| | | | Dear Newsletsters,
(Approximately) 42 years ago today, our fearless leader Brooke Gladstone was born. Brooke has been intrepidly covering all things press, spin and media bullshit for the better part of four decades (so … her entire life!).
 Brooke is the embodiment of a legend. She read Middlemarch five times in five minutes. She has been fired from more restaurant jobs than there are restaurants in the state of New York. And, according to her Wikipedia, "Gladstone is Jewish."
Today, the OTM team gathered to celebrate Brooke: her quit wit, her warmth, her buoyant spirit, her chunky jewelry, her exceptional ability to edit words out of interviews. We are especially grateful today for her ability to help us make sense of our meshuga world and give us a good laugh in the process. Happy birthday, Brooke!
**Just in case this spread is a little more bourgeois than you might expect from us, note the chopped up mozzarella stick accompanying our plate of artisanal cheeses!
Onward!
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