/Recent content on JazzBlogHugo -- gohugo.ioyouremail@domain.com (Some Person)youremail@domain.com (Some Person)Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000/three-thousand-years-of-longing-funny-pages.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/three-thousand-years-of-longing-funny-pages.htmlThree Thousand Years of Longing Dir. George Miller 108 min. It isn’t often in stories that, when presented with three wishes from a genie in a bottle, the beneficiary opts to think over the prospect first. Wishing for world peace or a Scrooge McDuck treasure pile might seem like obvious places to start, but wish stories have made clear that disrupting the natural order of things often comes with unanticipated negative consequences./fromthearchives-i-knew-kanye-but-i-had-never-met-yeezy-an-ode-to-coodie-march-2022.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fromthearchives-i-knew-kanye-but-i-had-never-met-yeezy-an-ode-to-coodie-march-2022.htmlI, like a few million others, recently finished the Netflix docuseries, jeen-yuhs, which chronicled the meteoric rise of Kanye West, as told through the lenses of his long-time friends and collaborators, Clarence “Coodie” Simmons Jr. and Chike Ozah. Admittedly, I was initially hesitant about watching jeen-yuhs, because I have more … ncG1vNJzZminkqiys8LEm6Oam5tjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onaunnam1pq3RnJ%2BirpWoeqp5yqecsGWblru6sYybrK0%3D/a-brief-history-of-afternoon-tea.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-brief-history-of-afternoon-tea.htmlONLY ONE MORE DAY UNTIL SPRING! We’ve nearly made it to this season of bird chirping, new foliage, flower buds, pastels and more daylight. To celebrate this happy season, I wanted to create a jam that was reminiscent of the freshness that spring reminds me of. Although most-likely available year-round wherever you live, cucumber is technically a spring vegetable. It’s green, crisp, and cool (as a cucumber). You can find my recipe for it here./aaron-rodgers-hasn-t-been-a-good-playoff-quarterback.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/aaron-rodgers-hasn-t-been-a-good-playoff-quarterback.htmlThe last few weeks have been fun to watch, haven’t they? We’re on the verge of seeing the official breakup between Aaron Rodgers and the Packers, as well as a new team for the future Hall-of-Famer. Both are huge stories that will create significant shifts throughout the NFL in the near future. And if this change isn’t interesting enough on its own, the media has provided us all with an entertaining collective hissy fit over the fact that Rodgers hasn’t made his decision when they want him to and because they said so./an-evening-with-jill-scott.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-evening-with-jill-scott.htmlWhy say 7 p.m. on the ticket if the show doesn’t start until after 8:30? It’s like the music industry goes out of its way to disrespect the customer. As I sat in the majestic Chicago Theatre for the first time Monday night, waiting for my first live experience by one of my favorite artists, I remembered why I don’t do concerts. The feelings came rushing back. The older I get, the less patience I have for unnecessary hassles./an-ode-to-hozier-s-tweets.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-ode-to-hozier-s-tweets.htmlBy H. Lowe Back in the (g)olden days of Twitter, before it was known as X and run by a megalomaniacal meme lord who is currently fighting with my home state of Delaware in court and online, Hozier had a fairly active Twitter account. For the uninitiated—or for anyone who doesn’t know me or hasn’t heard to me talk for more than ten minutes—Hozier is a 33-year-old Irish singer-songwriter who rocketed to fame in 2014 with his blues-inflected alternative rock track “Take Me to Church” and has enjoyed continued popularity in the decade since thanks to a dedicated audience of teens, girls, lesbians, the mentally ill, and the very sad, quoth Trixie Mattel./avatar-s2e16-appa-s-lost-days.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/avatar-s2e16-appa-s-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./burning-questions-for-uconn-football-going-into-the-offseason.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/burning-questions-for-uconn-football-going-into-the-offseason.htmlUConn football won its final two games of the season convincingly, beating a pair of regional “rivals” in Sacred Heart and UMass to end 2023 with a 3-9 record. If college sports is about how you perform against your peers, the Huskies actually fared alright this season despite the bad record. Many of their losses were expected, like those to NC State, Duke, Tennessee, and James Madison. Three of those schools have the all-important “power five” money and the other is a former FCS powerhouse situated in a recruiting hotbed that would have likely defeated UConn in each of the last five years regardless of FBS status./can-i-find-a-good-seattle-bagel-at-rubinstein-bagels.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/can-i-find-a-good-seattle-bagel-at-rubinstein-bagels.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. We’re far enough along in this journey that I feel comfortable circling back (get it?/field-report-butter-burger-the-mix-with-robert-simonson.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/field-report-butter-burger-the-mix-with-robert-simonson.htmlOne of the lesser-known regional delicacies to come out of Wisconsin is the Butter Burger. Solly’s Grille, a diner north of Milwaukee that was founded in 1936, claims to be the originator of this style, in which butter is placed directly on the beef patty. But it is most closely associated with Culv… ncG1vNJzZmiqn5eys8DSoqSopqOku2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iemZq5pXnRnqeoqqRir7bA056pZpqlp7Smvg%3D%3D/houston-grassroots-democratic-voter-guide-for-the-may-2024-elections-part-1.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/houston-grassroots-democratic-voter-guide-for-the-may-2024-elections-part-1.htmlSo first of all, Houstonians vote a lot. In May of 2024, we’ll vote in TWO elections (May 4th AND May 28th), something a friend of mine has dubbed the Harris County Hustle.  I’ll be covering the May 28th Election in Part 2. For now, let’s focus on one election at a time, and talk about the Houston area May 4th, 2024 elections. A lot of these races are going to be CRITICAL, but SUPER low turnout… which means We The People will have to work extra hard to tell our friends that these are even happening./ideas-we-love-peri-peri-saka.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ideas-we-love-peri-peri-saka.htmlThis week is the second of three short weeks in a row for the both us, with a double Bank Holiday this weekend following a mental-health recharge day last week across Omnicom Towers. Dreamy. Typically, time away from the day job hinders our ability to find new Ideas We Love, but thankfully this week a new idea’s popped up that’s made this week’s issue both an easy and enjoyable one to get out of the door./in-the-90s-the-body-shop-was-dope-this-week-they-announced-the-closure-of-99-stores-in-the-uk.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-the-90s-the-body-shop-was-dope-this-week-they-announced-the-closure-of-99-stores-in-the-uk.htmlHer hair was thick, straight, and black. She was petite, but her hair disguised her tiny frame. Over the years, she’d collected a bathroom drawer full of beauty products and fragrances, but there was one she wore every day. She never left the house without it.  It was Dewberry from The Body Shop - a small, roll-on fragrance that smells like the ‘90s in a bottle.  Described as warm summer berries, garden picnics, and country cottages, this fragrance developed a cult following and even had people protesting when the scent was discontinued./israeli-source-of-executed-children-lie-admits-story-was-untrue.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/israeli-source-of-executed-children-lie-admits-story-was-untrue.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./michelangelo-was-gay-and-other-things-we-should-know.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michelangelo-was-gay-and-other-things-we-should-know.htmlAn odd thought popped into my head recently as I was folding laundry: Michelangelo was totally gay. Michelangelo—famed artist of the Renaissance, painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, sculptor of the massive marble David with killer abs and the slingshot that took down Goliath—was queer. It had never occurred to me before (why would it?). But as soon as it did, I felt sure I was right. A quick search confirmed that I was./peak-shmeak-when-was-the-last-time-you-went-full-rose-aguineau.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peak-shmeak-when-was-the-last-time-you-went-full-rose-aguineau.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./preserving-the-cult-classic-status-of-drop-dead-gorgeous-1999-through-design.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/preserving-the-cult-classic-status-of-drop-dead-gorgeous-1999-through-design.htmlGuest post alert! Jeremy here, and I’m very excited that Courtney LeSueur is expanding her contributions to this newsletter via the written word. Courtney is kinda the creative director of this newsletter, since she came up with our amazing Dusty logo, which allowed me to go crazy with some subscriber merch. Anyway, since you already know she's an amazingly talented designer, you probably won't be surprised to hear that she just created a smattering of Drop Dead Gorgeous shirts, mugs, and stickers for Super Yaki./sister-outsider-audre-lorde-s-lessons-for-modern-feminists.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sister-outsider-audre-lorde-s-lessons-for-modern-feminists.htmlHello, How are you? I thought today I’d do something I haven’t done on this newsletter for ages: chat about a book! Just before Christmas, I finally read Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider. Let’s leave aside the frankly baffling fact that it took me this long to get round to it and concentrate on this: it is brilliant. Stop-in-your-tracks, reread-a-sentence-in-awe, yes-that’s-it brilliant. I loved it. For those of you who don’t know, Lorde was a black, queer, feminist activist in a time when being any of those things, let alone all of them, wasn’t exactly celebrated by society./the-chiefs-new-safety-is-the-definition-of-spagsy.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-chiefs-new-safety-is-the-definition-of-spagsy.htmlIf you say the term “Spags gonna Spags” to virtually any Chiefs fan, they’ll know exactly what you mean by that. We’ve talked at length here about Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo’s tendencies to throw various coverages and blitzes at opposing quarterbacks (like when he put Tua and Miami in a torture chamber in last year’s playoffs). And Spagnuolo’s tendency to dial up pressure in the biggest moments is well known./the-last-time-i-saw-paris-1954.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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 "/the-modern-myth-of-the-divine-feminine.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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?/turn-turn-turn-verein-by-suzanne-spellen.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/turn-turn-turn-verein-by-suzanne-spellen.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./what-maggie-smith-thinks-about-her-viral-poem-s-cameo-on-primetime-tv.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-maggie-smith-thinks-about-her-viral-poem-s-cameo-on-primetime-tv.htmlPopPoetry is poetry and pop culture Substack written by Caitlin Cowan. You can learn more about it here. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, subscribe so you won’t miss a post! Let’s take a stroll through this beautiful shithole. Have you read this poem before? Good BonesLife is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,/why-jens-s%C3%B6ring-has-no-contact-with-his-family.htmlSat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-jens-s%C3%B6ring-has-no-contact-with-his-family.htmlHi Frank, thank you for your posting. I totally agree with you. I think Showalter and Bullard had made a clear diagnosis on Elizabeth Haysom. Pathological lying was also confirmed by her family members and even in court, Updike was desperated by asking Elizabeth what version to believe her, as she had told so many lies before (So hard job for the jury, easy job for cherrypickers). This is one of the most popular sentences in her trial and not an invention of "/oil-packed-4-by-anna-konson.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/oil-packed-4-by-anna-konson.htmlPrice: $3.69 Weight: 145g Texture: Soft / Moist Taste: Savory Pair with: Literally anything with flavor I have to say, I’m a really big fan of smoked fish. I could eat it for literally every meal. The last time I was at Trader Joe’s I realized that I had never tried this tin before, so I picked it up (along with others) and looked forward to reviewing it. Surprisingly, this fish had me critically thinking about what makes a tin good or bad./1995-jagged-little-pill-alanis-morissette.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./alexandra-cooper-the-60m-3-year-host-of-the-call-her-daddy-podcast.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/alexandra-cooper-the-60m-3-year-host-of-the-call-her-daddy-podcast.htmlWelcome to Creator’s Digest! This article was supposed to be sent out over this past weekend but I took a mental health day break for myself over the weekend. Anyway, expect two articles today: this one in the morning and the usual Wednesday Creator news roundup later in the day. Anyway, let’s just jump into it. Meet Alexandra Cooper, the 26 year old host of the massively popular podcast Call Her Daddy./black-girls-with-ginger-auburn-reddish-colored-hair.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/black-girls-with-ginger-auburn-reddish-colored-hair.htmlToday I’m launching a short summer section of the newsletter ☀️ It’ll go out 4 days a week until the end of August. There are so many small, short social posts I see while digging for news that make me pause — or make me want to say everything. I’ll share one Instagram post, TikTok, Tweet, image, video, or weird emblem on the internet I think you should know about — but keep it short./coda-alla-vaccinara-by-gabriela-kulesza.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/coda-alla-vaccinara-by-gabriela-kulesza.htmlCoda alla vaccinara is quite ubiquitous in Roman trattorias, especially in the Testaccio neighbourhood - a former slaughterhouse district. A quintessential Roman dish, yet definitely not as famous outside of Italy as treats like carbonara, this stew is made with a beef cow’s tail and braised with vegetables such as carrots, celery, onion, and cooked in a rich tomato sauce and wine for a long time. The oxtail meat cut belongs to what would often be called a ‘quinto quarto’, a fifth quarter of an animal, referring to offal, parts which historically were mostly consumed by less wealthy communities./coppicing-pollarding-by-andy.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/coppicing-pollarding-by-andy.htmlHaving spent the last 3 chapters covering multi-species grazing and silvopasture systems, we now have an understanding of tree utilization within a grazing setting. It’s important to then start thinking about the trees for these systems themselves, and two particular methodologies around producing from our trees, and those two methods are coppicing and pollarding. In effect, these are the same practices done at different heights. The general idea is that you cut the tree during dormancy at a specified height; either at the roots if you're coppicing or at a designated height; usually above browsing height— around 6 or so feet— if you're pollarding./copy-paste-like-a-boss-by-mark-kashman.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/copy-paste-like-a-boss-by-mark-kashman.htmlHi Peer, How many minutes a day do you spend copy/pasting, going back and recopying something, or simply fixing the formatting of what you just copy/pasted? I’m gonna wager more than just a few + a few companion expletives 😡. It’s time to take time back, and copy/paste like a boss! It takes a little learning to build the muscle memory, and then there’s no looking back. Copy, and get pasting./das-racist-i-m-at-the-combination-pizza-hut-and-taco-bell.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/das-racist-i-m-at-the-combination-pizza-hut-and-taco-bell.htmlThis piece was originally posted back in September of 2022. I’ve made some edits, updating it content-wise, and to give it the proper graphical EW&SL sheen. I was inspired to rework this essay because this week, fellow music-based Substacker, who writes the excellent newsletter, recently posted a piece featuring Heems, formerly of alternative hip-hop crew Das Racist. I write more about Das Racist in the bottom half of the piece, with an update about the band based on amazing new (to me) info in Jared’s post./elvis-presley-caught-in-a-trap.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/elvis-presley-caught-in-a-trap.htmlOn August 16, 1977, I was driving down the Garden State Parkway with my girlfriend, looking forward to our first vacation together. I was meeting her family in her native Atlantic City, where she had grown up. We were both Newsday reporters at the beginning of our careers. Before leaving I had just finished a 2,000 word cover story for the Sunday, August 21, entertainment section. The story was about Elvis Presley, a deeply reported essay about his career to date./emojis-for-dummies-by-jacqueline-nesi-phd.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/emojis-for-dummies-by-jacqueline-nesi-phd.html📢 Welcome, techno sapiens! A few announcements. First, given the many embedded photos, links, and videos in today’s post, I recommend reading it in your browser. Second, check out this week’s Parenting Understood podcast to hear me chat about teens, social media, and tips for tech parenting. Third, if you’re new here, subscribe to join thousands of other readers and get research-backed tips for living and parenting in the digital age./five-questions-for-frances-barber.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/five-questions-for-frances-barber.html(Above: Best friends, Sir Ian McKellan and Frances Barber. She moved in with him for a time so he could care for her. Read the interview below to find out why. Photo from The Times. ) I first saw Frances Barber on a West End stage when I was spending a Thanksgiving holiday in London with some family members in 2004. She was starring as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Christian Slater./gay-men-s-network-responds-to-the-cass-review-final-report.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/gay-men-s-network-responds-to-the-cass-review-final-report.htmlThe medical scandal of “gender-affirming care” is primarily homophobic in nature, given that up to 80% of young people in GIDS expressed a same-sex attraction. Gay Men’s Network spells this out and calls for a statutory public inquiry into how gender ideology took hold in our national institutions and in the charity sector. You can read it all here (PDF) ncG1vNJzZmibnJ7Dpr%2FIpqesp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onpqxXaKyr7%2BMp5ytr5%2BnuG6%2BxKynqKaUqHq1u4ytn54%3D/he-s-not-travis-kelce-and-that-s-ok.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/he-s-not-travis-kelce-and-that-s-ok.htmlNo one is the next Travis Kelce. He’s one of one. There’s never been a tight end like him, and expecting anyone to fill the same role he has in the Chiefs offense is an exercise in futility. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about Chiefs’ 4th round pick Jared Wiley, a big, fast tight end out of TCU who has smoother movement skills and better speed than you’d expect in a guy his size./hickory-burgers-with-run-n-gun-bbq-sauce.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hickory-burgers-with-run-n-gun-bbq-sauce.htmlI have no shortage of burger recipes. Here are a few that you should make: I find burgers to be such an easy, delicious weeknight meal year round. But the fact that we can grill them up any time during the summer? Sign me up ! My lovely father always orders a Hickory Burger from any restaurant that serves them. I feel like it was only a matter of time before I did my spin on this classic recipe./holding-pornhub-accountable-for-monetizing-child-rapes.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/holding-pornhub-accountable-for-monetizing-child-rapes.htmlA federal judge in California has issued a landmark decision to allow a lawsuit to proceed against Pornhub and against Visa for together monetizing videos of child rapes. The plaintiff is Serena Fleites, who was the central figure of a long article I wrote about Pornhub in December 2020. Here’s how I introduced her then: At 14, Serena K. Fleites was an A student in Bakersfield, Calif., who had never made out with a boy./how-panoramic-vision-helps-you-destress-in-real-time.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-panoramic-vision-helps-you-destress-in-real-time.htmlAs captured in the proverb “out of sight, out of mind”, our mental focus follows our visual focus.  The reason is fascinating (and a bit weird, too): Our eyes are actually a part of our brains – the only one located outside the skull, that is. Having the eyes outside our skull has two major purposes: First, they can tell the rest of the brain whether it’s day or night, which makes light the major synchronizer of our circadian rhythm./i-m-going-to-work-until-i-die-if-i-can-because-i-need-the-money.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-m-going-to-work-until-i-die-if-i-can-because-i-need-the-money.htmlThank you for reading. If you like what you read here please consider supporting my work with a subscription if you can do so at this time. “How do I ever say thank you? I don’t know what to say,” Derlin Newey the eighty nine year old pizza delivery man with the great Elmore Leonard ass name said. He was on the verge of tears. One of his regular customers a TikTok personality named Carlos Valdez had been charmed by the elderly Utah man working at Papa John’s and so he and his followers raised $12,069 (nice) as a gift as KSL TV reported./in-the-gambler-james-caan-stakes-his-swagger-against-the-house.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-the-gambler-james-caan-stakes-his-swagger-against-the-house.htmlWhen James Caan makes his first appearance in 1974’s The Gambler, he’s wearing a form-fitting collared shirt buttoned only halfway down and opened up into a “V,” the great tufts of light brown chest hair popping out as majestically as a peacock’s plumage. Audiences were familiar with Caan’s linebacker frame, especially as he’d played football players in both Francis Ford Coppola’s lovely 1969 drama The Rain People and Brian’s Song, the 1971 TV weepie that won him an Emmy./is-the-reply-series-the-best-trilogy-ever.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-the-reply-series-the-best-trilogy-ever.htmlChildhood friends, nosy neighborhood ajummas and ajussis, food (and lots of it), goat bleating (for real), and love are all a part of the popular “Reply” series: ° Reply 1997 (응답하라 1997)☆☆☆ ° Reply 1994 (응답하라 1994) ☆☆½ ° Reply 1988 (응답하라 1988)☆☆☆½ “Reply 1997” was the first release of the three. “1994” and “1988” are not continuations or prequels. Rather, each is a stand-alone series with different leads and plots./kk-uki-goshi-by-nicola-fairbrother.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kk-uki-goshi-by-nicola-fairbrother.htmlA word from NikUki-Goshi is very similar to O-Goshi. What’s the difference? Ogoshi requires a greater turn of the hips, a deeper knee bend and more hip contact, whereas Uki Goshi requires very little knee bend or hip contact. With Uki-Goshi you direct uke to the side, whereas with O-Goshi the throw is to the front. Teaching MaterialsPlease find below Teaching Card, with step by step illustrations on how to do this throw/notes-on-alien-in-disguise-by-lawrence-maximilian-small.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/notes-on-alien-in-disguise-by-lawrence-maximilian-small.htmlGot a script that you want notes on? Well, I just might give them to you as long as you’re willing to share them with everyone else. It’s time for another subscriber sketch. If you’re not currently a paid subscriber and you’d like to submit a sketch for possible review, or to see notes on other subscriber sketches, please consider a full subscription. And if you don’t want to, I’ll have another free post comin’ up next week./online-comedy-s-very-important-person.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/online-comedy-s-very-important-person.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. This doubles as Vic Michaelis’s audition for your next tornado movie, btw. —Kate It’s nice to know in the current media environment that there is such a thing as a beloved company coming back from the dead. Founded in 1999, CollegeHumor helped launch many now-beloved comedians’ careers. But after spending the 2010s battling with Facebook’s video algorithm and eventually restructuring, the company had been reduced to, in Vulture’s words, “a zombie shell of itself./proof-of-life-with-jen-pastiloff-jennifer-pastiloff.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/proof-of-life-with-jen-pastiloff-jennifer-pastiloff.htmlA 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. Not ready to be awkward ncG1vNJzZmiooqS8p7vFpaCfnaeewam2xKdlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilXw%3D%3D/review-dungeon-crawl-classics-by-goodman-games.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-dungeon-crawl-classics-by-goodman-games.htmlThe year 2023 has almost turned out to be the year of Dungeon Crawl Classics for many of us in the Mythic Mountains RPG play club. We had the incredible good fortune of finishing a 6 month long “adventure module crawl” campaign, have used Dungeon Crawl Classics to play in classic TSR adventures, played through several of the wacky official published “funnels” together, experimented with some of the boxed settings, zines, used DCC for modern modules and some amazing homebrew too./share-the-scandal-just-not-in-public.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/share-the-scandal-just-not-in-public.htmlGood advice... Personaly, I'm trying to do nothing with GAFAT anymore... They lost their mind. I really really think they are in total panic. We are becoming more and more important. Even if we can't have mainstream media coverage... If Instagram decide to qualify the #radfem as hate speech I'm pretty sure it's because we are becoming too numerous then dangerous for their propaganda... Have you seen this debate on Doctor Phil between the right wing youtuber Matt Walsh (who wrote a book for children to illustrate the nonsens of gender identity) and the non binary "/shikarii-s-naked-variant-covers-with-margot-robbie-scarlett-johansson-and-daisy-ridley.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shikarii-s-naked-variant-covers-with-margot-robbie-scarlett-johansson-and-daisy-ridley.htmlA comic book retailer has gotten in touch with me regarding a recent trend in publishing comic books from a certain specialist section of the comics publishing industry. Such as Counterpoint Comics, which publishes a number of parody comic books, You may have seen them, especially at comic book conventions, courtesy of exclusive variant covers provided to specific attending retailers. Their Deadpool/Winnie The Pooh parody comic Do You Pooh comic was their first breakout title, but they also publish comics such as Savage Eve, Blindside, Notti & Nyce, Walking Dead Pooh, Poohnisher, and Hardlee Thinn./snake-q-a-016-kathleen-sorbara-chickees-vintage.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/snake-q-a-016-kathleen-sorbara-chickees-vintage.htmlNow at Snake: Every other Friday or so a free interview with a person in good standing of the newsletter whose taste in vintage, furniture, collectibles and adjacent fields is worth celebrating and learning from. Sellers, buyers, set decorators, artists, adjacents, etc… Here’s the 16th… Kathleen Sorbara | @kathleensorbara @chickeesvintage | NYC & LA | Founder & owner of Chickee’s Vintage & Chickee’s Vintage Men’s Store | website Kathleen is one of the biggest hustlers I’ve ever met and it all shows up in the work; the Chickee’s men’s store is heightened, elegant and fresh, the women’s store is shoulder to shoulder with most anywhere else… together the two have a part in how vintage has been elevated into something quite refined, literary and understated these last couple years./sonny-sharrock-herbie-mann-wild-free-music-and-more.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sonny-sharrock-herbie-mann-wild-free-music-and-more.htmlGreetings — if you’re new to this Substack, thanks very much for coming on board. As of now at least, as was the case with the old Dark Forces Swing blog, there’s no particular format or frequency to the newsletter. I’m simply using this as a space to delve into anything that interests me, and this time around, that’s the early discography of Sonny Sharrock. There are currently three parts to this ongoing deep dive — the piece below, where I discuss the strange duality of the early Sonny canon, divided neatly between free-jazz sessions and something like their polar opposite, his extensive work alongside the funky flute player Herbie Mann./spiced-doughnuts-by-martin-philip.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/spiced-doughnuts-by-martin-philip.htmlI don’t know about your house but it’s hot here — wet, muggy, and buggy. If I’m baking, it’s early in the day and, while I want nothing more than a year of Julys, a week of lower humidity would be good for the green fur growing on our deck rug. But for some things, it’s worth heating up the kitchen. These sourdough- and yeast-risen doughnuts are fun to make and even more fun to watch others eat./teenage-love-triangles-are-toxic-af-aka-jess-dean-again.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/teenage-love-triangles-are-toxic-af-aka-jess-dean-again.htmlWelcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it By MaggieSince my second kid was born in November I’ve taken to reading novels. Mostly because I spend… ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq56dnpa0pnnLqK2eZaSntqK6xqWcrGWRp7JuwM6xoJw%3D/that-summer-feeling-unmaking-loneliness-by-sara-bubenik.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/that-summer-feeling-unmaking-loneliness-by-sara-bubenik.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-advice-dave-chappelle-gave-a-young-bill-burr.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-advice-dave-chappelle-gave-a-young-bill-burr.html💥 The advice Chappelle gave a young Bill Burr after a set: "Your point of view is so dope. But it's gonna take you a lot longer to get there. But when you do, you're gonna hit hard." 💥 Comedian + Audience: Comedy is the most collaborative artform there is (along with DJing) since you and the audience are building the art TOGETHER as a collective. A guitar player can practice at home alone./the-caterpillar-lady-by-denise-trull.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-caterpillar-lady-by-denise-trull.htmlHappy Birthday, Maria Sibylla Merian. She was an amazing force to be reckoned with. One of my heroines! I do think it is a fact that women were pretty much intellectually quashed by many men back in the seventeenth century. But Maria didn't spend any time resenting or obsessing over the fact that she might be oppressed by men. She just did her thing. She was strong willed, had endless patience, had an observant nature, and artistic skills out of this world./the-eleven-millionaire-by-gene-weingarten.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-eleven-millionaire-by-gene-weingarten.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-joys-of-immunity-think-like-an-autocrat-and-predict-trump-s-behavior.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-joys-of-immunity-think-like-an-autocrat-and-predict-trump-s-behavior.htmlWelcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers. Our next Q&A will be on Sunday, July 7, 8-9pmET. Paying subscribers will receive a link to register for the Zoom gathering at 5pmET that afternoon. Our guest will be historian Andre Pagliarini, who has written widely on Latin America (you can read his New York Times op-ed on Bolsonaro here). After a 1964 military coup, Brazil endured dictatorship until 1985. Prof./the-late-great-hannibal-lecter.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-late-great-hannibal-lecter.htmlOne of my cats is a scary murderer. A Night Terror, a destroyer of (mouse) worlds, a rodent liquidator. Not to get too graphic and believe me I could, this week Jerry killed four mice in one night and left their heads for me, scattered about. I am not squeamish, and yet, one never expects to start the day collecting disembodied heads with a paper towel. Jerry was extremely excited, but also slightly sluggish, what with all the mouse meat in his belly./the-ultimate-green-beans-by-carolina-gelen.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-ultimate-green-beans-by-carolina-gelen.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./those-who-can-t-teach-desk-notes-by-charles-schifano.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/those-who-can-t-teach-desk-notes-by-charles-schifano.htmlAlthough I will never underestimate the power of stupidity to reach unimagined vistas, the saying “those who can’t do, teach” must be the stupidest of all clichés. I don’t blame George Bernard Shaw for placing these words in a fictional character’s mouth on the stage long ago, though I do blame those who speak but don’t examine these words today. At least the cliché does provide one useful function: the speaker of these words identifies themselves as someone who can neither do nor teach./three-reactions-to-the-pca-canceling-david-french.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/three-reactions-to-the-pca-canceling-david-french.htmlI hope this article makes you go “Hmm.” If so, then would you support my labors? Don’t put it off any longer. Become a paid subscriber today. David French, a conservative commentator, lawyer, and New York Times columnist wrote an articled titled: The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day. The vociferous protests of a some hardliners persuaded planners of the annual General Assembly meeting to cancel a keynote panel that French was supposed to be on./what-do-you-want-to-hear.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-do-you-want-to-hear.htmlWe all want results, but too many people want it the way they want it and not the way it has to be. We’re suckers for a good story. We want to believe and feel the hope. To protect yourself against enticing stories and sales pitches, one question I recommend asking is “how do you know what you know?” You then listen for cliche responses with no supporting evidence, just more talk./what-is-the-real-meaning-of-january-6.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-the-real-meaning-of-january-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./when-good-ideas-go-very-wrong.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-good-ideas-go-very-wrong.htmlYou can check out my first piece on Twin Flames here. It’s no secret that the line between genuine self help and an all-out scam is pretty thin. One of the fascinating, and troubling, things about this is that many of the ultimately dangerous and abusive groups out there start with a simple, common-sense idea; a good ide… ncG1vNJzZmiklai5qrHKnqmnZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9ahnKdll6S8pXnInZyaq12cvG7CxKuwZq%2BipLuo/yes-flair-can-do-what-he-wants.htmlFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/yes-flair-can-do-what-he-wants.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./missionary-man-eurythmics-funky-retort-to-hypocrisy.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/missionary-man-eurythmics-funky-retort-to-hypocrisy.htmlPeak: #1 on the rock chart (#14 on the Hot 100) Streams: 9.4 million You couldn’t even be a rock star in the 80s unless you had a catchy song about institutional hypocrisy. Genesis used “Land of Confusion” to get the party started and to bemoan the endless slaughter of war. Prince used “Sign ‘O The Times” to make a funky groove and to decry shallow politicians, and on “What I Am,” Edie Brickell tucked her critique of superficial spirituality inside a hooky chorus./a-history-of-indian-fast-bowling.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-history-of-indian-fast-bowling.htmlHere’s a story you’ve probably heard a thousand times before. So much so, that it has become something of a truism. Jasprit Bumrah was parachuted in to the Test team straight from IPL. The IPL is credited with cultivating talent. The evidence for this is stuff John Wright says about seeing Bumrah bowling once. Some of this is available in Sharda Ugra’s terrific profile of the great fast bowler. But the man who discovers Bumrah is not John Wright in 2013 in a SMAT T20 match in March 2013 against Mumbai (not Indians, but the first class team formerly known as Bombay), but Anil Patel, the secretary of the Central Board of Cricket Ahmedabad, in 2010./a-simple-format-for-herb-sauces.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-simple-format-for-herb-sauces.htmlHey, everyone. This week I want to share with you a simple way of thinking about herb sauces. Herb sauces are super versatile, packed with flavor and nutrients, and easy to make. I’ll often make some riff on this sauce every week as a staple in my fridge— it works as a condiment, a pasta sauce, and a base for roasted vegetables. You can mix it with a bit of extra oil and vinegar to form a salad dressing, or you can add it with yogurt or mayo for a nice topping./all-of-us-strangers-review.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/all-of-us-strangers-review.htmlAndrew Haigh’s romantic fantasy, All of Us Strangers, got shut out of the Oscars, with zero nominations. And that’s a shame. A strong ensemble cast — Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell — delivers subtle yet heartbreaking performances. The screenplay adapts its source material with a series of bold choices. And it shows us things we think we know in completely unexpected and fresh ways. The unusual story of All of Us Strangers follows Adam, a screenwriter who lives alone in London and has to confront the loss of his parents along with the prospect of starting a new relationship./and-don-t-come-back-by-loren-feldman.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/and-don-t-come-back-by-loren-feldman.htmlGood Morning! Here are today’s highlights:             Etsy is pushing its retailers to discount early this holiday season. As prices start to drop, the housing industry is showing signs of cracking. Drive-throughs are eating the fast-food industry. Chip and Joanna Gaines’ latest fixer upper is a hotel. Tired of bad online reviews, this restaurant decided to fight back: “Dragon Lee, a family-owned Chinese restaurant in upstate New York, is a beloved place./anti-queerness-and-the-pinkification-of-allison-of-the-breakfast-club.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/anti-queerness-and-the-pinkification-of-allison-of-the-breakfast-club.htmlBy Nia Tucker Queer-coded characters exist in our favorite movies across all genres of film.  Queerness is not inherently able to be defined succinctly and broadly, but when you know, you know. If they aren’t the villains, read: Jafar from Aladdin, Maleficent or even the Babadook, queer-coded characters are instantly recognized by queer audiences. It’s either a messy shag of hair, baggy, loose-fitting clothes, all-black attire and lesbian-esque black platform boots, or maybe it’s the sarcasm and the innate sexuality that they possess./ashley-reese-doesn-t-know-why-she-makes-twitter-so-mad.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ashley-reese-doesn-t-know-why-she-makes-twitter-so-mad.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Get you an interview that can do both (touch on the experience of marginalized identities online and the James Potter/Regulus Black fandom) —Kate Despite what TikTok may tell you, being a main character isn’t always a good thing—especially on Twitter. If you’re Twitter’s character of the day, you’re at the center of a discourse so explosive that it takes over your entire feed./balming-tiger-is-the-musical-collective-disrupting-the-k-pop-world.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/balming-tiger-is-the-musical-collective-disrupting-the-k-pop-world.html(Photo: Balming Tiger) K-pop is often associated with the spectacle of dazzling costumes, intricate dancing and catchy fast-paced music. Everything is highly planned, choreographed and rehearsed to perfection. However, Balming Tiger is unlike the bands we often associate the genre with. Rather, their shows are more akin to something you’d see at an underground punk or hip hop concert. And it’s exactly why they’ve become known as disrupters in the K-music scene today./big-jake-1971-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/big-jake-1971-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlThis is the second of my first-ever Reeling Backward "double feature," looking at a pair of back-to-back Westerns John Wayne made during his declining years. You can read the column on "Rio Lobo" by clicking here. The two films have been paired together in a nice Blu-ray release that's now available. Thematically and stylistically, "Rio Lobo" and "Big Jake" share a lot of space. Wayne plays essentially the same role: a cussedly good-natured cowboy who's on the downside of his long run in the saddle, still throwing his weight around to protect his reputation but also do some good if he can./canned-language-by-kate-mckean.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/canned-language-by-kate-mckean.htmlHi Friends, Maybe you heard about some stuff Apple released yesterday. (ed: yawn.) You may have also heard that Tim Cook turned his keynote into you go-to intro to all your 9th grade 5-paragraph essays: I mean. Really, Tim Cook? The dictionary defines? I love dictionaries. Some of my favorite people have actually made dictionaries. But that construction is some hackneyed, boring, canned language shit. What’s canned language? It’s a phrase you automatically write because millions of writers have written it before you./comments-g-detou-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-g-detou-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlI bought most of my knives at A Simon's in 1998, I got a nice student discount while attending Le Cordon Bleu. Everytime in Paris, I would make the tour from Dehillern, to Simon, to Detou, and finish with Mora. Stuff dreams are made of. But, frequently I would tire and need to rest at Les Cloches des Halles. Sadly, since changing hands it does pour St, Joseph by the glass nor appears to still have the superb onion tart./diving-into-openai-s-financials-how-do-they-actually-make-money.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/diving-into-openai-s-financials-how-do-they-actually-make-money.htmlFounded in 2015 as a non-profit AI research lab, OpenAI underwent a significant transformation into a commercial powerhouse when it established a business arm in 2020. According to The Information, a technology publication, as of October last year, OpenAI's annualized revenue reached $1.3 billion. Notably, the pace of sales growth has persisted and continued to accelerate. The company is currently on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets, joining Google and Meta as fastest-growing tech companies ever./ever-get-home-by-jamie-tworkowski.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ever-get-home-by-jamie-tworkowski.htmlEver Get Home is a newsletter by me, Jamie Tworkowski. What a strange thing to have a gift we walk away from. I don’t want to do that anymore. It’s time to write again. After years of false starts and crying wolf about a second book, after an extended season of personal and professional change, this is a return to telling stories. About life. About people and places and connection, pop culture and mental health and songs I can’t stop listening to./how-to-cook-invasive-asian-carp-or-copi.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-cook-invasive-asian-carp-or-copi.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./j-adore-learning-french-by-sara-lieberman.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/j-adore-learning-french-by-sara-lieberman.htmlFile this under things you didn’t necessarily ask for, but when I LOVE something, I want to shout about it from the rooftops—be it a book, a podcast, or, in this week’s case, FRENCH LESSONS. Welcome to “J’adore” a smidgen of declarations from moi about something I adore. (Like, for example, the fact that “adore” and “adore” mean the same thing in English and French. But no need to devote more than a sentence to that!/jessica-adams-astrology-and-tarot.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jessica-adams-astrology-and-tarot.html“I have been a fan of Jessica Adams for many years. Her astrology is always smart, insightful and eerily accurate. If you want to know what life themes may be occurring - not only for your personally, but also worldwide - then I highly recommend subscribing to Jessica's newsletter and website.” ncG1vNJzZmiilajAqq%2FAmpuapaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D/kate-s-photo-editing-debacle-untangling-the-royal-mess.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kate-s-photo-editing-debacle-untangling-the-royal-mess.htmlIf you would have told me that the discourse around Catherine, the Princess of Wales, would go from bad to much worse, I’m not sure I would have believed you. It was already abysmal, with absurd conspiracy theories about her health and whereabouts making their way from corners of the internet to the mainstream media. But then Kensington Palace made it immeasurably worse, releasing a photograph of the princess and her three children./kitchen-witch-your-way-to-home-ownership.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kitchen-witch-your-way-to-home-ownership.htmlHello, wonderful witches! Not much to update you on today, because I’m annoyingly sick with a bad cold and probably about to go back to bed. So we’ll just jump into this issue’s featured piece — a recipe to kitchen witch your way into a new house. Get Social Tip Jar By Lana KatsarosHome has always been the centerpiece of life for me. Ever since I was young I always fantasized about the home I would live in, what it would look like, and how I would decorate it./mitchell-miller-addresses-his-past-future.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mitchell-miller-addresses-his-past-future.htmlWelcome to the AZ Coyotes Insider newsletter. I generally publish stories four to six times per week (some of them free). By subscribing, you’ll be supporting independent, accountable journalism. Subscribe now so you won’t miss a story. Give a gift subscription Editor’s note: When representatives for Mitchell Miller reached out to see if I was interested in interviewing Miller, I made it clear that there would be conditions attached to that interview, and only after that interview would I decide whether it warranted a story./mushroom-suits-and-the-good-death.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mushroom-suits-and-the-good-death.htmlSimple climate action  //   I S S U E   # 4 4  //   FUNERALS The death industry has come up with all sorts of expensive ways to die. One of the most inventive (and at $1,500 a relative bargain) is the mushroom death suit. In theory, as author Eric Bruist explains, it cleanses your corpse and rids the body of toxins as it returns to the Earth. But the truth is our preoccupations with purity (decomposition) or immortality (artificial preservation) get in the way of something nature has already perfected quite well./my-journey-to-discovering-identity-and-finding-my-voice.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-journey-to-discovering-identity-and-finding-my-voice.htmlTwo weeks ago, my family and I made a quick trip back to my childhood apartment in the Bronx. It was the first time I’d been back to New York, and my old neighborhood, in over a year. That might not sound like a long time, but for me it is.  Ever since I moved to Miami in 2016, I've traveled back and forth to New York at least two or three times a year./nolan-jones-lucky-or-good.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nolan-jones-lucky-or-good.htmlI’m trying to be better about not always dismissing efficiency as unrepeatable. This is actually a lesson I’ve taken from fantasy football, where for most of the past 5 years I faded RBs such as Nick Chubb and Derrick Henry due to their outlier yards per carry and workloads. “It’ll regress”, I’d tell myself. But for many years it didn’t. It’s because they were talented. I’m not sure what the exact comparison is for baseball, but I found myself thinking a lot about Blake Snell’s 2023 left on base rate during his run to winning another Cy Young award./nuckelavee-the-devil-of-the-sea-by-a-c-luke.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nuckelavee-the-devil-of-the-sea-by-a-c-luke.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./our-year-of-watching-elon-musk-ruin-absolutely-everything-at-twitter.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/our-year-of-watching-elon-musk-ruin-absolutely-everything-at-twitter.htmlAlmost exactly a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s offices holding a white porcelain sink, his suspiciously puffy face wearing its characteristic spaniel-like, victorious grin.  Here was a man who had inadvertently Tweeted his way into being legally compelled to buy a social media website that he both adored and despised. Here was a billionaire who existed in a flop-sweat scented bubble of affirmation, who spent every day being reassured that he was one of the greatest minds of our generation, a modern lord capable of ushering humanity into space./patrick-mahomes-3rd-down-dominance-should-make-him-the-mvp-frontrunner.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/patrick-mahomes-3rd-down-dominance-should-make-him-the-mvp-frontrunner.htmlBut, Seth, that last completion cost them a shot at a field goal. He should have just run out of bounds for Harrison. Said in my best three year-old voice. By the way, I loved the fake punt in this game. Not just because it was awesome, but because it was so low risk. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, you are ahead, playing the Jets, and at midfield, so the defense is likely to stop them even if you fail because, well, the Jets./punishment-rape-violence-towards-lesbians.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/punishment-rape-violence-towards-lesbians.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”./question-18-comfortably-numb-by-tamara-santiba%C3%B1ez.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/question-18-comfortably-numb-by-tamara-santiba%C3%B1ez.htmlWhat do you think about using numbing cream? [Image: an emoji with its eyes closed, a package of Dr. Numb ointment superimposed over it with the words “I pretend I do not feel it.”]Numbing cream used to be a rarity. I encountered it only a few times back in the day, and it was always something the client came in having prepped their skin with, sometimes catching me by surprise. I hadn’t had much experience with it until more recent years, and it took time to glean enough firsthand data points to form my own opinion of it./review-loki-glorious-purpose-season-2-episode-6.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-loki-glorious-purpose-season-2-episode-6.htmlBack in Loki’s second season premiere, the frazzled God of Mischief arrived back at the TVA with one wish: more time. He needed more time to think about He Who Remains’ offer. More time to talk things through with Sylvie. More time to catch his breath. Tonight’s season (series?) finale finally closes that loop, giving Loki literal centuries of time to figure out the best course of action. And yet I can’t help coming away from it with the same sort of feeling Loki had at the start./rosalind-russell-by-dan-callahan.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rosalind-russell-by-dan-callahan.htmlNo female star of the classic Hollywood era made a stronger feminist impression than Rosalind Russell, who was noted in the 1940s for a series of “boss lady” films like Take a Letter, Darling (1942) in which she was very in charge and swaggered around and treated men as sex objects and hired help. Both Russell and Katharine Hepburn made movies about female achievement in this time that were so specialized that they feel like fantasies for women, but they both offered images that led the way to these fantasies becoming a reality because they were so obviously capable of handling CEO positions of authority./runner-s-world-uk-s-kate-carter-refuses-to-resign-despite-being-a-proven-cheater-where-exactly-is-h.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/runner-s-world-uk-s-kate-carter-refuses-to-resign-despite-being-a-proven-cheater-where-exactly-is-h.htmlKate Carter is a employed as the acting commissioning editor of the United Kingdom version of Runner’s World. This rag clearly has the same mandate as its self-parodic, equally superfluous U.S.-based parent: Employ unintelligent, spineless, talentless, unattractive, and unethical people such as Jeff Dengate and Jennifer Acker to recruit half-literate, “progressive,” and equally poly-nauseating freelancers to craft and sling myths, outright lies, and divisive culture-war fodder and in general promote the precise opposite of sound health or useful running advice./stealth-startup-spy-114-by-drake-dukes.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stealth-startup-spy-114-by-drake-dukes.htmlStealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points to help you identify tomorrow's opportunities that are currently hiding in the shadows. These signals include tracking the inflows and outflows of talent who work at “Stealth Startups”, bios and profile changes to “building something new” and monitoring press releases to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups./the-alien-mummies-are-all-too-human.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-alien-mummies-are-all-too-human.htmlYour paid subscription supports my creative projects and allows me to pursue original essays and artworks like these. If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, people of Earth. I’m sure you recall the Mexican alien mummy incident that took place last week. Kind of weird, right? The way it was presented on social media, it appeared as if the Mexican government was casually doing an unboxing video of extraterrestrial (Mex-traterrestrial?/the-lady-from-shanghai-1947.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-lady-from-shanghai-1947.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-last-leb-standing-among-steakhouses.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-last-leb-standing-among-steakhouses.htmlWhen Sapulpa’s legendary Freddie’s Steakhouse closed at the end of 2022, Oklahoma’s Lebanese Steakhouse options fell to one. Jamil’s Steakhouse is the last place you can get Lebanese mezzes, smoked ribs and bologna before cutting into a juicy steak. Jamil’s has two remaining locations, one in Tulsa and the one Greg Gawey took over in 1976. In the year of our country’s Bicentennial Celebration, Gawey was readying himself for law school at the University of Oklahoma./the-mexican-tradition-of-voladores.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-sharpener-sean-singer.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-sharpener-sean-singer.html“The Sharpener is a wonderful resource for poets. Not only will you be treated to Sean's finely curated reading lists, the craft letters are something really special. I've taken a lot of writing courses and I feel he truly cares about helping people write good poems. Instead of offering opinions and judgment, he offers clarity and solutions that take into account the psychological aspects that can inhibit us from doing our best work./throw-the-jew-down-the-well-by-eve-barlow.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/throw-the-jew-down-the-well-by-eve-barlow.htmlThere are many reasons I am glad to be a Jew, but the main one is that nobody could make active fun of their own imminent attempted genocide quite like we can: I don’t know who made this updated remix of Borat, but whoever you are: kol hakavod. At least we can laugh. There are several clips going around online via the help of Al Jazeera and AJ+ (who we obviously can’t trust because Hamas bankroll those media outlets), in which Israelis are allegedly poking fun on TikTok at suffering Palestinians./toy-story-4-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/toy-story-4-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlI enjoyed “Toy Story 4,” though I’m not terribly happy they made it. That may sound strange, but here’s why: “Toy Story 3” was a very conscious end to the animated franchise. In it the child Andy, now all grown into a young man, gave away his toys to little Bonnie, and quite literally rode off into the sunset. Cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen) and the rest of the toys, who come to life when humans aren’t around, had completed their life’s journey and started anew./what-being-a-mindful-consumer-means-to-me.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-being-a-mindful-consumer-means-to-me.htmlI hope you’re enjoying The Mindful Consumer. This is a newsletter about paying attention to what you are paying attention to—and how it impacts your mindset, your mental health, and your money. TMC is 1/3 of my job—and I treat it as such. I’m always trying to be a mindful creator, and put a lot of time and thought into everything I share with you. And I could not do this work without the financial support of this community./what-i-learned-talking-to-sophia-locke.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-i-learned-talking-to-sophia-locke.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./when-bluey-changed-cricket-a-review.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-bluey-changed-cricket-a-review.htmlShout out to our new sponsor Nord VPN. Click on their link and get your EXCLUSIVE Deal. Get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 additional months for free! If you don’t like it, cancel it within 30 days. This is one of the most important pieces of media ever made on cricket. It is also aimed at 4-year-olds. If you don’t have kids around that age, you may have no idea what this is, or why it matters./why-is-the-university-of-colorado-boulder-so-white.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-is-the-university-of-colorado-boulder-so-white.htmlI’ve been on the faculty at CU Boulder since 2001. Soon after arriving I started wondering about a troubling pattern in my classes. I had almost no Black students in them. Despite various initiatives, lofty goals and frequent statements of the importance of diversity from administrators, that remains the case today. CU Boulder is one of the least diverse and most inaccessible campuses among universities in the nation. That’s a problem./you-beauty-courtney-skippon.htmlThu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/you-beauty-courtney-skippon.htmlA general exclamation of happiness and joy. You Beauty is a dispatch of what I find joyful, beautiful and most interesting - a place to gather my thoughts and photographs that might otherwise go unseen. By Courtney Skippon · Launched 7 months agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmibn6q%2FtbrEsqqkoaClvK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZg%3D%3D/survivor-45-episode-11-recap.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/survivor-45-episode-11-recap.htmlEvery Wednesday after the “Survivor” episode airs you’ll be able to find a full recap along with individual player grades right here. The next day I’ll have an exit interview with the latest castaway on my YouTube Channel. And…get this…every Monday I’ll be squaring off against “Survivor 44” challenge beast Frannie Marin in the “Survivor” Power Rankings! That too is available on my YouTube Channel. So, don’t miss a thing. Follow me here, follow me on YouTube, on X, etc…/1900-1976-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/1900-1976-by-christopher-lloyd.html"1900" is a movie that is at once very large and very small. It was Bernardo Bertolucci's self-conscious attempt to create an epic film about Italy's struggle between fascism and socialism. He framed his tale around two characters, the son of a rich landowner, or padrone, and the son of a peasant, who were born on the same day and raised together. We watch them from boyhood to middle age to dotage, striving against each other, eternal friends and combatants./a-chat-with-casting-director-bernard-telsey.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-chat-with-casting-director-bernard-telsey.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./about-knicks-film-school.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-knicks-film-school.htmlIn 2017, with a simple video about the defensive stylings of one Ronald Delaine Baker, Knicks Film School was born. At the time, KFS was merely a Twitter account run by Jeffery Bellone, who, ironically, now writes a newsletter about the Mets. From those humble beginnings, Knicks Film School has now become the preeminent team-centric brand in the NBA media landscape, and this Newsletter is its home base. So what exactly is the Knicks Film School Newsletter?/an-interview-with-jason-kirk-author-of-hell-is-a-world-without-you.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-interview-with-jason-kirk-author-of-hell-is-a-world-without-you.htmlHello, friends! Today, I’m pleased to share my interview with , author of the excellent new novel Hell Is a World Without You, a coming-of-age story that reflects Kirk’s own upbringing in the evangelical church.“During the time of Pizza Hut buffets, 9/11, and all-night Mario Kart parties, a grieving teenager faces a mortal crossroads: fire-and-brimstone certainty vs. forbidden love. And whether or not you’ve ever begged God to delay the Rapture (so you could have time to lose your virginity), that kid’s story is about you./arrest-me-says-jk-rowling.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/arrest-me-says-jk-rowling.htmlThe Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland ) Act is barely a day old and already JK Rowling has tested it to destruction.  In one mega tweet in which she repeatedly misgenders transwomen and showcases a succession rapists and sexual offenders who’ve been placed in Scottish women’s jails, the Harry Potter author has done exactly what this Act was supposed to prevent. She has - a reasonable person might judge - expressed malice and ill will toward people with the “protected characteristic”of transgender identity”./avraham-stern-the-warrior-poet-killed-by-the-british.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/avraham-stern-the-warrior-poet-killed-by-the-british.htmlEighty years ago this weekend, on February 12, 1942, British policemen got a tip that Avraham (“Yair”) Stern, who headed the Jewish military underground group known as the Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel, “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”), was hiding in an apartment in the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Officers burst into the apartment and found Stern hiding there. Stern (or “Yair”, as he was commonly known) was bound with his hands behind his back and placed on a sofa./bagworld-max-hunnter-substack.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bagworld-max-hunnter-substack.htmlWelcome to BagWorld, where indulgence meets irreverence, and your love for luxury gets a front-row seat to the Hermès spectacular! Here, we've crafted a haven for those who understand that a handbag isn't just an accessory; it's a statement, a work of art Launched 3 years ago Not yet, go to BagWorldncG1vNJzZmiakZzEsL7LnWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVf/bruce-springsteen-mvp-arena-albany-n-y.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bruce-springsteen-mvp-arena-albany-n-y.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./courtroom-corruption-grieving-mom-accuses-judge-of-cash-for-kids-scandal.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/courtroom-corruption-grieving-mom-accuses-judge-of-cash-for-kids-scandal.htmlSix-year-old Adam Gitter was smart, kind, loving, caring, adorable, and funny. Earlier this month, he was pronounced dead in a Lakeland, Florida, hospital while in the custody of his father, Dr. Leonard J. Gitter, a local oncologist. Elena Belogolovsky, the grieving mother, wants answers that have not been forthcoming. The local Polk County Sheriff and Lakeland Hospital have been tight-lipped about what happened. But Belogolovsky says her son should never have been put in this dire position./cover-story-kendrick-lamar-show-discipline-magazine.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cover-story-kendrick-lamar-show-discipline-magazine.htmlWhen I started this newsletter, we wrote an article asking where Kendrick Lamarhad been. Well, 1855 days since his highly critically acclaimed album DAMN Kendrick Lamar returned with the double-disc album Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers. The project is one of his best yet. It also stood up to the hype that surround the project being released. Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers is such a great album because when you listen to it, it’s hard to say whether it sounds like a therapy session or theatre or dramatic play./did-adolf-hitler-really-only-have-one-ball.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/did-adolf-hitler-really-only-have-one-ball.htmlLAST NIGHT I had a drink with my friend and neighbour Ray, who later this year turns 94. One of the great things about talking to Ray is that he is blessed with a long memory, and yesterday he was recalling the Abdication Crisis of 1936 – when he was eight – and singing the words: Hark! The herald angels sing, "Wallis Simpson’s stole our King”. This schoolboy ditty reminded me of another song that people of Ray’s generation would have sung – the one concerning Adolf Hitler only having one testicle, with the other residing in a famous London concert hall./eavesdropping-on-your-wife-then-kissing-your-cousin.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eavesdropping-on-your-wife-then-kissing-your-cousin.htmlWelcome to the monthly wrap up of missteps that may hit someone’s pocketbook (often yours). I’m going to skip politics, because you already know how awful it is. One guy can’t remember who’s alive or dead or when his son passed away. Another guy loses “bigly” in court every time he opens his mouth, and a third guy claims he had nothing to do with a Super Bowl ad promoting his campaign by repurposing a commercial reminiscent of his assassinated uncle — “I’m so sorry!/ep-221-lillian-parker-long-term-care-the-village-of-riverside-glen.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ep-221-lillian-parker-long-term-care-the-village-of-riverside-glen.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./finally-people-are-boning-on-the-gilded-age.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/finally-people-are-boning-on-the-gilded-age.htmlFirst, some housekeeping! I meant to send a free preview oflast week’s recap to everyone, but I clicked the wrong buttons here at Ye Olde Substack and my plan went awry. Which is why every Broad is seeing at least a snippet of episode two’s coverage right now. Hello! The good news is that this episode had a SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT and was also reasonably funny, so it’s an apt one to whet your appetite./give-nancy-meyers-her-money.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/give-nancy-meyers-her-money.htmlWe used to be a country, a real country, where romantic comedies were a film genre that was a pillar of Hollywood and not its punchline, where they were made with the finest, award-winning caliber of talent. We had writers like Charlie Chaplin and Preston Sturges and Dalton Trumbo, James L. Brooks and Richard Curtis pen them. We had the some of the best cinematographers like Charles Lang and Michael Ballhaus, Sven Nykvist and László Kovács beautifully and inventively shoot them./how-not-to-launch-a-paywall-a-watcher-retrospective.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-not-to-launch-a-paywall-a-watcher-retrospective.htmlWho wants to hear a spooky ghost tale about how to alienate your fans? In 2016, at the height of Buzzfeed’s reign/terror over the YouTube algorithm, the digital behemoth launched the video series, “Buzzfeed Unsolved,” created by Ryan Bergara, hosted by himself and his colleague, Shane Madej. The show was split into two categories, true crime and supernatural, where the duo would discuss the mysteries surrounding various crimes and paranormal events./how-to-write-a-deal-memo-by-zeb-hastings.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-write-a-deal-memo-by-zeb-hastings.htmlThe deal memo is an essential document for venture capitalists when considering an investment deal. Typically, after hearing a pitch, a VC will put together a memo to document their thought process around the deal. This document is vital for several reasons: It provides an opportunity for the VC to think critically about the investment and put their thoughts down in a living document. It helps the firm understand that partner's perspective on the deal and can also serve as a template for all investments./it-s-not-too-late-jennifer-louden.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-not-too-late-jennifer-louden.html“I first discovered Jen Louden's work when I was in a stressed-out, freaked out place. I read her "The Women's Comfort Book" when I was in my 20s, and I've been a fan of her thinking/feeling/writing ever since. Jen is also an incredible writing teacher and coach) who gave me some wise advice about starting my own Substack. And I love her new book, "Why Bother?". ” ncG1vNJzZmiilaO7qrLEq6OorZSau2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo/j-b-handley-substack.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/j-b-handley-substack.htmlJ.B. HandleyCo-Producer, SPELLERS. Co-Author, Underestimated: an Autism Miracle (Skyhorse, 2021). Best-selling Author, How to End the Autism Epidemic (Chelsea Green, 2018). Stanford grad, private equity entrepreneur. Extremely proud dad of three great kids. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjauux5qlnaSVrg%3D%3D/kendrick-fumbled-on-auntie-diaries-and-that-s-okay.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kendrick-fumbled-on-auntie-diaries-and-that-s-okay.html“My auntie is a man now”. I was already giving Kendrick Lamar’s new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers my full attention. It’s the big comeback album from my favorite rapper, and with so little information about it being public, I wanted to experience the surprise for myself. No peeking at the features, the song titles, producing credits, or anything until the next song came on. Which yes, included the nasty surprise of Kodak Black being on here multiple times, but I’m too excited to hear new Kendrick to care at this point./kevin-cooper-is-guilty-digging-in-with-debra-j-saunders.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kevin-cooper-is-guilty-digging-in-with-debra-j-saunders.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./meet-the-investor-nalanda-capital.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/meet-the-investor-nalanda-capital.htmlIt was such an honour to get to hear from Pulak Prasad for our session titled “Buy a Company You Don’t Need to Sell”. Pulak is the founder of Nalanda Capital, a Singapore-based firm that invests in listed Indian equities and manages about $5 billion. He was previously the co-head of India for Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, and also worked at the management consulting firm McKinsey for several years./menthe-%C3%A0-l-eau-by-paola-westbeek.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/menthe-%C3%A0-l-eau-by-paola-westbeek.html“YUCK, mouthwash!” That was my husband’s reaction when I let him have a sip. It was a sweltering August afternoon and we were enjoying much-needed drinks at the bustling town square, Place Pélissière, in Bergerac. He was sipping a Pastis, and I was chugging down a menthe à l'eau. I admit, the emerald-green drink has a rather breath-refreshing taste, but I promise, menthe à l'eau has nothing to do with oral hygiene./ordeals-and-the-empathy-gap.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ordeals-and-the-empathy-gap.htmlAn underdiscussed aspect of covid policy was the speed with which government supported people financially and temporarily solved social problems. Furlough is widely seen as a success. Rishi Sunak built his reputation on it. But what’s really remarkable about it is how quickly and seamlessly it was rolled out. It was easy for businesses to use, and beneficiaries barely had to do anything at all. Likewise the additional £20 a week for those using Universal Credit was paid out without complications to all who needed it, and, briefly, reduced poverty./rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A lot of folks just hate on something simply because Zack Snyder’s name is on it. I like Akira Kurosawa's “Seven Samurai” and Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven” and I outright love John Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven.” I like Snyder’s “Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver” too./shermichael-singleton-the-shaping-of-a-young-black-conservative-bonus-episode.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shermichael-singleton-the-shaping-of-a-young-black-conservative-bonus-episode.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./singlehanding-techniques-on-a-west-wight-potter-19.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/singlehanding-techniques-on-a-west-wight-potter-19.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./stay-bouncy-the-jupiter-uranus-conjunction.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stay-bouncy-the-jupiter-uranus-conjunction.htmlThe big astrology news of this coming week already feels somewhat like old news. That’s because we’ve all been already in the swirls of it, it being the conjunction (union) between expansive Jupiter and inventive Uranus, which occurs exactly on Saturday, April 20. The ripples of this once-every-thirteen(or so)-year seismic alignment have been lending a background note of creativity or chaos (or both), for the last couple of weeks (if not longer)./tejay-van-garderen-joins-nbc-s-coverage-of-the-tour-de-france.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tejay-van-garderen-joins-nbc-s-coverage-of-the-tour-de-france.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./the-basics-of-decoupling-capacitors.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-basics-of-decoupling-capacitors.htmlTwo decades ago, to build a portable music player, you had to clobber together several hundred electronic components. Today, you can accomplish the same with a single chip and a dozen passives. Heck, you might even get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for free. One of the few discrete components that survive and thrive in the face of growing integration is the humble decoupling capacitor. It’s not just that the device is hard to manufacture on the die of an integrated circuit; in the world high data speeds and low supply voltages, it has an increasingly important role to play in keeping the circuits humming along./the-celtics-reality-beats-the-theories.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-celtics-reality-beats-the-theories.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. Gypsy With a Cigarette; Edouard Manet; 1860-62 The Boston Celtics are up 3-0 in the NBA Finals, possibly 48 hours away from their first championship since 2008 and an 80-20 record for the season. Results always matter more than theory, and yet so much of the NBA discourse focuses on theoretical reasons this or that can or cannot happen. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown couldn’t be the best two players on a championship team except … they are, and they would have been two years ago without an exceptional run in the Finals by Steph Curry./the-good-detective-2-2022-a-review.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-good-detective-2-2022-a-review.htmlWest Incheon’s favourite good cops Kang Do-chang (Son Hyun-joo and Oh Ji-hyeok (Jang Seung-jo) are back again for another season of murder, mayhem and manipulation with the rest of the lads from Team 2 who are much more of a cohesive fighting machine than once they were. They are still led by Team Leader Woo Bong-shik (Jo Hee-bong), a perpetual nervous wreck whose timidity regarding what they're up against is only equalled by his fear of his wife’s nagging and their chief, Moon Sang Beom (Son Jong-hak) who lives for that holy grail promotion that’s just around the corner./the-lawyer-who-helped-expose-the-boston-priest-scandal.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-lawyer-who-helped-expose-the-boston-priest-scandal.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-man-who-built-a-bossless-tomato-empire.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-man-who-built-a-bossless-tomato-empire.htmlWith winch and ropes and hooks We stacked the bales up clean To splintery redwood rafters High in the dark, flecks of alfalfa Whirling through shingle-cracks of light, Itch of haydust in the  Sweaty shirt and shoes. At lunchtime under Black oak Out in the hot corral, —The old mare nosing lunchpails, Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds— “I’m sixty-eight” he said, “I first bucked hay when I was seventeen. I thought, that day I started,/the-patriots-are-bad-but-stop-trying-to-rewrite-history.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-patriots-are-bad-but-stop-trying-to-rewrite-history.html“If you take away the best 19 years of Bill Belichick’s career, he really hasn’t been that great of a head coach.” As ridiculous as this argument is (especially since it’s referring to the best 19-year run in the history of the NFL), it’s more or less what we’ve been hearing from around the football world now that the Patriots are one of the worst teams in the league. The pitch forks are out./the-rose-moon-by-lia-leendertz.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-rose-moon-by-lia-leendertz.htmlThe Daisy Moon by Phil Greenwood June’s full moon - 4th June 4.42am* *This is obviously very early in the morning. To view it at its fullest during normal evening hours look out tonight, the 3rd, but it will still look pretty full on the evening of the 4th. June’s full moon has a couple of beautiful old Medieval names. The one that chimes most at the moment is Rose Moon, because well…there are so very many roses now blooming in midnight gardens that are going to be lit up by this full moon./the-space-gal-is-redefining-science-style.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-space-gal-is-redefining-science-style.htmlEmily Calandrelli, known to many as @TheSpaceGal on social media and host of Emily’s Wonder Lab on Netflix, just published her ninth (!) children’s science book, Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: Next Level. To greet her fans around the country, the MIT engineer is wearing the most fun — and feminine — outfits. Think: Tulle skirts, sparkly shoes, and pearl headbands. Calandrelli has loudly and proudly turned her book tour into a fashion show, too./the-witchvox-project-8-practical-magic.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-witchvox-project-8-practical-magic.htmlI was amused when revisiting this review to find so many “red flags” (and spoilers), but also fascinated by what an intriguing time capsule item it has become. I also love my attempts to predict how the “public” will react to this film. There’s no question that the film Practical Magic had an enormous impact on the modern witchcraft movement. It also gave a lot to popular culture (midnight margaritas, anyone?/tower-of-silence-by-larry-correia.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tower-of-silence-by-larry-correia.htmlThere’s an old parable that writers use to create an engaging story, using a protagonist and a tree as the central elements: at the beginning of your story, you have (let’s say) a boy and a tree. Before you get too far into the book, the boy should climb the tree. By the second act he’s stuck in the tree, and you start to throw rocks at him. By the start of the third act, you’re lighting the tree on fire./two-new-maps-to-notice.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/two-new-maps-to-notice.htmlMy purpose today is to introduce two new maps that deserve attention. They’re different in their subjects, scale, approach, and ambition. But each highlights an augmented way of thinking—and feeling, and learning, and telling—about our world. Each applies technology in a way others can learn from and apply. And each is just interesting. This past week my wife, Deb Fallows, and our Our Towns colleague Michelle Ellia published a “Story Map” about the work of members of the “Turtle Patrol” of Manasota Key, a 14-mile long scenic beach strip on the Gulf Coast of Florida south of Sarasota./what-writers-read-sarah-grunder-ruiz.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-writers-read-sarah-grunder-ruiz.htmlHello readers! Welcome to the very first edition of a brand new series on my Substack ~ What Writers Read! In these Tuesday missives, you will hear from authors of my favorite new releases ~ all about their books and the books these writers love. I can’t wait to share these pieces with you. Today I am highlighting the fabulous Sarah Grunder Ruiz, who I ha… ncG1vNJzZmilmaOxp8HLpaCbqpGntqK6jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6y1osCMsKmirJWnwG6%2BxJqbZquRp66pecarrKeclad6s8HIsw%3D%3D/when-you-want-to-seduce-a-woman-stendhal-advises-court-her-sister-first.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-you-want-to-seduce-a-woman-stendhal-advises-court-her-sister-first.htmlAs intensely social creatures, we humans experience what is known as memetic desire. This idea follows the premise that our desires are often modelled and shaped by the desires of others. Essentially, it suggests that we humans do not know what we want independently, and so we imitate the desires of those around us. This concept can relate to material goods—we covet the watch, car, or house that everyone else wants./%E7%AC%AC237%E6%9C%9F-%E5%BA%8A%E5%A4%B4%E6%9F%9C%E5%88%B0%E5%BA%95%E6%80%8E%E4%B9%88%E8%AF%B4-by-%E4%BD%9B%E8%80%81-fuolao-on-substack.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/%E7%AC%AC237%E6%9C%9F-%E5%BA%8A%E5%A4%B4%E6%9F%9C%E5%88%B0%E5%BA%95%E6%80%8E%E4%B9%88%E8%AF%B4-by-%E4%BD%9B%E8%80%81-fuolao-on-substack.html床头柜英语怎么说？ 热爱直译的朋友答对了——bedside cabinet, bedside table都对。但今天我们要讲的是床头柜的另一种说法，稍不注意就意思大变了。 A bedside cabinet, or night table, bedside table, or daystand, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. 以上是床头柜的四种说法，要注意的是下面这个名字：nightstand，注意night和stand是连在一起的，是一个词。 以上床头柜的五种说法都很常用，说不上哪个最常见。沃尔玛和宜家官网上大多写的是nightstand. 你要留意的是在说“一个床头柜”时，应该说a nightstand. 千万别说one night stand，因为one-night stand是一夜情的意思。 【重复】一个床头柜是a nightstand，一个词。一夜情是one-night stand，one和night中间通常有连字符，和stand是分开的两个词。 看到一个对“一夜情“英语解释，觉得很经典:) Hooking up with someone for one night of sex with no strings attached and hoping to never see them again. It is important not to exchange any personal info with them so they can't track you down and stalk you later./a-review-of-maestro-by-mike-pesca.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-review-of-maestro-by-mike-pesca.html“Maestro” opens with a shot tightening in on Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein. The great conductor/composer/popularizer of music is playing piano while a film crew records. The coloration is of a slightly different saturation than is common in modern film. Cooper has made the artistic decision to pair the film stock of each scene to the era being depicted. As far as the face we’re considering? For a brief second the prosthetics used to turn a modern Italian/Irish movie star into a mid century musician of Semitic extraction is a bit on the nose if you will, but soon becomes a seamless part of Cooper’s overall performance./a-review-of-the-park-grill-restaurant-in-gatlinburg-our-anniversary-dinner.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-review-of-the-park-grill-restaurant-in-gatlinburg-our-anniversary-dinner.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./achar-by-pamelia-chia.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/achar-by-pamelia-chia.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)./bad-faith-by-gillian-branstetter.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bad-faith-by-gillian-branstetter.htmlA couple days ago, I came across this Washington Examiner op-ed whining with the utmost sincerity that the Fairfax City Council had passed an official proclamation declaring March 31 Transgender Day of Visibility which also happens, this year, to be Easter. This is not remarkable—TDoV has been recognized on March 31 since it was launched by Rachel Crandall-Crocker 15 years ago, Easter (having been bastardized from pagan traditions dating back to the Neolithic era) is recognized on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, and the Washington Examiner is written primarily by (I assume) aging schnauzers dragging their inflamed bums across the keyboard for some momentary relief./comments-deep-dive-miracle-balm.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-deep-dive-miracle-balm.htmlI just started using my mother’s Miracle Balm and it is good for me now since I am about to turn 55. I have 3 questions: Which Miracle Balm is good for someone with lighter skin and broken capillaries? Can it be used on the eyelids as eyeshadow? Which eyeshadow shade would be closest to the Cocoa Bronze Miracle Balm? Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmian5evqq7RqK6nZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8OenKlllJ7DpnnMoqmam5yaeqOty6ZmnKedorKvwNI%3D/comments-mmm-chocolate-mousse-royale.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-mmm-chocolate-mousse-royale.htmlPeter Dutton going full Oprah is very Nathan For You. Allow me to unpack this memefest for anyone whose head just went boing! Having worked very hard to get himself into a competitive place for the next federal election, Dutts this week decided that what everyone really wanted from him was a nuclear power plant at the end of their street. ncG1vNJzZmiZnJ6yr7%2FInZybp5%2BXe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqalnWKwqbvCqKOarJViurDB0qycZqqfrq6tsY6cpqallaPBtA%3D%3D/houston-astros-unveil-new-team-slogan-hype-video.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/houston-astros-unveil-new-team-slogan-hype-video.htmlHere ya go….the copy for the hype video…video just below! Pull out your best, dulcet’n’deep-intoned John Facenda (“the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field”) or film-trailer great, Don “Thunder Throat” LaFontaine (“in a world where anything can happen….and, this time, it’s personal”) for this one: There is a price to pay for greatness. A cost for the consistency. And we pay our dues. Paid in grit. Paid in reps. Paid in sacrifice./how-hilary-mantel-wrote-wolf-hall-in-her-own-words.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-hilary-mantel-wrote-wolf-hall-in-her-own-words.htmlThis article was first published in 2012 and is taken from A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel, published in the UK by John Murray: ‘Show up at the desk’ is one of the first rules of writing, but for Wolf Hall I was about 30 years late. When I began writing, in the 1970s, I thought of myself simply as a historical novelist; I can’t do plots, I thought, so I will let history do them for me./how-long-the-hobble-skirt.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-long-the-hobble-skirt.htmlIn April 1913, the New York Tribune reported on a contentious trial taking place in Jersey City. The paper described the defendant’s friends as “chiefly fair, furious, and feminine.” Waiting for the verdict, supporters “feared for the worst.” The defendant in the case was not an accused thief or an alleged murderer but a women’s garment, the hobble skirt.  By 1913, the hobble skirt had been mocked and maligned from coast to coast./how-the-modern-world-lost-found-its-newest-continent.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-the-modern-world-lost-found-its-newest-continent.htmlHello! This is Everything Is Amazing, a newsletter about science, curiosity and wonder. Today’s edition is about the boundless mysteries of our planet’s undiscovered islands and some startling new discoveries off the coast of Australia… But it starts with me falling into Yorkshire’s biggest freshwater lake, annoying a couple of dozen swans and at least one powerful bigot. (I promise this’ll turn into some actual science in a bit, but for artistic reasons I have to humiliate myself first./how-to-be-more-funny-advice-that-you-can-read-even-if-you-don-t-want-to-be-more-funny-so-you-know.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-be-more-funny-advice-that-you-can-read-even-if-you-don-t-want-to-be-more-funny-so-you-know.htmldear friends, i’m grateful that you’re here! thank you for being here and being you. and now, one of my favorite things which is to give advice when people have asked me for advice. today’s request comes from one of my favorite substackers/artists/writers/people, (whose wonderful substack newsletter can be found here): sophie emailed me recently and said this: “I know you HAVE written MANY things on this topic, but you may be better at knowing where they are than I do./is-elemental-pixar-s-low-water-mark.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-elemental-pixar-s-low-water-mark.htmlOf all the hypotheses this newsletter is meant to test, one of the main ones is, are people willing to pay for criticism if it’s actually good? Early signs have been encouraging, but for now you won’t have to answer because this review is still free. But this experiment wouldn’t be possible without the paid subscribers, who are giving me the time and energy to try. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you all./late-bloomer-let-s-talk-about-comphet.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/late-bloomer-let-s-talk-about-comphet.html1× 0:00 -23:39 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.This is Late Bloomer, an essay series about coming out later in life. This is not an academic dissection. This is a pig farmer talking about how long it took me to catch up, and what that experience has taught me. I hope writing this series helps build allyship and understanding and saves some of you the time I lost./marc-hauser-on-giving-children-second-chances-to-overcome-trauma-and-lead-happy-lives.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/marc-hauser-on-giving-children-second-chances-to-overcome-trauma-and-lead-happy-lives.htmlEveryone deserves a second chance. The former Harvard professor of psychology Marc D Hauser has had a controversial academic career, having been investigated in a high profile case in 2010 by Harvard for supposedly falsifying research data. But Hauser, who quit Harvard in 2011, remains prolific and has a new book out this week, Vulnerable Minds, focused - perhaps not uncoincidentally, given Hauser’s own history - on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and thus lead happy lives./mary-catherine-starr-and-momlife-comics.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mary-catherine-starr-and-momlife-comics.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./melvin-van-peebles-in-his-own-words.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/melvin-van-peebles-in-his-own-words.htmlWe have all felt the dizzying effects of the world being generally skewed, but it is my firmest belief the world tilted slightly off its axis when Melvin Van Peebles passed at the age of 89 on September 21, 2021. For weeks, I've been trying to conjure up words to say for a man who lived and breathed art as a playwright, novelist, writer, actor, producer, journalist, musician, composer, painter, uncompromising Black visionary, and director./menstruation-jokes-are-not-funny-period.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/menstruation-jokes-are-not-funny-period.htmlLike all your newsletters, this too was terrific. Sooo the first time I knew I had my period, even though it was disconcerting, i knew it wasn't the scariest cause I remembered a sequence in the old Zee TV show Hasratein. The daughter gets her period, comes running to the mum and tells her. And her mum takes her to the gynaec to learn more. It was all so well portrayed on hindsight./millennials-unloaded-on-elmo-and-larry-david-couldn-t-handle-them-stepping-on-his-brand-complain.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/millennials-unloaded-on-elmo-and-larry-david-couldn-t-handle-them-stepping-on-his-brand-complain.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?/my-trip-to-the-american-girl-doll-hospital.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-trip-to-the-american-girl-doll-hospital.htmlIf you haven’t heard yet, I am single. I am so single that I have never not been single. I am so single that I’ve reached that point in my life where I had nothing better to do than to go through the shed in the back of my parents’ house and find the box that contained my old American Girl dolls and all their accessories. I am so lonely that once I found the dolls in the shed and saw that they were worse for wear, started trying to scrub the weird white mold that got all over my Kit doll’s face./natalia-kuikka-to-leave-portland-thorns.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/natalia-kuikka-to-leave-portland-thorns.htmlAlright I lied about taking a break- Here are my revised thoughts: The most charitable (and very unrealistic view) of this is that the org have a reasonable replacement lined up, have already been talking with Soph, and are really worried about cap space. That doesn't work as an excuse for me for a few reasons: 1. Even if Soph's contract is as extreme as it could be -- Say 3/$2./review-for-all-mankind-perestroika.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-for-all-mankind-perestroika.html“Progress is never free. There is always a cost.” The narrative maneuver that comes with the end of every season of For All Mankind is a significant burden. We’ve talked about this in the context of the beginning of the next season, which has to deal with the gap in characters’ lives as we pick things up years after the fact. However, it also means that whatever narrative momentum a finale is going to generate, the actual end of that episode is going to be a gesture to the future that has to serve as both an epilogue to the story that just finished and a hint at a potential path should the show be renewed for another season./review-ted-lasso-so-long-farewell.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-ted-lasso-so-long-farewell.htmlYesterday afternoon, Apple made an announcement: after releasing episodes of Ted Lasso’s third season at 9pm eastern on Tuesdays since it premiered in March, they were switching course for the finale. “So Long, Farewell,” the series’ longest episode yet, would instead be going live at 9pm pacific. It’s a baffling decision, on a number of levels—I know I saw plenty of tweets of frustrated fans who didn’t see the announcement earlier in the day and had clearly organized their evenings around watching it before bed./sally-bedell-smith-on-the-marriage-that-saved-the-monarchy.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sally-bedell-smith-on-the-marriage-that-saved-the-monarchy.htmlIn the ever-growing, wide-ranging collection of royal biographies, there is one author I reach for repeatedly: Sally Bedell Smith. The American journalist, who worked for Time and the New York Times, has become a celebrated expert on the British monarchy. Among the eight biographies she has written are two definitive royal works, a look at the late queen in Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch and the new king in Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life./solarpunk-is-the-next-big-literary-design-movement.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/solarpunk-is-the-next-big-literary-design-movement.htmlWhat do AOC, venture capitalists, and gamers have in common? For one: a recent embrace of “solarpunk”, a growing cultural-aesthetic movement asking people what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there? This is more radical, and critical, than it sounds. Think of your favorite science fiction franchises. For me, it’s Dune by Herbert and Three-Body by Liu, both literary space operas in the midst of major motion picture adaptations./the-brilliant-light-power-story.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-brilliant-light-power-story.htmlA little known company named Brilliant Light Power has been developing a revolutionary hydrogen-based energy technology for the last 30 years. The technology harnesses a reaction that catalyzes the transition of hydrogen to a lower-energy state. It releases roughly 200 times the energy of combusting hydrogen on a per atom basis. Think Fire 2.0. This lower energy state has been dubbed “Hydrino” by Dr. Randell L. Mills, who theoretically predicted the state and experimentally verified its existence./the-heart-of-w-edwards-deming.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-heart-of-w-edwards-deming.htmlMost people never heard of W. Edwards Deming. It’s a shame because his wisdom holds the keys to leading people and managing systems in a way that puts people and profit front and center. He also made gigantic contributions not only to winning a World War (wish there never was such a need…) and then to rebuild one of the defeated countries—to the point of obliterating the victor’s automotive industry shortly thereafter./the-legacy-of-charles-brown.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-legacy-of-charles-brown.html“Here you go. Want to try and do something with this?” In the summer of 1990, my boss at the Texas City Sun was going through the daily stack of mail when he tossed a Rounder Records/Bullseye Blues press kit onto my desk. He knew I was into music, and opportunities were rare — that’s being generous — to do much regional or national entertainment coverage. Writing a profile on a musician opening for Bonnie Raitt would be a nice change of pace amid the daily grind of cops, obits and meetings./the-mbas-that-can-t-find-jobs.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-mbas-that-can-t-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-meghan-markle-gordon-getty-connection.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-meghan-markle-gordon-getty-connection.htmlThere are new reports that Montecito’s Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, continues to hang out with 89 year-old Gordon Getty at the Beverly Hills Hotel, despite rumors that Getty’s family has endeavored to cut ties between her and the billionaire. Astute political observers believe they know Meghan’s motive for ingratiating herself with the reclusive Getty—and it is not, they say, the obvious: A quest for big bucks to fund a lavish lifestyle post-Netflix & Spotify debacles./the-monday-media-diet-with-scout-dixon-west.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-monday-media-diet-with-scout-dixon-west.htmlScout Dixon West (SDW) is a perfume + scent obsessive that does amazing (and deep) reviews on TT. She’s also in a band called Low Pony. We’re happy to have her this week. -Colin (CJN) Tell us about yourself. I grew up in a small town called Shingle Springs in Northern California, and I have been living in Los Angeles for the last 12 years. I recently left my day job as a screenwriting assistant to work on my own projects, and I talk about my love of perfume on the internet./the-reason-behind-abusive-men-s-regime-of-control.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-reason-behind-abusive-men-s-regime-of-control.htmlShare Leave a Comment At this time of year, it is a season of goodwill. But, unfortunately, abusive men tend to get society’s goodwill all year round. People often attempt to “understand” the male abuser by looking for a sympathetic way to explain (or “reveal”) that he is not intentionally abusive. In such accounts, it is suggested that he: may be under the sway of a childhood trauma that haunts him;/the-truth-about-borderline-by-justin-myers.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-truth-about-borderline-by-justin-myers.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. My memories of Borderline’s initial release, in 1984, are vague, because it flopped, and when you’re an eight-year-old future gay with pop se… ncG1vNJzZmismJq0tsXLoqWeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55lpKfCtbSMmpmoraRir7C%2Bw56ppaGemg%3D%3D/thoughts-as-david-bentley-hart-is-condemned-by-fr-andrew-stephen-damick-and-fr-stephen-de-young.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/thoughts-as-david-bentley-hart-is-condemned-by-fr-andrew-stephen-damick-and-fr-stephen-de-young.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./transition-interview-series-part-7-sara-wilkinson.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/transition-interview-series-part-7-sara-wilkinson.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./vegas-pie-from-iron-born-pizza.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/vegas-pie-from-iron-born-pizza.htmlSigfried and…yum?? That was my first thought when biting into the Vegas Pie, the newest pizza at Iron Born’s Strip District location. You may recall that this pizza was entered into the International Pizza Challenge and won third place in the North East division. When I heard this pizza was on the menu I knew I had to find it out. Fortunately, editor-at-large, Tom Tallarico, was on the same wavelength./was-anne-of-cleves-really-too-ugly-for-henry-viii-to-sleep-with.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/was-anne-of-cleves-really-too-ugly-for-henry-viii-to-sleep-with.htmlYeah, and I'm sure Henry was a prize to behold. (*rolls eyes) She could've benefited from an advisor who had the inside scoop. "Listen, Anne, Henry likes to dress up like other people to test you, so if you're randomly groped by a portly middle-aged man, go with it." Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfnba0wM6rsKiep6S6prqOqWawmaNirq%2B6xGamn2WTobK3sdJmqZ6ZnKHGbsDOqGSun5yujLbAzJiqqK2imLJ%2BvM6sq1%2Bbn6K6prrTrHStqqWac7bAzJiknpyZqrp%2Bw8Sb/what-exactly-is-bob-huggins-trying-to-accomplish.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-exactly-is-bob-huggins-trying-to-accomplish.htmlWhen Bob Huggins was arrested for a DUI in Pittsburgh on June 16 and resigned from his longtime post as West Virginia’s men’s basketball coach barely 24 hours later, I had no intention of writing about it.  Frankly, I didn’t see the need. A few weeks earlier, after Huggins blurted homophobic slurs on a Cincinnati radio station, the newsletter went into some depth on how this was simply the latest case of a lengthy and legendary college coaching career ending ignominiously./what-oak-street-health-got-right.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-oak-street-health-got-right.htmlCVS just bought Oak Street Health—a digital health primary care provider—for $9.5B. I’ve been impressed by Oak Street Health for a while. They’re one of the few digital health companies that nail the care model, revenue model, and technology. Here are some observations about what Oak Street did well, as well as how the next generation of Oak Streets will be different. What is Oak Street? A payvidor done right./where-are-all-the-brown-hands.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/where-are-all-the-brown-hands.htmlInstagram / Essie Once a month, I find myself asking the same question: Where are all the brown hands? It shouldn’t be that hard to answer; they shouldn’t be this hard to find. There are more than 13 billion individual, non-Caucasian hands on the planet at any given moment (give or take a couple hundred million). Still, every time I comb through the Instagram content of the biggest nail care brands in the business, attempting to find images for a monthly nail art column, I wonder./why-you-should-join-etched.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-you-should-join-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./wisconsin-mbb-signs-its-2024-recruiting-class-evaluations.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wisconsin-mbb-signs-its-2024-recruiting-class-evaluations.htmlMADISON, Wis. – Head coach Greg Gard and the Wisconsin men's basketball program have officially put pen to paper with two prospects in the top 125 of the composite rankings, securing point guard Daniel Freitag and wing Jack Robison for the 2024 recruiting class. According to the composite recruiting rankings, the Badgers finished with the No. 47 ranked class in the country and the No. 9 class in the Big Ten. /yinchuan-china-by-dominic-preston.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/yinchuan-china-by-dominic-preston.htmlWhen I set out on this trip, I expected that each of my four posts might follow a format, a summary of what and where I’d eaten, a gastronomic diary more than anything else. For the five or so days we spent in Yinchuan, Vivian’s family hometown in northern China’s Ningxia province, I fear that would be impossible. Outside of her parents and brother, Vivian’s family speak about as much English as I do Chinese, which is to say they could muster hellos, goodbyes, and asking if I wanted more food./%E4%BB%8E-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E7%99%BD%E7%BA%B8-%E5%88%B0-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%87%E5%9C%A3-%E9%82%A3%E4%BA%9B%E5%9C%A8%E5%88%9B%E4%BC%A4%E5%90%8E%E7%BB%A7%E7%BB%AD%E8%B5%B0%E4%B8%8A%E8%A1%97%E5%A4%B4%E7%9A%84%E5%B9%B4%E8%BD%BB%E4%BA%BA-wome.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/%E4%BB%8E-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E7%99%BD%E7%BA%B8-%E5%88%B0-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%87%E5%9C%A3-%E9%82%A3%E4%BA%9B%E5%9C%A8%E5%88%9B%E4%BC%A4%E5%90%8E%E7%BB%A7%E7%BB%AD%E8%B5%B0%E4%B8%8A%E8%A1%97%E5%A4%B4%E7%9A%84%E5%B9%B4%E8%BD%BB%E4%BA%BA-wome.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。”/a-fun-holiday-tradition-or-a-harmful-lie.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-fun-holiday-tradition-or-a-harmful-lie.htmlSource: Pexels/Gustavo BringI will never forget when my older brother “found out” about Santa. We were at a holiday gathering and someone mentioned that their kids were “too old for Santa.” My brother, who was already skeptical, instantly pounced on this comment. “You can’t be too old for Santa,” he insisted. He was about to say something else when my mom quickly escorted him upstairs. After telling him the “truth,” he came back downstairs looking like he had seen a ghost./aaron-bushnell-and-the-rage-that-burns-within-all-of-us.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/aaron-bushnell-and-the-rage-that-burns-within-all-of-us.htmlThis article is dedicated to Aaron Bushnell, his family, and everybody struggling with the guilt and despair that helped stage Bushnell’s final act of protest. I’m still shaken. 24 hours after watching the video, the young man’s sullen face as he paced stay with me. The words he uttered while he stepped toward the site of his final protest echo loudly in my head. “I am an active duty member of the United Sates Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in this genocide./about-singal-minded.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-singal-minded.htmlI’m Jesse Singal, a Brooklyn-based journalist and podcaster. My webpage is embarrassingly out of date and needs to be rebuilt, so I’m using this as a temporary placeholder in the meantime. I’m a former senior editor and writer-at-large at New York Magazine, where I ran the Science of Us vertical. I’ve also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, and a bunch of other outlets. My first book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, was published in April of 2021./an-interview-with-lauren-vogelbaum-and-anney-reese.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-interview-with-lauren-vogelbaum-and-anney-reese.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/arrow-buries-3-hour-bruce-lee-doc-with-unearthed-footage.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/arrow-buries-3-hour-bruce-lee-doc-with-unearthed-footage.htmlEarlier in November, Arrow Video began releasing standalone regular Bluray editions of several Bruce Lee movies that it had previously included in the extensive 10-disc 4K UHD Box Set called Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest, which collected all five of Bruce Lee’s feature films alongside five discs of special features.  In this article, I will critique boutique video label Arrow Video’s Blu-Ray release strategy for the last Bruce Lee-starring movie, Game of Death (1978, dir./astros-legend-roger-clemens-wins-with-4-ks-kacy-koby-kory-detroit-tigers-kody-clemens.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/astros-legend-roger-clemens-wins-with-4-ks-kacy-koby-kory-detroit-tigers-kody-clemens.htmlRoger Clemens can be, and has been, a polarizing figure for many who follow baseball. Nevertheless, he was an overpowering mound presence with record numbers in many MLB pitching categories. Long before “The Rocket” pitched for the Houston Astros, in the middle part of the first decade of th… ncG1vNJzZmiaopaxrMXLnmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyzu8KknK1lkaOxbsDHnmSgrZmZsqV5zKKqrKGcmsBurdKtqair/auguries-david-whyte.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/auguries-david-whyte.htmlA word I have always loved since I first stumbled across it at twelve years old; meaning ‘the interpretation of omens or signs’, a word that lives in parallel to another favorite of mine: ‘auspices’ meaning the ‘interpretations made from the flight of birds’. The way we are always, no matter our outer professions of logical thought, looking for intimate indications, for annunciations or for clues as to where we should go or how we should be./blue-rondo-%C3%A0-la-turk-by-the-dave-brubeck-quartet.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/blue-rondo-%C3%A0-la-turk-by-the-dave-brubeck-quartet.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./bridging-the-ask-vs-guess-culture-gap-at-work.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bridging-the-ask-vs-guess-culture-gap-at-work.htmlIn my previous post, I shared the idea of ask vs guess culture, as well as some quick tips for navigating an ask culture workplace as a guess culture person. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading that post first before continuing with this post that continues the exploration of ask vs guess culture at work. Despite my efforts to be increasingly ask culture, it’s a bit simplistic to say ask culture is good, and guess culture is bad./comments-warm-lemon-pudding.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-warm-lemon-pudding.htmlWhen the memory of the butterscotch pudding I made last week (using Muscovado dark brown sugar) recedes, I will make this. I even have blackberries in the freezer. And raspberries . . . raspberry sauce or coulis could be gorgeous with it. With a small household, I appreciate that the recipe makes four servings, since pudding does not age well. David: To replace the white flour with tapioca granules or tapioca flour, would the amount be half of the amount of all-purpose flour in the recipe, as for cornstarch, as you say in your newsletter?/dali-and-the-cocky-prince-2021-episodes-9-10.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dali-and-the-cocky-prince-2021-episodes-9-10.htmlThis post contains a major spoiler… I spent too much time on the weekend thinking and defending elsewhere one single scene in Episode 10 which meant I wasn’t able to get to what I thought was actually the more important aspects of the recent episodes. Too much energy in my opinion was spent on the controversial lead-up to the kissing scene in Episode 10 that the fascinating revelations in the same episode got lost in the rough and tumble of internet discourse./diary-of-a-sad-black-woman-jacque-aye.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/diary-of-a-sad-black-woman-jacque-aye.htmlA newsletter that's really a diary, where I chat about fiction, fashion, and feelings. Heavy on the feelings. By Jacque Aye · Over 32,000 subscribersNo thanks“Aquí podrás encontrar algunas metáforas del mundo real explicadas a través del anime, donde podrás sentirte identificado.” “I love reading about how other writers feel about writing. Diary of a Sad Black Woman is open and vulnerable, which appeals to me. Also, I want to support writers of color./dutchies-and-apple-fritters-by-ruth-tam.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dutchies-and-apple-fritters-by-ruth-tam.htmlHello! Despite living in Canada for about a decade, I have yet to taste some iconic Canadian foods. The Dutchie, a yeast-raised, raisin-studded, square-shaped doughnut, is one such item. It was popularized by Tim Horton’s, the beloved Canadian coffeehouse chain, as one of the two original baked goods on the menu. Beyond this, I haven’t been able to find much information on the Dutchie’s invention. There’s likely some connection to the Dutch doughnut oliebollen; though oliebollen are made from a wetter, more batter-like dough compared to the enriched yeast bread dough that forms the base for Dutchies./eaglepost-substack.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eaglepost-substack.htmlHi, My name is Harini and like every other teenager, I am convinced I can conquer the world. Until then, here are my thoughts, people and things that matter to me. The passion here isn't lukewarm and I hope you stay:) By today's dispatch · Launched 4 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmidkZy5przOrKtnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZA%3D%3D/honoring-dead-butterflies-by-bryan-pfeiffer.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/honoring-dead-butterflies-by-bryan-pfeiffer.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-jackass-annie-ran-away-from-home-and-saved-her-own-life.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-jackass-annie-ran-away-from-home-and-saved-her-own-life.htmlMesannie Wilkins (Annie) was 63 when her doctor told her she had 2 years to live. She’d just recovered from pneumonia when they found a spot on her lung. The doctor wasn’t sure if it was cancer or tuberculosis, but either way the prognosis wasn’t good.  Couple of years if she took it easy, he said.  He knew Annie was dirt poor, so he offered to get her into a state funded retirement home./hymietown-on-steroids-by-william-otis.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hymietown-on-steroids-by-william-otis.htmlI’ve become more cynical of late, but even I was taken aback by this morning’s story in the NYT: A U.S. resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” as part of a deal in Gaza failed in the United Nations Security Council on Friday, after Russia and China vetoed the measure, which had included some of Washington’s strongest language since the start of the war. The U.S.-backed resolution reflected the Biden administration’s growing frustration with Israel’s conduct in the war, and had been intended to put pressure on Israel not to attack the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are sheltering./hype-or-hope-nasal-covid-19-vaccines.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hype-or-hope-nasal-covid-19-vaccines.htmlMy doctor recommended SaNoTize to me. I have used it for the last 6 months before and after any indoor activity (flight, haircut - still mask). When it comes to seeing friends or dining at restaurants, I opt for outdoors. So far, so good. (I’m also vaxed and boosted). My husband (also vaxed and boosted) had Covid in May ‘22. I could not have been more exposed to him before he tested positive./in-praise-of-oranges-fridge-poetry-and-filling-one-s-life-with-awe.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-praise-of-oranges-fridge-poetry-and-filling-one-s-life-with-awe.htmlHello, Spring is in the air, I’ve been gorging on fruits like pitaris and oranges that are keeping my palate full of delight, and my plants are thriving. I just returned home to Bangalore after a week with my family, totally nurtured. Life has shown me time and time again that the good times don’t last. As my therapist says, “Life is about falling down and picking yourself up, and having enough energy to stay consistent with that process./it-s-really-hard-to-count-the-pages-of-infinite-jest.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-really-hard-to-count-the-pages-of-infinite-jest.htmlI have crossed the 100 page threshold on Infinite Jest. It has been a very slow burn of a book, but I had the first section of the book that really moved me. I’m realizing an interesting issue as I move forward: how do I count how much of the book I’ve read? I’ve never totally been someone that really cares much about the quantity of the books that I’ve read on an individual basis./kate-s-abdominal-surgery-everything-we-know-so-far.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kate-s-abdominal-surgery-everything-we-know-so-far.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./little-yellow-different-ernie-hsiung.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/little-yellow-different-ernie-hsiung.htmlRemember that funny Asian guy who had a blog back in the early 2000s about things that were probably too personal to be published on the internet? He's all grown up now, and sometimes he posts about tech! By Ernie Hsiung · Launched 5 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmikmanBrbHYnqOlp6eZtqeyxKucp6xeqMKjv9OamqRmk6S6cA%3D%3D/murder-game-redux.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/murder-game-redux.htmlI met Monique Burston a few hours after three men killed each other on a West End street over the nothingest of nothings. Burston’s a couple of degrees of separation from the people who killed each other. She’s also the parent of a murdered child. A small group of people remained after the police tape came down on Evans Street two weeks ago. I’ve been wa… ncG1vNJzZmismJqutbjAp6uap5KfsqTAyK%2BcZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLnUq5ueql2crq6xjKucna2odMK1ub6spq6qk5qKsb7On6ClnVaqwa6rzJ6boq2dcr%2BmrcOeqWs%3D/napoleon-s-most-lasting-achievements-weren-t-on-the-battlefield.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/napoleon-s-most-lasting-achievements-weren-t-on-the-battlefield.htmlNapoleon Bonaparte was born 254 years ago, August 15. One of history’s most most famous Frenchmen, he was born on the Italian island of Corsica, named Napoleone Buonaparte. France annexed the island only a year before Napoleon’s birth, and he spent his early life detesting the French and supporting Corsican independence.  Despite Napoleon’s hatred of France, his father sent him to the French military academy of Brienne, when he was just eight years old./powder-pellet-flake-granule-which-are-you-handling.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/powder-pellet-flake-granule-which-are-you-handling.htmlBulkagram 2, April 14 Powder, pellet, flake, granule, nugget, particle, bean, grain..... As you sit in your office, walk down your shopfloor or banter with friends in a coffee shop, how much of these shapes influence your life? Here's a teeny weeny look: Coffee in the morning, powder from beans to pep your day up. A hurried bowl of cornflakes, flakes of processed corn. Commute to work, pellets of ABS in your car bumper keeping you safe./recentering-and-refocusing.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/recentering-and-refocusing.htmlA few friendly warnings as you read this week’s newsletter: I’m not analyzing one of the many tech stories this week and instead of giving you what is top of mind for me at this moment about where I spend my time. Feel free to just skip down to the what I’m reading section if you want a sense of what stories caught my eye this week and you aren’t interested in that./rudy-giuliani-s-drinking-isn-t-funny.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rudy-giuliani-s-drinking-isn-t-funny.htmlIn much the same way I know a lot about the Army from a not terribly distinguished career, I know a lot about drinking from the same grievous perspective.  Let me assure you that when your drinking earns you an above-the-fold front page story in the New York Times that jumps to a full page inside the paper, as Rudy Giuliani’s drinking did today, it’s not funny. Sure, there is a temptation to point fingers and snicker at the photos of Giuliani from 2020 with hair dye cascading in sweaty rivulets down his cheeks as he was attempting to captain the listing ship of Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign./sappho-the-poetess-by-classical-wisdom.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sappho-the-poetess-by-classical-wisdom.htmlDear Classical KIDS,  We’ve spent the last couple of weeks discussing the great blind bard, Homer. He was considered the poet, so it only makes sense to follow up with the poetess.  Yes! It’s time to talk about the one and only: Sappho. I should let you know that I have a great love for Sappho’s poetry and have been writing/telling anyone who will listen about her for years and years./season-10-episode-3-oh-baby.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/season-10-episode-3-oh-baby.htmlHappy Tuesday Hearties! It’s time for me to share my weekly thoughts about the latest episode of When Calls the Heart Season 10! I can’t believe we’re already a fourth of the way through the season already! Time is flying by! Tourists start arriving, including the St. Johns, who may prove to be trouble for Bill; Elizabeth rallies all of Rosemary's friends to plan the perfect baby shower. So, full disclosure, I’m not a fan of baby showers, both on in real life and on the screen./spain-s-priorat-wine-region-at-the-foot-of-god-s-ladder.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/spain-s-priorat-wine-region-at-the-foot-of-god-s-ladder.htmlI was fortunate to have my third visit this June to one of my favorite wine regions of the world: Spain’s Priorat region. The Priorat wine region is located just two hours southwest of Barcelona and sits at the foot of the magnificent Montsant Mountains (Serra de Montsant means “Holy Mountain Range.”) The wines of Priorat are considered some of the world’s finest. The landscape begs for a leisurely hike from village to vineyard on the well-marked trails./succession-power-rankings-little-lord-fuckleroy.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/succession-power-rankings-little-lord-fuckleroy.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/the-15-beat-structure-to-plot-an-addictive-story.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-15-beat-structure-to-plot-an-addictive-story.htmlWelcome back to the Zero to Book series! In our last post, we laid the groundwork for your story by defining the The Story Core and exploring The Character Arc Triangle. By now, you should have a solid understanding of your protagonist, antagonist, and ally, and how their journeys will intersect. But what comes next? How do you expand on the 5 elements in your Story Core? The answer lies in plotting./the-fashion-proust-questionnaire-by-monica-ainley-dlv.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-fashion-proust-questionnaire-by-monica-ainley-dlv.htmlAfter a long week, this newsletter was the last (best) thing left on my to do list Friday aft, and feeling somewhat pooped, I decided to compose it from bed. Staring at the blank page before me, (my windows are clean Natasha,) I got to thinking about a conversation I’d had recently with Pandora Sykes about not feeling guilty about working from bed. Just think of all the luminaries in history who produced staggering works of genius from the position of ultimate comfort!/the-hypsistarian-church-of-god-most-high.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-hypsistarian-church-of-god-most-high.htmlLast week, in The Case for Pagan Monotheism, I discussed recently scholarly literature that has made a case for the existence of monotheistic religion within the pagans of Late Antiquity (and perhaps earlier). This week I am going to begin my presentation of a reconstruction of this religion. Before I start, though, let me clarify where I am coming from and what I hope to achieve. Why reconstruct pagan monotheism? I have two reasons for doing so./the-plastic-and-metal-world-of-paco-rabanne.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-plastic-and-metal-world-of-paco-rabanne.htmlAs Paco Rabanne passed away two days ago, I thought I would revisit a masterclass I wrote on him for Heroine.com in September 2019. Heroine.com closed down in 2021. The traditional definition of clothing—that it was made from fabric or pelts—was turned on its head by Paco Rabanne and his first haute couture collection, “Twelve Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials”, shown in Paris in 1966. Instigating an interest in new materials and techniques, as well as influencing generations of designers, in the course of one collection Paco Rabanne changed fashion history./the-spirits-51-brandy-milk-punch.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-spirits-51-brandy-milk-punch.html📚 THE SPIRITS (i.e. the book that inspired this newsletter) is available once more! You can find it at: Bookshop.org, Foyles, Blackwells, Hive, Waterstones, Amazon and even WH Smith. Makes a great Christmas present, just saying. ~ BRANDY MILK PUNCH ~ 50ml brandy 15ml cinnamon-infused syrup 125ml full-fat milk Dash vanilla extract (optional) Nutmeg I want you to put the brandy, syrup, milk and possibly vanilla in the shaker, now. Throw in just a single ice cube and ‘whip shake’ for 30 seconds or so - this will give you decent froth and not to much dilution./the-world-according-to-abner-jay.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-world-according-to-abner-jay.htmlOn a Saturday morning in March 1982, I was scouring the flea market in San Jose, California, looking for old guitars. Suddenly I heard loudly amplified music I never imagined echoing in such a place. Even from several aisles over, the songs sounded straight off of an antebellum cotton plantation or, at the latest, a turn-of-the-century minstrel show. I made my way over to a homemade shack built atop a flatbed trailer attached to motor home./tree-guards-part-2-natural-materials.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tree-guards-part-2-natural-materials.htmlShare Right from the start, let’s remember that the most sustainable tree guard is always going to be no tree guard at all. However, guards are used because they perform an important purpose – to protect a newly planted tree from predation, usually from deer and rabbits.   When plastic tree guards were first introduced around 40 years ago, the sector saw a minimum 25% reduction in planting losses. They are still widely used across large planting projects and have become so ubiquitous that they are an easily identifiable sign of new tree planting schemes./two-dogmas-of-fiat-by-jacob-nails.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/two-dogmas-of-fiat-by-jacob-nails.htmlMost debate resolutions concern policies[1] that do not exist in the status quo and likely will not exist in the near future, if ever. Lincoln-Douglas resolutions in recent history have included such improbable policies as banning handguns (Jan-Feb ’16), establishing a draft (Sep-Oct ’17), and eliminating plea bargaining (Jan-Feb ’18). Debaters seeking to bypass arguments about the likelihood of these policies passing might invoke fiat. A long-standing and widely accepted tenet of competitive debate, fiat is the principle that debaters need not prove that their advocacy is probable, only that it is desirable./two-singles-to-stardom-chokecherry-is-already-a-viral-garage-rock-sensation-with-members-from-thank.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/two-singles-to-stardom-chokecherry-is-already-a-viral-garage-rock-sensation-with-members-from-thank.htmlHere’s a couple updates for the really hardcore music data nerds. If you didn’t know, we post all our reviews on the official White Crate website. Not only can you go back in time and see all our old reviews but also! Every post now features “Related” content at the bottom so you can easily see if we’ve reviewed the artist before or any associated acts and releases. Clicking the tag on a post will surface all the other music in that genre, so now it’s a lot easier to find all of the indie pop, psychedelic, or beats from the Bay./what-does-iterate-mean-by-charles-lambdin.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-does-iterate-mean-by-charles-lambdin.htmlIn a recent post I explored whether Agile is muddying the waters, confusing organizations and making it more difficult to pursue smarter ways of working. It was a rant, of course, but was one that really seemed to resonate with people. One of the things called out is that no one can even seem to agree on what “Agile” means anyway. Beyond citing the manifesto, one of the most frequent definitions is that Agile is an “iterative” approach to work./who-is-the-next-nex-benedict.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-is-the-next-nex-benedict.htmlFebruary 26, 2024 I don’t want to write about this. In fact, when I wrote my editor at The Bollard earlier today to ask if I wasn’t, by my calculations, already two days behind on my deadline, and he responded that yes, I was,  but that he “could use the extra room,” meaning that I’d be doing him a favor by NOT writing my column, I was given a full pass to settle down beside my honey and watch Succession./the-curious-timing-of-mbapp%C3%A9-s-decision-and-how-it-will-motivate-his-psg-teammates.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-curious-timing-of-mbapp%C3%A9-s-decision-and-how-it-will-motivate-his-psg-teammates.htmlWell, I got that one wrong. I previously wrote about when we might learn of Kylian Mbappé’s decision regarding his future plans and predicted we would hear from him toward the end of the season; instead, the news broke less than 24 hours after Paris Saint-Germain’s 2-0 win over Real Sociedad in the UEFA Champions League on Vale… ncG1vNJzZmioo5zBorjKZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMGpsYycrKuhn6rAbsDIpqCnn12ks265wZqnqZ2jYrGmr8isoKim/daily-dose-of-sunshine-tackles-mental-health-issues.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/daily-dose-of-sunshine-tackles-mental-health-issues.html☆☆☆½ (out of ☆☆☆☆) Jung Da-eun (played by Park Bo-young) Dong Go-yun (played by Yeon Woo-jin)  Song Yu-chan (played by Jang Dong-yoon) Song Hyo-shin (played by Lee Jung-eun) ↑Note: Korean names denote the surname followed by the given name. At the end of "Daily Dose of Sunshine," the protagonist says, "All of us are standing on the border between normal and abnormal." And that right there is the thesis for this K-drama, which centers on a nurse who tackles a new gig in a psychiatric ward./high-demand-vs-low-demand-religions.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/high-demand-vs-low-demand-religions.htmlThis exchange was interesting. In terms of ROI, I think terms like High v Low demand are useful. A PHd’s inability to sidestep their own personal biases is also useful. Here is the original tweet: People who LEAVE refer to it as high demand. Does that mean that people who stay don’t feel the same way? FourSquare & Catholocism are high-demand - even though others seldom refer to them as such./i-love-everything-about-you-that-hurts.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-love-everything-about-you-that-hurts.htmlYou’re reading Hung Up, the newsletter from Hunter Harris. This is The Tuesday Post, a weekly essay or interview or deep dive. If you like this kind of thing, you can subscribe here.Here is what happens in Closer: The forlorn photographer Anna (Julia Roberts) is dating… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on56knKR6tMDRmqWgnaI%3D/2023-nba-finals-game-2-half-court-hoops.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2023-nba-finals-game-2-half-court-hoops.htmlThere was always going to be a lot of chatter about the Heat “limiting” Jokic to only 4 assists, but he scored 41 points and it wasn’t really much about the Heat defense doing anything spectacular compared to game 1. Sure adding Love allowed Butler to slide over onto Murray and that helped, but really the Heat’s offense was unlocked when they went to more 5-Out actions around Bam handling. For the 2023 NBA Playoffs I will be doing game & series breakdowns throughout - the best way to support is to become a paid subscriber with the NBA Playoffs Sale!/a-primer-on-patriarchalism-versus-complementarianism.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-primer-on-patriarchalism-versus-complementarianism.htmlPatriarchalism in the broadest sense is simply the traditional view of men, women, and family life, grounded in Scripture and nature. It is reflected with varying degrees of faithfulness across Western civilization, and indeed every civilization, since it is built into creation. The term patriarchy comes from the Greek, and simply means father rule. However, this can refer to two different things, which as Christians we should be careful to distinguish between:/a-statement-from-johnathan-buma-calling-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray-s-resignation.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-statement-from-johnathan-buma-calling-for-fbi-director-christopher-wray-s-resignation.htmlJohnathan Buma has released a statement following the raid this week, which is as follows: I’m back up and running f 👍 All they got was a copy of my original whistleblower complaint and my disclosures to Congress, which they already had and ignored and was nothing more than confidential. They also took my own personnel file, which was confidential and had been abandoned at the bottom of a file cabinet by my previous SSAs in her office when she took a promotion to IOD (which, oddly, used to be my own office when I was SSA)./aella-in-defence-of-a-birthday-girl.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/aella-in-defence-of-a-birthday-girl.htmlThis is, for the most part a pretty PG blog, although there’s certainly no taboo on sex here. This post, though, will not be PG. The short version of the preceding events is that a person named Aella organized a gang bang for her birthday to which everyone was invited to apply for a spot. Aella is a sometime internet celebrity and fellow Substacker and she meticulously documented the process. When this infographic she produced went viral, certain rightwingers, trads etc./alaska-thunder-and-lightning-by-rick-thoman.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/alaska-thunder-and-lightning-by-rick-thoman.htmlThe summer of 2023 has been a strange one in many parts of the world, with extreme temperatures, from daily to seasonal time scales, extreme rainfall and of course devastating wildfires. For Alaska we can add “it’s been a weird thunderstorm summer” It’s long been recognized that while thunderstorms occur everywhere in Alaska they are very strongly favored over Interior Alaska in summer (see technical notes below). The Alaska Fire Service has operated a lightning detection network in Alaska since the mid-1980s./apex-2-classes-and-objects.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./bret-weinstein-and-steve-patterson-on-the-scientific-method.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bret-weinstein-and-steve-patterson-on-the-scientific-method.htmlI’ve mentioned this podcast with Steve Patterson and Bret Weinstein before, but I wanted to mention a few more points that come up. Fortunately, they spend barely a minute on Ivermectin. Weinstein says that clinicians who are saving patients using Ivermectin should not have their evidence over-ruled by randomized controlled trials. I do not find him persuasive on that point. But don’t give up just because he said one thing that you or I think is wrong./creating-a-fun-and-engaging-workplace.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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)./fudgy-chocolate-cake-with-coffee-creme-fraiche.