Spinervals-I like it

I was sitting around watching some late night TV the other day when one of those fitness infomercials came on.  But this one wasn’t for the Insanity Workout or P90X, it was for some kind of Spinning Workout. So I hop over to Amazon and find about 120 Spinning DVDs.  Well, I guess I am a bit behind the times here. So I got one called Spinerval Ultra Conditioning.  I like the cutesy name and it’s a workout that combines stationary bike work with pushups and dumbbells.  It’s an intense workout, but any DVD based training is easier than hitting…

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Lift that barge, tote that bail

My dear sainted mother was a big fan of musicals of all forms and sizes. As a result I grew up watching TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) and so and so forth. I also got to see such turkeys as The Little Prince and Paint Your Wagon. The last new musical I watched and really loved was Victor/Victoria and that was twenty-five years ago. I might have liked All That Jazz, if they had hired someone who could sing or act…

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