All Hail The King

What does it mean to get older?
For one young man in Seattle, Washington, it means the preservation of youth.
Perhaps there is no one who remembers the youth of Jason Martin King better than we at TCO. He was a sprightly boy with monstrous calves even at the tender age of 8; the age we were when we first met. He was cute. His hair was blond and had the trendy shaved rim of a bowl cut. He often wore a light gray zip-up hoodie over a pink and white striped tee shirt. The shirt was reminiscent of surfing and sand, if only by the choppy way each stripe moved across his front; it immediately made one think of a new popular phrase that had been going around, “Whatever, dude.” Or, simply, it made one think of a trapper-keeper cover. His jeans were stonewashed and tight. By the end of that school year he wouldn’t really be able to fit in them anymore, but he'd make it work. His crisp, new, white tennis shoes were a generic brand not easily recognizable to those outside the Midwest. We instantly knew we would be fast friends, but who could ever have predicted just how many memorable years we were signing up for on that first day?
Now, fast approaching 30, Jason is on a quest. The years between 8 and 29 have afforded him countless adventures, many of which have involved hours spent driving in a low-gliding and pleasantly roomy Honda mini-van. He has not shied away from the appetites of any young man in the ways of drink, meat, and a good Venus flytrap. And he certainly would never back down from a duel with an enemy, especially if it required great physical dexterity and cunning wit. Jason's current greatest enemy? November 22, 2009. The day he will turn 30. The requirements of the duel between Jason and that fateful day? Simple. If Jason truly wants to preserve his youth, between now and then he must successfully dunk a basketball. And so, in this the age of the self-produced project, the blogosphere has now been blessed with one of the most humorous and captivating additions in quite sometime. Jason "The Dunk" King takes us on our favorite kind of journey, that of the noble underdog. Follow him from the moment he woke up and discovered his time to master the dunk was running out, to his first, ehem, pathetic dunk attempts, to his rigorous training schedule led by one of the most merciless "vertical workout" trainers in the business. You don't want to miss it; we guarantee that just like Jason managed to do with us so many years ago, he will charm you into loyal support of all things The King.
And now we wait with bated breath for that one successful dunk to slam us all into the next glorious phase of our adult lives. Can he do it, folks? We have no doubt.
You can either CLICK HERE or use the other link to Jason's blog, 'If This Guy Can Dunk,' to the right under 'TCO Required Reading'.