Weighty happiness

December 27, 2013

I hope you have all been enjoying this possibly festive time of the year for you.  I have been more or less quarantined to my basement where I have been burning stacks of wood, mail, and newspapers to stay warm and to fill our abode with the sweet smell of burnt maple.  To be honest, my formerly moderately active lifestyle has become inactive.  I did get out for a bicycle ride yesterday, which was quite enjoyable.  Here is a photo.  

As you may be able to ascertain from this photo, I was able to bicycle through four of my favorite substances:  snow, grass, leaves, and curb.  

This photo is from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) which featured multiple bicycle-oriented public service announcement (PSA) posters.  

I am very happy about this, and I am also working on preparing some additional PSA posters to add to the variety and potential audience of these posters.  More on this later.  I was at the DMV to clear up a little misunderstanding about what constitutes “valid identification” - apparently they can’t really scan body parts like they misleadingly imply in the PSA entitled Minority Report.  I might've had the wrong body part out, too.

So what can we believe in this topsy-turvy world of ours?  Well I think we can believe that bicycling might help you lose weight - either lbs or kgs or stone.  Any or all of these can be lost through a strict regime of bicycling and obsessing about bicycling and/or the use of amphetamines.  This truism was illustrated for me as I recently viewed a film entitled Lbs. which I thought was pronounced “el bees,” but is apparently called “pounds.”  In this film, the main character, Neil, played by Carmine Famiglietti decides to turn his life around by losing weight.  He decides to lose weight, due to a heart attack which caused his sister’s wedding to be postponed due to the family trauma caused by this event.  Although it lacks a montage, this film combines elements of Rocky IV and Run Fat Boy, Run into a drama that is mildly humourous and not overly dramatic (no need to worry about a heart attack for unhealthy viewers).  This film motivated me to get out of my home and do some bicycling.  So who says sitting around in your basement and watching movies isn’t a productive use of time?!  

Not only can bicycling be helpful for health, it is also amusing to onlookers who see a large person astride a skinny, delicate-looking road bike, as shown here.

And, no (indignant harumphing) I am not making light of this problem.  

So I guess it's almost 2014, eh?  Got your health care all figured out?  Haha.  Well, I hope it includes a health dose of bicycling and some patience!  Best wishes to you and/or your family!
Sincerely,
-BSO

Thanks for the good times and great oldies!

November 29, 2013

Hello!  It’s Thanksgiving hangover day!  Hope yours is going well.  My friend Bob and I made it out to the Thanksgiving Eve taco ride and had a fun time.  We met a guy named Rich who had this sweet ride.

The bike’s name is also the name of a song by Bob Wayne, as seen here:

The weather was cool, but with a weird, faint tinge of early spring in the air (I thought so anyway).  After the ride another guy named Rich met up with us and we enjoyed the virtuosic, down-to-earth stylings of my favorite local band - Banjo Loco.  Here is a short segment of their cover of “Crazy Train.”  

They are going to release a recording of originals soon, including their catchy “St. Elvis” that still has my toes a-tappin’ and pelvis gyrating (which was a little awkward during the whole family Thanksgiving experience).  And here is a guy with a sweet ass Metallica Christmas sweater. 

I was told there’s a Slayer version too.  

So what have you been up to?  Ducks?  Really?  Hmmm.  

Here is a cool bike I saw a few weeks back.

Nishiki Century

And here is a guy using a pay phone.

NSA ain't monitoring this side of the connection, bitch!

Both of those things gave me a nostalgic feeling of the days of yore.  The bike looks light and comfortable without being ostentatious or prissy and the pay phone use seems humble and purposeful.  

Alright.  Bike riding is great.  Now I gotta go eat some more pie!  That key lime is gonna be out of season soon!

Warm feelings of turkeys to come

November 24, 2013

Greetings.  How is your mother?  Oh.  Yes.  Hmmmm.  I know, I know.

