The first ten on today’s playlist:

When people mention sites having paywalls, I have no idea what they are talking about. I haven’t hit a paywall in years.

I have the deep magic old extensions still working and they is supa dupa fly.

I know I’m supposed to hate Pulp Fiction, but damn that’s such a tight movie with just perfect tone and so much panache.

Pulp Fiction is not my favorite movie — hell, it ain’t even my favorite Tarantino movie for that matter. But what it tries to do, it does it so very fucking well. It never hits a false note and it’s so incredibly quotable. I mean:

Vincent: Jules, did you ever hear the philosophy that once a man admits that he’s wrong that he is immediately forgiven for all wrongdoings? Have you ever heard that?

Jules: Get the fuck out my face with that shit! The motherfucker that said that shit never had to pick up itty-bitty pieces of skull on account of your dumb ass.

Come on, that dialogue is just spotless. It’s how you should do it — as close as you can get to how actual people talk while punching it up enough to make it engaging and funny. That whole cleaning-out-the-blood-spattered-car scene is just so much fun.

I know the conventional wisdom is that you’re on some inevitable and extremely steep decline path when you hit 40, but it’s mostly Fat Acceptance (et al.) lies.

I’m nearly as strong and fit now at 47 as I was when I was 22, and I was very strong and fit then. Also, I’ve achieved that with much less effort and time spent because I have done it more intelligently and efficiently. The main difference I’ve noticed is that I take longer to recover now. If I work out really hard, I need 2-3 days to fully get over soreness and when I was 20 I needed around one full day.

And to reiterate something I’ve said in other posts, I’m not particularly athletic and I also have pretty bad genetics. I am, however, extremely fucking stubborn.

But if I can do it, nearly anyone could if they wanted to.

It’s not much progress, but at least Lizzo got her “creepy woman pass” revoked.

Needs to happen more. Men definitely commit more abuse, but most often the also fairly-common abuse women perpetrate gets completely glossed over and ignored. True equality means that neither gender should get away with it.