in his bloodstream, which sounds like the kind of thing a noise musician would use as a track title./whatre-we-gonna-do-about-all-these.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/whatre-we-gonna-do-about-all-these.htmlHello Searchers, We have a story for you asking a question about America’s most beloved invasive species. In this newsletter, we also have a report on Search Engine’s first live meet-up. What are we gonna do about all these cats? This week ,A question that has launched a battle between bird-loving ecologists and ardent, cat-defending activists. We hear from people on both sides of the war, and from one person who sits exactly in the middle./why-die-hard-will-always-be-bruce.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-die-hard-will-always-be-bruce.htmlThere’s something deeply rich about proving people wrong. The ones who stood in front of your confidence by refusing to believe you were good enough. The legacy of that misdirection gathers power over time, a firm reminder that the people who doubt you can also be the ones who help make you. Take Bruce Willis for example. Back in the mid-to-late 1980s, he wasn’t known for much more than comedy. Moonlighting and a breakthrough film debut in Blind Date pegged Willis as a career funnyman, not the guy who would dive off the top of Nakatomi Plaza trying to save innocent bystanders in a tank top and no shoes./why-are-so-many-straight-men-grossed.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-so-many-straight-men-grossed.htmlWhat do you call someone who is disgusted by most aspects of women’s bodies? Straight isn’t the first word I would choose. Yet over and over again, I hear of self-identified straight men who seem to find women revolting, while idealizing men. Here’s some of the many ways readers have told me this manifests: Being disgusted by vaginas to the point that he won’t give oral sex, makes crude comments above vaginas, thinks it is normal to be revolted by vaginas, or shames his partner for the way her vagina looks/feels/smells/tastes./why-are-so-many-momfluencers-mormon.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-so-many-momfluencers-mormon.htmlHi! Today, I’m sharing a piece from the archives, because when I first published it, I had a mere fraction of the readers I am so grateful to have today. I also spent a ton of time researching it and want more people to read it! Recently, a handful of journalists have reached out to me about my thoughts about the newest Mormon momfluencer making waves, Nara Smith. She posts about her extravagant shopping trips, her beauty routines, her style choices, and she tradwifes it up with lots of cooking videos in which she proclaims to be making this or that for her husband./why-biden-is-right-to-wave-the-bloody.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-biden-is-right-to-wave-the-bloody.htmlI attended high school in the early 1970s in California, whose system of public education at that time was the envy of the nation, at a school that was consistently ranked among the ten best in the country. Even so, they were still teaching the Civil War and its aftermath in a manner that was absurdly deferential to the South. Everybody was back then. My otherwise excellent high school textbook, The National Experience, written by some of the most eminent American historians of that time—John M./why-cant-taylor-swift-do-sadness.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-cant-taylor-swift-do-sadness.htmlHappy New Year! I have a few things in the works, including some belated posts on my 2023 reading, which have delayed themselves by getting too long and serious. In the meantime, there are other important matters that need to be addressed right away in the new year, like: why is Taylor Swift’s sad music not really that sad? I recently discovered I had many repressed Thoughts on Taylor Swift, and also that the vulnerability of turning sadness into art might be central to my own aesthetic principles./why-experience-is-the-best-teacher.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-experience-is-the-best-teacher.htmlHey, I hope you’ve been well. I haven’t written in a bit. I’m grateful for the beautiful gift of life and I hope you are doing okay, regardless of the current situations life is throwing at you. Life is a duality. It wouldn’t be life if we had only one experience of one thing. I’m learning that internalizing this concept makes it easier to navigate whatever life throws at me./a-flu-at-the-us-open-hmm-and-why.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-flu-at-the-us-open-hmm-and-why.htmlI attended the US Open over the weekend in New York. Apparently, there’s “something going around” the Open; it has been reported that a handful of tennis players have experienced a variety of viral symptoms. The thing is, nobody knows whether it’s Covid. Players are no longer required to test for it. That said, TV commentator John McEnroe said he’d tested positive for the coronavirus after being on the premises all tournament long./everyone-still-talking-about-saltburn.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyone-still-talking-about-saltburn.htmlIs Saltburn a good movie? Not since Edward vs Jacob, Britney vs Christina, or is genocide okay has a cultural event divided the world as much as that question. In actuality, it doesn’t matter, because people can’t stop talking about it, and for good reason! ncG1vNJzZmillZqwqa3MppyroaearrW0xKtlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8psLEq7CoppViwLW1y6VkrZmcoLavs4yamaitpGLAorjTm6yrpg%3D%3D/why-miller-lite-jumped-on-the-woke.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-miller-lite-jumped-on-the-woke.htmlThe puns were flowing like wine, or rather, beer, on social media this week when Miller Lite went viral for an ad campaign that blasted its own brand for “sexism.” “Hold my beer, Budweiser! Miller Lite's new feminist spokeswoman is here to cuss at you and explain why men are evil,” wrote Not the Bee. “Miller Lite apparently wants the Bud Light boycott treatment too,” said Rogan O’Handley, a Hollywood lawyer turned conservative commentator and supporter of former President Donald Trump./why-the-packers-lost-to-the-49ers.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-packers-lost-to-the-49ers.htmlThe Packers offense seemed in control of this game from the very start. But their inability to finish drives (and finish the game) would end up being their downfall. Green Bay made 5 trips into the red zone and a 6th trip just outside of it. They ended up with a combined 6 points from 4 of those drives. On top of that, Green Bay made too many mistakes during the final 17 minutes of the game, including 2 interceptions and an incompletion to an open receiver on 3rd-and-2./wolverine-qb-collins-discusses-mccarthy.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wolverine-qb-collins-discusses-mccarthy.htmlPhotos Courtesy of University of Michigan Photography Todd Collins fires a spiral against Michigan State as a Wolverine in the early 1990s. J.J. McCarthy eyes his passing target this season against East Carolina at Michigan Stadium. By Steve Kornacki ANN ARBOR, Mich. – J.J. McCarthy moved into sixth place on Michigan’s career passing yards list in the Big Ten Championship Game win over Iowa, pushing his total to 5,865 yards./would-you-pee-on-your-plants.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/would-you-pee-on-your-plants.htmlIf you’re new here, welcome! To ensure you never miss an issue of The Weekly Dirt, click here to subscribe 👇 Hi, guys! If I advised you to fertilize your plants with cow or horse manure, you likely wouldn’t bat an eye. But what if I recommended using your own urine?  My guess is you’… ncG1vNJzZmiilajAqq%2FAnZimoZGjvG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ivn6q5pXnYqKxmqJWaerC6jLKmrqpdpbmiutOs/wtf-is-chinese-brown-sauce.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wtf-is-chinese-brown-sauce.htmlWithin the American Chinese takeout universe, there seems to be this thing called… “brown sauce”. For the unfamiliar, a quick google should fill you in. It’s – apparently – that stuff that’s smothered over your Egg Foo Young, the sauce that’s fried in with your beef and broccoli. There’s an absolute smorgasbord of English language recipes online for it, tons of blogs touting it as a ‘universal stir fry sauce’, the predictable cacophony of Redditors arguing over the most authentic preparations./yes-laughter-belongs-in-musicthe.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yes-laughter-belongs-in-musicthe.html“Does humor belong in music?” This wasn’t exactly a new question when Frank Zappa asked it in 1986, via the title of a live album with one of his sharpest bands. Well does it? Open question anymore. Zappa wasn’t simply being rhetorical; cue up the version of “Baby Take Your Teeth Out” and then answer. Or maybe “Let’s Move To Cleveland.” These are wry, arch, nuanced  expressions in the tradition of Mark Twain; encountering them today puts one in touch with a moment when metaphor was common, when meta thinking was welcome./young-men-are-in-crisis-mode-fox.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/young-men-are-in-crisis-mode-fox.html[Caution: I am well aware that when discussing any large group, it necessitates making certain generalizations that aren’t true of everyone in that group. But studies and research show that we are right to be concerned.] When we talk about marginalized groups, we usually mean groups that mainstream society treats as if they are less valuable and therefore are undeserving of the same rights and opportunities: women, People of Color, immigrants, LGBTQ+, and non-Christians./zocdoc-a-credible-teladoc-competitor.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/zocdoc-a-credible-teladoc-competitor.htmlI share Coffee Can portfolios periodically on my Scorecard. Here is what performance has been like so far. Earlier I shared my thoughts on Teladoc. One of the things I brushed over was Competition. My viewpoint has been that the Telemedicine market is likely to have multiple winners. A big reason for that is the belief that Patient Demand Aggregation in Healthcare will be difficult to pull off. After thinking about this some more, I am now starting to question this assumption./america-basks-in-the-bicampeonato.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/america-basks-in-the-bicampeonato.htmlClub América went into this weekend’s Liga MX final already boasting of 14 titles, the most titles all-time. What had escaped it was winning two in a row. Lesser clubs had done it: Atlas most recently, León before that. Pumas was the first, and until Sunday only, of Mexico’s four grandes to become bicampeon in short tournaments. Now, América has done it too, topping Cruz Azul to become the back-to-back champion of Liga MX./are-u-afraid-of-the-button-man.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/are-u-afraid-of-the-button-man.htmlGood evening everybody, How’s tricks?  I hope, for your sake, that you are in the warm confines of your house, blinds drawn, preferably next to a small lap dog and/or significant other. Because tonight’s newsletter will be highly spooky indeed. We are tackling none other than the myth and legend of The Button Man.  Now, if the name alone has sent chills down your spine, you are not alone. I first heard of the said gentleman about eight years ago, when my Dad’s best friend Paul uttered his name at a family gatho./happy-as-a-lark-and-without-a-cent.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-as-a-lark-and-without-a-cent.htmlIt’s so strange to wake up on the other side of the ocean, enjoying the odd quiet of the morning in a big city, while everybody back home is sleeping. Matt and I are living this summer near the heart of Vienna, yet there is a tranquility to this city that is kind of mysterious. Maybe it’s because the Austrians are stereoty… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5mxs7HHnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtMCpp7Jlkah6onnLmqmkZZGjsW7DyK2fqK2kYq5ur8Snqw%3D%3D/salems-lot.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salems-lot.html1× 0:00 -25:33 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.If you’re new here, this is The Barrens, a Stephen King book club. If you’d like to join in, just read this intro here. We’ll talk books, what we liked, what we didn’t, what surprised us. This is meant to be a conversation, so please, join in! Write your own response reviews if you have a Substack. Reply to other people’s comments./shakey-author-jimmy-mcdonough-on.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shakey-author-jimmy-mcdonough-on.htmlBack in January, I put together an edition of Sonic Breadcrumbs where I dove deep into Neil Young’s massive, 10-disc Archives Vol. IIset. For what it’s worth, a retail version drops tomorrow, (March 5th) if you’re eager to snag a physical copy for your collection. I don’t even own a CD player at this point, and am considering picking one up. It’s that good. Also, maybe I should buy a CD player?/caitlinjohnstone.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/caitlinjohnstone.htmlI don't hate Americans. Hell I married one; everything you read here is co-authored by an American. What I hate is a murderous globe-spanning empire which feeds on a continuous river of human blood and is increasingly tempting nuclear armageddon with its quest for planetary rule. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaStyK2joqaapLWvv9OopZ5nnqTBpnvCZmpybmhmgHSB/room-rater-is-whats-wrong-with-the-media.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/room-rater-is-whats-wrong-with-the-media.html“Rabbit Hole” is a single-topic deep dive column that comes out twice per month for paid subscribers. The free newsletter returns soon.I’m often jealous of people who are not on Twitter. It must be a more satisfying existence. If you weren’t on Twitter, you would not be familiar with an account called “Room Rater,” which goes by the handle @RateMySkypeRoom. The account is pretty self-explanatory - it rates the backgrounds of cable news talking heads./tv-review-sugar-and-the-perils-of.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tv-review-sugar-and-the-perils-of.htmlHello, dear reader! Do you like what you read here at Omnivorous? Do you like reading fun but insightful takes on all things pop culture? Do you like supporting indie writers? If so, then please consider becoming a subscriber and get the newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. There are a number of paid options, but you can also sign up for free! Every little bit helps. Thanks for reading and now, on with the show!/there-wasnt-any-funeral-jimmy-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/there-wasnt-any-funeral-jimmy-the.htmlThere was a time in my life, back when I was in my thirties when I was a crime reporter. Perhaps you are familiar with them from the movies: they are always two steps ahead of the cops, they put their lives at risk, and they are awakened at their crummy apartment at 6 a.m. by the lead detective, with whom they were in the army. “Got anything to drink in this dump?/17-endings-beginnings.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/17-endings-beginnings.htmlOn Tuesday of last week, Tempest (fka Hip Sobriety) was acquired by Monument, an early stage organization that provides MAT (medication-assisted treatment) and therapy to help folks stop drinking. That might mean nothing to you, or maybe it means everything. I don’t know how to talk about it yet, the same way someone might not be able to talk about an endless divorce that won’t stop coming for you, new papers served every time you think you’ve finally moved on; the same way you might not be able to talk about something you haven’t even begun to mourn./msogang.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/msogang.htmlSo this just happened. And if ur too lazy to click… By Tiffany Kary February 12, 2021, 2:54 PM EST A Reddit-fueled mania has sent cannabis soaring and crashing back down in recent days. Leaders of some of the marijuana industry’s biggest companies are now joining a Twitter movement that’s pushing back -- with hashtags. The tag #MSOgang has trended on the social-media platform as supporters seek to differentiate U.S. multistate operators -- or MSOs -- from their peers in Canada./1000-geezers-love-these-18-rothys.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/1000-geezers-love-these-18-rothys.htmlHappy Sunday! Giving a big shout to our sponsor, Dermstore, and our ongoing GEETHANKS code for 15% off! Use it on Supergoop, the Elemis cleansing balm or literally almost anything else your heart may desire. This week the Geezers went nuts for these $18 Rothy’s dupes. I have three pairs (and bought backups). They’re soft, stretchy, machine washable and fit pretty true to size although I would suggest going a size down if you’re between sizes./2024-nba-draft-big-board-40.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-nba-draft-big-board-40.htmlWhat’s considered a “weak class” by many, the key to success and finding value is by working harder than the rest. That is why I love this draft class. It’s too early to conclude that there won’t come a star out of this year. Therefore, the emphasis of this board is heavily on the long-term potential and value of scalable roles to multiple positions. Growing the newsletter to over 350 subscribers, the focus will be on pushing in-depth scouting reports in next year’s cycle as well; 70 in this cycle, and the goal is to have over 100 for the 2025 NBA Draft./30-years-of-ghibli-grave-of-the-fireflies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/30-years-of-ghibli-grave-of-the-fireflies.htmlOriginally published at Entropy Magazine in 2015. 2015 is the 30th anniversary of the founding of Studio Ghibli and, according to Hayao Miyazaki, it may also be one of its final years as a studio. Because this is one of my favorite films studios and Miyazaki is one of my favorite artists, who’s made some of my favorite films, I’ve decided to go through the history of Studio Ghibli one film at a time./412-wonder-woman-earth-one-annotations.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/412-wonder-woman-earth-one-annotations.htmlVOLUME 1 ‘Today the Spirit of War rules supreme over the entire earth. Whence does it come? Why do human beings every generation or so, since the beginning of history, feel an uncontrollable urge to fight and kill one another? ‘The ancient Greeks believed there was a God behind it all – a mighty, invisible God of War who urged human beings on to conquer their fellows and destroy every man and woman who resists./a-conversation-with-norman-finkelstein.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-conversation-with-norman-finkelstein.htmlI recently had a conversation with the poet and literary essayist Norman Finkelstein. The conversation touched on his work and mine, as well as on poetry, prose, dreams, gnosticism, psychotherapy, consciousness, thin places, dogs, cats, and a number of other things. I will say only that I found it all immensely enjoyable. It has come to my attention that the Substack player does not always work particularly well. If you have any difficulties, therefore, you can also watch the interview on the YouTube annex of Leaves in the Wind./unveiling-the-pro-life-message-in.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/unveiling-the-pro-life-message-in.htmlIn the realm of cinema, few genres captivate audiences as profoundly as horror. Yet, within the chilling narrative of "Immaculate," lies a deeper exploration of themes touching upon faith, bodily autonomy, and the sanctity of life. Directed by Michael Mohan and brought to life by a stellar cast including Sydney Sweeney and Álvaro Morte, "Immaculate" ventures into the depths of psychological terror while subtly weaving a pro-life narrative that challenges societal norms and ethical boundaries./a-hudson-valley-view.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-hudson-valley-view.htmlYes, that is a bear on my lawn. If you had told me, when I moved to Columbia County in the mid-nineties, that the falling down depressed little town of Hudson would one day become the Brooklyn of the north I would not have believed you. In those days it was filled with small antique stores - mostly ramshackle places with no heat and low prices. They’re all but gone now, pushed out by shops catering to all the new people who live here./a-man-for-hanging-1972.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-man-for-hanging-1972.htmlMade-for-television movies, particularly before the modern era, usually had low production values and even lower ambitions. "A Man for Hanging" is certainly guilty of the former but not the latter. It's a surprisingly effective -- and risk-taking -- Western that in a lot of ways plays more like a horror flick. The main character, eventually named as Avery Porter, is a masked madman who roams the prairies indiscriminately raping and killing for seemingly no purpose other than his own appetites./a-perfect-day-in-the-2nd-arrondissement.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-perfect-day-in-the-2nd-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-tale-of-two-plantation-tours.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-tale-of-two-plantation-tours.htmlStanding on the ground of Butler Island, just south of Darien, Georgia last week is something that I will not soon forget. There is simply no substitute to experiencing the landscape for yourself to begin to understand the scale of rice cultivation in the low country before the Civil War and the horrors of slavery. In 1838, Pierce Mease Butler traveled to the plantation with his wife and British actress Fanny Kemble./drag-me-to-netflix-1-a-very-good.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/drag-me-to-netflix-1-a-very-good.html“Drag Me to Netflix” is the section of this Substack where I make up for my lack of interest in anything Netflix by watching the Filipino movies available on the platform. Fuck, guys, I’m trying! I treat you all as adults so, although we have different backgrounds and preferences, I see no point in including a specific content warning or spoiler alert. What makes the rape in A Very Good Girl out of place is that, whether seeing it unfold on-screen or ruminating on it after the credits, it doesn’t even have to be there./a-word-about-dean-rasmussen-the-pied.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-word-about-dean-rasmussen-the-pied.htmlMy first Japanese wrestling tape came in the mail wrapped in the remnants of a brown paper bag, its contents, perhaps, seen as too shameful to be viewed by the outside world. It was a collection of what are now viewed as the standards—Mitsuharu Misawa, the young ace of All Japan Pro Wrestling, Jushin Liger, the pint-sized super-hero reinventing wrestling in his image for New Japan and the rampaging Bruiser Brody, a legendary brawler, bad ass and martyr./adolescence-through-the-lens-of-films.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/adolescence-through-the-lens-of-films.htmlAdolescence is the crucial period in one’s life where they go through physical and hormonal changes which usually start around puberty's onset, and last until the late teenage years. This time of a person’s life plays a significant and influential role in determining their destiny. Laying the groundwork for a person's personal, social, and cognitive development, it is a period of self-discovery, growth, and adult preparedness. During this time, teenagers often question their beliefs, values, and personal identity, explore different social roles, experiment with interests and hobbies, and seek autonomy in decision-making./age-and-the-nature-of-innovation.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/age-and-the-nature-of-innovation.htmlLike the rest of New Things Under the Sun, this article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. You can listen to this post above, or via most podcast apps here. The previous post also now has a podcast available here. Are there some kinds of discoveries that are easier to make when young, and some that are easier to make when older?/ain-od-milvado.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ain-od-milvado.htmlSomeone once asked me how I could have faith in God when we live in a world as frightening and uncertain as ours is—a world where evil shows its face every day. It’s both a good question and an impossible one to answer. By way of providing an admittedly incomplete answer, I cited a short but crucial Hebrew phrase that observant Jews say when the Torah is removed from the ark during festivals and Sabbath services./deliciously-crispy-air-fryer-latkes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deliciously-crispy-air-fryer-latkes.htmlOn my birthday, which fell on October 7th (Somber sigh - in light of Israel's “Black Shabbat”), my husband and daughter gave me an airfryer. This thoughtful gift provided a bright moment in an otherwise somber and tension-filled day, marked by distressing news of terrorist attacks in Israel. As soon as I got the airfryer, my mind was set on Hanukkah latkes. This year, I aimed to create a latke recipe in the air fryer as an alternative to the traditional frying method, with the goal of making these delicious treats a healthier choice for us./legendary-nights-aleksandr-karelins.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/legendary-nights-aleksandr-karelins.htmlAleksandr Karelin was a monster of a man. He had been a monster of a man, in fact, since childhood. At birth, legend says, the mighty Karelin weighed between 12 and 15 pounds. By the time puberty struck at 13 he topped the scales at nearly 175 pounds, combining that size with quick and nimble feet, a natural athlete. He hunted fox on skis, read widely and dreamed of nothing more than a life as a truck driver./almost-2-decades-in-squawks-humor.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/almost-2-decades-in-squawks-humor.htmlThis review by longtime Charlotte arts critic Lawrence Toppman was published by The Charlotte Ledger on June 13, 2024. You can find out more about The Charlotte Ledger’s commitment to smart local news and information and sign up for our newsletter for free here. And check out this link for Toppman’s archive of reviews in the Ledger. Politicians like congressman and N.C. attorney general candidate Jeff Jackson (whose face is featured here) are ripe for material in the perennial “Charlotte Squawks./am-i-blue.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/am-i-blue.htmlBorn in New York City in the waning years of the 19th century, Harry Akst started out as a vaudeville pianist, backing Nora Bayes as she belted out tunes like “Shine On, Harvest Moon.” In 1916 Harry enlisted in the army, and while at Camp Upton in Yaphank, NY, on Long Island, he befriended another young composer, Irving Berlin. At the end of World War I, Akst and Berlin collaborated on the No./an-atheist-who-loves-afterlife-movies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-atheist-who-loves-afterlife-movies.htmlI don’t believe much in God, but I love movies about the afterlife. The depiction of heaven and hell, neither of which I ever believed in, comforts me somehow. Whether it’s the splendid afterworld in What Dreams May Come or the documentary of Satanism, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, it’s one of my favorite fantasy genres. I include movies like Death Takes a Holiday where Death walks among us; angel films like Wings of Desire; the excellent primetime TV series The Good Place, which put so much thought into what an afterlife would be, and yet also managed to be blisteringly funny and heartwarming./an-english-major-reads-the-techno.