Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world.
Stay Young Forever: Peter Attia
Video interview by Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Ex surgeon and ex marathon swimmer Dr Peter Attia is a physician focused on the applied science of longevity. His knowledge about biochemistry, nutrition and exercise is second to none. Also, his first interview on Joe Rogan´s podcast is stellar viewing if you want to get immersed into his incredible life and intellect.
Imagine yourself in the last decade of your life. What would you like to be able to do? I’m talking about the simple stuff, such as walking up a flight of stairs without losing your breath or picking up your grandchild. How about being able to stand up unaided, after sitting comfortably on the floor? Or simply being able to get yourself on and off the toilet with ease?
It’s so easy to assume these everyday movements will still come easily when we’re old. But my guest on this week’s episode of my Feel Better Live More podcast wants us to get real to the fact they probably won’t – unless we take action now.
Reely Bernie Faves: Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Blog article by Reely Bernie
Kicking and Screaming (1995) is a brainy indie flick from the 90s that places wit above rom-com and Gen X-subject chatter before semblance of plot. Calling it a “talky” François Truffaut-influenced study of yuppy slackerdom is fair, but dismissing the likability of each character isn’t humane.
Grover, Max, Otis, and Skippy are postgraduates who’d rather work at a video store, fill out crosswords, or converse with the philosophizing bartender than find their compass. Their stagnation is a small slice of life that may be relatable to some or comical relief to others. Either way, the results are charming, sobering, and deadpan hilarious.
Is that a pajama top?
No… yes.
Between all the tweed sports jacket solipsism and lazy but insightful procrastination is my favorite screenplay.
Are you wearing mascara?
No… yes.
The sharp, poignant lines come from a rookie filmmaker in twenty-five-year-old Noah Baumbach, who would later make his mainstream mark with Greenberg (2010), Marriage Story (2019), and Barbie (2023). Read the entire article here.
Ol’ Halloween!
Sharon’s prose at Sharon’s Writers Tidbits
Night has fallen swift and silent
snatching the daytime like a thief.
Tiny stars are diamonds,
dotted in the inky sky above, how they glisten!
A chilly mist moves slowly across the darkness.
Out of the mist the tap, tap of footfall resounds
– children are trick or treating
their tread ever so light and playful
as they bundle up garden paths,
a gaggle of woolly hats and scarves.
Doorbells jingle and jangle and echo in the cold, cold night.
Somewhere in the distance a jack-o-lantern appears
eyes ablaze, jeering spookily…
And in the dead of night
whilst all the small children are asleep
shadows slope across the empty streets
roaming this way and that way
calling out and sneering.
A black cat appears from nowhere
and then slinks into the netherworld.
And at sunrise all the lost, lonely souls disappear
– until the next halloween ….
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