Thought Sausage

Racked up some miles on the tri bike the past few days. As I said last week, i had to get my ass up super early on saturday morning cos of the weather. It was just as fun as it sounded...

But that said I had a good ride, that bike is FAST. Like really fast. It's cool moving that quick. Sunday I got the new mountain bike out down in Palos and got it good and dirty. Now it looks like a real mountain bike. I don't know how the fuck I got on without disc brakes. It's 90% better. This frame is a lot heavier than the Gary Fisher which takes some getting used to. this does make it feel, i dunno, sturdier? Like going over logs and jumps seems a lot more solid, which is cool. But it takes more out of me to move it up hills I think. Not that that's a huge deal since Palos has relatively minor climbs. But at Sunderbruch in Iowa, that may be problematic (I plan on riding that in two weeks).

Weekend otherwise was good. Beer on the Pier was Saturday. It wasn't quite as enormous as last year...nevertheless, beer was consumed...heavily. Then Drive By Truckers proceeded to rock the fuck out of Brian and I...Horowitz is officially "a convert". We then went to bernies, and Amy dropped her drink (shattering the glass) on me and the bouncer kicked me out for it. Cos you know that's how they roll up in Wrigleyville...was one of those powertrip bouncers too...and thankfully horowitz had a clearer head on the matter than me cos outside, the two of us nearly came to blows (where was the other bouncer)? and I jammed his thumb pretty hard while he did this stupid like "grab me by the arm and proceed to attempt to move all my bodyweight with it" manuever. Retarded shit like that happens, but s'way it goes when 90% of your clientele is drunken ex-fratboys with popped collars I guess.

Tonight after work I went to the lakepath and put in a solid 28 miles. Well...actually solid is a dubious term. More like about 18 with 10 miles of it being the shitstorm douchebag clusterfuck that is the lakefront of lincoln park. Seriously...let me say this about rollerblades: fuck 'em. If you are thinking of getting some and "taking it up" don't (and if you already have, my condolences). There is nothing cool about these stupid things. No you stupid figure-skater wannabe you aren't 'gonna keep up with me'. No you stupid fat bitch, your ass waddling about in those things is not 'bringin all the boys to the yard'. I almost took one in the wheel because rollerbladers consume around 4 feet of the path as they mosey along. If you're a dude, it is completely impossible to not look gay while using them and if you're a woman, it seems impossible to not act all awkward in them. Even the 'good bladers' just look fruity. There I said it...fuck rollerblades and their path consuming ways.

Around Fullerton, one of the aforementioned douchebags cut this chick off causing her to wipe out and apparently break her wrist. This led to me taking a 10 minute break or so waiting around with her (along with a crowd of ten or so) while the ambulance came along. She'll probably be alright, but she was pretty rattled. Said douchebag didn't stop or anything, cos well, why the hell would he? I swear that is the LAST time I'm not chasing one of you fuckers down when that shit happens. So let this serve as notice to douchebags who ride out of control in congested areas on the lakepath...you plow over/injure another biker and I see it...I'm catchin your ass, and you're gonna answer for that shit. I'm sick of seeing this happen 4-5 times every summer and you assholes just ride off. I'm serious. I will follow you, get a description, call the police and you can go ahead and be charged with the hit and run charges that go along with it. And yes I ride with pepper spray and a blade so god help you if you think you're gonna be a tough guy about it (I've never kicked anybody with my new cleats, so it'll be interesting to see what they do to a set of ribs). It's bad enough you think you're speed racer on those girly little trailbikes your ride, we can do without the reckless abandon for the safety of everybody else.

Argh...

That said....

Am listening to the new NIN album. Trent seems to have gotten quite prolific now that there's no label behind him. Interesting. Love how its' free though, that is really cool. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. No press, no publicity, no nothing. Just pure word of mouth. I haven't digested enough of it to give a full review...but I'll let it go all tomorrow morning and we shouuld have something of an opinion by then. Insofar...I'm a little nervous about the noise to signal ratio that goes along with a dude who releases his shit this fast.