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fudgy-chocolate-cake-with-coffee-creme-fraiche.htmlHello friends, I’ve spent this week dreaming of sunnier, warmer days laying on a beach somewhere, getting stuck into a good book whilst tucking into an endless supply of mystery, foreign snacks picked up at the local supermarket. It’s very unlike me to not have an upcoming trip in the diary but I’ve had enough of the abysmal weather in London and I’ll be getting something booked asap! To soothe my longing for some time away, I’ve turned to a reliable and comforting ingredient for this weeks recipe./gein-country-by-charlie-hintz.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/gein-country-by-charlie-hintz.htmlYears ago, during a trip to Plainfield to photograph various Ed Gein-related locations, I decided to shoot some video along the way, as well. It was a beautiful early September afternoon, and the isolation of the Plainfield area felt particularly peaceful. I wanted to capture it. You can wander around Plainfield Cemetery for hours without seeing another living soul, though I do often encounter at least one other curious traveler searching for Gein’s grave./he-came-to-remind-me.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./how-to-make-friends-on-bumble-part-2.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-friends-on-bumble-part-2.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./interview-jake-smith-of-crucifix.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/interview-jake-smith-of-crucifix.htmlPhoto courtesy of Jake SmithPardon me for feeding into the grim collective unconscious taking over this dirt clod, but I have been really mulling on the music of San Francisco peace-punks Crucifix for the past few weeks. Now, that’s not to say there isn’t a day where the absolute bodaciousness of songs like “Blind Destruction” or “Steelcase Enclosure” don’t cross my mind, because they sure as shit do. Yet, as the apocalyptic visions they caste into my eyes and ears as a middle-schooler become more concrete, I can’t help but squeeze myself deeper into their monstrous sound and find solace in its’ roar./introducing-one-of-ones-by-zack-o-malley-greenburg.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/introducing-one-of-ones-by-zack-o-malley-greenburg.htmlIf you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you’re probably familiar with Trapital founder Dan Runcie, a good friend of the Zogblog. I’ve been a frequent guest on his podcast over the years, talking about everything from the history of Motown Records to the iPod’s impact on music. Going forward, we’ll be making things a little more official. We’r… ncG1vNJzZmiyn5yvrbvGZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZLavwNGom66bmaO0brvNnmSonl2ku6a%2F/jagun-jagun-masterclass-climaxes-nollywood-s-necessary-growth.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jagun-jagun-masterclass-climaxes-nollywood-s-necessary-growth.htmlI have been a fan of Femi Adebayo for a long time and every time comparison comes up between who’s the better thespian between him and - you can guess - Odunlade Adekola, I never think twice before making my choice. It’s always the Law graduate. This gap becomes more obvious in the two films released by the two Nollywood giants in the space of 3 weeks. Adekola released Orisa to the cinemas on July 21st while Adebayo’s Netflix-powered Jagun Jagun became available for streaming on August 10th./kitchen-project-36-pavlova-101.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kitchen-project-36-pavlova-101.htmlHello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. Thank you so much for being here. A few weeks back at the beginning of my pavlova testing, I asked ‘What are your pavlova issues?’ via Instagram and you guys delivered. From cracking, to sugar content, to chewy vs. fluffy, I HAVE ANSWERS. Lots of them. In fact, there are so many, I haven’t been able to include all of them in this single newsletter./letters-from-love-with-special-guest-megan-falley.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/letters-from-love-with-special-guest-megan-falley.htmlHowdy Lovelets! For the last month I’ve been on a speaking tour across Europe (although I keep thinking of it as more of a spiritual retreat than a tour, which is a nice feeling), and one of the things I find myself doing again and again on stage is quoting these lines from the great Sufi poet and mystic Hafiz: The subject tonight is love    and for tomorrow night as well./little-big-league-a-baseball-movie-classic.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/little-big-league-a-baseball-movie-classic.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./men-almost-never-perform-songs-written-by-women.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/men-almost-never-perform-songs-written-by-women.htmlBetween 2018 and 2022, I listened to every Billboard Hot 100 number one hit. One song per day. I talk about this frequently. Part of the reason is because I learned a great deal about myself and music along the way. But an even bigger part is because that project is the reason that I started collecting data about music. It started small. At first, I would just log a rating and description of each song./motorola-razr-plus-review-best-flip-phone-yet.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/motorola-razr-plus-review-best-flip-phone-yet.html5/5 Medals of Yavin: Highly recommended for people who want a flip form factor that is easy to carry and a joy to use Lovely design and Viva Magenta color Fully functional outer display Expensive without carrier offers Over the past few years I have purchased every iteration of the Samsung Galaxy Fold and currently have a Z Fold 4 in my collection. I’ve tried the smaller Flip devices, but the limited use of the outer display, rather poor battery life, and $1,000 price kept me from using them for longer than the review period./on-dumbing-down-by-michael-maiello.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-dumbing-down-by-michael-maiello.htmlOnce upon a time, back in my journalism career, I recall having an article I’d written positively cited by a United States government agency devoted to clear speech, without jargon. I remember this now because of a LinkedIn post that crossed my feed: My typical reaction to being told to stop using this or that phrase is to double down on the phrase, unless it is proven harmful. True to form, I am not convinced that the words “dumbing down” are disrespectful or insulting and if anyone takes offense to it, I’d tell them to lighten up./paula-throckmorton-substack.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/paula-throckmorton-substack.htmlPaula's Daily Zoom Meditation By Paula Throckmorton This newsletter is a communication tool for the community of people who participate in my daily meditation on zoom. Every day a group of us gather at 5:00 EST and I guide a meditation. Here I share insights that come from that practice. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbGt1KWYraCipLCsuc6rq6im/politico-s-eric-hovde-attack-completely-ignores-tammy-baldwin-s-partner-s-ultra-high-net-worth-tax.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/politico-s-eric-hovde-attack-completely-ignores-tammy-baldwin-s-partner-s-ultra-high-net-worth-tax.htmlAccording to a recent story in Politico, investing in Bermudan companies is bad if you are a Republican like Eric Hovde, but worth completely ignoring if you are the domestic partner of his Democratic opponent or, even more ironically, a top shareholder in Politico’s parent company! Politico dedicated an entire story on how “Hovde invested tens of millions of dollars in insurance companies that operated in the U.S. but were based in Bermuda, and therefore benefited from not having to pay U./remembering-mud1-the-first-multiplayer-role-playing-game-on-the-internet.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-mud1-the-first-multiplayer-role-playing-game-on-the-internet.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/review-a-promising-young-woman.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-a-promising-young-woman.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./sanctuary-director-zachary-wigon-on-the-thrill-of-storytelling.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sanctuary-director-zachary-wigon-on-the-thrill-of-storytelling.htmlThe words in director Zachary Wigon’s Sanctuary, penned by Micah Bloomberg, contain the kind of teasing erotic friskiness that endlessly rejoices in nudging you toward the edge of satisfaction, and pulling back just as you’re about to explode. It’s a kind of flirtation that, crafted and performed so well between the characters within the film, transgresses its bounds to seduce viewers, too. Sanctuary is a masterfully carried film that knows that the moment before the bloom of pleasure can sometimes be more delicious than the pleasure itself./the-addams-family-s-halloween-poem-anticipates-a-tim-burton-masterpiece.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-addams-family-s-halloween-poem-anticipates-a-tim-burton-masterpiece.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-biggest-oscar-snubs-best-supporting-actor-actress.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-biggest-oscar-snubs-best-supporting-actor-actress.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-crazy-ass-white-boy.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-crazy-ass-white-boy.html[Apologies for missing a week! I moved into a new house, which is far more stressful and time consuming than I remembered. I will add an extra one at some point!] It’s a vivid illustration of the degraded and bleak times for cinema when Michael Bay—long the ultimate villain for cinephiles—is now regarded as an auteur amidst the company men dullards crank… ncG1vNJzZmiekaqys7%2FOZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMGpsYycqZqyqWKutL%2BMsJ%2BirJVir7DF/the-general-election-campaign-has-begun.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-general-election-campaign-has-begun.htmlThe three people on camera through the hour-plus of Joe Biden’s third State of the Union address, in representative poses: Biden himself making a point; Kamala Harris leading Democrats in standing applause; Mike Johnson, wishing he were anyplace else. (Photo Mandel Ngan/AFP, via Getty Images.)Through four presidencies now, I’ve done annotated versions of State of the Union addresses (SOTU). The main reason I’ve gone through this process is that, seven presidencies ago, I was involved in writing some of these presentations./the-man-who-invented-a-time-machine.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-man-who-invented-a-time-machine.htmlJohn Goodenough, who died Monday at the age of 100, invented an extraordinary time machine—one that is saving the residents of his adopted state of Texas this week, and that will play a crucial role in the planet’s future. Goodenough’s obituary marks him as one of the last of a certain kind of American. He left Yale to join the wartime Army, then earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago on a government scholarship, studying under Enrico Fermi; first at Westinghouse and then at MIT, he helped lay the groundwork for what became Random Access Memory in computers; and then—moving for a while to Oxford before finally landing at UT Austin—he took on what became his life’s work./the-picture-of-melissa-castro-part-1.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-picture-of-melissa-castro-part-1.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./this-narca-pleaded-guilty-but-got-33-years-behind-bars-was-she-the-last-big-fish-of-her-generation.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/this-narca-pleaded-guilty-but-got-33-years-behind-bars-was-she-the-last-big-fish-of-her-generation.htmlThe first time and last time that I visited the city of Zacapa, Guatemala, my team and I were sitting in our car in traffic when there came a hard and constant beeping from behind. Turning to look out of the back window, I saw a heavy black truck behind us.  The driver was honking the horn so aggressively that the cars started scrambling to get out of the way. That wasn’t the only motivator./trans-ideology-vs-biology-peter-boghossian-luana-s-maroja.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/trans-ideology-vs-biology-peter-boghossian-luana-s-maroja.htmlLuana S. Maroja is a renowned evolutionary biologist, Professor of Biology, and Chair of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program at Williams College. She was taken aback when the Society for the Study of Evolution released a statement promoting sex as a spectrum and declaring the validity of “lived experience” in sexual identity. What would inspire such a misguided, conspicuously anti-scientific declaration? In this conversation with Peter, she answers that question. Share In plain language, Luana explains chromosomal differences in mammals and how the sex binary is expressed in animals./using-imagery-to-convey-your-point.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/using-imagery-to-convey-your-point.html“Being a CEO means keeping ten plates spinning at the same time. Hire people who help take some of those plates off your hands, not those who add more plates.” “Having a third child while both parents work feels like you are drowning, only for someone to hand you a baby.”   “Our code is so intertwined that you flip a light switch on the fourth floor of Building 10, and a toilet flushes in Building 14./week-12-nfl-power-rankings.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/week-12-nfl-power-rankings.htmlYou notice that some of the rankings shifts and movements in power rating don’t correspond exactly with intuition based solely on results. The numbers still use some 2022 data, and prior weeks are having their effect sizes decayed, which can cause slight adjustments that look big. When lots of teams are bunched up in the middle and bottom of the NFL, even a marginal change in power rating can move a team 3-6 spots./welcome-to-trade-deadline-week.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/welcome-to-trade-deadline-week.htmlYear in, year out, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Grammy road trip goes a long way in summarizing the season to that point and previewing what that team might be capable of. It’s pretty fitting that on this trip, LeBron James had this quote: In the matter of a week, the Lakers have been rolled by the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks to the tune of 32 combined points — and those games weren’t nearly that competitive, if we’re being honest./what-s-the-opposite-of-technocratic.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-s-the-opposite-of-technocratic.htmlSeveral years ago I became a bit obsessed with ‘non-words.’ I think I was puzzling through a dictionary for some type of word game—and probably deep in a mystical study of apophatic theology—and found a listing in the N section of words beginning with ‘non-’. I bring this up because I just did a little googling around the antonyms of “technocratic” and found these: ANTONYMS FOR technical unmechanical untechnical It’s easy to imagine a straight swap of the ‘un-’ for a ‘non-’ here; and it’s probably needless to say that I was a bit disappointed to find these (what’s the opposite of rich?/why-aren-t-more-people-getting-married-ask-straight-women-what-dating-is-like-and-maybe-also-lgbt.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-aren-t-more-people-getting-married-ask-straight-women-what-dating-is-like-and-maybe-also-lgbt.htmlThere's an opinion piece in the NYT by Anna Louie Sussman about why more people aren't getting married. She says elite "scolds" who tell people to get married for the sake of outcomes for their children fail to engage with "people's lived experience" and why they’re having trouble getting married. What lived experience? Well, specifically that "heterosexual women" are confronting a problem with "the state of men" today. She makes her case with a lot of data points: She notes that around 25 years ago, sociologists interviewed low-income single mothers who had children without being married, and found that "/winnie-the-pooh-gets-stuck.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/winnie-the-pooh-gets-stuck.htmlHi, I'm Ms Katrina. This is a short story for kids. The story is from Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh is a bear. In this story, Winnie the Pooh visits a friend and gets stuck. Learn five words from Winnie the Pooh. Hum. H U M. Hum means sing with your mouth closed. Hole. H O L E. A hole is an open place in the ground. Honey. H O N E Y./mis-understanding-the-bayless-brothers-by-reilly-brock.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mis-understanding-the-bayless-brothers-by-reilly-brock.htmlThe Bayless Brothers are deeply flawed ambassadors for two of Americas biggest obsessions: food and football. Their story is a story of self-aggrandizement and alienation, obsession and ostracism, pride and performance. It’s a reminder that even problematic people in the public eye are full of nuance if you’re open to finding it. Prologue: Festive Food My first blog was a food blog. At the tender age of twenty I was living in South Tucson and engaged in the hard-to-explain liminal space of “studying-off-campus-but-sorta-abroad” that was Earlham Colleges border studies program./i-wouldn-t-change-being-mixed-race-for-anything.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-wouldn-t-change-being-mixed-race-for-anything.htmlHi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to author Claire Kohda, who is of mixed-Japanese and white British heritage. Her debut book, Woman, Eating, follows Lydia, who is half-human, half-vampire, struggling to live away from her mother for the first time. Her book explores mixedness both literally and metaphorically, and I was excited to dive into this with Claire. Read her story below. It’s changed a lot over the years./tokyo-vice-and-the-yakuza-malady.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tokyo-vice-and-the-yakuza-malady.htmlIn Episode 5, Season 2 of “Tokyo Vice”, the fearsome, awesomely tattooed gangster Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida) reappears after a six-month absence. Since no one inside or outside the yakuza seems to know where Tozawa went after collapsing at a fancy dinner, most assumed t… ncG1vNJzZmign6WyorrDnqmsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6ijqaR6t7XCnmSappRiwamxjLKYpK2qlnqurcuam7I%3D/30-minute-creamy-fennel-pasta-by-carolina-gelen.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/30-minute-creamy-fennel-pasta-by-carolina-gelen.htmlI haven’t shared a pasta dish with you in *months*. To be fair, no pasta dish I made recently felt like it was worth sharing, until I made this one. It all started with two fennel bulbs that were hanging out in the back of my fridge for a couple of weeks and were starting to look a little rough. While I would usually shave them thin, give them an ice bath and toss them in a salad, this time I decided to cook them down them and use them as a base for a pasta sauce./8-rules-for-party-dressing-and-why-saltburn-made-me-nostalgic-for-crap-noughties-clothes.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/8-rules-for-party-dressing-and-why-saltburn-made-me-nostalgic-for-crap-noughties-clothes.htmlThere are a few important stories I’d like to cover in The Closet this week, if you’ll indulge me. I want to talk to you about Saltburn and I feel duty bound to pay homage to London’s most stylish chef, who sadly left us last week. But before I do, a moment for party season. Because like a rogue sequin balanced on the brink of a sweeping stair case, we’re teetering on the precipice of the festive event onslaught - and many of you have messaged to tell me how anxious you’re feeling about dressing for it./amazon-s-whispersync-for-voice-the-ultimate-add-on.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/amazon-s-whispersync-for-voice-the-ultimate-add-on.htmlWhat if I told you I had a way for you to finish a new book every two days? Maybe that excites you, maybe not, but that’s a promise that Amazon’s Whispersync for Voice can deliver. Whispersync for Voice allows users to both read and listen to the same book using Kindle and Audible, without ever losing their place. The technology tracks exactly where you’ve left off in either app and will seamlessly update when you switch between the two./an-analysis-of-some-twitter-communities-shtwt-and-obslovetwt.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-analysis-of-some-twitter-communities-shtwt-and-obslovetwt.htmlBefore I get into this, this is not a critique of all communities or subcultures. I’m not an “anti-shipper” because that seems to always lead to ignorant puritanism and “i don’t like it” is not a good critique for why things dealing with dark subject matter (or any queer art for that matter), should be banned. Capitalist realism has never had a better mouthpiece than that of communities like #shtwt (Self-Harm Twitter), #yantwt (Yandere Twitter) and #edtwt (Eating-Disorder Twitter)./anthony-hopkins-stars-in-another-c-s-lewis-movie-but-not-as-c-s-lewis-this-time.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/anthony-hopkins-stars-in-another-c-s-lewis-movie-but-not-as-c-s-lewis-this-time.htmlThirty years ago, Anthony Hopkins starred in Shadowlands, a movie about the romance between C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman Gresham. Now, he’s starring in another movie about C.S. Lewis… but this time, instead of playing Lewis himself, he’s playing Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The film is called Freud’s Last Session, and it’s an adaptation of a play by Mark St Germain that imagines a fictitious meeting between Freud and Lewis, the latter of whom is played this time by Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey, etc./arbitrage-andy-substack.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/arbitrage-andy-substack.htmlARB Letter By Arbitrage Andy Join 25,000+ others seeking the truth in a new age of deceit. Arb Letter brings you the truth on what's happening in the world covering geopolitics, financial markets, crypto, and life. ARB Letter is read across 50 US states and 165 countries. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK%2BwaKrq5mXmq6vsNg%3D/at-least-joni-mitchell-is-alive-and-well-ish.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/at-least-joni-mitchell-is-alive-and-well-ish.htmlIn the wake of too many (mostly) women literary icons passing in recent weeks, many of us naturally turned our attention to worrying about another high priestess of creative expression who’s getting on in years: 78-year-old Joni Mitchell. Concern for Mitchell’s health unfortunately seems warranted. She’s a life-long smoker (although apparently she now smokes e-cigarettes instead) who contracted polio as a child, struggles with a weird skin condition called Morgellons Disease, and in 2015 survived a brain aneurysm from which she’s never fully recovered, making it difficult for her to walk./celebrating-litha-the-summer-solstice.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/celebrating-litha-the-summer-solstice.htmlThis coming Tuesday, 21st June, marks Litha or Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere. The ancient festival celebrates the longest day and shortest night as the Earth tilts closest to the sun and the evenings seem endless here in Scotland. The Summer Solstice marks the beginning of astronomical Summer, and - as at all these transition points - certainly feels like a fresh start to me. This time of year in the Celtic Wheel traditionally celebrates light, sun, growth, fire, fertility, warmth and abundance./chelsea-vs-middlesbrough-tactical-analysis.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chelsea-vs-middlesbrough-tactical-analysis.htmlChelsea lined up in a very attacking 4-2-3-1 formation with Chilwell back at LB (interesting role). Sterling and Mudryk were on the wings, and Palmer started centrally. Meanwhile, Middlesborough lined up in their usual 3-4-3 as they played in the last game against us where they produced a staunch defensive performance. Middlesbrough obviously came to frustrate Chelsea by playing in a tight low block and the onus was on Chelsea to at least score 2 goals to get to the final./comments-offering-for-katie.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-offering-for-katie.htmlFriends, there is no easy way to say this. After years of fighting tirelessly for her marriage, Katie is now a single mother of six. This story is hers and hers alone to share, but you can read more here: I still don’t have a category for what the kids and I have been through in the last few years. I’m confused and angry and devastated. This is absolutely not the ending I wanted and not the ending I fought and prayed for./contemplations-on-greatness-by-andrea-petkovic.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/contemplations-on-greatness-by-andrea-petkovic.htmlI was a good tennis player. At times, I was a very good tennis player. But I was never great. I was never a great. Let me explain. This is not a fishing for compliments type of situation, not at all. I’m very realistic about what I could and couldn’t do in tennis and I made my peace with it. It is rather an assassination attempt on those greatness demons. An exorcism if you will./dairy-free-creamy-lemon-pasta-recipe.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dairy-free-creamy-lemon-pasta-recipe.htmlAs a kid I was only allowed pasta on Friday nights (can you imagine?) and would only ever pick Rao’s marinara or Giada’s lemon pasta. But now that I’m the one making dinner, I don’t always feel like grating the heap of Parmesan that Giada’s lemon pasta requires, and my stomach doesn’t always want to accept any form of dairy. I never have heavy cream anyways, and blending cashews is simply no./equities-in-dallas-by-elliott-gue.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/equities-in-dallas-by-elliott-gue.htmlI want to start this week’s issue by wishing readers a very merry Christmas, joyful holiday season and a happy New Year. Next month, I’ll have some more detailed projections, and investment themes for the year ahead. Today, however, I have just one prediction for you – trading bonds will be exciting in 2024 and, most likely, for years to come. The implications for the stock market are vast. Through the end of December I’m offering 90-day free trials to the paid tier of The Free Market Speculator, which includes our model portfolio recommendations and special subscriber-only content and alerts./fresh-tomatoes-movie-reviews-tom-cooper.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fresh-tomatoes-movie-reviews-tom-cooper.htmlHere are my series of movie reviews/essays I have droned on about. I try to keep it positive but not short. Feel free to browse for movies you are interested in seeing or would just like to hear my thoughts on them. Enjoy? By Tom Cooper · Launched 6 months agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmilkajBpr7GrqWnsZOkvLG%2Fjaysm6uklrCsesKopGg%3D/help-save-baby-cyrus-from-being-medically-kidnapped.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/help-save-baby-cyrus-from-being-medically-kidnapped.htmlBaby Cyrus has been medically kidnapped from his parents for missing a doctor’s appointment, that his mother called and canceled because she was sick. The family believes that this hostility is motivated by their choice not to vaccinate their 10-month-old son. Baby Cyrus was sick last week and vomiting so Marissa took him to St. Luke’s Pediatric Center where after receiving terrible treatment, they were released after about a week, with Baby Cyrus having a clean bill of health, after undergoing every exam, test, and review imaginable./hosting-with-chelsea-fagan-by-rebecca-deczynski.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hosting-with-chelsea-fagan-by-rebecca-deczynski.htmlThinking About Getting Into is a newsletter about interesting people with Interests. Soft lighting, batch cocktails, and menus that don’t put last-minute stress on the chef—these are just some of the makings of a good dinner party, according to Chelsea Fagan. As the co-founder of The Financial Diet—and author of the novel A Perfect Vintage—Chelsea has made her name dishing out savvy budgeting tips and financially conscious lifestyle advice. But in her spare time, you can find her serving themed drinks, charcuterie boards, and homecooked meals at the cocktail hours, dinner parties, brunches, and other get-togethers she hosts in her New York City home./how-the-hell-did-that-happen-revisiting-the-2021-nhl-draft-featuring-wyatt-johnston.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-the-hell-did-that-happen-revisiting-the-2021-nhl-draft-featuring-wyatt-johnston.htmlHere are just a few names picked above Wyatt Johnston in the 2021 Draft. Tyler Boucher (OTT) Cole Sillinger (CBJ) Matthew Coronato (CGY) Zachery Bolduc (STL) Isak Rosen (BUF) Fedor Svechkov (NSH) Xavier Bourgault (EDM) Some of these players are quite good. In fact, except for Tyler Boucher (my god Ottawa, what the hell were you thinking besides potentially listening to Pierre McGuire mindlessly drone on and on about size?), they’re bound to be everyday NHLers, with some of them already getting in their reps./if-clarence-thomas-hates-d-c-so-much-he-should-accept-john-oliver-s-offer.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/if-clarence-thomas-hates-d-c-so-much-he-should-accept-john-oliver-s-offer.html“But in this sea of despair for Thomas comes a shining ray of hope: John Oliver. Yes, the comedian and host of the Emmy Award winning HBO show, "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" has come to Thomas’s rescue with a generous offer.” Dean, with all due respect, Thomas won’t need to take up Oliver’s offer. If Trump wins, and republicans takeover the Senate, Thomas, Alito and possibly Robert’s, will all retire before the midterms, and solidify control over the SC for the next 40’years./jesus-genealogies-thoughts-on-scripture.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jesus-genealogies-thoughts-on-scripture.htmlJesus’ genealogies are frequently said to be irreconcilable. They are not. They are an invitation to delve deeply into the history of both Israel and her Messiah, intended not to mystify but to edify. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe New Testament attributes two different genealogies to Jesus. One is found in the Gospel of Matthew, the other in the Gospel of Luke. These genealogies have long been a point of contention among adherents of Christianity and Judaism./m%C3%A5ngata-have-you-ever-watched-a-moonbeam.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/m%C3%A5ngata-have-you-ever-watched-a-moonbeam.htmlHave you ever noticed how some stuff looks like…other stuff?   Maybe I should be a little more specific.  Have you ever noticed how a walnut kind of looks like a brain? Or how grapes sometimes resemble lungs? Ocean waves can sound like an airplane cutting through the sky. Look at drops of sea water under a microscope and you can see a whole universe. And then there's this Swedish word: mångata./no-thoughts-just-vibes-by-sarah-rose-etter.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/no-thoughts-just-vibes-by-sarah-rose-etter.htmlA big part of the reason I left Austin was, ultimately, access to art. We had two great museums there, but there’s no denying LA is a hub of art in a way that almost blows my mind. I feel a little drunk on it, as if the world is hallucinogenic, art and music and books everywhere I turn. I realized I haven’t done enough sharing of that, so I wanted to send out a list of the art I’ve been running into lately./pistachio-cotton-cake-by-ruth-tam.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pistachio-cotton-cake-by-ruth-tam.htmlHello! This pistachio cotton sponge is perhaps my ideal spring cake: simple and light with added richness and color from buttery pistachios. It’s a variation on my beloved tang mian cotton cake but with ground pistachios subbed for part of the flour. I also added some pistachio cream/crema di pistacchio — a thick, nutella-esque spread made from pistachios, milk powder, sugar, and oil — to amplify the nutty flavor and aroma./podcast-038-numbers-in-spanish-41.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/podcast-038-numbers-in-spanish-41.htmlListen to Spanish podcasts, where I'll be uploading Spanish language and Spain's culture recordings. If you are interested in Spanish language and/or Spain culture, this is your place! Find more at https://spanishlanguage.substack.com Listen to Spanish podcasts, where I'll be uploading Spanish language and Spain's culture recordings. If you are interested in Spanish language and/or Spain culture, this is your place! Find more at https://spanishlanguage.substack.comncG1vNJzZmiroJa7qr%2FHpZinn6WWtKZ60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnoKSxpK3SrWRpa2hiu7a5wZ6prGWZo3q0vMCnoKygXWl%2B/presidential-debates-are-worthless-political-theater-and-james-van-der-beek-doesn-t-understand-facts.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/presidential-debates-are-worthless-political-theater-and-james-van-der-beek-doesn-t-understand-facts.htmlActor James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek) selfied his two-minute rant about how debates among Democratic presidential contenders will save democracy. He was triggered by the Democratic National Committee’s announcement that it “has no plans to sponsor primary debates.” There’s a lot to unpack here, starting with wondering why Van Der Beek’s opinion is worthy of being covered by the news media. Sure, it’s “celebrity news,” reserved for celebrities saying anything about anything, but is it news news?/r-i-p-carlton-sheets-by-e-b-tucker.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/r-i-p-carlton-sheets-by-e-b-tucker.htmlWe suffer from short-term thinking syndrome when it comes to money. It hasn’t always been this way. It’s also not entirely our fault. In the 1990s I was a night owl. I also had a television, with cable. It’s amazing how things change. Back then, we had infomercials. 30-minute TV ads with high-pressure sales tactics. They were incredible to watch. I thought so at least. What mesmerized me was how well they tapped into what people wanted at the time./review-balvenie-14-caribbean-cask.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-balvenie-14-caribbean-cask.htmlI remember the first time I tasted the Caribbean Cask, because I was immediately made furious. Not because the whiskey was bad. No, no. It was divine like the first day in spring when sundress season blesses the masses. I was furious because I didn’t have anyone to share it with. I was by myself, and the bottle was gifted to me by a dear friend. There are many that say one shouldn’t imbibe by themselves, but I personally find that in those moments where I can actually be still can provide the opportunity to actually taste a spirit./review-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-masquerade-1966.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-feud-capote-vs-the-swans-masquerade-1966.htmlIt was inevitable that any TV miniseries about Truman Capote’s love/hate relationship with high society would end up covering the Black and White Ball. Sure, this season of Feud is focused primarily on what happened with Capote and his rich lady friends after Esquire’s publication of his scandalous short story “La Côte Basque.” But it’s impossible to understand how Capote’s life started to fall apart in 1976 without reliving 1966./scaled-and-failed-18-carvana-and-beepi.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/scaled-and-failed-18-carvana-and-beepi.htmlWelcome to Scaled and Failed! My name’s Amil Naik and I’m an aspiring VC and founder at The University of Texas at Austin. I write about startups that scaled and startups that failed to draw insights about the patterns of startup failure and how to avoid them. Everything is clearer in hindsight, so it’s worth looking back. If you haven’t subscribed already, do it here: Today’s Topic: Car Ecommerce Scaled: Carvana; Created as a subsidiary of DriveTime, spun out independently upon gaining traction, expanded online car purchase and delivery platform across the US, IPO’d in 2017, and saw record gains in the pandemic as used car purchases online spiked./song-17-suki-waterhouse.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/song-17-suki-waterhouse.htmlCan't find you, can't findyou Whereare you? Whereare you? I was drinking hard, actingtough But it was just a crush, just a crush On Johanna, Johanna Only want her 'cause I can't have her A sense of intense longing is established from the first few notes of Suki Waterhouse’s “Johanna.” Like a daydream that seems too vivid, the melody aches us closer but ultimately, like all reveries, it disappears leaving us alone with only our thoughts./the-corneal-or-blink-reflex.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-corneal-or-blink-reflex.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-edenic-allure-of-ballerinafarm.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-madwoman-in-the-attic.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-madwoman-in-the-attic.htmlHi there, readers! I really appreciate everyone’s comments from last week about Mr. Rochester. Modern opinions of him tend to vary quite a bit — and our discussion seemed to prove that. I called him “toxic” last week, which I still stand by, even though he clearly loves Jane and has plenty of admirable characteristics. When confronting him about the for… ncG1vNJzZmismJqvqrPRnpidZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8mapZ5lla6%2FpnnCoZiprJWnwG5%2BkmZpcGWknbJuucCdrqilkaM%3D/the-raw-society-stories-substack.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-raw-society-stories-substack.htmlThe Raw Society Stories, an extension of The Raw Society Magazine, will feature photographic stories, interviews, and essays, all of which touch on themes as varied as social issues, politics, culture, travel and history. Launched a year ago No thanksncG1vNJzZmismJq%2FosPSqJqinaSuwLW70aKcrGajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8/the-view-between-villages-extended-by-noah-kahan.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-view-between-villages-extended-by-noah-kahan.htmlI’ve been putting off a trip back to where I grew up for a while now - but not just going back to visit family. I’m sensing a need for a retrospective road trip to explore where I come from. In my mind, I see this trip as a windows down, music cranked up drive down memory lane… And I'm splitting the road down the middle For a minute the world seems so simple/treating-dropsy-in-bettas-by-jessie-lynn-billington.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/treating-dropsy-in-bettas-by-jessie-lynn-billington.htmlNow that we’ve discussed what Type 1 dropsy is and what it looks like, we can move onto what to do about it. The treatment is the same for all stages of pineconing regardless of how advanced it may be. A fish showing pre-dropsy signs will receive the same care as a Stage 4 fish. I have developed these dropsy protocols to be as clear and easy to understand as possible./uconn-oc-nick-charlton-leaving-for-nfl-job.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/uconn-oc-nick-charlton-leaving-for-nfl-job.htmlESPN’s Pete Thamel has reported that UConn offensive coordinator Nick Charlton is leaving to join the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. Charlton joined UConn when head coach Jim Mora took over in 2022 and also held the associate head coach title. He was previously head coach for two seasons at Maine, where he spent four years in his first staff job after a stint as a GA at Boston College, his alma mater./ways-of-life-harry-reeder-s-enduring-legacy.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ways-of-life-harry-reeder-s-enduring-legacy.htmlYou’re reading Ways of Life, a weekly obituaries newsletter from The Charlotte Ledger honoring our friends, neighbors and family members who made an impact on Charlotte through the ways they lived their lives. Pastor Harry Reeder died last Thursday morning in an auto accident in Alabama. The former pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews was 75. (Photo courtesy of Briarwood Presbyterian Church)By Marty Minchin Harry Reeder had, according to a longtime pastoral associate, limitless capacity./what-happens-when-mdma-is-approved-as-a-prescription-drug-5-questions-for-regulatory-attorney-kimbe.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-happens-when-mdma-is-approved-as-a-prescription-drug-5-questions-for-regulatory-attorney-kimbe.htmlMDMA could soon become the first psychedelic to be approved in the U.S. as a prescription drug. In mid-February, Lykos Therapeutics announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved their New Drug Application for MDMA — and that the application was given “priority review,” with a ruling expected by mid-August 2024.  To understand what could happen after the FDA arrives at a decision, The Microdose spoke with attorney Kimberly I. Chew./when-i-found-myself-i-stopped-caring-what-other-people-thought.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-i-found-myself-i-stopped-caring-what-other-people-thought.htmlHi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to designer Nadine Merabi, who is of mixed Lebanese and English heritage. Nadine is known for her glamorous designs, never shy of a sequin, with A-list fans including AJ Odudu and Tina Knowles. You’ll also have spied her iconic feather-cuffed pyjamas on Instagram accounts far and wide. I loved speaking to Nadine about how her heritage has influenced her love of jewel tones and sparkles – read her story below./why-mike-cernovich-hates-trump.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-mike-cernovich-hates-trump.htmlI met Mike Cernovich a few years ago when I was making a documentary based on Angela Nagle’s book, Kill All Normies. Back then I had the same impression of him that you likely did, and that you probably still do: I thought he was a Trump-loving, men’s rights-touting, right wing troll. But after chatting with him, I liked him anyway. Mike was thoughtful, honest, candid, reasonable, self-disparaging, and fair-minded. I’d read the New Yorker profile of him./witness-marks-by-melissa-harrison.htmlSat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/witness-marks-by-melissa-harrison.htmlWitness Marks are the tiny scars left inside mechanical clock movements by every horologist who has ever worked on them. They are clues to time past and proof of the work of long-gone individuals; they are signposts to how future time may be spent. I’m Melissa Harrison, a novelist, nature writer, critic, children’s author, app creator and podcaster, among other things. I’m interested in the natural world and in agriculture, in history, poetry, art and creativity, and the ways we all must find to live with and among the past./a-biltmore-christmas-by-anna-claus.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-biltmore-christmas-by-anna-claus.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-conversation-with-max-zavidow.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-conversation-with-max-zavidow.htmlIt wasn’t until 15 minutes into our conversation that I looked down at Max Zavidow’s shirt. It was a white t-shirt with blue writing, designed by Max himself, that simply said “I’VE GOT THE RUNS”. I started chuckling but quickly realized that the laughter did not particularly jive well with the story that he was telling me.  Max was recounting a story about how a magic mushroom trip that he did on a ranch in California opened his eyes to the fact that he had the autonomy to do whatever he wanted to do with his life./a-walk-through-james-hannaham-s-brooklyn.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-walk-through-james-hannaham-s-brooklyn.html“A lil’ help?” James Hannaham and I are walking through Clinton Hill when a basketball flies over the fence of a nearby playground. James and I have been walking for about 20 minutes, our back and fourth patter of words matching the rhythm of our steps, our bodies warm in the sun. So, when James stops, it almost feels as if I’m coming out of a trance. James pauses for a moment and then ambles over to the basketball—catching it before it rolls under a car or, even worse, out into the street—and picks the ball up./about-antagonism-with-kyle-prue.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-antagonism-with-kyle-prue.htmlSorry. I’m nervous.  Welcome to Antagonism with Kyle Prue. This is sort of the inner sanctum of my following… A place where only my most parasocial homies can ruminate and plot with me. It’ll be an active dialogue (that I will completely monopolize.) But I truly can’t wait to hear what you think about what I say.  This newsletter/audio recording/parenting blog/active descent into dementia is my first foray into the whole “personal vulnerability” thing./about-employee-picks.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-employee-picks.htmlEmployee Picks is where I, the American film critic Nick Pinkerton (seen below), write about whatever happens to take my fancy at the given moment. If you haven’t heard of me, which is more than understandable, you have possibly heard of some of the publications that I have written for since 2003 or so: Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, Reverse Shot, The Guardian, 4 Columns, The Baffler, Rhizome, Harper’s, the Village Voice… Those of these that still exist I still contribute to sometimes, among other professional endeavors, but I mostly do this now, because of neoliberalisms, but also because I enjoy it more than anything else, and it allows me to let my freak flag fly, as it were./about-the-chris-hedges-report.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-the-chris-hedges-report.htmlThe parameters of acceptable journalist inquiry has dramatically narrowed over the nearly four decades I have been a reporter and author. Newspapers, where I began my career, have atrophied or died. The electronic media is in the hands of a half dozen corporations that impose a uniformity of opinion and ban the views of us who decry the crimes of empire, the permanent war economy, the apartheid state of Israel, our money saturated political process and social inequality./ai-has-unblocked-progress-toward-advanced-nanotechnologies.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ai-has-unblocked-progress-toward-advanced-nanotechnologies.htmlFor most practical purposes, the prospects I outline in this article can be ignored. What matters to the rest of this project is updating perceived policy options to better align with reality, yet the transformative implications of other AI-enabled advances are well-enough aligned to do most of the work. Think of this article as an important heads-up, not a key argument. To understand the present situation calls for some history:/an-ode-to-change-and-pat-and-gary-s-party-store.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-ode-to-change-and-pat-and-gary-s-party-store.htmlAnother day, another essay not in any way related to the supposed theme of this newsletter… Last winter, my hometown’s party store burned down. It was a community hub, the location of our Buck Pole, a place whose aisles I’ve wandered as a kid looking for Charleston Chews and a slice of pizza and as a 20-something looking for flies and honey whiskey and as a 30-something looking for a bottle of merlot and a dose of nostalgia./another-big-anchorage-snowfall-by-rick-thoman.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/another-big-anchorage-snowfall-by-rick-thoman.htmlThe Anchorage area received very heavy snowfall November 8ᵗʰ and 9ᵗʰ, 2023, making this the third time in the past 12 months and the fourth time since March 2022 with more than a foot of snow in a single storm (my posts about the December 2022 storms here and here). As usually happens, there was a wide range in snowfall totals in the metro Anchorage area, with the lower amounts in West Anchorage and higher amounts east of the Seward Highway, and the highest amounts on the Hillside./armenian-ghapama-by-pierce-abernathy.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/armenian-ghapama-by-pierce-abernathy.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./at-home-in-venezuela-with-20-year-old-marlins-rookie-miguel-cabrera.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/at-home-in-venezuela-with-20-year-old-marlins-rookie-miguel-cabrera.htmlI’m glad I took lots of photos, some of which you’ll see here, but I wish I’d taken more. Twenty years later, Cabrera is planning to retire after the 2023 season, and he will do so with Hall of Fame credentials: He’s one of seven players in baseball history with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits, not to mention two MVP awards and his 2012 Triple Crown. He’s played most of his career, the past 15 years, with the Detroit Tigers./big-ass-couscous-spoon-salad-by-katie.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/big-ass-couscous-spoon-salad-by-katie.htmlHell yes sisters, another salad that doesn’t suck. You do not need to suffer through pathetic, leafy, flavorless salads no mo! There’s so many better options out there!! Take todays salad for instance. Shall we break her down? pearled couscous: the elite couscous variety. so satisfying. little pasta boba. perfectly satiates the craving for some carbs in a salad (although I would never deny the right of a fresh sourdough crouton)/can-i-get-a-good-portland-bagel-at-bernstein-s-bagels.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/can-i-get-a-good-portland-bagel-at-bernstein-s-bagels.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. In trying to figure out which Portland bagels I needed to try as part of the review process, I turned to the people one must turn to in times of great difficulty and concern: Rabbis./classics-of-the-week-the-ranown-westerns.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/classics-of-the-week-the-ranown-westerns.htmlThe Nut Graf: The six Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott Westerns that are leaving the Criterion Channel in a few days (but are still available elsewhere) are A-level B movies: Taut, mature, intensely satisfying. There’s a ton of great stuff leaving The Criterion Channel on October 31 – all the movies in the Jean Harlow festival, the John Huston spotlight, and especially the cycle of six Randolph Scott Westerns directed by Budd Boetticher from 1956 to 1960 and collectively known as “the Ranown Westerns” after the name of Scott’s production company (which in turn came from the first three letters of the star’s name and the last three of co-producer Harry Joe Brown’s)./commanders-scheme-breakdown-simulated-pressures.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/commanders-scheme-breakdown-simulated-pressures.htmlEarlier this week I looked at one of the defensive schemes that the Washington Commanders like to use fairly often, the zone blitz. Today, I thought I’d look at another scheme the team likes to use: simulated pressures. Simulated pressures, or sim pressures, are defensive schemes that are designed in such a way that the offense thinks a big blitz is coming, but actually the defense is only rushing four, just not the original four down lineman./david-lee-roth-david.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/david-lee-roth-david.htmlIn preparation for this installment of DAVID, I’ve been listening to a lot of David Lee Roth. Between that and my regimen of EMDR music (as insisted upon by my therapist), this nightmare has had a strange soundtrack. Not that the soundtrack has been unpleasant. I have a soft spot for what’s now known as classic rock—I mean, I’m from the Sacramento River Valley, where FM radio stations will devote entire an hour, every day, to Led Zeppelin—and Van Halen is one of the first bands I can remember recognizing./eleanor-s-letter-what-is-a-queenager.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eleanor-s-letter-what-is-a-queenager.htmlDear Queenagers Hope you are having a lovely Sunday – I swam this morning in the sunshine, nearly got taken out by a seagull which wasn’t looking where it was flying, and admired the ducks and cormorants who were diving and squawking with great enthusiasm. I then tried to buy a Christmas wreath but baulked at the price tag (£40!! For a bit of chopped off Xmas tree) and I also said no to the mistletoe (£15 for a small sprig)./food-11-barely-cooking-cooking-home-by-india-knight.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/food-11-barely-cooking-cooking-home-by-india-knight.htmlGood morning! Not everything has to be an effort. Here are a few very easy, basic-but-delicious things to make when you’re starving but the idea of cooking makes you want to lie down. Note: these are not healthy suggestions for balanced family meals. They’re for knackered adults who are hungry and keen to get back to bingeing Ripley. All the eggs, obviously. See also Ed Smith’s fantastic egg book. There’s nothing in it I don’t want to make./fpwellman-substack.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fpwellman-substack.htmlOn Democracy with FPWellman Substack Community By FPWellman This is the home of the On Democracy with FPWellman community where we discuss the issues of today, lessons from the past, and Fred Wellman's unique experiences as a soldier, veteran, and political strategist. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjae81p6jpaWRow%3D%3D/grilled-grub-by-michelle-albanes-davis.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/grilled-grub-by-michelle-albanes-davis.htmlWelcome back to our Summer Cookout Series. I’m keeping this edition short and sweet since we’ve been busy getting the word out aboutHungry as Hell over the last week. But that doesn’t mean this recipe is short on flavor. This week we’re grilling up a fat-ass sandwich that is perfect for a lite summer dinner or as finger food for a backyard party. To make this show stopping sammie, you’re gonna need a big, flattish loaf of bread like a ciabatta which will hold up best during grilling./history-the-caucasus-s-great-wall.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/history-the-caucasus-s-great-wall.htmlPreliminary note: For Gmail readers, this essay might be clipped due to size limitations. To read the entire essay simply click on “View entire message” at the bottom of the email, thanks. Nomads, The Steppe and the Caucasus     The devastation inflicted by steppe nomads upon the agricultural societies to their south is one of the great stories in Eurasian history. Attila the Hun’s campaigns against Rome and Mongol invasions of China are familiar to us all, so is China’s famous Great Wall which was built to protect civilization from the barbarians to the north./how-many-videos-does-it-take-to-get-to-1-million-youtube-subscribers.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-many-videos-does-it-take-to-get-to-1-million-youtube-subscribers.htmlWelcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: Last week, the writer Josh Spector published a tweet that I think a lot of content creators should print out and tape above their desks: “It's so much harder to build an audience than most people realize,” he wrote. “You're not failing — you're doing the work. Be patient.” Spector was speaking to this nagging feeling many creators have at the back of their minds that they’re not growing quickly enough./how-to-meet-strangers-in-big-cities-or-anywhere.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-meet-strangers-in-big-cities-or-anywhere.htmlMany of you have asked, on many different occasions, how I go about meeting new people. Or strangers. The good kind. It’s something, I have to confess, I’m good at. I could be all coy and say that necessity has forced me to hone this ability (I wander the world alone and have to find ways to connect with the beat of life somehow). But I’ve been like it all my life./is-hydrogen-still-the-future-again.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-hydrogen-still-the-future-again.htmlI wrote this blog about hydrogen fuel cell cars 5 years ago. As some readers will know, I’ve been immersed in the worlds of electric ground transport, clean tech, renewables etc for the past 15 plus years.  One recurring thing I’ve noticed over that period is how interest in, and claims about hydrogen cars being ‘the future’ appear in waves, maybe 4 or 5 years apart. I swear to you, 1 year ago I did not see one comment or claim about hydrogen cars, nothing./niebuhr-s-christ-and-culture-revisited.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/niebuhr-s-christ-and-culture-revisited.htmlRichard Niebuhr’s classic Christ and Culture has long been on my reading list. It is a book I remembered for its title, and the title summarizes a major topic of debate in Christian circles and beyond. As I understand, the question of how Christ relates to culture is closely related to that of how grace is related to nature, the major question of this newsletter. It is broached every day in a Christian’s life, as we find ourselves doing things other than praying and reading the Bible./nietzsche-didn-t-say-that-but-he-would-ve-agreed.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nietzsche-didn-t-say-that-but-he-would-ve-agreed.htmlThis popular quote is making its way around social media, and it’s being attributed to the German existentialist philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche: The idea here is that our harsh judgment of others who step out of conventionality is prompted by ignorance. We don’t understand what we are experiencing—we lack context to make sense of it. Instead of activating intellectual humility and accepting that we simply “do not understand,” we fearfully turn to the presumption that there cannot be any sensible rationale for the behavior or belief in question./on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you-re-a-dog.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you-re-a-dog.htmlDecember 2022: I started hearing about something called ChatGPT… June 2023: A brainstorm for a client. Mid-session, a participant looked up from his laptop and said, “I’ve just typed a few things into ChatGPT. This is what I’ve found…” December 2023: At the end of each year, Benedict Evans, the tech consultant (below), produces ‘a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry’…/paris-city-guide-condimentclaire.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/paris-city-guide-condimentclaire.htmlWell, well, well, Instagram decided to delete the city guides feature so here I am compiling them all once again for you. On the bright side, now they’ll be up to date with my current favorites? And I won’t be limited at 30 spots? These 3 all happen to be walking distance from each other so make sure to hit them all up at once! Shop (food and pharmacy) till you drop, and need some sustenance (soufflés)./podium-gate-explained-by-chris-cillizza.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/podium-gate-explained-by-chris-cillizza.htmlI spent two days last week in Little Rock, Arkansas — doing an event for my book. (You haven’t bought it yet? Do it!) While I was there one thing became immediately clear to me: The entire Arkansas political world was talking about a podium that Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders bought with state money. Yes, a podium. Let me explain. On June 8, Sanders, using a state credit card, bought a podium — it’s actually probably more accurately referred to as a lectern for you linguistic nerds out there — from an Arlington, Virginia-based company called Beckett Events LLC./pulling-the-thread-with-elise-loehnen.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pulling-the-thread-with-elise-loehnen.htmlI’m a long-time podcast host, magazine editor (Condé Nast Traveler, Lucky), media exec (former chief content officer of goop), and the author of the New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good (Dial Press/PRH). I focus primarily on culture, and the way it lands in our bodies: Why do we do what we do? What’s us versus the stories we’re told about who we’re supposed to be?/review-of-yesterday-2019-true-success.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-of-yesterday-2019-true-success.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubbleYesterday (2019) is a comedy directed by Danny Boyle about Jack (Himesh Patel), an amateur musician who discovers that he can magically steal the music from a successful band, The Beatles, and pass it off as his own.  Life Lesson: Happiness is success, and success is happiness. Movie Scene: Jack: John? John Lennon (Robert Carlyle): Yeah? (read the full scene) William Collen explores the arts from a Christian perspective at RUINS/review-shogun-a-dream-of-a-dream.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-shogun-a-dream-of-a-dream.htmlI knew going into “A Dream of a Dream” that there would be no climactic battle; I knew this not because of any insight on my part, but because a fellow critic posted about their confusion after watching the finale. As such, I can’t tell you what my reaction would’ve been if I’d watched “Dream” with my previous expectations intact. At this point, I’m not even sure what those expectations were./seduced-by-song-vol-1-the-dreamer-s-disease.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/seduced-by-song-vol-1-the-dreamer-s-disease.htmlIt was easy to be a cynic in the 90s. There was something in the air: the President was caught in a stupid lie, the X-Files was on TV, and alternative rock took a world-weary, almost jaded turn. Indeed, as older bands like REM, Jane’s Addiction, and Depeche Mode became the mainstream, major labels started looking for the next big thing. Artists like Beck and Marilyn Manson were snapped up and pushed into heavy rotation, while smaller labels like SST, Factory Records, and IRS faded away./shavua-tov-by-rabbi-sandra-lawson.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shavua-tov-by-rabbi-sandra-lawson.htmlAs I draft this post, I'm on a flight to Atlanta from Chicago, reflecting on a truly enriching Shabbaton spent with the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC) in Evanston, Illinois. This past weekend was a vivid reminder of the beauty and strength found within our Jewish communities, especially those like JRC, deeply committed to racial equity and inclusivity. The warmth and openness of the JRC members, their leaders, and my fellow Reconstructionist rabbis were profoundly moving./spoken-egyptian-in-age-of-mythology.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/spoken-egyptian-in-age-of-mythology.htmlAge of Mythology is a fantastic game. Made by the same studio responsible for the much more popular Age of Empires series (Ensemble Studios), Age of Mythology is a real-time strategy game where you take control of one of three ancient civilizations, the Greeks, Norse, or Egyptians (or the Atlanteans with the Titans expansion, and we won’t count Tale of the Dragon). Each of these factions has a rich mythology, and the normal playstyle of real-time strategy games is modified by god powers and myth units, which are fantastical creatures like a Chimaera or a Troll./substackers-against-nazis-by-jon-arnold.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/substackers-against-nazis-by-jon-arnold.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./successful-planning-goal-setting-for-2024.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/successful-planning-goal-setting-for-2024.htmlIt is time to plan. Without any plan, you will be going through your days without much direction, motivation, and purpose. Sad, no? Even if your plan will change during the year, it is much better to have at least something in mind than nothing. What are you aiming for this year? Start a side hustle? Build up your business properly? Get a new job? Or promotion? What do you want?/texas-declares-war-by-tom-scocca.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/texas-declares-war-by-tom-scocca.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-30-plants-per-week-rule.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-30-plants-per-week-rule.htmlOne of the most transformative things I learned in the last couple of years about the ever-changing world of “healthy eating” is the 30 plants per week guideline. I always keep it top-of-mind now - while recipe-developing but also when putting together regular everyday meals - so I’m excited to share it with you as Issue 2 of my new newsletter. This guideline is based on the first large-scale study of its kind, which showed that people who eat at least 30 different plants per week have the most diverse gut microbiome and experience the associated health benefits./the-biggest-animation-event-in-the-world.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-biggest-animation-event-in-the-world.htmlHappy Juneteenth! We’re here with a new issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter — and a new batch of animation highlights from around the world. This is the list for today: 1 — rounding up Annecy, the world’s largest animation festival. 2 — the week’s animation newsbits beyond Annecy. 3 — a film by the Czech master Hermína Týrlová. We publish Thursdays and Sundays. If you haven’t already, you can sign up for free to receive our Sunday issues right in your inbox, every week:/the-rainbo-connection.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./time-is-a-flat-circle.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/time-is-a-flat-circle.htmlDo you remember True Detective? The one with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. The one set in the Deep South where Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey were moody and everything was atmospheric and people moved slowly as if the heat was liquid and every scene felt burning and sweaty and uncertain. The one where you felt on edge, not just from the tension of the plot but because everything about the story being told seemed wrong, awry somehow./vintage-thrift-clothing-in-paris-shopping-masterlist.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/vintage-thrift-clothing-in-paris-shopping-masterlist.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./what-i-thought-about-albert-grossman.htmlFri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-i-thought-about-albert-grossman.htmlI had a manager Albert Grossman and someone asked him: "He's writing all these songs. What else does he write?" He probably answered "What do you need?" "Does he write books?" And he answers "Of course he does". "We would like to publish one of them". I think it happened something like that. My manager arranged everything, and it was up to me to write t… ncG1vNJzZmiolamys7%2FTqKWemqKkxK%2Bt0Zyfoq6VqHu0wcGsq5qbm2OwsLmOqWawoJGpeqp506Gmrp%2BYqXqirs6uq2aZnJeys8CMoKmoq6Oirq8%3D/it-would-make-a-gorgeous-wine-bar.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-would-make-a-gorgeous-wine-bar.html~ To the tune of Hallelujah ~ Now I heard there was a new(ish) restaurant, That opened up where Pipal Tree was, You want to know if it’s good or not, do ya? ~ I’m sorry but if you name your restaurant after a song lyric you’ve walked into it, as far as I am concerned. On my third and most recent visit to the Baffled King, we booked the table muttering idioms about luck, having heard news of a new chef and spotted a rather inviting menu on social media./about-treethinking.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-treethinking.htmlIn biology, the phrase “tree thinking” refers to the way we use phylogenetic trees—depictions of the genealogical relationships among groups of organisms; subsets of “the tree of life”—as the foundation for our understanding of evolution. Colloquially, though, you could imagine using “tree thinking” to refer to everything from the importance of urban tree canopies to the act of leaning up against the trunk of an American beech and daydreaming. You might also consider it an analogue of Aldo Leopold’s “Thinking Like a Mountain”: an orientation towards the intrinsic value of life and its relationships, regardless of their apparent usefulness./applying-idrlabs-woke-test-to-several-ais.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/applying-idrlabs-woke-test-to-several-ais.htmlI recently published an in-depth analysis about the political preferences of LLMs where I applied 11 political orientation tests to 24 state-of-the-art conversational LLMs. Given all the turmoil around the release of Google’s Gemini, this is just a brief follow-up to the aforementioned study. Namely, I applied the IDRlabs Woke Test to several popular LLMs. I administered the test 5 times to each model and averaged the results. The Wokeness Index is simply the average of the IDRlabs Woke Test 8 dimensions of results./baz-luhrmann-s-directorial-infidelity-in-romeo-juliet.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/baz-luhrmann-s-directorial-infidelity-in-romeo-juliet.htmlIn Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, the highest grossing Shakespeare film ever, the lovers get married in a big, beautiful church. Where do they actually marry, according to Shakespeare’s text? In Friar Laurence’s small, windowless “cell.” Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedEverything we did in [Romeo + Juliet] was about being inspired by Shakespeare… Everything is text based. —Baz LuhrmannThis November 1st is a significant date in the world of Shakespeare studies: the 25th anniversary of the release of Baz Luhrmann’s MTV-style version of Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes./dave-stein-rip-by-ryan-j-downey.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dave-stein-rip-by-ryan-j-downey.htmlDave Stein sadly passed away early this morning. Known by many as “the hardcore attorney,” Dave was a fixture of East Coast hardcore and punk. As a DIY promoter, record label founder, and musician, he helped build the Albany, New York scene together with his friend, Steve Reddy. He ran Combined Effort and Reconstruction, releasing records by bands like Beyond, Supertouch, and Absolution. He was tight with Youth Of Today./death-for-tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng-m%E1%BB%B9-lan.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/death-for-tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng-m%E1%BB%B9-lan.htmlGood morning! Hello to new readers, and welcome to the latest edition of the Vietnam Weekly, written by Ho Chi Minh City-based reporter Mike Tatarski. On Wednesday, I published an analysis of the 2023 Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index - or PAPI - for paying subscribers. The index provides a fascinating insight int… ncG1vNJzZmiumZrBr63MsJyeo5yue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqaZo6h6rrHTq6Zmm5%2Bjs7a%2FyKil/disney-wilderness-preserve-laura-erickson-s-for-the-birds.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/disney-wilderness-preserve-laura-erickson-s-for-the-birds.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./diving-into-the-messy-vat-of-nostalgia-that-is-casey-kasem-s-american-top-40.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/diving-into-the-messy-vat-of-nostalgia-that-is-casey-kasem-s-american-top-40.htmlLike YouTube, I was relatively late to the wonder that is the Internet Archive. I mistakenly thought that, like the Wayback Machine, it was a repository for defunct websites, where someone such as myself could find their old Geocities page and cringe in embarrassment at what used to pass for “web design.” Turns out I was wrong: it’s actually perhaps the most important website on the internet, a massive, invaluable collection of out-of-print books and magazines, impossible-to-find elsewhere recordings, old movies and TV shows, and more, all for free just by checking it out like a library book./don-t-waste-your-money-on-the-clearblue-menopause-journey-test.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/don-t-waste-your-money-on-the-clearblue-menopause-journey-test.htmlClearblue just rolled out the “Clearblue® Menopause Stage Indicator.” I think it’s worth discussing so you don’t end up wasting your money, but also because it’s a good chance to review some facts about testing so you can learn more. Menopause Basics If you have ovaries and a uterus, at some point, you will start menstruating, and at some point, you will stop menstruating and enter menopause. Menopause is the planned end of ovarian function when there are no more follicles capable of ovulation, estrogen produced by the ovary drops (other tissues still make small amounts), and progesterone production ends./fifteen-excellent-personal-essays-to-read-this-week.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fifteen-excellent-personal-essays-to-read-this-week.htmlWelcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring three verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “On Silence (or, Speak Again)” by . A new essay is coming soon.*Submissions are currently paused for First Person Singular./fuccboi-by-sean-thor-conroe.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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.”/give-josh-storms-his-flowers.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/give-josh-storms-his-flowers.htmlIt is no secret that Florida State had quite a few NFL-caliber players on their 2023 roster. From known quantities like Jared Verse to less heralded players like Renardo Green, every draft eligible player for the Seminoles aimed to make what would likely be their last season in the Garnet and Gold count. They followed through with Florida State’s best season in ten years. Now those same players are testing at the NFL Combine, and they are blowing the scouts and NFL fans away./ham-and-cheese-crepe.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ham-and-cheese-crepe.htmlI’m going to send you a mixed message. If you’re new to my newsletter, books, or social media, I collect email sign-ups by offering a very kick-ass Eat Happy meal plan and recipe sampler PDF.It has other stuff, but that’s mostly what people are after, and I don’t blame them. It’s fantastic. The people who find me have been on every diet known to man. They’re exhausted. They just want to be told what to do./inside-the-tiktok-shoegaze-revival.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./it-s-not-unusual-by-dan-rather-and-team-steady.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-not-unusual-by-dan-rather-and-team-steady.htmlBack in 1965, an unknown Welsh pub singer appeared on American television for the first time. His name was Tom Jones, and he’d been given a shot on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”  The show was a Sunday night staple and a launching pad for many a career back then, including the Beatles and Elvis Presley. The song that launched Jones’ career was “It’s Not Unusual.” It wasn’t long before he was a star and many of his songs became worldwide hits./le-jules-verne-by-meg-zimbeck.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/le-jules-verne-by-meg-zimbeck.htmlFor as long as I’ve been writing, serious foodies have been rolling their eyes at the restaurants inside the Eiffel Tower. The fancier of the two is called Le Jules Verne and has been helmed by various chefs over the past decades. Alain Ducasse was in charge of it for ages, and I heard many times over that it wasn’t any good. In 2019, Le Jules Verne was … ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oo55lmqq5pr%2BMr5yrppU%3D/luka-and-embiid-s-70-point-games-are-part-of-a-high-scoring-nba-trend.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/luka-and-embiid-s-70-point-games-are-part-of-a-high-scoring-nba-trend.htmlBefore last season, the 70-point barrier had been shattered by an NBA player in a game 11 times overall, and just four times since 1963 — by David Thompson (1978), David Robinson (1994), Kobe Bryant (2006) and Devin Booker (2017). But the total number of 70+ point games in NBA history has grown by 36% in the past 55 weeks… and by 15% in the past four days, after Joel Embiid and Luka Dončić each poured in 70+ this week./lynda-barry-by-mitchell-volk.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lynda-barry-by-mitchell-volk.htmlThis week I had the opportunity to spend a couple hours with Lynda Barry. Lynda Barry is a cartoonist, writer, teacher and creative wizard. Her comic Ernie Pook's Comeek was published in a variety of newspapers for nearly 30 years (Drawn & Quarterly reissued a collection called The Greatest of Marlys). She has also written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels: What It Is, Picture This, Syllabus:Notes From an Accidental Professor and Making Comics./mark-kozelek-of-sun-kil-moon-and-red-house-painters.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mark-kozelek-of-sun-kil-moon-and-red-house-painters.htmlOne of the most talented and unique songwriters of his generation, Mark Kozelek is also a prickly pear. The only time I saw him perform live in the 1990s, he threatened to stab someone in the audience for talking during his set. Born and raised in Ohio, Kozelek formed Red House Painters after moving to San Francisco in the late 80s. I bought their first … ncG1vNJzZmilkanBo7HRnqWsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqqm2K4sMbEpZykZZ%2BberTBzWaioqRdorywuoyapZ0%3D/michael-j-jackson-resentenced-to-death-following-jury-s-8-4-recommendation.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michael-j-jackson-resentenced-to-death-following-jury-s-8-4-recommendation.htmlOn Friday, August 11, a Duval County circuit judge resentenced Michael James Jackson to two sentences of death following his resentencing proceedings earlier this year. Jackson and two of his codefendants, Alan Wade and Tiffany Cole, were granted a new penalty phase after Hurst. Alan Wade was resentenced to life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) after his resentencing in 2022, in which Florida’s post-Hurst unanimity statute applied. Tiffany Cole remains on death row awaiting her resentencing./no-extension-coming-says-terance-mann.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/no-extension-coming-says-terance-mann.htmlPLAYA VISTA — One day after being named the team’s fifth starter by LA Clippers coach Tyronn Lue, forward Terance Mann talked with gathered media ahead of practice Saturday. “Just ready to get to it,” Mann said when asked what his reaction was to the news that he would be starting the team’s season opener on Wednesday against the Portland Trail Blazers. Mann started 36 games last season for the Clippers and has started 92 in total for the franchise when counting regular season, postseason, and play-in./one-month-away-from-star-wars-inquisitors-and-ahsoka.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/one-month-away-from-star-wars-inquisitors-and-ahsoka.htmlA new miniseries kicking off July 3 follows the Empire’s Jedi hunters as they narrow in on a new target: Tensu Run, a survivor of Order 66 looking to spread hope and rebuild the Jedi Order. He has won the attention of Darth Vader, who is determined to have Tensu killed at any cost. Check out Nick Bradshaw’s cover for issue #1, along with variants by Alex Maleev and the legendary Walt Simonson, in the gallery below./peanut-butter-fudge-cake-by-karla-jacobs.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peanut-butter-fudge-cake-by-karla-jacobs.htmlIf you are looking for a dessert to take to a picnic for the 4th of July celebration, I have just the thing for you—Peanut Butter Fudge Cake. It’s super easy to make and so rich you’ll want to go easy on the serving size. It’s part candy, part cake and works whether you are a “You got peanut butter on my chocolate” or a “You got chocolate in my peanut butter sort of person./people-with-a-chip-on-their-shoulder.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/people-with-a-chip-on-their-shoulder.htmlSomeone with a “chip” on their shoulder believes they have been underestimated, passed over, undervalued, or rejected unfairly. The perceived slights they have experienced create a desire to prove their value. This motivates them to work differently than others. ncG1vNJzZmiZlKK2s7HDpZyanJWnwKm1z2eqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGS9prvPpZxmr5mptW6tjJyfoqhdpLtuwMeeoKtlo528trjDnqlom5%2Biuqa606w%3D/preparedness-as-a-social-responsibility-with-brekke-wagoner.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/preparedness-as-a-social-responsibility-with-brekke-wagoner.htmlOn this week’s episode I bring you my liberal prepper pal, Brekke Wagoner. She’s the creator and host of the Sustainable Prepping YouTube Channel where she aims to educate through a holistic approach to emergency preparedness. She provides tips and resources in an action-oriented, forward-focused community to empower working women and their families to face any crisis with calm and confidence. I got to know Brekke over the last couple years on this journey and I interviewed her for this story I wrote for The Progressive last summer about progressive preppers and prepping./presenting-ask-bimbo-by-bimbo-ubermensch.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/presenting-ask-bimbo-by-bimbo-ubermensch.htmlDear All, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to each of the 430 subscribers who have chosen to follow my Blogstack. To those who are paid subscribers, an extra special thank you. I appreciate your patience as I work on this book, which is shaping up to be at least 250,000 words. Rest assured, it will be released this year, sooner rather than later. At present, my life feels somewhat bewildering, and I am only just beginning to find some clarity./shrimp-chips-long-suffering-roulette-version.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shrimp-chips-long-suffering-roulette-version.htmlI’m pretty sure I somehow mistreated shrimp chips in a past life, because this recipe has been absolutely impossible to get right. It has failed cross-testing at Serious Eats three times. (Which is why you’re now finding it here, and not there.) I originally made a version of this for my Avatar the Last Airbender cookbook (for the Fire Flakes), and it worked great—until I had to make them again. So now, after almost a dozen failed attempts across 4 different shrimp chip methods, here’s what I have./speed-and-variety-at-the-expense-of-quality.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/speed-and-variety-at-the-expense-of-quality.htmlFor the second time in a row, I’ve decided to write about coffee—an escapism of sorts.  Luckily, there have been several interesting developments, particularly concerning Starbucks (which you must know by now is one of my favorite topics…). One such development, although not the most significant, is the 20th anniversary of the pumpkin spice latte. While opinions on this milestone vary, it holds relatively little relevance for today’s post. A recent article from Bloomberg highlighted that Starbucks is undergoing a significant shift in its operations: /standup-world-mike-binder.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/standup-world-mike-binder.htmlA 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. By Mike Binder · Launched 2 years agoNo thanks“Mike Binder’s an artist with a deft sense of comedy and a mind of his own.” ncG1vNJzZmirpJa7pcHPsKarpJRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D/star-wars-dark-disciple-sympathy-for-the-ventress.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/star-wars-dark-disciple-sympathy-for-the-ventress.htmlI put off reading Star Wars Dark Disciple for a long time because I didn’t watch enough of The Clone Wars to properly understand (or appreciate) the character of Asajj Ventress. Friends and people who enjoy Star Wars-novels speak highly of Christie Golden’s book but I didn’t feel confident in the lore to read and/or appreciate what it had to offer.  Over the last couple of months I decided to watch all 130+ episodes of The Clone Wars./steak-chicana-recipe-illyanna-maisonet-s-newsletter.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/steak-chicana-recipe-illyanna-maisonet-s-newsletter.htmlDiasporican is for sale almost everywhere books are sold. If you don’t want to purchase from a conglomerate (because they actually discount the book and that low key makes it harder for me to reach the point where royalties kick in) then buy from your local bookstore. Does your local bookstore have it in stock?! No idea! You’d have to ask them. If they say “no,” then ask them if they’d carry it!/terry-mattingly-rational-sheep-tmatt.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/terry-mattingly-rational-sheep-tmatt.html“Terry is a bulldog on questions of Christianity and culture, and writes prophetically to Christian leaders, both ordained and lay, about their urgent responsibility to disciple the faithful in the world in which we actually live, as opposed to the world they wish we lived in (the one where they don't have to take hard stands against popular habits). I look forward to seeing what he does with this newsletter.”/the-50-most-frequently-graded-video-games.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-50-most-frequently-graded-video-games.htmlClick below to get seven free days of access to the twelve sections and over 200 reports at Retro. Get 7 day free trial {Note: For brief introductions to sealed-and-graded video game collecting, see here and here. I also recommend Gamer Stonks for top-notch market analyses and GetTheGreg Games for the friendliest, most helpful flesh-and-blood guide those new to this particular hobby could want.} Collecting sealed and graded video games began around 2008, when the first game-grading company, VGA, was founded, but it didn’t really take off until the founding of the second such company WATA, in 2018./the-most-famous-scene-in-glengarry-glen-ross-1992-came-from-a-studio-note-sort-of.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-most-famous-scene-in-glengarry-glen-ross-1992-came-from-a-studio-note-sort-of.htmlMany years ago, when most of my friends and I were graduating college and getting jobs (or, in my case, going to graduate school to avoid getting a job), one of my buddies began his career by taking a low-level job at the Zaxby’s corporate office. You know, the purveyors of mediocre fast-food chicken that you might purchase when there’s not a Popeyes, Guthrie’s, or Bojangle’s nearby.* My friend struggled a bit out of the gate./the-party-photos-of-frederick-eberstadt.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-party-photos-of-frederick-eberstadt.htmlIn the John Fairchild interview I shared a few days ago, he shows the interviewer a spread of images taken at a party by Frederick Eberstadt. This reminded me of all of the wonderful party photos by Eberstadt that appeared in the society pages of publications like Women’s Wear Daily and Town & Country in the 1960s—even when printed tiny and many together in a jumble (as is the aesthetic of a society page even today, just look at Tatler), his black and white images stand out./the-people-s-temple-of-willie.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-people-s-temple-of-willie.htmlIt’s always sad to lose a beloved music venue, even though another one usually takes its scorched place to reset the ecosystem. But has there been as good a place for a concert since the Austin Opera House closed in the early ‘90s? Maybe the Backyard, also run by Tim O’Connor, but the drive through Westlake and the rugged parking and the heat were negative factors that the 1,700-capacity room off South Congress didn’t have./the-public-tribute-by-jami-attenberg.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-public-tribute-by-jami-attenberg.htmlHi friends. Sometimes we get called upon to write new things that we’ve never written before in our lives. I’ve written in so many kinds of forms: advertising copy, love letters, tweets, blog posts, essays, book reviews, profiles, short stories, poems, tv pilots, novels, a memoir, a pop-up book, and a motivational writing guide. But never have I ever written a wedding speech until this past week. My beloved friends Kristen and Kayla got married and I was asked to say something at their big gay Florida wedding (along with one other person) and I was honored but also had no idea what I was doing./this-oklahoma-bill-follows-project-2025-s-roadmap-to-ban-porn-nationwide.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/this-oklahoma-bill-follows-project-2025-s-roadmap-to-ban-porn-nationwide.htmlProject 2025: Art is PornOklahoma Christian Nationalist Republican state congressman Dusty Deevers has given us an (in)decent list. His “pornography” ban, Oklahoma Senate Bill 1976, defines the following as “obscene”: “Sexual conduct” means and includes any of the following: a. acts of sexual intercourse including any intercourse which is normal or perverted, actual or simulated, b. acts of deviate sexual conduct, including oral and anal sodomy, c. acts of masturbation,/today-is-confederate-general-thomas-j-stonewall-jackson-s-200th-birthday.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/today-is-confederate-general-thomas-j-stonewall-jackson-s-200th-birthday.htmlI posted this fact, along with this image, earlier today on Bluesky, not thinking twice about it. I am a Civil War historian and thought it was appropriate to mark the bicentennial of Jackson’s birth given his significance both in history and memory. Not everyone saw it this way. It appears that some people have a problem drawing a distinction between describing somethinga about the past and celebrating it. Here are a few choice responses to my post:/whipstitch-by-the-recessive-thread.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/whipstitch-by-the-recessive-thread.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./why-am-i-feeling-broke.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-am-i-feeling-broke.htmlHi, I’m Renée, a finance and business journalist, writer and content strategist. The Budgette is about single finances and is published twice a month to more than 2,000 subscribers. I prefer to write when I have something to say versus writing because I have to. It gives me time to speak to financial, legal and other experts. When I’m not here, I write and do strategy for other publications and brands./why-liquor-from-the-abc-store-costs-so-much.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-liquor-from-the-abc-store-costs-so-much.htmlFresh and real Charlotte business news that makes you smarter. Delivered to your inbox for free three days a week. Need to subscribe? Sign up here. Good morning! Today is Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Here are today’s big stories in Charlotte-area business news: North Carolina retailers are pushing the General Assembly to overhaul the way the state distributes liquor. It’s a contentious debate that could have big effects on public health, state and local tax revenues and businesses — not to mention on the price of that bottle of Captain Morgan./why-the-netflix-movie-the-king-is-a-pile-of-garbage.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-the-netflix-movie-the-king-is-a-pile-of-garbage.htmlThanks for being part of my Substack crew. I love having you here and really appreciate your support. If you’d like to go one further, my latest book Wolves of Winter is published in the UK in two months time. You can pre-order it via Waterstones now. Pre-orders really help authors and publishers and can make the difference between a novel (or indeed a series) being a hit or disappearing into obscurity./why-you-should-read-mansfield-park.htmlThu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-you-should-read-mansfield-park.htmlIf you’re new to this Substack, one of the things I’m offering subscribers in 2023 is A Year with Jane. We’re reading through Austen’s six novels this year and Mansfield Park is our read for May and June. This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If you joined us for our read of Austen’s Emma, Mansfield Park might be a surprise./love-lies-bleeding-ricky-stanicky.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/love-lies-bleeding-ricky-stanicky.htmlLove Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass 104 min. One common pitfall of mediocre neo-noirs are filmmakers who get caught up with signifiers, fiddling too much with hard men and femme fatales, stylized dialogue, and flashy chiaroscuro lighting techniques. Starting with the title, Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding serves as a potent reminder that passion is the true engine of the genre, even as it trades robustly in the familiar archetypes and the nasty little twists that go along with it./insane-companies-no-one-talks-about-episode-2-mga-entertainment.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/insane-companies-no-one-talks-about-episode-2-mga-entertainment.htmlWelcome to the second installment of my Substack! (See here for Episode 1 about Sea Limited (NYSE: SE), the publicly traded multi-billion dollar gaming + ecomm company.) I’ve decided my beat is “insane companies no one talks about.” If you have suggestions for succinct/witty names, please send them my way. :) Today’s post is about MGA Entertainment, the privately-owned multi-billion dollar toy company located just outside of LA on this massive campus:/love-after-love-by-derek-walcott.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/love-after-love-by-derek-walcott.htmlI remember the exact moment this poem came into my life. One bright autumn afternoon during my senior year of college, one of my roommates came bursting into our apartment after class. She shouted in the direction of the bedrooms, “Guys! You HAVE to listen to this!”   We met her in the dining room. And then, with the afternoon light twinkling on the white walls of the apartment, she read us this poem: /7-essential-decision-making-frameworks.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/7-essential-decision-making-frameworks.htmlHello, and welcome to the Right Hand Talent newsletter! I’m Zaharo, and I write about all things Chief of Staff and talent. Every week, you’ll get 3 new CoS jobs that are on my radar, reqs I’m working on, my thoughts on growing in the CoS role and as a professional, top stories I’m following on X, and more. Join our community of over 4,800 readers by subscribing below👇 The bar for quality content has never been higher./a-love-letter-to-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink-1986.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-love-letter-to-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink-1986.htmlImage by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on work by Margrith Barille, and Brigitte Werner on PixabayAfter watching hundreds of movies, the character that I relate to most is Andie from Pretty in Pink (1986). Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenage girl from the poor side of town who makes her own prom dress so she can attend her high school’s dance. As a college student, I once made a dress for New Year’s out of a blue polkadot bedsheet, and with limited sewing skills, it was basically a hand-stitched body wrap./about-cosmic-gumbo.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-cosmic-gumbo.htmlCosmic Gumbo, named for a line from the Netflix sketch comedy show “I Think You Should Leave,” was created to explore the digital age and its consequences through the lens of a chronically online twenty-something.  This newsletter lives at the intersection of technology, culture and politics. Cosmic Gumbo will explore how the internet influences its users and the offline world, how entities in power mold and use the digital realm, and how rapidly-advancing technology either causes, exacerbates or helps solve societal issues and inequities./akg-n400-by-paul-lefebvre.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/akg-n400-by-paul-lefebvre.htmlI heard about these on Crinacle’s video on the best true wireless earbuds. The AKG N400 were his pick for best sounding and, as he pointed out, they are also only $48 when ordering directly from AKG. For $48 (with free shipping in the US), I had to get them even though I already have true wireless earbuds: the Bose Sport Earbuds. The box the AKG N400 arrived in is pretty nice and opens up like a book with everything easily accessible./anthony-bourdain-and-the-importance-of-having-a-shit-time.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/anthony-bourdain-and-the-importance-of-having-a-shit-time.htmlIceland. Land of Ice and Fire (and cliche tourism slogans). Dream destination of adventure tourists everywhere. Home of famous geysers, glaciers, lagoons, and maybe elves. Anybody would be happy to go there—right? But not Anthony Bourdain. Anthony Bourdain went to Iceland once for his show and was unapologetically fucking miserable, so much so that he never went back. The man spends about 45 minutes cursing, complaining, and generally humiliating himself. And it makes for great TV./ask-greil-may-10-2024.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ask-greil-may-10-2024.htmlAs Mike Love sang, it's student demonstration time. Whaddyathinkman? —LEN This article by Bret Stephens from's today's New York Times, May 8, posted online May 7, pretty fully captures what I think about the actions on American campuses. I have spent far too many hours lying awake in the middle of the night trying to lay out my response to your question to forego something so incisive and clear when it falls in my lap./behind-the-scenes-look-bride.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/behind-the-scenes-look-bride.htmlHi, Friend. I’m 46 today! (Gen X Aquarius here.) If you’d like to send a little birthday love and care, I hope you’ll consider preordering my next book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, which will be out April 11. If you preorder now, you might just snag a signed, limited-edition print of “Bride.” I love the idea of offering perks to folks who are kind enough to buy the book ahead of time./casey-kasem-counts-down-steely-dan-s-hits.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/casey-kasem-counts-down-steely-dan-s-hits.htmlA few days after Walter Becker’s death in September 2017, the Minneapolis radio host Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber mourned as only he could. He got behind a microphone on a Friday night at community-run KFAI-FM and dedicated an episode of his long-running weekly program to Steely Dan. “Everything I play tonight,” he told the listeners of Crap From The Past, “would not have been possible without Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.” /chief-keef-interview-by-david-drake.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chief-keef-interview-by-david-drake.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-chip-cookies-for-two.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chocolate-chip-cookies-for-two.htmlINGREDIENTS 4 tbsp butter (softened) 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 egg 2/3 cup flour 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/2 cup of chocolate chips DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat your oven to 350F. 2. Combine the softened butter, brown sugar, and egg, and whisk until well combined and slightly pale in color. If you don’t have time to wait for the butter to soften up, just put it in the microwave for 10 sec or until just barely starting to melt./honest-review-eight-sleep-the-honest-tester.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/honest-review-eight-sleep-the-honest-tester.htmlIf this is your first time here, welcome! I’m a previous D2C founder and easily influenced consumer. Here, I’m providing a space for honest reviews of other D2C products and brands so you can make an educated decision for yourself. All reviews are honest, not sponsored and my own thoughts. ✍️ The Pitch // Hi-tech mattresses and sleep accessories to visibly improve your sleep 🙎‍♀️ Founded By // Matteo Franceschetti, Massimo Andreasi Bassi, Andrea Ballarini, and Alexandra Zatarain/how-push-off-from-here-became-a-book.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-push-off-from-here-became-a-book.htmlWhen WATL was published in January 2020, I was positive my second book would be another memoir about what I call my Second Sobriety: recovering from love addiction (still hate that term), codependency, attachment issues, and all that really super fun stuff in romantic relationships. For me, and I’ve learned for many, this was “the thing beneath the thing” of my addiction. My agent was on board, and that was the plan./how-to-start-a-substack.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-start-a-substack.htmlStart a publication here with one of our basic themes. Then, simply upload your email list if you have one, and publish a first post— that could be a text post, discussion thread, podcast, video, or note. Just don’t forget to include a “subscribe” button.ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51ktKbAjKyrmqqkmrE%3D/in-memoriam-professor-charles-fried-1935-2024.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-memoriam-professor-charles-fried-1935-2024.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./it-s-ketchup-only-bananas-jill-dupleix-eats.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-ketchup-only-bananas-jill-dupleix-eats.htmlAh, but this sauce has a story. It’s about colonisation, human ingenuity and a nationalist culinary heroine. About derring-do, and making-do. Enter Maria Orosa, born in the Philippines in 1893, who, as a courageous teenager, took a scholarship to study food chemistry in the United States. Returning home as a food scientist in 1922, she was determined to use technology to help her country become more self-sufficient in food production. Working at the local Bureau of Science, she set about replicating various popular foods using purely indigenous ingredients, with a particular interest in modern preservation methods such as canning./lambda-kappa-and-delta-architectures.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lambda-kappa-and-delta-architectures.htmlKappa, Lambda, and Delta are three data architectures commonly used in big data processing. Choosing the correct architecture for your data needs is the first crucial step when setting up the entire project. It defines how the pipelines - and the entire data flow - will be built. For a quick overview, let’s put them in single-sentence definitions: Kappa Architecture: A single pipeline, streaming-based data processing architecture with no separation between real-time and batch processing./mary-townsend-substack.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mary-townsend-substack.htmlMary TownsendMary Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John's University, Queens, NY. She is the author of The Woman Question in Plato's Republic, 2017, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, and Gawker. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaS0xLOYq6Gjqby1sQ%3D%3D/on-feeling-pretty-when-you-cry.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-feeling-pretty-when-you-cry.htmlWaterproof mascara kept a secure place in my makeup rotation for a reason in high school, particularly while in the throes of AP World History sophomore year. Driving home from school with a freshly issued driver’s license, tears would well up in my eyes to the sounds of SZA as I reflected on my lacking exam results. Quietly singing along to “Love Galore,” noticing the rain on my dashboard paralleling the tears on my face./pink-almonds-green-almonds-by-toronto-ink-company.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pink-almonds-green-almonds-by-toronto-ink-company.htmlThe flight from Huatulco to Oaxaca City is a six-seater, jumpy and right there in the clouds so close to the the pilot that it feels like you are flying in a dream low over the scrubby Sierra Madre del Su. Just enough room on my lap to open my sketchbook and use the bitten end of pink tropical almond fruit to draw, its tannins eating into the soft paper beautifully./poem-in-your-pocket-day.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/poem-in-your-pocket-day.htmlThis is a beautiful little poem by the poet Paul Verlaine. An offering for poem in your pocket day. I am on European time so not very awake, but awake enough to send this along with a welcoming to new subscribers and all good wishes to all. TEARS FLOW IN MY HEART . 11 pleure dans mon coeur . , . Tears flow in my heart As rain falls on the town; What languor is this That creeps into my heart?/property-heir-and-proprietor-of-illegal-hotel-and-events-center-seeks-to-eviscerate-duxbury-zoning-b.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/property-heir-and-proprietor-of-illegal-hotel-and-events-center-seeks-to-eviscerate-duxbury-zoning-b.html[Readers, this is extremely long — but Pitt the Younger said that it is the duty of every member of a government to make the people aware of dangers to the public safety and the general welfare, and in the Open Town Meeting system, all registered voters are members of the legislative branch of government. We certainly face a grave danger, in my view, in Duxbury, ahead of the attempt to eviscerate our Zoning Bylaw by quite literally a few individuals with a financial interest in doing so at the Special Town Meeting on Feb./red-spotted-purple-butterfly-by-diane-porter.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/red-spotted-purple-butterfly-by-diane-porter.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./remembering-dale-walker-by-belle-boggs-beatrice-allen.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-dale-walker-by-belle-boggs-beatrice-allen.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./resurrecting-chia-pudding-from-the-depths-of-2013.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/resurrecting-chia-pudding-from-the-depths-of-2013.htmlHello and an official welcome to sweaty season in the Northeast! Things are…sticky here. First, a fun thing: Last week I crossed off a “personal life goals” bucket list item when I was featured in my very own Grub Street Diet(!!) If you’re not familiar, it’s a weekly New York Magazine series in which New Yorkers chronicle what they eat in a week. For anyone who loves this particular flavor of food voyeurism (what people have in their fridges, how much they spend on food in a week), it’s a must-read./review-a-doll-s-house-part-2.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-a-doll-s-house-part-2.htmlYou can always count on ETC to stay cutting edge in which plays are chosen. A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati is reportedly the number one produced play in America in 2019.  I do not understand why, but then again this play probably isn't written for someone like me.  I'm not sure who the intended audience is, as the themes addressed have been talked about for years in much more palatable and insightful ways./shriek-of-the-week-brambling.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shriek-of-the-week-brambling.htmlNasal, piercing, slightly unsettling, the brambling’s call is as harsh as a frozen winter in the boreal forests. Which is exactly what they’re escaping when they come to Britain. For a time in the mid-1980s, I suspected bramblings to be an elaborate hoax. Supposedly people saw them in their gardens, and photographic evidence appeared in birdwatching magazines - real-life bramblings on real-life lawns, snapped by real-life people from their real-life kitchen windows./simply-good-coffee-brewer-review.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/simply-good-coffee-brewer-review.htmlWhat: An Automatic Coffee Brewer serving single to multiple cups of coffee. Price: $179.95 with free shipping. Sign up for their newsletter to get 20% off ($143.95) Where to buy: https://partners.simplygoodcoffee.com/roast What I brew in it: A lot of decaf for evening cocktails, and larger pots when my wife decides she wants in on my morning coffee. I’m going to tell you where this is going up front. I always hate clicking on a review and having to scroll for five minutes to get the answer I want./the-2024-uni-watch-mlb-season-preview.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-2024-uni-watch-mlb-season-preview.htmlReminder: Uni Watch’s time on Substack will be coming to a close in late May. After that, I’ll be taking a break for at least a month, and then my Substack will return in the summer with a new name and a new subject focus. To learn more about all of this, including what it will mean for those of you with paid subscriptions, look here. — Paul The annual Uni Watch MLB Season Preview holds a special place in my heart./the-brothel-of-europe-julie-bindel-s-writing-and-podcasts.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-brothel-of-europe-julie-bindel-s-writing-and-podcasts.htmlWith the news that Germany may be heading for significant change as regards its total acceptance of commercial sexual exploitation, I am sharing this article I published on Unherd last November: https://unherd.com/2022/11/germany-europes-bordello/ Germany is known as the bordello of Europe. It is a hard-won title. With more than 3,000 brothels across the country, and 500 in Berlin alone, its sex trade is worth more than £11 billion per year. Prostitution, in all its forms, is legal in Germany, and has been since the end of the Second World War./the-culture-of-aviation-safety.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-top-five-faith-based-films-of-2023.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-top-five-faith-based-films-of-2023.htmlI wasn’t planning to do any sort of end-of-the-year wrap-up, but a couple weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist asking if I knew what the most popular “faith-based” films of the year had been, and whether I had any comments on them. I wasn’t sure I could say which films religious audiences had liked the most, as that’s a purely subjective thing and as far as I know there’s no religious equivalent to CinemaScore or anything like that./week-11-bayesian-quarterback-rankings.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-are-your-favorite-books-about-understanding-midlife-for-women.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-are-your-favorite-books-about-understanding-midlife-for-women.htmlI’ve been purging books lately. Like many of you, I possess an extraordinary number of books. My book shelves are overflowing, and I’ve felt an urgent need to make room for new books, ones that better reflect where I am right now. Would you believe that I still own 10 books about baby sleep? (My 12.5 year old son didn’t sleep for the first year of his life, and in my early days of blogging about motherhood, these soul-crushing sleep struggles were one of my primary writing topics./what-if-there-was-promotion-and-relegation-in-fbs-college-football-a-mindless-off-season-exercise.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-if-there-was-promotion-and-relegation-in-fbs-college-football-a-mindless-off-season-exercise.htmlHello, Commish here again. This idea popped into my head many times before and recently, and I couldn’t get it out of my head this time, so I just wrote it out. Recently, I saw Ipswich Town jubilantly celebrating their promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 22 Years. Yeah go Tractor Boys! An amazing promotion from League One then through the Championship in one year to the Premier League!/when-jessica-simpson-said-my-name.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-jessica-simpson-said-my-name.htmlCatherine Sinow - a past contributor to this newsletter - reached out to me a few weeks ago with a mystery. In 2006, Jessica Simpson released her hit single “A Public Affair” with a curious marketing campaign. Over 500 different versions of the song were recorded with people’s names substituted in where she originally sang ‘baby.’ So, if you were named Adam, for example, you could buy the Adam-version of “A Public Affair”./when-nic-cage-removes-the-hair-piece-that-s-oscar-mode-this-week-in-movie-posters.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-nic-cage-removes-the-hair-piece-that-s-oscar-mode-this-week-in-movie-posters.htmlWelcome to the This Week In Movie Posters, the feature in which we go through all the week’s new movie posters and read way too much into them. Blessed are the paid subscribers, as without them, none of this would be possible. All posters via IMPA. We begin this week, through the vagaries of Substack’s image-adding function, with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. This one is actually William Friedkin’s final film (adapted from the 1953 play, which was itself based on a novel that spawned a Humphrey Bogart movie)./when-the-raven-flies-over-the-recycled-house.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-the-raven-flies-over-the-recycled-house.htmlWhen I broke my phone riding an e-scooter in Reykjavik, it was probably the bougiest thing I’ve ever done. The scooters have phone holders—which only fools like myself actually use—especially when shuddering down a cobblestone street, clutching a bag full of pastries from Brauð & Co. The scooter hauled my eighth-ton ass uphill with aplomb, but downhill, a bell-end of a bell-collared cat jogged in front of me, and I squeezed the brakes too hard./why-do-people-drink-alcohol.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-do-people-drink-alcohol.htmlI’m currently in the UK doing a bunch of book signings and interviews for the launch of This One Wild and Precious Life in the UK. It’s going well so far, thanks. Nudging towards being an Amazon bestseller. If you want to help it get there… Buy Wild and Precious now I’ve noted some fascinating differences in the way the book has been received here in Britain, compared with in the…/why-i-feel-bad-about-ryan-gosling-s-filler-face.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-i-feel-bad-about-ryan-gosling-s-filler-face.htmlLike most of you, I am still living off that Ken Oscar performance and quite frankly, it might have been a better result than Ryan Gosling winning one of those golden statues. However, as someone that has followed Ryan’s career from the early days, I couldn’t help but notice that, he’s been looking a little different lately. I think one of the most attractive things about Ryan is that he doesn’t have that typical Hollywood face./women-s-orgasms-during-intercourse.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/women-s-orgasms-during-intercourse.htmlConfidence and Joy is a newsletter by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. Subscribe here. You can also follow Emily on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! The thing I get asked about more than anything else is orgasm – specifically, women’s orgasms. How to have them, how to give them, how to have better ones, how to enjoy them more, why they are they way they are…. orgasms. They’re a Big Deal. In fact, this week’s episode of the Come As You Are Podcast is all about orgasms./wood-for-boat-building-small-craft-advisor.htmlWed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wood-for-boat-building-small-craft-advisor.htmlFrom Glen-L Marine Newsletter A frequent question we hear: “I can't get mahogany, white oak or spruce as recommended in your plans; can I use poplar?” Answer: Boats have successfully been built using all sorts of woods that are not recommended for boat building. But when we’re asked to recommend a wood or alternative wood, we pick from a standard list. In our plans, we don't generally list long-leaf yellow pine as an option, because it's not available here in our part of the country./blue-beetle-and-the-one-easy-way-to-tell-whether-your-superhero-movie-sucks.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/blue-beetle-and-the-one-easy-way-to-tell-whether-your-superhero-movie-sucks.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./two-rabbis-one-broken-heart.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/two-rabbis-one-broken-heart.htmlIf you’re from outside New York and are not (yet) familiar with the work and soul of Rabbi David Ingber, you should be. Rabbi Ingber is Senior Director for Jewish Life and Senior Director of the Bronfman Center at 92NY (the 92nd Street Y). He also serves as the founding rabbi of Romemu, the largest Renewal synagogue in the United States. Rabbi Ingber founded Romemu in NYC in 2006, following his ordination by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Founder of the Jewish Renewal movement./27-the-circleville-letters-by-nikita-andester.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/27-the-circleville-letters-by-nikita-andester.htmlHowdy, angels of the new year! How is 2024 for your lil soul? These past ten days have been clicking for me. On Saturday, Rhody and I met up with a new friend at the flea market, a hodgepodge of tables and blankets where antiques rub elbows with mom’s reject immersion blender. The market circles the Église St Aubin (which I just learned is built on an ancient cemetery - it’s like these 1800s architects never watched Poltergeist)./a-journey-of-healing-and-forgiveness.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-journey-of-healing-and-forgiveness.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-minute-with-emma-fernberger.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-minute-with-emma-fernberger.htmlHi! This is a newsletter about artists I like. I began acquiring art through some friends that worked in galleries. I started small, working on a limited budget, for stuff I could afford. As time passed, my collection grew, and it was exciting to watch many of the artists I'd collected go on to bigger shows and critical acclaim. My goal with this newsletter is to make a digestible resource for anyone interested in artists that are making great (and still affordable!/a-j-daulerio-responds-to-the-oldster-magazine-questionnaire.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-j-daulerio-responds-to-the-oldster-magazine-questionnaire.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, A.J. Daulerio, author and publisher of The Small Bow recovery newsletter, responds. - Sari BottonA.J. Daulerio was an editor at Deadspin for 3 ½ years and was promoted to EIC of Gawker in 2012./all-of-the-other-reindeer.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/all-of-the-other-reindeer.htmlThe story of that night became legend long ago, and it’s now a vital part of the holiday’s lore: an outcast turned unlikely hero, doubters turned believers, a potential disaster turned into triumph. How much do we really know about what happened on that “one foggy Christmas Eve”, though? It’s been nearly eight decades, and a few of the key figures involved have passed on. Others remain, though, and for the first time, they’re telling their side of events./an-interview-with-derek-trucks.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-interview-with-derek-trucks.htmlI interviewed Derek Trucks at the end of May, as the pared down Tedeschi Trucks Band was preparing to hit the road for the Fireside Sessions tour. We discussed Layla Revisited, the group’s collaboration with Trey Anastasio to recreate the classic Derek and the Dominos album, at length. That portion of the conversation will appear in Guitar World this fall, but I wanted to get the rest out to his fans./anna-wintour-s-groundbreaking-first-cover.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/anna-wintour-s-groundbreaking-first-cover.htmlSaturday, November 3, 2023 Yesterday, Anna Wintour celebrated her 74th birthday, so as promised on Thursday, we wanted to dedicate this issue to her. There is a lot to say about the fashion icon, and there are many significant moments that happened throughout her years at Vogue but today, let’s look closely at one particular episode that marked the history of Vogue - Anna’s very first cover for the November 1988 issue./audience-release-audience-capture.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/audience-release-audience-capture.htmlI received cultural theorist ’s excellent new zine on audience capture the other day... Audience capture is the proposed phenomenon where an online creator gets shaped by chasing their audience's approval, and their personality contorts in ways that pull them out of their integrity. The canonical example of audience capture comes from , discussing how internet celebrity Nicholas Perry went from skinny vegan to obese "mukbang" eater because he chased approval from his audience, who cruelly encouraged him to keep eating./belonging-across-divides-taking-bearings.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/belonging-across-divides-taking-bearings.htmlIn the spirit of New Year’s resolutions, this week’s visit to The Library shows what is possible in conversation across apparent differences. This year, 2024, is an election year in the United States, and differences will be magnified. I wanted to start by thinking about belonging, rather than isolating, by highlighting a conversation between social critic bell hooks and agrarian writer Wendell Berry. Read on! By the way, I extended the discount for paid subscriptions until Friday, January 5./books-for-a-very-long-journey-i.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/books-for-a-very-long-journey-i.htmlA little more laying of the groundwork here: I noted in the introduction to this site that one recurring feature will be a column based on an essay of mine called “Books from a Vanished Library” that served as the prelude to my collection The Dream-Child’s Progress (Angelico, 2017).  The guiding conceit of that piece was that of a list of books one might take on a holiday journey, but the real purpose behind it was to recommend books whose chief virtue—in addition, of course, to their indubitable high literary value and exquisite beauty and aesthetic grandeur and so forth and so on—was their obscurity./cinnamon-roll-pancakes-by-winnie.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cinnamon-roll-pancakes-by-winnie.htmlINGREDIENTS: Pancakes: (makes ~8) 1 egg 1+1/4 cup milk 1/4 cup oil 1+1/2 cup flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 tbsp sugar Cinnamon sugar: 4 tbsp butter (softened) 1/4 cup sugar 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tbsp of pancake batter Icing: 2 cups powdered sugar 1 tbsp milk DIRECTIONS: 1. Whisk the egg until it becomes slightly lighter in color, then add in the oil and milk and mix until eve…/civil-war-the-movie-and-contrarianism.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/civil-war-the-movie-and-contrarianism.htmlRelevant but uninteresting personal information: I’m back from a short holiday trip in Rome where I have caught a bad cold. I also have a lot of work pending with an international conference to organize, papers to write (some for this very conference), tasks of associate editor and referee to fulfill, and a couple of other important/urgent things. In a nutshell, I don’t have a lot of time and my usual energy to allocate to this newsletter now./dictionaries-vs-translators-learn-english-with-katie.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dictionaries-vs-translators-learn-english-with-katie.htmlHello everyone! Here’s my first proper newsletter sent to you using Substack! Remember you can read my posts in your email inbox or on the Substack app or website. I recently posted something on my Facebook page about Google Translate and about why I don’t recommend using it. This started an interesting conversation and lots of people asked me what they should use instead. Actually, my advice is to use a dictionary, not a translator, but first do you know the difference?/dill-deviled-eggs.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dill-deviled-eggs.htmlEvery week here on this newsletter I keep meaning to get organized and make an index post. I have now published so many yummy recipes over the past almost two years, that I think that some gems are getting lost in the passage of time. So obviously, this isn’t the organization/index post that I intended it to be. Instead, I thought it would be fun to make and eat some deviled eggs using The Dill Seasoning from Eat Happy Kitchen./drowning-mona-90-minutes-by-amanda-kusek.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/drowning-mona-90-minutes-by-amanda-kusek.htmlDuring my thirteenth summer, I started a weekly newsletter where I wrote up reviews for all of the movies I was watching. I sent it around to every email address I knew (unsolicited) and even had my own star rating system. If you’ve read my About page, then you know it was the catalyst for this very newsletter you read now. I wish I could find copies of those original pieces to read and share with you./fda-approves-first-pill-for-postpartum-depression.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fda-approves-first-pill-for-postpartum-depression.htmlToday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved zuranolone, the first oral medication indicated to treat postpartum depression (PPD) in adults. When I first saw zuranolone in the headlines, I knew that we needed to take a break from our summer break to bring you an issue on this important topic. So, I started doing my research, and one evening earl… ncG1vNJzZmisp6TBs8HToapnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfJFrZJuqlZa4qrrGZp2dmV2WvbG%2Bzq%2BcrGWWnr%2B0wIypoKWk/give-em-the-old-vajazzle-dazzle.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/give-em-the-old-vajazzle-dazzle.htmlNote to readers: if you don’t want to hear about pubic hair — specifically, the era when pubic hairstyles looked like Fred Durst’s goatee — you may want to skip this one! The ‘00s were not an easy decade for our genitals. I mean, I guess what decade was? But the ‘00s seemed especially rough on the ol’ downstairs. In the ‘90s, who even knew what anyone was doing with their pubic hair?/god-is-real-by-john-rosemond.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/god-is-real-by-john-rosemond.htmlIn this Substack, I am going to prove that God exists, and I am going to prove it beyond a mere shadow of doubt. The God of Whom I refer is not Allah or Osiris or Ganesha or any of the other gods of various cultures across the planet, but the One True God, the Lord God of Hebrew and Christian scripture. Are you ready? Some of you probably aren’t, but if “some of you” includes you, I encourage you to read on just to prove to yourself that you are open-minded, which nearly everyone claims to being./hoaxed-movie-is-back-by-cernovich.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hoaxed-movie-is-back-by-cernovich.htmlWe made a remarkable movie about fake news. Called Hoaxed. It was a blockbuster on the independent charts, despite receiving almost no reviews from conservative media. Should out to Christian Toto for his review, click here for that. People like will cry all day about the lack of conservative filmmaking, and then completely ignore a legitimate piece of art, due to jealousy that they could never produce such work. I’m used to it./how-to-invest-like-hov.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-invest-like-hov.htmlJay-Z may well go down in history as the greatest rapper of all time, but his bona fides are pretty strong as a personal finance guru, too. Whether it’s his recommendation to avoid leases and instead “buy the whole car” on his debut Reasonable Doubt or his exhortations to build credit on his more recent 4:44—an album in which he says he’s offering “$1 million worth of game for $9.99”—his three-decade oeuvre is peppered front-to-back with excellent monetary advice./how-to-make-the-modernist-pizza-dough-recipe.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-the-modernist-pizza-dough-recipe.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./interview-with-intel-s-dr-ann-kelleher.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/interview-with-intel-s-dr-ann-kelleher.htmlCompanies mentioned: INTC 0.00%↑ If there’s one marketing message that Intel is drilling into the ecosystem about its capabilities, it’s the ‘five nodes in four years’ mantra. It’s hard to escape – for a company that sat at the peak of semiconductor manufacturing for many years, to be behind, the drive to retain that number one spot has been like no other. Insert … ncG1vNJzZmiln6eytbTAp6Sop6Kae7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqKmpJq%2Ft7XEsGSwoaSdeqq6056jrGWUp3qius1mop6knJq1pr4%3D/jay-kuo-substack.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jay-kuo-substack.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/kids-today-can-t-read-even-college-kids.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kids-today-can-t-read-even-college-kids.htmlI’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that… I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post. -Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of cryptocurrency company FTX In “The Loss of Things I Took for Granted,” professor Adam Kotsko writes a firsthand account of the loss of literacy taking place in college classrooms:/mahomes-vs-burrow-and-quarterback-discourse-featuring-carson-palmer.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mahomes-vs-burrow-and-quarterback-discourse-featuring-carson-palmer.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./mango-and-lime-posset-by-edd-kimber.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mango-and-lime-posset-by-edd-kimber.htmlThis issue of the newsletter is sponsored by WilfaAre you team simple bake or team project bake? Do you prefer something you whip up in minutes or something you spend an afternoon pulling together? For me personally, it all comes down to time. Unsurprisingly, for someone who bakes for a living, spending an afternoon in the kitchen baking, with some music on or a podcast playing in the background, is my idea of a good time./moms-for-liberty-school-board-member-brittany-holtmeyer-resigns-after-pushback-from-the-community.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/moms-for-liberty-school-board-member-brittany-holtmeyer-resigns-after-pushback-from-the-community.htmlOn Thursday we learned that Moms for Liberty Papillion-LaVista school board member Brittany Holtmeyer resigned. Although we do not yet know the reason, the community member who submitted a Public Records Request contends Ms. Holtmeyer is denying she has public records that she clearly appears to have in her possession based on public video recordings on the school district’s YouTube channel. No sooner had we learned about Britt Britt’s resignation, another extremist, Edward Weniger, announced he will be running for the PLCS school board, endorsed by local hate group Protect Nebraska Children./my-internet-lauren-oyler-by-nick-catucci.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-internet-lauren-oyler-by-nick-catucci.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 Lauren Oyler, who has published essays on books and culture in publications like The New Yorker and Harper’s. Her debut novel, 2021’s Fake Accounts, is about a woman who discovers her boyfriend is secretly operating anonymous conspiracy theory accounts on Instagram, and her new book, No Judgment, is a collection of essays on gossip, Goodreads and cultural criticism, Berlin expats, and more./my-kindle-thinks-i-m-stupid-now-by-max-read.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-kindle-thinks-i-m-stupid-now-by-max-read.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./on-the-jeff-beck-group-faces-rolling-stones-and-slide-guitar.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-the-jeff-beck-group-faces-rolling-stones-and-slide-guitar.htmlRonnie Wood first found fame as bassist in the original lineup of the Jeff Beck Group. Then in the early 1970s he distinguished himself as the lead, slide, and pedal steel guitarist for The Faces and Rod Stewart, with whom he played on The Rod Stewart Album, Every Picture Tells a Story, and other classic LPs. In 1974, he replaced Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones, a gig he still holds today./patrick-bringley-s-all-the-beauty-in-the-world.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/patrick-bringley-s-all-the-beauty-in-the-world.htmlSome years ago I read a book called Making Rent in Bed-Stuy by Brandon Harris. It’s one of those quintessential first-book essay collections, of the type where the titular theme of the book is effectively explored and then a set of mostly-unrelated essays is wedged in to make the project book-length. My Goodreads review read “When it’s about making rent in Bed-Stuy, it’s good. When it isn't, it’s... less.” I did think there was a lot of good in the book, but I had to sift too much to find it./peter-trachtenberg-not-dark-yet.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peter-trachtenberg-not-dark-yet.html= especially when they deal with subjects of life-or-death significance, for example, the effort to find justice for survivors of the Rwandan genocide, which I wrote about in The Book of Calamities. And the thing about nonfiction is that you can’t make this shit up. Would anyone believe a fictional story about a 60-something artist and college professor (she describes herself as “a demure little person”) buying a wet suit and scuba gear to dive into her basement studio, which was flooded during Superstorm Sandy, to rescue some of her paintings?/scott-adams-v-the-internet-social-warming-edition.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/scott-adams-v-the-internet-social-warming-edition.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?/sean-kaufman-responds-fake-news-to-concerned-local-parent.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sean-kaufman-responds-fake-news-to-concerned-local-parent.htmlEarly this month the Cherokee Tribune published a letter to the editor from a local named Stephanie Meredith, written out of concern that the “4 Can Do More” candidates are running on an agenda that includes removing (or heavily reducing) Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs in our schools. In her letter, Ms. Meredith explains that her son was born with Down’s Syndrome but graduated and thrived as a young adult thanks to the kinds of educational programs that Sean Kaufman and his fellow candidates hope to end./smashelito-substack.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/smashelito-substack.htmlSmashelito's ES/SPX Newsletter By Smashelito Daily and Weekly trading plans for E-mini S&P 500 Futures (ES) that include accurate levels and market context. The plans are presented in a clear and concise format with visually appealing charts using my concepts of Smashlevels & Smashmodel Extremes. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbS5wKyfnqSZqbw%3D/the-greatest-jersey-numbers-in-uconn-women-s-basketball-s-history.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-greatest-jersey-numbers-in-uconn-women-s-basketball-s-history.htmlWelcome to the UConn WBB Weekly, a recap of everything that happened in the world of UConn women’s basketball over the past week from the team that runs The UConn Blog and Storrs Central. Sign up to get the Weekly in your inbox every Thursday or subscribe to get our premium newsletter which includes film breakdowns, UConn in the WNBA updates, recruiting coverage and more! UConn women’s basketball may be facing a jersey number problem in the coming years./the-last-6-months-show-why-ukraine-can-win-the-war.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-last-6-months-show-why-ukraine-can-win-the-war.htmlHi All, In case you missed it, another Ukraine-Russia War Talk Podcast was released on Thursday evening. In it Mykola and I myself went around the battlefield and discussed some of the major stories of the week—in particular the new security relationships (not guarantees) that Ukraine is building and the Ukrainian Peace Summit in Switzerland. I will touch briefly on some of this, but in a wish not to be repetitive I thought I would write more of a summary piece about where we are in the war—particularly after the last 6 months which were some of the most telling of the entire conflict./the-start-of-a-beautiful-day.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-start-of-a-beautiful-day.htmlSince I promised more and shorter posts, I will keep today's post very short. But I just wanted to share this captivating moment with you. I took this photo this morning, just outside Ottawa. It was already warm, and today will be a hot day. I love this small lake and its perfect reflection of the trees in the water. Then, add the sounds of dozens of birds, all singing their own songs./tszyu-forced-out-of-ortiz-fight-because-cut-not-fully-healed.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tszyu-forced-out-of-ortiz-fight-because-cut-not-fully-healed.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./turning-against-organized-religion-by-daniel-cox.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/turning-against-organized-religion-by-daniel-cox.htmlA few years ago, I made the joke that America is so religious that even our atheists believe in God. At the time, I was commenting on the discrepancy between religious identity and belief. Surveys consistently find that a small but significant number of atheists report that they believe in God.   Early work documenting the beginning of America’s religiou… ncG1vNJzZmirpKS%2FurjIp5ysZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9Ouqaehnpx6orPAoqWsrF2kv6itzaKxnpxdp7Kttcaipqc%3D/what-should-you-play-in-a-guitar-store.