It has become cool here in the gut buster of USiness.  I am replenishing fluids and wishing that my search for comfy mittens like these had proven successful. 

http://blog.girlzlyfe.com/page/14/

But enough about me and your mother.  What about that awesome Gene Richard Simmons?  He is in a cool video, 

and I saw him on tv helping a nurse the other day.  Also he helps me feel nice and warm when I am pedaling along in the frosty belt buckle of our fat and jolly nation.  I can almost here his good natured, peppy exhortations as I pedal!  Gotta love that Gene Richard!  And fat jolliness.  Did you get your festive outdoor decorations out yet?  What?!  Then why are we sitting here all fat and/or jolly and not out there preparing?!  

Also I hear David Bowie released an album this year and I haven’t even purchased a copy yet!  Good thing Christmas is coming up.  Please ask your mother to send me a copy because I know David sings her favorite Christmas music.  

Many bicyclers have noticed that your attitude can change drastically from the beginning of a bicycle ride to the end.  This happened to me a few days back when I took a different route along a somewhat busy road.  Two motorists turned to the right in front of me and I offered one a mono-digital gesture of displeasure.  I was a little grumbly for a while.  But then I came across some of the loveliest bicycle lanes that I have ever seen!  It was joyous!

It snowed on Thursday and it livened up my evening commute.   

By the time I got home with my bike on my car rack part of my back wheel was partially encrusted with gritty snow.  

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, which means that many bicyclers will be enjoying a festive Thanksgiving Eve ride upon the Keystone trail.  Some will bundle up and pedal slowly.  Others may go fast and naked.  Still others may swerve erratically and wonder where the hell they left their car/gloves/significant other.  Moments like these are potentially the types of things that define us.  Mostly they define us thusly, “you are a dumb ass.”  Ah, the joys of self discovery.  Speaking of self discovery, here is a man who discovered early that what he wanted to do with life was travel adventurously.  A friend of mine forwarded me his website.  Although I am still too jealously indignant about this man’s insouciant insolence to peruse his site thoroughly, I am sure his bicycle trip around the world was great.  Something I am sure to copy once I’ve got a spare two years.  Maybe once Baby Snot gets big enough to pedal without whining (wait, that never happens to any of us!).  

Speaking of offspring.  Here is my new web design which Teen Snot was kind enough to bestow upon me last August.  It took awhile to get it up here on the line, but I am sure you will agree that it was worth the wait.  

I also got a t-shirt with the following quote on the backside: 'Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.' - Mark Twain

So that is all I got at this time.  I hope you are happily spinning from here to there or vice versa.  Gotta go mitten hunting!

-BSO

Heavy Bikes and Turkeys

November 10, 2013

Isn’t it funny how things change?  Why just a few months ago, I was happily idyllically (or is that idiotically?) idling away several hundred hours or more by typing and cutting and pasting meandering thoughts and images into something known as an “electronic journal of webbed logging (EJoWL for short).”  I was, some would opine, a man of leisure (pronounced leh-sure).  But now I am busier and have shifted my focus towards child care and rock and roll.  Pursuant to these new priorities the other day I found myself considering the possibility of multi-tasking by eating whilst sitting upon the toilet. Although I did not actually follow through with this idea, I was startled by how plausible it seemed to me on first thought.

So what is up with things these days?  Yes!  What?  Hmmmm.  I see, I see.  

I locked my bike up next to a fellow Bridgestoner the other day.  His/hers had a lot of original stuff on it, including an Avocet saddle.  

It also appeared sleek and light.  I understand that Bridgestone bicycles are currently available in Japan, but are not quite as sporty as they were back in the ‘80s and ‘90s.  For example, their current version of my MB-5 is now this bicycle.

I mean, sure it claims to be lightweight, carbonated, only costs about 350,000 yen, and "Frame Design Providing a Slightly that Upright Riding Position" but it is called, the Anchor.  For those unfamiliar with seafaring terminology, an anchor is a heavy thing that keeps you from going anywhere very far avast, ye hardies!  So until Bridgestone sends me an Anchor to test ride and enjoy "a wide range of activities from racing through to just being a fun ride," I will continue to consider this bicycle to be as heavy as a Celtic Frost doom dirge.

