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 “If you want to lay down on it, you can lay down,” the caretaker at the Woodstock cemetery is saying. “Some people come up and lay down, some people bring lunch. You have any questions, ask me. There’s no such thing as a silly question. Everyone deals with death differently.” The caretaker, who is also the gravedigger and the groundskeeper, is Shea Cocks. He is 44 and has a tattoo of a skull and a pickaxe and shovel.

The farewell to Birdie’s (Fried) Fried Chicken is Saturday, but on Monday chef/owner Kevin Lee offered a glimpse at what to expect when he reopens the space as Birdie’s by Chef Kevin Lee next month. Reaching with equal passion into his culture and cheffing roots, Lee looks to stir up a new view of Korean cuisine and chef-driven dining. “This is more of who I am,” he told me last week at Edmond’s Bulgogi Korean Bistro over a succession of traditional dishes from his home country.

I’m telling Anthony about what I’ve spent the last six hours on, clicking through fragments of archived LiveJournals on the Wayback Machine in an attempt to piece together the countless indignities women I have never met suffered at the hands of a pornographic enterprise I hadn’t thought about for a solid decade prior.  He raises an eye and says something along the lines of, “Wow, so the pornographers treated the women poorly?

It’s Pete Davidson’s world (and we’re just living in it); Phoebe Bridgers walked the Gucci runway; laugh/cry while watching the new Pen15 trailer; and Instagram launches a new initiative around “British Gen Z self exploration” with an exhibition at Saatchi Gallery London. But that’s assuming ncG1vNJzZmiZlqmys7%2FCoaaopF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6bsK5lo6HBbq%2FLrpmsZZGjsW6tza2gsKeioHq0wcGrnJ2cmanA

I hope everyone’s week was nothing short of fabulous and if it was short of fabulous, there’s always next week, right? The good news is it finally feels like fall time in beautiful Sacramento (this week I had my first I-don’t-want-to-run-today-because-it’s-too-cold-outside moment of the year). Thankfully, I no longer have to cosplay a person experiencing cold weather by forcing myself to wear sweaters in 80ºF weather. The bad news is it’s getting WAY too dark WAY too early.

Ole Miss tight ends Caden Prieskorn and Michael Trigg will compete for targets this coming season. Prieskorn should win that battle. He’s not on the level of a top 100 selection, but the Memphis transfer projects as an early day three talent in the 2024 NFL Draft. Visit my Twitter account @Sam_Teets33 for more opinions on prospects, clips, and the latest football content. Classification: Redshirt senior tight end from Lake Orion, Mich.

You might not think there’s much room to grow for Caitlin Clark, a player who, as a college sophomore, led the nation in scoring and assists — the first time in Division I history that had ever happened — then increased her scoring average as a junior while leading her team to the national championship game. But, as always, Iowa’s Clark keeps finding new ways to impress — and improve on what had previously seemed like her high-water mark.

Caitlin is a longtime writer at The Atlantic and the author of several books — the most recent is “Girl Land” — and she’s been a frequent guest-host on the Femsplainers podcast. I’ve long been a super-fan. To see why, here are two essays Caitlin wrote — one on the dark lessons of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, and another on the abortion debate. We share a Catholic faith and encounters with mortality, but Caitlin’s brushes with near-death have been far more acute than my own.

Hey Friends! Yes, that’s right…me again. Never did I think there’d be a week where I’m dropping into your inboxes twice in one week but here we are and this time, I promise it comes with the delicious goods I promised over on Instagram earlier this week. A HUGE thank you to everyone who has already pre-ordered the new book. SPOILER ALERT if you missed yesterday’s impromptu drop in, you’d have missed the rather exciting news that my debut baking book is FINALLY available for pre-order with a UK release date of May 23rd and a US release date of June 4th (info still tbc).