busy.

Crazy busy.  And amidst this business I am starting an arm wrestling club, building a cabin
(Dad's doing most of that) going on a cruise (all me and corrie), watching unbelievably good boxing matches (Marquez v diaz)

I've got stuff to say about it all, but cant.

I watched Son of Rambow  last night while nursing corrie back to health.  I really liked it and though its not perfect I have trouble following the criticisms of it.  Lots of heart.
I also like the old spice "that's two-thingsism" comercial, so be warned.

Tallest Man on earth and Fleet foxes are all the new music I have listened to lately, though I did listen to the entire Vic Chesnut Catalog the other day while working. That was cool.

Anyhow, work is taking all my time.  

later

I just have to say this. The "politics of fear" line that is always used against Republicans is complete and total rubbish. It's fantasy concocted by liberals who have no attachment to reality and instead base their politics on stereotype older that scotch tape. It's fucking crap.    Bush battled threats real and dangerous, but never traded on fear."Go Shopping", "Call this number if you see something suspicious",  yeah, he was a real monster.   The closest thing he ever came to sounding an alarm was in his last days, confronting this economic crisis.   Obama's Economic Collapse speach  has set new marks on the hysteria meter, well above any Bush notched. Heck, obama has even threatened the record, claimed by Gore and all the Climate change cum Global Warmers Crowd.

Does this mean my Obama credits are being spent?  Not really. Like I said, 'the polics of fear' angle is crap. I  might have disagreed with Bush, and I might disagree with Obama, but I am not going to pretend that strong language is veboten, or a sign of corruption.

My oppinion of Obama remains unchanged: He's a liberal:  Theer is no such thing as a modern liberal who doesn't want so spend whatever they can in a depression. To dock him for that is, once again, double counting.. But just as I haven't been posting lately, nor have I been watching. 
 

Deadwood is my Godfather (and or Star wars), it seems. I was feeding my biannual deadwood fix and came across this quote:

So true.  That show was many seasons long and I didn't watch one second of it until Brad and Stacie remarked on how good the last episode was. Brad, it seems, got a little choked up.    After that discussion,  Corrie and I started watching the show from the start and the whole time I was looking forward to that ending.   I was not disappointed.  I think the final song still haunts Corrie.

Deadwood, on the hand, didn't  end.  They didn't know the show was over at the time. That sucks.   Oh, there is some good scenes there at end: I plan on using Bullock's "CANT SHUT UP!" line the next time I need to start a fight, for instance. But the ending, in general, was a travesty.

Relevance?
None.

Greatest Movie Trailers.

1.   CliffHanger , though it is a bit dated now, it was awesome then.
2.   Adam's Family Teaser was great. Very minamilist, all I remember was the snapping.
3.   Independance Day.   Perhaps the best ever. I think the theater applauded. The guys did at least.


Corrie Liked Iron Man., and she has a point: It made her want to see a Superhero movie.

What else, alien, thank you for smoking, the T2 teaser...

I am missing one of my favorites.....

No Triceps,  Biceps, Leg extensions,  shoulder shrugs, or Gloves.    
This is Crossfit. We do these workouts. Just heavier and faster.   

Atlanta's own Kevin "Kingpin" Johnson is trying to make some noise in 2009.

He's always been a gifted trash talker and he makes plenty of good points too.   I saw him fight once and his jab looked perfect, and his handspeed exceptional.  The word on the street is that...... well, there is no word on the street about him, since talking about him would mean having to fight him.  All the naysayers say his 8 KO's are testament to his lack of power, but if that were the whole story than  he would have been a low risk scalp. The truth is he is more skilled than almost the whole crop of heavyweights, and is likely to make them all but a couple of them look really bad.

Here's to you Kevin. I could do with all the trash talk, but until someone steps up and fights you, I can't blame you for doing whatever it takes to draw them out.

Meanwhile, to toot MY OWN HORN, my fitness is on the rise.  I had a Terrific hour of working out this week. 1 mile , 120 ft of rope climb, and 65 handstand pushups in 23 minutes on Wednesday.    150 Pullups on Thursday (holding a 45lb weight for 30 of them, and no kipping on another  50) in 24 minutes.  And then I tore through some front squats today, ending with a set of 5 @ 264lbs. My times arn't great given the three month layoff, but I can feel the rust coming off in chunks.  I heard the Ken completed the rope climb workout in 1/2 of my time, and was in the dumps, but it turns out I was the only guy not using his legs, and starting from a sitting position, so I don't feel quite so bad. Ken is a monster anyhow. A monster in a sweet Audi R4

The beggining of the week was good too, but I can't remember it.  Oh wait. 5 Sets of Deadlift triplets (400lbs) ,Powerclean Singles (~255lbs)  ,  and 9 minutes of a 135lb Clean and Jerk ladder (1 the first minute, 2 the next, 3 the next, stop when you don't finish in the allotted time).   

Glad to be back in the groove, doing the workouts as Rx'd.

Very sleep now though.

goodnight.







 

Cooberating evidence on the Sea Ice front. The best part is the last paragraph:

and then the last, simpsonesque, comment:

At the risk of becoming too contrarian I offer this excelent Global Warming, errr I mean Climate Change article from the Huffington Post.  These articles are in no way rare, but this is particularily well stated and unique for being published on the liberal HuffPo.

Another addition to the long list of false statements by the Weather Alarmists?  

 I have resisted making any opinion on the subject of Man Made climate change for quite a long time:  As someone who tries to first skin problems by measuring the falacies of each camp, I was chrnoically exhausted by the logic on both sides. So instead I have retreated behnd the belief that conservation in general is good and that it's taxing your way out of a problem is like digging yourself out of a hole.  The flush of  articles like this might force me to formulate a position.