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Ideas to help marketers master brand growth and career navigation. 3,787 readers subscribe to Performonks. If you haven’t yet, go here. Check out my new website. Read The India Playbook. In 1900, Picasso's close friend and fellow artist- Carlos Casagemas committed suicide. A few weeks later, Picasso completed The Death of Casagemas in his friend's remembrance. The painting combined a warm palette of reds and yellows. This would be the last time he would touch these colors for some time to come.

I somehow managed to write 3,000 words about Texans quarterbacks. Genius, madness or overuse of block quotes? You decide.  Schaub backed up Michael Vick for the Falcons from 2004-06. He threw three touchdown passes in a duel with Tom Brady in 2005, and he performed well in preseason games, raising his profile across the NFL. The Texans, weary of running the battered remnants of David Carr onto the field week after week, traded second- and third-round picks for Schaub, whom the Falcons could safely part ways with in 2007, knowing absolutely nothing out-of-the-ordinary was about to surface and derail Vick’s career.

I wanted to write a third and final article about Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3 for short), a really great game that most people have moved on from, but I want to talk about the most important part of any RPG: LOOT. Treasure is the main driving factors of RPGs. The reward. The dopamine rush. The presents under the tree on XMas morning. If you can make getting loot really satisfying and exciting, it can paper over an infinite numbers of sins.

The day before I left for Australia, I found a beautiful purple daikon radish at the farmer’s market.  I didn’t have time to eat it before I left. So I did the obvious thing: made it into pickles.  For the first few hours, the radish’s incredible purple tie-die color lasted.  But eventually it gave way to the pickling liquid, and the vinegar turned everything a brilliant beetish purple. Less startling - but still incredibly lovely.

I first met Pico Iyer nearly 20 years ago, when I was producing documentaries about great books for the NEA, and he agreed to be interviewed. As evidence of his eloquence, here’s something he rattled off in our conversation about Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea: The book has for me the silver light of the Pacific Northwest where Ursula Le Guin lives, and I feel that I'm almost looking out on the sharp and steely maritime skies that you see in places like Portland and Seattle.

Several years ago, when I was a contributor to the sadly now-defunct website Antenna Free TV, I created a column called Pilot Error, where I looked back at TV pilots that never actually made it to series. When the site came to a conclusion, so did the column, but thanks to the kindness of the other folks involved with AFT (it was very much a collaborative effort), I’m able to bring them back to life here on Substack.

I enjoy reading about family and the drama that families engage in behind closed doors, and Pineapple Street was a perfect combination of drama and extravagance. After I finished the book, I looked at some reviews, which I do sometimes, just to see what others thought of it while I process my own thoughts. I read one that said the reader didn’t like this book because “nothing happened.” I will always respect people’s personal opinions on books as long as they are not rude to the author, but I found this to be an interesting thought.

Good morning! Today is Friday, October 4, 2019. Need to subscribe? Sign up for free here (charlotteledger.substack.com). Like what you see? Forward to a friend or share on social media. by Michelle Crouch I didn’t have a DMV horror story until last week, when I took my 16-year-old daughter Stella to get her driver’s license. I thought I had done everything right — made an appointment weeks in advance, arrived early and made sure we had all the correct documents.