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A Potential New Gym Arch-Nemesis

Rockwell “Rocky” Balboardroom

“Trying hard now…”

From his pinstriped suits to his Dale Carnegie-style, aggressive overfriendliness, Rockwell Balboardroom is clearly a man of power and influence, having achieved (one assumes) a considerable measure of success in his 20-odd years in investment banking (or advertising senior account-repping for Canada’s Conservative “party” (or some other odious profession)).

Tall, blandly-handsome with [...]

2 of My Arch-Nemeses

The Peninsula Pooper

Two truisms:

Everybody reads on the toilet; hell, that’s the only way I get through my issue of Entertainment Weekly in time for the next to take its place on the tank lid.
Nobody likes to poop on a toilet that’s not their own. (Or do they?)

It’s always bothersome when you’re in a can’t-wait-gotta-go-now [...]

Inquiring Calgarian Minds…

Top 5 Questions Asked by Reasonably-Attractive, Semi- and Fully-Naked Men in the Gold’s Gym Steam Room in Northwest Calgary:

So, what do you think of Stephen Harper?
How does Toronto feel about the job Mr. Harper’s been doing?
You look like you had a good workout. Married?
So, is it true that everyone in Toronto hates Stephen Harper?
Do you think you [...]

Apocalypse-Synching

So, this very special day began in a appropriate-enough fashion:

two of the channels (CNN Headline News and CNBC) on the cardio teevees at the gymnauseam were displaying the exact, same commercial (for Jos. A. Bank, satanic granddad clothiers) at the exact, same time
not two minutes later, CNBC had an item on “the Vonage IPO Debacle” [...]

Gymnauseam

Gyms — especially the ones to which I've belonged, it seems — are a clearing-house for strange behaviour. This morning, f'rinstance, a fiftyish, investment-bankerish dude switched the channel on one of the cardio televisions from CNN News Morning to… Saved by the Bell.

But before he did, I was treated to a small item from Tuesday's Larry King [...]