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.
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!
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.
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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!
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!
