Chip in for Charles
Pardon me for interrupting all this drunk cycling with a public-service announcement, but my friend and colleague Charles Pelkey — formerly The Explainer, Live Update Continue reading Chip in for Charles
Author Archives: Patrick O'Grady
R.I.P., Neil Alan Smith
We in the press get a lot of criticism, much of it richly deserved. But every now and then one of us gets it right. Continue reading R.I.P., Neil Alan Smith
Tennessee stud
Gentlemen, remove your hats and lift your glasses to the memory of the guardian of Jack Daniels, Jimmy Bedford, who died Friday at 69. Sipping Continue reading Tennessee stud
We’re No. 1?
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 Continue reading We’re No. 1?
Oh … my … God!
This just in from cyclocross nationals in Kansas City: “Beer sales, they say, have lagged as the temperature has dropped.” And we’re stuck there for Continue reading Oh … my … God!
Thursday’s Poem: Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast My newish Subaru has a drinking problem. It swills coolant And then, feverishly, pukes it back up. The ’83 Toyota pickup Continue reading Thursday’s Poem: Beauty and the beast
Pump up the volume (and the tires)
I can’t wait to see Bike Snob NYC tackle this one — a crew of teens in Queens riding two-wheeled sound systems. Nick Ragbir’s DJ Continue reading Pump up the volume (and the tires)
We’re No. 3! We’re No. 3!
Read it and weep, bitches — Bibleburg is the third drunkest city in the Benighted Snakes of Amerika, according to Men’s Health magazine. Only Denver Continue reading We’re No. 3! We’re No. 3!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the peloton . . .
. . . here comes Masters Cycling magazine, your guide to the world of sand-bagging, treachery and egomania. Every issue will have a mirror on Continue reading Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the peloton . . .
From the It Sucks To Be Him file . . .
. . . comes this item from The Associated Press: Man Killed by Gator While Fleeing Police MICCOSUKEE TRIBE INDIAN RESERVATION, Fla. (AP) — A Continue reading From the It Sucks To Be Him file . . .
The Pope of DrunkCyclist?
This just in, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram via The San Francisco Chronicle: Police Cite Man for Watching Porn in Car Police issued a citation Continue reading The Pope of DrunkCyclist?
Thursday’s Poem: Surfin’ safari
On a board, gasping As his tormenter pours, smiles Dreaming of surfing