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Whilst I appreciate that I am nigh-on impossible to buy books for, others are not. There are times when I tempted to buy nothing but books for friends and family. So herewith the first instalment of my Christmas gift guides. I’ve gone slightly mad and this is the first of several parts. Subscribe here, if you’re already, so you don’t miss a single one! F… ncG1vNJzZmimkamutLTAqWWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyju86kqmasn2K0qrLTZquhoaNisKm%2ByKyrppmjYrOqr9Oipqc%3D

BOOM! Chef Jonathon Stranger’s One Table Hospitality just dropped a new fried chicken concept on the 405 diningscape. Thursday afternoon, Stranger let the chicken loose from inside Bar Cicchetti, 121 NE 2nd St. BOOM! Chicken will operate seven days a week, 4 p.m. to midnight every day but Sunday when it will open at 11 a.m. “There’s not a whole lot of places in this area that offer a true walk-up window,” Stranger said a couple hours before launch on Thursday.

There’s a Wade Allison memorial T-shirt for sale whose money goes to the family and to an Austin mental health charity for musicians. Consider buying it. https://wadememorialshirt.bigcartel.com/product/wade-allison-memorial-fund-shirt New piece in GQ about a strange going-on in the footwear world: https://www.gq.com/story/nike-dunk-pigeon-knockoff https://www.gq.com/story/nike-dunk-pigeon-knockoff Story is about a guy who took online orders for a Pigeon Nike Dunk reproduction he changed the swoosh on, in collaboration with the guy who colored the original 2005 Pigeon Nike (both are designers), and Nike suing the first guy because the shoe is confusing.

George, Steph, and I couldn’t be more different. Steph is a straight, single, artist in her early 40s. George is in a relationship with his male partner, studies clinical psychology, and is in his mid-twenties. I’m a 30-year-old bisexual writer in a long-term relationship with a heterosexual man. We do share one rather important commonality though: we’re all people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, (DSM-IV), BPD is a, “pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotion, as well as marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

When I first heard the name Boris Vian, it was in the medium of music, specifically French Jazz. I knew he was a figure in post-war Paris creative life, but beyond that, it was a mystery to me. It wasn’t until my wife Lun*na Menoh brought up Vian’s work as a writer while we lived in Japan from 1989 to 1990. She took me to a large bookstore, and numerous titles by Vian were translated from French to Japanese.

Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all. By Alex Dobrenko` · Over 13,000 subscribersLet me at em (the essays)“Hard to explain, easy to love. Alex's newsletter features some fantastic humorous personal essays.” “LA writer/comedian Alex Dobrenko's brain is truly bonkers. This newsletter—the subject of which no one can fathom—makes me laugh out loud every issue.

A 1950s-era Seneca County dairy barn remodeled to feel like a beer cathedral will be taking on new life once again. Ken and Lisa Greenwood, Avon residents, purchased the 17-acre Bottomless Brewing property from Dr. Tom Thompson recently and will soon re-open as Watershed Brewing. Bottomless, 3543 East Lake Road, located just off Route 96-A in northern Seneca County, took 22 months to transform before opening in May 2016. Ken said the plan is to open the re-imagined brewery in the next few weeks and then focus on some incremental changes, including adding more outdoor seating capacity and relocating the second-floor kitchen.

Scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly PDF of the recipe only. This week’s recipe is all about packing as much comfort and flavor into one pan as we can, all in under an hour. It’s restaurant-quality chicken pot pie, but a little less Marie and a little more French Bistro – classic, but elevated. Just how we like it! This chicken pot pie is *so* creamy and lush, but also surprisingly light – i.

Welcome back! It’s time for a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s the plan: Before we start, one tidbit — Spanish animator Bieito Casal shared an amazing send-up of the “Ghibli food looks so delicious” videos that bounce around social media. It’s really funny (and painful), and the level of effort is mind-blowing. With that, here we go! It’s a story about right now, even though it happened over a decade ago — and not in animation.