Dreamin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Dream last night was one huge disappointment.

Best Dream Ever

I'd just like to state that I had the best dream ever last night. I can't quite piece it all together in a way that makes any sort of sense, since it was a drunken fever dream. And what a cast, seemed like every one I knew was there. And it was really a journey, a quest, but for what I can't recall. And the setting was familiar but also defamiliarized. And I'm not sure why I took off my pants every time I got in my car (without taking off my shoes!) but I guarantee the nudity was tasteful. And the jokes! My god, it was the best comedy I never wrote. Sleep tonight can be nothing but a disappointment.

Most Anticipated: The Road

How can you have more than one most anticipated? Shut up, that's how!

Four reasons why I'm looking forward to The Road.


1) Viggo Mortensen. Look at him there, in that picture, all bearded and badass. Viggo has quickly become one of my favourite actors, mostly (entirely?) thanks to his work with David Cronenberg (esp. A History of Violence). Viggo also has Good and Appaloosa coming out this year, which look good and interesting, respectively.

2) Cormac McCarthy. The man wrote the source novel to No Country for Old Men, which I loved, as well as the source novel to this. And ummmm All the Pretty Horses, too I guess.

3) John Hillcoat. The man directed The Proposition, which was all kinds of grimy and gritty and violent and dirty realistic down under western, which would seemingly make it for this project as it's set in...

4) The Post-Apocalypse. How I love post-apocalyptic worlds. Maybe because they so often involve zombies. Not that this involves zombies. None that I am aware of, at least. But I can love them separately. I'm not sure what love came first. It's a chicken and the egg thing.

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Demimonde

The language, it is continually evolving, yet it stays the same. New words come up, yet our old words don't disappear. Some may label them archaic. They might not be gauche. But they still get the job done. And with style.

"Demimonde" was the "mistress" of the nineteenth century. That is, to say, mistress is the new demimonde.

But they are so much more than mere mistresses. While they enjoy the same kept-ness (captivity?) of the mistress, they also constitute their own social class.

Their decline is owed to ever rising tide of progress, time, feminism, and the middle class. Social mores are for the bourgeoisie; demimondes are for the wealthy.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Thirty-Eight: Haemophilia in European royalty
Week Thirty-Seven: Library of America
Week Thirty-Six: Honeypot
Week Thirty-Five: Glasgow smile
Week Thirty-Four: Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Week Thirty-Three: Mono no aware
Week Thirty-Two: Royal intermarriage
Week Thirty-One: Amputee fetishism
Week Thirty: Turtles all the way down
Week Twenty-Nine: The Diogenes Club
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion

A Perfect Sequence I: Batman: The Animated Series

Batman: The Animated Series
Episode 406532 "Robin's Reckoning Part 1"
Original Airdate: February 7, 1993

The sequence begins as Batman, in flashback (as signified by his different chest emblem), gathers information (using strongarm tactics) on the whereabouts of Tony Zucco, murderer of Robin's acrobat parents, The Flying Graysons.



Cut to Zucco's hideout at his uncle's homestead (armed guards included). After a brief musical cue, Batman enters the house and the soundtrack switches to only diegetic sound. Having received a denial from the uncle, Batman covertly bugs the house. Hiding out in the garden, he hears Zucco inside, but is forced to take out the armed guards given when his position is compromised.


Zucco, tipped off by the sound of gunshots, tries to run Batman over with his car as he escapes.




Thanks to some excellent animation that sets just the right tone and mood, filled with shadows and tension, this is a perfect sequence.

Privileged IV

Text Message

From:
281-[redacted]
Message:
I FORGOT TO
CHARGE THE
PHONE LASTNIGHT
WE WILL THINJ OF
SOMETHING ELSE
Received on:
Aug 23, 08 10:49am

Text messages are the new poetry. And sometimes they just appear out of the ether from about 1500 miles away and delight your day.

Boy, was she crumby!

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. Girls aren't too much help, either, when you start trying not to get too crumby, when you start trying not to spoil anything really good.

--J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Hulu

So I've discovered the free video service Hulu.com (brought to us by the kind folks at NBC and FOX, apparently) has some awesome movies available to watch online. Recently, I watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three on it (Thus reaching 2/3 of my 1970s Walter Matthau crime drama trifecta. Charley Varrick and The Laughing Policeman being the other two.) and it was all I ever hoped and dreamed for (especially since it's getting remade next year). Anyways I've put together a queue which amounts to films that should be good and mere curiosities and I've duplicated it here for your pleasure. Enjoy.

