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I walked into the bar on Bushwick Ave. and he was the first person I saw. There was no missing him. He was seated on a stool, swirling ice cubes around in his glass. He had a pale complexion and a dark suit. This was his regular spot and all the bartenders knew him by name. Or, at least, the name he gave people. I walked up and sat beside him.

If you want to receive updates, new content, and tips, check out my website. EffortlessAcademic.com Zotero is a somewhat outdated monolith software that like MS Word is in wide use. While it feels anachronistic in today’s design-driven world it has a few powerful features other tools can’t match in one package. According to a poll that I made some 3 out of 5 academics are using it. This deep dive on Zotero is about plugins to get the most out of it and how to integrate it with Obsidian to be used in my Note Taking System (You can learn all about it in this online course).

For me, writing a sermon still feels like writing a book or blog post or anything else. It’s different in some small ways, but it’s still writing. And all writing, for me, has this one weird quirk that I don’t fully know how to articulate but I chuckle every time I run across it. Basically said, the rabbit trails and research deep dives I end up taking almost never see the light of day.

It seeps into our skin, this living. These days that scorch into spring, and tumble out on the other side, as we hold the sky with trellises of flowering trees; visions locked into analogue, and the smear of screen. We live the wave, not the particle. Our teleologies are wrought with the negotiation of a nostalgia, whose only face is the one that is stretched between the experience of individuality, and the ephemeral embrace of community.

This week in Daak: 1. Poetry in the Time of War: Faiz’ Poems on Palestine 2. A Space for Your Inner World of Words 3. Daak Recommends 1. Poetry in the Time of War: Faiz’ Poems on Palestine Around the age of two or three, children, on the threshold of sense-making in a chaotic world, start asking ‘why’. Gradually, as they begin to categorize and understand external stimuli, the world starts feeling like a safe and predictable place.

I asked a bunch of people (~19k) what kinks they were into, and as an almost-afterthought asked people what quadrant of the political compass they were on. Almost all the political-fetish correlations were uninterestingly weak, but the sample size was huge enough that it became very unlikely that the correlations were showing up due to chance. So, for fun, I put them on a political compass chart. The charts were done by adding authleft and authright answers (to get auth answers), libright and authright (to get right answers), etc.

This is the Virginia Scope daily newsletter covering Virginia politics from top to bottom. Please consider becoming the ultimate political insider by supporting non-partisan, independent news and becoming a paid subscriber to this newsletter today. Have a tip? You can reply to this email, or email me directly at Brandon@virginiascope.com (There is no relation between myself and Jimmie Lee Jarvis) Jimmie Lee Jarvis was arrested and charged with a felony for posting a photo on Twitter about an event that Republican provocateur Andy Ngo was hosting in Richmond recently.

Happy Sunday, Welcome back to The Good Home Cook. Its getting chilly in the south of England and i’m in need of comfort. My quick-fire answer to the ultimate source of comfort is spaghetti and meatballs. Everyone from Tony Soprano to Lady and The Tramp were fans of a big bowl of the saucy stuff. And i’m here to share one of my three favourite meatball recipes with you. This issue talks you through a good pomodoro sauce - the way I always make it at home.

🇲🇽 MÉXICO (Oaxaca) 📍 4318 Main Street, South Park, South Los Angeles. 🅿️ Street parkingFREE FRIDAY FAVORITES is a series of articles that revisit choice restaurants featured on eattheworldla.com over the years. These will never be behind the paywall, but will update information as necessary and always be about meals that are worth returning for again. 📆 Original Article 29 January 2019The tlayuda might just be the only tortilla one you can cook ahead of time and still make wonderful in the coming days, but even so it requires such a high skill level that you rarely find them done well outside of Oaxaca.