A fella in Bakersfield emailed me this note two days ago: “Love the fact that you’re promoting cycling, and the $0.00 per gallon concept is brilliant! Kudos to you, and hope you make some serious money off of it. However, hate the fact that you use profanity on your website – that’s really uncalled for. [...]
BAND NAMES THAT BABA, YOUR JEWISH GRANDMA, WOULD NOT APPROVE OF Dr. Dreidel Gephilte Phish, w/Leftover Lox Limp Brisquet Supatraif Axl Rosenberg Abba
a bike, some snow, and bunch of cheapass beer. what more is there?
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 [...]
This wry cartoon, from last week’s New Yorker, reminds me of all sorts of obfuscatory/vague/ambigous phrases we use: -toilet paper (actually, it’s ass paper) -throw something away (away? where? you mean it doesn’t just disappear?) -family planning (you mean pregnancy suppression?) it also reminds me of corporate jargon, detailed very well in: – The Dictionary [...]
Astute ZPG observers may have already noticed a recent addition to the ZPG agenda: a problem of epic proportions that is plaguing society, setting a bad example for our kids, and corroding the fabric of this great homeland. But what, you might be asking, could possibly be more devastating than goats (and the evil they [...]
On a very serious note, my good friend Andrew was terribly injured last week (on April 2nd). He was mowed over and crushed by a runaway pickup truck (he was working out near Granby, CO, inspecting a condo development) and sustained major injuries, including a collapsed lung, a bruised lung, a broken femur, a dislocated [...]
In Rome, we’re doing as the Romans do, and competing to see who can drink espresso the fastest. There are actually two races: who can drink an individual cup the fastest, and also who can drink the most cups in a day. The game ends when your head is spinning so much that you can’t [...]
so this dude has been posting the same thing on washington dc’s bikes-for-sale forum for the last 6 months…and craigslisters (me included) regularly mark his listings as spam. why? cause it’s unfair for him to clog the primo advertisting space on top of the list, and because after 6 months it’s clear that nobody wants [...]
i quit my job today. ok, technically, i resigned. i was nice, too, and gave them 4 weeks notice. what happens in 4 weeks? i head to europe for 2 months…to travel, play, drink wine, eat cheese, climb mont blanc, and learn how to swear like a frenchman. then i’m moving to San Francisco. it’s [...]