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-english-major-reads-the-techno.htmlReason panel with Jim Pethokoukis, moderated by Peter Suderman, and the Midjourney art produced by the Reason staff to accompany it..Progress in the sense of the cumulative growth of knowledge and power over nature is a term that says little about whether the new state will give us more satisfaction than the old. The pleasure may be solely in achieving what we have been striving for, and the assured possession may give us little satisfaction./an-exhaustive-timeline-of-gigi-hadid.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/an-exhaustive-timeline-of-gigi-hadid.htmlThe model Gigi Hadid and the actor-director-ex Jackson Maine Bradley Cooper have been dining together in New York this month, which means the sun has set on my favorite non-relationship. Someone, somewhere, has finally given up on trying to convince us that Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio are anything more than a floating speech bubble with flashing ellipses on one another’s iPhone screen. And by that I mean: “dating.”I loved this relationship; I am sorry to see it go./cancer-love-acceptance-old-age-filter.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cancer-love-acceptance-old-age-filter.htmlSweet Community,  My recent scan revealed the targeted chemotherapy treatment I’ve been doing has thus far been successful in removing the cancer from my organs, but there is a new spot in my pelvic bone. My doctors feel confident the spot can be treated with radiation, but upon hearing the news my heart flew out of my chest and raced towards Meg’s heart which was simultaneously bolting in my direction. If the PetScan machine truly worked it would have also revealed the fact that I have not, for two and a half years, had a ribcage./new-recipe-armenian-lavash.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-recipe-armenian-lavash.htmlLavash is a flatbread that sits at the very heart of the cuisines of the South Caucasas and Western Asia. It’s considered a treasure of Armenian cuisine, though it’s also widely popular in Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey – and is part of the cuisine elsewhere too. The making of lavash probably goes as far back as the human history of baking. It’s a bread that’s so much more than a simple combination of ingredients./atlanta-film-critics-circle-announces-77f.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/atlanta-film-critics-circle-announces-77f.htmlDec. 4, 2023 After a weekend of vote tallying and several close races, the Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) has announced its 7th annual awards celebrating the top film achievements of the year. The AFCC’s Best Film of 2023 is Oppenheimer, a biographical thriller portraying the life of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the film swept the AFCC’s awards in several categories, including Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr./bankruptcy-brinksmanship-at-strategies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bankruptcy-brinksmanship-at-strategies.htmlThis is a story about a broken partnership, a really big debt, and a legal fight that brought a once-thriving public affairs firm near the brink of collapse.  On Monday, Strategies 360, which is one of the largest public affairs and communications firms in the West, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. S360, as it’s called, was founded by veteran … ncG1vNJzZmivkai1qrrGraanp5KosrPCxKtlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8o63NpKmuqKSYxm6u0aKlpKudlru0tMipZJqsXajBs63Tnp6inaM%3D/barbeque-chicken-alert-from-way-down.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/barbeque-chicken-alert-from-way-down.htmlFirst, calling all basketball fans.  Does anybody remember who used to declare cryptically “Barbeque. Chicken. Alert!” before virtually every game?  I’ll give you a hint.  He was one of professional basketball’s greatest players during his 19 years in the NBA.  While now retired, he is still hard to miss at 216 cm.  You guessed it!  Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal, of course.  Shaq literally used to look down on and refer to the centers of his opponents by declaring “That’s barbeque chicken down there,” meaning that the game is going to be an easy meal./being-an-adhd-teacher-and-why-i-left.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/being-an-adhd-teacher-and-why-i-left.htmlI always knew that I had a different way of thinking and processing information to most people. I struggle with staying organized, staying focused on anything for more than a few minutes and having disproportionate emotional responses to things that would be perceived as minor by most people.   In my 20s and 30s I assumed I was immature and that my struggles would ease as I got older. However, I reached 40 yet remained as disorganized, inattentive, hypersensitive, chaotic and overwhelmed as ever./thefightinglife.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thefightinglife.htmlBen FowlkesI talk on the Co-Main Event Podcast and I've covered fight sports for The Athletic, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, MMA Fighting, and others. My fiction has also appeared in the Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW0xJ%2BgoKCknruouMifnA%3D%3D/best-albums-of-2023-with-comments.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/best-albums-of-2023-with-comments.htmlAs this year comes to a close, I’d like to present my new music highlights of 2023 in the form of album recommendations. This year, only two of my top twenty albums were released on a major label.  The rest were issued courtesy of independent labels. I think that says a lot about the music industry right now. The further withdrawal of artist development, the risk adverseness, the doubling down on mainstream dross by the three majors./el-sonador-restaurant-review-in-gatlinburg.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/el-sonador-restaurant-review-in-gatlinburg.htmlIt took us a few years before we tried No Way Jose’s in Gatlinburg, but it’s taken us a handful more before finally walking inside El Sonador. The reason is mixed. Unfortunately, this Mexican restaurant was lost to the Gatlinburg fires in November 2016. Its original location was on 321 beyond the downtown strip. Now, they are on the corner of 321 and the Parkway behind Gatlinburg Brewing Company, which should be good for business./music.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/music.htmlEmily Rose Marcus 1969-2023I am posting this because people have asked me to. Emily Rose Marcus was born on December 10, 1969, in Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. It was a forceps delivery, and she came out with bruises on her face, yet she lived her life as a woman who prized beauty—in fashion, her own sense of style, furniture, art. Following her beloved uncle Dr. William E. Bernstein, she chose a death with dignity, and died on January 31, 2023, in her apartment in Oakland, where she had lived since 2007, after more than two years fighting against a terminal diagnosis of appendiceal cancer she had received in September 2020./betwixt-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/betwixt-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue.htmlI often wonder about the origins of sayings. At present, as I sit in my hotel room looking out over a water-logged Tumon Bay, Guam, I have been contemplating this week’s title. I feel confident that most of you have heard the saying at one time or another (perhaps with ‘between’ in lieu of ‘betwixt,’ but I’m trying to bring betwixt back). You probably understand it to mean being stuck, helpless between two bad choices./biogas-solar-and-creativity-fuel.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/biogas-solar-and-creativity-fuel.htmlI'm sorry this newsletter is a few hours late; there's no excuse, really… unless I want to take the low road and blame the Afghan kids who showed up at my house unexpectedly, looking for someone to play with because “there’s nothing happening at our house.” Normally, my 18-year-old daughter plays with them (they live down the street), but I had just been “prayer-complaining” earlier about how sick I was of being stuck in front of a computer monitor./blue-beetle-review.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-beetle-review.htmlFor whatever reason, there seems to be more DC Comics movies this year than in the past few years. Maybe some of it is due to delays from COVID and other things, but it’s a good thing that someone decided to release Blue Beetle in movie theaters rather than the rumored plans of just putting it on the HBO Max streamer (which I don’t fully believe after seeing it), because the resulting movie is one that is so much fun to watch with other people./blue-marriage-and-the-terror-of-divorce.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-marriage-and-the-terror-of-divorce.htmlThis is the midweek 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. If you read any of the hundreds of advice columns that have found renewed life on the internet, you’ll recognize a certain genre of question. It comes from a woman, almost always married, who’s describing a partner’s shitty behavior./blue-rondo-a-la-turk-by-the-dave.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/blue-rondo-a-la-turk-by-the-dave.html1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3 The top-selling jazz single of all time and an enduring jazz standard is anything but standard. “Take Five,” written by Dave Brubeck Quartet saxophonist Paul Desmond, is played in 5/4 time, not 3/4 waltz time or 4/4, which was so common that it was called just that — common time. Messing around with different time signatures was controversial when the song was released in 1959./book-review-going-infinite.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/book-review-going-infinite.htmlPreviously: Sadly, FTX. Audio version of this post is here. I doubted whether it would be a good use of time to read Michael Lewis’s new book Going Infinite about Sam Bankman-Fried (hereafter SBF or Sam). What would I learn that I did not already know? Was Michael Lewis so far in the tank of SBF that the book was filled with nonsense and not to be trusted? I set up a prediction market, which somehow attracted over a hundred traders./breaking-news-us-congress-restricts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-news-us-congress-restricts.htmlFriends, Congress has introduced restrictions on the use of the AI chatbot ChapGT. Here is a complete description of these restrictions. Congress has restricted ChatGPT, a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI, in congressional offices. The restrictions are as follows: ChatGPT can only be used for research and evaluation purposes. This means it cannot be used as part of a regular workflow or for other purposes. ChatGPT must be used with privacy settings enabled./breaking-bar-birba-opens-in-bed-stuy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/breaking-bar-birba-opens-in-bed-stuy.htmlMatt Diaz, who you may recall is the founder of the marvelous masa-focused cafe For All Things Good, and its sister Mexican wine bar in Williamsburg of the same name, has opened Bar Birba in Bed-Stuy. Birba, which translates to “mischevious,” is a natural wine bar and pizzeria located in the space that was Nice Pizzeria, a neighborhood fixture which closed in a hurry in the fall. Diaz had long been dreaming of opening another wine bar (he worked in the wine business and made wine before opening For All Things Good), so when Nice closed up, he swooped in and grabbed the space with partners Guadalupe Candia, the tortilla chef and “resident mom, who keeps everything running” at For All Things Good, and Bob Edinger, a friend from the wine business./brown-sugar-shortbread.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/brown-sugar-shortbread.htmlA few years ago, a cookie recipe went viral. It was getting so much press that I gave it a go. They were fine, but I told a friend, “It’s shortbread.” She replied, “Yes, but millennials have never had shortbread.” So if you’re new to the wonders, and deliciousness, of shortbread — welcome! There have been some innovations in shortbread, with people adding everything from rice flour to hard-cooked egg yolks./building-the-southern-lion-marketplace.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/building-the-southern-lion-marketplace.htmlThis episode of The Charlotte Ledger Podcast is sponsored by Crisis Assistance Ministry. Today at Crisis Assistance Ministry, 100 families will seek to avoid eviction or utility loss. You can ensure those neighbors maintain the hope, warmth, and light of home this season. Sonja Nichols is the owner and president of the Southern Lion, a multi-vendor shopping venue that opened in September in a former Sears building in the Carolina Place Mall in Pineville./can-bobby-axelrod-actually-win-in.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/can-bobby-axelrod-actually-win-in.htmlHi! It’s George from Investorama. This newsletter is about Billions, although I’m more into Industry these days. If you skip the sex scenes (I’m not a prude, but I think they are pointless from a story perspective, and there are too many), it’s a fantastic show about working in financial markets. I used to do a job similar to Harper Stern’s, but at Deutsche Bank, so it brings back many memories./old-salt-bagels-review-manolin.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/old-salt-bagels-review-manolin.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. This newsletter has taken a turn in recent weeks./cancel-culture-and-healing-ed-piskor.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cancel-culture-and-healing-ed-piskor.htmlSo, before i start this rant and it will be a rant. I have a few things to state for the record. I am so sorry, for the people who came forward speaking out about Ed Piskor. I always feel that you should feel safe to speak your truth. I feel our world has been silent for too long and we have taught people to be silent. That is not the way the world should be./feud-capote-vs-the-swans-is-apparently.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feud-capote-vs-the-swans-is-apparently.htmlThis show is a curious mess. Individual scenes are excellent — this week, I kept writing the words “this scene was affecting” in my notes — and the performances are very good, especially from Naomi Watts and Diane Lane. The production and costume design are top notch. And yet, as a whole, it is shockingly, surprisingly repetitive and needlessly simple. Here’s what happens this week: Babe comes to terms with the fact that her lung cancer is terminal but we barely see any of this thought process at all; it’s almost completely tackled at a remove, and tacked on at the open and the close of the episode, in scenes that were carefully and beautifully done and with which I think the show could have and should have done more./carlitos-way-1993.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/carlitos-way-1993.htmlSpoilers follow. Movie rating: 8/10 Like probably most dudes, I consider Scarface one of my favourite movies. The 1983 crime epic, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Al Pacino in an iconic turn as Tony Montana, is one of the all-time great gangster flicks, being massively influential on pop culture and one of the most quotable films ever. I’m sure I’ve watched it dozens of times. Montana’s fate at the end of that film made a direct sequel impossible./reeling-backward-catch-me-if-you.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reeling-backward-catch-me-if-you.htmlProgramming note: I’ll be talking about this movie on an upcoming “Medium Cool” podcast with Austin Glidden and friends, so make sure to tune in! Like a lot of people, I watched Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” when it came out 22 years ago (!), enjoyed it as a comedic caper starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a real-life teenage con man and Tom Hanks as the FBI gumshoe chasing him — and then more or less promptly forgot about it./center-of-the-universe.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/center-of-the-universe.htmlThe “Center of the Universe” is a little-known acoustic phenomenon in Downtown  Tulsa, Oklahoma marked by a small concrete circle in the middle of a larger circle of bricks. It’s not much to look at however, looking isn’t really the point. If you stand in the middle of the circle and make a noise, the sound is echoed back several times louder than it was made. It’s your own private amplified echo chamber. A brick path leads to the pedestrian bridge that goes over the railroad tracks, accessible from the corner of W./character-spotlightcrystal-palace.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/character-spotlightcrystal-palace.htmlCrystal Palace is the celebrity daughter of a modern artist and a rockstar. Her mother, Maddy Surname, tattooed Crystal’s head when she was born. It wasn’t a real tattoo, more an artistic statement. Her parents are indulgent and supportive, especially when it comes to Crystal being independent. Despite her celebrity parents, Crystal hasn’t always had a happy childhood. On her eighth birthday, she took her friend Rosa to the fair. Rosa wanted to ride the ghost train./canned-cheese-easy-cheese-cheez-whiz.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/canned-cheese-easy-cheese-cheez-whiz.htmlPaid subscribers, your contribution lets me pay writers $1/word. Thank you! (If you haven’t yet supported Smart Mouth and its writers, please subscribe here). New Episode: Bakery Boxes with Kristina Cho Chinese baking is both ancient and brand-new. And those pink pastry boxes? They're from the 1970s. Even if you remember it differently. Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn By Kelsey Ogletree Back in the late ’90s, my grandmother used to feed me Ritz crackers and Easy Cheese as an after-school snack./chick-corea-man-without-taste.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/chick-corea-man-without-taste.htmlFirst things first: I hate almost all of Lou Reed’s music. The Velvet Underground, his solo stuff, the album where he dragged Metallica down with him — all of it. But I love Metal Machine Music. It’s beautiful; it sounds like birdsong to me. So this piece, featuring him talking to British music journalist Allan Jones about that album circa 1977, was somewhat entertaining. Maybe you’ll like it, too! Also: This Foreign Affairsreview of three new books by right-wing “philosophers” who want to tear down America and erect some kind of Catholic fascist state in its place is fascinating, mostly because I can’t figure out what role any of these men think they would have in the kind of country they dream of./cindy-birdsong-born-december-15-1939-supremes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cindy-birdsong-born-december-15-1939-supremes.htmlWatch video on TwitterView most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare Singer Cindy Birdsong was one of the original members of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, until she left in 1967 to replace co-founding member Flo Ballard in The Supremes. Born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, Birdsong lived in Philadelphia as a child, where she met Patsy Holt (aka Patti LaBelle). Her family then moved to Camden, NJ./circana-the-us-gaming-market-december.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/circana-the-us-gaming-market-december.htmlThe American gaming market, as of December 2023, grew by 4% and reached $7.9 billion compared to December 2022. The total volume of the American gaming market in 2023 amounted to $57.2 billion, which is 1% more than in 2022. In 2023, users in the USA spent $6.6 billion on gaming hardware, the same amount as in 2022. The sales growth of PlayStation 5 offset the decline of Xbox Series S|X and Nintendo Switch./cleveland-guardians-14th-round-pick.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cleveland-guardians-14th-round-pick.htmlThe Cleveland Guardians selected Zane Morehouse- RHRP in the 14th Round (428th overall)/in the 2023 MLB Draft. Zane Morehouse- RHRP Texas Age: 23; Ht: 6'4; Wt: 200 Throws: Right Rankings: MLB- 406 FSS- 506 WH- Round 11-15 Analysis: Willie Hood- Already 23 years old the right-hander has a starter's frame but lacks the command typical of a starter. It would not be surprising to see Cleveland try to work with Morehouse as a starting pitcher to work on a third pitch./coconut-jam.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coconut-jam.htmlRegardless of what you celebrate, I hope you’ve all been having a nice and relaxing festive season thus far! Many of you have noticed that Instagram has deleted its city guide section but fear not, I will be uploading all of these guides back onto my Substack. You can find my Paris guide here and the rest are coming! These do take a while to compile as I include not only restaurants and sights but also wine bars, bards, bakeries, snacky spots, shopping and more./the-dunning-kruger-effect-cognitive.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-dunning-kruger-effect-cognitive.htmlThe Dunning-Kruger effect has become a widely discussed cognitive bias among designers and user researchers in recent years. First uncovered in the late 90s, the effect describes the tendency for people with lower ability in a given area to overestimate their own competence. Meanwhile, those with more expertise tend to underestimate their relative skills. This article will explore the nature and impact of this effect in fields ranging from psychology to user experience (UX) design./big-buffalo-beer-news-community-beer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/big-buffalo-beer-news-community-beer.htmlWhelp, the beer world is increasingly silly, weird, and tenuous right now. In the Finger Lakes region, we just saw that with the recent news of Other Half’s takeover of Young Lion Brewing in Canandaigua. And now we’re getting more evidence of this new reality with the latest regional seismic shift, this one coming from the city of Buffalo. Community Beer Works, founded in 2012, is taking over its rival Thin Man Brewery, the brewery announced exclusively to me Monday./coppell-chronicle-vol-4-no-8.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/coppell-chronicle-vol-4-no-8.htmlNear the end of Thursday’s meeting of the Coppell Library Advisory Board, Frank Gasparro and Martha Garber discussed an upcoming event called “Local Journalism with Dan Koller.” Gasparro: “I’m glad to see you guys have him coming in. He’s a really good guy and knows his stuff.” Garber: “I think he’ll be entertaining.” Gasparro: “Yeah, he’s a funny guy, too.” Garber: “He is funny.” Well, the pressure’s on now. If you have no other plans between 2 and 3 on Saturday afternoon, stop by the Cozby Library and Community Commons to find out whether I live up to the hype./create-cool-maps.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/create-cool-maps.htmlPamPam, Felt, and Proxi are new tools that make it easier to create, share, and publish attractive online maps. You can use them to visualize itineraries, map out your favorite restaurants, or for data journalism projects. Whipping up maps has gotten faster, more visual and more fun. Read on for examples and ideas for how to make the most of these services. Share PamPam gives you a fun, free way to create and share maps to share with friends./cruel-ex-uses-horrific-family-murder.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cruel-ex-uses-horrific-family-murder.htmlinitial mugshot Every single one of the roughly 20,000 murders in the U.S. last year devastated the loved ones left behind. But to the media, most of them are not newsworthy. As callous as it sounds, the crimes that most people want to read about are the ones with a twist; perhaps the killer is a preacher who was living a sordid double life, or what everyone thought was a suicide turns out to be a murder./cute-baby-names-for-girls-and-boys.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/cute-baby-names-for-girls-and-boys.htmlHot! Off! The! Press! Meet the newest names on Nameberry. We’re thrilled to introduce you to Hanneli and Seychelle, Brazos and Kaikoa. Plus, some names that you may already be familiar with (but are new to our database), like Calliou, Oaken, and Belcalis. See the roster of our favorite new additions on the blog. New Names 2021! If you’re a name lover (that’s why you’re here, right?), these names probably appeal:/duane-eddy-dancing-with-the-guitar.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/duane-eddy-dancing-with-the-guitar.htmlThere's no disputing that Duane Eddy was one of rock & roll's first guitar heroes. In the liner notes of Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology, Rhino's definitive double-disc 1993 compilation, Dan Forte claimed "Rebel Rouser," the guitarist's breakthrough 1958 hit, "almost single-handedly established the institution of the guitar hero," placing the instrument at the forefront of rock at a time when the pounding pianos of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were as exciting as an overdriven six-string./2024-official-dates-dark-mode-stuff.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/2024-official-dates-dark-mode-stuff.htmlHello, everyone! It’s Jinapher, your host for the Dark Mode Stuff Your Kindle Event. I am dropping in with the official dates for author sign-ups, the tag masterlist announcement, and the actual SYK day. We have surpassed 2,000 sign-ups/subscribers which is so exciting! I want to see this number continue to grow, so please continue to use the marketing freebies to spread the word if you can! I have added three new carousel slides to the marketing freebies drive in a folder labeled “Dark Mode Dates Announcement” which includes all the dates if you wish to share them on TikTok or Instagram./deceased-eric-k-patrick.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/deceased-eric-k-patrick.htmlAccording to Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) records, Florida death row prisoner Eric Patrick died Tuesday while in DOC custody after serving close to 20 years on death row. Patrick was 60 at the time of his death. He was sentenced to death for crimes that occurred in 2005. The cause of Patrick’s death is unclear. State policy requires that an autopsy be performed for all deaths; however, those records would only be accessible through a public records request./demolition-day.