Beck of the Pack

I wrote this post specifically and only for readers who were paying subscribers at the time I announced I would no longer be adding new material to Beck of the Pack. But because I turned off paying subscriptions, I can no longer limit posts to my paying subscribers, because these no longer exist.

I’ve decided to discontinue writing on Beck of the Pack. I won’t delete anything I’ve already posted, and although paying subscribers will no longer be charged, I encourage people to cancel their subscriptions anyway just to be safe. I’m stopping because not one aspect of this is any fun anymore. I’m sure this is obvious to most regular readers, and I began sharing these intentions with a few people weeks ago, maybe longer.

Whenever I am sent a link to or otherwise discover aRUN (powered by n Outside) story and see that Brian Metzler is the author, I feel a little let down. For one thing, I know that I won’t find anything worth bashing. And for another, and worse, I know I’ll wind up spending five or more minutes reading an interesting and often informative article—time I could otherwise devote to being intensely critical of someone or something and ensuring that the world somehow continues revolving around the sun.

The most entertaining aspect of Invideo AI’s text-to-video interface is the dogged determination of its programming team and upper-level visionaries to create and cling to optimistic takes, however strange, even when force-fed imperatives by playful users to unleash doom and despair. These folks clearly resolved from the start to take prompts practically lifted from the Book of Revelation and create videos akin to Disney trailers.

Alison Desir is an obese, unintelligent, and neurotic racist of privilege who became a boil on running’s already sagging and chronically unwiped ass roughly four years ago. Despite an alarmingly low IQ, Desir holds between two and eleven meaningless degrees from Columbia University, which like all Ivy League institutions should disaccredited and closed and its buildings converted into affordable housing, topless nightclubs, and affordable topless nightclubs.

Jews represent around 2 percent of the American population and ardent Zionists surely far less than half of that figure. And I know people who qualify as ardent Zionists, or at least people who want to see Israel sustained in more or less its current geopolitical state, who under no circumstances want the United States Constitution upended in the form of criminalizing its most crucial component, the right to freedom of expression.

The input: A group of very obese people in bright pink bikinis has lined up at the start of the prestigious Bolder Boulder 10K on Memorial Day, dancing amid the stern-faced elite world-class African runners and singing to the crowd that body shame is killing hundreds of vulnerable Americans a day. One man wearing a tutu appears to be intoxicated and is weeping with joy. Several of the runners appear upset at the commotion.

In a post on April 21 centering on the Biden administration’s dismantling of Title IX, I made the following observation: Girls and collegiate women have nothing to lose at this point by simply refusing to compete when they know a boy or a man is in the female-only race, game, or match they’re slated to take part in. A commenter chose to peacefully protest the “nothing to lose” part by unpacking the obvious possibilities (oomphasis mine): I don't think this is true. I have three daughters.

The Penn Relays were held in the remaining serviceable portions of Philadelphia over the weekend (results). The meet provided some boisterous drama even for a multi-day festival of counterclockwise locomotion boasting approximately sixteen million unique interactions within the relay zones of the track at Franklin Field, a revered facility soon to be used as a campground by good protesters on both sides and henceforth ruled antisemitic.

Yesterday, the 2024 Black Bear Invitational was held at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy in the wilds of southeastern New Hampshire. The consensus marquee matchup was senior Byron Grevious of Phillips Exeter Academy versus junior Tamrat Gavenas of Phillips Academy in the boys’ 3,200 meters. Grevious was 12th at the 2023 Nike Cross Nationals last fall, while Gavenas claimed third at the 2023 Foot Locker Nationals.