TIMDULL2’s BodyBlog of Doom!

Well, here I am again. I haven’t posted in a while so I decided to go ahead and write something interesting for y’all to read.  This time around, I’m not focusing so much on motivations or observations, but on people I see on the ol’ boob-tube that I find to be just amazing.  I’ll go ahead and be a bit lame and call these folks my heroes.  To qualify to be my hero, there’s pretty much only one generally difficult standard to meet - you have to be someone I’d like to sit down and have lunch with sometime.  And those folks are:

 Duane Chapman - aka Dog the Bounty Hunter.  Cult hero?  Perhaps.  Outstanding personality?  Definitely!!  Dog does for Hawaii what I only see Batman doing in the movies.  He goes out and kicks criminal butt on a daily basis.  But that’s only the half of it. Dog has such an air of forgiveness to him that he actually sits down with most people you see him with and talks to them about why they are making bad choices in life.  In one moment, you see Dog yelling “GET DOWN MUTHER F*CKER!!”.  In the next, they’re in the back of the car talking about forgiveness and changing for the better.  Most people that I’ve seen him and his crew beat the crap out of are later in tears and so thankful for what just happened to them.  I just can’t get over this guy.  I mean, c’mon. The man goes by DOG!!  If you haven’t seen the show, I highly recommend it.  It usually aires on A&E on Tuesday nights.  Check it out.  If it doesn’t help to restore your faith in humanity, then you have the right to kick my ass and hope that I ask for forgiveness.

Bear Grylls - Man Vs. Wild -Discovery Channel.  Ok.  He’s an ex-British army dude.  He’s scaled Everest.  He’s parachuted into Africa and broken his back in 3 places and went back to do it again.  He’s crossed the arctic.  He’s drunken water from elephant dung.  His name is BEAR!!!  This guy just all out rocks.  The show, Man vs. Wild, is on Friday nights at 9:00.  The concept?  He gets dropped off in the middle of the Serengheti, Moab, the Alps, a Costa Rican rainforest, a desert island, and all other ungodly parts of the world and shows you how to not only survive, but get out and find humanity in one piece.  The equipment - usually no more than a knife and a canteen and a flint, sometimes less.  I’ve seen the man jump into a frozen lake, quicksand, raging rapids, and float a make-shift raft out to sea only to be surrounded by tiger sharks.  Why?  To show you (us) how to get out alive.  This guy really pumps me up.  If you don’t learn something from watching this guy, then piss off - you’re an idiot.

Phil Pfister - 2006 World’s Strongest Man.  Dude, thanks for taking it back home to the good ol’ USA!!  Not since 1982 has the world’s strongest man been from America.  Jesse Marunde came close last year, but was beaten out by the massive Marius Pud..Pudjan…however you spell his name.  But I gotta give major props to Phil.  He’s no spring chicken, and he’s never been better than 4th place.  But this year, he whooped the pants off the competition, edging out mighty Marius by only half a point.  It all comes down to the atlas stones, as they say every time.  This time, it really did.  Big congrats to Phil, Jesse, and the rest of the Americans still competing each year.  Here’s to 2007 and continued success in the WSM Competition!!

 I guess that’s about all I can think of for now.  Except for one more person…

 Tim Dull (the first) - Yep, that’s my dad.  He turned 50 this past year, but nobody seems to believe it.  With just a touch of grey on the sideburns, he’s my dad.  After graduating high school, he was drafted to play in the minors for the Cincinatti Reds.  He waited another year to go just for my mom to graduate high school.  He pitched for about 2 years, then his arm gave out, so he headed back home to start life with my mom.  He’s worked at a power plant for longer than I’ve been alive.  In fact, he now has a job pretty much like Homer Simpson - gets to sit and watch screens and dials all day long.  Way back in my early days, I watched him blow his knee out in a basketball game.  This February, he’s having it completely replaced and will be laid up for several months. But do you think that’d keep him down?  Not even if I sat on him would that keep him from getting up to shovel snow, cut the grass, or do whatever tasks around the house he has his mind set on.  Dad’s always been there for me, even when I didn’t realize it.  He’s been on my ass forever to lose weight cause I’ve always been on the chunky side.  Now that I’ve joined a gym and am making changes, he’s got my back 100%.  Thanks Dad for being my #1 inspiration - you’re my hero! 

 Alright, enough sappy.  That’s all for now.  Later!

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