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¡Bienvenido de nuevo a ILTBTA! (Sorry, we just got back from a wedding in Mexico.) For this installment we watched Michael Clayton, a 2007 legal thriller starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton. Were we able to resist George Clooney’s charm and focus on the actual movie? Grab a red-covered book and find out! What, if anything, did we know about this coming attraction before we watched it? Ellen: No plots, head empty.

Future Fossils with Michael Garfield By Michael Garfield Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield helps "Rewild the Singularity" – restoring soul to the philosophy of technology, midwifing new myths for transition, and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in our accelerating age. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja61wqGYnqSXlr%2BntcSlmw%3D%3D

Brief SummaryHappy Money Monday Everyone! Today’s book summary is a biography based on one of the greatest athletes ever to play the game of basketball. This biography is the ultimate study of Michael Jordan, the intelligent and in-depth analysis of a complicated yet fascinating American icon. Lazenby spent almost thirty years covering Jordan’s career in college and the pros. He saw Jordan’s growth from a skinny rookie to the global icon he eventually turned into.

Today at 1:12 pm Michael Nugent was arrested by Providence Police Officers for the crime of being poor and unhoused. The official charge was trespassing. Michael expected the arrest. 50 hours earlier police officers delivered an eviction notice, authorized by Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and Police Chief Oscar Perez, to Michael at his tent encampment at the Orms Street Route 95 overpass. As police approached him, Michael stood in the rain and held his arms out for the handcuffs.

I’m going to watch “The Blind Side” tonight. I’ve seen it a few times over the years, and it’s not my favorite “football-as-a-metaphor-for-humanity” movie (that goes, and must always go, to “Brian’s Song,”) but it’s a feel-good reminder of the miracles that happen when we pay attention. Quick summary : Michael Oher, a talented but homeless Black teen is adopted by a white family in Texas that gives him a home, a place at their Thanksgiving table, and a chance at football glory.

“Hello blondie,” Michael Patrick King says as he enters the chat, and with it, launches a metaphorical tennis ball in my direction. “So you accept this as real blond?” I ask, attempting to not miss the volley. “I do,” he replies. “I thought you just stepped off a beach in Norway. It’s so blonde, it’s bordering Nazi.” MPK, as fans call him, is the ideal interview subject for a number of reasons.

With the release of new stars in Mexico and Brazil over the past week, plus Argentina a few months ago, there are now three Michelin guides in Latin America. I wrote a year ago about the famed French guidebook’s expansion in the region, as well as globally, and predicted t… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8yimqGdnJ67brXNZqOarJmjeqK5xKugnJk%3D

Michelle Dowd Michelle Dowd is the author of Forager: Field Notes on Surviving a Family Cult, showcasing growing up on a mountain in California in an apocalyptic cult, and finding her way out of poverty and illness by drawing on the gifts of the wilderness. 900 subscribers ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja6wzrCb

Leave a comment Share The Morning After Share The worst thing about a 12-team College Football Playoff, which is headed our way next year like an antagonistic drone, is that it will create something that is unimaginable today: An irrelevant Michigan-Ohio State game. Most of the time, the Wolverines and Buckeyes will have already proven they are among the Dilated Dozen. They will play in the final regular-season game with their playoff hopes assured.