General bollocks - Blackbirds are Indestructible (Page 2)

All the News That's Fit to Fake

Taking a cue from another blog that I read recently, I thought that it might be time to finally return to the idea of posting something political, as I said I was going to do a few months back. Instead, I've been amusing myself by re-reading my old LiveJournal, circa

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The Angry Blackbird Returns

.... and there was much rejoicing! No, the title of this post does not mean that I've reverted to hating everyone and everything. It's a reference to my presence on the old AZInfoline, wherein I would regularly engage forum posters in matters of politics, philosophy, and the like, and generally just

Introspection

Bollocks!

Yeah, three more weeks have passed without an update, partially because it seems like every time I think about writing something it's 3:00 in the morning or somesuch and I make the decision to just bag it and go to bed instead of firing up the blog-o-matic. And as

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Reset.

Once again, I find myself having gone multiple weeks without keeping this thing up to date, and once again, I'm trying to catch up with workout logs and happenings in the life of Raven J. Blackbird. We'll talk about training stuff first. Frankly, the last few weeks have been a

Random thoughts

Blackbirds Can See The Future

I'm just going to point out something that I find incredibly amusing in that "fuck my life" sort of way. Almost exactly one month ago, when I was writing the second of my 2016 retrospective posts, I said the following: ... this is the point where the universe will

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Fuck This Shit.

We're taking a break from workout logs for a moment because a) there are no new workout logs to post right now, and b) because some serious shit was dropped in my lap on the Friday (20 January) before I came out to Telluride, and I've been using my downtime

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Welcome to 2017: Workout Log and Other Garb

It's official, 2016 is in the books and 2017 is upon us. I spent the weekend in Phoenix visiting some friends and family, and for the second year in a row I hit up Arizona's NYE electronic music event, Decadence. Also got in my first workout of the year, a

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Reflections on 2016 - Final

This isn't actually another retrospective post, but instead it's my attempt at predicting what my life will be like one year from now. I could expand the scope of my prognostication and try to make some predictions about the world around me, but given that we're less than one month

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Reflections on 2016 - Part Two

In the first "Reflections" post I talked about some of the things that went AWOL in the past year, but I noted that overall, I think 2016 has actually been rather positive, although judging by the sentiments of some folks I know, this puts me in the minority.

Workout logs

Workout Log (n' stuff): 23-25 December 2016

Some people go home for the holidays, but blackbirds go skiing. As with previous ski trips, I tried to use various mechanisms to capture speed and distance and vertical feet, and once again they all gave substantially different results, although at least I can report that all of the EpicMix

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Reflections on 2016 - Part One

Let me start off by wishing all zero of you that read this a happy ${insert holiday here}, regardless of whatever December or end-of-year festivities you choose to celebrate. Or, if you're like me and you just don't give a shit about any of that stuff, I'll just wish you

Training

The Blackbird Training Plan - Revision 01

Given that this is primarily intended to be a training blog, I should probably write something about my training plans, because no sane blackbird would ever just get up one morning and run 250km without some kind of preparation. As I see it, there are four things working in my