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A picture a day: Iceland
Since I’m apparently being pretty slow about posting some serious meat about Iceland (post-travel slump), here’s a photo: All of the landscape is this kind of volcanic rock, and while there are some grasses, most is mossy like this.
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A Hellacious Tabata
A tabata is a particular kind of high intensity interval training, in which you work a pair of exercises for 20 seconds at a time, with a 10 second rest between them, for a total of 4 minutes. One slice of a tabata workout might look like: 00:00 – 00:20: Pushups 00:20 – 00:30: Rest 00:30 – 00:50: Squats 00:50 – 01:00: Rest You’d repeat that four times, for a total of 8 units of hard work. If you can get the intensity right (which is difficult), it’s one hell of a workout. The way I’ve done them as part of SexyShred has been three sets of the 4 minute…
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Smanging It
Honestly, I wouldn’t normally give some random internet video an entire blog post, but this… I’m… I’m still laughing at this. It’s brought such joy to me. Every time I watch it, I see something new. First, it was the fact that the main singer is reminiscent of Pootie Tang, and that they surely pulled in Charlie Murphy for the other guy. Then it was the ridiculous bodyrolls. Then it was the words. Then (thanks to Greg), it was the main singer’s stare. o_o And so I invite you to get on the “Lemme Smang It” bandwagon.
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SexyShred Cleanup: Watermelon Sorbet
One of my SexyShred food challenges is to take a recipe I might crave, and rework it in a Clean Eating way. I’m not really up for diving into my old comfort foods. A lot of that is garbage on more levels than just the ingredients, so I struggled to come up with something to convert. Cranberry sorbet was my first impulse, but not only did I not have cranberries, I’m sick of grocery shopping (been doing it a lot as part of SexyShred) and I knew the honey/water syrup would be pretty hard to get right. Hell, I hadn’t perfected it with sugar in a way that didn’t require…
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Now Is Another Opportunity to Reimagine Justice
I spent late Saturday night (while my neighbors were belting out Oasis’s “Wonderwall” to bad guitar accompaniment) watching Twitter and Facebook. The Zimmerman verdict (not guilty of either manslaughter or murder II) was out, and folks were outraged. “Not everything about race, dumbasses!” one person said. “Our justice system is broken!” said another. “No one in their right mind could say the prosecution proved beyond a doubt that Zimmerman didn’t fear for his life. That’s the letter of the law!” said a third. “Another black kid is dead, and Don West is crowing happily,” raged another. Whether or not Zimmerman made assumptions based on race, or had a racial motive…