I Have A Dream...

Barack to the Future, Part 2

Man vs Nature

http://vimeo.com/56093731#

Less IS More

2013 Year of the Snake

2012 was an especially short and quick year even with the extra day. Instead of recapping/ reliving the past I am going to make some New Year goals for 2013.
Year of the Snake - my astrological sign.

• Read every day
• Draw in my sketchbook daily
• Create/ make art/ play music
• Smile more, especially at the end of races while being chicked by the wife.
• Write in this dang blog once in a while.
• Stretch/ Abs/ Core/ Upper body exercise
• Run a minimum mile a day @ ChiRunning
• Relax, Breathe, Slow down.
• Be in the moment.
• Embrace whatever life throws at me.

Blue Ridge Mountains

Happy New Year!

Merry XMas

Guns aren't cool, fools!

The NRA loon, gun nut buffoon blamed the violent video games (which I'm sure none of his 4 million members played), Hollywood movies, absence of armed policemen in schools, pure evil, Glee, the media, mental illness and even Hurricane Sandy.

A few years back this same yahoo called federal agents "jackbooted government thugs."  Apparently now he wants these same "thugs" to guard every school in America. I thought the whole point of owning guns was to protect yourself from the evil big bad government.

I agree with him about keeping a national database of mentally ill people, just as long as Wayne LaPierre is the first one on that list, followed by the names of all those who own semiautomatic assault weapons.

Lack of Common Sense = NRA

"My 6 year-old child's right to not get shot in the face trumps your right to have an assault rifle."

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," NRA's Executive VP Wayne LaPierre said. So according to his own words, Adam Lanza became a good guy the moment he shot himself. And all of a sudden now the "government" workers AKA the cops just became the "good" guys overnight?

Violence Against School Children

http://www.enigmaterial.com/dateline/vn_1974/AR19740415.html

The above link is an article about a mortar shell bombing at my elementary school in Viet Nam. The date was March 9, 1974. I was 8 years old and in the third grade at the time. Thirty two students were killed, 50 others were wounded and 1 teacher died. Strangely I did not know any of the victims and I can barely remember the event. There were lots of media coverages in the weeks to follow, now that I did recall.

The Newtown, Connecticut school shooting yesterday brought back memories from almost 40 years ago for me. The shock, disbelief, outrage, sadness, anger, and confusion are still there. Read the last sentence of the article. Nothing has changed much in five decades.

I have some observations and thoughts about all this. First, guns and ammunition are too easily and cheaply available in America. Second, young people nowadays have a hard time dealing with anger management issues. Third, self-control, and personal responsibility are concepts most kids and parents do not teach or learn. The combination of these things in addition to the glamorization/ glorification of the violence by weapons in the entertainment industry (music, video games, movies and TV) were the reason for a tragedy like Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Atlanta Track Club Grand Finale

Got this shirt for running all 14 Grand Prix series races
of the Atlanta Track Club 2012 season.  
It starts all over again on New Year's Day (1/1/13)

Housecats heaven

These are some of our professional sunbathers.

Occupy Black Friday

Turkey Day

Shoes. All Minimalist. All the Time.

So here's the current rotation:
Top Left: Brooks Mach 11, Mizuno Wave Ronin2, Green Silence, Brooks T6,
K-Swiss Kruuz, Stems, Altra Instinct, Altra Adam, New Balance 730,
Green Silence (purple) and RunBranca Huaraches.

You better Redneckognize

Yeah...Tell me about it.

Missing

Super Saturday

* A new blog from my favorite person, check it out @ Runin' My Life 

*A quote for the school Administration:
"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone"-Bill Cosby

The Silver Comet Trail in Smyrna, Georgia

Three Easy Steps

Voila!  Mission Accomplished.

Why not vote for me?

Halloween

Angry Love Birds

ArtoberFest

Eight more days until Four More Years

'Cause I'm a Sophisticated Swine

What the heck are PKs and Idolaters?

School Daze

A typical day in the classroom

Speak English or Get Out!

"Teecher, I got an A in spilling."
Here are more nuggets from the Huffington Post Comedy Page:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/13-ironic-speak-english-signs_n_1906008.html#slide=1553023

ChiRunning marries method and mindfulness

Chi running marries method and mindfulness | Yahoo! Health

Chicago Teachers Union

Dedicated to the teachers in Chicago. Well done ladies & gentlemen.

Project ChairWatch 2012, Day 10

According to Republicans: America should be run like a business, corporations are people, and the President is a chair.

Hello Mister Obama!

What kind of a runner are you?

Are you a rain or shine kind of runner?

Yes, I've run in all kinds of weather conditions. The lowest temperature was -18F wind chill in Vermont and highest was 103 in Georgia this summer.

Chair Watch Day One

Inspired by Dirty Harry/ Clint Eastwood, A chair a day until the election in November.

Kiss My **s

Altra Adam shoes

Let the Games begin...

My running outfit this morning for Day 599.

Bowling for Columbine

Thanks Mike Moore for this 2002 film.  Required viewing for all Americans.

Garbage

My theme for running today:  The Trick is to Keep Breathing.
My current listening pleasures: Dead Can Dance, Pixies, Garbage, and Beastie Boys.

Moral of the story

Guns are not toys. Assault weapons are made for one purpose: to kill. As quickly as possible. Rapid fire semi-automatic high-powered killing machines.  Stop glorifying and glamorizing them.  If you love your guns, then you love death. End of story.


"GUNS" from Negativland.  This song is timeless even after 20+ years. I used to play this on KCR-Radio, San Diego State University radio station when I was a DJ there in 1989-90.

What is wrong with America and its love affair with guns, death and destruction?
There is one thing I agree with Willard Mitt Romney: in 1994 he said,"I don't line up with the NRA."  A decade later, as governor of Massachusetts, he signed legislation making a state assault weapons ban permanent. If it was up to me, I would ban all assault weapons and charge each bullet at least $100. There is actually no mentioning of "the right to bear" bullets in the Second Amendment. Have you ever heard someone say: Nuclear bombs don't kill people, people kill people?  Let's not ban nuclear weapons. We all should have the right to own nukes, right?  Nope, me neither.
The Democrats and Republicans are a bunch of spineless and gutless weasels for letting the ban on assault weapons lapsed in 2004. Obama, you've got blood on your hands my brother.

Why do you need guns anyways?  You mean guns trump your trust in a G*d?
Shouldn't you have more faith in a higher power to protect you?

How to be an Artist

Peachtree Road Race

Happy Birthday America

How to be happy, to-do list

Learn How To Fly