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Archive for May, 2008

I Was a Kindergarten Cop

Posted in Cycling, Life in Marin on May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This morning, I waved to the little kids standing on the pedestrian bridge over Paradise Drive as I rode by, in what was to be an endearing moment of the morning. This was going to start my day just right, the warmth of a child’s smile. Then one of them spat at me. And then [...]

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One of the Most Upsetting Things

Posted in Random Ramblings, Things I Bet You Didn't Know on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I just want to say that one of the most upsetting things that could ever happen is when you’re just about done revising your Mt. Hamilton Race Report, so that all the words make sense and you have all the commas in just the right places, and then your computer freaks out and the screen [...]

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Women’s lib arrived on bicycles

Posted in Cycling, Things I Bet You Didn't Know on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

By Christopher Connolly (Mental Floss) — Susan B. Anthony once said, “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” A woman on a bicycle, the equal rights champion observed, presents “the picture of free and untrammeled womanhood.” Susan and [...]

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Stuff I Dig

Posted in Life in Marin, Random Ramblings, Things I Bet You Didn't Know on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

These are just some random things that I like, in no particular order. Russian Language and Culture Blog. It’s just my favorite blog. I spent four days in St. Petersburg several years ago, and ever since I’ve wondered, and I mean no offense, is it possible to live in Russia and be happy at the same [...]

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Schooled

Posted in Cycling, Life in Marin, Random Ramblings on May 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »

He rolled up in front of me at the intersection at the bottom of Camino Alto grade in Corte Madera. “Excuse me, would you mind telling me what all that commotion was about?” he said. “I was asking you to stay to the right, so I could get around you safely,” I said, because you were [...]

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I Was Just Hoping to Buy Vegetables

Posted in Life in Marin, Random Ramblings on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

We could hear everything between the windows across our tiny alley way on G Street, all the yelling, the crying, the crashing bottles. Then one summer’s night, he squealed away in his Pinto, and he never came back. I saw her the next evening, sitting on the bench on her front porch adjacent to our kitchen door, [...]

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The Worst Advice

Posted in Random Ramblings, This is nutso on May 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »

We were cleaning up after an autocross in Stockton, and it was time to put Lucy’s street tires back on. “Oh, let me do it,” said Gumbo Lambrusco (not his name), reaching for the jack. He changed all four tires, but he torqued the tires down while the wheels were still in the air. I [...]

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