Milo and the Calf

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    Review — Fitzgerald’s Racing Weight

    Racing Weight Matt Fitzgerald A diet book that isn’t a diet book. A straight forward, no bullshit, guide to getting your weight to a level at which you will perform optimally at endurance events. The diet advice here is not revolutionary (eat whole foods, avoid bad shit as much as you can, don’t over eat,…

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    Your Occasional Stoic — Be curious, but not reactive.

    Does the  external distract you? Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. But then you must also avoid being carried about the other way. For those too are triflers who have tired themselves in life by their activity, and yet have no object to which to direct every…

  • The BQ(Q) Sarah Bard

    Some people just give us the bare minimum when they fill out the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire. Others give us the real detail we’re looking for. Thanks to Sara for going the extra mile and really sharing her story! Name Sarah Bard @sarahjbard Sex: Female Age (at the time of first BQ): 24 Height: 5’3″ Weight…

  • Review: Saawadi’s Woman At Point Zero

    Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saawadi A novel based on Saadawi’s interviews with a n imprisoned psychiatric patient, Women at Point Zero is important, deeply moving and horrific. I’m not going to lie to you, this one isn’t easy to get through. Saadawi’s protagonist life is an unending series of horrors committed against either…

  • Review: Carr’s Bad

    Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr James Carr I’ve read scores of memoirs from radical political activists. This one, by James Carr, is among the best. Carr was a career criminal, in and out of jail until he ended up in Soledad prison and befriended George Jackson, became politicized, and became one of Jackson’s top…

  • Review: Lukas’s Big Trouble

    Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America J. Anthony Lukas I’m always surprised more people haven’t read this book about the assassination of Idaho’s former governor and the class war in the courtroom battle that grew out of it. It’s a well written, fast…

  • Review: Sinclair’s White Chapel: Scarlet Tracings

    White Chapel: Scarlet Tracings Iain Sinclair An odd but of work, this novel by poet, bookseller, novelist and pyscho-geographer Iain Sinclair was one of the main inspirations for Alan Moore’s From Hell. It’s a pretty out-there novel that is part investigation into the Jack the Ripper murders, part fictionalized pseudo memoir of life amongst the…

  • Review: Marable’s Malcolm X

    Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Manny Marable A deeply researched, clearly written, important work of scholarship on one of the most fascinating figures in modern American history. Like many, I read Malcolm X’s autobiography in high school and was deeply effected by the story of the hustler turned political activist. I’ve encounter Malcolm’s ideas…

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    It Takes Time To Go Fast

    For future reference: “Faster finishers (those under 10 hours 30 minutes) tend ot average greater traning volumes than slower finishers. On average, the faster men and women trained approximately 14 hours per week, broken down into 2.5 hours of swimming, 7.5 hours of cycling and 4 hours of running.” Triathlete magazine “Would You make A…

  • Taking Trash Culture Seriously: Kerekes and Slater’s Killing for Culture

    Now this one, guys, this one was weird. An well researched, well written, investigation into the so-called death on film focusing primarily on the “mondo” films phenomenon of the 1970s and 80s. If you’re of a certain age, you remember these collections of deaths and other gruesome scenes, allegedly caught on film. This stuff was…