Bedrock & Paradox

This is really damn funny.

In the Grand Canyon. M and I headed up spontaneously yesterday, figuring it’d be almost the last occasion it quite a while. There were some sad and silly thing to be seen in the height of tourist season. I hate horses. Mules are only marginally better. Someone needs their vasectomy reversal confiscated. Now they even…

Eric and his wife, Heather, were kind enough to invite us out to dinner last night. Then, I got invited on a ride this morning. Inspired by Fred, I decided to ride to the trailhead. It was excellent. Over 40 miles of riding before 1100. I wrote a bit more about it here. My Lenz…

To skip Lions-Marys, in favor of Mack Ridge and Moore Fun. No matter what may come to pass.

Deep in the American grain, particularly in the grain of white male working-class voters, that is the more trusted archetype. Whether Senator Clinton’s pugilism has elevated the current race for the nomination is debatable. But the strategy has certainly remade the political world for future female politicians, who may now cast off the assumption that…

Firstly, the Lenz is not back together this evening. The fucking bike shop in Iowa sent it to High Gear rather than us, and I found out too late to do anything. Experiences like this swear me to order everything from The Path and be done with it all. So, I’ve been reading some interesting…

The Bureau of Livestock and Mining, indeed. Here I am on my trusty steed, a retired Yosemite rental bike. Bullwinkle, Potter, Ammon, and I used to wage “Bike Wars,” coming at each other gladiator-style (head-on) on our respective rides. Basically, if you put a foot down, you scored a point; the goal was the lowest…

What could be better! It’s not much, 4 miles and change, but nifty nonetheless. It also provides a good link for big singletrack rides. Excellent trailwork, with some cool scenery. I rode the Leviathan with the new old bars, ergons, and M’s wheel with s 20t Surly cog. Which for some reason skipped like nuts…

Still, amid the storms of the presidency, their basic worldviews would shape their presidencies. Obama is instinctively a conversationalist and community-mobilizer. Clinton, as she says, will fight and fight. If elected, she’ll have the power to take the Hobbesian struggle she perceives, and turn it into remorseless reality. That is all. Interesting to see just…

And I’m tired. So, by the numbers: FridayDouble back numerous times to get things I forgot. Camped at the KMC site. SaturdayWoke up eeaarly. It was damn cold. Visited The Mean Bean, and said hello to (ex)owner Joe for perhaps the last time. They’re moving to Boise. Hope the coffee stays good. Met Steve and…