June 2011
19 posts
“Andy and Frank had Gilbert outnumbered at LBL this year, and then proceeded to...”
– tour day schmalz 2011 preview | NY Velocity - New York bike racing culture, news and events
“I think we journalists have to grapple with the fact that the public is perhaps...”
– Politics
“People love music more than they ever have and are willing to pay for music....”
– Rick Rubin talking to Billboard (via jukevox)
“The sports network recently declared Toronto the worst city in North America for...”
– MPs entirely miss the point of this ESPN ranking. You have MPs from the region all lining up at the mic saying how loyal and committed Toronto fans are, as if that’s somehow disproving the ESPN ranking. Actually, it’s proving the ESPN ranking. Toronto fans are insanely loyal to their...
“Okay, fine. Fine, I thought. And again I kind of surprised myself: I got mad,...”
– The Incidental Cyclist: Get scared or get stubborn
FilibusterWatch: Don't start fluffing the... →
Reason #1 to follow @kady on twitter. She uses tags like “a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel” which is one of the best lines in the entire Black Adder canon
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Ah, to be scottish and drunk →
I got this from @taylorphinney, a fantastic cyclist who posted it on twitter:
It starts with:
A FUMING bride DECKED her kilt-wearing hubby when he sat on her knee at the reception and left a SKIDMARK on her wedding dress
and ends with:
It’s believed that Angus and Sarah were reconciled when they sobered up, and have no memory of the melee
A E.R. nurse's thoughts on an instigator's...
riot2011frontlines:
Ambulance cars line the streets outside of St. Paul’s Hospital’s emergency triage centre for those injured on the night of June 15. Photo credit: Andrés Goñi
Tim,
Just because you can string an apologetic sentence together does not mean you are sorry. Perhaps I should make you aware of the consequences of your action. To you, it’s just an overturned car that you set...
Slump in construction industry creates a Sheetrock... →
This is sad. I’ve gotten to know Sunny and Tammy over the past 2 or 3 years, as I rent a storage space from them, and I stop in every year on my way to the Playa, and pay them. They always invite me into their home and offer me a beer and have a good long conversation with them and they’re generous, gracious people. I hope they can do OK, but it’s hard to see how, with the...
Canadian Cyclist - Racer's eye view of Preston... →
Man, they did that lap in less than 1:20.