There are also some winter bicycling related activities coming up, as promulgated by Omaha Bikes.  Oh and the always invigorating Thanksgiving Eve "Taco Ride."  Should be a gobbler full of fun, turkeys!  And it'll keep you from feeling too heavy after your Thanksgiving feast!   

Beyond and spaced....

October 4, 2013

Oh my goodness!  It seems like just yesterday that I flipped the calendars over to September and now we’re flippin' flipping again!?!  I can’t wait to “fall back” a little and get an extra hour of tossing and turning and wondering when the next month will slap me upside the head.  I have many superfluous items that I would like to relate to you, none of which are important, and most of which I will likely forget if I don’t make a quick list of them before I crack open a nice kool Oktoobeerfest!  

1. It’s fall and I’ve got some evidence to proof it!
2. It’s space week!
3. It's Hispanic Heritage month!
4. The government shut down, but when will they shut up!?

Did you know it was fall?  Leaves are changing into lawn ornaments, multi-use trails are becoming darker, and people are getting ready to dress up like their favorite entree avec acente or novelist for All Hollow’s Evening.  My proof of this seasonal transition is that I happened to have witnessed the before and after-event activities related to a cyclocrosscycling event in Lincoln, Nebraska.  

Also I’m seeing a bunch of pumpkins for sale everywhere I go.  

The bicyclecrossing event was spoonsored by the Moose’s Tooth/Cycle Works and information is available here.  I talked to a man named Josh about the event.  I asked if there was a category for out of shape guys with inappropriate bicycles.  He smiled a bit and said “Cat 5” without any detectable amount of condescendingness or annoyance!  I was impressed.  We conversed and I learned that a person could participate in some cyclocross-dressing for a mere $17 ($7 for the race, $10 for a day membership in the Association of the Cross) if he or she planned ahead and signed up online.  Poor planners are also welcome on the day of the race, but the race fee jumps to $15 for a total of $25.  

As you all know, it is now space week and we are loving it!  People are planning to go to Mars where someone is sure to be totally stoked about Surly’s not-yet-created-as-far-as-I-know Martianlander.  This bicycle will be so fat that it’s tyres will consist of 29” diameter spheres that can roll in whatever direction you lyke using magnetic “hubs” to keep the frame attached to the tyres.  It will look kind of like this, but even cooler!  

http://www.gizmag.com/spherical-drive-system-omnidirectional-electric-motorcycle/24095/

And on Halloween you can make your tyres look like jack-o-lanterns with some craftiness!  Whoooo!  Mars, here we come!

Unfortunately for NASA, they are all sitting at home due to the government shut down.  This should give NASA employees a chance to kick back, relax and enjoy their hobbies and socializing with friends.... Hahahahahahah!

Hispanic Heritage month is going great too.  There are many Latino and Latina bicyclers here in the US who are bicycling around and working hard so that the rest of us have time to sit around and bitch about immigration.  Not that I’m bitching, just sitting around.

So the government shut down, eh?  That’s fine.  We’re probably better off without them.  But I hear it’s expensive to shut down the government, and that pisses everyone off.  But, as they say, it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.  So if you’re really angry, I recommend getting autographed photo(s) of whichever congresspeople you’re especially angry with and pissing on it/them.  Then put the video on youtube and Congress and the White House will be so busy laughing at themselves together that they’ll forget to be mad at each other and we’ll all be one big happy family like we have been for the entire existence of the aggressively peaceful and welcoming homeland we call US!  That makes sense, right?!

Bruno Mars, (as I understand it based on my covert imagining) will be engaged as the house band for the Martian pioneers' trip to Mars.  If you’re not planning on taking the cryogenically frozen route, you’ll be treated to some serious peppiness and a dancing horn section that appears to actually have functional horns.

Happy space week and enjoy the shut down!

Soggy Sox

September 21, 2013

Hello winners and losers and the rest!  How’s life as a castaway/celebrity/middle manager?  Things here are going pretty well.  Thursday I got pretty soggy.  I had consciously decided not to take my plastic rain jacket because it was too much trouble and just another item to cram into my panniers which have been the subject of a fair amount of heel-striking lately.

