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She felt herself soften under his gaze, like a little chocolate figurine under the sun. Maybe it was feminine intuition, but behind his mask of formality she sensed a suppressed strictness, a stern core beneath his softly-spoken niceties.  "Do you believe in spanking on a first date?" she flirtatiously wondered aloud. It was important to know these things. He held her gaze and answered without hesitation, solemnly and seriously, as if she’d just asked him if he believed the planet was imperilled by climate change.

When I was in the first grade, we had this dedicated day where parents would come and eat lunch with their kids at school. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. I was sitting at the lunchroom table by myself, and I was the only kid whose parent didn’t show up on time. I sat there with my head down looking at the floor while my classmates were happily enjoying their parents and their lunch.

I have SO many theories about what songs are Matty Healy in past albums as they're all ones I, as someone with an unrequited love, would listen to and relate to. Definitely Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince. I also think she's being kind to Joe, and it shows her love and respect for him that she's not written the album about him, rather than what people are saying it's because she doesn't care.

If you’ve been following this newsletter since its inception in 2021, you may have read some of the early chapters of my comic, FISHFLIES, that were serialized here. Fishflies is my next project as both writer and artist and it will be launching in print from Image Comics starting in July! The series combines the slice of life, grounded small town storytelling of my past books like Essex County with some of he fun genre elements of books like Gideon Falls.

Fitness and wellness historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela joins Christy to discuss her new book, Fit Nation; the historical shifts that made fitness go from being viewed as a narcissistic practice to being seen as a good thing across the political spectrum; why so many people are disillusioned with our medical system and looking for answers and validation in the alternative medicine space; how people can be critical consumers of online wellness content; and more.

The following excerpt is from the red notebook, one of many notebooks I kept from 2018 - 2020. The entry is dated December 30, 2018. Note: Dinan is a medieval city in Brittany, famous for its ramparts, and for the timbered buildings that seem to defy gravity, ever on the verge of collapse. An audio version of this post s available to paid subscribers. The bells of the Basilica of St.

Happy Tuesday War & Peaceniks! Before we officially start 2024 next week (as we do every year in Vegas at CES), I have a few more things about the this year which I forgot to predict last year. Since my Top Ten Predictions for ‘24 many of you have asked why certain things didn’t make the list. As I prepped last week to present at CES, I’ve had time to as…

Finding games to play with family can be a tough thing. I’ve written about it quite a lot for one reason or another, and it’s something I’m always thinking about. Part of that’s because most of my game playing happens with family these days, but I think it’s also that it’s just fun to play games with people you love. But while in the past I’ve focused on games that are easy to teach and approachable but still largely not party games, I’m trying to do something different here today.

(Above: Burke on the sloping greensward at Lincoln Center when she was starring in Epiphany at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center Theatre. Photo by Celeste Sloman/The New York Times.) Marylouise Burke is an actor whom other actors - especially those with an affinity for the stage - often mention as their favorite among themselves for she is someone who mysteriously manifests all that is artful about acting by seeming to be artless - or more specifically without artifice - in that her lack of affect is indeed why she is so affective.