http://weakinrock.com "I was born into a generation of ninnies. It has made me tired." - Steve Albini Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:10:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en File this one under the heading of "Idiotic Lengths Parents Will Go To." Concerned with potential injuries, a group of "concerned" parents in Toronto have started up a non-contact ice hockey league for their kids. I'll let that sink in for a minute. Yes, you read that correctly.  Non-contact ice hockey.  You can ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/04/15/this-really-has-to-stop/ Well folks, as of Friday morning's weigh-in I'm at 144 lbs.  Pretty impressive considering this past week has been the biggest shirker week I've had since the holidays.  I went to the gym a grand total of once this past week. Granted, I ran 3 miles, but still, one trip to ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/03/21/progress-report-5/ As of my weigh-in this morning I am officially no longer overweight. My BMI is below 25 for the first time in lord knows how long. I'm not done, but I am almost there. At 146 lbs and some change this is the lightest and leanest I have been since I was in ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/03/11/progress-update/ You know, I've about had it with this whole [tag]zombie[/tag] trend.  If you hadn't noticed, everything has zombies in it now.  I blame the success of two movies - [tag]Shaun of the Dead[/tag] (which is actually pretty awesome) and [tag]28 Days Later[/tag] (which was just sort of freaky). I think the ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/02/17/and-zombies/ Selig comes out today and says that A-Rod "shamed the game" by using performance enhancing drugs. You have got to be kidding me. So, one player, albeit a very high profile player, brought shame to the game through PED use, but Selig, all 30 MLB team owners and the half-wits who run the ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/02/12/bud-selig-has-balls-the-size-of-texas/ I've railed often about the plague of abject stupidity in our nation and the world at large, but today's post from [tag]Scott Adams[/tag] on his Dilbert Blog has made me reconsider.  We need the morons, the nitwits, the ultramaroons to save our bacon.  Money quote: Our past economic booms depended heavily ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/02/09/i-stand-corrected/ I used to clutter up this space at the end of every year with a smart-allecky list of the top records of the year, followed by feeble attempts to find a witty way to say "I have no idea who any of these artists are, but they all suck.  Now ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/02/09/top-5-from-the-future/ On the one hand I'm depressed at the disintegration of print journalism as the result of the economic non-viability of the newspaper business model.  On the other hand we have this whole [tag]Michael Phelps[/tag] bullshit bong brouhaha that makes me eager for the demise of what passes for journalism today. I'd ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/02/06/the-press-makes-me-tired/ No one said this was going to be easy. This was a major backslide week in terms of nutrition.  I fault the Super Bowl and the party we threw.  There was entirely too danged much food in our house this week because our guests simply failed to live up to their ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/02/06/progress-report-3/ Ok, so this week wasn't great, [tag]fitness[/tag]-wise.  I didn't get to the gym as often as I'd planned to or do all the workouts in my program.  I did manage to get in 2 runs though, which is good, for a total of 5 miles.  Somewhere along the line though ... http://weakinrock.com/2009/01/24/progress-report-2/