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-should-you-play-in-a-guitar-store.htmlEvery guitar store should have a sign along the lines of “Everyone welcome, come in, sit down and play.” Trying out a guitar you don’t own shouldn’t be a reserved activity for people who shred like Steve Vai. In fact, since most people can’t shred like Steve Vai, we should expect to hear wildly different sounds of music inside a store. I remember checking out a music store before I even played guitar./will-christianity-die-out-by-the-end-of-this-century.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/will-christianity-die-out-by-the-end-of-this-century.htmlThe latest Australian census figures are out and, like clockwork, the press is positively giddy that Christianity is on the decline. Hence one headline: Abandoning God: Christianity plummets as ‘non-religious’ surges in census. In 2016, 52% of Australians identified as “Christian” and 30% identified as having “no religion.” But in 2021, only 44% of Australians identified as “Christian” while 39% identified as having “no religion.” If you like at previous censuses going back to 1996, there is a very steady decline of Christianity in Australia happening!/3-lessons-from-king-jotham.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/3-lessons-from-king-jotham.htmlAlthough 2 Chronicles 27 is only nine verses long, the lessons we can learn from King Jotham are not nearly as brief as you might think. After considering some background information on Jotham, we will briefly overview his reign and then consider three lessons we can learn from Jotham today. Jotham’s grandfather – Amaziah – reigned for 29 years. He did what was right in God’s sight, “but not with a loyal heart” (2 Chronicles 25:2)./about-back-to-the-front.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-back-to-the-front.htmlBack to the Front offers a personal perspective on Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East and the Balkans through the eyes of Julius Strauss, a veteran foreign and war correspondent. After 15 years as a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in the region, Julius was caught up in the Beslan school siege in southern Russia in 2004, in which more than 170 children were killed. He gave up journalism and moved to the Canadian wilderness./about-human-stuff.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-human-stuff.htmlWelcome to Human Stuff, a weekly-ish newsletter with over 30,000 readers that began as an experiment and has shaped into a writing home, of sorts. I'm Lisa Olivera — a writer,author of Already Enough, mother, reader, therapist, adoptee, avid photo-taker, lover of nature, and curious human. I'm keenly interested in unanswerable questions, the perpetual in-between, the process of unfurling, and how we can stay with the aches and joys of being human in more generous, open, and connected ways./advice-f-a-q-from-richard-siken.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/advice-f-a-q-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./anime-review-chobits-by-makin.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/anime-review-chobits-by-makin.htmlThe place was Japan, the year 2002. A terrible CLAMP manga (lit. ‘Japanese Comic Book’) was chosen to be adapted into an A·ni·me, a brand new techwizardry designed to salvage kinomatic value out of half-baked panels and plots. It was a good attempt. Unfortunately for humanity, it didn’t work. Okay, maybe it worked if their goal was pander to the worst of desires of 2002’s sex-starved otakus (lit. ‘Japanese Comic Book Incel’), in which case it was a resounding success./apple-watch-and-heart-rate-variability-hrv-a-complicated-relationship.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/apple-watch-and-heart-rate-variability-hrv-a-complicated-relationship.htmlIf you are new to Heart Rate Variability, check out our Ultimate Guide covering measurements, data analysis, case studies, and misconceptions.  For any questions, feel free to reach me on Twitter or comment below. The Apple Watch is the best-selling wearable sensor out there. It packs great technology but falls short when it comes to heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. As a result, it is of limited practical utility in this context, unless we take care of a few important aspects./can-survivor-teach-us-something-about-our-health-and-weight-loss.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/can-survivor-teach-us-something-about-our-health-and-weight-loss.htmlFor reasons I can’t entirely explain, I love the CBS show Survivor. I’m somewhere between a fan and a super-fan. (Super-fans have knowledge that I can’t begin to compete with, but I do watch every episode. And I read after-show interviews. And I occasionally text with some former contestants to discuss strategy. And, okay, I listen to some Survivor podcasts. Look, nobody’s perfect.) Last night was the season finale, and it was awesome./comments-bram-stoker-s-dracula-1992.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-bram-stoker-s-dracula-1992.htmlYeah, I actually like Winona's performance for the most part, but Keanu struggled. Coppola tried to convince him not to do the accent, or just relax and not try so hard with it, and apparently Keanu was so hardcore about nailing the accent it just came across and horribly stiff and weird. It also didn't help that the character of Jonathan Harker IS kind of a non-entity bore. Expand full comment/crafting-the-perfect-grand-gesture.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/crafting-the-perfect-grand-gesture.htmlAs we journey through the creative process of weaving romance tales, we arrive at one of the defining moment in our narrative – the Grand Gesture. This climactic beat, often resolving the Dark Night of our story, is where love triumphs, and hearts are won or mended. Inspired by the heartwarming vignettes of Love Actually, let's explore how to master this pivotal plot point. The Essence of Grand Gestures The Grand Gesture is where our character, usually the one who has undergone the most transformation or stands to lose the most, makes a significant, heartfelt move./don-t-mind-me-kayleigh-ruller.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/don-t-mind-me-kayleigh-ruller.htmlFor those who love (and fear!) living in the in-between. We’re chipping away at the very-human mind clutter, transforming it into action, into the body, and into these weekly letters. Poems, lists, audio, musings on food, pleasure, pain, and seasons. No thanksncG1vNJzZmijka65prXGoamupJyav2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo/downton-abbey-core-and-fizzed-out.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/downton-abbey-core-and-fizzed-out.htmlRiverdale star Camila Mendes and Happy Death Day actress Rachel Matthews are launching a production company; Rihanna is expanding the Fenty universe with hair care; Hailey Bieber stars in Saint Laurent's Summer 2024 campaign; and will any of you be going to VidCon this year…? IS DATING A TOTAL NIGHTMARE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW?, thecut Young people’s dissatisf… ncG1vNJzZmiZlqmys7%2FCoaaopF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6dprCmpKS7bq3Bm5yyZZOkv6Z5wKebZp6Zr8emsIyorK0%3D/faith-ringgold-james-lizz-wright-jerome-rothenberg-turkish-style-hash-browns.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/faith-ringgold-james-lizz-wright-jerome-rothenberg-turkish-style-hash-browns.html“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. Cheers to that! This Week’s Apéritif: Qershi Cola Cocktails (Cherry Raki, Sour Cherry Juice & Coke Over Ice) Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations: Reading: The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain by Sofia Samatar/forgotten-gay-el-paso-the-bars.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/forgotten-gay-el-paso-the-bars.htmlPublication Note: I will continually update this article as I remember more about these bars or I hear more from others. If you know of other bars not listed here, tell me about them in the comments or in Chat! El Paso has changed a lot since I first came here in the late 1980s. Back then, the downtown had more in common with large American cities of the 1950s and ‘60s than those of the 1980s./friday-poll-june-7-by-katelyn-jetelina.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/friday-poll-june-7-by-katelyn-jetelina.htmlOkay, another poll! The last (and first) one went well. (I appreciated the enthusiasm! To answer your questions: No, Substack— this newsletter platform— polling doesn’t allow rank choice. No, I cannot include more options. No, it won’t let you change your answer. Yes, I’m formally trained in survey development.) As a reminder, about 90% of YLE content is driven by your questions—messages I receive, social listening, comments, etc. But it’s getting harder and harder to put a finger on a national (or international) pulse for a few reasons:/hamilton-wrote-the-other-51-by-catherine-elcik.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hamilton-wrote-the-other-51-by-catherine-elcik.htmlTechnically the one-year anniversary of my first HIBOU post was December 3, but who’s counting? Me, as it turns out. On December 3, I counted up the essays I’d written (skipping the repetitive Weekly RAP posts over the summer) and realized with utter delight that the final tally gave me a most excellent excuse to use a Hamilton meme: Look, I know there’s no real comparison between Hamilton’s writing and mine—Hamilton’s essays took six months to help midwife our system of government while my essays took twelve months to spelunk mindset in writing—but just let me have this moment to pretend I spent the year writing like I was running out of time, all right?/i-m-broke-baby-by-darnell-mayberry.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-m-broke-baby-by-darnell-mayberry.htmlMy guy Eugene from work goes into an elaborate routine every time he sees me. He squints his eyes as they track me across the Chicago Bulls media workroom. He furrows his brows and scrunches his nose when our eyes connect. He sniffs twice. “I smell money!” Eugene says. Without fail, I smile and shoot back the retort Eugene loves hearing. “I’m broke, baby! I ain’t got no money!” Our scripted exchange comes from the 2002 classic movie, “Paid in Full./is-the-overton-window-moving-to-the-right.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-the-overton-window-moving-to-the-right.htmlI have been reminded a lot recently of the novel Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. The narrator is a butler who was loyal to his lord. The butler idolized his employer. But as the novel unfolds, the lord he so fondly and faithfully served turns out to have been a foolish Nazi sympathizer in the years leading up to WWII. Imagine spending decades of your life serving someone you admire, and then having to face up to the reality that the man was a knave./it-s-new-to-me-linkle-liver-story.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-new-to-me-linkle-liver-story.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. Sega might have had their answer for Mario in the form of Sonic, but as for the adventures of Link?/kendrick-lamar-s-baby-s-mother-did-what.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kendrick-lamar-s-baby-s-mother-did-what.htmlMany men wouldn’t continue to take care of their kids once they found out they weren’t the child’s real father. It’s a testament to Kendrick Lamar’s character that he’s chosen to remain a presence in his child’s life. I hope his baby’s mother is appreciative, though there’s evidence to suggest that she wouldn’t be. After all, she’s rumored to have stepped out on him with her bodyguard, as if she were Whitney Houston in the 1992 film Cool Runnings, er, the Bodyguard./kid-arcades-are-now-the-exploitation-zone.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kid-arcades-are-now-the-exploitation-zone.htmlWhat comes to mind when you think of the word “arcade?” Rows of video screens, scattered loud noises as the machines enter into gameplay loops meant to attract people to spend their money. Look, times change. I’m not trying to be a huffy old man. But increasingly, what “arcade” means is what you see in the photo above. It’s rows of games, technically speaking, but the games have nothing to do with skill or a shared experience, but are machines designed for exploitation./letter-from-iceland-42-by-alda-sigmundsd%C3%B3ttir.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/letter-from-iceland-42-by-alda-sigmundsd%C3%B3ttir.htmlTime for another treatise on the Icelandic language! Did you know that the Icelandic alphabet has 32 letters in it, as opposed to 26 in English? This includes the letters Þ, Ð and Æ, that used to exist in Old English, but became obsolete—letters that tend to confound our foreign visitors. Also, did you know that the letter Z was banished from Icelandic by governmental decree back in the 1970s?/lunachicks-theo-kogan-shares-her-fave-skincare-obsession.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lunachicks-theo-kogan-shares-her-fave-skincare-obsession.htmlOK, this is not a commercial and I have not been paid.  Seeing Sydney Sweeney, who is 25 years old, using the Solawave Wand did not make me go, “I MUST HAVE THIS.” (Jennifer Coolidge is more like it, but she was only added into their ads recently.)  The Solawave Wand is a small DIY red light therapy wand that looks like a razor without the blade. I bought one last summer and didn’t pick it up until recently./misinformation-about-bioidentical-and-compounded-hormones.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/misinformation-about-bioidentical-and-compounded-hormones.htmlSadly, Suzanne Somers died this week from breast cancer. I struggled with how to write about this or if I should write anything at all. And yet her impact on menopause was undeniable, and unfortunately not in a good way. Under the guise of female empowerment, she used her celebrity to advocate for unproven and dangerous hormone regimens. She became an influencer on menopause before being an influencer was even a thing./monaco-grand-prix-s-recipe-barbajuan.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/monaco-grand-prix-s-recipe-barbajuan.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. If you’d have asked me to predict the national dish of Monaco, I think I’d have picked something like caviar or some swanky fish that costs too much money — or even something like bouillabaise, a fish soup from the south of France./reading-with-a-coffee-by-rosecrans-baldwin.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/reading-with-a-coffee-by-rosecrans-baldwin.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./snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1937.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1937.htmlA film for little children? Yes, by all means! Why not? Except you become as people who would delight in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you shall not even know what goodness is about. Sometimes Debra and I feel like people on a far mountain, where the noise of the world can’t reach us, or at least it subsides into a low hum, while silence, full and rich, returns, and with the silence, messages from another world./some-notes-on-common-ancestors.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/some-notes-on-common-ancestors.htmlNormally I send out the extract from the archive on a Saturday morning. But there are still a few hours to go before Black Friday turns into Grey Saturday, so I thought I’d do it now and remind you of this special offer: ' Get 50% off for 1 year Sign up now! While stocks last! One of the most mindblowing things I have ever learned concerns the “genetic isopoint”. This concept, also known as the “identical ancestors point” (IAP), or “all common ancestors” (ACA), is the most recent point in a particular population’s past at which everyone then alive either has no living descendants left, or is the ancestor of everyone currently living./st%C3%A9phane-mandelbaum-from-brussels-1961-1987.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/st%C3%A9phane-mandelbaum-from-brussels-1961-1987.html(On the subject of Post No. 2 - The School of Yehuda Pen - Yudel Pen. Another Jewish artist who anticipated his violent death.) The Paris Review: “To understand the Belgian artist Stéphane Mandelbaum, it is best to begin at the end of his life. Few agree on how he lived, but most agree on how he died. It was garish and violent. He was shot in Namur, in central Belgium./thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb-paul-fussell-penn.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/thank-god-for-the-atom-bomb-paul-fussell-penn.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./the-2023-gen-z-gift-guide-according-to-tiktok.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-2023-gen-z-gift-guide-according-to-tiktok.htmlWelcome back to After School Weekend Edition. Think of the Monday-Thursday letters as the CliffsNotes; this is the extended version for paid subscribers.💫 Today we’re talking about: What Gen Z wants for Christmas!!! The rise of the dairy girl (I went long on this one 🥛) Charli D’Amelio’s Tamagotchi sponcon TikTok Jesus Grandmacore The #officesiren aesthetic Fandom fashion Nugget buddies An amusing Gen Z culinary preference The “things I suffer from” meme/the-great-ceo-within-by-matt-mochary.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-great-ceo-within-by-matt-mochary.htmlTo investors, I have been reading one book per week this year. This past week’s book was The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary. Highly recommend reading it. If you are interested in the individual highlights that I made in the physical book, you can read those here. Hope you enjoy these notes every Monday morning. Matt Mochary is one of the best executive coaches in the world./the-poem-that-explains-walter-white.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-poem-that-explains-walter-white.htmlThe role that Walt Whitman’s “The Learn’d Astronomer” plays in Breaking Bad is one of the first things I ever wanted to write about for PopPoetry—seeing the work of a poet being such an integral part of the show’s plot was utterly thrilling to me. And not just any show: one of the most critically acclaimed television shows of all time. Good screenwriters choose poetry that makes sense for their characters when these mash-ups do happen, and Vince Gilligan knocked it out of the park by selecting the so-called Grandfather of American Poetry./the-strategy-of-dating-short-men.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-strategy-of-dating-short-men.htmlWelcome to the free market of female sexual autonomy. There are winners and losers. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. You can sympathize with the losers, or celebrate and glorify the winners, as we do in sports and most highly competitive, economically scalable, winners-take-most tournament markets where steep pyramids and power law hierarchies always naturally pop up. Creative Destruction and Misery and Unfulfillment are flip sides of the same coin./the-weekly-review-by-robert-talbert.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-weekly-review-by-robert-talbert.htmlBeing more intentional about your work and your life as a higher education professional all comes down to simple actions, performed consistently, within a coherent overall framework. Over the last month, we've been focusing on the "coherent framework" part, by looking at Getting Things Done (GTD) as a system for freeing your brain to get control over your “stuff” and do the right work at the right moment. We've learned that we first have to capture what gets our attention and get it out of our heads; then clarify what each captured item means to us; then organize these items and put them in a place that fits with their meaning; then reflect on what needs to be done; then engage with the tasks that fit our context, energy, and time./thought-terminating-clich%C3%A9s-by-colin-wright.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/thought-terminating-clich%C3%A9s-by-colin-wright.htmlA "thought-terminating cliché" (TTC) is a phrase or argument typically used to end a debate, generally by leveraging a phrase that sounds meaningful, but which is actually just a superficial means of ending discourse. Such clichés are sometimes called "semantic stop-signs" or derided as bits of "bumper sticker logic" because they're thrown around by folks who are keen to end a line of inquiry, to not have to think about something, or to quickly score a point in an argument that doesn't seem to be going their way./what-are-institutions-and-why-are-ours-crumbling.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-are-institutions-and-why-are-ours-crumbling.htmlIf you’ve been paying attention over the past four years, especially to a popular strain of centrist and center-left political analysis, you’ve probably run across a lament or two over the pitiable state of our “institutions.” Maybe the concern du jour is instead the breakdown of our “norms.” In this strain of often-breathless discourse, “institutions” and “norms” serve as shorthand for the guardrails and guideposts that shape the behavior of actors within the peculiar American political system./what-happened-to-the-friars-club.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-happened-to-the-friars-club.htmlIf you’d like these weekly comedy news dispatches delivered straight to you via email, please subscribe right here. Whether you decide to upgrade to paid or not, I appreciate your support! ncG1vNJzZmiomZuzorrYZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMSprdNmn5qooJq7prCMraZmrJiaeqe%2ByJqprGWTocKj/what-is-a-monoculture-anyway.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-a-monoculture-anyway.htmlDo we regularly grow “monoculture plantations” in Canada? If one defines “monoculture” as “a forest (or farm) growing a single crop species,” most Canadian foresters would probably say “no.” After we harvest our forests, we try to regrow the variety of species that were already there, using a mix of planted and natural regeneration. However, anyone reading a newspaper lately might get a different idea. Here are just a few op-ed statements I have come across recently:/what-s-andrew-coyne-so-worried-about.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-s-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./when-victor-met-holger-by-marc-stein.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-victor-met-holger-by-marc-stein.htmlThe first question Victor Wembanyama had for Dirk Nowitzki's lifelong shooting sensei had nothing to do with basketball. "How much does it cost?" Wembanyama asked Holger Geschwindner, figuring there would surely be some sort of booking fee to schedule a visit to study Dirk-ian techniques right in the laboratory where they originated. "Nothing," Geschwindner said. "It never costs any penny for anybody." So began a weeklong roundball science camp for the most ballyhooed hoops prospect on the planet in a no-frills gym in Bamberg, Germany, that just thinking about now made Wembanyama's "/why-are-there-no-minicomputers-any-more.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-are-there-no-minicomputers-any-more.htmlThere is one class of machine that once had a vital role in the evolution of computing. Companies grew large and profitable building them. But now they’ve vanished, notable only for their absence, and for the legacy of the software that was originally developed on them. It’s the ‘minicomputer’. A class of general purpose computer that was popular over the period from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s, a sector where, according to Wikipedia, “almost 100 companies formed and only a half dozen remained./why-isn-t-my-abusive-husband-sorry-feminist-advice-friday.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-isn-t-my-abusive-husband-sorry-feminist-advice-friday.htmlMy relationship has been spiraling for a couple years now. Mostly emotional abuse, with some sexual coercion. Then we had a baby. He got really aggressive, and started saying things like, “I’ll kill you!” but of course then told me he was just mad and didn’t really mean it. Well, earlier this week, he slapped me while I was holding our baby. I had been yelling at him about how little he has done to help me, and trying to talk to him about the role that plays in my postpartum depression./youngblood-is-the-nuttiest-hockey-movie-around.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/youngblood-is-the-nuttiest-hockey-movie-around.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:/zaluzhnyy-and-positional-warfare-futura-doctrina.htmlMon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/zaluzhnyy-and-positional-warfare-futura-doctrina.htmlIt’s been a week of real media and public relations chaos at the top of the Ukrainian government and military. You get this from time to time in democracies that go to war, but even when you recognize it for what it is it isn’t very pretty. Stefan Korshak In recent interview with The Economist, accompanied by a short By Invitation article and a nine-page paper on the status of the Russo-Ukraine War, General Zaluzhnyy provides perhaps the best-informed analysis of the war./the-ring-2002-review-by-nathan.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-ring-2002-review-by-nathan.htmlTemptation is the silent killer that has claimed many victims within the horror genre. In 2002’s The Ring, Naomi Watts plays a woman who falls deeper into this fear-inducing story about how people die seven days after watching a mysterious tape. Of course, her character, Rachel, had to watch it, so now all she can do is figure out where the cursed enter… ncG1vNJzZmirpKS%2FurLOq5inp6SdsrOwwLJlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8tbTEZqmippdif3F8kWapnq6ZmsQ%3D/a-supermarket-in-california-by-allen-ginsberg.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-supermarket-in-california-by-allen-ginsberg.htmlObviously I get weirdly excited about words lol, I love when someone else does, too (I’m just guessing you are because why not). Oh! I have an unknown contemporary poet from my tumblr days — P.D. Vulpe (she/her, I was right the first time), she wrote From Great Heights and is so fucking talented. I actually reached out so she was one of the reviewers for my chapbook, and said reading and reviewing it inspired her to start writing poetry again, which was first of all the most awesome thing ever, and second of all makes me excited that she may create a second book!/1-timothy-2-again-sigh-and-bigger-sigh-mike-winger.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/1-timothy-2-again-sigh-and-bigger-sigh-mike-winger.htmlMike Winger (remember him?). Just to recap, here is what I wrote about him in one of my last posts on the Anxious Bench last Spring: “I only recently learned about Mike Winger. A friend alerted me that he had posted a not-so-flattering discussion of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. I wasn’t terribly surprised by this since Winger earned a ministry degree from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, an extension campus of Calvary Chapel Bible College which states in its doctrinal statement that men and women were created to “complement and complete each other./all-about-that-ace-by-geoff-engelstein.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/all-about-that-ace-by-geoff-engelstein.htmlIn 1980 I stumbled across a game called Aces of Aces, a game of World War 1 dogfighting, designed by Al Leonardi. It was unlike anything I had ever seen. It was simply two books, one for the German player, and one for the Allies. Each had about 250 pages, the bulk of which were dedicated to views outside of your cockpit. Aces of Aces was a huge staple of my teen years./an-interview-with-alejandra-caraballo.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-interview-with-alejandra-caraballo.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! Tomorrow is the first day of June, LGBTQ Pride Month. Happy Pride! In honor of the occasion, I interviewed Alejandra Caraballo, one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for—and authorities on—transgender rights./an-introduction-for-jacques-rivette-s-out-1.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-introduction-for-jacques-rivette-s-out-1.htmlWhat follows is an introduction I was asked to give for Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 (1971) in February 2016 at The Cinematheque in Vancouver occasioned by the film’s restoration and long anticipated commercial release. By coincidence, the screening took place one week after Rivette’s death. I had been unable to see the film despite years of wishing to and although I was offered a screener to watch ahead of the screening, I could not pass up the opportunity to see it first on the big screen along with everyone else./baked-apples-but-make-it-a-crisp.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/baked-apples-but-make-it-a-crisp.htmlHey there! If you’ve found your way here but are not yet subscribed for the weekly newsletter, you can do that here. You will never miss a recipe or a story, and I’ll be eternally grateful for your support.Hello The Jewish Table readers, This week’s newsletter is going out to my whole subscriber list for the second week in a row. That’s partly because last week’s letter, which was written during the flurry of the first few stops of my Portico tour, did not include a recipe./chief-justice-deletes-sovereign-citizen-bingo-page-on-courts-website-as-scandal-grows.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chief-justice-deletes-sovereign-citizen-bingo-page-on-courts-website-as-scandal-grows.htmlCHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024 — A powerful documentary about this reporter’s judicial conference arrest makes a first-day Internet sensation just as a federal court filing against the former chief justice jacks up the acidity level in a black-robed scandal metastasizing across Tennessee. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio Network Justice Roger Page gets a copy of my appeal brief sent to the 6th circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati just as the story about the expulsion and arrest of journalists explodes across the “cop watch” and “1st amendment audit” sector of social media./class-5-the-active-measures-long-game.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/class-5-the-active-measures-long-game.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./dive-bar-jukebox-with-jordis-unga.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-you-still-read-magazines.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/do-you-still-read-magazines.htmlMagazines used to make me swoon. I grew up on a steady diet of Sassy and YM and Seventeen. When I graduated college, I only wanted to work in magazines, and I spent my twenties and thirties writing for a slew of them. It wasn’t just how beautiful the print mags were to thumb through with their four-color photos and expert aspirational articles, it was the graphic fonts and the feeling that you were slipping into another world entirely when you opened the back and front covers./father-s-day-reflections-adam-kinzinger.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/father-s-day-reflections-adam-kinzinger.htmlRus Kinzinger was, and is, my inspiration for what it means to be a father, a citizen, and a man. I don’t want this week to pass without recognizing him and saying thank you. It is unfair, I think, that Father’s Day is a second-place holiday compared with Mother’s Day. Don’t get me wrong. My mom, and all moms, deserve all the love and credit in the world. But I think that we men, especially, should acknowledge our dads as our role models./for-new-year-s-try-a-champagne-cocktail-that-s-secretly-just-a-champagne-manhattan.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/for-new-year-s-try-a-champagne-cocktail-that-s-secretly-just-a-champagne-manhattan.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./halfway-through-the-pete-wells-nyc-restaurant-100.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/halfway-through-the-pete-wells-nyc-restaurant-100.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./how-to-leave-someone-you-love-and-keep-living-anyways.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-leave-someone-you-love-and-keep-living-anyways.htmlDear reader, This is an article about surviving the ending of a partnership. What to do when the person we hold the most dear in our hearts is no longer “our person”—but a person. What to do when our attachment to our partner was the thick rope anchoring us to our lives, anchoring us to the earth. How to keep our hearts open when we trusted in an uncertainty (indeed all relationships are an uncertainty) and got seriously hurt in the process./i-am-suing-scientology-and-david-miscavige.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-am-suing-scientology-and-david-miscavige.htmlAfter 17 years of harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and defamation, I am filing a lawsuit against Scientology and David Miscavige. While advocating for victims of Scientology has significantly impacted my life and career, Scientology’s ultimate objective of silencing me has not been achieved. Although this lawsuit is about what Scientology has done to me, I am one of thousands of targets of Scientology over the past seven decades. People who share their experiences in Scientology, and those who tell their stories and advocate for them, should be free to do so without fearing retaliation from a tax-exempt cult with billions in assets./lessons-in-creativity-i-learned-from-regina-spektor.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lessons-in-creativity-i-learned-from-regina-spektor.htmlYou’re reading PopPoetry, a newsletter about pop culture, creativity, and poetry written by Caitlin Cowan. You can learn more about it here. Check out the archive to see other TV shows, movies, and films whose intersections with poetry I’ve covered. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, subscribe so you won’t miss a post! Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor’s story is American in its structure: a young ingenue arrives in New York City, starts from nothing, and soars to unimaginable heights./looking-through-anime-stocks-and-sharing-my-google-sheets-note-script.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/looking-through-anime-stocks-and-sharing-my-google-sheets-note-script.htmlHello everyone, Today starts of with a terrible pun. IBRK finally enabled access to the Praha Stock Exchange. There are only 28 companies listed, so it is quick and painless to check out. There were no hidden gems that I found, but given the small amount of stocks, it is definitely worth checking out. Petrobras released their earnings, paying a 3.5% dividend yield for the quarter and announcing a 1.5% buyback for Petrobras A shares./lord-of-the-flies-prediction-jack.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lord-of-the-flies-prediction-jack.htmlI want to plan an essay on Jack, in Lord of the Flies. I am particularly interested in how he does not just represent dictatorship and tyranny, but also the appeal of such leaders to populations who we might expect to prefer democracy. I'm also interested in the way he is an antagonist and the antithesis to Ralph. I'm curious about how far he acts on instinct, and how far he plans his leadership./mapping-champagne-by-tom-hewson.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mapping-champagne-by-tom-hewson.htmlLouis Larmat’s celebrated maps of Champagne were published in 1944. That’s an interesting year. Champagne had been through almost four decades of unrest; riots, World War One, disruption to exports, currency collapse, the Great Depression, and World War Two. André Simon makes the volatility of the inter-war period crystal-clear when he points out that abundant vintages such as 1934 caused a headache in the cellars. Nobody could sell them, or indeed pay for the grapes:/mississippi-native-landon-bryant-rooted-magazine.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mississippi-native-landon-bryant-rooted-magazine.htmlWhat does it mean to call Mississippi home? Why do people choose to leave or live in this weird, wonderful, and sometimes infuriating place? You likely know Landon Bryant from his often hilarious, sometimes controversial (when it comes to sugar or salt on grits), and always insightful “let’s discuss…” monologues on Southern culture. Landon grew up and still lives in Laurel, Mississippi. As his online presence has grown, so, too, have the opportunities outside of the state./mushroom-ragu-bianco-by-hetty-lui-mckinnon.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mushroom-ragu-bianco-by-hetty-lui-mckinnon.htmlWelcome to To Vegetables, With Love, a celebration of a vegetable life, less ordinary. My book Tenderheart is available from Books are Magic, Kitchen, Arts and Letters, Book Larder, Bold Fork Books and also here or here. Those who own my books may have read that I usually do not use fancy vegetable stocks in my everyday cooking. Rather, I use vegetable stock powder. Specifically, Vegeta stock powder. My love of Vegeta stems from my mother’s kitchen./my-2023-in-the-rearview.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-2023-in-the-rearview.htmlI was really hoping to get this in before the MAGA malarkey got fully underway this year, but that’s like wishing your cat won’t lick its own butt. No offense to cats, they have to lick their own butts, just like MAGA has to bring mayhem, it’s just the natural order of the universe. No one really wants to look at either one, but we also have to accept that they are still a reality./my-jacob-collier-problem-by-nate-chinen.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-jacob-collier-problem-by-nate-chinen.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./pseudoreplication-in-ecological-research-and-how-to-avoid-it.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pseudoreplication-in-ecological-research-and-how-to-avoid-it.htmlRecently we read a preprint of a paper on a topic I am very interested in, and went through quite a range of emotions from eager anticipation and nervousness (oh my this is totally what we’re trying to do) to relief (this is a totally worthless study, it tells us nothing), to frustration (I cannot unsee it now that I’ve read it) to sadness (this makes everyone worse off, the authors, us who have read it, and the public, because of course this has been picked up by the media)./ranking-the-2024-nfl-uniform-changes.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ranking-the-2024-nfl-uniform-changes.htmlReminder: Uni Watch’s time on Substack is coming to a close in late May. After that, I’ll be taking a break for at least a month, and then my Substack will return at some point this summer with a new name and a new subject focus. To learn more about all of this, including what it will mean for those of you with paid subscriptions, look here. — Paul The NFL uni-verse has just gone through an extraordinarily busy period./red-sox-pitching-prospect-brendan-cellucci-talks-about-the-possibility-of-being-selected-in-the-rule.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/red-sox-pitching-prospect-brendan-cellucci-talks-about-the-possibility-of-being-selected-in-the-rule.htmlThe MLB Rule 5 Draft will take place during the Winter Meetings on Wednesday, Dec. 6. Players from all over the league left off the 40-man roster for various reasons will be available and the Red Sox will have some interesting names that could be drafted. One player that was recently pointed out by Baseball America as a potential draft candidate is Red Sox minor league left-hander Brendan Cellucci. The southpaw has predominantly been a reliever while in the Red Sox system./remembering-jack-the-rapper-the-nelson-george-mixtape.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-jack-the-rapper-the-nelson-george-mixtape.htmlWith the coverage of hip hop’s 50th anniversary growing this year, my mind wandered back to what was considering rapping back before the explosion of “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979. People site the Last Poets or Gil Scott-Heron or even Pigmeat Markum. But my mind goes to a colorful character who went by the name Jack the Rapper aka Jack Gibson, who’d been radio DJ, a promotion man for labels, publisher of a newsletter and owner of an annual convention both known as Jack the Rapper./sadism-and-psychopathy-by-athena-walker.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sadism-and-psychopathy-by-athena-walker.htmlWe need to talk about sadism and the assumptions surrounding it. Often I see questions, answers, and get comments from people that think that psychopathy and sadism are linked. One is forever and indelibly connected to the other. However, this is not what has been found in science. In fact, they have found a negative correlation between psychopathy and sadism. Why would that be? It is because sadism requires emotional empathy./shriek-of-the-week-dunnock.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shriek-of-the-week-dunnock.htmlThe dunnock is the Cinderella of the bird world. Sweeping up underneath the other birds, and always missing out on the celebrity invitations (try finding a dunnock-themed Christmas card). However, like the robins and wrens, dunnocks are all around us, and they bring some welcome music to the winter months. The sweet, high-pitched stream of notes sounds somewhat thin, almost fragile. It can be most noticeable on bright, frosty days, when its crystalline qualities somehow complement the weather conditions./spanish-style-cauliflower-rice.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/spanish-style-cauliflower-rice.htmlSomeone wrote me recently and told me now that she’s gone low carb, she misses eating rice, in particular Spanish rice. I told her that she won’t miss it for long. This week’s recipe might not seem as exciting as fun bar food, juicy meat recipes, or celebratory cocktail recipes. But eventually, we need some good side dishes to round out our meals. This Spanish Style Cauliflower Rice dish is the perfect sexy side piece to complement any number of Eat Happy recipes, especially:/spider-man-2-ps5-review-close-enough-no-spoilers.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/spider-man-2-ps5-review-close-enough-no-spoilers.htmlSpider-Man 2 is out this week on the PS5. Ahead of its launch I've been fortunate to finish Insomniac Games' latest Sony exclusive on the PS5, and discussed my thoughts as a guest on The Untitled Gadgets Podcast. In addition to this, I've also spent some quality time analysing how the game will sell, courtesy conversations with my sources in distribution and retail. Here's what to expect from the game itself after seeing it through the end in about 18 hours on normal difficulty with no side-quests./taylor-swift-is-the-perfect-icon-for-lazy-dumb-unoriginal-runners-who-somehow-manage-to-be-arrogan.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/taylor-swift-is-the-perfect-icon-for-lazy-dumb-unoriginal-runners-who-somehow-manage-to-be-arrogan.htmlToward the end of summer in 1984, a 26-year-old stock-pretty American pop singer unfurled a performance at that year’s MTV Music Awards that broke new territory and pissed off millions of religious conservatives, who were then enjoying an ascendancy under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose two-term administration is memorable for introducing helpful valued-oriented homilies such as “Just Say No.” The singer started her number on top of a wedding cake and ended it writhing on the floor with her blond hair dirtying the floor and her panties slightly showing./the-12-most-readable-fonts-for-print.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-12-most-readable-fonts-for-print.htmlWhen it comes to choosing fonts for print materials, readability is of utmost importance. The right font can significantly impact your text's legibility and visual appeal. In this article, we'll explore 12 highly readable fonts for print, including both serif and sans-serif options. Let's dive in and discover the perfect font for your next print project! Times New Roman: As a classic serif font, Times New Roman is highly readable in print./the-catechism-of-ingratitude-by-mark-galli.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-catechism-of-ingratitude-by-mark-galli.htmlSincemy last post on prayer as gratitude, I’ve continued to ponder this virtue. Given that gratitude brings with it a calming peace and a blossoming joy, why is it so hard to cultivate gratitude, let alone remain in a state of perpetual gratefulness? Well, mass shootings for one thing. But let me come back to that in a bit. First we might look at the usual answers to this question./the-charlottean-who-bought-prince-s-caribbean-mansion.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-charlottean-who-bought-prince-s-caribbean-mansion.htmlGood morning! Today is Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. 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. Prince reportedly bought the estate to the right in this photo in 2011 for $10.5M and owned it until his death in 2016. Charlottean Tom Barnes purchased it in 2019 and later also bought the home on the left in the photo./the-classen-grill-is-ready-to-return.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-classen-grill-is-ready-to-return.htmlHappy Plate Hospitality’s latest classic brand rescue is nearly ready for the public. The restaurant group that founded S&B Burger Joint, Sunnyside Diner and Taqueria El Camino and last year took ownership of Grill on the Hill is on the cusp of returning the iconic Classen Grill to glory. I stopped by the corner of Classen Circle. and Military Avenue on Tuesday for a preview service joined by The Tamale King, Felix Cornejo./the-copenhagen-shopping-guide-what-i-bought.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-copenhagen-shopping-guide-what-i-bought.htmlI mean I knew the shopping in Copenhagen would be good, but HOLY MOLY? From even just a quick two-hour dash across the city centre, I can confirm that it’s 10/10 top marks baby!!!!! I spent the past three days over there with the Ole Henriksen team (and Ole himself for dinner which was very sweet because he is a bonafide national treasure over there - everyone’s jaws hit the floor when they saw him!/the-nudest-colony-in-the-pines.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-nudest-colony-in-the-pines.htmlIt recently came to my attention that not only was there a nudist campground and beach in the Pine Barrens from the 1930s to the 1980s, but it was founded by a Baptist minister who “became the leader of the nudist movement in America,” according to the linked article in the Philly Inquirer (paywall). The ruins remain, on private property, by an owner who hopes to revive it as an RV Park (clothing required, as far as I can tell)./the-sparks-report-jennifer-sparks-aka-j-cherry.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-sparks-report-jennifer-sparks-aka-j-cherry.htmlI cover topics that the MSM and Big Tech censors! From medical freedom, alternative health, dare I say the word, vaccines, health mandates, liberty, and personal sovereignty. Sprinkled with original music and a concert series. The news hurts, music heals. No thanksncG1vNJzZmiik52ys77YamxrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonw%3D/tiffany-fong-is-a-better-journalist-than-michael-lewis.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tiffany-fong-is-a-better-journalist-than-michael-lewis.htmlIn this episode, David interviews Tiffany Fong – an investor activist and independent journalist whose extended post-arrest interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried played a major role in unpacking what happened in the FTX collapse. Tiffany first entered the public eye in 2022 as a victim of the Celcius collapse and alleged fraud, becoming a conduit for leaks from the company. She then interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for many hours while he was on house arrest in Palo Alto, helping uncover specific crimes – and more importantly, gaining insight into how Sam’s brain worked./weird-american-parenting-acomedido.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/weird-american-parenting-acomedido.htmlHello! Usually we share activity ideas on Tuesdays, but this week it made more sense to introduce a concept from this month’s book first. No worries if you have no intention to read Hunt, Gather, Parent on your own; we’re sharing some key quotes and insights in this 5-minute email that just might change your whole life. In the first part of the book, Michaeleen explains how many things that Westerners expect to be “normal”—like our parenting approach—really just reveal ourselves as the outliers when compared to the rest of the world./welcome-to-the-group-chat.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/welcome-to-the-group-chat.htmlHey you guys! Welcome to the Group Chat! What the heck is up! Upgrade to Paid Quick intro: my name is Meredith and I’m a chef in NYC, but you may know me as the “day in my life as a private chef in the Hamptons girl”. You can find me on Insta, tiktok, wishbonekitchen.com, and now here! I love my social media community, but I’ve been craving a space where I can go a lit…/what-to-say-when-people-get-bad-news.htmlSun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-to-say-when-people-get-bad-news.html“It didn’t take,” she whispered to me. She’d been trying for well over a year to get pregnant. I’d known since the earliest days that she was trying to start a family. “Why isn’t this working?” she asked. For her, it felt like defeat. She was bewildered and sad. “Why is getting pregnant so much harder than I expected?” This is such a tough place to be—t… ncG1vNJzZmirpJa%2FtcHPqZirnZ6pe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCgkal6tbuMrJiyZaedsq95z56mqaSVYrSmwIybmJ1lnprEtA%3D%3D/brother-luck-of-the-irish.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/brother-luck-of-the-irish.htmlPhotos by Matthew Schniper For our lead news item this week, we have the highly anticipated opening of Folklore, which replaces Lucky Dumpling. If you missed the backstory on this venture, catch up with this brief article I posted on March 1. The reason I say that it’s highly anticipated is that I know it from online metrics: When I shared my blog that same day to my Culinary Colorado Springs Facebook Group (which you should definitely join if you aren’t already a member), it received more engagement among our almost 9,000 members and beyond than any post to-date./it-s-over-for-sexist-pigs-in-spain.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-over-for-sexist-pigs-in-spain.htmlSalamat Pagi dearest Global Jigsaw friends and family, I hope everyone had a great weekend. Today’s post takes us to Spain, a country that is often associated with a culture of machismo, but one where people are unequivocally stating that putting up with sexist behaviour “is over.” It’s an Iberian “MeToo” moment that had found its upswell not on the casting couches of movie sets, nor in corporate offices, but on the football field./words-by-missing-persons-by-scott-frampton.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/words-by-missing-persons-by-scott-frampton.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./2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-10-shooting-guards.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2024-nba-free-agent-rankings-top-10-shooting-guards.htmlEarlier this week, I ranked the top point guards set to hit the open market this summer. Today, I break down the (relatively weak) group of shooting guards expected to enter free agency. 1. Malik Monk / Sacramento Kings / Unrestricted: Monk made himself a ton of money this past season, as he finished second in the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year voting after … ncG1vNJzZmisn6K6uq7Enqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfo9ra2amkpZ6p77EnmSan5WjwW6%2BwKeioqaXqHq1u89mZ56e/a-field-guide-to-christofascism.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./about-bitcoinstrategy.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-bitcoinstrategy.htmlWe are a Substack newsletter and Platform dedicated to providing you with unparalleled Bitcoin on-chain and cycle analysis. Our team of expert data analysts, traders and market researchers are committed to helping you navigate the volatile world of Bitcoin markets with confidence and clarity. Bitcoin Strategy is more than just a newsletter. It is a platform that provides you with access to cutting-edge on-chain and cycle analysis tools, charts and indicators that you can use to track and forecast Bitcoin's price movements, trends and patterns./aldersgate-emails-show-residents-pushed-for-ceo-s-ouster.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/aldersgate-emails-show-residents-pushed-for-ceo-s-ouster.htmlThe following article appeared in the Jan. 26, 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. Aldersgate retirement community has dismissed its CEO, Suzanne Pugh, following years of operating losses for the community and months of scrutiny by the N.C. Department of Insurance and some residents. Aldersgate board members Tommy Lawing and Billy Maddalon announced Pugh’s departure in a letter to residents Wednesday, saying the boards of directors of both the Aldersgate community and its umbrella organization, Aldersgate Life Plan Services, “have made the mutual decision to go in a different direction with the CEO position, effective immediately./amy-thielen-s-deviled-egg-dip.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/amy-thielen-s-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./bringing-soul-train-back-to-life.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bringing-soul-train-back-to-life.html“A big part of Black America died when Soul Train went off the air.” Diamond-Michael Scott Do you remember Soul Train, a badass American television show from back in the day that showcased incredible Black musicians and dancers. It aired nationwide from 1971 to 2006 and holds the record for being one of the longest-running syndicated programs in U.S. television history. Soul Train was the brainchild of Don Cornelius, a former DJ from the Chicago area./cornelius-eady-s-atomic-prayer-by-devin-kelly.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cornelius-eady-s-atomic-prayer-by-devin-kelly.htmlIf the bomb drops And I’m riding the Staten Island Ferry, Give me time to spit in the water. If the bomb drops And I’m on top Of the Empire State Building, Give me time To toss a penny Off the observation deck. If the bomb drops And I’m approaching the subway, Let me have a chance To jump the turnstile. If the bomb drops And I’m walking down Fifth Avenue/creativity-and-health-have-an-ongoing-conversation-and-my-passion-is-to-listen-in-and-improve-their.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/creativity-and-health-have-an-ongoing-conversation-and-my-passion-is-to-listen-in-and-improve-their.htmlIf you believe in the power of creating an online library of resources related to the complex relationship between art and mental health including essays and interviews written from lived experience as well as historic and contemporary research, please subscribe. Only through your support can this work continue. When people ask what I write about, I try succinctly to explain that I write at the intersection of art and mental health./dirty-bobby-kersee-s-group-isn-t-quite-having-the-year-its-coach-and-its-fans-were-hoping-for.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dirty-bobby-kersee-s-group-isn-t-quite-having-the-year-its-coach-and-its-fans-were-hoping-for.htmlSydney McLaughlin-Levrone, perhaps the most accomplished as well as the most popular American track-and-field athlete over the past several years, has withdrawn from the upcoming 2023 World Athletics Championships with a knee injury issue. Bobby Kersee coaches both McLaughlin-Levrone and Athing Mu, the 21-year-old American record-holder in the 800 meters. In January, Kersee said that he expected to see these two racing frequently in 2023. In a world in which prominent observers of track and field were remotely sane or informed, Alison Wade would not have become an instant fan of “Formula Kersee,” because one of the topics Wade is extraordinarily shrewish about is the abuse of female athletes by male coaches, and she would have found Kersee’s “formula” deeply sour./double-suicide-and-the-welcoming-arms-of-eternal-slumber.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/double-suicide-and-the-welcoming-arms-of-eternal-slumber.htmlThis year, my father and I made a suicide pact, although I feel the term may be a bit misleading, here. For a phrase that contains the word “suicide” in it, it's really more about staying alive. But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. Last December, as we were preparing to celebrate Christmas, my father confessed that, unbeknownst to me, almost 4 years prior, he had made a suicide attempt, and that it would have been successful had he not changed his mind at the 11th hour and gone to the ER./give-the-drummer-some-an-interview-with-bill-kreutzmann.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/give-the-drummer-some-an-interview-with-bill-kreutzmann.htmlBill Kreutzmann will not be joining Dead and Company's final tour this summer. That news prompted me to share this excellent 2015 interview, a small portion of which ran in The Wall Street Journal on May 1, 2015. The rest was published only in my Kindle Single Ebook, Reckoning: Conversations With the Grateful Dead. This blog is always free and open to all, so please subscribe and share. And consider preordering my bookBrothers and Sisters: the Allman Brothers Band and The Album That Defined The 70s, which will be published July 25./how-it-all-started-crossdresser-kirsten.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-it-all-started-crossdresser-kirsten.htmlFor a long time, I have been struggling with the feelings of crossdressing but luckily I found a way to express myself and finally start dressing! Hugely supported by my wife which is one of the most beautiful things that happened to me. I have loved boots, gloves, and leather for as long as I can remember. I think my earliest memory dates back to when I was five years old./how-to-make-2024-your-best-year-yet.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-2024-your-best-year-yet.htmlWelcome and thank you for checking out Optimise Me, a monthly newsletter sharing research-backed, practical tips to help you optimise your self-growth and personal productivity. Happy New Year folks! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I certainly have - it was full of rest, reflection, and a whole bunch of learning. Being super transparent with you, I lost a lot of steam towards the end of the year. Man, I was tired, burnt out, and hadn’t realised I was just going through the motions./how-unprecedented-is-taylor-swift-s-popularity.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-unprecedented-is-taylor-swift-s-popularity.htmlGiven that this newsletter usually focuses on popular music in all its various forms, it’s no surprise that Taylor Swift comes up somewhat frequently. As of October 2023, the one-time country starlet is synonymous with “pop music”. Her current tour has been such a success that it grew local economies enough for the Federal Reserve to note it in a report. Her budding romance with Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce led to a 400% spike in his jersey sales./joe-eula-s-ballet-confections-by-laura-mclaws-helms.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/joe-eula-s-ballet-confections-by-laura-mclaws-helms.htmlJoe Eula was one of the greatest fashion illustrators of the twentieth century. In addition to his long career in illustration—starting in the mid-1940s—he was creative director for Halston from 1970 until the end of the decade (as I mentioned in this article Tuesday) as well as a costume designer for the ballet. Less discussed than his illustrations and collaborations with Halston, Eula’s work for the ballet can be seen to reveal so much about his total vision./justin-tucker-is-already-the-best-kicker-in-nfl-history.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/justin-tucker-is-already-the-best-kicker-in-nfl-history.htmlEvery sport has that position. You know what I mean. The position everyone either loves or hates because games often come down to them. In hockey, it’s the goalie. In baseball, it’s the closer. In football, it’s the kicker. The NFL has the best players in the world, so it’s not surprising a good portion of NFL games are close. They usually come down to, ironically, the least athletic players on the team - the kickers./karma-vs-dharma-transform-with-marianne-williamson.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/karma-vs-dharma-transform-with-marianne-williamson.htmlMy having asked the marvelous Deepak Chopra for some advice, he told me this: “Every moment you’re making a choice: either you’re chosen by your karma, or you’re choosing your dharma.” Wow. Brick to forehead moment. I knew what he meant of course, but hearing him say it brought it home. Our karma is the collection of stories, circumstances, details, and others items that constantly assault us, mentally drain us, and keep us bound to the past./make-your-margarita-a-beer-margarita.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/make-your-margarita-a-beer-margarita.htmlThis has been a very, very hot week in Washington, D.C. Stepping outside during the afternoon felt like stepping into a giant open-air sauna, or possibly a simmering vat of donut glaze. It’s been hot. Stupid hot. This is not the time for a Manhattan.  When it’s this hot out, there are really only two things I want to drink: Margaritas — and beer. As it turns out, there’s a great way to combine the two./mind-matter-nick-jikomes.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mind-matter-nick-jikomes.htmlWhether food, drugs or ideas, what you consume influences who you become. Learn directly from the best scientists & thinkers about how your body & mind react to what they're fed. New episodes weekly. Not medical advice. By Nick Jikomes · Over 2,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmilmaOxorrDppitrJWne7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D/my-cousin-the-late-jay-black.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-cousin-the-late-jay-black.htmlMy cousin Jay Black of Jay & the Americans died October 23, 2021, at age 82 in New York. I have some stories. He wasn't born Jay. His birth name was David Blatt. In 1965, my friend Scot Brody and I were at the United Synagogue Youth of Conservative Judaism's convention in Washington, D.C. Scot was representing Jewish Community Center of West Hempstead, where my Bar-Mitzvah reception had been held two years earlier, at which Jay declined to sing./nehru-and-edwina-an-unconventional-union.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nehru-and-edwina-an-unconventional-union.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. On the morning of 21st February, 1960, Edwina Mountbatten was found dead./paul-outerbridge-by-neil-scott.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/paul-outerbridge-by-neil-scott.htmlIt's coming up to degree show season, a time when thousands of fine art students will be trying to justify the last four years of study. What mark will I get? Will a gallery pluck me from obscurity? Should I do commercial work? Can my parents feel proud? These are the questions that might preoccupy them as they plan their exhibition. Talking with photography students at a recent preview, I didn't get the sense that they'd been emboldened by their time at university./re-redistricting-public-media-by-ernesto-aguilar.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/re-redistricting-public-media-by-ernesto-aguilar.htmlStay until the end for Cafecito. 👇 Q: How’d you miss Hispanic Heritage Month? A: Now felt like the right moment. We should be discussing Latino/a-Latine-Latinx people and public media all year. I expect you have seen Census data on Latino/a-Latine-Latinx ascendance. Next newsletter, I'll explore population trends that public media should watch. For now, let's say how important these changes are. Demographics affect everything: politics, education, culture and, of course, media./really-chuy-watching-the-sotu-in-person-was-more-important-than-participating-in-a-major-mayoral-f.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/really-chuy-watching-the-sotu-in-person-was-more-important-than-participating-in-a-major-mayoral-f.html2-9-2023 (issue No. 74) Eric Zorn is a former opinion columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Find a longer bio and contact information here. This issue exceeds in size the maximum length for a standard email. To read the entire issue in your browser, click on the headline link above. This week Subscribe or upgrade your subscription Tsk. I’m sure it’s a gas to be in the Capitol watching the president of the United States deliver the annual State of the Union speech, so who could blame Chicago Democratic U./review-echo-chafa-season-1-episode-1.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-echo-chafa-season-1-episode-1.htmlWelcome to Episodic Medium’s daily coverage of Echo, which debuted tonight on Disney+. 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. When Marvel’s Disney+ TV show experiment first launched, the pitch was simple: Take (relatively) beloved supporting characters from Marvel’s hit movies and give them their own space to shine in a miniseries format./review-fargo-the-paradox-of-intermediate-transactions.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-fargo-the-paradox-of-intermediate-transactions.htmlThere was so much to pack into last week’s Fargo review that I didn’t really have time to talk about the title of the premiere episode, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” If you’re unfamiliar with that phrase, it’s a concept in socioeconomics—controversial, and often used to justify some awful behavior—which suggests that public resources are destined to be misused, because it’s human nature for people to take more than their fair share, operating under the assumption that others will do the same./statistics-shakespeare-and-sam-bankman-fried.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/statistics-shakespeare-and-sam-bankman-fried.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./the-bagel-station-by-sam-anderson.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-bagel-station-by-sam-anderson.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-clippers-new-logo-and-uniforms-inevitably-got-your-ever-sappy-nba-nostalgist-thinking.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-clippers-new-logo-and-uniforms-inevitably-got-your-ever-sappy-nba-nostalgist-thinking.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 ./the-creative-edge-j-t-ellison.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-creative-edge-j-t-ellison.html“Writing can be lonely work, but J.T. has a way of making it much less so. She freely shares of her indelible success in writing and publishing in a way that truly exemplifies “a rising tide lifts all boats.” I’m so thankful for her wisdom and encouragement!” ncG1vNJzZmiipJq5rbXSqKVnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZA%3D%3D/the-six-swans-by-sylvia-v-linsteadt.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-six-swans-by-sylvia-v-linsteadt.htmlWe are in the dark bowl, the earthen night-held lull, of midwinter. Here in England it feels magnetically still. We are engulfed in earth’s darkness more than eighteen hours of the day, and when the sun is up, its path feels as low as dusk. This year, the dark is especially deep, both in potency and in heaviness. There is hell split open on the ground of Bethlehem, which is, let’s remember, in the occupied West Bank of Palestine./the-surprising-history-of-bagels-and-lox.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-surprising-history-of-bagels-and-lox.htmlOh, cream cheese, you unassuming delicacy, you. For various reasons, none that I need share, the past few weeks have been wearing and full of blech. I’ve needed comfort and oddly, it wasn’t a chocolate chip cookie I gravitated towards, or a slice of cake, but cream cheese. Yes, I’ve eaten the ubiquitous cream cheese on a bagel, but also cream cheese and jelly sandwiches that race me straight back to childhood./the-tale-of-the-machine.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-tale-of-the-machine.htmlToday is my ‘name day’ in the Orthodox Church, the feast of St Peter and St Paul. It’s traditional to give gifts on your name day, and though this probably isn’t much of a present, my little e-gift to you all today is a summary of everything I’ve written here at the Abbey of Misrule since I began the project more than two years ago. Together this makes up an argument with a three-part structure, which is summarised below./the-tragic-story-of-star-crossed-lovers-forever-linked-to-the-yucat%C3%A1n.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-tragic-story-of-star-crossed-lovers-forever-linked-to-the-yucat%C3%A1n.htmlTwo names forever linked to the Yucatán are Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Yucatán’s progressive governor, and San Francisco journalist Alma Reed. Their love affair fueled pages in newspapers on both sides of the border but the unlikely outcome of their very public romance enlisted all the elements of Greek tragedy. Reed, a San Francisco native, became one of the city’s first women reporters. An advocate for the poor, she assisted a Mexican family in commuting their 17-year old son’s death sentence in 1921./the-truth-about-todd-by-justin-myers.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-truth-about-todd-by-justin-myers.htmlThis week’s The truth about everything* is a FLASHBULB. According to the dictionary, a flashbulb memory is ‘an unusually vivid, richly detailed, and long-lasting memory for the circumstances surrounding a dramatic event’. Like a JFK/Princess Diana moment, I guess, but my Flashbulbs are pop cu… ncG1vNJzZmismJq0tsXLoqWeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6tn55lpKfCtbSMmpmoraRiwbCwww%3D%3D/the-wizard-edition-by-noah-brier.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-wizard-edition-by-noah-brier.htmlNoah here. If you’ve never seen the 1989 film The Wizard, you haven’t missed a great cinematic moment. Starring Fred Savage, the movie follows two brothers across the country as they hitchhike their way to a video game tournament in California. Along the way they hustle people in Double Dragon at arcades, run into a Power Glove-welding punk, and have their savings stolen by some truck drivers. When they finally arrive at the tournament, Savage’s brother, “the wizard,” triumphs over the competition, making it to the final round of games, where a wrench is thrown into the works when the competition’s announcer tells the contestants they’ll be playing a brand new game: Super Mario Bros./wet-weather-dampens-demand-for-water-witching.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wet-weather-dampens-demand-for-water-witching.htmlNAPA VALLEY, Calif. — In a striking departure from the parched conditions of the past decade, 2023 has offered a much-needed reprieve to the drought-weary Napa Valley. However, this unexpected change in weather patterns has had an unforeseen impact on Rob Thompson, a renowned dowser known for his uncanny ability to locate hidden water sources using nothing more than a pair of stainless-steel rods. As the drought takes a temporary backseat, Thompson's once-frenetic business has experienced a noticeable slowdown./why-do-women-bully-other-women-in-the-workplace.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-do-women-bully-other-women-in-the-workplace.htmlIt’s International Womens Day. Women have accomplished a lot for recognition, success and power in systems and institutions that were originally built by and for men. Despite these successes, we're seriously failing in other areas - the relationships between women at work. We still have a long way to go to combat the barriers to success - specifically the barriers that exist between women that manifest in what's known as lateral aggression./why-frank-castle-should-remain-as-the-punisher.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-frank-castle-should-remain-as-the-punisher.htmlRecently, there has been a brouhaha brewing online about the comic book “superhero” The Punisher possibly being changed even further to stop right-wingers en masse from buying his skull-logo T-shirts in size XL (which was causing a crucial shortage in black poly/cotton blend). Marvel Entertainment (a subsidiary of Disney Inc.) first tried to distance the character by giving him this vague sorta Japanese/“Asian” storyline, possibly in tribute to the oeuvre of notable comics writer C./why-we-all-want-to-be-jo-march.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./words-for-worlds-issue-lv.htmlSat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./salem-s-lot-by-shaina-read.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/salem-s-lot-by-shaina-read.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./the-friends-of-eddie-coyle.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-friends-of-eddie-coyle.htmlI had the dark pleasure this weekend of rewatching “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (1973, streaming on Kanopy and for rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and elsewhere, **** stars out of ****). It’s the very first Boston crime movie and, in the opinion of many, myself included, still the best. I’m leading a talk about the film tonight in a Zoom event for the Massachusetts Historical Society – you can register for it here – organized by the Society’s Director of Programs Gavin Kleepsie, who is in agreement with me that the Peter Yates movie captures something grim and essential about our fair city’s criminal element that not one of the belated follow-ups has managed to replicate./2020-hyundai-sonata-boring-gay-car-review.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2020-hyundai-sonata-boring-gay-car-review.htmlEver since the new Hyundai Sonata (and corporate cousin Kia K5) were released, I have been itching to get my hands on one. It seems to be rarer that cars see a revolutionary redesign between generations, but wow, Hyundai completely leveled up here. I was able to check out a 2020 Sonata SEL, which is one trim above the base model (SE) and very well equipped between standard features and options./40-what-wrong-with-var-and-how-to-fix-it.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/40-what-wrong-with-var-and-how-to-fix-it.html“It’s a penalty to Arsenal! Penalty… wait a moment, there’s a VAR check in progress. They’re checking for offside in the move leading to the penalty… waiting for the decision… still waiting… (crowd noises in the background) the fans are getting annoyed… waiting… OK, no offside so the penalty kick can now be taken (ironic cheering from fans in the background)…” I heard this radio commentary a couple of weeks ago./about-funk-world.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-funk-world.htmlJason Funk is a 17-year-old high school student with autism who began writing comics in first grade. When Jason isn’t writing comics, he’s either reading, playing video games, working on his latest and greatest lego creation, or heading out to Tae Kwon Do. He’s a fan of all things Dr. Who and can’t pass up a good ham sandwich. Although having autism presents unique challenges for Jason, he does not believe his diagnosis defines or limits him./an-interview-with-mark-mccoy-by-dan-ozzi.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-interview-with-mark-mccoy-by-dan-ozzi.htmlHello and welcome to ZERO CRED. In case you missed it, I changed the name of this newsletter last week (from REPLY ALT). Subscribe and get it delivered directly to your inbox. Mark McCoy and I used to eat BBQ and talk about art for hours. This was back when we were both living in Brooklyn. We’d meet up once a month, gorge on beef brisket, and catch each other up on what we were working on./announcing-my-tell-all-memoir-of-reviewing-restaurants-in-des-moines.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/announcing-my-tell-all-memoir-of-reviewing-restaurants-in-des-moines.htmlIt was the best of jobs, it was the worst of jobs… OK, mostly it was a blast. After all, only an ingrate could really complain about being a food critic. And yet, reviewing local restaurants for The Des Moines Register did come with some challenges. In my memoir, Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All, I reveal both the pleasures and pitfalls of serving as the Datebook Diner (the Register’s restaurant reviewer) for 15 years./barry-white-and-love-unlimited-orchestra.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/barry-white-and-love-unlimited-orchestra.htmlIt’s with great pleasure and joy I bring to y’all one of the two great pillars of my musical life… BARRY WHITE! Obviously that’s White in the above photo and he is surrounded by Love Unlimited (from left to right: Glodean White, Diane Taylor, and Linda James). You can’t talk about Barry White without Love Unlimited. And you can’t talk about either without the Love Unlimited Orchestra. It’s a three-for-one deal since they were all over the work of the others./berkeley-s-best-takeout-and-delivery.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/berkeley-s-best-takeout-and-delivery.htmlHello and happy back-to-school time! I know that some people lament the waning days of summer, but I am here for early fall. I love the rituals of September—new backpacks still stiff in the straps, clean white sneakers, freshly sharpened pencils at the ready. When I was a student, I relished the predictable and familiar cadence of the school year, and I am only now realizing how much I’ve missed it over the past decade./beyond-the-village-traveling-with-inspector-gamache.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beyond-the-village-traveling-with-inspector-gamache.htmlHi friends! We have a bonus essay this week from Melissa Joulwan, the co-creator of Strong Sense of Place, a website and podcast devoted to literary travel and books with vivid settings. She’s a long-time Inspector Gamache fan and we’re so excited to share this piece about how Louise Penny creates a sense of place outside our beloved Three Pines. — Aya & Elizabeth Like millions of readers around the world, I'm taken with Three Pines./boat-review-the-portland-pudgy.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/boat-review-the-portland-pudgy.htmlby Larry Brown I’m getting old and my back’s been getting after me. Sailing my Potter 15 wasn’t hard on me; it was all the rest of it, launching, pulling out, cleaning the bottom. I might be the first sailor batty enough to sell his Potter because it was too big. Also, I sail mostly alone. My grandsons haven’t taken to sailing as I’d hoped. So I began thinking about something smaller—much smaller./bob-dylan-talks-about-john-lennon.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bob-dylan-talks-about-john-lennon.htmlI dig John. As a writer, a singer, and a Beatle. There are very few people I dig every time I meet them, but him I dig. He doesn’t take things so seriously as so many guys do. I always love to see John. Always. He’s a wonderful fellow... and I always like to see him. We played some stuff into a tape recorder but I don’t know what happened to it./book-review-the-two-parent-privilege.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/book-review-the-two-parent-privilege.htmlI like thinking about culture war topics from the perspective of forecasting and so Melissa Kearney’s new book, The Two-Parent Privilege, seemed like it would be a good background for a new project. There are a lot of people talking about how America has bifurcated into two societies. People in the upper middle class have college degrees and own their own homes, and working class Americans do not. But Kearney argues that one of the biggest distinctions is that the children of the upper middle class have fathers and the working class does not./boursin-and-chive-baked-eggs.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/boursin-and-chive-baked-eggs.htmlSometimes, I stare into my fridge, searching for something to eat, and I realize that I only have beverages and condiments. This happens more than I care to admit. But sometimes — SOMETIMES! — I stare into my fridge and I have eggs! and chives! and cream! and BOURSIN! Boursin is a soft, creamy cheese that comes in a variety of flavors. Similar to cream cheese, but a bit more crumbly, it comes in a box and is wrapped in foil./brian-o-shea-s-birthday-outspoken-with-dr-naomi-wolf.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/brian-o-shea-s-birthday-outspoken-with-dr-naomi-wolf.htmlI still have a broken shoulder, and still can’t drive, so I am unable to do most of the surprising things I usually can do to celebrate Brian’s, my husband’s, birthdays. But I can type, so as he is in the other room, working on his camera, I can sit a room away writing this birthday letter, that will surprise this very unusual Aries in his inbox — and introduce him to you all a bit more./chris-rock-s-outraged-netflix-comedy-will-smith-s-outrageous-slap-and-me.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chris-rock-s-outraged-netflix-comedy-will-smith-s-outrageous-slap-and-me.htmlSelective outrage is all the rage. You mustn’t cancel Kanye’s tweets but banning books is okay. You mustn’t allow political corruption, but letting George Santos into Congress is okay. You mustn’t eat chicken but trout is okay. That’s the point of Chris Rock’s new Netflix comedy special, Selective Outrage, which was broadcast live on Saturday, March 4 and which I was part of as a guest on the Aftershow. We pick and choose what we’re outraged about as if selecting from a cold and congealed buffet of trigger points./don-t-be-a-menace-to-south-central-while-drinking-your-juice-in-your-hood.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/don-t-be-a-menace-to-south-central-while-drinking-your-juice-in-your-hood.htmlLoc Dog: Never forget. Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about being a menace to South Central while drinking your juice in the hood. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s all about. Mailman: What the fuck is he talking about? —Marlon Wayans, Don’t Be a Menace How far do I have to zoom out before any of this makes sense? People speak about being compassionate and helping the poor but even a cursory glance shows that this is not the case./eating-packing-peanuts-is-the-patriotic-thing-to-do.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eating-packing-peanuts-is-the-patriotic-thing-to-do.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?/hojo-masako-samurai-history-culture-japan.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hojo-masako-samurai-history-culture-japan.htmlHojo Masako Died on This Day, August 16, 1225 Said to be “The most important woman in Japanese military history”, political leader Hojo Masako was born in 1156 during the tumultuous warring of the late Heian period Hogen and Heiji Rebellions, two short civil conflicts fought over the Imperial succession. The Hogen no Ran in particular is seen as the basis for the emerging dominance of the samurai class.  /hokkaido-ramen-santouka-toroniku-shio-shio-ramen-review.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hokkaido-ramen-santouka-toroniku-shio-shio-ramen-review.htmlHOKKAIDO RAMEN SANTOUKA is a short walk away from the central hub of Broadway and Cambie. Unassuming, small, with surgically white lights, it is nonetheless a place that comes highly reviewed by YVR locals. MJ was not impressed as much as A, who loved it and ate faster (a historic first) than everyone else. This time we were joined by our guest Hoélune, who tagged along and mostly drank Oolong tea./how-america-weaponized-the-world-economy.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-america-weaponized-the-world-economy.htmlWhereas I think of the international financial system as operating in the stratosphere - remote from oversight by democratic institutions, Henry Farrell and Abe Newman understand it more as America’s “underground empire…a relentless machine of domination, the product of decades of careful engineering.” They flew into London this week, and I was chuffed to be invited to discuss their important book with them at the LSE. They are both professors, Henry Farrell at John Hopkins University and Abraham L Newman at Georgetown University./ironsides-macroeconomics-it-s-never-different-this-time.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ironsides-macroeconomics-it-s-never-different-this-time.htmlThe Founder, managing partner and director of research for Ironsides Macroeconomics LLC, is Barry C. Knapp. Barry spent nearly four decades on the street and makes ~75 appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business and additional financial media networks, annually. Barry’s investment strategy analysis was available only to institutional investors until he launched Ironsides Macro in 2019. Here is our story and the case for subscribing. My interest in macroeconomics began during a period when Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson renewed the post-WWII J./is-burlington-vermont-suffering-a-crime-wave-because-woke-officials-cut-police-funding.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-burlington-vermont-suffering-a-crime-wave-because-woke-officials-cut-police-funding.htmlA genre of formulaic I-told-you-so punditry has taken root since the George Floyd protests. It goes something like this: First, find a city in which progressive political leaders payed some lip service to the “defund the police” movement and toyed with cutting police budgets. Second, point out that crime in that city subsequently went up. Finally, revel in the humiliation as those political leaders slowly walk back their reforms. There are lots of problems with these narratives./isa-95-and-the-purdue-model-explained.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/isa-95-and-the-purdue-model-explained.htmlOT has a different perspective than IT on the world. The world of manufacturing isn’t virtual, it’s real, with ‘stuff’, sensors, actuators and control systems. This also brings additional complexity when describing this system. How do you describe an architecture that mixes reactors, sensors, real-time control systems, MES and ERP without getting lost?  The Purdue (*) model solves this problem by organizing systems based on levels of control. Level 0: The physical process,/jesse-ventura-s-die-first-then-quit-jesse-tyrel-ventura.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jesse-ventura-s-die-first-then-quit-jesse-tyrel-ventura.htmlPolitics, Philosophy, and Exclusive Commentary from Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Friends By Jesse & Tyrel Ventura · Over 26,000 subscribersNo thanks“Someone has to tell the truth. He is one of the few.” Matthew Moran, Matthew Moran: Music & MusingsncG1vNJzZmiilajApsLEp6uuqpFjwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D/lopez-settles-for-decision-vs-gonzalez-retains-featherweight-title.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lopez-settles-for-decision-vs-gonzalez-retains-featherweight-title.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./michael-flynn-and-the-destiny-of-america.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michael-flynn-and-the-destiny-of-america.htmlRetired General Michael Flynn slow-clapped protesters outside Cranston’s Park Theater as he arrived for his speaking engagement on Sunday. During his interactions with the protesters, General Flynn maintained his innocence of the charges brought against him, charges he had pled guilty to and was later pardoned for. After he was pardoned, the charges were dropped. "It was a pardon of innocence," said Ivan Raiklin, an associate of Flynn, who identifies as a Constitutional lawyer, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, and formerly at the Defense Intelligence Agency./revivalism-what-is-it-by-scot-mcknight.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/revivalism-what-is-it-by-scot-mcknight.htmlThe word “revivalism” is a bit of slur for some today, and not just the highbrows, or the mainline, or the progressive evangelicals. I hear this term at times from quite unlikely sources. Photo by Christian Dubovan on Unsplash What do people mean by the term when they are criticizing it? I’ve long pondered this, wrote about it in King Jesus Gospel, but it’s a term that still turns the lip upward for many./simone-kitchens-reveals-the-lamp-that-works-in-every-home.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/simone-kitchens-reveals-the-lamp-that-works-in-every-home.htmlHello! How’s your week going? Today, we’re excited to feature journalist Simone Kitchens, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, Aaron, and one-year-old daughter, Ramona. “Finding things on the internet is a specialty of mine,” says Simone, a senior editor at New York. “I co-write the newsletter Secret Strategist about rabbit holes we’ll go down. We include a mix of high and low. I wrote about these new-but-look-vintage Wranglers five years ago, and I still hear from people telling me they love these jeans./steak-dogs-with-all-the-fixin-s.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/steak-dogs-with-all-the-fixin-s.htmlHi, everyone! Hope you’re all well. Aside from my birthday (we had sashimi and drank some soju), I had a thankfully uneventful last week. It’s funny how a few normal days can feel like a relief. Today’s piece is mostly about a subject local food writers have somewhat exhausted over the years, including myself, and that’s hot dogs. The outside world seems fascinated with their (usually) heavily-dressed style, and locals like to bicker over their favorites./the-brittanys-are-here-by-brittany-ackerman.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-brittanys-are-here-by-brittany-ackerman.html“sometimes it feels like no one is watching us, the way we find ourselves in spots to make our own decisions. but it also feels like we’re too young to do so, even though it’s all we want, to be able to cut our own bangs, kiss boys in public, pierce our own ears…” The Brittanys is officially here!   Today has been a day full of love and support. I’m so thrilled that the novel is finally arriving at everyone’s front door today and being placed on the shelves of bookstores./the-difference-between-star-wars-canon-and-star-wars-legends.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-difference-between-star-wars-canon-and-star-wars-legends.htmlI bet you’re wondering: what IS the difference between Star Wars Canon and Star Wars Legends? Wait–you didn’t ask? That’s OK. We’ve mentioned both Canon and Legends on this show a bunch of times already, so I figured it’s a good time to clarify the difference. Let’s start by clarifying that Canon doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means in this context. In terms of Star Wars book publishing, a Canon novel – capital C – is any Star Wars book published in 2014 and beyond./the-dork-ages-by-thomas-j-bevan.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-dork-ages-by-thomas-j-bevan.htmlWe live in dork times. Yes, you may have read many an essay or watched many a YouTube video or looked over magazine articles discussing geek culture or the revenge of the nerds, but we don’t hear so much said about the sheer dorkiness of the times we live in. This might sound mean-spirited, a little callous even, but I think there is a whole layer of nuance, a whole conversation that isn’t being had when it comes to how dorky seemingly everything (and everyone now) is./the-man-who-raped-and-killed-laken-riley-was-a-brown-illegal-immigrant-so-running-outlets-are-downp.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-man-who-raped-and-killed-laken-riley-was-a-brown-illegal-immigrant-so-running-outlets-are-downp.html(UPDATE: Laken Riley’s “suspected” killer had been arrested twice before and even worked as an Uber driver in New York City.) Last week, a nursing student at the University of Georgia named Laken Riley was raped and murdered in an unusually grisly way while she was out running. Riley was a 2020 graduate of River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia, where she ran cross-country all four years. The “suspect” is a migrant from Venezuela who entered the United States illegally in 2022./the-myth-of-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-myth-of-the-childhood-obesity-epidemic.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-private-eye-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-private-eye-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlThere’s a long history of stand-up comedians who have gone on to become serious film actors — Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, Lily Tomlin, Steve Martin, Jamie Foxx, etc. Even Jim Gaffigan, who embraces his bumpkin persona, has had stellar supporting roles in small films like “Chappaquiddick” and “Troop Zero.” You may not have heard of Matt Rife because he’s young and broke out on Tik Tok, but he’s become a name in the last few years./the-problems-of-problem-solvers-by-ricardo-brito.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-problems-of-problem-solvers-by-ricardo-brito.htmlTrigger, Action, Reaction. Problem, solution, moving on to the next one. We live in a time of quick feedback loops. At work, the speed of that loop increases every day - faster business results, faster project delivery, and more rapid career progression - we are always encouraged to be problem-solvers.  A sign of how pervasive that is, problem-solver became a cliché. Designers, Engineers, and Consultants added to their job titles "/the-ucr-vs-ncvs-conundrum-by-jeff-asher.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-ucr-vs-ncvs-conundrum-by-jeff-asher.htmlThe United States of America is blessed with two systems to measure crime whereas many countries on this planet only have one. Those two systems are the Uniform Crime Report — run by the FBI — and the National Crime Victimization Survey — run by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. UCR — through the National Incident-Based Reporting System — records crimes that were reported to law enforcement while NCVS is a survey which allows for the estimation of crimes that may have occurred but were not successfully reported to police./tom-proulx-co-founder-of-intuit.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tom-proulx-co-founder-of-intuit.htmlWe had a chance to grab dinner with Tom Proulx, Co-Founder of Intuit, a $115bn financial software company. In 1983, Scott Cook came to Stanford hoping to hire a programmer to create software for personal finance management. It was at Stanford where he encountered Tom, a student, and Tom joined the venture we now call Intuit as a Co-founder.  Here are some takeaways: Throughout the development process, Proulx and Cook followed the principles of the Lean Startup methodology, conducting extensive interviews and user testing to ensure that the software was intuitive, user-friendly, and effective./un-normal-by-dr-emma-svanberg.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/un-normal-by-dr-emma-svanberg.htmlHi, I'm going on a little trip. Do you want to join me? I'm walking away from ideas of 'normal' and instead I'm exploring autism, psychology, and some other light hearted things like race, feminism and trauma. And just what it means to be human. Welcome x Launched 10 months ago No thanksncG1vNJzZmitnqO8s7nApWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVf/wayne-gretzky-is-actually-way-underrated.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wayne-gretzky-is-actually-way-underrated.htmlOn Monday night, Conor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers notched his 100th assist of the season. Which is amazing! I was reading about the history McDavid made when I came across this paragraph on NHL.com: McDavid is the first player to achieve the feat since 1990-91, when Wayne Gretzky had 122 assists for the Los Angeles Kings. Mario Lemieux (114 assists with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988-89) and Bobby Orr (102 with the Boston Bruins in 1970-71) are the other two players to have reached the mark along with McDavid and Gretzky, who did it 11 times./where-on-earth-is-frank-schneider.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/where-on-earth-is-frank-schneider.htmlThe FBI is none too pleased with the French judicial system (and its enforcers) this summer. The man it had hoped to extradite from French custody to the United States, Frank Schneider, pulled a Houdini in mid May from his home in Audun-le-Tiche, France after extricating himself from an electronic monitoring device on his ankle—three months after his extradition was approved (if not actually executed) by France’s Prime Minister. Serious oeuf on the French face./who-will-be-the-next-reds-hall-of-famer.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-will-be-the-next-reds-hall-of-famer.htmlOver the weekend, the latest class was inducted into the world’s greatest team Hall of Fame. Pitchers Bronson Arroyo and Danny Graves, along with former team executive Gabe Paul, were officially welcomed into the Reds Hall of Fame with a gala celebration. A good time was evidently had by all. As the world’s foremost authority on the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame (self-proclaimed), I wish I could have been there. Seventeen Hall of Famers did attend* and the pictures from the event were magnificent./why-trump-47-will-be-perversely-positive-for-usd-assets.htmlFri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-trump-47-will-be-perversely-positive-for-usd-assets.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./i-don-t-hate-americans-hell-i-married-one-everything-you-read-here-is-co-authored-by-an-american.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-don-t-hate-americans-hell-i-married-one-everything-you-read-here-is-co-authored-by-an-american.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/107-pinkydoll-by-marcus-b%C3%B6sch.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/107-pinkydoll-by-marcus-b%C3%B6sch.htmlHi. You are reading Understanding TikTok. My name is Marcus. My For You Page these days is “power gay” Daniel-Ryan Spaulding getting Botox, Kathleen Hanna singing on a fitness bike, Madeline Argy’s accent, Hannah Diamond promoting her new single, Michael Motamedi eating tin fish in Spain, Glaive wearing Lemaire Black Piped Loafers to the sound of DJ Hearstring’s Boiler Room. How is your summer going?  Here is your last TikTok update before a little vacation en France…/10-rules-for-making-cocktails.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/10-rules-for-making-cocktails.html1 Start with the classics. In Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, the character of Nagasawa only reads books that are more than 40 years old; if it's still in print after all that time, it's probably worth reading. (Follow the policy rigidly and you will not be able to read Norwegian Wood until 2027, but you get the idea.) A similar principle applies to cocktails. There are modern classics, true, but they’re mostly indebted to the classic classics, which are classics for good reason./abba-is-the-greatest-band-of-all-time.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/abba-is-the-greatest-band-of-all-time.htmlGentle Reader, I endeavor, each and every week, to bring you the best and wittiest thoughts from my mind in a format that will provide maximum delight and entertainment. So far, I have managed to do so within the prescribed “email length” set by Substack. This has been on purpose. I do not think my thinking so grand as to take up more of your time than necessary, to write an email longer than an email./all-souls-by-alec-toombs.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/all-souls-by-alec-toombs.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I didn’t know what I was getting into with “All Souls” (in select theaters and available on VOD beginning Friday, Dec. 8), but I’m happy to announce the flick was a pleasant surprise and is one heckuva calling card for first-time feature filmmaker Emmanuelle Pickett. Mikey Madison (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Scream” (2022)) stars as River, a 21-year-old single mother of five-year-old Jade (talented newcomer Mia Love Disnard) and community college student./amanda-hesser-is-so-into-a-racket-sport-i-d-never-heard-of-and-i-m-so-into-her-building-a-9-figure.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/amanda-hesser-is-so-into-a-racket-sport-i-d-never-heard-of-and-i-m-so-into-her-building-a-9-figure.htmlAmanda Hesser founded one of my favorite food and lifestyle brands, Food52. It’s one of my go-to sources for recipe and gift inspiration… and what’s crazy is that building that hugely successful company is just a small part of Amanda’s life story. She was also a food writer and editor at the New York Times for many years, and she’s written cookbooks and a memoir called Cooking for Mr. Latte which I just love./annie-ridout-substack.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/annie-ridout-substack.htmlPersonal essays, self-development exercises and business tips that will get you thinking and doing. A bestselling Substack, ‘featured publication’ and global top 20 in Philosophy. From Annie Ridout (author, journalist, poet, coach and entrepreneur). Over 6,000 subscribers No thanksncG1vNJzZmiZnqO2pr7InaaurF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpw/bay-area-slang-redux-by-dan-kopf.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bay-area-slang-redux-by-dan-kopf.htmlThanks for joining me for the 27th issue of the Golden Stats Warrior, a newsletter for data-based insights about the Bay Area. If this is your first time reading, welcome! You can sign up here. I am grateful for your support. Before I get the main business of this week’s newsletter, a little personal news. After more than four wonderful years at Quartz, I am taking some time off to work on personal projects (like this newsletter) and figure out what’s next./bdsm-isn-t-torture-but-bonding-sure-is.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bdsm-isn-t-torture-but-bonding-sure-is.htmlThis is a guest post by Davey Davis. “Domme work,” says Tiff Chester, AKA Mistress May, as she clumsily wraps a scarlet rope around her friend’s wrist, “is about more than just hog-tying someone. It’s about the rope pressing against the skin, becoming safer yet more dangerous with every tug.” As the rope constricts, her friend, an effeminate young redhead named Pete, winces, and even once yelps, “Ouch!” but Tiff keeps winding, tighter and tighter, until presumably causing some kinky nerve damage./chicago-food-gifts-for-chicago-food-lovers-a-holiday-guide.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chicago-food-gifts-for-chicago-food-lovers-a-holiday-guide.html‘Tis the season for dropping cash on those we love. As such, drunk on too much egg nog, I decided to act like a traditional food publication again and publish a holiday gift guide. Because I’m morally opposed to air-fryers (not really), I decided to skip recs for most of the major gadgets in favor of recommending arty and local goodies or at least fun food-related stuff with a strong Chicago connection./chicken-lentil-stew-with-a-vegan-option.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chicken-lentil-stew-with-a-vegan-option.htmlIt’s the New Year, so expect to be inundated with ads and posts from meno-diet charlatans claiming they have “broken the menopause diet code.” That’s medical gibberish, but the closest translation is they’ve figured out how to convert patriarchal messages about the body into cash, but with a menopause twist. Many of them will claim they have the answer to remove the fat that tends to accumulate around the middle in menopause, but they don’t./dispatch-16-everything-is-caroline.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dispatch-16-everything-is-caroline.htmlYesterday morning, I strode to the bath house in the rain. I intentionally left my umbrella behind. I wanted to feel the rain pelt my face, hair, and hands. I wanted it to drench my jacket and pants. I wanted to not resist getting wet. I wanted to not feel separate. I wanted to be out in the open. To feel the elements without protection. To be an animal that does not know about past and future./do-we-treat-strangers-better-than-our-family.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/do-we-treat-strangers-better-than-our-family.htmlLast week I recorded the audio for my book, “Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships.” It was a very intense process. I was speaking for six to eight hours and as I was speaking I was also rereading. During that process, while reflecting on what I had written, the theme that kept coming up for me was that we should be holding our families to a higher standard, not a lower one./frozen-empire-road-house-do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world-late-night-with-t.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/frozen-empire-road-house-do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world-late-night-with-t.htmlGhostbusters: Frozen Empire Dir. Gil Kenan 115 min. There may be no better example of the ruinous influence of fan culture than the Ghostbusters franchise, which started 40 years ago as an amiable lark, then somehow shifted into the realm of Star Wars-level mythos the moment women wanted to get involved. The question of whether Ivan Reitman’s blockbuster comedy could even work as a sequel had already been answered with an emphatic “no” by 1989’s Ghostbusters II, which made a fortune on opening weekend before hemorrhaging viewers after people saw how terrible it was./gt-fish-oyster-is-dead-long-live-gt-fish.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/gt-fish-oyster-is-dead-long-live-gt-fish.htmlWorking fourteen hours on the line, day after day, in the best restaurant in America, where the head chef Charlie Trotter was sometimes as mercurial as Terence Fletcher, the drum teacher from the movie Whiplash, was as demanding as any restaurant cooking job in America.  Chef Giuseppe Tentori, of GT Prime, would never say that. In fact when I asked him about those long hours, he didn’t complain. Rather he immediately said, “It was exactly what I signed up for./hot-women-what-s-their-deal.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hot-women-what-s-their-deal.htmlSomeone subtweeted an essay, and someone else directed me to it. (It’s not a snitch-post, I am not revealing the subtweeter’s identity nor linking to that post.) The piece is by Grazie Sophia Christie, a woman who is, going by her own Instagram, better-looking than 98% of humanity, but who is losing a great deal of sleep about that remaining 2%. Once I saw it, I remembered that I’d actually skimmed it previously, directed by BDM’s excellent newsletter post about it./hummus-for-breakfast-by-jennifer-makan.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hummus-for-breakfast-by-jennifer-makan.htmlI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Dips are an elite food. They can be an appetizer. They can be a snack. If you feel like it on a particular day, they can be a whole meal. They can be spread on sandwiches. They make you look at other food and say, “Could I dip this in that?” Dips invite enterprise and playfulness—two things I’m always happy to have more of in my life./is-disney-bad-for-our-kids.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-disney-bad-for-our-kids.htmlIt is hard not to love a Disney movie. It is entertaining for both kids and adults and often has a heartwarming message. Yet, it is also hard not to wonder if some of the messages and storylines in these movies have a negative impact on children. Many people argue that Disney promotes consumerism, negative female gender stereotypes, toxic masculinity, and unrealistic body standards. So does the research provide any insight into whether Disney movies, TV shows, and merchandise have a positive or negative impact on children?/is-online-doxxing-harassment-or-protected-social-media-activity.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-online-doxxing-harassment-or-protected-social-media-activity.htmlJennifer Couture is a Florida woman who gained attention on TikTok following a viral video that showed her involved in an assault outside a local Dunkin Donuts. The video was posted by a TikTok user named Danesh Noshirvan, who specializes in “cancel culture” content. Noshirvan goes beyond public shaming and engages in a practice called “doxxing,” which is the act of publicly revealing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent to do so./last-things-first-billy-wayne-davis.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/last-things-first-billy-wayne-davis.htmlBilly Wayne Davis is a comedian who has performed on Conan, Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central, lent his voice and producing skills to SquidBillies, hosted a travel doc for CMT, Morgan Spurlock Presents Freedom! The Movie , opened for Sturgill Simpson, and worked with Sacha Baron Cohen on both Who is America? and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Davis has just released his second stand-up comedy festival, Testify, which premiered exclusively on the Moment platform in November 2022./lonesome-dove-chapters-13-22-the-real-jake-spoon.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lonesome-dove-chapters-13-22-the-real-jake-spoon.htmlHowdy, readers!  In reading through the comments, I’ve been glad to see how the Seinfeld comparison resonated with so many of you over the last week. In this week’s reading, chapters 13-22, there were some equally funny and meaningless moments, but also a few darker ones too.  Jake and Lorie shacked up, the real Jake Spoon came ou… ncG1vNJzZmismJqvqrPRnpidZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8uopZ6rn6KybrDOr5xmm5iWvbWx0axkamtdZ39uwMee/longing-david-whyte.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/longing-david-whyte.htmlShare David Whyte I wrote Longing in a single sitting in the morning quiet of an old Yorkshire Dales Inn I have visited since childhood. The evening before I had walked up high to a line of stone cairns looking down at the village. I was there to work up an appetite for the substantial fare provided every night at dinner and to take the air, but in that evening light, I suddenly felt the tear of what felt like a passing bullet, close to my ear./my-son-is-ready-dana-loesch-s-chapter-and-verse.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-son-is-ready-dana-loesch-s-chapter-and-verse.htmlFor something non-political. Four years ago I wrote this thread about dropping off our firstborn at college (he graduated in May). Now it’s time for the second one. Raising my kids, especially this young man, has been the most fantastic experience of my life. He is one of the wittiest, cleverest people I’ve ever known. He is both of his parents evolved. He is also steadfast and utterly immovable in his faith./new-recipe-mexican-sopita-by-laura-arteaga.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/new-recipe-mexican-sopita-by-laura-arteaga.htmlHello hello! Happy Monday! Finally, I can share this ridiculously easy recipe with you! I’ve been trying for a while now, but when I decided to post this recipe on the blog and share this beloved family recipe, weirdly enough, they got rid of shell pasta in all supermarkets around us. But I don’t give up that easily, so a few weeks ago, while in Ireland, I decided to look for shell pasta there, and finally found it, yay!/not-just-a-right-wing-phenomenon.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/not-just-a-right-wing-phenomenon.htmlIf you'd asked me a few months ago what the term reactionary meant I could have told you that it was associated with the right-wing and that it was usually used as an insult rather than a self-identifier but beyond that I couldn't have told you what it actually meant. It's one of those political terms I've heard floating around for years but never paid … ncG1vNJzZmismJq5qsLIp56poJmhvLS7z6GwZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cL7EmpqtoZ%2BjrrPFjKemrWWaqsC1ecBmqaKfmKl6uLXNoA%3D%3D/on-optimism-by-erifili-gounari.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-optimism-by-erifili-gounari.htmlI’ve inhabited both ends of the spectrum: true cynic and eternal optimist. It’s interesting how some people grow up as optimists, seeing the good in things until life inevitably snatches that privilege away and leaves them to face what they didn’t want to believe in, turning them into cynics. It feels like a more natural order of things; for me it was reversed. I had a few years of intense cynicism growing up./openai-shuts-down-ai-written-text-detector-why-should-we-believe-other-ai-detection-software-works.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/openai-shuts-down-ai-written-text-detector-why-should-we-believe-other-ai-detection-software-works.htmlCan machines really tell whether content is written by a generative AI tool? The answer seems to be no, despite companies that sell these verification tools suggesting extremely high success rates. In January, OpenAI introduced an AI classifier to identify AI-written text (make sure you read the second excerpt below for the news). The original blog post said: We’ve trained a classifier to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs from a variety of providers./pepsi-s-new-retro-logo-and-the-evolution-of-an-icon-as-seen-on-the-american-roadside.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pepsi-s-new-retro-logo-and-the-evolution-of-an-icon-as-seen-on-the-american-roadside.htmlOne of the reasons Coke is “The Real Thing” is that it doesn’t mess with its identity too much. Well, there was that fiasco of New Coke in 1985, but it’s worthy of note that Coke used that imbroglio to double down on its iconography with its Coca-Cola Classic rebrand of the original formula. Right about now, you might be asking, “Isn’t this post about Pepsi?” It is indeed, but you can’t do a post about Pepsi without tackling its relationship with Coke, and their forever rivalry, once a heated weapon dance at the height of the 1980s Cola Wars./player-ratings-from-inter-miami-s-messi-less-rivalry-match-vs-orlando-city.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/player-ratings-from-inter-miami-s-messi-less-rivalry-match-vs-orlando-city.htmlphoto credit: Inter Miami CFIn the sweltering heat of Central Florida, Inter Miami continued its MLS regular season campaign with a 0-0 draw against rival Orlando City. Before the match, Tom Bogert of The Athletic reported that Lionel Messi wouldn’t travel with the team after suffering a knee knock during Miami’s 3-2 win over Montreal. Nonetheless, the Herons persisted, grinding out a difficult draw on the road. It wasn’t the sharpest of games from the men in pink./review-for-all-mankind-leningrad.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-for-all-mankind-leningrad.htmlFor All Mankind’s time jumps are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they allow the writers to progress the show’s central conceit of an alternate history space race into uncharted territory without needing to worry about the logistics. The show leaps from Moon Landing to Moon Base to Mars Landing to Mars Base without having to deal with the years of development in between, and it ensures that the show can cover these important milestones without having to run 12 seasons./review-only-murders-in-the-building-thirty.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-only-murders-in-the-building-thirty.htmlWhen I was writing about CBS’ Elementary for three years, I often wrote about the inherent struggle of stakes in a weekly procedural. Ultimately, a show about Sherlock Holmes could cover a wide range of different types of crimes that his specific skills could assist with, but Elementary focused exclusively on murder, mainly because it was believed that it was necessary in order to efficiently establish stakes that could invest audiences in a case-of-the-week./ron-desantis-smiling-and-laughing.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ron-desantis-smiling-and-laughing.htmlNO POLITICS COPYRANTER, STAY IN YOUR LANE! But this is not a political post. It is an advertising/communications post about how visuals are always more powerful than words. A lesson Ron is learning the hard way. Also, it’s Friday, and I’m sick to death of advertising. The humanoid has of course already become a meme. His advisors have even intervened to advise him “when to smile”. $40/year til X-Mas, freeloader./san-francisco-40-years-of-failure.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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?/the-anatomy-of-trauma-core-aesthetics.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-anatomy-of-trauma-core-aesthetics.htmlHauntology by its very nature is a grab for the past, for the kindness of childhood. A time which can never exist, because it never did exist. The lost future is as mourned for as the inaccessible past. This is the state of modern society. This is the order of the day. Reach into the past and let your soul linger in the amniotic fluid of nostalgia. Cease to exist, because a better world lives inside the crackle of the VHS tape./the-anger-management-secrets-of-customer-service-people.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-anger-management-secrets-of-customer-service-people.htmlAs part of my personality-change project, I took an anger management class. The class was mostly devoted to teaching us how not to get angry at people we’re close to—our families, our friends. We talked a lot about how our relationships suffer when we yell instead of taking a deep breath and walking away. (This, alas, is pretty much the main anger-management tool out there. Saved you $300.) But at points in the anger management course, I noticed that often, I was trying to manage other peoples’ anger, rather than my own./the-batman-of-s-f-nightlife.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-batman-of-s-f-nightlife.htmlMark Rennie has been a licensed attorney in San Francisco since 1974, and boasts a decades-long history of creative collaborations in art and business. He’s opened many nightclubs and restaurants, from the legendary Club Nine, with Chris Isaak as house band and Courtney Love as coat check girl, to the Billboard Cafe, which featured a billboard on the rooftop as a rotating canvas for visual artists. He founded the Eyes and Ears Foundation in 1977, promoting the work of dozens of artists from Ed Ruscha to DJ Hall, Rick Griffin and Karen Carson./the-curious-metoo-case-of-yascha-mounk.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-curious-metoo-case-of-yascha-mounk.htmlMy Smoke ‘Em pod partner Sarah Hepola and I often discuss how it’s no longer 2020; how decisions made in that overheated season have proved unpopular - hello, DEI! Or rather, goodbye - and, as I have written about here, fatal. I have a piece about Measure 110, the Oregon law passed in 2020 that decriminalized all drugs, about to drop, in which I chart some of the measure’s disasters, most tragically to human lives as well as to the state as a whole./the-lightness-of-chris-walla-pt-1-human-pursuits-6-2-23.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-lightness-of-chris-walla-pt-1-human-pursuits-6-2-23.htmlVANCOUVER – It seems downright inconceivable in this age of Tiny Desk Concerts and TikTok, but twenty years ago, television was the way to discover new music. It was the early 2000s and we were living in a post-TRL world. Music videos mattered. Award shows mattered. Soundtracks mattered. Hell, even a random shout-out on a teen soap opera could change the trajectory of a band’s career. Don’t believe me? Ask any millennial about the first time they heard Death Cab for Cutie./the-problem-with-the-flash-s-new-origin-story.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-problem-with-the-flash-s-new-origin-story.htmlA few month ago, when I rounded up theBest Comics of 2020, I praised Dial H For Hero for “redefining a hero’s ‘secret origin,’ not as the moment where they acquire superpowers, but instead as the moment they decide to use their powers to do good.” Of course, this isn’t an idea Hero came up with wholesale. I truly love the series, not only for choosing to make this idea a prominent theme, but for summing it up so eloquently, but the thought has been around for about as long as superheroes themselves have./they-can-t-have-her-hair.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/they-can-t-have-her-hair.htmlI was solo last weekend, so I spent my whole Saturday morning listening to Michelle Williams read The Woman In Me while I puttered around the house. (Yes, this part of divorced life does not suck.) When I later mentioned to my parents I’d spent my weekend doing that, they seemed a little puzzled, and I get it. For decades, Britney Spears was not the kind of celebrity we took seriously./transactive-memory-how-to-trust-your-team.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/transactive-memory-how-to-trust-your-team.htmlAlthough Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Bomber Mafia, is about a deeply uncomfortable type of innovation, there was a wonderful phrase he introduced me to, which (as he so often does) perfectly captured something kind of obvious that I'd previously not been able to describe. Here's his paragraph: The psychologist Daniel Wegner has this beautiful concept called transactive memory, which is the observation that we don’t just store information in our minds or in specific places./university-of-colorado-boulder-athletics-at-a-crossroads.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/university-of-colorado-boulder-athletics-at-a-crossroads.htmlNo one has asked me but were I to advise University of Colorado Boulder leaders and administrators about the future of its athletics programs this post summarizes what I would tell them. Before doing that, let me just briefly tell you about my long relationship with CU Athletics. My 35-year Love Affair with CU Athletics I came to the Boulder campus in 1986 as a freshman aerospace engineering student, fully immersed in the college football culture of the late 20th century./wap-redux-and-a-cyborg-manifesto.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wap-redux-and-a-cyborg-manifesto.htmlI don’t know how we got back to WAP discourse but here we are. I’m shocked, though, in all of this that no one is pointing out the obvious reference to Donna Haraway’s seminal text for our brave new world, Cyborg Manifesto, in all the chatter about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s Grammy performance. I loved that performance, by the way—camp that is slightly stale is my favorite kind of camp./what-gets-measured-matters-by-matthew-carey.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-gets-measured-matters-by-matthew-carey.html“What gets measured, gets managed” is a famous quote from Peter Drucker’s 1954 book “The Practice of Management.” When we seek improvement and forward motion it’s crucial to identify the key drivers to making that happen. Then by measuring them we can test tweaks and changes to see if they are moving us in the right direction. I think a variation on Drucker’s phrase is also important. “What gets measured, matters./flora-and-son-it-lives-inside.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/flora-and-son-it-lives-inside.htmlFlora and Son Dir. John Carney 97 min. Some filmmakers discover they do one thing extremely well and stick with it and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. For John Carney, it’s movies about the transformative power of music, an interest he first pursued with Once in 2007 then returned to, in one way or another, with Begin Again, Sing Street, and now Flora and Son, a pleasant but thin dramedy with one scene that alone justifies its reason for existing and confirms Carney as the best there is at his particular niche (or at least the best since Cameron Crowe)./r-malefashionadvice-in-the-news-malefashionadvice.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/r-malefashionadvice-in-the-news-malefashionadvice.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/happy-2011-the-secrets-of-happiness.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/happy-2011-the-secrets-of-happiness.htmlImage by moviewise from RedBubbleHappy (2011) is a documentary by director Roko Belic about research studies on happiness, which features Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who explains his theory of Flow, what athletes call “being in the zone,” a state of fulfillment during demanding physical activity. Life Lesson: People find happiness when they are: engaging in play, having new experiences, feeling connected to a community through friends and family, doing things that are meaningful (helpful), and appreciating what they have./a-directory-of-successful-query-letters.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-directory-of-successful-query-letters.htmlWhen my debut came out in 2019, I wrote a little guide to finding an agent and included my exact query letter — before and after, in fact, showing its too-long first draft and then the edited version I sent out. Years later, querying authors still reach out to thank me for it. Which got me thinking…why not create a whole compendium of successful book pitches? Elevator pitches are hard, whether you’re crystallizing a new book idea, pitching your manuscript, or trying to convince readers to buy your book./a-forgotten-aretha-franklin-single-and-the-making-of-ms-fat-booty.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-forgotten-aretha-franklin-single-and-the-making-of-ms-fat-booty.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. Growing up in Queens during hip-hop’s formative years, producer Ayatollah had a front row seat to an art form that would soon become a global phenomenon./a-little-introspection-and-self-criticism-from-a-proud-gen-xer.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-little-introspection-and-self-criticism-from-a-proud-gen-xer.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./a-quick-explainer-of-grimm-s-law-by-klaus.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-quick-explainer-of-grimm-s-law-by-klaus.htmlIf you’ve read this blog, you’ve heard the phrase “Grimm’s Law.” A few months ago, I contrasted Grimm’s Law with a similar shift consonant shift in Armenian. It was too long, and it was somehow both too academic and too cute. Thus, I wanted to write a new piece that explained Grimm’s Law while removing all the other crap. Here is that piece. Let’s start with some basics. It’s not a law./about-herb-greenberg-on-the-street.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-herb-greenberg-on-the-street.htmlHi everybody… I’m Herb Greenberg. I spent much of my decades-long career as a financial journalist, and also co-founded two short-biased research firms. You can read my bio on LinkedIn. I get exhausted just looking at it. I first started writing Herb Greenberg | On the Street, better known as Herb on the Street, more than 20 years ago when I joined TheStreet.com. The name just seemed so obvious – and even wound up causing the Wall Street Journal to threaten a lawsuit – since it was too close to their Heard on the Street./about-mitchell-epner-on-law.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-mitchell-epner-on-law.htmlI’m Mitchell Epner. I’m an attorney in New York City, where I practice in a small firm practicing criminal defense and civil litigation. From 2001-04 I was federal prosecutor, and for the last twenty years have defended people in state and federal criminal proceedings and represented them as both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of civil cases, including high-stakes patent litigation, First Amendment matters, securities litigation and internationally famous civil matters./absence-does-make-the-heart-grow-fonder.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/absence-does-make-the-heart-grow-fonder.htmlIn October I traveled three weekends in a row and I deeply missed my family. Coming back to them felt really special. It reminded me that when we are away from the people and stuff we love, it makes us better appreciate our experiences with them when we are able to have them.  It can feel good not to give ourselves what we want all the time. I have this chai that I really love./adobong-pusit-squid-ink-pasta.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/adobong-pusit-squid-ink-pasta.htmlMarch 13th, 2021 When I was in high school, I remember taking baon (leftovers) from home to school in a glass. During lunch, I'd use the teacher's microwave to heat my food, because who wants to eat cold food? I chose to bring adobong pusit, the squid stewed in soy sauce and vinegar, a common dish among Filipinos. The squid was a unique black and purple, its tiny tentacles visibly glistening and swimming in the sauce and along with slices of tomato./austin-winery-ceo-ross-mclauchlan-is-betting-it-all-on-local-texas-wine.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/austin-winery-ceo-ross-mclauchlan-is-betting-it-all-on-local-texas-wine.htmlIn this issue, I interview Austin Winery CEO and co-founder Ross Mclauchlan, based in, you guessed it, Austin, Texas. The state grows some of the USA’s most exciting and diverse range of grapes—over 42 species of grapes grow in Texas. As CEO, Ross has led The Austin Winery (an urban winery in the heart of Austin) for ten years, building relationships with local growers, introducing a new generation of Texans to natural wine, and fostering a strong community that values local agriculture./browsing-the-aisles-or-browsing-the-app-how-online-grocery-shopping-is-changing-what-we-buy.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/browsing-the-aisles-or-browsing-the-app-how-online-grocery-shopping-is-changing-what-we-buy.htmlThis is a fabulous research paper that explores the evolving shares of online/offline retail by analysing one of the sectors that saw the most profound shifts:  groceries.  Browsing the Aisles or Browsing the App? The paper and analysis is US cent… ncG1vNJzZmismJq7psHRqJuirpWntKa6056aqKafora0wI2srJurpJawrHrCqKRoqF%2BXv7DD0qKloGWknbJurciso56rXaS%2Fbq7RqK6soZ6cerW0xA%3D%3D/celebrating-tapas-in-america.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/celebrating-tapas-in-america.htmlMy friends,  I think the Spanish have given the world many culinary gifts—jamón, paella, burnt Basque cheesecake, Ferran Adrià’s famous liquid olives…but the most important one of all may be tapas, the little bites that make up so many of our meals in Spain. As you may know, the word tapa means lid in Spanish. The tradition began in the south of Spain as people would use little pieces of bread and small bites to cover their glasses of wine or sherry to keep the fruit flies out of them…and it quickly spread across every region of the country./chili-pepper-salt-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chili-pepper-salt-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlThe other morning I happened to be walking through the Bastille market on a Thursday morning. The market also takes place on Sunday morning and is a great market either day, but there are about 80% fewer people there on Thursday, so it’s a lot easier, and less hectic, to shop there. I’ve been hard at work changing my address with my bank since I moved. I began the process on their website, and it took me a while to track down where to do it under Mon profile > Informations personelles, where you’d think it would be (since that’s where you go to change your phone number, e-mail address, and security code), but alas, it was nowhere to be found./comments-zuni-caf%C3%A9-roast-chicken.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-zuni-caf%C3%A9-roast-chicken.htmlI did you do it at 475? For me it wasn't messy, and the temp goes down to 450. It's usually 500 that gets smoky and messy! That said, you can dial it down 25 degrees and cook a little longer. The small chicken on the large sheet pan also helped to contain things. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmirpaiur63LoquyZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9mupaJlk5azpnnRqJisrF2Ytaqvyp6laJuforqmutOs/do-you-hear-what-i-hear.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/do-you-hear-what-i-hear.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./domingo-germ%C3%A1n-s-perfect-game-was-a-perfect-reminder-that-baseball-is-weird-as-hell.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/domingo-germ%C3%A1n-s-perfect-game-was-a-perfect-reminder-that-baseball-is-weird-as-hell.htmlShort post today, but I just had to write something about the perfect game that New York Yankees starter Domingo Germán threw last night. Perfect games are incredibly rare and incredibly cool; Germán’s was just the 22nd of the World Series era (since 1903), including both the regular season and postseason, and the first in MLB since King Félix Hernández did it on August 15, 2012, more than a decade earlier./fearsome-whale-repeatedly-rammed-ships-15-centuries-ago-was-it-an-orca.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fearsome-whale-repeatedly-rammed-ships-15-centuries-ago-was-it-an-orca.htmlOrca “attacks” on sailboats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal are not as unprecedented as the news coverage has suggested, but you have go all the w… ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6fnJqqo6S6pnnWoZilnV2nsrGxwK2cnaSpYr%2Biucyemw%3D%3D/i-tracked-down-the-son-of-the-sax-soloist-from-patti-labelle-s-background-singers-disaster.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-tracked-down-the-son-of-the-sax-soloist-from-patti-labelle-s-background-singers-disaster.htmlWell, the candy canes and silver lanes are aglow and the Happy Honda Days are nigh, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for Patti LaBelle’s performance of the Donny Hathaway classic “This Christmas” at the 1996 National Tree Lightning Ceremony to go viral once again. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, do yourself the hugest of favors, stop reading this piece and watch this immediately before proceeding:/inside-llewyn-davis-just-not-dave-van-ronk.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/inside-llewyn-davis-just-not-dave-van-ronk.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./is-mlb-s-balanced-schedule-working.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-mlb-s-balanced-schedule-working.htmlWith MLB’s many rule changes taking up all of the attention going into the 2023 season, it was easy for another structural tweak — the introduction of a more balanced schedule — to fly under the radar. That was understandable; adding a pitch clock, banning the shift and changing the size of the bases are pretty dramatic changes to a sport known for resisting that kind of thing. And the new rules are practically all working, to some extent or another, with a demonstrable impact on how the game is played./june-25-2023-by-heather-cox-richardson.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/june-25-2023-by-heather-cox-richardson.htmlSummer has finally arrived, and I left the laptop behind today so we could take advantage of it. Will be back on schedule tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s one of my favorite pictures of Buddy headed to work himself. Can’t complain about the view from his office. [Photo of Buddy Poland and Pete taken by Captain Frank Bedell] Share ncG1vNJzZmiglZbBqbHRnKaxqpmYtaK%2Bw6ymp2ajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvJrqWeZWJqenN8kWw%3D/mess-hall-marian-bull.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mess-hall-marian-bull.htmlA newsletter from Marian Bull about home cooking: why we do it, how to do it better, and how it interacts with the lives we live. Recipes, cookbook reviews, and recommendations to help make you a happier cook. By Marian Bull · Over 6,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmilkae2orrBrqOlZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonw%3D/michelin-in-latin-america-by-nicholas-gill.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michelin-in-latin-america-by-nicholas-gill.htmlWith the release of new stars in Mexico and Brazil over the past week, plus Argentina a few months ago, there are now three Michelin guides in Latin America. I wrote a year ago about the famed French guidebook’s expansion in the region, as well as globally, and predicted t… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8yimqGdnJ67brXNZqOarJmjeqK5xKugnJk%3D/my-european-range-review-by-w-design-collective.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-european-range-review-by-w-design-collective.htmlI did a lot of research before choosing my range and ultimately chose the Aga Elise 48 inch range. My decision came down to aesthetic, price, and function. I wanted something that was more affordable than a Lacanche, but with a similar aesthetic. Here’s what I love about it… ncG1vNJzZmivlJrAqrPNZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZLq6ecSuqaiolZa7br7Ap56eZaKaw6qx1g%3D%3D/otani-shohei-s-kabuto-samurai-history-culture-japan.