May 2013
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Wheaties diary 6: Discipline
After yesterday’s post someone asked “how” to run – essentially – how to keep doing it. It isn’t a whole lot of fun while you’re doing it. The mind starts to wander, and after a while it’s just you and your knees hurting and trying to keep yourself from stopping.
The (ahem) “secret” is breaking things down into little pieces. But you already knew...
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Wheaties diary 5
Leaving for Chicago in a couple of hours, and packing my bag(s) as I type this.
The whole thing has become quite real. It became somewhat real a month ago when I signed a contract for this endorsement. It’s become very official as I sit here looking at my suitcase, waiting for the car to arrive in an hour.
Anyway, I figure I can talk about something here, so here goes.
I had worried at...
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“Mr. Obama also expresses exasperation. In private, he has talked longingly of...”
– NYTimes.com.
“going Bulworth”
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fleetfoxys asked: we (or maybe just me) want to know what jams you run to. i need playlist aid.
“Just because you’re offended doesn’t make you right.”
– Ricky Gervais
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Wheaties Vine.
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GET PAID TO WRITE.
I need two posts for Thursday afternoon for Death & Taxes.
500-1000 words, timely.
$25 a post.
Send pitches to my ask box.
“Sure, Baz’s direction might be heavy handed, but have you seen “Con Air”...”
– In defense of Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’.
I wrote a review of the bad reviews of the new movie about the old novel.
Sometimes
when I start a book and then put it aside for a while, I think that the characters within it are stuck doing whatever they were doing where I stopped reading.
I’ve left one poor man stuck in the desert for six weeks, is what I’m trying to tell you.
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“I’ll give you the most logical conclusion kids are ditching Facebook—one that...”
– Cliff Watson.
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