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/demolition-day.htmlIt sat there grotesquely in the midst of the daily hubbub of college life, sticking out on the rise of a slope like a fat middle finger on the hand of a school bully. Given the elevation, it was hard to go about campus and escape its demonic glare. You could see it from the lower field. You could see it from the Sigma Chi fraternity house and the other frat houses speckled along Nez Perce Drive, the road, named after the local Native American tribe, that winds its away across the college past the residences to the golf course and then the Kibbie Dome./did-robert-gould-shaws-mother-approve.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/did-robert-gould-shaws-mother-approve.htmlSometimes the complete lack of historical evidence forces the historian to admit that there is nothing that can be said about a certain subject or at most that any explanation is highly speculative. More often than not, however, historians are forced into a gray area of limited or inconclusive evidence that points to a possible explanation only as a result of having spent considerable time piecing together the larger story./discovering-youre-eustace-clarence.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/discovering-youre-eustace-clarence.htmlHi, I’m Haley! Book midwife (editor) and author. This email is free for you to read, but took time and energy to create. Consider upgrading to a paid subscription to support this work and gain access to exclusive content: Upgrade to Paid I’m reading The Chronicles of Narnia aloud to my five-year-old daughter. Next up is The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I am already eagerly anticipating reading about Eustace Clarence Scrubb (who almost deserved it) and his encounter with Aslan./divorce-mlb-style.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/divorce-mlb-style.htmlBen Zobrist is one of my all-time favorite blink-and-you’ll-miss-em Kansas City Royals. Over a fourteen-year MLB career, Zobrist bounced around to several teams and became the ultimate super-utility man in the process. He played every position except catcher, and even pitched once, and racked up a career statline of .266/.357/.426, 167 HR, 768 RBI, 1,566 H, 884 R, 116 SB, .783 OPS, 113 OPS+, and 44.5 WAR. Zobrist came to Kansas City during the 2015 season from Oakland, the team the Royals beat in the Wild Card Game the year before, as the Royals shored up their roster for the postseason./asmr-dream-watching-people-go-about.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/asmr-dream-watching-people-go-about.htmlHoneyjubu. Nami’s Life. Choki. Ballerina Farm. These are a few of my new favorite lifestyle vloggers who fulfill my latent ASMR needs. I stumbled onto their YouTube/Instagram channels recently while trying to avoid the news, in between my K-drama marathon and book-reading break. Once I heard the quiet patter of Nami preparing her evening meal, amidst all her cute, Japanese contraptions, safe from the cold, I was hooked. Honeyjubu’s Korean side dishes aren’t really my thing./dont-call-it-a-comeback.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-call-it-a-comeback.htmlArt by WhisperdanSettle into your booth, grab a mug of coffee (but only if Gloria made it), and make yourself ready. As the kids like to say: we are so fucking back. Mark your calendars (also, get a calendar) – Season 4 of Midnight Burger premieres on April 16th! But remember…By subscribing to Midnight Burger on Patreon, Supporting Cast, or Apple Podcasts, you can get the Season 4 premiere delivered straight into your existence tonight!/dont-miss-the-forest-for-the-trees.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-miss-the-forest-for-the-trees.htmlThe past couple semesters, I have worked with different student groups to use the latest in machine learning techniques to quantify my investment process and determine if I can improve on the results that I have found qualitatively through the years. This past semester, some grad students used a number of random forest models in another attempt at this process improvement. Before I go on, for those not familiar, per Wikipedia: random forests or random decision forests are an ensemble learning method for classification, regression and other tasks that operates by constructing a multitude of decision trees at training time./dont-buy-your-child-an-axolotl.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dont-buy-your-child-an-axolotl.htmlThe newsletters will go back to their normal programming next week. I won’t do Friday night chats because I did them Monday. But I promise from Monday we will be back to normal! Today, I wanted to share this as it’s my latest weapon in the Writes Household Cat Vs Axolotl war. If you’ve got a child who is Minecraft obsessed, chances are they’ve been talking about axolotls lately. A new update on the game means players can now make ponds and spawn axolotls in them./eastwest-chicken-wings.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/eastwest-chicken-wings.htmlThese wings are a blend of Moroccan, Korean, Mexican and American seasonings. Each seasoning brings warmth, heat, salt, sweet, and spicy overtones. Try some with just the dry rub on them, and some with the sauce, or enjoy them with both, which is what I recommend. Wings: 2 lbs. Chicken wings 2 tbsp. Baking powder 1 tbsp. Corn starch Parchment paper Dry rub: 2 tsp. Intrepid Bay Marrakesh seasoning blend/embracing-the-bitter-lesson.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/embracing-the-bitter-lesson.htmlIn 2019, AI researcher Richard Sutton, one of the godfathers of reinforcement learning, penned a fantastic and striking essay called "The Bitter Lesson."  Its first line delivers its killer insight: "The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin." It's a lesson you'd think people would embrace with open arms./ep-221-lillian-parker-long-term-care.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ep-221-lillian-parker-long-term-care.htmlFor this episode I interview Lillian Parker, a resident in Long-Term-Care at The Village of Riverside Glen. Lil is utilizing her time at Riverside Glen by helping her fellow residents, and taking part on the Residents' Council, advocating on behalf of residents for a "Social Model of Living". Lil has an incredible disposition, and she speaks openly about her perspectives on life in Long-Term Care, about aging, friendship, health, and even death./episode-83-matt-barr-uncomfortable.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-83-matt-barr-uncomfortable.htmlSomething a bit different this week from the deeper more than human dive we’ve been on in the last few episodes. I’m in conversation with of  Adventure Sport Podcast Looking SidewaysMatt has released nearly 250 episodes on his podcast with some of the biggest, humblest and most interesting names in Surfing, Snowboarding, Skateboarding and related pursuits. Many of the conversations Matt hosts explore the big challenges of our time through the lens of these sports, experiences and communities./everyone-is-a-little-bit-kinky.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/everyone-is-a-little-bit-kinky.htmlWhat I read: Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life by Justin Lehmiller, PhD. Published (reprint edition) July 14, 2020. I read this book before but decided to read it again because the first time was so informative. I wanted to revisit some of the great insights and data it contains. In May 2019, I was lucky enough to be in Chicago and that allowed me to attend the Multiplicity of the Erotic Conference (MOTE)./examining-vivek-ramaswamys-hindu.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/examining-vivek-ramaswamys-hindu.htmlIn the emerging frenzy of the 2024 GOP primary election, entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy has managed to pierce the public consciousness. Following the first primary debate, his resulting spike in the polls has made him competitive for second place - albeit in a race that remains largely in the shadow of Donald Trump. Ramaswamy is remarkable for several reasons: he is the first millennial candidate on the GOP side to pursue the presidency; he is a political outsider with a background that mixes law, science, and business; and while he is not the first Indian-American candidate we’ve had, he is the first that has stalwartly affirmed his Hindu faith./exploring-contemporary-french-poetry.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/exploring-contemporary-french-poetry.htmlI went a last week to the big Marché de la poésie (Poetry Fair) being held in the square outside St Sulpice, an enormous church poised somewhere on the boundary between very beautiful and actually sort of awful — but the square outside it is undeniably lovely, and I’ve grown very fond of the church too, with the sort of affection we sometimes feel more for the not-quite-perfect. Anyway, the poetry fair is an amazing annual event, with dozens of stalls run by more small poetry presses and journals than you’d have thought could exist, as well as readings and performances and so on./extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.htmlHey, it’s Devansh 👋👋 In my series Breakdowns, I go through complicated literature on Machine Learning to extract the most valuable insights. Expect concise, jargon-free, but still useful analysis aimed at helping you understand the intricacies of Cutting-Edge AI Research and the applications of Deep Learning at the highest level. I put a lot of effort into creating work that is informative, useful, and independent from undue influence. If you’d like to support my writing, consider becoming a premium subscriber to my sister publication Tech Made Simple to support my crippling chocolate milk addiction./falsifications-are-just-as-important.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/falsifications-are-just-as-important.htmlToday’s difference-in-differences is not our grandfather’s difference-in-differences. We have survived a war but we lived to tell. We learned that our greatest sin had the unthinkable comparison of treated groups to already-treated groups. We repented, and swore it would never happen again. But as the dust cleared, and thousands of citations accumulated to a handful of econometricians, small little details that maybe weren’t as historically obvious are making their way to the top, and one lesser known little assumption I’d like to just bring your attention is called the no anticipation assumption, as well as point us back to basics, which is that falsifications can also be important tools in your arsenal, not just event studies./family-courts-and-child-custody-are.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/family-courts-and-child-custody-are.htmlI know so many men who have fought for custody of their children. All of them have won at least joint custody. And in all cases, a strange thing happens after their win: They begin complaining that the custody system is biased—a system that worked to get them the outcome they wanted. This is what male entitlement looks like: not only should you get what you want; you should get it by default, without having to work for it./fancy-fish-fingers-for-fridays.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fancy-fish-fingers-for-fridays.htmlThe Birds Eye company introduced fish fingers in Britain in 1955, thereby leading the children of that great nation to believe that all fish were born oblong and crumbed. But it worked! They ate them because they were boneless, skinless, pretty much tasteless, and you could have them with chips - also sold, not uncoincidentally, by Birds Eye. Please note that here, however, we’re talking here about grown-up fish fingers. About treating yourself to some beautiful salmon, coated with lemony crumbs and cooked until crisp and golden outside, and soft and pink inside./fashion-without-capitalism.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fashion-without-capitalism.htmlTo save space for images, I’m not going to add a lot of words here. Just know that almost everything you’re about to see took place behind the iron curtain. In the 1980s, Budapest was not quite socialist and not quite capitalist, and there was one fashion designer who thrived in this moment. This is the story of Tamás Király, an unusual artist from an unusual period of Hungarian history, both of which were unusually short-lived./feast-your-eyes-billy-wilder-avanti.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/feast-your-eyes-billy-wilder-avanti.htmlAVANTI! (1972) is neither director Billy Wilder’s most lauded nor well-seen. Confidently languorous in its pacing, the film is not unlike the stride of an Italian afternoon, which hinges on a generously punctuated lunch hour. Here's a comedic demonstration: in one scene, a U.S. government employee freshly deplaned in Ischia is refused assistance by the island's jovial policeman who affably lodges this pranzo defense at the stupefied and hurried American. Avanit!/figgy-cornmeal-cookies.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/figgy-cornmeal-cookies.htmlWelcome to issue #38 of Susanality, my free weekly newsletter. Thank you for being here and welcome to all the new sign-ups. If you enjoy this newsletter, please help spread the word! (And if you’re wondering about that email you got earlier in the week… keep reading!) Share Susanality Meet the next cookie in this month’s tour de sweets: my Figgy Cornmeal Cookies. These fig bars are not really trying to be a Fig Newton (but if you like those you’ll love these)./films-of-the-year-2023.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/films-of-the-year-2023.htmlAs with my books of the year, I updated aTwitter thread every time I watched a film. At the time of writing, I have seen eighty films. Is that a lot? If so, it is mainly from having been extremely disciplined in not watching television. In an age of streaming, it makes no sense to list only those that came out this calendar year. Instead, I’ve made a list of the ten best films I saw, no matter when they were made./five-questions-for-jon-michael-hill.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/five-questions-for-jon-michael-hill.html(Above: Jon Micheal Hill in a publicity photo by Patrick Eccelsine for the CBS television series Elementary in which he costarred for seven seasons as Detective Marcus Bell.) Last summer around this time Jon Michael Hill was starring as Martin Luther King, Jr., in The Mountaintop by Katori Hall at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles A year later he is now co-starring as Conrad Hensley in writer and producer David E./free-speech-absolutism-is-dangerous.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/free-speech-absolutism-is-dangerous.htmlNormally, I write something that is ironic or humorous on Fridays but today, I want to talk about a study that I recently came across that I think is important to understand in our current media environment. It concerns the current debate about free speech. In many countries the rise of extremist views on social media and other platforms has triggered a debate about free speech and the question if there are limits to free speech./fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle.htmlHarper Lee, the reclusive author of the unfortunately too-much-beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird, loved Fannie Flagg’s book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe:  "Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!/fuccboi-by-sean-thor-conroe.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fuccboi-by-sean-thor-conroe.htmlHi y’all! Good God, it’s cold in New York right now!! Somehow though, George and I managed to make it out to the Fuccboi book launch, hosted by Forever Mag at TV Eye. The place was packed—even the bouncer was shocked by the turn out. “This is for a book?” He asked the girls in front of us in line. “This is more people than come out for music.”/future-alien-barbie-kim-kardashian.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/future-alien-barbie-kim-kardashian.htmlA few weeks ago, Voguesent an email blast about Kim Kardashian’s new beauty vibe: “future alien Barbie.” I wanted to write about it, but… what else is there to say, really? In lieu of a newsletter, I present: a poem comprised of copy-and-pasted subject lines and sentence fragments, each pulled from a different email I received that same day — sent by news outlets, by newsletters, by beauty brands, by PR reps, by colleagues./genspect-and-agpgate.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/genspect-and-agpgate.htmlClinic whistleblower Jamie Reed was on fire, proclaiming that care for the vulnerable and skepticism of authority are liberal values. Journalist Christina Buttons revealed that over half of gender questioning youth hear the lie that “sex is a spectrum” from their providers, calling into question their ability to give truly “informed consent.” Wilfred Reilly used available statistics to predict an explosion of detransitioners in the near future. Michael Shellenberger diverted his focus from addiction and climate change toward a medical scandal he can no longer ignore, with plans to release a full report on the misdeeds of WPATH./ghia-founder-melanie-masarin-on-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ghia-founder-melanie-masarin-on-the.htmlAs I wind down this newsletter, I realize that Mélanie Masarin, the founder of nonalcoholic apéritif brand Ghia, has not yet made an appearance on Good Drinks. I could think of no better person, then, to interview in my penultimate entry, not only because my fridge is never not stocked with Ghia's Le Spritz (both the OG and ginger flavors) but also because Masarin released a 2.0 version of the hero product today./groucho-marxs-mustache.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/groucho-marxs-mustache.htmlI’ve recently been watching some old Marx Brothers movies that I don’t think I’ve seen since I was a kid, and I couldn’t stop noticing just how ridiculously fake Groucho Marx’s mustache looked. For some reason, I hadn’t recalled that it was painted on like that. I remembered it having an obviously unreal quality but thought at minimum it was some kind of mock hair pasted on. But this bold black makeup striped across his upper lip (and “bushy” brows as well) is really pushing the boundaries of an audience’s willingness to suspend disbelief./grub-of-the-day-27-oak-and-pie.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/grub-of-the-day-27-oak-and-pie.htmlToday I ventured out east on Greenwich road to Oak and Pie, a restaurant known for its wine and pizza. However, that’s not what brought me in today. I mean don’t get me wrong, I definitely indulged in a slice but after seeing an ad for their Italian nachos my mission was dead set on trying them. Before ordering I noticed that they had several specials throughout the week. Tuesday being discounted Italian nachos which we were just a day too late for but fortunate that on Wednesday, kids eat free!/halloweens-worst-candy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/halloweens-worst-candy.htmlHappy Halloween Eve! I hope that you will see costumed dogs and children tomorrow night, and that your favorite candy is on sale at CVS. This week, I wrote about a candy that I do not enjoy. This newsletter is … less factual than usual, because the only sources I could find were iffy. But nonetheless, it is my duty to tell you that I think jawbreakers are very, very bad./happy-halloween-from-this-heart-eating.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-halloween-from-this-heart-eating.html“If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp.” That’s how my story for the New York Times this week begins. And I stand by it. Though I also realize many of you will find it hard to believe that a wasp can be lovable. So let’s back up a second. When I said wasp just now, I’ll bet your brain instantly pictured a yellowjacket or paper wasp./happy-opening-day-3ac.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/happy-opening-day-3ac.html☀️ Good Morning: After 179 days (+1), Mets baseball is finally back! There’s no better team to root for on Opening Day. David Stearns will try to begin his tenure by adding to the Amazins’ incredible 41–21 record on the season’s first day. We have everything you need to get ready for first pitch, including 24 things to keep an eye on at the start of the 2024 season./the-80s-in-40-heavens-gate-april.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-80s-in-40-heavens-gate-april.htmlThe ’80s in 40 revisits the decade of the 1980s choosing four movies a year, one from each quarter. This entry covers the first three months of 1981. Director Michael Cimino filled the years after the high-profile commercial collapse and critical drubbing of Heaven’s Gate with false starts, failures, and finally a long retreat during which he wrote screenplays that would never be filmed and novels that would only be released in France, if they were released at all./one-thing-about-scarlett-johansson.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/one-thing-about-scarlett-johansson.htmlLive from New York … Hung Up! You can read an event recap here.The way men misunderstood Her, the 2013 Spike Jonze movie, should be studied. (I saw a movie about a mustache. My friend Hilton memorably calls Her a movie about an airpod. Men saw a movie about a perfect woman with no wants or needs, just an, um, “old soul” with a sumptuous voice.) Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, sought Her star Scarlett Johansson’s voice for a new chatbot assistant feature./how-adyashanti-makes-big-decisions.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-adyashanti-makes-big-decisions.htmlEarlier this week, the venerated teacher, Adyashanti announced that he will be retiring from active teaching, both in-person and online. The announcement letter he shared, is a beautiful and heartfelt explanation, full of wisdom and humility, but what really stood out for me was how he decided to step away from the role of a teacher. He writes: The reasons for me stepping down from active teaching are many and varied./how-far-is-the-horizon.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-far-is-the-horizon.htmlSometimes when I’m in a tall building or a plane, I wonder how far away the horizon is. Well, at least I do during days of better air quality and clearer skies… Or if there’s some mountain or something in the distance I’ll wonder how far away from it you can go and still see it before the curvature of the Earth hides it below the horizon. It might seem like a tough problem to solve since spherical geometry is a notoriously difficult aspect of university mathematics, and we’re talking about distances relative to a curving Earth./all-about-literary-agents-how-i-became.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/all-about-literary-agents-how-i-became.htmlWhat is it like to be a literary agent? Would I be good at doing the work of a literary agent? Would I enjoy being a literary agent? How does one get started at being a literary agent? Even more so, however, it’s for me, me, me. People email me questions like this about 2-3 times a week. Some are college and MFA students; others are editors, writers, and people from entirely different careers who want to defect to Team Publishing./how-it-feels-to-run-a-200-mile-ultra.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-it-feels-to-run-a-200-mile-ultra.htmlBefore I get to this week’s main story, I’d like to share two of the best things that happened this past week. The heat wave broke, and belated monsoon rainstorms finally returned full force, if only for a few days. Like many, I followed the weather news with dismay at the abnormally (or new-normal) high temps throughout the Southwest. Where we live on a mountain-ringed mesa at 9000 feet elevation, the highs reached the high 80s and even touched 90./how-lester-with-a-little-help-from.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-lester-with-a-little-help-from.htmlHow’s that for a grabber of a headline? Okay, so let’s start with the back story: while I was compiling an oral history of Battle of the Network Stars – which you can read right now over at the A.V. Club – I talked to Tim Reid about the time that he and David Letterman were on CBS’s team in the long-running celebrity athletic competition. Although I’m enough of a comedy nerd to be well aware of how long Tim and Dave have known each other, I still felt obliged to ask the question outright./how-my-npr-colleague-failed-at-viewpoint.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-my-npr-colleague-failed-at-viewpoint.htmlI was in San Antonio last weekend for a book festival, and took an early-morning run along the city’s River Walk. The paths go beside the water and below the streets, which cross the river on Art Deco bridges. A city looks different from underneath; you feel its layers of history. Up at street level the book festival was underway, and in a tent filled with people I talked about Differ We Must, my biography of Lincoln as seen through his encounters with people who disagree with him./martin-white-walkers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/martin-white-walkers.htmlThere have been numerous attempts to explain why author George R.R. Martin still hasn’t finished The Winds of Winter, the sixth novel in his epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF), despite having been at work on it for over a decade. Many think that Martin tends to occupy himself with a lot more projects nowadays than he used to due to his popularity having skyrocketed in the last decade and this is preventing him from focusing on Winds./how-to-beat-vultures-cinematrix.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-beat-vultures-cinematrix.htmlI love to sleep in, so every late morning I wake up to updates from a group text where my friends share their NYT Connections scores. I generally do pretty well on Connections, though sometimes I do miss a couple guesses and end up with a “Phew!” score. It’s commonplace to see people complaining about the daily game, crafted by Wyna Liu, because of the hard to figure out categories for the purple row (usually the hardest to figure out)./how-to-make-a-great-chicken-cutlet.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/how-to-make-a-great-chicken-cutlet.htmlChicken cutlets are incredibly delicious when done right. It’s a comfort food for me and for a lot of people I know who grew up on the east coast. Maybe no one needs to read this, and you’ve all got your methods. But my guess is that there’s someone out there that wouldn’t mind reading this and getting the scoop. I’m giving you all the details below, but don’t let the long newsletter deter you: chicken cutlets are EASY to make./bad-boys-smith-cruise-downey-pixar-slump.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/bad-boys-smith-cruise-downey-pixar-slump.htmlIn tonight’s nerve-scrapingly raw newsletter…! Robert Downey Jr.’s The Judge became briefly hot on Netflix, like a slew of box office bombs and forgotten programmers before it, a decade after its release. Bad Boys Ride or Die is agreeable, but significant character beats seem like Will Smith doing damage control akin to Tom Cruise’s third Mission: Impossible flick. Is Pixar abandoning culturally specific originals in favor of endless I.P., or is this another variation on the now-13-year-old “Pixar slump” narrative?