Good
Bedazzled
Blackula
Boomerang!
The Desert Rats
Eddie Murphy: Raw
Eight Men Out
Fiddler on the Roof
The Great Train Robbery
Hair
Hoop Dreams (it's in The Criterion Collection)
Kagemusha (it's in The Criterion Collection)
The Knack, and How to Get It
A Life Less Ordinary
Metropolitan (it's in The Criterion Collection)
Moonstruck
Nicholas Nickleby
Of Mice and Men (Malkovich-Sinise!)
Open Your Eyes (this was remade as Vanilla Sky)
Parents
Quest for Fire
Quills
Rob Roy
The Secret of NIMH
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Weird Science (John Hughes!)

Documentaries
Cosmic Voyage
Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia

Curiosities
Bulworth
Casino Royale (1967) (It's got Woody Allen... and Peter Sellers)
Frogs
Ghoulies II
Hercules in New York (Arnold Schwarzenegger's debut)
In the Mix (Usher!)
Killing Zoe (from Roger Avary hot off of Pulp Fiction)
Pumpkinhead
The Scorpion King
State Property
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Troll 2 (this is at the top of my queue... OMGOMGOMG!!!1!1! I can't wait)
Underworld: Evolution
Undiscovered
When a Stranger Calls
Xanadu

The Rest (i.e. good stuff they have that I've already seen... there's still a lot more they have)
28 Days Later
Coffee and Cigarettes
Dressed to Kill
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fifth Element
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
In the Heat of the Night
The Longest Day
Lost Highway
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Me, Myself & Irene
Men in Black
Naked Lunch
Near Dark
The Night of the Hunter
Raising Arizona
Requiem for a Dream
The Sand Pebbles
Sideways
Some Like It Hot
Spy Game
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Von Ryan's Express

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Haemophilia in European royalty

Aristocratic inbreeding again, Justin? I know, I know. But its an awesome concept. Incest: an awesome concept? Yes. Yes! YES!!

The only problem with incest (yes the only problem) is that it tends to allow the propagation of undesirable traits such as a horrible underbite or excessive bleeding. Yes, today's focus of the royal intermarriage corner is haemophilia in European royalty.

Haemophilia, the inability of the body to control blood clotting, was passed among the houses of Europe by that nineteenth century queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's Victorian era, Queen Victoria, who likely developed the condition through spontaneous gene mutation. From there, she passed this gene to her son Leopold, an inconsequential heir (fourth in line!) who would die from the excessive bleeding, and princesses Alice and Beatrice, consorts of Princes of Germany. And through their children, the disorder would reach the houses of Prussia, Russia, and Spain. Natural selection at its finest.

Of course, today it is sad to report that hemophilia is extinct in the Royal Houses of Europe, but there is still hope that it does in fact still reside, hidden, waiting, in the genes of a female descendant of Victoria.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Thirty-Seven: Library of America
Week Thirty-Six: Honeypot
Week Thirty-Five: Glasgow smile
Week Thirty-Four: Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Week Thirty-Three: Mono no aware
Week Thirty-Two: Royal intermarriage
Week Thirty-One: Amputee fetishism
Week Thirty: Turtles all the way down
Week Twenty-Nine: The Diogenes Club
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion

Chemical History

Am I the only one who would be interested in a complete chemical (i.e. medicinal) history of his entire life?

Top Five VIII: Dustin Hoffman Performances in Film

1. Straw Dogs (1971)
2. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
3. Marathon Man (1976)
4. The Graduate (1967)
5. Hook (1991)

Unseen: Mr. Magorium's Wonderful Emporium, Kramer vs. Kramer, a shitload of others

Fridays

Ughhh Fridays sometime catch up to me.

Especially when I spend a not insignificant amount of time looking for a picture of Myrna Loy doing her oh-so-cute and oh-so-fuckable (even if she would be 103 if alive today) face scrunching thing in the first Thin Man film (as Nora, Mrs. Nick Charles).

Semantics: Kind v. Sort

A turn of phrase was stuck in my head? But I was missing some of the words. I knew what to do: a Google phrase search.

In goes "of motherfuckery is this." Out comes 7 results.

Six use "what kind of motherfuckery is this?"

One uses "what sort of motherfuckery is this?"

Sort or kind? Kind seems to be the consensus favourite. But what say you?

The Travolta Touch

There is something about the fact that Travolta hits his women in a few of his early classics. See: Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy.

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Library of America

I think my book fetish is well documented on this here site. But only once I have taken you into the very psyche of said fetish, and lovingly photographed the object, let you feel the pages, crisply turning, had you breath in the cover, the soft cloth that binds the hardcover.

One would think I would know about the Library of America. About there many, many fine editions. Sure, I think I've seen one of two in the store before, but seeing this list is overwhelming. Half-mast minimum. It's like you've created one fine edition, that's fantastic, but moving on. Then there's creating a whole series of fine editions and that's just transcendent.

Library of America, publisher and not a library mind you, has created a whole series of fine, and comprehensive, editions.

