Day 785

Aka Tuesday 26^th March 2019

Had my long walk today and walked 10.08km (6.26miles) in 1 hour 52 minutes and 44 seconds, which burnt 1,100 calories and took 12,691 steps:

 

…when I got home, I saw on Twitter that Marvel will be putting out a ‘Death’s Head’ comic, which led to this Twitter poll:

…and it’s obvs that Death’s Head would pick Susan, Daisy is too nice & good hearted, Esther is too goth & not entirely of/in this world, but Susan can be hard & cold & pragmatic (a bit like Death’s Head himself)…

…and I re-watched ‘White Lighting’ and its sequel ‘Gator’ and both films star Burt Reynolds as Robert "Gator" McKlusky, a moonshine runner in the South. In ‘White Lighting’, Gator finds out that his brother has been killed by a corrupt sheriff, but he can’t do anything about because he’s in prison. So, he makes a deal with the Feds to get evidence of the sheriff’s corruption, which results in plenty of car chases and crashes, fist fights and hi-jinxes. In ‘Gator’, Gator is recruited to take down an old friend, Bama McCall, a gangster who owns, via corruption and bribery and violence, a Southern county, which results in fewer car chases and crashes, but more fist fights and hi-jinxes. Both films are kinda like grown up versions of the ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ (although ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ came later and was based on another film, ‘The Moonrunners’) with the plots just an excuse for Burt to be Burt and have fun, which comes across on the screen. Both films are fun action comedies and its clear why ‘Archer’ is such a fan. 7/10 for both.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which went much better than yesterday’s crossword as I only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 25), and I might have done better if my geography was better and I’d known that ‘Nairobi’ is the ‘Kenyan capital’ and that ‘Guava’ is a ‘tropical fruit with yellow skin and pink pulp’. If I had known that it’d be so helpful, I wouldn’t have dropped it as a lesson back in high school!