PMIACW

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

What Played in Ed's Head --

Music listened to for the time-period December 1st through December 31st, 2024:

JMH shift early.

Monday, January 13, 2025

DL up early to bring neighbor to airport.

Early run at Farmington River Park, 3.6-miles.

BWII Inspection Walk-Around (Paving) mid-day.

PT @ LED.

BWII Meeting at Library in early evening.

JHM & TA DMR's completed.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Drive to Williamstown for lunch with my Mom, with a visit with Pop afterward.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

5.8-miles in the damp at Southwick's Loupinski Property, into the Granville Gorge Flats.

Friday, January 10, 2025

10.9-miles in NWP & Farmington River Park with K2, Evil and Ray.

Thursday, January 9, 2025

"Non-Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #02 for 2025...

"The Pusher" by Ed McBain, published in 1956.

87th Precinct #03.

JMH shift early.

PT @ LED.

BWII meet with JM & DL.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

3.4-miles @ Cowles / T'Ville. Very cold.

DLV Cardio Doc.

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

JMH Shift early.

BWII Meeting much of evening.

Marathoning on this day... 1996

I participated in the annual "Fat Ass 50" in North Adams, Massachusetts.

This event consisted of many loops on the road, on a cold, gray day, and I believe there was a pretty bad snowstorm on the drive home.

I have a time listed of 5:32:35, and I think that was for 26.2 miles - not 50k.

This was my 8th marathon completed.

Monday, January 6, 2025

Farmington River Park for 4.3-miles.

PT at LED.

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Northwest Park for 9.9-miles, including a diversion into the Farmington River Park in Bloomfield.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Drove to Visit my Mom, took a day-trip to sister's place for lunch, Pop included.

From the Marathon Archives:

And on this day in 1997...

I completed my 14th marathon on this day in 1997. It was the Grupa Dupa held at the Talcott Mountain State Park, home of the Heublein Tower.

I believe Tony W and Janice K were the organizers of this "Fat Ass 50" type event. It consisted of loops up and around the tower, but I do not recall how many. It was 50k, and I recorded a time of 5:11:13.

And...

Ed Askew passed yesterday at age 84.

Edward Crane Askew (December 1, 1940 – January 4, 2025) was an American painter and singer-songwriter who first recorded in 1968 and lived in New York City.

Ed Askew died January 4, 2025, at the age of 84.

Born in Stamford, Connecticut, on December 1, 1940, Askew moved to New Haven, Connecticut, to study painting at Yale School of Art in 1963 and took up, more or less, permanent residence there until leaving for New York City in 1987.

After graduating from art school in 1966, Askew was called up for the draft. Not feeling particularly enthusiastic about going to war at age 26, he looked for a teaching job and found work at a private prep school in Connecticut. It was while teaching he started making songs; he also acquired his Martin Tiple at this time. The singer-songwriter moved to New York for a few months in 1967 where he met Bernard Stollman of ESP-Disk, who offered him a contract. Between 1968 and 1986, Ed lived, mostly, in New Haven; doing occasional shows with his band, and later doing solo shows there. Around 1987, Ed moved to New York City, where he continued to write and record songs, and occasionally perform.

Pitchfork and many other high-profile music media praised his work, labeling him as a New York legend.

Ask the Unicorn is an "acid folk" masterpiece and one of the most singular releases from the infamous and historic ESP-Disk catalogue. It was recorded live to tape by a 27 year-old Ed Askew in 1968. Since that time, the impossible-to-find record and the man have acquired a mythological status.

But Ask the Unicorn, one of the most unique and gripping records under the 1960's sun, remained a question and an item of critical and fan devotion. The cover for the UK release, reproduced here, is the positive of the US edition. It is a photo of the protests in Stamford following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.