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Make More Pie
by Make More Pie
Posts on Portland, New York, media, murder, culture - conflict and the fun stuff - and pie, both literal and figurative. Come on in nancyrommelmann.substack.com
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Narrated: On the Death of Presley Gerber and the Rehab Riviera
Audio version of this article, for the 2 hopefully many people who like to listen. Speaking of listening, one of my three tattoos. Attentive readers may wonder if the windows in the background have anything to do with the 100 Windows Project I launched last week. Let’s say, they give a girl…
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Pie Talk #47: “Your Mom’s Red Sauce” Redux
Good morning. Many times in the past few years, including the dark times of 2020, I have thought how easy it is to turn your face to the sun, if you remember it is there and if you choose to. I watched the sunrise just before I recorded this for you. My mother had died two days earlier, there is...
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Waking Up in a Socialist(ist) City
By 7:30 this morning, I had to get out of the house and walk it off, “it” being the Democratic primary wins last night of three Mamdani-backed candidates: Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier (whose full name I did not know in the audio) and Claire Valdez. Chevalier and Valdez are backed by the...
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Max Steele: On Portland's Journey from DIY to DSA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Arkansas-native Max Steele came to Portland in 2005, responding to the city’s siren song of cheap rent and progressive politics and art you could make on the fly. “All the really DIY stuff was going on in...
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James Verini on the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Nancy speaks with war correspondent James Verini, who reported from Ukraine about the devastating 2022 bombing of a theater in Mariupol housing 1500 refugees. James (and photographer Paolo Pellgrin) made…
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Jake Siegel on The Information State
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Jake Siegel talks about his new book The Information State, which explores how government and technology joined forces over the past century to squash dissent. Siegel is an editor at Tablet, an original...
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Video: Musings of the Night Nurse [5]: The Fall
Hello readers/viewers, and for those in the eastern half of the United States, thank you for checking in between trips to the supermarket to stock up for the coming Snowpocalypse. It is yet to be seen whether this one will one hit big or be another predicted “storm of the millennium!” that isn’t,...
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Narrated: Musings of the Night Nurse [3]: The Accountants
Narrating “Musings of the Night Nurse” pieces the day-after they run. Is this photo of my mom with Elton John that fell out of a book I was putting away meant to snap your neck? It is. A clip from yesterday’s piece, “The Accountants”: What you do not know when taking over the affairs of a loved…
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Narrated: Musings of the Night Nurse: The Wanderings
Narrating “Musings of the Night Nurse” pieces the day-after they run. The opening of yesterday’s “The Wanderings”: “A weird thing happened to me today,” your mother tells you over the phone, and goes on to explain how she got up that morning, got dressed and, as she had just about every morning...
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Narrated: Musings of the Night Nurse
Taking a page from my pal Ethan Strauss over at House of Strauss and narrating published pieces the day-after they run. Yesterday’s article is here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Chelly Boufferache on Right-Wing Propagandists, Left-Wing TryHards, and the Serial Abuse of the Protest Narrative
Remember 2020, when the narrative about the George Floyd/BLM protests became so much Silly Putty in the hands of the media, don’t believe your lyin’ eyes and all that? Chelly Boufferache, known on social media as Hunnybadgermom, remembers it well, both as a longtime Portland resident distressed…
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One (Portland/Antifa/Hollywood) Battle After Another.
This week, and I suspect the weeks to come, will be all about what’s unrolling in Portland: the possibility of Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, the debate about whether Portland is bleeding out or trying to recover, and whether yesterday’s Emergency Naked Bike Riders are anarchists in clever...
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Portland Debrief #4: How Did We Get Here?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Hey everybody. I have a few minutes before I book down to ICE, where the scene looks a little hotter today than it’s been in previous days. After the break*, a report on what happened yesterday in court,...
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Portland Debrief, Day #2
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Not a bad picture from, if I do say - and not a trick one: The attendance outside of the Portland Immigration and Detention Center last night was sparse, maybe 30 active protesters, the same number of...
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Portland Debrief, Day #1
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Reporting schedule willing, I’ll post a video or interview each day I am here… Did I write type those words yesterday morning? I did. And then got preposterously swamped. I’ll be posting Portland Debrief…
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Our 21st-Century Religious Wars and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Short-and-sweet show notes today, friends. Cross-posted at Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em. No paywall on this episode, so feel free to share. Nancy and Sarah discuss the killing of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Talking Points USA. He was a husband and the father of two young children, and he...
