AOL: Never Admit These 7 Things When a Cop Asks ‘Do You Know Why I Stopped You?’
As an uncle and as a free-thinking teacher, I considered it my duty to pass along the practical knowledge that official authority figures won’t.
Here’s a bullet list of the 7 things:
For the first time, two movies made by young, Youtube creators brought in more money than a Hollywood blockbuster from a major franchise.
Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu had a production budget of $160 million, and is floundering in theaters. Backrooms brought in 6 times more money, but cost less than 10% to produce. Obsession brought in 30% more money on 1% of the budget.
At our morning fellowship, I told Sparky that his Uncle Randy, my brother-in-law, had passed away. We’d visited several times, so I thought we should talk about it.
I did go to the gym for a rigorous work out, but salvaged the day when I got home, by laying in the grass with a good puppy.
Sparky says that he feels a little weird after eating that Nutella yesterday, but he looks okay to me.
Excalibur: The Movie The West Needs Now
Boorman picked the main plot points of the Arthur myth perfectly. As a result, the film knows exactly what it is: a legend soaked in Christianity, fog, blood, magic, virtue, redemption, and destiny.
I just read a blog post about the Excalibur (1981) movie, and now I want to watch it. Unfortunately, it’s 9:30 am, and I have to go the gym in an hour, so I won’t. That happens pretty often when somebody brings up a great movie from back in the day. There aren’t as many great movies coming out now, and although the guy who wrote about Excalibur doesn’t mention it, The Odyssey could have been that kind of movie. It won’t be.
Helen Mirren was a hottie back then. That was 45 years ago, but she’s still working, so good for her.
We’ve been busy doing grueling and grimy work, so I didn’t take many photos.
During Sparky’s long day, we shuttled IBC totes from the mulch yard, to my buddy’s house for later retrieval. He’s got a thriving firewood business, so I wanted to get the totes from his house to mine, then set them up for firewood.
WaPo: Ozempic may be reshaping the brain
Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a metabolism breakthrough: medicines that act like hormones to control hunger, blood sugar and weight. But as researchers probe deeper into how the drugs work, early evidence suggests that GLP-1s may also be reshaping parts of the brain.
This, along with President Trump’s recent executive order to encourage testing of psychedelic drugs, means many people are going to get their brains re-jiggered.
That’s good, a lot of brains seem to be malfunctioning. Maybe the brains get fixed or they start malfunctioning in new ways.
“We didn’t expect to see this effect, and we really don’t know what it means,” Shapiro said.
That’s fine. It’s astounding how much of science is useful, but not fully understood.
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