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Amber Sparks is the author of three short story collections and an upcoming novel, Happy People Don't Live Here. She is also a sometimes film and book critic. She lives in Washington, DC with two people and two cats. The Audacity. is a reader-supported publication. Your support as a paid subscriber helps us to share incredible writing from incredible wri… ncG1vNJzZmiZpZmupLXTsmWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyqwNJmm5qml5q%2FsMHSZquoZZekeqrAjJqjqKaV

Deanna and Emily dive into the meaning of Ohio, the hot off the press style broquette, and the one lewk that got away: the groutfit. Deanna admits she’s being influenced into potentially purchasing new handbags because the TikTok algorithm has sucked her in! Emily suggests she starts a layaway plan, like any good friend would! Have you been influenced into a recent purchase? Let us know WHAT in the comments! When you support our sponsors, you are supporting us at HTBLO.

The title of this post tempts me to spend the rest of the newsletter dissecting Alanis's lyrics, and explaining how vital she was in my youth as a fellow restless, Canadian, long-messy-haired, no-makeup, baggy-t-shirt-wearing chick. But then I remember that I already wrote that newsletter. Alas, this letter is not about Alanis. It’s about equanimity. Apparently, I’m just not done thinking about it, yet. I wrote about equanimity a few weeks ago, but I just saw this short video clip from a Pema Chödrön talk and needed to share it with you.

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This column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Max Payne wasn’t Remedy Entertainment’s first video game. In 1996, they developed Death Rally for PC and MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software.

This column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Tetris! Everyone knows Tetris, except for that one movie critic, anyway. It’s one of the best-selling video game franchises of all-time at 495 million sales, behind only the entirety of Mario and ahead of serious moneymakers like Pokémon and Call of Duty.

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Get 60 day free trial I’m going to admit right off that I cannot be objective when it comes to former New York University archaeologist Randall White, who died in July of last year. When I was a newly minted archaeology/anthropology writer for Science, in the 1990s, White was one of the first experts I got to know. I learned a great deal from him, and often quoted him in my articles about human evolution, a field that later became my primary beat for the journal.