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Brooke and I watched the AFI 100 Years, 100 Songs special on television last night. No real surprises, but I did learn something. I’d always assumed that “New York, New York” was an older song, from the ’40s or ’50s, but it was actually written for Martin Scorsese’s musical flop of the same name in 1977! Yeah, right in the middle of the punk explosion! I was gobsmacked.
In the same vein, where was the Ramones’ “Rock ‘n Roll High School”?
The New York Times has published a list of what they consider the best thousand films ever made. Never mind the audacity. How many have you seen? As of this moment, I’ve seen 224, but there are at least half a dozen that I’ll be seeing in the next month or so. Still, that’s less than a quarter of them!
It’s been fun for Brooke and I to realize that we’ve been running now for over a year. The best part is running the same races that we ran last year, and (hopefully) demolishing our times. We’re hoping to do just that this Sunday in our second Nissan Challenge 5K.
We’re also signed up for the Pride and Remembrance Run for the second year. This was probably our most enjoyable race experience of the past year. Even though I had a pretty horrible run, the post-race food and family atmosphere made it a highlight. The race is held in support of different charities each year, and this year funds are being raised for the 519 Church Street Community Centre and the Fife House, which provides supportive housing for people living with HIV/AIDS. You may sponsor me by clicking on the nifty graphic over there on the right.
What a strange and wonderful weekend in the world of sports. Smarty Jones loses the Belmont Stakes to Birdstone, Guillermo Coria lets the French Open slip away to Gaston Gaudio, and the Pistons upset the Lakers at home to open the NBA Finals. I love underdogs!
As for us, Brooke was running today in the Bread and Honey 15K in Mississauga. Sadly, there were no upsets there, but she ran under her goal time of 1:25:00 (she ran 1:23:36) and finished 15th in her age group (out of 41) and 74th of all 205 women! Full results are here. I was there as supportive husband only, which was a feat in itself, since we had to get up at 5:00 am. We’re running two more races in the next three weeks.
I’m thinking of dumping one of my older email addresses due to the fact that about 90% of my spam goes to that address. And I might like to finally check out GMail. Does anyone have a spare invite?