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SPOILERS WILL NOT ABORT THE MISSION When this season began, I wrote that moving into the homestretch had given The Bad Batch a more focused storytelling approach. When the end is in sight, clarity arrives. The first three episodes of The Bad Batch Season 3 “Confined,” “Paths Unknown,” and “Shadows of Tantiss,” leap directly into the wrenching circumstances from the Season 2 cliffhanger. They’re propulsive and cohesive; even the quiet, character-driven first episode has an eerie energy.

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. When I think of Eli’s Hot Bagels, I have two competing memories from my teenage days. One takes place on a classic overcast New Jersey fall morning. I’m in my Sunday best. A worn-too-long Mets baseball cap with a frayed bill.

After 14 days on the road, I finally made it to the mother land, the place where it all began, the beautiful Garden State: New Jersey. Obviously the first thing I did was select a bagel shop at random and order an absolute classic that you truly cannot get anywhere else, a Taylor ham, egg, and cheese sandwich. For the uninitiated, Taylor ham is a salty breakfast meat you can only find in New Jersey.

This post originates to 2020 on the old peterstonebrown.com blog, around the release time of Rough and Rowdy Ways. I’m looking for copies of the original Blake Mills guitar parts videos (they were on his instagram account) if anyone has copies Those with their hands on the new Bob Dylan album will see that the credits provide a little puzzle. Aside from Dylan’s band getting the usual name and instrument check, there is a section titled ‘additional musicians’, which includes the great Benmont Tench, Alan Pasqua (who played on the Nobel speech and Street Legal), Fiona Apple and Blake Mills.

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On Sunday, at the Super Bowl, Travis Kelce pushed his 65-year-old coach, then shouted in his face. This isn’t the first time he’s acted like a mad baby. Some have reported that Swift fans are now “concerned,” pointing toward Kelce’s pattern of behavior and self-admitted childhood aggression. In fact, the Kelce brothers have turned stories of preschool violence into part of their mythology. On their podcast, Jason laughed about stabbing other kids with sporks; Travis thought it was hilarious and a sign of his own winning-mentality that he threw a chair at a teacher who told him to share.

Gentle reader, Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering digital programming until we can again organize groups to gather and explore the city we love. In 2018, we celebrated the return of two treasures of Downtown Los Angeles to useful service as residential buildings, when the Healthy Housing Foundation purchased the largely vacant King Edward and Baltimore hotels from developer Shomof Group. Although a binding covenant requires the rooms in many old hotels be rented out to low-income tenants, and tens of thousands of people struggle to survive on the streets outside, our corrupt City Council does nothing to make property owners abide by the law.

Last spring I published a walkthrough of the basics of killer sudoku, complete with a puzzle designed to highlight several different types of logic. In the same vein, this post will explore the basics of four popular variants—kropki dots, German whispers, renban lines, and arrows—using the puzzle below. Click one of the links under the rules to try it for yourself! Fill each row, column, and 3x3 box with the digits 1-9 once each.

I am qouting from a redditor tumbler user called rosespirit He explains exactly why battery acid spaghetti has its bad reputation "I keep seeing this post going around so, for folks who want to know why not, here's a chemist's hypothesis: -Human saliva has an average pH of ~6.7 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles /PMC3800408/), which is pretty neutral. -Monster energy has a pH of ~2.7 (https:// patientconnect365.com/Dental HealthTopics /Article/Energy_Drinks_and_Your_Teeth _Should_You_Worry), which is quite acidic but not dangerous, except to your tooth enamel if consumed in large quantities.