My gut decided it didn't want to behave for the past week. A combination of allergies, lack of exercise & water (traveled home in the midst of the remnants of hurricane Ida), change in diet (see last parenthetical), &c. just left ye olde gut very, very unhappy with me. Finally managed to calm it down yesterday morning in time to get out and enjoy the gorgeous weather with a good 20 mile ride. Also got over to the Hill and fixed the fixie, which was a relief. It's a shame there's not a closer hardware store, but it's all good now so I can ride to work again without problems.

Seven months until the half iron, six until the Olympic, and nine until the IM. Time to get out of off-season mode and back to training, hence the desire to get back onto the road yesterday. I also want/need to lose a few pounds as this season progresses so working out now is as important for that as it is for base building. While I've done some half-assed calorie counting I haven't gotten really serious about it yet. Need to knuckle down on all fronts and get back to being serious about being a triathlete.

Originally published at Of Moose And Men.

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Hey Seattle friends, does anyone have a folding table or a card table I could use Thanksgiving Day? Any help would be appreciated!!

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A movie:

Trick 'R Treat - I love horror anthology series, but, like something else I love, adventure games, they've more or less gone extinct. So it was (pun sort of intended) an actual treat to see this, even though it's only technically an anthology film, since the stories are interconnected and unravel simultaneously. It's really an ingenuous way to do a film anthology, and fortunately there's enough talent here that the movie lives up to that conceit. Also, while like all too many horror movies from the Aughts the film holds dozens of references, it uses them well enough everything still seems fresh instead of derivative, a neat trick a few directors and screenwriters I could name should learn (*cough* Rob Zombie).

And comics:

The Incredible Hercules - Really, one of the best comics being published by either of the Big Two, and I'm not just saying that because the protagonist is a perpetually shirtless, muscular man with a beard. Well, that helps, but it's mostly the clever storytelling, the excellent use of the odds and ends of a superhero universe without getting mired in continuity minutae, the brilliant use of mythology and Joseph Campbell, and the precisely right ratio of humor and drama. Really.

Blackest Night - You know, I'm ambivalent about the Green Lantern franchise, I've never really enjoyed Geoff Johns' writing, and I hate zombies, but I'm kind of enjoying this regardless. I think it's because I just love stories that exploit superhero mythology while I have to confess that I sort of do like crossover epics if they're handled at least halfway well (I'm just a sucker for serial stories that are all about slowly raising the "Oh shit!" factor). It even has all the "Johnsisms" I can't stand - protagonists stopping the story to spell out an already painfully obvious theme or moral for the slow kids, and ultra-violence that would looked gratuitous in a Herschel Gordon Lewis film - and yet I'm kind of liking it. Maybe it's just because I do think the premise, with all the dead loved ones and enemies of the DC Universe's superheroes being resurrected and drafted into an army under the control of a rouge personification of Death, is sort of, well, kickass.

Dark X-Men - Speaking of crossover events, I wasn't entirely against the "Dark Reign" crossover, but I was hoping it would turn out to be about the Marvel Universe getting its own overdue version of the Injustice Gang; instead it's become about the overexposure of a villain who was more interesting dead anyway. But, hey, Paul Cornell wrote this chapter in the sprawling crossover, so I might as well follow it. And it is as good as you'd expect from Cornell, although it is discouraging that the whole story's raison d'etre is to bring back a crappy character from the '90s.

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For the 4 people on my friend's list who might care: Slayer, Megadeth and Testament are touring together this Jan & Feb! There are supposed to be a limited # of cheap tickets for each show but w/ Slayer & Megadeth co-headlining, this will probably be pretty spendy. We'll see. For the entire tour itinerary click here.

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Four large doses of WTF?!!!!! to get your Monday off to the right start.



1. It would be a sistah too. DAMN IT!!!! 10 points from Gryffindor*


2. Plastic Chemicals Feminize Boys. Oh Really? *Recalls the He-Man action figure collection*


3. TN State Trooper Celebrates White Power. Look at me crazy again when I talk about how much I hate the South. I dare ya!


4. AND NEGRO IF YOU DON'T SITCHO ASS DOWN!!!



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*I've previously stated that because we're viewed as the monolithic borg being apart of the black race is like being apart of the House of Gryffindor. For every triumph, we all get a point, for every fuckup, it's a reflection on the whole Negro people.

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