I ran 10 miles this morning. That's my last "long" training run before my half next Saturday.

Chicago Marathon is underway as we speak.
Funny story about my favorite marathon, the Lakefront Marathon in Milwaukee... the top 2 women were DQ'd: one for drinking non-official water and one for listening to her Ipod. Huh?

Top 2 Women Disqualified In Lakefront Marathon

QOTD
"Clem"
- Doc Holliday's nickname for his girlfriend, Clementine (he he)
Movie: "My Darling Clementine" by John Ford
Review: 3 bill-stars (out of 5)... very good

"Clementine" is actually the gunfight at the OK Corral.
You know... Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and the Clantons and all.

Very good:
  • Henry Fonda was excellent.
  • Victor Mature (to the right there) always struck me as a weird, weird-looking dude, and he does that well in this movie too.
  • The chicks were hot hot hot. Clementine was the good girl, and she was hot. The bad girl was faux Mexican (I don't think you could be "real" Mexican in those days) and she was hot hot hot. Ay carumba hot. Her character's name was (pause) Chihuahua. He he.
  • There's a screenful of great character actors that you know from a zillion other movies. I saw Bert the Cop from IAWL in there. Walter Brennan. Excellent.
  • Beautiful western scenery is signature John Ford, eh.
After that, it was a pretty convoluted story. Slow. The characters were only mildly interesting. Quick, put a bow on it, ending. I had higher hopes, I reckon.

This was my first Netflix experience. I finally had to do something... shit, they closed 3 different Hollywood Videos on me. He he. Anyway, Netflix worked fine, and I'm signed up for 2 movies a month for $5. Why not.
clem... yow, bill

PS - Here's Chihuahua (Linda Darnell), the picture isn't from "Clementine", but who cares... you get the idea.

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