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The most sex I’ve ever had in a single day was nine times with three different men. It wasn’t necessarily my goal to break records or anything, and the whole thing started innocently enough. I woke up in Seattle with a guy I met on Tinder a few weeks earlier when he was visiting me in Portland. At the end of our brunch in the Rose City, he told me to look him up if I were ever in his neck of the woods.

Here’s a confession: I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Holiday Inn, the 1942 Paramount musical starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. (Gasp! Go easy on me.) Best remembered today as the production that gave us “White Christmas,” it also introduced a handful of other Irving Berlin songs, each pegged to some observance. As the voiceover in the original theat… ncG1vNJzZmismJq0qrONrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaKhfpbmmutOyZK2nXZeybsDHmqWknqWheqe70Q%3D%3D

Let me just say that I really enjoy the Aria 5/5/10 rock PLO game. It’s the perfect combination of: My favorite game—PLO Always running 24/7 Tourists Exploitable regs Not too many really good pros Big enough stakes to get my heart pumping When the rock messes with pre-flop strategy it keeps my brain active That said, I just had a fairly disastrous trip to Vegas & I need to vent. First, just to be results oriented (reverse chronological order):

Hi friends! It’s that time of year when the Dog Days of Summer are coming to a close, and everyone is getting jazzed for Fall. One of the hallmarks of the “end of Summer” is the appearance of late-Summer stone fruit: think all kinds of plums, apricots, peaches, and pluots. When these summer stars start making cameos at the farmers’ market, we know it’s time to make “The Plum Torte.”

THE YELLOW PAGES is a weekly newsletter recommending Asian and AAPI films, music, writing, and other inspiration — all the artsy things I wished for growing up! TYP readers, I did not expect to be starting a podcast this newsletter. I already co-host a podcast, and write two other Substacks… That said, this first episode needed to happen. So here we are, with an interview! Actor Michael Sun Lee, who played the adult version of “Harry Takayama” from Fuller House (the Full House reboot) is my very first guest.

I spent two days last week in Little Rock, Arkansas — doing an event for my book. (You haven’t bought it yet? Do it!) While I was there one thing became immediately clear to me: The entire Arkansas political world was talking about a podium that Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders bought with state money. Yes, a podium. Let me explain. On June 8, Sanders, using a state credit card, bought a podium — it’s actually probably more accurately referred to as a lectern for you linguistic nerds out there — from an Arlington, Virginia-based company called Beckett Events LLC.

Bell Hooks died yesterday at the age of 69. We have lost another whose life, whose intimate politics of transformative love has taught us how to believe that there is the possibility of another world: a world beyond this patriarchal gaze, this subconscious niggle, this anomaly of nature. What struck me most when I first met her writing in a gender and society class in college was the tremendous freedom, the sense of release, a celebration of self that permeated across her intersectional insights that coloured the domains of caste, class, nationhood and community.

On New Year’s Eve, I always sit with a fire in my backyard and write to finish up my yearly journal. This has been my tradition for nearly a decade and this year was no different, besides the fact that when I finally went inside I came down with a very intense case of food poisoning. It only lasted about forty-five minutes and honestly, I didn’t take it as an omen for 2024.

Hi friends!  We want to extend a warm welcome to new subscribers who found Notes From Three Pines from our appearance on The Library of Lost Time. You can check out our previous essays here. Amazon released the full-length trailer for Three Pines and a release date: 12/2/2022. Head over to watch if you haven’t already!  This week we’re sharing a piece on one of our favorite characters: Ruth Zardo.