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Pumping Iron


What can I say? My time at the YMCA has made me into a new, ultra-sexy man. The last time I was able to fit into this outfit was when I was 5.

Seriously though, I have started working out at the local Y with a trainer. That is a big step for me. I give myself 4 out of 5 pats on the back for that one.

In other news, I finished Orthodoxy and Fast Food Nation. I fear that I did Orthodoxy a grave disservice by rushing through it - it is one of those books (written about 100 years ago, mind you) that needs to be read slowly and deliberately, while chewing on a toothpick and sitting at the park. I didn't do that. Chesterton has a habit of turning things on their head. While this is cool at first, it gets old after a while. He is clever, though.
Orthodoxy: C

Fast Food Nation was a blast to read through. I felt like crying during many of the passages that talk about what immigrants have to go through in meat-packing plants. I recommend this book to anybody - very entertaining, and yet oh-so-practical (the last chapter of the book offers solutions to the problems he outlines). This will probably disgust you and disturb you - it did me.
Fast Food Nation: A

Comments

Anonymous said…
Dude, you didn't get my permission to paste your head on top of a picture of my body... not cool!! Next time, please talk to me before you expose my physique all over the internet or I will consider taking legal action. Now, back to your studies!!!
March 9, 2007 at 3:58 PM
Anonymous said…
wow! that's disturbing
March 30, 2007 at 8:35 AM
Anonymous said…
Thanks for writing this.
November 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM
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