Archive for July 26th, 2008

Coming ‘Round The Corner

Here I am at this year’s Boston Marathon, turning the corner onto Boylston Street, getting my first look at the finish line. Those last 385 yards are a killer!

Boston Marathon 2008

I’ll be running another half marathon in October, but won’t tackle a full 26.2 miles again unless I feel I can get my time back down to something approaching four hours. The facial hair is now gone, by the way.

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Vitamin K3

Please don’t bother submitting a comment knocking K3, or ridiculing me for liking them, because all that will happen is I’ll delete it. I really, no kidding, don’t care what anybody else thinks about K3. What I’m hoping is for these posts to be noticed by somebody in Belgium involved with K3, so I can say hi and thanks.

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Watching the Watchmen

Comic book fans have been full of talk about the Watchmen movie for quite a while. Time.com just put out an article about the Watchmen preview at the Comic-Con in San Diego, going on right now.

This sort of coverage represents a validation, approval and acceptance of comics that was unimaginable to me as a kid. The catch is, today’s comic books hold no interest for me, in part because I felt when the Watchmen series came out it was the final word on the super hero genre. Writer Alan Moore had succeeded in extracting everything there was to be said about costumed heroes.

The best place to see the Watchmen trailer is the official site, but I’ll post it here for convenience, if you want to avoid all of the Flash animation that’s typical of movie sites.

Overall, it looks very promising, but the Vietnam scenes have a fake appearance, and Dr. Manhattan isn’t quite as convincing as he should be. Rorschach’s voice is too similar to Christian Bale’s Batman. But all of this can be fixed in post-production. I’m also a bit concerned that if the big climax in the story isn’t handled just right, it will be unintentionally humorous. We’ll know in March.

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