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Occasionally, I get dressed up. My day job allows me the latitude, in general, to throw on a pair of jeans and whatever wrinkled balled up thing I can find in the bottom of my closet without many people batting an eye. But as I’ve continued on my path to corporate domination through tightly written [...]

Passion is contagious. You see it in so many ways, as excitement over one thing or another leads people to share their joy with others. Bicycling is no exception.
Those of us who look at bicycling as more than a kid’s endeavor, and more than a sport for super athletes, want to tell everybody about it.
About [...]

Jonny and I have long been fans of the like-minded folks over at the Tour d’Afrique, so we were pretty darn excited when we found out they were fans of ours, as well.
Turns out this very blog has been on their radar, and they wanted to know how much it would cost to tell people [...]

That’s me! That’s me! I’ve written an awesome interview with Evan P. Schneider, the awesome editor of the awesome “Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac.”
Buy a copy now and save it for your great grandkids! Send it to me for a real live autograph! Or just read it, cause it’s great.
Here’s another teaser (without the vowels removed):
…Is [...]

The Bicycle Film Festival is always awesome, but I was really excited about it this year. A week before the event, an email from Brendt, the big papa of the BFF, mentioned that, to kick off the festival, Blonde Redhead would be playing at the Independent. Sweet! A little NYC goodness in SF! The email [...]

Smart guy and official Brit (he adds U’s and E’s to all sorts of words that would be fine without them) makes some awesome fake-rust stickers, the better to make your bike look a little jankier, and less appealing to thieves. Brilliant!

Awesome (the cat)
-Summary
-Awesome’s story
-Childhood, and gender revelation
-Feline adolescence
-Supposed abandonment
-Blatant falsehoods
Summary
Awesome the cat is a rugged beast who roams the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC, particularly Kilbourne and 18th streets. He has exceptionally thick black fur, with white spots on his feet, chest, and stomach. His whiskers are unrivaled, his tail is elephantine, and his [...]

ZPG is biggering and biggering: more shops, more merch, more fun.
I’m most excited about new “53 miles per beer” stickers, and, at long last, “53 miles per burrito” patches.
Tell your friends Santa just woke up from hibernatation, went on a bender, shaved his head, got a skanky tattoo, and traded in his sleigh and [...]

First the news, then the less-outrageous fun.
Some video-game designer made a video about a proposed law in Idaho that would allow bikers to treat stop signs like yield signs, which seems strange because it’s the hicks who shoot up the signs, not the bikers, but maybe things are different in Idaho.
It looked like one of [...]

from the NYTimes, 2/10/09