I’ve heard a similar complaint from a few people this past week – Armstrong packed the race with worker bees while others went the lottery route and didn’t get in.
This is from the Velonews Mailbag:
Disappointed
Dear Editor,
Wow. I just read that the organizers of the Leadville 100 allowed three late entries so Lance can break [...]

Things are crawling to a slow stop around here it seems. Gnome, Snake Hawk and myself are all beginning our fall semesters this week. We’re a bit old to be students, don’t ya think? Nah. Life time learners, one and all.
Speaking for myself, I’ll post when I can. [...]

Just heard about this one.
Bicyclist killed during ride through rural Pa.
The Associated Press
LANCASTER, Pa. – A cyclist participating in a bicycle club ride died after a collision in Lancaster County.
Lancaster Bicycle Club spokesman Ed Gower says the crash happened about 9:30 a.m. on Sunday during the club’s Covered Bridge Metric Century Ride.
Police would not release [...]

I noticed a comment by pirata regarding the super-fun trend of 2005 – wearing a #7 Altanta jersey with the name “Mexico” across the shoulder blades. I thought that Ron Mexico story might need a bit of background (& a few links) for the uninformed out there
Claiming that Michael Vick gave her herpes, a [...]

I hate to say it (and I hope I am above it) – I think that the finicky fans of Philadelphia will accept and celebrate Michael Vick’s signing and play if, and only if, the Eagles win. And, of course, after a year like last year, where the team played, and ultimately lost to, [...]

This what I heard over the phone about twenty minutes ago: Lance Armstrong is 12 minutes ahead of Weins @ 60 miles. Records may fall, records may not. We may have race reports, we may not.
I can’t wait to hear about this one. Packed with talent. Shit is [...]

I pretty much want to shoot myself right now. Billy Penn is pissing on my soul.

A remorseful Michael Vick wants a second chance and a fresh start with the Philadelphia Eagles — and knows he won’t be easily forgiven by fans.
“I know I’ve done some terrible things, made a horrible mistake. Now I want [...]

I recently saw some photos from Health Care protests here in Arizona over at talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/meet the mob. Not all the photos are from Arizona, but many are. And the theme remains constant throughout: The Vanilla Mob Cometh.

Notice it’s white people waving those signs around. There is a very real undercurrent [...]

When I was in middle school a girl who was a class above me with swept back blond hair and a pack of marlboro reds used to always say “What the fuck? Fuck the what?” while we rode the school bus through the rumbling countryside. I have never understood what she was talking [...]

This video just made my day. I’ve been digging in to my first week’s reading assignment for Evidence (oh, good fun) and this came to me via email.

This is brought to you by OBRA members Robin Moore and Jake Salcone. Thanks guys, I owe you one.

We watched the movie Coraline the other weekend about five times. Hey, I’ve got a three year old and she’s really into repetive viewing. Go figure. Anyway, the character Other Mother was one spooky lady! My daughter did not like her. Not one bit. Hell, none of [...]

A reasonable enough looking older gentleman back in my home state of Pennsylvania went all crazy at a town hall meeting today. And I mean crazy. They guy is worried. He was questions. And he should. He’s being fed lies. Lots of ‘em. He wants to know what [...]

My hometown newspaper, The Intelligencer, ran a full page advertisement (image here) paid for by one Joe Gallagher. He paid good money to put up information he had received via email. Without fact checking it. The paper took his money and ran his ad. Without fact checking it.
Yeah. People are a [...]

You tell ‘em sister, you tell ‘em good.

‘Cause I’m feeling much the same. Except, of course, my dark personal moments are found floating in the pool with my daughters. But other than that, it’s pretty much the same.
[Image source (and it's a fucking gold mine): jblyth.com/blog_06]
The only bike rides I’ve done of [...]

Fat Cyclist says it better than I ever could, Don’t Say She Lost
Susan died tonight (August 5) at 7:25pm. It was a hard, long day, and Susan fought right to the end, for much longer than anyone would have thought she could.

It has now been three years. One blurred into two and here we are.
Drove with gnome down Lake Mary to where I got tapped. My wife made me promise I would not ride a bike out there. I had little problem with the pledge, little problem at all. Anyway, saw it [...]

This is getting good. The latest getting pasted on walls in L.A:

Shit is totally bananas. The point, of course, is not that Obama is a socialist. Rather it is simply to combine a noticeable face (obama), put him in white face caricature (joker), and splash a misapplied and inappropriate logo (socialism). [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in raising a glass and welcoming Ellie Rea Robertson to this world.
Our boy Snakehawk went and had himself a second daughter! Congratulations, my man. She’s 5.8 lbs and healthy.

I’m afraid the woman might be an enchilada short of a full combination plate.

Another day, another dollar. A day late, and a dollar short. How to you hope to rectify this apparent contradiction in lifestyle, theme and delivery? I don’t. Pass the bottle.
I’ve been asked lately, “What is drunkcyclist.com?” I haven’t an answer. At least not one that fits neatly into a [...]