Wikipedia currently lists one hundred and eighty-two editions in their main series ranging from the first volume of three Herman Melville novellas to their one hundred and eighty-second volume collecting five Philip K. Dick novels.

Library of America is a non-profit relying on the patronage of well-endowed patrons to bring us classics in acid-free paper, durable binding cloth, and flexible, but firm binding boards, as well as keeping said classics in print.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Thirty-Six: Honeypot
Week Thirty-Five: Glasgow smile
Week Thirty-Four: Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Week Thirty-Three: Mono no aware
Week Thirty-Two: Royal intermarriage
Week Thirty-One: Amputee fetishism
Week Thirty: Turtles all the way down
Week Twenty-Nine: The Diogenes Club
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion

Routine

Warm-up. Eight pull-ups. Fifty jumping jacks. Stretch. Eight chin-ups. Pull-ups and chin-ups both use the chin-up bar. Pull-ups use a pronated grip, palms out. Chin-ups use a supinated grip, palms in. Treadmill. Start machine. On-speed is 1.6 kilometres per hour. Or 1 mile per hour. The machine is calibrated to the imperial system but the display output is in metrics. Increase speed to 3.5 kilometres per hour within ten seconds. Move onto tread, begin walk. Use MP3 player to divert boredom. Insert right earbud, increase speed to 3.7 kilometres per hour. Insert left earbud, increase speed to 3.8 kilometres per hour. Hitch tie player to treadmill handbar. Increase speed to 4.0 kilometres per hour. Tighten hitch, increase speed to 4.2 kilometres per hour. Release player's manual slide lock, increase speed to 4.3 kilometres per hour. Turn on player, increase speed to 4.5 kilometres per hour. Press play, shuffle begins as player previous set to random playback. Increase speed to 4.7 kilometres per hour. Plug in earphones, increase speed to 4.8 kilometres per hour. Less than one minute into walk. Crack water bottle seal. Remember to keep hydrated. Read. Read a page, increase speed. Read a page. Increase speed to 5.0 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 5.2 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 5.3 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 5.5 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 5.6 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 5.8 kilometres per hour. Read a page, increase speed to 6.0 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 6.1 kilometres per hour. Read a page. Increase speed to 6.3 kilometres per hour. Read a page, increase speed to 6.4 kilometres. Less than ten minutes into walk. Walking speed has been reached. Tread can be inclined. Angle is measured in degrees. Degrees are measured positively in relation to the plane of the floor. Incline can be raised in increments of 0.5 degrees. Read a page, increase incline to 0.5 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 1.0 degree. Read a page. Increase incline to 1.5 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 2.0 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 2.5 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 3.0 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 3.5 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 4.0 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 4.5 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 5.0 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 5.5 degrees. Read a page. Increase incline to 6.0 degrees. Incline is satisfactory, continue reading. 30:00. Increase speed to 8.5 kilometres per hour, jogging speed. Increase incrementally, but as quickly as possible. Jog. 31:00. Use pre-set button to resume walking speed, 6.4 kilometres per hour. Walk. Read. 40:00. Increase speed to 8.5 kilometres per hour. Jog. 42:00. Return to walking speed, 6.4 kilometres per hour. Walk. Read. 50:00. Increase speed to 8.5 kilometres per hour. Jog. 53:00. Return to walking speed, 6.4 kilometres per hour. Walk. Read. 60:00. Increase speed to 8.5 kilometres per hour. Jog. 65:00. Return to walking speed, 6.4 kilometres per hour. Walk. 66:20. Decrease incline to 5.0 degrees. Treadmill contains limited number of displays. Time and pace share a single display cyclically. Pace is minutes per kilometre. Cycle runs in approximately 20 second intervals. Use cycle to synchronise slowdown pace. 66:40. Decrease incline to 4.0 degrees. 67:00. Decrease incline to 3.0 degrees. 67:20. Decrease incline to 2.0 degrees. 67:40. Decrease incline to 1.0 degree. 68:00. Decrease incline to 0.0 degrees. 69:00. Decrease speed, incrementally, to 6.0 kilometres per hour. 69:20. Decrease speed, incrementally, to 5.5 kilometres per hour. 69:40. Decrease speed, incrementally, to 5.0 kilometres per hour. Display returns to clock. Decrease speed, incrementally, with each second until... 70:00. Dead stop. Machine calculations: 19+ laps. 7.6+ kilometres. 820+ calories. 260+ fat. Towel down self, machine. Don't forget to bring a towel. Eight pull-ups. Twenty-five push-ups. Twenty-five crunches. Eight chin-ups. Twenty-five push-ups.

Dear Death, I don't have the time to personally respond to all my fan mail, but...

Dear Samuel L. Jackson,

Watch yo'self.