/i-didnt-forget-about-the-gallery.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-didnt-forget-about-the-gallery.htmlI’m starting a t-shirt store for 2024. I should have kept going down this road. I used to offer merch of my images in online stores as far back as 1999, but it’s easy to lose your way. People do like merch. I often buy t-shirts offered by the YouTubers I watch, or other artists. Dye sublimation on clothing just gets better and better. It was a mistake to not offer t-shirts of the various album covers I’ve produced over the years, but that will change soon./narayan-hecter-mixed-race-interview.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/narayan-hecter-mixed-race-interview.htmlHi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to actor Narayan Hecter, who is of mixed Jewish, Polish, Romanian, French and Vietnamese heritage – phew! Narayan plays Joseph in Paramount+ series No Escape, and drew on his own feelings of not quite belonging for the role. Growing up on a small island near Madagascar before a nomadic childhood, Narayan’s identity has always felt in flux, but perhaps this fluidity, expressed in Narayan’s French lilt, is a refreshing way to live./i-have-a-new-podcast.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-have-a-new-podcast.htmlIf you’re subscribed to this newsletter you probably know that I’m fascinated by bad ideas. Where they start, how they spread and, most importantly, why we believe them. About six months ago, I started talking with my friend Peter Shamshiri (of the excellent 5-4 podcast) about how to do a show on the worst ideas of the last 50 years. We immediately thought of “airport books,” the pop nonfiction that has become one of America’s primary vectors for oversimplified history, misrepresented statistics and “contrarian” reinforcement of the status quo./i-made-that-weird-spam-and-oreo-burger.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-made-that-weird-spam-and-oreo-burger.htmlHappy holidays, dickholes! Here comes the new year. Thank God. It’s less that I’m necessarily looking forward to it and more that I need to look forward to something, otherwise I’ll go bananas. I realize that I’ve been curiously absent for a few weeks, but a small vacation from writing has been nice and necessary. Instead of sitting on my sweaty ass in the office chair, I moved that same sweaty ass to the couch, where I plowed through video games./i-never-thought-about-what-it-did.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-never-thought-about-what-it-did.htmlThis week I’m recommending a woodsy low-budget horror film, a bittersweet a golden age Swiss dramedy, a hypnotic Canadian coming-of-age film, a film about some Y2k lesbians on a roadtrip, and of course a grab bag of streaming hidden gems. ncG1vNJzZminnJmzqrjMrJ2loZOgsrN60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmWK7psLEq2StoJ%2BqtKnAjJqZqK2kYsSprdNmoK1llJ6x/i-rewrote-the-barbie-speech-for-a.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/i-rewrote-the-barbie-speech-for-a.htmlAmerica Ferrera’s speech in Barbie about how “it is literally impossible to be a woman” is being heralded as the most important feminist monologue of our time. Take a look. Now try it this way. It is literally impossible to be a man. You are so strong and so capable, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we always have to be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong./if-my-husband-works-long-hours-do.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/if-my-husband-works-long-hours-do.htmlDuring the holiday season, I’m revisiting some of the oldest Feminist Advice Friday columns and updating my response. I hope you enjoy these blasts from the past. This is also a great time to send in updates if you’ve previously written in! I’ve been married to my husband for 7 years, together for 12. During the pandemic, I was laid off from my job for a year. I was finally able to return to work, but only part time and working from home./in-defense-of-tech-trees.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-defense-of-tech-trees.htmlTrees serve as a powerful metaphor for various phenomena, especially those that unfold across time. Evolution can be represented as a phylogenetic tree, where the root is a common ancestor and the branches and leaves are its descendants. Conversely, if you consider a given person as the root and their ancestor lineages as the branches, you get a genealogical tree. (If the roots are instead being gnawed on by Níðhöggr, the horrific dragon that eats the corpses of the people sent to hell, then you might be dealing with Yggdrasil, the world tree of Norse mythology that supports the earth and the heavens./iowa-city-as-artifact.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/iowa-city-as-artifact.htmlAnnie and I went to Iowa City over the weekend to visit our daughter Johanna. She’s studying psychology at the University of Iowa. Johanna’s friend Jonah joined us. I was in good company. The world around us is a text to be read. A rich text—if only we take the time to look contemplate, and learn. As an example, the wall above is a text to be read like a book./is-broccolini-a-real-vegetable.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-broccolini-a-real-vegetable.htmlI’m being a little playful; honestly, anything can be a vegetable. We eat fruits like tomatoes and eggplant and call them vegetables. Flowers, roots, stems, leaves, etc., can all be vegetables. From a botanist’s view, there is no such thing as a vegetable; that’s a cook's point of view. The definition of a vegetable is much looser; I think of it as any … ncG1vNJzZmimmaDAqa3Rpphnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtdJmmaunk5i8rbXNomSaZaKarq151Z6enqyRl7mm/is-miller-beach-safe.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-miller-beach-safe.htmlEditor’s Note (December 2023) I wrote this essay prior to the recent Airnbnb/VRBO neighborhood shooting crime spree and the rise of burglaries and car break-ins in the area. I don’t know where I stand on the topic of crime overall in Miller now compared to Chicago. I know I would not move back to Chicago (and I truly love the people in Miller and the nature). But we clearly have a crime problem that is growing in Miller that the City of Gary needs to urgently solve — or residents and second home owners will depart for safer areas./is-that-all-marcus-smart-meant-to.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/is-that-all-marcus-smart-meant-to.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. Ashes; Edvard Munch; 1895 There’s absolutely no surprise that the Boston Celtics moved at least one of their guards early this offseason. On top of Jaylen Brown, the lightning bolt All-NBA wing due for a massive contract extension, the Celtics last season employed the following trio: Derrick White, age 28, making just shy of $20 million per year while playing about 2,300 minutes Marcus Smart, age 29, making just shy of $20 million per year while playing about 2,000 minutes (all as a starter)/dakota-johnson-madame-web-out-of-context-press.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/dakota-johnson-madame-web-out-of-context-press.htmlDuring a recent interview with Glamour Magazine, Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong’o was asked what irritates her most about being an actor. “Interviews,” she responded. “You asked. I have to be honest.” Not all interviews, she clarified, but specifically press junkets, which she likened to a “torture technique.” Why? “You have to give each one of them attention, focus, and an articulate answer that you just gave to the person before. That’s irritating./it-probably-isnt-a-good-sign-that.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/it-probably-isnt-a-good-sign-that.htmlTop notes: So many people are registering for Barnraisers fall cohorts! It’s very exciting! But there’s also more time if you haven’t yet. Everything you need to know (including the understandable question “what are you talking about, Garrett?” can be found here). This might just be me, but the end of the year/beginning of the year is a relatively slow period in terms of folks supporting this work (which you can do either by subscribing to The White Pages or donating to Barnraisers)./its-new-to-me-cave-noire.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/its-new-to-me-cave-noire.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. Cave Noire is a roguelike, but that’s something we know now. “Roguelike” wasn’t a thing yet back in 1991 when the game released, in the same way “Metroidvania” didn’t exist as a term until the time at which both Metroid and Castlevania games were Like That, but we can still retroactively notice elements of this kind of pathfinder game in titles that released before we had a name for them./weekendwater.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/weekendwater.htmlWeekend Water with Paul F. Tompkins & Janie Haddad Tompkins By Janie Haddad Tompkins Official substack spawned from the conversation podcast STAY F. HOMEKINS with comedian Paul F. Tompkins & actress Janie Haddad Tompkins. More random thoughts, tidbits, musings and movie watchalongs from podcast cohosts & married couple JHT & PFT. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbixxKScp5ynlsGmvg%3D%3D/jason-isbells-struggle-for-self-knowledge.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jason-isbells-struggle-for-self-knowledge.htmlIf you’re one of the 400 or so people who’ve subscribed to “Notes from the Middleground” over the past week (most likely after encountering my writing on Substack’s new social media platform), welcome! I’m delighted you’ve joined our little community. I work very hard to make you feel like you made the right decision to clutter up your email in-box with my posts—and also to convince as many of you as I can to become paying subscribers, so I can continue my writing here full time./jaykuo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jaykuo.htmlThe Status Kuo By Jay Kuo The Status Kuo provides accessible political and legal analysis with a dose of humor. In crazy times, a little clarity goes a long way! Subscribe to receive my email in your inbox. All paid support is voluntary but deeply appreciated ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaut2KSsqA%3D%3D/black-mirror-joan-is-awful-and-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/black-mirror-joan-is-awful-and-the.htmlEvery now and then a piece of pop culture crashes in like an intrusive thought and reminds you just how old you are, and how quickly time is skittering away from you. Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s frequently bonkers answer to the question “Was The Twilight Zone too cheerful?,” debuted in 2011, which means I am way, way old. I don’t often remember the beginnings of things, but for some reason I remember when “The National Anthem” first hit screens with its delightful pig fucking, which means I am now excruciatingly aware of how long ago that was./johnrosemond.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/johnrosemond.htmlJohn RosemondNationally known best-selling author, syndicated columnist, podcast host, and licensed family psychologist, John Rosemond is one of America’s most popular public speakers on parenting and is the leading expert on traditional, biblical parenting. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjau7x6epqKuVoryvsA%3D%3D/johns-guide-third-wave-ska.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/johns-guide-third-wave-ska.htmlI would say that I know a little bit about music, but there’s a lot of gaps in my knowledge. This isn’t the definitive guide… It’s just John’s Guide. Regular readers to John’s Music Blog might recall my relationship with ska. It was the first music I really loved. When I was barely a tween, I would dress up in a full suit and go to shows. I even made an Angelfire page dedicated to the genre./juliekelly.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/juliekelly.html“Calling impeachment ‘a cumbersome process that requires the actions of a whole branch of government that has a lot of different people involved’—no duh—Pan asked Sauer if selling pardons or military secrets would prevent a president from criminal prosecution.” ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjavBy6KcpJ2cocZwus6tnGibXWmEcYGXcmhw/juveniles.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/juveniles.htmlI love my job and am grateful for the chance to review restaurants in Paris. But between visiting new openings and doing research for neighborhood-specific guides, I don’t have much time (or belly space) to return very often to my favorite spots. Juveniles is one of those favorites. I hadn’t been back for almost two years, because I knew it was doing fi… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89ooa6ulaO2rbHS/jvp-ri-leads-diverse-coalition-to.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/jvp-ri-leads-diverse-coalition-to.htmlJewish Voice for Peace - Rhode Island (JVP-RI) held a rally on the steps of Providence City Hall to show their support for Providence City Council Ordinance 45610, which would ensure that the City of Providence refrains from investing city funds in sovereign bonds from the State of Israel. Over 150 people attended the rally. The ordinance is supported by JVP-RI, a growing community of Jewish residents and allies in the capital city and across the state who oppose United States support for the Israeli military as it continues its war in Gaza./kenneth-lofton-jr-and-moussa-diabate.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kenneth-lofton-jr-and-moussa-diabate.htmlAs we wind down the pre-draft process, time is alluding us. There simply isn’t time left for a deep dive into each prospect in the way we’d want to do. No more ten-minute scouting videos, full six-category breakdowns, individually-dedicated scouting reports. What we can offer instead is a chance to look at two players at a time, perhaps comparing their overlaps or making a point about how differently they’re treated in draft circles./friarbasketball.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/friarbasketball.htmlFriar Basketball By Kevin Farrahar Since 2009, Friar Basketball has been a trusted source covering all facets of Providence College and Big East Basketball. Friar fans will love the deep-dive articles, recruiting profiles, video content, and unique perspectives on all things PC hoops. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjae%2ByJqpm5mjoLK1rsClow%3D%3D/kuchisabishii-a-strong-desire-to.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kuchisabishii-a-strong-desire-to.htmlThe hedonic treadmill, which we talked about two weeks ago when we were thinking about emacity, is a very thought-provoking topic, so this week I'd like to think about it in a different dimension: the addiction of constantly eating to be happy or satisfied, even if you don't need it. The Japanese language has a very useful word regarding this situation: kuchisabishii, which means "lonely mouth," which refers to the desire to put something in your mouth even when you are not hungry./year-end-remembrances-part-2-lance.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/year-end-remembrances-part-2-lance.htmlWelcome to part 2 (of 3) in my year-end series. As I mentioned in part 1: on September 7, November 4, December 9, December 11, and December 12, a prominent person I knew passed away. They ranged from someone I simply shared a meal with to a personal role model. I’ll share how I knew each person, and something I learned from or valued in them. Let’s begin… There have been times in the Iditarod — the thousand-mile dogsled race across Alaska — when a sleep-deprived musher crossing the frozen Bering Sea has gazed into the blazing sun and disrobed, only to find that it’s -50° out./leakin-park-baltimores-open-air-cemetery.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leakin-park-baltimores-open-air-cemetery.htmlBecause since the 1940s, seventy-nine bodies of murdered men, women and children, many times mutilated have been dumped in the woods or along the roads running through the park.  Leakin Park adjoins Gwynns Falls Park which covers 1216 acres. Without knowing of its sinister reputation it appears to be a lush woodland, where families once visited so their children could ride ponies and enjoy the  outdoors. On April 19, 1968, four young children, all under the age of 10 were found murdered and mutilated in what was then known as Baltimore Park./leaning-into-america.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leaning-into-america.htmlHave you ever wondered about the telltale signs that distinguish someone as an American? Sure, there are the obvious giveaways, like the accent. But an American accent is pretty easily faked, as countless British actors have demonstrated, much to the confusion of those of us who stare, slack-jawed, at the screen upon hearing a thick Scottish brogue come out of an actor on an awards show red carpet who’s nominated for portraying a Southern preacher or streetwise New York City drug dealer./leave-these-herbs-out-of-the-kitchen.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/leave-these-herbs-out-of-the-kitchen.htmlHello, wonderful witches! I’m writing you from a cabin in the woods in Ohio, where my partner and I have decided to social distance for the week. Do you remember the orchard owner who says spells to his apples? We’re heading to that orchard in the next day or so, with a fistful of cash to bring back enchanted fruit. The internet here is pretty spotty, so all you free subscribers, it’s your lucky day: You’re getting today’s issue in full as a bonus./length-of-time-on-floridas-death.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/length-of-time-on-floridas-death.htmlLast week, the Florida Supreme Court (FSC) denied Michael Orme’s claim that the 30-year delay between his offense and his sentencing violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This was not the first time the FSC ahs denied constitutional claims related to the time a prisoner has spent on death row. In light of the Court’s decision, this post reviews other authorities discussing the time prisoners spend on death row between their offense and execution and then analyzes how long the ~300 prisoners on Florida’s death row have been there./lets-go-lego.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lets-go-lego.htmlLego enthusiasts of every size, shape, and color can start, rekindle or keep growing their love of the hobby- or addiction- depending upon one’s viewpoint of Lego bricks starting March 8 at Bricks & Minifigs, 3436 Heritage Club Drive. The store is a franchise authorized to resell Lego bricks, including those from people’s private collections or retired Lego models and kits no longer available at official LEGO stores, LEGOLAND, or retailers such as Target or Walmart./letter-180-chi-fu-huang-2013.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-180-chi-fu-huang-2013.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./letter-62-eric-vishria-2013.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/letter-62-eric-vishria-2013.htmlHi everyone! Due to popular request (and a few persistent individuals), I’ll be restarting this newsletter, but with a few changes. Most notably, rather than sending “A Letter a Day”, I’ll be sharing a letter or transcript twice a week, once on Tuesday afternoon (2:22pm) and once on Saturday morning (6:06am). Second, I’m expanding the scope of the newsletter to include a broader range of subjects, but still focused on thought-provoking investors (across venture, hedge funds, and private equity), founders (not just tech), and operators (sales, marketing, product, etc./lifes-been-good-by-joe-walsh.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lifes-been-good-by-joe-walsh.htmlBefore returning to Dartmouth, I had the privilege of seeing Eagles perform at Madison Square Garden. Vince Gill, Don Henley, Deacon Frey (original member Glenn Frey’s son), Randy Meisner, Timothy Schmit, and Joe Walsh rivaled a choir of angels. It would not be an overstatement to describe the concert as transcendental. Vince Gill’s rendition of “Take It To The Limit” had me in tears—along with half of the audience. But not all Eagles songs are so poignant; some of their songs convey weighty messages in playful, almost childlike fashion./like-oh-like-oops.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/like-oh-like-oops.htmlHi Loners, Recently, someone asked me if I practiced every day, and I laughed out loud. Later, I couldn’t stop thinking about how rude I must have seemed, overconfident even about my abilities. The truth is that I hate to practice, just like I dislike working out, though once I’m back in the habit of running, the feeling of dread or nagging procrastination fades somewhat the more I do it./lwotc-class-builds-spark.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/lwotc-class-builds-spark.htmlNote: This post is a revised version of my Long War 2 Spark build, with changes to the text/build as appropriate for the new rules and skills in LWOTC. All changes to the rules/mechanics of LW2 are displayed in bold. LWOTC Ufopaedia: Spark One of the best things about LWOTC is how it improves upon the Spark class with only a few minor tweaks. First, and most important, is that you can acquire a Spark much earlier in the campaign./make-believe-bonus-b-komachi-specials.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/make-believe-bonus-b-komachi-specials.htmlVia the Sushiro website Oshi No Ko belongs to the rare class of creative franchise where the content of the work itself feels like it should be completely incompatible with commercial tie-ups…and yet, the characters from a series exploring the dark side of Japanese entertainment appear everywhere. They grace the boxes of chocolates on sale at Seven-Eleven. The character Kana Arima graced DyDo vending machines across the country last summer. The Yomiuri Giants baseball club had an Oshi No Ko day, featuring the voice actors throwing the first pitch./meet-shanti-devi-the-reincarnation.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/meet-shanti-devi-the-reincarnation.htmlIt is one of the most well-documented cases of reincarnation in modern studies and definitely one of the most convincing, studied by hundreds of researchers, critics, scholars, saints, and eminent public figures from all parts of India and abroad. I spent the entire last week reading stuff around this topic. It was a lot of fun knowing something one doesn’t get to interact with a lot. This Sunday, I published the story of Barbro Karlén, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Anne Frank./men-can-heal.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/men-can-heal.htmlTop line: We need a massive national effort to get men to move into jobs in the growing fields of health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL), equivalent to the successful campaign to get women into STEM. Stat of the week: Just 5% of psychologists under the age of 30 are men. Chart of the week Why it matters: Getting men into HEAL would be good for them (because there are many jobs there), good for the professions (because they face labor shortages), and good for the boys and men using those services (because they often prefer a male provider)./miami-vice-season-one.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/miami-vice-season-one.htmlIn the memory of the culture, Miami Vice was a fun, colorful, kitschy buddy cop show set to 80s rock. This isn’t entirely wrong. Great cars and clothes, terrific production values—in fact I’d say it’s the best-looking series ever made. But this misses a huge component of what makes the series memorable. It’s the same component found in producer/director Michael Mann’s films, like Heat, Thief, The Insider, and Collateral. The show, like those films, is about people so driven they lose sight of who they are./michael-clayton-2007.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/michael-clayton-2007.html¡Bienvenido de nuevo a ILTBTA! (Sorry, we just got back from a wedding in Mexico.) For this installment we watched Michael Clayton, a 2007 legal thriller starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton. Were we able to resist George Clooney’s charm and focus on the actual movie? Grab a red-covered book and find out! What, if anything, did we know about this coming attraction before we watched it? Ellen: No plots, head empty./monicaunplugged.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/monicaunplugged.htmlMonica HarrisAs an author, speaker and changemaker, I reflect on the social, political and economic challenges of our times; advocate for an awakening to the forces that divide and distract us; and search for meaningful solutions that serve our shared interests. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja67zaKamq2epbm2s8aemw%3D%3D/moral-realism.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/moral-realism.htmlMoral realism is the view that there are facts of the matter about which actions are right and which wrong, and about which things are good and which bad. (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy) It is only a slight exaggeration to say that almost everyone believes in moral realism and almost everyone, at least in the circles I usually move in, denies believing in it. Everyone, with the possible exception of psychopaths, feels that some things — stealing from a friend who trusts you, for example — are wrong, not just illegal or imprudent but wrong./more-evidence-that-rfk-junior-is.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/more-evidence-that-rfk-junior-is.html?Be nice? you say? to the best of my knowledge, I have never NOT been "nice" to posters here, so your aggressive attitude to my post is unnecessary. As to your "show me your blind and polio ridden children..." comment, even with its somewhat callous tone, I have to say that I cannot "show you my" children with bodies damaged by measles or polio because after VACCINES were developed for those diseases, the number of children (or adults) with bodies and lives damaged by DISEASE, not vaccinations, became almost nil./morgan-stanley-backed-tomocredit.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/morgan-stanley-backed-tomocredit.htmlHey all, Jason here. Somehow, we’re closing in on the end of February already! Just two weeks from now, I’ll be kicking off the spring conference season, attending Fintech Meetup in Las Vegas. I’ll be moderating two session there on — you guessed it! — banking-as-a-service: one Monday at 1:00pm and the other Tuesday at 9:15am (full agenda here.) I’ve already put together outlines for the sessions, so hopefully not too much in BaaS world changes between now and then…!/my-favorite-bookish-and-capacious.