Archive for the 'bicycling' Category

Buy Me a Present

Posted by Brendan on March 23rd, 2009 filed in bicycling, bluegrass, direct action, economy, meta, old time, plain pitiful

Look: your tax dollars are already going to a bunch of fucking assholes, like the shitbags that run AIG, Bank of America, and the rest of the insolvent banks. That’s a given.
And we all know they don’t deserve it. Not only did massive banks like Goldman Sachs help destroy the economy and rob our [...]

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Paraphrasing Orwell, In a Good Way

Posted by Brendan on March 23rd, 2009 filed in bicycling, parenting, sheer unadulterated joy

Four wheels good…

Two wheels better!

MUCH better!

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Ouch.

Posted by Brendan on July 30th, 2008 filed in bicycling, life, meta, personal well-being

I rode my bike to go visit my friend Wendy yesterday. She lives out by City Line Avenue, so I took 48th Street to Lancaster, followed Lancaster to 57th and headed North. The weather was hotter than hell and I thought I was going to die.
However, it was the ride home that killed [...]

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President 6th Grader

Posted by Brendan on August 8th, 2006 filed in bicycling, old school, politics

When I was in 6th grade, my best friend Scott and I would ride our bikes out the giant sand pile across the street from the landfill by the Connell Highway rotary (what people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania call a “traffic circle” and what the British call a “roundabout”), where we would race our [...]

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Open Letter to the Overeager Meteorologists of Philadelphia

Posted by Brendan on August 7th, 2006 filed in Philadelphia, bicycling, media, satire

Dear Sirs and Madams:
While I realize that reporting and forecasting the weather is not always interesting and is not always accurate, I want you to know that every time you predict afternoon thunderstorms, I end up driving instead of biking, costing me at least $10.00 in gasoline.
Unfortunately, for the past three weeks, you have been [...]

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