Me: Shazam?! He’s like Superman. Like he was an imitation of Superman but now he’s not.
Her: So you expect me to know about some fake Superman?
Me: It’s Shazam!
Her: (shaking head) You’re the only person in America who knows who he is.
Me: He’s Shazam!
Two major things happened this past week:
- Slept for 9.5 hours. Straight. Without waking up once (ok, maybe once, but that’s it),
- Realized that I cannot change the past.
Both happened on the same night.
Years ago, I secretly decided to compete in mixed-martial arts. Wasn’t planning on telling anyone, was just planning on doing it. But a serious injury derailed that. So spent the next ten years recuperating and being pretty bitter about the whole thing. During that time, people who were my equals, like Bryson, became my betters.
John McCain called the sport human cock-fighting. But he’s wrong. To paraphrase my wrestling coach, it’s not about violence for violence’s sake. It’s strategy, skill, and reasoning overcoming violence. It’s a very nerd-oriented spot.
Am too old to compete professionally. But heard that Al Bundy started rolling in his 40s and’s now a blackbelt; the instructor of the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world only started when he was 29. Rolling for rolling’s sake.
Seeing the doc tomorrow for the ok, and then am gonna see if I can at least train (kinda) hard again. Feel my teeth again.
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Met up with Tess/Clara and my friend Tony for a cup of coffee and a plate of cheese in the meatpacking district. We all keep changing but it’s nice to have people that pop in and out of our venn diagrams as we do it.
As an aside, told Tess that onea my favourite books is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, although it’s a girl’s book. She thought it was odd that I’d identify one book as a girl’s book. Never thought it about it much but I do think that some books are written with girls in mind, some with boys, some for businessmen, etc.
More interesting to me is how people see and hear things in the world. We all have our map of the world.
Location: still hopefully Croxley later
Mood: ambitious
Music: All is calm, all is bright
YASYCTAI: Push-up time. 50? (10 mins/1 pt)
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5 replies on “The Revenge of the Nerds”
I feel your pain man! I was going for my blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do when I had my knee broken, I couldn't do anything with it for a couple years. I'm starting to get back into it though, so I hope you do as well.
@Toliver – It's terrible, isn't it? I actually couldn't train anything for four years and then it took another six to get back to doing what I enjoy most. I'm sorry to hear about your situation, def spend the money and get proper rehabilitation because I didn't and probably easily doubled my recovery time.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an excellent book. How you been Logan Lo?
I've been good! And yourself? You're one of the few people I know still blogging. It's lonely over here!
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