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Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson

ben wilson This is the blog of a one Ben Wilson, a Louisville, Kentucky native who enjoys baseball, beer, music, bikes, things that fly and good food. By day he pushes pixels and makes the Internet happen for a local advertising agency. His wife, Kelly is an Ironman, and his baby Amelia is the cutest thing ever.

Brace yourselves for massive cuteness!!! Bocephus J. Honeycutt III curls up with the Kelly-Belly.

Bocephus hugging the baby

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Jan 28 2009 ~ 11:34 am ~ Comments (1) ~
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We made the slippy-slidey trek out on the streets this morning and had another ultrasound done with a very dear family friend (Melinda S.) who needed a preggo guinea pig for her new ultrasound machine! It spits out photos and movie clips onto a thumbdrive or a CD… but who cares about that, right?!  It’s A GIRL! IT’S A GIRL!!!!!

Say hello to…

Amelia Brockman Wilson

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Did you see the little baby hand open and close? That kills me!

Didn’t get any stills of the nether-regions of the baby – too excited to remember! It was a tough thing to get to – Melinda was shakin’ Kelly’s belly to get the little baby inside to move around. It took a little while but Melinda saw “the good” and conferred with the guy there to set up the machine… and they agreed! It’s a girl! Melinda says she’s never got one wrong.

By the way, the Volkswagen Routan Babymaker 3000 says she’ll look something like this:

Amelia, if the VW Routan Babymaker is correct...

Amelia, if the VW Routan Babymaker is correct...

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Jan 27 2009 ~ 2:39 pm ~ Comments (2) ~
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Weight, that is!

Cue ominous music… A SEDENTARY lifestyle led this man to WEIGH 1000 POUNDS!

But… I don’t weight 1000 pounds, in fact, I’m pretty average.

NO you aren’t, TUBBY! Your BMI is in the “FAT” range!

Well, yeah, but that’s just a guideline. What’ I’m really doing is…

…SO HE TURNED TO THE LATEST IN FAD DIETS – PERHAPS THE CABBAGE SQUEEZIN’ DIET or the ALL BACON DIET…

Hey! No! It’s not that at all. Let me explain:

Two years ago I weighed 180 pounds, give or take a daily fluctuation. In the intervening two years, I’ve been “moderately active”, running two Louisville Triple Crown series and two Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathons, a handful of triathlons and other local running races. In the last year, I’ve started cycling a fair amount (I did likely 1000-1500 miles in 2008) while helping my wife train for the Ironman, learned to swim decently, started going to gym regularly, joined a cycling team and commuted to work via bike every day in October.

My weight after those two years? 180 pounds. No foolin’! I intend to get to the bottom of that – to understand the why and wherefore of this machine I call a body. more after the jump…

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Jan 22 2009 ~ 7:09 pm ~ Comments (4) ~
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The year was 2007… I listened to a lot of music, but didn’t write so much about it, and for that I am remiss. In writing my “Best of 2008″ post I realized that much of the music I was listening to I had listened to in 2007. Perhaps a sad critique on the 2008 season, I’m not sure, but in any case, here goes. Listed after the jump below you’ll find some selected reviews of albums that I heard in 2007.

Add one to my “all-time favorites”, a few to the “I could listen to them anytime list” and a few from years gone by…

If this is your first time ’round with me, I would recommend reading my prior “Best Of” posts and also suffer my treatise on how I criticize music, otherwise soldier on…

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Jan 21 2009 ~ 3:16 pm ~ Comments (2) ~
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This was going to be a part of my not-quite-so-annual-anymore “Best Music I Heard This Year” series, but it got so large and gangly that it broke itself out of the 2008/2007 post and landed here…

If there is one thing that this blog has taught me (aside from imposing some editorial control on my self) is how and what makes good criticism. It’s all well and fine to say to my self, in my own head “this is good” or “this is not good” without much back-and-forth because I, being my own audience, understand me pretty well.  Not so on the blog side, though – as my audience (you, dear reader) will require a further explanation.

So, suffice it to say that I’ve done a fair amount of cypherin’ and ruminating on the subject – so here are some thoughts on how I listen to, criticize and then report on music. Read on after the jump…

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