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Perhaps genetics explain my questionable taste in film.

• The Hard Way (1991) starring Michael J Fox
• Saturday Night Fever
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• School Daze - Spike Lee
• Terminator II
• Stephen Sondheim 1995 concert (??)
• Schindler’s List
• Crossing Delancey
• Three Tenors: Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo with Mehta at Dodger Stadium - 16 July 1994
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Jaws
• Ricochet (1991)
• Liberache 1988 biopic
• Nikken marketing promo
• Poland Spring marketing promo x2
• Sports Illustrated NBA Jams! subscription bonus

I have wondered about this hilarious Tom Otterness statue for quite a while. It appeared sometime after the WTO riots, during which time the Grand Hyatt and its original Willem de Kooning abstract sculpture came under assault. I find the cartoonish yet heavy-handed satire amusing—all the more so for the sculpture’s installation in such an opulent location.

For months if not years I couldn’t find any photos on the web.  Photographing this piece myself sat on my to-do list nearly as long.  Although I exacerbated a sore heel doing so I took advantage of the lovely weather, ran downtown, and took my pictures at last.  I still don’t have the full story of how and when this sculpture ended up in front of the Hyatt’s pink marble facade.  A project for another day or another researcher.

Whenever one sees a VC-25A at an airport, as I did last night, one can reasonably expect to be delayed, as I was last night.

We were fourth in line for takeoff when someone in a light blue 747 cut in front of everyone else. I presumed he was in town to celebrate the collar of two abettors of the Times Square bomber, but I should have known better. I’ll let it slide this time but if it happens again I might vote Tea Party in 2012.

Since the Seattle Running Company is, alas, no more, the web page that linked to the old group-run routes is also defunct.   Those URLs are memorialized here for my edification.

Tuesday Winter - 5.53 miles
Thursday Winter - 8.56
Tuesday Spring-Fall - 6.20
Tuesday Spring-Fall - 7.85

this placeholder souvenir map should prompt an expanded recollection in the near future.

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Sometimes you stumble upon the perfect description.

The Unending Conversation

Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.

–Kenneth Burke, Philosophy of Literary Form, 110-111

1. Went for a serious run for the first time in almost a month.  Post-flu bronchial tubes passed with flying colors.   Also, at the first sojourn along the route,
2. I successfully retrieved the housekeys I’d left behind on October 6th.
3. While one can never be 100% certain it looks like my days in Bentonville are all behind me.  Here’s hoping.

I’ll take it.

eneighblor (noun):  Pronounced \i-ˈnā-blər\.   Concatenation of ‘neighbor’ and ‘enabler.’