Alex Burns

Admitting that the motivation behind losing weight is to look better first and that health is a secondary concern feels in part like betraying a sacred liberal feminist covenant that insists we must love ourselves the way we are.

Look, my commonplace book is easily justified. I write and speak about things for a living. I need this resource. But so do you. You write papers, memos, emails, notes to friends, birthday cards, give advice, have conversations at dinner, console loved ones, tell someone special how you feel about them. All these are opportunities to use the wisdom... See more

The company, which declined to say how much it is spending on the Grinch campaign, now plans to apply the tried-and-tested Hollywood concept of intellectual property to more podcasts, prioritizing ideas that might expand into books, TV series, live events and other podcasts, Blake said. It needs multipronged marketing campaigns to generate enough i... See more

“I don’t know — can NiJa be the Caitlin Clark of softball? I kind of believe she can.”

Anchovies, smoked trout, and the like may be the “ultimate,” according to Goldfarb, but they aren’t the only “hot girl food.” Per references on TikTok, the category includes pickles and McNuggets, but simultaneously acai smoothie bowls and avocado toast; it’s pictures of spaghetti bolognese, or of penne in vodka sauce, or of sushi, set to audio of ... See more

a cooperative is an ownership structure , not a business plan. You need to have BOTH to run a successful business. And the business of podcasting is hard . There are only so many ways to make money: advertising, membership/subscription, and sponsorship/branded content.

John Updike line, “Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”

When Mark Walter, the owner of the Dodgers and the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, met with two-way star Shohei Ohtani this past winter, he attempted to sell a vision based on these conflicting truths, the immense pride and deep frustration within his franchise. The Dodgers had become a colossus since Walter’s group took over in 201... See more