"Flash! A-Ah! Savior of the Universe!"

I'll always love this flick, for a bunch of reasons...  in hindsight, partly because of its campy awesomeness, with scenery chewing greatness from such greats as Max von Sydow, future James Bond Timothy Dalton and Brian Blessed.  But when I first saw it, when I was about 7-8 years old, given its 1980 release, all I probably dug on was the loud, bright, superheroic images and  music [By Queen, of course.]  And Ornella Muti as Princess Aura was probably one of my earliest "Wow, there's something interesting about girls..." rumblings.

Though mostly I'll always dig on this film because it's one of the few movies I remember seeing with my dad in the theaters when I was a kid.  And I have a pretty distinct memory of going out to play after the movie, singing the incredibly catchy theme song, jumping around like spastic monkey and trying to scale my dad's yellow Datsun.

[This bit of nostalgia brought to you by the recent post Flash Gordon's football fight (1980)

over at Boing Boing- where they made the astute comment "Flash Gordon is why America should get to make a Doctor Who movie."]

And this clip is made of  winning.

"New Genki Sudo music video sends message of Japan-China-Korea friendship."

More of this in the world, please.  Via Japan Probe:

"Chaos on Bullshit Mountain." - Jon Stewart FTW.

"If they have success, they built it.  If they failed, the government ruined it for them.  If they get a break, they deserve it.  If you get a break, it's a handout and an entitlement.  It's a baffling, willfully blind cognitive dissonance..."

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Training.

9/20 - Shadowboxing - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - 4x2m rounds boxing, 4x2m rounds kickboxing, 2x2m rounds MMA

9/19 - treadmill -- 1m jog/wmup 10:57, 1/2m run 3:47, 1/4m run [x2] 1:47/1:42 -- pulley/cable squats x25/3x20, wall squat 60s -- pullup/chinup finisher 4x5 [wide grip, regular grip, neutral grip, chins]

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Comics are Instructive.

“...the world is made of words [...] if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.” - Terence McKenna, Alien Dreamtime

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President. Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives.

Fried Chicken & Waffle Grilled Cheese.  God Bless America.

Training.

9/18 - push workout -- ring dips 5x8, dips 5x12 [100 reps total] -- pushups 5x20

9/17 - pull workout -- pullups 3x10, neutral grip pullups 2x7, close grip pullups 2x5, chins 2x6, pullups & ng pullups ladder to 4, chins ladder to 5 -- 101 total reps

9/16 - treadmill 1 mile - lunges x50, hip thrust x50

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"...the greater number of such things in his mind." -- I live in hope.

"Be nice until it's time to not be nice."