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Katie Herzog on Drinking Herself Sober, Being Canceled, and "Getting Free"
Pie people, here’s a portion of the latest episode of Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em, where Blocked and Reported co-host Katie Herzog talks about how she quit drinking. We talk about her cancelation for, imo, writing one of the tenderest features (albeit about detransitioners so, no safe ground), her...
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Live with Nancy Rommelmann
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Live with Nancy Rommelmann
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Live with Nancy Rommelmann
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Live with Nancy Rommelmann
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Live with Nancy Rommelmann
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Live with Nancy Rommelmann
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Drew Holden on President Biden's Decline and the Great Media Cover-Up
If you think journalists sit around talking about the failures of other journalists, you are correct! Perhaps no more than in the past two years, when watching the chattering classes and their publications soft pedal President Biden’s mental and physical decline and/or tell people who grew...
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Don't Tell Nick Flynn You Hate Poetry
I know I promised not to post new stuff, and I’m not, but some of you may enjoy today’s episode of the Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast, which I cohost with Sarah Hepola and which we started to do in video last week. (YouTube channel coming; please subscribe, it’s free!) Nick, poet and author of...
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Let’s talk about sociopaths
Hopefully looking somewhat less bedraggled than during last night’s live muffin tutorial, if on a subject less sweet: sociopaths - the charming ones, the murderous ones - and those with other personality disorders that, based on experience and comments in the scroll, many many of us deal with.…
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Blueberry Bran Muffins
For those who joined the live feed, thank you for hanging out with me. (NB: Not sure why we lost the first three minutes of the video but we got the recipe in there so.) Any questions, fire away. I am good at very few things and baking is one of them. No questions too silly! For those who did not...
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Paying a Heavy Cost for Going after a Tax Cheat Named Hunter Biden
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King Donald Does Decree That Ye Shall Suffer
How are you feeling on this fine Saturday morning? I’m apparently so turned around by how liberated I’ve been this week that I forgot, in the audio, that the markets are not open today. Be thankful for small favors. But man, what a week: the biggest two-day market drop ever, an estimated loss of...
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191. Donald McNeil Jr. on his Ouster from the NYT, Bad Science, and Lab Leak Theory
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Donald McNeil Jr., a 45-year New York Times veteran, comes on the pod to talk with Nancy and Sarah about … so much. The prompt was the recent NYT story, “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed…
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CHEFS TALK: Michael Cummings of Victoria! Bar NYC
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Mike Cummings spent much of the pandemic drinking beer with his friends on church steps in the East Village. It’s not that he didn’t like bars, he loved them, including St. Dymphna’s, where he’d bartended…
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CHEFS TALK: Anthony Falco, International Pizza Consultant
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Anthony Falco is an international pizza consultant, which to me sounds more like teen boy’s fantasy than an actual gig... “I mean, I made the job up, but it is very real,” says Falco. “I've worked in 22...
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CHEFS TALK: Jeff Miller of Rosella and Bar Miller
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Kicking off CHEFS TALK with Jeff Miller, owner of the sushi bar Rosella, and Bar Miller, an eight-seat omakase restaurant that received a Michelin star in December. How does that change one’s fortunes? “It...
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Noah Rothman on "How the Left Has Come to Excuse Away and Embrace Political Violence"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Reading Noah Rothman’s new piece in Commentary, “A Clockwork Blue: How the Left Has Come to Excuse Away and Embrace Political Violence,” I felt as though he had written it just for me; this, because he…
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Meghan Daum on What We've Lost in the Los Angeles Wildfires
On Tuesday morning, essayist and Unspeakable pod host Meghan Daum snapped a photo of her “Yeti-doodle” outside her home in Altadena, California. “Someone is loving the Santa Ana winds today,” she tweeted. Were the winds a reason to evacuate? Not according to Meghan’s neighbor. “She said, ‘Oh…
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175. A Decade of Insanity May Have Come to a Close. Plus, Using Every Part of the Panda Bear
From Sarah Hepola and me, a little Smoke ‘Em to get you through Christmas Eve xx “The period of left-wing illiberalism that began about a decade ago seems to have drawn to a close. The final cause of death was the reelection of Donald Trump.” That’s the claim of a new article in The Atlantic by...
