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My last story about toes ended with my podiatrist popping off both my big toenails, because they were extremely ingrown. (By the way, welcome to all of the new subscribers, most of whom probably weren’t expecting me to write about toes.) The doctor said that my toenails would grow back, though they would be narrower than before, because he cauterized the edges of the nail roots (creepy!). Toenails with the edges removed, he promised, “basically never come back ingrown.

This passage appears on the first page of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles: I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be numbered, but there is no plot.

One of Nike’s earliest advertising campaigns, “There is no finish line,” debuted in 1977. It featured a man running down a hilly path along an empty road with beautiful trees on each side. The view was a classic example of the wonderful Oregon trails surrounding the Nike Campus. The last line of the ad copy emphasizes the overall message of the ad and Nike’s vision of inspiration and innovation. The last line reads, “Beating the competition is relatively easy.

I hope your 2024 has been off to a good start! I was fairly successful with my goal of being somewhat offline for the holidays, in an attempt to r e l a x … something I’m not very good at but hope to be better at this year. Relaxing looked like hosting my in-laws and cooking meals that didn’t need to be shared on the internet, flying home to Ohio to exchange Christmas presents and celebrate my Pau Pau’s 91st birthday with a dim sum party (I also watched The Iron Claw which was not very relaxing but it’s been a while since I’ve had a good public cry in a dark movie theater so it was somewhat cathartic), and kayaking in the Bay to commemorate a whole decade of living in the Bay Area.

New here? Scroll down for the video link and all the way to the bottom for the recipe!This dish, Tomato Soup in the Style of Sauce, is from That Sounds So Good and is so simple it’s actually hard to write anything about it. Its existence owes more to tomato sauce (hence the name) than it does to classic tomato soup, which for most of us probably came from a can, and if not, from canned tomatoes.

Tommy SwerdlowTommy is a writer-director-actor-poet-novelist. Credits include "Cool Runnings," "Puss In Boots The Last Wish," and the upcoming Shrek sequel. He directed, co-wrote and co-stars in "A Thousand Junkies" and wrote the novel "Straight Dope." ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbW7zKawrK%2BVp7Gtu9Y%3D

(Photo credit: Roger Ho for Lollapalooza) The rain was pouring on and off the Saturday Tomorrow X Together were set to headline Lollapalooza. I was clearly underdressed for the weather. But as a festival rookie, I suppose this is simply a rite of passage. I was among the estimated 115,000 concertgoers attending Lollapalooza that day, and many in the crowd were TXT fans — also known as MOAs (which stands for Moment of Alwaysness).

Martin Dupont is a French coldwave band that formed in 1980. The Marseille-based group went through multiple lineup changes over the course of their lifespan, but has maintained Alain Seghir as its principal songwriter and frontman. Alongside Seghir, band members have included Brigitte Balian, Beverley Jane Crew, and Catherine Loy. During the 1980s they released 3 LPs—Just Because… (1984), Sleep is a Luxury (1985), and Hot Paradox (1987)—and a cassette titled In​é​dits 1981​-​1983 (1985).

Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix is the founder and bandleader of the black metal band Liturgy. Their sophomore album, 2011’s Aesthethica, was one of the most controversial and critically acclaimed metal projects of its year, rupturing traditional notions of what the genre should be. The group’s subsequent albums followed suit, with 2015’s The Ark Work and 2019’s H.A.Q.Q. finding Hunt-Hendrix doubling down on her ideological conceptualizations and expanding the group’s sound. With Origin of the Alimonies (2020) and 93696 (2023), she has created an entire universe of theology unto itself, which is further explored on her Substack, where she grapples with deep questions surrounding religion, philosophy, transhumanism, and more.