Mr Olympia

2006 

Jay Cutler, after finishing 2nd place in four previous Mr Olympia contests, wins his first title 

Ronnie Coleman, after eight consecutive wins, is defeated and remains tied with Lee Haney for most Mr. Olympia titles 

Dexter was 4th 

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2007 

Jay 1st 

Dexter 3rd 

Ronnie 4th - retires 

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2008 

Dexter Jackson defeats the reigning champion and two-time Mr. Olympia, Jay Cutler, to win his first Mr. Olympia title 

Phil Heath, in his rookie debut at the Olympia, places third 

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2009 

Jay Cutler became the first bodybuilder in Mr. Olympia history to reclaim his title after losing to Dexter Jackson in 2008. 

The first quad stomp 

Dexter Jackson, defending his 2008 championship, came in 3rd losing by one point to Branch Warren. 

Kai 4th 

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2010 

Jay Cutler celebrated his fourth title, and second consecutive victory

Dexter Jackson, the 2008 champion, placed 4th 

Phil Heath placed runner-up in his third Mr. Olympia contest, he placed 3rd in 2008 and 5th in 2009 

Kai 7th 

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2011 Phil Heath won his first championship in his fourth Mr. Olympia competition 

Jay 2nd

 Kai 3rd 

Dexter 6th 

Shawn Rhoden 11th .

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2012

 Phil 1st 

Kai 2nd 

Shawn 3rd 

Dexter 4th 

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2013 

Phil 1st 

Kai 2nd 

Shawn 4th 

Dexter 5th 

Jay 6th 

Big Ramy 8th

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2014 

Phil 1st

 Kai 2nd

 Shawn 3rd 

Dexter 5th 

Big Ramy 7th 

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2015

 Phil 1st 

Dexter 2nd 

Shawn 3rd 

Ramy 5th

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2016 

Phil 1st 

Shawn 2nd 

Dexter 3rd 

Ramy 4th 

2017 

Phil 1st 

Ramy 2nd 

Dexter 4th 

Shawn 5th 

2018

 Shawn

 Phil 

Ramy 

Dexter

 Shawn Rhoden won his first Mr Olympia title, defeating seven-time defending champion Phil Heath. 

Heath was attempting to tie the records for the most Mr. Olympia wins overall and most wins in a row with eight, held jointly by Lee Haney (1984–1991) and Ronnie Coleman (1998–2005).

 Rhoden became the oldest bodybuilder to win the Mr. Olympia title, at the age of 43 years, 5 months.

 

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Kai competed in 2009, 10, 11, 

was runner up to Phil in 12, 13, 14

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Branch Warren competed in the Olympia for a decade 

His highest place was 2nd in 2009 to Jay, beating Dexter by one point 

2005 Mr. Olympia - 8th 

2006 Mr. Olympia - 12th 

2009 Mr. Olympia - 2nd 

2010 Mr. Olympia - 3rd

 2012 Mr. Olympia - 5th 

2013 Mr. Olympia - 9th 

2014 Mr. Olympia - 6th 

2015 Mr. Olympia - 6th

 He doesn't know that. He's an idiot. For all he knows, it could be the worst day of his life. 

You know how people say, 'Who knows? I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.' That seems pretty farfetched. 

Until you have a friend who got hit by a bus. 

The point is you never know what kind of day is coming. 

Whenever we think we know the future, even for a second, it changes. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely. And we're left only with the choice of what to do next.

 We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there, trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen. 

Or we step forward, into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.

 

Because if you wait to make a move until you're ready, you might never leave the starting gate.

 You simply have to trust you'll be able to weather the storm. 

Whatever that storm may be.

 

Do you know who you are? 

Do you know what's happened to you? 

Do you want to live this way? 

All it takes is one person, one moment to change your life forever. It can change your perspective, colour your thinking. One moment that forces you to re-evaluate everything you think you know. 

Do you know who you are? 

Do you know what's happened to you? 

