Alexi Pappas Article--why is the NYT so dumb

"Kyle Hendricks is a baseball player who went to my college. We called him Baseball Kyle because we already had a Hockey Kyle. College is fun and can shape the type of person you become."

There. Same essay, much lower printing costs. I can has regularly featured NYTimes column, too?

She writes about another athlete and she mentions her own Olympics 4 times. Her narcissism is off the charts. Sad to watch.

A Pretentious, Bitter Shut-in wrote:

" I can has regularly featured NYTimes column, too?

You just answered your own question while you were still asking it.

The purpose is to to expose your childish jealousy of her.

Randy Applegate wrote:

A Pretentious, Bitter Shut-in wrote:

" I can has regularly featured NYTimes column, too?

You just answered your own question while you were still asking it.

Whoosh

I feel like Pappas will be on the red carpet at the Oscar's in a couple of years if she can team up with Jenny Meatballs.

To me, this narcissistic, high school level essay is really an expression of the self-replicating operations of privilege that give a national podium to Ivy Leaguers independently of merit.

Her films are what you find coming out of a 10th grade project and her writing is not much better

jjjjj wrote:

To me, this narcissistic, high school level essay is really an expression of the self-replicating operations of privilege that give a national podium to Ivy Leaguers independently of merit.

+1!!!

I actually do respect what she's trying to do, but this article is absurd. There is NO POINT TO IT!!! Aside from saying that she knew Kyle in college and then talking about herself

Letsruns posters find an awful lot of things to object to and an awful lot of reasons to resent people. I'm three times as old as most of you so I don't. Pappas doesn't bother me. She isn't boring. My general reaction to people who are good at promoting themselves is "let them."

Anyway, I'm happy for Baseball Kyle. I actually went to Dartmouth more than 30 years before Pappas. We had undistinguished distance runners but pretty amazing weight throw guys. One of my freshman classes included a pitcher from Florida who was chosen in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft but chose to attend Dartmouth instead. We were in awe of him, at least for a day. He eventually made it to the Majors and had a reasonably long if rather undistinguished career, Kyle's off to a better start. Good luck to him.

I am certainly jealous of the fact that she has the time, resources and support to write birdbrained, narcissistic "essays" and "films" and then be endlessly praised for it.

You should ask the editor (Hillary Clinton)

She is Kim Kardashian: famous because she's famous.

It's great that she has found a niche where she can let her solipsism grow unfettered.

Flipp wrote:

She is Kim Kardashian: famous because she's famous.

Pappas is also a very good runner.

Flipp wrote:

She is Kim Kardashian: famous because she's famous.

Not true. Kim Kardashian is famous a reason. Because boobs.

Walking While Intoxicated wrote:

I feel like Pappas will be on the red carpet at the Oscar's in a couple of years if she can team up with Jenny Meatballs.

Alexi can direct, produce, promote, and star in her film about Goddess Kaiha Bertollini in her Epic Hero Goddess Trail Record Quest on the AT.

Here is a partial screenplay from Kaiha:

Luckily, I had nothing of value in my pack, except my phone and notes from friends of encouragement that I read every morning or when I started to feel sorry for myself. Anyone who knows me, knows I’ve never cared too much about the details. I am an initiator and let others fill in the gaps for me. People squabble, and I take action and do. I am going to die one day and I don’t care for anyone’s gossip or petty games. Some think this makes me rude, luckily I don’t care what others think. For 45 days I have walked day and night. I have barely slept. I have gone without any form of comfort except from the few times I got to speak with other small groups of sobos who fed me their energy so I could keep going. Physically I am tired but I still feel strong. I lost a total of 20 lbs. from Jan to Sep and for those of you who do not think I am skinny enough, you have a warped perception of what an Athlete should look like. You can’t body shame me or make me take back my claim. I walked every step of that trail and if you want to argue that my one hitch into town somehow makes my hike supported, it doesn’t matter because last I checked, I beat that time too. I did not just go through all that for nothing and I will not retract my claim. I am a person, who has lived her life the best she could. I am an open book which often leaves me open for attacks on my character, that’s fine. I will not stop having integrity because you guys don’t like my answers or my truth, it doesn’t make it any less true and I will continue to live and love well doing my part to be a positive impact in this world instead of a miserable one. So for anyone out there who has never gone on a long distant hike please continue to cast about your make believe and nonsense of what it takes. I’ll out hike you any day. Some think I hike fast, I consider myself average with a walking pace of 3-3.5 miles an hour depending on the terrain. Somedays I was faster, somedays I was slower, but I didn’t stop and when I did it gave me the reprieve I needed to keep going. What Karl did was amazing. I wish I could run like that and do those miles in less time. I would have been able to sleep more. I have no doubt in my mind someone could run that trail in 40 days if they were willing to get real uncomfortable and maybe Karl could have if he cut into the hours he slept. I am not trying to be disrespectful of anyone. I also will not retract my claim. I put my heart and soul if they exist into this project and everyone is just going to have to deal with the fact that a woman, with only military training, a past of trauma that has made me hard as nails, and a big ass heart walked the Appalachian Trail in record time with only herself, and trail magic along the way. And if you want more proof than the people who’ve seen and met me, and the dozens of pictures, and the few video’s I was able to make, put a camera, spot device, and new pair of shoes in my hand and I’ll show the world how you walk all day and night.

I can't wait for the full length film.

Tracktown was the first film I ever got up and waked out it was that bad. Could barely make it through the first 20 min then had to leave it was just so pathetic. Noway I will waste a dime on any future film this hack puts out