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It’s not just the taxi depot itself that makes me like this location so much, though that is part of it. The building is a network of framing devices and visual textures: windows, loading docks, garage doors, entryways; all surrounded by structures of weathered cinder blocks, brick, wood, and sun-beaten asphalt. I also love the taxi depot, though, because of everything that surrounds it: the rutted dirt back lots, adjacent neighborhoods; the way nature, domesticity, and commerce abut, overlap, and fold into one other.

Hi! Happy July! I hope that your summer thus far has been filled with sunny days, good books, and lots of lake/beach/pool days. And ice cream. A lot of ice cream. We’re continuing right along in our cooked custard saga with crème anglaise. It’s a silky, smooth custard that is used for many things—most importantly as our beloved ice cream base. This month, you’ll find a recipe for basic vanilla bean anglaise sauce (at the end of this newsletter) plus there are two brand new ice cream recipes coming your way in the next few weeks.

I chose this month’s deep dive topic based on one specific recipe that I wanted to create and share with you. Sometime over the summer, I was in Whole Foods wandering through the bakery section and saw a slice of tres leche. I began brainstorming some fall tres leche flavor combinations and decided that I was going to create a cozy tres leche recipe to share with you this month. But in order to do that, we first need to deep dive into sponge cakes.

The Glucose Goddess is Jessie Inchauspé, a biochemist and social media influencer who uses her platform to promote strategies for managing blood sugar levels. Her books, "Glucose Revolution" and "The Glucose Goddess Method" have become bestsellers. While she holds a master's degree in biochemistry, her content's scientific merit is debatable. Now, she's delving into supplements, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest and the exploitation of health trends for personal gain.

NFL teams have a huge arsenal of concepts, formations, packages, and various other schemes. This article is going to introduce a fictional example of what a formation system in an NFL playbook may look like, and demonstrate how an NFL might structure their formation calls. This will not cover personnel packages, shifts, or motions. The primary influence for this article is Kyle Shanahan’s system. For this article, skill players will be given letters which are as follows:

CAUTION: This piece contains major spoilers for “Duet” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Justice is a slippery concept. Everyone has an intuitive notion of what it means -- something about fairness and people getting what they deserve, for good or for ill. But the bigger the crime, the more people involved, the more victims left in its wake, the harder it becomes to figure out what a grand idea like “justice” means in any given moment.

Look, if it were up to me today’s newsletter would be about Cosmic Psycho tribute bands with mullets and cheap beer habits. But, as the Eric Stoltz bartender character in Noah Baumbach’s 1995 college town ennui-comedy Kicking and Screamingsays, “How do you make god laugh? Make a plan.”  It me, God’s amusement.  Share I don’t need to write about last week’s online indie rock mini controversy. By the time of this writing, even the people who thought they cared have moved on.

Welcome back to the SORT OF FUNNY FIELD GUIDES email, where we’ve been on a learning-about-deer kick. If you missed Part 1, we learned about some of the white-tailed deer’s super senses, including its panoramic vision and muscley ears. Part 2 was dedicated to the deer’s sniffer, as well as the invisible ink that is deer urine. And now, in Part 3, we’re going to talk about one of the very first Disney movies to do the whole watch-a-parent-die thing that for some weird reason has become a kids-movie staple.

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be in attendance at this year's Defense Ventures Summit, a groundbreaking convergence of visionaries, investors, and tech pioneers at the forefront of defense technology. The Summit will be held in Navy Yard in Washington D.C. later this week and represents the most important event for founders, operators, investors, military acquisitions types, and policy makers interested in building for defense! Unlocking the Future: The Defense Ventures Summit stands as a beacon, uniting the US Military, allies, seasoned investors, and ingenious founders driving the pulse of emerging technology.