Attn, Reasonoids Who Like Contributing Editor Glenn Garvin's Prose Over The Years: Vote For Him as The Biggest Loser!

Contributing Glenn Garvin, the TV critic of the Miami Herald, has given Reason readers many delights over the years. Take a look at his archive fer chrissakes.

Now Glenn is in the fight of his life: He participated in the Herald's fitness challenge and is seeking to win the reader's popularity poll after shedding some 20 pounds from his aged and infirm frame that has suffered from excesses of booze, bacon, and anti-Bolshevism over the years. Check out the video here and make sure to vote for GG here. There's less than two hours to go, so move as fast as Glenn used to whenever the breakfast cart got wheeled into the newsroom!

Comments

[ed]

I voted, obediently. Now I feel unclean.

[Solanum]

That 20 lbs made you look like a new man, Glenn.

[Pro Libertate]

Booze and bacon? Is it possible to synthesize fried bacon in an ethyl alcohol matrix?

[Warty]

What, you don't own any bacon-infused vodka? Dumbass.

[Pro Libertate]

Where's Episiarch to explain?

[strat]

My intuition is that you might want a non-polar solvent to get the lipidy goodness of the bacon fat. If there's a natural congener in vodka that qualifies then you might luck out.

Some of the congeners (the things that give alcoholic beverages their flavor and that probably contribute to hangovers in addition to the osmotic stuff) like acetone are at least polar aprotic solvents but I'm not sure what species of molecules they'd solvate in bacon.

It does sound like a worthy research project though.

[strat]

"Rue the day?" Who talks like that?

[hmm]

One for the old fat guy living under the bridge on government cheese.

[Brian Sorgatz]

I'm experiencing a crisis of loyalty. One of his competitors is a pretty lady.

[zoltan]

These people need StrongLifts 5x5. Actually most people do.

[Warty]

They also need to buy Rippetoe's books so they can learn to squat properly. Whenever I see fratboy shitheads trying and failing miserably to squat, I have a hard time not pummeling them with an Olympic bar.

[.]

Squat Nazi!

[zoltan]

StrongLifts takes the same approach though Rippetoe is way more in-depth. If 300-lb powerlifters can get their ass to the their calves, anyone can with a little practice.