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/otani-shohei-s-kabuto-samurai-history-culture-japan.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./recipe-mandarin-jam-by-catherine-phipps.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/recipe-mandarin-jam-by-catherine-phipps.htmlWhat a gloomy week it has been. We had a little snow here – not enough to be interesting and it soon gave way to rain and more mud – the pathways around these parts are slick with it. I’ve tried to get out whenever the sun has broken through, but much of the time I have turned my back on the weather and managed to do a bit of preserving./review-ted-lasso-signs-season-3-episode-5.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-ted-lasso-signs-season-3-episode-5.htmlAs season orders have shortened, the burden placed on ephemeral story arcs has increased. In a 22-episode season of a sitcom, a four-episode story arc would be a blip on the radar—in a 12-episode season of a streaming dramedy, it’s a full third of the story being told. If you are going to invest a third of a character or a team’s story around a temporary presence, then it needs to generate meaningful momentum and leave a mark on the characters involved./saratonin-sara-benincasa-substack.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/saratonin-sara-benincasa-substack.htmlA delightful weekly newsletter that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant & often full of useful recommendations & weirdly enchanting ideas By Sara Benincasa · Over 3,000 subscribersNo thanks“Sara's newsletters keep me going. I've been a fan of her writing for years and when her posts hit my inbox, it sparks joy!” ncG1vNJzZmirkaeuq67Ep6Cnm5Gorm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo/scotus-denies-frank-walls-petition-for-writ-of-certiorari.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/scotus-denies-frank-walls-petition-for-writ-of-certiorari.htmlOn Tuesday, in a batch of Orders denying petitions for writ of certiorari from across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Frank Walls’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Florida Supreme Court’s February decision in his case. Walls’ petition presented the following questions: Frank Walls was originally sentenced to death in 1988 following a jury’s recommendation for death by a vote of 7-5. On direct appeal, the Florida Supreme Court vacated Walls’ conviction and sentence./so-god-made-a-dictator.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/so-god-made-a-dictator.htmlLast week, Trump started promoting “God Made Trump” an ad using an AI generated voiceover of Paul Harvey. As we’ve seen more and more MAGA evangelicals abandon all their stated principles and beliefs in an act of sweeping idolatry. Some ads take days or weeks of creative process, iteration, and revision. This was not one of them. This ad was rattled off into Notes on my iPhone and our brilliant production team took the concept and ran with it, cutting the spot in mere hours./someone-should-help-lincoln-s-bible-and-give-the-girl-what-she-wants-right-booking-now.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/someone-should-help-lincoln-s-bible-and-give-the-girl-what-she-wants-right-booking-now.htmlIf someone could be so kind as to educate Lincoln Bible that would be super swell and much appreciated. Queen of disinformation and misinformation and pretending she knows everything about everything all while enabling the QANON-for-the-Left garbage. Because the fact you “WANT ANSWERS NOW GODDAMNIT” that’s super swell and rich considering you’ve trafficked in disinformation and misinformation for years The fact you don’t understand how criminal investigations actually work or the process which are governed the Federal criminal rules of Procedure/sources-chelsea-striker-search-big-updates-jhon-duran-to-chelsea.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sources-chelsea-striker-search-big-updates-jhon-duran-to-chelsea.htmlMorning all, Hope you are having a good week. We had the latest Podcast out yesterday with myself and Jai, and as you can imagine, there was a lot to discuss, report, and debate. We did it all in here. Also in here, Jai has put out a list of great striker choices who we SHOULD be looking at and who are also available and attainable this window. Not hearing ‘but there’s nobody suitable available’ - there absolutely IS./special-report-why-i-quit-sex.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/special-report-why-i-quit-sex.htmlIn this special report, you will find out how it feels to be published by The Guardian. Reading these words still gives me the jitters. In the best way. In this deeply personal essay, I bare my soul to 88 million readers around the globe. It is a confession, a declaration and a hopeful look to the future, all in less than 900 words. Writing it was cathartic. Seeing it published means the world./tactics-talk-with-dominique-janssen.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tactics-talk-with-dominique-janssen.htmlWolfsburg and Netherlands defender Dominique Janssen has played in just about every big game going. Domestic cup finals? Check. Champions League final? Check. European Championships final? Check. World Cup final? Check. That is no coincidence for a player who has quietly progressed over the years into a European champion for her country and is a regular fixture at the heart of the defence for one of the continent’s top teams./the-bis-wants-bank-volunteers-to-test-a-tokenized-cross-border-transfer-future.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-bis-wants-bank-volunteers-to-test-a-tokenized-cross-border-transfer-future.htmlThe BIS and the IIF are inviting private sector banks to participate in Project Agora, to explore how tokenization can enhance wholesale cross-border payments. First, understand this: Project Agora is big. Seven major central banks support it, five of which are reserve currencies: Banque de France (representing the Eurosystem), Bank of Japan, Bank of Korea, Bank of Mexico, Swiss National Bank, Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York./the-exquisite-loneliness-of-the-grand-budapest-hotel.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-exquisite-loneliness-of-the-grand-budapest-hotel.htmlThe Grand Budapest Hotel, for all of its frothy pink decor and exteriors, is at its core just an exquisite film about loneliness. Everyone in the movie is lonely for most of it. Zero, who has lost his whole family, country, and even his name, is perhaps the loneliest of all, but he is hardly the only ones. The old women that stay at the hotel are surrounded by fluttering entourages but know in their heart of hearts that people only care about them for their money./the-horror-and-gore-of-1972.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-horror-and-gore-of-1972.htmlWelcome to the second annual installment of celebrating the horror films released a half-century ago this Halloween. Since last year’s look at 1971 horror films, I have been watching horror films from 1972…as many as I could find. And after watching dozens of films, I have culled down my favorites. And yes, if you were wondering, by focusing on a specific year, I ended up discovering an incredible array of films I had never seen before as well as falling back in love with long lost friends./the-melting-face-emoji-by-eliza-goodpasture.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-melting-face-emoji-by-eliza-goodpasture.htmlI love emojis. I especially love when they are used in opaque or unexpected ways. The melting face emoji joined the canon early in 2022. Recently, I’ve started noticing it as I scroll through the faces, trying to find one that conveys my tone correctly (usually I use one of these two because I feel like they cover a lot of bases: 🥳 😩). The melting face has felt like the right thing to send in an exceptionally wide array of contexts, and each time I’ve used it, I have thought to myself that I could not articulate what I mean by it and the person I am sending it to might understand it to mean something entirely different, anyway./the-texas-dog-lawyer-by-jane-wells.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-texas-dog-lawyer-by-jane-wells.html“We are looking for the dogs now,” Zandra Anderson frantically emails me. “We have video and receipts that she’s hiding dogs.” “She” is Elaine Kmiec, a former Houston optometrist who’d been forced to give up over 100 dogs and cats over the years, pets Kmiec housed in deplorable conditions. She’d even spent time in custody for lying to a federal bankruptcy judge about how many animals she possessed. But right now, Zandra is desperately searching for dogs because I notified her that Kmiec is dead./why-is-my-child-so-cranky-after-screen-time.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-is-my-child-so-cranky-after-screen-time.htmlWelcome to Techno Sapiens! I’m Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and professor at Brown University, co-founder of Tech Without Stress (@techwithoutstress), and mom of two young kids. Techno Sapiens is now home to 20,000+ readers, and I’m so grateful you’re here. Share Hi techno sapiens! We’re back with our final installment of Myth-Busting March. If you’d rather skip right to some practical tips for managing screen time transitions (no judgement here), scroll to the end./will-the-mma-goat-please-stand-up-doubts-about-goat-talk-in-mma.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/will-the-mma-goat-please-stand-up-doubts-about-goat-talk-in-mma.htmlThe history of mixed martial arts (MMA) has a long history extending back at least to the Ancient Greeks with their version of physical combat known as ‘Pankration’ (meaning ‘all powers’). Fast forwarding to near-present day, the contemporary world was broadly introduced to MMA through the efforts of companies like the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and other companies too. The idea behind MMA is to allow fighters, unlike boxers and wrestlers, to employ mixed techniques from across various and distinct fighting styles like kickboxing, karate, wrestling, and judo, in part, to establish which fighting styles are most effective./y-all-the-duck-decoy-market-is-wild.htmlWed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/y-all-the-duck-decoy-market-is-wild.htmlBack in October 2022, my wife and I visited the Easton Waterfowl Festival. We had a blast and came upon a startling realization—there is an entire market dedicated to rare, historic, or realistic-looking duck decoys. These decoys sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars. In fact, one pair of decoys sold for $1.13 million in 2012! How could this possibly be? And who are these collectors that can afford to shell out this kind of money?/discipline-is-destiny-by-david-epstein.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/discipline-is-destiny-by-david-epstein.htmlA Spartan king, asked what the Spartans gain from their ‘spartan’ habits, replied: “Freedom is what we reap from this way of life.” I underlined this anecdote in Ryan Holiday’s book, Discipline is Destiny, which came out last year. I think it’s a microcosm of the book as a whole, which argues, in my view, that self-imposed limits — of body and mind — can free rather than restrict us./2023-nba-draft-scouting-report.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2023-nba-draft-scouting-report.htmlEarlier this week, I wrote about the reasons that there’s one archetype that really hurts me: raw, athletic, non-shooting wings who project as role players. It’s one of the most important strides I hope to make this year as a scout, and one of the vital archetypes to nail based on the trajectory of the NBA. I’ve long believed that it’s an archetype that isn’t built for playoff success, and while that’s true, there are still guys who can (and do) improve as shooters or find value as role players nonetheless./about-gen-dread.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-gen-dread.htmlWe all need tools for how to cope with our dangerous climate reality and cultivate resilience in these times. Humans are pushing on planetary limits and it is coming back to bite us as an enormous health threat. A growing field of research shows how the climate crisis and other forms of ecological degradation are putting pressure on our mental health, in unequally distributed ways. The age of eco-anxiety is upon us and climate-aware therapists are just a call away, meanwhile, the afterglow of climate disasters radiates traumatic psychiatric injuries throughout the globe./about-liz-hagelthorn-s-substack.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-liz-hagelthorn-s-substack.htmlummmmm hi hello welcome to my substack on memes and internet culture. If you fear intimacy and prefer to send the people in your life out of context images that just say “us” until one of you dies than this substack is for you. I have a telepathic connection to the internet which is a blessing but also a prison. I love to hear feedback and talk about the issues discussed in my writing./an-ode-to-perun-and-orry.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-ode-to-perun-and-orry.htmlA few months ago, before we recorded our Seen-Unseen episode on Ukraine, Ajay Shah pointed me to the YouTube channel of a man called Perun. I was as blown away as he was. One reason for that was the quality of his analysis; the other was the fact that he gained the large following he deserved with zero production value, zero marketing and zero name recognition: Perun is a pseudonym./anime-therapy-animes-and-life-razvan.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/anime-therapy-animes-and-life-razvan.htmlThe easiest method of self-knowledge and personal development: anime! We will also tell you what to pay attention to and what you can learn from animes to have a meaningful life. This project is for those who love the world of anime and a good life Launched a year ago No thanksncG1vNJzZmiZnp66pr%2BNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKtflruqucRmq6Gdopa9ug%3D%3D/antonio-by-hailey-bachrach.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/antonio-by-hailey-bachrach.htmlIt’s Antonio August for real now, and it’s time for another Antonio with a mysterious ending: Antonio of Twelfth Night. Sometimes called the gay pirate of Twelfth Night, Antonio is the sea captain who rescues Sebastian, leading lady Viola’s twin brother, from the shipwreck that sets the plot in motion. While Viola is disguised as a boy and serving in the court of Duke Orsino, Sebastian had been using the false name Roderigo as he traveled with Antonio./defense-ventures-summit-2023-by-andrew-glenn.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/defense-ventures-summit-2023-by-andrew-glenn.htmlI'm thrilled to share that I'll be in attendance at this year's Defense Ventures Summit, a groundbreaking convergence of visionaries, investors, and tech pioneers at the forefront of defense technology. The Summit will be held in Navy Yard in Washington D.C. later this week and represents the most important event for founders, operators, investors, military acquisitions types, and policy makers interested in building for defense! Unlocking the Future: The Defense Ventures Summit stands as a beacon, uniting the US Military, allies, seasoned investors, and ingenious founders driving the pulse of emerging technology./dvf-crossword-scarf-and-the-superb-owl.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dvf-crossword-scarf-and-the-superb-owl.htmlConjuring and conundrum lovers! In this newsletter: Back in October, I mentioned that DVF and I had collaborated on a special project to honor the 50th anniversary of the wrap dress. I’m so excited to finally be able to share this with you. This is a silk scarf from her Wrap 50 capsule collection. Each scarf comes with special packaging that contains the puzzle and clues. It was a challenging construction./eminence-capital-by-richard-toad.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eminence-capital-by-richard-toad.htmlIn this article, we will delve into Eminence Capital, a $7 billion AUM New York-based, single-manager hedge fund founded by Ricky Sandler in 1999. You'll discover Ricky's perspective on investing in quality businesses as a value investor, his strategies for shorting stocks, his insights on decision-making within a single-manager hedge fund, his view on the current market regime, and his advice for aspiring equity investors (hint: he has good news for you./episode-1-matt-eversmann-selected-wisdom-podcast.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/episode-1-matt-eversmann-selected-wisdom-podcast.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./graphic-novel-class-7-page-template.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/graphic-novel-class-7-page-template.htmlI’m going to take you through the process of a graphic novel in a series of posts. This is from my perspective, as a writer and artist who makes fantasy books for middle grade and young adult readers - but hopefully it will be helpful even if you’re interested in making a different kind of book! Today I’m going to talk about how to start the process of drawing a graphic novel by building a page template; it’s going to be a pretty technical post!/how-does-satan-attack-us-lust-of-the-eyes-1-john-2-16.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-does-satan-attack-us-lust-of-the-eyes-1-john-2-16.htmlIn our last article, we discussed the nature and motive of Satan. After examining his tactics, we focused on his three-fold attack plan: Lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). In this article, we want to zero in on the second of the three: “Lust of the eyes.” What we see with our eyes becomes engrained in our minds. As a child, I can remember hearing and singing the song: “O, be careful little eyes what you see…for the Father up above is looking down in love…so be careful little eyes what you see./how-much-land-does-a-man-need.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-much-land-does-a-man-need.htmlWe know Leo Tolstoy's beautiful short story How much land does a man need? This is the story of a man who was greedy and was never satisfied with what he had. He craved more and finally died due to his greed. The story goes like this. A man named Pahom was a small landowner and a peasant. But he was ambitious. His ambition drove him to acquire more land to increase his prosperity./how-they-painted-the-samurai-jack-backgrounds.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-they-painted-the-samurai-jack-backgrounds.htmlWelcome to another edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter! If you’re new here, we cover exciting animation from all around the world. Here’s our agenda for today: One — a look into the making of Samurai Jack’s background art. Two — animation news, across the globe. Three — the secret history of the Tootsie Pop commercial. Four — the last word. Just dropping in? You can sign up to receive our newsletter right in your inbox, every week:/i-m-addicted-to-the-gentle-pleasures-of-kim-s-convenience.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-m-addicted-to-the-gentle-pleasures-of-kim-s-convenience.htmlKim’s Convenience was a Canadian TV show that ran from 2016 to 2021. It’s the story of two late-middle-aged Korean immigrants living in Toronto, where they own a convenience store and the apartment above it. (They’re mostly referred to as “Appa” and “Umma,” casual Korean terms for Dad and Mom.) Their two children, Jung and Janet, are in their early 20s … ncG1vNJzZmieopqxpbXEnZybp5Wne7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqKlXZaxpbXCrZydZaSkerW0xGaenqakobJuvMuemKytoprA/legendary-beauty-brad-gooch-on-his-new-keith-haring-bio-and-on-fathering-two-little-boys-at-72.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/legendary-beauty-brad-gooch-on-his-new-keith-haring-bio-and-on-fathering-two-little-boys-at-72.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!/mystic-musketeer-by-turtleme.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mystic-musketeer-by-turtleme.htmlHello, everyone~ Thanks for tuning into another week of webcomic reviews with me! Have any of my reviews so far made you feel less or more inclined toward a title? (Please let me know, I’m nosy.) Meanwhile, today’s title is another one from Tapas! I know there’s a lot more titles on other apps such as Webtoons — don’t worry, I’ll get around to those soon. Mystic Musketeer is lesser known, so I’m excited to talk to you all about it :)/nalanda-capital-s-permanent-portfolio-of-india-s-best-run-companies.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nalanda-capital-s-permanent-portfolio-of-india-s-best-run-companies.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./notes-from-the-middleground-damon-linker.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/notes-from-the-middleground-damon-linker.html“Damon Linker is a former conservative, which makes him one of the most valuable dissectors of current right wing toxicity. Another helpful voice for those who want to move beyond the self-congratulatory demonization of chuckleheads, and develop a more sober and sophisticated perspective about chucklehead activity. ” ncG1vNJzZmickaK8r7jIp6Keql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpw/retro-spotlight-tiny-toon-adventures-buster-busts-loose.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/retro-spotlight-tiny-toon-adventures-buster-busts-loose.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. Licensed games can be a minefield, but there are classics within this territory, just like any other kind of game. Konami was one developer/publisher combo that had plenty of success with licensed titles a few decades back./sometimes-you-need-to-destroy-a-perfectly-good-mansion.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sometimes-you-need-to-destroy-a-perfectly-good-mansion.htmlRecently, the Times had two related pieces that, despite being about a city that’s over 500 times larger than Fairhaven, hold some important lessons for our town. Binyamin Applebaum, in the piece I Want a City, Not a Museum revisits the homes of previous generations of his family and remarks: I take pleasure in wandering around this museum of family history, but it also makes me sad. The buildings survive because New York is preserving the corporeal city of bricks and steel at the expense of its residents and of those who might live here./steel-train-by-patrick-hosken.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/steel-train-by-patrick-hosken.htmlThis is Medium Rotation, a newsletter about the bands we used to play on my college radio station, 88.3 WSBU-FM, St. Bonaventure. Today, we’re looking back at New Jersey indie-rock band Steel Train, who are no longer together. How do you write about Jack Antonoff now? Earlier this year, a fascinating Billboard cover story delved into his process, so that’s one place to start. Or you could read this incredibly titled 2019 Vice piece “Jack Antonoff Makes a Lot of Music and None of It Is Good,” or take a deep plunge into all 214 songs of his production catalog with Consequence’s ranking./tabia-lee-an-ex-dei-director-speaks-out.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tabia-lee-an-ex-dei-director-speaks-out.htmlThis week, my guest is Tabia Lee, the now former assistant professor and director of the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza Community College. Shortly after being hired by De Anza, Tabia found that her expansive view of diversity, equity, and inclusion was not welcome at the school, where a narrow and divisive conception of DEI held sway. After facing pushback and outright hostility from her colleagues, she was unceremoniously fired./taco-bomb-arrives-in-linda-vista.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./the-days-between-stations-columns-interview-magazine-1992-2008-natural-born-killers.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-days-between-stations-columns-interview-magazine-1992-2008-natural-born-killers.htmlThe soundtrack album for Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers is one of the most notable al­bums of 1994—as an album. “Produced, conceived, and assembled” by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and issued on nothing/Interscope, this project can be taken as a work as personal as the movie itself. On the record, the musical narrative is so vivid it breaks the tyranny that the visual element almost always exercises over sound in a film./the-batter-blaster-breakfast-by-david-friedman.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-batter-blaster-breakfast-by-david-friedman.htmlOne recurring feature in this newsletter is that I occasionally introduce you to folks from my inventor portrait project. I’ve mostly been sharing them chronologically, but the truth is that I recently skipped a couple. They just didn’t have stories that were strong enough for their own newsletter. So today I’m going to tell you about the next inventor on the list, and then I will back-fill with two inventors that I skipped to bring us back on track./the-chosen-s4-eps-1-3-a-few-brief-thoughts.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-chosen-s4-eps-1-3-a-few-brief-thoughts.htmlFrom the better-late-than-never pile, a few brief thoughts about The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 1-3, which ended its theatrical run last week. No detailed analysis or formal review, as such, yet; just various points that occurred to me. I hope to say more about these episodes in the future, after I’ve had a chance to revisit them. Fair warning: I will get into spoilers here, but I’ll comment on different aspects of the episodes more-or-less in chronological order./the-crawler-machinic-specters.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-crawler-machinic-specters.htmlI once again recognized that the Crawler was an organism. A complex, unique, intricate, awe-inspiring, dangerous organism. It might be inexplicable. It might be beyond the limits of my senses to capture — or my science or my intellect — but I still believed I was in the presence of some kind of living creature, one that practiced mimicry using my own thoughts. For even then, I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage./the-easiest-beginner-bonsai-by-max-falkowitz.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-easiest-beginner-bonsai-by-max-falkowitz.htmlHere is a tree that goes by many names. Portulacaria afra is a shrubby succulent native to South Africa, where it’s called elephant bush, porkbush, and spekboom in Afrikaans. The fast growing foliage is an important source of food for local elephants, and as the animals graze, they inadvertently propagate the plant by spreading cuttings that root into the soil. Isn’t that nice? The leaves are edible to us humans, too; they’re faintly sour and crunchy, like a dialed-down granny smith apple./the-fragile-beauty-of-male-friendship.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-fragile-beauty-of-male-friendship.htmlI just got back from a trip to the UK. I was able to squeeze in some time with nearest and dearest, and for me that includes friends as well as family. I’m lucky to have male friends who I love deeply, and delight in spending time with. Most years, four or five of us manage a weekend walking trip. One of my friends admonished me for not having a chapter about friendship in Of Boys and Men./the-nut-kick-by-a-r-moxon.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-nut-kick-by-a-r-moxon.htmlNote: As Elon Musk’s transformation of my primary social media platform into a barely functional far-right cesspool continues, I’m planning to migrate some valuable content off, and this seems like a decent enough landing place for now. This is from a thread published on October 6, 2018, the day a man of no qualities beyond his unwavering commitment to his own supremacy—a man who had been credibly accused of sexual assault—had been elevated to the Supreme Court as part of an openly planned supremacist plot to strip women of their bodily autonomy./the-one-that-s-picky-tea.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-one-that-s-picky-tea.htmlMenu to serve 6 people GENEROUSLY as a Picky Tea SAUSAGE ROLLS CHICKEN GOUJONS POTATO WEDGES SPINACH AND FETA SIGARI BOREK DIPS - GREEN GODDESS, CAJUN TOMATO MAYO               PESTO CREME FRAICHE, CHEATS AVJAR COBB SALAD CRISPS, BREAD, CRUDITÈS AND CHEESE “Picky Tea” is a British institution that we all love, yet is also somehow undefinable. For my British readers, you will know that Picky Tea is easier to explain by a feeling./the-purposes-of-writing-history.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-purposes-of-writing-history.htmlThis week’s newsletter builds on the previous issue of the Wild Card, “The Varieties of Historical Genres.” There, I shared some book recommendations but used them to show different approaches to writing history. This time I’m doing something similar but thinking about some of the purposes of writing history. Read on! “What do you do?” “I’m a professor.” “What do you teach and research?” “History.” For decades, I participated in countless versions of this exchange./the-retrologist-s-guide-to-surviving-locations-of-1960s-chain.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-retrologist-s-guide-to-surviving-locations-of-1960s-chain.htmlI’ve had the good fortune of visiting a number of Maryland Fried Chicken locations, which have declined from around 250 in the 1970s to 29 by my rough reckoning today. That’s soon to be 28. With the news of the looming closure of the Winter Garden, Florida, location, I decided to take a look at what’s left of this chain. After 57 years, Maryland Fried Chicken location in Winter Garden, Florida, is closing/the-simplest-stone-accent-by-jan-johnsen.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-simplest-stone-accent-by-jan-johnsen.htmlI publish informative posts twice a week for garden lovers - I hope you consider becoming a subscriber ! As a college student living in Kyoto, Japan, I marveled at how artisans shaped natural stone into elegant and simple garden features. From those beginnings, I developed a true appreciation for stone accents and how they can unify a design without detracting from the overall space. These artful additions do not have to be large to be effective–a stone accent of any type can add interest and express your personality or sense of humor./the-sinking-of-the-belgrano-was-not-a-war-crime.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-sinking-of-the-belgrano-was-not-a-war-crime.htmlEVER since that fateful afternoon on 2 May 1982, the sinking of the Belgrano by the British nuclear-powered submarine Conqueror has always been regarded as one of the most controversial events of the Falklands War. Many critics of the action, which resulted in the deaths of 323 Argentinian sailors, see the sinking as nothing less than a war crime, an unjustified act of butchery. These critics – who included the late Labour MP Sir Tam Dalyell and the late Ministry of Defence civil servant Clive Ponting – argue that the Belgrano represented no threat to the British task force, and was actually sailing away from the 200-mile Total Exclusion Zone declared around the Falkland Islands./the-smolbound-official-trailer-has-dropped.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-smolbound-official-trailer-has-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-truth-about-trad-wives.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-truth-about-trad-wives.htmlHappy Saturday everyone! The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and I’m writing about far-right subcultures on the weekend. Do I need to get a life? Potentially… This morning I was reading The Times and came across a feature titled I swapped my career for life as a traditional wife (for a week) by the journalist Harriet Walker. The article shows her living trad for a week, cooking and cleaning, get her hair done, while her husband takes a break from school pick-up./web3-i-have-my-daots-by-jay-pinho.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/web3-i-have-my-daots-by-jay-pinho.htmlDavid Letterman: I can remember a couple of months ago there was a big breakthrough announcement that on the internet, or on some computer deal, they were going to broadcast a baseball game. You could listen to a baseball game on your computer. And I just thought to myself, does radio ring a bell? (laughter) Bill Gates: There’s a difference. It’s not a huge difference. David Letterman: What is the difference?/what-are-these-disney-cards-everyone-is-talking-about.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-are-these-disney-cards-everyone-is-talking-about.htmlWhen you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. The hottest trading cards on the market have nothing to do with sports. It’s all about Disney. In truth, I might be the one who’s excited about these cards. But I don’t think I’m the only one./who-s-blood-was-found-in-sandra-s-home.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-s-blood-was-found-in-sandra-s-home.htmlLast week, I wrote a story regarding the disappearance of 54-year-old Grandmother Sandra Crispo. Sandra has been missing since early August of 2017 and police have not commented on any leads or suspects. The case has gone ice cold. I can confirm that the Boyfriend of Sandra’s sister Linda Dabrowski, a man named Eric Nelson, was the source of the blood found in Sandra’s home after she disappeared. Nelson told police that he had bled at the home in the past due to cutting his hand hanging pictures when Sandra moved./why-a-substack-by-tracy-beanz.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-a-substack-by-tracy-beanz.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-do-people-talk-to-isaac-chotiner.htmlTue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./my-children-are-motherless-because-of-the-man-at-the-top.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-children-are-motherless-because-of-the-man-at-the-top.htmlMinding the Gaps is a recurring feature in which Keith Phipps watches and writes about a movie he’s never seen before, selected at random by the app he uses to catalog a DVD and Blu-ray collection accumulated over 20+ years. It’s an attempt to fill in the gaps in his film knowledge while removing the horrifying burden of choice. This is the second entry. You can read the first here. He was always at war with Them./a-bloody-good-raspberry-tart-from-anneliese-brancatisano.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-bloody-good-raspberry-tart-from-anneliese-brancatisano.htmlIf there’s a dessert-dedicated corner of the internet that gets me sugar-frenzied, it’s Anneliese Brancatisano’s feed. You may know Anneliese as @_peacheslacreme__ on Instagram. Anneliese was the pastry chef at Hector’s Deli in Melbourne, and master of their otherworldly doughnuts, which Charles and I overdosed on on our visit last year. Her creations, from peach tarts to passionfruit sponge, cherry pie to croquembouche, are things of exquisite beauty. So I am OVERJOYED to bring you a recipe direct from Anneliese today: it’s Raspberry Tart with Rye Pastry, Vanilla Custard and Salted Cream./a-morning-around-the-march%C3%A9-d-aligre.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-morning-around-the-march%C3%A9-d-aligre.htmlWhenever I find myself visiting a new place (or returning somewhere I’ve enjoyed in the past), I always try to figure out how locals might string together various activities to yield a memorable morning or afternoon. I know, too, that many of you are looking for ways to experience Paris in non-orthodox, done-to-death ways— so I thought I’d share one of my own prized morning routes: a stroll in and and around the Marché d’Aligre market./about-kareem-abdul-jabbar.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-kareem-abdul-jabbar.htmlYou know me—or you wouldn’t be here. You know that while I was at UCLA, I’m the reason they banned the slam dunk. You know I broke a lot of records in the NBA, was an NBA champion 6 times, and was Most Valuable Player 6 times. I held the record for most points scored—38,387—for almost 40 years, until LBJ broke it. And I made famous the Skyhook. I’m proud of what I accomplished as an athlete, but I am equally proud of what I accomplished since leaving the NBA./adorable-story-47-kevin-mcclory.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/adorable-story-47-kevin-mcclory.html“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.” — James Bond, Thunderball Kevin McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director, who carved out a unique place in cinematic history with his contributions to the James Bond movie franchise. If you aren’t subscribed yet, hit the subscribe button below to receive the Adorable Stories every weekend, directly in your inbox: McClory was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, in 1924, to noted actor Thomas John O'Donovan McClory (stage name Desmond O'Donovan) and Winifrede (née Doran), a writer, teacher and actress./alessandra-bocchi-substack.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/alessandra-bocchi-substack.htmlAlessandra BocchiAward-winning journalist. Former Joe Rago Fellow at The Wall Street Journal. Words in First Things Magazine, The Spectator, Il Giornale, Al-Monitor, The New Arab, and more. Contrarian from birth. Email alessandra.bocchi@protonmail.com ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaK4xKyqmqaUp66ju8Kcn6I%3D/arugula-by-james-freitas.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/arugula-by-james-freitas.htmlMy arugula has been productive. It is pleasing. Arugula is my favorite leafy green to eat, thus probably my favorite to grow. It grows quickly. As I’ve written before, I won’t pretend I’m not a gardening novice. It’s worthwhile and nice to keep learning. I’ve eaten my fair share of arugula from the grocery store. No surprise, I prefer what grows … ncG1vNJzZmiikaKytLLRnqCtmaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omKutl6q5og%3D%3D/black-technology-by-christopher-hobson.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/black-technology-by-christopher-hobson.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./board-game-weekend-exploding-unicorn-by-james-breakwell.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/board-game-weekend-exploding-unicorn-by-james-breakwell.htmlI don’t only assemble my friends when I need to rescue an uncooperative animal. Sometimes, we get together for games. Okay, we actually have game nights all the time. I round up between four and six humans who can tolerate my presence for a few hours in a row and force them to play make-believe with me over little bits of cardboard. This weekend was different. It wasn’t just a time to move around some meeples./dark-horse-by-laurel-braitman.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dark-horse-by-laurel-braitman.htmlDark Horse, by Laurel Braitman, is a newsletter for folks interested in writing (or thinking or feeling)their way through hard things. There will always be recommendations for surprisingly good things as well as prompts to deal with the stuff that isn't. Over 3,000 subscribers No thanksncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2FprjBq5iirJ2Wu2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo/dear-somebody-inyeon-by-meera-lee-patel.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dear-somebody-inyeon-by-meera-lee-patel.htmlA year from now, here are five things from this week that I'd like to remember: MONDAY “Drawing—or mark making—has been a space for me to explore concepts without committing—before language, there were images,” writes Caitlin. After a few months without drawing, I feel bewildered, unsure of how to begin. I decide to start small to avoid overwhelm, choosing a pencil and a post-it note as my tools. I draw a small line and then another./due-diligence-and-art-sasha-latypova.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/due-diligence-and-art-sasha-latypova.htmlUncovering Fraud in Pharmaceutical R&D and Manufacturing. By popular demand, I will include my art pieces that have nothing to do with Pharma. If you are interested in my art, visit www.sashalatypova.com By Sasha Latypova · Over 42,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmirkai1orjArbCpp6aWe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D/from-vision-to-an-expanding-napa-valley-business.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/from-vision-to-an-expanding-napa-valley-business.htmlNAPA VALLEY, Calif. — In 2019, when Chris and Beth Vecera founded Naysayer Coffee Roasters, their ambition extended far beyond the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. They envisioned a business that would tell a story in every cup — a story that honored the terroir of the coffee beans, the community that supported them and the craft of roasting that they deeply revered. Today, four years later, that vision has not only materialized but expanded in ways that echo across Napa Valley and beyond./how-do-you-define-that.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-do-you-define-that.htmlI love vocabulary. When I was young, any time I heard or read a word that I didn’t know, I would write it down in a spiral-bound notebook. Then I’d look up the definition and carefully write it out so I could learn the word’s meaning and use it. Call me a word geek, but my passion for writing started with reading and loving the art of communication. (Yes, it’s an art because a well-written piece or verbal presentation is like a beautiful painting./hudson-fasching-an-inspiring-islander.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hudson-fasching-an-inspiring-islander.htmlWhen Hudson Fasching tipped a Matt Martin wrist shot past Thomas Greiss of the St. Louis Blues more than two weeks ago, it marked a span of 2,446 days between NHL goals for him. It may come as a surprise that 35 other players – including Martin Brodeur – have gone longer between NHL goals. Poor Fred Hucul went almost 15 years – 5,393 days to be exact – between finding the back of the net for the Chicago Black Hawks in 1953 and the expansion Blues in 1967./i-dream-of-jeannie-cusamano.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-dream-of-jeannie-cusamano.htmlHere is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. The world is heavy, and scary, and the news is hard, and the years pass, and your loved ones slip through your fingers, and sometimes everything can seem like it is spiraling out of control. We are headed into a six-month stretch of American life that will be inexhaustible in its ability to erode your will and disorient your sense of reality, which is particularly alarming because this stretch may just result in everything you and I and everyone we know have ever understood or valued to change in ways that are irreversible./i-miss-my-boyfriend-by-sophia-benoit.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-miss-my-boyfriend-by-sophia-benoit.htmlI’m hoping to get your insight into something that I’ve been struggling with for a few months.  For context, I’m a woman, and I’ve been dating my current boyfriend for seven months. We’re both in our mid-twenties, and this is the first long-term relationship that either of us has been in. I wouldn’t call our relationship long-distance, but we live in different cities so we only see each other on the weekends./in-conversation-kevin-seconds-by-norman-brannon.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-conversation-kevin-seconds-by-norman-brannon.htmlI was fourteen years old the first time I saw 7 Seconds, so when I tell you they altered the course of my life, I really can’t be more literal. As one of the key architects of hardcore punk as we know it, Kevin Seconds contributed a unique point of view that spoke for kids like me: Kids who were angry, but not cynical. Kids who were hardened by circumstance, but sensitive by nature./is-a-pizza-without-a-gluten-network-still-pizza.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-a-pizza-without-a-gluten-network-still-pizza.htmlThe first thing you notice about a good pizza is the network of dough that puffs up in the crust creating a thick handle for you to grasp. You peer into the cylinder and see a whole world developing. Strands of dough criss-cross through the crust as if squirted out by a hasty spider. This network of strands is the gluten network. It’s what makes your dough chewy, crusty, edible, fluffy and flavorful./it-s-as-if-they-really-hate-nature.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-as-if-they-really-hate-nature.htmlSince the 1950s, in its search for cheap raw material and cheap labour, IKEA has used wood from outside Sweden. IKEA currently sources 90% of its timber from outside Sweden. In the 1980s, IKEA made clandestine, six-figure payments to the Securitate, Romania’s brutal secret police. Today, IKEA is the largest private forest landowner in Romania. In its 2020 report, “Flatpacked Forests”, Earthsight investigates IKEA’s operations in Ukraine and Romania./mila-s-legacy-by-natasha-loder.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mila-s-legacy-by-natasha-loder.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./my-surreal-experience-being-in-coldplay-s-new-video-in-athens.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-surreal-experience-being-in-coldplay-s-new-video-in-athens.htmlWhat a weekend. Picture this: attending a concert at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, an ancient theater in Athens that leaves you in awe. Now, imagine that concert is by your favorite band, Coldplay (more awe). Putting these two together was an out-of-body experience that left us questioning reality the next morning It all started when we saw a call for people that want to be on Coldplay's new video, that would be filmed at the 1863-year-old Odeon of Herodes Atticus./on-superstimuli-by-ozy-brennan.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-superstimuli-by-ozy-brennan.htmlA superstimulus is, quoth Wikipedia: A supernormal stimulus or superstimulus is an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which it evolved. For example, it is possible to create artificial bird eggs which certain birds will prefer over their own eggs,[1] particularly evident in brood parasitism, and humans can be similarly exploited by junk food[2] and pornography./out-of-the-fire-heatherash-amara.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/out-of-the-fire-heatherash-amara.htmlHow to Dance with Contradiction 🔥 Author of the bestseller Warrior Goddess Training 🔥 Firewalk Goddess and Fiery Leader 🔥 Land Steward and Lover of Trees 🔥 New book coming July 2024: Wild, Willing, and Wise By HeatherAsh Amara · Over 75,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmiglZbBqbHRmqqhZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonw%3D/peek-inside-the-royal-palace-of-turin-italy-s-first-capital.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peek-inside-the-royal-palace-of-turin-italy-s-first-capital.htmlNowadays, we take it for granted that Rome is the capital of Italy, but did you know that wasn’t always the case? When Italy became a unified country, its first capital was actually Turin. The Kingdom of Italy was officially declared on March 17, 1861 and Vittorio Emanuele II, then King of Piedmont-Sardinia, was proclaimed its king.  Up until that point, the Italian peninsula was made up of a number of different kingdoms and dukedoms./read-this-if-you-feel-like-a-burden.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/read-this-if-you-feel-like-a-burden.htmlYou are reading the FREE version of Growth Spurts. If you enjoy my community, want more of it and access to me as your personal life coach through my column Dear Michelle, all my book reviews and recommendations, the first to know about any announcements and more private and personal articles about my life then you can sign up for as little as £1.10 a week with an annual subscription. A paid subscription is also just a fab way to thank me for all the free content I put out on here and social media and allows me to keep going./ricotta-and-spinach-tortelli-by-julia-ostro.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ricotta-and-spinach-tortelli-by-julia-ostro.htmlThis winter I took myself on a trip to the Southern Hemisphere, leaving my kitchen behind for a few months with the need to wind down after a super busy year. I had often heard copious whispers of Australias top tier food scene throughout London and I was excited to finally get to eat in some of the countries most celebrated restaurants. But, one of my favourite food experiences of the trip actually ended up being a home-cooked meal, by a writer I had spent years admiring./schofield-prosecutor-victoria-avalon-s-tragic-betrayal-of-her-oath.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/schofield-prosecutor-victoria-avalon-s-tragic-betrayal-of-her-oath.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./shortly-the-ai-powered-writing-assistant.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./stunt-food-may-work-for-social-media-but-i-d-rather-stick-with-simple.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stunt-food-may-work-for-social-media-but-i-d-rather-stick-with-simple.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./the-daily-show-s-ob-gyn-expert-had-sex-with-his-patient.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-daily-show-s-ob-gyn-expert-had-sex-with-his-patient.html*Warning: this post has details about sexual exploitation* I was sent an Instagram video of Michelle Wolf interviewing Dr. Stuart James Fischbein on The Daily Show about the supposed fear-based model of medical obstetrics. The clip was cringe, and no, we OB/GYNs are not trained to fear pregnancy and delivery. So I went to the full video on their YouTube channel as I have been off work and quite sick and looking for something to energize me (I’m improving now, so don't worry)./the-new-york-bar-50.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-new-york-bar-50.htmlGreat list! And I've been to more than I thought considering I am more a wine drinker. a collection of unsolicited thoughts! - Bar Goto Niban really does have great bar snacks. Once when there my friend and I got their celery snack and we still talk about it (celery of all things!) - I haven't been to The Campbell since the before times but I did try and go once in late 2021 and the line was super long and more sceney than I remember./the-salutations-and-valedictions-edition.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-salutations-and-valedictions-edition.htmlPraveen Fernandes (PF) is my brother-in-law and a previous WITI contributor (the very excellent Owl, Stamps, and Federal Architecture Editions). His bio is far longer than I could list here, but briefly, he’s a lawyer, advocate, former Obama administration appointee, and art lover. - Noah (NRB) Praveen here. Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is marked by intergenerational humor. In a scene from the first season, after deciding that young people prefer texts to calls, the two older protagonists (played by Martin Short and Steve Martin) are deciding how to sign off texts to the younger protagonist (played by Selena Gomez)./things-that-creep-me-out-the-oracle-of-trophonius.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/things-that-creep-me-out-the-oracle-of-trophonius.htmlThe oracle of Trophonius was, as Philostratus notes, “the only oracle which gives responses through the person himself who consults it.” At all the others of Greece — Delphi, Dodona, Corinth — the visitor would address his questions to a priestess, who would then consult the god on his behalf and deliver its response. Not so Trophonius, which requires a by all accounts harrowing descent into the underworld that might last for days./totally-naked-donkey-thoughts-with-nick-offerman.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/totally-naked-donkey-thoughts-with-nick-offerman.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/wearing-socks-and-sandals-by-becky-malinsky.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wearing-socks-and-sandals-by-becky-malinsky.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./welcome-to-my-new-avalanche-experiment.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/welcome-to-my-new-avalanche-experiment.htmlMan, I haven’t been this nervous in quite a while. This is my first post on this new platform, and despite 33 years of sports writing experience and seven books to my credit, I feel like I’m writing my first thing ever right now. Like, ever. A lot of you already know me and my backstory, but for any who don’t, let me give you a quick thumbnail bio: My name is Adrian Dater./what-does-a-biblically-accurate-angel-actually-look-like.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-does-a-biblically-accurate-angel-actually-look-like.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/what-i-m-reading-robert-reich.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-i-m-reading-robert-reich.htmlSeveral of you have asked for my summer reading recommendations. I know this is a bit late, (whatever happened to June and July?), but all of these are worth the wait (and the weight — these aren’t exactly light books). Dirt Road Revival, by Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward. This is the most thoughtful and uplifting book I’ve read in a long time. It’s written by two young political organizers in Maine (one of whom is now a major force in the state legislature) about how grassroots progressives can regain the trust of America’s Trumpers./when-it-comes-to-sex-women-are-not-a-monolith.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-it-comes-to-sex-women-are-not-a-monolith.htmlI wrote a feature for Romper about non-monogamy through the lens of single/married/queer/straight motherhood that was published on Valentines Day. (I also wrote a how-to piece in the same spread for those interested in opening their marriages.) I was assigned this piece by my editor before all of the non-monogamy articles dropped and I became increasingly frustrated by the erasure of female desire in almost all of them. (I loved this piece by one of my faves, Kimberly Harrington (subscribe to her substack immediately) about Molly Roden’s memoir, MORE, which, full disclosure I haven’t read yet, although I have written about ENM and non-traditional relationship structures before./who-invited-the-casual-fatphobia.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-invited-the-casual-fatphobia.htmlA bunch of you sent me this week’s New York Timesprofile of Tieghan Gerard, creator of Half-Baked Harvest, with the same note: What is with her mom’s quote?! To be clear, there is a lot else we could say about this piece by Julia Moskin, which explores the rampant Internet speculation about whether Gerard has an eating disorder (truly, people, can we just not!), her unusual(?) closeness with her extended family, and her repeated obliviousness to the issue of cultural food appropriation./who-is-christina-francis-the-gop-s-anti-abortion-witness.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-is-christina-francis-the-gop-s-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-cleopatra-s-daughter-classical-wisdom.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-was-cleopatra-s-daughter-classical-wisdom.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Members, I don’t know if all kids are like this… but mine is somewhat obsessed with the continued legacy of historical figures. The questions usually begin with: And did they have any children? Boys? Girls? And what about those kids? Did they have kids? And are any of them alive today? She’s always disappointed to discover that they aren’t still alive, somehow. I’m not sure why this fascination occurs… perhaps it’s a way for a child to connect to these sometimes larger than life characters from the past./winter-solstice-blessings-by-ally-maz.htmlMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/winter-solstice-blessings-by-ally-maz.htmlThe Winter Solstice is here signifying the longest night of the year. This is the time to embrace darkness. Capitalism has made this time of year about shopping, outings, and busy, busy, busy…but nature is reflecting back to us the opposite. Nature says, slow down. Rest. Reflect. Let go. Holiday buzz can be all consuming but you are a conscious and sovereign being that has the power of choice! So if you can, pump the breaks./short-142-pudgy-penguin-s-gif-strategy.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/short-142-pudgy-penguin-s-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./7-strength-training-mistakes-runners-make.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/7-strength-training-mistakes-runners-make.htmlI can’t tell you how many times I’ve sworn that this marathon training cycle would be the one where I prioritized strength training. The only time I followed through on that was in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Marathon—which was, alas, cancelled. Well, this time I’m not waiting for my next training cycle—with no immediate races on the calendar, I’ve fully committed to heavy lifting this winter, because strength training is one of the best things a runner can do to bulletproof their body against the demands of running while becoming stronger and faster./a-lot-of-piffle-the-german-sawback-bayonet.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-lot-of-piffle-the-german-sawback-bayonet.htmlA LOT OF PIFFLE: MYTH OF THE GERMAN SAWBACK BAYONET IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. by Robin Schäfer‘They will soon have done everything, these Germans, to be banished from humanity, and it will soon be clear to everyone that their armies are nothing but hordes of barbarians, vile herds of wild beasts..’ No other hand-held weapon of the First World War has sparked so much debate and gave rise to so many myths and legends than the German Sägerücken or sawback bayonet./a-morning-quickie-by-ashley-kelsch.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-morning-quickie-by-ashley-kelsch.htmlOkay okay okay…. I read an Instagram message, and thank Gawd I did. OMG. Is Barbie getting choked out by Ken? Or vice versa…? As funny as that may sound, it’s probably not far from what’s happening. Humans learn by observing behavior and then of course, story telling. With little to no sex education in schools- the course curriculum is STILL pushing celibacy- just don’t do it!- meanwhile online porn is being marketed to our kids./a-surprising-new-business-venture.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-surprising-new-business-venture.htmlMeet Brian Thornton. Over the course of his adult life, Brian Thornton has held many jobs as well as attempting to start many different business ventures.  The common theme throughout all of them is scamming people. Those scams include: Not paying employees and claiming they were contract workers (Thornton Family Barbershop) Starting a snow removal business and collecting money for services not rendered (Fort Wayne Snow Removal) Claiming to have written a Salesforce book, then selling the fictitious book on Amazon, but never shipping any copies to those who purchased it./an-up-close-look-at-diana-s-wedding-tiara.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-up-close-look-at-diana-s-wedding-tiara.htmlWelcome to So Many Thoughts, a semi-weekly newsletter about royal style and the other parts of life I want to think through with you. You cansubscribe here and follow me on Instagram at@EHolmes. Thank you! While I was in London last week, I squeezed in one non-Jubilee excursion: a trip to Sotheby’s to see the Spencer Tiara as part of the exhibition, Power & Image: Royal & Aristocratic Tiaras. A bit more on the infamous piece, and what it was like to see it up-close, below./baby-hedgehog-rescued-by-well-meaning-woman-turns-out-to-be-a-pom-pom.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/baby-hedgehog-rescued-by-well-meaning-woman-turns-out-to-be-a-pom-pom.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!)/baby-s-all-right-substack.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/baby-s-all-right-substack.htmlBaby's All Right"this sense that in spite of everything which of course is, I suppose, the ultimate mystical conviction, in spite of pain, in spite of death, in spite of horror, the universe in some mysterious sense is all right, capital A capital R." - A. Huxley ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaOtwbKqmqScp7aotNM%3D/bob-brinker-substack.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bob-brinker-substack.htmlBrinker Advisor By Bob Brinker Our favorite investment ideas along with our views on the economy, monetary policy, and related topics. 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By McMadmissile · Over 2,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmibkaeyuLHRnqpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZA%3D%3D/comments-%C3%A9clair-cake-2-0.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-%C3%A9clair-cake-2-0.htmlthis recipe is such a treasure! two more questions, if that’s ok: 1) do you have a temp measurement/cue for the milk before it’s added to the eggs 2) re: ganache, should we wait for the cream to melt the chocolate on its own *before* start mixing it? what does “wait a few minutes” mean, until it has melted a bit? until it has cooled? thank you for this update 🤍/could-shohei-ohtani-someday-win-the-batting-triple-crown-and-the-pitching-triple-crown.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/could-shohei-ohtani-someday-win-the-batting-triple-crown-and-the-pitching-triple-crown.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./craig-watkins-rip-by-radley-balko.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/craig-watkins-rip-by-radley-balko.htmlI missed it at the time, but former Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins died last month. He was 56. Watkins, who had previously been a criminal defense attorney, was the first black District Attorney in Texas history. He was also the first in the wave of progressive, reform-oriented prosecutors to take office over the last 15 years. His 2006 win came just after a string of exonerations in Dallas by the Texas Innocence Project, and a series of scandals in which Texas prosecutors were shown to have hidden exculpatory evidence./duo-by-alex-byrne.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/duo-by-alex-byrne.htmlThis is a guest post by Connor Floden, New Mexico Highlands offensive analyst and assistant OL coach. Connor’s Twitter and Website Leading up to the Super Bowl, it’s only fitting that I write an article about the Buccaneers’ favorite run concept, Duo. Duo lit up the Twitter coaching scene in the past couple of years. So much so, that it even became a trend to post clips with the question, “Is this Inside Zone or Duo?/enjoy-the-honey-heavy-dew-of-slumber.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/enjoy-the-honey-heavy-dew-of-slumber.htmlShakespeare said it better than anyone else. I know. What a foolish thing that is to write. Doesn’t get us anywhere. If you know and love your Shakespeare, then you won’t be surprised to hear that there is anything he didn’t describe better than anyone else. If you are one of those people—I do not judge—who doesn’t value Shakespeare very highly, or especially highly, or at all, then my babbling about him isn’t going to change a thing./flash-flooding-facts-and-feelings-from-this-week-in-gatlinburg.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/flash-flooding-facts-and-feelings-from-this-week-in-gatlinburg.htmlTuesday, January 9th was quite the day in Gatlinburg. What started out as a working day, ended up far more interesting than I expected. I am writing this post on a few different fronts. First, I want to give you a factual account of what happened; second, I’d like to alleviate some of the concern that arose from all the postings on social media. Unfortunately, people get the wrong information or impression when something bad happens here—and sometimes, it's not even bad at all./friday-joy-antiracist-dietitian-anjali-prasertong.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/friday-joy-antiracist-dietitian-anjali-prasertong.html“An incredibly well written, thought-provoking, and informative resource. Anjali's work is thorough, well-cited, and always contains additional opportunities for further learning and reflection. Highly recommend to all, especially professionals in the food and nutrition space. ” ncG1vNJzZmiZnp%2BurbXRrquhZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufony0e8WroJ2ZqWK3sMWOeKytpY%2BovLa%2Bwp50rK2SqMGir8pfrK2lj6KypbXUpnSmnZ6q/goo-goo-dolls-john-rzeznik-sits-in-with-monkey-wrench-at-electric-avenue.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/goo-goo-dolls-john-rzeznik-sits-in-with-monkey-wrench-at-electric-avenue.htmlWell, I’m kicking myself.  I thought I’d take the weekend off, concentrate on my own music, do some work around the house, avoid a Sunday hangover, and maybe stave off the existential dreads that seem to arrive with the coming work week, based on the nagging feeling of not having gotten anything useful done.  I should’ve known better.  Rust never sleeps. And neither does must-see live music in Buffalo.  On Saturday, October 28, a Halloween Covers Show took place at Electric Avenue, next door to Mohawk Place on East Mohawk Street in downtown Buffalo./how-calvin-kasulke-wrote-several-people-are-typing.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-calvin-kasulke-wrote-several-people-are-typing.htmlSince this is a craft newsletter, I spend a lot of time talking about writing processes. Every author has their own process—and often a different process for every book—and I always find it illuminating to hear about them. (Here are some entries on Zadie Smith, César Aira, and myself.) But as interesting as process and craft questions are to writers, it’s something that often gets ignored in book coverage. I think the most common complaint I hear privately from other authors is “No one asks me about craft!/how-the-8b-ftx-scam-flowed-from-barbara-fried-s-anti-humanist-ethics.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-the-8b-ftx-scam-flowed-from-barbara-fried-s-anti-humanist-ethics.htmlA Note To Readers: This is part 1 of a new two-part chapter in my book about the ideas, conditions, and movements that fed the FTX catastrophe. While the below is an extended preview, full access to these chapters is restricted to premium subscribers to Dark Markets. Please consider subscribing to support continued work on this book. Soon, paid subscribers will also receive premium additional content from the Dark Markets Podcast./how-to-stop-second-guessing-yourself.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-stop-second-guessing-yourself.htmlWelcome to OnGrowth&, a monthly newsletter on career growth and personal growth 🌱🚀 Do you ever second-guess yourself? That constant hesitation, the crippling self doubt, and the nagging voice wondering if you’ll make it, if you’re enough, or if you deserve to take up space in that job, opportunity, relationship, friendship, etc. ? I do did. Considering that I’m generally a confident person, it felt a bit odd to come to terms with this fog in my mind./in-the-clutch-erases-the-black-women-who-helped-her-win.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-the-clutch-erases-the-black-women-who-helped-her-win.htmlThank you, as always, for being here. Paid subscriptions allow me to dedicate more time to this newsletter. It’s not just the time I spend writing, but the time I spend planning, researching, and reporting that is supported by upgrading. If you want to pay for a subscription but don’t want to give money to Substack, feel free to use my Venmo or PayPal. Just reply to this email and let me know you’ve sent it so I can add your email to my paid list!/macy-s-announces-plans-to-close-150-locations-nationwide.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/macy-s-announces-plans-to-close-150-locations-nationwide.htmlMacy’s announced Tuesday it plans to close about 150 “underproductive” locations nationwide as a part of a massive reorganization and refocus on luxury growth. Another goal is to “simplify and modernize end-to-end operations” and “deliver a more efficient operating model” to better serve customers, according to businesswire. The move will allow the company to monetize $600-$750 million in assets through 2026, and prioritize its focus on 350 other locations./michexgod-mexican-michelada-ceviche-mariscos-restaurant-sylmar.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michexgod-mexican-michelada-ceviche-mariscos-restaurant-sylmar.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./my-towers-our-towers-the-first-person-with-michael-judge.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-towers-our-towers-the-first-person-with-michael-judge.htmlEditor’s Note: This miraculous piece of writing first appeared in The Wa… ncG1vNJzZmilmZi1orHLo6ydn5VjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opLJlpKTEpr7SZqauql2pvLix0aw%3D/oded-galor-the-journey-of-humanity.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/oded-galor-the-journey-of-humanity.htmlMy Brown University economics colleague Oded Galor does not lack for ambition. His new book, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality seeks to explain how our species has progressed from a handful of hunter-gatherers eking out an existence in Africa to a flourishing, technologically and economically advanced civilization. That’s 300,000 years of economic history, all in one book. It sounds improbable, but Oded has been gathering the empirical and theoretical insights that underpin this work for decades./on-ravichandran-ashwin-by-cricketingview.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-ravichandran-ashwin-by-cricketingview.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./ranking-all-nine-of-the-fights-in-the-legendary-four-kings-series.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ranking-all-nine-of-the-fights-in-the-legendary-four-kings-series.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./schmoozing-on-location-with-ethan-hawke-matthew-mcconaughey-the-newton-boys-1998.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/schmoozing-on-location-with-ethan-hawke-matthew-mcconaughey-the-newton-boys-1998.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./serial-fiction-epics-and-soap-operas.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/serial-fiction-epics-and-soap-operas.htmlAs a long-time fiction writer who decided to dip my toes into serial fiction (on Kindle Vella and here on Substack), I’ve had a crash course in serial fiction—its history, best practices, and some of the very many platforms where it exists. In this issue of Story Cauldron, I dive into the depths of neverending stories, past, present, and future. Epic tales have existed for as long as humans have told stories./star-wars-books-of-december-and-a-look-ahead-to-2024-releases.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/star-wars-books-of-december-and-a-look-ahead-to-2024-releases.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!/the-59-million-wedding-that-rocked-social-media.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-59-million-wedding-that-rocked-social-media.htmlI think I spent about $19,000 on my wedding. I don’t actually remember the final amount, but it seemed like a lot! Nick and I were grownups (35 and 41) so it made sense to pay for it ourselves over the three months we planned it. Some of it came from my bank account and some from Nick’s. Regardless, I know for a fact that I threw one of the greatest wed…/the-big-interview-daphne-van-domselaar.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-big-interview-daphne-van-domselaar.htmlOn Friday night, Daphne van Domselaar will be hoping not only to reach the final of the first UEFA Women’s Nations League when her Netherlands side face world champions Spain, but also book a spot at the 2024 Paris Olympics. While defeat may not rule them out of this summer’s showpiece worldwide event, pending the outcome of France vs Germany in the other semi-final, it would be a blow for a nation which has become used to the deep end of big tournaments, in their status of 2017 European champions and 2019 World Cup finalists./the-colorado-river-the-hoover-dam-and-lake-mead.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-colorado-river-the-hoover-dam-and-lake-mead.htmlThe Colorado River is over 2300 kilometres long and its headwaters are in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. The watershed for the Colorado River covers an area of over 600,000 square kilometres, including parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California, as well as the country of Mexico. The map below (reference here) shows the upper and lower basins (watersheds for the Colorado River. Along the Colorado River and its tributaries, there are over 100 dams, including 14 along the main river itself./the-friday-five-sarah-dessen.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-friday-five-sarah-dessen.htmlWe had our first freeze here this week. Before the pandemic, I loved my yard, but I didn’t pay too much attention to it, as I was busy traveling and going, going, going. Then everything screeched to a halt and I started spending a lot of time outside. Now I see all the little changes, every day, so it was startling to walk out the other morning and find so much, well, dead./the-men-of-freedom-dr-samuel-prescott.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-men-of-freedom-dr-samuel-prescott.htmlThis installment begins on April 18th, 1775, the night that Paul Revere and William Dawes commence their famous rides into the countryside. Their plan was to warn their fellow defenders of liberty that the British Regulars were coming "by sea" to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and to seize powder and cannon in Concord. Come with me as I take you from Boston's North End out to Lexington and Concord on what is now called Battle Road./the-saas-metrics-that-matter.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-saas-metrics-that-matter.htmlOne of the best features of SaaS businesses is how easy they are to measure. Only a handful of metrics really matter. This post breaks down those key performance indicators (KPIs), and provides the benchmarks that we at Craft like to see at the Series A stage in order to lead a new investment.  We’re also releasing our internal tool, SaaSGrid, which we’ve used to analyze KPIs for hundreds of SaaS companies, as a free publicly-available tool to help founders calculate metrics (anonymously if they wish) for their own startups./the-woman-behind-marilyn-s-style.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-woman-behind-marilyn-s-style.htmlHave you ever heard of Marilyn Monroe? Of course you have. Have you ever heard of Amy Greene? Of course you haven’t. Have you ever stared endlessly and pictures capturing Marilyn’s off-duty style? Of course I have.  Now the Amy Greene I’m referring to is not Rachel Green’s fictional Friends sister, played by Christina Applegate. No. The Amy I’m referring to is the loyal wife of the late Hollywood photographer, Milton H./this-old-house-by-ximena-vengoechea.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/this-old-house-by-ximena-vengoechea.htmlThis winter, my parents sold our childhood home. It was a creaky old house (like, 19th century old), the kind that spooked peers in grammar school and fascinated friends in high school. I knew all of its quirks by heart: how to jiggle the handle of the bathroom door just so to avoid getting stuck inside; how to gently, quietly place my feet on each step to avoid waking my parents up after a late night out./travel-bans-proposed-in-tennessee-oklahoma.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/travel-bans-proposed-in-tennessee-oklahoma.htmlWe knew it was never going to stop with Idaho. Tennessee Republican Rep. Jason Zachary introduced a travel ban yesterday—legislation that would make it a Class C felony to take a minor out-of-state for abortion care. That means a friend, aunt or grandmother who helps a teenager get an abortion could be sent to prison for 15 years. In Oklahoma, state Sen. Nathan Dahm introduced a similar bill that would punish anyone who helps a teen obtain care with up to 5 years in prison./we-need-right-now-more-bedtime-prayers.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/we-need-right-now-more-bedtime-prayers.htmlBelow the Bible Belt: 929 chapters, 42 months, daily reflections. Become a free or paid subscriber and join Rabbi Amichai’s 3+ years interactive online quest to question, queer + re-read between the lines of the entire Hebrew Bible. Enjoy daily posts, weekly videos and monthly learning sessions. 2022-2025. Psalms #PSLAMS #Psalm4 #ספרתהילים #תהילים #BookofPsalms #כתובים #tehilim #Ketuvim #Hebrewbible  #Tanach #929  #labshul #belowthebiblebelt929 #bedtimeshma #bedtimeprayers #sleepanxiety #lullaby #DennistheMenace #Grzegorz Gorczycki #vespers #Shma #sweetdreams #endthewar #stoptheviolence #peace #prayforpeace #nomorewar #hope/welcome-hi-by-emily-oberg.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/welcome-hi-by-emily-oberg.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-did-i-know-and-when-did-i-know-it.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-did-i-know-and-when-did-i-know-it.htmlI don’t intend to pursue further the controversy over Hyper-Pretersim (HP) brought to light by this letter signed by a number of Gary’s friends. But I feel obliged to respond to Gary’s statement that he hasn’t changed his views in about 25 years, and that I have continued to promote him during that time, and only lately have I objected to his views. Have I just over the last few months become more severe in my judgment on heresy?/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith-only.htmlSun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-does-the-bible-say-about-faith-only.html“Faith only” or “faith alone” has been a major debate and discussion for centuries. It’s often seen as a “central doctrine” of the Protestant Reformation. According to Martin Luther, justification by faith alone is the article on which the Church stands or falls. From my studies, I think there is a sense in which “faith alone” is false. But I also think there is a sense in which “faith only” is true./american-idol-hollywood-week-features-100-less-liliana-tovar-dalton-why-did-the-5-frontrunner.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/american-idol-hollywood-week-features-100-less-liliana-tovar-dalton-why-did-the-5-frontrunner.htmlAmerican Idol felt more like American Gladiators this week, as Season 22's Hollywood Week commenced in some sort of in-the-round terrordome called the Idol Arena. On Sunday, 143 hunger-gaming hopefuls entered that arena, and by the evening's end, only 56 remained. It was the biggest single cut in Idol history. "It's pretty wild," judge Katy Perry gasped, in one of the biggest understatements in Idol history. So, here's how it all went down. Those 143 contestants (except for Platinum Ticket recipients Abi Carter, Julia Gagnon, and Odell Bunton Jr./15-samurai-ii-duel-at-ichijoji-temple.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/15-samurai-ii-duel-at-ichijoji-temple.htmlHey buddies! Welcome back :) This week my anxiety has been at 1,000. HBU? A friendly reminder that it is okay to suck at coping even if you are great at it most of the time. Sometimes ya just can’t. You can always begin again. 9/15 FUND RACIAL JUSTICE/ACTION ITEM: By July 31st this year, we had lost more trans people to murder than all of 2019. This week, I want to share an organization called G./2024-wnba-draft-scouting-report-matilde-villa.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2024-wnba-draft-scouting-report-matilde-villa.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? Talented players from all across the world have been part of the WNBA since its inception./3-takeaways-from-notion-s-pricing-change.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/3-takeaways-from-notion-s-pricing-change.htmlSaaS Pricing is hard. PricingSaaS is your cheat code. Monitor competitors, track real-time benchmarks, discover new strategies, and more. Try PricingSaaS for Free Notion is one of those SaaS products that provides standalone value to individual users, but can also be used at scale by B2B teams. In its early years, Notion’s platform wasn’t as sophisticated as it is now, so the company made a bigger effort to monetize individual users through a $4/mo Personal plan./about-steve-beynon.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-steve-beynon.htmlI’ve covered Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs for Stars and Stripes. I also have bylines in Politico, Bloomberg, The Washington Examiner, National Guard Magazine, and Military Times. In my hometown of Cincinnati, I wrote for the Cincinnati Enquirer and worked at Fox 19.  You’ll see content here a few times a month, stuff that might not fit neatly into the news I normally write. I served over a decade in the Army National Guard as a cavalry scout and deployed to Afghanistan./another-whistle-blown-with-tamara-pietzke.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/another-whistle-blown-with-tamara-pietzke.htmlTamara Pietzke is a whistleblower from Washington State whose story was published by The Free Press last week. Tamara has a Masters in social work from the University of Washington. She's since worked with older adults, pregnant and postpartum women, the chronically mentally ill, those in inpatient centers, and she's spent the last six years doing outpatient community mental health. She told us that she never sought out to be a whistleblower but she believes whole-heartedly in having a voice when something is wrong, even when it seems like you’re standing alone./cavatelli-with-sausage-and-broccoli-rabe.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cavatelli-with-sausage-and-broccoli-rabe.htmlI’ve been doing my Sunday Sauce project for exactly seven months today. I announced the relaunch of my newsletter on July 5 of last year, and since then have gone through the trials and tribulations of attempting to reverse engineer my grandmother’s recipes from ingredients lists on note cards to actual recipes. But somewhere in the middle, I lost the plot of why I was doing all of this. This week, however, I was reminded in two ways./chaos-friends-ed-norton-rounders.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chaos-friends-ed-norton-rounders.htmlIn the movie “Rounders,” Matt Damon’s character Mikey is on a great life path. Law school, part-time job, living with a fellow law school classmate, played by the beautiful Gretchen Moll. Then his old friend Worm is released from prison and the chaos starts, disrupting Mikey’s life. My thought of Chaos Friends was sparked by a post by who writes the substack . I recommend checking it out. Laura wrote a recent post about being addicted to chaos, and it made me think about how even if you’re not addicted to chaos, you probably have had a Chaos Friend./chicago-s-greatest-chefs-of-all-time.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chicago-s-greatest-chefs-of-all-time.htmlWhen I committed to the idea of asking Chicago chefs (and a few owners who are the identity of their restaurants) to name their personal Chicago Mt. Rushmore (thanks Dave Andrews for proposing this whole idea), I didn’t really calculate the verve with which they’d answer. I figured a few of the 60 or so I reached out to would humor me. I had no idea that 48 souls (media and creators added another 15 - you can read their thoughts here) would commit their time and energy to this./daily-bit-e-of-c-std-lerp.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/daily-bit-e-of-c-std-lerp.htmlThe std::lerp is a C++20 mathematical function that handles linear interpolation (and extrapolation) for floating-point types. The function takes three arguments: the two boundary values and an interpolation factor. The implementation will correctly handle infinities and boundary values for the interpolation factor. Leave a comment ncG1vNJzZmirmaK8r8DOrZ9nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wsMCio7Jlkp7BpnnOn2ScZaOpsa2x0ak%3D/don-t-bring-me-down-brrrruce-by.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/don-t-bring-me-down-brrrruce-by.htmlI was listening to an interview with ELO’s front man Jeff Lynne on Sirius the other day and he shared this interesting story. Following the departure of Roy Wood in 1972, Jeff Lynne assumed sole leadership of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and wrote, arranged, and produced virtually all of its subsequent records. ELO broke up in 1986. Jeff Lynne tells the story about Bruce in the song Don’t Bring me Down./earthquake-eclipse-is-it-the-end-of-the-world.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/earthquake-eclipse-is-it-the-end-of-the-world.htmlMany of us in the tri-state area had a rather interesting morning: A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked New York City and surrounding area. Twitter, as can be expected, blew up with the heady buzz of New Yorkers sharing a common experience. And of course, there is a blessing to say when you an experience an earthquake. There is, of course, another natural phenomenon, quite literally on the horizon, that many are expected to experience: The total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th./farming-in-medieval-europe.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/farming-in-medieval-europe.htmlWhen we talk about technological innovations, the last thing that pops into people’s heads is Medieval peasants in Europe. Compared to today, Medieval peasants struggled in the mud working with primitive technology and working excruciatingly hard just to survive. The only changes in their lives were the periodic bad events: famines, drought, and war. The best that a Medieval peasant could hope for was to avoid those three events for their lifetime./frequentem-s-buffalo-taproom-opens-this-weekend.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/frequentem-s-buffalo-taproom-opens-this-weekend.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./friday-funnies-word-salad-by-robert-w-malone-md-ms.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/friday-funnies-word-salad-by-robert-w-malone-md-ms.htmlSnort - it would be unusual for an academic to have this much self-awareness. Word Salad Thank you for reading Who is Robert Malone. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share [PREMIERING TONIGHT, 9PM ET] H5N1 Avian Flu: Everything You Need to Know | FALLOUT We have been hearing a lot about H5N1 avian influenza in recent months. Should you be afraid? Or are fears overblown?/get-systematic-in-2024-by-jason-kelly.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/get-systematic-in-2024-by-jason-kelly.htmlEvery year at this time, Wall Street forecasters put out their guesses for what will happen in the new year. They tell you what they think will go up, what will go down, and warn you about the risks you supposedly need to worry about. It all feels so responsible, such that reading this financial tapestry gives investors a comforting sense of taking control of their money. But it’s a false sense of comfort./in-search-of-tavern-style-pizza.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-search-of-tavern-style-pizza.htmlWhenever I am back in my home state of Wisconsin and am faced with a whole pizza and armed with a pizza cutter, I reflexively cut the pie into 16 small squares. This is what is known in the Midwest as the “party cut.” I didn’t know the technique was called the party cut when growing up the 1970s. It was just the way you cut up pizza. It was the way everyone cut up pizza./in-sickness-and-in-health-by-tom-scocca.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-sickness-and-in-health-by-tom-scocca.htmlTHE WORST THING WE READ™VIRUSES ARE NOT particularly interested in your feelings, except to the extent that your feelings might wear down your body and make it more welcoming to viruses. Nevertheless, Malaka Gharib of NPR wrote an essay about how the Covid pandemic bumps up against her feelings—namely, her feeling of frustration about what she called her husband's "fears of getting Covid again." What's he so afraid of? Gharib wrote:/investigating-kevin-gaines-role-in-the-murders-of-biggie-and-tupac.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/investigating-kevin-gaines-role-in-the-murders-of-biggie-and-tupac.htmlDo you want a profound grasp of Kevin Gaines’ potential involvement in the murders of Biggie and Tupac? If so, we have the solution you've been searching for. We will unveil the secrets and provide you with a comprehensive analysis to help you uncover the truth behind Kevin Gaines' role in these infamous crimes. Prepare to delve into the depths of speculation and conspiracy as we explore the mysteries surrounding Gaines' possible connection to these tragic events./is-my-soft-launch-annoying.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-my-soft-launch-annoying.htmlAs the digital realm continues to encompass the corporeal, we’re encountering new problems that no one seems to know the answer to. Not the overarching brushstrokes of policy and technology, but the nitty-gritty interpersonal issues that it brings us: the dance of flirting on Hinge, keeping tabs on our loved ones via Find My Friends, knowing the right time to Venmo request. Loneliness, love, money, fear, anger, yearning — now through the kaleidoscope of the infinite scroll./is-toilet-paper-edible-by-dennis-lee.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-toilet-paper-edible-by-dennis-lee.htmlWe are living through some frightening times. It is okay to be scared. From where we’re sitting, Davida and I are probably going to have it a little rough for a while. We both have service jobs. Paulie Gee’s Logan Square, where I make pizza, is mostly on lockdown, doing takeout and delivery only, for the time being. Pretty much the rest of Chicago’s restaurants are just straight up closed, and the entire industry is terrified about our future./it-s-a-cat-s-life-by-rachel-wells.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-a-cat-s-life-by-rachel-wells.htmlI'm Rachel Wells, an author known for my Alfie The Doorstep Cat series which transports readers into the mostly charming world, as seen through Alfie’s eyes. It's A Cats Life will explore all I and so many of my readers love about cats. By It's a Cat's Life · Launched a year agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmihpKiupK3TrKOinpWXxrOtwqGcpa%2BVobm0etKumayskZi4b6%2FOpmY%3D/katmer-turkish-pistachio-pastry-dessert.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/katmer-turkish-pistachio-pastry-dessert.htmlIf it wasn’t clear from this week’s Meze newsletter, I adore Turkish katmer. Ever since my first bite many years ago, it’s been one of my favourite Turkish desserts. I say “one of” only because there are days when I think künefe deserves that spot (though jointly – please don’t make me choose). You’ll find different versions of katmer across Eastern Anatolia, but it’s most strongly associated with Gaziantep. The dish itself comes from a longer tradition of Central Asian layered breads or pastries./lemon-sumac-chicken-by-farideh-sadeghin.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lemon-sumac-chicken-by-farideh-sadeghin.htmlI’d like to introduce you to you new favorite way to marinate chicken breasts. Yes: BREASTS!! Not thighs! I can’t lie here, I definitely intended on making this recipe using chicken thighs. I love thighs! They’re always so tender and delicious and truly one of my favorite things to eat. But sometimes your store just doesn’t have thighs and you gotta go breast. And thus, this recipe became the only way I will likely ever prepare chicken breasts again (ok, that’s a lie, but they come out SO GOOD!/lineage-blindsided-by-activists-board-coup.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lineage-blindsided-by-activists-board-coup.htmlHey all, Jason here. I ended up hosting Thanksgiving last Sunday solo, but somehow pulled it off — eight friends (none American!) joined me for turkey, sweet potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, and pecan pie. I managed to get dinner on the table a mere 90 minutes late! Looking forward to spending more time with friends and family over the remainder of the holiday season. Existing subscriber? Please consider supporting this newsletter by upgrading to a paid subscription./listening-to-steven-caulker-has-made-me-think-twice-about-how-we-judge-footballers.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/listening-to-steven-caulker-has-made-me-think-twice-about-how-we-judge-footballers.htmlSteven Caulker was face down on the floor of a Dublin hotel room, drunk, when he received the call telling him Liverpool were about to sign him. That’s the headline some might take from his fascinating, at times harrowing, 90-minute podcast with the guys from Undr the Cosh, which was released this week, but it’s not the one I took from it. Tales of drinking and gambling, womanising and drug-taking and dressing-room fights, have helped podcasts such as UTC flourish in recent years - aided, I’m sure, by the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, and people’s desire for audio accompaniment on walks, runs and in the gym./long-ass-lennon-by-kathryn-winn.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/long-ass-lennon-by-kathryn-winn.htmlDecember belongs to John Lennon. On December 8th we remember that was assassinated in front of his apartment building. Throughout the month we listen to his Christmas song to his son. This year Get Back was released around Thanksgiving and because it was 8 hours long, the content carried over into December. The month culminated in a meme, as most things do. A picture of John and Yoko, naked, with their butts edited to be both at lot longer and a lot shorter, respectively./macron-is-macroning-again-by-daniel-w-drezner.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/macron-is-macroning-again-by-daniel-w-drezner.htmlWinter has turned into spring. Hooray! A new season is upon us, with new fashions and colors and trendy statements about world politics from the French! In other swords, the change in seasons means it’s time for French President Emmanuel Macron to say things suggesting he wants some separation between European foreign policy and U.S. foreign policy. After the French president wrapped up recent visit with China’s Xi Jinping, he opened up to Politico’s Jamil Anderlini and Clea Caulcutt about how he currently sees France’s role in the world./making-a-mountain-out-of-a-hill.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/making-a-mountain-out-of-a-hill.htmlGreg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including “Hiroshima in America,” “Atomic Cover-up,” and the recent award-winning “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed three documentary films since 2021, which have aired over PBS (and “Atomic Cover-up” coming this fall). He has written widely about the atomic bombings, and their aftermath, for over forty years. Today we present, for the first time, a guest contribution from someone I’ve known, if from a distance, for quite some time./mike-nichols-on-carnal-knowledge.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mike-nichols-on-carnal-knowledge.html“So many of the reviews and so much of the commentary surrounding Carnal Knowledge appeared to have been written, composed, thought over while waiting to see the film. People adopted attitudes and anecdotes while waiting in line to see the film, or sitting at home refusing to see the film, because, they had been told, it was ‘too dirty.’ Or Mike Nichols had flamed out. So sad. “Say or think whatever you wish about me as a director, but I thought Jules [Feiffer] had written a blistering and truthful examination of male power and female conformity./my-strange-relationship-with-prince.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-strange-relationship-with-prince.htmlOf all the musical forces that defined the ‘80s I had the most unusual interactions with Prince Rogers Nelson, that bold singer-songwriter-producer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He would be in and out my life quite a bit in “the Me decade,” I’d have no interaction with him for years after, and then he’d become my unlikely benefactor in the 21st century. My first serious introduction to his music occurred at a house party hosted by friends from St./nihilism-vs-existentialism-vs-absurdism.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nihilism-vs-existentialism-vs-absurdism.htmlIn the 19th and 20th centuries, modernity came into its fullness and with this maturation, the vestiges of the religious worldview began to fall away revealing a crisis of meaning that we’ve come to call Nihilism. This emergence of Nihilism prompted philosophers to ask in earnest once again the long-since clichéd philosophical question—what is the meaning of life? Out of this renewed engagement with meaning, three trends emerged. There was the root problem—Nihilism i./oral-history-of-ray-bourque-trade-to-avs.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/oral-history-of-ray-bourque-trade-to-avs.htmlIn early March of 2000, it was no secret in the hockey world that legendary, future Hall-of-Fame defenseman Ray Bourque wanted, albeit reluctantly, to be traded from his team of 20-plus seasons, the Boston Bruins. In a Bruins career that spanned the end of the Carter Administration to the end of Bill Clinton’s, Bourque performed brilliantly for Boston in the succession of other Hall-of-Fame Bruins defensemen such as Bobby Orr and Brad Park./please-make-these-viral-tiktok-dumplings.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/please-make-these-viral-tiktok-dumplings.htmlWelcome to Above the Fold, a free newsletter all about dumplings and the people who make them. Like what you see? Subscribe and it’ll come straight to your inbox twice a month (and sometimes more)! You can also follow Above the Fold on Instagram. Thanks for reading! This was supposed to be a “bye” week over here, now that rainbow dumpling-palooza has come to a close, but I haven’t been able to stop making this new recipe and simply felt the need to share it./queen-cheorin-mr-queen-gendered-representations-of-power-and-historical-inevitability.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/queen-cheorin-mr-queen-gendered-representations-of-power-and-historical-inevitability.htmlWhere does dynastic rot begin? In some historical circles, it’s argued that the beginning of Joseon’s downfall lies not with Gojong (the last king of Joseon) and his weakened imperial power after the betrayal of a select group of aristocrats colluding with the Japanese empire, nor even the end of Sino-Korean relations following the cessation of China’s tributary system after their loss in the first Sino-Japanese war. The argument is that the small country of Joseon was destined to eat itself alive on the premise of its own internal corruption, and external forces only hastened what was already coming./sweet-and-sour-red-braised-pork-belly.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sweet-and-sour-red-braised-pork-belly.htmlI don’t know about you, but if I see a platter of glistening pork belly placed on the dinner table I’ll be reaching for it immediately. Lunar New Year is less than 2 weeks away, so here’s a stunner of a recipe for your LNY menu consideration. Pork belly is something that I always associate with special occasions (with the exception of bacon). It meant a trip to either the local Chinese chop shop to get the best piece of crispy roast pork belly hanging in the window display or to your favorite butcher to find the most even and perfect slab of center cut pork belly to bring home and cook yourself./the-mariko-aoki-phenomenon-by-melissa-begey.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-mariko-aoki-phenomenon-by-melissa-begey.htmlIt’s Sunday morning. You’re walking around your favorite local bookstore. A collection of new and used books stacked from floor to ceiling. A rickety step stool is placed in a corner to reach the top shelves. The owner’s cat is hiding beneath a plush armchair. Perhaps you’re browsing the staff recommendations. Maybe these books are displayed on a separate bookshelf (like at The Regulator Bookshop), or propped up on a round table (like at Letters Bookshop), or remain on the shelves that line the stores perimeter, distinguished by index cards hanging from the shelve’s ledge (like at Books Are Magic)./the-most-toxic-relationships-aren-t-what-you-think.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-most-toxic-relationships-aren-t-what-you-think.htmlWe all have frenemies. They’re people who make you feel both good and bad, and they exist in every walk of life. You might have mixed feelings about a relative, a neighbor, a colleague, or a mentor. My article in today’s NYT explores why frenemies may be hazardous to your health. Surprisingly, these ambivalent relationships turn out to be even more toxic than negative ones. In one experiment, when people were under stress, merely reminding them of their ambivalent relationships led to greater heart rate reactivity than priming them with their negative relationships./the-reveal-discusses-all-100-of-sight-sound-s-greatest-films-of-all-time.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-reveal-discusses-all-100-of-sight-sound-s-greatest-films-of-all-time.htmlThe Earrings of Madame de… (1953)  Dir. Max Ophüls Ranking: #90 (tie) Previous rankings: #93 (2012), #70 (2002) Premise: In fin de siècle Paris, the aristocratic Madame de… (Danielle Darrieux) —her full name is coyly elided throughout the film — has spent freely and fallen into debt, prompting her to sell a pair of valuable earrings that her military commander husband André (Charles Boyer) gave to her as a wedding gift./the-ultimatum-queer-love-by-maddy-court.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-ultimatum-queer-love-by-maddy-court.htmlI received SO MANY requests to write about the new season of The Ultimatum: Queer Love and not only did Netflix deny my request for advanced screeners, they refused to give me access to the press website and photo gallery, so I spent the weekend trying to catch up. The Ultimatum: Queer Love is a reality dating show where five couples--each consisting of one partner who’s unsure about getting married and one partner who has issued an ultimatum e./the-vilomah-project-by-lisa-mcgreevy.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-vilomah-project-by-lisa-mcgreevy.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./what-is-motional-by-michael-spencer.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-motional-by-michael-spencer.htmlMotional has their HQ located in the Boston area. Motional is an American autonomous vehicle company founded in March 2020 as a joint venture between automaker Hyundai Motor Group and auto supplier Aptiv. I’ve been noticing Hyundai has gotten very forward looking of late, and I’ve always been impressed by the GDP per capital innovation quotient of South Korea. The race to robo-taxis is very interesting to me. They are in headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, but Motional also maintains operations in Pittsburgh, Singapore, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles./who-is-pretentious-by-madison-huizinga.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-is-pretentious-by-madison-huizinga.htmlThe word has likely rolled around in your mind or off the tip of your tongue at some point. Perhaps it was after sitting through a student-produced dance show at a prestigious liberal arts school. Or after mulling over a cult classic novel or indie album your friend raved about. You may have watched a movie beloved by the “film bro” community after reading a Reddit thread about it and felt more unsatisfied post-viewing than anticipated./why-the-mets-might-let-pete-alonso-walk.htmlSat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-the-mets-might-let-pete-alonso-walk.htmlLittle quibbles: * I think it's a little cynical to think that Scott, Megill, and Butto will be the three to emerge from the current group of pitchers to start in 2025. I mean, I know you were saying "as of now," but it's pretty meaningless to say. There are a lot of compelling arms in the Mets system and we really have no idea where McLean and Sprout will be a year from now, much less Vasil and Hamel and Stuart and Tidwell and Ziegler and Peterson./henry-bushnell-of-yahoo-sports.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./32-movies-and-5-indictments-i-d-like-to-see-in-2023.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/32-movies-and-5-indictments-i-d-like-to-see-in-2023.htmlIn many respects, the upcoming movie year looks like a continuation of Hollywood’s blockbuster business as usual. There will be a new “Hunger Games,” a remake of “The Exorcist,” a Willy Wonka origin story (“Wonka”) starring Timothée Chalamet. There will be superhero extravaganzas from Marvel/Disney and DC/Warner Brothers, the two corporate behemoths locked in a battle to keep us locked in eternal adolescence. There will be sequels – oh, boy, will there be sequels./a-reappraisal-of-tommy-the-movie.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-reappraisal-of-tommy-the-movie.htmlFor months now, my friend, fellow author and podcast co-host Tony Fletcher has been threatening to write a reappraisal of the 1975 film Tommy as a guest post for Jagged Time Lapse, and it appears that my post last week about the original Tommy LP (and its fab new-ish half speed remaster edition) has finally kicked him into gear. Tony, of course, is the author of the definitive Keith Moon biography Dear Boy (later retitled Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend), so whatever he has to say regarding any facet of “The Bleedin’ ‘Oo” invariably comes from a place of intense research as well as deep love; so even though I dig little about the film version of Tommy beyond Arthur Brown and Elton John’s brief cameos and Ann-Margret’s bean bath, I’ve nonetheless been very interested to read Tony’s take on it./bonus-episode-amelio-robles-%C3%A1vila.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bonus-episode-amelio-robles-%C3%A1vila.htmlExciting news in book release land—I’ll be at a few book-related events in the coming weeks. I will be at… Interabang Books - Dallas, TX - March 8 @ 6 pm CT - RSVP here Booksoup - Los Angeles, CA - April 5th @ 7 pm PT - RSVP here I’ll also be doing a virtual event in late March—more details on that one are coming! Hey everyone, Hope everyone is doing well today!/breaking-down-ivy-getty-s-fantasy-wedding-weekend-in-san-francisco.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/breaking-down-ivy-getty-s-fantasy-wedding-weekend-in-san-francisco.htmlEnjoy this? Well, there’s probably going to be more written content, product releases, and early access to things on this Substack very soon. Subscribe if you feel so inclined. I thought it was over. My love affair — much like 50 percent of all marriages in America — ended abruptly. Each Friday, I would lick my chops while clicking into the newest weekly wedding announcement column from The New York Times./carl-erskine-s-life-is-so-much-more-than-baseball.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/carl-erskine-s-life-is-so-much-more-than-baseball.htmlCarl Erskine is the last living embodiment of Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer. Known affectionately as “Oisk,” he pitched for the Dodgers from 1948 to 1959, throwing two no-hitters and competing in five World Series, winning the 1955 championship for the Bums. He is revered among fans of a certain demographic, who vocalize their support for Oisk and Pee Wee, Jackie and Duke, Gil and Campy on social media groups. These same fans continue to this day to demonize the O’Malley family as Lord Voldemort, he whose name shall not be spoken./chaos-and-country-at-king-of-the-hammers.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chaos-and-country-at-king-of-the-hammers.htmlHAPPY RACE DAY! especially to everyone who showed me a great time at King of the Hammers over the weekend. It’s truly a mind-blowing experience, thanks, of course, to the people who care enough to make a newcomer feel welcome. There are great stories and great humans all over at KOH. Check out this tribute to the late, great Jessi Combs by racer Hurricane Felton, and my IG Reel from the winner’s stage of JP Gomez’s overall win at the Nitto Race of Kings./dan-carlin-by-daniele-bolelli.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dan-carlin-by-daniele-bolelli.htmlThere’s so much ugliness in the world that it makes me happy whenever I have a chance to talk in glowing terms about anyone.  Today is one of those days. Today, I’d like to tell you about someone who not only is one of the best podcasters in the world, but also one of my favorite humans. It has been just about ten years since I met Dan Carlin.             Back then, a bunch of people following my work messaged me urging me to listen to Hardcore History./dating-a-tennis-player-trials-and-tribulations.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dating-a-tennis-player-trials-and-tribulations.htmlThey say, there is no love in tennis. Who is they? Tennis people. It’s a wordplay on the fact that having zero points in a game is announced as “LOVE” by the chair umpire (imagine the chair umpire mocking you every time you manage to heroically win zero points in a game - awkward). There is some truth to it. It’s not easy dating a tennis player. They travel up to forty weeks a year, they are self-absorbed, they will blame every loss on a text message you sent or the way you breathed in the player’s box or just in general: on your existence./eradication-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eradication-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlI often complain nowadays that movies are too long. It could just me getting old and grumpy, but runtimes for feature films have been creeping higher for awhile. And the prevalence of streaming platforms does nothing to constrain that trend, since a lengthier movie doesn’t mean theater managers get fewer showings per day to sell tickets. “Eradication” is the rare film that, at about 85 minutes, I wish was longer. It’s a solid, inventive apocalyptic thriller/horror set in a near-future where a pandemic has infected most of the humans on the planet./five-creative-lessons-from-factory-records.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/five-creative-lessons-from-factory-records.htmlIn 1978, music promoters Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus started the independent record label Factory Records in Manchester, England. It wasn’t long before the label was earning a legendary reputation for releasing culturally significant albums (Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division and Power, Corruption, and Lies by New Order, among many others) and for their unique approach to what they released and how they did it. The resulting body of work, built over decades of activity, is an instructive model for artists, metalabels, and creative groups of all kinds on how to be prolific, how to have fun, how to make a lasting cultural impact, and the power of collective worldbuilding./goose-tattoos-by-audrey-assad.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/goose-tattoos-by-audrey-assad.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./handfuls-of-dust-and-splinters-of-bone-part-3.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/handfuls-of-dust-and-splinters-of-bone-part-3.html1× 0:00 -13:59 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.The origin of the process by which we do evil in the name of good is revealed in O'Brien's faux-recruitment of Winston and his lover Julia into the Brotherhood, the underground resistance to the Party. I will quote from it at length, because many people wonder if, perhaps, there might not be a secret Brotherhood of the Light, a countervailing force to the evil cabal that seemingly rules this earth./his-unrecorded-band-with-parker-and-gillespie-by-leif-bo-petersen-1-bonus.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/his-unrecorded-band-with-parker-and-gillespie-by-leif-bo-petersen-1-bonus.html(Paying Subscribers, you’ll find at the bottom a musicians’ magazine from 1943.) (Leif Bo Petersen is a Danish trumpeter and a researcher, especially on the bebop masters. He is the coauthor with Theo Rehak of the Fats Navarro biography, with musical analysis, and he has compiled a detailed Charlie Parker chronology available here. He has greatly expanded his work on the Hines band that Parker joined, exclusively for our readers, and we thank him for sharing this fine research with us./horror-films-with-female-leads-to-watch-this-season.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/horror-films-with-female-leads-to-watch-this-season.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./how-to-livestream-for-dummies.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-livestream-for-dummies.htmlI’ve been helping out my community newspaper, the Easy Reader, to live stream local news events lately, namely city council and school board candidate debates, and I marvel at how simple the process has gotten. So much so, I thought I’d relay the process for you. Maybe your place of worship will ask you to live stream their events, or you’ll be called i… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmKTEbsDOZqOirpWowbOxwKZkn6eiYrG2ucyinKw%3D/how-to-revise-your-novel-without-getting-lost-in-the-weeds.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-revise-your-novel-without-getting-lost-in-the-weeds.htmlThis post is adapted from my self-paced course, Revising the Novel. Lately, I’ve been trying to wrangle a 98,000-word novel into something more manageable. When I start a revision, I tend to start the same way: reading and revising the first few chapters again and again, tweaking sentences, changing words, moving paragraphs. After a few weeks of this, I’m exhausted by the revision and decide to set the manuscript aside for a couple of days./how-to-watch-the-god-country-documentary.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-watch-the-god-country-documentary.htmlDr. Jemar Tisby, thanks for your post; I really recommend seeing the movie God & Country. Your words in the documentary really impacted me; I'm grateful I viewed the film onsite at the U.S. capitol too. How can info bout pre-ordering your book, "The Spirit of Justice," be added to the highlights of God & Country, webinar, etc. With my upbringing on the white Christian Nationalism (wCN) spectrum, I wonder if more folks will read your forthcoming book as their initial read by Dr./it-s-time-for-a-criminal-investigation-of-delian-and-founders-fund.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-time-for-a-criminal-investigation-of-delian-and-founders-fund.htmlThere aren’t many inventions in Silicon Valley these days but there are many constructs. Perhaps the best invention in Silicon Valley is the concocted story of so many founders themselves. Even the term itself — founder — suggests something impressive, as if they might rival our own American founding. In some sense the founders, with their obsession with oligarchy, are a real threat to our own founders who understood the aristocratic duty that comes with power and position./lana-turner-by-dan-callahan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lana-turner-by-dan-callahan.htmlIn three major films, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Imitation of Life (1959), Lana Turner proved that she was more than just a classic Hollywood exemplar of what hype and glamour can do. Her name became synonymous with scandal and danger and, to her devoted fans, naïve romanticism, but the real woman behind the image seems to have been funnier or more fun-loving than the way she came across on screen, as can be seen in an affectionate and compassionate coffee table book from 2008 by her daughter Cheryl Crane./off-the-hook-backing-up-the-truck-penny-hill-closing-for-good.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/off-the-hook-backing-up-the-truck-penny-hill-closing-for-good.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./only-in-my-dreams-by-debbie-gibson.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/only-in-my-dreams-by-debbie-gibson.htmlDebbie Gibson was 16 years old when she got signed to a development deal with Atlantic Records on the basis of this song, which by spring of 1987 reached the number 4 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She went on to have four top ten hits from her debut album, Out of the Blue, all with songs she wrote during the time her first single was rising up the chart./rip-jean-louis-murat-by-thomas-guillot.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rip-jean-louis-murat-by-thomas-guillot.htmlIt’s easy to remember Jean-Louis Murat for his rebellious attitude more than his ambitious rock music with complex lyrics and tons of American influences. Nevertheless, with 24 albums in four decades, not including the live recordings, Jean-Louis Murat was a very prolific artist. ncG1vNJzZmieopq7pLTMrqqim16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6roKllmpqur3nLqKyiq12iwrOt0w%3D%3D/safety-in-numbers-my-trip-to-nyc.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/safety-in-numbers-my-trip-to-nyc.htmlI recently visited the East Coast of the United States for the first time in my life. I have been to many cities and countries but never the other side of my country. As expected, I was dazzled by New York City. The most dazzling aspect of it all was how remarkably safe and vibrant the Big Apple felt at all times of the day. Back home in San Francisco, the relatively vacant Market Street area has long been uninviting after hours./sunrise-mall-corpus-christi-tx.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sunrise-mall-corpus-christi-tx.html“The beautiful and nostalgia-ridden Sunrise Mall stands baking in the Corpus sun, boasting (nearly) original signage and motifs straight out of a late ‘80s coming of age movie. This is the first mall I’ve ever been to that has a pirate ship in the middle of the food court, and the second mall I’ve ever been kicked out of.” As a Brit, nothing strikes fear in my heart quite like the message that “violators will be prosecuted” at the bottom of No Trespassing signs in the US./swiss-meringue-buttercream-by-kassie-mendieta.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/swiss-meringue-buttercream-by-kassie-mendieta.htmlThis is probably my most requested recipe and so it feels like a great place to start. For a majority of my cakes i’m using this SMBC recipe as a base. The recipe is easy to throw together, though like all great things in life it takes time. It takes on other flavors and ingredients well. I will say that I think the methods that I’m using when I make this buttercream and how I manipulate it before I frost a cake is more important than the recipe itself./teen-drama-news-for-may-21-2024.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/teen-drama-news-for-may-21-2024.htmlUnlike the last two years, I was actually in town during last weekend’s “One Tree Hill” convention. But I still didn’t attend. As I explained last year, I find the costs associated with these events, whether it be Friends with Benefit’s “One Tree Hill” festivities or something like “90s Con,” unjustifiable. As much as I’d like to attend in theory, I find it all a bit ridiculous in practice./the-cat-distribution-system-explained.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-cat-distribution-system-explained.htmlMaybe it’s coz I’m missing my cat back home, or maybe we all just need something a little bit cute to think about right now, but something compelled me to write about a phenomenon I’ve been seeing on social media for about a year now (and will always give my most emphatic double tap to): the universal cat distribution system. The universal cat distribution system is a very serious and important thing./the-chosen-season-two-episode-two.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-chosen-season-two-episode-two.htmlSeason 2, Episode 2 — ‘I Saw You’ John 1 Synopsis. A Jewish architect named Nathanael suffers a major career setback when one of his projects collapses. He sits under a fig tree and cries out to God, asking if God sees him. Meanwhile, a disciple of John the Baptist’s named Philip shows up and joins Jesus’ followers while they are camping in a field. Philip befriends Matthew and takes him under his wing, showing him how to work with his hands and giving him advice on how to deal with Simon./the-cookbook-test-0018-delicious-in-dungeon.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-cookbook-test-0018-delicious-in-dungeon.htmlDear Readers, This edition is a bit of an oddball. Normally I tackle a cookbook, new or vintage, and deconstruct and review it while cooking some its recipes. This week: a visit with a popular manga, the DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON series. I've had the first four volumes laying around the house for a couple of years, but the series attained a new bump of popularity as the anime version hit Netflix last Thursday night./the-dark-age-of-youtube-youtuber-act-man-has-channel-nuked-for-embarrassing-youtube-and-defending-c.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-dark-age-of-youtube-youtuber-act-man-has-channel-nuked-for-embarrassing-youtube-and-defending-c.htmlOn Tuesday, June 7th, the popular gaming YouTuber The Act Man received the worst possible news a creator can get from YouTube. His entire channel was being demonetized, and he was getting kicked out of the Partner Program. His alleged crime: embarrassing YouTube for allowing its creators to harass, stalk and harm others on their platform. The Act Man had taken on the case of a mass copyright infringement troll, Quantum TV, a ne'er-do-well who among other sins, had called up and threatened his mother./the-gift-of-a-book-by-david-w-berner.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-gift-of-a-book-by-david-w-berner.htmlWhen I was a kid, my mother frequently gave me books as gifts. My favorite child’s book, and it remains so to this day, is Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman. Later it was the Hardy Boys books, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Then books about baseball players and adventurers like Lewis and Clark. When I was old enough, I began giving my mother books, too. She was a voracious reader and her favorite author had always been Dickens./the-greatest-mitch-hedberg-joke-according-to-mike-birbiglia.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-greatest-mitch-hedberg-joke-according-to-mike-birbiglia.htmlBirbiglia’s fave joke is this one from Mitch Hedberg: I wrote a letter to my dad. I wrote, "I really enjoyed being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I crossed it out and wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of shit you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a really harsh turn right away./the-importance-of-the-las-vegas-aces-selling-out-their-season-tickets.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-importance-of-the-las-vegas-aces-selling-out-their-season-tickets.htmlHer Hoop Stats is looking to grow our team! If you're passionate about women's basketball and want to contribute to our podcasts (on-air or production), social media, newsletter, stats site, the business side of Her Hoop Stats, or any other area, please email Aaron Barzilai at aaronbarzilai@herhoopstats.com. We're open to a range of experiences and availability. The WNBA Draft drew an average of over 2.4 million television viewers last week; the previous draft day record was just north of 600,000./the-poky-little-pok%C3%A9-poke-cake.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-poky-little-pok%C3%A9-poke-cake.htmlHey guys, it’s Davida again! With things still being as hairy as they are in the world, it hasn’t been easy for Dennis and I to come up with ideas. After his recent interview with food critic Michael Nagrant, Dennis has seen a flood of new sign-ups and for a minute we were scrambling about what to do next. After some fruitless brainstorming, we decided to look to a list of potential ideas we’ve had on the back burner for a year or so, and settled on one we’d previously been resistant to attempt out of sheer terror: Poké poke cake./the-soul-of-economics-in-memes.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-soul-of-economics-in-memes.htmlThis week I was invited to speak to several hundred high school students about the “soul of economics.” I decided to do the entire presentation in memes. Here’s what I said. If I ask “What’s the soul of economics?,” you might be incredulous: “Economics has a soul??” I’m here today to try to convince you that it does. What I mean by “soul” is what the Oxford English Dictionary calls an “essential, fundamental, animating, or vital part or feature of something abstract./there-s-nothing-better-than-a-turkey-sandwich-prepared-according-to-these-specifications.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/there-s-nothing-better-than-a-turkey-sandwich-prepared-according-to-these-specifications.html2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano Pinch of salt A few thin slices of white onion Sub roll (or, for a delicious variation, ciabatta bread) 3-4+ slices freshly sliced turkey 1-2 slices sharp provolone cheese Handful of shredded iceberg lettuce A few slices of tomato In a small bowl, combine the olive oil, vinegar, oregano, and salt. Add the sliced onion and allow it to sit in the oil and vinegar mixture while preparing the other ingredients./tips-for-using-google-s-holiday-100-gift-guide-part-1.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tips-for-using-google-s-holiday-100-gift-guide-part-1.htmlHave you seen Google’s Holiday 100? Let’s learn more about what it is, how you can use it as gift-giving inspiration for this Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or holiday season, and how you can take advantage of it as an online shopping tool to get your best bang for your buck. Google's Holiday 100 list comes out every year and features 100 gift ideas. It's made by analyzing at what people are searching for from June to September 2023./today-while-the-blossoms-still-cling-to-the-vine.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/today-while-the-blossoms-still-cling-to-the-vine.htmlFor decades now, Kathy Castner and her cousin, Charlie Bowen, sing duets whenever they have one of those rare chances to be together. Their musical connection goes back a long way. As a child, Kathy regularly was brought to visit relatives in Ashland. Whenever she was, their grandmother usually assigned her cousin to sing her to sleep at bedtime. (Yes, Grandma Robertson was prescient about Bowen’s mad skills for putting audiences to sleep./video-shootout-with-chicago-police.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/video-shootout-with-chicago-police.htmlAs is our usual routine with any shooting, we gather all the details we can, make note, maybe illustrate or add to a graphic, and then move on to the next one. Police-involved shootings are no different. Then other night, a serial rabble-rouser posted the following on X: We were a little confused at first given the only recent police-involved shooting involved a CPD officer getting shot. Typically shootouts don’t fall into the execution column./what-is-your-money-plan.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-your-money-plan.htmlI lost a battle with a clickbait-y headline last week. Really, I never stood a chance. It sucked me in the second I saw it. “I don’t track my spending and I’m not sorry,” the headline screamed. I couldn’t help but to click the link. What can I say? I was curious. At least that’s the easy explanation. Deep down, I could relate. I still don’t truly track my spending. I might look for patterns and tally what I paid./what-to-watch-past-lives-present-sins.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-to-watch-past-lives-present-sins.htmlOne of the year’s very best movies – I’m confident I’ll still be saying that in December – opens in limited release today before going wider next week. Also in theaters: A blockbuster let-down that’s going to make pots of money anyway. The good one first: I first saw “Past Lives” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐) at Sundance in January and wrote about it then; I’m re-running the bulk of the review below because I felt it captured the quiet rapture with which Celine Song’s debut feature was greeted by a normally hardhearted Park City press crowd./why-did-jesus-write-on-the-ground.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-did-jesus-write-on-the-ground.htmlOne time, during a heated discussion, Jesus started drawing with His finger in the dirt. While speculation abounds, we have no idea what He wrote in the dirt. But a fascinating Old Testament connection might help explain why He wrote in the dirt. Here’s what happened when Jesus wrote on the ground. And everyone went to his own house. But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them./your-ultimate-book-guide-to-silicon-valley-tech.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/your-ultimate-book-guide-to-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./about-sarcastosaurus.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-sarcastosaurus.htmlSubscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. Never miss an update. You won’t have to worry about missing anything. Every new edition of the newsletter goes directly to your inbox. Be part of a community of people who share your interests. To find out more about the company that provides the tech for this newsletter, visit Substack.com. ncG1vNJzZmiwqKm8rq%2FOqKeeqqite7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6amaitpA%3D%3D/american-riviera-orchard-by-meghan-the-duchess-of-sussex.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/american-riviera-orchard-by-meghan-the-duchess-of-sussex.htmlI've read that the Santa Barbara area is called 'the American Riviera', but even as a Meghan fan (yes, I am), I think it sounds too consciously a declaration of "who needs Europe, we have fancy stuff in America too" And unless she's making jams from her own backyard, exactly where is this orchard (You know the British tabloids are going to be chasing down the provenance of the fruit used in her jams and jellies)./an-italian-thanksgiving-menu-by-giulia-scarpaleggia.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-italian-thanksgiving-menu-by-giulia-scarpaleggia.htmlCiao, you might be wondering why I—an Italian—am writing a Thanksgiving newsletter. Probably my Italian readers would consider this yet another example of the process of Americanization that has been taking over the Italian culture since World War II. Movies, politics, values, holidays, fast food, even Santa Claus… I’ve already written about Halloween here—and how the carved pumpkin was a scary tradition even during my grandma’s childhood, an example of Fall rituals that would help men give meaning to the liminal space between two seasons and two worlds./beef-shank-and-beans-with-orange-and-olives.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beef-shank-and-beans-with-orange-and-olives.htmlWhen I get around to better organizing my recipes this one will be filed under “chic comfort food”. As perfect for a fancy winter dinner party as it is eaten on the sofa while wearing sweat pants and watching tv. I serve it with a big dollop of soft, garlicky polenta for ultimate warmth, but good bread, ricotta gnocchi or mashed potatoes would also be delicious. I love cooking beef shanks, a braising cut that is still relatively cheap./chessy-from-the-parent-trap-is-my-cooking-hero.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chessy-from-the-parent-trap-is-my-cooking-hero.htmlMuch like Sweetbitter the book I return to when the world is spinning madly, The Parent Trap is a film that feels like a burger after a night out or a bowl of sticky rice when your sick. It’s pure comfort and watching it for the 2390483094th time earlier this week, I discovered a new layer I hadn’t subconsciously thought of when watching it all those other times (some of them with a burger after a night out)./clementine-paddleford-the-trailblazing-food-writer-you-ve-never-heard-of.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/clementine-paddleford-the-trailblazing-food-writer-you-ve-never-heard-of.htmlIf you’re like most of the American public, even the ones that write about, celebrate, and are immersed in the world of food, you likely have never heard of Clementine Paddleford. Well, let me remedy that by introducing you to this trailblazing food writer and journalist who captivated American cooks, revolutionized food writing, and introduced us to regional foods. To understand Clementine’s impact on food writing, we first need to understand the food writing climate of the time./comic-book-autopsy-the-gotham-war.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comic-book-autopsy-the-gotham-war.htmlBatman had a rough time in 2023. With Chip Zdarsky at the helm, Batman has encountered an AI he created . He has discovered an alternate personality, been sent to an alternate universe, encountered an alternate version of the Joker, lost his hand and then journeyed through countless alternate realities only to return home and have his body hijacked by Deadman during a massive crossover event that send DC characters into their own nightmares./diana-splits-the-world-open.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/diana-splits-the-world-open.htmlMy previous posts on Diana Ankudinova featured some of her performances when she was 14 and 15.  If you haven’t seen them, it’s worth checking them out.  You’ll see the emergence of a unique talent: https://zapatosjam.blogspot.com/2021/12/great-voices-9-shaman-diana-ankudinova.html https://zapatosjam.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-mysterious-case-of-diana-ankudinova.html This post contains only one clip.  It features Diana, now 18, performing “Can’t Help Falling in Love”, originally made famous by Elvis Presley, for an audience of professional singers.  This is one of those covers that is so different that it’s not really a cover./earning-less-than-benny-the-bull.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/earning-less-than-benny-the-bull.htmlALSO IN THIS POST… I’ve spent a lot of time over the last week thinking about basketball, and specifically about Caitlin Clark. Superlatives aren’t necessary. The statistics speak for themselves. Clark is the leading scorer in the history of U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball. She was taken as first pick in the Women’s National Basketball Association’s draft this month. She’s helped attract record-breaking TV audiences. Arenas have sold out around the country because of her./here-is-what-you-need-to-know-about-sparse-categorical-cross-entropy-in-nutshell.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/here-is-what-you-need-to-know-about-sparse-categorical-cross-entropy-in-nutshell.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./how-much-do-indians-really-spend-on-weddings.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-much-do-indians-really-spend-on-weddings.htmlIndian weddings are known for their opulence, grandeur, and extravagance. They are a celebration of love and commitment, and often involve elaborate ceremonies and rituals that can last for several days. However, with all the pomp and show comes a hefty price tag. In this article, we will take a closer look at how much money Indians really spend on weddings, and explore the various factors that contribute to the high cost of these events./humor-on-the-brain-by-liza-donnelly.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/humor-on-the-brain-by-liza-donnelly.htmlI am still upset about the firing of humorist Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker. It is infecting my work, as I continually wonder what will happen next with the magazine. This post is again about the importance of humor in these challenging times. I am going to try to post more drawing videos online. Join me over on Youtube as a subscriber if you like, it’s free. The more subscribers I have there, the more I can potentially do with that platform, from what I understand./ice-cube-burger-by-andrew-gruel.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ice-cube-burger-by-andrew-gruel.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”./introducing-my-nfl-draft-model.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/introducing-my-nfl-draft-model.htmlA few months ago I had an idea to combine the scouting community's knowledge with analytics to predict the outcomes of draft prospects more accurately. Today I am sharing how the model works and its Top 100 prospects, and will be publishing position breakdowns in the coming days during the lead-up to the draft. There are three primary components to my model: Utilizing scouting information via the consensus big board./is-esa-lindell-overrated-underrated-or-miscast.