Not much space, eh?  

So I got a slight chill as I sat around in the A/C working on my 8-page report dealing with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards relationship.  Here is another bicycle I saw while drying off.

A Bianchi San Jose.  Looks like a pretty cool set-up.  I toed the chain and it was slack.  I guess that's how those new-fangled internally-geared hubbas worka?  

Wanna ride an e-bike?  Here’s your chance!  This Thursday, Sept 26, 6 p.m. First United Methodist at 7020 Cass.  

Also here's a chance to become a bicycling and/or pedestrianing advocate.  There is a meeting from 9-12 on Sat, Oct 19 somewhere at Univ of NE at Omaha CPACS Building Collaborating Commons, Room 132D (Located in the center of the Dodge Street campus).  This seems like a good activity to learn how to become more involved in bicycle advocacy.     

http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/post/5899491643/brian-jones-rides-a-bike

I have also become aware that next Fri, Sept 27 is the Heartland Active Transportation Summit which deals with the energizing topic of parking this year.  Whoa!  Hopefully some other stuff too.  

Let us cycle!

Cicadas! Envelop!

September 13, 2013

Saying hello from under helmet in echoey shelter.

Saying goodbye and thanks for the lift at the bike rack.

These were my summary notes based on my cicada experience which ensued 1 week and 1 day ago.  Oh that heady day of 2-wheeling noisiness!  Cicadas are about as ubiquitous as short shorts these days.  I was riding along following my picnicking at a Lincoln park when a loud buzzing next to my ear startled me out of my complacent smilingness.  “Yawahah!?” I exclaimed!

I shook the critter out of my helmet.  It perched contentedly on my pannier 

until I had arrived forthwith at the city campus of UNLiness where I resumed my demanding role of self-appointed bike czar (locking up my bike and heading into the Student Union guzzle caffeinated beverages and skim multiple texts haphazardly).  The cicada flew off once I lifted the pannier lid and as far as I know is living here happily ever since.  

This episode raised many questions?  For instance:  

1. What will become of Omaha’s beloved bike czar since the new mayoress has assumed the throne?
2. Don’t these people playing Magic - the Gathering in the Student Union have jobs or studying or something?  If not, maybe they should go clean their rooms because I bet they are messy?  Or get outside and LARP a little?

Since I am now freely roaming the halls of academia, I conducted some research, and I shall now present the results of this research in regards to the aforementioned questions thusly:  Whaa?

Here is a photo of the bicycle-related club who was out in the grassy area known as the Selleck Quadrangle, but affectionately reefered to by students and faculties alike as “the wrangle.”:

As you may know, UNL has been honored with the silver-medal of Bicycle-Friendly Campusness by the League of American Bicyclists.  As glorious as this designation is, the bicyclers at UNL would like to attain gold level this year by adding some painted-in or signage-adorned bike routes/lanes in the upcoming futureness.  

“Good job!” I enthusiastically congratulated these co-czars.  I attempted to explain/assert my grandiose status as self-appointed czar, but was politely ignored as the attendants turned to address more comely and more femaley students with an interest in bicycling.

Cicadas make a lot of noise.  It's kind of their thing.  But what, you are undoubtedly asking, was Mel Torme's kind of thing?  Sure he could croon, but check out this video.  He's scattin' like Rex Allen yodels!  And that ain't no shibbity-poinkety-poink, cicada-baita!

   

September septasticular!

September 1, 2013

Happy September!  Do you like September?  I thought so!  It’s great!  

Another great thing is the 131 miles of bike paths in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska!  Capital!  Or is it capitol!  Indubitably!  According to my calculations, this appears to be approximately 29 more miles than Omaha!?  Here is my source for the 131 figure, which may or may not be a credible one.  I should follow up on this sometime.  

There are a lot of bicycle trails in Lincoln of that you may be sure!  Here is a park along a trail where I stopped for a pleasantly shaded lunch.  

