Sometimes I get a little snippet in my head and I just know that it’s going to be the start of something insightful and brilliant.
This isn’t one of those times.
My Uncle Phil and Aunt Selene,
A cheaper pair you’ve never seen.
One day he packed his bags and ran
but first turned off the ceiling fan.
Stipulated that you are so great and wonderful that the Universe indeed owes you a living.
So what’s your plan to collect?
Shots from the 2012 Gateway Classic and Lake City Championships, held April 21st in Lake City, FL, are up on the site.
Tony Curtis put on another well-run show, and everyone appeared to have a great time.
Shots from the 2012 Orlando Metro, held April 7th in Orlando, FL,are up on the site.
Sorry for the delay, it’s been insanely hectic of late and I’ve also been fighting with my Web host over some RAM restrictions that have been interfering with the normal operation of the site.
The Gateway shots should be up in short order, and I also did a shoot with Peggy Hilbert recently that will provide a nice update to her page.
Just got done entering the info from the official 2012 NPC schedule into the lucas-photo.com searchable database.
I tweaked the input mechanism several times too, so things did go comparatively quickly, but a lot of the information is already slightly out of date, and where the promoters had an active website for 2012 I tracked down additional information that the official page doesn’t have yet.
With the addition of yet another set of classes– Men’s and Women’s Physique– I am envisioning a grid format for both display and input of the information, but more on that when I have a chance to play with it.
Speaking of…
I saw the women’s physique class for the first time at the Orlando Metro show this weekend. While men’s physique has much more of a latent GQ quality about it, women’s physique appears to have the exact format as women’s bodybuilding– presumably the judges are using just using different criteria.
They certainly looked like local-level bodybuilders to me.
Me, I don’t really know what to make of it all. In the short term, the new divisions might increase participation and attendance.
At the same time, though, there’s no question that it’s further diluting the product. (There were zero female bodybuilders in this show. I counted them. Twice).
One has to wonder about the condition of that product when someone gets inspired to slice the cake into still thinner slices. Considering that there are already competitors out there who could successfully cross anywhere from bikini up to physique, or from figure to bodybuilding, what factors are left to differentiate them?
As I said, I don’t really know what to make of it.
Liberty, slippery as quicksilver:
either everyone has it, or nobody does.
In a world where “winning” a cause
is merely a frantic grab for popular approval
while ignoring the burden of verified facts,
the line between oppressor and oppressed
becomes a Möbius strip.
As darkness is merely the absence of light,
lies are merely the absence of truth,
the absence of substance.
This must be asked: Are you living a lie?
Are you sure?
There is no malice here.
Even Dillinger thought he was doing the right things in life. Even Al Capone.
Perhaps everyone thinks this right now.
Some of them are right. Who is to say?
Not I. I barely have wisdom enough to know
that no man has ever stored wisdom enough
to choose another’s path while walking his own.
We each must continue to test ourselves. That is our responsibility as stewards of Liberty.
The test is to carry Truth with you at all times; Truth made of verified facts.
Find a way to load that heavy anvil onto your ideals.
If you can’t lift both,
one must change.
Good luck to you if you choose to change what you mean by “truth”.
Perhaps, sometimes, it is truly necessary to do so. Who is to say?
But if this is your choice, show your neighbors some respect.
To paraphase Heinlein on the subject,
do it in private,
and wash your hands afterwards.
Sorry for the unannounced outage, folks. I just had my server migrated to a newer system and some miscommunication between my host led to the DNS entry not being modified in the expected timeframe.
Everything should be up and running now, though.
Apropos nothing: “Act of Valor” is a great movie. Go see it.