Must be Friday

Tough week. Rode twice, barely. Got laid out with a chest cold. Foot hurts, tons of rain, and I think mosquitoes may have eaten one of my cats. So I have to have some funny and uplifting stuff for Friday, salvage the week, right?

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[Update]: got out for 90 minutes this morning, pre-breakfast. Highlights include:

riding along Route 450 with a Great Heron flying along each side of me, one about 5 feet to the right, one about 10 feet to the left. We raced for about 200 yards.

seeing two enormously fat does, estimated 200 pounds, underneath the powerlines off Johns Hopkins Road.

pulling my bike up to The Bravest Rabbit In The World, who just looked at me from 3 feet away as I pushed my bike into my back yard. I see this rabbit a lot. He glares at me like Clint Eastwood glares at the bad guy in a western.

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I was thinking about getting a set of Mavic R-Sys wheels. But then I realized there are cheaper ways to break my neck. Actually, I think the R-Sys is just Mavic's way of aiming for a Federal bailout. But first they need to go bankrupt, and the easiest way for a wheel manufacturer to do that is to put an exploding wheel underneath the front end of the bike ridden by the Tech Editor for Velo News.

Yeah, that should do it...

Hey Luuuuucy... you got some 'splodin' to do!

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Time for a little Mewsick.

I like Celtic themed rock/punk bands. That sort of music always gets me going.

The Dropkick Murphys / I'm Shipping Up to Boston



Pretty good, eh?

Celtic music is actually really old and punk & hip-hop are just the latest forms to which it has adapted. A lot of ethnologists say the Celts are actually Aryans. Not a prison gang or Germans, but the warrior people who traveled from India several hundred years BCE, wreaking havoc on Asia minor, sowing their seed in Germany and France, and eventually sweeping over the British Isles, forming the backbone of the Welsh, Scottish and Irish people. You know who looks like Irish Celts genetically? The Koreans. But I digress. The music of the Celts is adaptable. Rhythms and high pitched melodies that maybe predate recorded time work in a variety of genres.

Celtic music works, for instance, as metal.

Metallica: Whisky in the Jar


It works in Harrisonburg too.

Carbon Leaf: "Irish Song" (Morrison's Jig)



They work in Boston, and in Bombay:

Bollywood Mashup: House of Pain "Jump Around"




Man, if that little cultural loop-de-loop doesn't make your head hurt, nothing will.

And now, unrelated to anything, some old school hip hop / dance hall.

Ini Kamoze, "Here Comes the Hotstepper"