Today, I got scared by the Internets.
I was minding my own business when a Google Alert shot into my Inbox.
I dutifully clicked the link.
Then, I found this “Kooky Dude” — “Kooky Tati?” — staring me down.
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I love it when cities are shamed for the bad behavior and poor performance of their citizenry, and now we have empirical evidence of the fitness index of some of our major residential areas. Out of the top 50 urban cores, the New York City metro area placed 30th. Not so great.
At least twice a year my wife Elizabeth asks me some variation of the following question — why do bad sequels to movies get made? I have the rather unfortunate task of letting her know the same sad answer to this question which is this — the money they spend making and promoting the sequel is dwarfed by the money that is made at the box office and so they continue making the bad sequels until the money made is not sufficient to justify making any other bad sequels.
We all know sugar is terrible for us — sugar is The New White Devil — and yet we can’t seem to escape its granular grasp. We live in a sugary circle of feeling low, boosting our blood sugar with sugar and then crashing again. How can we escape this treacherous roundabout?
We all work to try to keep out brains alive through our eyes, and there’s a new way of creating fresh pathways of understanding — and it is delivered to us from afar via our old friend, William Shakespeare using language and “Functional Shifts” found in his plays.
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