Dan Dalton
@dandalton.bsky.social
Writer. Runner. Dad. Author of Johnny Ruin. Represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.
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“There are a lot of reasons I run,” @nxthompson.bsky.social writes. “I like to remember that I’m still alive, and that I survived my cancer. But really I run because of my father.” Running “reminds me of my father, and gives me a way to avoid becoming my father.”
Why I Run
I took up the sport to be like my father. I kept going because he stopped.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“There are a lot of reasons I run,” @nxthompson.bsky.social writes. “I like to remember that I’m still alive, and that I survived my cancer. But really I run because of my father.” Running “reminds me of my father, and gives me a way to avoid becoming my father.”
Stop saying ‘core memory’
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Stop saying ‘core memory’
“The Running Ground” by @nxthompson.bsky.social is a remarkable achievement: a literary work about life, and death, through the lens of running. This is part review, part interview, part essay about my Dad, grief, and what we choose to live for runtangents.substack.com/p/the-runnin...
Running to live, with Nicholas Thompson
Thoughts on grief, determination, and "The Running Ground"
runtangents.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“The Running Ground” by @nxthompson.bsky.social is a remarkable achievement: a literary work about life, and death, through the lens of running. This is part review, part interview, part essay about my Dad, grief, and what we choose to live for runtangents.substack.com/p/the-runnin...
The first day you put the heating on should be known as crossing the Bosch Worcester Line.
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The first day you put the heating on should be known as crossing the Bosch Worcester Line.
Wrote a little about Cardiff Half:
“Start time approaching, I made my way to the sub-1hr30m holding pen. Before I got there, a race marshal corralled me into a pen further back, because, he said, nodding towards the sub-1hr30m area, ‘that’s for the fast lads.’”
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“Start time approaching, I made my way to the sub-1hr30m holding pen. Before I got there, a race marshal corralled me into a pen further back, because, he said, nodding towards the sub-1hr30m area, ‘that’s for the fast lads.’”
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One of the fast lads
Notes from the Cardiff Half
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October 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Wrote a little about Cardiff Half:
“Start time approaching, I made my way to the sub-1hr30m holding pen. Before I got there, a race marshal corralled me into a pen further back, because, he said, nodding towards the sub-1hr30m area, ‘that’s for the fast lads.’”
open.substack.com/pub/runtange...
“Start time approaching, I made my way to the sub-1hr30m holding pen. Before I got there, a race marshal corralled me into a pen further back, because, he said, nodding towards the sub-1hr30m area, ‘that’s for the fast lads.’”
open.substack.com/pub/runtange...
y'all remember quiznos? that shit hit
September 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
y'all remember quiznos? that shit hit
I think about this Onion article once a week:
"Who’s your favorite actor? Frank Langella? Malkovich? How about John-fucking-Malkovich?"
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"Who’s your favorite actor? Frank Langella? Malkovich? How about John-fucking-Malkovich?"
theonion.com/vindictive-m...
August 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I think about this Onion article once a week:
"Who’s your favorite actor? Frank Langella? Malkovich? How about John-fucking-Malkovich?"
theonion.com/vindictive-m...
"Who’s your favorite actor? Frank Langella? Malkovich? How about John-fucking-Malkovich?"
theonion.com/vindictive-m...
Loved Raw Dog by @jamieloftus.bsky.social – a road trip across America to sample the best and worst hot dogs the US has to offer. Part social history, part travelogue, it’s funny, disgusting, sad and surprisingly horny. I finished the book with a Five Guys bacon cheese dog (would also recommend)
August 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Loved Raw Dog by @jamieloftus.bsky.social – a road trip across America to sample the best and worst hot dogs the US has to offer. Part social history, part travelogue, it’s funny, disgusting, sad and surprisingly horny. I finished the book with a Five Guys bacon cheese dog (would also recommend)
Kids have it so easy these days
August 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Kids have it so easy these days
Sub-threshold training is the biggest leap in amateur running since carbon shoes. James Copeland’s contribution will go down in hobby jogger history. Read our interview: runtangents.substack.com/p/how-runnin...
How running slow helps you run fast, with James Copeland
"It's the tortoise versus the hare, and we are very much the tortoise."
runtangents.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sub-threshold training is the biggest leap in amateur running since carbon shoes. James Copeland’s contribution will go down in hobby jogger history. Read our interview: runtangents.substack.com/p/how-runnin...
Hotel Chocolat. False advertising? Discuss.
July 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hotel Chocolat. False advertising? Discuss.
These days the blank cheque for directing a blockbuster is getting to direct a different blockbuster. Unless Bond is Villeneuve’s “one for me” which I wouldn’t put past him
The new post Broccoli James Bond are going to be so different. Wilson/Broccoli would never have given the franchise to a director like Villeneuve. He’s too much “the auteur.” We shall see.
June 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
These days the blank cheque for directing a blockbuster is getting to direct a different blockbuster. Unless Bond is Villeneuve’s “one for me” which I wouldn’t put past him
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Viral videos and podcasts did not help a socialist win over a third of Staten Island. Be fucking serious lmao. Thanks to Zohran Mamdani, establishment Dems woke up to a jarring new political reality this morning: If you care about things people will vote for you.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Viral videos and podcasts did not help a socialist win over a third of Staten Island. Be fucking serious lmao. Thanks to Zohran Mamdani, establishment Dems woke up to a jarring new political reality this morning: If you care about things people will vote for you.
www.garbageday.email/p/if-you-re-...
www.garbageday.email/p/if-you-re-...
I wonder if it is hot in new york no one is talking about it
June 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I wonder if it is hot in new york no one is talking about it
when I said I wanted to be hot in 2025 this isn’t what I meant
June 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
when I said I wanted to be hot in 2025 this isn’t what I meant
Woo: Warner Bros. Discover is splitting!
Boo: Zazlav is staying on the Warner Bros. side
Boo: Zazlav is staying on the Warner Bros. side
June 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Woo: Warner Bros. Discover is splitting!
Boo: Zazlav is staying on the Warner Bros. side
Boo: Zazlav is staying on the Warner Bros. side
Modine… Modine… Modine… Moh-dee-ee-ine
June 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Modine… Modine… Modine… Moh-dee-ee-ine
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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
June 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
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This week in @newyorker.com: All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”?
The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This week in @newyorker.com: All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
what if jony ive and sam altman just... don't. don't build something. don't innovate. let's go back. I want a casio watch and a fucking landline. design that.
May 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
what if jony ive and sam altman just... don't. don't build something. don't innovate. let's go back. I want a casio watch and a fucking landline. design that.
Wrote about my London Marathon experience, and why its good to do hard things, even when they’re not fun runtangents.substack.com/p/its-okay-t...
It's okay to hate the marathon
A love letter to voluntary suffering
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May 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Wrote about my London Marathon experience, and why its good to do hard things, even when they’re not fun runtangents.substack.com/p/its-okay-t...
people online, apparently
May 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
people online, apparently