There was a drinking fountain, which I verified before settling down for my repast.

Do you like to eat lunch outside?  Of course!  This naturally leads to my next question:  Would you like a large wooden bike rack?  It’s hefty.  It works pretty good for big bikes with skinny tubes, not as well for small or oddly shaped bikes.  What size is this bike rack you might be asking?  Well, stop it!  Size isn’t everything!  It’s 78” tall, 24” wide, and 25” deep.  It’s freestanding as fuck too!  

Oh yeah!  Lots of rusty nails sticking out of it at odd angles to hang helmets and other accoutrements up on.  If you’ve got room for it just let me know, you can have it.  It’s in my back yard right now and I just use it for hanging my watering wand on, but I could just put it on the table.

What is going on?  Fun stuff?  Sweet!  Here are some things that sound kind of fun:

1. Festa Italia - this weekend (8/31-9/1).  A Father Guido Sarducci might be there again.
2. Applegrass Bluegrass Festival - also this weekend, bring the whole family!
3. Oktoberfests - there’s one at Gerda’s next weekend (Sept 6-7).  Also one at the German American Society towards the end of September (20-21st).
4. MS Bike Ride NE starting in Bellevue on September 7 and continuing on September 8.  
5. Omaha Creative Week - from August 30-September 8.  

Have fun.  I’ll be doing my homework.

What do any of these events have to do with bicycles, you may ask?  Yes, you may.  And I may answer thusly:

1.  Italians all love bicycles.  Some of the even make them.  Isn't there a famous bicyclist or 2 from there?  Also I think Father Guido Sarducci often bicycles.

2.  This event is in Iowa.  All Iowegians love bicycles.  There are probably some Iowegians that make bicycles, too.

3.  Germans love bicycles.  But they must be properly adjusted otherwise they may frown.  They might even make some bicycles, but I think they mostly prefer to evaluate and adjust them.

4.  You probably weren't wondering about this one.

5.  Creativity and bicycles go together like creatine and biceps.  Having typed that, I don't think there are any bicycle-specific events.

Bicycle-related fun is hard to avoid, so look out!  ON YER LEFT!  HAHAHA!  FUN!

Syrupy Stowaways and Rocky Forgiveness

August 21, 2013

As will often happen, I found myself outside a bar speaking with a hippy panhandler discussing literature.  He recommended Loren Eiseley, a famous anthropologist and philosophical memoirist from the Lincoln, Nebraska area with whom I had not been previously acquainted.  That was about 10 years ago.  Last week I finally made it down to my local library where a book of his entitled The Night Country caught my eye.  There is even a library named after Dr. Eiseley located in Lincoln, but I haven't been there.  One of his childhood memories involves him jumping on the back step of a salesman’s horse-pulled cart and riding out of town and up the hill to a rich man’s manor.  Inspired by this venture as well as an urge to take a minor leave of absence from Baby Snot, who has become increasingly demanding in his actions and defamatory in his remarks, I fled heedlessly into the back of this man’s pickup truck.  

Luckily the 11 hour ride was pretty relaxing and we eventually ended up at a place called Summit Lake where I was discovered asleep in the back of the luxury cruiser/pickup truck.  I explained myself to this man, who I will hitherto refer to as “Bob,” and was not shot or incarcerated.  Instead we did some hiking and backpacking in the Steamboat Springs, Colorado area.  We took a day hike on the Continental Divide Trail (as far as our flatlander lungs could painlessly take us [up to some scenic overlooks, but not all the way to Luna Lake] and an overnight backpack trip on Newcombe Creek Trail [not far off the CDT]).  

It was quite enjoyable.  I took some photographs of some animals 

and plants 

and tyre tracks upon a trail.  

Further investigation has convinced me that this is the questionably named "Red Dirt" trail.  Although Bob and I did not bring any mountainous bicycles to experience this dirt, we did discover some artifacts.  

Bar None Syrup!  circa 1960s or thereabouts?

Perkins Pickles of Denver, circa of life!

