One Year Ago Today

pale purple kvale for a winter's evening

i am often less than thrilled with the way some bikes are put together, but this rig with the modernish campagnolo stuff and aero brake levers and simplex retrofriction shifters on an incredible chris kvale frame, well that's right in my wheelhouse.  put on some second-generation time equipe pedals and a flite saddle and yeee haww!  the lovely metallic purple is so pale and delicate that the pictures don't do it justice, i'm sure.  i think i would have added that darker purple from the seat tube to the head tube as well for a bit more contrast, but this is killer in the least ostentatious way possible.  look at the beautiful lug work and another amazing seat cluster from another modern master.

sharing is caring

this.  the 'free' stuff on the internets is the biggest way people, even old people, hear new music or see new stuff these days; there's no real radio anymore, no tee vee outlets for lots of new music, so sharing via the internets is the only quick and easy way for people to spread the word.  you'll sell more music, tickets, t-shirts and shit to people who hear it or see it and like it and want more.  if a bunch of assholes can't quite understand that, and those assholes happen to be able to rent politicians, well, that sucks for everyone.

maybe we should let chris dodd turn off the interwebs

reading this abortion from yahoo! news, i suddenly feel that we'd all get a fuck of a lot smarter if chris dodd and holy joe lieberman just pulled the plug on the internets and let us wallow alone in our local filth.  this hackneyed chunk of tripe is so chock full of conventional-wisdom, village-idiot bullshit and disinformation that you have to be amazed that it is only one page.  the asshole responsible is a pentagon fluffer; he manages to lie about taxes, the debt and the economy buoying the establishment narrative and linking to the 'well-regarded work' of the simpson-bowles catfood commission.  well-regarded?  maybe by village-idiot assholes like rick newman and david gregory and barack obama but not by anyone with a half a brain who actually works for a living.  this is real work of the interweb tubes, i guess, a palliative for our enslavement and a vanity press for the docile boot-lickers of the oligarchy.  that and porn.  lots and lots of porn.  david vitter and senator man on dog and compulsive masturbators need an outlet, too.