MORALISING JOURNALISTS??? SOUNDS LIKE JUNKIES AGAINST DOPE....

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It's been a busy week...

3 drugs scandals in the Tour, 8 drugs scandals on Planet Paul Giovanni.

And the general feeling in myself, is that the journalist puritans, who like myself, use all kinds of performance enhancing drugs to enable them to do their shit eating jobs, should shut the fuck up with their moral crusade against drugs in sport or else become hardcore christians and be done with it...

Yes boss, I can take chemical puritanism from monks who eat sackclothes and grow chickens, but not journos and cycling hangers on, who spend more hours in bars and in the cubicle talking to charlie than your average tour rider does riding up the mountains...

I mean, imagine the chaos if artists, musicians and writers and JOURNALISTS were banned from creating for 2 years if they were caught taking drugs??

Nothing would get done!!! No books, no music, no fucking art!!! And the newspapers would be like colouring books....

What I'm driving at, is that I find it completely absurd that your right to do an inspirational job - a job that provides passion and excitement for millions - can be taken away from you for taking onboard things that make you do it better....

Furthermore, I'm completely sick and tired of all this two faced moralising and idiotic posturing by dullards who can barely even write their own fucking copy to a half decent standard, let alone cycle up a mountain at 25kph...

I therefore feel it's high time us honest journalists started standing up in solidarity with all sportsmen who have tested positive and I therefore do solemly declare...

That I Paul Giovanni 3rd AKA Futureproof Pious am a 'Man in Black' (1)

I happily admit I love nothing more than to take performance enhacing drugs, using a strictly supervised program, designed to further inspire and improve my creations...

I completely refuse to accept that this is wrong in anyway (because by doing so i would invalidate almost my entire collected archive of others music and writing)

I also steadfastly refuse to make myself available for anykind of in or out of competition tests and anyone who wants to moralise about this can go talk to Jesus...

OK????

1: UCI goes after the "Men in Black"

The UCI has targeted "six or seven" top riders who are suspected of using doping products, by subjecting them to extra unannounced doping controls. Some of these riders have already produced "non-negative" results, according to Anne Gripper, director of the UCI's anti-doping program. "We have picked out six or seven riders who are considered high-risk cases because of their suspect behaviour and subsequent good performances in the Tour de France," she told the press agency Belga. Some of these riders "have already had three or four unannounced doping controls," although the UCI only requires one per rider per year.

Gripper said that "We have information that they train in strange places." The controllers refer to the riders as the "Men in Black", because they wear neutral clothing on their training rides, rather than their team kit, which helps them avoid attention by the UCI controllers.

"Some of the results may well be announced before the start of the Tour de France," Gripper said. "Several abnormal results have already come in. We are busy with those results and not all of them are negative," she said, "but it will take time, because we have to respect the process, the analysis of the B samples, before we can make any announcements."

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	MOG	Wow! I never thought of it like that. Hear hear. Maybe they should have two seperate competitions one for dopers one for straights. and with the olympics too. hell! it might even make the olympics entertaining. If performance enhancing drugs where allowed? where would it end though? Would it eventually enable people to be superhuman. Yknow like be able to run at 60 miles an hour. Posted by MOG on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 08:29 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Well the philosophy of having one clean and one dirty race is fine in principle but you'd get average racers from the dirty race (who weren't good enough to win it - even with drugs) trying to cheat to win the clean race... Substance use/abuse is an individuals choice, not a governments/governing bodies and seeing as though no drug war, whether it be 'prohibition' in the states, or the equally ridiculous and still current war on recreational drugs has been won or even come close to being won, there seems to be little point in waging such wars... Sure 60mph humans are possible and why the hell not?!? Ben Johnstone is still the worlds fastest man.... Michael Rasmussen has won this years Tour De France Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 08:45 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Madeleine	i agree, if cadel wins i will feel somehow that he hasnt because without rasmussen it wont feel real Posted by Madeleine on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 10:55 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I can't even be bothered with watching it anymore... I can't bear the continual moralising and the idiot comments - The best racing has been done and I don't like Cadel because he's a boring fucking rider who always follows and never takes his own inniative.. If Contador holds on it'll be another doping rider on the biggest doping team of them all... (I mean does anyone seriously believe Lance Armstrongs who won 7 tours on the bounce won clean?? Everyone bar none who even got close to him throughout those 7 wins has been caught and banned and he thrashed them all....) Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 11:00 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Carole Bulewski	Fantastic blog! Can you read French (I know I can understand written Italian quite a bit so I was wondering...)? Because at least there are some journalists at Liberation who don't write the sort of goody-two-shoes crap that you read elsewhere. "Chemical puritanism from monks"??? Monks are usually people who make special, head-blowing spirits, which help them getting closer to God, getting into transes, that sort of thing. Maybe there are gonna be special brigades checking on that too, sometime soon... Posted by Carole Bulewski on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 12:38 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I can read French to a degree and have bought L'equipe many times when watching the Tour in France to catch up on the racing news.... Good point about the monks... I think the thing i don't get with the whole drugs question both in sport and as a way to get high, is how and why the media are only ever to discuss and see the bad side. I don't deny it exists - I've seen it existing, but i've also seen a hell of a lot of people having a FUCKING BALL!!!! on drugs and with few exceptions, I've always had a great deal of fun whilst off my face... So why is that side never given it's due weighting?? Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 12:57 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Madeleine	have just been watching sherwin going on about messages the sport is sending to the kids hello what the fuck is going on? the kids are alright and may well be off their rockers and you know what good luck to them my mother was a journalist and the amount of drinking and generally drug taking journos get up to is pretty well on a par with the rest of the bloody community and in a lot of cases worse. lets have the commentators tour and see how many red wines and fags they can have and then make it up a mountain. people take drugs the war on drugs is moronic and unwinnable but damn good propaganda to keep peoples eyes off the prize. Posted by Madeleine on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 14:14 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	The kids never pay attnetion to good role models anyway... The kids pay attention to sexy, exciting and aggresive role models who have passion and fire... The kids love Jim Morrison not Percy Thrower.... Rather than drug tests, journalists should have to undergoe bullshit tests.. Their writing should be checked for detectable levels of bullshit in parts per ten.. Most would struggle to stay under the 3 allowable.... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Friday, July 27, 2007 at 13:08 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Elizabeth	this is a contentious issue and i admire your honesty. i think that since living completely clean and sober, i've strangely a lot of my inspiration and drive. my madness is slowing to a halt and it's bringing up feelings of despondency and dysphoria which hardly enhance performance at anything. but then again, what happens when the drugs stop working altogether too, as they did with me in the end? trying to create natural highs and live productively, usefully, energetically and even euphorically is taking a lot of effort and unfortunately doesn't come quickly, cheaply or in a bottle at the corner shop. i'm going to give it a proper shot and see what the results bring up... and if it's more of the same then the men in black option is always there. i hope. Posted by Elizabeth on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 15:43 [Remove] [Reply to this]

: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

To be clear about what I'm advocating: Cyclists use drugs to improve their performance and make them ride quicker and better. They use very detailed and race specific schedules like this one... I adovcate this for all. I'm not into addiction or advocating detroying the body but enhacing it by using drugs in an intelligent fashion. I gave up smoking because it did nothing for me except bad. Similarly I gave up regular pot smoking for the same reason. Nowadays i use alcohol, but i use it specifically... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 16:06 [Remove] [Reply to this]