Why we get up so goddam early

Dragged our sorry tiki ass out of bed for our daily drag around the park this morn, and then came home and saw this....

Want to live a long life? Run

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner's club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.

Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, researchers at Stanford University in California found.

"At 19 years, 15 percent of runners had died compared with 34 percent of controls," Dr. Eliza Chakravarty and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Yay, us.

But, you may ask, what about cranky old people???

People who took up exercise when they were older also improved their health, he said.

But, but, what about my knees?

The study also showed that people cannot use the risk of injury as an excuse not to run -- the runners had fewer injuries of all kinds, including to their knees.

PWND.

OK, time to stop being so goddam smug

We had picked up one or two of these guys before and just thought, "Huh, gangster Stitch" until somebody clever (probably twotone, as she's awfully clever) was like, "OMG LUPIN STITCH DOOD!" In case you aren't familiar with anime's most charming con man, here's the inevitable Wiki page (hey, we didn't know there was a musical).

Tuesday Action!Stitch

"Let's laugh happily together?" Sure, why not.

Maybe be some confusion in the translation between "laughter" and "grand mal seizure."

The joy of random

One of the pleasures of Stitch shopping in Japan is wandering into a random shop and seeing Stitch...well, randomness on display.

These are some items from a gift shop in Sendai, near the train station, which we think we recall was named "Happy Clover." We were on the prowl for something to eat, but ended up shopping instead.



Why fresh grapes? No idea, but love the graphics on this bento box.

( Stuffs )

Archaeology

OK, this one is....just weird.

( great balls o' Stitch )