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The Beta Band gave us Dry the Rain and it’s the musical equivalent of a philosophical shrug. It's 1997, flannel shirts are a thing, and The Beta Band offers up a song that's part invitation to self-expression and part whimsical journey into your own mind. The opening guitar riff saunters in like it owns the place, a cool cat strolling down an alley, completely indifferent to the chaos around it. Steve Mason delivers the lyrics like he's sharing the world's best-kept secret, but with the understanding that it's a secret nobody's going to take terribly seriously.

My birthday is next week. I won’t tell you how old I will be and I promise not to pull a Gwyneth Paltrow. But I will offer a hint.  Let the celebrations begin! If you like The Better Letter, please subscribe, share it, and forward it freely. Share The Better Letter Thanks for visiting. I had been fitfully and uncomfortably sleeping, dreaming of a small dog nuzzling my leg and stealing my snack.

The Bezos Regret Minimization Framework is a simple yet powerful mental model for making important decisions and unlocking growth in your career, startup, business, relationships, or life. A short thread on how it works and how it can change your life... Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur and technologist. He is most well known as the founder and CEO (soon-to-be executive chairman) of Amazon and the founder of Blue Origin.

A newsletter for Jen Winston to be bisexual and loud on the internet. We talk about being bi but also other things, including but not limited to: Blue Bottle Coffee, memes (non-derogatory), Nicolas Cage, cleaning (derogatory), Radiohead. By Jen Winston · Over 8,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmiilaOys7vUrGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVf

National Fried Chicken Day came and went without a cluck from me last month, but behind the scenes, The Retrologist was plucking away at this newsletter post — a profile of the Big Chicken in Marietta, Georgia! This bucket-free Kentucky Fried Chicken on Cobb Parkway had long been on my bucket list, and I finally visited on a brutally cold morning last December. It was so cold I could only fire off a few photos at a time before running into the restaurant to reanimate my frozen digits.

Recently, B.A. Durham broke down traditional publishing’s Big Five in clear, straightforward terms. Now, he’s graciously sharing that summary with Writers’ Haven subscribers. Durham’s simple take on The Big Five: The publishing landscape is dense, with numerous publishers and imprints catering to various literary genres and styles. As the dominant players in the field, the "Big Five" publishers have a significant impact on the literary world. These publishers, namely Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette Livre, Macmillan Publishers, and Simon & Schuster, dominate the market and shape the literary landscape.

“That’s just me. What you see is what you get with me,” says Ruesha Littlejohn, when discussing the character and personality which has endeared her to many in the women’s game. She is though honest throughout our chat to admit it has also held her back, particularly when she was younger, and she had to quickly mature to save her international career with Republic of Ireland after switching allegiances from Scotland.

This week, I put out my new YouTube tutorial on making paper miniatures for TTRPGs and indie wargames. I think it lays out a comprehensive, quick, accessible, cheap, and sustainable way to create hundreds, or even thousands, of minis. But you need to actually find paper minis to use! To accompany the video, I wanted to make this list of major paper miniatures creators. Some of these creators put their work out for free, or for pay, or some combination.

Share The Kennedy Center Honors began in 1978, which puts Stevie Wonder’s 1999 award around their midpoint from now. At the time he was the 21st awardee from a popular music conceived to encompass jazz, gospel, and Broadway as well as “rock”—11 Black and 10 white, if you’re curious as I always am, with Chuck Berry and James Brown to follow in 2000 and 2003 and no year after 2002 destined to include fewer than two pop musicians rather than the one per year that was standard before then.