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Apparently, cavorting with the Olsen twins, hooking up with Kate Hudson and shmoozing Hollywood’s elite isn’t much of a challenge for ‘ol one nut. Look who’s returning to the peleton. Maybe the whole Brett Favre/GreenBay Packers debaucle enticed Lance to make a comeback? Or his stock pile of EPO is reaching it’s shelf-date expiration and [...]

I find this quite sad. After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will [...]

Instead of going anywhere near a bicycle on the one (1) day a week I’ve been able to carve out the time to actually do so; I am instead sitting around with a cold and a pile of text books. One of my sister’s kids was sick last week, as was my sister come to [...]

big jonny, concurring… The RNC ran with it as only they could. One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old. The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by political ads in [...]

Some sad news this morning: Ian Hibell, cyclist who pedalled world, killed by hit-and-run driver A cyclist who pedalled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging rivers, a lion and the hospitality of an Eskimo princess, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Greece. Ian Hibell, 74, was a well-known figure in [...]

Three words… Sometimes in life I find myself wondering why in the world are you fucking kidding me just how in the hell did I get myself into this. Often these thoughts would enter my mind while pushing my bike up the power line climb in Leadville, or going out for another lap at 4:15am [...]

Well, if my calculator watch serves me correctly, I believe it’s Thursday. Time for a poem. Perhaps, first you have time for a quick story. Working here at this gallery of art and other pop-culture curiosities, I rarely encounter a customer worth much at all. I mean, we have our regulars: the folks that collect, [...]

John McCain: Fail. Good to know you’ll still be here in Arizona after November, John. The place wouldn’t be the same without you. I may be living in a hole, but I do know that John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his VP pick. And I also know this: Palin eloped with her high-school boyfriend, [...]

Or in our case, Warren Jeffs don’t ride. The batcall went out and we descended upon Gooseberry Mesa outside of Hurricane, Utah. 5 rides in 3 days over some of the most engaging slickrock and singletrack trails around and no other riders. Labor Day weekend and we only encountered 2 riders. If you haven’t made [...]

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Well, here it is, a beautiful Labor Day in North Carolina. The hurricane weather has decided to chill out long enough to let come to the surface a cool, sunny day. Work is done, and as I drove home, the smell of grilling was everywhere. There’s nothing I’d love more than to be sitting out [...]