And the weather's good

Have You Seen Me?
Male - Answers to the name "TIGER"
Last seen on Castleton Road Thursday night 2/17/11
2007 Playlist
Vegas - Calvin Harris
The News - Carbon Silicon
Umbrella - Rihanna
Apologize - Timbaland (Featuring OneRepublic)
Mister Sister - The Tender Box
Synchronize - Tomboy
Everybody Knows You CFried Last night - The Fratellis
Shake It - Metro Station
Girls and Boys In Love - The Rumble Strips
Stronger - Kanye West
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy

Distance: 5.15 miles
Temperature: 48º
Weather: gorgeous (but windy)
Groundcover: clear!
Weight: 167 lbs.

Put the wheels in motion

Outreach Tour Season is dizzying on the best of years. Last year I think I was worrying about it more, because I wrote it. And the set was more complicated, and heavier. But the show itself takes a lot out of me this year.

And good GOD there is a lot of candy around. Yes, okay. I admit it. Just because Walgreen's is offering jumbo bags, 3 for $4, does not mean you need to buy all three. You can get one, and scarf that down. Not all three.

But why the hell did everyone I know go all candy crazy this St. Valentine's Day? Office, full of candy. Marshmallow treats at rehearsal. What does the director get the cast for opening night? Big, heart-shaped box of candy (there's one in the show as a prop - it's a show joke.)

Spring encroaches. Maybe. Groundhog said so. Got a couple days in the fifties before it dips again over the weekend. I desire to get some five milers in, they feel so good. Just getting out today, after a week without (really? a week?) was a major hoo-hah, delightful.

I have running dreams, going round and round in my brain what I will wear today, what temperature is it, long-johns or not? Hat or hanky? When do I have those? It is time to get out.

I hope that big rodent was right. Spring at last, Spring at last. Thank God almighty, it's spring at last.

1968 Playlist
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Lady Madonna - The Beatles
Let the Sunshine In - "Hair" Original Broadway Recording

Distance: 3.3 miles
Temperature: 40º
Weather: nice
Groundcover: dry!
Weight: 166 lbs.

I've got to keep on keeping on

Finally got a copy of the single (non-album) version of This Is Pop. These things are important.

1978 Playlist
This Is Pop - XTC
Don't Care - Klark Kent
D.I.Y. - Peter Gabriel
Le Freak - Chic
Bustin' Loose Pt. 1 - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Double Vision - Foreigner
Birdland (166 bpm) - Maynard Ferguson

The first couple hundred yards rips my face off. It is as cold as I imagine it will be, only worse because now I can feel it. Then, as though all of a sudden, the blood flushes in my chest and the heat rises in my jacket and moves up into my neck and into my face. And I am warm. And it is all right.

I have not been using the headwrap that acts as a shield around my ears and neck and the back of my head. Because I haven't felt I needed it, in spite of the spiteful temps. Anyway, it draws attention to how cold my mouth and nose are ... and then I pull it up over my mouth and nose and it gets wet and my glasses fog up, and then I pull it down and I am even colder, and you get the picture. I am doing fine without it.

It rises above freezing on Sunday. Looking forward to Sunday. Only then my roof with start leaking again. Sigh.

Distance: 3.3 miles
Temperature: 13º
Weather: OMG it makes me tear
Groundcover: slippery
Weight: 168 lbs.

Half a jumbo-sized bag of Twizzlers? But ... but ... they are a low-fat snack!

And pretzels. Also low-fat. What is up with that?

Faith ... faith ... breathe ...

The Bowery Boys: The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was devoured by cannibals. Discuss.

1988 Playlist
All She Wants Is (U.S. Master Mix) - Duran Duran
Spark - The Church
Last Night - Traveling Wilburys
Alphabet Street - Prince
Doctorin' The Tardis - The Time Lords (The KLF)
In The Lowlands - Crowded House

Running in the subzero temps wearing a Breathe Right Strip © makes the snot just flow to your shoes.

Distance: 3.3 miles
Temperature: 14º
Weather: freezing
Groundcover: crusty slush
Weight: 166 lbs.

New jockstrap. New man. (TMI?)

This is how I deal

Afraid of running. Hmn. That's new.

It's not even freezing, not quite. The ground cover is slippery. Slushy. And I have not been out for two and a half weeks, it has been so cold, there have been birthday parties, rehearsals, and so on. Whatever. Life intrudes, so what.

I would rather sleep. But I won't. Yay for me.

1998 Playlist
The Way - Fastball
Jump Jive An' Wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra
To Ulrike M. (Zero 7 Mix) - Doris Days & Zero 7
Chair - Sister Soleil
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Millennium - Robbie Williams
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Green Day
Circles - Soul Coughing

Distance: 3.3 miles
Temperature: 34º
Weather: misty
Groundcover: slush
Weight: 168 lbs.

And I can't stop eating shit. The wife thinks I have some special ability to lose weight whenever I choose to, but she is wrong about that.

Now I have a headache. Uhm. I am feeling a little ground right now.

Run, baby, run

The cold, this cold, does not bother me. And I hate being cold. But running I heat up pretty fast. I am well dressed. But when it is this cold, with the snow coming down, it makes for some odd sensations. My face is bright with cold, ice matted into my beard, but under my jacket I am even sweating.

It took six years to extinguish the last round of Plantar Warts. I believe I killed this round in under three months. Of course I had to give myself a serious infection in order to accomplish that ... my foot blew up like a balloon and my crotch was so swollen I couldn't sit up. You would hope that would be enough damage to destroy a topical virus.

Sorry, was that graphic?

2008 Playlist
The Kids Don't Stand a Chance - Vampire Weekend vs. Miike Snow
Just Dance - Lady Gaga ft. Colby O'Donis
Disturbia - Rihanna
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé
Jai Ho - A. R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer
Mercy - Duffy
Check Yes Juliet (167 bpm) - We The Kings
Black & Gold - Sam Sparro

Distance: 3.5 miles
Temperature: 23º
Weather: brisk
Groundcover: more snow. and more snow.
Weight: 166 lbs.

3 weeks, 3 pounds. Okay.

... on the run ...

The 1960s playlists are weird, no doubt. I feel like I am Forrest Gump or something.

But now a word about Sha-Na-Na ...

To me, Sha-Na-Na has always been about their stupid TV variety show and their work in the motion picture Grease. When I was ten, I was not hip to the 50s revival. Not at all. Really, Bowzer makes me want to hide.

It wasn't until I revisited the movie Woodstock a few years ago that I even realized they were on the bill ... and their performance of At The Hop really turned my head around. I mean, look at them. That's not a 50s nostalgia act -- they're practically a punk band.

Jon Bauman, my apologies. Grease for Peace.

1969 Playlist
All Along The Watchtower - The Jim Hendrix Experience
Cold Turkey - John Lennon
Undun - The Guess Who
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry Orchestra
Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell
Everybody's Talkin' - Harry Nilsson
Old Brown Shoe - The Beatles
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
Pinball Wizard - The Who
All Together Now - The Beatles
At the Hop (Live at Woodstock) - Sha-Na-Na


Distance: 3.7 miles
Temperature: 31º
Weather: downright tropical
Groundcover: Dry where it had been shoveled, dangerous ice and snow where it had not been.
Weight: 167.5 lbs.