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Howdy Lovelets! For the last month I’ve been on a speaking tour across Europe (although I keep thinking of it as more of a spiritual retreat than a tour, which is a nice feeling), and one of the things I find myself doing again and again on stage is quoting these lines from the great Sufi poet and mystic Hafiz: The subject tonight is love    and for tomorrow night as well.

Emily Dickinson called her Amherst home "The Homestead." Writer and theatre artist Courtney Bailey calls her St. Louis apartment the same thing. In this newsletter, she writes about what it feels like to put down creative roots in her own chosen home. By Courtney Bailey · Launched 3 years agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmibn6q%2FtbrEspmaoZyaxm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xo

Hello! The market is in turmoil with the regional bank news and the UBS/Credit Suisse take-over. Today is gonna be a long one: In my last article I wrote about Nvidia being the most overvalued stock of the market. Well it got even more overvalued and instead of being 545b market cap, it is now 680b. AMD has a market cap of 155b, so the increase is close to 90% of AMD.

In September of 2017 Saturday Night Live aired a skit titled “Levi’s Wokes.”   “Introducing Levi’s Wokes. Sizeless, style neutral, gender non-conforming denim for a generation that defies labels. Levi’s heard that if you’re not woke, it’s bad!” Watch it here. I laughed. Then I watched it over and over again. Then I laughed some more. I was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Levi’s at the time and had been for four years.

Despite the New York Times’ efforts, many Wordle variants continue to exist, exploring variations on the game’s foundations. Wordle variants come in several types. Some, like Heardle or Chessle, have little in common with the original Wordle beyond a six-guess format. Some are like Wordle with a twist on the gameplay, like playing multiple Wordles at once or an “adversarially” selected answer. And then there are the specializers, sticking to Wordle rules but taking their answers from a themed word list.

In 1983 there were few men on God's green Earth to compare with Lewis Collins. He was a real man. Not a namby-pamby, simpering wimp of a man like you or me, no. A real man. Women wanted to be with him, men were beaten up by him. Furniture doubtlessly orgasmed by having been sat on by him and many a mirror sighed with delight and having hosted his visage.

Earlier this week, we talked about an account run by a woman named Lex Delarosa. If you haven't stumbled on Lex’s account. Go, go look it up. I'll be here when you get back. She cleans her house in a princess inspired dresses and bakes absurdly attractive cakes without breaking a sweat. Lex has been featured in a lot of stories that talk about trad wives. And I got nearly a hundred messages from all of you asking me about Lex's account.

Before you read this week's newsletter, I want to inform you of a special pre-order offer with Drama Free. Pre-order now and receive a free chapter. See the offer here.  I had a situation the other day where someone did something that I asked them not to do. When I called them on it, they said, “You never told me that.” There were three different occasions where I relayed that message to them, and yet, they still insisted they hadn’t been told.

If you don’t remember (or have an actual life), we recently wrote an investigative report detailing the best matzo ball soup from these same four delis (a pound for pound value, what else is there?). Now that we’ve completed our slurping duties, it’s time to get to the meat of it. Get it? Our office visited four of NYC’s most important Jewish delis to find the most optimal pound-for-pound pastrami value – sides not included.