Archive for the ‘pleading for something’ Category

dirt road database update

so without yer knowledge, the database has been pushing forward. is it called the database? no. did i mastermind it? not reallby joe whitehair is on board, but he might have been two PBRs to the wind when he said he was. they were a dollar. i mean. cummon. so jay has been working on [...]

dirt road database

so i was walking to the post office today, (on a dirt road) and was lamenting the fact that with all of the crazy mapping software out there, GIS, google maps, USGS, etc, there isnt a good way to tell if A. your route will work (is that someones driveway?) and B. what the road [...]

lights and nah

so here is my super quick guide to bike lighting, not really for you to read now, but more so you can ref it later, when i link to it and yeah. our rambles end in the dark or the dusk, as a rule. people dont believe me when i say a ride is going [...]

Christine wantsta know, yo

OK not only do i wanna know who is coming to the ride so i can make spoke cards, but christine wantsta know so she can make grub for post ride consumption.  So, um, 2 people so far have let me know.  Everyone else get up on it.  Leave a comment.  Yeah, Nah, or ProbablAH.

first to know

hey i am starting a music blog.  its going to be sort of like this joint, but with less bike references.  actually what i mean is, i hope to run it as a collective.  get lots of contributors, so lots of people roll through.  i want to cover the following genres: not shitty folk, bluegrass, [...]

Obituary

. For OW Houts OW Houts has always had an aire of sadness. Today that aire became palpable, unavoidable. Today OW Houts annouced, that after 78 years in their present location, they were going to close thier doors forever on January 11th. Rumors that Houts had been nearing it’s end abounded, but most shoppers, like [...]

Mouthful

Ok, we dont really have any new content, so chew on this.  I wrote it today, basically in reaction to issues I am dealing with in grad school.  I recently told a collegue that I felt like I was surrounded by Futurists, and this essay hatched as a result.  Sorry the footnotes didn’t copy: I [...]

january ride proposal

. Ride Update!  Jan 26, 10 am, at the Sugarloaf/Foot o’ the mtn stonghold parking lot place.  I’ve made a revised and more accurate map, that still shows the mileage to be sub 50, and the climbing to be negligible.  I have added what appear to be more dirt roads, more roads without real names, [...]

link heaven

so i was in scotland last week, clearing up that buiness with the lemons and the pre-glued stamps. i came across this link at st andrews, apparently crafted by a japanese investment group calling themselves Arrow, or Day Month Fire Water Wo. They had this to say about our recent post on the treadmill bike: [...]

environ-mental art: why our future looks so bright.

so we have reached that time of year. the time when the students go out into the world and make environmentally based installation art. we start with a fine piece about “The chosen artwork the object being a yellow towel did not belong.” Enigmatic, sure. But “In my work was an outdoors scene was captured.” [...]