FIT YOUR LIFE NOW DOT COM

It is still a work in progress, but take the link above to visit my brand-spanking new website for my fitness business.

In the days to come we will be adding a daily fitness blog, a testimonials page, a BIO page, a videos page, and a contact page that will include real world contact info and links to the blog and the TWITTER ACCOUNT.

I know what you're thinking. Like many of us, you are still skeptical of Twitter. I was too, until I realized the commercial potential. I can disperse tiny fitness/nutrition tips daily for free with little-to-no cost or effort. They are short and sweet, easy to digest, and hopefully just go towards furthering my reputation and reknown as a trainer. The twitter profile links to my main website, so if I pick up even a few clients from this effort, it's worth it.

As a reader on Twitter, I have no interest in reading an average person's day-to-day tweets. "Doing crossword puzzles" or "going to bed now" doesn't interest me one bit, but there are some great news organizations/intellectuals/magazines that post several interesting and useful pieces of info and links per day.

There is a giant conversation going on, and for most of us, listening is where Twitter shines through. Read THIS ARTICLE for more. He says what I'm saying, much more eloquently and persuasively.

I don't know whether to laugh at how ridiculous some people can be, or cry because there are people who really think and talk this way.

This new tactic of making it sound as though pushing for gay marriage rights actually takes rights away from straight people is particularly shocking. I hadn't heard that argument before. The sad thing is, I'm sure it will be compelling to people who were previously apathetic or on the fence about it.

Ugh. I look forward to the day when I can mention my friends Danny and Marshall, the married couple, in mixed company and not receive looks of shock and disgust.

In my weekend job I work with little kids. And as cliche as the saying is, it's true: kids really do say the darnedest things.

We play games, get them running around, and also we spend some "free play" time wherein we blow bubbles for them to run around in. Sometimes we make tongue-in-cheek jokes, that the kids pick up on more than adults even do.

Me: Don't pop my bubbles! Those are my bubbles. No... don't pop that one, that one is my favorite. Oh man! You popped him! I named him Fred. You popped Fred!

Laughing Little Girl: Don't worry. There's tons and tons of Freds!

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Provided life also gave you water, sugar, and ice. Otherwise, that advice is just cruel."

~Stephen Colbert

Kings on NBC

It's not America. It's a fictional land called Gilboa that happens to be the most powerful country in it's version of earth, but it's an earth where America never existed. The premise is NOT "what if WE had a king", but what if a country in our current position on the world stage in a 2009 world still had a king. What would that be like? No such thing as the statue of liberty. No such place as Washington DC. In their world the capital is called Shiloh. You shouldn't feel at home there, but that's all part of the genius of it.

You know the film M.A.S.H ? It is set during the Korean war, right? But it was released during the Vietnam War. This is no coincidence. Altman used Korea, which was a much less volatile place at the time, to satire and make commentary on the current state of things in Vietnam.

Kings is the same, only instead of making America into another real country they made one up. This way the writers can show King Silas making decisions that might parallel the very decisions coming across say Obama's desk, but this way there can be some distance from the commentary. Nobody can get offended very easily when it's a fictional country that happens to be handling the same problems we are. We get to enjoy an outsider's perspective on our own socio-political situation. That to me is a brilliant device.

Anyone who reads this blog knows my own views on religion. This world of Gilboa on Kings is a world where there is definitely a god or fate or destiny or whatever you want to call it, and he takes a very active role in the lives of the characters. I'm totally okay with that. Gilboa's God doesn't quite work in "mysterious ways" so much as grandiose symbolic ways, but it's still enjoyable to watch.

Ian McShane is intense and fantastic as always and this new-comer playing David is surprisingly fun to watch too. At first he may come off as a little sickeningly earnest, but you grow to like him.

PLEASE check this show out. TV.com just added it to the list of shows most likely to be cancelled. It's Ian McShane on NETWORK TV people!! You can watch the first two episodes for free on the NBC website. If this sounds even remotely interesting, please check it out. Don't let it die, it just started.