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-esa-lindell-overrated-underrated-or-miscast.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./kinney-shoes-architectural-afterlife.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kinney-shoes-architectural-afterlife.htmlKinney Shoes was a major footwear retailer in the 20th century. Its iconic modern stores, like the one in the video preview below, were constructed by the hundreds in the 1960s. Kinney made it into the 1990s before giving up the ghost, though Foot Locker is a surviving division of the same parent company. I haven’t been able to find info on number of locations or geographic reach, but a thread at Groceteria, a forum dedicated to the “history and commercial archaeology of chain supermarkets and other retailers,” identifies locations in California and even in Canada./knowing-god-beyond-our-shame.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/knowing-god-beyond-our-shame.htmlIn 2019, that waning year of the pre-pandemic era, I was asked to speak at a conference for writers where Fr. Stephen Freeman was also presenting.  I forget the topic of my presentation, but Fr. Stephen talked about shame.  That was the first occasion I heard him explore the connection between shame and faith as well as the first time I became aware of his forthcoming book on the topic. I recall being deeply affected by the talk—crying and laughing my way through most of it, along with the rest of the room./kool-moe-dee-by-jesse-rifkin.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kool-moe-dee-by-jesse-rifkin.htmlI wrote a book about 60 years of New York City rock music scenes called This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City which came out last week (you can purchase it here). Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I interviewed a lot of New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and … ncG1vNJzZmivkaG4sLrToZywoZyZwKqwxKewnGajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvKqKalZZ2ksm6wxJ4%3D/make-believe-mailer-108-friends-in-kohh-places.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/make-believe-mailer-108-friends-in-kohh-places.htmlAs far as ephemeral social media outrages go, the latest sweeping across Japanese X and, inevitably, mainstream outlets boasts a killer soundtrack. A graffiti artist using the handle “ADEK BTM” has been running amok in Tokyo, with a video of them tagging various spots in Shimokitazawa and stealing an onigiri from a Family Mart sparking anger online. Not helping matters was that spray paint distribution company Sprayplanet shared the clip to their official channel, spreading it further./mar-mari-emmanuel-by-h-e-negash.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mar-mari-emmanuel-by-h-e-negash.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./mississippi-expat-jordan-bush-rooted-magazine.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mississippi-expat-jordan-bush-rooted-magazine.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-medium-s-summer-schedule.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/month-to-month-episodic-medium-s-summer-schedule.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./notes-on-it-s-so-over-we-re-so-back.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/notes-on-it-s-so-over-we-re-so-back.htmlI’ve been reading Kai Bird’s Jimmy Carter biography, and the Camp David negotiations between Sadat and Begin are a prime example of the “it’s so over/we’re so back” dynamic. Days of intense ups and downs throughout which, at many points, either or both parties were ready to walk, finally culminating in a hopeful “we’re so back” moment of apparent triumph for Carter...followed then by a long, slow realization that, at least as far as the possibility of getting Israel to pull out of the West Bank went, it had actually never been anything but so, so over./red-menace-black-ops-green-light.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/red-menace-black-ops-green-light.htmlOn a warm, clear night in 1983, an Army two-and-a-half-ton truck pulled into a hangar on Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, and dropped its tailgate. One by one, about a dozen Green Berets from 7th Special Forces Group jumped down. At the same time, an MC-130 Combat Talon, the special operations version of the venerable Hercules turboprop aircraft, taxied over to the hangar. The plane’s ramp lowered and two men in black flight suits with no patches or other insignia disembarked./reese-s-creamy-crunchy-by-joe-s-junk-food.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/reese-s-creamy-crunchy-by-joe-s-junk-food.htmlI tried Reese’s new Creamy & Crunchy peanut butter cups. As part of this promotion Reese’s is asking fans to vote on which peanut butter cup they prefer. Reese’s cups are one of my all time favorite candies, so I was excited to give these varieties a try. I tried the Creamy cup first. Classic Reese’s cups are also made with creamy peanut butter, so I wasn’t sure what exactly to expect./review-schmigadoon-over-and-done.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-schmigadoon-over-and-done.htmlIt’s possible Schmigadoon! is settling into being a show that shifts up and down along a sort of x/y axis of good versus fun. Sometimes it shifts too far along one axis without making up the space on the other, although your mileage may vary depending on how much you appreciate the “all fun homages” version of the show. “Over and Done” does what it can to make up for some of the iffy plotting of the season, but it can’t quite overcome that the show didn’t really set up this season’s plot to wrap up in a way that didn’t feel rushed./review-the-regime-don-t-yet-rejoice.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-the-regime-don-t-yet-rejoice.html“What was that all about, do you think?” I know I complained about it back in my review of the premiere, but watching this finale I was struck by how much I hate Alexandre Desplat’s main title theme for The Regime. While there were moments of the series’ six-episode run that perhaps matched the zany tune playing over the generic images of political unrest, over time the show became an increasingly bleak look at how bleak this version of our world actually was./road-house-by-alec-toombs.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/road-house-by-alec-toombs.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’m a great admirer of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 trashterpiece “Road House.” This wasn’t always the case. I had a buddy back in college who often extolled the virtues of this Patrick Swayze vehicle. Ignorantly, I called him a hick (sorry, Adam) and told him “Point Break” was better. Then I revisited the flick with my patient pal and he was correct … “Road House” rules!/sunday-strip-not-friendly-by-robert-w-malone-md-ms.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sunday-strip-not-friendly-by-robert-w-malone-md-ms.htmlThis is a Remy video from seven years ago, I must say - it has aged well. (Personally - I would use the term “indoctrinated”, rather than ignorant). No comment… ”Who is Robert Malone” is a reader supported publication. Please consider a subscription to support our work. Thank you for reading Who is Robert Malone. This post is public so feel free to share it. Share Give a gift subscription/sweet-dreams-is-an-earnest-softball-and-addiction-drama-starring-johnny-knoxville.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sweet-dreams-is-an-earnest-softball-and-addiction-drama-starring-johnny-knoxville.htmlWelcome back to Baseball Week, where I’m spending the week writing about baseball movies, and thank you for the positive response to all of the posts so far.  Sweet Dreams is not, in fact, a baseball movie. It’s a softball movie. But beyond that, it’s an addiction movie. One featuring an intense, primarily successful dramatic turn from a man whom I’ve seen, over the years, get punched, tased,  electrocuted, and hit with all sorts of objects./the-algorithm-behind-jim-simons-s-success.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-algorithm-behind-jim-simons-s-success.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./the-cabinet-b%C3%A9n%C3%A9dictine-by-richard-godwin.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-cabinet-b%C3%A9n%C3%A9dictine-by-richard-godwin.html~ BÉNÉDICTINE ~ Herbal liqueur / 40% ABV / c.£30 for 700ml Friends with: dark spirits, notably brandy, bourbon and rye. Italian vermouth. Absinthe. Peychaud’s bitters. Also, gin, French vermouth, sherry. And, cream, chocolate, coffee, etc. Imagine, you are a teenager in a northern English industrial town in 1914. The ruling classes of Europe have resolved to see how many of you they can annihilate in order to satisfy one of their most inscrutable codes of honour./the-curious-case-of-kate-middleton-s-disappearing-act-a-royal-mystery-unfolds.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-curious-case-of-kate-middleton-s-disappearing-act-a-royal-mystery-unfolds.htmlIt all started bizarre. Kate and King Charles’ health issues were announced on the same day. Kate, we were informed, would be having a planned procedure (not cancer-related) and Charles would be “attending” the hospital for his own health issues. King Charles appeared in high spirits weeks later as he attended a service at St Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate with Camilla; His first public appearance since being discharged from the hospital a week prior for treatment of an enlarged prostate./the-duende-untranslatable.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-duende-untranslatable.htmlA few months ago, my co-worker, Laura*, invited a magician to our office Zoom party. He showed us a few tricks and we giggled and struggled to figure them out. At the end of his act, he answered some of our questions. “Do you believe in real magic?” Laura asked. The magician thought for a minute, then described an interview with Michael Jackson. In it, Jackson is asked how he wrote the song Billie Jean, but he can’t seem to come up with an answer./the-evolution-of-starbucks-in-the-global-landscape.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-evolution-of-starbucks-in-the-global-landscape.htmlChina has overtaken the US as the largest branded coffee shop market in the world by outlets. Growth was led by the rapid expansion of the local chains Luckin Coffee and Cotti Coffee. Starbucks is the second largest branded coffee operator by outlets in China.  While Starbucks may no longer be the coffee chain with the most stores in China, 🌍globally, it still holds the record for the highest number of stores with 38k stores./the-lives-of-arjan-vailly.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-lives-of-arjan-vailly.htmlThe full-blooded, bellicose, violent but chivalric rebel is a much-romanticized figure in Punjab folklore. The popularity of the song ‘Arjan Vailly,’ sung by Bhupinder Babbal, has brought this archetype back into popular discourse. Articles quickly (and erroneously) identified ‘Arjan’ as the son of Hari Singh Nalwa. A few days later, a journalist posted a more reliable account online. Arjan Singh was born into a wealthy Virk household in Rurka village of Ludhiana./the-non-zero-sum-game-of-ambition.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-non-zero-sum-game-of-ambition.htmlThis is a weekly newsletter about the art and science of building and investing in tech companies. To receive Investing 101 in your inbox each week, subscribe here: I often feel there are some movies that don't have enough cultural impact on society. I remember watching Big Hero 6 in 2016 and thinking its portrayal of passion around STEM education should be shown to every kid. I remember watching In Time in 2011, and feeling like there should be a bigger conversation about what happens when we cure all diseases?/the-shawshank-redemption-movie-review.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./vyvyan-and-vivian-by-joel-morris.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/vyvyan-and-vivian-by-joel-morris.htmlIf you’ve not heard Adrian Edmondson’s Desert Island Discs, it’s a good one. Promoting his new memoir, he demonstrates the power of the format by retelling the stories without the cool demeanour of an audiobook, a listening experience which turns out to be raw and honest and moving. You can listen to it here. Edmondson talks about being bullied at school for having ‘a girl’s name’ – apparently even though Adrian isn’t a girl’s name, it seemed exotic enough at the time to attract unwanted attention./was-korean-culture-to-blame-for-the-sewol-tragedy.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/was-korean-culture-to-blame-for-the-sewol-tragedy.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./watching-american-history-x-as-a-sunday-night-family-movie.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/watching-american-history-x-as-a-sunday-night-family-movie.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./what-does-it-mean-to-romanticize.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-does-it-mean-to-romanticize.htmlFor a long time, humans have taken an interest in the “romantic.” And I’m not just talking about romantic love (although Romeo and Juliet was published in 1595). I’m talking more about the ideas cultivated during the Romantic era of eighteenth-century Europe. Partially in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and the newfound doctrines of Enlightenment, Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by its emphasis on emotion and the idealization of nature./why-did-russell-wilson-get-benched.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-did-russell-wilson-get-benched.htmlA couple weeks after Seattle traded Russell Wilson to Denver, a certain left-handed former co-worker asked my opinion on what drove the trade. This wasn’t exactly a personal request. I was one of 50 people that Brock Huard reached out to, and while it was a questionable decision to include me among the people whose opinion on football he respected, I was happy to respond. My answer is blue: Brock said he giggled, but only after Googling Icarus./word-of-the-week-wankpanzer.htmlThu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/word-of-the-week-wankpanzer.htmlIn November 2019, when Tesla announced its unlovely and (as it turned out) poorly designed Cybertruck, I reported some of the jokey alternative names that were being proposed by skeptics: Starship Pooper, Millennial Falcon, Mystery Science Aztek 3000, Muskmobile. Now, thanks to a tip from reader/friend Mike Pope, I’ve learned a new name for the Cybertruck and its galumphing ilk: Wankpanzer. Wankpanzer is a hilariously apt word. I love it! And now I am going to risk ruining it for you by explaining the joke./%E5%86%86%E6%BB%91%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B-%E4%BF%83%E9%80%B2%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B-facilitate-by-%E7%81%B0%E8%89%B2%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/%E5%86%86%E6%BB%91%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B-%E4%BF%83%E9%80%B2%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B-facilitate-by-%E7%81%B0%E8%89%B2%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8.html会議を円滑に進行する行動自体を指す「ファシリテーション」として知っている人が多いかしれません。facilitate の意味は、複雑な物事をわかりやすくして、円滑に進むように手助けすることです。そのことから「促進する」と訳すこともあります。 I’m going to facilitate this brainstorming session. 私がこのアイデア出しの会の進行を行います。 How might we facilitate comments on blogs? どうしたらブログへのコメントを促せるだろうか。 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.facilitation（名詞）容易にすること facilitator（名詞）促進するもの、物事の進行を促進する人、ファシリテーター 私はアメリカのサンフランシスコに住んでいるデザイナーです。同じ英語でも国や地域によって、使う単語や言い回しは違う可能性があります。 ncG1vNJzZmidmZy8b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinaJ6RmLattdOaq54%3D/trap-cropping-best-things-to-plant-to-manage-your-pests.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/trap-cropping-best-things-to-plant-to-manage-your-pests.htmla few housekeeping things before we begin — 📆 here is my dynamic garden calendar in case you need assistance building your spring, summer & fall gardens! 🌱 if you are needing help with seed starting, i made a lil class for that! 🛠 if you are local & want Team Floricult™ to build you a new garden this year, email me to get a consult scheduled for march. we are booking up & currently scheduling construction for may and june./welcome-to-the-state-of-ai-report-2023.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/welcome-to-the-state-of-ai-report-2023.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./the-fall-of-minneapolis-is-orwellian-nonsense.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-fall-of-minneapolis-is-orwellian-nonsense.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./a-little-substack-on-substack-conflict-here-trying-not-to-be-too-contentious-but-if-someone-jumps.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-little-substack-on-substack-conflict-here-trying-not-to-be-too-contentious-but-if-someone-jumps.htmlA little Substack-on-Substack conflict here! Trying not to be too contentious, but if someone jumps “Nate thinks Biden being 80 years old is a big deal” to “Nate must therefore secretly support Ron DeSantis”, it probably deserves a response. natesilver.net/p/not-everyone-who-disag… ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2Bt056qoqSmmr9wus6tnGibXWiGeoOWcmdy/aim-for-the-face-by-tony-ginocchio.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/aim-for-the-face-by-tony-ginocchio.htmlA full decade before the Spotlight reports came out, Chicago had its own citywide clergy sex abuse scandal; it’s the only time I’ve been disappointed that we beat Boston to something. This was in the fall of 1991, and the archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, had fucked everything up. He had reassigned priests he shouldn’t have reassigned, and he had ignored reports and allegations that he shouldn’t have ignored. It was a very bad time to be in the Catholic church in Chicago, and it was his fault./cake-sal%C3%A9-or-savory-quick-bread-just-call-it-delicious.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cake-sal%C3%A9-or-savory-quick-bread-just-call-it-delicious.htmlHello! Hello! I’ve got a thing for what the French call cake salé. Salé means salty or savory and cake, for the French, means anything sweet or savory – other than bread – that’s baked in a loaf pan. It can be confusing, but it’s always tasty. A cake salé is so much a part of the French way of eating – and entertaining – that you can buy all kinds of them in bakeries and supermarkets./coding-challenges-john-crickett.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/coding-challenges-john-crickett.html“Great newsletter for engineers that would like to learn a new language or sharpen existing skills by working on real-world applications. Weekly coding challenges that are aimed at helping software engineers level up by practicing building real-world applications. ” ncG1vNJzZmibn5m2r7PCoZilpJWjtKa%2Fjaysm6uklrCsesKopGg%3D/coercion-manipulation-persuasion-inspiration.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/coercion-manipulation-persuasion-inspiration.htmlTLDR: Mutual value is the key to influence & inspiration I was talking with a friend recently about sales tactics like storytelling, negotiating, mirroring, and objection handling. It came up that these tactics can be perceived as coercion or manipulation, so we debated the merit of that and arrived at what I think is an interesting distinction. Not surprisingly, others have documented the difference between these “four horsemen,” but not in the context of sales or fundraising as far as I could tell./crustless-asparagus-quiche-by-susan-spungen.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/crustless-asparagus-quiche-by-susan-spungen.htmlI want to thank everyone who commented on last week’s newsletter for a chance to win a free one-year subscription to Susanality. I loved reading all of them, and appreciate all of the nice things you said! Big congrats to Phoebe, Ava, and Candice, who were the lucky winners. I also want to thank everyone who took the time to complete the survey I shared last week. It was a great opportunity to get to know you better and to tailor my content to meet your needs (and wants!/dad-talks-8-jayson-greene.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dad-talks-8-jayson-greene.htmlFull disclosure straight from the top: I haven’t read Jayson Greene’s book. I’m not sure I can or ever will be able to because I don’t know if I have to stomach or the emotional strength to read about the loss of a child, which is exactly what Greene’s book, Once More We Saw Stars, is about. Greene and his wife lost their two-year-old daughter Greta after a freak accident in New York City, a tragedy I can’t begin to fathom./david-helling-on-directing-his-only-son.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/david-helling-on-directing-his-only-son.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./elevated-highways-are-not-like-elevated-transit.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/elevated-highways-are-not-like-elevated-transit.htmlA lot of places are building elevated rail these days, something I’m quite a fan of. But with more elevated rail comes more NIMBYism, and with NIMBYism comes bold statements that are backed by tenuous evidence, if any!  One of the most common comparisons I’ve seen, from Toronto to Montreal and beyond, is the comparison between an elevated rail guideway and an elevated highway — this comparison is a bad one, and I will detail why in this piece./elvin-jones-on-john-coltrane-s-india.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/elvin-jones-on-john-coltrane-s-india.htmlJohn Coltrane’s landmark LP Impressions opens with “India,” and the first thing we hear is Elvin Jones playing unaccompanied drums. Elvin Jones is beloved by all jazz musicians, and rightly so. The whole drum performance on “India” is one long fabulous sweep. It’s right in a pocket between medium and fast, and is just so damn swinging. There are plenty of antecedents to Elvin Jones’s churn, including Art Blakey for the African attitude and Max Roach for the technical and melodic perspective./examining-if-criticisms-of-eric-bieniemy-s-offense-are-fair.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/examining-if-criticisms-of-eric-bieniemy-s-offense-are-fair.htmlThe hiring of Eric Bieniemy as offensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders has been one of the most discussed topics by Commanders fans this season. In an ideal world, he and Sam Howell would have produced a fantastic offense and Bieniemy could have been elevated to head coach to continue that progress going forward. Obviously it hasn’t quite worked out like that and Bieniemy has come in for some criticism from fans, some fair and some not so much./her-search-for-the-narco-look-was-the-death-of-her.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/her-search-for-the-narco-look-was-the-death-of-her.htmlCULIACÁN, Sinaloa, Mexico - Paulina always dreamed of looking like the most “desirable” women in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Women like Emma Coronel, the young wife of drug-trafficking kingpin Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán, or Claudia Ochoa Félix, known as the Empress locally, and allegedly a high-ranking killer for the Sinaloa Cartel. Both are (or in Ochoa’s case, were) sculpted buchonas - a word used here for the women who become involved romantically with drug-traffickers./how-to-organise-your-journeys-for-effective-decision-making.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-organise-your-journeys-for-effective-decision-making.htmlAre you drowning in a sea of journeys, unsure how they relate to each other, and unclear about what to prioritise? Thinking of transferring them to a journey management system but not sure where to start? If this resonates with you, keep reading. I have a solution for you. In this post I’m introducing the A.V.O.C. framework. To some, it may sound like a dancing avocado, to others, like widespread destruction./i-m-in-the-30-percent-club-i-saw-denali-s-peak.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-m-in-the-30-percent-club-i-saw-denali-s-peak.htmlHello Miami friends — if you missed me last week, it’s because I was in our 49th state enjoying crisp air, gorgeous vistas, and gorging myself on fresh salmon. There’s no other way to put it — Alaska is the most gorgeous place I’ve ever been on the North American continent. If you’ve been putting off Alaska because of the extremely long travel time to reach your destination or if you’re waiting to save up two or three weeks to go, my advice would be to not make any more excuses./illumina-s-boring-new-sequencer-is-boring.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/illumina-s-boring-new-sequencer-is-boring.htmlBoring doesn’t have to be bad dear reader. Boring is… dependable, reliable, like… a rock.. like a big heavy rock. Clearly… DNA Sequencers should be big. And heavy. And boring. And the NovaSeq X is one of the heaviest sequencers yet, with a crated weight of 722Kg! That’s nearly an additional 100Kg of value over the NovaSeq 6000. Hey you’re paying $1.25M for this. Nobody wants to buy a small sequencer for $1./john-meneilly-hip-hop-s-consigliere-nftw-42.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/john-meneilly-hip-hop-s-consigliere-nftw-42.htmlWhat’s good everyone? I hope we’re all doing well. I don’t know if I mentioned in a previous NFTW but I’ve become super interested in Mafioso films. I think the scripts for a lot of the movies (particularly Scorsese directed films) in that genre are impeccable. I’m going to get into Goodfellas again because it’s been a while since I last watched it. This week I’ll be sharing some thoughts on the similarities between the structure of Mafia families and the business partners Jay-Z has had./kim-gordon-the-collective-album-review.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kim-gordon-the-collective-album-review.htmlI usually publish the newsletter on Fridays, a tradition I very much enjoy adhering to, but the fact that I haven’t been feeling myself lately has led me to struggle with my writing (as well as my everything else). Still, I didn’t feel like pushing this piece back an entire week, which is why it finds you on this blessed Saturday. I hope you’ll forgive the sacrilege. After 38 years as a musician — and about 35 years as a living legend — Kim Gordon, former bassist-singer in the alt-rock institution Sonic Youth and decades-long symbol of muy sofisticado, bohème cool, released her first studio album, 2019’s No Home Record./kindness-begets-kindness-beyond-with-jane-ratcliffe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kindness-begets-kindness-beyond-with-jane-ratcliffe.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./kp-mashed-potato-pie-by-nicola-lamb.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kp-mashed-potato-pie-by-nicola-lamb.htmlEvery now and again, something really gets under my skin. It's the same thing that happened when I decided to put a trifle INSIDE jelly and when I felt it was my responsibility to bring a DIY vienetta into the world. Last week, I had an unshakeable desire to create a Thanksgiving side dish to end all Thanksgiving side dishes: Enter the mashed potato pie. Crispy rösti crust, smooth mashed potatoes, a crispy top./let-s-keep-that-discussion-going-3.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/let-s-keep-that-discussion-going-3.htmlLots more to discuss today (and unpack from last week). I hope you’re all feeling rested and peaceful—and maybe still in elastic pants—after Thanksgiving. My husband flew home from Israel a few hours before the holiday, so it was a pretty exciting/happy holiday for the kids and me. Something to truly be thankful for, eh? Anywho, enough sappy stuff. Jumpi… ncG1vNJzZmiaoq6wprPRrpmeql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6lnK2rXaCypryMrZ%2BarF2ZtrSv1KyqoqeeYrSwtc2gZGw%3D/my-pinky-toe-was-no-longer-an-exposed-electrical-wire-sparking-at-the-slightest-touch.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-pinky-toe-was-no-longer-an-exposed-electrical-wire-sparking-at-the-slightest-touch.htmlDear reader, There’s another installment from our Long Path section hike below the fold, but first, a quick announcement. After putting this newsletter on the back burner for the past couple years, I am recommitting to a weekly publishing schedule, and turning paid subscriptions back on. This will allow me to do several things: Hire someone to design a proper logo. Invite other writers to submit unconventional nature and outdoor adventure stories, and pay them a modest fee for their work./nuclear-war-by-timothy-snyder.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nuclear-war-by-timothy-snyder.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./please-read-first-by-tom-staniford.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/please-read-first-by-tom-staniford.htmlHello there. Welcome to my Substack. I wanted to write this introductory post to explain a little about who I am, why I’m writing it now, and what you can come to expect from this page. My name is Tom Staniford. I am a freelance marketing consultant who does a bit of speaking and lecturing on the side- on marketing, law, psychology, DEI and various other interesting topics. I have broad interests and am endlessly curious./shogun-2024-episodes-i-ii-by-radicaledward.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shogun-2024-episodes-i-ii-by-radicaledward.htmlWell, after telling everyone how great the 1980 Shogun miniseries is, I watched the first two episodes of this new adaptation of the 1975 novel by James Clavell. And it’s real good. Maybe the best show I’ve seen in years. Spoilers ahead, not only for the first two episodes, but for the whole series. I mean, this is sort of said while assuming historical events are spoilers for a show. Anyway./summer-box-office-2024-predictions.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/summer-box-office-2024-predictions.htmlLast year I picked up the Summer Movie Contest again here on the It’s the Pictures newsletter. I had Barbie pretty low on my list. Well, we all know how that turned out! There was simply no comp for it and frankly no comp after it—I’m not sure what the next sensation will be and if I did I probably wouldn’t be writing this newsletter! But with another summer comes more movies trying to earn our cold hard cash./sweet-potato-shrimp-fritter-recipe.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sweet-potato-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./ten-crazy-things-i-ve-learned-about-foodborne-illness.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ten-crazy-things-i-ve-learned-about-foodborne-illness.htmlI haven’t been writing as frequently for The New York Times over the past few months because I’ve been buried in book writing, but my current beat there can best be described as “things that give you diarrhea.” I’ve written for them about norovirus, listeria, salmonella, and, just this morning, E. coli. That last one completely took over my brain yesterday — I essentially reported, wrote, and went through edits for the piece in a day — which is why my newsletter is a little late today./the-vibe-shift-is-here-2022-was-just-beginning.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-vibe-shift-is-here-2022-was-just-beginning.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-baylor-influencer-twin-sex-positive-glow-up.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-baylor-influencer-twin-sex-positive-glow-up.htmlWhen I was growing up in the Presbyterian church in the ‘90s, there was a story that my youth pastor used to tell. The specifics have blurred with time, but it involved an intense high school relationship with a girlfriend — one that was too intense, which we were meant to understand as too sexy time. In the stories, this intensity was objectified in the form of a blowdryer she gave him for his birthday./the-cutting-room-floor-jerusalem-demsas.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-cutting-room-floor-jerusalem-demsas.htmlThe process of writing an article — even a short one — requires leaving a lot out. And when I receive counter-arguments or thoughts I haven’t yet considered after publication, there isn’t a natural way to engage with it. Until now. By Jerusalem Demsas · Launched 5 months agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmiclaLAor%2BNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaA%3D%3D/the-end-of-america-s-first-outlets.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-end-of-america-s-first-outlets.htmlIf you lived in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, maybe even Delaware and Connecticut in the 1980s or ’90s, there’s a good chance you were aware of Liberty Village in Flemington, New Jersey, considered the nation’s first major outlet mall. Despite once being an incredibly popular shopping destination, Liberty Village began to empty out and fall apart more than a decade ago. I don’t know the details of its slow decline, but it seems to have been a combination of poor management, the rise of e-commerce, and competition from much larger and more modern outlet centers./the-macdonald-triad-by-athena-walker.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-macdonald-triad-by-athena-walker.htmlYou probably know what makes up the Macdonald Triad, even if you don’t know its name. It is synonymous with what people believe about psychopathy, but most never dig into it to see how relevant, or even accurate it is. What is that MacDonald Triad"? It was a theory of behaviors that supposedly were core indicators of psychopathy. They are as listed in the graphic above. Fire setting Animal torture and killing/the-papua-new-guinean-word-for-the-elephant-in-the-room.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-papua-new-guinean-word-for-the-elephant-in-the-room.htmlBehind the negative things that happen to us in life, there are almost always deep-rooted problems and reasons, whether we realize it or not. Even accidents are not usually truly accidents. They are the result of some negative habits or emotions. You cut your hand while chopping lettuce in the kitchen. You may regard it as an ordinary accident that happens several times in your life. But the truth is, it’s the result of being non-present in the moment./there-s-something-queer-about-andrew-tate.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/there-s-something-queer-about-andrew-tate.htmlI hate to be that guy, but I think it’s time that someone said it: Andrew Tate is incredibly gay. Yes, gay accusations are drably cliché at this point … while serving as a status symbol proving a celebrity has finally “made it.” But allow me to clarify. I don’t intend to imply that Andrew Tate would secretly like to engage in intercourse with other men. The whole Andrew Tate affair — and the broader red-pilled manosphere phenomenon in general — is gay in a cosmic sense, meaning its reverence for “heroic” masculinity has developed a kind of fetishistic aura around it, an aura that inevitably carries an erotic charge./trouble-at-granite-hills-by-leah-harris.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/trouble-at-granite-hills-by-leah-harris.htmlWhen I opened my email a few days ago, this headline from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service appeared in my inbox: “Patient Safety Concerns Raised About New Granite Hills Hospital.” I was of course horrified, but not surprised. It is a story that is all too familiar to me, as a long-time tracker of psych hospitals and what occurs within their walls. As a witness to, and survivor of, what happens in such places./wheels-fun-park-public-art-survey.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wheels-fun-park-public-art-survey.htmlAfter almost 40 years of serving the Durham community, the former Wheels Fun Park closed it’s doors in 2020 and was later purchased by the city of Durham. The eight acre property will now be updated and renovated as part of Durham Parks and Recreations Splash & Play project. Throughout the Splash and Play project community engagement sessions, the public’s ideas emphasized a desire within the community to preserve and re-open the Wheels Skating Center as part of the overall site development./where-did-the-pistons-go-wrong.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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?/why-does-it-seem-like-sexist-men-are-all-using-the-same-playbook.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-does-it-seem-like-sexist-men-are-all-using-the-same-playbook.htmlEvery month I get dozens of letters for Feminist Advice Friday that follow the exact same pattern: The woman outlines an emotionally abusive relationship. She’s doing all or most of the parenting and household labor. Her partner treats her like garbage. She’s getting nothing from the relationship. And she wants to know if she’s crazy for wanting to leave and demanding better. These women already follow me. They know my work and presumably agree with it./women-s-hotness-scale-by-aella.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/women-s-hotness-scale-by-aella.htmlHow hot is a 5, actually? We have the classic 4chan image: But is it true? Is this an accurate assessment of hotness? I decided to run a survey to find out. I collected ~240 images of women’s faces, most of them AI generated. I just default scraped a bunch of them, with the only stipulation being that they had to look reasonably above 18, and had to be plausibly fertile (with only a few exceptions)./words-with-elise-abracadabra.htmlWed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/words-with-elise-abracadabra.htmlTRANSCRIPT: So the word “abracadabra,” which is something we associate with magic, right? My son says it as he does tricks in our living room. It’s actually Hebrew/Aramaic—avra kehdabra—which means, “I will create as I speak,” or “I create with the word.” It goes back to this story of Genesis, this idea that God spoke the world into existence, that the w… ncG1vNJzZmidnJ7AprjOnp%2BnnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqiqlKh6uLXToWSepJmosm6twauYnJmUlq%2BzrQ%3D%3D/the-devil-is-a-woman-1935.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-devil-is-a-woman-1935.htmlMinding the Gaps is a recurring feature in which Keith Phipps watches and writes about a movie he’s never seen before as selected at random by the app he uses to catalog a DVD and Blu-ray collection accumulated over the course of the last 20+ years. It’s an attempt to fill in the gaps in his film knowledge while removing the horrifying burden of choice. This is the third entry. “Marlene watches from the wall/week-13-the-speediest-caesar-dressing-you-will-ever-make.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/week-13-the-speediest-caesar-dressing-you-will-ever-make.htmlHello Farm Share Friends, Something that has astonished me these past few weeks is how well the romaine lettuce has held up. Last night I pulled two heads of lettuce from the fridge, one from two weeks ago, one from last week, hoping I might be able to salvage enough leaves from each to make a decent sized salad. Turns out I had nothing to worry about. To prep the lettuce, I pulled away a few tired-looking outer leaves and trimmed away a few scraggly tips./a-recipe-for-utica-greens-by-noah-tanen.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-recipe-for-utica-greens-by-noah-tanen.htmlThe blinding romance with which some people see the great Roman pasta dishes, French haute cuisine, or the precision of a Michelin-star kitchen … I feel the same way about the food in Upstate New York. Utica is like Provence to me. There are at least 3 dishes endemic to Utica, New York. This is not a very high number, but that is about 3 more than you would expect in an average city of 60,000 people./about-pageturner.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-pageturner.htmlI’m Julie Bush, a screenwriter. I write big action thrillers about technology, intelligence and justice, usually conspiracy thrillers. I’m a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, the screenwriters union. I went to Princeton where Toni Morrison was my senior thesis advisor. I live in California where I spend an absurd amount of my “free time” reading. I’m also into skiing, camping, visual art and crypto. And I renovate my ski cabin and constantly look for another old house to fix up./adventure-time-and-the-apocalypse.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/adventure-time-and-the-apocalypse.htmlA note: while this is intended to be accessible for people who aren’t familiar with Adventure Time, it does have spoilers. Where those spoilers are for the main series content released up to 2018, including the finale, I haven’t specifically marked them. Where they’re for content released post-2018, I’ve given a warning before I get to them. Where spoilers are necessary, I’ve tried to make sure that it doesn’t give away too much, and that you can still enjoy watching the show with them, but if you want to go into it knowing nothing, stop reading now./affably-evil-daniel-substack.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/affably-evil-daniel-substack.htmlMental health. Societal optimization. Villainous monologues. Welcome to Affably Evil, where I puzzle out the mysteries of human interaction and organizational dysfunction in between maniacal cackles and dastardly schemes. Updates Fridays at 10am. By Daniel · Launched 2 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmiZlpuuo7jYnq2ipF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpw/behold-the-usmnt-depth-chart.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/behold-the-usmnt-depth-chart.htmlAhead of a an international-tournament-filled summer, I looked at the USMNT’s depth across every position in the starting XI. Apologies/congratulations if your favorite fringe player didn’t/did land that coveted 13th-place spot at whatever position he plays: In Pulisic, you have a Champions League-level winger. In Wright, you have a dominant Championship-level winger. Outside of them, you have a few guys who struggled for consistent playing time in the Bundesliga, some MLS lifers, a guy doing well in Liga MX, a couple prospects from lower-tier European clubs and a handful of MLS prospects who haven't quite kicked on yet./best-examples-of-sfw-porn-advertising.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/best-examples-of-sfw-porn-advertising.htmlRELATED: Three funny SFW porn TV spots via Canada. Most of us will never get a chance to work on a porn assignment. No matter, look at these ads and drool longingly. Mesmerizingly brilliant spot for the German erotic TV channel’s child lock feature. Boobs become a bird, penis becomes a bear. “You’ll See It, Your Kids Won’t”. It’s perfect! Print ads from the campaign below. Ad agency: Kempertrautmann, Hamburg./beyonc%C3%A9-s-gone-country-by-alex-morris-write.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beyonc%C3%A9-s-gone-country-by-alex-morris-write.htmlI don’t know if your social media algorithm is going wild with country Beyoncé content, but hooo lawdy mine sure is. Zuckerburg and co. clearly know I’m interested in this topic, because every other post on my algorithm is all about Beyoncé, “going country” as Alan Jackson might say. Funny that I bring the 90s country icon up so quickly, as rumor has it, it was exactly HIM who supposedly played a role in making Beyoncé feel unwelcome at the 2016 CMA Awards, when she performed with the artists who were at the time known as the Dixie Chicks./by-any-other-name-by-helena.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/by-any-other-name-by-helena.htmlMy name is Helena, and as of this writing I’m a 23-year-old woman who, as a teenager, believed I was transgender. In the years since detransitioning (stopping testosterone treatment and no longer seeing myself as transgender), I’ve become interested in exploring why, in the last decade, nearly every English-speaking country has seen a meteoric rise in adolescents believing they are transgender and pursuing cosmetic medical and surgical interventions. Here, I’d like to go over how and why I came to see myself as transgender, the process of transitioning, and the events leading up to and following my detransition./combat-liberalism-jim-fergie-chambers.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/combat-liberalism-jim-fergie-chambers.htmlA journal for the western masses, based in Western Mass. Now soft-launching on Substack; including the Donbass War archives of Editor Jim “Fergie” Chambers. Patronized by the Berkshire Communist Party By Jim “Fergie” Chambers · Launched 2 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmibn6KvosDLopmeqpGhtrS5zJplrK2SqMGir8pnmqilXw%3D%3D/commanders-scheme-breakdown-quarters-coverage.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/commanders-scheme-breakdown-quarters-coverage.htmlQuarters coverage is becoming more and more prevalent in the NFL as defenses attempt to combat the passing nature of the modern NFL offense. The Washington Commanders are one of the teams that have leaned heavily into the quarters coverage trend, so you’ll probably have heard lots of analysts talk about it since Ron Rivera took over in Washington. But what exactly is quarters coverage? Let’s take a closer look./comments-rip-to-the-digital-playground.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-rip-to-the-digital-playground.htmlI often miss the early days of home computers (i started with a digital typewriter, lol) and Internet. It was s terrifying place if you actually looked at what was going on. It also felt like actual people were on it, making things. Websites felt like websites of people. Everything is slicker now. Websites often feel like the product of templates and corporate production. In many ways this has helped so many people./fall-colors-in-san-francisco-bay-area.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fall-colors-in-san-francisco-bay-area.htmlAh the joy of seeing the fall colors and foliage in San Francisco Bay area - pure bliss and heartwarming 🤗 It's all about the perspective. If I didn't know and experience it in Raleigh NC, I wouldn't even see it here in Redwood city. How many times have we missed the chance to see what is right in front of us? Too many to count. I invite you to open your eyes and all of your senses to feel around you -/first-draft-with-fatima-farheen-mirza.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/first-draft-with-fatima-farheen-mirza.htmlWelcome to First Draft. Home to my writing in-between novels, meditations on living a creative life, and invitations to live your own. It’s also where I host the occasional book club, share writing prompts, passages from books I’m reading, and lists of things I’ve recently loved. The bio goes: Fatima Farheen Mirza is the author of A Place for Us. She is a graduate of etc. etc. But First Draft is where I’ll bring the parts of me that never make it into the serious-yawn- bio./how-craig-morgan-launched-and-grew-az-coyotes-insider.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-craig-morgan-launched-and-grew-az-coyotes-insider.htmlWe interviewed Craig Morgan to share his insights on launching a paid newsletter. Craig is a sports writer who previously wrote for The Athletic before starting AZ Coyotes Insider, where he writes exclusively about the ice hockey team Arizona Coyotes.   This transcript has been lightly edited for readability. You can watch the full interview in the video below. Define your audience. Before going paid, consider who your readers are and whether there’s a market for what you want to write./how-dan-sinykin-wrote-big-fiction.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-dan-sinykin-wrote-big-fiction.htmlOn a semi-regular basis, I interview authors about their writing processes—you can find previous entries here—and this week I’m excited to chat with Dan Sinykin whose book Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature was published last week. As that subtitle implies, Big Fiction is a rigorous and fascinating look at the last few decades of corporate conglomeration in publishing and how it has shaped American literature in everything from what types of books are published to how we conceive of genres./i-rewrote-the-barbie-speech-for-a-man.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-rewrote-the-barbie-speech-for-a-man.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./i-visited-the-site-where-empress-elisabeth-sisi-of-austria-was-murdered.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-visited-the-site-where-empress-elisabeth-sisi-of-austria-was-murdered.htmlLet me take you back to Geneva, that wonderful city where I have gone back to so many times before. I have already shared pictures of my train journey through Europe, and I showed you photos of the town itself when I wrote about my memories of my work there. Today, I will take you back in time to the sad events in Geneva on September 10, 1898.  After a full-day conference at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in the Maison de la Paix, I was happy that I could take off my mask, put on my winter coat, and walk towards the city center in the cool October evening./khan-world-school-one-year-later.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/khan-world-school-one-year-later.htmlWhen the Khan World School launched last year as a partnership between the Khan Academy and Arizona State University Prep Digital, it promised a new way forward for virtual schooling. One year later, Sal Khan and Amy McGrath rejoin me to share how the first year went—including some stunning first-year results, lessons learned, and what the next year ahead will look like as they enroll students for the next school year./life-update-april-23.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./more-problems-at-the-joint-corp-jynt.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/more-problems-at-the-joint-corp-jynt.htmlTwo weeks ago, The Bear Cave published on problems at The Joint (NASDAQ: JYNT — $1.20 billion), a franchisor of chiropractic clinics, concerning its franchise health and aggressive customer billing. Some smart investors in The Joint pushed back and argued that the franchise base is actually healthy. For example, The Joint’s own Franchise Disclosure Document seems to show that the median clinic makes between $70k-$150k in net profit. The Joint bulls also argued that the aggressive franchisor-franchisee terms The Joint uses are commonplace and that The Joint improves the standard of chiropractic care for patients./nc-cardinal-corner.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nc-cardinal-corner.htmlBrunswick County Library and Robeson County Library will be migrating into NC Cardinal this year. Tuesday, January 23rd at 2:00 PM (virtual) Evergreen Reports 101: Deep Dive into Templates The second session in NC Cardinal’s report training series will take a closer look at creating templates from scratch. We will cover operators and transforms in more detail, and discuss best practices for selecting sources, linking tables, and creating filters. Register here/on-epigraphs-by-courtney-maum.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-epigraphs-by-courtney-maum.htmlThe Oxford Dictionary defines “epigraph” as: a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. In published books, epigraphs usually fall in the middle of the administrative beginning: Title page Dedication Epigraph Author’s note (usually appears with nonfiction and memoir only) Prologue or Chapter 1 For readers, epigraphs set tonal expectations for the book to come. They’re sensual cues; a spritz of fragrance in a large room./quarantine-canteen-dispatch-1-lee-s-chop-suey.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/quarantine-canteen-dispatch-1-lee-s-chop-suey.htmlThis is the first in a series highlighting some of the best places to take out or order delivery from in Chicago during the COVID-19 quarantine. I live roughly 1,056 feet from the front door of Lee’s Chop Suey and have ordered delivery from them almost every week for seven years. This is not, however, a marriage of convenience.  36 Chinese restaurants deliver to my house. If I involve Postmates, which will deliver pretty much anything from anywhere (please don’t unsubscribe, but Taco Bell is the leader in this particular clubhouse, err, my account), that number grows significantly./red-flags-of-a-narcopath.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/red-flags-of-a-narcopath.htmlHow many times in recent years has the term “narcopath” made its appearance when people are trying to ascribe the behaviors of narcissistic personality disorder to psychopaths? Unfortunately, this is frequent, and the number of articles and websites that are out there to make this connection are numerous. It is time to debunk this narrative because it isn’t going to go away on its own. A narcopath has been the term adopted by folks that do not understand psychopathy, ASPD, or narcissistic personality disorder./rest-in-peace-bill-haller.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rest-in-peace-bill-haller.html“Officiating is the only occupation where you have to be perfect the first day and get better each day after.” ~ Unknown William Edward Haller, a retired MLB umpire passed away this past Saturday, the 20th at the age of 87. I heard about it late Monday afternoon and immediately thought about a particular balk call and the ensuing argument with Baltimore Orioles manager, Earl Weaver. A classic confrontation. But first, let’s look at Bill’s life./review-freud-s-last-session-by-chris-williams.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-freud-s-last-session-by-chris-williams.htmlIf a movie ever seemed relevant to my interests, it would be Freud’s Last Session. A dialogue-heavy drama about two intellectual titans debating the existence of God, featuring a starring turn by one of our great actors? Sign me up.  It’s not just that I love talky dramas and films that probe the deeper questions of life. It’s that, like many Christians, I owe a huge debt to C.S. Lewis. As I’m sure is the case with many, Mere Christianity found me at a crucial time./revolutionary-road-delusions-of-exceptionalism.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/revolutionary-road-delusions-of-exceptionalism.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./six-great-small-box-board-games.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/six-great-small-box-board-games.htmlLarge-box board games are, in many ways, the things that drive the board game hobby. In my nascent days in the hobby, I was drawn to those Euro-sized square boxes. I wanted the games that had weight to them, and that was a signal to me. I think that’s changing these days — the perception, I mean. There have long been great games that come in small boxes, and this isn’t even the first time I’ve written about the topic./stop-scrolling-start-thinking-by-parker-settecase.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stop-scrolling-start-thinking-by-parker-settecase.htmlSocial media is pretty cool. It’s also a tremendous time-drain and personal-potential-draining-succubus. But it’s the infinite scroll that’s rightly to blame. Many of us get drawn in to the black hole of infinite scrolling with only tingly legs from the toilet seat and missing productivity to show for it. So how do we stop the scroll? (I’m not going to say “doom scrolling” that’s too trendy and dumb.) Definitely continue reading this post but also watch the latest ParkNotes video where I cover this very post in detail (even more detail than this post): First, you may need to do some literal soul searching and find out what’s got you so twisted up that you’d rather throw your time in the toilet (on the toilet?/ten-for-today-songs-about-redheads.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ten-for-today-songs-about-redheads.htmlCan you believe it? National Kiss a Ginger* Day is upon us once again. Having grown up in an Irish-American part of my neighborhood, these creatures are not as exotic to me as they might be to others. And in truth, the celebration is a little bit tainted for me because of a very sad but also very funny incident that happened in 2008. A Massachusetts sta… ncG1vNJzZmiin66wprjIp5yhmZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq56mXZu8s3nTqJuasV2ovK%2Bz0maYm6elqXqzscOhnJqcow%3D%3D/the-calment-boundary-by-steven-johnson.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-calment-boundary-by-steven-johnson.htmlNow this is one of my favorite stories of all time. It’s a story about life, and death, and catastrophic real estate transactions. But more than that, I think it’s a story that tells us something important about our future as a species. You might have heard variations on it too—it’s a famous story in the annals of demography and medicine. But it’s worth revisiting, even if you have heard the general outline of it./the-chief-khalsa-diwan-by-rattan-singh-sirpentapotamia.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-chief-khalsa-diwan-by-rattan-singh-sirpentapotamia.htmlThe Chief Khalsa Diwan was an institution established in 1902, to heal the schism between the Amritsar and Lahore Khalsa Diwans, as both had been influenced by their various ideological differences. The opening was inaugurated in the Malvai Bunga on Diwali. They were renowned for their creation of orphanages, schools and colleges, to help compete with growing missionary activities among other organisations like the Arya Samaj and Anjuman-i-Islam. However, later on, it was criticised as a propagandist voice of the elite Sikhs by anti-British groups like the Akali Dal./the-long-awaited-return-of-babylon-berlin.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-long-awaited-return-of-babylon-berlin.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-pharma-biotech-layoff-survival-guide.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-pharma-biotech-layoff-survival-guide.htmlLayoffs are an almost-inevitable part of working in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry over the last two decades. While you’ll still see some old hands who have worked their whole career in one spot, it’s a lot more common these days for folks to cycle through several jobs over their careers. Sometimes willingly, sometimes less so. Personal note from KH: I’ve been in the pharma & biotech industry for almost 22 years and am now on my fourth job./the-woman-at-the-heart-of-the-second-city.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-woman-at-the-heart-of-the-second-city.htmlWhen I’d hear the words “Second City” I knew it meant Chicago, but didn’t really know why. I had a vague notion that it had something to do with being second to New York in some way because as a New Yorker, of course I’d think that. But I can’t be blamed completely for my take. In 1952 the writer A.J. Leibling took shots at Chicago in a series of articles for The New Yorker called Second City./tiktok-satirist-farha-khalidi-isn-t-taking-questions.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tiktok-satirist-farha-khalidi-isn-t-taking-questions.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci.🧩 TIL, courtesy of Khalidi, that that viral “I have the coronavirus, that’s why I don’t have a voice” video is maybe...fake??? —Kate On TikTok, Farha Khalidi answers questions no one asked her.  “Do masks work?” she reads from her phone, voice scratchy and lazy, in a video posted early in September. “No, they don’t. My boyfriend wore one every day and he still got me pregnant./time-for-a-twitter-break-by-jesse-singal.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/time-for-a-twitter-break-by-jesse-singal.htmlI have so many problems with Twitter! Or at least the corner of Twitter that is most visible to me. I just think it’s a really toxic place, and that there’s no way to “win” the fights I keep compulsively getting into there. My many hours on Twitter, in addition to (I think) making me feel twitchier and just generally worse than I would if I weren’t on the platform, rob me of time I could spend catching up on all the work I am behind on due to my disorganization and tendency sometimes to overextend myself./to-hell-and-back-rex-chapman-s-self-guided-tour.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/to-hell-and-back-rex-chapman-s-self-guided-tour.htmlShare The Morning After Leave a comment Share Had anyone else written Rex Chapman’s story, few publishing houses would have bought it. It relentlessly exposes Chapman’s compulsions, his weaknesses, his consistently poor judgments. At times it’s almost cruel. Instead, the author is Chapman himself, the former Kentucky hoop prodigy who chased glory and money while addiction and injury were chasing him. The ensuing pileup was spectacular, removing loved ones from his life and stripping every dollar and almost every dollop of self-esteem./unico-in-the-island-of-magic-1983-is-delightful-nightmare-fuel-for-kids.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/unico-in-the-island-of-magic-1983-is-delightful-nightmare-fuel-for-kids.htmlToday’s issue of Dust On The VCR is another subscriber request! This film was chosen by James Gilbreath, an important figure from a very specific time in my life. Before I found a full-time job after graduate school, I taught adjunct English classes at a for-profit college called Brown Mackie that eventually disappeared due to low demand (and fraud, apparently). Anyway, James was the chief librarian at our Brown Mackie campus, and he was the only human being in that building that I felt any sort of kinship with, which is why I’m very glad we’ve kept in touch as he’s gone on to bigger and better places (he works for UAB’s library system now!/video-and-thoughts-from-let-women-speak-event.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/video-and-thoughts-from-let-women-speak-event.htmlOn Easter Sunday I travelled to London to report from a ‘Let Women Speak’ event organised by Kellie-Jay Keen. This event comes after she was smeared as a white supremacist by the New Zealand media and physically assaulted at one of her events there. You can watch my report below: You can also see my real-time Twitter report thread here: https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1645045034410967042 I have a few thoughts. The gathering was an entirely peaceful one./what-it-is-what-it-means-for-your-birth-chart.htmlTue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-it-is-what-it-means-for-your-birth-chart.html     OK. So, you’re checking your daily horoscope or you just got your free birth chart from astrology.com, and you notice this phrase called Neptune Dominant. It’s hella confusing, and you wanna know what it means to be Neptune dominant.       Do you know that the astrological personality is layered? Sundae-like, planetary and zodiac energies pile one on top of the other until there is a cherry on top: the Dominant Planet. Not to be confused with the chart ruler, the Dominant Planet is the planet that—either due to a stellium in the planet’s natural house, or a high number of aspects to other planets—calls the shots in your chart and imbues you with its planetary energies./i-don-t-really-care-if-you-don-t-like-who-i-am-i-ve-got-a-camping-trip-to-plan.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-don-t-really-care-if-you-don-t-like-who-i-am-i-ve-got-a-camping-trip-to-plan.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./ask-me-anything-about-beauty-culture-i-write-the-unpublishable-what-the-beauty-industry-won.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ask-me-anything-about-beauty-culture-i-write-the-unpublishable-what-the-beauty-industry-won.htmlAsk me anything about beauty culture! I write The Unpublishable — what the beauty industry won’t tell you, from a reporter on a mission to reform it. I cover the behind-the-scenes secrets of the beauty industry (I used to edit the Kardashian-Jenner Apps lol), explore the psychology of Botox, & never shut up about how skincare is (essentially) a scam. Ask your questions and I’ll give you my take!! Update (2:30): Thank you everyone for your questions!/2024-cleveland-guardians-prospect-scouting-report-19-inf-welbyn-francisca.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2024-cleveland-guardians-prospect-scouting-report-19-inf-welbyn-francisca.htmlHit: 60 Power: 45 Speed: 55 Defense: 50 Arm: 50 Overall: 40 Risk: High ETA: 2027 Compact, athletic middle infielders build. Moderate projectable to add strength to frame. Strong hands. Wide open stance. Leg kick is mostly inwards to the plate with short landing forward. Whippy like, quick swing. Signed for $1.375M out of the Dominican Republic.  Given that Francisca hasn’t played any stateside ball yet, I don’t have much, but off reports I’ve heard from people who I trust, this has the potential to be a special, bat-driven profile./adorable-story-66-darryl-f-zanuck.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./b-f-borgers-taken-out-of-the-game.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/b-f-borgers-taken-out-of-the-game.htmlOn May 3 The Securities and Exchange Commission dramatically announced it was cutting public accounting firm BF Borgers off at home plate. SEC Charges Audit Firm BF Borgers and Its Owner with Massive Fraud Affecting More Than 1,500 SEC Filings No namby-pamby word mincing for this press release. The headline uses the "f" word and amplifies it with the descriptor "massive" while telling us exactly how many SEC filings were now in jeopardy./comments-june-8-2024.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-june-8-2024.htmlYesterday, we held our annual Frühlingsfest on the Brüsseler Platz in the center of Cologne, where for many years our group of volunteer gardeners has tended the green spaces surrounding the square and the Neo Romanesque St Michael’s church at its center. This morning, I was reflecting on the day and thought to share it with you. June 8, 2024 A sweet spot of a day Sunlight drifted through the canopy of mature Plane trees, plantanus acerfolia, ripe from rich spring rains, shifting its focus as the day progressed from morning into early evening./dr-eric-ding-s-journal-eric-feigl-ding.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dr-eric-ding-s-journal-eric-feigl-ding.htmlPublic health need-to-know concerns, health policy, health politics, and info to protect your family. Special health bulletins from an epidemiologist, health economist, and nutrition scientist. Also discussing diet, diabetes, CVD, and cancer prevention. No thanksncG1vNJzZmicopq%2Fqq%2FDoqWgZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonw%3D/eoin-morgan-s-long-bizarre-career-is-over.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eoin-morgan-s-long-bizarre-career-is-over.htmlIn the middle of his career, Eoin Morgan's batting technique had evolved in so many different directions that he was sitting on an imaginary toilet waiting for the ball to be delivered. When you think of Morgan, the shit-batting squat probably doesn't come high up in your mind. That just shows what a long bizarre career he has had. After all, Eoin Morgan is the Irish player who saved English cricket./food-is-stupid-dennis-lee.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/food-is-stupid-dennis-lee.htmlMy name is Dennis Lee, aka Dannis Ree, and I'm a Chicago-based food writer whose main goal is to ruin food for everyone. Especially you. By Dennis Lee · Over 6,000 subscribersNo thanks“It is and Dennis knows it. He tackles his dubious recipe with serious technique and the best oc comic timing.” “Ready to laugh so hard you cry? Food is Stupid will have you in stitches with detailed descriptions of Very Bad Ideas come to life in the kitchen./from-spark-to-databricks-spark-s-origins-innovations-and-what-s-next.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/from-spark-to-databricks-spark-s-origins-innovations-and-what-s-next.htmlIn our Engineers of Scale podcast, we relive and celebrate the pivotal projects in Infrastructure Software that have changed the course of the industry. We interview the engineering “heroes” who had led those projects to tell us the insider’s story. For each such project, we go back in time and do an in-depth analysis of the project - historical context, technical breakthroughs, team, successes and learnings - to help the next generation of engineers learn from those transformational projects./how-did-clickup-become-a-150m-revenue-machine.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-did-clickup-become-a-150m-revenue-machine.htmlHey BPL fam, In this edition of Behind Product Lines, we’re going to dive deep into a product and marketing case study. We’ll be looking into Clickup - a project management and productivity tool for individuals and teams of all sizes. What makes their story different from others? Well, despite being a late entrant into the market by several years, Clickup navigated through the notoriously crowded project management tool space and gave top players like Monday and Asana a run for their money./how-to-make-carbonara-without-scrambling-your-egg.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-carbonara-without-scrambling-your-egg.htmlIf you log out of Instagram, take a break from belatedly binging The OC, and let yourself pay attention, really pay attention, to everything happening in our country right now, you will realize President Trump’s Inaugural Address wasn’t a lie after all. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy: These, my friends, are the days of American Carnage, and they’re worse than even the most pessimistic among us could have predicted. Not only have more than 84,000 human beings been killed by a virus that didn’t exist six months ago, but they’ve died without funerals, without vigils, without goodbyes./in-search-of-michigans-the-mix-with-robert-simonson.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-search-of-michigans-the-mix-with-robert-simonson.htmlThe most geographically-schizophrenic hot dogs in the United States are found in upstate New York near the Canadian border. There, the same sort of frankfurters (topped with meat sauce, mustard and chopped onion) that are sold as Coney Islands in Detroit, and Texas Wieners in New Jersey, are served as “Michigans.” This mash-up of twisted logic makes sense only to people in Clinton County, and primarily in the small city of Plattsburgh (pop./introducing-blocked-and-reported-a-new-podcast-about-internet-craziness.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/introducing-blocked-and-reported-a-new-podcast-about-internet-craziness.htmlSorry for the multiple notes during what is supposed to be a lights-out March for Singal-Minded, but I wanted to let you know that a podcast I’ve been working on with my friend Katie Herzog just dropped its pilot episode. Blocked and Reported, which was one of the reasons this has been a very hectic month for me, work-wise, is simply about internet craziness and what it can teach us about humanity./it-s-raining-strawberries-the-smitten-kitchen-digest.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-raining-strawberries-the-smitten-kitchen-digest.htmlMonday, June 5, 2023 Good afternoon! Greetings from an airplane! Ah, it’s like old times (November-January, at least) except this isn’t for a book tour stop but something fun I’ll show you this fall. It’s still hard to leave home, though, the kids, the husband, and further down the list but maybe not as far as it should be, the sheer delight of NYC farmer’s markets in June, brimming with strawberries./its-rise-in-ten-computers.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/its-rise-in-ten-computers.htmlWhat’s in a name, or rather a number? The Motorola 68000 wasn’t just a little bit better than its 8-bit predecessor the 6800. The name told you it was ten times better. The 68000 boasted powerful features that put it in a different league from that earlier 8-bit design. It had eight general-purpose 32-bit data registers plus eight 32-bit address registers, a 24-bit address space with the ability to address up to 16 megabytes of contiguous (not segmented) memory and an instruction set with 56 instructions and 12 addressing modes./letter-146-marc-rowan-2009.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./mexican-corridos-they-re-everywhere-by-echo-s-current.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mexican-corridos-they-re-everywhere-by-echo-s-current.htmlMexican Corridos. They're everywhere! But where did they come from? Everyone wants to know, and writers are furiously plagiarizing each other for 5 cents a word to tell you! If you haven't opined on the Mexican corrido yet, can you even call yourself a click bait journalist? Like all music genres, the lines are blurry; they’re debatable constructs that the best artists are able to transcend and redefine. And scholars generally agree only on one thing: the subject needs more study./most-guys-are-losers-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/most-guys-are-losers-by-christopher-lloyd.htmlBased on the title I was expecting "Most Guys Are Losers" to be some sort of pseudo-feminist man-hating screed about how men are such scum and who'd want to date one, at least until somebody with a six-pack and six-figure income comes along. I think I would've enjoyed that; everyone's kind of P.O.'d and chippy these days anyway, so it would've fit our collective mood. But the film, written and directed by rookie Eric Ustian, omits the latter part of the title of the actual book that inspired it: "/naval-ravikant-nails-the-path-to-financial-freedom-in-12-sentences-flat.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/naval-ravikant-nails-the-path-to-financial-freedom-in-12-sentences-flat.htmlThis instalment of Unfiltered is free for everyone. I send this email weekly. If you would also like to receive it, join the 86,000+ other smart people who absolutely love it today. 👉 If you enjoy reading this post, feel free to share it with friends! Or feel free to click the ❤️ button on this post so more people can discover it on Substack 🙏 Share We want to be wealthy./padre-dam-municipal-water-district-in-historical-perspective.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/padre-dam-municipal-water-district-in-historical-perspective.htmlOfficially formed in 1976 by the merger of two local water districts, Padre Dam Municipal Water District’s (Padre) historical roots start with Spain’s colonization of “California” and the founding of Father Junipero Sera’s first of 21 missions, San Diego de Alcala, in 1769. Padre gets its name from the Old Mission Dam, built during the first two decades of the 1800s by the mission’s brutalized indigenous slaves following a rebellion in 1775 that destroyed the mission edifice and killed two of its administrators./remembering-elizabeth-mackintosh-by-ryan-biese.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-elizabeth-mackintosh-by-ryan-biese.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./show-review-orebolo-2-8-24-port-chester-ny.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/show-review-orebolo-2-8-24-port-chester-ny.htmlSet 1: Lead the Way, Elizabeth, Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright[1], Turbulence & The Night Rays, Not Alone[2], No California[3], Spain[4], Dim Lights, So Ready Set 2: Turned Clouds, Arrow[5] > Where Is My Wild Rose[6], Hot Tea, Mad World[7], New Speedway Boogie[8], A Western Sun, Arcadia Encore: Arise Coach's Notes:     [1] Bob Dylan. FTP.     [2] FTP as Orebolo.     [3] Ilsey Juber. FTP.     [4] Chick Corea. FTP as Orebolo.     [5] Unfinished./snack-time-august-25-2022.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/snack-time-august-25-2022.htmlThis week’s snack is… Cheetos. With chopsticks. Look, sometimes you can’t ask much of life. Or of yourself! And that’s okay. It’s been the first week of the semester at my day job, meaning emergencies (not mine), horrible traffic and parking (students struggle with things like roundabouts), and, for some reason, a new construction project in the building that has someone operating a jackhammer ten feet away from my desk. Overall, a “change my regular order from a chai to a dirty chai” kind of week./so-you-re-just-in-for-the-sex-here-s-what-to-expect-from-verhoeven-s-benedetta.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/so-you-re-just-in-for-the-sex-here-s-what-to-expect-from-verhoeven-s-benedetta.htmlBenedetta (2021) shows two female nuns performing sexual acts. Here's what you can expect from it (only explicit scenes between the two characters). Timestamps are approximate (in bold). Read my full review here. Benedetta and Bartolomea are ready to go to sleep. Before they go their own way, Bartolomea—making sure that nobody is watching her—gives a quick kiss on Benedetta's lips (close-up, 1-2 seconds). While Benedetta is tied up to a bed (it has nothing to do with sexual fantasies), Bartolomea takes advantage of the situation, 'seduces' her and gives her a brief but passionate kiss (close-up, 2-3 seconds)./soft-skills-every-software-engineer-needs-and-how-to-improve-them.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/soft-skills-every-software-engineer-needs-and-how-to-improve-them.htmlWelcome to Developing Skills - Skills for Developers looking to develop their careers. Mastering your soft skills is essential if you want to progress to senior software engineer and beyond. Above senior, you’ll spend a large amount of your time working with and influencing others By developing self-awareness, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, open-mindedness, time management, adaptability, patience, and communication skills, you become a well-rounded software engineer with a skill-set that extends beyond coding./the-underworld-theme-from-super-mario-bros-is-a-replay-of-a-1979-fusion-record.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-underworld-theme-from-super-mario-bros-is-a-replay-of-a-1979-fusion-record.htmlIf you’d like to support Micro-Chop please consider making a one-time $3 contribution. Legendary composer, music director, and pianist Koji Kondo found his initial footing at Nintendo after seeing a job listing on a bulletin board at his college. Despite conventional wisdom telling him that he should apply to a wide range of positions after graduation, something about a potential placement with the company seemed ideal. “I saw the Nintendo ad, and had a love of making synthesizers, and loved games, and thought—that's the place for me, “ he told Chris Kohler in a 2007 Wiredinterview./the-fallacy-of-maternal-self-sacrifice.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-fallacy-of-maternal-self-sacrifice.htmlLast week, I was texting with a friend, a stay-at-home mom of three, who was struggling to choose between two preschools for her middle daughter. One preschool had a longer school day than the other, which meant that my friend would have more of a break each day. The longer preschool was part of the same school her eldest daughter attended, which also meant two of her kids would be going to the same school, streamlining pick-ups and drop-offs./the-hollow-core-of-kevin-kelly-s-thousand-true-fans-theory.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-hollow-core-of-kevin-kelly-s-thousand-true-fans-theory.htmlTo be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans. This is the opening passage from Kevin Kelly’s 2008 essay, “Thousand True Fans.” Kelly is one of the defining techno-optimist voices in the history of the internet./the-making-of-roujin-z.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-making-of-roujin-z.htmlHappy Thursday! In this issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, we’re talking about Roujin Z, a cult anime film from 1991. Roujin Z is hard to place. It was written by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood: The Last Vampire). Satoshi Kon was a main member of the crew. The character designer was Hisashi Eguchi, a famous illustrator and manga artist. And the result is a story about a robotic hospital bed, the Z-001 unit, running amok in Japan./the-overdue-arrival-of-nancy-savoca.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-poetry-of-three-pines.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-severity-of-god-s-judgment-on-sin-and-sinners-2.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-severity-of-god-s-judgment-on-sin-and-sinners-2.htmlWe have already seen how God ascribed Achan's sin to the entire nation and how He dealt with the matter decisively and judicially. We have also learnt some lessons therefrom. We now continue with some more observations. We shall now continue from where we left off in our previous article to answer our inquiry—can sanctification fail?—and other heart-throbbing questions about God's judgment. 6.    Sanctification is not mechanical but requires the willingness of the individual to be sanctified./tomato-egg-dumplings-by-kristina-cho.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tomato-egg-dumplings-by-kristina-cho.htmlI hope your 2024 has been off to a good start! I was fairly successful with my goal of being somewhat offline for the holidays, in an attempt to r e l a x … something I’m not very good at but hope to be better at this year. Relaxing looked like hosting my in-laws and cooking meals that didn’t need to be shared on the internet, flying home to Ohio to exchange Christmas presents and celebrate my Pau Pau’s 91st birthday with a dim sum party (I also watched The Iron Claw which was not very relaxing but it’s been a while since I’ve had a good public cry in a dark movie theater so it was somewhat cathartic), and kayaking in the Bay to commemorate a whole decade of living in the Bay Area./under-the-hood-of-kima-ventures.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/under-the-hood-of-kima-ventures.htmlXavier shared with me recently the excellent piece of Fabrice Grinda about FJ Labs Investment Strategy. As an echo, I wanted to publish a post about Kima Ventures. Kima is the Angel Investment Arm of Xavier Niel, the owner of Iliad, Station F and 42. We are a team of three people (Alexis Robert, Jeanne Cluset and Myself), acting as a proxy of Xavier to invest in 100 new deals per year./vince-carter-hall-of-famer-by-vivek-jacob.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/vince-carter-hall-of-famer-by-vivek-jacob.htmlPhoto credit: Bob Galbraith/AP Timing is everything. Vince Carter has been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024, which is four years removed from his retirement (the minimum requirement), 20 years since his final game as a Raptor, and perhaps most unbelievably, 26 years since he made his debut. He went from being called Half-Man, Half-Amazing to Half-Man, Half-a-Season to playing a 22-season career, the longest in NBA history./we-re-all-lurkers-now-by-kate-lindsay.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/we-re-all-lurkers-now-by-kate-lindsay.htmlEmbedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. I, for one, will never shut up. —Kate Recently, my friends and I were talking about two different breakup announcements we had seen on Instagram. These weren’t from celebrities, but from regular people in our lives—one on Instagram Stories, using the close friends feature, and one—boldly—on the feed. Both cited the same reason for sharing the news on social media: They didn’t want to have to explain the painful particulars to different people over and over again and field hurtful questions./what-chelsea-need-to-do-this-summer.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-chelsea-need-to-do-this-summer.htmlWell, the result against Burnley just summed it up. Big change is needed at Chelsea this summer. I’ve personally had enough of results and performances we saw in that game and to me there needs to be some change. This is what I would do, not what I think will happen, or will happen. So bear with me, I’m going to go through the squad, coaching and sporting director positions here, as well as some other off pitch things I believe need to happen./where-does-bronny-james-rank-among-the-nba-draft-s-worst-one-and-done-players.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/where-does-bronny-james-rank-among-the-nba-draft-s-worst-one-and-done-players.htmlIt isn’t hard to feel sympathy for Bronny James. Trying to make a career as a professional basketball player as the son (and namesake) of LeBron James may have its advantages, but it also comes with the weight of tremendous pressure. Those expectations might even make you work to return to the court just five months after suffering cardiac arrest at a USC offseason practice, and play 24 more games after that./who-invented-hummus-and-why-should-you-care.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-invented-hummus-and-why-should-you-care.htmlYou should care because it’s one of the most delicious substances on earth— a simple thing really— chickpeas and tahini with olive oil, along with garlic and few other optional ingredients. But the sum of its parts is alchemy— a mysterious and magical creation that can be eaten any time of day or night. It’s also a potential medium— a pathway to peace for the Middle East. Call it hummus diplomacy./who-how-why-was-alice-clark-judgement.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-how-why-was-alice-clark-judgement.htmlby T. Bloom There isn’t much to say about Alice Clark that hasn’t been said elsewhere already, but mostly that’s because there just isn’t much to say. Even less was known when I first happened across her music back in 2009. Nowadays she has a Wikipedia page containing a few scant details about her personal life. But even these are enigmatic — a suggestion that she grew up in Bed-Stuy, and this quote from album collaborator Billy Vera:/why-i-m-over-the-30-different-plants-a-week-for-gut-health.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-i-m-over-the-30-different-plants-a-week-for-gut-health.html“Eat 30 different plants a week for your gut microbiome” is regularly trotted out as the gut health advice of the hour, so much so that chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is even writing a cookbook around it. Health articles and online comments note religiously documenting each and every plant consumed across the week down to the very last smidge of flaxseed in a multi-grain loaf. Yet what is the evidence behind it?/why-was-a-cumbrian-knight-buried-in-a-lead-casket-with-a-string-round-his-nether-region.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-was-a-cumbrian-knight-buried-in-a-lead-casket-with-a-string-round-his-nether-region.htmlShare Despite having been buried for 600 years, the body within the metal capsule was astonishingly well preserved. The skin under the burial shroud,  where it was not stained by boat varnish, was pinkish. His nails were manicured, his fingerprints intact, his organs sound and much of his blood was still a red liquid. On his chest lay a six inch hank of dark hair, clearly not his own. Around his neck wound a cord that led down his body and was tied around his penis./year-of-growth-and-gratitude-2023-in-review.htmlMon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/year-of-growth-and-gratitude-2023-in-review.html2023 has been a remarkable year for me, marked by unexpected events and changes. I've found reasons to be grateful and a renewed sense of purpose through these. This year, I reached the significant milestones of 2,000 subscribers on my newsletter and an equal number following my Medium blog. These numbers are not just statistics; they represent a community of engaged, thoughtful readers, and for that, I am immensely grateful./2023-24-nba-forecast.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2023-24-nba-forecast.htmlThe following table shows my 2023-24 season predictions for each NBA team. For more info about how it works, see below. For the more basic, old-school Elo ratings, click here. Taking inspiration from Baseball-Reference's MLB forecast, this NBA model maintains running schedule-adjusted ratings for each team based on how they've performed on offense and defense (per 100 possessions), the locations of each game and the quality of their opponents. The ratings are then turned into win probabilities for each game on the schedule, and the rest of the season is simulated 5,000 times to track who is most likely to win the NBA championship./13-a-timeline-of-the-openai-board.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/13-a-timeline-of-the-openai-board.htmlYesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI. Following, all of Tech Twitter was abuzz with one question: wait a moment, who was on the Board? And after they found out, they asked: who on earth are Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner? It turns out that OpenAI’s Board had undergone numerous changes over the years, especially recently. And that just wasn’t ever the biggest news about OpenAI, so those changes didn’t spark the concerns that maybe they should have./10-15-the-runaway-bride-by-jonn-elledge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/10-15-the-runaway-bride-by-jonn-elledge.htmlBroadcast: December 2006 Watched: August 2021 “Christmas trees!” “What about them?” “They kill?” A favourite – after Carol, probably the Christmas special I’m mostly likely to re-watch. The jokes, the flying TARDIS, the kids watching and cheering, the reception, Donna’s fake crying, the journey by segue, Sarah Parrish having the time of her life... it’s just so joyful. Plus, it’s an entirely new genre for Who, a sort of screwball comedy./30-years-of-kirby-kirby-tilt-n-tumble.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/30-years-of-kirby-kirby-tilt-n-tumble.htmlAugust 1, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the North American debut of Kirby. Throughout the month, I’ll be covering Kirby’s games, creating rankings, and thinking about the past and future of the series. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Is Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble a spin-off? That probably depends on who you ask, or what source you read. The Game Boy Color title surely seemed like a spin-off back in 2000 when it released in Japan, and in 2001 in North America./a-pulsing-moulin-rouge-that-earns-its-exclamation-point.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-pulsing-moulin-rouge-that-earns-its-exclamation-point.htmlThis review by longtime Charlotte arts critic Lawrence Toppman was published by The Charlotte Ledger on March 21, 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. The touring production of Moulin Rouge! incorporates pop tunes from stars like Elton John, the Rolling Stones and David Bowie./about-clarity-with-michael-oren.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-clarity-with-michael-oren.htmlDuring my many years in public life, I always said that the rarest characteristic of leaders—and the one I admired most—is clarity. Human affairs are encrusted with fog, and nowhere is it thicker than around Israel. To see Israel as it really is—and its relations with America and the world—one must cut through many layers of that fog. Seeing the real Israel requires clarity. Welcome to Clarity, my Substack on Israel, America, and the world./are-superforecasters-useful-by-nathaniel-hendrix.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/are-superforecasters-useful-by-nathaniel-hendrix.htmlIn 2014, I took part in a tournament for the Good Judgment Project. The goal of this project was to figure out whether certain individuals have habits of mind that make them better at predicting future events than others. About once a week, I would go onto their website and be presented with a series of questions about potential future events. I’d assign a probability to each event, but could skip as many questions as I wanted if I felt like I couldn’t offer a reasonable prediction./barbara-baxley-on-nashville-james-grissom.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/barbara-baxley-on-nashville-james-grissom.htmlBarbara Baxley was one of the first actresses I met when I moved to New York in 1989 to begin work on what became Follies of God. In my copy of Who’s Who in the Theatre, Baxley provided both her address and her home telephone number, and I utilized both to ask her for an interview. Barbara and I spent many days together, and she was unafraid of honesty. Barbara was also bold in telling me how wrong I was, and she disabused me of many things I thought I knew from reading biographies and listening to gossip./barbie-ideology-and-the-culture-wars.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/barbie-ideology-and-the-culture-wars.htmlThis review takes a critical perspective of this popular movie; but let’s begin by saying that Barbie is a clever film – it is engaging, funny, well-directed, well-acted, and a little provocative. Yet it is also a very problematic movie if we ‘look awry’ and take a more curious stance. Any Hollywood movie that addresses feminism and patriarchy and at the same time promotes the Barbie corporation Mattel while targeting huge box office success will crash into the very contradictions that this movie did./beyond-self-discipline-zero-bsdv0-by-peter-n-limberg.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beyond-self-discipline-zero-bsdv0-by-peter-n-limberg.htmlTomorrow’s events: Collective Journaling w/ Peter Limberg and Co-Hosts. Daily @ 8:00 AM ET. Patreon event. 90 mins. Collective Presencing w/ Ria Baeck and Co-Hosts. Every Friday @ 8:00 AM ET. RSVP here. 90 mins. Collective Presencing w/ Ria Baeck and Co-Hosts. Every Friday @ 12:00 PM ET. RSVP here. 90 mins. Out of the Mind & Into the Body: Mapping Hell to Regain Heaven w/ Jasun Horsley. October 22nd @ 12:00 PM ET./cheeseburger-at-george-s-buffet-iowa-city-iowa.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cheeseburger-at-george-s-buffet-iowa-city-iowa.htmlSmashburgers are having an extended national moment thanks to their lacy-edged patties and superior bun-to-beef balance. But Iowa City townies have known for decades that the best single-stack bar burger is at George’s Buffet, est. 1939, where it’s scraped off a countertop broiler the size of a window air conditioner and the age of a vintage Studebaker. The “Buffet” is a misnomer: George’s is foremost a bar and aftmost a time capsule of velvet wallpaper, lacquered booths and liquored regulars./chiefs-mesh-concept-by-alex-byrne.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chiefs-mesh-concept-by-alex-byrne.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./comments-do-not-google-goose-teeth.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-do-not-google-goose-teeth.htmlI have a flock of 10 ducks. We prefer to say that they have "serrated bills" because somehow that sounds better in our heads. To be fair, the inside of a duck's mouth is far less horrifying than the inside of a goose's. However, the real horror show of duck body parts is their penises. Boy ducks (drakes) have penises shaped like corkscrews that SPRING out of them when they're needed and retract back inside when they're done./dune-chapters-1-8-fear-is-the-mind-killer.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dune-chapters-1-8-fear-is-the-mind-killer.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/elliott-randall-on-playing-reelin-in-the-years.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/elliott-randall-on-playing-reelin-in-the-years.htmlOn a recent afternoon, I was listening to Steely Dan’s 1973 single “Reelin’ in the Years” and thinking about Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused. Not long ago, I read Melissa Maerz’s 2020 book Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. The writer-director’s original intention was to make an anti-nostalgia film, but somehow Dazed became the ultimate ’70s nostalgia vehicle. (Blame the slow-mo shots of GTOs?/get-yourself-an-archnemesis-by-christopher-schwarz.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/get-yourself-an-archnemesis-by-christopher-schwarz.htmlAt the Lie-Nielsen Open House in 2017, Peter Galbert and I were talking amongst a bunch of woodworkers when the topic of his “archnemesis” came up. “Oh yeah,” Peter said, casually. “Everyone needs an archnemesis. You should get one.” The American Peasant is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free … ncG1vNJzZmibmKe2tMDOqZ%2BeqqOYtbit0bNlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8qLHTZrCoraKosq2yjJqlZpmimLWvscyeqqKr/how-one-of-nisa-s-newest-clubs-survived-to-see-the-field.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-one-of-nisa-s-newest-clubs-survived-to-see-the-field.htmlOn January 11, 2024, NISA announced their newest expansion club into the league: Georgia Lions FC. NISA Executive Vice President Josh Prutch vouched for the new team as an “established organization that is well-led, well-run, and well-connected in the community”. And at the time of the announcement, every indication from the club seemed to prove that he was correct. The club grew from the East Atlanta Dutch Lions USL2 club, previously East Atlanta FC, in Conyers, Georgia./how-steely-dan-s-second-arrangement-was-erased.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-steely-dan-s-second-arrangement-was-erased.htmlOne morning late last year, I cold-called a man I was almost certain was responsible for one of the biggest technical blunders in the history of rock music: the erasure of the Steely Dan song “The Second Arrangement.” During the making of what would become Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s 1980 album Gaucho, a New York studio engineer calibrating a tape machine recorded over the one and only multitrack master of a nearly finished song—a track that the band’s longtime producer, Gary Katz, believed would be the group’s next single./how-to-take-a-perfect-dating-photo.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-take-a-perfect-dating-photo.htmlTL;DR: take the photo from a tripod, with a flash, during golden hour, with a nice background, while wearing a suit. Pick the highest scoring photo via Photofeeler. Keep reading for the long answer. The internet is full of memes about how bad male dating photos are. But how does one do better? Ask your female friends to take your photo? Hire a professional photographer? Attend events in the hopes of someone taking a candid shot?/i-was-david-wong-by-jasonpargin.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-was-david-wong-by-jasonpargin.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)./i-watched-the-tom-sandoval-interview-so-you-don-t-have-to.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-watched-the-tom-sandoval-interview-so-you-don-t-have-to.htmlWelcome to Gibson Johns’ pop culture newsletter — subscribe to get recommendations of what to watch, read and listen to in your inbox every week!Whew, where do we even begin? Yesterday, “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel revealed on something called the “H3 Podcast” that Tom Sandoval from “Vanderpump Rules” was doing his first tell-all interview about Scandoval on Howie’s podcast, to be released today. Other than his initial statements on Instagram, this would indeed be Sandoval’s first time publicly speaking about Scandoval (other than whatever he taped for “Pump Rules” that hasn’t aired yet)./in-defense-of-lorde-s-solar-power.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-defense-of-lorde-s-solar-power.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-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-in-the-united-states-september-25-october-2-2023.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-in-the-united-states-september-25-october-2-2023.htmlSeptember 29, 2023 Washington— U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90. Feinstein died on Thursday night at her home in Washington, D.C., her office said on Friday. Tributes poured in all day. Opening the Senate floor, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that “we lost a giant in the Senate./in-the-land-of-the-lotus-eaters-updated-may-10-2023-with-news-of-another-terrorist-attack-on-the-i.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-the-land-of-the-lotus-eaters-updated-may-10-2023-with-news-of-another-terrorist-attack-on-the-i.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./is-marianne-dashwood-an-enfp.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-marianne-dashwood-an-enfp.htmlIf you’re new to this Substack, one of the things I’m offering subscribers in 2023 is A Year with Jane. We’re reading through Austen’s six novels this year and Sense & Sensibility is our read for August and September. This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. And psst! During September you can become a paid subscriber for 20% off for the next 12 months!/mbc-entertainers-of-the-year-winners-announced-akira-takes-top-honour.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mbc-entertainers-of-the-year-winners-announced-akira-takes-top-honour.htmlLILONGWE, Malawi - The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Entertainers of the Year Awards ceremony celebrated the outstanding achievements of Malawi's entertainment industry, honouring talented individuals in various categories, writes Winston Mwale. The event, held on December 30, 2023, brought together artists, performers, and media personalities to recognize their contributions to the arts. Among the winners were renowned poet Robert Chiwamba, who clinched the title of Poet of the Year in the male category, while Beatrice Ligomeka claimed the female Poet of the Year award./meet-the-newest-blackhawks-nick-lardis.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/meet-the-newest-blackhawks-nick-lardis.htmlHey, Blackhawks fans! The season is winding down, and the Chicago Blackhawks are getting to work. After already signing Landon Slaggert last month, they’ve shifted their focus onto Nick Lardis, officially signing him to a three-year entry-level contract. Share Nick Lardis was drafted in the third round (67th overall) of the 2023 NHL Draft, and unfortunately, he will not be making his NHL debut any time soon. He will likely be returning to the OHL, playing for the Brantford Bulldogs./review-doctor-who-the-giggle.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-doctor-who-the-giggle.htmlA comedic family adventure, a mini historical celebrity encounter, a creepy bottle episode, a big world-ending finale with callbacks to the classic series, the most unlikely of multi Doctor stories. In the end, Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary specials were less of a birthday celebration and more of a mini season designed to showcase everything that Doctor Who can be at its best—all while closing one chapter and opening a new one./root-veggie-waffles-by-susan-spungen.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/root-veggie-waffles-by-susan-spungen.htmlThese waffles taste way better than they have any right to. They are downright delicious, and you can probably make them with stuff you already have on hand. If you’re anything like me, you have some root vegetables that don’t seem very enticing rattling around in the vegetable bin. Here’s a way to put them to really good use and make dinner (or at least part of it) at the same time./squash-mafaldine-cavolo-nero-gremolata-pangrattato.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/squash-mafaldine-cavolo-nero-gremolata-pangrattato.htmlWelcome to The Late Plate, where I share with you the recipes I am cooking at home in my warehouse. I live communally with six other people, we each pay £25 a week into a kitty and that collectively pays for all of our weekly food costs. One person cooks dinner each night of the week for everyone else, so that every night of the week there is a delicious dinner that will feed us all./the-2023-24-nba-broadcast-scorebug-rankings.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-2023-24-nba-broadcast-scorebug-rankings.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-albums-of-2023-long-list.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-albums-of-2023-long-list.htmlFor an extended celebration of my favorite albums of 2023, complete with commentary, see the previous newsletter. This one is mostly just a data dump. I keep a loosely-ordered list of all the new music I take in over a given year, and here I offer you the whole unwieldy thing. Even with 120 albums represented, this obviously doesn’t come close to capturing all the important music released in 2023; there’s a lot of jazz and hip-hop missing, in particular, and I lack subject-matter expertise when it comes to international music, hardcore, and dance./the-controversy-over-moses-mendelssohn.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-controversy-over-moses-mendelssohn.htmlThe accompanying shiur is available on the Orthodox Union's parsha learning app: All Parsha. In my eighth grade yearbook, each Rebbe wrote a message to the students. Although I wasn’t in his class, I still remember the message that Rabbi Shoneck wrote. “You know me,” it began, “I’m your caterer.” Rabbi Shoneck then quoted the opening Rashi to Parshas Mishpatim: ואלה המשפטים אשר תשים לפניהם—and these are the statutes that I have placed before you, which Rashi explains means that Torah should be taught like food placed by a caterer in front of their diners—ready to eat and appreciate./the-doves-typeface-ampersand-book-studio.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-doves-typeface-ampersand-book-studio.htmlNote: This is the first in a series of posts previously shared on the Ampersand Book Studio Patreon page. This post was originally posted on August 16, 2022. Look for a brand new essay – “The” Fine Press Essay: "The Ideal Book" as Imagined by the Fine Press Movement – on Wednesday, September 7. Perhaps no single element of the book as physical object – as opposed to the words that make up its content – defines the reader experience more than the typeface./the-her-hoop-stats-trivia-challenge.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-her-hoop-stats-trivia-challenge.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? Are you not entertained? Call it a moment. Call it a movement. Call it whatever you like, but the 2023-24 women’s basketball season, and particularly March Madness, has been must-see TV./the-secret-of-beef-rendang.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-secret-of-beef-rendang.htmlPeople think rendang is a beef dish, but it’s a coconut dish. You rendang it with coconut milk. And you add the desiccated coconut. The same pack of desiccated coconut I used in Diem’s mango magic cookies. I was staring at it yesterday night, and somehow during this long weekend, I ended up making beef rendang. The recipe calls for 250ml of coconut milk. I was staring at the remaining 150ml in the can, and somehow during this long weekend, I ended up making nasi lemak with beef rendang./the-weather-underground-by-drjessienyc.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-weather-underground-by-drjessienyc.htmlThe comparisons between today and 1968 have me revisiting some of my favorite documentaries about this time period. “Berkeley in the Sixties,” is a terrific introduction to several student-led liberation movements that grew out of and adjacent to the Free Speech Movement on UC-Berkeley’s campus, including the anti-war movement, the Black Panthers, the women’s movement. This 1990 documentary from director Mark Kitchell features some fabulous archival footage and interviews with people who were there, reflecting back after 20 years or so./tuna-frites-with-ponzu-sauce-and-spicy-garlic-aioli.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tuna-frites-with-ponzu-sauce-and-spicy-garlic-aioli.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./under-with-and-over-the-postures-of-power.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/under-with-and-over-the-postures-of-power.htmlphoto by Jonathan Borba“UNDER”, “WITH” AND “OVER” – THE POSTURES OF POWER Right before Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father, he commissions his disciples with the famous words “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given unto me …” (Matt 28:18) It is a stunning all-encompassing statement of Jesus authority over the world (in heaven and on earth) as the mission of God commences into the world./why-cirie-fields-on-big-brother-is-the-reason-for-the-season.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-cirie-fields-on-big-brother-is-the-reason-for-the-season.htmlThe best to never win the game — that’s a title that has been bestowed upon Cirie Fields after her four attempts at clinching the title of Sole Survivor on the once ubiquitous, now-cult series Survivor. Now, in a twist that nobody — except for a bunch of folks on Twitter — saw coming, she’s making the leap from one reality competition juggernaut to another, competing on the current season of Big Brother alongside her son, Jared Fields./why-st-louis-tamed-the-river-des-peres.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-st-louis-tamed-the-river-des-peres.htmlWelcome to another edition of Unseen St. Louis, where I examine unusual or largely-forgotten moments in history. In light of record-setting rainfalls and flash flooding over the past couple of weeks, I thought it would be timely to examine how almost 100 years ago, St. Louis took big steps to prevent flooding along the edge of the city. The River Des Peres is a once-idyllic small river that flows through St./why-you-should-plan-a-trip-to-emilia-romagna.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-you-should-plan-a-trip-to-emilia-romagna.htmlRolling hills dotted with vineyards, Medieval cities filled with artistic treasures, a coastline with popular beaches, farms that produce prized cheeses and charcuterie, and convivial trattorias that serve fresh pasta and other local products—it may sound like Tuscany, but I’m actually describing Emilia Romagna. Tuscany’s neighbor to the north, Emilia-Romagna produces some of Italy’s most famous foods—Parmigiano Reggiano, prosciutto di Parma, balsamic vinegar from Modena—yet it’s rarely among the first places in Italy that travelers visit./will-the-real-mf-doom-please-stand-up.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/will-the-real-mf-doom-please-stand-up.htmlHello! If you subscribed after last Thursday, welcome! Let me get you up to speed. The Drip drops like this: each month, I’ll choose a concept and break it down through weekly essays that bridge artists and ideas in hip hop and art history. For more complex themes and connections, sometimes I’ll break down the track into two posts—an A side and a B side—so that we have more time to marinate./women-prefer-more-violent-porn-and-other-data.htmlSun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/women-prefer-more-violent-porn-and-other-data.htmlMy kink survey is at around 481,000 responses (137k cis men, 345k cis women, 6300 transwomen and 16549 transmen). You can see a breakdown of who took it here, and download most of the raw data I used in this blog post here. I often hear people saying that porn is full of depictions of smeared-mascara, aggressive blowjob stuff that appeals to men and trains them to treat women horribly. Women prefer gentle stuff - porn marketed towards women often focuses on soft light, good depth of field, gentle kissing and candles./never-fight-uphill-me-boys-never-fight-uphill-robert-e-lee-at-gettysburg.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/never-fight-uphill-me-boys-never-fight-uphill-robert-e-lee-at-gettysburg.htmlBy now you’ve seen the clip of Donald Trump talking about the Battle of Gettysburg at a recent campaign event in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, which is about 130 miles from the famous battlefield. Once again, it’s an embarrassing display of ignorance about American history for this former president. Social media had some fun with Trump’s incoherent interpretation and even Jon Stewart got in on the action. Reading the text is even more embarrassing, if that is even possible./only-for-a-moment-by-eric-nam.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/only-for-a-moment-by-eric-nam.htmlYou know I’m an Eric Nam fan, right? I’ve written how his song “House on a Hill” helped me through a rough period in my life. It’s a testament to his artistry that he’s able to write such beautiful things and share them with the world. Though the music video for his 2013 song “Heaven’s Door” will always have a place in my heart, I instead chose to highlight the lead music video for the House on a Hill album—the song being “Only For a Moment./10-questions-to-ask-a-writer.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/10-questions-to-ask-a-writer.htmlLAST WEEK, I sent out a Substack column under the title “8 Questions Never to Ask a Writer.” In my preliminary thinking for the post, I always imagined it would include suggestions for what questions writers might welcome. Somehow, when it came to writing the piece, I forgot about the second half, which would have lent balance to the post and made it a lot more helpful. Instead, in my eagerness to get the column into your inboxes, once I finished the “not-to-asks” I hit send before reflecting on what was missing from the piece./a-collection-of-funny-power-pop-memes.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-collection-of-funny-power-pop-memes.htmlIn my defense… well, it’s honestly indefensible. So, I guess it’s time to just own it until I get the validation, attention and social media shares I crave. I think this was the first one I made: Those debates can sometimes get a little heated, especially among the extremely knowledgable diehards often referred to as “power pop purists.” It’s usually meant to be fun—we start off loving similar styles of music, after all—but arguing about which bands do or don’t qualify as power pop can be absurdly humorous at times./a-tour-of-frome-aka-my-home-town.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-tour-of-frome-aka-my-home-town.htmlJust over a year ago I left London for the small town of Frome in Somerset. I grew up in the Dorset/Wiltshire/Somerset borders so it felt something like coming home. Moving here has been one of the best things I’ve ever done. Frome is such a special place with a thriving arts scene and independent business community. It might be a small town but has recently made headlines in the National Geographic as Somerset’s most exciting market town and the New York Times for its work to combat loneliness in the community./about-the-lost-arrow.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-the-lost-arrow.htmlHi, I’m Gay! I’m also an interior designer, bestselling author (“Get It Together!” available wherever FINER books are sold), and TV host. My most recent TV shows are “Build Me Up” and “Unspouse My House,” on HGTV/Discovery+. I live in Los Angeles with my absolutely stunning American Staffordshire Terrier (Pit Bull) Ms Saturday Olivia Soria. You can also find me on Instagram or check out my website (which is boring but look at it anyway)./ask-me-anything-let-s-get-controversial.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ask-me-anything-let-s-get-controversial.htmlKudos to you on the STEM thing....very cool. 1. I love anything John Oliver. 2. I have no interest in paying to have someone cook up a famous chef meal for me. I could care less who is cooking my food as long as I like it. 3. I hate competition shows of any kind, especially cooking. At least I have PBS where I can watch someone like Lidia actually cook and there is usually some great scenery, if only of her backyard kitchen./basketball-drill-of-the-week-suicides-running-drill.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/basketball-drill-of-the-week-suicides-running-drill.htmlDo you have trouble lasting? (In basketball that is.) Well, there’s a great exercise you can do and you don’t need any equipment to perform it. And it’s pretty simple as well. The exercise is called Suicides (or Lines). This is a great running exercise that can be done at many places and is one of the most popular cardio exercises for basketball players. To do the exercise: Start on the baseline/beltane-traditions-for-today-by-everything-looks-rosie.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beltane-traditions-for-today-by-everything-looks-rosie.htmlThe symbolic casting off of darkness and letting in of the light at the start of May finds its origins in the ancient ritual of Beltane – a festival that has been celebrated for thousands of years. As far back as the Iron Age, Celts came together to celebrate Summer’s return. As with the other festivals in the Wheel of the Year, they marked the farming calendar and its rituals, and at this time livestock would have been put out to pasture to graze, the countryside being sufficiently warm and verdant./beth-broderick-wit-and-wisdom-for-the-ages-from-the-aged.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beth-broderick-wit-and-wisdom-for-the-ages-from-the-aged.htmlBeth Broderick dives deeply into her personal experience to deliver a weekly essay full of wit, wisdom, and stories from the heart. You won’t have to worry about missing anything. Every new edition of the newsletter goes directly to your inbox. Be part of a community of people who share your interests. To find out more about the company that provides the tech for this newsletter, visit Substack.com. ncG1vNJzZmialam1o77OnZyroZOge7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6amaitpA%3D%3D/beyonc%C3%A9-and-cowboy-carter-by-abby-gardner.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beyonc%C3%A9-and-cowboy-carter-by-abby-gardner.htmlHey y’all. As promised, act ii is (finally) here with some notes on Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter. I wasn’t able to just sit with it all day on Friday as I typically would and wanted to make sure I gave it its proper due on WHN. I did arrive home to my vinyl + cute tee + CD (which I had to buy to get the tee). I’m nothing if not a merch whore./cannoli-cheesecake-recipe-by-kassie-mendieta.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cannoli-cheesecake-recipe-by-kassie-mendieta.htmlHoly cannoli HELLO! HI! This one has been two months in the making and I’ve been teasing y’all with it on the gram for a while now. So I hope this lives up to the hype! I am a huge fan of cannoli, and truly there is no improving on this perfect dessert. Anytime I’m in Eagle Rock I’ll stop by Eagle Rock Italian Deli + Bakery and pick-up a box of these delightful little pastries./christian-ziegler-is-the-perfect-florida-gop-leader-why-should-he-step-down.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/christian-ziegler-is-the-perfect-florida-gop-leader-why-should-he-step-down.htmlI wholeheartedly endorse Christian Ziegler. He is a pro-life, pro-family and strong social conservative. — John Stemberger, leader of the forced birth movement in Florida, endorsing Christian Ziegler for chair of Florida GOP in 2022. He shouldn’t quietly change his mind now. See my recent civil discussion or privacy and forced birth with Stemberger here. Christian Ziegler is the chairman of the Republican Party in Florida. And he is the type of person who does the following, according to official police documents and public reporting:/cover-corp-tyo-5253-high-growth-opportunity-in-the-expanding-vtuber-sector.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cover-corp-tyo-5253-high-growth-opportunity-in-the-expanding-vtuber-sector.htmlDominant Market Position: Cover Corp, a leading talent management company in the rapidly growing VTuber industry. They’re considered the most prestigious agency and should attract the best talent. Superior Underlying Performance Metrics: Cover boasts superior key performance indicators (KPIs) compared to their main competitor Anycolor, including higher engagement metrics like subscribers, hours watched, and viewership. They’re also growing quicker. Despite this, the market values Anycolor 35% more than Cover, as Anycolor monetizes more aggressively and is thus more profitable./dear-god-i-have-to-write-about-a-bologna-salad-sandwich.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dear-god-i-have-to-write-about-a-bologna-salad-sandwich.htmlWelcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I faithfully chronicle the bizarre and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. I’ve rambled before in this publication about the restraint and pleasure of writing within fixed guidelines—the way that following a preset model, such as the List of Sandwiches, can paradoxically provide great freedom. I’ve gotten to noodle on the page about New York sandwich culture, Jewish history, the scourge that was early-twentieth-century home economics, et cetera./dontrez-styles-enters-transfer-portal.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dontrez-styles-enters-transfer-portal.htmlGeorgetown junior wing Dontrez Styles has decided to enter the transfer portal, according to Joe Tipton of On3 Sports. After transferring from North Carolina, Styles averaged 12.8 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in his lone season at Georgetown. The 6-foot-6 junior will have one year of eligibility remaining. Styles got off to a strong start last season as a Hoya, scoring 20+ points in three of his first six games./egret-ii-mini-review-1-2-the-hardware.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/egret-ii-mini-review-1-2-the-hardware.htmlWhen I looked at the Astro City Mini, I thought it was about as far as the “toy arcade cabinet” idea could reasonably be expected to go for $140. Consider the evolution of the concept: SNK put out the Neo Geo Mini for about $100 a while back. The parts and the screen weren’t bad, but it was just way too small to reasonably expect to play. You couldn’t see the bullets in the shooting games, and trying the special moves in the fighting games might break your fingers./gluten-free-ciabatta-by-rachel-ciordas.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/gluten-free-ciabatta-by-rachel-ciordas.htmlHello friends, Today I have a crisp and light gluten free ciabatta bread recipe for you! Perfect for sandwiches, olive oil dipping, and garlic bread this bread is simple, but showcases one of the “magical” ingredients in gluten free baking. Psyllium. I use psyllium in a lot of my yeasted recipes and some others and I’ve gotten some questions about it lately, so I thought I’d send you a recipe that showcases its power, and explain a bit about it./how-much-is-the-daily-wire-actually-worth.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-much-is-the-daily-wire-actually-worth.htmlThings are worth what people are willing to pay for them. But there’s a sucker born every minute. Trump’s social media app is trading at a market cap of $15B…. and it has revenue of $3.5m. Our former president has gone to extreme lengths — and is selling $60 King James Bible. The other night — Daily Wire cofounder Jeremy Boreing — made mention that the Daily Wire brought in $220m in revenue last year./how-to-approach-women-at-the-gym-a-player-s-guide.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-approach-women-at-the-gym-a-player-s-guide.htmlFor many, the gym is a sacred place. It’s where people go to fight their demons, improve themselves, and lift incredibly heavy weight. People become gross, sweaty, and blast music from obnoxiously large headphones. Surely this isn’t an appropriate place to hit on women, right? Wrong. While the overwhelming majority of women claim that they do not want men to hit on them in gyms, that's just blatantly false. What they actually mean is they don’t want average men approaching them./how-to-reheat-an-omelette.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-reheat-an-omelette.htmlIt’s Saturday near-noon, barely-hanging-onto-morning And the sun is pouring onto my couch and touching my coffee table In a way that makes me think that Buddhist podcast might be onto something And I’ve just split the last apple from home with myself Crying at the TV And mourning you like a death While my tulips come back to life. How can I explain what you are to me now?/hurry-slowly-by-anna-fusco.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hurry-slowly-by-anna-fusco.htmlDear reader, My home is unlike any other. When I compare it to other places I’ve known and lived, nothing comes close. Today, I watched a herd of cows tread slowly across the ridgeline while the morning fog rolled in. In the distance, my landmate rode his bicycle across the field, heading to dip in the creek after a sauna. He was naked, except for a sweatshirt and a backpack. Another landmate once told me that this look is called “shirt-cocking” — T./it-s-new-to-me-ace-combat-3-electrosphere.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-new-to-me-ace-combat-3-electrosphere.htmlDamn. That is some /heavy/ stuff. It feels strange that it makes me respect the game and its creators while also making me want to be sure to avoid playing it. Ace Combat 2 sounds like what I'd want out of the experience; "flying some high-tech impossibilities through the sky at a speed that makes the air itself scream". Murdering people I know and quite possibly like and respect because the world forces such things on us is the opposite of my idea of fun gaming./jami-attenberg-substack.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jami-attenberg-substack.htmlCRAFT TALK By Jami Attenberg CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2024 it begins 6/1!) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjXJ8j2muqKqUqLynv9SmpJ6q/just-because-i-m-a-woman.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/just-because-i-m-a-woman.htmlOne of my favorite Dolly Parton songs is “Just Because I’m A Woman.” To love Dolly is to know that her whole deal is a deep understanding of femininity as first and foremost performance art—it’s there in “False Eyelashes” and in “The Bargain Store” and in the macabre, bleak story songs like “Down from Dover” and “Robert”—but “Just Because I’m A Woman” is the apex of this argument. “I can see you're disappointed,” she begins, “By the way you look at me/ And I'm sorry that I'm not/ The woman you thought I'd be/Yes, I've made my mistakes/ But listen and understand/ My mistakes are no worse than yours/Just because I'm a woman”/le-servan-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/le-servan-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlLe Servan opened in 2014. It got a lot of press when it opened as it came on to the scene when Paris dining was bouncing back from some less-than-stellar press.* Younger chefs stepped up to the plate, opening smaller restaurants in outer arrondissements, and began changing the narrative, successfully rebooting France’s reputation. I ate there a few times. The first time I went, the food was exciting, a mix of French cooking techniques and ingredients, seasoned with spices and flavors that reflected cheffe Tatiana Levha’s multicultural heritage./olive-oil-pancakes-longer-tables-with-jos%C3%A9-andr%C3%A9s.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/olive-oil-pancakes-longer-tables-with-jos%C3%A9-andr%C3%A9s.htmlIt’s no secret that I absolutely love olive oil, and we all know by now that Spain has the best olive oils in the world. Many people might think of olive oil as being used mostly for savory dishes, but I’m here to tell you today that it can add depth, richness, and a little magic to other meals of the day…that’s right, I’m talking about breakfast, people. I’ve been making these light, fluffy olive oil pancakes—tortitas de aceite—for decades, ever since my daughters were young, and they’re a wonderful way to show off one of Spain’s most amazing products (don’t forget, if you need to stock up on olive oil and want to buy from Little Spain, annual subscribers have a discount…code below!/on-green-day-s-new-year-s-eve-performance-and-dig-at-the-maga-agenda.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-green-day-s-new-year-s-eve-performance-and-dig-at-the-maga-agenda.htmlIt’s early 2021. We’ve all been in lockdown. We’ve watched protests spark all over the country following George Floyd’s murder. Joe Biden took office a few months before, but Donald Trump’s base is just as radicalized and moved, even after watching a failed insurrection on TV. I’m scrolling through TikTok and see a video of some fratty looking 22 year old. “Thank God my mom didn’t raise a fucking liberal,” he screams as the wind whips his hair peaking out from under a white trucker hat as he speeds down a stretch of road./part-3-influencer-accountability-a-lot-of-you-have-asked.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/part-3-influencer-accountability-a-lot-of-you-have-asked.htmlCheck out Part 1 and Part 2 before reading this post! We’ve talked about some of the big scandals over the years and how influencers and content creators respond when they are held accountable, but there is another part we still have to discuss - the internet. And by “the internet” I mean the people who never forget. I talked a bit in Part 1 about how I discovered GOMI and how these snark spaces have evolved over the years./reagan-baker-substack.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/reagan-baker-substack.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/recipe-rabbit-ragu-by-dominic-preston.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/recipe-rabbit-ragu-by-dominic-preston.htmlThis is not, to be clear, a regular weekday supper. Even at my poshest, I can’t say that cooking — or even eating, for that matter — a rabbit has ever felt routine, and nor should it. No-one’s yet cracked the economics of factory farming bunnies, for better or worse, and so they’re unlikely to feature too often in anyone’s kitchen.  There are a few ways to cook a rabbit: roasted, stewed, and I’m told even grilled all work out great./redneck-rich-financial-markets-by-anthony-pompliano.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/redneck-rich-financial-markets-by-anthony-pompliano.htmlTo investors, The last few weeks have been filled with fear, uncertainty, and doubt in financial markets once the Fed made it clear that the anticipated interest rate cuts would not be coming as quickly or aggressively as most market participants were hoping for. But don’t let market sentiment fool you. The good times are still rolling. In a Wall Street Journal article this morning titled “Investors Are Striking Gold All Over,” Gregory Zuckerman and Gunjan Banerji highlight how well asset prices have performed over the last 6 months./so-you-think-you-want-a-strong-independent-woman.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/so-you-think-you-want-a-strong-independent-woman.htmlThis blog is written for men, talking directly to men. Men who have an interest in women (whether heterosexual or bisexual). Even more specifically, the men who say that they want a strong, independent woman. The men who find powerful, determined women sexy. The men who write on forums that they are looking for women who pay their own way, won’t ‘rinse them’ and have their own careers and minds./ten-years-out-of-academia.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ten-years-out-of-academia.htmlSome of the people who open this newsletter the most are also the people who haven’t made the jump to paid subscriber. Maybe that’s you. Or maybe you save all the newsletters and read them in a big chunk, or just read one a month but really savor it. Whatever your strategy: if you value the work here and have the means, consider subscribing. You’ll get access to the weekly Things I Read and Loved at the end of the Sunday newsletter, the massive links/recs posts, the ability to comment, and the knowledge that you’re paying for the stuff that adds value to your life./the-ace-up-my-sleeve.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-ace-up-my-sleeve.htmlTo have something up your sleeve sounds a bit devilish, doesn’t it? But it can also mean “you have an idea or plan which you have not told anyone about.” Seemingly unrelated, several years ago I went through the extraordinarily expensive process of having the data recovered from the hard drive of our old and quite dead iMac, where the entire photographic history of my young family was trapped. In exchange for all my money I received a new external hard drive and a backup too, both theoretically with all the goods on them./the-female-self-made-man-struck-by-male-powerlessness.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-female-self-made-man-struck-by-male-powerlessness.htmlNorah Vincent wanted to experience what life would be like as a man. As a journalist, she decided to conduct an 18-month gender change experiment using herself as a guinea pig. She documented her findings in her 2006 book ‘Self-Made Man’. Although she was a lesbian and never identified as transgender, she was curious about living like a man. As part of her transformation into her male alter ego Ned, she created fake stubble using tiny pieces of wool and exercised with weights to develop her shoulder and chest muscles./the-girl-who-cried-diamonds.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-greatest-food-writer-that-ever-lived.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-greatest-food-writer-that-ever-lived.htmlPhoto credit: Tuan Bui Have you ever wondered what cornbread made with kitty litter tastes like? No? Well, my next newsletter guest, Dennis Lee knows. He’s also turned Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuit mix into bread, researched the edible nature of toilet paper (pandemic PSA), and vaped blue cheese, which is to say, Lee is my kind of food writer. While his writing for the Substack newsletter Food is Stupid, and prior to that his blog, The Pizzle, is rich in “butt-stuff” and outsized declarations of his prowess, Lee’s writing is smart, nuanced, and most of all, entertaining./the-grey-nato-186-marshall-sutcliffe-of-wristwatch-revival.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-grey-nato-186-marshall-sutcliffe-of-wristwatch-revival.htmlThis week we have an extra special episode covering the final hours of our Ukraine support auction, a hard-to-predict new watch purchase, and a lengthy and very enjoyable chat with the man behind the wonderful Wristwatch Revival – Marshall Sutcliffe. Marshall produces wonderful in-depth videos about his work in repairing and restoring un-loved vintage watches. As you can imagine, we had a ton of questions for Marshall and he was happy to chat about his roots in watchmaking, how he approached starting a Youtube channel, what you’ll need if you want to start working on watches, and a whole lot more./the-hidden-history-of-the-milf.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-hidden-history-of-the-milf.htmlIf you were between the ages of 13 and 30 in the year 1999, you probably remember the scene from American Pie that I’m about to tell you about. No, I’m not talking about the pie scene. I’m talking about the MILF scene. This one takes place in a suburban living room with bad music and red Solo cups full of beer, and a group of horny teenage boys gawking over a photo of their friend’s — Stifler’s — mom, memorably played by Jennifer Coolidge./the-unimaginable-obstacle-laden-multi-decade-journey-to-discover-the-mrna-platform-and-win-the-202.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-unimaginable-obstacle-laden-multi-decade-journey-to-discover-the-mrna-platform-and-win-the-202.html“The history of science, it turns out, is filled with stories of very smart people laughing at good ideas.”—Katalin Karikó Ground Truths podcasts are now available on Apple and Spotify! The list of obstacles that Kati Karikó faced to become a scientist, to make any meaningful discovery, to prevail over certain scientists and administrators who oppressed her, unable to obtain grants, her seminal paper rejected by all of the top-tier journals, demoted and dismissed, but ultimately to be awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize with Drew Weissman, is a story for the ages./today-s-runway-collision-in-japan-updated.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/today-s-runway-collision-in-japan-updated.htmlFrom SkyTV, the instant after an Airbus 350 flown by Japan Air Lines descended into a small Japan Coast Guard airplane on the runway at Haneda airport near Tokyo. Everyone aboard the Airbus was saved; most of those on the Coast Guard plane died in the resulting fireball. (Image from SkyTV.)Here is new information since my original posting last night. My original guesstimate-illustration showed a collision point about midway down runway 34 Right at Haneda./why-do-men-in-the-bible-find-their-wives-at-wells.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-do-men-in-the-bible-find-their-wives-at-wells.htmlThis is the eighth 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 a few scenes from the Old Testament in which the patriarchs find their future wives at wells. In the arid landscape of the Near East, wells are natural meeting places./why-i-use-lazy-to-manage-nvim-plugins.htmlSat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./satc-bids-adieu-to-stanford-blatch.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/satc-bids-adieu-to-stanford-blatch.