Down with body-shaming...but up, maybe, with sloth-shaming? As everyone points out, someone can be active and healthy but not look like a fitness model, and fuck yeah to that. But, I dunno, if all someone does is sit on the couch and eat Doritos, whether they’re 90 pounds of 390...I’d still characterize that as bad, I…

That’d be an interesting study, and I can’t speculate beyond anecdotal evidence. I mean, for me, my goal for my first marathon was to crack 4 hours, which requires a degree of training that “just finishing” (although they’ll tell you at the pre-race briefing that there’s no such thing as just finishing, because it’s…

Yeah, to echo what the other commenter said, the thing about training for and running a marathon is that it’s a clear and definable goal - often, with a pretty prescribed path to get there in terms of how much one should be running week-to-week. A goal like, “Lose weight” is pretty nebulous, and even if you have a set…

The only downside, here, is that I’m having a hard time coming up with the porn parody title. The best I can do is:

They say that life is a story, and imagine how scary it would be to realize that it’s already been written.

I have something of a Memento relationship with “Old Town Road.” At a certain point in its run at the top, I figured I’d better catch up to the zeitgeist and give it a spin. I did, and it...was. I was expecting a bad earworm that would drive me crazy, like a Black-Eyed Peas song. Instead, I forgot more or less…

“if it wasn’t for this man we wouldn’t have Aquaman”

*toe the line

I mean, it’s a thing with the word “festival” in its title or description that is happening, so we should definitely talk about the fact that it most definitely is. 

The most important thing to know before watching anything Dark Crystal-related:

It tracks with cheerful nihilism having become the dominant cultural attitude, particularly among the young. 

I wonder if this will end with the resistance defeating the Skeksis, or if we’re, instead, in for a downer ending in which the Skeksis rule over a darkened land and the Gelflings are wiped out except for one, maybe two of them, who are living in hiding, convinced they’re the last of their kind, and who have to go on…

Hey, now!

This is still a go-to video for me when I’m feeling sad and need to break glass for emergency endorphins. The best part about it being that it all worked - Dave Grohl saw it, the FFs played in Cesena, and the guy who organized the whole thing just because he wanted to see his favorite band play got to be on stage with…

Is there something darkly ironic about thousands of Italians and Germans chanting “Some of those that work forces / are the same that burn crosses” in a Frankfurt arena?

The Phantom Menace Fun Fact #1: When the trailer for this first arrived, I was so desperate to see it that I went to the local cineplex and bought a ticket to The Waterboy just because I’d heard it was playing in front of that film. Spoiler: It wasn’t, although I did hear the crowd in the theater next door, which was…

Oh, HARD disagree on that. It’s certainly one of the showiest lightsaber fights in all the movies, but - and I wish I could remember where this was - somebody did a breakdown of it online and pointed out that, like, 90% of the moves executed by Maul and Obi-Wan were completely for show and, even if they hadn’t been…

Holy shit, is Hardware an under-appreciated film.

I’d been putting off listening to Purple Mountains because I like to deep-dive on bands I’m seeing in concert the week of their show, and I had a couple of those crop up over the past couple of weeks. I finally put it on this morning in the wake of hearing this terrible, terrible news, and boy, howdy, is listening to…