hound dog

not as in nothin but

lifer

so yesterday on the way home minding my own business in the bike lane for christ's sake almost get brushed by some fat asshat in a car looking at me smiling like dude I could totally kill you, ok to be fair I have no ferkkin idea what the asshat was thinking but that is what I have to take it as. He goes on by and what kinda sticker do you suppose he has on his car well I will tell you what kinda sticker he has on his car, Pro Life. Guess he only supports that before the actual birth

you know really I could care less about anyone's politics, was talking at work today that I miss those those days when it just did not make a difference which side you where on. Guess I am on my side, sleep tight America somethins bound ta give

alberto contador's mastercard

  

so we rode bikes some this weekend, firstly the Tour de Nez grand fundo  where we rode outta Reno and into California

actually we didn't have to ride into California but it was only an extra 100 yards or so.  We rode back into Reno where we had food and I had couple of beers at the finish.

saw buncha bikes most kinda looked like this

then Father's day came and we did little dirt riding to see the explosion of wild flowers happening up in Sardine Valley

crossed a creek

rode some good forest roads

some of us fell on the forest roads

took in the view, complete with sheep, shepherd and sheep dogs running around

and even crossed the same creek, this time over a bridge where we stopped and got eaten alive by skeeters

then in the evening we all went to our friend's restaurant for a sublime meal yo

http://www.lavecchiareno.com/

all in all not a bad way to spend your weekend

oh and by the way alberto contador's mastercard number is 5987 4652 7773 4120 exp 04/12

have at it

rotten apples

I don't know what the hell was wrong with our computer this afternoon but it appears that I fixed it, huh go figure. I seems like maybe it is really fixed this time round time will tell. Don't feel like writing right now so here's this

happy frikkin friday

well I use to get disgusted...

... now I try to be amused
Riding to work this morning say 5:15am or so when this guy passes me on a bike as well as blowing through 2 red lights. Now the first one, no big deal but the second one has a car making a left hand turn. Doesn't get hit which is cool but he flips the guy in the car off when he honked. Now we all know I can be guilty as anyone else in these matters but this just was such an asshat stunt. I turned and shook my head and shrugged the what are ya goin to do shrug to the girl in the car next to me, at least she smiled. Maybe she won't think all cyclist are brainless smucks. Then of course with old Pants Legstrong pickin fights in Aspen who the hell knows.

Whoda thought old Declan McDermott woulda had such staying power back in 77. My red shoes have long been in the dust bin replaced with my blue shoes, for now.

On tuesdays ride home saw a shite load of cops up in a kinda weird place on this hill between two streets, turns out they found some human remains up there discovered by a hiker. Now I'm just saying weird place to be hiking up there in the thick brush, not that there's anything wrong with that, but no real trail in that little swarth of brush there, maybe taking a short cut.

Anyways though nobody is reading this in all likelihood The Tour de Nez Grand Fundo is this weekend up here in beautiful Reno Nevada (don't come up though you won't like it) all the particulars can be found here
 http://www.tourdenez.com/

deep in the dna

living proof of that 

met this cool cat yesterday on my ride home, came round the bend saw him said hey kit, he said meowrr and walked right out to so had to stop and give him a scratch behind the ear

                                           I love the Pogues, I remember watching em with my Mom when they were on Saturday Night Live years ago she loved em too. Gawd they were something they actually brought something new to music

messing with the kid

16 years ago Rory Gallagher died of liver failure, Rory was probably one of the greatest rock/blues guitarist maybe ever. When Jimi Hendrix was asked by the British press what does it feel like to be the greatest guitarist in the world Jimi said dunno go ask Rory Gallagher

My friend Mike and I went up to Youngstown Ohio to see Rory when we were teenagers. It was cold as hell and we were waiting at the door, the people running the place took pity on our sorry asses and let us in. We sat through the sound check and talked to Rory before the show some. I have heard since that Rory was the nicest guy in the world, and I gotta believe it. We asked him to play Pistol Slapper Blues, he said boy that's a hard one I don't know. But  when he broke out the dobro during the show and said this is for my friends up front here we probably had the biggest smiles in the whole club.

Anyhow, I have since found out that Rory wasn't as "unknown" as we thought, that he was held in high esteem by his peers to this day. No more messing the kid

maditude

this guy here has it

Amish drag racing

so The Boy thinks I should have a blog since it seems like a have a lot to say but really say nothing. So bikes, music, politics, pretty much nothing is out of bounds I suppose. So with that