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I’m really proud of the two chapter on the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, which celebrates its 50th anniversary today. The book is off to a great start. You’re gonna want it, and if so doing it this week is really helpful to the author - me! You can buy it anywhere books are sold, including Amazon, of course. Signed copies are available via Words or The Big House Museum. Words copies can be personalized.

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done one of these. Please go ahead and ask me any question you like—about the political, intellectual, and cultural themes and topics of all three newsletters; personal/biographical queries; music, film, literature; etc.. Make sure to post your question to the comment thread on this post (below) by Wednesday at 12… ncG1vNJzZmickaK8r7jIp6Keql6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6aZJyZnKF6p7vRZqiunaOptrC60qOsp51dZ31zfw%3D%3D

When I was in junior-high and high-school in the 1980s in Oneida, New York, a half-mile stretch of Route 5 on Genesee Street was dubbed “The Strip,” and it’s where I spent countless weekend nights hanging out and, once I got my driver’s license, “cruising” the main drag with my friends. (I lucked out to have two other good friends named Brad and we may have been known as, or called ourselves, “The Brad Pack”).

November 26, 1922: The birthdate of Charles Monroe Schulz, creator and cartoonist, known for imagining and building a world of “Li’l Folks” that was later called Peanuts (rolling his eyes and groaning “Good grief” was his likely response), and a career, as well as a warm and welcoming universe, was born. When Schulz died, at age 77, in February 2000, I admit I cried a bit. No heavy heaves or sobbing, but a tear or two for the man who not only brought me joy as a child, but also showed me how to express child-like feelings on paper, as an adult, without being cloying, condescending, or trivial.

“And then there were three,” Carrie says in a voiceover mid-way through Season 3 of Sex and the City. She’s walking along Park Avenue with Miranda and Samantha, having just left Charlotte’s engagement party (“I’m worth a million,” Charlotte famously tells her future mother-in-law, Bunny MacDougal). I rewatched the episode recently and dreamt of a next chapter of the series that followed these three instead of recycling storylines around kegels, Spanx and getting high.

It’s illustrative of our present-day popular attitudes toward Christian values that while the reverent and often mystical Bible illustrations by James Tissot languish in the archives of the Brooklyn Museum, an ugly painting that many consider blasphemous, titled “The Holy Virgin Mary,” was featured in the Brooklyn Museum’s 1999 exhibition of a traveling show of the work of Young British Artists, titled “Sensation.” The painting depicts an African woman partly draped in blue with a hint of a blue veil — with one distorted eye larger than the other and suggestively shaped red lips, one exposed breast made of elephant dung, and collaged “angels"

In the complex world of taxation, there exists a section of the IRS Tax Code that has stood the test of time and played a crucial role in shaping the financial landscape of the United States. This section, known as 12 USC 531, is a cornerstone of the Internal Revenue Code, and its history and current status are worth exploring. A Glimpse into the Past 12 … ncG1vNJzZmido5zCr7XVnqmsoaSue7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWKyt7vLrquip55ivKd5kGtkrquTYoJ0fYyaZJykn6iysw%3D%3D

I’ve been wanting to write this article for a long time.  I’ve written a lot of articles about the individual components of fat loss, but what follows is a complete step by step guide to fat loss for people at (nearly) any level, from morbidly obese to almost competition shredded.  It’s broken down into sections based on your current level of body fat, plus a “start here” section.  So there’s a chapter for going from extremely obese to obese, one for going from obese to merely overweight, etc.

Image Description: A black & white photograph of a large American bison, standing on a wintry hillside, eyes closed. The bison has two curved horns and a dark, lustrous coat. The caption reads: The King of the Corbin Herd. End of description.by August LongpréWe are deep in the woods and newly fallen snow crunches as it compacts beneath my snowshoes. Ahead of me goes my friend and ahead of both of us has gone a pair of coyotes whose tracks lead us most of the way to our destination.