Posts by Rich Lock
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For anyone who wants to know more about Robert Crumb, may I recommend searching out a copy of the 1994 documentary 'Crumb'.
I can understand why he wasn't that enthusiastic about walking into a Murdoch tabloid moral panic.
Especially if you've spent a decent chunk of your life dealing with that shit....
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I've always thought of mountaineering and swimming as the two life prolonging forms of exercise.
With swimming, the water acts to provide a shock-absorbing cushion, so the likelihood of overdoing it and munting your joints and muscles is much reduced. It's also a total body workout, and provides both aerobic and anerobic components.
The above sounds much less humourless if you read it in your best Schwarzenburger accent.
Swimming doesn't suit everyone, though. And I'm not one for mountainclimbing.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Tom Beard,
"Golf is a good walk spoiled" - Mark Twain
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Fortunately I've never been KOed, nor even knocked silly, but professional kickboxers I've trained are clearly quite badly brain damaged by the time they reach their 30s.
Great article here on sports head injuries. The same sort of effects are being seen on soldiers who have had exposure to the concussion waves from explosions.
An (ex-rugby playing) GP once sat me down and gave me a pep talk about the exercise industry, and how it mostly did more harm than good, with most people doing whatever sport they were doing badly and wrong, the short-term health benefits that they were sold on being far outweighed by the more long-term problems they were storing up for themselves. Running leading to joint problems, asymmetric body development from incorrect weight training, etc.
Unfortunately, he did rather spoil the effect by misdiagnosing my ankle injury, which has lead to some permanent incapacity. But there you go.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Amy Gale,
What are your thoughts on shearing? Because I want to get behind that
I will never again be able to even think about shearing without remembering David's bus story.
Are you shearing that sheep, Megan, or should I get my own? :)
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Skydiving is not a sport, but it is really dangerous
Oh, not that dangerous, really. If something goes wrong with your parachute, you have the rest of your life to sort it out.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
What a waste of a good fistmobile.
Well, that's what you are meant to think...;)
Well, we could all pretend I meant 'waste' as in 'what a waste to use it in that daft campaign in the first place, when it could instead be put to a better use leading a revamped Hero Parade along K Road'.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Chess is definitely a sport then.
Chess boxing should be an Olympic sport.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
admittedly stolen from Kurt Vonnegut
So it goes.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
What, pray tell, is a Rugby World Cup? (Memo to self: Blackmail Maggie Smith into recording my answering machine message.)
Possibly a little too much channelling of The Spirit of Lady Bracknell*, but wonderful, nonetheless.
*Great name for a yacht. Which would of course come with barista and fully-stocked bar and tender.