Hmm… what to begin with. I know. how about the return of AMERICAN FREAKING GLADIATORS!!!
Seriously, best show of my childhood bar none. Now some of you may recall I tried out for this show a few months ago when i heard it was returning. Clearly, I didnt make it but that’s not important because winners on american gladiators get a chance to BECOME american gladiators!
So i can hold on to hope. Hmm…what would be a better gladiator name…Plasma, or Zombie?
Oh well. The show has done something amazing with its return. What is that you ask? Well, it actually remembered what made the original show so great and recreated it without trying to improve it..except for one or two minor errors i will discuss later. It brought back several of the classic events
1.Powerball
2. Hang Tough
3. ASSAULT (the nerf ball one)
4. The eliminator (the end one)
5. Mother effing- JOUST (the giant Qtips!…how long til we can make this toy for sale?)
6.Whatever the rock wall was called
It also added a few new ones, which on the whole i am not impressed with, except for the hanging in the air wrestling thing…that is like ufc.
Another point in favor of this new show…the old show had gladiators who were clearly ‘roid monkeys with names like Nitro, Blaze, and Gemini (my favorite then). The new show has brought back more roid monkeys with names like Titan, Crush, and Wolf (my current favorite)
Except for mayhem…he is a fuckup of a gladiator…who disqualifies themself twice? on the same event? which involves basically NOT moving. dumbass. And poor sportmanship too…the guy who mocked him for losing was a douchebag, but shoving the contestant off a platform after he had won? well that was funny, but still poor sportmanship.
As to the idea that the show is “staged”. I dont care. as long as it entertains me it doesnt have to be real. That never took any of the fun out of pro-wrestling back in the days of hulk hogan…who was a great choice for host.
On a tangential note (hmm, perhaps i have a formal thought disorder 
) I know it’s supposed to mean no sugar added, but i keep seeing “NSA” and thinking there is some sort of National Security Agency flavored ice cream. Which I don’t even want to think about what that would taste like. Probably a combination of Mint Chocolate Chip-in your head and Rocky Road to justice
Hmmm…i should probably mention something about medicine, I am on my psych rotation. Today I saw ECT performed for the first time. ECT, meaning electroconvulsive therapy
Yeah, it’s kinda like that, but nowhere near as scary. Basically, for people who are very depressed, or bipolar, or suicidal, or refractory to drugs, or pregnant, or really there are practically* no contra-indications* to ECT
*Practically, because there are a few, and I need to remember to cover my tukkus from a legal standpoint. thanks, medical school
*Contraindications are really good reasons to NOT do a procedure, or give a drug, as in, penicillin is a contraindicated treatment for someone with a pencillin allergy, because bad things will happen
Anyway, The procedure is actually fairly simple. The patient came in and laid down on the bed. Electrodes are places either bilaterally or unilaterally on the scalp, depending on condition and physician preference, followed by heart monitors. Patients are then given an anesthetic to put them to sleep (with a blood pressure cuff around one foot acting as a tourniquet), followed by a muscle relaxant meant to temporarily paralyze you for the duration of the procedure. Finally, a prespecified amount of electricity is delivered to the patient via electrodes
The cuff is so at least one foot is prevented from receiving the muscle relaxant…this allows us to actually monitor the seizure on an additional level. (i.e. muscle spasm while current being delivered to otherwise paralyzed muscles)
The seizure induced lasts no more than 20-30 seconds, and then the patient comes too shortly after as the drugs wear off. The main complaint of most of them? A bit of a headache for the rest of the day, and a slight retrograde amnesia for a couple of hours at most. Good stuff.
With the optimism of a glass half-full, the 
“The machine isn’t that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it,” said (game distributor) Atlus spokeswoman Ayano Sakiyama, calling the recall “a precaution…”
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