Do you want to live this way? 

  

 We can't boil every injury down to one single blow. 

What hurts us is cumulative. It happens over time. We absorb blow after blow, shock after shock, painful hit after hit. 

But even then, even if we know exactly how we got here, it doesn't mean we can fix it.

 You can't heal every wound and that's okay. 

 even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken.

 The cosmos is within us. 

We are made of star-stuff.

 We are a way for the universe to know itself

 

You can't know,

 you can only believe 

- or not

 

My house says to me, 

"Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."

And the road says to me, 

"Come and follow me, for I am your future."

And I say to both my house and the road, 

"I have no past, nor have I a future. 

If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;

 and if I go there is a staying in my going.

 Only love and death will change all things.

 

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, 

especially if there is no cat

 

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. 

I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. 

The Christian god may exist; 

so may the gods of Olympus, 

or of ancient Egypt, 

or of Babylon. 

But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other:

 they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, 

and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

 

Anhedonia refers to the reduced ability to experience pleasure. 

It has had an important place in many aspects of psychopathology since it was first described in the previous century,

and is still a feature of several types of psychiatric disorders and maladaptive behaviors.

 

Life is really simple, 

but we insist on making it complicated

  

Happiness can be found, 

even in the darkest of times, 

if one only remembers to turn on the light

  

If you don't behave as you believe, 

you will end by believing as you behave

 

 There is a breed of Tuesday in January 

in which time creeps 

and no light comes 

and the air is full of water 

and nobody really loves anybody.

 No passion is stronger in the breast of a man 

than the desire to make others believe as he believes

Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage 

as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high

 Infections are like sleeping monsters. 

You can't see them. You can't feel them, but you must do everything in your power to contain them. 

Because when the monsters wake up, they are out of control.

 All that time you spent convincing yourself the sleeping monster wasn't real, it was gathering strength. The infection was spreading. 

The monster's awake now and there's nothing you can do about it.

 

The organs in the human body have entirely different functions. 

The cells which make up those organs act independently of each other. 

But in a healthy body, seemingly independent cells quietly depend on the functioning of the others. Because when one system stops working, the others can't function for long.

Just as organ systems are codependent for survival, so are human beings. Studies have shown that our happiness and health depends on our relationships not just functioning, but thriving.

 Sometimes the best we can do is bear each other's burdens and ease each other's pain. 

And hold each other's hands in the dark.

 A concept is a brick. 

It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. 

Or it can be thrown through the window

 

Each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death.

 Everyone. 

 Despite its complexity, the human brain can only focus on about one thing at a time.

 Monotasking reduces distraction, sharpens attention, and allows us to operate at peak performance. 

But a brain can adapt and thrive in just about anything. 

Even chaos. 

Scientists call the conscious thought needed to complete everyday tasks working memory. That memory is always there, always there, getting you through the chaos of life, one task at a time.

 In some ways, that's all life really is, all the things we do strung together. 

 this day, this night, this moment. 

This connection, this family, this friendship. 

And somewhere, in all of that, sleep and wake up. 

Sleep and wake up. 

Sleep. 

And wake up.

 There's a stage you go through during child birth and it's the toughest part. It's called the transition stage. 

You've been pushing so hard and so long that you're exhausted, spent and there's nothing to show for your effort. 

During this transition stage, it feels like you can't go on, but it's only because you're very nearly there. 

Transition is movement from one part of life to a whole new one. And it can feel like one long, scary, dark tunnel. 

But you have to come out the other side because what's been waiting there might be glorious.

 We cover up injuries with tape and gauze to protect the injury, to prevent infection, to prevent  further suffering. 

The hard part comes when you have to rip the bandage off, because that can hurt like hell. 

It hurts to tear that bandage off. We don't wanna see what's underneath. 

But maybe it's not the fear of the pain that holds us back. 

Maybe, we're really afraid to see if the wound underneath is still open, or if it might actually be healing.

