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You’re reading Hung Up, the newsletter from Hunter Harris. This is The Tuesday Post, a weekly essay or interview or deep dive. If you like this kind of thing, you can subscribe here.Here is what happens in Closer: The forlorn photographer Anna (Julia Roberts) is dating… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89on56knKR6tMDRmqWgnaI%3D

Audio Autopsy, 21st Century: Bluegrass King of the Hill, Grammy-Winner Billy Strings, 30 Pop Cultural Anachronism At first glance, you’d think a bashful “aw shucks” is all you might get out of hi… Read more a year ago · 7 likes · 26 comments · Brad Kyle Three days after Christmas, 2009, an ad was placed on UMGF.com, the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum. Billy Strings (born William Apostol) had just turned 17 not two months before.

I usually do not weigh in directly in the Comments, but my inbox is filled this morning with worried emails about Judge Cannon delaying the trial until after the election. That is very likely to happen. Any defense team worth its salt can file enough pretrial motions and interlocutory appeals to delay a criminal trial for sixteen months (the two-month minimum required, plus sixteen months to get to November), so Cannon need not give Trump an unfair assist to delay the trial beyond November 2024.

“Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I’ll tell everybody in the world that you are the only thing that matters.” This was the desperate prayer of an embattled soldier in one of Ernest Hemingway’s many short stories on war. But as this soldier’s desperation subsides, his religious fervor does as well.

By Anastasia Platonova, Sergey Goryashko. Crocus City Hall is one of the biggest concert venues in Moscow. It can accommodate up to 6,200 people. It was sold out on Friday evening, packed with thousands of people who had come to listen to the Soviet-era band ‘Picnic’. Just before the music was due to start, unknown attackers stormed the concert hall, opening fire with automatic weapons. Official figures put the number killed at 115 (at the time of publishing this blog), the number of victims most likely to grow.

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Do you hate talking about yourself? Yea…me too. I really don’t like re-introducing myself and seemingly proving my worth every time I’m on a call or Zoom with someone new, and so I’ve developed a workaround. Before meeting with someone for the first time, I send them an email with the subject line: “In Advance of Our Call…” This email saves me 5-10 minutes with every initial interaction, and if I average between 3 and 5 calls per day with someone “new” to my network, then I’m saving about 30 minutes by sending these emails in advance of meetings.

You can stretch right up and touch the sky The time it took to write one of the best selling singles in history could be measured by the minute hand of a wristwatch. Ray Dorset was, in fact, taking a break from his day job at a lab for Timex when he wrote “In The Summertime” in about 10 minutes, banging away on a second hand Stratocaster. His band didn’t even have its name at the time.

If you’re like me, you probably grew up understanding “Iron Sharpens Iron” as a positive expression. You were told that you should have a friend or partner or colleague to “sharpen” you, someone who had similar goals, interests, or gumption to spur each other on. You sharpened each other like Michelle and Barack. Miles and Gwen. Frodo and Sam. Like many idioms in the English language, the phrase comes from the book of Proverbs 27:17: Iron sharpens iron,