Christina Hendricks on the cover of New York Magazine

Yes, please.
Love her.





Article: Woman of the Hourglass
On all the talk about her curves:
"It kind of hurt my feelings at first," she says. "Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious. I was working my butt off on the show, and then all anyone was talking about was my body!"

On Mad Men:
"We’re really spoiled on Mad Men. Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing."

One of my favorite real life couples. . .

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull

I know they were terrible for one another, but their relationship sure inspired some amazing music.

Best Home Design Of Mitolo Beach House

Mitolo Beach House planned by spatial design throughout the rooms. Designed by Enoki . Mitolo Beach House Design located on the plateau, which utilize coastal landscape with a wide glass openings up for interaction between the inside and outside of the building. Interior of this house so arranged with the modern concept of elegant impression. This weekend house designed for comfortable

Art I Love

The Exorcism of the Waves by Alessandro Magnasco, 1735

Violent. Beautiful.

Southeast ACSM

This past Thursday, Dr. Hale and myself traveled to Greenville, S.C., for the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. This three day conference involved meetings and research presentations by faculty and students from across the southeast. I did an oral presentation Friday morning on lateral ankle sprains, and Dr. Hale had a couple of graduate students making presentations. Generally, ACSM is composed more of exercise physiologists than biomechanists, which was never more evident than at the student quiz bowl when they decided to skip the Anatomy category (this was not a popular move with the non exercise physiologists). However, the president of SEACSM, Dr. Grandjean, made a concerted effort to have more biomechanics presentations and tutorials at this year's meeting, and hopefully this trend will continue in the future. Regional conferences are generally more laid back than national conferences, and it is easier to network and discuss research and teaching with other professionals. As you can tell in the picture, we got about 3-4" of snow Friday evening, which was nice for me because we don't get a lot of snow in Mississippi. We plan on returning to the conference next year with a greater number of our students. We want to make Mississippi State a force at this regional meeting.

Let's Go

Jean-Paul Pecqueur, photo by ME, July 2009

Let's Go by Jean-Paul Pecqueur

Patty wants me to write a poem titled
"Poem in Homage to this Poem" mostly
because it has always been about love with her,
about needing to explain away the obvious with her
with reference to the slightly more obvious—
hunger and its descending call notes,
fire’s recourse to flame.

With her it’s all let’s go to the store let’s go to the movies all the time.
It’s all round and round in some Rorschach’s pond
of spontaneous intent
like free falling in an empathic elevator.

If she wasn’t at work right now I would need to invent her.
If the stores ran out of sugar,
if the bees abandoned their hives,
if I wasn’t teaching right now I’d surely call her.

The classroom’s been set on fire, I’d say.
Someone spilt sun all over the desert.
And I’ve this pain in my head that aches like seltzer.
Let’s go and see about those shoes.




***I am lucky to know the Patty of which Jean-Paul speaks in this poem. I know Jean-Paul too, but not as well as I know his Patty. Reading this poem is like looking through a little window at their relationship and I appreciate the candor and smile at the love.

Jean-Paul has a book of poetry. You can buy it HERE.

You can also read more of his work HERE.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope someone gives you a big kiss today whether you like it or not!