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Mar
12th

Thu

Sorry I’ve been a little MIA. We’re still going 4 days/week with Sometimesdaily coming in a couple weeks but first a life challege decided to pop in. Mario had to have surgery on March 10th to remove a pericardial cyst. See the picture above. Although it was benign, it was compressing other organs around it, and would’ve only grown larger, so we need to extract the sucker! The critter was 5cm x 7cm x 3cm— so it was no joke.

The story goes like this: I took Mario to the ER late last month as he was having extreme chest pains. We were really worried because someone at his age really should not be in this situation! Turns out he didn’t have a ripped aorta, which was our chief concern. His condition was pretty rare— only 1 in 100,000 people are afflicted— but completely curable.

On Tuesday, we arrived at the hospital at 5am for his 7:30am operation. He was under the care of Dr. Curtis Hunter at UCLA Medical Center and the surgery went flawlessly. He’s back at home resting now and, thankfully, our new Sometimesdaily partners have been so kind about the whole situation. We’re eager to get started… but of course everyone wants Mario to be at 100%.

Needless to say, it’s been a rough time. Sadly, we are missing SXSWInteractive this year. We had planned to go and in fact were scheduled to announce our new partnership in Austin… but alas. So things got pushed back a couple weeks, the press release got delayed, etc. Looks like we’ll be launching on March 30 or April 6 at this point… I’ll keep you updated! In any case, we’re all very excited that Mario’s surgery went well and that, although delayed, we’re on track for a great 2009 making videos for your viewing pleasure 4 days each week! The Controverse will be on “hiatus” this week but will be back next Thursday, March 19th at Noon PT/3pm ET at Sometimesdaily.com.

Please send Mario your good vibes… and we’ll be back very soon cranking out some video goodness.

Love,

Amanda

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Mar
2nd

Mon

Hello? God speaking?

A Dutch artist wants you to leave a message for God. Will you do it?

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Feb
23rd

Mon

This past Friday evening I had the pleasure of appearing live on Sean Hannity’s Great American Panel on Fox News. Before the show I chatted with Governor Mike Huckabee who I had interviewed while at ABC News when he was running for President, and Sean teased me a bit and promised to turn me into a conservative by night’s end. He gave me one of those knuckle bump handshakes which caught me off guard… and had a funny habit of throwing a nerf football around the studio during commercial breaks (I tossed the ball way over his head at one point and then noted that it was good we weren’t talking about football on the program). Also on the panel with me were Juan Williams (Fox News Contributor) and Karen Hanretty (Republican Strategist). Keeping up with them both was definitely a challenge, but I had a really great time. I was waiting for Sean to rip me to pieces, but thankfully, he was surprisingly gentle. Click here to watch my 15 minute segment.

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Feb
14th

Sat

Question: For the last couple of months, you’ve had a Twitter account and you’re very active on it and it’s very popular (more than 70,000 followers). Are you an investor in the company, are you a hyper toe-tapper type or just what’s your interest?

Lance Armstrong: I don’t have a financial stake in Twitter, no. I didn’t even know about it three months ago. But sometimes I feel like I work for them. I get asked about it and it’s unbelievable what gets written in regards to me and Twitter (laughter). But, hell, I wish I had a little piece of the action. But I don’t. But in the end, it’s profitable or beneficial for me and it’s beneficial for the foundation and for the team.

Look, in the last 10 years, primarily 1999 to 2005 I wasn’t the most openly transparent person in the world. And it led people to say, ‘Well, hmm. We don’t know where he is. We don’t know what he’s doing. He won’t talk to us. So, he must be up to no good.’ And even if they didn’t write that you’re up to no good, they would think that you’re up to no good and it would lead to speculation and rumor.

Something like Twitter comes along or accessibility to video blogs, you say, F-it. I’m going to come back and you may not care, but I’m going to tell you what I had for breakfast and I’m going to take a picture of it. I’m going to tell you when I’m on a training ride. I’m going to tell you when I’m at my son’s flag football game. I’m going to tell you when I just cracked a bottle of bad-ass red wine.

You can take my biggest detractor in the press room and if they read that, then after awhile they’ll realize, man, this is really him telling us what he’s doing. And then they realize, ‘You know what? This guy is not secluded in a dark room with a team of mysterious doctors up to no good. This guy is a regular f-ing guy.’ So, I’ve got no stake in Twitter, but Twitter has helped.

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Feb
13th

Fri

Yeah, what she said.

via Liela

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