BMX is coming….

….to the 2008 Summer Olympics games. Woo hoo!
’bout fucking time!
Shit! BMX was around before snowboarding and that got in like 10 years ago. Not that I’ve got anything against snowboarding. I just can’t do it. I did some skateboarding in my time, though. Totally goofy footing it.
Anyhoo… Bicycling mag has a cool article  about it.
And apparently the track they’ll [...]

CBS Sunday Morning report on bicycles

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4297826n
Sorry. I couldn’t manage to embed video. But check it out. I especially dig the part about the mayor of Portland, Oregon, the 2nd most bike friendly city in the world, behind Amerstadam, I think, won on a bicycle format.

Jack’s take on The New Yorker’s Obama cover

Yeah. I know. It’s pretty much old news by now. But I always find Jack Lessenberry’s take on things interesting. And in the same column that he discusses Rep Bart Stupak taking on oil speculators, he discusses the Obama cover of The New Yorker.
Jack writes:
What I suspect strongly is this: The New Yorker staff is [...]

Gas prices continue to drop….

…at least around Metro Detroit.
I saw gas priced at $3.69/gal, and I actually got excited about it. Now just how fucking sad is that. In any case, gas has slowing going down every since 4th July. And my question is, why?
One theory I have is that Skinner likes dog food, but of course that has [...]

How to be EMO

I thought this was pretty damn funny.
My impression is that EMO is a Millennial thing. Generation X had something that I suppose was akin to it — Goth. But I knew some Goths and they weren’t whiney. It was a subculture that had a lot to do with a certain type [...]

Metro Detroiters getting on the bike commuter trolley.

Article in todays Freep reports that more and more Metro Detroiters are riding bikes to work. Not only are some bike shops having a hard time keeping bikes and equipment and accessories in stock, they’re reporting that natioinal distributors are low on stock, if not out entirely. Scooters, mopeds and motorcyle sales are up as [...]

The Road – the movie

I’ve been searching pretty regularly on the web for info about the movie being made of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulizter Prize winning novel, The Road. I don’t know how missed this NY Times article. It’s from May.
It includes a couple of pics, which seem to be rare. I certainly cannot find a trailer yet. I’m really [...]

Wargames – 25th Anniversary. Can you fucking believe it?

Damn, I felt old when I read this article in Wired magazine about the 25h Anniversary of the movie WarGames, one of my all time favorite 80s movies. It’s got everything I dig in a movie. First, it is at some level a teen angst movie, focusing on David Lightman (played by a 21-year-old Mathew [...]

This movie looks pretty damn cool!

Reading slate.com this morning, I came across this article about what looks to me like pretty damn cool movie. It’s called Baghead.

Looks pretty damn scary, doesn’t it. And funny too. At some level it supposed to be a kind of spoof of movies like Blair Witch Project.
It’s by these guys who [...]

What I’m reading

I never finished reading White Noise, by Don Dellilo. I could have but just didn’t. I didn’t really lose interest, just patience. I liked it. It was interesting. But there were other things that I wanted to read and it was taking too long to finish Whie Noise. I know when I’m done with a [...]