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Last week was a little unhinged. It began with a Muppet asking an innocuous question and ended with Larry David assaulting Elmo on live television. How we got here as a society has been a decades-long story of continued disrespect and infantilization of Millennials. The trope of my generation is framed around the idea that we are fundamentally discontent for no reason. But my question is: why is it when Larry David rants, it’s called complaining (or observational comedy), but when we do, it’s whining?

Steve Horton has made a living, and a name for himself, building bakeries that turn local grain into baked goods with great appeal. He and life and business partner Jill Colella opened Miller’s Thumb Bakery & Cafe in late 2022 at 258 Highland Ave., Tonawanda. Click here for the introduction video that I biffed playing at the show start. Wonderful Loaf is Horton’s homage to Wonder Bread, once produced in Buffalo for the Northeastern United States.

Minding the Gaps is a recurring feature in which Keith Phipps watches and writes about a movie he’s never seen before as selected at random by the app he uses to catalog a DVD and Blu-ray collection accumulated over the course of the last 20+ years. It’s an attempt to fill in the gaps in his film knowledge while removing the horrifying burden of choice. This is the fifth entry.

Minding the Gaps is a recurring feature in which Keith Phipps watches and writes about a movie he’s never seen before as selected at random by the app he uses to catalog a DVD and Blu-ray collection accumulated over the course of the last 20+ years. It’s an attempt to fill in the gaps in his film knowledge while removing the horrifying burden of choice. This is the seventh entry.

Minding the Gaps is a recurring feature in which Keith Phipps watches and writes about a movie he’s never seen before as selected at random by the app he uses to catalog a DVD and Blu-ray collection accumulated over the course of the last 20+ years. It’s an attempt to fill in the gaps in his film knowledge while removing the horrifying burden of choice. This is the sixth entry.

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. MindMed receives FDA breakthrough therapy designation for LSD On Thursday, psychedelics company Mind Medicine, or MindMed, announced that MM120, the company’s formulation of LSD, has been given Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat generalized anxiety disorder. This is the fourth time the FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation for a psychedelic drug.

Miraculous Brothers is a science fiction adventure murder mystery that takes a novel (pun intended) approach to preoccupations that’s become K drama staple in the last few years. Much of the story is seen through the lens of an aspiring and struggling novelist (Jung Woo) who is doing it tough as a part-time courier way behind on his rent. His situation is made more onerous by a mother who has very little discretion and is more likely to create problems for her only son than be of help.

Hello and welcome to the greatest ever music newsletter. Every week I publish a column about rock books. Author interviews, book recommendations, signed copy giveaways, etc. Today’s edition is free but paid subscribers get access to it all. Sign up if you haven’t already. A quick note before we get started today: If you’re planning on ordering anything from my store, make sure to do so before December 18. That will be the last day I make a trip to the post office.

I am of the opinion that Winamp was the pinnacle of computer MP3 players. Sure, that’s probably the nostalgia talking (because, let’s be honest, the 90’s were awesome), but I still yearn for those golden days of playing my MP3 collection on Winamp. Modern music playing software just doesn’t cut it. Many of them are fantastic — with glorious features and performance — but none of them bring a smile to my face like Winamp.