Strolling thru Twitter

Actually pretty excited to go back to school. SPRING BALL IS HERE!

— Jeff Ejekam (@JeffEjekam) March 19, 2017

Can't remember ever feeling like this.  Good for you, Jeff.

Thinking about Iron Fist

A lot has been said about the casting of Iron Fist.  Ultimately, I think Marvel decided to cast a white dude to play Danny Rand, so that they could make Rand dumb.  This is often the way he comes across in the comics.  But the choice appears to have frustrated most reviewers, and while I get that, I still see what Marvel was thinking.  Which is to say that if you’re Marvel, and what you really care about is the inevitable Power Man & Iron Fist Nteflix team-up show, you kind of need Danny to be dumb, and I can’t see how that works with an Asian dude playing the role.  

The dragon of Kun-Lun has symbolized the Iron Fist for
ages uncountable.

Like, “Why is this Asian dude constantly getting scolded on the ways of the street by Luke Cage?” 

5 Things on a Friday: Special Edition

Slowly decomboobalating...

5 Things on a Friday is back this week because I got frustrated with the NFL, and in particular, with the New York Giants.  I just can’t dump two hours into thinking about professional football in a week where my own team is in the midst of tearing itself apart for reasons that are entirely self-inflicted.

I quit.  I’m just not going to do it.

I have to note, too, that I’ve spent most of this week working on the first rewrite of my memoir, tentatively titled Swim, Bike, Run, Live, Love, Repeat.  This is the story of the interaction of my family and my swimming career, with my daughter Hannah and my good buddy Chris serving as my primary test readers.  This particular rewrite has been particularly satisfying not only because Hannah has been hanging on every word, but also because she’s been a very helpful source of feedback as well.  Her insights into the book’s second chapter, detailing my family’s move to New Bern, North Carolina, helped me reframe that part of the narrative and, as Chris later said, make my parents into “real characters”.  Of course, my parents *were* real people, but that doesn’t mean that writing about them in a way that authentically captures their personalities has necessarily been an easy thing to do.

5 Things takes much less time than does Friday Follies, which is why I’m running it this week.  Fact is, I’m loathe to take a day off from rewriting when I feel like I’m doing good work.

So.

I know we’re all tired of politics, and I apologize for dipping my toes back into those waters.  Thankfully, the election is almost over.  Perhaps afterwards we can start trying to rebuild a cohesive society.