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./another-hundred-people-by-jeffrey-rubel.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/another-hundred-people-by-jeffrey-rubel.html“When I was 11 years old, I met Oscar Hammerstein, and he became a surrogate father, and I just wanted to do what he did. And he was a songwriter for the theater, so I became a songwriter for the theater. If he was a geologist, I would have become a geologist,” Stephen Sondheim told the New York Times in a June 2008 interview. In 1995, he gave a similar line to CBS: “I’ve often said that if he’d been an archeologist, I’d been an archeologist./a-beginner-s-guide-to-hayao-miyazaki-and-studio-ghibli.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-beginner-s-guide-to-hayao-miyazaki-and-studio-ghibli.htmlA decade after his last feature film, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki and Gkids have launched Miyazaki’s latest animated movie in US theaters. The Boy and the Heron plays like the greatest hits of the great directors’ works, highlighting his trademark themes and style, while taking audiences to a new magical world of his creation. There are plenty of articles discussing the merits of the new movie and how it fits into Miyazaki’s canon, including my thoughts on the movie from TIFF./about-1517-fund.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-1517-fund.htmlIn 2010, our team cofounded the Thiel Fellowship with Peter Thiel to prove out a simple belief: great founders don’t need university degrees. That was a $100k grant program – and it gave birth to projects like Ethereum, companies like Figma, OYO Rooms, and Luminar, and funds like the Longevity Fund. We started 1517 to scale that further and expand the support and community that the Thiel Fellowship started. We give cash grants, make angel-to-seed investments, and have a community of thousands of people like you from around the world./about-infinite-zounds.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-infinite-zounds.htmlIf you believe that pursuits like reading, writing, quizzing, and reflection helps build a rich and fulfilling inner life and keeps you clued to the world, then IZ is for you. I’m Ramanand. On the Infinite Zounds quizletter, I send out an intriguing quiz question each day to 700+ subscribers. It’s a lovely little way to see the world. Questions are usually inspired by recent events, making this a handy little source of news and curiosity./about-walt-s-world.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-walt-s-world.htmlQuite simply, it’s THE place where I now exist online. Instead of spreading myself around numerous social media platforms, I now have a single space where I can blather on about the things I love – chiefly history and current affairs, but also the lighter stuff, such as cooking and drinks, long-distance running, pretty landscapes, and horrific shirts. This is fine. I’ve been a journalist, historian, and TV presenter since 1992./after-the-newsletter-boom-by-brian-morrissey.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/after-the-newsletter-boom-by-brian-morrissey.htmlThanks to House of Kaizen for their sponsorship the past few weeks. They help publishers like The Wall Street Journal and Newsday build sustainable subscription programs by focusing on experience optimization. Get in touch with founding partner Matt Cronin to learn more about House of Kaizen: Matt@houseofkaizen.com. One of the good parts of living in New York City is you have opportunities to meet up for drinks with newsletter writers at a Brooklyn tiki-themed cocktail bar that serves a $20 concoction called El Diablo that comes with a loud pronouncement and cheer./bob-iger-please-stop-this.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bob-iger-please-stop-this.htmlLook, this is not a post for most of you, if any of you. I’m in Louisiana this week. I’ve been helping my parents and visiting them. I’m in a cabin in the woods in rural Louisiana. I’ve done my show every day. I’ve tried to tune out at night and just watch something. And that gets me to this. Again, probably not for most of you, but I’m a bit tired of all the politics this week anyway./braised-turkey-thighs-osso-buco-style.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/braised-turkey-thighs-osso-buco-style.htmlI recognize that not everyone is hosting a big Thanksgiving meal, or may not want to fuss with a big turkey for a smaller group. A few of you told me so in the conversation we had a few weeks ago about what kinds of recipes you wanted to see for the holiday season, Turkey Day included. Your feedback inspired me to come up with this delicious dish that is kind of like turkey and gravy all in one pot./buying-an-ipad-pro-for-coding-was-a-mistake.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/buying-an-ipad-pro-for-coding-was-a-mistake.htmlI bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on. It delivered in almost all areas. The #1 reason I started to consider buying an iPad a few years ago was for one thing, and one thing only: to read coding books. I have a kindle and I love it, but for coding books it is terrible. The large color screen especially comes in handy with code snippets as well as for color syntax highlighting./captain-s-holiday-by-chris-bateman.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/captain-s-holiday-by-chris-bateman.htmlWe open on a throwaway prop that Trek fans everywhere will come to know and giggle about, but for now we know nothing about this nor these two mysterious aliens who reek of time travel. Prologue aside, our first mission is to peer pressure a weary Captain Picard into going on vacation. Fortunately, the crew are up to the task, and Riker pushes him towards the pleasure planet, Risa. Riker has one additional prank to pull as he asks Picard to bring him back a horga’hn, with hilarious consequences a few scenes later./carolyn-cassady-at-100-3-simon-warner.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./coconut-scones-by-clare-de-boer.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/coconut-scones-by-clare-de-boer.htmlIf you like the crisp edges of lasagne, the soaked croutons, the whipped cream that gets icy around the chocolate scoop - you’re in the right place. Hi everyone! I went back and forth about whether I should share this recipe for coconut scones. I fed them to my family, and to neighbors on our street out to walk their dogs. Half my tasters said, “nice, but still a scone,” and the rest said “fabulous./dresses-and-culture-wars-in-this-economy.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dresses-and-culture-wars-in-this-economy.htmlBethany Mandel thought she’d figured out where to get new dresses: a brand called Son de Flor. “Every time another conservative homeschool mom appeared in a dress I loved, it was one of theirs.” But then this brand went and hired a man to model dresses and, argues Mandel, shot itself in the proverbial foot: For Son de Flor, the target is women interested in timeless fashion and modesty. Overwhelmingly, that is going to translate to religious (read: conservative) women./eagles-peaceful-easy-feeling.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eagles-peaceful-easy-feeling.html'Cause I gotta peaceful easy feeling And I know you won't let me down 'Cause I'm already standing On the ground Not Geto Boys’-style playing tricks, nothing that dark. But if there is a song lyric to represent the exact opposite of how I’m feeling, my brain will search its vast music archive (Spotify’s got nothing on it) to find the perfect line from my sonic subconscious and surface it./eating-a-pro-metabolic-diet-will-not-heal-you.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eating-a-pro-metabolic-diet-will-not-heal-you.htmlDisclaimer: Content for entertainment purposes only. Not medical or health advice. In the last few years, thanks to Instagram and other social media such as Twitter and Facebook, the work of Dr. Ray Peat has exploded in popularity. Some would even say that it has gone mainstream. The carrot salad recipe that Dr. Peat often spoke of became a viral TikTok trend and media news outlets started putting out think pieces about the “pro-metabolic diet./excerpts-from-pocket-observatory-meg-conley.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/excerpts-from-pocket-observatory-meg-conley.htmlHi! I’m Meg Conley. I write about the intersection of capitalism, culture and care work at Pocket Observatory. Select essays are republished to Substack. If you'd like to receive my official (FREE) newsletter, subscribe here + I'll take care of the rest! By Meg Conley · Over 14,000 subscribersmaybe next time“Meg has this incredible ability to translate her own learning/processing/research about the intersection of race/class/gender and the home into some jaw-dropping, make-you-mad-for-not-having-written-it prose./exploring-nearby-south-shores-park.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/exploring-nearby-south-shores-park.htmlFor many years a certain locale immediately beyond the western most Linda Vista community limits maintained a mild element of mystery for me. This is a place along Sea World Drive that I routinely drove or walked past for so many years but never entered, as I wasn’t sure what was there other than marshland. The mystery was heightened by the fact that the place sits smack dab in between a couple of my favorite walking/jogging trails, as well as popular Sea World and Fiesta Island./getting-the-most-out-of-the-wayback-machine.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/getting-the-most-out-of-the-wayback-machine.htmlRoughly a year ago, the Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a major update. The new version has useful customization features and the ability to connect it to your personal Wayback Machine account, making it an even more essential tool for journalists and investigators. (For the sake of efficiency, I’m going to use WM to refer to the Wayback Machine.) Here’s a rundown of the extension, a look at advice surfaced in a recent Medium post by cyb_detective (they also have a Substack you should subscribe to!/hell-on-earth-the-thirty-years-war.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hell-on-earth-the-thirty-years-war.htmlCapitalism’s birth from the grave of European feudalism, like Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein punching a fist out of its own tomb, has never been more ably described than by Matt Christman and Chris Wade of Chapo Trap House in this year’s 10 part series about the Thirty Years War, “Hell on Earth”. In fact, The Thirty Years War has never been so widely learned about, ever. Below, the lifetime revenue chart of the Chapo podcast (from Graphtreon) shows just how good the series is./how-much-does-it-cost-for-a-family-of-four-to-live-in-tokyo.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-much-does-it-cost-for-a-family-of-four-to-live-in-tokyo.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-the-high-republic-phase-2-connects-to-phase-3.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-the-high-republic-phase-2-connects-to-phase-3.htmlThe High Republic Phase 2 — and the era overall, really — is like an album with no skips. Every single story is a banger, no matter if it directly connects to another book, comic, or phase or if it’s a thrilling enough adventure to stand on its own. In last week’s newsletter, I shared my guide to preparing for The High Republic Phase 3, which began last month with Shadows of Starlight #1 and kicks into high gear with The Eye of Darkness novel next week./how-they-designed-the-powerpuff-girls.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-they-designed-the-powerpuff-girls.htmlWelcome! We’re back with another exciting edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is the agenda today: 1 — on the making of Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. 2 — the animation news this week. 3 — a wonderful film by Norman McLaren. New around here? We publish Sunday and Thursday. You can sign up for free to receive our Sunday issues in your inbox every week: Now, on we go!/is-monopoly-go-really-profitable.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-monopoly-go-really-profitable.htmlThis article is written by Matej Lancaric & Joseph Kim. Originally written onlancaric UA consultant blog! At face value, Scopely’s Monopoly GO mobile game seems to be the breakout success of 2023. The game, heading towards the end of 2023, was regularly a top 3-ranked mobile game by worldwide revenue. Since its launch in March of 2023, the game has amass… ncG1vNJzZmikkaOwor7InGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyqv4ympqenoKS5unnGqGSrnZGhubp5z6umn6Gklq%2BtsZ6uq6aXnZqxqsHMdpymmZmhc6Kv06Kmp3Wjna6zsQ%3D%3D/is-that-nyt-podcast-about-k-pop-any-good.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-that-nyt-podcast-about-k-pop-any-good.htmlIf you like K-pop and are on social media, you’ve probably seen the uproar regarding the latest NYT Popcast episode: Jung Kook, BTS and English Language K-pop: A conversation about K-pop’s long march into American awareness, and the potential risks of that embrace. The thesis of the 47-minute podcast is questioning whether K-pop is still K-pop if sung in English. It also questions whether Korean artists should even be singing in English, since there are so many Western artists who already sing in, you know, English…/judicial-notice-06-30-24-chevron-v-nrdc-rip.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/judicial-notice-06-30-24-chevron-v-nrdc-rip.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! We’re officially into summer (in case the brutally hot weather left any doubt on that score), and our 6-year-old son Harlan had his first day of summer camp. He seems to be enjoying it, even if we’re short on particulars; he seems to think that the first rule of summer camp is that you don’t talk about summer camp./let-s-talk-about-that-controversial-handmaid-s-tale-scene.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/let-s-talk-about-that-controversial-handmaid-s-tale-scene.htmlYesterday’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale was one of the better this season. June is finally free from Gilead—physically at least. The trauma of her bondage there has left her scarred and traumatized, suffering from PTSD and unsure of her place in this unsettlingly safe new world. Read my review of the episode here. One of the biggest hurdles to a return to “normal” is June’s relationship with her long-estranged husband, Luke./meet-your-new-starting-qb-joe-fagnano.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/meet-your-new-starting-qb-joe-fagnano.htmlUConn head coach Jim Mora has named Joseph Fagnano the starting quarterback for the 2023 season opener against NC State. The exact rest of the depth chart has not been revealed, but Ta’Quan Roberson and Zion Turner are ostensibly the backups. Most years, at UConn but also at many schools, the backup sees some meaningful playing time. It bodes well for the Huskies to have solid depth at the position./nautical-twilight.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nautical-twilight.htmlI have only recently learned that there are three kinds of twilight: Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight, and Astronomical Twilight. Civil twilight refers to the period right after sunset, when the sun is still within 6 degrees of the horizon but there’s still plenty of light streaking the sky. Historically, civil twilight was important because, surprise surprise, it allowed people to see - and keep working - without the aid of illumination (as 19th-century French physicist Auguste Bravais commented “The length of twilight is an element useful to be known: by prolonging the day, it permits the continuance of labor”)./notable-sandwich-67-the-fool-s-gold-loaf.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/notable-sandwich-67-the-fool-s-gold-loaf.htmlWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, a weekly feature in which my editor David Swanson and I nibble our way through the bonkers document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This week, a piece of rock ‘n’ roll apocrypha: the Fool’s Gold Loaf. We’ve written here before about one of the banes of the researcher: the “orphan fact,” an unverifiable detail that, nevertheless, is repeated at infitum in all subsequent accounts of the given subject (in our case, sandwiches./pain-hustlers-review-by-alise-chaffins.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pain-hustlers-review-by-alise-chaffins.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./s3-episode-2-a-gentleman-in-moscow.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/s3-episode-2-a-gentleman-in-moscow.htmlAmor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow is one of our most requested books, and now we get it. In this episode, we chat about the important role that food, cooking and shared tables all play in this charming book. We meander from how a good meal can be like time travel to thoughts on mixing the perfect aperitif - “A cocktail is not meant to be a melange. It is not a potpourri or an Easter parade./sidenotes-6-ammonite-dolly-alderton-s-ghosts-and-jack-the-ripper.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sidenotes-6-ammonite-dolly-alderton-s-ghosts-and-jack-the-ripper.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/sophie-was-here-by-michelle-lhooq.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sophie-was-here-by-michelle-lhooq.htmlThank you everyone for your sweet texts and tweets about the first half of my interview with Sophie. I know she read this newsletter—especially the posts about drugs and raves—and I looked forward to the post-COVID day when we’d catch up. Transcribing this interview has helped soothe the loss of what will never be, and I’m grateful that it struck a chord. It’s 2015 and I’m standing on the red carpet at thehottest party in New York City./super-mario-bros-wonder-is-great-but-doesn-t-have-enough-options-for-families.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/super-mario-bros-wonder-is-great-but-doesn-t-have-enough-options-for-families.htmlThe early reviews of Super Mario Bros. Wonderwere universally positive, but for me, the review that mattered wouldn’t happen until later, when the family sat down and tried to play together. Could my children reconcile not being able to play as Peach at the same time? How would the game handle my oldest daughter’s tendency to immediately run to the right at the fastest speed possible, ignoring all of the coins?/the-abysmal-new-left-behind-is-an-adaptation-of-director-star-kevin-sorbo-s-twitter-feed-as-much-as.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-abysmal-new-left-behind-is-an-adaptation-of-director-star-kevin-sorbo-s-twitter-feed-as-much-as.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-case-for-a-global-strike.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-case-for-a-global-strike.htmlPeace. I write to you from the floor of my bedroom in Sierra Leone. Two days ago, Iran launched successful counter-attacks against the apartheid regime occupying the land of Palestine, currently known as Israel (which bombed their embassy in an open act of war on April 1). I can hear construction workers breaking rocks outside my window and the children of the house playing and running and the noise of Freetown traffic in an endless rise and fall./the-fire-which-god-has-put-there.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-fire-which-god-has-put-there.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-native-cuisine-of-punjab.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-native-cuisine-of-punjab.htmlBefore the discovery of the Americas to the Old World and the establishment of global trade, Punjabi cuisine would’ve been vastly different without tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, tea and corn. All these ingredients were introduced to India due to Portuguese influence in Goa and other port cities and slowly spread upwards to Punjab. The native cuisine of Punjab was largely dairy and grains-based alongside grams, meat, pickles and a few seasonal fruits and vegetables./the-unbelievable-and-unlikely-tale-of-a-podcast-about-john-todd.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-unbelievable-and-unlikely-tale-of-a-podcast-about-john-todd.htmlWelcome to Dispatch #63 of The Audio Insurgent. A special edition of this newsletter to mark a milestone production for us, Cover Up: The Conspiracy Tapes. Unlike regular dispatches, today’s edition is going to all readers right away. Today also marks the release of the third episode in the series, where the story really blows open–so I was saving this for a day when you can really dig your teeth into the story./using-ball-screens-against-a-2-3-zone.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/using-ball-screens-against-a-2-3-zone.htmlI post a lot of content, plays, and diagrams with Hoops Companion. Most of those are for use against man-to-man defense. Quite often, coaches will reach out to me for some help with scoring against zone defenses. One of my favorite ways I’ve seen teams go against zone offense is through the use of ball screens. Before we dive into a few ballscreen sets against a zone, let’s review some basic zone offense concepts:/using-ghost-screens-with-your-dribble-drive-motion-offense.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/using-ghost-screens-with-your-dribble-drive-motion-offense.htmlIn this newsletter, we are going to discuss ways to use ghost screens to create gaps for your Dribble Drive Motion Offense. Ghost screens are great actions against teams that like to switch. What is a Ghost Screen? A fake ball screen after which the would-be screener sprints away into space; a pick-and-pop, but without the pick Let’s consider how you can incorporate these with your Drive and Kick offense philosophies./where-did-all-the-roaches-go.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/where-did-all-the-roaches-go.htmlHappy Friday Searchers,  This’ll be a skinny letter. I’m writing it on the way to Zipolite, Mexico (the beach of the dead, I have belatedly learned). I’m taking a few days off work. If you have recommendations for me while I travel: songs, podcast episodes, great TV shows, or fiction, please drop in the comments. I am a captive audience.  We’ve got a new one for you, a story from two reporters whose work I really admire, The Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin and Dan Engber./word-of-the-week-kvetch-by-nancy-friedman.htmlFri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/word-of-the-week-kvetch-by-nancy-friedman.htmlYou can have your holly-jolly Christmas and your Auld Lang Syne. For me, the highlight of the season is Festivus, “the holiday for the rest of us,” introduced by the character Frank Costanza in a “Seinfeld” episode that originally aired on December 18, 1997. Festivus has been described as “playful consumer resistance” and "the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering." Festivus traditions invented for the show include the unadorned aluminum pole (Frank rejected tinsel as “distracting”), the meatloaf-shaped dinner meal, and the Feats of Strength./me-and-my-r-v-me-and-my-r-v.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/me-and-my-r-v-me-and-my-r-v.htmlFor decades it has been part of his folksy narrative. Justice Clarence Thomas is just a regular guy who loves to drive across America in his modest R.V., park in Wal-Mart parking lots to be among the people, and spend time in the states everyone else usually flies over.  Except that none of this is the real story. Far from enjoying his spare time among the MAGA masses, Justice Thomas has been flown around the world on private jets by billionaires, been fêted on their yachts in the South Pacific, and was comped for life at the most exclusive golf club in the world, owned by one of his benefactors./100-publishers-that-pay-writers-up-to-1-00-per-word.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/100-publishers-that-pay-writers-up-to-1-00-per-word.htmlI have for you today a huge list of publications that work directly with freelance writers. Many of these publications pay up to $1 per word, or more. The pay rates do vary quite significantly. I’ve researched rates for all of these publications, and found contact information, to make it easy for you to connect with the right editor. If you want help craf… ncG1vNJzZmikmanEsL7ToWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXxyfI9mp66anJ6wosDIqKWsZaSdrrV5z5qwZp6imrKtrc2cnA%3D%3D/a-short-post-about-the-devolution-of-fiscal-conservatism.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-short-post-about-the-devolution-of-fiscal-conservatism.htmlSo there I was, drinking my Monday morning coffee, just catching up on the news, when I decided to read a story by the Washington Post’s Marianna Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell on how newbie Speaker of the House Mike Johnson plans to avoid a shutdown. The story was mostly about how Johnson was going to navigate the various clashing factions within the GOP House caucus. It was in all respects but one a perfectly diligent, professional piece of journalism./arepa-de-coco-by-nicholas-gill.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/arepa-de-coco-by-nicholas-gill.htmlArepas are a continual source of new discovery for me, which is why I really appreciate the just released cookbook The Arepa: Classic and Contemporary Recipes for Venezuela’s Daily Bread, from Venezuelan born author Irena Stein, who owns Baltimore restaurant Alma Cocina Latina (listen to our interview with her here). D… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8CrnKmZXZmybq%2FOnKY%3D/big-hair-bigger-spon-con.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/big-hair-bigger-spon-con.htmlWhen I was an editor at mass general interest websites, we knew that if there was one award show online followers really cared about, it was the Grammys. After that, maybe the Billboard Music Awards or MTV’s Video Music Awards. The Oscars, by comparison, sometimes didn’t even drive more than a typical Sunday night’s traffic. This was partly a reflection of the audiences for these outlets skewing young, but also of the reality that when pop stars are in the room, the internet is in the room./charleston-s-chez-nous-is-the-place-to-be.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/charleston-s-chez-nous-is-the-place-to-be.htmlIN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER Cover Story: How a Charleston restaurant reinvents itself every night. “Coming into work knowing that the menu changes every day is exciting,” says Chez Nous chef Jill Mathias. “It’s definitely made me excited for nine years.” Weekend Reading List: A quiet seaside getaway, beautiful trips by train, some great breweries in Montana, and more.  Featured Destination: This is your last chance to download a free copy of our Charleston dining guide./china-s-communist-spirit-and-most-valuable-company.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/china-s-communist-spirit-and-most-valuable-company.htmlPartially state-owned Kweichow Moutai (SHA: 600519) is the world's largest distiller and most valuable alcohol brand thanks to its popularity among the Communist Party elite and its use as a lubricant for business deals and favors. With an alcohol content of as high as 60% by volume, baijiu (distilled from fermented sorghum) is China’s most popular liquor and accounts for third of global alcohol sales while Moutai is a style of baijiu made in the town of Maotai in China's Guizhou province./civil-war-the-movie-is-a-blunt-object.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/civil-war-the-movie-is-a-blunt-object.htmlThere is a sparseness to Alex Garland’s new movie, Civil War. The film feels like a blunt object. It is brutal, harrowing. It bludgeons the viewer with a single, message: it could happen here. It is a very good movie. The film has attracted a fair amount of criticism for what it doesn’t do. There is a complete lack of political worldbuilding in the movie. It is set in the near future, in a United States that is not quite ours./dave-grohl-s-17-greatest-non-foo-non-nirvana-contributions-to-music.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dave-grohl-s-17-greatest-non-foo-non-nirvana-contributions-to-music.htmlThere are few things you can truly count on in this world. Death? Certainly. Taxes? You bet. A brand-new Foo Fighters album every three to four years? Like freaking clockwork.  Last week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hopefuls unveiled their latest creation, a 36-minute, 9-track collection of songs titled Medicine at Midnight. I’ve listened to it a few times since, and honestly…it’s fine. If you like Foo Fighters, chances are better than good you’ll find something here to enjoy./deepfakes-make-a-big-splash-to-kick-off-2024.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/deepfakes-make-a-big-splash-to-kick-off-2024.htmlDeepfakes are on the rise. Scams featuring Tom Hanks, MrBeast, Elon Musk, and consumer advocate Martin Lewis made headlines in 2023. These scams were about money. Others were motivated by a mix of humor, trolling, or misinformation. This past week, we saw two examples of manipulation that have raised public concern to new levels and spotlighted two other areas of concern: sex and politics Last week, sexually explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift began appearing on social media./dr-renata-moon-and-the-first-amendment.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./exiting-american-idol-judge-katy-perry-says-gene-simmons-should-take-my-spot-after-he-mentors-ro.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/exiting-american-idol-judge-katy-perry-says-gene-simmons-should-take-my-spot-after-he-mentors-ro.htmlSunday was Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night on American Idol, with the top 14 contestants performing Hall inductees' hits. Suffice to say, no one covered the Stooges, Rage Against the Machine, Talking Heads, the Sex Pistols, Nine Inch Nails, the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, or newly announced Class of 2024 members MC5, instead sticking with safer fare. But Gene Simmons, of Hall of Famers KISS, did add some edge to the episode as this week's guest mentor./great-movies-each-written-directed-by-the-same-person.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/great-movies-each-written-directed-by-the-same-person.htmlImage by Stefan Keller from Pixabay“You should do your work as perfectly as you possibly can with no thought of rewards, and only that way can you be a really happy person.” This was “Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger’s work ethic, according to Eberhard Alsen in the Documentary Salinger (2013). Although the above quote may be interpreted as a glorification of the starving artist toiling away in obscurity to remain true to their art and not “sell out” for financial reward or social acclaim, there is another interpretation./grub-of-the-day-32-gurty-s-burgers-shakes.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/grub-of-the-day-32-gurty-s-burgers-shakes.htmlIf you’re ever looking for a good burger in Newton, Ks, chances are you’ll get pointed in the direction of Gurty’s Burger and Shakes. This Newton staple is known to have an extensive menu full of options from single, double or triple patty burgers you can customize with all the popular add-ons, signature burgers, wraps, every appetizer you could ever want, shakes, and deli sandwiches. I mean, Im probably missing something because they’ve got it all./how-jerry-lorenzo-transformed-the-world-of-streetwear.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-jerry-lorenzo-transformed-the-world-of-streetwear.htmlIf you’ve paid attention to streetwear lately, then you’ve probably seen someone wearing a hoodie or shirt with ESSENTIALS in bold letters across the front. The brand? It’s called Fear Of God. And its design is the work of Jerry Lorenzo. Fear of God is one of the hottest apparel brands out there, and its ascent has taken the world of streetwear by storm. Jerry’s story is one that I find interesting, and personally I think more people need to know about it./how-more-tech-can-mean-more-human-challenges.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-more-tech-can-mean-more-human-challenges.htmlSummary: The article discusses the 'Irony of Automation', illustrating how increased automation can unexpectedly complicate human tasks. It emphasises the importance of UX professionals in addressing these challenges through human-centric design and suggests practical strategies for maintaining human engagement and skills in automated systems. "The 'Irony of Automation' is a concept that presents a curious paradox: the more we rely on advanced automated systems the more we might actually encounter human performance issues./kitchen-project-117-how-to-pair-a-pear.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kitchen-project-117-how-to-pair-a-pear.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)./learning-to-fight-a-bogus-medical-bill-leads-to-a-double-win.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/learning-to-fight-a-bogus-medical-bill-leads-to-a-double-win.htmlThe Labcorp bill looked serious. It said Don Jones owed $2,350 and that the payment was “PAST DUE.”  It layered on a threat: “Unless this office receives payment in full, escalated recovery steps will be taken.” And then it raised the stakes: “This is a serious matter you should no longer ignore. You must act now to clear your delinquent credit status. There is no longer any justification for not resolving your account./letter-123-david-magerman-2020.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/letter-123-david-magerman-2020.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-50-ted-weschler-2022.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/letter-50-ted-weschler-2022.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./%C3%B3m%C3%B3s-digest-15-mortadella-vs-billy-roll-battle-of-the-bologna.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/%C3%B3m%C3%B3s-digest-15-mortadella-vs-billy-roll-battle-of-the-bologna.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./my-country-tis-of-thee.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-country-tis-of-thee.htmlThis map appeared on the cover of Life Magazine on February 10, 1916. It was part of the effort of American internationalists to overcome isolationist sentiment insisting on continued neutrality in the ongoing European War. The U.S. has been renamed New Prussia, and American city names have been replaced with German (or Germanized) versions. Washington is New Berlin, Chicago is Schlauterhaus, and Boston is Kulturplatz. Denverburg and Salzlakenburg are presumably German, but Florida has become Turconia, California is Japonica, and the northwest is dominated by Nagaseattle and New Kobe./my-kid-pretends-everything-is-a-gun.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-kid-pretends-everything-is-a-gun.htmlDear Is My Kid the Asshole, All my son ever wants to do is play “Superhero Wars.” Everything he finds morphs into a gun. Pew pew pew, you’re dead! It makes me uncomfortable, and I don’t know what to do. Should I make a house rule that gun play isn’t allowed? Is my kid the asshole? Sincerely, Pacifist Mom Dear Pacifist Mom, This is such a good question, and one I’ve asked myself over the years./my-utmb-2017-by-jeff-calvert.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-utmb-2017-by-jeff-calvert.htmlIt’s UTMB weekend, so I thought I’d share this account of my own experience at Chamonix, one of the high points of my running career (published originally on my website on September 1, 2021). So back in 2017, I ran the Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc. UTMB is a 105-mile race around the Mont Blanc massif. It starts in Chamonix, France and goes counter-clockwise around the mountain through Italy, into Switzerland, and back to Chamonix./natalie-merchant-s-carnival-by-simon-sweetman.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/natalie-merchant-s-carnival-by-simon-sweetman.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./nine-quotes-by-david-goggins-that-ll-hack-your-brain-into-doing-hard-things.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nine-quotes-by-david-goggins-that-ll-hack-your-brain-into-doing-hard-things.htmlShare David Goggins is a psychopath. He’s a former navy seal and drops more f-bombs than a drunken sailor at a bar full of playboy bunnies. For the first time ever I had to tell my 1 year old daughter to leave the room an hour ago because I had David Goggins videos playing. He’s so brutal and rude that I didn’t want her to hear him. Surface-level people dismiss David Goggins. That’s why they miss all the opportunities in life. Surface-level people screw themselves up the butt./on-the-hearty-booing-of-jerry-krause-s-widow.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-the-hearty-booing-of-jerry-krause-s-widow.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./out-of-egypt-i-called-my-son.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/out-of-egypt-i-called-my-son.htmlAfter the magi visited Jesus, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream and told him to depart with his family: “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him” (Matt. 2:13). According to Matthew 2:14–15, Joseph obeyed the directive. Right after Matthew tells of Joseph’s obedience, the biblical author makes a statement about fulfillment: “This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: ‘Out of Egypt I called my son./rip-jimmy-buffet-my-alcoholism-and-weekend-reads-and-listens.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rip-jimmy-buffet-my-alcoholism-and-weekend-reads-and-listens.htmlThere are few childhood memories that I hold as fondly as my love for Jimmy Buffet. My dad was a big fan too, and I can still vividly recall listening to his music on our way to school. The carefree island lifestyle always resonated with me, and it manifested in my deep passion for scuba diving. Eventually, I followed my heart's calling and relocated to Miami to pursue a career as a professional diver./sam-harris-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sam-harris-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day.htmlA few days ago, best-selling author and public persona Sam Harris, host of the “Making Sense” podcast gave an interview on another podcast, “Triggernometry”. Such an event would normally be unremarkable but for some of the statements Harris made about the 2020 election. A few hours after the podcast had posted to YouTube, a twitter thread started that live tweeted personal reactions to the interview. In a few sections, clips of the interview were excerpted that contained extensive argumentation by Harris that it was absolutely true that those in power conspired to control true information from being disseminated in the weeks prior to the 2020 election; it was absolutely morally justified for them to do so; and that but for them engaging in this action Trump would be President for a second term./scott-boras-blinks-first-by-molly-knight.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/scott-boras-blinks-first-by-molly-knight.htmlWe knew this day was coming, and now it’s here: The top free agent hitter still on the market has signed a contract to play major league baseball this season and will report to spring training immediately as, uh, the games have already started. It’s no surprise that Cody Bellinger returned to the Cubs. No other team was ever seriously linked to the star centerfielder (at least publicly). And even the fabled “mystery team” a certain scribe close to Bellinger’s agent, Scott Boras, tends to float to the market to add intrigue/confusion/drive up bidding never materialized./the-artist-who-invented-a-nation-s-folk-art.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-artist-who-invented-a-nation-s-folk-art.htmlAs a kid growing up in Mexico in the 1980s I used to attend a summer camp run by my aunt named Casa Abierta. There we would participate in a whole range of activities which included music, theater and crafts, including a class of pirograbado (pyro gravure), which is a decorative wood-burning technique using a hot metal stylus onto surfaces like the ones of boxes, trays and trivets. The imagery that we would use as model to reproduce came from a series of colorful compositions inspired on traditional crafts that one would often see in people’s homes in Mexico in the 70s and 80s;  these were simple depictions of country village scenes with big-eyed birds, butterflies, flowers and red-roofed houses; the only thing we knew about them was that they were crafts from El Salvador./the-daily-feather-danielle-dimartino-booth.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-daily-feather-danielle-dimartino-booth.htmlQI Research brings both Wall Street and Federal Reserve experience together with a vast network of connections across the finance industry. We triangulate institutional sentiment, what central banks watch, and how monetary policy affects investing. Over 25,000 subscribers No thanks“Danielle is a former Fed insider who is not only incredibly knowledgeable about monetary policy and the inner workings of the Fed but unafraid to speak truthfully about how the Fed does and does not do its job./the-exhaustive-list-of-seed-oil-sources.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-soft-pink-truth-finds-his-way-back-to-the-dancefloor.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-soft-pink-truth-finds-his-way-back-to-the-dancefloor.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-sonnenrad-sets-over-new-hampshire.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-sonnenrad-sets-over-new-hampshire.htmlPOLITICS DEP'T. THE FUN AND cheerful thing to say about the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign is that it fell apart two days before it even got to New Hampshire. Say it! It does feel good! This goon tried to bully his way to the top of our nation's politics and was fully, mercilessly rejected. He got nine figures worth of PAC and campaign funding and a year's worth of coverage hailing him as the most serious alternative to Donald Trump and he cashed it all in, or out, for a grand total of nine delegates, or two more than Ben Carson collected in 2016./there-s-another-abusive-male-at-reddit.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/there-s-another-abusive-male-at-reddit.htmlThat stinks! Medium is owned by Twitter so there is no point using it for blogging unless you archive immediately. WordpressDOTorg is owned by Alphabet, who own Google - so that is a dead loss if the snipers spot you. Anything you want to keep, write or copy it offline. Archive like crazy and bookmark so you can find it again. These are not normal times. We need to get used to the fact that, for the moment, we are seen as dissidents and are treated as dangerous subversives./this-x-men-character-s-love-of-poetry-got-left-out-of-the-film-franchise.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/this-x-men-character-s-love-of-poetry-got-left-out-of-the-film-franchise.htmlAs Derrick Austin noted in his PopPoetryinterview, X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) introduced countless 90s kids to poetry more than once. How did the show work poetry into superhero situations? Through the extraordinary character of Beast, of course. Beast, aka Dr. Hank McCoy, was introduced to the world in 1963 in X-Men #1, making him one of the original founding members despite his spotty appearances in later film adaptations. McCoy became a mutant after exposure to radiation, and his monstrous blue exterior contrasts with the deep humanity of his well-read and well-spoken interior./tony-blanco-jr-is-ultimate-wild-card-entering-2024-season.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tony-blanco-jr-is-ultimate-wild-card-entering-2024-season.htmlThere is so much variance in players down in the DSL that it’s hard to get excited about anyone, even if they perform well. With so many factors that can play into their success that won’t be the case when they move to the States, it’s generally best to temper expectations, regardless of the results. Every now and again, there are players that you can’t help but get excited for, and heading into the 2024 season, the Pirates may have one of those players in Tony Blanco Jr./tower-of-sound-by-michael-barclay.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tower-of-sound-by-michael-barclay.htmlLegendary recording engineer Steve Albini has died at age 61 of a heart attack. If you know, you know. And if so, you probably came of age in the 1990s, when few truly understood The Problem With Music. For years he was known as much for being an “irascible gadfly” (a term I used for him in Hearts on Fire) as he was his devotion to pure live sound on re…/what-a-year-party-pics.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-a-year-party-pics.htmlHi there, This is a special entry just for full subscribers — so thank you for being one! I appreciate your interest and support for my work… For the nation and the news, 2022 felt like another big year. Yes, I guess we say that a lot these days… Consider at just some of the major developments in the past, say, five years, and it’s a ton of undeniably important stuff (Trump’s election and presidency; his aides’ crime spree; resurgent hate and political violence; four new Supreme Court Justices; Covid; a Covid vaccine; mass protests; the insurrection; Biden’s election; the fall of Roe; and that leaves out a ton)./what-is-a-chief-of-staff.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-a-chief-of-staff.htmlHello, and welcome to the Right Hand Talent newsletter! I’m Zaharo, and I write about all things Chief of Staff and talent. Every week, you’ll get 3 new CoS jobs that are on my radar, reqs I’m working on, my thoughts on growing in the CoS role and as a professional, top stories I’m following on X, and more. Join our community of over 5,000 readers by subscribing below👇 One subscriber already won the 3rd tier referral reward (a 30-minute call with me)./what-is-it-about-pitting-women-against-each-other.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-it-about-pitting-women-against-each-other.htmlI’m going to begin this with a caveat - I’ve thought long and hard about writing about this, for fear of saying something wrong, or upsetting someone, which I would hate. But last week I talked about feeling able to take up space and making your voice heard, and if I can’t follow through on that, then I haven’t been real with you. So, I’ve written the following as the thoughts occurred to me./your-liga-mx-clausura-playoff-preview.htmlThu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/your-liga-mx-clausura-playoff-preview.htmlTranslation is hard, and it can be even harder in the world of sports where jargon becomes commonplace and truisms become repeated gospel. Focusing on Latin American soccer coverage in English for more than a decade, I’ve gotten used to some cliches that I know will be a pain to put in an article. Sometimes, it’s not worth the trouble. Others, you can work in a way to help the reader understand where the player or coach is going with the thought./for-two-hours-a-week-we-would-feel-alive-ange-speaking-in-greek-about-the-glory-of-hellas.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/for-two-hours-a-week-we-would-feel-alive-ange-speaking-in-greek-about-the-glory-of-hellas.htmlToday was an exciting day for our ‘Puskas in Australia’ project. A generous donor made a contribution of $25,000, which gave us real belief that we can get our feature documentary on screens in 2024. A possible premiere is the Melbourne International Film Festival in August, or, failing that, the Melbourne Greek Film Festival in November. We’ve also applied to over a dozen overseas festivals, and are confident we’ll land a spot at the Paladino d’Oro sports film festival in Palermo in November./the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-oppermanns-by-lion-feuchtwanger.html(Saturday, March 30, 2024) HUDSON, N.Y. – The most urgent novel I have read so far this year is a ninety-plus-years-old newly reissued translation of a German-language book first published in Amsterdam in 1933. Share Lion Feuchtwanger’s The Oppermanns is many books at once: a family epic, a breathless suspense thriller, and a first-hand account of how a civilized democracy turns into a ruthless authoritarian state in the course of a single year./2022-complete-deal-sled-review.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2022-complete-deal-sled-review.htmlGood morning savages. When I started in Sales & Trading in 2016, I was young and didn’t know shit about closing deals, business, or the world. I was just pumped to be able to walk to workin NYC in a suit and trap out of my studio apartment on the weekends. Now the term “Deal Sleds” has been around for some time - so we can’t quite take full credit for coming up with it, but I will say our account had a massive hand in proliferating the influence and spread of bit loafers and deal sleds in the golden age of finance memery (2016-2020)./a-new-blender-for-the-smoothie-king.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-new-blender-for-the-smoothie-king.htmlI mentioned in last year’s Father’s Day gift round-up how a high-speed personal blender changed Abe’s life. He became quite the smoothie chef, whipping up concoctions every weekend after his bike rides. So when his beloved Nutribullet began to lose its juice a few months ago, I thought I was just going to buy him a new one — until I saw that Our Place now makes a “Splendor Blender” which wasn’t very much more, and (in my opinion) a lot prettier./a-new-dawn-by-john-jackson-miller.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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-pioneering-cardiologist-who-dedicated-his-career-to-preventing-sudden-death-finds-a-gift-in-death.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-pioneering-cardiologist-who-dedicated-his-career-to-preventing-sudden-death-finds-a-gift-in-death.htmlMy conversation with Dr. Bruce Wilkoff, one of the leading experts of heart pacemakers and defibrillators in the world. We were colleagues working together for 14 years at Cleveland Clinic (1991-2005). Now he’s facing death from metastatic pancreatic cancer and has a remarkably upbeat perspective to share. 1× 0:00 -33:38 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.A recent (September 29, 2023) photo of Bruce (in the middle) receiving a lifetime achievement award for his work in cardiology The quote in the subtitle was from Bruce’s email to me that prompted our discussion./auburn-s-prison-city-brewing-opening-a-taproom-in-lake-placid.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/auburn-s-prison-city-brewing-opening-a-taproom-in-lake-placid.htmlDawn and Marc Schulz, the wife and husband team behind Auburn’s Prison City Brewing, are taking it full circle. The couple met in 1996 while living in Lake Placid — Dawn owned a restaurant and Marc helped open Lake Placid Pub & Brewery. They brewed a stout called “Midnight Mountain Mud” on their first date. The recipe came from a Grateful Dead cookbook btw. (And no, this isn’t a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie, it’s real life./ayr-muir-ceo-of-clover-food-lab.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ayr-muir-ceo-of-clover-food-lab.htmlAyr Muir is the founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, a plant-based fast food restaurant network in the Boston area with a seasonal locally-sourced menu. Yay, a financial disclosure! This is one of The Weekly Anthropocene’s first-ever sponsored posts, thanks to Jason Ingle of Third Nature Investments (who we interviewed recently) and his work to support plant-based food and textile companies. A lightly edited transcript of this exclusive interview follows./beth-orton-was-brilliant-and-she-s-back-and-coming-to-new-zealand.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beth-orton-was-brilliant-and-she-s-back-and-coming-to-new-zealand.htmlEarlier this week it was announced that Beth Orton will return to New Zealand for a couple of shows; her first here in a decade. In fact, just yesterday, the tickets went on sale. Get in now! Orton made her name in the mid/late 1990s as part of a scene labelled “folktronica”. She was singing her own songs, with acoustic guitar and subtle electronica flourishes beneath. But she was also collaborating with people like William Orbit and The Chemical Brothers./birthday-worthy-swedish-pancakes.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/birthday-worthy-swedish-pancakes.htmlNew here? Hi! If you want to get right down to business, scroll down for the video link and alllllll the way to the bottom for the recipe.The Music family has a saying about their holiday traditions: “Our tradition is that we don’t have traditions.” The first time I heard this, I swooned a bit, since I come from a family that’s rooted like a concrete block around special occasions: Marble cake on birthdays, artichoke lasagna on Easter, pasta with clams every Friday night, pasta e fagiole on Sundays, steamed lobster and corn for my birthday, osso buco for my dad and sister’s./breaking-my-silence-on-madame-web.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/breaking-my-silence-on-madame-web.htmlA generous reading of Madame Webb is that it’s an overcorrection. If you’re complaining of superhero fatigue, fine, here’s a movie where there are barely superheroes, and their super powers are slight. Madame Webb is a thrill-less thriller; there is no real mystery.  Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) is a New York City paramedic with a dry sense of humor. After a near-death experience, she realizes she can see about 12 seconds into the future, a superpower that is not that helpful./can-i-get-a-good-new-york-bagel-at-ess-a-bagel.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/can-i-get-a-good-new-york-bagel-at-ess-a-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. If you’ve followed my bagel journey through New York City, you probably know that I came away somewhat disappointed./certified-autism-spectrum-disorder-clinical-specialist-really.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/certified-autism-spectrum-disorder-clinical-specialist-really.htmlThe picture above is real. This flyer was waiting for me in my mailbox. It’s a real flyer. For only $99 (using the special code), you too can become a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS). According to the web site, “This intensive online autism certification training provides the education you need to confidently and competently offer safe, effective transformational strengths-based interventions, strategies, and approaches to support your clients regardless of age or developmental stage!/christians-stop-tolerating-simulated-sex.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/christians-stop-tolerating-simulated-sex.htmlWhen filmmakers and moviegoers reference scenes of “simulated sex,” they are employing a euphemism for “no protuberance was inserted into a bodily orifice during the making of this film.” Thus, the difference many make between “simulated sex” (what we see in mainstream entertainment) and “actual penetrative sex” (what we see in hardcore pornography). Both acts may include undressing, libidinous kissing, the fondling of sexual organs, grinding, and sexual noises, but “simulated sex” avoids ejaculations (except when it doesn’t)./claudia-cardinale-by-david-downton.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/claudia-cardinale-by-david-downton.htmlIt was no secret that beauty pageants could be a fast track into movies in post-war Italy. But few rose with the speed of Claudia Cardinale. Within four years, ‘The Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia,’ would be both a cineaste’s darling and a pin-up to rival Bardot (BB vs CC). Her distinctive voice, caught between a whisper and a rasp, smile like a Sicilian summer and prodigious work ethic - she has made almost 150 films – saw her outdistance early comparisons to Lollobrigida and Loren and forge a distinguished, still-thriving international career./comments-emily-s-life-plan-for-the-week.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-emily-s-life-plan-for-the-week.htmlHi Emily, I am a new fan! Love your YouTube, TiKTok, email newsletters and more! I would love to see you list your 'favorites', eg., your favorite brands of various foods and much more. I write them down when I can catch them, and of course, I have discovered your Amazon page. Sometimes it goes so fast I miss things, so I would l love it if you could devote some of your newsletters to that, it can be whatever topics you want, food, cleaning items, cooking items/utensils, clothing (I love your cute sporty things!/companion-planting-guide-for-vegetables-and-flowers.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/companion-planting-guide-for-vegetables-and-flowers.htmlIf you’re a first-time visitor, welcome! To receive The Weekly Dirt in your inbox every week… Hi, guys! I planted hardneck garlic in one of my raised beds in November, and it’s doing very well. I just harvested the first of the scapes, which are a real treat (I sauteed them in butter — they’re soooo good)! But because garlic is growing in that bed this yea… ncG1vNJzZmiilajAqq%2FAnZimoZGjvG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ibn6K9orrIqKVmqJyWu7W1zaBkoK2ZmbJuss6rZK%2Bdl5rBoq7Lnqo%3D/cowboy-fairy-angel-knight-test.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cowboy-fairy-angel-knight-test.htmlAn initial reaction refers to the immediate response or first impression that a person has when encountering a situation, stimulus, or information for the first time. It's often an instinctive or reflexive response that occurs before more deliberate thinking or analysis takes place. Initial reactions can be influenced by emotions, prior experiences, and individual perceptions, and they may not always align with a person's more considered or rational response after further reflection./crawl-walk-run-by-meredith-turney.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/crawl-walk-run-by-meredith-turney.htmlVictor Steven started walking a few weeks ago. As a first-time parent, it was such a proud, thrilling moment to see him take his first steps. In the beginning, he was tentative. He’d hold on to furniture as he learned to balance. He’d take a few steps, then fall to the ground. Every day he’d walk a few more steps: two steps, then four, then eight. Now he’s cruising around the house like a pro:/culture-is-contagious-by-josephine-conneely.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/culture-is-contagious-by-josephine-conneely.htmlConsider these scenarios: Explicit rule stating that meetings must start promptly on-time; unspoken custom that meetings start 10 minutes late Messages not sent after 5pm to respect work-life balance; most of team work from 3pm on Sundays New joiners must work in the office 5 days per week for first 6 months; fully remote and async from day 1 Company policy that team socials cannot centre around alcohol; company sponsored drink cart with wide range of alcoholic beverages stops by people’s desks on Friday afternoons/dark-mode-stuff-your-kindle-with-dark-fiction.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dark-mode-stuff-your-kindle-with-dark-fiction.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./exploring-your-mama-s-kitchen.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/exploring-your-mama-s-kitchen.htmlI know most of you tune in to my podcast to hear my beautiful voice (and excellent English) but on today’s show I have a guest with a voice that you know and love even more than mine! Michele Norris. Michele was a star on NPR’s All Things Considered, at ABC News and the Washington Post. Throughout her career, she has interviewed all kinds of people: supreme court justices, CEOs and presidents./hasidic-jews-emerging-from-sewers.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hasidic-jews-emerging-from-sewers.htmlHello, welcome to the famed Weekend Gene Pool, which has just won the coveted Weekend Gene Pool Award, awarded yearly to the newsletter with the most awards. As always, we promise to entertain you, in response to your filling us up with personal anecdotes. Today, we seek examples of things you have seen or experienced, but never expected to see or experience. We came up with this idea after reading the story, a couple of weeks ago, about orthodox Jews in New York City who apparently dug a tunnel under the city, apparently between a synagogue and a place where Jewish ladies get naked and bathe in a ritual, and I swear I am not making this up./here-s-what-it-s-like-in-a-polygamous-family.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/here-s-what-it-s-like-in-a-polygamous-family.htmlIf you enjoy this newsletter, I’d be eternally grateful if you shared it with a friend. Share The premise of this newsletter is that the conventional nuclear family concept is not serving everyone well enough. And implicit in that argument is the idea that there must be something better. I suspect that “something” is different for different people, but one of my goals here is to explore alternatives of all shapes and sizes./hycroft-mining-s-retail-trader-scam.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hycroft-mining-s-retail-trader-scam.htmlHycroft Mining (NASDAQ: HYMC - $83 million) is a company that is engaged in the exploration, mining, and development of the Hycroft Mine in Nevada. They also have a history of failure including bankruptcy, a SPAC merger where the CEO and CFO resigned within two months, a complaint with the SEC that they did not honor obligations to warrant-holders, a required royalty payment to a major shareholder and creditor, and have discontinued mining operations due to the inability to control costs, meet gold recovery rates, and properly deploy leach pads./infinity-train-book-4-duet.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/infinity-train-book-4-duet.htmlHello everyone! As you may or may not know, Infinity Train Book 4 has been announced! On April 15, all 10 episodes of the fourth book of Infinity Train will be released on HBOMax. Here’s the trailer: It will, unfortunately, be our last season. I really appreciate everything that every fan has given to the show. We absolutely wouldn’t have a show if it weren’t for all the fans making their voices heard on the pilot and on the other seasons!/kyle-prue-substack.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kyle-prue-substack.htmlKyle PrueKyle Prue is a famous author and gender traitor. He attended college at the University of Michigan, where he studied narcissism and love bombing (acting and poetry). He lives in Los Angeles with three roommates and a tapeworm (all parasites). ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjazFy56nq62V/new-york-i-love-you-but-you-re-bringing-me-down.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/new-york-i-love-you-but-you-re-bringing-me-down.htmlI've been to NYC just once, during Fleet Week via US Navy ship, but you immersed me in a way a brief visit does not allow. I can feel the people, sounds and smells swirling around as you lived your life. It also helped me reflect on why I was drawn back to northwest Florida where I mostly grew up. I had a good childhood, spending much time with my maternal grandparents as a child of divorce, and the picture of you with your granny brought back memories of gardening with my grandmother and going with my grandfather to pick up shrimp and oysters for his gumbo./nora-mcinerny-substack.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nora-mcinerny-substack.htmlNora McInernyAuthor, speaker, and host of "Terrible, Thanks for Asking," a podcast that lets people be honest about the hard things in life. Remarried widow raising a blended family with my current, very much alive husband (knock on wood). Very tall. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2B70ZqZqKqVlrmqvw%3D%3D/oboles-de-lucerne-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/oboles-de-lucerne-david-lebovitz-newsletter.htmlI’ve been meaning to write about these unusual biscuits for several years and now that I’ve got this more expanded newsletter that you’re reading right now, it’s time to share them with you. I first discovered Oboles de Lucerne when a friend’s mom in Paris offered them during apéro hour. Since then I’ve been hooked on the uber-thin, crispy wafer that nearly melts in your mouth, but has enough resistance and crunch to feel as if you’re eating something more substantial, if that makes sense./omer-bartov-israel-s-hard-right-turn.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/omer-bartov-israel-s-hard-right-turn.htmlMy guest this week is the Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov, who is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown. Over 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war, most of them civilians. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced. Food, water, and adequate medical services are in short supply. Still, grim as those facts are, Omer does not think they amount to genocide./remembering-catherine-pierre-by-martha-s-jones.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-catherine-pierre-by-martha-s-jones.htmlWhat is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver Last week the SNF Agora Institute, home to Hard Histories at Hopkins, shared with our community this announcement: “We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved director of communications, Catherine Pierre, suddenly passed last week. Catherine had helped to shape the institute almost since its beginning, and she had been a communications leader at Johns Hopkins for many years before that./so-here-we-are-by-adam-gretz.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/so-here-we-are-by-adam-gretz.htmlMaybe you have heard, and maybe you haven’t, but last week NBC Sports made the decision to eliminate the writing staff of Pro Hockey Talk, my main writing spot for the past five years. It was a disappointing decision, but not one that was totally unexpected given the way the network has recently handled its other sports pages (also eliminating those staffs) and the fact it no longer has the NHL TV rights deal./ted-and-michelle-break-up.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ted-and-michelle-break-up.htmlWe have spent the past few weeks talking about the toxic relationship between Rebecca and Rupert, but the entire premise of the show is that Ted has moved to London to coach soccer to give his marriage some space. Today I want to talk about the episode “Tan Lines” which is when Ted and Michelle agree to a divorce. I will be taking a few liberties here because honestly, we don’t get a lot of the backstory on Ted and Michelle’s relationship before he moves to London./the-billion-dollar-spy-by-shaunak-agarkhedkar.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-billion-dollar-spy-by-shaunak-agarkhedkar.htmlOne bleak evening in January 1977 the CIA Station Chief in Moscow had left the embassy and driven to a nearby gas station. He was approached by a middle-aged Russian who asked if he was American. When the Station Chief replied in the affirmative, the Russian left a folded piece of paper on the car seat and left. The paper contained a request for a meeting to discuss confidential matters. It also contained detailed instructions for a meeting including time and place for two possibilities, along with a signal to indicate which one was preferred./the-cruel-subtlety-of-pity.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-cruel-subtlety-of-pity.htmlPity is a White woman you don’t know that well making a b-line for you at the grocery store to tell you how very sad she was to hear about the truly terrible thing that happened to you. The gossip she has been a part of surrounding your own misfortune spools out in your mind. You can see, on her perfectly moisturized face, just how chuffed she is with herself for having done the uncomfortable thing of speaking to you, rather than avoiding you./the-demographics-of-death-row-in-2023.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-demographics-of-death-row-in-2023.htmlLast week, a DP3 analysis of death-row data compiled by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) reported that the number of people on death row or facing possible capital resentencing across the United States had reached a three-decade low, but that even as death row shrank in size it became more racially disproportionate. Today, in a numbers-heavy posting, we take a look at that decline, the status of the cases of those sentenced to death or facing capital resentencing, and the current demographics of U./the-pinnacle-of-open-source-llms.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-pinnacle-of-open-source-llms.htmlThis newsletter is presented by Lightly. By using self-supervised and active learning, Lightly can make data annotation pipelines more efficient and quickly identify the best subsets of data for training your model. Check them out here or start using their GitHub repo that already has over 2000 stars. Sponsor the newsletter |Follow me on Twitter | Get in touch | Suggest a topic Recent research in open-source large language models (LLMs) has mostly focused upon two areas: imitation learning and pre-training open-source base models./the-three-with-debut-writer-emi-nietfeld.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-three-with-debut-writer-emi-nietfeld.htmlPurchasehere Emi Nietfeld is a writer and software engineer. After graduating from Harvard College in 2015, she worked at Google and Facebook. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, Vice, and other publications. She lives in New York City with her family. -I read Emi’s debut work, Acceptance, with my gut clenched and my brain on fire. It’s a painful book, an important book. Nietfeld’s memoir takes us from her life as a small child with her father and mother to a life with her mother, who becomes a hoarder and is mentally ill, and without her father, who abandons Emi after her parents divorce./time-spent-in-los-angeles-by-dawes.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/time-spent-in-los-angeles-by-dawes.htmlI wrote Time Spent in Los Angeles (TSLA for the rest of this post) when I was in Nashville writing for the Middle Brother album. It was 2010. John had invited me to make some kind of duo album with him and I showed up with a few songs already written - Wilderness and Blood and Guts, to be specific - and I looked forward to writing a few more before we started recording./ugly-untalented-gays-by-jen-wilde.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ugly-untalented-gays-by-jen-wilde.htmlWelcome to this week’s edition of Stacks & Spoons, a weekly substack for bookish girls, gays and theys, written by author Jen Wilde. If you enjoy it, you can subscribe here. Bottoms is like if Heathers f*cked Superbad and had a queer, feral baby. It doesn’t care about positive representation. It’s not here to preach an aspirational message about being queer, it just wants to make us laugh and gasp and feel seen./vivian-bercovici-substack.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/vivian-bercovici-substack.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/who-was-socrates.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-was-socrates.htmlThis episode is part of the Plato’s Academy Centre course on the Socratic Method. In this lesson, we will be learning who Socrates was, and why he became famous. We’ll also begin looking at the origins of the Socratic Method, and the role it played in his philosophy. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. – Socrates in Plato's Phaedo, 89d There is an optional Facebook Live video of this lesson./why-healthcare-has-so-much-administration.htmlWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-healthcare-has-so-much-administration.htmlYou’ve probably heard people complain that there’s too much administration in healthcare. Is it really that bad? Let me answer with this graph showing the growth of US healthcare administrators and physicians: Graph nerd comment: Any graph with a y-axis that surpasses 1000% is poorly calibrated, misleading or both. More about that later. Healthcare administration is about 15-25% of the US healthcare expenditure. While the number of US doctors grew by 150% between 1975 and 2010, administrators have increased significantly, according to the graph above at a rate of 3200% (relative increase of ~20x)./forever-young-bob-dylan-rod-stewart-and-alphaville-s-peans-to-living-a-full-life.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/forever-young-bob-dylan-rod-stewart-and-alphaville-s-peans-to-living-a-full-life.htmlI’m gonna explore in more detail the story of my recent adventures living (again) at my aunt’s assisted living facility — expect that within the next two newsletters — but today I’m writing about the song that has been stuck in my head since I returned home a couple days ago. “Forever Young.” It was Rod Stewart’s 1988 version that appeared to me first. Then it morphed into Alphaville’s 1984 version./12-2-into-the-dalek-by-jonn-elledge.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/12-2-into-the-dalek-by-jonn-elledge.htmlBroadcast: August 2014 Watched: February 2022 “I am not a good Dalek, you are a good Dalek.” Although I also think there’s a case for, “Fantastic idea for a movie, terrible idea for a proctologist.” It’s starting to feel like season 8 is “standard RTD season gone wrong”, as everything is a bit off. Last week, the new character is terrifying not comforting; next week, the historical figure is fictional. This time we get a standard “see the new Doctor face off against the Daleks” thing, but again, twisted: the good Dalek stuff, the Inner Space stuff./2024-nfl-draft-wide-receiver-rankings.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/2024-nfl-draft-wide-receiver-rankings.htmlI completed scouting assessments of 20 wide receivers in the 2024 NFL Draft class. Florida State’s Johnny Wilson, Arizona’s Jacob Cowing, Louisville’s Jamari Thrash, Texas A&M’s Ainias Smith and Oregon State’s Anthony Gould are a few wideouts I didn’t have time to complete full evaluations on, but could be worth inclusion in these rankings. Here are my rankings and grades for the players I did full scouts on. Round 1 - Elite Starters/a-life-of-blonde-fragility.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-life-of-blonde-fragility.htmlDear friends, I apologize that this newsletter is a day late! I have been traveling and am in the middle of a move. Whew! But I am now HERE to talk about this week’s film, BARBIE! This newsletter is a long one and includes a lecture video! This week’s live discussion will be on 3 pm ET on Saturday, April 20th (please note the starting time is an hour later than usual because of another commitment) and FREE to all./about-status-coup-news.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-status-coup-news.html“Most people in this country are not lacking compassion—most people just have no fu**ing idea what the hell is going on all around them.” - Jordan Chariton Status Coup is fearless on-the-ground and investigative journalism that focuses on the stories—and voices—that the corporate media won’t touch: injustices and exploitation toward working people; environmental injustice and calamities; toxic water across America;  government corruption from the White House all the way down to city council; economic terrorism (i./about-zo%C3%ABbakes-newsletter.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-zo%C3%ABbakes-newsletter.htmlI studied art at the University of Vermont while also founding a cookie company as a way to earn extra money. I then traveled throughout Europe, tasting pastries along the way, and later studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. Since then I have been a pastry chef at several Twin Cities restaurants and have worked repeatedly with Andrew Zimmern. Together with Jeff Hertzberg, I wrote the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which turned into a bestselling series./al-bowlly-dennis-potter.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/al-bowlly-dennis-potter.htmlIt’s not exactly the kind of anniversary that usually gets celebrated, but this week marks the 126th birthday of one of my favorite singers, the legendary Al Bowlly. I decided to commemorate the occasion by devoting an entire episode of my KSDS radio show, Sing! Sing! Sing!, to the artistry of the late great Al.  He’s generally thought of as England’s number one gift to the great continuum of jazz-influenced popular music that flourished between the world wars./boketto-the-art-of-doing-nothing.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/boketto-the-art-of-doing-nothing.htmlAfter a peaceful dinner last Friday night, our toddler wanted to go for a walk. He sat through the entire restaurant meal without a fuss, so this seemed like a fair request. The thing about walking with a toddler, however, is that there is very little walking involved. It’s mostly…meandering. You stop to point at a car. You wave to a stranger in the nail salon. You—oh, look! A stick!/buffalo-s-first-puccia-bread-powers-five-points-sandwiches.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/buffalo-s-first-puccia-bread-powers-five-points-sandwiches.htmlDuring decades in the restaurant business, including cooking at Oliver’s and rolling sushi at SeaBar, Jeffrey Dalfonso had a lot of time to think about the sort of place he wanted for himself. The result is Dalfonso’s Italian Imports. Last month, the sandwich and premium Italian ingredient shop joined a neighborhood growing into a destination for the hungry and thirsty of Buffalo, to Five Points Bakery, Butter Block, Remedy House, Paradise Wines, and Extra Extra Pizza./cms-plans-for-new-south-charlotte-middle-school-revealed.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cms-plans-for-new-south-charlotte-middle-school-revealed.htmlA version of this article was published in The Charlotte Ledger e-newsletter on February 1, 2023. Find out more and sign up for free here. Developer Childress Klein and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools disclosed plans Tuesday for 917 homes and a new middle school in the Rea Farms area of south Charlotte — one of a flurry of significant rezoning applications filed in the last few days ahead of a key deadline.by Cristina Bolling and Tony Mecia/drive-shack-s-downward-slide-by-jared-doerfler.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/drive-shack-s-downward-slide-by-jared-doerfler.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./fat-bubble-sister-mary-patrick.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fat-bubble-sister-mary-patrick.htmlThis week, I’ve been feeling reflective. Perhaps it’s because, as an elder millennial, I’ve finally joined Tiktok haha! And so now I’m being introduced to a whole new raft of fat joyful folks and content creators, which of course is wonderful. But it got me thinking of what my first fat influences were, and my first memories of fat people in culture. And it got me thinking of one character in particular./fifth-frame-brewing-proposes-irondequoit-taproom-and-restaurant.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fifth-frame-brewing-proposes-irondequoit-taproom-and-restaurant.htmlRochester’s Fifth Frame Brewing Co. wants to open a taproom and restaurant in Irondequoit’s Summerville neighborhood, according to a pending application before the Irondequoit Town Board. The new spot would be located at 5370 St. Paul Blvd., home of the former Summerville Grill restaurant and bar. The Town Board will meet on Thursday, Feb. 22, to consider a resolution to schedule a hearing. If approved, the Town Board would host a public hearing on Tuesday, March 19./forgotten-auteurs-alan-rudolph-ty-burr-s-watch-list.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/forgotten-auteurs-alan-rudolph-ty-burr-s-watch-list.htmlMaybe it’s a hazard of the trade or maybe it’s just impossible to stay on top of 120 years of film history without dropping a stitch, but I realized the other day I’d forgotten all about Alan Rudolph. Granted, the man has made only one film in the last two decades, but he was a fixture and a fixation of my moviegoing life in the mid-to-late 1980s, and he remains a welcome Hollywood fluke – a director who learned serendipity at the knee of his mentor, Robert Altman, and ran with it in his own distinct direction./i-feel-the-earth-move-under-my-feet.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-feel-the-earth-move-under-my-feet.htmlMaybe I'm just not in the loop, but I feel like no one has been talking about Shogun, and the show is just phenomenal. The politics and games within games to go along with the stunning set pieces and cinematography/production are all great. One thing though, and maybe I misread it; but based on Toronaga speaking to the spy Samurai and then the planting of evidence on the gardener's house to set him up as the spy after his death, weren't we suppose to infer that it wasn't actually Blackthorne's fault that the gardener killed himself./kali-uchis-in-full-bloom-by-josh-hurst.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kali-uchis-in-full-bloom-by-josh-hurst.htmlThere exists a false dichotomy between artists who push the envelope and artists who are torchbearers for tradition. On a crazy good new album called Orquídeas, Kali Uchis reminds us that the two things needn’t be mutually exclusive. She demonstrates casual mastery of contemporary trends in Latin music— the sonic, rhythmic, and attitudinal stances that have made stars like Bad Bunny some of the top draws of the streaming era— while also gesturing toward the kinds of folk idioms she might have inherited from her grandparents’ record collection./king-george-vi-s-last-day.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/king-george-vi-s-last-day.htmlFor the seventy years of her extraordinary reign, the late Queen Elizabeth II lovingly marked February 6th, the day her father, King George VI, died in his sleep at age fifty-six and she acceded to the throne at age twenty-five. She observed the historic transition quietly each year at Sandringham House, her estate in Norfolk where he passed away. Now King Charles III commemorates his own Accession Day on September 8th at Balmoral, the royal estate in the Scottish Highlands where his mother died in 2022./lana-del-rey-got-fat-my-life-got-better.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lana-del-rey-got-fat-my-life-got-better.htmlFor reasons unbeknownst to me, the world was taken aback when one of its most beautiful women, 10 years into her mind blowingly illustrious career, put on a couple old fashioned LBs. Hot off the trail of releasing TWO of the year’s best albums, she was ridiculed by a swarm of her gay fans after being photographed walking out of a building. (I’m sure the straights had comments too- but I thought I’d just get at the majority of her audience./latinos-have-different-skin-tones-privilege-included.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/latinos-have-different-skin-tones-privilege-included.htmlShare “But you don’t look Puerto Rican…” should be the title of my memoir - if I ever get there - as it is a common opening line to most of my conversations with people who are looking to break down my cultural roots and ancestral timeline because the ambiguity is too much for them to leave it alone. You see, to be Puerto Rican from the island, you must be light-skinned with long straight hair, holding a pot of arroz con habichueles and singing “que bonita bandera,” as your long traditional dress flows in the wind OR to be a Puerto Rican from New York means you must be dark skinned with curly hair, hoop earrings, with the signature flag displayed on your car while waving a tattoo of the coqui on your wrist as you speak./les-parisiens-by-meg-zimbeck.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/les-parisiens-by-meg-zimbeck.htmlLes Parisiens is a hotel restaurant, and I rarely like hotel restaurants. I do, however, tend to like what chef Thibault Sombardier does (Mensae, Sellae). Because of that, and because some other top lists have praised Les Parisiens, I decided to give it a try. I should have trusted my gut and skipped it. Not because the food was bad - at times it was qu… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oo56rXaWus7XSopynqw%3D%3D/luton-town-vs-chelsea-tactical-analysis.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/luton-town-vs-chelsea-tactical-analysis.htmlChelsea were looking for back-to-back wins for only the 2nd time in the league this season to try to build momentum finally. It was on a tough away day against Luton Town where every team finds it hard to get points from. Let’s see how that unfolded… Chelsea lined up with their usual 4231 with Broja, Jackson on the left, Palmer as the 10, and Noni given a chance from the start./michael-nugent-was-arrested-for-being-unhoused-today-the-official-charge-was-trespassing.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michael-nugent-was-arrested-for-being-unhoused-today-the-official-charge-was-trespassing.htmlToday at 1:12 pm Michael Nugent was arrested by Providence Police Officers for the crime of being poor and unhoused. The official charge was trespassing. Michael expected the arrest. 50 hours earlier police officers delivered an eviction notice, authorized by Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and Police Chief Oscar Perez, to Michael at his tent encampment at the Orms Street Route 95 overpass. As police approached him, Michael stood in the rain and held his arms out for the handcuffs./monday-12-4-23-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/monday-12-4-23-jeopardy-fashion-recap.htmlThis is Day 4 of 14 for the Hearts group! This group will run through December 18th. Find the full schedule on the Jeopardy site. Subscribe to receive the daily fashion recaps via email. I love Julia! Now you guys know I’m not a fan of quarter/half zip sweaters and I’ve been on the fence a while about quarter/half zip shirts like this. But between Julia’s cool green top tonight and the Fifteenth Doctor’s Signature Look, I’m really coming around to loving this style!/musakhan-palestinian-sumac-onion-flatbread-with-chicken.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/musakhan-palestinian-sumac-onion-flatbread-with-chicken.htmlDear reader, The weekly In the kitchen despatch with new recipes is usually reserved for paying subscribers, but I wanted to share this edition with all of you. I was going to send it out over the weekend, but life got in the way, so here it is now. While this edition has been planned since the summer, it’s impossible to pass on the recipe for what many consider the Palestinian national dish without acknowledging the current situation./my-bdsm-test-results-misseducated-by-tash-doherty.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-bdsm-test-results-misseducated-by-tash-doherty.htmlI’m a sucker for online quizzes, and the BDSM test is no exception. I learned about it from my friend Rico a couple of years ago. Rico is the kind of guy who works a safe European postal job by day and goes to sex dungeons and kink parties by night. When he first told me stories about dominatrixes and tying people up and leather-clad twinks, I felt like I was standing on the edge of a new world./my-yearly-tarot-card-pull-ritual.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-yearly-tarot-card-pull-ritual.htmlPulling tarot cards and writing notes is one part of my New Year’s ritual. I shared this video on The Handwriting Club Instagram and was asked to share a bit about my process so HERE WE ARE! I use the Wild Unknown tarot deck as well as the animal spirit decks. I use a template I made (you can download it from my Etsy shop here!) and fill it in with one of my favorite pens./review-for-all-mankind-crossing-the-line.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-for-all-mankind-crossing-the-line.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./singapore-grand-prix-cooking-hainanese-chicken-rice.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/singapore-grand-prix-cooking-hainanese-chicken-rice.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./sneak-preview-of-gpt-5-by-gary-marcus.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sneak-preview-of-gpt-5-by-gary-marcus.htmlHoly shit! OpenAI just gave me sneak preview early access to GPT-5 (to do some red-teaming) — and it’s incredible! What really makes me is happy is that they let me look at the training data, too, so I could do proper tests of its generalization. This thing is LIT! And wow, there is now an option to run purely on licensed data, so artists and writers are fairly compensated. And I haven’t spotted a single hallucination or boneheaded error, yet./spiced-tea-scones-by-benjamina-ebuehi.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/spiced-tea-scones-by-benjamina-ebuehi.htmlHello friends, As a freelance creative, I wear many hats. I always chuckle quietly to myself when someone asks the dreaded ‘so what do you actually do?’ Mainly because my efforts to give a short, clean answer usually fails and I end up waffling, trying to succinctly explain why although I am a baker, no you cannot place an order with me for your birthday or wedding cake. Some weeks, I’m knee deep in recipe development, where I’ll be working to a brief for a magazine or brand, coming up with new ideas and testing them until they’re right./stay-f-homekins-with-janie-haddad-tompkins-paul-f-tompkins.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stay-f-homekins-with-janie-haddad-tompkins-paul-f-tompkins.html“If you love our sensibility towards media and life here at sketchXsketkh, then you'll get a double that over with Janine Hadid-Tompkins and her hub Paul F Tompkins. Follow them and demand they do their show weekly again like the old God's foretold you to do! ” ncG1vNJzZmivlZq4prrDsJitnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue8%2Bom5yZo6k%3D/the-41-bottle-bar-by-peter-suderman.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-41-bottle-bar-by-peter-suderman.htmlNext week, this newsletter will be two years old. So for this week’s not-quite-anniversary edition, I want to try something a little bit different — and perhaps a little bit more ambitious — than usual. I want to try to answer the question: How many bottles should be in a home bar, and what should those bottles be?  I am certainly not the first person to try to answer this question./the-be-brave-documentary-finally-sees-the-light-of-day.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-be-brave-documentary-finally-sees-the-light-of-day.htmlYear’s ago I worked on a film project that affected me deeply. It was the incredible story of Daniel Northcott, a young man who grew up in the same suburbs near Vancouver that I did, who loved travel and documenting his experiences. He spent years making a film that aimed to capture the essence of his perspective on life, an attempt that all artists have a yearning to achieve. The major “twist” in Daniel’s story is that he never got to finish his film./the-donald-trump-body-odor-meme.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-donald-trump-body-odor-meme.htmlIf readers enter the world of Twitter-now-X, YouTube shorts, TikTok, or Lincoln Project advertising, they will encounter it. Google "Donald Trump stinks." Former Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger put it into the media ether. He says, with a straight face and no indication of trolling, that Trump has unpleasant body odor. Question:  The odor, the stench, the stink. How bad is it? Kinzinger: It's not good. The best way to describe it./the-real-thai-cave-rescue-pt-1-elon-musk-s-submarine.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-real-thai-cave-rescue-pt-1-elon-musk-s-submarine.htmlThis story is about a submarine. But to tell that story well, we need to zoom out a bit to understand the rescue and its personalities from a wider view. The good news is that what you’ll find here weaves together a vast mix of sources into a unified whole that’s never been available in one place before. The bad news is that it’s also almost 10,000 words, with 60+ footnotes./the-snail-trail-austin-kleon.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-snail-trail-austin-kleon.html“How ingenious an animal is a snail… When it encounters a bad neighbor it takes up its house and moves away.” —Philemon (c. 300 B.C.) Hey y’all, A few weeks ago my friend Clive Thompson linked to a funny little piece about how many medieval manuscripts feature illustrations of knights fighting snails. I’d never really thought much about snails, but I loved these images. Something in them spoke to me./these-nba-playoff-races-are-rather-high-stakes.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/these-nba-playoff-races-are-rather-high-stakes.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. The Merry Jesters; Henri Rousseau; 1906 NBA teams have about a dozen games remaining in the regular season. Let’s look at the most important races remaining. The Celtics are the guaranteed No. 1 seed. It’ll be interesting to see how the team plays out the string while riding a 9-game win streak. The Bucks are pretty comfortable in No. 2 with a 3-game lead on the Cavaliers right now./this-city-was-a-european-capital-but-is-nowhere-near-europe.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/this-city-was-a-european-capital-but-is-nowhere-near-europe.htmlYears ago there was a Final Jeopardy clue that caused such a wrinkle in my brain that I still can’t forget it. The category was World Cities and the clue was “Though not located in Europe, this city served as the capital of a European country in the early 1800s.” The question stumped me at first. I knew it had to be in a colonial outpost of a big empire, and the 19th Century clued me in that it had to be either during the Napoleonic Wars or the 1848 revolutions./tone-glow-101-a-r-kane.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tone-glow-101-a-r-kane.htmlA.R. Kane was a British band formed by childhood friends Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala. Growing up in the East End of London, the two spent their childhood devouring music—jazz and disco, soul and funk, dub reggae and ska—through family members, local parties, and imported records. The two would form A.R. Kane and release their first 12-inch, When You’re Sad, on One Little Indian in 1986. Soon, they would make their way to 4AD where they collaborated with Colourbox on the 1987 chart-topping single “Pump Up the Volume./visualizing-statcast-pitching-data-part-i.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/visualizing-statcast-pitching-data-part-i.htmlIt’s free Thursday here at Down on the Farm. Our work is 100% supported by our readers, so if you’re enjoying the newsletter please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Thanks for reading everyone! Share Down on the Farm Through the fantastic work of the folks of MLB Advanced Media & Baseball Savant, a massive amount of tracking data is available for analysis to baseball fans,… ncG1vNJzZmicn6y7sLrToZyfmaKie7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq%2Bho6qurbXZoqWgZaOprrWvwKyrZqiZqbCptc2gZJ2ZpJY%3D/what-makes-a-dress-pant-combo-work.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-makes-a-dress-pant-combo-work.htmlIt’s the right time of year to wear a dress over pants and I’ll tell you exactly why — it’s neither too hot to consider how superfluous and/or oppressive it seems to put pants on under your dress, nor too cold to have to cover up the sum of your parts in various layers of incomprehensible knits. The air is dry enough that you can wear a leather jacket without sweating straight into it, but warm enough too that if you’d rather not wear a jacket at all, that is a reasonable preference./when-is-chocolate-not-actually-chocolate.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-is-chocolate-not-actually-chocolate.htmlThis week, something landed on my doorstep that I had been looking forward to for a long time, something that intrigued me and something that seemed impossible; Chocolate made without cocoa. How is it even possible to make chocolate without cocoa? Would it taste the same, would it have the same texture, why was it being made? I had a lot of questions. Before we get to the product, let’s remind ourselves what chocolate actually is./why-i-can-t-look-away-from-sufjan-stevens-john-wayne-gacy-jr.htmlTue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-i-can-t-look-away-from-sufjan-stevens-john-wayne-gacy-jr.htmlThis had not happened for any of the first 60 episodes that I recorded for You, Me and An Album, but for Episode 61, I felt the need to put a warning in the podcast about the sensitive nature of the content. The impetus for that warning was the discussion that Sean Inderbitzen and I had about the track, “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.,” from Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois album. Sean recited the song’s chilling second verse, and given that it made both us of extremely uncomfortable, I thought that listeners unfamiliar with the album should be alerted before going forward with the episode./velvet-goldmine-shudder-to-think-turns-25.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/velvet-goldmine-shudder-to-think-turns-25.htmlIn October of 1998 — 25 years ago this week — director Todd Haynes released Velvet Goldmine, his elaborate and clearly very personal homage to the glam rock era. It featured a narrative structure borrowed from Citizen Kane, and rock stars very clearly inspired by David Bowie and Iggy Pop (with a touch of Lou Reed too) who have a chaotic affair with one another.  The film followed a trajectory familiar from that particular decade- it flopped upon release but has since been rediscovered by audiences./11-you-were-cool-by-geoff-sanborn.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/11-you-were-cool-by-geoff-sanborn.htmlThis is the kind of thing that you’ll find if you browse the YouTube comments sections under videos of “You Were Cool,” the Mountain Goats’ most famous unreleased song: One of my friends was trans and committed suicide back in 9th grade. I had met them online in 6th grade and we clicked instantly. I always thought she was the coolest most understanding person. They came out to me just a few months before they took their life./are-we-the-baddies-by-daniel-walters.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/are-we-the-baddies-by-daniel-walters.htmlThere’s a classic sketch from ‘That Mitchell & Webb Look’ Are we the baddies? The sketch features two German soldiers discussing the possibility that they may indeed be the baddies. One of them worries they may not have the moral high ground citing as evidence their Totenkopf, the skull and crossbones insignia, a common feature for German Military 19th and 20th century. I've always found this sketch hilarious but recently it took on a new relevance./are-you-a-banger-or-a-dinker.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/are-you-a-banger-or-a-dinker.htmlThanks for subscribing. As usual on Wednesdays, first it's a short essay designed to make you think about a particular topic in a new way. Today's piece begins with a bizarre trip to watch some old people play pickle ball, and a truth I never expected to learn there. Then, I've compiled the five best "things" -- articles, podcasts, videos etc. -- I found this week, which I think you'll enjoy checking out./barbecue-bets-and-beats-05-06.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/barbecue-bets-and-beats-05-06.htmlGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD DAY AND WELCOME! To another edition of Barbecue, Bets, and Beats - as far as I know, still the only Friday newsletter to talk about Texas barbecue, sports betting, and music all in one neat little package. As always, I am happy you have elected to devote a small sliver of your time to my musings here. This week’s edition of the Triple… ncG1vNJzZmiika6us7rOpZtnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrsCrmZ6bpZp6o7HTrGSappRir6at06xkaW1gaw%3D%3D/barbie-not-only-broke-box-office-records-she-destroyed-the-gop-s-barbie-boycott.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/barbie-not-only-broke-box-office-records-she-destroyed-the-gop-s-barbie-boycott.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./citric-acid-by-sophie-bamford.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/citric-acid-by-sophie-bamford.htmlLet me start by saying, I am a huge fan of citric acid. I’m a sour sweets girl through and through, so it’s only natural that something so eye-wateringly sour would appeal to me. But it’s not just the fact that it reminds me of a bag of Tangfastics that makes me a fan, it’s the versatility, the convenience and, let’s be honest, the price. Who can afford to be buying endless lemons in this economy?/comments-anchorage-movie-theatre-memories.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-anchorage-movie-theatre-memories.htmlI was in the 4th Avenue Theater with a friend in the early 70's, he was an intelligent quirky guy and he said look up, that's what the Big Dipper looks like from the exact opposite side of the Universe. And he was right, the Big Dipper is reversed on the ceiling. The handle in reality goes to the left, Ol' Cap Lathrop got it going to the right. here's a link to a photo./did-a-ghostwriter-fail-kristi-noem.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/did-a-ghostwriter-fail-kristi-noem.htmlForgive two Substacks in the same day. Several years ago, I posted a snippet of memoir on Medium.  Within five minutes, I got a text from a friend I trust. “You take that down right now. NOW.” I did as I was instructed. I sent a Word copy of the proposed post to several friends, to see if there was any possible way to rewrite this all-too-true account in a way that would make it more palatable./dutch-soccer-weirdos-wesley-sneijder.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dutch-soccer-weirdos-wesley-sneijder.htmlThis is the second in a series of Dutch Soccer Weirdos, on weirdos who are Dutch and also people in soccer. The first weirdo addressed was Louis van Gaal. Dutch Soccer Weirdos: Louis van Gaal I’m trying something new over here at Soccer Stories. It’s an intermittent series called Dutch Soccer Weirdos. One of my first stories in this newsletter was about Johan Cruyff, the arch-Dutch Soccer Weirdo. The other day, it dawned on me that the Netherlands, my birth country for whose national team I still root, has given the sport two things./from-the-archives-ocean-vuong-part-1.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/from-the-archives-ocean-vuong-part-1.htmlIt’s a rainy New York Tuesday and I’m writing to you with a snack for your afternoon: a special transcript from our archive. Every once in a while, we receive requests from listeners to release our interviews in written form— a fantastic idea, but something we don’t have time to do for every episode. But now that we have this letter (newsletter? zine? I keep calling it the “digital publication arm” of Thresholds, which is true but sounds weird and corporate) as a container, we’re excited to begin releasing readable versions of our best-loved conversations./hearty-cabbage-roll-soup-by-carolina-gelen.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hearty-cabbage-roll-soup-by-carolina-gelen.htmlToday I’m sharing with you a hearty, comforting stuffed cabbage roll soup: it contains all the elements found in a stuffed cabbage roll, but doesn’t come with the lengthy prep and cook time. You throw a bunch of things in a pot and hope for the best, which, sounds like the ideal weeknight dinner meal to me. To give you some context on how I came up with this recipe, I’ve been recently invited on a podcast to speak about the cuisine I grew up with./hiking-rose-lake-cliffs-via-caribou-rock-trail.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hiking-rose-lake-cliffs-via-caribou-rock-trail.htmlDon’t bother Googleing it. I’ve tried. There’s almost nothing. Maps are my favorite hobby. I love topographical maps, with their beautiful lines and curves and what they tell you. I love nautical charts, dark blue soundings, marks for shoals and what they whisper about the waves and water. This route is from McKenzie Map No. 2, E. Bearskin Lake. Unlike most of the hiking routes along the North Shore, this isn’t a popular route./home-by-india-knight-substack.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/home-by-india-knight-substack.htmlThere should really be a section called Home & Lifestyle. But hello! This is a newsletter about books, interiors, gardens, cooking, being at home, being outside, places to stay, shopping, dogs, hens, LIFE, plus enthusiasms, recommendations & observations. Over 22,000 subscribers No thank you“I can't get by without my weekly dose of 'HOME'. India's writing is so warm and engaging that it feels like you're amongst a group of friends”/i-went-to-see-the-time-pyramid-it-won-t-be-finished-until-3183ad.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-went-to-see-the-time-pyramid-it-won-t-be-finished-until-3183ad.htmlYou’re reading The Long View: A Field Guide, a newsletter about long-term thinking. This edition features the very slow construction of the Time Pyramid in Germany, more places to access deep time, and an important fact-check of Busted’s ‘Year 3000’… - Hello there, I recently travelled to the town of Wemding in southern Germany to report on a rare ceremony for the New York Times. It only happens once every 10 years./j-zone-talks-drums-life-after-rap-and-the-pitfalls-of-trying-to-do-everything.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/j-zone-talks-drums-life-after-rap-and-the-pitfalls-of-trying-to-do-everything.htmlJay Mumford, better known by his moniker, J-Zone, is a work in progress. He’s worn many hats throughout his career—from rapper, to producer and beat-maker, to DJ, to drummer—and each role, despite the occasional setback, has been creative and fruitful. But his biggest shift came in 2011, when he left rap, wrote his hip hop memoir, Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullshit and a Celebration of Failure, and started over on drums./james-whitner-has-a-day-by-lois-sakany.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/james-whitner-has-a-day-by-lois-sakany.htmlThe sneaker world was rocked today by news that 44-year-old CEO James Whitner of The Whitaker Group, an umbrella company that houses A Ma Maniére, Social Status, APB, and Prosper, was named in a multi-million-dollar money laundering complaint. Whitner has not been charged and within 24 hours of the news breaking, he issued a statement declaring his innocence. The news was first reported by Charlotte, North Carolina-based WOSC TV by reporter Jason Stoogenke./jimmy-dore-by-mary-poindexter-mclaughlin.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jimmy-dore-by-mary-poindexter-mclaughlin.htmlComedians have historically been the truth-tellers. That’s why Shakespeare employed them liberally throughout his plays: to tell the truth to the audience and often to other characters. The Fool in King Lear doesn’t pull any punches. He fearlessly speaks his truth, insulting Lear and ridiculing his actions, yet the King spares his life over and over, treating him less like a servant and more like a friend. It makes sense. King Lear would have summarily executed any sane person exhibiting the same insubordination./killers-of-the-flower-moon-review-vince-mancini.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/killers-of-the-flower-moon-review-vince-mancini.htmlAs promised, here’s my review of Killers Of The Flower Moon. It’s a little easier to be comprehensive without trying to hit the day-of-release deadline. I don’t consider it spoilery, but it’s informed by the idea that a lot of my readers like to see the movie and then read the review. I don’t think that’s required, but I understand the impulse. This one is free again, but as ever, if you like it, please consider a paid subscription./lessons-from-the-thioklol-woodbine-disaster.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lessons-from-the-thioklol-woodbine-disaster.htmlThis February 3rd marks the 53nd anniversary (1971) of the Thiokol Chemical Plant explosion, a disaster that took the lives of 29 people, shattered a community, and led to a frightening Department of Defense discovery. Founded in 1963, the Woodbine-Thiokol Chemical Plant produced and tested rocket engines for Cape Canaveral on their 7,400-acre property near Woodbine, Georgia. As the US space program began curbing its solid-fuel propellant budget in 1965, the plant was forced to explore other avenues in order to make ends meet./magma-by-meg-zimbeck.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/magma-by-meg-zimbeck.htmlIf you hadn’t already noticed, many of the most interesting kitchens in Paris are led by Japanese chefs, like Masahiro Kawai at Chez Michel and Toshitaka Omiya at Alliance - both included in our selection of 50 Restaurants for the Fall. We can add chef Ryuya Ono to that list, thanks to his exciting new (red hot?) restaurant Magma. It’s a seemingly modest… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqfnZY%3D/make-art-and-moyni-memes-not-censorship.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/make-art-and-moyni-memes-not-censorship.htmlWell sure, that’s a meme-able image, why pretend it’s not? One of the magical byproducts of creating a new and least somewhat funnish thing fortunate enough to find an audience, is that the resulting community of heretofore strangers will generate their own separate-if-related art, hijinx, and inscrutable rituals. The world before The Fifth Column did not know it needed Moynihan Reaction Face (MRF); the world now stands corrected. * The aforementioned MRF derived from a Moynihan-moderated Free Press debate this week between Walter Kirn and Geoffrey Cain about banning TikTok, a subject we discussed (not to universal listener acclaim!/make-believe-mailer-65-suki-suki-dai-skiski.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/make-believe-mailer-65-suki-suki-dai-skiski.htmlThe end of winter nears when the cherry blossom forecasts arrive. While it’s still technically that season, the end is getting closer, and spring excitement is starting to build (or at least the beer aisle at local supermarkets is taking on a pink hue). As I’m wrapping this up, it’s 22 degrees Celsius outside…the chilly days are vanishing That means a lot of common winter sights are about to vanish from everyday life in Japan — including the posters and ad boards found inside train stations across the country promoting Japan Rail’s SKISKI campaign./miranda-s-last-gift-the-article-book-club.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/miranda-s-last-gift-the-article-book-club.htmlPerhaps my greatest moral failing is that I don’t like animals. Dogs, cats, the cutest panda you ever did see—meh, I’ll stick with the anthropocene. But I do at times envy the deep bond pet owners have with their furry friends. My former colleague Leah once wrote an article in which she got life advice from 50 of the world's most successful women. The most common piece of advice? Get a dog./more-from-my-oregon-sojourn-dusky-goose.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/more-from-my-oregon-sojourn-dusky-goose.htmlI’ve posted periodically about my visit to the Willamette Valley last month. My purpose in putting the trip together was principally to spend time with winemakers, see family-owned boutiques first hand, and fulfill covid-delayed visits to old vine vineyards. At the end of the last day, and at the last minute, I squeezed in a stop at Dusky Goose. I have tasted and reviews their wines for a number of vintages, and was impressed with the quality./one-u2-cover-by-jeff-tweedy.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/one-u2-cover-by-jeff-tweedy.htmlI was talking with a friend the other day about how beautiful this song is and thought I’d give it a shot. I put it in a quiet singing key to keep it from going in any of our neighbors’ ear holes. This continues a bout of U2 re-reckoning for me. There was a period where U2 (and Bono in particular) got to be a pretty convenient and irresistible punching bag for a lot of snobs like myself./one-ranger-by-alec-toombs.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/one-ranger-by-alec-toombs.htmlFilm Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If you like me are a purveyor of direct-to-video action movies then you should have some familiarity with the works of stuntman-turned-director Jesse V. Johnson. The dude’s directed a good deal of my guy Scott Adkins’ filmography (“Savage Dog,” “Accident Man,” “The Debt Collector” pictures, “Triple Threat” and “Avengement” among them)./paul-butterfield-by-tyler-king.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/paul-butterfield-by-tyler-king.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./poems-about-september-by-maya-c-popa.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/poems-about-september-by-maya-c-popa.htmlDear Friends, The months inspire their own sort of synesthesia, don’t they? I can feel, taste, see, in flashes of associations, each one, its distinctive personality, color, shape. Still, September carries a particular presence. Wallace Stegner spoke of that “old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obli… ncG1vNJzZmilka6upLzOqZhnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wvM6epKxlkZe8tsCMrJyprJWir6a%2B/rayne-fisher-quann-on-substack.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rayne-fisher-quann-on-substack.html“I think the excitement I felt in that church this past Thursday was a kind of communal release. A catharsis for the weird writer girls of the world. There is maybe something still a little radical about sharing some intense and silly info on yourself and then inviting everyone to a pizza party. There is something radical in loving someone anyway. And maybe there is something radical in not knowing who that person you are loving anyway is./renewed-access-and-relevance-in-strange-days-1995-a-film-that-predicted-too-much-of-the-future.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/renewed-access-and-relevance-in-strange-days-1995-a-film-that-predicted-too-much-of-the-future.htmlHello, reader. Jeremy here. And wouldn’t you know it, today’s newsletter is from a new guest writer! My good friend Anton is a man of many talents—writing, photography, graphic design, DJing, and the “waved” creations he chops up as part of the Dream Video Division (keep reading for a sample!), just to name a few.* But if you’re part of the Alabama film scene, you probably know him as the director of the Montgomery Film Festival, which I happily attend every year that I get the chance, and/or the president of the Capri Theatre’s Board of Directors./robert-christgau-on-huey-piano-smith-s-life-and-music.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/robert-christgau-on-huey-piano-smith-s-life-and-music.htmlShare New York Times please note that it’s less of a surprise than it should be that the peaceful February 13 death of 89-year-old New Orleans piano master Huey Smith has inspired so little notice. No doubt other appreciations will eventually be added to Daniel Kreps’s timely Rolling Stone job. But there’s also no doubt that none will equal that of John Wirt in New Orleans’s own Advocate, because Wirt’s 2014 Huey “Piano” Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues is and will remain the definitive biography./summer-breeze-by-the-isley-brothers.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/summer-breeze-by-the-isley-brothers.htmlMusical genius is most often represented by those who could hear something previously undiscovered. Take the structure and scale Beethoven brought to composition, or what Charlie Parker did for chord tones, forever influencing jazz improvisation. Now pick any one of your favorites — Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, whoever — and notice how their greatness is mostly celebrated as a break between times before and after. It makes sense – music itself is hard to describe, so we default to its impact on the culture./the-best-version-of-the-devil-went-down-to-georgia.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-best-version-of-the-devil-went-down-to-georgia.htmlCharlie Daniels died yesterday at 83. While his conservative beliefs have come into focus with his death, he is best remembered as the musician behind “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” If you’ve never heard it for some reason, it’s worth giving a listen as a folk tale and fun song. I’d rather remember Daniels for the music, rather than some of his counter-productive rants on Twitter. (Although, it’s still prevalent enough that it’s worth acknowledging)./the-end-of-the-nib-by-matt-bors.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-end-of-the-nib-by-matt-bors.htmlThis week is the final week of The Nib. After ten years of publication, thousands of comics, and fifteen issues of the magazine, we are shutting down. I am choosing to give it a death with dignity rather than make painful cuts and have it operate as a shadow of itself for a few more years. We have a blowout last day coming this Friday, with about four times as many comics as we usually run./the-fringe-belief-of-cooperative-evolution.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-fringe-belief-of-cooperative-evolution.htmlHi there, and welcome to Engineering Our Social Vehicles— I’m your host, Paul Logan. We’ve got a doozy of a show for you today- it’s Sloppy Sunday. If you’re new around these parts, that means on Sundays we like to get those longer pieces out there, even if it means they are a little rough around the edges. Today, I’m going to be talking about a topic that’s sort of central to EoSV: Symbiogenesis./the-gall-of-nicki-minaj-s-itty-bitty-piggy.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-gall-of-nicki-minaj-s-itty-bitty-piggy.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./to-the-surprise-of-no-one-pizzeria-florian-is-already-excellent-and-worth-a-trip-to-east-aurora.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/to-the-surprise-of-no-one-pizzeria-florian-is-already-excellent-and-worth-a-trip-to-east-aurora.htmlThe first time I met Jay Langfelder and his partner Amanda Jones they were working on their food truck, OG Food Wire in 2015. Leading up to that meeting, I had been emailing back and forth with Jay prior to their public opening and internally had built up an insane amount of hype for how good this pizza was going to be. Not only was Jay telling me all of the things a food obsessive like myself would want to hear about ingredients and technique but he was also incredibly confident that his pizza would beyond anything the area had to offer./waking-up-from-history-music-time-and-place.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/waking-up-from-history-music-time-and-place.htmlIn 1969, in San Francisco, the drummer Mickey Waller came into the Rolling Stone office carrying a copy of the new Rod Stewart album.  It was called The Rod Stewart Album; the cover had black letters on a yellow background. Waller was hoping he could talk someone into reviewing it.  Waller and Stewart were in the Jeff Beck Band together. Beck was the star guitar player who had left the Yardbirds to go solo./what-i-mean-when-i-say-palm-trees-are-not-trees.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-i-mean-when-i-say-palm-trees-are-not-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-grok-is-x-ai-s-chatbot-for-twitter-really-better-than-chatgpt.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-grok-is-x-ai-s-chatbot-for-twitter-really-better-than-chatgpt.htmlGrok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor! A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform./what-is-left-what-is-right.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-left-what-is-right.htmlHousekeeping: For Moment of Zen, we spoke to Marc Andreessen about AI, Religion, Longevity, The NPC meme, and more. For In the Arena, we spoke to Martin Shkreli about his rise and fall and his comeback arc. For Media Empires, we spoke to Steph Smith about the creator economy. For Econ 102, Noah Smith outlined libertarianism’s rise and fall and the need for it to rise again. In our post on political realignments, we talked about flippening between the democrats and the republicans./why-are-korean-celebs-still-apologizing.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-are-korean-celebs-still-apologizing.htmlThank you for writing about this! I feel so strongly about it because, as a K-Pop and K-Drama fan, I support the actors/actresses and artists, but I feel so bad when they get into dating "scandals" (why is having a relationship a scandal in the first place?). And then people start throwing them under the bus, getting mad at them, calling them traitors for dating. For example, Chen from EXO. I know even now, fans are still demanding that he leave the group, stating that his role as a husband and father may be getting in the way of his duties as a K-Pop idol, and I'm like./yesterday-on-power-rangers-i-eye-guy.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/yesterday-on-power-rangers-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./creed-iii-review-boxing-turns-anime.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/creed-iii-review-boxing-turns-anime.htmlCreed III is notably the first entry in the nine-movie franchise not to include Sylvester Stallone’s, Rocky Balboa. Stallone obviously couldn’t get in the ring forever (though 2006’s Rocky Balboa featured Stallone in the ring, the last time Stallone was believable as a boxer is 1985’s Rocky IV). The time is now for director and star Michae… ncG1vNJzZmihpKjBqbHPopqtraKawG%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ibopqypXnIoqBmqpWrtqbDjJumsaGenHq1wdGnqmaZnp66pg%3D%3D/how-can-we-read-strategies-for-raising-readers.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-can-we-read-strategies-for-raising-readers.htmlIn her super useful but also a little bit wackadoo book, How to Get Your Child to Love Reading (which I reviewed in issue No. 21), Esmé Raji Codell writes this about building community around the power of literacy and what a gift this service is to children: “If children’s literature is the potato, the thing that nourishes, then we are the plowshares that ready the land for planting.” I love this image — being a plowshare readying the reading land for my children./don-t-move-here-unless-you-re-ian-mclagan.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/don-t-move-here-unless-you-re-ian-mclagan.htmlWhen Kim McLagan died in a car accident in August 2006, it hit especially hard because I knew how devastated her husband Ian McLagan would be. You’ve never seen a veteran couple so in love. Kim was Ian’s angel and they made each other laugh. I was at the Statesman when the stunning news came and I was supposed to write an obit on the 57-year-old former British model, ex-wife of Keith Moon and doe-eyed princess of Swinging London, but I just couldn’t move./show-yourself-is-a-goat-tier-disney-song.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/show-yourself-is-a-goat-tier-disney-song.htmlThe movie theater in my town has two screens, which means the vast majority of movies don’t stay there long as the theater continuously cycles to the latest releases. This also means that if I’m particularly busy for a couple weeks coinciding with a movie’s release, I’m probably not seeing it in a theater. All of this is a roundabout way to explain that I didn’t see Frozen 2 in the theaters when it came out./about-john-rubino-s-substack.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-john-rubino-s-substack.htmlJohn Rubino is a former Wall Street financial analyst and author or co-author of five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops and Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom. He founded the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com in 2004 and sold it in 2022. This newsletter provides actionable advice, based on a couple of premises: The financial world is spinning out of control and will get considerably worse before it gets better./after-the-altar-3-gives-us-one-final-enemy.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/after-the-altar-3-gives-us-one-final-enemy.htmlOur Dallas “Love Is Blind” crew has officially returned to the small screen. And with them they brought some drama, some laughs, some true clubwear-at-brunch *lewks*, and a lingering question: When the hell was this thing filmed? Here are a few things we knew: Bartise said on Instagram that he had filmed three shows — “LIB,” “Perfect Match” and “After The Altar” before any of them aired. They repeatedly reference it being a year since the weddings on “After The Altar,” and we know that filming wrapped on the original show in June 2021./all-the-women-in-my-tennis-life.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/all-the-women-in-my-tennis-life.htmlThere are people out there who live in your head, nestle there like birds about to lay eggs, that don’t even know you exist. And yet, your entire world revolves around them. It may be a crush from fifth grade who’s classroom is across the hallway, hair disheveled, that one shy character from your favourite TV series or maybe even a teacher. For me it was Serena Williams. The first time I saw Serena was in 1999./baseball-s-most-handsome-managers.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/baseball-s-most-handsome-managers.htmlGood morning one and all, and welcome to the annual Baseball’s Most Handsome Managers ranking. Yes, the feature that started as filler on a slow news day when I was super hungover eight years ago and which has since morphed into first-paragraph-of-my-obituary stuff and which I bring to the masses on this final Free Thursday of the year. And, whether you choose to subscribe or not, by all means, if you could share this post, it’d be much appreciated:/best-100-albums-of-2023-50-1.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/best-100-albums-of-2023-50-1.htmlThe last Substack post of the year is dedicated to the best albums of the year. This is my selection of the 50 best releases of 2023, and in the first part you can read about the albums that placed between number 51 and 100. It has been another rich musical year, and at the top of the list is the album I listened and enjoyed the most. Recommend Izvorišta to your friends who might find it interesting./billy-club-worker-gets-sweat-equity-partnership-as-buffalo-spots-invest-in-people.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/billy-club-worker-gets-sweat-equity-partnership-as-buffalo-spots-invest-in-people.htmlIn 2016, Eric Pitman helped Dan Hagen and Jake Strawser open Billy Club at 228 Allen St., following Hagen from Toutant. Two years ago, Pitman was promoted from server to general manager. Last week, Billy Club announced that Pitman, 31, was made a partner.  No money changed hands. “The attention to detail and care Eric puts into every shift and more importantly every guest interaction already demonstrated his level of ownership, and it was our responsibility to reward that type of behavior or work,” Strawser said./can-i-get-a-good-seattle-bagel-at-old-salt-in-ballard.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/can-i-get-a-good-seattle-bagel-at-old-salt-in-ballard.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./chicken-chasseur-by-jordon-ezra-king.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chicken-chasseur-by-jordon-ezra-king.htmlThere’s no such thing as a wild chicken. I know this because last week I was reading an old Escoffier recipe for ‘poulet chasseur’ (lit. ‘hunter’s chicken’) in Le Guide Culinaire and wanted to know a bit more about these fearsome hunters of old and the chickens they hunted. I imagined brave, bearded men brandishing sharp sticks and rudimentary nets, leaving their homes for days at a time to risk life and limb tracking wild chickens across the pyrenees./colorado-football-s-reality-tv-experiment.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/colorado-football-s-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?/down-to-seeds-and-stems-again-blues.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./episode-xoxo-by-adrian-hon.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/episode-xoxo-by-adrian-hon.htmliOS, Mac, Apple TV Free on Apple Arcade ($6.99/month) Episode XOXO is a lightly interactive story game where you choose how the main character looks, dresses, and behaves. As far as I can tell, all eighteen stories centre on romance, each containing fifteen 5-10 minute episodes, and each following well-worn genre conventions (e.g. you’re actually a princess, friends to lovers, etc.) The game looks like a bright, fun 2D cartoon. While the writing, settings, and even gameplay vary wildly between stories, some things remain the same./fbi-anti-terrorist-raid-targeted-the-teenage-son-of-a-philadelphia-criminal-defense-lawyer.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fbi-anti-terrorist-raid-targeted-the-teenage-son-of-a-philadelphia-criminal-defense-lawyer.htmlOn Friday, an FBI SWAT team, and two armored vehicles conducted an anti-terrorism raid, converging on a house in the 5900 block of Woodbine Avenue. The house was occupied by the family of Qawi Abdul-Rahman, a criminal defense lawyer who ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary in May as a candidate for Common Pleas Court judge. ncG1vNJzZmiqkaG9qa%2FIqamimZ6ke7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZp%2BamWKur8DIZqueqqKkv6q%2F02apmqGUYsGivsaeq56c/flashlight-a-biscuit-no-24.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/flashlight-a-biscuit-no-24.htmlWelcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern 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.  For the SEC season, I’m doing a tale about one of every week’s matchups — and this week has one of the great debates in SEC history — but I know a significant percentage of my readers aren’t much interested in the sporting life./how-to-buy-and-use-msg-and-msg-less-flavor-enhancers.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-buy-and-use-msg-and-msg-less-flavor-enhancers.htmlWelcome to part 2 of our MSG mini series. You’re here because you’re curious about the much maligned but now seemingly benign flavor enhancer. Thanks to folks who added to last week’s MSG basics post via comments, which included Anjali’s story about mistaking MSG for salt in Japan. My dad was on a perpetual low-sodium diet and I’m sure my mom filled in the flavor gaps with MSG. Fathers influence us whether or not they’re still with us./how-to-grow-blueberries-vaccinium-spp.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-grow-blueberries-vaccinium-spp.htmlBlueberries are amazing plants for the home gardener to grow. They are small shrubs growing up to two metres tall and 1.5 metres wide. Deciduous blueberry plants can display stunning autumn foliage, so they are a great addition to ornamental gardens as well as those focussing on edibles. However, the main reason to grow blueberries is for the fruit. Blueberries taste great, are packed full of nutrients and can be frozen for use throughout the year./how-trump-s-usa-bible-sales-pitch-fits-into-the-way-evangelicals-think-about-america.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-trump-s-usa-bible-sales-pitch-fits-into-the-way-evangelicals-think-about-america.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./jakob-s-law-of-the-internet-user-experience.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jakob-s-law-of-the-internet-user-experience.htmlSummary: Users spend most of their time on other websites, so they expect your site to work like all the other sites they already know. When a design deviates from users’ expectations, usability suffers. Don’t be arrogant and assume that your new design idea is so brilliant that it can overrule decades of user habituation. Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience states, “Users spend most of their time on other websites, so they expect your site to work like all the other sites they already know./lorenzo-cain-leans-back-into-retirement.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lorenzo-cain-leans-back-into-retirement.htmlThe Royals threw a party on Saturday night. It was a helluva shindig. Then they played a baseball game. That wasn’t as much fun. Let’s start with the party…Lorenzo Cain means so much to this franchise, and by extension, this city. What’s gratifying is that the love and adoration is mutual. It’s not always that way between a player and a team and a city. The Jerry Seinfeld joke is that when you cheer for a team, you’re rooting for laundry./my-memories-of-chicago-s-standard-club.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-memories-of-chicago-s-standard-club.htmlBy the time I was born, my maternal grandparents were retired.  They turned over their house in Streator, Illinois, and  the clothing store they owned a block away on Main Street to my uncle (one of my mother’s older s brothers). And they made a life of visiting friends and relatives around the country. They visited Chicago a lot to see my parents and me.  (My brother wasn’t born yet.) They had other grandchildren in California, as well as friends and other relatives there, too./new-bouldering-gym-planned-in-asheville.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/new-bouldering-gym-planned-in-asheville.htmlThis newsletter sponsored by Citizens Fuel Co., a family-owned Asheville company. A new rock climbing gym focused on bouldering is planned for a 13,000-square-foot warehouse (formerly RAD Skatepark) at Foundation Asheville, a collection of local shops and restaurants on Lyman Street. Devin deHoll, co-owner/founder of Asheville Adventure Company and co-owner of Cultivate Climbing, a rock climbing gym focused on climbing with ropes, says the bouldering gym fits a straightforward vision - to get more people in Asheville into rock climbing./nike-in-paris-by-ashley-mateo.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nike-in-paris-by-ashley-mateo.htmlIn between DC and Boston, I flew over to Paris for a big Nike blowout celebrating its proprietary Air technology. Nike On Air was held at the Palais Brongniart, the former home of the Paris stock exchange, and included an immersive experience highlighting the past, present, and future of Air.  The headlining event featured 40 elite Nike athletes—including Eliud Kipchoge, Faith Kipyegon, Sha’carrie Richardson, and Serena Williams—who unveiled Olympic team kits and something called A./no-christmas-in-gaza-by-khaled-beydoun.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/no-christmas-in-gaza-by-khaled-beydoun.htmlChristmas will be celebrated by 2.4 billion people, globally, in the coming days. ‘Tis the season when pine trees are adorned with presents and ornaments, while downtown corridors in cities near and wide are illuminated with the lights and sights of Christmas. Everywhere. Except the birthplace of Christianity, in the heart of the Holy Land where the native sites of ethnic cleansing speak volumes about the hypocrisy of western nativity scenes./no-you-don-t-owe-me-a-favor-by-adam-grant.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/no-you-don-t-owe-me-a-favor-by-adam-grant.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./penguins-prospect-mikhail-ilyin-flying-up-the-ranks-with-impressive-khl-season.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/penguins-prospect-mikhail-ilyin-flying-up-the-ranks-with-impressive-khl-season.htmlI’m guessing an overwhelming majority of Penguins fans don’t know who Mikhail Ilyin is. That should change. Ilyin, a 6-foot, 180-pound forward, was selected by the Penguins in the fifth round (pick No. 142) of the 2023 NHL Draft as part of Kyle Dubas’ inaugural draft class. Nick Pryor, the Penguins’ director of amateur scouting, said in June that Dubas told the scouting department to “swing for home runs” at the draft./publishers-weekly-literary-twitter-and-the-problem-with-online-rampartism-unlocked.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/publishers-weekly-literary-twitter-and-the-problem-with-online-rampartism-unlocked.htmlFrom time to time I am going to unlock older posts that were originally just for paying subscribers. When I do, I’ll create a free clone of them with comments disabled, so as to protect the privacy of paying subscribers who commented on the original. This is one such clone — it was created 1/31/2021. If you’re a paying subscriber and want to see or comment on the original, it lives here./regarding-the-uci-ruling-by-austin-killips.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/regarding-the-uci-ruling-by-austin-killips.htmlI've always known that this project would end and have to take on a different shape. Sport at the highest levels is a fleeting pursuit. Some of us choose where that end point is and for others it's imposed by circumstance. It can kill, maim, and ruin you mentally. It has taken friends of mine and the awareness that every race or training day could be my last is something that has shaped my relationship to sport./review-rick-and-morty-rick-a-mort-well-lived.