There was some lovely scenery, which was slightly hazy, possibly due to a fire in the vicinity of Salt Lake City.  I also danced, strummed my mandolin and dug privies in an attempt to ingratiate myself to my erstwhile benefactor.  I met up with these two men 

and attempted to become a stowaway in their lama’s panniers/saddlebags.  I was, however, this time detected whereupon I was spat upon by the men and kicked by the lama.  Or was it vice versa?  Luckily the long-suffering Bob was amused by these asinine antics and generously threw a pretty rock he had picked up along the trail at my fool head.  As I carried on and gamboled away the days in this carefree and wanton manner I was reminded of Jerry Jeff Walker's classic “Mr. Bojangles” song, performed here by Mr. Sammy Davis, Jr.

 

I jumped into the refreshing Summit Lake.  Then Bob generously took me back home and unceremoniously booted me out of his majestic conveyances and onto my stoop after I had drunk most of his coffee and all of his beer in several fits of anxious spasticity at the thought of returning home to my diminutive tyrant of a baby and the rest of my family.  Although disgusted by my shirking of my duties, my family's anger was somewhat ameliorated by my gifts of pretty rocks with which they pelted me to show their acceptance and forgiveness.  

Ah, it's good to be home!  Let's bicycle!

Kansan Cities or Bursting!

August 13, 2013

Too many of us residing in the USiness of homeliness and/or hereabouts, it is that time of the seasonal cycle when many head out and about on a bout or two of what we call “vacationing.”  I engaged in such an enterprise with many a family member recently.  We ended up here – on the Missouri side of Kansan City.  We saw a few baseballing games.  We saw their bike share setup near Union Station.  

And a bicycler encountering some briskly moving pedestrians.

And an advertizment for a sky biking expedition 

which was sure to be phenomenal, probably one of the greatest experiences of mine or anyone's life, but which we forewent due to an overwhelming family propensity for cheapness/thriftiness.  We ate many foodstuffs (not shown here as we were too busy eating).  ‘Twas a delight of mini to moderate proportions.  

So I survived a big trip and now I'm looking forward to another one!  I'll be back!

In the meantime, how was your trip(s)?  Viva la vacaciones!

Bikes, Quilts, Challenges? Hmmmm.

August 6, 2013

As you may or may not know, today may or may not be August 6, depending upon where you are and when you read this.  But do you or don’t you know that there are many options for logging your bicycle commuting miles and feeling like a part of a commuterty/communter team/make up your own cutesy phrase?  Although I was aware of and may have commented upon this one previously, I became aware of this other one thanks to my local library, where I had previously mistakenly believed that my garage door openerhad been ganked.  Subsequently I realized that it was in my other pannier.  Subsequent to that I washed my garage door opener in a pair of my shorts and now it doesn’t work.  So there!  The Heartland Commuter Challenge is only in August, so there again!  Here's the flyer

Here is a quilt that is on display in the library. 

If you think that one's phenomenal, then just wait another 10 years for the big dadddy - The Sesquiltcentenial Extravagonzo!  

As you may or may not know, quilting and bicycling go together like commuting and challenging, so here is a website that is focused on bicycles and quilts (and swimming).  Also, here is a quilt that has bicycles on it.  

SF Winterfest Quilt 2009

Since I spend the majority of my 2-wheeling time in Lincoln, Nebraska, I have become aware that there are many bicycle shops in that town.  I am not really surprised, since I have noticed that there are many bicyclers out and about on a typical summer's day on the non-trafficky streets of Lincoln.  Here is one.  I haven't been there, but the website looks nice.  Sounds like the proprietor may even build a bike for yer ass!  You could probably even work out an arrangement where you bring your quilting supplies and work in the shop while the proprietor is working on your frame!  Maybe some type of bartering might occur.... who knows!  That's what's so exhilarating!  

Moscow Bike NIght for Gay Pride! BYOV/M comrades!

