As I strive harder to bolster my fat intake (I'm nothing if not assiduous in that department), I brought home cupcakes from this little pastry shop in Andover yesterday. Is it just my kid, or do all children turn into Cheech when cake appears? At some point while stuffing his face with icing, Henry usually says in stoned pleasure, "I love you guys."
Yesterday, he went the other way: "This cupcake is better than family." Indeed it was a really good cupcake.
You know what else is better than family? Bruce Springsteen. (Not really, but I needed a segue.)
It's not unknown that I have a slight infatuation with this particular rock star. Springsteen has carried me many running miles and the cadence of songs like Glory Days, Badlands, and Cadillac Ranch have helped me PR on several occasions.
So, I am launching a new virtual running (or biking, walking, whatever) club:
The Charlotte County Road Gang
No membership fees, no group runs, no real organization whatsoever. I know, I know, I'm a born leader.
The only requirements for membership is that you respond in a comment to the following questions:
1. Your favorite Springsteen song for working out.
Me: Cadillac Ranch
2. The pace you can achieve during that song compared to any other song. If you're not an iPod user, just run for the length of the song and figure it out that way.
Me: 7:35 vs. 8:35
3. The Freudian origins of your appreciation for Springsteen
Me: My father's name is Bruce.
4. Your favorite Springsteen line.
Me: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive/Everybody's out on the run tonight/but there's no place left to hide"
5. How much you'd be willing to pay (or have paid) to see him in concert.
Me: I've considered egg donation to pay for tickets.
Please don't make me look like a fool by failing to comment. I don't want to be the only member of my little running club.
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I'd love to join. Here's my membership form:
1. Ramrod
2. I'm pretty low-tech, so I don't tend to track these kinds of things, let alone calculate them.
3. My wife's in love with him.
4. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king / And a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything / I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got
5. Let me check with my wife on that.
That "cupcake better than family line" is priceless. Get on the horn to Duncan Hines. You've just hit on the next money ad campaign.
Springsteen is great. I can pretty much listen to anything of his while running - even the more serene Devils+Dust stuff.
Brian, my wifes in love with Matthew McGona-whatever. I can relate.
Well, I'm a walker, not a runner, so my muse is Sting, not Bruce. Sting says he writes while taking long, solitary walks; he says that's why his songs have a walking rhythm.
1) Brand New Day. (But if I have to answer with a Springsteen relevance, Pink Cadillac. I also think Springsteen was the most redeeming feature of "We Are the World," and I'll stop the radio at "Blinded by the Light" anytime.)
2) Dunno. Actually, "Iko, iko" is the song that gets me walking the fastest.
3) My mother's self-ascribed nickname is "The Boss."
4) "I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinkin' about it...but I probably will."
5) re: eBay.
6) (even though there was no 6) "Dancing in the Dark" was the 1st song my husband and I danced to.
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