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Somehow Easter has crept up — is it just me, traveling and currently outside of Italy that feels this? Usually I’d have already started baking, I’d be planning Easter lunch with my mother in law (who will secretly be adding 5 more dishes to the table than what was discussed) and noticing the colombe piled high in shop windows. I will have already sampled several versions of pandiramerino, Florence’s rosemary and raisin buns, which remind me of hot cross buns with their sticky, criss crossed tops, except with rosemary instead of cinnamon (a swap out that I encourage you to try), and even though they are found year round now I remember to eat them more often than not around Easter.

I’ve been sick for the past few days—and if the amount of people in my office who have been working remotely this week are any indication, so has half of New York City. I’m on the mend now, but have been spending a lot of time resting in bed and teaching Ben how to make me pastina. (My version is below in recipe form…you’re going to want to bookmark this one.

These are perhaps two of the most over-used words in the watch hobby: iconic and underrated. Brands love to call their watches iconic. Even the annual GPHG competition includes a category named "Iconic". Their definition is: watches from an emblematic collection that has been exercising a lasting influence on watchmaking history and the watch market for more than 20 years. Watch enthusiasts like to describe their watches as underrated and demand more recognition.

Who knew he was also a photographer? Patrick Leahy represented the people of Vermont in the United States Senate for 48 years, making him the nation’s third longest-serving Senator upon his retirement in 2023. Burlington’s airport bears his name. Many years ago at the Vermont State Fair on a day when parking seemed to be nonexistent, he and I both started simultaneously to nose into the same, seemingly only, parking space available.

But, Seth, that last completion cost them a shot at a field goal. He should have just run out of bounds for Harrison. Said in my best three year-old voice. By the way, I loved the fake punt in this game. Not just because it was awesome, but because it was so low risk. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, you are ahead, playing the Jets, and at midfield, so the defense is likely to stop them even if you fail because, well, the Jets.

I’m sure the last week has been challenging for Paul “Triple H” Levesque. As WWE’s Chief Content Officer, he’s firmly focused on the road to WrestleMania, navigating the billion dollar behemoth from Saturday’s Royal Rumble to the “Showcase of the Immortals”, a three-month stretch that sets the tone for the company’s entire year. At 54, the former WWE champion (a famous nepotism hire after marrying into wrestling’s royal family in 2003) is doing it for the first time without an adult in the vehicle to help see him home.

Weekend Water with Paul F. Tompkins & Janie Haddad Tompkins By Janie Haddad Tompkins Official substack spawned from the conversation podcast STAY F. HOMEKINS with comedian Paul F. Tompkins & actress Janie Haddad Tompkins. More random thoughts, tidbits, musings and movie watchalongs from podcast cohosts & married couple JHT & PFT. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbGy06ikqaOZo8A%3D

In what follows, I do my damnedest to make sense of the first work I’ve read on the philosophy of language—I promise my confusion is not for want of trying: In Studies in the Way of Words, Paul Grice’s project seems to be to describe how there are certain expectations of communication, namely the Cooperative Principle, that, when violated, imply conclusions that are not deducible from a literal interpretation of the words used.

Emperor Paul (1754 – 1801) The current Tsar’s father ascended the throne after the death of his mother, Catherine the Great, in 1796. He was unpopular with the nobility and was assassinated in 1801 by his own officers. ncG1vNJzZmien6TBr7vTnqqappSprq%2BzxKerrGajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvPmqylZZlivKd50a6qrKGR