August 2, 2013

Alo comrades and comradettes!  I must break you!  I mean I must break wind!  Ahhh.  I feel so much better now.  What is up with all this Russia news these days?  First that Snowden of thieves ran over there to defect his defective ass and now I am hearing about additional Russia-related events during my long hours of commuting to and fro my czardom at the University of Nebraska-L.  That’s right I am now up-to-date on many of the current events promulgated by the well-intentioned folks over at NPR.  I begin most sentences with “I heard on the radio the other day….”  I also won a bet on 9 out of 10 rappers now preferring moscato to Cristal.  Yep, NPR.  I guess rhyming with potato is better than rhyming with y'all these days. 

royaltypr.com 

Here is the scoop on Russia:

1. 1.       Moscow is the most expensive city for expats.
2. 2.       They’ve got a midnight bike tour of Moscow that attracts thousands.
3. 3.       They have some repressive statues statutes laws in place for homosexuals.
4. 4.       People are protesting item 1 3 by dumping theirStoli vodka….out!  On the street!

Item #4 may seem like alcohol abuse to all you conneiseurs lovers of vodka, but it isn’t.  It’s solidarity, comraders.  Alcohol abuse would be making Moscow mules and then pissing in them and then kicking their ass mules mules’ asses.!?!?  What are you braying about!? 

In regard to item 2, it seems that these Velonochs have surpassed racing bicycles on gravel roads and are gaining on the grand fondues in popularity/status/moscato.   Sounds great!  But what about those Bike Nakedevents?  Shouldn’t those be getting into the mix of all this competition for gloriousness?!  Well, I think that they should be, and I farter further stink think that it is only a matter of time before a naked GLBT midnight ride through the streets of Moscow occurs!  Za zdorovje, bitches and bitchettes! 

Here in Lincoln/Omaha things have been going to hell swell.  I have been bicycling hither and thither and yon and have been enjoying bicycling over up to 3 2overpasses/day.  

27th St

48th St

It is a great feeling to transcend the non-trafficky streets of Lincoln and gaze out in various directions.  Even our great state capitol, aka the penis of the prairie, is visible from one of them, but of course I didn’t get a photo of that because I suck.  I did get some photos of some cultural attractions along the multitudinous bicycle trails adorning Link Town like an elegant tasseled veil.

I also felt a little bamboozled by the sight of this invasive species in our typical corny bicycle habitat here on the non-tropical plains.

  I guess corn and bamboo are related.  Like vodka and moscato, eh commierods!?

Can't see/think straight? What else is new?!

July 28, 2013

What is this?  This thing?  We call.  Life?

As Mr. Shatner often heard from his long-suffering engineer Scotty, “I can’t hold ‘er together much longer, cap’n!”

Thing are actually great, thank you for asking.  I’ve been driving my mighty Metro out to Lincoln, parking, pedaling, learning, pedaling, driving, parking, studying.  That kinda deal.  And I’ve been told I’ve got a family around here somewhere…  Although coherence has never been my strong suit, it is becoming less so these days.  I have less thyme for my sophomoric ramblings and way more time for my junioric composing of academic hyperbola. 

But I felt like I needed to show you a bunch of photos relating to my new bicycling terrain.  Here they are.

Lincoln has apparently decided to plant some trees in the parkways.  The new 2 for trees project or some such.  Sounds good to me!  Omaha, please plant one on the corner so people stop running over my sidewalk and grass and instead just run over a small, helpless tree.  Is that better? 

It seems like there are way more bicyclers riding around the streets of Lincoln than there are here in Omaha.  But I didn't get any good shots of them because I suck. 

Also people riding those long skating boards.  Often with flip-flops on their feet.

I hear there was a gravelly fun time out at the Walnut Creek Lake area a while back.  The Gong Ride!  It sounds like a fun time and here is a classic video/T. Rex cover to honor all participants for their hard pedaling and lugie hawking.

I also hear that there is a bikey event coming up, such as the Corporate Cycling Challenge on August 18.  Probably lots of other stuff too.  I'm really not sure because I'm just trying to hold it together, cap'n!  I've got a gift card to some bike shops, though, so maybe I'll stop in and try to figure out what the f is going on these days!  See you there, chappo!  See you there.