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-favorite-bookish-and-capacious.htmlForget Chloe. And Longchamp. And most definitely Prada. Book people adore a much simpler accessory that rarely costs more than $20: the literary-themed canvas tote. No joke. I’ve come to rely on several in my collection and not just as carryalls to haul groceries home. So while I rock a boho purse when I’m running errands or going out, I use my favorite canvas totes to schlep all my writing gear from one workplace to another./my-five-reasons-jamaica-is-still.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-five-reasons-jamaica-is-still.htmlGrowing up in Jamaica, I never really understood the notion of Jamaica being a Third World country. When I left for America in 2015 for college, I remember hearing that I was referred to as a 'minority' in America. Hearing this made me feel inferior, but I did not see myself as inferior while growing up in Jamaica. Though we had our issues with colorism and social class prejudices, I had never felt as though I was being systematically oppressed—not like American blacks expressed, at least./my-grandfathers-eulogy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-grandfathers-eulogy.htmlLast week, I wrote about what to wear to my grandfather’s funeral. On Saturday, 90 of Charles William Shackelford’s family and friends gathered in southern California to celebrate his life. Here is the eulogy I gave for my beloved Grandpa Chuck at his memorial. In, 2019, I asked my grandfather to tell me the story of his life. Here’s what he said: “Baby of the family. Youngest of six boys and two girls./amanda-hess-new-york-times-interview.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/amanda-hess-new-york-times-interview.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 Amanda Hess, a critic-at-large at The New York Times, where she covers pop and internet culture. She is currently writing her first book, a work of memoir and cultural criticism about her relationship with the internet and the digital identity crisis she experienced as a new mother under the influence of popular technologies./my-kindle-thinks-im-stupid-now.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-kindle-thinks-im-stupid-now.htmlGreetings from Read Max HQ, directly beneath the dreaded Heat Dome. This week’s edition is a guest post about spooky Kindle A.I. slop from Leah Beckmann, an L.A.-based screenwriter and journalist and Chief Kindle Bullshit Correspondent for Read Max. But first, some self-promotion I was on TrueAnon again this week, “chopping it up” on the subjects of Leopold Aschenbrenner, A.I., and my time as a “CTY” camper at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Penn./my-next-book-is-about-the-rise-and.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-next-book-is-about-the-rise-and.htmlMy next book is PLAY NICE: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, coming October 8 to bookstores everywhere. You can preorder it right here. (Allow me to recommend you do so at your local indie bookstore!) Blizzard Entertainment is the video game company behind StarCraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft. Any company would kill to have just one of those franchises — Blizzard developed five. For many years, it was one of the most beloved video game companies on the planet./my-resignation.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-resignation.htmlI have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine.   The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers./my-twloha-exit-was-announced-two.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/my-twloha-exit-was-announced-two.htmlThe first gray hairs started showing up before I was old enough to buy a beer. Heck, I wasn’t even old enough to vote and suddenly old-person things were happening on my head. I wasn't ready. For a while I shaved it. All the way, meaning bald. My hair wasn’t thinning—that would come later—but in removing everything, I didn’t have to face the gray. At the same time I was something of a prodigy./neon-genesis-evangelion-and-existentialism.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/neon-genesis-evangelion-and-existentialism.htmlAfter reading the attached script, what do you think about the name “Animated Ethics” for the channel? Let me know in the comments! “Shinji, get in the robot!” Neon Genesis: Evangelion, the single-season 1995 hit anime written by Hideaki Anno, is one of the most popular of the mecha genre and one of the most popular cartoons of all time—bar none. It has made an estimated $16.6 billion in pachinko sales, merchandise, and home entertainment (cite)./new-release-heartless-hunter.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/new-release-heartless-hunter.htmlHeartless Hunter is out today and I’m so excited for you to finally meet Rune and Gideon. This last month has been a whirlwind of emotions but the day has finally come to let this story (and those emotions) go as the book finds its way into the world. Heartless Hunter is my nod to The Scarlet Pimpernel. It is also my most inspired book in that I wrote the first draft in three months, and the final version hitting shelves today looks almost identical to that first iteration./no-agnes-sleeping-with-your-students.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-agnes-sleeping-with-your-students.htmlSome years ago, I invented a law, like Godwin’s or Poe’s. The law stipulates that the more often an individual accuses others of being “putrid mutts,” the more likely they themselves could be described accurately in those terms. This is not merely an argument about projection. For those of you who are not working-class Australians, it is difficult to articulate the wealth of connotations that figure of speech carries, and how using it implicates the individual./noel-redding-on-jimi-hendrixs-red.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/noel-redding-on-jimi-hendrixs-red.htmlSoon after Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in 1966, Noel Redding became the first recruit for his as-yet-unnamed band. Until then, Noel had been a lead guitarist; he’d just auditioned for the Animals. Jimi’s benefactor in England, Chas Chandler, had until recently been the bassist in the Animals. Redding agreed to give bass a try, and on September 29, 1966, after jamming on “Hey Joe” and “Have Mercy on Me Baby,” Jimi asked Noel to join his band./time-machine-npb-games-fit-to-be.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/time-machine-npb-games-fit-to-be.htmlThis story originally ran in the Japanese newspaper Yukan Fuji in 2018. TOKYO — One of the major differences between professional baseball in the United States and Japan is the matter of tie baseball games. In MLB, ties are not allowed. Games must be played until one team defeats the other, no matter how long it takes.  In Japan, ties have always been part of the game, something American gaijin players in NPB have a hard time understanding./oyster-glazed-wings.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/oyster-glazed-wings.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’m currently working on a campaign with Lee Kum Kee to join their #LLKOysterSauceChallenge and this is what I came up with. Oyster sauce is a sweet and salty condiment made primarily from oyster juices, salt, and sugar./palantir-baby.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/palantir-baby.htmlAlright, it’s time we publish a newsletter. First off — sorry I haven’t sent out one of these since Q4 Earnings. If you’ve kept up with my YouTube channel, I have literally been live everyday for almost 10 hours. One day, we did 9 hours straight. The reason? Palantir kept going up, so I kept streaming. Me and 1100 other people watched that stock go up tick by tick from $19 to $25…and it’s been a really fun ride./palatial-wayland-brewing-nears-open.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/palatial-wayland-brewing-nears-open.htmlPJ Dunn remembers the exact moment he was ready to give up on his dream of opening a brewery. A longtime homebrewer, Dunn worked for three years at Buffalo’s well-regarded Thin Man Brewery in a few different roles. But as he entered his late 30s and with two young children, he thought the time was right to move on. But just a week after talking with his wife and telling her he was ready for the next chapter, he received an unexpected direct message that changed everything./passover-hack-fry-your-matzo.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/passover-hack-fry-your-matzo.htmlHear me out: This Passover, you should be frying your matzo. I don’t mean matzo brei, though you should be making that too, of course. I mean literally sizzling matzo boards in oil until they turn light and crisp. I only recently experienced this bit of matzo magic. For the last several months I’ve been helping test recipes for a forthcoming Mexican Jewish cookbook. The book is being co-written by two professors, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle, who collected more than 100 recipes (and the history that goes with them), from Jewish home cooks and chefs across Mexico./paul-butterfield.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/paul-butterfield.htmlIf it weren’t for Paul Butterfield I wouldn’t be here today…. -B.B. King Back in the 1970s when I was in junior high school, I started playing the harmonica. One day, my mom brought home two albums she’d picked up at K-Mart. One by Big Walter Horton and the other by B.B. King. Besides a John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album I saw in my older brother’s record collection, they were the first two blues records I had ever seen./people-dont-change-unless-they-want.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/people-dont-change-unless-they-want.htmlRead Time: ~8 minutes A few months ago I got into a heated debate with a couple of my friends. The topic of this debate was a classic open-ended question without any real answers, so in other words, great bar conversation. The question was “Do people change?” At the time, my argument was in favor of a firm no. I felt, while I acknowledge that I had definitely matured and grown up a lot in the last 10 years, that fundamentally people remain the same throughout their adult lives./peter-sellers-and-the-case-of-the-missing-near-death-experience-12ac4711f772.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/peter-sellers-and-the-case-of-the-missing-near-death-experience-12ac4711f772.html“I saw an incredibly beautiful bright loving white light above me. I wanted to go to that white light more than anything.” The British actor Peter Sellers was one of the world’s great comedic geniuses. Like many comedians—and creative people in general—he was also a complex and sometimes very troubled human being, with psychologically crippling low self-esteem. In 1964, at only 38 years of age, Sellers suffered a series eight heart attacks over a period of just three hours./phish-returns-to-spac-over-a-raucous.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/phish-returns-to-spac-over-a-raucous.htmlIt would be easy to say that, heading in to the doubleheader of Flood Recovery Benefit shows held by Phish at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, it would be hard to know what to expect - but then, when isn’t that the case with Phish? To be sure, there were reasons to believe that the weekend could be a special one: Given the scale of venue they usually play, SPAC is probably the closest Phish will ever get to performing in their home state of Vermont in this era./pictures-of-some-weird-computer-keyboards.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/pictures-of-some-weird-computer-keyboards.htmlWhat follows are pictures of funky computer keyboards. Why? Because keyboards are cool. And some of these are just plain weird (and awesome). ncG1vNJzZmikpaOxtrfEZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZL2qr9OuqZ6rXaSzbr%2FOppxmr5Wev6V5wqikqa2kmr9ut8SymaiZopnA/kamilla-cardoso-and-nika-muhl-piling.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kamilla-cardoso-and-nika-muhl-piling.htmlSubscribe The NIL era is here to stay. Ever since the NCAA ruled that student-athletes would be allowed to monetize off their Name, Image, and Likeness, millions (and perhaps billions) of dollars have been poured into kids who, up until three years ago, would be drawing similar dollar amounts for their schools while making… nil. In these early years of NIL investments, a big chunk has been designated to women’s basketball college players, such as the likes of Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston, Paige Bueckers and Cameron Brink, high profile names who have signed with major brands and, in the case of Reese and Clark, banked way over $1 million in endorsement deals./say-boa-noite-to-portuguese-tomato.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/say-boa-noite-to-portuguese-tomato.htmlLet me tell you one thing straight: this dish is better than risotto. A lot better. Why? Because it doesn’t expect too much from you. There’s no stirring, it’s light on the wallet, and it’s perfect for the heat, ‘cause it’ll replenish all those sweats with its salty, refreshing tomatoey-ness.  I first tried it at an amazing restaurant called O Buraco in Porto. The kind of establishment where husbands and wives dine while watching game shows or football from a TV in the corner./post-malone-austin-album-cover-review.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/post-malone-austin-album-cover-review.htmlA Post Malone album cover announcement has always been special, but this time, it feels a bit different. Loading... AUSTIN is Post Malone’s fifth studio album, and will be released July 28, 2023. As of writing this, the album, tour, and cover were all announced the other day, so this review is hot off the presses. Depicted is a shirtless, blue jeaned Post Malone with his feet dangling in a private pool./prince-wrote-manic-monday-for-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prince-wrote-manic-monday-for-the.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. Signing up for a paid subscription for $5/month or $43.33/year helps Micro-Chop provide loyal readers with new and exclusive articles and interviews. Give feedback, send questions, or just say hi by emailing me at gino@bookshelfbeats.com. Prince’s catalog is so awe-inspiring in size, scope, and influence that it’s impossible to quantify in a meaningful way./professor-mike-adams-suicide-still.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/professor-mike-adams-suicide-still.htmlIt's been more than three years since former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor Mike Adams killed himself after being pushed into early retirement for offensive tweets. My friend David French and my colleague Robert Shibley wrote powerful articles about it at the time, but I also wanted to say my piece. I first met Mike Adams back in 2001, when he was under investigation for responding dismissively to a student who was, as Mike summarized later, “blaming the 9/11 attacks on the United States Government,” all while the rubble was literally still smoking./hellomaryloupromnight2.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/hellomaryloupromnight2.htmlMuch ado has been made of Troll 2* over the last decade or two. And for good reason: It’s one of the worst movies ever made, in the absolute best way. (If you know, you know.) Part of the charm of Troll 2, which is not directly evident from the film itself but has become a staple of its lore, is that it has absolutely nothing to do with Troll. (And Troll is actually pretty good!/psychologist-guy-winch-knows-how.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/psychologist-guy-winch-knows-how.htmlThe first week after my breakup, I listened to psychologist Guy Winch’s Ted Talk over and over. Then I read his book on the same topic, How to Fix a Broken Heart. (You can read more of my thoughts on it here.) He writes about society’s tendency to dismiss emotional pain in adults, specifically the deep pain of heartbreak and pet loss. Winch says, “Surviving heartbreak isn’t a journey, it’s a fight./quiet-treason.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/quiet-treason.html“I was supposed to be sent away but they forgot to come and get me I was a functioning alcoholic ‘til nobody noticed my new aesthetic All of this to say I hope you’re okay, but you’re the reason And no one here’s to blame but what about your quiet treason…” — Taylor Swift, “Fortnight” there comes a day when you say goodbye, in deceptive stages, my friend jimmy would laugh, “we fooled ‘em again,” after every sold-out show,/rayan-ait-nouri-anthony-gordon-gordon.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/rayan-ait-nouri-anthony-gordon-gordon.htmlLong-time readers will know that super-fast attacking left-back Rayan Aït-Nouri is a player I’ve liked for years now, and who has been linked with the Reds this week. Interestingly, as I was about to hit publish, Liverpool are reported to have agreed a £100m deal for Anthony Gordon, a super-fast left-sided attacker who is now scoring and creating, and who started out as a Liverpool fan. Albeit the deal is also reported to have fallen through./ready-for-some-dark-side-classics.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ready-for-some-dark-side-classics.htmlRecent postings on the “Dark Side” theme reminded me of a idea I’d like to bounce off of you, as a loyal SCA reader: What might you think of my camp-cruising motorboat vision—a small boat with modest outboard that draws raves at the launch ramp, and allows some of us to gracefully transition from sail to power…without shame or embarrassment (?) Here’s the idea—probably harebrained, maybe brilliant—for your consideration: Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, there was a surge of interest in small, trailerable outboard boats—mostly “express cruiser” designs in the 15’ to 21’ range./film-room-49ers-play-action-brock-purdy-injury.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/film-room-49ers-play-action-brock-purdy-injury.htmlIn late February, national media reported that Brock Purdy is going to delay having surgery on his elbow because of persistent inflammation at the injury site, potentially delaying his return to action until sometime well into the preseason and jeopardizing his status for week 1 of the 2023 season. He surgery was scheduled for yesterday in Texas provided the swelling had gone down enough for his doctor, the Texas Rangers team physician, to operate on him and determine what repair needs to be done, either Tommy John surgery, or a ligament brace, or a hybrid of the two./red-spotted-purple-butterfly.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/red-spotted-purple-butterfly.htmlIn the Juniper tree at the edge of my driveway was the most perfect Red-spotted Purple butterfly I’d ever seen. It must have been fresh out of its chrysalis. Its wings were pristine, and a wispy fur draped the central part of its body like the sheerest veil. I was awed to find a butterfly in such great condition. I noticed that another butterfly was suspended head downward below the first./reggie-crawford-debuts.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/reggie-crawford-debuts.htmlAs predicted in Monday’s weekend wrap, Reggie Crawford was added to the Richmond roster yesterday — and the Giants wasted no time getting him into his first action of the year. The big left-hander earned his way to the Eastern League by reportedly throwing some extreme lights out ball in extended camp — I heard the fastball had been sitting in the 96-100 range in short outings, and the slider was busy buckling knees./remembering-the-teen-base-running.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/remembering-the-teen-base-running.htmlI DIDN’T KNOW their names. I only knew I was jealous watching them, those two bold 17-year-olds in bell bottoms making an unsanctioned cameo on the field when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record. If you were among the 55,773 other fans at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium on April 8, 1974, or, as I was, in one of the 14.7 million households with TV sets tuned to the game that night, chances are you remember the bushy-haired teens patting Aaron on the back after he crossed second base./resurrecting-hinds-hall.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/resurrecting-hinds-hall.htmlOn May 7, 2024, an Israeli tank intentionally crushed the “I love Gaza” sign near the Egyptian-Gaza border crossing as the military expanded its assault of the city of Rafah. Israel’s attack on Rafah began the day before with aerial assaults and warnings to civilians to flee. That same day chart-topping, anti-racist American rapper, Macklemore released the song and music video, “Hind’s Hall,” condemning the dehumanization of Palestinians. The song also defiantly defends the college students’ protests against U./review-a-murder-at-the-end-of-the-726.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-a-murder-at-the-end-of-the-726.htmlDarby Hart is not doing well. The after-effects of her concussion have sent her reeling more than once—double vision, blurriness, foggy thinking—but she repeatedly ignores the warnings of everyone trying to get her to recuperate. She’s blundered into accusations, pissed off just about all the major players in this drama, and had her life threatened if she doesn’t stop. Then, of course, she doesn’t stop—and her life really gets threatened./review-barry-a-nice-meal-season-4.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-barry-a-nice-meal-season-4.htmlTurns out, all Barry needed to get back into focus was for the characters to re-enter one another’s orbit. We’re still waiting on a few (likely explosive) reunions, but tonight’s episode had all the major players back in L.A., with predictably catastrophic results. At this point, Barry, Sally, Gene, Fuches, and NoHo Hank are all well-drawn enough that they can support storylines on their own, but this can be a trap; just because a character can work in isolation doesn’t mean that they should./review-clone-high-lets-try-this-again.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-clone-high-lets-try-this-again.htmlWelcome to Episodic Medium’s weekly coverage of Clone High, which debuts on Max today before returning on June 1. As always, the first review is available to all, but subsequent reviews will only be available to paid subscribers. You can check out our full Summer schedule here, and learn more about the site and its mission on our About page. It would be absurd to suggest that Clone High ever took itself seriously./review-fargo-insolubilia-year-5-episode.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-fargo-insolubilia-year-5-episode.htmlAs I mentioned back in my review of the season premiere, it’s not easy to construct and stage sequences of action and suspense that can compete with, say, the failed assassination attempt on Leo O’Bannon in Miller’s Crossing or the cat-and-mouse at the border hotel between Moss and Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. And I would never argue that Noah Hawley—or the director of this week’s Fargo episode, Donald Murphy—is on the same level as the Coen brothers./review-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-its.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-its.htmlI’ve been thinking a lot about why this season of Feud isn’t working. The biggest reason? There may not be a story to pull from this material. This wasn’t the case with the first Feud season. Some of my friends who are big fans of old Hollywood (as I am) were bothered by that season’s reckless gossip and loose approach to showbiz history. Myself, I found it to be a mostly truthful slice of movie star life, using the details and drama inherent to the making of one memorable, influential film (as well as what immediately preceded and followed) as a way to explore how famous women are often held to impossible standards./review-only-murders-in-the-building-9ea.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-only-murders-in-the-building-9ea.html“It’s tough to lose friends at your age.” Only Murders in the Building likes to change its central narrator, although it rarely does so in a substantive way: for example, Kimber was our point-of-view for a critical episode earlier in the season, but once she was removed as a suspect it’s as if she wasn’t even a part of the show, whether due to scheduling commitments or simply disinterest on the part of the writers./review-rick-and-morty-rise-of-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-rick-and-morty-rise-of-the.htmlOnce upon a time, there was a television show called South Park. There still is a television show called South Park, but for the purposes of this bit, let’s just focus on the past. Back in the halcyon days of the late ‘90s, South Park was wildly popular for its transgressive humor, its willingness to take on “any” target, and, occasionally, its storytelling. It was a show that mocked you for caring about it, but still somehow managed to earn its audience’s investment./review-survivor-no-man-left-behind.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-survivor-no-man-left-behind.htmlThe “Previously On” sequence that opens tonight’s episode of Survivor is a luxury the show couldn’t afford before 90-minute episodes, at least this early in the season, and it made a conscious effort to pretend that there have been meaningful storylines coming out of Reba and Belo. The longer episodes did enable a general sketching out of the dynamics—Katurah’s one-sided feud with Bruce at Belo, and Austin’s Beware Advantage at Reba—that we get reminded of here, but there’s just no way for those details to feel like stories when they completely fall out after the immunity challenge./review-ted-lasso-la-locker-room-aux.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-ted-lasso-la-locker-room-aux.html“They’re not just footballers. They’re also people.” At the beginning of this season, Ted Lasso upped a number of Richmond’s players to series regular status. This doesn’t always necessarily mean an increase in attention: Christo Fernandez, for instance, hasn’t really had much more to do with Dani than he did last season. However, for those paying attention to the opening credits, it definitely raised the expectation that we’d be more invested in their lives both on and off the pitch as the season progressed./review-the-gilded-age-some-sort-of.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/review-the-gilded-age-some-sort-of.htmlWe drift through the Russell mansion hearing Bertha yell at George, from behind closed doors, to reason with their daughter. As George emerges and strides toward Gladys’ door, we imagine Oscar’s secret advances must have caused this outburst. But no—it’s that Gladys doesn’t want to come to Newport with the family. Those are the opening moments of “Some Sort of Trick,” and immediately we know we’re in for a great time./ri-supreme-court-orders-parole-board.