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-rick-and-morty-rick-a-mort-well-lived.htmlIt’s a fool’s game to try and pick out a distinctive creator’s voice in a collaborative work, especially given my relative unfamiliarity with Justin Roiland’s solo writing. But if you put a gun to my head and asked me to give up the codes, I’d have to admit that at least part of “Rick: A Mort Well Lived” (the Die Hard part) is about as Dan Harmon as you can get./ruin-and-recovery-in-the-video-game-industry-is-out-now.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ruin-and-recovery-in-the-video-game-industry-is-out-now.htmlI’ve been waiting to write these words for like two years: Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry is now out in stores. You can get it in physical, digital, and (next week) audiobook form. You can buy it on Amazon, Bookshop, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, or wherever else you like to buy your books. I’m really proud of it and I think you’ll really enjoy it./sherman-murders-50-old-colony-road.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sherman-murders-50-old-colony-road.htmlWe have covered much of the murky ground in the Sherman murder case. The mysterious walking man. The bizarre 911 call and the unexplained person outside the estate on the morning after the murders. The eerie parallels to the Garland case. These weird features of the Sherman probe stand out, of course. But inside this story, there are other oddities and peculiarities. One of these is the physical estate itself - 50 Old Colony Road./skip-scarborough-november-26-1944-july-3-2003-the-world-s-a-masquerade-1973.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/skip-scarborough-november-26-1944-july-3-2003-the-world-s-a-masquerade-1973.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./state-fair-of-texas-let-s-rank-the-foods.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/state-fair-of-texas-let-s-rank-the-foods.htmlWelcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Saturday-morning Southern culture offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. If you’re just arriving for the first time, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Today in issue #68: Delving into State Fair of Texas foods/crimes against nature Passing out in a food coma Grooving to some Dallas soul Let’s get to it … Does Texas count as part of the South? For the purposes of today, I’m saying yes./studio-visit-with-cecil-touchon.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/studio-visit-with-cecil-touchon.htmlMy son Zach and his lovely wife Katia stopped in for visit on their way to Colorado to go camping and we decided to mess around with some promotional video stuff for the Visual Poetry and Color Exhibition coming up at Ferrari Gallery in Dallas July 27, 2024. We just kind of organically ended up doing this studio tour that Zach did a great job on and I thought I would share it with you./the-dolmenwood-rpg-is-essentially-old-school-perfected.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-dolmenwood-rpg-is-essentially-old-school-perfected.htmlHey Gavin, thanks for doing this interview. How would you like to introduce yourself to a fine and discerning RPG-playing audience? Hi Dave, thanks for the invitation. I'm the founder of Necrotic Gnome and creator of Old-School Essentials (OSE) and the upcoming Dolmenwood RPG.  I want to talk about Dolmenwood (here on Kickstarter), which is its own standalone game based on OSE rules, but I want to ask you about OSE first./the-martini-menu-is-back-are-we-happy.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-martini-menu-is-back-are-we-happy.htmlI wasn’t writing about cocktails during the first heyday of the “Martini Menu,” which was roughly from the late 1980s to the early aughts. It was only when doing research into the Bad Ol’ Days of the 1990s for my 2019 book The Martini Cocktail that I spent quality times with the long sheets of “‘tinis” routinely handed out at big-city and small-city bars and restaurants. It was then that I encountered creations with such names as the Raspberry Martini, Lady Godiva Martini (chocolate-flavored) and the Cloud 9 Martini (vodka, amaretto, Kahlúa and Bailey's Irish Cream)./the-new-cult-canon-the-empty-man.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-new-cult-canon-the-empty-man.html“There is no such thing as disunity. There is only the great binding nothingness of things.” — Stephen Root, The Empty Man In Alan J. Pakula’s 1974 political thriller The Parallax View, Warren Beatty stars as Joe Frady, an investigative reporter who pokes into the assassination of a congressional candidate atop Seattle’s Space Needle. His ex-girlfriend, a TV journalist, had witnessed the killing and comes to him in a panic three years later, because six other witnesses have since died under mysterious circumstances./the-scandal-of-mridul-wadhwa-and-his-transmaidens.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-scandal-of-mridul-wadhwa-and-his-transmaidens.htmlImagine being so distraught following a sexual assault that you take the plunge and approach a counsellor that specialises in rape? These women have been a lifeline for victims since feminists like me set them up back in the 1970s. But a recent employment tribunal exposed how transgender activists were ruling the roost across Scotland, and running rape crisis centres, funded by public money, for their own twisted benefit. Distressed rape victims who expected to see female counsellors were told they were bigots and that the service was not for them./the-second-shepherds-play-by-karen-swallow-prior.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-second-shepherds-play-by-karen-swallow-prior.html[“Adoration of the Shepherds” by an unknown artist a part of the Google Art Project. Wikimedia Commons]The Second Shepherds’ Play is a difficult work to read, particularly in its original late Middle English vernacular. But even a modernized version doesn’t alter the fact that it’s an odd little work! Moreover, reading drama entails a different kind of reading approach than is typical for most of us—one more attuned to hearing the language and picturing for oneself what is happening (a tip to keep in mind when we tackle Romeo and Juliet)./the-time-i-watched-a-victoria-s-secret-fashion-show-melt-mark-cuban-s-servers.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-time-i-watched-a-victoria-s-secret-fashion-show-melt-mark-cuban-s-servers.htmlI was just in Dallas, trying to remember other times when I was in Dallas, and then it hit me: I was inside Broadcast.com’s Dallas headquarters on the day in February 1999 when it tried to broadcast the Victoria’s Secret fashion show and melted the internet. If you don’t remember Broadcast.com, that wouldn’t be surprising. But you probably do know of Mark Cuban, the large-personality owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Stars, host of the Shark Tank TV show, and backer of a whole host of fringe tech things like the secretive Dust chat app and Dogecoin cryptocurrency./was-richard-simmons-american-media-s-first-affable-gay-friend.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/was-richard-simmons-american-media-s-first-affable-gay-friend.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./where-does-the-sun-go.htmlSun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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?/maus-should-be-read-by-everyone-including-eighth-graders.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/maus-should-be-read-by-everyone-including-eighth-graders.html(WARNING: This post contains plot spoilers for the three-decade-old book Maus, which if you haven’t read already, you should.) The McMinn County (Tennessee) school board in January voted to remove Maus from its eighth-grade English curriculum. For a seemingly minor change in a small town school system, it caused a bit of a stir.  McMinn is home to about 54,000 people—of whom 75%identify as religious Christians—and went 79%-19% for Trump in the 2020 election./a-breath-of-fresh-air-dusek-s-update.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-breath-of-fresh-air-dusek-s-update.htmlAs most of you remember, earlier this week I broke the news that Ryan Pfeiffer was leaving 16” on Center as culinary director. I also mentioned I’d update you if I got any more info. New info has rolled in. 16” on Center partner Bruce Finkelman followed up and told me “Ryan was with us for almost a year, and I would be happy to work with him again anytime.  He left because he finished the task at hand, and had some stuff going on which I feel is his business to tell, and not mine./a-grecian-urn-cracked-open.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-grecian-urn-cracked-open.html“When old age shall this generation waste,                 Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,          "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all                 Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." (From “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, 1819.) In these dark times, while wondering what to do with myself knowing so many are suffering horrifically, then realising that what I, like everyone else who is lucky enough to be safe, have no choice but to do is my job, the last lines of John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” have strangely started doing an ironic little jig in my head./a-recipe-and-the-backstory.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-recipe-and-the-backstory.htmlHello! Hello! Today is World Peace Day! On any day, if I hear someone say, “World Peace,” my immediate, almost Pavlovian reaction is to say: Cookies! If you know the cookies, then you’ll understand- you might even be another person who jumps up with glee and shouts the same thing. Here, a short history of how it all started. ncG1vNJzZmicn6e2prPRnpynq6CWu2%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ivn6e5pXnPnpicnV2YvLC3yJ6qZpldp7Kktc%2BeZJqmlGJ%2FcnmPcmRraQ%3D%3D/about-fran-s-joy-digest.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-fran-s-joy-digest.htmlFran is a creative director and multimedia organizer living in Brooklyn. After leading editorial strategy for magazines like Out and Hello Mr., and ad agencies like Chandelier Creative. Fran currently provides editorial direction for Gay Times, the oldest running LGBTQ+ publication in Europe and No. 1 publisher of LGBTQ+ content in the world. As an organizer, Fran’s known for her work creating Brooklyn Liberation, the largest trans-centered protest in history, and Doll Invasion, a historic, annual event galvanizing trans people to descend on Fire Island./are-career-300-hitters-a-dying-breed.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./at-the-table-one-america-movement.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/at-the-table-one-america-movement.htmlA gathering place for faith leaders and faith communities to transcend a culture of toxic division and disconnection. A haven from the negativity and destruction of social media and the internet. By One America Movement · Over 3,000 subscribersNot right nowncG1vNJzZminnpqurrHRopqapZ%2Brsq6xza1lrK2SqMGir8pnmqilXw%3D%3D/blackbird-pie-and-other-precious-things-renee-mackey-burson.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/blackbird-pie-and-other-precious-things-renee-mackey-burson.htmlHere you'll find a collection of food related content, updates on our 100 yr old farmhouse reno, thoughts on the year that almost broke me and a good sprinkling of random stuff. There's weekly meal-prep specific recipes for subscribers too! No thanksncG1vNJzZmiqlaOyprnAnKKesZKqv7S7zWeqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZn/comments-safe-horny-sectionalism-archive.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-safe-horny-sectionalism-archive.htmlthis might sound bad, but i like the "goth girl who spit on you". it is not because i would enjoy getting spat on, i would not, so i would SLAP HER! and get ANGRY! force her to apologise, then make her suck my COCK! she would enjoy this of course.. maybe this is because i have always had to bicker with parents; freud continues to pester me it seems.. idk maybe this is self own./comments-pastelon-recipe.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-pastelon-recipe.htmlOK, a few things ... 1. @suzisteffen and suzisteffen at gmail. THOUGH I did just delete IG from my phone because f*ck Z*ck and all of the privacy violations. Sigh. I guess I'll always have Safari or Firefox tho. 2. I'm in Oregon, not the other coast, but would love a live cooking demo in November or December. 3. I don't eat meat, but my partner does, so I could definitely see this recipe happening in our house (MAYBE with one of those fake meats for me - I don't hate them but I don't usually make "/comparing-maxifi-planner-with-new-retirement.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comparing-maxifi-planner-with-new-retirement.htmlThe financial industry seems to produce a shiny new planning tool every few months. New Retirement is one of the latest variants. It differs from other conventional planning tools by doing both conventional and deterministic planning. Conventional planning treats investment returns as random. Deterministic planning treats them as fixed. This article compares New Retirement with MaxiFi Planner, which delivers economics-based financial planning. MaxiFi Planner is my company’s software. Hence, I’m not a disinterested reviewer./compiler-explorer-by-babbage.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/compiler-explorer-by-babbage.htmlThis week’s post is about an amazing tool that is useful for anyone with an interest in compilers or computer architecture. It’s Compiler Explorer, which we’ll abbreviate to CE from now on. CE is an amazing tool. If you’re not familiar with CE, then it’s worth stopping right now and going to the CE website, where you will be presented with a screen that should look something like the one below./did-oppenheimer-really-poison-that-apple.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/did-oppenheimer-really-poison-that-apple.htmlGreg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including “Hiroshima in America,” “Atomic Cover-up,” and the recent award-winning“The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed three documentary films since 2021, including two for PBS (plus award-winning “Atomic Cover-up”). He has written widely about the atomic bomb and atomic bombings, and their aftermath, for over forty years. Starting nearly two weeks ago, after I saw an early screening, I have been directing attention here to the absence in Oppenheimer of any mention of the drifting radioactive cloud that imperiled people after the Trinity test—and later the dozens of other dangerous nuclear tests in the Southwest—along with new legal challenges raised by “downwinders./donald-trump-committed-treason.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./election-special-hbac-pete-marsh.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./every-wargame-to-be-held-in-2023.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/every-wargame-to-be-held-in-2023.htmlThe U.S. and its military allies are planning more than 110 major war games in this coming year, from naval exercises involving over 60 nations to small clandestine special operations events that take place in the shadows. As 2023 opens and the war in Ukraine drags on, a good amount of the activity is planned for Europe, mostly NATO getting its shit together, perfecting future war against Russia (a country that will be all out of war by the time the Ukraine war is over, no matter what the outcome./examining-berkshire-s-2003-acquisition-of-mclane-from-walmart-do-margins-matter.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/examining-berkshire-s-2003-acquisition-of-mclane-from-walmart-do-margins-matter.htmlMcLane is a distributor who sits between powerful suppliers and customers. As a consequence, it commands very low margins, as low as 1% pre-tax at the time of Berkshire’s purchase in 2003. BRK bought the company from Walmart for $1.5 billion. How can a 1% margin be representative of a good business? In a word, turnover. At the time of purchase, McLane had annual revenues of $23 billion. A 1% margin on that level of sales translated into $230 million of pretax earnings, and a return of 15./five-red-sox-prospects-who-have-performed-well-this-spring.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/five-red-sox-prospects-who-have-performed-well-this-spring.htmlWe are entering week three of spring training and there have been a few rounds of roster “cuts” from big league camp. With guys set to come back from the WBC over the next week or so, we might see more prospects reassigned to minor league camp. So far though, there have been quite a few of the younger guys flashing their potential during games this spring. Bryan Mata Mata is the highest rated pitching prospect in the Red Sox system, which he showed this spring before being optioned to AAA Worcester on Sunday./how-do-you-describe-the-colour-of-gold-to-a-blind-person.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-do-you-describe-the-colour-of-gold-to-a-blind-person.htmlText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI’d describe gold as the colour of sunshine, as it shrugs on the Earth’s palate,  As muted orange trapped in sheets of liquid on the table in a bottle As a jolt of pleasure- hot as it prickles the skin, when the hair on your arm stands on end not because the yellow is frightening  But satisfying, and warm like the first rains of summer./i-worked-as-a-porn-journalist-for-xcritic.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-worked-as-a-porn-journalist-for-xcritic.htmlI worked as a porn journalist for XCritic. I also was a CMO of a now-defunct webcam startup. Trust me, I've seen shit behind the scenes that made me a lifelong supporter of BIPOC rights on set. For example, did you know that certain major porn sites actually alter what gets to the front page to reduce the number of black actors who make it to the front p… ncG1vNJzZmino6i2orrAZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZLZuw86rop6cXZbAbq2Mqaarpl2fvLa%2BzZqjoqukYrOwvoyxmquhpJ6wboKScW6abGGarnR%2B/introducing-unshrinking-by-kate-manne.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/introducing-unshrinking-by-kate-manne.htmlI have a confession to make: for as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be smaller. My concerns about my weight have intruded on some of the best moments of my life. And I could tell you precisely what I weighed on any significant occasion: the day I got married, the day I defended my PhD dissertation, the day I gave birth to my daughter. It, and I, has always felt like too much./margot-robbie-is-not-hot-enough.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/margot-robbie-is-not-hot-enough.htmlI asked a friend if she’d seen this Summer’s blockbuster, she said she had, she thought it was pretty good, but that Margot Robbie wasn't hot enough to play the lead. “Margot Robbie?” I coughed. “Margot Robbie, the double Oscar nominee who embodies every physical quality we have been collectively conditioned to desire? That Margot Robbie?” ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2FprrJqJ%2Bnop%2BosrG0jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6Kus7POrWSrp5KXtqZ5yKxkp6ekYrWwwIyepaitl50%3D/mindmed-receives-fda-breakthrough-therapy-designation-for-lsd-psychedelics-figure-ben-sessa-s-med.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mindmed-receives-fda-breakthrough-therapy-designation-for-lsd-psychedelics-figure-ben-sessa-s-med.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. MindMed receives FDA breakthrough therapy designation for LSD On Thursday, psychedelics company Mind Medicine, or MindMed, announced that MM120, the company’s formulation of LSD, has been given Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat generalized anxiety disorder. This is the fourth time the FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation for a psychedelic drug./peter-hessler-on-his-new-book-other-rivers-a-chinese-education.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peter-hessler-on-his-new-book-other-rivers-a-chinese-education.htmlThis week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuling (the subject of his first book, Rivertown, Pete returns to China to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu. He writes about the two cohorts of students, with whom he has maintained extensive contacts, to offer fascinating insights into how China has changed across this momentous period with touching, deeply human stories./qui%C3%A9n-es-el-profeta-de-deuteronomio-18-15.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/qui%C3%A9n-es-el-profeta-de-deuteronomio-18-15.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./rising-storm-brewing-to-breathe-new-life-into-historic-daisy-flour-mill.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rising-storm-brewing-to-breathe-new-life-into-historic-daisy-flour-mill.htmlNote: This newsletter is supported by Donnelly’s Public House, a wonderful canal-side establishment in the village of Fairport. One of Rochester’s most historic spots will soon be home to one of its most lauded breweries. It’s an unlikely marriage and one that will require a lot of imagination. Rising Storm Brewing, which opened its original Livonia location in 2018, recently closed on the vacant Daisy Flour Mill property, 1880 Blossom Road, in Penfield and has gained all of the necessary town approvals to transform the building on the 3-acre site into Monroe County’s newest destination brewery./saltburn-god-is-a-serial-killer-by-phil-h.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/saltburn-god-is-a-serial-killer-by-phil-h.htmlI watched Saltburn, and quite liked it. There was a lot of lovely style in there: all of the actors really looked their parts (Barry Keoghan looks extraordinary as the lead), and the riffing on the class system was funny. It was quite a lightweight riff on Brideshead Revisited, but the main idea it throws at Brideshead is actually quite deep. God, it suggests, is a serial killer. In Saltburn, the Charles Ryder character is Ollie, and Ollie is shagging and murdering the beautiful aristos one by one, until he ends up taking the house./should-mothers-have-just-stayed-at-home.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/should-mothers-have-just-stayed-at-home.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./should-you-wipe-your-dog-s-butt.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/should-you-wipe-your-dog-s-butt.htmlWriter’s note on June 3, 2024: This post was written before I dogsat my mother’s Shih Tzu mix. I hadn’t experienced just how much gets stuck to a double-coated dog with long fur. Leaves stick to her like glue, and her white fur can look black if you don’t clean her eye area regularly. For that reason, I absolutely swore by Petkin Big N' Thick Natural Petwipes and linked them below./switching-to-a-dumb-phone-made-me-feel-pretty-dang-smart.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/switching-to-a-dumb-phone-made-me-feel-pretty-dang-smart.htmlI have thought about getting a dumb phone. My fear is that there are still things I might need the smartphone for, and that I end up with two phones. I don't want that. I'll give you an example. I buy movie tickets online in an app and then I get rewards that yield free popcorn, which isn't technically free because I bought a bunch of tickets, but damn it I love it when someone says something is free even if it isn't, and also I love popcorn, and I love feeling like a baller, and well, the AMC movie app gives me that feeling./tek-lintowe-an-interview-by-madjestickasual.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tek-lintowe-an-interview-by-madjestickasual.htmlMadjestic Kasual’s ‘A Mix’ series is considered by geniuses and culture heads to be the “best” music mix series in the world. It’s considered by morons and dunces to be the “worst”. This should speak volumes. It’s time to do ‘A Mix’, but for interviews. I ask ‘A Mix’ contributors to respond to questions. Some comply. Introducing ‘An Interview’: a new text-centric series featuring only the best artists in the world./the-amazing-drink-you-ve-probably-never-tried.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-amazing-drink-you-ve-probably-never-tried.htmlEvery so often I do a sweep of my parent’s garage looking for rogue bottles that need drinking up. In the past among the vinegar we’ve had some nice surprises: a bottle of Ayala 1975 Extra Dry, still fizzy and actually quite tasty if a little oxidised, or a 1980 Chateau Septy Monbazillac which was like liquid marmalade.  There was one, however, which I had been studiously avoiding because I was certain it would be knackered: a champagne-style bottle thick with dust which must have been there at least 20 years, probably brought back from a golf holiday in Normandy./the-business-academy-sieva-kozinsky.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-business-academy-sieva-kozinsky.htmlOnce a week you will receive a succinct email with one of the following: our favorite tweets of the week🐥, a cool investment opportunity💰, or an interesting business insight 📊 By Sieva Kozinsky · Over 18,000 subscribersNo thanks“I love getting an inside view of the deals and businesses Sieva’s operates. Highly recommend!” ncG1vNJzZmismJqvtr%2FIp5ysq5GYrqWxzLJlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilXw%3D%3D/the-catholic-diocese-s-new-bishop-in-his-own-words.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-catholic-diocese-s-new-bishop-in-his-own-words.htmlThis is an ONLINE EXTRA from The Charlotte Ledger. Stay in-the-know about Charlotte by subscribing to our newsletter. Free and paid versions available (details here): Father Michael Martin (left) will be the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte’s new bishop, after current Bishop Peter Jugis (right) retires in May. by Cristina Bolling The Catholic Diocese of Charlotte announced a new bishop Tuesday, as current Bishop Peter Jugis prepares to step down after 20 years leading the diocese due to health concerns from a kidney ailment./the-girls-are-striking-in-nyc.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-girls-are-striking-in-nyc.htmlDear readers, Well this was going to be a tame and cozy end-of-year favorites letter; a look back on all the novels I thought were wonderful and on what novels I am forcing onto friends and family over the holidays. Instead I am inviting you to rally in the streets of NYC with me and other authors on Friday outside the HarperCollins offices at 195 Broadway. I’m sure by this point everyone has heard about the strikes at HarperCollins, but if you haven’t, here are a few good resources to understand what’s at stake: Kim Kelly’s recent coverage at Fast Company/the-poster-child-for-the-perils-of-dynastic-wealth.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-poster-child-for-the-perils-of-dynastic-wealth.htmlFriends, If Donald Trump takes power this November, he’ll owe his victory in no small part to one of the richest Americans alive — in 1920. I’m talking about the Pittsburgh banker and industrialist Andrew Mellon, who as treasury secretary for Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, changed the U.S. tax code in ways that allowed — more than a century later — part of his personal fortune to bankroll Donald Trump’s reelection campaign./the-tree-paine-fan-s-guide-to-the-tortured-poets-department.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-tree-paine-fan-s-guide-to-the-tortured-poets-department.htmlMore from Hung Up this week: The Avengers of hating Drake and where is Commander Biden’s tell-all?Jessica Chastain has opened Final Draft herself. Isla Fisher has cleared her schedule (and her home). Anne Hathaway is printing out a binder of stan tweets and Hung Up posts, already months into research for a role she hasn’t booked yet. Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos make eyes across the room: could this be her third Oscar?/tucker-the-accidentally-pro-pedophile-nickelodeon-sitcom.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tucker-the-accidentally-pro-pedophile-nickelodeon-sitcom.htmlMost of my writing career has focused on conflict, terrorism, and collapse. There’s more of all that than ever going on, yet instead of writing about fascist violence or the encircling authoritarian billionaire class, I’m here today to tell you about Tucker. No, not Tucker Carlson. This Tucker is a TV show from way back in the year 2000. It was produced by NBC, and aired on that network in the U./unveiling-the-legacy-of-karachi-s-jewish-history.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/unveiling-the-legacy-of-karachi-s-jewish-history.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. Two months ago, during my visit to Brno, Czech Republic, I attended a conference as one of the speakers./upside-down-plum-fennel-cake-by-carolina-gelen.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/upside-down-plum-fennel-cake-by-carolina-gelen.htmlFor someone that isn’t the biggest fan of fruit desserts, I sure have a few fruity recipes in my portfolio. I’ve had so many terrible iterations of fruit desserts growing up, they scarred me for life. Not sure how relatable this is, but you know when someone brings dessert to your home, or you have cake at a family gathering, it looks great, you take a bite expecting a nice and tender texture, then your teeth hit a soggy raisin or dried plum./was-the-row-sample-sale-worth-it.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/was-the-row-sample-sale-worth-it.htmlRemember in my last newsletter when I was like, “for some reason I can’t get out of bed… Must be because my sheets are so nice!” Well, turns out I had COVID. So I wasn’t able to stalk the Row sample sale this week like I wanted to. But I was able to get on the horn and gab about it with a bunch of different people, including determined shoppers and the owner of a professional line sitting business, which over 30 Row fans used to have someone stand in line for them./what-made-his-bass-playing-notable.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-made-his-bass-playing-notable.htmlOf all the musicians in jazz, it seems that the bassists get the least “props.” Most people just don’t listen to what they play. And the things non-bassists say about bass players are so superficial, either they haven't listened to them at all, or what they say is based on just a minute or two of listening to a single recording. A case in point is Walter Page, who lived from 1900 to 1957./who-was-aristotle-by-classical-wisdom.htmlSat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-was-aristotle-by-classical-wisdom.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Kids, First, a quick clarification. I’ve had a few readers write in a bit confused to what belongs to what in the growing world of Classical Wisdom.  Fair dinkum as they say ‘Down Under’.  About a year ago we launched Classical Wisdom KIDS, to help bring ancient wisdom to future minds. The thing is a lot of the ideas, history and concepts obviously work just as well as for adults./what-julian-qui%C3%B1ones-means-for-el-tri.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-julian-qui%C3%B1ones-means-for-el-tri.htmlQuiñones, hermano, ya eres mexicano. After Korea’s late goal against Germany saved Mexico from group-stage elimination at the 2018 World Cup, Mexico fans from Russia to Los Angeles and beyond celebrated with Korean friends chanting that they were now Mexican. It was only an honorary title, but Club América forward Julián Quiñones is now very much Mexican … ncG1vNJzZmiflamwsLrCmpqanpWZe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrCgkal6q8HLopinZaGqtq%2B7zZ6qZqWVlru0ecWoqWadnA%3D%3D/69-the-sad-oompa-loompa-and-you.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/69-the-sad-oompa-loompa-and-you.htmldear josh, great piece! as always! this particularly resonates with me: "It’s so wonderful to experience culture that gets to become the thing it’s best suited to be, or to start by meeting a piece of work on its terms! Like, have you ever tried to unscrew a screw with pliers because you don’t have a screwdriver, and it kind of works, but it’s kind of shitty? And then you find a screwdriver and you’re like ahh…that’s right!/a-critical-analysis-of-faith-deception-and-the-sanctity-of-life.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-critical-analysis-of-faith-deception-and-the-sanctity-of-life.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./about-f1-fanatic.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-f1-fanatic.htmlF1 Fanatic is the observations of a Formula 1 obsessed American. I came to the sport late (discovering it through the Netflix doc, Drive to Survive in 2019), but I’ve watched every race, or at least a race recap, of every grand prix since 1969. In other words, I’m all in. However I’m an American, so my plan is to bring a perspective of racing that focuses on the people and personalities behind the sport./an-introduction-to-nsw-community-title-2023-update.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-introduction-to-nsw-community-title-2023-update.htmlCommunity title has existed in NSW since 1990 but there are a relatively small number of these developments (compared to strata title buildings) and their peculiarities mean that most strata stakeholders don’t know much about them.  You’ll see them in larger estate-style developments or what used to be called flat strata subdivisions for villas and some townhouses. [14:00 mins estimated reading time & 2777 words] Introduction Since 1990, for larger, more complex and staged estate style developments, there’s been a new and innovative way of structuring, titling and managing those multi-owner complexes in New South Wales under community title laws./author-emma-noyes-s-adult-debut-guy-s-girl-is-a-self-love-story.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/author-emma-noyes-s-adult-debut-guy-s-girl-is-a-self-love-story.htmlGrowing up, I was a guy’s girl. Yes, I had my best and closest girlfriends (you know who you are), but in school, I mostly hung around with the guys in my classes. This was, at least partially, because I’d been burned by a lot of girls. Guys didn’t come with drama (for the most part). However, I’d been a guy’s girl forever. According to my mom, as a kid, I always gravitated towards my uncles and boy cousins at parties./barbie-shows-us-that-political-change-happens-through-organizing-not-personal-relationships.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/barbie-shows-us-that-political-change-happens-through-organizing-not-personal-relationships.htmlLast weekend, outfitted with pink Crocs and a pink leopard-print jumper, I went to see the mega-blockbuster film Barbie. This movie undoes the conventional understanding of Barbie and showcases her as a feminist icon disrupting patriarchy in Barbieland and also in the real world. Like many in the audience, I was both entertained and moved by the film in all its saturated color. It challenges gender roles and offers hope for social change./blessing-of-the-hands-by-christine-vaughan-davies.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/blessing-of-the-hands-by-christine-vaughan-davies.htmlChaplains are tasked with meeting people at their most vulnerable, when they are confronted by the frailty of their bodies and the mortality of their souls. These are sacred moments, but ones that tend to be accompanied by sadness, grief, and pain.  Fortunately, these are not the only opportunities for chaplains to help infuse the sacred into the everyday lives of those in the hospital. Blessings, invocations and rituals are other ways chaplains make the ordinary holy./bob-dylan-s-politics-unfiltered-in-his-own-words.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bob-dylan-s-politics-unfiltered-in-his-own-words.htmlThere’s no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there’s only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I’m trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I’m thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. TRANSCRIPT OF BOB DYLAN’S REMARKS AT THE BILL OF RIGHTS DINNER at the Americana Hotel on December 13th 1963/can-i-get-a-good-anacortes-bagel-at-good-bagels-cafe.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/can-i-get-a-good-anacortes-bagel-at-good-bagels-cafe.htmlWelcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re interested in taking this journey with me, make sure you subscribe so you never miss a review. If you want to ensure I review any specific bagels (or want to let me know why I’m wrong), you can email me at seanmatthewkeeley@gmail.com. I’m not opposed to driving all the way to Anacortes to find a good meal./comforting-and-tasty-buckwheat-recipes-for-lunch-dinner.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comforting-and-tasty-buckwheat-recipes-for-lunch-dinner.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./comments-love-won-by-connie-schultz.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-love-won-by-connie-schultz.htmlIn early 2004, a few weeks before Sherrod and I were married, I wrote a column about my search for the gay couples who were trying to undermine our heterosexual marriage. Far-right, self-proclaimed Christians were insisting this was a thing, as if strategic flirting could coax a straight person to burst into glorious gay bloom. In that same year, the Bible Belt had the highest divorce rate in the country, and Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage was already legal, had the lowest./dave-matthews-new-single-strips-the-artist-back-to-his-acoustic-origins.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dave-matthews-new-single-strips-the-artist-back-to-his-acoustic-origins.htmlThere’s something therapeutic about hearing a new song from your favorite singer. It’s serving both sides, him for the artistry output and the listener gets a fresh set of notes and rhythm that will undoubtedly circle the head and heart like a helicopter waiting to land once the anxiety storm settles. Dave Matthews released a new single today, a cover of a Hazel Dickins song called Pretty Bird. A nice snackable tune that comes in just over 180 seconds, which means you can easily roll through it twice while the food heats up at lunch or the drive through line waits to show some life./david-crosby-and-john-forsythe-when-stars-collide.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/david-crosby-and-john-forsythe-when-stars-collide.htmlI lunched with a friend Friday whom I know from the news business, and we talked about the passing of David Crosby. “He was the voice of a generation,” she said. A generation that’s mostly retired. I wasn’t around when Billie Holiday was innovating jazz vocals, or the Glenn Miller Orchestra made swing a thing. But I knew who they were. Walk into any newsroom today and if someone of Crosby’s stature dies, you’re more likely to hear “Who?/disney-plus-or-minus-the-shaggy-d-a.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/disney-plus-or-minus-the-shaggy-d-a.htmlAll the way back in 1959, The Shaggy Dog introduced the world to Walt Disney’s Gimmick Comedies. It had been an enormous hit and its success begat the Flubber movies, the Merlin Jones misadventures, the Dexter Riley trilogy and many more. But as long as Walt was around, it was immune from sequelitis. By 1976, Walt had been in the ground (or, if you prefer the urban legend, on ice) for a decade and the studio he’d founded needed a hit./dispatch-from-danielle-trussoni-december-2023.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dispatch-from-danielle-trussoni-december-2023.htmlGood morning from the Writing Cave, where I am marveling that we are here, already, at the end of 2023. It has been a wild year, with The Puzzle Master published, a lot of travel and (best of all) meeting new people along the way.  One new friend is Conundrum, aka Connie, a two year old dachshund we adopted. If you’ve read my novel The Puzzle Master, you’ll recognize Conundrum: she is the hero, Mike Brink’s pet and side-kick./disrespecting-the-mother-the-mule-by-milli-hill.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/disrespecting-the-mother-the-mule-by-milli-hill.htmlOver a school-day breakfast, we discuss the felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap. My partner says they’ve arrested a sixteen year old boy. I tell him and my fifteen year old daughter that actually I read a post on facebook that said it was unlikely such a young person could have had the skills, the kit or the strength to cut down a tree like that, by themselves. I couldn’t remember much of the details but it was something to do with how the person who did it had sprayed on white paint as a guide and hammered in some kind of pegs…or wedges./do-flagship-apple-stores-exist.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./holdco-discussion-by-guesswork-investing.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/holdco-discussion-by-guesswork-investing.htmlMay 9, 2023 | Issue #84 Welcome! Not sure exactly where you all came from, but we’ve added nearly 600 new subscribers in the past two weeks, so a quick intro to me: Formerly worked in private equity (special sits & buyouts, targeting companies with $15M to $200M+ in earnings) Decided to buy a small business via a self-funded search (using investor equity capital & SBA 7a debt financing) Acquired a residential & commercial building contractor business in Seattle in early 2022 (soft plug — if you know homeowners or property managers in Seattle, I’d always appreciate inros, I switch to non-anon for those conversations obviously)/how-to-lengthen-time-find-light-in-winter-plus-wisdom-from-a-poet-living-18-years-with-cancer.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-lengthen-time-find-light-in-winter-plus-wisdom-from-a-poet-living-18-years-with-cancer.htmlHello, dear friends! It’s been a little while. I hope this note finds you warm and snug in your human body. There is so much to grapple with in the world, so much sorrow, and so much tragedy. It’s hard to know how to come to you with that full weight being carried as we read the news, and then also needing to pack the school lunch, to get a bit of levity, to carry on with all the tasks and joys of the season, and to tend to our own health./is-this-the-sunken-place.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-this-the-sunken-place.htmlWarning: This edition of Message from the Underworld contains spoilers for the movie Get Out. I’d just started reading Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning screenplay Get Outfrom Inventory Press when I heard the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.  It felt like a punch in the gut. The repercussions were immediately apparent: Ginsburg’s death would trigger a paroxysm of anguish on the left, and a power grab on the right, with the net result being increasing feelings of helplessness as our country slides further into authoritarianism./jasper-tudor-the-good-duke.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jasper-tudor-the-good-duke.htmlOn 21 December 1495, the great survivor of the Wars of the Roses, ‘the high and mighty prince’ Jasper Tudor, ‘brother and uncle of kings’, died peacefully in his own bed at Thornbury Castle. It is a testament to his incredible resilience that he did so a wealthy royal duke in his sixties, escaping death on the chopping block or in battle like most of his contemporaries. Few lives contain the drama of Jasper’s, which I recount in full in my upcoming Tudor family biography, ‘The Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor (now available for pre-order)’./list-of-passages-for-the-theme-of-water-in-the-bible.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/list-of-passages-for-the-theme-of-water-in-the-bible.htmlWe’re going to start the journey through biblical imagery with water. Why? Practically, I’ve done some work on water in the Bible already. Also, it is a fascinating image, full of polarities, puzzling inconsistencies, and surprising plot twists as Scripture unfolds. Water is all over the Bible—from the first page to the last and everywhere in between. The things that happen in the storyline of the image of water point straight to the heart of God and of the gospel many times over./my-first-batman-jason-aaron-s-beard-missives.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-first-batman-jason-aaron-s-beard-missives.htmlI’ve mentioned here a few times that I’ve been working on a lot of new projects since my Marvel exclusive ended. It’s probably not a complete shock that one of them would wind up being a Batman book. Seemed the right way to finally make my proper debut as a DC writer. Though this is a different sort of Batman story. One that sees a young Dark Knight undertaking his very first trip into space./newsletter-33-a-horror-post-mortem.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/newsletter-33-a-horror-post-mortem.htmlI really enjoyed this and hope you'll do more of them. Also, I really enjoyed the mini-class. The thing that I enjoy about horror (and many times science fiction or fantasy) is that there's always a deeper level. There's the surface level stuff that's going on but there's also the underlying social commentary. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on what the different eras of horror movies represented and what they were commenting on./no-old-person-is-named-kyle.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./paige-patterson-s-valediction-in-historical-context-with-addendum.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/paige-patterson-s-valediction-in-historical-context-with-addendum.htmlSince December 2022, I have made two different research trips to the Southern Baptist Convention Historical Library and Archives in Nashville, TN, one trip to the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary archives in Ft. Worth, Texas, and one trip to Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec archives at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I’ve read file after file of SBC documents—including correspondence among pastors and leaders in the Executive Committee and notable figures in the conservative resurgence./peft-lora-qlora-llama-adapter-and-more.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peft-lora-qlora-llama-adapter-and-more.htmlThis newsletter is presented by Rebuy, the commerce AI company. If you like the newsletter, feel free to get in touch with me or follow me on Medium, X, and LinkedIn. I try my best to produce useful/informative content. Due to the surge of interest in large language models (LLMs), AI practitioners are commonly asked questions such as: How can we train a specialized LLM over our own data? However, answering this question is far from simple./raining-words-for-rain-by-bob-myers.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/raining-words-for-rain-by-bob-myers.htmlIn Japanese, “light rain” is 小雨, or “little rain”, which is pronounced kosame instead of the expected “ko-ame”. Where’s that extra “s” in the middle coming from? The obvious explanation is that the “s” makes it easier to pronounce, since otherwise you’d have two vowels right next to each other. There is a word for this phenomenon, namely “epenthesis”, the insertion of a sound or letter within a word, found in many languages./salted-chocolate-mascarpone-frosting.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/salted-chocolate-mascarpone-frosting.htmlIf you like the crisp edges of lasagne, the soaked croutons, the whipped cream that gets icy around the chocolate scoop - you’re in the right place. Hello! I should start by saying that I’m not an authority on frosted celebration cakes (see Claire Safftiz, Natasha Picowictz). I'm writing to you strictly in my capacity as a mum playing out a fantasy of motherhood.  And this chocolate cake has given it to me thick: I tasted frosting late at night, provoked hops and squeals of delight, received a thank you hug from the head of my son's school, and enjoyed multiple helpings of the ambrosial cake myself./standing-tall-or-wrestling-in-the-mud.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/standing-tall-or-wrestling-in-the-mud.htmlDonald Trump, the overfed, overwatched, overpraised, overmedicated former President, recently spoke at the NRA convention and made a comment about potentially serving a third term. "You know, FDR—16 years, almost 16 years. He was four-term. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three term or two term?” he asked the crowd during the event on Saturday. "Are we three term or two term if we win?" he added./summoning-your-alter-ego-by-greg-campion.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/summoning-your-alter-ego-by-greg-campion.htmlThere's something about superheroes that captivates us as kids—and even as adults. Maybe it's their incredible strength. Or it could be their speed. Or their intelligence. Or maybe it's just those sweet costumes. Who knew grown men could look so fearsome in full-body unitards, anyhow? But there's something beyond the tights and capes that we find irresistible. It may just be the idea that seemingly normal people are able to transform themselves, at a moment’s notice, into something much greater./thank-you-for-your-cervix.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/thank-you-for-your-cervix.htmlMom and Dad, maybe don’t read this one—you’ll think it’s gross (and honestly, I do too). Cheating scandals are decidedly in right now—YouTubers are doing it, news anchors are doing it, and now, there’s a cop cheating scandal involving six men and one woman, all current or former officers of the La Vergne Police Department in Tennessee. At the center of the controversy is one Maegan Hall, whose face you’ve probably seen by now on a raunchy meme page or the Instagram story of your favorite quasi-libertarian guy from high school (hi Jeep!/the-automotive-advantage-substack.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-automotive-advantage-substack.htmlGrow your automotive business and get smarter in just 5 minutes. Join the go-to newsletter for automotive industry insiders looking to up their marketing game, build their brand, make smart investments, and grow their business. Over 4,000 subscribers No thanksncG1vNJzZmismJqutsDOpqatoaaarqXCwKermp%2BVY8C2rtKtmJyjXpi8rns%3D/the-love-letters-of-king-george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-love-letters-of-king-george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth.htmlWhen King Charles III’s maternal grandfather died at age fifty-six in February 1952, his widow, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, sent a message of thanks to people “from all parts of the world.” “No man had a deeper sense than he of duty and of service,” she said, “and no man was more full of compassion for his fellow men. He loved you all, every one of you, most truly.” King George VI deeply loved his family, and above all he loved Elizabeth, his wife for twenty-eight years./the-mezcal-martini-problem-by-peter-suderman.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-mezcal-martini-problem-by-peter-suderman.htmlFrom time to time, I have argued that most high-quality cocktail recipes that call for gin can be productively swapped with mezcal — the earthy, often smoky cousin to tequila.  We have seen the mezcal-for-gin swap work in drinks like the Mezcal Negroni, the Mezcal Last Word, and the Mezcal Espresso Martini. All of these drinks are not just good. They are so successful that one might reasonably argue that they are superior to their gin-based predecessors./the-non-chris-evans-sweater-knitwear-of-knives-out-ranked.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-non-chris-evans-sweater-knitwear-of-knives-out-ranked.htmlAuthor’s Note: If you’ve subscribed to Knit(ting) Flicks since my last post went up at the end of October—and most of Twitter imploded on itself, sparking the creation of several new social media accounts where I shamelessly plugged the newsletter to folks in my bio/posts—welcome! I’m so thrilled to have you here! Like the Grace Kelly post I wrote back in September, this is more of a one-off piece. (If you’re viewing this in your inbox, might I suggest clicking through for the full and non-clipped knitwear extravaganza I have planned for you?/the-poem-that-explains-walter-white-s-end.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-poem-that-explains-walter-white-s-end.htmlIf you missed Part I of this series on the poetry of Breaking Bad, you can check out the first post here: The Poem That Explains Walter White The role that Walt Whitman’s “The Learn’d Astronomer” plays in Breaking Bad is one of the first things I ever wanted to write about for PopPoetry—seeing the work of a poet being such an integral part of the … Read more 2 years ago · Caitlin Cowan/the-results-of-the-chris-chan-experiment-should-horrify-us-all.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-results-of-the-chris-chan-experiment-should-horrify-us-all.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./up-your-alley-dore-weekend-party-guide-2024.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/up-your-alley-dore-weekend-party-guide-2024.htmlMy website got borked so putting this year’s guides on Substack. Plus, easier to email folks about updates. (Looking for the Folsom guide? Right here.) Be sure to bookmark this guide. I’m constantly updating as new events, venues, and DJs are announced. And signup for email alerts! You can always find the latest at andymatic.com/dore – just tell friends “it’s at andy matic dot com slash dore” – easy to remember! Party grid for the weekend (so far!/value-hiding-in-plain-sight.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/value-hiding-in-plain-sight.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./watch-the-bbn-movie-trailer.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/watch-the-bbn-movie-trailer.htmlIt’s 2023 already? Wild. It’s fun to look back on a year and see everything you did. That’s what’s so great about iPhones, the notes and photos apps where you can re-live your year. I took a ride down the last 12 months for my own reflection and figured I would let you guys into it as well. Sometimes I give myself no credit for anything, I’m very much a “whats up next?/wednesday-walk-who-is-elwood-edwards.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wednesday-walk-who-is-elwood-edwards.htmlWelcome to Willoughby Hills! If you enjoy what you’re reading, please consider a free subscribtion to receive emails every Wednesday and Sunday plus podcast episodes every two weeks. There are also paid options, which unlock even more features. As is typical every Wednesday, I’m bring you a smattering of topics that I hope will make you a bit more curious about the world around you and give you something to think about later./zz-top-and-the-musical-heritage-of-galveston-s-balinese-room.htmlFri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/zz-top-and-the-musical-heritage-of-galveston-s-balinese-room.htmlThe Balinese Room, opened in 1942, was fabulous. Air conditioning, casino gambling, superb food and drinks, and stellar entertainment, all on a pier that was suspended over the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles from my Houston hometown. If I went, it was for dinner as a kid in the 1960s, as the nighttime entertainment was certainly adults-only. Operated by Sicilian barbers-turned-bootleggers, Sam and Rosario Maceo, the Balinese Room (aka Maceo’s Grotto), booked nothing but top stars: Headliners included Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Duke Ellington, Mel Tormé, Jayne Mansfield and Gene Autry./restacks-are-the-secret-power-behind-notes-i-ve-subscribed-to-newsletters-from-authors-whose-wor.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/restacks-are-the-secret-power-behind-notes-i-ve-subscribed-to-newsletters-from-authors-whose-wor.htmlRestacks are the secret power behind Notes. I’ve subscribed to newsletters from authors whose work I enjoy. I’ve followed Notes from people to whom I don’t yet subscribe but am considering. When I restack a note from one of these authors, it introduces their voice to all of the people who happen to be following my account. The cool thing, to me, is that when you folks restack Notes from the people with whom you interact you’re introducing me to new authors and helping me find more interesting people/newsletters to follow./about-pellucid.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-pellucid.htmlIn 2020 I published Something’s Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself From Its Power. It’s based on my personal experiences in abusive situations and on my doctoral research on tactics used by Christian organizations in the wake of a scandal. In 2021 I left my full-time job in higher education to focus on writing and consulting. I started this publication to cast light on how individuals and institutions use strategies of deception to perpetuate and cover-up abusive behavior./about-the-real-sarah-miller.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-the-real-sarah-miller.htmlA newsletter for people who like the work of (the real) Sarah Miller The Real Sarah Miller is a newsletter by writer Sarah Miller (obviously) debuting on May 24, 2021 I am calling this The Real Sarah Miller because there are thousands if not billions of Sarah Millers in the world, and I want you to be able to tell me apart from them. It is possible you already know who I am: Sarah Miller, 54, resident of semi-rural Northern California, proud Australian Cattle Dog Mom and author of essays like Heaven or High Water, The Movie Assassin, The Bridge Dog, Death to the Maxi Dress and My So-Karen Life./album-of-the-week-layla-other-assorted-love-songs.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/album-of-the-week-layla-other-assorted-love-songs.htmlRecorded and released in 1970, literally two months apart is Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs by super group Derek & the Dominos (Eric Clapton and friends) has been getting some serious play time from me lately - so why not, lets talk about what makes Layla great. Post breakup of Cream and Delaney & Bonnie, Clapton was struggling to find his footing. In a dark emotional place, he set off for Miami with some friends to record an album, which would turn out to be our Layla, and my first double LP album of the week!/banadir-somali-restaurant-inglewood-los-angeles-somalia.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/banadir-somali-restaurant-inglewood-los-angeles-somalia.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./books-by-ruth-reichl.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/books-by-ruth-reichl.htmlBillie Breslin has traveled far from her home in California to take a job at Delicious!, New York’s most iconic food magazine. Away from her family, particularly her older sister, Genie, Billie feels like a fish out of water—until she is welcomed by the magazine’s colorful staff. She is also seduced by the vibrant downtown food scene, especially by Fontanari’s, the famous Italian food shop where she works on weekends. Then Delicious!/comments-the-power-station.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-the-power-station.htmlGlad you dig the full Moon! He was, in his own way, as music-forward and gifted as anyone slapped with the new wave label, with the possible exception of the prodigious and prolific Elvis. But, he belongs in that era's discussion with the likes of John Hiatt, Joe Jackson, Willies DeVille, Alexander, and Nile, Steve Forbert, Robert Gordon, Tom Verlaine, and probably others! As can be seen by his hits for others, his writing was attractive to many other artists./creating-a-cozy-autumn-aesthetic-at-home.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/creating-a-cozy-autumn-aesthetic-at-home.htmlYou have created such a beautiful space to call home!! Aw that means the world to me. I still feel like I'm only touching the surface of being "active" on here, but the community aspect is SO magical on Substack, isn't it? I'm so honored to be connected with you, too! Thank you!! We're starting to have cool mornings which feel AMAZING! I'll take what I can get 😂/curbside-glass-recycling-makes-a-comeback.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/curbside-glass-recycling-makes-a-comeback.htmlCurbside glass recycling could be making a return in Tucson, less than three years after the city pulled glass from its curbside program and moved to a system of drop-off sites. At the time, city officials said the change was due to a budget shortfall and the desire to better align with its Climate Action Resolution plan. But data has shown that the move didn’t save as much money as the city planned, according to Vice Mayor Kevin Dahl’s Friday newsletter./doug-s-sermon-jokes-1-by-doug-diehl.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/doug-s-sermon-jokes-1-by-doug-diehl.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./dragonflight-s-kinky-dragon-sex-and-also-liking-men.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dragonflight-s-kinky-dragon-sex-and-also-liking-men.html[audio available here, courtesy of AskWho] Like everyone else raised in liberal America, I was stunned by Aella’s revelation that women disproportionately prefer violent/rough porn (over men). I’d known that demand for doms greatly outstrips supply, but I’d never thought about what that means. I’d only recently come into an awareness that in the erotic most consumed by women and produced almost solely by women — romance novels — revealed preference of readers shows that consent is the opposite of hot./fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle-stop-cafe-aka-a-little-old-lady-s-charming-and-sweet-and-racist.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fried-green-tomatoes-at-the-whistle-stop-cafe-aka-a-little-old-lady-s-charming-and-sweet-and-racist.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!/garrett-dellinger-g-lsu-2025-nfl-draft-profile.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/garrett-dellinger-g-lsu-2025-nfl-draft-profile.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./give-polk-county-the-chance-to-atone-for-our-unforgivable-sins-against-leo-schofield.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/give-polk-county-the-chance-to-atone-for-our-unforgivable-sins-against-leo-schofield.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./good-bad-banks-good-bad-investments-an-investing-perspective.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/good-bad-banks-good-bad-investments-an-investing-perspective.htmlIn my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance the notion that the key ingredient tying together the banks that have failed so far in 2023 is an absence of stickiness in deposits, created partially by depositor and deposit characteristics (older are  stickier than younger) and partly by growth in deposits (high growth increases stickiness). I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments./growing-up-with-taylor-swift.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/growing-up-with-taylor-swift.htmlIt goes without saying that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has become a pop culture phenomenon, but I’m going to say it anyway. It’s the ticket of the year, with fans and celebrities flocking to sold out stadiums and posting pictures of their friendship bracelets and red lipstick on social media. I was fortunate enough to attend Night 4 of the Eras Tour in Los Angeles this week and, despite all the recaps and videos circulating online, I went in mostly blind./hobo-kelly-with-gwynne-garfinkle.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hobo-kelly-with-gwynne-garfinkle.htmlHappy St. Patrick’s Day! To celebrate, Gwynne Garfinkle is back with us to talk about obscure children’s shows from her youth. Specifically, we talk about Hobo Kelly, the magical hobo clown who has a leprechaun fly her around and drop her off at Hobo Junction. Sure and begorrah, ‘tis she! If you are like, “whhhhhaaat?” —yeah, so were we! Here are the only clips we could find. Here’s a teeny 30 second clip medley./how-glossier-sold-us-nothing.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-glossier-sold-us-nothing.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-to-make-friends-as-an-adult.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-friends-as-an-adult.htmlLoading... There is no fancy way to explain this timeline other than chronologically, it’s just too weird and complex and pandemic-ridden. Essentially, my ex-husband and I moved to Spokane in 2016 so I could finish my master’s degree. In 2017, we got married. In my wedding vows, I promised him we’d go on the motorcycle trip he’d always dreamed of, but didn’t want to take because of how long we’d be apart./i-paid-an-etsy-witch-13-69-to-cast-a-job-spell-for-me.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-paid-an-etsy-witch-13-69-to-cast-a-job-spell-for-me.htmlLaid Off Life is a place of respite for the weary workforce. Whether you’re unemployed, underemployed, or just trying to make it through the workday, let this be your 5-minute mental break from the grind of late-stage capitalism.  Update time! About six months ago, when I was in my rock-bottom unemployment era, in a space of…let’s call it desperation, I was exploring several woo-woo rituals to amp up my job search./illyanna-maisonet-s-newsletter-substack.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/illyanna-maisonet-s-newsletter-substack.htmlillyanna Maisonet's newsletter contains: recipes, first person and reported articles, rantings, photos, history and foodways of California and Puerto Rico. Also, behind the scenes capturings of Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook. And Mami. No thanks“No one is more entertaining on Substack than Illyanna Maisonet. I'm so excited for her new cookbook Diasporican! While I wait, this is the next best thing.” “Illyanna Maisonet writes about Puerto Rican and California food and life./jatt-jeona-morh-an-allegory-for-kharkuvaad.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jatt-jeona-morh-an-allegory-for-kharkuvaad.htmlThe story of Jeona Maur takes place in the early 20th century, during British rule over Punjab. It is said to take place in Maur village in the Malwa region, specifically in Sangrur but others also suppose his village to be somewhere in the regions adjourning the Naina Devi Mandir. Jeona Maur was the brother of Kishna Maur, a famous dacoit, who had been backstabbed by his close friends, most notably Ahmed Dogar./john-ford-the-prisoner-of-shark-island-and-the-selling-of-dr-mudd.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/john-ford-the-prisoner-of-shark-island-and-the-selling-of-dr-mudd.htmlIn the summer of 2015,dozens of visitors descended on Fort Jefferson, a former military prison in the Florida Keys’ Dry Tortugas National Park wearing green shirts emblazoned with the words “Free Dr. Mudd.” The man they sought to “free,” Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, had not been there for 150 years and had been allowed to leave after a four-year stint in 1869 thanks to a pardon from President Andrew Johnson. Mudd was previously convicted by a nine-man military tribunal, convened by Johnson, of playing a role in the conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln, whose broken leg the Maryland doctor/farmer set when Booth and his companion David Herold arrived at Mudd’s house at 4 a./life-at-the-bottom-of-the-canyon-kate-mapother.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/life-at-the-bottom-of-the-canyon-kate-mapother.htmlThoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon. By Kate Mapother · Launched a year agoNo thanks“Kate's writing is truly some of the best. I can always count on her poetry to knock the wind right out of me.” ncG1vNJzZmijkamyrq3PqKuhnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D/mad-men-frank-o-hara-and-our-moment-of-crisis.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mad-men-frank-o-hara-and-our-moment-of-crisis.htmlThis is PopPoetry—a newsletter/blog-type-situation by Caitlin Cowan that you can learn more about here. If you like what you read and would be interested in having more pop up in your inbox, consider sharing this piece and subscribing. It seems like the world is ending. Truly. I know that every generation feels this way, and I suppose that this is my moment: the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice rage on while the sitting U./or-how-to-make-sense-of-techno-optimist-manifestos-the-open-ai-altman-affair-ea-e-acc-movements.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/or-how-to-make-sense-of-techno-optimist-manifestos-the-open-ai-altman-affair-ea-e-acc-movements.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./pablo-s-birthday-beautiful-eccentrics.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pablo-s-birthday-beautiful-eccentrics.htmlPablo’s Birthday Gallery in Manhattan While for some April is the cruelest month — as well as National Poetry Month— in my case it is also the month of my birthday, a day which is not entirely devoid either of poetry (I like the idea that one can be celebrated for the basic accomplishment of being alive) or slight cruelty ( the realization that one is one year older, slowly decaying, and unable to stop the inexorable passage of time)./pumpkin-spice-chocolate-chip-cookies.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pumpkin-spice-chocolate-chip-cookies.htmlHi and welcome to Susanality, a newsletter by Susan Spungen that celebrates seasonal cooking. If you enjoy today’s recipe, 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 (pumpkin spice) latte per month!/remembering-ed-piskor-by-lee-nbrhdcomics.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-ed-piskor-by-lee-nbrhdcomics.htmlTW: Grooming, Suicide When news (and receipts) of comic artist Ed Piskor’s online chats with a young woman were released last week, it was an immediate problem for me. I’m a dad. I run a progressive store in a progressive art community. I believe victims. I also believe in redemption, making amends and changing for the better. If that would happen for Ed, it would take time. So I took his X-Men Grand Design poster off the wall at our store and put his autographed copies of Red Room spine-out on lower shelves./responsablement-luxueux-et-luxueusement-responsable.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/responsablement-luxueux-et-luxueusement-responsable.htmlEt ce n’est pas tout, ça va durer toute la semaine ! Allez, faites fi des clichés caduques et obsolètes des ghettos à touristes low-cost et all-inclusive de la République Dominicaine. Voyage So-Leader vous étonne encore ! Yubarta Cayo Levantado Resort, dans la baie de Samaná, République DominicaineJe rentre d’une extraordinaire semaine au Cayo Levantado Resort, une ile-hôtel dans la baie de Samaná, au nord-est de l’ile de la République Dominicaine, un nouvel hôtel cinq étoiles, qui réconcilie dans un même endroit les clients à la recherche de leur bien-être et ceux qui font rimer vacances avec hédonisme épicurien./review-the-curse-pressure-s-looking-good-so-far.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-the-curse-pressure-s-looking-good-so-far.htmlWhile my roommate and I were watching The Curse this week, he made a comment about something I’d been mulling over myself. Sometime around the moment that Asher finally convinces Bill to let him back into the office to show him a viral video, he remarked next to me, “I’m surprised he’s not just kicking Nathan out by now.” Never mind that Asher is named Asher, not Nathan; he had a point./review-the-sympathizer-death-wish.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-the-sympathizer-death-wish.htmlWelcome to Episodic Medium’s coverage of HBO’s latest limited series—albeit one that they could continue—The Sympathizer, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. As always, the first review is free for all, but subsequent reviews will be exclusive to paid subscribers. To read more about what we’re covering in the months ahead, check out our spring schedule. “I was cursed to see every issue from both sides.”/richard-dawkins-is-wrong-about-memes.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/richard-dawkins-is-wrong-about-memes.htmlWhat is a meme? To answer that question, most people will quote Richard Dawkins, who writes in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) that a meme is “a basic unit of cultural transmission” and memes, like genes, mutate and become widespread in a population through a process of natural selection (Dawkins, 192). Following Dawkins’ logic, human culture has chosen Doge the same way human biology has chosen ears, and a meme (like the gene for ears) succeeds because it is best adapted to its environment and out-competes other rival memes for our attention./season-6-updates-cover-reveal-by-turtleme.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/season-6-updates-cover-reveal-by-turtleme.htmlHello, all! It is I, your go--friendly neighborhood turtle! I’m well aware there’s been some interesting developments with the comic over the past year and more. Starting from the departure of fuyuki23 and the long hiatus that followed shortly after, to the reveal of the cover as well as the KKP event page being spread around with the launch date 5/18. Over the last half year, I’ve had the pleasure of working with the new team, and like all new relationships, there have been some initial challenges and a learning curve that both sides had to become accustomed to./the-30-for-30-challenge-by-sahil-bloom.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-30-for-30-challenge-by-sahil-bloom.htmlWelcome to the 1,070 new members of the curiosity tribe who have joined us since Friday. Join the 100,000 others who are receiving high-signal, curiosity-inducing content every single week. Thank you to all the subscribers that have joined me on this journey. 100,000 is an amazing milestone—but to be honest, I feel like we’re still at the starting line. Let’s go! Today’s newsletter is brought to you by Flatfile! Personally, I have spent enough time in spreadsheets to get my excel PHD./the-kings-of-restrictor-plate-racing.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-kings-of-restrictor-plate-racing.htmlDale Earnhardt hated restrictor-plate racing. Ever since 1988, when NASCAR introduced a safety mechanism to limit engines’ air intake (and therefore reduce top speeds) at big superspeedways, the seven-time Cup Series champion had always complained whenever the devices were employed. He despised how they artificially created close packs of cars running next to each other on the track, where the slightest mistake by any of them would inevitably lead to a huge wreck known as “the Big One”./the-newtownmountkennedy-asylum-protest-by-michael-byrne.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-newtownmountkennedy-asylum-protest-by-michael-byrne.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-problems-with-william-shatner-and-captain-kirk.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-problems-with-william-shatner-and-captain-kirk.htmlI suppose that I'm prepared for the hate, but I just can't remain quiet. It's finally time to be out with it. We writers often have ideas that live and gestate in the backs of our minds and it just becomes a question when — and whether — we ever let them see the light of day. And for the longest time I was content to let this one just be, perhaps even fester a bit./the-story-behind-it-s-a-wonderful-life.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-story-behind-it-s-a-wonderful-life.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/what-do-the-dots-on-a-guitar-really-mean.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-do-the-dots-on-a-guitar-really-mean.htmlThere are a couple of things about playing guitar that have puzzled me for years. The first is figuring out what to play in a guitar store. I’ve written about that before (in Guitar Noises #15) and the ideal answer still eludes me. What Should You Play in a Guitar Store Every guitar store should have a sign along the lines of “Everyone welcome, come in, sit down and play.” Trying out a guitar you don’t own shouldn’t be a reserved activity for people who shred like Steve Vai./what-is-cinema-by-thomas-flight.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-cinema-by-thomas-flight.htmlIn my latest video, I attempt to actually summarize what I think Martin Scorsese means when he says cinema: “ [Cinema is] a type of experience: of leaving your house, to go to a place where you watch a film with other people. And the film you watch is not just a part of a commercial enterprise produced by a massive corporation and based around existing characters and material- but a unique individual story that is crafted and presented with special care to film language, tradition, and form./what-is-the-sun-sign.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-the-sun-sign.htmlThis is because I think Sun sign compatibility is overrated, and not the most important part of a connection, or what you should be checking for first. However this is not to say it’s totally irrelevant, and while other personal planets may hold more weight, Sun sign compatibility does play into your overall connection. In the upcoming posts we’ll be going into all options for Sun sign compatibility, but first lets cover what the Sun actually represents./what-the-fug-girls-buy-with-their-american.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-the-fug-girls-buy-with-their-american.htmlI’ve been reading The Fug Girls, , pretty much as long as I’ve had INTERNET. For almost a decade, their celebrity fashion/pop culture blog, Go Fug Yourself, was the first thing I’d check when I got to the office early, keeping the browser tiny and in the lower left corner so as not to disrupt my daily performance of “busy theater.” I’d like to thank th…ncG1vNJzZmiZnZeys3rSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWenna61edOhnGaepZx6qLXRpapmmqWueri106FkraCVnr8%3D/wtf-is-a-smash-burger-and-why-you-need-them-in-and-around-your-mouth.htmlThu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/wtf-is-a-smash-burger-and-why-you-need-them-in-and-around-your-mouth.htmlSmash burgers will ruin you for most any other burger. They are made in a way that maximizes the browned crust on the meat that is what gives a burger most of its taste. They are comprised of 2 patties, good old processed cheese and light onion smashed and cooked into the beef. You can only debate the onion, but most don’t. Some have forced me to give them various other cheese variants…./4-0-win-vs-charlotte-fc.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/4-0-win-vs-charlotte-fc.htmlFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inter Miami is through to the semifinals of the Leagues Cup, and the team got there without having to leave second gear in its most recent victory. Inter Miami on Friday advanced to the next round of the tournament via a 4-0 home mauling of Charlotte FC. The lopsided scoreline was indicative of how dominant the South Florida side was from the run of play at Drv Pnk Stadium, but the win was not the latest attacking masterclass from Lionel Messi and Co./a-brief-history-of-the-yardbirds-according-to-drummer-jim-mccarty.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-brief-history-of-the-yardbirds-according-to-drummer-jim-mccarty.htmlLong before Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, and Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs convinced people that Eric Clapton was some kind of “God.” Before the pub-inspired proto-metal of Beck-Ola, and the avant jazz of Blow By Blow signaled the true genius of Jeff Beck. And before Led Zeppelin I, II, III or IV were ever a glint in Jimmy Page’s eye, there was a band called The Yardbirds and they ruled./a-q-a-with-sam-pink.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-q-a-with-sam-pink.htmlMuch of Sam Pink’s writing is characterized by small day-to-day moments. His protagonists are regular guys: they work as dishwashers and barbacks, they unclog sinks and toilets and wrangle garbage, they hang out, they fight, they get wild, get pissed, they observe, listen, notice, feel. Like working-class versions of Nicholson Baker’s white-collar narrator in The Mezzanine, they find truth and beauty in the details, even when the details kind of suck./a-review-of-all-creatures-great-and-small-season-3.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-review-of-all-creatures-great-and-small-season-3.htmlWhere do we find a few good men? This is the question the recently concluded season 3 of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small proposes to answer, both for its age and our own. The show is loosely based on James Herriot’s beloved books of the same name, which were in turn based on his real-life experiences as a veterinarian in the English countryside and previously adapted by the BBC for television./a-sacred-combination-of-amazonian-coca-tobacco.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-sacred-combination-of-amazonian-coca-tobacco.html"Mambe is the pure essence of Mother Earth, that when consumed as medicine, allows us the dialogue to take care of life, of existence, and of nature," — Fernando Choa. Choa, whose tribal name is Nɨmairatofe, is an author and member of the Murui Muina indigenous community — also known as the Uitoto, native to the Colombian Amazon. "Ambil is supreme divinity, our father," he said. "When we consume ambil, we feel the sacred and mystery of nature./about-adam-taggart-s-thoughtful-money.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-adam-taggart-s-thoughtful-money.htmlI started offering premium content to reward the generosity of those folks who were donating money — unprompted & unasked! — to support this new Thoughtful Money venture. I didn’t want to just take their money for free. So I started re-publishing my “Adam’s Notes” for them. These are my detailed Cliffs Notes summaries of the key takeaways from the interviews I conduct each week. Essentially, I take notes so that they don’t have to./about-this-week-in-africa.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-this-week-in-africa.htmlThis Week in Africa (TWiA) is a weekly bulletin that curates news about democracy, development, and daily life across Africa. These concepts are often observed and analyzed separately, yet they are central to African societies. TWiA is delivered every Friday to subscribers’ inbox. As students of politics, we attempt to place the continent’s diversity in its political context. By focusing on democracy, development, and daily life, we believe that we can inform the public about the changes taking place across Africa, as well as the resistant trends that largely stay the same./an-open-letter-to-murphy-karges.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-open-letter-to-murphy-karges.htmlLast Monday night, after a full day of work and volunteering at my church’s weekly bingo, and a number of weird and wild coincidences, I decided to shoot my shot and send out an email to Murphy Karges. Most people are probably not familiar with the name Murphy Karges. ncG1vNJzZmismJqvs7XAp6Oepp6ku7S0zrBlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8orqMqKeepl2hsrXAxKtkraddosKzvMeyZKSZopyytA%3D%3D/book-review-brazen-by-julia-haart.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/book-review-brazen-by-julia-haart.html(This review contains spoilers.) Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie is the much-awaited memoir by Julia Haart, star of Netflix show ‘My Unorthodox Life.’ The book is billed as a triumphant feminist story of a woman who escaped a fundamentalist community- the ultra-Orthodox yeshivish world- to the freedom of modern, secular America. However, the act of writing reveals more truths than we intend. Upon reading the book, I was far more sympathetic to Julia Haart than I had been when watching the show./but-who-loved-luther-vandross.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/but-who-loved-luther-vandross.htmlThe poem I’m sharing tomorrow with paid subscribers was inspired by Craig Seymour’s excellent biography Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross. If you’re a fan of Luther and music history, in general, I can’t recommend that book enough. In this voice note, I talk about some of the complicated nuances of Luther’s life and career. In a way, Luther was an early music stan. He was such a huge fan of the Supremes that when they broke up so Diana could go solo, his grades at school suffered because he was so upset./david-chen-substack.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/david-chen-substack.htmlDavid ChenI've been reviewing film/TV online for 15 yrs. My newsletter is Decoding Everything, where I write about pop culture, tech, & the media. I host and produce the following shows: Decoding TV, A Cast of Kings, The Filmcast, and The Tobolowsky Files. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaWt1Z6aoZ2eqLi6/eli-roth-s-rock-solid-thanksgiving-does-pretty-much-everything-it-says-it-will-on-the-label.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eli-roth-s-rock-solid-thanksgiving-does-pretty-much-everything-it-says-it-will-on-the-label.htmlI recently re-watched the demented 2017 dark comedy Mom and Dad for my podcast Travolta/Cage and The Travolta/Cage Project. It’s an instant cult classic about a world where a strange spell falls over the parents of the earth that causes them to want to murder their children.  Mom and Dad boldly chooses not to give a definitive explanation as to why parents suddenly transformed into murderers en masse but it’s clearly something supernatural./germs-of-an-idea-by-lee-judge.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/germs-of-an-idea-by-lee-judge.htmlFor every idea that becomes an essay or column or unhinged rant (take your pick) that I complete and gets posted I probably have three ideas I start, but never finish. But I don’t want to abandon those partially-completed projects because I never know when I’ll need the germ of an idea so I’ll tuck those unfinished thoughts into a Word document and then totally forget about them until the Word document gets way too big and unwieldy to remember what’s in there, so then I’ll start another Word document./girl-world-had-a-lot-of-rules-by-aisling-walsh.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/girl-world-had-a-lot-of-rules-by-aisling-walsh.htmlMy high school experience is bookended by two movies, Clueless (1995) and Mean Girls (2004), both heavy hitters in the teen movie genre. While Clueless has always been my favourite of the two, Mean Girls seems to have usurped its place as the most iconic, most beloved, most quotable and most memeable high school movie ever made. If Clueless, however, presented a rose-tinted (albeit satirical) portrayal of the possibilities for friendship and romance in high school, Mean Girls was exactly the catharsis I needed after six years of social misery./how-terry-gilliam-s-brazil-shows-how-to-adapt-a-great-book.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-terry-gilliam-s-brazil-shows-how-to-adapt-a-great-book.htmlThe other day on my Discord server, a user asked whether a great book could be turned into a great movie or not. If it could not, then why exactly would it be hard-to-impossible to adapt great books to a different medium? From a Certain Point of View is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid su… ncG1vNJzZmiklZa%2Fr7XNoJibp6WpurDCyJ6qZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLTOsGStnaKnxm6zyKWjopmdqHqjvsCzoKVlo528uL%2BMoaaw/how-to-find-a-great-manager.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-find-a-great-manager.htmlMost people have had a “bad” manager and never want one again. Here is how to find a good one. Most people skip this step. Perhaps they feel it is inappropriate or have never thought of doing so. They look for a job. They research companies and groups, work hard to choose between this role and that role, but rarely take extensive steps to vet the manager. Yet your manager has more impact on your happiness and your success than the company or the specific job role./hugo-ekitike-wants-to-play-for-cameroon-over-france.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hugo-ekitike-wants-to-play-for-cameroon-over-france.htmlFRANKFURT — According to sources, Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike reportedly wants to play for the Cameroonian national team over the French. Ekitike, who is on loan at Frankfurt from Stade Reims, is a youth international for France, having played with the France U20s. He is eligible for France from his birth and Cameroon from his mother. Ekitike inked a loan deal from PSG to Frankfurt over the winter, which includes an option to buy him for $32 million./i-m-mr-sterling-right-hand-arm-man.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-m-mr-sterling-right-hand-arm-man.htmlThe year is 2014. Audio of Donald Sterling, owner of the The Los Angeles Clippers, has just been released to TMZ. It is horrifically racist and sends the NBA into a brief moment of chaos. It bring the uncomfortable racial dynamics at play in Basketball and most major sports in America to the forefront of conversation. Franchises worth billions of dollars are built and sustained on the bodies of black players, while managed and controlled by white owners, who seem to get older and richer with each passing year./in-review-thor-love-and-thunder.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-review-thor-love-and-thunder.htmlThor: Love and Thunder Dir. Taika Waititi 119 min. There don’t need to be four movies about Thor. We have learned all that we can learn about the God of Thunder a.k.a. Point Break a.k.a. One Divine Hammer (okay, that last one is mine), and the series has experienced a full evolution from the Shakespearean intrigue of the first Thor, which Kenneth Branagh occasionally treated like King Lear, to the goofy irreverence of Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok, which seized on Chris Hemsworth’s talent for mild self-deprecation./jeff-dahmer-glasses-by-esther.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jeff-dahmer-glasses-by-esther.htmlMy son is a voracious - and surprisingly responsible - consumer of YouTube. He favours motormouth male broadcasters and so his rota of cultural references is quite sophisticated. We get a lot of sarcastic jokes about “the IMF”, “JFK” and critiques of various conspiracy theories. And then recently, he started talking about Jeff Dahmer. It rang a bell. Jeff Dahmer, Jeff Dahmer… who is that? I wondered as I poked at something in a pan at the stove and listened to Sam rattling on at me in that practised know-it-all tone that YouTubers use./joseph-zieler-sentenced-to-death-following-10-2-jury-recommendation.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/joseph-zieler-sentenced-to-death-following-10-2-jury-recommendation.htmlEarlier this year, Joseph Zieler was tried in Lee County for two counts of first-degree murder related to crimes that occurred decades ago. In May, the jury convicted Zieler on both counts. The trial judge applied the new capital sentencing statute. On May 24, a Lee County jury voted 10-2 to recommend a sentence of death for both counts. The defense filed a motion for new trial on June 2, 2023, and also other motions since the trial./karaoke-night-at-montero-s-by-brad-thomas-parsons.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/karaoke-night-at-montero-s-by-brad-thomas-parsons.htmlThere are definitely some things to seriously consider before moving into an apartment above a bar. I’ve lived above the historic Montero Bar & Grill for three-and-a-half years and, as someone who writes about drinks and bar culture for a living, I feel like I’m an ideal tenant. The bar opened more than 80 years ago on the western edge of Atlantic Avenue, just a few blocks from the Brooklyn Waterfront./listen-to-these-podcasts-2024-edition.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/listen-to-these-podcasts-2024-edition.htmlAbout a year ago, I put up a post of recommended podcasts. A few of you have asked for more recommendations. So here’s a list of the podcasts I’ve enjoyed over the last year. As with last time, I’ll just note that some of these descriptions include spoilers, so if you’re a fan of those “big reveal” podcast moments, you might want skip the descriptions. Feel free to recommend your own favorites in the comments./m-div-dropout-beloved-with-brian-recker.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/m-div-dropout-beloved-with-brian-recker.htmlWhen my wife and I separated, I dropped out of seminary. My dreams for future ministry shriveled up and died inside me along with the death of my marriage. After I resigned from being an evangelical pastor, I had returned to school for a second masters degree, with the intention of revisiting ministry from a more progressive perspective. I thought I would probably become a pastor again. When we separated, I quit./make-your-own-gifs-by-jeremy-caplan.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/make-your-own-gifs-by-jeremy-caplan.htmlGifs are great for adding life to emails, documents or presentations. Some can be silly or cute. Others are useful for illustrating how something works. Read on for a few things to know about gifs, whether you’re a novice or a pro. Gifs can convey motion and emotion. That can make them more engaging than static images, but smaller and easier to send than video files.  Gifs play automatically. Unlike videos that require embed codes and a play button, gifs just work./observational-comedy-substack.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/observational-comedy-substack.htmlobservational comedy is a comedy-focused newsletter that includes features, interviews, and evergreen projects about the world of comedy — both the funny people and the stuff that happens behind-the-scenes. Written by Isabelle Lichtenstein No thanksncG1vNJzZminkqiys8LAraCoppGhsLC5xJ2wZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWQ%3D/on-lineage-and-inheritance-by-neichelle-guidry.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-lineage-and-inheritance-by-neichelle-guidry.htmlif you clicked through the links in last week’s new sabbath, you likely happened upon an article about Netflix’s recent docu-series, High on the Hog: African-American Cuisine Transformed America. when my family and I gathered in Washington, DC for my brother’s graduation last weekend, the series kept coming up. it seemed like everyone in my family had either heard of it, or had already started watching it. it became my Memorial Day mission to begin watching the series./one-dollar-lawyer-2022-a-review.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./population-of-foreign-residents-in-japan-growing.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/population-of-foreign-residents-in-japan-growing.htmlListen to and/or watch the “Read My Lips Podcast Series” version. What’s new:  Population statistics from the latest full census in 2020 and some subsequent studies on the growing number of foreign residents in Japan have just been released, and the data show a 43.6% increase from 2015 to 2020. Including foreign workers and students who have been in Japan for more than 90 days, the latest update shows that foreign residents currently number approximately 3./realistic-ncaa-basketball-simulator-by-vaughn.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/realistic-ncaa-basketball-simulator-by-vaughn.htmlLink to Simulator: Project Overview: The NCAA March Madness tournament is right around the corner and the excitement for college basketball is soon to reach its annual high. As a result, there has been a growing demand for accurate and reliable NCAA game simulators that can provide fans with a realistic preview of what to expect during the tournament, and guidance when making their brackets. Building on the success of a previously released NBA simulator, I decided to take on the challenge of creating an NCAA game simulator that can predict the outcomes and win probabilities of any D1 matchups from teams this year./reeling-backward-the-rainmaker-1956.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/reeling-backward-the-rainmaker-1956.html“The Rainmaker” is basically a two-hour exercise in asking the question, “Is Katharine Hepburn pretty?” If you think that’s a pretty slim premise — not to mention cringe-ingly outdated — upon which to rest an entire feature film, then you’ll feel the same as I did about the picture, which is (sort of) headlined by Burt Lancaster as the title character, a wandering charlatan who really acts more as the story’s spiritual mascot./some-die-in-battle-some-in-bed-forever-amber.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/some-die-in-battle-some-in-bed-forever-amber.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./stanley-kubrick-s-napoleon-the-greatest-movie-never-made.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stanley-kubrick-s-napoleon-the-greatest-movie-never-made.htmlBack in 1968, after completion of "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick turned to the story of Napoleon with the intent of turning it into a monumental historical costume drama. It never happened - but the script exists and it's definitely worth reading. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, has made, frankly, a minor splash. Appreciated … ncG1vNJzZmickaO2prjMmqmtoZ6asKy0wKurZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cL%2FTmqWlnaliuLau0aKapKtdo66xu8uepqdlpJ2ybrPRnpitnaOp/state-of-the-roster-update-commanders-defense.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/state-of-the-roster-update-commanders-defense.htmlEarlier this offseason I started a State of the Roster series, breaking down the Washington Commanders roster at different parts of the offseason to analyze their strengths, rank their needs and give an overall summary of where the team stood. Here is my first look at the state of the Commanders defense from back in February before any major moves had happened and here is my second look at the state of the defense after the main wave of free agency had finished, but before the draft./tahini-banana-bread-with-chocolate.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tahini-banana-bread-with-chocolate.htmlSometime around day 5 after testing positive for Covid, I lost my senses of smell and taste. It was like a light switched off. One second the vapors of my lemon ginger tea were connecting with my brain synapses, and the next second they weren’t. It took me a moment to realize what was happening - and then I panicked. Yoshie and the kids were gone for the day, so I hurled myself out of bed (where I’d spent the majority of my quarantine) and shuffled to the kitchen where I began opening and huffing spices./the-cat-rabbit-year-starts-jan-22-2023.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-cat-rabbit-year-starts-jan-22-2023.htmlSuzanne White THE CAT/RABBIT YEAR (2023) is tiptoeing in, close behind the January 1st western new year this year. The actual Chinese New Year starts on January 22. Since it usually waits till February to begin, this year is an exception. (This Cat/Rabbit year lasts from January 22, 2023 to February 9, 2024.) FORECAST FOR 2023 - THE WATER RABBIT YEAR - Thanks for reading SUZANNE SEZ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work./the-familect-of-culture-study.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-familect-of-culture-study.htmlThis is the weekend 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. Paid Subscribers: If you haven’t activated your invitation to Sidechannel, email me for a new one. If you’re curious, read more about it here. Here is Steve. Aka: Stove, Stoveeno, Stove the Bove, Stovine the Bovine, Green Bean, Green Beaner/the-new-cult-canon-support-the-girls.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-new-cult-canon-support-the-girls.html“I love being professional. That’s always, like, huge for me.” — Dylan Gelula, Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls takes place in an alien world—a world where people get paid by the hour and have no benefits, a world where they have to make rent on shitty apartments with scuffed walls and worn beige carpets, a world that chips away at their dignity and self-respect. This is an alien world because we do not see it nearly as often on screen as worlds with aliens in them, which is a Hollywood problem that’s shared, to some degree, by American independent films that feel conspicuously disconnected from lived experience./what-the-heck-are-etls-by-anh-tho-chuong.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-the-heck-are-etls-by-anh-tho-chuong.htmlWhat's the proven best way to learn a new language? By surrounding yourself with native speakers. One of my cofounders pointed out that this is exactly what I do when I attend our 'tech meetings'. Guilty. 🥺 I end up picking up new words, and trying to understand them. I can even 'fake it' for a while and have a conversation using those, without really knowing what they mean./where-silence-has-lease-by-chris-bateman.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/where-silence-has-lease-by-chris-bateman.htmlPicard is pacing about the bridge, admiring Troi's new haircut, then he sits down and performs the Picard manoeuvre on his uniform. We cut to Worf and Riker stalking about in a foggy Sound Stage 16... there's monsters! And Worf even beats one (Worf 2 Aliens 4)... oh wait, it's just a holodeck simulation (back to Worf 1 Aliens 4). Now, onto this week's story. We're exploring the Morgana Quadrant, which is amazing because the previous script actually said that was where we would be going next (!/why-the-cheers-theme-song-resonates-with-us-more-than-ever.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-the-cheers-theme-song-resonates-with-us-more-than-ever.html“…Where everybody knows your name… ….And they’re always glad you came…” Has there ever been a more apt description of the perfect local watering hole? I don’t believe so. The Cheerstheme song — officially titled, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” — began as another song written by songwriting duo Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo for a Broadway musical called Preppies. The song, “People Like Us,” made its way to TV producers Glen and Les Charles, who were looking for the perfect theme song for their new NBC sitcom set in a local bar in Boston, Massachusetts./yung-chomsky-podcast-producer-thought-enthusiast.htmlWed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/yung-chomsky-podcast-producer-thought-enthusiast.htmlThought Enthusiast is an AdHoc Project where we chat with fascinating thought leaders across various facets of music, tech, and culture whose work we admire, simply asking “what’s on your mind?” and “why do you care?” 💭 Yung Chomsky works as the producer of the TrueAnon podcast. He grew up in New Jersey and has called Pittsburgh, Philly, and San Francisco home. These days he lives in Brooklyn. Before his podcast, he was a guitar teacher, a proofreader, and a software engineer, among other things./kintsugi-by-lana-del-rey.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kintsugi-by-lana-del-rey.html"Kintsugi" by Lana Del Rey takes its name from the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, silver or platinum, creating a new and unique piece of art. The idea is that the repair isn't something to hide, but rather it is part of the story of the object. You could say that it actually makes the original piece more beautiful and interesting. Through brokenness comes new life. Below, is a photo of kintsugi from the 16th century./10-hidden-gems-of-buffalo-dining.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/10-hidden-gems-of-buffalo-dining.htmlA recent Buffalo Reddit thread asked for the “best unknown places to eat in Buffalo.” The answers identify lots of worthwhile eating opportunities.  Before offering my patrons the Four Bites version, let me pause to explain how your support makes a Four Bites report better eating intel.  As an agent of my readers, I check out tips and sightings, plus intel from other sources, every week. Your $.97 a week buys you information analyzed and verified by a professional journalist./a-crash-course-on-christopher-lasch.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-crash-course-on-christopher-lasch.htmlDear readers, Due to recent travel, and a more ambitious turn I am taking on my upcoming essay on the Covid, I have slightly modified my short-term plans and am offering you a brief introduction to the thought of Christopher Lasch, adapted from the little book I published a few years ago in French. With the multiplication of references to Lasch recently, and the very Laschian tone of Limits and Hope, I thought it would be useful for you all to have a short, but comprehensive presentation of his work as a resource material./about-welcome-to-hell-world.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-welcome-to-hell-world.html“Luke O’Neil’s Welcome To Hell World is a vital and despairing collection of essays on modern American life.” -Longreads “Reading his popular, semi-weekly newsletter Hell World is a lot like staring deep into O’Neil’s soul, and it’s often a pretty dark place. Hell World is unusual, to say the least. It’s a mix of reporting, essay-writing, memoir, song lyrics, music videos, tweets, and whatever else appeals to him in a given week, all of it written in a stream-of-consciousness style that eschews commas, leans into run-on sentences, and is often thousands of words long./an-introduction-to-upa-by-animation-obsessive-staff.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-introduction-to-upa-by-animation-obsessive-staff.htmlHappy Sunday! We’re back again with a new issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. The agenda goes like this: 1️⃣ Where to start with UPA. 2️⃣ The news in animation, worldwide. Just finding us? You can sign up to receive our Sunday issues right in your email inbox — every week, for free: Sign Up With that, let’s go! If you were to say that animation hit maturity at Disney in the ‘30s, you’d have a point./an-oasis-for-truckers-and-travelers-at-compass-travel-center.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-oasis-for-truckers-and-travelers-at-compass-travel-center.htmlCompass Travel Center - Photos by Staff ReportersDEMOTTE - Travelers and local residents have another option for fuel off of Interstate 65 and Indiana 10. The newly opened Compass Travel Center is not just a fueling station, but inside you will find a Dunkin Donuts, an upscale American-European grill, a travelers lounge, and a semi-truck showroom. The Compass Travel Center recently had a soft opening and is starting to serve customers./animorphs-7-5-megamorphs-1-the-andalite-s-gift.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/animorphs-7-5-megamorphs-1-the-andalite-s-gift.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./artemis-of-ephesus-why-her-identity-matters.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/artemis-of-ephesus-why-her-identity-matters.htmlGuest post by Sandra L. Glahn, author of Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament. When a woman goes into labor these days, friends and relatives usually cheer, celebrate, and bring gifts. But in first-century Ephesus, such celebrations would have been tempered by trembling, appeasing idols, and offering gifts to gods—especially Artemis. Whereas childbirth is always risky, childbirth in the ancient world was positively deadly. Childbirth was the number-one killer of women ages 15-29./baby-ruby-is-a-paranoid-pregnancy-horror-with-a-bite.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/baby-ruby-is-a-paranoid-pregnancy-horror-with-a-bite.htmlI'm 99 percent sure that most babies come from the Devil — and as descendants of evil, they’ll try with everything they have at their disposal to make you, the parent, meet their master. The little hellspawns scream their lungs out all night to keep you awake, shit and piss on you, and even bite your nipples until they bleed. Attempting to steal your every waking moment and hoping you’ll eventually drop dead from sleep deprivation (which is why I’ll probably never have kids since I’d die within the first month)./comments-beatnik-phrenology-by-jeet-heer.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-beatnik-phrenology-by-jeet-heer.htmlTheodor Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes ---“You are being invited to help make history,” Herzl wrote to Rhodes. “[I]t doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial… [Y]ou, Mr. Rhodes, are a visionary politician or a practical visionary… --- https://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/actually-herzl-was-a-colonialist//comments-savory-red-onion-marmalade.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-savory-red-onion-marmalade.htmlThis recipe really appeals to me, (I love red onions). I suspect a few whole cloves added to the preparation stage might be a good adddition, only one way to know though. Also appreciate that the recipe is concise and straightfpoward, it's more likely to actually be made. I've enjoyed the letters, recipes and anecdotes you've written both here and on the blog over the years. Merci beaucoup! Passez de bonnes fêtes de fin d'année David, et bonne anniversaire entre Noël et le jour de l'an./curious-about-ozempic-here-s-the-lowdown.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/curious-about-ozempic-here-s-the-lowdown.htmlI've been on Mounjaro since April of 2023. I've lost over 45 lbs. and dropped below diabetic level in my blood sugars. I no longer even count calories or steps; I simply plan sensible meals and exercise daily. At first, the weight loss was startling, but now it has slowed down to a more realistic 2–4 lbs. a week. In short, Mounjaro has transformed my life. The first week of the injection I had pretty serious side effects, including one evening where I basically just stayed in the bathroom./disturbing-and-misleading-efforts-to-defame-helen-toner-through-misdirection.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/disturbing-and-misleading-efforts-to-defame-helen-toner-through-misdirection.htmlLet it not be said that Sam Altman doesn’t have his admirers. At least two proxies have gone after Helen Toner, one (by a pair of prominent authors, both on OpenAI’s board) in The Economist, highbrow, one low (a post on X that got around 200,000 views). Both read to me as deeply misleading, verging on defamatory. The lowbrow attack comes from an anonymous poster; in my view it is wrong on every point but not worth wasting a lot of time on./how-much-is-that-lifestyle-in-the-window.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-much-is-that-lifestyle-in-the-window.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-refrigeration-changed-our-food-our-planet-and-ourselves.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-refrigeration-changed-our-food-our-planet-and-ourselves.htmlBack in 2007, I saw a model kitchen designed by Donald Chong at the Interior Design Show titled “Small fridges make good cities.” Ever since, I have been obsessed with food and fridges. Fifty or so years ago, my first summer job was working for my dad’s shipping container manufacturing and leasing company; I was sent down to Toronto’s stockyards to see how a big client, Canada Packers, packed those offal parts of cows that Canadians wouldn’t eat and shipped them in reefers (newfangled refrigerated containers) to the Caribbean, where they were part of the local diet./how-to-use-dbt-snapshots.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-use-dbt-snapshots.htmlEvery day I am asked more and more questions about dbt. dbt is taking over the world of data transformation! This wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t a great product. I want to start highlighting some of the lesser-known features of dbt that help to make it such a powerful tool. One of these features is snapshots. Had I even known about this feature soone… ncG1vNJzZmiklZa%2Fr63NmqOyrJmYwKa6xqKlnp2inruoetKumayskZi4b6%2FOpmapZ5ikxG7AzmasrJ1dma%2B1edKnmKmrmKTBtA%3D%3D/i-m-in-the-new-louis-ck-documentary-here-s-why.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-m-in-the-new-louis-ck-documentary-here-s-why.htmlThere’s a new documentary about the Louis CK scandal called Sorry/Not Sorry. To be clear: I haven’t seen it yet and don’t have an opinion on it. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival a couple weeks ago to – from what I gather - a mixed reaction. Among the knocks against the movie are the fact that almost none of the comedians who criticized him at the time agreed to appear in the film./invisible-yet-invaluable-valuing-intangibles.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/invisible-yet-invaluable-valuing-intangibles.htmlA few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. After a buzzy open, when the stock jumped from its offering price of $30 a share to $42, the stock has quickly given up those gains and now trades at below to its offer price./ipl-auctions-market-dynamics-series-part-2.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ipl-auctions-market-dynamics-series-part-2.htmlPart one of this series of writing about the market dynamics of the IPL auctions can be viewed here. This gives an introduction to some of the areas which will be discussed in the coming pieces of writing in the series. Buy Me A Coffee I spoke a little about the stages of the auction cycles in part one and how that these can change the constantly changing market value of players both in the tournament and for the available talent in the auction pool, and I want to get into much more depth here on the topic of player ages, and how current expected performance levels are not the same as future expected performance levels./is-your-bought-kimchi-dead-or-alive.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-your-bought-kimchi-dead-or-alive.htmlKimchi, the tangy Korean fermented cabbage condiment for spicing up a boring chicken mayo sandwich or cheese toastie, may prevent weight gain. Or so says new research hitting the headlines this week. Scientists think that the bacteria that proliferate in kimchi as it is fermented - namely various types of lactobacillus - may help silence genes which are involved in us gaining weight. They think that eating 1-3 portions of kimchi containing live bacteria daily, may help keep a lid on weight gain./javier-rivas-showing-signs-of-life-offensively.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/javier-rivas-showing-signs-of-life-offensively.htmlFew players are as good defensively in the Pirates’ system as Javier Rivas. Despite standing at 6’6”, Rivas moves around well on the field, making some of the most difficult plays look easy at shortstop and third base. It’s been a different story at the plate, as Rivas has struggled to hit over the last two years while with the Marauders. Despite this being his second tour in Single-A, Rivas got off to an awful start to the season./john-mcwhorter-and-peter-arcidiacono-the-economics-of-sffa-v-harvard.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/john-mcwhorter-and-peter-arcidiacono-the-economics-of-sffa-v-harvard.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./leave-the-world-behind-review-that-ending-deserved.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/leave-the-world-behind-review-that-ending-deserved.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. — The other day, A24 released the trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War./let-the-bullets-fly-for-a-while.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/let-the-bullets-fly-for-a-while.htmlLast month, while researching Didi, I stepped away for a few days. But this is a time when days feel like years, especially in Chinese tech. Mere days after Didi Global’s $4.4bn IPO on the Nasdaq, their apps were removed from online stores at the behest of the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC). The reason cited was violations of personal data collection.  Rather than capital, I feel like Chinese regulators never sleep./may-i-say-by-isabel.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/may-i-say-by-isabel.htmlI added another medal to my stack-o-medals that hangs from my mirror, my legs are killing me, yet I am brave enough to sit here and write another installment of your favorite newsletter that you did not ask for: DARE I SAY. We’re back, baby. And dare I say it has been a long month. It seems like forever ago I was writing the April newsletter, but now it is May and then summer and so much is going on./meet-major-eye-candy-the-palace-s-secret-weapon.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/meet-major-eye-candy-the-palace-s-secret-weapon.htmlFirstly, a declaration: we are very much invested in this week’s lead story. Here at The Royal List we’ve been enthusiastic admirers of Lt Col Johnny Thompson for a couple of years. C’mon just look at him, how many men can consistently pull off wearing a kilt with such insouciance while emanating masterful vibes and flashing a warm and winning smile. Seems quite a lot of you feel the same way./men-explaining-matriarchy-to-me.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/men-explaining-matriarchy-to-me.htmlIn the span of the last week, I went from not having a single thought about barbie, to taking a bullet for her. It seems like almost everybody has an opinion or has been radicalized by the Barbie movie. Like any great work of art, Barbie has sparked a lot of conversation and debate. Sure, it’s made a lot of people angry, but I actually think that it’s just brought a lot to the surface that was already percolating for years./my-review-of-building-resilient-organizations-by-maurice-mitchell.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-review-of-building-resilient-organizations-by-maurice-mitchell.htmlI will admit it, I used to be steeped in progressive, social justice, movement work. For over a decade I was in “the movement” in one form or another and I helped produce work that was designed to strengthen and support movement builders. As part of the organization the Active Element Foundation we developed a searchable online database and a book to accompany it called The Future 500. My job was to find people that were youth organizers all across the country./news-from-a-changing-planet-tatiana-schlossberg.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/news-from-a-changing-planet-tatiana-schlossberg.htmlNews, ideas, questions and answers about climate change and the environment on an evolving earth from Tatiana Schlossberg, a climate change and environmental journalist. By Tatiana Schlossberg · Over 2,000 subscribersNo thanks“We love Tatiana's insightful writing about climate, culture and science.” ncG1vNJzZmibmJa7qLXNoKelmZ6awW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo/on-his-hhof-induction-night-some-personal-memories-of-pierre-lacroix.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-his-hhof-induction-night-some-personal-memories-of-pierre-lacroix.htmlOne person I really miss in this world is Pierre Lacroix. I’ve written plenty about him over the years, but on a night in which he was (finally) inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder, there is always room for a few more Pierre stories. First off, it was really nice to see such a large turnout of ex-Avs greats tonight in Toronto, such as Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Patrick Roy and Ray Bourque./rachel-maldonado-interviews-dr-paul-elias-alexander-september-5th-2022-on-the-covid-response.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rachel-maldonado-interviews-dr-paul-elias-alexander-september-5th-2022-on-the-covid-response.htmlDr Alexander: Please get a lapel microphone, preferably a "noise cancelling" type, so we hear you and not the reverberations from your office walls. I'd recommend calling B&H Photo/Video in NYC (bhphotovideo.com) and asking for a recommendation. I am not affiliated with B&H, except that I spend way too much money there. Keep up your good works! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51krrG8jKWgp6Nfpby0wJ6prJukmZiutbXOp5ainG1qhHp%2FlG9dqaejqayqsJxwaWlqZmqEdXLUraSYq5%2Bqv6SxnKysm6uklrCsctStpJillZm2trmcnqSaoZxbtrSS0Z6cppmZoYq1vtSeXZynnaKyr8DSdqurrZVbwbC3xKd0nrF6ZrBzotiRaaWjeZ%2B8dZujimiGonGumoTDyJx%2BcrKUe4axpqKCbYeyeayaq6WQh7GKq3miuamwooJthoyJZ5qrodeHoXqyfXjEqqa3oa6Cop%2Btm6ulkIaLemx9eZq4mKKDp5xrfZ6cqpbWnY6CrH6JsHaZ2Y5pgqGnnrB0osiCoaihk3yGu7CiarCTj3afsYi41Zugg3FeabyDxcCrjaStcXmxmrnGnWdykHqpk4R%2F1G5tjIt8j5Vzm6iRmaFweo2%2BdXLUraSYq5%2Bqv6SxnKysm6uklrCsctStpJillZm2trmcnqSaoZw%3D/review-our-flag-means-death-mermen.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-our-flag-means-death-mermen.html“You don’t know the first thing about piracy, do you. It’s not about glory. It’s not about getting what you want. It’s about belonging to something when the world has told you you’re nothin.’ It’s about finding the family to kill for when yours are long dead. It’s about letting go of ego for something larger. The crew.” Several times during my reviews of this second season of Our Flag Means Death, I’ve criticized Max’s decision to air the season in such a compressed way./s-mores-pie-by-carolina-gelen.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/s-mores-pie-by-carolina-gelen.htmlThis recipe brings all the flavors of s’mores — chocolate, marshmallows, graham crackers — together in a pie dish. A chunky, brown butter graham cracker crust is filled with a rich and silky chocolate ganache — a fudgy mixture of chocolate, cream and a splash of liquor — and topped with toasty, marshmallowy meringue. If turning your oven seems like too much of a task these days, this recipe’s for you./stalemate-zugzwang-and-a-long-middle-game.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/stalemate-zugzwang-and-a-long-middle-game.htmlStalemate, Zugzwang and a long Middle Game  ‘To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could./the-beach-car-by-catherine-hiller.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-beach-car-by-catherine-hiller.htmlI am not a car person. I know my friends’ cars by their color not their makes. I’ve had only a couple of new cars in my life, including the “newest,” above, pictured on the day I drove it off the lot. It’s a 2012 Honda Insight, which I still have, and perhaps I chose it because of its name (a writer’s dream!) as well as its environmental virtues. It’s a hybrid, with excellent gas mileage, but the pickup is sluggish./the-kushner-family-alan-dershowitz-and-trump-white-house-pardons.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-kushner-family-alan-dershowitz-and-trump-white-house-pardons.htmlSo, in Sunday’s New York Times there was a very long, detailed article about a seemingly very strange Trump White House pardon to a young man, Jonathan Braun, who had ties to the Kushner family. According to The Times, Braun was serving a 10-year sentence for trafficking marijuana and cooperating with a federal investigation, when the pardon came down the pike. As a result the government lost a key witness and a major investigation into predatory lending was stalled./the-lake-isle-of-innisfree.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree.htmlHave you ever been in a place where you’ve lived for some time, and still felt that you were not really home there, and could never be home? That was how Debra and I felt when I’d taken my first job as a professor in — well, I won’t say exactly where it was. Sometimes it isn’t on account of the place itself, which many people might find sweet and love…/the-life-and-struggle-of-baltimorean-boxer-joe-gans.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-life-and-struggle-of-baltimorean-boxer-joe-gans.htmlJoe Gans’s rise from orphaned and hard-working Baltimore Harbor oyster shucker to becoming the first African American to hold a world boxing title in 1902 is remarkable. He arguably was the first Black person to break the color barrier in any American professional sport. [2] Black and white Baltimorean press coverage of his story reveal the city’s social tensions at the turn of the twentieth century. Black Baltimoreans rallied around Gans./the-power-of-10-year-goals-by-seth-odell.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-power-of-10-year-goals-by-seth-odell.htmlAs another year comes to a close and a new one is set to begin, so many of us are taking time to reflect and imagine what may be in store for us in the year ahead. In that spirit, I wanted to revisit one of my favorite newsletters from the earliest days of Kanahoma. It’s the story of how Kanahoma came to be thanks to a single, simple question. How I upended my life and set this whole wild journey in motion./the-witchvox-project-by-peg-aloi.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-witchvox-project-by-peg-aloi.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./what-happened-to-twitch-by-mike-shields.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-happened-to-twitch-by-mike-shields.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./who-originated-the-brooks-and-dunn-classic.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-originated-the-brooks-and-dunn-classic.htmlPeak: #9 on the Hot 100 Streams: 9.2 million As I’ve mentioned in this lil’ newsletter before, I read back issues of Billboard magazine for fun, and if you’d like to be as cool as me, then you can dig through this well-organized archive as you’re winding down your evening. Recently, I was startled to learn that in 1996 Brooks and Dunn were unsure about re… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wudhmpJqqmZZ6o8OMrKuerpWjwLC6jGpwcGs%3D/why-did-god-command-the-invasion-of-canaan-in-the-book-of-joshua.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-did-god-command-the-invasion-of-canaan-in-the-book-of-joshua.htmlThe conquest of the Canaanites in the book of Joshua is among the most challenging passages in the Bible for modern readers. It’s also one that we’re not typically equipped to understand at first glance. Most readers imagine that God commissioned his nation to vengefully wipe out an entire nation of Canaanite men, women, and children. Let’s start with what’s hard about this story. Even a cursory reading of Joshua can provoke questions that leave us confused, angry, and perhaps even ready to give up on the Bible and on God./the-advanced-player-of-the-tutorial-tower-review.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-advanced-player-of-the-tutorial-tower-review.htmlHappy September, everyone! I’m starting off the month with a review of The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Toweron Webtoon. It sits under the “Action” category and is set in a modern-day setting, but it heavily depends on a lot of LITRPG and Fantasy tropes. I’ll be reviewing up to Episode 10 with no spoilers beyond that point.  After the mysterious Tutorial Tower appears on Earth, Kim Hyeonu finds himself one of the unlucky victims selected to go in and get tested./big-brother-by-ye-supporting-bigotry-or-compassion-for-a-broken-man.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/big-brother-by-ye-supporting-bigotry-or-compassion-for-a-broken-man.htmlDisclaimer: You do NOT have to listen to the accompanying music to understand this piece…but you will not get the entire multimedia experience and/or message without it. Please at least turn it on in the background at a comfortable volume that still allows you to read and comprehend. Thank you and enjoy. This article will not deconstruct or solve (sadly, still) modern complexities like anti-Semitism, racism, or bigotry. This piece will not defend Kanye “Ye” West./the-crown-finally-gives-its-senior-cast-the-chance-to-shine.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-crown-finally-gives-its-senior-cast-the-chance-to-shine.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!/a-brief-history-of-the-charles-w-ward-reservation.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-brief-history-of-the-charles-w-ward-reservation.htmlThe Charles W. Ward Reservation is one of the foremost recreation areas in the region. Its history precedes Andover and requires the study of both land and people The primary feature of the reservation is its hills: Holt, Shrub, and Boston. The technical term for them is drumlins. Ten to twenty thousand years ago, they formed deep beneath glacial ice as meltwater deposited gravel, silt, and sand. The hills are very young./a-lower-than-below-deck-down-under.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-lower-than-below-deck-down-under.htmlSPOILER WARNING: This recap gets into the latest episodes of Below Deck Down Under: S2, E6 “All Wrong” and E7 “The Turnover Day”! If you don’t want any of that spoiled, come back later. BTW, if you want these regularly, they’re on the Patreon. I cover Below Deck on the podcast a lot and occasionally get into some of the incredibly weird moments on here. Well, Below Deck Down Under’s double episodes last night were so horrifying that I still haven’t processed everything that happened./a-scoring-rubric-for-jukebox-musicals.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-scoring-rubric-for-jukebox-musicals.htmlThe war is over and the jukebox musicals have won. At least, for the time being. Whatever dream I had of a Broadway season featuring exclusively original scores now feels hopelessly naive. As the theater industry continues to recover from the pandemic, the producers willing to take chances on wholly new material are fewer and farther between. And while there are still exciting and innovative musicals on Broadway (I love you Kimberly Akimbo), theater has become increasingly reliant on IP./about-perspectives.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-perspectives.htmlPerspectives aims to be your personal “career coach” in a newsletter. Hi, I am, Deb Liu. I have been a Silicon Valley tech executive of nearly two decades. I am the President & CEO of Ancestry, a tech company focused on helping people connect to their family history and tell their family story. Prior to that, I was the Vice-President at Facebook where I served on the executive team. I led a number of products throughout the years including Marketplace, Facebook Payments, Platform, and Games./an-underrated-baseball-movie-finds-its-soul-in-a-song.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-underrated-baseball-movie-finds-its-soul-in-a-song.htmlThe Brian’s Song of baseball. That’s a label you could place on the 1973 movie Bang the Drum Slowly, which starred Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty and came out two years after the James Caan-Billy Dee Williams football tearjerker premiered on ABC. It’s not a perfect comparison, though. For one, it undersells Bang the Drum Slowly to suggest that it is belongs in another film’s category. Not to mention that its origin story goes back farther, dating back to the Mark Harris novel from the 1950s./apple-tysons-corner-a-new-chapter.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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/ask-me-anything.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ask-me-anything.htmlFire away, please ask me anything and we can have a chat in the thread. Apparently the cool kids call these AMAs (I just can’t keep up!). I’ll kick things off - “So Melissa, what’s your favourite porridge topping?”… “Well, funny you should ask, at the moment I love stewed apples with sticky spiced nuts and seeds” ncG1vNJzZmillaG2tL%2FAoZymq5yaxm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2iZo6B6rrGMmqWyrJieu6h7wqikpp2eqcA%3D/carthago-delenda-est-by-paul-logan.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/carthago-delenda-est-by-paul-logan.htmlDo you know who Cato the Elder is? No? Well OK quick history lesson: Rome used to have an enemy south of them on the mediterranean: Carthage. It was a pretty decent place, and they didn’t trifle with any Roman hoo-ha though - so much so that they got into multiple wars with their northern neighbor. Three, in fact. We call these “The Punic Wars”. The third one ended with Rome going total overkill; they razed the city and sold any and all survivors into slavery./comments-lemon-olive-oil-cake.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-lemon-olive-oil-cake.htmlI found the cake portion on the dry side and I did it on 40 mins (on the lower end of the range). How would I make it more moist, add another egg? I also had a thermometer inside the over so i know it was running true at 350 degrees. It looked a bit thinner than the video, and i use a 10" springform pan. Wonder if perhaps an 8"/danger-will-robinson-by-robert.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/danger-will-robinson-by-robert.htmlI started rewatching a show that I encountered as a wee youth; Lost in Space. To be clear, the original show aired in the 1960s and was already old by the time I started watching it in the late 1980s and early 90s. No, I am not talking about that show. I am talking about the Netflix remake that lasted for three seasons. Whenever I rewatch this show I ge…/deep-fried-whole-black-truffle-by-dennis-lee.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/deep-fried-whole-black-truffle-by-dennis-lee.htmlHello, clowns! Something magical happened this week. After I posted about eating a whole jarred truffle, someone (who wishes to stay anonymous), informed me that they could get me a fresh black one. I didn’t think it would be that easy, but sure enough, a few days later, I was staring at a big black truffle cradled in a pint container of rice. Holy shit. I’d purchased extra jarred truffles for the sake of fucking around with them today, but never in a million years had I expected to get my hands on a fresh one./do-sardinians-actually-eat-a-brain-healthy-diet.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/do-sardinians-actually-eat-a-brain-healthy-diet.htmlHello, everyone. I am writing to you from Lecce, the first leg of this week’s brain health retreat in Puglia. Lecce is nicknamed “Little Florence” because of its Baroque architecture. It’s one of those places where your neck starts to hurt from looking up. There is so much to see where the tops of the buildings meet the sky! So far I have been loving the aperitivo culture. The city falls silent from 3 to 5 pm (while everyone takes a pisolino, or short nap) then abruptly comes back to life./ed-conlin-s-many-presentations-to-youth.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ed-conlin-s-many-presentations-to-youth.htmlOne of the unfortunate results of the Servants of the Word’s promotion of Ed Conlin as a celebrity songwriter and speaker over the past two decades is that it gave Ed a chance to travel outside of Detroit and interact with youth in so many locations. We cannot fault the people or groups who invited Ed since the Servants of the Word had not advertised his past history or any restrictions./escaping-north-korea-by-lawrence-freedman.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/escaping-north-korea-by-lawrence-freedman.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./finding-a-job-in-climate.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/finding-a-job-in-climate.html“I’m a [software engineer, product manager, lawyer, analyst, so on] and I want to transition to climate work. Where should I look?” I get a version of this question a lot. This note summarizes how I usually answer it in case it’s useful for folks asking a similar question. In general, I’ve seen (and myself taken) two approaches to getting a job in climate. I’ll call them the ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ approach./fisher-crisp-star-as-si-seals-bruce-mahoney-trophy.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fisher-crisp-star-as-si-seals-bruce-mahoney-trophy.htmlFor St. Ignatius to have four scorers in double figures is nothing new. Tuesday’s 69-51 Bruce-Mahoney Game victory over Sacred Heart Cathedral at USF’s War Memorial Gym is the sixth time in 13 games the Wildcats have reached that mark this year. What made Tuesday’s win over the Fightin’ Irish unique was who did the scoring. Yes, the trio of Marcus Bast and sophomores Steele Labagh and Raymond Whitley were all in double figures, but the fourth big Wildcat scorer was backup guard Sebastian Fisher, who scored 13 of his 15 in the first half to help his school secure the vaunted multi-sport trophy for a fourth consecutive year./hannah-cox-substack.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hannah-cox-substack.htmlThe Cox Curation By Hannah Cox Hi Everyone! My newsletter has moved into a joint Locals page for BASEDPolitics with Brad Polumbo. We'd love for you to support our work there. If you've already signed up here, I'll send you a code for Locals, but otherwise please redirect there instead ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjamtzaeYoZufrQ%3D%3D/hog-wild-for-pig-stands.