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Sigh … What a wasted weekend. Friday night was wonderful, but I slept in yesterday (sort of … got up at 5:00, went back to bed at 8:00, then got up at noon), expecting the storm to roll through yesterday, and the weather to clear up today so I could go skiing But no … [...] Boulder Report | No Confidence Open Letter to Hein Verbruggen, Dick Pound, Pat McQuaid, John Fahey et al.: By Joe Lindsey Let me make this as perfectly, crystal clear as possible: Stop. The political back-and-forth, the mud-slinging, the lawsuits, the puerile saber-rattling nonsense that has characterized the sport of cycling, the state of anti-doping and [...] Update (about 7 hours later): Sometimes, happy hour is a necessity … and the past couple of days at work definitely helped contribute to that feeling. Met the Mistress and pal Scotty at Tuscany in Cotton Bottom for yummy vodka cocktails (007 Martini for Scotty; and Belvedere & tonic, short glass, packed with ice, [...] Last week I posted an entry supporting a boycott of the opening ceremony at the Olympic Games. Thor Hushovd listened. Okay, maybe not to me, but the idea is taking hold amongst athletes. VeloNews | Hushovd considers opening ceremony boycott Crédit Agricole’s ace sprinter Thor Hushovd says he is prepared to boycott the opening ceremony [...] Thursday’s early morning storm provides the inspiration for this week’s edition of Poetry Friday. Spring Snow A spring snow coincides with plum blossoms. In a month, you will forget, then remember when nine ravens perched in the elm sway in wind. I will remember when I brake to a stop, and a hubcap rolls [...] Picked up a link from Joe Lindsey over at the Boulder Report yesterday. I met Joe a couple of times back in 1995 or 1996, when I interviewed for an associate editor gig at the old Bicycle Guide magazine. Grant Petersen, at Rivendell Bicycle Works (for whom I was the web guy at the time), [...] My mother sent me more mom-spam yesterday, this one being a purported re-write of the Preamble of the Constitution, accompanied by a series of articles. Some of the articles are basic pleas to common sense. But one in particular really got my goat. ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country’s [...] |
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