running makes me feel good but
by uzwi
…this is just about enough to put you off for ever. Why can’t the media leave me to experience my own life ? Why can’t they just fuck off out of my head, & leave me my own reasons for doing what I do ? Why do they have to grasp everything in the cheap utilitarian rhetoric of advice ? What a patronising crock. Here at the Ambiente Hotel’s Lifestyle & Lower Bowel Clinic, our advice to the over 60s has always been: do drugs & unprotected sex with very much younger people, get your immune system down to 30% function, & race stolen cars on the public street. Or just sprawl across the sofa seeing how many times you can masturbate before 11 in the morning (don’t cheat on this by taking vitamin supplements). Binge drink. Self-harm. Don’t wash. & don’t, whatever you do, take up exercise.
In possibly related news, Infinite Thought has found the most magnificent item…
Good advices to all ages…
William Burroughs, a good example to the older generations:
Contrary, toi?
Testify!
I do not want to tone up! I don’t care about increased bone density! I do not want to maintain a healthy circulatory system! I don’t give a toss about reducing bad cholesterol!
Maybe it’s just FUN.
Julian, you know me too well. Paul: tell me about it.
Nothing like a porcine organ donor to make a lady’s day.
>>Maybe it’s just FUN.
But, if you have too much fun, you won’t live long enough to get hooked on some of BigPharma’s highly profitable (un)life prolonging products. And the public health overlords aren’t having that, man. So do your push-ups and be sure to maintain that dull, distant stare that the fella in the Guardian is modeling for you.
This man in the photo reminds me of Fritz Leiber after a close encounter with Mater Tenebrarum.
“…research from Harvard University found that men who burned 2,000 calories a week through exercise lived two-and-a-half years longer, on average, than sedentary men.”
Interesting. So how did they demonstrate it was exercise making the men live longer, rather than better general health making men more likely to exercise? Correlation doesn’t necessarily imply causation.
Ah, you want to work here: we have an in-house gym whose staff will now do “gait analyis” to see if you’re walking properly. I’m off to Odd Bins for a good riojca, then home: enjoy the weekend.
I work out on an elliptical trainer on a regular basis and while I’m sure that makes me a twit (perhaps with an a), I find that it’s the ideal way to read Gravity’s Rainbow. On the machine, GR is a pleasure to read. Off the machine, GR makes me doze off. I feel this vindicates Pynchon, or gyms, or me, somehow.
you fool–Gravity’s Rainbow is a delight. OK, maybe I drank too much before I considered my words, here. But, yes–you fool!
Bernie the Bulb? How could you consider succumbing to slumber…?
Who needs the self-stroke when you have Pynchon?
I feel the urge to do pull ups, alas.
And how about this?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/200592/eric_jones_base_jumping_off_angel_falls/
(He’s 61).
Eric, who also did the first British solo ascent of the Eiger North Face–
http://adventure-eye.com/eiger.shtml
–used to own & run the cafe at Tremadog. Like all middle grade punters I enjoyed getting a cup of tea off him after I’d done Merlin Direct on Bwlch y Moch. I had a cup of tea with him & Jim Perrin once in the 80s, or it may have been the 90s, & I remember thinking that you couldn’t do better in terms of meeting your heroes. I didn’t realise he was younger than me. Perrin would cackle over that.