"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, Dumpster Diving, Photo entries, biking 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, Dumpster Diving, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, Utter Silliness, dumb things I have done 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, Lists, Utter Silliness, dumb things I have done 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, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness, biking, dumb things I have done 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, Party, Trashboat Shenanigans, dumb things I have done 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 [...]
Posted in Adventures, Party, biking on Nov 7th, 2009
Christi just got a frisbee that has a little LED light thingy in the middle of it. What this means is that this frisbee can be lit up at night and the more die-hard (and nutty) Friz enthusiasts can now play Friz even after the Daylight Saving time change. We tested this theory this evening [...]
Posted in Adventures, Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Family, Party, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Nov 6th, 2009
I said something recently about writing more frequently…and once again I did a lot of fun stuff, didn’t write about it, built up a backlog of postable material, got overwhelmed, and will be babbling forth a disjointed and photo-heavy entry…AGAIN. So. We went to Nebraska this past weekend-ish. We left town Halloween night, did a [...]
Posted in Adventures, meta on Oct 21st, 2009
As it happens when I don’t update in a while, lots of stuff goes on in my life…interesting stuff that I ought to write up, but don’t then when I finally get up the gumption to write, I’m just plain overwhelmed. It’s like a larger and more personal dose of the anxiety I get when [...]
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