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 [...]
Four years ago, back in grad school in Boston, I spent a lot of time reading and drinking coffee at Espresso Royale, over on Commonwealth Ave. I read a lot of nonfiction: stuff by Joe Mitchell, Philip Gourevitch, John McPhee, Eric Schlosser — that kind of stuff — as well as every back issue of [...]
from mike, who’s looking to get a place in SLC, and was advised not to bring goats into his new home: “I LOVE GOATS!!” Them’s fightin’ words!
“Not everyone is willing to kiss a goat.” -Pastor John Weber, who raised $1,270 by offering to kiss “natasha.” (washington post, 4/4/06)
“I have a sexual attraction to ice axes and crampons. Every time I go to an REI store, I let my hands slide through them. I think how much these tools would have saved me in time and danger during the trek.” -Nando Parrado, in Outside Mag (May, 2006)
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” -thomas jefferson
“In those who i like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love, I can: they all make me laugh.” -W.H. Auden
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” -abraham lincoln
“Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast … a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s [...]