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Okay boys and girls … I’ve done it. With help from Flygirl, Uptown Girl, the Mofo, Cris and Evan, I have created the Ultimate Running Music Mix. It ranges from Elvis Presley to the Electric Light Orchestra, Britney Spears to Fatboy Slim, Veruca Salt to the Prodigy. And I have to say, it rocks. It […] So I think Ben Smith left his dirty laundry on the floor between our desks. Yuck! I left it on his chair to greet him when he comes in tomorrow. Also, fellow NYDN blogger Sam Borden thinks “Eye of the Tiger” is “the best song to have playing as you run on a treadmill.” […] Direct from Dade County, Fla., White Dade has a great rant against New Yorkers who whine it’s “hard to meet people” here. Excuse me? Hard to meet people? No, in South Dakota it’s hard to meet people. In New York, you essentially live in a chicken coop for humans. How the fuck are you NOT […] Steven I. Weiss has an interesting post on how the media described last night’s violence in Crown Heights, versus the 1991 violence in the same area. “A routine traffic stop of a 75-year-old Hasidic driver in Brooklyn escalated into a protest last night by hundreds of Orthodox Jews,” the Times story read, “who surrounded a […] new nydn blogger Originally uploaded by derek7272. So my paper now has three official ones, on the Mets, Yankees and politics. For now the political blogger, Ben Smith, is sitting next to me. . […] Joy Jones had an article in the Washington Post the other day about the disintegration of the institution of marriage in the black community. She says — with good reason, I think — that this could be a harbinger things to come in society at large. Not that I think marriage is going to disappear […] So went with Jon to Pressure last night for an open-bar NCAA party. He had $900 on the line as would have taken first place and $1,200 in his office pool if UCLA won. As you all know it didn’t work out that way and this woman who knew little about basketball beat him out […] Coco made a pretty catch in the ninth, Ortiz was 3-5 with a two-run jack, and Curt Schilling allowed just two runs over seven innings. Hey, baseball is back! Well, I should have run just a little bit faster, obviously, and broken 41 for today’s Scotland Run 10K. I’m feeling tired and my calves are sore. But it was a PR! Mile 1: 6:32 Mile 2: 6:20 Mile 3: 6:27 Mile 4: 6:57 Mile 5: 6:39 Final 6.2: 8:11 (6:49 pace) Overall: 41:01 net, […] |
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