Why I Oughtta

I just ran the SOME Trot for Hunger with my brother like I always do on Thanksgiving.  This trot was sponsored in part by The CW.  Jen says they provided media support.  I think they should have provided hot blonde teenagers who would stand at the finish line, texting and looking bored.

Here are my times for the past four years.

• 2004: 25:39
• 2005: 25:35
• 2006: 24:02
• 2007: 23:20

I am actually astonished that I was able to beat last year’s time, given the fact that I have been not going to the gym very regularly. Instead, I prefer sitting around, gettin’ obese.

Michael Chertoff ran the race and I stood next to him for a while.  I think I beat him.  Adrian Fenty ran too.  Once again, he smoked me.

Every year the top finishers generally fit in similar demographics. The winner is a thirty-something guy who just runs all day every day. One of those people who explains, very earnestly, that “running is my therapy.”  (You know what my therapy is?  Therapy.) Then there are some similar twenty/thirtysomethings many of whom are probably in some branch of the armed forces.  Then there’s some crazy old guy who’s all wrinkles and muscle.  Then there’s a six-year-old.

I did this interview with Fiona Shaw for Express.  She’s in a weird Beckett play (is there any other kind?) about a dame who’s buried up to her neck.

F’real.
You might recognize her.  She played Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies.

1. Charts! Stereogum has hip-hop charts. Lookit!
2. Threadless is having a sale.
3. Look at this Idlewild retrospective, set to a good, long-forgotten b-side.
4. Read TiFaux. It’s the reason why I am struggling to update this blog at all.
5. This isn’t a link — it’s just at thing.  I saw the gay mormon the other day on the metro.  Remember?  The one who I didn’t go out on a date with?  Anyway, he was on the orange line with a doggie bag from The Cheesecake Factory and was with a boy who had the same haircut.  Just sayin’, cuz it’s true.

Hoodie weather: (noun) Any weather, pretty much.

Learn to dance like a Pipette.

1. Here’s a thing I wrote for Express on the Folger Theater’s As You Like It.
2. Jen was on the news! This segment on blogging for money (!) was filmed at my local coffeeshop. They finished filming shortly before I got there to join her.
3. 20% off coupon for Banana Republic.
4. Get a free drink at Border’s.
5. Download a remix of Northern State’s “Better Already” by the drummer for Le Tigre.

My appetite for pumpkin pie has been satisfied.

On Friday I went out with the gays to Shirlington’s delicious, if unhip, Carlyle. We sat, in our stylish shirts, between the elderly and the Republican as we ate our delicious fish entrees.
For dessert, we had pumpkin cheesecake. Holy Moses, that was some good food.

Imagine your happiest moment — the birth of a child, the moment you realized you were in love, the acceptance of a dream job — and then imagine that moment is pumpkin flavored. That’s what it was like.

Buttery graham cracker crust, carmel sauce, warmed candied pecans and a frothy, rich cheesecake.

I ate it and glazed over for the rest of the evening.

There’s a real problem.

That problem is that I do not have pumpkin pie.

After all, it is indeed the autumn.  I am wearing argyle sweaters.  The weather is brisk.  Trees are continuing to shed their leaves.

And, yet, I do not have pumpkin pie.

Where is my pumpkin pie?

Pumpkin pie.

1. The Seedy Seeds are NPR’s song of the day. Wooohoo!
2. Jared has posted many ghost-related tracks on 5 Acts.
3. NPR has a new music blog.  That sound you hear is my soul aching to participate in it.
4. Radiohead is releasing seven albums on a memory stick!
5. The Decemberists and Laura Veirs have canceled their tour.  On the plus side, I get like $35 back.  Which is exciting.

1. Sport
2. Champ
3. Dollface
4. Chief
5. Gingersnap