On the radio

Interview with Ed Sheeran:

Radio host: "How do you with the ladies?"
Ed Sheeran: "What do you mean?"
Radio host: "Well you're on the road a lot..."

What I thought he was going to say: "You might be a musician but you're still ginger"

Decision Making (BSBTE)

What I think whenever I watch a singing talent show.

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Football? Or Massacre

Conceding 7 goals in a game? A semi-final? And you are the host nation?

Too strange for fiction. So it will only happen in real life. 

Brazil-Germnay, 1-7. Germany scored 5 gols in the first 28 minutes. And they were beauties. Beauties. The score was a massacre, Brazil didn't know what hit it, but Germany has played their gorgeous game for so long. 4th semi-final in a row, unheard of. 

Hopp Deutschland. 

Feeling independent

As in: happy 4th of July. A little late.

Mine included birthday celebrations, World Cup games, home made linguine, dinner with cousins and white water river rafting. 

Gebhardts

First Shopaholic (BSBTE)

I learned from the podcast Good Job Brain about Mary Todd’s Lincoln incessant shopping. She was almost like an older-day’s Kardashian, with the press following her from shop to shop.

In fact, she was so addicted to going shopping that she used some of taxpayer money out to buy things with at shops. She also thought that a good use of the federal funds would to be to redecorate the White House using it. She brought the idea of redecorating forward to congress, who approved and gave a $20,000 limit.

Which she exceeded.

Apparently much of her spending was kept form her husband, and stories say she sold off White House manure – purchased as fertilizer – to help her repay some of her outstanding debts.

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Boys are smart, girls are thin?

"How would American girls’ lives be different if parents were half as concerned with their bodies and twice as intrigued by their minds?"

A NY Times piece, which I found on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, so I post his mention here. 

Parents are two and a half times more likely to ask “Is my son gifted?” than “Is my daughter gifted?” ...What concerns do parents disproportionately have for their daughters? Primarily, anything related to appearance. Consider questions about a child’s weight. Parents Google “Is my daughter overweight?” roughly twice as frequently as they Google “Is my son overweight?” Just as with giftedness, this gender bias is not grounded in reality. About 30 percent of girls are overweight, while 33 percent of boys are. 

Improv in the Park

Thank you Whole World Improv Theatre for the monthly free Improv nights at Atlantic Station.

Astroturf picnic, comedy and laughs. All of which had been immediately preceded by yoga in the park (I was a spectator).