Saturday, 31 January 2009

i do MORE than just "ride a bike"

i walk my dogs, for example. they love fresh air as much--and maybe more--than i do. i try to get them out as much as possible. but sometimes at night, i just like to stroll around the neighborhood--anyone's, for that matter--just to relax, to unwind, to look at the stars. you know, just walk around, taking things in. you never know what you'll come across.

well, one recent night, i scored BIG time. like finding that first road porn of springtime, i found what i knew would be out there, but just didn't know where, or when, to look. the motherlode, the holy grail of cycling: the punk rock secret training center. you all know about the punk girls, but where do they train in the winter? you never see them outside, but that fitness just doesn't happen. it comes the old fashioned way: hard work, and lots of it. well, good thing my old dick tracy wrist radio has a secret camera, too. lookie here what i found:
well, i don't have the complete 2009 roster, but this punker was putting in the hours on the new specialized s-works killer kilometre rollers, with speed-0-meter/fan attachment prominently apparent. watch out, women and children: they mean bidniz in '09.
one of the benefits of these late-night meanderings is the wonderful clarity of mind that comes over me, and the resultant ideas that enter and exit my mind are--no shit--the stuff of greatness. above is just one of the "patent-pendings" languishing in the "in-box" at the u.s. patent office. oh yeah, i'm gonna be rich and famous, and YOU all are gonna be safe and wearing one if these in the not-too-distant future. so when they DO drop the big one--and they will, rush says so, you can thank me for my late-night strolls by joining me on one of my post-apocalyptic but completely safe bike rides. until then, la-de-da; i'm going for a walk now.

more graphic proof

...why you should not trust polls:
this poll was posted ON A BLOG. see?
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Friday, 30 January 2009

test post

my blog has had the same crud, i fear, that i've been feeling the past few days. i'll try to post this graph showing my emotional frame of mind this week to see if the good doctor has fixed my wildly fluctuating parameters.

well, not quite; but pretty damned close. thanks, doc!

Thursday, 29 January 2009

role models

i never really gave it much thought, but this morning, as i came across the first video, billy preston's "will it go round in circles?" and as i followed links to the next one, steely dan's "reeling in the years" from the nbc late night music showcase "midnight special" from 1973, i realized that if i were to be able to design a future world, it would be heavily populated by folks like the ones you see on stage and in the audience. it really is one of those "you just don't know" things, i suppose.
must be one of the reasons i like these folks so much.

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

thirsty?

watch this commercial, and you will be.

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better rush out and buy your stale-beaned, over-priced, not-kind-to-locals, hot sugar in a cup big bucks beverage before it's too late!
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i just can't take the way this blog has been dealing with photo size and margins and other things, so i'm going to try to fix it. in the meantime, you'll notice i've lost all my side links and other such stuff. if you'd like to be re-linked, let me know, and i'll try to figure out how to do it, and do it better than last time. so in the meantime, enjoy the show. it will be like watching the leaves turn colors in autumn.