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Let me first acknowledge that this cisgender male is wading into some potentially treacherous waters here with any review or critique of Greta Gerwig’s movie, Barbie. I am going in and I’ll think I’ll be fine :-) When our first child was born, we were very clear with the family about a few things: do not give them refined sugar, avoid gendered clothing, … ncG1vNJzZmismJqurq3LoJimmaSevK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnoKS9bq%2FUpauuqpViurC6w5qwZpqRp6%2BqsYynpmaroKS2rbHRrA%3D%3D

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. Today, we have a very special Q&A with Matt James, the genius behind the storied celebrity blog Pop Culture Died in 2009.  I want to start by thanking everyone who subscribed to Gossip Time in the last week — you are all my best friends now. Going forward, I’m going to make bonus posts like this one just for paid subscribers, but I’m releasing it to everybody today to give you a sample of what to expect in the future.

The Pip took a spill on Monday and ended up with a nasty cut on his knee that required nine stitches at the urgent care (the PA who did the stitches called one part of it “gnarly,” which I choose to believe is a medical term). This has made walking uncomfortable for him, so he stayed home from his regular day camp for the last two days. To pass the time, I offered a bonus Movie Afternoon, and talked him into the classic basketball movie White Men Can’t Jump.

I go by them goon rules— If you can’t beat ‘em, then you pop ‘em, You can’t man ‘em, then you mop ‘em, You can’t stand ‘em, then you drop ‘em, You pop ‘em, cuz we pop ‘em Like Orville Redenbacher. —Lil Wayne, “A Milli” When the Georgia grand jury returned its indictment on Monday night, Donald John Trump had already been indicted three times: once by Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, twice by Jack Smith, in Florida and D.

Hey there! If you’ve found your way here but are not yet subscribed for the weekly newsletter, you can do that here. You will never miss a recipe or a story, and I’ll be eternally grateful for your support.When was the last time a photograph stopped you in your tracks? In the over-saturated, overstimulating world of social media, it takes a lot for an image to make me truly pay attention.

Meritocracy has never been more loudly proclaimed as a guiding principle of cultural production than it is in the age of the algorithm. The idea that ‘the cream will rise to the top’ seems to be almost universally accepted, as though the dominance of powerful music industry lobbies had been replaced by the populist ‘truth’ of your Spotify Wrapped stats, reflecting back to you only what you choose, what you love.

Listen to and/or watch the “Read My Lips Podcast Series” version. What’s new:  Population statistics from the latest full census in 2020 and some subsequent studies on the growing number of foreign residents in Japan have just been released, and the data show a 43.6% increase from 2015 to 2020. Including foreign workers and students who have been in Japan for more than 90 days, the latest update shows that foreign residents currently number approximately 3.

Las mitocondrias son las encargadas de suministrar energía a nuestras células, como si fueran sus centrales eléctricas particulares. Si ellas no funcionan, nada funciona en la célula. Por eso es extraño que no se hable más de ellas, aunque la tendencia está cambiando, principalmente porque comienza a asociarse su disfunción a cada vez más enfermedades (y el covid no se ha librado). Una de las razones por las que no se hablaba mucho de estas centrales eléctricas celulares es que los biólogos no guardamos un recuerdo muy cariñoso de ellas.

News that PornHub, which is owned by a company called MindGeek has been bought by, wait for it, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) is no surprise to those of us that follow the commercial trends in the sex trade. ‘Ethical’ is nowhere to be found in the porn trade, and most certainly not within a million miles of Pornhub. Word is that ECP was formed specifically to buy MindGeek in what has to be one of the most cynical whitewashing operations in the murky world of commercial sex.