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Peter Blauner: "It's New York love when they call you a scumbag."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Get two writers who grew up in New York City in the 1970s talking and they don’t stop, or at least Peter Blauner and I don’t stop, in a conversation that ranges from seeing The Cramps at CBGB’s, a crusading...
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Dispatch from Ukraine: "The War of Information is even More Important than the War on the Battlefield"
“[The Russians] always claim to free us and to help us. They free us from our houses, schools, hospitals, from our families, from everything. They want to make us completely free, and maybe even from our bodies.” - Oksana Hutnyk It is the 29th of September, 2024, and I'm going to take us back a…
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Murder Journal: Triple Homicide
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com The story of what happened when I visited with Edith Mitts, the mother of Gregory Cook, who’d murdered three of his meth buddies. A clip: “He walked into the woods with her, and he said he made her take her...
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Murder Journal: Munchausen by Proxy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com People sometimes ask, where do you get ideas for stories? One place that I've gotten ideas is when I read a very small item someplace else, something like, "Man Nails Girlfriend's Fish to Floor" and I'll...
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Michael Powell and the Permeability Between Worlds
One of the super-cool things about being a journalist is that you can contact people whose work amazes you and say, “Come on my podcast!” and they almost always say, “Sure!” As did Michael Powell, one of my favorite journalists working today, currently at The Atlantic and previously at The New…
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The Democrats' COVID America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Pulled into NYC yesterday after two+ weeks on the road, wanting not much more than to sleep 14 hours. Nope! There are pies to be baked - birthday party for this one tomorrow night - and cogitating about the...
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When Is a Tuna Sandwich Not a Tuna Sandwich? (Audio)
A reading of yesterday’s piece on why I find the press reporting on Kamala Harris’s kitchen prowess so corrupt. Look, I hope she can cook! But please, no more tongue baths about a short-lived four-year-old YouTube series where the only thing she makes to completion is a tuna sandwich. Intro/outro...
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GUILTY!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com I was heading out for an appointment at 4:45 when I thought I’d check, for the dozenth time, for updates on the Trump hush money trial, taking place 12 blocks from my house. Well, damn, the jurors had…
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My Podcast Brings All the Boys to the Yard
What do these four men have in common? They’ve all been guests (one in abstentia) on the Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast in the past two weeks. My cohost Sarah Hepola and I spoke with Michael Moynihan, “The Fifth Column" co-host and formerly with Vice, about the new William F. Buckley doc, when...
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131. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Internet
Cross-posted from Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast. Discussed: * First Sunday Zoom * Earthquake. Steve Kornacki. * Eclipse mania * Jennifer Senior wins award, keeps kicking ass * “Harmonica virgins” * Sarah’s new car, picture for paid subscribers only * Lessons of Isuecardealers.com * “The True...
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"I'm Not Afraid to Fight": Jessie Burke on Political Posturing and the Fight to Save Portland, Oregon (updated)
Update: Many of you have written asking that the paywall be taken off this interview. I grant your request.. this time! Upcoming interviews include former Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Deputy DA Nathan Vasquez, who going up against his boss, DA Mike Schmidt. The more paid subscribers we get, the...
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"I'm Not Afraid to Fight": Jessie Burke on Political Posturing and the Fight to Save Portland, Oregon
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nancyrommelmann.substack.com Jessie Burke - former champion fencer, business owner, mother of three, and now-candidate for Multnomah County Commissioner - is one of my favorite Portland people. Courageous, loyal, no-b******t, we’ve...
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Narrated: Humanity is Hard. Protesting is Easy.
Narrated version of this article is up. Totally stealing the “we use every part of the buffalo” from my pal Ethan Strauss at House of Strauss, which my pod partner Sarah Hepola named her favorite Substack of 2023. A lot of content coming your way, including from Israel, where I will head on the...
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Pies for Peace
Waking up to the news that Hamas attacked Israel and that the country is now at war, I immediately texted my friend Yael Bar tur, who lives in NYC but is home in Tel Aviv visiting with family, a family I know and love. I had not yet read anything else, but for her tweet below. If you’re on…
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