Sincerely,

Death

Man in the Mirror: Charm

My charm turns on and off like a switch, I'm just not sure who's flicking it.

Olivia Munn

I don't watch much TV these days (of the non-PVRed variety) but when I do, it's often Attack of the Show. Now sure the show is dipped into geek culture of which I likely belong, but my patronage probably has more to do with Olivia Munn.



I just wish I could have found a photo to use where she is wearing glasses (and not while dressed up as the Baroness).

I Do Wonder I

I do wonder how I could possibly be considered to be interesting enough to be a topic of other people's conversations?

Like I get how I'm interesting but not how it can be considered since how I'm interesting is mostly internal. Like a submerged iceberg would be a better metaphor.

Our Patron Saint on Plays

Donald Barthelme, our patron of patrons and saint of saints on Plays, Bombs, Operas, Politics.

"Sir Percy Plangent has writ a new opera attacking Arthur!"

"It is called The Grail, and in it the Grail is a bomb that will make everyone happy forever!"

"A bomb that will make everyone happy forever! Is this the same bomb that the Blue Knight was speaking of, some time ago?"

"In the opera the device does not use cobalt, as the Blue Knight projected, but bold euphonium!"

"What is euphonium?"

"It's a compound of europium and eurekium. In Act One, it is discovered. In Act Two, it is refined. In Act Three, it explodes!"

"In the first act, everybody denounces Arthur for not having a wonderful bomb like this. In the second act, everybody decides that something must be done. In the third act, the bomb goes off!"

"A powerful parable of political praxis!"

"Precisely! The bomb is a metaphor for the unhappiness of those groaning under the yoke!"

"Who is groaning under the yoke?"

"The folk are groaning under the yoke!"

-- Donald Barthelme, The King

Eugenics: Such a Bad Thing?

Eugenics: Such a Bad Thing?

I'll let you mull over that for about a week before I actually write something on the topic.

David Bowie in Pop II

There’s Old Wave. There’s New Wave. And there's David Bowie...

- RCA's marketing slogan for 1977's "Heroes"

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Honeypot

The Honey trap or the Honeypot, when you realize it is a term, in the spy community, for recruitment involving sexual seduction, opens itself up to a lot of crude slangy references to certain genitalia of a certain sex, perhaps, in all likelihood, the fairer of two.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Thirty-Five: Glasgow smile
Week Thirty-Four: Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Week Thirty-Three: Mono no aware
Week Thirty-Two: Royal intermarriage
Week Thirty-One: Amputee fetishism
Week Thirty: Turtles all the way down
Week Twenty-Nine: The Diogenes Club
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion

Casual Racism

I don't believe in doctors anyway. There's a doctor lives right down the street here. Treated a man for yellow jaundice for nine years and then found out he was a Jap.

W.C. Fields in The Dentist (1932)

Album Appreciation List: July 2008

Appreciation now, instead of meditation. What of it.

in listening order

beatles for sale, the beatles
horses, patti smith

Yeah, it's a little short, I guess I was watching too many movies. I did listen to a bunch of Pixies albums straight through, guess I could have included those, although those are old hat by now.

Film Watch List: July 2008

*film has been seen previously/rewatching
†watched in theatre

in viewing order

The Brothers Solomon (2007)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Häxan (1922)
Hot Rod (2007)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Hairspray (2007)
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Shampoo (1975)
The Brave One (2007)
White Heat (1949)
Vanishing Point (1971)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Easy (1987)
Bull Durham (1988)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)*
The Commitments (1991)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Donovan's Reef (1963)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Giant (1956)
Martian Child (2007)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Blades of Glory (2007)
The Goonies (1985)*
The Kingdom (2007)
Beach Red (1967)
An American in Paris (1951)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Batman Begins (2005)*
Grease (1978)
The Dark Knight (2008)†
Fritz the Cat (1972)
The Haunting (1963)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Hatari! (1962)
Hud (1963)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
The Hunter (1980)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
West Side Story (1961)
The Last Detail (1973)*
Stardust (2007)
All About Eve (1950)
Manhunter (1986)*
Kwaidan (1964)
Interiors (1978)
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
The Natural (1984)
The Hunting Party (2007)
We Are Marshall (2006)
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
The TV Set (2006)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)

Stats
Films watched: 60
Films previously seen: 5
Films watched in theatres: 1

Average # of films watched per day: 1.94

By Decade
1920s: 1
1930s: 1
1940s: 1
1950s: 4
1960s: 10
1970s: 10
1980s: 10
1990s: 1
2000s: 22

Conclusion: It's like I just ran a marathon. Except marathons are somewhat noble, in a certain (masturbatory) sense ["ooo-la-la I ran a marathon." Yeah? Go fuck yourself.]. At least, I'm proud of the diversity I achieved.