Entries for the ‘Health’ Category
Princess Leia’s Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher is best known for her role in Star Wars as the irate, nubile, bun-headed Jabbaslave called Princess Leia.
What’s not as well known is that she’s also the author of Postcards from the Edge, which was later adapted into the award winning all-star Oscar-nominated dramafest film of the same name (with Meryl Streep, Shirley [...]
Blood! blood! blood!
Today I donated blood for the first time…
First you have to fill out a form explaining that you’re not a deviant, sexually-perverted, diseased, drug-addled maniac. Then, if they believe you, you head into the ‘mobile donation unit’ (aka BloodMobile) and get to be stabbed in the finger so they can measure your blood iron levels.
After [...]
On smoking…
Okay, so that was funny, but I’m not going to fuck about here. Smoking kills people. All independent surveys show that it’s one of the leading non-natural killers in the world. People do it because it’s addictive.
Nobody enjoyed their first cigarette. I had to choke mine down. It tasted fucking awful and made my head [...]
Do 100 pushups in 6 weeks
Here’s something that I’m going to try and try. By that, I don’t mean try and try again, but rather I mean that I’m going to attempt to try.
I’m about the laziest person I know when it comes to personal exercise, but this site claims to be able to have you doing 100 pushups in [...]

