And in the beginning...

Being my first blog I thought I might explain the title and why I chose it.

First of all, I use Chuck Amok because the word, Amok, is defined as:

"To run about wildly in an uncontrolable violent rage."

This is how I feel sometimes. There are so many stupid things, people, and situations in this world that quite often, I find myself thinking that people need to rise up and take notice. Or I think, one of these days I am just going to go crazy.

So I have decided that I need an outlet, and you, the reader, are it! Please bear with me at times.

Secondly, I use Chuck Amok because it brings to mind one of the most vivid memories of my childhood. My father took me skiing in Lake Tahoe and my Aunt Cathy and Uncle Emil drove up from San Fransico to visit. At that time I had just gotten AOL at home and asked my Unlce what his handle was. He then told me what I still think is one of the coolest and most original handles out there: EmilAmok.

This was mind blowing to me. To this day I can write almost anything: essays, shorts stories, and comic books to name a few. But, I still can't come up with a cool handle.

What is a person to do in this situation? Steal it, of course. So here's to you Unlce Emil! I may be a stealing asshole, but at least I stole from the best.

That brings us to the word, World. As American's, why are we so conceited to think that we are the center of the world? This is completely ridiculous. What I also think is ridiculous is that we actually believe we are a super power and we control the world. Think about this, dear reader. China is the only super power in the world.

As a nation, we owe China over $744 billion. Holy, shit! Does this blow anyone else's mind? If China calls those debts, we are done as a nation. That's it. Kaput! China has the power to single handedly bring down the good ole U.S. of A. We don't need to even mention what China and U.S. corporations are doing to our domestic economic situation.

So the word World in the title of this blog means that if I see anything strange going on in the news or this country's forgein affaris, I will bring it to everyone's attention.

Life, what more needs to be said? Well, I'll say it. There are some strange things going on in this country. For example, Falcon Heene, you know, the weather balloon faker. The guy that falsely alerted emergency service people and the news media to his son being trapped in a weather balloon that was floating away from his home. The reason. He wants his family to get on a reality T.V. show. Are you kidding?!

But you know what, some brilliant person at a major network will probably give it to them. What is this country coming too?

Living Fat. That pretty much says it all. This was prompted this evening because my wife and I just got Wii Fit Plus. I am the first person to use it, so I sync the mat up and go through all of the set up process. Then, when it weighs me, it tells me that I am too fat to use it. Holy crap, to fat to play a game and get some exercise. So I will be using this blog to update my now weekly fitness goals.

I would love everyone to read my musings, but I am a practical person for the most part and realize that most of you will probably lose interest, some even before they got to this point.

But for those of you who stay, please let me know what you think...

That's it for today's post of:
Chuck Amok on the World, Life, and Living Fat

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