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Pole Vaulting

There’s nothing like starting off a Sunday (the holy day of the week if you’re a Christian) by talking about pole dancing. I mean, if you’re going to hell anyway, you might as well enjoy yourself before you go.

I know I’m probably very late to this particular party, but I just found out that there are ladies out there who are trying to get fit by doing a little strip. Sort of. That is, there are fitness centers that show the ladies how to pole dance (you know, like in a strip club. Not that we’ve ever been to one. We’ve just heard about it from some of our less-reputable friends, right, dudes?) and how to use it as a fitness solution.

Because, really, what woman doesn’t look up to strippers and hope for that sort of career for their daughters?

Still, that’s what I call a great idea. I’m all for more ladies learning to dance the pole. (heh, that was a double entandre and I didn’t even mean to do it. I must be a genius. Even if I can’t spell entandre correctly.)

Not only are these “fun and fitness dance studios” using pole dancing to help women get fit, they’re also hosting parties for ladies looking to have a little fun and learn a little something as well. In fact, there might even be a bachelorette shower going on at a local Charlotte studio, pole dance charlotte, right now. I now there was one this weekend as my wife, She Who Must Boogie, was part of it.

I can’t wait to see what she’s learned.

– Richard

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Dude Review: Terminator Salvation

Notice the movie title didn’t have an actual colon in it? I thought for sure it would be Terminator: Salvation, but I was wrong. So very, very wrong. So, here’s the deal. I am a Terminator fan from way, way back. I loved the first movie and I adored T2, which was so good it didn’t even need an actual name. Just letters and numbers. Now that’s awsome, yeah?

I’ve been waiting for this movie since the last time I saw T2, even thought I didn’t now it. Both Terminator and T2 were set in the present day. Whereas Terminator Salvation is set in the future, during the actual war against the machines. The war that John Connor and his mother had been fighting for so very long to prevent. Guess what? They didn’t prevent the war. In fact, it came no matter what. Of course, it was completely unlike the war against the machines as seen in TV’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (Notice the colon there? Maybe that’s why it got canceled by Fox.)

Here’s the deal, though. My middle little dude loved the movie. I loved the movie. Right up until the last 15 minutes or so. I’m going to put a

spoiler warning

here, so only read on if you don’t mind knowing what happens at the end of the movie.

Okay, you were warned.

A heart transplant? Seriously? In the field? Without preparation? And it works? Really? That last fifteen minutes really dragged the movie down from a great flick to a merely good movie. Something that can be seen and forgotten far too quickly.

I was hoping for a movie that put the capstone onto the Terminator movies, something that showed us how bad it was for the humans during the war against the machines. What I got was a good movie that succumbed to horrible editorial rewriting and the Hollywood desire for a happy ending. Terrible. Just terrible ending.

Christian Bale does a great turn as John Connor, growling a little less than he does as Bruce Wayne, which is always good. Dallas Bryce Howard is almost unrecognizable as Connor’s wife, while Moon Bloodgood (who’s name I just can’t say enough) is bold and believable as a resistance fighter.

end spoilers

Now that the movie is out and it’s been kicked in the head by Night At The Museum 2, I’m a bit worried that this franchise can be redeemed. We’re going to need at least two more movies to get this back on track. Let’s see if Christian Bale and co. can do the job.

For now, this movie gets three and a half dudes out of five, if only because I loved watching humanity and machine duke it out before the really stupid ending.

– Richard

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Freaky Friday: Glow-In-The-Dark Monkeys

Okay, let’s get one thing out of the way first: Monkeys are inherently funny. We love monkeys. The sillier the better. So. Monkeys good. Genetically enhanced monkeys? Even better. Giant genetically enhanced monkeys? Can’t be topped.

Unfortunately, I know we’re not going to talk about giant genetically enhanced monkeys. Just the plain vanilla genetically enhanced monkeys. That glow green under a special light. How cool is that?

Here’s a quick look at the marmosets.

See? Cool.

Japanese researchers have genetically engineered monkeys whose hair roots, skin and blood glow green under a special light, and who have passed on their traits to their offspring, the first time this has been achieved in a primate.

They spliced a jellyfish gene into common marmosets, and said on Wednesday they hope to use their colony of glowing animals to study human Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.

Erika Sasaki and Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine in Japan used a virus to carry the gene for green fluorescent protein into monkey embryos, which were implanted into a female monkey, and four out of five were born with the gene throughout their bodies.

One fathered a healthy baby that also carried the new genes, they reported in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

The protein glows under blue and ultraviolet light, allowing researchers to illuminate tumor cells, trace toxins and to monitor genes as they turn on and off.

Okay, yeah, we’re talking a medical advancement that could mean a better life for a lot of people. Almost as important, though, would be this: GREEN MONKEYS!

Go, science!

Now if only we could get something like this approved for humans. I mean, imagine kids getting these sorts of genes. You wouldn’t have to turn on the light to find them outside at night, just flash a little ultraviolet at them, no need to disturb the neighbors. Oh, yeah, now we’re talking.

– Richard

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