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NO 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.

We’ve been talking about gladness here at Word and Song, so I’m going to recommend a movie that will surely make you glad, if you have a heart for children and family life, you’re not looking for some Message, and you can see the comedy and, sometimes, the close call with tragedy that our lives together involve.  This one’s based on a real American fami… ncG1vNJzZmiZnqm1sLrYnqqopJWje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqunn6J6p7vRZqannV2ivLOxjGpwbmo%3D

These 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.

The life and times of Rosanna Arquette seem like one wild adventure after another. “I had a really hippie-artist childhood, where my family was around Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and the folk coffee houses,” the 64-year-old actress told me during an interview as part of an oral history of Martin Scorsese’s 1985 black comedy, After Hours. As a ten-year-old, she attended Woodstock, a true flower child running naked through the crowd.

Star Wars: Ahsoka is the latest spin-off of the Star Wars series for Disney+. Like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Boba Fett, and Andor before it, this new series follows the exploits of a character that isn’t named Skywalker. Instead, the focus is on a Jedi who was at the heart of the animated Star Wars adventures known as The Clone Wars. The show was set during the prequel trilogy era and introduced a new character, Ahsoka Tano.

The frost has ridden a spacehopper across the garden. What once was perky, now punctuated by soft implosions, browning leaves and crushed stems. The scented geranium leaves that most enthusiastically reached for the sun suffered most: the youngest, once protected beneath, now exposed. Overnight, the lemon verbena has gone from showing the first sign of eyeliner on its lime green leaves to curling like fried prawns. Winter is making its own compost.

Rosetta, directed by two Belgian siblings, shocked many Cannes attendees when it won the Palme d’Or in 1999. The competition was stiff that year, with the likes of Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother) and Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog) vying for that specific award. There are plenty of people who think its success at Cannes boils down primarily to protest - in a year with colorful and sometimes downright musical choices, how did such a drab film take home an award like that?

(flowers in the background are from a rare rainy morning in santa monica) I met Kirsten in 2011 at an NFL conference called PAO. She and her fiance at the time were put in a small group with O and me and it was an instant friendship. Kirsten is one of the most vibrant people I’ve ever met and if you’ve ever had the pleasure of taking one of her Peloton classes, you’ll know she has an energy and a light radiating from her that is something special.

What first led me to Wall Street was a desire to make money so I could buy great art and support artists. What I didn't know when I started is that working on Wall Street can be a fascinating art in itself and one for which I was almost immediately suited. — Roy Neuberger Hello everyone, In an effort to build out the Investor’s Library I’ve decided to grab some books off my shelf and start sharing more notes and thoughts.