He bugged me the other day about how quiet I’ve been, so Here I am. Back with a clarification and a rant-ish post.
After the election many places I visit on the Intertubes™ were full of ‘haters’ at the fact Obama won. For whatever reason people couldn’t be happy with someone who is intelligent, capable of [...]

All you Flagstiffs will be pleased to know that my hometown, the concrete clusterplex of Bibleburg, Colorado, sprawls like a fat late-term-abortion baby atop Outside magazine’s list of “America’s Best Cities.”
What lesson should we learn from this? Primarily, that if you’re into good weed, you should move not to Bibleburg, but to Santa Fe, [...]

I am rocking the Keystone State. Got in late Saturday and have been going like a bat out of hell since. In pretty close to the order of occurrence I ate four (4) soft pretzels, a cheese steak (wid peppers & onions), hit a day trip to the shore (the water a brisk [...]

The Cascade Cream Puff hits off this weekend. I’ll be now where near it, as per usual. But a few folks I know will be right in the mix. My man KNob is doing it for the tenth time. That’s right – he never learns. And, interestingly enough, my man [...]

When we were in high school, the cops would run us up out of anywhere we parked long enough to say hello. One place someone figured out we could sit around and not be bothered was a graveyard. I never found it so much spooky as just plain dumb.
Sitting around on the grass [...]

Ah, the Tour. At last I can sit on my ass and watch tv like a proper American! Fuck baseball nine ways till next Tuesday, cycling is the sport!
Ok. Might have just pissed off a few folks there with that one. Just call me Robert Ford.
From: Chris D.
Is it me [...]

I did not ride a bike today. Nor did I ride one yesterday. I may not even ride one tomorrow.
I feel like river dancing.
A couple of image laden emails came my way these last few days. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
From: Case Flakeman
A beautiful [...]

Yep. She’s out. Going to stretch her wings for a serious run in 2012?
Random collection of headlines as follows…
- In Big Shocker, Palin Resigns As Governor: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
- Palin to Resign as Alaska Governor on July 26: washingtonpost.com
- Palin Quits as Alaska Governor: foxnews.com
- Palin’s Foolish Resignation: [...]

Make of it what you will, but have a safe and happy 4th of July.  Me? Taking the wife and dogs camping. So, what better way to check the msr stove than in the kitchen this morning. After a quick safety check I had no qualms about setting ‘er up on the kitchen floor. Meh. [...]

BGR should receive a lifetime ban from the forest for being such a meanie course marker destructivist…
from: BGR
subject: I moved your course markers.
I also threw some logs in the trail. I know that this was wrong, I felt bad about it very shortly after the fact.  I let my anger get the best of me, [...]

I’ll not be in attendance at this Friday’s summit in Flagstaff as we’re taking the kids to Sea World over the weekend. It will be interesting to see what transpires. I am hoping that cooler heads will prevail and kick ass bike racing will continue to prosper in and around Flagstaff. [...]

Joe didn’t participate in the sabotage. Read BGR’s point of view here.
The thing that nobody understands is how this situation was simply a spontaneous clash and how insignificant it actually was. The fervor has been impressive nonetheless. How the removal of some tape on ONE corner of the course caused so much death and destruction [...]

Second day off from school. And I still don’t know what to do with myself. Spend yesterday morning in the garage moving around boxes. Thought about building up another bike. I’ve got a Voodoo frameset just waiting for parts to be hung on ‘er. Read the site over lunch. [...]

File this under more lame.
from: gooch
Subject: How’s your Karma?
Now that the local-racing communitee knows who the individuals are, that put so much effort in to derailing the efforts of MBAA holding a local sanctioned race, persons that basically just directed their h8tr-hurt toward people they don’t even know, I would like to ask of them…, [...]

I just got turned on to a real gem. I’m talking ’bout Van Halen, son. VAN HALEN! Ever hear of an old ass demo they put out back in 1976 produced by Gene Simmons? It’s rough. It’s unpolished. It’s awesome. Like most things in this world, you [...]

I stumbled across this story this morning, and thought that I would share it with you guys. It appears as though we are heading right back to the 1950’s where a lot of republicans would like to take us. Yes, Spencer Bachus representative of Alabama has a “list” of his colleagues, who are, “GASP!” SOCIALISTS!! [...]

School is as school does. Man, I simply cannot wait for this semester to end. Bring on the summer. I man even, gasp, ride a bike. Little bit. Kinda.
Random link bullshit, aka Link Dump:
Mr. Clean
Greg Lemond
The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (That Don’t Work)
Guess her muff
I might have already linked [...]

Turns out Vermont decided yesterday that getting married and being gay at the same time is A-OK in Vermont. I say, good for you Vermont. Way to take the lead again in the area of gay rights like you did back a decade or more ago when you were the first to allow civil unions [...]

I got rear ended this morning on southbound 51. Good times. Traffic was as traffic is in Phoenix – a fucking parking lot. I was thinking to myself something stupid like “today would be a good day to get rear-ended… nah, it’ll never happen…” Then came the thud. I [...]

by ‘them’ i mean the big 3. Seriously. If they tried to make a better car, they wouldn’t be in this mess. I have sympathy for all the workers who are getting canned, losing their pensions, having factories shut down… But fuck the Big 3. They chose to stick with a post WW2, ‘American Dream’ [...]