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/hog-wild-for-pig-stands.htmlOne last Oklahoma Barbecue history lesson before we let the month of May slip into summer… We all know barbecue has been popular since raw meat first fell into open fire, but in Oklahoma it became big business because of the Pig Stand. Founder Jessie G. Kirby opened his first with Dr. Reuben Jackson in October of 1921 in Dallas, fundamentally changing the way America eats to this day. Not because Kirby’s Pig Stand was home to “The Juicy Pig Sandwich,” though./how-the-half-hanged-witch-of-hadley-inspired-the-handmaid-s-tale.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-the-half-hanged-witch-of-hadley-inspired-the-handmaid-s-tale.htmlAll night, she hung in that tree. A lynching, plain and clear. At least it would have been, if she’d died. But she didn’t die. They’d grabbed her, those young men, tying her hands as she screamed and fought. Forced the noose over her head and hung her in the tree. And then they left. Left her to hang there, hour after hour, as the sky got dark and then light again and I can’t help but wonder what she was thinking all those long hours./how-virgil-abloh-became-a-streetwear-legend.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-virgil-abloh-became-a-streetwear-legend.htmlSong of the week: Sauce Walka & Daringer: I’m Him No drums, all bars. My favorite song right now and I encourage you to listen. And now for today’s essay… Paris Fashion Week just passed, and everyone from Pharrell to J. Lo was in attendance to show see the next season’s latest and greatest styles. In the midst of that, it got me thinking about Virgil Abloh, which led to an insight of sorts:/in-defense-of-the-boring-life.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-defense-of-the-boring-life.htmlWithin my first few months of living in Dallas, I saw a car with a bumper sticker on it that read, “Keep Dallas Boring.” At first, I thought it was a jab at the city for its reputation as a cultureless, corporate purgatory, in contrast to Austin, where the unofficial city motto is, “Keep Austin Weird.” But I decided I would take the bumper sticker at its word. I took the car’s owner to be saying that the boringness of Dallas is the best thing about it./in-prada-caitlin-clark-realizes-the-wnba-wants-a-piece-of-her.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-prada-caitlin-clark-realizes-the-wnba-wants-a-piece-of-her.html     The WNBA’s logo defenders, paid to protect a painted stripe at 22 feet and 1.75 inches, heard an annoying word Monday. “Prada,” Caitlin Clark said at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, explaining her white satin shirt and skirt with an embroidered rhinestone top, leather slingback pumps, a black handbag and acetate sunglasses.      Her midriff also was exposed, which thrilled her boyfriend at the scene, Connor McCaffery. “I don’t think Prada has ever fitted an NBA or WNBA player before, so kinda sleek, kinda special,” she said./jalen-brunson-isn-t-an-all-star-starter-because-of-you.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jalen-brunson-isn-t-an-all-star-starter-because-of-you.htmlGood morning. Let’s basketball. L’Atelier Rouge; Henri Matisse; 1911 Last week I looked at the penultimate fan voting release for the NBA All-Star starters’ race and surmised who would get the nods based on what we know about player and media voting. My predictions finished 9/10. Honestly, there were only two real questions: the second backcourt spot in each conference. In the West, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander needed to win either the media or player vote and have Anthony Edwards pass Stephen Curry in player or media vote./kathleen-duval-on-a-thousand-year-history-of-native-nations-in-north-america.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kathleen-duval-on-a-thousand-year-history-of-native-nations-in-north-america.htmlIs history, particularly the last thousand year history of North America, written by the victors? Perhaps. After all, as Kathleen DuVal, the author of NATIVE NATIONS reminds us, a thousand years ago, back in 1024, North America was inhabited by a rich mosaic of indigenous civilizations that in many ways mirrored European societies. Today, of course, things are quite different. But as DuVal, a much acclaimed historian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, reminds us, in 1024, a sophisticated collection of North American indigenous communities inhabited advanced urban areas linked by diplomatic and trading networks./kim-soo-hyun-is-south-korea-s-highest-paid-actor-deserves-every-penny.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kim-soo-hyun-is-south-korea-s-highest-paid-actor-deserves-every-penny.htmlThere are few actors who pick projects as well as Kim Soo-hyun does. I know that either you’re nodding your head along with me or you’re wondering, “Who is this man of which you speak?!” Kim, 36, is South Korea’s highest-paid actor … and with good reason. He has an emotional range that can break your heart, while also making you laugh out loud shortly thereafter. The actor is so popular that even when he makes a cameo appearance in films (“Miss Granny”) and K-dramas (“Crash Landing on You,” “Hotel del Luna”), it becomes news./lana-del-rey-and-the-transgressions-of-conservatism.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lana-del-rey-and-the-transgressions-of-conservatism.htmlA question which has come to me repeatedly of late is this: If the arts sector is overwhelmingly progressive, how can there be anything transgressive about producing art with a progressive message? A progressive artist is about as rebellious as a libertarian tech-entrepreneur. This is not to say that there is anything more disruptive about being a committed contrarian. This just becomes its own form of conformism after a while; it is only to identify that there is a disjunct between seeing one’s art as a challenge to society yet also producing art in utter accordance with the values of the social milieu which surrounds its maker./laurie-ochoa-substack.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/laurie-ochoa-substack.htmlLaurie OchoaGeneral manager of Food coverage at the Los Angeles Times. Formerly was LA Weekly editor-in-chief, co-founder Slake: Los Angeles, Gourmet magazine executive editor, L.A. Times Food editor. Co-author “Nancy Silverton’s Breads of the La Brea Bakery.” ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja2t1KugnqeTnbyi/letter-from-iceland-51-by-alda-sigmundsd%C3%B3ttir.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/letter-from-iceland-51-by-alda-sigmundsd%C3%B3ttir.htmlThe other day I was at my local pool, ready to head outside after showering. I was just passing the racks where we leave our towels when I heard something drop behind me and turned around. Rolling along the floor was the little bottle of shampoo that I had wrapped inside my towel before placing it in the rack. Except my towel wasn’t in the rack. My towel was in the hands of some woman who had already begun drying herself with it./lucky-s-coffee-garage-opens-second-location-drive-thru-only-in-lebanon-nh.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lucky-s-coffee-garage-opens-second-location-drive-thru-only-in-lebanon-nh.htmlIn late December while you were still wrapping holiday presents, Lucky’s Coffee Garage softly opened a new drive-through-only location (formerly Jake’s) at 227 Mechanic Street in Lebanon NH. Beginning on January 5, hours will be limited to Fridays and Saturdays, 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lucky’s aims eventually to expand the hours to match those of its original cafe. The menu is scaled down too, but still includes several coffee and tea and other beverages, and most importantly, those quintessential breakfast sandwiches./my-texts-with-michael-shellenberger.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-texts-with-michael-shellenberger.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./officer-ivy-jacobsen-s-hero-was-her-school-resource-officer-now-she-walks-in-his-shoes.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/officer-ivy-jacobsen-s-hero-was-her-school-resource-officer-now-she-walks-in-his-shoes.htmlOfficer Ivy Jacobsen was raised to mistrust and avoid the police. “It was instilled in me, and my brother and sister who are younger than me, to hate the police,” Jacobsen said. “And to not talk to police officers.” She said her father groomed her in this way in part to cover up domestic abuse in their home. “Our father was very abusive,” she said. “It took me a long time to understand that what he was doing was wrong./on-open-closed-tasks.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/on-open-closed-tasks.htmlI can’t remember where I first heard about the theory of open tasks versus closed tasks, but it’s something I’ve thought about almost every single day since. Specifically what fascinates me is how these two kinds of tasks are linked to human creativity and well-being. The idea is a simple one. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of tasks that fill up our daily lives — open and closed. Closed tasks are short and fixed, with a clear beginning middle and end./poached-chicken-and-rice-with-soy-and-vinegar-green-onion-sauce.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/poached-chicken-and-rice-with-soy-and-vinegar-green-onion-sauce.htmlSunday family lunches at my grandparents’ house were a regular occurrence growing up. They normally coincided with bi sun, which was a ceremony my Taoist grandmother practiced to pay respects to our ancestors. I remember the smell of incense burning, the sun shine through the kitchen windows, and the smell of soup and chicken simmer on the stove. A platter of chopped boiled chicken always (and still does) made an appearance on the table and I would have to fight my brother or cousins for a drumstick./review-hadestown-by-l%C3%ADam-rudden.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-hadestown-by-l%C3%ADam-rudden.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./seven-saturn-the-black-cube.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/seven-saturn-the-black-cube.htmlThe inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. - 1 Kings 6:20 When studying religion, mystery schools, and the occult, there is an interesting convergence of symbolism that manifests. An overlap of three thematic elements stands out. This substack will cover that convergence, namely: the number seven, the black cube, and Saturn./style-on-the-streets-of-japan.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/style-on-the-streets-of-japan.htmlI hadn’t planned on snapping street fashion on my trip to Japan, but from the minute I stepped onto the streets of Osaka, it captured my attention. We talk a lot about personal style on here — discovering it, expressing it, refining it — and in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, the outfits themselves were indeed fascinating. At the same time, observing the street style with fresh eyes at an individual level had me thinking about the culture and society in which these people live./the-great-dechurching-by-michael-f-bird.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-great-dechurching-by-michael-f-bird.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-man-who-saw-tomorrow.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./when-to-hoist-the-black-flag.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/when-to-hoist-the-black-flag.htmlWe’re all in this together — but you’d be forgiven for wondering if some people are a bit deeper into it than the rest of us.  When you hear about well-placed politicians reassuring the general public as they quietly liquidate their portfolios, well, H.L. Mencken provided a quip for just that occasion: “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats./which-bible-movies-are-getting-the-most-views-on-netflix.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/which-bible-movies-are-getting-the-most-views-on-netflix.htmlLast week, Netflix released a list of viewing statistics for over 18,000 films on their streaming service. The list covers all the films and TV shows that were watched for at least 50,000 hours during the first six months of this year (January to June), and my friend Matt Page notes that a few Bible films appeared on this list. I thought it might be fun to expand on Matt’s list by searching for all the titles that I’ve been including on my Bible-movie box-office chart, and by doing a bit of back-of-the-napkin math (as Sean McNulty calls it) to see how many times a film or show would have been viewed if every single film or show had been watched from start to finish./world-poetry-day-jesse-paris-smith.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/world-poetry-day-jesse-paris-smith.htmlToday March 21, is World Poetry Day, a UNESCO International Day which ‘celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.’ Started in 1999, this day is recognized and celebrated by any and all, as we are all connected by the word, all able to share in the honesty and grace of the poem. With each word precisely chosen, the poem has the power to radiate a sense of humanity./browservice-brings-modern-web-browsing-to-1990s-computers.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/browservice-brings-modern-web-browsing-to-1990s-computers.htmlTake a look at this: “What am I looking at?” That, right there, is Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups)… loading up the Google Cloud VM manager. A website that requires a modern web browser. But, that isn't a modern web browser. That is Internet Explorer 4.0. On Windows 3.11. Seriously. Now check this bad mama jama out: That's OS/2 Warp 4. Running Firefox 2. While reading Wikipedia. Anyone who uses older (think 20+ years) computers knows… this just isn't possible (certainly not with the websites looking… right)./5-pretty-ugly-taylor-swift-takes-your-algorithm-missed.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/5-pretty-ugly-taylor-swift-takes-your-algorithm-missed.htmlSwiftian discourse has reached a fever pitch. But even if you’re not a Swiftie, even if you’re weary of Tayvis speculation, even if you feel like you might explode if you hear Cruel Summer even one more time, I promise that the following links will give you renewed insight into whiteness, straightness, girls (both good and bad), environmentalism, capitalism, and the power of marketing. Because here’s the thing about making meaning from cultural criticism - even if the apparent focus of that criticism is one individual - and even if the subject is one individual over and over again - the lens can always be changed, swapped, or tweaked to help us see a celebrity or the world she inhabits a little more clearly./a-new-john-lennon-assassination-crime-scene-photo-has-emerged-it-is-highly-revealing.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-new-john-lennon-assassination-crime-scene-photo-has-emerged-it-is-highly-revealing.htmlThis image shows Emergency Officer John Elter standing in the driveway with a torch. This image was almost certainly taken after John Lennon had been carried out of the Dakota by two police officers.  Points of interest: 1.    There appears to be a line of blood on the driveway ground in front of Elter. This probably came from when officers Frauenberger and Palmer carried John’s body out of the Dakota and placed it into a police car./about-the-strategeion.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-the-strategeion.htmlThe word “strategy” comes from the ancient Greek word strategos meaning a military commander or general. In about 500 BC Athens began to elect ten strategoi to serve for a year as experts and leaders on military and security affairs. The strategoi met and discussed important issues and challenges in a building called The Strategeion. This journal houses modern thoughts and reflections on strategy. For more, see my recent book The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists (PublicAffairs, 2022)./author-griffin-hansbury-responds-to-the-oldster-magazine-questionnaire.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/author-griffin-hansbury-responds-to-the-oldster-magazine-questionnaire.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, psychoanalyst and author Griffin Hansbury responds. -Sari BottonP.S. A reminder that in my book, everyone who is alive and aging is considered an Oldster, and that every contributor to this magazine is the oldest they have ever been, which is interesting new territory for them—and interesting to me, the 58-year-old who publishes this./beat-burnout-with-this-brown-butter-cake.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/beat-burnout-with-this-brown-butter-cake.htmlI think it happened; I believe I'm officially burnt out. At least according to a quick google search, I appear to have all the symptoms: Sense of failure and self-doubt? Check Feeling helpless, trapped, and defeated? Yup. Detachment, feeling alone in the world? Absolutely. Loss of motivation? That left the building months ago. Increasingly cynical and negative outlook? Duh. I haven't even been to the market in weeks, which is my only hobby./bill-cartwright-the-readjack-interview.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bill-cartwright-the-readjack-interview.htmlHe guarded Ewing. He guarded Hakeem. He guarded Shaq. He guarded the Admiral. Kareem. Parish. Moses. The A-Train. He guarded them all. He guarded centers in the last era when centers were a dominant position league-wide with… ncG1vNJzZmiqlZaxq63CpGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyjtculZJyZoqnEs7XGoatmrJiaerOxwJ2hmpubYravwMSrraKdpw%3D%3D/chavela-vargas-s-xoloitzcuintles-by-bailey-richardson.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/chavela-vargas-s-xoloitzcuintles-by-bailey-richardson.htmlArt Dogs is a weekly dispatch introducing the pets—dogs, yes!, but also cats, lizards, marmosets, and more—that were kept by our favorite artists. Subscribe to receive these weekly posts in your email inbox. Chavela Vargas is one of the most influential voices in the history of Latin American music. She sang, and reimagined, boleros and rancheras—two genres traditionally performed by men. She transformed iconic songs by dispensing with mariachis and instead singing “from her gut,” to reveal the desolation that lived within the festive music./c%C3%B3mo-volver-loco-a-un-narcisista.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/c%C3%B3mo-volver-loco-a-un-narcisista.htmlPrimero, aclaremos el click bait. Comprobé, para mi asombro, que decenas de miles de personas buscan al mes en Google, lindezas como: como volver loco a un narcisista, como castigar a un narcisista, que le duele a un narcisista. Obviamente, no voy a hablar de cómo volver loco a un narcisista, ni a nadie —¿qué clase de psicólogo sería?—. En lugar de eso, acompáñame en mis reflexiones. En internet, abundan webs y contenido con narrativas que presentan a las personalidades narcisistas como monstruos destructivos y abusadores, sin matices ni grises./comments-a-new-chapter-by-lyn-slater.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-a-new-chapter-by-lyn-slater.htmlI’m Lyn Slater AKA as Accidental Icon, reformed social media influencer, writer, activist, social worker, former professor and someone who’s just an ordinary woman with an interesting life. I’ve written a book called, “How To Be Old”, coming Fall 2023 from Dutton/Plume. ncG1vNJzZmikqaPAra3Tnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrYynnLBlk52uscDEq2acp52isq%2FA0g%3D%3D/derek-webb-wore-a-dress-to-the-dove-awards-and-is-deeply-committed-to-telling-you-about-it.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/derek-webb-wore-a-dress-to-the-dove-awards-and-is-deeply-committed-to-telling-you-about-it.htmlShare Note: I wrote this for my WORLD Media column space…only to find out that somebody else had beat me to the punch.  Oh well.  Now I can use it here.  I didn’t really know who Derek Webb was, which is no big deal because I don’t know who a lot of people are.  When I grew up, the kind of tacit understanding was that you wouldn’t know (much less care about) most people./diving-deeper-into-dan-quinn-s-defense.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/diving-deeper-into-dan-quinn-s-defense.htmlWith new Commanders head coach Dan Quinn officially introduced yesterday, I thought I could take a deeper look at what kind of defensive system he’ll bring to Washington. Last week, I broke down Quinn’s defense in Dallas over the past few years and how he’s evolved his system from the zone-heavy Cover-3 days with the Seahawks to a much more aggressive style with extra rushers and plenty of man coverage. If you missed that overview, be sure to check that out as it goes over some of the basics of what Quinn did with the Cowboys defense and how he built his unit around his best players./don-t-give-your-money-to-operation-underground-railroad-part-1.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/don-t-give-your-money-to-operation-underground-railroad-part-1.htmlMy husband and I both work from home; my office is upstairs, and his is downstairs. Some time ago I was upstairs working my actual job when he yelled up the stairs at me (our primary method of communication), “HONEY, DO YOU KNOW WHO LYNN PACKER IS?” I actually did know who Lynn Packer was, because I had stumbled across his work when I tumbled head over ass into an utterly shocking and excruciatingly grim retread of the true story behind the movie Sound of Freedom – the kidnapping of toddler Gardy Mardy from his church in Haiti, who has never been found./eat-list-santiago-chile-by-nicholas-gill.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/eat-list-santiago-chile-by-nicholas-gill.htmlGastronomically speaking, perhaps no South American city has found as much order in the disorder through the pandemic, not to mention several years of a tumultuous political situation prior, as Santiago, Chile. While sangucherías and no frills picadas and sandwich shops still deserve your attention, as do now classics like Boragó, there is a new wave of neighborhood bistros, seafood temples and culinary projects in every part of the city. Rather than latching on to a single trend at a time, as it often seemed in years past, the offerings are more diverse./episode-358-discussing-human-happiness-with-justin-smith-ruiu-professor-of-philosophy.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/episode-358-discussing-human-happiness-with-justin-smith-ruiu-professor-of-philosophy.htmlOriginally Recorded March 15th, 2024 About Professor Justin Smith-Ruiu: Justin Smith-Ruiu’s HinternetSpeculative Fiction | Criticism | Belles lettres | Philosophy Check out Professor Smith-Ruiu's essay in Liberties, titled The Happiness Industrial Complex: https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-happiness-industrial-complex/ ncG1vNJzZmilpai2pK3LpbCsqJWWuKq6xmeqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZnoGSysbXSqJueZWNqhW6wyKyarqujnruoeceupJqmXZ2usbzIp5ysqw%3D%3D/first-date-by-spanking-theatre.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/first-date-by-spanking-theatre.htmlShe felt herself soften under his gaze, like a little chocolate figurine under the sun. Maybe it was feminine intuition, but behind his mask of formality she sensed a suppressed strictness, a stern core beneath his softly-spoken niceties.  "Do you believe in spanking on a first date?" she flirtatiously wondered aloud. It was important to know these things. He held her gaze and answered without hesitation, solemnly and seriously, as if she’d just asked him if he believed the planet was imperilled by climate change./flowers-for-casey-benjamin-by-nate-chinen.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/flowers-for-casey-benjamin-by-nate-chinen.htmlCasey Benjamin, who died last Saturday at 45, was the sort of musician whose impact can’t be assessed by the usual metrics — not awards and accolades, though he racked up a few, nor even a discography, though he leaves behind a heavy track record. He was the keeper of a sound. Or rather, a small confab of sounds, jangling as if on a keychain. His alto sa… ncG1vNJzZmismJq0qrONrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfm7mww8Srqmaen6d6pK3SnrBmmpWjt6K5yKc%3D/get-an-itemized-medical-bill-and-fact-check-it.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/get-an-itemized-medical-bill-and-fact-check-it.htmlHey there — A lot of times, medical bills aren’t just shockingly high. They’re also shockingly vague. Whether the bill comes in the mail or you’re paying online, they often don’t tell you what, exactly, you’re being charged so freaking much for.  In which case, how the heck do you know if these bills are even accurate? A lot of the time, they’re not. People get charged all the time for medical services they did not get./great-moments-on-video-12-ted-nugent.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/great-moments-on-video-12-ted-nugent.htmlYes, this is most definitely a genuine Great Moment on Video as much as any other I’ve written about, but I think it should really work in tandem with the Roger Waters performance (#11) — as two diametrical opposites that are also two sides of the same coin. Although I have little time, and even less respect, for both extreme leftist nuts like Roger and ultra-conservative braggarts like the Nuge when they start propagating their views, I do have plenty of time for both of them when they get carried away by their music./here-s-the-thing-the-citrus-bowl.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/here-s-the-thing-the-citrus-bowl.htmlIn the beginning, there was no postseason. The first college football game was played in 1869, and the Western Conference formed in 1896, but the first Rose Bowl wasn’t played until 1902. It didn’t become an annual game until 1916. There were other bowl games scattered through the 1920s — the Dixie Classic, the San Diego East-West Christmas Classic — but it wasn’t until 1934 that they added the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl to create a “bowl season”./how-fashion-police-died-and-went-to-tiktok.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-fashion-police-died-and-went-to-tiktok.htmlThank you for subscribing to Back Row. Become a paying member to read this post in full and get exclusive fashion week coverage, beginning next week (a free preview is coming later this week). Are you excited for fashion week? How could you not be?! Paid subscribers also get access to the complete Back Row archive and commenting. Here’s what else paid subscribers are reading: Anyone with a passing interest in award shows and what celebrities wear to them has almost no reason to tune into the actual broadcast or red carpet pre-show./how-emilia-hart-wrote-her-debut-novel-while-working-as-a-lawyer.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-emilia-hart-wrote-her-debut-novel-while-working-as-a-lawyer.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./inexpensive-cold-room-alternative-by-tom-hennessy.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/inexpensive-cold-room-alternative-by-tom-hennessy.htmlIf I could go back in time, I would have attended refrigeration school. That education would have saved me about $1,000,000,000,000.00, or at least that much in refrigerator repair headaches. You know, the breakdowns that only happen on a weekend, when no one is at your brewery? My general philosophy is to always buy used except for refrigeration, as it seems to break down more often than anything else. We maintain our refrigeration by keeping the coils free of dust through a weekly cleaning schedule that includes using compressed air to blow out the condenser fan system./listen-up-nerds-14-pricemaster.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/listen-up-nerds-14-pricemaster.html“Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The ground rules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns of environments elude easy perception. Anti-environments, or countersituations made by artists, provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly.”  - Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The Massage (1967) “EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE” - The PriceMaster I told myself that I wasn’t going to use this newsletter to relitigate the hardcore twitter discourse of days past but I do think that something that happened over the weekend is a good setup for a topic I want to write about./make-believe-bonus-san-fransokyo-square.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/make-believe-bonus-san-fransokyo-square.htmlIt took approximately one minute for me to decide I wanted to stay within the confines of Disney California Adventure’s San Fransokyo Square for the duration of my stay at the theme park. Walking into the area — themed after the Japan-Meets-California setting of the same name found in Big Hero 6 — offered an initial wave of sensory overload. Katakana everywhere! Ramen, taco and sourdough bread scents wafting through the air!/michfest-a-celebration-by-graham-linehan.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michfest-a-celebration-by-graham-linehan.html(To celebrate lesbian visibility week I asked Lauren Levey and Marian Rutigliano to write about the pioneering lesbian music festival. Enjoy!) The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival: Legacies Have you been on the land? If you have experienced late night drum circles, porta-janes, granola, and naked women in body paint, then Welcome Home, Sister. So reads the public welcoming message on a FaceBook page related to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, also known as MWMF, MichFest, or Fest./nysac-s-consent-agreement-issued-for-ryan-garcia-s-suspension.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/nysac-s-consent-agreement-issued-for-ryan-garcia-s-suspension.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./palm-wine-founder-onyeka-obiocha-is-using-wine-to-build-global-community.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/palm-wine-founder-onyeka-obiocha-is-using-wine-to-build-global-community.htmlFor the 67th issue of The Fizz, I spoke with Onyeka Obiocha, founder of Palm Wine, a global natural wine social club. Palm Wine hosts wine events in different cities around the world, focusing on inclusion and in-person connection. Onyeka’s dedication to community building through wine and music is inspiring and intentional, not taking wine too seriously, but using it as a conduit for good. Palm wine itself a fermented wine made from the sap of tall palm trees, and the inspiration for the social club, which focuses on natural wine made from grapes./patrick-o-brian-a-life-revealed.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/patrick-o-brian-a-life-revealed.htmlThe most recent issue of The New York Review of Books includes Ben Tarnoff’s assessment of Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography: Musk comes across as nigh-sociopathic, a cold character intent on building an empire by pushing the bodies of his employees to “hardcore” levels of exertion. “To be a man,” Tarnoff writes at the start of his review, “is to do… ncG1vNJzZmiin6i1tq3CqKmesV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6pmK2qmZi4brvBq6Capl2Weq21xZ5kq52mmq6tscM%3D/peak-notions-with-laura-kennedy.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/peak-notions-with-laura-kennedy.htmlThe digital world is full of voices (often loud and disgruntled), but this is a place where you won’t find the obvious perspective, or the one you see everywhere else. By an Irish writer, editor and ex-philosopher. Over 9,000 subscribers No thanks“Good sense on everything, except how much milk to put in tea. ” ncG1vNJzZmikm5q7r7HDsmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVf/people-might-say-i-m-less-japanese-but-i-don-t-care.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/people-might-say-i-m-less-japanese-but-i-don-t-care.htmlHi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week, I’m speaking to former Miss World Japan and founder of Mukoomi, Priyanka Yoshikawa. Priyanka is of Japanese and Indian heritage, her mixed background making her 2016 win controversial. In this interview, Priyanka shares the new terminology she’s putting forward and how her location affected how she saw her identity. You can define ethnicity by blood, or what you feel connected to the most./pygmalion-and-the-anime-girl.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pygmalion-and-the-anime-girl.html“Young men, let me make a suggestion to you: Why don’t you turn off the computer, log off the porn, and go ask a real woman on a date. How ’bout that? Just a thought. Ask her out. Young men, why don’t you be the ones who do the asking, how ’bout that? Don’t wait for her. You go ask — show her a little respect.  And then you take her out, and you treat her right./re-imagining-friendships-with-rhaina-cohen.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/re-imagining-friendships-with-rhaina-cohen.htmlHappy Galentine’s Day, everyone! Join me TODAY at 12pm EST as I host an Instagram Live with author Katie Horwitch (@katiehorwitch) to share tips about how to be a better friend to yourself and others. Head over to the @SoundsTrue page to tune in to our chat. Come prepared with questions. We’re here to help! The Galentine fun keeps going. Happy pub day to the wonderful Rhaina Cohen! Her book, The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center is out today and it’s available anywhere books are sold./seinfeld-s-law-weight-loss-minimalist.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/seinfeld-s-law-weight-loss-minimalist.htmlWelcome to the 164th consecutive edition of the newsletter. I’m trying something a little different today. Rather than write about five ideas, I am going to write about one and keep it short, and hopefully memorable. Enjoy. In 1998 Jerry Seinfeld was offered $110 million to make another season of Seinfeld, but he said no. When Howard Stern asked him why, Seinfeld said… I could not go to that point where it (the show) starts to age and wither — and it doesn’t take long./silent-night-deadly-night-4-the-initiation-made-the-bold-idiotic-decision-to-forego-the-whole-ki.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/silent-night-deadly-night-4-the-initiation-made-the-bold-idiotic-decision-to-forego-the-whole-ki.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./the-headless-woman-reids-on-film.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-headless-woman-reids-on-film.htmlDirected by Lucrecia Martel Argentina, 2008 For me, a film is not just storytelling but an attempt to share some perceptions with the viewer – Lucrecia Martel This week’s film, The Headless Woman, is a puzzle. A film in which something dramatic happens, or perhaps a film in which nothing happens at all. One thing is certain though: this Argentinian film from 2008 drew conflicting responses from ReidsonFilm. One of us thought it a great film, two considered it a very good film although a difficult watch, and the last?/the-walmart-effect-by-dianne-post.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-walmart-effect-by-dianne-post.htmlI have never shopped at Walmart.  I have taken my mother there several times as she refused to heed my advice about why she should not shop there.  She pointed out that I never heeded her advice either, so I guess we are even. I refused to shop there because of the abysmal factory conditions under which their products are produced and because of the negative impact on local economy especially in small towns from which I came./the-work-of-john-cena-s-46-year-old-body.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-work-of-john-cena-s-46-year-old-body.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/thinking-nude-by-btg.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/thinking-nude-by-btg.htmlEditor’s note: In this issue, we are happy to publish an excerpt from Amanda dela Cruz’s award-winning MFA thesis. The thesis is a collection of five nonfiction essays, each one weaving together her life experiences and her reflections on the work of five Filipino women artists. The excerpt itself begins by addressing the artist Julie Lluch’s 1988 terracota sculpture entitled Thinking Nude, on display at the Singapore Art Museum, which in turn is a feminist riposte to Auguste Rodin’s famous bronze sculpture, The Thinker./tomorrow-x-together-s-energetic-and-magnificent-return-to-lollapalooza.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tomorrow-x-together-s-energetic-and-magnificent-return-to-lollapalooza.html(Photo credit: Roger Ho for Lollapalooza) The rain was pouring on and off the Saturday Tomorrow X Together were set to headline Lollapalooza. I was clearly underdressed for the weather. But as a festival rookie, I suppose this is simply a rite of passage. I was among the estimated 115,000 concertgoers attending Lollapalooza that day, and many in the crowd were TXT fans — also known as MOAs (which stands for Moment of Alwaysness)./was-a-news-intern-just-fired-by-the-new-york-times-over-a-joke-targeting-the-hot-houthi-pirate.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/was-a-news-intern-just-fired-by-the-new-york-times-over-a-joke-targeting-the-hot-houthi-pirate.htmlLast week a video went viral on TikTok that featured a “hot” Houthi pirate apparently attacking a cargo ship off the coast of Yemen. Everyone was talking about it. The video I saw on Twitter had nearly 25 million views as of Monday afternoon. And practically every media outlet in the world was reporting about the “hot Houthi pirate,” identified as Rashid Al Haddad, a 19-year-old Yemeni man. The fact that my brain immediately began to wonder if Al Haddad’s virality was an Operation Mockingbird-style plot by the CIA, which has a long history of media manipulation, is something that I will (for now) attribute to my own cynicism, which runs pretty deep these days (for good reason)./why-everyone-should-know-the-story-of-lucia-de-berk.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-everyone-should-know-the-story-of-lucia-de-berk.htmlWhat incidents from history do you think all decently educated people should know about? Not the big ones, the most important wars and revolutions and innovations, but the smaller, less well-known ones — the stories that aren’t that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, but which are surprisingly rich when you dig into them? One strong choice, for me at least, is the story of Lucia de Berk, the Dutch nurse who was imprisoned for killing four of her patients./why-was-western-printing-superior-to-asian-printing.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-was-western-printing-superior-to-asian-printing.htmlWe like to think of Johannes Gutenberg as inventor of the printing press and movable type in 1450. Yet, the first movable type got invented in China around 1040 by Bi Sheng. The types were made from porcelain material. Later wooden movable types were developed by Wang Zhen around 1297. Koreans evolved the movable type technology further. In 1234 the first books known to have been printed using metallic types was published in Korea./writing-advice-from-matt-stone-and-trey-parker.htmlSun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/writing-advice-from-matt-stone-and-trey-parker.htmlThe creators of South Park: “If the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats … you’ve got something pretty boring. What should happen, between every beat that you’ve written down, is either the word ‘therefore’ or ‘but’ … that gives you your causation.” Why it matters: ‘And’ implies a simple continuation. ‘But’ implies conflict. ‘Therefore’ implies progress. Here’s the vid: ncG1vNJzZmiepaO7urTOsGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyjwdNmq6GdopqzsL7EZq6roaSeu6h5wJ2topuVYrOzu8w%3D/6-foot-rule-fauci-and-the-bigger-picture.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/6-foot-rule-fauci-and-the-bigger-picture.htmlDr. Jetelina, we are the same harmonic frequency when it comes to reflecting on the pandemic. Your analysis supports my view that the worst aspect of "long COVID" is an all too pervasive pandemic blindsight, that is, looking back at what happened but misunderstanding or grossly distorting what happened and why. Alas, performances like the Fauci hearing only cause further confusion and erosion of trust. In my state, we would call it a goat rodeo./about-piffany.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-piffany.htmlHi! I’m Sean L. McCarthy. That’s me photographed by Bryon Summers on Election Day 2021 at the Substack Grow meetup at Book Shop in New York City’s East Village. My resume, in brief…Grew up in the newspaper age; got to cover the 1992 presidential election while interning at my hometown paper, The Hartford Courant; moved West after college and learned how to work a beat at The Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho; became a comedian in Seattle, then an entertainment reporter in the suburbs, and published my first newsroom blog in 1998 before “blog” was even in the dictionary, while competing in the Seattle International Comedy Competition (winning an innovation bonus from Scripps Howard)./alembic-guitars-and-basses-by-david-still.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/alembic-guitars-and-basses-by-david-still.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./as-king-charles-iii-is-treated-for-cancer-he-is-being-counseled-by-a-greek-orthodox-monk-he-met-on.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/as-king-charles-iii-is-treated-for-cancer-he-is-being-counseled-by-a-greek-orthodox-monk-he-met-on.htmlSince the 75-year-old King began treatments for cancer three weeks ago, the public has had several glimpses of him in photographs and videos. But it emerged this week that privately he has sought spiritual guidance from his longtime friend, Archimandrite Ephraim, Abbot of the Greek Orthodox Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos. “Yes, he has been in contact since the diagnosis and I believe he’ll overcome it,” the 67-year-old abbot told a Greek newspaper./bob-dylan-in-his-own-words-vol-2-on-daniel-lanois-oh-mercy-and-time-out-of-mind.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bob-dylan-in-his-own-words-vol-2-on-daniel-lanois-oh-mercy-and-time-out-of-mind.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./brentford-finances-2022-23-the-swiss-ramble.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/brentford-finances-2022-23-the-swiss-ramble.htmlBrentford’s 2022/23 financial results covered a season where they finished ninth in the Premier League, an improvement of four places on their previous campaign and their highest post-war league finish. Chair Cliff Crown justifiably said that the year “marked an exceptional period of growth for our club.” Brentford once again posted a pre-tax profit, though this fell from £30m to £9m, despite revenue rising £26m (18%) from £141m to a club record £167m./built-to-ruin-by-melody-wright.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/built-to-ruin-by-melody-wright.htmlAt least once a week if not once a day, a follower or someone who has been open and supportive of my work to date finds a piece of data that stops them in their tracks and routes them right back to me with a challenge. Because I have been living and breathing and contemplating these themes for almost three years, the arguments from my January piece seem so self-evident to me that I often forget how atypical it would be for anyone to look at the housing market the way that I do./cees-dekker-s-protein-sequencing-paper.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cees-dekker-s-protein-sequencing-paper.htmlCees Dekker’s group recently published progress toward nanopore protein sequencing. The work addresses one of the fundamental issues in nanopore protein sequencing, controlling the translocation speed. Without this, peptides translocate too quickly for individual amino acids to be detected (for more context on this see the Dreampore post). As there are no established techniques for controlling peptide translocation the Dekker approach links a peptide to a DNA molecule. This allows motion control techniques established for DNA sequencing to be applied to protein sequencing./comments-insha-allah-vs-masha-allah.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/comments-insha-allah-vs-masha-allah.htmlIf you’ve spent any time around a group of English speaking Muslims, you may have noticed that our sentences are peppered with Arabic phrases. If you pay really close attention, you’ll realize that most of these phrases end with Allah. Muslims spend a lot of time thinking about Allah, speaking about Allah, considering Allah. If we’re doing it right, we’re living a very God-centered existence, even when we’re not in the middle of worship, like our/david-milch-s-disembodied-writing-process.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/david-milch-s-disembodied-writing-process.htmlWelcome to the 133rd issue of Subtle Maneuvers. If today’s issue resonates with you, please consider becoming a Subtle Patron for $5/month or $30/year—this newsletter wouldn’t be possible without reader support. 🙏 So far this year I’ve been writing about (or around) a way of working that the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once called “the flux.” He was describing what happened when he and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari tried writing together—it was, he said, “like two streams coming together to make a third stream, which I suppose was us./disney-plus-or-minus-the-apple-dumpling-gang.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/disney-plus-or-minus-the-apple-dumpling-gang.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./engaging-in-personalities-by-jeff-jackson.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/engaging-in-personalities-by-jeff-jackson.htmlLast week - during the protracted Speaker fight - there was a moment on the House floor when a member of the majority party was giving a speech and all of the sudden everyone around me started yelling and I didn't understand why. Turns out, the person giving the speech had made a reference to members of the other party having "popcorn and alcohol" on the House floor. For the record, I didn't see anyone with alcohol and to my knowledge there was none./ever-green-vietnamese-preview-faq.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ever-green-vietnamese-preview-faq.htmlI love your handle, Que Sera Sera! Moreover, you're a fellow cookbook lover. Checking them out of the library is a great way to see if a cookbook is for you. I used to do that and when I'm doing research, will go to the library, if I don't have a particular title. Also, I've done events at libraries and the American Library Association convention (they're party animals!). I'm thrilled that you'll be adding Ever-Green Vietnamese to your permanent collection./faith-without-love-is-dangerous-in-dune-part-two.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/faith-without-love-is-dangerous-in-dune-part-two.htmlQuite simply Dune: Part Two is why you go to the movies. The film is a pure visual spectacle in the best possible way. From the first scene, it establishes itself as an artistic blockbuster, somehow merging th… ncG1vNJzZmivkaexs7vBnpuop6JjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89onZqhpJ16uLXToaaurF2hvLexjKKqZpyRo7Smvs6uqmahng%3D%3D/from-bay-street-to-bakery-street-with-nicolas-mulroney-of-bond-bakery-brands.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/from-bay-street-to-bakery-street-with-nicolas-mulroney-of-bond-bakery-brands.htmlThis week we're joined by Nicolas Mulroney, President and CEO of Bond Bakery Brands. Nicolas shares his transition from a finance career at RBC to leading a thriving baking enterprise, highlighting the pivot that led him from Bay Street to Bakery Street. We talk about the founding of Bond Bakery amid the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and how his upbringing in a political family shaped his entrepreneurial spirit. Nicolas discusses how technology integrates in his business, he offers insights for budding entrepreneurs, and he outlines his future aspirations for the baking industry in Canada./how-reacher-s-gaitano-russo-brings-domenick-lombardozzi-s-career-full-circle.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-reacher-s-gaitano-russo-brings-domenick-lombardozzi-s-career-full-circle.htmlAn actor could pick up the script and read a better introductory scene than having the hero hit your car so hard that it sets off the air bags for a double whammy to the nose. That’s how Domenick Lombardozzi’s tough guy cop Gaitano “Guy” Russo is brought into the world of Amazon Prime’s Reacher, a kickass new television show that’s enjoying another entertaining season. But you won’t catch the Bronx-born actor complaining./how-to-make-c-nn-bis-honey.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-c-nn-bis-honey.htmlFINALLY, it’s time to make cannabis-infused honey. I’ll share a holiday Baklava recipe in an upcoming post using this infused honey. If you’ve been following along in the DIY Edibles for Beginners series, we’ve made cannabutter, oil, milk, and alcohol tinctures.   Making cannabis-infused honey is trickier than cannabis oil or butter because honey contains no fat and it’s not a solvent. There’s nothing for the cannabinoids to bind to, making it an inefficient medium./how-to-make-cannabis-milk.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-cannabis-milk.htmlLet’s move beyond butter and oil to experiment with cannabis-infused milk. This opens up a whole world of possibilities for what you can make cannabis-infused at home. Think ice cream and mashed potatoes!  Cannamilk is not the same as hemp milk, which is made from hemp seeds. Hemp milk will not make you feel high, cannamilk will. It can be used in recipes with no butter or oil, such as whipped cream and boba milk tea./if-interested-166-amazon-s-performance-management.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/if-interested-166-amazon-s-performance-management.htmlhi, I am working on a few IF INTERESTED topics, but they seem to progress slower than usual. I will blame the summer and the fact that I started a new job. Recently I came across the leaked Amazon performance management documents. Since it’s an easier topic, and I felt like having a lighter IF INTERESTED issue, I decided to get this one out. Here is the link to the article, and it starts with a familiar visual:/inside-the-usccb-what-we-need-now.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/inside-the-usccb-what-we-need-now.htmlJayd Henricks is President of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal. He served for 11 years at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), six as the Executive Director of Government Relations. He has written extensively on the Church in America. He shares his thoughts about the USCCB, faith, and politics in this WWNN interview with Francis X. Maier. Tell us a little about your service as Executive Director of Government Relations at the USCCB./interview-with-carl-perkins-31-october-1978.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/interview-with-carl-perkins-31-october-1978.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./jackson-s-western-store-plans-move-in-asheville.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jackson-s-western-store-plans-move-in-asheville.htmlThis newsletter sponsored by Citizens Fuel Co., a family-owned Asheville company. The construction of a massive highway construction project through a very busy Asheville interstate interchange, the heart of West Asheville and across the French Broad River, is moving ever closer, and we’re starting to see the changes it will bring. I’ve lived in Asheville far too long to herald the recent action as the unofficial start of the Interstate 26 Connector project, because it has already been delayed, put off and postponed for decades./jerry-butler-born-december-8-1939-stop-steppin-on-my-dreams-1972.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jerry-butler-born-december-8-1939-stop-steppin-on-my-dreams-1972.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./language-is-a-virus-and-you-re-infected-are-humans-superpredators-or-our-only-hope.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/language-is-a-virus-and-you-re-infected-are-humans-superpredators-or-our-only-hope.htmlI’ve always loved the idea that language is a virus. About 300,000 years ago, homo sapiens first appeared in Africa. Good on us! Brand new, and already traveling the world! We hunted, we gathered, we organized HOAs, and did all the things that humans do except talk. For the first 100,000-150,000 years we existed as a species, we did not have language, which means the invention of the eye roll predates the first time someone said, “I’m fiscally conservative but socially liberal./martyrs-and-the-horrific-exploration-of-what-lies-beyond-pain-and-trauma.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/martyrs-and-the-horrific-exploration-of-what-lies-beyond-pain-and-trauma.htmlPascal Laugier’s 2008 vile torture porn nightmare, Martyrs — which turned 15 earlier this month — begins with a beaten-up girl running out of an industrial building and screaming for help. It’s an apt cold open because nothing could insinuate (or prepare the viewer) what's about to come in the next 90 minutes more viscerally than the universal reaction to fear and desperation. This brief yet effective sequence is a perfect segue into the film's central story and its main themes of pain, suffering, and trauma./modified-limited-hangout-by-tim-zimmermann.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/modified-limited-hangout-by-tim-zimmermann.htmlIt’s been a steady cycle of wind, rain and occasional sun here in Palm Beach. The other day was chilly enough I contemplated putting on socks. All the locals swear this is crazy weather and not normal. I refrain from suggesting the new normal may be the abnormal. You know, climate change and all. In any case, enduring the craziness is my own fault. This past week I bailed on a brief weather window to get to the Bahamas, partly because I have been hoping for a lengthier window that will allow me to make a jump south to at least the Berry Islands, or even Georgetown in the Exumas, as opposed to the quick jump to nearby West End on Grand Bahama./my-mom-s-egg-salad-by-caroline-chambers.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/my-mom-s-egg-salad-by-caroline-chambers.htmlSending this week’s newsletter a day early so that you can make egg salad for your Easter feasts! It makes a great appetizer: Pile it onto a piece of toasted baguette and top with a sprig of dill! (Click here for the WTC recipe index and check the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly PDF of this egg salad recipe.) Here’s the thing: This is a newsletter about dinner./pizzeria-beddia-pizza-review-by-dan-tallarico.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/pizzeria-beddia-pizza-review-by-dan-tallarico.htmlHi Pizza friends! Can you believe the “greatest pizza in America” can be found in Philadelphia? According to Bon Appétite magazine anyways. A few years ago they visited Pizzeria Beddia in Fishtown and walked away permanently changed. At the time of them crowning Beddia with the accolade, the pizza operation was run out of a nondescript brick cube. Customers lined up outside the shop, often 90 minutes in advance, for a chance to get one of forty pies they made that day./q-a-with-sam-lipsyte-by-martin-mckenzie-murray.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/q-a-with-sam-lipsyte-by-martin-mckenzie-murray.htmlIn June, I wrote this essay/review of Sam Lipsyte’s recent novel No One Left to Come Looking For You, a screwball noir set in New York City’s (post)punk scene of the early ‘90s. Since discovering the satirist/lyric-wizard around 2009, Lipsyte has become one of my favourite writers – in short stories, novels and non-fiction. He writes “characters [who] exist in a fog of neoliberal precarity and despair, hustling for affection, for drugs, for a paycheck, for a new story to tell, ranting and bantering their way from one dead end to the next” and is never not funny./remembering-floyd-cardoz-at-greywind.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-floyd-cardoz-at-greywind.htmlWhen I first met chef Dan Kluger many moons ago, he was cooking under the late great Floyd Cardoz at Tabla, the groundbreaking contemporary Indian restaurant with its beautiful Bread Bar and tart and tangy Tamarind Margaritas (I spent a lot of time with those margaritas at the Bread Bar). It was such a gorgeous and soulful restaurant, and an important one too; it paved the way for modern Indian cooking./remembering-nathan-cirillo-by-erin-o-toole.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-nathan-cirillo-by-erin-o-toole.htmlI will never forget the day that Nathan Cirillo died or how his death has continued to ripple through our lives in the years since that fateful day. I was in lockdown in the Centre Block of Parliament when I learned that one of our sentry soldiers at the National War Memorial had been killed. Our lockdown was a result of the aftermath of Cirillo’s death. The killer forced his way into Parliament following the attack at the National War Memorial./retro-spotlight-tetris-2-bombliss.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/retro-spotlight-tetris-2-bombliss.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. Imagine, for a moment, that a game was developed by the designer of EarthBound, the director of the first four Dragon Quest games, a producer on the Zero Escape and Danganropa games, the founder of The Pokémon Company and Creatures Inc./shape-2-circular-triangle-by-michael-pershan.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/shape-2-circular-triangle-by-michael-pershan.htmlTake three circles and smoosh them close until they’re all touching—tada, you’ve made a circular triangle. Circular triangles are the Shape of the Week. Congrats to circular triangles, long may you reign (for a week)! More specifically, the Shape of the Week is the circular horn triangle, which means all its corners are incredibly pointy and its sides are concave (i.e. “all internal angles equal to zero”). If you connect the vertices with circular arcs in different ways you get different circular triangles./team-humanity-substack.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/team-humanity-substack.htmlTeam Humanity Team Humanity is a non-partisan intersection of individuals focused on safety and community. We welcome injured and non-injured interested in joining the fight to keep all of humanity safer. We demand acknowledgement, research and help. See followers ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbWxwKafrqWRo7a1xQ%3D%3D/the-double-bind-by-elizabeth-earnshaw-lmft.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-double-bind-by-elizabeth-earnshaw-lmft.htmlIt's a Sunday morning and Olivia is sitting with her mom at brunch. Olivia works as a freelancer and over the weekend she finally got a big contract signed with a new client. She was beaming on the inside about her big news - excited to see her business move forward and her skills be appreciated. She was also anxious inside. Worried that if she told her mom about the news that she would be disregarded or put down./the-eskimo-ice-cream-bar.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-eskimo-ice-cream-bar.htmlToday, ice cream is ubiquitous in America. The ice cream aisle of your local supermarket is overflowing with options. The same is true of the number of flavors you can find in your favorite corner ice cream shop. But ice cream’s ubiquity depends on a confluence of forces that today we take for granted: Milk, sugar, and an ability to keep ice cream frozen. Which is what makes the rise of ice cream in the postwar Soviet Union all the more noteworthy./the-great-fake-butter-test.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-great-fake-butter-test.htmlHey hungry world-savers, and welcome back to Cool Beans. This week, in our ongoing quest to help you trim your daily demand for dairy products, I’m digging into the world of plant-based butter. My childhood fridge was full of mysterious margarines, from family-sized tubs to spray bottles of fluorescent yellow mist. Thankfully, nondairy butters have come a long way. While the vegetable and seed oil varieties are still around, you can also get versions made from things like cultured nuts, coconut cream, and even beans./the-paragraph-at-the-end-of-the-road.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-paragraph-at-the-end-of-the-road.htmlOnce there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back./the-taiwan-earthquake-03-04-24-by-david-redfern.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-taiwan-earthquake-03-04-24-by-david-redfern.htmlFigure 1. Distribution of intensity Impact On 3rd April 2024, a 7.4MMS earthquake struck the eastern coast of Taiwan at 07.58 local time (Figure 1). The depth of the quake was relatively shallow at 34 kms. It was the strongest in over 25 years. The quake killed 10 people (including 3 hikers), and 3 days later a further 12 were missing, over 600 (many of them tourists) were left stranded, though safe and alive, and over 1100 people were injured./the-weekly-dish.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-weekly-dish.html<![CDATA[(For the View From Your Window contest, the results below exceed the content limit for Substack’s email service, so to ensure that you see the full results, click the headline above.) From the winner of last week’s contest: Wow! Thrilled to death to finally get the breakthrough! I’ll take the coffee table book please, as a tangible memento of the glory of a contest that’s come good. Thanks for running a great contest!/understanding-silicon-valley-boosterism-by-jake-pitre.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/understanding-silicon-valley-boosterism-by-jake-pitre.htmlI’m a bit late to this New York Times Magazine article by Yiren Lu, but it is such a perfect model for how not to write about tech. It is a masterpiece of the form. It is bewildering reminder that tech and Silicon Valley boosterism is alive and well, even after the supposed techlash, and it all gets wrapped up within the boundless hype for generative artificial intelligence. I thought it could be a useful exercise, then, to go through the article step-by-step to take note of the tropes for this kind of “reporting,” and to help us better understand how the AI boom, as they call it, is a way for tech and Silicon Valley to right the ship, so to speak, after the shocks of higher interest rates, greater legislative scrutiny, and other roadblocks./w-d-c-journal-w-design-collective.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/w-d-c-journal-w-design-collective.htmlA newsletter that breaks down interior design topics each week, discusses different philosophical thoughts on the home, and shares honest and helpful product recommends. Join now to be part of the W Design community. By W Design Collective · Over 3,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmivlJrAqrPNZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmc%3D/what-changes-will-the-wbit-bring-to-the-women-s-basketball-postseason.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-changes-will-the-wbit-bring-to-the-women-s-basketball-postseason.htmlThanks for reading the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter. If you like our work, be sure to check out our stats site, our podcast, and our social media accounts on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also buy Her Hoop Stats gear, such as laptop stickers, mugs, and shirts! Haven’t subscribed to the Her Hoop Stats Newsletter yet? The NCAA announced the creation of the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament, a secondary postseason tournament for women’s basketball, in mid-July./why-the-packers-lost-to-the-49ers-again.htmlSat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-the-packers-lost-to-the-49ers-again.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./%E5%AD%AB%E4%BD%B3%E5%90%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%83%85%E5%95%86%E6%99%BA%E6%85%A7-by-hkstory-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%95%85%E4%BA%8B.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/%E5%AD%AB%E4%BD%B3%E5%90%9B%E7%9A%84%E6%83%85%E5%95%86%E6%99%BA%E6%85%A7-by-hkstory-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%95%85%E4%BA%8B.html72年新加坡出生的孫佳君，畢業於加拿大學府。她94年榮獲新加坡小姐冠軍後，前往香港展開影視事業，在電影《百變星君》中首次亮相。 她主演過嘅電影有《百變星君》、《孟波》、《殺手阿一》、《人肉叉燒包II之天誅地滅》，喺1997年嘅《黑金》入面，佢更加獲提名第17屆香港電影金像獎嘅最佳女主角。 當時，孫佳君曾表示自己事業心愈嚟愈重，希望可以拍多啲國際級嘅電影，即使需要犧牲藝術都唔介意：「我好希望我部《殺手阿一》可以受到歡迎，喺戲入面我講日文、英文同埋國語，部戲意識雖然大膽，但係我冇乜裸露鏡頭。我而家愈嚟愈鍾意喺香港工作，因為發揮嘅空間好大。」 孫佳君感情路坎坷，90年代初進入娛樂圈時，與綽號「神童輝」的富商羅兆輝相戀。後來，二人私密舊照曝光… ncG1vNJzZmigm6jBsL7YZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZK93gg%3D%3D/%E7%8E%8B%E5%9E%A0%E5%85%A8%E9%9B%86-by-yin-wang.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/%E7%8E%8B%E5%9E%A0%E5%85%A8%E9%9B%86-by-yin-wang.html花了一些时间，把微博的帖子一篇篇地往 substack 搬。浏览着这几个月写出的文字，它们让我欣慰。有时候回去看自己写的东西，有一种“原来我是这样的人”，死而无憾了的感觉。 这些文字的价值，比起我在编程语言领域的造诣大了非常多。编程语言永远只能操作机器，而人类语言可以改变人的思想，改变世界。 我应该把写过的所有文字整理出来编成一本书，叫做《王垠全集》。也许经过一百年，很多人看这本书会记得我——有一个人真的改变了世界，人类终于获得了自由。 不过我这样一篇篇地整理有点累了，我欢迎志愿者参加帮忙。 ncG1vNJzZmixmaPEorrGamWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXx2gpU%3D/a-palpably-unfair-act-1969.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-palpably-unfair-act-1969.htmlShare Share Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture This is Throwbacks, a newsletter by me, Michael Weinreb, about sports, history, culture and politics, and everything in-between. Welcome to all new readers/subscribers, and if you like what you’re reading, please join the mailing list and share, on social media or through e-mail or however you feel comfortable sharing. (It’s still FREE to join the list:… ncG1vNJzZmismKe8uK7AnKKsZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8alrK2dpah6rrXNoqSuq11mhneF/142-how-to-sequence-your-images-and-build-a-narrative.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/142-how-to-sequence-your-images-and-build-a-narrative.htmlThis issue is Step 3 of a 10-part series guiding you through the step-by-step process of making your very own book or zine. Join me as I share my firsthand experience creating "NOTICE Journal, Volume One", and get inspired to work on your own project. Dear friends, In this week's letter, what might be my favorite part of creating a book—sequencing the images into a narrative. Ooooh I love it so much./a-philosophy-of-filipino-fortitude.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-philosophy-of-filipino-fortitude.htmlBahala na is often used as an expression of exasperation, to let go of the worry of consequence. Scholars seem to agree that bahala comes from Bathala, the supreme deity of the early Tagalogs. Thus one might say that bahala na implies “Let God handle it.” A popular saying that comes to mind in relation to this is, “Nasa Diyos ang awa pero nasa tao ang gawa” (God has mercy for those who act)./about-file411-s-newsletter.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-file411-s-newsletter.htmlShare File411’s Newsletter If you have missed my bellicose spicy and snarky-ness on Twitter - well hello there friend - here I am and I’m so very glad to see you (again) As we know Twitter really isn’t a conducive platform my Files or my snark. Conversely on SubStack I can spread my wings a little bit more. While continuing to spread my “Twitter glitter” and providing original/root documents. Of course plenty of snark and highlighted documents./alice-doesn-t-live-here-anymore.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/alice-doesn-t-live-here-anymore.htmlHello friends and enemies, We are verging on two thirds of the way through Martin Scorsese’s filmography. Now that we’re here, I sort of regret not saving all of my favorite films for the end. I specifically told myself I would reserve my top two for my last two, but otherwise, I wouldn’t follow any restrictions. But as we get toward the end, it’s a little bit like, I’ve already written about The Last Temptation of Christ and Casino, now I have to write about Gangs of New York and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore?/allison-moorer-the-autotelic-substack.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/allison-moorer-the-autotelic-substack.htmlThe Autotelic is where I put it all – writing, singing, anything I dream up — to chronicle and share about this wild, beautiful, and imperfect journey. By Allison Moorer/The Autotelic · Over 5,000 subscribersNot right now“Incredible wisdom from multi-talented, polymathic memoirist/singer/songwriter. Deeply generous and kind writing that I look forward to all the time, and often go back and re-read. ” ncG1vNJzZmiZnKG2tLvNpqaoqpWne7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D/ask-a-midwesterner-cincinnati-chili-basics.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ask-a-midwesterner-cincinnati-chili-basics.htmlThe way I see it, most people just don’t understand Cincinnati chili, a polarizing dish so popular in its hometown—which is also mine—that it supports some 250 parlors and two mid-sized regional chains, Skyline and Gold Star. Those of us who grew up in the Queen City are used to rolling our eyes at over-the-top opinions from out-of-towners like Mets announcer Gary Cohen, who called our chili “disgusting” in a rant that went viral last summer, and Deadspin writer Albert Burneko, who named it “the worst regional foodstuff in America or anywhere else,” describing it as “a horrifying diarrhea sludge,” back in 2013./at-casa-azul-buffalo-s-finest-mexican-restaurant-builds-rep-with-culinary-craft.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/at-casa-azul-buffalo-s-finest-mexican-restaurant-builds-rep-with-culinary-craft.htmlIn 2015 Vincenza Lapi, a young cook from Grand Island, introduced herself to Buffalo with an arancini-focused food truck named the Blue Balls Bus.  So it is especially delicious to see what Zina Lapi hath wrought at Allen and Elmwood, the crossroads of Buffalo nightlife. Casa Azul means “blue house” in Spanish. Sticking with the azure inspiration, Lapi swapped Italian-American snacks for a soulful lineup of Mexican-inspired cooking and insistence on what James Roberts of Toutant calls “doing things the hard way for the right reason./bilingual-barbie-motherlingual.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bilingual-barbie-motherlingual.htmlI finally saw Barbie in the theatre last week. (Some spoilers ahead, obv.) When I got home and my partner asked how it was, I wasn’t sure what to say. I laughed, but no tears were shed, and I couldn’t figure out why, or when in the movie people cried multiple times (as noted on social media and in the many intelligent and fantastic reviews I read). The only time I got a bit emotional was during the video montage near the end, but I am a sap for family videos, especially if a melancholic song plays in the background./children-s-books-for-winter.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/children-s-books-for-winter.htmlHAPPY WINTER, THE BEST OF ALL THE SEASONS! I know, most of you don’t agree with that statement in the slightest, but maybe you enjoy reading about winter, if not actually living in / surviving it? (Pro tip from a Wisconsinite: get outside and sport your way through it. It really does help.) I hope the following brings you some fresh new reads for you and your family and that if books are the only thing you find to enjoy about the season, you enjoy them to the very utmost 🩵/conservative-change-from-small-government-to-unlimited.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/conservative-change-from-small-government-to-unlimited.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./cypress-hills-brooklyn-by-rob-stephenson.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cypress-hills-brooklyn-by-rob-stephenson.htmlGreetings from the city that currently holds the ignominious distinction of having the worst air quality in the world. Before the smokey haze that rekindled our K95 love affair descended upon the city, I revisited the neighborhood of Cypress Hills in Brooklyn. Drop a reference to Cypress Hills into a conversation, and the first thing that comes to mind, for people of a certain age is likely this: Those less familiar with the first hip-hop group to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame may think of the neighborhood on the Brooklyn/Queens border that shares the same name./death-row-welcomes-you-by-steven-hale.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/death-row-welcomes-you-by-steven-hale.htmlSteven Hale is one of the finest journalists here in Nashville. I mean, he’s one of the finest journalists in the country. He just happens to live and cover Nashville. (Disclosure: He’s also a friend.) He now works for the new publication the Nashville Banner, but for many years he wrote for our local alt weekly, the Scene. Like many red states, Tennessee has in recent years throttled up its machinery of death./erasing-the-terror-by-david-a-bell.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/erasing-the-terror-by-david-a-bell.htmlThe study of the French Revolution has evolved in many different directions since the bicentennial of 1989. Like historical studies in general, it has taken the “global turn,” relating developments in France to world-wide patterns of imperial expansion, commerce, migration, intellectual exchange, and conflict (this shift led me, nearly a decade ago, to write an article urging a degree of caution: not every significant event in revolutionary France is best explained by the global context)./f%C3%A9licien-rops-and-the-art-of-horror.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/f%C3%A9licien-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./growing-avocados-in-a-temperate-climate.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/growing-avocados-in-a-temperate-climate.htmlAvocados are a subtropical fruit native to the Americas, originating in Mexico and Guatemala. However, they are easy enough to grow in warm-temperate climates like Melbourne’s (provided you can keep the possums off them). I live in Kyneton, which has a cool-temperate climate. Most gardeners would say that trying to grow avocados here is ill-advised. But I’m trying anyway. I’ve successfully kept a few avocados alive in the ground for two years now./how-the-fedex-cup-bonus-works.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-the-fedex-cup-bonus-works.htmlEvery Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 80 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since last Monday. Join 7,273 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below. Today At A Glance: The winner of the FedEx Cup Playoffs will take home $18 million. But the prize money won’t be all in cash. There will be some form of deferred compensation. Today’s newsletter breaks down the FedEx Cup bonus payouts./how-to-write-an-email.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-write-an-email.htmlBecause I have an odd career path, because I’ve written four books, because I used to be a professor, because I worked for BuzzFeed, because I now write a newsletter and that newsletter is in its third year, because of any or all of those reasons, I get a lot of requests to participate in projects, interviews, podcasts, etc. If you’re a journalist, a writer, a community leader, a local celebrity, a podcaster, a CEO, a person who’s spoken at a large or small event, a religious leader, a professor, or anyone with any sort of visibility and/or expertise, you have also been on the receiving end of these emails./introducing-adam-frankenstein.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/introducing-adam-frankenstein.htmlOkay, so I want to talk a bit about LORE. I’m not talking about the podcast/tv-show, but rather the different grouping of ideas in the collective unconscious that different kinds of stories tap into. It’s a term that I use to refer to the subject matter that one of my comics is built out of. Back when I was a teenager reading stacks of creator-owned trade paperbacks in the mid-2000s, it felt like every great creator-owned book was built out of a distinct kind of Lore that it was using the comic to teach to the audience, either directly or indirectly./life-death-and-dragonflies-by-bryan-pfeiffer.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/life-death-and-dragonflies-by-bryan-pfeiffer.htmlWHILE FIGHTING a half century ago in Vietnam, where the United States tried and failed to make him a warrior, the entomologist and author Ken Tennessen was ordered to take charge of a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a tripod and pointed toward the enemy. As he crawled toward the terrible weapon, Tennessen noticed perched on its barrel a damselfly flashing purple and black. Ever the scientist, he wanted to stand and catch the insect for a closer look./new-york-drug-lord-seth-ferranti-s-true-crime-newsletter.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/new-york-drug-lord-seth-ferranti-s-true-crime-newsletter.htmlWhen Howard “Pappy” Mason made bail, he made an imaginary gun with his thumb and index finger, turned to the prosecutor and pulled the trigger. Which must have been worrying, given that he had just been freed by a hung jury in a murder trial in which he was accused of killing Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols’ parole officer. The supposed motive? The parole officer had dared to send him back to prison./one-more-from-murray-stenson.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/one-more-from-murray-stenson.htmlMurray Stenson, the Seattle barman who was a mentor figure to legions of young mixologists in the aughts and early 2010s, died on Sept. 22 at the age of 74. Since then, there has been a great outpouring of memories on social media—anecdotes that are known in bar circles as “Murray Stories.” Some of the stories had to do with his infallible memory. He could remember a customer’s name and preferred drink after a single visit to whatever bar he was working at./rai-king-substack.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/rai-king-substack.htmlThe North Star with Shaun King By Shaun King Independent, grassroots liberation-journalism focused on politics, power, race, policing, mass incarceration, organizing, and change. No ads, no spam, no hate or trolls because we are 100% supported by members like you. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kvbO7xaKjnmdibX55g5dvamaqkZ56rLXNoA%3D%3D/reading-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-riders-of-rohan.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/reading-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-riders-of-rohan.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!/recreating-jeopardy-family-feud-and-more.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/recreating-jeopardy-family-feud-and-more.htmlToday I present to you the work of Steven Rosenow, a photographer in Washington state with an unusual hobby: He makes digital recreations of old TV game show sets. Steven watches hours of footage, talks to people who worked or appeared on the shows, scours behind-the-scenes photos, gets blueprints when possible, and uses all that information to build digital models of the sets of games shows he watched as a kid./ruby-tandoh-s-glorious-cook-as-you-are.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ruby-tandoh-s-glorious-cook-as-you-are.htmlThis is the second installment of Cookbook on a Budget, where I share not-expensive entry points to books I love. Check out the first installment, on Via Carota’s Onion and Bread Soup, here. These posts will always be free for everyone. If you want to support my work, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription, or sharing this post with someone you think will enjoy it. Last year Ruby Tandoh, a food writer, cookbook author, and former GBBO contestant, started posting recipes from her latest cookbook, Cook As You Are, on Instagram./the-astrology-of-johnny-and-all-his-potential-love-island-games-matches.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-astrology-of-johnny-and-all-his-potential-love-island-games-matches.htmlJohnny is getting a lot of romantic attention on Love Island Games, and in this post we’re going to have a look at his astrology dynamic with Jessica, Liberty, Georgia, and of course Cely, to get an idea of who his best match is, as well as the reoccurring themes that show up with the women he connects with. Firstly a little bit on Johnny - his Sun and Mars are in Gemini, and these are masculine planets that show how someone presents themselves on the outside./the-birth-of-the-peanuts-cartoon-series.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-birth-of-the-peanuts-cartoon-series.htmlHappy Thursday! This issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter is about Charlie Brown’s All Stars (1966), the second animated Peanuts special. During most of the years he spent drawing Peanuts strips, Charles Schulz was also writing Peanuts cartoon specials for television. The first, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), is an annual tradition close to 60 years strong. Before his death in 2000, Schulz would oversee 38 more Peanuts shows. Initially, convincing the networks to take a full special based on Schulz’s work was hard./the-evy-s-tree-story-the-end.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-evy-s-tree-story-the-end.htmlThe following conversation is for all of my subscribers, paid and free. Most of my newsletters are extremely personal and because of that, they are for paid subscribers only. I hope you enjoy this open newsletter. As a Christmas special, we are offering 20% off the annual paid membership through the end of the year. If you’d like to become a paid subscriber, or upgrade from a monthly membership to annual {saving you $32!/the-girls-are-blogging-by-luce.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-girls-are-blogging-by-luce.htmlI’ve just logged onto a Zoom call with two girls who look like they could literally be me Rubes, or Liv when we first started Shit You Should Care About - we’re excitedly talking over each other about our cute pink outfits, our TikTok habits, and how we’re all so impatient for everything, all the time. That impatience is evident right now, as I’ve launched into this piece without even introducing what the hell I’m doing here!/the-ladder-of-leadership-by-zeke-hernandez.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-ladder-of-leadership-by-zeke-hernandez.htmlI met Allison Davis-Blake when she was the dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. This was her first role as the top leader of an academic institution, after many years as a distinguished professor. I’m going to share parts of a story that she related in another setting, though my interpretation and application of her story are entirely my own. Just a few days into her role as dean, IT security dramatically stormed into her office./the-state-of-the-movies-2023-what-we-learned-and-where-we-re-headed.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-state-of-the-movies-2023-what-we-learned-and-where-we-re-headed.htmlHey movie lovers! As always, you can find a podcast version of this newsletter on Apple or Spotify. Thank you so much for listening and spreading the word! This week: It’s not just a recap of the year in movies, it’s a big picture essay about where we’re headed and what we learned. Hopefully you enjoy. Then an incredibly moving documentary about North Korea, a shameless 90s Ron Howard special, and a Russell Crowe prison escape movie./the-strange-tale-of-captain-hollywood-cory-palka-and-the-cover-up-of-sexual-violence.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-strange-tale-of-captain-hollywood-cory-palka-and-the-cover-up-of-sexual-violence.htmlPhoto of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission meeting at City Hall to discuss proposed settlements for violations by former CBS CEO Les Moonves and a subordinate in collusion with Cory Palka of the LAPD by author (GoPro Hero 11 Black). Please support my work with your subscription or for direct aid use Venmo By Zachary Ellison, Independent Journalist The case of Cory Palka continues, perhaps somewhere, more than a year past the disclosure by the New York Attorney General’s Office that the former Captain of the Hollywood Division that he had colluded with CBS CEO Les Moonves and Ian Metrose, the former Senior Vice President for Talent Relations & Special Events at the network, in order to deny justice to sexual assault victim Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb./the-villainizing-of-robin-givens.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-villainizing-of-robin-givens.htmlThis week on the pod, it’s a new Ask Unladylike, and we’re tackling a pair of word problems that I have a feeling LOTS of us have encountered in one way or another. The first comes from an unlady who’s uncomfortable with how her boyfriend and his friends call each other bitch. It strikes her as misogynistic in context, but he argues the word is so ubiquitous these days, it has nothing to do with gender./tms-muse-of-the-week-catherine-james.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./we-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/we-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are.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/what-is-the-let-it-linger-meme-about.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-is-the-let-it-linger-meme-about.htmlOne of my favourite things about TikTok is its weirdness. I’m not necessarily talking about videos that are inherently strange, more how it provides a place for internet culture to fold into itself like some sort of self-referential dough.  Take, for example, the recent explosion of The Cranberries’ song ‘Linger’ as a meme. I first encountered it about a week ago when this video popped up on my TikTok feed./what-should-you-leave-behind-in-2023.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-should-you-leave-behind-in-2023.htmlHappy nearly end of the year! Despite my misgivings about the “new year, new you” movement (I personally like to start my goals and resolutions before the mythical Jan 1 date), I recognise it’s still a great time to reflect on the year gone by and the year to come. I hope you’re getting a festive break from work this year, so you can have that downtime for reflection, but if not, then try and take at least an hour - maybe go for a walk - and use it to guide your thoughts as you turn towards 2024./who-is-la-befana-by-beth-collier.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/who-is-la-befana-by-beth-collier.htmlWhile many of us have packed up our Christmas decorations by now, not everyone is finished celebrating. As I recently learned (through my seven-year-old son), Italians get more presents on January 6. “That’s when Befana comes!” his Italian friend told him. Wait, who is Befana?  I knew January 6 as Epiphany, 12 days after Christmas, and the day that commemorates when the Three Wise Men visited the baby Jesus. But I did not know that for Italians, this is also the day to celebrate the arrival of La Befana./why-is-chess-so-hard-by-nate-solon.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-is-chess-so-hard-by-nate-solon.htmlGetting better at chess should be easy. Before you throw your shoe at the computer screen, let me explain. According to psychologist Robin Hogarth, there are two kinds of learning environments, which he calls kind and wicked. Kind learning environments are constrained, consistent, and predictable. Lessons learned from experience are reliable. In contrast, feedback in wicked learning environments is delayed, inconsistent, or unreliable. Lessons learned from experience in wicked environments are often misleading./why-women-nag-by-dorothy-littell-greco.htmlFri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-women-nag-by-dorothy-littell-greco.htmlThe nagging wife and other misogynistic tropes have existed long before the internet came into being. One of the earliest references to nagging comes from the Old Testament book of Judges (written approx. 6th C BC) which reads, “Delilah pouted while saying, ‘How can you tell me, I love you when you don’t share your secrets with me? You’ve made fun of me three times now, and you still haven’t told me what makes you so strong!/after-modric-and-co-where-is-croatia-s-next-generation-coming-from.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/after-modric-and-co-where-is-croatia-s-next-generation-coming-from.htmlThe generational difference between Croatia and Spain in the teams’ meeting at Euro 2024 couldn’t have been more stark. While Spain flew around the pitch thanks to the energy of youngsters like Lamine Yamal and Pedri, Croatia laboured. By contrast, they looked old. That is, in no small part, because Croatia are old. Their starting lineup against Spain was the oldest selected at Euro 2024 so far. Luka Modric is 38./119-the-curious-metoo-case-of-yascha-mounk.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/119-the-curious-metoo-case-of-yascha-mounk.htmlOn Jan 2, a writer named Celeste Marcus published an essay entitled, “After Rape: A Guide for the Tormented” in the free-speech literary journal Liberties, where Celeste is managing editor. She wrote about an incident in 2021 with a close male friend as they slept beside each other in bed. She called it rape; he did not. The man remained unnamed until February 4, when Celeste posted an email exchange to Twitter with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg./25-asterisk-by-leah-sottile.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/25-asterisk-by-leah-sottile.htmlI was one of those Kurt Vonnegut kids. Surely, there were one or two of us at your high school? At 16, during my junior year, we had to complete a year-long research project, and I committed myself to analyzing the work of Vonnegut. I’m sure there was one of us every year, but I felt special and edgy and cool for this choice.  Vonnegut appealed to the little goth in my teenage heart — the kid I think could see something both dark in life’s promised brightness and bright in its feared darkness./28-3-reviews-the-pokemon-fanfiction-zeitgeist.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/28-3-reviews-the-pokemon-fanfiction-zeitgeist.htmlI’ve never particularly felt like a “Pokemon fan”. I dropped out of the scene when I was still pretty young, around the Pokemon Diamond era, and while I speed-played Black 2 and X long after they came out, I didn’t really get back into it until last year, and that was partially influenced by a certain renaissance I’ll mention soon. I still can’t recognize many gen V-VIII pokemon. I say this for context./66-chapters-of-the-bible-to-know.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/66-chapters-of-the-bible-to-know.htmlThe other day, I made an off-handed comment that every Christian ought to try to commit the themes of a few key chapters of the Bible to memory. I don’t mean that you would have these chapters memorized; I mean that you would be able to give a sentence or two about their main themes. Or you could come at this in the reverse: When a few topics come up, you would be able to say, “Ah, John 15 talks about that…” Or whatever the case might be./a-short-gross-history-of-the-word-scumbag.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-short-gross-history-of-the-word-scumbag.htmlBehold a scumbag. Here at Backbencher we try to produce a family-friendly newsletter, but when a word like “scumbag” gets normalized in political discourse, our only recourse is to remind you what the word means, even as the original meaning (fixed a little more than half a century ago) starts to disappear from dictionaries. A scumbag is a bag filled with scum, and it’s a certain kind of bag, and a certain kind of scum, and while the act of sexual intercourse is of course a beautiful and transcendent expression of physical attraction and/or love, its apparatus is kind of nasty, particularly when the apparatus belongs to somebody else./a-synonym-for-antisemitism-clarity-with-michael-oren.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/a-synonym-for-antisemitism-clarity-with-michael-oren.htmlSince the start of the Gaza War, I’ve conducted dozens of interviews with the international media, including NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, and have been dismayed—indeed, sickened—by their use of the word “militants” to describe Hamas terrorists. The word is deeply imbedded in the lexicon of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Wall Street Journal whose latest headline reads, “What Is Hamas? What to Know About the Militant Group Fighting Israel./about-f%C3%BAtbol-with-grant-wahl.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/about-f%C3%BAtbol-with-grant-wahl.htmlIt’s a writing site providing quality journalism, discussion and analysis around the sport of soccer from one of the world’s leading soccer journalists. I write in-depth magazine-style stories on men’s and women’s soccer in the U.S. and abroad, report on-location from the sport’s biggest events (including World Cups and World Cup qualifying), publish a twice-weekly podcast with news talk and interviews (audio and written) with the sport’s most prominent figures, write columns and start regular discussion threads with our community in a sport that never stops./an-interview-with-the-girthmasterr.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/an-interview-with-the-girthmasterr.htmlWarning: A few of the links in this post are NSFW. Proceed at your own risk. I won’t mince words: Girthmasterr has a massive dick. It’s not some 12-inch monstrosity that you might have read about in a bad fanfic when you were a teenager, but it’s eight inches long, seven inches in circumference, and AUSTRALIAN. This was not information I had before Monday. I had no idea who Girthmasterr was until I stumbled upon a TikTok video uploaded to Twitter of a woman asking a very tall Aussie what he did for a living./bay-to-breakers-2024-scenes-and-stories.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/bay-to-breakers-2024-scenes-and-stories.htmlSan Francisco’s Bay to Breakers has always been a celebration of the city’s eclectic spirit, and the race on Sunday drew its typical runners alongside video game characters, superheroes, farm animals, and pretty much every costume in between. This was Bay to Breakers 2024 in photos by Courtney Muro. We sent two reporters and also published a history by Alec Scott. The last time I ran the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race, I was balancing a stiff martini — shaken not stirred — in my left hand and a cigarette in my right, running in fishnet stockings and a black satin slip./cherry-blossom-10-mile-race-recap.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/cherry-blossom-10-mile-race-recap.htmlI’ve run 15 marathons, 25 half marathons, and too many 5Ks and 10Ks to count, but I think the less traditional distances are underrated. There’s the Falmouth Road Race, which is seven miles; the 10-mile Broad Street Run in Philadelphia; the Bronx 10 Mile; and a slew of smaller four-, seven-, and 10-mile local races. If any race makes a great case for racing a non-traditional distance, it’s the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler./do-the-jays-have-what-it-takes-to-become-playoff-oddities.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/do-the-jays-have-what-it-takes-to-become-playoff-oddities.htmlThe Blue Jays continue to find ways to make this wretched season worse. After building some vaguely positive momentum over an 8-5 stretch against the lowly White Sox, Tigers, White Sox, and Pirates, they have immediately fallen brutally flat in the first two games of a four-game home set against the Orioles this week. So far they've been outscored 17-3 by their division rivals. Their run differential has slumped back down to -45; the eighth-worst mark in baseball./does-harry-styles-know-about-the-idea-of-you-book-or-movie.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/does-harry-styles-know-about-the-idea-of-you-book-or-movie.htmlHello fellow sleuths and The Idea of You fanatics, You may recall that last week I announced my investigation into one of the great pop culture mysteries of our time: Is Harry Styles aware of The Idea of Youbook and/or movie? I wrote a newsletter, posted to my stories asking you to sleuth with me, and then… I DM’ed Robinne Lee, the book’s author, and ultimately solved the case in a single afternoon./easter-jesus-visibility-day.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./every-character-in-the-twilight-saga-ranked-by-hotness.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/every-character-in-the-twilight-saga-ranked-by-hotness.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./falling-for-mario-by-andrea-strong.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/falling-for-mario-by-andrea-strong.htmlFriends, the time has come to confess: I am in love with Mario. We met only a few nights ago, and I can’t stop thinking about him. Sadly, he’s a bar, well not really a bar, but a restaurant with a really nice bar. Bar Mario that is. And perhaps even more heartbreaking is that the Mario the bar is named for is a fictional character! There isn’t even a Mario behind Bar Mario./fashion-icons-of-horror-by-lakyn-carlton.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/fashion-icons-of-horror-by-lakyn-carlton.htmlBoo! Did I scare you? Good. Happy Halloween! Spooky season is my favorite season so, naturally, horror movies and media are a huge part of my life. Look how cute I looked at Monsterpalooza! It took me a while to figure out how to marry my first two loves: fashion and scary sh*t. I watched a bunch of horror movies, new and old, trying to figure out what exactly makes a villain like Michael Myers or Freddie Kruger so iconic./first-round-takeaways-top-25-ol-remaining-on-day-two.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/first-round-takeaways-top-25-ol-remaining-on-day-two.htmlBefore we get into my top 25 OL remaining on the board for day two of the draft, here are a few takeaways and thoughts from round one: There were nine offensive linemen selected in the first round of the draft last night, tying 2022 and 2013 for the most over the last 12 draft classes (since 2012). Eight of the nine are projected to play tackle (at least to start), which is the most over that same span./how-to-make-an-umbrella-tree-bonsai.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-to-make-an-umbrella-tree-bonsai.htmlWhen I was growing up, I used to wake up early and make paper chains. I snuck into the living room, put cartoons on low volume, and started cutting colored construction paper into strips. I was industrious. I taped hundreds of links together in a morning, then dragged the chain around the apartment, reveling in its heft. My mom threw out the chains once I lost interest, but she kept the cabinet stocked with paper for more./i-have-a-crush-on-my-boss.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/i-have-a-crush-on-my-boss.htmlI'm writing to you because of a weird relationship I have with an old boss. I worked for him as an intern (he was the head of the company) while I was in college. After I had stopped interning, I reached out and asked if there was any on-the-side work I could do for him. He said yes, and I did informal freelance work for him for the next few years (I still do, occasionally)./in-service-to-those-we-love-we-must-keep-fascists-separate-from-power.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/in-service-to-those-we-love-we-must-keep-fascists-separate-from-power.htmlReverend Martin Niemöller’s “First they came…,” usually rendered as a poem, is a classic of post-fascist regret. The statement is perhaps more poignant because Niemöller was an early supporter of the Nazi Party, only reconsidering his support when his church and his beliefs were targeted. The statement is suffused with hard-earned moral understanding, though it is difficult to feel too bad for Niemöller. Though imprisoned by the Nazis for his beliefs, he survived, unlike the countless victims of the holocaust./indian-inspired-masala-fried-eggs-scraps.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/indian-inspired-masala-fried-eggs-scraps.htmlCrispy eggs fried in garam masala and buttery shallots, topped with fresh chillies and cilantro, talk about a breakfast to look forward to! This recipe takes inspiration from the flavorful street food in Patna, India, where I virtually traveled to while mindlessly scrolling through YouTube one evening. I came across this one video and that was all it took to fall down a rabbit hole. I spent the following hour watching dozens of Indian poached-egg-making videos: the sizzling, the pan, the egg-cracking, every single step is a thrill to watch./jeff-kay-substack.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/jeff-kay-substack.htmlJeff KayLong-time proprietor of The West Virginia Surf Report! humor blog and podcast. I currently live in northeastern Pennsylvania with my wife and two sons. I'm a fan of humor, the Cincinnati Reds, alternative rock, good books, fast food and craft beer. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja%2B7zZ6uo52Wm8A%3D/josh-kushner-and-kareem-zaki-2023.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/josh-kushner-and-kareem-zaki-2023.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./neurodiversity-in-anime-1-kamille-bidan.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/neurodiversity-in-anime-1-kamille-bidan.htmlHey! Thanks for subscribing. A friend of mine asked me to contribute to their zine! It’s about finding neurodiverse representation in entertainment media and pop culture in general with a specific focus on autism spectrum disorder. I myself am not on the autism spectrum; I don’t believe “watching too much anime” is part of the diagnostic criteria for that anymore. I do find it funny, though, that it is often ASD coded characters that I gravitate towards strongly in the anime that I enjoy./oatmeal-can-be-savory-by-hannah-lynn.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/oatmeal-can-be-savory-by-hannah-lynn.htmlSweet breakfasts have a grip on America that I don’t understand. I don’t crave sweets in the morning and never want more than one bite of a stack of pancakes. And don’t get me started on sweet oatmeal – actually, too late, I’ve already started because this newsletter is about oatmeal. A few years ago, I realized oatmeal is really just a flavorless vessel for whatever flavors you want to add and can be made savory./optum-s-telehealth-shutdown-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/optum-s-telehealth-shutdown-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.htmlWelcome to AI Health Uncut, a brutally honest newsletter on AI, innovation, and the state of the healthcare market. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. I’ve written four research articles on the telehealth industry: ✅ The Telehealth Masquerade: How Corporate ‘Geniuses’ Sold Us the 1876 Wine in a New Bottle. November 17, 2023. ✅ Digital Health 2024: 7 Predictions & 50 Names You Don’t Want to Miss./perfect-time-for-the-two-faced-god-janus.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/perfect-time-for-the-two-faced-god-janus.htmlDear Classical Wisdom Reader,  I hate to be one of ‘those’ people, but I have been saying Liminal before it was cool. Apparently it’s become a popular word to throw about, to show one’s hipness… Google confirmed my hunch: But I’ve never been hip and it’s been one of my favorite terms since I first learned about it in Anthropology 101 a couple of decades ago. So there./race-brexit-and-islamism-with-munira-mirza-ad-free.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/race-brexit-and-islamism-with-munira-mirza-ad-free.htmlMy guest today is Munira Mirza. Munira Mirza is a British public policy analyst and cultural commentator. She served as the Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London under Boris Johnson when he was mayor, and later served as director of The Number 10 Policy Unit under Johnson when he was prime minister. In this episode, we talk about Munira's early days as a Marxist, her interest in art and museums, her views on Brexit, her views on multiculturalism in the UK, the Israel-Hamas war and Jihadism in general, and much more./restaurant-review-moishes-by-lesley-chesterman.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/restaurant-review-moishes-by-lesley-chesterman.htmlIf Moishes steakhouse were celebrating its anniversary this year, it would be its 85th. Opened in 1938 by the late Moishe Lighter, this family run restaurant had long been managed by his two sons, Lenny and Larry. Generations of Montrealers frequented this establishment, which was city's oldest continuously operating fine-dining restaurant in the same location. Moishes always scored with its superb service, great food and history. And the ambiance and decor were steak house perfection./resurrecting-hind-s-hall-by-jeffrey-nall-ph-d.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/resurrecting-hind-s-hall-by-jeffrey-nall-ph-d.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./smartphone-alternatives-for-kids-and-teens.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/smartphone-alternatives-for-kids-and-teens.htmlWelcome to Techno Sapiens! Subscribe to join 13,000+ other readers and get research-backed tips for living and parenting in the digital age. 5 min readI got my first cellphone when I was 14. The only things I remember about it were that it was light blue, plasticky, and small enough to fit into the tiny pockets of some horrifically low-rise jeans. I also remember, in the days before T9, spending many hours furiously thumbing the multi-tap keyboard./the-10-best-commodore-64-games-ever.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-10-best-commodore-64-games-ever.htmlI missed a lot of these back in the day. I'll be giving them a try. Some of my favorites were: Spy Hunter, Load Runner, Jumpman, Spy vs Spy -- although I never got very far, Archon. I also liked Impossible Mission, but again, didn't get very far. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmikpaOxtrfEZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMGpsYxqZ2aalajBbq%2FOpqSonJ%2Bnsm6Ck2aemqWVqHqmwsSrZpynnaKyr8DS/the-baloney-and-panburger-partner-issue-of-picayune-plus.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-baloney-and-panburger-partner-issue-of-picayune-plus.htmlTo read this issue in your browser, click on the headline above.Eric Zorn is a former opinion columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Find a longer bio and contact information here. This issue exceeds in size the maximum length for a standard email. To read the entire issue in your browser, click on the headline link above. Paid subscribers receive each Picayune Plus in their email inbox each Tuesday, are part of our civil and productive commenting community and enjoy the sublime satisfaction of supporting this enterprise./the-coming-year-of-apocalypse-films.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-coming-year-of-apocalypse-films.htmlIn March 2020, when COVID-19 shut everything down for a spell, I started watching pandemic films. There was the very shout-y 1995 Dustin Hoffman film Outbreak. There was the underrated cast of 2009’s Carriers. And there was Stephen Soderbergh’s impeccable Contagion. Why watch these films as a pandemic was breaking out? Because as scary as COVID-19 might have seemed in early 2020, these films highlighted all the ways in which things could have been so much worse./the-dink-lifestyle-is-ruining-traditional-families-here-s-why.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-dink-lifestyle-is-ruining-traditional-families-here-s-why.htmlI'm confused and to be honest, quite disappointed. There are plenty of couples out there who have fertility issues, who for a variety of reasons have a double income and no kids - chief among them that even supposedly middle class couples have one paycheck being entirely absorbed by rent. That means paycheck #2 is dedicated to necessities, savings or paying back a student loan if you're lucky, and maybe after all that, something fun./the-final-bow-of-the-allman-brothers-band.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-final-bow-of-the-allman-brothers-band.htmlEight years ago today, the Allman Brothers Band played their final show at the Beacon Theatre. You can order a CD of the final show right here. I covered the final shows every which way, posting on Facebook, covering immediately for Billboard, with a story I had to get up and write with about two hours sleep,  and writing the following story for Guitar World, when I had a little bit of time to digest and talk to Jaimoe, Warren and Derek./the-illusion-of-space-st-mark-s-square-venice.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-illusion-of-space-st-mark-s-square-venice.htmlPiazza San Marco or St. Mark's Square in Venice is one of the most beautiful public squares in Europe. Described as "the finest drawing room in all of Europe," this urban area is framed by buildings and is an example of a ceremonial civic space that celebrates the power of people coming together. It is used for marches, festivals, parades, outdoor dining, pigeon feeding, and more. It is the social, religious and political center of Venice./the-inspiration-behind-the-long-game.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-inspiration-behind-the-long-game.htmlThe feel-good movie of the year just might be a golf movie. “The Long Game” is coming to theaters Friday, April 12. The movie is based on a book, “Mustang Miracle,” a true story about five Mexican-American kids who caddie at a swanky local country club in 1957 and fall in love with golf. Due to racial discrimination at the time, the junior golfers — Joe Trevino, Gene Vasquez, Felipe Romero, Mario Lomas and Lupe Felan — have no place to play and only a few second-hand clubs./the-lifelike-misogyny-of-scream-s-stu-macher.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-lifelike-misogyny-of-scream-s-stu-macher.htmlby Veronica Phillips At the beginning of Wes Craven’s Scream, we meet Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore). Casey is an attractive, flirty teenage girl who is home alone and getting ready to watch a scary movie; in short, she is quintessential slasher bait. Her only potential saving grace — given that slasher films tend to let their most famous actresses last the longest — is the fact that she is played by ‘80s child superstar Drew Barrymore./the-origins-of-sefardi-jewry.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-origins-of-sefardi-jewry.htmlYou’re reading Stories from Jewish History, a weekly newsletter exploring Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts, from the famous to the obscure. Last time, we wrapped up a series on the Geonic period in which we examined this comparatively little-known but immensely formative period. Paid subscribers, look for a new eBook of the Geonim series later thi… ncG1vNJzZmisoqKus8LIp2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXy1tMRmpquhl567tHnOn2SsnZaWv6W1jKOcsKqpYoByhA%3D%3D/things-to-remember-about-boundaries.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/things-to-remember-about-boundaries.html#3 is tricky. What is if they're manipulating you in the name of boundaries. Ex. a friend saying she wants to partner with you for a project. Doesn't communicate that she is reconsidering if it's good for her to partner for a project then when you ask about it you get a message "we agreed to commit to setting boundaries and I'm happy we are doing this side by side but I want to put myself in vulnerable situations with this project and therefore won't be available for you for anything regarding this project"/tonka-beans-by-anya-peach.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/tonka-beans-by-anya-peach.htmlHello, This tonka issue comes to you out of my pre-scheduled order because I have become obsessed with the flavour and the history of this ingredient overnight. Some of you may know that I am completing Leith’s online course and a couple of weeks ago I was tasked with tackling my nemesis - egg-based desserts aka custards, but with the bastard addition of gelatine to make matters even harder. So instead of opting for traditional vanilla, I decided to finally pop open a tin of tonka beans that I got for my birthday couple of years ago (they’re still in date, reader, and that’s another reason to love them) and infuse the milk with a tiny nugget./weathertiger-s-hurricane-idalia-landfall-live-blog-final-post-11-30-a-m.htmlThu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/weathertiger-s-hurricane-idalia-landfall-live-blog-final-post-11-30-a-m.htmlWeatherTiger’s Hurricane Idalia landfall liveblog has concluded. Thanks for reading, and hope you stayed safe. For complete Florida storm coverage, sign up for WeatherTiger’s hurricane forecast newsletter by clicking here: A new daily (8/31) blog for paid supporters discussing Idalia, Franklin, Jose, and 3 regions of possible tropical development is available exclusively for subscribers here. The NHC 11 a.m. advisory package finds Idalia centered on the Florida-Georgia line about 15 miles SSE of Valdosta, accelerating north-northeast at 20 mph./latin-america-s-best-universities.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/latin-america-s-best-universities.htmlWelcome to Latinometrics. We bring you Latin American insights and trends through concise, thought-provoking data visualizations. Don’t forget to check out the comment of the week at the bottom! It’s been often said that education is a key which unlocks many doors. Whether you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, or whatever a “management consultant” is, chances are that a university education is the first step. But too often the conversation gets reduced to the Ivy Leagues, or about which half of Oxbridge is better./milf-manor-takes-fauxcest-to-tv.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/milf-manor-takes-fauxcest-to-tv.htmlWhen a dating reality show called “MILF Manor” was announced not long ago, the reaction was immediate and unanimous: Wasn’t that a fake show on “30 Rock”? It does seem like a desperate TV exec, over a decade after the “MILF Island” episode of “30 Rock,” cribbed the concept of a reality show about hot moms for their own pitch. But in practice, “MILF Manor” is somehow more tawdry than its fictional predecessor./abortion-is-the-new-barbie-movie.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/abortion-is-the-new-barbie-movie.htmlThis week I went on tv to talk about the Barbie movie, but I ended up telling anti-choice lawmakers to go to therapy instead. While conservatives have been busy burning their barbies, Ohio got closer to becoming the first state to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution. Pro-choice activists more than exceeded the minimum requirement of signatures and counties that they needed to get the issue on the ballot./allow-me-to-introduce-myself.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/allow-me-to-introduce-myself.htmlMy name is Andrew Michael Zywiec, and this is my story. For better or for worse, I have lived a life that may be worth sharing, and may be worth your attention. Amongst these pages, you will find humanity, raw and unadulterated. I speak in truths rarely exemplified by the inhabitants of a world that appears to be lost. I remain unsure whether it is lost here or there, however, I remain hopeful that what is lost can be found, and that something must indeed be lost before it can become found./becoming-an-egotistical-utilitarian-by-deniz-basak-dogan.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/becoming-an-egotistical-utilitarian-by-deniz-basak-dogan.htmlHi there and welcome back to querencia. 🪐 If you’re taking the time to stop and read this, thanks. I am glad you are here. In today’s issue, I will talk about the egotistical utilitarian. I first heard the term on a podcast with Matthew McConaughey and Tim Ferris (a link to that podcast episode is linked below). Ever since then, I could not stop thinking about it. At first, this term doesn’t really make sense, does it?/dengue-in-florida-2023-update.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/dengue-in-florida-2023-update.htmlDuring the past week, Florida health officials reported one additional locally-acquired dengue fever case in Hardee County. This brings the total autochthonous cases in the state to 176 in 2023. The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) has reported local cases in the following counties this year—Broward (4), Hardee (14), Miami-Dade (156), Palm Beach, and Polk. Of the 176 local cases, 135 or 77 percent of the cases typed as DENV-3, 11 were DENV-2, 5 were DENV-1 and 25 remain unknown./everything-is-an-emergency-bess-stillman.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/everything-is-an-emergency-bess-stillman.html“If only for her series on the broken clinical trial system, you should be reading this newsletter. Bess has a wonderful writing style and shares deeply personal stories about her role as a physician, but also as a caregiver of someone suffering from advanced cancer.” ncG1vNJzZmialajAtMDIpaOmmZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D/got-to-give-it-up.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/got-to-give-it-up.htmlMarvin Gaye’s music has played a role in two recent high-profile copyright lawsuits, though with opposite results – in 2015, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found guilty of plagiarizing Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” for their hit “Blurred Lines,” and ordered to pay millions of their royalties in damages. But last month, Ed Sheeran was found innocent of similarly plagiarizing Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” and will continue to hoard all profits from his pale-as-milk imitation “Thinking Out Loud./how-much-should-you-get-paid-to-do-comedy.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/how-much-should-you-get-paid-to-do-comedy.htmlAll posts will be free until June 8th, for all free and paid subscribers of The Museletter, but after that, for only $7 per month, or $70 per year, paid subscribers can get a comedy concierge to ask anything about any aspect of comedy, including how to find affordable housing so you can do more gigs, good comedy side hustles, how much you should charge for a gig, heck, you can even get a press release written for you./is-11-30am-on-a-sunday-a-good-time-for-a-first-date.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-11-30am-on-a-sunday-a-good-time-for-a-first-date.htmlI think, in general, I’m against morning people. I don’t mind waking up early (within reason), I just don’t want people to talk to me first thing. I start my days peacefully by reading, journaling or writing. I rarely leave the house in the morning, even though the healthy people on podcasts say it’s good for you. So with that in mind, I was rather perturbed when a guy on Hinge proposed we meet for a first date at 11./is-porn-misleading-men-by-aella.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/is-porn-misleading-men-by-aella.htmlI often hear people arguing that ‘porn is shaping men’s expectations of what women like in bed’ - and usually this means rough stuff, like ejaculating on her face or calling people sluts or whatever. So I decided to check. What if we ask men to predict what they think women would like in bed, and then asked women what they would actually like, to see how far off men are in their guesses?/it-s-not-heli-copter-its-helico-pter.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/it-s-not-heli-copter-its-helico-pter.htmlHi my angels!!! A few things to tell you this morning I’m running a50% off sale to become a paid supporter of SYSCA because the cozzy livs are kicking everyone’s asses including mine 𓆩♡𓆪 Get 50% off for 1 year I’m currently on tour with Icehouse Ventures having the BEST time talking alongside some kickass panelists to a bunch of sick budding entrepreneurs. I’ve just done Auckland and Welly but there’s still time to come to Christchurch or Dunedin (info below!/kitchen-project-99-canel%C3%A9-by-nicola-lamb.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/kitchen-project-99-canel%C3%A9-by-nicola-lamb.htmlHello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. It’s so wonderful to have you here. It’s a big one. Today I’m deep diving one of my favourite ever pastries. It was intimidating to say the least but I’m so excited for you to read it: Welcome to planet CANELÉ, the crispy crunchy custardy pastry of your dreams (even if you don’t know it yet). Over on KP+, we’ll be taking a left turn - I’m sharing my savoury version ft./lessons-from-a-christmas-carol-ignorance-and-want.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/lessons-from-a-christmas-carol-ignorance-and-want.htmlOne of my favorite Christmas traditions is every Christmas Eve at my wife’s parents we end our festivities by watching one of the renditions of A Christmas Carol. I must admit I was not impressed with this tradition when I was first introduced to it because I was not overly familiar with the movie or the book. I knew the general plot of the story, but I couldn’t relay the details or quote it like everyone else seemed to be able to./michael-mcdonald-on-how-he-joined-steely-dan.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/michael-mcdonald-on-how-he-joined-steely-dan.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./mike-trout-is-fun-fact-by-sam-miller.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/mike-trout-is-fun-fact-by-sam-miller.htmlInstallment 11: “When Mike Trout reported to spring training in mid-February 2020, he had more career WAR through the age of 27 than any player in Major League Baseball history.” —Me OR "Since 2014, Mike Trout's 151 home runs are the fourth most in baseball." —Fun Fact on the Angels’ Stadium scoreboard, May 2018 1. When a game begins, Mike Trout is in center field. In the top of just one first inning, he: kicks grass, smoothes kicked grass, stares into his glove, fiddles with straps of glove, removes glove, checks the count on the left-field scoreboard, checks the hitter’s stats on the right-field scoreboard, randomly salutes at nothing, checks his belt at least 10 times, unclasps and reclasps it, salutes the number of outs to his corner outfielders, signals to the dugout to get his defensive positioning, spits a bunch, blows bubbles with his gum, feels his glove, taps his glove, takes a demonstratively deep breath, and keeps looking around like he thought he just heard somebody call his name, which, to be fair, happens a few dozen times a game just within his earshot./morandi-by-john-henry-campbell.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/morandi-by-john-henry-campbell.htmlIn my nearly five years of living in NYC and dining at Italian restaurants, I’ve rarely been disappointed. Conversely, I’ve rarely been blown away by an Italian restaurant (like I was with Morandi) to the point that I could confidently recommend it to others without some caveats. For instance, Parm is great, but the atmosphere feels a bit impersonal. In my experience a lively, welcoming atmosphere is particularly important for Italian restaurants, and the lack of it at Parm is especially noticeable given its implicit function as a more approachable, more affordable version of Carbone./next-lifetime-by-erykah-badu-a-beautiful-consolation-prize.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/next-lifetime-by-erykah-badu-a-beautiful-consolation-prize.htmlErykah Badu “Next Lifetime.” 1996 Baduizm  Erykah Badu’s shtick is, and most likely always will be, of the Afro-new-agey type. Retro-60’s early 70’s–the Alice Coltrane era–with a beat. Her aesthetics (her vibe, as the kids like to say) is all Egyptian symbolism, regeneration and lava lamp woo-woo. This is the era of fake vinyl scratch sounds and album covers ripping off Roberta Flack left and right. And yet, for me, her songs are so catchy and toe-tapping that the artifice doesn’t really matter./old-millennials-share-our-mid-90s-celebrity-crushes.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/old-millennials-share-our-mid-90s-celebrity-crushes.htmlThis Valentine’s Day, I asked some of my “middle aged” pals about their most memorable early celebrity crushes, the ones that made their virgin bodies tingle and giggle. So, I consulted friends who prefer men (sometimes women) between the ages of 38-44. Our responses showcase the heartthrobs the media was shoving down our throats (ahem) at the time. And they also highlight who wasn’t prevalent in the media. There were few Black, and I’d say nearly no Latino or Asian, men cast as really hunky leads in mainstream features that preteens would likely have seen./operation-pride-before-a-fall-the-methodology-explained.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/operation-pride-before-a-fall-the-methodology-explained.htmlAs you will know by now most of this month will see this publication focus on the esports organisations directly taking money from the Saudi Arabian state while simultaneously promoting LGBT causes. Here I want to outline how I plan to do that and give you an outline of what to expect over the coming days. This will not be in lieu of other reporting and content but will be the priority in a limited timeframe./ozark-characters-ranked-by-rajiv-satyal.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ozark-characters-ranked-by-rajiv-satyal.htmlI’m finally caught up on Ozark! Who wants to discuss it? Yes, this is long, but writing it provided a much-needed respite from real life.  (So, let's watch a dark show about murder instead?)  Anyway, I can't stop thinking about it, so feel free to reply to tell me how wrong my ranking is. Obviously, this contains spoilers. Out of the characters appearing in 9+ episodes, these are my favorite to least favorite./parade-of-great-guitarists-brother-wayne-kramer-1948-2024.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/parade-of-great-guitarists-brother-wayne-kramer-1948-2024.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./potato-jesus-and-other-botched-artworks.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/potato-jesus-and-other-botched-artworks.htmlThis is what I imagine happened to the less-famous, but still infamous Hochdorf cauldron, which was discovered in a Celtic burial mound by an amateur archaeologist in Germany in 1968. The burial mound belonged to a Celtic chieftan, who was buried alongside the giant lion-decked cauldron when he died, sometime around 530 BCE. Owing to traces of fermented honey inside of the cauldron, we know it was filled with an ungodly amount of mead—around 100 gallons./remembering-judy-heumann-by-lucy-webster.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/remembering-judy-heumann-by-lucy-webster.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./review-abbott-elementary-gregory-s-garden-goofballs.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-abbott-elementary-gregory-s-garden-goofballs.htmlWhat a strong episode of Abbott Elementary for such a terrible episode title. “Gregory Garden Goofballs” really is one of those episodes where every plot just hits and every character has their moment to shine. (One of the most impressive structural choices in this episode is the fact that Mr. Johnson doesn’t even show up until the halfway mark, only for every line from him moving forward to be sniper-level on the mark./review-rick-and-morty-rise-of-the-numbericons-the-movie.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/review-rick-and-morty-rise-of-the-numbericons-the-movie.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./sexual-adventurousness-is-what.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/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./sissy-porn-the-gender-movement-s-dirty-secret.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/sissy-porn-the-gender-movement-s-dirty-secret.htmlby Genevieve Gluck Twitter: @womenreadwomen This article contains descriptions of pornographic content. While I have tried to avoid graphic details, it’s not possible to discuss the influence of pornography on the gender movement without providing descriptions. Furthermore, this is not written with the intention of denying the existence of gender dysphoria, but to call attention to the phenomenon of pornography-induced dysphoria that simultaneously promotes extreme sexual objectification and the degradation of womanhood./the-bluey-video-game-is-a-bitter-disappointment-and-yet.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-bluey-video-game-is-a-bitter-disappointment-and-yet.htmlAs dinner was winding down on Sunday night, I made a big announcements to my kids: the Bluey game was out, and as soon as they were in pajamas, we could all* play. The excitement was something I wish I’d captured on video, but take my word for it. * Not quite all, sadly. Mom has been sick with COVID, but fortunately, she’s on the mend.  If you’re reading Crossplay, you probably know Bluey./the-death-of-calvin-and-hobbes.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-death-of-calvin-and-hobbes.htmlArtwork: Drew CooksonIn Santa Rosa, California, you’ll find a Peanuts museum with a thorough documentation of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. The exhibits cover more than fifty years of his career and include obsessive tributes such as a recreation of his study or a collage of thousands of strips dedicated to Charlie Brown’s famous football fumble. Maybe the meaning was about being humble. I don’t know. I don’t care about Peanuts./the-first-assignment-is-surprisingly-non-terrible.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-first-assignment-is-surprisingly-non-terrible.htmlWhen I think of Police Academy, I think of the guy from the Police Academy movies who makes funny noises with his mouth. How does he do that? It’s MAGIC!  Then I think about Bobcat Goldthwait. That’s odd, considering the cult icon isn’t in Police Academy. He makes his series debut in its sequel, 1985’s Police Academy: Their First Assignment, alongside other newcomers Howard Hesseman, Tim Kazurinsky, Colleen Camp, and Julie Brown./the-godfather-of-grass-johnny-boone.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-godfather-of-grass-johnny-boone.htmlWhen I touched down at FCI Manchester, a federal prison in the foothills of Kentucky in 1993, Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone was already a legend of mythical proportions in the Appalachian Mountains for growing acres upon acres of weed in the National Forests that surrounded the Bluegrass State. Nobody called him the ‘Godfather of Grass’ or ‘Charlie Grass’ as the media depicted, inside the belly of the beast he was just known as Johnny Boone, expert marijuana grower./the-mission-to-reboot-mensho.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-mission-to-reboot-mensho.htmlThis week, the ramen story takes us across the Pacific to the USA... Long-time Ramen Beast friends and fans will know that the Beast himself, Abram Plaut, is the cofounder of Mensho Tokyo SF, the Northern California ramen shop helmed by famed Japanese chef Tomoharu Shono. Prior to the pandemic, Mensho’s business on San Francisco’s Geary Street was booming. A line stretched down the block during all hours of operation and Abram and Shono-san were poised for bold expansion — a new location in the Twitter Building in downtown SF, an outpost in San Rafael and an ambitious experiment in South Asia./the-story-of-a-terrible-building-that-won-t-go-away-quietly.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-story-of-a-terrible-building-that-won-t-go-away-quietly.htmlI want to talk to you about some buildings. You may or may not know this about me, depending on how you’ve come to this newsletter, but in my daily, non-internet life, I’m an architect. Wait, stay — no, I don’t like the way most architects write about architecture either. There’s a great deal of pretension, of empty theory and academic word salad, of trying to prove that you’re smarter than your reader by making what you’re saying utterly inscrutable./the-triangle-smarter-volley-by-joe-trinsey.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-triangle-smarter-volley-by-joe-trinsey.htmlPeople ask me about stats. Players want to know how stats affect their ability to win a match, or their chances of being in the starting lineup. Coaches want to know what stats they should keep for their teams. What stats should they keep for practice? What stats should they track in-match? What stats should they review after the match? I built a whole Stats App to help answer these questions./the-work-of-rfk-s-bench-press.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/the-work-of-rfk-s-bench-press.htmlIn this free-to-all episode, I discussed RFK’s viral incline bench press video. To dig deeper into some things I mentioned here, check out my recent long articles on steroids and “auto-androphilia.” It looks like I’ll be writing a long article on effective TRT regulation for an upcoming issue of American Affairs Journal. While you’re here, you should also take a look at my recent article on Netflix’s Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary./to-whom-it-may-concern-by-sam-kahn.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/to-whom-it-may-concern-by-sam-kahn.htmlTo Whom It May Concern: Emily appears to be a very pleasant, gentle person, and would, I am sure, be an asset to any classroom discussion — although it must be admitted that she has not left her house for some time now. Perhaps classroom accommodation can be made where she sits on the other side of a closed door and doesn’t have to interact with anyone?  To Whom It May Concern: Charles has recently moved from opium to hashish and claims that the switch is helping him wonderfully — he is currently at work on a collection in which he discusses the evil of flowers./transforming-rooms-with-a-color-i-once-hated.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/transforming-rooms-with-a-color-i-once-hated.htmlI don’t know really what happened between 2005 and today when it comes to red, but I’ve had a seriously long-standing hatred for it. I wouldn’t wear it, I wouldn’t decorate with it, I hate red roses, I didn’t like red wine, I wouldn’t even use red on Valentine’s Day. I also truly hated red on my lips. I didn’t like to be in public spaces where there was a lot of red./what-colour-is-your-aluminum-it-makes-a-massive-difference.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-colour-is-your-aluminum-it-makes-a-massive-difference.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-libby-caswell.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/what-happened-to-libby-caswell.htmlHello dear readers! It is my instinct to immediately apologize for the lack of posts, which coincidently is exactly how almost every letter or email I write starts off — “so sorry it’s been so long, etc etc.” To be fair, I’ve had a busy year. I’ve funneled the vast majority of my creative energy into the project I’m thrilled to share with you today: the second season of my podcast, What Happened To, for iHeartMedia./whatever-happened-to-forte-by-jon-jordan.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/whatever-happened-to-forte-by-jon-jordan.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/why-can-t-we-have-a-dormant-nato.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-can-t-we-have-a-dormant-nato.htmlThe Ukraine War has exposed a lot when it comes to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — otherwise known as NATO. Aside from the "renewed mission" and "unity" that has emerged to help Ukraine confront the Russian invasion, there are downsides. NATO has a limited capacity of weapons stores and manpower and the US is taking on a disproportionate share of the leadership and resource sharing. Dr. Maitra Sumantra, a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, says it's past time for Americans to rethink further expansion and scaling back the US dominance of this organization./why-the-nba-does-not-want-milwaukee-to-host-the-all-star-game.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/why-the-nba-does-not-want-milwaukee-to-host-the-all-star-game.htmlWe are nearing a half century since the Milwaukee Bucks last hosted an NBA All-Star Game, and based on reporting that surfaced Wednesday, it’s hard to imagine that wait will come to an end anytime soon. Joe Massutto of The Oklahoman, in writing about Oklahoma City’s own pursuit of landing an All-Star Game as they ready for a new arena, relayed the specific requirements the NBA is looking in host cities for future All-Star Games:/ye-can-t-be-serious-by-eve-barlow.htmlWed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000youremail@domain.com (Some Person)/ye-can-t-be-serious-by-eve-barlow.htmlI'm going to do something I never do. I'm going to write this, and I'm going to stop writing it, and then I'm going to press 'publish' before I read it back. I want you to know how I feel right now. And I want to say exactly what's on my mind. I don't know why I have to write the same things over and over, and I don't know why thousands of years of history isn't good enough to motivate a shift or a sea change.