Teddy Atlas

Teddy Atlas to heavyweight contender Mchael Moorer, on his motivation problems:

" 'Just a day!' Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be? You don't do it just when you feel good. You don't do it just when you're not tired. You don't do it just when it's sunny. You do it every day of your life. You do it when it hurts to do it, when it's the last thing in the world that you wanna do, when there are a million reasons not to do it. You do it because you're a professional."

quote of the day

'A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.'The quote is attributed to Lazarus Long.

Funniest film review ever -- - 300

I found this today; haven't seen 300 yet myself.



I just saw a movie that’ll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It’s called 300. I don’t know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could’ve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it’d still rule.
It’s about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated shit out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.
The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it’s sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, “I need some extra sauce packets” guess what? You’re getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.
I can’t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN’T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that’s hitting someone’s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN’T LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:
HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES
Who gives a shit if the music isn’t historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could’ve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Wetzel’s Pretzel is telling you that you’ll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:
FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS
Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There’s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he’s got Rosie O’Donnell on his back.
Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:
DUDE NUDITY (“DUDE-ITY”)
These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they’re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.
Any directors reading this – IT’S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.
Can’t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?
My final analysis is 300 the most ass-ruling movie I’ve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf.

(Credit to Aintitcool.com)

Hi,

Last week, on a weekday around noon, I was home with my baby daughter. I had called in sick to work and my partner was off renewing her auto insurance.

We live in a small housing co-op with 5 units, all connected and we share a backyard.

I was in the backyard with my baby trying to calm her crying and I saw two "sharks" prowling along the alley (I live in a friendly but very high crime neighbourhood with an extreme number of addicts living within a 40 minute radius).

I went into my house and saw them walk by the sidewalk adjacent to the front window, obviously peering in through the window. Then they were gone.

About 5 minutes later I was in the bedroom trying to calm my crying baby when through the window, about 6 feet away I saw one of the sharks at my neighbour's back door.

Adrenaline goes into overdrive here. I am alone with my baby, that's the first thought. Second is to protect our neighbour's home.

I put the baby in the stroller, and she's still crying like crazy. The BG doesn't seem to be paying attention to the noise she's making. Then I call my other neighbour on the cell, thinking she'll come around the other side of the house, into my apartment, so I can deal with the situation.

As I am talking to here on the cell I realize that she has gone out into the backyard (where the BG is) by herself. She is also totally untrained though gutsy! So, another priority, protect her!
When I realize this I have to make a quick weapon decision, and I grab my folder (I do not live in a gun friendly place). I open the back door and see her close to the two BGs and they are all lose to the back fence. She is arguing with them, telling them to leave.

I yell from the back porch (about 40 feet away from the BGs):
"Leave NOW. Leave RIGHT NOW or I'll CUT YOU UP" (brandishing my knife).
As they start to leave I yell :"I'm calling 911 RIGHT NOW" and I do so.

Anyways, they take off down the alley and into someone's backyard. I don't think anymore came of it that day.

I know that there are things that I probably did well and at least one big mistake.

Big one: I should have picked a blunt weapon instead of a blade. Adrenaline and pre-conditioned thinking probably effected my decision in this way. (And I simply had no idea what kind of trouble my neighbour was in at that point. A blunt object threat would have simply been easier and less legally dodgy to carry to carry out my threat with.

Be safe.

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