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When you mumble as much as I do, the potential for being misheard is significant... If you like to follow conversational tangents as much as I do, that isn't always a bad thing. A few days ago, discussing the Steven Johnson book, The Enemy of All Mankind, about the origins of piracy, and the repercussions for democracy, enterprise and more, the person I was speaking to at first thought I was talking about a book on parrots, not pirates.

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Check out Part 1 and Part 2 before reading this post! We’ve talked about some of the big scandals over the years and how influencers and content creators respond when they are held accountable, but there is another part we still have to discuss - the internet. And by “the internet” I mean the people who never forget. I talked a bit in Part 1 about how I discovered GOMI and how these snark spaces have evolved over the years.

And, in the end, it was one of the most wonderful Christmases I’ve ever had.  On Christmas Eve, there were good friends, good food (I cooked and no one died, I take that as a sign the food was good), lots of laughter, several card games (Mr. Rugby came out with a deck and the dining room suddenly had a whole saloon vibe), great conversation, and wine. Chocolate, too. Gotta have chocolate.

Pass rush moves are like bullets. The more the better! That’s why I've created a pass rush moves handbook. It's filled with elite interior & edge rushes so you never run out of ammo. I hope you find it useful. Steps (full breakdown here) Sell speed: Bull rushes always work better if your opponent doesn’t see it coming. So get off the ball and take 2 hard steps upfield. Head under chin: On your 3rd step, drop your hips and put your head under the blockers chin.

Hear me out: This Passover, you should be frying your matzo. I don’t mean matzo brei, though you should be making that too, of course. I mean literally sizzling matzo boards in oil until they turn light and crisp. I only recently experienced this bit of matzo magic. For the last several months I’ve been helping test recipes for a forthcoming Mexican Jewish cookbook. The book is being co-written by two professors, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle, who collected more than 100 recipes (and the history that goes with them), from Jewish home cooks and chefs across Mexico.

This column is “Past meets present,” the aim of which is to look back at game franchises and games that are in the news and topical again thanks to a sequel, a remaster, a re-release, and so on. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Do you know how annoying it was for Nintendo to announce that they would be releasing a pair of games that were previously Japan exclusives from the Famicom era, while I was in the middle of ranking the top 101 Nintendo games ever?

I have been absent and remiss and I am sorry. During the fourth and final live panel during the Recipe Development Workshop, I confessed that there are times when I simply cannot bring myself to promote my own work. I am grateful and generally thrilled to be the mistress of my own work destiny, but the reality for any of us who are responsible for our own PR is that it gets exhausting.

I feel like I’ve waited precisely 365 days for this day. It’s been a long, cold winter. A rainy ass spring. I will say, it was a beautiful fall. But even though we’re technically still in spring - everyone knows memorial day weekend is the unofficial start to summer. Hence, we begin, We ended last season off on my peaches ‘n cream pasta salad. Which was loved by so many.