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/ri-supreme-court-orders-parole-board.htmlFrom an ACLU of RI press release: In a major victory for criminal justice reform and the rights of youthful offenders, the Rhode Island Supreme Court today ruled that Mario Monteiro and other similarly situated teenagers and young adults are eligible for parole consideration for release to the community after serving twenty years. The ruling was issued in cases filed by the ACLU of RI last year after the State took the position that a 2021 statute enacted by the General Assembly designed to give young offenders serving lengthy sentences a chance for early release on parole, and which was overtly intended to help Monteiro, did not apply to him or the others./richard-norton-smith-podcast.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/richard-norton-smith-podcast.htmlRichard Norton Smith is at the top tier of American presidential historians. He is the author of the highly acclaimed new biography: An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. Smith is widely recognized for his regular appearances on the PBS News Hour, as well as a historical commentator on CBS and other networks. He’s a familiar and beloved guide to history on CSPAN./consumer-guide-september-2023.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/consumer-guide-september-2023.htmlShare And It Don't Stop Atmosphere: Sad Clown Bad Dub II (Rhymesayers) The II is to distinguish this (identical? revised? improved? dunno) version from the “bootleg” fans get to buy at shows, said to be a crucial element of the satisfaction it affords (“Body Pillow,” “Hells Playground”) * Rodney Crowell: The Chicago Sessions (New West) Ten love songs so varied and intermittentl… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5eys8DCoamiq6ScrrZ60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnk6S7tMHMnqlmn6WesaZ50p6nrZ2dl7KzeZFpaWw%3D/run-for-gender-equality-proves-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/run-for-gender-equality-proves-the.htmlSame prize for running less kilometres, all to prove gender equality! It makes complete sense. Also, satire is dead! A mini-marathon to raise support for “Gender Equality” has the men running 10km and the women running 5km. If that doesn’t prove there’s no difference between males and females, nothing will. Maybe the ladies only wanted 5km of equality. In addition, it means the ladies will likely finish before the men, thus proving women are as physically capable, if not more-so./sable-starr.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sable-starr.htmlI would like to tell everyone about Sable Starr. She was born in California & lost her virginity to Randy California, guitarist of the band Spirit, when she was only twelve. When she was thirteen, she slept with Iggy Pop as cited in his song “Look Away.” I slept with Sable when she was 13 Her parents were too rich to do anything She then had her moments with Mick Jagger, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, & even the boy from T Rex until she eventually moved to New York with Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls./salmon-bisque.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/salmon-bisque.htmlIf you’re looking to zhuzh up your dinner rotation, let me introduce to my salmon bisque recipe. This dish offers a more approachable alternative to the classic French bisque traditional made using shellfish. To make salmon bisque, celery, carrots and onions are cooked until tender, simmered with toasty tomato paste, then blended with cream until smooth and velvety. The soup is finished with roasted salmon flakes and fresh chives. While it has a very luxurious feel, this dish couldn’t be easier to achieve on a busy weeknight./scientific-american-goes-woke.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/scientific-american-goes-woke.htmlIn April of 2001 I began my monthly Skeptic column at Scientific American, the longest continuously published magazine in the country dating back to 1845. With Stephen Jay Gould as my role model (and subsequent friend), it was my dream to match his 300 consecutive columns that he achieved at Natural History magazine, which would have taken me to April, 2026. Alas, my streak ended in January of 2019 after a run of 214 essays./shaun-king-banned-from-instagram.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shaun-king-banned-from-instagram.htmlI agree, King should be re-instated, if only for the fact free speech should be a human right. I don't agree with his position, although, it should be heard. The reality that many people forget is that history dictates savagery is responded to with a tenfold blowback. Case in point Oct 7, no amount of screaming, faux outrage or lobbying, pressure and literary commentary is going to stop Israels retaliation./shogun-2024-episode-vii.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shogun-2024-episode-vii.htmlCatch up on Shogun: We’re at the all hope is lost part of this story. And they’re making us sit with it for a whole week. Dastardly, I must say. In the age of binging, it feels almost obscene to not let us know what happens next. To not let the next episode roll over after the typical five seconds forces us to sit with what we just witnessed. Nagakado, dead./shohei-ohtani-just-signed-the-biggest.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shohei-ohtani-just-signed-the-biggest.htmlDear readers, Thanks for bearing with us as we’ve been on a slight hiatus — with our other jobs and the holidays approaching, this week made the most sense to get you our A-game: some aspirationally sharp analysis that we hope you’ve come to expect! This week, we’re digesting the largest contract in professional sports history — or was it?  Happy reading. -Ian and Calder On Monday, two-way baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani signed the biggest contract in sports history with the Los Angeles Dodgers: $700 million over 10 years./shortly-the-ai-powered-writing-assistant.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/shortly-the-ai-powered-writing-assistant.html👋 Welcome to The Exit Game. I cover the stories of amazing founders to demystify startup acquisitions for founders, investors and operators alike. Subscribe to keep updated with future posts Estimated reading time: 13 minutes It would be impressive if I told you a solo founder sold their first startup whilst running it as a one-man band. It would be even more impressive if I told you he worked on this part-time whilst going through medical school./singlehanding-techniques-on-a-west.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/singlehanding-techniques-on-a-west.htmlWe have a couple of other sailboats that she will not go near (“what if it flips over?”), but she feels comfortable in the Potter 19. We occasionally sail with friends, but generally it is just the two of us, or me and Sadie (our Lab/Golden mix). I end up sailing alone sometimes because I enjoy sailing in high winds and rough water, and most of our friends are not sailors and do not have the same appreciation for such things./skip-scarborough-november-26-1944-july-3-2003.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/skip-scarborough-november-26-1944-july-3-2003.htmlView most updated version of this post on Substack.Open YouTube playlist of all songs in this post.Share Skip Scarborough was a multi-talented songwriter and producer who wrote or co-wrote some of the most cherished, beautiful love songs of the 1970s, including Earth Wind & Fire’s “Can't Hide Love,” “Love Ballad” by L.T.D., and “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers. Clarence Alexander “Skip” Scarborough was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He moved to Los Angeles to attend medical school at UCLA, while writing songs in his spare time./slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast.htmlThe other day, I was eating a ham sandwich at my desk. At the same time, I was also reading an article….while jotting down an outline for a future post. In the heat of the moment, it didn’t occur to me the absurdity of what I was doing, until it came time to swallow. I nearly choked. Thankfully, my food didn’t get caught in my windpipe, but I should have known better./something-streaming-this-way-comes-224.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/something-streaming-this-way-comes-224.htmlIt can’t possibly be any sort of surprise to anyone reading this newsletter that I’ve been a pop culture fan for virtually as long as I’ve been alive. I started to study books of trivia and absorbed the various volumes of The Book of Lists before I’d even hit double digits, and I’ve lost count of how many books I bought or checked out of the library that were about movies, TV series, and even radio shows that began well before I was born./song-early-morning-late-evening.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/song-early-morning-late-evening.htmlthis little melody has been kicking around in my head for a good while. Lane and I first sang it together almost 9 years ago, before the wedding of some good friends… LYRICS I wanna wake up early in the morning and see you are good you are goooooooooooood I wanna work in the heat of the day and say you are good you are goooooooooooood I wanna stay up late in the evening/sonics-30th-anniversary-sonic-adventure.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sonics-30th-anniversary-sonic-adventure.htmlOn June 23, 2021, Sonic the Hedgehog turned 30 years old. I’ve spent the week looking back at some of Sonic’s finest outings across those 30 years, one from each era of the anthropomorphic hedgehog’s existence. First up was the original Sonic the Hedgehog, then the last Sonic game to appear on a Sega console, Sonic Adventure 2, and last, the best Sonic Game since his heyday, Sonic Colors. Sonic Adventure 2, the blue hedgehog’s finest hour on the Dreamcast, released after Sega had already officially left the console business behind./the-allman-brothers-band-southbound.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-allman-brothers-band-southbound.htmlPeter Buck heard things differently. His musical preferences were not those expected of a suburban Atlanta teenager. Among his favorite bands were Iggy and the Stooges, Crazy Horse, and the Velvet Underground. In a conversation with rock journalist Anthony DeCurtis, Buck recalled marching to his own drummer, “Living in Roswell, Georgia, in 1971, everyone liked the Allman Brothers. I can’t tell you why; that’s all there was to it. It was a law./sports-bras-for-big-boobs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sports-bras-for-big-boobs.htmlExercise is for everyone, but sometimes it doesn’t feel that way. It’s only very recently that sportswear brands have started using diverse models that are anything other than a size 6 - and it was only in 2019 that Nike were attacked for using plus size mannequins in their shops. The a… ncG1vNJzZmiaoq68r8XGqKmdp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oqqmnoqnAbq7Rmqpmnp%2BneqO1xmaZqKeSqA%3D%3D/stable-diffusion-sdxl-09.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/stable-diffusion-sdxl-09.htmlStability AI just debuted its latest version of Stable Diffusion. And while I mostly teach and utilize Midjourney because of the quality of output, Stable Diffusion is closing the gap with SDXL 0.9. They're boasting about cooking up images with fewer prompts and even conjuring words within these images. The first part, I'm a bit skeptical about—but the l… ncG1vNJzZmiclai2qLrIp56woaSdrqp60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlno6muo7jEZpuinpaqwKq7zWaqnbCcYn16i9StpJillZm2trmcq5yanJWnfw%3D%3D/star-wars-deceived-the-brutal-darth.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/star-wars-deceived-the-brutal-darth.htmlI just want to get it out there that the Old Republic era is my favorite era. We haven’t had a film or show centered around The Old Republic yet but there are several games and books dedicated to this Jedi vs. Sith war-time. The Old Republic is about 3 to 4 thousand years before A New Hope and expertly lays the groundwork for the dawn of the High Republic to its eventual demise and overthrow by the Empire./start-fresh-with-inktober52-2024.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/start-fresh-with-inktober52-2024.htmlHello there! I'm Sam Kempers (@samkempersart) and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to be the first featured artist of Inktober52 2024! I’m from the Netherlands and I specialize in illustration and comic book artistry. My artistic journey commenced at the tender age of one when my dear mother placed crayons and a substantial piece of paper in my hands—a moment that sparked my lifelong dedication to drawing. Immersed in the realm of imagination, my inspiration sprouted from the fantastical./state-capitalism-one-hundred-years.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/state-capitalism-one-hundred-years.htmlA few days ago I re-read the book of Lenin's final years’ speeches and letters. The book covers the years 1922 and 1923 (Lenin died in January 1924). I grabbed the book simply because I saw it on my bookshelf and having read it probably twenty years ago I could not remember exactly what was there, and thought, as I was proof-reading the section on inequality in socialism in my forthcoming “Visions of inequality”, that there could be something in the Lenin book that might be relevant for my chapter./steve-jobs-hated-pornographybut-couldnt.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/steve-jobs-hated-pornographybut-couldnt.htmlIn 2010 Steve Jobs created a bit of a sensation when he decided to ban from Apple devices any app that was deemed pornographic in nature. “Folks who want porn can buy an android,” Jobs famously wrote to one customer.   So what did Jobs have against porn? Walter Isaacson, in his highly impressive 2011 biography of Jobs, detailed a correspondence the Apple co-founder had with tech blogger Ryan Tate, who thought Jobs’ wish to give Apple users “freedom from porn” was hypocritical to Apple’s spirit of revolutionary freedom./surprising-ways-to-prompt-ai.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/surprising-ways-to-prompt-ai.htmlSummary: AI outputs can be disappointingly conventional. To avoid predictable responses, I like instructing AI engines to be strange. Unexpected, radical ideas can be useful for creative inspiration. Odd perspectives stretch my thinking. Read on for specific ways to prompt AI to break beyond its bland boundaries. When I’m in a creative rut, I paste in a section of writing and prompt AI to be bold and unconventional: “Offer five surprising, unexpected suggestions for specific ways to improve the following piece of writing./survivingnotthriving.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/survivingnotthriving.htmlSurviving, Not Thriving!Welcome to my Phil and Brodies (parents to 4 boys 5 and under) Surviving, Not Thriving newsletter where every week they share parenting, health, and fitness tips to help all parents survive the struggles of parenting a little easier! ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbTB0a%2Bgr6GenLuwwNOhqaKumaO0/susi-vidal-the-creator-of-onlypans.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/susi-vidal-the-creator-of-onlypans.htmlMeet Susi Vidal, a 22 year old based in Tucson, Arizona. She’s got almost 1M followers on TikTok and almost 150K followers on Instagram. So why do people follow her? Well, she’s the creator of OnlyPans, an idea that plays on the very popular subscription site OnlyFans but she makes cooking tutorial videos mixed in with a few well placed humorous jokes, she’s perfected the recipe for content that teaches people & makes them laugh./taco-bomb-arrives-in-linda-vista.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taco-bomb-arrives-in-linda-vista.htmlIn explaining the role of change in our lives, President John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.” Those words came to mind this past week as I learned of a big change to the Linda Vista eating landscape.  As some of you have already discovered, Linda Vista’s favorite Mexican food establishment, Super Bronco (at 6725 Linda Vista Road), recently changed hands, as well as its name, becoming Taco Bomb—Authentic Mexican Grill./taylor-swifts-whiteness-reminds-me.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/taylor-swifts-whiteness-reminds-me.htmlFor five days this month, Taylor Swift was a major presence about a mile from my house. I live in Philly, a mile from Lincoln Financial Field where she stopped for three nights for her long sold-out Eras Tour. When I opened my windows, I could hear her performing. If you’ve been living under a rock, Taylor Swift is a singer-songwriter who first gained recognition in the mid-2000s for her country music style and “relatable” lyrics./teen-drama-links-july-2-2024.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/teen-drama-links-july-2-2024.htmlWith “9021OMG” currently in the midst of rewatching the Dylan-Toni storyline on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” I have what may or may not be a hot take… If you haven’t watched (and what is wrong with you if that’s the case?!), there are spoilers ahead. A lot of non-Kelly/Dylan and non-Brenda/Dylan fans believe Toni was Dylan’s soulmate and the best woman suited to him. But I think had Toni not been killed and had the two gone on to live their lives as husband and wife as they intended, the marriage and relationship never would’ve lasted./tejay-van-garderen-joins-nbcs-coverage.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tejay-van-garderen-joins-nbcs-coverage.htmlNBC Sports announced that former professional cyclist Tejay van Garderen will join the network for its coverage of the Tour de France, which for the first time ever starts in Italy and ends in Nice, France. In between, there’s a record amount of climbing. Van Garderen replaces Sam Bewley, a former professional cyclist from New Zealand, who was in the studio last year even as he was employed by Team Israel - Premier Tech as a sports director./tessa-and-jays-relationship-compatibility.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tessa-and-jays-relationship-compatibility.htmlThis week, I went on Hidden Brain to talk about how we can become better readers of people. The answer, it turns out, is that we can’t. There is no magic school of perception that teaches people how to accurately interpret a sigh, a sideways glance, or a furrowed brow. Scientists have been trying to improve interpersonal accuracy for decades, and the only method that really works is to ask. What are you feeling right now?/thb-389-no-hard-feelings-spoilers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thb-389-no-hard-feelings-spoilers.htmlI have been rooting for the new Jennifer Lawrence comedy, No Hard Feelings, since the first teaser landed. Studios have under-delivered on comedy in theaters for a few years now and it needs to return. We have 4 this summer. The Blackening got off to a soft start and is pretty much exactly what the advertising offe… ncG1vNJzZmickau2pbzOpZinnF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn5tlY22GbrrOZp%2BaqpRis6axy6KloKtdqL2wtcueqaw%3D/thb-504-jonathan-glazers-oscar-speech.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thb-504-jonathan-glazers-oscar-speech.htmlI clicked on a bunch of links to outlets from The New York Times to BBC to The Guardian and on today, looking for a simple transcription of Jonathan Glazer’s brief acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest at last night’s Oscar show. Couldn’t find one. Every outlet seemed compelled to chop up the text with editorial that told or led readers to what to ma… ncG1vNJzZmickau2pbzOpZinnF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn5tlZWWBbrbOp5itoJGjeqi4wLOcq6tdpMCkrdFmqqmdlZi1/the-2023-alberta-provincial-election.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-2023-alberta-provincial-election.htmlBy: Evan Walker and Jared Wesley This research brief is produced by the Common Ground Team. The data is drawn from campaign period and post-election surveys conducted as part of the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem) study, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. INTRODUCTION In a province used to electoral landslides, Alberta’s most recent election was an anomaly. As the dust cleared on May 29, 2023, the incumbent United Conservatives (UCP) retained control of government, holding 49 of 87 legislative seats./the-art-of-the-deal-with-ben-mallah.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-art-of-the-deal-with-ben-mallah.htmlWelcome to the premium edition of Graham’s newsletter! Graham’s newsletter is now reader-supported and this article is one of the many perks paid subscribers have access to. This week’s article is a deep-dive into the $500 Million man Ben Mallah, distilling years of his insights on real estate, business, and adding value to people’s lives. At first glance, Ben Mallah is one of the loudest and most abrasive personalities you would ever meet – but if you spend a little time listening to him, you’d realize that beneath the tough exterior, there’s a burning desire to add value to people’s lives and share his extensive knowledge of real estate./the-audacity-of-dermot-mulroney.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-audacity-of-dermot-mulroney.htmlI was a tomboyish teenager who grew up wearing cargo pants and sneakers, listening to Nirvana, and priding myself on my love of edgy indie films like Eraserhead and El Topo. So imagine my surprise when, in my late teens, I happened across a mainstream romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts that changed my life forever. My Best Friend’s Wedding opened an unlikely door to what would become my sincere (and somewhat secret) appreciation for romcoms, especially when watched in the fall./the-bad-art-friend-and-the-real-art.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bad-art-friend-and-the-real-art.htmlIf you are done talking about the Bad Art Friend, you should probably close out this post and move along. If you don’t know about the Bad Art Friend, you can read the full article in the NY Times here, which asks you to pick which woman you think is more in the wrong— Dawn Dorland or Sonya Larson. But I warn you, you must read the whole thing before you form an opinion, because you will change your mind throughout the article and the worst offenses come at the end./the-best-scummvm-games.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-best-scummvm-games.htmlScummVM is one of my absolute favorite pieces of software. What started as a virtual machine for running SCUMM games (old Lucas Arts adventure titles), ScummVM has added numerous other game engines over the years — making it possible to run a huge number of amazing games. Plus… ScummVM runs on oh-so-many platforms. Windows, Mac, & Linux. Sure. That’s a given. But also PSP, Android, 3DS, Haiku, RISCOS, and Amiga among others./the-big-interview-lineth-beerensteyn.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-big-interview-lineth-beerensteyn.htmlOn a personal level, this season couldn’t be going much better for Juventus and Netherlands forward Lineth Beerensteyn. She’s been in the reckoning as one of the top scorers in Serie A for most of the season and was one of the driving forces for the Dutch in the new UEFA Nations League, finishing the group stage as the top scorer in League A with six goals across six games./the-bikeriders-review-austin-butler.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-bikeriders-review-austin-butler.htmlWhen I saw 2011’s Take Shelter, it blew me away. The film that brought director Jeff Nichols to prominence was deliberately ambiguous, beautifully acted and downright haunting. Since then, Nichols’ films have gotten more elaborate (with more A-list talent) and to quote 10 Things I Hate About You I’ve never felt more than “whelmed” by them. His latest film, the long-gestating The Bikeriders, sees Nichols create a percussive, intriguing exploration of motorcycle culture that lifts heavily from the work of Martin Scorsese./the-cherry-blossom-is-falling.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-cherry-blossom-is-falling.htmlThe cherry blossom is blowing in through open windows, sticking to windscreens, bonnets and wipers, entering homes on the soles of shoes, sprinkling itself over every pavement and path, leaving its legacy everywhere. It seems no time since the cherry trees in my neighbourhood exploded into full bloom, a glorious spell of April sunshine accentuating their magnificent colour but now after a bout of heavy rain, the blossoms have been abruptly cast off, set free./no-hiding-place-the-chilling-story.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/no-hiding-place-the-chilling-story.htmlNine rounds had gone by in Monterrey, Mexico and Antonio DeMarco’s trainer had seen more than enough. Withdrawing his man from the bout, saving the challenger from further punishment, DeMarco’s name was added to a growing roster of victims felled by Edwin Valero. Making the second defence of his WBC 135-pound title, Valero inscribed victory number 27 to his burgeoning record. All 27 had failed to hear the final bell. The 28-year-old Venezuelan was no ordinary champion./triads-the-chinese-mafia-conquers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/triads-the-chinese-mafia-conquers.htmlFrench film producer Antoine Vitkine has just released his excellent new documentary program ‘Triades - La mafia chinoise à la conquête du monde’ (Triads - The Chinese mafia conquers the world). The three part film is available on ARTE (hyperlink in the film title above) in French, with English and German subtitles. Antoine Vitkine brings several decades of experience as a serious investigative journalist to give this insight into Triad societies./the-covert-gig-work-surveillance.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance.html2024-06-03: Today, roughly nine months after publication, a member of Substack’s Trust & Safety Team, identified only as “Jim,” twice “temporarily unpublished” this article demanding the removal of both the unit number and street address of the apartment complex where the covert intelligence contractor Premise Data’s then-CEO Maury Blackman was arrested. In the time since the original publication, Premise filed at least six discovery requests in court to unmask this article’s source, settled their lawsuit against numerous former employees for allegedly revealing Premise’s contracts with U./the-demise-of-tiger-global-management.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-demise-of-tiger-global-management.htmlA leaked work-in-progress article from the New Yorker magazine has exposed the challenging landscape for Tiger Global, following years of lackluster performance. I want to share with you via an “emergency edition” the highlights and my take. Please note Tiger Global certainly does not believe the info contained within to be factual (obviously). The information supplied to the New Yorker is reported to be from an ex-employee. Based on my conversations with industry contacts, many believe most of the data points contained to be true./the-edenic-allure-of-ballerinafarm.