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How to Face the Void
I wrote more today about the gym. I wrote for a long time. Some of it was o.k. and some of it was stilted. I will go back in the morning and see what works. Tonight, though, I feel better than I...
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Strong Man
Even though visits to the site have dropped since I began writing gym stories, some of you have encouraged me to continue, so perhaps we should break out the milk and cookies and have another go.The...
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A Proposition
I think I am over the coronavirus or whatever I had. I did another light workout today, less light than yesterday, and longer, then I took a walk, and I feel fine. There are consequences to having...
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The Phil Donahue Show
Pete Grymkowski was on the run, they said, from a subpoena in another state that would require him to testify against some old business partners who were "connected." So he drove to Florida in his red...
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Friday Night
Look! I kinda did it like the old days. It took me a long time, but. . . getting closer. Still the only one who can do it. I am writing between gym things so that I can talk and show some images....
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Back in the Shit
I don't want to mislead you. The gym was werid before Grymkowski showed up. I wasn't a bodybuilder and never intended to be. Weight lifting for me was a supplement to being athletic. I guess maybe...
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The Tattoo Lady
I have just poured my first whiskey of the day. It is glorious. I know it is a bad, bad friend, but it comforts me nonetheless. It will be here long after I'm gone being master to other fools. What...
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Slow and Selfish
I'm leaving the gym saga aside for the moment. I will probably write more on it today. I'm still trying to find my feet, so to speak, living in perpetual isolation. But I will visit my mother again...
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Lizard
Not everyone at the gym was a champion of some kind. In general, they was a coterie of lunatic misfits and badasses. Training there was like being in prison or being part of a biker gang. I used to...
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Kong in Chains
Look at this, motherfuckers! I worked for hours on this trying to figure out how to make my images look the way they used to. This is not a Polaroid, but a Fuji, so it does not have that same look....
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Brother
After losing his teaching job, Lizard went back to working as a bouncer, and he got a job in a topless dive. It wasn't a fancy place; rather, it was one of those little block buildings on the side of...
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Shit Gets Real
This ain't no April Fool's joke. Shit is getting real. Lockdown seemed to many like a staycation at first. People were out walking and riding bikes. They were smiling and saying hello and laughing...
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Mr. Southland
One thing I should make clear about these gym tales. I can't tell them in chronological order, for the story spreads over twenty-five years. It would get too tedious. So buckle up and remember the...
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Afternoon Walk
Is it the corona virus, or is it me? My blog is dying on the vine. I'm sure it is me. My writing, my lack of photos. I don't know. People have other concerns right now. I shouldn't worry or...
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Prison Time
One day, Van built a little sleeping room above the gym that you entered by climbing up the ladder in the fenced in rear courtyard and opening a metal freezer door. The space was not big enough to...
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Routine
When I got sick, I cancelled the maids, of course. I don't know when they will come back. So I am left to clean my house on my own. I have found out that I am a human pig. I try to clean, but when...
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Afternoon Beer
Covid-19 has taken off here. We will be the next "hot spot" in the U.S. We have a republican governor who would not make a decision to close the beaches nor put in place a stay at home order. Now we...
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Gene
Gene was massive and one of the strongest guys in the gym. His deadlift was almost as good as Lizard's, but his squat and bench press blew everyone else out of the water. He was already established...
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"One Day"
China is out of the house. People are back to shopping and eating out. Tourists attractions were so overrun yesterday that they were turning people away early in the day. Apparently, there is only...
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Tutorial
Not everybody who worked out at the gym was the strongest or the best, of course. Many people came to the gym who never competed in anything. But there were a lot of deviants.Gene, not the...
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