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Too much going on over the next 10-days to fit into one post. So, updating on the intensity and progress of the forecast Arctic blast mainly peaking on Monday and Tuesday of next week across the central U.S. including Texas, and then into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. I’m also constantly updating on X/Twitter (@RyanMaue). The conventional weather models including GFS initially weakened the extreme cold of the air mass with a cut-off low from the Pacific undercutting the polar front.

This project is pretty simple. As a complement to each race weekend, I’ll be cooking the national dish of that race’s host country and sharing information about the process and that dish’s history along the way in an effort to grow more deeply immersed in the local culture from my own home. I’d never had Japanese curry until the first time I flew to New York City to work from Jalopnik’s official headquarters.

This article is about exactly what you think it is. Spiderman in Japan. Now, you may be thinking this is about how Japan has embraced Spiderman and Western superheroes. In a way, it is. In a much realer way though, it is about a long-hidden bastardisation turned heroisation of Japanese television icon, スパイダーマン (“Supaidaman”). Adaptations of one country’s stories into another is common enough. Even with thousands of manga and anime characters, there is often a desire for Japan to look abroad.

My guess is that you’ve probably already seen this short video in which President Biden’s chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Jared Bernstein, shows, shall we say, an imperfect understanding of the bond market. Here’s the video and below it, I’ll lay out the actual workings of the bond market and, as a bonus, recount an interaction I had with … ncG1vNJzZmickau2pb7HnqWdnaKovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmpa%2FprCMm5yrpqOpsqq60maZmquZmHqku82frKyhn6PA

Pro-gun lyrics are apparently no longer permissible in American popular music. That, at least, is the implication behind the attempt to cancel Jason Aldean, the country music star, for his new music video: “Try That in a Small Town.”  Aldean’s video features news footage of looters and rioters, which looks similar to the violent scenes that erupted during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, though it is not explicit. Later, images appear idealizing life in small, conservative towns: family, community, gun ownership.

It’s one thing to make a great debut movie, it’s quite another to direct an impressive follow-up. The film industry is littered with people who began with a bang only to then make whimper after whimper. In terms of those who’ve broken that mold, the king remains Quentin Tarantino who followed the impeccable Reservoir Dogs with the peerless Pulp Fiction. And the British equivalent? Some would say you need look no further than Guy Ritchie.

The story of Jeona Maur takes place in the early 20th century, during British rule over Punjab. It is said to take place in Maur village in the Malwa region, specifically in Sangrur but others also suppose his village to be somewhere in the regions adjourning the Naina Devi Mandir. Jeona Maur was the brother of Kishna Maur, a famous dacoit, who had been backstabbed by his close friends, most notably Ahmed Dogar.

Hello everyone, I am still in Berlin and it is still raining. Today is the passing day of the poet, playwright and author Jean Genet. When I was young his work was banned in the United States but in the late sixties Grove Press was able to publish his novels. My favorite is The Thief’s Journal which traces his early youth as a vagrant poet in Spain. The soundtrack is Wing, that I have posted before, but this is a live version from Tangiers.

The Yardbirds with their greatest guitarist Jeff Beck, center. His new foil, Jimmy Page, is far left.“Everytime I see a punk band, I wonder if they got that way because of The Yardbirds?” grumbled Jeff Beck, the most creative and inventive guitarist rock ‘n’ roll has seen,  in his first Guitar World cover story back in 1981. “When I see punk rockers jumping up and down, thumping the guitar, saying ‘fuck you,’ is it because they heard The Yardbirds?