Episode #328: Running Down and Up

Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 328. This one’s paid subscribers-only. Click the player above to listen.

In this episode I update my fitness situation, propose a slant rhyme, and admit I will never be a lean piece of beef. I also use the plural oxen when I shoulda used the singular ox.

Forward!
Mike

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MARGINALIA

(Annotations from books Mike is reading, or annotations related to the episode)

That hill’s a climb, no matter the season:

Before the highway commissioner put a bend in it.

Me running a sub-five minute mile in 1983 or so.

In 2005 I entered the Water Street Mile. Goal was to finish in under six minutes. Ran a 5:58! It wasn’t pretty:

This weeks’ marginal annotations, from The Triggering Town:

Basically the last chapter of Improbable Mentors in a single sentence.

Consistent with Dylan Thomas choosing words for their taste over their meaning.

This is the kind of stuff I thrill to.

The Triggering Town is available at BookShop.org or Amazon.

Those are affiliate links, we get a penny in the jar.

As some of you know, the hill featured in today’s episode was also a central character in the book Visiting Tom. I describe my long-running battle with the highway commissioner. He won. But I hit the New York Times list. Tra-la-la.

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