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The Weekly Readlines Februrary 9
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use every Wednesday morning. Browse the archives here. And coming this spring: an audio edition of the Readlines!
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 70 years on the throne!
Mike Pence said Trump was wrong to claim the VP can overturn an election (cue vicious attacks). And the national Republican Party declared beating Capitol police with flag poles and smearing excrement on the Senate walls is ‘legitimate political discourse.’ What a world!
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Restaurant Review: 5 Unbeatable Yums at Ferry + Main (New Hope, PA)
By Mark McNease
Shared from LGBTSr.com. Restaurant reviews are based on a 5 Yum scale, 5 meaning put it on your must list, 1 meaning eat at your peril.Ferry + Main
10 W. Ferry Street
New Hope, PA 18939
Website: www.loganinn.com/
Tel: (215) 862-2300
Spend Meter: $$$$
Yums: 5+ (food and service)Some food is so good it’s criminal, and that’s what you’ll be treated to at Ferry + Main, the restaurant inside New Hope’s renovated Logan Inn. The Inn was undergoing upgrades for several years as it was transformed from a well-known local inn to a luxury establishment where everything is meant to impress, and does. The decor, the staff, the atmosphere, and, yes, the prices: the Logan Inn is one of those places where you get what you pay for, in the best ways.
The restaurant is all wood and brick, with arched ceilings and a large working fireplace in one of the two main seating areas. The first time we went there, for Thanksgiving, the place was packed and we were seated in a raised area away from the thick of things. That was better for us, since the acoustics in this restaurant amplify the noise. There’s nothing to absorb sound, so if you’re seated near the kitchen and fireplace, be prepared for the echo of voices bouncing off the ceiling and walls. There’s also a popular bar in the space, which adds to the volume as well as to the ambience. Is that a criticism? Not really. Having lived in New York City for twenty-five years, I’m familiar with loud restaurants. But if they’re offering tables away from the main activity, take one.
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The Weekly Readlines February 2
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) offers news you can use every Wednesday morning. Browse the archives here.
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES First the good news: Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement. President Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, while conservatives began their smear campaign and accusations of quota-filling (having apparently never heard of Thurgood Marshall’s replacement).
Texas indulged its inner fire starter and began pulling LGBTQ and race-related book titles from school shelves in record numbers. Florida, neck-and-neck in the race to erase, readied a bill to prohibit schools and private corporations from telling White snowflakes that they may not be the most special people ever. So discomforting!
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Release Day Has Arrived! Love is a Mystery 11 Times Over in New Anthology, ‘Cupid Shot Me: Valentine Tales of Love, Mystery & Suspense’
Nothing says ‘I love you’ quite like murder! Prepare for a bloody Valentine’s Day with a heart stopping new collection of LGBTQ mysteries, thrillers and suspense short stories – mine included! With an introduction by iconic gay mystery author Michael Nava, and including eleven top-notch short stories from some of the best writers in the genre, ‘Cupid Shot Me: Valentine Tales of Love, Mystery & Suspense’ will keep you on the edge of your seat with each journey into love and homicide. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON and at select locations listed below.
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On Dreamshaping: An Inside Job
Mark McNease
It’s not the thing the emotion attaches to, it’s the emotion.
It’s not the person or event the anger attaches to, it’s the anger.
It’s not the thoughts around which the confusion swirls, it’s the confusion itself.When I’m consumed by an emotion, even something as simple as anger aimed at another driver on the road, it’s the emotion that generates my state of mind, not the other driver. So many people have a need be angry, or even enraged, without ever comprehending that the object of their rage is not the issue: it is the rage, and the need for it, that lies at the heart of the experience.
