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Learn The Hemingway Method: Cut The Shit, Keep The Truth.

Rachelle Van Waardhuizen, Goodyear Blimp, homemade BBQ sauce, The Doors and more.

 

Learn The Hemingway Method: Cut The Shit, Keep The Truth.

Hemingway didn’t arrive in a college syllabus or under the glow of a dorm-room desk lamp—he showed up like a ghost at the edge of the desert, when the noise dies and all that’s left is breath and grit. What stuck wasn’t the war stories or the barroom bravado, but the brutal elegance of restraint—cutting prose down to bone and trusting silence to say the rest. This is a love letter to the kind of writing (and living) that dares to leave things out, knowing that what’s unsaid might just hit hardest.

Want A Stronger Back? This Overlooked Row Is A Powerlifter’s Secret Weapon.

Think your barbell rows are tough? Cute. If you’re gunning for a back so wide it needs its own zip code, it’s time to make room for the Kroc row—the brawny, no-nonsense cousin of your usual upper-body lifts. Born from the iron-willed grit of pro powerlifter Janae Marie Kroczaleski (who basically curled small anvils for fun), this savage move turns your lats into wings and your forearms into tree trunks. Bring chalk. And maybe a will.

19 Vintage Goodyear Blimp Photos On Its 100th Anniversary.

Before drones, before GoPros strapped to eagles, there was the Goodyear blimp—our original floating paparazzo. Born in 1925 from a Navy contract and cobbled together in a Chicago amusement park (because nothing says “military grade” like bumper cars), it soon became the sky’s most recognizable slow-moving celebrity. Over the decades, it’s delivered live TV from the clouds, helped first responders during earthquakes, and hovered dutifully above America’s biggest events. Now, at 100 years old, it's still cruising the skies of Ohio like a retiree with a purpose—and a really, really long extension cord.

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