The power of comedy.

@the 2012 Comedy Awards.

Training.

9/28 - treadmill - 400m - walk 4:07, jog 2:37, run x3 2:02, 1:50, 1:41 - 210m x2 57s, 55s

9/27 - shadowboxing [Bas Rutten MMA Workout] - boxing - 7x3m rounds

Awesome - Bodybuilding.com - Over 40 Amateur Of The Week: Fitness Parenting:

"...when people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority."

"Texts From Last Night" = always entertaining.

Some laugh inducing Texts From Last Night from the last couple days:

(250):  Just once I'd like to do blow in a nice bathroom.


(626):  Remember when puke and rally meant a good time? Fuck pregnancy


(785):  Beer is acceptable at 830am if it's your bday, right?


(813):  People around me are just doing lines of cocaine. Like its no big deal. And I'm just here like.... Y'all want some cheezits?


(631): She cracked her neck before the blowjob and I knew shit just got real.

Training.

9/26 - legs - 4x10 - zercher cable squats, step ups, split squats, bench hip thrust, lunges, calf raise - finisher glute bridge [max reps + isometric hold]

9/25 - pull workout - 4x10 - pullups [rest/pause sets 2-4], pulldowns, stiff arm pulldowns, seated row, bent row, 1a cable row, curls, wide cable curls, alt db curl, superman - finisher 2x neutral grip pullups [10/7]

53 years old = total victory - Bodybuilding.com - Over 40 Amateur Of The Week: Cutting Corners:

Making Sense of the Bible.

"Nobody really cares if..."

I'd do this.

Training.

9/24 - push workout - shoulders, triceps, chest - 4x10 - upright cable row, cable laterals, cable press, db laterals, front/side stiff arm laterals, db scott press, triangle pushups, pushdowns, overhead tricep x, cable fly, incline pushup, incline db fly/press - finisher 2x dips [14/12]

9/23 - 60m stretching

9/22 - 40m yoga

9/21 - push/pull superset ladders - dips/wg pullups ladder to 6 [21 reps], pushups/bw rows ladder to 10 [55 reps], 2x25 medicine ball twists

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Food Log.

Back at tracking food intake/nutrition.  This past week M-F eating clean/healthy/paleo-ish/primal-ish/low carb-ish, S-S indulging cravings, junk food & alcohol... tighten that up to one day a week free, as soon as feasible.

9/17 - coffee w/half & half, coffee w/milk, protein shake, water, tuna, cheese, protein bar, nut butters, Odwalla juice, tomato

9/18 - Odwalla juice, protein shake, mozzarella, crab, mixed nuts, coffee w/milk

9/19 - coffee w/milk, water, protein shake, steak, coconut water

9/20 - coffee w/ half & half, coconut water, water, steak, tomato w/mayo, mixed nuts

9/21 - coffee w/half & half, tuna salad, coconut water, protein shake, steak, salad w/shredded cheese & honey mustard dressing

9/22 - coffee w/half & half, beer, lobster dip, celery, crackers, cheeseburger sliders

9/23 - coconut water, latte, doughnuts, crab rangoon, beer, beef egg fu young, diet tea, diet root beer, tortillas

Reality is Interpretative.

"No meaning save what we choose to impose."

'Louie' is Great TV.

Review: Louie - Late Show (Part 3): Yo, Letterman! I did it!:

"...But what made this episode great wasn't the movie homage, but the way Louis C.K. used the structure to tell a universal story about striving to be more than you are, and how the fear of failure and of success can be equally crippling..."

"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..."

The Daily Show

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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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