Challenge 126…

For those who don’t know, challenge 126 is (was) a 126 mile run to raise money for Special Olympics Ireland. It happened in Ireland (Whoop!) and those involved include Brian Maher, a presenter on Spin1038 (That’s a radio station) and Mike Sheridan, his friend who I know nothing about. They started on Thursday in Limerick and ran all day and all night. They arrived back in Dublin after running 126 miles (That’s five marathons by the way!) on Friday night.

You can find out more about it here, on the challenge 126 website!

Some of the runners...

These guys must be robots. They ran five marathons in nonstop. They ran for over 24 hours straight! Spin1038 called Brian Maher every hour so, to see how he was getting on, and he wasn’t even out of breath! Apparently, at some point along the run, Brian got a “spot of hypothermia”. Do you want to know what he did??

He took a twenty-minute break.

He had hypothermia, so he took a twenty-minute break. The man is a machine. End of…

126 miles. They ran 126 miles nonstop! I doubt I could run one mile nonstop! I could swim it, sure, but I highly doubt I’d be able to run it. I highly dislike running, for the simple reason that I find it immensely boring. Therefore, I try not to run, therefore I’m not very good at running. It’s fairly simple, I would quite literally die if I had to run 126 miles…

So basically, the entire point of this blog post was to complain about the fact that I’m not a runner, and to question the mechanicalness (Spell check is telling me that’s not a word, but I’m using it anyway!) of the challenge 126 runners. Sometimes I wonder…

Oh, and Seán, hi. There, you got your shout out…

So until next time just remember:

Brian Maher may or may not be human, and jazz hands make everything better…

Bram Stoker’s 100th Death Anniversary…

Dracula

I have a confession to make:

I only read Dracula yesterday.

Of course, I knew the story, and I knew the end result, but only yesterday did I feel compelled to actually read the book. Why yesterday? Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s death. For any uncultured readers, Bram Stoker is the author of Dracula.

Bram Stoker

Am I ashamed that I didn’t read it sooner? Yes.

Do I regret my laziness? Not one bit!

I feel, that if I had read it when I was younger, I wouldn’t have fully been able to appreciate the brilliance of Stoker’s masterpiece. Because it is a masterpiece, and it’s definitely brilliant…

It’s clear why Dracula has stood the test of time, and why it’s still as revered today as it was the day it was written.

Dracula is an epic tale, full of suspense and mystery. From Jonathan Harker’s terrifying journey, to Lucy Westenra’s horrifying ordeal, to the unforgettable final showdown in the shadow of Castle Dracula, the story never slows down or lets up. It’s an extremely long book, and it is a remarkable feat that there’s not one anticlimactic moment through out the course of it.

I can’t hope to have an opinion on Dracula that hasn’t already been voiced over the 120 or so years since it was published, but here’s what I think of it:

Dracula’s popularity, and its effect on the culture and society, was no fluke. It is a powerful novel, and this is evident in the way it has lasted. To quote Charlotte Stoker, “No novel is comparable in originality or terror”.

Plus Dracula doesn’t sparkle…

So until next time just remember:

Dracula trumps Twilight any day, and Jazz hands make everything better…

10 Things You Probably Didn't Notice That Made "The Hunger Games" Movie So Kick-Ass

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: This post contains them, but not enough to make you want to kill me Hunger Games style. Read on.

So I recently wrote a half-assed snarky little post called The Embarrassing Side Effects of Having Recently Read The Hunger Games, and apparently I wasn’t the only one experiencing said side effects. In fact, some of you are way worse off than I am (Have you read the comments?

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I'm reblogging twice in one week. And it's from the same blog! *Insert shocked smiley face here (I'm not about to write one) I'm so sorry, but it's so true!

The Embarrassing Side Effects of Having Recently Read "The Hunger Games"

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Yes. I did it. I finally read the first Hunger Games book, in exactly one day. I had an 8 am flight from Pittsburgh to Memphis to Nashville, so around 6:30 or so after making my way through security in Pittsburgh, I wandered into one of the airport bookstores. About 20 hours later, I’d finished reading it. Actually, I don’t think what I did was “read” that book, it was something more akin to ravenously devouring it, only stopping occasionally to eat, drink, and pee.

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Excuse me for being lazy and reblogging, but this is just too true not to share...

What’s wrong with Paddy’s day…

Paddy’s day. The one day of the year that the whole world celebrates that fact that their cousin’s, sister’s, dog’s, godmother’s great-great grandmother is kind of Irish. Yeah it’s great and the leaning tower of Pisa was green and all, but I still hate Paddy’s day.

I hate the parade. Well, the one we go to is a sad excuse for a parade. It’s the local over fifties club, and the girl-guides walking down the road beside a 60-year-old tractor.

So now it’s time for some lists, about Ireland, and Paddy’s day in general.

Why I don’t like Paddy’s day.

• Too much fake enthusiasm required.
• I’m far too cynical.
• I hate tradition Irish music, and on Paddy’s weekend, I can’t seem to get away from it.
• It always rains, but I still have to stand on the side of a street for hours, watching the aforementioned over 50s club.
• Everyone’s always WAAAAAY too happy…
• Whenever I walk into a shop, my eyes are assaulted by all the cheap green hats/flags etc.
• I inevitably get hit in the face with some sort of flag.
• Too much family time.

Why I do like Paddy’s day.

• Green is my favourite colour.
• I get to break lent (No lent does NOT deserve a capital letter!)
• It’s a day off school and swimming.

Ok, so I don’t like Paddy’s day. This post seems too short to finish now, so now I’m going to pop up a few funny photos which involve cats. Please read the captions in the most sarcastic voice possible…

There's nothing funnier then food with facial expressions...

How funny. It’s a feline banker joke…

This is comedy…So that’s it. I’m sure you found this blog post as absolutely hilarious as I did…

So until next time just remember :

Paddy’s day is just an excuse for everyone to think they’re Irish, and Jazz hands make everything better…