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It’s 2023 and 90s nostalgia is showing no signs of slowing down. Not only are brands like FUBU and Tommy Hilfiger experiencing a resurgence in popularity, but there’s another brand we have yet to talk about that’s beginning to make its way back into cultural conversations. That brand is none other than If you grew up in the 90s, you remember FILA. If you couldn’t afford Ralph Lauren or Tommy, you could still sit at the lunch table in peace with FILA on — but be cautious.

I wanted wood chips to sheet mulch the back yard and to top up the front yard so I put in a request at ChipDrop. The service works like Tinder, connecting people searching for wood chips or logs with arborists working nearby and in need of a spot to dispose of their material. Residents receive quality wood chips straight from the source, delivered for free, and a pile of wood chips stays out of the waste stream.

Hi everyone, It’s been a long time since my last newsletter. I must say 2021 has been particularly taxing so far because of family loss, never-ending pandemic-related constraints, Kafkaesque bureaucratic hurdles in a new country (Germany) and just sheer exhaustion. I knew that in spite of the vaccines 2021 wouldn’t necessarily bring much relief. But I didn't expect that for me this year would be much worse than the previous one.

Play Wicket Cricket Manager Wanna work in sport? How good was Stuart Broad? I mean that is the question right, because his place in the pantheon is not as straightforward as it should be. Stuart Broad is an incredible bowler, you cannot take as many Test wickets and not be one. But he was not the greatest bowler of his era, and he was not even the greatest bowler of his team.

Share Crime of the Century is a fitting title for a pack of fabrications, aspersions, and lies posing as narrative. At the start of May of this year (2021), HBO released their latest Alex Gibney mega-documentary project. Alex Gibney is a titan in the documentary world , having published behemoth documentaries on topics like Scientology (Getting Clear) and Enron (The smartest guys in the room), among others. His latest budget-breaking project means to provide the defining narrative on a challenging and complex topic: the American opioid crisis.

This article was first published in 2012 and is taken from A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel, published in the UK by John Murray: ‘Show up at the desk’ is one of the first rules of writing, but for Wolf Hall I was about 30 years late. When I began writing, in the 1970s, I thought of myself simply as a historical novelist; I can’t do plots, I thought, so I will let history do them for me.

I’ve written a few articles (over at cupcakes & cashmere and on Medium) about getting balayage right before the pandemic. The decision to bleach my Asian hair was not one I took lightly, and the amount of time I spent figuring out how to maintain it during lockdown was… a lot. But it’s been more than three years that I’ve been getting balayage every 4-6 months. So now that I do it regularly, I’m here to tell you it really isn’t that bad.

A change from the usual today on Substack. Instead of a report about the usual liars, thieves and hypocrites that have packed esports in a Saudi state owned suitcase, I’ll instead tell you a funny story. If you’re a Counterstrike fan you will have probably noticed that if you watch Falcons games on Twitch the chat has become a wasteland of deleted comments with moderators sniping down anything that even looks like a rainbow from their watchtowers.

I remember when I first learned about quantile regression. I hated it. I couldn't wrap my head around it for years. The worst part is that I can’t articulate why I had such a hard time. But today quantile regression and I are at peace and I’ll tell you how we came to this peace agreement. Quantile regression is typically motivated by distributions: In the great journey of becoming a statistician, you first learn about linear regression and how it models the conditional mean of a distribution.