Superman

 in the original stories his powers were down to his molecular density and low gravity as Krypton's high gravity not only means he is stronger here, his body is far more dense - it also means he is heavy 

The yellow sun radiation bit was added around the late 70s, it was gravity plus yellow sun - it was much later the became, or seemed to be, the sole reason for the powers 

 under a red sun, on a planet with low gravity he would have strength and be heavier and denser, also indestructible 

maybe without yellow sun he wouldn't be able to fly or have heat and x ray vision, but the other powers would be there 

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound - these would all still be there due to the gravity 

presumably there would still be super speed, able to run fast, if not fly 

Like John Carter, when he went to Mars he was strong and could jump high, due to the lower gravity

Fleetwood Mac

 When you consider that the Rumours album was largely about the breakups and relationship problems the band was going through at the time

 Lindsey and Stevie breakup 

Stevie affair with Mick may have started as early as this

 Lindsey started seeing "a young lady" saying "and that put some wind in my sails" - which he attributes why Never Going Back Again ended up being a more upbeat song that it originally might have been 

Christine and John splitting up and later divorcing 

Christine seeing that engineer and John not wanting him around 

Mick splitting up with his wife Jennie 

Sideline - Jenny is the sister of Patty Boyd, wife of George Harrison, who had the affair with Clapton, and who Leyla is written about . 

Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "Second Hand News" Lindsey Buckingham Buckingham 2:43 2. "Dreams" Stevie Nicks Nicks 4:14 3. "Never Going Back Again" Buckingham Buckingham 2:02 4. "Don't Stop" Christine McVie Buckingham and C. McVie 3:11 5. "Go Your Own Way" Buckingham Buckingham 3:38 6. "Songbird" C. McVie C. McVie 3:20 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "The Chain" BuckinghamMick FleetwoodC. McVieJohn McVieNicks Buckingham with Nicks and C. McVie 4:28 2. "You Make Loving Fun" C. McVie C. McVie 3:31 3. "I Don't Want to Know" Nicks Nicks with Buckingham 3:11 4. "Oh Daddy" C. McVie C. McVie 3:54 5. "Gold Dust Woman" Nicks Nicks 4:51 Total length: 39:03

 "Silver Springs", written by Stevie Nicks, has been included on some reissues as either track 6, 7 or 12 of the album, depending on the pressing. 

Many cassette releases swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know".

Hulk

 Bruce Banner in the comic risked his life to save an innocent person 

This is why the Hulk was heroic 

David Banner in the show experiments on himself trying to gain super strength

 They are not the same Banner, not the same person in the two universes 

For this film we see Bruce do the heroic thing and get the gamma that way 

For the MCU, the Ed Norton version, we see him experiment on himself

 Which is disappointing

 The MCU Hulk has a lot of the TV show in it, even the David B on the letters from Sam, the moving from town to town 

And while Ed looks and acts like Bruce from the books, Mark looks more like David from the show 

And the Don't make me angry line gets referred of course

Pulp Fiction

Vincent and Butch  

Vincent is a professional killer with a code of conduct and honour 

He had just been part of executing Brad and was there for Jules killing "flock of seagulls" - he then killed Marvin, albeit by accident, but he showed no remourse

 After killing two and witnessing one, as part of his job, he goes for breakfast then to the club to meet Marsellus and deliver the case 

He is in a bar owned by his "Firm" where he respected, a feared hitman, and Butch is just a Paluka, being paid to throw a fight, making him a piece of shit, a coward 

Also Vince kills men, and Butch has never killed anyone, he is a "virgin" in a hitman's eyes 

Butch is no no warrior like the family men who owned the watch before him, he has never been to war - his war is the ring, but still a game, and now he is giving up what honour he had to throw the fight for money 

Butch had already arranged and decided not to throw the match before this meeting - his phone call about being the "rich and prosperous" as well as having the girlfriend fetch the stuff and have an escape route planned shows this - he made the bets on himself to win and took the bribe money to make a nice fund for himself 

