Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Define Stupid. With kids to college, the TV is up for grabs now and for the first time since May, I had an opportunity to reacquaint myself with the Land of Cable TV. It took a couple of attempts before I remembered how the remote works but finally found myself channel flipping between CNN and Fox News in search of the best live aerial shots of the New Orleans devastation. There is only so much of stranded people sitting on roofs one can take and so I flipped further to come across terrain in some respects even more disorienting than a city flooded by water: the 2005 NPC USA Women's Heavyweight Championships. Heather Policky was just flexing her cocktailed muscles pumped full of anabolic Steroids, growth hormones, insulin, IGF-1, PGF-2, Synthol, and god knows what else. I sat spellbound as one impossibly chiseled muscle after another popped and rippled beneath the oil-rubbed bodies flexing themselves on stage. Interestingly, a majority of these (wo)men are in their 40's and rarely taller than 5'5". What does that mean? While most of us would agree that ingesting body enhancement drugs and pumping iron six hours a day a stupidly dangerous thing to do, I must say that it is really no more dangerous than the encouragement of construction in a city that sits below sea level....
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