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Taking Yourself to The Movies
A special Sunday edition about Saturday.
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Ads—with Thoughts & Feelings
January brings out the charcoal juice in a gym (which is not a gym).
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December 2022

Gifts for The Holidays
Last minute is just a minute that missed the bus!
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Recipe Reviews ft. Substitutions
America's real national pastime
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November 2022

Going to Bed When You Need To
this is late because I didn’t go to bed when I needed to
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October 2022

Rice Cakes
the stress snack that stresses you back!
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#13: A New Meaning of Bitch
“YOU BETTER BELIEVE IN PEANUT BUTTER,” the man shouted into a megaphone. “THIS IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BITCH.” Nearby, people bought potatoes.
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#12: Devil Town
I am evangelical about the greatest depiction of football America has produced: Friday Night Lights, both the book by H.G. Bissinger as well as the…
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September 2022

#11: Fall Baseball
On the East Coast, the glory of fall is stunning. Trees burn in technicolor, issuing flames that herald resurrection instead of doom. It is not a forest…
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#10: Baking a Cake for Someone
Welcome to the first—official!—day of autumn. Sweaters, rejoice! Perhaps that explains the nightmare I had yesterday: I traveled from a post-apocalyptic…
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#9: Aggressively Tilted Hats
It is with great humility, and not an undue amount of apology, that I confess: I have succumbed to Bridgerton. Last week, I learned that fan videos such…
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#8: The Fox in Fleabag
As a general rule, I do not converse with foxes. Though our meetings are rare, and brief when they occur, I have never been able to shake the sense that…
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