Abstract

I call this abstract work " Rolling The Hell Out Of The Way! "

The I-40 West Fez

So, what's the weirdest thing that passed you on the highway this week?

Here's a cool piece of Mac widget , what ever in hell that is. It is a random running slideshow of thirty Bulldog skates........too bad I'm running 9.0 and you gotta' have OSX. Damnit! Thanks to lush702 for the link, straight from the Bulldog his-own-self.

Grippy's Newest Trick

A squadron of squirrels from Gripppy's Goon Squad celebrates Turkey Day by showing off their new unique synchronized skateboard toe-balance to lein-manual negative one-eighty trick. Check out that Count Dumpenstains
style. Yowza.

If you don't think there was any bullshit being bandied about in that crew on Thanksgiving morning raise your hand.

Wrong!

L8R

Cool Sundial

I've been gathering this list of holiday treasures for a couple months now but I was damned if I was gonna' put them up here until after Thanksgiving. Anything else is just too early for all that Christmas type stuff......

Now. These are not must-haves or anything, and they are not in any particular order. I just thought they were all cool pieces of gear........

1. Oh my God! A Super-motard Duck!
If you are a super-motard queer
do your wife a favor and do not look HERE .

2. Turbo-Tap.
For the professionals among us (you know who you are) we have THIS .

3. Ford Pedal Tractor.
Is way sweet HERE. I wonder if they make one for big kids?

4. Carbon-Kevlar Aluminum Honey-Comb Surfboard.
A surf stick with Formula One technology is HERE .

5. Bulldog 12-Inch Quad Pig Skate
I'm thinking the PWA quiver is in need of one of THESE .

more to come.........
L8R

Thanksgiving Eve

When I came upon this guy in the woods I thought it was a red-tail hawk or maybe a Swainson's . But when we flipped him over we realized it was an owl. I can't tell you what kind. He's the only thing that we've come across that didn't make it through Tuesday evening last. His neck appeared to be broken. The talons that tipped those reptilian legs were over a half inch long.

Another casualty and then I'll stop. I was stunned to hear last night that musician Chris Whitley had succumbed to lung cancer on Sunday. He's the best guitar player that you've probably never heard of. In a music world full of crap and wannabes I always thought he was the real thing. Godspeed.....

Here's hoping that you get to spend Thanksgiving with someone whose company you enjoy. Think I'll start mine out with a sunrise skate........

More Toothpicks

We tried to ride the loop yesterday but it was ugly impossible. The Ranch was definitely the jump in the scheme of the hop-skip-and-a-jump that the storm took when it touched down on Tuesday evening.

We've got a 2-day ITSA Trial scheduled for Dec. 3rd and 4th and I can say with 100% accuracy that there will be several log sections! We've got our work cut out for us though......whoo. We're gonna' have a work day next Saturday on the 26th if anyone is interested.

Tooth Picks

This tree was twisted like a piece of celery in a blender. It was the diameter of the tire on your car. It's only one of hundreds that were destroyed by whatever came through the ranch on Tuesday evening.

You know how after a tornado the victims are being interviewed on newschannel5 and they all say, "Sounded just like a big old train!"..........

And so it does. The building I was in rumbled around so much it reminded me of riding a city transit bus.

The trees are the wildest part though. They are freaking ripped apart. It kind of maybe gave me a sense of what Rob at crabapplelane and any one else that's had to deal with the tropical storms of 2005 have had going on.

A Husqvarna chainsaw was our friend today as we spent the daylight hours clearing access roads and doing our best Monty Python impersonations. I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay!

L8R

devil cat ZeKe
the formula car freaK

Here we see him taking in the Monaco GP from his friend Bernie's apartment above the circuit and cheering on his idol Schuey. He likes bike racing too.

Read all about Folgers new secret igredient HERE while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.


L8R
pw

Indian Summer

photo by ginderflopper

def. Indian summer. A period of mild weather occuring in the late autumn or early winter.

That's according to my venerable and many times taped back together American Heritage dikshunairy.

Joe walsh has the definitive song about the subject. At amazon.com you can hear a snippet HERE .

You better ride and skate and rake those leaves while you can. We are. Well, not the raking part.

Sweet link for Friday is HERE to one of the sweetest bikes I've seen lately. Looks like it would be fun to crunch the leaves with. Thanks to the Cpt. for the link.

Goofy link for Friday is HERE . Try not to piss away too much time.......

pw

p.s. And oh yeah, Daylight Saving Time SUCKS!

The Square

This is court-house square in Charlotte. Sam and I had to make a lap of the south-western chunk of middle Tennessee on Sunday and check on the leaves, don't you know. We are sworn leaf sherrif's, we are. And it is our duty to make sure the fall foilage was living up to spec. And gloriously it was.

Especially through a double-smoked dark (sounds like a latte) Shoei shield and some Bolle polarized glacier lenses.

The little sign there on the court-house lawn behind yon DRZ says "Police Officer Parking Only". And so it is.

PWA

Let's pick one.....

Mennonite Mike and Mr. Spann do T-bone Walker proud in this Stormy Monday stomp and stroll, prior to the lavish Mid-West Vintage Trials Riders Assocation end-of the year banquet at the Trail of Tears Lodge near Jonesboro Ill.

I Dig Big Jugs

Jeez. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Now.

I dig big jugs as in this BSA 650 Rocket vertical twin-cylinder jugs with glorious chrome steel front fender and smooth as glass side-panels on the candy-apple red paint on that tank. Yes.

Thanks to Mr. Case for stopping by B&J Racing today and supplying the eye-candy. He was out having a fall ride and enjoying the leaf fest that is now.

L8R
PWA

More Scary Stuff

I was pushing my shopping cart of staples out of the grocery the other day and I walked past a dude on the pay-phone on the sidewalk out front. He was on the phone when I went in and was still talking animatedly upon my exit from the store.

He was about twenty years old and had the aforementioned Mad Max movie extra look going on. As I walked past I realised he was talking on one of those "chat lines" and he was giving someone his personal type resume.

What I clearly caught first was, "Oh yes, I'm a very sexual person!" with quite a bit of glee in his voice.

That made me slow down pretty good so I could get his next line, which was, "Well, what I really like to do is drink alcohol all night and just hang out! How about you?"

At this point I guess I was a bit rude because not being able to help myself I stopped and turned around and looked at him and proceeded to laugh my ass off. I almost lost my buggy of groceries to the slight down-hill slant of the parking lot.

He made a face at me and turned his back, as though his phone partner might hear or see me. I wondered if his partner on the other end was a boy or a girl? I surely couldn't tell from chat boy, he was as androgynous as they come. Or maybe he was android......

I realise that all this crap is just another side-street of our current main-stream social personalities. But again, where in the hell are we headed as a society? What kind of throw-away social relationship crap is all this?

Stuff like speed dating ? Man, the first time I heard about that I thought the person explaining it to me was just pulling my leg. Speed dating...........Some kind of wicked twist on "Love at first sight"?

That's all just weird. Isn't it?
PWA