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The Twist Podcast #182: Florida Goes Dark, Subreddit Foot Longs, M is for Malaise, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we consider Florida’s MAGA remake, hang out with the Reddit trolls, express the general malaise settling across the land, and offer up our weekly Twist Tops, headlines and listicles.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2021 MadeMark Publishing
Join Mark’s email list for updates, podcasts, giveaways, and his monthly newsletter! Reach us at: TheTwist @ TheTwistPodcast.com
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Love is a Mystery 11 Times Over in New Anthology, ‘Cupid Shot Me: Valentine Tales of Love, Mystery & Suspense’
What better way to start the new year than with a thrilling new collection of LGBTQ mysteries, thrillers and suspense short stories – mine included! With an introduction by iconic gay mystery author Michael Nava, and including eleven top-notch short stories from some of the best writers in the genre, ‘Cupid Shot Me: Valentine Tales of Love, Mystery & Suspense’ will keep you on the edge of your seat with each journey into love and murder. NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER.
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The Twist Podcast #181: Facials Recognition, the Kindness of Strangers, Best New Laws of 2022, and More!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we stay positive in the new year. Suggested remedies for our national malaise include facials and guy-pampering, seeing the good in evil people, celebrating the best new laws of the land, and expensive vacations no one we know can afford.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2021 MadeMark Publishing
Join Mark’s email list for updates, podcasts, giveaways, and his monthly newsletter! Reach us at: TheTwist @ TheTwistPodcast.com
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The Twist Podcast #180: Party Like It’s 2022! Headlines, Shoutouts, Sound Effects and More!
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our first show of the new year, also known as The Year Of Our Pandemic 2022. Will it ever end? How much do we care? Find out as we talk about the best, the worst, and our Big Boo picks for the Boo Year! But seriously, life is short. Join us while we have a blast off into January and beyond.
Have your own Twist Top recommendation to share? Email us at Tops @ TheTwistPodcast.com and we’ll include it on the show!
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2021 MadeMark Publishing
Join Mark’s email list for updates, podcasts, giveaways, and his monthly newsletter! Reach us at: TheTwist @ TheTwistPodcast.com
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A Subscriber Starts My Year Off Right!
I don’t often get responses to my subscriber emails, unless you consider unsubscribing a response, so this one made my day:
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One Thing or Another: Out With the New
By Mark McNease
It’s always One Thing or Another… a lighthearted look at aging, life, and the absurdities of it all.
As another year begins and we make promises to ourselves, if not outright resolutions, why not stop and consider the changes we don’t want to make? The things about our lives that we’re pleased to have in them: events, people, situations, even qualities about ourselves we would not change. I quite like most of my life, and while I want to lose some serious poundage for health and vanity, I can’t say there are many other things I would change about it.
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Being Well: Living with Sleep Apnea (and that CPAP Machine)
Being Well is a regular feature at LGBTSr highlighting health and wellness.
Editor’s note: This first appeared here at LGBTSr in March, 2020. I’ve been using a CPAP machine for almost four years now and thought it was a good time to revisit that topic. Many people benefit from them and lives can be saved. – Mark
A few years ago I began regularly waking up with headaches. I’m also a loud snorer, as my husband reminded me several times a night with nudges to turn on my side or just wake up long enough to stop. Headaches and snoring … something was probably going on. I made an appointment with a sleep specialist and did a home test for sleep apnea. It recorded 25+ “events” per hour. An event is when the person stops breathing due to sleep apnea. It can lead to multiple health issues, with headaches and snoring being two of the most obvious.
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EVENTS: Authors Mark McNease and Philip William Stover in Conversation at the Frenchtown Bookshop (February 4)
Save the date! I’ll be joining fellow author Philip William Stover for a reading and conversation about our books at the Frenchtown Bookshop on Friday, February 4. I’ll be talking about my newest release, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery, as well as the series and creating gay central characters.
Philip will be reading and discussing his romances The Hideaway Inn and The Beautiful Things Shop, set in New Hope, PA, just across the river from Lambertville, NJ, where most of my characters mysteriously moved when Frank and I relocated to nearby Kingwood.
Place: The Frenchtown Bookshop
Date: Friday, February 4
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Address: 28 Bridge Street, Frenchtown NJ
Phone: 908-628-9297