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I love brown boots. Black leather is something I tend to struggle with. Its just so tough, and I’m so not. Not to say I don’t have my fair share of black boots too, but I love how brown softens an outfit. And throws an outfit off in a way that looks a little more strategic than a black boot. Plus they look good a little beat up, and if you live in NYC, you wear your shoes HARD.

We spin tales about our foods. Potato pancakes take on religious connotations. Caviar becomes a status symbol. Apple pie is patriotic. Or, consider the British dish of Brown Windsor Soup. Brown Windsor Soup is, as the name suggests, a hearty brown stew often with beef or lamb. The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook (1998) described the soup as a “thick meat soup … first concocted in Victorian times,” and a food.

Hello my friends! We are one week into 2024; how are those “intentions” going? Mine are fairing just fine I suppose; I’ve started in on the Moonlight Sonata on the piano, I am working on keeping a journal daily to trap all the muddled madness traipsing around in mind, and I’ve cut back a little bit on the sauce (I think folks are calling this a “damp” approach). Anywho, let’s focus on the most important of my resolutions: getting you to the best restaurants and experiences possible in 2024.

Alexander Bublik didn’t win his first match of 2023 until late February (he went 0-8 to start the year) but he continued his best season to date with a win over Arthur Fils 6/4 6/4 in the final of the Antwerp 250. All of Bublik’s 9 ATP finals (3-6 record) have been made on grass or faster hard courts. He’s a disruptor and a risk-taker in the Kyrgios mold. Second-serve aces, drop shots, and underarm serves are core features of his game.

Surely you’ve noticed that every food publication decided to unveil their holiday cookie package within three days of eachother. If you haven’t been glued to Instagram this last week (I’ve had Covid, what can I say?), let me tell you that all of the cookies being paraded around this week on various accounts look positively delightful. This year I’m plea… ncG1vNJzZmiZnJrFqr%2FDnpmoq5Odu6a3jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5fCpLfEspxmm5iasrSxwpqinmWSlr%2B0

As far as I can tell, the American bison has never bothered to majestically roam the plains of Buffalo, New York — probably because there’s not enough grass — which means that the idea of Buffalo buffalo, like “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo,” will never be more than a wonderful fancy. But if there were Buffalo buffalo, and they were particularly ill-disposed towards the famous 8-buffalo sentence, you might have a situation where Buffalo buffalo buffalo “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

I wasn’t sure what to write about this month so I’ve decided to tell you a story about a cat and the internet…. The internet is full of cats, crawling with them. If the internet was a building, you’d open the door and cats would tumble forth in grotesque volumes. Cats upon cats. And on top of the cats? A whole load of strange and horrible stuff that we won’t think about, not today.

Join the Discord community Support MFA If you have no idea how to dress and want a simple basic wardrobe guide / shopping list to get started, this post is for you. Alternatively, for those of you who want to start traversing beyond the basics, I've included some baby steps that are perfectly safe to incorporate in almost any beginner's wardrobe, but offer a little bit more interest and creativity than the most basic of the basic.

Perhaps the easiest entry into film criticism (or any art critique) is to question what the film is “about” beyond its surface-level characteristics. “Unpacking,” as my English teachers would say. And let’s be honest, it’s pretty easy to unpack sports movies. Because if a sports movie isn’t “about” something beyond the sport it’s showcasing then it’s just…the sport itself. You’re just watching the games and matches at that point, or something like Hard Knocks at best.