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The Mr. Olympia Contest

Joe Beese — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:03:26 -0800

(all links possibly nsfw) This weekend, Jay Cutler tries to win back from Dexter Jackson the greatest prize in professional bodybuilding - the title of Mr. Olympia. [You may have heard of one of them.] The best news coverage of the event will be at Bodybuilding.com. The liveliest fan discussion will be at the notoriously free-spoken GetBig. (previously)

He wanted to be a priest, now he's a beast...

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:23:07 -0800

Urlesque curates the Top 10 WTF Bodybuilding Routines. Because nobody does the robot like a guy coated head to toe in glistening lubricant.

The Muscle Shoals Sound

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:18:31 -0800

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section was comprised of four session musicians operating out of the tiny northern Alabama town of town Muscle Shoals. Just four unassuming crackers who happened to have provided the funky underpinning for a huge number of hit songs by, among others, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Paul Simon, Joe Cocker, The Staple Singers , Jimmy Cliff and many, many others. Hey, they were the house band to the greats. Big respect to the men from 3614 Jackson Highway! [note: see hoverovers for link descriptions] Recommended reading: Glory Days: Muscle Shoals 1967 - 1972 Glory Days: Muscle Shoals 1972 - 1980 This short article has a few things to say about the unexpected racial dynamic at work in the Muscle Shoals story: "Apart from all the pop, rock and country hits produced at Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals Sound and the others, the scene's contribution to soul music, specifically, is fascinating in the way that it demonstrates interracial exchange in the creation of music that was soulful, funky, and very conscious, even celebratory, of its blackness." --- "...recordings made by this weird and wonderful group of musicians, who damn near created new ways to talk about race and music, and did it at the height of the Civil Rights/Black Power Movements, in the heart of Dixie". Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: YouTube montage of images and snippets of songs recorded there. Warning: contains abrupt, spirit-jarring segue from Staple Singer's "I'll Take You There" to Bob Seger's "Down On Main Street". Ouch. What's missing from today's music. Working with Duane Allman. Muscle Shoals Horns. Curious historical anecdote concerning Lynyrd Skynyrd. The studio's obituary. And another.

"Double Muscle" Mutants

p3t3 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:02:41 -0800

Myostatin is a genetic protein that affects muscle growth in humans and animals. Scientists have learned a lot about this protein from a noticeable myostatin mutation common in the Whippet dog breed. Whippets with one mutant copy of the gene are faster, so these are desirable for racing dog breeders. But selective breeding has caused increased instances of both copies of the myostatin genes mutating, which results in "double muscle" Incredible Hulk dogs!?

Here's the Beef (cake)

dobbs — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:22:33 -0800

The Golden Age of Iron Men - Online Physical Culture Musem

Complete scans of an odd and very large collection of muscle/fitness publications and profiles of the authors, all from the early part of the century.

Superman born in Germany?

andreaazure — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:02:31 -0800

Superman born in Germany? It appears that "the boy's mutant DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called myostatin that limits muscle growth."

"Now we can say that myostatin acts the same way in humans as in animals," said the boy's physician, Dr. Markus Schuelke, a professor in the child neurology department at Charite/University Medical Center Berlin. "We can apply that knowledge to humans, including trial therapies for muscular dystrophy."

Or other things...

kingmissile — Sat, 04 May 2002 00:12:29 -0800

M.U.S.C.L.E. Revisited. I used to collect all of these pink plastic wrestling figures and now i-mockery has finished the big task of giving names and profiles to all of the original figures. 233 to be exact. Great retro memories for me on this one. Some really bizarre (ie: "Klondular the Barnacle Muncher "), yet extremely funny descriptions for some of these figures. There's also a Mr. Blocky tribute in there. I always hated him though since he made one of the prongs in my ring snap off. He was just too fat.