Nicole Bass and little Lori Braun

A veteran Wack Packer who first appeared on The Howard Stern Show in 1994, Nicole Bass is a well-known female bodybuilder, who once claimed to be the "World's Largest Female Bodybuilder". Nicole's manly physique and deep voice often lead to much ridicule by the Stern Show crew. Fred Norris imitates Nicole making her sound like Herman Munster. She is a former WWE wrestler whose gender has often been questioned by everyone in the Stern Show studio, until various on-air tests proved that Nicole is genetically a woman. link

Photo gallery of Nicole Bass and the party

First of all, I love Herman Munster. Secondly I have know Nicole Bass for many years. She is a kind, intelligent and charming woman. A documentary of the 2002 Femalemuscle Live! event held in New York City, featuring some of the world's best female bodybuilders. The event was hosted by Nicole Bass and she did an amazing job as the MC of the event.

Here is the video to exciting, intimate action shots of their routines; stage performances, lifting contests, audience participation, and behind-the-scenes antics.

Femalemuscle Films

Running time One Hour, Forty-eight Minutes (1:48)

Neil Young: Chaos Is Good

By: Kayceman

Neil Young Skyline Boulevard cuts a breathtaking path through towering redwood groves, stunning eucalyptus trees, rolling green hills and expansive panoramic views. It's the type of road that exemplifies Northern California's abundant natural beauty, and if you want to get to The Mountain House, a secluded restaurant that resides in the small, exclusive town of Woodside, California, it's the only route to take. Situated on the San Francisco Peninsula between the S.F. Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, Woodside may not have always been home to wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, as it is today, but perhaps dating back to 1970 when Neil Young paid $340,000 cash for a 140-acre piece of property he named The Broken Arrow Ranch, it's been a place where the rich could get away.

The Mountain House is a funky old restaurant with an eclectic, well-stocked jukebox and bar, and it's a familiar, comfortable place for Neil Young. This is where part of the video for 1992's "Unknown Legend" was filmed and it served as the location for a rowdy set Young played with his incendiary garage band Crazy Horse on November 12, 1990 to celebrate his 45th birthday. But more important to us, The Mountain House is where we finally get to meet this very well known and often misunderstood legend.

Barreling down Skyline Boulevard, the stereo is blasting Young's 1979's epic double live album Rust Never Sleeps and I've got the air conditioner cranked but my hands are still sweating. I'm not late for my interview so I must be nervous. My neck is on a swivel, surveying the tiny driveways that break left and right, when out of the corner of my eye I see an old classic American car with a beat-up paint job. As I fly by the automobile I realize I'm definitely looking at Neil Young's 1950 Plymouth Special Deluxe and I've just passed The Mountain House.

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Look at me

As you can see in this photo, I even feel uncomfortable in a bathing suit top. Where is my favorite black Montauk sweatshirt and sunglasses? I do not even have a tan and the summer is almost over.

Shy girl....not a natural ham as one who visits my site and blog might think. I like ham though, but I don't eat it because I think pigs are adorable.

Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World

ORLANDO—Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.

Phelps, the 6'4", 200-pound aquatic mammal, and the first ever SeaWorld swimmer to be raised in captivity by foster swimmers (Mark Spitz and Dara Torres), was recaptured by trainer Bob Bowman in a hoop net baited with an entire Dutch apple pie following Phelps' final Olympic event last Sunday. Phelps was then tethered to the rudder of a container ship bound for St. Petersburg, guided down local waterways, and introduced back into his home habitat, the tank in SeaWorld's 5,500 seat stadium, known to park officials and visitors alike as "Phelps' Happy Harbor."

"Michael seemed really excited to be back," said Bowman, adding that the male swimmer became playful upon entering his tank, breaching the water and sounding repeatedly. "He just started swimming freestyle and backstroke, and only stopped to slide belly first onto the tank's platform so he could be fed dozens of fried egg sandwiches."

"He fell asleep at the surface of the water around midnight," Bowman added.

