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cornerstone life: thanksgiving part 2 (long)
For a charity ride. This would really work around here. I’ll have to remember this for next summer.

Fat Cyclist: Rube Goldberg, Your Bike is Here

A long holiday weekend and I didn’t get out for one single ride. I’d like to blame it on something like the weather or illness or something, but in truth, the answer is slugdom. I barely got out of the house and, aside from dog walks, I’m not sure I did. I spent most [...]

Friday’s EuroFile: The Heras affair
Heras facing lengthy suspension

As foreman, Kerry wins praise from fellow jurors - The Boston Globe
A bike ride with Kerry and his Serotta would be fun, but it’s not worth sitting through jury duty (again) to do it.

Took a short 20-mile ride out to the safest city in the country today. Also Natick and Needham. My legs felt like mush until the very end and the Brookline hills near Larz Anderson Park were killer. I have to make a better effort of getting out for shorter, more frequent rides instead of (or [...]

The Gill-Man returns. Again and again.
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon has the best signature theme in of all 50’s sci-fi monster movies. You just can’t mistake that trumpet bleat for anything else. Automatic +1 for that.
These are two proto-typical 50’s sci-fi monster movie sequels; exactly what you’d expect after The [...]

The first with Bogie and Bacall.
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Ostensibly from a Hemmingway story and rewritten (or should that be “reimagined”?) by William Faulkner, Humphrey Bogart plays a charter boat captain in Vichy-controlled Martinique. He meets fem fatale Lauren Bacall and hilarity ensues. No, wait, not hilarity, what’s that other thing? Drama! Drama ensues.
While it has good [...]

My dog, Billy (left), Chakkah (right)
My cousin’s dog, Chakkah, died today of lupus. He was 10 years old.
My cousin and his dog lived with me for several months after they moved to Boston from Montana. Billy & Chakkah had a sort of detente. No fights or arguments, but they each had their own end [...]

Guess who sold all his JILL on Monday?

That would have paid for a fixie.
Bastards.

William Powell and Myrna Loy are two of the best comedy pairs evar.
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But this sequal to The Thin Man suffers a bit from not actually being written by Dashiell Hammett. Yes, Hammett may have been misogynistic and whatever, but he was funny. The dialog in the first was clever, witty and fast. This one [...]

As fall and winter approach, there’ll be less biking news, so to keep up this blogging thing, I’ll start with OT entries.
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A surprisingly good teen angst movie I’d never seen. The music, while important, was not the main star of the movie like it was in Tommy. A working class kid (Phil Daniels [...]

No biking at all this weekend in spite of the good weather. I blame it on the eye splitting headache I had on Sunday.
My cousin from Vermont came for a visit on Saturday. I have’t seen him in close to a year, I don’t think. Or maybe it was last winter. I guess that [...]

Today I had lunch with Faith from the ADA and we talked about getting a site put together to help with recruiting for this year’s NEC (both the 150 and 550 and also the RI 150).
Not only did she like the idea, but she’s very enthusiastic. Woot! So stay tuned, a new site is on [...]

Well, I don’t think there’s an IRO Mark V in my future. I think what I’m after is more of a CC. I really like the description of the Rob Roy, but it’s…it’s blue! Bikes shouldn’t be blue. I like the clearance for the extra wide tires (35 or 32 w/ fenders). At $600 kitted [...]

BBC SPORT | Other Sport… | Cycling | Heras suspended after doping test

While out riding yesterday, I decided to try out the Morton salt stuff. Results were mixed. It wasn’t an especially hot day, so the liklihood of cramping was lower, but I was wearing a GoreTex jacket which make me sweat like a pea-eye-gee pig. Anyway, I mixed up the stuff and didn’t cramp, so [...]

Took a 60 mi ride today and at the end of it, I swung by Cambridge Bicycle to see if they received any IRO bikes. They have. The bike I’m after is the Mark V, probably 50cm.
So I had them price it out. The online, full price bike is $549. Their price out was [...]

I had a chat the other day with a nutritionist. My insurance company has cooked up a deal with some health company that will consult with you over the phone about whatever nutritional (or other) information you want to know about. It’s really basic stuff and a total waste of money, I think, but maybe [...]

I got the “round up” letter for this year’s Tour de Cure New England Classic today. Now I can finally finish my thank-you letter. That’s the reason I haven’t been able to finish it. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
In any case, there was “over” $250,000 raised this year. I’d like to have a real, firm number, [...]