"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, biking, Utter Silliness on Jan 19th, 2009
CatTails 001, originally uploaded by Stellascorcher. You should definitely view this photo at original size to appreciate the colossally goofy face I was making at the time. Typical Saturday afternoon shenanigans. We had to re-visit one of our favorite inner-city swamps during the Saturday ride to see if the cattails were in good poofing condition. […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Jan 18th, 2009
Six months until the First Annual Kansas City Trashboat Regatta. Put that on you calendar. Sometime in mid-June, you will, if you are lucky, be floating down the Big Muddy in a home-built contraption based on salvage, bicycles, and cuss words. And maybe a little duct tape, a few zip-ties, and some hope. Crews are […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Well I'll Be Darned, Words I Like on Jan 12th, 2009
Once upon a time in Kansas City, there was a florist on about 31st & Gillham called Ed’s Dainty Corsages, and it was fabulous! Then the business name changed to the much less fabulous House of Flowers and to compensate for the lack of incongruity in their name, they acquired two lovely huge murals, a […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Jan 4th, 2009
Umm..so we found a lot of wine in a dumpster, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. Each of us nabbed two or three bottles, because it was there, basically. Now what the sam-hill am I supposed to do with it? I’m not much of a wine drinker (not much of a drinker, full stop) and I’d feel […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Distractions, Redline Monocog 29er on Nov 2nd, 2008
Okay, so this computer is being a total butthead and it took me almost 20 minutes to actually connect with WordPress, but I’m gonna give this my best shot. First things first. I have had this song stuck in my head for the past three days, and now you do too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc] “She don’t eat […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Food & Snacks, Redline Monocog 29er, videos on Oct 23rd, 2008
So, so! Now, we’re in Kentucky, and a very good Kentucky it is, so far. Paducah’s got about the cutest old downtown I’ve seen in ages all fancy brickwork and colorful painted trim. The shops look a little twee, and it becomes a lovely ghosttown after 5:00 p.m., but during the day, it’s awfully charming. […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Redline Monocog 29er, Ruby the Dog on Oct 20th, 2008
Well, we KATY-trailed it for a couple of days and got to just outside of St. Louis last night. After I get done here at the library, we’re going to the grocery store and getting back on the road-road. We had a great camping spot last night in an abandoned barn. Couldn’t hardly have been […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Redline Monocog 29er, Too lazy to classify on Oct 8th, 2008
A not so amusing side-note I failed to mention the last time I logged on (by the way, I’m in Kingman, AZ right now…Hi!) is that I lost my driver’s license very, very early on in the trip…like possibly on the airplane heading for CA. Anyway, for the past two-ish weeks, I have had no […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, biking, Redline Monocog 29er on Oct 2nd, 2008
Well, well, we’ve been on the road for a week now and we’re taking a rest day in Tonopah. NV, known as the Queen Of The Silver Camps. Tonopah is pretty darn quiet these days, but we met a heck of a nice fellow running a used bookshop (Whitney’s Bookshelf) in the downtown area. I’ve got […]
Posted in Adventures, Playing With Weather, Ruby the Dog on Sep 13th, 2008
IMG_3691, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. The dog and I just got back from an epic rain ramble. She’s now napping happily under the dining table, smelly, damp, and exhausted. We found and romped in the King Daddy of all puddles today. There’s essentially a crater about 6 blocks from the house, where a large building […]