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In February this year, I was extremely lucky to visit Button House and spend the day with the cast of BBC One’s Ghosts as they filmed the fifth and final series of the hit comedy. You can read my piece in The Times all about that bitter-sweet day here. I knew it was the end, even though they wouldn’t officially announce it for months, but they were in excellent spirits and just recovering from a day spent line-dancing.

Time flies. One minute we’re talking about this year’s run-on regional growing season, the next we’re scrambling to celebrate the year’s bounty with our Thanksgiving celebrations. For millions of Americans, it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without roast turkey. I’m certainly one of them, and this Saturday I’ll be picking mine up from Jake’s Country Meatsof Cassopolis, Michigan, which wrapped up its monthly outdoor season but is doing monthly meat drops near Green City Market’s Lincoln Park location and elsewhere around Chicago metro.

Above:  My selfie in the alcove under the Pulaski Skyway while I was giving DOJ and FBI officials a tour of the unmarked grave of Jimmy Hoffa on March 11, 2021.  I was not permitted to photograph my guests. Share Introduction to Part 6      This is the sixth in a series of columns about my relationship with the FBI during the murder investigation of Jimmy Hoffa… ncG1vNJzZmiln5e8rbvGsmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyuxYyupa2nnJl6s7HLmquip56otaq8jLCgraBdqbWmecWboGZrZ5g%3D

Pulling tarot cards and writing notes is one part of my New Year’s ritual. I shared this video on The Handwriting Club Instagram and was asked to share a bit about my process so HERE WE ARE! I use the Wild Unknown tarot deck as well as the animal spirit decks. I use a template I made (you can download it from my Etsy shop here!) and fill it in with one of my favorite pens.

U.S. existing home sales, which comprise 85.8% of the national market, were selling at a robust 4.19 million annualized rate in March 2024.   If current trends persist, over 4 million buyers and sellers will purchase a previously owned home in 2024! The remaining +14.2% share of the U.S. housing market, comprised of newly constructed homes, were selling at an annualized pace of 693 thousand in March 2024, marking a 16.8% increase from their (June 2022) annualized sales pace!

 It's finally time! Mythic Bastionlandis LIVE NOW over on Kickstarter, so go and pledge if you want a copy of the book. Feel like sharing the link around? Thanks, that would be great! Having a great day-one really helps with visibility on Kickstarter, so I appreciate everyone who's able to jump on board right away.  ncG1vNJzZmiakajBqrvNpZinnF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6msK2gmZh6o63SraCoppyWu6V5yKxkpaGmmg%3D%3D

Hello, clowns! Today’s post is all about the Midwestern mother sauce, ranch dressing. Midwesterners have a very unusual relationship with ranch dressing for some reason. It’s mostly an obsession with the dressing itself. But then there’s ranch-flavored products, and pairing the sauce with things that seem like an unlikely combination, such as pizza. It seems as if Midwesterners like to put ranch on nearly everything. Now, ranch dressing is a subject I have covered before.

Welcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real. — Yes, it’s Oscars morning-after, and since I took the time to watch them, I figured I might as well write about them (full list of winners here, I’m not going to muck this up by pasting all of that).

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace was one of eight Republican House members to vote with Democrats to kick Kevin McCarthy out as Speaker last week. On Tuesday night, as the Republican conference gathered to consider who should replace McCarthy, Mace caused quite the stir. Here’s why: Yes, that’s Mace with a shirt that has a bright, scarlet — more on that in a second — “A” on it. As you might guess (and as Mace desperately wanted), she was flocked by reporters who wanted to know the message she was sending.