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Yesterday former Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate Spike Cohen entered into a moderated gun control debate on Dartmouth Campus with nationally recognized gun control activist David Hogg, which was streamed live on Youtube. In it, Spike repeatedly displays graphs to illustrate his pro-gun position, most of which originated here on HWFO, and were very difficult to make out in the stream. I’m thankful he referenced us, but the viewer can’t really see them well or know their origins.

Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right Here I am stuck in the middle with you —— "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Joe Egan and Gerald Rafferty, Stealers Wheel, 1972 It may not come as a surprise, but several of the 2023 nominees for my second annual Hypocrite Hill Awards, which debuted in the Marina Times last January, made the list in 2022. This year’s runner-up, however, isn’t an individual, but rather the nominee for Best Performance by an Ensemble, based on a promise I made in that inaugural issue.

Continued from Part 3 During the Fantastic album overdub sessions, I got to know Deon Estus. What to say about this man? Truly unbelievable, larger-than-life, awesomely talented bassist/musician/showman. Watching him record a take was like going to the Deon Estus cabaret show. It was so fun to see. Everything had to be set up just so, he'd tinker and adjust every aspect of the amp, its position in the room, channel settings, baffles, you name it, a true perfectionist.

I have resigned from US Chess and as of Sept 7, will no longer serve as director of the US Chess Women’s Program that I started four years ago. Prior to my work with US Chess Women, I launched US Chess’s online magazine, CLO, where I wrote, edited, and assigned many hundreds of chess-related articles.  I chaired the organizing committee for the first five and hosted the first ten US Championships and US Women’s Championships held in St.

If you’ve been on one of my teams or been one of my clients or heard one of my keynotes or been reading this newsletter very long, you know my philosophy is that the best way to understand new and emerging things is to try them. To experiment. To get your hands dirty. And I practice what… ncG1vNJzZmifopq0tMPAp2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyqecCsop6cXZa7bq3IZquoZZSawKqzzWaYZqWZo7umv86tmA%3D%3D

I like Clerks as much as the next guy and Clerks II a good deal more than the next guy, so I gave this 16-years-later threequel the benefit of the doubt despite how dire Kevin Smith’s recent output has been. Clerks III is better than the likes of Tusk and Yoga Hosers, I suppose, but only just — almost every single scene is either a reference to or literal recreation of one from the original film, which is obviously the point in this meta comedy but so dreadful in its execution that I spent much of the runtime in genuine disbelief that something so lazy and uninspired actually got made.

Hello my darlings, I hope this finds you well! Before we dive into a few of my new favorite finds from COS, I wanted to share a few things that I’m excited about right now.  This is a smidge embarrassing to write, but here we go. You might know that I host a couple of podcasts: Second Life, which is about women who make a pivot in their careers, and Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr, where we bring Who What Wear’s editorial stories to life in aural form.

As you’ve almost certainly seen by now, last week James Blake announced that he would be partnering with Vault, a new subscription-based platform which allows artists to directly share music and information with their fans—or, more specifically, thier fans who are willing to pay $5 per month. In the days since then, the internet has been absolutely flooded with James Blake takes, many of them highly critical of both the artist and the new platform he’s promoting.

First things first: SPOILER WARNING!! I will be discussing parts of Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix’s plot. So if you’re yet to watch it or reach its conclusion, stop reading here. Captain Laserhawk is barely two minutes old when a state-approved late-night talk show intro tees up the next scene. That the voiceover is so effusive and the jazzy soundtrack underneath is so jaunty almost masks the lead: the show is state-run.