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-edenic-allure-of-ballerinafarm.htmlLast week, you followed me down one of my favorite influencer rabbit holes. This week, by sheer coincidence, we’re going down another. I’ve been wanting to do a Q&A with Meg Conley, whose conversation with me about What Got Left Out of LuLaRich turned into one of the most popular pieces I’ve ever published in Culture Study. Then I watched Hannah Neeleman, better known by her family’s Instagram handle, Ballerinafarm, document her experience competing as Mrs./the-end-of-the-social-media-era.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-end-of-the-social-media-era.htmlIt occurred to me recently that the era of social media—roughly the last twenty years—is coming to an end. This is both obvious and also something that people seem to be oblivious to. How can something so all-consuming as social media be coming to an end? Without social media defining our time period, what will this era be? What will replace it? How will we understand ourselves? I don’t have any answers to that./episode-viii-the-fire-which-god-has.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/episode-viii-the-fire-which-god-has.htmlAfter the novel proper has ended, McCarthy appends a short, one-paragraph epilogue to Blood Meridian. Here it is: Presumably, the year is 1878 and the bone-pickers that the Kid encounters in the final chapter are still at work, gathering bison bones to sell to the eastern markets: these will be ground up and used as fertilizer. A man is walking among them, moving over this north Texas plain, making holes in the ground with an implement./the-flakiest-of-pastries.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-flakiest-of-pastries.htmlHappy Thursday, happy pie season! Today I really wanted to give you a primer, a deep dive, a step by step guide on making flaky pastry. The type of pastry you might use to make a classic fruit pie, something so flaky it’s effectively a sibling to puff pastry (but way easier to make). This is a recipe I’ve been using for many years and have tinkered with many many times, it makes perfect pies and has great flavour and most importantly incredible texture./the-garbage-plate-comes-to-brooklyn.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-garbage-plate-comes-to-brooklyn.htmlIf you see a guy at the Wegman’s in Brooklyn loading up his cart with nothing but Zweigle’s white hots and red hots and Nance’s mustard, that’s Brian Heiss, the owner of Brooklyn Hots, the new—and only—restaurant in New York City devoted to the regional food of Rochester. There were already a lot of reasons to be thankful that Wegman’s, a supermarket chain born in Rochester in 1916, has a foothold in New York City./a-hodgepodge-of-love.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/a-hodgepodge-of-love.html*This email may be truncated in your inbox. To make sure you are reading the entire post, please move yourself along to a web browser! It becomes much more colorful and fun toward the end, and you won’t want to miss it!I have been absent from the Substack universe because I was experiencing our most wondrous wedding week in the Basque Country! I now officially have a French/ Basque husband! I’m someone’s wife!/the-gnome-trail.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-gnome-trail.htmlIf you go looking for hiking trails on the island where I live, you’ll find four. At least officially. They’re all maintained by the Lummi Island Heritage Trust, and are the result of decades of dedicated conservation work. Two used to be farms. One used to be a quarry filled with hazardous waste. The trails are lovely and marked and I use at least one of them daily. But there are dozens of other trails on the island, too./sly-stone-wedding.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/sly-stone-wedding.html“I called you at five-fifty-four. My name is Sly, and I wish you would make my wedding the biggest event this year. You can do it if you want to. I’ll be at home awaiting your ideas. Ha. Ha. Ha. Don’t let me intimidate you.” When funk musician Sly Stone married Kathy Silva in front of around 23,000 screaming fans on stage at Madison Square Garden, the me… ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2ForfIrauyZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9KlsGarpKS7pnnWnpudoZ6c/the-great-chiffon-cake-mystery.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-great-chiffon-cake-mystery.htmlChiffon Cake. The name itself suggests something light and delicious. But what exactly is this cake? Without getting too technical, chiffon cake is a member of the so-called foam cake family, meaning that it’s made with whipped eggs in some form. Angel food cake has beaten egg whites; sponge cakes incorporate whipped egg whites and egg yolks; Génoise features whipped whole eggs; and chiffon? Ah! It’s a sponge cake with an added ingredient that had remained a well-kept secret until the cake’s creator, Harry Baker—yes, that’s his name—sold his recipe to Betty Crocker for an undisclosed sum in 1947./the-hot-toddy-and-a-general-theory.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-hot-toddy-and-a-general-theory.htmlIf you are reading this newsletter, then there is a very good chance you have made an Old Fashioned. The Old Fashioned is the original cocktail, and its standard proportions — 2 ounces spirit, a teaspoon or so of syrup (or possibly sugar), plus a couple dashes of bitters — should be familiar to almost anyone who even occasionally makes cocktails. That simple, elemental idea — spirit, sweetener, and bitters, stirred over ice — is the baseline template from which so many other drinks and drink formats were created./the-japanese-automotive-invasion.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-japanese-automotive-invasion.htmlExplore our free monthly magazine for a richer research experience! 📚📈 Dive into in-depth content, examples, stats, and graphs. Subscribe to Business Hub for monthly deliveries! 🆓 My Website Japanese Automotive Onslaught in the U.S. The Rise to Prominence American Automakers' Reaction Economic Impact on Japan and the U.S. Current Landscape: Japanese Brands in the U.S. Japanese Automotive Onslaught in the U.S. The 1970s marked the entry of Japanese car brands, notably Honda, Toyota, and Nissan, into the US market./the-jardiance-commercials-will-not.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-jardiance-commercials-will-not.htmlThere is a new Jardiance song. That’s not true. I mean, it’s kind of true. It’s the same song they used in the first two commercials but now it’s being performed by a man, which is notable because they swapped out ladies between the first two commercials while keeping the exact same version of the song. Like, sung by the same performer. Which means at least one of the two ladies was just lip-syncing./the-lasht-word-on-lash-serums.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lasht-word-on-lash-serums.htmlCome here often? If you do and you’re glad, please tap that ❤️ button above. It makes the festive fairy lights flash on and off in my living room. Ask Val answers your urgent questions, Vol. 32 Yes, you with a handful of—are those mascara wands? Q: I have short, sparse lashes and yearn for thicker, longer ones. A lot of lash serums claim to help with that,… ncG1vNJzZmiukaGys7XEpqanqp%2Bae7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWK5or%2FHrWSwp6KZerC6jKWYrKBdqLKzwcys/the-last-days-of-patton-1986.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-last-days-of-patton-1986.htmlThis is a movie website, though I feel comfortable including the made-for-TV "The Last Days of Patton" here, since it is the largely unknown sequel to 1970's seminal "Patton." General George S. Patton was surely the signature role of George C. Scott's long film career, and that's saying something. He won a Best Actor Oscar for the 1970 film (which he declined) and no doubt relished the chance to revisit the character, who died shortly following the end of World War II after being paralyzed in a freak auto accident./the-long-history-of-rep-movs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-long-history-of-rep-movs.htmlWhat’s the best way to copy a block of data from one memory location to another on a modern x86 processor? Perhaps surprisingly, this isn’t a simple question to answer. Even in 2023, Linus Torvalds himself has felt it necessary to roll up his sleeves and make some changes to improve the implementation of data copying on x86 processors in the Linux kernel. The choices are between what might be called a RISCy approach and a CISCy approach./the-lost-projects-of-satoshi-kon.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-lost-projects-of-satoshi-kon.htmlWelcome! Today’s edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter is all about Satoshi Kon, and the projects he didn’t make. This is a companion to our Sunday issue, The Plan for Satoshi Kon’s Final Film, where we laid out the ideas behind Kon’s canceled Dreaming Machine. We’re digging a little deeper this time, highlighting several other unmade Kon projects — alongside extra details on Dreaming Machine that we didn’t include last time./the-morningwhen-lamentations-322.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-morningwhen-lamentations-322.htmlAs a child, my grandma made me memorize scriptures, and although I didn't quite understand why or what they meant at the time, I think I have a better understanding now. Last year, Lamentations 3:22-24: “Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;/in-a-new-op-ed-the-new-york-times.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/in-a-new-op-ed-the-new-york-times.htmlThe New York Times published an op-ed today entitled The Startling Evidence of Learning Loss Is In. The evidence is anything but startling though they position it as such. It’s hard to describe how angry this “revelatory” piece of writing makes me. No, I don’t feel any sense of redemption. I just feel angry that it took them this long. And that the journalistic outlet fails to acknowledge their own complicity in these devastating results./the-newest-queer-icon-frogs.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-newest-queer-icon-frogs.htmlJudy Garland. Dianna Ross. Cher. Lady Gaga. To this day, the concept of a “gay icon” is still largely represented by (often heterosexual) celebrity women who embody elements of sexuality and selfhood that resonate with at least some LGBTQ+ people. While the phrase “gay icon” may connote a diva worshipped by cis gay men, a wide range of celebrities have become objects of affection by LGBTQ+ people. As the internet opens up space for queer people to fawn over, stan, and shape their own narratives about their icons, the parameters of what constitutes one are expanding./the-night-before-101-minutes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-night-before-101-minutes.html“Have you seen that funny Christmas movie?” My mom asked one night, after dinner, during some holiday week a few years ago. She pulls up The Night Before (2015) on the TV and gestures, “Have you?” I had never even heard of it, but agreed to watch it. Generally speaking, I trust her taste. My mom is a movie lover and is, without a doubt, the person I inherited my love for movies from./the-queen-of-rock-and-roll.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-queen-of-rock-and-roll.htmlThe legendary musician, Tina Turner, died this week at the age of 83, leaving behind a legacy defined by her unequivocal brilliance and influence. Beyoncé called her “the ultimate,” and “[m]y beloved queen.” This week’s TBL will look at Tina Turner’s place in rock & roll history … with a twist. RIP, Tina. If you like The Better Letter, please subscribe, share it, and forward it widely. Share The Better Letter/heera-mandi-the-real-story-behind.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/heera-mandi-the-real-story-behind.htmlWelcome to the Brown History Newsletter. If you’re enjoying this labor 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. You walk into a cavernous room, covered with dazzling mirrors, sparkling in the candlelight and hung with tapestries and velvet curtains./the-red-scare-killed-an-animators.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-red-scare-killed-an-animators.htmlWelcome back to the Animation Obsessive newsletter! Thanks for tuning in. This week, our main feature is a dive into the fall and rise of John Hubley, a brilliant director persecuted during the Red Scare of the 1950s. His career was ruined — until he fought his way back to success on television. After that, stick around for animation news from around the world — and two anime films streaming right now./75-tie-imitation-of-life-the-reveal.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/75-tie-imitation-of-life-the-reveal.htmlOn December 1st, 2022, Sight & Sound magazine published “The Greatest Films of All Time,” a poll that’s been updated every 10 years since Bicycle Thieves topped the list in 1952. It is the closest thing movies have to a canon, with each edition reflecting the evolving taste of critics and changes in the culture at large. It’s also a nice checklist of essential cinema. Over the course of many weeks, months, and (likely) years, we’re running through the ranked list in reverse order and digging into the films as deep as we can./88-tie-chungking-express-the-reveal.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/88-tie-chungking-express-the-reveal.htmlOn December 1st, 2022, Sight & Sound magazine published “The Greatest Films of All Time,” a poll that’s been updated every 10 years since Bicycle Thieves topped the list in 1952. It is the closest thing movies have to a canon, with each edition reflecting the evolving taste of critics and changes in the culture at large. It’s also a nice checklist of essential cinema. Over the course of many weeks, months, and (likely) years, we’re running through the ranked list in reverse order and digging into the films as deep as we can./the-sand-mandala-of-writing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sand-mandala-of-writing.htmlI was serving as a sensitivity reader for a company in the UK, and part of the job was to look at some Buddhist content in a children’s book. One of the activities for the kids was to make a mandala, which for Buddhists is an image for meditation and is said to be a portrait of the universe. The next few days, I was thinking about this amazing thing I got to witness long ago in Savannah, Georgia./the-secret-of-terror-castle.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-secret-of-terror-castle.htmlIn the first adventure of Robert Arthur's classic mystery series, it's 1964 in the town of Rocky Beach, California. Working out of their newly established Headquarters – an old trailer hidden behind carefully arranged junk in the Jones Salvage Yard – and driven around southern California in a gold-plated vintage Rolls Royce they've won the use of in a contest, Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews decide to get publicity for their fledgling detective firm by finding a real haunted house for the renowned film director Reginald Clarke./the-shrug-at-30-how-michael-crushed.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-shrug-at-30-how-michael-crushed.html“Clyde is a better 3-point shooter than I choose to be.” — Michael Jordan before Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals “It seemed like a horror story.” — Clyde Drexler after Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals Maybe he’s just as good. Okay, okay, not just as good. But maybe they’re different merely by degree. Maybe Glide does everything Mike does, not as spectacularly, but just as effectively, with just as much impact./the-slippery-slope-of-the-normative.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-slippery-slope-of-the-normative.htmlAll right, first of all, I have to say, what is that sign in the photo trying to warn people away from? I decided to use it because it suited my purpose, but in all practicality… what? If anyone knows, let me know in the comments section. I don’t even know if it’s a real sign. Anyway, I digress, that is not the purpose of this post. Can you imagine if it was though?/the-soft-pink-truth-finds-his-way.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-soft-pink-truth-finds-his-way.htmlWhen it comes to dance music, it’s fair to say that no one has approached it quite like Drew Daniel. Over the past few decades, the Baltimore artist (whose musical career began in San Francisco) has zigzagged across the electronic and experimental map, most prominently as one half of Matmos—his wildly creative collaboration with partner M.C. Schmidt, who Drew simply refers to as Martin—but also with his solo project, The Soft Pink Truth./the-songs-aint-wastin-time-no-more.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-songs-aint-wastin-time-no-more.htmlThis is another entry in my ongoing “songs that visited me and decided they wanted to stay” series. I hope you like these enough to become a paid subscriber, because I really need you to keep this series going. This one is free, but not all of ‘em are! Ain't Wastin' Time No More - The Allman Brothers Band So, hear us now, we ain't wastin' time no more 'Cause time rolls by like hurricanes/the-taguchi-loss-function.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-taguchi-loss-function.htmlExample of a simple loss function. A loss function describes the losses that a system suffers from different values of some adjustable parameter. Use of a loss function is restricted to the realm of losses that are measurable. The most important use of a loss function is to help us change from a world of specifications (meet specifications) to continual reduction of variation about the target, through improvement of processes…/the-thing-about-ugly-duckling-syndrome.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-thing-about-ugly-duckling-syndrome.htmlWe want to hear from more voices and broaden our own perspectives, so we recently asked members of the Diem community to pitch their own stories for this newsletter. Our next guest essay is by Colette Fountain, a journalist based in London who enjoys writing about internet culture, dating trends, and niche subcultures. Want to write for us? If you want to pitch a guest essay idea for the newsletter, read this guide and email our editor, Taylor Majewski, at taylor@askdiem./the-ultimate-guide-to-auckland-restaurants.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-ultimate-guide-to-auckland-restaurants.htmlIf you haven’t yet stumped up for Viva’s Top 50 Restaurants list which I created with Johanna Thornton last year, perhaps this document will be of use. In the heady days of 1980, you would go to your trusty advertising exec if you needed help choosing somewhere for dinner (presumably they were good at sourcing all sorts of things for valued clients). Just look at this beautiful list: Fancy a bite at The Bronze Goat?/kfc-the-unlikely-hero-on-a-japanese.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/kfc-the-unlikely-hero-on-a-japanese.htmlGrowing up with a Buddhist Japanese mother we never celebrated Christmas in Japan, and at home in Australia it was a purely cultural but not a religious event — Santa photos at the shopping centres and presents under the tree, unwrapped in our pyjamas before breakfast, then a summery long lunch featuring fresh seafood and summer fruit under the wisteria outside. New Year’s Day is the more important Japanese celebration, a more sombre and quiet rather than celebratory event, but arguably the most important one of the year./the-violence-of-blake-griffin.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-violence-of-blake-griffin.html- Blake Griffin | Nike | Saint Studio Blake Griffin recently announced his retirement from the NBA after 14 seasons. After taking the league by storm with his spectacular dunks early in his career as part of the Lob City era of the Los Angeles Clippers, injuries took their toll on him. And though he managed to become an arguably more effective player, taking the Pistons to the playoffs in 2019, it was clear afterwards that his body was no longer what it was./the-wankel-how-big-and-how-heavy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-wankel-how-big-and-how-heavy.htmlIf you've been reading about the Wankel engine in general magazines you've probably seen many uniformly glowing claims for spectacular advantages in size and weight. Said one, “Wankel-type power plants are only half the size of normal ones...” Wrote Prof. David Cole in Scientific American, “For equivalent horsepower a Wankel engine is only about half the size and weight of a conventional engine.” There doesn't seem to be much disagreement on the subject./the-yin-and-yang-of-creativity.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-yin-and-yang-of-creativity.htmlCreativity. For many it’s a wild animal, a scary beast. Hard to integrate into a world defined by numbers and algorithms. Creativity, to me, it is a delicate dance, a nuanced interplay of Yin and Yang. In this dance, Yin embodies the spirit of freewheeling experiment, the excitement of exploring new ideas, while Yang stands as the backbone—representing structure, logistics, and purpose. Consider me a proud participant of Team Yin. I'm the one with ideas that defy convention, the dreamer wandering off the beaten path./the-zone-of-interest.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-zone-of-interest.htmlThe have been plenty of movies, books or other storytelling about the banality of human oppression, but few have been as bracing as “The Zone of Interest.” It tells the tale of a seemingly normal German family living on a beautiful small estate right next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. And when we say they are close, it means you can actually hear the screams of the dying and the staccato rifle fusillade of the firing line./thirty-flirty-and-not-thriving.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thirty-flirty-and-not-thriving.htmlIn the spring of 2004, American sweetheart Jennifer Garner starred in Thirteen Going on Thirty.  The film begins at the birthday party of freshly thirteen-year-old protagonist Jenna Rink. She is an awkward middle schooler who simply wants to be cute and popular. When she faces rejection from the cute and popular crowd at school because her childhood best friend, Matt, is acting like a weirdo, she hides in a closet in shame./this-just-in-haters-gonna-hate.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/this-just-in-haters-gonna-hate.htmlAt Oldster earlier this week I published “A Word to the Unwise: Confessions of a Grieving Fool,” a humorous and moving essay in which Shalom Auslander —struggling to accept a close contemporary’s death and the ravages of time — pokes a little fun at me and my magazine, and at some of the more upbeat respondents to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. If you read the piece (co-published in Oldster and Shalom’s Fetal Position newsletter, on the latter of which, “Oldster Magazine” shares the byline ) it should be pretty obvious that I’m in on the joke, and that, more than anything, Shalom is poking fun at himself for his constitutional inability to adopt a brighter outlook about getting older (or anything)./thomas-kinkade-painter-of-light-once.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thomas-kinkade-painter-of-light-once.htmlHere at Cappuccino, there are few things we enjoy more than shining a spotlight on people who are irredeemably awful. Not just awful at what they do, but also awful as human beings determined to enrich no one’s lives except their own. Low hanging fruit, you say? Sure. But no one can argue that low hanging fruit isn’t just as delicious as the kind you have to climb the tree for./thoughts-as-david-bentley-hart-is.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thoughts-as-david-bentley-hart-is.htmlIntroduction This is my first article outside of my normal subscription paywall because I’m interacting with a topic that involves a few others who I would not want to exclude from reading and responding in any way to anything that I’ve said if they wish. My thoughts here are also largely about questions internal to the Orthodox Christian faith. Others are obviously welcomed to “listen in” on it all, but you’ve been duly notified./thursday-22924-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thursday-22924-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlToday is the fifth of nine quarterfinal games in the ToC, and you can see the full lineup here on the Jeopardy! website. I’m posting occasionally on various social media (mostly Instagram right now), but this newsletter is the best place to find daily recaps, photos, and announcements. During his previous appearances, Luigi chose 3 ties to represent the schools where he received his 3 degrees. If I remember correctly, this one is for St./thursday-32124-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/thursday-32124-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlIt’s Day 2 of the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament! (The 2nd of 9 Quarterfinal games.) Here’s the full lineup for the JIT. I am SO excited to see these iconic contestants, some of whom I GREW UP watching, back on the Jeopardy! stage! I’m posting occasionally on various social media (mostly Instagram right now), but this newsletter is the best place to find daily recaps, photos, and announcements. I love this color!/tms-muse-of-the-week-debralee-scott.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tms-muse-of-the-week-debralee-scott.html(ABC Network) The art of live television has sort of turned into a relic of the past since the advent of virtual live streaming. Live TV was initially a clever way to draw in home viewers during the prime of theatre, radio and film. You can have your favorite stars at home, like radio programs, and on a screen, like movies. But it’s live! Like theatre! Naturally this worked well for all sorts of genres, but showbiz quickly realized it was also a great way to promote comedians./tone-glow-148-michael-rother.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tone-glow-148-michael-rother.htmlMichael Rother (b. 1950) is a German musician who was a founding member of legendary krautrock bands NEU! and Harmonia. Born in Hamburg, he would spend much of his childhood moving across cities and countries due to his father’s job. After moving back to Germany from Pakistan in 1963, he became enamored with rock and roll music, citing artists like the Beatles, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix as early influences. As with other artists in his country, Rother was deeply invested in creating music that would go beyond the conservativism of post-War artists popular in Germany, and sought a new style that would help him feel at one with his personality and identity./transhausen-by-proxy.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transhausen-by-proxy.htmlI have done two series on research into the experiences of parents of “trans” kids. The latest one was funded by Oxford University, amongst others, and endorsed by trans-activist Katie Montgomerie (GL: Why Montgomerie claims to be an expert on “trans kids”, when he transitioned as adult, is anyone’s guess) The Project Advisory Panel reads like a who’s who of Trans Lobby groups, including Mermaids. For this post, I want to focus on the mother of one of these so-called ‘trans children”; who is fond of referencing Mermaids./transition-interview-series-part-ffc.