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I got to see the debut of the animated Batman: The Killing Joke in a movie theater yesterday (it's out on DVD, the bigscreen stuff was just a promo). I think I can safely say that if Jared Leto really claims to be sooooooooooooo messed up and sooooooooooooo psychologically scarred and sooooooo forever darkened by playing a PG-13 eyebrowless wonder of a Joker in Suicide Squad, then he is a lousy actor. A good actor produces a convincing evil madman by, you know... acting. Like Mark Hamill, who was fantastic as this Joker.

Also? As the Joker, he's a fantastic singer. No, seriously, they took the song the Joker does during the tunnel-o-madness sequence in the original comic and made it into a Broadway-style musical dance number, and Hamill sang the whole thing perfectly.

So, yeah. Mr. Leto, unless your performance turns out to be a million times better than I suspect it is going to be, your 'ooooh darkness in my sooooooooooooul' fails to impress me. Mr. Hamill has been doing something far nastier and far more messed up for far longer and he's to this day one of the nicest actors I've seen in interviews.

Heads up

I got an early bird registration notification from the American Lung Association today. Fight for Air Climb 2017 is scheduled for February 4, 2017. I signed up pretty much as soon as I finished reading the email.

I will probably be posting here about my practice in my office building’s stairwell on an irregular basis between now and February. Possibly after that, too, since I expect to hear back from the MS society and Wediko School about their stair climb events. Regardless- I’ll be tagging posts of that nature ‘stairs’ in case you want to block it out.

That being said I did my first test climb today, from the -2 floor (it’s the bottom level of our parking garage) up to the machine room access on floor 34. No stops except when I had to change stairwells. Not sure how long it took me, but I know the total time up to the top and back to 28 plus the time it took to circle the elevator bank twice at a walk, then stagger back to my desk, added up to around... something like thirteen minutes. So that’s a start.