So while watching the “Big Mac Man” aka Don Gorske it really seemed like his super power was the ability to eat Big Mac as often as he does while avoiding most of the adverse health effects such a diet would have on most mortals.

This is great evidence of the Theory of Specialized SuperPowers. The theory is a bit long, but one principle of it is that once a superpower is taken, it generally can’t be taken again. So since the good ones like flying were taken early, we don’t have a lot of good ones left. But with humans being the creative people that we are, we figure out more specialized powers to have and cultivate those as Mr Gorske has. Of course his power wouldn’t have been conceived until the creation of the Big Mac so ripoff artists may take a variation on a theme and have a superpower like “ability to eat unlimited In-n-Out Double Doubles Animal Style with no pickles with no adverse health effects.”

I did note the In-n-Out sticker in the directors office and saw that he later admitted that while not eating McDs anymore, he will indulge in the best the fast food world has to offer, In-n-Out….

My favorite shot from the Rebuilding Together Ball on Saturday night…

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Glad to see that Disney is blatantly showing why they want to block Michael Moore’s new movie since they would lose out on tax breaks from Florida Gov and brother of our prez Jeb Bush – wow, imagine that. Check out the full story here.

And more Bush fun…
“In an exclusive interview, Viggo Mortensen, who plays Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings”; talks about his photography, his indie publishing house, and why Bush will go down in history as the Sauron of American presidents.”

What a great subhead! Here’s the article.

Saw this last night and it’s pretty funny – of course it melds my favorite sport (soccer) with martial arts, camp, special effects, and it’s all quite playful. It’s basically a good vs. evil Hong Kong Kung Fu flick meets the Matrix with a lot of Bruce Lee references as well. The film compliments herbal intake as well. Just wish there were better previews although a film called Robot Stories that looked pretty interesting. Seems like robots are the hot thing with I Robot coming out at some point this year as well.

I am glad that science fiction is getting more interesting stories made into film. A friend of mine gave me a Phillip K Dick compilation and I just finished reading it. I think I may have to get some more of him since I will be on the road a bit and travel time seems the best for reading. I’m in the midst of Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber which is a really good read too, although he’s a bit academic in the way he writes.

Viggo Mortensen says in an interview about the LOTR films: “The more I explored Tolkien, the more I felt I had two bosses: Tolkien and Peter Jackson. I tried my best to be loyal to both of them.”

And on the topic of film, I found this site that has some interesting thoughts, one of which I especially liked was the Fight Club = Calvin and Hobbes post.

Ever since I was a little kid I remember enjoying flying. I don’t know if it was the fact that I was doing something that seemed extraordinary or if it was the destination or just the view out the windows.

My first flight was from Chicago O’Hare (ORD) to Anchorage, Alaska (ANC) to Tokyo Narita (NRT). I always loved the three letter abbreviations and back then, the sticker covered hard-covered suitcases that always seemed to exotic on the luggage turnstiles…

I also love people watching and wondering where everyone is going, just enjoying the tension in the air. I think I am going to try and photograph people in flight this year, although with all this terrorism bullshit it might be a bit hard, but we’ll see…

I want to find out where interesting people are going, why they are leaving where they were, and who they are (insomuch as you can with a stranger). Hopefully it’ll be as fun and interesting as I think it will be although having that expectation has already jinxed it a bit I guess – doh!

There was this story about this homeless guy who’s almost a millionaire that was in the Chronicle today. I like the fact that he doesn’t give a shit about money and stuff. Of course being an alcoholic isn’t the coolest thing.

I also saw Monster last night, and first off Charlize Theron is great. I kept trying to visualize the Hollywood version of her during the film but couldn’t. Anyhow the thing I got outta that movie is the same thing – what really matters? If your mind is a bit off-kilter, then what you believe matters may still be grounded in the same thing as what is important to others, but twisted in it’s ‘implementation’

So essentially if love is so important it is just like religion and other things where ultimately people kill each other in the name of it, and justify just about anything, because if something is the most important thing, then that in itself justifies the means…

On a lighter note, on New Years, I didn’t feel much love in the air, but a lot of alochol breath and general lighthearted joy. Only got two pix that I really liked…

Usually going home is not the most exciting thing just b/c there isn’t a whole lot to do in Auburn, but this time, I’m a bit more excited, b/c I’ve decided I am going to find out how my parents met and came to America.

I’m also going to get to hang out with my sister a bit and see Return of the King again so those three things, plus eating some good fried food make me excited to go back to Alabama.

Being in NYC twice in about as many weeks sort of has made me appreciate how going slower and being able to enjoy the pace of life, whatever it may present itself as, is the way to really enjoy life. The context is not everything, and finding enjoyment and maximizing life even when the going is slower is something I’m going to treasure before 2004 kicks in and the orange train picks up even more steam…

The one snow picture

I’m pimping us out to hit you up for some help for our photography collective.

We won a Webby award where we beat out BMW Mini USA and Wisk detergent and are trying to maintain some of that momentum and are entering the Fast Company Fast 50 competition. If we get selected we’d be in their
print mag in a future edition.

You can check out our entry here.

If you can post a few comments and rate our entry that would be awesome
as the deadline is Dec. 1st for entries and comments.

Water pitchers and diplomats just seem to go together. When you see one, you often will see the other in near proximity. Sometimes one or the other will move.