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For a fleeting moment this weekend, it appeared that something may indeed be occurring. Prigozhin was marching his troops into Moscow, a “coup” was underway. Would the streets turn into a crossfire battlefield? Would Putin be ousted? Would the Wagner Group seize the Russian throne? Less than 24 hours later all was put to rest. Some sort of peace deal was brokered, the hysterics of the day prior were proven unwarranted.

For years, the “No trespassing” signs and gates kept people away. But in recent times, the forbidden nature of the huge, explorable city that fell to the ground just became too irresistible for the masses. San Pedro’s “Sunken City,” was discovered. There’s now multiple Facebook fan pages, nearly 50,000 “Sunken City” hashtags on Instagram, and even a Yel… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybr%2FUp6Kepl2YtrXFjKidZquRo3qxscOrpg%3D%3D

If 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.

An OG blogger is bringing back blogging, now with no advertisers and even less discretion. Movies are content. TV is content. The #Content Report is content about content. To be more specific: entertainment news with commentary, reviews sometimes, maybe the occasional interview or feature, even some recipes. Above all, a little levity in your inbox, I hope, in whatever form that happens to take. It’s content-related content! Funny and informative. Infotainment.

Can you believe it? After a year, the ~ official ~ caprese martini recipe is here! Or, at the very minimum, my version of the caprese martini. Unlike other recipes, I like to make a tomato cheong (aka tomato syrup) because it brings out the flavor of the tomato nicely. It’s a bit more work, but worth the payoff because you’re not relying on tomato infused spirits or just dumping tomato juice into the shaker and calling it a day.

Sex and the City does one of Carrie’s weird little skip leaps onto Netflix today, opening the show up to a whole new audience who never have seen Samantha swallow “the funkiest tasting spunk” before. As a millennial who grew up being made to cover my eyes during the sex scenes when I watched the show during its original run, the concept of someone seeing the girls conquer Manhattan for the first time is mind-boggling.

Tetris has fallen. A week into 2024, and we’re already making sports history. Wait, sports history? I know what you’re thinking, but bear with me. Once you hear about 13-year-old’s Willis Gibson’s feat, I’m sure you’ll agree: this type of Tetris is definitely a sport. Since Alexey Pajitnov created the classic video game in 1985, part of the appeal of Tetris is that it seemed to be “unbeatable.” Unlike other games, there’s no set ending; you just keep going until, eventually, you can’t clear blocks anymore.

It has been nearly 20 years since I’ve stepped foot inside the Holocaust Museum, and because of a scheduling conflict I wasn’t able to stay very long. If you go there today, you’ll find no shortage of warnings on the depths humanity can sink to when it embraces statism, racism, collectivism, and aggression. For many years, I wondered why Germans, the most educated people in the world, couldn’t see what was happening in their country in the 1930s.

When I was 14 years old, I encountered Dune in my school library. It blew my mind; it was one of the best books I had ever read. And when I read it, I could tell that the society of the Fremen, the native humans of Arrakis—the planet on which Dune is set—had names that recalled Arabic culture. It wasn’t until this year that I learned how deep that influence is.