As both a solo artist and the lead singer of Spin Doctors, Chris Barron has been making rock music for over 30 years. The Spin Doctors’ biggest hits still get played all the time, and if you dig deeper into their catalog, you’ll find excellent songs like “You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast,” a jaunty reflection on doomed love that reached #8 on Billboard’s rock radio chart in 1994. Recently, Chris sat with me in a Manhattan coffee shop to talk about writing that particular tune.
Chris Woakes: The unhappy tourist
2024-12-04
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Chris Woakes started West Indies' chase by delivering the first ball down the legside. A brand new Dukes ball was in his hand, and he was going up against one of the world's most frail batting lineups. And he started with a gimme. In the second over, he bowled another. CricViz said he bowled ten in his first eleven overs in the first innings. It's a lot of legside rubbish from someone this accurate.
Every time I go to Six Flags Great America, I look for the American Eagle. You can’t miss it. It’s 4,650 feet long, and the red and blue trains climb up 127 feet on a lift hill. For some maniacal reason, I always want to get on the front of every roller coaster ride, including this one.
But it never fails. Every single time the Six Flags employees wave me over to hop in a roller coaster seat, I always think the same thing: “Why am I getting on this ride?
I wholeheartedly endorse Christian Ziegler. He is a pro-life, pro-family and strong social conservative.
— John Stemberger, leader of the forced birth movement in Florida, endorsing Christian Ziegler for chair of Florida GOP in 2022. He shouldn’t quietly change his mind now. See my recent civil discussion or privacy and forced birth with Stemberger here.
Christian Ziegler is the chairman of the Republican Party in Florida. And he is the type of person who does the following, according to official police documents and public reporting:
Christians against Christian Nationalism
2024-12-04
Yesterday was one of those days where it was difficult to keep up with the news. We had a new Speaker of the House elected (I’ll have something on that tomorrow in Politico), there was another devastating mass shooting, and in between, congressional testimony on the threat of Christian nationalism.
Catching up this morning, I watched some of the footage from the House subcommittee and wanted to share some highlights here.
Christina Buttons | Substack
2024-12-04
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By Christina Buttons
I am a liberal, science-oriented, independent journalist who primarily reports on news and research related to "gender medicine." My other writing interests include pseudoscience, mental health, autism, and "Social Justice" ideology.
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Christmas Blondies! - by Winnie
2024-12-04
INGREDIENTS:
2 eggs
1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup oil
1 1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup holidays m&ms
1/3 cup holiday sprinkles
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat your oven to 375F. Then mix together the eggs and sugar. Make sure to whisk them together really well, until the sugar is fully dissolved and the eggs turn a light pale color, about 5-10 minutes. This will create sort of a meringue that will help form a crackly top on the blondie!
Cinco Puntos by Letibop | Substack
2024-12-04
¡Bienvenido a Cinco Puntos! Cinco historias publicadas el día cinco y que no te roban más de cinco minutos. O sí. Canciones. Personajes. Lecturas. Exposiciones. Pelis. Museos. Series. Gastronomía. Podcasts. Mis movidas. ¡Espero que disfrutes! Over 2,000 subscribers
No, gracias.“Cada mes, 5 puntos maravillosos”
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City Guide: Red Hook, Brooklyn
2024-12-04
Welcome to City Guides, featuring personal recommendations for my favorite neighborhood spots for drinking and eating around New York City and beyond. City Guides is a Friday paid-subscriber exclusive, but today’s inaugural dispatch is free to all readers.
Like Succession’s Kendall Roy, I, too, possess a somewhat melancholic attraction to bodies of water. For over a decade I’ve lived close to the Brooklyn waterfront and often walk up to the Promenade or down the block to the end of Pier 6 and post up on a bench, ostensibly to think.