Turns out the key to making pineapple on pizza tolerable is to make the pizza a square. Who knew? Detroit knew.

This week: apartment hunting on Sesame Street, recycled John Mulaney bits, and a couple of creative professionals talk extensively about the new Mac Studio. 🍎.

Links:

• Watch John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid | Netflix Official Site

Hypothesis: more people can locate Bolivia on an unlabeled map than can tell Bobby Flay and Tyler Florence apart.

This week: unlit cigars, unwatched Olympic games, and unverified Apple rumors. 🥇.

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• Miller & Lux

For a limited time, check under the lid of select gallons of Magnolia Home paint for your chance to win a free year of Discovery+!

This week: cafeteria food, Mac rumblings, and good news coming out of New Mexico. 🌵

Links:

• Archive.org - Pepsi and Apple Partnership

“So Tim, it says you’re getting an A in Macs but in Services, the teacher wrote “is greedy and anticompetitive, at risk of being held back.“

This week: morning CEO habits, twenty seven percent, and Ryan demands to see figure skating in no less than IMAX resolution. 🔭 .

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• Hikes, horseback rides and Peloton: Can a new slate of ‘wellness’ wine tastings lure Millennials?

The 5. The Safeway. The Batman. Sure, why not?

This week: coin flips, fast casual Nashville tendies, and a reverse mortgage for your Google Calendar. 📆

Links:

• We Need to Talk About Covid, Part 1 - The New York Times

Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, but this time Edna is a gingerbread mug cookie.*

This week: dark patterns in the snack aisle, the exposure triangle of cocktails, and taste testing the Animal Crossing game cartridge. 📷.

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• 13th Annual Customer Choice Awards Winners

Some folks are worried that 1Password, our north-of-the-border password manager friends, just raised a huge round and might be abandoning their everyday users. We disagree. Their history of sustainable growth and most notably, having rebuffed a hostile takeover bid Bublé/Drake Partners in 2017, speaks volumes.

This week: gin and juice, sick Beats, and Microsoft’s M&A bet on Call Of Duty 3.11 for Workgroups being the cornerstone of its subscription gaming ambitions. 🍸.

Links:

• TAMARIND-LIME-CHILE DE ARBOL – MUDDLE & WILDE

With this week’s news that The New York Times intends to acquire The Athletic in an all cash deal, the sports site has rapidly begun to beef up their laundromat beat coverage. Turns out Scott P. in Brooklyn is shooting 98% from the line and can’t stop won’t stop.**

This week: East Bay pretzels, Elon goes to the DMV, and The Lakers land a brand partnership with Donkey Diesel. 🐐.

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• What "Milder" Omicron Means for the Pandemic - Fifth & Mission

Clearly, George Clooney’s best role was that time in Ocean’s Fifteen when he robs the Bellagio by turning all the chips into worthless NFTs of tequila bottles. Wait, no that’s not fiction. All NFTs are BS. Like pogs, but digital.

This week: Keanu left his heart in San Fran, celebrity booze, and Amazon breaching the trust of the local area network. 💻.

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• Simulatte

They say good things come in threes — what about three hundreds?

This week: Chipotlanes at the Silos, Peloton Wrapped, and a brief look back with a nod to the future. 💯💯💯.

Links:

• Goodbye Staples Center, Crypto.com Arena signage is up | KTLA