Fact: I was faster this year wearing a Batman headband, thus, Batman headbands make you run faster. Obviously.

( Seriously, though, the Broad Street Run recap: )

Antoine Dodson remains king of autotuned news footage:



But there's a challenger:

Ever since the DTV transition three years ago, we've been without an upstairs TV, which has been mostly OK. We've survived with an LCD and an old tube monster downstairs, neither of which could fit in our bedroom.

The down side is our bedroom's the easiest spot in the house to get warm or cool, depending on the season, so it's either bundle up and watch Netflix in the winter or suffer a slightly-too-powerful AC unit in the summer (first world problems, I know).

So our anniversary was coming up, and I figured, hey, good a time as any - and found a Vizio 26" LED on sale, which was built almost exactly with our bedroom in mind. Tiny footprint, snappy display, really nice little TV. Add in a Roku - which Jen was pretty geeked up about - and it's, as the French say, le friggin' sweet.

The only downside is that the Roku+LED combo is so razor-sharp, it kinda makes Netflix routed through the Wii on the larger TV downstairs look like garbage by comparison. So, uh, c'mon, let's get an HD update to the Wii posthaste, OK?

One of my neighbors was out cleaning her truck when I pulled in after today's long run, and I waved hi as I came back past her on a cooldown walk.

"What'd you run today, like six? More?" she said.

"Uh, a little over 11."

She kinda stared at me for a minute, then said, "What? Are you serious? How long'd that take?"

"Around an hour and a half."

She just kind stared at me again, then shook her head and laughed.

I'm officially that crazy runner guy.

Now that we're three months into 2012, I figured it'd be a good time to recap what the hell I did last year on the photo side of things.

Sure, my title might be editor, and I may spent the vast majority of my time writing, but the lure of the camera's always there. Most of the time any more, it gets hauled out for sports, since that's primarily what gets a ton of views... and because games are easy to build into the schedule.

So it's not a huge surprise that most of my favorites from the year are sports-related - but what's interesting is that more than half of them come from the West Deptford-Haddonfield rivalry, which meant a playoff atmosphere and great pictures every time.

But enough talk - ( on to the pictures: )

The obvious lesson: If you're going to do something mildly controversial during halftime at the Super Bowl, make sure that roughly coincides with you releasing a killer video of an excellent single.

Jen nailed it: I was complaining about The Expendables being a terrible movie, if for no other reason than they tacked on a shitty, superfluous plot to what is, at its heart, a movie about explosions and what brings them together.

"It's like going out to buy condoms and getting a magazine and a Snickers bar, too," she said. "Just buy the condoms."

It's also saying something that this was an action movie that got me angry during action scenes. If you're going to include "expendables" in your movie title, at least three of them should die. There shouldn't be a moment where one dude shows up with an automatic shotgun, blows away a squadron of troops, then slaps in a drum of explosive ammo.

That's no longer a movie, that's watching a video game when someone typed "noclip" into the admin menu.