May 2009
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Coffee Heath Bar Crunch
I just finished an hour long run and was walking home through the West Village thinking about ice cream. I passed an old homeless man begging for change on Bleecker. Usually I’ll buy these guys pizza or a sub, but I don’t give them money because when I was a kid my mom told me they’d just buy alcohol and I wouldn’t be helping them. The street is overflowing with drunk...
April 2009
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Summer!
“Anywhere you like, anywhere you like,” said the goose. “Go down through the orchard, root up the sod! Go down through the garden, dig up the radishes! Root up everything! Eat grass! Look for corn! Look for oats! Run all over! Skip and dance, jump and prance! Go down through the orchard and stroll in the woods! The world is a wonderful place when you are young.”...
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What it's really like to run the Boston Marathon
To celebrate the 113th anniversary of the Boston marathon here’s a video my friend Anjum and I took when we ran in 2007. Waking up at four thirty am and driving over an hour through pouring rain and sleet was very foreboding. But once the race started, it was so fun we forgot it was 26.2 miles long. The highlight? Even though we ran as “bandits” we still got cool mylar blankets...
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The Flag of Equal Marriage
The flag of equal marriage was designed by Carl Tashian, you can read about it here on his site http://tashian.com/makeitequal/. Not allowing same-sex marriage is a violation of basic civil rights (which include protection from discrimination). Under United States law marriage grants couples many rights. Below the jump read up on them and find out what same-sex couples are being excluded from....
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Rain
It is 48°F (9°C) and rainy in NY. Wet toes inside wet socks inside shoes that were supposed to be waterproof. The whole situation was gruesome, thought John Greeland as he stooped under the drooping awning his wife had made him install over the front steps. Now she wanted it fixed. His life had recently taken on an inescapable quality. At first, alone in the storm, he had felt refreshed. It...
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Feminism among other things
Wednesday afternoon a couple hundred students and professors mill around Columbia. The weather is good so those that aren’t heading to class hang out on the steps. In a post-lecture stupor the spring air has made me hyperobservant. Perhaps this is the reason I am the only person staring at a thirty-something well dressed man standing against a well pruned hedge. Not leaning on it, pressed...