I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.

1977 Playlist
Jungle Fever - The Chakachas
In the City - The Jam
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Elvis Costello
Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
Leaders of Men - Joy Division
Orgasm Addict - The Buzzcocks
Lookin' After No. 1 - The Boomtown Rats
Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols
Neat Neat Neat * - The Damned

Distance: 3.25 miles
Temperature: 42º w/light sprinkles
Weight: 151 lbs.

Who's your daddy? Yes, I am.

The magic question is; Is it all right that my knees hurt? Is it scar tissue acting up, or am I still hurting my knees? I used to think (and there is no basis in fact for this) that I needed to be lighter. When I have a little weight, I can feel it moving around, it shudders through my frame. Right now, when I am stupidly lean, nothing. Is that sick?

I need to follow my former regimen of stretches and exercises, I do some, but not enough. There has to be a balance. I need more padding, more fat and muscle, to help cushion these blows.

I will say this, my knee, my shins and calves, do not hurt the way they did now that I have new shoes. But my toes aren't used to them yet.

1997 Playlist
Discoteque (New Mix) - U2
Brakhage - Stereolab
Star People 97 - George Michael
Loops of Fury - Chemical Brothers
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Walking On The Sun - Smashmouth
Da Funk - Daft Punk
Absurd (Landslide Mix) - Fluke
Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five



Distance: 5.15 miles
Temperature: 57º
Weight: 151.5 lbs.

I just came here to party

Just got in, and the girl asked if we could go for a run. She put on her shoes and just took off up the street until I caught up. She's a fast runner. Then we ran back. I love that.

2007 Playlist
Merrymaking at My Place - Calvin Harris
Mistaken for Strangers - The National
The Way I Are - Timbaland
Who Knew - Pink
Umbrella - Rihanna ft. Jay-Z
Chelsea Dagger * - The Fratellis
Split Needles * - The Shins
Foundations * - Kate Nash
Road to Recovery - Midnight Juggernaut
Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free - Zombie Zombie
Don't Stop the Music - Rihanna

Distance: 5.15 miles
Temperature: 47º
Weight: 153 lbs.

This is for those whose minds are as healthy as their bodies

I'm a man.

1983 Playlist
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) - A Flock of Seagulls
I Go Swimming * - Peter Gabriel
Sex (I'm A ...) - Berlin
Love Machine - Wham!
The Fanatic - Felony
Funk Pop a Roll - XTC
The Greatest Thing - Elvis Costello

Distance: 3.25 miles
Temperature: 35º
Weight: 153.5 lbs.

Never talk to me during "The Jackal"

NEW SHOES!!!

Onyx Asics Gels, mid-range support, great cushioning. Just couldn't spring for the Kayanus, not this year. Very disappointed with my local running store, they were extremely unhelpful. Just wanted to order me exactly what I had, no suggestions, I made it clear I was trying not to spend that much, they didn't want to make any alternate suggestions, just order the same model from Youngstown.

So I went to Dick's. Sorry. Saved a lot of money - and I needed new shoes. I have put this off for way too long, and after dropping a bundle on a new knee, well. It seemed very penny-wise.

Speaking of knees, they have both been giving me grief. And I am not even in high gear. I fear the future.



I do not want to see Rob Lowe do that ever again.

1993 Playlist
The Jackal - Ronny Jordan ft. Dana Bryant
Too Much Information - Duran Duran
Cantaloop (Instrumental) - Us3
I Like To Move It (Eric More Club Mix) - Reel 2 Reel
The World Has Turned And Left Me Here - Weezer
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

Distance: 3.25 miles
Temperature: 52º
Weight: 152 lbs.

Well - Let's GO !!!!!!!!

Oh yeah. Gotta love The Sweet.

1973 Playlist
Life on Mars? - David Bowie
Free Ride - The Edgar Winter Group
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Rock & Roll Disgrace - Sweet
Nineteen Hundred & Eighty-Five - Paul McCartney & Wings
Blockbuster - Sweet
Pills - New York Dolls
Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede
Stuck In The Middle With You - Steelers Wheel
Street Life - Roxy Music
The Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

These annual playlists have taught me an awful lot of about early 80s rock music. I started listening to the radio in 1977. So as far as I knew, everything recorded before 1977 was recorded in 1977.

Why are so many early 70s rock songs about rocking?

And why do two little skinny ladies still have bubble-butts which span the entire double-wide sidewalk?

Distance: 5.15 miles
Temperature: 40º
Weight: 151.5 lbs.

your blood, your sweat, your passions, your regrets

Finally checked out Run, Fatboy, Run. Sweet movie. Not a waste of my time. Love Simon Pegg, who was one of the few British parts of this movie which ostensibly took place in London.

Spoiler alert: He finishes. Oops, sorry.

I don't get Thandie Newton, I really don't. Why have I seen her in as many movies as I have, and I haven't even seen the ones she's been in that everyone else has seen. And I had no idea she was English. I still don't.

You know, it's weird, I'm a runner, and I thought the dialogue was odd and clunky. I mean, no one really says, "I'd love to, but I have a run tomorrow," do they?

Okay, they do. I mean, I have. But having someone actually say that, out loud, in a movie? That's embarrassing.

Here's the bit that absolutely killed me, though ... the imaginary marathon in this movie - the N*ke River Run - concludes with its final stretch across the Millennium Bridge to St. Paul's. And so, at the end, we have Pegg's character, finishing the race in terrible pain, hobbling up the steps to St. Paul's towards the finish line in the middle of the night. It's the middle of the night because he is the last person to finish the race (sorry, gave away that part, too.)

So, what we have missed is the elite runners, those who run the race, taking five steps at a time up a flight of stairs in their final sprint. We missed the hundreds and hundreds of runners following them, tripping, falling, breaking knees and fracturing hands and faces as they crowd up those stone steps.

I mean, come on, it's a movie, for God's sake, for years film directors have put whatever building they like across the street from Central Park, David Schwimmer couldn't remove the steps from in front of St. Paul's?

It's the dumbest f*cking thing I'd ever seen in my life.

2003 Playlist
We Want Your Soul - Adam Freeland
Comfortably Numb - Scissor Sisters
Hey Ya * - Outkast
Jerk It Out - Caesars
Bangin' On - Johnny Marr
Mainframe - Kaada

Distance: 3.25 miles
Temperature: 26º w/little, tiny snowflakes
Weight: 151 lbs.