New Bedford Half Marathon

Hey this year the half marathon was pretty good. They even had a banner!!! There was a fair amount of people out and they seemed to do a better job getting people to come. The women's winner was the same lady as last year and the men's winner was some dude from Rhode Island who never ran before. Weird. Anywho, I've been uploading some of the video I took but it's taking me a while. I'll keep posting links here. So if for some reason you need more footage of yourself I may have caught it. Although my battery crapped out about an hour in.
Here is before the race with everyone going down to the race by way of a pied piper.
Here is the start.
Here are the first finishers.

(They look all weird though like there are double people. It doesn't look that way on my camera. If someone knows why that is let me know. lol Since youtube started with the widescreen things have been weird for me.)

Mariza at the Zeiterion

Mariza came back to the Zeiterion this past Friday and Saturday. I wasn't able to see her the first time but I did manage it this time. She was great and the interesting thing was the crowd. It wasn't like they were at a concert it was like they were at a kids' school concert. Like they were there supporting one of their kids with all the whooping and cheering. They loved her something awful.

Potholes and rocks

The stuff they fill potholes with jumps right back out when it rains again and when the cars go over them them become like bee-bees. And then they all end up on the sidewalk and no one cleans them up. I was trying to transport something heavy with one of those little luggage carts and the wheels kept getting stuck on all of them. Could you imagine if someone was trying to ride a bike or skate over them or worse if they were in a wheelchair. Geez.

And speaking of what if you're in a wheelchair. Why would a business be allowed to block the streets like this?

Fun New Bedford Stuff

Hey. Last Sunday I went to a organ concert at St. Anthony's Church in New Bedford. It's a really cool church and it's the second concert I went to there. They have them on Sundays so I have to walk and it's a serious walk from where I live. Anywho, it was really awesome. They need to fix their organ, personally I think they should lose the crazy lightbulb situation in there, but I'll let you listen how the organ sounds. These concerts are some of the things people should be doing in New Bedford. It was only a voluntary donation to go. And you can adopt a key or other part of the organ to help pay for the restoration.

Thursday was Aha! Night which not enough people go to even though it's FREE. My favorite parts of these are always the concerts that they have at the Unitarian Church. This time it was this singer Anton Belov. Really really cool and he looks terribly familiar. And then there were noisy people. You know how I hate noisy people. But this time these people were... babies. I'm really losing it because I was that close to killing a baby, in a church. But yeah anyone who has the time should also check this stuff out, it's every second Thursday of the month. My only issue is that they schedule all the things I want to go to at the same time. :/ They should really spread them out a bit. So you can go to like 4 things in the night I usually only make it to two at best.

more New Bedford BS

A year ago I called into the local radio station when the mayor is on for a weekly show to complain about people who don't shovel their walkways. He kinda thought it was funny but my point was that if they're not held accountable people will get hurt and he said they'd make sure people did shovel their walkways.

Of course no one did anything and we've gone through an especially icy/snowy winter where people have just left glaciers on the sidewalk forcing people to walk in the street or fall. There was even more than one story in the local paper about mail carriers and normal citizens breaking bones and asking that people do shovel their walks.

Well I called again on Monday and this mayor really seems to think that people should and WILL be responsible for themselves. He seems to have a serious problem with getting after people who refuse to do the right thing. You know the other issues I have in this city and how they are not handled. It's like they don't understand the day to day problems that could easily be handled IF someone actually cared to do something about it. This Mayor needs to man up and crack skulls because all the shit he's been chasing like a casino are going up in flames in this economy.

Here are some pictures of residences and businesses some are ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM CITY HALL who never ever shovel their walks.

Walker told me...

poor monkeys

Who's the bigger idiot?

Rush Limbaugh

or

Rihanna