Day 227: The Workout of the Century

 

August 15th, 2011As you can see based on today’s work-out equipment pictured above, my P90x routine came back today, and boy was it the work-out of the century. Having not done it for months, it was a strain simply to do a few pushups, pullups, and ab work-outs. In the morning I went to EH&S having to go to 5 different labs in the school of medicine to deliver stickers. I rewarded myself with Panda Express for lunch shortly thereafter, before going home to rest for a bit. THEN, THE KILLER WORK-OUT which took 90 (roughly) minutes of my time). I ended the night eating noodles (gross), talking to Tyler and Lauren for a bit, and then carrying out the rest of the night in my room. It’s been a chill couple of days lately, but I need to start going out more. Shrug. >:)

On this day in 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel. Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more. Plans for the festival were on the verge of foundering, however, after both Woodstock and the nearby town of Wallkill denied permission to hold the event. Dairy farmer Max Yasgur came to the rescue at the last minute, giving the promoters access to his 600 acres of land in Bethel, some 50 miles from Woodstock. SCARY….

Ron Paul finished just 152 votes behind Michele Bachmann in the Ames Straw Poll, but from the headlines and TV news coverage, it’s hard to tell he even showed up. With the exception of The New York Times and The Des Moines Register, most major newspaper headlines didn’t even mention his name in their reports of Saturday’s contest. Nor was he anywhere to be found on the Sunday morning talk shows. By Monday’s second-day stories, Paul had disappeared from the prevailing narrative of the Republican primary race altogether, as consensus coalesced around the dynamics between Bachmann, newcomer Rick Perry and front-runner Mitt Romney. FUCK THE MEDIA. RON PAUL 2012. THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES.

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