I think I watched this movie when I was in high school on channel 12, while I was fasting for a weigh in the night before a big race. I never got over how awesome it was.
RIP Paul Newman.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
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I found this video on digg yesterday. Since I still organize extreme sports from a skateboarder’s perspective(ie Skateboarder, then BMXer(sorry SM), then everything else, then roller bladers), I wouldn’t normally click thru on something like this.
But it said Bike Race, it said NYC, [...]
Commute Notes.
24-Sep-08
Ride in: I saw the above telephone/power poll on Stenton Avenue above the Morris Arboretum toward Valley Green road. It may be hard to tell from this picture, but the entire bottom of the pole is gone, shattered into 100 pieces. The top, actually most of the pole is still there, hanging suspended, between 2 [...]
MBV. 16 years later.
24-Sep-08I decided months ago that the best way to get to the MBV show was to go up the morning of and work in AOL’s offices there. So I got up at 5:30am, caught the 6:52 Amtrak to Penn Station and made my way down to Union Square.
THe offices at 770 Broadway are kind [...]
MBV
21-Sep-08
The last time I saw My Bloody Valentine, it was the summer of 1992. They played the Trocadero on a muggy night. Buffalo Tom and Mercury Rev opened.
A good friend from high school was at the show. He got progressively weirder as the opening bands worked thru their sets. By MBV he was off his [...]
I don’t even like Basketball.
19-Sep-08but watching this game of horse between some dude and LeBron James is like watching some hot shot from the drives pip Mark Cavendish in a sprint. And thats nice.
DFW R.I.P.
14-Sep-08“…And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out…”
Page 981, Infinite Jest.
Rest in Peace, David Foster Wallace.
Talk About the Weathermen
11-Sep-08I needed a comedy bump today, so I went to the Hodgman piece from the Daily Show from a while back. Some guy at the local convenience store wearing a ‘Never Forget’ t-shirt sent my morning the wrong way.
Like I am ever going to forget.
So I needed some cheap laughs. The way John Hodgman [...]
Best NYT Article on Cycling, maybe ever.
07-Sep-08NYT is running an article on the single speed world championships. What ever you do, don’t miss the slideshow.
Choice quote:
“Not drinking is the S.S.W.C. version of doping,” Phelan wrote on her blog after the Napa race, adding that it was a “cowardly, unfair physical advantage which I freely deploy.”
(Way to make me dig for [...]
Rod Stewart? Really?
05-Sep-08Yes. Rod Stewart and the Faces. I’m going thru a phase w them now, thanks to my man, Brenden Newnam. You see, he’s got this new podcast called ‘The Dinner Party Download‘, and the first episode they dropped the first track off of Ooh La La. I went and bought the [...]