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Dear readers, I used to think beautiful was a word to describe people. Then, as a surly teenager forced into national park road trips, I begrudgingly added nature into the bucket. Later, as I trod the path of design, it became a word to describe interfaces or objects. A website here, an app there, a sleek aluminum edge, an airy monochrome composition. My currency, in some ways, comes from my eye’s scrutiny for beauty.

When I talk about my love of supper clubs, the homey time-warp restaurants that, with few exceptions, you only find in my home state of Wisconsin, people often ask me what, exactly, a supper club is and how it differs from a regular restaurant. It’s a good question and one any devoted patron of supper clubs has had to address at some point or another. Fortunately, supper club meals are long, and have afforded me plenty of time to contemplate what sets supper clubs apart from other restaurants.

Before I got into the children’s book publishing world, I thought, much like people who approach me these days, that writing a picture book would be pretty easy. Fewer words, right? I should have known better. In my previous career, as a comic book letterer, people would constantly inquire how to get to be a letterer since they have neat handwriting. Neither career is as easy as people thing. In fact, there are times that creating a picture book is as hard, time-consuming, and frustrating as any other creative pursuit.

What I want from my “For You” page on TikTok are videos of rescue kittens, curly hair advice, and some makeup tips for skin over 50 from people who don’t use filters. But given my search history, what I get instead are videos about the vagina and hormones…and not educational ones. It’s all disinformation, and usually from a rogues gallery of people peddling useless products or disgusting men dealing in shame.

There was a time not too many years ago when using secondary devices like webcams would have been a nightmare with most Linux distributions. Then one day, a single individual changed everything with a single focus - making webcams work with Linux distributions of the era. French programmer Michel Xhaard took the bull by the horns and forever changed history for Linux-loving webcam users. He did so for free, and I thank him for getting us where we are today.

You don’t need to tell me who played, when it happened, or how it turned out. Without any of that info, I still know one very important thing about the last soccer game you watched: You don’t know what happened. Sure, you might know who scored, who completed a lot of passes, what defenders made mistakes, and how many saves a keeper made, but you’re looking at the game through a fogged-up lens.

This is a public post from How to wear, a franchise about how to get dressed that focuses on styling tips through outfit ideas. To see the last one, click here. I’m kidding, this is not the answer but also like, not no, no? It would seem that trends in fashion are finally, actually on the precipice of big change — that after years and years of wearing permutations of the same thing over and over, the tide is actually turning and as with every tide that turns, I suspect there will be an awkward in-between period where we won’t really know what we’re doing and will thus end up looking silly.

I was pulled into a conversation on Twitter about this today and figured I'd share my thoughts. While not horror-specific, the act of presenting a screenplay's story in different formats is a huge part of the job that is hated, but generally required at some point. The first issue is, the term TREATMENT can be confusing because it has become conflated frequently with SUMMARY, BEAT SHEET, OUTLINE, and other industry terms like "

This week we’re revisiting my 2007 interview with Tom Perkins, who was one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists. The firm Tom co-founded, Kleiner Perkins, is responsible for funding some of the most well-known companies of the past four decades, including Google, AOL, Genentech, Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Tandem Computers. With that track record, Tom’s name is now almost synonymous with venture capital. But he actually cut his teeth as an entrepreneur.