"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in "Greenie II", Adventures, biking, Party, Utter Silliness on Feb 22nd, 2011
Massive big fun at ChrisGo’s Urban Cyclocross race. My only goal had been to get completely filthy. I pretty much completely ate it in the practice lap, and then collected splashback for the next four laps, so by the time it was all over, I made crunching noises when I moved. Fortunately, those jeans I […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Party, Playing With Weather on Feb 3rd, 2011
I know Photoshopped lens-flare (and perhaps lens-flare in general) is considered incredibly naff, but I swear this happened by accident, and I don’t care how much of a technical fault it is, I think it looks pretty cool in this context. I was going back through my Flickr account and deleting some crap pictures and […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 25th, 2010
Last Saturday, I got invited to an exorcism at a liquor store. Well, the exorcism wasn’t at the liquor store; I was at the liquor store when the invitation was extended to me. The exorcism, supposedly, was to take place in this new church in an old warehouse in the West Bottoms. It is a […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Dumpster Diving, Photo entries on Aug 26th, 2010
Melissa and I were out riding around the other evening and I am so glad my friends are patient with me. “Dude, we’ve gotta stop,” I hollered out. U-turn was pulled, trash was picked. Someone down in Columbus Park was getting rid of some luggage. Most of it was lackluster and grubby, but not this […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness on Jul 13th, 2010
Well, well, well, well, well! Another Regatta has passed with no deaths, arrests, or maulings by invasive Asiatic Carp, so I guess we can chalk up yet another successful run down the Missouri. So last Thursday evening, our back porch looked like this. My neighbors love me. On Wednesday night, I was prowling throughout Strawberry […]
Posted in Adventures, biking on Jun 9th, 2010
This year, I psyched myself out of riding the Dirty Kanza, but since I already had the vacation time approved and I enjoy the whole Dirty Kanza scene, I decided to go along this year as a volunteer and make myself helpful in some way or another. When we got to Emporia, things were already […]
Posted in Adventures, dumb things I have done, Lists, Utter Silliness on Feb 24th, 2010
And really bad at coming up with titles for blog entries. But there it is…my mundane superpower is probably being able to sleep in really odd places. Age 15 – took a 2 hour nap on the basement staircase at my grandparents’ house after enduring a 22-hour ride all hunkered up in the backseat of […]
Posted in Adventures, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Jan 2nd, 2010
So proclaimed Max, with perhaps a touch of pride. The past week’s snow made for super-sweet ski-biking, and last night a bunch of us dragged our contraptions out to Museum Hill and did what cabin-fevered mid-westerners do best…dumb things! The big, goofy red-and-yellow rig is Joel’s latest creation. Battered and weatherbeaten, “The Goat” is one […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Nov 15th, 2009
Half of a grocery cart, laden with a passenger, being towed behind a bicycle makes a pretty distinctive sound. A grinding, rattling, metallic rumble, sometimes accented with whoops, yelps, shrieks, and cursing. Like this, basically. We’d convened on Friday night as planned in Korruption, a fine and choice dive bar in the West Bottoms. It’s […]
Posted in Adventures, dumb things I have done, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans on Nov 11th, 2009
I know I’ve mentioned it, but the ad-hoc chariot races are on for Friday. It’s so official, there’s even a Facebook thingy for it. I’m so stoked I can hardly think straight…this is top quality stupidity on offer here. Then on Saturday, the season opener for the KC Roller Sprints kicks off at Harling’s. Should […]