That bicycle guy, Lance Armstrong, is annoying. One reason he’s annoying is because he’s the type of smug overachiever that throws the bell curve off for the rest of us. The other reason is he’s a cancer survivor that was famous before he got cancer, and he beat it, and now he’s all like, hey, I beat cancer and I can still beat a bunch of Frenchmen in a bicycle race, so can you.
Well goodie for you. Ya friggin’ bastard.
It was okay at first; I was like, “hey, good for the bicycle guy”. But then he’s all over the place, staring at me though the TV like, “why don’t you get off your ass and do something? I won like, a million tour-de-Frances, and I only have one nut. What have you done with your life?”
I don’t remember Lance Armstrong being like, “Oh, hey, cancer is bad” before he got cancer. Michael J. Fox didn’t care about Alzheimer’s either until he got it.*
And Christopher Reeve didn’t give a rat’s ass about spinal cord research and crippled people until he fell off his horse during an equestrian tournament in 1995. I always assumed he fell off playing Polo, and I always thought, “only rich assholes play Polo.” So I was wrong.
But I learned something else about Christopher Reeve during extensive research (I typed “Christopher Reeve” in Wikipedia). I learned that in 1987 he saved 77 actors, directors and playwrights from the death penalty in Chile by leading a rally. These artsy-fartsy folks had criticized the dictator Augusto Pinochet and were sentenced to death, but the publicity Reeve got leading the rally saved their lives.
So. How many people did Lance Armstrong save? 1. How many did Christopher Reeve save? 77.
Damn, this was one pointless blog entry. Enjoy
*I stand corrected. MJF has Parkinson's Disease.
Well goodie for you. Ya friggin’ bastard.
It was okay at first; I was like, “hey, good for the bicycle guy”. But then he’s all over the place, staring at me though the TV like, “why don’t you get off your ass and do something? I won like, a million tour-de-Frances, and I only have one nut. What have you done with your life?”
I don’t remember Lance Armstrong being like, “Oh, hey, cancer is bad” before he got cancer. Michael J. Fox didn’t care about Alzheimer’s either until he got it.*
And Christopher Reeve didn’t give a rat’s ass about spinal cord research and crippled people until he fell off his horse during an equestrian tournament in 1995. I always assumed he fell off playing Polo, and I always thought, “only rich assholes play Polo.” So I was wrong.
But I learned something else about Christopher Reeve during extensive research (I typed “Christopher Reeve” in Wikipedia). I learned that in 1987 he saved 77 actors, directors and playwrights from the death penalty in Chile by leading a rally. These artsy-fartsy folks had criticized the dictator Augusto Pinochet and were sentenced to death, but the publicity Reeve got leading the rally saved their lives.
So. How many people did Lance Armstrong save? 1. How many did Christopher Reeve save? 77.
Damn, this was one pointless blog entry. Enjoy
*I stand corrected. MJF has Parkinson's Disease.
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3 Comments:
you have serious serious issues
FYI: Michael J Fox doesn't have Alzheimers, he has Parkinson's Disease. But you're right... Lance Armstrong is a cocky SOB.
I could care less about LA beating a bunch of bike riding frogs, no major achievement to me. However, he did nail Cheryl Crowe, and to me that is an achievement.
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