wet hair big shirt: REID #188
and g*y guys, of course
SHORT:
This week, I did a deep-dive into contemporary cinema (watched that Anne Hathaway movie where she got paid 7 million dollars to fake-date a yassified Harry Styles).
One day I will make a flick where I’m 40 and go to Fire Island seduce Shawn Mendee.
Won’t have to pay me a cent to act in it!1
MEDIUM:
I also saw Challengers — which really spoke to me as a former D1 athlete. 99.9% of my collegiate experience was comprised of me walking around a dining hall with soaking wet hair in a huge t-shirt and tiny shorts trying to flirt with gay guys.
I will say, the junior/high school scenes… I didn’t connect to as much. While Zendaya and co. were drinking and hooking up in hotel rooms… I was… more… sobbing-to-my-mother-at-the-hilton-garden-inn-about-how-much-I-sucked-at-diving-and-how-ugly-I-was-and-how-the-braided-bun--they-made-us-wear-wouldn’t-de-tangle.
Put some Trent Rezna music under tha!
Now THAT’s a film!2
LONG:
Jess and I did a half-marathon this weekend and all the pics they took of us turned out blurry (we were going too fast!):
I’ve done 3 half-marathons in my life, and this one definitely felt the best.
It was Jess’s first half, and they had me yap and yammer the whole way through to distract them. Then, in the final two miles, they told me to actually STFU because they needed silence (fair! wouldn’t wish my yapping on my worst enemy!).
We did the LESS popular BK half, so there were only about 200 people there, but there were still PLENTY of characters.
Highlights:
-Man in bright yellow shorts and a Fire Island Meat Rack shirt who showed up in heels and did a photoshoot at the starting line before changing into sneakers and slaying the race. We later found his TikTok here.
-Kid in a big red shirt whose family cheered loudly as he passed. He replied to the cheers with the most unenthusiastic and exhausted “woo” Jess and I have ever heard, which made us die laughing.
-An 80 year old woman who ran without headphones, hunched over, and finished before we did
-A girl named “Sarah” who we never met but had about 900 people there with signs that said “Lets Go Sarah!” — so Jess and I decided that, during the race, we were ALL “Sarah”.
Is this interesting to people? Is talking about running annoying? Do you run? Comment below.
Snack Of The Week was bagel-half I had at the finish line (see photo above).
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Bonus Jonas Zone:
mite have 2 pay shawn to “go gay” tho (L O L)
i know i know they already basically made it and it’s called Eighth Grade