Today my favorite runner, Ben Blankenship, won the Kansas City Road Mile by almost 9 seconds.
That is a quite a lot of seconds to win a mile by. He ran 4:04. That's about ten seconds slower than the fastest mile he has ever run.
He is my favorite runner because he has long hair and a certain weirdness about him. For example, when he made a twitter account he actually used the picture I made of him where I drew over a tracing of his face the mouths and heads of various animals. He used that. And he gives entertaining interviews. Without trying to be entertaining. Some athletes try too hard to give good interviews. Ben Blankenship is a straight shooter with a penchant for...his own no-style style achievement.
My dad taught me about no-style style. It's like the Bruce Lee style of kung-fu but for sunglasses and pants.
Today I bought a sweater that looks like it was molded out of compressed dryer lint.
This sweater contains whole galaxies. It is large. It contains multitudes.
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Where do I find this picture???
It's not showing up, Skleeb?!
Oh! I understand.
Here it is. He even commented on it.
http://isthiswiltchamberlain.blogspot.com/2013/07/6-portraits-of-ben-blankenship-as.html
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