Tuesday, April 15, 2014

"...bad guys are so much more fun. That's the bottom line."





"The series will see Grayson -- presumed dead to the world following the events of "Forever Evil" -- take an undercover position at spy agency Spyral, a product of "Batman Incorporated." The career shift comes at the urging of Batman himself, who convinces the original Robin he needs to stay "dead."

"He's doing something that's going to cause pain to his friends and family, but he believes in the cause," King is quoted. "That tension between having to do something good but having the cost of it being pain to his family, it drives him a little crazy." As pointed out by USA Today, King brings a level of verisimilitude to the series: He's a former CIA counter-terrorism officer."


"The product starts with 12 pieces of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain’s boneless chicken and includes layers of Domino’s sauces, cheeses and pizza toppings to create four varieties of the side item: Crispy Bacon & Tomato, Spicy Jalapeño-Pineapple, Classic Hot Buffalo and Sweet BBQ Bacon. Specialty Chicken will be available in Domino’s $5.99 mix-and-match value offer that also lets customers select the chain’s pastas, sandwiches and medium, two-topping pizzas."


Hail HYDRA: Brett Dalton on Ward's "Agents of SHIELD" Team Shift - Comic Book Resources: "You know, bad guys are so much more fun. That's the bottom line. Certainly as an actor, what it does is make this character so much more complex and that's so fun to play. I think what the writers do a really good job of is -- I can't really tell you too much other than, it's not like the writers flip a switch and all of a sudden, Ward is evil and I'm twirling my mustache and I'm petting a cat for the rest of the season. I think they do a really good job of fleshing that out and possibly explaining things. I think they do a really good job of developing the character so that it's not a switch for pure shock value. You do understand why he is the way he is. I just think it's so fun to play and to have all of my scenes -- many of my scenes -- with Bill Paxton, it's so much fun, and I can't remember having that much fun on set.  There's a certain freedom to that. Something about when you don't have to follow the rules -- think about how much fun pirates must have! Geez! It feels like that. It feels like suddenly, this other character that's been there all the time, and that person gets to come out, and there's a freedom in that. I've certainly enjoyed playing [it] and I certainly hope everybody watching it enjoys seeing that turn, and also I'm okay with being the guy that you love to hate, too. If that's what I become, I'm okay with that."


Great.  Morning Links: 
"Another troubling breakdown in the line of demarcation between domestic police and the military: The FBI has been participating in military raids overseas."







"I had a moment of horrible guilt."







Monday, April 14, 2014

Training - "Change 'I Can't' Into 'I Can' And Pretty Soon..."

4/15 - presses, push presses, seated Arnold press, db laterals, chins

 





Songkran is Awesome.


"The Songkran festival (Thai: สงกรานต์) is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia...  
The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water upon others. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns...  City officials close off many sections of the street thoroughfares for the festival disallowing all vehicular traffic save for ice trucks and fire engines which also partake in the watering festivities."

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Training - "Today you can make progress or..."

4/14 - bench, dips 



  
I see the above at the gym all the time and I never know what the fuck they're doing or what they think they're accomplishing...










"...unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate."



"...after the Islamic revolution in 1979, women were compelled by law to wear the veil outdoors together with clothing covering most of the body. Between 1989 and 2006, the incidence of MS in Iran increased more than eight fold, from an incidence of about one case in 100,000 to nearly one in 10,000 in the city of Isfahan."