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Alison is wearing a dark navy dress tonight, the neckline on this is great for showcasing her A initial pendant. (Also her hair and makeup look great!) Thanks to a comment from subscriber Marjorie and a confirmation from Alison herself, I can verify that Alison’s necklace is a typewriter key! This is such a cool idea and I want one now! Everybody is wearing floral prints this week! What a great way to start off regular play this spring.

You know how you always act like no one can see or hear you once you get into your car, and how that is not at all the case? Yeah!!! Oh well. Things continue to be a little chaotic, but I am rescued by the privacy (not) of my vehicle and the existence of the Jewish bakery (Solly’s! Their babka is my favourite stress snack/anytime treat/birthday cake stand-in, and I’d often go for early runs around the seawall and then stop in for an egg bagel sandwich for breakfast after)

I don't remember exactly when sextou became a thing, but it feels as if it's been around forever, in Instagram hashtags and happy hour themes. Let me explain that linguistically: in Portuguese, Friday is sexta-feira (lower-case. It means the sixth day). Sexta-feira, like Friday, isn't a verb, it's a noun. But there's this cool process called verbifying: when we turn nouns into verbs. We do it in English all the time — I'll text you, let me Google that, let's FaceTime, etc — but when we do it in Portuguese, we must add a suffix.

Harper Lee, the reclusive author of the unfortunately too-much-beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird, loved Fannie Flagg’s book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe:  "Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!

The summer my boyfriend died, my best friend Anna Codrea-Rado bought me an empty notebook and wrote on the front page: ‘Never underestimate the power of the pen.’ I wrote those words back to her on the front of the DJ booth at her twenty-first birthday party at a working man’s club in Durham.  Although it’d take me over ten years before I wrote anything,… ncG1vNJzZmismZuzorrYqZ%2BipJmlvbDBjaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5u%2FqrHNnaqhoaCoeqK%2BxGaroZ1dnL%2BmrdOeqq1lnKTDpg%3D%3D

Malia Obama is the reigning queen of Gen Z style; TikTok superstar Khaby Lame will make his acting debut in international spy comedy ‘00Khaby’; Emma Corrin is doing things their way; and Blue Ivy’s Grammy appearance was the (or my, at least) highlight of the night. INSIDE WHOP, THE $300 MILLION GEN Z MARKETPLACE FOR SELLING YOUR EXPERTISE, fastco Whop, n… ncG1vNJzZmiZlqmys7%2FCoaaopF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6fqaKml5p6p77InqWdq12Wu6V5waiwrKeSmr8%3D

Kate Mock Elliott couldn't be more naked.  Not literally, but in her one-woman show, seXmas Cards, she bares it all bravely.  You might call it oversharing and if she were to have some of these conversations with us off stage we'd probably find it odd.  But that's kinda the point.  She wants us to be OK with uncomfortable conversations. You know those fake Christmas letters?  I get some every year and I throw them in the trash after skimming them because they're always full of superficial nonsense.

You know the setup: it’s 9pm, don’t want to cook, don’t want to order in, don’t want to be unhealthy, don’t want to do anything. The pantry is looking dire. Is it possible to make dinner out of rice crackers? But amidst the dreariness is a can of beans. And pasta. And… most importantly… potential! I won’t go down this path again because it was just a few newsletters ago that I was moaning about the hardships of late night cooking laziness.

Welcome to Episode 122 of Special Situation Investing. The book Good to Great explores why some businesses achieve greatness. Within its pages, the author, Jim Collins, popularized the concept of the Flywheel Effect. He draws a connection between turning a flywheel—a heavy disc-like structure that stores rotational energy—and successful companies in the following way: The flywheel image captures the overall feel of what it was like inside the companies as they went from good to great.