who's $5 bill is that? hmm.... i am taking it.

so i took the car up to the shop yesterday so's they could give it a bath and instead of waiting on it, i was planning to run home and get a ride back up there later. there are two choices for running home from the car shop - a 1 mile and a 5 mile. i started off going around the block to see how i felt and i felt okay so i turned left for the 5 miler and had the best run i have had in weeks. i blame the new nike lunar flys. i wore them again today and had another great run. both days it was 95+º out, so i was pleasantly surprised how good it felt. those shoes are amazing. i am a bit concerned that tomorrow's run in the asics will be a big let down and i'm also concerned that maybe these lightweight lunar flys will not last as long as other running shoes. yeah, things are good right now, but nothing lasts forever and blindly enjoying the good times just invites bad karma. you've got to pay a little homage to the bad times every day or they'll sneak up on you the next time they're in town.


last night we went and saw salt with angelina jolie, and as david edelstein said this morning on cbs sunday morning, it's one big chase. it's got a couple twists, little surprises, and a ton of action. the plot's kind of wack and the characters are like little cardboard cutout puppets, but the dialog's not too bad and the action is so good it's like a whole other character. there's violence and some blood, but it's not a bloodbath. i understand if people were actually involved in this sort of activity, they'd be not only dead, but covered in blood -- but it's a movie dogdarnit, and i appreciate the dearth of gore. and, yeah, speaking of dead, evelyn salt has that jack-bauer-esque ability to sustain multiple injuries and still do things like walk on windowsills 75 ft above the ground while wearing inappropriate footwear, out-sprint CIA agents in who are in cars while lugging a bulging backpack, and make impossible leaps between moving vehicles. oh, and of course she does that thing where she dyes her hair from blonde to black and then by that one change, noone recognizes her. this is definitely a big screen must-see because it has no subtlety and would be laughably kitschy on the small screen. but on the big screen, it's exciting and fun entertainment.