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Play Wicket Cricket Manager Brian McMillan's chest is large. Batters are not built like this normally and clearly, he was an all-rounder. But good enough to average almost 40 in Tests. He's just massive. That chest is important at one time he was batting in a tour game at the MCG in 93/94 when a wrong'un hit him in the chest. If you are thinking wrong'un, MCG, 1993, the face you are probably thinking of is Shane Warne.

When I was in High School, I was vegetarian for about a year because my girlfriend was vegetarian. At first, I didn’t really give it much thought - I figured since I could still eat cheese and eggs, it wouldn’t be too hard. Sometime after I started the diet I started actually reading about the diet. This lead me to watching the pro-veganism documentary Forks Over Knives. If you’ve seen Netflix’s pro-vegan What the Health or The Game Changers - they’re basically the same message: “Did you know that you’ve been lied to your whole life?

I’ve already forgotten about the list. It snowed overnight, and my cat — who is small and round — walks around in the snow with the snow reaching up to her belly. — There are ships that list — they lean into the water, bending as if lazy; to starboard, to port. The Costa Concordia — laying upon the rocks as if in sleep. Foucault reads Borges, taming “the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between same and other”.

Iowa Football doesn’t really do coaching searches. I just turned 43 years old, and there has been exactly one head coach vacancy in my lifetime. Perhaps more shocking: There have been just four defensive coordinators since 1979 (Bill Brashier, Bobby Elliott, Norm Parker and Phil Parker) and only six offensive coordinators (Bill Snyder, Carl Jackson, Don Patterson, Ken O’Keefe, Greg Davis, Brian Ferentz). So when a coordinator position opens up, we go to FlightAware and try to have some of the fun that everyone else gets when they can their coach like tuna.

I don’t know about you, but the past couple of years certainly pushed my television viewing habits to its extreme limits. My early lockdown viewing habits mostly consisted rewatching my favorite weird documentaries and Seinfeld reruns. After exhausting that supply, however, I opened up the floor to pretty much any type of documentary, and let the cards fall where they may. Somewhere after the Tiger King era, I stumbled upon a doc about UFOs called The Phenomenon and — if not convinced by it — was at least intrigued enough by the personalities involved to go further down that rabbit hole a bit.

Historically, the sin eater is somewhat elusive. The earliest known reference to sin eating is from the late 17th century by John Aubrey (1626-1697), an antiquarian, natural philosopher and writer. He characterised the sin eater as a functionary at funerals who, in exchange for food and drink, and some money, would take the sins of the deceased upon himself through eating bread that had been placed on the corpse and drinking a cup of beer (Aubrey, 1686-87).

Specialists in one-line minimalism, Differantly (DFT) are an artist duo hailing from Paris and Berlin. Their ability to deconstruct complex three-dimensional objects into single continuous lines whilst still retaining their sense of depth and character demonstrates real skill. (Trouva) There’s a message hidden in these works. Time, and life, flows in a single direction and our mistakes aren’t something we can take back. Using a single, continuous line grounds DFT’s art in this reality.

EVER since that fateful afternoon on 2 May 1982, the sinking of the Belgrano by the British nuclear-powered submarine Conqueror has always been regarded as one of the most controversial events of the Falklands War. Many critics of the action, which resulted in the deaths of 323 Argentinian sailors, see the sinking as nothing less than a war crime, an unjustified act of butchery. These critics – who included the late Labour MP Sir Tam Dalyell and the late Ministry of Defence civil servant Clive Ponting – argue that the Belgrano represented no threat to the British task force, and was actually sailing away from the 200-mile Total Exclusion Zone declared around the Falkland Islands.

All right, first of all, I have to say, what is that sign in the photo trying to warn people away from? I decided to use it because it suited my purpose, but in all practicality… what? If anyone knows, let me know in the comments section. I don’t even know if it’s a real sign. Anyway, I digress, that is not the purpose of this post. Can you imagine if it was though?