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“Flying used to be fun until I started doing it for a living,” says Kiki, a young 13-year-old witch, during a particularly prescient moment of Hayao Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989). Kiki has just lost her witch’s powers, her “spirit,” and is desperate to find it again. Like all young witches in this world, she had left home to find her very own special skill. Her flying delivery service is something landed-on more by chance than by choice, as she makes deliveries on her mother’s hand-me-down broom of everything from birthday gifts and bread to rejected baby pacifiers.

Hi all, Hope you’re enjoying the weekend. I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that I have been working on a 38 minute documentary, Killing America: Can America’s Schools Be Saved. I am proud to announce that the film will be having its sneak preview at The Guild Theater in Menlo Park this coming Saturday, March 2. What happened in southern Israel on October 7th shook the world in many ways. Most of us never imagined that the ripple effects would reach our public high schools in America, but they did and what they revealed was a shockingly strong current of antisemitism among teachers, students, and staff.

Official Substack of Killing Eve creator Luke Jennings. Subscribers get weekly instalments of new Killing Eve adventures. Paid subscribers get exclusive access to bonus and behind-the-scenes material. By Luke Jennings · Over 5,000 subscribersNo thanks“I mean...it's literally Luke Jennings writing more of the literary goodness that is "Killing Eve". Need I say more?” “Fans of Killing Eve won't be disappointed for sure. Plus some great tips for aspiring writers.” “Compelling fiction, thrilling plot.

Author is no stranger to alternative forms of publishing. His Killing Eve trilogy, featuring the murderous adventures of an assassin called Villanelle, first appeared as a self-published series of novellas for Amazon Kindle. Villanelle—and the story of her entanglement with MI5 agent Eve Polastri—grew an international fandom following the adaptation of the novels into a BBC drama by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. But in 2022 the televised version of the series came to a shocking end, and fans erected makeshift shrines all over the world.

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Narrated by Robert Petkoff. Macmillan Audio, 2023. 9 hours (approx.). It's the Christmas season and that means witches. No? Well, too bad. I’m doing witches anyway, because my library hold finally arrived after 8 weeks: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts.  O’Reilly is best known as a conservative commentator, so let’s address the elephant in the room right away.

9/10 The most striking thing about the organized criminals of the Mafia in Killing Them Softly is that they face more accountability than the organized criminals at the highest levels of the U.S. state and banking sector. Though based on the 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins, Killing Them Softly takes place against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis and U.S. presidential election. Setting the story in this time and place brings new meaning to the story of a Mafia poker game robbery and the hitman brought in to “deal with” the perpetrators.

Good I hope. Thank you so much for being here. Sorry this week’s issue is late. I was all set to give it the once over and send last night but then got my phone stolen so had to spend the rest of the evening cancelling things. Anyway. Here’s what you ought to have got last night: (Not up for the chitchat? Completely get it… ncG1vNJzZmibnJa%2FprTEmqNnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wtc1mnqinlGLBor%2FTnmRqbl2gtq6vx6Jkm62kqbKzecCnmw%3D%3D

There are some characters on the internet who loom so large in my imagination. I’m talking about Hannah Bronfman, Romy Mars, those GMA people, the woman behind the Horny Beto tweet (I hope she’s well). If they weren’t real, like if I haven’t been active in multiple group chats discussing them, I’d assume they were a collective delusion. Not a Twitter main character of the day, or that “what yall made about now” reply-bait.

by Adele Uphaus MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT The KinderCare-operated daycare center and preschool on the campus of Mary Washington Hospital will close on May 24. Families and staff were notified of the upcoming closure yesterday in a letter from Stacy Butler, KinderCare Learning Companies senior district leader. According to the letter, Mary Washington Healthcare (MWHC), which owns the building at 1100 Sam Perry Boulevard through its property management company Medicorp, has plans to repurpose the building.