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Lesbians Catfight

Lesbians Catfight
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I started catfighting when I was only 11 years old. My best friend at the time, Christina, and I would go to her house after school and wrestle as hard as we could. Eventually, it would turn into a brawl of course. We would just go out it until her mom would come into the living room and scream at us to stop. She was afraid we would kill each other and we might have because it got very competitive. What a great workout it was though. This went on for a few years until Christina decided that she did not want to fight me anymore.She was very big for her age and strong, a great match for me. How disappointed I was. I just moved to brawling with the guys mostly from then on which was fun, but not in the same way.
This could be a catfight between Lynn McCrossin and Roxie Rain if you use your imagination. Check it out.
I can visualize the fight here.

I just love this old photo by the way.

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by lori braun

Summer time and concerts

This is my beach car. I have always loved Corvettes.

It is hard not to speed in this beauty.  I am, you can rest easy,  always prudent when I drive.

I am on my way to see three bands tonight,  Live, Collective Soul and The Blues Travelers.

Great music, great show at the Capital One Theater.

 Live was amazing in this small 3,0 seat venue. Sort of like a personal concert, set on  a slowly spinning stage which was driving the guys in each band just  a little crazy.

Collective Soul and Live performers said that they had never been on a spinning stage before and suggested to the techs that they  speed it up.They did for a while. It was pretty funny.  Great sound system, albeit extremely loud. My ears are still ringing. Probably not good for my hearing. Oh well.

Femalemuscle talklive

I went to visit my friends in Red Hook Brooklyn. They just opened a lovely bar and restaurant. The phone rang and I was informed that it was a FM Talklive call from Stockholm Sweden. I decided to take the call from this tiny old phone booth.

Live from New Zealand it's ShemuscleLive

  I have been hanging out on the webcams at Shemusclelive this week.  So much fun, getting to meet so many of you who barely believed that I was real! 

Brian Moss and I have put together a bunch of crazy female bodybuilders for your viewing pleasure (haha).  Yes, yes, I will do a show for you, but only if you beg.

Happy Birthday, Frank, as you can see I have my cupcake nightgown on for you.

 

Gotham City

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Just flexing after seeing Dark Knight.
Great movie. The Joker is quite amazing.
If you have not seen it, see it this weekend.
It's long, so use the bathroom before the movie starts.

The Dark Knight Review: Fantastic Realism by Jesper Sellerberg

About halfway through The Dark Knight, I realized what was going on and why it looked the way it does. This is perhaps the cleanest looking film I’ve ever seen. When games nowadays try to be graphically gritty to merit the buzzword (Mass Effects applies a “film grain” filter to make the experience more cinematic), The Dark Knight thrives in cleanliness. It is, however, realistic cleanliness. The film is gritty, but not in the visual sense. Nor is it completely realistic. It is a world very much grounded in Chicago as it is in Gotham City, and as such it becomes a fantastic, realistic world.

What I realized was that this film is a realistic depiction of a fantasy world. The grittiness comes through the plot. From the first minute to the last 152nd, Christopher Nolan fleshes out the events of so many plot lines that could merit films on their own, that it is not for nothing some might find the film exhausting. The Dark Knight resembles perhaps more Infernal Affairs (subsequently The Departed) and Heat than Batman Begins, and this is what I found troubling at first. What Nolan does with this film, however, plot wise, visually and musically, is introducing an incredible suspense throughout the first hour and 45 minutes that ascends The Dark Knight into being something short of a masterpiece, if not for all of its, sometimes, fatal flaws.

For Complete review: Great review by Jesper Sellerberg

Blondie, my training partner. Heart Of Glass

This song came out during the tail end of the disco era and seamlessly combines the disco beat while adding a new wave flavor. Extremely innovative band, with a jaw-dropping hot lead singer.Blondie and I trained at a ton of the same gyms over the years. I saw her pumping-up all the time. It was very cool to workout next to Blondie. I loved her music so much back then, and now I love it even more.