"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs, Party, Utter Silliness on Oct 31st, 2005
The ACME Night of the Living Dead poker run was on Sunday. Yet another outing for the bloomer suit. I rolled up a little after 8:00 but luckily other folks were still filtering in, and the crowd present was still tucking into Sarah and Christie’s vegetarian chili they had all steamy and spicy on Christie’s […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Costumes and disguises, Imports from old blogs on Oct 31st, 2005
I think wearing bloomers helps foster a good time. At least, I had on both times I went out wearing this outlandish heap of fabric, though honestly, I am sure the events themselves brought the fun, I just brought the Really Huge Sleeves. Friday night was, of course, Critical Mass, and our CMs here in […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Home Improvements, Imports from old blogs on Oct 29th, 2005
What furniture that was getting shoved has now been shoved. I should vaccuum, but my motivation has run out. Hah! So, yesterday, I’m at work, on my lunch break, sitting in the breakroom eating my lunch and reading the latest Harry Potter (first time, and yes, I am way behind the trend…I like the HP […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries, Schwinn Suburban on Oct 16th, 2005
Crossposted to Well, that crusty old Schwinn that my folks dropped off at the end of August has been brought back to life. I got some rubber under it today, dicked around with the brakes for about two hours (I wish I were kidding) and finally launched the old beast on her born-again-virgin maiden voyage. […]
Posted in biking, Burley, Imports from old blogs, Party, Utter Silliness on Oct 16th, 2005
Crossposted to . I had a VAST lot of fun Friday night. I went to my first ever Alleykat, and it was madness! This one wasn’t a distance pick-and-drop course, nor a scavenger hunt. This was drag racing. We had two-block one-on-one sprints. It was also drag races in the sense that men wore dresses/skirts/lots […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Burley, Costumes and disguises, Imports from old blogs, Party on Oct 14th, 2005
I’m going to go play tonight. Bicycle Drag Races, out by Acme and Grinder’s. 2-block sprints. All guys must wear dresses or skirts, all girls must sport facial hair of some description. I’ll be back tonight or early tomorrow with pictures and a write up. I’m excited. This is liable to be a pretty fun […]
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs, videos on Oct 4th, 2005
Somebody on Bike Forums posted this silent movie from 1903 of urban cyclists going about their business. I love this little video because there are so many riders out, and a great many of them are women in ordinary dress for the time. Not bloomers, nothing specialized. Just the blouse and skirt a young woman […]
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs, Party on Oct 1st, 2005
I meant to do a write-up of last night’s Critical Mass, but by the time I got home, made supper, and drank a beer, I was too tired to do much of anything, so I went to bed. Anyway, last night’s CM was marvelous–the best in months! The last really big one we had here […]
Posted in biking, Imports from old blogs on Sep 21st, 2005
Get home, take off your helmet, go into the bathroom and discover not one, not two, but three dead, dried-sweat-encrusted gnats* lodged in your eyebrows.** I’m having a hard time deciding what is worse, the fact that there were gnats stuck in my eyebrows, or the fact that my eyebrows can foster so many gnats. […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Burley, dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, wrecks on Sep 6th, 2005
I had a pretty lousy day today. I’ve been off kilter for about a week. Stressed. Depressed. Feeling horrible that all I can do at the moment for anyone suffering on account of the Katrina disaster is donate to the Red Cross, and I can’t donate much, at that, because I’m broke–feedback loop into stress, […]