Wednesday
01Jul
Tuesday
30Jun
Farrah Fawcett remembered
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 21:12 For one hour every morning before school, I styled my hair to look exactly like the perfect Farrah hairdo.
I worked hard on it and it showed. All day people would stop me in the street and in school and tell me how much my hair was a perfect Farrah look alike. I loved Farrah. I do not think it was something I told many people.
In Charlie's Angels Farrah was strong, athletic, funny, intelligent, adorable and gorgeous. Not many young girls did not admire her and wish they could be exactly like her. I sure did. She seemed to be a normal woman and someone to whom I could relate. Her problems in life also made her more real, lovable and vulnerable.
I watched her tv special Farrah's Story a few weeks ago. It really hit me hard. Very compelling. She allowed the world to see her pain, suffering, fear and sadness. Farrah, although very sick, was strong and funny and all those qualities that I fell in love with as a child. Great memories. Here is a photo gallery of favorite Farrah photos I found.
"The life of Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett was celebrated on Tuesday at a private funeral in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Her longtime companion, Ryan O'Neal, was among pallbearers who accompanied the casket, covered in yellow and orange flowers, into the Roman Catholic cathedral.
Monday
29Jun
The Most Dangerous Sport:Cheerleading
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 22:49 When I was in my private delinquent school, (kids still snorted glue and drank JD in the halls) I decided to try some new activities that would keep me out of trouble. One was the cheerleading team. I really did it so I could miss class, hang with the boys and not get in trouble for doing it. I wanted to make my parents proud of me and that private school was expensive. Try to picture me as a cheerleader. If you know me, you probably can't. I still enjoyed doing it and learning all the cheers and dances. That was kind of fun. Still have my trophy from a tournament that we won. In my "adult" life, martial arts and bodybuilding are more me.
Cheerleading safety efforts have led to modest reductions in the number of serious injuries in recent years, according to a new report about college and high school sports and cheerleading mishaps.
But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by far than other sports.
"Trust me, I never dropped a 50 pound dumbbell on myself and I never received a cheerleading injury, but I do fall off my bike all the time."
Researchers have long known how dangerous cheerleading is, but records were poorly kept until recently. An update to the record-keeping system last year found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading. The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven).
Today, the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released its 26th annual report on the topic. The latest figures are from the 2007-2008 academic year for college and high school sports, male and female. The report defines catastrophic injuries as any severe or fatal injury incurred during participation in the sport.
The new numbers are for the 26-year period from the fall of 1982 through the spring of 2008:
- There were 1,116 direct catastrophic injuries in high school (905) and college sports (211).
- High school sports were associated with 152 fatalities, 379 non-fatal injuries and 374 serious injuries. College sports accounted for 22 fatalities, 63 non-fatal injuries and 126 serious injuries.
- Cheerleading accounted for 65.2 percent of high school and 70.5 percent of college catastrophic injuries among all female sports.
Monday
29Jun
The dyke march NY 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 15:38 17th Annual NYC Dyke March
The 17th Annual NYC Dyke March steped off at 5 pm sharp on the evening of Saturday June 27th 2009. Everyone assembled at Bryant Park, located at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue. The march went down 5th Avenue to Washington Square Park.
[Reportedly heard at the parade, although I was not there.] "It's time to hit the streets! Make some noise. Be visible. Be heard. Demonstrate, agitate, liberate at the New York City Dyke March. Bring signs, banners, drums, giant puppets, flags, hula hoops or just be there!"
[the purpose of the parade]"The New York City Dyke March is a protest march, not a parade -- we don't ask for a permit, because we have the right to protest. As queer women, we recognize that we must organize amongst ourselves to fight for our rights, our safety, and for visibility. Thousands of dykes take over the streets every year in celebration of queer women everywhere and to protest against ongoing discrimination, harassment and anti-women violence in schools, on the job, in our families and on the streets."
"As always, the Dyke March is open to all women, biological or otherwise - no sign-up or registration required. Just come out with your banners, signs, noisemakers, and beautiful dyke selves, and joi n in the march!" link
Friday
26Jun
Michael Jackson...a very sad day
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 00:44 Michael Jackson singing his hit song Ben and one of my favorites.
Tonight I feel like a piece of my childhood died. Such a tragic and sudden loss.
Friday
26Jun
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 00:40 The number 6 train was my line for many years.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, as you are probably well aware from the trailers, stars Denzel Washington as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, a man whose world is turned upside down when the Pelham 1 2 3 train is hijacked by a gang of terrorists, led by an attention-seeking loud-mouth who goes by the name Ryder (John Travolta). Ryder and his three underlings have taken over the train and are demanding a large amount of cash in exchange for the safe return of 19 hostages. He communicates with the outside world using Garber and has put a one hour deadline on his demand for the money. If the cash is not delivered, one passenger will be killed every minute until the money is received. A lot of times in this type of movie, the antagonists never actually follow through with their threat to kill people but Ryder proves right from the beginning that he is not fooling around. He only wants to speak to Garber and when his newfound buddy is removed from the radio by the NYPD, Ryder does not hesitate to put a bullet in one of the passengers.
That pretty much lays the groundwork for the next 2 hours and 45 minutes — a subway dispatcher, a hijacked train, 19 hostages and a crazy man with a gun. “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3″ also stars the likes of Luis Guzman as a bad guy with a bandaid on his nose, John Turturro as an NYPD hostage negotiator and James Gandolfini as the Mayor of New York.
The first thing I will say about “Pelham 1 2 3″ is that I really liked John Travolta in this movie.
Tuesday
23Jun
"Pop" goes the bicep!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 20:34 This girl is pretty funny. Love to watch women flexing for the first time!
Monday
22Jun
Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back?
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 12:35 The genesis of much of the ab work we do these days probably lies in the work done in an Australian physiotherapy lab during the mid-1990s. Researchers there, hoping to elucidate the underlying cause of back pain, attached electrodes to people’s midsections and directed them to rapidly raise and lower their arms, like the alarmist robot in “Lost in Space.”
Shemuscle photo by Brian Moss
In those with healthy backs, the scientists found, a deep abdominal muscle tensed several milliseconds before the arms rose. The brain apparently alerted the muscle, the transversus abdominis, to brace the spine in advance of movement. In those with back pain, however, the transversus abdominis didn’t fire early. The spine wasn’t ready for the flailing. It wobbled and ached. Perhaps, the researchers theorized, increasing abdominal strength could ease back pain. The lab worked with patients in pain to isolate and strengthen that particular deep muscle, in part by sucking in their guts during exercises. The results, though mixed, showed some promise against sore backs.
Thursday
18Jun
Thursday
18Jun
A couple tweets later
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Continental jet whose pilot died in flight just landed by two first officers at Newark airport in New Jersey. Awesome!
Getting my carpet cleaned now The guy told me to move my furniture around Does that mean facing it the other way? http://femalemuscle.com/
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"It was a needless hugging...It wasn't a greeting. It was happening all day." Noreen Hajinlian
Carpet cleaning guys just left. Loud. Lillybelle my kitty freaked out. Hitting the gym downtown now. Gotta train!
