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Thursday, November 23, 2006 :::

Turkey Trot '06

I began my Thanksgiving this morning by running the Turkey Trot 5k through downtown Minneapolis with Cherry Nut and 8,000 other people:

We just wore our normal jogging-in-the-frigid-cold outfits, but some people dressed up for the event:

At the halfway point of the jog stood a man with a megaphone who was shouting words of encouragement. In an out-of-breath hallucinatory stupor, I thought, "Why is David Lee Roth here? That's weird..." but then the closer I got I reconsidered, "No wait, that's Bobcat Goldthwait," who's presence I wasn't sure if I should consider more or less weird. That's when I realized for the first time that they could be brothers, or Doppelgangers living parallel lives, like in The Double Life of Veronique (or is that reference too obscure?):

Or maybe I'm just confused because they both look so weathered lately. Turns out that the man with the megaphone was neither of these "celebrities", but I thank the Turkey Trot for giving me the personal epiphany of their lookalikedness, which is a word I just made up. So I thank the Turkey Trot for helping me make up a word, too. I also thank the Turkey Trot for being kinda pretty:

Now it's off to participate in my next Thanksgiving day tradition: bowling with the family.

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Please please please let madam vonbighair be there...

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Anonymous, at 3:09 PM

'Trot' has to be one of my least favorite words in the english language.

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Erik, at 5:08 AM

Turkey trots? Sounds like something that happens to you on the day after thanksgiving when you've eaten too much turkey.

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Shumpy, at 2:35 PM

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