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Don’t know what it sold for, don’t care. What I care about is unworthy poseurs taking credit for others’ ideas. Ken Kesey at the ’80 Olympic Trials, Edward Abbey and Indigenous marathoners and, most definitely, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at the 1980 Honolulu Marathon – all ideas presented to Nike BEFORE they purchased the magazine….
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Not budging, heels dug. Tough way to go through real life. I speak with not a little experience. The old man had been…
It’s not what you once did that counts the most, but what you keep doing. – John Kelley The Elder So slow, looking like a living fossil…. Closed a note to Benji Durden – “36 degrees at dawn. No snow.” Response – “We were 7.2° overnight and we have warmed to 8.2° now. It will…
It will be interesting if a woman makes the men’s world champs qualifying standard, and an American man doesn’t? – Tom Raynor The Petition – says to me – 2:09:56 is itself prima facie evidence of fraud. ‘No effin’ way that’s legit. Hell, anybody can see that’ for you non-legal-types. Which reminded me of the…
“WADA is now aware of at least three cases where athletes who had committed serious anti-doping rule violations were allowed to continue to compete for years while they acted as undercover agents for USADA, without it notifying WADA and without there being any provision allowing such a practice under the (global) code or USADA’s own rules,” WADA said in a…
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – Stephen Covey I still want to be an artist, but I simply cannot draw a line. Or a circle. My hand too often is my mind’s enemy. Don’t have a straight finger and a few won’t bend. So, I was thinking about…
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. – Morrie…
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot. – Steven Wright At the marijuana dispensary, the second thing they ask you is your age. “Three score and eighteen,” I offer brightly. “The first half of the last century.” Seventy-eight. 78. Nine…
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future – Agnes M. Pahro. Note to self – My second and perhaps last Xmas missive. Based on those I have received over the years from the likes of Jack & Donna Scaff, Jose Cruz, JOJ, Rick & Charlotte…
“Some of you are thinking that you won’t fight. Others, that you can’t fight. They all say that, until they’re out there.” – Proximo Until they’re out there. I’m out there. I take life carefully Friday through Sunday, just in case the unforeseen I am constantly foreseeing happens and I require medical attention. Health Care…