I haven’t been very disciplined for the past several weeks. I’ve been on the road since April 2 and it’s been chaos. The two weeks leading up to my leaving Denver for the “March to Fulfill the Dream” were also nuts. This is no excuse though.

As of 60 days I weighed 178 pounds. I started out at 196 pounds. The first 30 days I lost 13 pounds and the second 30 days I only lost 5 pounds. I had actually lost more than that but then gained a little back.

Feel free to give me shit but please don’t give up on me.

Split Estate
Thursday, April 22
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation

Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.

Zeroing in on Garfield County, Colorado, and the San Juan Basin, this clarion call for accountability examines the growing environmental and social costs to an area now referred to as a “National Sacrifice Zone.”

This is no Love Canal or Three Mile Island. With its breathtaking panoramas, aspen-dotted meadows, and clear mountain streams, this is the Colorado of John Denver anthems — the wide-open spaces that have long stirred our national imagination.

Exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act, the oil and gas industry has left this idyllic landscape and its rural communities pockmarked with abandoned homes and polluted waters. One Garfield County resident demonstrates the degree of benzene contamination in a mountain stream by setting it alight with a match. Many others, gravely ill, fight for their health and for the health of their children. All the while, the industry assures us it is a “good neighbor.”

Ordinary homeowners and ranchers absorb the cost. Actually, we all pay the price in this devastating clash of interests that extends well beyond the Rockies. Aggressively seeking new leases in as many as 32 states, the industry is even making a bid to drill in the New York City watershed, which provides drinking water to millions.

As public health concerns mount, Split Estate cracks the sugarcoating on an industry touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels, and poignantly drives home the need for real alternatives.

House of Numbers
Monday, March 22
7:00 PM
Hooked on Colfax
3215 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

In House of Numbers, an AIDS film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten. This is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players; in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. House of Numbers could well be the opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic gone awry.

Followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Brent Leung

http://www.houseofnumbers.com

“Leung manages to present a barrage of intriguing theories debunking our generally accepted beliefs… There’s no denying, however, the value of exploring such game-changing topics as how HIV-infection numbers are cooked for monetary and political gain; how the effects of global poverty may have led to so many AIDS-related deaths; how such widely used AIDS drugs as AZT have, themselves, often proved fatal; and whether HIV really exists.”

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

Today I was able to make it down to Qi Denver Athletic Club. I did 40 minutes on the bike (really pushing myself) and 2000 meters on the row machine (about 8 hard minutes). I also did 2 sets of 20 - lat pulldowns @ 90 lbs, 2 sets of 20 - chest press @ 60 lbs, 2 sets of 20 - shoulder press @ 40 lbs.

3.11.10 FOOD LOG

11:30 AM
yogurt with granola, sliced banana and apple

3:00 PM
Green leaf salad with onion, cucumber, tomato, and balsamic vinegar.

7:30 PM
Mercury Cafe: bean, mushroom, and spinach enchilada. two glasses of red wine.

I was completely swamped today and didn’t get a workout in.

3.10.10 FOOD LOG

10:30 AM
Bowl of fruit with watermelon, melon, cantaloupe, pineapple, grapes, and
blueberries

2:00 PM
Green leaf salad with onion, cucumber, tomato, and balsamic vinegar.

6:30 PM
Hornet Restaurant: Veggie sandwich and sweet potato fries

10:30
Hornet Restaurant: Pita and Hummus, broccoli & cauliflower. 2 shots of infused vodka.

Today I went on a 45 minute mountain hike.

3.9.10 FOOD LOG

10:00 AM
bowl of fruit with watermelon, melon, cantaloupe, pineapple, grapes, and blueberries

2:30 PM
Green leaf salad with black beans, onion, salsa, and avocado

8:15 PM
Pasta and Puttanesca sauce, glass of wine, 2 beers

Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
Monday, March 15
7:00 PM
Hooked on Colfax
3215 E. Colfax Ave, Denver
$5 suggested donation or 1 hour volunteer

For the first time ever, our children are growing up less healthy than we are. As the rate of cancer, infertility and other illnesses linked to environmental factors climbs ever upward each year, we must ask ourselves: why is this happening?

Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground - children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food industry, the competing interests of agribusiness and public health, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical, sustainable solutions that we can all take part in. Food Beware is food for thought - and a blueprint for a growing revolution.

Today I did 20 minutes on the bike, 1000 meters on the row machine, 30 reps - chest press @ 60 lbs., 30 reps - shoulder press @ 30 lbs., 30 reps - low row @ 60 lbs., 30 reps - vertical traction @ 90 lbs., 30 reps - pectoral @70 lbs.

3.8.10 FOOD LOG

11:00 AM
yogurt with granola, sliced banana and apple

1:30 PM
handful of pistachios

4:45 PM
Green leaf salad with black beans, onion, salsa, and avocado

11:00 PM
bean and cheese enchilada

Here’s a talk Dr. Gino Strada (co-founder of Emergency) gave in L.A. in 2006. In it he talks about why they founded Emergency and about some of the work they’ve been doing for civilian war victims since 1994.

Today I did a 45 minute hike in the mountains.

3.5.10 FOOD LOG

11:00 AM
Sweet potato hash with salsa and 1 egg

2:00 PM
1 banana

4:30 PM
Green leaf and spinach salad with onion, cucumber, tomato, banana peppers, and red wine vinegar.

8:45 PM
bowl of rice with some Indian Madras Lentils

CRUDE:
The Real Price of Oil
Thursday, March 11
7:00 PM
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St, Denver
$5 suggested donation

Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures.

Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. “Absolutely the most powerful, emotion- provoking, heart-wrenching documentary I have ever seen.” (John Perkins, Author, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)