5th Annual Disneyland Half Marathon

Tomorrow morning at 6am, I will be running the Disneyland Half Marathon for the first time.  It has been just over a year since my last race (The Seattle RnR Marathon) and I’m a lil nervous.  My training hasn’t been going as smoothly as I’d hoped, my shoes are beginning to break down but I can’t afford to buy a new pair, It’s going to be hot, etc etc.  But I’m also excited because I will get to run through not only Disneyland and California Adventures but also Angels Stadium!  At the end of the race I get a big medallion, a macaroon, and a hand job from Minnie Mouse.  Can’t WAIT!

If you’d like to track me while I run (creeper) you can do so HERE.

I’ll be running with Kim, who got me my entrance into this race for my birthday last year.  Kim, you will finish faster than you can possibly imagine!  Also this weekend, my sister and nephew are running a half marathon up north back at home.  I wish both of them the best of luck.  This is my sister’s first and she’s going to kick it’s ass.  My nephew took up distance running recently and is hoping to finish in under an hour.  You read that right:  13.1 miles in UNDER A FUCKIN HOUR.  I hate him.   Good luck you two!

Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait

So not only is the new album, The Suburbs, from Arcade Fire amazing and sonic bliss, but now they’ve gone and done something no other band has done.  They’ve created a beautiful music video experience that’s one part technological feat and another visual mastery.  By combining video and HTML 5 in the Google Chrome browser, Arcade Fire and Google have created something pretty memorable by breaking out of the standard video player and 16×9 format ratios.  I encourage you to both enjoy the experience on your own by clicking HERE (be sure to download Google Chrome HERE first if you don’t already have it) and check out the article Wired has written about the experiment.  Flash is officially dead in my book.  Enjoy!

Here’s the latest sketch, mah friends. Enjoy and PLEASE help spread it around!

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The Douchey Tourist. I hate them.

I recently came across THIS article from the New York Times talking about how technology has helped our national parks deteriorate into ignorant douchebag cesspools.  Just reading the article made my blood boil with hatred for the “tourist”.

People with cellphones call rangers from mountaintops to request refreshments or a guide; in Jackson Hole, Wyo., one lost hiker even asked for hot chocolate.

Now I am no national park slob, nor do I hate people for wanting to visit some of our country’s most gorgeous properties.  But what I do hate are the people that take it for granted, consider it a box on a bigger checklist of “things to do with the fam”, and make the experience a pain-in-the-ass for others.  If you are parents of 10, go to Six Flags.  If you have ‘screamy’ kids, put them down.  If you wear socks with sandals, die.

I have a trip planned to Yosemite in a matter of weeks and couldn’t be more excited. I have never been and it has been a dream of mine to scale Half Dome.  The problem is that I might have high expectations for the trip with my preconceived visions of my park experience. I imagine being able to roll in to the park, drive the curvy mountain roads with nary a slow moving tourist bus, and pull into a sparsly populated, quiet campground with picturesque, serene vistas of the surrounding cliffs.  Well, after reading the article above, I now imagine lines of traffic backed up at the park entrance, a shit-smelling tourist filled campground, and a 2 hour wait to summit the grandest, most widely known peak in the park.  Fuck.

I plan on bringing a tourist taser.  But you can guarantee I won’t call the rangers to come rescue my victims.  Duh duh DUUUH!

Just watch and enjoy. It’s brilliant.  Jenny Slate, you are my new hero.