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Hello friends! It has been about a month since my last post, so I wanted to check in to let you know I’m still here, and to share a few updates. I am excited to share that the good folks over at Gamecock Central have agreed to carry an ongoing series from South by Southeast on their site! They will publish a mix of new material, and some archival pieces roughly each month during the summer, and more frequently during the fall, winter and spring.

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I really enjoyed this and hope you'll do more of them. Also, I really enjoyed the mini-class. The thing that I enjoy about horror (and many times science fiction or fantasy) is that there's always a deeper level. There's the surface level stuff that's going on but there's also the underlying social commentary. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on what the different eras of horror movies represented and what they were commenting on.

Several topics of note in this week’s On Media column. The owner of The Des Moines Register, Gannett, announced this week that it made a profit in the last quarter of 2022. There’s good news and bad news in that. It’s an encouraging turnaround for the company, the largest newspaper chain in the country.  Gannett reported net income in the fourth quarter of $32.8 million, a big improvement over the fourth quarter of 2021 when the company lost $22.

Our 52nd profile in the Sturm 60 will be a guy that we have grown to really love. Patrick Paul from Houston is a very unique story and during the Senior Bowl week, I confess that I was pretty smitten with his personal path and vision of his future. If you have the time, seeing his interview might demonstrate why I have been somewhat influenced by outside forces, such as his charm.

Heading into Week 11, more than one-third of the league — 12 teams, to be precise — is sitting right around .500, with four or five wins apiece.  Last year at this point, four five-win squads went on to secure a playoff berth (Bengals, Bucs, Chargers, 49ers). In 2021, two teams with four wins (49ers, Eagles) made it to the postseason, as did two others with five wins (Bengals, Raiders).

As usual, the final week of the regular season is a contrast between those with high stakes and those with practically none. This weekend, 11 teams will be vying for the five playoff spots that remain up for grabs. Four division titles are also on the line, as are all but four seeds. Only the 49ers (NFC No. 1), Ravens (AFC No. 1), Chiefs (AFC No. 3), and Browns (AFC No.

The Kansas City Chiefs traded L’Jarius Sneed last week for a future 3rd round pick from the Tennessee Titans. This sparked a great deal of discussion amongst Chiefs fans about NFL compensatory picks, salary cap spending vs cash spending, the value of a single year of a great player vs a mid-round future asset, and more. All of those discussions are valid and interesting, but the one that specifically caught my interest was the discussion about how the NFL views future draft capital.

Veteran NHL centerman Mike Sillinger ended his career as the NHL's most accomplished journeyman. By the time he hung up his skates in 2009, he had played 1,049 games and accumulated 548 points with a total of 12 teams literally from coast to coast. As far west as the Vancouver Canucks to as far east as the New York Islanders. That type of crazy career just begs for a closer look.