Clickbait
I despise clickbait. By which I mean those things that show up unbidden in your Facebook feed that lead to tedious, ad-centric time wasters. I despise them, because every once in a while I take the...
View ArticleHow Much Fun? ALL OF IT!
I don't own a TV. When I tell people this, they often look at me with pity, as if I was somehow to poverty stricken to find one of the free non-flat TVs people put out to the curb when they get an...
View ArticleCrowned
I'll be going to the parade tomorrow, I missed the one in 1985 due to bad decision making (I asked Mom for permission, should have just done it like I did most stuff she didn't think I should do). In...
View ArticleHow Many People Came to the Royals Parade? ALL OF THEM!
I think I saw that the 1985 World Series parade in Kansas City drew 300,000. That's a lot of people to line two and a half miles of streets and clog up the lawn of the Liberty Memorial (a venue that...
View ArticleFirst Friday
This was the first time I've gotten out to First Friday in a while. I had an invitation to a gallery show and no parental responsibilities, so of course I made my way down there on the way home from...
View ArticleSecret Monastery
Corinna was leading me to a pear tree that turned out to be picked already, when I spotted this compound. Like a little log-cabin-style motel or something, pretty new, not much signage to explain it...
View ArticleTweed Ride 2015
I thought I was going to be late for the Tweed Ride. Facebook said 10:00, and I was having real trouble getting up after doing First Friday. I got there thinking I'd just go to the museum where it...
View ArticleProspero's P3 Event
Corinna had an event at Prosperos to train other poets to do Poetry for Personal Power events. It's part of the grant she got most recently, it's also part of her plan to find other people to carry on...
View ArticleThe Lovely Alexia
So I'm still learning my way around the world of speed lights. For the uninitiated, these are the external, hot-shoe mounted (or remotely fired) flashes you probably associate with wedding...
View ArticleCranksgiving
This is probably my favorite alley cat race of the year. Well, maybe tied for first place with Pub N Pedal, but where Pub N Pedal is pure bacchanalia, Cranksgiving is a bacchanalia with a good cause...
View ArticleBaggage
I remember showing up to a group ride and taking some pics with my Nikon before we headed out. My friend Abbey said, 'You're not going to lug that thing with you the whole ride are you?'Uh, yeah. I...
View ArticleOut With the Bad Stuff...
I once got bounced from the blood bank when I fainted at the finger prick anemia test. If memory serves, they gave me a 'nice try' sticker, something fairly patronizing I think. I'm better with needles...
View ArticleFatsome
Okay, the picture is a non-sequitur sorta, sorry Julie. I don't know how often she checks in here these days, but my dear friend Julie once asked if the text in my posts could have some relationship...
View ArticleDetails
It's incredible how much more detail you see in where you are when you bike instead of driving. The car really isolates you, whisks you past the people and places you go by. Getting off the bike and...
View ArticleFirefighter Fountain
I ride by this fountain on my commute home all the time. These blue lights were added a while back, and I keep forgetting to throw the tripod in a pannier so I could photograph it on the way home from...
View ArticleThe Other Christmas Mass
Lots of folks go to mass on Christmas, but Critical Mass? Happened to be this year, Christmas was the last Friday of the month. Unfortunately, I wasn't really free to ride, but I drove to the pre-party...
View ArticleAlley Cat
So when I met Corinna I didn't even know what an alleycat race was. I hadn't figured out how to use my bike to get to an from work or to and from campsites. I hadn't even ever used my bike to run an...
View ArticleChristmas Adam
Without much commentary, here's Christmas at my Mom's house. Actually on Christmas Adam, or Festivus if you would rather not think about Adam combing before Eve. Mom made her inimitable fried chicken...
View ArticleChristmas Mass
Had a pretty low key Christmas Day at home, we'd already done the big present exchange and dinner at my Mom's on Festivus. We had a friend over for turkey dinner (that was mainly made for leftovers)...
View ArticleBig Grin II: The Second Annual Joel Dyke Memorial Ride
Joel Dyke was a great guy and a great friend. And he loved-loved-loved riding in the elements. I remember a day when I think I actually called in to work and told my boss it wasn't worth it to try and...
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