Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel and Mark Lee. They totally had a plan when they started this one. They swear. They do manage to touch on Twilight: New Moon, Thanksgiving pop culture revelations, Christian Reality Shows, and Ninja Assasin. Along the way, some other stuff comes up, like how to market amateur theatricals and whether eating less makes you live longer.
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[Ghostbusters Week continues with a guest post by André Callot.]
It’s 1989, and there is a crisis in New York City. The red goo that flows through the heart of the city is infected with a deadly contagion. Spreading out from the center of the arts community, this circulating liquid can fill you with life energy, or it can fill you with evil. This plague turns normal people into walking ghosts so hideous that people on the street shriek in terror at the sight. The city, tainted with fear, hatred and prejudice, is divided against itself. Scientists and activists work to stop the spread, but everywhere they turn, they face the resistance of a city that is unwilling to even acknowledge the problem, a city that stigmatizes those brave enough to fight for public safety.
It seems as though this sickness is, at its heart, an expression of the festering anger permeating a dying city.
“I really don’t care much about riches, but I do care about achievement. That’s all that matters.”
—J. Howard Marshall II
This isn’t a post about Anna Nicole Smith. This is a post about J. Howard Marshall.
He is, of course, the man who married Smith and willed her his ginormous estate. But what did he do for the first 89 years of his life? As it turns out, a hell of a lot.
“If you don’t want to exercise too much,” asks Dr. Morten Gronbaek, epidemiologist with Denmark’s National Institute of Public Health, “can you trade it for one to two drinks per day and be fine?” A study Gronbaek and colleagues just published in the European Heart Journal suggests the answer just may be yes.
Work Out and Drink Up [Time Magazine]