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When our baby was turning five months old, my husband and I toured local daycares. I remember going to one larger facility that was highly recommended: against one wall was a row of uniform, bolted-down highchairs, and against the other wall were pack-and-plays lined up in front of a big-screen TV. The woman running the place gave us a spiel about routines and regimens and handed me the book On Becoming Babywise and said she’d prefer if my baby was on this schedule before she started at the center.

One of the great tropes of all time is “high school is a hellscape.” There’s a spectrum that starts with Lord of the Flies and Heathers on one end and every single high school comedy movie on the other end, but the basic takeaway is simple: High school is a Nietzschean horror show where “cool” kids torment “nerds” with cruel impunity while various other groups—the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads, freshmen, ROTC Guys, preps, JV jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly Black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burnouts, sexually active band geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet, and the Plastics—look on with soulless disinterest.

Today’s newsletter concerns a party of two — me and my boyfriend, Matt. Last week I visited Matt in our nation’s capital, where he goes to school. I’ve spent a good chunk of time in DC over the past few years, and I’m starting to finally (sort of) get an idea of the city’s geography — right before he’s about to graduate. Thanks, Matt. Jokes aside, I love DC! It’s just the right amount of quirky and stuffy — my favorite and essential qualities of an East Coast city — and there’s a lot to do.

Folks, I need you to know something, and I need you to know it today. DC went and did a thing pretty close to what I’ve been advocating for, and anchored an anthology book with something insane. The company is somewhat quietly dropping a Batman/Joker Year One story from Tom King and Mitch Gerads in the launch issue of Batman: Brave and the Bold. The title is on Final Order Cut-Off today, and I don’t think enough retailers are talking about what this book contains.

Durante esta carta encontrarás varios (EE) Ejercicios de Escritura para reflexionar sobre diferentes temas. Te recomiendo leer la carta de manera fluida y en algún momento del día tomarte el tiempo de responder estas preguntas. Nos conocemos al nivel de las preguntas que nos hacemos. Como conocerías a alguien que se está sentando frente a ti por primera vez, a través de las curiosidades que te saltan y las preguntas que le formulas.

I went to Cádiz, the oldest city in western Europe, to track down Flor de Garum, a version of the ancient fish sauce recreated by archaeologists and food technicians at the local university. I booked some meetings with local chefs who were using garum in their cooking, among them Mauro Barreiro, of La Curiosidad de Mauro. But first I decided to get to k… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtMHPqZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8OeZKCto6m2o8HSnqtmpqWjsG6x0q1km6GSmrulwcw%3D

Y furioso, el jibarito va, pensando así, mirando así, matando así por el camino… El western y el chambara, dos géneros con una rica tradición fílmica a lo largo de toda la existencia del medio, han estado casados en la pantalla grande desde que el director estadounidense John Ford inspiró al japonés Akira Kurosawa, este a su vez capturó la atención del italiano Sergio Leone, y entre todos desataron una reacción en cadena que influyó a una legión de cineastas.

These are some big realizations that have come after years of me & folks in my life trying to figure out what we NEED to make life WORTH living. What are the things that will make us want to wake up every morning? What will make us WANT to be ALIVE instead of just “get by” each day? What will make us WANT to move thru the pain or grief just so we could also experience joy?

As promised, Walt Disney and 20th Century Studios dropped the second Deadpool & Wolverine trailer this morning. And since it’s likely timed to play with the R-rated romantic drama Challengers, it’s a red band offering whose main highlight is watching Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine/Logan repeatedly say the “f-word.” If the whole pitch is merely the notion of our Deadpool hanging out with a random alt-world Wolverine, the question becomes A) how much is that worth?