"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake on Aug 23rd, 2010
I’ve been vaguely under the weather this past week. Snotly, wimpy, and excessively sweaty. Not sure if it was just some sort of crazy hay-fever or a very feeble summer cold, but I’m over the worst of the foulness. At least I don’t feel totally wimpy anymore, though I am still in possession of a […]
Posted in Distractions, Oh, for fuck's sake on Aug 23rd, 2010
Oh lord, did my alarm clock just wake me up from one HELL of a scorched-earth hissyfit. I was dreaming that I had some sort of big final paper to turn in, the fate of my BA hung in the balance, and a string of catastrophes was preventing me printing it out and handing it […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Oh, for fuck's sake, Super-Short Entries, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness on Jul 7th, 2010
because I got wolf-whistled while armpits deep in a garbage can in downtown Kansas City Kansas. The absurdity of the situation just tickled me eight shades of pink. KCKS guys have basically no standards, nor dignity. I mean, srsly? But sexual harrassment and foul odors nonetheless, i think I got enough bottles for my boat […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, dumb things I have done, Gratuitous Cussing, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, videos on Jul 4th, 2010
On my way home from work today, I rode past some very busy fireworks stands in the West Bottoms. If you know Kansas City, you might know about James Street and the half dozen or so semi-abandond buildings that become explosives emporia in the week leading up to Independence day. Being as today is The […]
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, meta, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff on May 31st, 2010
This is written partly in response to Jacquie Phelan’s recent musings about where women fit into the cycling industry, and partly because I sometimes kick ideas around about my own “place” in the two-wheeled underground. I think part of the problem(s) that both Jacquie and Bike Hugger were addressing (1) (2) (3) stem from how […]
Posted in bike commuting, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Ruby the Dog, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Apr 16th, 2010
Man, oh man, yesterday I had two flats at once and it was a pain in the ass. I picked up some goat-head thorns during one of Ruby’s and my excursions into the West Bottoms. The dog likes to run, and I don’t, so what we do to compromise is I leash her up and […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion, Oh, for fuck's sake on Feb 25th, 2010
I guess if you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror in the work restroom and think, “who the fuck is that douchebag?” you’ve probably pretty much failed your fashion check for the day. I realized about midway through the day today that I dressed like a complete asshole and felt sheepish for the […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, videos on Feb 6th, 2010
But the opening animation was AWESOME: We’ve had about a 50/50 rate of hits and misses with Netflix. The movies that we’ve gotten and enjoyed were really great and the ones that sucked were almost unbelievably awful. The nice thing about Netflix is that it’s so inexpensive that if you get a dud, you can […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake on Jan 16th, 2010
I tell you there’s nothing like a group of cyclists to whip up a tempest in a teapot. The most recent fuss and bother that finally penetrated my protective carapace of “not-giving-a-fuck†is a Facebook kerfuffle centered around a group of disgruntled motorists who just can’t stand sharing the road with cyclists and have therefore […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake on Dec 30th, 2009
I used to live in the Boston Apartments on 38th & Main, circa 2000-02 back when the place was a total roach motel. I’ve heard tell that it’s been bought by someone responsible who has fixed the place up really nice nowadays, but back when I lived there, it was pretty freakin’ squalid. One would […]