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For all those wondering, this is neither “big project” I’m working on. One of those is soon to be published, I hope. Scoop: Nashville is a website and Facebook and Instagram page owned by Jason Steen. Jason has gone through a lot: most notably, he has had a heart transplant. In this regard, he was incredibly lucky—about 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant in the United States.

I’ve just done the first weekend of events of my book tour and my first book tour in Sydney in nearly five years — it was so wonderful to be celebrating this book with a room full of warm, food-loving, cookbook-loving, Japan-loving, Italy-loving people! Thank you to all of you who came out to the workshop and the book launch to hear me talk about making this “out of the box” cookbook, as Barbara Sweeney (aka Food and Words) called it.

Sometimes a song hits me so hard that I can’t stop listening to it. I’ll play it several times in a row. And not just when I first hear it, but almost every time. I can count on my hands the number of times this has happened in my life, maybe just on the one hand. The example I always give is Carnival by Natalie Merchant. That song absolutely kills me.

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, February 22, 2024, and we’re coming to you with HOT BREAKING NEWS. Need to sign up for our newsletter to stay in-the-know about Charlotte? Or upgrade to our paid version? Details here. by Tony Mecia Thousands of Charlotte residents woke up Thursday to no cellular service, in part of a nationwide outage appearing mainly to hit users of AT&T but also Verizon and T-Mobile. In Charlotte, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said on social media:

Delighted to learn Pablo Rodriguez, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, has written to the board chair of the National Gallery of Canada asking them what’s going on down on Sussex Drive. This evens things out a bit, because everybody else in Canadian art is writing to Pablo Rodriguez. The poor board chair, Françoise Lyon, must have been feeling left out. For background on the controversy, read my original stories here and here.

Last month NATO’s Twitter account posted a photo of a Ukrainian soldier and saluted her “bravery and resilience.” But as many online commentators quickly noticed, the soldier’s body armour bore the mark of the Black Sun — a Nazi symbol. NATO deleted the tweet, later telling Newsweek that it hadn’t noticed “a symbol that we could not verify as official.” I’ve written before about the problem of Ukrainian Nazis and how deeply embedded they are in the state.

Hello there, situation normies! Last week’s post, To live in and leave LA inspired some really great suggestions for movies about Los Angeles. There were no wrong answers, but there was an underrated answer: Repo Man. That movie kicks ass, thanks for mentioning it ! Also, a big thanks to , , , and for sharing their leaving LA stories.For those following my crime spree, I’m currently reading One-Shot Harry, a slow-burn of an amateur sleuth story by Gary Phillips.

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