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Yet again, Andy Reid found himself on top of the football world when his Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime on Sunday to win Super Bowl LVIII, the third title in the past five years for a franchise that previously hadn’t been crowned a champion since six months after the moon landing. Successful as he has been, Reid existed for years as a punchline, the portly, lumbering and mustached coach with occasionally poor clock management skills whose teams seemingly always found a way to come up painfully short of their goals.

More from Hung Up this month: Challengerspromo budget going crazy, things you might not need but maybe want, and a Club Chalamet update and an update to the Club Chalamet update.Mea Culpa New release Well. Tyler Perry’s Netflix movie is about a lawyer named Mea clearing the name of an artist (Trevante Rhodes) with a missing girlfriend. I was mumbling and cackling. It makes no sense in bold and radical ways: sex on a bedsheet covered in paint?

Review originally published on Instagram on December 23, 2020. Here’s a link to purchase Annihilation. Quick summary: Four unnamed scientists enter Area X, a long abandoned bit of coastline in the southeast of the US. They know little about Area X except that it is uninhabited, the other 12 expeditions ended in violence, and that they will be hypnotized to cross the border. Our narrator is a biologist. Stuff immediately gets weird—first in the form of tunnel covered in biblical-sounding verses written on the walls in moss.

Page numbers are [bracketed] and correspond to the 25th Anniversary Edition of Blood Meridian, published in 2010 by Vintage. [3] “See the child.”—The first line of the novel recalls the first line of Cormac’s favorite book, Moby-Dick: “Call me Ishmael.” [3] “scullery”—a small kitchen at the back of a house. The Kid’s home is like composed of two separate square cabins separated by a dogtrot. [3] “the child the father of the man”—from William Wordsworth’s poem “My Heart Leaps Up”:

Recently, a wise man encouraged me to aim higher. “What would you accomplish if you set out to 10x your productivity?” Challenge accepted. Goodbye, old pace of 4 books per decade. Hello, plan to release 4 books this year alone—without help from AI tools. Since there’s nothing quite like a public commitment to light a fire under me, I’m introducing them now: Happy April Fool’s Day! 😆 No, I’m not writing any of these books (though I’m tempted to tackle Take and Take… but only because I hate being typecast).

It 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.

Last year, we made a 10-episode season of this podcast and we are so proud of how it turned out. And want to make one more!! Please fill out the survey to let us know the topics you want us to cover, the people you want us to talk to, ways to support the show, and any other ideas you want to share. We are listening. Here is a link to the survey!

The 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.

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Microdose, an independent journalism newsletter brought to you by theU.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Cybin receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for a psilocybin analog Last week, pharmaceutical company Cybin announced that their psilocybin analog received Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat major depressive disorder. (The FDA grants such designations to “expedite the development and review of drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions.