Fryday

You know who is awesome? Stevil Kinevil.

You know what he did for you people?

I asked if he'd be interested in sponsoring the Tacchino. I noticed all his marketing gig is west-coast oriented and thought it'd be cool to turn some East beasts onto his sweet stuff - he designs cool bike clothes and knick-knacks, and always seems to have a supply of awesome looking stuff on tap in the All Hail the Black Market Market.

So you know what that bastard did? He sent me a huge box of stuff, some of it his own design, some of it just really cool stuff he had laying around by virtue of being Kit Designer to the Stars. It was something like 35 pounds of coolness in a box. Frankly, I'm not cool enough to be in possession of this stuff.

Holy crap are you people in luck. The coolness factor of the stuff he sent me is off the freakin' hook, and he sent enough stuff that *a lot* of people are going to get great, great prizes - in addition to the great stuff our more local sponsors are kicking in. A lot of undeserving people, based on what I've been seeing on Crossresults.com lately, but a lot of people nonetheless.

I'd ask that you seriously consider patronizing his Market Market if you're in need of a cycling cap or a cool non-team jersey, or a messenger bag, a "black out with your sack out" beer coozie, or cool socks. Hey, team gear is nice, but it's often helpful to go incognito, like on rest days when you don't want to race pathletes.

Seriously. He just hooked you people up in a big way. Check out his site and see if you can return the favor.

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YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

Seems like some park rangers are really going to try to close down the trails at Loch Raven. To everybody. You may want to follow that link and send a few respectful emails to people who can make a difference, if you care about preserving trail access. I don't know if it's NIMBYs that did it, or maybe some quite enviro-activists who are generally anti-access, or if it was one user group or another that tried to get MTB's included and accidentally made themselves collateral casualties.

Doesn't really matter, in the end. What does matter, is mountain bikers are about to lose a nice local place to ride if they don't move quick.

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Time for a little music I suppose. I'm feeling a bit down this week. I don't know why - I shouldn't the way the Tacchino sponsors are coming through with great swag, and the way things are kinda good at work and at home. But maybe it's because I've gone all introspective about cross, and I've been wondering if we're not about to screw things all up with huge fields, weekly scoring debacles, lapped rider debates (and unlapped rider screw-overs). I really appreciate what the refs do for us, but damn..

Of course grim only gets you so far. Sometimes it's worth having a laugh, particularly if you can have it at other people's expense.



Yeah, all that brilliant, unique music you love so much? It's one song. Damn.

But hell, I'm actually laughing, and I found this weird little rant about Pachelbel's Canon in D.



But wait, there's more. Let's go for baroque...



Now that's some funny shit. I'm actually smiling a little bit. Hayseed Dixie would be proud.

As long as I'm going to smile... time for Weezer.



Of course you can't really play anything by Weezer without thinking about maybe the greatest video of all time.



Seriously, I think it's that good. At least for somebody of my age. It mashes up icons of my childhood with music of my, well, early to not exactly early adulthood. Weezer is just one of those bands that, if you like them, you can listen to them a lot, and you have sort of an amicable relationship with their body of work; love some hits and like the rest. They're a bit like Cake in that respect, some great stuff and a lot of solid workmanlike stuff.

And I kind of like these guys but I don't know exactly what they're doing with their music yet. I'm not sure they know either.



And apropos of nothing...



Funny how listening to random songs and following links can make you feel better. Music is wonderful stuff.

Have a good weekend. I hope to see you at Granogue.