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Makin' Bacon
I'm making bacon for a holiday craft and I'm using The Bacon Method. 1. Line a pan with bacon. 2. Place pans on the middle rack of a cold oven. Check to make sure your assistant is ready to help with any spills. 3. Set the
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RuPaul Giamatti on Instagram: “@pattonoswalt made a tweet that showed Trump’s handwritten notes and the caption was simply “Morrissey voice:”. Needless to say, I got…”
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It's that time of year when the weather report changes daily. Warm the rest of the week, no wait snow, now it's going to rain, high of 65?
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The show’s been in rehearsal since late September. Auditions were held and everyone who turned out made the cut. The cast consists of 60 students who range from kindergarten to 7th grade. And they bought in. At the dress rehearsal, every song was full-throated. After a number called
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I started playing Death Stranding last night, which is actually my first Kojima game. My initial impression is really positive, though I'm only an hour into it and just starting the actual gameplay. It feels like playing a high-quality live-action remake of a Japanese anime.
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I like the word "expectorate" because it sounds like what it does. I once had an English prof go off on a riff about how his two favorite words were "furrow" and "burrow" for the same reason.
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A Warm Place in the Sun
Last weekend, my mother came to Des Moines to visit us, and on Sunday, we decided to go to the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden to wander around a bit, and then have lunch at Trellis, the cafe in the Garden that overlooks the river. Every winter, Kate tries to
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It’s amazing what America finds room to forgive and what it has no room for. N-word-gate was not Paula’s first controversy. In 2012, she had visited the Today show to announce that she had been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes and had been knowingly living with
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Man, the USPS tracking website is pretty useless. “Your package is late. We don't know when it’ll be there.” Thanks, guys!
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At the end of the day, our job as artists is to tell the truth as we see it. If telling the truth is an inherently political act, so be it. Times may change and politics may change, but if we do our best to tell the truth as specifically
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A 7-year-old’s vivid imagination and kind heart have created a new holiday called Wolfenoot, and the thousands of people around the world who’ll celebrate it Nov. 23 will donate to dog- and wolf-related charities, including one in Indiana. -- Wolfenoot, a 7-year-old's
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Disney+ Version of Star Wars: A New Hope Alters Greedo Scene Yet Again Those of us who were there in the beginning know the truth — not only did Han shoot first, but poor Greedo never got a shot off. And this was important. It established Han as sneaky and underhanded,