The war watch story is also key - he had the watch and wanted to be a warrior so would never have thrown the match 

The reason he is so calm with Marsellus doing the "pride" speech is because it all meant nothing - he was not going to throw the fight 

He kills Floyd in the match - he is now a killer, even if this was incidental and accidental 

Point is though, once he knows he shows no remorse - a capacity he always had 

When he meets Vincent in the apartment he is no longer a "virgin" so he is able to kill Vince with his own gun - now a true Warrior 

In the shop he could leave Marsellus to be killed, and that would end the search for him - his honour as a Warrior, which he always had, compels him to go back and rescue the helpless, not innocent, but helpless man, who is being tortured and will then be killed. 

He kills one of the men and is ready to kill the second before "step aside, Butch" - he has gone from a "virgin" to a warrior who has killed two enemies

 Keep in mind he was also ready to kill Marsellus with his own gun before being stopped 

January - The Wolf Month

 

the Saxon term Wulf-monath 
meaning "Wolf Month" 

Saturday January 3 -Wolf Moon - The first full moon - and a supermoon

 

• January 3 (Wolf Moon): The first full moon and a supermoon.

January - the Wolf Moon

Wolf Moon

Said to be so named for the wolf's hungry howling during mid-winter nights.




It’s thought that January’s full Moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time. It was traditionally believed that wolves howled due to hunger during winter, but we know today that isn’t accurate.

Howling and other wolf vocalizations are heard in the wintertime to locate pack members, reinforce social bonds, define territory, and coordinate hunting.


Another fitting name for this full Moon is the Center Moon. Used by the Assiniboine people of the Northern Great Plains, it refers to the idea that this Moon roughly marks the middle of the cold season.
Other traditional names for the January Moon emphasize the harsh coldness of the season: Cold Moon (Cree), Frost Exploding Moon (Cree), Freeze Up Moon (Algonquin), and Severe Moon (Dakota). Hard Moon (Dakota) highlights the phenomenon of the fallen snow developing a hard crust.
Canada Goose Moon (Tlingit), Great Moon (Cree), Greetings Moon (Western Abenaki), and Spirit Moon (Ojibwe) have also been recorded as Moon names for this month

  That’s what they used to call it when your parents got divorced, even though getting divorced was the least broken they ever did. 

 I wondered if broken homes were where broken people lived.

to this day I still wonder. 

You can build a house out of anything, make it as strong as you want, but a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with and people can be broken,

what's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed, that no matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again.

January

 

Moon 2026

 

Moon 2026

 13 full moons, 

including three supermoons (Jan 3, Nov 24, Dec 23) 

and a rare Blue Moon in May, 

plus two total lunar eclipses, 

spectacular celestial events like the Wolf Supermoon to start the year 

and a big finale Cold Moon, 

Key Moon Events in 2026:

• Supermoons:
  • January 3 (Wolf Moon): The first full moon and a supermoon.
  • November 24 (Beaver Moon): Another supermoon.
  • December 23 (Cold Moon): The year's biggest supermoon, the closest of the year.
• Blue Moon:
  • May 31: The second full moon in May, making it a Blue Moon.
• Lunar Eclipses:
  • March 3: A total lunar eclipse.
  • September 26: Another total lunar eclipse.
• Full Moon Dates (UK Times):
  • Jan 3, 
  • Feb 1, 
  • Mar 3, 
  • Apr 2, 
  • May 1, 
  • May 31, 
  • Jun 30, 
  • Jul 29, 
  • Aug 28, 
  • Sep 26, 
  • Oct 26, 
  • Nov 24, 
  • Dec 23. 
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• More than usual: 2026 has 13 full moons instead of the typical 12 due to the timing of the lunar cycle and calendar months.
• Bigger & Brighter: Supermoons appear larger and brighter as they are near their closest point to Earth.
• Spiritual Significance: Blue Moons are often seen as powerful times for introspection and manifesting desires