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New York Marathon — Initial thoughts
1. There is no better showcase for what an insane, welcoming, chaotic, difficult, enormous, wonderful place my adopted hometown is than the New York Marathon. If you haven’t run it, you must. 2. Time was 4:23:13. I was definitely hoping for better. Something is up with my training, as I had the same last miles…
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Review: Gilbert’s The Last American Man
The Last American Man Elizabeth Gilbert I was a little worried about reading this one. Gilbert is the author of the mega-best seller Eat, Pray, Love… and books like that aren’t really my jam. But a good friend, whose taste usually align with mine, got me this one as a gift so I gave it…
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Review: Schmahmann’s Double Life of Alfred Buber
The Double Life of Alfred Buber I received this as a review copy from the Permanent Press, an excellent independent publisher based in New York. The Permanent Press is one of only a few literary independent publishers left who take the chance to publish serious novels by little known writers. I admire that. And I…
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Totals for the Week Ending 9.6.2015
Run Miles for the week: 24.3 in 4:05:40 Run Miles for the year: 1019.9 Projected total miles for the year: 1494.8 Weekly/Daily averages to reach 2015 run miles 60.6/8.7 Run Streak: 0 Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Days until I beat my old run streak: n/a Prospect Park loops for the…
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Totals for the Week Ending 7.13.2015
Run Miles for the week: 36.5 in 5:48:02 Run Miles for the year: 797.5 Projected total run miles for the year: 1500.5 Weekly/Daily Average to reach 2k miles 7.1/49.8 Run Streak: 0 Did I hit every session of 18/55? Y What did I miss? Nothing! Runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Days until…
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Review: Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
Comedy of Errors (Arden Shakespeare) William Shakespeare When I decided, years ago, to read the Bard’s works in chronological order, who knew that was going to be such a trying ordeal? I warn you, before you get to Lear and Hamlet you have to go through the long and turgid Richard the VI and the silly…
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More of Cicero, Milo and the Brains versus Brawn Narrative
I’m continuously adding to the page of classical sources of the Milo stories and as I do so, the narrative of Milo as the big dumb jock is becoming more and more apparent. So far, in my reading, Cicero is the biggest proponent: Whoever has a reasonable portion of strength, and exerts it to the…
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Those Rare Moments of Effortless Joy
Do you know the feeling I know? When your legs have disappeared, and there is only your heart, your lungs, and your eyes skimming disembodied through the air? We are Aristotle’s featherless bipeds, we runners. Though we have no wings, we have taught ourselves to fly. Jeff, Logic of Long Distance This was me last…
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Review: Ellroy’s Cold Six Thousand
The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy The Cold Six Thousand is the second volume of Ellroy’s “Underworld Trilogy” tracing the history of 1960s America through the lives of real and imagined gangsters. Written in an intense staccato style, the books are filled with conspiracies, bad men behaving horribly, and real and imagined dirt on most…
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Review: Mosley’s Long Fall
The Long Fall Walter Mosley Crime novels are very grounded in place. George Pelacanos’s novels sing of DC; Laura Lippman’s of Baltimore of Los Angeles, and until recently, Walter Mosley’s most famous crime novels were set in Watts. For the last decade of so the heavy hitters of crime fiction have mostly been avoiding New…
Milo and the Calf 