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/transition-interview-series-part-ffc.htmlChad Wilkinson served twenty-one years, completed more than ten deployments, and was awarded the Silver Star. I never knew Chad, never worked with him, and don’t know that we ever met, however, the day he passed is one I can recall with intense clarity. I remember the impact it had on my teammates, their spouses, and the way it felt felt distinct from other losses in the community. For many who enlist in the military, there's an understanding that military service has the potential to expose a person to combat situations, which in turn may expose them to gunfire, IEDs, and various other life-threatening hazards./notebook-tszyu-forced-out-of-ortiz.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/notebook-tszyu-forced-out-of-ortiz.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./tucker-talks-kicking-addiction.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tucker-talks-kicking-addiction.htmlBefore he was the Fox News star and the vessel for post-Trump nationalism exiled to X, Tucker Carlson was recognizable for his bowtied appearances on CNN’s Crossfire at the dawn of the new millennium during the old cable order. What was hidden at the time is at 32 years young, he was an addict who struggled with drinking and as he puts it, “you name it” as he climbed the rungs of Washington media influence./turn-turn-turn-verein.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/turn-turn-turn-verein.htmlIn 1811, German gymnasium instructor Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, disgusted with his country’s losses to Napoleon, concluded that part of the loss was due to the lack of physical conditioning of the average German soldier. He came up with an elaborate regimen of strength training through gymnastics, naming his program and fitness philosophy turn verein, (pronounced tooorn fe-rahn)  from the German verb “turen” meaning  to perform gymnastic exercises,  and “verein”, the word for  club or organization./fishbone-party-at-ground-zero.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/fishbone-party-at-ground-zero.htmlI hope someone calls me out on this, but I’m sticking to my claim. I have listened to every Fishbone album (except for 2006’ Still Stuck in Your Throat), and although there are lots of songs I love and would include on a 20-song compilation, “Party at Ground Zero” still stands out as the most musically adventurous and inspired song in their extensive catalog. I remember first hearing it on KROQ, the new wave/punk radio station in Los Angeles, back in 1985 (was it Rodney Bingenheimer who broke it back then?/two-wild-soviet-personal-computers.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/two-wild-soviet-personal-computers.htmlI absolutely love the computers of the old Soviet Union. Sure, I never had one: I never lived in the Soviet Union… and I don’t speak a single drop of Russian. Just the same, there’s something fascinating and wild about the computer industry of that particular place and time. The Soviet-styled, Sci-Fi inspired cases. The (often) knock-off copies of hardware and (also often) stolen ROMs and software. The history, technology, and aesthetics are downright whimsical./refashioning-fame-ushers-stylish.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/refashioning-fame-ushers-stylish.htmlUsher's journey to the Super Bowl spotlight wasn't just about the music— it was a masterclass in style evolution. From the outset, Usher's presence on the stage felt inevitable. He’s been primed for a Super Bowl halftime show for ages. It's like he's been waiting in the wings, ready to captivate us with his flawlessly executed dance moves and hypnotizing melodies. But you know what they say, everyone's moment arrives when it's supposed to, and Usher's time to shine on the world’s biggest stage had finally arrived./video-robbery-1589-n-milwaukee-ave.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/video-robbery-1589-n-milwaukee-ave.htmlRead about the entire incident and then some over at CWBChicago. We originally posted this on our Instagram account last week, but this week Substack notified everyone that improvements were made with hosting videos here. Therefore, let us know if you notice any changes with these improvements. We ask because publishing videos like this on YouTube typically results in a suspension and a strike. Thanks for watching and remember “We don't want nobody nobody sent”./visiting-pelican-bay-prison.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/visiting-pelican-bay-prison.htmlIn one of the most beautiful parts of the country, thick with redwoods, fresh air, and ocean, the state of California built its only “supermax” prison in 1989. Just north of Crescent City, about 15 minutes from the Oregon border, Pelican Bay is a 7-12 hour drive for families of people imprisoned there. They don’t get many visitors.    There are two parts of the prison. In the photo above, the top building is the “special housing unit”, which is prison-jargon for solitary confinement./was-dave-chapelle-replaced-jim-breuer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/was-dave-chapelle-replaced-jim-breuer.htmlWhether he has been fully replaced physically as a clone or figuratively "replaced" with a new, higher perspective, I'd like to add to the conspiracy: Barbara Marciniak, who channels the Pleiades, has been talking about clones for a while. She refers to Biden as "Nacho" because he is 'not Joe'. She talks about how even Trump has his own clones. I have yet to hear her talk about RFK Jr. But, once you make it higher in the ranks, you're taken aside and shown you your own clone./tiberius-was-he-always-a-monster.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/tiberius-was-he-always-a-monster.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Members, At times we like to simplify history. This can be forgiven easily enough; there is so much of it, after all, it’s nearly impossible to take everything in.  As such, complex events are reduced to neat timelines, multiple narratives are combined or excluded, and multifaceted characters are flattened and hastily separated into the childish categories of hero or villain, good or bad.  While this sketchy view of history has its practical necessities, allowing for grand overviews and basic frameworks, it also creates numerous problems./the-sbc-diaries-was-richard-simmons.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/the-sbc-diaries-was-richard-simmons.htmlShare If you want a hipster breakfast* in any large city, anywhere in this great land of ours, chances are you’re going to end up in a region called “midtown,” at a place with lots of ironic 1980s lunchboxes, ironic black velvet paintings, ironic VCRs, and all manner of other vintage/retro kitsch from decades gone by.  *By “hipster breakfast” I mean menu items of a more interesting nature than, like, plain eggs/bacon/pancakes./we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we.htmlThe quote, We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are, is often attributed to originate with the author Anaïs Nin, but I believe she was probably paraphrasing the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant when he said, We see the world and things not as they are but as we are. Either way, it is a powerful reminder that our experiences, b… ncG1vNJzZmiZnqm1sLrYpqarn5Gjwap60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnp5p6pbvNrWSsnZViwam1zaCqZpmjYsGpsdhmmKudXayy/were-living-in-the-world-of-kiyoshi.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-living-in-the-world-of-kiyoshi.htmlThe wave of Japanese horror films in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s—which, in turn, led to a wave of English-language remakes in Hollywood a few years later—is usually said to have started with Ring in 1998, an international sensation that Gore Verbinski would turn into a hit in 2002. With its huge hook of a premise about a cursed video tape that would kill its viewer seven days after watching it, Hideo Nakata’s film set the visual terms for an emerging movement: An association between technology and the supernatural, pale ghosts whose twitchy gaits evoke disruptive glitches in bandwidth, and backstories of abuse and psychological pain, a device that has now manifested itself in post-mortem restlessness./wealth-management-industry-titan.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wealth-management-industry-titan.htmlWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we dive into the world of wealth management with one of the industry’s leaders, Haig Ariyan, the CEO of Arax Investment Partners. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Transistor Haig has seen it all. He went from someone who grew up in the advisory world as a wealth manager at Dean Witter Reynolds to ultimately becoming President and CEO of Alex Brown, America’s first investment banking firm./wednesday-21424-jeopardy-fashion.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wednesday-21424-jeopardy-fashion.htmlThis is Day 8 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. Happy Valentine’s Day!! My friend (& fellow Jeopardy fan) Setareh has posted her Jeopardy Valentines (I look forward to these every year since she started making them in 2022./were-pat-garrett-and-billy-the-kid.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/were-pat-garrett-and-billy-the-kid.htmlRecently a friend of The Wild West Extravaganza – the artist, and all-around Western film and history aficionado, David Lambert – stated that he believes historians have overcorrected in their attempts to combat bad history, specifically in regard to the relationship between Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. While I’m not a historian, I am somewhat guilty of this. Let me explain. I’ve stated in the past, very confidently, that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid were not friends, at least not really./what-colour-is-your-aluminum-it-makes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-colour-is-your-aluminum-it-makes.htmlBloomberg recently published an inflammatory article, Ford’s Electric Pickup is Built from Metal That’s Damaging the Amazon. Authors Sheridan Prasso and Jessica Bryce claim that the aluminum Ford uses is originally sourced from an alumina refinery, Hydro Alunorte, owned by Norsk Hydro ASA of Norway, which is sickening thousands of people. The authors write: “For consumers seeking to lower their carbon footprints, the environmental and social costs of electric vehicles may be greater than they realize./what-happened-to-liz-gilbert.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-happened-to-liz-gilbert.htmlThere’s a voice I turn to when I feel weighed down and choked up by people’s reactions and opinions. When I’m worried about being yelled at, or misunderstood, or cancelled for something I say or write. When I feel their hands at my throat or their fists in my gut telling me “You have no right to say these things.”  The voice says: You do not need anybody’s permission to live a creative life…You want to write a book?/what-is-it-with-these-stupid-quotes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-it-with-these-stupid-quotes.htmlPublisher’s note: It’s once again time for Earlywood (and perhaps a bit of clarity). Earlywood is a free excerpt from one of the thousands of pieces I’ve written since 1996. Sometimes, it’s from a magazine article. Or a book. Or (in this case) a blog post from 2012. Each entry has been updated or annotated with some modern context or point of view. We h… ncG1vNJzZmibmKe2tMDOqZ%2BeqqOYtbit0bNlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8uLTArWSiq12ewW7DyK2fZqyYmsCmedKtrKmhlGK%2BtrvTnqo%3D/what-is-prestige.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-prestige.htmlI really like the word “prestige.” I find it extraordinarily helpful when it comes to organizing my own thoughts, but sometimes that causes hiccups in communication with others who use it differently than I do. Oxford defines prestige as “widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or something on the basis of a perception of their achievements and quality,” which sounds more positive than the way I usually mean it. “Widespread perception” is something I’m fundamentally wary of, so the word “prestige” always reads like a warning to me./prison-hooch.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/prison-hooch.htmlWhile it’s true the internet subjects us to an endless array of previously unrealised horrors, we also sometimes come across Good Shit™. Like r/PrisonHooch. And, my lord, I’ve become obsessed with this subreddit. So what is the prison hooch subreddit all about? Well, it’s a place where people brew homemade alcohol using whatever the hell they can get their hands on. It’s named as such because the process is similar to how, you guessed it, folks make booze in prison./what-is-the-range-of-an-ev-towing.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-range-of-an-ev-towing.htmlIf there is one question I get asked more than any other, it’s this one.  I’ve towed two different caravans thousands of miles over the course of six months with my Kia EV6, and the short answer is this: Towing a regular caravan will halve the range of your EV.  Take the Kia EV6 as an example. The marketing blurb will tell you that its 77kWh battery will give you 328 miles of range./what-is-the-scariest-animal.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/what-is-the-scariest-animal.htmlIn this newsletter: Preliminary thoughts on a pressing question. Plus, a podcast update on the pandemic and, as always, some words of advice. The scariest animal is a mouse-sized cockroach flying at you from seven feet up your bedroom wall. The scariest animal is a polar bear. The scariest animal is a very large rat inside of your apartment. The scariest animal is a very large rat inside of your toilet bowl./when-a-queen-was-a-prostitute.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-a-queen-was-a-prostitute.htmlFrank Cook finds it odd that ask is replacing request as a noun. This is a general thing in English of late, and it’s about starting over. Think of an earlier example that no one seems to have noticed — using “a dissolve” in filmmaking when the pedant might say that the noun form of dissolve is dissolution. Dissolution is indeed a word, but it doesn’t mean, in actual usage, only the dissolving — it implies something negative, something you’d rather have stayed intact that went to pieces./when-religious-liberty-is-not-enough.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/when-religious-liberty-is-not-enough.htmlDavid French has emerged as one of American evangelicalism’s foremost ombudsmen. His criticism of this community—a group of predominantly white Christians to which French most certainly belongs—has both convicted and irritated evangelicals in recent years. I imagine this is because his words carry more weight than if they were coming from, say, a secular liberal lamenting the role of religion in public life. Indeed, French’s history as a religious liberty and First Amendment lawyer for groups like Alliance Defending Freedom demonstrate his Christian bona fides./which-elizabeth-goudge-book-should.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/which-elizabeth-goudge-book-should.htmlIt’s a good question, because she wrote more than 40 books in her career. But there is not one right answer to this question! Often in the past the answer was to start with the Goudge book that you had available to you. Fortunately, now all of her adult and children’s novels are back in print so your options have expanded! We are still waiting to see her books make it onto audiobook, and to see the reprinting of her narrative biography of Jesus and her short story collections./christina-francis-anti-abortion-witness.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/christina-francis-anti-abortion-witness.htmlReplay the full Senate HELP committee hearing here, or take two minutes to watch this particularly fiery exchange featuring Sen. Patty Murray. You can also catch up on the live chat I hosted with readers here. Subscribe to receive an alert when these happen in the future so you don’t miss out!  Let’s talk about Christina Francis, the president of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs (AAPLOG). Francis is testifying for Republicans today in the Senate HELP committee hearing on the consequences of abortion bans./who-was-porcius-festus.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/who-was-porcius-festus.htmlRoman Provincial Coin, AD 58/9 Porcius FestusScriptureSemi-continuous: Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; 1 Samuel 1:1-18; Acts 25:1-12 Complementary: Psalm 81:1-10; Exodus 31:12-18; Acts 25:1-12 ___ PrayerHear our prayers, God of power, and through the ministry of your Son free us from the grip of the tomb, that we may desire you as the fullness of life and proclaim your saving deeds to all the world. Amen. (Revised Common Lectionary) ncG1vNJzZmiZnKGur77Bnq2eqpVjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGnXayutHnPqKmcoaWoeqex0q2srA%3D%3D/why-300-is-the-best-modern-film-about.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-300-is-the-best-modern-film-about.html300 is one of the best recent movies of antiquity – and a model for male and female relationships. The story is familiar. Revolving around the battle of Thermopylae and adapting Frank Miller’s comic book, 300 defined stylized action movies of the late 2000s and 2010s. At first pass, the film is best understood as Spartan propaganda. The kind of myth Spartans – or people enamored by Spartans would produce for themselves./why-a-substack.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-a-substack.htmlI have been doing the work of reporting on all of the terrible things happening in our world for YEARS now - in some serious detail. And it started to seriously take its toll on me. Human trafficking DESTROYED my soul to report on. Several times, I vomited while researching stories. I didn’t think I was, but I was holding all of that pain right in my heart space. Political corruption?/why-are-teenage-girls-so-mean.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-are-teenage-girls-so-mean.htmlBy Haleigh Bolton  I sat quietly during class, minding my own business, and I started to hear the people behind me start to talk bad about me. Although they weren’t directly saying my name, I knew they were talking about me, and they knew I was listening. I’ve never understood the point of it. Why do they think they can say whatever they want about someone just for the sole reason of hurting their feelings?/why-nhl-94-is-so-good.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-nhl-94-is-so-good.htmlNHL 94 is considered one of the best sports video games of all time. There are several reasons why it remains a beloved classic among hockey fans: Simple yet satisfying gameplay: NHL 94 is easy to pick up and play. The game has simple controls for both the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo. The game allows players to focus on the action on the ice. The game has a perfect balance between arcade-style fun and simulation./why-the-fair-play-book-doesnt-fix.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-the-fair-play-book-doesnt-fix.htmlI can’t make a single Facebook post about household inequality without someone telling me to read Fair Play, the supposed Bible of household equality. I see and hear about it everywhere. Just read Fair Play, and somehow centuries of patriarchy and abuse will magically disappear. It makes sense. It’s a Reese Witherspoon pick. It’s now a documentary, and consultants can train in the method and then charge people to master it./why-trump-47-will-be-perversely-positive.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-trump-47-will-be-perversely-positive.htmlIf you had said on January 7, 2021 that Donald Trump would be the Republican front-runner in 2024, many people, myself included, would have been incredulous. And yet here we are. The failure to deal with Trump properly then was a first-order institutional failure, from which the republic may not recover. Various legal processes now in train may yet derail his second run at the Presidency, but it is probably too late to rely on a legal fix to what is now fundamentally a political problem./why-we-cant-trust-a-casino.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-we-cant-trust-a-casino.htmlThe following position paper was recently adopted by Richmond VCORE. A casino is not the solution to address funding gaps in childcare and education. The negative impacts of a casino outweigh any purported economic benefits. Richmond leaders need to find better ways to support students in our city.  In 2021, Richmonders rejected a casino referendum. The pro-casino developers spent millions on their campaign and courted the support of many local politicians including the mayor./why-you-should-read-henry-james.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/why-you-should-read-henry-james.htmlHenry James is my favourite writer. Not, I’m saying, the best writer, but my most treasured, a novelist whose work has meant a great deal to me and provided solace and companionship throughout my adult life. To that end, I’m holding an Interintellect salon on James next Thursday, December 21st at 19.00 GMT. Tickets are available here. If you’re a paid subscriber, let me know if you want to come and I’ll sort you a free code./love-is-blind-season-6-will-they.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/love-is-blind-season-6-will-they.htmlAnother good idea that came from Hung Up’s Love Is Blind chat: a poll! Who do you think will get married, and (in two cases) is there a possibility two people make it to the altar with someone else? I put these polls together very quickly; they will close a week from today! Comments are open for more specificity too: if you think a couple won’t get married, who says no?/william-hurt-1950-2022.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/william-hurt-1950-2022.htmlWilliam Hurt always seemed slightly stunned by movie stardom. It annoyed him – you could see it in the narrowing of his eyes. Stardom was for people who knew what they wanted, and in his onscreen performances and offscreen interviews, Hurt was for better and for worse a seeker. The quest was the goal, and wherever it led was less important than what you learned as you went. He was one of those stars – Harrison Ford is another, as was Peter O’Toole – whose matinee idol good looks were a botheration, a distraction from the business at hand./willingham-sends-fables-into-the.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/willingham-sends-fables-into-the.htmlFables Press Release Subject: Fables Enters the Public Domain 15 September 2023 By Bill Willingham For Immediate Release The Lede As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It’s done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone./wnba-cba-and-salary-cap-explained-6c5.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/wnba-cba-and-salary-cap-explained-6c5.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./words-for-worlds-issue-lv.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/words-for-worlds-issue-lv.htmlHello everyone, and welcome to another issue of The Words for Worlds newsletter. Last year, just before Apple TV began to release Season 1 of its adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, The Hindustan Times approached me to write an essay on the contemporary relevance of the novels, six+ decades after they were published. Writing the piece (available here) gave me a chance to reacquaint myself with the series that had introduced me to science fiction, as a ten-year-old child./yet-another-ex-whom-i-miss.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/yet-another-ex-whom-i-miss.htmlOnce I fell in love with a Norwegian man named Kristoffer. Kristoffer is a brilliant director who is distinctly handsome and distinctly jealous and distinctly eccentric. He looks like my father.  Kris and I met when I was an actress auditioning to be the female lead of his first feature, DRIB. I was brought in to audition by the casting director, Nicole,… ncG1vNJzZmiZnqO2prTApmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy6sdNmmKenpJ2ys3nEsWSwoJ%2Bieqp5zKKqrA%3D%3D/young-bob-marley-1945-1962.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/young-bob-marley-1945-1962.htmlNote: Some of the interview sources quoted in this series preserved the speakers’ Jamaican patois, while others presented their words in more standardized English. I’ve stayed true to the way the words originally appeared in print, hence the differences in the phrasings of Bob Marley and others. Bob Marley’s music transcends politics, language, cultures, borders, and the passage of time. Equally suitable for the prison yard and the cathedral, his songs speak to the oppressed, the broken-hearted, seekers of spiritual enlightenment, and celebrators of life./your-essential-guide-to-the-apero.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-essential-guide-to-the-apero.htmlFor someone who threw away a happy, comfortable life in London to run away to a brand new life and a ludicrously demanding house in south west France, I have a complicated relationship with change. I hate it. I have a deep, abiding love for ritual, for the rhythms of the day, the gentle passing of the seasons. Everything familiar, as it should be. That’s what I thought, anyway. I have embraced this new life by creating new rituals: the breakfast grand crème in the café on the corner; flowers from the market in Béziers on Fridays, croissants pur beurre on Saturday mornings, rotisserie chicken and roast potatoes for lunch on market day./your-guide-to-januarys-family-friendly.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000/your-guide-to-januarys-family-friendly.htmlThere were a lot of video games that came out in 2023, and there are a lot of video games that are coming out in 2024, but January is not one of the months. Given how many video games I’m still behind on, that’s pretty okay. My kids and I still haven’t checked out LEGO Fortnite, and I suspect that might take up a chunk of our January. If you see a game that I’ve missed, please reach out and let me know!/mark-fisher-part-i.htmlMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/mark-fisher-part-i.htmlHay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes... ¡Yo no sé! Golpes como del odio de Dios; como si ante ellos, la resaca de todo lo sufrido se empozara en el alma... ¡Yo no sé! César Vallejo, Los Heraldos NegrosIt’s time to talk about Mark Fisher. Darling of the new generation of the literate disenchanted. I can think of no other writer who has  so convincingly conveyed a ubiquitous experience of feeling broken and anxious while also giving it a clear sense of meaning.