Two words, people: Ostia Antica. Smaller than Pompeii, still an ancient Roman city, waaaay fewer tourists, 20 mins from Rome by train.

You have to start in a supermarket to live like common people.

Ah, yes, Picasso, who is most famous for strictly adhering to the standards of conventional beauty, a very good artist to be nicknamed after when you are in the business of splicing bits of face together for purely aesthetic purposes! Sign me up!

“Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don’t you?”

A Baldrick reference - solid for the 20 or so Black Adder fans out there I assume!

These fuckwits have had more cunning plans than Baldrick, and even less success!

“Productize” is going into my Great Dictionary of Corporate Buzzword Anthimeria and Other Amusing Sayings. Hopefully it will die a quick and relatively painless death.

Here’s my guide:

“A Hero is any man who does his job.”  - John Mulaney

oh my god I BLOCKED THIS OUT but: American men* who talk in British or Scottish or Irish accents from time to time.

I won’t date anyone who’s favorite band is Oasis. My favorite band is Blur. And even though Damon and Noel are mates now I just can’t stand Oasis.

I went out with a guy in college who wore his watch on his right wrist even though he was also right handed. It annoyed me so much I never went out with him again. If he had been a lefty, it would have been fine. 

Exactly this. I took stock of the things that I routinely used as barriers to working out, and I removed them. I have a trainer that I can put my bike on and ride in front of the TV. I have a book stand the clips onto my handlebars if I want to read (I studied for my doctoral exams this way). I bought a couple of…

The, apocryphal, story is that they were shaped after Marie Antoinette’s. Elizabeth died 60 years before the coupe was invented. Even while dead Elizabeth would never have put up with such nonsense. The French queen might have if the coupe hadn't been introduced in England a century before her birth. 

$2.78 million? My sweet lord!

Oh that’s a great one. And thanks! Haha I have power mantras, like ‘Beast Mode!’ (when I did sprints LOL) and ‘I’m a shark, I go fast, I am stealthy, I am swift’ (when I swim).

I’ve definitely had this happen to me with things I watch on Netflix too, but I wonder if it’s “listening” so much as Netflix is sharing with Instagram that you watched a specific show and Instagram knows what products were mentioned in the show.

Kate gets knocked down, she gets up again, you’re never going to keep her down.