Back-flip

Sam has season tickets to the 2008 Vanderbilt womens basketball games, and I have loved going to Memorial Gym since I've been a small kid, so I've been attending whenever he's invited me. What's changed about that kid thing I know some of you are asking.....

Whenever Vanderbilt is shooting a two-shot free-throw some of the lady cheerleaders line up and do a back-flip if the Vandy lady sinks the free-throw. It's kind of an amazing thing to watch as five or six cheerleaders do a back-flip in unision.

Now, I've done a few back-flips in my day, and honestly some were unplanned. But most of them involved entering the water in a lake or a swimming pool after attempting said back-flip. But I can't fathom just tossing a back-flip on something as unforgiving as a hardwood gymnasium floor. Man, I can't even begin to imagine the bruises, much less the concussion.....

I am a native Nashvillian. Proud to be so. That doesn't sound like such a big deal if you don't realise that about half of the current population in Nashville (and middle Tennessee in general) is imported, but it is. And no, I don't mean imported from Mexico, I mean from other places this side of the border.

Whenever I get to travel to a like sized 'burg, say Atlanta, Louisville, or maybe Cincinnati, I make it a point to pick up a newspaper, especially a Sunday edition. Because it will be a real newspaper, worth reading, with actual content compared to the thing that they publish here under the moniker of a newspaper.

Case in point:

Let me set this up for you a bit.....A couple week-ends ago President George Bush was in the Middle East predicting/negotiating peace, he was also visiting Saudia-Arabia and selling them 20 billion (20 billion!!!) dollars worth of weapons, and Sri-Lanka was bombing the shit out of somebody else. At the same time the DOW stock market was beginning it's current Pee Wee Herman act in a movie theater and going down, down, down........

But on that same Sunday, The Tennesean newspaper, in all their infinite wisdom had it's priorities in a totally different sort of realm. Their lead middle front-page big-picture photo and story dealt with the current woes of NASCAR.....

What?

Danger Will Robinson!

This Hawk JrX 120R Xtreme pictured above looks like the most dangerous piece of gear that I've seen in a while.....currently on display at the Lane Motor Museum.

Speaking of extreme, my budd Jeffro sent me this link and I just couldn't take my eyes off of it. Half of me wanted to just dismiss these cats as morons, but the other half (the pool-skater half, probably) thought it was the coolest thing. Amazing.

Ansel Adams I Ain't.....

What a bit of weather we've been having?

This was the other afternoon a week or so ago after it had rained like an inch-and-a-half bastard in just an hour or so. The creek was a rocking, so I had to take a motorbike ride and see where all the big rocks had been repositioned......

click on the pic for a larger view.

Fenders and More

I don't have a clue what in the hell this automobile is.....all I know is that it is gorgeous and the paint was deeper than the ocean.

Reason to Ride

FujiBarri working his way through a section, looking ahead and with BOTH hands on the controls.....damn man, what's up with that?

Over at Superbikeplanet dot com there is a pretty good read HERE .....once again proving that in fact life is just too damn short.

PWA